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Year: 1860

FIRE.-The alarm of fire last night was
occasioned by the burning Of an old two
story frame tenement on High street. The
building was not occupied at the time it was
burnt. Some practical joker, no doubt,
thought it would be rare fun to call The cit
izcns from their warm fire sides on such a
tempestnoue night; to have the attendants
Mt the Crescent City Fire Company's Ball
turn out in The mud with their 6ne clothes
and gaiter shoes, ANA to create an uproar
generally ly--and could think of no better way
of doing it than By setting fire to the old
rookcry. 1t was one Of the oldest t-and
has seen the time when it was one of the
buildings in Lamasco. We wish the
fellow who set iton ire could suffer in his
own person a concentration of all the colds
can2ht 10y those turning ont in the rain to
see what was burning
Year: 1860

BGp Laborers are busy on Mulberry
street, and Third street between Oak and
Mulberry, deepening the cutters and throw
ing the dirt excavated into the middle Of
the streets, so as to improve the drainage.
A low place in Mulberry street above
Fourth, and at the crossing of Fourth and
Mulberry, which has been heretofore COW
cred with water al,er heavy rains, h"s bean
partially filled.
Year: 1860

BEg" We understand that there will be a
few lectures delivered before the Library As
sociation this winter, and that they Will be
ola high grade. Tile committee is in cor
rcspondence with several distinguished lee
turers, and we snail be able to announce the
result Of their negotiations in few days.
Year: 1860

BGg~The good people residing on Locust
street, over the Canal, who have been com
PEELED for several weeks past to travel
through very deep and very disagreeable
mud, are soon to have the pleasure of per-
ambulating on new pavements.
Year: 1860

NOTHING adds so much to the appearance of a
In Procession of Sunday School Child ven as Flag
inthe hand OF every little boy and girI. LUCK is
now prepared to furnish them in any quantity, at q
College street up stairs over Shelds' Auction Ro m


may1-t
Year: 1860

prisons and houses Of correction, and to regu-
late the employment Of her own militia.


"If they do understand this subject at the
South better than they do at the North, their
superiority in this respect remains to be dis.
played. So far, it can only be taken for granted.
In the mean time some new manifesto is great.
ly wanted, before the great grievances and
wrongs of the South can be made Ineligible"
Year: 1860

At Masonic banquet given in Chicago,
H., lately, Ely s.. Parker, chief of the Sioux
Nations, and a practising lawyer of Galena
Ill, delivered speech, which is thus spoken
of in an article published in the Masonic
Journal:


zone speech of the evening, as also an in
cident attendingit, deserves more particular
attention. It was that Of Brother Sir Knight
Parker, grandson of Red Jacket and bis sue
cessor as chief, but highly educated, and an
eloquent speaker. I shall not attempt even
an outline ofhis speech; for if reproduced,
it should be with its charms of action and
utterance, which very few white men could
equal. He spoke Of himself as almost lone
remnant of what was once noble race, Of
his struggles in coming forward to manhood,
and seeing his race disappearing as the dew
before the morning sun. As he found his
race thus waning away, he asked himself,
Where shall go when the last of my race
shall have gone forever Where shall /
find home and sympathy when our last
council-6Ie is extinguished |"


Il said will knock at the door of Masonry,
and see if the white race will recognize me,
as they had my ancestors, when we were
strong and the white men weak. I knocked
at the door of the Blue Lodge, and found
brotherhood around its altar. knelt before
the great light in the chapter, and found
| companionship beneath the royal arch
entered the encampment and found valiant
sir knights willing to shield me here, with
out regard to race or nation. went furth-
er. knelt at the cross of my Saviour, and
found Christian brotherhood, the c-owning
charity of the Masonic tie am most happy
to meet you in the grand councils of the
gathering. and sit with you at this festive
board to share these greetings and hospitali-
| ties. feel assured that when my glass is
run out and l shall follow the footsteps Of
my departed race, Masonic sympathies will
cluster around my coffin, and drop in my
lonely grave the evergreen acacia, sweet EN-
blem Of Better meeting. Ifmy race shall
disappear from the continent, have the con-
soling hope that our memory will not perish
If the deeds of my ancestors shall not live in
story, their memories remain in the names o.
your lakes and rivers, your towns and cities
and will call up memories otherwise forgot
ten ?"


'Few eyes could hold their tears, as h,


poured forth in words like these the utter
ance of full heart. Silence for a time pre-
vailed after he sat dowu, when he arose ant
Year: 1860

all have said or done, Imust account to God
Ilove my friends. how pleasant it is to
think of friends in Heaveni How pleasant
to think too of those on earth we love with
equal warmth. And, my dear Editor, am
thinking of one whom love as David did
Jonathan, with pure and feryent love. When
remember his tolls for the sons of the good
old North State; how he is spending his
strength and substance to free her sons from
the curse of the rum god, my soul cleaveth
fast unto him. And should the foul and he'll
lish tongue of hate and slander be raised
against him, to rob him of his Justly won
laurels, swift be my efforts to recoil the dead
ly serpent around the necks of his foes, until
his fangs of hellish hate are purged of all
their fiery venom, and the balm of human
kindness hath healed his bloody wounds


BOB
Year: 1860

said: Il have in my possession msmento
which / highly prize; wear It near my
heart 1t came from my ancestors to me as
their successor in Office. u was present
from Washington to my grandfather, Red
jacket, when your nation was IN It's iaf1ncy.
You viii be glad to see and handle *, and /
should do wrong were not to give you the
opportunity" As he spoke thus he removed
the wampum from his neck. and drew from
his bosom large massive medal, in oval form,
some seven inches by Eve, and il passed from
hand to hand along the tables On one side
of this medal were engraved. in fun length,
the figures Of two chiefs Red Jacket IN cos
tune, presenting the pipe ofpe.ce, and Wash
ington with right hand extended as in the
act Of receiving it. On the other SIDE were
the masonic emblems, with the date f7e2, If
my memory is correct
Year: 1860

CHRIsTMAs HoLrpAYs AMONG THE VIRGINIA
Petersburg Press, in speaking Of
the Christmas Holidays in that region, says:
As for the negro population it is impossible for
us to describe their enjoyment. Webster's
Dictionary does not contain enough words Of
the proper sort to do it with. Enough be it
to say that each darkey was ten times as big as
the biggest white man, and fifty times as
saucy as they naturally are.
Year: 1860

VALUABLE DISCOVERY IN FuEL-It is re-
ported from Paris that two offices Of the Tou-
Ion dockyard have invented q liquid which is
said to increase the combustible power Of coal
seventy.fve per cent, SO that one tun Of New
castle coal will become equal, with the liquid,
to four tuns, and that French coal will last
twice as long as 1t now does.
Year: 1860

AN ANTIQUE AND BEAUTIFUL CHURCH Sian
Xavier, Arizona, can boast in its possession
one of the most beautiful and costly churches
ever erected by the Jesuits on this continent,
and is yet in good state of preservation. In
its grandeur and architecture it is to all OBJ
servers source Of wonder how SO vast a work
was completed in this far-off country, and is
an evidence of the indomitable perseverance,
which actuated those pioneers in the spread Of
the gospel. -.
Year: 1860

A WIFE's DEVOTION TO AN UNwoRTHY Hus-
BAND.-It is reported that the wife of Reed
(the Springfield singing master who SO cruelty
betrayed and ruined one of his pupils) with
whom he had lived in wedlock for twenty
years, will declare that they were never le-
gally married, hoping thereby to clear him
from the charge of adultery.
Year: 1860

A WOMAN BURNT TO DEATH. other night
Mrs. Watson, residing in Fordham, N. T., was
burnt to death. Her husband discovered the
house on fire ss he was on his way home, and
rushing to the front door, burst it open, when
he was Mortified at finding near it the dead
and oharred body of his wife. It is supposed
that fluid lamp either burst or set FIRE to her
dress. ....
Year: 1860

WORTHY SIR: In the issue of the True
Delta Of the 4th inst. find letter ad


dressed by you to the.Hon. Louis Bush,


OF Lafourche, on the all-absorbing sub
ject of who shall be the nominee of the


Charleston Convention for President of


the United States; and as you say you


have 10 conceaIments from the public,


take the liberty now Of expressing my


surprise and regret that you had not, at


an earlier day, come to this conclusion,


as, by so doing, you won.d have Spared


me, one of your fellow citizens and sup


porters, the modification and regret of


having aided you to the position you


occupy in the Congress of the nation.


It is well known to you, my dear sir,


that if entertained q bitter hostility to


any political opinion or principle and


you know my hostlitics are not passive


or moderately it was against Mr.. Doug


lass Squatter Sovereignty doctrine, of


the right Of a Territorial Legislature so


to legislate as to drive out from the Ter


ritory, while it remained in such condi-
ton, and continued the common property
of all the States, the slave property of
citizens of the United States, by I'M
friendly cnactments, or otherwise. |
repeat, sir that You well knew this; for
previous to your election, had the
honor of visit from you at my house,
in the parish Of St. Mary, on which oc-
casion | expressed to you, in the most
emphatic manner, my uncompromising
hostility to Senator Douglas and his
territorial doctrines, and especially to
his nomination by the Charleston Con-
yention. So emphatic was ], that am
confident Iwent so far as to say to you
that this was a sine qua non with me in
my support of any man for public office;
and that | would not support any man
who was in the least tinctured with
that, to me, offensive doctrine; that
would not aid in the election of my own
brother or father to legislate for the
South, did he differ with me in doctrine
which, in my conception, was so vital to |.
the interests and rights of the Southern
States. I also intimatcd to you that
public rumor had charged you with
Douglas proclivities, and that some
friends of mine had stated distinctly that |.
you sympathized with the Douglas move
ment in New Orleans, led on by the
True Delta, published in that city; and |
hence my determination to know most
certainly and surely your sentiments
and opinions on the subject. Now, sir,
in order to do You full justice, l will en- /
deavor to confne myself as nearly as
possible to the very language vou used
Year: 1860

In this the stitches are purposely left loose
SO that the. course of each thread can be traced
in all their sinuosities and interWinding. To
hide the ridge on the underside of the work.
it will be noticed the under-thread is one-half
smaller than the uppeT-thread, which materially
weakens the work


Diagram of Grocer d Bakers Stitch,
Year: 1860

QUEEN VICTORIA ABROAD-NARRow EssAPE-Tbe
Queen has extended her visit the German States and
At he time ofthe last advices at Coburg The at
tentions which the citizens Of republic paying
her SOL are far surpassed by the demonstrations OF the
people II the section through which she travels The
extra train between Cologne and Cobentz which tie
Queen was travelling came near having collision with


be regurr train II appears that at short curve near
Broh the vatchman suddenly the extra train rush


in direction the regular in the opposite d.
cty against each other His red flag Of danger was
en- by both engineers waving the train 10 stop


d other to return to the station. The train wa


moving at lightning speed and could not at once be
Year: 1860

brought to- the engineer Of the other undertook to re-
verse his engine and the machinery refused to work !
eve must jump for lives he said to his companion,
but before doing so, he determined to try once more


Fortunately this time with success and when the extra


train came laundering up, the other had begun TO gather
way, and the crash just barely escaped. few Sc
conds more and the accident would have had place in
history through all time; Tor upon the extra train were
not only the Queen Of England bat her husband Prince
Albert; her daughter Alice; Lord Johu Russell, and the
entire roya party now visiting Germany.
Year: 1860

1t may be u,einl just about this time. to
re produce the statement which the ap-
proach of Presidential election makes op-
perfume every four years. 1t is thus sue
cinctlv given by writer in the New York
Daily Times:


The House of Representatives has moth
ing whatever to do with the election OF q
Vice President. nor the Senate with the
election OF President. The power of each
body is distinct and entirely independent
Of the other.


IF no President be chosen by the electors
the House of Representatives may choose
the President. their choice being restricted
to the persons having the highest numbers.
not exceeding three the list OF thoss vo
ted for for President.


II 90 Vice-President be chosen by the
electors, the Senate shall choose the Vice
President from the two highest numbers on
the list voted for for Vice President.


Ii the House fails to elect President
before the 4th of March next following. then
the Wee President, whether elected by the
electors or by the Senate. shall act as Presi-
dent.


The rule, or manner Of voting under
which the Senate chooses a Vice President.
is exactly the reverse of that which governs
the House in choosing Presiient-each
being the reverse of the general principle
or basis upon which the respective bodies
are organized. The House. representing
the people and ordinarily voting per capita,
vote for President by States. the represen-
tation from each State having one vote. and
a majority of all the States being necessary
to a choice. Tns Senate representing the
States lin theory at least, and in the man
ner Of elec.ing Sana'ors--vote for President
epr capita. each Senator being entitled to
vote, and majority Of all the Senators
being Necessity to choice.
Year: 1860

DISTRIBUTION OF THE COMMON SCHOOL FuND.-We
will publish in next, for the information of our
readers, and especially such of them as are imme-
dately interested in Common Schools, the table Of
the Fall and Spring distribution of the School Fund
for the current year, which we find in the Pres
and Register of this City. From some unaccounta.
bic cause we have received no official authority to
make this publication; but as our paper has been
one of the mediums through which these advertise.
ments have regularly reached the public ever since
1851, and as many Chairmen and Committeeman,
together with teachers and others who read the
Standard, are interested in knowing the amounts
distributed to the various Counties we shall insert
this advertisement without charge We have al
ways taken deep interest both EdtoSially and per-
sonally in the cause Of education; and we shall be
ready in the future as in the past to contribute our
mite to the advancement of our Common School
system, on the success of which so many cherished
hopes depend. For these reasons all future adver
tisements of similar character from the same source
will be inserted in this paper, whether we shall be
authorized to do so or not
Year: 1860




Mr. HOLDEN: AS a matter of course, there is
beginning to be an interchange of views among DEM
ocrats, in regard to the Speakership of the next
Honse of Commons, the Speaker of the last, our
esteemed and popular friend Settle not being men,
Der of the newly elected Legislature. There are,
among our friends. quite number of members elect
of the next House, well qualified to preside over its
deliberations; and without intending to disparage
the claims of any of these, desire to call especial
attention to those of the distinguished Commoner
from Northampton, the gallant and accomplished
Gen. Ransom


Few men IN any community combine more of the
important and peculiar qualifications necessary to
make popular and efficient Speaker; and to these
Gen. Ransom adds claims of party character not
to be overlooked. He forfeited high and infiu-
entail position in the old Whig party to become
soldier in the ranks Of the Democracy and for years
he has done yeoman's service and exercised an i'm
portant influence in maintaining the ascendancy of
our principles while neither claiming or expecting
any official reward As you well know, he posses
ses talents Of high order, carefully trained and
cultivated; and while he is experienced in legisla-
tive action and is we'll versed in political history,
his scholarly and literary attaiaments would qualify
him for distinction in the world of letters. To these
the General adds quick and keen perception,
polite engaging manner imperturbable good nature,
and untirng energy; and while he is thus qualified
promptly to see his way, and to set an example ofa
kind and courteous bearing, he is decided in his
views and firm in his positions, and can, when the
occasion requires it. hold the rens of authority with
a nervous grasp. HICO.
Year: 1860

A WORD OF CAUT1oN-With the Norfolk Herald
we say 1--WE may differ with some of our cotempo-
raries of the Southern press in our notions, but
really it seems to us. that not small portion of
their extracts from northern journals as well as
their own dispositions on certain delicate sub
ject connected with certain class of our popula-
ton, is just bad as scattering fire brands in the
shape of abolition documents through the Southern
country"


And with the National Democrat Of this City,
tive venture to say that nine out of every ten Of
the rumors we hear of Instructions and plottings
and all that, groundless those explained in
the above paragraph, and which, each paper pub
fishing it. gives as upon authority. For the safety
of two hundred millions worth of property We
would advise prudence. and cautious vigilance, not
only in this trying crisis but at all times. Should
the calamity of even partial servile revolt fall
upon us in our opinion nothing could save the ne
gro from almost total determination. 1t is then
matter of momentoIs importance that nothing should
be said or done, which may without cause add fuel
to flame at any time ready to burst FORTH"
Year: 1860

The vote for Governor in August last furnishes no
test of the Democratic majority in this State The
Democratic party of the State was embarrassed and
injured by the disruption of the national party. and
by an issue which made question of State
affairs But for the disruption at Baltimore, and if
the Conv enton that nominated Gov. Ellis had either
ignored ad valorem, taken ground in favor of an
amendment of the Constitution by legislative enact
ment so as to place slaves as taxabes on the same
footing with land, Gov Ellis would have beaten Mr.
Pool at least fifteen thousand votes. Fairly tested
therefore, the State is Democratic by fifteen thou
sand majority. We can, therefore, spare five thou
sand votes for Douglas, and still defeat Bell by
handsome majority We do not wish to spare any
votes, but would be glad to see them all cast for
Breckenridge; yet the Breckenridge Democrats can
do without five thousand votes and still carry the
State. But in order to accomplish this they will
have to work. Unity, energy, effort, and full
turn out the day of the election will ensure us
the victory.


In Breckenridge and Lane we have men of whom
any party might we'll be proud, but what is better
than that they stand on the true principles of the
Constitution. Let every Democrat in this time Of
trial and difficulty adhere to principles without re-
gard to men.
Year: 1860

Yr Let every Breckenridge and Lane Democrat
turn out and cork on the day Of election. They
will find the Opposition exertng themselves for both
Bell and Douglas, because the Oppositionists know
that every Democratic vote which may be polled for
Douglas will to that extent weaken Breckenridge
and strengthen Bell But let us work all the har-
der for that. There are many Southern rights OPP
postionists who will vote with u.s. determined as
they are to make final stand on the principles of
our platform against the black Republicans. See
to it that every precinct is we'll supplied with tick
cts, and that every man has fair chance to vote
understandngly.
Year: 1860

eW- There are two lines Of steamers in operation
between New York City and North Carolina
between Morehead City and New York, and one be-
tween Wilmington and New York. The new and
first class screw steamship Parksrsburg, Capt Pow
ell, (as we learn from the New York Journal of
Commeree) will leave New York and Wilmington
every alternate Saturday. Another steamer is now
building for this line for the Cape Fear and Ocean
Steam Navigation Company
Year: 1860

A WIND WAGoN-A western genius lately con-
strueted u wind wagon to bear him to Pixies Peak
which has realized his most sanguine expectations
earring him through in 20 days. Encouraged by
this success, other parties in the same town SET
about the construction of the same kind Of wagons
and party of eight started out on the praires try
one which had been finished. The wind was blow
ing gale at the same time, and everything worked
to charm. The occupants, gliding swiftly over the
praries, were delighting themselves with anticipa
tion of speedy and comfortable trip to the mines.
when the velocity Of the vehicle created q lively
alarm for their safety. The wagon sped onward be-
fore the driving wind faster and faster, until the
axletrees broke and deposited them all on the ground
and in a somewhat damaged condition, from broken
heads, bruised limbs and bodies. The speed Of the
machine is said to have been 40 miles per hour.
We suggest the use of brakes. 81
Year: 1860

from which mankind suffer over a large mart az
the globe, is the consequence of diseased action
In the system, induced by the poisonous miasm Of
vegetable decay. This exhalation il evolved hy
the action of solar heat ON wet SOIL and rises With
the watery yapor from it. While the sun il below
the horizon this vapor fingers near the earhs sur
face, and the virus is taken with it through the
lungs into the blood There IL acts az an irritating
poison on the internal viscera and excreting organs
of the body. The liver becomes torpid and fails to
secrete not only this virus, but also the bile from
the blood. Both the virus and the bile accumulate
in the circulation, and produce violent constitu-
tional disorder. The spleen. the kidneys, and the
stomach sympathize with the liver, and become
disordered also. Finally. the instinct of our or
ganisrn, as II in an attempt to expel the noxious
Infusion, concentrates the whole blood of the body
In the internal excretories to force them to cast IL
out. The blood leaves the surface, and rushes to
the central organs with congestive violence. This
is the CHILL. But in this effort il fails. Then the
FEVER follows, In which the blood leaves the GEN.
tral organs and rushes to the surface, as If la
another eori To expc the irritating poison through
that other great exeretory - the skin. In this
also II fails, and the system abandnns the attempt
exhausted, and waits for the recovery of strength
10 repeat the hopeless effort another day These
arc the fits or paroxysms of FEVER AND Aaug
Such constitutional disorder will OF course under
mine the health If ii liz not removed.


We have iabored TO find. and have found, ar
anfdatr
Year: 1860

has won for itself such renown for the cure of
every variety of Throat and Lung Complaint, that
is entirely unnecessary for us to recount the
evidence OF its virtues, wherever il has been
ployed. As II has long been in constant use
throughout this section, we need not do more than
assure the people its quality kept up to the best
II ever has been, and that 1t may be relied on TO
do for their relief all ii has been ssE. 60 TO-