North Carolina Newspapers

il TH E G A Bl BLER'd WIFE. , ' ---re-niessin?, id. the do. - r -' . Tnis rare r-- nty hitoT of roester (we dd not ipean '3Sfatfi?riito tof rod tor him hich .t be the clso with til gamblers whose wives ire - rood for soy thinr-but the reeable . surprise SJThad prepared for him agitnst hndavnfill)u related by Goodsm.tb, in hi. life of Beau Nh. . : ! It looki, says Mr Leigh Hunt, like a page out of -' one of Fielding novels. We have only: to im ssioe Booth frown leas civil, and Amelia remain ins what she was, and the incident would have perfectly suited her: At Tunbridge in the year 1715, Mr. J. Hedges made a very brilliant appear ance ; he had been married about two years to a young" lady of great beauty and large fortune; hey had one child, a boy, on whom they bestow ed all that affection which they could spare from each other. He knew nothing of gaming, nor ; seemed to have the least passion for, play ; but -She was unacquainted with his own heart ; hf be gan by degrees to . bet at the table for trifling suras, and his soul took fire at the prospect or immediate gain, he was soon, surrounded with i sharpers, who with, calmness lay in ambush for his fortune, and coolly took advantage of the j precipitancy of his passion. j His lady perceived the ruin of her family ap. proaching, but at first, without being able to form any scheme to prevent itshe advised with her brother, who at that time was , possessed of a small fellowship at Cambridge. It was easily seen that whatever passion took the lead in her husband's mind seemed to be there fixed unalter ably ; it was determined therefore to let him pur sue fortune, but previously take measures to prevent the pursuit being fatal. Accordingly, every night the gentlemen was a constant attendant at the hazard tables; he un derstood neither the arts of sharpers, nor even the allowed strokes of a connoisseur, yet still he played. The consequence is. obvious ; he lost Jf k his estate, his equipage, his wife's jewels, and j" everything moveable that could be ( parted with, except a repeating watch. His agony, upon this occasion, was inexpressible ; be was even men enoogh to ask a gentleman who sat near to lend him a few pieces, in order to turn his forune, but this prudent gamester, who plainly saw there vru no expectations of being repaid, refused to lend a farthing, alleging a former ' resolution 'against lending. : Hedges was at last furious with the continuance of ill-success, and pulling out . 'his watch, asked if anv person in the company would set him sixtv guineas upon it. The com pany were silent. he then demanded fifty ; still Do answer: be sunk to forty, thirty, iwenty: finding the coraoanv still without answering, he cried out, By heaven, it shall never go for less ! and dashed it against the floor, at the same lime attempting to dash out his -brains against the chimney piece. : This last act of desperation immediately exci ted the attention of the whole company ; they instantly gathered round, and prevented the ef fects of bis passion; and after be again became cool, he was permitted to return home with sul Jen discontent to his wife. Upon his entering her anartment. she received him with her usual .tenderness and satisfaction, while he answered her caresses with contempt and severity, bis dis position being quite altered with his misfortunes. But my dear Jemmy, Bays his wife; perhaps yon don't know the news I have to tell; my mamma's old uncle is dead, the messenger is now in the house, and you know the estate' is set tied upon yon Ti account seemed to increase his agony, and looking angrily at her, he cried There vou are in the wrong, my dear ; his es- ate is not settled upon me. I beg your pardon. 1 really thought it was, at least you almost told me so. ' No,' returned he as sure as you and I - are to be miserable here, and our children beg jrars hereafter, I have sold the reversion of it this cay, and have lost every fanning I got for it at tr the hazard table What, all! repliedthe lady. Yes, every farthin;,' returned he; and I owe a thousand pounds more than I have got to pay.' Thus speaking, he took a few frantic steps across the room. When the lady had a little enjoyed his perplexity, No, my dear cried she, you have lost but a trifle, and you owe nothing: your . brother and I have taken care to prevent the ef- fects of your rashness, and are actually the per sons who have won your fortunes ; we employed proper persons for this purpose, who brought their I winnings to me. Your rcouey, your equipage, are in my possession, and here I. return them to you, from whom they were lately taken. I only j . ask permission to keep my jewels, and to keep you, my greatest jewel, from such danger for .the future.' Her prudence had the proper effect. - lie ever after retained a sense of his former fol lies, and never played again even for amusement. Breach of Mabeiage Pbomise. A Mr. De witt Clinton Winchell, of Ulster county. New York, brought a suit against Mias Elizabeth Bo girt, for a breach of the marriage promise. It J appeared in evidence that the parties" kept com pany with each other," as they call it in the coun . try, for five or six years and declared their inten tion to marry, but a roan named Chambers deter. . . rained to cut Winshell out of his intended wife, and pressed his suit so warmly an earnestly that Miss Bgart consented to have him and to dismiss her first love. Accordingly she addres- sed to him the following polite and sympathetic letter, which Was read in court : ,t: ' O Clinton you ask too much of me that js to ... answer your letter for my heart shudders at the .thought of it an being it is now come I must plain - ly say you cannot enjoy me as a bride. O Clint , I hope this trill not cause you to ruin yourself You must endeavor to forget me and also to fur - give mi for could 1 bav enjoyed my own feelings .v I never could done as I hav. But I must say that - fny very heart and soul was tempted out of me day after day till at length ! made up ray mind to conquer or to die, and therefore l must turn you off. I have nothing against you in this world an ' never will hav for you are a young man in whom I have always placed great confidence and never - was afraid to reveal a secret to. j nere ns pas- sed a great deal between us more than there ever vrtfl again Jifceljr. but we dont Know wnat time will briner forth " Instead of Mr. Dewilt Clinton Winchell being icjuieu lo gel nu ci a imoj- wiiu vum piuuutc ' such a choice specimen of orthographic epistola tory correspondence, he wrote the following cool reply:' - Miss Elizabeth Bogart i received yoor letter wnicn siatea that l roust not come again to see , . you its nothing more than i exoected to hear from v4 -yoa i would say to you that if yon wotid rather r. r nave ynamoers man me t am willing and ;have : nothing to say the next uuse i expect to hear if that you will be married to mister C but take care . . "thst I dont git a wife before you git a man he is s one of the alippery boys, oever tell him what i 1 say i dont expect these lines will ever reach any . ones eye ouv yuuni uu mes as you nave done the rest of the letters Burn them for i have burm - Kali mine so that there will be no trouble ahou them i wOl not date these lines for you did not -resrs t smT going to get married this fall keep -darJtrJix.-.r? . " '--The idrr on the reading' of the above epistle .'conaidereif twentv.five dollars snflbcient to as- " anage the Jvonnded feelings of the disconsolate lo- i-TJIr? na accoruingij reuuercu vcru.iiu uu i . 4vo,or inu amount, 'Shf. f ; H "What Steamboat oft the OM6 is always asking for fcudnesaf The Euphrates (yoa freJjh us.) - , Wlj is an old coat Eka an iroapot? - Beesose it tt aapedzaesof aard-ware. M A J OR rGEN ERA L' GIDEONJ- PILLOW . Fortune l is 'ssiid, anors fools? tid cer tainly she never dtd so more decidedly than when she granted to Gideon J. Pillow the' privilege of holding -office under names K- Polk, instead of the Einperor of the . Celestial' Kingdom. -Mr, Forbes, in a recently published description of Chi n, gives an outline of the Chinese articles of tear, among which we find the following : "Art 8. The soldier who. bravely kills oneene my, shall be rewarded; but he who is detected in Iyig pretexts about his sir a merits or who by false tales, usurps the merits of others a Ait own, shall be decapitated." " t What would Pillow's head have been worth, had he been a Bng4dier iu the Celestial Empire Nof?,the price of one ohhis vpurs! But this Eighth Article of War affords indirect evidence of a curious fact. It renders it hivhlv orohahla that there have been Pillows, or at least a Pillow, in China- If not, why make a law tcT'lneet his easel These articles of war, like alfthe Chi nese codes, are verjr ancient. They may, indeed, date back to the time of Confucius. There must, therefore, have been a Pillow then. In that ear ly stage of the world's history, there was some officer, a Brigadier or Major General probably, 'detected in lying pretexts about his own merits,' or io writing, tor the newspapers it may be, ' false tales,' signed perhaps Leonidas, and ' usur ping the merits of others as his own.' This is curious enough, and gives rise to reflections. Could two such creatures, so identical in all essential resnects. ever have existed ! Is it possible that there should ever have been another Gideon J. Pillow. Must one not have been the double of the other alter, y et ideml There is more truth. in the old doctrine of tnelempsychosis than we fre penerallv willing to concede. And it may be that, in petting Pillow, President Pols is simply hugging to hn heart some patriotic Brigadier who lost his bead two thousand years ago Pillnto is very probably, some Chinese General Gin Sling, redicitus, minus his head! It would be unjust, however, alike to nature and to history, to infer that there were Polks in those days in the celestial flowery land- Presi dents and Emperors, then and there decapilaJed officers detected in such lvii2 pretexts' and false tales.' Now and here thev promote them. and pet Ihem, and make savage war on those who would bring them to justice. Polks are very clearly a late invention. They cannot be traced pthe lime when gunpowder was first discovered. I hey come a long time after it, and generally keep a long way from it. Their genealogical tree strikes root no deeoor thn the era of Eze hid and its branches droop deTpondinffly over the secluded recesses of Duck Lreek. whic7rent back no echo when the country called for voiun teers in 1812. But an fur Pillow, he evidently belongs to the primeval period Cour. 4 Enq. Richmond. Tuesdav, Mat 10, 1848. DEATH OF RICHARD H. TOLER. Our paper goes forth to day, clad in the sable garb of mourning for one who has. during the space of more than two years, directed its course with consummate address, and inspired its col umns with an interest, only interior, to the skill with which its general aim has been preserved. RICHARD H TOLER is no more ;after a life spent almost from boyhood in the arduous pro fession of an editor that profession so important to the public so full of trials so highly esteem ed by the majority of mankind, he expired yes terday morning at seven o'clock, at his lodgings at the Powhatan House, in the 4o;h year ol his age. We have scarcely ever known a deeper gloom to be ca6t over this community by any event than has now fallen upon it, from the death of this amiable and excellent man. To the Whig party, especially, his loss will be nearly irrepar able. Richmond Whig. THE WHIG NATIONAL CONVENTION. We learn from the Philadelphia papers that the following arrangements have been adopted in rela tion to the Whig National Convention of Nomina tion, and the Whig YouDg Men's Convention of Ratification : A committee will be in attendance at the Whiz Reading Room. N. E. corner of Sixth and Cbesnut streets, from the Sth or June, between the hours of lu and iz a. m , and b and 10 p, m., to register tne names of the members of the Nomiuatiug Conven tion, and to receive them on behalf of the Whigs of hiludelphia. A stirring address of some length u to the young Whigs of the United States," is also put forth by E. Joy Morris, W. S. Price, H. W. Arey, Chas. Gil pin, and Alexander M urphy, on behalf of the Wbigs of Philadelphia, soliciting attendance at the Whig Young Men's National Convention of Ratification. At one point they say: 11 As a band of brethren, then prepared to sur render every private feeling, we iuvoke you to as semble, with us, on the consecrated ground, where the Declaration was first proclaimed, wbicn gave us a place among the independent nations of the earth." They conclude as rollows : "The city of brotherly love will be proud to re ceive you as her guests, and the Whig of Philadel phia, where the colors or our raitn nave never yet been struck, since they were first planted on her battlements will be rejoiced to open their doors, and greet you, as fellow-soldiers in the glorious cause of National Regeneration." The upper saloon of the Museum Building, Ninth street, below Chesnut, has been engaged for the use of the fiomvnalwg Convention, which will assemble at that place at 11 o'clock, A. on Wednesday, the 7th day of June. The Whig Young Men's National Convention of Ratification, will be held in Independence Square, on Thursday, the 8th day of June. . .i measures are in progress to proviae lor me prop er accommodation of the guests of the city on the 7th and Sth of June. - Gen. Taylor, in his letter, under date of the 20th. savs : u It has not been my intention, at anv moment, to change my position or to withdraw my name from the canvass, whoever may be the nominee of the Na tional Convention, either of the Whig or Democrat ic party." In his letter of the 22d be thus qualifies and explains: UI have consented to the use of my name as a candidate for the Presidency. I have frankly avow ed my own distrust of my fitness for that high sta tion, but having, at the solicitation of many of my countrymen, taken my position as a candidate, I do mot feel myself at liberty to surrender that position, wn til my friends manifest a wish that I should retire from it. I rcul then must gladly do so." , TAYLOR STOCK. A Washington correspondent of the N. Y. Her ald under date of May 10, says, Old Zach " will be the candidate, lis sure as a gun." Fatner Ritchie is fully satisfied of this, and consequently i elabcr.it inir his columns to demonstrate that the Whigs ought to run Mr. Clay. If they should do so, some of the leaders of the old cliques could be rung in at the Baltimore convention; but if old :ack should be nominated, the democrats will have to take their most available man, and Father Ritchie haa sagacity enough to perceive tha none of them will, be the moat available. ; ' .I J . V . Telegraphed for the Baltimore Sun. WASHWGTowMay 18 8 P.M.1 " 'ADJOURNMENT OF CONGRESS. ' The Senate thifevenintp. after an Executive ses sion, agreed to adjourn from Monday next toThurs ?'.f Si111 Houses will adjourn. On the jour nal it will appear that the adjournment fs for the purpose of ptttting the two Houses in their summer dress, whilst it will also afford an opportunity for a general attendance at the Democratic National Con vention ja your City next weetk. i 'A r GENERALSCOTT'S RETURN. ; : J f Gen. Scott has left; Mexico direct for his bona ; at Elixabethtowny Ni J.v A : telegraphic 'despatch, from New Orleans to the "Charleston News," says, that on his departure from Vera Crux, aid in reply to the greetings of the Americans , present, ho re plied, in substance, as follows : " . j .? I go ashore at the Narrows, below .New ,.vYork and proceed, without entering that city, to my fami ily in Elizabethlown. Laboring under the public displeasure of the Executive, it would be highly im proper in me, a soldier, to put myself in the way of provoking shouts and cheers from my warm-hearted countrymen." ' The M American Star," of the 2?d ult, in an nouncing his intended departure from the Capital, says : . " It is painful to reflect that he returns horn!, af ter his brilliant and unsurpassed achievements, un der the circumstaBces in which he does; No other commander, we verily believe, could havey marched from Vera Crua to this capital, with so small a force, and such singular success. He- has given the army possession of th imperial city of the Aztecs, and in- i deed of the Republic No officer is more endeared to the army, and the absence of none could be more deeply regretted. There are many who are attach ed to Gen. Scott as to a brother or a father, and there will be wet eyes when he leaves. What a recep tion will not .the great Captain of the age meet in his progress to Washington! We believe his fame will grow brighter at every step of the investigation which is to be renewed in Washington! It cannot be otherwise, and the day is not remote when even his few revilers and enemies will acknowledge the lofty pre-eminence of the Conqueror of Mexico P Ncwbebn, (N. C) Mat 9. Distressing Occubkence. Our attentive friend and correspondent, Elijh S. Bell, Esq., of Carteret county, has furnished us the following particulars of a most distressing occurrence which took place iu his neighborhood (Hadnots) on Sund:iy, 23d ult A Mr. Wilson Chance having previously dis covered a Bee tree, on tbaday took his son Henry, a lad about 10 years old, and three half brothers, Stauly, Isaiah and James Mabley, and proceeded to cut it down for the purpose of having the bees. While taking out the honey, Isaiah James and. Hen ry ate of it. After securing the bees and the honey, Mr. Chaucejand the boys repaired to the house, and on the way his son Henry became blind and sick. On reaching home, salt and water was administered to him, which caused puking, and gave him relief. Two of the young men, Isaiah and James Mabley then proceeded on towards their father's house, and on the way Isaiah was taken in a similar manner, and in his blindness wandered out of the path. James having eaten a small piece of the bread, as it is called, on his way homeward, was discovered to be blind, and soon became helpless; he complained of a pain in his back, and continued to grow worse, af- all that could be done, he expired in half an hour after eating the lust piece of bee-bread. Search was then made for Isaiah, whom a neighbor had found and was met carrying him home, blind and helpless. By the frequent use of salt and wa ter, Isaiah and Henry recovered the next day, but not until their lives had been despaired of. This is a melancholy and most afflictive case; and should serve as a warning to all persons, to be care ful in eating honey taken from bee-trees. Nercbernian. A New Wat. At the editorial head of the Knoxville (Tenn.,) Standard, of the 11th ult., we find the following -new way of telling a man's death: Died, on Saturday evening last, within twenty minutes after the reception of the contents of a pistol tired by Thomas D. Murray Capt. Henry B Newman, a citizen of this place, and in full vigor of manhood. It gives Us some satisfaction, to state, as a fixed fact, that Santa Anna has eu barkpd for Jamaica. Wash. Union. Nearly two years ago it gavr you great satis faction to state as a fixed fact" that Santa Anna had gone into Mexico, and now it gives you some satisfaction to state as a fixed fact that he has gone out of it. Mr. Polk fixed' the former fact, and Gen. Scott 'fixed the latter. " Louisville Jour. RECEPTION OF GEN. SCOTT. The committee of citizens without respect to par ties, appointed to superintend the preparations for receiving Gen. Scott at the battery announce the following regulations: Gen Scott will be received on his arrival at Cas tle Garden by a court of Special Insult, commission ed by the President, who will cut off his epaulettes and take from him his sword. The General will theu enters furniture car, pre pared for the occasion with an India rubber iufiat ed Pillow, aud ride to the Toombs, where, ufter be ing allowed a hasty plate of soup, will be taken in to the back yard and hung. The editor of the Union will wear crape on the pen arm for thirty days. And thus will end the career of a man who has had the audacity to cover himself with imperisha ble glory, while the special favorites of eovernment and power sneak home wrapped in disgrace and in famy. Vita Respublica. JoUii Donhy. Great News fob the Country. We learn that" in case the M'exicau Congress ref uses to ratify the treaty, (of which Mrs. Grundy has great hopes as we see Dy tue meager,) Uen. l'lllow and Cassius M. Clay will immediately be despatched to the seat of war to chaw up the enemy and take possession of the whole country. The previous achievements of these pen-and-ink heroes have sntisfied.the adminis tration that they Are peculiarly qualified for carry ing oh a war of words, and that either of them would be ready on any and all occasions to shed his last drop of ink in behalf of their country. Thus wille old proverb be strikingly illustrated" Good riddancefor bad rubbish.- John Doni'ey. THE "CAMPBELLS ARE COMING. According to the New York Herald, there is eve ry sign of a revolution among the foreign .aristocra cy, or in other words, the Uuited States is to be the dernier resort for lots of nobility, during the summer months. 1 1 is said that several t housands, who have heretofore spent their summers and autumns in France, Germany ' and Italy, intend hereafter to withdraw from those parts of the world, and make their visits to the, United States. From England too, a large number of the leading members of the highest aristocracy are coming out to spend the sum mer and autumn iu visiting and travelling over the United States; to sojourn at Saratoga and Niaga ra, and make themselves acquainted with the social habits and political institutions of this remarable republic Methodist EriscorAL General Conference. Wehave already gU en some notice of the proceed ings of this body. The Pittsburg Gazette, of Monday, says : -' The spirit of the proceedings in Conference, thus far, indicate au amicable settlement of the property question, by an equitable division of the avails of the Church property. The committee on the state of the Church have reported iu part, and recommend an interview wit the Southern Commissioners, with the view of making some preliminary arrangements satisfactory to all parties, and designed to lead to an early settlement of the vexed question. The report was accepted on Saturday. j , Revekexce for AgewHuw beantiful it is to see the young reverence old agv ! We never see a little boy bowing respcfullv to an aged man m the atreet, but we feel sure he is a gcod boy; Reverence is always due to -aged people. God, nature and a proper edu-ation, say io the young, reverence old age. Grey ! Hairs are crowns of glory found in' the. way of right ebusners. The promptings of kindly nat ore teach us tn respect the aged, to rise up before the hoary head The dkn eye, the furrowed brow and temples thinly clad; who would not respect, reverence and love ibeini . . . .! ' ' ' IfasKsut TeUgroyh. ; - 4 j the Siamese Tfflfc&i' The Siamese twine are living in North Caro lina, as farmers, and both are married. Acor respondent of J the1 Richmond, papers, ".who baa recently visited their home, writes some interes ting details in refation to their. domestic life, The twins car: chop wood remarkably fast; four hands being on the xe at the same time? They also shoot at a mark or game with their four bands resting on the gun. They drive -their, horses forty miles to Wilkes, themselves; and do any kind of work about the farm. Mrs. Engsays her husband js , very kind to the negroes, and that Chang is very severe with them. Mrs. Eng is also better disposed than Mrs- Chang, and is the prettiest.! " I Mrs. Eng is very close and saving; and Mrs. Chang is; disposed to indulge in dress and vari ous other expenses. The twins rarely differ about dreis; but often differ in, their ideas of purchasing negroes or land. The opinion of Eng is always the law, andJChanar readily acquiesces. Eng does all the writing including the signing of notes and other important papers Eng is one inch taller than CnaBg, and Chang's wife is taller than Eng's. . Some old lady in the neighborhood a few days ao-o, asked Eng which was the oldest! and he replied that he was just six months older than UIO UIUII1CI Well, says the old lady, I thought there was about as inuch difference, for you are purty con siderable, bigger than your brother. They are giod on a joke, and the old lady was in earnest. They have a blacksmith shop on their farm and a shoenaker's shop also. I saw a good sized frame house that they made, without any assis tance ; from foundation to roof. At the table rhey'both use a bench, and each has his own knife and fork. I asked them if they both expected to die at the same time? and they replied that it could not be otherwise; for if the same disease did not take thorn off at one time, as the living one would have to be separated from the dead body, the act of separation would be his death ; -but their general impression is that they will both die of the same disease, and at the same time. Their affection for each othe.r is very strong. Any of the neigh bors offering an insult to the ono, the other imme diately resents it ; and it would lake a champion to cope with them in a rough and tumble fight. To use an expression of their neighbors, "they fight like cats " Bevond Comparison the best Joke of our Times. We have read the following wondrous legend, and must say that we cannot now des pair of humanity any more: The New York correspodent of the Philadel phia Inquirer, says the Mobile Herald, tells an amusing story of a new invention againot rogue?, called the "Combination Lock." Recently a VVall street broker, of considerable wealth, and living in great style, in the weet end of Gotham, purchased a beautiful fire-proof safe, in which to secure his valuables against the hrey elements, to which he affixed one of those beautiful. pieces of mechanism. They are so strangely complica ted that you may lock them, hand the key to the manufacturer even, and the chances are as one to ten thousand, that he will not be able to open them The wards and interior arrangements of these locks are alphabetically arranged, arid you select a word in the language, take the letters, and lock the wards answering to these letters, one by one. Thus, take the word "chair" you lock c, then h, then a, thei i, then r. Now it must be unlocked in the same way, and unless you hit upon the exact word you will never be able to unlock it. Well, tfto broker in question locked his new safe according to the word boots,' but after working at it for an hour or more, the next morning, he could not unlock it, and gave it up in despair. All his funds were loeWd up, says the letter, and he had no money to carry on his business thai day, but as his credit was good, he raised sufficient for the purpose by borrowing of the banks. The next morning the manufacturer o the lock, -according to request, called to ascertain the difficulty. He said he had no doubt he could unlock the safe, if the gentleman would tell him the word to which he locked it. 'Bouts was the word, and to work he set to unlock it to ' boots.' Well, he tried, sanguine of success, but L' boots' .would not unlock the earfe. He tried again and again, and was no more successful. He tried an hour, two hours, and three hours, with no success. Finally a happy thought struck him. He wiped the perspiration from his face, took a drink of water, examined the key again and looked at the broker straight in the eye, and said: Sir, allow me to ask you how you spell" boots 'How. do I spell boots!' said the other Whv. I spell, it right how do you spell it ?' uh, never mind, said ine man ot combination locks, ' how I spell it' 'B-u t-s, to be sure,' said the broker. The d 1 you do,' said t-he lock man 1 'and if you pell boots buts, I will unlock the safe buts,' and he did unlock it within the twinkling, of an eye. A Cure for Deafness The Boston Bee tells the following story of Joe H., who formerly drove an express wagon from the head of Commercial wharf: Joe was not only deaf, .but stuttered. He likewise had the failing of borrowing money and forgetting to pay it again. One morning he was dunned by a person to whom he owed five dollars : Come, Joe, can't you pay me that money to day?' ! T-tMhe horse has gg-gone to the b-b-black-smith's. j I dontt want the horse, I want your money. T-t-the truck is down to L-L-Lewis' wharf for a 1-1 load of p-p-pnrk.' ' I don't want the' truck said the man, 'I waut those'five dollars you owe me.' I mom-made, "replied Joe, a g-g-good speck to-day, on s-s-soine b-b-boards I sold S-Sugar re finery. ; The man then wrote what he wanted, on Joe' slate. j! I-I-can't see,' said Joe, I 1-1-left ray specks at h-h-home. Finding all his efforts Useless, the man asked Joe, in a low voice j Whafc will you have to drink V A 1-l-liitle b-b-brandy aud water, replied Joe promptly. . , H w ms Brave women. nere are lew women, we fancy, who would have acquitted 'themselves in the manner o5 a Mrs. Roberts, living near New Albany,! Indiana, oh the Charleston Road. It seems, fmm an account published in the New Albany Qullelin, lhat an unknown man demanded admittance to Mrs. Robert's house in the absence of her Husband. The lady' inquired .who was there, and what he wanted. The' individual re plied that he wanted admittance to the premises which, being refused, he attempted to enter at the front door, hut finding it locked, changed his po sition tca door at another part of the house, and finding it also fast, he then attempted to force a window,' stating at the same time, be intended to gain, admittance at the risk of bis life.". . Du ring this lime Mrs.R had loaded a gun which she had in her possession, .with a heavy charge of buckshot, and taking a deliberate aim by resting the piece upou a table when the ruffian had for ced the i window in such a manner as to enable him to Renter the buse she fired, and ; the wliole contents lodged in the riglrt aide just be low the! nipple;, causing, almost mtantaneooa death.Thoa.perisheda bold villamVy the hand of a courageous frraale The lady had i wo small children with there she sought neighboring henwr j A Coroner inquest was heftfc Verdict - Justifiable ho1nicide.,, Cm. Com Our' art the plans of fair delightjul peace, Unwarp'd by party rage, to live like brothers.' FOR. GOVERNOR, CHARLES MANLY. RALEIGH. N. C. Wednesday. Mav 24, 1848. ti i rrp- Charles Manly, Esq-, may be expected to address the people at Louisburg, Franklin County, on Thursday, the 1st of J une, and at Adcock's, Gran ville County, on Saturday, the 3d of J une. EDENTON DISTRICT. At a Whig Convention of Delegates from the Counties composing the Edenton District, held in GatesTille, on the 15th inst Augustus Moore, of Chpwan, was appointed the Delegate to represent said District in the Whig National Convention, and Hon. Davio Outlaw was appointed as alternate. Hon. Kenneth Rayner was nominated as Elector, to be run on the Whig ticket, and ten Assistant E lectors, one for each County in the District, were also selected. The Convention was large, enthusi astic and harmonious. The Delegate to the Nation al Convention, andlhe nominee for Elector, are both in favor of Mr. Clay for President. MR. MANLY'S VISIT TO CRAVEN. The Whig and Democratic Candidates for Gov ernor of North Carolina, Mr. Manly and Mr. Reid, met in Newbern, on Wednesday week, and held the first discussion of the campaign. Several of our cit ixens of the town and country, says the w Newber- nian " called unon Mr. Manly durine his visit. As his personal acquaintance is not very general in" this section of the State, it is proper to remark that our cititens found Mr. Manly, as he has always been represented, a gentleman of plain, easy, agreeable manners, and remarkably courteous and accessible We are rejoiced that he visited our County. This visit will doubtless be productive both of an increase of the vote ya his favor, and an advantage to the Whig cause. From all we saw and heard of Mr. Manly, the conviction was irresistible, that he is pre cisely )he man to make a favorable impression both in social intercourse, and in the discussion of politi cal topics. We do not remember ever to have heard a more effective political speech, both as regards matter and manner, than the one delivered by Mr. Manly. It was full of facts and arguments, clothed in language at once plain, tasteful, and captivating, and delivered in a style of elocution, rarely equalled for distiuctnesss, propriety, animation, and energy combineds And what gives it its effect and force, eve ry sentiment seems to come spontaneously, and spring from a deep and earnest conviction of its truth. It would be utterly Impossible to convey in a synopsis, or even full report of the speech, any adequate idea of the impression its delivery made upon the audi ence. Mr. Manly was introduced to the audience by F. J. PaEffTiss, Esq., prefaced by a few rery sensible and appropriate remarks. J. C. Stevenson, Esq., after a brief and appro priate address, also introduced Mr. Reid, the Dem ocratic candidate, to the meeting. Messrs. Manly and Reid on Friday, held a discussion in Beaufort. We hare not heard the particulars in regard to the debate, but from the. impression produced here, we have no fears as to the effect upon our friends in Car teret. The Candidates returned to Newbern on Saturday evening. Mr. Manly,, agreeably to ap pointment,' was to address the people of Lenoir, at Kinston on Monday. Mr. Reid, we learn, accompa nies him throughout his appointments.. " The Whigs, though oft defeated, are not yet sub dued." Washington Union. Very true, Mr. Ritchie. Nor is this all. They don't intend to be subdued! They suffered them selves to be defeated in 1844, by an overwhelming confidence in their Btrengtb, and by not watching With sufficient vigilance the movements of the ene my. But they want to have a leader who whipped Mr. Polk & Co's cracked Mexican General: and they wont fear the subordinates. A BUSY DAY. The day on which the next Presidential election will take place, the 7th of November, will be a busy one. Two millions of voters over the country rer cord their suffrages for a National ruler, and as the Telegraph communications will extend by that time over nearly the whole country, enough returns Of ihe election may be known and telegraphed by the next morning to indicate with tolerable certainty whom the nation has chosen. This will be the greatest business ever done in one day in the United States. , .- DISTRESSING. - The u Cheraw (S.C.) Gazette" gives intelligence of a most distressing casualty that occurred in the upper part of that District, a tew days since. it ap pears that the woods had got on fire near the planta tion of a Mr. SoHMERFORD, who with, his wife and others, went out for, tha purpose of protecting the fences. - While in the woods, a tree which' had ta ken fire, fell upon and instantly killed Mrs.S.: Du ring the! night .'8wfTO'bfttjrji vu. w ius vu rwi, oytaome menus wnq wero ; pres ent to sit up with the corpse. .Not making his' ap. m.v v w uivi umg, ma (wbi was enierea, when the unfortunate man was found dead in his bed. Amongst the list of Brevet appointments by the President, we notice the3 following from" this BFevet Wspor Braxton Bragg, Captain Artillery, so be Lieutenant Colonel by brevet; - -- ;.-' -' Second Lieutenant Charles P. Kingsbury, Ord-! nance Department, since first Lieutenant, to be first Lieutenant by breve. ' -'". -t- -ih " Brevet Second Lieutenant Francis Tv Bryan, To pogfapbical Engineers to bo first Lieutenant ,by brevet - r ITHE PRESIDENCY ' ? Almost ..the ehtire business of this Nation ig I sorted in the question" Who shall be oar D Chief Magistrate?" What principles shall g0TJJ j.ne wnote country, is oucupieu who tne qaesf ui iue aexfc rrwsiueucjr. ' iucu seem io iaiK and Va of little else. Revolutions occur abroad, which sha u gruuuu-worKS oi ancient gWTeraments, and iajr revolutionize me lace wi toe wnoie rorj Heavy monarchies go down in the dust, and publics rise,, clad in the beauty and sincerity youth. All these however create but a nine da ' wonder on this side of the Atlantic. They pass aw like a wreath of morning fog and are forgotten. Tk m . ' 'a. , Mexican rwar too .no longer engrosses our Peopi with bloody " battles and magnificent victories. war of opinions. Men here are intent upon re. vrng that freedom Which people in the old world strnfflinc to obtain.- This deeo and ci o r --tjsai l(J terest in regard to tne next f residency, show ti the country desires a CHA NGE that it feels keet ly its sufferings from the misgovernment of theprtj. ent Administration that it realizes to its hear; core, that, the election Of an American Preside At r Ti A vAMt 1itiiAcfr imriAvranfia vttt ni 1 - .i w. .wj &y .u.r.uv wu.jr iU me prod penty and dignity, but to the happiness, and 1 1 v AO tf t Vi A wajv1a TMm want Vt a. it v & vuv LfviiCt a asv.j vvoau uvt callCr & who will not control the destinies of peace and wir who will not waste millions of the public treason in the fields of battle, who will not Tecklessly eJ pose the flower of our youth to the aword, and the mothers and sisters of our land to the agony of be. reavement. Well may the next election stir the deepest font. tains of the American heart! -Its results may tt 1U1 ncoi gt nw jwu vuruiyuiuca uuu prosperity' aye, upon tne iuture criny or our glorious R public. . ANOTHER PRESIDENTIAL WAR THREATENED. At the sitting of the Senate on Saturday week, t Resolution was submitted by Mr- Clarke, and i. dopted, calling on the President for information u to whether any orders had beeB given to our naTii forces to proceed to Yucatan, for the protection o! the inhabitants; and, if so, to communicate such or ders and correspondence thereon to the Senate. In pursuance of this call, a Message was jester' day sent to the Senate by the President of the Uni ted States, communicating copies of certain despatch es from the Navy Department toour Naval OS wij, w nuim nc uaic xiui ueeu auiu io OOliUQ Cop ies. The following extract, however, from one let ter addressed to Commodore Perky since thefkm has had the Yucatan question under debate, will show what designs are not only meditated, but are even being carried into execution, with the obvious in. tent, without the consent of Congress, to in volvethij country in a fresh war, on the ground of a supposed continental duty or necessity on the part of theLi ecutive: . . tt . "While the United States are engaged in a ww with Mexico, the actual nresence. without our cm. sent, ofthe armed force of a -.neutral Power within the territory of 4ur enemy, co-operating with mt portion oi tne lviexican people in military opera . i m - . 1 l tions, (even assistme the x ucatanes to resist the In dians, we suppose, J cannot be permitted. Such state of things, it is hoped,, will not occur. If m should have reason to believe that it will, you wiii communicate it without further delay, that THE JPKt.fcilDfc.lN L may take suctt measures as HIS cm stitutional duty , will require at his hands? PROGRESSIVE DEMOCRACY. A curious calculation has been made byJui6i Embree, and mentioned by him iu a Speech in the House of .Representatives. The expenses of the war and the purchase of territory, will be a hundrti and seventy millions of dollars. This amount, k silver, placed in two horsewagons, a thousand pouuiJ to every wagon,' would fill ten thousand six hut dred and twenty-five wagons, which would make il dense train extending thirty-six miles; a wazon; oad of dollars for every family in his district, o; enough to educate all the children of the country and liquidate all the state debts, 'and clean out erc- ry harbor, and chequer the United States with ni roads and canals. Ten thousand six hundred aci wenty-five wagons, filled with silver, on their wit to Mexico, he supposed meant " progressive Democ racy y; -;.' KF-The Washington Correspondent of the " Bii timore Sun," (Loco Foco,) sayst There is a strocd reason to sappose that Gen. Taylor, after all saij and done, will bcthenominee of the Whig rtatioi Convention at Philadelphia, in spite of all the k ters written by him in one sense or the other. .4' he requires now is a' declaration that he will uotra against the regular nominee ; but as he is prefi. certain that he will be the nominee, he is perfect!; safe in making that declaration. I am morally certain that ?en. Taylor will, s the end. carrv the votes of New Enirland; in othc words, that if Mr. Webster ' be made to choose tween Taylor and Clay, the former will get the tc Of Massachusetts and its dependencies. Chaelottk and Danville Railroad.--The Rio' mond Soutfierner of the 1 6th inst. has the follow notice: h -v-v- . : " Railroads. A Convention is to be held in Sal bury N. C.l on the 6th June, to consider the fc1 tension of the Danville Railroad from the town Danville to Charlotte, N. C, where it will conse) with the Charlotte and Columbia Road. We ha? to hear of A large delegation both" from Virginia North CaroUna.f We learn from the last lai Register, that the- engineers are rapidly progre! mg wita the survey, ana undr very naiwus " cess. ;-,!- - . . TAYLOR IN OHIO. Notwitkstaiiiinir we have been so often toW tl GenjrATboib has no strength whatever in Ohio, Cincinnatti Atlasj7 an ami-Taylor paper, that eleven Taylor delegates were recently ch0 I tU v Vision in that City. The "F ! ts: "Pretty weU for Ohio.' ii oiri Uerff noDularitY is confined no particular section of the Union-His streoj . . . .' v mnM than ttifit of anT wiunnepeopi s. candidate. He is, in fact, the only candidate kaoj to be Whig in his sentiments for whomj nererw less thousands:of all parties will vote." " JTEMPERANCE IN MISSISSIPPI- j ; v The Yicksburg Benunel says idj in iuvi " . Uivisions oi us , ynruer ouua u w-r MiMissdppila unliecU They are being ixed inall parts of the State, Cok Taos G-. fonnerly of Uhis Sta u Z-i gaged,s D. Gy.WP in esUbfisfiing new WW 1 fXT-Attention is ealled to-tkeTemperance advertised-in this papers . -