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Year: 1859

party, neither do I think that party should be the
governing principle in anything to the detriment
of other higher and more noble interests, but at
this day office seekers are so thick that suppose
it q hard matter to put end to the principle.
If the Atlantic and North Carolina Rallroad is
to be gov rned BY party, then L would ask what
party ought in Justice to govern 1t !-lt certainly
would be the whig party, for the very existence
of the Road is owing mainly to a few wings who
manfully stepped forward, and through that very
honorable and worthy gentleman (Who not long
since was defeated in election Tor an Office on
the Road) H. V. Richardson, Esq, secured the
charter to the Road, Yes, sir, think the Charter
was secured by wings and wings of that town
that seems to be so much in the way OF certain
land speculators and imaginary cities down east
Newbern; yes that good old wing town o. New
berr, may her light never go out. But, sir, l
must say / do not think the opposition to Mr.
Whitford arose entirely from his political afini-
ties, though 40 doubt, that was prominent fea-
ture in the opposition. [ think good part Of the
opposition to him from the fact that he wasa
citizen Of Newbern: Some OF his opposers think
he will do too much for Newbern-wll regulate
the Road so as to advance the interest OF NeWberi
and not those would be great cities below Whsk
many of them have invested few dollars.


Some time ago you know there was grea
do about the freight trains not running
often enough or in time to take away thosed
shipments that had been made there by son
our western merchants. Why, sIr, the 1ac
do not believe one train in fifty that goes
there now gets enough freight to pay the {
of running.


Nearly every western merchant ships his
to Newbern and in all probability will
the end of time, and such being the case l
see anything to go down there for unless
few oysters, or clans, sand tiddlers.


Mr.. Whittord has been connected with the
from its beginning and with his experiences -
practical knowledge of the want saf thf assosa
think he was better quaifi~a = I
any one they could have selected


his election, under the circumst


plete triumph over his enemies.


Hoping you will continue to sust
of your adopted town.


| remain as ever, A Cal
Year: 1859

MADAME BoNAPARTE OF BALTIMoRE.-The
Cleveland Herald makes the following extract
from private letter, written by lady in Balt;-
more some time since:


Among the sights to be seen from my window
is Mad. Bonaporte, who still retains the marks of
beauty in her fair skin and arched eyebrows
She wears the everlasting ornament on her FORE
head that has been there all her life. She has a
peculiar way OF catching up her dress (Which in
thereby discovering to the world pair of little
feet and ankles that has been her pride: She has
not spoken to her son for 20 years. and is insuted
should any of her fellow boarders mention his
name But the grandson, who is now home ON a
visit, and is splendid looking fellow, she is de-
lighted to talk of and one makes friends with her,
at once, but woe to the unintiated stranger that
speaks of the son. The son (Jerome) is known
by the strangers by his wonderful likeness to
the General" No two in this world could be
much more alike as he drives in his high-seated
carriage, with his tiger behind on much lower
seat.
Year: 1859

I'll narrate the story as heard it, of very mel
ancholy accident" which 'tis said occurred at the
northern extremity of the American Falls, in the
year IS49 The family of Mr.. Deforest, of Buffa-
10, visited the Falls on the 21st of June OF that
year. With them was young man named Chas
Addington. They were about to leave when he
playfully took in his arms Mr.. Deforest's little
daughter, Annette, child years old, and
holding her near the bank said, 81 going to
throw you i'm A sudden impulse Of fear caused
the child to spring from his grasp, and she fell
into the stream as it rushed madly by: With a
loud cry of horror the young man spfang IN to
save her, and the stricken parents saw them both
dashed over the falls. IN the afternoon the man
gled remains of the little girl were found in the
Cave of the Winds, but the young mans body
was not found until several days after. ...


The visit to the Cave is made by descending
what is called Biddles stairs which tits said were
built by n. Biddle of U. S. Bank Notoriety, and
who was known at one time as " Old Nc, He
built it to enable persons (whose nerves would
permit them,) to visit the cave. The distance
down the stairway, which is enclosed in an octa-
gon tower or case with small auger holes for
light. is so feet, but from the top of the bank to
the bottom is 165 feet. After reaching these with





not far from the foot of the stairs the guide leads
you step by step, over the slippery rocks, (cov
cred with a green Shiny moss,) and soon you find
yourself trembling behind the mighty sheet of
water, that leaps over you from above, and dash
ing quite you with the sound of deafening
thunder. You pass on into the Cave which, it's
said is 80 feet deep, an an hundred feet wide and
IS 130 feet high. This cavern is continually
filed with the spray mist that rises from ths
dash of waters in front, whose fall is so near as
to cause strong current of air to whirl the mist
in fantastic eddies round and round the Cave,
hence the name 'iCave of the Winds" But let
me tell you, MIR. Progress, when one leaves this
Cave, and again finds himself breathing the up
per air, out side there is felt reliet from terri
bic pressure like sensation, that is indescrbable.
And I am of the opinion that very few make
second visit to the Cave of the Winds.


L send with this sprig of species of arJor
rita to Mrs. p. that plucked from branch that
hangs near the Falls to be continually wet
with the mist And as 1 feel that l have over
stepped the bounds of reason by the length of
this epistle for which owe you and your readers
an apology, now close. Yours, truly,


MANHATTANA


P. s. expect to be off at Z a. m. tomorrow,
for West Point ria Albany. M.
Year: 1859

DESTRUCTION OF AN AUSTRIAN STEAMBOAT
AND Two HUNDRED MEN-The following is ar
extract from the letter of the Daily News cor
respondent, dated June 21:


''The day before yesterday one of the Austrian
steamboats, which ran on the Lake of Garda had
started from the opposite bank with the object of
accommodating Garibaldis forces at Sale As
after action of Virle it was thought prudent
to strengthen the Cacciatori dele Alpi, a Pied
montese battery was sent there with two battalions
of fFanti's division. They had just arrived when
the Francis Joseph steamboat was ordered to steer
to the Brescian side of the Garda. She therefore
steamed in that direction; but at the moment she
was entering the harbor of Sale the Piedmontese
battery opened its fire upon her. Our guns had
been SO well directed that two of their round shot
soon destroyed her elegant stern. Of Course this
was signal for a hasty retreat, but as she was
about to turn her helm, a we'll directed grenade
fell on the middle of her deck. Two seconds af
forwards a tremendous explosion was heard the
grenade had made its way into the magazine, and
in less than five minutes the Francis Joseph was
in flames. A distress signal was hoisted but before


the Beedek could be sent from Peschiera to help her
crew, sank in the midst of the lake Not one of
the two hundred men she had on board was saved:
all of them perished either burned to death by the
flames or drowned i'll the waters of the classic
BenacuS,
Year: 1859

Dear Progress Il was very much pleased with
your remarks of the 18th inst, in reply to the
Wilmington Journal relative to the Directory of
the Atlanticland North Carolina Railroad think
they have the endorsement of large majority of
your fellow-citizens of all parties


1 do not think that internal Improvements
should be managed exclusively by any particular
Year: 1859

To whose communication we give place to-day,
speaks his own sentiments and not ours, but still
we assure him that we agree with him in much
that he says. Being noticc we feel an interest
in the whole of North Carolina every locality
possesses alike sacred interest but to our adopt
cd town. we owe the first and greatest allegiance,
;and.wc would here say to our friend GA Carroll
1.ian,' that in the future as in the past he may
ever look for us where Newbern and her interest
most needs a defender. And it matters not to US
what the vicious, Intriguing and depraved may
say Of us so we have the approval Of our fellow
citizen5-the " well done good and faithful ser
want from people
Year: 1859

Hon. Daniel E. Sickles and his wife Teresa are
together again and are represented as being the
most loving pair imaginable. The press of the
country is down ON Daniel, not so much because
he is a murderer but because he has forgiven and
become reconciled to his wife. Had Daniel with
all his sins upon him have held out against Teresa
all would have been right-his friends would have
adhered to him and he would have been marvel
Gus proper man, but he forgives one who, what
ever her sins may have been, is by no means as
debased as her husband, and the virtuous public
! drop him. They sympathise with the assassina-
| tor of an unarlned man and cast him off for for
| giring a woman. "Let him that is guiltless," sc.
| Now all this may be very proper and very
cllristain-lke but it is certainly queer. We con-
| fess we never had much opinion of the pair
Teresa is certainly fast-and by the term fast ap-
piled to her we mean good deal-and Daniel we
| have looked on simply as shoulder strtcker of a
higher grade, who, everybody will admit, we sup
pose, his elevation, politically to the muscle
kof the fancy and not his own fitness; but is Dan
II any BETTER is he good as his wife? Teresa
eknowledges her criminality with poor Key, but


she really guilty ?-or was the "confession"


de (cut and dried) only to give Daniel a pre-


It for cowardly assassination? We confess


hat the reconciliation between Daniel and Ter


sa strengthens confidence in her chastity
ot that we believe her as pure as Caesars wife,
but the reconciliation weaxens confidence in
the Confession and further it seems to that
Shad this criminal intimacy been going on Sickles
icould and should have stopped it at earlier day


Do not the facts now tend to show that blind


Ectim was led by a fast woman, acting under in


Iactions


nit that Teresa was guilty as she ''eonfess-


rs she more to be despised than Daniel? He


Ms her off for offence-had she cast him


q for each similar offence he would doubtless
lave been cast off fifty times. Those who know
him best say he is corrupt man, that he has not
Eand never had any respect for the marriage VOW.
kWhy then, we ask, all this virtuous indignation
Rat Sickles having taken back to himself a woman
syho, though corrupt, is ten times better than he
is ? Is it that the virtuous the very pious world
of humanity shall fall upon the head of woman,
OF is it because our best society can sympathise
with assassinators, provided they drive fast hor-
ses, fatter fast women, associate with the fancy
and hold seat in Congress?


Believing Teresa to have sinned we pity her
believing that Daniel had it in his power to have
prevented her fall and refused to do it, we des-
pise him.


GONE TO TIE SPRINGs.-"Old Buck Miss
Lane and "a few friends left Washington for
the Bedford Springs on Monday. Hope the press
will keep the public posted as to the number of
times Old Buck blows his nose and how often
Miss Lane changes dresses during their absence.
These things are of the greatest Importance
Year: 1859


May thy life be e'er as bright
As this sunny summers day;
May the sun of happiness
Shed on thee its cheering ray.
May thy ife-sky be rs clondlcss
As yon heavenly one to-day,
And no cloud of sorrow darkly
Cast shadows DER thy way.
But may guardian angels ever
Hover DER thy earthly way,
To guard thy nightly slumbers,
And protect thee through the day.
And oh may thy spirit ready,
When from earth thourt called away,
Wing its happy flight to Heaven
Is the prayer of-EvA MAY.
Daisy Dell, July IS, 1859.


The two Cradles.


BY TANTARABoGUs-
Won't you make my doll u cradle ~
Said a little girl of six;
My cousin Tommy made me one,
But that is out of fix,
And 1 want to have a nice one,
Made of little willow sticks
No mechanics heart e'er fiuttered
With more cxultant throb,
Than mine did at this order;
And time can never rob
My heart of its strange ecstacy,
On taking home the job.
That "cousn Toni know not why
l never could abide;
I felt strange uneasiness
To see him by her side;
and to win her undivided smiles
Unremittingly tried
Since then dozen fowery Springs,
In times unceasing roll,
Have laid their hand ON Mary's brow
Their impress on her soul;
And I've another cradle made,
But it's not for her doll.
I cannot tell you how it was
I'm sure never thought,
When but boy OF ten years old
That first rude job wrought,
That we should need another one,
But so it has turned out.
OF the two cradles I and she
Have oftentimes conversed,
And she declares the last one made
Is clumsiest and worst,
But L believe she likes it better
Than she did the first
Year: 1859

CTATE OF MICHIGAN-County of Cass.-ss.
y At session of the Probate Court for the
County of Cass, holden at the Probate Office, in
Cassapos, on Thursday, the thirtieth day of June,
in the year one. thousand eight hundred and fifty
nine. Present, Clifford Shanahan, Judge OF Pro
bate. In the matter of the estate of Gamaliel
Adams, deceased. On reading and filling the
petition, duly verified, of Marcus Peck, praying


for letters of Administration on the estate of said
deceased -


Thereupon it is ordered, that, Saturday, the
thirtieth day of July next, at ten O'Clock in the
forenoon, be assigned for the hearing of said
petition and that the heirs at law of said deceased
and all other persons interested in said estate are
required to appear at session of said Court then
to be holden at the Probate Office, in Cassapolis
and show cause if any there be, why the prayer of
the petitioner should not be granted.


And it is further ordered, that said petitioner
give notice to the persons interested in said estate
Of the -pendency of said petition, and the hearing
thereof by causing copy of this order to be pub
lished in the Cass County Republican, anewspaper
printed and circulating in said County of Cass for
three successive weeks previous to said day OF
hearing c. SHANAHAN,


A true copy] 1lae1s Judge of Probate.
June 80, 1883. july7-11w3
Year: 1859

The Executive Committee take this
occasion to say that an ample supply
of fodder for stock, free Of charge,
will be provided, aoiMout fail. Par
ticular pains will be taken, that in this
respect there shall be no cause of COM
plant.
Year: 1859

Those competing for premiums in
this class will take notice that the RI
ding will commence at two o'clock,
P. NJ, precisely, of the second day of
the Fair, at which time they must re-
port themselves to the Superintendent
of the Ring.
Year: 1859

- rPh-
CATIONS made by parties to pie -elnpt lands
in which there may exist gold or other
precious mineral in quantities sufficiently
large to justify the appropriation of the
same for mining purposes.


My instructions are equally imperative
respecting selections of school lands
made by the State. For the protection,
therefore of the citizen as well as the
government, 1 have thought proper to
request, that al persons cognizant of the
existence of mineral in quantities as
above mentioned, in any Of the lands
which have heretofore been pre-empted
or selected by the State, will notify me
of the same, in order to enable me to
procure suficiency Of proof, by affidavit
or otherwise, to enable the Department
at..Washington to reject such selections or
purchase.


Persons who have not yet made proof
and payment or their pre-enption rights,
arc hereby notified to guard against any
attempt to pre-empt lands which may
come under tho class heretofore alluded
to. VIM. MCDANIEL, Register.
Year: 1859

We have received complimentary
ticket to be present at the public re-
hersal of the Columbia Philharmonic
Society, which was to have taken place
on Wednesday, last but was postponed
in consequence of the unfavorable state
Of the weather.
Year: 1859

AvERsE TO FREEDOM AND STARvATIoN.-lhe
Newberry Rising Sun, Of the 25th instant relates
the following incident: =


Gone of the citizens of this District left few
aoys 400 with number of his negroes for the pur-
nose Of carrying them to a free State With the
exception of one that he has left at home because
he was a vicious boy, and whom he was afraid
to carry with him they were reluctant to CO.. con
seouently were carried off against their wishes
Several of his negroes, whom he wished to carry
refused positively to march one step, saying fha'
thew were satisfied with their condition ana pre-
ferred death rather than freedom starvation ans
misery in free soil State. They have certainl,
shown good sense"
Year: 1859

The following scrap of history is given o.
New Orleans paper How much truth there Is IN
it we are not prepared to say:


"Looking along the boundary between North
Carolina and Tennessee, it will be seen that the
line. after pursuing general southwest course Tor
nearly the whole way, suddenly bends directly
south as it approaches the Georgia border. NOW
this line should have kept on southwest, as 1t
started. but the boundary commissioners pelnS SO
near the close Of their labors, resolved 1t Is said
to indulge in general 'spree," in the course OF
which the Carolinians got gloriously lneoria.ed'
and their Tennessee conferes amused themselves
bv changing the line, and cheating them out OF >
small corner 1t was considered capital Joke at
the time, on both sides, for the land islands on Its
edge" and appears to be of the sort that makes
man noorer the more he has of it. But 1t has
lately been found to be joke, as far as "Old KIP
is concerned at any rate, for this very corner has
within it the great copper deposit OF Ducktown
which contains an inexhaustible supply OF thai
valuable metal. n


Mining is in its infancy there, yet the valley
already pours out its ores by millions worth, ant
constantly increasing every year. In ten years
nrobably. the market value Of this region Will bt
not less than hundred millions. The line Wa'
run about fifty years ago, and North Caroilna
barred bv the statute of limitation from reclamation
The "mountan dew was decidedly unwholesom'
that time for the good old State"
Year: 1859

THE WHITE SHAD.-1t has been source OF
much anxiety to the people Of Eastern North Caro-
lima, to witness for some years past, the evident
decrease of shad and herring in our waters. Al,
bemarle Sound at one time furnished more shad
and herring to the commerce of the country, than
almost all the other fishing grounds IN the Union,
and all the streams in n. Carolina had them aound-
ance But in late years they have been growing
loss bv degrees, until it has become hazardous
business to embark largely in fishing We think
in proportion as they have left our waters they
have gone North Nova Scotia seems now to be
the great redezvous for herring Woshanyto"
I'm CO Dispatch.
Year: 1859

" ABOLITION POTATOES. Under the above
canton the Charleston Courier mentions little
fact that ought to be borne in mind. 1t says that
friend in that city had occasion lately IN letter
TO brother now residing in Philadelphia, to make
inquiries concerning the vegetable markets, and
referred to potatoes especially. The brother in
Philadelphia gives the following information III
reply:


"The Quakers arc prejudiccd against Charleston
potatoes; and you may laugh at the idea, but 1t IS
fact that the internal abotionists, who 60 to market
actually always ask if they are Southern vegetables
if So they wont touch them with forty foot pole
What do you think Oft that? We Southerne's pour
our money into their laps as it were, while they
are so bitter against that they will not buy
Southern produce and vegetables if they know 1t
! There is nut for your Charleston 1oiks u
crack"
Year: 1859

The New York Post reasons that there are
strong grounds to anticipate that in SIX months the
increased prices farmers will obtain for breadstuts
and provisions will throw the balance OF trade In
our favor and more than compensate both tor the
temporary injury to the cotton interest which is
now showing ITSELF and for the present excessive
drain upon our specie reserve. We quote:


.Urless the war should be continued longer
than there is reason to expect, we cannot ENJOY
the flush times of 1S56-57. The Crlmean war
found the business interests Of the est In souno
condition. and ready to meet its eXlgencles; the
impendng war finds us correspondlngiy reduced,
and much fthe advantage in prospect Will consist
in merely raising the business OF the country 10
healthy and regular footing.


"Instead Of sending across the ocean, as now,
twice the product of our mines, shall pay our
commercial Indebtedness in the more acceptable
treasures of western cereals and provisions Mill
ions of men and of capital will be withdrawn from
agricultural industry, probably, in all parts OF OF
Continental Europe, and the demand tor 1ood VIII
tax the utmost energies OF producers here ificcs
of course will rise money will be plenty, and pro-
sperty WILL of course, revive, and with 1t specul
ton of all kinds. Railroads. western Lands ana all
sorts of mad enterprises will sympathlze Ill the
! prevailing buOyancy


1--WE should take lessons from experience, two
years ago, when tie Crimean war afforded US tha
monetary Millennium which has been succeeded by
such disastrous revulsion and depression Then i
was that men, not content with their unexpected
overflow of prosperity, thirsted for something
ereater-fortunes were suddenly made, and thu
proceeds invested IN Western town lots, on TN
imaginary line of some Railroad for which pehtica
speculators had lobbied huge and un"TalilhS
land grant from Congress. Luckily the mistor


tunes resulting from this folly are too vivid


present to the victims to permit its repetition
the excess it was carried before"
Year: 1859




FALSE PR1DE.-"Uncle Jeems," writing from
Charleston, S. c., to country paper, notes the
arrival in that city of two school teachers from the
North and remarks: G.,


We have much available talent in the South,
but T fear there is too much pride in the way. L
can see no more discredit in female teaching for
Er1;hood than for her husband to be working
for living. There are, I fear, many young ladies
of education, who while they might be contributing
to the dignity and Independence of the southi oy
in some occupation where they are needed
though they may feel ever patriotic allow US TO
seek the services of those North of us, whose
interests must be or less antasonlstle to our
institutions simply because false pride will allow
them to imagine that dignity and crust are
preferable to anything assimlating to servitude
great True dgPty 1risss ss es re~ thoi iht
Hume and cheer, and warm the friends who
surround us ITO do good and to communicate
forget moi" is an injunction of Holy writ; and i
would be well for us to shake OF our ietnars ano
rise to true knowledge and sense of our position
and duty.
Year: 1859

Dg-The Augusta Dispatch learns from reliable
source that man living in the lower part OF that
county came to his death few days ago under the
most horrible circumstances. He was intoxicated,
and told his wife he intended to kill himself. she
seconded the proposition and aided HIM IN getting
rome over beam in the house, and in getting 1t
around his neck She then knocked the chair
from under him. and he fell, breaking his neck
His wife Immediately Runaway and had not been
apprehended.