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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1858-08-11

Chief Justice John Duer, of New York,
died at bic residence on Staten Island on
Monday. Judge d. was in his 72d year,
and had lorg been eminent in the legal az.
mails of the State. lie was appointed an
Associate Justice of the Superior Court in
lS49, and upon the death of Judge Oakley
became the Chief Justice.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1858-08-11

The President, it is said will return to
Washington on Thursday.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1858-08-11

Bad luck is mply a man with his hands
in his breeches' pockets and pipe 10 bis
mouth, looking on to see how it will come
out. Good luck Is man Of plssk to meet
lis difficulties, bis sleeves rolled up, working
to make 1t come out ri b..- Erchange.
Toere i. deal OF truth 10 the above
Nearly all the empty pockete" are prcdu-
ced not by fate, tut indolebce Every time
NJ. Sn5el earns quarter be speeds e:gL-
teen cent, Tor juIeps aad cigars. II devotes
the remaiader Of the day to talkiIg politics
AID sarIng the cuunny.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1858-08-11

The New Orleans Picayune has received
advces from Brownsville to the 4;h instant.
They report the prospects of Zuloaga, in
Mexico, to be very desperate. After his flight
from the capital be declared in favor OF the
Constitution of 1884, " hen Parodi abandoned
him leaving him to his fate. 1t was the
general i'm reseion that the whole country
would soon be in possession Of the Liberals.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1858-08-11

An establishment in Cincinnati, purport-
ing to be candle and oil factory, has ellci-
ted Investigations. FROM the peculiar offensive
doors which it exhales, and it has been dis
covered that the oarrion collected by the otfal
contractor is there boiled down, the oil and
lard extracted and the remains used t. fat
ten hogs Tor fhe market. Ii is described as
being even worse than the swll milk bust
ness, aud the concern is /, be Indicted. If
we are 20 eat Cincinnati o:k, the USAGE
should lie arated in some way.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1858-08-11

Crinoline is but the newfangled term for
"farthipgale," which Howell (l62O) describes
as kind of pettcoat EXTENDED by hoops,
which grows larger and larger toward the
bottom, so that the body of a woman from
the waist to the feet, resembles a beehive"
10 1860 Charles IN issued an edict fixing a
standard for these isguises, "in Consequence
of the fashion having grown cut to such an
amazing width"
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1858-08-11

James L9,egrOse, we'll known % the 'o'a
fi,sus.;D did in Baltimore, on Monday
AGED &c.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1858-08-11

A,torney-Geueral Black has been suffer
ing fol- few days past from an indispostion
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1858-08-11
Total cost. ............... .$I,2js.2.

As is we'll known, the feet sailed from
Queenstown on the l7th of July. The cable
splice was completed at one O'clock on the
afternoon Of the OCH, and the wire sunk in
| $50 fathoms water. The same evening the
electrical continuity ceased for several hou:s,
but by the application ct proper tests 1t Was
renewed, and no further difficulty of a
like nature was experienced. The weather
throughout the voyage was Of the most favor.
able character. The progress Of the ships
after their separation in mid-ocean would
seem to have been regulated by some agency
other than that Of human intelligence
They run nearly the same distance and pay
ed out nearly the same length of the cable
day by day; and on the 81 IF August we find
each vessel reporting the same depth OF wa
ter-.wo hundred fattom The calculations
with regard to the length Of cable required
are found to have been wonderfully exact, as
the following will show
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1858-08-11

4 Ny ONE wishing 10 purchase one OF the
n most beautiful and desirable FARMS on
tue Orange and Alexandria Railroad, about 80
miles from Alexandria, will do well make TO
immediate application to .-...-..
r. 3 WILLIAMSON.
WarrentOn, sep H.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1858-08-11

A living frog has been found in the coal
mines at Evansville, (lnd.) three hundred
feet below the surface, closely Embedded in
the coal. Between the coal seam in which
he lay imprisoned and the surface, there are
two hundred feet of solid sand stone, and
about forty feet Of coal, slate, and common
clay. These are all regular qualifications,
that mus, have required ages, beyond the
power of human comprehension to compute,
to have formed them.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1858-08-11

The fact that one end Of the Atlantic Tele-
graph is Mtched to Great Britain, and the
other end to British possession in North
America, is cause for grumb ling--and
the Baltimore Sun says, if war was t. break
out tomorrow between this country and
England, the very fl st duty devolving upon
our navy would be to cor quer the Newfoand-
land station or tear up the wire from its
ocean bed,
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1858-08-11

The New York Herald says "The recent
arrivals from New Orleans have all brought
moro or less cases Of yellow fever sick
ness dem oustrat!ng beyond peradventure
tlat the Crescent City is badly infected
Since the first cases OF yellow fever were Ia
ken about two weeks since from the bark Z.
g. Fowler, nearly every arrival from that
port has added largely to the nu nber of sick
in the Marine Hospital, aud at least fifty per
cent m re cases OF fever have been taken from
New Oleans vessels than from all the other
ports together, not even excepting Havaua,
within the period mentioned"
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1858-08-11
Atlantic Telegraph Company.

, The stock of the company is divided 10
three hundred and fifty shares of one thousand
psuuds each. The charter Of the New York,
Newfoundland and London Company, con.
ferring upon it the exclusive right to land
telegraph cables On the shores OF Nc~found-
land and other parts OF North America, and
for twenty-five years to DO the SINE thinS on
the shores of Nova Scotia, was made over u
the new company, together with all cohces-
sions bearing upon the uEd artaking which
NAV be hereafter Obtained; aud all the patent
rights of Messrs. Whi,ehouse and Bright
electricians. which in any way concerned the
working of instruments in marine circuit
Of great length, were proSpcctiVely secured
to it.
In order that the capital subscribed might
be entirely applied to the immediate object
of the undertaking, the projectors, Mes-rs.
Brett & Field, and Messrs. Bright l. White
house, CONSIDERABLY arranged that their com
penealion for the privileges assigned, and for
past expenditure and exertions, should be
left entirely dependent upon the successful
result Of the underu king. Tie tiua agree
nent with these &c tIemeD was, that upon
attaining success, nalf-yenrly dividend Of
zen per cent per annun IN the capital should
frs, be paid to the shareholders, and that then
one-half ofany further profit should be given
them, and the other half be retained by the
company, it having been estimated, upon a
very moderate COM putation Of the probable
amount Of revenue, copjoned with consi-
GRAFTON Of the comparatively small working
expenses where there can only be two formal
stations to be maintained, that a very salts
factory result might be secured 10 all parties
upon this gr0und.
The proportion in which the shares were
taken were one hundred and one in London,
lightweight in America, cigbty-six IN Liver
pool. thirty seven 10 Glasgow, tweniy'eight
n Manchester, and the remainder in other
parts of Eugland. GeoIge Peabody, esq
the American banker 10 L)ndOn, has been
one , f the most liberal and devoted friends OF
the enterprise from the start.
When the telegraph sailed on its last and
fortunate mission, the q 900 shares in the
undertaking were offered tor saIe, III the
London share market, at 1850 without buy
ers. The successful laying OF the cable no
doubt raised the shares to par value, and
should further experience prove It's capablll-
" to perform the work expected of 1t, they
will soon command high premium.
The cost of the cable laid between Ireland
and New Foundland is given as follow:
Price deep sea wire per mile. ...........$! POO
Price spun yarn and iron wire per mile. goa
Price outside tar per mile. ............. Z.
Total per mile. ..f'e.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1858-08-11

VALUABLE REAL ESTATE t.''. -.
Y IN PRINCE GEORGE 'o,''
RYLAND.-Tne subscriber OBJ.
sale, one of MS farms, ca. r' hE'.. ...r
containing ONE HUNDRED hNI '"..
ACRES, OF which twenty acre o. ..
twenty acres meadow land. ID. ..-
prime soil, not only adapted 10 ..,
every corp OF our climate. b.. pa.
bic for a MARKET GARDEN. I.- ..
is six miles from Washington t., OH
miles and half from Alexandra
"a Oh the Farm some OUI 81 Ih'''-''
Ea fine spot Tor a d"ei-Hg over Co.
beautiful Valley. with plc'nrr'f
The Farm IL hot mile from ri'a'' -.
palian, Methodist or Ca'Gouc '.".. f..
from primary school. Inc o. ...
very thickly settled and OF uaeHc.I ...S.
ciety. There Is on Inc term q Dab. % ...
which the subscriber would s. 10 ..' a..
al iow rate. wLic,. would br O -..-.
tage 10 any per ~ wishing 20 u"... .
Persons wishing 10 purca4'r 49,. .
the premises BY the subscribe. Oh %, 81.
Grimes, esq, bo:h living near '-r .a..' ... 81.
Terms liberal, and eau b. r'..".
purchasers. Address .,,uTI.
So L .A..1a .GUSTAEL> } NV, -
Washington City care OF i"''.-'
feb 25-eou
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1858-08-11

The Court at Burksvile, Kentucky, recent
ly gave verdict against the owner OF dis
tillery for the value Of negro man, for
having sold the black Jug of whisky, on
which the slave became intoxicated. and was
in consequence drowned in attempting to
swim on horse back swollen creek. Inc
accident was proven to have occurred from
the drunken folly and mismangenent OF the
slave. There is law Of the STATE when
makes the seller of liquor to slave liaoie
for all the consequences from the use OF the
liquor by the negro. This verdict, 1t Is
thought. will have an important Influence 10
arrestipg the sale of whiskey to slaves.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1858-08-11

Washington City, care OF i""'.D,
feb 25-eoti
Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1858-10-16
For the Standard.
TO THE FAMILIES OF RALEIGH.

Mr.. John R. Brooks, of this City, who has been
acting as Colporteur in towns and on Railroads in
the Eastern part of North Carolina, is now visiting
every family in Raleigh under my employ as Gener.
al Agent of the American Tract Society. Mr.. Brooks
is doing this good wo'k for through the benevo:
lence of few ladies that support him by donation
of $3.50 The object is to supply every family with
the excellent publications Of the Society at cost,
where there is ability and willingness to buy. and by
grant to others He will hold religious exercises of
reading the Scriptures and prayers wherever prud
ent. lie will carry some new and valuable books:
Life of Mary Lyon" 376 pages so cts; "Ske:ches
from Life" SAP pages, 60 cts; and others easy.
beautiful and good for children One book. Per
suasons to early piety,' sold by Mr.. Brooks to
promising young man in Washington, was the in
strument of his conversion and also his sister and
the young man is now thinking to be missionary.
We bespeak for Mr. Brooks kind reception at every
house, and that these books and tracts free of
taranism, be obtained and read by ALL Those who
may want to get for themselves, buy to give
to their poor neighbors, by which they may do last
ing good to their souls as well as their bodies. The
great Daniel Webster uttered noble truth when he
said, that nothing could be promotive Of the
happiness and unit Of country than the circu-
lation religious evangelical publications" "Righte-
BUSINESS exalseth a nation"
Yours truly,
WI W. CROWDER, Gen. Ag't
of Am IT. Soc for n G..
Raleigh, Oct l4th, 1855
Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1858-10-16
Raleigh, Oct. 18th, 1858.
For the Standard.

EDITORS N. C. STANDARD Recently your paper
has been the channel through which the names Of
many prominent gentlemen have bee, mentioned in
connection with the Speakership of both branches
of our next General Assembly; and with those who
have thought proper to advocate their claims, con-
cur heartily in saying that they are all gentlemen
worthy and well qualified For Speaker of the SEN
ate, without his knowledge consent, I take the
liberty to nominate George D. Boyd, Esq, of Rock
ingham county, the oldest member of the Senate
gentleman whose experience in the affairs of legis-
lation-whose uniform and steady devotion to the
best interests of the State-and whose unwavering
fidelity to Democratic principles, commend him
warmly to the favor of the Democratic party. l
should be much gratifed to see this venerable gen.
tleman Speaker of the Senate-it would be but a
graceful acknowledgment Of the services of faith
full public servant.
1 was pleased to see William Hill, Esq, of Halifax,
recommended as Speaker for the House. Mr.. Hills
knowledge and experience as parliamentarian. to-
gether with his readiness and decision would make
him an able presiding officer:
1t is usual to select one Speaker from the West
and the other from the East; and this. l think,
would give satisfaction.
George D. Boyd is put in nomination by sena-
tor sojourning at the
October 9th, 1868.
Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1858-10-16

tremey hardy variety of oats has for several years
been grown by our Pomario friends, which bids fair
to supersede all others for Southern culture. It Is
large, heavy. and withstands the severest cold If
sown early in autumn. it affords fine grazing through
the winter and in the spring rapidly shoots up and
makes fine crop. Col. Summer has an acre which
was sown five years since, which produces good
crop annually, without other seeding. His plan is
to let the oats get oyer-ripe, and in harvesting it.
enough seed is left in the ground to make stand
He Immediately ploughs in peas broadcast, and Ell.
Their grszes gathers the pea vines in autumn, and
the oats spring up and flourish finely He also SOW.
ed in July field with the last blowing Of cotton
It was pastured till the middle Of March, and then
made fair crop. Sown in this way. it is. on good
land, knee high by Christmas. -Ns'obsrry (A CO.
Sun. 7g stAif IS as'75s - s-s -3'sa.s ~ 1aa
Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1858-10-16
Overland Mail from California,

The first Overland Mail from California arrived at
St. Louis at o'clock on Saturday night, having left
San Francisco on the 10th of September The news
is, consequently, ten days later than was received
by way of Panama. The trip occupied but little
over twenty-three days, and six passengers came
through by the stages. A large number of promi-
citizens of St. Louis assembled at the depot on
the arrival of the mail, and Mr. Butereld the Pre-.
sdent of the Overland Mail Company, was greeted
with hearty welcome. long procession accom-
panied the mails to the Post Office.
President Buchanan telegraphed to Mr.. Butter
field, congratulating him on his success as great
event for civilization and the Union"
Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1858-10-16

JUDGES BY THE PEoPLE-The longer we live and
the more we see of the administration of public JUS
tice, the firmly fixed in the opinion that
Judges ought to be elected by the people for term
of years. Life Offices are repugnant to the funda.
mental principles of free government. This is
Democratic Republican State. The Legislative pow
er, which makes the laws and the Executive power
which puts them in force, dependant on the peo-
pie; and so ought the Judicial power to be, which
interprets and expounds the laws. Truth Is truth,
affect whom and what it may. Let the people be
true to themselves,-let them take their own power
into their own hands. They are honest, and they
always mean to do right. Under the present system
their lives and their property are in the keeping Of
persons who hold office for life, who are above them
and who are not responsible to them or to their re-
representatives. for the in which they discharge
their duties.
Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1858-10-16
PILOT.
For the Standard.
THE UNIVERSITY.
October 9th, 1868.
CHAPEL HILL, 0,

CHAPEL HILL, Oct. a 1865.
MEssRs. EDrroRs: The publication in your last
paper of the proceedings of the Board Of Trustees
in expelling Mr.. Land in connection with the exag
gerated rumors of the extent Of the outrage, may
possibly lead to the misapprehension abroad of the
condition of things here, and thus do injustice to
large majority Of the students. 1t is well known
here that only a small number of persons We're en-
gagged in the disturbance and that it met with the
decided disapprobaton of the great body OF their
fellow students has been clearly manifested by what
has been understood to have been since done by the
two Literary Societies. The act Of the Board of
Trustees was eminent'y proper, and will. no doubt,
be approved by public sentiment. The impression
here is that there will be necessity for similar
act of discipline for long time to come.
Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1858-10-16

~ Capt Chss. H. Thompson has made us a
present of fine gold pen of the dumas patent,
Paris, which writes capitally. We have been look
ing for pens for months which would sustain the
rapid and heavy hand which we put on paper, and
we find this the best one have tried. We never
could follow the advice Of the old copy bear light
your pen," though our hand is as steady as that Of
the next citizen of forty, come the frosts OF next
November. Mr.. Thompson has just received his
fall stock of watches and jewelry, together with
many beautiful articles which we have no doubt he
would be pleased to show to his customers Give
him CALL
Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1858-10-16

NEW YoRK-The New York Democracy are san
gune of the election of Amasa j. Parker their can
dldate for Governor. Morgan is the black Repub-
'can candidate, and Thurlow Weeds candidate.
Weed, it will be remembered, signalizsd himself
many years ago as "anti Mason" It is now said of
Ihurlow that his career began with Morgan and
will end with Morgan.
Mr.. Weeds bet of 81 900 that Morgan will be
elected-the winner to give the money to the State
lnsbrate Hospital-has been taken by the editor Of
The Utica Telegraph. An ill-natured country edi-
tor remarks that Weed never does anything without
apersonal object in view, and that the reason he
proposed the winner should give the money to the
Institution in question, was that he expected some
Jay to become an inmate of it.
Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1858-10-16

The REGISTERS chief stock in traue seems for the
present to have been drawn from renegades from the
Democratic party. 1t has no arguments of it's own
to advance against the administration Of Mr.. Bu
chanan, and SO it is compelled to resort to such cast
Always as Forney and Foote. It publishes column
after column Of Forney's twadde and personal spite
against Mr. Buchanan, and seeks to dignity this spe-
cies Of partzan warfare by calling on the Democratic
press to disproce what Forney says. Dsprove it,
indeed. Why, the charges themselves carry their
own refutaton with them. 1t is incredible. in the
first place, that James Buchanan should have held
the language which Forney attributes to him and
In the second place, no public is worthy of con-
slderaton or credit who retails private CONVERSE
TONS
Mr. Forney is very good witness for the Regis
ter now, but in 1856, when he was exerting himself
to defeat the opposition to James Buchanan for Pres
ident. the Register regarded him as an enemy and
reposed no confidence in his statements Up to the
time when he Joined the abolitionists-up to the
time when he confederated with the black Republ.
cans, and commenced his passionate, uncharitable
and ungratefnl assaults on Mr.. Buchanan and the
Democratic party, no epithet which the Register
could apply to him was considered too severe But
'"~, ""S' ue 10 ASSUMING u OenOcratC aOmlnlStfa.
ton, and when every blow of his if it is felt at ALL
will be felt by the South of which that administra.
ton is the friend, he is prosecuted patriot, and
Know Nothing sympathy and Know Nothing affec.
ton are lavshed upon him. The Register and its
coadjutors act upon the motto any thing and my
body to injure and PROSTATE the Democratic party
Opposition to Democracy is the main plank in their
patform,-opposition without Why Or wherefore,
and to the last extremity. 10 that complexion has
it come at last with the once proud and pow erful
Wing party.
Pennsylvania voted on Tuesday last for members
OF Congress and portion of her State officers. We
have not heard the result, but it is probable that
Forney's treason has weakened the Democracy in
that State. If they have lost, black Republication
hos gained, and gained through Forney, who is en-.
dorsed aud commended by the Raleigh Register.
We know that our respected contemporary would be
shocked if he were to the result in this light
but so 1t u.s. and sophistry special pleading
change it.