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The weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1858-1860, 1859-01-04

A NEw GloLoGIc MoNsrER.-Dr Leidy Of
Philadelphia has reconstructed from frag-
ments of gigantic bones found in mari pit
at Hadden. field, N. j.. another pre-Adamite
reptile, not vet named, but aptly described
as kangaroo like alligator.
The creature was evidently Of unimagined
dimensions. Its hind leg bones, when put
together. would reach seven feet, upon
which the pelyis and back bone and upper
skin would still 20 on making it nine or ten
feet high upon the launches On the con-
trary, the fore legs were 20 disproportlonately
short that had they been found at differ.
ent time or in different place, no anatomist
would have hesitated to assign them TO AMI
mails Of different kinds, or at least to differ
ent individuals, but the animal which this
one most resembles. discovered in an Eng
lish rock Of the same age by DIR. Mantell,
shows the fore and hind legs equally dissimi-
lar. The fact no doubt is that we have here
the relics of kangaroo-tike alligator, 1t
more than mammoth size, living near the
great tertiary rivers and lagoons, and feeding
on the vegetation, as it safe erect on its vast
hind legs, supported by its TAIL To get it
'encth, DR.. Leidy took the number Of neck
and back vertebrse common to all kind OF rep
tiles, and averaged the number Of tail verte-
brn between the hundred in tail Of the
iguana and the twenty or thirty in the tail OF
the crocodile, and thus fixed the probable
length Of the whole creature at twenty-five
feet Its tail must have been three etdeep;
its neck thin and its head no doubt SMALL
Its teeth are but two inches long, but set in
such tessalated wall around the mouth 40
to make formidable cutting and grinding
apparatus. The family must have been
very extensive, for Dr. Leidy 10 now able to
recognize its representation by some before
enigmatical fragments from Nebraska and
from the Lower Mississippi. The formation
we know extended across the continent, be-
cause its shells are found from Mexico to
the Arctic Sea and on Vancouver's Island.
Horace, in jolly mood, has drawn the
picture of herd Of whales browsing among
the thickets Of a wood, and calls them the
flock Of Protcus, but Edgar Poe himself new.
er could have dreamed Of falligator kangaroos
as large as two story log cabins, with tails
as long as their wood yards not gnashing to-
gether rolling-mill squeezers set with rail-
road spikes at one another, but lovingly nib
bling the long under branches Of the fir for
est, fragments of which, turned to brown
coal or Ignite, and surcharged with sulphu-
! ret Of iron, were found together with the
homes
The weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1858-1860, 1859-01-04

An impudent fellow accosted ., young lady
sudsly the other evening. and she set dog on
The weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1858-1860, 1859-01-04

AMERICA IN THE OLD WoRLD.-A traveller
walking along the streets Of European cities
will notice at the shop windows. American
over-shoes, or American sewing machines
on the theatre bills he will read the name
American Commedienne in the bookstores
he will meet Stowe, Harland, Wetherill,
Prescott, Barnes and Hodge; at the book
stands, Dwight, Williams, Cheever, Sprague,
Spring further on he passes the American
Photograph Gallery Henry Russell draws
crowds to hear him sing about life in Amer
ica.' On the hustings Lord Palmerston tells
something borrowed from the Americans,
In the churches, DR. Guthrie extols the
American educational system. At q meeting
for the Irish missions Professor Miller and
DIR. Cooke tell how the Irish flock over to
/ America and learn independence. TO toa
missionary meeting, and DR.. Andrew Thomp-
| son eulogizes the American Missionaries,
| Elliot Brainard and Grant. Go to tenn
perance meeting and you will be smre to
hear of the Maine law Go to the Free
| Church general assembly and you hear
them speaking ofthe American missions in
Turkey, or of the great American revival
| Go to the procession of the Queens Commits
sioner to the Established Assembly, and you
| will find the dragons trotting of to the A
merican tune of'The Old Folks at Home. =
Go to the Glasgow cemetery and YOU will
meet with funeral motto from Longfellow.
Go into private families. and you will hear
the lady Of the honse singing at the piano
the American song Excelsior, and the little
girl calling her kitten 'Topsy 7 and not to be
tedious, if You 70 into the London Times
rooms you will find that Journal printing its
SANDERS on the United States upon Hoe
| American printing press
The weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1858-1860, 1859-01-04

n The following is extracted from one Of
Horace Greeley's recent Western letters to the
New York Tribune. The suggestions 1t contains
ore worthy Of consideration:
And while insist that the payment Of debts
without means is . physical impossibi.ity, and
that no community can pay . million when its
entire available means do not amount to half
that sum, | cannot help feeling that the moral
obligation to pay debts, not whenever it may be
convenient, but whenever they become due, is
not 30 generally realized through this region as
It should be. Here 10 one, for instance, who
has bought farm, or q stock Of goods, or built
house, on credit confidently expecting to pay
at the specified day; but the hard times, or the
failure Of crops, or the insolvency Of his debt
ore, has baffled his calculations. Simple honesty
requires that this man should go At once to his
creditors aud say, "Silver and gold have none;
''but here 10 what have-house, land, goods,
mortgages, notes, debts long due me-just
stake the whole, or SO much OF it as may be
necessary, and help me turn it into means of
paying you as promptly as We may and with
''the least possible sacrifice" Had this course
been generally taken by debtors when the
crash came las, year, the West might have Teen
in far better condition than she now is, with a
clear sEy before her. But instead Of this, too
many have tried to stave of, aud fight execu.
tions, and invoke the aid of stay-laws, and put
their property into the hands Of relatives or
confederates rather than creditors, to the ad
vantage Of sheriffs aud sharking lawyers, and
the disadvantage Of everybody else. 'Times
must soon be better" is the general calculation
Of these shutters; when the fact is.that they are
taking the very course to keep the times as bad
as ever. Had there been general effort last
Winter to get the property Of the West into the
hands Of its real owners, and clear the country
Of debt, there would have been better times ere
this. But SO long as very large proportion OF
the community persist in holding ON to property
that honestly belongs to their creditors, the I'M
provement so anxisusly awaited cannot be re-
allied. They who will be ready to sell their
property whenever it will bring what they con-
slider fair price take the very course to render
such price unattainable. If every man who
holds property and owes debts would resolve to
sell property enough to pay his debts, no matter
at what sacrifice, or, il all would not suffice,
Just surrender the whole to his creditors and ask
them to give him the free use OF his hands for
the maintenance of his family, the West would
soon be firm on its feet again. But here are
embarrassed farmers, owing perhaps thousand
dollars and holding on to two or three hundred
acres of land when their true interest concurs
with common honesty in urging them to sell
enough to pay their debts, if that takes the last
acre, and be free to begin the world again. 1t
is Just as mistaken to hold on for ten dollars per
acre as for forty, if you owe debts past due and
must sell in order to pay promptly
The weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1858-1860, 1859-01-04

A Washington correspondent OF Forney's
Press compares the advent of Douglas to
Washington with Napoleon's progress from
Elba to Paris, intimating that though at
the start he was "tyrant' and "usurper, at
the close he will be welcomed as the Grand
Emperor. Even the steamer that bears him
the correspondent thinks, "is not insignifi-
cantly named Warrior: because it bears up
on its proud deck one who has contended
against the hosts Of sectionalism.' This
latter reference is ominons, for it is the
''Black Warrior that bears the new Cesar
and his fortunes Jour.
The weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1858-1860, 1859-01-04

Gen Scott was honored with public reeep.
tion at CharlaRon, S. G. on the isth. He sail.
ed the next dAs for Havana, where he int nds
to spend few weeks for the benefit OF his de-
clining health.
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p,nnnrtant from Washington

NEW IUTh, OtC II.
The Herald's Washington correspondent
states that great anxiety exists in Augusta and
its vicinity concerning the Africans brought
there by the Wanderer. These negroes are
kept secreted near the city, but SO unpopular is
the movement to revive the slave trade. that
only one of the negroes has been sold yet, and
he was bought by colored barber in Augusta.
The Trlbune's Washington correspondent
states that there has recently been free inter
change of views among many leading Repub
lican Senators and Representatives, and they
came unanimously to the opinion that parties
and politicians are SO shaped in this Congress
that nothing will be effected this session con-
cerning Pacific railroad or a modification OF
the Taffn
The weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1858-1860, 1859-01-04

his iokes, % he set hineolf cut % CO. =
VI II csS's a.. :ssrd y sivsyo ! pass," ss5d -
"YouK faEhss = .EisA snosgh = by - II
s, .Nc he isa.ssa rsvas.d ~ w, 10 -
paid ont ~ his money lsssly.
20, he has ju6t booght On elevator"
"Indeed said p, and how much dj0
he pay Tor it7
"A hundred thousand dollazsy' : sssposdsa
the boy. n.H raq, ~. 81
.Wny, whore did hs get - much noasy r
"Saved It on the railroad, 70 BE- sure"
"You don't mean TO say your father saved
hundred thousand dollars at railrOading e
cried p
.Of course he did, said the boy very poe
itiyely; II should think he might-hs Oes
Conductor fifteen yearsF
F-gaye him pass without any further
question, thinking the joke on the father
cheap at any price; He bided his time, and
when he caught - with IN audience "hs
though few" he turned the conversation %
children. Now, = brags on his boy, and
at the first opportunity commenced telling
Of his smart sayings, and other qualifications.
Then F. told his story, and when the
laugh come in no one enjoyed it more than
did J. himself He frequently hears Of
that hundred thousand dollars.
The weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1858-1860, 1859-01-04

The surest way to lose your health Is to b
al the time drinking that Of other folks.
The weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1858-1860, 1859-01-04

Mr. Everess,s CcmtRIbnsieDs % she
Ledger from nm Official Point 81
yieWe
The Boston Advertiser, edited by . relative
Of Nr. Everett, and supposed to represent his
views, contains the following comments upon
the Mount Vernon Papers, the 6rst number Of
which has just appeared in the New York Led
ger. After describing the subject Of the in
s'allment, which has already been published, it
ailudes to those which are to come:
Mr.. Everett really reserves for himself ground
as vide as any Spectator, or Rambler, or Idler;
and the tiity-two papers may be expected TO
sweep wide in their mission Of instruction and
amusement.
And what mission it is! The publisher from
whom We purchased the copies of the Ledger
which lie before us-whose house is only one Of
the numerous establishments which deal in the
issues of the periodical press in this city-or-
dered for his own business merely, thirteen
thousand copies Of this number. And We men
tion this TACT simply because a small number is
sometimes better taken in and understood than
large one. There is no question that of each
number OF the Ledger three hundred thousand
copies are p inted for circulation through this
country. The estimate which suppOses that
million persons read each number, is small
There is not, in the world besides. such
body of readers, or such an audience. 1t would
be well worth while for any phiIanthropic man,
or society, 10 pay Mr.. Bonner lavshly for the
privilege OF occupying the space in his paper
which he has asked Mr. Everett to fill.
These Mt. Vernon papers address the people
of America. The pen, the spirit, the fun, the
wi, and the eloquence of the first Of American
Orators at their service for this year. Now
We conceive it to be q matter OF legitimate
pride. as al illustration Of the triumph of the
great America system OF instruction, that the
people have this power. No journal in Amer.
lea with lesser audience could secure such
service. The most venerable quarterlies, the
most sprghtly monthlies and other magazines,
vainly WOO such contributors as MIR. Everett
They have Lot the array of readers who can
| command such men. 1t is only when the mil
lions of every class, virtually combine in the
creation of journal which addresses all, that
their united voices speak SO loud that such au-
thors cannot refuse. No man dares throw away
the chance of moving SO many men to high and
brave resolve.
No one man in America has done SO much as
Mr. Everett in the creation and improvement
of that system of public instruction which has
created such egions of readers. No man de-
serves, as lie does, the triumph OF welding
such power as he now commands.
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The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1859-09-13
p 0 IS II I O a d
From TIE Rutherford Enquirer.
FORBEARANCE.

We should not frown upon each other
For each light and careless word,
That in moment of thoughtlessness
By the lip is idly stirr'd;
For oft the voice will give forth tone
Unfeeling and cold will seem;
Or be ting'd with depth of bitterness,
Which the heart would never dream.
We should not resent each angr'd look
Will start from the flashing eye;
Nor deem that a sudden glance denotes
An outburst of passion high;
For oft seeming impassion'd ray
From the speaking eye will fall,
The heart so fully repudiates
1t would give worlds to recall.
We rather should strive to pass them by,
As if they had never been
A smiling look and pleasing tone,
Prevents their return again.
There is much to try US in this world
From which we cannot get free;
Then let us ever in bonds Of love
More closely united be.
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1859-09-13

"DoN'T ALL SPEAK AT ONcE.'-It is stated
that an heir is wanted for the Sherburne estate,
the seat of which family was Stonyhurst, Eng
land 1t is valued at from ten to twenty millions
sterling. 1t is an entailed property, descending
to an eldest son. The family left England during
the year 1860. 1t was left without an heir by
the death of the eighth Duchess of Norfolk,
without issue.
This is no doubt, another Jennins' estate hum
bug
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1859-09-13
New Books.
April 10, 1859

New Books.
History of FREDERIcK THE GREAT, by Thos. Garlic.
ADMINISTRATORS and Friendship, by i. c. LOOMS.
CoreTsHIp AND MArR1MoNY, with other Sketches, by
Robert Morris.
THE SoCIABLE; l0l Home Amusements
THE LIFE AND TINES of the GREAT HUGH MILLER of
Scotland, by I. n. Brown.
ANNALS OF THE AMERICAN PULPIT, by Dr. Sprague.
LIPPIxCoTT's PRoNoUNCING GAZETTEER, or Geographl-
cal Dictionary of the World,
Dora DEAN MAGGIE MILLER, Mrs NJ. j. Holmes
SECURING OF THE WHITE HORSE, or the long Vacation
Ramble of a London Clerk.
THE KN. PErPER,-Papers by Jacques Maurice.
Dust AND FoME Three Oceans and Two CONT
nents by T. Robinson Warren
also have few copies of HAWKS HIsToRY OF n. g.,
Vols. l and II.
CAxrwELL's JUSTICE and n. c. Form Book.
. Feb. Is, 1859 j. LO"ItlE
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1859-09-13

The subscriber offers for sale all his Lands lying in
the county of Unon the waters of Goose and Crook
ed Creeks viz One tract lying the Of Crook
ed creek adjoining Dr. E. c. Alexander, John Foard.
Robt Mann and others; other tract doning said
tract, and John \. Lemmond Henry She'll and others.
Also, the waters of Goose creek adjoining
DR.. +. c. Alexander, Eli Stewart. the Marion Gold
Mine and others together with another tract adjoining
\. +. Stevens and others, lying both sides of the
Lawyers Road leading from Charlotte to Wadesboro
Any all of the above named lands will be sold
privately to any person DESTROYS ofpurchasng between
this and. the lSt October next.
TERMS made known on application to the subscri-
Der Eli Stewards in Union county by address,
ing at Coburn's Store, Union county n. G.
CYRUS Q. LEMMOND.
N,r; . cn, MI
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1859-09-13

Bey~ The Major A. j. Donelson, who died re-
Gently at Lafourche, louisiana was not Andrew
Jackson Donelson, the adopted son of Gen. Jack
son, who was candidate for the Vice Presidency.
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1859-09-13
100 NEGROES WANTED.

Il
The subscriber wants to buy hundred good Ne =
groes for which the highest prices IN CASH will bo
paid Persons having that kind of property for sale
VIII lind it greatly their interest apply immediate
ly to JAMES II. DAVIS, Pineville n q
to \. y. y. NJ. TAYLOR nj CborIot.
August ., 1859 3m io''e
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1859-09-13

THE DURATION OF LIFE.-Medical science, or
perhaps increased intelligence and social COM
fort, arising from the increased wealth of civil
lied nations, have done something towards pro-
longing the term of mans existence. 1t is shown
in the official returns of the life insurance compa-
MES of Great Britain, that the average duration Of
human life is sufficiently upon the increase to re-
quire constant rcvisal Of the rates of insurance
If this is the fact, with all the various ''pathics"
of the medical schools in full operation, do
not think the doctors are deserving of half the
abuse they popularity receive.
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1859-09-13
GOING INTO MOURNING.

A few weeks since our friend Clark was lying
sick with bilious fever. The attack was severe,
and he believed that death was near. One morn
ing he awoke from short sleep TO hear hurried
and smothercd conversation in tic adjoining room
in which his wife took part. The first words that
Clark caught were uttered by his better half.
'On that ground said she, 4 object to mourning"
YES replied another, 'but the world looks for it
it is fashionable, and one might as well be out of
the world out of the fashion.
Very true
"Here," thought Clark, lis nice wife. She
thinks / am about to die-to be planted, if | may
use the expression in the cold EARTH and yet she
refuses to 90 in mourning for me. All . me-
Now that | am here, perhaps l had better
take your measure.
The unfeeling wretch. exclaimed Clark, Ito
think of sending for dress maker before | am
dead But I'll cheat her yet! I'll live for spite"
Well, unused the wife, Il believe you may
measure me. ! will let you buy the trimming
and let it be gay possible.
What hcartlessness, groaned Clark. woman
like, though. One husband no sooner dead than
they set about cntrapping another. | can scarcely
credit it
OF course you will have flouncc2
Two of them; and as the body is to be plain,
wish you would get wide gimp to trim it,
How will you have the sleeves trmmed?'
with buttons and fringe
W eli-WCiI--WcII-thIS beats all, sighed poor
Clark
when do you want the dress =" inquired the
mantua- IiIkcr.
Il must have it in three days My husband
will then be off my hands, and | shall be able to
get out
'Oh, e-horrible-horribler calculated
the sick man, Il am only half dead, but this blow
will kill me-
His wife heard him speak, and ran quickly to
his bedside.
Did you speak, my DEAR said she, with the
voice of an angel.
Il heard it all, madam replied Clark.
'All what, my dear?
The mOurning-gay dressGs-lrnge-cver
thing Oh. Mara-lIalia"
You rave
'Do YOU take me for a fooI?'
Certainly not, my dear
you expect me to be out Of the way in three
days, do YOU
Yes, love; the doctor said you would be well in
that time
What means the dresses?'
1T is the one YOU bought for me before you
were taken sick
But you were speaking of mourning
we were talking of Mrs Tarery.'
ooh, is that it,!
Yes, love. You know she a poor, and her
very much to find mourning for them all. On
this ground oppose it."
'So-so-thats it, is it? I thought you were
speaking OF me- and it distressed me- Let me
beg of you to be more careful for the future
Clark was out in three days, and he now laughs
at the matter, which then appeared so horrible.
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1859-09-13
Atlantic Mutual Fire and Marine
INSURANCE COMPANY.

CAROIIlNA III ~ u
Incorporated by Act of the Legislature of North
Carolina. This Company being duly organized, is now
prepared to receive applications for insurance upon
Buildings Merchandise Furniture Mills, Manufactures
Ships and their Cargoes, and most kinds of property
at remunerative rates of premium.
1t is aimed in the organization of this Company, to
make safe medium for Indemnity and Protection to
the assured in of loss. An honorable and upright
course of dealing, and faithful fulfllment of its
tracts, will all times characterize the business of the
Company.
Applications for insurance may be made at the Office
of the company, or t. its authorized Agents.
DIRECTORS: John \ Parrott Levi T Oglesby, W 3
Grant, David Jones. Geo Dill, Col Thos Blakcly,
Luke Blackman, VIM Long, David W Bell y Chap
III, Saml Letters, Joel II Davis. ID \ IIarget Maett
OFFICERS
John \ Parrot, President
Levi T OgleShy, Vice President,
W Long, Treasurer
\ Thompson, Attorney,
A Chaplin, Secretary
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.-W & Grant " S Long.
David W Bell.
March %, 1859. Gm
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1859-09-13
REMOVAL.
FAMILY GROCERIES,. &.

We have also opened branch of our store at Lin
colntOn where Mr. Moody will superntend the bushes,
and hopes to share of public patronage in r
section.
July +, 1859. MOODY Il NlSBET
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1859-09-13
CANDY MANDATORY.
LIFE INSURANCE.

FENIIE undersigned Agent will receive applications
q for Insurance in the North Carolina Mutual Life
Insurance Company
This Company is the oldest in the State and has
been in successful operation for several years. Its
rates are moderate and all losses promptly adjusted
Persons wishing to insure their own lives or the
lives their Slaves in this Company will call at the
Office Of the Agent. at the Bank of the State.
no. SLAVES insured for TWO-TIIIRDS of their
VALUE.
THos. W. DEWEY, Agent.
Jan'y II. 1859. "
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1859-09-13

BaF Do not believe one half that you hear, but
make sure that you believe all you say
pG- 1t does not necessarily follow that man
is Christian because he belongs to church, any
more than it follows that man is dog because
his name is Barker.
BG~ "I never come late to 4 friends dinner, y
says BoiIeau, "for have observed that when a
company is waiting for man, they make use OF
that time in loading him with abuse"
A Waggsh chap, whose vixin wife by drowning
lost her precious life, called out his neighbors, and
told them that his spouse was drowned-and could
not be found lie knew, he said, the very nook
where she had tumbled in the brook; and he had
dragged along the shore, above the place, mile or
more. "Above the place. the people cried Why,
what dye mean" The man replied: "Of course
you don't suppose I'd 60 and waste the time to look
below. I've known the woman quite spell, and
learned her WITNESSES passing well-alive or dead,
she'd go, VOW, against the current anyhow
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1859-09-13
PEA MEAL.

We keep at our Steam FIGURING Mill in this place
Pea Meal for feeding COWS and stock Also, we have
$50 on .s Elonr We warrant our family flour.
Corn Neal and Grts always be had at the mill
j. WILKES & co.
April 10, 1859