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BLACK SWAN!
ONE CONCERT ONLY.


MISS GREENFIEID respectfully announce.
" CONCERT =
Taas e. 9V kTf sSI JAM h s
The Programme for the occasion, she trusts. vii
Prof 6. r. Il. TsrsENcx, the Eminent Pianist.
vii preside at the Piano.
cts Inay lie secured tho Hall on the afternoon OF
Doors open AZ o'clock Concert commences at
For particulars see prosramme. jan l-st
ODD r Ell LOWS FESTIVAL.
The Members of COLUMBIA LODGE, No. 10.
10 r, respectfully announce Q"
me ''%S.iSs S Sffi .I' FESTIVAL -
MoNDAY EVENING. JANUARY II. 1853.
A. ODD FELLOWS NALL, S,renfh street.
The Communities Of Arrangements hsve spared no
To insure perfect satisfaction TO those Who
favor them with their presence on this occasloni
enter,sinInens Addresses wllI be delivered by tho
ksy G. TxSEgE{' ard the t Hon SF &c d. -
tbnSu Of Of Gs n. Orphans under charge d
the Lodge Vocal and Instrumental Music Re
portion of the enertainmcnt the room will be given
up To those desIrous Of enjoying themselves IN the
danceIfor which the best CotIllon Music has been
Prof. Foertsch viii preside at the Piano hne
Mr.. q. II. Ridenour. the csiebrated confectoner.
will furnish the Refreshments.
been engaged.
Tickets Gncludins Refreshment.l ONE DOL
LAR-admittIng a Gentleman and two Ladies.
COMMITTEE OF Arranrensnts.
& cs sITsfs, S %, Swan. &.
8. J. Thomson, l.. III. Henry, =. c. Mills.
A. II. Jones. j. A. Mouden, J. T. Mcintosh.
Sam'l. Wise, w. III. Nally, WIN. Bond.
w. ID. Stewart, =. Peaster, WIN. n. Slssell.
Pasd HsSsS sMi Marlin. S Gii S"'''
N. {. Driver.
Tickets may Be procured of any member Of the
Festival.
The Hall will be opened at 7,f O'Clock.
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THIRD GRAND COTIf,ItbN PARTY or
THE COLUMBIA CLUB.
The members Of the Columbia Club take erest
pleasure IN announcing their friends ard a
the pubic thar their THIRD GRAND CoIILLoS -
PAETT OF the season wal be given 81 Coum- ~
bla Hall. on MONDAY, Jan. nth 1853. tg{&
Tickets FIFTY CENfS-admitting gentleman
and ladies'. BY order
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CoSrIRHED.-Theodore Sedgwick has been
confirmed by the Senate as U. g. District At
torney for the Southern District Of New York.
vice John McKcon, removed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1858-01-11

ITO THE CITIZENS OF WASHINGTON
AND ALEXANDRIA,.
Persons DESTROYS of purchasing the SEWING
MACHINES of the Undersigned will apply 10
Messrs. Wall, stephens CO., who has been duly
appointed this day our only agent for Washington
and Alexandria.
jan s-im IN. SINGER co.
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1858-01-05
FIGHT BETWEEN THE FREE STATE
AND PRo-sLAvERY MEN,

ST.. LOUIS. Dec. 24.-The st Louis
Democrat publishes Kansas letter this
evening. showing an increase in the excite
ment, with fighting and bloodshed.
Oa the evening of the 10th instqlgra bat
tie was fought at Fort Scott bety yfen, the
free State and pro-slavery men, ihs~hich
Eve of tho latter were killed, incigh ling
Blake Little. member of the LeconS IN
Constitutional Convention. Many wsSe
wounded on both sides. including % free
State men.
The origin of the difficulty was the ap-
pearance of Clarke, the notorious murderer
of Barber, tw" years since, in company
with the sheriff>s officer, attempting to col
lect taxes of free State men, and seizing
property in default of payment, making the
prosecution under the rebellion law.
Great excitement existed among the Mis-
sourians on the border, who had assembled
in strong numbers, and more fighting was
anticipated.
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1858-01-05
REV. DIR. TYING ON OLD WOMEN.

Rev. DR.. Tying delivered an eulogy on
"Old Wemen," at the anniversary of the
Association for the relief of Aged INDECENT
Females at New York. The Tribune's re-
port has the following:
There is a great difference between old
women and old men. The Bible speaks of
''mothers in Isreal." Does it anywhere
speak Of ''fathers in Isreal -
A man, when he gets old and gives up
business, or .'retires," becomes imperiOus
uneasy and unpleasant. He withdraws
himself into habits of introversioR. If he is
a cigar-smoker. he smokes all the day long.
If he is a newspaper reader, he reads it
through every day, advertisements and all
[Laughter.l Or else you will often catch
him down town in his own or somebody
else's counting house. He is uneasy if he
is not there, and you will generally find it
most comfortable to let him be there
[Laughter.] The only way to get work
out of an old horse is to keep him at work;
and the only way to make an old man worth
anything is to keep him busy. An old
soapboiler in this city retired from business
to country residence on Staten Island to
"taks it easy" but he soon got sick and
sent to town for DIR. Hosack. Tho doctor
went to see him, and wrote out prescrip
ton, ''Go back to New York and take a
turn again at boiling soap" Old men get
equity; they are continually getting cold.
The draught somehow always will be blow
ing on their necks. This is the reason
why we don't hear of "fathers of l<rcal;"
but dear me! l can take you round st.
Georges Church and show you whole
scores of ''mothers in Isreal." True benev
olence is kindness towards those who can
never pay back. take up an orphan boy
and bring him up-I can get my pay out of
his hide. But to take an old woman as far
as this is concerned, there is nothing to be
made out of her.
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1858-01-05

The MANIA FOR OFFICE.-The Wash
ington correspondent Of the South" says:
The insatiate Office begging has got to
be one of the most immense public nui-
sauces of the day. The extent to which Il
is carried on in its precincts Of the Capitol
by whining old men, cIammoro,s middle
aged men, flirpant young men, and jaunty
little boys, whom their anxious mammas
have scrubbed up and sent 20 beg for page
ships, is absolutely disgusting. The per
sons applying for these places about the
Capitol are nearly all from the District OF
Columbia, and there is scarcely a man or
boy in this pensionary District who is not
an Office beggar at every session Of Con-
gress. Every woman who keeps board
ing house in Washington, makes it prac-
tice of beseiging honorable members with
all sorts of attention to secure their infu-
ence for Tommy, and to pension their lazy
whelps on the Government.
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1858-01-05

THE SIAMESE AND BRITIsH.-Our smok-
ers cannot fail to be amused at the aston
ishment of Victoria's courtiers in taking
out their pipes and smoking in her august
presence. We admire her Majesty's pru-
dence in not ordering them to tho Tower
to be cured for hams.
The Court newsman does not tell US all
that he might about the presentation to
the Queen of the Siamese ambassadors,
whose physical quality and political unity
are calculated to prolong our associations
of the celebrated twins from the same land.
The Queen and her Court were assembled
in state, and as soon as the door of the
audience chamber opened, the Embassa-
doris and their suite. eight persons alto
gether, appeared. Having made profound
salaams, they threw themselves on their
hands and knees, and in a compact body
went up the room on all fours to the throne.
The royal gravity (her Majesty is known
to have as keen a sense of the ludicrous as
most people, was sorely tried by this pro-
ceeding; but when the principal Embassa-
dor increasing his prostrations, laid his chin
on the step of the throne, and in that atti-
tude commenced to read his address, the
trial became painful. The exit from the
Queens presence was accomplished by a
retrograde movement on all-fours likewise,
the ambassadors keeping their faces al
ways to her Majesty. There was a lunch
in the course of which their Siamese excel
lencies, to the intense horror Of the assem-
bled Court, lit their pipes and began to
blow a comfortable cloud. The Queen
herself, however. very sonsibly and good
naturedly laughed. and said nothing about
it, notwithstanding her aversion to the
fragrance of the tobacco plant.
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1858-01-05
IMPORTANT RUMORS!!
MECKLENBURG COUNTY
AGAINST THE STATE.

BLUE STONE.-It is stated, and from the
authority of DIR. H. NJ. Prtchard, who has just
received from the mandatory, for which he is
agent several hundred pounds of the finest arti-
Gle ever offered in the town of Charlotte, to be
enabled in short time to supercede in quality
and sale any imported article, and at less price
Call and see it.
Nov. IL, 1857. 1RwIN'S CORNER.
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1858-01-05
SLAVERY IN BRAZIL.

The New Orleans Delta adduccs Brazil
as presenting strong argument in favor
of the institution of slavery as AN element
of prosperity and a means of rapid national
development. 1t says that empire, during
an independent existence of but little more
than thirty years, has been making giant
strides towards wealth andprosperity. andi
is no exaggeration to say that in the race of
improvement Brazil has almost kept pace
with the United States. Cut off from the
commerce of the word by the selfish Japa-
nese policy of the mother country, she was.
at the beginning of the present century, a
feeble, colonial possession, and a desert
waste on the face of the globe. She final
ly severed in 1926 the bonds which con-
nected her with Portugal, and assumed the
rank of an independent nation. Orderly,
constitutional government was established
under wise and liberal prince, and this
new empire began to flourish and blossom
as the rose. The importation of blacks
from tho coast of Africa, commenced un-
der the Portuguese rule, was continued OH
the most extensive scale. The coffee plant,
introduced early y in lthe century, soon be-
came, thanks to its successful cultivation
by the African, the staple of the empire
and the basis of its wealth. Coffee and
slavery are just as indissolubly connected
in Brazil as cotton and slavery in the South.
In order to prove that our picture of the
prosperity of Brazil is not overdrawn, we
will state that she exported in 1855 more
than two millions of bags of coffee, and the
total value of her exports and imports in
that year was $1OO.O0O,OO0. Such are the
results of the successful establishment of
this much h-reviled institution in region
which, but for it would have remained q
bowling wilderness to the end of time.
The slavery population in Brazil can
not be very correctly estimated, as no cen
sus has ever been taken of that empire.
We will not be far from, the mark, however
in calculating the number of slaves at :,
100000. They exhibit there and here the
same happy traits of character, basking
in the glorious sunshine Of that tropical
region which may, with truth, be called the
Paradise of the negro. Though not so
well cared for materially, as in our South
ern States, their condition OIL the whole.
as lat oring class, is an enviable one. HUI
name enactmcnts have been passed for
their protection by the Imperial Govern
ment, and instances of cruelty toward
them exist chiefly i'll the writings Of prcju-
diced Travellers
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1858-01-05

"Nonchalant' means that peculiarly
Indifferent look which is put on by men,
who never pay" when dunned for money.
Il should be written, none she'll ont.
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1858-01-05
600 Gallons
10000 SEGARS

just received and for sale at $l.25 pei
hundred, by
II. NJ. PRITCHARD,
Nov. IL. Irwin's Corner.
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1858-01-05

tT We have also good assortment of Goods
at our Store at MORROW TURNOUT, where We
offer Goods at Charlotte Prices.
HENDERSON s. AHRENS.
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1858-01-05

VARIETIES OF THE SLAVE TRADE.-We
see by the papers that news received in Eng
land about the middle Of last month, from
the Cape of Good Hope and the west coast
of Africa confirms the previous advices from
the latter touching the bri,kness of the slave
trade. This was, of cause, in consequence
Of the demand for the French Government.
Ucr Britannia Majcsty's cruisers, it ap-
pears, were on the alert lately capturing
some slayers, and affording illustrations Of
the iII-usage to which the poor African is
subjected by being taken care of by the af-
fectionate English. The English sloop Sap
pho had driven SLAYER on shore, and |" res
cued $50 slaves, $50 others being drowned
or missing" Thus nearly on third Of the
cargo were actually drowned by English
benevoIence. to offer the remaining two
thirds the delights of apprentice system in
the English colonies.
To prevent the barbarities of the African
slave trade, and uphold her character as q
Christian, she keeps up the light Of civiliza-
ton by burning the SLAYER, at the same time
that she patronizes the Chinese slave trade
in the Coolie system, agitates the shipment
Of the Sepoys as slaves to the West Indies,
and occupies her vessels in the transporta-
ton of Circassian boys and girls for the
Turkish market.
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1858-01-05

ToBAcco-The Methodists, as denom-
nation, appear to be making open war up
on the habit of using tobacco. 1t is stated
that one of the conferences has determined
to license no candidate for the ministry who
will not forego its use in every form of per
sonal indulgence. 1t is provided i'll the by
laws Of the new Methodist University in
Kansas that no professor shall be employed
who uses tobacco.
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1858-01-05

The Washington correspondent of the
Philadelphia Inquirer tells of stalwart
young Irishman, who had friend in a
distinguished Virginia member, through
whose influence he obtained an appointment
under the new Door Keeper of the House:
The new conner looked at the man he
was about to displace, and discovered that he
was cripple. On asking him how he had
become thus mutilated, he was told that he
had been shot and cut to pieces in the
battle Of Buena Vista, left for dead on the
field, and only recovered to find himself
hopelessly MANNED for life.
The generous hearted fellow looked first
at one and then the other, and finally
blurted out, as he turned on his heel, ''If this
mans place is the only place you have for
me, I'll not have it at all" Such an
incident as this is refreshing amid the wild
hunt for Office.
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1858-01-05

The Mormon CAPITAL.-Great Salt Lake
City is laid out on magnificent scale. 1t
is four miles in length, by three in breadth
the streets running at right angles, and
1872 feet wide, with sidewalks 90 feet in
width. Each building 10. contains an acre
and a quarter Of land and stream Of
pure water running through the city is
made by an ingenious plan, to flow on each
side Of every street. and to irrigate every
lot.
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1858-01-05

Heber's opinion on Senator Douglas.
Many of you have sustained Judge Doug
las as being true friend to this people,
and ho is just as big damned rascal as
ever walked, and always has been he has
taken a course to get into the chair of state,
and that is what he is after; he will try to
accomplish that if he goes to hell the pcxt
day; but he will not 60 into the chair of
state, he will 60 to hell.
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1858-01-05

POISONED BY CotoR CANDIEs.-At
CatskilI, New York, On Mon'ay last, Mary
Lynes, young lady residing in that village,
was taken suddenly sick while at school in
the afternoon. and died at o'clock in the
evening. She had all the symptoms Of
poison, and it is supposed that she was poi
soned by eating colored candies.
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1858-01-05
Starch.
SaDOniGer,
Citrate Yaagraesia.

CEgEGEC NIGS EEtsENs
An agreeable refrlgerant and laxative,
as pleasant to the taste as soda water. Sold
by II. NJ. PRlTCHARD,
Nov IL 1857 Irwin's Corner.
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The afflicted are cautioned against the use OF
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Patent Medicines and find that nearly all Of them
contain Corrosive Sublimate, which is one Of
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Three iourth, of the patent nostrunls now in
use are put up ny unprncipled and Ignorant per-
sons who do not understand even the alphabet
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NATIONAL POLICE GAZETTE.

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