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i.-pwr-...wfJ, THE N 0 E T H I GA R PQL J N I A N , F A YETTE VIXti, -U, DEBATE J House of Commons on the Sill ka.Tltrvng the Fayetteville and Greensboro' Railroad," Wed nesday, February the lthr f - . The unfinished business of yesterday, being the Fayetteville and Greensboro' Railroad bill, was taken up. " ' ; V " ' " . ; s Ou motion of Mr J.G. Bynnm, the amend ment introduced by him on yesterday was with drawn. On motion of Mr McDuffie, the amendment introduced by him on yesterday was withdrawn.- - . ..... Mr Sutton offered an amendment making the terminus of the road at Kinston, and stated that he was not hostile to the bill authorising the connection with Greensboro'. lie was a friend to the North Carolina Railroad and the object it had in view the building up of Beau fort, and would not press the amendment if he thought it would embarrass the bill. Mr S. explained, the amendment if adopted would shorten the route aud save considerable ex peuse. The amendment was rejected. Mr Turner moved to strike out the, sections authorising the construction of the road be yond Warsaw. Mr Turner was opposed to the bill as authori zing the construction of a road for which there is no necessity, lie asserted the road was un called for by the people of Onslow and Duplin, aud stated the improvement was actually forced on them unasked for. Why do so they had the Atlantic Ocean and New River to accom modate their trade ? Mr Humphrey corrected Mr Turner the road was called for at primary meetings, and also at the Salisbury Convention, lie also re minded the sreutleman that Onslow was not mentioned in the bill. Mr Turner continued at considerable length, amount of $400,000. nnless the last section is alluded sarcastically to the number of banks to ! less than twenty-five miles and thei J'Vom the Wilmington Her mid., (? The ' Wilmington" and CbarloUe Railroad. ; We have received the following letter from Colj Walter" Lv Steele, the Commoner from Richmond, and on account of the interesting character of its contents, have taken the liberty of spreading it before our readers. Mr Steele, it will be remembered, introduced in the House the bill for the charter of the above named Road, aud was mainly instrumental in procur ing its passage. The provision excluding the State from exercising a controlling influence in the affairs of the Company, we regard as an excellent one! 5 Raleigh, Feb. 9, '55. T. Bcrr Jr. Esq : Inasmuch as a good deal of misapprehension seems to exist in relation to the provisions of the "Act to incorporate the Wilmingtou and Charlotte Rail Road Com pany," I have thought proper to give a synop sis of that part of the act which authorizes as sistance on the part of the State. Ihe act dif fers, in some respects, from the printed bill. When individuals or corporations subscribe fire hundred thousand dollars the Company is then formed. The work is to be laid on into sections of twenty-five miles each, and is to be commenced at the Eastern end. Whenever the Company shall construct and pnt in operation, twenty-five miles of the road, and shall give to the State a mortgage on the real and personal estate of the Company, including all it may ac quire until the whole road is completed, the Public Treasurer is required to endorse the Company to the amount of $200,000. When the second section is completed, he is requested to endorse to the same amount, aud so on, toties quotics. until the road is built to the town of Charlotte except on the completion of the section next to the last, when he endorses to the be chartered which would enable the State to pay her debt. He strongly opposed the sys tem adopted in passing bills for internal im provements, and lectured his whig friends for receiving democratic aid in the work of internal improvement; he urged the necessity of repudia ting their democratic allies and not let the res ponsibility of their acts rest with the whigs. Mr Turner continued in this strain for some time, and concluded by expressing his disappro bation of this aud many other bills which had passed tITe General Assembly. Mr Baxter followed and defended the course ends in their action improvements., and pursued by his political fr upon schemes of internal commented upon the seutunents expressed by the member from Orange, (Mr Turner.) Mr Steele considered he was indirectly allu ded to by Mr Turner. He declared he was al ways a friend to works of internal improvement, and though his people were not interested in the North Carolina Railroad, he had always voted for that work. Mr S. expressed his mortification at the course pursued by those members, who, having received benefits for their own sections, uow stand forth to repudiate the assistance asked for by others. lie com mented strongly on the conduct of those who, after thrusting their hands into the public Treasury now oppose all other claims for public assistance. He alluded not to Orange, but to Wake and Waj'iie, which he described as being always ready to receive but never to give. He denounced such illiberality and d s scnted from Mr Turner's remarks npon the as sistance received from the democratic party. Mr Gorrell opposed the bill as totally un necessary m any point of view, and supported his views of the measure under debate, in a speech of some length, and warmly urged the house to reject the bill. Mr J. G. Bynnm answered the statements made by Mr Gorrell. lie defended not only the bill under debate but the other improve ment bills passed by the House, and entered into calculations to show, that the differ ent demands upon the public Treasury would come at such intervals as to remove any danger of the frightful consequences apprehended by some people. Mr 15. concluded by expressing his confidence that the resources of the State were equal to all the demands upon it. Mr Winston addressed the House in opposi tion to the bill and reviewed the probable ef fects this improvement would have on the other public works of the State. Mr W. spoke for a considerable time on the prospects of Beaufort ami the general scheme of State improvements, and concluded by an eloquent appeal in favor of sustaining the present high character of North Carolina. Mr Outlaw wished to address the House aain in reply to some observation made with reference to favors received from the State. He had no favor to a.k, no scheme to forward, his coarse was guided only by conscience and duty, and by so doing he had perilled his popu larity at home. Mr O. reviewed the measures passed at the last and present Legislature, and argued from the record that Fayetteville had received more than her share. He strongly condemned the scheme of connecting Fa yette viile with Beaufort, which he described as a wild dream, and contested the conclusion drawn bv Mr J. G. Bynurn with regard to the finan cial condition of the State. . Mr Baxter offered an amendment which he stated was acceptable to the friends of the bill. Adopted. Mr Barringer felt great regret in having, for the first time to vote airainst a bill of this description. He thought the State had gone far enough, and he was now willing to stop aud survey the progress made. J. W. Neal said he would vote against this bill under directions of the people he represent ed. He regretted this course, but was compel led by a sense of duty to his constituents to oppose the bill under debate. Mr J. G. Bynuiu offered an amendment which was adopted. Mr Turner defended himself from the re marks made by members during the debate, and spoke at some length in defence of his course upon internal improvements, and in con clusion expressed his willingness to vote for every necessary work of improvement when the state of the Treasury, or public opinion may authorize them. The bill was rejected. .Yeas 35, Nays G2. Previous to the vote being announced Mr Settle appealed to the Speaker as to the right of members to decline voting when present iu the Hall. The Speaker decided such was against the rules of the House. Mr Settle and Singeltary then called on Mr B. F. Williams of Green county to vote, after some hesitation and being repeatedly called on Mr Williams voted iu the negative. Mr Dorteh moved the vote be reconsidered. Mr Houston hoped the enemies of the bill would not follow up their pursuit, but give the friends of the bill au opportunity to amend it The motion to recousidcr.was adopted. Yeas 42, Nays 3T; . Mr: Singeltary moved to lay the bill on the - table. ..ii i Mr ; Outlaw moved the indefinite postpone ment ot the bill. .'- After some remarks by Messrs Barringer and McDuffie, the bill was indefinitely post poned. Yeas 51, Nays 45. a propor tionate sum, preserving the ratio of $8000 to the mile. The part of the road icest of Char lotte will receive assistance to the amount of two thirds of the cost. Individuals control the roc d entirely the State having no director in j it. General Alexander McRae, Alfred Smith, Thomas A. Norment, James P. Leak, Walter R. Leak, 1). A. Covington and C. J. Fox, are the general Commissioners I confess that the charter is not quite as favorable as I should have been pleased to have had it. It will do, however, and we ought not to complain. A more favorable oue could not hare been obt a i n cd. The very fact that we are not to be clogged with '.ie State influence in the construction and arrangement of the road is, of itself worth a great deal. No State director, unless he is a Stockholder, can feel interest enough in a public work to cause him to devote much atten tion to its welfare. Private interest is worth, ii: the management of property, all the patriot-i ism that was ever preached in 4th of July orations. I am contented with the charter. Now, shall the road be built? Is it worth the struggle? v Z , The Boanty-Land BUI. ; I This important bill, now before the House of Representatives of the United States passed the Senate on the 7th inst. As there are many persons interested in this law, and asking for copies, we print it pro bono publico: AN ACT in addition to ccrtuin acts granting bounty land to certain officers and soldiers who have been engaged in the military service of the United Stales Be it enacted by the Senate and Horse of Representatives of the United States of America iu Congress assembled. That each of the sur viving commissioned and non-commissioned offi cers, musicians, and privates, whether of regu lars, volunteers, rangers, or militia, who were regularly mustered into the service of the Unit ed States, and every officer, commissioned and non-commissioned, seaman, ordinary seaman, marine, clerk, and landsman iu the navy, in any of the wars in which this country has been en gaged since seventeen hundred and ninety, and each of the survivors of the militia, or volun teers, or State troops of any State or Terri tory, called into military service, and regularly mustered therein, and whose services have been paid by the United States subsequent to the eighteenth day of June, eighteen hundred and twelve, shall be entitled to receive a certificate or warrant from the Department of the Inter ior for one hundred and sixty acres of land: and where any of those who have so been mustered into service ana paia shall have reeeivea a cer tificate or warrant, he shall be entitled to a certificate or warrant for such quantity of land as will make, in the whole, with what he may have heretofore received, one hundred and sixty acres to each such person having served as afore said : Provided, The person so having been in service shall not receive said land warrant if it shall appear by the muster rolls of his regiment or corps that he deserted, or was dishonorably discharged from service. And provided, further, That no officer, or private, of the militia or volunteers, who was called out for the services of anv State, and refused by the authorities of such State to be placed in the service of the United States, shall be entitled to the benefits of this act. Sec. 2 And be it further enacted, That in case of the death of any person who, if living would tic entitled to a certificate or warrant as aforesaid under this act, leaving a widow, or vExclteaient la Havana ! The Savannah Journal and Courier of Satur day says : ' I v Ti v- ' i "By the arrival this morning ot the schooner Abbott Devereux, Capt. Alcborn, from Havana, we have advices from that port up to Sunday last, February 4 th. "We learn that at the time of tbc sailing of the schooner, and for several days previously, great excitement existed in Cuba in anticipa tion of the lauding of General Quitman, who was reported and believed to be off the Island, with a force of twenty thousand meii. Ihe Creoles were highly elated, but it was not sup posed that they could render much assistance to their deliverers. Indeed Capt. Alcnorn tbinKs the present Captain General Concha, has made himself and administration popular with all classes, so that it may be presumed that the dis content on the Island is not so wide spread uow as formerly. "The Spanish fleet consisting of two war steamers and three sailing vessels a frigate, sloop of war, and brig, left the port of Havana last Satnrdy on a cruise in search of the filibus ters. 1 wo British ships of the line entered the harbor Sunday morning, and several others were hourly expected for the defence of the Island. "We have no means of knowng upon what grounds the fears of the Spanish officials were based. But one thing we are certain, if Quit man gets a foothold on the. Island with twenty thousand men, the days of her Catholic Majesty's reign there are ended. leaving it no widow, a minor child or children, such widow, or, if no widow, such minor child or children, shall be entitled to receive a certificate or warrant for the same quantity of land tha such deceased person would be entiled to receive under the provisions of this act if now living : Provided, That a subsequent marriage shall not impair the right of any such widow to such warrant if she be a w idow at the time of mak ing her application : And provided, further, That those shall be considered minors who are so at the time this act shall take effect. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That iu no case shall any such certificate or warrant be issued for anv service less than fourteen davs. Will your people suffer the opportunity to pass j cxcept wl)cre the person shall actually have j been eugaged in battle, and unless the party claiming such certificate or warrant shall estab- li.-h his or her right thereto by record evidence of said service. unimproved, of having a direct communication with the West; of which they have buii dream- ino fni unit noiv with fTii"t. rf::li:p? Will the people along the line fail to obtain the j means of selling their products to .North Caro lina merchants? These are questions which will be answered after a while. I shall ask them elsew here w ith my tongue, and hope to hear a favorable answer from those at least among whom I live. Very respectfullv, WALTER L. STEELE. Later from Europe. The American mail steamer Atlantic has ar rived at New York, with London and Liver pool dates to the 27th ult. Lord John Russell has resigned, and a gen eral dissolution of the English Ministry is threa tened. The other English news is not im portant. The Vienna conference will not meet until the middle of February. The public feeling in England, is tending towards peace. Russia interprets the four poiuts thus: First, the abolition of the Russian protectorate over Moldavia and Wallachia, those Provinces be ing placed under the guarantee of the five Powers; second, the free navigation of the Danube; third, a revision of the treaty of 1841, to attach more completely the existence of the Ottoman Empire to the balance of Europe; fourth, a collective guarantee of the five Powers for the consecration and observance of religious i privileges of the different Christian communi ties, without distinction of any form of worship. The Queen of Sardinia is dead. No change had occurred in the affairs at Se bastopol. No general battle had taken place. The Russians had made two sorties, but as usual, they were repulsed with considerable loss. Large reinforcements were reaching the Allies. General Liprandi had again advanced his outposts to Tchernaya, w ith forty thousand men, and eighty thousand are said to . be at Pcrekop, on their way to the Crimea. A letter from Odessa, cfthe 19th, says that the Russians will shortly assume the offensive. Letters state that the French division had gained the flag staff battery, and only awaited a favorable op portunity to blow it np. The Russians had re paired and reoccupied the Quarantine Fort. The last of the Turkish convoys left Varna for Balaklava on the 14th. A despatch from Mcnschikofl", dated the 17th, and published at St. Petersburg on the 25th, was to the following effect : Ihe siege opera tions do not advance; two successful sorties were made on the loth and 15th; we took fourteen French and English prisoners, and the Allies lost a considerable number in killed." Sickness continued to increase in the camps of the Allies. The weather had been cold, but was milder at the latest date. Menschikoff is reported to have said to his troops "that they might rest, for Generals January, February, and March would fight their battles far better than they could." Any county that will persevere in send ing to the Legislature such liberal, intelligent, and gentlemanly representatives as Cumberland usually elects, certainly merits much at the hands of the ingenuous from other portions of the State. If our memory be correct, when the charter for the N. C. Rail Road was before the Legislature, when every thing was in donbt, and gloom, as to its success; and when all who voted for it were in danger of the political guillotine, Mr Dobbin descended from the Speaker's Chair and with all the ability aud eloquence he possessed, advocated this great State work, although it could not be of any direct benefit to Cumberland and Fayetteville. And during the present Legislature, we have been gratified to observe the same patriotic devotion to the interests of the whole State, by Mr Winslow, in the Senate, and Mr Shep herd, in the Commons. And we hope before the adjournment of the Legislature, some raeas ure will be consummated that will revive and enlarge the business of the ancient town of Fay etteville, and bring permanent wealth and gen eral prosperity to the noble couuty of Cum berland. Crreensboro Patriot. The Patriot takes a correct view of the mat ter, but the Legislature, by its recent course, seems to think that we are entitled to nothing at the hands of the State. Shocking Accident. Walter R. Giles, a book-binder, who resides in Baltimore, was shot in a public house of that city on Friday afternoon last, and it is thought, fatally wouk ded. It appears, from a statement in the Sun; that he and a man named Thomas J. Everet had visited the house above stated, and whilst there Everett picked up an old gun which had beeu sitting in the room for some three months past without being fired off, though said to have beeu frequently snapped in the mean time, and believing it to be unloaded, placed upon the tnbe a cap, and pointing it towards Giles, called out to him in a playful manner to look out or he would shoot him. Giles replied to him to shoot if he could, but that the gun had no load in it. Upon this, Everett pulled the trigger, and the gnu being charged with pow der and ball, went off, the ball entering the left cheek of Giles, and passing throngh the side of his head, is supposed to have lodged in the brain. As the gun was fired, Biles threw up his left hand and the ends of two of his fin gers were- shot off by the wadding, as is up posed, and the whole cheek was terribly lacera ted in the sa.m,e manner. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That said certificates or warrants may be assigned, trans ferred, and located by the warrantees, or their heirs-at-law, according to the provisions of ex isting laws regulating the assignment; trausfer, and location of bounty-land warrants. Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That no warrant issued under the provisions of this act shall be located on any public lauds, except such as shall at the time - be subject to sale at either the minimum or lower graduated prices. Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That the registers aud receivers of the several land offices shall be severally authorized to charge and re ceive for their services in locating all warrants under the provisions of this act the same com pensation or pcr-centage to which they are en titled by law for sales of the public lands, for cash, at the rate of one dollar aud twenty-five cents per acre. The said compensation to be paid by the assignees or holders of such war rants. Sec. 1. And be it further enacted, That on and after the passage of this act all per- J sons now enrolled upon the invalid pension list l whose pensions have been allowed under any i general law or laws shall be entitled to receive. if a commissioned officer, twenty-one per centum npon the amount now allowed, and non-commissioned officers and privates forty-two per centum on the amount now allowed or paid un der existing laws. Sec. 8. And be it further enacted, That the provisions of this act, and all the bounty-land laws heretofore passed by Congress, shall be extended to Indians, in the same manner and to the same extent as if the said Indians had been white men. Sec. 9. And be it further enacted, That the widows of officers and soldiers of the revolution ary war be entitled to the benefits of this act. Sec. 10. And be it further enacted, That the benefits of this act shall be applied to and embrace those who served as volunteers at the invasion of Plattsburg, in September, eighteen hundred and fourteen. Sec. 11. And be it further enacted, That the provisions of this act shall apply to the chaplains who served with the army in the sev eral wars of the country. Sec. 12. And be. it further enacted, That the provisions of this act be applied to those who served as volunteers at the attack ou Lewistown, in Delaware, by the British fleet, in the war of eighteen hundred and twelve fifteen. Sec. 13. And be it further enacted, That each of the surviving officers and privates who in any of the wars in which this country has been engaged performed military service against the public enemy, though not regularly called or musteied into service of the LTnitcd States, and the widows and children of such officers aud privates as are dead shall be entitled to all the benefits of the first and second sections of this act. Cost of the War. The close of the year will, according to English estimates, show the war expenses to have been 16,000,000. Next year they cannot, according to the same esti mates, be less than 20,000,000. To meet this great additional expenditure, there will have to be 10,000,000 raised anuually as long as the war may last, either by an appeal to the money market; or by doubling the fresh burdens recently placed upon the tax payers. This is equal to one million of dollars per week. How long can the people of England stand such a drain? The Whig, abolition, Know Nothing House of Delegates of New York, in session at Albany, granted on the 9th instant, the use of their hall to Fredrick Douglas, free negro, to make aH abolitiou-haranguel The New York Herald says the request for the use of the hall was unanimously granted. Was there no Know Nothing no member of the " new national party" to raise his voice against it? Increase of Salaries. A bill has passed the House of Representatives, at Washington, and will doubtless pass the Senate, "regulating the salaries of the District Judges of the Unit ed States." Among other items, it provides that the yearly salary of the District Judges in North Carolina shall be $2,500, instead of $2000, as at present. Advice to Consumptives In some good advice to consumptives, Dr. Hall says : "Eat all you can digest, and exercise a great deal iu the open air, to convert what vou eat into pure healthful blood. Do not be afraid of out-door air, day or night. Do not be afraid of sudden changes of weather; let no change, hot or cold, keep you in doors. If it is rainy w eather, thc more need for your going out, be cause you eat as much on a rainy day as upon a clear day, and if you exercise less, that much more remains in the system of what ought to be thrown off by exercise, and some ill result, some consequent symptom, or ill feeling is the certain issue. If it is cold out of doors, do not muffle your eyes, mouth and nose in furs, veils, whoolen comforters, and the like; nature has supplied you with the best muffler, with the best-iuhal-iug regulator, that is, two lips; shut them be fore you step out of a warm room into the cold air, and keep them shut until you have walked briskly a few rods and quickened the circulation a little; walk fast enough to keep off a feeling of dullness, and taking cold will be impossible. What are the facts of the case: look at railroad conductors, going out of a hot air into the piercing cold of winter and iu again every five or ten minutes, and yet they do not take cold oftener than others; you will scarcely find a consumptive man in a thousand of them. It is wonderful how afraid consumptive peo ple arc of fresh air, the very thing that would cure them, the only obstacle to a cure being that they do not get enough of it; and yet what infinite pains they take to avoid breathing it, especially if it is cold, when it is known that the colder the air the purer it must be; yet if people cannot get to a hot climate, they will make an artificial one, and imprison themselves for a whole winter in a warm room with a tem perature not varying ten degrees in six months; all such people die, and yet we follow in their footsteps. If I were seriously ill of consump tion, I would live ont of doors day and night, except it was raining or mid-wiuter, then I would sleep in an unplastercd log house. My consumptive friends, yon want air, not physic; you want pure air, and medicated air, you want nutrition, such as plenty of meat and bread will give, and they alone; physic has no nutriment, gaspings, for air cannot cure you: monkey capers iu a gymnasium cannot cure you, and stimulants cannot cure you. If you waut to get well, go in for beef and out door air, and not be deluded into the grave by newspaper advertisements, and nnfiudable certifiers. Cultivation of "Flocr Corn" is Michigan. I have raised several years a new variety of corn, named as auove, and on several accounts perfer it to any other. It grows about as large as the common eight-rowed variety, and yields as well. The grain or kernel is as white as chalk, and is composed of flour alone not a particle of flinty substance about it, and when properly ground and bolted, it takes a quick eye to distinguish it from yonr best "Genesee flour. Ihe flour of this corn can be raised and baked the same as wheat flour, and the bread is far superior to common Indian bread being entirely free from the disagreeable coarseness and strong flavor which common Indian meal always possesses. The stalks of the "Flonr Corn" do not grow very tall, but are filled with leaves and "suckers," which do not diminish the grain to any amonnt, while the increase, both in quantity and quality of fodder, is a matter ot no small consequence. The Know-Nothings in the Pennsylvania Legislature held a caucus, at which Simon Cameron received the nomination for United States Senator by oue majority over Mr Cur tin. It was afterwards discovered that a spuri ous vote had been cast, by .which the .latter was defeated, and the caucus broke np in a grand row. Important and tatcresHBff ; The celebration of the last anniversary of the memorable 8th of January, 1815, at Tallahassee, Florida; was-, honored by the presence of the veteran General R. K. Call, known as an ac tive whig and as one of the bravest of the gal lant men in the battle of New Orleans. In the course of a very eloquent speech on the occasion referred to, he related a most interest ing incident, which is qnite new to us. That able paper, the Tallahassee Floridian, gives it as follows : "Among the many striking incidents with which the address abounded, we mention par ticularly one as disclosing how the intelligence of the invasion of New Orleans was communi cated to Gen. Jackson. We refer to this because it gives to 'know-nothingism'such a heavy blow. As briefly as we can state, and from our under standing of the narrator he said in substance: A large quantity of cotton at that time had accumulated in New Orleans, presenting a peculiarly inviting object to the speculator in Liverpool, lue expedition against JNew ur- leans was secretly fitted out iu Liverpool. A mercantile house in that city was let into the secret of the expedition. No doubt was enter tained of the success of the British army; the capture of New-Orleans, the acquisition ot Louisiana, and the possession ot its "ooay ana beauty' were considered fixed facts. This mer cantile house wrote to a firm of like character in Havana, giving an nccouut of the expedition, assuring them of its success, and inviting them to participate in a great speculation, and one likely to place all concerned in the possession of great wealth. It so happened, in the order of Providence, that one of the members of the Havana firm was an American by birth. He was nursed by a patriotic mother in Massachu setts. Here was a struggle with rum. On the one hand, immense wealth in prospect; on the other, his duty to his country: the latter pre vailed. And how was he to communicate the intelligence to the defenders of his father's fire side? British cruisers and pirates were then in possession of the Gulf of Mexico, the little fleet of the American navy was captured by the ene my, ihe safe arrival of a letter would be next to an impossibility. At all events he resolved to try it. His country his country his duty to his beloved required him to act. He writes two letters : and without knowing who the commander of the American armv in the Gulf was, (for he had not then heard of Gen. Jack son,) sends one without signature, addressed to the commander, whoever he may be, at New Orleans; to the other he affixes his signature, and addresses it to a member of a mercantile house in Mobile. Both letters arrived at their destination. The gentleman of the Mobile house was a Scotchman by birth. He had grown np in his native land under the government which was now at war with the land of his adoption, for he had become a naturalized citizen of the United States. He was thus differently situat ed from the Massachusetts man in Havana; but he had sworn allegiance to the land of his adop tion. Its soil was to be invaded, and that, too, by the country of his birth, and by the people with whom he, as a merchaut, was most pecn I T f ' igrkJiiral ' Fair. . " -"v : At the last annual meeting of the Cumber land Agricultural Society, the following resolu tion was adopted, viz: V; Resolved, That the Secretary of the Society be directed to extend, throngh the newspapers, an invitation to the citizens of neighboring counties to join with us in our Annual Agricul tural Fair, and" compete with - ns for the pre miums awarded to the productions of general industry. The . next Fair will be opened on the first Wednesday m- October ; 1855, . and continue three days. From the Minutes. JOHN- P. AIcLEAN, Sec'y. Terrific Excitement In a Chart b. A large congregation, says the Oswego (N. Y.) Palladium, assembled at St. Mary's Church (Catholic) on the evening of Sunday, the 4th inst., to hear a discourse from the Rev. Mr Guerdet. The edifice was densley crowded, not less than 2,500 persons being present. Just before the sermon was concluded np alarm of fire was sounded in the street, when several persons went out. This caused some confusion, ' and the services were suspeuded temporarily until order could be restored. The congregation had mostly risen upon their feet, and the num ber going out increased ; the aisle had become filled, and an immense crowd had reached the doorway. At this moment a terrific cry was raised at the door that the "church was on fire." A panic instantly seized the whole audience, the crowd at the door rushed with terrific fright back towards the alter, tramping and crushing each other in a most frantic manner. Women screamed and fainted, children screeched with terror, men rushed to the windows and dashed through them, carrying sash and all, women and men were seen rushing across the lops of the pews to the rear of the building presen ting a scene of confusion, fright and terror that is totally indescribable. The dense mass in the aisles were forced back towards the alter with irresistible power iu hopes of getting egress through and getting out that way. Some went to work battering down a doorway ou the south side of the west end of the church, which was not used and had been permanently closed. Some fifteen minutes elapsed before the alarm was found to be false, when most of the congre gation had got out. A number of the ladies were carried home in a fainting condition, and several were more or less injured, but we have heard of none being hurt seriously. JESf A bill was introduced in the House on Thursday last, by Mr Whitaker from Wake, to charter a Plank-road to run from Raleigh the most eligible and direct route to some point on the Cape Fear river. Auother, we learn, was introdnced asking an appropriation of $100,000 to build a road to Kingsbury, m Cumberland, from Raleigh. We hope one or the other will pass.-Jlaeigh Metropolitan. Interesting front Havana. We learn from the Havana correspondence of the New Orleans Picayune, that some time in January there was a seizure of arms at a iinnsi' in t.lip snbnrbs in thp rnnra nf :i vnmirr uiarily allied. The prospect of great pecuniary , w wos au int;,n:lto associate of the late i f r . i . ... i advantage irom me in.ormaiioi. ne nau a .e- , Aionntjide Oca, who, it is said suffered bv the after the second ex pedition of the unfortunate Lopez. The cir cumstance served to put the Captain General ou the qui virc and moreover, it is stated by the correspondent that Chonclia has, by some means ascertained that an expedition is about tore mm; out tne lanu oi uis adoption w as io ; t t Carde nas, soon OC rulisacfceu iiiu gincrumcui. iu mi ii lie ; owned allegiance vns to be dethroned in Loui siana his fellow-citizens by adoption were to be sacrificed and plundered. His duty to his adopted country prevailed. With this letter he goes to General Jackson. On his adopted ; country's altar he laid the communication with ! the information so serviceable to this happy ! iu command were aroused, and the sequel is known. Owing to the fact, said the orator, that the disclosure of the name of this individual might prejudice him in his business relations in England, his name has been kept a secret, lint now, as he has departed this life, and gone to render an account for his fidelity to his oath and adopted country, he would disclose it. The : speaker, then, with an air of satisfaction and pride, announced the individual to be James Itnerarity, who recently died at Pensacola, West Florida. "Here, then, was a disclosure which showed that the coifntry owes its second independence, says a living witness oi us oaiues, io tne nuemy j in lhe ass.1ssjliation of ot an adopted citizen, is it not somewnat striking, that a Scotchman and au Irishman's son (for such was Jackson) should have been singled out by Providence as instruments for accomplishing such mighty results as flowed from the battle of New Orleans? Let the 'know-nothings' think of it." for Cuba! The Reasons for coing to Congress. Mr Geo. Gordon, jr., announces himself a candidate for Congress iu the 13th district of Virginia, and assigns, in an address in the Wytheville Repub lican, the following reasons for desiring a seat n Congress : "I think it nothing but common honesty to confess that I am mainly moved to become a candidate because of the easy life and the high wages connected with a seat in Con gress. Now, I do not mean to assert the life is easy and the wages high as regards those who occupy a distinguished place iu the great busi ness of the Congress of this great nation ; I allude to those who stand foot or constitute the tail of representation, and of which there must always be more or less, and of which, 1 think, there majT now and then be an election without any serious public detriment; therefore I have presumed to become a candidate." Death of a Slave 111 Years OLD.The Rev. A. L. Green, D. D., of Nashville, Tenn., communicates to the editor of the Nashville Medical Journal incidents attending what he terms the "natural death" of one of his servants, at the advanced age of 111 years. Dr. Green is known to many as one of the commissioners of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, in the-settlement of the late difficulty between the Church North and South : For thirty years of her life, and down to within, three years of her death, she did not seem to undergo the slightest change in her appearance time exercising but little power over her. The first sign of decay was that of sight, which took place about three years before her death : up to that time she was in the full enjoyment of all her senses. Beauties of Know-Nothingism. The Know Nothing Governor of Massachusetts has recom mended a law to be passed to prevent any man from voting at any election, that cannot read and write the English language. They permit negroes to vote, but wish to prevent white men from voting that cannot read or write. Another. The Know Nothing Legislature of Illinois has passed a resolution censuring the conduct of Messrs Douglas and Shields, (a for eigner,) for the repeal of the Missouri Com promise. Another. The Know Nothing Legislature of Michigan has passed similar abolition resolu tions with regard to Senator Cass. Standard. Sam, you're a drunkard; you're allers drunk, your habits is loose, nigga, your habit is loose.' Sam ' Well, axe me dis den. how de mis- Uchief am my habits loose when I is "tight" all oc tune r - i to leave the United States letter continues : There was a grand mulatto bal!, given on Monday evening last, at which the Captain General presided, ami at which the other chief official; of the island "assisted." Is not this a very agreeable state of society in w hich to dwell. Hereafter the white man will. I presume, be compelled to give the inside of the pavement to any of the "niggers" who were present at that ball. No fewer than eight citizens of the United States are now iu prison here. The t wo ' f.it, named Winn and Chauncey, have been im prisoned many months under a charge of having been engaged in the African slave trade? Then there are Augnstine, Montuo and Colin, who we all know are entirely innocent of anv hand Castenado, with which they arc charged. Then there are Captain Mc Culloch and J. Campbell, the captain and mate of the schooner J. W. White, and lastly Felix and Estrampes, who as you know are confined in separate cells, in the Moro Castle. This lengthy detention and imprisonment of citizens of the U. States, without trial, is I presume, all right, and in accordance with the treaty with the U. States and Spain; although I have recently read to the contrary. Yet it must all be correct; otherwise the acting con sul of the United State in this city would not be, as he is, "hand and glove" with the Co tain General, with whom, I learn that Col. Ro1erson, accompanied by Mr Gales Seaton, of Washington, died on Thursday last. Moro ax Found. The Masonic Mirror pub lishes a rather curious story, to the effect that Morgan, who it was alleged, was murdered by the Free Masons for disclosing their secrets, has been found in Smyrna in Turkey; that he now goes by the name of Mustapha, and is en gaged in teaching the English language. The authority given fortius report is one Joseph A. Bloom. According to the Mirror, this man Bloom met Morgan at a house in Smyrna, to whom the latter gave a detailed account of his adventures It is stated that Morgan left the country in the ship Mervine, which sailed from Boston to Smyrna, and belonged to the firm of Langdon & Co. The captain's name of the Mervine was Welch. It matters little now, perhaps whether the story be true or false. Another one of Capt. Whiskey's victims. -The New York Sun of Thursday says : "Win. F. Fream, once a man of considerable property, and about six years ago assistant alderman of the 13th ward, yesterday after noon appeared before Justice Connelly at the Tombs, confessed himself to be a vagrant, and requested that he might be sent to the peniten tiary as such. The magistrate complied with his request, and sent him to that institution for three months. A long course of imprudence has brought Mr Fream to his present unfortu nate situation." TES DOLLARS REWARD. Ranaway from the subscriber on the 3d ult, his nrgro man GEOHGE. lie is about five feet five or six inches high, and weighs about 140 pounds. He has a wife in town, and is lurking about the place. The above re ward will be given for his apprehension and custody, or $25 for evidence to convict any white man of har boring or giving him employment. .. . C. MONTAGUE. 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