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h i .f ill li - A J ! t f INCIDENT IN KENTUCKY LIFE. About the year 1785, Mr. AndrewKowan em barked in a barge at the falls of the OkjJd Louisville now ttands-with a rt . the river. The boat haying stopped at the Uo , .... Tj;.,n Rii1rt.-som distance Deiow-, ianits, on i" TV . a.., n f the com- nanv stepped on snore anu uw - -JrSblv raTher in pursuit of amusement than of "ESS-Cfioui having always been of a feeble Stuttn and averWto action, he knew not how to use a rifle, and besides had with him but the single charge of ammunition which was in the gun. ir?9. ":.,eW nmrtpa his stav beyond what be intended ; and returning to the spot where He landed, saw nothing of the boat nor the W he had left. It being a time of hostility with the Indians, and suspicions of their approach, having alarmed the party, they had put off, and made down the stream with all possible haste, not daring to linger for their companion on shore. , Mr? Rowan now found himself alone on the banks of the Ohio, a vast and trackless forest stretching around him, and but one charge of povv der, and himself too unskilled in the use of the rifle to profit even by that, and liable at any time to fall into the hand of the savages. The nearest settlement of the whites was Vincenv.es now in Indiana distant about one hundred miles, fcnap ing his course as nearly as he could calculate for thTs, he commenced his perilous and hopeless jour ney. Unaccustomed to traveling in the forest, he soon lost all reckoning of his way, and wandered about at venture. Impelled by the gnawiugs ot hunger, he discharged his rifle at a deer that hap pened to pass him, but missed it. The third day found him still wandering whether towards m cennes, or from it, he knew not exhausted, fam ished and despairing. Several times had lie laid down as he thought to die. Roused by the sound of a gun not far distant, betokening, as he well knew, the presence of the Indians, he proceeded, resolved as a last hope of life, to surrender himselt to those whose tender mercies are cruel. Advanc ing a short distance, he saw an Indian approach ing, who, on discovering him as the first impulse was on any alarm with bth the whites and Indians on the frontiers in the times of hostilities drew up his rifle on his shoulder, ia r?adiness to fire. f- l-f rnvnotl thrillTr rT UN. anil AllUi.lii. .4.U.1 ft bUt UV V UkV w 1 JTTST MY LUCK. . "James, you had better attend to the night-wood, said Mrs. Forsyth to her son, who had become deep ly interested in a book he was perusing. .y' Waif a little mother. I want to finish this pageI am right in the middle of it-now. " His mother did wait, and although she said noth ing, yet she was deeply grieved. When he had read the first page through, he feared he would lose the force of it if he laid it aside just then. And what difference would it make if the wood was brought in five minutes later? Mrs. Forsyth allowed him to take his own time for it, so it was almost dark before he thought of leaving his book. Then -he wen at it in a great hurry, -and in split ting some kindling he scratched his hand very oaa ly. And when he again entered the neat little sit ting room where his mother was at work, he was crying and complaining bitterly. " 6 dear ! O dear ! I was splitting some wood, and a great stick flew up and hurt my hand so. You know it's just my luck. " u Come and sit down by me, James, I want to talk with vou. You think you are very unlucky, don't vouf" . t' Yes, I do, mother ; I am always getting hurt, and it isn't my fault, either. " " Was it not your fault to-night, my son ? " . ; " Why, no ; how should I know that the stick was going to hit me V " Yes, but if it had not been so dark and late, vou would not have been in such a hurry doing it. I spoke to you in season to do it all by daylight, and I let you manage your own own way to see what would be the result. I have noticed lately that whenever any thing is giveu you to do ' wait a minute,' is almost vour constant reply." Well, what difference does a muiute make, any wav 'What would your father say, if because I wish ed to finish any thing I was doing, I should put off breakfast till dinner time would he like it ? " " Why, I suppose not. " " And besides, the excuse which is good for one minute is equally good for the next, and for many more. And, as a consequence of procastination in crowding the business of an hour into a moment's space, you hurry through with every thing, only half doing it. So you are always complaining of ill luck. Now this very fault of yours is the cause. J -V 1 1 . . 1 1 a . 1 1 CC 4-lts French noliteness. turned the butt of his also. They :o uou w w seems nam to on - uuB approached each other. The Indian, seeing his pale in the miust or n, oui recoiiect, uu SS5a5eaninoe,.ud understanding1 i promptly and m im proper place, you will cause, took him to his wigwam, a few miles distant, J have more time to do it with. h?cooked for hint several davs, and treated 1on t see but that is reasonable, mother , .vlT. 1 u..:...iu.. rL io,;nn- Isaid James, looking earnestly and thoughtfully in mm wnn iue &nii 1T1.': x'"" w l. f. nnA T nn,1 An VttPr in the fu- from him by signs that he n ished to go to mcen- j '- - his rifle and a small stock of provisions, and con ducted him in safety to that settlement, a distance from his cabin of ab ut eighty mile; Having arrived there, and wishing to reward well the generous Indian to whom he owed his life. Mr. R. made arranerements with a merchant That is right, my son. You will find it far ea sier after a little while to do things in order, than to leave all to a leisure moment. And then you will not have so mnch ill luck to complain of hereafter." And now, my dear young friends, I have only to " " i .T....-r 1 e 1 of the settlement, to whom he made himself known, av in conclusion, imu amw re.uu, to give him three hundred dollars, lint the Indian ; a much happier and a better boy. Go thou would not receive a farthing. When made to un- j hkewise. Zion s Herald. derstand by Mr. Rowan, through an interpreter. . ci-i.-i ti rvc otttv rr- that he could not be happvunleS he should accept! SKE1CH OF SUWAROW something he replied, poiuting to a new bhuiket ! The most able military commander that luissia nearhimfthat he would take that; and added, has produced was in person miserably thiu, and five wrapping his own blanket round his shoulders, j feet one inch in height. A large mouth, pug nose, 44 When I wrap myself in it, I will think of vou." j eyes commonly halt shut, a few gray . side locks. Where was there ever a white man that, even iu brought over the top of his bf Id crown, and a small .i tim of would have so befriended an In- ! unvowdered queue, the whole surmounted by a dian ? A Beautiful Sentiment. John G. Whittier, the Quaker poet, in writing about Irish emigrants among us, says : 44 For myself, I confers I feel sympathy for the Irishman. I see in him the representative of a gen erous, warm-hearted, and cruelly oppressed people. That he loves his native land that his patriotism three-cornered felt hat ornamented with green fringe, composed the 44 head and front " of Field-marshal Suwarow ; but his eyes, when open, were piercing, and in battle they wer.6 said to be terrifically ex pressive. When any thing said or done displeased him, a wavy play of his deeply-wrinkled forehead betrayed, or rather expressed, his disapproval. He had a philosophical contempt for dress, j.ud might often be seen drilling his men in his shirt sleeves. is divided that he connot forget the claims ot . jt was ony during the severest weather that he his mother island that his religion, with all its j wore ciotht his outer garments being usually of abuses is dear to him a stranger in a strange land i white serge turned up with green. These were he is to me an object of interest. The poorest the most indifferently made, as were his large, and the lowest has a romance in his history. Amidst ! COarsely greased slouching boots ; one of which he all his apparent gaety, and natural drollery and wit, ! verv commoniy Jispend with, leaving his knee the poor emigrant has sad thoughts of the 44ould j band unbuttoned, and his stocking about his heel, mother of him sitting lonely m her solitary cab- , A huge sabre and a single order completed his or m by the bog side recollections of a father's bless- j dinary costume; but on"grand occasions his field ing and a sister s farewell that sister loved so de- j marshal's uniform was covered with badges, and he votedly and haunting him a grave mound in j was fond of teIIing where and how he jiad won a distant churchyard, far beyond the wide 44 water " them. n, often &Tvse at m;jnjght, and welcomed u g.rcuu, ,u uiS uieiuoi3 ; ior :the tirst goiter ne gaW mov,ng with a piercing im- I there perhaps hes 44 a darhnt child, a sweet creather," iitation of the crowing of a cock, in compliment to j who once loved him the new world is forgotten his earv It is saiJ that in tbe first Poiish j lor the moment, blue Killarnyaud the Liffy sparkle i war knowing a spy was in the camp, he issued or- ! jr." . uu mmiw der3 an attack at cock-crow, and the enemy ex- dark still mirror he sees the same evening sun- j Iiecting it Jn the morning, were cut to pieces at shine rest upon and hallow with nature's blessing J nine at night Suwarow having turned out the the nuns of the seven churches of Ireland's apos- !troof an hour before by his well-known cry. The tohc age the broken mound of the Druids and j evening fore the storm of Ismail, he informed his the round towers of the Phoenician sun worship- j columns 44 To-morrow morning, an hour before pers beautiful and mournful recollections of home daybreak, I mean to get up. I shall then dress awaken within him and die rough and seemingly and wash mvsdf then my prayers, and then careless and light-hearted laborer melts into tears." jyg one cock-crow, and capture Ismail." -r. T, .1 When Segur asked him if he never took off his np f B Farme.R8' 1)0 n.ot fow your grain eJothes at night, he replied, 44 Xo! when I get lazy. ZrTffi TJi ,n an7Part,cu,f raannfr " I and want to have a comfortable sleep, I generally t ZJ?Z t f have,folU.wed : take off one spur." Buckets of cold-water were J?lJS T li70"!" 8"' and a?"cuI- ! thrown over him before he dressed, and his table S!w " "f m TC" ""i 38 n' Krove was sen ed at seven or eight o'clock with sandwiches uwuiio. UU1U IcVdL lAJ LUHl W lilt 11 IS UOOCl- II IjOl. . J i ! t-v i j M reject it, and try some other plan. Nothing of im portance was ever yet gamed without some risk. Experiment is the mother of science. One acre well cultivated will produce more than two only scratched at, and with far less trouble. What is worth doing at all is worth doing well. I y ever sow your grain until the ground is well prepared, just because your neighbor has commenc ed sowing his. Prepare your ground well, and the battle is half won. Do not have a superabundance of farming implement; but let what you have be of the best kind, and keep them well sharpened. A, sharp knife will cut twice as fast as a dull one, and do much better. When yon build, hare an eye to convenience, but do not altogether lose sight "of beauty. Noth ing improves the look of a farm more than build ings neatly arranged and well put up, and the cost : i very little more. When you make a fence, make a good one. It may cost more at first, but will cost less in the end. Never plow in wet weather if you can avoid it Jiesidos doing injury to the crop, it impoverishes - the soil. It will not rain always. ' " Triflks. We often hear people say, never mind, 1 a t forgettinS that it i8 to trifles we are indebted for our destinies. It was a trifle the - hghbng a cigar-that caused Fulton to form the . acquaintance of Chancellor Livingston ; from which acquaintance resulted a friendship that enabled the former to prove the feasibility of1 steam navigation. It was a trifle that led to the Pujaub wa. and yet the Punjaub war was one of fli most expen- . sive outbreaks that England ever wa en-red in It commenced by stealing a bucket. Thirled to - a row, the row to a riot, and the riot to a war the expenses of which amounted, to over &300 000,000. Again we say never despise trifle A kind word spoken to a broken hearted geniu mav Tnake ybu President while an ugly word' to a blackguard, may plunge you into litigation and rum. u Though women cannot, by law enjoy sailor's - rights," they can command a smack. A lady remarking that she should make but a poor sailor, a nautical friend replied, butyou wouW mfik an excellent mtt though. des ranotus Kosacks detestables :" to which men paid 44 the mouth honor, which they would fain de ny, but dare not," lest Suwarow should consider them effeminate. He had been very sickly in his youth, but by spare diet and cold bathing had strengthened and hardened himself into first-rate condition. Buy ko More Blankets. Mr. Editor : My motive in this communication, is to draw the atten tion of planters to an economical substitute for the negro blanket, viz : the 44 cotton comfort." These articles, each of them worth about half a dozen of the ordinary negro blanket, can be furnished at a cost of from 25 to 30 cents. , Each being six feet long, and four feet wide, even when the material is all purchased ; they would of course be cheaper when the refuse cotton of the plantation was card ed into batts at home. Batts of fine cotton carded by machines can be had at from 25 to 30 cents per dozen. Six of these are sufficient for a comfort of the above dimensions. The material for the en velope being of the thinnest and lightest cotton, can be had at three cents per yard, it will require Si yards to the comfort. The manufacture of these articles is so simple that any of the plantation wo men, on rainy days, invalids, and not engaged in out-door employments, would jnake an ample sup ply, nothing being required but a light rectangular wooden frame of the dimensions of the required comfort. The adoption of this article throughout the South, for the use of negroes alone, would re sult in a saving of -75 cents to the planters, and would consume from 60 to 70,000 bales of cotton. By adopting such measures as this, and turning their Attention to the spinning and weaving of their crops, instead of shipping the raw material, our planters would effect much more than ever can re sult from Macon Cotton Convention's. Southern Cultivator. A Matter of Taste. 44 Ven you are a mar ried man Samuel, said an indulgent parent to his hopeful son, 44 you'll understand a good many things you don't understand now ; but vether it is vorth vhile going through so much to learn so little, - as the charity boy said when he got to the end of the aphaher, m a matter o' taste. I rather hink it isn't." THE ORPHAN'S DREAM OF CHRISTMAS. V ' It was Christinas Eveiand lonely, ; By a jrarret window high, , Where the city chimneys baroty ' Spared a hand'sf-breadth or the sky, ; Sat a child, in Rt but. weeping, With a face so small and thin. That it seem'd too scant a record To have eight years traced therein. Oh, grief looks most distorted When his hideous shadow lies On the clear and sunny life-stream That doth fill a child's blue eyes! But her eyes were doll and spnken. And the whiten'd cheek vras gaent, And the blue veins on the forehead - Were the pencilings of Want. And she wept for years like jewels. Till the last year's bitter gall, Like the acid of the story, la itself had melted all; But the Christmas time returned. As an old friend, for whose eye She would take down all the pictures Sketch'd by faithful Memory, Of those brilliant Christmas seasons. When the joyous laugh went round; When sweet words of love and kindness Were no unfamiliar sound, When, lit by the log's red lustre. She her mother's face could see, And she rocked the cradle, sitting On her own twin brother's -knee : Of her father's pleasant stones ; Of the riddles and the rhymes. All the kisses and the presents That had mark'd those Christmas times. Twas as well that there was no one (For it were a mocking strain) To wish her a merry Christmas, For that could not come again. How there came a time of struggling. When, in spite of love and faith, Grinding Poverty would only In the end give place to Death ; How her mother grew heart-broken. When her toil-worn father died, Took her baby in her bosom. And was buried by his side : How she clung unto her brother As the last spar from the wreck, But stern Death had come between them While her arms were round his neck. There were now no loving voices ; And, if few hands offered bread. There were none to rest in blessing On the little homeless head ; Or, if any gave her shelter. It was less of joy than fear ; For they welcom'd crime more warmly To the selfsame room with her. But at length they all grew weary Of their sick and useless guest; She must try a workhouse welcome For the helpless and distressed. But she pray'd ; aud the Unsleeping In his ear that whisper caught; So he sent down Sleep, who gave her Such a respite as she sought; Drew the fair head to her bosom. Pressed the welted eyelids close, And with softly-falling kisses, Lulled her gently to repose. Then she dreamed the angels, sweeping With their wings the sky aside, Raised her swiftly to the country W here the blessed ones abide; To a bower all flushed with beauty, By s. shadowy arcade. Where a mellowness like moonlight By the Tree of Life was made : Where the rich fruit sparkled, star-like. And pure flowers of fadeless dye Poured their fragrance on the waters That in crystal beds went by : Where bright hills of pearl and ambr Closed the fair green valleys round. And, with rainbow light, but lasting, Were their glistening summits crown'd. Then, that distant-burning glory, 'Mid a gorgeousness of light! The vista of Archangels Could scarce chasten to her sight. There sat One ; and her heart told her . 'Twas the same, who, for our sin. Was once born a little baby 44 In the stable of an inn." "There was music oh, such music ! They were trying the old strains That a certain group of shepherds Heard on old Judea's plains ; But, when that divinest chorus To a softened trembling fell, Love's true ear discerned the voices That on earth she loved so well. At a tiny grotto's entrance A fair child her eyes behold. With his ivory shoulders hidden 'Neath his ciirls of living gold : And he asks them, 44 Is she coming !" But ere any one can speak. The white arms of her twin brother Are once more about her neck. Then they all come round her greeting; But she might have well denied That her beautiful young sister Is the poor pale child that died ; And the careful look hath vanished From her father's tearltjs face. And she does not know her mother Till she feels the old embrace. Oh, from that ecstatic dreaming Must she ever wake again, To the cold and cheerless contrast To a life of lonely pain! But her Maker's sternest servant To her side on tiptoe stept ; Told his message in a whisper, And she stirred not as she slept ! Now the Christmas morn was breaking With a dim, uncertain hue. And the chilling breeze of morning Came the broken window through; And the hair upon her forehead, Was it lifted by the blast. Or the brushing wings of Seraphs, With their burden as they pass'd 1 All the festive bells were chiming To the myriad hearts below ; But the deep sleep still hung heavy On the sleeper's thoughtful brow. To her quiet face the dream-light Had a lingering gjory given ; But the child herself was keeping Her Christmas-day .in heaven! Harper' .Magazine. What are Whis Principles now ? The time has been when the principles of the Whig party micrht be defined when a Whig was neither asham ed nor afraid to acknowledge that he was in favor of a High Protective Tariff a United States Bank, and Intern n I Improvements by the General Govern ment, all strong Federal measures. Hewasnoteven ashamed or afraid to raise his voice against the Sub Treasury a favorite measure of the Democratic par. ty. But the Tariff, Bank and Internal Improvements by the General Government all, have become to be obsolete ideas ; and the Sub-Treasury is not looked upon now as that raw-head and .bloody-bones " it once was. What are the principles of the Whig party now 1 Halifax Republican. THE STANDARD. RALEIGH, N. C. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1S52. THE SCOTT PLOT THICKENING. - It is becoming more and more apparent that Gen. Scott will be the next Whig candidate for the Presi dency. We copy below from a letter of one the Washington Correspondents of the New York Her ald, some speculations and fucU czi Uie subject, which may interest our readers : 44 From the developments which have come to light during the past 'fortnight, the following deductions may be made in relation to the prospects of the whigs : 1. That Mr. Webster is entirely out of the ques tion, as his friends now admit, unless the d I can be kicked up generally, between this time and next fall, and a Union party marshaled under cover of thedast, for the Secretary's special benefit. Probabilities of this, small. 2. That Mr. Fillmore has not the most remote in tention of running on his own hook. He will even tually surrender to W. H. Seward, for the benefit of Gen. Scott; and all he now hopes to do, is to sell out the government influence as high as possible to' Seward & Co. 3. That Gen. Scott does expect to be nominated. Mr. Fillmore expects he will be ; Mr. Websterditto ; Mr. Seward, ditto ; Messrs. . Jones of Tenn., Ste phens and Toombs of Ga., Stanly of North Caroli na, ditto. (Thefour last named have agreed to sup port Scott, it is understood, although he was the ac cepted candidate of the Northern abolitionists more than a year ago.) The whig party here, generally, expect he will be; as does likewise your humble servant. 4. Notwithstanding their total rout in the late State elections, the knowing ones among the Whigs are confidently expecting to carry the next Presidency with General Scott. They are already working a shrewd game. Depending upon the confidence of the Democrats for suecess, and the existing conten tion among the Democratic aspirants, they have al ready gone seriously to work to use them up. Mr. Seward is, at present, pulling the wires at the North, to conciliate the free soil influence. He rolls him selt all over in the Kossuth excitement, while Gen. Scott is very carefully kept out of it not appearing at the Congressional banquet, not calling upon Kos suth, nor in any wise committing himself either for or against his doctrines of intervention. Seward takes care of all this, and acts as committee man No. 1 at the North. Ex-Governor Jones of Tennessee, now in this city, electioneering to be the Whig can didate for the Vice Presidency, has taken upon him self to act as Gen. Scott s committee man No. 2 at the South. The Governor said, in a public conver sation with Senator Douglas, at the National Hotel, the other evening, that he had been to see General Scott, and inquired his views on the Compromise, staling distinctly that he (Gen. S.) could not carry Tennessee without he endorsed it. General Scott re- THE CHRISTIANA TRIALS. The report of Attorney-General Brent, of Maryland, says the Baltimore Clipper, does not present in a fa vorable light the course norsued by the Judge and others in the Christiana trial; and, from the state ment of Mr. Brent, we should infer that there is little chance of having justice administered in Philadelphia, in tbe oaseef the owner of a slave being, killed in an effort to recover his property. We make the follow ing extracts from the report of Mr. Brent, who was present at the trials, as the legal representative of Maryland ; In this connexion I will also state that a few week before the trial Peter Washington and John Clarke, two important witnesses for the prosecution, escaped from prison without breaking a lock or using anv force, as proved on the trial by a witness ; and though I cheerfully aquit the marshal of all privity with their escape; yet the fact remains that there was treachery on the part of some officer within the walls ot the prison. Another remarkable fact was the cor ruption of a government witness, by the name of Har vey Scott, a free negro, who had thrice testified once at Christiana, and at Lancaster, and once at Philadelphia to th fact of being an eye witness to the murder of Mr. Gorsoch ; and now, on this trial in- nuenceo oy bribes or some other corrupt considera tion, when placed On the stand by the United States, openly confessed that he had thrice committed perju ry and then swore on his trial that he was not present and knew nothing about the affair, which perjury was received with open applause in the court-room. Again : the counsel for the defence, annlied to th Court for an order to bring out some twenty-four of me negroes, to see which ot them could be indentified as participants in the treason, by Henry H. Kline, a material witness for the prosecution. At the opening of the Court on the next day these negroes were seen sitting in a row, supported on each side by white fe males, who, to the. disgust of all respectable citizens. gave them open sympathy and countenance ; each, of me negroes appear ta witn new comforts around their necks, their hair carefully parted and their clothing in every respect alike, so as to present one uniform appea rance to the eye, as far as possible all done, doubtless, for the double purpose of giving aid and comfort' to the accused murderers of a white man, and of confu sing and perplexing so important a witness as Kline in respect to their identity. And this, was mani festly done with the privity, sufferance, and consent of the officers having charge of the prisoners, and passed unrebuked." It also appears that the Marshal not only sum moned confirmed Abolitionists as Jurors, but dined with the accused parlies on Thanksgiving Day ! "And so the murderers of Mr. Gorauch, of Maryland, have escaped punishment, and thelawof the United States remains trampled under foot. Why does not Mr. Fillmore remove this Marshal 1 A V We clip the following incident fr Washington Correspondent of ,he N?.?',"lof1 This incident. is high,, wA Andrew Johnson i nnrl ,k t.. ine h.. , . V uoecoantr i- he is a man of head and tho,. n pondent says: The debates in partaken ly of KoZlZ, having been squandered in , hi ! !"' 8e'eral T h st-entio r u"coiod nfl W Tl,e Cn 4ui vention, won pursued a dijnified the main ih i. . oc"'ue COl. ment of ihe T Union" I aTude moreVhe tft course of Messrs Jones. cS kms, Cullum, Savage, Harris, and Job?8' K In connection with th nm -r ..on"sn. doo me for relating a littu whieh i win vouch, which c;m;To';oTr,heHw; hours since. It exhibits the man and I ear ft. kind of stuff he is made. God ble88 I heart as big as a fodder stack. Ttt V heC citizen of East Tennessee, who arrived f, ! i ma, on the Cherokee where he had beeS, the dust to supply the wants of a lar'etA somewhat desutute circumstances, lSj Johnson. He presented quite a wwH? N t wrecked exterior, and looked the S pair, or like " patience on a menu? grief. " Mr. Johnson recognised him H"'"1? it with commendable attention to his nlain. 1 Iisiened ful tale of misery, failure and spoke of the embarrassments that led hi lf'""aj mend his fortunes in th mend his fortunes in the golden world j5'! labored and pined upon that sicklv an? -i0 fe snore, and finally how he had struaiL i 'P" wards the borne of his family. , JKed l?Ds h d him. Before his story was half uZ ffieain (ilk 1 . : : i- . Old. Mr l.L im ma cuaiauierisuc iranknes t ,'""ui' f ng, "Jock, you know if IluJiY, I or Id 1 would divide wUhou L.,r, "e ! "able to- failed him. son exclaimi Jyame the sum you detne and il i, v ,"ort. same time exhibiting his purse forth ''" 41 llle lieving his distressed friend, whenKiTofre dividual drew out a certificate of deoosi 1 r Philadelphia mint, showing that he wm 000 ! The countenance, of the honorable 7 h, S' was illuminated with astonishment and !t? while the gray-haired California, giiBbS10 and with tears in his eyes asked forWnpl H ing whether Andrew Johnson the Tailor L. M rew Johnson member of Hnnnro.. . .j ', a ing the day with him, parted yesterday higher opinion of the generous and humane Li; 1 of a man who is essentially and peculiarly J f ? people, who has sympathies in common and whose highest ambition is to ameliorate and elevate his fellow men. The presence ff men in Congress is always gratifying, and theirfi live after them, to be admired by and to bleaT ing generations. " " Andrew Johnson is a native of this Citv. Hp j a Tailor by trade, and is purely a self-made man. MORE ABOUT SCOTT. " Ion," the Washington correspondent of ifce Bai, tiraore Sun, writes as follows in relation to the pros pects of Gen. Scott : " As to Gen. Scott, it must be admitted that, tofc as there is any whig organization in any one of to non-slaveholding States, it is wholly in the haniio! .a 1.1 .- - . iflhA IM. a11 I ir h lira Ttin. A A ! i t j j . r i ooine nine since, it appears, a number oi resnec-1 !; jr Humiliate nimn has already succeeded in procuring- 3 nomination from 1 . . . " ' .' UCI ppnnSvlvania ,nH Ohin ,nA iKk ,k. . , ;l:"L : : i ii table persons associated themselves into a secret co- Pennsylvania and Utno, and though the State ticb 8W1NDLING IN NEW YORK. A case of false pretences or swindling, involving a large amount of money, has. for a few davs Dast plied, that he should sustain the Compromise and the eagaed the aUention of the New York police. Two Union. However, he will probably wnle nn letters ' . . . J, endorsing the Compromise? that is, if Seward CBn ! men of hitherto good character W illet N. Hawkins, prevent it. Nor do Messrs. Jones, Stephens Co. wish ; of 203 Madison St. and Isaac N. Winn, of 269 Mad him to. j ison St. had been arrested, on an affidavit of Cyrus I have said that Governor Jones was expecting sconeld. The Times savs : mo w ill" iiuiiilliauwii iui ,110 t lua a iciuciiuti iid , the Whigs in the Maine Legislature a very small endorsement, to be sure, if they acted independently of the free soilers but, nevertheless, their number is large enough to get up a caucus. Governor Jones may therefore be said to have been first put in nomi nation in the East. He will, doubtless, have a strong opponent in Abbott Lawrence, with the Boston Atlas for his or j;an. This paper, you will recollect, was partnerships streetbrokeraandsneculatorsin stocks, i WUn wnlcn n,s name was combined was defeated securities, and the purchase of gold dust, and ore ! eacn case' j"?1 u was not ov a majority that majii from the returned Californians as they arrived at this j Jaken as decisive of the result of a contest betw port in the steamers from Chanres. Some of the ' Scott and anv democratic nominee, and under allcr- gang had an office in Fulton street, while their confederates had offices in Broadway, Wall, Pine and John streets, where the infamous financial operations were oncocted and carried into the first in New Enoland to come out for Gr.. Scott " n;i B..CWB5iuiiy ... .L W a l I "I inure man a year ago. uawrence nas me iuvm iiiuii- ey, and Jones the most brains ; but as the whigs gen- erallv think more of the former than 01 e first, movement to carry out their design was to establish, an unbounded credit anions numerous res- the" latter, Pons'u'e mercantile houses and exchange brokers, by and as Mr. Seward probably fancies that he himself DC" "S u. .rreprodcaoie sources, possesses brains enough to answer all the practical an.d thn loa"'nn7lal L'ar2e u "7 purposes of the next" administration, providing it L,'"Jn0 S2'000' 5;000, $10,000, S15.000, and should be Whig, 1 am rather inciined to predictlhat W0.000, to carry out their assumed speculation in Abbott will come out " first best," and be the whig-. SJ aus, . candidate for Vice President." j . T,be w"e ffenerally for a period not exceed- ,,.., , : mg twenty-four hours, at which tune thefunds would The foregoing contains several statements and be promply returned, with a heavy bonus for the use revelations upon w'hich Southern Whigs may reflect, of them. In this way the parties acquired an unlim- with profit. But the fugitive-slave law, says the ' ,tea creait, and the most implicit confidence was New Yo.k Tribune one of Gen. Scott's organs is in the way of electing a Whig President How 1 Why in this, 6ays the Tribune : The Whigs of the South have made that law a test of soundness ; Gen. Scott and the Northern IVhiscs are opposed to it ; the strength of the Whigs lies in the free States, and the Southern Whigs must, therefore, give way on this question, if they expect to succeed in the Presi cumslances, Gen. Scott was nominated, the other day, if, whigs of Maine. He is undoubtedly the choice oi the whigs of New York, who are free-soileis. It would seem, of late, that the Tennessee whigs t::i go for him in the Convention. It is prohableihau will be put in trim for the support of Southern whigs by some declaration, on his part, in favor of the Com promise measures. Mr. Seward has already a;rfti that the free-soilers shall not withdraw their suppos from him, on account of such a declaration. Thtt Gen. Scott is sure of the whig nomination, osm sure as he is of losing every Southern State in a election ; for no one pretends that he can can an; Southern State, except Tennessee, and those wwiie best informed are certain that he cannot oarry thai The chances to be taken are to carry him by t strictly sectional vote a free-soil vote. This Cham would perhaps be better if all the friends of 'k Websterand Mr. Fillmore and Mr. Clay should com placed in their honesty and integrity by those with whom they transacted these moneyed operations. T.aat W W L lha C li rll r,f noartn i'lAl flflA knp.A.J in the manner above described, from ten or fifteen i into sepport of Gen. Scott-but, for various merchants and brokers doing business in Wall, Ful- ,' ons' 89 1 mtSht show ,h'3 ,s not t0 be "P"" ton, Ann and Cedar streets, and other parts of the j The strongest evidence of the unsoundness on the town. Thus securing a heavy haul, fhe principal : Slavery question of such Southern prints as tlieRal operator absconded, having in his possession the J ei h Resi8ter,is to be found inthe fact that,While Ga. tion s share of the ready ca9ti, and his accomplices ; . , , . , , , r refused to pay back a sin2le dollar. Intense excite- I Scotl 18 Pen,v and notoriously pressed by iheF . m-. c t .r .u : ment prevailed anion? the victims of the fraudulent ! soil and Abolition W his as their first cloice wife . 1. . 1 i operations, and many of them have been compelled Presidency, these journals are either silent, orlean ion that even Gen. Scott could not carry a s.ngle free lo suspend basiness in consequence of ther utter in . , J . , tha t ( V higj State, as the avowed advocate of this law ! ability to meet their notes. Hence their ruin, if the ! . . .... . Vn a fr- Does not that statement, comine as it does from a ! rogues are ,.ot captured and made to disgorge their j the P'pertime, wi.l drop the Fill more flag and g press so well informed as the Tribune is as to public ; UgoUen gains. " , , 1 . .u . Among the sufferers are J. W . Barker, of Cedar sentiment, speak volumes in relation to the soundness 8tn?etf wnQ ,oseg tQ tfce lune 0, fl3 000 . John w of the. Whigs in that quarter on this law ! t French, boot-maker, in Ann street, $18,000 ; John P. Under these circumstances, and with the almost ' Scott, in Fulton street, $9,000; Cyrus Sconeld, of fike street, $3,500 ; Dr. Lutlefield. S3.000 : Jas. T. absolute certainty staring them in the face that Gen. Scott will be the nominee, how can Southern Whigs reconcile it with their- interests and duty to go into a National Convention ? A singular occurrence is said to have occurred in South Carolina a short time since. An old and invete rate toper was bitten by a rattlesnake: the drunkard was not injured in the last, but the snake coiled it self up and died from the effects of the liquor imbibed. There is no doubt that a large quantity of the liquor old is nothing but rank poison, more vile than the! virus of the rattlesnake. Some of this has been ac- ! tually known to kill rats at forty yards and curl up a sheet iron stomach ! Exchange paper, j - THE DEMOCRACY IN MOTION. We publish to-day the proceedings of three Demo cratic Meetings, to wit, in Greene, Lenoir, and Wake ; and we have heretofore given those of Catawba, Cum berland, and Duplin. The true spirit is manifesting itself among the Democracy of this Statethey are rallying, as in times past, to the standard of their well-known principles, and they will go through the approaching campaign confident of victory, and with no sound of discord or disagreement in their ranks. So tar as national affairs are concerned, we believe the Democracy of this Stale are content to abide the action of the Baltimore Convention ; zr though they entertain, as others do, their peculiar preferences as to men, yet these preferences will not te permitted to atlect their devotion to tbe cause, or to estrange them one from the other. In relation to State affairs, we may safely repeat what we said a week or two since that the Demo cracy have but one face and one platform ; and that platform, is large enough for every interest and every section. In other words, the Democratic party is not sectional in its aims or organization, either in the Union or in this State; its principles are sufficiently comprehensive to embrace all sections, and its objects are the welfare, the security, and the prosperity of all. The Register publishes the proceedings of a Whig Meeting in Chatham, at which Resolutions were of fered, ( it is not stated- that they were adopted, ) and Delegates appointed to the Whig State Convention. We learn that Mr. M. Q. Waddell offered the Reso lutions, said he had read and approved them, and without reading them to the Meeting, they were put and carried ! That was " rich. " Mr. Waddell ap proved iheoij and that was enough ! California Gold. The entire yield of California in 1851 is estimated at 975,000,000. The amount of gold by the El Dorado, the last steamer with gold, added to the previous arrivals, makes an aggregate ot $7,025,000 since 1st January, and including the de posits at New Orleans in January. mak an aggre gate of 97,705,000. The exports in the meantime have been $5,042,000, leaving a balance in favor of the country of $2,663,000. Moultou, $7,000 ; Isaac Scofield, $9,000, and many others whose names have not been ascertained. We are reliably informed that the principal defaulter in this extraordinary swindle is named Plinn White, who, for a long time, has been living in a gay and fashionable style in a costly mansion in one of the fashionable avenues. The police officers are on the qui vive to find the missing individual, and have scoured the city for his-whereabouts, but op to Sun day evening they had no succeeded in obtaining any clue to him." The Holly Springs (Miss.) Jeffersonxan has at the head of its columns the name of Stephen A. Douglas, of Illinois, for President, and thatef Jefferson Davis for Vice President, subject to the decision of the Nashville Convention. LATEST FROM CALIFORNIA. By the arrival of the steamer El Dorado we have the latest intelligence from California. Tha El Do rado made tbe quickest trip on record, the running time between the two ports, including the crossing of the isthmus, being twenty-three and a half days. The El Dorado brought a million of dollars in gold. The yeild of gold was still great, and there was general prosperity among the miners. The Legislature was proceeding quietly with its business, in Sacramento. A Mr. Crabbe had given notice of his intention to introduce a bill in relation to slaves and free people of color. The nature of the bill is not stated. Washington. The following interesting paragraph appears in the January number of the International Magazine ' " It will gratify every reader of American history to learn that we are soon to have three phases of the character ot Washington, presented by men so emi nent as Daniel Webster, Mr. Irving, and Mr. Ban croft. Mr. Webster, we have reason to believe, has nearly completed his Memoir of the Political life of the great Chief; Mr. Irving 3 work, which has been some time announced, will make us familiar with his personal qualities, and Mr. Bancioft's History of the Revolution will display his military career as it has never before been exhibited, as it can be presented by none but our greatest historian. The first volume of Mr. Bancroft's work, on the Revolution is passing through the press, and will, doubtless, be published eaily in the Spring. It has been kept back by the author's failure to obtain, until within a few weeks past, certain important documents necessary to its completion." Col. James Gadsden, of South-Carolina, writes to the Shreveport (La.) Gazette, that arrangements are being made by persons in the former State to emi grate to California with slaves. He says that If tbe Legislature of California responds favorably to the memorial of the proposed colony, asking leave to set tle there with their slaves, they will go forward at once with from 500 to 800 domestics. Nash County. At the term of tbe County Court for Nash held last week, says the Goldsborough Pa triot and Republican, we learn that George E. B. Singeltary, Esq., was elected County Solicitor. the inference, from what they say, that they, uo,a Scott. Gen. Scott refuses to endorse the fugiu slave law, and yet these journals will utter no wflrfi of condemnation in the premises. Are they endeai oring to get the Whig masses in a condition to " it blind " for Seward's right hand man! c - BROWNLOW SPEAKING OUT. Brownlow, of the Knoxville Whig, and of tip authority with his party, thus " speaks out in meet ing " in regard to the fatal influence of Gen.Scou'i nomination upon tbe Whig cause in Tennessee: I give it as my opinion, formed after a close ob servation with good opportunities for acquiring reet information, that the Democratic partv, thny out the State, will enter into this contest mmw roughly organized than they ever were since 'neff vision of parties. Not only so, but they will a more bitter and vigorous fight than they bare etc made in Tennessee. , n. If the whigs of Tennessee are not united anap dent in their selection of both their speakers anoo didates, they will be beaten in Teinesse. ' Scott as their nominee, they will be beate n 9, votes in Tennessee. The whig party of.Tw, can never be united on Scott know thit I am a humble member of tbe party, and i r port in good faith, either Fillmore or ebfi!er' I will never support Scott, either directly or 11 M ly, though he may receive the endorsement ot a Whie Conventions which may assemble o Hell and Heavea, between this and Novemo -ii. l 1 :. u .0 Amn seven n- no uas personal yoiiiijt oiiuuu - norCl' cessive administrations, and with it very P qualifications, and by no means a high ordffj ents. He has been an incubus upon tbe vv" for years, and defeated Mr. Clay's nonii 1840, and 1848. He is the candidate ot u dirt party and has refused, when called 0FrBeaS. whether he is for or against the Compronii ures of the last Congress. He is in theoa Seward, the very worst man in North if he were even elected, would make up Hj of such men as Seward, Thuriow Weed, n . Greeley, Joshua R. Giddings, and- men of "a" Gratitude of a Slav. There is atTlfiSt change Hotel, in Mobile, a lamp of pare as it was picked up in California, weig "L. I1 three pounds and valued at something over 9 is a present to Mrs. Montague, of Marengo Alabama, from a slave now in California, though in a free State, could not forgt h "" J; but sent her this gift as a token of reoiembra"j!( is, says the Mobile Herald, certainly a con of a curiosity as a " specimen lump D0 every one will ad mit, is a "trump." e iheL"1' Habitual Drunkards. A bill i Mote w iana Legislature that proposes to place bah ards in the same position, in regard w ment of their property and their iamy , that which the law assigns to lunatics as o severe, but it may be a necessary law, ' innwent nr in some oiaies, 10 pruict, I.inea bv Mrs. E. H.. of Henrico, pear in our next. t Also, the communication 01 Va- .hail r
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