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THE NORTH CAROLINA STANDARD: WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 5, COMMON SCHOOLS. THE BULLYISM AND FALSEHOOD OF THE passes should set upon Office of the Directors of Literary Kalkigh, i tivated bv old Mr. Laspeyre, in Dnplin county, on the Cape "Fear, in 1805. We hope the gentleman from whom we. have derived the above valuable and interesting information, will furnish us with other matter on the Grape-Culture in the South.

Ed. amv i vivw jwwvio vi ili7 uitciai ruiiu, uaviug iiiAVic uinu IUUUUI1 OT lUQ net said Fond, for the year 1859, among the several Counties of the State for Common School tii following TabuUr Statement to be published, showing the Spring atid Fall distribution to tJh rectH From the North-Carolina Planter. Vine culture in the south. Ve have n-eenlly met a gentleman, who had re-'turned from a tour through most of the vineyards of and the total distribution during the year. vunty The amount of the Fall Distribution will be paid to the persons entitled to the same upon lion to the Treasury Department.

aPpIicv Jackson County will receive 30 per cent of the amount allotted to Macon County, and the of its share from that allotted to Haywood. Alleghany, Madison and Polk will receive th; shares from the Counties from which thev were fnrmb there in from said Counties. JOHN W. ELLIS President ex officio of the Literary i Graham Daves, IVnd- Secretary to Board of Directors. I come ecti.

TlOn.il.: Deduct for Deaf and DUmb Bettie Ray, 10 Of, Wm. J. Covington, David J. Watson, Joseph Watson, (Eliza J. C.

Watson, 225 oo Thos. Berry, 5 00 Sarah C. Fooshee, 00 John R. Strickland, Harriet A. Strickland, Jesse Holder, '223 (ki Ellen C.

Johnson, .0 1V1 Mary Burt, 10 iio Eunice Gunranous, 75 no Jasper Jamison, Mary M. Nichols, Wm. Shuffleld, 130 nil ,0 mi James Lane, (0 John B. Watson, Paid $300 due $3 for 5 pupils, Larkin Snow, Rebecca Trull, Jane A. Benton, 00 10 00 75 15n nn 75 Oi'i Thos Harding, 75 on 1 Bllti IHI Counties.

Fed. Pop. Spring Dis. Fall Dis. Total Dis.

Alamance, $1,219 92 1,219 J)2 2,439 34 Alexander, 5,003 600 36 600 36 1,200 72 Alleghany, Anson, 10,756 1,290 72 1,290 72 2,581 44 Ashe, 8,531 1,024 68 1,024 68 2,049 36 1 Beaufort, 11,716 1,405 92 1,405 92 2,811 84 i Bertie, 9,973 1,196 76 1,196 76 2,393 52 Bladen, 8,024 962 88 962 88 1,925 76 Brunswick, 5,951 714 12 714 12 1,428 24 Buncomhe, 12,33 1,480 56 1,480 56 2,961 12 Burke, 6,919 830 28 830 28 1,660 56 Cabarrus, 1,040 88 1,040 88 2,081 76 Caldwell, 5,836 700 32 700 32 1,400 64 Camden, 5,174 620 88 620 88 1,241 76 Carteret, 6,208 744 96 744 96 1,489 92 I Caswell, 12,161 1,459 32 1,459 82 2,918 64 i Catawba, 8,234 988 08 988 08 1.976 16 Chatham, 16,055 1,926 60 1,926 60 3,853 20 Cherokee, 04 36 04 36 -r08 72 Chowan, 5,252 630 24 630 24 1,260 48 Cleaveland, 9,697 1,163 64 1,163 64 2,327 28 Columbus, 5,308 636 96 636 96 1,273 02 Craven, 1,479 48 1,479 48 i 2,958 96 Cumberland, 10,634 1,276 06 1,276 08 2,552 14 Currituck, 6,257 750 84 750 84 1,501 68 Davidson, 14,12: 1,694 76 1,694 76 3,389 52 Davie, 6,99 839 76 839 76 1,679 52 Duplin, 11,11 1 1,333 32 1,333 32 I 2,666 64 Edgecombe, 1,202 12 1,202 16 28 Forsyth, 10,6271 1,275 74 i'275 74 5,551 48 Fianklm, 9,5101 1,141 20 1,141 20 2,282 40 Gaston, 867 36 867 36 1,734 72 Gates, 825 36 825 36 1,650 72 Granviila, 17,310 2,076 36 2,076 36 i 4,152 72 Greene, 5,320 638 52 638 40 1,276 92 Guilford, 2,217 60 2,217 60 i 4,435 20 Halifax, 13,007, 1,560 84 1,560 84 3,121 68 Harnett, 850 70 850 68 1,701 38 Haywood, 828 84 828 84 1,657 68 Henderson, 6,883 825 96 825 96 i 1,651 92 i Hertford, 798 72 798 72 1,597 44 Hyde, 6,55 790 20 790 20 1,580 40 Iredell, 13,062 1,567 44 1,567 44 3,134 88 Jackson, Johnston, 1,337 92 1,337 92 2,675 84 jj Jones, 472 20 '472 20 '944 40 Lenoir, 741 84 74 1 84 1,483 68 Lincoln, 6,924,: 830 88 830 38 1,661 76 Madison, 1 Macon, 6,169: 740 28 740 28 1,480 56 Ii Martin, 835 32 835 32 1,670 64 McDowell, 688 92 688 92 i 1,377 84 Mecklenburg, 11,721" 1,406 H8 1,406 88 2,813 76 Montgomery, 739 56 739 56 1,479 12 Moore, 1,026 26 1,026 26 2,052 52 Nash, 948 58 )48 58 1,897 16 jj New-Hanover, 32 1,708 32 3,416 64 Northampton, 10,731 1,287 72 1,287 72 2,575 44 Onslow. 844 80 844 80 I 1.689 60 ji Orange, 1,794 84 1,794 84 i 3.589 68 i Pasquotank, 924 96 924 96 i 1,849 'J'2 i Perquimons, 723 60 723 60 I 1,447 20 Person, 8,825 1,059 K) 1,059 00 2,118 00 Pitt, 10,745 1,289 40 1,289 40 2,578 80 Polk, Randolph, 1,821 12 1,821 12 3,642 24 Richmond, 7,936 952 32 952 S2 1,904 64 Robeson, 1,329 60 1,329 60 2,659 20 Rockingham, 12,3631: 1,483 56 1,483 50 2,967 12 Rowan, 1,479 48 1,479 48 2,950 96 Rutherford, 1,486 56 1,486 56 2,973 12 Sampson, 12,311 1,477 32 1,477 32 2,954 64 Stanly, 6,348: 761 76 761 76 1,523 52 Stokes 8.4'.o,; 1,018 80 1,018 80 2,037 60 Surrv' 975 84 975 84 1,951 68 I Tyrreil 4.452 534 24 534 24 1,068 48 jj 9,258: 1,110 96 1,110 96 2,221 92 Ii Wake, 2,534 76 2,534 76 5,069 32 Warren, 1,243 92 1,243 92 2,487 84 Washington, 573 60 573 60 1,147 20 jj Watauga, 401 76 401 76 803 52 jj Wayne, 1,238 09 1,238 09 2,476 8 Wilkes, 11,642 1,397 04 1,397 04 2,794 08 Wilson, 6,754 810 4-5 810 45 i 1,620 90 Yadkin, 9,511 1,141 32 1,141 32 2,282 64 Yancey, 8,068 968 16 968 16 1,937 32 Total, 752,542 $90,425 04 $90,425 04 $180,850 08 ineir unequivocal nun iimigu" Murfreesboro1 Citizen. THE NEXT CONGRESS, Our readers are already aware that tl recent Congressional elections have resulted in the choice of a sufficient number of Southern Opposition mem- lure tn finnntp rne vl nrui- v. 1 nro i riu i 1 1 1 it vw w. still some three or four States to eieci, uuru.g A A 1 i i tVw.

Fall months, and the position of parties cannot oe calculated with exact accuracy. It is enough for us to know, however, that a Democratic majority is now absolutely impossible, and no organization can be effected by a majority vote without a coalition, in whole or in part, of two of the three parties in the House. We have no hope of any aid from our Southern opponents in the election of a Democratic Speaker, and anticipate a coalition of all the elements of the Opposition, which will result in a thorough anti-Democratic organization. For that result we are prepared, and it is a matter of no very great moment with us whether the power and patronage of the Speakership shall be wielded by Galusha A. Grow or Henry Winter Davis.

In either event the interests of the South will be studiously ignored. But our purpose just now is to consider a question of far greater import than the organization of the House. In a contingency which may arise, this House of Representatives will be called upon to elect the next President of the United States andxin a matter of such grave moment, it is proper that the probable result should be carefully considered. In that event, the States vote as units, and Florida and Oregon, with their single representative, will count heavily in the scale as New York or Virginia, A majority of the States will be necessary to elect, and, if Kansas be admitted, 18 votes only can constitute that majority. We have already lost of the Southern States Tennessee, Kentucky and North Carolina, and in all probability will lose Maryland.

Of the Northern States, we can only hope to control California, and probably Minnesota and Oregon. At the best, then, the Democratic candi date could only calculate upon the votes of eleven slave States and four free States. Three more votes would be necessary to elect, and more than it would be possible to obtain. Does any Democrat reh upon aid from Southern Know Nothings? Mos of them are unknown to fame; but a few of tVieiu are upon the record. In the Tennessee delegatior we recognize Emerson Etheridge, who was ejecte two years since because in a Congressional career oi four years he had never hy accident once voted with the South upon a single issue.

Among the Kei tuekians we find returning to his place in the Hons one Green Adams, whose name was recorded agains the undivided Southern delegation upon a test vot-some years since upon the Oregon bill. North-Carolina re elects John A. Gilmer, whose vote againsi the admission of Kansas is still fresh in the rccollei tions of the Southern people and Maryland, we pre suine, under the malign influence of lug Uglyism. will again contribute the name and influence of Hen ry Winter Davis to strengthen the hands and chee the hearts of Northern faction ists in their war upon the rights and interests of her sister States of th-South. If these gentlemen are to be considered fair representatives of the sentiments and feelings their more obscure colleagues, who can doubt that, in the event of the issue we are contemplating, the votes of each of their several States will be uncompromisingly withheld from any candidate whose election will be unacceptable to the Black Republican sentiment of the North Their Democratic colleagues will protect Kentucky and North-1, arolina, and, we hope, Maryland, from the stigma of casting their vote in the House for the Black Republican nominee; but the good name of Tennessee is unfortunately in the keeping of a decided majority of the political allies of Emerson Etheridge, and if that vote would suffice to elevate him to th; Presidency, wc should seriously npprehend the election of Wm.

IL Seward. We regard it, therefore, as almost a fixed fact that the Government must pass out of Democratic hands if the people fail to elect in the next Presidential election. In the triumph of the Democracy alom have we nny hope of the maintenance of a Constitutional Union. No other organization in the country promises any respect for the material interests and vested rights of the South. Our hope in the Union hangs only upon the success of a united and harmonious Democracy and to ensure that result we are prepared to sacrifice all of personal feeling and prejudice which does not necessarily involve the sacrifice of principles and honor.

If ever there was a time when union and harmony in the counsels of the party was invoked by every consideration which could appeal successfully to right-thinking men, such a time is the present We have every confidence in the readiness of the Northern Democracy to rally with us for a vigorous and united struggle upon the old platform, and under the old shib-iMileths of the party. Upon them and under them we have met and overthrown the hosts of Black Republicanism, and we can do it again. But if discord and dissensions are to be sown in our ranks if divisions are to be fostered and encouraged among our friends in one State and another it requires no prophet's ken to read the future We must triumph at the polls in November ot next year, or a Black Republican triumph, in the House of Representatives, is almost assured. Forewarned, let us be forearm ed. ich 7i" Em i r.

Miners' and Planters' Bank. Among the other improvements in our mountains, we are pleased to notice that our neighbors in Cherokee county are bestirring themselve in regard to this Bank. We see no reason why we mountaineers might not as well have a bank as any body else. The question as to the utility of banks has long since ceased to be debatable, they are necessary institutions; and when managed faithfully and honestly, they are remunerative to stockholders, and, as they greatly increase the productiveness of capital, they are a blessing to the communities in which they are operated. The maximum capital of the Miners' and Planters' Bank at Murphy, N.

0., is to be the minimum is 000. We are told that the people of Cherokee have weil nigh the charter. The amount of the shares, $50,00, is within the reach of many men of our acquaintance, and the citizens ot Macon county ought to take stock. The shares are within reach'of many, who know nothing of banks, but who, if the matter were properly presented, would gladly take stock. If our Cherokee friends would incorporate the Scottish plan of receiving money on deposit and paying interest therefor, the wants of the community would be secured.

For amid all the financial crises, which have followed imprudent speculations, only one of the Deposit Banks of Scotland has ever failed. We suggest this method to the proprietors as that plan which will be most likely to increase the productiveness of the capital of the whole country. Perhaps the Scottish method approximates the Savings Banks of America more nearly than any other of our institutions. But whatever system may be adopted, we wish the Miners' and Planters' Bank abundant success. FranHin Observer.

Revenue of the South. From information based upon observation and direct correspondence, says the Richmond Morning Neirs, it is assumed that the cotton product of the South will, the present season, reach the enormous quantity of four million bales. This crop, put down at an average price fifty dollars per bale would reach the sum of two hundred millions of dollars. It will thu be perceived that from this source alone the government could be sustained, even under the most extravagant administration that we have ever had, without resorting to any other mode of raising revenue. This, we presume, is the only instance in the world where a single product amounts to a sum in money equivalent to the annual expenses of the government.

And yet it is this great product, the revenue of slave labor, that Northern Abolitionists would strike out from the productions of our Southern industry, to gratify the basest of human passions a miserable and contemptible' hypocricy or to vindi cate the avowed principles of a Mind fanaticism, as implacable in its hatred as the revenge of a demon. Asheville Newt. The U-asd-I-Tabians. We announced recently the formation of a new sect called by the above name we have since learned from the founder that its device is to be Fpluribus- U-and-I-niim. A wise saw is a saw all the teeth of which are wisdom teeth.

I OPPOSITION. It would seem scarcely necessary and it is not, certainly, in this community to adduce specific proofs in support of charges to which general notoriety and common consent, occupying so -high a place as they do in the law of evidence, give the strongest and amplest confirmation. The Democracy oi tins insirici, wunoui auv .1 i. i i urifiir i knowledge, believe most firmly that fraud and intimidation were resorted to by the Opposition to carry the late election and in making the declaration which we now emphatically repeat, we are uttering, not only our own conviction, but the conviction of eccry member of the Democratic party with whom we have conversed with upon the subject. We have the testimony, in abundance, of responsible and honoralle men, against whose credibility as witnesses not one tenable objection can be sustained, that the grossest falsehood and misrepresentation and most outrageous bullyism were had recourse to by the friends of Mr.

Smith in the recent canvass. We present the following tabular statement, which may be relied on as accurate, showing the vote in this District at all the Congressional elections since 1815, bv which it will be seen that the vote this year is "largely increased over that of any of the previous years Dem. Opp. 354!) 3795 4058 2808 4846 5228 5255 (S045 Total. 7244 7530 4i2( 5)579 10110 10548 11576 Ma.

140 724 576 11 87 346 38 514 845 1847 184!) Is51 1 S53 1855 1857 185D 3(171 3477 1758 4833 4882 5531 Biggs. Outlaw. Outlaw. Outlaw. Shaw.

Paine. Shaw. Smith. The increase shown by this table on the vote two yenrs ago is one thousand and twenty-eight! Dr. Shaw's increased vote is only two hunched and thirty-eight, while Mr.

Smith's is seven hundred and ninety! Dr. Shaw's increase was principally in this, the western, end of the District in Northampton, Hertford, Gates, Halifax, Bertie, Chowan and Martin and in Currituck, his own county. It has never been publicly alleged by any member of the Opposition that any portion of this increase was improperly obtained. Look to the other counties, however, where Mr. Smith's friends had nearly everythinw tnejr own waY( and wherc we charge it of terrorism was more extensively and effectively exerted.

What do we see there? in four counties alone Ferquimons, Pasquotank, Tyrell and Washington Dr. Shaw loses seventy-five on the vote of 1857, and Mr. Smith's count shows the remarkable increase of two hundred and eighty. It is charged that not only bullyism in its milder applications but actual force was employed to keep Democratic voters away from the polls at Plymouth and other pr-cincts in Washington county. The figures show that Dr.

Shaw's vote in that county was forty-three less than two years ago, while Mr. Smith's was increased eighty-six. It is furthermore reliably alleged that in Elizabeth City the Germans were bullied into Mr. Smith's support. The official vote of that county (Pasquotank) shows a diminution in Dr.

Shaw's vote of sixteen, and an increase in Mr. Smith's of thirty-seren. In Tyrrell county Dr. Shaw's vote is diminished by fourteen, while Mr. Smith's is increased ninety-tight.

How is this result to be interpreted? But how, after all. wa. Mr Smith's vote increased by nearly eight hundred? It is charged, and responsibly, upon the opposi tion that the' imported persons, not voters in this State, for the special purpose of voting for their candidate. A strong corroboration of this suspicion is found in a letter now lying before us, dated at Deep Creek, August 1st, and addressed to the Editor of this paper. This letter clearly indicates an extensive and systematic effort on the part of the to swell Mr.

Smith's poll by the importations into this district of persons from Virginia. We do not know to what exact extent this system was carried, but the indications are sufficient to give ample foundation for the general charge. Statements have been made to us by gentlemen whose word should have unquestioned weight, which point to the same conclusion and leave no room to doubt that this portion of the opposition strategy was by no means the least effective. Indeed, so thoroughly convinced are we of the gross degree to which these clandestine operations were carried, that we believe Dr. Shaw owes it to himself and to the Democracy to contest Mr.

Smith's election -t i i i "i i i we think enoutrh of tnckries and frauds might be brought to light by a vigorous, determined and unflinching scrutiny, to vitiate the result in the eyes of all candid men. But, whether or not our gallant candidate shall see fit to accept the suggestion of a contest, the Democracy of the district believe that he was unfairly beaten, and, in the general though silent remonstrance issuing from that belief, the election of his competitor is solemnly disputed at the bar of public sentiment. Of the infamous and lying pamphlet, "What it costs to be governed," whose authorship no one has yet found sufficiently abandoned to confess, it is needless to say one word, in addition to the ava-Imche of indignant execration that has overwhelmed it at the hands of all honest and truthful men. It is equally unnecessary to discuss further the thousand unblushing falsehoods and myriad misrepresentations and perversions of fact that were so ingeniously contrived and so industriously circulated during the progress of the canvass. The mendacious reports, miserable roorbacks, bug-bear cries of corruption and extravagance, false statements that known and faithful Democrats were alnvit to vote for Mr.

Smith all these were but a portion of the deluge of delusion with which the district was inundated. Numberless were the rills of falshood that contributed to this freshet of reckless fraud, of which nobody ever saw the like, and which has done more to disgrace this section of the good old North than any moderate number of violations of the criminal code. As we have already shown in a previous article, the auspices of the Winton nomination were not forgotten in the conduct of the canvass and the spirit which went forth from the convention found ready incarnation, and was at a loss for no variety or emphasis of practical expression. "Hickory-stick was but the symbol set aloft in their firmament for the devout gazing of the faithful, like another Aaron's staff to the men of Israel. The ac- tual violence thus typified was often enough resort ed to, and bona Jiuc.

bludgeons were by no means rarely raised while intimidation, in some form or other, was universally and unintermittently employ- ed. And it is no reflection upon the courage of Democrats to say that this bullyism had its weight, in those parts of the district where Dr. Shaw's vote fell off, in deterring orderly and peaceably disposed men, unambitious of a difficulty, from an otherwise active and earnest participation in the election. The Know Nothing policy of terrorism against which, however, the people are now arising in their might has had that effect in Baltimore for years, keeping from the polls a large and influential body of respectable citizens, and holding not only the city but the State in a condition of abject political prostitution. It would really seem that the atrocious partizan violence which has designated "Bloody Mary" as the appropriate namesake of Maryland, is about to be generally adopted by tho opposition in other States.

The events of the last few months certainly suggest that the initiative has been taken here. It has been even asserted, as will be seen by an extract which we quote from a late issue of William-ston Banner, that the veritable I. O. P. U.

has extended its ramifications to this district and we understand that several Plug Uglies were in Murfrees- boro' on the occasion of the late femith Jubilee, though they prudently thought best to lie perdu, and made no overt demonstration other than upon the questionable whiskey so amply supplied by their entertainers. The Banner says: Pluguolyism. We have recently heard of a branch of this institution, established in the first congressional district of North-Carolina, and located a distance not an hundred miles from this Democratic county. The first turn-out of these lawless desperadoes, was on Thursday the 4th inst Their course is marked for future reference. We sincerely trust that we may have no ground hereafter to animadvert upon an electioneeri policy similar to that against which we have conceived it to be our bounden though unpleasant duty to remonstrate.

'We protest against the recurrence of such scenes, and the repetition of such disgraceful demonstrations as signalized the late election contest. It is high time that the tactics of desperadoes and pirates should be abandoned, and that the hon- i the Southern States, and were lnlormed by mm 01 the progress made, so far, in the cultivation of the grape, and the manufacture of wine. The grape almost universally cultivated Is the North-Carolina grape the Catawba (titi Labrusca.) There are now in Georgia two hundred acres in the Catawba, in small vineyards of from one to twenty-rive acres each, situated in different localities. Mr. Charks Axt, of Taliaferro county, has twenty acres in the Catawba, and has now in his wine cellar four vintagesfifty-six, fifty-seven, fifty-eight, and the present crop from the press, and has exhibited ut various times at Fairs and elsewhere the best quality of wine yet manufactured south of the Ohio, where the famous Longworth's vineyards are cated.

Mr. Axt's wine is of the Hock class of wines, according to European nomenclature, but of course differs from any foreign wine. It is "still Catawba, a red-Wine fermented in the cask in the cellar, made for the express purpose several feet under ground, where the temperature remains nearly the same all the year round. He finds ready sale for his vintage of fiay-six at fifteen dollars per box of one dozen bottles each. The is now thoroughly matured, and is an excellent wine, thought competent judges to be better than any of the Ohio wines yet made.

His fifty-seven wine is now selling at Augusta and other places per box for twelve dollars, and thus lower, to the present year's vintage, which, without age, after it is regularly fermented, and one year old, he sells at six to eight dollars per box. Mr. Redmond, Editor of the Southern Cultivator, has collected all the American varieties of grapes, about one hundred) and has them now on test at Vineland, near Augusta, Ga. In Alabama, Washington county, Mr. Donnel-son, formerly of Fayetteville, in this State, has several acres in the Skoupernong, (citis rotundifolia) and makes yearly five or six hundred gallons of wine of the Sauterne class, a white wine similar to a white claret of the Medoc country the South of France on the Gironde.

It is fermented in a thick log house, made for the purpose, above the ground, 'without the addition either of sugar or alcohol. The Skoupernongs are allowed to hang on the vine until perfectly matured, and then gathered by shaking the canopy, caught on sheets, and all done by small white boys hired in the immediate neighborhood the grapes are mashed in large troughs, with pestle, so as not to break the seed pummace put into common bagging sacks and pressed out with the lever beam, like the old way of making cider. It would doubtless be of much better quality if the must was fermented in a regular wine cellar below ground. Mr. Donnelson's Sautern Skoupernong wine sells readily in Mobile and New Orleans at ten to twelve dollars per dozen.

Mr. Hunter, also, in the same neighborhood, makes annually two or three hundred gallons of Skoupernong wine similarly fermented in a small cellar under his dwelling house. He also makes wine from the Huber grape, and has a vineyard of two acres of the Catawba. At Sehua, Alabama, several casks of wine are also manufactured by the Messrs. Kenan, a pleasant sweet wine of the Skoupernong must, hut with sugar, about half-pound, added to the gallon of must.

At Mobile and Citronelle and vicinity, several recently planted vineyards of Hue Catawbu are now doing finely; and about Montgomery and Northern Alabama also, there are a few acres in the Catawba doing well. In South-Carolina, in the vicinage of Aikin, there are more than one hundred acres in the grape. The principal and oldest vignerons are Messrs. Macdon-ald and Carndeuc, the former is the oldest vitner in the South. Their wines are ferm.

nted in attic or loft, and are good wines for that mode of fermentation, (which is certainly objectionable, the temperature being too high and fermentation too brisk.) At Aiktn there are also many (others eigaged in the vine culture, and a regular cjub or vine-growing association established. This dub meets once a month, and subjects germain to the I grape culture, and col-lattcraliV to all fruits, are discussed. Mr. Macdon- ald, above mentioned, is the presiding officer. The Keech-Island club also meets monthly, and all agri- cultural products, including the grape culture and wine manufacture, are duly discussed.

There are several vineyards two or three years old in success- 1 ful giowing condition, established in Barnwell and Edgefield districts. Messrs. Macdonald and Cara- dene cultivate the Warren, Pauline and Skupernong grapes, and manufacture wine from each, and receive orders for tfeeir Warren grape wine faster than it can be made. It is taken by certain houses in Charleston, bottled and sold by them. Some of it has been sent North, and sent abroad by the Charleston wine merchants, and greatly admired though it would be far better if kept in cellar until it is thoroughly matured.

Gov. Hammond, of Iiedcliff, S. has for the past five years given much attention to grape cultivation at the Southland imported two years ago five hundred foreign varieties ol the vine procured from M. Guestier of the Gironde, and now has at the Redeliff vineyards at least four hundred and fifty alive and growing. Gov.

II. has also eight or ten acres in Catawba and Warren, and has made several hundred gallons of wine this season, which remains to be tested to -ascertain its qualities. He has already made some Warren hock, now two or three years old, of good quality. He is doing as much as any other man in the State to encourage the business. In North Carolina, while it is the birth-place of a'-most all the American vines of high excellence, grape culture has been retrograding.

At the head of theclass stands the Catawba, introduced to the wine producers' notice by Col. Murray, some fifty years ago, and found by him on the head waters of the Catawba river, in Buncombe county, (now McDowell county,) a grape that has been admitted by Longworth and Axt to be worth, for wine making, far more than all others yet introduced. This grape has heretofore been shamefully neglected in its native State. There are now, however, in Cumberland county, several "public spirited" citizens, who intend to live no longer without Catawba wine of their own making, and have thirty acres now in the Catawba in the vicinity of Fayetteville. Certain planters of Mecklenburg, also, are putting in a Catawba vineyard of several acres fall.

It has been cultivated by various persons to a small extent for several years throughout North-Carolina, but no extensive vineyard of the Catawba grape, until the last few years, has ever been grown in this State. Dr. Kron, of Attowah, Stanly county, N. has cultivated the Catawba, and made most excellent wine for several years from it, but not enough for exportation. Dr.

Kron received the past winter from M. Hardy, one hundred and twenty choice varieties of grape, carefully selected from the renowned Luxembourg Gardens near Paris. He has at his Attowah vineyaTd one hundred and rixteen varieties of them growing flourishingly, and from being well attended to, many of them will fruit next year. They were selected from the most approved wine grapes with a view acclimatization at the South. Dr.

K. will test ttiem and publish and distribute the cuttings lor general cultivation at the South, at the earliest day. There are among them, also, soo)e of the best table grapes of different parts of Europe, Most of them are the identical varieties that produce the famous Tokays, Johannisburgs, Burgundies, Champagnes, Clarets, Sherries and Madeiras, with the Chri8tae wn grapes of Mount Vesuvius. 1 lie Skoupernong grape has been cul ti vated for more than a century, and wine matde from it, but in almost every instance with the addition of sugar and spirits It succeeds better in the sandy portion of East Carolina, but grows well every where except in the extreme West It has been grown as far South and West as the Brazos, in Texas, and produced, canopied properly, most prolific crops annually, and if matured perfectly, will make a good quality of Ut the addition of either sugar or JnTiu' known as Isabella, being named by the Elder Prjnce of Flushing, in 1833 TouJt Gidb8' from wh Procured the cuttings, has been raised for fifty years on a limited scale but is not considered aV'ne and no extended except for table usfhS Voluntary Servitude. The following account of two intelligent negroes going voluntary into slavery is from the New Orleans Crescent: "Two bright and intelligent free colored men, who do a good business (both steamboat cooks, one making $H0 and the other $75 per month,) formally filled their petitions in the First District Court, become the slaves for life of a well-known of this citr, he having consented to accept them.

The names of these men are Joseph Thomas and Win. Gray. Some time ago they called upon Mr. Blocker to be their attorney in the matter. That gentleman, going carefully and circumspectly about a new branch of his business talked with and sounded the negroes till he satisfied himself they were really in earnest.

He talked to them at length, read and expounded the above Iiw to them, and explained to them particularly, that it surrendered their freedom to their proposed master, they would not be provisional but actual slaves to him, the same as if they had been born his slaves. Only one nporary difference from the state of other slaves could they count upon; their exemption from seizure for prior debts of their master but that to the calls of debts acquired after their surrender, or to the will or caprice of their master, in his method of employing them, or in selling them, they would be just the same as slaves from birth. With all this before them, and having duly calculated tho choice between Slavery in the South and freedom in the North, Joseph Thomas and William Gray unhesitatingly adhered to their original design, and yesterday, as above stated, Mr. Blocker filed their petitions for Slavery in the First District Court' From what we hear at present, a great many free negroes, not born in this State, will pick out their masters and become slaves sooner than leave th: population and the climate which pleases them so well." -VYe learn that the emigration from this State to lexas is not abating mucn. M.ie nun- ilies from Alamance and Orange passed here last I week, and they stated that others were preparing to follow.

A friend informed us the other day that he knew of 10 or 12 families in Lincoln and Gaston who were going to Texas this Fall. We regret to hear of this disposition on the part of farmers to leave the Old North State we regret it because we do not believe they improve their condition much. With the same exertion made here whi.h they put forth in a new home, and the exercise of as much economy here as there, we fully be lieve they would accumulate just as much, with lesy privation. It may do very well for a young man to move off. but for a man who has raised a family, has a pretty good farm, with a fair prospect of making enough for his own household and something to spare, to break up and take his family on a two months' journey (camping out at night) suhject to all sorts of exposure, we cannot consider good policy.

The excuse generally is, we want more land for the children we suppose. If the children are of any account they will take care of themselves. Wt have frequently heard the opinion expressed by souu of the best agriculturalists in the State that more than one-half of the farmers owned too much land now. If they would own less, and improve it letter, their labor would be better rewarded, and certainly they would not have to pay so much tax. Since writing the above we have had a conversation with two gentlemen who were on thei- way moving hack into Xorth-CuroUtut.

Their company consisted of 13 persons. They went from Sampson county to Tennessee. The spokesman of the crowd said he was doing pretty well and making a fair living in Sampson, but very foolishly became disatis-fied and moved to Tennessee in consequence of the glowing descriptions he received of the productiveness of the land. He staid there long enough to lose nearly all he had by sickness and other causes, and now he was trying to get back to his old neigh-lorhood. He said he liked North-Carolina better now than he had ever done before, and never expected to leave her ajrain.

Pious Thieves Ax Abolition Outkace. It is known to his friends, savs the Memphis Appeal, that Col. J. M. Hill of this city, with his family.

spent the greater part of the past summer at the i x'- -i '-ii 1 North. His family were accompanied by a likely negro girl in the capacity of a servant, and her presence among the "shriekers" of course excited their jealousy, and. with it, the disposition to steal something. While the family were sojourning at Saratoga Springs recently, the girl was cither persuaded or stolen away from her master, since which time Mr. Hill has known nothing of her whereabouts.

It is a remarkable fact that the same girl was stolen from Col. Hid by the Abolitionists of Buffalo about five years since. After the severest suffering she made her way to her master again, and, for her own sake, it is lo be regretted that she has again fallen into the clutches of tho Northern negro thieves. Petersburg Fxres. This girl, who has thus been stolen or enticed away from her doubtless kind master, may probably be found under enforcement in the embraces of some one of these lecherous Abolition fanatics, from whence she will, at an early dav, take up her abode in the dark alley or filthy purlieus of this or some other city.

Perchance she may resist all persuasion, bribes or threats, and for the second time eek her way back to Tennessee to the guardianship and generous care of her legal master ami mistress. God grant that it may be so. Few are aware of the suffering and moral degradation those of African descent, male and female, are made to suffer who are thus forced from their protectors and made to eke out a miserable existence at the North, where they have neither the respect or care of the whites, especially of those Abolitionists who wear the garb of excessive piety the better to serve the devil in. N. i.

Aetra, Democratic. President Buchaxax. A Washington correspondent of the Boston Journal, in his letter of the 14th instant, referring to a large number of ladies and gentlemen who, on that day, had called to pay their respects to the President, says: "Mr. Buchanan received his with that frank and genial welcome that has always marked his receptions. 1 saw him on the day of his inauguration.

He does not look a day older now. He is in perfect health. He has no marks of being jaded or care-worn. He does not sleep in the city. Precisely at half-past four he may be seen starting for his rural kome in the country.

He has a beautiful cottage near the Soldiers' Retreat and one of the cottages that surround the Retreat, and the one belonging to the governor of that establishment, is the summer home of the President It is four miles from the city, and a delightful drive. He dines at 5 o'clock. At 6 he welcomes, in a quiet way, any gentlemen or ladies who may choose to call on him and this ride is becoming quite a-fashionable one', and any afternoon the President may be seen on the piazza of his beautiful cottage, with his friends, enjoying trie air and ttie scenery as well as the graceful society that surrounds him. Few men have occupied the Executive chair who have understood so well how to lighten official care, and catch the passing comfort as the burdens of office are borne and this accounts for Mr. Buchanan's good health.

The Fall Cherokee Superior Court was in session last week, his Honor, Judge Bailey presiding. The docket was very large, but not a great many cases tried. The Indian who was ar raigned tor the murder of another India, was tried convicted of manslaughter, branded, and sent forth with Cain's mark upon him. Just at cjose of the week, Jacob Williams and N. G.

Howell engaged in a street fight, when Alexander, a son of Howell, ran up, drew a pistol, and shot Williams, the ball entering his right breast and lodging within the body. Young Howell escaped and has not yet been arrested. Some apprehensions are entertained of William's recovery. The Superior Court is in session here at this time. Judge Bailey despatches business with his usual urbanity and acceptability.

We notice in attendance Mr. Solicitor Erwin, Col. Gaither, Col. Hoke, CoL Davidson, Gen. Henry, Messrs.

Shipp, J. W. Woodfin, Coleman, Bryson, Roberts, Hyman and others. Some important suits are for trial this week, but we will notice their result at a future time. Frvnklin Observer.

1 lisburv The Wilmington Jovrnal, Raleigh Register. Western Democrat, Asheville Amj, Sali Banner. Fayetteville Carolinian. Newbern Proaress. Warrenton 3r, Murtreesboro Citizen, Western Newbern Progress, Warren ton JSevs, Murtreesboro Citizen, Wt Sentinel and Goldsboro' Tribune will copy three times, and the N.

C. Journal of Education once OCEAN HOUSE. Portsmouth, Va. THIS HOUSE IS MOST CONVENIENTLY Located for passengers, being directly ihe corner of the two principal streets, witlim sight of the geDerl Depot and Steam boat Wharf. AN OMNIBUS always in attendance to convey passengers and their baggage to the House free of charge.

R. J. WHITE, Proprietor. Jas. M.

Cobbet, Clerk. September is, 1859. 81 lm. King Street. 1 Railroad 5" Depot I a.

Seaboard Roanoke R. R. High Street. SSIloR 2 2 I 200 REWARD. STATE OF NORTH-CAROLINA.

A Proclamation by his Excellency JOHN ELLIS, Governor of N. C. WHEREAS, it has been repres3nted to me that J.J BOON, alia RICHARDSON. tree negro, late" the countv of Nash, stands charged with the murdet URIAS VICK, late of said county, and that the said Boor alia Richardson, is a fugin've from justice, and hath eaped beyond the limits of the State. Now, therefore, to the end that the said Boon, alia Richardson, inu.v be arrested and brought to trial for said offence, I do hereby issue this my Proclamation, ing a reward of f2(0 for his npprehension and the Sheriff of the countv of Nash.

DESCRIPTION: Boon is 25 years of age, in height ft feet 6 or inches weighing about 14i Iba.s His complexion is very light, mc he will, probably, attempt to paasasa whi'e man II is eve? and hair nre daik, the ratter is thick and bushy nther quickly, pronouncing some of his words indistinctly He is lurking, it is thought, in the vicinity of Nichols' 1 pot, S. and will, no doubt, give his name as Richardson Given under bv itand and the Great eal of State this the StSth day of A. D. 15'. JOHN W.

ELLIS. By the Gnrernor, Graham Daves, Private Secretery. September ltic.il. ttAfwSt. UGLY ROW IS IMPROVING.

TTGLY MEIT, BUT PRETTY GOODS. NEW GOODS NEW GOODS- AT THE NEW STORE, NO. 40. Fayetteville Street, Oppositb the Post Ornca, axd first boob below liams A HAYWonn'a Apmnierinv Stork. HERE CAN BE FOUND A CHOICE STOCK "I Drr Goods, such as Ijxiips Dri ftooda of Merino, Cuburgx, Plaids.

Silks. of the newest de ont; also, a beautiful lot of English and American I from 6 cents to 15 cents per yard Extension Hoop 6 or 8 different kinds prices from 75 cents to $3 handsome lot of Cloaks and Shawls verv cheap- stock of Bonnets, Misses Flats, Boots and" Shoes. a great va. ietv, from tine Moleskin Beaver down to a Wool Hat. Goods for men and boy'a wear, a great vr ty.

In a few words, we have a nice and large Goods of the kind usually kept in a Fasbionab'e Dry Slore, and we offer them as tow as they' can be sold person that sells our kind of Goods. We buy do class Goods or Job lots to sell to ignorant persons pfj son lhat are not judges, but good, new and fm-hiu11" Goods, at the lowest figures, for Gtok or to pDClw dealers. We return our grateful thanks to the public for toe eral patronage received, and wish to merit a continu of the same. SLEDGE A MACOV Raleigh. N.

Sept. 12, 18. t3f" Spirit of the Age copy 4 times. SAXL. T.

IREDELL. M. n. CAM. T.

I TRKDKT.T, BROTHERS, Druggists mud Apothecaries AMD nSALBBS IK Paints, Oils, Varnishes, Dye Stuffs, Window Glass. Puttv, Ac, Perfumery, and Fancy toilet Articles- N. B. Particular attention given to orders. April 85, I8.

4iyrAs HAVANA CIGARS rei A lot of superior Havana cigsrs just recet Adams Express, IREDELL BBOTHEg April 28, 1859 Qneen Street. THE OLU NORTH STATE, FOREVER. OOK HERE, FRIENDS AND FELLOW-CITIZENS, KJ will you buy the noble STATE OF NORTH-CAROLINA? If so, send to the subscribers, or subscribe to the County Agent, for this New, Large and Magnificent Map, And yon will get the whole State, with her River, Railroads, Go Copper, Lend, Iron and Coal Mines, and all the Cities, Towns and Villages, her noble Mountains and Springs, and her Fields and Flowers. If you want this GOLDEN PRIZE, now is the time. Map seven feet by five.

Border views of the State House, Insane Asylum, Chapel Hill, Male and Female Colleges, Ac, one of the cheapest and hel Maps ever published. PEARCE BEST, Hillsboro', N. C. 189. AGENTS WANTED for Every County in the State.

Terms liberal. Apply as above. Editors throughout the State copying this advertisement six months, and noticing it editorially, shall be entitled to a copy of the Map. July 185. 59 wAsw6m.

RUNAWAY. WAS TAKEN UP AND COMMITTED TO THE common Jail of Martin county, N. on the 2d day of June, 1859, a negro man, who says his name is TOM, and tht he to a Mrs. CROSS near South Quay, in Southampton county, but that be was hired out for the present year to Eli'shu Lee, to work in the Turpentine Farm, near Kingsvtlle, Carolina, from where he says oe run away on or about the first of April last. The said negro has i right eye out, very dark complexion, and badly dressed be is about 5 feet 7 inches high.

The owner will please come forward and prove said negro according to the acts of Assembly, and pay fee, Ac, and receive his property. W. W. WARD, Sheriff. Martin N.

June 2, 1859. 24 wAsw6m. (Price Adv. $15.) BRU8HES. HAIR, TOOTH, NAIL, DUSTING Scrubbing, Wall, Floor, Window, Shoe, Horse, Paint and Graining Brushes IREDELL BROTHERS.

April 28, 1659. 41 wiswtf. JOHN GRAVES, ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW, Yincey vllle, N. C. June 7, 1859.

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