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From the Globe. PASSAGE OF THE TEXAS ACT. Allusion was made in a late paragraph of the Globe to the misconstruction which the conduct of several prominent members of the Senate had suffered hi reference to the an nexation measure. A simple narrative of the circumstances, as we understand them, will put the public impressions right upon this subject. We have shown the state of facts in rela tion lo the defeat of the Tyler treaty, and the origin, at the same session, of Mr Benton's Ie"islative measure. There were features in the latter, in its first form, that precluded its adoption. Mr Haywood' bill was introduced to avoid the objections which grew out of the difference among the democratic members as to the mode of acquisition. Some held that the treaty-making power must co-operate in its accomplishmentothers (the majority) in sisting that the interposition of this power was unnecessary, and, if invoked, would ren der the effort abortive. Mr Haywood's pro position was intended as a preliminary posi tion on which both Daities in favor of the - - i 1 maiu object could staud at the threshold. In stating tho scope of his project, Mr Haywood said : "That it was the aim of this bill to settle by legislative enactment, first and separately, the one single but important point whether a ma jors: were willing to extend the laics of the United Stales over Texas whenever it could be acquiied, though of uecessity that decision involved a determination of the conditions, if there were any, which were deemed indis pensable to our acceptance of the territory, and therefore such conditions were specified This bill di-.l nut piescribe how Texas was o get into the Union, after settling the pre liminariei, but left the act of admission to the competent authorities, after providing such indispensable couditious as would prevent all contest in Congress, when the acquisition was secured by treaty or by legislative com pact. It differed from both the schemes com bined into one, as the law passed, in this: that it settled beforehand all that may become insuperable difficulties by being inserted or oimtted in the treatv or compact of Union In adjusting these preliminaries, Mr Hay- , wood, as a southern man, took great respon Muilities in throwing the two degrees, now covered by our removed Indians, (whose lands aro guarantied to them forever,) on the north side of what is called the black .line r " i t Tt - J his orcw down ine iuissouri compromise line to thirty-four instead of leaving it at thiity ?ix and a hlf degrees of north latitude ; yet it vas, in fief, little or no concession on the p-irt of the south. It only, in effect, secured to the Indians their homes, and immunity Iroiii the introduction of slavery in the region which, under compact with the United States, hey are to occupy forever. Mr Haywood r az u .leu the proposal of this arrangement be Ci'.iMj he ascertained that it would ceitaiulv vr.in th't bill, if adopted by the southern iuter-v.-st, and lhat it would be lost without it. He h is btesi denounced by a portion of his bieih- ou ;!- single feature of his scheme of" con riiia'.inn. It will, in time, be discovered that ;t cbT.VH him to have been its truest fiiend. 1; it we pass on in our narrative. This proposition was supplanted by that of Messrs L-V-tcr and Miiton Brown, of Tennessee. '' "'Ids art, on reaching tho Senate, could not carried, because it encountered the con stitutional objection which Mr Bagby, of Alabama, could not surrender without a sur render of his conscience. Zealous in the extreme for the recovery of Texas, Mr Bagby would not abandon his convictions touching tho constitution to effect it. His vote was indispensable to the success of the measure. This consideration, and the decisive prefer ence felt by some ten Senators for Mr Ben ton's bill, rendered collisions between the tatter and the House resolutions inevitable. Mr Benton's bill would certaiuly have been substituted, by a vo'e of a considerable ma jority, foi the joint resolutions of the House, but for the arrangement mado between the friends of each to blend them. The proba bility is that Mr Benton's measure, thus sub stituted, would then have been defeated, by a portion of the southern fiiends of annexation voting against it. In this attitude of the an tagonist plans, Mr Walker of Mississippi, proposed to Mr Allen of Ohio, to unite them -making Mr Benton's the alternative, and to be acted on in case Texas rejected the terms of the joint resolution as inadmissible. Mr Allen, who preferred Mr Bentou's bill, nevertheless obtained from its author permis sion to propose this modification ; but Messrs Haywood, Bagby, Dix, and several other Senators, considered it inadmissible to trans fer to the executive of Texas a discretion over a measure which Ihey could not support with out a knowledge and coutrol over its execu tion, and therefore insisted that tho right of deciding which of the alternative propositions t-hould be acted on belonged, to our own ex ccutive, ou whom the consummation depend ed. Mr Haywood drew up the compromise plan, and submitted it to Mr Walker, who ob t.iiued the consent of ell the fiends of an nexation who had opposed Air Benton's bill ; and, through his instrumentality, as the mover of the compromise plan, the first idea of which he suggested, it became a law. Mr Walker is entitled to our thanks for the kiudness which, from the threshold of the inr portairt movement for the restoration of Texas, induced him from ti,e o tjtne to confer with ,tha editor of this print in regard to the mode of advancing i!. He read to us in manu script his celebrated pamphlet, and consulted u iu regard to some of ihe views taken in it. Although favorable to ihe rejected treaty ascertaiuiug that it could not pas?, he suJl nested the oronrietv of r, . . rf -'""nation a legislative an. iic supported th tr... however, in all its stages ; but, when h 'ai'.i - ura v. declared to us the hope of modifvinr ivil Benton's Grit bill so as to render its passage 'practicable. When Mr Benton's final pro posit ion- was presenteJ, ja the firs, hour after - Its submission, (although Mr Walker was commiitfd to the House resolutions,) he de clared ho would support it, no matter who op posed, in case the plan of ihe House failed; aud finally he suggested the blending of tho conflicting propositions, aud contributed es sentially to carry them through : to which it is now very evident we must owe the recovery of the beautiful realm which jies between the Sabiue and Del Norte the Red Kiver and the sea. The Zollverein. During the recent session of Congress, we have beard much of a treaty with the Zollverein. The .meaning of the word is, customs-confederation; Zoll meaning toll or custom, and verein, union or confederation. Under this title it is, that various of the governments of the German States have enteied into an agreement to exact a uniform rate of upou imported goods, and lo concentrate the collection of such dues in a n.rQi nhlishment. In a late number of Chambei's Ediuburg Journal, a periodical of which we have always spoken with great pleasure, we find a popular account of this confederacy, which we propose as basi3 of the present article. Travellers in Germany with iu a few years back have complained, and with much reason, of the restrictions which continually interrupted their progress. A policeman was always fouud at every stage to examiue passports, although the territories over which they passed, vere not as large as some of our ordinary counties. Mercantile men had much greater reason to complain a package of goods no larger than a brickbat, could not pass a distance oi a nunurea mues wiihout beiug ovethauled by at least half a dozen custom-house officers, and paying a variety of rates of duty. By the time it reach ed its destination, it had payed an amount nearly equal to its value, and it required a pretty good knowledge of figures to ascertain the sum total of the charges, and the differeut values of the monies, iu which those duties were paid. In this state of things, the travel ler and the merchant were equally aunoyed. The consciousness of these difficulties, had such an effect upon the intelligent of the Ger man States, that they resolved, if possible, to remedy these defects; and Prussia set the ex ample. She commenced wish a modification of the evils which she had experienced iu her own territory, and on the 26ih of May, IS1S promulgated a law by which foreign products, natural or manufactuied, were allowed to be freely imported into, consumed in, and con veyed throughout the w hole country, audits home products, whether raw or manufactured, were allowed freely to be exported. The Zollverein may then be bounded, in a geographical manner, as follows : on the Ea-t by Russia and Poland, on the South by Austria and Switzerland, on the West by Prance, on the noithwest by Belgium and Holland, and ou the North by Hanover and the adjaceut states. The effect of this arrangement, is to make - the portion of Germany already indicated but one country. Throughout its extent, but oue rate of duty is charged, and the merchandise duly entered, may be sent from one end of the United territory to the other. The sums col- lected are paid into a common treasury, and periodically divided anions the members of the Zollverein. Why Rah. B'V"?-'1 "ti. ' wanted are NOT made. It is a curious fact, that a dozen men, who happen to be in possession of a large amount of capital, can hold back the whole country iu its enterprises. There are, we suppose, about twelve men in the country who make rail-ioad iron. On their account an enormous tribute is laid upon all the rail road iron brought into our ports, a tribute which puts a severe discouragement upon the construction of rail-roads. For these twelve men the country stands still, and they who would at this moment be occupied in building a rail-road from this city to Albany and another to Lake Erie, were the price of rail-road iron what it ought to be, have nothing to do but to wait for a modification of the la- riff. Rail road iron can be obtained in England at $23 50 a ton; such we are informed is the price at which the Harlem Rail Road Com pany have the opportunity of contracting for it. The duty is twenty-five dollars a ton, and when we add to this the charge of freight and transportation on a commodity the bulk and weight of which is so great a proportion to its cost, the advantage iu favor of the American manufacture is euormous. No subject of any absolute province in Europe; no inhabitants of any pashalik under the Grand Sultan are taxed for the sake of the dozen men in this country who manufacture iron for railways Not long siucc, the president of one of the rail-roads iu this country made application to the various makers of this iron, with a view of effecting a contract for a supply- He found that the lowest terms be could make with them were $65 a ton, nor would they bind them- seives to ueiiver ine iron at mat price. anus by the operation of our moderate and benefi cial tariff, as Mr Clay calls it, rail-road irou is made to cost in this country nearly three times the sum at which it is furnished to the constructors of railroads in England. More lhn half the difference of price goes into the pockets of the American manufacturer of whom it is purchased. It would be cheaper to give these men T . I i pensions, u mey are to ne a cnaige upon the country let us cast about for the' mo?t economical method of supporting them in comfort. A". 1. Keening l ost. Harding's new patent gun. Mr Hard ing, gun maker, Great Queen street, Loudon has patented a gun for sporting aud military purposes, in which, by a paiticular modihca tion, the power is very greatly increased; the powder in the patent gun is ignited back wards, and being thus completely cousumed, exerts a far greater power than when fired iu the ordinary way. A gun on this principle will at forty yards drive shot through seventy two sheets of brown paper, while forty sheets aie regarded as the standard test of strength by the best makers of the present day. There are other minor advantages a greatly in- I creased quickness of firing, almost as marked over the present gun as between the percus sion cap and the flint and steel. Air Hard ing has adopted a new primer, which, resting nearly directly upon the- barrel, removes a great fault of the present cap, the constant Iracture of the nipple, bom the continued per. ?ni0,K x r Ch U U cessarily submitted, J olytechnic Review. 1 THE MOETTJHI Iron Houses. The late frightful earth-; quakes in the West Indies, in which the brick Bnd stone buildings of whole towns have been levelled with the ground, and the wooden ones consumed by the fires which usually burst out after the overthrow of the othei buildings, have diawn the attention of many persons to the advantages of houses constructed of iron, which have been found to stand the shocks of the severest earthquakes uninjured. Some of these iron dwellings have been, in conse quence, ordered from Mr Laycock for differ ent parts of the world. He has now finished a very neat iron cottage, which he has just built for the use of two maiden ladies residing in the Island of St. Lucia. It consists of three rooms, each nine feet high, viz: one rjom 20 feet by 14 feet, and two rooms 12 by 10 feet. There are six large jealousy win dows and two small ones over the front and back doors ; these aud the floor are the ouly parts made of wood. There is an inside ceil- iug of iron in panels, and the root is in a wrought iron frame, and covered with galvau ized plates of iron. The walls are formed of double plates of iron, with a thin stratum of air between them, an arrangement which will prevent the passing of the solar heat into the interior of the buildiug, at least through the walls, aud keep the iuterior delightfully cool. The weight of the building is 14 tons, and the cost rather more than two bund-ed pounds. Liverpool 21imes. Remarkable operation for the cure of Consumption. The Medical Gazette contains an article from the pens of Dr. Hast ings and Mr Robert Stoiks, surgeons, de scriptive of a remaikable operation for the cure of the consumption by the perforation of the cavity of the lungs through the walls of the chest. It consists in making an opening be tween the ribs into the cavity which forms in tho lungs during the latter stages of consump tion. The immediate effects of the operation (which requires only a few seconds for its performance, and which causes but slight pain) in the case in question was the diminution of the frequency of the patient's pulse, which fell iu twenty-four hours fiom 120 to 6S ; freedom of respiration, which had been a very distress ing symptom ; loss of cough and expectora tion, both of which had been very severe. This operation, which has established the possibility of curing this hitherto fatal disease, appears to have been completely successful the repoitof the condition of the patient a mouth after its performance being, that he was rapidly regaining his flesh and strength, whilst bis respiration had become natural, and his pulse had fallen to eighty, aud his cough aud expectoration had wholly ceased. DECISION ON THE LICENCE LAW. ' The decision of the Supreme Court on the power of the Justices of the County Court iu the administtation of the law regulating the Retailing of Spirituous Liquors, has been re ceived at the Superior Court Clerk's Office of this couuty. g The subject came before the Supreme Court in the,case "Attorney Geueral. on relation of C. A. .Gillaspie vs. "J. A. Mebane, e. ML and went uo on a motion of the relator made efore the Superior Court for a peremptory mandamus, to compel the Justices to grant iceuse to said relator to retail in the town ot Greensboroujjh. The Supreme Court decided, that, because this in not a case for a mandamus, ihe judg ment of the Superior Court must be reversed, aud die motion of the relator for a peremptory mandamus refused. The opinion of the Supreme Court was de livered by Chief Justice Ruffin : it is long, coveiiug the whole ground, and defining clear ly the powers and duties of the Justices of the Couuty Court in relation to this subject. We present our readers with the points embodied in the decision, made out at our request by a friend in the lecal profession. It is decid ed 1. That the Justices have a discretion to iirant or refuse a liceuse : but that it is a sound legal discretion. 2. Tht the Justices have no rihtto resolve that they will grant a liceuse to none. 3. That the Justices are not bound to grant a license to every applicant who proves himself, in the manner prescribed by the Act of Assembly, to be a man of good moral char acter, on account of the place where the tip pliug shop is to be located, or because the public convenience does not require it, or be cause a sufficient number hath already been granted to supply the public requirements. 4. That no mandamus will lie trom aDy higher Court to compel them to grant all cense. 5. That if the Justices, on a fit and proper application being made, should from corrupt motives, or from feelings ol personal hostility and oppression, refuse a license, they would be liable to iudictmeut. C. If the Justices should commit an honest error in refusing a license, they are in no way liable or amenable. Greensborough Patriot. A Wonder! We have lately seen a child from the couuty of Orauge, Jasper Jackson, who may indeed be prouounced a wonder. This boy is not yet eight years of age and weighs 177 pounds, and has gained for ihe last IS months, 1 pound per week. His bone and muscles are firm and strong, vastly be yond any idea that could be formed iu one of his age. We do not know of any record iu history that competes with this remarkable phenomenon in nature. To see and examine Ihe child is the ouly lest by which an adequate idea can be formed of this specimen of North Carolina greatness. A gentleman of this place has prevailed on his parents to permit him to be exhibited iu the Northern cities, and has lelt with him, ac cornpanied also by his father for that purpose, and be was to make nis nrsi appearance in Petersburg, Virginia, ou Monday last. Ra leigh Independent. The President has determined not to recall Henry A Wise from Rio, but to give hiiDvaB opportunity by delay, to request a recall, which the President supposes Mr Wise, as a high spirited man, will necessarily do. Their un friendly personal relations in past time would be considered as the motive of his recall should the President take that step. D AJ&(0Lfl NPA N (t- The whig party have labored hard to produce the impression that Mr Polk was elected by fraud, and great parade has been made of the Plaquemino vote in Louisiana. Just read the following on that subject : From the New Orleans Courier. LOUISIANA ELECTION FRAUDS PLAQUEMINES AND EAST BAT ON ROUGE. About one thousand democratic votes was the whole number given in the parish of Plaquemines, about one-half of which the whigs denounced as fraudulent ; but after the zealous investigation of this whig committee, supported by a large majority in the House of Representatives, with all the appliances of runners and pies, it appears that there was no fraud at all throughout that parish more than is usually committed at all elections in which an equal number of votes is received. But we beg ihe reader to remember that not more than five hundred of the democratic votes in the parish were asserted to be illegal, even by the most extravagant of the whigs. Very well! In this journal of the whig committee in the affidavit of H. Wr. Fowler, sheriff of parish of East Baton Rouge at the time of the last Presidential election, Mr Fowlar says: From the 24th October till the 4th No vember, some whigs having called on him for tax receipts for property they had just bought, he told them he could net give them tax re ceipts, not having given bond for the year 1844. They afterwards produced an order from Judge Tessier (the parish judge) that these names should be put on the tax list of 1843. The witness complied with the judge's order; aud 1300 names were put on the said tax list of 1S43, of whom, says the sheriff, 110 were democrats." "Here, theu, we have the fact established lhat the names of 1190 whigs were put on the tax list of 1S43 far property which they bought at the close of the year 1844! And this was done under the order of that excellent whig judge, Mr Charles Tessier. The Journal of Commerce says: "The subject was referred to a committee of the Louisiana Legislature (which is whig) early iu the session, but.no leport has been made as yet, and the New Oi leans Courier (demo crat) expresses a doubt whether any w ill be, as the committee have sent word to Judge Leonard, of said parish, that it is unnecessary to produce bis witnesses before the"m. In the meuu time, the assessor ol the parish has de posited in the office of the Secretary of State, and also with the Secretary of the House of Representatives, a list of 926 legal voters re siding within its limits, which fact is certified by those officers respectively. We refer the reader to another article in this week's paper about. ' nullification in Massa chusetts ;'' aud we again call attention to the fact that the whig press has no wrath to expend against any nullification which may be ex pressed or enacted iu Massachusetts. They have no ridicule to squirt through their dirty sheets at the Boston Quattlebums, or the Harl- fVrd Convcnlioii "Chivalry" ot tno Cay State; but if South Caiolina happens to ex press in strong terms .what she cousiders the wrongs of the South, and the rights of her own citizens, immediately all the quill-and-potatoe pop-guns of whiggery are put in requisition ; and among the leaders st this dirty game is the fiuical Fadladeeu who edits the Fayette ville Observer. The whole reason of this is, thatMassachu setts is a federal whig State, and South Caro lina a democratic. So, nothing that a whir State, or the whig paity in a whig State may do. can be eensured by ihe whigFadladeens ; even while they censure the very same act committed by democtats. It is this niggard ly, mean, and ignoble conduct that makes a large portion of ihe people look upon whiggery with a sort of loathing, and leads them to be lieve that ihey do not contend like highmind ed aud honorable men, for principles, but for the "loaves and fishes.'? NULLIFICATION IN MASSACHU SETTS. The report aud resolutions submitted by 31r C. F. Adams, lathe Senate of Massachu setts, on the loth ult., relating to the annexa tion of Texas, cannot be considered in any other light thau a gross outrage upon the con stitution both of the State and federal govern ment?, contemplating a palapable violation of the sacred duties and obligations of Ameri can freemen. It proposes to uullify and set at defiauce the expressed will of the the peo ple, whenever it comes in conflict with the preconceived notions of a faction ; and in regard to annexation, it declares that " nothing but the most firm and united resistance on the pait of its opponents can defeat its accom plishment." From this we are given to un derstand, that a systematic warfare is In be pursued against the accomplishment of the measure. The following is one of ihe reso lutions : " Resolved, That Massachusetts hereby refuses to acknowledge the act of the Govern ment of the United States, authorizing the ad mission of Texas, as a legal act iu auy way binding her from using her utmost exeitious in co operation with other States, by every lawful and constitutional measure to annul its conditions and defeat its accomplishment." Another resolution declares, lhat the Uniou of Texas with the United States " is an alarm ing encroachment upon the rights of the free men of the Union, a perversion of the princi ples of republican government, a deliberate as sault upon the compromises of the constitu tion, and demands the strenuous, united, and persevering opposition of all persons, wiihout distinction, who claim to be the friends of hu man liberty ;" aud that, inasmuch as it " puts at hazard the predominance of the principles of liberty in America, it justifies the adoption on their part of a systematic policy of coun teraction." These are the identical principles avowed by the same patty in Ihe days of the Hartford convention, and it is lamentable that an ex perience of thirty years has uot been sufficient to eradicate them from our ancient Common- wealttr. Let it be the object of the democra cy, and alt true friends of our institution, to cause these anti-republican resolutions to be expunged from the records, should they be placed there Bcsion Post. Duel. The New Orleans Picayune states that on the 21st ult., at 12 o'clock, a hostile meeting took place between Judge Gilbert Leonard and Air Philip loca, two gentlemen of the parish of Plaquemines. They met in the vicinity of the U. S. barracks, below the city. The weapons used were double-barrel fowling pieces one barrel of each loaded with a single bail. Two shots were exchanged at the distance of fifty yards the first wiihout effect. But the second fire, Mr Toca struck Judge Leonard on the left side. The ball broke the third or fourth rib, and ranging up ward, lodged in the neighborhood of the righ shoulder. The wound is uotconsidered mortal- Another. A letter, dated on board the U. S. brig Trenton, Dec. 20, IS44, gives the following particulars of a duel between two of ficers of that vessel : ' At Priuce's Island, where we filled with excellent water, a duel was fought between two of our officers, fcilich deprived us of the ser vices of our First Lieut. Wm. Hurst, for a time. His antagonist was Passed Midship man Creighton. The cause was some trifling insult on the part of Mr Hurst. Mr Creigh ton sent the challenge, and they fought on the 17th ef November. Mr C. was not hurt, but Mr Hurst was severely wounded in the legs at the first frre, the ball passing through his right leg just above the ancle, struck the left one, causing a severe fracture." A Petrified Apple. The Indiana (Pa ) Register says: "We were shown la-t week by Ur. Stew ait of this borough, a petrified apple, which was found some time since in Arm strong township, in this county, immediately beneath where stood a large tree which bore fruit, precisely similar in shape and appear ance to this apple. It has changed into a sand stone of whitish cast, and is truly a beautiful and perfect specimen of petrification. Upon one side of the apple there is a small spot which seemed to have commenced to decay, and its color has changed to lhat which is usual upon rotten fruit, which appearance it still retains, and is as hard and full at that particular place, as upon any other poition of the apple. From this it would appear that the quality of petrifaction has the same effect upou decayed that it has upon undecayed matter. Mama a Potu Jl JWan that ate his own Fingers. Two young gentlemen, hunting a bout a mile south west of ihe city iu a swampy place, a few days since, were arrested hy a low, faint moaning, or kind of grunting. They at first took it to be a wild animal of some kind, but on pioceeding to the spot, found a man neatly naked, lying in the mud and water, stupid, senseless, and almost lifeless ! They found irnon examination from appearances, that he had been -lying there for several days, and that he had eateu off the ends of the fore aud middle fingers of each hand, and guaweo all his fingers until they were raw ! Upon inquiring, Mr Fiail found his name to be Mays that he was a laborer, and from excessive use of ardent spirits, had fallen into a state of mania a potu, and ii this dreadful state of mind had Ieli tho cfly on Thursday fallen in ttie swamp jnouatjljr on ihe cvemiug of lhat day, where he lay until found on the Saturday evening following. Arkansas Uan ner. Good news from Rhode Island Pros pect of Gov. Dorr's liberation. A corres pondent of the lioston Times, writing from the heart quailers of the democracy, Yoon sorket, R. I., March 29, has the following cheering intelligence : "The very deuce is to pay at last among our Algerine friends ; to use a homely phrase, they are in a 'peck of trouble.' The nomina tion of Charles Jackson, Esq., by the dt mo cratic convention, on the ground lhat he is iu favor of the immediate and unconditional lib eration of Thos. W. Dorr, was so unexpect ed, aud that gentleman's acceptance of said nomination was so prompt aud decided, that terror and confusion pervade iheir ranks, and they shake in their shoes, every man of them, from Gov. Feuner himself, dovvu to Nathau iel Metcalf. Suicide. -Nathan Farlow, who resided in the northern part of Randolph couuty, com mitted suicide on Saturday last, by hanging himself. Mr Farlow was a respectable mem ber of the Society of Friends, aged about CO years. No cause can be assigued for the rash deed that we know of. Salem paper. A machine has been invented at Chicago, which promises to supercede the use of spades. By the assistance of two yoke of oxcu and two men, it will cut a ditch two feet deep by three feet at the top, and eighteen -inches at the bottom, at the rale of 20 rods per day. f5- "Honest John Davis " has been chos en United States Senator by the Massachu setts Legislature, in place of I. C. Rales, deceased. President Polk's Business Habits. The office of President has never been filled by any man whose business habits fitted him better for its arduous and complicated duties than James K Polk. He is not only a man of untiring labor, but he woiks with a degreo ol method iu all his details which peculiaily qualifies for an executive officer. He is re markable for his promptness and punctuality in all his engagements. It is an established rule with him never to postpone what ought to be done immediately, and that which can iu any way be done by himself be never shifts upon others. In the minute details of busi ness, his perfect system in business, aad his capacity for enduring intense labor make him remarkable for his accuracy. A UEUKUI.I UUDCK PRESENTED BY HIS . . T own Grand-J urt. The Grand Jury sum moued to meet at the Supreme Couit lor liar ris county, Ga., ou the 12th ult., found, upon assembling ai me foouri, mat mere was no Judge present to open Court, and after wait iog three days wiihout bearing auy thing of Judge feturges, who was appointed for the Circuit, they met and made out a formal pre- bodied an uncommon quantum of official de- linqueucy. They passed resolutions request im mfi.liidTP in rosiim ih.i nnmUr Mr raav ho annoiuted who will altnd tribo A.,r,-a " J w MV WUl SV7 DEMOCRATIC MEETING. DISTRICT DELEGATES. According to previous notice, a portion of the democracy of Upper Little River District was held at the muster ground, on the 29th ult., and orgauized by calling Mr James M. Senter lo the Chair, and appointing John McNeill, Jr., Secretary. The meeting was called for the purpose of appointing delegates to a county Convention, to meet iu Fayetteville, ou Friday the 12th of April, with a view to selecting Delegates to the District Convention, for nominating a candidate for this Congressional District. Agreeably to lhat purpose (he following gentlemen were appointed : - Neill McNeill, Jr., Mai. Arch d Cameron, and Dr. Murdock McLeod. Tho meeting then adjourned. JAS. M. SENTER, Ch'm. Johu McNeill, Sec'y. The Massachusetts Legislature on Wed nesday week adopted resolutions in relation to the treatment of Hon. Samuel Hoar in South Carolina. The substance of them is that Massachusetts is restrained from further present action in behalf of her citizens im prisoned in South Carolina, by her unwilling ness to do the slightest violence to the Con stitution of ihe United States, but that Massa chusetts will demand that the General Gov ernment make such change in the jurisdiction of the federal Courts, or such provisions by law, as will enable any citizen of Massachu setts, who may hereafter be imprisoned iu auy other State nolely on account of his color, lo urge his claim to libeity and protection iu the Courts of the U. States. An Example of "All the Decenct." Our readers will remember, lhat Mr Merrick, one of the Senators from the State of Mary laud, was one of the three Whigs who voted for the Annexation of Texas Resolutions, when they finally passed tho Senate. The follow ing from the pen of the Washington correspondent of the Newark (N. J.) Morn ing Post, will preseul our readers with another bright example of the decency of the Federal Pess. Writing of the couse which- Mr Mer rick chose to adopt in the Senate, this Federal paper's corespondent says : 4 "May he, (Merrick,) 1 fervently pray, go down to the grave, in God's own time loaded with the maledictions of all that is honorable among men. May he drag out an old age unloved unblest with tho record of hi treachery staring him forever in the face, and' may the very air, as he walk, sing traitors in his ears. May he never know the consola tion of having a fii'nd iu whom he can con fide. May all that are faithful lo him tiow betray him one after another, until the cup f his misery be filled to running over. May he suspect poison in every dish an assassin in- every nusn a roober in every visitor, until, like Louis XI or Pygmalion, he be forced to shut himself up from the woild, aud diag out a miserable existence in solitude : 'Oh! for a tntigtiin to cor.e the slave, Whose trcnfnn, like a tfeatlly bightt Coin' s o'er the coanc Is ot the brave, And Llasts them in Ihe hour of might.' ,y Melancholy Circumstance. On Fri day, the 21st ult. Mr WilliamJones an aged citizen of this county, committed suicide by hanging himself by -a bridle to a fence. He had been- for some time laboring under a de pression of spirits, but aside from this, no cause is known for the rash act. He was in easy circumstances, and much respected. Highland Messenger. Sir. Robert Peel, in ihe debate on the su gar duties, very emphatically declared hi opinion lhat Parliament aud the Government should not wait for reciprocity treaties, "before proceeding to consider the praticability and advantage of reduciug duties ou imports. Norfolk Beacon. Executed. The Norfolk Heacon states that the extieme sentence of the law was car ried iuto effect on Friday in Portsmouth on the negro man Jack, condemned by the Court of Noifolk County, for an attempt to commit a rape on a white female. On the first at tempt fo hang him, the rope by whch be was suspended broke. He denied having com mitted the act to ihe last. A tolerably largo crowd witnessed the execuliou. SounoiiNrt The protectionists have dis covered that the general reduction of duties in Kngland is "lo protect her manufactures." e go for prult ctiug ours iu the same way. A correspondent of the New York Com mercial sugpesta that lire, of whose origin there is no clue, are ofien kindled by mice nibbling at Inciter matches, that hud improper ly been kept iu desks and among papers. Therefore, keep your matches in a till box, as made fi the purjwwe by the tiuner. New Mail Arrangements. We have the promise of cxleu.-ive alteiations iu the mail arrangements, by which the public are to be greatly benefited. It is said lhat Cave Johnson has been busily employed since the 4th ult. iu the exanuuatiou of the old con tracts, and has discovered, what we have al ways stated, lhat Mr WieklifTe was ihe weaU est Postmaster General this couniry ever had. There will be do humbug in the matter ; for, if we correctly understand Cave Johnaou Ihe contractors will be compelled to perform' their time' as per agreement, or pay the pen alty. They will not be permitted to tow brigs en route, and thus escape the tines imposed- upon them, as was too olten the case under Mr WieklifTe. They will be kept within the path of iheir duty. We shall then have n failure and no complaints." .V. Y. Htral& This is just what might be expected of Cav Johnson.. He has been a terror to spenoV Ihrifis and lazy fellows through all bis long political i ne. , w nerever he is, there is energy and economy. JV. Y. Jour, of Com. Florida. t. Branch has issued bis Proclamation appointiug the 26ih day - for tbe lcrto Governor, a inf",kerf Congress and members of tbe Legisff e 1 the BCW State Of J? lorida.
The North Carolinian (Wilson, N.C.)
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