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THE NORTH CAROLINI NOHTH-OAHOLUIA FAYETTEVILLE, N. C. Saturday, June 17, 1854 FOR GOVERNOR, THOMAS BRAGG, ESQ., OF NORTHAMPTON COUNTY. We announce C. H. Cofield and J. ft. Shepherd, Esq'rs, two of the nominees of the late Democratic County Convention, as candi dates for tiie House of Commons of the next legislating. The -Fockth-of J CLYvilrbc 'dol v. J at v ayetteville by the customary ' ceremonies. B. Fuller, Esq., lias consented to deliver the oration, and Col. John W. Cameron to read the Declaration of Independence. Laying of the Corner Stone. he ceremony of laying the Corner Stone of the F-eTille Female High School was per formed on Thu.ruay afternoon by the Masonic Fraternity of this i.own. At half past 4 o'clock a procession was formeJ on Gillespie street un der the direction of Cof. Charles Lutterloh, chief marshal, G. W. I. GoldVttfh find Joshua McDauiel, assistants, and marched t.h rough Hay street to the-foundation of the Building, where, after the singing of a Masonic ode and prayci" by the Chaplain, an address wasdelivered byJ. G. Shepherd, Esq. The Stone was then adjusted to it l aoe by the Master of Phoenix Lodge, and pronounced " tcell formed, true and Irnttg." Another address was then delivered by William II. Haigh, Esq. A large audience of ladles and gentlemen witnessed the ceremonies. The Stone is white marble, weicrhiiiit about 700 lbs., ai;l was fxrepared by Mr Geo. Lauder. Engraved sn the North side are the words "Founded Jsine 15, A. D- 1854 A. L. 5854"; and on the East ide, " H. Veruon, Architect." In the eeutre is a hole, 8 or 10 inches square, in which was deposited a copper box containing the following articles: Copy of the Holy Scrip tures and of each of the FayettoviHie papers current coin of the United States, from half cent to half dollar; specimens of cloth manufactured at the different Factories in the town; piece of No. 1 Rosin manufactured by the first Still erected in Cumberland county ; specimens of the diffiereufc products of the State, such as, corn, wheat, !esa., rye; copper, silver, and gold ore, coal, &e-; record containing the names of the President and Vice President of the United States, Governor of the State of North Carolina, officers and members of Phoenix Lodre York Masons, members of Board of Trustees of Fay etteville Female High School, Municipal officers of the town, &c, together with copies of sundry addresses. TCcstern Railroad. We direct attention to the advertisement of Messrs Seymour, Risley &: Co., in another col umn, inviting proposals for gradiug, &c, on the lirst thirty miles of the Western Hailroad, being nearly three-fourths of its entire length. It will be seen by reference to the advertisement that bids for single sections (two miles) will be received. This will put it iu the power of per sons of moderate means to propose for one or more sections. One of the gentlemen of the above firm (Mr Risley) arrived in our town recently for the purpose of attending to the a flairs of the Com pany, lie brought with him letters from dis tinguished gentlemen of Washington city, which fully establish his character as a gentleman in whose integrity and honor the fullest reliance can be placed. The Board of Directors of the Western Rail road have called for an instalment of five per cent., payable on the 15th of July next, and another instalment of equal amount payable on the loth of August next. This looks like going ahead. We hope that these requisitions will be promptly met. It may not be improper in this connexion to mention that the contractors have conceded to the Stockholders here, the location of the west ern terminus of the road. JBJ3rWe are indebted to Mr A. X. William son for a club of six subscribers upon which the urn amount ot one year's subscription has been paid. The club consists of Messrs Joseph T. Tolar, Joseph Pate, Isaac Hollingsworth, Rob't T. Ellis, David Bone and A. N. Williamson. All for Bragg! k Hterepresentatton. An article from the Asheville Spectator ha been going the rounds of the whig press, headed " Democratic Platform Repudiated," in whichl David Coleman, Esq, the democratic candidate for the Senate in the district composed of Bun combe, Madison, Yancy and Henderson conn ties, is represented as advocating the white basis and repudiating that portiou of the demo cratic platform which pledges the party to the present basis of representation. Mr Coleman publishes a letter in the Asheville News, deny ing the truth of the statement, and giving his real position on the basis question. That posi tion was, that whilst he believed that the white basis was right in itself, yet be had no hope of obtaining it, and thought its attainment by the West an impracticability, and that therefore it was idle to advocate it. That the balance of power was with the East, and that section would not allow the basis to be changred because it was for its interest to keep it as at present. He said, however, that the West was a growing section, and by the next apportionment (in 1862 J would have the balance of power, when it would no longer be the interest of the West to change the basis, and the West would then oppose a change of basis as strongly as the East does now.- So far from advocating white basis, the scope of Mr Coleman's argument was re concile the West to the basis as it is. So much for this misrepresentation. JL great deal has been said by whi IC-itorsJ and journals on the squandering ol U-puDirc i, lands; and columns of figures haYJefc exhibM ted to prove that the new States are receivln,, all the benefits from this soared whilst the. P . r-om T-- 1 Congress is continualljjjftiug away the public lands for all sort"tf purposes to the new States; aud welave seen it stated frequentlyY that more public land had been given awayfr-VA vuugigos; vnuu iimu uiv osu From a speech recently made by, Hon. S. H;l in ft ai 7 I. Tv Y-3 tZZ At Drowned. A laboring man by the name of Reich, of Alamance county, was drowned in the Cape Fear River on Tuesday last, at Red Rock, near the residence of John C. Williams, v s in u canoe wiin.iwo negro lueni. when it capsized, and lie being unable to swim, f was immediately drowned. He is represented as quite an estimable mau. The negroes both swam out. "According to a statement which I have, ;d which is reliable, this Government owns near,V fourteen hundred millions of acres ot public iijnds. Xorth Carolina would be en titled, if distributed upon fair and equal terms, according to representation, to forty-seven TniSliou eight hundred aud sixty-three thousand two hundred aud fifty-six acres, which, at the GoverBTneut price, would amount to $59,809,- 070." Speech of Mr Holers ot IV. t., aaiverca in the House of 'lieps. on the 2$ti Ajpi'd The above is a pretty fair example of the style f argument indulged in by the whig lead ers on the question of the public lands. How any man who really gives the people credit for common sense, can risk his reputation by such a course of argumentation, is one of. the mys teries which we have never been able to under stand. "This government," says Mr Rogers, " owns nearly fifteen hundred millions of acres of public lands." This is true, but where do they lie? What is their character? By far the largest proportion of them lies in the terri tories of the far west and north-west, and in the State of California. Hundreds of millions of acres are embraced iu the arid plains which lie between the outskirts of civilization on the western frontier and the Rocky Mountains in the great unexplored basin which spreads out between the Rocky Mountains and the Sierra Xevada of California- a region destitute of vegetation, and with the exception of very small patches of laud, desolate, unproductive and uninhabitable. In Oregon there are over 200,000,000 of acres of public lands, and a great proportion of the3e lie in a barren volcanic and uninhabitable region. Mr Rogers goes into a calculation to show how much this im mense desert would be worth at $1,25 per acre, which he gravely calls the "Government price." And his calculations are seized upon greedily by the whig press and heralded forth with a flourish of trumpets, and held up for the faithful to swear by. Does any one suppose it possible, much less withiu the bounds of probability, that this immense sterile and uninhabitable waste can ever be sold at $1,25 per acre? Does auy one suppose that it will evpr be sold at any price? We should as soon think of buying up a nice little farm in the Desert of Sahara, or the steppes of Tartary as of settling in the G reat American Desert. Why even in Europe where a crowded population presses upon the means of subsistence, and where every foot of available land is brought into subjection to the uses of man, there are large bodies of waste land im mense tracts partaking somewhat of the charac ter of our Western deserts. There is not the slightest probability that these lands can ever be sold at auy price. AVhy then are they brought into the calculation and set down at $1,25 per acre? Manifestly for the purpose of swelling the amount which the whig leaders say would be distributed among the States if their policy were adopted. This unfair aud unreasonable method of argument is not confined to Mr Rogers, but has been resorted to by the whig party generally. It is the kind of argument with which they think the people can be most readily humbugged; but we think they miscal culate the intelligence of the masses. - The peo ple ought to distrust a party which resorts to such arguments as this. Rosrcrs. a renresentative from, this State in : , o ' i Congress, we make the following extract; "From a statement which I have,- from the Commis sioner of Public Lands, it appears that the amoual eraated up to the 30th of September, 1853, is one-hnn dred aad twenty-nine million one hundred and nioetyV five thousand uine hundred and eighty-three acres; and this does not include the grant of many millions of acres of swamp lands to California, of which there has yet been no return. These grants are for ihe "benefit of only a part of the States; the old istates nave neen wholly excluded. Had this land, granted to the land Stages and Territories, been sold at the Government price, it would have amounted to $161.494,978. . The share of North Carolina, according to , the . representa tion, would be $5,521,192. " ' ; - I have another statement which shows that the amount of public lands sold up-to the same date, is one hundred and three millions one hundred and ninety- seven thousand three hundred and nft v-tsbt- acres, lees- by over nineteen millions than the amount covered by grants to land States and Territories." " , Appended to Mr Roarer's speech is "a tabular J cc statement of the grants which have 'been toadi 'tuc, by Congress, and the purposes for which they were made. Of the 129,195,983 acres which according to this statement have been granted to the new States, 49,416,435 are placed under the head of grants for schools and universities. Now this looks like a very large amount of lands for the purposes of education. . But pray how are the figures obtained? Why just in this way:" A law of Congress provides that the sixteenth section of every to.wnship of surveyed land shall be reserved from sale for school purposes. Every township contains thirty six sections. The law therefore reserves 1-36 of the lands for educational purposes. Now be fore Mr Rogers' figures can be realized, the whole of the public domain must be disposed of, including the whole of Oregon, California, Utah, New Mexico, Nebraska, mountains, de serts and all. Mr Rogers' tabular statement contains 12,180,987 acres of land granted to Oregon, 7,493, 120 acres granted to New Mexi co, 6,081,707 acres granted to Utah, 5,089,244 acres granted to Minnesotta, 6,765,404 acres granted to California for the support of schools aud universities. "One might suppose that these immense grants had taken effect, and that those lauds had already been used for educa tional purposes. Yet we know that such is not the fact, and moreover never tcill be, becaus large proportion of those lands are worth must always remaiu so. They are b the curse of the Eternal, and possi marketable value than the b Atlantic Ocean. If one of exi sections in these waste territa down as grants to the State which they lie, then it is fair that the other thirtv-fl put down among the land: meut, lor tne law which res section provides also for v thirty-five not so set apart. that these deserts can never purposes or any other. Here 1-30 of all the Government landl sold, settled and unsettled, culti cultivated, deserts, mountains aud al as appropriated to school purposes in btates, when the tact is that the law on vides that they shall be so set apart as the are surveyed and put into market. Thi where the enormous amount of nearly fi millions ot acres is obtained in Mr Roger table, and set down among the grants to the new States. The grant of one section of land in every township is the old and established policy of the Government, and can be defended on impregna ble grounds. No one can deny that it enhances the value of the remaining sections of the to'wn ship. For there is no man who is not steeped uees In Granville county Ihe democratic nomi- for the Legislature areas follows: For Senator, Charles Taylorf focthe Commons, Wm Lyons, Jas M Bullock, and Wm S McClauahan. The whig nominees are, for Senator, John Bul lock, Jas S Amis, Leonidas Edwards, and Wiley Perry. The temperance party is to hold a con vention on the 17th, when it is probable a sepa rate ticket will be brought out by them. In New Hanover, the democratic county con vention has nominated Owen Fennell, Esq, for the Senate, and Saml. J. Person andThos. H. Williams, Esq'rs, for the Commons. TnE British Periodicals, Blackwood's Ma gazine for May has been received. Its contents arc as usual, highly interesting. The Edinburgh Review for April contains a very interesting account of the Mormons, their origin, principles and history. The British periodical Reviews are re-published by L. Scott & Co., No. 79 Fulton street, N. Y., at the fol lowing rates: For one Review $3 a year; for " three $7; for the four $8; Blackwood's Maga zine $3: Blackwood and the four Reviews $10. " Now, Mr Speaker, on the 30th September, 1851, there were of lands, one billion three hun dred and ninety-nine millions five hundred and XrrpM j' ----- . - - divide the number of acres by the nuhiberliT representatives from all the States in Congress, and you have to each representative 6,006,807 acres oi land. iorm wuiuuui ua cigui, sentatives: multiply the 6,006,807, the number of acres to each representative, by eight, and you have 48,054,456 acres for North Carolina. Valuing it at less than the minimum price es tablished by law, and North Carolina would have the round sum of $50,000,000. Each county in the State, it it were divided out, would have $625,000. The white population in North Carolina is 272,369. Divide the fifty millions between the white population of the State, and you have $184 to each white man and boy. The white male population of Bladeu, for instance, is 2,529: therefore "if the money were divided according to Counties, then divided among the men and boys, the white males of Bladen would get $246 10 each." Mr Mc- Dugald's speech on JPublic Lands. "What a precious morsel of humbuggery is the above ! The whole paragraph is based upon an impossibility viz : the obtaining of some thing like $125 per acre for the barren plains of the West and Northwest. An immense pro portion of the public domain is of a desert and uninhabitable character. Who will settle on it? Who will give a dollar and a quarter per acre for it? We refer the reader to what we have said above on the same subject in comment ing on a similar argument by Mr Rogers. Hi in ignorance, who would not prefer to live in a neighborhood where he can send his children to school. These grants for schools are therefore right and proper. They promote the ready sale of the public domain and thus bring money into the Treasury. Of the 129,195,983 acres which Mr Rogers claims as having been granted to new States, we have disposed of nearly fifty millious of them, and show that they have so far as granted at all, been disposed of for a laudable and proper object. There are many other points in his remarks which are equally liable to criticism. The length of this article admonishes us that it is time to curtail our remarks for the present. Hereafter we shall have more to say upon this subject. "Bragc.'s Battery." Our readers, many -of of Mr B raster iu the campaign, will nnd in anotn- er column brief accouuts of his speeches at Ox ford and anceyville, together with some no tice of Gen. Dockery at Jackson, on his way from the hanging in Halifax to his appointment in Person. - We learn that Mr Bragg and Gen. Dockery met again in Greeusborough on Thursday last and that the triumph of the former in the dis cussion was alie signal and brilliant.; The Greeusborough Whigs were, for the most part, much depressed at the result of the discussion, while the gallant little band of Democrats there were in the highest spirits. - "Brasrsr's Batterv" is telling with most des tructive effect upon the waverine lines of the onnosition. With a "little more grape" no and then, and the united support of his friends, the field will be his on the first Thursday 1u August. Standard. ; " -' Lewis Montague, charged with the killing'olt Gardiner G. Thompsou on the night of the 1 4 to of June, 1852, in Petersburg, had a second trial iu that city last week, and was acquitted. R K. Williams, ot uupun county, jn. j. wa. tried at the same court on a charge of forgery, and ' acquitted. v It appears by the recent news from Europe, I that the ports oi japan are to oe turowu oj to the trade of all nations. It is stated t meeting was held near Jeddo between Q dore Perry and the Princes and Japan appointed to confer with him t' I r)
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