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9 FUBL.ISHEn BVBRr S ATTJUDAX In advance, per year,$2 00 Not paid in advance, 2 50 ix os nam until six months have expir ed, 300 Not paid till the year ' has expired, 350 No subscription received lor a less time than a year,; unless the price be paid inj advance. i BY OTIVI. S. D.. ,l,n.lrtiu ID tnO DC pvr. should mark thiir advertisements ith the number of nsertion.; otherwise thy often lorge nu i m. m. rf rtUement run longer than necessary , and -when the lull conies to be settled, there is something said aboHtthe ot And when an article is advertised for sale, hcj it toLD the advertiser should attend to taking it out of the paper because it misleads the readers of the paper besides running him to more cost. PRICES OF AT THE C AliOLlNl AN OFFICE. From aud after the 1st of Sept. 1850. -For all such Blanks as we keep for sale, GO cents per quire. " Where Blanks are printed to order, the prices will range from 35 cts. to 50 per quire, thus: 1 quire cap blanks $1 50 per quire. 2 " " 1 00 " " 3 85 4, 5 or 6 ' " 75 " io " ca " 15 " " ' 50 " " -0 " -10 " " 1 quire letter-sheet blanks 1 25 " " 2 ' S3" " 3 " " 75 " " 4, 5 or G " " G5 " " 10 " " " 55 " " 15 " " J 5 " " 20 " 'J'j " " Any blank printed to order which has more matter in it than is usual in blanks printed for the above prices, will be charged extra accord ing to the amount of m.itter, or the faucy-work directed to be done. In like manner, a blank co-itaining hut a few lines of matter to the sheet will be charged a less price. NEW CLOTHING1 ASD GEXTLE3IEKS' OCTP1TTIXG ESTABLISHMENT. A. WALDAUEIt & CO., (Hay street, corner opposite Fayetteville Hotel, and next door to -Messrs Lilly's store,) lias just received a large assortment of winter Clothing cousistiujx of fine double-sewed drab Overcoats: fine t'as tariu Coats; fine frock and dress Coats. &.c; and a good assortment of Pantaloons of all colors and prices. Cloaks. Catolons. a uew a 11 d fashionable article; winter loose .Sacks, and all kinds of winte r Coats; fine Shirts, (the finest assortment ever brought into this market). Hoots. Shoes. Hats. Caps. Trunks. Travelling Bags,. Umbrellas. Ste. OIJ emtoniurs are particularly invited to call and ex amine our iroods. A. WALPAUER&. CO. Nov 2. 1S30. Cm NEGROES WANTED. ash will be paid for likely if application i made soon. young .Negioes J. & f. WA DDI LL. Sept 14, 1S50. G03-tf FALL AND WINTER We are now receiving our Fait and V fl.,u. consisting of a very ueneral and titer well selected stock, In all Lines, which we are offering on our uxual terms. All sorts of Produce purduiscil and we attend as usual to the Forwarding Jiusi ness. J. &, T. WAD DILL, Nov 30, ls.-,0 GM-tf Hay street JOHN D. WILLIAM Commission and Forwarding MERCHANT Faycltcyille, K". Feb, 23, ls',0. ZMEAIiZiBTT FATJLSXXER GK0CKRS AND COMMISSION 135 Front Street, near Maiden lane Particular attention paid to the sale of Cot ton, Naval Stores, aud other Produce. Liberal advances made on consignments. r MALLKTT -NEW YORK. Jan. 11, 1."1. J. FAULMIEU. Gtxi Benj. Blossom & Son, COMMISSION MERCHANTS, No. 145, Front Street, NEW YORK. 'Liberal advances made upon consignments of Naval Stores, Cotton, Grain, and other produce. Jan'y IS, 1-')1 lv j os i; Pit GENERA L 14. BLOSSOM, COMMISSION AND Forwarding Merchant, "WILMINGTON, N. C Prompt personal attention given to consign ments, and cash advances made on shipment to me or mv friends in New York. Feb'y 22. 155 1 ly B. S. H0BBS, Commission Merchant AND FORWARDING AGENT, And Dealer in Groceries, FAYETTEVILLE, N. C. March S, 131 y The Copartnership heretofore existina under the name and style or McNabb, Bruce &. Co., is this day dissolved by mutual consent. ROBT. McNABB, S. C. BRUCE, JNO. C. JACKSON. Carthage, Moore co., N. March 3d, 1S51 C. G23-4t THE Steamer Chatham will leave this place verv Monday and Thursday at 7 o'clock A. M.. instead of 9 o'clock as at present,) commencing at 7 o'clock Monday 10th inst. Time of leaving Wilmington, every Tuesday and Friday at 2 o'clock P. M. JNO. D. WILLIAMS, Agent Cape Fear Steamboat Co. Fayetteville, March 8, 1851. . 628-tf Elf 2 tt CHARACTER IS AS IMPORTANT TO STATES AS IT IS TO INDIVIDUALS J AND i BASNE NORTH . CAROLINIAN. Win. II. Bayne, Editor and Proprietor. F VYE'rraVILLE, N. c. MARCH 29, 1851. ARRESTED We learn that Pitt, the murderer of Tilghman Hunt, has been ar rested in New York. OHIO. The Convention for revising the Con stifution of Ohio, adjourned on the 10th inst., after a session of about five months. The Con- vention adopted the new Constitution by a vote of 76 to 14. The people will pass an opinion on it in Ju ne next. jt. uudiirsion conieciioner aavertises lor " an honest and industrious ou:g lady " to attend in hit store; as if a young lady could be anything A 1 . t- ... - inconsistent with honesty! What an insinua tion ! POST OFFICE INFORMATION. A single letter means any weighing J ounce avoiurupois or less, a letter weighing over 1 oz. and less than 2 isregarded as 4 letters. Newspaper, means a paper of 100 square in ches or less. No P. M. can frank a letter weighing over J ounce, except on 'official Business.' Postage on letters from any office in the U. S., to and from California, or our Territories on the Pacific, 40 cents prepaid or not. 'Newspapers and pamphlets 3 cents each, sea postage, and the inland Postage to be added, if any. P. M.'s whose corn's were $200 or less for the year ending June 30, 1S50, can send and receive written letters free, not weighing over oz. each on their own private business. They can frank to California, or any other place in the U. S. possessions, but not beyond. Postage on letters, to China, &c. may be 75 cents or 45 cents. Postage on regular or transient papers, 1 or 1 J cents, anil 50 per cent, commission on them. Total postage on papers to Great Britain 4 cents, 2 cents to be paid in each country; to any place through Great Britain 4 cents, prepaid. The Postage on letters, to or from Great Brit ain is 21 cts., the single rate. The franking privilege 'travels with its pos sessor.' A Postm.ister can frank through any olliee be may pass in travelling, but he cannot send franked letters from his own office at the same time. Postmasters whose annua compensation is not over $1-200, may frank uameo of subscribers and money to newspapers. Postmasters are entitled by l-.w to the Follow ing commissions on the amount of letter postages received by them in each quarter of the year, and in due proportion of any fractional part of a quarter ; but no Postmaster can receive a larger compensation from commissions than $'500 per quarter: 40 per cent, on the first $100; 33 " " next 300 ; 30 " " 2,000; 12i " on all over 2, 100 ; A commission of 50 per cent, is allowed on postage of Newspapers, Pamphlets, and Maga zines; also two cents is allowed for the delivery of each free letter, (excepting flee packets of printed matter, such as Speeches, &c, though made up in letter form,) to officers where the 'Commission does not am't to ijj-'.jOO. On letters received for distribution at such offices as are designated for that purpose by the Postmaster General, a commission id' 7 per cent, is allowed. Postmasters whose annual compen sation, is not over .1-200 may frank names of sub scribers and money to editors. At offices where the mail is regularly to arrive between the hours of 0 o'clock in the evening and 5 o'clock in the morning, 50 instead of 40 per cent, is allowed on the first 100 of letter postage. Table of postages. 1-2 !oz 1 oz. 2 oz 5 oz. 5 To Uo Ub 10 20 40 GO 2 2 2 2 24 4S 9G 144 Letters not over 300 miles, Letters over 300 miles, Dropped letters, Letters by British mails, Newspapers not over ! 00 miles, or within the State, for each shee't or supplement, 1 cent. Do. over 100 miles and out of the State, 1J cts. To be prepaid if not sent from the office of publication. Pamphlets, Magazines, Periodi cals and all other printed mat ter, except as before and under mentioned for each not over oz- 2 oz. Sot. 4 oz 2i 3 44 5J A fract ion of oz. over not to be regarded. Circulars and handbills not over single cap size and unsealed (to be prepaid,) Scents. The Cunard line of steamers is under contract pay with Great Britain, for carrying mails, and all the postage except 5 cents on letters carried from the U. States by that line, is received by Great Britain; but the Collins' line is under con tract with the United States, and all the postage except 3 cents on letters carried out by this line, is recen ed by the U States. COPARTNERSHIP NOTICE. AREY &. SHEM WELL would take this me thod of informing the citizens of Fayetteville and the public generally, that thev have asso ciated with them, in business, Mr" JAMES R. McUONALD, (late of Salisbury); and the busi ness hereafter will be conducted under the name and style of AREY, S1IEMWELL & CO. Arey & Shemwell return thanks for the very liberal patronage bestowed upon them, and in tend, by strict attention to business to merit a continuance. Mr McDonald would respectfully solicit his friends and acquaintances to giye him a call. Fayetteville, Feb'y 22, 1S51. 626-6t LAW JVOTICE. ARCHIBALD A. T. SMITH Has taken an Office on Anderson street, nearly vetteville Hotel. He will attend to the collection" claims and law business gen erally, and especially to the taking of accounts of executors, administrators, guardians and part ners, either in suit or otherwise. Jan'y 11, 1S51 jr PAXETTEVILIE, N. AN ADDRESS Delivered before the Fayetteville Independ ent Light Infantry Company, Dec. 4, 1850. BY HON. ROBERT STRANGE. Fellow Soldiers of the Fayetteville Independent Light Infantry Company .- Your call upon me to address you on this occasion was most unexpected. And I cannot but regret that one better fitted for this duty had not been selected. But it is enough for me to know that you de sire it, to call forth an effort on my part even conscious as 1 may be of inability to meet vour just expectations. Not that 1 am indifferent to the subject, for in com mon with most others, I have ever loved "The plumed troop,- The spirit-stiring drum, the ear ptarcing fife, The royal banner, and all quality. Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war." My heart palpitates with emotions I can not express at every sound or martial tnusic, and swells nigh unto bursting from my bosom whenever ijook upon the hon ored banner of in v country, lieneath the flag that you now bear, how often in my youth have I indulged strange dreams of martial glory one day to be won. And among the proudest moments of my life was that in which 1 marched lorth bearing on my si oulders the two epaulets that marked me as the Commander of your Company. Time since then hath wrought many changes. But it hath not quenched the love of lame that then burned in my bosom, nor diminished the pride with which I behold that banner floating in the breeze. May it continue to wave in honor as long as one silken thread remains of its texture, and when that has perished through the lapse of years, Phoenix like may another spring forth from its remains as a rallying point for the youth of our community. Every people should have some things in u Inch they have a common pride and a common interest. l nese iorm oamis to lold them together; they furnish a common impulse for united action. They supply the places of the provincial altars of the Heathen, which, however we may deplore the blind idolatry that erected them, fur nish to their worshippers the noblest mo tives to heroic action, and around them are some of the holiest affections of our nature kindled into life. The community in which we live is peculiarly unfortunate in the wiintofsuch objects of common regard. and our prosperity is on that account great- y retarded. What one man among us oves, another hates, and seldom for any better reason than that it is so loved by hat other. In this respect our town is a sort of epitome of our State; there is a want ol conimunitvoT interest and feeling, and want of concert of action in what we airree to do. Hence but little is done, and hat little not done well. I trust now. lowever, that a better spirit is tiawning m . a i upon us, and that a common prosperity will awaken in us fetlings of more gener- us sympathy and concord, and a more eneral disposition to improve and cherish every thing that can be said to belong to us as a people Anions the few relics of the past that yet remain to us is the Fayetteville Inde pendent Light Infantry Company. It sprang out of the martial spirit which our Kevolution had begotten, ami has been most Providentially preserved to the present day. It comes to us venerable for ts antiquity from among the shadows or eparted time. It speaks to us ot the oved and the buried who once mingled in ts ranks, and the shout of young warriors yet unborn will be heard m its future his- orv. Not a single member is now living who assisted in its organization; but it is still the same Company, animated by the same spirit, and destined, I trust, to pre serve through ages to come the integrity of its name. In the olden time, while Camp bellton anil Cross Creek were yet familiar words, this Company came into existence. Her flag was then the rallying point for the pride and affections of our whole people. Our community was then thriving, and our merchants prospered in their dealings with the rest of mankind. Even on my first ac quaintance with Fayetteville, it was almost essential to a young man's respectability that he should'be a member of the Inde pendent Company. The seniors of the Town, and those among the most respect ed, were of its members and its officers. In the war of 1812-15, it went torth to suffer the privations and trials of a life in camp, and to encounter the dangers of flood and field. No opportunity was afforded it to win glorv in the tented field, but for all those qualities that mark the proper preparation for duty in the bloodv strife, ! . II.. i i a ! t r it was signstiiy uisiinguisueu . uu a iew years alterwaras me legislature oi our - r 1 . State conferred upon it marks or uistinc- rtxt u tion, uy g'viog 10 ,ls vujters a uicvei rank beyond that which they regularly bore. None of those, 1 think, who left their homes with the hope of bearing the fla of the Independent Company upon the battle field, remain amongst us, except Martin McPherson, James Baker, Charles P. Mallett, Duncan McNeill; and-William Lumsden, all of whom are in the vigor of life, and ready, I doubt not, should an op portunity occur, again to seek for reputa tion even at the cannon's mouth. But. as 1 have already said; the Compa ny itself retains its perfect identity, now near sixty years of age, and full of honors. Men of Fayetteville, this Company is your THE &LORY OF THE STATE IS THE C, llARCH 29, 1851. own, imeiongs to you asa people, it is the vi&ble and the oldest visible sign of your manhood and courage asa communi ty. It is as the beard upon your chins, by which the beholders may know that you are men. And to you belongs this pecu liar, boast, that yours is the oldest Company in the State. Nay more, unless an old Company which once existed in Boston has survived the shocks of time and accident, is the oldest Company in this wide-spread Union. Is it not then a just subject of pride, that here in your midst, like that upon the vestal altar rVancient times, or those on the estu Has Mexico, kindled as it is said by the Montezuma?, and kept by the faith fnl continually burning for un told generations back even to the present day, tfc? fires of patriotism and 'just ambi tion have been kept constantly blazing without one moment's intermission; while in other places they have only now and then flashed up and gone out again, to be rekindled if at all at .some future period? What young man is there among us who does not feel himself moved to cast his brand upon this domestic altar, and to stir up their fires to intenser brightness? And on holiday occasions, has not the Independent Company ever constituted an important part of the gay procession? Without it would not the pageant be tame and uninteresting? And could even our National Festivals be greeted with proper spirit? . Would not men of distinction go down to the grave without our community being able to offer any appropriate expres sion ot respect for the illustrious dead? When visited by statesmen and heroes, and public functionaries, and men of re nown, how should we pay them the accus tomed honors? And should a sudden call be made upon us for military aid, either by the State or General Government, should we not be mortified at finding that wc had scarcely any thing to offer but raw recruits and uninstructed officers? But it is not to your pride only that I would now appeal. It is to your sense of interest also. We have been greatly blessed as a people. In ancient times it was a subject of singular boast to a city, that it had never seen the smoke of an en emy's camp. In our day and country, thousands of cities may make that boast. Comparatively few of us have ever known the exciting terrors of the battle-field, or to have our sleep disquieted by the appre hensions of being suddenly called into mor- lal cinliHi . Peats. Iikt a -river, has con tinually flowed past us, and we forget that its sacred fountains may one day be dried up. It is the part of wisdom to prepare for war in the time of peace. And if the sky above us were cloudless and no sounds of distant thunder assailed our eat s, we should make some provision against a pos sible storm. But this is not so, and we can hardly hope to escape the common lot of man, vicissitude and trouble and sor row; that the book of our history shall contain no bloody pages. In the piping times of peace, the soldier seldom hath any honor. We look upon him as a pain ed butterfly, who hath nothing to re commend him but thegaudiness of his plum age; and he eats as we fancy the bread of idleness. But how is the scene changed when theTemple of Janus is opened? Then roses are scattered in his pathwav. and wreaths are woven for his brow, and all oth er classes are striving who most shall honor him. It is closed again, and again is he given over to neglect, and none are found so poor, to do him reverence. My friends, we should not indulge in these strange inconsistencies. We should at all times pursue such a course as will give us sol diers when we need them, and not place ourselves in a state of dependent subser viency and fawning sycophancy when our necessities come upon us. In all places and in all ages the soldier has acted a most important part in the drama of life; and an inscrutable Providence has made him the instrument for the accomplishment of some of his grandest antl most benevolent designs. Like the plough, which must tear up the desert where nothing is flour ishing but wild flowers and useless shrubs, ere the wholesome seeds which minister to the comfortable support of man can be deposited with any hope of a harvest, so in general it seems that the wilds of moral nature must be broken up by the terrible invasion of military force, ere the peacea ble fruits of civilization and moral and religious culture can be produced. Strange as it may seem, rarely has the glorious Gospel itself been planted in the hearts of any people, until they have been torn and mangled by the sword of the invader. Like the fierce winds which seem as it were to sweep every thing before them with the besom of destruction, yet serve to give purity and healthfulness to the atmosphere, so have wars in most instan ces been followed by a higher degree of moral and intellectual health in the scenes over which they have passed. These are great mysteries, altogether beyond our finite comprehension. But with so many evidences of their existence in the past and present history of our race, nothing is left tons but to acknowledge it. From the soldier; then, the true and faithful soldier, so often the instrument of Almighty power, we ought never to withhold the tribute of respect, even when vre nay seem to be independent of his aid; nor should we, in our hour of trouble, fall down and worship him as a saviour. Nor must we forget that military institutions seem essential to the cultivation and preserva CQMMON PROPERTY OF ITS CITIZENS. V0, vol. tion of all the noble qualities of the heart. The manly virtues have never flourished where military prowess has been despised. Nor have the higher qualities of the gentler sex developed themselves where chivalry has departed from among the men, leaving them effeminate in their habits and coward ly in their hearts. And wherever a nation has been found relying solely on political management for the security of its rights, or to the swords of foreigners for their defence, corruption in every form has gain ed possession of the souls of the people. Time was when it was thought that volunteer troops were unworthy of reliance, and perhaps manv even now will battle in defence of that hoary error. But amon the names Mcribed upon the pyramid of American glory, those of the volunteer forces may justly hold rivalry with any other. T4e most glorious fields of our revolutionary strifes were crimsoned with the blood of volunteers. In the war of 1 812-15, the rolls of the volunteer compa nies were transcribed by fame on her bloody record. The battle-fields of Mexico are consecrated by the apotheosis of many a bold spirit among the volunteer troops. And the times are coining when the patriot ic volunteers may be the only soldiers that Freedom will have to fight her battles They will stand by her when all others have fled or become traitors to her cause. This is a force that she will always find in her hour of need wherever there is a manly heart to respond to her call, and a hand of sufficient strength to lay hold upon a sword. We know not what is awaiting us, but the times are ominous and the scenes around, us are full of awful portents. Heaven forbid that this once happy, nay, now happy land, should become the scene of domestic slaughter. But who can say that it will not be so? And is it not time for every thinking man to be looking to it as at least a possible event? and to put to himself the question. How does it behoove me to act in such a crisis? what shall I do to avert it, if that be possible? but, if come it must, what, as an honest and brave man, ought! to do? what preparation ought the people, of which I am a part, to make for its coming? Again I say, Heaven grant that it may not come But who dare say that it will not? Oil has been poured upon the " aves, and it has for a time quieted their tumult; but the hoarse winds are still howling around us, and they' may yet lasii up a storm more fearful than any that ha a pt-0CttJfll it- But.it is nut if tluii I come to speak. What I will say is, that in the day of that or any other similar calamity, our volunteer companies must be our chief reliance, perhaps our only reliance. They alone can be animated by the proper spirit. They fight not for bread, or a matter of business, but only for the cause in which they have drawn their swords. That cause will always be just. They will strike only for truth and their native land. And when their object has been achieved, they will wipe the blood from their swords, and having quietly sheathed them, once more betake themselves to the occupations of peace. And troubles eyen more strictly domestic may arise among us. In some paroxysm of excite ment, even our quiet people may be seized with a temporary madness, and present to view that most frightful of monsters, an infuriated mob. Words are inadequate to the expression of the fearful nature of this exhibition of human power. Like a fierce tornado, with awful uproar it sweeps along its destined track, and its progress is marked by ruin and desolation. But happily, unlike the tornado, human might may withstand a mob, and say to it, here will I stay thy pro gress. A few well disciplined soldiers, properly armed, can effectually check the progress of a mob the most numerous and determined And what species of disciplined soldiers, other than our volunteer companies, can always be ready for such an occasion without imposing on the community continual evils, equal at least to those resulting from an occasional outbreak of an excited mob? Who then, does not perceive that in many contingencies, nay, may we not al most say certain occurrences, how important it is to have at our command an abundance oi vol unteer force ? And how shall we command it, if it does not exist ? In this town of Fayette ville, populous as it is, one such company at least ought continually to exist in fu 1 strength and perfect preparation. I do not say that there ought not to be more. Indeed, I am decidedly of opit.ion that there ought. There was a time when Fayetteville could boast of her battalions of handsomely equipped and well disciplined volunteers. Ancient Sparta herself could scarce have presented a more warlike front. Why have those palmy days passed away ? and why are we now so much wanting in military ardor ? But let us at least preserve and cherish what is left to us. Let us build up and improve the Com panies that we have. They will, when the time of need shall come, prove a wholesome leaven in the masses of our people, and furnish the means of a more speedy supply of as many volunteers as may be required. But coisider, I pray you, if this only source of supply were entirely cut off, under what disadvantages should we labor in any of the emergencies to which I have referred. How important then is it that we should pre serve it ! As the community sets value on its own peace and honor; as it values the lives and and property of its members, it should give due attention to this subject. To this great object every one can in some way contribute. Those who have already done their duty as active sol diers, can encourage by their commendation, by their countenance, and even by contributions in money. But chiefly by doing- honor to such young men as manifext a proper spirit by joining this or some other Company, and doing their duty with fidelity. And why should the yonng and ardent spirits of our community peed en couragement ? Why should they suffer an in stitution such as this to languish and decay, while they are in existence to fill up its ranks ? Do they feel no zeal that Fayetteville should enjoy the honor of having the second, if not the oldest Volunteer' Company in the land ? Are they fired by noble emulation to fill stations that have been filled by some of the best citizens of their native town? In casting my memory back to the oldest and most respectable citizens of the town when I first knew, it, I can scarcely think of one who, even when far advanced in life, TJZIUtXS OF ADVBXia;ZEZ2fGl One squareoftwenty-e litves or lefor one iuser tion, 60 cent : every sub. jseq.uent i user tion, 3v cent except it remaininforsev jerarmontbs, when it w ill .be charged $3 for two 'months, $4 for three, &c for twelve mouth. deduction 13 - ncy. 031. arge fad vert iseBient. e yea or six morths- did net do active duty ih! the ran& of the Inde pendent Company. But did chiwaVry die with those who had- witnessed' the fires ef the Devo lution? It is to be hoped not. I trust that those capable of bearing arms in the present day, will vie with their fathers in patriotism and in valor, and will not begrudge the fime or the trouble that n&ay be necessary to 'fit f&em for dis tinction in thro venerable corps. But the Ladies are at last the only true source' of honor. It is the dre.ifof their frowns that awes the coward into fbe concealment of hi fears. Itisfhe light of their smiles that kla dies more brightly the valor of the brave, and animates him to deeds of more noble daring. Let me then, I entreat yotf, commend to your favor this body, of which most of your fathers once constituted members. Under yoor patron age it will certainly prosper. Let it be - unAer stood that its members will be the peculiar reci pients of your smiles, and no distraction will be so much valuedas the wearing of its uniform. But you, fellow soldiers. Must 6the most for yourselves. I know that Many of you, perhaps all, like those who have goue before you, have nearu in your dreams r ame's distant clarion, and have fancied, as its sweet notes rang in yor ears- that among its sounds your name was syllabled. Your thick coming fancies have been of the im minent deadly breach where your body has sup plied the place of the battered fortress, and your arm has stayed the living waves pouring in for the destruction of those whom it was your duty to defend. Or, lik-e Richard, in your troubled sleep you have muttered, 'Give n another lior linil up my woundf ' Soft: 1 did but dreaoi." These dreams may yet be realized, and some of you ere long enjoy the blood-bought honors of ihe battle field. But to do this, you must not allow that zeal to languish by which your Com pany has been hitherto sustained. Discipline i to your corps what action is to an orator. It is first: it is last: it is everything. Without it, as every one knows at all conversant with military affairs, a legion must fly before a handful of men; and with it, a few mayconqwer an host. This it was that enabled Gen. Scott to calculate with certainty the number of hours during which Vera Cruz could sustain his attack. The time that it would take him to achieve the passes of Cerro Gordo. To capture one by one the strong holds of the enemy. To silence the batteries of Chapultepec. And finally to repose himself in the halls of the Montezumas. In regular armies, this discipline is enforced by slavish and degrad ing punishment. But in a corps soch as yours, the sense of honor and propriety in each member must supply the place of thee. Many of you, doubtless, perhaps all, have felt nay, do now feel the noble ambition to command. The sur est way of gratifying this ambitien is to show yourselves fitted by filling, with zeal and ability, the inferior stations. The time may come, apd indeed may not be distant, when the trade of war will be the only one that any of us will be allowed to follow. How happy then will he be who is best skilled in the elements of this trade? He will in all probability suffer the least trouble, and enjoy the most honor. Positions in this very Company, it is not unlikely, will be among the most desirable of military stations ; and yoa who now fill them, may enjoy an enviable opportuili--to Jo much for the kuaar and. ibr Xh e ultilMte happiness and prosperity of your native State. A year may not roll away before there will he an urgent demand for your services. Be pre pared, then, by the highest improvement of your present advantages, to come to any crisis "that may arise, fitted for the best and most honorable discharge of your duty. Remember that the honor and prosperity of an ancient and respect able body are in your hands, and that the reputa tion that has for years been gathering by those who have preceded you, mav, for want of Cour age or soldierly conduct on your part, pass away as a bubble. In such an event, may we" not fancy your fathers rising from their troubled repose to rebuke the degeneracy of their sons, and to reproach them wit h their want of manly virtue. I had hoped to see among us another volunteer company, our honored guests on this occasion. Nothing, I hope, that has been said by me. in commendation of the time. honored Fayetteville Independent Light Infantry Company, will be felt as any disparagement to my fellow-soldiers of the Rifle Corps." I doubt not that from hence forth the former will find in them a noble rival in every thing but its antiquity. This is a dis tinction that time only can confer; and when accompanied by an untarnished fame, is ever a just subject of pride. I trust no unkind jealousy will ever spring up between you. But that on all occasions, you will be found side by side, sup porting the same cause in the glorious rivalry of performing your duty with most zeal and imwt ability. And that whether in the showy evolu. tions of the holiday muster, or in the sterner duties of the battle field, the fame of both for skill and bravery may be alike imperishable. Nor would I be supposed intentionally to slight the just claims of the militia, as being after all, a nation's strength in her hour of utmost need. In what I have said of volunteer troops, I meant not to put them in contradistinction to the militia; for in truth I consider the former as only a portion of the latter, or perhaps more pro perly a modification of it. A volunteer company is only a militia company clothed in uniform, and by a little more practice rendered a little more expert in military evolutions and the other arts of war. And every wreath of laurel that encircles the brow of a volunteer, is but an honor bestowed on the militia of his State. Still, I look upon volunteer companies as mi litia improved, and would urge you by all means, my fellow-soldiers of the Fayetteville Indepen dent Light Infantry Company, to augment your strength to cherish the spirit which prompted your fathers to the establishment of your corps. And may the same spirit perpetuate its existence for generations to come. , As an honorary member of your company, I trust you will permit me, when the occasion shall call for it, to take my place in your ranks. And believe me, that whether with you in per son or not, my heart will go with you in every scene of danger, of trial or of glory. And wheth er dying in peace or in war, among the highest honors that can be paid my remains will be that they may be followed to the grave as those of so many of my noble comrades have been before me, in the solemn rites of military burial, by the Fayetteville Independent Light Infantry Com pany. Thk Case of Chaplwt. The case of Mr W. L. Chaplin, Abolitionist, v-ho was arrested in Montgomery, Md., whilst in the act of abducting the slaves of Messrs. Toombs and Stephens, the Baltimore Patriot says, was to hae come up in Howard district court on Monday; but, as was expected, he failed to make is appearance, and his bail (819,000) iras forfeited to the State of Maryland. The money, it is said, is perfectly secure, having been deposited in bank. i.
The North Carolinian (Wilson, N.C.)
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