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Professional and Business Cards not exceeding six line vill le inserted at $5 a year ; not exceeding a square $). 3r Su'iscribera and others who may wish to send money as, can do so at all :imcs, i-y w4, and at our ns,k. From the N. O, Whii Mi. Caldwell' Card. J.:ncoi.ntox, June o". !if r. KJitor : "Ivli- enclosrd Caul, wriiten near ly tyo week's since, i find on my table, being -1 : - r-orl iLnn liv n wtmnl hv u horn i iiud Sent it " the Post Office the day ii which il was written. VVill you be kind enough to oblige ma with inser ting it in your paper us eailyas possible. Please lo inform me by return mail whether you will ub jige me by roanplyiag with my request. Yours, respectfully, j. A. CALDWELL. T the voters of the 7th CoMgresrjomal District : Having at the M. cklenburg Court, announced thai I wn a Whig candidate to represent ou in the m-jtt puugres, I lateth" present occasion to withdraw mv nauie from all connection with this distinguished position. Jt is unnecessary, perhaps, j for me to give al! the reasons which nave inuuceu rne to adopt tins course, I hope, howe ver, to have your forbearance while j make a short exposition ( and speeches of any set of men could prove sny of ihe causes that have b d lo it. j thing, that the Northern and North-western mem. At the solicitation ol many prominent men of . antern council were abolit.on. the District, who addressed me as a II tag, 1 oe- i ... , termined to canvass the District in opposition to j i thai their most burning desiie was to crush llr. Craige. This was jiretty generally known the South, by destroying her institutions and de by my personal friends, prior to the 4'h day of I prjving her ol her Constitutional rights. This March last, and before the Know-Nothing party, charged and proved by the Democratic press at I oeneve, nan ouiaunu any hmiiui-. uil: iuui hold in Western Carolina. A few weeks after- wards, I was informed by a gentleman who was sdmitted into my warmest affections, of two things, first that this new parly contained one half, if imt more, of the voters in the District, anil second that I must join it. Having an opinion i of my own, I dissented to both of his propositions. Again and again, were his visits repeated and his Overtures rejected finally, his perservprance pre vailed on me to abandon my position, although my opinions were maintained, and I became a member entitled to all the privileges of the party. The very evening that I had, under a treaty of peace, become an involuntary volunteer, in the ervipe of' the magnanimous Mexican,' it was in timated to me that I might take a second position in the new party, that is, that 1 might have the privilege of taking a place in the ranks and fighting for some body else. The ' planing mill 1 conventiod met, no lights being in the room by which it could be seen who wus worked upon. The discovery in the morning, was that I was plan ed down and snugly stotcttl away. This did not coincide altogether with my views of propriety, so J availed myself of the opportunity of announcing myself a candidate that day, in order to reume the pooition which had been so inconsiderately abandoned. I am now both out and eff, out of the party and off the canvass Mn' I be pardoned, lellow-citiz ns, for presuming to speak a warning word to those of you, w ho have been accustomed lo battle for the principles promulgated by Mr. Clay, and expounded by Mr. Webster. If nn, then listen to my voice when I sny beware of at taching yourselves to the f now -Nothing party. You will be told that it is a national party, which alone can, and will, save the Union, the CoNSTI rtTKifi tho SOUTH. The obligation (as pub lished,) of the 3d degree, is relied upon as the chief panacea after the mild cathartic of the first and second, has purged the country ol Romanists wnd foreigners. You will observe that the regu lar course of the faculty is reversed in the new practice salts first and then calomel, instead of blue mass and seidlitz afterwards. I must confess that I do not appreciate fully the efficacy of this path. Every individual who takes a seat, either jn the Presidential chair or in the Senate or Repre sentative Chamber, swears to support the Cons lilutioa of the United States. If this oath solemn ly taken in the face of day, under the eye of an individual, botj) legally and morally qualified to administer it, will not preserve the Union, ihe Constitution, and of consequence, the South, 1 must be pardoned for doub'.ing the virtue of an obligation a higher obligation of a 1 higher law ' party. Do you understand how an obligation ta ken will) the right to dispense with it at pleasure, js to accomplish that which patriotism fails to do ? Do you understand how an obligation or a resolu tion to vote foun Douglass and Chandler, Shields and Mjtchell. while the permission to vote ij Se ward and Wilson, pessenden and Dwkee, is tj preserve the Union? Can vou tell me where is ihn instirpof venprafinir 1'mimv fnr Ilia inli'irritv ns praising Campbell lor his fidelity and capacity, ! . ,....... T y h. .. , , anu damning inem lor their religion ; tan you tell me why I, a southern man. shall spurn a for eigner and embrace a Yankee abolitionist ? This enquiry cannot be answered satisfactorily. Yet, lilR l ur iv. i)l li i n if nnplv nnnimnnrld a liipmnr m -a - r and tolerates the latter. It is difficult to perceive Jha: 24,000,000 of Protestants are endangered by the presence of 2,000,000 ol Catholics, while 7,- p00,0fJ0 of slave owners nresecure in the presence j pi lo.pAOOOO of abolitionists. Verily jt is not so. ; The Know-Nothing party i a foil, given by the North to the South, as mariners throw a tub to the whaie-' While our eyes are wandering in .search of " false tokens,' the barbed harpoon is sa vagely driven into our vitals, and we perish, fight ing an imaginary foe and trusting to the honor of a Ivnovn one. This js a senseless position for .sensible men to occupy. Let men in treat you as Southerners, to avoid it. Jl you are Whigs op posed to democracy and Know-Nothingism com bined, it is your duty to take tjje lesser evil. Mr. Craige is a Democrat, Mr. Stows both Democrat and Ktiow-Notbjng. Ushall give my vote to ihe ormer with as much pleasure as I should give it .to the gallant Kerr, if 1 were a citizen of the Guil ford District. Renpectfullv your ob't serv'i. J.A. CALDWELL. Vise Order In jVaryland. The Washington correspondent of tho New fork Journal of Commerce says, thai the old whig party in Maryland is to be brought together again lo resist the Know Nothings. In the strong De mocratic counties, however, there will be no VVhig candidates, and in the Whig counties there will be a union with the Democrats. It is said the new .;rder is not so strong in Maryland as it has boen. i FRIDAY MORNING. June 22, 1655. SCT W. S. LAW TON & CO., (South Atlantip Wharf,) are our authorized agents in Charleston. S. C, and are duly empowered to take Advertisement, and Subscript ipna at the rates required by us, and grant receipts. FOR PRESIDENT, HON. HENRY A. WISE, OF VIRGINIA. FOR CONGRESS, HON. BURTON CRAIGE, OF ROWAN. Election 2d Day of August. t II lit LOT II niRKET. Charlotte, June 22, 1S55. Cotton Coming in slowly old crop nearly exhausted; extremes 10 a 12 cents., with a firm market. Flour Corning in freely ; dull sale prospecls of n good new crop has caused a decline. We quote 8 a Wheat 1.25 a 1.50 not much new w heat offered yet Corn 1.10 a 01.15. Meal SI. 25. Bacon hog round, 10c, Lard 10c. Chickens 15 to 20c. Butler 15 to l?c. Beef 8 a 10 cents. The Know Nothing Iow Wow. We have at lust seen something of what the Know Nothing pow wow did at Philadelphia du nnp their recent session. It will be remembered 1 . . . . r a a that it was oharged and proved, as lar as me ncis of the South and bitterly denied by that of their opponents. They said tiiat it was a Constitutional National Party, that they went for recognising the rights of the States, obedience to existing la ws and denounced all agitation of the Slavery ques tion. It will not be denied that the strength of the Know Nothing Order lay at the North ; that in that region of isms it had its birth, that there it grew with fungus rapidity and there it triumphed. shut in its first attempt to take root on Southern soil, the blighting frost of defeat withered its young' hopes, and sent it howling back to its native Mas. saohusetts, there among its unitarian and abolition friends to seek consolation and concoct new schemes of operation. No one has ever, to our knowledge, been so stupid as to charge the Southern Know Nothings with entertaining views antagonistic to the insti tufions of their section but they did co-operate, and in some degree fraternize with the abolition leaders. Well, delegates from all parts of this broad Union met in secret conclave in the city of Phila delphia, and after feasting, speechifying, wire pulling and divers other things, they adopted a good Southern Resolution on the subject of slave ry. But w hat was its effect ? Why it broke, as any one conversant with that heterogeneous body would have known, the order into two wings de stroyed its nationality and stripped Messrs. Ray, ner and other aspirantu of the last vestige of hope for the attainment of the spoils. The majority of delegates voted for the plat form, whereupon 53 out of 84 northern members withdrew forthwith, organized another meeting, and sent forth a number of Resolu ions suitable to their antecedents. Thus the last hope of the Know Nothings to form a National Party vanished, though the leaders will be the last to tell the peo pie so. The case stands thus: in every State where the Know Nothings were in the ascendant their delegates withdrew, and it was only those who had no constituents, so far as the Presiden tial election is concerned, voted for the majority report, which is the adopted platform. The order then is sectionalized, as was the Whig party the Northern ard Southern wings ! can never unite and never can there be anv prospect of uni'ing the South until it is disbanded. No man who knows what Democratic principles are, or who respects the Constitution, can ever co-operate with an order whose cardinal principle deprives man of his franchise on account of his uirin Pince, ana creates a reug.ous test as a quail. fication for office. 1 o the Democratic party must the country look for the preservation of the Union, and the protection of lbs rights of all sections. j The present Administration has proved its con. er"3"-. nauonamv, ana us regara .or me great doctrine ol States Rights. Our present Chief Magistrate by the wise exercise of ihe veto power ,as stayed the squandering of the public . , . ntntmMmA TMnn r r.iu:; . . I , J- w-vm www m J Mum v. 'I I I I J I I II 1 , and bv the firm enforcement of the laws of Con- gress has demonstrated even to federal Massachu setts, in spite of her abolition howlings, that the Fugitive Slave Law should be executed, even at the hazard of burning the pity of Boston. And this is the man whom Southern gentleman denounce and for w!fai ? Because he will not lend himself to the vile purposes of building up a secret party ; which, if successful, would sap the liberties of the people and overthrow the faires; fabric of Government ever devised by the wit of man. It is useless to warn Southern Democrats against it. The Order will have no accessions from that quarter and those who have been deceived into it are leaving the sinking ship with all possible speed. 0" We return our thanks to some unknown friend for a copy of Catalogue of the Trustees, Faculty and Students of Erskine College. We are glad to see that the Institution is in so flour ishing a condition. We notice the names of sev eral students from Mecklenburg. Mr. raid il teller, QO We publish to-day the very satisfactory tetter of J. A. CaLPwell. E-q.. q! Lincolnton, late VVhig candidate ."or Congress iq this District. The letter is an open, well written and very sen sible production, and needs no comments from us. We hope every reader ol our paper wijl scan it well. Col. Stowe it will be remembered stated in hi speech here that he accepted, without finishing the sentence, ai d his Editors have said for him that he accepted the nominaiion of the American party. It was news to us that the Know Nothings bad ever held a Convention, and until Mr. Caldwell's letfer, which throws light upon the subject, was equal'y so to most of our readers. Then Col. Stowe is the candidate not of the people of any party, but of the midnight council that held its secret session in the suburbs of thi town in the "wee small hours ol the night." How many constituted their meetingl Who were they? Were there any Democrats present 1 Come, let us have light. Was not the uig Whigs there pull? ing the wires; and is it not a little strange to see the name of the Know Nothing candidate floating at the head of every VV big paper, so far as we have seen, in the District, and the old leaders of that shifting party battling for him? How. wiib these things known to the people. can Col. Stowc proclaim himself a Democrat ? Not by words, but by actions, should.you juog" a man. What is CoL.Stowe's position? He is brought out by that parly which denounces the Adminis. (ration, and wars against Democratic men and measures whenever the opportunity is offered. He is canvassing ngtinst tin Hon. B. Craige w hose great efforts saved this District from the embraces of Whiggerj who has served one session in Congress wi:h the utmost acceptability, and is the unanimous choice of the Democracy for re-election. Who are Col. Stowe's friends in th;s canvass? Why the big Whigs, who are using him to dis tract, divide ncd beat the Democracy. What are his principles ? Th'y ure those which defeated and overthrew the Federal Administration of the elder Adams. la the eb quent language cf Judge Longstreet "What are they ? Most desperate and dangerous agitation churches rending asun der pastors and flocks at variance Christians losing all confidence in each other Saints and sinners in close embrace preachers of the same church getting but half congregations and half support one looking on approvingly, while an other is abused teachers tottering their pupils in midnight cliques friendships severing rage taking the place of love father aga'nsl son brother against brother- These things now are, and they proclaim, trumpet tongued, whal is com ing, if the monster be not crushed at once. And all for what? In honest truth, to get intheoj and get out the ivs. This is the true object of the order. Well, it make lake its course till rea son resumes her seat. Nations, like men, run mad at times, and no thing but lime and blood-letting can cure them. Still while there is hope, all good men should strive to relieve thern. My course is taken carefully, thoughtfully taken. I am no Catholic. Put Romanism and Methodism on the field of fair argument, and I will stake my all upon the issue, but I am not such a coward as to flee the field of honorable warfare, for savage, ambush fighting; or such a fool as to believe that a man's religion is to be reformed by harrassing his person." OO" The Yorkville Citizen stated in its last issue that Col. Stowe come very near being mob bed in Gaston, on the evening of ihe Saturday that he and Mr. Craige addressed the peaple of that County. Is Know Nothingism so odious over there that the candidate, jij his own County, runs a personal risk ? While the people of Gaston are determined in their opposition to this new or higher-law doctrine, they are civil, courteous and would be the last in the world to be guilty of so great an impropriety as to mob a public speaker jtarticularly so clever u man as the Colonel. We have no doubt they listened to him with some little impatience that was natural. The Colonel was raised amongst them they had honored him with their confidence, and now he had deserted them in this crisis. They had fought hard to establish the supremacy of Democratic doctrines in this District, and just after they had been successful one from theirown ranks had been seducec" by the wiles of the enemy, to lend his aid to roll back the tide of victory they heard him more in sorrow than in anger, and while very few will vote for him none desired to mob him. , . C. F. College. J. H. Walsh, Esq., will please accept our thanks for a copy of the Catalogue ol the Trustees, Fa culty, and Students of the Carolima Female Col lege. This College, under the control and mffnage ment of the Methodist denomination, which has ever been foremost in founding institutions of learning, and rearing Churches is, we are glad to see Irom the Catalogue, in a very flout ishing condition. There were 100 students in atten dance during the session just colsed ; and from the number and ability ot the faculty, and the course of study pursued, we should say that ihe j standard of scholarship was as high as that of any ! similar institution in the land. i I he College ts located in a highly moral and refined neighborhood, near one ol the best Mineral Springs in the cis-mountain region, convenient to access-has large and handsomely constructed 1 Rmidintjs, and a spacious lawn studded with na- I ove oaks, under whose umbrace the -lovely dears" w - ... - a j , can disport themse)ves during the hours of recre ation. This institution combines so many advantages of a thorough and accomplished Eitcation and vet there are Southern parents who will pass it by, and send their daughters North, to breathe the atmosphere of moral taint, and return with impressions prejudicial to their own institutions, habits and custom-;. We go for patronizing home institutions, home talent, home mechanics, end home papers. From Washington. Washington, June 15. A very curious story has been circulated to day, within a narrow circle, and I give it to you for what it js worth. The rumor is, that, during the late session of the late Congress, prentice, ol the Louisville Journal Kayner, Flourney, and other gentlemen of the South, met in this ci'y i secret conclave ; the result ol which conlerence was a promise of nearly all of the Whig Congress men from the slave States to cast their lot with ihe Ktfbw Nothing Stephens, Toombs, Kerr, and a few others declined, and are now actively engaged in fighting that order j whjle the others, at least some of them, are as fiercly engaged fight ing on the other side. It is further said that Bell, of Tennessee, was spoken of for the Presidency. He had voted against the Kansas Nebraska bill, and this, it wbs thought would make him acceptable lo the North, while being a Southern man, he would not be damaged in that section of the country. Kiiow-Xothing National Council, We have no further exciting reports to chroni cle repecting the proceedings of this body. The secession of the delegates of the Northern and Western States appears to have produced harmony in i's deliberations. If rumor may be credited, the Convention, since its disruption, has been j principally occupied in efforts to liberalize its ritu- j al. A proposition lo admit American Catholics to Membership was rejected, it is said, by a large majority. TliP cnaiitrilv ronnrl nn tIA whiverv nilPStion j W HS 11(J( lpd b ,hJ m)owin g vnle . j Yeas. New York, South Carolina, Missouri, Delaware, Florida, Arkansas, Dist. of Columbia, Louisiana, Tennessee, Virginia, Texas, Kentucky, North Carolina, Alabuma, Califoria, Georgia, Mis sissippi, Maryland. Nays. New Jersey, Connecticut, Pennsylva nia, New Hampshire, Michigan, Massachusetts, Maine, Illinois, Wisconsin, Vermonl, Ohio, Min nesota, Rhode Island, Iowa. The minority report had been previously rejec ted. As it is brief, we here reprint it, in connex ion with the vote upon it : Resolved, That the repeal of the Missouri Com promise was an infraction on the plighted faith of the nation, and that it should be restored ; and if efforts to that end shall fail. Congress should re fuse to admit any State tolerating slavery which shall be formed out of any portion of the Territo ry from which the institution was excluded by that compromise. Before retiring from the Convention, some of the seceding delegates presented protests to be re corded upon its journal. We insert two of them : Protest of Pennsylnania, &c The under signed, citizens of the United States, and residents of ihe Slates set opposite their names, solemnly protest against the introduction of any queslion connected with slavery into the platform of princi ples of the American party, being convinced that no such issues were intended to 6e embraced with in its purposes and objects. That we believe in and shall defend the right of freedom of opinion and discussion on that and ev ery other subject not intended to be embraced with in the design of our organization. That il the question of slavery is to be passed upon and made a part of our national creed, then in that event we cannot consistently act, with fi delity to oui principles and former professions, with any national organization whose action on the question of slavery will result in endorsing ihe Kansas-Nebraska act, and which refuses its its sanction to the principles of the Missouri com promise act of 1820. That we believe that time-honored compact was an honorable and fair adjustment of the question of slavery. We desire to place this protest upon the journals of the Council, that in no future time the under sigued may be charged with infraction of ex pressed or implied faith to their fellow. members in failing lo support the majority resolutions. W. F. Johnston, Penn. R. M. Guilford, Vt. J. Bowman Bell, Penn. Evelyn Peirpont, Vt. D. E, Small, Penn. George D. Hatch, Vt. R. Coulter, Penn. Richard Clements. Del. John A. Pnchet, III. E. S. McClellan, N. J. A. S. Livingston, N. J. W. D. Danenhower. III. Joseph H. Barrett, Vt. David B. Booth, Conn. Horace Kinsley, Vt. Pbotest of Indiana. The undersigned Dele gates, representing the Council of the State of In diana, respectfully protest against the platform adopted by the National Council at its present ses sion, and beg leave to say that, in regard to the measure known as the. Kansas-Nebraska bill, those within the Council of the State of Indiana, nor the people, have awaited the action of ihe Na tional Council in order to form their opinions. Their opinions have been formed and avowed. An issue has been made with their political antago nists, and the soundness of those opinions tested in pihlio debate and tried at the ballot, box. 1 he edicts of the National Council, however canonical they may be, will be powerless to change those opinions or to reverse the action of the peo ple of Indiana. Always conservative in their o pinions and actions ; always mindful of the corn promises of the Constitution of the United States; ardently devoted to the American Union, they will see with regret the promulgation of a platform by this body which can have no other effect than to increase the fury of the conflagration which the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska bill has lighted up. The undersigned respectfully express their de liberate conviction, that immediately upon the pub lication of the plaiform adopted, the order in the Slate of Indianawill cease to acknowledge the au thority of the National Council, and they respect fully Hsk that this protest may be received as a termination ol their duties as delegates from that State. James R. M. Bryant, J. S. Harvey, T. D. Allen'. VVill. Cumback. Godlove S. Onh, T. C. Slaughter, Schuyler Colfax, Important Rumor. The correspondent of the Journal of Commerce, writing Irom Havana, un der date ol June 4'h, says : In relation to the ru rnnr that propositions had been authorized to he made, on the part of the Creoles of Cuba, fcr the manumission of their slaves to the Abolitionists of E"Plsnd' aml kg. he protection of Great B-i- whush he cnmbWH ,h ' :,, , . . ' to believe from investigation of the past few days, that it has (jood foundation. Thi3 will involve - J 1 ' " - - " a . i . i 1 ,i new rna!,ers lor ihe sober and serious considera- ... ' vtT 8,aiesmpn ot tho truth ol which they s, l Cfkn llfktm IV I U COan llftVfk OIM,-lnrrtn La I I -m " . V"", "V. JI,U l,,c I'moiiuorv x n "i n ri iv I rr ni rroc mo. irresjjonswte news writers Forgery. The New Orleans Delta states that an extended system of fraud and forgery has been successfully carried out in Texas and Louisiana, in the fabrication of fictitious Texan land warrants, and that a large number of these warrants are now in circulation, which, upon presentation, have proved to be forgeries. The Americans of Fredericksburg are speaking of a grand ratification meeting there on the 4ih of July. Charlotte S. C. Railroad. We learn from one in authority, that the Board of D.rectors of the Charlotte Railroad, at their last monthlv meeting, held on the 13.h instant, declared a dividend of three dollars per share, from the earnings of the road lor the past six months, payable on the first pf Jul' nexi, being at the rate "of six per cent, per annum, payable annually. , The road is now in most excellent order, and in a fhost prosperous condition. We understand that the company have still a pretty considerable reserve fund from the earn ings ol the Road for the purpose of paying inter est due on their bonds, increasing the number ol their locomotives, and adding to the number of their box cars the number being quite insuffi cient to do the business of the road. The business of the road for the past five months exceeds that of the corresponding five months of 1850, by about twenty-seven thousand dollars showing a very rapid increase. We predict that, under its able direction, in a short time it will pay at least 8 per cent, per an num to its stockholders, which will be equal to any in the Slate. The stock of the road is rising rapidly. Be fore the result ol the business of the last six months, it was down to sixty-eight dollars on the shape ; now seventy-three is freely offered for it in large quantities, and refused. Winnsboro1 Register. Euglaud's Danger, The London Times is furious against ihe apn thy, coupled with duplicity, which British Minis ters are manifesting in the present crisis in Engl and's history. With great truth it aays that neither Louis Napoleon nor British Ministers can afford to withdraw their forces Irom the Crimea short of victory. " England cannot afford this downfall, nor can the Emperor of the French. His throne rests on opinion. He represents his people. He is of their election : hu is their idol, their voice ; and, so long as he prospers, their pride. Should his le gions return with nothing to show for their cam paigns but an enormous bill of costs and list of killed and wounded, he will have to fight a harder battle at home than his generals have been doing in the Crimea. But there is not even safety for a nation such as ours when she once begins lo recede, for when our tide no longer flows it will begin to ebb. The battle we are now fighting ct Sebastopol we shall, before long, have to fight nearer home, and even at home, if we confess our incapacity for war. One place is much the same as another in these days, and to be beaten in the Crimea is the same thing as to be beaten all over the world. There is no such thing as a geographical reputation, and a man may as well expect to enjoy a character for probity .n one place, which he does not in another, as to have a military reputation restricted to certain longitudes. We have to secure not only the fear of an enemy that is distant, but the respect of an ally th.it is very near, and of neigh bors that are a'so within reach. Even now, when we press Austria to take the side of honor and advantage, she taunts us with the stnallness of our contributions lo the war, and tells us that we are not in n condition to ask the aid of others while we do so liltle ourselves. This, at (east, shows ihe spirit we have to deal with, and it is a spirit that will be leady enough lo assume the aggres sive should the occasion ever occur. We have to teach not only Russia, but the whole of Europe, and ihe whole world, to respect us not for our numbers, not for our home-territory, not even for the number of men we can bring into the field, but for our evident determination to fight out, at every hazard and cost, the cause wo have once embrac ed." A Gallant Keiitucklan. We observe in our Washington exchanges, a letter from the Hon. Wm. Preston, of Kentucky, declining the anti-Know-Nothing nomination for Congress in the Louisville district, the gist of of which we extract as follows : "The old Whig party by which I was elected is disbanded. A new organization, which propo ses to introduce questions of religious belief as cri lerions for office, and to repeal the naturalization laws under which we have lived from the begin ning of our Government, with the single exception of the federal interregnum under Adams, when they were extended to fourteen years, has arrayed itself in the field of politic?. In addition, w- find that the new party maintains an ominous s-lence in relation to the rights of the Southern States, which should fill every patriotic heart with fear. I have ver been, and yet am, inflexibly opposed to such principles. "The regularly nominated Democratic ticket is the only opponent in the field against this new party. It is clear that it cannot achieve success unless, as in Virginia, by the aid of honest and fearless Southern Whigs, who will not be ab sorbed in secret fraternities, and who desire no ambiguous alliance with Northern Know Nothings. Their aid has given the first check to this new part- and annihilated its prestige of victory. As between the democracy and itself my choice is quickly made ; but I feel that I best consult my own dignity and relieve myself from qll suspicions of unworly motives, jf, at the same time that I frankly avow my determination to support the principles of the pany, ) decline its honors. All that I ask is the privilege to sustain by my vole the wise, great, and nobly liberal principles upon which I know the republic is founded, and by the faithful observance of which I am profoundly con scious the social repose, and political prosperity of the nation can alone be secured, "Permit me to return my heart-felt thanks to those friends, both-whigs and democrats, who have so generously offered to give mo their warm sup port. I remain, with respect, "W. PRESTON." Missouri Emigration to Kansas. A White field (Kansas) correspondent of the St. Louis Re publican writes: They may fret, and scheme, and rant as they please: We shall continue lo pursue the even tenor of our way. The God of our fathers are with us, and we feel secure in our sovereignty. We invade the rights of none, and none shall in vade our rights. We invite our brethren of every State New York, Massachusetts, and all others to come and settle amongst us, if our institutions suit them, and their feelings are fraternal ; but we want no fanatics, no disorganizes, no distur bers of our quiet. We came here first ; we moved from Missouri, and brought our institutions with us. In doing so, we wronged no man, we inva ded the rights of none. Why, then, do they wish to invade our rights? It is wrong. They should not go a. i ney shall not do it. We stand upon the defensive. Missourians are still coming in. Trains upon trains of six and eight ox teams are arriving daily AnJ.ndustrious, enterprising, and hardy population are filhng up the country, and will render all the efforts of Aid Societies to produce fanatical revo futions utterly abortive. The masses of the East should know this fact, and not suffer themselves to be imposed upon any longer. A Mistake about Printers. The public have a funny notion about nr They think it costs nothing to puff, advert is"? And thus, one and another will spunge tn paper, a puff or a benevolent advertisement They forget a high price is paid for ever . set. They forget that it is this basin,,? makes their business known to the world. ? forget that it is the printer's ink i hat makes q tenths of these immense fortunes. They f0r'' paper, ink and type and lastly, they forget to thank you for working for nothing, but ously puffiing their business. Thus writes a California exchange, ,n(j commend his remarks to the particular attentka of all concerned. There seems to be an idea prevalent imy country that editors and publishers are a J 1 philanthropists with plenty of money, tip labor to throw away, who consider themselves der particular obligations to any one ahoifl them an opportunity to exercise their constitution benevolence. This, strange as it may appear all a mistake. Editors, God help them, are at, much better than the rest of mankind, and rareh; acquire that sublime indifference to meat JM bread which their friends, the poets, often expreJ but never exhibit. They are, moreover, so uj reasonable as to imsgine that when they workup ought to he paid for it by something like an eooj. valent. These, we know, are novel ideas toil large portion of the public, but they are no leJ truths. The Court of Claims. The Washington correspondent of the Net York Post says I learned to-day, to my surprise, that the Court i of Claims is open for the filing of petitions, sal has been so ever since the promulgation of (Is rules, some three or four weeks since. The (Jo ion stated, when it published the rules, tht the court would not be open for business until July, I bat was 'corrected the following day in a para. gr.ph which, however, does not appear to hat,! attracted much, if any, attention, as, notwuhstand. ing the pressure of business waiting for the org,, ization of the court, but seven petitions had bar, filed up to yesterday. The complaints which hat, been occasionally made in the papers about th, delay of the court in getting to work, are doubllei, atinhuiable to the prevalent misunderstanding up. on this subject. Tho judges would have had nothing to do if they bad stayed in Washington and held court every d y until July, for ihe simple reason that there would have been no cases at is sue and ready for hearing before that time. The petition, in each case, has lo be drawn, printed and served upon the solicitor; he has io examine it to see if it is sufficient, or whether h will demur to it; then the proofs have to be taken, briefs served, and both parties to signify that Am are ready before the cast goes upon tho dorlct for a hearin. The judges selected the rarlies day for their next nr-eiing, at which they could expect to find work enough ready to keep them employed. The length and times for holding their lernu have not yet been determined upon. The Uwor. ganizmg the court seems to contemplate their rr. maining in session during the entire sessions of Congress, as they are required to report lo that bodv monthly. The court will hold its first sitting in the Unitrd States Supreme Court room; by the lime that court meets again, a room will probably be rendy for (be new court m. one of the new wings of Ihe Capitol. Wliot is n Polilicfun ? Such remarks ore frequently made as tl.rw: " I cannot bear politicians." Politician me a curse to the country." A 'most eery c ue mil have heard remarks ol this kind. It is well ihrf should he consider) d. Are they Hue? Rtlota we can determine (he answer to this quelioo,e must first determine what a "poliucitiii" is. 'IV term must be defined. Ask the man who d. clares tf.ai he does not believe that there cun Iw an honest politician, to explain himself, and he will find hitnelf at a Ions. Does he mean that all men who concern them selves about the election of those who are rillM to make law? or enforce tin in are pi li i ians, and therefore dishonest ? if so, tin n is ur country on the verge of luin, when in a government ol law only rascals interest themselves in tha safes)! iioa of public agents, who lire to muke our Imi or see that they are executed? This cannot therefore be his meaning. What tliMi does In intend by politicians? lie may reply thai ihoss are politicians who seek for office for S'-lfih end, and who will resort to dishonest means and C"( rupting influences to o tin in those ends, in thi view the conclusion would he the sh-er tnum tUi tlishontst men nrn not h-riet. This Would b equally applicable to the public and to private life, For unprincipled men will net out their true chh aclers no matter where lliey may be placed. Bui to conclude that, in a government w hich inaki us what we arc as a people, all who pariicipiW to any considerable extent in the ngencis RrsM sary for sustaining and carrying on thai govern men:, inevitably become lost to virtue and correct principle, must be contrary to reason and to truth. The Marshall family is flourishing, like a grees. bay tree, in Kentucky. In the seventh, or L-ui ville Congressional district, Humphrey Mrslmll, one of the opponents of General Scott in the Pres idential campaign of 1652, has received the Knoi Nothing nominaiion for Congress. The Hun. W, Preston, a supporter of General Scott in the same canvass, was the representative of that district in the last Congress, and he is now th- Anti-Kno Nothing candidate. In the 8th district, A. K Mr shall is the Know-Nothing candidate for CoogrrM, and his brother, the famous Thomas F. Marshall, is out as a candidate against him. Te Uest Partners. For whist, the defer est and the most indulgent ; for dancing, the hand somest, and the most amusing ; for business, tbs steadiest, the wealihies, and the most attentive; and for marriage one who combines the qualinM of all the three. To Make Pkimk Vinegar. A correspondent of the Ohio Cultivator vouches for the merit of is following receipe for makeing vinegar : Tsk and mix one quart of molasses, three gallons of rajn water, and one pint of yeast. Let it ferment and stand for four weeks, and you will have lb best vinegar. Contekplatep Visit or the President to Virginia. Washington, June 19. It is ssid that the President intended leaving ihe capital this morning, on a visit of several days 10 a personsl friend in Virginia, but he has been prevented by the illness of his wife. PGATH8. Died, on the 6ih inst., JOHN IRWIN, infasl son of E. P. Jones, Esq., aged 4 weeks. Died, on the 16th ol June, JOHN L OSBORNE, son of James W. Osborne, Esq.., in the $ih yell of his age.
The Charlotte Democrat (Charlotte, N.C.)
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