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The War Question.
Although the indications presented by the intel
ligence which we published yesterday, arc, we
own, f a most unfavorable character to the pros
pects' of peace, we have not yet lost faith in the
chances of some solution being found which will
avert the dire alternative to which they seem to
point. The speech of the Queen of England,
whilst it recommends thai her People should pre
pare for the wors', still bre.uiies a dec'dcdly pa
cific tone, and holds out the hope that every effort
o! negotiation will be exhausted before hostilities j
ere reported to. The failure of Count Oiioffs ,
MJIC0IUII 1 J V K UIKI, "IHV.Hi II II ' JV Ul.-". 1IUVJ IIM I I -3
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object the formation of a league with iheGe-man
against the Western Towers, has removed one ele-
ment of uncertainty from the consideration of the ;
question, which had imparted to it Us most danger- j
ous aspect. In the political isolation of the Cznr I
we see the prospect of a speedy settlement of the
question, either by his timely submission to the
stern necessities of his position, or by the forma
lion of such a powerful combination as will etl c
txiallv crush him.
The affairs of Europe have, in fact, arrived at !
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or ti mporary expedients, borne! hing must be i
done quickly, and done iff dually, to put an end '
to a state ol things wh ch menaces the peace of j
the world and parulv lea its commercial operations, j
The war between Russia and Turkey has now
been curried on for nearly a year for the inva
sion ol the nriiirin:illit-s uns mm :irt ol war :im!
jet no advance has been made towards the settle-
ment ol the question nt issue. The position ol '
the other powers has. up to a certain puiat, been
nn independent one as reg.inls the belligerents,
(or, without favnung either side, they have been
endeavoring to slay by negotiation the progress
of hostilities, und 10 effect an aecommodai ion be
tween '.hem. FiaiiiajjC the pretensions ol the Czar
irreconcileable with the claims of justice and mod
eration, and inconsistent with the future safety and
peaco of Europe, they have now openly espoused
the cause of Turkey, and it is clear that we must
very soon have either a European war between
the allied powers and Turkey, arrayed on one
Bide, and Russia, and such of the German Slates
as she can drag into her quarrel, on the other, or
else some genera! and comprehensive adjustment
of the rights of the different powers, similar to
that laid down by Lord Pjlmerston's project.
Matters have, in fact, arrived at a point which
will only admit of one or the other of these alter
natives, and it only remains for us to examine in
favor of which the probabilities lie.
It is evident that the Emperor of Russia has
been all along counting on the impossibility of a
cordial uniou being maintained between the gov
ernments of England and France, from the tradi
tional animosity which has so long existed between
the people of the two countries. He also reck
oned upon the sympathy and support of all the
German and a portion ol the Northern Powers,
from the consanguinity and similarity that existed
between their rdspective families, thrones and gov
ernments. How far the first of these suppositions
is well founded remains to be seen ; but as regards
the second there is no doubt of the disposition of
the German Powers either '.o remain neutral or
aide with Russia. Reside the moiives that we
have just enumerated, the German States stand in
natural awe of the overgrown power of Russia,
its close propinquity to them, and the enormous
masses which il can bring into the field. But
there is a new and important obstacle which has
revealed itself in the progress of European civili
zation, which opposes itsejf to the successful car
rying out of either of these ideas by the German
Powers. The great popular, social and religious
revolution which was brought about three centu
ries ago by the efforts of Luther, Calvin, Knox
and other enlightened minds of that age, was also
political in its effoc's, and divided Europe into two
great camps, swayed by principles of the mosl
uncompromising hostility towards each other.
All the North of Europe England, Holland, and
Northern Germany Com Wined 'he power and
force of I ha revolution of that day ; whilst the
South 0 Europe Italy, France, and Spain were
arrayed in opposition to it, and in support of the
old order of thing. That distribution of the ma
terial power, impulses and opinions of Europe is
at the present day entirely altered by the political
revolutions, enterprises, and experiments of the
las', hall crn'ury. The principles ol popular or
parliamentary government, more or less defined,
have taken the place in the public mind formerly
occupied by the controversies ol the Church of
Rome with tho Protesiant s cts. The popular
masses of France, England, Italy, Germany,
Spain and the North of Europe, have now a com
mon bond of sympathy and brotherhood, what
ever may be the form of government which acci
dent has imposed upon them. As a counterpoise,
the power of Russia has grown within the last
two centuries into a sudden strength and prepond
erance menacing the social, political, and religious
systems ol the rest ol Europe.
It will he seen from this rapid retrospect that
the distribution ol the social and political ele
ments ol Europe is entirely charged at the pres
ent day. and there is now more or less of u league
nmongst the masses again-t the barbarous princi
ples of dspetism on which the Government ol
Raaaaaa is based. The Czar in fact resembles.
both in his attributes and his attitude, those groat
destroyers of civilization and of Ihe human race,
Genghis Khan an J Tamerline, of whom he may
be said to be a sort of residuary legatee. In the
days of the latter was witnessed the same specta
cle that we behold to-day Christians and Turks
forcettinw the religious differences in a combined
effort to oppose bounds to the insatiable ambition
of their barbarian invader.
The failure of the Czar to induce the German
Powers to abandon their neutral position for active
co-operation, is therefore to be attributed less to
any want of sympathy for his cause than to a
wholesome dread of i!ie enormous force of popu
lar opinion, wielded by a France and England,
the two groat representatives in Europe of the
parliamentary elective systems of government.
Il should be remembered that this is not a mere
quarrel between Russia and Turkey ; it is the
beginning ol that great conflict of principles,
which was foreshadowed by Canning, some thirty
years ago, in the celebrated speech which he de
livered in tho Hou;e of Commons, in support of
the independence of the South American repab
lics. This struggle wi!I present a novel feature
in the lad, that instead of the revolutionary ele
nipnts beinti sot in movement by revolutionist, it
will be wielded by Fiancu and England against
Russia.
It is not likely that in (he presence of such a
conibitnti m the Czir will persevere in his insane
yrojects. Should, however, all efforts ct nego
tiation fail, he wilt probably, to save the honor o(
his arms, maintain a contest of a few months1
duration ; but he will eventually have to yield to
the immense force that will be brought to bear
against him. In the warlike preparations recom
mended in the Queen of England's speech, we
therefore see the best guarantee of a prompt and
satisfactory solution of the question at issue. The
best way to prevent war is by being fully pre
pared for it ; and if England and France only as
sume the firm and decided attitude that becomes
them, we have no doubt that in the course of
another year we shall see this and other trouble
some questions effectually set at rest by the ar
rangements of a general congress. New York
Herald.
CHARLOTTE :
FRIDAY MORNING, MAR. 3, 1854.
The Whig State Convention.
This body met in the Capital on the 21st ultimo,
and the result of their labor is before us. The
Star says it was one of the largest, most talented,
Bnj r,.Spectable bodies that ever assembled in the
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'State. It is well we are so informed, or we should
never have known it, for judging by the result of
its deliberations we should have come to a widely
different conclusion.
Gentle reader, who do von snnnose it nomi.
nated ? General Alfred Pockety, of Richmond.
' Oli ! what a fall was there my countrymen !"
lie is the acknow lcdred head and front of the great
Whig party that teas. Osborne, Barringer, Ray.
ner, Donnel, and others did not want to lake the
beaimg, or the Convent ion paid
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me,,, 10 lbe,r Ending and talents.
a poor compli
That must he
desperate cause, which its friends are willing to
entiust to the leadership of such a champion.
After passing n string of Resolutions, one of
which are propose to comment upon, the Conven-
,ion unanimously nominated " the old war-horse,"
und he is now on the turf. the redoubtable
General is nolorionsly known to many of our
readers, having canvassed this District or Con
gress in 1851.
Having made 60 small a figure in Congress, nt
this writing, we are unable to trace his legislative
career but presume he followed the Whig lead
ers. We do know that he was a bitter Federal,
Scott-Whig, and during the canvass, made as ul
tra consolidation speeches as we ever heard.
Upon what grounds the Wilmington Herald
denominates him the representative of the people,
in contradistinction to his Democratic opponent,
we should be glad to know ? What has he ever
done to identify himself peculiarly with the mass
es ? In the memorable canvass between Manly
the exponent of the class contending for exclusive
privileges and Gov. Reid, the author and chosen
champion of free-suffrage, he voted and worked
for the former, and has always acted with the
party that defeated that great republican measure.
He has ever been opposed to the people in their
struggle (or their rights and equality at the ballot
box.
Gen. Dockcry the people's representative ! In
what docs it consist ? In his efforts to oppress
the poor, and exalt ihe rich ? In his denying the
poor man the right to vote for Senator, because
he happens not to have fifty acres of land ?
Is General Dockery qualified to fill the Execu
tive office of the State ? What great measure
has he ever originated, or carried through by his
talents ? Is physical strength to enable him to
canvass, and low demagngism the only pre-re-quisite
for a Whg candidate for that responsible
office ?
He has been several terms in the Legislature,
and in Congress but what did he ever do
in either body, that marked him as a man of
" firmness of purpose and great strength of in
tellect'1? But all personal objections aside, what
are the General's views upon Stale policy and
constitutional reform ? Is he, as formerly, opposed
to free-suffrage? The Resolutions of the Conven
tion say not a word about it. Is the 6:h Resolu
tion purposely worded so as to leave the candidate's
opinion on that question undefined, allowing him
the opportunity of advocating this measure where
il is popular, and opposing it where unpopular.
The Ibilowing is the Resolution :
u 6. Resolved, That we are of opinion that the
people of North Carolina desire a change in the
Constitution of the State, and that this can be
most wisely anil safely done by a Convention of
Delegates, elected by the people ; Therefore we
recommend to the Legislature to call such a Con
vention, and in submitting the election ol dele,
gates to ihe people, so to provide as to preserve
the present basis of representation in the Legis
lature. What Constitutional reform does it mean?
Is tho Whig Convention in favor of a change in
the basis upon which the school fund is distribu
ted ? Is it in lavor of giving the election of
Judges, Solicitors and other public officers to the
people ? This Resolution proposes a plan for
bringing about a Constitutional change, that is,
in our opinion, impracticable for the East will
never consent to call an open Convention : and
j ver f l should, it would be too expensive and
dilatory. The Constitution has provided a cheap,
speedy, and safe mode that is by Legislative
enactment the plan the Democratic party pro
poses to follow. If the Whig party is sincere
in its desire to effect this change, why did not
the leaders at the last session of the Lciski-
D
lure co-operate with the Democratic Members,
and permit it to become a law ; a large por
tion of the expense had already been incurred,
the necessary steps taken, and it only required a
few more votes to have secured its adoption.
The plan then, pursued by the Whig Conven
tion, has two serious objections ; first, its im
practicability ; and secondly, if the difficulty in
in the way redd be removed, its expensiveness
and delay. The plan favored by the Democratic
party is the best, for it is the cheaper, more ex
peditious, and is, in a word, the one pointed out
by the Constitution itself, and received the sanction
of such names as Macon and Gaston.
OCT" The Commit'ce of Arrangements appoint
ed by the meeting on the lih ult., is requested
to assemble at J. W. Osboknk's office, Wednes-
day, 8th instant, at half past one o'clock, p. in.
Itongh Hole on tlic A rides.
We extract from the National Intelligencer,
of the 15th of January, some sketches taken from
The Report of Lieut. Gibbon, U. S. Navy, just or
dered to be printed by Congress, as a Second Part
of the Amazon Expedition.
This officer made a very extended exploration
by land and water through Peru, Bolivia, and
Brazil passing numerous heads of large rivers,
in sections of country very little frequented, by
foreigners, since the conquest of South America
by the Spaniards descending the perilous falls of
Madeira River, 10 the Amazon.
In passing among various tribes and languages
of the aboriginal people, we understand, he de
scribes a condition of manners and customs, in
mat y respects, similar to those encountered by the
European conquerors of Peru; and exhibits illus
trations of their native peculiarities, and of the
superb varit ies of the scenery. To judge, by
the specimen we present, the writer, has a faculty
to describe curious scenes aud objects in an at
tractive manner.
We learn his Report abounds with drawings,
with original maps ; and that be designates a con
trast in civilization, to that of the aborigines of
the northern part of the American continent.
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Celebration 20tli or May.
On Saturday, the 18th u!t., a meeting of the
citizens of Mecklenburg was held for the purpose
of making arrangements to celebrate in a becom
ing manner, the approaching 20th of May. We
regret to say there was a very thin turn out, and
if more spirit is not manifested the idea had bet
ter be abandoned. For on?, we had much rather
not attempt it at all than to fail. We desire to see
a celebration that will be creditable to the living
and worthy of the mighty dead. If the contemplated
eelbration of that day cannot arouse us, then indeed,
have the patriotic fires that once burned so fiercely
in the bosom of the sons of 1775 gone out for
ever, and " we are the cYgenerate sons of noble
sires, born."
That day is the proudest epoch in American
history, and the names that figured there are al
ready engraved on farne'd unmoldering pillar.
They periled their lives, their fortunes and their
sacred honor braved the halter and the scaffold
to announce that great and fundamental truth that
man is, and of right ought to be free planted
the tree of liberty, and prepared the way for the
establishment of this, the Model Republic of the
world.
When the descendants and inheritors of this
priceless boon, are called upon to contribute their
mite towards commemorating the deeds of those
immortal worthies, and perpetuating their memo
ries, will they suffer the secular concerns of earth
to prevent them from laying their gift on the altar
of the past. If we take tho meeting of Saturday
as a test, it would seem so. We agree with the
eloquent gentleman (Dr. Pritchard,) who opened
the meeting, "that it was a shaine, a burning
disgrace, that we who now trample upon the very
soil consecrated by the patriotic sacrifices, and
hallowed by the blood of the authors of the Meck
lenburg Declaration of Independence, should be
so luke-warm and indifferent, on a subject that
should arouse every emotion of our soul."
The meeting adjourned to assemble again in
March, and we hope that it will be fully attended,
and every one present will be inspired with a
spirit of liberality and patriotism that will speed
on the good work, and give an earnest that the
day will be celebrated in a manner worthy of the
deeds it commemorates, and of the names that
have shed such an undying lustre upon our revo
lutionary struggle.
"Those names that are wriiten in records sublime,
In the uttermost corners of the earth
And beam 'til the wreck of expiring time,
O'er the glorified land of their birth."
Cliarlotte JTIarket.
Very little Cotton coming in this week market
dull price Irom 6 to 8, according to quality.
Flour, per barrel, from 6 to 0 ; in sacks, from
3 to 3 per hundred.
Corn readily brings 75 cents, and in demand.
Meal, SO to 85 cents, trade active.
. Bacon, from 8 lo 8, hog round.
Salt, 2. per sack, large supply on hands.
Something Nice,
Our friend, Mr. L. S. Williams, has placed up
on our table a plug of Calhoun Tobacco, manu
factured by lhat enterprising firm, D. H. Spen
cer & Co., of Henry County, Va. This Tobacco
is acknowledged to be the finest and best flavored
that is made in the Country.
We learn from the Danville Republican, that
this firm have been paying as high as $45 per
cwt., for a large portion of the Tobacco they are
manufacturing this season. To ihose who are
fond of the weed we can safely recommend this
brand. It may be had at the Drug Store of
Fritchard & Caldwell, Irwin, Huggins & Co., and
M. II. Peoples & Co.'s. If King James could
have tried this, his philipic would never have ap
peared. HJ Bryan & Thompson have now in store a
supply of the best Wines and Segars, that La
Belle France, and the Queen of the Antilles can
furnish. We speak by the book. These gen
tlemen have just uncorked for our especial benefit,
a bottle of Heidsick Champagne, which for sparkle
and delicious taste is incomparable and have also
placed upon our table a bunch of the Rio Hondo
Segars, which, for flavor and taste entitles them
to be puffed by all lovers of the luxury. These
gentlemen have on hand, Segars and Wines of
every favorite brand, and for their courteous and
gentlemanly deportment deserve encouragement.
New Goods.
Spralt, Daniel & Co., are receiving their stock
of new and beautiful Spring Goods. The Senior
partner is now in the Northern cities, and the
styles aud patterns that will be fashionable this
season uill be found upon their shelves. This is
a very favorite house with the ladies, and their
selections this Spring Le.ng more varied and ex
tensive, will increase the reputation and add
lustre to the weii-earned reputation this firm has
heretofore enjoyed. Call and see them.
Our Book Table.
Godey for March has been received. The Ed
itor asks if there has been any falling off in the
number of pages of the Magazine and we might
ask of interest or beauty either, and receive an
equally emphatic no.
This is really a beautiful number, highly em
bellished, and filled with choice miscellaneous and
Iherary ariicles of taste and merit. The colored
fashion plates, cottage printed in colors, and ex
quisite engraving of " selling the wedding ring, a
love token," are among the items that add inter
est and give beauty lo this incomparable Ladies
Magazine. Godey's Lady's Book is far ahead
of any other periodical published, and is indispen
sable to ladies of taste and fashion. Address L.
A. Godey, No. 113 Chestnut street, Philadelphia.
3 per annum in advance.
Tlie Concord Weekly Gazette.
We have received the first number ol this pa
per, published in Concord, N. C, by Mr. James
M. Henderson, and placa it upon our exchange
list with pleasure. It is a very handsome, well
printed sheet, Whig in politics. We wish the
Proprietor much pecuniary success.
OCT Since our last issue, Messrs. Badger and
Kerr, have made able and effective speeches in
favor of the Nebraska bill. That portion of the
Whig press, of this State, who have been prating
so much about bad faith, and impugning the mo
lives of the gallant Douglass, now find themselves
in rather an uncomfortable fix. Will they still
insist that the horse is seventeen feet high or
will they have the boldness to retract their error,
and give that support to the bill which it will re
ceive from every southern representative in either
House of Congress. What a pily Badger did
not speak sooner. How much explanation and
useless shedding of ink it would have saved. He
should have by all means sneezed sooner.
(cy We were visited on Saturday night last
with one of the heaviest falls of water that we
have had in twenty years. It commenced about
8 o'clock at night, and poured in torrents until
after daylight on Sunday morning. The Cataw
ba River was higher than at the great freshet in
1840. The Railroad Bridge over that river we
are happy lo state stood unmoved "amid the hell
of waters that boiled and dashed " against its solid
abutments the damage to the road was verv
slight. The Greenville Road was not so fortun
ate we learn from the Carolinian that about
seven hundred feet of the trestle work has been
washed away, carrying with it fourteen cars load
ed with lumber which had been pluced on the
trestle to keep it from moving.
07" We learn from a passenger who came up
on the Wednesday's train, that Mr. Hall, an
Agent on the Charlotte & S. C. Railroad, in at
tempting to jump off the cars while in motion, re
ceived a very severe injury. This was an im
prudent and unnecessary risk, and we hope ihe
accident will delcr others from making a similar
attempt.
IW We learn from the Soutk-Caroli)iia?i that
Mr. Nims, 'of the Memphis and Charleston Rail
Road, has been appointed General Transportation
Agent on the Charlotte Road. Mr. Nims is spo
ken of as a man of great sagacity and practical
sense, and his appointment and acceptance of the
post will infuse new confidence and energy into
the business transactions of the Road.
Judge Douglas's Rill.
All accounts warrant us in cherishing the be
lief that this bill for the final settlement of the
vexed question of slavery by expelling the whole
subject from Congress, and permitting it to rest
for the future upon the republican basis of self
government, will pass Congress and become the
law of the land.
Il is with ihe deepest regret and sorrow that we
observe the efforts that are being made to make a
partv issue of it, that as a prolific source of Presi
dential capital, it may be reserved for exercising
its pernicious but poweiful influence in the canvass
of '56.
The M issouri Compromise wasdoubtless entered
into by patriotic men of all parties and sections with
the most commendable inducements and anticipa
tions. It was thought, and by Southern men,
that it would forever heal the wound which the
agitation of the subject had inflicted upon and ad
miration and regard then entertained for our
Federal Union.
Such was the spirit, such the hopes which ani
mated the endorsers of that Compromise, (as it
has been misnamed.) Time has passed on, and
to attain the epoch of its passage we have now to
gaze through the mist of 34 years. How worthy
and yet how vain was the spirit I how nobly
cherished, and yet how sadly disappointed were
the hopes! They were wise men, but they failed
to fathom how deeply and how firmly the anti
slavery sentiment had become radicated in the
hearts of the Northern people. And unfortunately
in the very remedy which they applied, was in
corporated the principle of intervention on the part
of Congress for the exclusion of slave property,
from the territories of the United States. It did
not escape the keen penetration of our enemies,
and the Missouri Compromise proved but a brief
armistice that was followed by agitations that have
shaken !he Union o its very centre and threatened
to engulph, and did consume privileges of the
Southern people, the most inestimable; the most
prominent among them, the right of locomotion to
any portion of the common country, a privilege
denied only by the most absolute of the continental
despots of Europe, and one that the Anglo-Saxon
never before permitted to be interfered with.
To abrogate this restriction, the south almost to
a man irrespective of parties, together with patri
otic men of the North are now making every ef
fort. The Bill, at first, met with no opposition
except from abolitionists. A prominent Whig
from Kentucky. Mr. Dixon, one of the Senators
from that State, with a spirit which cannot be too
highly commended, most cheerfully declared his
approval ol it. We believe that the majority, nay
the whole body of the Southern Whigs will support
it, if it is not made a party issue. To prevent this,
the Washington Sentinel has used the most patri
otic efforts. But we are sorry In see lhat its con
temporaries the Union and Intelligencer have not
been actuated by the same motives. The former
declares it a " test of true democracy "to support
the Bill. The Sentinel takes the position very
justly that it is not a test of democracy, but of
pa'riotism and equity to the South.
Judge Douglas's speech should be published in
every paper in the State, that the people may be
mad-- thoroughly acquainted with the whole history
of this important subject. Winnsboro Register.
For the Democrat.
Public Meeting.
. m 11 I
A meeting of the citizens ot AiecKtenDurg
County was held in the Court House, on the 18th
of February, 1854, to make arrangements for the
celebration of the 20th of May.
On motion, Robert D. Alexander, Esq., was
called to the chair, and Samuel J. Lowrie was
requested to act as Secretary.
The object of the meeting was explained in
some eloquent rema rks bv Dr. H. M. Pritchard.
On, motion, R. P. Waring, A. C. Williamson,
Esqs., and Dr. Robert Gibbon were appointed a
committee to prepare Resolutions for the action
of the meeting.
The Committee reported the following resolu
tions, which were unanimously adopted :
Resolved, That the citizens of Mecklenburg
will celebrate the approaching anniversary of the
20th of May, 1775, in a manner worthy of the
illustrious event consummated on that day and
worthy of themselves and their glorious ancestry.
Resolved, That in order to accomplish our pur
pose, the Chairman of this meeting be requested
lo appoint two committees, as follows :
1. A committee of tea, to be called " the com
mittee of invitation and correspondence," whose
duty it shall be to extend special invitations to all
the distinguished native sons of North Carolina
in other States, and lo the descendants of the
signers of the Mecklenburg Declaration of Inde
ndence, wherever they may be found.
2. A committee of fifty-six to be called " the
Committee of Arrangements," who shall make
all needful preparations for the due celebration of
the day.
Resolved, That we extend a cordial invitation
every resident ol the old North Stale and all of
her sons and daughters wherever they may be, to
meet with us on that day and partake of its fes
tivities and its hallowed recollections.
Resolved, That the County ol Cabarrus and
the Mecklenburg portion of Union County, which
Counties were a part of the Mecklenburg of 1775,
be requested to co-operate with us in the contem
plated celebration, once more " like kindred drops
mingling into one."
The following gentlemen, by appointment under
the 2nd resolution, constitute "the Committeo of
Invitation and Correspondence :
For Mecklenburg County. Jas. W. Osborne,
Wm. Johnston, G. W. Caldwell, C. J. Fox, R.
Warinc:,
A. C. Williamson.
For Cabarrus County. Rufus Barringer, Dr.
L. S. Bingham.
For Union County. D. A. Covington, Samuel
H. Walkup.
The following gentlemen constitute " the Com
mittee of Arrangements " :
For Mecklenburg County. W. M. Matthews,
John Walker, J. B. Robison, Dr. William A. Ar
drey, Silas Alexander, Thos. P. Grier, Samuel
Berryhill, A. B. Davidson, D. A. Caldwell. Wil
liam Patterson, James Johnston, R. L. de Armor,
C. B. McGinniss, E. N. Hutchinson, V. C. Bar
ringer, J. A- Young, T. N. Alexander, William
C. Morris, Dr. Robert Gibbon, Dr. Joseph M.
Davidson, John L. Springs, . R. Erwin, Isaac
J. Price, Gen. W. II. Net I, W. M. Grier, John P.
Ross, Junius M. Alexander, E. C. Davidson, R.
W. Alexander, Andrew Springs, E. B. D. Sloan,
Ira Parks, S. P. Alexander, W. W. Elms, II. M.
Pritchard, Samuel J. Lowrie, William Maxwell,
J. A. Fox, John F. Irwin, Miles L. Wriston.
For Cabarrus County. Dr. K. P. Harris, C.
N. White, Caleb Phifer, W. S. Harris, John Shim
pock, D. A. Penick, Robert E. Love, Daniel
Coleman.
For Union County. sames M. Dunn, H. M.
Houston, J. M. Stewart, D. Rushing, Russell
Rodgers, M. L. C. McAuley, Eli Siewan, Co).
Thomas C. Wilson.
On motion, the Chairman of this meeting was
added to the Committeo of Arrangements.
On motion, the proceeding of this meeting wore
ordered to be published in the North Carolina
Whig and in ihe Western Democrat, with a re
quest that they be copied into every other paper
in the State.
R. D. ALEXANDER, Chm'n.
S. J. Lowrie, Sec'y.
To Correspondents. The communications
of " ill." and " Otto,'" are filed for insertion and
will appear next week.
It is from the Louisville Journal, edited by G.
Printice, that the following notice is inserted.
"The Chinese Christians. Swedenborg
seems to have been the only person to whom the
fact was known that a body of people professing
Christianity live in any part of Tartary. In the
year 1770, he declared lhat the fact of the exis
tence of such a people was made known to him
by the spirits in the spiritual world. He moreover
declared what portions of the Scriptural writings
were in their possession. As a part of w hat he
says was revealed to him has proved to be true,
it will not be very wonderful if his entire revela
tion should be sustained. We have nol seen the
volume of Swedenborg's writings from which the
subjoined extract is taken, but we find the extract
in the New-York Day Book, which paper copied
it from a volume entitled 'The True Christian
Religion.' Here is the extract. ' Concerning that
ancient Word which had been in Asia before the
Israelitish Word, it is permitted to relate this news,
that it is still reserved there, among the people
who live in Great Tartary. I have conversed
with spirits and angels who were thence, in the
spiritual world ; who informed me that they pos
sess the Word, and that they have possessed it
from ancient times, and that they perform their
divine worship according to this Word, and that
it consists of mere correspondence. Thrv said
that in it also is the
tioned in Joshua, x.
of Samuel, i. 7, 18 ;
book of Jasher, which is men
13, 12 and in the second book
and also, that with them are
the books called the Wars of Jehovah and the
Enunciations, which are mentioned by Moses,
Numbers xxi. 14, 15, and 27 to 30; and when I
read to them the words which Moses had taken
thence, they looked to see if they were there, and
found them ; hence it was manifest to me, that the
ancient Word is still with them. In conversing
with them they said that they worship Jehovah,
some as an invisible God. and some as visible.
They further told me that they do not suffer for
eigners to come among them, except the Chinese,
with whom they cultivate peace ; because the
Chinese empire is from their country ; and also
that they are so populous, that they do not believe
any country in the whole world to be more popu
lous ; which also is credible, from the wall o! so
many miles, which the Chinese formerly built for
their protection against invasion from them.
Moreover, I heard from the angels, that the first
chapters of Genesis, which treat concerning the
creution, concerning Adam and Eve, concerning
their sons and posterity till the flood, and likewise
concerning Noah and his sons, are also in that
Word ; and thus that they were copied thence by
Mnses.' Swedenborg was one of the most extra
ordinary men that ever lived. He seems to have
had almost universal knowledge, and wrote im
mensely on a large number of religious and scien
tific subjects. He had the singular good fortune
to predict and to describe discoveries that have
since taken place. Many very reasonable circum
stHnces are narrated of him on what appears to be
sufficient authority, which go to show that he had
more insight into all kinds of subjects than any
other man. His disciples are not very numerous
but they cling to their belief in all that he ,a,'
written with the most unrelaxing tenacity. Amonrr
his followers in this country are several men of
eminence who receive his teachings without qiJes.
lion."
Why TVnpolcon Invaded Russia.
A work has been quite recently published in
France, by M. Villemain, an ex-professor and ex.
minister of State, w hich throws a strong light on
the ulterior objects of ihe elder Napoleon in hit
invasion of Russia in the year 1812. As a war
between England and Russia is thought by many
to greaily endanger the possessions of England in
the East, ihe views of Napoleon, who aimed o
this object, present more than usual interest, and
will not be deemed out of place at this time to
notice, as every idea connected with the present
issue or relating lo European affairs, as existing
on the continent, will be rend by the general reuder.
Among the statesmen in his confidence, to whom
he unbosomed himself on that occasion, was If,
Talleyrand, the Duke de Bassano and the Count
de Narbonne, all ol whom counselled against the
invasion of Russia. M. Villemain narrates the
conversations held by the latter with Bonaparte,
who contended that after all, the long Russian
road is the route to India."
Count de Narbonne frankly reasoned against
the invasion of Russia. He urged that it would
be wiser and safer to command whh the French
armies tho entire course of the Vistula and Nie
men than lo organize a Polish nation behind that
rampart a Poland able to furnish two hundred
IiWiiis:imi uriMifirti I? 1 ' 1,1 I kJ
at Moscow, iboorh Austria and Prussia had been
at "Vienna and Berlin. A conflict with civilized
nations at your door was different from one with
semi-barbarism at a vast distance. The Russians
may have been overcome in Italy, Prussia und
Germany ; but who knew lhat they could be in
the depths of their own country, armed with their
climate, their rugged nature, and fanatical despe
ration. Napoleon listened attentively and calmly ; he
replied, in substance: "You think me wild, buf my
rashness is calculation ; 1 must striku far oil' in
order to control matters at home. Where should
1 find a king for Poland ? No member of niy fami
ly is fit ; it would be dangerous to take one out of
that circle. Barbarous nations are superstitious;
a terrible blow once struck at Moscow the great,
the holy the heart of the empire will deliver
into my hands that blind, utielasuc mass. I know
Alexander ; I have possessed an ascendancy over
him lhat can be regained ; a grand stroke of daring
and power will subdue his imagination ; he will
then yield. That Russian barbarism ol which you
are afraid, is an inferiority before our tuciics and
organization.
As for the vast dimensions of Russia, they will
afford so many stages the more, to be marked by
victories. With such force us I purpose to assem
ble, and such arrangements as I have in view, I
shall not dreed her deserts. Alier all, tho long
Russian road is the route to India. Alexander
reached the Ganges from a point as distant as
Moscow. If 1 hud not been buflled at Saint Jean
d'Acre, I should have achieved the conquest of
Europe. I have explored my lino of march : I
can get to tho British possessions of Erivan and
Tifftis. You have heard of the missions ol
Gardanne and Jaubert in Persia. Suppose Moscow
captured Russia beaten down Alexander won
over, or a victim to some court conspiracy, und
Turkey enlisted on my side, as she naturally and
necessarily would be and then tell me whether,
for a grand army of French and auxiliaries, access
to the Ganges would not be possible. The scaf
folding of mercantile greatness when touched by
a French sword would fall to the ground over all
India. The expedition is gigantic 1 adinii ; but it
is feasible in the nineteenth century ; thus ut ouu
dash France would have conquered the indepen
dence of the West and the liberty ol the seus."
European Hear.
The Cunaril Company deny that the govern,
ment has chartered their steamers, or ihe trans
portation of troops to Turkey. There is littlo
actual news matters remain precisely as before.
No reply had been received from the Czar to
the final ultimatum of France and England.
Count Orloff' lefi Vienna on the 8 h inst. for Si.
Petersburg, his mission having failed.
The ramifications of the Greek conspiracy were
discovered lo have extended widely throughout
Turkey, and hud been crushed.
There h is been a rather severe encounter on the
Danube, ut Guigero, wilhout any result. Anoth
er attack 011 Kaiafat was daily anticipated. Omar
Pasha had recovered from his sickness. The army
of the Danube was in good health and spirits.
Nothing new from Asia. The allied fleets will
immedialely re-enter the Black Sen. The Am
bassadors were much dissatisfied with their return
to the Bnsphorus.
The Emperor of Russia was sick, and had not
been seen for some lime.
A change is reported in the Turkish Gibmef.
Mehemet All, the Sultan's brother-in law, is id
to be superseded by Resian, Pacha, and AchnwA
succeeds Resia as Captuin Pacha. Some doubl is
thrown on this report.
Great Britain and France continue their arma
ments on a larger scale. Fiance is making ex
tensive financial arrangements to meet the coming
war.
Washington, Feb. 28.
In the Senate to-day Mr. Cass sustained tho
Nebraska bill, and Mr. Cooper of Pa. opposed
it. The Gadsden Treaty is not yet reported by
the committee on Foreign Affairs to ihe Senate.
The House has fixed on Wednesday for ihe el
ection of a Printer in the plaee of Gen. Armstrong
deceased.
The Supreme Court has decided tho McDonough
will case in favor of the cities of New Orleans and
Baltimore.
Railroads Behind the Age.
A correspondent writing from Paris says:
Two remarkable experiments in aerostation havo
highly astonished this city. Of the first I did tiot
write you, for I supposed it a hoax. But it has
been repeated since, and an eye witness has told
me of the wonderful results. A man enveloped
in a net work containing a large number of blad
ders filled with hydrogen gas, ran, two Sunday!
ago, down the Champs Elysees at the rale of thirty-five
miles an hour. His leaps were enormous.
The ascensional power of the gas was not suffic
ient to carry him up, but it neutralized three-quarters
of his weight. Lnst Sunday he renewed ihe
experiment upon an exterior Boulevard with a
tie more g ts. He made forty miles an hour, and
said that with a favorable wind he could easily
make forty-five, and beat any locomotive without
fatigue.
VVith the tremendous muscular power possessed
by man, it is evident that if he could in any way
lengthen his legs, as this evident in reality does,
he would realize the fable of the Seven-Leagued
Boois. Gaudier, the most agile clown of the cir
cus, who was present, agreed soon, with a similar
apparatus, to jump over the Seine. I understand
that a dozen machines with improvement arc novv
in course of fabrication, and that the idea ol anni
hilating space has seized upon more than one ad
venturous brain. As to the aermauts, they all ac
knowledge that they may as well burn their balloons.''