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WESTERN DEMOCRAT. S CHARLOTTE 5 Tuesday Mrnin July 15 1856. KENNETH RATKER Tbt geutlemnn, who wee placed at tho tail of tii iMife-bskjng nomination of Stock ton .as the head, has written a long letter declining tbe It was certainly a frrat fu.il rs tho longed-for nomination for the Presidency by the great body of bis party, dwn, down to the tail end of tbe pi ca v-anw ticket of tbe New Jersey sub-bolters .' Mr. Ruyncr's letter is a rare production. It draws a dark picturo of Know Nothing Vsm shows up its "perversions," its "in terpolations," ice, as the causes of its pre sent imbecility. Ho even asserts that " trading politicians" had obtained suffici ent influence in the Order to foist upon it, to some extent, the machinery of party pol itics. Alas ! his famous Third Degree was impotent to save the Order in its pretended purity ! its bonsted nationality ! The au thor of the Third Degree- is compelled to confess a failure! Nay, njoro, Kenneth Rayner the great high priest of North Carolina Ki:ow-Nothingism asserts thut the "direction and management of the or der wes taken from tbe bands of the honest and unpretending inasses" "and it foil un der the control of nelfish and ambitious politicians ."' Bat we must give the reader k filler view, from r. Ruyner's own bitter confession. Read the dark and damning picture as drawn by this High Priest of the Order. Our Know-Nothing friends who repard Bcynr-r as infallible, will find but Jittle to cheer them jn this letter. Hear him : "As lmg r.s the American party adhered strictly to these three great principles ; as long as it was true to its mi.-in ; us long as it ignored all extraneous and minor ques tions ; ns long as it preserved its prestige of a great popular uprising against foreign influence, priestly tyranny, and assnults against the Union; it swept every tiling before it. As long ua its members agreed to tolerate differences of opinion, on irrele vant questions, ami to net together for the general good, nothing could stay its march. The rival parties of the country stood a ghast at its whirlwind progress. I nm not sure its immense strength did not ori ginate the causes of its late disasters. Its friends seemed to think it strong enough to carry any and every thing and hence they endeavored to engraft upon it other issues of domestic policy and SKCTIOXAL, IMPORT. Of its enemies, those who openly assailed it with slander and misrepresent utinn were powerless for harm : whilst others crept within its folds, saose to pervert it from its principles, o;ia others to spy out its ma chinery and betray it to its foes. And then again the indifferent those who have no fixed opinions on any question, but who will fight for whomsoever will pay them be:t; I mean the trading politicians en listed under its banner to carry out selfish riews ; and to that end foisted on it to some extent, tbe machinery of party politics. The effect wag instantly apparent. As eoon as those of one section began to inter polate on its creed their views of anti-slavery, and those of another section, their views of pro-slavery as soon as tbe direc tion and management of the Order was ta ken from the hands of Uie honest and un pretending masses with whom it had origi nated, and who adhere to it for the sake of its principles alone, it fell under the control of selfish and ambitious politicians the people of tbe country saw and felt that something was wrung, and euthusiuin be gan to give way to indifferent an1 neglect. With its first reverses, those who had got jten control of the order became alarmed ; ana fcucn commenced that series of tempor ising! and blundtts. which have ended in mystefyiiig the public mind, to some ex tent, as to our definite aims, and subjecting us to the charge of inconsistency and vacil lation. In tho vain expectation of disarm ing the enemies of the Order, of their wea pons of falsehood and perversion, conces sions have been made again and again. wuicn, mhm or armtuig, have only m creased the violence ot their m.-iliiriiity. In the equally vaiu hoe of moUifyng the ha tred ot the K;mish Church, end of satisfy ing the croaking conscientiousness o( luke warm friends, one of our cardinal principles (I mean resistance to the aggressions of the Romish Hierarchy) has been so diluted, that like Douglas' Kansas bill, it is constru ed one way in one section, and another in another. In addition to tins, other issues, extraneous to the objects and purposes of the Order, have been added from time to time differing in different sections, to en able local politicians to savo themselves at home, regardless of the effect upon the gen .ernj good ot the order, as a national organ ization. And it has turned out. that ma- ny who aided in originating this creat movement many who fought for it with might and main, in the davs of its pristine purity find themselves left far in the rear; and that they have become objects of de nunciation and abuse, by those who have thus travestied its simple and fair lineaments who held aloof from it in the weakness of its infancy, but who rushed to its embrace in the strength of its manhood ! 1 foresaw tho dangers which beset us, and predicted the consequences, at the Philadelphia Convention in June 1855. I then discovered a growing disposition to try and conciliate the adherents of the ko mish Church in certain States, by abating the stringency of our opposition to the dan gerous assumptions of Papacy and I warned our friends, that if this was done, it would not ouly be a compromise of a great principle, but that whilst it would fail to appease the bitter hatred of Romanism, jjt would lose us the confidouce of the rural population, whose resistance to Popery was perhaps the strongest nlemenl ia their at tachments to American'principles. I there witnessed a struggle between the Northern and Southorn Delegates, as to who should obtaiu a triumph, in fitting in the "slavery' plank of the platform. For myself, 1 want ed no such plunk in it. I used every ef fort in ray power to prevent its insertion. I saw plainly, that when the American par ty had to "walk that plank," it would do so to its sorrow. First because tbe ouestion of slavery was extraneous to the aims and ends ot.our organization. Secondly be cause from the very inherent nature of the Order, it could accomplish its mission, only as a national party; embracing true-hearted Americans of every shade of opinion, on other and miuor questions, undivided and ncdistracted by sectional or local issues. I did not wish to see tbe American party Using the question of slavery agitation, as an electioneering hobby as the anti-American party is doine ; laying down a plat form to be construed as nnti-slavery in one section, and pro-slavery in another. And even if I bad wished it, I knew very well that with the materials of which the Ameri can party was composed, no such game could be successfully played oat It will jbe recollected by many, that I then warned' Jm7 Sjji them friends, that even if they could succeed in obtaining the strongest posing know-notlgisuj and its candidate, pro-slavery platform they might desire, yet, f Fillmore. if tubydisrUrai,H, of the Order followed j Q jhe ,t Mangfield (0-) Shield (as I feared, believed, and predicted would mv- ' be the case) with the loss of our national and Banner states that Hocking Hunter, unity, we should lose the talisman of our J2sq., the Hon. Thomas Ewlngi formerly an strength. I then told them, that the loss of Qjg.Tf Whig United States Senator, And harmony and concert of action would weak- g Treasury uruier General en us far more, than the platform would D v ' . i strengthen mi, even in the South. j Harrison, and James Staobuiy, formerly a But other counsels than mine and tho&e Whig member of Congress from the Lick who concurred with me prevailed. The , j,jg Dtriot, have come out openly for davcry question was interpolated upon the Buflhmnan ani Breckinridge. So also has uree imhims. pure uuu niHUWi iusc a phrase ot Jato European jJipjomacy- -repudiation ,of that portion of the platform did follow in most gf tli- Northern Councils the Southern elections during the Sum mer and fall of '.5 showed who was right and who w.is wrong and we iue now reap ing the bitter fruits of our distentions on the subject of surety. Mr. Rayner bitterly denounces the re peal of the Missouri compromise, as fol lows : No man of &ny sagacity tjnd observation can conceal from hiuiself the fact, that the present condition of the country is alarm ing. At both ends ;f tbe Union, the " .-luve-ry question" is king. All other questions pale in insignificance before it, in the pub lic estivuition- Americanism all the deli cate questions involved in our foreign rela tions all important questions of internal policy all, for the time, seem po be ignored ly the popular mini. The phantom of dis cord, exercised by the repeal of the Missou ri Compromise, is stalking through the land, frightening men from their propriety. In the distentions whi(ch now distract our country in the scenes of viojence and com motion which prevail in Congress in the blood which is flowing in Kansas, and which. like thut of Abel, is crying from the ground to heaven for retribution in the shocks and concussions which are testing the strength of the Union we are realizing the sad con sequences of that unwise and unfortunate measure, the repeal of the Missouri Com promise. Its authors sowed wind, and our suffering country is now reaping the whirl wind. From the day of the consummation of this measure, I have ever believed it would prove to this nation, what the wrath of Achijles did to Greece, "the direful spring of woes unnumbered." Truly, Mr. Rayner draws a sad picture of Know-Nothingism at the present day- its unity its nationality : lie makes it out a bad case. Yet he ought to know and the Know-Nothings are stopped from objecting to bis authority, for he is the man they swear by in this neighborhood. If a Democrat had talked about the Know-Nothing platform having been so plastered with "interpolations" as to be construed one way at the North and another at the South, they would have denounced it as a matter of course. But Rayner says it, and they are bound to acknowledge his au thority. Elizabeth City Pioneer. Kenneth declines in favor of Fillmore a most unkind "cut" of Com. Stockton, his associate on the ticket. STRAWS IN THE WIND. The North Georgia Times, an influential paper published at Dalton, Ga., and which supported the American ticket last year, has hoisted the names of Buchanan and Brcckhiridge. In its explanation of the change of position it says ; While in the exercise of that independ ence we have always claimed for our paper, we have for reasons satisfactory and con clusive to us, determined to support Messrs. Buchanan and Breckenridsre. We shall make no war up6n Southern men who do not agree with us. Tho American party, standing upon the June platform of '55, oc cupied an elevated position upon the para mount question of the day, but when Free Soilism laid its polluted hands upon the platform of February last, it ceased to com mand tho respect of Southern men. There are many national men of the North in the ranks of the American party, but every day brings fresh evidences of the absorption of the party in that section, in the Repub lican movement. State after State repudi ates the nomination of Fillmore and Donel son, and fusion with Black Republicanism follows fusion. The resolutions of both their county and State conventions, protest against the extens:uii of slavery denounce tho Nebraska act and demand the resto ration of the Missouri line by Congress. To seek the support of them would dim the fame of Fillmore and render him unworthy the support of Southern men. ACCESSIONS TO DEMOCRACY. Virginia. At a Democratic meeting, hi Richmond, last week, Richard Ivanhoe Cocke, who has been an able an distineuish- ed Whig of that State, was called on for his views of the present campaign, when he came forward, and (says the Richmond Ex aminer) "resporued in a speech full of sound reasoning, on the present condition of the country, stating his resolve, as an old line Whig, to give a cordial and warm support to the nominees of tho Cincinnati Convention, and adducing the motives which influenced him in so doing, and calling upon all men of his party to stand up with him, in working and in voting to defend the in tegrity of the Constitution and the rights ! and honor of the South. Mr. Cocke's ' GOV WISE AND AN EX-EDITOR. speech was loudly cheered. The Richmond (Va.) Enquirer contains Georgia. Since the nomination of the particulars of an affair between Gov. "Buck and Breck" (says the Savannah Wise and Hugh R. Pleasants. Esq., former Georgian) there has been a perfect stam- h' editor of a know-nothing paper in Rich pde among the Democratic know-nothings ta"d, and more recently editor of a paper of Alabama one wild rush back iuto the of the same kind, in Baltimore, The En Democratic fold. The Montgomery Jour- quirersavs: nal ( Whig) says : w . "Shortridge, Campbell, Baker. Wm. R. ing. Gov. Wise was sitting at his table in Smith, Hardy, Withers, and a host of other the Capitol, attending to official business Democrats are shaking off the dust of know- j His room was entered by Hugh R. Pleas nothingism in their haste to reach their res- 1 tnts- He entered without knocking, with pective holes in the old Democratic den. out inquiry or usual salutation, and took a In addition to these, there ara large num- ' seat on the sofa in the room, in the rear of bers of their leaders who hav their horses Mr. W se's seat, which faced the door. already tied out, ready to start at a con- After sitting a fow minutes, he rose, went venient moment." ' towards the door and asked : " Where is old Shortridge here mentioned was the know- j Gizzard foot r' .vQiszard-foot is not in this nothing candidate for Gove rnor last year. ! morning, is he ?" Gov. Wise replied : .'Yes Smith is the distinguished know-nothing ; sir, here he is J am the man." He r epeat member of Congress from the Tuscaloosa j d the question and was replied hp jn tbe District, whose great speech against forT same way. Pleasants then said: "Well, eigners and the Pope, is wo dare say in the i by G d! I didn't know you and you are possession of all our American friends. In j Gizzard-foot! and Ebo shin, are vou f" the list should be embraced Bethea, Sena tor from the City and County of Mobile. Nor would the case seem to be much dif ferent with the Alabama Whigs. In every oounty of tbe State, snores of them are op- various prominent Whigs in the private walks Of life, in every county of the State. Paul C. Cameron, Esq., formerly a strong member of the Whig party, is run ning now as the Democratic candidate for the Senate from Orange county, N. C. In his letter accepting the nomination for Senator, Mr. Cameron says : " In a crisis like this, the memory of past party ties shall not keep me from duty ; and whilst I attach but little consequence to my individual action, I shall most hiar- .m .1. i. i" t: ... Uty PO-vperaw Willi mc uluiuuiouu -atv , . , . , . i in the hope that its triumph isthe coming 1 r . 7 elections will bring peace and repose to the I .... , country maintain its laws, and perpetuate i , . , . . . J our i njoii. x out unci niii uuuntuuii 01 i m" mind and observation in declaring the Pemocratic party the only surviving Na tional party of the country asserting no principle for the guidance of the Federal Government which is not adopted and sus tained by its members in each and every State ; presenting the same front at the North and at the South breathing the same spirit and uttering the same resolves at Cincinnati as in New Orleans. So long as it can control the action of Congress, the South will have no geographical or politi cal black lines drawn around her and her prosperity. It alone seems equal to the maintenance of the guaranties of the Con stitution and tho preservation of the Union." o Indiana. So complete is the fusion of the Know-Nothings" and Black Republicans in Indiana, that there is no electoral ticket in the State in favor of Fillmore and Don elson. They may, perhaps, have a Ticket in most of the Northern States in Novem ber, but it will amount to nothing they will get very few votes. The contest is clearly between Buchanan and Fremont. A SENSIBLE MAN. The following we take from the last Wil mington Journal : Bladen, Co., N. C, July 2, 185G. Messrs. Fulton 6c Price : I notice from the published proceeding of a Convention of the American Party, lately held in Wil mington, that I have been appointed one of tho sub-electors for tho county of Bladen. I acknowledge that some timo since I united myself to that party, but being con vinced that tho party has not, nor will it ever fulfil the pledges made to those who originally joined it, I take this occasion to state publicly, that I consider myself re leased from all allegiance, and cannot un der any circumstances support its candi dates at the c onsittfip elections. Bcliovin0" that the Democratic party is tho only Na tional party now in existence, and persua ded as I am, that upon its success depends the welfare of the country, if not the exis tence of our government, I shall bo found using what influence I possess to secure its triumph. Very respectfully, J. K. MELVIN. LETTER FROM MR. BUCHANAN. Tho following letter from Mr. Buchanan was received by tho Invitation Committee of the Tammany Society of New York, and read at the celebration on the 4th inst.: Wheatland, near Lancaster. Pa., July 2, 1656. ( Gentlemen: 1 have been honored by the receipt of your invitation, in behalf of ; your Tammany Society, to attend the cele- i bration of the approaching anniversary of : our national independence at Tammany ! Hall. Would that it were in my power to , be present on this great occasion ! I should, indeed, esteem it a high privilege. At a period when the National Democratic par ty of the country are rallying to defend the Constitution and the Union against the sectional party, who would outlaw fifteen of our sister States from the confederacy, it must cheer the heart of every patriot to know that the Democracy of the Empire State, in solid and united column, are rush ing to the rescue. Acting upon your mot to, that "Past grievances are to be buried in exertions for the future, " they must prove invincible. Most gladly would I bo with you on this auspicious duy, and sincerely do I regret that this is impossible. With sentiments of high respect, I remain yours truly, JAMES BUCHANAN. To Henry C. Murphy and others, com mittee, Szc. . - "About 9 o'clock, A.. M., Monday morn- (jov. ise said : " know you, sir you are Hugh Pleasants. With this Pleasants commenced with most vulgar and taunting abuse, and Mr. Wise ordered him out of the room. He refused to go out. Mr. Wise then rose, and as he approacheo Pleasants, the latter put himself in the po sition of menace and assault, and squared off as if to give a blow. Mr. Wise took hold of him to put him out of the room, when h.3 oljFered violent resistance, and Mr. Wise struck him a blow (which drew some blood from his cheek) and kicked him out. The Messenger hearing Mr. Wise ordering Pleasants out, fame and put him out of the Capitol." Mr. Wise, it is to be recollected, used the terms Gizzard-foot and Ebo shin, in a speech, some time since, to illustrate the class orcharacteroftheknaw-nothingparty. Mr. Pleasants has thus had a practical taste of Ebo shin and Gizzard-foot. , . M f DAYTON AND JOHNSON. Wm. L. Dayton, of New Jersey, who figures with Prcmoni as vice-president, on the Republican nomination, is a New Jer sey lawyer, an old whig, a Wilmot proviso and auti-Fugitiye-Slave-Law man. Has been a New Jersey Judge, United States ! . , , T 1 Senator and member of the State Legisla- , ec . , f nt ture. He is a man of fair abilities, but not . , ' ' ' of mark. - " , . , n .,. Ex Governor Johnston of Pennsylvania, I the vice-presidential nomination of the Nor- thern know-nothings on the Fremont tick i et, fs au unscrupulous politician, a rank abolitionist, and a most perfect demagogue. He was formerly a whig, then a know-nothing, always a bad and dangerous man. THE KANSAS BILL. The main features of the Kansas bill which passed the United States Senate, a few days ago, by a vote of yeas 3J, nays 12, are as follows ; It provides for tho appointment of five commissioners, to bo selected from different sections of the Union, to represent fairly all political parties. They shall take a cen sus of all the legal votes in the Territory, and make a fair apportionment of delegates to be elected in each oounty to assemble and make a constitution and State govern ment. When tha apportionment shall have been thus made, the commissioners are to remain in session every day, excepting Sun day, at places most -convenient to the in habitants of the Territory, to hear all com plaints, examine witnesses, and correct er rors in the said list of voters. The com missioners are required to cause lists of the legal voters to be printed, and copies fur nished ta each judje of election. No person is allowed to vote whose name does not ap pear as a legal voter. Tho election for del egates to take place on the day of the Pre sidential election, and the convention to as semble on the first Monday in December, to decide, first, whether it be expedient for Kansas to coino into the Union at that time, and, if so decided, to proceed to form a constitution and State government, which shall bo republican in form, and admitted on an equal footing with the original States. The main point is, " the present inhabitants shall decide all points in dispute in Kansas, at a fair eleotion without fraud or violenoe, or any other improper influence." All male white inhabitants over the age of twenty-one years to be allowed to vote, if residing in the county and Territory three months previous to the day of election, and no other test is to be required; no oath to support the fugitive slavo law or any other law, nor any other condition whatsoever. THE HOUSE BILL. The bill which passed the House, for ad mitting Kansas, is a real abolition affair, denying the power of the people to deter mine the question of slavery for themselves. The Washington " Union" says : " The majority in the House present a bill which brings Kansas into the Union immediately, with a constitution adopted by only a portion of a party in Kansas, and against the probable wishes of a large ma jority of the inhabitants adopted without the sanction of law, with no regard to the forms of law, in direct opposition to law, and in open defiance of the constitutional authorities of the Territory. The measure disfranchises at least one half of the people of the Territory, and lefuses to them any voice in the formation of the fundamental law. If it be the policy of the opposition to keep up the sectional agitation, they will adhere to their revolutionary measure. If they want justice done in Kansas, and the country restored to peace and quiet, they will accept the bill of the Senate. Senator Wade of Ohio. In tho Sen ate, on Wednesday, after Mr. Wade, of Ohio, had made a speech on the Kansas bill, his colleague, Mr. Pugh, said "he had spoken like a b'ackffuard." South Carolina. The Columbia South Carolinian states that 26 newspapers in that State are in favor of the nominations of the Cincinnati Convention, and 7 oppos ed to it. Kentucky. The bet of $1,000, which tbe Editor of tho Louisville Courier was authorised to make, that Kentucky will vote forBuchanan and Breokenridge, has not yet been taken, although the sum of $50 has for some time been offered to any person who would produce a person willing to make the bet, -- t3r At a Black Republican meeting at Monroe, Greene oounty, Wisconsin, on the 31st ult., the following resolution was a- doptpd : Resolved, That it is the duty of the North, in case they fail in electing a President and a Congress that will restore freedom to Kansas, to revolutionise the gov ernment." .. Slavery.- The Massachusetts General Association of Congressional Ministers have unanimously referred to the District Asso ciations the question of discontinuing cor respondence with the Old School Presbyr terian Church, on account of its alleged proslavery tendencies. negro daddy in Africa rubs the eyes of his children thoroughly with cayenne pepper, when they are disobedient. A single dose is general! sufficient. Ever after when the parent threatens Tahoo, (pepper.) the youngsters scamper with fully as much d read as if chased by a rattlesnake. FORTUNE TELLING. Negroes, and strange to say, large num bers of whites, in this enlightened age, be lieve in the truths of he statements of that class of crafty old women who, in the ab sence of any other means of support, adopt fortune.-telling for a livelihood. We often meet with accounts of the evil effects pro duced by this class of old humbugs. The following reveals a case which occurred last week, in Virginia, which we copy from the Richmond Enquirer; Caroline County, July 1, J856. Gentlemen : I noticed in the last issue of your paper ah account of a murder com- mitted in Caroline County a shor time since. The prisoners, Amelia and Lindsay, slaves to Jamea.Clarke, Esq., of Essex coun ty, made the following confession to the ju ry over the body of the murdered woman : Amelia said she was jealous of Isabella Atkins, the deceased, (free colored;) asked her to go with us in Caroline to get our for tunes told by Fanny Marshall, the fortune teller ; after getting there, sbe told us that Isabel! and my husband were very inti mate, 6cc, Sec. I asked deceased to have hers told ; she refused- I said, I will have it told for you. The fortune-teller said, something will happen to her shortly. I asked her if it would be found out ? She said no ; I can give you something that will allay suspicion. We started and did not get far before I caught hold of her (deceas ed) throat and choked her and told Lindsay to help me. We both choked and threw her down, and dragged her along until she was nearly dead. We left her there and went homo. We came-back early the next morn ing, and found she was dead; threw her in the gulley and covered her up with leaves. Told the fortune-teller of it ; she said, ne ver mind, it will make a great fuss, but it will soon blow off. The confession of the other prisoner was to the same effect. The negroes are in jail, awaiting their trial by the County Court. The old conjurer decamped shortly after the inquest was held, and will soon be prac tising her tricks in some other community, jf permitted- Unfortunate Occurrence. A public meeting held in St. Peter's Parish, South Carolina, day before yesterday, resulted in a very serious affray. The facts as they have been related to us, are simply these : The meeting was org lniaed by calling the Hon. Edmund Martin to the chair, and he proceeded to appoint a committee to pre pare business for its consideration. WThen the committee were about to retire, a Mr. Jessee Peeples, a member of the House of Representatives of South Carolina, a man of desperate character, stepped up to Mr. Martin, and asked why he had not placed him upon said committee ? Mr. Martin re plied that he had not thought of it ; where upon Mr. Peeples told him that he was a d d liar. Mr. Martin forthwith knocked him down, and was inflicting a severe chas tisement upon him. At this the friends pf both sides began to interfere, and it soon became a general fight. WTe are sorry to say that Dr. E. H. Martin, of this city, the son of tho gentleman alluded to above, was severely cut and that Mr. Peeples was kill ed. Savannah Georgian, 5th. HOMICIDE. We learn (says the Raleigh Standard, of Saturday last,) that on Wednesday morning last, Mr. John P. Smithy residing some seven or eight miles south of this place, was assaulted and instantly killed by Mr. Alfred Haywood, living aL nit three miles south-east of this place. It appears that Mr. Smith, who was a constable, had levied 011 property of Mr. Haywood, and advertis ed it for sale; and this was regarded by the latter as a mortal offenoe. On Wednes day morning Haywood went to Smith's house, called him out, struck him with a stick across the fence, and then, getting over the fenoe into the yard, stabbed and cut him with his knife, killing him instantr ly. We learn that there were some four teen cuts on Smith's body. Smith's bro ther was present, with a gun, but did not shoot. We learn that Haywood told him he had done what he came to do, and then mounted his horse and rode away. On Wednesday morning, as soon as informa tion of the homicide was received here, Mr. Deputy Sheriff Norwood (Mr. Sheriff High being absent) proceeded with a posse to arrest Haywood but he could not be found. He will no doubt attempt to escape from the country. Haywood is an eccentric man, and has secluded himself for many years on his farm near this place. Smith, the constable, was an easy, inoffensive per son, and an excellent officer. The killing under such circumstances, of such a man, has occasioned, as might well be supposed, a very general feeling of indignation. Wo trust that the perpetrator of the deed may be arrested and brought to trial. GROWING WORSE. Tho trick about Sumner's illness is still being played out with admirable boldness. It is getting at least to be decidedly inter esting and exciting and we, for one, like it none tbe less on that account. That old imp of old Nick, Greely, writes from Wash ington to Thursday's Tribune, as follows : " Mr. Sumner is worse, and is declared in danger of softening of the brain, by his medical friends. He is enjoined to avoid all exoitemeut and will hardly be permitted to resume his seat this session. He will never fully recover." Sumner's brain was soft before Brooks made it softer, or he would not have made the speech which led to his punishment. Tbe trial of Mr. Brooks is to take place in a few days, and of course it must be given out that Mr. Sumner's brain is in a soft condition. Military Promotion We learn from Washington, that Gen. Percifer F. Smith has been appointed to succeed Brigadier General Clark in charge of the military de partment of the West. His head-quarters will be removed from St. Louis to Fort Leavenworth. Col. Sumner, now in Kansas, will remain, as at present, though subordi nate to Gen. Smith. NORTH-CAROLINA RAIL ROAD. The Directors ttf this Company met at Raleigh on Tuesday last, and on Thursday the annual meeting of the stockholders was held. The "Standard" sates that the at tendance of stockholders from all quarters was large, showing a deep interest in the work. The Hon. Calvin Graves presided, and Philemon Hawkins and Chas. Philips, Esqrs., acted as Secretaries. All the Di rectors, both of the State and stockholders, were in attendance. Robt. P. Dick, Esq., appeared as the State's representative. The Report of Mr. Fisher, the President of the Company, is a full, an able, and most ! satisfactory document. It shows that the Road has been excellently managed during the past year, and that its prospects in the future are most cheering. The total re ceipts of the Road, from all sources, for the year ending 30th June, 1856, amount to $230,301 26; the total expense of oper ating the Road during the time amounts to $108,209 29 leaving a balance of $122T L91 97. The cost of the Road, in round numbers, is four millions of dollars the es timated additional amount required to pay indebtedness, complete and equip it, mak ing the whole capital invested $4,350,0Q0. Six per cent, on this would be $261.000. 'It may he safely stated," says Mr. Fisher, "That no Road in this country of equal length 223 miles and character of .con struction, has ever been built and put to work for so small an amount of first cost." The President looks forward with great confidence to constantly augmenting re ceipts. The President refers to tho fact, as one creditable to the Road and to the officers and men thereon, that no serious accidents have ocourred to the trains. He also states that the difficulty jn procuring suitable seasoned timbers has prevented the cover ing of some bridges, about which inquiries concerning the cause of delay have been made. He recommends the purchase of 100 slaves to keep the road in repair. The Stockholders were still in session at our latest dates from Raleijrh. SOUTHERN RAIL-ROAD CONVEN TION. Thirty or more Rail-Road Companies were present at the Southern Rail-Rod Convention held last week, at Ashland, near Richmond, Va. Col. Cuyler of the Geor gia Central presided. A plan was adopted whereby the Association will have meetings once or twice a year, alternating between Augusta, Ga., and Richmond, Va. The subject of aPacifio Rail-Road, from a point South, was discussed, and referred to a Committee to report at the next meeting of tho Association in Augusta. The Union of all the Rail-Roads in the South, as propos ed by the Society, must have a most salu tary effect, whereby the individual obser vation and experience of each road shall be brought as so much tribute, and cast in to the general treasury. OCEANIC TELEGRAPH. Next week tho United States steamer Arctic will sail from New York, with a com petent scientific corps, to complete tho ne cessary oceanic surveys preparatory to lay ing down the submarine cable whioh is to place the old world and the new in connec tion. Lieut. Berryman will command the Arctic. The wires will be laid as soon as possible after the surveys. Two steamers will be employed in the service. They will take each half tho cable, and uniting the ends of the two halves about midway be tween the two shores, each will proceed in opposite directions. Our advices are now generally 12 days old when received here. In a short time, we shall te able to furnish the npws from that distant part of the world in 24 hours. A THREATENED DIFFICULTY. There aro appearances of serious distur bances on the border of Texas and Louisi ana. It is said that certain free negroes, mulattoes and white men, to the uumber pf forty, with the Sheriff at their head, who had been ordered for some reason to leave the country, have refused to do so, and have fortified themselves some four miles above Madison. They aro reported to have a hundred'guns, besides pistols and Bowie knives, and to bid defiance to jthoir oppo nents. Melancholy Death by Lightning. On Sunday, the 29th ult., Mr. Alfred Brown was killed by lightning, at North Hampton, N. H. He was standing in the door with a young lady to whom he was ere long to be married, viewing the rain upon the wide, ocean, and thj serpentine displays in the dark clouds. One vivid flash and he falls a lifeless corpse ! and by his side lay her who was to become his partner in life. She was restored, but his life had closed. There were no visible marks of the light ning upon him nor upon the house. It is supposed that tho electric current struck the ocean, and that he was struck by a scattering branch. Affray in Edenton. An affray took place in Edenton, N. C, a few days since, between Mr. Colton, editor of the Banner, and Mr. Badham, a Lawyer, of Pasquo tank. Mr. Colton criticised sharply an anonymous article of which Mr. B. was the author, and refusing to retract words used in the reply, a fight ensued, in which Mr. B. was was badly wounded by a pistol shot fired by Mr. Colton. Efe Gen. Memucan Hunt died in Hay wood county, Tenn., on the 26th ult. He was distinguished as a General in the Tex as Revolution, and was the first Minister sent from the Republic to the United States. m Large Locomotive. A new locomo tive built at Baltimore is said to be the largest in the world. It has 12 wheels 44 inches in diameter, 22 inch streke, 11 feet fire box, and weighs 33 tons. The lady John Van Buren is about to marry is a daughter of the late Governor McDuffie, of South Carolina. A good Idea. Some one recommended sending Yankee girls, instead of Sharp's rifles, to Kansas. Both branches of the bastard fa. ., Legislature met on the 4th of Joly aBd put to flight by the troops under CoL ft? NOTICE. National Democratic Committee i?. , State executive committees, coanty J, city clubs and associations, orgam,ej promote the election of the democrat minees for the presidency and viCe.D dency of the Uaited States, will adar their communications to the Hon. Oba" J. .Faulkner, of Virginia, Chairman g2 National Democratic Resident Conmitt Washington, D. C. ' Democratic papers throughout the TJni ted States, are requested to copy tbe tbo notice. By order of the Committ EE. A GREAT DOCUMENT Send in orders for the EXTRA Cav PAIGN N. C STANDARD, which ready for delivery on the 12th instant. contains the following crposf of Know-No. thingism : The Past Career of Millard Fill, more ; The Democratic Platform, and ttt platforms of all factions oppposed to tl great Democratic American party; fcr Buchanan as a Citizen and a a Politicly Mr. Fillmore's Erie Abolition letter Gilmer's course on Free Suffrage ; and ra dons other articles, including statistic, fc0 This paper has been gotten up with much care and labor, and with it the Democracy will be armed for battlo. Sent free of p04t. age at .$4 per hundred, which barely coren expenses. For the good of the cause, solicit orders. Raleigh Standard. MONEY LOST! ON the 21st day of May last, I enclosed sixty five dollars, in a l-tter, which I addn-sgi to Jacob Seagle, Esq., at Morgauton, N. V., and bj the same registered in the Post office at this pUcc. Said letter did not reach its destination, md j have not since heard of It. There were tree billi of the money in it: One fifty dollar biil on th Bank of Wadesboro, marked No. 300, and dat. d July 1st, 1654 ; one ten dollar bill, on the Bank ofLape JrYar ; and one five dollar bill, on uu Bank of Fayettevillc. I will give a handsome reward for the recovery ot said bills, or either of them or for evidencs which will lead to the detection and conviction of any one whp may have purloined them from th mails. R. W. BECKWITH. Charlotte, July 8, 185(i. tf An Invaluable Companion lor the t ampaign. " From the numerous volumes which have re rently appealed in detente of the AineiicHn iiiy, we fctnertaiu no doubt thai, in ihe Koeihem Sum :he issues involved M ihe canvas of 1855, are to be revived. 'I hese volumef are i'ent upon die ruh. jtct 01 slavery, but eloquent Bid foiociou in de nunciation ol Catholics an i foreign eiinyiauon. Indeed, we aie to have Native Americanism strip, ped ot ihe mummery and culvert oaths of the late Know Nothing party to thjht pvet again at the South. The antidote to all thin Yanke nath n.d poison may be found in the carefully prepandei.d exhaustive volume ol Dr. liambleiuti, entilUd'Vtt' cinia PottTici is 1355,' w'h eh contains ever; peech, newspaper article, review, letter, and essay of value, which appeared tn demM'eiaiiuii ol Know Nothingism during 1854 and 1855. As a ianhrul and useful compilation pf valuable political risutr, it surpasses any volume ol our acquaintance.'' flictmond Ezanrintr. The above book contains also a biographies) sketch and a fine steel portrait of Gov. WUc. Price $2 GO. It will be sent by mail, post paid, to all who re nin, uie ampuni in money or stamps to thestttiscn ber. J. v RANDOLPH, July 8, 185G. Richmond, Virginia. A Steward Wanfecl. APPLICATIONS for the above office in Da vidson College, will be received, until Tuf day the 29ti, 0f jujVj (being Tuesday of Court,) on which day the Committee will meet in Char lotte, to consider such application.. In th- nimn time, any one d, -shuns of securing the place, can present his name either personally or by letter to, any member of the committee. Rev. W. VV. PHARR. Oak Lawn P. O, Rev. 11. B. CU.NNINGJIA.VI, D. D., Charlotte, A B. DAVIDSON, Esq., Charlo te. D, A. CALDWELL, Esq., D-.idon Collrga, K. J. MCDOWELL, Esq., aatwt1 Fo.d, Executive Committee. July 1. 1856 3w NOTICE. IN CONSEQUENCE of having lost by th fire which occurred in this place, on the morning of the 27th of May last, various Note and claims against numerous persons in this and adjoininer counties which notes and claims. 1k- 4ng the property of E. C. STEELE, A. Bktii- L'NE ac Co., and outers, which were nlaced in hit hands for collection- AH persons, therefore, against whom any of such claims are still standing un settled, are hereby duly notified, that unless th7 appear immediately and close up the same, bv noe or cash, 1 shall be compelled to file, forb with, Bills in Equity, thereby subjecting auch persons to additional and unnecessary cost. 8. W. DAVIS Charlotte, June 10, l&r6 tf Notice. THE property purchased at Wm. W. Elms' sale, consisting of Gold and Copper Mine, Engines and Mills, also two new Store Hou, situated on Trade Street, pear to the Bank of tbs State, are now positively offered for sale, and will be sold on Monday of July Court, if not previous ly disposed of privately. Persons wishing to purchase any or all of said property, are referred to G. W. Caldwell, wbois fully authorised to dispose of and execute title for the same. Charlotte, June 17, 185Gr-ts To Our Friendfl. OWING to the recent death of our fonnrr partner, Mr. R. H. Brawley, the account of Brown, Brawley &, Co., must be settled by July Court or they will be placed in the bandi of an officer for collection. Do not blame u if you do not call, we are candid with you. J. L. BROWN &, Co. Surviving partners. June 17, 1856 6w Town Taxes. PERSONS indebted for Town Taxes, (ot either or all of the' years 185&-'34' and -'5, are requested to make immediate payment. AU who disregard this' notice, by failing topsj. will find their property advertised for sale, in w days from this date. Now, you have fair wartt in. S. A. HARRIS. April 22, 1856. tf Tax Collector. MATTRESSES. THE undersigned is now Manufacturing Mattresses in a very superior manner, tbret doors North of tbe American Hotel. He has on hand a huge assortment of various kinds, and if prepared to make, on a short notice any that may be wanted, He respectfully solicits s call from those who may want any thing in hi line. W. W. QUINN. April J, 1856. tf , FROU SEBA9TOPOL. THERE is nothing new from the Crimea, by the last ar rival, but at 8. btopol, on Tra Street, there is something new jjjj The undersigned has purchased of James BnD, his grocery and Liquor esfaolishment, aad iDTi' the public to give him s call, assuring them 'h' he will accommodate them with articles of tbe best quality, and in a style to suit the most to tidlous taste. Give 8ebastopol a call , and Judge for yourselves. , Feb. 6. 186 -tf
The Charlotte Democrat (Charlotte, N.C.)
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