North Carolina Newspapers

I. Tliiinlar March 23. I8JS. For President " ZACIIARY TAYLOR, OF LOUISIANA. . - FOR UOVCKN'OR. OF YVA'KE COUNTV, , ; Tl IE LOAN. The bids for the five millions of Treasury S'o'.cs u be re issued under iho act of last seisioo, ere opened a fevajt since and trcrc found to ranga even higher than was eipecied- The loan was taken at one and 23100 per cfot, prcminm, and at other . rUM as high as two per cli. There were lids to the amount of seventeen millions. Messrs' Corcoran and Rigg obtained three or four" pillions for themselves, and another million for thr Rothschilds, ' who wefla. interested With them in thcir.bid of 1 QQ-100. ' -The Test goes, chit fly in large sums. The, mill bidders get but a small portion. The amount ol Treasury Notes that will La re-issued is ' found In rri teA -I Kin ( un millions, and willgo near' to six. Upon jhe cftn:lusioiipcac,Mhc United Stages Sioek ,and Treasury Notes will hnque. t'oaibly go much abovo par. It must be a source oi pride to every one that so much confi lonee is. mSnifustcd in tho solvency of thc-Governmct. . '..'. RATIFICATION OF THE TREATY 1 ha" Treaty has passed this Senate, by a nnj rity of 22, after several mod.firations.j Ii ia believed, however, that' it will re . crivc the sanction of tin Mexican Con rf in il-i fririPiil fni-fn . s . . b ' I V V ...... The following are the articles and .pro.; visians of the 'Ircaty, ds adopted by the St-nate: , - Artklo, first appoints.Senor's Cuctas, Conjo., and A ristaki commissioners on iho' pirt of iho Afcxican government to adjust terms of a lasting treaty of a peace be tween iho United Siatcs of ttio North; and tlie United Mexican States, with Nicholas P. Trit", , commissioner of tho United Slates, ccc -: :v ' .- t . . Article second stipulates that there shall be an immediato suspension of hostilities' Let ?een jhe armies of the two republics. A rticle third defines iho fu.ure bounda. ry of the Uukrd Stntcs: The lino com. menres in the Gulf of Mexico, 3 leagues from land; thence tuns up lhe middle of the Rio Grande to its intersection with t,hp southern boundary of New'Mexico; thence along that southern boundary to the ' wus. tern boundary 'of the same; thence : notth to tbo first branch of the Gila which it in.- ' tersecis; thenre down the nitaulo of that branch and of tho river to the Colorado; thence -jt runs across westwardly, and strikes the Pacific at a point one length s juth of Sin Oicii'j. The free navigation tth,e Gulf ofdlifornia and 6 the river. C !oradj,'from the 'mouth of the -Gila to iho Gulf, is secured to the United States. Article fourth stipulates .that it shall.be pptional with citizens of Mexico now Ri ding in tiio territory to be cqdod, either to lcavtf, taking with them or otherwise 'dts posing of their property; or else upoi, ta- kinguhc dathi of alleg'uricot' to this gov;' ."crnment; to bo protected in ihe enjoy'meftt of all the rights and immunirics of citizens .of the United Stajcs. ; ' ,? .- Tf)0 next ariiclj provides that the Uni McJ Slates fjfjvcrnment shalf take prompt RnJ cfTectUai" measures for. iho iefenc,o of L . I i i i 'lv. : f .. ' ' T: mo ujiuli 11 vr I II liluiJiJ lULUi.iiyiu. x w this end, both nations are. to use their best' anccavors. Jn consideration of the extension of the bjrndary of' the TJ"itrd States, made b thiv treaty, the United Statcj government siipulaics to pay to Mexico the, sum 9f "fif teen miltiotis of dollars. Jn this sum is included tho threo million appropriated last session for the furtherance, of peace. The vote stood 27 to 15. 'Four Senators were absent, 'namely: jSamcs. Tolitics.. States. Simucl S Phelps, Whig, Vermont..' Jsmes A Pearce,' Whig, ; Maryhrid, . John M Clavton, V'hig, Delaware Samuel Houston, Dem. ' Texas. The vote for ratification stands as fol lows: i . ' ' AY?.. ' ' Barnes. rohiics.' 'States. Chester AsWey, Dem., Arkansas, " Chas G Ath.Tton. Derri.. N Hampshire, Arthur P Bacbv.' Dfm., Alabama., Vhig, Tennessee, Dem., Maine, Jhn Bell, Jas W Bradbury, Jesse Dy Bright, A P Butler, John C Calhoun, Simon "Cameron-; t Lewis Cass, ' ohn H Clarke, ' John JGrittendeDj John Davis, Jeflerson Davis, William L Dayton. Danl SDickinsqn, John A Dix, S N Downs, ' 'r " Alphcus Felch, Henry S Foote, wTjha P Hale, Dem.4 Indiana,1 ; Dem., S Caroling Dtrri j S Carolina, Dem., Pennsylvania, Dem.u Michigan, Rhode Island, Whig, Kentucky, Whig, Mass., . Derm, Mississippi, . Whig, New Jersey,. Dm., New York, Dem., tfew YorS, Dem., Louisiana, Dem., Michigari, Dem., Mississippi Aboli. N Hampshire Dra., InJiara,' , Dem,,' Virginia', Whvg, Maryland,' Dem., Georgia,' Whi2. Louiixna. Whig, N Carolina, Dem , Virgiaia, W.hig, .New Jersey, Dem-, Malnu, . Dem., Connecticnt, Dem.i Texas. I.nomar J Ruk,f Ambrose II Sevinr. . Derri.. Ark Daniel Sturgeon, Derm, Pejin,, ; Hopkins L Turney, Dem.; Tennessee. J R Underwood , . Whig, Kentucky, David SL Yulee, Dem. t Florida; j .. Total . 37. . NAYS. Folates, - States. i Dem.. Old.. . i ' . . Names. William Allen, ' David R Atchison, George E Badger, Roger S Bildtfin, Thomas H Behton, John M Berrien, Sidney Breese, i Dem., Missouri, ... Whig, N Carolina, Whig, Conn., , Dem., Missouri, Whig, Georgia; -Dem., Illinois, I homas Curwio, Whrg,. Ohio, Stephen. A Douglass, Dem. I Itinois, AlberlU Greene, Whig, Rhode IsTnd Dixon II Lewis Dem., Alabama, , Whig, belaware, Whig, -.Vermont, Whig,. Mass., 'Presley Spruance, f William Upham, Daniel Webster,. J D Westcott, jr., Total . Dem., Florida. J5 'analysis of the votb. AYES Whigs 11 M. Dem. 26 Absen Whigs, 3 Dm. 1 NAYS Whigs Ia 'Dem, Total Ayes j . i " ' .Nays,' 8 7 37 15 Majority for the treaty -Among those voting for the ratifiedtidn are four y ho spoke against, it.- Of the four Senators not voting, two aro . absent. from the city Messrs. Houston and Pearce. The articles providing for the confirma tion of the .grants given : by tho' .Mexican govcrnmcrit ia Texas and "palifornia are) . . j A . .: ' '. ." . "iriCKtrfeoui; anu me uuimponani provis. ion to extend. the jurisdiction of the Mexi. can'chuYcb over the Catholic clergy in the ceded ; territory, is also stricken out These arc the principal modifications. It will be" .recollected that 'the treaty tr dicates two modcsqf paying the indemni ty agreed upon one y the issue of six' per cent stocks, op ,by instalments. The tatter modcTias been adopted. The three million subject to Mr- Trists ordlr, are to be paid immediately upon thj ratification of the Ireaty by the Mexican government, and the remainder in annual instalments of three millions each, bearing si.t per cU interest to commence from the ratilication of the treaty by Mexico. . - There is a. provision against making a ny portion ofthis.sum iransfeabre. i. - '. The only. poiotb milted in'; iho I former synopsis, and preserved in the trealy, is an artrcle securing to jhe United .States the Tree navigation of the-ulf of Califor nia, and of the river Colorado, from the mouth of the Gila to the Gulf, v : . . Mr. Allen closed the debate, with a speech which is universally acknowledged to have been one of extraordinary - bril liancy and -power. A mbrose II. Sevier, U. S-Senator fram Arkansas, has. been appointed . Commissioner lo Mexico, wjth lull powers to. negotiate and close the Irea- Tha story of the Syn being 'reduced in size, turn out to be a monstrous humbug. The wag who invented .'it, 'shouldfor the future-.' curtait hi imagination. l?s . too. lolfy, bysevefa de-grees. 'Walter F. Leake, E.f has written, a Icjttep signifying his willingness la serve as iho Democratic candidate for Governor of the Stale,.provided he : is not ' . Teruired- to canvass the State.. But on no other con dition! will he suffer his name -'lo ba, used 12 A Hannc-in. . It M T Humer, :. Revcrdy Johr.son, Herachel Jchnsoa, Henry Johnson, Wl!iciP Mangum, James- M Mason, Jacob. W. Miller, " W B .Moor, John M Nile, think where it can be dqne without, risTtof j scholars." ' The, number of Teachers' 5, health or life, it is the most desirable plan, 40G TbcM iav(J becnppropriated and oil mny accounts, not theieast impbrtarit j apporlionecl t0 the p'cveral Counties for'ihe ofwhichisthefactthatcuMomJorso.manysu-pp0rto Common Schools' during -ihe years has sangtioneo .11, mat tie peop.e expect and rely in a great aogree upoa U fe-r "a knowledfp. of the candidates. No doubt thousa nds of votes have beer made j --"1 o i a niriv frnm thn candidate assOCiatin? iw : j- 'jt -. ----- j . , : o with the people and becoming acquainted with therri all parties. This will 'of course app! to 1 PCn'nh Carolina Whi!?erv is ETi rrowmff more desperate cve'rv day. ' . The 'liand- writing isTon the wall," and Whiggery sees and trembles. Well it' may--he sceptre H about lo depart '.forever;-Carolina Gazette. ' The solemn prophecy of the gazette would be worth something-pefhaps were it'not not that hlparty ; have been pre'dicting the same thing, lo'.these .many years, and yet tha Whig's are now strong, er in the State, as we verily believe, than at any former period. 1 James Saunters,, of No-th Carolina, a wagoner, who carried tobacco lo Augusta, Ga., to sell', -while there, fell frorri, his agon wfth an open knife ib hispocket, which cM his thigh so severely as to cause his death. ' - ' T bill' to suppress Lotteries' i.ff the State of Virginia, to. take effect after the first of April next, has passed to a second reading in ihe House of ReprcsenlaUvea; of that . a cor respondent of ihe : '-erdatedthe lOihinst.; V v hicli occurred on' jhe fl-jaref llii Ihu cf Representatives: A fi.t in t!. Hcjsa took place .to-day at3 o'clock, jj-i af.cr they came out of committrc, e: J t, - .j been, called upon amctijn f-r ' ; -;.-,nJ nays on a private bill. 'T.t rnr;! ? nere' Mr- Har- ralson, il Georgia, a r.j . r I its, $f Tenn- esjtee, both democrats, at lhey knocked cveraJ, J frie'ndi, j. truck a few ill aimed blows st each ether.' and" were separated. ?!c.-!. rcn:il:on" prevailed. Mr. Thompson, cf Miss., offered ih ccslomary rcso!j:!jn for the appointment of a committee io investigate the matter and report what sh'ou'J be done."' Mr. Harralson and Mr. Jorss both oflered apologtes lo the .Hbfcse. ' While tha dtbite. ws continued on Mr. Thompson's resolution, Mr. Mctine,'of Md. announced that the parties..wpre ready mulu&Uy to apologize to each o:her, this was done, and the parties shook, hands and I expressed . their regret at what 'hid hap. The cause was a slight one it Is said, viz. that oruj said to the other that' he was always against calling the yeas and nays, or some such remark. . Some debate followed on the question whether the House should notice the mat ter further or not, A resolution vfns final. If passed, cn motion of - Mf. Stevens, of Ga.f- simply declaring, that as the d.fficulty had bee n , recon ci ted , a hd a v the pa rties hud apologized to the IIouso, fufther notice of it was Unnecessary.- - The foltwwing' Utter from GVn. Taylor to Col. 'Mitchell, ofOhio, ,must Settle all doubts" of the political views of 'Cfen. Tay. lor,' if indeed npy one could have real doubts of it before ; We copy the letter from ihe Cincinnati Chronicle:. . Baton Rogue; Feb, .12,-1 849. My, Deir Cfjnei-Your-verj'kindcom municaUoOj and the accomoafijing 'news piper, have-duly" reached me - In reply to the closing remarks 'of your leitpr, 1 . have no h"esijation;in slating, as I have stated on former'occasions, thai I am a Vhig, though (not-au uHi'aiOne; and that I have no desire to conceal this fact friym any portiott of Ihe pepple of 'the United Slates. J deem ii but" candid hii-wever,;io. add, that It th,o Whig party desire at the nexi President ial elec lion, lo Cast their votes for rile; they must do it on their own, responsibility , and with out any pledges from mp. ' Should I ba elected to that office, I should deem it .to be my duty, and should most certainly ctainvihe right to, look to ihe constitution and the high ' icrlrj-ests of cur common country, and noHo the principles of a party , fr rules of action. N , -With my s.incerest thanks for your! ex iressiona of friendship, .and my bt?st wish' es. for. your success through life,- I remain f very, truly,-: your friend ntid obedient- ser ya'nt ' Z. TAYLOR . ' Col. A. M. Mitchell, Cincinnati Otiio.' , .v ' w .1. - The Hon. Ley) Woodbury was recently nominated for ' the Presidency, by a meet ing; of the Democratic members of the Massachusetts Legislature. "' Arm then srox of'A M"ukdcrer. Epps, the murderer of iMr. M,ure-, d year or two sirice, near Petersburg, in Virginia, passed through Charleston- onJ Ajoivday last, pn: jis way from Texas, lie was in the cus-" tody of the Sheriff or D in wi(3die. county,' where tho murder was committed. . IDOWS OP RtVwLnTIoNKV LDir.TlS. Congress has psed an Act, approved. 2d of February,' 1818 giving Pensions for life lo all Widows of ; Revolutionary: Sold iers who were married previous to the 1st of January 1794 Hitherto the laws provided only five years Pension for this class' of Widows, an$ on .the 4th of March, inst.i the former acts expired. .,.. When the Act comejs to hand we will publish U. -tr . There are 4,832 'Common Schools in' )!iio and 32.232 male and 30.026 female 1 yc?r lhe ,um of 269,953 25. A Mother's JV'oice. The-f-cjitor of the Cincinnati Alas vho has receli tly madqta. I - ..u -..1 f...i..'n..r.,.j r.,u , J ' at Columbus,; concludes a notice of it, with the following,, beautiful and touohiog anecdote of one oC 'the inmaicsj "Of one. an intellifrent and modest I yon ng ladj?, who had become ltaf from" sickness, when two years and .9 half .old we. inquired y if she could recollect any thing of sounds' or words. She answered "that shecouldj"not. It occurred to us lhat there might have .been at least bnfe sound which might be remembered even pom that tender age, and we ventured to ijjire whether, she liaa no remembers nee at her mother's 'voice. . it will be long before we forget the sweet peculiar smtlo which shone upon, her features, as by -a quick' inclinatibn ot her head she answered; yes. What a world of thought: and feeling clustered a round such a fact! - In all tjer memory there j isut one: sound and that is her mother's voice. . For vears she had dwelt in silence un broken from without, but those gentle tones. ot loye suit linger in ner-neari. inere they can never die; and if her 'life should be prolonged to three score years and ten, o'er the, long silent, track of her life, the memory of that voice will come, id love liness and ' beauty, revivinif the. soul of J weary old ago with the fresh lotfely soirnds ' of her cradle hours. Tho'-V,-Coarhr' peats cf a DISTURBANCES IN CHINA. . f Late ictthtcie.ff jtn' ClAax represents! ihe xcuntry-to lcid a grat,u?roar,' cacs-' ed by the murder, by the r.-.livcscf some aix or eight EegUshmen. "It was a. cold b.'oodetf butchery, if the. accounts received aie to be relied upon, and no doubt ample vengeance will bo taken by ihe English, for Ihe out rag-: They are not la the babit, of' passing such things over lightly,.' . The following article : is all we hare room for on the subject,. this week:' Ftom tie Frd of Cliat t)tc. l " AVe regret to say that since our last is sue air doubts as to the dreadful tragedy at Fa. tee have been completely, dispelled. -St'f of our countrymen, Messrs. R'uher, fJrown., Small, Bellamy,1 Bitkwilt, and McCart, jhaveJjeen barbarously murdered by the savage villagers, whose tl reals save been neglected both by their owp author- ities and by ihe British Plenipotentiary. A more cold blooded, deliberate ca?e of wholesale murder does not disgrace the history of bubarism; and a fearful pe,rialty. will be rrtiuircd" from those who are its immediate perpetrators, and' from others' whose obstinate perversity in error permit ted such an atrocity. ' - The particulars are only known from' the Chinese . connected with" the foreisn trade,' and with; slight variations, their sio : 1 it - j . . . r . t j j - , . ' v - i 0 ; f. r- c " i ; - a tho afternoon of Sunday; tlte 5th- . . - , , f , 3. . . the party above named lefi the.factonea in a Hong boat, intending to proceed a short way up the river and theii luid for a walk returning in lime for dinner. They did ool'come back,- and on Monday there was' much-excitement anofgreat alarm for their, s-afety. . A party was immediaialy form"d to -go-in search for .them; ih'ey returned in the evening, having ascertained that thif missing Ynends landed near s im'Si villages;, on -the Ka-tee creek and. that there had been adis'urbancc.- Oje-ofthe boatmen also came back on the evening of thCth. He reported that after the foreigners land ed, gunk's were beat at the different villa" gs, and a disturbance ensued, but of the tale of his passengers hov yf as totally' igno rant. An attempt was algo made to cap ture the' Hang boat, tho' she escaped up the river after being a good deal battered with. stones. " ' On Ike 'Tth, the Hofttrboat returned; her' Crew f could give no further - information. On board wrr,c two pistol eases with the powder . flask, &c.;but 1 tic p-.titota hal Jjrcn taken an hore. It n-asnow" reported by. respectable Chinese that 'cm landing the viHagcrsr surrounded their victims, a strong party 'Intercepting their "retreat tb the boat. ; Jn ay ack was taado ' with totic and" 8 frntlcman being sifuck on the mouth and severe ly injured, drew a piste! and shot one of thc.as saiknts.. More shots were-; fired and jt h said Ihaffruin tlirc'c lo, five Cfiincse were killed. Two of ih,c foreijjner1 were mofdcrcd,lit this pKcej it is t irpposed the two 'who werc'iarrticd Tlie other fled inland, and.; were hrtnted from v illajc lo. tv ilrlagp; until they wcrQ all destroyed. Another reptrt 6avthey to)k refuse in a Joss lioijfie, And were tdkn.out and d'hberatety de fdpi'attd.' ;, "4 1 , - A strort qr J6s'rc, was evinced by a portion of the .eommutijty tv proceed to tlie'vilfiige.' a'rrncfland uemnj tin ir coxtnt.rym.cn (icaa or alive- . 1ic :oii-ut, Lowetrr'interpoKrd his official authorily ina'cireulat d"tcd Mxlfi, and sent ( round on the tt'Vrnth V i 'Aii cxms' tntim'itlinjj tic ?nl event, arrived at Uoni-;Kan on 'the 7lh; arid II. M. steam fii pate Vulture was despatched, for Wbarnpoa" that afurnoon. Tha following morning Capt. Mac doJigall landed .at the Pritish Consulate with a. bnut iX)mpn; mririnc and pcanvni It. was ttje o6i,fer't!1 intention to proeoed, to. the villages and burn them dawn; but after., a eonsulation ; with If. M. Cnsul, the movement was sjnpped, at least until; the Chinese, amhonUc's. had shown w hat fctopa they intended to , take in' the matter. We' have no witnesses to prove the puilt of tho v.illajjersy-arid not a Chinese will ever poiat out a criminal. Torture, mayc-xtract confeions, but j e.ve'ii.if victims arc sacrificed we cannot hare j co.nfiituncc as lo- lheir beinff the real , culprits. j We're a huiidret IsUcbc nered hearts demanded ine prisons ot readily aflrd the, supplv; but d justtcc'be patt.ified? -Keying may raze the village-and lay wale thc Gelds (or jf he docs not wc should) as an example, but what security have we. for the future? . ,' - . Contain Maqdougall left his party at the fac tonsaa a guard lest the mob ' should, make an. attack, and returned to flonjj-ivonjr' for troops, lie arrived on ihe morning of, the, Tib having' -communicated with Sir John Davis on board the Da?dalus .bn his way up the river. After cm barking a compaiiy of H. Td. 95th regimeril ihe Vultuse again saiTed at half-past 'he, P. M4 on the way up, Rhe was to receive Sir John Dais from the Daedalus. His Excellency woultfj'cach Canton on the rairniug of the 10th; and we wait with some anxiety to hear whaC step he la,kc . TJIE AUGUST ELECTION. . . Ori Ihissubj-ct, tho "Nprth State "Whig'1 truly remarks The .Election in August next, will bo the most important one ever helaVn the Slate. Q Besides -the .influence which' the voto for Governor will exert upon the Presidential Eleejion in NoVem btir. tne L-cislature will have io choose a J jlirfge lhe Sup'r-eme Court,' four Siale j Solicitors;" nnd.'a United States Senator, Mr, BageJi"s time expiring on lhe4lh of March, f 1849. Besides all this, if we lase the Legislature, the State will be again. Gerryma!odered into . Congressional Dis tricts', 1. Locofoco organs having already a v o w e d this as. "th ei r p a r po se , if they suc ceed in carrying the" Legislature. Our friends, therefore, seeing the importance of the result at stake; will see, also, we hope, the danger and folly of indulging in fruitless regrets, and the, necessity of perfect har mony and concert of action-,' Ii is' no part of true men to grve vent to bickerings and feutjin the hour of trial to their common cause, aad in therfacei of a commoo ene my '- ,' . i ThelNaumlteag S;eam Cotton MiH, in Salem, Mass. contains. 27,600 spindles, driven by an engine of -400. horse power. It emp'oys 575 hancs, who. receive n wages $120,600 a year, and manufactures 5, g00 ,000 yards annoatlv. This.milli we belieya , is the la rgest in the cotrcft ry haf . rng a capit'al of $Q00,00CT.- . ? V SMl'lW ANNA'S, RETIREMENT, "Th-frc ii na "rasoa to doubtj ($y the New Orleac "Du") the ; tru:h of the report bought by th Edith; that the great Mexicao, whose energy . has sustained thra war and.comm'acicatcd whafever of vigor ! has characieriid the defence of Mexico; had received his passports from nut Com mander in Cliief. aod ere this has arrived rt Vera Cruz on hrs way to foreign part. A gentleman now in this City saw the lei, tcr to Gen- Twiggs front Gen. Scott, directing the former to allow 6r. Santa Anns to. depart in peace from Vera. Crux The retfr'rmcntof Santa Anna is 'a. death; blow to the war party. : The Ashboro1 Citizen, says. The min' ing interest in this County, is becoming very considerable. . Some three hundred-! hinds are constantly enggrf, in differ cot parts, in looking for gold. ; Tcw.v Swallowed bi a.n fiARTiiquAKE Malta. The, Neapolitan steamer Captri has brought intelligence from Syracuse, that the earthquake which was feft hero on the lith, had laid ihe city of Aucusta in ruins. The first shock was felt at IP. M.1. and was so violent that all the people fled from their houses. . The following one a lew minutes afterwards, destruyed the wno e place except' .iwcniV'seveu nouses; , X ? . ', r aru the mo e sank, and where it formerly stood , . t.ui mere wis uu-vuuum ui uuj lomuun- The last accounjs 'received at. Syracuse state-that thirty. five dead bodies had Wen found ard. fifty-nine woundfd, recovered from the ruins I he earthquake was also felt at' Noto, Syracuse, and. Catania, with partial damage, and at , Messina, without damage. " Rescmption in ;Missisiprt.r-An ex. tra-ct from a letter dated Jackson, Miss., Feb. 19ihi 1843. shvs:; An act has pass iyd both houses of our.' legislature, and will undoubtedly be approved -by the Oov ernor, providing for the silo of the 5'00,00aian . '"atiori-tJut eUrprls;us pot at all, , r uA tn ,K!. S,-, kJ u,-T"Prc,a"7 8,.ncc ' we hayeen, from the tefior General . Government for internal improve i i'.i-t i-. s"""" "j mcnl purposes, ana ma King uic uouus is sued on account of? the Pi.a ntcrst Ba nk , and tha coupons iheeon, receivable in pay." By another letter qfllie same date, wo learn that an act has' pushed the ikn-' ate, and would unq.ues'ionnbjy.' pass the House applying $y3,000 now in the treas ury, towards paying the. back interest on the bonds (Planters1 Bank) in, the order in which it falls due. How TnEiioEY GOESi-From the Qudr-termaster-Generiil'a 1 report to tho .Sec retary of War, we . learn, that up to the 24th November last 11,549 - horses had been purchased for tho Artillery, Cavalry, and (or Draught, and , exclusively for transportation, 22,907 oxen, 5,880 wag. ons, 54 steam vessels 4 ships,- 2 barques. 8 brigs, 34 schooner?, 201 scows and surH boats. Besides from 200 lo 300, wagons and carls, 4,000 or 5,000 pack mules, and several hundred sail and steam vessels! that have been hired. " Shocking. The St. touls" Reveille says that a rVillian about 60 years of age recently ; paid his addrcs3es taV handsome youn'g widow residing on McGoopin Isl and.'. Being rf jected.oo his feuit,fce arnied himself and went to her house; cn her ,sti3 persisting in refusing him, he struck her on the head wjih a hammer.: and with his bowie knife attempted to cut her throat,, f. a,hnS ,n 11,13 attempt, and seeing ajoung man approach the house, he seized her by the noaa and cut it ofH Well - Done We clip the fallowing from the proceeding tf iKs lIo ;e of Rep resentatives of the Texas Legislature, on Monday the 10th of January; ' . The Speaker announced "a petition, from the citizens of Henderson county, praying the Legislature to pass an fret, pohibtAng the citizens of said county from wearing beard on the upper lip, over one. inch in length!!! Read and referred t6 the com. miltee on Penitentiary. r t . Roebig' tiie? . Cur Uizx, Bcsixess HotjRS.r- Yesterday between 2 and 3 P. M( while the cashier had turned round for one-moment to draw a check for some one doing business nt the' bank, a bag, contain ing two thousand ' dollars in gold, which was lying on the top of the coan'ter,4was stolen. It is supposed ta teen taken by some one who happcrcd ti p t a check cashed by the paying ti.llcr .M l j time ihe Cashier's back was l-rr.cd. 2o arest.' New York Post. These are trying tiir,.s forl.i jl.hso guard well against colds. Mrs. Partington of the Post, says ho h.s g-st a romantic affection in herhoulJer, r.curalogyin her head, and the embargo in il. j u i .n of her jocular, vein, aod ail from cperdng ihe window in the night, to throw n to t! nt a brace cf beJigerant tom-cats cn t'.o ilti. '' ' Mr. Adams' seat is shrJc J i.i ILck, and ih to remain-unoccupied, by crJsr of he I Jouse, durios the st Siiun. . . WoJtAN Feoz to Death. TI 1 provi dence paperi rerwjrl the dcaih cf a wcfnan named Welch, in the woo-js v.zit place on, 'Monday night. TIfi vc;r.an Uved in Qlneyville, and-in thsefterr. :--n was on a vis:j to ' some friends about a t. . j and a half distant frorr her hoe. hv,:'-: evening she started, on her rtturn, i a aodw storm, got lost in the woo A and was frozen 10 death. .' She Uft a h;:iL .zi t:. ! aix children. Extcxsive TussEt-r-On t!ie err.' plated rait road between Troy and R.uj;, ihere will have lq "be a tunnel fcur r. ' -long. This route wil!b& 20 mihs C tborlesf ; ' - MaaaucK a IEiTn, la lU narr. ;t and deata column f the CltImorp. CL???r of lha t3ih.lu theri ta1! announce oient of tl maf riajre f Mr. Mitc&ael Mctto.natd, and l' taJ death both recorded at the sama tim. Ut wJ married en tha 27U n!t and' d.cd cn tia aveo. in f the 25tb. Tht bis widaw and comer. t otw friends rralUed tha fact, thtt 'ia'lht trMi of I f we are ia dath. Cok ixr Fwa. Tbe txfwrtt . cf IntfliU corn fioro the Uoltrtt Uiea donr the la'fl y tt ' amounted, aceordinj to the annol report of the , nmmminiifr nf Fulrnlt tn IT 2?? SIS k'lhell corn, and 915,013 barrel of corn meal. I a 1843 ihf amounted t .1,826,603 bushels corn nf , Mf&ifAJttcs. i.f Kexttckt. Tb Kcn - tucky . Legislature bas refused to admit st colorVdmechafiic taTtove Ihto lhat3tath, fnm Virginia. Tho reasons aliened were various but arnonx them, and a chief were these, that they wanted more white mechanics, and they should never have Igjem until labor was made reputable. ; Blannfrhassetls Island. . on the Ohid river, is for &aje-price SI 2 ,00 rf. Tlie number of emigrants from drcst . Britain and Ireland to North American in 184G, was 129,851; in the first three quar tera of. 1847. 2i0,4ol. 'Of thft latter' aumber, ll4,30t embirked at Liverpool; DeTfoCXTl Asruix-m. Mr. Wentvortn. " a ofember of Congress from Illinois, and Handing, A'AwitU .his. party, in writing o Ihe Chic 50 Democrat, of which lie is the editor, speculate as fallows trpon the "Ipronpecl of the several aspirants tfli the Presidency in the rinks' of the harmonious Domoeracy: . , Woo oar f All New Rnlurd.end Alabama. Cam Ohio, Indiana, Michigan. Louifcanaaad pcrnaps iitaryiana. . . . lirciujtt-ri"rnnj'ylvBniaI Georgia, and per. hap Marj !'. -'., - '. J llETTuN-i-Missoari., 1 R. M. Jouf9cs-7'Arkania." ' .' - , : To jx Tennesfce, Vrin?a, North Carolina. ' Hoist' Tela; -v. vv iiv;.M t.i.R ntt c f...u- anan. Van Buree, Benton and Woodbory. . j The. othef Stales have not yet settled upon si preference." f . Mr. Wcntworth pve.upfouth Carolina and - 7evt- Hampshire to the Wh'js'and expresses fea.re for NewYork. . ' It will be wen thai Mr.. We ft I worth states lhat Mr. Polk-i the cho're of the Virginia Democracy of the. 1 vcsoiuimiis auornt'o jij me convention recently in erssion m this city, .that they have . virtually excommunicated ' nearly every other , prominent individual whole name lias been con. nectcd wiin Ine .approaching Canvass.- Kick. mend Whig.-! . MeRDER-c--Jamp Sm'fi, a worthy ynnnman,' was. murdered on th' evening of the Uthinst., at WelJon. CS. C.) by a free neirro riamcd John UrouM. I lie murderer made his ccepc, b, ' b arreslc in :. Pctcrsburi and taicn tacit iov ldon. ; : ' ' The Ex-Emprcs of France ne raid to have beii athed the diamond, in value about ix millMins, given her, by . Napoleon,' to her brother, the Emnetar of A uf tin ' rmnpttihir h!m in mm! lion them, , he should judge ' best, among the. members of his family ; 'nWBEftX (itv C.) MARCH 7. ' .Tnie CetTt'sa or RtCK (TJii Is Veorhing aft important article of culture' in this section of the, State. The quantify shipped from this place of -i theB cop of le'46 amounted lo 30,000 bnh'Is. What last ycar'u crop w'dl b we cannot tell, as Ih v hole has not yet coine into market. There -is a larjrc portion of land in this section well adapt. ' ed lo, this article; and as this is the season for planting, our p'ant'Ts should pat in a large seed-, ing. As yet but few undi-efati-d fully its proprt management. ; If planted 9a high -:fad,- the stubble shodd always ba ploughed up in the fall," othe rwise the tucceeding crop are injured by the worm. The bcs.1 l,nds for its judicious culture are however the ?wampf and savannah lands; .v llu. van . lis 1 urClllOWCO Wlln Water it is much bctlcr.' Oa account of the apparent low price at liich thu article.has sold llus scasona'some may Wy." discouraged, but the v should remi'mber that the jrencra! dt-Dree-inn nt rad' and buwincs in this section has had its effect upon rice. Hereafter It wiH do bctler. btit even at prearnl rales, we judge jt is a profitable cruu. ncwvernwn. - The amount of ieje' in all the banks in the United Stales, by the last returns, may be staled at abo at forty milhons of dollars, or less t had two-tliirdof Ihe amount. in the Bank 0 England. Si'?':''5V r ' - - .' ' :i V' ''' t " " !' '' ' It is statVd by a correspondent of a Bali tTmore, paper, that, the -War Department "has not yet accepted the reaignation of Lt.' you r.rcmoDi ra an otucer ot the army. ' , We are authorized lo announce Cot- Thomas Mo r iiw as a" candidate for Sheriff of Buncombe county, at Oje uext election. " Cavalry IVotice. AH persons befon jihg to the Buncombe Cavalry are Hereby noti$i to attend in. Asheville'on tb luth ef Aprjl, armed and eq'tuppod, for drill, . - JAMES II.' ALEXANDER, ' March 2? 184S." ' 1 ' NOTICE. , Araari who understands blasting rock can hear of r job whfch will pay well by application at this oCVe. March-23 1848. $20 REWARD Stolen from the subscriber, on the night of tbi 17th int, at J; V. Harris' en the Ilick. ory Nut Gap Road,. one Pocket Itook, contain ing One hundred; and Twenty Dollars in Cash all. of which was South Carolina money. Tbefe were right ' ' iTctu Dollar Bills g20 bill nd one 810 hill on the .Commercial " oanK'Oi.ooitimoia; iwo &j bills, Uie banks not recollected, onlj that it was South Carolina m.. neyalso there was a S 1 0 counterfeit bill in said book, With the name of A. P.iprinkle, writ ten across the back-' There were several Notes?' 01 nara one noie peyaoie lo vvm. It. ICay from T!.- Carson, for 870. wifnesurd h r. v p: Cu-z V 1st of November, 1843? one other note' j.il "-toWio.R. Ray from J. A. Farjr. for ; - - ' .rsr with a creJit of five dollars; one otb. . r r y. made payable to Joaeph Young, signed is pnricj! by VVm.;R. Rav, and J. E. Ktton o security, fur 150 00. -There mar ba other note not recollected. Tlie Pocket IW h. is name of A, P. Sprinkle written on the inside, and' the name of WnMcGce stamped also on the in. side of said book. . : All persfons are forwarned fro fiWIm tn v y f Uie above mentioned notes. The above re. - j , prn tor ,ne to above jd Pocket Book anA tta contra t m.hm r .J, to me at tha Warm Springs; N. C, . . ' - WILLIAM R. RAY. : Mareh, 23, 184S- 335-31.