VOLUME LV
CITY OF KALEIGH,, WEDNESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 20; 1354. Y
NO. 43
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REGISTER
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Our' are the plans of fair, delightful peace ;
Un warped by party rage, to lice like brothers.
R ALEIG H, N. C.
SATURDAY MORNING, SEPT. 16, 1854.
THE COST OF ROYALTY ANDATlISTO
CRAOY. To a person who has borrowed his ideas of
Government and its expenses from our own Re
publican system, there is something startling
in the statement of the immense sums squan
dered bj the royal and aristocratic rulers of the
old world. We have recently examined some
statistics connected with the finanoes of Great
Britain, which show a degree of corruption
and extravagance in Church and State, which
account for and justify the mutterings of dis
content, which, from time to time, we hear from
the other side of the Atlantic. These abuses
will not bear the investigation of this "all-questioning
" age ; they must be corrected, or ' the
Government itself will, ultimately, be over
thrown.
To begin with organic abuses, we will briefly
state what pertains to the elective franchise :
The total number of voters in the United King
dom is one million, in a population of over twenty
eight millions. The proportion of voters is
greatest in England, being one to nineteen ; in
Scotland, one to thirty ; and in Ireland, one to
thirty-three inhabitants. But the unjust and
unequal apportionment of Representatives is a
greater grievance than the restricted suffrage,
A majority of the House of Commons is actu
ally elected by one fifth of the total registered
electors of Great Britain ! and the worst of all
is, that this small number of electors, having
the choice of so many seats in Parliament, are
too many of them under the control of the aris
tocracy and nobility. These classes, therefore,
in effect have the aDDomtine power over a
.great number of small boroughs. The rotten
borough system was not wholly destroyed by
the reform bill the tree of corruption was
pruned, not cut down. , Many populations of
four to seven thousand have two members each,
while London and other large cities have only
four.
The f olio win z facts will convey an idea of
the extravagant style of governing after royal
fashioni The Queen's Privy Purse, together
with the salaries and sums paid to the officers
of her household, to Prince Albert, to the royal
Dukes and other sprigs of royalty, amount in
the aggregate to JC609.165 equal to nearly five
times as many dollars. .
The expenses of the royal palaces, parks,
gardens, stables and kennels, apart from sums
; spent on the parks of London, which are a great
public benefit, amount to 70,000 per annum.
making the total cost of royalty in England
679,165 more;than equal to $3,500,000.
The royal pensioners receive 23,094. The
upper servants of royalty, such as Lord Cham
berlain, Lord Steward, Master of Horse, Ladies
of the Bed Chamber, Maids of Honor, et cetera,
receive 31,302 per annum,, which- is twice as
much asthe President of the United States and
his Cabinet receive! The coachmen, postil
Hons and footmen of the Queen receive 12,563.
The expenditures of the Lord Steward, or head
cook, amount to 63,007 four times the sala
ries of the President and Cabinet !
The crown worn by the Queen contains pre
cious stones to the value of 111,700 more
than half a million of dollars 1
The aggregate' salaries of the English Cabi
net is 64,000, or more than $300,000 that of
our Cabinet is only3$56,000. The official pen
sioners, whose pensions exceed one thousand
pounds; each in the aggregate amount to 207,-
000 besides an innumerable list of small pen
sioners. These are not military, but civil pen
sioners, a species of vampire unknown to our
republican government. The "Salaries of Judges
and other law officers are from two to ten thou
sand pounds more than five times the amount
paid to our officers, to say nothing of the fact
that there are two or three times as many
Judges! as are necessary.
The Lord Chancellor receives nearly $70,000 ;
the Lord Chief Justice of the Queen's Bench,
nearly $40,000, and the Chief Justice of Com
mon Pleas, the same ; the two vice Chan
cellors receive 10,000 each, or nearly fif
ty thousand dollars. Other Judges and officers
receive smaller salaries, according to their res
pective grades. Scotland is about as large as
the Buncombe district certainly not more than
twice as large, with a population perhaps three
times as great as that of North Carolina, yet its
Judges, and two chief law officers, correspond
ing to bur Attorney General, receive $230,000,
Our Judges and Attorney General receive about
$2,000j
The Diplomatic expenditure is in the tame
scale. The English Ambassadors receive as
many pounds as Ministers receive dollars ;
and, in add-on, each ambassador has a troop
of Secxqiries, whose salaries equal those of our
Cabinet officers.
The Army and Navy of England cost 21,
820,000 per annum, in a time of peace 1 This
sum exceeds $100,000,000 of our money, which
is fully equal to three years of extravagant ex
penditure under our system.
The Duke of Wellington received in Pen
sions, Salaries, Pay as a Soldier, grants by act
of Parliament, and prize money, the enormous
sum of 2,762,635 more than twelve millions
f dollars. Washington refused to receive any
thing more than his necessary expenses for his
services in the field and in the civio councils of
his country. An English Radical, wbo has
published a very valuable statistical tract upon
the extravagance of the British Government, '
once very aptly quoted, in this Connection, the
lines of Byron, in relation to Wellington :
Oh Wellington (or Villianton, for Fame
sounds the heroic syllables both ways : ;
You hare obtained great pensions and much praise.
But I shall be delighted to learn who,
Save you and yours, have gained Waterloo V
The satire upon his avarice is j ust, but we dis
sent from his estimate of Waterloo. Bonaparte
was fighting for universal empire ; and the ser
vice rendered by Wellington to his country, and
to mankind, is not to be measured in dollars
and cents.
The salaries of the Bishops and higher cler
gy are even greater than those of the civil offi
cers. The Archbishop of Canterbury has a re
venue of 27,700or about $130,000. The Arch
bishop of York receives about $100,000 ; the
Bishop of Durham, something more than that
sum ; and other Bishops, to the number of twen
ty, enjoy revenues ranging from 13,500 down
to 800.
We have thought that these details would not
be regarded as tedious by any one who is in
the habit of reflecting upon human affairs. No
one oan form just ideas of his own country,
unless he is able to compare it with the state of
things in foreign lands. At another time, when
in the mood, we may collate some facts in rela
tion to the taxes and tythes paid by the people
of Great Britain.
M&. The Wilmington Journal" denies, with
something akin to indignation, a cheap com
modity now-a-days, by the way.that it pos
sesses any knowledge as to Mr. Ashe's prefer
ences in connection with the U. S. Senatorship.
But all that has nothing to do with the enqui
ry : "Has not Mr. Ashe declared himself, at
Washington, fully and unreservedly, in favor of
Clingman ?"
MORE OF THE RIGHT SPIRIT.
Extract from a letter to the Editor, dated
Orange Co., Sept. 11, 1854.
" We have been beaten, though I can hardly
call it a defeat as to the Governor's election.
It is best, however, that Democrats should
have the rule for a short time, to cheer their
spirits and make them feel some interest in
our good old State. I not long ago noticed
the fact, that although Governor Morehead was
elected in 1842 by upwards of 5,000 majority,
the Legislature was Democratic by 25 majori
ty. Whigs have na reason to hang their heads,
for they can proudly and truthfully exclaim :
" We are beaten, but mot conquirxd." In the
words of one of its greatest men, the Whig
party, as one man, can say : I still live."
Such principles can never die ; the delusive en
chantment which attaches itself to Democracy
must ere long pass away. Tell the "Standard"
that all the young men are not with it, only
those who, like some who went over in 1842,
and '43, who like reward more than principle
Here, Mr. Editor, is the only fault of the Whig
party ; it forgets its young men, ana tnej are
most invariably woiking men. I have often
said that we wanted no one in our party who
came for nothing but the spoils ; we want and
we have men of principle, and the present Na
tional Whig party is composed of as noble and
true a set of men as ever trod the earth. Tell
the " Standard " that it will bear from the
younger men four years from now, for it seems
tome as if all those now under twenty one were
Whigs, and firm in their belief, many of them
sons of Democratic fathers. " We want no bet
ter leader two years from now to beat Bragg
and the democrats, than Gen. Alfred Dockery."
DEMOCRATIC NOMINATIONS.
H. H. Johnson. Anti-Nebraska Democrat.
has been re-nominated for Congress in the
Ashland, Ohio, district. All right, says the
Union.
Uen. W. D. Lindsley has been re-nominated
for Congress in the Sanduskv district. H.
too, voted against Nebraska. Never mind
that, says the Union; good enough Democrat
yet.
James L. Alien, of Illinois, has been re-nomi
nated in his district. He spoke and voted for
Nebraska. Right still. He is a Democrat.
Had a right to vote either way.
ine Cleveland riaindealer, in noticing the
two first nominations above, savs : "We are
glad to see these gentleman nominated, show
ing that the Democracy of Northern Ohio do
not intend to fritter away the strength of the
party by instituting Nebraska as a test."
When a Northern Whig becomes Abolition-
ized the Democratic presses insist upon it that
the Southern Whies should reoudiate him.
When a Democrat votes against Nebraska it is
not a test of orthodox Democracy ; so that a
Democrat can vote either way, or on both
sides, and "all's right." The solicitude of the
large and small organs about the purity and.
consistency of the Whigs is painful to behold.
Nat. InteUigeucer.
NEWS OF THE DAY.
Old Point is to be closed on the 15 th inst.
The Portsmouth Globe understands that Messrs.
Willard intend removing the present building
and erecting a magnificent Hotel on its Bite,
which will be ready by the next season.
The Boston Journal says, two members of
the bar, one a graduate of Harvard College and
the other a member of the Essex bar, were
committed to jail on Thursday upon the charge
of drunkenness and vagrancy.
A letter from-Paris, under the imposing head
of " important diplomatic intelligence," an
nounces that Mi. Belmont, the United States
Minister to the Hague, has commenced a regu
lar banking business in the office of the Ameri
can Legation, and has three clerks employed in
the transaction of business.
The milk dealers at Maysville, Ky., lately
raised the price of milk to 25 cents a gallon, in
consequence Of the scarcity of water.
Hon. Joseph R. Underwood is spoken of as
the next whig candidate for governer of Ken
tucky.
There is a great apple crop in Western Ohio,
where, it is said, good ones are in abundance at
30 cents a bushel.
A Carpet of Ivort. Amongst the curiosities
to be transmitted from India to the great exhi
bition in Paris next year, is a carpet of ivory.
be price nxed upon it is 300.
The object that attracted the most attention
at the late Horticultural Exhibition in Boston
was a miniature peach tree, about two feet in
height, growing in a pot, and laden with the
delicious fruit.
IS IT SO?
And, if so, where is Clingman ? For several
days past, the following paragraph has been
going the rounds of the papers, uncontradicted ;
and, as it may all be true, we deem it, proper
that our readers should have the benefit of the
information :
The Hon. J. C. Dobbin-, U. S. Secretary of
the Navy, having just returned to Washington
from a visit to his home, in North Carolina, it
is stated that his election to the U. S. j Senate
has been definitely arranged." j
THE STATE FAIR.
Proper steps were taken by the Town Meet-
mg, on Tuesday last, to provide ample enter
tainment for all who may choose to visit Ra
leigh at the next State Fair. None, therefore,
need be deterred from coming by apprehensions
of difficulty in securing accommodations.
It will be seen by the advertisement of the
President of the Raleigh and Gaston Road, in
another column, that goods for exhibition at
the State Fair, the Fair at Henderson, and the
Petersburg Fair, will be carried over the road
free of charge, and that visitors to these Fairs
will be charged only half price. '
STATE INTELLIGENCE.
The Vote for Governor. A discrepancy of
elven votes exists between our adding up of the
vote for Governor and that of the " Standard."
The Sheriff of the county informs us that
mistake of eleven votes (in Mr. Bragg's favor,
has been discovered in the Wake vote, since
the official announcement on the day after the
election. The majority for Bragg, therefore, is
2,096, as stated by the " Register."
Resignation. The Rev. Dr. Hooper ; has re
eigned the Pastorship of the Baptist Church in
Newbern, and accepted the Presidency of the
Chowan Female Institute at Murfreesborough,
The Crops. The " Roanoke Republican
says that the people of Halifax have been
blessed with rains in almost every time of need
this year, and that the crops never looked bet
ter. , ! -. .
New Rail Road. A notice appears in the
Yorkville S. 0. Remedy, that application will
be made at the next Session of the Legislature
of that State for a Charter to construct a Rail
Road from Yorkville to some point on the North
Carolina Line.
Bank in Hixlsboko'. The "Hillsboro' Re
corder" intimates that it is the intention of some
of the citizens of that place to endeaver to pro
cure a Bank, or Branch Bank, at the next ses
sion of the Legislature.
A Stenographer. We have the satisfaction
of informing our readers that we have engaged
the services of a highly competent Stenographer
to report for as daring the session of the next
Legislature. ' !
Galu8Ha Grow, Anti-Nebraska Democrat,
has received the Democratic nomination for
Congress from the 14th district of New York,
and has the course all to himself. It is confi
dently expected that he will be elected.
Parasols ornamented with a large bow of
ribbon on the top are coming into favor for
full dress toilette in Paris.
The Union thinks that the opposing princi
ples which America and Russia respectively
represent will eventually run into lines which
must meet, and, when they do, "the concussion
will shake the world to its centre." Those,
however, who may have any Millerite ears on
that head, are consoled with the comfortable
assurance, that " for many generations to come,
these opposing forces are likely to be kept far
asunder." Posterity, then, must take care of
itself, and, in the mean time, we can go quietly
on, without any danger ot a concussion."
More Know-Nothingish. A special town
meeting was held a few days ago at Mullica
Hill, to elect a Collector, Sec., for Harrison
township, to nil vacancies. There were two
regularly nominated candidates for the offices
All passed on quietly 107 votes were polled,
but, lo ! when they were counted, persons who
were not known to be candidates had more
votes than all others put together for each of
the othces. A correspondent says it was "just
like the rest of their doings ; when it was all
over, nobody knovsed nothing about it 1"
Shamsful Dishonesty. As a proof of the
extensive adulteration of liquors in this coun
try, the New York Sun says that more port
wine is drank in the United States in one year
than passes through the. custom-house in ten
that more champagne is consumed in America
alone than the whole . champagne district pro
duces : that cognac brandy costs four times as
much in France, where itismade, as it is retailed
tor in our grog shops ; and that the failure of the
whole grape crop in Madeira produced no ap
parent diminution in quantity or increase' in
the price of wine.
Francis Pigg, of Indiana, has run away from
Mrs. Pigg and four little Piggs. The papers
say he is a perfect nog'
The Cumberland Journal has come to the
conclusion that " editors have no right to be
sick." Certainly not. They have, in the esti
mation' of some people, no right to do any thing,
but to work hard, be drudges all their lives,
and die poor ! They would grant them these
favors.
A young man named Short, clerk in a dry
goods store in Cincinnati, and a young lawyer
named Peacock, from Chicago, fought a duel in
Kentucky, on Monday. On the second round.
Short was fatally wounded in the left breast.
They fought about a young girl to whom Short
was engaged. v
The Buffalo Republic places this appropriate
heading before the account of the Grey tewn af
fair: ?
"Father and Mother and I,
And ten good soldiers more,
Beat an old woman stone blind,
That couldn't see much before."
Influence of Fear. At Lexington Virgin
ia, a few days ago, a little boy named Faulk
ner, whose father had threatened him with a
severe flogging, took strychnine, and died from
the effects.;
Editorial Aspirants fob Office. The New
York Mirror says: " '
Greely wants to be Governor; Raymond wants
to be Lieutenant Governor; and Erastus Brooks
wants to go to Congress 1
John Robinson, of Robinson & Eldred's Cir
cub, is lying dangerously ill in Louisville. ,
At San Francisco, peaches bring $3 to $5 a
dozen, and fifty cents to $1 each. They are very
superior. .
A Debutante. An accomplished lady be
longing to $he first circles in Boston, and who
has been reared and educated with extraordi
nary care, will make her debut on the stage at
the New York Theatre, on the 9th of October.
The mills' of Richmond are- now at work
grinding the new wheat crop that is coming to
the market.' About fifteen thousand bushels a
day are required to keep them supplied.
A few days ago, the Buffalo Express train on
the New York and Erie Railroad ran from
Susquehanna to Hornellsville, 142 miles, in 160
minutes, including stops.
The manj who was to " see that little bill
paid " has sent on for a new. pair of spectacles.
The very .fashionable hats called " wide-awakes
" are called so, because they never had
any naps.
The young lady with " speaking eyes " has
become hoarse in consequence of using them so
much.
A Hindoo law says, " strike not 'thy wife,
even with a blossom, though she be guilty of a
thousand faults."
ARRIVAL OF THE ST. LOUIS.
FOUR DAYS LATER FROM EUROPE.
Great Decline in Breadstuff.
New York, Sept. 13th. The St. Louis reach
ed here to-day, with Liverpool dates to the 30th.
Her commercial news is important, but that of
a political nature without interest.
MISCiLLANEOCS.
The French troops had re-embarked from
Bomarsund, and were expected to make a de
scent on Finland.
The expedition for Crimea was expedfed to
eave Varna on the 30th of August, with 70,000
men.
The Spanish Government has borrowed 65,-
000 000 reals, on the security of revenues of
Cuba.
Queen Christiana had quitted Madrid unop
posed. f
MARKETS.
Cotton had advanced an eighth on qualities
below middling. The sales of cotton on the
28th and 29th were 8,000 bales each day.
Breadstuff were dull and bad declined.
Wheat 9d; Flour from 1 shillings to 2 shil
lings. Corn has advanced 1 shilling.
Whigs just as sound as the Democrats on the
slavery question f and therefore we tar them
all with the same stick. The Democrats have
upon two or three occasions made a little bet
ter showing Ln Congress ; but then there were
more of them. : In their State Conventions and
district meetings they have shown more hostili
ty to the peculiar institution of the South than
the Whigs. . !
. Now, our notion is thai we should wait and
watch. "Sufficient unto the day is the evil
thereof." We can go into Convention with a
protest. If national men, known to be sound,
receive the nomination, support them. If fa
natics be set up, we can take our hats and re
tire. Gen. Scott was greatly j injured by the
imprudent remarks of Southern papers made in
advance of his nomination. Let us learn wis
dom from past errors. i
" Southern merchants do indeed kee-o awav
from New York, for the reason1 that they can't
pay tneir oeDts; there is no doubt that if the
jobbers of this city had not trusted southern
traders for the past three years- they would be
a great deal better off than they are."
The above wholesale fling at Southern mer
chants is taken from to day's Tribune a sheet
hissing hot with abolitionism illustrated with
cuts and advertisements of runaway niggers.
As the Tribune has no circulation South of
Mason's and Dixon's line, it runs no risk of
losing subscribers by this outrageous abuse of
Southern gentlemen ; but, so far as the influ
ence of that journal goes towards alienating
southern trade, and exasperating southern feel
ing, a paragraph like the above is calculated to
damage the merchants of New York to the ex
tent of millions of dollars. And yet our citi
zens are blind enough to support a newspaper,
that is not only perpetually chafing at the
bonds of the Union of the States, but doing all
it can to drive off the trade and travel ofthe
South, thereby injuring incalculably the entire
mercantile and hotel interests 'of our city. N.
Y. Mirror.
The Next Presidency. The Mobile Daily
Advertiser says: I
" The Montgomery Journal, sometime since,
indicated as its choice of candidates for the
next Presidential race the names of Millard
Fillmore for President, and Henry W. Hilliard
for Vice President. We think it yet too early
to speculate much about the next Presidency,
but we do not hesitate to say that ot all men
living Millard Fillmore is our first choice for
the Chief Magistracy, if he will accept the
nomination, and we should be proud indeed to
see the name of the gallant and sterling Whig,
and accomplished scholar and statesman, Hen
ry W. Hilliard, on the same ticket. Mr. llilli
ard's career, as a public man, has been em
nently successful. Whether representing hi:
district in the halls of Congress, or his country
at a Foreign Uourt, he was always tound faith
ful to his high trusts, and well deserving of the
enviable reputation he has acquired both at
home and abroad. While, then, we are hot
now prepared to run up any ticket, we should
be happy to see the country elevate the honored
and worthy men, suggested by our friends of
the Journal, to the high places for which they
are named."
me 'blue.' I thanked him, and told him I al
ways was taught, that the sea hela as good
fish as ever was caueht "and nerhans I mm
yet do as well, my dear Herman, as to be Iinkeli
tor my nie to a penniless German."
lo. too we parted. I hurried awav from the
scene, if not very "blue," I did feel rather green.
I left in the stage coach the very-next day, and
sneu a iew tears the nrst part of the way ; but
nve miles passed over, the roads ffrew so bad. I
looked out for the jolts and forgot to be sad. '
aenigotin the cars, and wos safe in
my seat, what person, of all in the world, should
i meet i v ti y, whom but Fred Forresti I lie
has, as you know, been travelling in Europe
three years or so, and has grown oh. mo hand.
some ! why, Herman himself, when Fred was
at nano would be laid on the shelf!
17. Now, I had intended, when no one was
by, to let down my veil and indulge in a "cry ;"
but talking awhile to that love of a Fred nnt
such sentimental stuff out of my head. He
made his adieu at the Utica station, but. ohl
we commenced a delicious flirtation I
16. He came out t see me we Aa nA run
walked, and various topics over and over were
talked. The end, dearest Amy, you'll easily
Hv asKea me a question and I answered
ies." Pack up and come on, just as soon as
you can, to "stand up" with me on the twen
tieth Jan.
40. A more thorough contrast there never
was seen thau Herman and Fredprink in r.
son an'd mein. Fred's evea r an Bmi'i;n. Bn
blue and serene , his mouth is so delicate, ro
sy, and clean. Herman's eye had, at times,
quite a sinister flash and I often saw crumbs
on his nasty moustache !
20. Then Herman, you know, was unpleas
antly small, while Fred is so elegant, slender,
and tall. He wears such a diamond, and sings
so divinely, and plays the guitar and violin fine
ly? He has a sweet place on the shore of the
Bay, and a four-story mansion just out of Broad
way. 21. I feel quite content, and my dear foreign
beau is welcome to marry for money or show.
Poor fellow I I pity him grubbing away at
those rusty old landscapes of his, day by day.
Here's is my parting advice to that part of art,
"Beg, borrow, or steal, fiir, a conscience and
heart.
22. "With these small additions to your
stock in trade, rest assured, my dear Herman,
your fortune is made." Good bye, beloved
Amy, till early in Jan . Come alone;
well, we'll say by the tenth if you can ; your
image win mi my heart's innermost cranny,
while life warms the breast of your own attach-
ea Annie.
Valuable Land - for Sale.
NEAR RALEIGH. y
r OFFER for sale, In lots of one or two hundred .
acres, to suit purchasers, about 800 acre of '
land, situated within one and a half and two miles
of Raleigh. . . . : ' .?
450 acres are of wood land, and sufficiently sear
to haul 6 loads to town a day. The balance Is clear
ed, under a good fence, and in good condition to,:
yield a fair crop the coming year. . . - -
There are on the lands several handsome Bund
ing sites. I would also sell in lots, 28 acres of
wood land, lying east of Mr. Earner's residenoe, t
and adjoining the land of J. J. Ryals, within one
mile of the city.
HENKY M0RDECAL
Sept, 15, 1854. n
Standard copy. ' '
Visitors to the North Carolina' State, Fair.
WILL be carried over the B.&Q. Railroad
and returned for the price of a single Ticket.
Articles for exhibition will be
of charge, except in cases when they are o be
exhibited for pay. Only one sample of the same
article belonging to the same person will be trans
ported free. , ... j..,'
Visitors and articles for exhibition will be ear-'
ried on the same terms to the Granville Co. Agri
cultural Fair at Henderson, and to the Fair of the
jn. c. and Va. Agricultural Society at Petersburg,
to Raleigh on such day as the Chairman of the Ex
ecutive Committe shall designate, for the transport
tation of articles to N. C. State Pair, and exhibi
tors are respectful.y requested to be ready for that
train, as otherwise they may be disappointed, in
reaching the Fair in time.
JN o freight will be allowed In the passenger trains
L. CB. BBANCH President.
R. G. R. R: Office, Sept. 16, 1864' td 75 '
DIED.
In Washinton city, at 8 o'clock, P. M., Sun-
10th instant, Mrs Elizabeth Benton, wife
of the Hon. Thomas H. Benton, aged sixty years.
THE SOFT CONVENTION.
Syracuse, September 8. The Democrats here
take the action of the late convention coolly.
Some say that if Preston King, Abijah Mann,
and their friends do not take action for 9 sepa
rate organisation, a ticket must be made at the
Auburn anti-Nebraska convention. 1 he stan
dard hoists the ticket, but will not own the Ne
braska resolutions. Seymour is personally pop
ular here.
Whist primary meetings were held in all the
wards yesterday, and are said to-bave worn a
Know-Nothing aspect.
MAINE ELECTION.
Portland, Sept. 12. At the election in this
state yesterday there were four candidates for
Governor in (he field and three sets for Congres
sional Representatives.
oo iar as returns nave been received to-day,
it would appear that the vote for Governor will
be qui te close. Morrill, Denu, is probably elec
ted by a small majority of this, however., there
is no certainty. , .
Ihe following gentlemen, all wuigs, have been
chosen to Congress, viz : Messrs. Wood. Perrv.
Knowlton, Benson, Washburn. Wilkinson. -
NEW RAILROAD.
A notice appears in the Yorkville S. C. Rem
edy, that application will be made at the next
Session of the Legislature of that State for a
Charter to construct a railroad from Yorkville
to some point on the North Carolina Line.
Wil. Herald.
The supply of paper is so inadequate to the
demand in England, that old newspapers are
used over again, the ink being first extracted
by chemical process and the paper reduced to
a clean pulp.
The New Dollar Coin. The Secretary of
the Treasury has ordered the new gold dollar
coin, described some time since, to be substi
tuted for the American gold dollar coin now in
circulation.
The New York Express is assured that two
millions of dollars of lottery tickets are annu
ally sold in that city, and that in the faoe of a
law which was designed to have some strictness,
bat Which is openly violated every day.
From the National Intelligencer.
NORTH AND SOUTH. :
The subjoined brief article is from a Whig
paper ot JNortn Carolina, the region of unattoc
ted patriotism, good sense . and honesty al
ways loyal to the Union, unfaotious, unselfish,
and national. When we have occasion to copy
any thing from ber public journals, marked by
her characteristic sense and forbearance, we
are always" prompted to say what we think of
the state itself ; and more might now ; be said
in its praise- than we have incidentally said
above, and with equal truth, if it seemed to us
meet to say it. The article itself, brief as it is,
conveys to the Whig party generally, we might
say to those or the south especially, some
wholesome admonition, while its frankness and
impartiality will save it from offence to any. -
Wo commend it to the reflection ot those
Whigs who are so eager to dissolve the ties
whiob have so long bound the Whigs of all sec
tions in our glorious and patriotio party, and also,
if we may make so free, commend it to the pe
rusal of those generous Democratic editors who
are so solicitous for the purity of the Whigs of
the South, and so disinterestedly anxious to
save them from the contamination of a further
connexion with those of the North.
FR0X THE NORTH CAROLINA ARGUS.
Northern Whios. Some of our contempo
raries seem to entertain the opinion that the
Whigs of the South ought not to go into a Na
tional Convention with those of the North to
nominate candidates for the next Presidency
and Vice Presidency. What, then, are we to
do ? Let the Democrats have every thing their
own way 7 w nave xept a pretty clone eye
lupon Korthera politicians, and we UoaJB
AN INTERCEPTED LETTER.
The following glimpses at a! young lady's
heart, taken from a letter to a ' bosom friend,
will amuse, if they do not instruct the Teader.
1. You tell me, dear Amy, you're anxious to
know all about that affair with my recreaut beau.
'Tis quite an embarrassing matter, 'tis true ;
but you know, dearest love, I've ho secrets from
you ; and so without any undue affectation, I'll
tell you a tale you may tell to the nation.
2. I had met him quite often at the party and
ball, had danced with him, talked with him,
walked with him, all had heard all those sto
ries, where largely he draws on the works of
his countryman, Baron Manchau9en had look
ed at his pictures, and laughed at his ''brogue,"
and thought him a charming and unprincipled
rogue.
3. Conceive my surprise, when one fine sum
mer morning, without e'er a wofd or a whisper
or warning, the elegant Herman, (for that is
his name from some old Dutch Duchy he says
that he came,) in terms which I cannot at this
moment repeat, his heart and his palette laid
down at my teet.
4. O, Amy, I trembled and colored up so !
I dared not say "yes," and I couldn't say "no."
My breath came so fast that I hardly could
speak all the blood rushed at once from my
heart to my cheek ; while Herman sat by me
quite tranquil and ;cool, and thought me, no
doubt, a complete little fool. !
5. At last 1 got out, "it was suh a surprise"
knew not what to say" and he looked in my
eyes with a kind of a look that I could'nt resist
and then with such ardor my fingers he kiss
ed I ln short, my dear Amy, I hardly know how
I ended with saying I would be his vioic !
b. Alter that, matters went along smoothly '
and trim : he made love to me and 1 listened to
hir.r. We often took rides in the sunshiny
weather, and, on rainy nights, sat on the sofa
together. He used to talk to me sometimes of
his mother also of the Colonel, bis wonder
ful brother. , i
7. I him, dear Amy, I'll own to the
truth 1 t was not hia beauty that won me a
lone ; jut a something he bad in each look
and each tone a mixture of poetry, romance
and art, that, taken together, quite "did ' lor
my heart. j
8. I was proud of him, too only, once in a
while, when be told his adventures, and people
would smile, and tread on each other's toes un
der the table,- even my warm affection was al
ways unable to, keep me from telling him that
I did wish his tales: would not smell so strongly
at fish.
y,. But then I'd excuse him ' one way and
another. I'd say, "All the world lies, for some
thing or other politicians for places, and law
yers for pelf, and merchants to : get goods off
from the shelf; they're in for it all, though they
'fie' and 'pooh pooh 1" it and since he enjuy
it, he may as well do it." j
10. Herman was all devotion, all passion and
iSighs ; he seemed but to live in the light of my
eyes. What words of endearment would fail
from his lips 1 how, countless the kisses on my
finger tips! "Love thinks but of love 1" wa
his ardent pretence. Alas I I found his reck
oned dollars and cents !
11. One day he came in from his labors at
school I thought he appeared unaccoun'.abl)
'cool. Not one "dearest angel,' or any sucti
word, from the tongue of the altered adorei
was heard. That evening he called upon Anna
bel Chase; the next day I learned the wboh
i state of the case. ;
12. He supposed, it appears, dear papa had
the 'rocks,' was rolling in dollars, and swelling
with 'stocks,' would "cut up in good style, and
in consequence that his child would come in for
a bit of "the fat." When he learned his mis
take, is was odd to discover bow the rock went
at once to the heart of my lover I
13. He came up to see me, and saw me alone,
and unfolded affairs with a grace all bis own.
He would have "preferred" me, he said, for a
wife, to any one that be bad met in his life ; but
as for himself, why be hadn't a litre, and I
must agree that it was il faut vivre.
14. oucn oemg tne case, he would bid me
SORTH CAROLINA BAPTIST STATE CON
VENTION.
The next annual meeting of the North Carolina
tfaptist Slate Convention will be held with the
Chuich in Fayetteviile, N. C, commencing on
Thursday before the third Sabbath in October next,
at 11 o'clock A. M., when the introductory sermon
will be preached by Rev. A. McDowell,' Rev. W.
M. Wuigate, Alternate. The Missionary sermon
on Sabbath, by Rev. Aaron J. Spivey, and Kev.
Q. H. Trotman, alternate.
-Tire North Carolina Bible and Baptist Publica
tion Society, and the North Carolina Baptist Edu
cation Society, will hold their anniversary meetings
during the session of the Convention.
All Baptist Associations and Churches within
the bou nd3 of, the Convention are requested to send
delegates, and similar religious bodies in this and
the neighboring States will .be expected to send
correspondents to represent them. We are assured
that ample accommodations will be provided for
all who may attend.
NATHANIEL J. PALMER,
Secretary of the Convention.
Milton, N. C, Sept. '5th, 1854. 3t 75
S1
TATE OF NORTH CAROLINA. Supreme
Cjcrtat Morganton,.Acocst Term, 1854.
John Sparkes and others v. Shemwell Kearny
and others.
Stephen Sparkes, late of the county of Frank
lin, State aforesaid, died about the year 1846, in
testate, and it is referred to James R. Dodge,
Clerk, of the Supreme Court, at Morganton, to in
quire and report to next term of the Supreme
Court, "Who were the next of kin of said intes
tate. living at the time of his death ; whether any
of them are since dead, and, if dead, who is or are
their persona! representative or representatives."
Now, all persons interested will take notice that
they are required to appear at my office, in the
town of Morganton, on the Tuesday of the Superi
or Mnirt ot Law, tor Unrke County. Spnne Term.
1855, and make known their claims, or be forever
excluded from the benefit of this decree.
JAMES R. DODGE,
Clk Supreme Court, Morganton.
Sept 15, "54. Pr. Adv. $8 3mos 75
"JPOTICE. 'Wishing to close up our Business
il at Monterey, Johnston county, we will sell
the whole of our possessions, to-wit : Between eight
and nine hundred acres of land, three hundred of
which have never been boxed, two good Dwelling
Houses, two Store Houses. Still and fixtures, three
good wells of prater, all other shelters necessary
for Distillery purposes, and one of the healthiest
places in the country.
Any person wishing to engage in the Distillery
business would do well to make early application.
The mtaation is 18 miles from Raleigh, 30 from
Fayetteville, 10 or 12 to the nearest point on Cape
fc ear. Possession will be given 1st January, 1855,
or earlier if desired. LEACH & BANKS.
Sept. 15, 1854. 75 4t
FALL STOCK, 1854. "
FARMERS' HEAD QUARTERS,
NORFOLK, VA. --.'i -
ORDERS for Rb Arias may be seat us fbr the
ensuing harvest, which will be filled at ta
following prices : - --,.
Hussbt's Reaping Machine,; ....$10500
ao Mower and Reaper, ....... ......... lift 00
do Front Wheels extra, 10. 00
do Rear Platform for aid dHTrv- 6 OO
BtjRRAtL's Va. Reaper, No. 24 feetctttM.$120 00
ao do do Ho 8, 6 J feet cut,; -180 0Q
A deduction of $6 will be made it the side deli
very is not furnished, and $20 will be added to the
aVove price if front wheels are furnished. ' -
150 tons English, 8wedes and American Iron, all
sizes. .
20 tons Hoop and Band Iron, f to 4 inches wide.
20 tons Oval, half Oval and half round Iron :
200 setts Coach and Buggy Axles
300 pair do do Bprings
250 kegs Nails, 8 to 40cL, cut and wrought
50 doxen Files and Rasps
60 Smith's Bellows, all sites
1500 pounds Cast-steel Hammers
70 American Star Anvils - '
50 Vices, for Wood and Iron Work " ,
Stocks and Dies, Bench Screws, 4c, for sale SO
the best terms
STRAW, HAT Aim SHUCK CUTTERS,
Of every variety. Price $80 for the best, aoi
warranted to cut anything in the Shape of Feed for
stock. Cheap Cutters, from $6 to $26. '
CORN SHKIXKRS. ' . A
Virginia Corn Shellers, $26 i 00
uoiasoorough's do .........40 00
Heading's do 85-. OO
Double Spout do .......1600
Single Iron Spout do lO 00
do Wood do do.........;........A 00
BA M BOROUGH'S PREMIUM PANS.;; :
No. IEitrA Premium Fans......... ...$84 00
No. 1 do do - 12 00
No. 2 do do ao 00
Sinclair & Co's. No 2 do 80 00
Do do 1 do 25 00
Grant's Premium Fans, $16 to $30
Clinton's Fan Mills, $ 18 to $20
rlELiD Rollers 3 Segments, 8 feet long, $85 00
oo uo a ao 4f do. . oo w
do do 4 do 4 do....... 45 00
do do 5 do 6 dVJ,. 66 00
do do 6 do 6 do......... 66 00
B6?Orders for any of the above eoods will be
filled promptly. Your orders are respectfully So
licited. BORUM & MoCLEAN.
11 Water Street Norfolk, Virginia. '
Sept. 15, 1854. 41 tf
adieu, and hoped the affair would not render J
Pianos Tuned and Repaired.
4 G- KERN, from the celebrated Piano Man
vffactory of Knabe, Gsehle & Co., Baltimore
respectfully informs the ladies and gentlemen
Raleigh, that he will be in town in a few days:
dxienu to any tuning or repairing oi pianos int..
may be entrusted to him. Being provided with
a very complete set of tools and the best materials.
he is confident of giving satisfaction in every case.
It is his purpose to visit regularly every year such
towns and villages as offer encouragement suffi
ciently liberal to justify the expense, and thus to
uppiy a want long felt in many parts, where the
services of reliable tuners can seldom be procured.
All orders left at Lawrence's Hotel will receive
prompt attention. .
Sept. 12, 1854. 2t-74
A RARE CHANCE FOR SPECTJXATIOJT.
'riHE Subscriber offers for sale a tract of land
I lying 12 miles South of Raleigh near the At
kiu Road, on which there is, in successful opera
tion, a splendid steam circular saw mill, cutting
from two thousand fire hundred to four thousand
feet of lumber per day.
The said tract of laud contains 800. acres and is
most admirably adapted to Turpentine business,
beinz nearly alt pine woods, and, besides, there is
yet a sufficient quantity of timber to keep the Mill
12. operation for a considerable length oi tune.
Wishing to dispose of this property, I will make
the terms accommodating to any one wishing to buy.
For further particulars, apply to me, or to Edi
tors of the " Metropolitan."
H. B. WHITAKER.
Raleigh, Sent, 12th, 154. WW"7A
STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA. WaJOt Coctf
TT, In Equity. ' S
Whereas Diliy Chambler has filed ner Mil of
romplaint in the Court of Equity for the county of
Wake against Raeford Chambler, Wm. IS. Cham
bler, Woodson Chambler, Britton Pearoe and Nan
cy, his wire, Sally Eaton, Mataew Johnson Aftd
Piety, his wife, Josiah Wilder and Belda, -ftW
wife, Michael Whitley and Frances, his wife, Rob
ert Chambler, Amarilda Chambler, Emily Cham
bler, Martha Jane Chambler, John Augustus
Chambler, Catharine Chambler and Helen Cham
bler the last named seven of whom are infants
to whom William H. Hood is guardian, And
whereas affidavit has been made according to the
statute in sneh cases made and provided tht-j-
Bntton Pearce and his wife, Woodson Chambler,
Sally Eaton, Josiah Wilder and his wife,' reside
beyond the limits of this Htat mow therefore
this is to notify the said parties non-rssideats of
the State of North Carolina, and they are hereby
notified to appear at the next term of the Court of
Equity for the county of Wake, to be held at the
Court House, in the city ef Raleigh, on the 1st
Monday after the 4th Monday in September, then
and there to plead, answer or demur, to the
said bill of complaint, of the bill will be taken
pbo coniksbo as to them and a decree made ac
cordingly. Given under my hand at office, this
21st day of August, 1864. - - '
ED. GRAHAM HAYWOOD, C. & M. E.
Aug. 22, 1864 . . j r vM,
GOLDSBOROUGH STEAM,- .GRIST, AND
FLOURING MILLS. The Subscriber , has
a a .a a a a m a a m a
enlarged Jus establishment in uoiosooro , ana IS
now prepared to grind Wheat as well as Corn, on
a more extensive scale, one Jlundrtd ana WfJ
Thousand Bushels of Wheat and Cora will be rt
quired to keep the mills in operation for the our-
rent year, for which the highest market prioevrQl
be paid. The farmers of this county and ,ih
counties along the line or the tf. u. oau ooaa ana
the Ulterior will find it to their advantage to call
on or address me at the Mills before selling," and
thus build up a market in this 8tt4 for their
Wheat and a manufactory of Our elrn flour..K v
Constantly on hand a fresh suvdit of tuner&na
Family Fl ur, Meal, Homemy, Horse feed. Cracks
ed Corn and Husk. Also, Lime and Hair. Wlisat
and Corn ground on tQlL ' 'v-i' '
Air. Lynn Adams, of Raleigh u antlvoriied 'i to
purchase Wheat for the above mill. -143
Goldsboro', September 8, . 864. wtf 78 .
NOTICE."
HAVING qualified as Executrix Of the last
Will and Testament of Adam Q. Banks, Dec'd.,
1 hereby rouryau persons indebted to said estate
to come f 01 ward and make payment, and those
having claims against the Estate to present . them,
properly authenticaied, within the tune prescribed
by law; or this notice will be pieaa in oar 01 locir
recovery. . ; SUSAN BANKS, Ezoe,;
Septembers, 1864. -. -
I hereby appoint Linn Banks and lomMt.
Banks my lawful agents to transact my business
as Executrix of the lastWitt and ' Testament of
Adam Q. Banks. lWd, . SUSAN BANKS.7
Sept. 8, 1864. " ' ?f. V' - InvTi "
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