From the ILtleigh Standard.
" DEMOCBACY AND SLAVERY."
The Raleigh Register Las recently contained
some articles on this subject, which for misrepre
sentation, misstatement aud assurance, have never j
been equalled. We propose to reply to these ar
tides, and wc will do so briefly in this and sub-
sequent numbers of the Standard. We say briefly,
for we do not wish, on this or any other .subject, to
draw too largely on the patience of our readers.
The Register invokes "everlasting infamy" on
the heads of Southern Democrats on account of
their course on the question of slavery .' apolo
gizes somewhat for tbc opposition of Northern men
to the institution, but aks, " What can be said in
palliation of the conduct of Southern Democrats !
men reared from birth amid.-t slavery and all its
surroundings, and men who claim to be, of all the
Southern people, the exclusive champions of the
institution of slavery ?"
Here is a direct and unqualified impeachment of
the integrity and soundness of Southern Demo
crats, on a question which, in North Carolina, in
volves not only property to the amount of from one
hundred and fifty to two hundred millions of dol
lars, but domestic repose the peace and very
safety of our firesides ! Is the Kditor in earnest ? j
Does he mean what lie says ? And what is the
foundation upon which he makes such a charge ? I
A hy, the foundation in substance is,
first, The Democrats supported Mr Van Ruren
for President in preference to Judge White and
(Jen. Harrison; and that .Mr Van Ruren "admitted
the right of Congress to abolish slavery in the Dis
trict of Columbia."
Second, The Democrats failed, as all merely hu
man efforts would )iave failed, to arrest the aboli
tion agitation commenced and carried on by John
QuDey Adams, Jo.slina R. biddings, and others.
Third, The Democrats elected Mr Polk Presi
dent over Mr Clay; and Mr Polk signed the Wil
mot Proviso in the Oregon bill.
This is the substance of the charges contained
in the first article of the Register on the subject.
Did you ever hear the like ?
Tt is true the Democrats supported Mr Van Ru
ren against Judge White and Gen. Harrison in
1836; and jt i also true Mr Van Ruren admitted,
in his Junius Amis letter, that Congress had the
Constitutional power to abolish slavery in the Dis
trict pf Columbia. Unlike the Register we con
ceal nothing, but admit all the facts as we pro
ceed. Rut while he thus admitted the Constitu
tional power, he declared, and repeated the declar
ation in his Inaugural Address in ls:7, that he
went "into the Presidential chair the inflexible
and uncompromising opponent of every attempt
on the part pf Congress, to abolish slavery in the
District of jjolumbia, against the wishes of the
slaveholding States," and he added, umo bill con
jlictiriij villi tit r rinn iril eccr receive nty Con
stitutional sanction." The Register has carefully
withheld these declarations of Mr Van Ruren from
its readers, thus affording additional proof, if any
were required, that it is determined to discuss, for
party ends and in a party way, a question which is
far above party. The truth is, no President was
ever more faithful, during hi term of service, to
the rights of the South than was Mr Van Ruren.
It is true Mr Van Ruren subsequently departed
from the faith and fell, but as soon as he did so,
every true Democrat from Maine to Louisiana
abandoned him.
In IS.'JG, as in 1856, the Democrats as a na
tipnal party presented a solid front to a common
but divided enemy. The first resolution depreca
ting and denouncing abolitionism which was ever
passed by a national Convention, was drawn up
by Silas Wright and adopted by the Convention
fhat nominated Mr Van Ruren in 1S.. That
resolution is still a part of the national Democratic
platform. The Whigs were so divided in lSoG on
this very question, that they were compelled to
run two candidates for the Presidency (Jen. Har
rison in the North, and Judge White in the South;
and in 1S40, when they took up Gen. Harrison as
their national candidate, so objectionable was his
record on this question to the Southern people,
that nearly all the time and the efforts of his parti
zans were devoted to defending anil explaining for
him "n this score. ( ien. Harrison, if we arc not
greatly mistaken, admitted, as well as Mr Van Ru
ren, the Constitutional power of Congress over sla
very in the District of Columbia; and it is known
that he called into his Cabinet such abolitionists
as F.wing and G ranger. Mr Clay, the founder and
head of the Whig party, admitted the power; and
in ISoO he introduced a bill, which passed both
houses of Congress, abolishing the slave-trade in
the District of Columbia. John Ouincv Adams
was a Whig. The fierceness with which he assail
ed slavery in the District and in the States , and '
slaveholders themselves, is well known to all. lb
was an abolitionist, while Mr Clay was an emanci- j
ationist in Kentucky. Mr Van Ruren, w hen the
national Democracy nominated him for President
in IS.'Ui and voted for .him, and when many of
them voted for him again in Convention in 1840,
was as sound on the question of slavery as Judge
White, lien. Harrison, or Mr Clay, and sounder
than Mr Ewing, or Mr Granger, or John Quiney
Adams.
These are facts. The Register may cjuestion, j
but it cannot disprove them. If the Democrats,
vy supporting Mr Van Ruren in 1836 and in 1X40,
covered themselves with "everlasting infamy," in
what condition were the Whigs at the same pe
riod, with the Editor of the Register among them ? i
If the Democrats failed during Mr Van Ruren's j
administration to arrest the abolition agitation, it
was no fault of theirs, but the fault of such Whigs '
as Adams, of Massachusetts. Slade of Vermont, and
Giddings of Ohio.
Rut the Democrats elected Mr Polk over Mr
Clay; and Mr Polk signed! the Wilmot Proviso in
the Oregon bill. This Proviso, so called, was sim
ply a declaration that slavery should not be per
mitted to exist in Oregon, which lies North of the
Missouri line. It was sustained in Congress bv
the great bulk, if not by all of the Whigs from the
lion-slavcholuing States; and the object of these
Whigs was not to exclude slavery from Oregon,
for they knew it would never go there but to
embarrass the administration of Mr Polk. The
people of Oregon were in a State of anarchy, suf
feting for a Territorial government. Under these j
circumstances Mr Polk signed the Territorial bill.
protesting against the Proviso which was inserted I
in it by the W bigs ot the non-slaveholding States.
The Register denounces Polk, and the Democrats
who votetl almost to a man against this Proviso;
baft it has nothing to say against its brother Whigs
from the free States, irho voted that Proiiso into
(he bill.
Mr Polk was in favor of, and Mr Clay was op
posed to, the annexation of Texas. Under Mr
Polk's administration, and as the result of Demo
cratic efforts, some three hundred thousand square
miles of slaveholding territory were added to the
American Cnion. And yet, by voting for Mr
Polk, and by annexing this vast area of slavehold
ing territory, the Dennoerats, according to the Ral. :
Register, covered themselves with "everlasting in- j
faniy" on the question of slavery !
Rut enough for the present. When will our i
ultra, Southern Riyhts, frv-cating coteinporary
of the Register "discourse" again ?
INTEBESTING STATISTICS
Concerning tlut Railroads in the United States.
The Railway Annual, by F. H- Stow, gives the
following information:
It appears that in nine years, from 1850 to 1859,
the railways of the United States increased from
7,335 to 27,944 miles in length. In this period
the increase in the New England States amounted
to 62.74 per cent., while in eight of the Western
States the increase was 1,201.41 per cent. At
the same time the former gained in population
16-12 per cent., and the latter 4G-22. The total
cost of the Roads up to 1859 amounted to 305,
451,070, of which large sum it is supposed one
third has been wasted in construction; yet by their
influence lands have been advanced in value and
the speed of internal communication greatly aug
mented, and the whole country benefitted. There
are at this time 28,0U0 miles of finished roads in
the United States, and about 10,000 miles either
under construction or projected, requiring 400,
000,000 for their completion. It is estimated,
however, that many years must elapse before suf
ficient capital can be diverted from other objects
to carry them through. In the meantime many
projected in a spirit of rivalry to other roads will
be abandoned. It is calculated that 20,000 miles
of railway are sufficient to do all the business of
the country at the present time, and that 8,000
miles have been constructed, in part, in rivalry to
other roads, which have proved a dead loss to
stockholders, aud in the main will pass into the
hands of the bond-holders. The average cost of
railways per mile has been ?3G,32S. In the middle
States, 40,918; in the Southern States 22,900,
and in the Western States 30,333.
The reason assigned for cheapness of construc
tion of railroads at the South is, that they were
built on the cash plan. Among the net earnings
the Panama shows the largest returns, being 29,
504 per mile; and those earning the least or noth
ing to stockholders, were found in Maine, Vermont,
Mississippi, Missouri, Iowa, Illinois, New York,
&c. The list of dividend paying roads comprises
78; among which, two pay an annual dividend of
12 per cent; nine 10 percent; two 9 per cent; ten
8 per cent; six 7 per cent; thirty 0 per cent; five
5 percent; one 4 per cent; one 2i percent, and
one 2 per cent. The list of delinquent companies
on stock or bonds amounts to 33. The total bon
ded debts of the American railways, all of which
mature between 185! and 1874, amount to 411,
199,702. The total debts of the States, including
all liabilities, direct and indirect, including loans
to railroads and expenditures for canal and banking
purposes, amount to about 291,895,000.
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THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY.
Although it has been time and again asserted
by the opposition press and leaders that the Demo
cratic party has ruined the country, and if, as one
of our cotemporaries says, it had possessed as many
lives as popular superstition attributes to a cat, it
would long since have been dead and decomposed.
But the declarations of the opponents of the great
national Democratic party are not to be believed.
These same oppositionists charged that Gen. Jack
son ruined the country when he vetoed the United
nf
States Rank bill. Great was the weeping and
wailing when (ieneral Jackson issued the specie
circular; the last spark of life was extinguished
and the country ruined! Rut, in spite of the
prophecies of wise men the pretended lamenta
tions of hypoerits the country survived and went
on prospering and to prosper. It is a source of
gratification to know and the past history of the
country shows the fact that, notwithstanding the
continued opposition to, and condemnation of, all
democratic measures under prophecy of ruin to the
country if the democratic party was not overthrown
and forever prostrated, yet, under the wise policy
of her democratic Presidents, she has grown and
prospered throughout the entire period of our na
tional history. It is true that other parties have
had temporary possession of the government and
have admiiiistereel its affairs for brief period:-. It
is also true that they have vanished, and without
an exception they have failed to leave upon the
records of the country a measure of their policy as
evidence that they ever had an existence. Rut
the history of the democratic party is entirely dif
ferent. Every stage of our country's progress is
marked upon her statute books by some wise and
great measure originated and carried through by
the party. I'nder Washington, the democracy ad
mitted into the Union Vermont, Kentucky and
Tennessee. Pntler Madison, Louisiana was ad
mitted into the Union, and also Indiana. During
the Presidency of Monroe a democratic Congress
admitted Mississippi in 117; Illinois in ISIS;
Maine in 1820; Missouri in 1821; and Florida was
purchased from Spain in 1821. Under (ieneral
Jackson Michigan and Arkansas were admitted
into the Union; and under Polk, Texas was ac
quired, and the States of Iowa were admitted in
1845; Wisconsin in 1840, and the Territories of
California. Utah aud New Mexico were purchased.
The State of California was admitted while Fill
more accidentally occupied the Presidential chair,
still a democratic Congress did the work of admis
sion. Under Pierce the territory of Arizona was
purchased; and under the present illustrious and
glorious Administration of President Buchanan,
Minnesota was admitted in 1858 and Oregon in
1859, making a grand total of thirty-three States
constituting our glorious Union. In view of all
these facts, let every democrat hold fast to the
good eld faith stick to principles avoid quarrels
about men, and the country will be safe and the
democracy triumphant. And in order to obtain
this end, vote for the nominees of the party.
THE GREAT SOUTH CAROLINA
TUNNEL.
A few weeks ago there was a verv lanre and en
thusiastic celebration at the Stump House .Moun
tain Tunnel on the Klue Ridge Railroad in South
Carolina. The Governor of the State and other
distinguished persons were present. From a
graphic sketch in the Charleston Mercury we gath
er a few facts. The Stump House Mountain is a
high elevation, rising to a level of 1,700 feet above
tide water, situated in Pickens District, at a dis
tance by the travelled route of 305 miles from
Charleston. Twelve miles to the west runs the
Chatuga river, the boundary between the States of
South CaroHna and Georgia. The scenery from
the summit of the Stump House is sublimely grand,
embracing i lie North Carolina summits, the high
peaks of the Alleghanian chain. Moun' Pisgah,
Cold, Rail, Table Mountain, and the Saddle Peak.
The tunnel is 5804 feet in length, 4103 of which
have already been driven, leaving only 1701 feet
to bo now worked. The tunnel is cut to a grade
of sixty feet to the mile, rising westward, and will
require the excavation of nearly 70,000 cubic yards
of stone. The Middle Tunnel at another point on
the road, is completed, and the Saddle Tunnel is
one-third through. It is thought that, in twelve
months, all the tunnels in South Carolina could be
completed, and also the road bed be ready for the
track. Col. Walter (iwynn is the engineer, assist
ed by Messrs. J. M. St. John and C. J. Rourne.
The powder is made half a mile below the build
ing, and the lime for building, is obtained from the
Cayuga Lime Works, three miles distant.
WESTERN DEMOCEAT, CHARLOTTE,
EXECUTIONS IN CHINA.
The horrible executions still continue in Canton,
notwithstanding the place is in the occupation of
the English. A letter to the Roston Traveler,
written May 31st, gives the following account of
an execution :
The execution had been fixed at noon. At
half-past eleven half a dozen men arrived at the
execution ground, each armed with what resembled
a cleaver rather than a sword, and preceeded by
bearers of rough pine boxes, decorated with sides
painte-d as if with blood. These were coffins for
the gang to be executed, which that day numbered
one hundred and fifty, (ieneral unconcern and
even a stoical indifference marked the countenances
of both soldiers and spectators, who together
amounted to about one hundred and fifty. A
breeze sprang up, which carried the intolerable
stench from the quarter occupied by the foreigners,
who to the number of a dozen, had obtained
admittance to the top of one of the houses on the
side of the street at the entrance of this "field of
blood." Soon after the arrival of the executioners
and the coffins, a division of the condemned appeared
on the ground, consisting of ten individuals,
speedily followed by the rest of the unhappy
wretches in companies of the same number.
Each prisoner had his hands tied behind his
back, and a label stuck in his tail or long queue,
while he was thrust down in a wicker basket, over
which his chained legs dangled loosely, the body
riding uncomfortably, and marked by a long paper j
tally pasted on a strip of bamboo, thrust between j
the jacket of each condemned individual and his
back. These "man baskets," as they are called,
swung with small cords, were carried by bamboo j
poles upon the shoulders of two porters. As the
prisoners arrived they were taken from the baskets j
and made to kneel, facing the south. In a space j
of twenty feet by twelve were counted as man)' j
as seventy prisoners, ranged in half-a-dozeu rows.
At five minutes to twelve, a Mandarin, wearing a
white button, arrived, aud the two individuals j
who were first to be cut in pieces were tied to the j
crosses which had been planted. This was probably
designed to increase the terror of death to those
who were about to experience it, just as though
the natural bitterness was not sufficient. In the
meanwhile that this frightening process was going
on, the execution commenced; and twenty or
thirty'were headless before our friend was aware
of it. The only sound to be heard was a horrid
cheep, cheep, cheep, as the executioner's knife or
cleaver fell upon the neck of the victim. No
signs of fear were seen in the faces of the prisoners,
as they knelt and awaited the fatal moment. No
entreaties were made; no shrieks were heard.
One blow was sufficient for each, the head tumbling
between the legs of the victim before the body
fell. As the sword fell, the trunk, spontiug with
blood, sprang forward, falling on the breast, and
was still forever.
In four minutes the execution was completed,
and one hundred and fifty human beings, of all
ages, had passed into eternity. Then on the
other sections commenced a work still more
barbarous and horrifying; it might be said to be
even devilish for what could be more so!
The victims of torture were tied to the crosses
which had been planted at one end of the arena,
when an executioner approaching, cut a slice from
under each arm with a short sharp knife which
he carried. A low, suppressed, fearful groan from
each victim followed the gashing, but nothing
like a scream or outcry. Dexterous as butchers, a
slice was taken successively by the operators from
the calves, the thighs, and then the breast of each.
It may be supposed, or at any rate it may be
hoped, that by this time the sufferers had become
insensible to pain, though they were not dead.
The knife was then thrust into the abdomen,
which was ripped up to the breast bone, and then
twirled round and round as the heart was separated
from its holdings. Up to this moment, our
informer says that having once set his eyes upon
the victim under torture, they became fixed as if
by a strange spell; but now neither he could stand
it nor they be riveted any longer. A whirling
sensation ran through his brain, and it was with
difficulty he could keop from falling. Rut this
wasonot all; the lashings were then cut; and his
head being tied by the tail to a limb of the cross,
was severed from the bodv, which was'then
dismembered of hands, and arms
separately-.
feet and legs
After this the Mandarin left the ground, to
return, however, with a man and woman, the
latter, as it was said, the wife of a rebel chief, and
the man a leader of some rank among the rebels.
The woman was cut up in the way already related,
but for the man a more horrible torturing still
was decreed. He was literally flayed alive. Our
informant did not see the operation; his overpowered
sensibilities did not permit it; but an American
sergeant of marines did. who described the horrors
of the scene. The knife was first drawn across
the forehead, at which a piercing scream was sent
forth by the sufferer, and then the flesh was pulled
over the eyes, and so on till the horrible butchery
was ended. There is a temple in Canton which
I visited, called the ''Temple of Horrors," because
in several apartments are the most horrible
representations of the tortures of the Rudhist hell.
Rut nothing there was more infernal than that
which was seen here.
Such were the tortures inflicted by Yeh upon
at least 100,000 human beings in the city of
Canton. It is not surprising that the news of his
death and the arrival of his betdy caused outbursts
of exultation among the Chinese, who either had
lost some of their friends under the operation of
his cleaver, or else stood in constant fear for their
own lives. Thousands wrere put to death who
were entirely innocent, except that they happened
to be the wives or children of others, or else had
common family connections. The calmness and
even indifference with which the Chinese meet
death, are past belief and unaccountable; and yet,
as the late war has shown, they are a nation of
cowards; but cowardice and cruelty usually go
together.
Ethiopian Eloquence. A dandy gemman of
color recently stepped into one of our provision
stoves on Main street to buy some potatoes; before
purchasing the rticle he gave the following truly
elocpaent description of its nature: "De later is
inevitably bad or invariably good. Dare am no
mediocrity in de combination of de later; de
exterior may pere remarkably exemplary and
butesome, while de interior is totally, altogever
negative; but, massa, ef you 'mends de article 'pou ;
yourown 'sponsibility, knowing you to be a gemman
of 'gacity in all your translations, why, den, widout
furder circumlocution, I takes a gallon." The
grocer smiled and enriched his drawer by the
addition of the price of a gallon of '"Irish Lemons."
What is the difference between a carriage wheel
and a carriage horse ? One goes better when it is
tired the other don't.
"Mike, if you meet Piggy McClusty, tell him to ;
make haste." '-Sure an' i "will," said Mike, "but
what shall I tell him iff I don't meet him V
figs Why is a chicken-pie like a gunsmith's !
shop 1 Because it contains fowl-in-pieces. 1
DOUGLAS ON THE STUMP IN OHIO-
Hon. Stephen A. Douglas made a speech at Col
umbus, Ohio, on the 7th inst., in which he defines
his position. Relow we give a synopsis of his re
marks: The Senator said that the Republican party, in
their platform adopted at Philadelphia in 1850, as
sert the power and declare it the duty of Congress
to prohibit slavery in all the Territories. The
Democratic party are pledged, on the other hand,
by heir platform, to the doctrine of non-intervention
aud popular sovereignty in the Territories.
New Mexico and kansas, by the acts of their
Territorial Legislatures, present cases now for Con
gressional intervention with their domestic affairs,
which will put the advocates of intervention and
non-intervention, North and South to the test.
New Mexico, which refused for several years af
ter the organization of a Territorial Government
to introduce or protect slavery, passed a law ill
1858 to recognize and protect slavery in that Ter
ritory. Kansas at the first session of the Terri
torial Legislature, in 1855, passed a very stringent
law to " punish offences against slave property,"
by which slavery was introduced, and " adequate
protection" given to it in that Territory. In 1858,
however, the slave code was repealed by an act
passed February 0th, and all protection to slave
property withdrawn aud denied. Ry this "un
friendly legislation" slavery has been excluded
from the Territory of Kansas.
Now, the Northern interventionists are pledged
by their Republican platform to repeal the slave
code in New Mexico, and prohibit slavery by act
of Congress. While the opposition in Kentucky
and the interventionists generally, are pledged by
their principles to intervene and protect slave
property in the territory of Kansas.
These issues must and will be met by the Demo
cratic party. Non-intervention and popular sov
ereignty must be maintained as well in New Mexi
co as in Kansas. If New Mexico wants a slave
code, let her have it. If New Mexico has laws for
the protection of slave property, so be it. If Kan
sas will not have a slave code, nor slave property,
Congress must not force her people to accept
either.
Northern and Southern interventionists agree
that slavery in the territories is a rightful subject
of Congressional legislation, but differ as to the
character of such legislation.
Each insist that Congress should intervene in
favor of their particular section, and against the
other section, in violation of the rights of the peo
ple most interested to decide the ejuestion of slav
ery for themselves. According to the doctrine of
the interventionists, north and south, slavery is
not only a rightful subject of Congressional legis
lation, but dependent upon Federal authority for
its existence and protection; and make it, conse
quently, subject to federal regulation and control.
The Southern interventionists contend that the
whole power of the Federal Government should be
exerted for the protection of slavery in the terri
tories, and the Northern interventionists that the
same power should be exercised for its destruction.
The Democratic party, in opposittou to the inter
ventionists of both sections, hold that slavery is a
State institution, and that it exists in the slave
holding States "under the laws thereof," and not
by virtue of the Constitution of the United States.
That slavery, therefore, is beyond the reach or con
trol of federal authority, for good or evil, except in
the single case of fugitive slaves, who must be de
livered up.
The Democratic party are sustained on these
principles by the decision of the Supreme Court in
the "Dred Scott" case. The Democratic party are
pledged to the principle of popular sovereignty,
by which the people of the organized Territories,
"like those of a State, shall decide for themselves,
whether slavery shall or shall not exist within their
limits."
Those who insist that the first handful of set
tlers "should not decide the slavery question in the
Territories, should vote against the organization of
Territories, until they have sufficient population
for a political community, capable of self-government
in all their domestic concerns- No govern
ment should be established for any people who
are not (jualitied by numbers, and in all other re
spects, to legislate for themselves on all rightful
subjects of legislation, subject only to the Consti
tution of the United States. When Territorial
Governments are established the people will legis
late for themselves will form their own domestic
institutions, and if their legislation conflicts with
the Constitution, it will present a judicial question
for the Courts to determine, to whose decision all
law-abiding citizens will and must submit."
The Territories must be open to settlement to
the people of all the States, slave States as well
as free States. The system of emigration fostered
ami encouraged by emigrant aiel societies, for the
purpose ot controlling territorial legislation, is a
fraud upon the elective franchise, and designed to
subvert and destroy the principles ofselfgovernment.
None but actual inhabitants, who have abandoned
their citizenship and allegiance in their respective
States and settled in a territory, in good faith to
make it their permanent home, have a right to
voice or vote in the legislation of the Territory.
The doctrine of Mr Seward's "Rochester Speech,"
with respect to the irrepressible conflict between
freedom and slavery, must be emphatically con
demned. lie said I denounce it here to-day, as I
denounced it in the Senatorial canvass in Illinois,
when itwas maintained by Mr Lincoln, as subversive
of the principles upon which the Union was founded
and must stand. Uniformity in the local laws and
domestic institutions of the several States is neither
desirable nor possible. Variety of climate and
interests necessitate corresponding variety of local
legislation, which is and must be adapted to the
wants of each particular community or State. The
liberty and prosperity of the people depend upon
the inalienable right of self-government in all the
States and Territories of the United States.
The surrender of fugitive slaves is a duty imposed
by the Constitution, and all who are for law and
for the Constitution must be faithful to that
constitutional obligation. The opposition and
resistance to the Fugitive Slave Act in the North
begot a like opposition to, and violation in the
South, of laws against the African Slave Trade.
The violators of both those who resisted the
Fugitive Slave Act, and those who violated the
laws against the African Slave Trade are alike
false to the obligations of good citizens, and merit
alike condensation and punishment. Maintain
the doctriue of non-intervention and Popular
Sovereignty, and the Union is safe. Stand by
that doctrine and the country will prosper; all
sections wiil be content, and territorial expansion
is certain. Expansion is a necessity of our national
existence; and our destiny is, sooner or later, to
spread our institutions over the entire continent.
Cuba, Central America, Mexico, and all the islands
adjacent to us, will, in time, be ours, and this will
be, as it should be, "an ocean-bound republic."
The Democratic party is the only party which
recognizes the equality of the States and the rights
of the people to exercise all the rights, privileges
and immunities of self-government. I stand firiulv
by the Democratic platform of 1856. I want no
new planks and no new pillars to strengthen or
uphold it. I stand upon the platform and carrv
JST. C.
the Democratic banner. Let the nominee of the
Charleston Convention take the same position. Put
him on that platform and give him the old
Democratic banner, with all its glorious memories
clustering around it, and the Democracy will
march to a glorious victory in 1860.
POPEIGN INTELLIGENCE.
The Conference of certain European powers to
adopt a Peace platform is about to break up with-
! out eneeting the desired object. ine great epiea
! tion is whether the King of Sardinia will accept
the annexation of the States ofCentral Italy, which
; has been voted by their assemblies. The general
i opinion seems to be that the King will accept the
offer, under some reserves ana conditions as to me
ultimate opinion of Europe. Ry accepting the
provisional sovereignty of the States thus spon
taneously offered tohim, they will be saved from
civil war and from anarchy.
It is stated that the Neopolitan Government is
preparing a Constitution based upon an elevate
system and a National Assembly, with triennial
Parliaments to sit every year, but only for 15 days.
Power is to be conferred upon the King, with the
consent of his Ministers, to dissolve parliament at
pleasure.
It is said that Rome resists all efforts to effect a
change in her affairs, to substitute light for dark
ness, persuasion for terror, and error for truth.
A letter from Paris says that the Queen of Spain
has sent to the various courts of Europe a protest
against the expulsion of her cousiti from Parma.
The Emperor Napoleon recently granted a pardon
to certain political prisoners, but unlike prisoners
generally some of them refused to accept it; one of
them, instead of being grateful, went to work and
wrote a furious letter against Napoleon.
In Ireland the rot has injured the potato crop
very much, and suffering is expected in conse
quence. LATEST. The largest steamship in the world,
the "Great Eastern," was to sail from Liverpool for
the United States, Portland, about the hist of this
month
The Peace Conferences have been suspended
for the present. Parmia, Romagna and B logna
have declared in favor of annexation to Piedmont.
Another meeting of the Emperors of France
and Austria is expected to take place shortly in
Switzerland. The Pope has been dangerously ill,
but was improving at last accounts.
Gen. Harney's occupation of San Juan is char
acterized by the London Post as an exercise of
power to which England will not tamely submit.
Liverpool, Sept. 10. Sales of Cotton for the
week 57,000 bales, of which 7,000 were on specu
lation, and 11,500 for export the market closing
quiet. Stock 040,000 bales, of which 533,000
were American. Flour and Wheat unsettled. Corn
dull. Provisions have a declining tendency.
The Cause of the San Juan Difficulty.
It is a matter of historical record that the invasion
of a corn field, in Rhode Island, by a fillibuster
hog belonging to an adjacent farm, brought up the
war of 1812 between the United States and Great
Rritain. The speck of war which has arisen on
our Northeastern boundary is caused by another
hog, which animal owed allegiance to the Hudson's
Ray Company, but made havoc among the potatoes
of an American squatter in the island of San Juan.
The squatter shot the hog, and resisted an order
for his arrest and transfer to the town of Victoria,
for trial. This caused a threatened withdrawal of
the protection which had been afforded to the
American settlers by the Hudson's Ray Company
from Indian hostility and depredations. Hence,
an appeal was made by the Settlers to General
Harney for protection, in compliance with which
he sent Capt. Pickett aud two skeleton companies
to the place.
This procedure on the part of General Harney
will beapproved and sustained; butsuch explanations
will be made, aud such measures taken as will
prevent any collision between our troops and the
Rritish authorities. N. Y. Journal of Commerce.
A woman named Fanny Squarles (bad charac
ter) committed suicide in Raleigh by taking laud
anum. Religious Exercises. The citizens of our
usually quiet village have been somewhat excited
the past week in consequence of the attendance
here of several distinguished Raptist divines, on a
solemn and impressive occasion. Rev. T. R. Owen,
a resident of this town, long anel favorably known
as a talented Presbyterian minister, had signified
his intention of joining the Raptist denomination,
and on Saturday last, Rev. Mark Rennett of Hali
fax county, Rev. Mr Petty of Greenville, Rev. A.
P. Repiton and Rev. J. L. Pritchard of Wilming
ton, and Rev. T. Lansdell of Sussex county, Va.,
attended here to receive his application for admis
sion into the Raptist Church. On Saturday he re
lated his experience, was received as a member,
and on Sunday, baptised by Rev. Mark Rennett,
and at night, ordained.
Severel able and edifying discourses were de
livered by the above named gentlemen on Satur
day and Sunday, to large and attentive audiences.
Tarboro Southerner.
A Court Scene. The following humorous
scene at Halifax, N. C, is thus described by a
correspondent of the Petersburg Express. It
occurred in the superior Court room :
"During a trial, for assault and battery a
corpulent old gentleman was asked on the witness
j stand what he thought of one of the defendants.
! "Well," he replied, "he seems to be a pretty
j clever, well behaved man. He lived with me as
an overseer for two years, and it takes a pretty
j clever man to do that;" and, he continued, "on j. fox
hunt he can out holler any man I ever saw in my
IT A. T . 1" J 1 .1 Bt
life.
i never uiu near anytning use him.
fcj ' Physicians are generally loth to sneak a wonl in om wc
i of what are cul ed "patient med cinea." Indeed, ii is an
article in the code ol medical ethics, lb I a physician who
sanctions the use ol patent nitdicmes cam e le a nwui
ber of the National Association. But there are exceptions
I to the most stringent rules, and many of ihe disciples ot
Esculapius ha .e actually tieen compelled, by the tacts, to
! K-coinmend the use ot Dr. J. Hosteler's Stomach Bitters,
lor those diseases which are particularly prevalent durum'
the summer and fall. They have ascertained that there are
no remedies in the pharmaenpia which can compare with
th a w adertul compound lor derangement of the system
i Thousands oi lam. lies resi Jing along the low grounds ol the
! Western and Southern rivers, are now convinced that they
j have found a mndicine peculiarly adapted to iheir ailments
I wlule in other portions of the country, duritig the summer
morons, tne aemana tor the article is equally large.
Sold by druggists and dealers generally, everywhere.
I' .r sale in Charlotte by E. N Y E HUTCHISON & CO
September 6.
WIS TAR'S BALSAM OF WILD CHERRY
From the Boston Journal.
This mfd eine, coming from a resDectahle .-,r- n,i
; carefully prepard by an experienced and skillful physician,
is received by the public with confidence. Its efficacy has
i been prov. d in many obdurate cases of disease, and its lame
j has rapidly extended. It has been extensively i Bed in every
pan ot the country, particularly in the Middle and Northern
I Slates, and strong testimony, Irom highly respectable and irr
! feiiigenl petsons. bas been adduced in favor of its merits aa
a remedy h-r ("olds and Coughs, affections ol the Chest and
diseased Liver,
No other Cough Remedy has ever attained So high a repu-
j None genuine unless signed I. BUTTS on the wrapper
j For sale by E. NYE HUTCHISON $ pO. Charlotte
Sept. 27
CREDITOR AND DEBTOR
The New York Independent, in one of its atL
financial articles observes :
A great deal of literature bas been wr,tu
against the cruel creditor; but we have witnesJ!
a great deal more wickedness and cruelty onth
part of the debtor, the cruel debtor." fh
region is full of the wickedness and cruelty !f
debtors. They depredate on the honest D(1
industrious portion of the community a thou8ail(j
fold more than thieves and robbers, and in n,ao
instances they more richly deserve the states pri
In most cases, they add to fraud the meanest 0f
deception and teachery. The history of the ca
that pass through the courts of insolvency tony
furnish a multitude of thrilling tales of this
character, where not only hard-working men, it,
wives and children to support, but dependent
woman are induced to trust some fellow, t0o
knows he has no reasonable prospect of ever payi-,.
the debt, or some speculator who, when his affair
are turning unfortunately, squanders or concealj
his property.
The law has hitherto favored the debtor ani
given him all its sympathy; but experience and
observing people are beginning to feel that, in a
large majority of cases, detestation would be&
much more deserved sentiment. The law has
treated creditors as hard hearted; but inalaroe
majority of cases the fact appears to be that
creditors, who are unpaid and unsecured, are the
victims of men who deserve punishment. Shrewd
business men generally look to their securities
and the men who trust without security are generally
men who are easily imposed upon and need
protection. It is getting to be time for the law to
transfer its sympathies from rogues to honest and
industrious men. Many intelligent persons, who
have watched the operation of the insolvent law,
believe that its influence has greatly lowered uut
standard of honesty in dealing.
1
NORTHERN DEMOCRACY.
J. W. Womack, of Eutaw, Alabama, in a letter
on politics, pays the following merited compliment
to Northern Democrats. It is pleasing to see that
not every one at the South is forgetful of those
who assisted in carrying out the great measures of
the South :
"It is often said, that the Northern Democracy
cannot be relied on. Let it be remembered, that
they assisted us against the Whigs, in the repeal of
the protective tariff. Let it be remembered, that
they assisted us in the establishment ot the inde
pendent treasury, and the passage of the fugitive
slave law let it be remembered, that they voted
for the acejuisition of Florida and Louisiana and
let it be remembered, that they also voted with oj
for the annexation of Texas and the acejuisition of
California.
"They have always co-operatcel with us in the
critical hour of need, and but for them our limiu
this day would have extended no farther than
Louisiana, and the United States Bank and a
protective tariff would still have been weijrhin n
in the dust. Let us extend to them a warm
gratulating hand, and encourage those who are
willing to act with us against the common cncuiv.
The opposition arc raising a great hue and try
about squatter sovereignty, and the rights of the
South but they will ultimately deceive us their
rancor and hatred to the Democracy are so great,
that in the event of the election of a Black
Republican many of them would go over to him,
and support him for re-election."
IIors. We notice in one of our New Yr.ri
Exchanges, the arrival of a great big ship lo;it
seven hundred tons burthen of hoops, Parisian
manufacture.,
themselves.
Let the girls prepare to spread
JOHN HENRY WAIT, H. D.,
Surgeon Dentist,
Graduate in Medicine and Dentistry,)
Office on Tryou Street, opposite Bank of the- Stale
siiA'iLLb'rss, if. ss.
Surgical operations, such as Cleft Palate, Hare Li",
Tumors of mouth and jaws, performed, and RaetWM
and dislocations treated. Teeth filled and llUMMi
and Artificial Teeth inserted alter the moat approved
methods.
September 13, 1859. y
Carolina Female College.
The Exercises of this Institution will he rfsuniei)
the second Thursday in October under the control of
the subscriber, assisted by a competent Faculty, 1
having made an arrangement with the Trustees which
will enable him to furnish Tuition and Board on terms
satisfactory to patrons.
The following are the rates per Session of 20 wwb,
viz:
Board and Tuition in collegiate classes, $66 M
Music on Piano 22 00
Oil Painting, 15 "
Other kinds of Painting, . 10
Embroidery.... 5 M
No charge for Latin and Greek Languages.
The locality is healthful, and every facility is ofTered
by which a sound education may be acquired.
f. It. WALSH, Pre''
September 13, 1850. 78-3t
REMOTALT" '
WE inform our friends that wc have removed totbf
ftlil tnmt nf Rnriiun Ar M-I aA .. f I'nllpCt a""
Trade street, and are now receivinc a larire H0C
v.vi. i c.-ffor :emim;s, which
sold low FOB CASH at retail or wholesale.
L. FKASTER
E. A. HcLEOP
Charlotte, N. C. Aug. 30, 1859 -m
NOTICE.
ALL persons indebted to the undersigneil
ministrator of Joseph Patterson, deceased, are noti"'"
that their Notes are due. The money is wanted. ' j
called upon daily for money, and in many casts
wish to save cost, and do not wish to put
cost, but request all to lift their Notes witho"1 dl
A hint to the wise is sufficient.
Wit. PATTEBSOS, A'iwr
Sept. G, 1859 (7-6t
STOP Amm READ THI
GOOD NEWS AT CHARLOTTE, N. C
lias just opened a large and extensive New .Sto l"
hoots, shoes, broga.
And Leather, French and American Calf-Skins
and '
Kinus ot Bit OH-MA K Kits' FINDINGS.
Also, i beautiful Stock of the latest an J ni""1
ionable stylc3 of
Hats and Cap-'
All styles and Grades, from Oakford's Beit, dwD "
the Common Wools. fie
My superior Stock of Ladies' and Gentlemen s .
extra sewed Hoots, .Shoes and Congress aitel"i fr ,,a
not to be surpaised bv anv. Thev were porch?1 ' (
the manufacturers and the very best Boot and D
makers in the United States. . trf
Farmers, Mechanics and the public general' nJ
particularly invited to call and examine my Stock
judge for themselves, as I am determined to c" w
low jutd s th ic tl, it ron r uj
Be sure you call at the right house just I'PJ
the Mansion Hotel, at
NO. 4, GRANITE ROW,
One door below Elias ii Cohen's Clothing Store
WILLIAM
August 23, 1859