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The StaAoato.

aFrom the Columbus (aa) nsr.stons.]
The Pine Tree.
1t stands where natures pulses freeze
Beneath the Polar eye,
And hangs its dropping banners out
Meath India's burning sky;
From North to South, from East to West
Where'er the sun may shine, -. =.
Il ifts and waves its lordly crest,
The ali-enduring pine.
In regions widest and unknown,
Beside the restless sea,
II breathes its deep and mellow tone
Through natures minstrelsy;.
IT'S heard upon the mountains breast
And by the rivers line,
And mid the busy haunts OF men
The melancholy pine. .-
It's balmy breath is on the air,
Amid the forest gloom,
The carly winds of morning bear
Its delicate perfume;
Its dewey odor fills the sense
At evenings slow decline,
Aud nights soft pnions llnger still
Around the fragrant pine.
love tit hath been to me
An old familiar friend,
And broadly DER my native land
Its waving branches bend;
And widely through its haliowed soil
. Its rugged roots entwine,
And wreath with every thought of home
The well remembered pine.
love it-for its music breathes
Ger many hsllowed spot,
Where lie the loved and lOwly dead,
Who may not be forgot;
And when seek their holy rest,
Oh, may this heart reclne,
Nv Southern home, upon thy breast,
Beneath the mountain pine.
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DOUGLAS AND THE DEMoCRACY-There are unmis-
taxable indications that Douglas Chicago speech is
producing powerful impression upon the Demo-
cratic Party. 1t not shot thrown away. The
honorable Senator. in all his long experience on the
stump, never made holder or an ADLER effort. His
position is one of the difficulty which polit
cal man can be called to occupy, and he has met its
requirements, as all must admit in no compromising
or cowardly spirit The stake for which he plays is
the highest which can tempt the ambition of pub
lie man. If he shall sustain himself in this contest,
as well against his old political opponents as against
the Buchanan Administration, he will be the FORE
most Democratic politician in the North if not in the
Union. But on the other hand, if defeated he must
go under for years, if not forever.
Mr.. Douglas enters auspiciously upon the conflict.
His reception in Chicago was all he could hope or
his friends ask. Evidently he has made an impress
sion upon the Illinois Democracy, large majority
of whom will sustain their old leader, regardless of
all the thunders of the White House. And it is
significant fact that the Richmond Enquirer, in d.
rect opposition to the Washington Union, urges the
support of Douglas as the only way to save the
Democratic Party in Illinois from defeat.
There can be no doubt that the position of Dou-
glas hamonizes with the general sentiment of North
ern Democrats, and the practical question in the
case is simply whether in Illinois this sentiment will
be yielded in compliance with orders from Washing
ton. 1t is point of party discipline which is invol
ved and the result cannot well be predicted. Dou-
glas has one advantage in the fight which to such
man is not small. He is on the spot, meeting his
old friends face to face, and pleading his own cause
to audiences accustomed for twenty years to listen
to his words and follow his lead. Against such in.
fuences the drilsergeants of the Administration will
find it hard to contend, the especially as for
their candidate whoever he may be, there is from
the start possibility of success. If Douglas is
beaten. Lincoln, the Republican, inevitably goes to
the Senate.
The tone of the Washington Union precludes the
idea of Cancellation. There is, indeed disposition
on either side to offer or to accept peace, and from
this time onward till November the war will be
waged with all the force the belligerents can muster
--New York Times, black Rep. ..
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Crop OBSERVATIONS correspondent of the Dis
patch travelling Westward says:
Along the route noticed the crops very closely,
and yet cannot say that have seen any corn any
where superior to that on the lower Roanoke in the
counties of Halifax and Northampton, in North Car
olina. The best corn is in Roanoke and Wythe
counties. Va, and about in spots in Tennessee, par
ticularly in the Sweet Water Valley, and pretty
much the entire lire of the Memphis and Charleston
Railroad saw cotton of note till passed from
Chattanooga, and it looks well all through North
Alabama and South Western Tennessee, though
heard gentleman in the cars to-day say he had Just
seen some in South Alabama that he was sure would
be open in five days.
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SEAsoNABLE INFoRMAT1oN.-Apartfr from the advan.
tages of bathing in salt water, the inhalation of sea
air has salubrious and beneficial effect, which is
most apparent upon those who resort to the coast
from towns from inland district It has been
shown by Prof. Faralay, and other chemists, that
oxygen is the particular condition known under the
name Of ozone" exists in large proportion in sea
air. Though air mpregnated with the saline of the
is found too strong for persons in the great
majority of cases, an occasional visit to the coast is
capital restorative of vital power to those whose
nerves are exhausted by long sojourn in inland
towns.
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MoNEY.-The less you leave children when you
die the they will have twenty years afterwards.
Wealth inherited should be the incentive exerton.
Instead of that, it is the titledeed to soth" The
only money that does man good is what he earns
himself A ready made fortune, like ready made
clothes, seldom fits the who comes into poses
sion. Ambition, stimulated by hope and half fill
led purse, has power that will triumph over all
difficulties beginning with the rich mans contumely,
and leaving off with the envious mans malice
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mo. 5.-Mr. Brooks to Co.. Clay1
NEAR WoODsDALE,


81 o'clock, A. M, July LIST, 1858.
JNo. H. CLAY--Sir: Your first and second notes
of last evening have been handed me. Your apollo
gies might be appreciated had they been made in
reply to my note of Saturday last But forced from
you as they were under note Of the 3Oth ult.,
but construe them a decline your part to &C.
cept my Offer
l have therefore, but one alternative left me, to
give you over to discriminating public, that that
place may be assigned you in society to which your
conduct in this matter entities you.
GEO. w. BROOKS.
s. No other communication from YOU will be
received. G.. W.B
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PRoMorED.-We are pleased to learn that our
young friend VIM. V. Gefroy, Of this place, has
been promoted to . second class Clerkship in the
Interior Department. Mr.. G. is most worthy gen.
teman, and We hope that this is but the first Of
many steps in the same direction. We venture to
say there is not more faithful Clerk in Washington
City.-Dem Pioneer.
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NO. Z-H7. Z5TOOHS 70 Coz. Gay ]
RoxBoRoUGH, June 80 1855
Col. JOHN H. CLAY-Sir: In view of the brutal
assault which you have made upon me to-day, and
the insult which you offered me Saturday last,
call upon you for that satisfaction due gentle
man. This, therefore, informs you that will meet
you when and where you may designate
My friend, Lemuel c. Smith, Esq, who hands you
this will bring any answer you may think proper to
make. Yours, &C.,
GEO. W. BROOKS
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From the Milton Chronicle.I
I 81 NADn

The subjoined correspondence explains the diff
Guilty between Col. John 81. Clay and myself On
Saturday the 2eth June, was requested to appear
before Magistrates Court at Woodsdale to assist
q client, (whom believe to be nnocent) in bis de-
fence under q States warrant. When the Court
organized, John H. Clay, one of the prosecutors,
objected my appearing, and characterized It as an
"under handed proceeding" The same evening
addressed him note to know his meaning, by the
terms he had used-and although was in two miles
of him, heard nothing from him until Wednesday
the 3Oth, when, in few minutes after had finished
my Address to the Union Literary Society, OF the
Institute Roxborough was accosted on the street,
and to me most unexpectedly and violently assault
ed by the said Clay, with a large STICK was to-
tally unarmed, as he had a right to expect on such
an OCCASION. His pretext, in his first note to me,
that he had given me explanation before the as
sault, and his alusion to my provoking manner, as
a justification of it. are FALSE: And for his excite
ment which he offers as reason, there was no &C.
cason-except for that excitement which the assas-
sin feels as he quas under condemnng conscious
ness of the dark deed he is about to perpetrate.-
His quasi acceptance of my note, of the 30th, 5y
saying he would meet ME at Baey's Bridge, but
short distance from his residence late as the 9th
of July-giving every opportunity for our arrest IN
the mean time-and the terms of the meeting, were
a miserable evasion of my Offer and refusal to meet
me in a manner known among gentlemen, and whlcn
he knew my note implied
The apologize explanations in his two notes. de-
serve my contempt and not respect. The explana-
ton he was not gentleman enough to give in reply
to my note of the 26th, he was coward enough to
make after he had received mine of the Both, and
while its contents were not withdrawn and for no
other purpose than to screen himself from danger.
have but one other duty to perform in this Card ::
To brand Jno H. Clay DEcEITFuL COWARD, un-
worthy of respect and total stranger to the conre-
sizes of good breeding.
Respectfully,
GEO. ". BROOKS.
P. S. To the friends and patrons of the Institute
at Roxborough; whose anniversary had called forth
so large and respectable portion of the people of
the County, tender my apologies, and assure them
that such an occurrence, on that day, was wholly
unexpected by me. G. W. B.
PERSON COUNTY, N. c., July 8, 1858.
The following is the correspondence which passed
between Geo. W. Brooks, Esq. and Col. John H.
Clay, relative to their difficulty on the 3Oth ult.
L. c. SMITH.
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mo. l.-Mr. Brooks to Col. Clay1

NEAR WooDsDALE,
Saturday, June 26th, 1858.
Col. JOHN II. CLAY-Sir: desire to call your
attention to the remarks you made first this morn
ing, when you objected to my appearing for Mr..
William Walker, in which you employed the terms
81 undetermined proceeding" or something equivalent
Such language admits Of construction insulting to
me personally; and l demand, therefore, satisfac
tory explanation of your meaning
deem it proper to say that was there in the
discharge of the legitimate business Of my profess
sion, and mat l claim to be above any " underhand
ed proceeding" and shall hold myself ready at all
times to repel any insinuaton to the contrary. l
hope to hear from you at early period,
While am,
Your obed't serv't,
GEO. W. BROOKS.
P.S. shall remain at my Fathers until the last
of next week.
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GEO. w. BROOKS.
mo. 3.-Col. Clay to Mr.. Brooks.]

RoxBoRo, June 80, 1853
Mr.. GEO. W. BRooKs-Sir: In answer to your
note by Leml c. Smith, in which you spoke Of
insult to you on last Saturday, think that have
and for the attack that you spoke Of to-day, after
having made, as I think, fair explanation of what
passed Saturday, you seemed to nsinuate that I
thought that, or it appeared to me that you wanted
to make Inc say that you were the defendant; which
did not intend to do; and then several times dared
me to say that you were; and being excited at the
moment was the cause OF my striking you. If this
explanation is not sufficient will accep: your note
and meet you on the other side of Baiey's Bridge
Monday the 9th of July, and will settle it by
fist and skull.
While remain yours &C.,
j. H. CLAY
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MUSIC SCHOOL.

.. MUSIC SCHOOL.
U0HE THIRD SESSION OF MRS Il. WILL lila
IL KER'S MUSIC SCHOOL will commence in kA u w;
JULY 1ST. 1858, Piano and Guitar. Her scholars
be thoroughly and Understandings taught the p,
and rudiments of Music well as performances on
and Guitar Mrs w. intends that her school Shall I pd
for four or i've young Ladies may be had with her, She I
feels thankful for the very liberal patronage
last Session. and wishes all those who feel wIns nre
patronze her this Session to meet the first day. ~
nient - f
June 10, 1885,
~ Sririt of the Age and Advocate copy times
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TPublic-No. 23.1

AN ACT for the relief of the Hungarian settlers upon
tain tracts of land in Iowa hitherto reserved from sale
order Of the President dated January Twenty-Five eigh-
teen hundred and ffty-6ye. =
Be It enacted By the Senate and House of Representatives
Of tic United States Of Anersca IN cress assembled That
the right Of presumption be and the same hereby extend
ed to all Hungarian settlers that body of lend reserved
from sale location by order of the President of the Uni
ted States dated January twenty seconn eighteen and fifty.
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Nay Is, 1858.

JOURNALS OF 1867. ,ors
We have few copies of the Senate and HOUSE. uape,
NAILS of our State Legislature of 1867, put up address
covers, which we will send, free Of postage 70 '''
the receipt of %. ,,o,npv T. WILSON
Raleigh, Nay II, 1853
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mo. 4.-CoI Clay to M. Brooks]


(NoTE 2ND)
JUNE 80, 1858.
Mr.. G. W BRooKs-Sir: In explanation say
never intended what was said Saturday last for you,
and regret that, under excitement, struck you
the blow to-day.
l remain yours, &C.,
j. II. CLAY.
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ITO THE VOTERS OF WAKE COUNTY ~,

TO THE VOTERS OF WAKE COUN Sr FOR
II ANNOUNCE MYSELF AS A CANDIDATE a1s1e in
Il the SHERIFFALTY of Wake County. -. Ge; II elect.
rotation in Office and will therefore pledge ,hau one
ed not to be candidate for reelection for r one nan
term believing two to be long enough trs the
to hold lucrative and responsible an once until they
Of this county will not mmt Themselves eve
see or hear from me, as they will do In due ''ne
s. 49, Respectfully, pnGERS
CAn' ' " gid.
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NEW BOOK BJNDERY AND BLANK BOON
n A

NEW BOOK BJNDERY AND BLANK booA
MANUFACTORY,
AT THE OLD STAR OFF1Cb'
(Opposite tile Pres6yterian Gsure7J
RALEIGH N. c.
"HE UNDERSIGNED RESP ". nen.
informs the Citizens Of Raleigh and the vcnI! k The
orally that he will promptly and punctualy aenI If al
binding of Newspapers Magazines and nodersis
terms Also Blank Books manufactured to order anu
to any pattern for the public Offices. share Oh p"
respectfully solicited mo. J. CHAPLIN:
Dill, .,e ,oso 14Ew&swtt
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TBY AUTHORITY

LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES,
Passed at the First Session Of the zHirtyFth Congress-
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mo. 2.-Wr. Brooks to COL Clan

P. S. shall remain at my Fathers until the las
of next week.
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PERSON County, N. c., July 8, 1858.
The following is the correspondence which passed
between Geo. w. Brooks, Esq. and Col. John H.
Clay, relative to their difficulty on the 3Oth ult
L. G. SMITH.
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[Public-No. 81
STATE OF NOKTH-CAROLINA....
- COUNTY.-James CARPENTER and others VS. Reuben

Approved May II, 1858.
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P. s. Monday 5th July, at 9 o'clock in the morn
ing
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1858-07-14

NEW ROUTE TO CALIFoRNIA.-Ac-
eording to the New York papers the
arrangements are about completed for
the opening of a new route to Califor-
MIA by the way of the Isthmus of Te-
huantapec, b. which the time of the
"trip from New York to San Francisco
will be shortened to 16 days and from
New Orleans tor IS days The time
now occupied by the old route is from
% to % days, Minatithan in the PROV
ince OF Vera Cruz is the eastern port
on the gulf of Mexico on the route,
from which place small boats are taken
for so miles up the river to SuchiI, from
whence mail coaches are run III miles
to Ventosa on the west side of the Gulf
where the Pacific steamers are taken
to San Francisco.
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DEATH OF A CONTRIBUTORS TO THE
ATLANTIC MoNTHLY.-The Hartford,
Conn, Times, Of the Sd instant, con-
tains the following notice Of the death
Of one who gave great promise of lite
rary usefulness:
Calvin ". Philleo, Esq, of Suficld,
we'll known as politician and also a
literary man of ability, died in Sufield
to-day, June so.
Mr.. P. has been III failing health for
a year past His disease, an aggrava-
ted form of dyspepsia, ran into con-
sumption. and terminated his days at
the age Of ST.
Mr.. ?. was lawyer, and man Of
talent. He succeeded well in his lite
rary writings. A book of his, Tnics
Aa7riea, has gone through several edi-
tons here and abroad His story in
the Atlantic Monthly, s'Allin by Mar
rage was never finished, owing to
his illness.
The deceased is cousin to our H. 3.
PhiIleo.
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An OCEAN TRIP IN BALLooS.-J.
Steiner, Of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania,
proposes to cross the Atlantic in bal
loon 100 feet in diameter. He SAYS in
letter to The Telegraph.
Il am satisfied in my own mind that
with such an apparatus l could cross
the Atlantic In rs hours, and the whole
cost would be not more than $40,
The balloon, net work and valve, would
weigh about 1000 pounds, and the boat
and rigging 81 tons; this will leave
about eight tons ascending power TO-
provisions, passengers and ballast.
would require three good ocean ma,
gators, aad one astronomer, beside
self: | would suggest New York as
the starting point, and am certain I
would strike within 200 miles of anv
given point in Europe. I would su
gcst May as the time for making IL
experiment, and would make the at
tempt in 1859, if / could get the gov
eminent or others to assist me-
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MANITowoC AND MISSISSIPPI ROAD.
This is a road chartered in 1857, to
run from Manitowoc on Lake Michigan
to Lacrosse on the Mississippi. Oper-
atoms were commenced under the char
ter, and at the present time TWENTY-FIVE
thousand dollars will complete the cra-
ding and prepare the road for the ties
and iron to Menasha-a distance Of
about ii miles. The company. as is
not unusual with Railroad companies,
some time since, got into a quarrel, and
two different board of directors, one at
each end Of the road, were organized
Under this state of things the last leg
isIature directed the Governor to ap-
point a Board Of Inspection to attend
the next election Of directors. DR.. II.
II. Davis, T. S. Lowell, and Judge
Howe, were appointed such board, and
on Monday last the two former attend
ed at Manitowoc i'll performance of
their duties. All the difficulties exist
ing between and among the old board
were reconciled and harmonized. A
new and single board was agreed upon
and unanimously chosen. Jacob Leups
of Manitowoc, an intelligent German in
whom the people Of Manitowoc have
confidence, has been chosen President
Of the new board. This is an impor-
tant read, runs through valuable sec
ton Of the country, and its prospects
are now favorable for speedy con
struction.
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Compliment to Grand Raoi1s.

In the Republican Ba,aaeer published
at Lawrenceburg, Ind, we find cor
respondence dated from this place.
June 2lst, 1858, from which we take
the following extract:
This place is fourishing town Of
about 1000 inhabitants. Situated at the
Grand Rapids of the Wisconsin River,
within few miles Of the centre of the
state; the principal business Of which
is manufacturing pine lumber, of which
they make 10000, 900 (thirty milIion)
feet annually. The mills are run bv
water power. [ have 10 doubt but
there rs water power here, easy Of APP
PlIcatlon, sufficient to run all the ma
chlnery in Cincinnati The inhabi-
ttnts are an enterprislng people, no
old toyy abow them, composed of 7 an
KEGS, Workers, German, Norwegians.
Canadians, French, and once in a while
IN Irisiman. The town is increasing
IN population and improvements very
last 1T has had an increase Of one
thousand IN its population in the last
three years. It is destined at no dis
tant day to become an immense manu-
featuring place, and one of the most
important places in the North w est
There is al inexhauStabIe supply of
logs on the River, and Creeks, com
mencing about sixty miles north of here,
and from there extending to Superior.
the bulk of which must be manufactured
here, on account of the difficulty Of run
ming RATS over the Rapids, and the great
facilities for manufacturing here. This
place is IN great want Of Farmers
provisions Of all kinds being very high.
anTf Rove 50 be brought from the South
ern part of the State. There is no
place know of that offers such fine in
ducements for farmers. Good farming
land easy to clear and improve, can be
bought near here at from IS to $lOper
acre. Fine crops of corn, wheat, rye.
oats, and potatoes, can be raised, and
find Il ready sale at the Farmers door,
and 1t will continue 50 for long time.
The consumers engaged in manufac-
ture, will increase as fast or faster than
the producers. The country and town
is very healthy, and they have the fin
est water ever drank; perfectly soft,
furnished from wells from II to 20 feet
deep.
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Cor Round SGA1S-The course of

Cor Round AGA1N.-The course of
the Aeacs on Lecompton is we'll known.
1t commenced by denouncing the Lee
compton constitution in no measured
terms. This was followed By articles
OF decidedly opposite character, the
explanation for the former articles be-
ing that the responsible editor was ':out
of town. at the time. The Lecompton
Constitution was lauded as the. perfec-
ton of wisdom-was the very essence
Of popular sovereignity-and consti-
tutional and democratic mode of set
ting the whole Kansas question. Con-
gress was urged to adopt it unqualifi-
edly and without delay, and the Presi-
dent was commended as a model dem
ocrat in virtue of his course and posi-
ton on this question. We don't pre-
tend to know the reason. but another
change has evidently recently been
coming over the spirit of the Ne,cs.-
From laudations Of Buchanan it has Ia
ken to laudations Of Senator Douglas.
and this morning in a leader on that
gentleman it appears to have GOT
squarely around to its early position on
Locompton. It says:
''Ihe Democracy of Wisconsin arc
unit upon this question. They have re-
garded the Lecompton Convention and
its action with unnitigated loathinc
and adherence, and now, that its vile
production-tho Lecompton Constitu-
ton has been referred back to the peo-
pie Of Kansas, for their ratification or
reiection-one universal sentiment per
vades the democratic masses Of this
State, and that is in favor of its abso-
lutte rejection. Then will the doctrine
Of ''Popular Sovereignty" be yindica-
ted
Comment on this superfuous. If it
is not another complete summerset on
the part of the Neocs we have certainly
mistaken its course heretofore. Moth
ing like having reliable organ.-lNiz
Free Dam.