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Weekly North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1858, 1857-11-25

SELECT CLASSICAL sCHOOL.-THE NEXT
y SESSION OF THE OXFORD GRAMMAR SCHOOL
will commence the second Monday in January. a aas
Rev T. J. Horner who has been long associated With tbs
Principal will continue TO be assistant instructor The
services of Mr.. Joseph Venable, former pupil, who has
recently graduated the University with the hgest dis
tncton and who designs 70 make teaching his profession
have also been secured, s.z ts5 ,.s5E :
J, r. H0RNER, Principal.
Oxford. n. G., Nov. II, 1851. 12ll-wtJan- 10
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SEABoARD AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY.-At meeting
of tnis Society," held in Norfolk on Thursday night
last William B. Whitehead, Esq, declined the office
of President, and Josiah T. Cranberry Esq, of Per-
quimans Co., N. c., was unanimously elected to fill
his office. Mr.. Whitehead declined the nomination,
assuring the meeting, that while he considered the
position he had had the honor to occupy one of ex-
allied consequence and consideration there were suf
hcient reasons for his declining reelection. These
reasons had been given to gentlemen before this
meeting assembled; and he was happy to know an
other gentleman thought of for the high office );
noble of the Old North State, who would bring
to the Office his well known accomplishments, and
extensive knowledge and experience in farming;
and inangurate, he satisfied, and brilliant
in the history of the Seaboard Agricultural So
ciety.
The President elect, Mr. Cranberry, conduct
ed to the rostrum by committee detailed for that
purpose, and presented himself in very graceful
address, acknowledging the honor conferred on him,
and undertaking his ability to maintain the zeal
and energy which had been infused into the pro-
ceedngs of the Society. by his able predecessor, but
pledging himself do what he could to sustain so
noble an enterprise as that in which the Seaboard
Agricultural Society engaged.
The late Fair of the Society is represented to have
been unusually successful
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just won by the Free-State men is to be nullifed
and the power once more snatched from their hands
by usurpation, and vested in the master spirits of
Border Ruffianism The calculation evidently is t.
rush this Constitution through our new Democratic
Congress forthwith, and thus turn Mr.. Parrott out
OF his seat as Delegate, and have State Election
under the auspices of the Provisional! Govern
ment. which will provide the jud ses. >uperintend
the polls and count the votes In that case Oxford
k,ckapoo, and McGee County may be relied on to
outdo all their past achievements, and to have ad.
mring competitors all along the Missouri line.
Kansas never seemed in greater peril than now
yet We do not doubt her ultimate triumph. But
there is doubtless to be rush made to put this off
spring of villany and usurpation through Congress
at once and it is indispensable that the people of the
Free States should forthwith be made fully acauain-
ted with its origin char aker and purpose The chief
danger es in the fact tha majority of the journ-
ais, especially those of thsgreat Cities habitually
conceal the important occurrences from day to day
tranSpirng in Kansas, where they cannot be dis
torted 10 the prejudice of the Free.State party Not
one single "Democratic" or " National American"
paper issued throughout the Free States has reeu.
lar correspondent in Kansas, pre;ends to give
full accounts of what takes place there. This sys-
tematc suppression is, even more than the smulta
neous distortion, treason to the of Free Labor
1t reveals guilty consciousness that what is called
democracy" in this quarter is only to be Upheld
by smo,hering the truth. And for this we see no
present remedy"
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CoLD WEATHER The weather now is very cold.
Ground frozen-plenty OF ice, and slight fall Of
snow on Thurs day ht last
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Gbe Stanaarb.
SATURDAY. NOV. 21, 1857.

HOLDEN i WILSON, STATE PRINTERS,
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FIRE.-The dwelling house of Ed Graham Hay
wood, Esq in the Southern part Of this City, with
all the out-houses attached, consumed by fire
on Thursday morning last. The flames were first
discovered about o'clock, issuing through the roof
The fire originated in a room the second story
used as kind of lumber room, but how it was COM
muncated is unknown The building was Of wood,
and the flames spread rapidly that very little of
the furniture saved. Indeed the inmates of the
house had barely time to escape Mr.. Haywood had
a very large and valuable library, all of which, with
the exception of few books consumed. He
succeeded in saving his money. and the papers be-
longing to his office as Clerk and Master in Equity.
We have heard no estimate of the loss, but it must
be several thousand dollars. The dwelling house
was We! filled with much fine and costly furniture.
Several of the contiguous dwellings endanger-
ed, but were saved By the exertions of the iremen
and citizens. The wind blowing briskly from
| the south at the time.
P S. Mr.. H. estimates his loss at between S., 600
| and O,0OO. No insurance at all.
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Arrested for Frauds on the Pension Office.
John G. Gully, Esq, of Johnston county, was ar
rested few days ago by the U. S. Marshal, and
lodged in Jail in this place, charged with perperat
ing frauds upon the U. S. Pension Office Dewitt
c. Welions, magistrate of the same county, was
also arrested and lodged in JAIL charged with being
an acco,nplce in the frauds. 1t is supposed that
Gully has defrauded the pension office of some
$4,000 or $4,000. Much sympathy is felt for
Wellons, those knowing him best believing he was
dupe instead of an accompce and that he acted
in his official capacity magistrate. in signing
such papers as Gully presented to him, through g-
norance rather than with an intention of commit
ting frauds. He is represented to be weak man,
rendered almost incapable of business by periodical
fits Mr.. Gully is a man of considerable wealth.
and has heretofore been influential and leading
citizen in his neighborhood. We learn that both he
and Wellons will be examined soon by the U. S.
Commissioner, Quentin Busbee, Esq. DE
P. S. We learn that Wellons has been set at
liberty.
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WHOLE NUMBER 1912.

the government he recognized. 1t is said that be
will be officially received by the President temor<
row. and thus the existing government he repre-,
sents will be fully recognized by our own. Further
that the terms of treaty have already been agreed
upon providing for the opening of the transit route
and sthorizing our Government to keep it open, II
Nicaragua proves to be unable to do so. Thus Nj
caraguan matters seem to be approaching . definite
arrangement 'a - .-i-s's
Business in New York seems to be reviving. The
amount Of specie in the banks of the City is nearly
twenty millions, and they will resume SO soon -
they can do SO without destroying the country banks
of that State-probably by the irst Of December.
The banks of Philadelphia and Baltimore must re-
sumo ALSO the business Of those cities will greatly
suffer- The same observation will apply to all other
sections of the country in which the banks continue
in q state of suspension.
MECKIENBURG.
Bedford inquirer and chronicle. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1854-1857, 1857-01-02
THE MIsERIES AND EFFECTS OF
lNTEMPERANCE.

The following is the most graphic define
alton Of the miseries and effects Of intcm-
Terance that we have ever seen. IL is
from the arguments advanced by certain
citiz ems of Portage county, Ohio. in a me-
morial TO the Legislature on the subject:
"And yet its march Of ruin is onward
still. II reaches abroad to others, invades
the family and social circles, and spreads
woe and sorrow all around. 1t cuts down
youth in its vigor, manhood 10 its strength
aud age in its weakness II breaks the ia
theirs heart, bereaves the doting mother,
extingaishes natural effection. erases con-
inraE love, blots ont Glial attachment,
blights parental hope, and brings dowo
mourning age in sorrow to the grave. II
produces weakness. not strength; sickness,
not health: death, not life. 1t makes wives
widows, children orphans, fathers fends,
and all Of them paupeFs and beggars. 1t
halls fevers, feeds rheumatism, nurses gout,
welcomes epidemics, invites cholera, i'm
parts pestilence, aud embraces consump-
lions. II covers the land with idleness,
poverty, disease and crime. 1t fills your
jais, supplies your aims bouses, and de-
mands your asylums. Il engenders con-
troTersies, fosters quarrels and che-lshes
riots. Il condemns law, spurns order and
loves mobs. Il crowl your peniteutiaries
aud furnishes the victims for your sca8oIds.
Il Is the life blooi OF the gambler, the ali-
pient of the eounterfeiter, the prop OF the
high I'm IN. AMI the support Of the mid
ni.bs.s ssceadiary. Ii coun:enances the IL
ar, RESPECTS rbe thief and esieems .hc bias
pheeoer I;vioiates obligations, reverences
fraud aud hoaors inflIng. 1t deiAmes ne
neqoience, bates love, scobs sirtue and
slanders inpoeeace. Ii incites tho father
10 hatcher BIS ofsprieg, helps the husband
"a massacre bis wife, and aid, the child 10
rrind .he paFrieidal axe. Il burns up man,
t.crsumes agnan, dete-ts life, curses God
ind de,2ises Hesven. II snberns witness
Is, nurses perinry, dadies the isry box,
and stains the Judicial ertniae. Ii bribes
soies, iisquaiiies voters, corraPts elections
nol.ates our institutions and en1angefs our
. Feru,aent Il ieerades the citizen, de-
ksses .he Legislator, dishouors the states
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snow, by all that il impossible and
aggravating TO bear, clenching bis hand, and
looking upwards in agony, t'she As going to
insist that Morgan is Jenkins"
''Do you take me for a perfect fool
Do you suppose dom; know the one from
the Otbera Do you suppose | don't know
the man IL the blae coat was JeIkinss'' says
The lady.
.:.TeBkins IN blue coat" cries the gem
tleman with a groan; "a man who would
suffer death rather than year anything but
brown :"
''Do you dare 20 charge me with an un-
truth l'' demands the lady, bursting into
tears.
Il charge you, madam retorts the gem
tleman, starting uF, with being monster
of contradictions monster Of aggragation
-a-a-a-Jenkins in blue coat Why
should thus be doomed to bear such state
ments o.
Bedford inquirer and chronicle. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1854-1857, 1857-01-02
A CONTRADICTORY COUPLE.

Married life is happy or unhappy, JUST as
people make it: and if there be one thing
mare than another which turns Elysium
into Tophet il is mutual contradiction
The wife likes to live in town, and the huS-
band in the country; she likes the thermom-
eter at seventy degrees, and he at forty
two. She likes music, which be hates, and
hates dancing, which he loves-and so a
very cat and dog life they lead. Here is
sketch of nice couple inimitably told.
81 DO believe" says he. taking the spoon
out or bis glass, and tossing 1t on the table,
"that of all The obstinate, positive, wrong
headed creatures that ever were born, you
are the most so, Charlotte.
'sCertainly. certainly, have it your Own
way, pray. You see how much contradict
you,' rejoins the lady.
s'Of course: you didn't contradict me at
dinner tims--oh no, not you," replies the
gentleman.
"Yes, | did," says the lady.
"0h, you dii--you admit that, " cries the
gentleman.
''If you call that contradiction, do"
answers the lady; sand say again, Edward,
that when ! know you are wrong, 1 will con-
tradict yon. ! am not your slave.
sNot my slave" bitterly answers the hus-
band; 'sand you still mean to say that in the
Blackbnrns's new house there are not more
than fourteen doors, including the door Of
the wine-cellarl'
81 mean to say, rstorts, the lady, beat
ing time with her hair brush upon the palm
Of her hand, s.that in that house there are
fourteen doors, and no more
Well, then, cries the gentleman. rising IN
despair, aud pacing she room with rapid
strides, "this IS enough 10 destroy mans
iateiicc;, aud drive hinl u.ad.''
iiy-aud-Sy the gen,ieman comes TOO
little. aud. passing h;s hand sioolnily across
hi forehead, reseats himself IL his former
chair. There IS i ioag silence. and By tins
tiu,e the lady hegias:
81 appealed 70 Mf. jenkins, who sat next
10 me- on the sofa 10 the drawing-rooni, da-
ring tea"
Morgan, ron surely mean," interrupts
the gentleman.
81 do aotaot mean anything Of the kind, =
answered tae lady.
Bedford inquirer and chronicle. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1854-1857, 1857-01-02

| The door il burst npen--lo0k there Stout
forms are in the doorway, With muskets in
their hands; grim faces stained with blood.
glare iuto tie chamber.
Now, as if her very soul vas coined into
The words that young girl, With her face
pale as ashes, her hazel eye cleaning with
deathly light, utters this short yet meaning
speech;
advance one step into the room, and |
will FIRE this rife into the powder there
/ No oath quiYers from the lips Of that
| girl, TO confirm her resolution, but there she
/ stands, alone with her wounded father, and
yet not soldier dare cross the threshold.
Imbued as they are in deeds of blood, there
is something terrible TO those men in the
simple words Of that young girl, who stands
there, with the rife laid against the keg of
powder
They stood as if spell-bound, on the
threshold Of that old chamber.
At last one bolder than The rest, bravo,
whose face IS half concealed in a thick
bear, grasps bis musket, and levels it at the
young girls breast:
Stand back or by, | viii frel'
Still the girl is firm. The bravo advances
step md then starts back. The sharps
click of the rife falls with an unpleasant
emphasis upou his ear.
'Bess, am dying gasps the old man,
faulty extending his arms. sHa, ha, we
fuiled the Brit;shers. Come, daughter,
kuee! and say prayer for me, and ie, me
feel your Warm breath upon nay face, for l
ain co!d--ilh, dark and cold
Look--As those accents fall from the old
mans tongue, those fingers uDloose their
bold of the rife. already the troopers are
secure of one victim, at least, young and
beautiful girl; for affection for the father Is
Gias;eriDg the heroism Of the m7ment-
Look, she Is about to spring into his arms.
But now she sees her danger. Again sic
clutches the rife: again, although her faith
er's accents are in her eats, stands there,
prepared 10 scatter the house in ruins, if a
single rorgh hand assail that form.
There are few brief, terrible moments
'--s-s saa
down the mansion; then a contest OH the
stairs; then the eehos OF rife shot, and
the light Of rife blaze, then these rufians
ia the door fall crushed before the stroug
arms Of the Continental soldiers. Then
wild shrek quivers through the room, and
that young girl-that '.Hero Woman
with one bound springs forward into ber
brothers arms, and nestles there, while her
dead father, his form yet warm, lies with
fixed eyeballs npon the Aoor.
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siVe that the Gazette fagors il; else, why
TINS silence! l.eok At the histor, Of il.e
past toar years, and the people will see; ta,
Ring The stand point from which Gen. Bow
man s position aud creed have been viewed,
mat be Is disunion sectionalisf-fire eat
ing nalllfier,--slage trade reGivaIist. and
slavery propagand;st of the real Bcrder
huffan school. If yeu say that you have
BOT 6eep acting With Douglas, Pierce,
Brooks and sIringfellow, where do ,ou
standa are ynu Greek or Ronl7n? We do
not know whether you have been acting
With these men from honest conviction or
not, bui that you are an honest politician is
very questionable. To prove that you are
not, the old Wing party, &C., might be ci-
ted in evidence against you, AID the de-
farted-ae must here speak of the dead
the honorable departed, aud We woald not
speak too lightly Of it, for it associates ilself
IN ous minds for a long period with the his
tory Of Bedford county-we mean dark
eelored, aingy-lccking little thing, common
ly called the ''esbhage leaf" When the
little thing stopped making its weekly visits
and sunk to rest, the Guardian no doubt Of
feFed the same blessing that the watching
mother offered, slightly altered:
Hash. nay iabc, lie stigl and sIun,ber,
Esrts.'s angels guard thy bed;
Gracious blessings without number.
Gently iail upon tfly head"
Thus snnk to resi- a great light. Alirht
that bad emblazoned at its mast head, sour
country, right or wrong" which rendered IN
10 plain Anglo Saxon, means, cur party
right or wrong, and implies q want OF po-
lifical honesty.
Dr, Mullen, when member of our Own
party, IS engaged in eoncocting slanderous
figures on cnnyass, among Border RufHans,
be occupies questionable position. His
own party will naturally ask him, are you
Jew or Christian! You, when questioned
as TO the propriety Of being in dubious COM
fany, replied that you worked for pas, and
stated the sun to be charged. Doctor,
Gen Bowman addressed the major part of
a short speech to yoa, on the day Of the
feast. We did not Ike the blowing Of he
wind. We would rather ron wnsld declare
fairly for your old friends aud remain wish
US. If yon can find it in your heart to 60
over to the camp of the enemy when you
are squarely ia the Border Ruffiau boat
then it viii be time enough to MEASURE the
ground between US. Any structures have
been in purely political sense. Your pri-
vate relations, or any other mans, we dis
claim any intention of attacking in any
sense. Your physical man we won't hurt.
i. MUSTANG.
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man aud disarms the patriot Ii brings
shame, not homer terror, not safety; des.
pair, not hope; misery, not happiuess. And
nov, as With the nlalevo!eaee Of fend, it
calmly surveys its frighfful desolations, and
lnsatiate with havoc, it poisons felicity, kills
peace, ruins morals. blights confidence
Stays reputation and wipes our national hon
"r. then curses the world and laughs at lis
ruin"
Bedford inquirer and chronicle. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1854-1857, 1857-01-02

THE RIcHT SpIRT.-A young man who
presented himself at the polls in the First
Ward, Philadelphia, at the recen. election,
had bis right to rote challenged by one Of
the shelter citizens" who had come from
old Ireland This aroused the American
heod, and the challenged party after having
proved his righ, TO vote, threw down the
Locofoco ticket, exclaiming II can't stand
this. I was born in this country" and
handed TO the Inspector full American
ticket.
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He who marries for beauty only, Is Ike
buyer of cheap furnitsre 1.-The varnish that
caught the eye will not endure the freside
If you wish to cure scolding wife, never
fail to laugh at ber with all your might an-
til she ceases, then kiss her. Sure cure and
no nuack madeleine.
Bedford inquirer and chronicle. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1854-1857, 1857-01-02

What are you staring at, sir, may asks
saic an iinperiaied. nous;sehed blood to
'Hoosier' op Mississippi steamboat, who
bad been watehiae Lia as cat watches .
mouse, for some fifteen minutes.
j thought 50" exclaimed tho Hoosier,
tie moment the other sposei i said you'd
got mouth, and l vas only waiiin' to 30
sartin about it TO ask you TO .lisuor.'
Stranger, what'!l you drinka or bad yon
rather fghii I DON'T care which, myself
Bedford inquirer and chronicle. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1854-1857, 1857-01-02

A teacher had been explaining to bis
class the points Of The compass, and all
were drawn up in front, towards the north
sNow what's before you, Johns'
sfhe north. SIR
sAnd what's behind you, TOmmyr
sMy coat tail, sir, said be, trying at the
same time TO get glimpse at il.
Bedford inquirer and chronicle. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1854-1857, 1857-01-02

One Of the toaets drank n recent
celebration, Eas-sWoman. She requires
10 ealogy-sha speaks for herself.'
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A young lawyer who bad paid bis court
to young lady without much sisanciBg,
accused her Que day of being insensible to
the power Of love- 1T does not follow
she replied shat sm not to BE- won BY the
power Of an attorney
Bedford inquirer and chronicle. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1854-1857, 1857-01-02

Why would i be expensive 10 change ale
into vale /
AasHeE-Because ii would take Y to
DO ii.
Victor Hugo styles sbe printing press the
forgidable locomotive OF universal thought.
Cord from Yictof
The Saginaw Michigan, Enterprise Tec-
o.amends GOV. Bingham as the successor ot
Gen. Cas- IN the United Sta.ss Ssnsts.
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VOL. 80, No. |.
SINGULAR EFFECTS or EIEcTRr-


A gentleman residing few miles cat of
town recently carried horne small eIec,r;.
cal machine for making some experiments.
As foon as he got homo, the negroes, A. u.r-s
al, fccked around him, eager 70 see Wbas
master had got. There was q boy anion4
those darkies that had evineed astrona
disposition TO mcye things wbea they rAnr-
ed no moving, or, ii other wcris. 10 r;lfer
occasionally
Now, Jack said bis master, slook here
this machine is to make people tell the
truth, and if you have stolen anything, or
lied % me, il viii knock you down.
why. master,' says The boy, i never
lied or stole anything in my life.
We'll, take hold of tllis,' and no sooner
had be received slight shock than he fell
On his knees and bawled out
'Oh master, did steal your scgars and
little knife, and have lied ever SO MANY
times; please to forgive n,e'
The experiment was tried, xith ike sue
cess, upon half dozen juveniles. AT las.
an old negro, wkc had been looking on very
attentiVely, stepped up.
Master said be, slet dis niger Try
Dai are masileen is we'll enough 10 scar tbs
children sid, but this niger knows bet
ter
The machine Eaz then fuiiy charged, and
he received stunning shock. He looked
frss at his hand, then at the machine, and
at last rolling his eyes
Master said he, it amt best TO know
too much. Dar's many a soul gi.s 10 be-
damned by knowing TOO much, al It's nv
opinion that the debll made DAT masheen
just to keteh yer soul afoul somehow, an
reckon you had best just take an burn il
up, aud have il dcne gone.
~---
An OBSTINATE CusToMEa.-sAre you
an Odd Fellowr
no, sir. Pve been married weak
4 mean do you belong 70 the Order Of
Odd Feilswzl'
No; belong'o to fhe Order of Married
s'ss'. 4,-..-i44, how dun,
eSo; Tn a carpenter
'Worse and Rarsel Are 10. Son of
Temperament
'Confound you, no. an sou of Mr..
John Gosling.
The querist wen' his way.