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Year: 1860




IN DlNWIDDIE, &c.


To the Ediior'of tie Wig:


Al our last Dnwidde Court Col Epes closed his cleo
tora campaign and it affords pleasure to bear testi
mouy TO the fidelity aud efficiency of hi' services To-
deed he has sgeeably aud wonderiuy surprised Us all
We knew his great worth and as a citizen-hs
sterling and unwaverDg adherence to his political prnc-
pies even In the hour Of darkness aud defeat, aud his
wisdom and fidelity rs Representative In the Legislature
but bad supposed from his known modesty that be had
rather shrunk from the rOstrum and choena more quiet
unObtrusive and genial mode Of oAnvassing. To cur
surprise however, fond ready, fluent and pointed
stumper and he made Of the telling speeches TO
which this fruitful campaign has given BIRTH We thought
We had pretty well gathered up the facts bearing on the
issues made in this canvass but 10 the expression OF
an intelligent Brtckinridge friend he made points
against the Secession party and sustained himself
an array Of fcts and such Vgor Of argument carried
dismay into their ranks, Wss plainly manifested by
their restrs.ness and couded brows For two hours
more with increasing destruction, be poured broadsde
after broadsde into the already leaky and fastsinkpg
ship of the enemy To say that Union friends
ioced at the manner 10 which Col Epes dsmaoding
the old Democratic hulk is barely TO state the truth
We confidently predict that the "a district will send you
cheering salutaons the 9th proximo aud TO this end
Col Epes has labored faithfully and efficiently. And TO
crown his Abors goriousy be returned to Nottoway TO
take part in the engagement Of the l7lh inst which
suited In the terrible Of that day. and in which the
supposed uvincible leader Of the Secession host was
made to bite the dust. SAPPONY.
Year: 1860

Some of our disunion friends want to break
IN the Union so that the merchant and manu-
f,cturing princes at the North and East who
have grown rich by Southern trade and pat
ronage may be made to feel that they are de-
nendent on US How foolish! Cannot this be
done as well and better in the Union than
ont of it? We think so? Let our capitalists
invest their money here instead of New York
and Boston; let US go to work with the money
that it is proposed to buy arms with to hight
an inmaginary foe, and build up manutactu-
ring establishments, more railroads, canals
&c. Let us learn to live economically and to
nroduce and manufacture all that we want ana
a surplus for the people of the North, or any
body else who will pay us for it. Let us IN
crease our shipping and open trade at once
with foreign ports; and above all get as little
as possible from the North. Let no man send
his child or ward to Northern school or Col
lege, literary, medical or theological, and let
no one be countenanced who takes Northern
publication of any kind. Let us too get our
school and other books from Southern publish
ers. Let our bridal tours and tours for health
and pleasure be made to the South, or in the
South and not to the North. These and a
thousand other things might be done which
would cripple, beggar and starve the North to
such an extent that in less than four years-long
before the expiration of Lincoln's term-they
would beg us to dictate our own terms for a
reconciliation.


But will our people do these things? Let
the immense Southern trade that went to New
York the season succeeding the John Brown
raid and the tens of thousands of Southerners
who visited New Port, Saratoga, Niagara and
other Northern fashionable resorts the follow
ing summer, answer. We know how much
fuss they made at the time, and how many
oaths they took never to have anything more
to do with the North, just as they do now over
the election of Lincoln, but still it wore off in
few months then as it most probably will
now; and whether South Carolina secedes or
not, her suelLs will continue to wear patent
feathers made in Philadelphia New York or
Boston, and next summer when the dog days
approach we shall see them tiocking to North
ern haunts to spend the money, which their
slaves have earned among the very enemies
against whom all their curses are directed.


How foolish then to talk about Furnishing
the North by seeding! If we have not the
energy, enterprise and ability to do it in the
Union we certainly cannot do it out of it.
Year: 1860

We spent few hours with our friends at
Goldsboro' yesterday. County Court was in
session and the man Ogle, the pickpocket, was
tried and found guilty. Will receive thirty
nine.


A portion of the citizens of Goldsboro' run
up flag on which was inscribed "Southern
Confederacy" while we were there There
was no public demonstration, and but dozen
or two people were engaged in it, but from
what we could see and hear there is consider
able disunion sentiment in Wayne. They are
patriotic people and mean well, but we beg
of them to consider everything well before they
go too far. Let US have concert of action, or
no action at all
Year: 1860

The Richmond Whig, noticing the report
that the notes of Virginia banks are at a dis
count of 6 and per cent in New York, says
Now, if that be fact, our own alternative is
an instant suspension of specie payments of
our Banks Better do it moso, than wait 80
days, when suspension will be inevitable for
want of funds.


A Virginia note is intrinsically worth as
much as New York one of the same denom-
ination-and this depreciation is little better
than swindle We can maintain the worth
of our notes by suspending before the specie is
withdrawn. Immediate action is the true
remedy
Year: 1860

The following is the preamble to the Con-
vention bill passed by the Georgia Legislature
The Convention is to meet on Wednesday after
the I'd of January, that being the day on which
delegates are to be elected.


"WHEREAs, the present crisis in National
affairs in the judgement of this General As
sembly, demands resistance and whereas it is
the privilege of the sovereign people to deter
mine the mode measure and time ofsuch resis-
tance, therefore the general Assembly enacts
that the Governor issue proclamation order
ing an election to be held for delegates to the
Con ention provided for in this bill"


The 1st and Sd sections of the bill refer to
the time for the election, the time for the meet
ing of the Convention, the manner OF election,
and the number of delegates each county will
be entitled to.


The 4th section declares that said Conven-
tion wncn assembled, may consider all griev-
ances impairing or affecting the equality OF
rights of the people of Georgia as members OF
the United States, and determine upon the mode,
measure and time of redress.


The 5th section provides the amount OF pay
for the delegates, and that said Convention
shall, by vote fix the pay of all their officers,
and of any delegate or delegates they may ap-
point to any convention, Congress or Embassy;
and it also provides for all other expenses in
cured by the Convention.


The 9th section gives power to elect their of
ficers, and do all things needful to carry out
the true intent and meaning OF this act and
the purpose Of the Convention.
Year: 1860

&C,


There seems to be general, we might almost
sav undivided sentiment in favor of imposing
such a tax upon Northern goods of every de-
acription which may be hereafter offered for
sale as would amount to an entire prohibition
within the States II it be left to the private
will Of the individual citizen to determine
whether he will trade for those goods, we be
lieve, as We have always believed, that the
virtue of self denial is not sufficiently strong or
prevalent among the people to resist the temp
tations of cheapness aad comfort; but if the
strong arm Of the law be interpoSed there can
he little doubt that the desired result may be
attained Every good citizen is willing to
undergo any reasonable privation, in order to
secure the object which everything, heretofore
attempted, has failed to secure viz: the restoras
ton Of the fanatics of the North to their Senses
in regard to the consequences of their mad con-
duct Nothing short of dissolution of the
Union, epcept most painful experience of the
entire loss of our trade, will ever convince those
people of the dreadful delusion Under which
they are laboring. Some persons have suggest
ed-in addition to prohibitory taxa general
- stay law in favor of Southern debtors against
Northern creditors-which we think would be
another very effectual remedy. Others still have
proposed the Ier toIiOnis--the law of reprisal-
which would give any citizen deprived of his
slave by an Abolition thief the right to seize
the vessel, other property of any citizen
of the Northern State to which the slave
had been carried. We doubt the policy
of the last proposal, and, indeed, we cannot
see how it could be carried out while there
is peace between the two sections of the coun-
try. 1t is inconsistent with every idea of
peace, and must inevitably lead to-as it al
ways accompanies-war.


Our Legislature meets Monday, and, we
have no doubt, these, and various other pro-
Positions will be discussed, and some wise
course adopted which will reflect credit alike
on the common sense and patriotism of North
Carolina VII Herald.
Year: 1860

PIXIES PRAKERs COMING HOME.-It appears
that not quite all who have gone to the gold
region this year have succeeded in pacifying
their greed for the "root of all evil" There is
much dissatisfaction. disappointment and sut-
fering among those who went thither to fill
their pockets with that which is enormously
supposed to be the foundation Of happiness
gold. The following extract, which speaks of
the return of unfortunate gold hunters, we
copy from the A fton Union county, Eagle:


yesterday, (Friday,) two men with a tw 0
horse team passed through this place home
ward bound, on their return trip from Pixies
Peak. They stated thatit was no uncommon
occurrence to meet persons hatless, bootless,
coatless, and in some instances in an almost
nude state, and without the root ofeyil,' with
which to purchase more; and some were in
such destitute circumstances as to be even
without the common necessares OF life with
which to keep body and soul together Some
were begging for the merest pittance with
which TO sustain life. Such was the picture
they pain ted Of life at Pixies Peak. And such
we have every day to fear is too true. Pixies
Peak, in our mind, is grand humbug. inde-
pendent of what others may do or say, puffed
into notoriety by designing persons 10 trap the
unwary of all classes and conditions in life
that they may the better fleece them.'
Year: 1860

"A PREACHER IN LMBO.-The Cincinnati
Gazette OF the Goth ult says that a few days
since New York preacher eloped with the
wife OF a lawyer of New York, and went to
Cincinnati. The husband telegraphed to the
Mayor OF that place. and caused the preacher
the sband arrived. and after an interview
with his wife at the Burnet House, the twain
departed for New York, leaving the preacher
in Jail.
Year: 1860

THE HEATHEN OF BosToN-The Benevolent
Fraternity OF Churches last year maintained
six clerical and two female missionaries, TO
labor among the poor and destitute of Boston,
The whole cost Of the chapels and schools for
the year was about ten thousand dollars. The
miss Onaries Of the Society search out the
poor. sick, suffering and dying the young, the
exposed aud the "perishirg classes" and care
for them In every practical way
Year: 1860

WHAT DIVERS MEET WIrH.-When the ves
SCI mas settled down in sandy bottom. it 10
preserved sor many months from breaking up;
ana us position may be much the same as 1t


would be when floating In calm water, If it


De not Tilted over by under.current drifts
The light. OF course, depends upon the depth
ana nature OF the bottom but where there Is


no chalk TO give a milky thickness to the wa
Ter, the diver pursues his work in kind Of
gloomy twilight by the aid of this he can


see and feel his way round the ship; but when
ne ascends the deck and winds his way down
into the principal cabins, he finds it pitch
dark, and has nothing to guide him but his
hands. This is the most difficult and yet the
most frequent labor he has 10 encounter the
danger being that In a large vessel. where the
cabin stairs are deep, and the cabins are long
ana broad, he may get his air-tube twisted
round some unfamiliar projection and to
squeeze OH his supply Of life from above. In
positions such as this he requires all his nerve
ana self-possession, all his power of feeling
his way back In the exact road that he came.
He may have got the precious casket to
which he has been directed in his arms. but
what OF that il he die before he can find the
| stalnl The cold, helpless masses that bump
against his helmet az they float along the 10 wer


roof over his head, are the decomposed corpses
OF those who were huddled together In the
cabin when the ship went down. A few Of


these may be on the floor under his feet, but
only when pinned down by an overturned ia


BILE or fallen chest. Their tendency is ever


upward. and the remorseless sea washes away


Tue ueao INFANT from Its dead mothers arms,
the dead wife from her dead husbands EN-.


brace. II the wreck be in the channel, the
small crabs are already beginning to fatten ON
their prey.


The diver disentangles himself from this ST.
lent crowd and ascehdS the silent stairs to the
deck. The treasure he has rescxed is hauled
up into the attendant diving boat, and he
turns again to renew his work. He seldom
meets with an accident under water never,
perhaps, with death; and the chief risk he
runs is from getting some heavy piece Of ship
lumber overturned Oh his long train Of air.
pipe. Even in this he feels the sudden check
and the want Of air, gropes his way back to
paniors to be raised, and reaches the boat ex-
hansted and alarmed, but not so much as to
give up his place in the trade His earnings
mostly take the form of shares in what he re-
covers. 1t fortunate, his gains may be large; ;
If unfortunate, they may be small but no
man can grndge him the highest prizes it is
possible for him to win.
Year: 1860

THEArER.-Last evening, the engagement
Of the Ryer and Stark theatrical company
closed at our theater. The piece presented
was Tom Taylors celebrated new play called
the Fools Revenge. The audience was large
and the acting, Of course, good Mr. and
Mrs Stark, whether in tragedy or comedy,
always sustain their high reputation as artists
of uncommon merit The company go from
here TO Nevada, where they are sure to be
well received.
Year: 1860

SMITHS WNE-We have thoroughly ties
ted the wine made by A. p. Smith, near Sac
ramento, and, if we are any judge of liquor
and We think we are, We can safely say that
it is superior article. We do not know
whether Smith has a superfuity of it on
hand or not.
Year: 1860

PERsoNAL.-George F. Price, editor of the
Hreka Union, and Democratic nominee for
Presidential Elector, left here yesterday, on
his way home from the State Convention
lie was to have spoken at Oroyille last eve
ming.
Year: 1860

Never Tip your beaver TO fine lady,
and ass the poor woman wi'houtseemng
10 see her.


Never pass an aged man or woman
wilhout making a reveIental obelsanee'
unless your house is on fire.


Never break your neck to bow at all
10 a sweet sixteen with hounced dress
who is ashamed Of her mother, or to
slrulGing colleague who is hoFrlhed at heI
grandmother's bad grammar.


Never keep boy TO blacken your boots
and attend to your saddle while you
frighten your wife out Of 'he idea OF
keeping a nurse for the twins by
constantly talking of hard times


Never keep cigar in your mouth while
talking to a lady, nor smoke in carriage
or room where lady is sitting.


Never remind other people Of persona
deformity, or of the relatives who have
disgraced them.


Never leave letter unansW cred, and
use the stamp which was enclosed 10 you
to reply with, on a letter 10 your sweet,
heart


Never ride in fine carriage and keep
score of servants, whilst your widowed
sister trudges on foot and tolls for her dal'
ly bread.


Never wear a finer coat than the mer'
chant you owe for it. or the arlor whom
you have not paid for the making.


Never turn a deaf ear 10 woman IL
distress because you cannot see how you
would be the gamer by her better condI'
ton.


Never 90 to bed at ten, leaving your
wife up till two with sick baby, and look
ptchforks at her al the breakfast table
because The meal is bali an hour too late.


Never hear ungracIous structures upon
the character ol ~omon with quiet ar,
instead Of saying in Numbering tones, IT
is false


Never fall back from bargain after the
articles of agreement have been drawn
up. and only need your signature TO make
them perfect


Never insult the modest by ribaldry'
the grave by Iovity, nor the Pious by con
tempt of sacred hings.


Never refuse TO pay the printer when
you have read his paper for a year or
more.


A man who does this is mean enough
to steal rotten acorns from a blind pig.


Never be guilty of any OF these often
ces against decency and ProPriety il you
are gentleman.
Year: 1860

Never try TO keep out of any ones way
when you owe him anylhing-nnless 1t
be thrashing. Ii is bad enough. III all
conscience, to be in debt, bul don't make
vour condition worse by growing mean
under lis pressure. When you absolute
ny cannot pay up at the appointed pme'
don't sku.k about in out-ol-the.way stSets
to avoid meeting your creditors, ddn'
sneak around the first corner when you
catch sight Of him before he has seen you
All such conduct is unmaniy. No doubt
you feel averse to standing face TO face
with a man TO whom you are debtor
payday past, and you debtor sllll--it is
mortifyng very; but il is only one OF the
natural consequences Of borrowing; and as
you have incurred the penalty, why meet
it like mai. Face your creditor; let him
know that neither forget the debt, nor un'
derrare his patience with you. Say frank
ly that you are very sorry to keep him so
long oul of his money, and that you will
pay up as fast and sOon as you possibly
can. This is the only credltable way to
conduct yourself in the case. There is
no respec! due to men or women, who
falling 10 be able 10 meet their payments
at the proper time o,instead Of going at once
and explaining the reason why they fall
and doing and saying slI they can TO as
sare their creditors that they mean no dis
honesty, just sneak about carefully, anX-
inns only TO shun the creditors sight. Be
manly.
Year: 1860

men says:


The electric fluid Of the clouds seems
10 be no respector Of peTsors. it wohd
AS soon kill a negro worth fifteen hundred
or two thousand as "poor white man"
not worth the powder and Head that it
would take 10 blow lis brains out"
Year: 1860

Reflective persons have remarked the uncom-
mon number of beggars now going about, from
house to house. Some blind, some mutilated.
some old and bowed with misfortune, friendless.
detected, cast down. and envious of the grave.
If mendicants grow numerous now, what may
we not expect twenty years hence? What is to
become of the hundreds who are slowly sinking
to helplessness, destroyed by their own consum-
ing passions? In almost every town the s'wrecks
of men" are commisseratngly observed by the
thoughtful. Some of them have been men of
mind, requirement and position but failing of
their ambition, and solacing themselves with
the q dark beverage of hell,n they are sinking


prone among the brutcs. They are seen in all
stages OF the rightful transition, from occasional
| bestiality, to God and man abandoned hummer
ism. Ten years ago, they erect and high
spirited men they scarcely realize how deplor-
ably they have fallen, or to what infinite and


appalling depths. Unconscious of their AWFUL
peril, they totter on, sometimes stumbling into
the Internal gulf of delirium, and again straight


ening up momentarily, resolving to lead new
and sober life. But they can't, God pity them
The internal tolls of hell encompass them drag
ging, dragging, slowly, inevitably, down to the


measureless depths of despair. The Kissing
serpent bio VS. his fiery breath upon their tongues


and they thirst insupportably. They do not
see gaunt, hideous, loathesome and implacable
| Death locking arms with them, and walking
| side by side down to the terrible domains where


blind reptiles will raven on their flesh But
everybody else sees it all and the poor victim,
steadying himself in the hope that nobody OBJ
serves his condition, is the derision of the un-


feeling, and the pitiful object of the good man s


commisseration-yet he, poor doomed creature,


has no notion that he is so far gone.


Would that this might touch an alarm spring
in some heart over which the fiery wrath OF


soul-consumption is sweeping.
Year: 1860

Our HAND.-After quoting some remarks from
the COURIER, wherein the idea is set forth that
politicians, in endeavoring to establish a State
Democratic organ at Sacramento, should call to
their aid " the knowledge and business talents
of practical printers, the Sierra Democrat asks


" Wouldn't it be well enough, Dosh for the
craft hereafter to withhold its support from any
one but printer for the Office of State Print
er 7"


To this inquiry we emphatically respond in the
affirmative, For one, we never expect to vote in
Convention for any one for State Printer except
practical printer, or one familiar with the
printing business either as editor, publisher or
printer
Year: 1860

An EXAMPLE WORTHY OF IMITATfoN-Mr
Sawyer, of this place. put up in boxes, with nice
dry saw dust, quantity of fine clusters OF
grapes taken from the vines in his garden. The
stem where it was cut was covered with gum.
such as is used in grating These grapes kept
almost as fresh and luscious as when first taken
from the vine, some of them yet remaining in
evidence of the fact. From the experiment, we
learn that this delicious fruit can be had in
perfection Yearly all the year Calavera
Year: 1860

Bs3T The best fencer in Paris is a beautiful
young lady of Polish origin, Mile Linowska. At
a soiree at the house of an aristocratic widow
in the Faubourg st. Honore, who it appears is
fond OF fencing, and has an apartment in her
house devoted to that sort of exercise, the even
ing closed with grand assault-at-arms. Dress
ed in the handsome costume of her country,
Mile Linowska held her sword with so much
grace and precision that no gentleman present
was able to compete with her.
Year: 1860

Beap Oh, met such beautiful girl in the
street, to-day, said gentleman to lady friend,
to whom he was doing the agreeable, not many
evenings since; " she was dressed in deep
mourning think have never seen a sweeter
face" Who could it have been q said the
listener, smoothing down her bombazine dress,
and glancing at the Grape folds TO see if they
were properly adjusted. Pretty you say
Who could it have been? ,cas not out! y
Year: 1860

All Of our citizens who attended the Ma
sons and Odd Ball at Grass Valley speak
rapturously OF the affair, and most CRATE
fully Of the treatment extended to them.
Our quartziferous neighbors have made
themselves a big name 10 this locality, and
we hereby extend to them our ~. The
architectural and links-eyed brothers have
done themselves homer. Hydraulic Press.
Year: 1860

On come of the western roads they are
now testing the experiment Of placing pre-
pared India rubber under the ends OF each
rail, With q view to remove the noise aHd
rattling so common on almost all roads
Thus far it has proved quite successful.
Year: 1860

THE LADIES' FAIR ON TUESDAY AND WE'D yrsnAy EVENINGS NExr.-The citizens Of Des Arc and vicinity have heretofore dis played generous liberality in aiding to erect church buildings, and we are confident they will be found ready again to give the helping hand towards completing the neat and tasty edifce which onr Baptist friends have in nrocess of erection on the corner of Erwin and Park streets. The ladies are all invited to lend their aid, and if they but determine that it shall be well attended and liberally patronised, the men will be necessarily com pelled to attend and do their full share to- wards carrying out the objects in view

 The Fair will be held at the new Baptist Church building We are authorised to invite all to attend, especially those who possess large souls and liberal feelings.