The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1859-12-01

/ IA Enseyprisine Tapa- -CdfeAMg fAs FsdSNres ges
f,aAnLorrK N. q, Nov. Is, fs5p
/ 1yavinr NO correspondent from this place,
/ ,honrnt the many readers OF your valuable
/ nar,rr would be interested In an occasional ar.
| ticIe from this section of the Old North State
| knnwn here as the Hornets Nest Of America,
from its well.known hostility In old times to
! the aggression of British bayonats, aud sbein 6
| the place whence the FIRST or Meckienbnrg
| Declaration Of Independence WAS given 70 thc
people on the Goth May, l775, (which Is dis
puted question, and viii probably remain 50
| for all time).
Charlotte Is a large and prosperous town,
| located Mt the terminus OF the North Carolina
Central Railroad. and the starting point of the
| Charlotte and South Carolina Railroad, run.
| ming to Columbia, S. y. Besides these two,
the Wilmington, Charlotte and Rutherford
| railroad is now being surveyed, called the
Atlantic, Tennessee and Ohio Railroad, for
which capital has already been subscribed to
CONSTRUCTS from this place forty miles) to
Sfatesville. in the county OF Iredell. This
road will connect Intimately with the Char
| lotie and Columbia Railroad. The population
Of Charlotte embraces SINE six or seven thou
sand Inhabitants, and with the exception OF
Wilmington, is one OF the most business
towns in the State. 1t is a fine cotton mar
ket. and also a market for an immense wagon
trade from the mountains of North Carolina
and a large proportion OF northern South
Carolina The town is handsomely laid out,
and lit mp with rosin oil gas. The works were
put up by the en,erprisng firm of Messrs.
Warehouse & Bowes, who are coustruc ting
similar works in the town OF Staunton, In
your State.
There is large number of merchants in
this piace,an the store-rooms are as large and
as fine as you will find in any city. The town
can boast of three newspapers, two (the DEM
ocrat and Whig,} being party papers, and the
third 1.-THE Bul.etin,) a daily independent pa
per, published by Mr. j. +. Britton, formerly
editor of the South Carolina Buiietin-aIl do
ing a fine business.
4 branch of the U. S. Mint is located here
for the convenience of the gold mines OF North
and South Caroiina-Hon Green CALDWELL,
Superintendent, and DR.. j. Is. Giboon, Assay
er.
The Presbyterian, Episcopal, Methodist,
Baptist, Catholic aud Lutheran denomina-
tions are all largely represented here with
new and convenient houses of worship.
There is much indignation here at present,
consequent upon the acts of Old Ossawatemie
Brown, aud do beleyeif Gov. wise required
it, the whole county would lily TO ms succor.-
lie has gained the good will of The people by
his vigorous and determined action In the
Harper's Ferry affair. In view of the present
state of affairs this Will be a hot place TOR
Northerners should they dare express their
opinion A drummer was told few days
since by one of our most enterprising mer-
chants, that he had made his last bill at the
North and, in future, would encourage South
ern houses. In Salisbury, on Saturday, a
stone mason in that place undertook to expa-
tiate largely upon the evils OF slavery, saying
some things very harsh, SO the good people
thought. They told him that wouldn't dc at
ali. Took him to pond, gave him good
ducking, then treated him TO q suit, composed
of the inside of a pine and the outside OF
goose, and Told him to go, which he did &C
cordinsly 1t was proposed afterwards to
box him up with his head out, and label him
Care of Adams Express Co. To Horace
Greeley, ESQ., but they could MT catch him.
They have three book pedlars in Jail there
now.
Once more, and will not trespass more at
present upon your columns. During the
Stale Fair in Columbia, S. O., two weeks since,
they had the good luck to catch three pick
pockets, and they were committed to Jail; but
the good people thinking justice rather tardy,
went to the Jail on Friday night, took them
out and gave the two youngest two hundred
and fifty lashes a piece, shaved one side of
their heads blacked their heads and faces, and
sent them TO the jusction to be shipped The
third the Oldest, about 60 years Of age, they
gave in consideration of his age. seventy.iive
flashes. shaved his head, and shipped him, with
tie express understanding with all, that If
they were caught in that section again il
would be still worse for them. l viii not
trespass more upon you, Mr. Dispatch; but ii
any hing of note turns up hereafter, you shall
know of it. NIRGINIAN.