North Carolina Newspapers

I, r Vol. XXIII. No. 27- RALEIGH, NORTH-CAROLINA. WEDNESDAY. MAT 6. 1857- Whole Number 1183. sr 0; 7 ! to to THE Iktii-Caroliiut Itonktu WILLIAM V. HOLDEN, Editor and Proprietor. FRANK. I. WILSON, Associate Editor. TERMS OF THE WEEKLY Two Dollars per ann um nva visibly m advance. TERMS OF THK SEMI-WEEKLY Four Dollars per amii'iii, invariably in advance. A'l papers are discontinued at the expiration of the time for which they have been jxtid. Terms of Advertising in the Semi-Weekly Standard. Onr regular rates of advertising' arc as follows: One square, ( 14 lines or loss) lirst insertion, - 00 Each subsequent insertion, ------- 25 Longer advertisements in proportion. Contracts will be made witli advertisers, at the above regular rate, for six or twelve months, and at the close of the contract per cent, will be deducted from the gross a mount. Professional or business Cards, not exceeding five lines Will be inserted in either the Weekly or Semi-Weekly, for j for six nionlhs,or $10 for twelve months ; or in both pa pers for 10 for six months, or 15 for twelve months. Terms of Advertising in the Weekly Standard. One dollar per square for the first insertion, and 2" cts. fir each subsequent insertion. X deduction null be mild, ra Weil;1; adrrrtifeutritt, no matter ttt-ir limy tin y wry run. Only a limited number of advertisements will be admitted into the Weekly. All advertisements, not otherwise direct ed, are inserted in the St mi-Weekly, and charged accord ingly. When the number of insertions is not marked on the advertisement it is inserted until forbid. Money sent us by mail is at our risk. March 7, 1S57. R A LEIGH, SATURDAY, MAY 2, JI857. FOUUTII CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT. FOR CONGRESS : 'B. B RAXCH, OF WAKE. Insincerity of the Opposition. The Salisbury Watchman takes exception to a re cent article of ours, in which the distribution propo sition is characterized as "the latest humbug." Wc adhere to the opinion, though we may well change j zens but they are in a minority. We respect Mr. the expression by saying, it is the same old humbug, j Dickinson, Mr. Marcy, the Albany Argus, the New drensed up and presented for the occasion to advance j Yoik Day Book, the New Yoik News, the Journal seljish purjwses. We do not regard the leaders orf j 0f Commerce, and New Yoi k City, and we can go the opposition as sincere in this matter. From June, j with them; but we can go for nothing which is 1834, up to August 1856, we heard not one word j proposed and advocated by the majority in the New from these leaders in relation to the lands or their J Yoik Legislature. It is a perjured, a hostile, a for proceeds. They ignored the question in all their ! tignj a belligerant, a disloyal, and an infamously de- platforms, just as miny of them endeavored to ignore j the question of the Constitutional rights of the j South ; they forgot every thing else, or appeared to forget every thing, in the clamor raised against for eigners and Catholics. Well, what have they ef fected in relation to these two objects? Justnoth- ! ing. Catholicism is as strong, if not stronger than it ever was in this country ; and the naturalization laws have not been amended. Failing in this re- iispect, and having incurred the censure (to use no 3 stronger word) of the people on account of their 4 midnight gatherings, their test oaths, and the pre scriptive and intolerant nature of their creed, they Vt) jhave recurred to the old Whig placform, which they f) ? pronounced obsolete, and to the old Whig party, which the' declared to be rotten, corrupt and dead, and have drawn thence the onl v issue of which they can boast, an issue slighted and disregarded by themselves for three years, and that too when, as J If they allege, the lands were being squandered to the detriment and injury of the people of the old States. North-Caiolina had the same rights in the public domain, and distribution, if desirable at ail, was as desirable in 1854 as in 1857; yet for three years have the mouths of these leaders been closed, and the pens of these Editors been silent on this ques tion. hat is the fair inference from this? It is that they have no fixed principles that thej' look rather to temporary advantage over the Democracy than to the 'substantial good of the country that they arc not to be relied upon as the advocates of any policy that they are insincere. We warn the people of this insincerity, and we would put them on their guard against these politicians, who would deceive and mislead them to effect their own selfish it and ambitious purposes. The same paper the Watchman says: "Congress is distributing squandering on pets and others the public domain in such a way as soon to place it beyond the reach of Southern States, and then North-Carolina will be left to mourn her irreparable folly in rejecting a boon of immense value, once so easily within her reach." Congress squandered but little during Mr. Pierce's term, and they will squander as little under Mr. Buchanan. The former vetoed the squandering bills, for which, by the way, he received no thanks from the Know Nothing leader ; and the latter is solemn ly pledged in his Inaugural to hold the lands for national purposes and to prevent extvavagnnt dona tions to the new States. The grant to the Illinois Railroad Company was voted for by Messrs. Mangutn and Badger, and approved by Mr. Fillmore; and this grant, the largest ever made to any corporation, has 1 been sanctioned by the Know Nothing leaders. How I'". I sanctioned? hy, by supporting Mr. Fidmore alter he approved the bill supporting him without pro test against that act of his; and by their compli ments bestowed upon, and their support accorded, since the vote was given, to Messrs. Badger and Mangum. So much for "distributing, squandering on pets and others," and so much for the honesty, the sincerity of Know Nothing leaders. But, says the Watchman and this is the doleful declaration of the Register and the remnant of the K. N. papers the public domain will soon be "be yond the reach of the Southern States, and then North-Carolina will be left to mourn her irreparable folly in rejecting a boon of immense value, once so easily within her reach." The public domain con sists of about 1,5!)0,000,000 of acres. Thus far, since the foundation of the government, only about 160,000,000 of acres have been sold, and not more than 250,000,000 altogether, disposed of. Suppose, during the next fifty j'ears, one thousand millions of acres should be disposed of, we should still have left five hundred millions of acres. But how is North Carolina rejecting this "boon of immense value?" Distribution, we know, was offered to her in 1841 by the Whig leaders, andhe accepted $20,000 one instalment ; but these name leaders raised the tariff in 1842, and by that act not only increased our bur dens, but cut off distribution. The K. N. leaders ow say they will do great things for the State, if -e will on"y elect Col. Putyar and Mr. Smith to ongress I Are these Know Nothings as honest and as trustworthy as the old Whigs? We think not And if the latter deceived the people in this respect in 1842, how can we trust the former? But the "irreparable folly" of North-Carolina, which we are thus called upon to "mourn," is no greater than that of Delaware, New Jersey, Massachusetts, South-Carolina, Virginia, and the other old States. The lands belong to the genera! government. They should be held and used for general purposes. They should not be squandered or wasted, any more than other public property. If there be indeed any net pro ceeds, let them be applied to the support of the general government; and let the tariff-taxes on the people he reduced to that extent. Is that a rejection of the benefit in these lands? Is that unwise, or impracticable, or unusual ? Surely not. Is it " ir reparable folly" to devote common public property to common public use, and thereb' reduce our taxes ? We think not But the Watchman of the same date, in another article says : " The New York Legislature before its adjourn ment adopted a resolution requesting the represen tatives of that State in Congress, to use their best endeavors to keep the public lands frem the hands of speculators, and to secure that distribution of them among the old State to which the latter are entitled What will North Carolina do? The Standard cries " humbug " and if let alone will ! humbug the State out of its rights." " What will North-Carolina do ?" She will not go with New York. The same New York Legislature passed resolutions denouncing the decision of the Supreme Court in the Died Scott case, and setting at naught the federal Constitution and the law of the land. The same New York Legislature passed a law which imposes the penalty of imprisonment in the enitentia) y upon any gentleman from the South who carries his slate into that State. The State of New York, as at present controlled and gov erned, is more hostile to the rights of North-Carolina than France or Great Britain. We would not i trust the black Republicans, who now have that State under their control, as son as we would the States of Europe; for the former have delihemtolv broken the federal Constitution, while the latter have had no opportunity of accepting and maintaining it. New York contains many sound and patriotic citi- praved majority. It respects neither the rights of the South, nor the federal Constitution, nor the sa- credness of compacts. If all the f.-ee States were of the same mind with that majority, the Union would dissolve, and the ploughshare of carnage would tear through this country from Maine to California. It may suit the Watchman, and other K. N's in the South, to goicithlhe Xew York Legislature ; but we go not in that direction, with that company. The black Republicans of New York themselves land grabbers and land-speculators themselves purcha sable human wares in the market, as the late inves tigation in Congress proves themselves the inferi ors in character, in manhood, and in morals of many of the slaves of the South these men come forward to " keep the public lands from the hands of specu lators," and to demand distribution in the name of the old States ! And the Watchman says amen ! and calls upon North-Carolina to go with them ! The Register's Distribution Policy. The Register says it is to our interest as a State to call for a " division as often as possible" of the surplus in the federal treasury ; and adds : " Wc get some then ; we get our share ; wcget some more than our share, inasmuch as we draw for three-fifths of our slaves." Mistaken again. Under any deposit act based on our representation in Congress, we would get less than our share just two-fifths less than the free States, for their entire population is counted in making the apportionment. But the Register wants a "division as-often as possible." What would that be but collecting money from the people with one hand for the purpose of handing it back to them with the other? How much would be gained by such a policy ? Why, we would gain, a loss of about twenty-five cents in every dollar, for it would cost that to collect and handle Ihe moneys and then pay them back. Is that a specimen of our cotemporary's policy of distribution ? To collect money by way of tariff-taxes and from the sales of the pull c lands, just to return it to the sources from which it was derived! why, any government that would do that would become the laughing-stock of the world. We concur with the Register that we of the South have paid most of the imposts ; but let us demand our rights in thin respect, a:id insist on a still furth er reduction of the tariff. North-Carolina has al ready paid hundreds of thousands of dollars in du ties on Railroad iron, as well as on iron for other uses ; and she is now paj?ing twenty-four per cent, on this indispensable article, for the benefit of North ern manufacturers. Yet we hear no demand by our cotemporary for a reduction of this duty. He is captivated by the glitter of ihe land dollars he would receive a few hundred thousands in assumed net proceeds, and pay back to the general government in tariff taxes from two to three millions of dollars per annum ! That is his policy. He complains of our State taxes, but never a word does he utter in rela tion to the millions we are contributing mainly for the benefit of manufacturers in abolition States. Let him look at and answer these facts, if he can. Ixsase Asylum. The time for the meeting of the Board of Directors of the Insane Asylum, has been postponed from the 5th of June, as heretofore pub lished, to Friday the 12th of June. The 5th is during Commencement week at Chapel Hill, and the time has been changed on that account Papers copying the advertisement will please notice this alteration. Scarcity of Pkovesder. We learn that in se veral counties west of this, fodder, hay, &c, is un commonly scarce. The cold weather having con tinued so long, and prevented the grass from grow ing, many farmers have found themselves unable to supply their stock with this kind of food, and many who heretofore sold large quantities, have not been able to satisfy their own wants. It is feared that stock will suffer greatly on account of this scarcity. We were informed by a gentleman in search of the article, that shucks, wheat straw, and in fact any thing in that way, would command extra prices. Charlotte Democrat. Great Contract for Iron Ore on Deep River. We copy the following letter, addressed by John Haughton, Esq., to the Fayetteville Observer, II. from the last number of that paper. The Observer, in introducing this letter to its readers, says: "Great Contract for Iron Ore. The reader will find in the letter which we publish from John II. Haughton, Esq., of Pittsboroush, a statement of a contract which would be incredible but for the source from which it comes, viz : that a Northern Company has agreed to furnish on Deep River, within two .years after the completion of the contract of Messrs. Dungan. Cartwright & Co., seven millions of dollars worth of Mack band iron ore. And this ore is to be manufactured on the spot by which its value will be increased of course, how much we are unable to say, but doubtless at least as much mot e. So that there is to be brought into market, by one company in two years, say fourteen millions of dollars worth of iron alone, fiom this depository of undeveloped and untold wealth of North Carolina. We had heard of this contract, but not with any certainty as to its accuracy, before we received Mr. Haughton 's letter; and our information was that the Northern Company spoken of expect to furnish all this ore from a tract of less than 300 acres of land which they have pur chased. What a prospect does all this open to our State, and especially to this part of our State! Whose imagination can compass its fuM extent? But this iron interest, immense as it is, is but one of various sources of wealth on Deep River. The coal is of at least equal value. And in addition to both there are building stone, mill stones, soapstone, slate, tire-clay, porcelain-clay, timber, and water power to assist human hands in doing the work ne cessary to develop all their wealth." The Observer has not overstated the undeveloped wealth of the Deep river region, or the importance of the contract referred to. We have no reason to doubt the accuracy of Mr. Haughton's statement, and we know he would not willingly mislead the public; but we trust his information in relation to this contract may turn out to be correct, and that the contract may be carried out. His letter i- as follows: " PiTTSBOKouGii, April 22, 1857. Messrs. E. J. Hale & Sox : Gentlemen .-Aware of the interest you have manifested in the mineral resources of the Deco River .Y!UJi'V.,J, to?.Vi?. jp fvz iiiunicate a lacl wmcii 1 iieAru recently trom a relia ble quarter, as it goes very far to show the impor tance of multiplying the means of transportation for our coal and iron asmuch andasspeedily as possible. I understand that a Northern Company has con tracted to deliver, within two years after the contract of Messrs. Dungan, Cartwright & Co., to complete the improvement of the Cape Fear & Deep Rivers to the Gulf, is done, two millions of tons of Mark band iron ore, on the banks of Deep River, at $3 50 ppr ton, on the spot. Here then is a contract for $7,0'!O,0000, for a portion of the iron ore of that re gion ; and to be realized in two years time. This will, when manufactured, as it will be here, pay our River Company in tolls $700,0 50 in two years, or "50.000 per 3-enr ; and this will be clear profit, because the proprietors of coal and iron are to be their own carriers and to pay us toll per ton, at an agreed rate ahead' fixed. Thus you see what reason the friends of the Deep River improvement have for encouragement and re newed exertions for tho speedy accomplishment ot that great work, a consummation, fortunately, soon now to be realized hy the energy and resources of Messrs. Dungan, Cartwright & Co., who have un dertaken it. But this is not all. Let the friends of your Rail Road also take courage; they must now see that there is enough and to spare of the resources of Deep River to tax the capacity of both Rivet and Road to their utmost, and that the sooner both works are done, the better for the State and all who feel an interest in her prosperity and independence. Let there be no longer any jealousy of our River improvement felt by your citizens, or any further hostility ; wc will all have enough to do. Let up join hand in hand, and push on the great works that promise so much to all concerned, with ail possible despatch. Such a spirit would have carried us suc cessfully through the Legislature. Let all hostility here after cease. I have great hopes that our people will consent to raise $50,000 or $100,000 for your Road, in this County, and thus follow the noble example of Cum berland. When the proper time arrives, I hope to be able to take the field for your Road, and press its claims with all the ability 1 possess. Very respectfully, vours, J. IL HAUGHTON." The Observer accompanies the letter with the fol lowing additional remarks : " In Mr. Haughton's letter there is a paragraph to which we feel obliged to take exception, much as we would have preferred to indulge in on!' pleasent comments. He says, " Let there be no longer any jealously of our river improvement felt by j-our citi zens, or any further hostility." This is " putting the saddle on the wrong horse." The hostility has been on the other side, from the commencement of the tiver work, when it was pro claimed by one of its pi inctp.il men that it would obliterate Fayetteville from the map, down to the last Legislature, when some of the leading friends of the river took the ground that both river and road should not, and others that both could not, receive State aid, and therefore worked for the river alone. It was this which obliged the friends of the road to look to their own interests. They had let the river company alone, for eight years, notwithstanding the threat of obliteration, and notwithstanding the ob structions it had placed in the river to the damage of citizens of Cumberland hundreds of thousands of dollars. And they would have continued to let the river company alone, if the spirit which animates this present letter of Mr. Haughton's had been mani fested at Raleigh during the late session. But the friends of the river seem to have supposed that the game was all in their own hand. The State Home officers were all their friends, and looked coldly on the rail road; the democratic wire pullers about Raleigh (with Judge -aunders at their head,) were for them and against us ; and the Legislature was for them because unwilling to lose the $480,000 al ready invested. All these influences would undoub tedly have prevailed with a Legis ature largely de mocratic, (we may say largely Locofoco,) but for the developments before a committee of the Leg islature as to the condition and management of the Company itself. It was these developments, and no hostility of our citizens, which prevented the river company from getting successfullyihrough the Leg islature." We invite particular attention to the expressions which we have put in italics in the above extracts. The Observer, it seems, cannot refer to the River or the Road without some allusion like the foregoing to "the State House officers" and "the Democratic wire-pullers about Raleigh.' Such allusions, while they can be of no b.-ncfit to the cause of internal improvements, are unjust in themselves and un founded. We were an attentive observer of the struggles in the two houses for both the River and the Road, we were friendly to both, but we neither lobbied for them, nor tried to pull wires ; and we know somethinjr of the feelings and the views of those whom the Observer has put down as "against" the Road. That paper is mistaken. We heard no "State House officer" say anything against the Road, we heard nothing from Judge Saunders by way of opposition to it, we saw no Democrat in Raleigh who "looked coldly " upon it Can it be nnoeiKIa iKof tt OKcArvuP on1 ntliara in vof f aviIIa friends of the Road and opposed to the River, are determined to Tiaxe no friends heret We concur with Mr. Haughton in the opinion, that if the friends of the two improvements had co operated cordially from the outset, and had shown no spirit of hostility one towards the other, both would have gone " successfully through the Legisla ture." But let the past take care of itself, or be forgotten. Let all depressing recollections and cir cumstances connected with these matters pass away, and let us look forward to the cheering future which lies before us. Caleb Cushiny's Great Speech. The Hon. Caleb Cushing, on the occasion of his return to Newbury port, Mass., was honored by a public reception by his fellow-citizens without re spect to party ; and in reply to the welcome thus given him he delivered a strikingly able and impres sive speech. We make the following extracts: " Is not that manifest destiny ? Is not that a pro vidential mission ? Is not that one of the steps in the 44 march, march, march" of the Union which, when suggested by me, on a former occasion, as what the Union had perforce to do, was taken to be the personation of some awful monster, shakirg forth pestilence and death from its horrid hair ! Aye, in this pioneer colony of Massachusetts, doubled with Plymouth, on the very rock of Plymouth itself, where a free compact of self-government first found a footstand on earth, and from which point, togeth er with the coeval starting point of Jamestown, there moved the two parallel columns of emigration which commenced America's march at that very place, a good and honored friend of mine felt called upon to protest against my suggestion of the on ward 44 march, march, march" of the advancing hosts of civilization, liberty and power which follow the westwatd flight of the eagle of the Union. I stand to my thought I reiterate it I slick to the purpose which brought my forefather, John Cush ing, from Ilinghiiin in England to Hingham in Mas sachusetts. 1 say that every ship-load of colonists which came in the beginning to Virginia and to Mas sachusetts, and each one of us their descendants, who arc but moving on with an acceleration of the original impetus which they gave us, and every ship load of cojpmstg.fj-QjnJr?J appointed to occupy, to cultivate, and to civiUze America. It is oppression seeking to be freedom. It is want demanding to be want no longer. It is the strong man without air and without room, and determined to have them or die gallantly in the struggle for them. It is the irrepressible expansion of ttie over-compressed human energies. It is the exodus of the nations. It is the outpouring of the too-full blood of the OM World into the all rapaci ous veins of the New World. It it the foundation in America of Republican empires to ontcoitnt in numbers and outvie in strength the parent States of Europe m I sat, that is the trork appointed of God for uh to do, and, with the blessing of God ujnn T, that work we icill do. If rivers run across our path. we will biidge them ; if mountains rise up to stop us, we will tunnel them ; if desvtts appear we will reclaim and cultivate them; if oceans intervene, wc w ill navigate them, to which last end, so long as there is an oak left upon the earth, gallant ships shall continue to be launched into the waters of this our Merrimac. No material obstacle can arrest our progress. Wc woo fair nature which lies before us, and we woo it as its conqueicr, like the vi-kings of the old time winning their brides of the sea in open combat. I say this in the same confidence of conviction as one who, seeing the sun set forth from the portals of the Eist, may speak of its onward course to the West For time was when the United States were but weak little Colonies of England, scattered along the sea-shore. Then they over-flowed the Alleghan ics into the Valley of the Mississippi. Next they absorbed the vast domain of France from Lake Su perior all around to the Gulf of Mexico, and west ward to Oregon. Next they possessed themselves of the two Flordas and then of Texas. And finally they have marched on through New Mexico into re mote California. But in our conquest of nature with our stalwart arms, and with our dauntless hearts to back them, it happens that men, nations, races, may, must, will, trih before vs. That is inevitable. Thete can be no change for the better save at the ex pense of hat which is one generation gives place to another. Out of decay springs fresh life. The tribes of Indians who hunted over the land, without occupying it, retire before us like the hunted deer and buffalo themselves, deeper and deeper into the innermost recesses f the Continent And the His pano Mexicans, wasting away by apparent incapacity of self-government, are sulli-i ing one province after another of theirs to relaps into pristine desolation, and thus to become prepared to receive the people and the laws of the united States. AH that is now history. Yet, wise men saw long before that so it was to be. From the present they inferred the future, and spoke of it with the positivtness and precision of inspired prophecy. I pray you not to misunderstand me. I repro bate, not war itself, but all irregular enterprises of war. I hold that the great issues of peace belong to the sovereign power of the Union and should not be wantonly usurped by individual rashness. I glory in the acts, which it has fallen to me to perform, to wards the repression of all such undertakings in the United States, whether on the part of a prexump tuous British Minister, recruiting troops within our jurisdiction for the purpose of warfare in the Crimea, or of a reckless American adventurer, recruiting them for the purpose of plunder and bloolhed in Nicaragua. No, let not the small man, Walker, be. honored for this, on account of which the great man, Burr, was damned. Non tali auxillo, ncc defensoribus istis, Tempus egit. The United States require no such instruments to help them forward to the consummation of their de stinies in America. On tho contrary, they impede us, just as Walker, without capacity or power of possible good in himself, has only served to ohstruct national purposes in Mexico.in Nicaragua, in all Span ish America. And such things tend to discredit us also. Thus far, if there be, in all the annals of lime, a case of a mighty nation speedily advancing to its zenith in the shining light of untarnished honor, it is these United States. So ni"te it be noble oblige. Independence of England, with our limits of original dominion intact we achieved bravely on the field of battle, in righteous war, with Bunker Hill at the be ginning of the contest and at the close of it Saratoga and Yorktown. Our succeeding great step was Louisiana, and that came to us by the spontaneous act ofouroldest and may she never ceae to be onr con stant ally and friend generous and glorious France. Followed by the Floridas not extorted by us from Spain, but ceded to us by her, as Jotit Quincy Adams once, with his forcible eloquence, explained in my hearing ceded to us in fair exchange for our own province of Texas. That again returned to us of its own free will, after having been raised through the gallantry of her sons, with Houston and Rusk at their head, to independence of Mexico, by the same iden tical right that Mexico was independent of Spain. And now California is ours, which we acquired in just war, and might have kept by the just right of war, but distained to do so, choosing rather to hold it by the tenure of cession and of contract with con tribution of ample indemnity hcrefor to Mexico. I say, all that is a record of which any nation might, with good cause, be proud ; and so may it be contin ued on hereafter in the same bright line of glory and of justice to the end." The Rao Pickers or New York. It is stated that there are in New York city not Irs than one thou sand professional rag-pickers. The Exprese aaya that some of them have, by picking rags accumula ted fortunes, and live in splendid mansions, while others reside in shanties located in the outer wards. District Convention. The resolutions adopetd by the connty delegates in Convention assembled will be warmly responed to by the Democracy of the State at large, as well as by that of the fourth dis trict They are a plain, unambignotis declaration of principles ever professed and upheld by that great national party of which we are members. Unlike our opponents wc never truckle to the isms of the day. Conscientiously professing what wc believe to be just and true, we turn not to the right or left to catch popular favor, or seek support by an indirect abandonment of principles which wo believe to be right Experience has proved this to be not only the most honest, but the most profitable course of action. The principle seemed to be imbedded in the minds of the intelligent and patriotic Democrats as sembled in Franklinton. Not one moment was lost in considering what was popular or what was expe dient; they did what they considered right nd left the consequences to God and their country. The de claration of principles embodied in the sixth and sev enth resolutions cannot but have important effect in Virginia, as well as in our own State- It will be as an encouraging cheer to animate our Democratic biethren in that State to maintain the good fight for right principles, and thereby add one more to the many obligations which the cause of liberty and good government already.owes to the freemen of Virginia. The firm stand taken by our Convention will have an important hearing on the approaching contest and will raise still higher the name of our respective counties as worthy members of the Democratic States-right national party. The delegates have no, bly done their duty, without fear, faver or affection, and if our opponents, in the recklessness of despair, should attempt a contest, the freemen of old War ren and her sister counties will not be found want ing in every necessary exertion to secure a glorious triumph for L. O'B Branch, the representative of De mocratic principles. TTarrenton Kews. The News is correct in the declaration that " not one moment was lost in considering what was popu lar or what was expedient; they did what they con sidered right, and left the consequences to God and their country." This is eminently true, not only as to the Franklinton Convention but as to the Dc-moc- racy generally. The opposition may have its urns the Democracy rely on principles, bo far as isms are concerned they begin and stop with patriot-tarn ...W W MMU" - ... ioncd, clear-blooded, Jackson Republicanism. Lawrence, the Butcher, had some splendid beef in market the other day. He paid a high price for it, and sold it at twenty five cents a pound. Rather dear eating, but there was no lack of buyers. Good beef, wc would say to our country friends, always commands good prices here. Wilmington Herald. Is the Herald joking? We suppose not The subject is a serious one, and should be tenderly han dled 44 Twenty five cents a pound !" that is a price. we confess; but we have no price here, for the sim ple reason that we have no beef. Herrings, we are glad to inform the Herald, are somewhat abundant in our market; and now and then the snaa-ovr ol a shad makes its appearance, and speedily vanishes. At a crisis like the present in the "feed" department as they say in Jersey and York States on all their provender stores no prudent or sensible man here i stops to inquire for prices. " Our country friends" ! know this, and " we would say," with the Herald, ! that 44 good beef always commands good prices here.' i The Herald, we feel confident, meant nothing out of j the way by the above piece of information ; but ta- ken in connection with that " twenty-five cents a ' pound," the quiet humor of the thing shows i'self in ; a manner altogether worthy of Burr. By the way, we should be glad to see the Wil mington Editors here next week. Come up, gentle men. We san promise you something to cat some thing also, in the moderate use of which, (Editors are always moderate and modest,) you can show yenr respect for the temperance cause; and also a cordial hand-shake particularly and generally. Come ! 53?" The Register's " Ariel " is at fault in Its in formation in relation to the Franklinton Convention. Mr. Cantwell's resolution was adopted as reported, j with the exception of a verbal amendment, which I did not i.npair the force or the object of the rcsolu- tion. Nor is Mr. Cannady correctly represented by ! the Register. Our cotemporary appears to be labor- i ing under the impression that something very seri- I ouh and very exciting took place in the Convention on the subject of the resolutions; but what that 1 something is he is not able to say. We commend ' to him patient inquiry and indefatigable research in I the premises ; and when he shall have discovered what that something is, we will be obliged to him if he will trouble himself to communicate it to the pub lic. Thus far, we repeat e ts 'n fo- District Convention. The Democracy of the First Congressional District of North Carolina will assemble in Convention at Winton, on Thursday, the 28th of May next, for the purpose of nominating a suitable person to represent that District in the thir ty-fifth Congress of the United States. Grkat Fire in Oxford. A correspondent of the Raleigh Register, writting from Oxford, N. C, 26th inst, says: 44 The inhabitants of our quiet village were aroused from their sleep this morning, at abut 2 o'clock, by the startling alarm of fire, and the prolonged ringing of bells. The large store of Messrs. R. N. fc D. C. Herndon was discovered to be in a blaze, the fire burning with awful vigor and extending with wonderful rapidity. The house was so much envel oped in flames, that despite the efforts of the excited and alarmed multitude assembled, only the safe and a portion of the books were saved. The conflagra tion soon communicated with the Tailoring shop be longing to Gen. McClanahan, lying north of the store, and with the row of buildings immediately south, and property of B. N. Herndon Esq. AH these, in two hours time, were a mass of ruins. The ten ement adjoining the Tailoring shop was fortunately constructed of brick, through covered with a wood en roof and occupied as a Drug store by Messrs. R. J. Mitchell Si Co., and bv the most unremitting ef forts was finally saved, although much damaged from the roof being on fire for more than an hour. The two hotels of the villstre are situated on the same side of th street on which the fire occurred, and the fire actually extended as far as the Granville House on the South, belonging to Dr. Samuel Williams, and. but for the brick-store would have reached he Ox ford Hotel on the North, the property of R N. Hern don. Esq. The loss sustained is estimated as follows: "Mews. C. N. A D. Herndon. 5,000, insured for $10 000; R N. Herndon, $1,000. besides all of his individual bords ; T. M. Lynch, Jeweller. $200 insured; R. J. Mitchell & Co., $500; W. S. McClanahan. $1,C00; R. L. Hunt & Bros., $ 1,000, insured ; J. G. & H. C. Herndon. $5Jt insured." This is the first large fire that has occurred in Ox ford. It found the citizens utterly unprepared ; no engine, no fire company. We regret that so heavy a calamity has fallen npon the people or Oxford. Coal for Railroad Engines. The Illinois Central Railroad Company' is still experimenting with coal burning engines. The early experiments were not in many cases satisfactory, but the result of a ew day's experiment with "Lucifer" was highly so. The engine ran twenty-four miles, with coal at a cost of $9.25 wita wood at a cost of $3L75. We cheerfully give place to the following communication. We (one of us) have used paper made at the Buffalo mills, and found it to be good paper. Ihe rag excitement is up. vt no will give as soma more poetry, patriotism, c? Bcffalo Paper Mills, Cleaveland Co.) N. C, April 24th, 1857. J Editors Standard : Permit me, through the col umns of your paper, to make a few more corrections in that editorial of the Register, where the editor undertakes to give a full statistical account of the Paper Mills in this State. He evidently was not well posted up on the subject when be wrote the article. Besides the omissions C. W. B. complains of, he has omitted a very flourishing paper mill in Cleave land county, owned by the Messrs. D. Froncberger & Co. This mill consumes 1500 pounds of stock daily manufacturing the finer qualities of paper al most exclusively. He says "there are two paper mills at Lincolntcn, owned by Messrs. Hoke & Mos teller." There is a paper mill in Lincoln, owned by Mr. Geo. Mostellcr, and been operated by him, if I mistake not, some 15 years. There is also another mill there, owned by Messrs. Hoke & Williams, which has been in operation 5 or 6 years. lie says again, there is a paper mill in Ruther ford." Now every body from that county tells me there is no paper mill there ; and I think he will be safe to make a correction to that effect when he makes the others. Respectfully yours, A. C. W. Fur the Standard. Democrats of the Fourth Congressional District again we hail the name of the Hon. L. O'B. Branch as the 6tandard-bearer of the Democratic party in the coming campaign ! As such we have seen him heretofore ; and nobly were his efforts seconded by his party ; he is an accomplished orator, a strong debater and a sterling Democrat He will soon again appear in your midst giving an account of his stew ardship, and debating the great questions of the day. hen you remember bow be nobly stood up in the midst of that body (the last Congress) composed of all the isms of the age, battling strongly for the rights of the South and his -" hearts giaaaen io mtc tmt the trust you Dlacen rtow again pusb bim onward commence your preparations for the battle, and let us send him with treble the majority wc gave him last ! Many will say, it is no use battling, we can send him to Con gress without it But this is not the true policy. e must show our brother Democrats throughout the different Districts of the State, that we work in the cause of Democracy although certain of success. c must set the example, all eyes are directed to us. Nostrum est fortmr pugnare there is no dis grace in it Therefore, let as embark in the enter prise with zeal, energy and vigilance. It is indis pensably necessary that wc should; and if each Dis trict throughout the State will do likewise we will undoubtedly increase onr number of Democratic Representatives in the next Congros. P. The Dat or Election in Virginia. We saw it stated in some of our exchanges that the elections in irgima would take place on Tho rsday, the 2Ctb of May. Taking it for granted that it was correct we republished it without examination. We find, how ever, upon looking into the matter, that the election will be held on the fourth Thursday in May, which will be on the 28th day of the month. In August next elections will be held in the fol lowing States: Alabama, Atkansas, Kentucky, Ten nessee, North Carolina, Texas, and Missouri. Tdoxas F. Jokes, Esq. We regret to learn the death of this estimable gentleman and able lawyer. He died suddently, at Hertford. Perquimans, on his way to Chowan Court. Notwithstanding the loss of his eyesight and general health, several-years ago, he prosecuted his profession with signal ability and success, till nature, worn out exhausted and broken down, could sustain no more, and he quietly passed away on the 7tb of ApriL lie was a native of Per quimans county, N. C. Hon. L. O'B. Branch has been renominated for Congress in the 4th District, by a Democratic Con vention which assembled in Franklinton on the 22d inst Mr. Branch has been an able and efficient re presentative, and will no doubt be returned to the post he is so well qualified to filL Charlotte Democrat. UNIVERSITY. THE EXAMINATION OF THE STUDENTS OF THE University of Nnrth-Carolina, will begin on Monday, the 25th May inst Commencement on Thursday, the 4lh of Jnnc. The Committee of Visitation for 1S37, consists of His Excellency, THOMAS BRAGG. O'ivY of the State and l'res't ex officio. Hon. D. L. SWAIN, LL. I)., President of the Collejre, THOMAS S. ASHE, WILLIAM W. AVERY. DANIEL M. BARKINGER, "WILLIAM A. BLOUNT, CHAULtS CHALMERS. G HOUGH F. DAVIDSON, RICHARD DILLARD. WILLIAM EATON. Jr.. BURGESS S. GAITIIER, SOLOMON GRAVES. JAMES F. E. KARDV, FREDERICK J. HILL. WILLIAM W. HOLDEN, JAMES MEBANE, BAT. F. MOORE, FREDERICK NASH. DAVIE S. REID, THOMAS SETTLE, WILLIAM U. WASHINGTON. NICHOLAS L. WILLIAMS. JOHN C. WILLIAMS. , . t CHAS. MANLY, 8ec. Rale:gh, May 1, 1S37. 4 swtd. Insane Asylum or NorthCarolina. APPLICATIONS WILL BE RECEIVED AT THIS Institution, addressed to the undersigned, until the 12th Jane next, for the ofiice of Matron. Persona applving must nresoiit to the Biard of Directors satisfactory testi monial of character and eaacity for the place ; and it hon!d alo be made known to the Hoard whether the ap plicants are married or single, and if encumbered, to what extent. Y. W. HOLDEN, 1 ED. C.'NTWELL.VEx.Com. K. P. EATTLE. J Raleigh, April 1. 1R57. 4n swtd. r? The Reginter, the Asheville News, the Wilmington Jonrt.al, and the Fayctterillc Otoei er.will please copy till 12th of June, and n.: bills to Ihe I'omroittee. DESIRABLE TOWN LOTS FOR SALE ON THE 1CTII DAY OF MAY NEXT. I WILL OF fer for sa'.e a lot containing about acres of land; the greater portion of which is within the corporate limits of the City. It will be divided into half acre lots. Plat furnished on the diy of sale. The Dm pert y lies on the Smilhtield road, and adjoining the lot owned by Mr. J. H. Kirkbatn. This property will be sold at poblie auction, unless sold privately before Apply to the undersigned for further particulars. Terms nude known on dav of tale. S. H. ROGERS, Ag't Raleigh, May 1, 1857. . 46 awtd. Orncs Wilmixctox & Wkldox R. R. Co, I Wilmington, N. C, April 27th, 1S57. DIVIDEND NO. II-THE BOARD OF DIREC TORS ol the Wilmington k Weldon Rail Road Con, panv, bare declared a semi-annual dividend of three and a half per cent on the capital stock of said Company, parable on and after the lth Mav next. The transfer book will 'be cloned from 1st to 15th May. JAMES S. GREEN. Secretary. 4S swtlSM. mJEW PIANOS FOR OLD ONES-THE UN ill DERSIGNED will give full value for Old Pianos in exchange for New ones. No one will offer greater inducements to purchasers of Pianos than myself 1 haTe been engaged in the business for more than twenty years, and no one can aay that I ertr sold a bad one. E. P. NASH, Book and Piano Seller, . .... PtUrabarg, 1 a. Apru x, usk, u aw. :4 Ml J