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GENERAL INTELLIGENCE.
From the Sunthfra Record tr.
GCOItGIA CONFERENCE MANUAL LABOR
SCHOOL.
Having been directed, by the IJoaavl of Tru-tces
of the Georgia Conference .Maun tl Lalior School,
ta present to the public a brief statement of the
present condition and future prospects of that In
btitutiou, I beg leave to preface tint state:n -n! by
some concise physical truths, which I tin-: will not
be considered entirely unimportant, when viewed
in connexion with the claims of this, an 1 uh simi
lar establishments, to public pitrouage.
In this age of enterprize and iinpioeirnt, p r
haps no subject which embraces the du. -.il
and culture of the intellectual man, has evciled t.t
the public mind more interest than that ompara.
tivelv novel system of education, which pi "poses
t adopt Manual Labor as an essential cou.i:u"r;t
in the plan and management of our High School
and Colleges.
The experince of past ages, as well as more mo
dern times, bears ample testimony to the melan
choly truth that, in our seminaries of learning, the
wants of the physical man have been heretofore
strangely neglected, or entirely forgotten. Inces
sant drafts, for years together, have been made up
on the mental powers of the young., without any
systematic provision for sustaining their corporeal
energies, in seeming forgetfuluess of some of tin;
fundamental laws of the animal economy.
1st. That all intellectual efforts are dependent,
b tth forthtir intensity and duration, upon a pro
per condition of the orcvn of Tiior;ifT.
tid. That the brain itself is essentially depend
ent, for the performance of its function, upon the
healthy state of the nervous and sanguiferous sys.
tern.
.'Jd. That this state can only le maintained
through the medium of a sound and vigorous diges
tive and assimilating apparatus, whose office is to
elalmrate, by a vital process, frmn the aliment ta
ken into the stomach, and distributed by means of
the circulation, an adequate supply of nutritious
matter to meet the functional demands, and repair
the wastes of tho system.
4th. That any permanent and powerful impres
sion made upon an organ by its appropriate stimu
lus, will produce a free determination of blood and
nervous influence to that particular part, and a con
sequent and proportionate diminution of their wont
ed supplies in the organs; e. g. when a full meal
has leen taken into the stomach, it is immediately
stimulated to a vigorous performance of its function,
and forthwith invites from the brain an increased
amount of nervous and arterial aid to facilitate the
digestive process, rendering that organ, (the brain,)
for the time leing, dull and heavy, and incapable of
lalsorious effort.
And riri? versa when the brain labors under
any powerful motion, or is engaged in long and in
tense, thought, so great is the determination of ner
vous and arterial influence to this point of action,
that the enfeeble stomach, thus temporarily drained
of its usual energies, loathos for food, or but imper
fectly di nests it when received. Now let this want
of balanco in the nervous and circulatory systems
be kept, by the repeated action of the same cause,
without a sufficient counteracting influence from
moderate bodily exercise, and the melancholy re
sult may ne confidently predicted.
To meet the demands of nature, therefore, in her
physical organization, and preserve a healthful ba
lance between mini and body, " sano mens in cor
pore saio," is tho invaluable object which this sys
tem of education proposes to accomplish. And
surely the number of dyspeptics who annually quit
our Colleges and Universities, including young men
of the first respectability and finest talenst in the
land, but whose intellectual wants have been sup
plied at the expense of the physical man, and who
are compelled to enter upon tho fatigues of profes
sional life with broken constitutions, and the vic
tims of a wasting chronic disease, which may
last through life, affords distressing evidence of the
defective nature of the prevailing systems.
Man, we repeat, must ever Ik; regarded as lie is,
i. e. a physico intellectual being, made fir exercise
as well as thought. And, however a few well ba
lanced and vigorous constitutions may violate with
impunity this law of their being, reason and expe
rience loudly declare that safety i t be expected
only in its strict observance.
Nor are the foregoing views merely speculative.
Their truth has been confirmed by the history of
Manual Labor Schools, so far as they have come
under our notice. Their pupils have enjoyed al
most uninterrupted health, and have equalled, if not
surpassed in proficiency, those of other institutions
with which Manual Labor has not been connected.
We forbear, here, to dwell upon other concomi
tant advantages, which shools of this class present
such as the habits of industry and enterprize,
which they cherish the moral influence which
they exert upon youth, in substituting unexciting
moderate employment for violent roinps and strife,
nod stirring games; the favorable opportunities
which they tu ruish to indigent, but indiitrimj$
vouug men, to secure partly, if not icholly, by their
labor, a. liberal education, iVc, .V:c.
Acting under a general conviction of the utility
and importance of this method of instruction, the
(Jeorgia Annual Conference of the Methodist Kpis.
copal Church, at its session in January, 1831, do
tcrmirjod to create and organize an institution found
ed imoti this plan, and to dejiend upon the liberali
ty nl their friends and the public generally to sus
tain them in the prosecution of tiie enterprize.
Thirty thousand dollars was the sum deemed ne
cessary to lie raised as an endowment, and an agent
(the Rev. John Howard,) was at that session ap.
p tinted to receive subscriptions and mako colloe.
ti ms in furtherance of that object. An addition
al agent, (Rev. Jesse Sinclair,) was subsequently
unpointed, under the direction of the Hoard of
Trustees, who, in view of the large outfit and
range of operation contemplated, now determinod
to extend the endowment to S-;l,000.
A valuable farm has been sc-ired fir $0000,
in the neighborhood of Covington. Newton countv,
consisting of thre-j lots of Ian 1, forming an unin
terrupted line, and lying wrstw ird from the village,
more than half of which i wood land, and the re
mainder cleared. A beautiful, healthful, and ele
vated spot, covered with large forest trees, half a
mile distant from the town, and commanding a
fine view of it, has been selected as a site for the
buildings a spot, which if not favored with gene
ral health, will falsity some of the plainest indica
tions of nature, and disappoint the common expec
tations of these who have visited it.
An unusually severe and long con-inued winter
has retarded the workmen in their operations. .
There are, however, now erected, and nearly com
pleted, nine neat woode i buildings consisting ot a
Steward's II. ill, b'O feet by 4t, to which is appen
ded a convenient and sp ictous kitchen, two officers
houses, 'Mi feet bv 1 - e:ieh, t wo stones high, and
six dormitories or -student.-,' h ii.-.e, containing each
two apartment-, 11 let by 1 -, with a passage be
tween, d-'.-igned lor lodging aiidtu ly ro;ns. The
eight last houses are erected along tie' lines of an
extensive Campus. The ii :ud, ai : their last meet
ing, desirioiis to extend additional accommodation
to -indents, and to furnish suitable rooms tor iu-sti-.:
tion, passed a resolution to build, during the
.ne-ent year, six other dormitories, corresv.niling
i i tpp earance and dimensions with those already
b n't. to b; arranged on the opjutsite line of the
J 'ain.ms, and al-o a large brick- building fr aca
demic purposes, to bo placed at an eligible point
within it.
A Library, and Chemical and lMiilosophical ap
paratus will Ik; connected with the institution.
The course of study is expected to le a thorough
and extensive one, including Logic, Rhetoric, Mo
ral, Natural, and Mental Philosophy, Chemistry,
the seven I branches of Mathematics, Anatomy,
Phvsiology, Kvidenees of Christianity, ivc, Vc.
From a combination of imperative circumstan
ces, the Hoard felt constrained to limit the number
of students in the outet to .i0, although nearly
100 others made application for admission, whose
claims were necessarily postponed. The exercises
of the School opened on the first .Monday in March
last, and students are still coming in. From
the character of the preparations now going on,
we hope to Ix; abb; to increase our number during
the year to -10 or 00, and subsequently to twice or
thrice that numler. In tact, every accommodation
will Ik; extended to our friends and patrons, which
the growing facilities of the institution will safely
justify.
The Farming department is now in successfull
operation, and the young men seem to engage most
cheerfully in its varied duties. Agriculture, and
Horticulture, on an extensive scale will mostly em
ploy their laloring hours. No mechanical em
ployments have yet ln-en adopted, but are in anti
cipation. The whole government of the institu
tion is designed to lie paternal in its character.
Tocontrol, by securing the afK ctions and confidence,
and bv addressing the moral sensibilities of the
pupils, will ever lie preferred to the stern exaction
of a heartless oliedience from a severe discipline.
We have onlv further to remark, that after a
faithful discharge of the duties assigned them du
ring the past year, our Agents jointly report ahout
$30,000 received in cash and on subscription; and
it is most fervently hoped, that the spirit of liberal
ity, already so signally manifested by the friends of
the enterprize, will not decline, until a sufficient
endowment is obtained, ami the itstitutioti is esta
blished on a jiernianeut footing.
A. MFANS, Superintendant.
From the Danville O'".) II' port' r.
POST O F F I C E I) E P A It T M E X T .
Complaints which, originating in the centre, have
been re-echoed from one extremity of the continent
to the other, demonstrating the " confusion worse
confounded " reigning, during the last four years,
through the Post Odice Department, have lieen re
peatedly laid before the Fxecutive, and the nation.
An array t.t facts a. id evidence, exhibiting the ex
istence of frauds and corruptions, without a parallel
in the history of the country, have lieen published
to the world, and laid at the fiot of the throne. A
disclosure of those facts, and of that corruption,
has been made by Committees Committees too, a
majority of whom were the devoted partizans of
the Administration in both the Senate and House of
Representatives, and a prompt and efficient remedy
demanded by tho almost unanimous voice of the
nation. The remedy existed in the sic rolo of his
majesty, King Andrew. He had but to dismiss
the incomjietent, the wasteful, the corrupt agents
of the Department, and fill their places, by honest
and capable, officers. V it 11 cool sarcastic disdain,
he turned a deaf ear, to the unanimous voice of the
people. A deaf ear did we say, he is now adding
an insult gross and flagrant insult to long continu
ed injury, the incompetent drone at the head of the
Department has lieen again billetted upon the pub
lic Treasury, in a high, honorable, and responsible
office, during the remainder of his reign,
M..j. Win. T. Harry the Hip Van Winkle of
the Department the sentinel who slept upon his
post, if he did not betray his trust Maj. Harry,
whose incompetence, or faithlessness and it mat
ters little which, since its etlecfs upon the country,
were m many resjiects the same -.Maj. Harry has
Ijeen rewarded for his dilipidation of the public
'I reasury,to the tune of -$00,000 probable Sl-'O,-000,
by a splendid Kmbassy to the Court of her
Catholic Majesty, His outjil, injit, and salary, du
ring the remainder of his present Majesties reign,
will only add a tid-bit, some :$." or 640,000, to the
million already .squandered. Hut the Kxeeutive
takes the responsibility" (Jeneial Jackson can
do no wrong" " he was lorn to command" 4i hur
ra for (Jerieral Jackson !"
Another subject of his Majesty's, our Lord King"
Andrew's especial grace and favor, is, we will not
say the celebrated, but th notorious O. H. Hrown.
Upon the name of (). H. Hr wn, the disclosures of
the committees above refered to, a majority of
w inch were administration men, affixed tho itidel
Iible brand of infi-iy. The proof was irrefraga
ble. He was convicted of having participated in
the emoluments of contracts, made in his official
capacity, acting under oath, in behalf of the (Jo
vernment An act of moral turpitude equivalent
to larceny or tell nv. lb h id the brazen faced
effrontery to pub!i.-h a denial Senators admini
stration Senators as well tis oppositions Senators,
rose in their places in the Senate of the United
States, and convicted him, upon their own veracity,
of open, palpable, deliberate and wilful falsehood.
Well, this is the highest recommendation that he
could have, it would seem .for, we have lieen told,
and believe that it is true, that having resigned
aye resigned, he was not dismissed a clerkship,
worth 62,000 per annum, at the end of four days
probation, and a passage through the Executive
lethe we presume, he was promoted, gentle reader,
aye promoted, to the office of suprinfendant of the
Department, with a salary of 62,700 per annum.
Oby did not play the part of Scape (ioat f r the
concern without a quid, pro qvo. Hut King An
drew claims the Post Otfioe as an Executive oifice ;
and " takes the responsibility" of all delinquencies:
Hurra fir General Jackson!
Having said thus much, disgusting as is the task,
we will not dismiss the subject without pointing
nublic attention to the crowning act of wickedness,
and the most enormou insult ever before perhaps
ofiered, by the Executive to tho moral sense of the 4
'1 community, displayed in the elevation of Amos
Kendall to the head of the Post Office Department !
'That he has talents is admitted, but the readiness
I with which those talents are prostituted to selfish
and ambitious punoes render him, in a proportion
able degree, dangerous. His talents may lie equal
to the station but, the country can never cease to
loathe and detest the man. They have not, never
can forget, the Frozen Adder which, irarmed into
life, in the bosom of the eloquent Kentuckian, re
warded his generous benefactor, by attempting to
drive his poisoned fangs into his vitals. A fac
simile of the prince of the powers of the air, he is
mysteriously, or oppenly as the case requires; pre
sent in all ilejNirt incuts, the ever ready and unre
lenting Minister of imperial vengence ; the ear-wig
of a willing despot, infusing the virus of his ma
lignity into theJecayed mind of a doating master;
the palace vaVrpire, attending upon the putrifaetion
which his presence engenders. Amos has long
since made 'his jieace with the "heir apparent," to
clear the way for whose elevation, and to promote
his own selfish views, he has sought the imperial
nod, which once given, enabled them to drive into
exile that band of statesmen and patriots which
gloriously illustrated the early reign of Jackson,
and " in whoso lives there was a daily lK?auty, which
made them ugly." "Sealed in his nativity the slave
of nature, and the child of hell," he has unkenelled
his pack of bloodhounds in the pursuit of the most
eminent, honorable, and virtuous citizens. He is
regarded as the instrument through whom " punish
ment for opinions' sake" has been practiced, with
a cruelty unparalleled and by whom there has
been congregated around the jerlius of the palace,
a phalanx of candidates for the wages of iniquity,
volunteer seekers of "affidavit makers," ever rea
dy to do the bidding of himself, or those whom he
serves. " The government " is thus surrounded
with lyings whose presence is contagious, whose
touch is pollution; with whom contact is death.
Men of honor flee from the certillage of the palace
with the instinctive horror with whieh they would
flee before the baleful breath of the Upas.
The appointment of Kendall as Post Master
General, has lieen met with a general groan of in
dignation from the indejiendant Press. It has shock
ed the more respectable portion of the President's,
ami even Mr. Van liuren's friends. It is grateful
only to the bitter and infuriated partizan, or to them
whose own all, their hope of office, being staked
upon the success of .Mr. Van Huren, are blind to
the honor and dignity of the country. That the
man who ofiered to support the administration of
Messrs. Adams and Clav for an office of 61500,
as Mr. Kendall's own letters vouch that he did, and
his bill lieing declined, then turned his arms against
those who had refused to employ him, and endea
voured to establish the fact that their power had been
acquired by corruption that such a mercenary in
grate should lie taken into the Cabinet, constituted
one of the President's constitutional advisers, and
Income, in cfR-et, Prime Minister for such Kendall
will be is a reflection that must needs be grating
and humiliating to tho pride of the patriot, of every
party denomination.
Hut the event has been willed by him whose
pleasure is paramount. It cannot be helped, and
it is now equitable that Mr. Kendall should Ik; judg
ed by his acts. He is in a new position, and has it
in his power to merge the recollections of the past
in gratitje fr the present and future. We sin
cerely wish he may do justice by himself, in which
case, we know he will do justice by the country.
Richmond Whig.
Mr. Van Huren is in Washington superintend
ing the preparations for the Haltimore Convention.
The New Y'ork Evening Star, with severity, re
marks :
" Where is the Vice President all this while?"
is asked by curious politicians. In Washington,'
is the reply, 4 How engaged?' 'In making prepa
rations for his Crwitioti, unci jli.c,titg the opera
tions of the gov! -i'nt. What a tMCture all this
presents. Mr. Van Huren corresponding with ev
ery section of the Union, issuing orders, giving di
rections, naming delegates, intimating his wishes
here, giving his advice there, one friend writing
the resolutions, another the addres, Chairman and
and Vice Presidents named, discussed and appoint
ed, Secretaries proposed and decided upon, and all
the machinery of this Convention arrayed and put
in order by the very man who gets it up for his
own special benefit, like the manager of the auto
maton chess player, who directs its movements for
the gains of the exhibition. And are the Ameri
can eopIc to be gulled by the proceedings of such
an assemblage I Are they willing to countenance
the farce of a nomination thus got up and cooked
and flashed by the grand, Maitre de Cusine' him
self? Has the democracy of this country fallen so
low as to lie compelled to recognize and follow this
ignis factus ? Well may we ask the question for
the humbug is so glaring, o brazen face, so tin
blushingly impudent, that the imposture may well
astound the most skeptical
A Convention for what ? To choose by the
freomen elected on the occasion, from anions tho
great men of the nation, tho most suitable candi
date for chief magistrate ? No, no nothing- liko it.
It is a packed jury of Office-holders and Oilice-hun-ters,
drummed together to nominate Mr. Van Hu
ron, and him alone, and then call it the democratic
nomination for President ! If such a thing could
succeed, weil may Van Huren repeat, in effect, what
he practices so constantly for his advancement,
"ie public is a goose, and he deserves most tcho
can pluck most.1
From the Downing Gazette.
SARGENT JOEL'S ACCOUNT OF TIIE WASH
INGTON AFFAIR,
Washington, up chamber in the Gineral's House, )
April IS l:i5.
Dkr Jack : You see I dont write this letter in
the East room, as I have done all nlong, but in my
bed-room, up chamber; and the reason is .this I've
spraint my ancle so desputly bad I can't touch my
feet to the floor. So I've had to stay up stairs all
day. The Gineral's been rubbing opedildoc on it,
and one thing another, most all day, and it's got a
little easy now, so I thought I'd set down and write
to you, and tell you how 'twas done.
We had the dreadfullest flurry here last night in
the night that ever I see or heard on. It seems to
me the Gineral's house is haunted, or else somebo
dy is trying to lay a plan to kill him, I can't tell
which. I wish I knew if Mr. Poindexter was any
where in these parts now ; if he was, I should know
where the mischief come from.
Hut to come right to the pint ; ye see we sot up
pretty considerable last night, I and the Gineral,
talking over matters and things about the next
'campaign, which the Gineral says'll be as tight
a one as ever w e had yet, especially if Judge White
holds on ; the Gineral gets out of all patience a most
whenever we speak about Judge White. He
says, if Judge White holds on he'll be the means
' of breaking up the republican party, and stop Mr.
Van Huren's election as sure as fate, and then we
' shall all go over the dam together. I kind of
i stood up for Judge White a little, and told the Gi
; neral I did'nt see why one democrat had'nt as good
1 :. .1.. ... 1.., i:i. .1 Ji . , 1
i a. rigm 10 a cauuiuaie us auoiuer uemoviui, auu
J every body allowed Judge White to be a good de
mocrat. At that the Gineral got almost mad with
me : and, says he, Sargent Joel, it seems to me you
never will learn politics in the world. Dont you
know, says he, and haven't I told you a dozen times,
that Mr. Van Huren is to be the regular democrat
ic candidate, to lie nominated bv the Haltimore
Convention ? And if any body opposes his nomi
nation, wont it le an attack on the virtue of the peo
ple ? And wont any body be worse than a traitor
to his country not to vote for Mr. Van Huren?
Well, says I, Gineral, supposen Mr. Van Huren
should be nominated by the Haltimore Convention,
and should be the regular democratic candidate,
and then supposen three quarters of the democrats
in the country should vote tor Judge White, and he
should be elected, how would matters turn then ?
Why, said the Gineral, the work would all have to
lie done over again. His election woukTut be con
stitutional. Judge White, nor nobody' else would
ever have any right to the Presidency if he was'nt
regularly nominated at the Haltimore Convention.
Hut, says I, Gineral, does the Constitution say so?
It's no matter whether the Constitution says or not,
says the Gineral; the democratic party says so,
and that's enough.
Hut let me come back to the story where I sot
out, about the flurry we had last night. We had
sich a warm talk we kept at it till midnight, and
then we went up chamber to bed. I sleep in the
next rKm to the Gineral's, and have, ever since
Lawrence sot out to shoot him, Cor the Gineral
says there's no knowing what may happen, and he
wants to keep his best friends round. Well, I was
so sleepy 1 dropt to sleep in two minutes, and slept j
as sound as a log. And the first I knew I was
waked up by the Gineral raving round his room
like a lion.
I hopped out of bed all standin, and run up to
the corner of the room next to his, and listened.
The Gineral was marching across the room and
thrashing his cane on the floor, and calling out to
some body, what do you want ? What are you
fumbling about this ! or for ? speak quick, you vil
lain, or I'll lie out there and split you down. At
that, I heard somebody answer and say, he " want
ed to find the way out." Well, well, said the Gi
neral, we'll see first how you found the way in.
And he then called for me with all his mbdit.
My hair stood right on eend, I can tell you, but
'twouldn't do to flinch, so I run out by a door 'to-
ther way and called up some of the men folks, and
we got a light ami armed ourselves with fire-pokers
and shovels, and boot -jacks, and any thing we could
get hold on, and out we went into the passage way,
and there stood a feller by the door of the Presi
dent's chamlier, looking as meechin as a thief in a i
mill. They made me go ahead, for they all felt a j
httjo skittish, and I didu t know but I should get
blowed through with a pistol before I got halfway
to him ; but, as I thought it would be glory enough
if I should die defending the Gineral, I would'nt
flinch, so I marched right up to him ami clinched '
him. He stood as still as an old boss that had lieen
lost in a swamp a fortnight when his master comes !
to catch him. j
viT ... .1 1 1 11.: ... -r 1. . 1.1 '
e ioo:t auu sarcueu mm, 10 see 11 ne uuu any
pistols or daggers about htm, but lie hadn't, and he
wouldn't tell us what he was arter, only he was
trying to find his way out. So we held a council ,
of war upon him, and the Gineral finally concluded j
it was best to lock him up in the stable till morning, j
and then have a warrant for him, and see what he
had to say for himself. We went and locked him
up in a room in the stable, and I took the key with
me up into my room, so as to keep all things safe, !
and wo laid down, and got another little nap lie fore
morning. Hut as soon as it was cleverly light the
Gineral called me, and we mustered out and went
to see how our bird looked in his cage.
Well, wo went along and unlocked the door care
fully and looked in, and as true as you are alive, lie
was gone, and there want hide nor hair to be found
on him. Whether he got out of a high window
that no mortal man alive could climb up to, or
whether he crept through the key-hole, or how, we
cant guess to save our lives. The Gineral feels a
great ileal uneasy about it, and so do I. Hlair says
it's Poindexter's works, we may depend upon it ;
but the Gineral shakes his head, ami says there's
no way to prove it. Sih.hi as we find out any thing
about it I will let you know. Your loving cousin,
SAUGENT JOEL DOWNING.
lieckiritrs Anti-Dyspeptic Pills. Few persons,
probably, even in this City, are aware of the ex
tent to which the manufacture of the Anti-I)vsjep-tic
Pills (see Advertisement) is carried on. In or
der to supply f ho gradually increasing demand for
them, it has been found necessary, for some months 1
past, to employ constantly about 20 hands, in the !
diflerent stages of the business, who have been
able to furnish, daily, 40,000 Pills !
This simple fact is, of itself, sufficient to esta
blish the character of the Anti-Dyspeptic Pills ;
for the demand for the article would certainly flag,
if it failed to meet the expectation of the Public.
Independent, however, of this statement, the im
posing mass of testimony, as to the safety, mild
ness and efficiency of the Pills, must, we think,
remove the doubts, even of the encredulous, as to
the value of their properties, and greatly increase
the calls for them. Raleigh Register.
Shocking Accident. Wq. learn that, as the Nor
thern Stage was passing over Culpepper's Bridge,
between Halifax and Louisburg, on Saturday last,
on its route to this City, the feet of one of the
horses got caught in a hole, which so alarmed the
others that they started to run, and upset the coach.
Several of the Passengers were seriously injured.
One had his Kick broken, and, it is said, cannot
possibly survive; the Driver also, we are informed,
was in a dying state. Two or three of the horses
were either killed or drouned. These are all the
particulars we have been able to glean. lb.
Cope-Fear Bank. The Stockholders of the Bank,
met on Monday, and adjourned yesterday. A very sa
tisfactory statement of its affairs was laid before them.
We learn that a dividend of 5 per cent will be paid to
the old Stockholders, leaving a considerable surplus to
go to the benefit of the joint corporators, as the subscri
bers for the the new stock will now come into the con
cern. It is contemplated to open Books for an increase
of the Capital Stock. Wilmington J'ress of April
FIAT JI STITIA
RUT CCKLIM.
THE CAROLINIAN.
SALISBURY:
Sn 1 11 rd.i y lorii i 11 ar, ITfny lfi, 18:1.7.
"The writers of the Editorials" for the Van Buren
paper at Raleigh the Standard are informed that
whatever it matters to the Editor of that piper, whe
ther the senior Editor of this paper be at home or abroad,
such gross misrepresentations as have appeared in the
Standard, particularly as the one in question, shall not
go unexposed in the Western Carolinian. Dutr to the
public requires otherwise. The junior Editor of this
paper has too "intimate a knowledge of the highmind
edness and honorable bearing" of his senior lo believe, for
an instant, that he, had he been at his post, would have
permitted sucli pervertion of facts as the charge on Mr.
Calhoun to go unnoticed and uncorrected. Whatever
may be the opinion of the Editor of the Standard, as re
gards the course of the Western Carolinian, in this and
similar cases, we know that a number of our Subscri
bers have complained at our negb-ct of duty in nut more
frequently exposing the conduct of that paper. Perhaps
the Editor himself has felt himself neglected in this re
spect. If so, we can inform him that the senior Editor
will, in a few days more, he ai his jxst, and, as all know,
he possesses not only the ability, but the energy neces
sary to defend the People's rights, in a manner worthy of
the great cause, whether the attack come from Office
holders or (Juice-seekers.
A SPECIMEX. From the Standard.
All the readers of the Western Carolinian, doubtless,
have liea rd that Philo White has gone to Raleigh, and has
taken charge of the Van Buren paper there, called the
"Standard;" and that he is now busily at work, in try
ing to run down the principles which he heretofore so
zealously supported, when he conducted the Western
Carolinian. In order that our readers mav see the style
and spirit in which he lalors in his new vocation, we
here present them with an extract from the Standard,
of the Mb instant. We are sure no comment from us
is necessary, every reader will make the comment his
own mind. No decent man of any party can read it
without disgust :
" Misrepresentation. The Xultifying-WUvj? have
become as reckless of truth and dec . lev, as thev have
ever been devoid of principle ,-ind lair dealing. Their
great lender having lieen foiled, defeated, and over
thrown, in his Md designs to sever tiie Union and bring
about a revolution, has now set his instruments to
work, to compass his ambitious ends in anothei way:
It is the purpose of all his ttrhdding satellites, to hush
up their former clamor about secession, reserved rigits,
&c., &c, with which the plains and very f . rests of a
neighboring State at one time became musical. the
sound of " nulhiicatioTi," reverberating through all her
mountains and valleys, and every voice uniting in the
chorus of the song of seeesion. Their vaunted valor
having oozed out at tiieir lingers' end--, thev have now,
craven-like, abandoned all of principle thev ever con
tended for, by truckling to the very man who. of all
oth.ers in the nation, after our patriotic and inflexible
President, was the most obnoxious to their nullification
schemes with this only concession on his part, that he
is to be us()t by them to dishonor mid disgrace the Pre
sident, and divide and prostrate the Democratic party."
THE XEXT ELECTIONS in XORTH CAROLINA.
Without question, the next Elections in this State
will give rise to the warmest pilitical contest that ever
lias been witnessed in North Carolina. The Van Bu
ren men are every whore at work, organizing and plan
ning the operations of the approaching campaign. In
every County, East or West, where they can make
head-way, they will do so: they will bring out their
strongest men as candidates, and leave no stone unturn
ed to gain the ascendency in the next Legislature, as
they had in the last. It is very important that they
should not have the majority in the next Legislature.
We have seen how they set the Constitution at naught
last Session, and outraged the People; and, if after this,
they obtain the control of the Legislature again, it is hard
to say to what lengths they may go. Let the Whigs,
then, every where, be on their guard let them, in eve
ry County, bring out their strongest and ablest men,
and with noble resolution stand up for Liberty and the
Constitution.
The Van Buren party is even- wher organised, while
the Whigs are yet, in a great measure, without organi
zation; but, if they expect success, they must !e up, and
doing they must arouse themselves from the lethargy
that hangs over them, and take the field with the spirit
of better days. Let them do this let them use but
half the exertions that the Van Buren party does, and
old King Caucus and all h:s satellites, aiders, and abet
ters in North Carolina will be overwhelmed and routed.
D'hgntcs to the Convention. In the Eastern part of
the State, we notice that the several Counties are bring
ing out, for the Convention, their ablest and most ex
perienced men, without any regard to political parties,
or to any local divisions that may exist among them.
We hope that the Western Counties, generally, for the
sake of their interest, if not their character, wilJ act on
the same considerations. The following persons are can
didates in their respective Counties, without opposition,
so tar as we can hear: For Halifax, Judge Daniel and
Gov. Branch; for Orange, Judges Ruffin and Nash; for
Davidson, John D. Hogan and John L. Hargrave; for
Randolph, Gen. Alexander Gray and Bejamin Elliot ; for
Stokes, Emanuel Shober and Matthew R. Moore; In
WAKE, it would seem that there are some four or five
persons in nomination. We suppose the two will be
elected who can make the people of that most liberal and
enlightened county believe that they will get the Le
gislature to meet every six months, or, at any rate, de
feat biennial sessions.
Dreadful Tornado. We learn that a very destruc
tive Tornado passed over a part of this County, on Sa
turday, the 9th instant, near the section known as tho
Jersey Settlement. It prostrated every thing before it,
not a house, tree, or fence was left standing where it
passed. The destruction of property was verv great ; but
the most melancholly circumstance was the death of
a respectable young lady, whose name, we believe, was
Jones. She was standing in one corner of the house
when it tumbled down and crushed her to death when
she was found, after the storm subsided, her head was
severed from her body ! We have not learned the ex
tent of the Tornado, but it embraced in width about a
quarter of a mile.