The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1857-06-02

Democracy by tie Know Nothing presses
and leaders. They will hail it as a capital
elcctioneering document for SAM" and
Mr. Sanders will for the future receive a
large share of their attention and praise.
e The Wilmington Herald of the 23rd,
is in one particular a dream, book! 1t says
There cannot be denied, we think, the
existence of a feeling in Western Carolina,
and in other portions of the State, of OPP
position to Wilmington" Again-"If it
be the game on the part of the people of
North Carolina to hunt down with spear
and sword the brightest jewel in the States
coronet, why then, they can assail Will
mington.'
WHAT'S broke, now Why, Mr.. Burr
discovered in his trip from Wilmington,
ria Kingsville, Columbia. Chester, &c,
and at Charlotte, that the North Carolina
Rail Road Company had handbills and cards
stuck up in public places, and lying about
in the Hotels, advising the travelling public
to to try their road! Those cards set forth
that the n. c.. road runs through a high
cultivated country, and healthy at all
seasons of the year, and that it is prefera-
BILE to the Wilmington and Manchester
routes, the fare being the same; and the
editor dignifies such a procedure with terms
like the above, and declares lit is grave
matter -
Friend Burr, you have been dreaming.
That Chester 'Maccaroni done up in cheese
laid heavy on your stomach. and filled
your head with ugly visions. Wilmington
has no enemies here. Why should she have!
We are proud of her, because she is enter
2rizing and liberal. But, dear sir. won't
you allow Us the privilege of Dragging on
our road ? 1t is one of the very best in the
country, and we want the public to know
it. And it is true that we think it prefera-
BILE, in some respects, as travelling road,
to the Wilmington and Manchester; but
that, surely, can't be construed into a
feeling of opposition to Wilmington! They
are rival roads, SO far Northern and
Southern travel is concerned, and we think
it is not to be wondered at that they should
get up handblls and cards and even living,
moving agents, TO opera tie on the travelling
publc.-Salisbury Watchman.
HIGH PR1cEs.-Everything in the shape
of provisions seems to be going up'' Just
now, and there is no prospect of reaction
until the grass becomes luxuriant, and the
growing crops of grain are garnered. Sugar
is becoming so expensive, that many hus-
bands have already determined to dispense
with the article, and be content, while they
sip their tea and coffee, with the sweet
smiles Of their fair consorts. MoIasses
though fully as dear, occasions less incon-
venience, the "slap.jack" season being over
Butter has moderated in price, but is vet
too lofty for emaciated purses. Tea, that
solacer of the better part of creation, is
advancing. Even sailed behring's, which
constitute leading item of the subsistence
of the working classes, have become scarce
and high.
THE RANK IS BUT THE GUINEA's STAMP,
While Lord Napier, the English Minister,
was busy at Washington, his lady sojourn-
ed at the Gilmore House. Baltimore. The
fashionable circles were agitated by the
presence of the wife of live Lord, and
her ladyship received numerous calls and
party invitations. The American ladies of
fashion, deliberately and gaudily attired in
Hounces and jewels, were surprised to find
the English lady in excessively plain dress,
totally free from all display. glitter and
nonsense. Not a single jewel was visible
upon her person. The wife ofLord Napier.
however, is a woman of high birth. who can
trace her descent from a long line of illus
trlous ancestors. She is nevertheless re-
markable, though born and educated in the
heart of European refinement and civiliza-
ton, for the plalnness of her apparel, the
simplicity of her manners and the entire
lack OF ostentatious pretension. England
never sent better pair OF representatives
to this country than Lord Napier and his
lady. He teaches American men that there
Is strong goodwill felt for US on the other
side OF the water, and expresses manly
desire to appreciate our institutions. She
teaches American women that the udyenti-
tious aid of miliners and jewelers. can never
confer nobility. or rather that there is but
one arist"cracy, which is the aristocracy of
cultivated mind and simple and sincere
heart. She administers a severe rebuke to
the upstart, peacock-vanity which di<tin-
cuisines so many of our Phiadei-
phia Ledger.