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From the NashTiile National Union. JOHN BELL’S RECORD. MR. BELL IN 1856—ADMISSION OF KANSAS. The following extracts from a speech made by Mr. Bell in the Senate, on the 2d of July, 1856, on the bill to authorize the people of Kansas to form a Constitution and State (iovernnient pre paratory to their admission in to the Union: ADVOCATES ITS KARLV AUMISSIOS. “Whoever has looked closely into this subject, ami comprehends all its hearings, must be satisfied, that, though we may remove some of th« more fruitful sources of the existing disturbances in Kansas, dissension and discord will still continue, not only in Kansas, but throughout the country, until Kan.sas shall become h State. The excitement and agitation at the North may be expected to continue, even with increased in tensity, so long as there remains any prospect of the success of the pro-slavery party, in order to consolidate public sentiment in opposition to the admission of Kan sas as a slave State. Can the country—can the Union, stand five years of unmitigated agitation upon this distracting subject? It seems inevitable that agitation must continue through the present canvass for the Pres idency. There is no remedy for that evil. Had I the power, by my voice, I would crush this many-headed monster—this Kansas hydra at once; but, as that is impossible, I protest against the extension of tliis con troversy into the next ensuing contest for the purple. I protest against that as equally unnecessary and peril ous.” PRACTICAL WOBKIN'OS OF SvJt’ATTER SOVKRKm.NTT. “This principle of popular sovereignty, connected as it was in this case, with the rej>eal of the Missouri Compromise, was thought by its friends to be of such transcendant importance, that when the Nebraska bill passed the Senate, at a late hour of the 2d of March, 1854, the inhabitants of the national metropolis were awakened from their slumbers by peal after peal ot deep-mouthed artillery, announcing the glad tidings that the principle of popular sovereignty was tri umphant; that justice was vindicated by the repeal of the Missouri Compromise; that the reign of the Con stitution would now be restored; and that slavery agita tion would return no more to vex the landl As though some great victory had crowned our arms over a public enemy, as at Buena Vista, or Cerro Gordo heights, the reverberations of the cannon had scarcely ceased when the same joyful tidings were carried with electric speed to every quarter of the Union. “I trust 1 may be permitted, without offence, to say that, in a long tract of time, no example can be found of a delusion engendered in the heat of controversy, more complete than that which appears to have taken possession of those who pressed the Nebraska bill to its final passage through Congress. Where, now, do wo find the realiiaiiou of those \*easing dreams which doubtless inspired the author of that measure? ***** * “Mr. President, I do not wish to say anything that can be considered offensive; but I must say I do not know any w»y in which I caR so well illustrate the true character and tendency of the organic law of Kansas, as by comparing it to the preliminary arrangements which usually attend the sports of the ring. Without any far-fetched analogy, that law may be said to have inaugurated a great national prize-light. The ample lists were regulwly marked out—they were the bounda ries of Kansas. The two great s^eccions of the Union, the North and South, were to furnish the clianipions and to be their backers. The prize of victory was to be a sljive State on the one side and a free State on the other. But as the victory was to be decided by the number of the champions, to encourage their enlistment and prompt attendance, the pri*e of a choice quarter section of laud at the minimum price, was to be awarded to the cham pions on either side. “When we consider that the champions on both sides of this great national contest were deeply imbued, for the most part, with advene principles, sentiments and prejudice, on the subject of slavery, excited and inflamed almost to frenzy by recent and violent agitation; and that the inhabitants of the western counties of Missouri would naturally become sensitive and excited in the highest degree by the prospect of a free State on their borders, it is not extravagant to assert that, had the most inventive genius of the age been called upon for a scheme of police combining all the elements of slavery agitation in such a manner as to insure the greatest amount of disorler, personal and neighborhood feuds, border disturbance, and bloodshed in Kansas, leading, at the same time, to personal :ind sectional alienation, he could not have succeeded better thnn by adopting the provisions of the Kansas-Nebraska bill.” HE INSISTS VPON THK IMPOBTA.XCE OF A SPEEDT AUJtST- MENT. “Sir, months ago, when authority was first given by the President to Governor Shannon to call to his aid the military force of the United States then at Fort Leavenworth, we were told tkat there would be no fur ther disturbance; but we have been disappointed. The disorders have rather increased than diminished since that time. It may be that there will be no more un authorized military arrays on either side; but will that cure the evil? Every settler in Kansas now goes armed and prepared for sudden conflict; and does any one sup pose that any future emigrant to that Territory will fail to equip himself fully with the means of self-de fence? Does any one suppose that there will be no more secret associations—no longer any system of intimida tion kept up, no longer any use for the bowie-knife, re volver, or Sharjfe’s rifles? Again, I ask, where is all this to end? Can quiet ever be established unless one party or the other is driven out by force, or shall vol untarily abandon the contest; or until Congress shall adopt some measure to end the controversy' “And, sir, what forbids that we should now adopt some measure, with proritiom lo fair and Ju»t in all ret- ptcU, that it cannot fail to mitigate, if it cannot re move altogether, existing evils, and in the shortest pe riod eonntttnt with thvs tpirit of fair^rtt and Justice bring the whole matter in controversy to a close, by ad mitting Kansas into the Union as a State? Do this, and we may leave tlw issue in the hands of a higher power. *■*■♦*****»•»*»** “Settle this slavery controversy when we may, now or at any other time, or in any way, tbe best that can be devised, whatever section may have a ;riumph, there will remain, on the side of the vanquished a deep and rankling feeling of discontent and a^lienation; and a whole generation must pass away before they will cease 1.0 mar, to some extent, the general harmony. On the question whether Kansas shall be a free or a slave State, #s a representative of Southern interests, my prefer ence, of course, is for a slave State. But, sir, if in a fair competition it must be so; let it be a free State, let it be retroceded to the Indians, the aboriginal occu pants of tbe soil; let it become another Dead Sea, rath er than continue the pestilent source of mortal disease to our system.” J'fict ^4/1 Irrepressihle C’onclu^ion. The gallant and gifted Jere Clemens is in the field in Alabama, meeting the Yanceyites in their stronghold, and combating, with all the nowers of his rare eloiuence, the fell purposes of the Disunioni.st,s. In a discussion, the other day, in Huntsville, he fixed the responsibility lor the pre sent unhappy condition ot affairs on the proper shoulders, in a manner as irresistible and over whelming as it was simple. We quote from the llunt^iville Independent: Col. Clemens stated one fact in his masterly speech here on Monday la.st, that should open the pes ol the people; a fact that should be pondered by every man who loves his country. Slave holders in particular should think of it. In 1*540, the Abolition vot* was but a little ovy 7,000. In four years, under Tyler’s administration, who was «;lcctf:d a« a Whig, but turned Democrat, it increaM^!'! triore than 02,000! In four ycarB, under Polk, it increased to more than ‘2HJ,0O0!! In four years, under Fillmore, it fell off to l>‘ns than 1.58,000!: In four years, under I’ieice, it increased to more than 1,341,000!!I Such facta as these need no comment. Sensi ble men can read and understand. It is a fact plaiii as daylight that the tendency of Democratic administrations is to increase the slavery agitation and to endanger our institutions. Democrats cannot deny it. Hgures show it, and everybody nows It. We were told by the fire-eaters and secessionists in 185G that Millard Fillmore was an abolitionist, and yet the records of the country show that he did more to quell abolitioniam than any other President.—liic/i. Whiff. Mtmbtr from Yancry.~lt has been reported in various papers, that the member elect from \ ancey county, is a Democrat. This is a mis take, as we have been informed through a relia ble source. He claims no affinity with modern Democracy, whatever.—Spectator, “THE EBONY IDOL.” From the Springfield (Mass.) Republican. The following extracts are from a forth-coming work by a Massachusetts writer, entitled “The Ebony Idol.” It narrates the history of an es caped fugitive. The inexorable law of civiliza tion, work or starve, is one that Sambo, from the very tropical sensuousness of his being, is exceed ingly slow to learn. In this story a clergyman of moderate endowment giTes a temporary asylum to Ca'sar, and labors to explain what he expects of him in return; “I wish to do for you all that I can do wisely, and a.s a Christian, but I cannot distre.^is my faiiii- ly to serve you, or .squander the small means at my command. I would like yoti to work in the garden, cut my wood, and do such errands and chores as will a.ssist my wife. It seeuis to me you cannot but be willing to do this. CiB.'^ar sjit dog-eyed and sullen, without even pretendifig to listen. Mr. Cary spoke more warmly: “I shall make inquiry for you that you may obtain employment in some reliable family; as soon a.s such an opening is found I shall expect you will leave us willingly.” “Dis nigger didn’t come tiort to work, no how; get work enuf at de souf;” cried Cainar indignantly. “But you must work or starve; liberty is noth ing, unless you can be clothed and fed.” “Dis chile got clothed and fed at de souf, and waii’t twitted of it nudder,” growled Ctesar. “Lor’, wish you could eat one of Dinah’s hoe-cakes, dem’s fixins as is fixinsi” “1 beg you, Cjvsar, now that Providence has released you from slavery ” “Providence hadn’t nurthin to do about it; it was jis’ dem cussed abolitioners, and dat is fact Mas^sa Cary.” Mr. Cary groaned. It was evident he had in deed fallen upon fallow ground. “Ca'sar, all gifts are from God! He has doubtless some motive in relea.sing you from a cruel tasl;-ma.ster.” “Nebber heard any nigger, black or white, call my ole massa cruel task-ma.ssa afore, lie was a gemman as is a gemman.” “Why did you leave him, thenr’ asked Mr. Cary a little te.stily. “Oh, liOr’ only knows, cos I was over-persuad ed I spect; Sambo he heard as how dat pussens up norf didn’t work only when dey had mind; now dis chile nebber had a mind, and so I wa:i over persuaded.” Thinkirty Candle Ends.—Dr. tiohnson says “he who drinks beer thinks beer;” and a recent writer in an English periodical, the Saturday Re view, det'ires that those who occupy them.selves with “enUicss care for small savings get to think candle ends” as their reward. There never was a happier expression. It is almost e»jual to Dr. .Johnson, and would be quite so were it not for the probability that the first epigram sug'^ested the other; the beer hinted the tallow. In the same essay the Review points out in the most amu.»ing manner the folly ot preaching Poor Rich ard to the world in the present age. We snhjoin a paragraph from the essay: “Economy is a good thing; but among the classes who, whether they are econumical or not, are sure never to go to bed hungry, there is nothing in the triumphs of economy or in the ac cumulation of money to con^pen.sate for the dete rioration of mind and feeling which is almost sure to accompany the pursuit of so trumpery an end as screwing fburpence a week out of the butter bill. As intellectual education is more widely spread this i.s more keenly Wit, and persons be come more unwilling ‘to lose life for the sake of the causes of living.’ It seems better to lay out money on learning and on mental cultivation than to tie it up in a stocking. And the state of so ciety at present helps this feeling. The old say ing that a fortune is more easily saved than got is no longer true. Its truth belongs to a time, when each class was shut up in its own narrow limits, when locomotion was difficult, and the chances of success in remote adventure were ex tremely small. Now a fortune is more easily got than saved. The world is open to the enterpris ing, and, if they please, they may pick up gold abroad instead of painfully hoarding up copper at home. The habits and natures of families are naturally accomodated to this altert*d state of things. A prudent father does better by spend ing his income on his children, so as to give them a fair start, than by neglecting their present ad vancement in order to prepare tor their future needs. His object is not to teach them to save money, but to get it and spend it rightly; and it is impos.sible to teach this unless a certain liber ality and generous largeness in dealing with mon ey, proportionately to the family income, is open ly encouraired. There is, indeed, a sort of idi otic wastefulne.ss, by which silly people manatre to dribble away va.st sums yearly without any thing to show in return, that a parent ought of course to prohibit by every means in his power. But the general principle remains that a fortune should be earned, and not inherited or saved, and that it should be spent with somewhat of easinass and magnanimity. There is one test which will act as a perfect .safeguard against too wide a de- parture from the rules of prudent economy. So long as debt is abhorred every thing is safe.” A Very Sharp Tenur.—Recently, in Paris, a Certain tenor, whose nauie it would not be fair to give, appears before the Tribunal to insist upon payment of the full sum mentioned in the con ditional contract he signed with the manager of one of our theatres some two months ago. The tenor is engaged by an English imprcMtrio, and reckoned upjn the money for the expenses to which he would be compelled by his journej. The manager coolly refuses to pay him because he had not fulfilled the terms of the contract. He had no C sharp! And it was for this C sharp alone for which the manager cared. If he could produce a B flat it was fully as much as he was capable of; therefore, nothing more than the pay of an ordinary chorus singer should he have. The poor tenor defends himself most valiantly against the imputation. Not only has he a full C sharp, but, moreover, he can hold it. The court ruminates tor awhile and decides that nothing but real merchandise can be brought into court; that the tenor must sue in the ordinary way for loss of time and nothing more. There upon the tenor, who is pressed for time, no doubt, startfi up and exclaims, “But, gentlemen, my C sharp is merchandise, and I ran bring it into cotirti” and begins a series of roulades which echo against the roof of the hall, terminating in the aforesaid C sharp, which thrill through the ears of the bench until they cry for mercy; and the mirth occasioned by the incident so completely alters temper of the lawyers that they gave their verdict in favor of the oppressed one; and he car ries off the whole sum mentioned in the contract, amidst the laughter of judge, lawyer, witness, and even the defendant himself.—}*aris hctter. I l^asant Mode of I'lrpressintj a Retreat.— .lose Case, a negro Albino, was about as well known to General Taylor’s staff as the General himself. At Buena Vista Mose left early in the action, and found his way to Saltillo, where he remained until after the 23rd. Mose would never admit that he ran—he only retreated in good or der. A few days after his return to camp, an officer was pressing him to know how fast he’ did retreat. “Well, ril tell you the truth. Captain,” was ms reply. “If I had been home, and going after the doctor, folks would have thought the man right sick.” BACON ON DUELING. Bacon, while the Attorney General of England, was called to deliver his judgment upon the theory and practice of dueling. The case ar(»e upon in formation in the Star Chamber against Priest and Wright, who were convicted and sentenced to fine and imprisonment for sending and bearing a challenge to fight a duel, by decree In Steliata eoram concifio, 'Zii Jannnrn, li • Rtyis. The whole charge of Bacon and the de cree of the court are worthy of careful study. \V e cite only the following extracts: “Touching the causes of the duel, the first^mo- tive, no doubt, is a false and erroneous imagina tion of honor and crcdit; therefore the King, in his last proclamation, doth most aptly^and excel lently call them bewitching duels. For, if one judge of it truly, it is no better than a sorcery thaf t^lKhanteth the spiriU of young men that fTear great minds with a false show; and a kind of satanical illusion and apparition of honor again.st' religion, against law, against moral virtue, and against* the precedents and examples ot the best times and the valiantest nations. “But then the seed of this mischief being such, it is nourished by vain discourses and green and unripe conceits, which, nevertheless, have so j re- vailed sis though a man were staid and sober- minded and a right believer touching the vanity and unlawfulness of these duels; yet the stream of vulgar opinion is such as it imposeth a necessity upon men of value to conform themselves, orel.se there is no living or lookinir upon men’s faces; so that we have not to do in this case so much with particular persons as with unsound and depraved opinions, like the dominations and spirits of the air which the Scripture speaketh of. “Hereunto may be added that men have al most lost the true notion and understanding of fortitude and valor. For fortitude distinguish- eth of the grounds of (juarrels, whether they bo just; and not only so, but whether they be worthy; and setteth a better price upon men’s lives than to bestow them idly; nay, it is weakness and dis- esteem of a man’s self to put a man’s life upon such liedger performances. A man’s life is not to trifled away; it is to be offered up and sacrificed to honorable services, public meritii, good cau.ses, and noble adventures. It is in expense of blo)d as it is expense of money; it is no liberality to make a profu.sion of money upon every vain oc casion; nor no more is it fortitude to make effu sion of bl(X)d, except the cause be ol worth.” Rt inarkaUt h'srajtr.—During the heavy rain on Tuesday a littl«»girl, about eleven years ot age, daughter of Jacob Fulmer, through some means got into a stream of water that swept through Locust Alley, and, it' force beinj; so great that she w:ls unaidu to help herself, the child w;is carried off with the current about titty lect and then plunged into a culvert, through which she pas-sed a distance of one hundred an d eighty feet, and from that into tJie Bushkill, brinriiig up finally on a rock in that stream. The culvert is three by four feet in size, and tho.-se who saw the child carried into it by the water thought that she would meet her death by being dasht*d airainst its sides or be drowned, but their sur prise may be imaginetl when we state that only a few bruises on one of her legs and about her head could be di.'»coverel wlieii >he was taken, very much frightened, from the nx-k in the Bu.'hkill. The escape of the little girl is re markable.—Kaxtnn (l*a.\ K.rjtrts.. D! ni I n utinn uf lu /rr/and.—.Vn Irish journal states that the assizes, now nearly over throughout Ireland, have been remarkable for the small number of prisoners to be tried. In the county ot AnUim, one of the largest in Ireland, there were only three persons in custody. In Monaghan there were but two prisoners, and these were charged with petty larceny. At Ros common there were seven cases, the mt)st seriotih being a charge of manslaughter arising out of a drunken fray. In Clare there was one serious ca.xe, but only four prisoners. In Meath the c.ii- endar wa.s “free from agrarian crime.” In Lim erick county there were seven cases, and only one of magnitude. At the city of Limerick, there being no prisoners for trial, the judge wa.s presented with a pair of white gloves. At Wexford there were two manslaughter cases, one being a case of furious driving. In the King’s county there were no new cases, but four bills were sent up of old ca.ses remaining: over. In the county Down there were three ca.>ies, and Wicklow and Leitrim only furnished four prisoners between them. The (ilobe .lays that this •rreat state ol things [toint^ the moral that the great body ot the Irish people is engaged in peaceful industry. (Irrfk Knterprise.—1 he first nufuber ofa large (Jreek newspaper, called the British Star [bret- tanikos aster ha.s made its appearance in London It consists of 24 folio pages, and contjiins much political and literary matter, with a great ma.'^s of commercial intelligence from all parts of the gK)be. •\ very lull and particular price current tor Lon don on a separate sheet accompanies the news paper. It is certainly a very remarkable production, and indicates the great zeal, activity and progre.ss of the Greeks in all the principal parts of Europe. There is manifestly an earnest a.'^piration for the extension of their power and influence, and the ultimate establishment of a Greek Empire. (?reek merchanth of great wealth and energy are to be found in London, Paris, Amsterdam, Petersburg, Constantinople, Smyrna, as well as other cities and places in Europe and Asia Minor. Taxes in Geonjia.—Georgia is one of the best governed, most lightly taxed and most improving States in the Union The Mi'ledgeville Recorder says that the (Jovernor and Comptroller General have assessed the per cent, tax upon the property thisyearat i>i cents on the SIOO. This is a small fraction over one sixteenth of onejH'r cent., the same as last year. We also learn that it will raise about 8400,000. In addition to this State tax there is a law authorizingtheinferiorcourtof each county to levy an additional tax, not exceeding fifty per cent, upon the State tax, for county purpose.s; so that out of town corporations and cities, including all taxation in («corgia, the citizens of that State cannot be taxed one eighth of one per cent. Thr Western Crops.—The movements of grain at the West are remarkably active. The receipts of wheat and corn at Chicago on the IGth and 17th amounted to 53S,000 bushels, and the ship ments eastward to 470,000 bu.shels. Accounts from Wisconsin report that the new wheat threshes out even better than the estimates, and that the crop will not fall one kernel short of .‘JO,000,- 000 bushels, being the largest crop ever harvested in the State. An intelligent officer of the Iowa Stata Agricultural Society estimates the surplus wheat crop of that State at 87,000,000 in value and the surplus corn crop at $4,000,000 in value! “0/ Whom Ten Thousand are Widows.” The Rev’d. Mr. Thompson, American missionary in Syria, in a letter to a friend in England, esti mates the number of the fugitives now tinder the protection of Abd El Kader and the French con sul at Damascus, and in flight to Beyrout, at sev enty-five thousand, “o/"whom more than ten thov- sand arewidowt!” Matrimonial Dialogue.—“Mr. Jones, do you consider marriage a means of grace?” “Certain ly, my dear; any thing is a means of gcace that breaks up pride and leads to repeatance." OUR TRIP TO BUNCOMBE. During our recent trip to the French Broad Valley, we spent some time in Buncombe. While in Buncombe, we were upon the mountain farms of .Messrs. N. W. and John W. Woodfin. They have respectively a large body of mountain sum mit and slope in cultivation, and laid down to grass. These gentlemen have demonstrated that some of the mountain lauds of Buncombe are sus ceptible of a fine yield ot corn, and may be made remunerative. Those lands are on the Gneiss and Mica slate system of rocks. I observed a differ ence in the growing crops upon the GneLss strata and the Micacious .strata. I'he growtli of corn upon the Gneiss beds is evidently more vigorous and promised a heavier yield than that on the Micacious beds. This is owing to the great amount of calcariou.s matter in the soil furnished by the disintegration of the Gneiss rock. Tlie Gneiss which pa.*ses through their lands is very rich in Feldspar. Add to this, the. fact that on the North sides of the tnountains the disintegra tion is more rajtid on account of the greater freezes, and that the ve, etable matter is not burn ed oft’ so frequently nor scorched by the hot sun and carried off by our heavy Southerly and West- terly winds, and we have a reason for the greater richness of the North grounds. The Messrs. Wood fin have perhaps an hundred acres in corn, up'-n their mountains, that will yield forty bushels j)er acre. Their mountain lands also produce Bed (’lover. Orchard (.Jrass and Timothy admirably. We saw there Timothy five feet high. The Or chard Grass and Red Clover sown for grazing was fine, and one acre is worth for grazing stock a great many acres of wild range. In pa.ssing over the mountain, when we reached Mr. J. W. Woodfin’s premises, we were much pleased with his fine blooded stock. He has taken much pjiins, and at consilerable expense has stocked his excellent grazing lands with thorough Ayrshire and Devon cattif. We w’cre struck with the fine condition of .Mr. Woodfin’s stock in the midst of the .severe drouhgt that well nigh destroyed the wild range in the iuountiin3. A few weeks previous to this trij), we saw his milch cattle of the .same stock, and came nearer violating our Christian duty than often falls to our lot, by coveting some of his choicest milch cows. With such cows as Mr. Woodfin raises, and the superior tirazing lands upon his mountains, it seems to us that the manufacture of cheese might be made (juite profitable. The day will come when these rich mountains will be covered with herds of fine and well bred cattle and flocks of thorough bred sheep. Then will not Switzerland be superior to the “United States of Buncombe,” and the old North will be proud of her west. Let the iron-horse come whizzing through to the extreme west, and old Rip will shake off hermantle and stand out amongst her sister^ in a flame of light. One other thing that impres.sed us favorably \lhile iti Buncombe, was the incretising favor in the public mind, manifested towards the Western Extension route to Duck 'Fown. Every dis- pa^^sionate North Carolinian must see that a.s a Stateenterprize, Duck Town is the proper termin us for the Wwstern Extension; and it is gratifying to all who look to the future interest and greatness of the State, to find this idea gainiiig favor so rapidly in every section. North Carolina has her destiny in her own hands, and this etiterprise when pushetl through to link her with the Cireat West by the Copper beltx of Duck Town, will crown that di^stiny with glory and honor. Franklin Observer. Si hiHih and ('olleijm.—Many of our numerous High SclnHjls and ('olleges h:ive just coniinenced another scholastic year. Their Halls are being crowded with the young, both male and female, from every }>art of the Stale and from other States. The numln-rs, from what we learn, are constantly accumulating, and although our high cla.ss schools are to be found .scattered from the seaUtard to the extreme west, yet it is highly gratifying to see their patronage increasing in the sxime ratio. Not one of the least gratifying fiicts in this connection, is the amount of patronage coming from other States into our SchiK)ls. This affords strong evi dence of their jx'pularity abroad, and of their efficiency in discipline and scholarship. Spirit uf the Aji . Hfnfand Dumh Asi/lniii.—e learn that the Board of IHrectors, on Friday la-'it, filled the va cancy' caus»‘d by Mr. (’ooke’s resignation, by the appointment of .^Ir. illie J. Palmer, former vice- Principal. We consider this an excellent ap pointment. Mr. Palmer is a young man of fine talents, devoted to his |»rofession, and will acquit hitnst'lf Hrith honor. He is al.o a native of the State; and we have always contended, a.s we yet contend, that whenever Norih Carolina promotes and honors her own sons, she will have no diffi culty in finding many, many of her children wor thy ot her care, and who will reflect uptin her the honors conferred ufRin them. All communica tions, connected with the affairs of the Asylum, will in future be directed to Mr. Palmer. Ral. Standard. The Cruird.—Never has lieaufort been so thronged with visiters, as during the present sea son. The past week all our hotels were crowded to overflowing, and the want of additional accom modations was, for a few days, seriously felt—this want will be supplied, and we think we can safely affirm that ere another summer our hotel accomiuo- dations will be increased at least ji/ty per cent if not more.—Beaufort Journal. Look Out for Counterfeit liiils.—820 bank bills, purporting to be on “The Merchants’ and Planters’ Bank of Georgia” are said to be in cir culation. They bear the signatures of the Presi dent and Cashier of “The Merchants’ and Plant ers’ Bank” of Savannah. There is no such insti tution in the State of Georgia as “The Merchants’ aiid Planters’ Bank of Georgia.” The signatures are .said to be badly executed, and the plate en tirely different from that used by the “Merchants’ and Planters’ Bank.”—Asheville Spectator. Gov. Johnson and Mr. Stephens oj Georgia to be at Raleii/h.—We have received positive in formation that (lov. Johnson of Ga., the candi date for the V'ice Presidency, and also Hon. A. II. Stephens of the same State will both be at Raleigh next week on the occasion of the Demo cratic StJite Convention.—Kewbern Progress. Out ot his Latitude—We learn that two gen tlemen of Wake County, named Edwards and Brodwell, caught a sturgeon at the Neuse River Paper Mills, six miles from this city, on the 23d inst., weighing 78 J pounds, and measuring over five feet in length. This is said to be the first sturgeon ever caught in Wake county. Raleigh Press. Henderson, Texas.—The loss by the recent fire at Henderson, Texas, was $211,500. Among the sufferers was William Stedman, Esq., lawyer, and formerly of Pittsboro,’ N. C. His loss is $10,000.—iV. C. Preshtfterian. A Ihcelling xn Boston Reputed to be 2Vi Years OJ Age.—The brick dwelling at the southwest corner of North and Clark streets, in this city, is ancient indeed. It was built in 1G47, and is there- tore 213 years old. It claims to be a rival as senior in antiquity to the old feather store, the old Hughes’ house on Washington street, and even to the Dea. Philips old stone house in Cross street. For ancient buildings, Boston is “a place.” Botion AikiA, OFFICIAL VOTE FOR GOVERNOR. I860. 1858. Pool. Ellis. McRae. Ellis. Alamance, 793 771 • 616 825 Alexander, 594 429 350 430 Anson, 890 290 774 325 Ashe, 811 379 683 809 Alleghany, 137 373 525 Burke, 584 603 527 Buncombe, 910 918 701 98(» Blaucn, 553 660 329 683 Bertie, .570 532 321 459 Beaufort, 1110 637 780 5«5 Brunswick, 4-2 410 4.35 336 Cabarrus, 877 429 582 481 Catawba, 415 960 181 990 Craven, 834 «03 559 759 Cumberland, «fil 1023 652 854 Chowan, 278 305 184 307 Columbus, 4.30 718 291 689 Camden, 540 90 4;')4 112 Carteret, 561 481 2*>1 423 Cherokee, 471 711 635 ;552 Caswell, 224 945 184 996 Chatham, 1255 1245 1113 1077 Caldwell, 540 370 500 371 Currituck, 219 759 142 63S Cleveland, 419 998 207 1104 Davidson, 1388 972 lOfU 971 Davie, 690 481 5)S6 40s Duplin, Edgecombe, 197 1358 132 12.57 127 1095 108 871 Forsyth, 1028 1015 634 8S2 Franklin, 406 810 372 825 Gaston, 200 860 99 845 Granville, 983 1144 783 10s:j Guilford, 2137 457 1819 409 Greene, 345 421 151 328 Gates, 461 431 393 402 Haywood, 306 577 215 527 Halifax, Hertford, 595 788 401 712 399 353 325 309 Hyde, 498 500 412 421 Harnett, 203 602 201 639 Henderson, 829 586 672 .521» Iredell, 1716 382 lL^5r, 384 Jackson, 164 598 99 5«7 Jones, 212 275 182 238 Johnston, 864 1044 728 819 Lenoir, Lincoln, 349 556 274 462 256 530 •JO'f «;oi Madison, 2>5 593 231 4! (9 Martin, McDowell, 359 746 150 646 532 4.57 368 429 Moore, 843 749 6>6 658 Montgomery, 832 175 581 32.3 .Macon, 4S0 400 357 3().> Mecklenburg, 757 1274 455 99 s Nash, 122 105H 321 >04 New Hanover 713 1549 407 1410 Northampton, 6(»9 779 365 648 Onslow, 133 841 141 (i 7 ()range, 1238 1109 1037 10J2 Pa.S4|U0tank, 521 360 43(i 324 Penjuimons, 412 298 320 300 Pitt, 778 771 723 733 Person, 299 r,2o 196 f)3 I Polk, 175 325 144 24S Robeson, t)Sl S44 532 759 Rockingham, 444 1137 3H2 1127 Rowan, 1079 1160 852 122tj Uutherford, 801 701 ()89 ()IMt Randolpfi, 1567 44H 1230 492 Richmond, 565 251 527 25^^ Sampson, 590 1042 485 1041 Surry, 579 933 4«;4 989 Stokes, 470 813 396 7SS Stanly, 1065 S9 821 139 Tyrrell, Union, 280 213 154 217 425 931 309 S21 Wake. 1573 1491 778 1659 Warren, 131 874 loo N72 Washington, 481 212 206 2SS Watauga, 442 259 3S1 246 Wayne, 3S9 1201 164 123» Wilkes, 1419 ♦J14 lOSl 562 Wilson, 134 936 108 880 Yadkin, fS99 73t! 757 737 Yancey, 474 774 199 S(i3 5: i,219 59,443 53,219 40,046 56,429 40,046 Ellis’s maj. 0,224 Ellis's maj. Mr. Yancey'* Calculation.—Mr. Yancey in his speech the other day at Huntsville, said: “'fhe coutoft in 1M53 was barely won by a unit ed Democracy. We are now divided—have only 127 votes, the whole southern States, with Oregon and California, divided between Breckinridge, Bell and Douglas.” Thus we see, says the Vicksburg, Miss., Citizen, that the leader ot the Breckinridge party, the man who played the part in the disruption of the De mocracy at Charleston and Baltimore, now pro claims that very disruption as evidence that the Democracy will be defeated and Lincoln elected in November, exulting and chuckling all the while in the undisguis^ idea that this result will and must rend the Union in twain. He thinks he sees at last, only a little way in future, the consummation of the measure in which his whole heart has been bound up for years—and his soul revels and riot* in fiendish joy. A Bitter Hit.—The Boston (’ourier, a reliable and truthful old Whig journal, is of opinion that “Mr. John C. Breckinridge will not carry five thousand voters to his cause in Massachusetts. He will not carry twenty thousand in New Eng land. In running him, you help Lincoln. Bell will carry more electoral votes at the South than Breckinridge, and he will carry Mr. Breckin ridge’s own State. Mr. Bell, if not the first, will carry the second highest electoral vote; and he will have a larger popular vote than Abraham 'jincoln. Mr. Breckinridge, under other circum stances, would have been a strong Presidential candidate, but unfortunately for him, Yancey supports him; and Yancey is as much of a dis- unionist as Garrison.” ^4 Curiositi/.—The names of Lincoln and Ham lin show some curious things, to wit; “Why was it impossible to nominate Lincoln without Hamlin on the ticket? Because, where Abra-(ham Lin)-coIn goes, Hamlin is bound to be there also.” And this other: 1 j Lin-coln, by which it it will be seen that a sort of ortho- eptical connection exists between them that, by connecting the first syllables of each gives the names of both. May this singular connection be called a “fusion” or confusion? They will cer tainly tall or stand together in November. Too Civil by HalJ.—Travelers in China report of that unique and interesting country that it is the custom of the people when they entertain strangers to make them a little speech in praise of the various dishes set before them, and to urge their guests with repeated and mast pressing arguments to that great duty of eating their dinners which in other knds is commonly performed under the silent stress of an Inward law. A mandarin is not content to offer you a puppy-steak or a rat- soup, but he eloquently and forcibly entreats you to fill yourself with food, and not unfrequently pushes his importunities to the point of cramming a quantity of rice or meat into your mouth, and patting it off at the edge with a chop-stick, as masons pat off mortar with • trowel, LATER FROM EUROPE The Vanderbilt, from Havre and Somli ton on the 15th inst., has arrival. Wg det4iils of the intelligence telegraphed fr„^ p*" Race. They are of considerable infert^st ai„] portance. It is confirmed that had landed in Calabria, and a Irencli lejf,, states that they had been repulsed. T).,.; ev^jr, is not generally credited, (ireat prpJ'* tions were going on in Naples to meet the an'tt.* pated invasion; but nearly all the new.spap^r(i respondents agree in stating that, unless sup.* ^ ed by foreign aid, the King will be abandon his dominions, as neither his aruiv, navy will fight for him. The Pari.s I’atrin other French papers a.ssert, in positive teriu., tl.. in the event of (iaribaldi taking pos.,essi(,r/* Naples, Austria will not wait for liis attack i,,. Venetia, but will meet the Garibaldian tr „ |^„ whatever point of the mainland she uiav 1].^.^ j necessary for her own interests. The Vrtt,'!; j force destined for Syria will now, it isi saiti ^ I ccel 12,000 men. The British have i their Commi.s.sioner to hind 1,500 sfuiufi, .. ' iiiarines on the Syrian Coast, in case of ■ I regard to this question. Lord Stratford il,. I cliffc made some important statenieiits in t, " ^ House of Lords on the evening of the 1 hh ii„ I His Lord.'.hip, who was for many }ear jJrit. I Amba.ssador at Con.stantinople, and may U* p. i sumed to understand thoroughly the coiiuition i Turkey, frankly admitted that the Syrian distr. I bances “were not referable to local causes aloe, i but were immediately connected with the ! condition of the Ottoman Empire.” 1 urthert ' telligence is received of the great progress nia- ! by the rebel factions in (’hina, and much sun- ! is expressed that the Emperor does not at iii,. I come to terms with the Western Powt> k ; way of England we learn that the African K • i Dahouiey was about to sacrifice ttro fhouAaml ] I man beings in honor of the late King, his More slavers had been captured on the coa«t The Nova Scotian at Quebec, on Tuesdav. !,ri' a day’s later news. j The Pope, it is said, has written a tnelain li, letter to the Cardinals in France. He look.'up ^ all as lost, and although convinced that he .^li; die by the bullet of an assa.ssin, he declares tl. he will quit Rome under no condition, and uiu : no price. j Ad vices froni Damascus to the fifth state tl I Fuad Pacha had surrounded Lebanon with troo: I and threatened to put it to the sword, if t ! Druse Sheiks did’nt surrender in two 1 Twenty have been already taken, and near i eight hundred other important arrests had I. made. A thousand camel loads of plundered ; ■ ; perty had been recovered. The Snltai||li,i.s uL :f speech exj>ressing his resolution to I'Unish i •Syrian offenders most severely, 'fhe Sultan » about to addre.ss another letter to Victoria I Napoleon, expressing a desire to liave the - - I punishment of the ofl^enders. News of the im. •saeres at Balbec was confirmed, i Cotnmereial.— LlVEllVool.,, Aug. Dl.— j grades of cotton advanced Jd., and middling I during the week Fair qualities were genera! i unchanged. Stock in j>ort I,I.’>7,HI(.I bales, ir ; eluding 0t*7,000 Atnerican. Market closed >tt’3,T ] Breadsttitts had an advancing tendency. ! authorities say flour had advanced Is.; corn h ai i wheat od. since Tuesday. 1 FOREIGN INTERVENTION IN MKXltV j W'e have the best authority for statiiiLr t ' the .Mexican |uestion is on the point of beinu j- eniptorily .settled by a decisive intetventifti I four of fhe Great Powers most deeply inteiv. ! in the restoration of order throughout the don. ! ions of our distracted neighbor. France, h. i land, Spain and Prussia have signed a convent I fltr the pacification of Mexico, to which thev :: j vite the adhesion of the United States, but wVi they propo.se to carry into effect without thats hesion should the T nited States refuse it. The bastes of toleration for all religious opini ; and of a modified establishment for the Uor.ii. Catholic Church, are understood to have been ready accepted by the Constitutionalists xiw Juaref on the one part, and by the Clerical p.ir; under 3Iiramon on the other. An arnii«tiie twelve month.s’^uration is to be declared betwr: the respective leaders, and during t^is peri those portions ot Mexico occupied by each arfff be held without dispute by the actual occupant joint aetio^ being taken to secure the carrviii. of the nccessary business of the public adiii tration and the maintenance of order. At a: to be hereafter fixed, the people of Mexico ar be called ujK)n to elect Wtween the princij'ii^’ pre.sentcd by the two factions, and the ro.^]>ec: leaders pledge them.selves to re.^ign all tln'ir;: thority and arms into the hands of the (tnur ment thus designated under the sanction ■ t intervening Powers. The grounds of this action, already suhui:"r to the Administration at Washington are. v. the party of Juarez, which might have 1>ih‘d ' tablished as the Supreme Executive more tb". year ago, under the terms of the treaty prop- by Senor Ocampo through Mr. 3IcLane t: " Washington Government, has demonstratw incapacitj' of conquering power, and tlt;ii ' United States have definitely abdicated thtir['- tensions to aid it in this conquest; that the of Miramon in like manner has proved it-'flJ pendent ujK>n an insolated intervention hv Sp-- which is in every point of view undesirai>lc; that the interests of the subjects of the intervt' ing Powers and of civilization generally, cm - longer be left at the mercy of the partijaa [ fare which has raged for six years in Mei- j and has reduced the country to the very brlDt- chaos. , It is unnecessary for us to point out to - ' readers the gravity and importance of thi^ af; ■ the part of the European States. Our ernment is understood to have announcetl ' while a pacific intervention of the sort cont«'^ plated, if it fails to cotnmand the assistance. not provoke the hostility of the United no armed interference to enforce its fm'vi'i'"' must be made without due previous notice. municated to the Administration at Wa^hins;'^'’^ A etc York The L man'. Ticket in Tennessee.—The phis Enquirer says:—If parties remain on pre.sent footihg^ until November, Bell’s luajoritj I in our State cannot fall short of 45,000 votes Bishop Otey.—Right Rev. Bishop Tennessee, is so seriously ill that he has 0^“ compelled to recall his appointments for tions and ordinations. ♦ Terrible Tragedy.—On Sunday afternoon. Cramming, residing at Rondout, Ulster cou“t' N. Y., cut the throat of his wife, and then the razor across his own. They had been niar|;'^ about a year only, and a trifling misunderstami '’- had arisen in consequence of his wife havinsi lated some of her husband’s faults before strand* On the occasion of the tragedy, Crumniing the room where his wife was sitting, and a word of warning, cut a fearful gash in her She ran out of the house,, followed by band, towards the residence of her parents; proceeding a short distance Crumniing drew ^ razor across his own throat, but not deep enoa-- to cause immediate death. The wounds dressed but little hopes are entertained that will recover,
Fayetteville Observer [Semi-Weekly, 1851-1865] (Fayetteville, N.C.)
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