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EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
VOLUME 4.
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TWy Akl.S this onnortunitv of uitn
M- imhlic s-eaerallr. and all rbn mreiid .oi,,.r
in:
th,
t Kan-as m particular, that he intends teeotft
tlmse tie-
Saddle and Harness Business,
Ar h: old rand. in Springs' Corner Buildiag,
where ae int -uds to keen constantly on hand a
Mipolv of
Saddles, Bridles, Harneim,&.c
Of ilvtry lit scriplion.
His fu n is are resp ctfully invited to call and
supplv th inselves. at every article in his line
will he aSovdrd on the most" reasonable terms.
It I'l I It I J done at the shortest notice
and with ueatie-ss and dispatch.
Charlotte, Feb. 86, 18u6. tf
SELF-PROTECTORS.
Tft RITELLKU IS I 1101 SLKF EPERS.
Th rrrtitt
tnotlrit mpeor-HMnt
in Fin Arm.
CULVS REFE1TEB&
A FINC WOrt Sir III just received.
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T. TBOTTEB & BON
Charlotte, June 10 1856. 3t
AND
JEWELRY.
HOMAS T K OTTER
M. SOU have just re- fij
e ived i and will K.' r. ,r.
lanr leeehruag additions thereto) a choice stock
ol handsome and fashionable WATCHES from
a nu.st eel brated makers. Also, a rich assort
ment si
F ishionable Jewelry, Chaias, &c.
All of which will h- sold low for cash, or on short
;ine to punctual dealer.
rt i m THMA TROTTER Sc BOH.
C harlotto, June 10, 1856 tf
rjr Whig pla enpe
R. ML. PATTERSON, M. D.,
Monroe, INT. C
HAVING permanently located himself in this
plact , respectfully offers his profess i on al
servict s to the public.
lf Office at the Village Hotel.
June 17, 1856 tf
ROBERT GIBBON, 91. D.
FFER8 liis professional services to the pub-
W lie, in the practice ol 8UBGEBY, iu all
its various departments.
Dr. Giunox will operate, treat, or give advice
ia all am tliat may require his attention.
Office No. 5, Granite Range, Charlotte.
Feb. It), lt5o. ly
"AVINQ located in this place, respectfully
. offers his Professional Services to the citi
zens of the town and vicinity.
ty OFFICE next door to Messrs. Drucker &
Sonmen1 Store. April 22, IdoG. tf
S. W. DAVIS,
Attorney &. Counsellor at Law,
J:m- 1 , 18;"t; tf
KOBIIKT P. WARING,
iiej at Law,
(Office in Springs' brick building, 4 doors south
of the Charlotte Hank.)
Charlotte, N. C.
Jan. '29, l.-Cfi. tf
A ARdT
DBS SAM'L L. & JOSEPH W. CALD
WELL have this day associated themselves
in the practice of Medicine, and oue or the other
of them can at all times be found at their office,
next door to the State Bank, up stairs, unless pro
fessionally engaged.
In all dangerous cases Dr. P. C. Caldwell will
act as consulting physician free of charge.
SAMUL L. CA I LWLL,
JOSEPH V. CALLWLL.
Jan. 2, 1856. lj
SV Dit. I. C. CALDWELL will be
at the Office of Doctors J- W. & S. L. Caldwell
from 8 to 10 o'clock, every morning. After that
hour, he will be at his own house, subject to the
call of any of his friends, uuless professionally
absent.
MRS. M. .1. CRAICi,
Three doom below Trotter's Carriage Manufactory
CtiiilHTTU.
April -2-2, 1856. ly
PRESBYTERIAN
MILE WlsLW,
IIIK second session of this
-L Institution will open in
the new building on 4;h day
of August next. To make sui
table arrangements, the Trus
ters have .spared neither cost
nor pains. A euniinodious and
handsasM building, furniture
and apparatus will be ready
iniltte time; and our worthy
aud esteemed President will
have a numb-r of well qualified jw
Assistants. Our terms are lower than any other
similar institution with which we are acquainted .
Board and tuition to be paid in advance.
TERMS per session of five months,. .$60 00
French Language, 5 00
Latin and (Ir-ek, each, 10 00
Music, with use of Piano, 22 :",()
Oil Painting 15 00
Water Colours and Ornamental Wax
Work, each, 1000
Embroidery 5 00
Contingencies 1 00
Candles and Towels furnished by the pupils.
By order of the Hoard.
S. Ii. O. WILSON, Tres't.
June 3, 1 856 1 1 A
Erovicliico Academy,
T
1 1 K exercises of th
aphonl, will commence
ou the 1st Monday in
iune.
Terms per Session cf 21 Weeks
Latin, Creek, Mathematics $12 50
English Grammar, Arithmetic, &c.,. f 00
Students will be charged from the day of en
trance to the end of the session, without deduc
tion for absence.
E. C. KUYKENDAL.
May 27, 1856 Iw
BOOKS
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rpHE NEW PURCHASE, or EaHly Years
X in the Far West lii Robert Carlton.
THE ADVENTURES OF II A.I.I I 15 ABA
in Turkey, Persia, and Russia Edited by James
Morier.
STANHOPE BURLEIGH, T- Jcstiltcs in
our Ilmnta. One of the most interesting Novels
that has been written in manv rears by Htlm
Dhu.
THE MESEFM of Remarkable and Interest
ing Events, containing Historical Adventures
and Incidents.
BLANCHE DEAEWOOD-a Tale oflfodern
Life.
EVENING TALES being a selection of
wonderful and sun rnatural Stories, translated
from the Chinese, Turkish, and Herman, aud
compiled by Uemrm St. Clair
LEXICON OF FREE
MASONRY
( w taming a definition
of all its communicable terms.
The True Masonic Chart, by J. L. Ooss, G. L
The Free-Mason s Manual," by Rev'ud K. J.
Stewart.
Mackey's Ahinan Besoa of South Carolina.
The New Masonic Tnistle Roard.
THE ODDFELLOWS' MANUAL, bv the
Rev. A. li. Grash.
LOWRIE & ENNI8S,
Charlotte. March 4, 1856 Book-Sellers.
NAXO FORTES.
A J K. RAMSEY, of
Columbia, S. O,
I'iaiK Forie tc
Mnie :t !
is constantly recMv
ins a good supply of
Pianos withthe LATEST IMPKOVEM ENTS,
which has given them the pr-mium over ail
others. 6 and octaves from $2"0 to $300.
GJ to 7 $300 to $400. 7 to 7 $400 to $4.".0.
Carved work and Grand Pianos :rom $500 to
$10(10.
Mr. R. being a practical Piano Maker can
insure to his customers a perfect instrument
Columbia, June 2J, 1833. 49ly
Betas of tit Ban.
Death of Hon. Thos. H. Bayly.
Hon. Thomas II. Bayly, Representative in
Congress from the Northampton District of
Virginia, died at his residence in Accomac
county, on Sunday morning last, at 4 o'
clock. Virginia and Tennessee Railroad.
This road has been completed to within
twenty-seven miles from the terminus of the
road on the Tennessee line, to which point,
says the Lynchburg Virginian, a distance
of one hundred and twenty-seven miles
from that city, the ears are now running,
having made their first trip yesterday.
ry The Lynchburg Virginian states that
three hogsheads of tobacco were sold in that
city, a few days since, at the enormous
average of sixty-four dollars and ninety-one
cents per hundred the best one bringing
the unprecedented price of $150 per hun
dred !
-
Fire. We learn that on the night of
Wednesday, the 4th inst., the store-house
of Gen. Charles R. Jones, of Williamsburg,
Iredell county, was destroyed by lire. No
doubt, from what we learn, but it was the
work of an incendiary. Loss about $3,000.
Insurance $1,000.
Singular Robbery. A merchant of
Smithfield, Va., sent his Iron Safe to New
York to have it repaired. Two of the work
men made duplicate keys, and last Monday
robbed the safe of $-2,000. One of the cul
prits was taken while attempting to return
to New York.
UT Hon. John C. Breckinridge, the Dem
ocratic nominee for the V'ce Presidency,
addressed a Buchanan ratification meeting
at Lexington, Ky.. (his place of residence)
on the 9th instant.
Rowdy Judge Fixed. On the 15th ult.,
Hugh C. Murray, Chief Justice of the Su
preme Court of California, wasjined $50 by
the City Recorder of Sacramento, for an as
sault on Thomas Hill. The assault was
caused by Hill's having remarked, out of
the hearing of the Judge, that he was the
meanest man who had ever filled so high
a post.
Important from Central America.
A letter dated Granada, Juno 1st, say9 :
"We have just received a communication
from the government of Costa Rica, in which
they acknowledge the government of Pre
sident Rivas and General Walker, consid
ering the war tit an end, and offering to be
come responsible for all the expenses of
the war."
iy James J. Strong, the Mormon lead
er, was shot at Beaver Island, on the lrith,
by two of his former followers. He receiv
ed three balls in the body, and a severe
blow from a pistol on the head. Strong
was alive up to noon ou the 17th, but was
in a very critical condition. The assassins
had been arrested.
Death or John D. Et ci.es, Esq. The
Fayetteville Observer announces with deep
regret the death of this distinguished citizen
of North Carolina. It occurred on Sunday
evening last, after a lingering and a very
painful illness. The observer says the de
ceased had no superior at the Bar, whilst
his health permitted him to undergo the la
bors of that arduous profession.
I3T On Saturday last Win. Howard was
murdered near Alexandria, Va., by his
brother, Samuel Howard. Both were drunk,
and in an altercation which ensued the lat
ter stabbed the former live times in the back
with a knife. He was arrested Sunday
morning his brother having died during
the niht.
-jA submarine cable, connecting Og
densburg with Prescott, Canada, was suc
cessfully placed in the St. Lawrence river
last week, thus putting New York and Can
ada in direct communication. But 15 mi
nutes were required to stretch the entire
distance, one mile.
Steamer Bl unt Loss of Life. The
steamer City of Newark, was burned on Tues
day hist, off Staten Island, beiow New York;
two or three females lost their lives. All
the other passengers were saved.
Georgia Emigrants for Kansas. A
company of emigrants from Georgia, passed
up the Georgia State Railroad, Tuesday,
en route for Kansas. They numbered
more than two hunc red, and include sever
al families and twelve negroes.
o
MfJRDER. The Fayetteville North Car
olinian learns that on Saturday last, Thos.
MeLennon deliberately shot his step daugh
ter, a girl about 13 or 14 years old, killing
her instantly. MeLennon was tried about
six years ago for the murder of Joshua
Bryan- and acquitted. Bryan was the re
puted father of the murdered girl. MeLen
non has been arrested.
Too LITERAL. A few days since, a well
known citizen of Brooklyn, N. J-, who had
for some time previously shown symptoms
of excessive religious enthusiasm, proceed
ed, after reading thj passage of Seriptqra,
'If thy right hand offend thee, cut it off,"
to sever his hand from his arm with a carv
ing knife. He was removed to the Lunatic
Asvluni at Flat Bush, L. L, where he died
in less than two days.
LIFE IN NEW ORLEANS.
All accounts from New Orleans represent
society there in a most alarming and deplor-j This was a nomination "not fit to be
able condition. Every week, or oftener, ; made," except as a nigger worshipper's can
some outrageous murders or assassinations didate. "What claim, on the score of talent,
of respectable citizens, are recorded. The ; statesmanship, public services, or merit of
orincinal causo of this state of things is at- any kind, gives him any title to the office?
tributed to the ill-feeling engengered be-
tween the natives and foreigners- -growing
out of the know-nothing movement. The
New Orleans Courier has an account of the
meeting in that city last week of about 300
French and other citizens of foreign birth,
to take into consideration measures for
their own safety, with reference to violence
which had been or may be perpetrated upon
them. The Courier saj's :
"A member of the meeting then referred
tt the killing of a Frenchman named Gir
ard, some days since, at a cofl'ee house, and
stated that he was killed, not in consequence
of any political question, as it was before
the election, but because he was a foreigner !
The speaker said the police had not arrest
ed the murderer; that the police is either
bad or inefficient; that the lives of foreign
ers are placed in great peril, aud that some
measures are necessary to secure to foreign
ers that protection which they now want.
The remarks of the speaker were received
with acclamation. The meeting declared
its members were willing to leave to Amer
icans the management of their own affairs,
and only asked for themselves security and
protection. It was decided to present an
address to the government at Washington,
asking aid and protection for the foreign
ers, residents of this city, and another to
the French government."
The Mayor of New Orleans, Gen. Lewis,
states that numerous citizens applied to him
for the privilege of carrying arms. He told
them they might carry them openly, and
thousands now carry them in this way.
The True Delta says there is not one man
in ten in the city who does not carry about
his person deadly weapons and defends
the practice, for the reason that "all law
and order are at an end, and bullies and
stereotyped assassins walk the streets
unmolested, and it behooves every man
whose life is worth anything to himself or
his family to be in a position to defend him
self." The last New Orleans papers contain the
particulars of two fatal affairs that took
place there Saturday night week, which do
not appear to have any connection with
party feeling. The chief actor in the first
was Michael Iliggins, clerk in a large cot
ton house, who went home drunk, and call
ed his wife, who was in bed, for a drink of
water. She replied there was water in a
pitcher on the table ; he told her to get it
for him immediately, or he would shoot her;
upon this she was so frightened that she
ran out upon the gallery of the house, push
ed the door to after her, and stood against
it in a stooping position, watching for-him;
and thereupon he placed the muzzle of a
double barreled shotgun, loaded with squir
rel shot, against it, and fired through the
door, lodging one of the charges in her ab
domen, and causing a wound of which she
died in about six hours.
The other was Ed. Wisely, who had a
difficulty with Captain Jos. Gibson, and on
Saturday night intercepted him on his way
home with his wife. He immediately sprang
at the Captain with a bowie knife, and
wounded him severely in his right arm, just
below the shoulder. With a second thrust
he cut him in his left arm. Jilrs. Gibson
then ran between her husband and the as
sassin, and received a stab in her abdomen,
which is expected to result fatally. By this
time Captain G. had drawn a knife, and
though so severely wounded, he plunged it
with fatal force into the assassin's heart.
and he died there without a struggle
I
I he New ork j
Railroad Foundling.
Times says : "The George Law brought ; Semblage. Mr. Seaton of the National In
home on Friday from Aspinwall, a very ex- j telligencer, was called to the chair, and a
traordinary passenger, about fifteen months ' member of the American party was propo
old, found amid the wreck and ruins creat- ; scc as Secretary, which occasioned great
ed by the late railroad calamity there. ' confusion, showing that that organization
Father and mother and relatives were all waa largely in the ascendant, and that but
kilted, and no one knows the little found- few Whigs were present who stood aloof
ling's name or nation, which, is supposed from alj jmrties. Senator Jones of Tenn.,
to be French. The innocent was picked m favor of a distinct organization, to
up unhurt amid the slain and maimed, in actijr as allies to anv nartv thev miirht a-
unconscious ignorance of the awful disas-
ter. Col. Totten sent it to New York, in j
eare of the stewardess of the George Law,
and it becomes, we suppose, an unknown
object of charity here.
An Enormous Fraud An enormous
fraud has just been discovered in New York.
Win. S. Hanna, a carpenter, induced James
Garvie, an aged gentleman residing at Glen
Cove, to visit him. The victim for four
weeks was plied with drugged liquor, and
during that time Hanna procured convev
ances to himself of real estate and vessels '
to the amount of $100,000. He also trot
the old man to make a will in favor of his
(Banna's) daughter. He then extorted j
a promise from Garvie to go to sea, and the j
whole of the property was advertised to be
sold at auction on too oth rust. Garvie,
however, by some mistake, was allowed to
ret sober, and complained of the swindler.
who was arrested.
CW The City Co uucil of Athens, Geor-
gia. have determined that in future the
bodies ot ali suicides snail be handed over
to the physicians for dissection.
JOHN. C. FREMONT,
....... . n r- ti i r , in . x- nivnmiw
The only recommendation he has, arises j
from the fact that he is a Southern man.
who has sold himself to the abolitionists,
and Arnold like, turned his back on those ,
to whom he is indebted for whatever cha
racter he has hitherto enjoyed. The fol- j
lowing short biography of Fremont has I
been going the rounds of the press :
John C. Fremont's father was a French
man, who, for some political offence, lost
his property and escaped to this country.
He taught the French language in Virgi
nia for a living, and at length ran away with
a planter's daughter, and married her.
Some years afterwards he died iu Charles
ton, South Carolina, leaving a widow and
two sons, very poor. Some ladies of the
city took charge of the family, gave John
C. a good education at their own expense,
and procured him, through the then Secre
tary of the Navy, a situation as teacher on
board a government vessel, whore he re
mained two years and a half, when prefer
ring the land service, those ladies assisted
in procuring for him a commission iu the
army. One of his earliest exploits after
that was to run away with and marry Col.
Benton's daughter. But the Colonel at
length forgave him, and procured for him
the command of an exploring expedition
across the continent."
Perhaps, says the Pennsylvanian, no
man of his age has a more unfortunate re
cord than Col. Fremont. He was court
martialed and dismissed from the army for
insubordination his financial transactions
with the government funds, will probably bo
found to be, not all times of the most credita
ble character; he failed as a politician ; and,
after serving a short time in tha Senate,
was superseded as soon as he became fair
ly known by the people of California and,
altogether, although he may be a very fast,
a very romantic, and a very enterprising
young man, he will find that no " buffalo
engineering" will take him within hailing
distance of the White House that obsta
cles, high and insurmountable as his famous
pass, will rise befox-ehina nndthat bis po
litical "ramshorn route" will lead him into
difficulties as inextricable as those by which
he was surrounded when he ignominiously
deserted his companions in the snow at
Taos. Fremont is a little over forty years
of age a spare built man of great phisical
endurance. Ho was elected Senator from
California for a short term, and not sent
back again. He made use of his early po
sition in California to speculate on certain
old Spanish grauts, and thus arose his Mar
aposa estate, reported at one time as suf
ficiently valuable to make him the richest
man in the country, and at other times as
not being worth the surveys and expenses.
A Southern man by birth and early train
ing, he is the candidate of the avowed ag
gressors upon the interests of his native
section. The ingratitude he has displayed
in requiting the generosity and kindness of
the ladies of Charleston by leading on those
who are known to be deadly foes of the sec
tion of the Union which gave him birth,
and which, by cherishing him, nourished in
its bosom a viper ready now to sting it to
the heart, will be remembered by every
Southern man in all time to come. The
fate of Benedict Arnold, politically, awaits
this shameful traitor.
o "
WHIG MEETING IN WASHINGTON.
A meeting of the Whigs of Washington
City was held on the 21st ult. to take into
consideration the course to be pursued du-
ring the coming Presidential election, which
drew together a larce and promiscuous as-
O . 1 if c
gree to support. Mr. Campbell of Ohio, al
so Spoke, avowing himself a member of the
American party. A committee was appoint
ed, who reported resolutions recommending
that the convention proposed by the Whigs
of Kentucky be postponed till the last Wed
nesday in July, and that all sections and
delegates be requested to deliberate upon
the proper course to pursue in the present
crisis. The resolutions were adopted, and
the meeting adjourned. Mr. Campbell, of
Ohio, was again called out iu response to the
Know Nothings, and commenced speaking,
when the gas was turned ofF, creating great
confusion, amid which, the assemblage de
parted. t3T Col. Benton has arrived at St. Louis,
and taken rooms at Barnum's Hotel. A
public teception will be offered to him. He
; was to sPeak at the Court-House on the
! A 1 . TV .1.1
I 181 ummo' "e nas accepted tne nomtna
tion for Governor.
" What cannon is tbt ?" asked a
person who heard the hundred guns on
j Mountjoy, on acount of the nomination.
" Bu-cannon, of course," was the res-
I
ponse. " Well, it has the right ring to it."
ELECTION OF BUCHANAN AND
BRECKENRIDGE CONCEDED.
Bennett, of the New York Herald, hitherto
on the side of the South, on the political
questions of the day, has recently been
bought-up by the free-soilers, and is now
amongst the most rabid abolitiouists in a
buse of the South and her institutions.
This sudden change in Bennett, has been
attributed to the wealth of Fremont, whose
election he is evidently favoring, and whose
chances of success he is bound to admit is
about equal to that of Mr. Fillmore, who, he
says "will not get the vote of a singlo State."
We invite attention to the following train
the Herald on tins subject, as containing
more candor than is usually found emanat
ing from the free-soil Press. After refer
ring to the various tickets in the field, the
Herald says :
"The only distinct and broadly defined
issue for a fight is that which is marked by
the line (Mason and Dixon's) on the slavery
question between the Democratic party and
the Northern Republicans. The anti-administration,
know-nothing and opposition
factions are arrayed upon men and upon
principles as much against each other as
ajrainst the common enemv.
With these divisions and dissensions a
mong the opposition camps, the question of
what are the prospects of the campaign
may be readily answered. According to
the State elections of the last two years,
the combined opposition forces are in a
popular majority throughout the country
of upwards of three hundred thousand votes,
comprehending an electoral majority of
seventy-nine, including all the Northern
States, and Delaware, Maryland and Ken
tucky in the South, besides a hard push for
Tennessee. Now were these opposition
elements united in a common causo, and
upon a common ticket, and for the simple,
practical, tangible purpose of a new admin
istration, they might still give to the fili
bustering and nigger driving Democracy
the most disastrous and decisive overthrow
of any in the fluctuating fortunes of the
party. Bu.t with this opposition majority
cut up and divided into conflicting factions,
between Fillmore, Fremont, Stockton and
others, they must necessarily be routed and
scattered like a flock of silly sheep before
the solid masses of the "fierce democracie."
What, chance of an election is there for
Fremont, with Fillmore in the field, sub
stracting his thousands from the ranks,
which, to be victorious, must be compact
and unbroken? No chanco whatever!
What chance is there for Fillmore, with
Fremont and his partizans arra3red against
him? About as much chance as for the
man in the moon. Between the Know
Nothing and the nigger-worshipper, tho
dullest of blockheads will readily perceive
that there will be nothing left for Mr. Buch
anan to do but to make his domestic arrange
ments, his Cabinet and foreign appoint
ments, &C, preparatory to the occupation
of the President's mansion on the fourth of
March next. The result of the election,
from the existing condition of things among
the opposition ranks, is just as certain as
if it bad already taken place, and had gone
by default in favor of the democratic party
It may be said by the astute Know-Noth-
ings of the Southern school, and even by
Fremont mathematician, that while Fremont
may carry the North in spite of Fillmore,
the latter may really serve a good purpose
in carrying a Southern State or two as an off
set against the possible loss of a Northern
State or two ; and that in this way the elec
tion may be thrown into the House of Rep
resentatives at Washington, where the com
bined opposition forces have an overwhelm
ing majority, and can choose either Fre
mont or Fillmore, as they may determine
among themselves. But this is a most de
lusive estimate, as the result will show if
Fillmore and Fremont are both retained in
the field. Each will only weaken the other,
where single-handed, one or the other might
succeed. The linos, too, are so distinctly
drawn upon the nigger question between
the two principal parties in the contest,
that, as matters now stand, it is morally
certain there can be but one nnd the same
result in every Southern State, to-wit, n
Democratic majority. Let Mr. Fillmore
adhere to his present position as the "South
American" candidate, aud the election nifirht
of November next will, in all probability,
leave him without the vote id' a solitary
State in the Union. On the other hand, he
may be strong enough to break down Fre
mont in every Northern State except two
or three of the most ultra anti-.slavery char
acter. Such are the conclusions to which, we
think, every dipasinate
und
mind must come, from the data of the exist
ing relations of parties, platforms and can
didates. And yet instead of looking their
suicidal divisions and dissensions fairly in
the face, the Fillmore party aud the Fre
mont party seem to be inspiried with a blind
aud desperate resolution to persist in the
shortest road to ruin. The Fillmore Amer
icans are preparing a Corporation welcome
and ratification for him on his return to N.
York from the Holy Father and the cata-
: combs of Rome a popular display calcu
lated to kindle the delusive idea of an ac
tive popularity even in the North: while the
Fremont party are busy with their prepar
ations, here and there, for grand ratification
meetings and processions, as if the rough
work of the campaign wore all accomplish-
ed. What is the use of all this? It is all
folly a waste of time, a waste of enthu
siasm, a waste of money, nnd n cruol mock
ery of the simple minded believers that tho
day of miracles has returned. The Presi
deatiul election can only be carried before
the people by the candidate having the ma
jority of the electoral votes ; and it can on
ly be carried into the House by defeating
Mr. Buchanan of nn electoral majority.
The opposition, therefore, have only to de
termine whether they will fight to curry the
election into Congress or to carry it before
the people, in order to sec what is required
at their hands. If they adopt the first,
named plan, they will require a purely
Southern ticket for tho South exclusively,
to run against the democracy iu that seo
tion, if the latter plan, they must concen
trate the whole strength of all tho nnti-ad-
ministration forces of the North, whig, de
mocratic, free-soil, abolition, know-nothing
and foreign vote upon Frcmout, and let tho
South take care of itself.
Considering the existing divisions and
discordant and clashing platforms, tickets
and factions among the opposition camps,
there is but one course of action left them,
as affording any way of escapo whatever
from the ignominious defeat all around.
That course is a general Convention, with
a view to a general concentration of their
forces upon a single ticket in opposition to
the Democracy. We propose, therefore,
for the sake of giving some degree of in
terest, spirit and activity to this canvass,
that the opposition parties and factions of
all sorts old whigs, anti-Pierco nnd nnti
nigger driving Democrats, free-soilers pro
per, nigger worshippers, know-nothings, and
what not call conjointly a general Fu
sion Convention, for the practical purposo
of a confederation or coalition ticket for
the Presidency, upon the broad platform o
the constitution, the Union und a new ad
ministration ; and that this practical and
common sense Convention bo held in New
York, about the last of August or early in
September.
This is tho last chance. In default of the
adoption of some such plan of cohesion and
concentration against the common enemy
old whigs, old free-soil democrats, nigger
worshippers, know-nothings, bolters and
all will bo whipped, routed, dispersed and
ignominiously crushed out from one end of
the country to the other. A union Conven
tion of all the opposition lenders, a consoli
dation of all their forces upon one common
ticket, and upon a simple, comprehensive
anti-democratic platform is their only
chanco.
THE OBJECT.
After glancing over a goodly number of
Northern papers, we ore somewhat puzzled
to discover Mr. Fillmore's chances. It is
generally conceded that the South will go
generally, if not unanimously, for Buchan
an and Breckenridge. Tho contest at tint
North appears to bo between the Democrats
and tho Free Soil Know Nothing-Republican
coalition. In vain wo look for Mr.
Fillmore's name in the calculation. It
seems to be dropped. He is neithor fish
nor flesh. A marvellous proper man, court
ly and common place, cold, but not content
ed. Ambitious he is, but unable to carry
out hie schemes. Tho longer we look at
tho thing tho more we are puzzled to under
stand it. and can only find a solution for
Mr. Fillmore's candidacy in tho program
me let out by the New York Herald, namo
ly, to use Mr. Fillmore for the purposo of
creating some division at the South and thus
helping to throw the election into tho
House, where some Nortlftrn abolitionist
would be euro to succeed. Wilmington
Journal.
VxT The FUtmorioei of the North are dai
ly flocking to the standard of the Black Re
publicans Fremont and Dayton. Tho
Northern National Convojition, recently iu
session in New York, set the example, by
fusing with the Fremont faction, and now
we have accounts from various quarters in
the North, of similar movements. In tho
city of New York, the entire National Fill
more Club has gone over to the Black Re
publican party. This show tho nationality
of Know-Nothingism, of which wo have
heard so much !
i m m
SECTIONAL PARTIES.
In a lately published letter of Mr. Madi
sou, occurs the following Mining voice :
"Parties under sonic denomination or
other, must always be cxncctod in a gov
ernment as free as ours. When tin- indi
viduals belonging to them are intermingled
in every port of the wholo country, I hey
strengthen the union of the whole white
they divide every part. Should a st tte of
parties arise, founded on gcopraphieal
boundaries and other phncal aud perma
nent distinctions which bniineii to eoinoiil.t
witli them, what is to control the6 great
repulsive masses from awful shocks ug.iinst
each other ?"
That is tin; state of thing which tljo
Black Republicans have jut endeavored to
inaugurate in Philadelphia. The South U
not responsible for the consequences.
Old TIMES Id Columbia, S. C, thy
old English customs have not died out.
Tho Sherift'of the Court still goes to the
Judge's residence, attired iu a cocked hat,
and wearing a sword, to escort bin Ilouor
to the Court room ; and the Judge gooj c -ercd
with a long silk robe, iu which l.u
I takes his aet ou the bench.