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A. 1 iv 409 do do do do 204- 1500 V s34.5ftf4 04 . . A Y PUBLISHED BT : cEATjON GALES, Editor and pr6prietorj. , e ... , no nrr -MKrrT of fair, deBghtful peace,:. Jarty rage live like brothers "the Plans Sj:irrMay 10,1851 ''r'rV JAMtS, No. 1, Harrison Street rY':,. k our General Traveling Agent for I kVcS ied bj J. R- S vlITH, J. T. K ,cnV TAYLOR, J. W. AKM.SI KUMli, ki-wVi RAMSAY. Da. JOSHUA .T.y ALEX'R. R. LAWS, and A. J. if. I , BEVRY- 4 LEWIS, of Montgomery, Y fienaal Travelling Agent for the State? of . ind Tennessee. u SREI E. JAJlES. No. 182, South ' Philadelphia, is oiir General Travelling street, 1 1 " v. w,Tri TfYHW PflT- mil " ...I Tennessee. 12)1 i r jr JOS. nuim-'. " IL WLLD, JOHN COL- A. KIRK WELLING- JOHN T. JUDKINS, P. 'SOUTH CAROLINA SECESSION. Telegraphic despatch, contaiued under the 'bead wtU give our readers some account of Lution of Delegates from the various South. Mi tawcroiMjwhich aembled a Charles- lifcrcudtowith great mteresv as .pruuuu.y "" o n i: rru of ;he course oi oouiu voruiiua. iuc wuu-c-ivention bid fair to terminate as we an- atedthey would in a strong and unequivocal re- .i . "V.nnntis-m wlh iV a 4 si 4k aaoiYl Vila Lf .ill tO Hie I UIICI11IJ w sw niter, to absolve;ine otaus ruiu ucruicgiuini . General Government. ' J fotLer this may tairiy consiuerea as we ue- t,0n and the voice ot tlie state oi ooutn uar; w no means of knowing. A Charles- Lwpoodent of the "ayettevdle Observer- ia ((ed to think otherwise, upon a carewu consiae- rf the circumstances under which thisonven- He says : fimvention of deleft e from tbe various South JI.. wiatious is to meet in harleston early j,f The political complexion of these delegates irirlv ascertained.! Thev will come from the L determined toipress the immediate action of itrt and win seem ij;iuiamj m j" --"- 3 . ... 1 - 11 i I ifSouth Carolina, uui wneu we recouTCi uw Ur these local cavlses are goverueu oy a iew C .1 (I.,-? meu. aiich .ins most favorablo to gediate action on the part pf the State, we can understand how it is, that a largj portion reflectM" and piore pruueni oi our cuizeus be wholly unrepresented, bull there will be tms in this convention, or rather caucus. who (trenooujlv oppose immediate secession In the rf Charleston, a large majority is strongly op- y jBiny rash or tiolent measure, when the tjr delegates com4 to the city, and mingle with Tboare ar Jeast asmucn lnieresiea as uiems th welfare of the South, and who have had Lf opportunities for aaCfertaining the hopelessness inwing any .oilier Biaie io our support, mere m reason w nope anu neuevc tutu muumm of their extreme opinions, and that this meeting' finch so ranch mischief has been anticipated. nsujt in positive good. On the other hand, there sine reason to fear , tne leaven wnicn uiese aroeei Lir gentlemen niay infuse into thos of our cit- wbo, from motives of caution, are disposed to to quiet J3ut tlie operation ot tnose external U web as die total absence, of all Sympathy in ntkt South with South Carolina must make the desperate of our secessionists pause in their ca Kie leAsonableineas of the DOlicv of waiting for l operation of other States, where there is the absolute identity ot interests, must striKe me altra of our secessionists with great force. 5 public min i in our State is bt ginning to be a- fcidtothe eminent cLinger to every industrial pur- ritli which separate secession is fraught. 31en fee been quiet iand silent under the movements r politicians, are .beginning to wake up. m expression by these men. pf these adverse opin- i s oeginning lo leu upon iho puonc iiiuiu, auu ire wholesome rfe-action of p'ublic sentiment is mij to be seen I and felt. V; ere it not that our aaiis have placed the State in a most awkward iaina. there i little reason to doubt, no action id be attempted. It is the discredit which would rrom an apparent abandonment oi ineir peni- pOTtion that prevents many from desertmg the of the secessionusts. The great ditnculty oi pains gracefully iwill induce many, many men to the most violent action; andiudeel constitutes w judgment, the jgreat peril of our position." if these things lie! so, and we have no doubt of truth there is' no very serious importance to be ied to tbe action of this late Convention. It is prtobe hoped that it will have the effect of awake- Rie honest mass of the people to a true sense of perilous position into which South Carolina has precipitated by the insane and hot headed ara- N rfher peculiar class of politicians that, as the poodent referred to, remarks, it may have the F to "add to the; numbers of those who have ta hi'sober second thought," respecting the political swuofthe State." ' OTJR DISTRICT. It is known that the Hon. J. R. J. DXniel haa an nounced himself a Candidate for 're election, to Con gress." We presume there will be no Convention, and, if so, it is probable there will be other aspirants from the ranks of "the party" ready to take the field, and try their mettle with the present incumbent A Whigf t is well known, stands no chance whatever, and we hope, therefore, that the young " Richmonds" of De mocracyj of whom there are a goodly number in the District, will exhibit themselves on the field where o much honor is to be won, and not suffer Gen. Daniel to walk over it without the show of opposition. He will grow too fat I Where are the Shepards the Wflders the Prichards the Arringtons the Dan ceys the Watsons and a host of other st whose fame has spread far and wide through the District I Has Rome "lost the breed of noble b'oodsT However, the "Standard" may take us to task for interfering !n its family matters, and we will therefore cease. THE COMPROMISE. It is gratifying to see with what unanimity the great bday of the People throughout the Country have ac quiesced iu the measures of compromise. We hear of bo complaint except from the two extremes, Seces tionistt at ; the South, and the Abolitionists at the f North. Of course it was not expected that they wou'd be satisfied with any .thing, short of the adop tion .of their fanatical and ulrra measures, which would result in dissolving the" Union and breaking up the gorcnment ' Vcfinu Qnitman, Davis and Rhett denouncing the compromise with as much bitterness tu Sumner, Hale and Bernard. They are all engaged in one eommonwicked and treasonable cause plot, ting the destruction of the Union 1 . We thank Hea ven, from indications which come up from all parts of the Country, there is conservative feeling and pat riotism enough among the people without distinction of party to frustrate the fell designs of these men, and save us from disunion and bloodshed 1 How small they appear by the side of Webster, Douglas, Clay, Dickinson, Houston, who Jiave stood by the Country, and the tchole Country ! COMMUNICATION. FOR THE EEGISTEE. Mr. Editor. The following paragraph, which I take from the National Intelligencer, presents a question of great interest ven beyond the pre cincts of the Bar: ' ' ' v . i Dying Declarations. From an article in the Washington (Wilkes County) Gazette, we learn that Judge Baxter of the Northern Circuit of Georgia, has recently decided that the dying de clarations of a man cannot be given in evidence on a trial for murder. This is an important decision .and overturns the common law as understood and heretofore administered. The point was presented on the trial of Lovet for the murder of Bell, in the County of Warren, and was argued by Messrs. Toombs, Cone, and Pottle, for the prisoner, and Solicitor Weems, Gartrell, and Dawsok, for the State. It was contended by the prisoner's coun sel, that the sixth Article of Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, guaranteed to every man, accused of crime, tlie'right "to 1e con fronted with the witnesses against him," &c. To admit the dying declarations of the deceased, it was contended, was a virtual denial of this right ; and th Court so believing, ruled out the testi mony, and the prisoner was discharged., We are not lawyers enough to judge of the correctness of this decision, and have only noticed it that the legal fraternity may turn their attention to the point involved in this important adjudication. Columbus ,nquirer. It so happens that tlie point involved in this eta- Earl of Essex, and of SirWalter Raleigh, and with that touching scene in wjiich; Thomas Went worth, Earl of Strafford, deserted by his Master in his utmost need, gallantly ftood up for his hon or and his life, single hanqea, against the over whelming odds which the steta Commons brought to bear against-him. 1 f. But tbe blond of the martyrs is , the seed of the Church, and ihe red stream Jwhicli poured, from the bleeding trunks of Noriijlk aid, Raleigh has infused vigor into a principle of thq Common law which is and will lono;"remiin among the surest defences of life' and libprty4 iThafprinciple at the present day is" recognised in England to the full as much as here, and the fact, that the history of that country; some centuries since ,3s full of illus trations and patriotic instances of its' practical de- nial, is accounted for, and satisfactorily, too,by the apology that those were'bad lirnes, when lit tle regard was paid to the rule of evidence.or indeed to any other laws." The first cses in which the modern doctrine was laid dw, uj the King vs. Poine,decided by Lord Chief Justice Holt, in the 7th year oi William the Third. K. Trneiad Deenclairrrwljn eatiir cases, and may be said to have been m some measure theore tically acknowledged by the Court in the rase of Sir Walter Raleigh. But it had, never been allowed as a matter of practice where the Crown was interested to the contrary, feince the deci sion of Sir John Holt, however, with some little vacillation, the principle has gone n increasing in stature and strength, until at preseut it admits of no argument. . II then the section before us had' been omitted, the right which it asserts would sUll be the Law. Ai- the enrollment of that right Is fundamental 1" We never! have denied, nor do we deny, s" the Democratic Party is the Parly of the a, m one sense, at all even's, though different, RMtionably, from that io which the Sian- wF imputes the; admission to us. It is " Ihe "in the c'oseness of its organization, the un 'promising character of its warf are, and the raj unscrupulousness of its means. It is 'ic j!" which allows no "sectional prejudices," or r oiher considerations, to come between the "faded allegiance which it claims from every Pn. who enlists under its banner. It is "the m a word, which, bound toeether fcv the pbesive nower of nnhlic ntunder" and of sno i - 'strives for those objects alone, with a zeal, Mity and an industry, worthy of a belter cause. he history of events in the State, for the past yrs, comp'etely falsifies the assertion that "it LocoFoco party,) neither makes sectional ris or at party which first set the ball in motion, "ow seeing, that it is about to roll over their 'heads, it is that naritr which ic arravpd in "B of 'hat popular test of the ouestion.which Mm all sectional disputes, viz : the question D'emiun or no Convpminn. From their NilV In ihJ, : . .u- : . j ni : induced. The Hat went forth in Gov. s Inaugural, and xhatfiat, no one who uri- 'he composition of -Democracy wil GENUINE WinG SENTIJIENT IN MAS SACHUSETTS. It is with consolation, and with pride, at a mo ment when fanaticism is running riot in Massachu setts, that we can point to the following patriotic and conservative Whig sentiments, which we find in a late article in that old and able journal, the Boston Courier. Such sentiments stand out in bold, and distinguishing contrast with that act of perfidy to the Union, consummated in the election of 'SMSER by the vile and infamous coalition of tbe Democracy and Abolitionists: " We think then, with raference to the alkab sorhing topic "of the day, that the safest course, beiiause'it is the right course, for the Whigs of Massachusetts now to take, is to declare and in. sis that the provision of the Constitution f tbe Utiiied States for the surrender of fugitive slaves, I shall be fkiibfully executed ia this Commonwealth; and that the Ijegislature of the fetate, instead, of multiplying and increasing .the emburrassmeuts and difficulties in the wy of its executioshall remove from her statute book all existing Impedi ments ibat were placed there in order to operate as obst".c!es to the recovery f these fugitives. We hold this to be the policy and duty ot the Whigs, because e hold it to be their duty, as citizens of the United States, to bring about in this State, a disposition to obey and fulfil the require ments of the Constitution, and to bring about, in the country generally, a conviction that the people of Massachusetis mean tube faithful to their con stitutional obligations in this particular, as weil as ia all others. W e suppose that this will not be gainsaid, at least by any body with whom we care to argue, for a moment. But perhaps there are those who will say, ad nitting this to be so, that ihere are differences of opinion about the mode ot discharging our constitutional duty, and the Whig party must, in order to embrace as much strength as possible, assume the ground, that while we mean to discharge our constitutional duty, the present law must be repealed or modified. Against this, we enter our decided protest. We are perfectly well satisfied thnt the Whig party will fail utterly to accomplish any good, ifjt take this ground, 'and we are prepared to give reasons tor our opinion. A STRONG TOAST. The following toast was given by one of the Bostonj Marshals, at a collation given them by Mr. Potter, the owner of Sims, at his plantation, during their stay in Savannah: The Noeth axd the South. May the links of the chain that binds their Union be stronger than ever the abolitionists pitched into h 1, and Bunker Monument foiled against the gate, session, and received a determination the contrary of that made in .Georgia. The contradiction is the more worthy ofmotioe by a Georgian because tlie Article referred'to in the Constitution ofthe Uni ted States as settling the question of, exclusion, is fortified in North Carolina by a similar provision in her Declaration of Rights. Indeed, as an histo rical fact, ihe firmer Article owes its existence to the circumstance that North Carolina and some other States objected to entering into the Onion, unless guarantees in natnre of a Bill of Rights were inserted in the Constitution. The seventh section of our Declaration is. so far at is as pre sent important, in those words : "That in all criminal prosecutions, every man has the right to confront the accusers and witnesses with other testimony," &c. The sixth Amendment to the Constitution of the United Stales asserts that : "In all crimiral prosecutions the accused shall en joy the right, to be confronted with the wit ncsses against him," &c. Tbe point as to the in compatibility of these rights with ihe admission of dying declarations was made at the c ose of a very learned and labored argument for the prisoner, by Mr. Bryan, of Newbern, in tha case of ihe Slate v. Tilghman, at the late session of oii Supreme Court. The prisoner had been tried before Judge Ellis for the murder of his Uncle, and having been convicted upon the dying declarations of the murdered man, appealed to the Supreme Court for a new trial. In delivering the opinion of that tn bunal, Judge Pearson remarks upon the point in question : "We do not feel the iorce of the argu more skilful eye wi 1 detect in this apparent antag onism that scientific disposition of iorces necessa ry t produce changed direction or a more equable action. I only add that this question of dying declara tion? haa been formally before our Supreme Court on. believe, two former occasions. First, in 1778. when Mr. Thomas Badger, one of the first lawyers of our olden time, defended the prisoner, and although he succeeded in excluding ihe evi dence, did not raise the point of constitutionality. Again, in 1821, when the declarations were re ceived, no question of the constitutionality of the evidence having been made, and Chief Justice Taylor, Judges Henderson and Hall, deliver ing a unanimous opinion. It has been held to be constitutional, upon solemn argument, in other States of the Union ; some under State provisions, others under tbe amendment to the Constitution of the United Slates. t CAMDEN. May 3rd, 1851. 1 BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAP1L Reported expressly for the Registei . THE SOUTH CAROLINA CONVENTION! Excited Councils! Secession advised!! cision came before our Supreme Court at iU late makes it no more binding upon out Courts of Jus- lice, 'nan ii wouiu oe, in case n nuu ueen leu ai Common law. In other words, there an be no 6bligation imposed upon the Courts of Justice more complete than that which they are under to administer the law. No matter how a judge may come to a knowledge of the law, on a particu ar point, he is perfectly bound to execute u, ano as any law is perfectly bin-iing, no law can be more than so. In questions of conflict between consti tutions and acts of the Legislature, of course there is a difference of dignity, but even then it cannot be said that there is variation-in the proportion of obligation as the U tie does tot bind at all and is nolaw, and therefore does io! come within the lerni of niv proposition. I take it lor granted that the Chief Justice of North Carolina as much bwund to grant a proper petition; to sue in forma pauperis as he is not to issue a general warm ot. As Judge fEARsoN well remarks in another plce with regard lo corporations, so I may tay about constitutional provisions : "Political and other material considerations are apt to connect them selves with the subject, and thereby give it inor mporlance ihan it ueservra a a dry question ol law." Take the provision about general war rants out of the Constitution and insert in its stead the legal provision for ifuing in forma pauperis. and sli.l, ihe Oluel Justice would be absolutely lor hidden to issue the one,an9 hisbbligation to allow the other would le not a whit the more forcible. Moreover, ihe words which contain a principle o law, wbeu once ascertained, aie to receive a con struction neither more nor lees strict than when Hill tfbr moment, will be obeyed ! AN ELDERLY COUPLE. MPy the following from the Auburn Herald: jj"--- Randolph County, on the 7th inst, u r evsort, aged 129 years, to JUjss l'a- Kebecea Sole a' l m J.r. "xwld have placed a little more reliance in . ' Possibly, had it not been stated that the "-hich originally appeared was published W Scppl?1E8 We invite the attention of con- . we: JNavTr A..i. i j r.. : j icui a AU W UX llffCUUdl V lot whkftwill be W ! L Tentioo of Virginia has rejected the -nrono. Iap , . representation in the Legislature tea ; popuiaiu!, iae vote was PLANK ROADS. , We learn from theuFayetteville Observer," that the tolls collected on the Fayettevilleand Western Plank Road, during the month of April, amounted to the handsome sum ot JoUb ya. r or about a week of the month, tolls were collected on 33 miles; but, for the previous part of the month, on 18 miles only. , We are glad also to see, from the "Observer, that His the determination of the Commissioners for the projected Plank Road between FayetteviHe and this place, to go to work and build the Road as far as the money subscribed will go, confiding in the popularity of such works to bring it through to Raleigh, at no distant day. We do hope that our citizens will properly appreciate the advahta tages that cannot fail to arise from such a connec tion. In the event of the probable failure to be rebuilt of the Raleigh and Gaston Road-even though it be but a temporary failure the benefits of a Plank Road connection with Fayetteville will be almost inestimable, PARDON! The President of. the United State's has pardon ed Thomas H. Burge,. who has been confined m Jail in this City for some sentenced to an irapnsonmen robbing the mail in Granville county, some time during the last year. The Franking Privileges of Members of Con gress Several Senators and members of Congress elect having raised the question as to the. time when their franking privilege commenced, the Wasliington Republic learns that tbe Attorney General has decj ded that the privilege commences with the term for which they are respectfully elected, and that so far as relates to this purpose, they are members of Con gres by their election and acceptance before taking their seats ar oaths of office, and tbe privilege giv en to them as members during their term of service, without any reference to the time when they tax their seats or oath of office. man said, may be confronted with other testimony and the case is exactly the same as that of a wit ness who proves that the prisoner executed acer taiu deed, or wrote a certain letter, whereupon the deed or the letter is received as evidence against him. The section of the Bill Declaration? of Rights was aimed at the old practice by which prisoners were not allowed to have witnesses stoorn on their beh:.lf, and the testimony came al together on the part of the Crown. Our ancestors did not intend to deny the rule of evidence, as to dying declarations, but to assert that in criminal prosecutior.Sjprisoners ought to be allowed to have witnesses in their be hall sworn and examined. (11 Iredell p. 554.) 1 here is little reason for doubting that the de cision of this point in the Stale v. T"ibman,will be acquiesced in by the Uar and our cluzeus in gen eral ; and we may well congratulate ourselves that in reconciling the admission of dvinff declarations with the keeping whole and entire of our funda mental rights and liberties, the Supreme Court has preserved a rule of evidence which is justified by very consideration ot policy. I regret that the 'ourt did not go more at length into the grounds I its decision ; now especially that a respectable ri bunal in a sister fState seems to contradict it. 'ie members of the Bar have reason to pay ilipir r lty to the Court tor the alteration recently ef- Tect5d in the average length of its opinions ; but upon a grave Constitutional question like the pre- sent, we would all ( make no doubt) have been nappy to expena tnree cents apiece more lor a fuller and an historical illustration and solution of the difficulty. With all respect, I suggest that the learned Jncige s argument does not in all points meet the question ; the language is too condensed for a maximum of clearness, and the logic is trim med to the quick. Can it be maintained as a legal proposition, that the expression "to confront the accusers ami witnesses is satisfied by a confront ing oi tnose wno swear io wnat tne accusers and witnesses have said is the ease of written tes timony analogous ; is it true that all mat is se cured by the clause under consideration is the right ot having witnesses sworn 1 It seems to me thai the argument tor the prisoner turned npon the word confront, and that the argument of the Court scarcely applies lo the real difficulty. It what is said by the Court in the first part of the above extract is true, then it' is a very difficult mat ter to make a case oi non-confrontation, laov vier) ; and if the latter part is correct, then it is a chord of lalse sympathy which is excited when we hear Raleigh tor his life cry in strong agony, "If there be a trial in an action for a matter but of five marks value, a witness must be produced and sworn. Good my Lord, let my accuser come face to face, and see if he will call God to witness for the truth of what he has alleged against me." I think history will support the assertion that there were two difficulties under which felons in capital cases labored in England up to the beginning of the last century.; I hey were not allowed to have witnesses sworn in their behalf, and they were convie'ed upon the accusation ot witnesses who were not produced face to face. The practice is durerent now. In the first case Statutes have given a remedy, while in the second, the purity oi a . juoiciary no longer aepenaeni upon .the crown, and Ihe iorce of an enlightened public opinion, have vindicated a dear principle of the law of the land from centuries of brutal ignorance, CHARLusTOif, May 8th. The Conrention of Delegates from the Southern Rights Associations, jnet m this place on Monday a large number of dele gates present, and a great crowd of lookers on. Much interest and excitement prevail, of course. ' Judge Butler and Mr. 'Orr have both made Speeches, exhorting to moderation, but their advice is but coldlv received. Their speeches fell dead upon the Convention. It is estimated that at least 8 or 10 to 1 are in favor d"f separate State secession ; and that that will be the decision, there u no doubt.'!! not enter into contract for supplrea specified, withla tmeeu days irom the date of tae notioe or the ac- eptsuce of their bid, a contract will be made vim some other person or persona and the guarantors of uch defaulting bidder, will be befa repnsiOi for all delinquencies: - .... . B77 a . ... Ail offers not made ia strict oonrorrinty with this advertisement m every particular, will be rejected. hos only whose offers may be accepted will be notified, and contract forwarded without delay, by the Navy Agent, designated by the bidders, for ex ecution. Schedule of articles thai will be requiftUn the construction' of objects authorized ot the -JYitvy Yard, at Gosport, said repairs to existing improvements, including Naval Hospital, &c. BUILDING MATERIALS Class No. 1. Bricks. 94,424 Good hard dark colored plain. Baltimore front Bricks. per u 108 .416 Good hard common UalU-iS more Bricks do 560,000 best hard plain Baltimore Bricks for cutting Groins dry press excluded, be cause not suited for cutting arches do best hard plain Baltimore Bricks for building, dry press if pleased. do ARRIVAL)F THE EUROPA ! HEA VY DECLINE IN COTTON I ! inent The witness who proved what the dying tney define a constitutional right. Our only in i i i' . j :.l . i .1 . . .. I . i ... .i : :c . r Buuiuciiis iwr buusirucnuu arc ing biguiHcauuu ui words and our common sense. When we speak of a strict construction and a free construction, if we mean more or tess than tlie plication-tf good sense to the words before us, we are introdu cing elements of uncertainty into our labours. e are imposing a restraint or adding an impulse to our oruinary powers ot perception and reflection, which wilrgive to the immediate circumstances a round us the same influence upot our conclusions i hat the atmosphere exerts upon the barometer. The only thing reliable in our intellect is tbe free exercise of the faculties which God has given us; the only thing upon which we can calculate for unilormity upon the wholej is nature. He who makes a moderate exertion of his bodily powers, how much soever his weight may be more lo day andless to-morrow, eais freely without fearing but that his general health is good ; while we remem ber the unhappy life andluutimely end of that friend of the Spectator, (I believe j who careful ly weighed every ounce that he ate, and by means of a well adjusted chair secured fcr himself one patticular weight before dinner, frors which he ne ver varied a grain, withoufexcitinr in his breast the most melancholy a pprehensions, As a lasting monument of the truth of this position, it is only nec ssary to advert to the difficulties into which the doctrine of Wills has p unged the Judiciary. 1 conclude then that confront in an ascertained prin ciple of unwritten Uw means exactly what it does in an Article ot the Constitution. In arriving at this conclusion I flatter mvself that ah peculiar difficulties are removed. When we hnd there is no magic in ihe wonis, ana that the Courts in England are bound by the rule as completely as the same tribunals are in America, we breathe more freely. The on'y advantage winch our citizens have is, that no Act of the Leg islature can take away our right to this conlron ting of testimony, while the Englishman hoids his under the power ot Parliamentary revision: not that there are wanting modern instances of a strong reluctance on the pan ot the British Courts to modify this daimofihe subject, unless compelled uy a very clear and striugent enactment. 1 pur posely decline entering at any length into the ar gu ments upon which this principle has been in corporated into ihe Common Law. They are to be found in all the Treatises on Evidence, and being duly weighed with opposing considerations are unanswerab.e. The earliest case ihat of the King v. Reason and 7 ranr- is now about one hundred and thirty years old. It is hard to im agine an instance in which it can be made a tool oftyaanny. During the century of its existence ii nas maue inends ot a I the great lawyers and is. equally with the great principle io which it is sup- pu&eu ,o oe an exception, vindicated by the su New York, May 9ih. The Steamer EUROPA arrived at this port on yesterday, having left Liverpool on the 27th ult. Cotton had declined during the week prior to sailing three eighths of a penny, caused by the advices from America Fair uplands 61. The sales of the week amounted to 28,000 bales mostly to the trade. LATER STILL! Washington, May 9th, 9 o'clock A. M. Thomas H. Seymour, Governor of Con necficut, vasTe-elected by the Legislature, on Wednesday cleaUy indicating. -that the Democrats can command a majority. Gen. Scott has returned to New York, rom ins tour. The Steamer, Europa, which arrived at New York, on yesterday, brings dates to the 26h ult. A panic occured in the Cotton market, and prices declined f of a penny. England furnishes no pofitical news o nterest. 'In France, another ministerial crisis was expected, and tne condition ot affairs is so unsettled as ta cause a decline in the funds. preme policy of all free States Solus Populu It cannot be wrong to scrutinise tne ruin ior some traces of its author, or to use everv windlace and assay for bringing to justice one who has in some sense concluded hirjasefl from claimnts the bene fits of the provision, by makins it impossible to comply with it; whose crime consisted in the des truction of the evidence, I am no undistinguishinsr admirer of the Com, mon Law. It needs amendment and I will add codification. I am in some degree willing to al low "that it is flexible and its principles expand so as to accommodate it to any new exigence or condition oi society, like the bark of a tree, which corruption and tyranny. Our Declaration of opens and enlarges itself, according to the growth Rights having been made at a time when this doc- thereof, always maintaining its own uniformity trine was by some siill thought unsettled in Ehg- and consistency,'' (Judge Pearso1, 11 1 red, 557) .. . ..ii I iana, i,Lecemuer i. to,) our ratners mougni ii oiu i nau ratner mat its nexibi.uy were now aud time past, ana haa oeen best ,0 remove jt beyond all cavil or peradventure then increased by some general statute, which may l ot ten years, ior by incorporating it in our organic law, and in do- act the part of the knife With which the skilful ing su they make elear allusion to the source oi promologist relieves a hide bound tree. Some their opinions, by conveying their faith m a word, parts of it may well be objected to, but as a whole which bad been lmmemoriaUy appropriated to hm-1 1 render it my warmest allegiance. Its great doc it the claim in our mother country, insomuch that trines are parts of one science, and mutually sup- it uas uy iiequeu i uppnauoii come w nave aimost pon anu lean upon each otner. To be admired a lecnmcai ana exclusive propriety in mat con- as tney deserve, thev must be smdiml as th nn .1 1 V -r , .. . - . - nexion : 1 mean the word confront. By select m? this word, I submit that the framern of onr Consti tution, not enly showed their connexion with the long struggle in Lngland, but more, that their sympathies were with the prisoners Whose misfor tunes had rendered those struggles memorable. We feel a natural sympathy with him who has confronted hia accuser ; We have aversion for him who has been' confronted; we know with whom the vieiory will rest! And this, not because of any meaning inherent is thai word, but because we eonneet it with the fortunes of the two unhap py Dukes pf Norfolk, with the fate of Devereux, stituent elements of a afstem. With ororwr con sideration, ilwil. often be seen, that whatappeared iu uc au exception anq contradiction to one tunda menial principle, is no more than a necessary com promise of two, which would otherwise conflict as the different colors of the rainbow tninffle where ibey cotue in contact. In that mhrhtv Engine which hurries two kindred nations in advance of tne world over new tracks of liberty and renown the hasty observer will conclude that he sees i wheel or a piston which interferes with the nrnnr action of some ober portion of the complicated nracnioery , wnerea?, longer ooservatioo and a PROPOSALS FOR NAVAL, NAVY AGENTS OFFICE, Norfolk, May 5, 1851. C?EALED PROPOSALS in duplicate for each Class, endorsed, Propesals for Glass No for the Nay v Yard at Gosport, will be received a this office until 12 o'clock M , on Tuesday tbe 3rdt ay of J use next, for furnishing and delivering upon the VV hnrfvor at such other place within the yard as may be directed by the Commandant, free of all expense for delivery, the materials and articles here matter specified. It is to be piOfided In the contract, and to be dis tinctly understood, that the amount aud number of articles enumerated under the head of 'MisceHane- ous' are specified as the frobablr quantity which may be required, and to "fix a data for determining , . .. . . r l . tbe lowest Old, Duv toe uomracior i iu lurnixu men nqautiiies and at each times as the Bureau or Com' martdant m iy require during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1852 ; and whether the quantities requir ed be more or less than those specified, tne prices shall remain the same. All the articles must he of the cert quality, deliv ered in cood order, and subject to inspection atth place of delivery as the Bureau may direct, and be iu all respects satisfactory tothe Commandant there of. For particular description of materials, and samples, bidders will appy to the Commandant of the Yard, The deliveries of all building materials may be commenced forthwith,- and must, bo commenced ithin sixty days after the date of the contract, and be continued from time to time as in the opinion of tha Commandant of the Yard the wants of the service may require, and mut be completed within the fiscal year ending 30tn June, isax. All building materials to be measnsed by the rules adopted by the Government, tostruefeion regarding which can be bad on application to the Comman dan tor the lam.. On classes headed 'Miscellaneous,' to be deliver ed as required during the fiscal year, the 3D per centum retained, may at tbe discretion ortoeuom-1 mandant, be paid quarterly, on tha 1st of October, January, April ami July, when the deliveries have been satisfactory ; the balance (80 per cent.; will be paid by the Navy Agent, at the place of delivery, within thirty days after the presentation of bills in triplicate, duly vouched and approved. No part of the per centage reserved is to be paid, until all re jected articles offered under the contract shall have beeu removed from tha Yard. It will be stipulated iu the contract, that if de fault shall he made by the parties of the first part in delivering all or any of the articles mentioned, of the. quality, and at the times and places above provided .that then and in that case, the said parties will forfeit and pay to tha United States, as liquid ated damages, a sum of money, eqoal to twiea the amount of the contract price herein agreed apen as the price to be paid in case of the aetnal delivery thereof : which liquidated damages may bo recover ed from lime to time- they accrue. Approved soreities, in one half of theamotmt of the contract, will be Jquired, and 30 per centum, as aa additions tenritie. deducted from each payment until the contract sluur nave been completed or cancelled, unless otherwise authorized by tbe De partment. I he sureties mast sign th contract aa sureties, and make affidavit, that they rn the aggre gate, are worth over and 'above their debut and lia bilities, the full amount of the contract. : Each offer must be signed by tha person Of per sons making, it, and by the guarantors according o form annexed, and their residence, naming the Urta and State, must be distinctly stated . PafSOM whose offerasba!l bo accepted, f b notified by lettar. through the Post Offiea. which tie shall b eoavidt rod raf&cieirt ; fm4 if lBf do 250,000 Class No. 5?. STONE, 940 perches building stonejequal to the best Port Deposit building stone, suitable for found u tion walla 3 ft. thick, good natural beds and flat stuff per perch 250 tunning feet of Water Table 10 by 14 inches, in lengths above four feet, per run aft. 40 blocks of Granite, 6 ft 6 ins. long 24 ins. by 19 ma. per cubic fl. 64 do do do S ft long 20 ia. by 16 do 40 do do do 6 do 6 in do 22 do do 2(1 do do do do 9 do do 12 Uo do 24 do 12 do do do 8 do do 12 ?o do 24 do 48 do do do 0 do do It do do 7 do 150 perches best Port Deposit building etone for foundations . per perch 382 running feet dimension Stone, lengths from 4 to 6 feet 12 by 18 ins run'g foot. 382 do do do d. do do 4 do S do 9 do 18 do do 382 do do do do do do 4 do 6 do 14 do 16 do do 36 Granite Blocks, 3 ft. long 16 by 18 in. 71'0 do ao ao 500 do do do do 64 -68 do 11 inch slating nails 1,000 do 12d iron cot nails lj)06do20d e do do . . . w Cuss No, 9.-tetaJtfOv PAINTS, OIUJ ANi Ga.A8, 16,700 lba dry White Laad 100 do Chroma Green ; 125 do? Paris Greoa . SOd Cobalt ttlo ' 27 do Umber . : X$2JSi do! fled Leaa. i.e par ta , da. -, . '. '-' : 1 . a " 69'do Gum Copal S. AnsericaW - , ate, 700 d WhitiDj a i 123 galls. Sot's Turpentine 890 do Raw Linsaed Oil 600 do Winter strained Sperm Off 250 do Fish Oil 80 do Neat foot Oil lOOIba LUharg , 1C0 do Lampblack 200 do Yellow Oehr 50 feet window yiaaa ixxia 60 do 50 do 800 do 60 do 69 da do do do do do do mti ao 11 u do 10x12 da l2tSS do 14x14 da eaUnf' , a.'' -4a'a . da - parti'. par faet 4a da 4a Class No. 10.-ARC'Q4riui. . SHIP CHANDLERY 1,237 lbs Sperm Candle 2,600 do best Tallow 100 do Castib Soap 100 do bard - fl 24 Triangular Seraper 500 lb 3 J lb Sheet Xa4 -12 dox Cora Brooms . . 12 do Hickory do 10 sides lacing Laather 10 do belt do 20 do ' pomp do 1,000 lb best whit Chalk 10 do do red do 50 bbls best Tar 4 rolls 3) lb sheet Lead 500 lb . 2 do 2dod d do 700 lb beat block Tin 50 lb Borax . . 4 dos iron bound vaalah BraanM . 8 do beat ground pstnt Brashes O0W 8 do do' eoorse do do -000 a do sash Tools do do larf tlsa H do wira bound fitebw (aaat'd auas) 2 do stack Brushes par sample To ' da . da la mi daaasfc. aa ' par aid 4a da !bK da mt la do 4a .'. 4a 4a 4a 4o Class No. U.JifoetlLmeottt. HARDWARE. 3 gross 4-8 single twist augur without screws lacquered (LHommidiea'aJ j do do per cub. ft. 4 do do 7 do do 13 do 12 do do do 2 do do 6 do do 12 do 15 do do do 1 do do 6 do do 9 do 17 do do do 1 do do 6 do do 9 do 26 da do do 4 do do 4 do 4 do 7 -do 12 do do do 16 do do 2 do 9 do 9 do 9 do do . do 8 do do 3 do 6 do 9 do 9 do do do 6 do do 2 do 3 sq. and II in thick ' do .do 12 do do 2 do 6 do do 9 do do do do 6 do do 5 do 3 long 1 8 do square do do Above Stone all nett sizes. Class No. 3. YELLOW PINE TIMBER. 38 ps 48 ft long, 12 in. by 15 in. aq. per cu 'do do do do do do do do do do 12 do 12 do-do 30 do 50 do do 340 do 17 do do 20 do B0 do do 0 do lT"dk 20 do 5 do do 26 do 21 160 do 28 150 do 21 200 do 20 15 do 36 20 do 14 20 do 16 4 do 43 10 do 12 15 do SO 220 do 17 13 do 50 54 do 17 14 "do 15 20 do 26 120 do 28 125 do 21 140 do 24 2S do 22 420 do 25 SO do 18 80 do 22 12 do do 4 do do 3 do da 9 do do 9 do dt 4 do do 6 do do 5 do do 8 do do 3 da do 8 do do do do 6 do do do do i 3 do do do do 15 do do do do 15 do do do do 14 do do dod 14 dodo do do 15 do do do do '12 do do do doT 9 da do do do 9 do do do da,5 do do do do S do do do do do do do do do do do do 9 do do 9 do do 9 do do 4 dod 4 do do All the foregoing named timber mast be of best quality, free of sap, shakes and all defects. 15 dodo 14 do do ' 14 do do 15 dodo 12 do-do 9 do do 9 dodo 2 j do do 2 do do 4 do do 12 do do 6f do do 4 do da 12 do do 12 do do 14 do do 3 da do 9 do do 9 do do 4 do do 6 dodo 2 J d& da 2i do do 5 do db 24 do do 2i do da 3 do da 3 dado do do do fie- .da do do 'do do da do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do da feet do do do db -do do do do do do do do da do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do the It It do 1 do t do do 1 do 8-8 do do 1 do 10-8 do' do 1 dux 15-8 do ao I do 2 m do ao 1 do 1 do 8-8 do do do do do dO 1 Centra Bitta, doable S Covers for prWggkrg dcks do do do do do do do do do do do da do do 4a da da da 4a 4a 4a 4a dot 4a 4 J do 12 8 lacquer, ) without mak 2 do 5-16 lugur Bitti 2 do f do do 2 do 7-16 do do 2 do 4-8 do do 6 French Grindstone, itoaf 4 ft 4 ia. diameter, and 8 inch thick. 15 Cross Cut Saws, 4i fact long 6 Mill d 6i 1 dox Rasps j 3 groes t'roes Cat Saw rue 6 do Hand do do 3 do Pitt do - do 1 do rMiU do do 6 dosTenaon do do 2 eross 14 itt flat d 8 do 12 do do do LHtauaitUaa'a 4a 4a 4 . 4 "4 4a 4a do 4a 4s :4a S? most be straight and square, and all except those marked must be aawed on both sides and edges. Class No. 4. . WHITE AND YELLO W FINE BOARDS AND LUMBER, . 20,000 feet 2 in yellow pine plank of 16, 18, and 20 feet lengths per M ft, bd. mt. 500 feet 1 iu. seasoned flooring ptank, of 18 feet length, from 6 to 7 inches wide, free of sap, . knots and lightwood do 11,000 feet 2 in. yellow pine plank 16 and 18 feet length d 10,100 do H do do do do 16 a 18 do do do 4,000 do 1 do clear best quality seasoned w pine boards do 2,000 do 2 do do do do do do do plank do 8,000 do merchl'le w pine boards of 16 feet length' do 1 1,000 do in. clear w pine best quality 16 do do - do 3 do 1J do do do do do 16 do do do 6 do 2 do do do do do 16 do do do 16,000 do 1 do do do do 16 do do do 40,000 do merchantable w pine inch boards, of 16 feet length, free of splits sad knots thai will come oat da 45,000 feet of 9 inch merchantable w pine plank da 2 0,000 feet of 1 inch merchantable W pin boards . do Ceiling, and repairs of galleries st HospitaL Class No. 5. SLATE. 140 squares bast Pennsylvania 20 inch slate 1 - per. sqr 15 squares heat Pennsylvania 17 inch slat do Class No. 6. LIME. 400 casks good fresh wood-burnt lime, equal to See ley's 'Alountain Lime,' and V average 270 lbs. (uett) to the cask ' par cask. 550 casks good fresh wood-burnt llm equal to Seeley's 'Mountain lime,' and to average 270 lbs (oett) to tha cask do Class No. 7 , CEMENT ' 660 casks bast manufactured Hydraulic ' Cemeat to average 300 lbs. to the cask (oett) per cask . Class No, 8. MiseeUaneous. IRON, STEEL, SPIKES AND IRON NAILS OF ALL KINDS, 1708 lbs square Cast- Steel from ) to 3 ncke (Adironda Co) "T'. par lb 200 do Blister. Steat t:v do 200 do Gernraa da ;. do !J0O da inch iron rAlant Spikes' da 800 do iron cut Nailo 6 iacbefloiic 4o. 1,000 do do da 4a '4 1 d,- 4 ' ' do , 3,400 do da do do 124 - .:r. . r 3 do Safe Edge, Hand Bastard da aseartea from Id to 14 inches ' 1 do. - do do do do 8 ineh 3 do Safe Edge, smooth, assorud from to I J inch .... 4, ldos RoundBaataoLdo 14 aek 4a . 18 do do do do do do !TT'4 6 do do do do "do 10 do 4 6 do do do do do 8 do 4 10 do Smooth half round do assorted from to 12 inches do 2 do Safe Edge, dead smooth, da 12 lack 4 2 do do do do do do 8 do da 9 do Square Bastard, aan'd from 8 ta IS ia 4a 6 do Sine! Cut do 14 iaeh 4 do do do do 12 do 6 Bench Visas, not le than 00 lb 24 Iron Squares, best quality 40 lbs Emery, asaorted namberi 25 gross Butt crew. 200 lbs Spelter Solder 300 do Babbitt. Metal 2 dos Monkey Wrenches do Screw Wrenches per samp! 4 do Chalk Lines i do Tape Lines, 68 feet each ' 4a . 4 eaak 4 lb lb 4 4a 4a 4a 20 12 1 2 2 Class No. lZ-iaceUanetm. STATIONERY. 40 Reams Cap Paper, best quality, bin laid, wim marginal line Reams .Letter do. beat quality taint liaasr d best quality ovelopo paper da Blotting paper do blank Psy Hon., (par .ampla) da da Muster do ia' A 24 aheett Elephant Drawing Paper 56 do Double do do do 24 do do do Traeig do 4 lbs India Robber (unmanufactured) a uoz pest urawmg Pencil, (sast'd nsra) 1 gro do do do 4 six qoir Blank Bfk.t par aampla 13 quires do Forma do qalre 2 dcrt 3 quire Blank Books, feint linos, half bound 2 do I do do do 4 4a 1 da Penknives, 4 blade, beat quality, 4 do quart bottles beat quality Black 1st 12 da piece. Red Taste - 1 do do Silk Tap 40 gra Steel Pans, beat quality, asaerted, 12 dot bet graduated Land Pencil ' 4 M beat qaality Opaqwe Qoill 4 do do do clarified da 10 lbs Scarlet Wafer 4 do Red Sealing Wax 4a 4a 4a . 4 shaau v 4a 4a lb dos 4a do do M 4 lb 4 Cuss Novl3.iietita CHARCOAL 400 bushels of Charcoal - beabil -"A Class No. l'Uteetlantotu. - HAY. . - 1 50,000 tbe best Timothy aod Clover Hay , par 100 tb CLisa Tto. I5.iscttautm. PROVENDER 2550 boshela Hominy Meal - 700 do Oau -6toa.8trw, Whaat of FORM OF OFFER- - -in tbe State of f t hereby olfer ta furnish under yoor advertiaement Ssrted lb n n ; . n ndty of " - s and auhjaet 10 el) the) requirementa1 of the-aam; all tba ankles m braced ia Olae No. - vis rHarartMert 4ba articlea and price carried -ii' amiTfJTrtiOfia I write the aggregate in words., ' Signed Mmecf biddoJV The, anderaigned - . - f r . - K . 'm ine otate ot . . i r , ., , Mii ,, nf aagaar in tbetS'O-oof Mors, hereby ondertake ttrat tba aboye Mmed ' will, if his bid be accepted enter isto contract, .before required wkfe tbo fJnitod States, wjtbin fifteen days . after tha data of Ao tiro through ihe Post: re.of tr scceptanco of bus bid M beforb meoiioqed. .: v l t, eemiy mat the above named -:- - ' - , , enj are to me bx ba rood and re. sponsible gosrantora ia this aasa t ; i : ' ' -r N Navy Agtatii May 8,1851 S Iswdw 4 13 1' I! m t,
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