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;' ' V' ' " :'V J' VOLUME LV CITY OF RALEIGH, WEDNESDAY MORNING, JULY 19, 1854. NO. i THE RALEIliH REGISTER. PUBLISHED BY SEAT ON GALES, ElilTORASO.PBOPBlIIOB, AT $2 50 IN ADVANCE ; OR, $3 00 AT THE ENDOF THE YEAR. 'Ouri' are the plans of fair, deligntful peace v Unicarped by part! rage, to live like brothers." RALEIG H. N . C SATURDAY MORNING, JDLY 15, 1854 Republican Whig Ticket. FOR GOVERNOR, i ALFRED DOCKERT, OF RICHMOND. ELECTION Off IHUESDAT, AUGUST 3rd. TICKETS'. Send in your orders for DOCKERT TICKETS. We trill send them by MailMree of all charge except that for postage. THE GAME OF DENIAL. When Mr. Bragg received his nomination, the Whigs were -well enough aware that their candidate had an adroit tactitian to deal with. It was anticipated, perhaps feared, that the cunninj; lawyer might weave his webs of so phistry so successfully, that strong and manly eflWtsn a the part of the old Pedee Farmer might fail to burst them loose. They feared nothing n. . ' , . 1 .1 1 V. r.-. more, iney Knew meir man, iey uicw mm to he a strong man, albeit but little versed in the wiles and stratagems witlfc which they saw he woul ill have to deal. They confided much in his d irectne&s, his straight forward honesty, to extricate him from the toils, which they knew would be attempted to be thrown around him. But they did not expect that he would be con tinually met by insulting denials of plain facts. They were not prepared to believe that even a jesuitica , sly attorney, whose trade and profes sion is, lit the worst, only to gloss over facts--to walk kround the truth, not over it could on i each dav falsify the history of the day before, and fore ) bis opponent to fortify facts as he went airing, by proofs, in expectation o( a de nial. The scene at Charlotte is an instance of I what we mean. When Mr Bragg made his first speech in Raleigh, tie modestly published and proclaimed that he "was a fair and honest man," and had been froci his1 youth up to that day ; bat added that "he did not know what he might be before the campaign closed." To say nothing of his arrogating to himself a character for fairness, j (of which , by-the-bye, we believe he stands quite alone in his opinion,) we did believe him to be tolerably honest as much so as his trade and the times would well afford but we confess we have beerj staggered in our faith by the events of the campaign. We fear there was great rea son for the distrust of himself, and his future honesty, Expressed in his Raleigh speech. He saw a cloud rising in the West which alarmed him for jhat honesty. That cloud has been swelling, find spreading, and blackening, until it may wepl cause him not only alarm, but ab solute horror. He feared he might lose his honesty in the contest; but he could not have foreseen, o what humiliating extremes his am bition has reduced him. Let him learn a les son let f thers improve by his example. The first false step was his1 sudden new-born love for Free Suffrage. That was a sore trial to the fairness and honesty of which he boasted. But having broken the ice, it became easier to em braeerwit i meretricious passion, our State sys tem of Ra 1 Roads and Internal Improvements, which had before excited only his loathing and disgust. After that temptation and fall he may well have looked tremblingly on the future, and say he could not foresee what manner of man he might he before the campaign closed. Poor gentleman! he sees now. Six months ago, he would have resented as a personal insult ao in tiui at ion that he could have fallen so low as his repeated denials of well-known and well authen ticated facts have placed him. All the blood of all the Braggs would have rushed to his cheeks. "Is thy servant a dog that he should do this thing?" to, Mr. Bragg ; you are riot a dog, though you did bark up the wrong tree this time ! . Ambition that last infirmity of noble minds, the Bin by which angels fell, has been the ruin of Mr. Brt gg. We commiserate him. It was only his w eakness. Being a mere mortal, bow could he h i expected to be better than the an gels? Thiiy were ambitious of power; so was he. They used bad means to obtain it ; bo did he. They failed in their attempts; so did he. They fell from their high estate ; so has be. lie will be pursued and haunted by the ghost of that man of God, whose life of purity and piety could not save him from the sneer of be ing " an ignorant, bigoted, violent partisan- a minister of the gospel, who answered when an other was c illed, and it was an evidence of the liberality of our institutions, that such a man should preach at all," &c LETTER FROM TnE HON. JAMES T. MOREHEAD. We publish, in another column, a letter from the lion. James T. Morehead to Tod R. Caldwell, Esq., of Morgan ton. The latter speakB for itself, and makes disclosures which should brihg the blush of shame to the cheeks of Edney &jCo. It certainly disarms them of any power to injure Gen. Dockery, or anj o ther honorable man. The reader will not forget, in this connection, that Mr. (Jlingman says be cannot support Gen. Dockery, because he treated Aw constitu ent, Gen. Edney, as he did ; and it must be re membered,4oo, that Gen. Edney says "that his friend, Clingman, knew all about the particular matter, (an hi connection with it,) which has been disclosed in the publication referred to. "After the failure of the Harrison adminis tration, the Editor of this paper, who in the meantime had acnuired better oonortunities of studying the history of the country and the . wuuiw wiu uuiiuun hi political parties, uuuiw rately reviewed his course and the principles he held. His prejudices were still with the Whig party, yet the fast teas forced upon him that that party was not the Republican party of the country." Standard. . ; ' Let us see what the Editor was really doing, while thus "deliberately reviewing his course and principles," and at the time that thefict was so strongly "forced upon him that the Whig party was not the Republican party of the country." We find him, over the signature of "A Look er on," in the Register of Feb. 25, 1842, se verely denouncing the Hon. William H. Hay wood for his efforts to "explain away the real course he pursued in the Democratic Con vention" of that year. In the same com municuion, he thin spoke also of the Hon. Louis D. Henry, the Democratic candidate for Governor of that year : "We all know that Mr. Henry is not a man of surpassing abilities,- that his "wisdom in council" has been exercised for the sole pur pose of amassing money, and that if he has "shown himself a Democrat, but not a dema gogue," he has shown us a marvel, a separation of two features of cjiaracler which perpetually EXIST TOGEHER !" . Democrat J demagogue ! "Two features of character which perpetually exist together !" Ye Gods Again we find him Secretary to a Whig meeting which was held in this City, on the 2lst of Februay, 1842, at which a Preamble and a set of Resolutions were adepted, re-affir ming, in the strongest terms, the old cardinal doctrines of the Whig party. We quote an extract from the Preamble, and one or two of the Resolutions : "The Whigs of Wake County, undaunted by the reverses which their political friends in a number of the States sustained during the Fall Elections, hereby declare their unabated confidence in the great principles upon which the political Revolu tion of 1S40 was achieved ; and renew their deter mination to defend tliose-prineiples, believing, as they solemnly do, that they are necessary to PERPETUATE OUR REPUBLICAN INSTITUTIONS, and to secure the blessings of freedom. The causes which occasioned those defeats over w;hich our political opponents so much rejoiced, were not so much as 'hey would fain induce the People to believe the repudiation of Whig measures, and a distrust of their patriotism, but, they are properly attributa ble to two events, one of which no earthly wisdom or foresight Could avert, and the other well calcula ted to engender lukewarmness and inaction where hopes had been high and exhilitating, and to pro duce despondency where the prospects of effecting -KjmetUiiig tor the good of the country had been bright. The former of these events was the death of the lamented Harrison ; the latter, the base de fection of him who succeeded to .the highest honors of the Republic. 1. Resolved, That we believe: it to be the .duty ot the Government to provide for the Country a sound and uniform National Currency ; and so long as it neglects to do this, there is .no hope that the distresses and embarrassments of the people will be relieved. 2. Resolved, That the Whig Senators and Re presentatives in Congress deserve the thanks of the Nation for the zealous exertions which they made during the Extra Session to relieve the distresses and promote the best interest of the People ; and especially do we admire the firmness, the magnan imity and disinterested patriotism of Hekry Clay, of Kentucky, a man who, through evil as well as through good report, has proved true to his princi ples, true to his friends, true to his country a states- i man w-ho looks not at the interest of one section ' only, but at the good of the whole country whose ! ardent love for human freedom, whose strong de votion to the Union, and whose long and arduous exertions lor the good of that Union, in each and all its parts, richly entitle him to the highest honor which the people can confer. 3. Re3olvbd, That the Administration of our able and patriotic Chief Magistrate, JOHN M. MOREHEAD, meets our most cordial approbation, and that he deserves the support of all who desire the good of the State. And yet again, in April 1842, we find the Editor in the Whig State Convention, which nominated Henry Clay for the Presidency and John M. Morehead for Governor, Oeneral Dockery presiding. The following were among the Resolutions adopted by that Convention : Resolved, That the great Whig principles for which the contest of 1840 was waged and won, are as dear to us now as then ; and that neither the desertion and treachery of supposed friends, nor the taunts and opposition ot known and open ad versaries, shall depress the energy or cool the ardor of our efforts to promote and perpetuate those prin ciples as the best safeguard ol our country and the best inheritance of our children. Resolved, That the whole official coaduct of JOHN M. MOREHEAD, in his present exalted station, meets the nearly approval of this Conven tion, and that tho Whig party of the State, relying with entire confidence upon his integrity, intelli gence, impartiality, diligence and economy in ad ministering the affairs of the State, do with one heart and one voice desire his re-election. Resolved, That the law passed at the last Session of Congress for distributing among the States the proceeds of the Public Lands, is a wise and just law, founded upon the unquestionable right of the States, RESULTING FROM THE ACTS AND LEljf)S OF Cession, and was in no sense a gratuitous donation. That Congress have no moral right to repeal the same, and that the late Message of the President of the United States, urging that body to- said re peal, deserves decided reprobation." And the Legislature of North Carolina having, in the name and on the part ot the good people of the State, repeatedly declared the right of the States to the Public Domain, condemned every attempt to dispose of that Domain inconsistent with that right, and. called upon her Senators and Reprasen tatives to urge her claims to her portion thereof, and the funds justly her own according to her in terests in the public lands being needed, (besides for other wise and good ends,) for developing her re sources and diffusing amongst the poor children of her population the blessings ot moral and intellec tual cultivation : Resolved, That the people of the State should not, and in the opinion of this Convention, will not, con ¬ sent to have the said funds withdrawn from them, and will regard any of her members of Congress who, after her claim has been acknowledged, and provision made by Congress for its satisfaction, may support such withdrawal, as disregarding the plain interests, violating the declared will, and sac rificing the just rights of the People. And now bow ill do these facts and the re cent declarations of the "Standard" comport. While "deliberately reviewing his course and the principles he held," he declares (see Preamble of Wake meeting,) his "unabated confidepce" in them I While so thoroughly impressed with the fact that the Whig party "was not the Republican party of the country," he expresses, (see same Preamble,) his solemn belief that Whig princi pies "are necessary to perpetuate our Republican institutions I" Alas for the treachery of man's memory I On the 15th of April, 1842, the Editor, no longer able to restrain his pent up ardor, "poured forth his whole soul" as folWsth : "Hearv Clay, sir, is emphatically the man of the age. In the cardinal virtues ol' charity, benev elence and gonerosity, where is his equal ? In the paths of accomplished honor, who has walked be fore him 1 In the great collisions of intellect, in which, lor the last thirty years, he has bean per petually engaged in the Temples of Justice and in the Halls of National Lrgislntion, who has rivalled or surpassed him 1 In perseverance, uprightness and integrity in the spirit wiilou scorns a mean action, and seeks inruitnviy th;;t way to. success which probity and candor consecrate m all things which conspire to make the Statesman and the gailunt, free-hearted, faultless geruk-man, where, I ask, is the superior of He.-ry Clay 1 Sir, when I spM.k of Hexhy Clay, I feel like pouring out my whole he in. I love to dwell upon his low beginnings; to follow him liom the Old Dominion, until tho penniless wanderer b'comes rich and strong in the aril-ctionsct the noble 'Hun ters of Kentucky ;" td linger around his pathway in roe ia$t war, wnen Ins voice, eiTiOoU ir.g trie voice ol the Nation, inspired ndenc.e in the ! r cp, 'G lu . .- r- dismay and apprehension to the heart of Britain .; to mark his efforts, on the return oi jxiace, to re build the temples of our prosperity, and to send the currents of returning animation throughout ail the arteries and veins of the Republic ; to go forth with him in his aspirations for the freedom of the racn ; to look upon that chaplft which South America has woven for him, growing freshly forever upon the summit of her mountains, and to hear the clarion' voice of Demosthenes, revived in the Amer ican Senate, pleading ("or the liberties of bailied and bleeding Greece; and to follow him to the shades of Ashland, where his kindness and heui-volenee, like thij dews of Heaven, are seen only in the beau ty and freshness they contribute to produce. This is the lght, sir, in which I love to contemplate the character of Ckay ! The Convention which recently assembled in this City, in; nominafing.Mr. Clay for the Presidency, but spoke the wishes of a large majority of the peo ple of this country. Yet that Convention sought not to load not to dictate but to point out the path for the nation to tread in. Let us all walk in- that path, headed by the great Statesman of the Union, for it will lead to the permanent safely and happi ness of the Country." Enough ! We forbear. We have no dispo sition to annoy the Editor unnecessarily. THE PUBLIC LANDS. :A HOMELY ILLUSTRATION. A certain rich man dying, left a large land estate and numerous sons. By his will be ap pointed a guardian for his children, and direct ed that his land should be a "common fund for their use and benefit, and for no other use and purpose whatever." (a) After the testator's death, the guardian, as by will directed, took charge of the estate and sold from time to time such portions of the land as seemed necessary to pav jpst debts. Having happily succeeded in this, he was applied to by the children either to deed io them their lands, or if that was un der the ifvill impracticable, to sell them from time to time, as the market best served, and to divide the proceeds equally among them. In making his request, they represented "that he held the -lands only in trust," to be "used as a common fund for their use and benefit, and for no other ose and purpose whatever ;" that many of them ad incurred heavy debts in improving their farms, in putting up fences, barns and dwelling: booses, and in other necessary expen ses (6;) that most of them were married and had numerous children growing up around them whom they wished to educate ; that had their father lived, he would have cheerfully made o ver to them, from time to time, portions of his estate to relieve their necessities his only rea son, as hie frequently said, for appointing a guardian at all, being the minority of his chil dren, and the embarrassed condition of his af fairs ; and as that reason no longer existed, the old gentleman's intentions, not only ver bally expressed, but through his will, should be carried out, the property sold and the proceeds divided among his heirs. But, much to the astonishment of the rightful owners, the guardian absolutely refused either to deed the land, or divide the proceeds, or do any thing in the matter ; nay, more, he actually took hack from the children and put in his own pocket a large sum of money, arising from and sales, which he had formerly deposited to their credit in bank (c;) and when they importuned him for their own, and pressed their solicitations, he actually new into a passion, and broke out in language not unlike the fol lowing : I He told:them (d) "they were a lot of beggar ly and miserly rascals to come to him for his money ; that if they were in debt, it was their own folly, and they might get out as best they could; that there was no use in building barns nor fences, nor dwelling houses, nor in drain ing their lands ; and that as to educating their children, that was a humbug ; that he was ap pointed by the will guardian of the estate, and that as such guardian he had to incur heavy ex penses, &s." To all this the children replied : " That they never beard of such abominable and outrageout- treatment ; that while they were starving them selves, and denying their children a common education, he was grown rich, and living like a noble ; that they suspected that, after all, there must be some rascality at the bottom ; thatas to their debts', they were none of bif business, as their farms were their own, and they bad a right to do with them as they chose; and if it were otherwise, every man would say that a debt for draining a swamp, or building a barn, was far more rational than many of the debts he was known to have contracted ; that, finally, upon reviewing the whole case, they shrewdly suspected that their guardian was no better than he should be, and that he kept theii lands under pretence, indeed, of paying th charges of the estate, but in reality to benefit himself." At this the guardian flew into a violent pas sion, and swore by the Eternal that he would keep their lands, or Bell them and pocket the funds, or give them away to anybody and every body, just as he chose, and that they and their wives and their children might go to and help themselves if they could ; that he had ex amined the whole case, and was convinced that his title was good at law, and they had no title .at all that he had applied to two famous law- yers, wio assured him that he was right and they weje wrong: and that as they had impugned his honor and questioned his integrity, that he would riow carry the matter into chancery and see which would come out second best 1 (a) The language of most of the deeds of cession." (6) State debt. (c) The act withholding the land money from the States, passed by a locofoco Congress in 1837. i, (d) Locofoco arguments for retaining th land moneys. LET THE WniG CANDIDATES Keep it before the people, That the locofoco par ty is exarting itself to the uttermost to deprive North Carolina of her equitable and just share of; the public lands, that they have taken ground Against giving her such share, both in their Sr'&te and National Platforms, and that if we oxpectjmrice' td be done.our peoples and our rights in this glits in this property to be maintained, we mist discard the party, and the men, tvho have tear red incessantly upon those rights 1 Zct them keep it before the people. That the only measure that ever passed Congress by which oiir State had any thing like justice done her in thf distribution of the public lands, (we refer to the bill for the relief of the indi gent insanej has been vetoed by President Pierce, in the face of the fact, that an immense majority hi the people are in favor of its be coming the law of the land 1 Let thhm keep it before the people, That the Homftstead Bill, under which the public do main is to be given away to the foreigners who are pouring into our country, passed the House of Representatives, (whece there is a locofoco majority of eighty or ninety,) by a large vote, and that at is now supported in the Senate by Douglas, Cass, Shields, and others, leaders of the administration, and that its friends do not hesitate t!o declare, that President Pierce is pledged to approve it ! that it will pass "as an Administration measure, and that the suppo sition Tut THE VETO OF MlSS Dix's BILL AP PLIES to the Homestead bill IS ENTIRELY ERRONEOUS!" J - Let thetk keep it before the people, That this measure, 'the Homestead Bill, will be ruinous in its consequences to the old States, and most disastrous in ts effects upon the slave-holding interest, 4not only depriving us of all share in the public! lands, for the purposes of education and internal improvements, but holding out said lands; as an inducement, a reward to for eigners to nettle in all our territories, who are known to be hostile to the institutions of the South! I Let them keep it before the people. That whilst the locofoco presses of the South charge, that all the Whig nembers of Congress from the North voted against the Nebraska Bill, they conoeal the fact that between forty and fifty of their own members voted in the same way, and that a large majority of their party at the North, are enlisted under the banner of Van Buren, Butler & Co., for the -repeal of the Nebraska act, which abrogates the Missouri Compromise, and that they openly declare their hostility to the rights Qf the South ! Let them keep it before the people. That whilst the locofocQ party are loud in their professions of love forj "Free Suffrage," they oppose the call of a Convention, the safest, cheapest, and most Republican mode of amending the Con stitution, and the only mode by which that in strument can be protected from the baneful and sorrupting influences of Party spirit ! Let them keep it before the people, That a large majority of the locofoco party voted against the Central Rail Road that they have nominated as their candidate for Governor a man who has been always and is now opposed to Internal Improvements, who so far from having said or done any thing to advance them, has uni formly said and done all he could to check them, and render them odious to the people! Let them kep it before the people, That through : evil as well as through good report, the Whies of the State have ever been the zealous friends of Internal! Improvements have ever given their votes and their influence to develop the resources of the State, and secure to the farmer and mechanic a market for the productions of their labor !1 Let them'keep it before the people, That the Whigs have nominated as their Candidate for Governor a? sterling Republican one of the People themselves a farmer, whose interests are identified with those of the great body of the voters of the State, a tried and true friend to Education and-lnternal Improvements, a man of genuine patriotism, strong intellect and sterling -integrity, who will servo the State, and the whole State, unbiassed by sectional or party prejudices ! Let the Whig Candidates keep these issues be fore the People, and do their duty to themselves and their cause, and the day will be ours ! The country expects every man to do his duty 1 Will any true Whig fatter and fall back at such a crisis? EXTRACT from a letter dated J Plymouth, July 10, 1854. "Old Farnier Dockery will be elected, we all believe down-this way, by a large majority. f be people with us are delighted at having such i man to voteTor. Many of our Democrats have ihe magnanimity to do him justice, and speak m the highest terms ot him ; more than that, many will support him. . Bragg sown County will go against bim. All his friends, down here, who are Candid ates for tho Legislature, are loud against Rail Roars, and are raising an awful cry about taxa tion 1 But this is in keeping with Bragg's an tecedents. More than two hundred persons in and about Jolckson will : testify to his uniform hostility to works of Internal Improvement." 4 ' -i-l - -. - - Li.-. .... 'I ,1 I.I EXTRACT from a letter to the Editor, dated Graham, July 11, 1854. A11 is right in Alamance. Gen. Dockery will get the' foil Whig vote and a good many Democrats in. August." : CANDIDATES FOR THE LEGISLATURE. AlECitENBtiRo. -Gen. John A. Young is the Whig Candidate for the Senate in this County. S. J. Lowriie, Whig, is a Candidate for the lower House. Craven. -f-For the Senate John Blackwell, Esq.; for the House of Commons, Samuel W. Chadwick and Geo. Green, Esqs. This is art excellent ticket, and was nomina ted by a large and enthusiastic meeting of the Whigs of Craven,- at which H. T. Guion, Esq., presided, arid W. H. Oliver, Esq., acted as Sec- I retary. Among the resolutions adopted was the following : Resolved, iThat we have entire confidence in the old Pee Pee Farmer, Gen. Alfred Dockery, the Whig Cnndidata for Governor of North Carolina, who has been long tried in the public service, and ever found faithful in the mainten ance (with bis means and energies) of the edu cation of the: poor children of the State, as well as her internal improvements, and the develop ment of her i resources, and that he is entitled to, and shall receive, our hearty support. The Hon. William H. Washington supported the Resolutions in some eloquent and forcible remarks. The following Resolution was offered by Mr. John D. Flanner, and unanimously adopted : Resolved, That the thanks of the , Whigs of Craven County are due, and are hereby tender ed, to the Honorable Wm. H. Washington, for the able and faithful manner in which he has always supported our cause. Hertford. The Hon. Kenneth Rayner, we are pleased to learn, will probably be prevailed upon to become a Candidate in this County. Alamance.' Giles Mebane, Esq., is the Whig candidate for the House of Commons in this county, with very fair chances for election. ALL THE " NATIONALITY The "Fusion Convention" which met at Jack son, in Michigan, on the 7th instant, nominated Kingsley S. Bingham, a Freesoil locofoco, for Governor, and a full coalition ticket. The plat form adopted by the Convention demands the restoration of tlie Missouri Compromise, the re peal of the Fugitive Slave Law, and the abolish' ment of slavery in the District ! The Whigs left the Convention, and will nominate a full Whig Ticket 1; What says the "Standard" to this ? Will it go into National Convention with the Michigan Democracy 1 The resolutions adopted by these men, be it remembered, go a bow shot beyond any that have been as yet adopted by any Northern Whig Stale Convention ! SUPREME COURT. The following opinions have been delivered in the Supreme Court since our last report : By Nash, C. J In Coble v Clapp, in equity from Guilford.j dismissing the bill with costs. Also, in Bogy,: in equity, v Shute, from Craven, directing the injunction to be dissolved. Also, in Thompson and French, in equity, v. Williams from Robeson, declaring that there is no error in the decree dissolving the injunction. Also, in State v. Baker, from Cumberland, declaring that there is no error. By Pearson J. In Boyett v. Hurst, on ex ception to master's report. Also, in Thomas, in equity, v Palmer, from Caswell. Also, in Satterwhite v. Barker, from Granville, affirm ing the judgement. Also,' in Kirkman v. Cox, from Guilford, 'affirming the judgment. By Battle, J. In Rowland in equity v. Par tin, from Wake, declaring that there is error in the order of reversal, appealed from. Also, in Dew v. Barnes, in equity, from Edgecombe. Also, in Anderson v. Arrington, in equity from Nash, directing an account Also, in Gi'bbs v. Brooks, from Hyde. We invite attention to the interesting account of the Charlotte discussion in another column, and especially to those portions of it which relate td Gov. Reid's littleness in the re cent appointment of the Railroad Directory, and to the revelation which Mr. Bragg makes as to his participation in concocting the Inter nal Improvement Resolution of the locofoco Convention. And in this latter connection, we also invite attention to the statements of our correspondent " Z." Appropriation for the Cape Fear; We are much pleased to see that the House of Repre sentatives, on Monday laBt, passed the bill from the Senate making an appropriation for the re moval of obstructions in the Cape Fear. The bill appropriates $140,000 for the purpose. From evry quarter of the State the news is cheering. All's well I "STRICT CONSTRUCTION." An amusing illustration of "strict construc tion" was recently furnished by the Washing ton Union. On one day it published the re marks of Senator Clay, of Alabama, on one side of the land question, and on the next day it published the speech of Mr. Brooks, of S. C, on the opposite side of the question. Both of these gentlemen are known "strict constructionists," and they both justify their views by a "strict construction" of the Consti tution. Norfolk Beacon. gggrGeneral Dockery, when last we saw him, looked hearty and strong, erect, confident, with energies unimpaired, as though the fatigues of the canvass were but child's play to his iron constitution. Mr. Bragg looked rather feeble and bent. The General has made him sick once or twice. " We saw him but a moment, yet methinks we see him now, : Going feebly from the Court House, with the sweat upon his brow." Poor man t -lie will be sicker when the re turns come pouring in. Wii. Herald. Riot between Irish and Americans. Law rence, Mass., J uly 10. A great riot has taken place here between the Irish and Americans, caused by the Irish raising the American flag surmounted by the Cross. Pistols and guns were fired, several Irish houses sacked, and the disturbance only quelled by calling out the mil itary. Divers WAm-i-Joe says: Sam, I have lost my watch overboard ; it lies here hi twenty feet of water, la there any way to get it ?" " Yes," sJ Sam, there are divert waja." OUR NEW YORK CORRESPONDENCE- Celebration Of the 4iA Scenes and incidents The unique character of the day Robert Sehuyler and his s-windling operations An ince ndiary forestalled A Jewish funeral. New York, July lOch. " The national anniversary was celebrated in New York with an unusual degree of spirit and unanimity. Early in the morning salutes were fired from the Battery and Park, and by eight o'clock the city troops wers in motion. In no part of the world are there so many volunteer companies arrayed in such gay and splendid uniforms as in this city. On great publio oc casions they never fail to make an imposing display. I The line was -chiefly formed, in 14:u street, and detachments took their positions by entering iBroadway from various cross streets below, yvhen all was ready, the procession, attended bj lots of music and numerous ban ners, canie along the great thoroughfare, and attracted juniversal applause. Tne weather was ii;tetse!y hot. The ther mometer panrked 90" on the" 4th, and as high as 100s inj the shade on the 5th. Many of the companies had attendants following them with buckets bf iced punch or lemonade, which the thirsty patriots eagerly quaffed. There were one or two new companies, which made their debut for the first time on this occasion. The old Continentals, with their blue coats and buff inexpressibles, and tri cornered hats, were in proper keeping with the day. The Scotch Highlanders, with brawny limbs and tartan plaids, were a manly looking set of fellows. The various nationalities, Americans, Germans, Irish, Italian, and Scotch, were all merged into j one to celebrate the birth day of Freedom. rrom the eve ot the day until the night of its close a continual popping, cranking and firing was heard. Crackers, whirlegigs, grass-hoppers and tarpedoes were exploding in all direc tions. Girls, 88 well as boys, joined in the spoit, andione young lady lost a wedding-ring finger by the explosion of some crackers. Horses were too patriotic to run away, although there was scarcely one on a stand or before a private or public house, that bad not a mine of crack ers pirouetting about his feet. Koman candles and Bengola lights shot through the air after night fall, and many of them seemed directed mischeivously against the windows and sides of houses. At night, the display of fire works was unequaled by former efforts. Every pub lic square had its pyrotechnical exhibition. All of them could not be witnessed at once, so I decided upon the Park. The crowd was pro digious, not less than sixty thousand people. Some lolled on the grass plats, hundreds oi boys climbed the trees, Zaccheus-like, to see the wonders. Fathers and mothers held up their young ones to get a good view, lovers clung closely to their sweethearts, and wily courte sans navigated the crowd in search of prey. It was a perfect jam, and fiery hot all the time. The fire-works consisted of wheels and revolv ing figures, and pieces of various designs. One piece represented the conflicts and triumphs of love. Three bleeding hearts were pierced through and through with cruel darts. Ano ther piece depicted the joys of connubial life, with some )f its sky-rocketty explosions. The motto was a striking one, " Love, Purity and Fidelity. .These shone aa bright as brilliants. It was astonishing to see them hold out so long. A patriotic! sketch, called the " Union," was received witn snouts ot applause. Ine finale was a tableau of great dimensions, bordered with wreatlis and flowers, and, in the centre. colossal figures of Minerva and the Goddess of Liberty, one trying to crown the other, I for get which, but as they both deserve it, it makes no matter. ! There was a band of music in the upper balcony, which struck off diffeient na tional airs in the intervals, our own predomi nating. Ureat as the multitude was, there was good order and quiet, and after the show was over, they all withdrew quietly to their homes. There is nb celebration like the 4th anywhere. It is purely American and characteristic. St, Bartholomew's Fair, and the anniversary of Guy Fawkes" ropish riot, both brought out the .tnp-hsh masses; Out tnen it was a liondon mob, ill-mannerly, low, and disorderly. That is the reason1 why both were abolished, Bar tholomew's Fair recently, and Popish Plot fete : some time ago. But who could, would, or should abolish the 4th ? The next morning after it was over here, the city looked as if there had been an ierupt:on of fire-crackers from the celestial empire, and as if all Canton, Pekin, Nankin and I Fungchowfow had scattered the ruins thereof over the city of New York. Streets, steps, parks and public places were all over strown with cracker ruins and rubbish. In no European city could there be so much unlicensed freedom and rowdyism. Not a fire cracker or squib could be fired in the streets of London ; and as for popular fairs or shows, they are all done away with, except the one at Camberwell, five miles off from the great me tropolis. ! Very few arrests were made here on the 4th, not more than 80, and fewer accidents occurred than usual. The most serious was to a party of three young men, who went to King's Bride, at the end of N. Y. Island, to bathe, and all of them were drowned. The dead sea of city life does not exist here at all, or onlyj at hrief intervals. Some events of a startling nature are always up springing above the surface. We were quiet here for nearly two days, but the elephant was only coucbant in the jungle. He has come out now, or rather a brace of them, with tusks, proboscis and all. J Robert Schuyler, (pronounced Skyler,) late President of the New Yorli and New Haven 1 Rail Road, perpetrated an astounding swindle. and has absconded, lhe charter allowed the issue of three millions of stock, but Mr. Schuy ler issued 19,000 shares, at $100 per share, on his own responsibility. This makes nearly two millions of fraudulent stock, mostly sold out for investment, and which will bring ruin to many families, widows and orphans. Schuy ler was at one; time President of the Harlem Rail Road, and was director or transfer agent to five other roads. He is connected with the Hamilton family, which bolstered him up. He was also interested in the contract, for building the Madison and Annapolis Rail Road in In diana. He kept his town house and country house here, and is a fair specimen of the rot tenness and prodigality f New York society. The longest term in the penitentiary ia too ihort for such wholesale swindlers. But villainy assumes diverse forms. To-day t large crowd! was collected before a store in Front street, below Maiden Lane. A Mr. Pe verelly kept storage there, and it is supposed that be nan soia portions oi nis siock ana poet eted proceeds, j To conceal his crime, he pur chased a barrel of spirits of turpentine,-saturated Urge quantities of cotton with it, which he strewed over the upper floors, and was just rea dy to fire the building, when the private watch man on the beat, with some policemen, entered and arrested him. The watchman had seen a light in the building, while Peverelly was stuff ing the windows wjto cotton, and thinking there were burglars i on hand, proceeded to make arrests. While I am writing, the agents of the insurance offices, and merchants who had goods on store, are gathered there to laok aifc" their aaairs, and to study th admirabhi ingenuity of Mr Peverelly himself, who is now In the tomb. ut destined to Sing Sing, if not for ptemadi Mrs0D e lftRst for grand larceny. , The way of the transgressor is hard. A Jewish funeral procession passed Spring street yesterday into the Bowery. Tha men iu sasnes or shawls, as they usnalij do. woen they go to Sciule or worship in the Sy- Bagogues CLJf. FOR THE AEOI8TU. TO M193 L. V. C. A 5.t,m-e ! theme 1 ther ls noe sav one w ill inspire my thoughts to night. As well might I ask the mid-day un. To veil his rich flood of light "Tia the Beautiful" before me beams, x A blessed vision from above, A spirit wafted from the land of dreams, A being of beauty and love." Like golden-striSg'd harp by lephTr stlrwd. Smiles nit gently o'er her face Like soft shining plume of paraiiae bird, Floating in beauteous grace I ' A type of sweetest charmes confessed, W here mirror'd fancy loves to dwell, The ark of hope, where my soul would' rest When life's tempestuous billows swell. Sweetest joys like summer birds may fly Star-lit hopes flickering gleam Like summer buds may bloom and. die, A scarce remembered dream : But there's a soft, sweet, touching lay. Dwelling deep doUn in the heart, "Which will ne'er resign its silken sway And ne'er from thence depart. MARRIED. At Wesley Chapel, on Sunday, the 9th, inst., by James More, Esq., Mr. Henry K. Sandlia to Mias Mary E. Jeffreys,. daughter of David Jef freys, all of Granville County. DIED. In this City, on Saturday morning last, of Consumption, Jerome Hudson, aged 16. In this City, on Saturday nirht W . lingering illness, Mrs. Julia Ann Haylander. ased 85. In this City, on Saturday, the 8th inst., of dropsy of the brain. Ida. infant dantrhtor t Joseph and Emiline H. Hardie, aged one year Of a dispase of the bowels, in Forestville, on the 1st of July, in the 23rd year of his age, Mr. Waverly Anderson, a native of Nottoway, Va. A full obituary of a private individual is seldom proper, but a few facts may be mentioned rela ting to the life and death of this young gentle man, which may be improved by the living. A few years ago he appeared in this communi ty a stranger, but by his remarkable discretion, his industry and bis kindness, he gained its confidence, so that it may be said of him None knew him but to love None named him but to praise. He adds another to the innumerable, but un heeded contrasts and mutabilities of life. His funeral was preached on the 2nd of July by the Rev. Prof. Brooks in the College Chapel, hid coffin placed in the aisle where about six months before, in manly beauty and strength, he led a blooming bride to the Marriage Altar. Com. At ber residence, in this County, on the 30th ult., Mrs. Mary J. Speight, relict of the late Capt. Jas. Speight, in the 58th. year of hsr age. A Desirable Residence For Sale. THE Subscriber offers for sale her place of re sidence in Wake County, N.C., situated Five miles West of Raleigh, immediately on the Central Rail Road. The Dwelling is. a very large and convenient one, handsomely situated. The nut houses are good, consisting of the Printing Offioa Buildings, Kitchen, Ice-house, Barn, stables, 4c , &c There is a Well of excellent water, with a chain pump. A so a great variety of Fruit Trees, Grape Vines, etc. The Tract of Land contains 130 acres i50 acres of which is cleared and susceptible of a high state of improvement some 20 acres being good jnead ow land. Other lands, If wanted, may be purchas ed adjoining. -" In consideration of its healthful and convenient location, and many valuable improvements, it is in every respect desirable as a place of residence. Any persons wishing to purchase are invited to call and examine the premises for themselves at as early a day as practicable. O. MEREDITH. July 14, 1854. 57 4t We arc requested to announce Maj. WILLIE P. JONES as a candidate for the Office' the SheriUahv of Wake, at the ensuing August Election. 59 te We are requested to announce WIL LIAM H. niQII as a Candidate for re-election to the Sheriffalty of Wake. at the ensuing August Election. June, 1854. 61 tE HOTEL IIT mLLSBOEOTTQH T0K SALE. WE offer for sale that valuable property In Hillsborough, known as the 'Umiox Hotel,' pear the Court House. The terms made to suit the purchaser. Possession given the first of Jan uary next. N. B If not sold, it will be rented as usual. LONG, WEBB & CO. June 9, 1854. w6w 47 STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA. Grahvillb Cocmtt, Superior Court of Law, Spring Term A. D. 1854. ElUabeth Walker vs. William M. Walker. Petition for Divorce. It appearing to the satisfaction of the Court, that Wm. M. Walker, the defendant in this cause, resides beyond the limits of this State : it is therefore, on motion, ordered by the Court, that advertisement be made for six weeks successivly at the Court House in Oxford and .also ia the Raleigh Re gister for three months, notifying the said de fendant of the filing of this petition, and that unless he appears at the next Term of this Court, to be held lor the County and State aforesaid. -"-at the Court House in Oxford, on the first Monday of September next, and answer said petition, the same will be taken pro eonfetso and heard ex parte as to him. , , Witness Eugene Grissom, Clerk of our said Court, D. Office in Oxford, the firsC Monday of March, A. tl864 E. GRLSsSOAI, C. 8. C. Oxford, June 9, 1864. w3m 47 HILLSBOROUGH ACADEMY THE next Session will commence on Wedaes nesday, the 12th of July. Terms as heretofore. R- H. GRAVES, Principal, June 28 it 1 OXFORD MALE ACADEMY,- H. Horner Principal ; Morson Venable, Assistant. The next session will open the 10th July and close the 1st December. Board and tuition for the session $66. :i r . Oxford N. C, June 18, 1854. - w&swt20T-47 HEAT FANS. Warranted to clean well, even of cheat and cockle, kent eonsUntlv on hand at the Farmer's Hall, at Manufacturere prices. JAS. it TOWLES. June SO, 1854. 6& - it 1 'A a -1 r - i 1 "t. X M 15' I! it It t r V V i H 4s . f ! 5 i Hi X
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