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Dissolution, of Partnership.

The Partnership heretofore existing between
Abraham WE'LL and Simon Anathan under the
name and style of WE'LL & ANATHAN is this day
(Sept. lst) dissolved by mutual consent.
All parties indebted TO the said firm will please
make payment to the said ABRAHAM WE'LL, who
is alone authorized to receive the same and all per-
sons having against said firm will present them
tohim for settlement. ABRAHAM WE'LL,
SIMON ANATHAN.
Sent IS. 1865, Pm
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THE STAMP ACT.

One of the Tar Laaos Of the United States.
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AMEs B. Blossom, New York.
JOSIAH 3. BLOSSOM,
n3E~Lberal advances made consignments on
receipt of Bill of Lading.
REFERENCES The Bank of n. c., and other Banks
atWilmington, Newbern, Washington, Tarboro, Fay
ettevi1le, Raleigh, Salisbury. Charlotte and Wades-
boro, NJ G.
A. N. McPheeters Raleigh, N. G., will forward
to through that place, free of forwarding
mi.sion,) paying railroad freight, to any shipping
port. s-.>
Joseph R. Blossom &Co, Wilmington; George
Brown Co, WashiEgton Jones & Co, New
bern, n c.; Henry Ghlselin, Norfolk, Va; will for
ward Produce to us, free of forwarding commission,
except on naval stores and grain, by steamer or
sailing vessel as shippers may direct; and, when
desired, will pay taxes, &C. at the shipping ports.
Consignments to US covered by fire and Ma
rine Insurance soon freghted. from all places
all Railroads and Rivers in North and South
Carolina, Georgia and Florida, and from all South
ern Shipping Ports, through to New York, whether
advice of shipment is received or not.
July II, 1858. lypd.
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DEFLIN & co.,
BROADWAY, NEW YORK.
Clothing at Wholesale and Retail.

We open the season with large stock of elegant
Clothing and Furnishing Goods
in our Ready Made Department We have also Sc
cured the services of artists in our Custom
Department which is likewise supplied with the
finest and best fabrics of the Home and Foreign
Markets.
To those who wish to order by mail, will be sent
ION application) Samples of Goods with Directions
for Measuring, which, if correctly followed, will
secure fit in all
DEVLIN CO.
Broadway, cor. Grand ST. upt1 Yopr
Broadway, cor. Warren ST.,
Oct l6, 1865 I'm
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THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK
OF Charlotte, N. G..
BOARD OF DIRECTORS.
. Organized august, 1865.

John Wilkes, President, Guion,
+. W. Dewey, Cashier, E Nye Hutchison
Thos Brem, Jno Springs,
John Mcdonald,
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Passengers by this line will leave CHARLOTTE
at 3 O'Clock p. M, arrive at Raleigh at 30 a. m
Leave RALEIGH at 5 o'clock a. m, arrive at Gas
ton II a. m. Leave CASTOR at p. m. arrive Mt
Petersburg $50 p. and leave that night for Rich
mond and the North or stay in Petersburg, get a
good nights rest and take the cars for City Point
connecting with the James River Steamers for
Northern points.
Passengers for Western or Southern points will
leave Petersburg at $50 o'clock a. m. arrive at
Gaston ii m. Leave CASTOR at IL a M, arrive
at Raleigh at Z p. m. Leave Raleigh at 7.4O p.
and a..
Passengers respectfully requested TO get Tick
cts before entering the cars.
E. WILKES,
Eng. and Supt. N. c. r. R.
A. JOHNSON,
Supt. Raleigh & CASTOR r. r.
Il. NJ. DUNLOP,
Supt. Petersburg & Weldon r. r.
August 28, 1865 If
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NOTICE.

NOTICE..
respectfully tender my professional services in
he practice of Medicine and Surgery, to the citi-
zens of Charlotte and the surrounding country.
Office the Charlotte Bank.
ROBERT GIBBON, NJ D.
May 90, 1865. If
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COTTON CARDS
c. Es ID THIN

u Hs ~ III " L NJ Is
DEALER
Manufdcturer's Supplies, Cotton and Wooden
Machinery, DEC, No. OIL Maiden Lane
NEW YoRK CITY, gath Aug ls65.
MEssRs, SHACKELFoRD, HAAS Co,
Gentlemen: At the request of Mr n Bell,
write you in regard to his successorshp to the
ufactuSe of the John Whittemore Cotton Cards |
can say that have been al. the head of his estab-
lishmen since January LIST, $685. and still super
intending his business.
Respectfully yours,
JOHN wHITTEMORE.
In addition to this, caution the public that all
genuine "Whittemofe Cards" are branded John
Whittemore."
The spurious branded simply "Whatemore"
and respectfully invite all dealers to call and ex
anime the brand of our genuine Card.
SHACKELFORD, HAAS & CO..
Sole Agents for the United States,
For "John Whittemore's" Cotton Cards.
Sept IL, 1865 3m
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DRUGS. &c.

DRUGS. &C.
Just received, Camphor, Blue Mass, Blsestone
Indigo, Tartar Emetic, Carb. Ammonia, &c &c, at
the Corner Drug Store.
All warranted fresh. VI T SOREY CO.
Sept4, 1865
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Mail Train connects East and West With the RAJ
leigh and Castor Train for Petersburg and the
North, and with the U. S. Military Rail'oad' for
Goldsboro, Newbern, Morehead City and Whining
ton.
The Freight Train leaves Raleigh at IL a. NJ,
Charlotte at 6 A. NJ. stopping at Company Shops
over night.
T The Nail Train only will run on Sunday.
Passengers are notified to.procure Tickets before
entering the Trains as additional fare will be coll
lecfed. Y. WILKES,
Aug l4,ise5 i" Eng Supt.
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Oct 9, 1865. If
The Shasta courier., 1865-09-09

WILLIAM B. AsroR is sixty five years old
worth fifty million: round face, pleasant,
quiet hammered gentleman owns two thons.
and dwellings, and is enisnt landlord
A. I. Stewart is sixty, thin, nervous, digni.
fed; worth thirty millions, and liberal in
case of benevolence which appeal to his sym.
pathies. Commodore Vanderbilt is white
haired, red-cheeked, seventy, worth forty
millions, drives fast horse, keeps fast
boat, controls two fast railroads. companies
with fast men, and gives away his money
very lavishly. August Belmont, twenty
millions. coarse. stout, fifty and very Ger
man. George Opdyke, FIVE millions, fifty,
but looks younger; an agreeable gentleman.
James Gordon Bennett, five millions, seven
ty-three years old. dignifed in manner, broad
Scotch accent, benevolent to the poor.
The Shasta courier., 1865-09-09

IsRAEL COMSTOCK viii attend to the For
wording and Commission business in person.
We hope to receive continuation OF the patronage
heretofore extended to the old firm
Red Bluff, Nov IL, 1868 al H.
The Shasta courier., 1865-09-09

to mind dropped my hat, the only thing
could leave behind to stay the progress of
the beast. The next moment fell pros rate
in my own cabin"
Here the old settler paused and wined the
big drops from his brow. ere he confirmed
How long had lain after fell, know
not; but when | was aroused to conscious.
ness, l was lying on my rude couch and NV
wife was bathing my head with cold water,
while the children were gazing anxiously at
me-
My wife told me that as soon as fell she
shut the door and barred it, for she knew
that was pursued, but by whom or by what
she knew not; and as soon as I had fallen
and the door closed, a fearful spring was
made at it but the door was strong and we'll
barred and withstood the spring of the beast.
As soon as l recovered, knelt down and
offered the most fervent prayer to the AL
mighty that ever crossed my lips. or ever
will again. We shortly after retired, but no
sleep visited me that night. In the morning.
when my little son, six years old, told me he
saw the eyes of the colt in the window last
night, / knew that the catamount had been
waiting to gain admittance; but our windows
you will observe. are not large enough to
allow wild cat to enter. When l looked
in the glass next morning, / was horror
struck at my altered appearance. My hair,
which the day before was black as midn ght
was changed to the snowy whiteness you
now see; and, although have enjoyed very
good health since, shall never recover from
the effects of the fright experienced on be.
ing chased by catamount
The Shasta courier., 1865-09-09
NUMBER %.
Santa Anna.

On one of the lofty peaks of the little
island of St. Thomas, West Indies. resides
the most remarkable man whom Mexico has
produced-General Santa Anna. He occu.
pies an elegant villa. with extensive grounds,
and luxuriant shrubbery, and all the appur
tenances which wealth and taste can collect
around n gentleman's establishment. Here
in retired comfort and philosophic resigna-
tion lives the hero of Tampico, who thirty
years ago, destroyed the last army of old
Spain; who, ten years afterwards lost a leg
in resisting the landing of the French in
Mexico and who led with consummate skill
and energy the resistance of his degenerate
countrvmen to our own conquering armies.
United States naval officer, who has lately
visited the exiled Mexican chief, says that
his carriage is still military and erect, and
that he has the appearance of excellent
health and condition. He walks SO easily
without the aid of a cane that it would be
impossible to tell which is his natural and
which his artificial leg. He is rather over
than under SIX feet in height, and does not
stoop at all. His,,complexion is rather dark,
ms eyes piercing, but kindly, and his mouth
hrmly compressed, but not stern. "I am
| poor exile" he said. ''but from nv little
watch tower of St. Thomas | look all around"
pointing to the northeast he continued: 81
see the people of your great republic. They
| were my enemies. Now is a time that wish
that, instead OF fighting among themselves,
they and we were united to drive European
despotism away from America" And his
clenched fist came down upon the table so
that the whole room ratified. He believed
that the North would be finally victorious
and that the Union would be restored. "Over
there, in Europe he continued as he point
ed to the Northeast. / see them disputing
and fighting little. That does not concern
US. They fight about their eternal balance of
power, which never stays balanced Let the
big dogs and little dogs fight Down there
in South America, the Spaniards and Peru
vians are quarreling. 1t will not amount to
much. 1t will soon be settled" And then
he returned to Mexico, discoursing with min
gled sadness and humorous irony upon the
condition of affairs there. He looked upon
the Austro. French Empire as a very tempo
rary affair. He described his election most
amusingly, - These French are very DO
lite people," said he, Every polite indeed.
We talk, you know, of everything su discs
icion to our friends, but we don't mean that
literally. They do. That Bazaine told me
that q steam voyage would conduce to nv
health, and he furnished me with steamer.
He told me to go where l pleased, but not to
come back to Mexico. That was the only
condition the pleasant fellow made. Look
here, !" he added, his voice, manner, every
thing changing to another man, "perhaps
may yet have an opportunity of reciprocating
such attentions"
Stranger things have happened in the life
of Santa Anna than the occurrence of that
possibility ity.-RicAmond Republic.
The Shasta courier., 1865-09-09
REUNION.

An end at last! The echoes of the war
The weary war beyond the western waves
Die In the distance. Freedoms rising star
Beacons above hundred thousand graves
The graves Of heroes who have won the fight,
Who in the storming of the stubborn town
Have rung the marriage peal of might and right,
And scaled the cliffs and cast the dragon down.
P@ans of armies trill across the sea-
Till Europe answers" Let the struggle cease,
The bloody page is turned the next may be
For ways of pleasantness AMI paths of peace ~
A golden morn-a dawn of better things
The olive branch-clasping of hands again
A noble lesson read to conquering kings
sky that tempests had not secured in vain.
This from America we hoped and him
Who ruled her " in the spirit of his creed"
Does the hope last when all our eyes grow dim,
And History records her darkest deed?
The pilot of his people through the strife,
With his strong purpose turning scorn to praise
Fen at the close of battle reft of life,
And fair inheritance Of quiet days.
Defeat and triumph found him calm and just,
He showed how clemency should temper power,
And dying left to future times in trust
The memory Of his brief victorious hour.
O'ermastered by the irony of fate,
The last and greatest martyr of his cause
Slain like Achilles at the Scan gate,
He the end, and fixed +" the purer laws"
May these endure and, as his work, attest
The glory ofhis honest heart and hand
The simplest, and the bravest. and the best
The Moses and the Cromwell of his land.
Too late the pioneers of modern spite,
Awe-strcken by the universal gloom,
See his name lustrous in Deaths sable night,
And offer tardy tribute at his tomb.
But we who have been with him all the while,
Who knew his worth, and loved him long ago,
Rejoice that in the circuit of our isle
There is no room at last for Lincon's foe
London Spectator.
The Shasta courier., 1865-09-09

An end at last The echoes of the war
The weary war beyond the western waves
Die in the distance. Freedoms rising star
Beacons above hundred thousand graves
The Shasta courier., 1865-09-09

A SOUTHERN "CHARAcTER."- A writer
in the New Orleans Picayune writes as fol
lows ofa preacher he saw in upper Georgia
after throwing his eye around the house
in threatening manner, with 'Oh, you
miserable sinners, expressed in every Inca
ment of his round face, he went on in Sc.
rious voice: MY brethern, in order to
check all idle curiosity, will state that my
name is Elijah Browser, from Jessymine
county, Kintuck, snif1e. and l am free to
confess, without fear of successful contradic
ton, and | am here to-day to say, and it will
at once occur to every intelligent and reflect
ing mind, when make bold to tell you that
l have been preaching now purity nigh gwine
on three year, and on an average of five
hundred sermons year that have preach.
ed to the sojers. to the injuns, to the orfns
snif1e |, to the niggers and to the wood
choppers of Spaldin county; never. no never
/ blubber has l seed in all that time so i'll
mannered so sinful and depraved and devil
hugging congregation as this one here
settin before me to dav. and / want to tell
the young men and women settin back
there agin the melojun, that comes here a
courtin and firth and passin of notes
around the melojun, and latin, and gig
glin, and fyin in the face of providence,
that the laws of the State throws around me
certain protection, and am goin to have it.
And what's more, if the thing amt stopped
am goin for Pve got their names) to call
out their names from the pulpit next Sunday,
and present 'em to the grand jury more
over3
The Shasta courier., 1865-09-09

LOOK OUT FOR THE HUNDREDTH GENERA
rroN.-Sir John Herschel, in the first mum.
Der of the Fortnightly Review, has an arti-
Gle on Atoms" in note to which he gives
the following calculation on the natural in.
crease Of population 1.-The number Of hui
man beings living at the end of the hundreth
generation, commencing from single pair.
doubling at each generation (say in thirty
years. and allowing for each man, woman
and child an average space of four feet in
height and one foot square, would form
vertical column having for It's base the whole
surface OF the land and sea spread out into a
plain, and for its height 8 ,674 times the SUMS
distance from the earth The number of
human strata thus piled one on the other
would amount to $50, 700, ,000, 900.
The Shasta courier., 1865-09-09

JOINT SrocK SroRE.-The Napa Reporter
mentions Joint stock store" just started
in that city, on the following plan:
"A number Of farmers or others-the
more the better for themselves-pay into
fund capital Of say, $40 per month each.
and employ purchasing and sales agent at
stipulated salary. A stock of goods is
purchased, and any member of the assoeia-
ton is entitled to obtain any of these for cash
at cost. Other purchasers are charged ten
per cent. advance. Every head of house
hold is interested in getting groceries as
cheap as possible, and by coming forward
and giving this project a cordial support he
will be able to obtain coffees, teas, sugars,
etc, at from ten to twenty-five per cent.
cheaper than otherwise, and without the
probability Of getting an inferior article at
the price"
The Shasta courier., 1865-09-09

lTALY-STATIsTICs OF ITS ARMY AND Navy.
The Paris Moniteur publishes the follow.
ing interesting statistics of the new Italian
kingdom:
Italy is now divided into ffty-nine
provinces, containing 1920 eommunes The
most populous cities are Naples. 447 ,065 in.
habltants: Turin, 204. rs Milan, l96, 100
Palermo, 1914 463 Genoa. 1877 ,976 Florence,
ia, ,363 Bologna, 100, 1897 Messina, lO3-
3l4 Leghorn, sc. All.
9 The army is composed of 80 regiments of
infantry, 22l $40 men &c regiments of Ber-
saglier, q, 1886; cavalry, l9 regiments, 26.-
335; artillery, 10 regiments, 81, ,347 en-
gineer corps. 2regiments, 6,S62 3 regiments
teamsters and ordnance train, 1857; chas-
seurs, musketeers and other independent or.
ganz:tions 9 1904 Royal rifemen, IA legions,
10, 234. The whole effective force in the reg.
ular army consists of IA, 900 officers and 374,
134 men,
The National Guard, of militia, embraces
.23O, ,9oo men, ready armed, organization
and equipped. with reserve of 756, $50 in
the same condition, and further available
contingent of 1926 men,
The war navy of the new kingdom consists
of Is ironclad steamers, 81 screw propellers,
"a side wheel steamers, and 10 line Of battle
ships, besides % steam transports. The
whole fleet amounts to 95 vessels of every de-
scription, carrying l,3l2 guns, with a no.
minal horsepower of 27,490 and q, ,974
soldiers and marines. In addition to the
above, the government of Victor Emanuel is
constructing several gunboats and floating
batteries.
The Shasta courier., 1865-09-09

TAXING LAwYERs.-The New York Tr-
bune in an article on taxation has the fol.
lowing. We heartily approve of it, and
would add that we think this State would be
much benefited by it. THE candidate for
Office ought to be pledged to secure the pas.
sage of such law:
The taxing power, in wise and firm hands,
is capable of most benefcent and salutary
use in diminishing the number who invade
productive industry and live uselesslv to their
kind. For instance: Does any one doubt
that an annual license fee of SI00 exacted of
all practicing lawyers would result in public
benefit? LAWYERS are q useful, necessary
class ; but two thirds of those who seel, to
live BY law are neither useful, necessary, nor
even ornamental. Such tax as we suggest
would probably reduce the profession third,
thereby sending thousands into other voca-
tions, and would prove advantageous alike to
real lawyers and to those who need legal
services. In our judgment, tax of even
$500 per snnum on lawyers would benefit all
classes.
The Shasta courier., 1865-09-09
THE
SHASTA COURIER.
PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY hohNiH''
BY JOHN j. CONMf.

Publication Office in Tomlinsons Bui,diIs' 10 i,oI'
room, up stairs, three doors above "s''''
Co.'s Express Office.
The Shasta courier., 1865-09-09

RICH WIvEs--How often do we hear
young men assert that they will never
marry until they can find some who has
money. Our every day experience shows US
how many men there are who 90 about the
world poking around in all directions schem.
ing, contriving, fattering, cajoling and de-
celving for the purpose of catching an heir
ess." We always experience a great deal
of satisfaction when we learn that one of
those fortune hunters has, instead of an heir
ess, . caught a tartar,i and the universal
verdict will always be " served him right ~
But we pity the poor creature whose heart,
as well as purse, has been won by one of
these mercenary wretches, for when the
purse is empty, she is only considered bur
den and a useless piece of house hold furni-
ture. If her heart is not broken, and her
spirit reused until hate usurps the place of
love, her deceiver had better be dead than
alive for in the words of the poet
" He'll hath no fury, like a woman scorned."
1t is not to be denied that snug dowrv
with wife is desirable, and it does not mill.
tate in the slightest degree against true mat
rlmonial felicity, but woman must be loved
for herself alone. She must be regarded as
" pearl above all price-and a true woman
is. Young ladies who are born with silver
spoon in their mouth as the saying is, are
not usually fitting mate for those who have
not had that metallic advantage, as they are
usually brought up in such manner as to
impair or destroy their natural good sense
and energy of character, and impair their
Their associations through life,
while fortune smiles, are all of that kind
which render their characters light and friv.
olous' and they wither under the bighting
sun of adversely as the delicate green house
plant does under the influence of the rude
cold blasts of March, or the icy handling of
December. A man has no business to look
for money with a wife. 1t is his place to
provide for support and cherish her, apd the
man who is so mean in soul as to waht his
wife to bring him money, is not worth hav-
ing. Look to personal worth, and not to
dollars and cents. Young men, ifyou would
be happy recollect that g. all is not gold that
gitters," and that money cannot purchase
happiness
The Shasta courier., 1865-09-09
SHASTA COURIER.

MD- l.. p. FISHER--Is the only Agent
of the SHASTA COURIER in San Francisco, with pow
ers to receive subscriptions and advertisements and
receipt for the same
OFFICE-17lA Washington street, opposite Ma
guire's Opera House.
The Shasta courier., 1865-09-09

SEVERAL men in ST. Louis broke their jaw
trying to pronounce the name of show in
that city 1t is called the Zipdoubleupand-
scratchyourhead.
Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1865-02-08
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