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. Every week and every day, and it might be
affirmed every hour, brings forth some develop
ment of crime, wmrption, or rascality in New
York. ' Last week the Schuyler fraud and the
Peverelly arson case were brought to light, and
since then there bare been two or three other
cases of wilful incendiarism, an extensive rob
bery, and the failure of some of the fancy Btock
companies. Tjhe influx of California gold and
he apparent prosperity of the times induced
the wildest speculations and a mania for form
ing stock companies of every description.' An
enumeration of these would be curious.V.We
can only refer to a few of them, such as mor
tar mixing, mantle carving, newfangled wash
ing machines, diving apparatusfand new metb
ods of smelting ores,. Stock companies were
formed for all these and thousand other pro
jects, as well as of mineral lands, especially
coal and copper, all over the country.
The North Carolina Copper- Mine Company
was among the first of these speculations, and
had a fair start. It adopted the old plan of or
ganization, which consists in hiring rooms for
offices; and. paying far salaries to officers and
officials. The amount of stock was one hun
dred thousand shares at five dollars a share.
About one. fifth of the stock was taken, and in
stalments paid in to the amount of forty or fifty
thousand dollars. All this has vanished, and
the company is in debt about as much more:
Had their working capitalbeen j udiciously UBed,
there would baye been -bo necessity for the
company to go into liquidation as they now
propose to do. An additional and immediate
Honi.nd nf fifrv cents on a share has been made
upon the stockholders, and if they should meet
it promptly, the company will again be placed
in funds. v; At present there is no demand for
the stock.' A few days ago some of it was dis
nnuA nf t twentv five cents per share. The
plan of operations has been to transport ;the
Z-Am T from Gailford county to Fayetteville,
and thence to Wilmington and New York. On
oi-K.al Kami it has been sold at $40 per ton, and
taken to Connecticut or Massachusetts to be
mlol Ti was said at first to yield 30 per
cent, of copper, but it is now set down at 10 per
cent -xne vorniBu supper "
nnlt 7 ner cent, and nay working, ihere
the Guilford coDDer ore, and
the frequent- roastings to extract it, diminish
the value of the ore. -The tedious transporta
tion is objectionable unless the material were
more valuable. The Harvey Iron and Steel
Manufactory on the Harlem Rail Road, 30 or
40 mile from this city, have engaged to send
100 000 lbs. of the magnetic iron ore they em
ploy to England. This would not be done if the
quality of it were not superior. The smelting
should be performed in Nortb Carolina and
the oure copper forwarded. In that case an
agency Or commission house might do the rest,
and save the expense ot an establishment here.
It is said that the Gold Hill Mine in Rowan
pays one per cent, a month. The stock was
one million, and shares five dollars each. The
current sale is $3 per share. It is under the
management of Mr. Moses L. Holmes, and the
gold is sent on in bars and in nuggets.
ReversesareincidentaltoallflatteringschemeB
and projects, which usually commence with in
nation and terminate in collapse. , The times
just now are not favorable to resuscitate embar
rassed companies, or to start new ones. There
no doubt nlentv of eold. copper, and coal in
North Carolina, but these companies should not
.hir chickens before they are hatched.
Tuit tSpm relv rather upon the actual sales of
the pure stuff they can get out and dispose of
in market, au Deyoou is w pu.o uwusmuc,
' and Rtraw stocks are turned into laughing stocks.
Our Csesars have published a decree, not that
all dogs should be taxed, but muzzled or
slaughtered. The dog-pond is located at cor
ner of 1st Avenue andSlst St. A corner lot 75
by 50 feet is enclosed by a high fencend tem
porary sheds are put' up round the interior.
The Authorities pay fifty cents a head for dogs
delivered there, and there is as much pecula
tion in dog flesh as in copper mines. The
canines are brought not only from the city but
from all the surrounding country. The best of
them are separated and Bold by the keepers at
about $2 a piece. The Others, if not reclaimed,
are taken to a kind of pen at night, and knock
ed in the head with clubs. The carcases are
then consigned to Mr. Reynolds, the offal con
tractor, who removes them to BlackweU's Is
land, where' they are made into soap and gluo,
and the skins sold to the tanner. From fifty
to a hundred dogs are dispatched every day.
They are of all sizes, shapes, color, respecta
bility, and pedigree. Poodles, Terriers, Mas
tiffs, Watchers, and King Charlies, all go the
way of all flesh. Some are of very innocent
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; and harmless ager and others are regular old
I bruisers, fill of scars and wounds, and have
fought moe pitched batttles than General Pas-
keiwich or Admiral Napier. '
The Harpers have recently published a very
i interesting work, on the Phillipine Islands,
translated from the French of Paul Gironiere,
I who strayed off and visited Manilla some twenty
I or thirty years ago. He founded a colony on
the island and called it Jla-Jala, and gives a
J lively recital of his adventures, and description
i of the Tagaloes or native Indian population,
their manners and customs. The Tingman
tribe are peculiar. Among them the ladies
i think that nothing is more beautiful than to
' have large hands, especially if tny are strong
and red. Gironiere procured the services of a
Sriest for his colony at Jala Jala. Father
lignel was a very devout man and of mixed
Japanese and Malay descent. He preached to
bis congregation once a year. Gironiere urged
turn to exhort a little ottener, but lather Mig
pel replied, "So many words are hot necessa
ry to make a good christian." The . work is
curious and well worth reading.
i The essential quality of tea and coffee is
called by chemists "Taurine." It is so called
because it is largely contained in the bile of
the ox (Taurus.) Choleic acid, indispensable
to form taurine, abounds in the bile of the ox.
and is foond in slight quantity in the brie of '
the pig. It is liberally infused in the human
pile, and on this account coffee generally nau
seates bilious people. An English chemist bas
discovered that the seeds of asparagus are rich
in taurine, and they will therefore be an excel
lent substitute for coffee, and may be prepared
in the same manner.
jj Professor Doremus, of this city, has been ex-
perimenting on soda waters, and has found a
good deal of lead and copper in these popular
leverages, which, if not avoided, may make
them prejudicial to health.
I Preserves sold in the shops are largely im
pregnated with copper, particularly apricots
and green guaees. -Orfilu-' thought that the
sugar and syrup was an antidote, but other
toxicologists do not agree with him. Colored
Confectionary is often very poisonous. The
yellows contain chromate of lead and gamboge
The reds contain cochineal, red lead, and bi
laulphuret of mercury. The browns contain
f Vandyke, brown umber or sienna. The pur
I pies Prussian blue and cochineal. The blues
I contain indigo and Prussian blue. And the
I greens mixtures or combinations of lead and
copper and ocheele s, green or arsenite of cop
J Messrs. Walker & King, of the Pacific R.
Road Co., left here last week, with three hun-
I dred thousand dollars to deposit in the Treasu
r ry of Texas, preparatory to accepting the con
I tracts for building the road through that State
I They bad letters of credit for a larger amount
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I The following singular advertisement appears
I a Canadian paper. It is as French as a little
1 ponnei :
J ,,y ,AU dose peops what I owes
I'll not axe 'em for dat,
But all doe pop what owes me
Blast pay me up immediat.
. "PROHIBITORY LIQUOR LAWS. !
All laws regulating what we'shall eat or.what
we shall drink, or what we shall wear, are ob-
noxious ana odious to sne commou '
mankind. Bat irrespective of this view of the
subject, there is now, it is well understood, a
decided attempt to give the prohibitory liquor
lawAiovement a political aspeot. This is the
case in several of the Northern States, (where
it is coupled with the abolition of slavery, the
other "groat moral movement" of the age, as it
is termed ;) and to some extent also in Virginia
and North Carolina. As friends of Temperance
and well-wishers of a great and good cause, we
enter our humble protest against this inconsid
erate and injudicious step, as one only calcula
ted to inflict injury wnere no nurs was meuim
ii) In onr omsion. the individual who makes
political bobby of this question and attempts
to ride into office whether aponits merits or de
merit whether for or asrainst it be he whig
or democrat should not be deemed worthy of
any public station to which be aspires. We
have no hisitation in saying, - without further
discussion upon this point, that the "sober se
cond thought" of the people will be able to
make this discovery full soon of itself. But
there is still another view to be taxen. ii is
singular infatuation among many who engage
in so called moral movements, that they should
attempt in a republican government to run a
head of public opinion, and endeavor to orce
others to follow them by the stern mandates of
unwelcome meddlesome statutes.
If such laws are made when the public mind
are unprepared for them, or the feelings of the
people revolt against them, one of the two re
suits is inevitable, either that the law will be a
dead letter and trampled upon with impunity,
or its enforcement, (supposing that possible,)
will be considered an intolerable grievance, and
downright tyranny. In either contingency
more harm than good to the cause of good
morals will be the necessary result. The expe
rience of the Dast is full of lessons of wisdom
on the subject. From the pains and penalties of
the inquisition, by which men were tortured
according to law, to change their religious faith
and cease to be heretics, to the lesser torments
sometimes inflicted upon stubborn consciences,
such experiments have been found to be cruel
and unfeeling, and anti republican, and detri
mental to the cause of truthful reform.
And now the tempearance advocates have
become intemperate reformers. Men may be
come addled, arid lose their self command by
other stimulants than alcohol. Teniperanee in
all things was one of the imposed admonitions
of the aDostle Paul. And what is the excuse
tor all this fecundity ot zeair mat noi oniy
stringent prohibitory laws must be passed, but
that this moral movement must be dragged neck
and heels into the arena of political controver
sy ? that a temperance political organization
must be made in the State and in the different
counties of the State ?
The pretended answer is : we have tried met
al suasion long enough, and we have been un
able to make men cease the use of ardent
spirits, and now we are going to compel them
by law to do what we cannot persuade them to
do. And in as much as we have not been sue
cessful in our persuasions to make the citizens
of the common weath think as we think on the
subject of alcoholic drinks, we are convinced
that they do not know their own interests, and
therefore we will pass laws to compel them to do
and think as we say they ought to do and think.
But perhaps this may be a question, or it
may involve questions, in which the minority
have rights as well as the majority, and rights
which a majority, even if such could be ascer
tained in favor of tlio utter prohibition of the
manufacture, sale and use of intoxicating li
quors, could not be suffered to trample upon or
disregard. No matter, the Temperance zealots
and fanatics say. We are engaged in a grand
moral movement, and we are determined to
carry it through and save the people from de
stroying themselves. Such has been the plea
of tyrants always. Beoause it is right to be
temperate, and it is a moral duty to be tempe
rate, we will compel you to be temperate, or at
least we will pass laws which say as much, and
you must run the hazard of disregarding them.
There are many other moral duties, which it
might be very inconvenient to enforce by law.
There are many things right in themselves,
which are exceedingly comely and good, but
which the people of free States would be loath
to be forced to observe by legal enactment. It
ia exceedingly right and proper that a man
should be a christian and belong to some chris
tian denomination. But what would become
of a Legislature that would pass a law compel
ling men to become' members of churches?
What constitutional I right would they have to
do so? It is all proper to worship God ; but
what legislative body in a free country would
pretend to eaact that the citizens should worship
a Supreme Being? That is a matter left with
every man's own conscience.
But suppose it be said in reply that we tem-
!erate advocates would not pretend to pass
aws saying that citizens shall not drink, but
we will shut up all the taverns, stop the manu
facture and sale of ardent spirits, and thus let
them drink, if they can get it. That would be
very much like saying we will not compel men
to join any church or to attend divine worship,
but we will make it unlawful either to stay at
home or go anywhere else on the Lord's Day.
or to join or belong to any association of men.
We must say that we look upon such move
ments with suspicion. They are anti-republican
and contrary to the spirit and progress of
the age in which the individual rights of the
citizens are constantly increasing, and the pow
ers of government are constantly relaxing and
diminishing. Jefferson said "the world is gov
erned too much," and we hope that remark is
not less true at the present day, than when that
patriot so felt and spoke.
But can the prohibitory law be enforced if
hit be enacted? or will it be a dead letter, and
thus accustom the community to see the laws
violated, and thus deaden still more a not very
acute nerve of public sensibility ? We doubt
whether the law would be enforced if it were
passed. It is almost a dead letter on the stat
ute books, wherever it has been enacted, and is
leading to unheard of secret debaucheries and
to innumerable grog shops. Are such things
strong aliments for the public morals ? We
trow not. JSetter have no laws than too much,
ana mat not oDservea au the reverena ran
ters in Christendom, upon this theme, to the
contrary notwithstanding. Let the Temper
ance men see to the enforcement of the laws we
already have. They are stringent enough to
answer the good end for which they were crea
ted, and as strong as public sentiment wih
bear, and that they are not, properly enforced is
conclusive evidence of this state of facts.
Danville ( Fa.) Register.
4 The Standard wishes to know if the Ed
itor of the Argus did not write Gen. Dockery's
letter of acceptance. He did not. He never
saw it until he read it in the Register. General
Dockery wrote it himself : and it is hardly aa
good as he commonly writes. We have receiv
ed many a letter from him.
By the bye, who wrote Mr. Bragg's letter of
acceptance ? It is a very silly affair, upon
the whole ; and the secondparagraph, especial
ly, is exceedingly foggy. We have heard a num
ber of intelligent gentlemen say that they could
not tell what he meant by "an honest aoubt of
my own fitness to discharge them." What does
be mean by the word "honest?" and what does
"them" refer to We beg of the Standard to
look at the paragraph, and give us an exegesis,
Fay. Argus.
Fearful Mortality. The Danville Register
states that dysentery has been prevailing to an
alarming extent in the neighborhood of Leaks
ville, N. C, within the past few weeks. In one
family three out of five children died of it. In
another, its ravages wei-e more fatal still, sweep
ing off some ten of its number in rapid succes
sion. In Leaksyillera few Sabbaths ago, the
cloth for 25 shrouds was sold in one day In
the upper edge of Pittsylvania, the country has
bean soonrged with this disease to q extent
but Utth inferior. ' 1 '
From the Baltimore jA.merican.-n
THE WHIGS OF THE NORTH
We bavd never doubted, nor have we hesita
ted to express the opinion, that the great body
of the Whig party in the North could not final
ly be led into any permanent union with the '
free soil or abolition factions. An exhibition
of the true motives animating those factions,
and a knowledge of the objects they propose to
secure by their political action, we nave an as
sured confidence will quickly dissolve any com
munion that may have been nastily rormea or
contemplated. The Springfield Republican,
hitherto an influential ana national rv nig jour
nal, has been among those Northern presses,
which, like some at the South, have concluded
upon and announced the final dissolution of the
Whig party. The Republican contends tnat
the Whigs of the South have merged all their
distinctive political tenets in the controlling
desire to extend the area of slavery, that in
consenting to the repeal of the Missouri com
promise they have broken faith with the Whigs
of the North, and that henceforth a great gulf
is fixed between the two wings of the party.
We refer to this position on the part of the
Republican for the purpose of introducing por
tions of a reply to it drawn from the New
York Commercial, also an influential and
conservative Whig paper, and in former days a
staunch advocate of the Compromise measures.
The Commercial objects to the authority of the
Republican to speak thus ex cathedra for the
whole Whig party ; or even for the Whig party
of either the South or North, if such a sectional
distinction is for a moment admissible. It in
clines to the belief that the Republican will
hereafter regret having employed such pos
itive language, without authority and in the
face of facts which a little calm reflection would
have made patent to it. The Commercial then
proceeds to remark :
"We do not admit that " the two wings of the
party separated on the issue of the extension of
slavery." The vote given in both branches.of
the National .Legislature on the .Nebraska bill
disproves the assertion. The line was not suffi
ciently definite for a line of separation, and
even if every Whig from every slave State voted
for the bill, and every Whig from every free State
voted against it, by what authority does the Re
publican pronounce thatthereisa perpetual sep
aration of the two wings of the party ? No in
dividual member of the party, however able as
a journalist, or consistent as a politician, or es
teemed as a man, should undertake to decide
such a momentous question, in advance of the
party itself through its proper representatives.
Suppose the next National Whig Convention,
the members coming up fresh from the people
throughout the Union, should decide otherwise,
and resolve to maintain the party organization
intact, as we do not doubt that it will, what
then will the Republican say ? It will have but
two alternatives, either to back straight out
from its present position, which would be un
pleasant to its able conductors ; or cease to be
a Whig journal, which would be regretted by
all those Whigs who remember and who does
not?--its faithful, powerful and long continued
advocacy of the party's interests.
We have a further and insuperable objection
to the proposition made in the passages we
have quoted. The conservative national Whig9
can never consent to become a mere sectional,
Northern party, or stand upon a platform which
the North alone can occupy. No political sen
timents worth sustaining and perpetuating no
issues worth contending for can be limited by'
a geographical line. There can be no party de
serving or capable of influencing the destinies
of this Republic, whose organization embraces
only half the States of the Union, and which
is avowedly hostile to the other half. What
true patriot, what thoughtful statesman, could
give his confidence to such a party ? For our
humble selves, we would rather be in a "mi
nority of one, than among the majority of any
party that embraced only a section of the Union."
POLITICS IN NEW YORK.
Speaking of the result of the late Hard Shell
(or Hunker) Democratic Convention of New
York, which nominated Mr. Branson (the ex
Collector of the Port of New York) as their can
didate for Governor of that State, notwithstan
ding his previously expressed determination
not to accept the nomination, the Commercial
Advertiser makes the subjoined remarks, which,
besides being instructive in themselves, af
ford no little encouragement to the steady
Whigs of the country :
"As an evidence of the present strength of
feud between the two sections of the "harmon
ious" Democracy, Mr. Bronson's nomination is
philosophically entertaining and politically grat
ifying. It is an amusing illustration of time
immemorial "harmony," and an encouraging
condition of things for the Whig party. High
as is Mr. Bronson's personal character, and
eminent as are his qualifications for public of-
ace, no supporter ot the present Administration
can consistently vote for him, for that would be
to condemn, in the most direct and practical
manner, the President and Mr. Guthrie. It is
now open war between the two branches, at
least for the next State election. Surely the
Whigs will not be wanting to themselves under
such circumstances.
"However, let all that pass. The nomina
tions of the Hunker Democrats are made, and
Mr. Bronson.had he been willing to serve, would
have justified the wisdom of the Convention's
choice. And now the Whigs know in part the
opposition against which they will have to con
tend in the next State election. The knowledge
ought to inspire them with confidence, and with
a determination to maintain inviolate their par
ty integrity and organization.
"Not only do dissension and division reign
in the ranks of our opponents, but the enemy is
divided into two-hostile armies irreconcilably
at war with each other, of one of which the ap
pointed commander in-chief refuses to take the
command or enter the field. Victory is sure to
perch upon the Whig banner, if only the Whigs
are true to themselves and their principles. 1
we go into the field as Whigs and nothing else,
we cannot be defeated. The day is our own
just as though it were already won. If there
De any teaity among us to the great names and
the greater principles under which we have so
often conquered in far less favorable circumstan
ces, letlis now stand shoulder to shoulder in the
work, and in solid phalanx go forth to meet and
conqner our divided opponents.
"Surely this is not the time to distract oursel
ves with new issues, to form new associations,
to experiment upon untried coalitions, and to
sectionalize the party. Let us continue what
we have been, a national party, "knowing no
South, no North, no East, no West," but em
bracing our whole glorious country in our pa
tiotic pympathies. Thus, and thus only, can
we gain that which should bfcand is the highest
aim of those who have fough under the banner
of the truest patriots and the greatest statesmen
that this country or the world ever possessed.
"United, we stand ; divided, we fall."
5gy- Read the letter from the Hon. James
T. Morehead, with the accompanying docu
ments relative to the Edney and Clingman
business, published in to day's paper.
These documents prove : That so far from
General Dockery and other gentlemen having
offered Edney $400 to electioneer with for Kerr
in Clingman's District, as he charges, that Ed
net asked these gentlemen for the money , and they
declined giving it to him ! ,
They prove also the commission of an act by
Edney which we do not choose to characterize
m fitting terms here, but of which only one
opinion can be formed. It is a grave and seri
ous transaction, and one which caused his re
call from the office he had obtained from Govern
ment. .; It is almost painful to read these e
j and one can but feel pity for Mr. Balis M. Ed
ney, tne poor aupe ol an unscrupulous politi
cian. To what desperate straits must not that part
vT m uw up witnesses uke K
Mi
IGH REGISTER
P PUBLISHER BY
, SEATON GALES,
EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR,
AT $2 50 IN ADVANCE; OR, $3 00 AT
THE END OF THE YEAR.
"Ours' are the plans of fair, delightful peace ;
Unicarped by party rage, to live like brothers."
r Ale ig h. n. c.
SATURDAY MORNING, JULY 22, 1854.
. Republican Whig Ticket.
FOR GOVERNOR,
ALFRED DOCKERY, OF RICHM0M).
ELECTION 0IT THUBSDAY, AUGUST 3rd.
TICKETS!
Send in your orders for DOCKER Y
TICKETS. We will send them ly
Mail, free of all charge except that for
postage. t
GEN. DOCKERY'-S APPOINTMENTS.
THUMU
Hendersonville, Friday, July 21
Asbevilte, Saturday . " 22
Burnsville, Monday " 24
Dr. Yancy's on Ivy, Tuesday " 25
Jewel Hill, Wednesday, " 26
Waynesville,-1 Friday, " 28
Webster,- Saturday, " 29
Franklin, ' Monday, " 31
Murphy,' Wednesday, August 2
; A WORD IN SEASON!
There will,'no doubt, be much excitement on
the 3rd of August, in many of the Counties, in
reference to the election for Members of the
Legislature. .Let not our friends, in the midst
of such excitement, and whilst pressing the
claims of the Whig ticket for that body, forget
the Governorfs election. The old "Pee Dee
Farmer" has done his duty nobly in the present
contest, and it would be a burning shame were
the Whigs of any section to neglect to do their
duty for him on the day of election ! He has
been subjected to every species of ridicule and
contumely from the vile tools of Party, and all
because he was carrying the Whig banner tri
umpnantiy tnrougn tne conflict 1 Stand to
your arms Whigs ! On the dat of election,
LET THE WATCHWORD BE DoCKERF AND VICTORY !
FREE SUFFRAGE.
It will be remembered that in 1850 the Peo
ple were4old by the locofoco presses and speak
ers, that if they would only elect David S. Jieid,
they would get Free Suffrage like a flash !
Well, they did this, .and at the next election,
when the nonlandholder8 demanded "where is
the Free Suffrage you promised ub V Echo an
swered where J Yet the pledge wa9 renewed.
"Just elect him once more, and it will certainly
come." This: they did -. and at the next Session
of the Legislature the locofocos of the Senate
selected Weldon tf. Edwards Speaker, knowing
at the time he was hostile to Free Suffrage ; and
when the measure was in its last stages of vi
tality, this same locofoco Speaker killed it !
Who then are responsible for the death of Free
Suffrage ? Still the promise is renewed. Now,
''Bragg is the only hope !" Will the friends o
this measure be longer duped by the promises
of such men
We say the "only hope" for it is in a Conven
tion, where the Pxoplb can speak for themselves
through their'immediate Representatives.
Let the friends of Free Suffrage, by Convin
tion, rally at the Polls on the 3rd of August
next ! ' .' '
" LOOKOUT!
The " Standard " looks melancholy , low
spirited, evidently. Since its friend Edney has
been so effectually used up, and it has found
no one mean enough to write that " usual let
ter" announcing a change in the opinions of
the Whig candidate, as he goes westward, its
columns have; a lank, lean appearance ! Per
haps secret despatches have been sent abroad !
We advise the Whigs to keep a sharp look out !
A recent article in the "Raleigh Stan
dard," in which David S. Reid and Thomas L.
Clingman are igravely contrasted with Mr. Bad
ger, to the no small depreciation of the latter,
has spread a broad grin over the fice of almost
every man, woman and child, who have been so
fortunate as to see it. The Editor may con
gratulate himself upon the happy faculty he
possesses of putting people in a good humor.
les, even so $ the "Standard" begins by com
paring Davy Reid to Mr. Badger! and then, as if
h had not gotjMr. B. quite low enough, he puts
Bim alongside that "distinguished Statesman,"
and makes him a very pigmy in the powers of
intellect, forsodth ! We presume our modern Plu
tarch will next institute a parallell betfveen Mr.
Badger and Mr. Clingman's distinguished con
stituent, Balis, in which that new convert will
lay the said George E. Badger, (who was once
deemed tolerably smart,) decidedly in the shade !
Really we know nothing" more absurd and
ridiculous than this effort to bring doion one,
who has proven himself a "giant in the land."
Some say the organ-grinder meant this as a
hoax ; and it is even rumored that his Excel
lency looks upon it as a coarse and unwarranta
ble liberty taken with his person. He feels
that he has perhaps had enough to bear from
the Whigs, in .the way of ridicule, and is quite
indignant at this new and unlooked for expo
sure in the house of his friends. The "distin
guished Statesman," on the contrary, will think
the "Standard" means just what it says. The
language so agrees with his estimate of his own
gigantic proportions, that he will swallow it all !
Verily, "Reid and Clingman are Statesmen
they are "Statesmen as is Statesmen 1" Yet,
though Mr. Badger be a man of but common
attainments, he has made himself in some sort
useful, and We shall rejoice When Senators
Reid and Clingman can procure the passage of
a $200,000 appropriation for North Carolina !
Su Let there be efficient working Whigs
at every election precinct in each county. If,
in some quarters, printed tickets Cannot be ob
tained, write and distribute them. Be at the
Polls early, and go at it like men resolved to
conquer 1 -
The prevaili
"Democracy" in Virginia, is that Henry A
W i8e will be the next Democratic candidate for
Qovernor. '
GOV. GRAHAM AND HIS I REVlLER
Tha rv,i; -f-u ?m KT.h th Editor '
of the "Standard" nnrsnes Gov. Graham is
of a r,W. -w&K Mi mnan1 nrf,Ut towards att
who belone to e Whig Party, and from whomtwbat to xnilitete against the claims
the EditoAxpected, or ceived. acts of-kind-
ness. whilst hi bimsW was a Whie. The rene-
d.U W mWM. -W hittemesa of
feelings to his new opponents !
In his assaults
generally on his old friends and associates, ; ho
exhibits more of the' spirit of his Satanic Ma
jesty, than in ahy thing else I
These remarks are elicited by an article in
the "Standard" of last week, in which Gov.G. is
assailed with the Editor's accustomed maligni
ty and demagogneism. We shall notice bat
one of the charges, viz : "that he voted against
giving the election t,f Governor to the People
when a member of the House of Commons in
834." This is not the first time the "Stan
dard" has preferred this charge. It was done
in 1844 to aid Mr. Hoke, and again in 1846 to
aid Mr. Shepard, but the People, after all the
facts were made known, treated it with the con
tempt it deserved, and elected Gov. G. to the
highest office in their gift, by large and trium
phant majorities ! Why then did the Editor of
the "Standard" suppress any of the facts?
They were well known to him, and by giving a
one sided statement of the matter, he bas shewn
that he is willing to stab a political adversary,
by the suppression of a part of the truth, which,
in all civilized communities, is considered equiv
alent to uttering a falsehood !
The facts were these : In 1834 there was a
warm contest, going on in tne estate, on me
question of calling a Convention to amend the
Constitution. Gov. Graham, and a number of
other intelligent gentlemen, were appointed by
tho friends of a Convention a Committee to pre
pare and publish an address to the People on
the subject. They did so, and in it urged strong
ly the giving the election of Governor to the Peo
ple. That address was signed by Gov. Graham,
and approved in each and every part ! At the
next Session of the Legislature a bill was intro
duced, to carry out substantially the recom
mendations contained in that address. The
East being opposed to it, and the members from
that section likely to defeat it, Gov. Graham
was assured, that if the clause giving the elec
tion of Governor to the People were stricken
out, it would pass, but that it could not pass as
it was. Desirous, as every sensible and pm
dent man would have been, to secure the Dill up
on the best terms possible, Gov. Graham voted
for Mr. Outlaw's motion to strike out the clause
referred to. Knowing that the great grievance
the West complained of was the inequality of
representation, especially in the House of Com
mons, he was willing to give up something to
save that. He preferred even half a loaf to no
bread at all. But that he was in heart and
spirit in favor of the measure cannot be doubted,
and he supported in debate and voted for the
Bill after the Iiouse of Commons refused to
strike out.
But see the inconsistency of those who urge
this objection to Gov. Graham ! When the
Convention of 1835, after due consideration, vo
ted on the question, whether the election of
Governor should be given to the People, pray
who were its most prominent opponents?
Nathaniel Macon, Weldon N. Edwards, John
Branch and Jcdge Daniel! Was not Mr.
Macon venerated, even after this vote, as the
father of Democracy in this State? He (it is
said) voted against recommending the draft
of the Constitution, to the adoption of the
People, mainly on account of this article,
and the one establishing biennial sessions.
Has the Editor forgotten also that in 1838 the
whole Party, to which he now belongs, voted
for that same veritable John Branch for Gov
ernor ? It is even so, and yet, by the present
course of the Editor towards Gov. Graham, he
would cast a cenaure on his own Party ! But
it is useless to dwell on the subject. The charge
has been dragged from the sewers of politica
demagogueism to defeat Gov. G. But it will
fail of Us purpose 1
SUPREME COURT.
The following opinions have been delivered
in the Supreme Court since our last report:
By Nash, C. J. In Commissioners of Wash
ington vs. Frank and John, from Beaufort, affir
miug the judgment. Also, in McPbersou and
Conn vs. Pemberton, from Montgomery, .af
firming the judgment. Also, in Lewis vs. Lew
is, from Bladen, affirming the judgment. Also,
in Doe ex dem. Pigott vs. (.heers, from- Brun
Bwick. Also, in Knight v. Wilmington and
Manchester tt. ti. Uompany, trom .New Hano
ver, directing a venire da novo. Also, in the State
v. Admiral .nelson Cadwell, from Anson, de
daring that there is error in the proceedings of
tne superior uourt. Also, in the state v. Thorn
aston, from Brunswick, declaring that there is
no error, &c.
By Pearson, J. In State vs. Corbett, from
Uertie, directing the judgment to be affirmed
Also, in State exrel. Shuster vs. Perkins, from
Pasquotank, awarding a veniede novo. Also
in Smith vs. Bennett, from Rockingham, awar
ding a venire de novo. Also, in Neal vs. Fesper
mau, from Stanly, affirming the judgment.
Also, in McKeitfaen v. Atkinson, from Bladen,
affirming the judgment. Also, in Nichols v.
Holmes, from New Hanover, affirming the j udg
ment. Also, in Dozier, in equity, v. Sprouse,
from Yadkin, directing the plaintiff entitled to
an account. Also, in Uzzle v.. Wood, in equity
f rom Lenoir, directing a decree for plaintiff.
By Battle, J. In Briggs, in equity, vs. Alor
ri8,trom Forsythe, dismissing the bill with costs.
Also, in Taylor, in equity, vs. Taylor, from An
son ; decree for plaintiff. Also, in E. B. Daves,
in equity, vs. Haywood, from Craven ; decree
according to report. Also, in Lamb, in equity,
vs. Pigford, from New Hanover; decree for
flaintiff. Also, in Doe ex dem. Thomas v. Kel
y, from Moore, affirming the judgment. Also,
in Jones v. Cox from Sampson, affirming the
Order. Also, in Blackmail v. Bowman, from
Forsythe, affirming the judgment. Also, in
Melvin v. Easly, from New Hanover, awarding
a venire-de novo. I
The Supreme Court will probably adjourn
sometime during the ensuing week.
Hc$r. It is indoed amusing to hear how the
locofoco press "whistle to keep their courage
up." The Hards of New York have met in
Convention and denounced the Administration
as faithless to its principles, and unworthy the
confidence of the Country 1 Benton has de
clared war against it; Brown, of Mississippi, has
opened a broadside upon it; Butler andBRON
son, of New York, have openly proclaimed "war
to the knife." Even the Legislature of New
Hampshire bas scouted the edicts from the
White House, and rebellion stalks through the
ranks of the "unterrified" in all directions ; yet
the locofoco press "whistle" the old tune, "The
Democi acy is a unit V Who will be duped by
the music ?
We invite attention to the Communicar
tiLOtCwKaV ia another colon
HENLT HOPE I", ;':;.'-t
- oianaaru -
- , 2j IUL. Vtnnn 7t K FAS
but-enrage . ip.unwgo -r.
M a rather novel discovery, and seems mr
present
were told m ISM. 1850 and 1852, that tbo
ty hope for Free feoffrage was in nana o.
Keidl weii, ne nas oeen in omce nearij
years, and twi "oniy nope -oi Aioooiucwioiu -
bout to expire, and bo Free Suffrage yet. But J
we poor sublunary mortals are not ieii wwuou
"hope." Through the dim shadows of tne tn
ture, somewbere away off in the distance, may
be seen the image of Free Suffrage, stalking to
and fro, with tattered garments and dejected 1
countenance, and on being asked what brought
onnh tnvt rrr unndifinna anp Will TBUM I I
..mm ,J J- Tk TT 13 fi I 1f vnA I
"jviy xma inenas, jveia, noiuen a. vu., w
in the hands of Lawyer Jiragg, as my "only nope.
and he soon cast me aside, and threw me ad rut
upon the cold charities of a wide and unhospi-
table world, saying that as he abhorred me in
my youth and beauty, it could not be expected
that he should fondle me, when the wrinkles of
age and the marks of care had come apon me !
But oh 1 ye gods of Democracy ! he is my "on
ly hope," they say !"
Being left in the care of Mr. Bragg as her "on
ly hope," the good and amiable lady will assured
ly die. -The People, themselves, must assume
hnr irnarHianRhin. and become her "hone," if
they wish or exDect her to live, and be restored
- D r -
to her former health and beauty.
16?" The assertion of the " Standard," that
Gen. Dockery " founds his claim to office, partly
upon the fact that he is an uneducated man,"
is untrue. This is indeed cunning! But the
issue cannot be shifted in this way. The
Standard" knows how this thing commenced,
that the locofoco press, (and that print the
leader of the squad), began, early in the can
vass to ridicule Gen. Dockery for his pronunci
ation jn other words, his want of education
To this Gen. D. replied, that he was not in early
life blessed with the advantages of education,
which his competitor, and many others, had en
joyed, and that fact would account for his de
fects. But the " Standard " flies into ecstacies
over Sheffev. Sherman and Johnson! And
"look at Elihu Burreti," it exclaims, "the black
smith, who is the master of forty languages, and
then look at Alfred Dockery, not yet master of
... t . - Tr , f 1 1 n . . . i i J J
one .' wnat! tias tue - otanaara- aroppea
Bragg the "gallant Bragg" the " chivalrous
Bragg" the "orator Bragg," and taken up
Elihu Burrett as the loeofoco candidate for
Governor ? Is that the issue, Dockery or
Burrett f If it were, we might urge, that a
man may know all the languages, and still be
more unfit to perform the duties of Governor
than he who is not "master of one." As early
as the 16th Century, James Crichton was mas
ter f ten or fifteen languages, when he was but
fourteen years old, and how many he learned be
fore ho died in his twenty third year, history
does not tell us. What an overmatch he would
be to the locofoco Candidate, who, with all his
advantages is not "master of one language"
though upwards of forty years of age !
How many languages is the Editor of the
"Standard" master of? Still he can be Govern
or de facto ! How many languages were cer
tain "Ministers to Foreign Courts," sent abroad
by the "Standard's" model President, "masters"
of? Can Gov. Reid or Bragg speak or write or
even read French, or Italian, or Spanish, or
German, or Chinese, in a "masterly" manner?
If Mr. Bragg is elested, does he expect to write
his messages in French? WilLihe Editor of the
"Standard" act as "interpreter" to the learned
legislators who will have to pass upon them ?
True, Gen. Dockery is not "master" even of one
language, (and who is?) yet, he is master of
an honest heart, a clear head, a practical mind,
a resolute purpose, a patriotic soul, and he can
make his mark !
And all this, we opine, the "Standard" will
learn on the 3d of August next, if it does not
already know it !
The last "Standard" contains a most
pathetic and heart-felt appeal to Oie Party in
this County (Wake) not to divide I He coaxes
and woos like a very lover would hia gentle
mistress. But do not a few of those, who are
now bewitched by the silvery tones of that
print, remember now it "grated harsh thun
der" in the late Congressional election ? Do
they remember how it applied the lash and
shouted "Into ranks, right face, ye disorgani
zes and renegades I" Have the scars healed
so soon ? Has the back, ceased smarting, and
is there once more a "loving brotherhood" be
tween the lion and the lamb ? The Venable
distribution men are imperatively told they
mast give up all, and whilst the whole ticket
is dead against distribution, they are insulting
ly told they must go the whole figure, dance to
no other music but that which ia played by the
"Standard 1" Was ever arrogance and humili
ty more effectually contrasted and illustrated ?
, By the.wey, has the Editor of the 'Standard'
heard what Mr. Venable said of him yet ?
Modnt Vernon Association. In accordance
with previous notice, about thirty Richmond
ladies assembled at Metropolitan Hall, Wed
nesday evening, for the formation of an Asso
ciation to raise money to aid in the purchase
of Mount Vernon.
By request, Right Rev. Dr. Atkinson, Bishop
of North Carolina, who was present, opened
the meeting with prayer. .
After the adoption of a Constitution for the
government of the. Association, the following
permanent officers were elected :
President Mrs. Julia M. Cabell.
Vice Presidents Mrs. E. Sims, Mrs. Pellett,
Mrs. Dunlop, Mrs. Wirt Robinson, and Mrs.
Pegram. ,
Recording Secretary Mrs. Wm. F. Ritchie.
Corresponding Secretary Mr. J. H. Gilmer.
Treasurer Mr. Wm. II. Macfarland.
Gov. Johnson, Bishop Atkinson, and Thomas
E. Ellis and Robt. A. Mayo, who were present,
addressed the Association,
Thirty ladies then signed the Constitution,
and the meeting adjourned till the first Tues
day in August. Richmond paper.
The above notice reminds us thatweave
failed to call the attention of the ladies of this
city to the same matter before. Letters have
been received in Raleigh, inviting their co ope
ration in the patriotic design of rescuing the
hallowed Home of Washington from ihe grasp
of greedy speculators. The appeal is an irre
sistible one. Will not our ladies respond to it,
at once ? - -,
SgL.The Norfolk Beacon says, "We are not of
those who stand by a measure, or prinoiple, or
party, while it is in prosperity, and when the
shades of adversity gather over, then forsake
it." That should, be the, teatunetit of every
CANDIDATES FOR THE LEGISLATURE
rnTi.m . m , T TTTM J If ...
- """"" " .umias
T . vanuiuaseB ior toe iiouse
of Commons from this County. Jas. E. Mat-
thewa, Esq a member,and a very Reful
, v c , i", Can"
didate for the Senate from the District of Stokes
Md Forsythe.
- McDowell. We learn tnat there are three
wnle candidates lor the. Legislature in th;.
eonnty, viz : Dr. J. S. Erwin, S. J. Neal, Esq
an Maj. Uenj. Uurgin. There is, we believe
no locofoco opposition.
C. S. N. Davis, Esq., ie the Whig candidate
for tne Senate, and is opposed by John A. Dick-
on Mr. Davis election is regarded as cer.
in.
SwAvma fiAnvimr II 1 MflltAn t. tT i .
a ... &
candidate tor tne uommons trom this county.
"Really, fellow-citizens, this is too bad 1 This
is a country in which all speak the Engli
tongue, and our public records are kept in that
tongue ; and yet a claim is set up for the election
of a citizen as our Chief Magistrate who: can
neitner write nor speak that tongue correctly."
standard.
And is such one of the fundamental princi
ples of "Modern Democracy" that no one is
fit to bold office, who cannot write and speak
the English language correctly f What a sweep,
ing disfranchisement' would there be in tbs
ranks of the "unterrified !" A goodly number
of the "Standard's" "learned" friends would
have to go by the board 1 How yonr Legisla
tive Halls would be thinned ! The "Standard"
wishes to establish in this country an "aristoc
racy of languages." This is a new order !
We propose the Editor as the first President !
"It is carried, unanimously !" cries the chair
man ! Huzza !
8&.Tbe New Hampshire Legislature ad
journed on the 15th., without being able to get
the "harmonious Democracy" to agree, so as to
elect a United States Senator, or pass Nebraska
Resolutions ! "How have the mighty fallen !"
Even the land of his nativity is repudiating her
"favorite son I" Yet the "Standard" will shout
"The Democracy is a unit .'"
The "Know Nothings" elected their can
didate for Commonwealth's Attorneyin Norfolk,
on Tuesday week last. He was a Democrat .'
His opponent was a popular Whig. The Bea
con remarks, that those presses which have been
charging that the Know Nothings were Whigs
in disguise would do well to make a note of this.
W bigs ! In your anxiety for the local
county elections, don't forget your candidate
for Governor. "A long pull, a strong pull,
and a full altogether," and the day will he.
ours 1
EXTRACT from a letter to the Editor, dated
Jacksonville, July 15, 1PM.
"Dockery is gaining ground every day in Ons
low, and I think, from the signs of the times,
he will get the largest vote ever given in this
county for a Whig candidate. I have heard a
good many Democrats express their determina
tion to vote for Gen. Dyckery, who is in favor
of seeing his country improved by the building
of Railroads, and by increasing the Common
School fund so that nolonger theold State shall
remain in the background and in ignorance.
If every county in North Carolina will do
proportionately as well as Onslow, we need hare
no fears all will be right!"
EXTRACT from a letter to the Editor, dated
McDowell Co., July 13, '54.
"Clingman and Edney's .manifestoes have
fallen stillborn here. Gen. Dockery will as
suredly poll the entire Whig vote here, and I
know of some Democrats who will vote for
him."
EXTRACT from a letter to the Editor, dated
Moroanton, July 14, '54.
"I have only time to say4 before the mail
closes, that Gen. Dockery's prospects ia this
part of the State are , decidedly better than
have been those of any Whig candidate since
the days when Morehead and Graham were be
fore the people.
If the East and Centre will do their duty, the
old Pee Dee Farmer will be triumphantly elec
ted." EXTRACT from a fetter to the Editor, dated
Lenoir, Caldwell Co., July 11, '54.
"The candidates for Governor are to address
the people of this county, on Friday next.
The old Whig spirit is being thoroughly arous
ed, and I have no doubt Gen. Dockery will get
the full Whig vote of this county."
EXTRACT from a letter to the Editor, dated
Charlotte, July 17, 1854.
"The news from Dockery is encouraging.
The letters written by Bragg and himself to
the Charlotte Convention are doing him much
good.- Did you ever read a flatier letter in
your life than Bragg's?"
GEN. DOCKERY MISREPRESENTED.
Mr. Clingman and the Democratic press are
saying that Gen. Dockery in 1851 declared thst
he would vote for money and men to subdu?
South Carolina. This in not so. We remember
Gen. Dockery's position well. He said he was
in favor of enforcing the execution of the Reven
ue lawsof the United State attlieport of Char It -ton.
The collection of customs pertained to
the United States. If South Carolina attempt
ed to interfere in thiH matter by the use of force,
he would vote to repel force with force. His
oath to support the Constitution of the United
States required -him to go thus far but no far
ther. He would not disturb the soil of Smith
Carolina. This, he remarked, was Gen. Jurk
son's position in the times of Nullification.
We know this was exactly what Gen. Dockery
said in 1851. We challenge contradiction.
Char. Whig.
It is thought that the Standard, after
the election is over, and the State has gne
Whig, will abandon politics, and publish a fun
ny paper something like Punch for instance.
Its articles have been excessively amusing of
late ; particularly one in the last number where
in it compares Gov. Reid and Clingman with Sen
ator Badger and makes these brilliant lumin
aries fully as "smart" a9 the Senator, if not more
SO. We hay'nt enjoyed a joke so much in a long
time. It is in Punch's best Btyle.
Wil. Herald.
A Scarcitt of Seamen. A correspondent of
the National Intelligencer alludes to the fact, that
the British, in order to man their fleets in the
Baltic and Black Seas, have been compelled to
withdraw, from their commerce at least 20,000
seamen, while France has also been compelled
to withdraw at least 15,000, and the Russians, be
ing blockaded, have in their ports idle at le&t
20,000 more. This, h says, makes fifty -fi
thousand seamen withdrawn from commerce b.v
the European Powers, or the crews about sui
cient to navigate over two thousand merchant
ships. .This loss of European commerce will
be supplied by the United States within the next
year. There will then be in demand two tb0""
and captains, six thousand mates, and fi'J
thoufaadseatasn.