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DRY GOODS.
lE PRICE &c WOOD, llY
N NINTH sTRELT ApovE APcu
Have lust Opened: -

M NlN1d SIhDEJ. ABONE AhOH,
Have just Opened:--
nov lot Of White Goods
l@ pieces NaDsook Plaid Muslins 57A, 40, 49, 5O 55
60, 65. 70, and 7sc. a yard.
Soft finish Cambria ana Jaconet Musllns; Nainsook
huslins. 26, 2S 80, S7k ~, up to SOC. q ward.
cheap lot of Victoria Lawns very fine lOc a yatd
HAIR Cord Stripe and Pad Nuslns
swiss Muslins. 20 rs, %, a. ~, So up TO eOc YARD
Figured Swiss huslins, 2s and 45c
LINEN GooDS LINEN GooDsl
~ Colored 7 able Linens 62Kc. yard.
Power Lcom fable Linens, IS. s7h, and 81 n yerd.
DOubie Damnsk Bleached Table Cloths.
Ebpkips, warranted all linen, 90 Ss $3.50, s26O S276
and 90 DOZEN
cheap lot Of Linen Towels 20 and 25G
Handsome Damask Towels.
NUSLINS MUSLINS !!
Best make Bleached and Unbleached Musllns, at the
very lowest market price
Besched usins Is 20 and 22c ayard best BIeached
Nufln in the city for 25 heavy yard-wide Unbeached
uslin, 24c.; ine and heavy yard wide Unbleaehed
Muslin, 25c yard
Pillow Case and Sheeting Muslins.
KID GLOVES KID GLOvES!l
Best quality imported choice Spring coors Ladies'
Engtb silk Gloves; Ladies' White and Bufr Berlin
Goyes Ladies' Isle and Berlin Gloves 25c up to 5Oc
por
BONNET RIBBONS, CHOICE COL ORs.-Numbers
4and corded edge Ribbonsi Black Velvet Ribbons;
White silk Mallnes.
HOOP sKIRTsi HOOP sRIRTsl ll-Best quality
made expressly Tor sales.
PRICE "a WOOD,
No 113 \. NINTH Street. above Arch
\. WIN move to the n. corner Eehth
Fhbett streets about The last OF AprIl. 4H
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FOREIGN GROWTH
shall pay tax of 10 cents per curl, or when
made into waterfall, Sl'OO per fall, Hoop Skirts
10 be free,
The above are the principal features of the
Bill, so far as the Committee nave reported to
us through our special reporters.
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THE NEW TARIFF BILL

The bill to amend the Internal Revenue act,
as reported to us, provides as follows:-
Distillers shall pay tax OF $l0O, instead of
promising to pay $50. This additional sum allows
the additional privileges Tor their liquors or cus.
tomeTs to he
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is to pay license fee of $40, if wearing no more
than three hats at time; over that So per hat.
Builders and contractors $40, instead OF $25,
except in the case of Bridges and Court Houses,
when the license, is to be 80 cents a year, to be
paid by the contractor during his life and after
his decease by his executors, annually, until
such Bridge or Court House is finished.
Spirits, refined, 20 cents a gall. II the spi-
Tits should be found in gall. like that one
reported by the Inquirer reporter, down Fifth
street, last winter, they will be classed as un-
Iecti6ed spirits, and the reporter will be called
upon to rectify his statements, il not the spirits,
and the tax will be bat 10 cts gall.
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Ew PARADISE LOST, FOR TWO WEEKS,
commencing Monday, April 20.
This must astound somebody; but how cheer
ng hat only for two weeks will the loss con-
inue The man that finds it ought to be we'll
rewarded by the aUthorities
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BURsTENBINDER Is the name OF the man who
sent the Nitro-Gycerine to San Franc isco
Bindthe-burster over, say we, to answer at
Court.
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NUMBER LXv.
~ OUR SERIES EDITOR.
ALMANAC AND DIARY.

Snort HBTREILLoe1cAB OBSERVATIONS Tnu TOR
WEAK.
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MYSTERIOUS PATIENT.

Our exchanges, by answering our query,j
may bring JOY to some fond heart, that mournsl
as dead. an unfortunate man whom we saw atl
the hospital in this place on yesterday. So sad
picture as his anxious face presents has not
often been our lot to look upon. No account
whatever can be gathered of him here When
the United States forces took possession of Tai.
labassee, they found this man in the Chen
Confederate hospital, aud he has DOT been heard
TO speak since. His face ever wears ao expres-
sion of the most anxious care. The moment
any one enters his room he turns with an i'm
ploring glance, intensified by an expression Of
fear. Oh. that look never be forgotten
so full of petition, dread and woe! He wrings
his hands necessarily and seems just uttering
some earnest request, but never speaks. Re-
peatei efforts have been made to induce him to
write. But he takes the pen mechanically, AZ
he doeneverything else, and gascs up into your
face with that same earnest look Of underlined
supplicatio0 and dread.
When he is left alone with his food he eats
heartily, and until recently his general health
has been good. He is now little smaciated.
Occasionally he has been known TO creep stealth
lily to bis window, and open it cautiously. But
in doing so he seems to dread some catsstrophe.
We have made considerable enquiry abour
him in this city, aud can gather no clue as to
the exact time when he was brought to Talla.
hassee, or from where. One account supposes
that he was brought up here month or two
before the surrender from the hospital at Mon
ticeIlo.. Another says that somc Confederate
soldier, who has seen him here, remembers that
he saw him in the Natural Bridge ~fght-thas
he was then wearing majors star, aud that he
fought bravcly. He supposes that the explo-
sion of shell near his head paralyzed shis
speech and deprived him partially of reason.
1t is strange that he should have remained
here so long without being identified. He 10 u
man of commanding figure, we should think six
feet one or two inches in height, if strong and
robust would weigh one hundred aud eighty
pounds, seems to be between thirty five and
forty years Of age, has a prominent forehead,
dark hair, large gray eye, and rather promi-
Dent nose. He is as docie as a. child, obeying
mechanically every command-and with an ex-
preston would move heart Of stone - Tai
lnhassee FHa.) SentineI-
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DESTRUCTION BY FIRES.

The present year has been remark BILE in many
respects, but in nothing more than the number
and magnitude of its 6res. Although the year
has not yet expired, aud even con6ning our OBJ
servations to the area formerly comprised in the
old Union and its territories, we find that up to
this time the loss BY fire nearly douJles the ex-
hibit rendered for the aohole of last year. The
total number of great fires for the year 1865
was one hundred amt .ffty-one, and the losses
resulting from these fires were estimated at
Sl7 .52o,O0O Up to the first day of July of
the current year, the numbef of fires is given at
trO Hundred and ejghfy-nine, and the aggregate
OF the property destroyed is valued at S32 976-
OOO When 1t is considered that this estimate
embraces only half of the present, it will be seen
how vastly this year will excel all others in
these terrible statistics of fiery desolatiou.
There can be no doubt that the universal ad-
vance OF this most destructive aud at the same
time most useful element of nature, is due to.
that reckless spirit engendered by the war which
riots IN violence and rejoices in crime. Ii is
true that the most considerable fire of recent
date is that of Portland which was caused by
fpop>cracker exploded by careless boy But it
is no less true that the great majority of our
confagratlons are to be traced to bad men who
thus revenge themselves for fancied wrongs or
apply the torch in order that they may rob aud
pilage with more security during the confusion
Of general panic.
As long the peace and morals of people
are unhinsed by war and fierce political excite
ments, of the character existing in this country,
it may be expected that wicked men will in
woke the destructive agencies of nature in the
furtherance of their fell designs Until our
people cease to war upon one another they will
be plagued by fires, and epidemics and social
and political diseases worse than either.-Rich-
mond Times
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ORIGIN OF THE NEW ORLEANS RIoT.-A
" ashin otou CORES poDdent saws:

ORIGIN OF THE New ORLEANS R1oT.-A
Washington correspondent says:
1T is-perfectly we'll understood here that the
recent riot in New Orleans was got up and in-
stigated by the Radicals here and at other points
in the North aud that secret instructions were
sent by them TO the leaders of the movement
10 New ORLEANS, in pursuance OF which the at:
tempt made to galvaniEs' into life the de-
tunet radical aud negro suffrage Convention OF
1864; an attempt which has resulted 10 such
deplorable consequences. The Convention OF
1864 is a dead and gone concern. 1t has no
legal existence 10 1866, and SO President john
son has informed General Sheridan 1t was
convoked in 1864, for single purpose: to form
a State Copstisutlon; and when it adjourned,
after having formed that Constitution, its Presl-
dent directed to call it together again, IN
the event of the failure of the people OF louis
lana to ratify the Constitution. That event
never took place. The Constitution was ratified
and has been in force two years, and the Pfesi-
dent of the Convention has himself decided
that it no longer has any legal existence. Mr.
! Howell, who assumed the power TO reconvoke
the defunct Convention, simply usurped the
! power to do SO, without having any legal au-
thority whatever.
The fact is, there is plot between the Radi-
cal leaders at the North and their co-laborers In
Louisiana, by which they hope to overthrow
the present Legislature OF the State, to turn out
all the State officers elected by the people, to al
ter the State Constitution so as to dlsfranehise
a majority of the people of the State, to impose
a new and hateful government On people thus
DISTINGUISHED, and to elect new Radical Legts-
laturc, which will ratify the proposed Constitu'
I tional Amendment. Gov. Wells Of Louisiana
and this Mr. Howell, have simply lent themselve es
to be he tools of the censplrat0Is engaged 10
this nefarious business"
During the riot about $50 persons were
wounded and so killed.
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NATURES BARoMETERs "A venerable gen.
tleman with whom we recently conversed, as
sured US that spiders were the best barometers
yet produced The barometer invented by the
scientific, he affirmed, only indicated the kind
Of weather we are to have Immediately; while
spiders unerrugly told the character of the
weather for several days in advance For in-
stance, if the weather is likely to become rainy,
wiujy, or in any other respects disagreeable. the
spiders make very short and firm the ternlina-
ting fIaments on which their webs are suspend
ed. If, on the contrary, they make the termi-
natii. fIaments or tastenings uncolnmonly long,
the weather will continue serene from ten to a
dozen days.
Spiders usually make alterations in their webs
once .in "A hours. If they totally iodolent,
and DO not even watch for flies, rain will speedily
ensue. If the spiders stay .out upon their nets
during shower, and seem actively engaged in
putting affairs in good condition, it is certain
proof that the rain will be of short duration, and
that,it will be clear weather for some time. If,
during the stormy weather, the spiders seen
fixing their damaged nets in the evening, it GER
tainy indicates that the night will be pleasant
and that the rain is over for the present: Qnr
informant has often Witnessed this result when
the sky looked most threatening, and he has
never known the IN to fail
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ABOUT TIN.

Tin is a short word, but full Of meaning. IF
poor fellows pockets are empty, he is said to
be 'out of tin" If Mr.. and Mrs Smith cele-
brate their tenth wedding anniversary, it is
called tin wedding. Then what a gathering
of friends d! each with present Of tin ware
But it is all mistake The ware called "tin"
is only wash of tin sheet-ron. AS we'll
might speak of plated ware as being silver
| learned something novel recently about tin
while looking in at a metal store, in Burling
Slip, near Pearl-street, and listening to the
courteous salesman | learned that, while our
extensive country produces nearly all metals,
from gold to lead, including spelter-which has
only been found within the past ten years
there has never yet been discovered tic urine
Should one be found, "nay be there to see,'
and take few shares in it.
While the Lead Barons of the West have
become very wealthy, with prices from three to
eight cents per pound, what must be the profits
Of mine of tin, when the metal brings from
thirty to fifty cents. Tin is used for various
purposes other than for "Britanhia Ware."-
The fine black cloths get from France
colored by solution of tin. The most beauti-
tul red colors in carpets are made by chemical
process which requires pure tin in the compost
ton, The best and most reliable tin is imported
from the Dutch Fast India Island of Banca 1t
is taken from Banca to Rotterdam, and there
sold, by auction, at semi annual sales and from
there sent to all parts of the civilized world
Next in quality is Malacca Straits tin, so
named because it reaches Us through the Straits
of Malacca \ small quantity comes from
China, but the Celestals have many ways of
cheating that their tin is very unpopular. Our
English neighbors send great quantities of
their Cornwall tin, and they consider it superior
to all other but while it is pure, it is not SO
soft as Banca, and Brother Jonathan prefers the
latter, for which he is willing to pay high
price From South America have small
supplies but i IS Inferior quality, and very
drossy -Ne1c York Journal
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MAN SHOT BY THUNDER We are Informed
that young man in the lower portion Of this
county was shot in the leg by peal of thunder,
one night last week, lodging eight or ten large
shot in the limb. He heard the report, and
instantly felt smarting in his leg, and upon
examination, most marvellous to relate, found
that Instead of single bolt of electrity, he had
been struck by veritabie leaden shot, which were
extracted by a surgeon of this place, who is en-
titled to implicit confidence. We have heard
of meteoric stones, falling stars, showers Of
electricity, but never before had heard that the
clouds might be surcharged with "shot -
Surely, the world must be near its ending
What renders this mysterious affair more
peculiar aud significant Of something, to fDite
minds incomprehensible, is that the wounded
man was shot while iD a water melon patch -
StofcSUWe American
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PROPORTIONS OF THE dUMAN FIGURE-
The proportions of the human figure are strictly
mathematical. The whole figure is six times
the length of the foot. Whether the form be
slender or plump, this rule holds good ANY
deviation from it is departure from the highest
beauty of proportion. The Greeks make all
their statues according to this rule. The face
from the highest point Of the forehead, where
the hair begins, to the end of the chin, is one
tenth of the whole statue. The hand, from the
wrist to the end of the middle finger, is the
same. The chest is fourth ard from the nip,
pie to the top of the head, is the same: From
the top of the chest to the highest point of the
forehead is the seventh. If the length Of the
face from the roots of the hair to the chin be
divided into three equal parts, the first division
determines where the eyebrows meet, and the
second the place Of the nostrls. The pavel is
the central point Of the human body, and if a
man should lie on his back with his arms ex-
tended, the periphery Of the circle which might
be described around him, would touch the ex-
tremity Of his hands and feet The height
from the feet to the top of the head is the same
as the distance from one extremity to the other
when the arms fully extended: These are
the general measures Of the man species-
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extracted from late foreign files
DR. Cumming lectured at Halifax, England,
lately, on the "Signs of the Times" The leo
turer did not claim Ito be prophet, but ex~
pressed bis belief that these were solemn and
startling times, and that the world was on the
point of great events The great lines Of pro-
phecy seem to intersect the year 1867. The
world, he believed, would not be destroyed, but
would endure forever in a more purified and ex-
alted state. Though ho was unable to xplain
the increase Of fomanism in England, be be-
lieved the heart of the country was still true to
Professionalism In 1892 there were 5000
priests in Paris, but, though the population of
the city has doubled itself since that time, there
were now 900 pri ests only in Paris, He be.
lieved the Saturday evening of the world was
very near and that on the Sabbath of thou
sand years, which were at hand, there would be
sunrise which would experience no Western
declension.
pG- Two daughters of John Van Barren were
recently presented to the Princess Of Wales,
which is considered as equivalent TO being in
troduced to Queen Victoria, the Princess receive
ing all company in the name of her mother.iu-
law. 1t is pity that the Van Buren girls did
not get to the widow, as that would have
afforded them an opportunity to behold their
fathers first fame. 1t will be remembered that
when Martin Van Buren, was President, his son
visited England, where he upset aristocratic
English propreiy by dashing Irritation with
Miss Guelph. Victoria remembered JohH Van
Buren until her memory was clouded by the
hurley German, Albert, inspiring her With .
new love. Victoria is now widow aud rccluse
IN Court visited by the blooming daughters
OF her old fame
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CHARLOTTE FEMALE INSTITUTE,

CH A RlIOIIE, N. u.
The next session commences the lst of October,
S66 and continues until 3Oth June, 1867.
The session is divided into two Terms of Twenty
weeks each the one commencing the lst October,
1866, and the other the 18th February, 1867.
Expense per Term Of Tscenty weeks
washing, SlO5 90
Tuition in Collegiate Department 25 90
Primary 20 90
Music, Modern Languages Drawing and Painting
taughtby competent and thorough Instructors at
usual prices.
For circular and catalougue containing full par
ticulars, address
REV R. BURWELL & son, Principals
July 9, 1866. Charlotte, N. Z.
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A FATAL DRINKING WAGER "A foolish
wager was made at a wine-shop in Paris, which
resulted in death At a breakfast, whero the
conversation turned on the quantity OF drink
which person could take, bricklayer, named
FIorentine, made bet that he would drink
twelve glasses Of wine whhe the clock Of the
glasses before the clock had struck three times.
At the next glass he stopped to breathe. AZ
the seventh he began to drink more slowly, but,
making an effort, he drank off the eighth glass
lie then turned very pale, and breathed with
difficulty. His friends wished to stop the wager,
but he said he would GO on, come what might,
and swallowed the ninth glass. He had hardly
empiied the glass, when he fell dow IN senseless.
A surgeon was sent for, but, in spite Of all hia
efforts, the foolish man died 10 three hours
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The Southern Express Company

For the transportation of meFcha ndiSt, va lnabie
packages specie blink notes bonds, &c for all parts
of the South and Southwest, in connection with
ADAMS EXPRESS COMPANY.
bavr established their agericy at 80 BROADWAY
NEW YORK where orders call for goods to be
forwarde. South will receive prompt attention.
Merchandise and vaiuab!eS delivered 10 Harhden s,
klnSley $ American and United States Express Com
Pan'eS t'r ;he Southern Express Company, will re-
ceive prompt dispatch.
For particulars, rates of freight, &c &c, apply at
the office of the Southern EXPRESS Company SO
Broadway H. E PI mt
Dec 10, 1862. President.
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WERCEsssON & Co.
Genuine Durham
SMO KING TOB A G G. 0.

The Undersigned is the sole proprietor OF the
above named article, being the successor OF the
original manufacturers
Having obtained letters patent for said article,
he hereby warns all persons against manufacturing
or attempting to manufac gre said criticize
All venders of the .'Genuine Durham Smoking
Tobacco" must obtain it from NE directly or from
my authorized agents.
The following my sole authorized Agents at
present. Others will be added
Steuhouse Il Macnuav. Charlotte; Smith,
FayeteviLe: Walker Farrar Il Co. New bern
Northrop 4 Cummings, Wilmington: Il Teel, Tar
boro J f Vtuable Petersburg; Ashton & Emerson,
Port smouth, Va Adolph Berry, l72 West Pratt St
Baltimore; March, Price Co, 81 Naifer 81, Ne"
York j. HhEEN.
Durham's, Orange CO. n. c., June %, 1866 3m
e. Stenhouse & Macaulay, Agents at Charlotte.
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REAL ESTATE
For Safe

My farm containing l75 acres, lying two miles
east from Charlotte, on the Lawyers Road, in a
good neigh hborhcod. About one half Of this tract is
Woodland. The Improvements consist of IA double
Log cabin, Barn, &c Well OF excelient water,
and orchard Of selected fruit on the premises.
Possession given lst January 1867, and permission
given to SOW small grain this Fall.
Also. a.small brick Dwelling House in Charlotte
containing rooms, located near Lhe Depot and
convenient to business
Also'a large brick two story Store room at David
College, II0 by 80 feet, handsomely finished
and centrally located with a counting room and
cellar attach ed, and small frame Dwelling House
aud y eli of water on the premises.
Any all Of these properties will be sold on
termS'to suit the times, and mast be sold.
JAS. II. CARSON.
July 23 1866 IF
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MARRIAGES IN SPAIN.-The marriage cere-
mony in Spain is conducted differently tIom our
own. Among the higher classes, it takes place
at night, at the brides house, and if, from any
special circumstances, it be deferred till the
morning, it is fixed for a very early hour, and,
in neither case, is there any display, though
wedding feasts are provided The guests are
confined to the family or immediate trie nds
and are all, including the bride, dressed iu black
O. which does not prevent. them being often
very costly attred Second marriages are look
ed upon torco vuiu, and discouraged IN every
way. Popular feeling is SO opposed to them
that a second hand bride and bride groom. are
considered legitimate objects of practical jokes
and most annoying petty prosecutions 1t Is all
done in good humored way, but SO is the cere-
mony performed oy sailors on unfortu innate
land -lubber when crossing the line for the hrst
time; and, as in the one case, Father Neptune
exacts rigorous tribute, so, in the otter, must
handsome fine be paid to Hymen or his cell
constituted representatives,. On the other hand,
facilities exist for those who desire to marry nei-
ther once nor twice, in the three and twenty
converts which Madrid CONTAINS, belonging to
various orders, active as we'll contemPiatiVe.
Every employee should always be careful 70
oh ho o-ders of his emniover.