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LEXICON OF FREE
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rhe True Masonic Chart, by J. T. Cross, C. L
The Free-Mason's Manual, by Rev'nd K. J.
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THE ODD FELLOWS' MANUAL, by the
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JmX. County Curt for this county, to establish
an elec ion precinct at Morrow's" Turu-Out, in
this county.
June -4, l'.G tuco
NOTICE.
A PETITION will be presented to the next
Legislature, of North Carolina, asking for
an amendment or amendments to the Act con
ferring corporate powers on the town of Char
lotte. July 8, 1356. tf
lctos of fa 8a$.
Bold Robbery. The Salisbury Herald
pays that while Mr. R. W. Mills, of that
town, was asleep in the counting room of
Messrs. Symons Sc Co., on the evening of
the 4th inst., some unknown person stole
his pocket book from bis pantaloons
pocket, containing about $0J0, besides va
luable papers ; also some looso change iu
his vest pocket. A bold day-light deed for
the glorious fourth.
Witnesses in their Own Case. 'The
Legislature of Massachusetts recently pass
ed u law allowing parties in civil suits to be
their own witnesses the Court to bear the
j statements of both parties, and to decide
. between them, if there be no other testimo
ny. The Boston Post says: "The law
permitting parties iu civil suits to testify as
1 witnesses, went into operation yesterday,
practically, in the Superior Court. The
parties, as might be supposed possible, gave
testimony of an entirely opposite charac
ter, yet the friends of the law thought they
discovered in the uneasy positi in of the
defendant, who lost his case, an evidence
that it would work favorably in its results.
False Swearing. To such a degree
has false swearing been carried in the
courts of New York, that a meeting has
been called to consider the subject, and it
is proposed to form an association to inves
tigate cases of the kind and to follow them
to punishment. It was stated at the meet-
j ing that there were persons who made a re
gular business of letting tneniselves out as
witnesses.
Rail-Road Accident. A dreadful ac
cident occurred on the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad, near the Relay House, above I5al
titnore, on Monday evening the 7th instant.
The switch, it appears, was broken and
half opened, and the train which left Wash
ington at half past four, P. M., was thrown
from the track. Engineer James Go ugh
and Henry Nagle, newsman, were killed.
Mr. Hedges, mail agent, Mr. Worthington,
lawyer, of Annapolis, Wm. Bridges, con
fectioner, and Mr. Russell, firemen, were
badly injured, and several others wounded.
The engine and several cars were shattered
to pieces.
A Princely Gift to a Minister. Last
Friday evening, as we learn from the Phila
delphia papers, tlio pew-holders of the
Arch street Presbyterian Church, conven
ed in the chapel attached to the church
edifice, for the purpose of presenting their
Pastor, the Rev. Charles Wadsworth, with
the title papers of his residence in West
Arch street, valued at $11,000. With
these documents they tendered a beautiful
Album, containing an address to their pas
tor, with the autographs of the contributors.
Tragedy at Ocean View, Va. On
Monday night, Geo. Guy, living at Ocean
View, in Norfolk county, Va., while crazed
with liquor, arose from bed and set fire to
the house. His wife, with one child, escap
ed ; but the other child he wrested from her
and it was burned with the house, the fa
ther dancing around the burning building,
beating a tin pan. On Tuesday morning
the remains of the child were found in the
house, while the maniac parent was piling
up stones around it. He was arrested and
lodged in Portsmouth jail, after a desper
ate resistance.
Escaped. The two E veretts, imprisoned
six months in Halifax, N. C, jail for shoot
ing and beating Mr. McGowan, Mail Agent
on the Raleigh and Gaston Railroad, broke
out on the night of the 24th inst., leaving
behind them a letter assuring the jailor that
they would return on the 18th of Septem
ber. .
Footing vp the Losses. The Paris
correspondent of the London Times states
that the French army buried 23,000 men
in the Crimea last winter alone. The total
losses of English and French, he says, are
very nearly in proportion, the French bar
lost 40,000 out of 20D,00J, and the British
20,000 out of 97,000.
A Preacher and Paper Indicted.
At the late session of Gihnore County Court,
Va., the Grand Jury of that county pre
sented the Editor of the Western Christian
Advocate for publishing abolition doctrines.
i and also Rev Levi Park, for circulating
the paper.
Southern Baptist Plrlications.
We learn from the Charleston Standard
that $51,200 baa.been recently raised, chief
ly in Georgia, South Carolina, Alabama,
and Virginia, in aid of the Southern Bap
tist Publication Society located in that city.
EPThe steam saw, grist and flour Mill
belonging to Mr. Osmund Woodward, and
situated about half mile below Winus
boro. on the Charlotte and S. C Rail Road,
was e ntirely destroyed by fire on the morn
injr of the fourth instant. How the fire or
igiuated is not known.
Spontaneous Cohrustion. Last week
at the Montgomery, Va., Whito Sulphur
Springs, a quantity of wool, not entirely
free from oil, was spread on the roof of the
hotel to dry. Under the influence of the
sun, spontaneous combustion took place,
and the roof took fire. The fire was extin
guished before much damage had been done.
ARE ALL MANKIND FROM THE
SAME ORIGINAL PARENTS?
A curious and learned work, entitled the
" Types of Mankind,'' has been published,
maintaining that the different races of peo
ple sprung from different original parents.
It is a large, volume, containing seven or
eight hundred pages. The work is compos
ed by Messrs. MORTON, Aggassiz, Nott,
Giddon, Usher and Patterson all men
of great learning, science and antiquated
research. The object of the book is to show
the plurality of the origin of mankind ; and
that it is physically impossille that alHhe
different races of people on the earth should
have had a common origin, one and the
same parents. The theory of the writers
is, that men were created by the Almighty
in different sections, aud for different sec
tions of the world. In the same way, they
contend that animals was first placed on
the earth. They say it is impossible that
a horse and an ass could have sprung from
the same stock; and that it is equally im
possible that the negro and Hottentot could
have had the samo original ancestor with
the Caucassian or white man. It is impos
i ible, they allege, for climate, food or mode
of keeping, to convert the pure descendants
c f the jackass into fine Arabian steeds ; and
that neither climate, food nor nothing else,
will so change the negro's head, heels, skin
and wool, as to give him, or his descend
ants, in all time to come, the fair complex
ion, intellectual organs, aud form, and come
liness of the white man. The writers con
tend that, in all probability, instead of one
pair of human beings being created, from
whom all mankind have descended, that
there were as many as there are now dif
ferent races of mankind. In the earliest
history of the world, as far back as the Jew
ish account of the creation of man, the mon
uments and hieroglyphics of Egypt prove
that the white man, the negro and the red
man, all existed, then, as now. There are
paintings and representations of them,
showing all the peculiarities as they now ex
ist. As to the antiquity of these represen
tations, it is made manifest by Egyptian
history, contained in the hieroglyphics
themselves. It is something remarkable,
too, that the negro was then, as now, repre
sented as a slave. The book is illu:tra
ted with a great many plates and represen
tations. Iu the latter part of the volume,
we have a most learned treatise on the im
perfections of our present translation of the
Bible. The writer affirms tliat, in the ori
ginal Hebrew or Sanscrit, Sampson is said
to have put the tails of sheaves of wheat, in
stead of foxes together, and set fire to them.
That, instead of Joshua commanding the
sun and moon to stand still, the expression
is, that the sun set, and that the moon still
looked on the slaughter. We are quoting
from memory, without referring to the ex
act words. Hundreds of such instances as
these are given in the work. Persons who
have any curiosity in regard to these mat
ters, will find "The Types of Mankind"
worth reading. Greenville Mountaineer.
ABOLITION PHILANTHROPY.
The Charleston (S. C) Standard gives
the particulars of the sale of slaves by Al
bert Sumner, the brother of Charles Sum
ner, heretofore alluded to in our paper. The
Standard say s :
"Among the records of the courts of our
district are many interesting cases, and not
the least so is the celebrated case of Pell &
Ball. This lingered in the Court of Chan
cery for many years ; it invoked the high
est talent of the Charleston bar; it hung !
upon the lips of the people, and at its close
gave rise to an exhibition of abolition phil
anthropy which entitles it to still further
notice.
The facts of the case were simple. Mi',
and Mrs. Swinton Ball were of the passen
gers on the ill-fated steamer Pulaski when
it was wrecked, and both perished ; but in
the distribution of the property left behind
them it was of importance to determine
who was the survivor. The sum depend
ing upon this question amounted to near
$30,000. Excessive ingenuity was exercis
ed facts faintly to be traced amid the
scenes of that perilous occasion were ex
amined, and it was finally decided that Mrs. j
Ball was alive at a period when there was
no proof of the existence of the husband,
and the property became distributable a
mong her heirs-at-law. There were two
distributees, both residents of the free
States. A portion of the property consist- j
ed of slaves- whom they could not consent
to hold in that condition, and it was deter- .
mined, therefore, that they should be sold,
ad the proceeds divided, and in carrying
this determination into effect, one very hard ,
case was presented. Among these slaves
was a body servant of Mr. Ball, who was
much esteemed, and who had a wife and
seven children. As is usual here the entire
family was put up for sale together, but
there was reason for the inference that this
man would not sell for so much, with so
many inefficients, as he would sell for by
himself, and one of the legatees required
that they should be sold separately. The
requisition inspired a feeling of indignation
and disgust, but to no purpose. The sale
went on; the legatee himself became the
purchaser of this favorite slave. He held
him for an advance in value, and only con
sented to dispose of him to tho purchaser
of his bereaved family, upon the payment?
of what he considered a sufficient profit
upon the bargain. The legatee who so held
on to a small profit upon the favored slave
of the man whose estate he was about to
share, was Albert Sumner, brother of the
Charles Sumner who has lately been ren
dered so distinguished in the Senate of the
United States.
Now, wo)alo not enter a criminal prose
cution against Mr. Samner for the conduct
of his brother; but speaking from the cen
tre of a society and a family who are capa
ble of an act like this, it may bo surely
questioned whether he is a proper person
to arraign the "harlot slavery," and whether
there is not something like retributive jus
tice in his meeting some little expiatory
martyrdom in the cause of human freedom.
It may be objected to our society that
such an act is possible ; but in every form
of society there are necessary evils, and if
families are separated here, so are they
elsewhere, under the imperious necessities
of common life, while this is to be remem
bered. In free States, families are torn
apart by countless causes, but here there
is but one to disturb the domestic relations
of the negro, and that is the order of a mas
ter. It is also to be remembered that mas
ters seldom have an interest in such an or
der. He who" owns a husband, will also
find it to his interest to own the wife ; who
sells the one against his wish, will also find
it to his interest to sell the other, and hence
it happens under the natural equalities of
this institution, that this evil most excepted
to is of less frequent occurrence than among
almost any other people known to history,
aud that it is left for the philanthropy of
one of the free States to exhibit one of the
few instances upon record, in which a man
has found an interest of from fifty to one
hundred dollars in separating a negro hus
band from his family, and who for so small
a sum has had the heart to perpetrate the
act.
This case exhibits a fair specimen of abo
lition philanthropy. Their pretended re
gard for the slave is nothing more than
jealousy and hatred of the owner, who so
far excels an abolitionist in all that consti
tutes a liberal aud highminded gentleman.
MR. BRECKINRIDGE'S LETTER OF
ACCEPTANCE.
June 13, 1856.
Sir : The National Convention of the De
mocratic party, which recently assembled
in Cincinnati, unanimously nominated you
as a candidate for the office of Vice Presi
dent of the United States.
You have already informally accepted
the nomination, but we deem it appropriate,
under instructions of the Convention, to
communicate the information officially in
their name. We also solicit your attention
to the resolutions adopted by that assembly
as expressive of the views and policy of the
Democratic party in relation to the impor
tant public questions involved in the ap
proaching Presidential election.
The Convention have associated your
name with that of an eminent and exper
ienced statesman, under the conviction that,
although your public career has been brief
yet that it has commanded the confidence
not only of your party, but the country,
and that your talents and patriotism will
essentially aid in illustrating the principles
and in firmly establishing the wise and gen
erous policy of the Democratic party.
We tender to you personally our sincere
congratulations upon this distinguished
proof of the public esteem, and remain,
with assurances of profound respect,
Your fellow-citizens,
JOHN E. WARD,
W. A. RICHARDSON,
HARRY HIBBARD,
W. B. LAWRENCE,
A. G. BROWN,
JOHN L. MANNING,
JOHN FORSYTH,
J. RANDOLPH TUCKER,
HORATIO SEYMOUR,
W. PRESTON.
Hon. John C. Breckinridge.
Lexington, Ky., June 28, 1856.
Gentlemen : I have received your let
ter of the 13th inst-, giv ing me official in
formation of my nomination by the Demo
cratic National Convention for the office of
Vice President of the United States. I feel
profoundly grateful to the Democracy for
this distinction, so far above my merits and
expectations, and accept the nomination,
with the pledge that if it should result in
imposing on me any public duties, I shall
exert whatever power I possess to discharge
them with fidelity.
The Convention wisely selected for the
first place in the government an eminent
statesman whose character and public ser
vices furnished a guarantee that his admin
istration will command confidence at home
and respect abroad.
The platform adopted by the Convention
has my cordial approval. J regard it as
the only basis on which the Union can be
preserved in its original spirit. Adopted,
as it was, by the unanimous votes of the
delegates from all the States, it shows that
amidst the distractions of the times there
remains one united and powerful organiza
tion whose common principles extend over
every foot of territory covered by the Fed
eral Constitution. After the recent repeat
ed and deplorable failures of other parties
to present to the country a national organ
ization, we may justly congratulate the
States upon the unanimity which marked
the proceedings of the Democratic Conven
tion; and the patriot may point to the fact,
as a pledge of constitutional union, that the
delegates from Maine and Texas, from South
Carolina and California, were as thorough-
ly united upon every question of principle
as those from the neighboring Southern
States of Tennessee and Kentucky, or those
from the neighboring Northern States of
Wisconsin and Michigan.
This community of sentiment, this feeling
of brotherhood, gives hope of perpetual
Union. It has been the happy fortune of
the Democratic party, by adhering to the
constitution, which was made to protect us
all, to avoid the geographical and sectional
issues against which Washington solemnly
warned his countrymen ; and we have eve
ry reason to believe that it is yet equal to
the high duty which now devolves on it of
preserving the constitution, and maintain
ing the rights of every portion of the con
federacy. If the unsound elements which
troubled it for a time have sought congenial
associations elsewhere, the loss has been
more than supplied by accessions from the
flower of the old whig party ; and, thus re
inforced, it will be tho destiny of the demo
cracy, under the lead of their distinguished
chief, to maintain the high position of our
country before the world to preserve tho
equality of every class of citizens to pro
tect the perfect liberty of conscience and
to secure the peace of the Union, by ren
dering equal justice to every part.
With sincere acknowledgments for the
friendly personal sentiment contained in
your letter, I am respectfully, you friondaud
obedient servant,
JOHN. C. BRECKINRIDGE.
Messrs. Ward, Richardson, Hibbard, Law
rence, Brown, Manning, Forsyth, Tuck
er, Seymour and Preston.
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UNFORTUNATE MR. FILLMORE.
Mr. Fillmore, in his late Albany speech,
with surprising modesty said : " When left
tt PrnMmii;.. 1 nkn!. ...1 1 . :
." ii .-juLinHU Limn, too niiuic UUllOll WttS
prosperous and contented, and our relations
with foreign nations were of the most ami
cable kind. But where are we now ?
Threatened at home with civil war and from
abroad with a rupture of our peaceful rcla
latious." This attack upon Gen. Pierce and the
Administration was not only out of place and
void of good taste, but has proved particu
larly unfortunate for Mr. Fillmore. At the
very moment he was making his ill-natured
speech, a vessel was approaching our shores,
conveying tidings that there would be no
war with England that the English gov
ernment had virtually acknowledged that
Gen. Pierce was right and that there would
not even be a temporary suspension of
friendly and commercial intercourse with
England. On this subject the Richmond
Enquirer says :
"The fact is, the British Ministrvset out
with the purpose of bullying this country, j
They received our first representations on
the enlistment dispute with characteristic
insolence ; and our demand for redress was
answered by an increase of the British na
val force in the American waters. At eve
ry subsequent stage of the controversy in
which they found themselves embarassed
by our diplomacy, they repeated the same
expedient of a warlike demonstration on
our borders. Persisting in the refusal to
comply with our conditions of adjustment,
they attempted to frighten our government
from its purposo by charging their organs
with every sort of menace. At first wo were
distinctly told that the dismissal of Cramp
ton would provoke instant and severe re
prisal ; And to aggravate the terrors of this
mysterious threat, their writers indulged a
ferocious fancy in depicting the sack of our
cities aud tho ravage of our coast. In the
end they backed down to tho position, that
the disgrace of their Minister would be re
taliated by the dismissal of ours ; and they
rested upon the gentle intimidation of a sus
pension of amicable intercourse with the
American government.
" In no way alarmed by the menacious at
titude of the British Government, our Pre
sident held on to his original position, and
our iuexhorable Secretary repeated his de
mands with irresistible persistency of pur
pose. Reciprocating the friendly protesta
tions of the English .Ministry in tho bland
est phraseology, and demolishing their ar
guments with a sort of anesthetic operation
of logic, Mr. Marcy, at every turn of the
correspondence, would remorselessly re
peat the demand for the recall of Mr. Cramp
ton. Wearied at last with the shuffling and
equivocation of his adversaries, he suffered
the blow to fall upon their heads ! but with
so gentle a descent, that, however indig
nant in their hearts, they had no recourse
but to pocket the affront and behave like a
good-natured gentleman. For it is un
doubtedly due to the staunch policy of Pre
sident Pierce, so ably and skilfully carried
out by Mr. Marcy, that the country escap
ed the hazard of a war with Great Britain,
or the more deplorable alternative of an in
famous accommodation.'"
Geu. Pierce and Mr. Marcy have triumph
ed, and England now begins to acknow
ledge that she was in tho wrong and we
were in the right. The Times, which of all
the English journals has threatened the se
verest retaliation for the disgrace of Cramp-
ton, and which has been tho most persist
ent in maintaining his innocence, is the first
to betray him and to congratulate the Min
istry on their pacific policy. Since it is a
vowed that Crampton's dismissal will not
be avenged, the Times accuses him of in
competency, and even upbruids the govern?
men t for retaining him in office. To sus
tain the Miuistry and sooth the national
pride, it is necessary to convict Cramptou
of incapacity, and to justify his dismissal.
When we reflect upon the sensitive pride
of so powerful a nation as Great Britain,
aud their extreme jealousy of this country,
we may appreciate tho skill which avoided
touching their susceptibilities in so delicate
and complicated a controversy.
In future, Mr. Fillmore will havo to con
fine his attacks upon Gen. Pierce and his
Administration, for their support of the
Kansas-Nebraska bill and their opposition
to the schemes of Mr. Fillmore's, abolition
Friends iu Kansas. The other charge has
left him tho moment it was made.
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WHAT THE ABOLITIONISTS SAT.
The New York Evening Post, a Black
Republican journal, thus speaks of the Cin
cinnati Democratic resolutions:
"The doctrine is, therefore, only covert
ly expressed in tho resolutions. These de
clare the equality of tho States, and the
equality of the States makes a southern
negro in tho territories as much property
as a northern mule, and a southern slave
owner as much the master of the negroes
he brings in as a northern farmer is of his
oxen, in spite of Congress and the Territo
rial Legislature. "But," the settlers of the
territories ask, "have we no power over the
question of slavery within our limits."
"Oh, certainly," answer Mr. Buchanan and
the Cincinnati Convention, "full, ample, en
tire power subject only to the restraints
of the Constitution. You can do prcoisely
what you please with slavery, but then yon
must do it at the proper time, and the pro
per time is when after having passed through
the stage of territorial existence, you frame
a Constitution with a view of being received
iu the Union. In other words, this whole
pretence of allowing the people of the ter
ritory a voice in the formation of their own
institutions, is a falsehood. According to
the Cincinnati resolutions adopted by Mr.
Buchanan, the institution of slavery is al
ready established in the territories, under
the doctrine of equality in the States ; as
inhabitants of tho territory the settlers have
no power over it ; it is only as citizens of a
newly formed State that they can expel it."
The Post states the question fairly. "It
it is only as citizens of a newly formed state,
that they can expel it" (slavery.)
ANOTHER FALSEHOOD NAILED.
Know-nothing journals have boon and
still are representing that James Buchan
an voted for the odious Bankrupt law. The
Richmond (Va.) Examiner nails this charge
to the counter, by showing the vote on the
passage of that bill in the U. S. Senate.
By reference to the Journal of the Senate,
July 24th, 1841, on the passage of the Bank
rupt bill, the following will bo found to be
the vote :
For the Bill. Messrs. Burrow, Bates,
Berrien, Choate, Clay of Kentucky, Clay
ton, Dixon, Evans, Henderson, Hunting
ton, Kerr, Merrick, Miller, Morehead, Mou
ton, Phelps, Porter, Simmons, Smith of In
diana, Southard, Tallmadge, W alker, White,
Williams, Woodbridge, Young 26.
Against the Bill. Messrs. Allen, Vroher,
Bayard, Benton, BUCHANAN, Calhoun,
Clay of Alabama, Cuthbert, Fulton, Gra
ham, King, Linn, McKoberts, Nicholson,
Pierce, Prentiss, Rives, Sevier, Smith of
Connecticut, Sturgeon, Tappan, Woodbu
ry, Wright 23.
The truth is, Mr. Buchanan warmly op
posed the bill in every shape and form,
from first to last.
This proves to be an unfortunate charg
for the know-nothings. It has led to inves
tigation, which proves that Millard Fillmore
voted against the repeal of the Bankrupt
law.
THE KENTUCKY WHIG CONVEN
TION. Seventeen counties were represented in
tho Kentucky Whig State Convention which
met at Louisville, Kentucky, last woek.
The Convention adopted a resolution re
commending Congress to pass a law pro
hibiting the importation of foreign paupers
and lengthening the time required for na
turalization. A resolution in favor of adopt
ing Fillmore and Donelson, as the candidates
of the Old Line Whigs, received the Tote
of only one county.
The Whig State Convention of Massa
chusetts is to meet iu Boston on the 3d of
September. The leading spirits recommend
"masterly inactivity" and no expression
of preference for any of the Presidential
candidates.
The Great " Uxsettl,el." James
Buchanan is tho mau that never settled any
thing. He did not settle the Central Am
erican question. He did not settle tho dis
puted arbitration of the Clayton and Bul
wer Treaty. In short, ho settled nothing.
Altogether, he has led a very unsettled
life. He has never settled auy thing at
home or abroad, and wa don't believe lie
ever wilL iV. Y. Express.
Mx. Buchanan will "settle" Know-Noth
ingism, on the 4th of November next.
Mark it !
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