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The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1861-12-31

Consignmens Of cotton tobacco, wheat and corn re-
specially solicited, and which will have faithful per-
sona attention good supply of Groceries always on
hand and for sale reasonable terms. Orders for
gooas promptly filled. Both concerns will adhere
strictly to selling produce commission Neither
concern will buy on commission, speculation or other
WISE the articles named above their business in pro
rduce is confined exclusively to selling.
We respectfully call the attention of operatives and
planters to Petersburg Of the best cotton markets
In the South. The demand is good both from mann
here anc for direct shipment from City Point
to Europe.
Efforts are now being mode to ship direct from
charlotte to this point, for So per bale. -
January %, 1861 nd
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READ THIS.
The Soldiers Belief

Having closed business in the town of Charlotte,
hereby give you due notice that your Notes and Ac-
counts for 1861 ready for settlement. shall ex-
pect all persons Except the soldier In tie army to
come forward immediately and pay mp. as | am COM
PEELED to have money suffer. Any man that will
keep money in his pocket when it is justly due his fell
low man l. doing injustice to himself and his country
therefore ask you 10 come forward and pay up. The
man that would take advantage of the present
might want credit again.
Dec 10, 1856! Pm WM. TRELOAR
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$l5 REWARD.

Runaway from the subscriber on the 18th of Sept
my negro boy MARTIN. Said boy is a bright mulatto
about 30 years old feet inches high and weighs
l45 pounds; has ahcr an ctfeminate voice and
two of his front teeth He has extensive ac
quainance and has wife ut MIR Henry Cathcys the
vicinity of Tnckasecge P. q. 1t is supposed that he
may be lurking about in that ncghbOrhood or the town
OF Charlotte. will give the above reward for his
livery to me or his confinement in Neckenburg Jail.
r Z. WEpDINGTON.
Nov 5, 1861 #
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CantWeli'S Practice.

During my absence in the Military service % this
State in Virginia. subscribers and others desiring sop
les of the above work, obtain them of Mrs Cant
we'll Raleigh.
All persons indebted to me- by or otherwise are
requested to pay her. will hold her receipt good
Price OF single copies of the above $500 A deduc-
ton will be made to those who buy to sell acaia
EDWARD CANTWELL
Camp Norfolk, july so, 1851
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TIMBER WANTED
AT THE
North Carolina Arsenal and Armory.

Sealed Proposals will be received the North Caro-
lima Arsenal and Armory, Fayetteville, n. c.. until
the LIST January. 1862 for the delivery of OAK WAL
NUT, HICKORY and POPLAR, sawed in the dimen-
sions forth in The annexed abIe-ony TO be splt
where mentioned.
The OAK must he of the best quality of White Oak
tough, straight grained sound and free from centre
heart, sap, splits, warps, other defects The Axle
bodies got from quartered sticks free from centre
heart.
The WALNUT, of the best quality of Black Walnut
The POPLAR of the best Yellow Poplar.
The Walnut and Poplar must be clear stuff, free
from sap and centre heart.
The Hickory mast be tough, young and straight
grained, and free from heart.
Bids will be received for the entire bill of POPLAR
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More Timber Wanted.

Sealed Proposals will be received at the NORTH oao
lima Arsenal and Armory at Fayetteville, N. c., until
the st day of January 1862, fo. the delivery OF the
following described Timber, at the Arsenal and Ar
mory, the times and the conditions speclhed IN
the preceding advertisement:
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1861-12-31

NItNAOND, 4.
K. a. MARTIN, formerly Of Granville county, n c.
RoBT TANNAHILL formerly Of Edgecombe county. n c.
WALTER K. MARTIN of Richmond, Va.
n. N. MARTIN do.
K. Fl. CUNNINGHAM, Jr do.
REFER TO {. F. Fisher, Esq, Pres't C Railroad
Or Hawkins, Prest Paleigh CASTOR Railroad !;
K Bridges Pres't Branch Bank at Tarboro N G.: Hon
" Edwards. Warren county; James NJ Bullock ESQ.,
Granville county; Fisher, cashier Exchange Bank
Petersburg, Va; Battle, Esq, Raleigh.
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MERCHANT TAILORING.

FULLINGS, SPRINGS & co. have also added to their
Read -made Clothing Stock, Merchant Tailoring De-
partment to which they call the especial attention Of
heir many friends and customers.
They intend making this department second to none
in the State either in style and quality Goods in
the manufacture of Garments.
AT all times will be found good stock of Black and
colored Cloths English, French and Americas CASH
meres, aud variety of Vestings. Also, assortment
of Rock Island Cassimeres
They feel confident of their ability to underse any
other house in the State, from the advantages they
have in getting their goods.
Their goods are bought by the quantity. by one of
the Firm who resides in the Northern markets which
gives him the opportunity OF taking advantage of the
prices of goods. thereby saving least twenty-five
cent to the
Rs~ Dimes saved are Dollars made !=gfsa So try u.s.
Orders from distance solicited. Cutting done on
short notice.
Sept %, 1860. FULLINGS SPRINGS & co.
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1861-12-31

DE~ Blank Deeds, Attachments, and Court
Blanks, for sale at this Office.
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Sixty of the prisoners of war confined in New
Orleans have taken the oath and Joined the Con-
federate army tor.4he war.
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a NEW LAW BOOK.
CANTWELL'S PRACTICE AT LAW.

Just published, treatise upon the PRACTICE AT
LAW in North Carolina, ly EDwAEB CANTwLIL
LIB, author Of the n. G. Justice etc.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1861-01-10
white through Mistake.

The writer Of the following letter to
the Charleston Mercury, from Lowell,
Massachusetts,, was evidently born a
white man through mistake. lie should
be sweltoring in the cotton fields Of the
South, and made daily to feel the dri-
ver's lash. The free Now England air
was never intended to be breuthed by
such a hopolcssly abjoct slave. At once
prepare the chains let him be bound
The letter is as follows:
"And what guarantees should satisfy
the South? Ia my estimation, nothing
short Of amendments to the Constitution
that 10ould D5abe negro SiaUery legal and
perpetual IN eUcry State Of the Utjop
and Upop cUeJy fact Of TERRITORY that nou
belongs, or cUcr shall belong, to the United
States. It is not possible, but probable
that such a reaction may take place in
the public mind. When we arc no
longer one people, and the North sec
that they, as we'll as the South, arc de-
pendent upon the products Of slave la.
Dor for all their material prosperity
(not to say for their very subsistence,
they will begin to reason upon the slave.
ry question; and to reason from facts
not indulgingPassion, is to come to the
conclusion that negro slavery is right
politically, morally and rcligiously."
The Chaplain of the House of Repre-
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9flistGLLanCONs.

sufr5rings in Kqn3as--AppeaI for
Aid.
DR.. W. II. Grimes, late of Yellow
Springs, who is now at Atchison, Kan
sas, gives a very doloful account Of the
present condition of the people there,
and makes an appeal in their behalf
which should not fall on lcaden cars
His letter, dated 'on the 9th ult., thus
presents the case:
You who reside in the great State
Of Ohio, and are blessed by continued
unfailing crops on her beautiful soil,
can have but little conception Of the ac-
tual state of suffering now to be endur-
cd by tho iamishing people in many
parts of the Territory. l was told this
morning, by a seemingly honest and in
tolligont man, who resides two hundred
miles in the interior that there were
forty families in his ncighborhood who
were now subsisting on acoruS and
p0rchcd corn, and must do so until he
and his friends can return from this
point with provisions to relieve their
suTerings.
In a ride of three miles this morn
ing l met and saw encamped ffty-four
wagons and teams from all parts Of the
Territory, all coming to this point for
relief Could YOU have seen the hag-
gard looks of the drivers, seen the tat
tered condition of their garments, you
would have a faint idea of what must
be the condition Of those they have left
at home.
l have convorscd with very many
persons from different parts of Kansas,
and the tale Of woe is the same; fam
inc, gaunt and hungry, staring them
in the face That is the state of things
now; what must it be before Spring?
Families who have heretofore lived in
afluonce and plenty have been by this
unprecedented drOuth reduced to beg
gary. This is no cEaggeration.-
These people must be supported from
other localities. or die Of hunger be-
fore Spring. Where are they to look
for succor?
Many Of these sufferers are from
Ohio. Will not glorious Ohio respond
to this cry for help, and that speedily?
Delay will be death to many Of the
people.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1861-01-10

THE CHINESE WAR.-Tho allied forces
of England and France arc rovelling in
the capital Of the Celestial Empire
The palace Of the Emperor, at Pckin,
has been sacked, afording rich spoils.-
The Emperor himself has fed, although
an inefficient Tartar army is still in the
field. European prowoss has subdued
the most populous nation of the world
at least so far as to be able to dictate
terms at its capital The magnitude Of
these events and the consequences that
may follow from this "letting daylight
into a nation Of four hundred millions
Of old fogios and stand-stills, will not be
overlooked by the careful observer Of
human affairs The developments will
be waited for with the deepest interest.
-TCin. Gaz.
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]loOtbs' department.
our Prizes for tho Young Folks.

Our Prizes for tho Young Folks.
For reason, only few OF our young readers have
yet sent in compositions compete for the prizes which
We offered in paper of Nov 20 We do not like 20
believe that they are gGaH try what they can do
suppose there must DO another reason. Probably u
is because the offer was published but once, and thus
may have been overlooked by Of the boys and girls
who forgot TO notice the youths Department that
week We have therefore concluded to publish the offer
again, and delay the decision until the 7 Of February,
which will give nearly a month to those who choose 10
try for the prizes. They are as follows
L. For the best original Enigma, on any subject not
20 exceed 80 iuos copy of the "Sudent aud school
mate'-a monthly magazine, and tho News for one
year.
q For the best Arihmetical or Algebraical Problem
the sBme prize- 8a luT No. I.
3 For the bost original ChurRdc, Robus or Riddle, u
verse or prose, "Iho Little Pilgrim" and the News lor
one year.
g. For the best original Conundrum, tho same prize,
for No. %.
o. Fortho host original composition, on any subject
either loo prose verse; not exceeding 90 lines of manu-
script copy uf the Philudolpun Saturday Evening Post
and the News for one year.
Each contribution must Doe accompanied with tho an
gWcr, and the writer's name, guarantee of los origin
ulty. As our object Is 90 encourage younger readgr
Go try what they do competition viii bo limited q
those uudor Tho contributions viii be examined
and prizes awarded hy ya competent aud impartial com
mitoo and tho result viii be announced In our paper
the 5th February next,
Gotroady boys and girls, and let us SEQ who viii win
the prizes.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1861-01-10
Position of Gen. Wool.

A letter from Gen. Wool, dated at
Troy, Dec. 1st, is published lie says
South Carolina has not had the slight
est wrong or injustice done her people
on the part of tho Government of the
United States. OF the military position
Of affairs at Charleston, the General
says:
"Fort Sumpter commands the en-
trance, and in a few hours could do
molish Fort Moultrie. So long as the
United States keeps possession Of this
fort, the independence of South Caro-
lima will only be in name, and not in
fact If, however, it should be sur
rendered to South Carolina, which l do
not npprehend, The smOthered iadigHa-
tion of the Free States tcould be reused
beyond control 1t would not be in the
power'of any ono to restrain it, IN h0en-
IN days ttoo hundred thousand men lgouLl
be an readiness to take Uepgeance on all
aCho rould betyay the Union into the
hands of i8 enemies. Be assured that
do not exaggerato the feelings of the
people They are already sufficiently
excited at tho attempt to dissolve the
Union for no other reason than that
they constitutionally exercised the
most precious right conferred on them
of voting for the person whom they
considered the most worthy and best
qualified to ill the Office Of President
Fort Sumptor, therefore, ought not
and l presume will not be delivered
over to South Carolina"
A private letter from Gen. Wool tC
Gen, Cass, dated Dec. 9th, is also pub
lishod, In this letter the immense i'm
portance Of reinforcing the garrison Of
Fort MouIrio is urged in very strons
terms.
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The Inst Kansas Rarca.

The Leavcnworth (Kansas) CORES
pondent of the Cincinnati Times says:
Gen. Harney's body-guard, tho last
Of the forces sent against Montgomery,
arrived here this evening. Gen. Uar-
noy says "H 1oas the d-dcst farce he
eUcr engaged mF'
Our citizens all laugh at the cx-
citoment raised throughout the coun-
try, aud the part the General Gov
crnmont has acted, based solely upon
the report of Judge Williams-who
was formerly a circus clown-during
one Of his customary drunken carous.
als
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United states Muskots for tho South.

United States Muskets for the South
Several days since, five hundred box
es Of muskots were brought down from
the United States Arsenal at Watorvliet
opposite Troy, and ono-half of them,
five thousand muskets, were put on
board the Florida and Savannah, and
the other five thousand were shipped by
the Nashville for Charleston The Flor
ida met with an accident when ten
hours out, and her freight was subse-
quently taken by the Alabama. We arc
informed that an additional FIVE thou
sand have been sent to Alabama from
the same place within a week past.
The muskots are stated to be the sup
ply allowed by the General Government
to the State Militia of Georgia and
South Carolina respectively, and that
the Governors of those States several
months since requested that these arms
should be forwarded.
Taken in connection with the fact
that the President refuses to reinforce
the garrison at Fort Moultrie, this pro-
ceoding, which puts arms into the hands
Of the disunionists, is at least very suspi-
cious. IF these were part of tho sup
ply voted to South Carolina, what be-
comes Of the 10000 stand of arms in
the arsenal at Charleston, from which
we have heretofore been told the quota
of South Carolina and the surrounding
States was to be drawu2 The more
probable supposition is that this is only
partlof the scheme cOncoctcd between our
model President and beautiful Secretary
of War, to put as many arms within
reach Of the secessionists as possible
IN. Y. Tribune, 9th.
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3loljtjt2l
IFsom thcprincctou CN. J) Review for january.
The State Of the Country.


BY REV. DR.. HODGE, D. d.
(CouclUdca)
A third prominent grievance Of which
the South complains is, that the pro-
vision of the Constitution requiring the
restoration Of fugitive slaves has been,
and is, openly disrogarded and set at
nought. The Constitution is com
pact If, say our Southern brethren,
the compact is violated by one party, it
ceases to be binding on the other
On this ground they assert that they are
at perfect liberty to secede from the
Union. This is the argument which is
presented in every possible form, in
newspaper editorials, in legislative de-
bates, in gubernatorial messages. 1t
| is rung through the South, and echoes
| through the North Yet n moments
consideration will show that the com
plant is utterly unfoundod, 1t is ad-
United that Southern masters have
constitutional right to the restoration
Of their fugitive slaves. On whom does
the obligation to restore such slaves
rest? Upon the Federal Government
or upon the State authorities? Upon
the Federal Government, according to
the solemn decision Of tho Supreme
Court of the United States, our highest
judicial authority. Assuming that
the obligation rested upon the States
| Pennsylvania passed certain laws to reg
ulate the manner in which the duty
should be performed. The Supreme
Court pronounced those laws uncOnsti
tutionol, on tho ground that it belonged
10 the Federal Government to carry int,
effect that provision of the Consttu
- ton. Has tho General Government re
, fused to perform that duty2 1t is th
; party on whom the obligation rests
: Has it failed to discharge that obliga
tion2 Not at all, Stringent laws fo
d carrying into effect that part Of tn
constitutional compact have been passeD
by both Houses of Congress, and ap
proved by the President. The Who'll
judicial and executive power of tn
Government is pledged to their execu
tion. In not one instance have the ju
dicial or executive officers charged wit
this duty failed to perform it. So ia
from it, the judicial officers have noto
riously erred on the other side. The
have sent free men to the South a
lslavcs, who have been returned on thei
hands. They have shocked public jus
tice in their zeal to carry out tho law
The United States troops have bee
called out to secure its execution -
Slaves have been returned to their mas
ters, in some instances, at an oxpens
Of twenty thirty or forty thousand do
10 lars to the Government. Educate
men, professors in our colleges, hav
been condemned to imprisonment fc
p attempting to interfere with the execJ
ton Of the Fugitive Slave Law. AT Chi
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Prince Albert has awarded to the
University Of Cambridge, of which he
is chancellor, an annual gold medal for
the encouragement of English poetry.
He has selected for this year the sub
ject of "Tho Prince of Wales at the
Tomb of Washington" The exercises
are to bo sent in before the last day of
March, and are not to exceed two hund-
red lines in length.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1861-01-10

SALT BARRELS FOR PRESERVING Ap-
PLEs.-The American Farmer says:-
We have received a letter from G. w.
Cook, of Waterloo, n. Y, in which a
fact of great importance is related, in
reference to the preservation of apples.
He purchased five barrels of choice ap-
pies, taken from one pile, and put them
into his cellar. On the first Of April
following, when he came to examine
them, those in four of the barrels were
mostly all damaged, while those placed
in the other barrel, were sound, fresh
and good. What was the cause of the
preservation of the apples in this bar.
rel? Our correspondent says it was a
Syracuse salt barrel, and had contain
cd coarse salt, and believes this was the
cause Of their immunity from rot
lie, at least, can give no other reason.
Would not little salt placed in the
bottom Of a barrel, to be filled with ap-
pies, have the same effect? The ex-
pertinent is certainly worth trying.
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portrp
THE FI1aHT OF TIME.

UY THOMAS CAMPBELL.
Tho more we live, moro brief appear
Our lilo's succeeding stages
A day tD childhood seems % year,
Aud years like passing stages,
The gladsomo current of our youth,
Ere passion yet disorders,
St0alHuuwurd like narivrr smooth,
Along its grassy borders.
But as the caro-worn cheek grows wan,
And sorrows shafts ny thicker,
We stars, that measure life To- man,
Why sccm your courses quiCkorl
when i0ys have lost their bloom aud breath,
And life itself is yapid,
Why, aswc roach the falls OF death,
Feel we its tide more rupid2
Itm1y be strango-yct who could change
Times course t0 slower speeding
WHOM, ono by ono, our friends have gone,
And loft our bo80ms bloOdiug2
To1yon giyc7 our years Of fading strength,
Iudomnifyiug 1ootnUss;
And those Of youth o. seeming lOnVih,
Propurioncd 90 their sweetness.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1861-01-10

The year 1861 will be the first of the
G6Oth Olympiad There will be an an
nular eclipse of the sun on the 11th of
January, another on the 9TH Of July,
and total eclipse on the 3lst of De-
combcr, There will also be a partial
eclipse Of the moon on the 18th of De-
Gem Der.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1861-01-10

South Carolina has $4,000 white
inhabitants between the ages Of five
and twenty. OF these 21,2OO can nei-
ther read nor write.
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Uharade

Search my first, and thou wilt find
That with which 90 feast the mind;
That of which thnu'lt nc'cr bo weary
That whichchaseth care so drgary.
"Tho man who uecdlcssly upon my last sots foot,
Upon my list of friends l'd enter never"
And now, my Wh0ie is one who iu my Brt
Luukcth, soaTChcth and puruth ever,
Little Pilgrim,
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Au editor says chat when ho was iu
prison for libelliug a justice Of tho
peace, he was requested BY the jailor GO
give the prison a puff.
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Listening to a lady who was pouring
out a stream of talk, JeTold whispered
to the person next him,
"She'll bo coughing soon, and then
We can strike la"
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"Ah, arc you still alive, then?' said
"a fellow, on meeting one whom he had
injured.
"Ios, replied tho other, "ond hick-
ug suiting the action TO tho world
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1861-08-01
men on.

WAS IT GREAT FIGHT OR GREAT RUN !?
The Republican papers are trying to make out
that the battle at Manassas was not much of a
fight, after all-that our loss is not near SO great
as at first reported Like all disasters, it is
possible that it has been somewhat exaggerated,
but if the late accounts of only 500 killed and
wounded, and perhaps not that out of an army
of 81, 900, be true, then it is severe reflection
upon thencourage of our troops. We do not
credit it, The reports by letter are very differ
ent from those that come through the govern
ment telegraph Office at Washington. The Her.
aid and Times both complain that their despatch
es have been altered by Lincolns agents. What
will the public think of such an administration ?
1t rnshes US headlong into bloody war, and
then deliberately deceves the public in relation
to its prosecution, The people have not forgot
ten that no official account was ever furnished
of the loss at Great Bethel, but we do not be-
lieve they will be SO patient under the present
reverse. The friends and relatives of those in
the battle will demand to know the result
Good or bad news, it must come. The lies that
inaugurated this war will soon, we trust, be ex-
ploded, and their guilty perpetrators exposed tc
public scorn and indignation.-N. z. Day Book