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THE WILMINGTON JO PfiNAL. WlbtfltfOTOff, If. C, FRIDAY, APRIL. 30, 1853. Superior Coart. On Saturday last the Court was engaged in the trial of a charge of, arson brought against a man named Smith. The jury brought in a verdict of " not guilty." Solicitor Strange for the State ; Joshua G. Wright, T. C. Miller and M. B. Smith, Esqrs., for the defence. Jesse Holley.the free mulatto convicted of murder and arson, was brought up for sentence about 9 o' clock at night. His counsel moved an arrest of judgment on account of some exceptions taken to the bilfof indictment. The exceptions were overruled by the Court, and sentence of death pronounced, to he carried into effect in one month. An appeal has W-en taken to the Supreme Court. The two soldiers, Rvan and Carville, convicted of manslaughter, were sentenced to be branded and imprisoned for one year. The first part of the sentence was immediately exe cuted. They are now in prison undergoing the last. a lie CoinpromUe and tl Convention. Baltimore will be the scene of two Conventions which will assemb'e in June next, the Democratic Convention on the 1st day-thc Whig on the lGth. In both, the test question, nominally of the Compro mise, but in fact, only of the Fugitive Mavc Law, will be introduced; for the truth is. that the territo rial bills, as well as the bill admitting California, have already passed beyond the possibility of repeal, and the only repealable portions of the so-called com promise series arc those abolishing the slave trade in the District of Columbia, and providing for the ren dition of fugitive slaves. The finality of the Com promise, then means, in fact, the finality of these bist named measures, but more especially of the Fu gitive Slave Law, because there is no probability of the South renewing the agitation for the purpose of repealing that aboli-hing the slave trade in the Dis tviet. The whole Compromise as it now stands, then resolves itself into the maintainancc and enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Law. and no vague generalities about the Compr: mise ought to satisfy or will satis fy the South unless this portion is so clearly indica ted as to preclude the possibility of mistake. In the manner of calling national Conventions, there is a difference between the organ'zation of the Democratic and Whig parties. The Democratic Convention is called together by a national commit tee deriving its authority from a previous Conven tionthe Whig body is summoned together by a call emanating from a caucus of the Whig members of Congress. At the time of the assembling of the present Congress, caucusses of the respective parties were held, and the Compromise test tried to be in troduced into the Democratic caucus by way of a party platform. It was very properly laid on the table, as not being within the jurisdiction of a Con gressional caucus, but strictly the province of the national Convention, a perfectly separate body and actirrg under an independent call. About the same time that the above action was taken in the Democratic caucus, a sort of Compromise resolu tion was passed in a sort of Whig caucus, composed of a few Northern men, and the rest Southern members, not more than half of the party being present, and thereat there was much crowing as ex hibiting the superior fidelity of the party. Time passed on, and a few weeks since, the affirmative re hulntions of Mr. Jackson of Georgia, and Mr. Hill yer of Alabama, were brought to a test vote in the House, when lo, and behold, only ten men out of the whole Whig party North, could be brought up to the scratch, while the vast majority of Northern Democrats voted for the resolutions. This somewhat stopped the vaunting of the Whigs over their sham caucus at the opening of the session ; but the un kindest cut was yet to come. A call was issued for a Whig caucus, for the understood purpose of nam ing the time, place, etc., for the assembling of the Whig National Convention ; and in this caucus, hav ing direct jurisdiction and authority over the mat ter, the compromise test was kicked out ruled out of order suppressed and this at the suggestion and dictation of William H. Seward, carried out by Willie P. Mangnm and Edward Stanly of North Carolina. These gentlemen are talented, adroit, plausible and popular in private life, and of course did not take this step without some smooth-showing excuse; but the fact stares us in the face, that a Whig caucus, by paity usage, an essential element in the organization of the party, has ignominiously kicked out the compromise, and that their movement lias been taken in the interest and at the dictation of the Northern friends of Gen. Scott. We re I eat, then, that it behooves all Southern men to scrutinize narrowly the movements of a Convention called together under such circumstances, and with the example of Gen. Taylor before their eyes, to take n t politics upon ti ust because allied with military gbi y. as men take nauseous medicines when made ma le up into gilded pills. As we have already stated, the compromise is an unmeaning generality, unless especial reference is made to the Fugitive Slave Law, which alone may be considered in the market and the action of both of iho Baltimore Conventions should be narrowly scrutinized, reference being had to this particular cMiid oration. 3-Thc Whig State Convention met at Raleigh on Monday last, 20th. The Petersburg Intelligencer (Whig) invokes it to denounce the course of Messrs. Mangum and Stanly as hostile to the true interests of lhe South. By the way, talking about the Con vention we learn that our friend of the Herald, who left here on Saturday to go to Raleigh as a delegate, J'. ll asleep just about the time the train passed through Gnldaboro' and so kept on. Whether he has yet woke up or is still progressing northward we have not beard. If not stopped he must be some where in the neighborhood of Rusting by this time. TheuNkw Era." Wc have received the first No. of a neat week'y paper, having the above title, the publication of which has been commenced at Goldsborough, by Messrs. Pubinson-& Muiphy. The Era is under the editorial superintendence of Wm. Kobinson. Esq., late of the Republican & Pa triot, and is mainly devoted to Education, Agricul ture and the Mechanic arts. The objects of the pa ywr ire highly commendable, and the announcement of Mr. Uobinson's name as editor gives promise that they will be carried,out in style commensurate with their importance. Two dollars a year in advance. JC?We publish a communication furnished to the last Fayetttville Carolinian, in answer lo some enqui ries made by ibis paper in rela'ion to the progress and practical operation of the woiks on the Cap Fear and Deep River Improvements. It will be of interest to our readers. fj-OuR Sampson County Friends, will please ac cept our warmest thanks for the very liberal maimer in which they voluntarily came forward at Clinton this week, and made payment of a very large number of the subscription billa due to thin office. We are also grat ified o them, for the very handsome accession of new Fiibscribers to our list without any solicitation on our part. They have our veiy best wishes for their welfare and prosperity. JCST'Tho steamship City of Glasgow arrived at the Lewestown, Del., Breakwater on the 24th inst.rin 13 days from Liverpool. News anticipated. Wbig Stale Convention. , , The Wbig State Convention: wbich assembled at Raleigh on Monday last, "nominated John Kerr, Esq., of Caswell, as the Wbig candidate for Governor. The Convention also passed resolutions in favor of Fillmore and Graham also sustaining the Compro mise, and another declaring that," whenever the peo ple require the Constitution to be changed, the best mode to effect changes is by Convention, formed on the Federal basis' This last resolution, although at variance with the views and feelings of the great majority of the Whis of this county, does not surprise us at all. We have known and felt for some time past that such would be the course of the Whig Convention, and it is more than probable that the next move will be a declaration of the propriety and necessity of abolishing the present basis in the Senate altogether. By the way, we have beard some of the most absurd assertions made in regard to this basis matter, of which sensible men could possibly be guilty. We have actually bean! it asserted that the abolition of the landed qualification for Senatorial electors would be an abolition of the property basis in the Senate Now, to show the fallacy of this, it is only necessary to refer to the federal bais, in accordance with which members of Congress and State Commoners are elected, and by which no distinction is made be- tween individual voters, whether they be slavehold ers or not. It is purely a matter of districts or of counties, and not ot muiviuuais. imnciTOUJ knows, and yet nobody pretends to say that the fede ral basis is in any way interfered with. It would he equally absurd to say that "equal suffrage,11 or the doing away with the personal distinction between free white men. would interfere with the property basis in the Senate since in fact the representation is founded upon aggregate taxation, and not in any way upon individual wealth. It is the interest and the duty of tne people ot iN . Carolina to give her towns a tair chance to impose no disqualifications upon those w ho may devote them- J selves to commercial, mechanical, or professional : pursuits; for the great want of our State lias been , some large towns to give a market for the surplus produce of the surrounding country; and in return, supply the people, with the necessities and elegancies of life at a reasonable rate. No one who looks at the matter candidly, can fail to perceive the effect which the grow th of Wilmington has exerted upon the prosperity of the Cape Fear country. Of course the benefits have been mutual, and we claim no praise for the towns that we do not accord to the country what benefits the one benefits the other : but the towns in our State are small, weak, and struggling, and while they should have no exclusive privileges, ought to labor under no peculiar disqual ifications, such as that created by the provision in the constitution which requires the possession of 50 acres of land in order to have a vote for Senator in the State Legislature, a provision which virtually disfranchises the town of Wilmington in the Senate. Of crurse, we allude to this place simply by way of: illustration and not of pre-eminence. Cc-A typographical error occurred in the report of ; the proceedings of the late Democratic District Con- j vention. published in the Daily Journal of Saturday last. A few copies some ten or twelve got out with j the word imprisonments instead of improvements, in j one of the resolutions which sets forth as a Democrat- ic principle " a denial of power in Congress, to com- met.ee and carry on a general sys'em of Internal lm- rrcvemennr instead of wh.ch, in the ten or twelve i copies alluded to, it read Internal Imprisonments." j It so happened that one of these stray cop.es was sent io me rayenevuie woserver, which -..:.. -i .c ; new doctrine. Of course it understands the state of the case OCrWe have but little to say in reply to the re marks of the Herald of Wednesday, on the subject one article headed Fillmore, Scott, Mangnm, etc., the of the compromise. We have already in a previous following paragraph occurs : number stated the reasons which influenced Mr. Lei not our people be deceived by lhe braggart de Ashe, and s.ur.e other Southern Democrats in voting durations of Mr. Mangum, that Gen. Scott is the on against the resolutions affirming the compromise. ly available candidate. If it be so, what but the sup- ,w , ... . ,i . ,i. , ,. i i. f n.,.' port of the Seward faction at the North, makes it so? e have nothing now to add to that statement. Uur : i . .. i t . . a c .i District Convention adopted no resolutions upon the subject of the compromise for a very simple reason, Its members were all of one mind, and required no! if.. -4.1 :. I iTitiiiiiiinikiNf ii i 1 1 1 roiii ill iiiin :v"7 n lw i i: in i cu. it must be as a ground of settlement between different sections, not as a canon of political faith among Southern Democrats. We accede to, .and acquiesce in. the compromise as a tinahtv we oy no means bv no ni'-ans ! praise it. or exalt it into the position of a fnndamen- tal principle, or a favorite measure. It is simply the ne plus ultra of concession nothing more or better, ! and it must be enforced in all its parts, ornot at all. j At'ciilcitt . We learn that on Friday last Dr. Thomas Bunt ing of Sampson county, met with an accident which might have been of a very serious character. It seems that on that day the Doctor and some other gentlemen were gunning in the vicini ty of his resi dence. While getiing over a fence, or rather in jumping down from a fence, the gun belonging to one of the party went off. the load passing very close to Dr. Bunting, and some five small shot lodging in his right arm iust above the wrist. The wound is not in any dangerous way, butstiil subjects the Doc- tor to a nod deal of ineon venienee 0 . - Iixlia. We copy an article under the above heading from i Bombay paper, as s hmvinff the annexation which England is p'ayipg in the east, the real mo tive for her quarrel with Burmah being developed in the last sentence, wherein reference is made to "the indemnity which will most probably be exacted in the shape of a siice of territory.'1 Our friend of the Wilmington Journal speaks of Judge Douglas as a 11 very clever, talented, and wor thy gentleman.'' We go several degrees beyond that. We regard Judge Douglas as one of the abljst men of this or any other country : but it does not follow, because we say this, that we prefer him for the Pre sidency. Our preference is the nominee of the Bal timore Convention. We join the Journal in the compliments it pays to Ruchanan and others: and we are proud, as a Dem ocrat and an American, that we have so lare a list of distinguished and glorious names, from which to pluck a bright particular star" to be placed where Washington, Jefferson. Jackson and Polk shone in the better days of the Republic. U e agree with the Journal that Judge Douglas is "worthy" of a 'vErore" discreet advocate" than the Democratic Review. The truth is. that periodical has shown, by its conduct, that it is no friend to Judge Douglas, and it has injured as far as it could. Democratic prospects and the Democratic cause. We repeat what we said some time since, that we can have no respect for the cant phrases " old fogies"' and " voung America." We e-o in for the Demoe- racy, both -young"' and - old,'' and for a brilliant and signal victory at the next election. Raleigh Standard. There need be no difference of opinion about Judge Douglas he is certainly one of the ablest one of the very ablest men in the country, and we should be most happy to do battle under his leadership. But we have had our doubts, which aic fast chang ing into certainties, in regard to the real character of the ' Democratic Review." The impression upon our mind is becoming irresistible, that it is not a Democratic periodical at all that its object is to sow dissensions in the ranks of the party that, in fact, it is either a spy or a traitor a device of the enemy, which cannot too soon be exposed. Sampson Superior Coart.; V - The Superior Court pf Law for Sampson county is insessioh this week, His Honor Judge Ellis presiding: On Wednesday the 2Sth, a free mulatto named Wm. Boon alias Wm. Hussey, was on trial upon a charge of B-irglary with intent to. commit a rape At 21 P. M., when the associate editor of this paper left. Clinton, His Honor was charging the Jury. We have not yet heard the result. Solicitor Strange and J. C. Dobbin, Esq., for the State ; C. G. Y right, Esq., for the prisoner. The case of Bebee, a member of Johnson & Co.'s Circus Company, indicted for the murder of Milton Matthis in the neighborhood of Taylor's Bridge last winter, was to have come on yesterday (Thursday,29th inst.) J. C. Dobbin and George Davis, Esqrs., for the prisoner; Solicitor Strange and Duncan K. Mc Rac, Esq., for the State. Mr. Fishcrt of the same Company, bound over to the same time and place to answer the same charge, had not made his appearance on the 28th. Hail Storm. On Tuesday morning last, a heavy shower of hail fell in the neighborhood of Finey Grove, in the upper part of Sampson county. The gardens, and early vegetation generally, sustained considerable injury. ftSrThe Steamship Franklin arrived at N. York Qn tjJC 27th from Havre and Southampton, bringing London dates up to the 15th, being five days later than those brought by previous arrivals. The poli tical news is unimpnr ant. There has been a slight advance in Cotton and breadstuff's, with a firm mar ket. The money market is glutted, and Consols and all other descriptions of stocks are at a very high rate. The packet ship Melbourne, had arrived with gold dust from the Victoria diggings, in Australia, to the value of 200.000, or nearly a million of dollars, making 600.000, or nearly three millions of dollars received during the month ; this seems to be coming up to California. The spring in England has been eqnrtny unpromising as with us. q'herc js nothing of interest from the Continent of Europe. Louis Napoleon keeps on in his course of (j(Sp0tiSm, apparently regardless of consequences. jjjs succcsS so far however, proves that he must have known Avhat he was about and the people with whom he has had to deal. JK5yThe steamship Northern Light arrived at New York on the night of the 29th, with 300 passengers, a small amount of specie, and 15 days later from California. Her passengers left San Francisco on the 1st of April by the Pacific. She came by the Nicaragua route. There is little news of any kind. Business, both commercial and mining, appears to be prosperous. Gold is coining down into San Francisco in large quantities. Immense numbers of Chinese were also pouring in. JG" Yesterday's issue of the Goldsboro' Telegraph contains the valedictory of its late Editor, George V. Strong, Esq., and the introductory of his successors, Messrs Senark and Whitaker. Mr. Stronsr carries vith him in his retil.emcnt our best and warmest I wishes for his prosperity and happiness. It is al- v,ays a matter of regret with us to part with gentle-; nien k0 jv. Strong, whose courtesy and fairness endeared them even to their opponents. We hope that his successors may meet with political defeat, aru business prosperity, c.77t dMr. Siangan, Thp movemcls of Wr Mangum, in favor of Q lmve a fefmenl jn the co, of lhe ()f We have not g lhal RUstams him wilh lhe exception of , Register. Even the press of Mr Slants DlsiUct dws ,10t c,,inc;je in tie opinions expressed by the Senator, although Mr. Stanly has thought proper to place himself in the same situation. The Fayette ville Observer of the 27th is full of the subject, and in Aim is inai u monve yvincii miouiu iiiiiuem ea ouiiuien man lo go for him ? On the contrary, it is quite sufficient motive in opposing him to the last. And wc tlu not hesitate to .-ay, that under present circum- stances, maintaining his present position, Gen. Scott cannot possibly get a solitary electoral vote in all thp South. We heir that the declaration mav be marked. ve meet eveiyilay wilh Whigs who declare that they never will vote for him for President under any ca- cumstai ccs ; and wilh others who will not vole lor him vvniist lie maintains ins pteseni attiuicte oi silence, for the evident iiuroose of conciliating those whosp fa V()I1,e c;ni Juiale he is under.-- l lo be. Such too is the tenor of numerous leiU we have received. We plainly, lor we desire ihat our Northern friends We are happy lo he able to concur with the Obser ver in its course upon this question, at least, to a con siderabie extent. We do not like to dabble in'o our neighbours quarrels, el-e we might wonder how this i maiter is to be reconcile.!; we do say however, that we hope the position of the Observer upon this subject i may be maintained rather than that ol the Register. Tie Slaves y (Question io C.ilfoi nia. The Charleston Courier, of the 24th, says : " We are under obligations to a friend in California for i legislative documents of that State, which he has ! from time to time been kind enough to forward US. Amongst others received yesterday, we find a copy of the bill entitled an Act recommending to the I eiuu"" lu me lul U1 S'""- u convention, electors to vote for or against calling j to revise and change the entire Constitution of Cal ifornia. It passed the House, we understand by a vote of 51 to 7, and was sent to the Senate on the 3d of March. A majority, we learn, of the assembly is pro-Slavery, and yesterday we were favored with the perusal of a letter from one of our own citizens now in California, who states therein that he thinks the effort now being made to render California a Slave State will prove successful, and that in the event of a failure it will be endeavored to make the Southern portion, at all events, Slave. 'Justice,' says the writer, ; demands one of these two courses. Situated as we now are. the wealth and ( inexhaustible resources of California are open to all .h 11 ii.. CV .il c. . iuu nuim eAifp me. oouiuern stares. .Any man with capital can invest it in any way he may deem best, and reap a rich return for his toil: but Ave of the South, because our capital is invested in slaves, alone of all the world are deprived of a right, not a privilege, which v e should first have enjoyed. Had it not been for the Southern volunteers, California might still have remained in the hands of the sloth ful and retrograding Mexican, or else in the grasp of the unrelenting Englishman ' " Ey-Re'id and Clements, convicted some weeks ago of murder upon the high seas, were executed at Richmond on Friday last JKiOur Dramatic friends, Jefferson & F.llsler, are performing this week in Columbia, S. C. We pre sume they will shortly pay us a visit. Georgia Ukion Convention. This Convention ad journed on Friday last after adapting resolutions de claring that the constitutional union party of Georgia, will not give i's support lo any candidate for Presi dent or Vice President of the United States, who will not declare acquiescence in lhe compromise measures as a final adjustment, and thnt another convention of he constitutional union part shall be held after the I Presidential nominations have been made at Baltimore, lo take action with regard lo ihose nominations. Xorth Carolina Whig State Convention. Raleigh, N. C, April 27 The Whijr Slate Con vention adjourned sine die a-dy: John Kerr of CaS well countjvwas nominated for Governor. The fol lowing resolutions were adopted : 1st. Declare strongly m favor ot fiumore iqr rres ident. '"-"v . 2d.! Declares for Graham for Vice-President. 3d. Pledges their support lo the nominee of the Whig National Convention, if unequivocally in favor of the Compromise. . ,4th. Opposes the doctrine of intervention. 5th. Disapprovals of the public lands being given for the beneht of the new Mates. 6th. Declares their attachment to the Constitution and the Union, and that they will resist all efforts to enfeeble them. Other resolutions upon State matters were also pa-?ed. ' . . From the Washington Union. The Sectional Canvass for Gen. Scott. We copy below the view taken by .the Baltimore American of the arrangements lately made by the Whig Congressional caucus to surrender the abso lute control of the Whisr National Convention to the anti-slaverv agitators, and to elect General Scott, if possible, by an avowed sectional canvass. The A merican is one of the most thorough-going Wbig journals in the country, and has always been marked by the moderation of its tone on the sectional issues. Its indignant protest, therefore, against the counsels which now bear sway in the Whi party goes far to show, in connexion with the declaration of almost the whole Southern Whig press, that the Scott movement as now led and organized can command at the South hardly enough support to make a con siderable exception to the unanimity with which the Southern popular vote will be cast against him. Messrs. Mangum, Stanly, and Ward will, trom pres ent appearances, hardly be able to organize a re spectable Southern Whig bolt in Gen. Scott s favor if he receive the Whisr nomination, in his present position of manifest hostility to the maintenance of the-fugitive law. It is manifest that almost xne en tire whig, party of the South will sympathize in the spirit and follow the lead on this point ot Messrs. Marshall, Gentry. Williams, Cabell, Outlaw, and Brooke, and their associates, who either withdrew from h?. caucus in disgust or refused to participate 1 at all in its proceedings. Indeed, no other result could be anticipated when the Northern Whig ma jority had declared, in substance, its fixed determi- nation io nave a sectional canvass, anu io repuuiaie . , ... , j a.. all the obligations of the Compromise as a bribe tor whig-abolition votes. Upon these proceedings the Baltimore American comments as follows : " The Congressional Whig caucus, presided over by a Southern Senator, finds it expedient, it would seem, to rule out the Compromise from its delibera tions. Did the caucus, and that Southern Senator and other Southern leaders who went with him. dread to lose the favor and the votes of Mr. Seward and his faction 1 If these things be so, it would be better, we respectfully suggest, for both of the Con ventions that are to meet in this city in Juno to ad iourn at once upon assembling and go to Buffalo. Let them not pretend to a nationality which they show themselves so incompetent to maintain; let them shatter their platforms, and use the disman tled wrecks lor fuel to kindle .the tires of that sacn fice at which the rights of the South, the supremacy ot the constitution, and the integrity ot the Union, are to be offered up at the shrine of sectionalism ; for it is to sectionalism that they succumb and yield the tribute ot obedience. "The country will hardly allow itself to be de ceived upon this point. Men of the South of all parties cannot but ask themselves. Shall we allow our political actions to be controlled and the ex pression of our political opinions to be suppressed by a fanatical body of sectionalists at the North, hostile to us in the extreme, and who will avail themselves of the concession thus yielded to advance more ex- horbitant demands 1 Shall we offer encouragement to abolitionism by thus tacitly acknowledging its strength and our own dread of it? How can we sup pose otherwise than that the whole North every non-slavehoiding State will hasten to occupy a ground which we shall have demonstrated to be po litically so strong and commanding ? These con fusions force themselves into view, nor can they be kept out of the sight of the public, no matter how persevcringly the politicians who do not wish to see them may persist in blinding themselves. ''The whig caucus, or those Southern leaders who sustain its course, announce to Mr. Fillmore and Mr Webster.. and through them to the whole country. now and henceforth, that whenever a Northern man shall be found bold enough and patriotic enough to incur the risk of odium at home in the support of a constitutional principle which secures the rights and the safety of the South, he must not only do it at rns own peril, but with the assurance beforehand that those whom he befriends will abandon him without scruple to the tender mercies of those whom he has offended for their sake and for his duty's sake ; and that they will thus desert him when they m;ght uphold him. and when they might make his cause triumphant with their own showing gratitude for services done to them and rendering a manly ac knowledgement for services done to the country. 'The country, we doubt not, will take note of this virtual announcement. " General Lopez stilt. Auve. The New Orleans Crescent says: One of the returned Cuban prisoners stales that he is credibly informed, and has reason to believe, that General Lopez was not garoted. But that another Individual, a notorious criminal, who very much resembled Lopez, was the sufferer in the tragic scene at the P'aza de Armas. Our informant stales that Lopez is confined in one of the dungeons of Havana, where, without light, with out clothing, solitary and scantily fed, he is daily sub jected to the most excrutiating tortures. Spanish in vention, it is said, has been put to the rack to invent tortures sufficiently refined for this scourge of royalty in the Antilles florid a Democratic State Convention. Charleston, April 26. On the 19th instant the Democratic State Convention of Florida assembled and nominated James E. Brown. Esq , as their can didate for Governor : A. T. Maxwell for Congress; and D. L. Yulee and Dr. D. W. Spencer. Delegates at large to the Baltimore National Convention. A series of resolutions were adopted, the first of winch reaffirms the resolutions of the V lrgina con vention of 1848, and the second endorses the resolu tions adopted by the Baltimore Democratic Conven tion of 1844. The third resolution deprecates the revival of any past issues : and the fourth appoints fourteen delegates to the baltimore National Con vention. They are sent uninstructed, no preference being expressed by the Convention. The first choice of the delegates elected is under stood to be for Douglas for President and Jefferson Davis for Vice President. The Cost or a Patent-Right, in England, is about .100. or $500 This high fee operates as a restric tion upon the number of inventions seeking protection in this way. The poor inventor, or the inventor of a machine of comparitively small value, cannot afford lo pay for protection so large a proportion of profits, as yet prospective and uncertain. The number of pat enls issued annually in England is less than half the average issued by our own Patent-Office for the last four years The fee for a patent in our own country is $30 to an American citizen, $f-00 to a subject of the Queen of Great Britian, and $300 lo all other persons being foreigners. The fee to British subjects is based upon the principle of reta'iation. Its reduction was repeatedly urged upon the cons'uleration of Con Tess by the lale Commissioner of Patents, on the double ground of po'icy and justice, inasmuch as our citizens are charged no more in England than British subjects; and, moreover, the reduction of our lte would bring us a great number of valuable inventions which do not now come to us. Refinement in Language." Go it, Bob-tail, he's gaining on you," is now rendered, or ought to be ; Go it, Robert's extremity, the gentleman in the rear is approximating to an inconvenient vicinitude of the longitudinal appendage which subtends the lower ex tension of .your caudel elongation." Bridge Burned. The W. & R. R'Road Bridge a cross Fishing Creek, was burned down Wednesday morning last ; how it occurred is not known. The bridge was small, and will soon be up again. Pas sengers will net be detained in consequence of it. iuOm. xyii insi. Fire in Raleigh. A fire took place in Raleigh, on the morning cf the 25th, at about half-past one o'clock, which destroyed the beautiful residence of L. O B. Branch, Esq on Hillsbofo Street, with all the furniture in the 2d story. ' Loss between G and $7,000. Ho insurance. Commercial 1 29A. - i - . , - j ? '"';::'V ':From the:.Commercial.' V-. WHiTEviLtC rC April 23.lf'1852. -a Sir James Blackman.whd lived in iBe; lower part of this county, was fhot night before last in bis own doorj and died last night ; as yet there is no one bus picioned of the act On: last Friday; night VVnght Duncan's bouse was fired into with a heavy charge, and he and his sisler narrowly escaped,-the load en tering the wall oi the house just over them where tbey were" lying. . , -.. - , ,,i '-i Should Arnold, who muraerea uyson in iuui ' and is sentenced to be hung the 21st May, be pardon ed, which he has been made fo expect, mere m uc no guessing when or where this waylaying and shoot- ng will stop. i ours respecinm j. 5 ALFRED SMITH. Congress. ' Washington, April 24. Ttia Sonata did not sit. , . ; 4 11V .v...- . , Uaitce- T? epr F.SEXTATTVF.S. The session ot tne Hnnco was devoted to the further consideration ui "u"'"' . . : - ., e fh hnmfistead bill, in Committee of the hole, on a a v r a w w - - Hie state of the Union, (Mr. Hibbard in the chair.) Sneeches were made in the committee uy iviessrs - . . w Fwinf. Siblev and Ficklin. Mr. Bowie then obtained the floor, tne commmce ' J . M.. rose, Jsnd the House adjourned. Presidential Elections. As ?t seems now to us to be pretty well settled th'nt the Presidential Electors will he chosen accord ing to the apportionment under the Census of 1850 which will give this State ten insteau in eieuu Electoral votes -and as the Whig Convention is to assemble in this city next week, and the Democratic Convention in less than a month thereafter, wc deem it not improper to bring the subject to the notice ot the Whig Convention, and to express me opinion that the Democratic Convention would readily con cur in any reasonable plan that might be suggested, . t 1 t f 1 . . .1 1 a. ? with tne view oi raciiuaung me eiecuon. How would it do to assume that the present Con gressional Districts should be. for this election, the Electoral Districts, with one Elector for the State at large ? This plan, if adopted, would put it in the power, at once, of the two parties to nominate their Electors and begin the campaign as we nave hereto fore done, during the Summer the discussion could go on, the people could know the Electors and their Districts ; and before voting, the Assembly coma, and no doubt would, legalize by a special act for the time being the plan thus adopted. Without some plan of this sort, it would be almost impossible for the people, atter tiie uismcrs snail nave Deen uiiu off, to assemble Conventions in time to nominate the Electors ; and the Electors would, in all probability, have to be nominated by the members of Assembly from the Counties composing the Districts. The latter plan, it is true, would not be objectionable, for the nomination of the Electors is but a. prepara tory step, and can have no effect in shaping the re sult of the popular vote ; but it seems to us prefera ble to fall upon some.plan like the one suggested, for the reasons above set forth. Our idea is, that it will be necessary, under any view of the matter, to convene the Assembly some five or six weeks in advance of the regular period. We are, of course, not authorized to say what the Governor and Council will do in the matter ; but we feel fully justified in saying they will take such steps as to render the vote of the State certain in the en suing election, and that the Legislature will be con vened at a time to be attended with the beast public inconvenience and expeme. We trust these suggestions will be received in the spirit in which they are made. This is a question which can have no legitimate connexion with party. What we all seek is, to clear away the difficulties which surround the subject, and to give effect to the public will. Raleigh Standard. Slaughteb at Buenos Atres A letter dated Bu enos Ayres, Feb. 18, describing the defeat of Rosas by Urquiza. says : Urquiza is scarcely less of the tyrant and tiger than Rosas. He shoots without meicy. Eighty men and women were shot at once at the Quinla, on Thursday last, and yesterday he issued a proclamation which compromises five or six thousand, requiring all magis trates to arrest them, wherever found, and every man will be shot. His first proclamation was that all who were found stealing or plundering, should be shot n fifteen minutes after sentence. It was only necessary to accuse proof was scarcely wanted or asked for. It was estimated lhat 400 were shot in three or four days the last was the fusilade of 80. There has been a discovery made at the Quinta, which has produced some excitement even here, viz : some barrels of pickled human heads. I believe they were carefully put each in a cask, fifteen or twenty, by themselves. Two explanations are given of it one is, that Rosas intended them to grace a triumphal entry into the city, and the otjier, that they were to be sent into the interior as scarecrows at the cross roads, as is the custom in Spain to this day. Hallway JtasseiiKers. A company has been in existence for a short peri od in London, under the title of the " Railway Pas sengers' Assurance Company,1' whose business is confined to the insurance against casualty upon the various railways of Great Britain. It appears from a report that the scheme prospers, and that they have been doing a satisfactory business tor the last six months. Their report states : " The tickets which have been isued. during the six months ending the 31st December, are as follows: Periodical tickets, 2227. Double journey tickets, second class, 273; third class, 19.471. Single jour ney tickets, first class, 29,520; second class, 74,01G; third class, 133. 4G8. The amount received for pre miums is 4197 2s. 3d. showing an increase of 1.- 041 Cs. Gd. upon the previous half-year, and making the total receipts ot the year lool, the sum of 352 18s. . The claims upon the company for compensation. which have been made and adjusted during the past half-year, consist ot eight fatal cases, and eighty five cases ot personal injury; and the entire number of claims met by payments since the formation of the company, consist of ten fatal cases, on which an ag gregate amount of 2580 has been paid, and 184 cases of personal injury, the payments on which, in various turns, have amounted to 3209 3s.: making a total paid in compensation on 194 claims, up to the 31st of December last, of 5789 3s., in addition to the sum of 324 15s. Gd. paid for medical expen ses. The Directors recommend that the proprietors should receive interest for the half-year on. the amount paid on their shares, at the rate of 4 per cent, per annum, free of income-tax, which will leave a balance in band of 1913 13s. to be carried over to the next half year. Looking to the immense number of accidents upon the 1 ines in this country, it is desirable that some such concern should be started here. Nullification in Massachusetts The Massa cbusetts Legislature, for some days past, have had a very spirited aeuate upon a 11 bill tor the further protection of personal liberty, (so called) the object of which looks directly towards the nullification of the Fugitive Slave Law. They came to a vote on the subject on Thursday evening, it seems, with what result the following" from the Daily Advertis er, will tell : It will be seen on reference to our Lenslativf journal, that the Senate yesterday passed, by a sma!l majority, me uiu ot which we have given some no tice, soon after it was reported, to nullify the Fu gitive Slave Law. This is to be done by taking from the U. S. authorities the jurisdiction of a class of questions arising exclusively under a law of the United States, by means of the process of habeas corpus." Columbia, April 2G, 5.5 P. M. The State Convention assembled this morning. 147 members were present. His Excellency Gov. Means, was elected President. James A. Strobbart. Clerk, Barney O'Neal, Door-keeper, and J. Hayes! Messenger. Grsat interest is manifested, and a large audience attended the State-House to-day. Nothing, however, was doneexjjpt the organization. Whig State Convention of Missouri Th Whig Convention of Missouri assembled at St. Louis on lhe 19th instant, and nominated Col. A. W. Doni phan for Governor ; James Winslnw for a Hnvomnr- m. u Urace for Secretary of State ; B. Cerdell for Treasurer; H. P. Barber for Auditor; Benj. Lemmon, Jr., for Registrar of Lands ; and L. Hendrick for Attor ney General. Mr. Fillmore was nominated for Presi dent, and Mr. Crittenden for Vice President; subject to lhe decision of lhe National Convention. A reso lution was adopted sympathizing with the Hon. Hen ry Clay, in his protracted illness. Mr. Gentry, a distinguished Tennessee whig, said at v v 'g caucU3 in Washington that " he believed that the northern whig party would degenerate into a miserable sectional, abolition faction, and become so infamous that it would be a disparagement ever to nave been connected wilh. "UJ 'From tlie FnvtUfin7rr! Cap Fear am! Deep Rier In,prov iiirtuo a &iiuri. uiue tince in relation to th . . . v...vy ii, IKJUlIOn tO til '"i work, we are enabled to present the fi-.ii.. e aW.1 esting communication from a gentleman Ji -"throughly conversant wilh the subiect 18 lbo. iu ite Muauor oj me i,arountan ; xMy attention has been called to the folW;n tide which recently appeared in the vn Journal: . , , . unS'ou "Deep River Improvement. Will our cont the Fayetteville Carolinian and Observer be kin iPrar5e of inform tViAir rpfirlora vKf Ti.f.f.i.tc i , fcDftnr.1. . inent is making 1 and why it is that a large borfv fJ'e. accumulated above the locks, cannot find a pa8Sa them 1 Wo have heard some things about the , ,tllro""h would like to have a little more information ?,attr. The people down this way feel a deep interest in iVtK wtimus itmtu lutuiy ui lui'iu uave M1U llhpml ney." eral of Having it in my p'ower'to afford the irfor desired by the editor of the Journal, I tak ' pleasure in doing so. In regard to 14 what t the Deep River improvement is making": Th rFesi of Directors at their last meeting, itistruct ir President and Ensineer to place a RnfHP;0.i -.v' v. fit... t. r. ; :vcl 'u na - each and every point from Bullin's Falls to th rCe ii viiios victA uu i at unri lilf. IMllUSlVe tn ' mc completion oi uic worn in the shortest r time. This is being done as rapidly as the T can be collected, and with the exeention a r i ..v . ga r rf.i d,..i, n... . 'ha field Dam, the Ked-Rock Dam, and the InnJP- Dam, the work has been commenced at every i point. It will be commenced at the three I named Dams during this and the next went 6 leave nothing undone to ensure the com pier. the work during the present year. 10a;if In reply to " why it is that a large body of ty accumulated above the locks, cannot find a Ms through them," lhe editor is informed that th-6 no accumulation of Timber or Lumbrr above0" one of the Locks. All that reached the Lock: ' through them on the late slight rise, and tuYT1' that have arrived since that time were passed thr I in the last three days. -v1 In this connection it is proper to stare for th ' formation of those at a distance from the work th" in consequence of the Jones' Fall Dam not hi been completed last fall, from causes beyond th'' control of the Board, requiring yet three and a l r ranges of timber to raise it to its full height, tl water does not flow back upon the sill of the Sil ' Run Lock, and until the river rises at thatiioint tO? feet, rafts cannot float, over the' mitre sill. Numbers of rafts, at various times, have passed all the Locks and lodged upon the shoalsijelowthem They only got that far on their way to market ;Q consequence of the Locks and Dams, and were com pelled to wait until the river rose sufficiently toW them on. From the unprecedented dryness of tV winter tbey have often been detained for a Ion riod on these shoals. With the usual winter water even in the unfinished state of the Jones' Fall Dam advantage might have been taken of the improve', ment for the purpose of floating lumber, timber and naval stores from the head of Smiley's Falls down. In conclusion, permit me to say that I am awar? that the people of Wilmington " feel a deep interest in the success of this word,'" and that " many paid liberal sums of money' towards it, for Trliieh they must believe, as all do who take a proper riew of this subject, that there is a rich reward in store for them.- W.B T April 22, 1852 IV. C. Cadets of Temperance The Grand Section of the Cadets of Temperance met on Wednesday, April 21st, 1852, in this town, and adjourned on Friday the 23d, after a very spir ited and harmonious session. By the reports of the chief officers, we learn that the Order is in a very prosperous and promising condition, there being now in operation 69 subordinate Sections, containing an aggregate of over 1500 members. The Grand Section did no business on Thursday, in consequence of an invitation from Wilmington Section, to accompany them on a pic nic excursion to the Sound, which they accepted. Accordingly, a bout 150 persons, boys, ladies and gentlemen, in carriages, buggies, wagons and on horseback, start ed from the residence of James S. Green, Esq., at 8 o'clock on Thursday morning, and after spending the day in a most agreeable manner returned to toiru about 5 o'clock the same day. On Wednesday evening the Cadets, Sons of Tem perance and Rechabites, formed a procession at the Temperance Hall, and preceded by a band of mu sic, proceeded to the Front Street Methodist Church, to hear an address by Rev. AV. H. Jordan cf Warren ton, which was very appropriate, chaste and impres sive. He was followed by remarks by Rev. K.T. Heflin, in his usually forcible manner. We saw the company as they came down Marlrf Street, on their return from the .Sound, and dowf know when we have been more pleased at the fl ant array of the ' first fruits'1 of early years, cm to the peace and happiness ot Society. Mavw increase in numbers and flourish in the cxercki the noble virtue of temperance, a credit to the pret erit time, and a pattern to succeeding generations. Commercial, 21th ini. The Democratic Review is now killing Judge Doc; lass, of Illinois, by attempting lo advocate his claims for lhe Presidency. According lo the Reviewer's man ner of reasoning, the chief merit of Mr. Doulas?, is, that he never had a grandfather! In short," says our brilliant reviewer, " we do not even know that he was born." (How keen is the edre of Young Ameri ca's wit !) " Who his father may have been," att this political juvenile, " nobody knows probaHf he is the son of a gun, or of an axe, or a plane. ' Probably he was wet nursed on a chisel." (Here Young America is supposed to " snigger.'') Such is the line of argument adopted by the Demo crat Review in a flash article on Congress and the Presidency in lhe March number. The editors le.t Jericho two young. Troij Daily Times. Republics not always Ungrateful It i ,a!f that Governor Thomas H.Seymour will probably M elected U. S. Senator in Connecticut. If he faccrtA his name may be added to the list of those who hare oblained seats in that distinguished body for services in the Mexican war, viz: Col. Jefferson Davis, of Mississippi. Col. John C. Fremont, of California. Gen. James Shields, of Illinois. Maj. Solon Borland, of Arkansas. Maj. Jermiah Clemens, of Alabama. Col. John B. Weller, of California. Com Stockton, of New Jersey. , , Col. Thos. H. Seymour, of Connecticut, (PrJ?J-g All Democrats A much larger number of" . c?n war-horses" have found their way into the n of Representatives. Richmond Enquirer. A it KM ARK ABLE iVIAK. I ne ueriJKi'i".' A HvMjnr.Rrp M k Thp fiprmantown yuy E r. ... L - .unifh March. 82 jcr, wuo uieu in uiai vicinuy on uic - ' . 62 years. The notice concludes with these surpn- " The deceased w?.s lhe largest man that we ; . saw. The coffin was sufficiently large to contain men of ordinary size: measuring in width tbre iuur incues in me ciear, anu uuec - jjsil Three men could have worked in it. It reqw'f ' men to take, him from the bed on which be expi This was done by raising a platform removing head board of the bedstead, and taking lnm u wise They could not gel the coffin into t e , but by taking off the door-facing of an old house that stood in the yard, they got it into i carried lhe corpse thither on three empty bas. j on and four horses stood prepared, and tea men the coffin and its contents upon it. 1,1 ,.e Tinub' ., . . . ' t..i ... lines uyu .i me comn into the grave, iney .nau . .JlP u ... . Am -A i-A- rone in "e one ai eacu enu anu one ifiic - i reat 5l'r:i die; and seventeen men lo let down this g ' l.t C .i:. lt linmft on tw ine ui inuriaiuy imu no jasi n.-...- weight was not known.' inrrea? T) c- British snips lUhrt? . 1, rttiA fifty per cent, since 1844. Last year the istered tonnasre was the largest on recoiu, - grlt. lhat of any previous year. The official re ish vessels, with careoes both inva"'?1!" kM in 1844. was 5.691.680; in 1851, a rain in 1R.i1 ovpr 1844. of 2,843.57-- J Lord Chesterfield said, at lhe close 01 have recently read Solomon with akin. o. fppl'no- I have been as wicked ana $ not as wise as he; but I am old enougi i i.:. tj.: AU in lhe worw truth of bis reflection All in lhe and vexation of spirit.' . Tln'Ci)'" A Frenchman's Passion says lhat lhe most amusing man in if frenchman in a pan. lbree J it ft By gar you can my j vatch bou times once more, and 1 viu ca i us blow off your brain like a candle, by iTrinritliiriinitfMii IT
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