The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1859-06-14

ally receiving accessions to its ranks of good South
ern men. Hon. George Eustis, Representative
In the last Congress from the first district of Loui
siana, and elected as American, has issued an
address, declining to he candidate for reelection
and explaining the reasons of his adhesion to the
democracy. He says:
"The fusion of the shattered lecions of the
Americans in most of the free States with the
black republican party, their repeated and over
whelmlng defeats in the Southern States the sec
tional color assumed by the politics of the country,
leave no room to doubt the fact that, at the com
ing Presidential election, the contest for supremacy
will be narrowed down to the republican and dem
ocratic parties. Indeed, in Louisiana, as State
party, the American party bids fair to come to
pieces, if we are permitted to judge by the signs
OF the tImes-the address to the people to revive
the old wing party, signed by fourteen prominent
and influential Senators and Representatives, the
assimilation of some of its branches in several
country parishes to the other faction of the
democracy.
In the Presidential contest, where the field will
be occupied by the republican and democratic
forces, marshalled in battle array, man can hes
itate to his place"
1t appears from the above that Mr. Eustis has
not been frightened by the charges of extravaganza
made against the democratic party. He has been
in Congress, has had an opportunity of investi-
eating the subject for himself, knows all the
workings of government and the items of expense,
and being of opposite politics would certainly not
be slow IN discovering and exposing corruption if
it existed; and yet, in the face of all this, he joins
hands with the democratic party as the only hope
of preserving the Union and the Constitution, and
of securing the ri ghts of the South Mr. Eusts
knows that the charges made by the opposition
against the democracy are groundess-that they
only made to subserve party ends, and are
simply bats to catch gudgeons
New WHEAT-Last week we saw a fine speci-
men of new Wheat from the plantation Of Mr. \.
B. Springs of York District. The grains were
unusually large and plump, and we learn that Mr.
S. has 100 acres equally good the specimen
we saw. We also learn that the seed Of this Wheat
was brought from New York by Mr. l.. S. Williams
a year two ago, from whom Mr. Springs obtain
ed quart for experimenting with, and that the
first yield from which took the premium at the last
Mecklenburg Fair. We state these facts merely
for the information of those who are DESTROYS of
improving the quality and quantity of their wheat,
as planters who have examined the specimen left
with say it is superior to anything they have
seen anywhere.
THE BANK OF NORTH CARoLINA.-It will be
seen by advertisement in another column that
meeting of the Stockholders in the Bank of North
Carolina is to be held in Raleigh on Wednesday
the goth ofJuly, for the purpose of organizing the
corporation. In summing up last week the amount
of capital subscribed an error occurred in our
figures 1t should have been s. ,O24 900 instead
cO q
ditional amounts as having been subscribed, but
how much we do not know.
CHERRIES AND WHORTLEBERRIEs.--W are
under obligations to Mr. j. w. Mehaffey, the
thy and accommodating Mail Agent on the n. G.
Road, for a fine lot (about peck of each) of cher
ries and whortleberries. The whortleberries were
rather rarity to us, as we had not seen any since
visit to the eastern part of the State or years
ago, where the people are slandercd by the report
that they bell their children and turn them into
the swamp to feed during the whortlebcrry season.
FROST IN JUNE.-The Statesville Express says
there frost in the upper part eff Iredcli coun
ty on the night of the 9TH of June, which destroy
ed pumpkin and melon vines and materially i'll
jured the corn and Irish potato crops.
The Yorkvie Enquirer says that at the same
time there was frost in the Bethel nei ghborhOod
in that District, sufficiently heavy to kill some of
the cotton.
1t was almost cold enough here, about the same
time, for frost
DIvIDEND-The Charlotte and South Carolina
Railroad Company has declared semi-annual
dividend of three dollars, to be paid on the lst of
July, as we learn by advertisement in the Coum-
bia Carolinian.
6SF- That dangerous point on the North Caro-
lima coast, Cape Hatteras, can now be avoided by
means of the Albemarle and Chesapeake Canal
passing through the inland waters of North Caro-
lima This Canal completes a chain of inland
navigation of over 900 miles.
A LIBERAL GIFr-Mr Mccormick of Wash
ington, (the owner Of the patent right for reapng
has given to the Old School Presby
terrain Theological Seminary at Chicago, ILL.,, one
hun,7red thousand dollars for the endowment Of
four Profcssorships in that institution.
THE CROPS AND SHEEP RAISING IN TEXAs.-A cor
of the Richmond Dispatch, writing from
Williamson county Texas, says
eve suffered heavily here about the ed April from
the frost and it down nearly all the corn ard wheat
was very much injured but the heavy showers of ra
fallen since have given life to the people, and
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