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Year: 1859




NHE SUBSCRIBER offers for sale the whole or half of
Il the farm owned and cultivated by him situated on
the North side of White Oak River ten miles from Poocks
under state of cultivation. 1t is good Corn and Cotton
land as be found in the county. The farm has good
dwelling, kitchen and all necessary houses The
lot has upon large, handsome and we'll arranged growth
Of young and beautiful shade trees together with well OF
most excellent water. 1t is level and healthy country and
better neighbOrhood cannot be found in Eastern North
Carolina.


The tract is situated but few miles from stream of


NAVIGABLE WATERS
making it convenient matter to Ship almost any
the products of the farm The soil is adapted to
the culture of almost any vegetable grown this section
country and its fertility requires no improvement.
The subscriber is desrous to sell only upon account
having concluded to change his business.


1t will be sold upon liberal terms


Those wishing to examine the of land ascertain
any further particulars, do by applying the
premises, to WIN. +. SILVER.
May goth, 1859 38-3m
Year: 1859

These Gums remove all
morbid or bad matter from
the system, supplying in
their place a healthy flow
of bile, invigorating the
stomach, causing food to
digest well, purifying the
blood, giving tone and
health to the whole ma
chinery, re m wing tn e
cause Ofthe disease--effect-
ing a radical cure.


Bilious attacks are cured,
and, what is better, preven-
ted by the occasional use
Of the Liver Invigorator.


One dose after eating is
sufficient to relieve t h e
stomach and prevent the
food from rising and sour
ing.


Only one dose taken be-
fore retiring, preve n t s
nightmare.


Only one dose taken at
night, loosens the bowels
gently, and cures costiUe-
ness.


One dose taken after each
meal will cure Dyspepsia.


One dose Of two teaspoon
fuls will always relieve Sick
! Headache.


Only one dose Immediate
| lV relieves Collie. W hill p
Year: 1859

T WILL ALSO give a reward of Twenty five Dollars for
i my negro woman PHI Ills who is runaway. She is Of
black complexion thick set and about feet high has
front teeth out and speaks quick The above
will be paid for her safe confinement in Jail that
get her c. B. MILLER.


JAN 2Sth, 1859
Year: 1859

GENERAL SHIELDS ON BARRELs.-A short time since
compared his freight and bill of ading one item calling
for seven barrels Strange to say however the General
could only find on the landing six of his barrels He
was heard counting them several times with the
same unsatisfactory result each time. Moving the index
finger of his right hand up ard down in pointed
ner at each BARREL thus be soloquized aloud with de-
liberated military emphasis - One-two-three
-ive-sir" And shaking his head with a dignifed
gravity, saying" something wrong here" he recon-
menced his count. One-two-three-fo -four-fye~-Sir J;
where the other barrel - Full of wrath he was pro-
ceeing to demand the production Of the missing cask
from the officers of the boat, when lo surveying,
with characteristic dignity and gravity, his goods and
sundre was discovered to his infinite amusement and
that of the bystanders that he had been sitting ON the
missing seventh bdrfN.
Year: 1859




A SITUATION as Teacher, either in School private
"A family to teach the Classics and ordinary English branch
The best of testimonials given for learning and moral
character. Apply at the JOURNAL OFFICE.
June 10. 4l-3m
Year: 1859

PROFANITY Profanity in a child is ter
rible thing. We encountered lad some six
or eight years old on the street the other day,
who was swearing terrible at a companion !;


no one " in the army Of Flanders ever in
dulged in fouler profanity than this mere
child. Where he learned so to profane the
name of the Deity we know not; but if he
had parents--a mother who loves him and a
father who chershes great hopes for his fu-
ture- we pity them, Their boy can never
be anything else than a curse and a shame SO
long as his lips utter blasphiemios. The
swearer however proud or elegant he may be
however elevated his social position--has
Year: 1859

THE SEASON OF PLEASURE AND BEAUTY.
The brightest and most pleasant, if not the
most desirable, portion OF the year is now
emerging upon us. 1t is the season, above
all others, when Nature robes herself in her
most beautiful and engaging attire, when eyes
sparkle and hope brightens The earth will
reward the tolls of the husbandman. and the
remaining but lesser pursuits of life will yield
their product of profit and honor. The pleas
ure-seeker will ramble in quest of aliment to
feed an appetite which preys on summer
scenes and delights. While this is true Of
the busy, pressing, steaming world, the Chris
tan will be looking through Nature up to
Natures God. admiring the workmanship of
the Creator only to love more, and more pro-
foundly reverence his name and character.-
The returning, pleasant. charming season will
fail to fascinate and adorn a godly mind, a
lover of the beautiful of the world, unless
the smiling of Nature leads to the reeogni-
tion of Benevolence and Goodness, attributes
Of Him who crowns the year with His loving
kindness. We wish for all pleasant sum
mer, one not darkened with cloud, one of
health and beauty, but prominently one.
above all and before ALL of thankfulness and
duty to God and the Faith of the world
Redeemer. r.-Bu6alo Christian Advocate.
Year: 1859

Here is a letter from a wife in Rensselaer,
county to her husband in California. She
don't intend to go through the world with the
blues


Ny Dear Husband AS it is now some
time since you left for California, suppose
that you would be glad to hear how we arc
getting along in your absence. am happy
TO say that we are enjoying very good health
on the whole. Just at present two of the
boys have got the smallpox; Amanda Jane
has got the typhus fever; Betsy is down with
the measles Samuel got hooked by COW
the other day and little Pctcr has Just chop
ped off three Of his fingers with hatchet-
IL is mercy he didn't chop them all off.
With these trtiling exceptions, we are all
we'll, and getting along nicely. You ncedn .
be at all anxious about us. almost forgot
to say that Sarah Matilda eoped last week
with tin pedlar. Poor girl She's been
waiting for the last ten years for a chance. and
I'm glad she's married at last. She ncedn {
have taken the trouble to elope though. for
I'm sure ! was glad enough to have her 90.
She was a great eater, and find baked beans
don't go off near so fast as they did. The
way that girl would dip into the pork and
beans was a caution to the rest Of the family.
The COW took it into her head yesterday to
run away, which was very fortunate, I'm sure,
for the barn caught fire last night and was
consumed. | was in hopes the house would
60 too, for it's very incon,enient; but the
wind was the wrong way, so it didn't receive
much injury. Some boys broke into the or
chard, the other day, and stripped all the
fruit trees. am glad of it; for if they
hadn't, ! presume the children would have
made themselves i'll by eating too much fruit.
Hoping you enjoy yourself in California as
well as we do at home, remain your alfoc-
tionate wife
Year: 1859

CRACKS IN BELLs.--A correspondent of
the London Builder gives some very valuble
advice about bells He advises that they
should be occasionally examined, to observe
how much the bell is worn at the places struck
by the hammer If a considerable indenta-
tion has been made, the bell should be re-
hung, and turned quarter round, to present
a fresh surface to the action of the clapper.
Some good bells have become cracked without
any extra or violent use, by being worn only
at two points. The cost for turning the bell,
to prevent its cracking from such cause, is
very trifing in comparison with re-casting a
cracked bell.-ScieHtifc american.
Year: 1859

TABLE MOUNTAIN, THE WATER REsER-
votR OF CAFE TowN.-Table Mountain is
the terminus Of ridge of high land which
almost covers the promontory of the Cape of
Good Hope. Its face towards the north
west, Immediately behind Cape Town. is all
but perpendicular, nearly four thousand feet


in height When a cold southeast wind
blows over this ridge and comes to the edge
of the cliff, it meets the warm air. saturated
with moisture, which is constantly rising from
Table Bay and the basin in which Cape Town
is situated, and Immediately condenses this
yapor, first into a cloud, and then into rain,
which fall on the mountain edge and on the
debris Immediately below it. This cloud, to
observers in the bay or in Cape town, appears
to be moving forward with a curling motion,
precisely as though it was pouring over the
mountain, with this pecularity, that it rarely
advances far from the cliff, or descends below
a certain point, where it meets the upward
current of warm air, which again absorbs the
dense vapor, to be again cooled, and then de-
posted as mist or rain; so that what appears
to be heavy cloud, driven over the noun
tain by southeast wind, is beautiful con-
trivance of nature for the supply Of Cape
Town, and the shipping resorting to it, with
the purest and most delicious water for the
water Issuing from the debris at the foot of
this mountain, resting, as it does, on granite,
is the only source from which all the water
for the supply of the thirty thousand people
living below is obtained. 1t is most curious
to see this cloud during perfectly fine weather,
and when no other cloud is visible for days
and weeks, constantly lowering over the
mountain, and as regularly depositng its wa
ter for the large population dependent upon
it'll. William Ha,oes, in the Society of
Art's Journal
Year: 1859

nothing Of the true gentlemen in his nature,
and the halo Of Divinity will not consccrato
his achievements.


Let no boy indulge in profanity, in the hope
to acquire an appearance Of manlinoss-for
the good and the true will regard him as a
blot on Gods beautiful earth, and will shun
him as a pestilence. Wherever he may walk
the flowers will wither under his tread, and
his memory will be in the hearts Of men a
bitter thing forever
Year: 1859

WASHINGTON, Oct 22.-GoY Wise, in his Richmond
speech, says he has bushel of Capt. Browns cor
respondenee, but not all of it, carpet bag full of
them were carried to Baltimore and improperly
used. The letters in his possession proved that
prominent men at the North were implicated in the
affair. Whether sister States in the North viii
allow such men TO remain among them unrebuketl
and unpunshed, remains to be seen. II any one
should smuggle off GerPit Smith some night and
bring him 10 me, Yolld read him moral lecture
and then send him hack home. He had remained at
Harper's Ferry to prevent the application of lynch
law in Virginia. There was no question OF juPisiic-
ton 70 be settled he had made up his mind fully
and after determining that the prisoners should be
tried in Virginia he would not have Obeyed an or
der to the contrary from the United States.


He was ready to weep when he heard that the
outlaws comprised only twelve men, and that they
had taken the town in ten minutes. There was no
cowardice the part of the people there, because
their unguarded citizens were prisoners; but he
told them that they had made mistake, aud if Gen
eral Washington had been prisoner and his life
mpePiled by attack, he would have risked his
own and others lives well, in making attack
without delay This Kansas border rutfian made
great mistake as to the disposition of slaves to his
standard The abolitionists cannot comprehend
that they are held among US by a patriarchial
tenure.


Governor Wise urged the Importance Of organic
ing military force throughout the STATE and ex-
eroisng vigilance 20 guard against the disgrace Of
similar surprise.
Year: 1859

We present below from the Washington Union ar
anonymous letter received by Gov FLOYD, Secretary
of War; in August last which throws food of light
upon this otherwise mysterious and unaccountable
affair. Ordinarily no importance should be attached
to such anonymous communications and it was with
this feeling that the Secretary of War; at the time
be received it. laid it aside as unworthy of serious
consideration. The developments now, however, at
Harpers Ferry, give peculiar significance to this
ANONYMOUS letter. Tho wonderful conformity Of
what has transpired to the programme which the
letter announced leaves no doubt that the writer
was familiar with the plan, and honestly sought to
place the Government in possession Of il. As far
as it permitted to proceed it evidently con-


ueted upon that plan. The conclusion is too clear
for doubt that the arrangements for this infamous
outbreak were far more extensive than might other
wise have been supposed Fortunately for the peace
and quiet Of the country, the failure Of tie oonspi-
rators to perfect their plans and the prompt and
efficient action Of the Government, have successfully
arrested and put down this infamous, and, under
less fortunate circumstances, dangerous movement.


CINCINNATI August 10th.


SIR: have lately recsiYed information of am0ve-
ment Of great importance that feel 1t to be my





have discovered the existence of secret asso-
citation having for its object the liberation of the
slaves at the South by general ipsurTectOn. The
leader of the movement is 'old John BBoWn," late
OF Kansas He has been in Canada during the win
ter. drilling the negroes there, and they are only
waiting his word to start for the South assist the
slaves. They have Of their leading men Ia white
man in an armOPy in Maryland. Where it is situat-
ed have not been able to Learn As soon as every
thing is ready. those OF theiP number Who are N
the Northern States and Canada are to come IL small
companies to their rendezvous, Whleh Is IN lpe
mountains in Virginia. They will pass down through
Pennsylvania and Maryland. and enter Vir2Gnia ~
EaTpers Ferry, Blown left the North about three
or four weeks ago, and viii arm the negroes and
strike the blow in a few weeks, that whatever is
done must be done at once. They have a large guam
tity Of arms at their rendezvous, and are probably
distributing them already


As | am not fully in their confidence, this is all
the information ! can give you dare not sign my
name to this but trust you will not disregard the
warning on that account
Year: 1859

WHAT THE BLACK REPUBLICAN PRESS SAY OF 1T.


We copy the following extract from the New York
Post. leading Black Republican paper of that city,
touching the recent Harper's Ferry insurrection,
that our readers may understand the tone in which
the press of that party disposed to treat this


,++o, Tho Post saws
Year: 1859

A Lawyer at Lowell having found nine
ty-fye dollars and returned the money to
the owner, one of the papers says the act
may be honest and honorable but it is ex-
ceedingly unprofessional es
Year: 1859

AND AS A
GENERAL TONIC FOR THE SYSTEM,


1T is UNRIVALLED.


1t has long been a most important desderatum in
the practice of medicine, to obtain remedy similar
to this, and accordingly find it resorted to amos'
universally in of Scrofula, Liver Diseases Salt
Rheum, General Prostration of the Vital Powers and
all those tormentng diseases Of the skin trying to
the patience and injurious to the health. Although
possessed Of powerful healing properties it is entirely
harmless, and will not iniure the most


DELICATE CONSTITUTION,
Wnen in perfect health, effect is produced by its
except increase of appette but when disease
Is seated in the frame. and arrying fast its victim
along the pa.h of life then its mysterious influence
is felt and seen It enkindles life and yigor and
brings health and strength to the suffering and dis.
eased.
Year: 1859

Is THE GRAVE THE END And when we see
such a man living to God continually, putting
aside the objects which other men live for, and
manfully setting before himself another object,
namely, the love of God in Christ when we see
him going on quietly, attracting no great notice
or glory on earth, yet ripening continually in all
goodness f.; suffering with cheerfulness, aboring
with unwearied zeal, meek and forgiving, tenn
perate yet not severe ; making the best possible
use of earth and earthly things, yet ever looking
beyond them lit is manifest that his converse
ton or citizenship, as st. Paul calls it, is not
here, and that if the I" grave is the end" if it
close on him for euer, be who has lived better
than any other class of men, will alone, of all
men, never have reached the haven which he
desired, nor attained the end of his being. 1t is
like those foreign plants whose flowers and fruit
will not come to perfection in our climate; but
whose natural strength and beauty make us feel
only the more sure that they must have, elsewhere,
a better and more genial climate of their own.-
DR.. 1rnold.
Year: 1859

THE NIGHT WoRKERs.-Very often as our nom
laboring citizens turn in their comfortable beds
at night, they bear the dull sound and feel the
vibration of a subterrancan explosion. 1t is the
tunneler at his work, piercing the hard granite
with drill and blast. The rock drips with
humidity, and the yellow flame of his candle can
scarcely subsst in the close and noisome atmos-
phere. Grim, and wet, and pale the tunneler
Year: 1859

SUGGESTION AS TO CHILDRBN's FOOD-"To
this fact the attention of parents and guardians
should seriously be given, that by it they may
learn to avoid the petty tyranny aud folly Of
insisting on children eating food for which they
manifest repugnance. 1t is too common to treat
the child repugnance as mere csprice-tO con-
denim 1t as stuff and nonsense when he refuses
to eat fat, or eggs, or certain vegetables. and
wholesome puddings. Now, even a caprice in
such matters should not be altogether slighted,
especially when it takes the form Of refusal. be-
csuse this caprice is probably nothing less than
the expression Of a particular and temporary
state OF his organism, which We should do wrong
to disregard. And whenever a refusal is con-
slant it indicates positive unttnoss in the
food. Only gross ignorance of physiology an
ignorance unhappily too widely spread, can
argue that because ceD.ain article is whole


some to many, it must necessarily be whole
some to all. Each individual organism is spe-
cifcally different from each other However
much it may resemble others. it necessarily
in somo points differs from them; and the
amount Ofthese differences ID often considerable
Year: 1859

-SrRENGrHENING TEA.-Milner, in his Life in
ChIna has few words about tea and the mode
of making it: " = -


They have varieties of tea: but an officer
once visited produced a valuable packet OF


strengthening tea, prepared in Ylman Pro
vince ana OF groat repute as a medical prepar-
alton. 1t looked much like common black tea
made into round balls with paste or gum. But
the taste of the Infusion was exceedingly bitter
After descanting at some length in a rhapso-
dical strain on the virtue of the beverage, he
abruptly proceeded to assure me that there was
another species superior still, indeed unequal
led by any other tea for favor, fneness, and
scarcity, viz: "lhe monkey tea This, he ad-
ded, could be obtained only in small quantities
and in select spots. Growing on heights inao-
cessible to the foot of man, and approachable Ia
only by the ssgscious brute whose n name it bears
he said it was collected by certain Of the mon
key species trained first to climb up the most
lofty preeipices. and after filling their pouches
with the delicious herb. to descend again TO
empty their contents into their masters bas-
kets. The dclicacy Of the tea he pronounced
TO be beyond exception, and its value very high.
Having himself tasted its sweots he deplored
that no had it not in his power t0 treat me with
n cup of the prime draught.


VALUE OF READING IN 0LUEN TINEs.-In
tho days Of Jack Cade, few could read except
those who were actually in orders, or educa
Tor that purpose; so that if n person was ar
ranged before temporal judge for any crime
(the punishment whereof was death) he might
pray his clergy; that was, to have Lstin Bible
IN black Gothic character delivered to him;
and u he could read passage where the Judge
appointed which was generally in the Psalms,
the ordinary, or his deputy, who stood near.
said ItgftMt cfericHs, that is, he could read
like cicrk or scholar, and the criminal was
acquitted as being man oflearning. who might
therefore bo useful to the public; if however,
he could not read, he suffered death This
privilege was granted in all offences. except
high treason and sacrilcge, until after the year
l53O and 1t was carried to such an extent. that
If criminal was condemned al one assiEe be-
cause he could not read, he might again claim
this benefit either ut that or even under the
gallOws' tree. and if he could then read he W us
pardOned, of which there was an instance in the
reign OF Queen Eiizabeth.-SAukesptare a
LGWyer.
Year: 1859

IL The Louisville Democrat says that the King
of Naples is growing thin and failing even Oh a
diet Of ASS milk. whereupOn the Journal in
quires what the effect of that diet is the readers
Of the Democrat
Year: 1859

wDeLong the noisy little Yuban, has
been absent from the Assembly the past
week, and we think the business of the
House has been accelerated in consequence
We imagine the Sacramento Union is saving
money by his absence, as the Assembly re-
ports do not appear as lengthy as formerly
When present, DeLong is an incessant CAB
bier. He is at Stockton now examining the
Insane Asyum--those who read the Legs.
latiye reports will be readily apprised Of his
return to the Capital.
Year: 1859

The stage, containing the Legislative Com
mittee of examination of the affairs of the In
sane Asylum upset the other day near Stock
ton and tumbed all the Honorables out in
to the mud. The only damage sustained
was serious fracture to belongs breeches,
which gave him "reasons cogent, urgent, and
magnificent for the services of tailor.
Year: 1859

E The Committee on Education in the
Legislature, have reported in favor of the
purchase by the State Of one thousand cop
les of Langley & Co.'S valuable work the
Estate Register" at 80 per copy.
Year: 1859

WIND AND RAIN-Thursday was one of
the drearest days of the season. The rain
commenced early in the day, accompanied
by high wind, that made out door occupa-
ton anything but agreeable. The rain was
unusually heavy-causing a rapid filling of
ravines, and the sending forth of floods Of
water to the country below.
Year: 1859

Snow IN TIE MoUNTAINs.-The late storm
has added largely to the stock of snow in
tie mountasns, and we fear will seriously
inconvenience mining operations for time,
but will be all the better in the end if the
weather does not become cold.
Year: 1859

LEGISLATIVE MArrERs.-Correspondents
and newspapers say that the Assembly is far
behind the Senate in the business of the
session. Cause-too much unnecessary talk.
There are indications however, that the
House is going to work in earnest. 1t is
time!
Year: 1859

PLENTY OF WArER.-Our miners were
anxious for the rains to come, and complain
ed much that the season was not more wet,
but lately they have received more than has
been agreeable. On the foot hills the ground
is saturated with wafer to an extent that will
require some time to "dry up
Year: 1859

Although thousands who started for the
gold mines are turning back, many are
going on determined to give the matter a
thorough Investigation. The reports are
still conflicting, many of those who are
there saying that they are making from
i've to ten dollars per day. while others are
doing nothing. ~ SO
Year: 1859

Z The n. Y. Post says that many of the


Italians In that city are winding up their
affairs, IN order to return te EuFope. io
take part in the war for the liberation of L.
ally from the oppression of Austria.
Year: 1859

No rain has fallen since Sabbath last, and
it is again sufficiently dry to enable the far
mers to resume ther planting operations
From what we can learn they are putting in
large crops.
Year: 1859

The New York Journal of Commerce ad-
mits that ''in all our calculations for the
next President campaign, We may as wall
assume that the twenty seven electoral
votes of Pennsylvania are mortgaged to the
Republicans