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Year: 1860

OFFER MY ENTIRE ESTATE OF TOWN PRO-


perry and Lands in North Carolins,yit view to set
tie South or Southwest The following is description
MY FORMER RESIDENCE. in the City of Raleigh. con.
ia ming OF of land highly improved and one nf
the most healthy and eligible lots in the Cty good house
ana 10 good condition. SIX nice and necessary
clubhouse. r...


Also, two other IMPROVED LOTS, and 5 acres unino.
proved as to dwelling house. These five acres are in hipb
Improvement and will yield 100 bushels of wheat annna


Its situation is suitable to any that lives in the CITY or
for valuable grape nursery dairy farm The foregoing
property IS all situated near the Central I)epot


also offer for sale SEVENTEEN LOTS in the town of
haywood Chatham county One Of these has good dwell
ing mouse WIN SIX rooms and one other has
unImproved. some of them beautiful building lots.


also offer for sale the following real estate. wit


MY PLANTATION, half q mile from KittreI's Spriups
containing about 500 of land with new and hand
some dwelling house upon it, with five good rooms and two
small apartments used clnsets This land is very supe-
rior Tobacco and Wheat land, and it particularly ecom-
mends itself to those who need of healthy situation


l will also sell my NEW HOTEL, six hundred yards
from the celebrated krePs Springs with four acres at
ached and hundred and eighty acres of land attached
and running down within two hundred yards of these
springs The isn acres of land authorised sell BY
these springs several beautiful bnl1ng sites for private
residences The Hotel has basement dining room the en-


e length OF the house ~ feet and six large and
nent rooms all well furnished for private and public pur
poses good kitchen and of the finest eesone springs
OF water in the State. very convenient.


Lastly, oties my RlDGEWAY MILLS in Warren cuun-
y one and half miles from Rdgeway 72 acres of land is
attached to these Mills and the of land is equal
to any Warren for Tobacco ard Wheat acres of land
in ground, down for the next crop of Tobacco
and about 40 bushels of Wheat seeded which expect will
yield me from 500 to 500 bushels fine young Apple and
Peach Orchard Grape Nursery. &c The Mills need no
recommendation having been acknowledged to yield the
best quality or equal of Flour of any Mills in the State
Upon ihs land Is mineral spring, equal by best of analY
sis TO Krels Spring. several Scroua cases having been
cured the past season. The Mills will yield an annual clear
income OF 500 per year. by proper attention. and have
made Is or 10000 s. of TObacco the farm this year
those wishing such property will do well to apply soon
The tract of land can be added if desired 1.-THE pro-
perry offered is in improving and desirable sections of the
State and all that is necessary for those wishing pur-
chase any portion of this property offered address me
at kitires Depot for further particulars or visit me at
that place and enquire for terms &c.


WIN. F. COLLINS.


December 20, 1859. .... l0s-2m
Year: 1860

What's 10 ss Done If the City Council.
which meets this afternoon, does not take steps
TO prevent the influx of paupers from til.
Northern cities, Richmond Will I've overrun
With them in less than month Already the
poor. house and the city Jail are so crowded
that the keepers are compelled to pack them
like Clipped herrings IN barrel, and yet they
continue to come in search OF quarters. The
Council has the power to make all captains OF
vessels responsible for the support OF such
paupers as they may bring here, ana IL Is 10
be hoped that an ordinance cover'ng the nut
sance will be passed this afternoon.
Year: 1860

utterly repugnantto those two ideas Mr.. Rut-
ledge asked me If ! would not prefer, on account
of my fatigue, waiting there till the next train,
which would arrive at noonl


answered, "Dseidedly not" with so much
emphasis, that he only bowed and turned away
with what opinion Of my temper it is not pleasant
to think Before the day was over, he had, |
presume, concluded that he had taken under his
charge about as wilful and disagreeable young
miss as ever tried the patience of parent or pro-
tector


The day wore on, much after the manner oi
yesterday. That night at twelve, we expected
to arrive at c. where we were to rest till
morning; and thence taking the boat, were to
reach our jourpsl Is end about noon.


II wes toward evening of weary day; was
sitting listlessly looking out upon the dreary
suburbs of the town which we seemed approach
ing, and thinking by way of diverting myself
of Nelly and Agnes and school, and what they
were doing now, and whether they missed me
when there came a sudden jar, then horrid
crash, shrek that rent the air, blow upon my
head that made a hideous glare of light then
darkness absolute, and knew no more.
Year: 1860

his hat, but waving it with his left hand, his
right being wounded, cried out:


Hurrah brave Highlanders ~


AT that moment mass of grapeshot with
a terrible crash, struck the group of which
he was the central figure One of the shots
tore open the Generals thigh, killed his horse
and brought horse and rider to the ground.
Captain McDougal caught the General in his
arms, removed him from the fallen horse, and
supported him upon the field when a second
shot struck the wounded man in the groin,
depriving him instantly of consciousness. He
was borne to the rear, and placed in the shade
of an old liyo-oak, which still stands; and
there, after gasping few minutes, yielded
up his life without a word, happily ignorant
of the sad issue of all his plans and tolls.


DEATH OF GEN. GIBBs.-A more painful
fate was that of Gen. Gibbs. A few moments
after Packenham fell, Gibbs received his death
wound, and was carried off the field writhing
in agony, and uttering fierce imprecations.-
He fingered all that day and the succeeding
night, dying in torment on the morrow
Nearly at the same moment Gen. Keane was
painfully wounded in the neck and the thigh,
and was also borne to the rear. Col. Dale, of
the Highlandcrs, fulfilled his prophecy, and
fell at the head of his regiment. The High
landers, under Major Creagh, wavered not.
but advanced steadily, and too slowly, into
the very tempest Of Gen. Carroll's fire, until
they were within one hundred yards of the
lines.
Year: 1860

INGENIOUS MoDE OF TYING HoRsEs.--Thc
Icelanders have most curious custom, and
a most etfectual one, of preventing horses
from straying, which, believe, is entirely
peculiar to this Island, Two gentlemen, for
instance, are riding together without atten-
dants, and wishing to alght for the purpose
of visiting some objects at a distance from the
road, they tic the head of one horse to the
tail of another, and the head Of this to the
tail of the former In this state it is utterly
impossible that they can move on, either back
ward or forward, the one pulling the one way
and the other the other; and, therefore, Il
disposed to move at all, it will be only in q
circle, and even them there must be an agree
ment to turn their heads the same way.


Barop's Visit 10 Iceland.
Year: 1860

Tories OF GENERAL CoNvERsAuoS.--
Whatever can interest only In particular
place, is frivolous; whatever can interest only
those who have pursued particular course
of study, Is pcdantic. Those topics of con-
versation only which are capable Of interest
ing all tolerably informed men are dignifod
and elegant. They are those on which men
of all places and professions may converse
with each other Human nature and charuc.
ter in general; events which affect the public,
and consequently politics; polite literature
which delights every moderately refined man;
as much Of sciences arts, and professions, as
when expressed in popular language the world
In general can understandable are the sub
jccts of interesting conversation.
Year: 1860

impertinent fcllowr And leaving him thus
delugcd, she quietly walked off,


There was no further travelling that night;
nor the next day, nor for many days after
The energetic answer of the insulted girl had
touched avibrating chord in our young mans
heart. From mere dmatesr's admiration
his feelings had turned to respect. 1t was so
novel an adventure that he resolved to follow
it to the end.


On that very night, after he had announced
his wish to stay at the inn for a few days, he
made enquiries about the young girl. She
was well known as the beautiful Petronela,"
and better known as the proudest girl of the
country; one to whom no one dared to offer
the least familiarity, and whose low birth was
hidden under her noble and spotles character.


Our traveller went to the small farmhouse
where she lived with her old parents, the
youngest of four children, and the only daugh-
ter. He saw her there; he apologized to her;
he spoke to her with the respect he felt: and,
at last, after many parley and discussion
with the old people, the young girl was taken
to the school of the neighboring convent,
there to be educated; taught to read and
write, and embroider on satin-the three re-
quisites of lady's education in those plain
and easy times


Three years did she stay there, until the
day she became twenty. On that day, and
by the pastor of the village church, she was
married to the young man whom she had
once so bravely repulsed, and whose patient
waiting and deferential courtship were fully
rewarded by the loveliness and rare beauty of
his rustic bride; they had lost nothing of
their perfection by being taught how to shine.


The milkmaid became the wife of the rich
banker, and for many year adorned his
princely mansion, and did the honors Of her
husbands table, with native and striking
grace that every one noticed. But very few
were made acquainted with her carly life and
rather novel courtship: she did not wish to
become a wonder and curiosity to her hus-

bands friends, but to those who had become
intimate enough to be told of her native place
and av.cation, she used to say that when she
carried the mik-pails and milked her fathers
cows, she felt as high-bred, if not as high
born, as the first lady of the land. Nature
had made her a lady, and circumstances had
only given her the lady's attire.


Her first child, a daughter, named after Pc
troneIla's mother, Jenny, married one of the
most widely known, living religious writers.
In that daughters house my grandmother en-
ded her days, respected and loved by all, and
beautiful even in death. She was buried very
near her native place, and, by her wish, in an
out of the way, secluded village church yard,
by shady fields.
Year: 1860

Two Irishmcn were going to fire off a can
non just for fun; but being of a rather eco
nomical turn of mind, they did not wish to
lose the ball. So one Of them took an iron
kettle in his hand to catch it in; and station
ing himself in front of the loaded piece, he
exclaimed to the other who stood behind il
holding lighted torchi s3-a


"Touch it sisv, Tommyn r. Hr..,
Year: 1860

The GENIUS OF NAPOLEON IN SERGEANT
How COMPANY WAS SAvED.-We have been
informed by an officer of the United States army
of most remarkable instance of ingenuity and
presence of mind in a Sergeant of the army,
which occurred few weeks ago, by which he
saved his own life and that of his party. A SER
gcant with about twenty-five soldiers, had been
sent out some miles from Fort Defiance, New
Mexico, to guard some stock which were sent to
Craze, when, unexpectedly, they found that the
party was surrounded by about four hundred
hostile Navajo Indians. The brave and skillful
sergeant took position on an eminence, and by, a
vollcy from the long-shooting rifles of his party,
at first drove of the savagcs, who however, soon
rallied, and were preparing to storm the little
party on all sides. The sergeant in taxing his
brain for an expedicnt by which to convey intel
ligence Of the desperate peril in which his party
was placed, took a single dog which had accom-
panied The party, fastening to his collar note
written With pencil, informing the commander
at the fort OF has situation, took tin cup in
which he put some pebbles, which were confined
with piece of cloth over the top, fastened it
with string to the dogs tail, and turned the
dog loose, knowing that he would in his alright


run to the fort He dashed with his greatest
speed to Fort Defiance; the note was discovered
and read Straightway party was sent to the
rescue, and arrived just in tmc to save the lives
of the whole party. This sergeant justly mer'
its commission, which we hope will be awar-
ded him by the President nt-Rentuety Flag.
Year: 1860

Tears idle tears, know not what they mean
Tears from the depth of some divine despair
Rise in the heart and gather to the eyes,
In looking on the happy autumu.felds,
And thinking of the days that are no more.


Fresh as the first beam glittering on a sail,
That brings our friends up from the underworld,
Sad as the last which reddens over one
That sinks with all we love below the verge
So sad, so fresh, the days that are no more


All, sad and strange as in dark summer dawns
The earliest pipe of halfwakend birds
10 dying ears, when unto dying eyes,


The easement slowly grows glimmering square
90 sad SO strange, the days that are 20 more.


Dear as remembered kisses after DEATH
a nd sweet as those by hopeless fancy feign'd
On lips that are for others deep as love,
Deep as nrst love, and wild with all regret


death 10 Lie, the days that are no more.
Year: 1860

Dorve AND NOT DREADING.--lf we spent
the time, the nsrvous energy and mental
FIRE, in doing the duties Of life, which we
orten snend in dyeadiHg them, Wo and tile
world would be stronger and better. All
the severe tasks Of life only grow more and
more formidable as we look at them from q
distance while we grow weaker all the time
and less disposed to grapple with them.
We should inquire with an honest, brave
heart, what are our duties here and now
and with what Of mental energy we car
summon this moment, weshonld go forward
to perform them-not before but at the
time-the needed strength viii come. No
while we dread but while We dolthe work o
life the Master helps us.
Year: 1860

The FRUITS OF THE SLAVERY EXCITEMENT The
Washington Union of yesterday says: "Letters
are pouring into Washington from all parts of
the South conveying the important information
that the citizens of that division of the Union
are firmly resolved to utterly suspend commercial
relations and travelling intercourse with the North.
If we do not utterly misinterpret the signs of the
times, this will be the tightest year to the indus
trial classes and real estate proprietors that ever
the North was subjected to- There may be other
wailings heard there than those for the African
the wailings of the misguided masses for remunera-
tive employment. When this shall occur, then viii
the neither end of politicians be speedily reduced
to the level from which they assembled. The South,
through the ngratitude of the North, has been
made at last to understand its duty. That duty it
is beginning to perform in the manner which we
have indicated. The home-spun suit of Senator
Mason is but the beginning of the end -
Year: 1860

BeS- We are well pleased to observe the


interest that is being aroused in regard to
our annual city and township elections.
We trust that every candidate will be sCru-
tinized with care, and if he is found unfit in
any particular, let him be cast aside, and a
better man put in his place. But this in
sPection should apply to all Of the candidates.
If the present trustee is guilty ofmalfeasance,
(Which we do not believe), he should not be
reelected; but his place ought not to be
filed by man who.--for serving on All
election board-preSented his bill first to
the Township Trustee, and received his pay


and then handed in the same claim to the
Board of County Commissioners and had il
allowed the second time. We do not think
it would be advisable to place the township
funds in the hands of so shrewd fnancier
Year: 1860

NEW Posi- OFFICE ARRANGEMENT.-Som
complaint having been made that the Post
Office, under the present arrangement, is
not kept open long enough in the evening,
after the opening of the mail, Mr.. RUDD has
concluded to make the following change,
which takes effect Immediately


Instead of closing the office at a quarter
past seven in the evening, it will be kept
open until half past seUen-thus keeping
open one hour after the mail closes, instead
of three quarters as heretofore. The mail,
as is generally known, arrives at half past
five in the evening, when the office is closed
for the purpose of distribution and other
work till half past six.


The Post Office is opened and closed by
Railroad time, which is twenty minutes
faster than city time. Mr.. Rudd intends to
be prompt to the minute, and Others should
learn TO be so.
Year: 1860

The Indiana State prison has now 567
convicts confined within its walls. About
five hundred of these are employed in vari-
Gus ways. The accommodations Of the
prison are limited to about four hundred, and
we are glad the prison will soon be relieved
of its surplus by the transfer of so to 200
to the Northern prison at Michigan City
However, ever available foot in the prison
is occupied in some way by the prisoners at
labor in the various shops and factories
carried on thereby private enterprise.


In the prison there is a school in which
we noticed thirty or forty scholars. This
school is made up in part from the unem-
ployed.


Everything in and about the prison shows
excellent discipline and management.-Nesc
-AL6d1ay Ledger.
Year: 1860

JUDGE Terry, of California, who shot
Broderick, made an effort 10 get his trial
taken from the Court of Sessions TO the
District Court with the ultimate intention
of obtaining change of venue to distant
locality. But the Supreme Court has de-
cided that in the Court of Sessions he must
be tried
Year: 1860

a. ss2- Messrs. DUNCAN tE Cook have their


Spring stock of Goods en- route from the
East Let those who want new goods be
on the lookout for this fine stock. They
have bought this Spring to great advantage.
Year: 1860

HEns We notice men at work on Third
street, between Main and Walnut, and on
Walnut, between Second and Third, shovel
ing the dirt from the cutters into the
middle of the street, making handsome
grade.
Year: 1860

GSs7- We notice that the New Albany
Tribune is calling on our friend DAWSON, of
the Fort Wayne Times, to decide for one or
the other State ticket. He has both up at
present. Come, Dawson, We all know
which you are for. You are for the old
Wing ticket; so down with the other and
speak out as you cn'a~1peak!
Year: 1860

1t will be observed that the foregoing
obligation contemplates bonus to be raised
as a starting point in the work.


We know one citizen of our place, who
pledges for himself the sum of $500. And
we are further informed of three men, who
in the aggregate will pay bonus OF 81 ,OOO


Ten thousand dollars bonus money is
thought to be a reasonable estimate for
Posey county. The road can be built, meas
uring but about seventeen miles distance
from place to place ten miles of which
would be level, leaving only six or seven to
be graded. 1t now takes about twenty
three miles land travel from this point, so
that in this item there would be gain of
six miles.


What says Vanderburgh county-and es-
pecially the city of Evansville, as she would
reap a rich harvest by the enterprise. Van
derburgh county would surely do more,
give a larger bonus sum than Posey. But
suppose that twenty thousand be pledged in
this way, and there will be no trouble in in
vesting funds for the completion of the work.
1t would most certainly prove a largely
paying road. Let those who are able to
take an active part instigate the measures
for the formation of Il company TO build
this road under the above arrang ement, or
any other plan that can be devised.
A joint meeting of the counties might be
held either i'll Evansville or this place for the
| formation OF a company, and to see how
much stock will be taken in it. We trust
| the public Journals of the two counties will
| speak upon the subject, and that enterpri-
sing men of capital win take hold and work
! for the advancement of their own and their
counties interest.


When the subject of the character of the
road shall come up we would like the priv
| ilege of giving our reasons for much pre-
| ferring q gravel To plank road. But as
| we have not written upon the subject so
much at our own bchest, as III compliance
with the feeling which we are assured pre-
walls among some of our able men, we sus
| pend further remarks at present, and wait
TO see what shall be in the future.
| This enterprise deserves from our business
men earnest consideration. Our city, it
will be admitted, needs improved commu-
nication with the towns and country around.
Such communication will greatly facilitate
travel to and from our city, and consequent
Iy increase, trade and the general prosperi-
ty of our citizens.


Our river, canal, and railroad facilities are
inestimabIe advantages. but we must not
forget, in the possession of those more
pretentious avenues of commerce, the i'm
portant consideration of well improved COM
mon roads to connect us with the neighbor-
| ing townships and counties with which
we do so much business that is profitable
alike to all concerned.


We believe that an improved road be
tween Evansville and Mt. Vernon would
pay the builders. Especially would it be
advantageous to Evansville.


The matter has been presented to the City


Council, baeno action has been taken upon


it that we have heard of.


In conclusion, we cannot too strongly i'm
press u pom the min Is of our citizens the i'm
portance of this and other similar Road en-
terprises that may from time to time be pro-
: posed.
Year: 1860

An article, taken from the Mt. Vernon
T,nDire. has been sent us from that place,
with n request that we give it an Insertion.
We do so with pleasure. 1t advocates the
building of Plank or Gravel Road between
this city and that. Our correspondent thus
writes of the project


A subscription paper is in circulation,
and some of our best informed citizens think
$4,000 will be subscribed as bonus
| presume it would be of more
advantage to your place than TO ours, from
the fact that we as a people make more or
less of our purchases in your place every
week"


A ROAD FROM Mr.. VERNON To EVANSVILLE.
The citizens of this part Of the county long
feeling the want of good roads in various
directions are now ready to engage in and
do a generous part for the construction OF a
Plank or Grauel road from this point to
Evansville


With view to the accomplishment of
this much desired end, the following pro-
position in the form of an agreement or OBJ
legation is submitted for the action OF the
citizens of the two counties, Vanderburgh
and Posey.


Proposition.-" The undersigned, in con-
sideraton that any person or company shall
under the laws of the State of Indiana,
make plank or gravel road to Evansville,
Vauderburgh County, in said State, from Mt.
Vernon, Posey County, in shid State, agree
to and with said person or company to pay
or give to said person or company as a
bonus the sums of property set opposite our
respective names upon the completion of said
road. Said road shall be commenced on or
before the first day Of January 1862, and
finished on or before the first day ofJanuary
1868"
Year: 1860

Il HOME PRODUCTS NECESSARY To THE PHOs-
PERfTY OF THE AMERICAN FARMER: By HENRY Ca
sRY BAIRD the title of large full tract of sixteen double
pages which ask the attention Of the friends OF
throughout the country There is not farmer Of
any party read this pamphlet without signal
instruction profit matter though should dissent from
that view Of Political Economy and National Policy which In
cuates Never the inous nature OF that system OF A
culture which grows few rude bulky staples for distant mar
ket more yydy exhibited than this tract while ordinary
read without at least resolving and seeing how to
be better farmer he has yet been We beg cur


friends everywhere to order at least specimen Of this tract for
they read without wihng their neghbors
do otherwise Price cents nge copy Is cents per dozen,
81 rs per hundred 10 per thousand required BY mail
cent each In addition, to pay postage.


Address THE TRIBUNE, NewYork.