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' ' '' '" : "v"'' Volume XXI. RALEIGH, NORTII -CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1855 Number 1089. Clje iaitkrir. R VLEIGII. SATURDAY. SEPT. 1. 1855. THE POPULAR VOTE OF NORTH-CAROLINA. The members elect to Congress from this State areas follows: Thomas Ruffin," Warren Winslow, . L. O'B. Branch, Burton Craige, and Thos. L. Cling inan, Democrats ; and Robert T. Paine, Edwin G. Kcade, and R. C. Puryear, Know Nothings. Messrs. Rullin, Craigo, Clingman, and Puryear were mem bers of the last Congress. Mr. Winslow takes the place of Mr. Ashe, Mr. Branch that of Mr. Rogers, .lr. Pa :ie that of Dr. Shaw, and Mr. Reado that of Mr. Kerr. " We give below the official vote by Districts, show ing that cast for Mwsrs. Bragg and Dockery in 1854, and that for the candidates respectively at the late election : First District. Bragg, D. Dockery, W. Shaw, D Paine, K.N. 4970 ' 4S44 4882 5228 4844 4882 Bragg's maj. 126 Paine's maj. 346 Second District. Bragg. Dockery. Ruffin, D. Latham, K. N. C764 4559 G739 4559 34C4 3464 Bragg's maj . 2205 Baffin's maj. 3275 Third District. Bragg. Dockery. Winslow, D. Reid, K. X. 0905 4085 5929 4803 4685 4563 Bragg's maj. 22S0 W:nsIow's maj. 1006 Fourth District. Bragg. Dockery. Branch, D. SLcpard, KN 7100 4583 0794 4223 4563 4223 Bragg's maj. 2517 Branch's maj. 2571 Fifth District. Bragg. Doekerv. Kerr, anti-K.X. Reade. ' K. N. 5002 0771 5002 3756 7001 3756 Dockery 's maj. 1769 Reade's maj. 8305 Sixth District. Bntgg. Dockery. scales, D. Puryear.KX 0236 7048 0150 6516 0236 615! Dockery 's mnj. 812 Puryear's maj. 366 Seventh District. Bragg. Dockery. Craige, D. Stowe.K.X. 0557 5598 6745 4104 5598 4104 Bragg's maj. 959 Craige's maj. 2641 Eighth District. Bragg. Dockery. Clingman, D. Cannichael, K. X. 5111 8554 5111 8079 6584 C5S4 Dockery 's maj. 3443 CI. maj. 1495 The aggregate vote of the State is as follows : Bragg. Dockery. Democratic. K. Nothing. 48,705 40,643 49,074 42,043 46,643 42,043 Bragg's maj. 2002 Demo. maj. 7031 The entire vote of the State, in 1854, was 95,348 ; the entire vote, in 1855, is 91,117. The Know Noth ings run 4,000 votes behind Gen. Dockery, while the Democrats run 369 votes ahead of Gov. Bragg making a clear gain, since 1854, of 4,909 voles. Notwithstanding the extraordinary efforts which were made by the Know Nothings, and the aid of those Democrats whom they had seduced into their midnight Councils, their candidates have failed, by nearly live thousand votes, to poll the Whig strength of last year ; while the Democratic vote has been actually increased. It may be taken for granted, we think, that the 4,000 votes referred to areoppos td to the Know Nothings ; they voted for Gen. Dock ery, but could not be induced to endorse this new movement of intolerance and vengeance. Many of them, by the next election, will in all probability identify themselves with the Democratic party. This, together with the additions to the Democratic lionublican vote of those Democrats who are with drawing, and who will continue to withdraw from the Know Nothings, and the gains we shall make from the regular increase of the popular vote, will place the good old cause of the rights of the States, of the Union according to the Constitution, and of liberty, civil and religious, on a foundation from which no as saults of the opposition can remove it Meantime, f the eLttiou of President should devolve upon the House of Representatives, we have the strongest as surance that the vote of the State will be cast on the side of Republicanism and the true principles of the government, and not in accordance with the de cision or under the order of the Know Nothing Na-1 tional Council. Meantime, also, we have the assur ance that, so far as North Carolina is concerned as one sovereign Southern State, the encroachments of the abolitionists will be sternly and boldly met in both Houses of Congress ; and the administration of Franklin Pierce, which has been so just and so true to the Constitutional rights of the South, will be cordially upheld and sustained. It is, indeed, a great victory. The Democrats, and those high-minded Ilei.ry Clay Whigs who aided the Democrats in achieving it, have just cause to be proud of it, and to draw courage from it for future firmness and ef fort. Fifteen years ago the State was Whig by ten thousand majority ; now it is Democratic and anti Know Nothing, by over SEVEN THOUSAND. he American party is founded on principle on ?od principle and therefore, must, will, cannot "dp succeeding. Put two and two together, and lour must be the consequence. Murjreesoortf Gazette. The Know Nothing party has one set of princi ples in Massachusetts, another set in Louisiana, an ther set in New Jersey, another set in Georgia, and another set in North Carolina. The Gazette, of Jrsc, holds to the North Carolina set of principles, Inch were recently voted down by about seven inusand majority. ; ' "" . . ... ; -v 7" m T"e Gazette is mistaken, too, about its figures. t two and two together," and twenty-two "must 08 wm consequence. . . ' ;' LETTER FROM HENRY; A. WISE. ; We copy from the last Democratic Pioneer, the following eloquent letter, addressed by the Hon. Henry A. Wise to the Committees of Gates and other Counties, who had invited him to address tho people at Gatesville during the late campaign. The Pioneer says: " We publish in another column a letter from the Hon. Henry A. Wise, in reply to an invitation to attend the late Democratic Mass Meet ing near Gatesville. We regret exceedingly that the gentleman who received it failed to place it in in our hands at an carlitr day. But, though the occasion is past, which called it forth, it loses none of its interest thereby. - It is characteristic of its author bold, able and withering. It gives a pass ing notice to those Know Nothing emissaries who went to Virginia to electioneer . during the recent canvass there, and expresses the earnest wish of the author for an opportunity to scourge them at their men doors in return. . But th whole letter is full of interest. Read it; and if any regret is felt after ri sing from its perusal, it will be that you did not have an opportunity of hearing its distinguished au thor " scourge " Know Nothingism on the stump." LETTER FROM THE HON. HENRY A. WISE. Okly, (near Onancock,) Va., July 1st, 1855. J James C. Skinner, Esq. : Dear Sir : I have delayed a reply to yours of the 18lh ult, in order to try to make arrangements to accept the kind and pressing invitation of the Com mittees of Gates, Perquimans, Pasquotank, Chow an, and Currituck, in North Carolina, to participate with them in a Democratic Mass Meeting to be held in the County of Gates, sometime between the 10th July and the 1st of August next, the precise day to be fixed by my appointment. I have the strongest desire to meet your Democracy. It holds the bright er than golden links which bind the two elder sister States of the South, North Carolina and Virginia, together. Those links are of our earliest history, of our revolution for independence, of our past po litical struggles for republican freedom, of common sacrifices and co-operation in the past and of com mon hopes for the future. The Federal party of old and the Fanatical party of the present day (the last is worse than the rirst,) never tried and never tended to unite themselves witli the Southern States, or parties or men, but rather with Northern. When ever Democracy has been dominant in North Caro lina, that State has always been united with Virgin ia, which has always been Democratic; and when ever either Federalism or Fanaticism lias prevailed there, Virginia and North Carolina have been divi ded from each other, both in councils and in action. I would gladly sec them inseparable inseparable as Macon was from Jelferson and Madison. Our fath ers were as Jonathans and Davids to each other, and I would have their children so united as to pre serve the vnion of all, North and South, by their inseparable union cith eich other No, not for selfish or sectional ends would I bind them togeth er, but for national, constitutional, Slate-rights, Union-abiding ends I would hava them so solid a phalanx of freedom, t;ridii g hide by side and sustained by all their sisters of the conservative school, that no influence, no "ism," shall be able to assail or destroy the institutions of our Confedera cy. Those institutions. State and Federal, have been sorely and insidiously invaded of late. The inva ders were daring enough to touch the sacred soil of this blessed mother Commonwealth. They muster ed emissaries from every quarter from abroad, from Exeter Hall in old England, froth Canada, from New England, from New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio. Tennessee ; and I regret especially to be compelled to admit that some of the most venomous, desperate, most unscrupulous and audacious came here from the South of us from North Carolina to corrupt the popula" mind, to instil poison and sow Dragon's teeth among us. They dared not intermeddle in our canvass publicly, on the " stump," in debate, before the people, but they skulked to secret conclaves, and by the light of' dark lanterns" which "burnt a gloom," they implored our voters to save them and their plots of mischief from exposure and explosion. They urged in their agony of midnight -haranguca that the battle was with them Jor life or death that if they did not succeed they icould sink down to lotcer depths of infamy that if victory did not crown their conspiracy, they would be dishonored and disgraced, would be a by-word and a reproach, politically, forever ! They oowered before the lance of Democracy in Virginia, and the monstrous treas on was here hurled to its despair. A Pandemonium has lauly been held in Philadelphia, and there it was plainly proved that not the worst enemies of the South were from the North. The Sams of Vir ginia a;id North Carolina were no less traitorous to our Constituion and laws, and Federal Union and Slate Rights, and homes and altars than were the priestcraft party of the North, who would not seem iftjfy.kcep them company or abide their councils. To expose these Southern emmissaries in your midst, I would like, at their own doors, to scourge them for their nightly prowling about our doors in the late Virginia canvass. But these would be the least of my aims in attending your District Mass Meet ing. I would be glad to implore yon in person to be true to the faith of the Fathers of this Republic; to protect the fanes of our Protestant churches ; to forbid the bans between Church and State, which a subtle and wily priestcraft is contriving under the false cry of proscribing popery ; to fight on and fight ever to have this land continue forever to be the "land of the free and the home of the brave;" to contend for Constitutions and Bills of Rights, and Statutes to reign over us, and not to subject us to the higher law of a. secret oligarchy, worse than that of any German Gehime Gericht ! to free us from the " dagger and the cord " of political assas sination 1 to preserve the dignity and individuality and independence of voters at the polls ! to save the laws from a conspiracy against their operation 1 to save the South from an Old England and New England combination which would shave the Amer ican Sampson of his strength, knowing that cotton is his hair and that cotton cannot be cultivated but by African slave labor in the land of the lagoon and the alligator, and which is, therefore, now striving to abolish African slavery in the South or to dis solve the blessed Union of these United States, now so strong, by their poicer to pvll the cotton string, that they need no standing army, no navy, no tax for either, whilst all the world besides is necessarily armed and taxed for the cost of war ! This is not half, this is noi a beginning of what I would dis course you and all. North and South, about in these -strange times, when old things seem to be passing away and all things seem to be becoming new. I would go back to the old. I would "recur to fun damentil principles, " to the teachings of the Revo lution, to the faith of the fathers, to the religion of the simpler and purer times of the Republic. But I can't pen or by word, or in public meeting any where, for a long time to come, I fear, indulge the wish to enlarge upon and illustrate and inculcate these themes. I wish you would rise to their full height. Organize, assemble, be watchful and be prepared to meet the enemy, whenever and however lie approaches. I regret I cannot venture to accept your invitation, but I will always be found doing what I can, wherever I may be placed, to further the patriotic ends the country's ends you aim at with ine. ; " - I beg you to assure your committee of my pro foundest acknowledgment, and to accept for them and yourself individually my sincere thanks, and bolieve me - v ' Yours in the bonds and brotherhood of a sound and conservative Democracy, v r v HENRY A. WISE. We learn that the Carson the Central Road will cross Haw. River this week. The Spirit of the Aee is mistaken in attrib uting the celebrated " Sunday Mail Report " to Col. Wm. R,. Johnson. . Col. Richard M. Johnson, ofKy., was the author of that Report, which, it was sup posed, settled the question for many generations. The Age says: .-. ' " " The discussion of a question similar to this has been taunted with ridicule, and a sinister sneer of u puritanism," has been sufficient to silence all in- yestigation, especially in the Southern States. This is certainly a very unchristian manner of disposing of a question involving an offence which violates the " "aw ? bta and man ; ' for other citizens are re , quired to refrain from secular employments on the Sabbath day, and why should not all ?" The people of the United States are pre-eminently: a Christian people, and the Constitutions of the in dividual States arc nearly all, if not quite all, based upon an " express recognition of the doctrines of ; , Christ ; but the federal Constitution differs from the btate Constitutions in this respect Jew and Gen tile, Pagan and Christian arc all embraced in its far reaching and mighty grasp ; none of them are ex alte J above the others, none depressed, but they are all equal. That Constitution confers on Congress no power to interfere, in any way, with questions involving a construction of Holy Writ or questions of religious belief. The people of the United States, who made this Constitution, and whose interests and welfare are so intimately connected with a strict, just, and equal interpretation of it, do not all agree as to what day should be observed as the Sabbath or day of rest. This fact being established and we take it for granted it will not be disputed it inevit ably follows that Congress has no power to declare that even the Christian Sabbath shall be alone ob served, and all other days of rest be disregarded. To claim this power, and to exercise it, would be, in principle, to establish a State religion ; and this no one in this country should wish to do. We think it very clear, however, that the different Transpor tation Companies, under State authority, should see to it that all labor not necessarily connected with the regular transmission of the mails and of passen gers with the mails, should be suspended on the Christian Sabbath day; leaving it to persons to travel, if they choose, with the mails, or by their own means of conveyance. The Christian Sabbath, as we have stated, is in effect expressly recognized by all the States in their Constitutions. Certainly no one should treat a question of this sort with ridicule ; nor is it always in good taste to "sneer" at the "puritanism" referred toby our friend of the Age. But there is an odor of over righteousness of Pharisaism, of excessive piety, streaming down to us from the past annals and pres ent doings of certain communities in this country, which we do not at all relish. We may be mistaken the remark may not be a just one ; but we feel con strained to declare our belief that the people of North-Carolina are more God fearing and law-abi ding, and possessed of and governed by higher and purer principles in morals, than those of certain Northern States that might be mentioned, in which this doctrine of opposition to 44 Sunday Mails " is so much cherished and so generally sustained. ABDICATION OF SANTA ANNA. "We stated in our last that Gen. Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna had abdicated the government of Mexico, and was on his way to the island of Cuba. It appears that he left the city of Mexico on the 9th instant, with an escort of 2,500 men, and signed his abdication at Perotc. He embarked on the 17th in stant at Vera Cruz for Havana. Two days after he left Mexico seven or eight hundred of his escort re volted, killing one or two of their officers. They then joined the insurgents. Before embarking at Vera Cruz, a fight occurred between two revolted battallions and a regiment that continued faithful to Santa Anna. The former were beaten and left for the mountains. Fifteen or twenty were killed be fore order was restored. Gen. Carro is provisional President, and Gen. La Vega who, it will be remembered, was taken pris oner by Col. May is commander-in-chief of the army. Gen. Alvarez, the conqueror, was on his way from the South towards the City of Mexico. The movement in the north of Mexico, it is stated, looks to the dismemberment of the country, and the annexation of some of the northern States to the United States. DEATH OF MAYOR WOODIS. Hunter Woodis, Esq., Mayor of Norfolk, died on Saturday morning last, after a brif illness of yellow fever. The Petersburg Democrat says : 44 Twice called by the kind partiality of hi3 fel low citizens to the highest municipal office within their gift, he carried into public life all those quali ties which so adorned his private character, and the energy, and fidelity with wnich he discharged the duties of his position shamed the tongue of malice into silence, and left to friendship no regret but that words should be so poor a vehicle of praise. Since the moment that the pestilence first visited the city of Norfolk, he has walked the unceasing round of his responsible and dangerous duty with a courage and a zeal which knew neither fear nor fatigue. No remonstrance could inovo him from the task to which he had devoted himself. He offered his life a willing sacrifice if Providence should see fit to call him. Wherever the pestilence raged most fiercely, and men shrank most in terror from its approach, AVoodis was seen battling bravely against it, and throwing a succoring arm around its trembling vic tims. After weeks of heroic exertion, he fell at last on Thursday eveing, after a day, we are told, of un paralleled effort, and was carried to the hospital. Broken down with weariness and watching, his ex hausted frame sunk rapidly under the teirible scourge, and Sunday-morning, despite the prayers and labors and love of a stricken people, he died. His loss is an irreparable calamity the heaviest blow that has befallen the afflicted cities. How heavy then to his poor wife and four or five ittle childern. Be the widow's husband and the orphans' father a friend to them, for there never was dropped a tear over the grave of a noble soul than Hunter Woodis!" Where is toe Letter ? Mr. Rayner has not yet published, in full, the letter of Mr. Barringer of the 0th July in relation to the Nuncio affair. Ex tracts will not answer. Mr. Rayner told our Wel don correspondent that the letter would appear in the "American Organ." It has not appeared an extract only was given. Let us have the entire letter. - - v . Again : The Register and Star still refuse to pub lish Mr. Barringer's letter of July 23rd, dated at Saratoga, and addressed, to Mr. Ellis, Washington City. That letter, throws important light upon the subject. We have published it twice, and its publication in the Star and Register is due, it strikes us, as an act of justice to Mr. Barringer. v Whfe 'is it wpprmsd t -.' The Acgcst Election. For tlie convenience of future reference, (says the : Washington Union,) we givQhclow the result of the August elections com plete, for members of Congress: . ' - . . ' NORTH CAROLINA. - 1. R. T. Paine, K. N. .5. E. G. Reade, KN.' 2. T. Ruffin, D. . : 6. R. C. Puryear, VL N. 3. W. Winslow, D. 7. B. Craige, D. 4. L. O'B. Branch, D. - 8. T. L. Clingman, D, " KENTUCKY - 1. H.' C. Burnett, D. 6.' J. M.EIliott, D. ' 2. J.. P. Campbell, K. N. " 7. H. Marshall, K. N. 8. W. L. Underwood, K. N. 8. A. K. Marshall, K. N. 4. A. G. Talbot, D. . . 9. L. M. Cox, K. N 5. J.H. Jcwett, D. ! 10. S. F. Swopc, K. N. TENNESSEE 1. A. G. Watkins, anti-K. N. C. G. W. Jones, D. W. 7. J. V. Wright, D. 2. W. II. Sneed, K. N. 8. F. K. Zollicoffer, K. N 8. S. A. Smith, D. 9. E. Etheridge, K. N. 4. J. II. Savage, D. . 10. T. Rivers, K. N. 5. C. Ready, K. N. - ALABAMA. 1. P. Walker, K. N. 4. W. R. Smith, K. N. 2. E. Shorter, D. 6. G. S. Houston, D. 8. S. W. Harris, D. 6. W. R. W. Cobb, D. ?. J. F. Dowdell, D. TEXAS. 1. Matthew Ward, D. 1 2. P. H. Bell, D. RECAPITULATION. 33d Congress. 34th Congress. Whigs. North Carolina, - 4 Kentucky, - 5 Tennessee, -6 Alabama, - -2 Texas. - . - Dera. 4 5 4 5 2 K.N. 3 6 5 2 Dem. 6 4 5 5 2 21 16 17 20 17 16 Dem. Maj. 3 5 ". In the above table we place Mr. Smith, of Alaba ma, among the whigs in the last Congress, as we now place him among the know-nothings in the ittxt. Although originally elected as a Democrat, his votes in the 33d Congress will justify the locali ty in which he is placed by us, to avoid confuson, although the old-lino whigs might rcpud iatc the convenience of our classification. We have likewise, for the same reason, placed Mr. Watkins, elected in the first district of Tennessee, in the Democratic column. Mr. Watkins appeared before the people of his district, if we are correctly informed, as an anti-know-nothing Whig, and was mainly elected by Democratic votes. With what party he will act in the next Congress should not, we would sup pose, be a matter of conjecture. Congressmen arc to be elected in Georgia on the first Monday in October, and in Mississippi and Louisiana on the first Monday in November. Mary land elects on the first Wednesday in November, which will complete the elections for the next Con gress : The following arc the Democratic anti-know-nothing nominations for members of Congress in Geoi gia and Mississippi : GEORGIA. 1. J. L. Seward, 5. J. II. Lumkin, 2. M. J. Crawford, 6. Howell Cobb, 3. J. M. Smith, 7. L. Stephens, 4. H. Warner, 8. A. II. Stephens. MISSISSIPPI. 1. D. B. Wright, - 4. O. R, Shingleton, 2. II. S. Bennett, 5. J. A. Quitman. 3. W. Barksdalcj EST Those who charge that the Democrats de fend or justify the Roman Catholic religion or who charge that the Democrats are the 4t Foreign and Catholic party," utter a wilful and infamous false hood. The Democrats of North Carolina arc just as good Protestants, to say the least, as the Know Nothings; and the Democratic Republican party always has been and is now the true American party. We regret our inability to comply with re quests from several friends to send them copies of documents published by us during the recent cam paign, such as Rayner's speech, Kerr's letter, and others. We have none on hand they went off like hot cakes, and where they went thickest the Know Nothing votes were thinnest. 3T" The 62d Anniversaiy of the Fatetteville Independent Light Infantry Compant was celebra ted on Thursday last by a Target Firing and Dinner. We were unable to be present on the occasion, but learn that every thing passed off pleasantly, and that nothing occurred to mar the festivities of the occa sion. - The Target Firing is said by judges to have been excellent indeed better than usual. The Prize (a Silver Goblet,) was won by Capt. James M. Vann ; and a second Prize (a beautiful Evergreen, presented by Col. Lutterloh.) was awarded to .Mr. Jesse Kyle. Capt. Vann's shots averaged 4 C 10 inches; Mr. Kyle's, (second best,) 4 9-16; Mr. Shadracb Scd bcrry's, (third best,) 412 16. Mr. Hector McKethan made the best single shot, being 13-lCtbs of an inch. The presentation of the Prizes was accompanied by a few neat and appropriate remarks by Dr. T. D. Haigh. The annual election of officers then took place. We should not forget to notice, that in addition to the beautiful Evergreen presented by Col. Lutterloh, the table was graced by a large and very handsome Cake, a present from the Messrs. Roberts, of the Fayetteville Hotel. Wc like to see these evidences on the part of our citizens of the interest they feel in the prosperity of this time-honored Corps. Fayetteville Observer. Meeting of the Directors of the Atlantic and NoKTn Carolina Railroad. The Directors of this Company met in Newbern on the 16th inst, and were in session several days. Wc learn that the con tract from Newbern to Slocum's Creek was awarded to C. B. Wood Esq., and to Gov. Morehead from Slo cumb's Creek to Shepard's Point, at which point they located the eastern tcrminvt of the road. The con tract for the Bridge over Trent River the super structure was awarded to Messrs. Stone and Mc Dowell, of Wilmington, N. C, and the masonry and. foundations to Wm. Murdoch, of Salisbury. The stock is now all taken, $533,000, and we pre sume the State will bo called upon to make her sub scription at an early day. Three Locomotives were ordered the Gov. Bragg, John Baxter, and Charles F. Fisher. The entire Road is now let out from Golds borough to Shepard's Point, and no Company ever had more energetic and honorable Contractors en gaged on any work. iVew Berne Journal. Later from Utah. -A despatch from St Louis says: 44 We are in receipt of dates from Great Salt Lake to the 1st of July. The third crop of grain had ' been destroyed, and the prospects of famine were still imminent "The Hon. L. Shaver, one of the judges of the Territory, was found dead in his bed on the 29th of June, and was buried with great ceremony." Hogs in Kentucky. According to returns to the auditor of Kentucky, there arc in that State, this year, 1,440,206 hogs over six months old, against 1,082,244 last year. This decrease in number is -attributed to the short crop of corn last year, which compelled many to kill that otherwise would have ' kept them a year . longer. . . The quantity of pork ' raised in the State tho present season, however will undoubtedly exceed that of last year. BISHOP ATKINSON'S Fayetteville, Rockfish,' :. St Mark's, &eep Rrrcr, PrttebOTO APPOINTMENTS. October 7th : 44 8th " 21th The Yellow FeYer in Norfolk and Portsmouth. A Gloomy Picture. The Argus of yesterday con tains the following melancholy account of matters : in Norfolk by night It is indeed intensely solemn : ' "The appearance of the City at night is perhaps more gloomy and distressing than in the day tinie. : The dwellings,' as well as the stores, are all closed and dark. The dogs band themselves together and prowl about, as if aware that something sad and un- ' usual was going on.' At an hour, when in other days, the piazzas and street would present life,. " health and gaiety, the sound of a human foot-step . is not heard, and a familiar voice is something cheer- ing to the heart A few evenings since,- we walked through Main and other principal streets at night A dark and ' lowering cloud had just passed over, and the moon . shone with unusual brightness, lighting up fully the ' deserted avenues and fashionable promenades mocking as it were the scene of desolation below. ' Our spacious harbor, smooth as glass, and cleared of -vessels, steamers, and sail boats reflected the bright ness and seemed more beautiful than ever. But as we passed along, we heard tne distinct words of in consolable grief uttered by the bereaved. Death had been in and struck his blow, the victims had fallen, the remains had been hastily conveyed awav, and sorrowing relatives and friends were weeping, and telling of their loss in words that were full of affection and. deep meaning. We passed on sad ' and gloomy enough. But soon there were other sounds that 44 held us delaying." We mention only one affecting case. On one of the principal streets the windows of the second story of a house were all up; lights were burning, and nurses were busv :' around a bed that stood in sight ; and the groans of ''. the dying that fell upon our ear, will perhaps never be forgotten. We knew from the struggle that Na- 1 . A. - . ... 00 .... I m" aceuicu io ue mailing, inai ine was last ebbing out . The following morning we were informed that the struggle was over. Death had accomplished his purpose. The conflict had ended. The victims were still, breathless, dead. A fond mother and her son lay in the stirless slumber of death, side by side, on the same death bed. Soon the busy, bustling, undertaker was there, and then the mother and her child were hurried out to the graveyard, where they sleep together in deep sepulchral stillness. This is only one of many such scenes. But wc thought it intensely solemnizing and awfuL" Report of the Board of Health, of deaths by Fever, for the 24 hours ending Sunday last, at 2 o'clock, P. M. : Sylvester C. Lewis, aged 17, Main street; Thomas Noonah, aged 20, Commerce street ; Mr. Gattiker, at J. M. Freeman's, Main street; negro woman at R. C. Barclay's, Main street ; Mr. Harris' colored boy, aged 4, Water street ; Miss Mary Eliza Graves, aged 18, Brewer street ; negro man belonging to Mr. Taylor, aged 40, James street; Hunter Woodis, aged 33, Catharine street ; negro man belonging to Mr. Bell, Avon street Total 9. Report of deaths by the Fever for the 24 hours ending Monday, the 27th, at 2 o'clock, P. M. : Mr. Smith, aired 30. Bank strwt .!ihn Frwmn colored, aged 40, Metcalf lane ; negro man, aged 50, Freemason fctreet ; Mrs. Sintiott, aged 3 J, Talbot I street; Edward Curtin, aged 23, Union street; ( Richard Holihan, aged 35, Water street ; Noonan, j aged 15, Commerce street ; Jno. Christian, Allyn- ,5 town ; Chas. A. Camp, aged 9, Chapel street ; Eliza Godfrey, Woodsidc's lane; negro at Mr. Jones' 1 boarding house, Main street; Mrs. Bixby's child, Fenchurch stret; a white woman in Boush's lane ; T Mr. N. Etheredge, Union street ; Mary Garrett, Lit tle Water street ; negro of C. Bailey, Main street; : negro of Win. Walker, Holt street; Mrs. J. R. Wiatt, - i aged 35, New street Total 17. At the Hospital, Capt Henry Dicker, aged 56; John Winter, aged 27.-2. Recovering. Wm. C. Whitehead, Esq., the wor thy President of the Democratic Association, is now . sick of the fever, but wo arc glad to say, is consid- . ered out of danger. More Aid. Several physicians arrived on Satur- . day from Philadelphia and Baltimore and took lodg- . ings at the National Hotel They will assist in at tending those who are sick of the fever. Norfolk, Aug. 27th, 5 P. M. Dear Express: Mayor Woodis lay in state, in ' the drawing-room of his residence, several hours . before his burial took place, when all of our citizens who desired it, had an ojport unity of taking their iasi iook, inrougn me glass opening 01 tue metallic coffin, at the noble countenance of their beloved Chief Magistrate. Numbers availed themselves of the privilege, and many tears were shed o'er his un timely bier. His manly and expressive features wore an air of deep repose, as if he lay quietly sleep ing the only alteration being in tho color of his skin, which had a tinge as yellow as gold. A long line of carriages filled with citizens, each one a mourner, followed his remains to the grave. He was interred in the new Catholic Cemetery, 2 miles from town, the Rev. Father O'Ktefe officiating on the oc. casiou. Mr. Woodis was 35 j-ears of age, and has left a" widow, the daughter of Henry B. Reardon, Esq., and four young children to mourn the loss of a fond and affectionate husband, and devoted father. His family are now at the North, and the sad blow will fall heavily upon their gentle hearts. Alas I on what a frail tenure hangs the lives of us all! On last Wednesday, Mr. Woodis was actively employed in the discharge of his manifold duties; he was taken that night with the fever, and died yes terday at 11 o'clock. But three short daysl How many more will be cut down in the same swift man ner, God only knows ! The arrows of death are flying around us as thick as hail, and truly we know not what a day or an hour may bring forth. To record all the sick, dying and dead, through out the city, were simply a matter of impossibility. The deaths are not all reported by the Board of IToalth and n n m Vot .1 1nc OC tn? lk.t CAn persons are sick of the Fever. It is no uncommon 1 thing to see two and three coffins in one hearse, and not a soul but the driver accompanying. I regret to state that the Rev. Anthony Dibrell, (well known in Petersburg, and indeed throughout Virginia,) the devoted Pastor of the Granby Street M. E. Church, is ill with the fever. He has been most unceasing in his attentions to the diseised and suffering. Cor. of Pet. Expreu. Mayor Fiake down with Fever. Portsmouth, Aug. 27. Dear Express: I am too much, occupied to say much, but send you a line or two, as I am writing to a friend. Drs. Trugien and Mauphin, have been very sick, but are thought to be doing better at this time. John L. Porter, Assistant Constructor in the Gos port Navy Yard, has been carried to tho Naval Hos pital sick of the Fever. The scourge is said to have broken out on board the U. S. Frigate St. Lawrence, now lying at the Naval Anchorage. - It is reported that some forty cases have occurred. For the 24 hours ending at sunset yesterday, the deaths numbered 17. Up to sunset to-day, there were only 7. This is a very decided decrease in the mortality. I hopo it is but the beginning of a con tinued decrease, for ihey have now been pn the in crease a long time. . Yours in great haste, B, POSTSCRIPT. A gentleman of this city received a letter last eve- nina' written veKterrlair m nrn l n rr xehioh cnmmnn!. oi J j 0, .- -.uu....- , cates tho melancholy intelligence that D. D. Fiske, j script newspaper, is down with the Fever. His son and wife have just passed through the terrible or- deal. e sincerely nope that the husband and fa ther may be spared. . The same letter states that Mr. John Woodier, a most estimable young gnan, and nephew of Dr. Wm. Collins, President of the Seaboard and Roanoke v Railroad, is down with th Fpwa - The family of Mrs. Robert H. Tatum, is also af- ; fiictcd with tho prevailing epidemic; and two of lira i i children of Mr. Jones Tottrirdcll. : ; I Senator Pugil An . Eloottekt Extract. Tho Cincinnati Enquirer has brought out the following extract of a speech of the Hon. George E. Pugh, made in that city April 6th, 1854. Is there an Ame rican who loves bis country, nd desires the perpe tuity of this gloricus Union, but will respond a hear-. ty Amen to the patriotic and eloquent sentimebu of this extract? It is worthy the reputation o! our : ablest and oldest statesman, and we rejoice tW it " finds a place in the hearts of our young, rising poli ticians. ' . - Said Mr. Pugh: ' . 'The continuance of the Union is a matter of vi-; : tal importance to the people of Ohio. That is t,he".'--term of all our greatness and all our hopes. We f. came into being, as a State, under the auspices of ' the federal government, and as it may stand or fall, . -so must our fate be. If any abolitionist will calcu- . late the value of the Union to us, or even to those who may fill oar places hereafter, let him behold the prosperity and happiness which have fallen to . our choice. Let him depart from Sandusky with Monday's train first having renewed his patriotism at the sight of those islands near which the immor tal victorr of Lake Erie was achieved and let him jou-ncy hitherward until the sun declines. What " a vision will greet his eyes! The noble State of ' ' Ohio, but fifty years old, and yet containing two millions of inhabitants, great, rich, and enviable, will have passed before him a State which is not mere ly indebted to the Union for peace and protection, for means of access to the sea, but even for its poli tical existence. Arrived at this capital of western trade and power, this queen of cities, which glassca herself in a river proverbial for beauty, let him con template here a triumph of industry and enterprise as superb in design as it is magnificent in propor tions, which, but for the Union's aid, but for the -Union's continual care, would quickly fade into des pair and ashes. Let him go hence, "by the agencj of that subtle- minister which enlivens so many wondrous forms of mechanism, until he has reached the States which lie upon our southern border those fertile and sunny lands through whose allu vion the Mississippi cleaves a .hundred outlets to the gulf. That, also, is his country ! There, amid the fields of verdant cane, or in the groves of citron and olive, or where the figtrce casts its clustering Fhadc, will be found men and women to whom Washington is likewise a guiding star whost hopes are bound up with his own hopt whose fortunes -depend on hit fortunes over whose homes, as over his home, the government which Washington es tablished the government which Washington ad miristered the government w hich Washington bo sought us to maintain stretches forth its protecting and victorious arm. If there be an American who would dissever those whom kindred aspirations, a common liberty, and the joint inheritance of so great a name conspire thus closely lo unite ; if thero be an American who could even wish these things were otherwise, I pity his heart I pity his head I pity the father and the mother who are compelled to own him I pity the soil which his very foot steps contaminate I pity even the day whose healthful sunlight was dimmed and eclipsed by such a birth of undying shame." SIX DAYS LATER FROM EUROPE!! ! New Yohk, A u.t. 29. The British mail steamer .Canada arrived at Halifax last night, with dates from Liverpool up to the 18th inst: Both the War news ' and markets are highly important Sveaborg an important Russian city on the gulf of Finland, had been bombarded by the Allied fleets on the 11th inst , and destroyed. Loss immense. Loss of the Allies Iriflinjr. The bombardment of Sebastopol was to commence on the 17th. Queen Victoria was on a visit to Na poleon. . Further by the Canada ! General Simpson telegraphs home that he would re-open bombard ments on the morning of the 17th. Victoria and her cortege had proceeded to France in six ships of war. During the bombardment of Sveaborg, the city took fire, and burned for 45 hours. Store-house, magazines, arsenals, Ac, were all in ruins. The powder magazines, military stores and other pro jectiles blew up. Great Battle with toe Turks The battle of Tchcrnaya commenced on the ICth. The Russians numbered 60,000 men. The Sardinians fought bravely. The Russians left -500O slain on the field, and about 400 were taken prisoners. The Russians were in full retreat when a reserve force of the enemy came up, and pursued them with dreadful slaughter. Liverpool Markets. Cotton sales opened with . largely speculative demand and advanced from an eighth to a quarter, but wtre eaiscr during the last two days, but not quoUbly lower. They closed steady. Sales of the week were 80,000 bales, Spec ulators 24,000 and exporters 45,000. Orleans fair, 8J; middling C7-1C; Upland farCJ; Middling 6$. Breadstuff. Flour dull and declined Cd. per bbL W estern-canal from 39 a 40s ; Ohio from 42 to 45. Wheat a trifle lower. Corn dull and declined Is 6L per quarter. Weather good and crop accounts favorable. Latest fbox Norfolk and Portsmouth. The ac counts are still distressing, though the number of deaths appeared to be decreasing. On Wednesday ' -there were nine deaths in Norfolk, and thirteen in Portsmouth. Dr. Trugein is dead. . Nearly all the papers in the two places have sus- pended publication, and we are mainly indebted for "news of the condition of things to the Petersburg Express. . Atlantic and North Carolina Railroad. The contracts for building this Road, between New bern and Shepard's Point, have been taken by Gov. Morehead and Council B. Wood, Esq. Under tho energetic management of these gentlemen the work must go rapidly forward. Three locomotives have been ordered by the Board of Directors one to be called Got. Bragg, ." one John Baxter, and the other Charles F.Fisher! The three others, which are to be ordered, will be called William Gaston, John Stanly, and John -Washington. Col. Wheeler, onr Minister at Nicaragua, has left -in the Northern Light, for San Juan. We hope that he may not be much sea-sick. Wilmington neraU.. Was it not enough, Mr. Herald, that CoL. Wheel er should have his slaves stolen from him by your brother Know Nothings in Philadelphia, without be ing thus jeered, and that by one of his own fellow citizens, on his departure on an honorable mission ' to a distant land? Substantial An.The Philadelphia Committee sent to Norfolk and Portsmouth, on Tuesday last, three physicians, ten nurses and three apotheca ries. This is substantial aid. Four of the nurses are Catholic Sisters of Charity. DIED, Very suddenly, at his residence, in Granville County, oo the loth An?nat. 1S5 , iu the 83d year of bis see, Jonathan Kittrell a inan without gmle, just sad merciful. Con. At the residence if her husband, in Cbowmo countv, on the 25th June, Mrs. C. E. Diron, wife of Alex. Dixon, Esq and danghter of Getu Duncan McDonald. . In Person County, recently. Dr. Samuel Jacobs, a TOurg gentleman of much promise. . . . BLANK LAND DEEDS, OF THE LATEST AND most approved form, nut printed, and lor sale at the .Standard" office. . -. . . 'AIjo Writs, Subptxroas, Vatrsati; u'd a rarietr of oUT Vianks. Acg.23i?53. , : - ' .... 73- f t V. - T i ; .t -'1 MS
The Weekly Standard (Raleigh, N.C.)
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