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"VOL. XIV. GEEENSBOIIOIJGH, N. C., JUNE 26, 1852. ;NO.iC84. PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY SWA1M AND SHERWOOD. Price $3.50 a year i Ot THREE DOLLARS) IT KOT PAID WITHI OKI MONTH ....... .lrrr THs:SAt...XH.BMClUXW,5.,,.J.,; ADVEHTISfNG RATES" One dollar per square (fifteen lines) for the htt Week, ana twenty-nve cents ior every wees mere after. Deductions made in favor of standing ad ver isetnents as follows : 1 Tkrie months. I One square, t3.50 Six months. $5.60 10.00 15.00 f 25.00 One year n.oo 14.00 20.00 35.00 Two sauares, 7.00 Three " (J col.) 10.00 Half column, 18.00 The Chinese in California. The Isst arrival from California brings intelli gence of difficulties between the Americans and Chinamen the former having driven a company of the Uuei from the mines. The Chinese packed op and retired peaceably. The Gover nor has written a communication to the Legisla in relation to the Chinese. The latter have re plied. In his message, Governor Bigler expresses his " conviction that, in order to enhance the pros perity, and to preserve the tranquillity of the Stste, measures niusi be adopted to check this tide of Asiatic emigration, and to prevent the ex portation by them of the precious metal, which . r !.L I. I thev dig up irom our sou wimoui marge, ami without assuming any of the obligations imposed upon citizens." He then proceeds to urge that they cannot be safely admitted to citizenship ; but that even if they could, not one of them has ever applied to become naturalized. These Asi atics, whom the Governor styles "coolies." he says, are brought to California under a ootraet to work in the mines for a given period, at the ex piration of which they return to 'their native country. In another place, he savs, that iheir habits are migratory, and that, having come to acquire a certain amount of gold, they return as soon ss they obtain it. lie urges trie Legisla lure to " such an exercise of the taxing power as will check the present system of indiscriminate and unlimited Asiatic immigration," and also in demand ot Coneress the urompt passage of an - a ww act prohibition coolies shipped to California un der contracts, from labouring in the mines. Iu renlv. the Chinamen ssv. that some of their s . number having been educated in American schools, and learned our language, hsve read and expounded it to their countrymen. They explain to him that "coolies" means simply labourers, .and urge that the Irish labourers are as much "coolies" as the Chinese. They state, that it is not a Chinese word. They explsin further, that some of their countrymen labour in the mines, and are coolies ; but most of them are not, being tradesmen, gentry, schoolmasters, &e. They aild, that "none are coolies, if by that word is meant bound men, or contract slaves. One ship, which the Governor had said brought over 500 coolies, brought not one, all beinit Chinamen, who came to work for themselves." The statement of the Governor as to their low wages, they contradict as unreasonable and un true, because they say, the strong affection they have for their native Country would prevent ihem from leaving it for wages so little. If any, heller than those received at home. They plead the uniform good character which they hear in Cali fornia, and stale a noteworthy fact, that there arc no Chinese criminals, drunkards, madmen, nor paupers seen in the streets or public institutions of California. They admit that ninny of ihem come to California poor, and under obligations to repay to persons money borrowed to take them there ; but they urge that the loans thus incurred give ihe lender no power over the bor rower. They enlighten the Governor as to the extent of the trade this emigration brings to Cal ifornia. In San Francisco alone there are twen ty stores kept by Chinamen, who own the lots and erected the buildings themselves. One of the subscribers to the letter is a clerk in an A merican store, where he sells for his employers sometimes $10,000 a day in Chinese goods. Others are extensive importing merchants. They say " the gold we have been allowed to dig in your mines is what has made the China trade grow up so fast, like every thing else in this coun try." They state that a Chinaman now rssides in San Fiancisco who is naturalized, has an A merican wife, wears the American dress, and that if the privileges of our tsws are open to them, others will take advantage of the opportunities afforded them. Two Emperord at a Review. The following description of the Imperial re view at Vienna is from a late leUer .of Thcrlow Weed to the Albany Evening Journal. - ' Monday, Mat 10. Well, we have seen one of the great military pageant ot the earth. We have, looked upon two live Emperors Nicholas I. of Russia, and Joseph II. of Austria at the head of "an army with banners." It was understood that the review was fixed for ten o'clock. Knowing that the Russian Em peror was prompt in his movements, we drove out to the " Ghicis Josephstadt" at that hour. The troops " were afield and in line," and at ten minutes past ten the Emperors, with a mag nificently dressed staff of Aids, Arch-Dukes, Princes, Marshals, Generals, 6it., dashed, with their high-blooded and proud steeds, upon the ground. A bright sun cave the fullest effect to all this 'gorgeous and glittering paraphernalia of war. The Emperor were dressed in the uni form of the Polish Lancers, their Aids in crimson and gold,' the others of tht staff in th uniforms ol their respective corps, ' There Were upwards of thirty-thousand troops In the field, ol which twenty thousand were in fan try and rifle, and ten thousand cavalry' and artillery. Of thefmounted men three thousand . were lancers, and streaming from each lance was black and yellow flaf. , - - f" 'i:f-: ,; gas wmmm The Emperor of Russia', wiH one sid-de-carop. a few yards in advance of the Emperor, of Aus tria and staff, rode in front of the line, or rather of the three lines, stopping at the head of each hattallion. and addressing a few words to llie of ficers. This occupied nearly an hour.. He three hundred splendidly mounted officers, took TpnmnmMW immmediately passed him in review. The dif ferent corps, whether by battalion, regiment, or brigade, formed in sections of three files, fifty feet deep, giving one hundred and fifty feet to each section .. or company. There was a marching distance of about six rods between each section. The band of each division, as they reached the Emperor, moved out to the left, and, playing un til their corps had passed, was succeeded by the next. The line was two hours in passing. Af ter this there was a review of a regiment of lan cers, whose horses, were put to the top of their speed. The effect was thrilling. And this clos ed the day. The Emperors returned to the pal ace, and the troops to iheir quarters. There were a large number of Court ladies in Court carriages upon the field. Among these wss the mother of the Emperor of Austria, a woman whoee influence is supposed to be as potent with the son ss it waa with her husband, the ex-Emperor, who lives very quietly at Prague Eexr and Reid in Bladen. A correspondent of the Fayette villa Observer, dating at Elizabethtbwn, Bladen county. June 10, gives some notes of the debate between the candidates for Governor at that place: TVie Homestead Bill and the Public Lands. Upon this point Mr. Kerr was explicit. lie was directly opposed to this giving away of the public land ! he put himself upon the Platform erected by the Sta'e Convention, there he took his stand. He was for a distribution of the pub lic lands and an equal share for North' Carolina, Gov. Reid was for depositing the proceeds of the sales in the Public Treasury to defray the ex penses, Sic, &c, yet upon being questioned by Mr. Kerr, he admitted that the expenses had ex ceeded the profits. fJLoud laughter by Mr. Kerr's friends.J . Upon the Homestead Bill above alluded to. Mr. Kerr came out fully, and eajled upon Gov. Reid for his views.' The Governor did not know whit h side to tske. He tried to drop the ques tion. He " did not consider himself called on to give his views upon any measure that was not fully before the people, and he did not see the necessity of doing so now the Bill had not yet become a law." M r. Kerr was for " coming to the point" The Governor dodged and talked a while to " Bun combe," but 'twas no use he was obliged to " come to the point," and he look ground finally inittjavor! No dobut bis Excellency aimed to take the most popular ground; but, so far as 1 can learn, his views upon the Homestead Bill do not meet with the approval of s majority of his f arty in Bladen. I have heard them denounce ii. both before he came among them and since he went away, and how thev will act now to be con sistent, 1 leave to II is Right Honorable Excel lency lo pugeesi. (His Excellency had belter consult the Sibylline Books : they are lo be found in Washington.) Mr. Kerr paid a high tribute to Mr. Fillmore. His opinion on this question is so well known as to render it unnecessary for me to enlarge. Dee Suffrage. Upon this question .Mr. Kerr put Itimaell upon ihe platform of the Convention. H? said that he was satisfied with the Constitu tion, s il is, and so bad been the people ol North Carolina up to 1848. when his Excellency, ac tuated no doubt by the political tiring-pullers at Washington, (the great central powers of Demo cracy.) disturbed it. It had been sufficient from 1835 up to the nomination of Gov. Reid, to an swer all the ends of government ; but the Gov ernor disturbed it, and the question must be de cided. He (Mr. K.) planted himself tipnn the Republican platform that all power is vested in the peole. lie was for submitting this and all other questions In the people. He desired the voice of the people upon this question; If a maj ority was for it, then the proper functionaries should provide for the execution of the will of such majority. He was not afraid lo trust the people his competitor seemed to be, for he was for carry ingsthe measure through by legislative enactment. Mr. Kerr called upon Gov. Reid lo say " why it was that he was not in favor of abolishing pro perty quxlifications for officers, and why he did pot propose the question of Free Suffrage when he was for so many years a Senator in the State Legislature I" Gov. Reid. " Why did yon not propose to a bolish the property qualification ?" jTremen dous applause lor Mr. Kerr.) Gov. Reid also said that " with the same propriety that Mr, Kerr asked me why I did not propose the amendment? to the Constitution in ' the State Legislature, I might ask Mr. K. why he did not propose them! LTbe reason why I did not - (said ihe Governor) f ro pose free out! rage while I was in the Legis. ature, wss, thai I was not in the right place." Mr. Kerr. " Then, Governor, if you were not in the proper place while in the Legislature to propose it,, the Legislature cannot be now the proper place to effect the amendment I How do you reconcile that I At one time you say that the only mode of chamrinc the wonslitution ir through the Legislature, and in the next place you say that you were not in the proper place, while a member of the Legislature, to propose these amendments ! Please explain yourself to the people they are anxious to know," , Gov". Reid. - " I wished to do so when I came before the people." . . Mr. Kerr. " And so you have come back to my. proposition that this question should1 be sub mitted to the people I" (Tremendous applause.) Upon the Tariff,' Mr. Reid in the course of his remarks said, that Democrats had ever held the propriety of raising a revenue upon ad valorem prrncfptea;mlHee-alwaya in favor-of-a-"r4gi4 conttruction ot, the Constitution.' T.' ; ; Mr. Kerr.i Now, Governor, 1 want yon to be candid and tell, these people (as I know you will, whether Congress Jias .the power to pass a Protective: Tariff." ; , .r -r Gov. Reid. (Excite J.) Congress does ma- ny things injudiciously such an act would be pernicious. ' " " . . v Mr. Kerr. . " But that la not to the ' point. I have asked, you. Gov., in f lain terms, whether such an act would be constitutional f rhese peo ple wish to know. it tie be candid V - .Gov. Reid. ;; ." I believe uch an act woujd be constitutional, but it would be iniavifousl" Greateppisoev:t which Ii Excelleeey looked pale. J .... Free SufiVage Condemned by the "Standard!" . ' - The "Standard" publishes the speech of Mr. Sh pard in the Senate of 1850-'51 on the Bill " to ascertain the sense of the People on calling a Convention," with the olio wing comment: " We cannot too strongly commend to the attention of our readers the c-peech which we publish to day, ol the Hon. William B. Shepard, delivered in the Sen ate at the last session of the Assembly on the sub ject of a Convention, in favor of amendments to the Constitution through the Legislature, and also in fa vor of the basis as it is. This speech present facts and arguments, which we defy the free Convention presses and the advocates of tne unconstitutional ma loritv tmnciDle. to answer. It occupies the uhols ground; and' while it does justice to the West, it sets forth At rights of the Ea4r and Iks principles of justice ' . . i r i j .t . . i i on vmcn most ngms art oasea, in m man masitriy ana conclusive manner. Read it, friends, and circulate it. It must and will tell with powerful effect on the public mind." The "Standard" then endorses this speech out and out. Now, hear what Mr. Shepard says : " I do not believe, Sir, that the wit of man could devise a more perfect scheme for the security of the personsand property of an extended commonwealth, organized upon republican principles, than the pre sent basin ol representation, as contained in our pres ent Constitution. The House of Commons represents persons, for although the basis is a federal one, slaves being in the eye of our law both persons and prop erty of an extended commonwealth, organized up on republican principles, than the present basis of representation, as contained in our present Consti tution. The llouse of Commons represents persons, for although the basis is a federal otie, slaves being in the evj of our law both persons and property, still the llouse of Commons may be soul with truth purely to rtmenent the while jmpidatwn of the country, as that pop uhtum his a vast numerical majority, aiul alone speaks through the ballvt-lxtx, and control without on effort and without dispute, the proceedings of that House. The Sen ate is based upon taxation, and is intended to secure the property oftlu different sect ions from invasion, or from be ing used for purposes afyn to that property, or in which it cmdd have and feel no interest. It is based upon the plain and obvioun truth, that those persons who pay for the support of government, should have some voice in appropriating its revenues. Mr. Madison said in the debates on the federal constitution, that "wherever there is a danger of attack, there ought to be a constitutional power of defence." This was the opinion of one of our greatest men. before the discovery was made, that perfect wisdom resided in bare majorities, whether that majority had any interest in the subject or not. Now 1 would ask the gentleman from Buncombe how long would the tax-payers of the large tax-paying counties of Bertie, Halifax, Warren aud New Hanover, have any control over their property, if it were not for the protection afforded them in the Sen ate against mad scheme of internal improvement, and other prodigal waste of public money 1" Tit is is the position assumed in the Speech which the " Standard " "commends," as " oc cupying the whole ground" and as "selling forth the rights, of all sections in a most masterly and conclusive manner." Stick a pin here I Mr. Shepard insists thst ns things now stand. thg House of Commons "with truth represents purely the while population, which population has a vast numerical majority and controls the proceedings of that House," and he further de clares that the Senate " being based on taxation secures the properly of the different sections from invasion. " Now w e would ask those who are urging Fiee Suffrage whether the adoption of that measure, by itsilf and of itself, will not inevitably destroy that very " security " which the Senate affords to property in ihe different sections ? Will no! the same voters elect both Senators and Common ers I If, as Mr. Shepard says, the House of Commons " represents the white population of the Country," will not the Senate, when Free Suffrage is adopted, represent, to all intents and purpobes, the same population t Will it not pass any measure which the House of Com mons passes ? Where will be the check sgainst taxing the property holders for "mad schemes of Internal Improvement" and other prodigal waste of the public money f" Take any one of tie large tax paying, and slaveholding Counties of the State, Wake for instance, and see how it will operate. This County gives about 2500 Commons votes and about 1000 Senatorial votes. If Free Suffrage is adopted, the twenty-five hun dred voters will elect both the Senator and Com moners.' If they send A. to the Senate, and B. C. and D. to the lower House, will the. former dare take ground against any measure which may be sustained by the latter I If he does, will he not be defeated at the next election by some one who favors the views of the Commoners? Most assuredly this will be the result. Where then is the check T Is this not virtually, if not in so many words, changing or rather breaking down, destroying the present basis of representation in the Senate?" If, as Mr. Shepard says, the House of Com mons at present " in truth represents purely the white population" and that "population'' has "a vast numerical majority" in the counties, it is absurd to expect, when vou five that "van nu. rhiefical majority " the right to elect Senators that th Senate will any longer be a representa tive of the taxation interest against the majority interest, or that it will stand any more than the House of Commons how is,, "a security to pro perty." ' . ; . Yet the'; Standard endorses and " commends" this speech. Such an endorsement is the stron gest condemnation of " Free Suffrage," per ae, as a blow aimed at the basis of representation Will the people of the State suffer themselves to be humbugged any longer by the Locofoco aspi rants for office ? Will .hey: not resolve to take their Constitution in their own hands I Raleigh Register. "What are you looking after, my dear t" aald .an affectionate mother to iier only daughter.-- J he daughter, turning, round, replied Looking after a son-tnlaw for father." " ' ; The Democratic Platform.- The manifesto of principles nut forth by the recent Democratic Convention in this city reite rates those negative dogmas so often announced by that psrty. . Opposition to the protective pol icy, to internal improvements by the General Government, to,a national hank, to the distribo lion of the proceeds of ihe public land tales a aseng tbSf tes. ibesegaptl. aim4ktK.4ttotaUona. from the records of former politics! contests are re-produced, as though democratic doctrines had their only permanent characteristic in a systema tic denial of the power to the Government. , A resolution sanctioning the Compromise mea sures was indeed something to the point, and showed that jhe Convention wss not altogether given to retrospection but cognizant to tome ex lent at least of existing issues in which the feel ings and interests of the people are deeply con cerned. The resolutions of '98 and '09 must of course receive confirmation anew at the hands of the Convention ; and we find mention made of them accordingly, although it is so seldom that they are published now a days, that many who lake them as cardinal articles of faith have no very accurate knowledge of their terms or purport. The generalized style of expression which characterises the Convention's manifesto gives a latitude which no doubt it waa designed to give, to various interpretations in different quarters. We find Mr. John Van Bcrxn declaring hie ad hesion to it, and it teems to be acceptable to the ultraists of South Carolina, as they understand it. How the extremes of sections and parties so anlagoniatical astho Barnbuners and the Nul lifies can find a common ground on this plathrm il is difficult to discover. But fraternity is the order of the day, and a common prize in view may be sufficient to convert positions hitherto at variance into a common field of aetion. Some of the Barnburner journals, such as the New York Evening Post, get over all difficulties in the manifesto by pronouncing it a nullity. They declare that it was hurried through a dispersing Convention at the breaking of its session, when such confusion prevailed that an understanding vole and full vote could not be had upon it. We have yet to see how far an actual union between the discordant extremes of the party can be made practicable upon thia unsubstantial basis. Bear in Mind, That General Sianders, Gov. Reid'e volunta ry ally, protector and defender; who professes to be so violently opposed to submitting the question of Convention or no Convention to the people ; and who'deme the right of a majority of the people to amend the Constitution ; VOTED in the Isst Legislature for a tilt intro duced by Mr. McLean, of Surry, "to ascertain the will of the freemen of North Carolina as to the call of a Convention." He voted for it on its three readings in the House of Commons, and is included in the following list of Demo crats, one-fifth of the whole llouse, who voted the same way : " Messrs: Avery, Cockerham, Durham, Flynt, Gordon, Harrison. Johnston, Jones, Kail um, Mar shall, McLean, N. McNeill, Montgomery, Patter son, Pegram, S. Person. Bernhardt, R. M. SAUN DERS, Sheet, Sherrill, Waugh, J. Williams and Wiustead 24." We have not been able to find the bill for which this great man and distinguished Demo crat the Minister to "unfortunit " Spain VO TED. Il was not ordered to be printed. It was passed in such hot haste, two readings on the first day, for which Gen. 8. voted, and ihe third reading on the second day whv, such a bill wss so pressing, and important, there was no chance to examine it. . Gen. Saunders, therefore, went il blind; and now, he changes his vote, entirely, and thinks he does God's service when he repudiates the democratic vole he gave, and denies lo the peo ple the righi of altering the Democratic Repub lican law of North Carolina for themselves. Raleigh Timet. What Franklin Pieroe has done for North Carolina. As we say elsewhere Mr.' Pierce has done no great good nor harm to the Country. So far as what little he has done, however, affects the in terests of North Carolina, we find by a reference to the History of the River and Harbor bill, the following record : Circulate it. This bill was before the United Slates Senate in 1836 ; it was passed by Congress and was approved by Gen eral Jackson ! Il contained a great number of appropriations for important improvement in Rivers and Harbors in several of the Southern States amongst the rest there was " an, appro priation for the removal of obstruction at Ocra cocke Inlet, N. C. 9,000 Also an appropriation for the im- 1 pro v men t of Cape rear River, N, C. 20.000 Mr. Pierce was at that time a member of the House of Representatives. We find he vbted a gainst these appropriations for the benefit of North Carolina. Pass him round. . uv f Newbernian. ! ' " ' " ' ' ' New Hampshire Great Men. The nomination of Gen. Pierce (says the Boa ton Journal) has put into circulation some erron eous statements in regard to the birth-place of some of our first men. As we have also fallen into an error in relation lo this matter, we have taken some pains to ascertain the following facts: Gen. Lewis Cass waa born in the town of Exe ter, New Hampshire. Daniel Webster was born in the town now called Franklin, formerly Salis bury,. in Merrimack county, New Hampshire. D. STickinson, of-New York, waa1 born in Merrimack county, as well as John A. Dix. Gen. Franklin) Pierce is a native of Ilillsboro', Ilillsboro' county i and is a lineal descendant of the family of Percys and the Duke of Northum berland, tho title being now extinct.. Judge Step hen A. Douglas, of Illinois, was also born in N. Hsinnshire. bill shortly after hie birth bis- father moved to Vermont, where, as is well known,. the representative of Young America ' learned the cabinet maker's trade," New Hampshire is a great Slate to emigrate fromr it will be a great Slate tq ljve in when .a more liberal poliey .is adop'.ted in the administration of lit affairs!-. ' Demooratio Programme. A Committee of Mr, Pierce's friends met in Washington, on Monday, at the National Hotel, to prepare the way for the coming campaign Biographies are to be written, addresses prepar ed, speeches made, psmphlets printed, and all the paraphernalia of war arranged. The Con-vehlionjusr committee, and it Is arranged; w are totoTiniTO Jf - there shall be a Congressional and District Com miuee. Congress roust, therefore, put us mill to work and grind out speeches as corn is ground from, the hopper. The Presidential burr will, therefore, soou be heard with more vehemence than ever ; and those who expect Congress to do anything beyond paying members their, mileage and per diem, and acting upon just so much puo lie business as wil! keep the Government from starvation, will find themselves wofully disap pointed. JVu J'orA Expreit. . The Stick of Candy. Gen.- Pierce was first spoken of in connexion with the Presidency at the Loco Stale Conven tion In New Hampshire, some time last winter, and that body adopted a resolution requesting their delegates to bring him forward as a. candi date. Governor Steele, in addressing -the con vention, expressed his gratification at the selec tion, and related the following anecdote to " ex hibit the character of the man," , Weive it in the Governor's own words : "Sir,' said Gov. Steele, I have known the whole career of Gen. Pierce from the day he first took his seat in this hall. I have admired his exploits in Congress snd in Mexico. But I have an incident in my mind which I will relate, which, in my humble judgment, exhibits ihe character of the man in a more illustrious light than all hia efforts in. the forum or the field: " M ' It wss something more ihsn twenty years ago (Gen. Pierce was then somewhat younger thsn he is now) he was travelling through one ol the western towns of this Slate, and as he enter ed the principal village he beheld three boys eat ing candy. Al a brief distance he beheld anoth er boy sitting alone, and that boy was not eating. but he was crying. Gen. Pierce feeling interes ted in so strange a circumstance, inquired into the case, and ascertained that he was crying be cause he had no money to buy candy. No sooner had he learned the fads in the case, than, with that' noble generosity which hssever distinguish ed Pierce through his whole life, he put his hand in his pscket, drew forth a cent, bought a stick oj candy, and gave it lo the boy, althocoh the BOY WAS A TOTAL STRANGER TO GEN. PlERCE !' " His nomination for the Presidency, taken in connexion wilh such a remarkable instance of benevolence and unbounded liberality towards an entire stranger, must be another illustration of the proverb thst " good actions meet with their reward.' Omn. Cour. . . . - If any of our Whig friends ask " Who is Frank Pierce?" we simply reply by saying he is the msn selected, by Providence first, and by the Democracy next, to administer this Government for four years, from the fourth of March next. National Democrat. If the above be true, says the Commercial Ad vertiser, leaving out of view its irreverence, we: can only say that the Democratic Conveption was a long while in resolving to concur with " Providence' in the arrangement. They tried every other man before they took up "the man" whom " Providence " had already determined upon and really spent four days in laboring to nominate somebody else ; and yel it.is now ad mitted that a superior power hsd already deter mined that " Frank Pierce," and no one else , should be "the man." If they knew this then. whv did they spend four dsvs in foolish rebel lion ? If they did not know it then, how do they know it now ? We suspect their know ledge in both cases is about equal. Moreover our contemporaiy may learn, in November next. not to speak so lightly on such subjects; and we think he will. John Van Buren, who has given in his adhe sion to the Democratic nominees, is reported in the New York Herald as saying: " He would say that he most unqualifiedly ap- .fik.l nli.lf.n. ft.'. LI ..... cu vi mm iouwuuyvf mHHWwn, lie wo pre pared to stand with them on the adoption of all the laws of Congress, including even the Fugitive Slave Law. He was perfectly willing everybody should obey that law who would, and everybody sustain it who could. For the present, at all events, these laws were to stand ana do unimpaired." This is frank in John. t He submits for this election. He know! Pierce his father knows him. They understand one another. They are sll Northern men with southern leelings, until the election is over I - They have all tasted the flesh-pots, and know the savor thereof, Regis ter, ' ' ;'- ' ' ; . , The truth is, this doctrine of Mr. Kerr, that a bsre msioritv of the nennle at the nnlls hv right to force a two-thirds vote in the Assembly, is worse than Dorrisro, Sic -Standard, The "Standard" continues to pervert Mr. Kerr's position. That gentleman holds that the voice of a majority of the sovereign people at the Polls ought to be respected and carried out by the Legislature ; but has nowhere spoken of that body being forced to do so. " ft one than Dorrism."! How is (his ? A few years back, the " Standard " spoke of Thomas W. Dorr as an injured Patriot and hia cause as sacred and just l-i Register. . 'Robert E Scott, of Virginia, has proved as deadly a marksman as hia renowned relative, Capt. Martin Scott of glorious memory. At the first crack, of his rifle, the thirteen candidates for President who answered affirmatively-his de mand for a pledge to veto any serious modifica tion of the Fugitive7 Slave , Law, have dropped dead al his feet. -The Baltimore Convention has spent a week itrburying ".their lifeless and odory oua remains . 1 he Presidential nomination has falleB on one of the two (Pierce and Butler) from whom he rece'ved jio answeral least,' none in season to publish them .prior to the' nomination. Let the fate of the victimized baker's doaen sirve ss warning ? Tribune. j "'" Exploration. khnm Lieut. Herndon of the United Stm N.. iweive-montn - sinee deputed to make an exploration or the great river Amazon from its aoorcea in The mountains of Peru to Injunction with the Atlantic at i Para. Zlty'.. ,u,7 h" ''noe been performed, Lieut. Herndon bavin reached P. there the United State brigDoMwn. Ilc narfe, ' the voyage down the Amazon in n nrL . -inwmiciiv, gainereu auring tne exploration hit ' already reached New York. The result of hit researches, to be given to the world in a forth coming volume; will Se looked foi with roueh in- . terest, -. ,, .,..;- ... ...... . j Sir John TVanlm. The following ts an ex- 1 ler dated Hong Kong, March . kT J!ere becn no 'eM liln 'nirty-eevenr whaler from the arctic seas. Ii may interest -you to know thatihey almost believe thsl Sir , John Franklin is safe, and has got through the ice barrier into inner waterayvbere he will not be reached until a mild jeason arrireewhicfr ihey ay the present will be.Most of tbeui bare now departed. They say Franklin will jiot Snf. ler for wsnl of food. Tber give stranre accounts of the Esquimaux vibrating from'the Asiatio to the American continent and back again, earrying their boats, made or skins and whalebone, over the ice, and launching them when they- meet with open water.", :. .. , " - . i A new Idea in Agriculture. Tht steward on board a United Slates steamer in the Golf, it is stated, hss produced several crops of excellent' potatoes, by filling a crockery crate with'altern. ate layers of straw snd the eyea of the potato, commencing at the bottom wilh a layer of about six inches in depth of straw, and then a layer of the eyes the eyes being placed about Iwo inch es apart, over the surface of ihd straw-then an other layer of straw on tbe top.He kept the straw always moist, and in about two months had about $14 worth of sound, good potatoes, of the " first water." r Chinese in place of Slaves. The New Ort 'of Delta, noticing the extensive emigration of , the Chinese to California thus significantly do- ' - ees its article : " We are perfect! V satisfied that, before long, the attention of the Louisiana plan ter will be coerced to the consideration of new and improved plans of management ; and among them, and in the very first rank, .we expect to ' find this one of Chinese labour, which, in almost every respect, economy inclusive, is superior to that now given by the African. At all events, we think an admixture of ihe two will be found worth a trial, as an experiment, involving no dan gerous consequences" - Sale of the Holy I.and.k Paris letter to the Aew JWA: Evangelist mentions a report that Syria haa been sold to Rothschild for 500,000, 000 francs ; thai he proposes to re-build Jerusa lem and Solomon's Temple, to allow chapels for all religions, to establish railways and steamers, and lo appeal to the Jewish ns'tion to return to the land of their fathers. A similar rumour was circulated several years ago. Ii i scarcely like ly to be true, though in these day money: 4salU I'uwenui, anu may accomplish even greater things than this. The Value of the Maeytfic Telegraph t the People and the Press. The value, of the mag. netic telegraph, and its wonderful capacity for usefulness, was strikingly exhibited during the sitting of the Baltimore Convention-: Every bal lot cast was known almost as soon as read ioihe Convention, over hundreds of miles, and ihe nomination was spread over a great part of the Union in less than an hour after it was effected. longevity. The Lower Canada papers re cord the death of a man in some respects extra ordinary. His name was Charles Boncher, the plsce of his residence, Berlbier, District of Mont real. ' He reached, the rare age of 106 years, and was the father of sixty children,' by three wives. Of his children, forty-three survive; his grand children number sixty-six, snd his great-grand" children, thirteen. We challenge all Amenta to , beat this piece of human fecundity. ... ' Kossulji. On Monday afternoon, 7lh ., Kossuth and auile arrived in New York trora Al bany, and took rooms at the Irving House. A part of Kossnih's suite will sail for England on the 16th inst. The Governor will remain later in the United States. He expects that during thte week his mother and sisters, who are now on their voyage to the United Stales, will meet bini. They will settle in America. . It is Kos suth's dosigo that Ihey shall establish a school in Cincinnati, Ohio. . ... v . , One of the Dark Places of the Earth. Mr Hunt, a Wesleyan missionary among the Frjees, w-bo ire cannibals of the worst description, re eently ststed that five hundred persona had been eaten in five years, within fifteen miles of hi residence. Some of them eat raw human flesh, and chew it as sailors do tobacco. .They some times eat their best friends. " When parents rrew old, they were killed by their children. - Some times Ihey were buried alive or thrown" to th sharks, Women, on the death of their husbands. - were killed, , Chinese Emigration lo California. Sinet the 1st of January," 185?, twenty-nine vessels. conveying 7537 Chinese emigrants, have been despatched from HongKeng. Macao. and Wham poa. On the 27th March, the vessels yet to sail numbered thirty-one, to convey li70 passengers! This makes a total of gone snd going of 16,807 . and,' taking the average pasage-moncy att0per head, amounts to $672,280. . ' fj.''A.Novelty Ati " Almanac for 10,006 years, from the beginning of the, woild, or frqnr'th coinWnceln and' arrangement of .Time being th same in both," haa been published in New York- Th Time tabic is caroely'arger jthao a man's hand.'-r yet it comprises th chronological phenomena qf ' a hundred centuries. ' v ., ' ' .1'
The Greensboro Patriot (Greensboro, N.C.)
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June 26, 1852, edition 1
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