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A Democratic JournalDevoted to National and State Politics; literature, Foreign and Domestic News etc. vol. m. WINSTON, NORTH;OAEOBIISrA,FRII)AY JTJNE 105 1859. No 52. THE PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY J. W. ALSPAU.GH. F. XL BOXER, Editors. Tern of Sttbscilption.-" The Western Ssxtixel" is published every Friday morning, and mailed to subscribers at two dollars a year, in ad vane; two dollars and a iialf after six months, or thbsb dollars after the close of the subscription year. To any one procuring six subscribers, and paying th-cftAh ia. advance, th paper will be furnished one year, gratis. ' f Terms of Advertising in the Sentinel. Our regular rates of advertising are as follow One square (14 lines or less) first insertion $1 00 Eich subsequent insertion, - - - - - - 25 For on sqare three months, - - - - 3 50 For six months, - - - - - - - - - 5 50 For twelve months, - - - - - - - - 8 50 JiT Liberal deductions in favor of regular ad vertisers. Professional or Business Cards, not exceeding five lines in length, five dollars a year longer ones in proportion. Postmasters are required by law to notify publisher! when papers are not taken from their offices and those failing to do so become respon sible tor the subscription-money. Office on West Street, below the M. E. Church. POETEY. We have much pleasure in laying before our readers the f 1 low ing gracefu I ly w ritten and truly national song, from the pen of our tal ented young friend and fellow citizen, Mr. Jan vier: 1 God Save our President. A NATIONAL SONG. BT FRANCIS DE HASS JANVIER. All hail ! Unfurl the stripes and stars! The banner of the free ! Ten times ten thousand patriots greet The shrine of Liberty ! Come, with one heart, one hope, one aim, An undivided hand, . To elevate, with solemn rites, The ruler of our land! 11. Not to invest a potentate With robes of majesty Not to confer a kingly crown, jNr bv'ml a suoeciRTiSe: We bow beneath no sceptred sway Obey no royal nod Columbia's sons, erect and free, Kneel only to their God ! III. Our ruler boasts no titled rank, No ancient, princely line No regal right to sovereignty, Ancestral and divine. A patriot at his country's call Responding to her voice, One of the people he becomes A sovereign by our choice' IV. And now, before the mighty pile We've reared to Liberty, lie swears to cherish and defend The character of the free ! God of our country ! Seal his oath With thy supreme assent, God save the Union of the States ! God save the President ! Washington, J). C. The Administration. "We copy the following sensible and truthful observations from the Baltimorc Republican. It is true, as that paper state that every Democratic administration frou-f that of Jefferson to the present one, has. been misrepresented, maligned and abusi ed by "the opposition." For our part wc are never surprised at any abuse which "the opposition" direct against Democrat ic administrations. It is a part of their business it is their stock in trade. , The general policy of Mr. Buchanan ad miuUt ration has been such as to merit, as we believe it receives, the approval o a large majority of the American people His foreign policy, at one bold, wise, anc sagacious, extorting from England a surf of the loner claimed search, and del inandiiie-and commanding for our flair tlui rcsect of all nations, as particularly showrl in the results ot the raraguay ex pea i non a his setttlement ot the Utah troubles, wnictj at one time threatened bloodshed and sj vast expeuditnre of monev ; his Kansa. policy, which tavorea the introduction o Kansas' as a State" with a Constitution ea tahlishinsr slavery : his earnest and contin ued efforts ; to limit the expenditures of - i . . I government, ana Keep mem at an econoni i ical and reasonable, point, while all tluf great interests of the country should be a the 6ame time provided for and maintain ed ; his attachment to a Constitutional Uii - ion, so often exhibited and in so raanf ways; his determination, as 6hownin hit messages and by his acts, to : prof ect tlwf public lands froin the grasp '.of speculators who have attempted to clutch theih undei the specious guise of pension billa and do- . nations to agricultural, colleges ; liis in flex ible opposition to the black Repnblicana as shown in every act of his aduiinistratioi concerning thern, and hia' efforts to pre, , vent the formation of sectional parties, thC sure persecutors of national tronble and dial nnlnf.An in l oll tViooo . nrl ?n ' rkthr rflft pecta -which might b referred to Me. Bu char.an has entitled himself to the hearty thanks and the best wishes of every Amer ican patriot. Let "the opposition' contin ue to abuse and malign him; thepeople will stand by him. That he has pleased eve ry one of his own party in every respect is not pretended, nor was it expected that he would, when he was elected. Such a thing is simply impossible. ; No Presi dent ever has or ever will give eutire sat isfaction to all his friends. But Mr. Bu chauan has acquitted himself inst as well in his day and time as Gen. Jackson, Mr Polk and VOen. Pierce did in theirs ; and such will be the conclusion of every, u'l partial an$ fair minded : man who may write the history of their administrations. But we are detaining our readers from the Republican? s article : "The Administkatiox and its Abuses. Some people appear to think that the pre sent administration is more abused than any preceding it, and argue therefrom that Mr. Buchanan must have lost the con fidence of the country by some improper act. Those who indulge in this sort of speculation must have short memories or know little of the history of our country. Jefferson, Madison, and Jackson, all had to pass through this fiery ordeal, and Mr. Buchanan is but enduring what they, and ail who lake a decided and manly part, must except from the opposition. We have seen within a fewdays past the Black Republicans uniting to do honor to the birthday of Jefferson. The very men who while he lived, exhausted language and their own ingenuity in framing terms of abuse and reproach, hypocritically pre tend reverence for his name and laud him as the first statesman. So wuh Jackson those to whom his very name was hateful and who could not believe it possible for him to do or say anything that was right are now prepared to endorse him as an able statesman and the truest of patriots. So will it be with Mr. Buchanan. After the excitement of the hour shall have passed, and the aspirations ot the am bitious shall have died out, Mr. Buchanan will be acknowledged as a wise and suc cessful statesman, and his administration be pointed to as an honor to the country. We naturally expect that those who take an active part in political strife, and who most boldly and successfully oppose the views of the opposition, will receive the largest share of their abuse. And, there- fore. wereatem it a certain mark of hones ty and mrit wheTTtTCm no principled opposition pour out their vials of wrath upon the Administration. Mr. Buchanan is only sharing the honor of this abuse with Jefferson. Jackson and Polk and may rest satisfied that with them .e will ultimately share r1, - THE MOUNTAIN MEADOWS MAS SACRE BY. THE MORMONS A TALE OF HORROR. -The San Francisco Bulletin of April 23d has the following : , One of the dread mysteries ofMormon dom which the United States judges in Utah are endeavoring to unravel, greatly r to the consternation of the "Saints, is the horri hie massacre, at Mountain Meadows, of one hundred emigrants, on their way from Arkansas to California. At the time, we were told that the nnfortunate victims felt 1v the weaDons of the Canosh band ;of Paravaut Indians : but various subseotieutved iritsobject; The vanity ot men developments have established the eonvic- j a - - i T . ' 1 11 - 1 ! non uiat uiese were merely tools in the hands of the Mormons themselves. Au eye-witness of the transaction has been found at last and we have received, from an official source at Salt Lake, a statement of his account of the affair. The whole fearful truth stands revealed, presenting one of the most shocking cases of cruelty and crime that has ever stained the records of a civilized community. The writer says : "While I was residing at Cedar City, I was called upon by Messrs. Isaac Hight, John D. Lee, and John Higbee all three Mormon military officers to go a few miles out of the city, which I did. There I found thirty or forty others, selected from different settlements. We were ad dressed by the above officers, who told us that they had sent Canosh, the Paravant Chief, with his warriors, to destroy the Arkansas company, and that if any of us refused, or betrayed them to the Ameri cans, they would take good care of him hereafter. Here we were all ordered on the quick march to theMountain Meadows, where we found the emigrants, with their wagons formed into two circles, writh their families in the midst, trying to defend themselves against the merciless and blood thirsty savages, who lay around in am bush, killing them as opportunity present ed. "Hight and Lee formed their men into two companies, and made a precipitate rush at the poor defenceless victims. The men inside of the circles rose up, but in stantly fell dead or mortally wounded un der the fire of the Wretches whoso cruelly sought their lives. Nothing remained to be doue, except to kill the frightened fe males and their innocent children clasped gi-.thfei y jili jia.- .O t Via ra icloiiig..w ith d ea pe r ation to" t h ei r. bleed i n gVdyinj -i lUsBaud s pleading in vain for mercy at the hands or the 'Christians' who controlled the no more savage Indian assailants. "John 1). Lee now sent to the Indian chief and his men in ambush to come out and finish the survivors, directing him to spare only the little children, who could not talk. The savages came instantly, with knives urawn, and speedily finished the bloody work. The scene beggars de scription. The demoniac yells of the sav tge monsters, mingled writh the shrieks nd prayers of helpless mothers and daugh ers, whilst the death-blows were dealing with iibflinching hands, and scalps were torn from heads which bloomed with beau ty and innocence but a few hours before. Now the work of butchering ended. The murderers threw the dead into two heaps, covered them slightly with earth, and left hem "to feed the wolves and birds of yrey," and returned home with "their booty jf cattle, and wagons, and a great quanti ty of goods," &c. . From the Connersville (Ind.) Telegraph. ?ERSONAL DEFECTIONS DO NOr AFFECT THE PxiOGRESS OF THE DEMOCRACY. The teachings ot the past ought to be nfficient to demonstrate the fact that the rinciples and policy of the democratic - arty cannot be overthrown by the defec- on or treachery oflany of its members no itter how high may have been their po ion in it, extended their influence, or eat their ability. Neither does the Hfe the party or its continuance depend up . the mere identity of men .with' it. If prominent leaders or members pass: y, the part3T does not die with1 them, its principles and policy 4(slill live," .he party did not die with Jefferson, its aat founder and originator, nor did 3 defections from it in his day check its ward career. . Under the .administra tis of Madison and Monroe its ' march i onward, and its policy gave progress, isperity, and power to the country .: -e defection of prominent and influential m during the administration of Jackson, was" thought and jprophesiedy would ve divided and overturned the party, t they did not make even a ripple upon e surface of the stream ; in its onward w. Tan Buren with all his influence d ability, in his defection only defeated democratic candidate for the presiden- that, was all; its policy still controlled ; governed that of the nation. v '.:--? Is it has been in the past so will it be he future. At all times weak men, iin jle men', Eclfish, aspiring rnen,v corrupt n, and those who assume the possession :more virtue, honesty, and; ability than , ir fllow8, 'will be founds who .will leave ir party associations, to find in an;; op ate party preferment or position which t y;are unfitted to obtain in; their - own, gatisfy a restlessness for place, which to- secure they will sacrifice principles and friends. . . " :- - - V'We see these facts illustrated in our own experience. Look at the Jim Lanes, the Ellisesy the Maces, the Mortons, and' a number ot that ilk in our own State, who, within the past few years, ' have deserted ?the democratic party and its principles with the hope to find a reward and com pensation In the loaves and fishes of know nothingism, fiisioniem, or its lastdevelop-ment-black-repabacanism. Democratic principles and policy survived these . de tections, and their treachery most signally D their influence and ability often "leads them to the founder upon that Quicksand The almost innumerable failures of men who expected that their influence or abili ty would destroy the party by their defec tion should be a lesson to those who are about to wreck upon the same rock. Under democratic rules our country has, achieved its present greatness. The policy of the natiou is but the policy of the democratic party." Its history is iden tified wTith its principles, policy, and meas ures. Such will be the future. A tem porary defeat may for a , moment check its progress, but it will only be to gather more strength . in the returning wave which will bear it onward. From the day s of Jefferson the opposi tion have ever been predicting the ruin of the democratic party. They have ever jiealed anticipated defections, schisms and divisions, but whenever a battle is 10 be fought, it displays a united and invincible front. It will ever be so. Its principles will ever be victorious, and its policy will ever govern the country, for they are the basis upon which rest the security and progress of a government based upon pop ular sovereignty and public will. Absurd, then, is it to think that the de fection of a few men, great or small, from the democratic ranks will 6tay its progress or defeat its mission. Its ridiculousness is the more apparent when we look at sim ilar developments in the past. WThat has been will be, with the same results. laiT The following is Napoleon's" ad dress to the army of Italy : "Soldiers -I come to place myself at your head to conduct you to the combat. We are about to second the struggles of a people now. vindicating its independence us as a sacrea cause waiett nas xne sym pathies of the civilized world. ,; "I need n.)t stimulate your ardor every step will remind yon of victory. "In the "via sacra" of ancient Rome, inscriptions were chiseled upon marble, reminding the people of exalted deeds. It is the same to-day. In passing Mondo vi, Marengo, Lodi, Castiglione, Areolc, and Rivoli, you will, in the midst of those glorious recollectious, be marching in auother "via sacra." "Preserve that strict discipline which is the honor of the army. Here jforge it not. ' ':;..'if ', "" "There are no other enemies than those who fight against you in battle. Remain compact. Abandon not your ranks to hasten forward. Beware of a too great enthusiasm, which is the only thing I fear. The new Mamies de precision 'are danger ous only at a distauce. They will not pre vent the bayonet from being what , it has hitherto been, the terrible weapon of the French infantry. "Soldiers Let us all do our duty, and put our confidence in God our country expects much from you. From one end of France to the other the following words of happy augury re-echo : , 'The new army of Italy will be worthy of her elder sis ter;, : . .'J- ... ' THE PROSPECTS OF V PAIGN. THE CAM- "Let ns consider by the light ot history the preparations which are now being made by France and Austria for the con duct of the present war. The campaign which began by the entry of French troops into Piedmont, and by the passage of-the Ticinoby the Austrians,is on a scale which very far exceeds any former struggle in these countries. In thelong.warsof the first Napoleon it may be observed that the armies continually increased in number, while, it is said,' the genious of the com mander and the prowess of the individual soldier diminished. The brilliant cam paigns of Napoleon's youth were made-at tlie head of a few .thousand men. Maren go itselfwas gained by 28,000, but the wars of 1805 actively. employed about 150,000 French; while in the campaign of Wagrarn' Moscow, and Leipsic we have incompara bly larger armies brought into the; field on both sides. Now, the war of 1859 be gins on the colossal scale of the later Em-' . pi re, and the armies .employed may at tain dimensions - such as no . single , State has hitherto beenTcapable ot producing. Pre suming " the tstruggle to be, confined to France "and Austria 'and .'to the field of Northern Italy," we shall have the specta cle of a conibat in closed lists such as the world has never before witnessed. , If both the antagonists fight well . and - stubbornly the conflict will :be. as interesting "to the jnilifary critic as - grievous to the philan . thropist. Both France: and Austria will be able to march almost all their enormous forces to the seat of war. Germany will, while the wars is confined to Italy, be sUf ficient.ly the ally of Austria to guarantee heir trom any attack in the rear from Rus sia, but not sufficiently to disturb France by any demonstration on the Rhine. It may be said that, for some time to come at least, the influence of Germany will have the effect of leavings both sides free to use all 'their strength against each other. That they will use it there is no doubt. The seat of war adjoins the territory of each, railway's and steamers transport their troops easily, and most of thelom riiarch- cs viiijo uinteuitru Riiu uiimnisiiea ar mies in the days of Napoleon -will be a voided. Enormous masses of armed men can be taken to the country they are to fight in as comfortably as if they were merely making a change of quarters. With this facility of transport, and this power of using the whole of their great standing armies we must expect to see two hosts gathered to gether on the plains of Italy such as no two single States ever yet opposed to each other. The numbers we do not pretend even to guess at. The French are push ing troops over the Alps, and loading their ships of war with soldiers for Genoa. The supply of food wall be the only limit to the number which can thus be brought into the field. The French probably have their information about the Austrian ar my, as the Court of Vienna has its own French proceedings. But Englishmen are little about the matter. allowed to know There is, howev- er, no doubt that the ower which sent a quarter of a million men to Sebastopol within eighteen months will be able to send that number into Northern Italy. Considering that the whole of Italy, with 27,000,000 people, may shortly be in sur rection, and that Sardinia has some 80, 000 troops of her own already, it may be reckoned without exaggeration that more than 300,000 men may iu the next two months be put in line to drive the Aus trians from their carefully chosen and now famous positions in Lombardy. On the othor hand, Austria can, and will, no doubt, bring an equal force into the field. She does not want men, for the empire contains 33,000,000 souls, without count ing the Italian Provinces. If the Finance .Minister can find the money to keep 300, 000 men on foot in Italy, General Gyulai will find work for thera all. Thev will le-ireTV to jfi arht wi t Irt lQc& i4 LLmul ;iiti.t It. ot rrenchmen, but they will be fine steady troops, superior in physique to their ene mies ; they will have all'that science has achieved in the way of perfect weapons of destruction, and they will be commanded by officers who know that the eyes of Eu rope are upon them, and that they must fight now for the very existence of their empire. Tkkrifig Fight with a Rattlesnake. We have hitherto supposed the day long since passed for chronicling a big snake fight in the vicinity of the "Central City, but such it appears is not the case, from a scene which recently transpired within asnortunve irom the uourt iiouse. Some of the older residents will remem ber a building formerly stood on Pros pect Hill, about six miles distant from Pe oria, and which was destroyed some seven or eight years since. During the past season another house was erected near the same location, and all that has remained as relics of the old hotel was a partially filled excavation for a cellar and two well preserved brick cisterns, which had been kept covered up. Last week the proprie tor of the place, while busy with his wife in preparing their summer flower-garden, found himself in the ivant of a few brick for the edge of the walks. Remembering the cisterns, he uncovered one of them, and finding it dry at the bottom, and only about six, feet in depth," he jumped in, and commenced throwing out some of the best brick he could pick from the walls. It seems there-was a piece of plank with one end partially imbedded in the earth that somewhat incommoded him, so seiz ing, with some exertion he pulled it out and threw it to the top.. What was his horror and surprise at. the moment to find that he had unearthed an enormous rattle snake and himself without a weapon in his hand. As the cistern was round, and. only about five feet in diameter, he could not jump out, and the snake bristling with anger and rattling defiance, was ready for battle. His screams brought his "wife to the scene, but she was so overcome with fright that she became powerless to ren der any assistance. The snake, in the meantime, had commenced the fight, mak ing'repeated springs at him, Out fortunate ly he managed on each occasion 4 to hit him upon the head with his b6ot,withont receiving a bite, and the snake all the time becoming more defiant and enraged. During the whole scene which lasted some several minutes, the man did not lose his presence of mind but watching the snake made so veral frantic efforts to jump bodi ly; from this seemingly pit of destruction. At the' last trial he fortunately grasped a brick, which gave way with him, and re mained in his hand as he again stood front- shots ta on record, for it struck, the snake on. ing his hissing enemy, r. After a tew more kicks. and. watching; his opportnniH .he threw it, makitijj probably one of ihc the head, and between the one sent and the wall he became a "pretty well used up sarpint." Weak and exhausted, our hero,, by the" assistance of his wife, was enabled to climb from the pit, but when , onc3 more on earth he fainted away, and it wag sonie time before he could be recovered. For several succeeding days he was quite -unwell. The snake was afterwards taken from the cistern, when it was found to measure seven feet in length, and contain ed thirteen rattles. The latter . have been preserved, and are placed in Shoaff's Mu seum for exhibition. Peoria III., Trans- . Virginia Election. Tlie result of the election in the city of Petersburg is an event worthy of special no tice, lhe Democratic candidate, and the American Whig, or Know Nothing, elect ed. It is not the first time, for a Whig to represent Petersburg in the Legislature, but the great peculiarity lies in the. fact, that the successful Opposition candidate is a foreign bom citizen. We acknowl edge that Mr. Donnan is a man of char acter and ability, and will make an excel lent representative, but we wish to know what has become of the renowned princi ple that "Americans must rule America V What has become of the oath, never to vote for a foreigner for any office whatever. Four vears ago Democrats were denounc ed, as traitors to the best interests ot the country, for their firm adherence to the principle, that naturalized citizens were equal to native born, and ought to be treated as 6uch. IfDemocrats were wrong then, are the Kow Nothings of Petersburg right now ? If the Democrats were right then,what are we to think of the party who denounced the Democratic doctrine, and bound their misguided followers, by oathf not to recognize the constitutional princi ple of equal rights to their foreign born fellow-citizens? We Democrats are often taunted with our organization, which, en ables us to offersuch a successful resistance to the enemies of the Constitution. We are insultingly called "slaves to our lead ers," but the reckless slander never could truthfully say that Democrats were ever so degraded, as to take an oath a certain principle, and then deliberately violate, that oath, at the bidding of their leaders Can the "Opposition" say as much? Yet this partvt who called God to wit IfelfenlfeTO fessions, now abandon them without the slightest hesitation, when it suits their in terests to do so. Can any confidence be placed iq a party, consisting of such un scrupulous leaders, and such blindly obe dient followers ? We feel assured, that the most bigotted amongst our opponents, will acknowledge, that there is good rea son for the people doubting the permanen cy of the "Opposition's" professions of pa triotism: What certainty is there that they will not abandon their opposition to Black Republicanism, as-eaisly as thev have their opposition to foreigners? It must not be forgot that they were pledged by oath to the latter, while we have only their simple assertion for the former ! I The election in Petersburg tells what little dependance can be placed on either oath or assertions, when it is profitable to- vio late them ; and the records of the Thirty Fourth Congress show that Black Repub licanism and Know Nothingisn are not very antagonistic, when a union will give them the command of the public treasury. The deliberate abandonmont of one of the cardinal principles ' of the so-called American party, is ominous of a revolu tion in "Opposition" tactics. ' How any man, who sincerely believes," that the "grand American principle of the exclusion of foreigners from office," is just and con- of I Mit?-nol an frkntirmr to act With tllft "Opposition" party, is beyond our com prehension, lie must possess an elastici ty of principle which, however convenient to the individual, would be of little ser vice to his country, in times of difficulty and danger. We recommend our readers of both parties to recall to their recollection, th& "Opposition' editorials and speeches of the "Know- Nothing" 'jampaign in 1854, '5-'G, and compare them with those of 1859. If this exercise does not convince them of the utter worthlessness of "Oppo sition1"; principles, then "neither, would they believe one, though he was risen from the dead." Warrenton News. , " , Carolina Female College. We regret to learn, from the Wadesboro7 Argusy that the exercises of Carolina Female College are to be discontinued after the20th June. A note from the President, RewR." Walsh thus explains the cause : " . . . "The simple truth is just this : the nnm ber of students inthe collegiate classes ' i& quite small; the college is in debt ,and unless help can ;be .obtained no one can tell'when the doors will again be 'opened for the re ception of atndent8. . In '.view ot.the. fore going facts, all the members of the faculty I and tho pvi v:fc 'othciws i'vh : " - c close of the session.' .. I ! '
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