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The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1857-08-11


ed IO4 votes, and lost 81 in Northampton.
Smith, wing, gained 40 votes in Hartford.
SECOND DISTRICT.
Ruffin, dem, is elected without opposi-
ton.
THIRD DISTRICT.
Winslow, DEM, is elected without regu-
lar opposition. Meares, wing, was voted
for in some portions of the District.
CUmbcrIand-W inslow 555. Meares2l9
John w. Baker, Jr., and j. L. Warden,
elected Superior and County Court Clerks
respectively, over the democratic nominees.
~ -Winslow $40, Meares I67.
Observation-Disclosures 24I. Meares I64
!Sampson.-W a35, Mcares III.
FOURTH DISTRICT.
Branch, dem, is elected without opposi-
ton:
FIFTH DISTRICT.
Gilmer, whig, has majority in Guilford
of LOO. In Alamance county, Williams.
dem, has a majority of 30I.
IT'D - A friend sends us the following
Il. =. by last evenings mail:
Guilford County-Giimer 1868. Williams
4GG. In Caswell, Williams has 400 maj =
Alamance gives him 325 maj. Randolph
gives Gilmer 430 maj. RumOr says Chat
ham gives Williams 300 maj. Gilmer is nc
doubt elected.
Scales majority is 1000 in the 9th Dist
SMITH DISTRICT.
In this District the democrats have gain
cd member in the election of A. NJ. Scales
An extra from the Office of the Winston
Sentinel gives the following:
All the Counties in the District have
been heard from, with the exception OF
AShc. Scales has an aggregate clear gain,
over his vote in 1855, of ,2227.
FOrsythe County.-Scales 1912, Puryear
677. For Free Suffrage lI73, opposed
N 3SS. Scales clear gain in the county IA
!StokeS.-Scales' majority 3I5-a gain
of 81.
Surry.-ScaIes 033. Puryear 800
Scales gain I2I.
Rockinghdm.-Sc Scales l4OI. Purycal
$50. Scales gain 234.
Yddkin.-Scales gains in Yadkin "a
votes. Statement of the polls not received
Darje.-Scales 800. Puryear 546. A
gain for Scales of Az.
DarjdSoa.-Scales 767. Puryear 1887.
Scales gain 1872.
IredciL-A reported gain of 800 for
Scales in Iredell.
Aierander.-Scales Az. Purycar 4Ol
\ gain Of IL for Scales,
SEVENTH DISTRICT.
Craige, dem, elected without opposition.
EIGHTH DISTRICT.
Clingman. of course, is elected. We
have no vote from the District.
FREE SUFFRAGE has been approved
by an Overwhelmi ng majority.
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1857-08-11
COLUMBIA MARKET, Aug. 8.

We have nothing new to report in the
Cotton market. The demand il active and
good, and prices are full and firm. ranging
from ii TO l44 cents.
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1857-08-11
sLow PROGRESS OF MANKTND.


An intelligent writer on this subject says
il may be reasonably doubted whether
the population of the earth has doubled
itself in thirty centuries. Except among
some European and American States, no
certain data exists among nations and
tribes, by which the present number of
mankind can be estimated with any degree
of exaetness. Avoiding extremes, the wri-
ter assumes that in round numbers, Asia
(including JAPAN contains 400, 600, 900,
Europe 200, OOO, 900, Africa 1000, 600, A
merica 5O.0OO,000. Australia and Polyne-
sian Islands 10000, 900 making total
of 72O millions for the present population
of the globe.
Within the temperate and torrid zones,
the area of habitable land on the earth is
about 40 millions of square miles, which
would make the average population of the
habitable land about eighteen to the square
mile. The population is unequslly aistri-
buted, two-thirds living upon one-tenth OF
the land in China. India and Western Eu-
rope. 1t is conjectured that ten times the
present number of inhabitants could easily
obtain subsistence from the soil of the earth.
The writer calculates that by doubling
only three times in century, the popula-
ton of Great Britain and Ireland, suppos-
ing it to have been only six millions in
1907, would by this time have amounted to
more than 100000, 00O-enough to have
colonized and improved all the waste and
thinly -peopled lands of the earth. War,
pestilence, luxury, useless consumers, and
popular ignorance are assigned as the eaus-
es of the slow progress of mankind. Rich
mOnd Dispatch.
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1857-08-11

SPECULATIONs AT WASHINGTON.-Th
following are among the latest speculations
of the Washington letter writer's:
sCol James L. Orr of South Carolin a,
and the Hon. John S. Phelps of Missouri,
are both spoken of for Speak er of the next
House. Col. Orr will doubtless, be the
man. John S. Phelps, or George w. Jones
of Tennessee, will probably be at the head
of the Committee of Ways and Means.
1.-The Clerkship of the House is evidently
between Col. Allen of Illinois, the Hon.
John L. Robinson of Indiana, and the Hon.
David Near, editor of the Trenton IN. j.
True American. The South will not ask
for both Speaker and Clerk, of course.
There can be little or no doubt that the
cree ton of new Presidential mansion will
be one of the measures that will receive the
favorable action of the next Congress. The
President has acted wisely i'll refusing to
reside in the present building during the
unhealthy season."
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1857-08-11

SUICIDE OF SENATOR RUsK.-Senator
Rusk, of Texas, committed suicide at his
residence on the 29th ultimo. by shooting
himself in the head with a rifle.
Ia endeavoring to assign cause for the
act which terminated his existence, some
of the papers are led to suppose that the
mind of Senator Rusk has been much dis
turbcd lately, in consequence of some al
legged connection of his brother law with
forgeries on the Land Department.. The
matter, it is surmised. preyed upon him to
such an extent, as to induce this terrible
result
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1857-08-11

CHARLESTON. Aug. 7-C"ttnn is in
fair demand. and stock light. Some JiJ0
bales sold yesterday at Is to l54 cents;
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1857-08-11
FOREIGN NEWS.

Since our last. there has been an arrival
from Europe, but bringing no news of i'm
portance. 1t is stated that some of the
parties engaged in the late conspiracy to
assassinate the Emperor Napoleon have
made a full confession. OF course they
will be executed. and make room for others
If the same sort.
Spain accepts the mediation of France
and England in the settlement of the Mex
lean difficulties.
Breadstuffs of all kinds have declined in
the foreign markets.
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1857-08-11

DON'f TAKE THE PAPERs.-It appears
somewhat incredible, bat is nevertheless
true, that there was a man in Petersburg
yesterday, who had not before heard Of
the election of '.Jeemes" Buchanan to the
Presidency. He is we'll to do in the world,
and the possessor of considerable property
but had not before heard who was the
present Chief Executive of the United
States. He was down in the city when we
met him. and hearing strong anti-Walke r
man declare ii Il loud and exciting tone to
a friend of the Administration, that Mr.
Buchanan was responsible for the present
troubles in Kansas, he was induced to ask
for an calculation. and expressed much as
constituent when told that Robt. j. Walker
was the present Governor of Kansas, and
that he was appointed by James Buchanan,
the present Chief Executive of the United
States. 1t may be reasoned that ignorance
of the event which is making so much stir,
is no l"ss-perhaps not-but how any in
dividual not locked up in prison cell, and
forbidden under pain of instant death to
read or hear anything, can be SO ignorant
of what is in everybody's mouth, passes
our MISUNDERSTANDING Express.
There are great many people who live
in ignorance for the want of newspaper.
Last winter while travelling between this
place and Raleigh, we met man who con-
versed intelligently about farming, but
who had not heard of the death of John G..
Calhoun or Gen. Jackson! He expressed
great regret at their departure, and could
not imagine what the country would do
without them. He was told that Gen.
Pierce had kept things pretty straight,
when he actually asked Qike the wings did
when he was nominatedD "who is Pierce p
He was sorry to hear that the know moth
ings were defeated in the late Presidential
contest
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1857-08-11
TEE MARKETS.
conrEcrED WEEKLY BY r. NJ. rARRow.
Charlotte, Aug. IL, 1857.

TT should be borne in mind that The fol
lowing are wholesale prices mostly. We
endeavor to keep the quotations correct,
but allowance must be mnde for the fact
that prices frequently change immediately
after tho publication of the paper.
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1857-08-11

e DeBow's mortality statistics show
that the people of the United States are the
healthiest on the globe. The deaths are
three hundred and twenty thousand per.
year, or one and one-third per cent. of the
population. In England the ratio is over
two per cent, and in France nearly three
per cent. Virginia and North Carolina are
the healthiest of the States, and have six
hundred and thirty eight inhabitants over
one hundred years of age. -
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1857-08-11
NORTH CAROLINA ELECTIONS.
MEcKLENBURG COUNTY.

The election on Thursday last passed off
very quietly. There being no opposition
to Mr. Craige or to the old Clerks, Messrs.
Kerr and Reid, but half the vote Of the
county was polled. Considering the small
vote, it will be seen that the people of
Mecklenburg have endorsed Free Suffrage
by a respectable majority. The following
is official:
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1857-08-11

FROM KANsAs.-By private letter, we
learn that there will be no fight in Kansas.
The Lawrence people have given up to
Gov. Walker. and the force of law and or
der supported by dragons. Our CORES
pendent states that the pro-slavery party
had given up the contest for slavery before
the arrival of Gov. Walker-that the coun-
try is not suited for slaves-that Judge Ell
more's negroes had most Of them been frost
bitten during the wintcr-that the cold
winds from the Rocky Mountains, sweeping
over the land, with no woods to keep the
negroes warm as they require, render the
country unsuitable to them. We learn
from the best authority Of friends who have
just visited Kansas, that this information
is correct.-.SouM Cdrolinian, LIST inst.
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1857-08-11

REMARKS.-The receipts Of propuce
throughout the week have been fair. We
have no change to note in prices. There
has been some transactions in Cotton at
quotations.
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1857-08-11

EXPEDITION TO UTAH.-The st Louis
Republican of the 29th ult. states that the
most extensive preparations were making
at St. Joseph for the military expedition to
Utah, under Gen. Harvey. No less than
five hundred ox-teams and four hundred
mule-tcams will accompany the troops
The infantry, as they reach the fort, are
sent forward in detachments, rendezvous
having been appointed at some point on
the plain, where Gen. Harvey, at the head
of the cavalry. will join them in about two
months from the present time. The whole
force, including teamsters &c, will not fall
short of five thousand men. 1t is said that
Gen. Harvey is determined to make short
work with the Saints, in case they offer the
least obstacle to the fulillment of his mis-
sion.
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1857-08-11

WAKE FOREST CoLLEGE.-A friend has
handed us Catalogue of Wake Forest
College for 1857. By it we learn that the
Faculty consists of FIVE Professors and one
Tutor. There are SO students in the In
stitution. The College is situated near the
Raleigh and Castor Railroad, in healthy
section of the country. The course of
study is thorough and complete.
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1857-08-11
Immense Loss Of Life on the Fisheries.

Immense Loss Of Life on the Fisheries.
Boston. August 5.-Information has
just been received here, that on the 22d of
July gale occurred on the north shore of
St. Johns, accompanied by great loss of
life. Sixty boats are supposed to have
been lost. Fifty dead bodies have been
picked up.
1t is calculated that there were 200 boats
employed in fishing. Many more disasters
are feared.
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1857-08-11

SUDDEN observation-disclosures Thompson,
Esq, of Caswell county, Gather of Hon.
Jacob Thompson, Secretary of the In
terior,) died very suddenly on the 26th ult.
He had been exercising with hoe in his
garden, as was his custom. and retiring to
his house in usual health he died inmedia-
tely on seating himself.
Mr. Thompson was venerable man, and
one of the county best citizens.
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1857-08-11

To The New York correspondent of the
Toronto Globe says: "Poor Professor
Hedrick, who was expelled from the North
Carolina University for writing a letter
very moderately in favor of Fremont, il
now in this city starving"
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1857-08-11

TIGHT LAcING.-A learned doctor, re-
ferring to tight lacing. AYERS that it is a
public benefit, inasmuch as it kills all the
foolish girls, and leaves the wise ones to
grow up to be women.
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1857-08-11

fB The President of the United States
left Washington for Bedford Springs on
Wednesday morning last. He will be alb
sent from the seat ofgovernment about ten
days.
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1857-08-11

OFFICER K1LLED.-The Sheriff of Polk
county was murdered last week, while
attempting to levy an execution upon some
property.
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1857-08-11

Gen. Jackson's Gold Snuff Dor.
NEW York, August Gen; Jaekson's
gold snuff box has been awarded to Garrett
w. Dyckman. Colonel of the New YORK
Regiment in the Mexican War.
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1857-08-11

LAND WARRANTs.--The number Of
warrants issued from the Pension Office
during the month of July, under the bounty
land act of March, 1855, is 2,lS5; to satisfy
which nearly $4,000 acres are necessary.
to satisfy the POI 900 warrants issued since
the passage of the act %, 25O,OoO acres are
REQUIRED.
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1857-08-11
STATE ELECTIONS.

kENVUCGT.-Return indicate the cleo
ton of eight democratic' members of Con-
gress out of ten; being democratic gain
OF tour. Jas. Il. Clay, in the Ashland dis
trict, is said 90 be elected.
Observation-Disclosures dem. candidate for
Governor, is reported as elected.
ALABAMA.-The whole democratic ticket
Is elected by large majorities.
Nothing definite from Tennessee orTexas-
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1857-08-11

H Governor Brigham Young has writ
ten letter to the President, to notify him
that he will receive a successor with pleas
ure, and has never had any intention of
resisting legal exercise of the Federal
authority.
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1857-08-11

AGRICULTURAL FAIR.-We have heard
inquiries made as to what the Executive
Committee of the Mecklenburg Agricul-
tural Society were doing towards making
arrangements for holding the next Annual
Fair. We believe the Committee have pur-
chased lot of land near Maj Morrow's
but whether they have made any further
arrangements We are not informed. The
Executive Committee consists of Robt. F
Davidson, j. A. Young, Rev. HI. B. Gum.
ingham, John N. Potts, Jas. H. Davis, inc
l.. Springs. and David Parks.
The time for holding the next Fair is fast
approaching (third Thursday in November
and We hope such an interest will be mani
tested as will make the Exhibition credit
able. We think that at the last annual
meeting of the Society it was understood
that citizens of the adjoining counties were
to be invited to compete for premiums.
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1857-08-11

MOUNT VERNON FUND.-Contribution
have now been received from 10 counties,
viz: Arson, Pitt, Franklin, Brunswick,
Wake, Beaufort, Sampson, Edgecombe,
Orange, and New Hanover. The whole
amount received from these sources, and
deposited in the Cape Fear Bank of this
town for the Mount Vernon Fund is now
S2,IS1 Wllmin gton Herald.
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1857-08-11

Observation-Disclosures S. Garrett,
Esq, we'll known in Virginia aud North
Carolina, has resigned his post as Chief
Engineer of the Pensacola and Georgia
Railroad.
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1857-08-11

AGO IT WHILE YOU'RE YoUNG 1.-The
following marriage notice, cut from the
Memphis (Tennessec) Appeal, of the 4th
instant, is a practical carrying out of the
above advice Married, on Friday, the Goth
of June, in fernando, Miss, by Green ID.
Campbell, Esq, John Founders, aged Is.
to Miss Lou. Harris, aged Ia.
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1857-08-11

MELANCHOLY ACtIDENT.-On Saturday
1st inst while number of boys belonging
to the school of Mr.. Stephen Lee, near this
place, were bathing in Swannanoa river
one of them was drowned. Every effort to
rescue him was made by persons near at
hand, bat it was about half an hour before
the body was recovered. The unfortunate
lad is son of Mr.. o. j. Chatfee of Charles
ton.-ASheUiite Spectator.
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1857-08-11

SOUTHERN WHEAr.-We are gratifed to
learn, says the American Farmer, the
advance that is taking place in the culture
of wheat in the far South The crops raised
in Georgia, Tennessee and South and North
Carolina, will be greater by far this year
than has ever been produced, and of the
finest quality. A large portion of this wheat
finds an outlet in the ports of Savannah
and Charleston, and although some of it is
sent North, there is good market for it in
Spain, there having been exported from
Charleston alone, during the past year,
upwards of $4,000 bbls. flour, which is said
to equal that raised in that country. We
rejoice to see this evidence of prosperity in
the South is movement in the right
direction, and if our brethren would follow
it up, they would soon show to the world
their independence for all the necessaries
and blessings Of life which are placed within
their reach, only requiring them to stretch
forth their hands to secure them to them
selves and posterity.
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1857-08-11

v DIR. J. F. G.. Mittag, the eminent
scholar and philosopher. who has been for
some time engaged in this city in prepar-
ing materials for a great work on the
Natural Language of Form and Morbid
Physiognomy, leaves town to-day for Ha-
gerstown. Maryland, where he will remain
until the warm season is over. when he will
return to the city and resume his interest
ing labors.-Ne,c York NerS.
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1857-08-11

MoREHEAD CITY.-The above, we learn
(says the Beaufort Journal,) is to be the title
of the town to be built at the eastern
terminus Of the Atlantic d North Carolina
Railroad.
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1857-08-11

SERVED HIM RIGHT.-A number of the
most respectable citizens of Yazoo. Miss,
few days since resolved themselves into a
committee, who. after due and deliberate
consideration, appointed a spokesman to
inform Col. Burwell Wilkes, of Holmes
county, that if he did not leave the city be-
fore the expiration of two hours, he would
be rode upon rail, and coat of tar and
feathers administered to his precious body.
The crime alleged against Mr. Wilkes was
general meanness.''' He made his exit
from the town in two minutes after he was
apprised of the intention of the committee
En-. Paper.
Query What would become of the
people if every mean man was run off?
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1857-08-11
FIRST DISTRICT.

In Halifax county, Shaw, DEM, has gain
ed IO4 votes, and lost 81 in Northampton.
Smith, wing, gained 40 votes in Hartford.
SECOND DISTRICT.
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1857-08-11
d" That when the mighty

THAT when the mighty caravan,
That haIts one nighttime i'll the vale OF death,
Shall strike its white tents for the morning march,
He shall mount onward to t'eternal hills,
With feet unwearied and his strength renewed,
Like the strong eagles for the upward flight"
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1857-08-11
THIRD DISTRICT.

Ruffin, dem, is elected without oppo
finn
The weekly pioneer and Democrat., 1857-03-19

printing ilie evidence ihe committee Ifft out
some statements of one of ti~ witns-sss. f,r
instanse when h. said in substance II think
have said enough 10 convict GiLBygr &"
eli ] say anything more il viii render what
have sald improbable. &c The commit
tee sem 10 have brn almost AZ grsn ~
the witnesses in regard to the rules Of esi
dence. Mr. DAVIS, Of Maryland. who il u
the committee is one Of the mort popular
spakers in the iIou~. lie is badiDg
member of the Baltimore bar AMI formerly
practiosi law 10 Alexandria, Va lie r
something of writer rather good looking
but his voice Is weak. His diction IL pure.
hut his gestures arr artificial and impair his
oratory. lie is man of great industry,
and ligsRr Cray. many years ago predicted
his success
Pennsylvania Avenue iDdicat.s large ar.
csraion Of transient population in Washing.
ton. Al WILLARDs they have converted
| u the reading roam into temple Of Nor.
phes. We are having delightful weather.
'rbe President and Mrs. PIERCE will be the
guests II Mr. NANCY for FEW days after
the tth Of March. \.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat., 1857-03-19

The above. Eilow citizxns. arr simply tbc
fscts ~ they APPEAR on ths .joanAis ol the
two Hoas~. Far from being DESTROYS of
driaying legitimate AMI necessary business,
the minority we're always ready To bury the
strife and push forward the serious and i'm
pWtAnt Iabors of the ssssion. but We could
'Noh suffer 10 ss our rights trampIri upon
and Ourselves tie impotsnt tools Of an over.
bearing majority, withou, nsisting and
though willing 10 submit our acts when fully
a,h fairly understood To your Judgment, still
whatever your verdict may be, W. shall al
way, he eonvinc,i tina, We acted right. Z
o. n. SETxsn.
VIZ. FKxEBons.
i.rwrs Srosx.
Jos. ItmErrg.
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