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Tsesda? Morning, March 25, 1850
KNOW NOTHING TESTIMONY.
AtVMOH I'JKK. it is wi ll known by
ill win. pens tkr MooenCugii oaf Ac lute
Kn-.w NoUafaag Cant wnt" at Philadelphia, j
was f Us uii. -t prottua ut numbers. j
Ha an per pirn nun politician of th late
Whig purty. airl inre recently baa BCquir- j
?d fan.- aui actirc member if the Know- ;
Kortiaj l3rt'- (,t courw?, testimony
frin hch a source cannot b H t down
us IVmihpc ratio bdsehutiil. V- invito the
iteithn of tin.- Know Nothing party to hi
dt-annts, found below. Hjacoauaunica- j
tiaa appear in the Wtalifngtna Union, ,
from winch we tukc tin- concluding part, j
Air. Pike says:
'The nathmal conned, m ctingon tin- eaD
f States which bad n-pudiated the Jane
plutform, war; aaaeihlffd in Febraary for
the purpose of repealing the 12th article.
The Xortlu rn aep took control of it at the
beginning, upon tlu wrong buu of reprc
iwututioi), urn) kept that control.
The PJtli artk'fei w ith all the Mat of the
platform, wax .-a ruck out, and a new one
ulwituU '!
That new j-Iatfor'.U'lxhire-that the people
of a territory bare a right to frame their
Mm con-tit utioii ami laws when? and
regulate their own nocial and domestic af
fairs; hut tli.- word Jt-renj i carefully
avoided ; and it com-edes them, not the right,
but tin- I'fclVJl.KwK, of admission into the
Uuiou when they have the requisite popu
Jation. It certainly gives up the three first propo.-i
lions of the 12th article, and it waters the
4th so that it amounts to lit tics or nothing.
The 1st proposition was the ehief one of
the PJth article. The South imperatively
demands that the agitation of the subject of
jdaveryiu Congress shall cease, ami es
pecially that it hall no longer legislate on
that suhject iu the Territories.
The South demands, and has a right to
demand, in every platform, democratic,
whig or American, specific languuge on the
euhject of slavery. It does not want to be
told that laws constitutionally enacted are
to h- obeyed until repealed or deeided null
by judicial authority. It does not want to
be told that a new State shall have the
privilege of admission. It is tired of am
biguities, and sick of generalities ; and, as
the matter now stands, when a man reclaims
bis slave at the risk of his life, and at ten
times the expense of the slave when clergy
men preach sedition, and States pass per-nal-liberty
acts ambiguities and gene
ralities are a mere transparent cheat and
fraud on the South.
And such a fraud is any platform that
studiously omits tla; word slavery, and uses
roundabout phrases, circumlocutions, to
avoid expressing plain ideas.
If the nen platform is the hum in sub
stance as the old, why the change? If it is
not, the South has no use for it.
The new platform h aves the northern meu
who stand upon it perfectly free to agitate
against the fugitive slave law. for the aboli
tion of slavery iu the District, for suppress
ing the trade in slaves between different
States, and for the restoration of the Missouri
Compromise ; and it sjrcially denounces the
repeal of that compromise by denouncing
the President for abetting it.
I do not envy the Southern man who un
dertakes to defend the new platform after
once standing on the old one.
I was a member of the National Council
Loth in June and in February. In June I
desired at first to exclude the question of
tdavery from the platform, denouncing, and
not unless I could denounce, in doing so,
the men of the. party in Masuehuselts, and
elsewhere in the North, viae liad declared
anti-slavery to he part of the National
American creed, as having done so vithout
authority, aud so perverted and prostituted
the organization to improper purposes.
Met by a unanimous resolve on the part
of the Northern members to have a declara
tion that the Missouri Compromise ought to
be restored, I aided in establishing the 12th
article. Onee upon it, and deeming it
emiuently right in principle, it became im
possible for me to abandon it, or eonsent to
its modification. When it was struck out,
I withdrew from the Conned, and destroyed
ray credentials as a delegate to the nomin
ating Convention, in which I refused to take
my seat.
The American party South cannot stand
on the new platform. It must necessarily
repudiate it. On it, it would not carry a
single county anywhere.
It is said that the men uonui.ated are plat
form enough. That misfit be so, if we had
no platform; if they were on no platform;
if we had never hud a platform.
It is said Ihni the new platform is sub
stantially the same as tlc old one. Then
bow came it to be off. red by a free soiler
from Illinois, who declared, after it was
Adopted, that he would veto for the admis
sion of no State permitting slavery If this
suits him. it cannot suit me.
It is mot substantially the same. It was
framed in Washington, to get rid of the 12th
article. It was offered and adopted for that
purpose in Philadelphia; and we may us
well ook it frankly in the face. It yields
up all that we fought fox and gained the
Jane before.
And now a? to the candidates. That I
may not be misunderstood, let me say that
I was always a Whig until I joined the
American party. I was a supporter of Mr.
Fillmore's udurinistrnthm. I was indignant
when he was thrown aside for General Scott.
. ---t,i mm men, i UUUK now.
But when we farmed the American party,
we assured onr Democratic friends who
joined us that it was not meant to be the
Whig party in disgnise. They joined as
in that belief. On my mofa.vn my State
council declared that the nominee for Pre
sident ought to be a Northern man whose
antecedents had been Democratic. I a
iaying fairly.
The old Whig organisations are renew
ing all over the country. The old Whig
committees and clubs are alive and astir
again. Our Democratic brethren will say
that we have deceived them : and that it is
the old Whig party in disguise. 1 think
that it was not lit and proper to nominate
a man who had been so deeply identified
with the Whig party a Whig and nothing
else. I do not say it was had faith to do
it. I do not so even insinuate; but I do
say that, if I had aided in such nomination.
I should have felt that my Democratic
brothers had some right to eojnplain of me.
They do feel all over the South that they
have been trapped; and, my uord far d.
they will not stay in the trap. The new
natrons warrants them in leaving the par
ty, and the Whiff nomination will urze them
to do it ; and they will go buek to their old
faith if the matter is left as it is.
Southern Democratic American can
neither stand on the platform nor support
the candidate.
.Xo Southern American can successfully
defend the platform.
What is to be done? Shall we disband?
Shall ws merge in the Democratic party?
I, for one, say No. It would be too lame
and impotent a conclusion ; and many of
their Xorttern allies are no more reliable
than ours. We are not yet ready to give
up our Ameri' an principles. We hare
sat with Free-SoiU-rs long enough.
Let, then, the State coum-Us of the sever
al Soothes States at once assemble and de
liberate. It is high time we were doing so.
Let us lay down ui.r platform fur all the
South, going upon the subject of slavery
no further than the 12th article went, in or
der that the conservative men in the North
may stand upon it with us. Do not let us
f, rce them from us. They will stand on
that article, if we will be true to ourselves.
Let us not ask them to do more, and that
which they cannot do.
Then let us place candidates on that plat
form. If we think we cannot suc ceed with
a candidate who endorses all our views,
let us take a Democrat who has been tried,
and always found true to the South and the
constitution, at home in the councils of the
country. Let us say to the country, we
are willing to wait for the success of our
American principles. The first thing to do
is, to eire our country nuiet. We will take
this man, trusting to his antecedents. We j
ask of him no other pledges. We will trust
to his American feelings and instincts to do j
justice to those who, like him, are Ameri
can-born, Confident that he will not fill the
country with foreigners, to the exclusion of
those born on the soil.
Let us place this Northern Democrat
one like Bayard and Du Guesclin, without
fear and w ithout reproach and a Southern
Whig of our party at once before the coun
try, ami rally to their Hag the conservatives
of the Union.
We need not fear that our American
principles will not succeed in the end. Un
embarrassed by other questions, the Amer
ican instinrts of the people will in time
make them victorious everywhere.
Or, if that does not suit our view s, let us
nominate candidates of our own party, on
our men platform, nail our flag to the mast
head, and take the chances of the battle;
satisfied with the defeat if it entails no dis
honor and no betrayal of the South.
It is a delicate thing to do that winch I
am shout to do; but the South has too ma
ny platforms, each State a different one, and
the same State, in some cases, three or four
iu succ ession.
I submit one to the South, which several
gentlemen from different States have con
curred in framing. It is the June platform,
with some modifications, reduced to propo
sitions. It is plain, distinct, specific ; it
needs no interpreter. We would fain hope
that our brothers in the South may approve
it. But, at all events, we stand upon it,
and we tntan to stand upon it, now and
hereafter. It will at least elicit discussion
and bring about deliberation, and action
perhaps ; and that is all which we at pres
ent purpose to effect.
A. P.
UNITING WITH THE DEMOCRATS.
The Hon. T. L. Clingman, in a Com
munication in the Washington Union, ad
dressed to his constituents, declares his in
tention to act hereafter with the Democrat
ic party, the only national and constitution
al party of the country. The Hon. Samuel
Caruthers and his colleague in Congress, the
Hon. Mordeeai Oliver, heretofore Whigs,
have also come out in addresses to their
constituents, attaching themselves to the
Democratic party. To come nearer home,
in addition to Messrs. Clingman and Kerr,
we find from the last Raleigh Standard, that
among others who will doubtless co-operate
with us for the future, we may mention
Thomas Loring, Esq., the able Editor of
the Wilmington Commercial Jonathan Al
beraton, Esq., in 1S52 the representative of
Perquimans count- in the Commons Wm.
S. Ransom, Esq. of Warren county Dr.
Win. Terry, of Anson county and George
Green. Esq., a young and rising man, and
recently one of the Commoners from Craven.
Mr. Green has been appointed a delegate
to tlie Democratic State Convention hv the
Democrats and anti-Know Nothings of
Craven. We are glad, says the Standard,
to have the aid and co-operation of all such
Henry Clny Whigs. These gentlemen
have not forgotten that, in 1850, Clay and
Cass, Webster aud King. ind Douglas and
Badger, stood side by side, without regard
to party feeling, in the great effort then
made to se ttle the slavery question and save
the Union. They feel that the country is
in greater peril now than it was then ; and
they believe, as we do, tliat the only party
which may be able to save it is the Demo- j
cratic party. We should likewise be gra- j
fitted to see those honest and well-meaning '
Democrats, who wer induced by false pre- j
fences to unite themselves with the K. X.
party, come back to their old faith and range
themselves under their old and still glorious
end triumphant banner. Come bdek,
friends! there shall be more joy over one
sinner that repeuteth, than over ninety and
uiue that need no repentance.
EX-SENATOR BENTON.
The Washington "Star" says it is under
stood m that city that this distinguished
gentleman is very ambitious of receiving
the nomination of the Republican party for
the Presidency, and that his friends accom
plished no little at the Pittsburg Conven
tion, in the matter of bringing him prom
inently before the leaders of the party m
all the non-slaveholding States to that end.
Mr. Blair, Preston King, and, indeed, nearly
every other ratting Democrat who was on
the ground, were busily engaged in aiding
Benton! aspirations. Unless we are greatly
mistaken, adds the "Star," Mr. B. has
already put out of joint the nose of Gover
nor Chase, of Ohio, whose friends are also
anxious to make him the party candidate.
Mr. Benton's claims will be strenuously
urged before the Philadelphia -'Republican"
Convention, which meets in Philadelphia,
in June next.
THE CENTRAL AMERICAN QUES
TION. Information from an official source from
Washington confirms the statement that an
alliance has been formed between San
Salvador, Costa Rica, Guatemala and Hon
duras. It is said that the alliance is com
pleted, aud that those States are now pre
pared to defend their own territory as well
as so to assist their brethren iu Nicaragua
against Walker's government. It is sup
posed that hostilities were already com
menced. It is also true that instructions
have been issued by several European gov
ernments to their squadrons in the Atlantic
and Pacific, with reference to events in
Central America.
Wai.kku 'Dishonored.' The Journal
of Commerce states that a draft for $4,080,
being twenty dollars toll levied by Walker
upon each passenger who came over the
Nicaragua Transit route, on the last trip,
has been presented at the office of the com
pany in New York city, where acceptance
was refused.
Foreign Silver Coin. The Finance
Committee of the United States Senate have
matured a project designed to lead to the
gradual abandonment and ultimate rejection
of the small Spanish silver coins as part of
the circulating medium. The result of the
experiments to ascertain the value of the
Spanish sixteenth, eighth, and epiarter of a
dollar, is reported to the committee as in
dicating the first to be w orth a fraction over
five cents, the second aljout eleven, and the
quarter between twenty-three and twenty
four cents. The bill allows them to be
circulated for two years at the rate of 5, 10
and 'ZSS cents respectively, and thereafter
they are to be excluded altogether from
circulation. But at the mint they will be
at all times received as bullion, and paid for
by weight.
Vessels at Portsmouth, Va. There
is at present quite a formidable fleet of U.
S. Vessels at Portsmouth. The number is
nineteen, with an aggregate of seven hun
dred and eighty-nine guns. Four of them
arc ships of the line, three steamers, four
frigates, four sloops of war, and one brig.
There arc now employed in the Navy Yard
at Portsmouth about 1,700 men.
BROOMSTRAW PAPER. We learn, says
the Raleigh Standard, that Mr. Benedict is
experimenting in making paper from broom
straw, at his mill on Crabtree in this County ;
and that he has succeeded in making quite
a respectable article of paper. With further
efforts he may he enabled to produce good
paper. We hope he w ill, for there is an
abundance of the "raw material."
'. W The number of fugitive slaves in
Canada has, it is stated, increased since
1850 from 15,000 to 40,000. Most of them
are in a state of great destitution, and large
sums have been raised in England for their
relief. The abolitionists of this country,
through whose instrumentality the greater
portion cd those negroes were enticed from
their masters, are contributing little, if any
thing, to save the poor creatures from star
vation. Abolitionism cares nothing really'
for the slave; its main object is to injure
the slaveholder.
lW A curious advertisement appeared in
the London Times the other day, headed
"A Superior Governess;" who was willing
to accept for her services a farthing for the
first month, one penny the second, and so
on for the year. Now, this would appear
to be a modest demand, but what think you
is the stipend the lady aspired to? Only
5,8125 8s. 5d. for the first year.
13" A letter to the Savannah Republican,
dated Rome, February 12, says that Mr.
Fillmore is now in Naples, and will either '
go to Greece, or via Malta and Egypt to
Jerusalem and Constantinople, returning
by Greece to Trieste. It will probably be
two or three mouths before he returns to
this country.
A rich old spinster who died at New
ton, N. H., iately left $38,419. She was
all her life getting ready to be married, and
had stored up 182 sheets, 63 coverlets, 59
blankets, 27 beds, with 1,120 lbs. of feathers,
54 towels, 24 table covers, and 43 handker
chiefs, while the whole amount of her
wearing apparel did not exceed ten dollars
in value.
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Health of Raleigh. The number of
deaths in Raleigh for the year 1855 was
78, lb' whites and 32 blacks. There is no
city of the same size in fhe Union that can
present so lean a biD of mortalitv as this.
Laroe Wages. An advertiser in the
New YorkSun, advertises for several femalea
to work on vests ? and says a good stitcher
will be paid $1 per week.
The End or Crime. We have good
reasons for knowing (says the New York
Express) that the body of Robert Rchuyler,
whose name alive was once so potent in
Wall street, came herein tlie iteamer Ara- i
go, from Havre, wrapped up like a pack- !
age of goods. The body was here uncalled i
tor, in a warehouse, from Saturday to Mon
day, and on that day was taken by his rel
atives for interment.
Suit Decided at New York. The
long pending suit, under which some $250,
000 were claimed by Samuel G. Ogden of
William B. Astor, on an unsettled account
of partnership transactions between the
plaintiff and the late John Jacob Astor,
has been terminated by the payment of
$12o,000 to Mr. Ogden. Mr. O. is the
father of Mrs. Anna Cora Ritchie.
Barnum'S Failure. On Thursday last,
P. T. Buruum was put under examination,
in New York, at the suit of a firm which has
obtained judgment against him. Mr. Barnum
stated that he did not consider himself a
bankrupt, as he hoped to pay all his per
sonal debts; hut if the inability to dis
charge his obligations incurred on behalf of
the Jerome Company was considered a fail
ure, then he failed in January last. He
stated that he had been induced, by fraudu
lent representations, to endorse the compa
ny's paper ; and the very persons who per-
Sliaclect mm, now UeiU me uiaits aim ue-
manded their liquidation. The great show
man now lives by keeping boarders and on
the last summer's crop of his Bridgeport
farm.
Dreadful Shipwreck. The ship
Great Duke, Captain Sampson, bound from
New Orleans to Liverpool, and loaded with
cotton and Indian corn, was wrecked on the
niffht of the ninth of February last, betw een
St. Groven's head and Linney head. Of
the ship there was scarcely a piece left
more than eight or ten feet in length, and
the greater number of those pieces are only
fit for firewood. C. Sampson, master;
Hays, second mate: Parker; third mate,
and twenty-nine of the crew were drowned.
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Accident in Nicaragua. A young
s.on of U. S. Minister Wheeler was acci
dentally shot in Nicaragua on the 16th ult..
by a gun in the hands of an elderly brother.
Though severely, he was not considered fa
tally wounded.
Rail Road Accident. Two freight
trains, on the 17th instant, came into colli
sion near Havre da Grace, 35 miles from
Baltimore. The conductor, named George
Godwin, and a brakeman, named W.Todd,
were killed. A drover, named Flynn, was
badly injured.
Steamboat Catastrophe. The steam
er Alabama burst her boiler on the Red
river, on the 18th instant. Several passen
gers were burnt to death and otherwise
killed. Others are severely wounded and
maimed for life.
Free State Contributions. The sub
scriptions at a Kansas meeting in Albany, N.
Y., on the 13th instant, amounted to $4,040,
of which Gerrit Smith gave $3,000, E. C.
Delevan $1,000. and the State Register
and Evening Journal each $100.
Earthquake in Conecticut. Last
Wednesday night, a shock of an earthquake
was felt in Madison, Connecticut, which
lasted about thirty seconds, and was fid
lowed by a rumbling noise like distant thun
der. The shock was also felt in some of
the neighboring towns.
.
MURDER. On Monday night, the 17th
instant, Mr. Edward E. Harwood, of
Charles City county, A'a., was brutally
murdered in his own house, by a ne-iro man
belonging to Mr. James Christian. Mr.
Harwood kept a small store, and, at the
time had no body on the premises with him
but an old negro woman, who was in the
kitchen. The murderer robbed the house
of such money and other valuables as he
Could find, after which he left the premises
by the back door, and on being discovered
by the old negro woman, attempted to shoot
her, but the pistol snapped and he ran off.
He has been caught, and lodged in jail.
. .
A William-Tell Shot. The Boston
Post says : "In Pittstown, Rensselaer coun
ty, New York, Horace H. Wadsworth, with
his rifle at arm's length, at twenty paces,
shot a potatoe from the head of a young man
named Crogan. The potatoe was cut in
two, and by the force of the ball a wale
as big as a man's finger w as raised on Cro
gan's head, and the poor fellow thought his
skull was split, though no blood was drawn
nor any real harm done. The truth is, a
party in the tavern, somewhat elated, had
been discussing the story of William Tell,
and that led to the perilous trial. Crogan
says it was the first and last time that he
will ever stand as a live illustration of Swiss
patriotism."
The Norfolk Argus states that on
Sunday night a difficulty occurred in that
city between Oscar Biinkley and Crawford
Johnson, two young men- residing on Cum
berland street. Bunkley was shot by John
son ami waiitM and is now dan
gerous, the ball passing through the left
side, below the heart. It seems the affray
arose chiefly about a young lady. J. was
arrested.
lsJMr. Everett pronounced his oration
on the character of Washington, at Rich
mond, on Wednesday evening last. The
Enquirer says it was in every respect a mag
nificent address and delivered with exqui
site elocution. He delivered the same ad
dress in Petersburg on Thursday night ;
and has accepted an invitation from Secre
tary Murcy, Guthrie and Dobbin, and Sen
ators Crittenden, Butler, Hunter and others,
to deliver it in Washington city, some even
ing this week.
' v 1 he General Assembly of Virginia
, ,,T J o0nu,i
J ' ' uucauaj uiiei u session ot
119 days, and after the passage of some
four hundred and sixty bills, and a number
of joint resolutions.
nr" A bloody affray occurred on Sunday
evening ht at Elizabeth City, N. C, in
which Robert Childrey was killed, and
George 8. Butt and Thaddeos Butt were
wounded. Childrey was the 8tep-fathei of
the Butt's, and the difticulty between them
arose from the alleged mal-treatment of
their mother, his wife. The parties met on
the street. Childrey was killed by a cut
from a knife, aud the young Butt's were
wounded by pistol balls.
HP" Connodore David Conner died in !
Philadelphia, on the 20th instant j
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CONGRESS
March 17. In the Senate, Mr. Doug
las, from the Committee on Territories,
reporting a bill authorizing the State Gov
ernment preparatory to admission into the
Union as soon a Kansas shall have the
requisite population.
Mr. Clayton addressed the Senate rela
tive to the British construction of the Clay-ton-Bulwer
treaty and Central American
affairs generally. He was gratified, he said,
at the extraordinary degree of unanimity
shown duriug the discussion in the Senate
with resrard to the construction of thattrea
ty. All had agreed in repudiating, as ut
terly unworthy their regard, the new con
struction given the treaty by the British
Government, namely : That it was only to
have a perspective operation, thus leaving
Great Britain in undisturbed possession of
that country, and all the rights she had
prior to 1850, while it debarred the United
States from any right or possession what
ever. Such construction was an after
thought an attempt to evade treaty obli
gations. In the House, Mr. Gallaway (Abolition
ist) advocated the passage of the resolution
empowering tliJ Committee on Elections to
send for persons and papers in the Kansas
case. He said that the country demands
a full investigation in order that the rascal
ity of those who thwarted the public will in
the territory, may be exposed and punished
proportionate to their offence. While de
fending Governor Reeder, he said that
Shannon had been buried above ground by
the people of Ohio, but the President had
put out his angling rod and golden bait in
Belmont Cemetery, fished him out, breath
ed into him new life, and sent him out to
govern the people of Kansas.
March 18. In the Senate, Mr. Iverson
gave notice of his intention to introduce a
bill to increase the compensation of mem
bers of Congress, and to fix the time of the
annual meeting. Mr. Houston presented a
memorial signed by members of the Legis
lature of Maryland, endorsing the resolu
tions of the Virginia Legislature condemn
atory of the action of the Naval Board. He
spoke in strong terms against the system
of espionage w hich had struck the names of
gallant men from the Navy. The Senate
then adjourned.
In the House, Mr. Smith opposed the re
solution of the committee, asking for power
to send for persons and papers to enable
them to examine the Kansas case. The
House debated Kansas affairs until the hour
of adjournment.
March 19. The Senate passed the Mil
itary Academy Bill, and then considered
the Deficiency Bill.
The House, in lieu of the majority and
minority reports, in the Kansas contested
election case, adopted a substitute authoriz
ing the Speaker to appoint a committee of
three members of the House to take testi
mony, and appropriating $10,000 for their
expenses. The vote stood : yeas, 101 ;
nays, 92.
March 20. Mr. James reported a bill
In ihe Senate tu-du) , prepared Dy lie sec
retary of the Treasury, to prevent frauds
in the revenue, and to remodel the tariff, by
which it is expected that the revenue will be
reduced to the extent of ten millions of dol
lars. The main feature is the abolition of
the duty on wool. All raw materials for
manufacturing and mechanical uses are put
on the free list. Mr. Douglas replied to
Mr. Trumbull's speech.
In the House the naval appropriation bill
was reported.
Both Houses adjourned to Monday.
In the Senate, on the 20th instant, Mr.
James reported a bill, drawn up by the Se
cretary of the Treasury, entitled "a bill to
prevent frauds on the Revenue and for other
purposes." It is proposed that the bill
shall go into effect on the 30th of June,
1857. The duties arc to be as follows :
All imported spirituous liquors 80 per cent,
ad valorem. All articles now paying a du
ty of 30 per cent, and over, except spiritu
ous liquors, and one or two others now pay
ing a duty of 25 per cent., comprising most
articles of foreign manufacture, arc to be
subject to a duty of 30 per cent, ad valo
rem. The free list comprises raw material
for manufacturers and mechanics, &c,
which are produced either not all here, or
to no great extent. Articles not enumerat
ed in either of the other sections are to be
taxed 20 per cent, ad valorem. The main
feature of the bill appears to be the aboli
tion of the duty on wool. It is said that
the bill will reduce the yearly revenue about
$10,000,000. It provides, however, fully
against fraudulent evasions of it by impor
ters. The "Black Republicans" claim an
important triumph in the passage of Mr.
Dunn's resolution authorizing the Speaker
to appoint a committee of three members
to proceed to Kansas and investigate the
affairs of the Territory generally present
and past. They say the adoption of the
resolution is equal to their success in the
election of Speaker. They are accordingly
jubilant.
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PROBABILITIES OF WAR
The following is an extract from a speech
of Mr. Iverson, of Ga., in the Senate of the
United States.
"View this subject as you please, sir, it
seems to me that there is not only danger,
i a r
uUt imminent danger, of a
war with Great
Britain. I admit that my opinion cannot
stand by the side of those of the "potent,
grave and reverend signiors" who have ex
pressed different opinions; but, neverthe
less, it is my opinion, and I give it for what
it is worth. What would be the condition
of the Suited States if we were precipitated
illto a war witl Great Britain? She is now
a-'nut make a peaee with Russia; and if
tliat Pace be now concluded, Great Britain
wiU be iu be best condition she ever has
boeu iu since the foundation of the govern-
ment to the present day, for a war with the
United States. She has a larger naval ar-
mameut than she has ever had before. She
I !"?! oiated arm
heretofore lasted of; she has the
most magnificent materials of war that any
,T7 or nv acre has ever seen. In the
event of a war between Great Britain una
the United States, this immense naval ar
mament, this stupendous fabric of an army,
would be percipitated on the United States.
What would be our condition to meet them?
Notwithstanding the weak condition in
which we should be placed towards such
tremendous and overpowering forces as
Great Britain would have it in her power
to bring against us, we stand here and talk
about voting $3,000,000 to increase the
arms of the United States !
The Name. The Know-Nothing party,
could not have paid a higher compliment
to Gen. Jackson, than by trafficking in his
name. The tribute thus paid by his revilers
and slanderers while living, shows the power
and magic of his name, and at once recoils
upon those who denounced him as a tyrant
and a usurper. While a distinguished poet
has declared that there is nothing in a name,
and a "rose by any other name would smell
as sweet," the action of the Know-Nothing
party directly and unequivocally contradicts
the assertion. Nothing but the Andrew
Jackson prefixed to Donelson's name re
commended him to the favor of the Know
Nothing Convention, and but for that name
he never would have been thought of by
the opposition party. But, the magic of
his name will do Donelson no good. His
desertion of the principles of the party that
the old Hero devoted a long life to sustain,
will cover him with shame and contempt.
His new associates may fix and dress him
up as they please, but it will be all to no
purpose.
Our Know-Nothing cotemporaries, in
order to make a little capital for the "greasy
Tennessecan," (as his friend, Brownlow,
calls him) are parading it before the people
that their candidate for Vice President is
the adopted son of the Hero of the Her
mitage, and is also his nephew. This is a
mistake, for he is neither. Gen. Jackson
married Donelson's aunt, and he is, there
fore, no relation whatever. The adopted
sou of Gen. Jackson resides at the Hermi
tage, and is a true and unflinching Demo
crat. He by no means dishonors the name
by coalescing with the revilers of the illus
trious Jackson.
A Race for the Crumbs of Jackson
ism. The negro sympathizers at Pittsburg
called Jackson's editor of the old Globe to
the chair, and the anti-twelfth section par
ty at Philadelphia, not to be outdone in de
votion to the memory of the Old Hero, head
ed off the Pittsburgers by nominating his
private secretary for Vice President.
A beggar once called at a farm-house at
hog-killing time and asked for something
to eat. The old farmer, in the kindness of
his sou, now enlarged by the plenty around
him, asked the beggar what he would have?
"Oh," replied he, "beggars should not be
choosers any of the offal, such as spare
ribs, sausages, and the like." Ohio States
man: Some newspapers are following the
suggestion of Carson Urownlow. The Low
is town (Pa.) Gazette has Donelson's name
Hying at the mast-head, in the following
style :
FOIt VICE PRESIDENT,
ANDlgJBW JACKSON
Donelson,
OP TENNESSEE,
The Adopted Son and Confidential Secre
tary of Major Gen. Andrew Jackson.
The University of North Carolina.
It is stated that the Rev. Dr. Fuller, of
Baltimore, has been invited by the Senior
Class, by a unanimous vote, to deliver the
Valedictory Sermon at the next commence
ment, (in place of Archbishop Hughes, de
clined,) and that Matt. XV. Ransom, Esq.,
I the late Attorney General, has consented
! to deliver the Annual Address before the
Literary Societies.
Elections to Come. New Hampshire
having led off the pre-Presidential elections,
I will be followed by Connecticut, on the first
Monday of April, and Rhode Island the
Wednesday ensuing. There are no other
elections earlier than August.
A Story Finis iieu. Some years ago a
Cincinnati paper received and printed the
first chapter of what promised to be a thrill
ing romance, with the expectation of being
provided with the concluding portions as
might be needed. The chapter was very in
geniously written, and concluded by leav
ingthe principal character suspended by
the pantaloons from the limb of a tree over
a perpendicular precipice. It attracted the
attention of the press, and inquiries were
about to be made concerning the continua
tion of the story and the fate of the hero.
Day after day the victimized publishers
looked for the remaining chapters, but in
vain, they never came to hand. Finding
that they had been sold, and wishing to put
a stop to the jokes their cotemporaries were
cracking at their expense, they briefly
concluded the story thus :
Chapter II. Conclusion. After hanging
to the treacherous tree for four weeks, his
pantaloons gave way, and Charles Melville
rolled headlong over the yawning precipice.
He fell a distance of five miles, and came
down with the small of his back across a
stake, which so jarred him that he was com
pelled to travel in Italy for his health, where
he is at present residing. He ia engaged
in the butchering business, and is the father
of a large family of children !
A Yankee. He is self-denying, self
relyine, and into everything prying. He
is a lover of piety, propriety, notoriety, and
the temperance society. He is a dragging,
bragging, striving, thriving, swapping, jost
ling, hustling, wrestling, musical, quizzical,
astronomical, philosophical, poetical, and
comical sort of character, whose manifest
destiny is to spread civilization to the
remotest corner of the earth.
UP There never was a party with so
sudden a rise and so sudden a fall as the
Know-Nothing party. Its history is well
told in the nursery rhyme :
"I had a little pig, and I fed him on clover,
When he died, he died all over."
LATER FROM EUROPE
ARRIVAL FTHB PERsi
The steamer Persia has arrived at
York with Liverpool dates to the 8th. Cot
ton was firm, with a slight improveniept
the better grades. Sales -of the week 64
000 bales, including 14,000 to exporters &nj
speculators. The quotations are : p,
Orleans, 6 ; middling, 5 15-16 to 6d;
upland, 6i ; middling 5i. Stock 371,oqq
bales, including 257,000 bales of American
The Manchester market was firm. pi0(tf
had declined 3s.; Corn Is. and Wheat 6d
The Brokers' Circular quotes Canal flotlj.
at 31 to 35s.; Ohio 36s.; red wheat 9s. 9j .
white 10s. 6d. Money was tighter, the r&te
of interest being at 6 to 7 per cent. The
bullion in the Bank had increased 24
000.
The peace Conferences are reported to
progress favorably. The fifth meeting wj,
held on the 6th instant. The Emperor K.
poleon had made a speech, in which he
stated that he hoped for peace, but that
France must be prepared for peace or war.
The leaders of the hostile armies in theCri-
j mea had met to carry out the terms of the
armistice. The Russians were sending
considerable troops to Finland, and fortify,
ing Cronstadt. The Paris Moniteur con
tains a decree calling into service 140,000
young men of the class of 1855. A deg
patch from Berlin states that two carrier,
passed through with fresh instructions to
the Russian Envoys. The allied squadrou
in the Baltic had been ordered to assemble
to renew the blockade of the Russian ports.
Covent Garden Theatre was entirely
destroyed by fire on the morning of the 5th
instant only a few persons were slightly
injured.
The Persia brings no tidings of the Paci
fic. The steam propeller Arctic, which was
sent out in search of the missing steamer,
touched at Sandy Hook on the 20th, and
repaired to sea again. She saw no vestige
of the Pacific.
Cash paid for Hides.
ril CENTS CASH paid for heavy DRy
t HIDES. S M HOWELL.
Charlotte, Murch 18, lb56. ly
Gunsmithing, Ac, v.
THE subscriber thankful for past patronage,
respeciiully requesie the continuance ol the
same- Ilaving associated with Mr. Dt lune, they
will e able to execute all work with MMMN and
dispatch. Hell hanging attended to at short nu.
! tice. Giinsnnthing in t very branch. Edged tools,
Cutlery, &c, made to order. Shop at KudisiU't
Steam I'laniug Mills.
BEARD &. DELANE.
! N. B. All persons indebted to me are requested
j to call immediately and settle, and those navini;
i work at my shop are requested 10 call with the
i CASH and procure the same immediately.
W. BEARD.
I March 18, 1356 tf
Wrnpping Paper.
riHE Merchants of Charlotte and vicinitj
JL can be supplied with all kinds und quali-
tie of wrapping I'siper, from the Ra
leigh Wrapping Paper Mills.
C. V. BENEDICT,
Proprietor.
QtF"RAfiS taken in exchange for Paper, at
the highest price. C. W. B.
Kaleigh, March 4, 1856 ly
RIO-GRANDE.
A R ARE OPPORTUNITY is now pretested
ia. ior the tanners and ail aomueni ot good
horses, in this section of the country, to iniprow
their Stock.
RIO-GRANDE is one of the. finest and penal
blooded liorses in the world, as will be wen l
reference to the English ami American records f
his pedigree. Jte is directly descended Ironi Ike
very purest and best stock in England and Am -rica,
as the following pedigree will show :
RIO-GRANDE is by Billy Harris, out of Lad.r
Morgan. Billy Harris was by Monsieur TonMa,
he by Pacolet, dam by Madam Touson, by El
liot S lop Gallant : grand oaiu by Barn v's Med
ley ; Top Gallant by Gallatin; Barrey's Media
lly Medley. Lady Morgan, the dam f V
Grande, was by John Richards ; her dam hj rat
ported ExiM'ditioii ; her grand dam by Bela Bad
ger's Sir Solomon ; great grand daui Aurora, bf
imported Honesrt .lohu ; great great grand daiii
jeiippa, by imported Messenger; g. g. g. graiiil
datn Dirto, by imported Bay Kiebwoud; g-ff f
g. grand dam Stnmerfcin, by imported n iloai'-
g g. g. g. g. grand dam by imported Cnb-
A iei, the dam ot JSiIiy Mams, watt by American
Eclipse; her dam by Financier; errand dam b
Einnress. bv imported Baronet : trreat errand daa
by imported Messenger; her dam by Snap, oat
Jenny Duter, by True Brton ; her dam Quaki'
Lass, by imported Juniper, ont i" the impend
Molly Pacolet, by imported I'acolct ; Molly rat
olet's dam by imported Spark, out of Queen Mat
American Eclipse was by Duroc ; his dam l
famous race mare Miller's Damsel, by imported
Messenger, out ot the imported Pot-e-ooooooo
mare; her dam by Jim-Crack. Duroc was l
imporU-d Diomede, out of Mr. Mosby's "extranr-
dinary race mare Amanda," by Col. Tavlor-
famous Gray Diomede, son of imported Medley.
It is deemed unnecessary to extend back an'
farther the pedigree of Rio-Grande, although I
can be fully traced in the English Records bad
. , , 9 f . .
Tii n v-rv inner n,-r nil fit nnw
RIO-GRANDE is unquestionably one amonf
the finest horses in the whole Southern count?
His stock are of fine size, remarkably well forc
ed, durable, and easily managed. Testimoniali
from the very best raisers of Stock in Sontb Car
lina, fully sustain all and more than is here stawl
concerning Rio-Grande. He is nndonbtt ellr tt
extra fine horse in every respect. There is n11
single drop of coarse or impure blood ia h
veins.
n 1 .a if
Will stand the present season, as follows: In th
town of Charlotte, the first three days (Mondaj.
Tuesday, and Wednesday) of each week;
Thursdays at Morrow's Turn-Gut. ten miles bf
low Charlotte, on the South-Carolina rail-road-and
on Fridays and Saturdays at the subscriber!
residence, in the Providence neighborhood,
Mecklenburg county, on terms which it is hf
lieved will suit every body, viz : Twenty-five dor
lars the season, or one hundred dollars for fiT'
mares one responsible man becoming payroll
for the Company.
Tlie si-:isnit will rnmmpnpp fin fnndaV & I
j 10th of March, in Charlotte, and continue u I
j usual time. JAMES II. DAVIS.
EFThe Yorkville Enquirer, Lancaster Ledff
! Concord Gazette, and Salisbury Banner ,
! please copy three times, and forward ( Koos
addressed to me, Charlotte Post-Office
March 4, 1856. tf
STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA,
MECKLENBURG COL'NTV,
; Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions Jamut
Term, 1856.
R u n;.i.nn i
OS
11 I ' tl 1 u .ny " ; .
v. I Original Attachment.
Cyrus Williamson.
IT APPEARING to the satisfaction of tlx
Court, that the defendant io this case F
aides beyond the limits of this State: B"
therefore ordered by the Court, that public
Hon be made six weeki, in the Western De
ocrat, a newspaper published in the town
Charlotte, notifying the said defendant tot
and appear at the next term of out said court
to be held for said county, at the court-boo
in Charlotte, on the fourth Monday in ApJ
next, then and there to plead, answer, or'
mur, or judgment pro confesso will be tai
against him. ,
Witneat, W. K. Reid, Clerk of our
Court, at Office in Charlotte, the 4th MonJ
in January, 1856, a.nd in the 80th year 01
merican Independence.
W. K. REID, c. c.c
March 11, 1856 6 w Pn. f J