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Arkansas intelligencer., 1857-04-17

tlF I. hundred pieces of haudkerchiefs for sale
Il by WARD Il SOUTHMAYD
Arkansas intelligencer., 1857-04-17
Turkey Red Yam.
PiOUghs.

hNE hundred pounds Turkey red yarn for sal.
~ by WARD 4 SOUTRsiAYD.
Arkansas intelligencer., 1857-04-17
Cutlery.

GOAMON and fine table knives and forks. voek
~ ct knives razors. scissors, handsome .siort
ment just received by
april bS5 HENRY, WILLIAMS. 4 Ga,
Arkansas intelligencer., 1857-04-17
BLACkSMITHING.
Mule Harness,

ENoUR sets of four mule harness complete for
Il sale low by
feb e3, 81 GEO. AUSTIN.
Arkansas intelligencer., 1857-04-17
5l..E
ssUliIRisuc.
Glass Ware.

( LASS ware received per steamer Reliance. and
" for sale by WARD 4 SOUTHMAYD.
Arkansas intelligencer., 1857-04-17
New Goods.

4 GENERAL assortment of merchandise in
Z store, and additions expected by every boat
march l, SO HENRY, WILLIAMS L Co
Arkansas intelligencer., 1857-04-17
Dry Goods.
Teas.

1zSss FINE imperial and gunpoweder teas. in
RassH boxes. cans and caddies. just received by
aE1Ik HENRY. WILLIAMS Il Co
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1857-01-20
cHLoRoFoRM IN SURGERY.

Prof. Simpson states that during the last
six or seven years few operations have been
performed in Edinburg, either in hospital
or in private practice, without the patient
being previously an@sthetized with chloro-
form. During that period one death has
occurred in the city among the many thou
sands who have been subjected to the use
of chloroform. But during the same six or
seven years, among the comparatively few
operated upon there without chloroform,
three or four deaths are certainly known
to have taken place, either during or imnie-
diately after surgical operations. There
are marked differences between chloroform
and ether and their effects Ether has II
strong penetrating odor, which renders it
repugnant to some persons it always COM
memces by irritating therespirotory organs,
and frequently provokes coughing, and
sometimes suffocation. Chloroform does
not disturb nor irritate the organs it passes
through, and produces only feeble organic
excitement. Ether developes its anasthetc
NhSStS SAo"iyi ohN IhCy ACuIuiH lo1 Soult
time after the experiment or the operation
is ended in the form of intoxication, head
ache, feeble pulse, and cold limbs. Chic
reform, on the contrary, ceases in general
its action when the patient stops inhaling
it, and it is only in especial cases that it is
seen to prolong its effects for some time
after the patient ceases to inhale it.
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1857-01-20
MIR BANKS LEcrURD.

On Friday night last, by request, M,
Banks, of Fayetteville, repeated in tbi.
City his Lecture on the Romance of Sent.
fish History" The evening was clear and
bracing, and the Commons Hall presented
an assemblage of intelligence and beauty
seldom seen here on any occasion. Mr..
Banks was introduced to the audience bv
Mr.. Cantwell. The Lecture was impress.
sively delivered, and well received. Ths
Lecturer commenced in the twelfth cent?.
ry, and came down to the present day, pre-
senting and illustrating the leading events
in Scottish history, and Intervening there
with many of the legends and much of the
touching poetry of his native land. When
at last he blended the Romance of Scottish
History with the history of the United
States, and particularly of North Carolina,
and pointed to the patriotism and valor dis
played by the descendants of Scotchmen
on this side the great waters, the enthus-
iasm of the audience was fully aroused, and
he was greeted with long and loud applause.
In word, the Lecture, both in matter and
manner, was all that could have been er-
pected by Mr.. Banks most devoted friends.
and we but utter the general wish when Wa
say that we should be much pleased to SOC
it in print.-RdLeighS Standard.
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1857-01-20
Shall we Recognize our Earthly
Friends in Heaven

Isit wrong to wish to see them,
who were dear to us on earth!
Who have gone to Heavenly mansions,
Who surround brighter hearth F!
Is it wrong to mourn their absence,
From the parted household band!
Should we check the sign of sadness,
Though they're in better land
Is it wrong to hope to meet them,
Yet upon the blessed shore,
And with songs of joy to greet them,
When this toll of life is DER?
Is it wrong to think them dearer
Than the many of the blest,
Who to US on earth were strangers
Must we love them like the rest
I've a mother up in heaven,
And, oh tell me, if we will,
Will that mother know her children
Will she recollect them still
Can she look down from those windows,
To this dark and distant shore?
Will she know when am coming
Will she meet me at the door?
Will she clasp me to her bosom,
In her ecstacy of joy!
Will she ever be my mother
Shall ever be her boy!
And, thou, loved one, who did'st leave US,
In the morning of thy bloom,
Dearest sister, shall I meet thee
When go beyond the tomb
Shall l see thy lovely features,
Shall | hear thy pleasant words,
Sounding DER my spirits heart-strings,
Like the melody of birds
And l think me of another
Of darling little one
Who went mp among the angels,
Ere his life had scarce begun.
Oh! [ long once more to see him,
And to hold him in my arms,
AS l did when he was with us,
With his thousand budding charms.
All tits true the soul must suffer,
And be bound with anguish down.,
Ere it's fitted for its dwelling,
Ere tits ready for its crown.
But, oh, Jesus blessed Jesus
Thou art loved without alloy
Thou wilt meet US, thou wilt bless US,
Thou wilt give us perfect joy! S. s..
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1857-01-20
A HOMESTEAD FOR $40,
SECOND DIVISION,
$4,000 worth of Farms and
Building Lots,

IN the gold region of Culpepper county, Va,
to be divided amongst 10000 subscribers, on the
18th of April, 1857 Subscriptions only ten dol
lars each; one half down, the rest on the delive-
ny of the Deed. Every subscriber will get a
Building Lot or Farm, ranging in value from
$40 to SIS, 900. These Farms and Lots are sold
SO cheap to induce settlements, a sufficient num-
Der being reserved, the increase in the value Of
which will compensate for the apparent low price
now asked.
A company of settlers, called "The Rappahan-
mock Pioneer Association" is now forming and
will commence settlement in the spring. Am
pie security will be given for the faithful per-
Torrance of contracts and promises.
10 More Agents are wanted to obtain sub
scribcrs, to whom the most liberal inducements
will be given. Some Agents write that they
making $500 per month. Advertising will be
done for every Agent where possible. For full
particulars, Subscriptions, Agencies, &c,
Apply to +. BAUDER,
Port Royal, Caroline Co, Va.
Jan. IL, 1857. BIN
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1857-01-20
CHARLOTTE AND HER REcoLI.Ec-
TIONS

Besides the honor of being the seat CT
the Convention, in I775. thatissued the first
Declaration of Independence, Charlotte, in
Mecklenburg, North Carolina, has claims
upon posterity both singular and merltori-
Gus. The centre of fertile and populous
country. she was doomed to see the blood
of her sons shed. and the Declaration of Ia
dependence of all foreign dominion main
:ained at the point of the British bayonet.
CORVALLIS called Charlotte the ''hornets'
nest" and unwilling to pay for supplies
with so much English blood, after the fatal
battle at Kings Mountain became known
to him, his lordship determined to leave
this vexatious post. To prevent annoyance,
he chose to depart suddenly, and in the
night. Mr.. McCalfery, a man of wealth
and standing, ScOtchman, and resident in
Charlotte. was chosen as their guide to lead
them by the upper and nearest route to
South Carolina. After so bewi1dering the
army in the swamps, that much of their
baggage was lost, he contrived to escape,
and leave the army to find their way by the
returning light of day.
Colonel Thomas Polk, SO favorably men,
toned IN the history of the Declaration,
owned property in and around Charlotte.
His mill was between two and three miles
south of the village, and is now called Bis
sells. His body lies inferred in the grave
yard of the village. Over his grave and
that of his wife Susanna, his son William
Polk, late of Raleigh, erected a marble slab
a memorial of his resting place.
The Polk family came early to Mecklen
burg, and in time of the Revolution were
numerous, and some of them very wealthy.
They resided part of them. in the bounds of
Sugar Greek congregation and part of them
in Providence. Among them was Ezekiel
Polk, the grandfather of James X. Polk.
President of the United States. The de-
scendants have all emigratcd from the coun-
try, mostly to Tennessee, or States further
South.
Garden, in his anecdotes of the Ameri-
can Revolution, says Nor were the la
dies in Mecklenburg in any degree inferior
in enthusiasm to the male population. l
find in the South Carolina and american
General gazette from the I'd TO the 9th Of
February, the following paragraph:
"The young ladies of the best families of
Mecklenburg county, North Carolina, have
entered into voluntary association that
they will not receive the addresses of any
young gentleman at that place. except the
brave volunteers who served the expedition
to South Carolina. and assisted in subduing
the Scovalte insurgents. The ladies being
of opinion that such persons as stay loiter-
ing at home, when the important calls of the
country demand their military services
abroad, must certainly be destitute of that
nobleness of sentiment, that brave, manly
spirit which would qualify them to be the
defenders and guardians of the fair SEX"
1.-The ladies of the adjoining county of
Rowan have desired the plan of similar
association to be drawn up and prepared for
signature. "-SketchcS Of North Carolina.
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1857-01-20
FEMALE NOVEL READERS.

One of our exchanges has the following
article, which is worthy of a wide perusal.
1t directs attention to an alarming socia
evil, needing correction. Many girls, of
really fine intellects, are throwing away all
hope of vigorous mental culture by an in
satiate craving for fictitious works. These
works, which issue from the press, count
less as the frogs of Egypt, are destitute,
for the most part. of imagination and good
taste, and have nc power to invigorate the
mind or improve the heart. The next gen.
Grafton of American women may furnish
robust minds and characters; but the pros
pect is dreary one, when one thinks of
the unsubstantial food which is the only
aliment of many,
1t is said that four-fift of the novel read
ing in this country, at the present time, is
achieved by ladies. So true is this, that
publishers cater almost exclusively for the
female taste, in the selection of works for
issue. The consequence is, that the mar
ket is flooded with high-wrought pictures of
high life for one class of these lady readers,
and high-wrought pictures of low life for
another class, while the staple articie-the
article which finds its way into the best of
families-is surcharged and sanctifed by
a sickly and slender religious sentiment that
is hardly less enervating than the story
which forms its vehicle. Now. this is not
very complimentary to the ladies, we ad
nit but we are not to blame for the fact,
and certainly take no delight in stating it.
Those who devote their time to such trashy
reading are unfit for responsible duties.
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1857-01-20
LATER FROM rrcARAeUA

By the steamer George Law, from Aspin-
wall, advices from San Juan del Norte have
been received to December 22d. No It'd
ings had been received from Walker for
several days previously. Scott had quar-
relied with him, and stopped running his
boats. Walker had seized for his own use
all the steamers on the river and lake.
A letter from Granada, dated December
1st, states that the church of Guadalupe
was still held by 200 yankees, who refused
to surrender at the summons of Gen. Bello-
so. They were destitute of water and were
subsisting on horses, but, nevertheless, they
obstinately refused the quarter offered
They were to be attacked Immediately af-
ter which the bulk of the allied army would
proceed to operate with Gen. Canas against
San Juan and Virgin Bay.
The loss of the fllibusters since Novem-
Der Gath, is stated at 800; that of the allies
is said to be small.
Private letters state that the Indians in
Ometepea has risen against Walker and
killed Is fllibusters. Walker with $50
men had attempted to retake GRANADA, out
was repulsed.
Advces from Rivas to December 5th,
state that Walker had arrived before Rivas
and was preparing to attack General Canas
who had 600 men well supplied with provis-
ions and munitions. A few skirmishes had
taken place between the advanced guards.
Walkers men ere said to be badly off,
They have scarcely anything to eat, and are
dying daily with dysentery.
FROM OREGoN.-The dates from Oregon
are to 18th December. A battle was fought
on the 2Ist of November, at Puget Sound,
between the United States steamer Massa-
chusetts, and a party of Northern Indians;
q Indians were killed. and 81 wounded
the remainder surrendered. One of the
steamers men was killed.
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1857-01-20

Time enough has now elapsed for the
crease in prices of the neeessaries of life
during the last decade, and accordingly we
receive from various sources explanatory
theories based upon statistics. In the case
of certain articles of consumption there is
no need of elaborate research. In the in
stance of sugar, for example, the main cause
is VIGOROUSLY the continued failure and de-
terioration of the Louisiana crops, aggra
waited by an abominable imposition, for the
benefit of the few hundred planters, engag-
ed in an agricultural experiment, as absurd
as would be an undertaking to raise sweet
potatoes in Maine.
The cause of the exaggerated price of
animal food, however, is not so manifest
Epidemics. to be sure, have been raging in
certain districts, as destructive to live stock
as mildew to corn, or the rot to the potato.
Within the circuit of hundred miles
around Cincinnati, during the last six months,
between 10000 and 10000 hogs have died
of a distemper resembling in some symP-
toms the cholera, in others erysipelas, which
seems to be incurable. Western \. York
also have been ravaged by the sane pest,
one distiller in the neighborhood of the town
of Jordan losing 500 in a month. But
these maladies are temporary, and far from
generally prevalent, and entirely insufficient
to account for the phenomena we seek to
explain. A consideration of the decreased
value of the precious metals fails to supply
the deficiency.
An ingenious article in late number of
the Cincinnati Gazette, furnishes certain
tables, which, we think, afford solution
The number of cattle in all the U. States
was:
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1857-01-20

MRS. GAINES PROSECUTING HER CLAIMS.
Mrs. Mary Clarke Gaines has instituted
another suit in the United States Circuit
Court of Louisiana, against the city of New
Orleans, II. E. Lamyre, Charles Hopkins,
Domingo Lanata and L. Lalland Terrier,
claiming forty arpents of land and num-
Der of lots all located in the city, and which
defendants hold in possession, and are now
the reputed owners.
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1857-01-20
FROM HAVANA AND MEXICO.

The steamer Isabel arrived at Charleston
with advices from Havana.
DIR. Kanes health was improving.
A great storm-very destructive to the
shipping-is reported as having occurred
off Vera Cruz. The Mexican steamer Gu
adaloupe is among the wrecked; also, the
steamer Iturbde. The latter had eighty
persons on board, all of whom were lost.
A conspiracy among the Spanish soldiers
on the Isle of Pines, Cuba, had been
discovered. Several were arrested.
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1857-01-20
awoMAN VERSUS LADY

| The Alta California, under the caption
we have copied above, submits the following
truthful and felicitously expressed remarks
| upon the absurd habit into which we
Democratic Americans have fallen into OF
substituting the word lady for woman, and
for wife The Alta says:
We were casually informed few days
since, that gentleman in this city MORALLY
offended female friend by incidentally
applying to her the term woman"
With the importation of foreign silks,
and foreign jewelry and knicknaeks, we
have of late years imported a great deal
two much of foreign mannerisms and forms
of expression. Around the purlieus of
courts, among the tinsel and show OF
nobilities, where men and women appear
not as God made them, but in fictitious
characters, where the feelings, sentiments
and emotions of the heart are covered, hid
from view by the cold formalities ofetiquette,
among 'high" classes the term "woman"
has verv naturally lost its native nobieness
and dignity. The Glow" classes in those
countries, aping, as they always do, those
whom they consider their "betters," have
caught the infection, and we, with all our
professions of distaste for the mockerles OF
kingy titles, and hollow court forms, have
followed their example.
and vet how much more of dignity
and beauty, how much more of holy music
is there in the good old Saxon word
"woman" than in the term "lady." The
sound of the former brings up to the heart
of a true man vision of beauty, worth and
true nobility of affection and of love. Holy
memories cluster greenly around this name
of "woman." Recolections of mothers,
noble hearted "women" and sweet sisters
rise at the name. All that is queenly, and
beautiful, and pure, is expressed in the
word.
The term GLADLY" is weak and puny, and
efeminate by the side of the name OF
woman" There is strength and force in
the latter. In the former there Is a weak
ness and lack of expression. One calls to
our vision the gentle, noble creature, whom
God made to smooth with her LONELINESS
the rugged pathway of life, to light it with
her smiles, to soothe with her sweet
influence the rougher passions of mankind;
the other, the fictitious creature OF fashion,
with her furbelows and hoops, and soft
nonsense and simpering.
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1857-01-20

KANSAS AND Gov. GEARY.-Like anoth-
er Hercules, Gov. Geary has strangled the
monster that had so long disturbed the pub
lie peace and safety in Kansas. He enjoys
the rare felicity of having by his admins
tration given satisfaction to all parties
Perfect quiet reigns in Kansas, and all the
arts of peace are springing into prosperity,
under the energy and enterprise of the peo-
pie.
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1857-01-20

A MARRIAGE IN THE CARs.-In the cars
between Bangor and Portland, an incident
occurred on Sunday morning, little out of
the usual course. Soon after the train left
Bangor, the conductor, Mr.. Pittman, who
had provided himself with a Clergyman,
stood up in one of the cars, and, in the
presence of the passengers. and while the
train was at its usual speed, was duly mar
ried to a lady by the name of Fuller. Our
eastern friends are evidently a fast" peo-
pie
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1857-01-20
GARDINER, Me-, June % ,or,

WIN. H. DYER-Dear Sir: have used two bo,-
ties OF Prof. Woods Hair restorative, and can tru.
restoring and changing the Hair. Before usng !,
was as gray as man OF seventy. My hair la,
now attained its original color. You can recon-.
mend it to the world without the least fear, as nav
case was one OF the worst kind.
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1857-01-20

How TO DETECT PHOTOGRAPHIC BANK
BILLs.-The sure method of detecting a
photograph is to touch it with a solution
composed of 60 grains of cyanide POTASH,
UNI in an ounce of pure water. This solu-
ton is poison. 1t will remove the photo
graphic impression instantaneously, but it
will not touch the carbon ink of the bank
note plate printer. 1t can be put up by any
apothecary for eighteen pence.
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1857-01-20
Life Insurance.

THE undersigned has been appointed Agens
Cor the North Carolina Mutual Life INSURANCE
company for Charlotte and vicinity.
sPersons wishing to insure their own lives Oh
ives of their slaves viii please call ON
THOS. w. DEWEY, Agent.
Jan. 10, 1857. 28-5t
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1857-01-20

The SEIZURE OF CUBA.-The New York
Herald contains the following in the shape
of q communication:
at has lately come to my knowledge that
there exists in this country a secret order,
called 1.-The Sons of Freedom" The or
ganization extends from New Orleans TO n.
York, embracing the principal seaboard
towns, and is rapidly extending itself over
the entire country.s The head, or Grand
Lodge, exists in this city, to which all other
lodges are subordinate. Members are ad-
mitted by secret signals and passwords, and
are bound to each other by the most solemn
oaths and obligations. The entire move
ment is in the hands of leading men, of
character and ability, and the country will
be startled, one of these fine mornings, by
the announcement that Cuba, the "Queen
of the Antilles" has fallen into the hands
Of the Sons of Freedom"
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1857-01-20
DISSOLUTION.
Jan. 13, 1857.

The Copartnership of FISHER. Bur-
&. co. was dissolved by mutual
consent on tLe first of January, 1857.
All persons indebted to the said tirm are re-
uuested to make ''!MNIEDIATE" paymenttO
FISHER & BURROUGHS.
January 18th, 1851.
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1857-01-20
SCARLET FEVER,

The fatality attending this disease in
many localities is truly alarming. There
is, perhaps, no fever that has more baffled
the skill of the Faculty, or which occasions
more just alarm in the bosoms of parents
than this fell destroyer of children. We
see that from forty to fifty deaths are known
to occur from it in the city of New York
alone, weekly. 1t is equally fatal in Phila-
delphia, Boston, and other Northern cities.
Many who recover are frequently left deaf
or blind.
It is the opinion that this extraordinary
mortality indicates some medical defect in
the mode of treatment. The January num-
Der of the American Medical Gazette, edi-
ted by DIR. D. Meredith Reese, regarded
as high authority, contains an urgent en-
treaty addressed to the medical profession,
but which intimately concerns the public at
large, in which he suggests for patients suf-
fering from attacks of scarlet fever an ac-
tive emetic at the very onset of the disease,
and only cayenne pepper tea to their ulcer
ated throat. This is the only medication,
proved effectual. The eminent success of
DIR. Reese would seem to entitle his re-
commentator to earnest consideration.
THE CULTIVATION OF COTTON IN ARR
Cain England, the Government, as we'll
as the manufacturers, are looking to the con-
tinent of Africa, as a prominent field for
the culture of Cotton.
The London Times has sent special
correspondent to Algeria, to ascertain &C
curateiy the progress which has been made
by the French in cultivating cotton in that
colony. His report is unfavorable, but the
i'll success is attributed to the bad manage
ment of the French in not enlisting native
labor in the culture, and not 10 any defect
in soil or climate. The government pro-
vIdes the seed gratis for three years, and
buys up all the Cotton grown, at high price.
Yet with all this forcing, all the Cotton
that is grown is cultivated by spade hus>
bandry, and by fancy planters. The sum
total of all the land in all Algeria, which at
the last published returns was cultivated for
Cotton, was 1000 acres, and for the produce
of this the government paid 100000. The
Cotton is bought in its rough state, sent to
France to be cleaned, and to Rouen to be
manufactured.
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1857-01-20

Enthusiastically evening last on the
Wilmington and Weldon railroad, about
forty-four miles from the former place, the
locomotive gave out whereupon the
gentlemen passengers jumped to the ground
and pushed the car containing the ladies
the distance of three miles. There was
heroism and galIantry for you. Beat it
who can.