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The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1856-03-11
rHE ENGLISH DIFFICULTY.

The Washington Union denies that TN
apology has been rendered by England to
the United States, for the wrong done to
their laws and sovereign rights, and that
our Government has refused to accept it as
alleged by the English press. An effort is
made by the organs of the British ministry
to impress the English people with the
belief that President Pierce's administra-
ton is unreasonable; but the documents,
saws the Union, will enable the people OF
the United States to judge Of the merits of
the case. and of the grounds or which Lord
CIarendon's accuracy is inpeache6. Ii we
are not much mistaken as to the disclosures
which will be made by the documents, it
will be found that our laws and territorial
rights have been openly violated by British
officials within our jurisdiction; and not
only has no offer OF satisfaction, or even
acknowledgment of an error, been made,
but acts most maliifestIv in violation of our
law are defended and justified. For exer-
cising the privilege of complaining, and
respectfully suggesting that we are entitled
to some redress for fatal blow struck at
our sovereignty, we are threatened by the
organs of the British Ministry with the visit
of the British fleet to burn our cities, de-
vastate our coasts, and kindle the flames Of
a seryile war. To make this buster little
moe redoubtable we are told that the
French fleet is to take part IN this pleasant
pastime. With France Our relations are,
as all the world knows, on the footing of
cordIality and friendship; and it is believed
that there's a mutual desire that they should
so remain. 1t is not, therefore, very pro-
bable that the Emperor of the French will
accommodate his ally with his feet for such
an enterprise.
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1856-03-11
THE ARBITRAMENT.

4 very curious fact is brought to light
in the Senate proceedings of Friday. The
British Government had claimed the credit
of magnanimity, on the ground of their hav-
ing offered to submit the dispute about the
Central-American question to the arbitra-
ton of a friendly power, some months past,
and that no response had been made by the
American Government. 1t turns out that
the British Minister at Washington never
communicated the message till the 9th of
February, and that consequently there was
no proposition for arbitration till that time
In all this there seems to have been a trick.
Why was Mr.. Champion instructed, and
why did lie fail to explain his instructions !!
We see but one explanation: that he was
expected to adapt his instructions to the
emergency; and if he found one would not
do. he was to resort to another. 1t is a
perilous kind Of diplomacy, and especially
so with the United States, where the whole
people almost instantly react upon the
Government.-[ Charleston Mercury.
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1856-03-11
KNow-NoTHING MULTIPLICATION

The Macon Citizen. one of the most zeal
Gus of the Georgia Know Nothing papers,
says:
1--WE have no words TO express our NOR
titication at the result of the nomination for
Vice President. Mr.. Fillmore will do for
President, though he is not our choice but
as for Donelson, how it came to pass that
such a third-rate man, with no pretensions
TO craftsmanship, should have received the
nomination, surpasses our comprehension.
We presume, however, that the authority of
the Convention will be disregarded by the
great body of the American party. ITO
say nothing of the reputation of the 18th
section of the Platform of 1855, the nomi-
nation of such a man as Denelson will be
the neither milestone that viii drag the NOM
inee for President, and the party with him,
down TO perdition. There can be no en-
thusiasm manufactured for such ticket on
such platform as the National Council
have submitted for the one established last
year."
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1856-03-11
DONELSON rs. FILLMORE.

Donelson's virulent hostility to Fillmore S
administration has left on record, in paper
edited by himself, charges, denunciations,
and, in fact, every variety of materials for
partisan warfare which the present editors
Of the Union proposes to exhume and use
against the ticket. Had Mr.. Donelson fore
seen, during his editorship of the Union,
that such contingency as the present was
possible, he would, no doubt, have dealt
more gingerly with the Wing administra-
ton.
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1856-03-11
Three Days Later from Europe,

The steamship Africa, from Liverpool
with dates to the Odd, arrived at New York
on Saturday last. Middling and lower quail
tiles of Cotton at Liverpool, are 1-l6th Of
penny lower. The sales of the week amount
to 5000 bales, of which spectators took
1000 bales Brcadstuffs have slightly ad-
vanced. ConsoIs 81. The Peace Confer
ence is progressing favorably. The Roth
schilds, it is said, will take the whole of the
English loan. The Africa brings no tidings
of the missing steamer Pacific.
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1856-03-11

A MAN WALKING UPSIDE DOWN

This extraordinary feat was accomplished
at the Broadway Theatre, in New York, a
few DAYS ago The Editor of the Post
81 1hat city with hundreds of others, saw the
teat performed, and says there was no
deception practiced. The man walked with
his feet up and head down across ceiling
several yards in extent. The Post" de-
scribes how this astonishing feat was per-
formed:
lie had a pair of peculiar fat-soled
sandals attached to his feet. The soles of
the sandals we had no opportunity of ex-
aiming, but presume they were of a finely
polished metal, or like substance, and sup
ported the performer by their adhesion to
the prepared and polished surface of the
ceiling" When it is remembered that
the adhesivcness of surfaces is in proportion
to the completeness of their contact, the feat
Is reduced to the mechanical preparation
of the surfaces of the shoes and the ''ceiling''
in question. The atmospheric pressure
upon such surfaces, we believe, is set down
ut forty-one pounds to the square inch
The surface of one of the shoes used on this
occasion might present an extent of twenty
square inches. If we may assume this
natural principle TO be the basis of the feat,
the support which the performer would gain
from each foothold, in case of a complete
contact, would be over eight hundred pounds
against a verticolmovement;q quite multiple
of his hanging weight. Against horizon
tai movement, or that of stepping forward,
there would of course be no resistance
There was an extended net beneath the
performer which was quite relief TO the
anxiety of the spectator, as he stepped
slowly forward. At the termination of his
"walk " he was quite black in the face, and
reached for his support as if he could not
make another inch of progress.
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1856-03-11

\ COOP ANswER.-"Whv did you not
pocket some of those pears said one boy
to another; nobody was there to see"
Yes, there was-I was there to see my
self and don't ever mean to see myself do
mean thing.
Ponder on that, Young readers. Under all
circumstances. maintain your self respect,
and keep a clear conscience. You cannot
have worse companion than the ever pres
ent remembrance OF bad action. And
for every wrong dc ed you take to your bo-
som such a companion. Think of this.
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1856-03-11
WILLARD FILLMORE, A SWORN
KNOw-NOTHING

\ State Council of Know Nothings was
in session at Canandagua, New York, last
week. During the proceedings the state
ment made at Philadelphia, that Mr.. Fill
more was not member of the Order, was
contradictcd by the President of Council
III, of Buffalo, who gave the assurance
that he himself was present when the obi
gation of each of the degrees was admins
tered to Mr.. Fillmore ; and that he is a
member of the Order in good standing.
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1856-03-11
HoNORS TO A BEAR.

The people of Rochester, n. Y, a few
years ago, were sold" by some wags, in
the following manner:
'In 1888 (says q writer in the Buffalo
Republic) l came TO Rochester, and was
there when that sublime farce was enacted
on Mount Hope. A wag at Mount Morris
found Z quantity of bear bones, which he
palmed off Is the bones of Col. James Boy
md company, of Revolutionary celebrity.
The military took it up, and completed the
humbug. A pompous funeral was planned.
and Gov. Seward invited to deliver the
funeral address. The cheat was discovered
by some of the Rochester faculty day or
two before its contamination, but such was
their fear of those military mobocrats that
they kept the secret to themselves. Never
had poor Bruin such q pompous funeral
1t is supposed that seven thousand persons
followed in the procession. Gov. Seward
was particularly eloquent on this farcical
occasion. Fellow citizens" said he in his
e1ordium, there is a history contained in
the Wondering bones deposited in that urn
He was right. There was history. Not
of battle, blood, and Indian massacre, but
of devastated cornfelds, murdered porkers,
and unfilial cubs; q theme as fruitful and
diversified, if not as spirit-stirring and in
teresting. In few days the secret leaked
out-the joke was too good to keep, editors
wrangled, doctors quarrelled, the military
swore, but they had no redress, they had
70 remedy, they had been most numerically
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1856-03-11
SHOCKING MURDER.

The Lowndes county, Miss, Chronicle of
the 25th ult., has the following account Of
abloody tragedy which occurred in Hancock
county, few days before:
''One of the negro men of Mr.. Lamkin
became offended with the overseer, and
struck him on the back of the neck with an
axe, killing him instantly. The negro then
dragged the body off some distance, and cut
off both hands. He then started for the
house of Mr.. L., and met at the door Mrs.
Lamkin, and told her that he had killed the
id overseer, and intended to kill her,"
at the same time drawing a revolver Mr..
Lamkin was sick in bed unable to rise
Mrs. L. ran into the house and got a double
barrel gun, and told the negro if he moved
a foot she would shoot him, and kept him
standing In the yard until she sent for some
of the neighbors. They soon came to her
assistance, caught the negro and hung him"
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1856-03-11

place without artillery to batter the houses
ordered a retreat. Col. Andrew Neal, lot
York. s. C.) young man of great promise
and much regretted, and two others, were
killed and six wounded. (AmOng the
wounded vas Alexander Haynes, yet living
in the South end of Mecklenburg, who'
having red his rifle twice from behind the
rocks, had loaded his gun the third tlme'
and pecping past the side of the black rock
for an object. his face being white, became
an object for the enemy's RsrksDen, che OF
whom shot him under the eye, the ball
RANGED under the brain, but missed the
vcrtcbra of the neck. 1t was thought he
was killed, but seeing life was in him, when
they were about t. retire, his scquaintarces
carried hina of. lie was cured. though he
lost his eve. 1t run cut shortly after he
was wounded.) The enemy did not attempt
To- annoy him on the retreat.
He moved up the river, and the next day
crossed ct Lands Ford, where he met Col.
Irwin from Mccklenburg, with considera-
BILE reinforcement, who no Il not had tiIpe to
jcin earlier after the order issued at Clients
Branch, 25th July. By slow movements
he kept up Waxhaw Greek until he for
yardcd his wounded to the hospital at
Charlotte. Some other small parties con-
tinued to join, and he determined to attack
the enemy at Hanging Rock. He had dis
covered that his men while marching and
fighting, aad fighting and marching, would
keep with MIN, but TO encamp and remain
stationary, he might calculate with certainty
that his force would diminish; therefore, i
he failed IL his enterprise, the loss to the
country would only be those who were killed
and wo4nded. The remainder might be
organ; zcd in Il short time as formidable Is
befose. If he succeeded, it would con-
sideTably weaken the enemy's effective
io:ec, and have considerable weight in the
operations which he expected shortly would
take place. Having made all tie necessary
arrangements circumstances would permit,
the General ordered the troops to march On
the evening Of the 9Th Of August, with q
view 20 attack the enemy early on the next
morning. The cncmy's force was estimated
at more than $40, and upwards of half were
Regulars.
Gen. Sumier marched in the night l6
miles, and early on the 9th of August tie
sound Of horse bells, and the smoke settling
along the valley of Hanging Rock creek,
apprized them that they were near the
cneIny's cncampmcmt.
Here the narrative stops. II it he con-
tinued in a subsequent number Of the MA
,.nzirn VIZ will also continue It's nuhlica-
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1856-03-11

WEATHER IN FLoRIDA.-The Pilatka
Democrat speaks of the delightful Spring
weather; many of the earlier leaved trees
and shrubs are clothed in living green.
The Alligator Advertiser says: The
cropping season is fast approaching, and
our planters are getting ready for it. We
saw field of corn planted twO weeks ago.
The annual burning of the woods has just
commenced, and in the upper part of this
county the range is thoroughly burnt off.
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1856-03-11
ANDREW JACKSON donelson.

Parson Brownlow says it is arranged to
print the name of his nominee for Vice
President in the above style in order to
make him run well. Hear him:
1T has been understood, as arranged,
that Major Donclson would be put on the
ticket with Andrew jackson in big letters,
and 'DonclSon' invisible, and then the old
line democrats would think, that old Hick-
DRY had come to life again"
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1856-03-11

Row AT YALE CoLLEGE.-A letter in the
n. Y. Herald from New Haven states that
about fifty of the students in Yale College,
having been offended at F. P Brewer, a
tutor, proceeded to attack him on the night
of the 3D. instant. They broke in all the
windows of his room, struck him with a club
over the head and beat him with their fists,
after which they dispersed.
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1856-03-11

sold, and to this day you cannot touch an
inhabitant of Rochester in a moEeS tender
place than to ask him if he made one of the
bear procession to Mount Hope, or If he
was particularly edited with Gov. Stewards
Grafton over Bruins sacred remains"
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1856-03-11
---~~e~<<% ~$%~S.

n The following advertisement appears
in Paris journal: The parents of a
young lady, aged 81, handsome and we'll
educated, and possesses 1870 francs per
annum, but affected by St. Vitus's dance,
offer to unite her to doctor from 40 to As
years old, who will pay her incessant at
tention."
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1856-03-11

Mr.. DALLAS.-The Collins mail steamer
Atlantic left New York for Liverpool on
Saturday, with fifty-one passengers, among
whom are the Hon. George NJ. Dallas,
Minister to England, and family, including
his son, who goes out as Secretary of Lega-
ton. The Baron de Richsofer, Prussian
Minister to Mexico, is also passenger in
the Atlantic.
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1856-03-11

NORTH CAROLINA INSANE ASYLUM
We learn from the Raleigh Standard, that
the Asylum for insane persons, near that
City, is now ready for the reception of for
ty patients; and that in the course of a few
weeks apartments will be ready for a much
larger number.
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1856-03-11
LATER FROM EUROPE
ARRIVAL OF THE BALTIC
Nothing Of the Pacific.

INothang O We fGcltc.
She steamship Baltic, which sailed fro,.
Liverpool on the Goth February, has srr;r
ed at New York.
PEACE CONFERENCE,
The Peace Conference was to meet :,
Paris, on the Odd February. All the En-.
voys had arrived.
Confidence in the establishment of Peao.
still continues. -
GREAT BRITAIN AND AMERICA. IA
The excitement on the American question
in England had partially subsidized.
A large force of British troops is to BE-
concentrated in Canada. o.
THE STEAMER PACIFIC. -
Nothing has been heard from the missin,
steamer Pacific.
COMMERCIAL.
Cotton unchanged and quiet. Sales for
three days prior to the steamers sailing q.
mounted to 10000 bales. Breadstuffs ad.
vanced slightly. Money mere stringent
Consols 9O4 to 9Os. A new loan for 95.
100000 was to be brought before Parlia.
ment,
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General EntelliQence.
AWFUL CATASTROPHE.

The st. Mary's Banner states that fire
broke out in St. Martinsville, Louisiana, on
| Sunday, 9th February, which not only laid
waste the principal portion of the town, but
was attended by fearful loss of life. The
fire originated in stable in rear of Mr..
Fontanette's store, to which the flames
quickly reached, and spreading themselves
IN their destructive progress in a short time
the entire square was mass of flame! This
square embraced the principal business
houses of the town, some of them fine brick
buildings, containing quantity of valuable
merchandise. In one of these stores were
forty kegs of gunpowder, which exploded
with a tremendous report, blew down the
walls, carried in the roof. and buried in the
ruins twenty-three persons who were in and
| about the store at the time, endeavoring to
save what they could from the confagration.
All these persons are said to have been
instantly killed The probable loss of
property is about 100000.
! RIOT IN JAIL.-The Charleston Mercury
states that on Friday evening, a number of
| the prisoners in the Charleston Is. c. Jail,
who are allowed the privilege of walking
about the building and yard, commenced
quarrelling among themselves, and ended
| in a general fight. On Mr.. AIilligan, the
Jailer, attempting to put stop to it, he was
assailed by George Simmons, one of the
prisoners, who drew knife and attempted
to stab him. Mr.. Millgan warned him to
keep off or he would shoot him. but Simmons
persisted in attacking him, when he drew
! a pistol and fired, the ball taking effect in
Simmons's left shoulder; this put an end to
the fight, and the parties engaged in it were
secured in the cells. Simmons, though
severely, is not dangerously wounded by
the pistol ball.
SHOOTING HORSEs.-We learn from the
Chicago Press, that Julius kurth was re-
Gently tried in that city, and convicted in
the Court of Common Pleas on an indict-
ment for shooting a number of horses which
broke into his enclosure Three of the
horses had their eyes shot out, and two
others were seriously injured. The court
sentenced the prisoner to three months inl-
prisonment in the county Jail and fine of
$100-the full extent of the law.
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1856-03-11
FARMING IN PICKENs, IS. c.
Total amount,

Some time since, i'll conversation with Mr..
Bowen, farmer of Pickens, near the Cedar
Rock, he informed us that he had field of
corn last year, which yielded him sixty two
dollars per acre! He actually sold the corn
for that amount, exclusive of the crop of
peas, fodder and pumpkins. The ground
produced fifty bushels per acre, and he sold
the corn, at Abbeville C. H., for one dollar
and twenty five cents per bushel. No doubt
the fodder, peas and pumpkins were worth
ten or twelve dollars per acre more. In
fact we think Mr.. Bowen stated that he
regarded the product as being, in value,
seventy-fve dollars per acre! Why should
a man move off to Texas when he can make
such crops in Pickens! One person may
cultivate twenty acres of rich land, which
would yield him fifteen hundred dollars
A pretty good years work, even in Cali
fornia picking up gold! To be sure, we
must deduct the expense of hauling off the
corn, which is considerable, and so is the
expense of hauling off crop of cotton or
anything else GrcenUiLLc IS. c. Patriot.
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1856-03-11
KANSAS.

The Independence Dispatch stated that
the militia of the border counties of Missouri
were to rendezvous at Fort Scott, in Kansas
Territory, on the Goth ult. Military Or
plantations have been in progress every
where along the border in Missouri, con-
slsting generally of mounted rifemen. Gen.
Atchison, in his late speech at Platte City,
told his friends to be in readiness for the
4th Of march; that their services would then
be demanded; that they would be called
upon to march into the territory.
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1856-03-11

COMING HOME IN JUNE.-A correspon-
dent of the New York Herald. writing
from Rome, says Mr.. Fillmore will return
to the United States in the month of June.
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1856-03-11

Here the narrative stops. If it he con
tinued in a subsequent number Of the Ma
gazine,'' We will also continue its publica
ton.
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1856-03-11
P.H. Goodwin & Co.'S Brand!

A superior article for medical purposes, Tor SAI'
the Eagle Saloon,
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1856-03-11
Old Crescent Brandy,

Pinett's Old Castilian BRANDY
Vintage of 1918, at the Eagle Saloon.
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1856-03-11

We have no aluson to a newspaper pufi,, "
to puff is a puff, on genuine imported ="
gar-such as you can find at the Eagle Saloon
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1856-03-11

Madeira, Port, Malaga, Sherry, and Tenenho,
a superior quality, can always be found a.
Eagle Saloon.