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VOLUME LVl ;CITY OF-RALEljSH, WEDNESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 6, 1S34. r. mil PUBLISHED BY SEATON GALES, ISlTOil AND riOrRIITOK, AT $2 50 1$ ADVANCE ; OR, $3 00 THE END OF THK TEAR. AT 'Ours' are the'plans of fair, deligktfut peace ; Cntcarpcd by party rage, to live like brothers." 1 LEGISLATIVE SUMMARY. It wiU be seen, by. reference to the Lflgisla , lift proceedings, that Gao. W. Bkooks, Esq., of Stokes, was. n Tuesday last, elected Comp troller of Publfc Accounts for two yeare frcea the 1st of January next. The Hon. S. jj. Prsi.v was on Wednesday , elected a Judge of the Superior Court, a po sition which hejat present hold, onder appoint ment by the Governor. by a nearly unanimous i Vote, j . Two unsuccessful balloting bar been bad for a Solicitor fur tb Fourth Judicial Circuit. Several important Railroad Bill have been brooebt forward. aince our lat summary. Mr. Boy, of Rockingham, in th? Senate, ha iutro dttcerf a Uiil Srovidinz f.r a Road betwteu Danvitteand 3reweo-ro. In the IIoUSO, Mr McKxsso.v, of Burke, has ir.traiuced a Bdl to incorporate the! " Western Kail Kind Coos pa "J. vw.kvwtf tit ifr tha TtAnflinn iif th nrth Carolina Road to the Tennessee line; Mr. IIeapen, of Chatham, & Bill to incorporate the ' Chatham Raij Rrsj Company;" and Mr. Steele, of Richttiond IS ill t? incorporate the "Charlotte and (Wiluintt'Rail Road Compa ny." This Utter Bill contemplates & connec tion between VVjilinington and Charlotte,, tin Lumberton, Rockingham, Wadosboro', Ac. The capital of the Company is to be $2,400, 000; and when; ittdividuals shall hare sub scribed $800,000 (one third,) the State is to endorse the Bond of the Company for the re maining two t birds, retaining, as security, a mortgage upon all the effects of the Company. We heartily endorse this mode of construct inf works of Internal Improvement. Those at present in existence in our midst have been of late converted into the means of rewarding par ty subserviency and promoting party favorites, and we hail with! pleasure any plan by which so detestable and corrupt a policy can be over thrown, j Both Houses j adjourned over TLurtday, Thanksgiving day. THE CAUCUS SYSTEM. The practice of selecting, in a party meeting, the candidates for office, and adhering en masse to these- nominations, has been carried by the lecofocos in the present Assembly to a most anusual and discreditable extcut. Nut only iave all wbigs been excluded from .the offices with the exception of the venerable Secretary -of State and one door keeper.) but they -have been virtually excluded from all participation in elections by the iron rul instituted in cau flus. We should have nothing to say on this subject, if the parity in power had pursued the established usage iof every former majority of -either oartv. We do not believe that it has ever been the the- practice of either party to caucus upon the law officer. Hut should we be mistaken iu this understanding of the rule, we can only say that caucusing for Judges and .Solicitors is certainly not according to the taste and sentiment of the intelligent people of North Carolina. It certainly is not a compensation. to the poor suitor, when he is deprived of his prop erty by the bad decision of an ignorant Judge, that it Las been done by a brother Whig or a brethsr democrat.! We are induced: to these remarks by the fact that in toe election: of Judgf Person, there was a ; elose caucus and ia strict party obedience. Now this was bad, but only in the general view which we have taken, in vur foregoing remarks, bat, in this particular case, was a wanton exer cise of power. The nominee was well known to be acceptable to ,both parties ; there had not bee a whisper of opposition from the Whigs. Wc believe, indeed, that if the Whigs had bad twenty majority in the Legislature, thre is io Whig in the State who weald have beaten tkc gentleman elected. Wc cannot suppose that this was not well known to the dominant party ia the assembly. Why then apply the inm rule in this case ? But if the majority mean to keep up the practice ; if they mean to take all the posts cf profit and honor to themselves, wc hope that Hbea it comes to kgitlaiion, they will de the came thing ; so that, when the questions of lay ing taxes, Ac, are raised, they will fixfAcfcmea stres in caucus, also 1 They may thus hare all the glory of these achievements to themselves. Will they do this T Wc rather think not ! ! NORTH CAROLINA NOTES. We learn from the Richmond papers, that brokers of that city have, within the past twe or tbree days, raised the price or ex change on all North 'Carolina notes to 4 per at, and that some of their business men hare "fused them in business transactions. The citi sns of Richmond are very blind to their own interests, by being so easily panic-stricken at the recent unfounded and silly rumors with re gard to the Farmer's Bank. All the Banks in this State stand upon a sure and solid founda tioa, and can redeem their full issue readily and at any moment, we hate no doubt. : i , : 1 -t I INa?h'i, Baxix, the democratic candidate for Governor of New Hampshire, U said to bare Macdttie Kncw-Nothlngt. Tke "Union" if loudly oallsd upon to umU a aotc of it," . 1 mm ,- .- i - - i K A L 1 ll il. . C: SATURDAyJ. MORNING. DKC. 2. IS54. GEN. CASS.; ' ' ' ' The Detroit Times thus replies to an intima tion of the Washington Union that General Cass has given up all ideas of the Presidency : . "The assumption that General Cass has laid aside all aspirations for the Presidency is en tirely gratuttuous on the part of our Washing ton cotemporary. Here at home his friends protest against thus coldly despatching him with a single stroke of the pen, and will, by his consent, bring his name forward in their own time. We say distinctly that Gen. Casa will be a candidate before the National Convention, and nothing is more calculated to sharpen that determination than just such paragraphs as the above, and the occasional blows which he re ceives from a large uortiort of the Southern press. Besides, the idea of Western Cass men being transferred over to Douglas is too silly to be commented upon." We had supposed (says the "Richmond Dis patch,") that the venerable Cass had altogether retired from the Presidential arena. From the devout and somewhat melancholy tone of his late speec!5, we presumed that the aged states man had fixed his gaze unreservedly on the so-' ber realities of another life. But it appears that while he ha one eye directed towards the gate of Heaven, the other is slyly glaucing at the city of Baltimore. Wc are sorry for it. Gen. Cass is a worthy and respectable gentle man ; a fine scholar ; something of a states man ; but he is too far behind the times. The Democratic party would as soon think of nom inating Msthusaleh. Setting aside the former deftat of Gen Cass, he has no strength either north or South ; he belcnes to the lo.mt re mains fi in? worm De;ori the flood ; ana be sides, be i too pertinacious, clinging to the shoulder of Xoun America like the bid man of the sea to the hbuklri of Sin bad the sailor. Un!e lie lets' go htl hold and goes about bis bu-in Youne America will throw him 0 presently and wneh his head with a stone. It is aiUoniehing how reluctant are old poll ticiaus. like Gen. Cass, to give up political as piratiun. Nothing but death can unlock their grasp. 1 hey refuse to understand or be dis heartened by the rebuffs of a long life. They court the coquette, Popularity, from youth to hoary age ; but, though jilted a thousand times, they think themselves, with one foot in the grave, with white locks and sunken cheeks, just as captivating,, and as likely to succeed, as if they were still in their teens, and full of lusty vifT. Nothing tquals in strength and vitality the pysion. The nine lives of a cat are as noth ibg to it. It is really humiliating t? see an old patriarch, like Gen. Cass, hobbling along with an excruciating affectation of spryness and ju venility, after the painted Cyprian of Populari ty, who has led him such a fool's dance through his long life. "Alas, poor Cass !" THE VOTE IN CAUCUS. The " Wilmington Herald" furnishes, on re liable authority, the vote in the recent locofoco caucus upon the nomination of Senators, as follows : 1st Bal. 42 35 2nd do. 50 3G 3d do. 4th do. Aia Biggs, David S. Reid T. L Clingman, Burton Craige, Thomas Ruffin, 46 21 19 11 21 25 n 85 remarks 88 86 Herald' 80 Upon which the very justly : , "Out of eisbtv-eisht votes cast, there were but two for the Hon. Tiios. RprriN, late Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of this State, and one oi me very nrsi men, u not ine am, in point of ability, character and qualifications on the Democratic side. Truly, this is tbk xka or little six ! When huch pigmies in intellect as Reid and Biggs are elevated oyer the beads of a Baouek, a Maxcux, or a Rcrriv, the pride of the State is wounded, her escutcheon is dim med, her glory departed for a season." THE PREVIOUS QUESTION. The efforts of some of the locofoco leaders in the House of Commons to incorporate the Pre vious Question, (by which all debate may be suppressed,) among the rules of that House, appear to us to amount to a very palpable -ac knowledgement of the superior ability and power in debate of the Whig side of the House. The acknowledgment is not less palpable, however, than truthful, though we should not particularly relish belonging to a party which would seem to screen itself from a collision of intellect behind an odious parliamentary restric tion! TnavKectvuro day was very generally cbservsd in this. City. All secular business was sospended, and Divine Service was performed in the various Churches. Haaria's Magasinc for December has been laid upon our table by Pomkkot. Am Ebitos ik Teocbxi. The Green Baj, Wisconsin, Advocate, a democratic paper,- is edited bj a gentleman whose wife happens to be somewhat a politician, but is a staunch, un flinching Whig. The editor left home for a few days during the election campaign, leaving the management of the office to his better half. During bis absence the editor happened to see a copy of hi journal, and his surprise may be imagined at the, discovery tbat his rub was aealously laboring to impress upon the public mind the soundness of Whig and the rottenness of Democratic doctrine. The editor berried home, arriving just in time to prevent the haul ing down the name of bis favorite candidate from the head of the columns. Ova SiJtTixiLS.- The United States is rep resented at Madrid by a Frenchman, at Genoa by an Italian, at the Uague by a German, at Naples by a Scotchman, and by; an Irishman at Lisbon. ' Hebbe, Busso German, represents ua somewhere abroad we don't know where. New York Mirror. near The citisens of Savannab have resolved to erect a monnment to the mmory of the "la mented physicians and devotccrblergymen" who perished dnriig the prevalence of the yellow fever in that eitj. . PTJR NEW YORK CORRESPONDENCE. The Grand Opera Jr. Cuutls U Corrosive Acid outrage Mi: liancroft's Address before the Histtrrical Socie ly A matrimmial Dilem ma Massachusetts General Court. Niw York, Nov. 28. The splendid n-ew Operaj House at the corner of 14th St. and Lexington Avenue,! (called in that part of it Irving Place,) pasbes under the name of the Academy of Music, i The Itl ian Troupe now consists mainly of the four great artists, Grisi, Mario, ISusini, and Badiali. The performances are given three timos a week, but other amusements of less note every night. The Opera is well sustained, the receipts ,a mounting. I should think, to $10,000 per week it not more. 1 his is a spesiee ol entertainment in which great cities alone can participate. Sufficient accommodations1 cannot be had in subordinate towns, nor audiences, nor scenery, costumes, orchestra, or chorus. In the latter particular New York is still deficient, and be hind the European cities, and will long remain so. But how grand and sublime is the Opera ! How elevating and ennobltng ! The genius of man here attains its culminating point, nnd an ticipates the ethcrial delights of a higher and purer state of existence. And as such exhibi tions can only bo civen in? the !ariri cities, it follows, that those who dcMro to witness them in this country, must come to New York to do so. The journey too would be richly reward ed. Mnuy persons cjuie here for loss praise worthy objects. ' Airs. Cuu ts, alias Mrs. Francis, who is enam ored of Mario, but wuo has never spoken to him, is a constant attendant a: the Opera. Siie occupies alone a proscenium box naarthe stae which would accommodate a half dozen person, and for which she pays thirty dollars every night. On la.-.t Wedneniiy evening, when I Puritani was given, Mrs outts made her ?.p pearance precisely in the Gth pcene of the 1st Act, when Lord Arthur and Klvira enter, that is, Mario and Grisi, nnd these two are as insep arablq as Edwin ayd Emma, or Paul and Vir ginia. Mrs. Coutts is the observed of nil observer', nd coquets elegantly with hsr splendid Span ish fan, through which she can inspect the en tir3 auJienco, tfhile she is invisible to them. A phenomenon jike this lady is just ns much a part of city life a the Opera is. Mario and Grisi sang divinely, and sd ai"1 did Siisini and Badiali. Appluusos were loud ana u".1juent. When the Opera was ovtr, a large detachm.'tit of police wa wtatioued on '-the outtid Eery winter oome maiieiom persons takes delight in sprinkling Nitric or Sulphuric Acid upon the crowd to destroy their line clothes. Attempts of the kind had recently been made at some ol the theatres down town, but no demonstration was made on this occasion. L ng trains of carnages lined the adjoining streets, besidas crowds of public equipages to take way the hap py guests, in this respect we are fast equal ling London and Paris. ' Mr. Bancroft, 'the historian, was selected to deliver the annual address before the Histori cal Society of this city, at Niblo's Saloon, last Mouday evening. His subject was Human Progress. The audience as usual was large and brilliant, and as usual they were all bored by a long winded discourse, better calculated for the parlor or press than for a popular as sembly. Mr. Brancroft displayed scholarship in his treatise, which was too metaphysical and not sufficiently practical. If progress is not a practical affair, what is? But to talk about j destiny, the schism of Arius. and to define what beauty is, is glancing over the subject and leaving it in the lurch. Tl,o lecture season has just commenced, and we shall have a hun dred lecturers hero from New England, with bald heads, spectales on, and with monastic visages, and probably one half of them will feel tbemseves called upon to give a definition to beauty; to ponder upon the relations of the finite and the infinite ; aud to attack the institu tions of the South in some way or other Mr. Bancroft accomplished the latter in the most sneaking manner by sundry words underscor ed three timos, and printed in lortg primmer, such as equality and universality, and some others, and which loom out over the surround ing level like spectres of the Brocken. Mr. Bancroft lives in elegant style, among the fashionables of this city. He is a slender man of ordinary height, silvery hair, prominent eyes, and of a nervous and intellectual tempera ment. He is a cultivated man, but not a great one. He payn scrupul jus attention to the nice ties of the toilet, and fakes pride in diplayiug a delicately formed and jewelled hand, lie married a lady of some fortuue. A matrimonial dilemna of some consequence exists at present, between parties residing In two of the greatest citif of the Union. !An old gentleman of seventy Gv-, in' Philadelphia, is engaged to a young lady of sixty in Njw York. They have appointed several times to celebrate the joyous nuptials, but Sttan or Hymen always interrupts them. A storm blows up, the tele graphic wires are blown down, or else the old gentleman has an attack of the gout, and the ady an attack of rheumatism. Matters contin ue in this siate at present, and it is not known how long the disturbed condition of the elemeuts will continue. While we sympathize with the lovers, some commiseration is due to those who are suffering from what Swedenborg would call conjugal temerity. Ihe .Legislature of Massachusetts still goes under the old continental name of the General Court. In other States of the Union lawyers crowd the Legislative Halls. Io the Bay State it ia the divines, several Universalis! minis ters have been elected members this year, as eli as a ntfmber of superannuated Methodist clergymen, who are too old to cxpoumd the gos pel, but young enough to be j law-givers and law-raakers. CM. THE COMMONER FROM BRUNSWICK. We notice that Mr. Meares, the member from Brunswick, did not vote for Gov. Riid for Sen ator Will the Standard inform us why ? Wil. Herald. s-Gen. J. Watson Webb, writing to the N. Y. Courier from London, says : The Hon. Reverdy Johnson ' returns in the Baltic, having won a chaplet of laurels for him self, and respect and admiration for the Amer ican Bar, by his able and eloquent argument before the joint Commission of the two Govern ments, in behalf of a claim against the United States for a debt due by Texas for vessel! fur nished ber navy by a British subject. An exchange paper says that camphor has been discovered to be an antidote for that terri ble poison, strychnine. A man Who had been thrown into convulsions by two doses of the poison one-sixth of a grain each, administered for the rheumatism was relieved by twenty grains of camphor taken in six grains of almond mixture. . , Mr. Jones, the Republican member from Columbus, voted for U. L. Holmes, Esq., of this town, for Senator. Mr. Holmes, in our opin ion, ie infinitely superior in qualification to the guccessful candidates. ffu. Merald. EXTRACT jTront the Ealeiyh Cotrespoadenee of the Petersburg Intelligencer, dated Raleigh, Not. 25th, 1854. "Though the two Houses have been in session less than a week, they have disposed of the chief bone pf contention, vii : the U. S. Sena tors. Yesterday they elected Gov. Reid for the short term, and to-day they will give the long term to Asa Biggs. Little Davy takes Man- gum's place (0 1 my country 1) and Asa is to succeed Badger worse and worse (mine Got, vat a beepleal) It is to be honed, for his own credit sake, when Asa gets to Washington, he will scrupulously avoid Mr. B. s chair to take his seat in Mat, would be a practical illustra tion of turning the sublime into the ridiculous. The Wbigs, though In a hopeless minority, cast their viites yesterday for Hon. D. M. Bar ringer, lateMinister to Spain and to-day, 1 suppose, they will vote for Mr. Badger, of course. There is one matter for congratulation in the choice of Senators the Democrats have repudiated that political turn-coat, Tom Cling man ; showing that while they loved the trea son they de'spised the traitor. Clingman, I understand, stood no chance in the Democratic caucus, receiving only some 18 or 20 votes ; but these few it was believed by C, would cling to himf if by so doing the Whigs would help elect htm, and perhaps they might help them in electing Mr. Badger. I do not believe that any direct proposition of this kind was made to the Whis, but enougli was said about it; for it was, made to leak into the Whig caucus on Wednesday night and it would have done you good to jinve witnessed the virtuous indig nation with which it was received. Such a to tal want of Respect for themselves, and so fla grant an outrage to the feelings of the present distinguished Whig Senator, was scouted with abhorrence. Clingman has played his last card, and lite a desperate gambler who stakes his all upon; his last throw, he has sacrificed character, reputation, common decency and the good will of his hitherto faithful friends, to meet in turn-the reproaches and scorn of his pbeudo allies.; Served him right." . Fr$tn the Paris Moniteur. OFFICIAL VERSION OF THE SOULE DIFFICULTY. j Some foreign journals have related, from in complete or inexact information, the details of an incident relative to Mr. Soule, Minister of the United States in Spain. About a year ago, cirfiuniataoces which made some noise out of Madrid attra$teu the attention cf tlje Empo ror's government to this diplomatist. Since then, Mr. Soule has visited a certain part of France, and bos stopped at Paris, and in several towns of. the South. 'The Minister of the Interior was of opinion that considerations of public order required tbat, for the future,' these journeys should not recom mence without his knowledge, and orders were consequently sent to the frontier to prevent Mr. Soule from entering the territory of the efnpire without the goveriuent being previously infor med. 4 Mr. Soule having disembarked on the 24th of the month of October, at Calais, the commissa ry of police, charged to examine passports, made known, with extreme politeness, the instructions concerning him, and begging him to wait for a time, announced that he would sefer to Paris on thje matter. These offers were not accepted, and fn the day of his arrival Mr. Soule re-em-. barked for London. The Minister of the Interior did not the less send by telegraph bis definitive instruction to the effect that if Mr. Soule meant to remain in France, the privilege would not be accor ded to him ; but that, if be were simply to pass through our territory to go to his post at Ma drid1, his passport (lUre de voyage) would be vised for his destination. Thus the road was free for the Minister of the United States to Spain ; but residence was interdicted to Mr- Soule, in conformity with the discretionary ipower which" the law confers on the government with respect to foreigners, without any exception, and which by its nature is out of the reach of any contestation. The same journals which mentioned the fact which wo hare re established in its exact truth have made contradictory and equally erroneous com ments on the subject. On the one hand, it has been pretended that the Government: had retracted (etait revenusur) its decicion ; on the other hand, it has been af firmed that the measure taken with respect to Mr. Soule had caused between the Minister of Foreign Affairs and the Minister of the United States at Paris an exchange of extremely bitter explanations. The government, however, had no change to make in orders which conciliated the exercine of3its legitimate rights'with the public character of Mr. Soule. As to the demands which Mr. Mason may hare made, and the replies he has received, they were both as much in conformity with courtesy, (Us convenience,) of which the Minis ter of the United States has, as much as any one, the sentiment, as with the friondly nature of the relations of the Emperor's government with the Cabinet of Wfiuton. , It's the little troubles that wear the heart out. Forty little debts of one dollar each will cause vim ninn trnnK1p nnd Hnnninvn thnn nnd hio one of a thousand During the recent session of the Vermont Legislature, Miss Lucy Stone received seven votes for the office of Brigadier General of Mili tia. , : y How melancholy the moon must feel when it has enjoyed the: ful!nrg of prosperity, and gets reduced to its " last quarter." i ' What beau is least liked on a pic nic party? A rainbow. A late waggish printer, while on his death bed, was requested to be composed. " Distrib uted, you mean,;as I am laid up already," was the reply. Hood defines public sentiment as ' the aver age prejudices of mankind." Which travels at the greatest speed, beat or cold ? Heat, because you' can easily, catch cold. A man behind time should be fed on catch' up. . Gless's Tece Verbe-va Wxtee This delight ful perfume, prepared by a chemical process, from the hot hoo.se plant, LEMON TRIFOLIA, is con fidently reoommeijded to the Ladies in particular, on account of its refreshing and delightful odor. It contains all the fragrance of the plant itself in a concentrated form, and will be found very useful for removing ihe languor occasioned by crowded rooms, c. j Also,' is a delicious perfume for the handkerchief, and will be found much cheaper than the Extracts, i and yet equally good, and a pleasant change forth Eau de Cologne. Alsoj Glenn's Musk Toilet Water, Glenn's Citro- nella Water, Glean 3 Rose Geranium Water For Sale in Raleigh by P. F. PESCUD, Druggist and Chemist j 1 j. - xi TQH TOE REGISTER. TO THE MOUNT VERNON ASSOCIATION. LETTER THIRD. UTILITY OF PURCHASE. Ladies : You will excuse me for the interval between the Nos. of my series. In the divine allotment of labors, mine requires all my time and talents, unless I had the prerogative of genius to crowd the labors of a considerable space into a span of time. I had not intended more than one letter on the utility of your undertaking, but the subject has excited some little discussion and opposi tion, which seems to arise from the fact that the purchase of Mt. Vernon, in the way pro posed, would be an extraordinary manifestation of love and gratitude to a departed benefactor, and therefore a species of man-worship akin to that homage which leads men to erect Statues and other Monuments to suoh characters, and ultimately to canonise and idolize them. I admit the comparison of the two kinds of man ifestation of respect, but impugn the inference ; to do which, it is not necessary to deny that in a dark and heathen age, without the sun-light of education and Christianity, the homage of men led to hero worship and hero worship to an apotheosis of its object. Not one of the vir tues could be defended, if the test were that it had never transgressed its appointed bounds. They have ali, at some time or other, run across into the domain of the neighboring vice. Love has become idolatry, charity, profuseDess, teal for the church, persecution, and patriotism misanthropy. Religion, only, chastises and hedges the virtues within their proper spheres. We then have to defend the affirmation of the , usefulness of the proposed purchase, and of similar marks of respect for benefactors, by ar- I guments applicable to the existing state of things in this highly civilized and christianised nineteenth century. ThereSs the same danger of a return voyage across the more incognitum of the dark ages to the worship of the demi gods of war, that there is of the loss of Christi anity, that is, of its efficient cause, the Bible, and of this its expounders think there is no danger. Authorities, which we are constrained to respect, see in tl'e foreshadowings of the present age a tendency neither to the rever ence of man nor his Maker, but the manifesta tion of an intense individuality a supreme egotism. Since, then, there is no dangjr of our making an idol or a God of Washington, let us inquire what good may result from honoring him in an extraordinary manner. Let us attempt to ana liie the complex feelings of those who join in monumental or unusual posthumous honors of any kind to the illustrious dead. This feeling, though aiw!J? perhaps complex, does not al ways contain the sania number of simple ?!e mentary motives in every case of Its excrjise. Some, I doubt not, have honored and will hon or Washington from pious motives, and inno cently ; for why, may not those who have on their bended knees thanked God for the mission of Washington, hope, when they give a mite to rear his monument or honor his grave, that it is approved by God ? nay more, that in honor ing him, they are rather honoring God, for many pious subscribers to such objects would have their contributions construed as recognitions, as acknowledgments of the power and goodness of God in the production of such a tare bene factor of the human race.. And here I notice a great inconsistency in the conduct of the heedless multitude in the treatment of their earthly deliverers, when in the flesh and in the grave. Many who would condemn these con tributions and their motives as saint-worship, would welcome their living idol on a public oc casion with hosannahs, throw up their hats, burst their lungs and blister their hands with plaudits, unharness their-horses, harness them selves, and with a beastly servility draw him along the course of hisovation. This is hu miliating; it is worse, it is dangerous, it is self destruction, it is the way to manufacture dem agogues and despots. As bad as it is to niak? a God of a dead man, it is much worse, to make one of a living. The former can not be the responsible author of much mischief ; the latter may be of wide-spread desolation, may victim ize his own votaries. The one is King log, the other is King stork. If gratitude to the great of the human race, manifested by the payment of costly honors, yields on analysis such mo tives as I have just supposed, they will be gen erally approved, and we may place them among the arguments in favor of the purchase of Mt. Vernon. But there is another motive which, if not akin to these, is not antagonistic to them, since tney are all moral motives drawn trom within, and may be indulged and allowed their exercise without any dependence upon selfish advantage. It is this: a man feels that in hon oring virtuous excellence, he is exercising his own virtues; thSt is a privilege and a superi ority to have it in his power to do so ; that it is the shadow of the Almighty, an efflux from his fulness, that it brings a patent direct from Hea ven to exact his toll of admiration and regard ; that he in some sort and some measure shares in the reverence he feels and the honor he pays it ; that to honor the remains of the mighty dead is to appreciate merit, and that to appre ciate merit is to have merit at least some de gree of it; that he is so constituted that it is gratifying and nourishing to his virtuous sen I SlbllltieS to hOHOT I sibilities to honor superior worth ; that to do so j is the appropriate outward expression and ali- ment Ul metse leeiinga ttnu to ucujr iucui wmuu throws them back upon themselves untendernd and unstrengthened by the exercise of that munificence with which they are in correlation, and tbat if they are allowed to remain long un indulged and unexercised, they must starve. Virtue of every kind is a plant of tender growth. If it be not carefully fostered, if it be not fre- i quently drawn forth into action, if it see not its appropriate objects, those namely which are in correlation to it, often made happy by its means, like the beautiful but fragile flower which is unaired, unsunned, uncultivated, it folds its petals around its tender core or heart, that it may protect itself, and find that aliment within which it did not receive without, and not finding it droops its lovely head and dies. That I have not erred in my analysis of the motives of those who assist to honor buried great ness into thankfulness to God for having sent it, and into self-approbation for having honored it,'appears in this, that one having unimproved an opportunity of doing so, when pressed upon bim, feels a self-condemnation, a diminution of virtuous self-esteem, whilst on the other hand, if he have promptly and liberally responded to a ball upon bis charities toward such objects, he feels better and happier, that his virtuous sensibilities have gained an impulse and an improvement. That the existence of sueh feel ings as 1 nave eaucea irom resolution ot toe complexity of motive for giving to such objects, is both cause and effect of the exercise of this particular species of generosity, is apparent from the observation that it is the virtuous, the generous, the noble who build monuments to commemorate illustrious services to mankind. The sordid, the coarse, the callous never do ; nay more, the first class are most frequently called upon, and most frequently respond to the oall of those noble Almoners of the Church, who beg for the Church to support the poor of the Church and convey its blessings to benight ed pagans, and doubtless, the practice of the first mentioned modification of liberality is au excellent preparation for the performance the last. And although the pious petitioner for donations would prefer that the donor should give all from the love of God, yet when he can not have the best of causes and motives fur a good deed, he will wisely accept it oh the jus tification of the second best, for the motives of vice being so much more numerous and eo much more congenial to men than those of vir tue, he cannot afford to throw away any motive having the least semblance to virtue, or leading to good, whether intended or not. The third motive to honor extraordinarily a nation's departed Founder, to which we invite attention," is, that men hope thereby to do some little to reproduce his like for the evil day, to hold up before tho eyes of all the world a lofty and conspicuous incentive to his successors to imitate his virtues, and to repeat his career. This hope would be frivolous and without frui tion, were it not observed that the influence of relics of marble memorials and other chiselled honors of greatness is deeply wrought into the human heart The tomb of Achiles excited the envy and increased the ambition of Alexander; the tro phies of Miltiades would not let Themietocles sleep until he had won as great. The embryo conqueror of the modern world fought his min iature battles on the Carpet on which he enjoy ed his infantile sports, and on which had been inwrought pictures of the exploits of Achilles. These and similar sensible appeals, these at tempts, at least agents, to reach, impress and train aright the head and the heart through the delightful visions of the eye, and that mighty but mysterious moral influence which, like the diffused fragrance of flowers, emanates from them, may not be necessary, not even auxiliary to form the post, the philosopher and the scholar. The open volume of nature, an annu ally renewed edition for more than six thousand years, with its panoramic landscape of vanish ing, re-appearing and blending scenes of end less variety and beauty, may suffice to inspire and educate the poet. The volumes of human thoughts, written to address the mind purely, irrespectively of tho access to it through the medium of the senses, are sufficient to form the philosopher and the scholar. But all these are either sealed books or incouapreheneible teachers to the ignorant and indolent of the multitude. These perhaps are most cheaply, effectively and directly addressed, softened and subordinated by pleasing presentations to the eye and ear, the most usual and successful purveyors for the soul. Hence a wise city corporation has ever been liberal to provide promenades, pictures, statues, fountains and monuments of many kinds, whitherward labor has looked and been made proud of its .achievemenU-, taste been pleased and polished, sediiim be?n arrest ed in its inception, despondency motived and put to work. In this way, too, sense has been refined into sentimentality, moroseness into mild ness &Bd partyism into patriotism into love for a country that provided 80 liberally for the innocent gratification and veneration of its cit izens. If, then, these and similar manifestations of honor to Washington, and his illustrious com peers and successors, should act as the wand ol inspiration, as "thje live coal" to some "village Hampden," some potential Washington, all would admit that he had been obtained on cheap terms, for the warning voice of all history is that we shall need such an one. It is as diffi cult to preserve as to win, to defend as to con quer. Prosperity is more dangerous than ad versity. The dangers and the demands of Peace are not less than those of war. The gal lant ship which outrode the storm may founder in the calm. Permanence is never insured; a man new reaches a haven where he can say here will I rest me and enjoy the fruits of my voyage. What! shall a man or a nation sus pend vigilance fand labor when, of all things around, activity, activity is the life, and inaction, quiescence, death when the stream at our feet is just beginning, or just finishing its ceaseless circuit around the globe the air we breathe just wafted from the icy Polo, or from the fields of "Arabv the blest," and the earth, on which we stagnate, whirled in its orbit at the rate of about seventy thousand miles per hour! If a man will be inert and surrender himself to an apparent security, he does not learn his supine nesK from nature, for as many as have been the revolutions of Man, those of nature, of her con stituents; of her earth, her fluids, her atmos phere and her seasons, have been more numer ous. It is written in the books of Providence and nature, in the reoords of departed empires, that a change will go rely come over our dream of endless duration and invincible might, that we shall need a second Washington to preserve peace, or to quell civil war. And who shall say tbat it will not require as great virtues and talents to do either, as those which bore us tri umphantly through the seven years war of In dependence ? In the long roll of ages, of the im mortal few who only have received this most august of titles "Pater Patria)," the best, and because the best the most alike, were Cicero and Washington, the one for saving his country from the perils of civil war, and the other for repel ling foreign aggression. And though the honors paid the Roman could not raise up another Cicero to save Rome from another Cataline, yet, in a purer age, the honors which you Ladies pay to Washington, may raise up another to save us from Caosar. Fraternally yours, W. II. O. Wake Forest College, Nov. 25, '53. LIPPITT'S SPECIFIC. FOR THE CUKE OF Dysentery, Diarrheea, and Summer Complaint. IX presenting this justly celebrated Medicine to the public, we make no rash assertions of its efficacy, nor is any hopo held out to the afflicted, which tv" do not warrant. This remedy having been, for years, used in this place, for the cure of the above diseases, and those appertaining to tbc-ams class, the Proprietor has been induced to offer it on a niore extensive scale, with a view to lessen the amount of human suffer ing. I have never kuown it to fail, when the Di rections were strictly aanerea to. Many useless nostrums have been palmed upon the public, nnd I hesitated for some time, until thoroughly convinced of its efficacy. Certificates. Extract of a letter received from S. J. Carroll : Baltimore, Jan. 10th, 15'L Wm. II. Liwitt, Esq., Dear Sir: I have no hesitation in saying that your Specific is oueol'tlie best Medicines extant lor Dysentery, Diarrhtea, &c. You possibly may recollect my case; if it Las es caped your memory, 1 will give you briefly the facts. I had tried everytljiug that 1 had seen used, but with little success. And after using enough to start twenty-five Homeopathic M. D's., I began to despair, when you kindly offered me your invalua ble Medicine, which cured me etlecUially. Yours truly, S. J. CARROLL. WtLSHXarox, N. C, Ang. 14, 1S53. Wm. II. Ltrrtrr, Esq., Dear tar ; i have used your specific in two cases in my family for Dysen tery, in one, a spoouiui enecuiu a complete cure iu the other, three had the liKe ettect. Respectfully, &c., ' TUPS, LOR1NO, !E.tL Commercial. HARRELL'8 STORE, New Hanover Co., N C., Oct. 10, lsoi. Wm.H. LiPPiTT.Esq-, Dear Sir : It ia with plea sure I :tatc that I hc ucd your Specific for ths Cure of Dysenttry, Diarrhoea, tic., and have fboml it to produce tho desired elloct iu every case I use I it, after the Usual remedies have failed. I recom mend it with confidence to the public, Respectfully; &c, J. B.'SEAVEY, M. D. Savannah, Ga., Dec. 3G, 1851. Me.Wm. II. LirrrrT, Dear Sin It ia with plea-" sure I acknowledge the wonderful effects of,Jour Medicine for curing Diarrhoea or Bowel Complaint, as I inn satisfied it was the mcaus, under God, oi' srtviug the life, first of my child, and then of my brother. As my brother was riven up by two of the most eminent physician's in this place, Drs.' Richardson and Wregg ; and when I consulted the latter, as td the propriety of trying it On him; so low, ho said I might, to satisfy myself that I had left nothiug untried, but he did not think thai med icine would be of any use to him. But, thank God, h was mistaken, as wo saw the salutary effects iir '24 hours, and in ten days he was able to be out of bed. I remain yours, very truly and gratefully, WM. BAILY, Prepared and sold by VTM. H. LIPPIT1Y . Wilmington, N. Cr For sale by WILLIAMS k HAYWOOD, and P. F. PESCUD, Ralouih, If. C. For sale by W. II. MOORE, Goldsboto. N. C. : 63 - It. W. PECK, At the Old Stasd, Wm. Phok & Sox, IS now rcoeiving his Fall Supply of Groceries which, with the Stock, on hand will be complete. Cuba und Orleans Sugars ; Rio and Java Cof fee; Tea, Pepper, Spice, Ginger, Saltpetre, Snuff and Tobacco ; Candles, Adamantine and Tallow ; Soaps, a variety ; Tin-Ware, Castings, Nails;- Bed Cords, Rope and Bagging ; Fine and Oround Alum Salt, a large supply ; Fish, Lard, Vinegar, Mokissea, &c, &c. ; "a fine article of Golden Syr up" ; Flour and Meal. Thankful for the patronage received, he respect fully asks a continuance of the same. , lie also continues the auction and commission business. Dec. 1. 18o4. 4w 97 OF VALUABJitt RU.1T ESTATE, IN WAKREX COUNTY, N C. ON Thursday, tho 4th day of January next, I shall offer, at public sale, on the premises, the tract of land whereon the late Dr. Alexander Hall resided, containing about 750 ACRES. With comfortable buildings, plenty of timber of original growth for fire-wood and farming purpo ses, and within two and a half miles of Ridgeway Depot, on the Raleigh and Gaston Rail Road. This estate is estimated by competent judges to be one of the most valuable of its size in tho couuty. Persous wishing to examine it are re ferred to Mr. John D. Tucker, living on the pre mises Immediately after the sale of the land, I sbelr offer at public auction, the crop of etffn (about 200 barrels,) Fod ler, Oats, 40 Firt Hogs, Sows and Pigs, Horses, Cattle, Sheep, I&rming Utensils, &c. Terms for the laud 1, 2 and 3 years credit with good security, and the title withheld until the purchase mouey is paid ; for the other property, six months credit. All the bonds to bear interest from date, with approved security. The negroes belonging to the estate' will be hired out at the same time and place for the en suing year. RICH'D H. SMITH, Executor. Dec. 1, 18o4. wtd 97; The North Carolina Standard, Peters burg Intelligencer, and Richmond Enquirer will publish the above once a week until tho day of sale. 1300 ACRES VALUABLE LAXI FOR SALE. THIS Land is situated in Greene County, " 3 miles North of the Atlantic and North-" Carolina Rail-road Survey. There are 600 acres of cleared lands on the premises, lying in nearly a square, and very level, that will produce 100 bar rels of Corn to the Plough ; and there is enough land to clear to make 500 barrels. Adjoining the cleared tands, the land is as kind for cotton or' small grain as corn. Persons wishing to purchase a valuable place would do well to examine this, as 1 feel confident they could not make a better trade in lands than can be made in this, as I am determined to selL Persons wishing" to purchase a well improved farm would do themselves justice to come and see for themselves, before purchasing elsewhere. JESSE HARDY. Dec. 1, 18o4. w2w 97 :, MORNING SUN ACADEMY. The Spring session of this school commences on the 1st Monday in January next. The Academy is loca- ted. twenty miles north-west of Raleigh, in a heal thy and moral neighborhood. TERMS. Classical .Department, .'. lS.OO' English do 10,00 . Board can be obtained convenient to the Aca demy at $!i per month.. The Principal will ac commodate four or five good boys. T. J. HORNER, Principal.' Dec. 1, 1854. td 97 "VTOTICE. By virtue of a deed in trust made Jl t( to me by James G. Jeffreys, dated the 12th day of Febuary, 1831, for purposes therein men tioned, I shall proceed to sell at public auction on the 2lst day of December next, at the late resi dence of James G. Jeffreys, dee'd., in the couuty of Wake, the following property for cash, to wit : one tract of land, contaiaieg about 300 acres, ly ing in the county of Wake, 7 miles north of Raleigh and within half a mile of the Raleigh and Gaston Railroad, joining tire landsof Mrs. Gillcy Jeffreys, Nathan lvey and others. Also, 22 Negroes,; con- sisting of men, women, boys and girls, the proper ty of the aforesaid James G. Jeffreys. PETERSON DUNN, Trustee. Dec. 1st, 1854. 97 td. UNIVERSITY. THE Annual Meeting of the Board of Trustees' of the University will be held at the Execu tive Office, on Monday, the 11th instant. CHAS. MANLY, Sec'y."' Dec. 1, 1854. 97 Star and Standard copy.' LOOK AT THE HATS i THE HATS!! BY EXPRESS, another supply of those beauti ful Flat-brim Moleskin Hata. Alno. the SHANGHAI HAT, new style and good stock. W. H. R. S. TUCKER. . Dec. 1, 1854. - - 97 Notice. ALL persons indebted to the firm of SCUL08S $ CO., which dissolved on the first of July last, are requested to make an immediate settle ment, either by cash or by note, as, after the 16th of December, next, all claims left unsettled will be placed in the hands of an officer of the law. -SCHLOSS BROTHER. Dec. 1, 1854. 97 Standard copy. A Teacher Wanted ! QUALIFIED to prepare boys" for College, to take charge of "Knapp or Reeds"' Academy, leach era desiring a good situation will please forward their applications, well recommended, to the Postmaster of Knapp of Reeds P. 0 Gran ville Co., N. C. Applications received until 23th December next- Deo. 1, 1834. wSw 97 , T- . ..' .' ' " , A; : COUPLE of Mate Servants daring the Legis, lature, acquainted, with, the business of a IIotcL, Enqnire ol WJL I. BA1.V Uct. -1, 1531. tL. io . iaeBafv liea- I-
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