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RALEIGH, NORTH-CAROLINA. WEtt! TODAY. FEBRUARY 24,
Vol. XXIV. No. 8.
1858-
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AND
ACTTHORIZSD PCBUSHBRS OF THB LAWS OF THR UNITED STATES.
I FEEL TIIAT TDIS QUESTION OF TIIE PUBLIC LASDB
IS AT THIS MOMENT A FAR MORE IMPORTANT ONE THAN
THAT OF SLAVERY, AND A MUCH MORE PRACTICAL ONE.
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Mr. McRafa Letter to Mr. Daney.
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" Mr. McRae reminded the audience of the fact
that when in 1840 clouds and darkness overshad
owed the fortunes of the Democratic party, he was
manfully fighting its battles and sharing without a
murmur its fate, while a certain Editor, not a thou
sand miles from Raleigh, was clad in coon-skins,
having a string of gourds around his neck and swil
ling hard cider in a log cabin." Register's Report
of Mc Rue's Speech.
So did Rives, and Tallmadge, and Van Buren, and
Benton, and Blair fight the battles of Democracy and
share its fate ; but they permitted their ambition
and their selfishness to get the better of their judg
ments, and, abandoning principle, they fell at once
deeper than plummet ever sounded. The late Con
sul of the United States at Paris, with Douglas and
Wise, are on the same inclined plane on which the
public men referred to went down to those im-
measurable depths; and the late Consul has already
sunk 60 far that no mortal hand can reach him to
bring him up.
The late Consul has been highly honored and well
paid for his sacrifices (?) for the Democratic party.
We believe he also shared the fortunes of John Ty
ler, and was sent by that gentleman, when President,
on a special errand to Mexico, for which he received
some $2,500. He afterwards subordinated " distri
bution " to the Consulship at Paris, and went abroad,
leaving the lands to be squandered and plundered
as aforetime, and received therefor some $20,000 in
dry federal mone He returned and took up the
41 distribution " thread precisely where he had drop
ped it ; and now, some of the Know Nothing distri
butionists are afraid to run him for Governor, lest
in the midst
of the campaign he might be offered
al office, might accept it, and thus leave
xt-.CL..
another federal
them without a candidate. Nothing would be left to
them then but to fall back upon their principles,which,
it must be confessed, would be a dangerous opera
tion. They might fall on space, and so fall ad in
finitum.
Our former political associate does well to remind
us of those "coon-skins" and to rattle those "gourds
about our ears. He makes the matter infinitely worse
than it was. We neither handled gourds nor wore
coon-skins in 1840. We were engaged at that day
in setting type for a living we bad no time,
as Mr. McRae had, to devote to politics and
speech-making;
cotton clothes,
by hard labor.
and we wore plain woolen- and
which we earned and paid for
As to " log-cabins," our earliest
recollections are
associated with houses of that
sort, for we were born in one of them; and
doubtless we had a more sincere respect for their
occupants in 1840, as we have now, than those old
federalists who affected to be the poor man's friends,
and some of whom so warmly applauded Mr. McRae
in this City on Monday last. We have never sought
federal office, nor would we have it if offered to us ;
and to this extent, at least, we have the advantage
of Mr. McRae.
We repeat, Mr. McRae does well to twit us with
1810. The federalists and Know Nothings have
been doing the same thing for fifteen years.' The
gentleman repeats with fluency the lessons he has
learned in the opposition school ; and if he is satis
fied with his employment in this respect, we are
8ure we are. Our political record for the last fif
teen years is without a blot: We have labored for
nd sought the good of our party more than our
own, we have thought more of principles and of
the triumph of our cause than we have of self. No
roan can say that we have ever even hesitated either
s to prirciples or as to organization since we have
been at the head of Jthis press. Can Mr. McRae say
3 much ? Mr. McRae was born and brought up in
minority, and he adhered to it after it reached a
toajority- only so long as it promoted and honored
him ; we left a majority for a minority, and that too
t a time when the success of the latter was regard
d M next to impossible. We are willing any day
nd at all times to compare political records with the
gentleman.
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Mr. McRae spoke here for two or three
ioure, and made no allusion to the Kansas question
here is he on this question? Is he with the Pres
ident, or is he with Wise and Douglas? Can the
Register answer for him ? That paper is cpmmitted
in the strongest terms to the admission of Kansas
with the Lecompton Constitution, yet its candidate
for Governor is silent on the subject Does the Ed
tor, following in the footsteps of Mr. McRae, pro
pose to subordinate the great issue of the Constitu
tional rights of the South to. the question of distribution?
a 1 1 a Al 4? I
will be inserted in either the Weekly or bemi-Weekly, for P
i r.i. six months.or 10 for twelve months ; or in both pa- .Num.
Leak's withdrawal from the Canvass .
Mr. McRae called and Mr. Leak came. He came
at once in due course of mail. He did not wait to
be called a second time.' Mr. MeRae was disconcer
ted and disappointed. He called in good .faith, yet
he did not expect to be answered from that quarter
and in that way. He had baited his hook and thrown
it out, hoping to catch a fine fish, when lo a very or
dinary mud turtle seized the hook and was popped
to the surface.
Mr. Leak took the field and appealed to his fellow-
citizens to come to his relief, and Mr. McRae took
the field and appealed to his fellow-citizens to come
to his relief. Mr. Leak was " proscribed," " denoun
ced," " villified " by the Democratic press, ; and so
was Mr. McRae. They were both martyrs, chained
to the stake and most cruelly roasted. Every body
was invited to come up and behold their sorrows.
Foremost among their persecutors was that man
Holden," with a very long and a very sharp stick,
stirring the flames and enjoying their agonyft was
etaele to make the entire State feel badly, espe
cially as these martyrs had been engaged in the very
laudable work of procuring land warrants with which
to pay the State debt, tunnel the mountains, educate
the poor children, and render ever' body and every
thing prosperous, intelligent, progressive, independ
ent, and impressively salubrious. It was a great
work, and Mr. Leak proposed to do it on " shares."
Mr. McRae objected. He wanted all the " shares"
to " distribute " in his own time and in his own way ;
and he cold-shouldered Mr. Leak. He warned him
to confine himself to the borders of South Carolina,
while he enlightened the citizens of the interior and
middle Counties by speeches " in his own defence."
Mr. Leak, per consequence, got through sooner than
he expected he would ; and so he has retired, wear.
ing several laurel crowns and other emblems of
martyrdom. Retiring, he wrote his will and pub
lished it in the Faretteville Observer. Therein he
says, with a simplicity as rare as it is delectable, that
he counted on support and countenance from the fold
of " Sam." and that it " would be both untrue and
silly affectation to deny it." Disappointed in this re
spect, he quits. He leaves the field, but not to Mr.
lcRae, for he candidly says, " it is true that I havo
likewise noticed, that some other of the opposition
press have expressed a preference for another can
didate, as being stronger and more likely to make
inroads upon his own party than myself, as to the
probability of this, I can of course have nothing to
say." " Some of the opposition press " is intended
for the Register, and "another candidate" is intended
for Mr. McRae. He declines to say who is the strong
est, Mr. McRae, or himself. Now, Mr. McRae is as
modest a gentleman as Mr. Leak, and will also, de
cline to determine this important question ; and so,
after all, Mr. Leak may have to be called out again
and the question submitted to a council of their
friends. 1 4
Mr. Leak also pledges himself to support "any re
spectable and well qualified gentleman in favor of
distribution that may he brought forward, regardless
of his hitherto, especially the " hitherto " political
associations." Eureka ! we have found it 1 that
includes Mr. McRae ; and so, after all, Mr. Leak may
extend to that gentleman his powerful and influen
tial support. Tell it at " Old Trap "let it be heard
in Stanly, Guilford and Wilkes, that Mr. Leak retires,
but that he will support " any respectable and well
qualified gentleman " for Governor who is in favor
of distribution.
Mr. Leak concludes his "last will and testament"
in these words : " The opposition press will oblige
me by publishing this letter." What does the gen
tleman mean by ' the opposition press ? " Does he
mean the press opposed to the Democracy, or the
pres3 opposed to him ? We confess we cannot teJV
.
- Attention, the Register ! '
We copy the following from the last Elizabeth City
Sentinel, and invite to it the particular attention of
the Editor of the Raleigh Register :
" A Convention. Will not our friend of the Ral
eigh Register suggest to the Executive Committee
the importance of issuing a call for a convention, so
that we ran fall upon some plan for the coming con
test? If we are to have a convention it is time that
we were looking about. Let us meet together and
consult for the interest of our State, and nominate a
good sound American Candidate. For if we are
beaten at all, we will not be beaten as bad as if we
were to support a Distribution Democrat, for then
the 'Democrats would say, that they had not only
beaten the American party, but had beaten both that
party and the Distribution Democrats. For we do
not believe that there are 10,000 American Whigs in
the State that would to-day vote for a Distribution
Democrat. Not 10 in this County would, and not
that number in Camden and Perquimans put togeth
er. The same feeling is so all through the first Con
gressional District Let us have a Convention."
The Sentinel is edited by William E. Mann, Esq..
member of the House of Commons from Pasquotank,
and, we believe, a member of the " American " State
Executive Committee. In addition to this, Mr. Mann
is in better standing with his party than the Editor
of the Register, for he has never proposed, as the
Editor of the Register has done, to haul down his
flag and support for Governor a deserter from the
Democratic ranks. Mr. Mann's appeal, therefore, to
the Editor of the Register is entitled to peculiar
weight It must be listened to. Our neighbor could
not close his ears against it if he would. -
If Mr. McRae, in the absence of any " stronger "
man than himself, should conclude to run for Gov
ernor, he may at once turn for support and consola
tion to Pasquotank County, for example, in which
not ten even of the opposition would rally to his
flag. That would indeed be encouraging. Mr. Mann
says it is so, and Mr. Mann ought to know. Mr. McRae
would cry aloud and "call upon the people to" come to
his " relief" he would " show his wounds received
in the cause of " distribution," and he would tell the
people that he had been martyred, goaded, denounced,
villified, and most cruelly scourged by the Democrat
ic press; and the sympathizing response that would
come up from the opposition ranks would be ten faint
voices, and not one voice from the old Democracy.
The truth is, the " Americans" of the First Con
gressional District, who are thus spoken for by Mr.
Mann, do not seem as eager to unite on Mr. McRae
as he is to unite with them. The Editor of the Reg
ister must redouble his exertions, or his cherished
plan of disorganizing and disbanding his party1 will
fail.
; Strawberries. The .editor of the . Charleston
Courier was presented with a mess of fine ripe
strawberries on Thursday last They were grown
in the open air, near that city, and afford another
proof of the mildness of the season, . , .. j.-. a
Northern Democratic Sentiment.
We give below some extracts from Democratic pa
pers in the free States showing the feelirg in rela
tion to Kansas and a determination to stand by the
President. We might fill our columns with similar
extracts, but we publish these as specimens of the
feelings and determination of our Northern friends:
It behooves all democrats to stand by the admin
istration, to insist upon the immediate admission of
Kansas, and to listen to no paltry expedients to In
crease the number of the party. Our party cannot
rise by embracing black republicanism, and individ
uals who turn their eyes in that direction will find it
so. , Let us sustain the President, and the Kansas
troubles will be soon over. Rockland Maine) Dem
ocrat.
As a public journalist we have not sought to con
ceal our position.. . We are with the President in his
efforts to bring immediate peace and rest to Kansas
and the country, and against any prolonged anarchy
in that,, unhappy Territory and disquiet over the
whole, nation. Let Kansas be admitted into the
Union on an equality with other States, in conform
ity with the democratic principle of " non-intervention
in the affairs of. State or Territory," and quiet
.will be restored to the country ; reject her applica
tion, and we Khali have a reopening of the whole
catalogue of Kansas turmoil, rebellion, and crime,
with all its disturbing influences throughout the
States of the Union. lYein Lisbon (Ohio) Patriot.
A common sense and practical view of the ques
tion commands admission now. . It will give peace
to the nation. It will quiet Kansas. It will give
harmony and union to the national democratic party,
a id confirm its supremacy in the control of our na
tional affairs. This settlement of the Kansas ques
tion will not only have the approval of the party,
but the country. It will be as popular with the
people as is the Kansas-Nebraska act now. Indian
apolis Sentinel.
The Belfast (Maine) Free Press, in bold and patri
otic terms, urges the democratic party to stand by
the national democratic administration, and to ad
here to its national organization. In this connexion
it mentions a circumstance of no little significance in
the past political history of the party in Maine r
We recollect well, when we were invited over to a
meeting of the State committee at Augusta in 1855,
to hear denunciations of Franklin Pierce by the very
same men who are now denouncing James Buchanan.
We met those denunciations then as we mean to
meet those against the administration now. One of
the most conspicuous and bitter in that consultation
was no other than the renegade. Lot M. Morrill, who
now reclines in the arms of the republican party.
Mr. Morrill found his proper level in the ranks of
the black-republicans, and so will all others who
choose to separate themselves from the administra
tion, and thus initiate a movement to defeat the suc
cess of its measures. ...
TnE Recent Fracas at Washington. We copy
from the Charleston Mercury the following account
of the recent fight in the House of Representatives.
Mr. Barksdale,of Mississippi, and others, intei fercd
to separate the parties were struck, and dealt blows
in return. Southern gentlemen, and especially Mr.
Barksdale, have not had justice done them by the
black Republican accounts of this difficulty. The
Mercury says, a friend who was an eye witness, sends
us an account of the affair, which we annex. From
this, it appears that Grow, who is one of the most
pestilent abolitionists in Congress, was not only out
of his place, but but of order, for the rules of the
House are imperative that a member must be at his
seat when he addresses the Speaker of the House.
The following is the statement :
Washington Feb. 6, 1858.
At about two o'clock A. M. Gen. Quitman offered
a proposition to disentangle the proceedings in the
House. Mr. Grow, who was on one of the aisles on the
democratic side of the House, objecting a little
tartly, Mr. Keitt said to him, " Go on the other
side of the House, to which you belong, if you want
to object" Mr. Grow answered, "I'll object where
I
please. Mr. Keitt then said, " Wait till I can
comf roun a,Jd l"1? J0?-.
went ro,,nd na ",d h,rm 'ou bo1
py, rnove to your side of the House, aiv
Mr. Keitt
itionist pup-
d don't stay
here." Mr. Grow 'said, "I'll stay as lone as I
please." Mr. Keitt then choked him for an instant
He then started off, when Mr. Grow said, " You
can't come from your plantation and crack the whip
over me." Mr. Keitt turned back and said, " I'll
choke you again for that insolence," and he grasped
his throat a second time. Gen. Davis, of Miss., then
interfering, wrenched Mr. Keitt round to keep them
apart, and pressing him against the corner of a table,
Mr. Keitt partially fell. Mr. Grow, when Mr.
Keitt was wrenched round to separate them,
struck at Mr. Keitt, we think, but did not reach
him. Mr. Barksdale, in interfering to separate them,
was struck, and dealt a few heavy blows in return.
The whole thing was sudden, and over in a moment
There was not much excitement prevailing before,
or afterwards. This is a succinct statement of the
whole affair, which will, doubtless, be greatly exag
gerated by black republican prints. The whole
ihing was extemporaneous.
jRoANOKE Literary Societt Lecture bt Rev.
John E. Edwards. This distinguished divine, well
known to many of our readers, lectured on the 11th
in Weldon before the Roanoke Literary Society
subject, "American Tourists in Europe.".' A cor
respondent of the Petersburg Express says :
"The time occupied in the delivery was about one
hour and ten minutes, and the repeated applause
during its delivery, told emphatically how it was be
ing received and appreciated. I do not design giv
ing you a synopsis of the lecture, but the criticisms
on Michael Angelo were peculiarly strong, pointed
and elegant, and according to my notion, equally
just and appropriate. I could not but admire the
boldness of the lecturer in thus attacking, and his
masterly skill in demolishing the fancifully wrought
' 1'ublic Opinion that had been lone ago manufac
tured by the artist's friends and handed down,' and
adopted by succeeding generations as "a fixed
fact"
Italy and its sunset beauties also received justice.
and were berelt of the gaudy . tints which imagina
tion alone had imparted to them ; and in fact every-
thing touched upon by the. lecturer was treated fair
ly and. honestly, but not with that sickening sort of
flattery and praise which travellers arc too apt to be
stow, because somebody else "said so," or more
properly speaking, because omnipotent " they" have
made them Fairy lands."
The lecture was well received and the highest en
comiums passed upon it by alL A distinguished
gentleman from Northampton went forward at th
close of the lecture and thanked Mr. Edwards for
the rich entertainment he had afforded him, and at
a regular meeting of the Society to-night, the fol
lowing resolution was adopted by acclamation :
Resolved, That the thanks of the Roanoke Lite
rary Society are due and hereby tendered to the
Rev, John & Edwards for the very able, eloquent,
interesting and instructive lecture , delivered this
evening.
' . I hope it won't make him proud, but your towns
man goes away from here covered with laurels."
(Tic next Lecture will be delivered by Rev. Dr
Deema.y . . '
The Cotton Trade. The Carolinian states that
the banks at Columbia, S. C, are discounting freely
for the purchase of cotton, The Exchange Bank
alone advanced $31,000, :on Thursday, on cotton
drafts.
. For the Standard.
LETTER FROM PINEBUR MOCCASIN.
a ' MocCAsntviixE, N. C. Feb. 8, 1858.
, . Mb. Pbinturs : Ned Da volt has. sum wholesum
Fimptums of Democracy, but he can't gt over that
Know Nuthin'hnbit of swarin'yit ; and any body that
likes einuine, cmfatic swarin' would be delighted to
hear Ned on Leak, McRay, Sime & Co., (Ned wiil call
him Sime, tho I tell him it's Sim,) You see I'm sor
ter nussin' Ned up, and I go over to bis offis every
day or two to have a chat with, him and tnnoculate
Democracy into him. ,1've jest cum back from his of
fis how, and I want to tell you what he sea.
" Uncle Pinebur," ses he, I'll be darned"
M Stop, Ned." ses I, you must quit that Know
Nuthin' habit of swarin' ? It's the first step toards
your reformashun."
" Well. Uncle Pinebur ' ses he, I won't swar no
more ; I'll say raly, but Fll be darned"
" There it is agin," ses L " That old Know Nuth
in' habit has becum second nature to you. Say raly
and go on."
In this time Ned had got about half mad, and ses
he, " Uncle Pinebur, you must let me swar a leetle
this time, for I can't do iustice to the subject without
it There's Leak and McRay goin' round like two
imported animals, showin' themselves to the Ameri
can party, paradin'at every court and muster ground,
with that cussed old Yirginy Sime to grbom McRay,
and Leak goin it loose, each clairoin' to have the
best bone, uiussle a id bottom ; and darn their pic
ters, the'll both git to the bottom afore long, and I
don't care how soon. But what makes me the mad
dest is to see that cussed old Yirginy editur pretend -in
to be the central organ of the American party of
the State, recomtnendin' a disorganizing trublesum
Locofoco to bis party, jest , as if we didn't have no
man of our own Gain to be our candidiL And
there's McRay, claimin' to be a Dimicrat and adroca
tin' principles jest the contrary to the Dimicratic
party. I'll swar I don't b'lievc he's sincere. And
H we take him up he II be beat to deth, as he ort to
be ; and then if we git into power hell be expectin'
the best place we have, and we can't throw aside our
old war bosses to promote him, and then he'll kick
up and play the devi! and give us more trubble than
he does the Dimicratic party, by a darned sight
Who ever beam tell of a Gineral's givin the com
mand of his army to a deserter from the enemy ?
Nobody likes a trater, tho the treason may be ac
ceptable. If McRay was to git fully into our party
he'd be jest like the buttin ram's head among the
dumplins. Darn me if I'd be surprised if be jines
Douglass next ; for when a ambishus man begins to
try to disorganize his own party, there's no tellin
where he'll stop ; and he's a disadvantage to any par
ty he gits into."
"Stop, Ned," ses I. "You have a wus opinion
of McRay than I have. He's a Southern man, and
it ain't right to suspishun any Southern man of be
in inclined to Douglas and his Black Republican al
lies." " I can't help it" ses Ned, " and I shan't try, for
in his Dancy letter he ses the distribution qucshtun
is of more importance than the slavery ishue ; and
I don't b'lieve any good Southern man would have
sed that The fact is," and Ned looked mity se
rious " the leaders or would-be leaders of the Ame
rican party in this State, has got down so low and
dragged the party down with them, that a honest man
with proper self-respect can't foller the leaders nor
acknowledge his fellership with them. What sort
of a infernal posishun is it for the American party to
cum down from its high grounds of principle, to set
aside all its own champions, and take up a renegade
disorganizer of the furren party a man even reject
ed and repudiated by his own party a sort of high
bred or mofradite politishun ? Ill be cussed if I go
with any sich party. Darn me "
" Ned," ses I, " dont't swar no more. I see yonr
posishun, and it s one that only sich fellers as Jo
Smithers can stumick. Jest quit the whole concern,
fight for the Dimocracy for 4 years as hard as you
have fit agin them, bring forth fruits meet for re
pentance, and we'll give you the right band of fel
lership." Ned looded right strait into the fire, and ses he,
" Uncle Pinebur, I'll study about it. I b'lieve the
Dimicratic party is the only hope of the nashun, and
I can t rejoice like Sime does at the signs of its dis
solution, for it's plain to every body that if it goes
down the Union goes with it ; and 1 tell you 1 II go
for regular Dimicrats before I will for irregular ones,
and I'll stand by Mr. Buchanan as long as he stands,
as he now does, by the Constitution. The South
must be united, and it can't unite except on the prin
ciples of the Dimocratic party.
I got right up and took Ned's hand, and told him
he was in a good way, and that I wished all his parly
would take the same view of things. He sed he did'nt
see how any honest member of his party could take
a different view, or how any American of proper
self-re&pect could vote for a disorganizer of another
party, beshe, "Men may be convinced of error and
may honestly change from one party to another ;
but they can't take up principles in opposishun to
the'r party and still be members of that party. I
always distrust disorganize rs. Nobody has any con
fidence in them. Nine times out of ten they are sore
headed offis seekers, mad and despertt, and goin on
the high preshure rule or ruin sistcm.
I thought Ned had about as much Democracy as
he could digest for 3 or 4 days, and I left him. I
think he's a hopeful case, and I'll bet he votes for
the regular Dimicratic nominee for Governor this
year. I shouldn t be surprised if I have to restrain
him sum, for you know young converts is mity zeal
ous. For instance, I think he was unjest to McRay
in suspisbunin that he would side with Douglas.
Yourn till deth,
PINEBUR MOCCASIN.
'Oh that mine enemy would write a book I"
is no doubt the constant exclamation of Mr. McRae.
Nothing would please him more just now than to be
" vindictively " and " malignantly " assailed by the
Democratic press. He burns for more material for a
controversy. But not just now. Mr. McRae. The
people are too intelligent to be misled by your argu
ments, and the Democratic masses are too much at
tached to their organization to be swerved from it by
any appeals which you may make. Every plungeyou
make but sinks you the deeper in the " Serbonian
bog.". You are destroying yourself politically, and
not those whom you assaiL Confidence is a tender
plant and of slow growth. Nip it once at the root,
and it will sprout no more. Heiice the ' course of
sprouts" through which disorganizes are invariably
put; but not just now. The days will be longer in
April and May, and we shall then have more time to
devote to you in our editorial columns.
Thk City or Raleigh and toe Extension or its
Corporate Limits. The injunction which had been
granted against the extension, and which is pending
in the Supreme Court has by consent of the parties
been dissolved, and stands over as an original bill. -
So the City laws are to operate and the taxes to be
collected, but to be returned should the decision of
the Court be adverse to the City. As the esse stands
on bill and answer it will most probably be decided
at the nsxt term. . ;
Terrible Steamboat Explosion. We learn from
the Fayetteville Observer of Thursday last that the
steamer Magnolia, Capt John M. Stedman, burst
her boilers and sunk in deep water, near Whitehall,
on the Cape Fear, on . Wednesday morning. The
bodies of seven persons bad been found, including
that of Capt Stedman. It was feared that some wo
men and children were also lost-
' The Rev. Mr. Repiton, of Wilmington, who was a
passenger, writes that some twelve or fifteen were
lost Mr. R. himself mads 4 narrow scapa, - -
Deaaacrmtie Heetiar ia Gallfori.
Pursuant to previous notice a meetine of the
Democrats of Guilford was held in Greensboroaeh
on Tuesday the 16th instant ; when on motion of
K. r. vieir, Jisq., Ansiem Keid, Eq., was called to
the Chair, and William U. Reese was aoDointed
Secretary.
On motion, a committee consisting of R. P. Dick.
E.q., James R. McLean, Esq., B. G. Graham, T. M.
v uittington, and IS. M. Idol, was appointed to draft
resolutions. .
The committee reported the following resolutions.
which were unanimously adopted :
jsesoitea,- that the chairman or this meeting ap
point forty delegates to rem-esent the Democracy of
Guilford in the Democratic Sute Convention, to be
neia in narioiie on the 14th or April next
Resolved. That we hiehlv aoDrove of the nresent
administration, and we will use our best efforts to
sustain the President in his wise, just and patriotic
policy.
Hesolvtd. That we tender to Gov. Bra re sincere
assurances of our high esteem for him as a man,
and otr pride in him as our Governor.
Resolved, That we are opposed to distribution.
and to every other political humbug, whether old or
new: and we will wannlv advocate Democratic
principles, as experience has shown that they are
for the best interests of the whole country.
Resolved, That we will warmly sonDort any tried
and true Democrat the Sute Convention may nomi
nate lor uovernor: but we would most respectfully
tecommend William W. Holden, Esq. He is an un
wavering and working Democrat the constant
friend of Common Schools and all the best interests
of North-Carolina the man for the people and the
times.
Robert P. Dick, Esq.. addressed the meeting In
support of all the above resolutions.
John H. Boyd. Esq. of Rockingham, was then
called on, and entertained the meeting for some time
in a very handsome style, and showed himself able
and ready to do good and efficient service for Dem
ocracy. In accordance with the first resolution the Chair-
man appointed the following delegates to the State
convention :
Robert P. Dick. J. R. McLean. B. G. Graham. M.
D. Smith, Solomon D. Holden, Col. W. A. Dunn, T.
M. Whittington. Col. II C. Dick. John Cobb. P. W.
Parker, Dr. S. A. Powell. Thomas Graham. J. M.
Bowman, Thomas Warren, N. It Tapp, C. Wheeler,
B. M. Idol, William Coble, Jonathan Church, W. L.
rtimtuan, K. Parsons, Jos. Ktrkpatriclc, W. Irwin,
R. Hemphill, A. L. Gilmer, Dr. T. J. Patrick, A. P.
Eckle, A. E. D. Tatum, Lewis Starbuck, Dr. J. K.
Fenix, O it Webb, William Green, John StarreU,
D. M. Payne. W. Welch. Thos. E. Moore. Albert
Sullivan, J. B. Balsby, John Frazer, Jno. Leadford.
On motion the Chairman and Secretary were ad
ded to the list of delegates.
Un motion the proceedings of this meeting were
ordered to be sent to the North-Carolina Standard,
the estern bentmel, and Greensborough Patriot,
with the request that tbey publish the same.
Un motion, the meeting adjourned.
ANSLEM RE ID, Chairman.
W. H. Reese, Secretary. .
Gov. Wise's last Testament. A few days since
the Douglas Democracy of Philadelphia made public
demonstration of their hostility to President Bu
chanan on the leading issue of his Administration.
Mr. Jno. W. torney presided, and Mr. F. P. Stanton.
the cashiered Secretary of Kansas, was the chief
speaker ot the occasion. But the most remarkable
circumstance of the display is a letter from the Gov
ernor of this State, in which the positions of the
President s Message are combatted with characteris
tic vehemence, and the argument of the Tammany
epistle is repeated with tedious amplification.
inere was a time when any utterance from Henry
A. Wise would have been received with respect by
the Democracy of Virginia. None do him reverence
now. Not a solitary member of the Legislature, not
a dozen Democrats in the Commonwealth, we hon
estly believe, sustain him in his extraordinary posi
tion.
No : the Virginia Democracy will not desert the
patriots of the .North who hazard all in defence of
the Constitution and the rights of the South. It is
not in their hearts to betray. James Buchanan at
moment when bis devotion to their interests exposes
nun to the oepoy vengeance of Black Kcpublicanism.
I hey will stand by the Administration. They will
uphold the organization of the party. No example
of defection, be it ever so conspicuous, can corrupt
the .fidelity of the Virginia Democracy. Richmond
South.
Savaxsah, (Ga.,) February 5, 1858.
Treachery is a sin to be damned; and the traitor
must be cursed with every anathema in and out of
the language. These are the sentiments of all par
ties, high and low, in every part of the South.
From Virginia downwards no man can escape the
execrations of the people who, in any public capaci
ty, dares to oppose tae admission of Kansas with
the Lecompton constitution. Politically the oppo
nent of the measure is as much a dead man as if be
had been embalmed in the days of Thotmes III, in
Egypt nd buried on the banks of the Nile. It is
right and just that such should be the case. For a
single isolated question, without complication, in
which a principle only is in issue resulting in jus
tice to the slave States, to be opposed by any south
ern representative is treason to bis constituent-, false
hood to his own conscience, and an outrage on his
own respectability and reputation. That no people
can tolerate, and we have now the authority and the
weight of right, truth, justice, and good faith, ask
ing the whole representation from the South to be
united for once. God bless the President ! lie has
stood up with all the elevation of a noble nature in a
position made reputable by the purity of his previ
ous character, and, like John the Baptist in the wil
derness is warning the southern sinners to flee the
wrath to come. Cor. of the Washington Union.
Prom Washington.
WAsniXGTOK, Feb. 17. The special committee of
the House on Kansas affairs had a meeting to-night.
A proposition to summon Walker, Stanton, Calhoun
and 11 en demon was voted down, on the groond that
the probable receipt of information from the Execu
tive might supersede the necessity of taking oral
testimony. The committee passed a resolution call
ing on the State Department for the registry and
census of Kansas, taken in pursuance of law. Sev
eral propositions looking to a full investigation as
indicated in the Htuse resolution, was voted down
by a uniform and strict party vote vote 8 to 7.
The cotomittee then adjourned until next Wednes
day. A majority of the Senate committee on territories
have prepared a bill simply for - the admission of
Kansas under tbe Lecompton constitution, similar to
those heretofore passed on like occasions.
Commodore Thos. Ap Catesby Jones is danger
ously ilL .
Wake Cocntt Cocbt. Wake County Court is in
session this week. - On Monday the following Justi
ces were elected a Special Court : George E. Badger,
Thos. O. Whitaker, William R. Poole, A. Turner,
and Cannady Lowe. Jno. Scott, Eoq., was re-elected
County Justice.
37" We omitted to publish in the list of-delegatef
appointed by the Chairman of tho Wake meeting on
Monday, the names of Col. Willis Whitaker, Augus
tine Turner, Erastos Smith, Isaac- Rowland and R.
Dobbin, . Mistakes will happen sometimes, -
" IST" Attention b invited to the advertisement of
Ur. Ljon Adams In this paper.
u TRIBUTE OF RESPECT.
r. - - ihALBcnc Halu JanJ: 1858.
WrasAS. God ia tbe plentitoda of Hia infinite wiadoia
4 power, has aeeu Drnow to nmmm from kLu
venerable and much ieiMd fellow wnmtm m
bane, whom while be lived tbe Dialectic Societv lov4 to
booor, and now that be is do more, u a tribute of respect to
bis memory: therefore, - -
lUmdved, That while we bow with bumble tabmisaioa to
tbe will of an All-wise Creator and Rater of tbe Darren.
. I . . . i a . ...... . -
wmoi dqi maara me toas aao oope to imitate Um vir
tttous example and cherish tbe memory of one of tbe foiw
ders of tbe Society be ao leakrasly aerved. , '
Memifd, That the Dialectic SoeietT.lB die death ofJaa.
JJebaae, baa kwt oae of its most worthy and bJtkfal aaeia
bera. who watcbed over its infancy with pareatel ear, and
was an ornament -nd honor to it io iU prosperity; a friend
and benefactor to hia race. who. whit ..mrl.t onivJitL
cal preferment, waa ever ready to obey tbe call of hia oooa-
Jtesoum, Tbat we offer or heart-JeU condolence ts Me
bereaved fkmitr. which baa anstaJmd n irrmutki. l .f
o his relatives' and friends, who have lost a warm aedfiutb
fol d riser, with whom w would mingle oar tears of affeo-
, Toif That a copy of these reaolatums be sent to tbe
family of tbe deceased, and one be filed ia tbe are hire f
tbe Society, and also oablUhed ia tbe University Macmxine,
tbe Raleieh Standard and Reriater. the RiwuwJ P.r-
t and i'lag, and the Mi Hoe Chnmiele.
J&JS. X. MUatEUEAri, )
J AS. 8. WATUNCTOX. VCommiUeS.
: . BEXT05 WITHERS. , J.
MARRIED,
Ob Tuesday evening, tbe ISih inL tv wju. 1
Mr. Frank Sled man. bv Allen Adams. Esq.. Mr. Willie
Avera to afiaa Winnie Turner, danrhir at larnini r.
er. Esq, all of Wake eoanty. .
IMPORTANT NOTICE I
THE SUBSCRIBER TAKES THIS METHOD OF
informing bis town and country fneods that be has m
Store and IS cooatantlv rnriiil ..f flPfvrDiru
HARDWARE, CUTtERY. IkOX. DRY GOODS, SHOES.
T5UOTS, Ac, which be will sell to pa actual en -(torn era on
time, or for cash for very amall profits contistior of the
following articles : . -. . .
Bacon, - Calicoes, Plows.
i"1 Black and BrownSnades and Shovels.
TUar,
Meal,
Corn,
Cheese,
MolasKcs,
Tobacco,
Sojrar,
Coffee,
Candies,
Sosp,
Starch. .
Cottons, Rupeand Baerinr,
Kersey Jeans. ' Grind Stones, . T
Needles and Pins, Sums Ware,
Portmoniea, Tabs end Backets,
Pocket Knives, Sleet, (good article)
Knives sod ForkaSole and Upper
Combs, Leather.
Hooks and Eyes, Boots and Shoes.
O. D. Cspa, Uoree Shoes.
Carpenter's Tools, Nails of every d4
Bullons and Thread, scripUoo, ,
Iron.
Span Cotton, -
Hif pUaiiirflW a-T-l.aa. ftjw, a. h 4. '(
- -wa -w u.iwwH M uiruuua. . .
I ret ore my heartfelt thanks for tbe very liberal patron,
age heretofore extended to roe. and trust bjr si ricttr honest
deatinjr to merit a continuance of the same, knowing that
I can sell as low or lam er than anj- other bouse ia the City.
Please jive tue a call before purcbaainr elaewbere. -. ,
LTXN ADAMS, . ' .
Sooth-Side Market Square," '
P. S. All kinds of produce taken ia exchansfor Goods.
Feb. 19. 18S8. 8 wSm. :
NOTICE. -
THE SUBSCRIBER HAYING QUALIFIED AT
February Term. 1 ft.8. of the Court of I'iees and Quar
ter Sessions for tbe County of Wake as Administrator of
the estate of Berry D. S-mms. deceased, hereby en res no
tice to all persons having claims, debts or demands araiaat
said Berry D. Simms, to present them to bin for settlement,
properly proven, within the time prescribed by law, other
wise this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery ;
and ail persona indebted to said deceased are requested to
make' immediate payment. .-j
Notice ia further riven, that on the :5th day or March
next, at Dunnaville, I aball sell at public aoouou all the
perishable estate of the said deceased, consisting of honae.
bold furniture, a buggy end harness, double-barrelled shot
gun, and 1 fine gold watch. A credit of oine months will
be given, and purchasers will be required to give bond with
approved security. ,
Notice is further given, that at tbe same time and place I
wiil hire to tbe highest bidder a No-1 blacksmith ad stri
ker for tbe balance of this year. .
t J. O. JEFFREYS, AdtnY.
February la, 1858. 15td.
VST" Register copy.
COSMOPOLITAN ART ASSOCIATION I
Terms of Sabecription I ....
EVERY SUBSCRIBER OF THREE DOLLARS
is entitled to the large and costly S3 Steel Engraving,
Manifest Eestiny; also, a copy of the beautifully illus
trated Cosmopolitan Art Journal, one year; also, to a Cer
tificate io tbe annual awards of premiums; also, to a Seas
on Ticket to visit tbe Galleries of tbe Association, free.
Thus it will be seen that for every three dollars paid, tbe
subscriber cot only receives a splendid. Three Dollar En
graviog, but also the beautifully illustrated Two Dollar Art
Journal, one year, together with a certificate in tbe Anneal
Award of Premintne by which a valuable work of Art in
Painting or Sculpture may be received in addition, thus
riving to every subscriber an equivalent to tbe value of
fire dollars, and a certificate in tbe Award of Premiums,
gratis.
MONTHLY MAGAZINES.
Tbe Association will still continue to furnish tbe follow,
inr Msgaxines to alt who prefer them to tbe Engraving
M Manifest Destiny," with Art Journal: Emerson's Mage
sine. Harper's Magazine. Godey's Lsdj's Book, Graham's
Magazine, Blackwood's Magazine, and British Quarterly Be
views, Southern Litersry Messenger, Little's Panorama At
lantic Magazine, together with a Certificate in the Annual
Award of Premiums. Address 1
. THOMAS CARTER,
. Honorary See'y,
Raleigh. JT. C. '
" Iters. Tbe Engrav'flga " Saturday Night" and "Mani
fest Destiny," can be seen at my resfdetiee.'
February 1, 1858.
15 tMSO
DRESS GOODS, LACES. WHITE GOO OS - AND CM
BROIDERIES, RIBBONS, GLOVES, HOSIERY.. , i
EDWIN G. CHEATHAM.
FURXAir, D A T 1 8 fc CO.,
mroartBS axd joBBEas or - ' .'
SILK GOODS, - ' -:
87 Chambers t 69 Reads Streets, 3v Tort. '
SAM'L FURMAlf,
. JOHN G. DAY1S, -WM.
G. NOBLE
- JAS. McNULTY. -February
19, lSSS. 15 5tpd.
SEATON GALES, ' .
. ATTORNEY AT LAW,-r
Raleigh; N. C.
Feb. 19. 1858. ' ' . lS-
SPRING TRADE, 1658. , ' - .--
HAMILTON GRAHAM,
Importers aad Jobbers, v
WILL EXHIBIT ON AND 4FTERTHE FIRST OF
M irch a full and weli-er'. cted stock of FOREIGN
AND DOMESTIC DRY GOOD-, which will be disposed
of at tbe lowest prices. Merc! -uts from the Sooth and
West are invited to call and eiafiioeat the old stand of
Psnl 4 Mcll waiae. No. so Hyeanv Street, Petersburg, Va.
Fif" Strict attention given to i dera. . ...
Ftbroary 1, 1&58. 15 ly.
GARDEN SEEDS vCrop of 1857.) ' ,
WE ARE NOW IN RECEIPT OF A VERY LARGS
supply of tbe most approved kinds of Gardes Seeds
selected with care from reliable Seedsmen, which we war
rant to be fresh and good ' . ',,!,
A liberal discount to dealers in tbe aurroundiog country,
WILLIAMS A HAYWOOD, . .
Wholesale and Beta! Droggists.
-Feb. 19, 1858. ! - IS St.' 1
WEGRO SALE. AS EXECUTOR ON THB ES
TATE of Esther A vent, dee'd, 1 shall offer for sale a
Avent's Ferrv, on the Cape Fear river, Chatham County, ba
the Sd day of March next, eleven negroes, and among them
some very likely yoong ones. There will beaenkdit ef six
months, the pui chasers giving bond with errove4 eeority.
; - ; , R. S MARES, Executor.
...Feb. 19, 1858. . ; , fr-'wtd.-
"TATOTICE. HAVING MADE ARRANGEMENTS TO
lAI enter into tbe Mercantile Business at Saeaafraa Fork.
in Rr&nrilk antv.4 now offer mi town tcudoKv in Hen
derson, on tbe Rafeigh and Uaston Railroad, consisting of
a well-improved lot of five or tee acre,' and two jra un
proved Iota, with a tot of wood land ia half a amUe, awtw
eieat to eapply wood fcT several yean. : r-a ' 1 1:
. I wiB sell this property low and make tbe terms eaar., r
I have practised medicine here for seven years, and earn
recommend tbe location aa en excellent one fore pbyaiebm.
There ia male aad female school to tbe village; aa Epic
copal. Methodist, and Baptist Ohercbes, aW. x Peraops
wwhingto puicbaee tbe property, will pl.neariy
application. , A, aiuszw
DeeeaVer 84, 1157. UlT-wtfc