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i bick to the countries froni wb'ch they come, all
foreigners of these classes as may,, in violation of
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0f"iU sn injects, immediate and ample tatiff action for tuck
e'l'mge, and proper indemnity against the repetition
thereof ' j. : .. :..
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of any f reiH-born citizen to ;ny office of trutt. honm
pr eiii-'liiineuV under the Federal or State govern
nuuts. or the employment or enlistment if ' such per
jamin the army or navy in time of wari maintaining,
&i we tl, the opinion th it hB na ie born " citizens i
the United States h ive the rfeht to govevri thelanid of
their birth: and that all immigranlfr'm fabroal
sii.iiild be content with the enjoyment of life, liberty
aii i property, under our institutions, without seeking
u jtarticip-ite in- the enaction, administration, or exe
cation of our laws. - r- ; V" 7-.,.':
f.jurlh- We shall advocate and urge the adoption ot
suoh an canended form of an oath to support the Conzii'u
ii u of the Citit&J Slates,' and to be administered to ali
elected or appointed' to any ottice of trust
j, i-i r or eiuolnment, under the Federal or State gov'
ernmi nts as will enectuaiiy exclude from such oiheef
all persons, who shall not directly and explicitly recog
uize the obligations and binding force of the Gonsti
tution of the United States., as paramount to all obli
Rations of adhesion or allegiance to any foreign priiK-t-.
'power, potentate, or authority, whatever, under am
an l all l ircuuistances 7 ; ; ? . .V ..' ''
Folk. We shall oppose, now and hereafter, am
; of Cliureh and St ile," no matter what class t;
religionists shrill seek to bring about such union.
S-i h We sliail vigorously maintain the vested right
of ail persons, of nati ve or foreign birth, ... and hall a1
: all times oppose the s ightcst interference .with ruJ
vcsteJ tights. ' -
Stwti. we shall oppose and protest against aa
arid twit of rditpou li eriyy holding it as a cardinal
m ixf.n, th.it reliyi tutfai h is a question between e.ui
individual and his lod, and over which no politico
g.ive'innent, or other human power, can riehtfuli
esercise any servision or control, at any time( i
any pine, itr in any form. - .
'Efdh. We shall opp se all ''higher law" doctrine
hy which tiie Constitution is to be set at nought, vl
hfe.l, or di.egirded, whether by pdi: i iians hy rei-,
toni u, or by the adherents or followers of either, o.
U'any other cl.uss of rsons. . '
Xinth. Weiall maintain and defend the Consti!itlio
as it viands; te Union as it exists, and the rights f th
without diminution as guaranteed thereby
eppn-iny it all tiTnes, and to the extent of our abilit)
and inline acc, all who may assail them, or either n;
tllClil. ' .
Tenth And lastly, we shall use our utmost exertion
to buiid up an ' American party '' whose maxim shall Ix .
Am- ricass shall rule tii kir Country !
A FreacfcrnanXearnia? EnTtf!i.
Frenchman. No, pair. 1 nevair can vil! learn"you.
vile lanrrnajre. ' Di verbs alone might, should, couk
voiiKi put in? to dath.
Slide?.' .Y-.n must be patient. Oar verb is verv
im;.e eoraparm witu yours
fate, vou say dat 1 mirfht-i'ald-vouId-s!ou!d-hav
x
fta-nme: V at yon callsampSe V en 1 quer
brsi. Ma foi ! ver sam?le, dat Now, sair, tell me, ir
von plea, vat you call one verb ? ,
.M. A verb is a word which signifies to be, to d'
or ? sufi'-r. . - 'V'.. . ; ' "
' F. Kh, bien ! ven I say I paiCt vlch I say I be, J
d' or I sa'Tare ? r ' ; ' :: " i'-i -'-.'' '
il. It may be hanl to say, in that partiealar cs.-
F. Mafoi! How. I mijUt-coald-v mUl-should, am
to know dat? ; Bat tt-U me, if yoa please, vat you
niftm ven yoa say Da , verb is a word ?" , .
M. A miaiw one, and it is the same as to say Iht
vor!) is one word.
F, Eh, biin! Dan ven I say I tnight-could-vould
sboijid-have-been-loved, I use one verb. Huh ! (with
asbrajj. . . " ' "
M.. Ye?, certaiu'y-
F. An dat verb ba von . word ! T tinka him ver
m word, vid more joints dan "de scorpion have in
his tail. - ;; ; ,; : .-, ' .": -. .: : " ' : ;- ,
t. Bat we do not uss all the auxiliaries at once.
, F. II )w mauy yoa use once?
M. 0:js at a timo. Wa sav,'I wiiAf-have-been-lov.l,
or I c'luM-bav-been-lov. d. -
F. A id dat is only von word! Yat yoa mean b;.
IcmU? v
M. I ics able.
F. Ver w i!. Vat you mean by have ? ;
1 M. JIM, possess. It is difficult to say what h
cif i'is a'urt fr-m tne other wonls. :
F. Vyvoa use him deo ? I5ut vat vou mean bv
lit: ? " ..."
M. Exited. There is no exact synonym.-
F. Vi-r well ! Dun, ven I say - coutd-htve:hee.i-".
tbit ;il!s to say' I vas-ubfe-hold-existed-ioved
dis is one word 1 Do - French shil J, u higher av
2it. iioKling his hand about as high as his knees,
to -'hi cou!d-vnulij-shou!d count four words. wid'uld .
Fm mn. Hah ! I shall nevair Ieani de English verb:
n. nt'vair ; no time !
M. When you hear me use a verb, yoa must nc
re the habit of cooju jatiuj it ; jast as. I love, thou
wv-st, he ioves and bvitieve me, you can't . becom'
fan;i;ar with the m jdes aul tenses in any other way.
F. Veil, deii, 1 shall, will begin wiz can't, v I can't,
J"U can'test, he cant's : we cant', ye or yur can't, zey
ean't. . . . J.: :- ; .
M. It is not so. Can't, v is a contraction of th-:
TrTl cannot. : '..: '
f Veil, den ; I cannot,' zhou ; canaotest,' . he can
fioteth, or he cannots, we i " .
No, no! Cannot i two "words can and not.
Dftl VOt for vim tit him tierf(r ? '
M.
I sti 1 am I canfu enomrh in inv eXDressions.
P. Stop! Hold Jere, if you please; 1 will-zhal;
more try.
I ain't zhoa a-n'test, he ain'ts, we-
f. Ain't is not a verb; it is only a corruption
Mise Uaain.'- -
foi! it is all one corruption.
May or can
-I. X.i ; you can't say so. ' -
Vot den? I might could-vou'd-sbeuid-don'l-
:-voirt-cairt. : :' ' -
Vl , i yu can't Siiy any sach thing, for these
'r' an- all irregular, and must not be ustd. -
Mux! Vot you call mass ? I muss, zhou mus
.beniaiws. You say so? . ' '
- No, no, no. .
t Veil. den. I might-could-vould-sbonld-ha ve-i-mns.
How dat ? -V"
is irregular.
It
never ' changes its ter-
""nation.
no-'". v or' vy ytt cftH.liim irregulaire, if be
4 irii lin hi .ona .mi vpi ptxriiiiurp :
,,'r .fulaire, indeed!
Whoniake ,d grammaire
M. XnKl s" v 3'..::
p o " in particular - - -to t ---..-, , ,
m .1 tinks. I might-could-vouid-should-gdpsw
ju" 'j'wl-musa-cao-understaiid-ijevair one grain
five e-'1Cl1 e verD ht? von word, ven he be lour,
nif.8'X' a1f ozen aDj teo call1-irregulaire ido only
ur-1! Vrl Jlt ueva'M shamrfc Stuaey rooi, Afou
gtajj 1 'l nevaire may cati-might-could yould-should
r!,i. ew York Mirror says that the stories about
011 -Mi .ss ; in tvuok;i . - f.n A.i.rht.
-soeKera from rUitiftr that
city. 1 his may
The Dovil44
. h it if a:.i .
, , . -- . uiu mil irvnien inwm.
"J aivj;, !, couldn't ffighten tht-m
r.n , ,vouauo .m mi' wuwi.vu.vv v-v.v
Wit 7 Wsatc"ca b 1miliar' W:i
VOL. II.
From the Plough Loom and Anvil. ;
THE UNION OF THE PLOW THE
LOOM AND THE ANVIL THE ONLY
SOURCE OF GREAT NATIONAL
WEALTH.' ! ; '
The discussion of the sulyect announced
in our caption ; is attended wi th one diffi
culty vvhich is quite worthy of a moment's
consideration; t Whenever we begin to ex
hibit the condition ".of a people destitute of
the art?, we "are met by the objection ' that
no civilized community exists which doos
not encourage them, to some extent, both
mi their tneones and in their practice
Hence suppositions which imply the entire
neglect of all arts, or even of all the higher
iirls, are comparatively powerless upon the
mind of. the reader," and are regarded as
ultra and extravagant. ; Perhaps the sug
uesiions at the close of our 'discussion iu
he last nuruber, (pages 233 and 234,) were
considered as mere idle word-paiuting, de-
enptive of no school in political economy,
and without any living example. Whether
J this is so will appear in the sequel.
But analyse this objection, thus urged,
ind it will be found to admit as unquestion
able that, to a certain extent, the arts must
oe encouraged. " They are therein acknowl
edged as absolutely essential to every stage
of true "civilization.' - When this is once ad
nitled. we have at least gained something,
Tor then the only question that can be con
sidcred as open is, To what extent : should
rhis! encouragement be given? If We are
iot substantially in error, a few facts, per
octly well known to all, ought to remove
.very doubt-as to the truth of th doctrine
:.ve fo often incalculate on fhi subject
Great estates can only be acqilired by
largo profits on small sales,, or by compara
rivcly small gains in a very extensive busi
ness. We care not whether vou examine
" iie form of industry or another, in testing
iiis position. No man wlio-has ever accu
mulate property, will dispute it. Let us
irst take the latter condition, and suppose
hat the farmer has a great many r cutoin
n?. Every producer supplies numbers of
onsumers, and the products of his labor
ire in so grat demand,, that he is perfectly
-afe in raising large quantities of them, and
in anticipating some profit tyi every thing
he produces. But who ai cthesp numeious
.urchasers and consumers? Are they all
t one class of artisans ? Are they all
. uanufacturers of cotton goods ? Where
would they fiod- customers . for tho.-e im
mense quantities of cotton goods ? Are
they all woollen manufacturers, or all car
penters ? Are they all masons, or all
blacksmi ths ? Jn these supposed condi
tions, atrong so many competitors for a
limited market, how can all. live? Such
iompetitiou would insure the ruin of every
man of them. How could the land-owners
oxpect to get even small profits from those
who are obliged to labor at any price they;
aan get ? Such a condition of things would
tr-re long ruin even the farmer, for his cus
tomers would soon become beggirs. The
-ntire class of artisans must come down t
ten cents" a day.? to use the phrase of po
litical disputantpbecoming a poor sprci
::en of European pcasantry,-living only by
.he sufferance of the land-owner whose
grounds they occupy without rent
A limited increase in the variety of pur
uit" would of Course . be proportionally
iiihited in its beneficial effects. . -
A great variety of pursuits is then alifo
I ii tely indispensable to the accumulation of
brge estates. -unless, according to the for
mer supposition, large profits can be ob
rained from compara ti rely, li m5 ted sales.
Let us, then, suppose these conditions.
Let the farmer anticipate a large income
from sales to a limited number of consumers.
Hie first difficulty that meets us is, that ail
these surplus artisans must turn farmers,
producers, competitors of those whose con-
li lion .we have just been eottsiaeniig. imi
though thcv first, it is neither the last, nor
the most formidable. Under the free trade
system which these -men aiwaya wuv
foi the world would be searched, as with
a candle, for a country or .community that
ould broduce and -sell at a lower rate than
would be practicable under this theory, of
large profits on limited sales Nor wouid
it, perhaps, be difficult .to find sucn a com:
nuinitv. But we pass this by, and inquire
what prices must be Uemauaea Dy u.e cul
tivator of : theshil, which wjli enable him
to accumulate vveauu uviu w ""-
number of customers? Jf you carry tins
p6Hey of high prices too far, it becomes su
icidal, for the few buyers themselves; be
come - producers, quite satisfied that they
can'manage .as well as -their neighbors.-
'flivntf hnlf their time to the cultivation oi
. . C.T . - . .. . ;
tlfe soil, and grow
owin- their m copito
UW1 " - . v
the exfnt of tbeir own wan ,.ana worK .
at their trade" the other half, at
pries, and with he hdely of f peculau ,
or. jookew genmpe Miavera, nv.ng ;.;
iockevs.' cenuine . snacipf nmig w
winS?bf Vvtb 9UI WOT, orGET what
S . '. "
An American folicy
KINSTON, N. C, THURSRDAY, MAY 14,
toucan, a,ndk where then are your rapidly,
growing estates? , And what is the condi
tion of the arts ? Exactly as we described
it in our previous essay'. The skill of the I
artist is gone. Pride in his vocation is no
Iongc- an incentive to secure the best VorV
maDship, and you .must be literally buried
''in a . rough box." lt does . not pay" to
learn to be skillfulr -and hence none are
skillfull "If you shpula connect' with this
plan ihe idea of paying... for the la'bor of
the artisan, prices corresponding ' to the
prices yon demand for the products of the
soil, and thus encourage high art, you ut
terly fail in the accumulation of a large
property, and are in no better condition
than before. An acre of ground will not
secure any greater returns than under anj
other sj-stem. . , '
: But again, we might ask, and wait long
for an answer, How is it that artisans can
be supposed to be able to pay so high prices?
They can pay no more than they receive,
and they must first tax land-owners an'im
mense sum before they are able to pay. an
immense sum lor what they need.'1 There
is a fatal defect in this machinery, even
though all our other difficulties should
prove to be imaginary.
We have thus hit upon the real difficulty,
as exhibited in actual, every-day life. Far
mers must find purchasers able to pay re
munerative prices, and they must have a
market of almost unVmited extent, or lim
ited only by their ability to supply it.
Then, and then onlv, thev can add much to
their wealth bv agricultural labor. Now.
how is this market to be obtained? There
is but oue way, and that way is to encour
age the cultivation of the aVts, even beyond
the necessities of the community where
they are practiced, if possible, and thus not
only secure a market for their own artisans
whom they have induced to. settle among
tucm, but for the artisans of other ""commu
nities.. Then we have established distant
and foreign commerce. This brings in a
new class of artisans, and increases the de
mand for those classes already established,
.... .... . , . '
Land thus again the demand for agricultural
products is increased. A new market is al
so opened, to wit, for forest trees, and here
ragoin is a aenmte j)er coinage atiuea to the
value of land, if it5 growtli can be used for
ship timber. And where docs this increas
ing progression terminate? What is the
last term of this ascending series ? No
community has yet found it. It has changed
the value of land from a few dollars, or
cents even, and we might say from nothing,
to thousands of dollars, as in this city and
elsewhere ; and what will be the highest
value of land, or what quantity, what ex
tent of land, can be made to represent those
immense sums, per acre, who can tell us?
Probably we Ikxvc 'learned by experiments
long ago, and oft repeated, what values
can be given to land - shut out from such
advantages, and the result is by no means
commendatory of the system we have here
and elsewhere condemned. But who can
ys urc us that the arts have done their ut
innst. in any community, and under any cir
cumstances, to bring in afid heap up wealth,
both for the farmer and th artisan?
Deprived of these facilities of . trade, til
lers of th&soil cannot amass wealtn. Even
now,-the small farmer oiten finds it difficult
to :ie as a man should live, cultivating
his better capacities, and gratifying his
tastes, and indulging "in the higher amuse
ments, so useful both to the body and the
mind. By dilligent labor with his own
hands, lie mayvfeed himself ar.d his family,
as he does his cattle, and with his small
surplus products, pay .for the additional la
bor his fields imperatively demand, and
purchase his coffee and sugar and other
necessaries which his own land will not
produce, for his table. But he cannot ed
ucate his children as he would, nor buy
books for his family, nor even afford such
agricultural periodicals as he would like
and much needsTto show, him how to make
the most of what he has. Eveu for the
more costly and - valuable implements of
husbandry, he may be dependent oh his
neighbor, who equally needs a similar fa
vor in return. If they had still fewer cus
tomers, ami could command only still low
er prices for their crops, a necessary result
of a contracted market, these farmers -would
be in a condition that no man would envy.
They -would-'scarcely be recognized as the
originals of those glowing pictures of the
independent and happy tillers of the soil,
so often met with in orations.
But the theme is fruitful of thought,
view it as you will. We have yet scarcely
touched upon ..the inquiry, How ' are the
arts to be encouraged ? nor, Under what
will hey best answer, .the
t t-lpw? And we can onlv s.-sreest
" - nDOt Well afiord to
' odact to distant communities,
carry P
' u .b e ten, or huttdred,
--. 'v,.,
doui- 80.
. . . - ..; ' - ' : r. .t;. -.-y "
." '.v.... . 1 V :
for an American People;
or althousand.or, ten thousand .artisans to
be fed by the products, of his and his neigh
bors' fields, who can doubt that it would be
better for hi m and his neighbors, if - those
artisans would come from across seas, and
. ..........
elsewhere; at their own expense, and live
among them, and be of them, and, without
even the cost of an express wagon: furnish
each other with a gond home market, at
each man's door ? ' Can any man, who for
gets for one moment his party platform.
entertain a doubt on this point?"
i . The Gunblcr j "i "
OR, A NIGHT IN A SPORTING-HOUSE.
BY A SPECTATOR.
It was the height of the season, and the rooms,
were crowded. . ,
. That evenin? at the party there was dancing on
on side and playing on the other. Here the glare of
waxlights, the sparkle of diamonds on the foreheads
of the women, and the comused murmur of lively con
versation, drowned in the harmonious voice ; of the
orchestra ; there were two or, three wax, lights on a
table, round which were seated a group of grave,
anxious looking, and thoughtful men a few words
exchanged at intervals, and for' accompaniament the
metallic chink of the handftuVof gold, which rolled
and tinkled as they fell. .
When the beautiful Estelle Montgomery entered
the saloon, leaning on Frailk Vincent's arm, the crowd
made way for her, every one admiring the handsome
couple as they advanced up the ball room. In a
short time afterwards Estelle, beset on every side with
invitations, was dancing and smiling, aa if oblivious
of all around her.
Estelle was the only daughter of a rich merchant,
and an heiress of immense welth. Frank Vincent
was an American by birth, and an officer in the navy.
Estelle was his consiu, and .he was to marry her.
The. dances wore made up, and the ball-room was
filled to suffocation. The young men, fatiguod with
the glare of theight. the bustle and, heat entered an
adjoining room, where tables were set for "play."
- 'Come, gentlemen," said a banker, "here is still a
stako or two to be made up."
The players sat motionless, looking at each other,
but made no reply. !
"Count me in for the balance,'' said Frank, uncon
cernedly, willing to try whether the sad forebodings
with which his mind had been haunted during theday
had the slisrhtcst foundation. '
And then, without further thought on the subject.
Ire leaned against the door of the saloon, searching
among the crowds of faded forms, resplendent w tri
Jtwi-lrv. features heightened with rouge, and eyre
sparkling with artificial lustre, for the charming little
head and sweet look ot his lovely Estelle.
i The harsh veice of the banker recalled the young
sailor from his service. "
; '-You have won," said he. sharply. -'
.And the banker pushed toward hiinaheap of gold.
I." said Frank, approaching the table.
A re you sure o that?"
4iHe -refuses," cried one of the players, leaning his
elbow on tiie table, aud . eagerly devouring with his
eyes the glittering pile of gold. .."
-'Psliaw are such things ever refused?" snecringly
cried another.
The yonng sailor cast a rapid glance at the players,
whose eyes were all fixed upon him, and addressing
the I anker, said :
"This, sir, I take it is a joke It can't be possible
that all this belongs to me." .
" "But it is all yours, sir!" replied the banker, in the
same co?d tone, with it a bittei smile. "You held ti e
blank, and the cards pay."
: "Then, geuIeman," exclaimed Frank, "the deal isx
void!" -' : '
A prolongetl murmur of astonishment ran through
the assemblage. -
"I was not aware I was playing for so high a stake,"
continneil the young seaman ; -'and had 1 lost, 1 cer
tainly should have never paid you." ; -; .
The banker was a mail a? yet in the prime, of life,
but grown old and hardened by a long career of wick
edness, : ' '-: ; m
"Ah," said he, leaning back in his chair, his pallid
Iip3 curling with a faint laugh of scorn, "indeed young
gentleman but you would most certainly have paid
it though aon that, too, in in good hard gold, or else
yon wouid have paid it at the muzzle of.a pistol !"
Frank raadtf a convuhnve spring backwurds :
-Liar!." he exclairaedTin a hollo v voice.
? The banker sat motionless, but his lips quivered
with suppressed auger. I he same sardonic smik
played on his features, but their paleness bad faded to
a yet more lived and ashy hue. r
In an instant the players were on their feet, and
-grouping-round the two actors of this strange and
unexpected drama. Frank was standing up with his
fiuLds convulsively clenched, his eyes dilated, and his
whole '.frame shaking with rage. The banker, on the
contrary, was rocking.hiiuselt forward and backward
in his chair, and casting on the spectators a look of
self-possession, at the same time playing with the pile
of gold heaped up on his right.
"Sir ! he at last said, measuring r ranK wun nis
eye from head to foot, with the coolest effrontery, "it
is probable you do not know who 1 am ; that, te me.
indeed, is sufficiently clear. , And as ; for these genth
niaii here," he added, with an impatient wave of his
hand towards the spectators, "1 have every reason to
suppose that, knowing them you would not have ta
ken npon yourself to give me the lie in their presence.
Pray, sir, what may be your name I" ;
"Insolent fellow?" cried Frank, in concentrated
rage. . - .'.'v." v;'
" Very well, if that same pleases you," replied " the
banker, witn imperturable calmness. "I have the
choice of weapon?, sir. ; Parhaps it is well you should
know that I never yet missed my man." . L
"You try hard to frighten somebody, don't you?"
said Frank, impatiently.
"1! not iu the least," replied the banker, with in
difference, and with the same cold sneer and smile of
duplicity. "But I cannot find it in my conscience
to assassinate you.'.'-
And so saying he drew a long rifle pistol from his
pocket, and coolly laid it on the table before him."
A death-like Rilence pervaded the room. ;
"There, sir," he continued, "this is the best thing I
have to propose indeed, it is all that I can possibly
do to accommodate you Bring the ' dice," he con
tinual, in the same tone of voice, turning half around
in his chair, ''and shut that door." "' ' 7"' ' "
The door of the play roim was closed, and the dice
placed upon the table. ' The mu3ie of the orchtstra
and rli(; hum ot voices ouly reached the room in a sup
pressed and distant murmur. . . ; 7vj
"Now, then," said the banker, f here we have dice
and pistol. The highest ttirow kills the other! :
The yonng sailor approached the table, seized the
dice-box in mere desperatiou, shook it with a convul
sive euegry, cast one furtive glance .towards the ball
room, and threw.
As if bowed by an electric shock, every head was
bent upon the cloth. The action of this terrific drama
had passed so rapidlythe end was so near at hand
that oue could not believe in the reality of this
atri wious scene, enacting without noise or interruption,
and hundreds of people within calL . ' .
- The banker, in a loud voice, recK6ned op the
"Six and six are twelve, and one mains wiram- .
. -. . . .. ..... . vf-x-
a gooil throw, a very good throw upon my word, nu hold upon the established principles of science and
yonng gentleman, a very good throw! ' . ' ... truth, which alike discard all false conjecture,', and
, He took the dice, and replaced .tbem in the. box: h rest forever- upon the baes of" eternal wisdom and
with, an air of the coolest indifference, ad addressing i Omnipotence. , . - '. " JL M,
tbe spectators- . , ' V .. ,L WaaAUtjfroT8 Ala,, April 6f l$3J,
' . . V ( -f f ' ' ( ,
1857.
NO. 43.
"Thirteen," he exclaimed, 'a very good point but,
it is always an unlucky number. Come, gentleman,
who bets a couple of ' hundred on the life jnf that
young gentleman yonder ?'-continued, fixing his
eye with malignant and deadly jglare' on the "young
man. who quiiled beneath itv,j i
The players turned pale and remained 'silent.
"Well, then," said he, wifK' a'smile, "as there seems
to be none to bet,' here's for raj-si-lf!" and the dice
rolled out on tiie table.
"Fifteen ! You've lost, sir! It's a pity, too, with
so good a point. The affair was well contested,' at
a'l events. So, then, sir your life belongs to me.
Are you ready?" ";':-" .V'7i- 7 'i-,7 - -;77i, s ;
All preasent drew ' back in terror. . The banl er,
still stretched out in his chair, was quietly engaged
in. adjusting the lock, and; carc-fally examining the
priming of his pistol. 7 ; :
"I am ready," replied the young man, standing rno
tionless before him. 7 7 7 V 7 "
"A little more room, if you please, gentleman," said
the banker, at the same time bowing to the spectator?,
and motioning with his arm for them to stand on one
side -: . ...
"Fire!" said Frank uncovering his breast, his
countenance beaming with intrepidity aud unshrink
ing resignation. ; 7 ? : ' - '
The bankei withdrew his hand and raised his head,
' The spectators breathed once more.' The unnatu
ral scene had been , protracted too long, and for an
instant there was hope, r ,
"We have not chosen our seconds," he "remarked.
"But aa lor that," he added, after a moment's silence,
'.these gentleman hre may serve as witnesses in case
of need." . 7'7r"":?..;c.i it 'v: .
He levelled again and fired. The young lieutenant
lay gasping upon the floor in the last agonies of death.
; "The cards pass, gentlemen," cried the banker, as
he laid the pistol, still smoking, upon the table.
At the noise made by the report of the pistol, the
folding doors of the saloon were burst open, and the
crowd rushed In. There was a piercing shriek a
young girl iell senseless upon the bleeding corps of
Frai.k Vincent, it was Estelie. i .:
The banker is now in California. . 7 '
v From the Montgomery (Ala.) Mail.
A Chapter on CometSt
: Messrs. . Editors : A paragraph is going the rounds
of the papers relative tolhe probable annihilation of
the little orb by a Comet, computed, by a Belgian
prophet to come in collission with it some time- in
June next. However extravagant such ; speculat'ons
may be, like all things pertaining to the marvelous,
"this doctrine hat h its followers."! I "was gravely
asked the other dav, if I was not afraid the earth
would cume to an end in June ! . The-age of Millei ism,
it would seem, has not entirely passed ;and, so long"
as the credulity of. the mass exceeds the learning of
tn tew, we shall, no doubt, have this alarming pve
Miction thundered in our ears. That the advent of i
coinjgt, in the limits of our own system, should excite
within us feelings the most profound and reverential
is but a natural result; but that we should regard
them with a childish apprehension' is to betray our
own weakness and to question the wisdom of Onmip
otence. When, however, we reticct upon the amazing
velocity of these bodies, and the seemingly random
nature of their movements, the mind naturally shrinks
as though in danger of actual collision. The effect
of such a sho ,k would indeed be awful in the extreme,
"producing an entire change in the now fixed laws of
nature, and the destruction of every vestige of human
life. A new dir ction would thereby be giyan to the
earth's motion ; it would revolve around a new axis
:iid in a new orbit ; a new equator would be found,
to which the seas and rivers, forsaking their beds,
vonId le hurried, bv a new centrifugal force, thus
deluging, the fertile and habitable portions of the
globe and leaving only their now fathomless bottoms
bare. But when we reflect that to two hundred and
eighty-one tuillion of chances there is only one unfa
vorable or that the danger "wtf death to any one indi
vidual is but as if in an urn were placed that number
of white balls and only oue black, and his condemna
tion depended upon producing the black at the first
drawing -the lottery is so unequal that the danger
seems to exist but in a diseased fancy, and all theo
ries as but as idle words compared to the declaration
that "all things are turned round about his counsels,
to do whatsoever He commamleth them
The history of comets, however, forms one of the
most interesting portions ot astronomical lore ; and
it lsVne ot the proudest triumphs of humanity that,
though ;
"From the world to luminous world, as far
. As the universe spreads its flaming walls,"
these wandering orbs may wing their ceareless flight.
yet the hand ot science points with unerring certainty
i the hour of their return. A wr.yiew of the solar
system, from the condensed representation' of them
in the diagrams, exhibits somewhat the appearance of
a tangled skein of silk, so numerous are the crossings,
turnings, and directions of the Various planetary
orbits ; and to think, that among this seemingly tan
gled map ot countless worlds an immense body is
hurled, as though at random, with a velocity beyond
the r, ach of human conception, must surely awaken
within : us a sense of such sublimity as to mock all
thought of human greatness. The belief that the
revolutionary period of these bodies must all neces
sarily be of the most . prodigious length, . was main
tained by astronomers everywhere till within a few
years, when it was ascertained that there were two
whose orbits lay comparatively within our.own neigh
borhood. One of these, it was predicted, would come
in collision within the earth in V&'6Z. Its orbit was
estimated to be so near the earth that, had the earth
been at that point nearest the comet's path,' and the
lawless comet been in its pedigree at the same time,
the earth would have been enveloped in the nubtilous
atm-. sphere of the comet, lhis proximity, no doubt,
gave rise to many curious speculations on the subject,
and were the gravity of their atmosphere equal to that
ot the eartn, the most alarming results mignt nave
ensued. : But in this, as in all things else, we recog
nize the wisdom which fashions and the hand which
guides. Thit the extreme tenuity of these bodies is
such as to obviate all apprehensions from their' vicini
ty is reasonable from the face that the smallest stars
are visible through the densest part of them. And,
while they themselves are subject tohe most power
ful attraction, that they exercise no appreciable influ
ence on other bodies, is established froih the circum
stance that "in 1770 a comet was actually known to
become entangied among the satellites of Jubiter, and
to have remained there nearly four months," yet no
appreciable variation was perceptable in their move
ments. ; The idea of a perfect vacuum'was also the
prevailing opinion, till the existence of a "resisting
medium ' was detected by the vapory elements of
comets. Hut the real use of lhe-e seemingly lawless
bodies in the economy of the universe has ever been,
and 'trobably will ever remain,- a matter of specula
tion. among astronomers; consequently tnany vague
theories- have been advanced concerning thein
Whiston, the friend and contemporary of Newton,"
supposes' that the deluge was occasioned by a comet,
and the s ime fantastic author hazards the conjecture
that "they furnish the abodes of the damned, whose
pmii -hoii nts consist in being wheeled from one. re
mote point of creation to another, thus undergoing
the most rightful vicissitudes of heat -and cold. '
But such theories, However ingenius, have no basis
of facts to rest upon, and must, of course, ultimately
fail before the simple and plain teachings of the Bible,
which, t though it offers no clue to the ; mysterious
locality of another woria yes leaves us no room wa
. . ... . . r. i i.t: r.-i - a f ' I
OOUbt its realization in tui uwiui or uuasiui eieruity.
Comets have, hi all ages, "been regarded r by supersti
tious people as the harbingers of dire calamities, such
as warpestiTeace or famine ; and it must be admit
ted that experience and! observation have not tended
to dissipate the illusion, ' for even in our own day we
have seen how the beuutiful comet of 7 185 preceded
the desolating ravages of Sebastopol, and the conse
quent prostratioif of opinmerce throughout half the
UIllUCU
civilized world But such, coincidences, nowever re'
. ark hl . Artt nntliin(r and therefore take
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. Outrage by Free Nesjoest 1 ? ;
au vuioe w .-. j ggivioi vuaraeier was
perpetrated by some free negroes in this , country, a
li-w jnijes West of Raleigh, on last Thursday night..
As " we have gathered the. facts, they are as follows'
Messn.; Albert Hin,:dn, v James Penny, Barney
Jones and Marion Keith, were patroli 'g,"in the "dis
charge of a duty 'imposed npon them by the county '.
court. About i 2 or 1 o'clock they visited the house
of some tre4 negroes, on the lands of Mr. Beverly
Jonefi, wherethere was a wedding. , They discovered '
there was a collection of free blacks, slaves and some
r,.n c in: i t ; n ls
viii.y loins, u'junug uuu iruucmiig gciicnuij. mis
ancu i u.ngc il naa uieir uuijr lUIWK niUTj HUU IU
order the better to accomplish ' their purposes, the
three first divided off to different doors, Mr. Keith
remaining with their horses a short. distance. ; Mr.
Punnv n'ao mat ot tlm ifA Vv,T Itvn tiiwm kiAidim 4a
whom he spoke, ordering them to . remain in the
house, 'fhey attempted to rash' past him, when' I e.
struck one of thera with bis whip, and at that mo'
ment he was struck down and knocked Beuseless.
Mr. Hinton at the same time entered at another door
and was felled ; and Mr. Jones, running to the asais-
ground. ' All three were stunned and senseless. 'Mr.
ir. -.I - l r J - 1 ' L , . .
iveuu uuw rusneu torwaru, auu ne aisu rccciveu some
blows, but was not disabled. , Most or all of both
whites and negroes scampered on, leaving the wound-'
ed men more dead than alive. : Messrs. Keith, and
Jones escaped with a few contusions on' the head
Mr. Penny had the - 3 -Of his nose and bis upper lip
split open, and one. of his front teeth knocked out,
done with the dge of a spade He also had several
bruises on his head. But Mr.' Hinton was the great
est sufferer. Besides bruises," he received a severe cut
on the head, laying the1 scull bare for two or thr
inches, and. worse still: bad one of r.is eves li" llv
1 A. A. 5 T i- 1 . " A. 1-..
ourst to nieces. ve saw Beverai i jiers ant ,as-
ments taken fromsit the next day hv )r. Hill, of'this
city, une of these pieces is over... an inch long, and
nearly three-fourths of an inch wide. ..This was buried
o n or sight in the socket ol the eye. The pieces
are pine, showing that he was struck in the eye with
a light wool ' jot or piece of split lightwood. '
Mr. Hinton's condition is still critical, but we are
glad to learn he is oonsidered to be doing well. '
The rapidity and efficiency with which the negroes
acted excited the belief that they were anticipating a
visit from the patrol and had ' collected weapons and
laid their plans to recive it as they did.? This belief
has been confirmed by subsequent developments. ' " '
The wounded men- are all good citizc ns and stand
high in thecQramanity.7- As might be expected there
man aJU:n gmi luuiguoiiuii iiiauiicravcvi.ojr uulii vitjr
and country. . . Judge Lynch is pokeu. ol with more
freedom and a nearer, approach to 'connnendation,
than was probably ever before; heard ' in our com
munity. The general sentiment is that, surrounded
by the circumstances of our position as a slavehold
ing people, the punishment inflicted by Jaw is inade-
qante to the ortense. j t ,t -
The rihorWders amnno Mia npornna are Wm . Tin.
binlsoii, Sidney Robinson, -Wni. Mill, John-Mills,
James Mills, and Henry Mims. Two of them were
caught on Friday, night, at Morrisville,' by constable
Andrews, of this City ; and two ' others onSunday
night, at the same place,' by Dr:' Allison. " One was
caught on Saturday bv Messrs. T. J. TJtley and I. T.
Clayton; and the other on Sunday by constable
Hinton Franklin, assisted by Mr. Saml. Rowland.
The six are now in jail. 7 r f ,
Much praise is due to all those concerned in hnnt
ing up and apprehending these fscoundrehv :AMesBrs.
TJtley arid Clayton were among the first in the pur
fult, and acted whh energy and zeal. Deputy Sheriff
Norwood was also, actively engaged.. Mr. Andrews,
decidedly a quick man in whatever he undertakes,
left here at 5 o'clock in the afternoon and returned at
5 the next morning with his share of the garnet- Mr.
Franklin laid a very nice plan to catch his negro,
and d'Serves something for bis shrewdness as well as
for his efficiency. He decoyed bim . through decoy,
iii.in.ui: uuu unicvc no vtis oiuv wauicu as u wiiuees.
ShernT High was also indefatigable. - -l 7'-:'
Such an occurrence , jis this is well, calculated to
make our people reflect.on the propriety of. permit-,
ting free negroes to exist among us. A few such
outrages would cause the extirpation of that degrad
ed class. They would be forced to remove or be sold
into slavprv. . ' - "7 : '-;.
P. S. Since the- above was" written - the negroc
have had a preliminary trial, and have all, been com
mitted, together with three others, who are thought
to be.; implicated. : One : white man; named Joseph
Wilson, a witness, was also - committed to jail for
contumaciousness and probably perjury. By getting
quarters with the Sheriff he probably sa;ved himself
from a rinfi nn a. rnlt. th fna.1 nf nn Rrorn. ..'
The trial was had before justices Root, SeaweU,
Harrison and Pool.-iJaZ. .-Standard ,m
A Presentation Speech. -The negroes employed
in a pork house at Louisville, Ky.. on Christmas day,
presented the superintendent with a beautiful gold
headed cane. Jim Tyler, a trump among the darkies,
spoke as fojlows on making the presentation.
"Massa George ; My respect to you, de - Captain
ob de niggers, and bopin dat you will be our Captain '
all de time, and askin ob yon to please cept dis cane,"
and wishin dat yoa may never die, and 1 may live all
de time' and hopin dat in de mornio ob de general
sembly when Gabriel comes, down and places one foot
orj-de mighty see and de order on de dry land, and
swar by him dat liveth dat time shall be no longer,
dat yon, may get np when degood old angel blows
his trumpet and - shakin' off de grave dust, may lib
with de blood shed millions and go away up tbrousrn
great tribulation. : .'. 7 . ... ,fi-.i
A Valid Season; V
Uncle 'Peter R., who flourished a few years ago
among the mountains of Vermont as an inveterate
horse dealer, was one day called npon by an amateur
of the "equine'' in search of "something fast." The
result is told as follows in the Northern Gazette :
"There," said nncle P., pointing to an animal in a
meadow below the house I "There, sir, is a mare
yonder who would trot her. mile in two minutes and
twenty, seconds, were it net for ouc thing.
"Indeed r cried his companion.
; "Yes.'Nrbntinued nncJe Peter ; "she is four years
old this spring, is in good condition, looks well, and
is a first rate mare ; and she can go a mile in 2.20,
were it not for one thing. . - '
"Well, what is it," was the query. " 7; 7
. "That mare," resumed the jockey, "is in every re
spect a good piece of property. She has a heavy
mane, switch tan, trots lair and square, and yet for.
that one thing she can't go a mile in 2.20."
What in the Uld : Harry, is it then frried the
amateur, impatiently.'- : ; s 7 "
"The .distance is too great for the time," was the
old wag's reply. '-. t ;: ; . 7" -7-V
-;'- ,' ': T .V7-7- ;
Ateocious. "A - tattling correspondent 7c f 4he
New York Herald, writing from Lancaster, prttemls
to give the gauge of a drink he had witnessed the'
President elect take, one. frosty raorninz at the sitla
board at Wheatland, recently. He' irreverently esti
mates it at "a couple of iriches;" and expresses the
opinion that the depth of the 'SazeV Dotations visi.
bly increase with his years. There is nothing won
drfrfu! in this; for hasn't it passed into the proverb.
"The older the Buck e ? -4,'ir the horn f . - -? -
An enthtisiaatic -
tru
''st at the BrctLdvmj meet
mgjast nday night wa3 '..card to declare, in private
cH:yvrsaJion, that he had seen and conversed with a
man": wlo died apon the Coast of -Africa fifteen thou
sand years ago, "I have not the sliirhtest doubt of
it," 8aid he ;."I saw him just as pltfm!y as I see yon;
I conversed with him," and he declared to me positively
that he died upon the ' coast of. Afi Clteca tboo
aaod years fo i to J gore eClt" ,(