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a TT) "THE PUBLIC GOOD SHOULD EVER BE PREFERRED TO PRIVATE ADVANTAGE." , Volume 4. Lincolnton, North Carolina, Tuesday Morning, October 3. 1848. Nrlur.i:n '34. X. fRlNTED ASJ PUBLISHED WEEKLY, 1? THOMAS J.KCCXJSS. Ti'bm. Two dollar pei annum, payaW in advance ;' $2 50 if payment be delayed 3 months. A discount to club of 3 or more. Advertisements will be conspicuously insert ed, .$l pel square (14 lines) for the first, and 25 cents lor each subsequent insertion, j Lincoln Uusiness Directory Honor to whom Due." Donor is Court Officers Superior Court V. A. M'Bee, clerk. Equity Win Wil liamson, clerk. County court Robt. Williamson, clerk. A W Burion.Solt citor. J. W Lowe, Sheriff. Caleb Miller, Town Constable. Register, J-.' T. Alexander ; County Surveyor, J. Z. Falls ; County Proces estoner, Ambrose Costlier. Trustee, J Ramsour. Treasurer Pub. Buildings, D. W.Schenck. Coioner, J M Jacobs. Building Committee J. Ramsour, P. ,8uromey,John F Phifer,and II Cansler. Lawyers Haywood W. Guiou,main. st. one door east. . L. E. Thompson, main st. east, 3d square W. Lander, main st. east, 2d square. V A McBee, and W. Williamson, offices at McBee's building, main si 2d square, east. A, W. Burton, 1 door north of Coui ier office. T. T.SIade, main st. 2d cor. east of sq. Physicians Simpson & Bubo, main st., west. D. W. Schenck, (arid Apo thecary, main st. two doors east. E. Cald well, east ofFemale Academy. Z. Butt, office opposite McLean's hotel. A. Ramsour, (botanic main St. west. Merchants-Uen S Johnson, north on square, west cornor, J. A, Uamsour. on square, north west corner. C. C. Henderson,on square,(post office) south J. Ramsourt$Son,maiii st. f doors west. R E Johnson, on square,ttiuth west cor nermainst. It Rcid. on souare.south east coiner. Hoke & Michal, on square Booty Shoe J Hat Store Horatio Thomson. ;,iain st., on 2d square, west of court house, nor'.h side. Academies Male,T J Sumner; Fe m?lc, under tbfl charge of Mr Newson. Hotels- .Mrs Motz, s. w. corner of main st. and square W. Slade, main st. 2d corner east of squp.re. A. A. McLean, 2d corner, ct, on main st. B. S Johnson, north west, on square. Groctry W. R. KdwarjJs, main st. east of square. Tailors Moore fc Cobb, main st. 1 door west of square. A Alexandei, on main st. 4 dooiseast of square. Watch Maker and Jeweller David Welsh, main st. 8 doors east. Saddle, and Harness Makers J.T. Alexander, main st. 2d corner east o( square. B. M. & F. J. Jetton, on sq., north by west. J. Ad. Jetton, south west on equare. Coach Factories Samuel Lander, main st. east, on 2d square from. Court House. Abuer McKoy, main st. east, on 3d square. S.P.Simpson, street north ol main, and n. w. oi court house. Isaac Erwin, main st., west, on 2d sq James Cornwall, main st. 2d square, w enl, south side, corner. A. Garner, on main st. east end. Blacksmiths Jacob Rush, main st. 5th corner east of court house. M. Jacobs, main St., east end. A. Delaiii, main st. near east end. J. Bysnuuer, back st. north west of public square. J. W. ray-sour, west end. Cabinet Makers Thomas Dews cV Son, main st. east, on 4th square. Carpenters, Sfc. Daniel Shuford main sr., east, om corner trom square James rrip!elt,rnain st. M Bee s build ing. Isaac Houser.main st. west end Wells, Curry & Co. main st. east end Brick Masons Willis Peck, (and plaisterer) main st. east, 4th corner from square. Peter Ilouser, on east side of street north of square. Tin PlateWorker and CopperSmith Thos. R. Shuford, main st. cast, on south side ot 2d square. Shoe Makers John Huggins, on back st. south west of square. Tanners-Vdi Kisller, main-st. west end J. Ramsour, back St., north east ot square. F Si A. L Hoke, 3-4 mile west of town, main road. Hat Manufactories John Cline, n. from public square, 2 doors west side of st. JohnButts .& son,on square, south side. Printers T. J. Eccles, Courier of fice, 5 doors north of court house, Isl and Ford road. Oil Mill Peter and J E Hoke, one mile suoth west of town, York road. Paper Factory G. dz R. Mostel er, 4 miles south-east of court house. Cotton Factory John F. Hoke & L. D. Childs, 2 miles south of court house. Vesuvius Furnace, Graham's Forge, Brevard's, and Johnson's Iron work?, east. LimeKiln Daniel Shuford and oth ers, 9 miles south. Letters for the above to be addressed o) the X.mcohiton Post Ojficr. . The two articles which we have pub lished upon the subject - of the affair at the National Bridge, has called forth the following statement from Capi. (now Major) Wm. J.Clark, which we pub lish with great pleasure, written as it is in a spirit becoming a brave officer and a gentleman. Raleigh, Sept. 12, 1848. Sir: A friend has brought to my no tice an editorial in the "North Caiolin ian" of the 9th inst., headed " Honor to whom honor is diie" from which it appears that there is some misunder standing between you and your Co tem porary of the "Lincolnton Courier," re lative to the engagement it the Nation al Bridge, Mexico, Aug. 12vh, 1647. should regret that the officers from North Carolina should, either directly or indirectly, engage in a controversy concerning the honor which is due to each, when there is honor enough to be divided between them all. As far as I know, every North Caro linian, private as well as officer, did his duty on that occasion, manfully, honor ably, nobly. And I should be grieved indeed to fee controversies and discus sions, engendering heart-turnings and jealousies, arising among those who have hitherto been a band of brothers. Hence, if I c?n say anything to recon cile a misunderstanding, 1 feel it my du ly to do so. Further than this, 1 feel no personul interest in the matter, for 1 do not regard your remarks respecting rr.y share in the affair, (lho: not wholly I correct) as casting the shadow of an im putation on me. I say ' honor to w hom honor is due" with all mv heart. think 1 can be mistaken in my state ments. If any one chooses to gainsay ihe a bove, 1 hope he will do it over his own signature. ' Very respectfully, V'our obedient servant . , WILLIAM J. CLARK. Brevet Maj 12ih Regi. U S Infantry. To Wm. H. Byne, editor of ths North Carolinian, Fayeiteviile, N C. OencraLTaylor. ies, merited honor to Cantwell, Jones, Sear?, Wmldell and Hoke! Thegvns were never deserted. They were guarded by my (I) Company; and Lt. Sears or myself were with them all the lime until thev were carried to a place of safety. I left them twice, as jteut. Sears says in his report, to or der ammunition Sears once, to report tOiUaj. .LaJly. Soars and I, assisted by the men of 1 Company, car rite the guns off the Bridge and up the hill, till 1 was ordered to stop with my tun. - In go ing up the hill, one of the wheels of Sears gun having lost a linch pin, ran off, and it was stopped; but to far from being in a situation where it was ex posed to cap'uie, it was surrounded by my company, which had in this, as in most other engagements, been assigned the honorable duty of supporting the ai tillery. He who knows any thing of lhat company, or is acquainted with Capt. Hoke, then Lieutenant, (who, though too weak from sickme to lake active part in the engagement, was ntverthlest- near h;8 company usinff a rr.ut-ket,) or wuh that gallant and men toiious vout.g t'fficur, Leut Wadded: who is an lienor even to his chivalrous family) will not question ihe bafety of the gun?. I left ihe guns there, and went with Dr. Howard, our Surgeon, to ihe rear. I underside d afterwards that while mv men, worn out with latirue, were rolling one gun up a steep hill, on the right, encumbered with chaparal, which seemed almost an impossibility, Lieut. Cantwell, Lieut. Adams of the Marine-, and others, carried down a de'achment to Hoke and Waddell and drew off the gun which had been tempoiatily disa bled. Lieut Cantwell never was the man to take cover; he is brave to a fault, and it affords me pleasure to bear testi mony to his gallantry. The affair of the guns is not near go creditable to him as the bearing off of the body of our lamented comrade Lieut. Twiggs, which he volunteered to do, and nobly accomplished under a heavy fire. 1 remained on the field about two hours 3fier I was wounded, and then 1 left it on account of loss of blood. My company never left the guns. They served them aftei they were placed in position on the hill, and guarded them to our camp, which they reached, as I am informed, about 10 o'clock (hat night. The guns were never aban doned. They were sprinkled with the blood of my brave men, and not one of the survivors would have remained to tell the tale ere they could have fal len into the hands of the enemy. 1 doubt not that Capt Jones and Lieut. Cantwell, with the "good men and true" of G Company, would have rescued the guns had they been abandoned, or have perished to a man in the attempt; but they didn't do it; that's all. 1 have, since the engagement, passed over the ground and attentively sur veyed it. 1 have often talked the-affair over with Maj. Lally, Cap's. Alvord, Winan-:, Hoke and Jones, with Lieuis. Wilkins, Adams, Creanor, Russel, Wad dell, Dr Howard, and tl:rr, and do not The Southern Taylorites.when forced to acknowledge the political objections to General Taylor as a hig, idei.tifi d with the principles of his party-, and as ihe nominee of the Philadelphia Con veniion and assoc-ate f Mithird Fill more, as a last resort bost of his being a Southern man and Slaveholder, and therelore to be trusted by the South, notwithstanding his anti-Southern priii ciples. We piopose to show that Lieu. Taylor has no pecuniary interest in ex tending Slaveholding Territory. He is a sugar planter, if we mistake not, on the lower Mississippi. . His interest is, and has been, to buy Slaves, and noi to sell them. It is notorious that negroes in the lower Mississippi valley do not increase as they do in the old Slave holding Slates. Now, if General Tay lor can, (by signing the Wilmot Provi so, prohibiting trie introduction oi ne groes into New Mexico ond California,) stop tho sale of negro property hi that gieat region beyond hint, of course the saieauie yiue ol negroes in ad me urn Stales would be diminished, and Gener al Taylor could buy tits negrot chea per. Again, General Taylor's pecu niary interest consols in keeping up Ihe price ot eugar -hence he would be dr tecily benefitted by a measuie such as the Wilmot Proviso, which would fo ever prevent the extension of Slavery and the cultivation of sugar in te new. Territories. Every, one can see that the less sugar is made, the better for General Taylor's purse. The more complete the monopoly of the market of the United Stales, of course the greater his profits. General Taylor has therefore had his private reasons fur being in favor'ot a high lariff on sugar, and it the Uun combe U higs were sugar planters ihey would have their VWngery sweetened loo. We have thus shown, in few words, that there is nothing but sheer humbuggery in the grand argument of Southern Whigs, Gtneral 'laylor's in terest t their last citadel and tallying ground, their haven of repose. We take the guns of their castle and turn them against them. . Such is the usual upshot of iho arguments of the party- they never stand the light. Bui now, after this brief expose of the utter fallacy of the great Whig argu ment, no doubt some good Taylor man is ready to say, do you think Gen Tay lor would, as President of the United Slates, consult his private interest7 Such an expression, in fact, we have henrd, in slating the . foregoing argu ment to a w tug itteua in conversation. W e reply now as we have done: Gen ilemeu Taylor men, were you not the first men to intioduceGen Taylor's pri vate interest as the beat reason for your coursei and you must admit that our ar guroeut in reply to it is as fair and justi ble as it is conclusive and unausweta. ble. We should never have touched this question if our political opponents had not introduced it, and if the real James I. Polk a Provisoist. Aye, that is now the watchword of whig partizans, and -why ? Because the President signed the' Oregon bill, applying the ordinance to the territory of Oregon, according to the principles of the Missouri Compromise. How ii seems to us that this Oregon Bill did not contain the Wilmot Proviso either in theory or in 'practice,' nor "did theuigningof it make Mr. Polk a Pro visoist in any tense of the word. We. presume our renders know well enough what ihe Wilmot Proviso was, and what whs iis inieniion. It was a clause' pro posed io be inserted into ll our treaties for the acquisition of all new territory, declaring that the institution of slavery should not exist therein; and itstnenton Was TO KKEf SLAVE lws tfJT op Nirv Mexico a.np California.! Nobody i ver dreamed llmt ii had anything to du wilh Oregon, which had been. acquired long before. W.hen that terruoiy be came tettled as ours several years ago, no noise was madeibcut keeping shivr- ry out of it. Every, one knew then, and knows now, that nature had done that far mote effectually than a law of Congress could; and John Q. Adams, as all will recollect, was so anxious to get it to bal ance our slave territory, that he was willing to plunge the country in a war with Britain for its sake. From the first, Oregon has been regarded by all parties, Whigs, and; Democrats, North and South, as fiee territory given up as such. Besides which the law of ihe land, twiee aulfcrrioiv nurirnti u . - -. j. --- the settlement of the Missouri hue, 2d, in iue admission ot Texas, on ihe- sime principle, mat'e Oregon free territory. It was not for Mr. Polk to disobey it, even if ho couU. VVe repC:! !.r'S.i the. Vilmot Proviso was aimed at New Mexico anl A ah for ma, and at noihin else. It coulu i be aimed ai Oregon, for that new ierri- tory was ours long before the Proviso was ever heard of. It was intended to keep slavery , out of New Mexico and California, where it can and pethups may exist at some future day. Mr. Polk, in the most distinct and emphatic manner possible has dt clared it to be hi- euled inleiiUoii io veto any bill which will pre vent the inn yduct ion of slavery into these territories. And by this declara tton he has to all intents and purposes, vetojei the Wilmot Proviso, and set a precedent in so doing for all future Democratic Presidents. KichmondEx-uminer. Extra Allowances. Gen. Cass was Governor of Michigan Territory from 1813 to 1831, nominated to that office eleven limes by four diffe rent Presidents, and each time unant mously confirmed by ihe Senate. His satary was $2,000 per annum the Governor of .Louisiana or Orleans Territory, received $5,000 for dunes less arduous and extensive. Gen. Cass was also Superintendent of Indian Agencies for parts of Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, for the whole of iHichigan and Iowa, and lor the vast stretch of country lying beyond the foot ot the Rocky Mountains. In the performance of these duties ho was required to entertain deputations of Indian chiefs to rent an office, em ploy clerks, purchase stationary, Ate to make long journies and to disburse something like half a million of dollars in money.' For these services he was allowed an average of $2,650 por an tium for eighteen years. Gov. Clark, War Department from such men as Gen Macomb and Co!. Hunt, showing clearly that the allowance of 92,650 average per annum, was littlo more than equal to tie actual expenses incurred. One portion of it was in the tdinpt? of rations tern rations per annum the money valu of which, was 6730 per annum j but ihe money value was not received ; th rations in kind were taken and applied, as ordered by the War Department, to the uhitence of the men employed as t-lerk, end of Indian deputations and hangers on, of whom thete were new ssrily many. Theae ten rations per day have been prodign'uelv harp'd upon by Leslie Coouihc, and men of his character. Iihi 1" they exrlain. "ten rations ... . pr dy I winioer-vass -nas- growrj o fat."' Worthy sirs, if we were ill natured enough to apply your own re marks to your own candidate, the won. der would be that he has not ourgrown Daniel Lambert himself in grossness. Gen Taylor it is computed, has drawn from the public treasery an aggregate of one hundred and twenty . seven thou sand dollars.without reference to extras, of which there are not a lew in the ser vice. As a Major General, ho uow re cetves a greater annual compensation than was paid Cass foi his Governorship, his superiutei deucy, his travelling, dis. bursements, negotiation of treaties and framing of a code, all put together, aver aging the term- . He has a money com mutation for eighteen rations per day for himse.i . "u one per uay racu lor four servants. He gets a Loney, com mutation for the wages ($7 per month.) and clothing, ($2 50 per mrnth.) of these four nervants. lie is allowed a money commutation fur the . forage .of six horse, at $8 per month each. In short of the wholf amount paid, him neaT-GfjQ per annum about $2,000 is in the nature ot a.JCr?111"-. And this we repeal is exclusive of cerutn extra charges which frequently occur in the service, and which old othcers know mighty well how to pile up. Now, y ou considerate and excellent gentlemen on ihe whig aide, who so detest allowances and have tuadft your . selves treasury blood-hounds to worry the old pumeer.CHss understand us ! we impute no wrong to Gen. lay lor. . The regulations and customs of the ser v:ce give him all these allowances, W e h.ive no idea that he ever ale eigh teen rations in any one day, or used lour servants, or rode six horses. The al lowance j.h in cath, m each case. No one would grudge it to old Rough and Ready, ef penally in view of his postage account. But lei us have fair treatment towards tike old pioneer, Cass. Well has he earned every dime lhat he h?i received. His bitterest rcvilers cannot gainsay thai. Cincinnati Enquirer, ot Iowa, charaed and nk nllivwprl &3 truth ot the matter is directly against j 500 per annum for services les ex.cn.ive them, it is plainly their own folly to have said anything on the subject ot Gen Taylor'e interest. They started the argument on the subject we sim ply show that they are on the wrong ide of it. We might continue this subject, and show that all the old Slaveholding States, as well as Tennessee, Kentuc ky, Missouri, and the Northern sections of Georgia and Alabama, in fact the Slaveholding States, generally, have a direct pecuniary as well as political and social interest in defeating the Wilmot Proviso, and maintaining an outlet for all their surplus Slave population. Siop the emigration of the negro population by the Abolition policy ol Fillmore, and ihe refusal to Veto on the part of Get?. Taylor, and the value ofuegro property would be instantly depreciated, and ul timately destroyed, in all this section of country, and in Slaveholding regions North and Northwest of us; and, sooner or later, our preseut homes would be come the dwellings of free negroes, un der ihe absolute rule of New England. Massnchuseiis would govern the South, generally, as completely as she now go verns the politics ot Buucomb, Hender son and Rutherford, and other W hig Counties of Western North Carolina. Gricnrtlc Movntaxncer. and hazardous. Disbursing t fhceis al most universally charge and are allowed two and a half percent upon money re ceived and paid out by them. General Cass, having paid out near half a million ol dollars, never charged or received any compensation lor his ruk. This would be ati item of twelve thousand five hun dred dollars or thereabout, which he might iutlv have claimed. Gc-n- Cass was also deputed as com missioner on the part of tt.eUniied States to negotiate nineteen important treaties with various Indian tribes. In the per' toniiauce of this duty he was compelled to travel many thousands of miles. He was also required to repair to V ashing ion and nreoare a code or system ot regulations for the management of lndi' un affairs, ror all these immensely im portant services he received an aggre gate allowance of $12,500. No instance can be shown in which services of such magnitude have been rendered the gov eminent at so Iiht a compensation. We challenge the comparison. These are. the "Extra Aiaowanles of which so much ha been said. Trsey amount in the aggregate to 60,412 exclusive of the compeccatuwi of Gov ernor for services and expenses running through a period of eighteen years. There is testimony on '-he files of the A traveller on leaving a steamboat got all his baggage on the wharf and counted it over and over. "Hang it I miss pomething, but 1 can't recollect." Off wen i the boat sud into a stage went he. Two days after ho jumped from the table and exclaimed : "thunder ! I knowjd something was left aboard that larnal boat, I d forgot my Wile. We Uarn that Hugh Waddell, Esq., Senator elect from the county of Orange, has resigned his eaT, and that a new e lection has been ordered by the gover nor, to Jake place on the 7th of Novem ber, the day of the Presidential Election. W e wid publish in our next Mr Wad dell's C'aid to his constituents, explain mg ihe cause of thi course. "V0 oeciar mi: nlroseii n uanaioaie :or re-etec tion. Raleigh fitgister. Honorable Conduct. It is a fact (says the New Orleans Bulletin) which is most worthy of record, and one which we have received from a Mex can gen ileman of great intelligence and liberal; iy, that there does not exit in the whole of Mexico at this lime a single unpaid debt couirac ed by amy of the. officers of our regular army. We doubt very much if the same upright conduct lias tver before maikrd the career of a vie torious army in a camp tigu of over two years in the enemy's couuiry. Wo rejoice that the creature who r& ceived the bribe lor the apprehension of Smith O'Brien was not an Irishman. His name is llulmuor Hume. He has received the brh ar.d left freljr.d jt his own couo'rv, Encii d. It speaks welt lor Ireland that, ihough imith 0 Brien was among - pe.antry who were starving, nd tome 82500 were offered for his betrayal, no Irishman, woman or child, was bae enough to petray him. JY. Tribune . The play thing of a child is the god of a man is a doll ar, 'doMj
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