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Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1858-12-24

l1~A Harness ~ Leather Establishment. f1TFE<N ~
kfA EVERY variety of Saddles, Har S33sv III I'll
o. ness, Bridles Whips and Trunks, Ssa.i2A4=S
Harness. Band, String and Sole Leather Calf Sn Lining
&C. all kinds of OIL Coach Trimmings Carpet Bags Valises
&C. Infabc Condition Powders for diseased Horses and
Cattle every description of POughs and Agricultural mpe
The largest stock i'll the State, and sold wholesale
or retail at the lowest New York prices.
BEHarness and Saddles manufactured to order and re-
paired. JAMES WILSON,
Dec. 3.-IlGm No. 5 Market ST., the wharf.
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w. II. nIcRARY 81 CO..

COMMISSION MERCHANTS corner Princess and Water
~ street, Wilmington N. c.
REFERENCES:
H. r. Savage Cashier Bank Cape Fear, Wilmington, n.
Col John McI}ae, Prest Bank Wilmington, do. do.
j. g. Lash, " = Salem, do.
j. E Gregg President of Bank Cheraw, S. c. [Oct III
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CARRIAGES FACTORY,

>za-so b. r. HOOD respectfully informs the public
N@3 that he is still at his old stand in Clinton where
he continues to manufacture CARRIAGES, BAROUCHES
ROCKAWAES AND BUGG1ES. He is prepared at all times
work with neatness and despatch He superin
tends all his operations in person. and guarantees that his
work shall be durable neat and cheap any other
establishment in the State.
He is now constantly employed in manua cturng and ap
plying his patent scroll springs without which no
buggy can be complete These springs prevent the usual
unpleasant notion and add but little to the of buggy
and of ncaculable benefit, they completely prevent
that strain upon the other springs which has given rise to
many breakngs. All who want easy riding buggy will
give him a call.
May 26th, 1858 39-tf
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WM. III. BURLINGTON,

WNl.
COMMISSION MERCHANT, .o,. ~ y
sy-WiII give prompt and personal attention to all
consignments of iSPIHII2S TURPENTLNE ROSLN,
TAR COTTON, FLOUR, and other country produce,
either for sale or Shipment
My and warehouses being conveniently located for
the reception produce either by Railroad OF River ena-
hIps me to make charges light Nov. 12-ll-ly
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Il. NJ. Smith.

COMMISSION AND FORWARDING MERCHANT,
l. WILMINGTON, N. c.
Will give personal and prompt attention to the sale and
shipment Cotton Naval Stores and all other country pro
duce. ~
ONCE No. IL Cup stairs) North Water St.. Immediately
over NJ. Mcnna
Oct Dist 1858 391y-8ly
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THOMAS w. p

THOMAS w. PLAYER,
INSPECTOR OF NAVAL STORES,
Wn1IINGTON, N. C.
March 10 1S57-29-Iv.
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GEO. ". ROSE,
CARPENTER AND CONTRACTOR,
~ June II WILMINGTON, N c.
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ANOTHER 1MPoRrANr SALE IN DUpLIN.

Nov. 26th, 1858
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$. Nj. WEST.
4 UCTIONEER AND COMMISSION MERCHANT
IA 219-tf WILMINGTON N. c..
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Raleigh, N. c., December 10, 1858.
The Shasta courier., 1858-02-20
Domestic Bliss.
! am

am
IA married lady of thirty odd"
Every evening see in their beds
A "baker's dozen" of curly heads,
Every morning my slumbers greet
The patter, patter, of twenty-six feet;
Thirteen little hearts are always in futter,
Till thirteen little mouths are filed with bread
and butter;
Thirteen little torgaes are busy all day long,
Aud thirteen little hands, with doing something
wrong,
Till fain am to do,
With an energy, too,
As did the old woman that lived in shoe,
And when my poor husband comes home from
his work,
Tired and hungry, and fierce as Turk,
What do you think is the picture he sees?
A legion Of babies, all in breeze
Johnny crying,
And Lucy signing,
And worn out mamma, with hair all a flying;
Strong and angry William, beating little Nelly;
Charly in the pantry, eating currant jelly;
Richard strutting ro.nd in papa's Sunday coat !;
Harry at the glass, with razor at his throat;
Robert gets his fingers crushed when Susy shuts
the door,
Mitigates their aching with forty-pounder roar;
Baby at the coal hod, hurries to begin,
Throwing in his mite fn the universal din,
Alas my lord and master, being rather weak
of nerves, he
Begins to lose his patience in the stunning topsy
turvy,
And then the frightened little ones all fly to me
for shelter;
And so the drama closes mid a general helter-
skelter.
I'll give you my name, lest you think me a
myth,
Yours, very respectfully, Mrs. John Smith.
The Shasta courier., 1858-02-20
SUMMONS.

In the District Court Of the Ninth judicial Dis
trict State Of California.
STATE OF CALIFORNIA,
COUNTY OF SHASTA,
The people of the State of California,
To John j. TomIinson and VIM. r. w ood,
GREETING.
V0U ARE HEREBY SUMMONED TO AP-
Il pear and answer in said Court, unto the
complaint of CHARLES A. NASH, filed for the
recovery OF the sum of twenty-five hundred and
ninety-seven dollars and seventy mine cents,
(S2,597 79) alleged to be due and owing him from
you upon express contract for the direct pay
ment of money; the same being two prommis-
sorry notes, as will more fully appear by refer
ence to the complaint, copy of which is hereto
attached, filed in our Court, within ten days af-
ter the service of this Writ, if served in said
county-within twenty days, if served in any
other county in this Judicial District, and within
forty days if served in any other county, or
Judgment by default will be taken against you
for the sum of twenty-five hundred and ninety
seven dollars and twenty-nino cents, and costs
of this suit, &c.
WIrsEss WM. P. D1SGERFrELD Judge of the
Ninth Judicial District of said State, this 9th
day of September, A. D. 1857.
H. /. VAN HORN, CLERK, D. c.
lSEAL.1 By J. S. DRuxxosD, Dep.
nov7-3m
The Shasta courier., 1858-02-20

SAVE THE Soor.-Though generally thrown into
the street and wasted, SCOT is one of the best
manures. 1t is extensively used in England, and
when only fifteen or twenty bushels are applied
to the acre, it induces the most luxuriant crops
of wheat and other grains. 1t contains, in small
compass, almost all the ingredients of the coal
or wood used for fuel. 1t also contains several
salts of ammonia, magnesia and muriatic acid.
Its components are the natural food of stimu-
lants of plants; and it can be used to great
advantage as concentrated fertilizer, to stmu-
late terminating seeds in the drill 1t is not
only sown broadcast with the grain, but it is ap-
piled to the root crop with the best results Po-
tatoes and carrots especially are benefited by
it. Six quarts of SCOT to hogshead of water
make an excellent liquid manure for the garden.
1t can be applied with safety to all garden crops,
and will pay for saving. In putting the stoves,
furnaces, and ireplaces in order for winter, bear
it in mind that SCOT is valuable, and will be
wanted for spring use. One, two, three or more
barrels can be saved easily in most families es-
pecially where wood is burned.
The Shasta courier., 1858-02-20
BROOKLYN HOTEL,
COR. BROADWAY & S4NSOME- STS.,
SAN FRANCISCO.

fssfsa THE PROPRIETOR OF THIS WELL
lii& known aud old established House is
- still at his old tricks-of feeding the
public for the low sum of six dollars per week.
and still they come to partake of his good and
well furnished Table; and as Mr. Kelly is one
OF the Pioneer Hotel Keepers of this CITY. he
pledges himself that there will be NOTHING
wanting at his House to make the public com
Portable.
The House is centrally located, in the yicin;-
ty of the Custom House, Post Office, and also Of
the up-river and ocean steamers
The House contains number of single and
Family Rooms, well ventilated, suitable for la
dies and single gentlemen.
There is also attached to the House READING
Room and Library which contains LARGE
number of selected Standard Works. There is
also, at the arrival of each steamer wagon.
which belongs to the House, to convey passen-
gers and baggage, free of charge The public
are respectfully requested to give the House q
trial
Board, per 90
Meais.--.- so
Lodging, per night. to IS cts
Lodging. per week................S2 90 to 81 OO
JOHN KELLY, Jr., Proprietor.
San Francisco, Dec. 26, 1857. d2e:3m
The Shasta courier., 1858-02-20

VERMIN RIDDANcE.-Half an ounce of soap
boiled in pint of water. and put on with a
brush while boiling hot, infallibly destroys the
buggs and their eggs.
Flies are driven out of room by hanging up
bunch of plaintain or feawort plant, after it
has been dipped in milk.
Rats and mice speedily disappear by mixing
equal quantities of strong cheese and powdered
squils; they devour this mixture with great
greediness, while it is innocuous to man.
When it is remembered how many persons
have lost their lives by swallowing, in mistake,
mixtures of strychnine, ratsbane, corrosive SUBJ
Innate, which are commonly employed for this
purpose, it becomes a matter of humanity to
publish these items.
House ants ravenousiy devour the kernels of
walnuts, and shellbarks or hickory nuts Crack
some of these, and place them on plate near
the infested places and when the plate is full Of
the ants, throw the contents in the fire.
Cockroaches, as well as ants, are driven away
by strewing elderberry leaves on the shelves and
other places Infested by these troublesome in
sects.-HaUs Journal of Health.
The Shasta courier., 1858-02-20
THE FARMERS GUIDE

To Scientific and Prdctical Agriculture.
By HENRY STEPHENS, F. R. s.. of Edinburgh,
and the late J. P. NORTON, Professor of Sci
entfc Agriculture in Yale College, New Ha-
ven. vols. Royal Octave. 1000 pages, and
numerous wood and steel Engravings.
This is, confessedly, the most complete work
on Agriculture ever published, and in order to
give it wider circulation the publishers have
resolved to reduce the price to
FIVE DOLLARS for the TWO VOL UMES
When sent by mail (post-paid) to California
and Oregon the price will be ST. To every
other part of the Union, and to Canada post
paid, Sc,
BeA. This tcork is NOT the old "Book oftheFarm" !"
Remittances for any of the above publications
should always be addressed, postpaid, to the
Publishers. LEONARD SCOTT CO.,
[f20-lm] No. "a Gold street, New York.
The Shasta courier., 1858-02-20
Origin OF the Bank of England.

So late as the time of the restoration, every
merchant kept strong box in his own house,
and when an acceptance was presented to him,
told down the crowns and Carolus on his own
counter. Gentlemen locked up their gold in
their country houses, or travelled with it in their
coaches. Those were the halcyon days of
thieves, when burglar would often be able, af
ter single nights work, to retire with for
tune and highway robbery was a lucrative pro-
fession, whose adopts were styled "Gentlemen
of the Road"
By the end of Charles lis reign, it was dis
covered that it was both safer and more conve-
nient to have agents to keep the cash of COM
mercial houses. This new business fell natu-
rally into the hands of the goldsmiths, who
were accustomed to traffic largely in the pre-
cious metals, and who had vaults where masses
of bullion could lie secure from fire and rob-
bers. 1t was at the shops of the goldsmths of
Lombard street that all the payments in coin
were made. Other traders gave and received
nothing but paper.
OF course the goldsmiths, from being the
treasurers, soon became the masters of the city.
Godsmiths were the money lenders. Gold
smiths furnished the funds for all -ew enter
prises. A goldsmith's note passed current on
Change for cash. The nobility had to court
the favor of the goldsmiths, and royalty itself,
when a government loan was needed, privately
summoned some of the wealthy goldsmiths to
its audience chamber.
The same reason which led the community to
gather their cash into fifty vaults, instead of
leaving it scattered among thousand, soon led
them to see that it would be still better to keep
it in one instead of fifty. In William HIS time,
the matter was freely discussed, and in 1894 it
took the definite shape of plan for National
Bank.
Of course so great change was not effected
without bitter opposition. large class de-
nounced the Bank of England" with much vi
clsnce and vindctveness. Tories declared that
banks were republican institutions, and predic-
ted the ruin of the monarchy. Wings declared
it would be instrument of royal tyranny
worse than the Star Chamber, and predicted the
ruin of English liberty. The nobility suspected
it to be scheme to elevate traders above the
peerage, and the poor were made to believe it
new device to grind them to the dust Neverthe-
less the bank was established, and gained popu-
lar favor, less by arguments than by its manifest
convenience and utility. 1t lived, and grew,
and prospered, and, for an hundred and fifty
years, the wealth of England has lived, and
grown, and prospered with it.
The Shasta courier., 1858-02-20
Reconciliation.
BY CHARLES MAcKAY.

'Tis true that you and fell out,
Yesterday
Eve no idea what about,
Johnnie Gray!
only know the sun shines on,
Though yesterday be dead and gone,
And through the trellis at the door
The light comes dancing, as before
Johnnie Gray
The evening followed glowing noon,
Yesterday!
And driving clouds obscured the moon,
johnnie Grayl
But night is past, and morn is here
The fields are green, the sky is clear
The rose and lily CLEAN with dew
And Eve two loving lips for you,
Johnnie Gray!
The Shasta courier., 1858-02-20
To Quartz and other Miners.

T CHARLES B. WILTON, do hereby certify,
IL this 26th day of March, that had the Pam
anna fever last September, which left me pros
trated, weak, nervous and debilitated, without
appetite, dyspeptic, and occasional chills and
ague; and that from the use of two bottles of
DR.. Webber's INVIGORATING CORDIAL, am
almost as well as ever was in my life. | do
consider it a most wonderful strengthened ner-
vine and tonic.
Sold in quart bottles-pricc SO or two for S5
at every respectable drug store in California
and Oregon. Proprietor and agent, T. Jones,
San Francisco, to whom all orders by mail can
be addressed. dec5-3m
The Shasta courier., 1858-02-20
LAFoNr,s JAMAICA TOOTH PASTE
Jones, Coral Hair Restorative,

EOR the preservation beauty, growth and res
i toration of the Hair. This valuable prepa-
ration excitcs the scalp to new and desirable
action ceanses it from Scurf and Dnndruff, pre-
vents the hair from falling off, or becoming pre-
maturely Gray, produces fine growth of new
hair, and gives the hair a rich and beautiful ap-
pearance, unequalled by anything of the kind.
rEas Price 25 and so cents bottle. Sold at
every respectable Drug Store in California and
Oregon. Proprietor and agent, T. Jones, San
Francisco, to whom all orders by mail be
addressed. dec5-3m
The Shasta courier., 1858-02-20

LITTLE THouGHrs AND Big WoRDs.-The Hon.
olulu Commercial Adrertiser has some pertinent
remarks on the affectation of big words. The
writer says
"Quite often we hear little men laboring un-
der load of words bigger than themselves
strainng to up end nouns and adverbs, huge
'sesquipedalians,' eighteen inches to the foot
1t is a curious circumstance, to say the least
that when man is really angry or thoroughly
in earnest, he at once proceeds to use words
without aprons, or rs we have heard the ex-
preston, swords with the bark off," and talks
the plainest kind of English. The oxen and
dray horses hear better Saxou-though possibly
worse morality-than some audiences that wait
on public speakers, and many readers that wait
on the public press. When man grows elo-
quent, it is the Saxon element that lends wings
to his soaring thought; so we find whole para
graphs from Chatham and Junius, and Webster
and Everett are all English, and whole columns
from Sophmores and newspaper writers are full
of Latin roots and Greek particles"
The Shasta courier., 1858-02-20

These Periodicals ably represent the three
great political parties of Great Britain-Whig,
Tory and Radical,-but politics forms only one
feature of their character. As organs of the
most profound writers on Science. Literature,
Morality and Religion, they stand, as they ever
have stood, unrivaled in the world of letters,
being considered indispensable to the scholar
and the professional man, while to the intelli-
gent reader of every class they furnish more
correct and satisfactory record of the current
literature of the day, throughout the world, than
can be possibly obtained from any other source.
Early Copies.
The receipt of Advance Sheets from the British
publishers gives additional value to these Re-
prints, inasmuch as they can now be placed in
the hands of subscribers about as soon as the
original editions.
Terms, Per Annum,
For any one of the four Reviews. 90
For any two of the tour Reviews ........... 90
For any three of the four Reviews ......... 90
For all four of the Reviews ................ 90
For Blackwood's Magazine .........-....... 3 90
For Blackwood and three Reviews ......... 9 90
For Blackwood and the four Reviews. 10 90
Payments to be made an all cases in Adrance
Clubbing.
A discount of twenty-five per cent. from the
above price will be allowed to CLUBS ordering
four or more copies of any one or more of the
above works. Thus: Four copies of Black
wood, or of one Review, will be sent to one ad-
dress for 50; four copies of the four Reviews
and Blackwood for $40; and SO on.
Postage.
In all the principal Cities and Towns, these
works will be delivered, FREE OF POSTAGE When
sent by mail, the Postage to any part of the
United States will be but T1centy-four Gents a
year for " Blackwood," and but Fourteen Cents a
year for each of the Reviews
N. B. The price in Great Britain of the fire
Periodicals a6ore-named is S2I per annum
The Shasta courier., 1858-02-20
Glorious News to the Sick with
California Diseases. Price great
ly reduced, and sold in Quart
Bottles, is DIR. Webber's Sangui-
fer, or INvIGoRATING CORDIAL.
A Truthful Theory Of Life and Death.

TNHAT most diseases prove fatal that early
i deaths occur; that people live for years a
living death, weak, inanmate and exhausted
not from the disease itself, but from an inability
in nature and natures strength to Withstand or
maintain life through the ravages of disease
Give them strength, and nature will relieve her
self, if stimulated. She has given us herbs and
plants to effect all this. Purify the blood, rem
der the intestines, the liver, the heart and all
the natural functions of man or woman active,
and you have half conquered disease. DR.. JA-
COB WEBER dees conscientiously assure all
who read this, that his Inyigorating Cordial pro-
duces all the effect above described. He has
seen the old, the tottering, the palsied, the
vous, the dyspeptic, the inebrate, the debauchee,
and the invalid, revive under its influence, as if
new life was given them.
The Shasta courier., 1858-02-20

WHAT is THE MgANISG OF A HuxBuG "A
numoug, as understand him, is neither cheat
sham, aquack, an imposter, pretender, de-
eeiver, nor deluder, but all combined. He
blows bis own trumpet, he sounds his own
praises. when man, by means of his own
pen, makes himself notorious through the pub-
ho p,in.s; when you see, in an occasional para
slApo, ,nat ne is becoming celebrated for some
ga.ucular quality or virtue which you know be
does not possess, then 1t is that one. ins;gns :
tion rises, and be feels that he ucbf ~ $50,
.ne enese But it strikes you. upon second
saouents, that any attempt of that kind win be
ot no use, Tor the world will not cease 10 be,ere
sas ma !. mas accustomed itself to regard as an
unoeniaole and most wonderful fact. And tb;s
Is just 'ne point; humbug is not s5aet.
Refuse the fayors of . nerc.n.r
The Shasta courier., 1858-02-20

The SOLITARY HoRsEMAN.-Many years ago, a
solitary horseman might have been seen riding
swiftly toward Toledo, Ohio The sun had just
set in the western horizon. Twas the close, in
short, of election day, and that solitary horse
man was courier from an important town in
Lucas county. The returns from every town
ship in the county, but the one we speak Of, had
been heard from at Toledo, and the vote Of thi:
very township was nesied 10 tell how the coun.
ty had gone.
At length the solitary horseman arrived at To-
ledo, and reined the foaming steed up before
the Indiana House. A big crowd-democrats and
whigs-rushed eagerly around him and shouted
for the ' news"
" Better time,' said the solitary horseman
looking at his watch, was never made by live
hoss Fifteen miles in thirty-two minutes !
What dye think of that, gentlemen ~ asked the
horseman.
"Cuss the hossl' yelled the excited crowd
show has township gomez"
" Gen'lmen," replied the solitary horseman
al disremember. 1t went either whig or demo-
crat; but I've bin so taken up with the speed Of
this ere hoss, that forget which But, gentle
men," roared the excited horseman, rising in hi:
saddle and frantically waving his whip in the
air, "you may just rest satisfied on one point
all HI can't take this hoss down on a long
stretch"
The Shasta courier., 1858-02-20

MAKING LOVE ON STEAMBoATs.-Making love
on steamboats, is very dangerous business,
says the New York correspondent of the Phila-
delphia Sunday Mercury, and very apt to lead
to trouble in the family, especially on the North
river. Matters are done up here sometimes
in this way Unthinking gentleman, Mr.. Green,
has lady put under his charge by somebody,
perhaps by gentlemanly stranger, who, in con-
fdence style, asks him to see her ashore after
they reach Hudson. Mr.. Green becomes rather
fascinated by his interesting protege-more OF
less Very dull on board steamboat-passen-
gers tired to death. Mr.. Green prosecutes init
macy and meets with bewildering success. Pass
engers continues to be very dull. Mr.. Green
continues to advance. Passengers won't mind a
little scandal to pass away the time. Green's
young lady is observed by other young ladies
and good, sweet ladies-to cry great deal in
very conspicuous parts of the vessel, and sud
denly muffles up her face and sobs, or else runs
Lady passengers filed with pity conclude that
Green is wretch. Ask girl if he isn't. Girl
boo hoos. Grand indignation scene. Passen-
gers hold meeting; noble impulsive hearts lei
out their fine feelings high-toned, moral cap
tain looks grimly and virtuousy sagacious
winks to passengers. Takes Mr. Green aside
and bullies him about the girl. Green turns
blue Captain calls him villain ssbefore folks,
ana orders marriage cerlhcate. Green de-
clines. Captain produces two revolvers, bowie
knife, and clergyman. Green caves in and
consents. Young lady overwhelmed, other ladies
overwhelmed, everybody overwhelmed, especi-
ally captains clerk, who exchanges winks with
the bride when unobserved by the rest of the
party. All cheerful afterwards. Captain
stands champagne, gentlemen joke Green, ladies
all sympathy to bride, dinner ana report in the
newspapers. Green turns up wdower three
days afterwards. Bride has run away with port
monnae and shirt studs. Funny world, this
The Shasta courier., 1858-02-20

NA.Lieut. Maury maintains that the growing
OF suntlowers around a dwelling located near a
fever and ague region, neutralizes the miasma
in which the disease originates. he says that
an acre Of sunhowers will absorb during their
growth many thousand gallons of water more
than supplied by the rains. They are very easy
of cultivation, and the seeds meet with a ready
sale The theory or science of the practice is
this; The ague and fever poison is set free dur
ing the progress of vegetable decay, which poi
son is absorbed BY the rank growing sun-hower,
again elaborated into vegetable matter and so
retained till cold weather