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his *npiny vvouM n?Sa‘l h’ijn briore h*’ wa? coii'pleic* iv prosu^-^*^ by \h'Q of blooJ. Scarce n rninule ^ "ktid fi.TpjPtl whfO he heard a fuiiil cr^nU of ihe ^^'\oards near hitr.-^-G imble was cviJenlly approach ing) lo give him ihe covp de grace In another mo- meiil a hmvy fooi c.niie ir» corunci vviih his woundtd 81'Je; no I he once more r(.*cogni2 d ihose fiery grey eyes^ tis the 0» or^ian sioopeJ nvt r him. Now, or flcVvr ? He collided his fasi-Strrngih it»lo hne hisl flort, ni d lunj^od tipw^’fJs v\ i’.h all his forcf. Utteting a vnI’J ytH of p:un and rage, Gamblo leaped into the air. njii* f« II back — d» ad! ^ The pariy b« lo^’., who ha 1 been employ^'fi in beitina on ihe nuriibaian^s, rnsh»d up stairs as S )on CS they h‘af^l the second fill. 'I'he M ijor opr n» d the door, nn l called. He received no answer, for Schuv*iei had f.Mni* d. He wa«. however, soon re- Slored to consciojsness; his wonods vvcre bound up. hnd he was put to bed ; ft.r his suv!C«s8 made him almost a god in Major Liwson’s eye^ In a few weeks, when perfectly restored to health, he started lor home, havinn hid quite enonoh of the South. His host (who possibly had fome private r«asons of his own lor rejoicing at Gamble’s death, and feel- inT grate ful lo the man who ha l put him out of the way) refused to receive one cent of compensation for aboard, lodging, or attendance. Nay, more; he vir- lallv put five hundred dollars into his pock' t, by in- rming him of the reward that had b.enoflTered Gamble, dead or alive. So Schuyler took I avc oV^he hospitable Major, and proceeded to P.l illed >?\fle (the capital of the State,) to claim the rewa»d. | be b(stowed. know- their latdy awards generally come alter a man is dead, and the world has ceased to care for him. I have made a simple statement of facts. Wnether I shall ever take the trouble lo prove them, depends upon circumstarices. If ii involves a journey to Washington, i thir»U it probable matters w-ill re- ^ main ris they are. ! But who, I pray you, 's Proftssor Baio? Wh-^re | do(S he live, and in whit College dors he hold his j 1^1 oft'ssoisliip ? He is either a new man in the sci' i eritific world, or I am greatly behind the intelligence j of the age. My retind locality may, however, &c> | count for my ignorancc in this particular. | 1 am yours, with great r?p»cf, | JUNIUS L CLEMMONS. Lexington, N. C., Nov 13. 1843. THE MECKLENBURG JEFFERSONIAN. CHARLOTTE. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1349. VoLNKv B. Palmeh, Esq., is our authorized Agent lo re- Tlic First Victim Demanded. The Louisville Journal is out in favor of the ' pro.jjpt removal by G« n. Taylor of Gen. Joseph Lane, Governor of Oregon. The cause assign'd | 18 to be found in the (net ihat Gen. Line defended j ceive subscriptious and adveriisenients for this paper, and to the volunteers of hts State from unjust attacks. j make coUecticms and receipt for the same, in ihe cities of From the General in command down lo the low- | ^Philadelphia, N. ork, Boston and Baltimore. est subordinate, the army boasted not a b'-aver officer ! T ~ or more devoted patriot than G» n. Joseph L^me. | Ca.inpa.lg^ SUDSCriDerSi Wherever fighting was to be done, there Gen Lane j Some ihrte months since we made an offer lo v\a«tobe found; and so much was his daring and ! subscribers for ihe Prtsidenliul campaign. We chivalrous conrluct admired, thal the army, officers I for thaitime will and men bf^toweJ upon hi.m the soubriquet o^ the i ,, . , a- t , M . ’ - , II .t u- u . • I. . 11 ! still coutmue 10 afl.jrd us the support and counten- *• Aianorj of the army, ibe highi si prai?e that could , the Governor, who had already heard ol the irans^ oclion, was so pleas-d with Schuyler’s prowrrs that he invited him to dinner, txpref-^ed admiration of him, and oflered himncornf^cy in the Georgi; Guards. But Schuylcr 'Jeclinod the honor, fully Vtatisfied that New York, even with itscountle«s dan gers and temp’.alion.s, was more preferable than a life in the Georgian forest. Tu Charles G Dear Sir From the Washington Union. Tlic Telegraph. Page, Esq. : I am unwilling to do injustice to you, or any one else. 1 cerlaii;ly would r*ot do so inlentionilly. Mv communication, to which you replied in the Union, was a simple sialement of facts, all of which are literally true. I do not un» derstand you to deny any fact therein stl forth ; but, on the contrary, you admit that a long lime ago you received a letter from somebody on the subject of au electro-chemical telegraph. That letter you aav >3 ItJst- do not say who wrote it, or from what seciio^^f the country it came. I am glad you recollec^thus much about it, and hope the letter may yet be found, as it will in every way fulfil my statements concerning it. I take It for granted that a patent for the invention ai-alfCi'(iy b en taken, and that it fias been bap- ized “Prof .-sor Bun’s Electro'chemical Ttlc' graph.” It will, perhaps, go by that name, how ever clearly I might prove myself the inventor. It isnoi impossible thal the idea of writing upon pr pared paper with a current of el clricity might have occurred to otheis b' icJ - mysellj yet 1 do not think II probable in the present instance. The iuveniion is not accidenml, but purely fecientific’ The id ; first occurred lo me while wiin.5‘.iug the tffeci' of Ihe electric flu'd upon a sheet of paper ra ural - with the nitrate of silver, during some experiment made by Professor L. C. Garland in the year 1834. I inslantly made il known to some of my classmai 5. They (l*oubi'*l its practicability, i often afterwards mentioned my plan to intelligent gentlemen, all of whom discouraged me. I had ihe proj ct very iriUC. III heart. You may. ihertfore, readily conceive my chagiin and mt)ilifica'iorn when,afer commurjica- ting to you fully the principle, and to some extent the^details of the invuiiion, I received no answer. You say that you have sent me a circular such as ihe one appended to your reply. If you have Hone so, it is so recently as not yet lo have reachc: me. 1 never received any thing from you of any kind, i lake It that you do not mean to say you sent me one of your circulars in reply to my letter years ago, for il IS only l^J^ly^ as you say, that you have been in the hafiil of transmitting those circulars to your correjponlonts. The circular of Mr. Burke, ap^ pended lo your reply, has no date. The omission is doubtless accidental. If its dale were given, il would, aps, show that Mr. Burke issued it since my let- you. Had I received such a cirtular from r the same informaiion in any other form, in to my letter, I should have instantly apolo* foi asking your opinion in a matter where ttie enjoins silence upon you. But it must not be pposed thal the citizen at a distance from Wash- int^ion could be acquainied wiih the laws of the Patent Office, and especially the arbitrary rulee which may be laid down, froiti time to time^ by the Commissioner of Patents. You are, no doubi. greatly troubled wi;h inquiries conoeining existing patents and patentable inven tions Il must be remembered, however, that my letter to you was not of that character. I addressed you, not as an officer of Ihc Government, but pri vately as a scientific gentleman, without any refe rence to your official station. You had the tight, if you chose, lo decline the correspondence. Your declining lo answer me was no breach of official dutv. If you understood me as making any such _ charge, I hasten to correci the error. I did, however, think it was your official duty lo controvert ihe claim of another, who might, alter my Utter to you, come to patent the invention; or at hasl to inform me of w hat was going on, that I ini^ht do so before u patent was granted. It seems, how^’vur, from the tlie circular ol Mr. Burke, that in ihia I ^vas mistaken. Such was not your official duty. , This ufTiir presented iiself to my mind in another nointof view, in which it may be I did you mjusiice. A.ccording to the public prints, you w'ere, at the lime 1 wrote 10 you, making experimenis with your own hand in the scicnce of electricity ; and, as 1 under- stooJ, in connexion with the telegraph. The tele graph was at that lime the great topic of the day. My suggestion presented a principle easily under stood. r*adically difl'erenl from Morse’s plan, and, as it is DOW proved to be, important. I thought a scien« nfic mtrid like yours could not fail to catch the prin- ciple in a momenl, and could not well torgel it. I thought that when a pai» nt was applied for, you would have done me the favor personally, »f not offi cially, lo have given information of the fact. In all Ihis, however, I may have overrated the importance of my invention, it may noi have made ir>e same impression upon your mind as upon mine, and you may have forgotten it, or not taken the same view of what was due me from yourtell as thal which I look or it may have been impraciK:able f^r you to hav« given OJe the lufoimalion. 1 will noi, ihere- ioro, hazard Ihfi dumg you injujiice even by way o' insinuation. You seem to ihink me hasty in making my state ment to the public, before ojinparing noies with ihosc who may contest the inven»ion with me. Now, I have no note* to compare with any body on this subject, li IS Euflicieni for rue lo know thal the in yention is mine, whoeJ^er (uay claim iij and that th statements 1 make with regard to it aie strictly irue You advise me lo await wuh patience the veidictol ^cicDtific men. This I shall liari to dv>'. althcugh When appointed Governor of Oregon, he prompt ly left friends, home, and all. to rally tothe rescue of the citizens of Oregon, in danger of slaughter by their savage enemies; and al the time this call for his removal w’as made, Gen. Lane was struggling with the snows of the Rocky Mountains; and is now’, if not cut ofT by the avag«s. encounterinij the chill blasts of the prairies in a Northern latitude, still struggling on, ar.imated with the hop*; of reach* ing Or» gon in time to defend it, w iih his single troop of mountid riflemen, against the savage hordes, whose numbers have cut ofi' many of the b st citi zens of thal land. Such is ihe man that Prentice, of the Louisville Journal, demands shall be removed from office — such is the victim who is the first marked for the guillotine by the le.nders of a party ihat proftSjed to prescribe proscription. Lei them do the deed—let the gallant soldier be rec 11 I, and our Indiana fjiends will make him Governor of a State ins^tejd of a Territory; and that, too. by a majority that will make Whiggery tremble.— Ohio Statesman. ance, w hich, we are free lo confess, is very ntcts sary to us at the present lime. We shall conlmue to send ih‘ m ihe paper as usual, and unless some no tice lo the contrary is given, will be happy lo con* sider them permanent subscribers. Health of Mr. Clay.—The Wrs'ern mail Iasi night, says the Baltimore Sun of Tues ay, brings nothing further relative to the health of Mr. Clay. The le t intelligence from Ashland was lo the t ffect that he was ill dangerously ill, but ihatthere were symptoms of an improvement, his physician regard^ ing his situation as better than it had been for some days. The rumor that has prevailed, for the past two days, of his d th, is. of course, unfounded, and l omthe fact of nothing having been receiv J rela* live to his hi .lih by lelegi aph, the probability is thal he has continued lo improve, or at le st ihat no un^ f vorable change has taken place in his disease. The general inter t manif otcd by our citizens ye^- teiday, relative to the rumor of his death, is but an other evidence of the high esteem in which he is h^ld by his counlrymen. ji. S.—Since the above was in type we have re^ ceiVvJ the Cincirmaii Chrnnicle. of ihe 17th instant, containing the following telegraphic intelligence: Mr. Clay's Health.—The following note, from a j metiiber of T.ir. Clay’s family, in reply lo our inqui ry, was received last,nighl. The public will re- joice with us at this hopt-ful intelligence respecting ihe venerable patriot’s health. Lexington. November IG. Mr. Thomas B. Stevenson; Mi. Clay has been worse than 1 have ever known him to be. Here To our FaUons. It is now nearly a year since we first look charge of ihis paper, and during that time we have labored under many difficulties, the mcst of W'hich we are happy lo say we have been enabled, in a great meas* ure, lo surmount, and look forward to commence the conking year with brighter prospects, and increased energy. We think, too, we may safely say that we have acquired at least some additional expeiience and bfccome more conversant with the duties and re- sponsibiiities incumbent upon our position. AU Uiough we do not prelend even to hope thal we can aive satisfaction lo all, yet we cannot but flatter our selves with the anticipation of being able to render the “JefTersonian" more worthy ol support than it ever has been, and at bast »qual to ariy other paper in the State. But while, in the publication of the paper, we ihink we have acquired experience, we know that we we have incurred liabilities which we must meet. If each of our subscribers will forwaid us the very small amount of his subscription, it will free us from these, and enable us to go on our way re joicing. We do noi by any means intend this for a dun, which, as yel, we have no right to make, but would only request each one of our subscribers to place himself for a moment in our position, and we will irust to his good feelings for the rest. N. C. Legislature. On Monday, ihe 20ih inst., the Legislature as sembled al Raleigh. Every member of both Houses was present, witi^.the e^j^piion of Mr. Flemming, of Y'ancy, resigned. Bjih branches being known to be lied, we un derstand thal meetings were previously held by ihe sled members of each party separately, to concert mra^ well last night, and to day rve hope is out of danger. ,• sures for their guidance under the peculiar ciicum* i stances of the case. A proposal for some plan of The Crops of Texas.—li is cheering lo learn that j compromise, was made by ihe democratic members the crops throughout all the Counties between the Trinity and Brazos are the most abundant that has ever been known. The product of Colton is im mensf; many planters have not hands to gather all me cotton they have raised. Mr. Crump has actu ally made at the rale of seventeen bales of cotion to the hand, and has already secured thirteen bales to the hand. He is unable to procure hands to gather the crop as fast as it opens. The corn crop has also been abundant, and there would be tens of thousands of bushels for exportation if the maikets abroad were not already overstocked. The crop of sugar, as we have before stated, will probably beat lea?l a third larger than that of last year ; and there has doubtless been more than twice the quantity of cane raised this year, but a large portion of ii will be reserved for the new plantations that are opening in all directions—Houston Telegraph. Wire and Hemp Roj)e^-^iheir Comparative Strength ''"An experiment was recently tried in England, at the Woolwich dockyard, to ascertain ihe comparative strength of wire and hemp ropes. A wire rope, three inches round, and a hemp rope of ihree strands, hawser laid, common make, seven inches round, were spliced together, and placed in the setting machine, and on the hydraulic pow'er being applied the hemp rope broke in ihe middle on the strain reaching 11;^ tons---lhe wire rope re> but not acceptcd by the Whigs, who seemed in clined to insist upon ihe unconditional surrender of everything. The Senate was called lo order at two o’clock, P. iM , by Henry W. Miller, Esq , the Principal Clerk; and the members were sworn in by Wil liam 'I'hompson. Esq . o* Raleigh. Mr. Gilmer, of Guilford, then moved that the Senate proceed to elect a speaker, and nominaied lor that office Andrew Joyner, E?q-, of Halifax j Mr. Ashe, of New Hanover, nominated Calvin Graves, Esq , of Caswell, far the same office. Those who voted lor Mr. Graves are, Messrs. Bower, W’DOten, Murchison, Grahatii, Moye, CoU 1ms, Speight, W. H. Thomas, Watson, Conner, Ward, Walker, Drake, A^he. Rogers, Spicer, Ber ry, Hester, Btlhell, Faison, Reich, G. VV. Thomp' son, Hawkins, and Exum—24 Those who voted for Mr Joyner are, Messrs. Daniel, Smaw, L. Thompson, Woodfin, Patterson, Ktndall, Birnard, Bell, Albright, I'Tilley, Wash- ington, J. W. Thomas, Hargrove, Gilmer. Smith, Davidson, Worth, Shepherd, Ebmn, Lane, Row land. Lillinglon, Miller and Halsey—24. Messrs. Graves and Joyner declined to vote. Successive ba'lotiings took place on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, with the very same result. We learn, through a privaie letter re ceived by a gentleman of ihis place, dated, Raleigh, On Wednesday, Mr. Dobbin was withdrawn, and the Elouse organized by the election of Mr. Gilliam, as speaker, and Perrin Busbee, Esq, dem , as Chi»-f, and J. R. Djdge, Esq , as Assistant Cleik Mr. W. R. Lovell was elected Principal Door- Keeper, and, after an unsuccessful attempt to elect an Assistant, the House adjourned. On Thursday, ihe House again went into the balloiting for Assistant Djor keeper, and elected Mr. WVbster. Oe motion, the rules of the last session were adopted for the temporary government of the House, and a committee, consisting of Messrs. Mebane, Sianly, Ellis, Courts and Sieele appointed to draw up rule?. Oil motion, a committee was appointed lo wait upon the Governor and apprize hiiiithat the House ready to receive any communication which he might have to mdke appeilaining lo this branch ol me Legislatuie. Messrs. Ellis, J. M. Leach, and Biggs were ap' pointed said committee. Mr Ellis, f. om the comuiiitee appointed to wait upon the Governor, infoi iHed the House that the Commillee haJ peiformed their duty, and that his Excellencv designed sending a message to the House forthwith; which Message was received itirough the hands ol \W W. Morrison, Esq , his Private Secretary, and infoimed me House ol the rtsignatiun of Samuel Fieiuining, Esq , member elect from Yancy. And on motion of Mr. Ellis, il was ordered that a VV^ril of Election issue to the Shenfi of Yancy, di recting au election to be held to fill the vacancy on the 8m of Dec. next. Oil motion of Mr. W'llliams of Nevv Hanover, Ihe House adjourned till Friday morning, 11 o'clock. FiiJay, the House met pursuant to adjournment, and after reading the Journal, Mr. Dobbin moved that ihe House proceed to elect the Standing Committees. The Chair announced to the House, that the Ri les required that these Committees should be chosen by the members composing each Electoial D.strict. On motion of Mr. Salterthwaite, the House, for the purpose ol electing the Standing Committees, took a recess of one hour. At ihe expiration of which time, the speaker called the House to order, and the following were announced as THE STANDING COMMITTEES. Committee on Clairne.--'Messrs. BallarJ, Nich ols, Martin, Allen, D F. Caldwell, Brogden, Rus sell, Walser, Shuford, Miller, Wiikings. Prepositions and G/'iei*anc«s'--Messrs. T. J. PeiS»n, Salterthwaile, Newsom, J. E. McMullen, Williamson, Palmer, Koonce, Courts, J. H. White, Ellis, Hayes. On -'Messrs. Cherry, Blow, R. H Smith, C. H. K. Taylor, W’adsworth, Headen, Blackburn, Davis, R. J. MdDowell, Atkin. On Agriculture.—Mtssrs. Skinner, McCletse, Canady, Foy, Siockhard, Woolen, Pegram, Ogles by, Scott, M-st, Logan, Internal Improvents.—Messrs. Rayner, Dancy, Long, Nixon, Doak, McClenahan, Kelly, J. M Leach, B irringer, McIntosh, Farmer. Privileges and Elections—Messrs. Ferebee, Sianly, Thompson, J. H. Williams, Mebane, Per son, Clement, Trull, T. R. Cadwell, Love, Ste venson. On motion of Mr. Dobbin, the communication relative lo the contested eleciion m Perquimans, was referred lo the Commillee on Privileges and Elections. And thrn the House adjourned till Saturday merning, 11 o’clock. Editorial Portrait.—We notice that th© mountebank editor of the Ashvil.e Messenger in bis last number has put forth ihe picture of a nonde script animal, nppaienily a son of cross between a coon and a Jack — host. Unqufstionably tbis is intended as a “counteifek prcst niineni” of the sa pient editor. PossibJy, however, it may be intended to illustrate the present position of ihe Whig piny It's “ a coon, but not an ultra coon.” South Carolina Legislature—The gislaiure of Soum Carolina assembled at Columbia on Monday last, the 27th inst. Liiile or nothin ^ O was done beyond the organization of both branches. Strong hopes are entertained of a State appropriation to our road. We had intended lo have made some observations in our present number, on the subject of Internal Improvements, and perhaps have made a few com ments upon the plan proposed by the Standard’s correspondent “ Yadkin,” in his third number, but have been obliged to drier the matter until our next. It is more than probable ihat we will be enabled to publish the Governoi’s biennial Message in our next. W’e presume that the Senate completed its organization on Monday, and it is likely ihnt the Message was communicated lo the Legislature or» the same day. Cotton is now worth from 4^ to 5^ cents in Camden, and very fine qualities even a little higher. The advance fs owing lo the favorable accounts from Europe. 1'he Vacancy in Yancey.—Ii is understood that Samuel Fiemrning, Esq , w’iM be a candidate tor re-election, to supply the vacancy causrd by his resignation. A CoNFESSDN —One of Ihe leading Whigs of Alleghany city, (and a very clever man, too,) was lold by a democrat, thal “ The conscientious Whigs will not vote for Gen, 'Fay lor.” Pooh, there are very few of thrm.” Here was ihe expression o! a little bit of truth wi'.hout inteni-Iing it. Virginia—All heard from but 3 or 4 Counties. Ciss’ majority not less than 1 200, possibly 1,500. Alabama Cass. Official vote. 7Q3 n>ajority for Louisiana. — \Ve have full returns from this Slate, though not official, and 'I’aylor’s majority is 3,233. The DLmocratic majority in Miasirsippi is ascer tained to be about 800. A Minority President. — W’e do not as yet know the extent of Taylor's yoie, but enough \i knnrt n to show’ that he will be in a minority of ther papular votes, perhaps nearly 100,000; ihe fj si in stance in. our bisiory. i Cass Democrats.—So far as we can see or I* arn we do not think that one man voted for Cass, who was not not in heart and principle a Democrat, a true and unwavering Democrat. Were all those who voted for Taylor Whigs in the same sense maining apparently as strong as when the experi ment commenced. A wire rope, 3^ inches round, , . • . . . was then spliced with an eight-inch hemp shroud j Saturday evening, the 2oi ins.., t a a compromi rope, and on the power being: applied, again the lemp rope broke in the middle, with a strain of 0 1-5 ton"*, the wire rope continuing apparently un injured. This is considered a very satisfactory ex- leriment Wilmington -The Wilmington Com mercial publishes a sialement of the affairs of the Wilmington Railroad company, made by a commit tee appointed to investigate them. By this statement it appears that the whole debt of the Company on the 1st of October, 1848, amounted 10 8650.783 16; one-lhird of which is due to English capitalists, and the balance to the State of North Carolina and her citizens. The receipts of the Company for the year 1848, are put dowm at 842,130 64, over and above the expenditures, a little more lhan enough to pay the interest on the debt. In 1841. the excess of receipts over expenditures, was 852 000 and upwards; next year it dropped to 831,000; next year it rose lo 878,000; next year 11 went lo 885.000; next year it diopped to 876 000; and next year to 828.000; in 1847 ii rose aeain to 871.000; and this year it dropped to 842,000. The number of through passengers steadily in^ creased up lo 1845, and then commenced a decrease The number of way passengers kept on the increase and amounted this year to 28,Z’27.^'Carolinian. The Hon. A D. Sims, member of Congress from the 4th District, Soi>th Carolina; died al Kings tree, on the 16th instant, after an illness of a few days. It is stated iu the Charleiton j>apcrs that Robert Munroe, Esq , of Marion, ui!l be a c^ndi- daie to s*jpply the vacancy. had been agreed upon, and the Senate tfl[» cled an organization upon that day. Mr. Graves, (dem ) we understand, has been elected speaker. At two o’clock, on Monday, the House of Com mons was called lo order by James R. Dodge, Ef'q , the Assistant Cleik; and alter the membeis had handed in their credentials, ihe oath of office was administered to them by Thos. G. Whittaker, Esq, of Wake. The House then proceeded to vote for a speaker Mr. Stanly, nominated Robert B. Gilliam, Esq , of Granville, and iVIr. Courts nominated ihe Hon. J C Djbbin. of Cumberland ; and Messrs. Courts and Stanly were requested by ihe Clerk to superin lend me eleciion. Mf. Dobbin leceived 58 vot*s, arrd Mr. Gilliam 59. being the whole number of Dtrmocratic and Wnig voles respectively, exclusive of their own. Mr. Dobbin vowd for Mr. Cour s, and Mr. GiU tiam for M'. Cherry. The whole number of voles cast was 119, and as «io one had received a majority, on moiion the Hjuse proceeded lo vcte again for Speaker. 'I'he second vole was the same—59 for Mr. Gil liam, and 58 for Mr. Dobbin; Mr. Djbbin voiing for Mr. Ellis, and Mr. Gilliam declininmg to vole. On moiion of Mr. Ellis, of Rowan, the House then adjourned until TueaJay morning, al ten o'clock. On 'I’utsday morning, the House met pursuant to adjournmeni, and balloticd four limes v^iththc same result as on the preceding day. Oil motion adjourned unl'l VVednctd w, at 10 o’clock. Magnanimity. “ I have just seen a hand'bill of Win. S. Ashe, which contains some truth but more falsehood. “ 1 did not know, or suppose, when I wrote the hand-bill from Wilmington, thal Mr. Ashe himself had either conceived or had executed this ‘base act of villainy.* I thought il the work of the WiU mington Journal only, to which Mr. Ashe had so far lent himself only as to .*iid in ciiculating the Iraudulent tickets. He has since conf ssed, lo my dtep regret, (for I had esteemed him a gentleman,) that the whole thing was done by himself.” This is the excuse Mr. Hale, editor of the Fay etteville Observer, gives for his conduct in the use of such gross and ungenilemanly language as he employed in a hand-bill which he had printed and circulated in relation lo :erlain Presidential tickets. He stigmatized the affair as “ abase act of villainy'^ supposing that he was hitting a particular individual, He thought ii the work of the Wilmington Jour* nal only,^' and therefore lo gratify his private spite, he made his savage and brutal attack. But what exhibits his true character more fully than any thing else, is the fact which Mr. Hale must have knownj thal during all or nearly all the time when he was pouring forth his filthy torrent of envenomed slan der against the Journal and its editor, that individual was prostrated upon a bed of sickners, totally inca pable of reply or defence. We will not so far insult the intelligence of our readers as to pretend lo characterize such conduct. The man who would be guilty of such despicable meanness as this, only lacks courage lo be a mur derer, and his coward hand would poison where it dare not strike. Foreign News. —By ihe Acadia, whose news we received since the date of our last, we learn tnal Cotton has advanced one-fourth of a cent. Writs of Error had been granted in the case of ihe Irish patriot, O'Brien and ihe rest. From the Charleston Mercury of the 27th ins* . we have the nevvs brought by the Cambria, which IS one Week later than the Acadia’s. Col'on ha« advanced one eighth of a penny since the departure of the Acadia. Sales of the week, 28,000 bales. Flour and grain unchanged. Bacon had advanced in price. Austria'--The cily of Vienna bad capilulated after a stout resistance. The Hungarian troops had twice advanced with a view to succor the beleaguered ciiy, but were each time repulsed by the Imperial ists The loss of life in the city, during the bom bardment, was immense. The students and work ing men fought with dfsperaiion ; disputing the around inch by inch, until the inner wall of the cily was laken, when all succumbed and threw down their arms, France - in France are in a threatenrng condition. A crisis is expected al the Presidential election. Piince Louis Napoleon’s chances are still regarded the best for the Presidency. The Consti tution has finally been adopted by the Assembly. Il IS generally supposed that the Red Republicans are preparing for another emeute. Thai sterling and able Democratic Journal, ihe Palmetto State Banner, comes to us mu'rh enlarged and otherwise improved. We wish il all the success it so w’cll merits. 18 13 The Ingratitude of Republics— “Tis piiiful, tis wondrous pitiful,” that now m ihe dawn of the “ heroic age’'of the Republic, new style. every body that wants an office can't get one, and especially in this good old North State, thal after an enterprising youth bath valorously made a fool of himself, gallantly denuding his shoulders of that fa- (niliar upper garment vulgarly called a coat, and publicly oflfering to do bailie against “ eleven De.-no- crais" in his shirt sleeves, that after all this and sun dry other exhibitions of ground and lofty tumbling, he should fail to gel ihat office. Oh, Jehosephal, but our sufTerings is intolerable. Is there no balm in Gilead ? Are there no officea in Raleigh ? Free Soil Vote.—Van Buren has received about 275 000 votes thrntighout the Union. Not 1 one E'ectoral vole. ^ Majoi Gen'raVs Eleciion --- We understand ihat ihe vole so far is rn the 4ih Division: DAVIE REGIMENT. Wheeler Gaither ROWAN. heeler 28 Gaither 15 Majority for W'heeler so far 18. Mecklenburg and Union voted on Thursday, which will give Wheeler a majority, and the Lincoln, Ga*ton and Catawba Regiments will do so likewise. Davidson, Rutherford, Polk and Cleaveland Regiments lo be heard (roin.-"Lincoln Courier, 25th instaat. The following is the result in this County : W heeler 9 Gaither 5 General Cass.— It is supposed that the Legisla^ lure of Michigan will send the Hon. Lewis Cas3 to the Uniled States Senate again. Important Error —\\. is slated that in the returns of ihe late election for Governor in Pennsylvania, some six hundred votes cast in Strhuykill County for Morris Longsireih, the Democratic Candidate, were erroneously placed to the credit of Mr. John ston, the Whig candidate. If this be true and the error can be corrected, Mr. Longsitretb will be Gov ernor instead of Johnston, who is now considered j Governor clcct. 1 ♦
Mecklenburg Jeffersonian (Charlotte, N.C.)
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