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It appears :1s f votetood abont asnsual. viVi i --1 i The SlaW OI """B3 " "umujwir la Nmjpijr thWU' nor do they desire It at all fbrtiw t i thelHiiuse have a jarge jinajoriiy, and they afeefc1 to "direct the effect of the jpresent state' lof thing upon the country. ma i xwepuuucaua, so ;tei,:are extremely; anxious foe an organization ' V Wnpf te single condition that it sliall be y jjr organization. The National' Americans do VBe dnizaori; ,aud ptefar tha it ?haUChe. i &0en, because, however things may appear in jWaAinyb, they "believe, nd rightly believe J t'tiej": are v-firkt in .the heaflsiof their cottntrjL jJ t? i 3 H t "" ." .J J j.- Kredi w; organize upon auy cwwcrpufrc-TuviMt . ' is really tlie situation of affairs, and upon it 1 ; - tf Xatidnal Americans are ready to go before Vl UV.ecouitjry, withbut any apprehension as to, the jxeti iflie! studious aim of the tocofoco. . press, to tl trowitiiii responsibility of disorgiuiiaaUon. upon vae Americans. But they have beeu caught in the !t they laid for :Others, the un has kicked .V'oWb petard,' aud they are placed in a position JiotH n hk-h they cannot escape, ana wtuca merits .the iniligiiant reprehension or the people. .:. They heut a caucus,--deuunced the American party, aaj luaninated Richardson, who, they .say, r;kir'fhe sake of argument, we admit,) ia cou- 'terviivei. 'The House ; roted i Richardson 'fev .M"iXsUJlIarahalL ( American J '50, . Now, if I we pat the two votes, together, they- amanntpnly f to 100, Which cannot elect. , Under no possibili ty; siicrefore, could tine Southern Americans elect P.ichr.lspn, even, if they were not most properly laciinea to resent ana ropei tnej msuit wnicn was offerejj tbem in the locofoco caucus. Well, what, tbeoj do the Americans ? Tliey put up a mah frouii thtj North, who is understood by aH (except a ft contracted political bigots,, who would not acknowledge virtue in an angejh.if "DeraocracyV tasW siiffer thereby,) to bejuist as conservative , as Richardson, and run " him tip to 41 votes.-'jK'-; if , the "Demof raU" woujd ..cast (heir vote ; ihr liiller,; it woiildirun him Up to 116, more than ticcesaary to a ihoke. I Tbey, then, can elect Fuller. ) But besides aH tins, we repeat that while tliaiusult offered to the American party stares I them in ' the fiice, they1 canaot go over to the sup- . ps-t of Uie locofocosL without forfeiting their self- respect and putting themselves in; the, predicar meBt of the "beaten; Ipaniel' . hiaster. ' ' 1 fawning upon , his Vet, to brine them out. and ;show to the conn- try the state of things, as they really exist," M r, liEALEof this State, (American Whig,) made the cHiuai proposition-)'njcn we jiuiisucuuuiqu si4c, m "Let the North select the Speaker from. the Suth, or, the South select the Speaker from tSe North One I alternative of this wo position "woiiltl give to ths locofocos the! Speaker, certainly ;- -, .-- - j . ' foir, if the South made the selection.! the j. hive the majority of the South, and could control that 'selection.'- Yd the locofocos rejusejheproposiiicfyi Next, Mr. Walker, (American Democrat,) pro posed that there should be a caucus of aS totutr iatitemen to makei a choice, j This they atsfrti- r lVis?then, clearly, is the case i Without them, . and; especially, against them, there are. not jQort- servatire men enough in the House to organize 1 s I" it ' iit mJh them, ii f then art eonsereatteeA there : i are jcofise-vativejlmen enough" toj prgano Hf; then, Uiey retuse to - uniie wj,a an tne conserva fives, who are to blame that, the conservatives do riot organize ? those who propose, or those, who 'ti Mitel the union of tliose men? i The answer is Wj evident to require further, comment. ; IiTthis connection, we take the liberty.of pub-' 1'i.sKinci a. letter ifrom an.' esteemed Washinfftori correspondent, which, though rather bid, isheVer- thelesi important, contributing," as it does, ad- Klitionil evidence1 of the fact) that, the , sole blame ioi tliejfailure of the House of Representatives to ". fyrgaiifze.resta upon the shoulders of the Admim- lstratifmists : i'-. - - ; --'- ;- : i- Washiitgtoh, D. C, i December 20 1855 J Tv n Rm Vrnm the proceedings of to-day, it is .demonstrated, beyond a question, that the Ahieriean Party fef the House of .Representatives f occuriv the onlv trulv national position of the !'erill parties into which that branch of the na . . tioriai Legislature is divided, ; While the Demo- j watici rnembers-i-I me in those who , voted for (.hiln'son profess to he Opposed to the resto- , . uoa ox tne mwsouri restnciion, -u i iuun v tMt not a fuw of the Northern members are anti- Nebraska men, and in Mvof of undoing the terri ! .turiai legislation! of the last session--in other wli, of re-enacting the Missouri Compromise.' ;: or do the Southern members object to this I y'thitik iUuo sufficient cause for , the destmc- pf their "cohenve " pjropei tiefl. The Blacky j ri,pullicans wtich, by the way, was. recognised i ? a. New York member to-day as not an impro ; Pr title by which to characterize the Northern. I- "vionai party, j-malie tins quesiicm, ine resco Utim of the .Missouri Compromuie, as the great and tvowtsi " ttirnosA -it sUrUJT Air t uiler, of Pennsylvania, as . their chyice for Speaker, ar mwtnimouslif opposed to further agi-! Ration on th slavery quastiou; and staud,pMi the 12lh section! if k 1 Philadelphia Platform t that is; -whatever may haT been their individual viewa a to th' propriety, of the Nebraska-Kan-jjaa act. thev ara for niaintaMin n, )t and. opposed fe its repeal-Mr.'Faller hving dis I tinctlyandnnequivocallY takaa Kspech;u ItW House to-d'af.;;Thi resnlt of the ! port, and to thsuppprt jdf Mr, Banks; fi0m two or thre Northern, ilieinbera-tliat is to-sav. the iuwvu rriy einie uoyse 91 sKepresentatiyw has bwn cnpletely; purged 'anU expjurited of las remotest ' su9iiruu vn -'unt viii r;iivii ahaBttVbut of afifciatiott:wittf it.W Ai ; ' . iTo-dav -Dibceedifur Lravn tflmT wuui, majority oj -ine popular T orancn of f Afc Ungres arranttlkvery-ra6n. "if thoselii fajr Ly OfKc tliAr,ibUi- 'I 1 A 11 VT i . - 1. i1 5?can deletjoa.' of your .ijtate' have uniformlr Voted fcr Mr..FoHrl wneniUfr. ur. sliaffa' name "was dropped ;X have heard1 them ay tha?whilst the resolutions of 'the Democratic caoews atandthey could npt ote' forf.-.Kieb-' ardson, without a cpajpromof -lrespect---5 indeed, were the. national ' Americans o vote for Mr EichardsonT they could not elect lilmt i The attempe 'tveiog'.tetg' 1mi':thewrW rewpwiKuamy upon tne members of the Amer ican; Partjfor. the jdelay 4a tlio jorgalnizatjon of the House is bofh ungenerous and unjust. , :The Democrats are uuder a much ooliaatins td1 sup port Mr Fuller, as the Arnericaiis ai-eito v ote for Mr. fiiahadsoo ObBgarions, indejl l ':' What obligations, caik exist' to jpp.irt a set of me tt who liaVeaNsed and denounced the; American Party 11? such wholesale.-er m as, the Deint)crats have done:. iris W be hoped that the little' band of patriocaAroincn9. will maintain 4 thetr integrity antiatand bj thinr cVJur" s jk- Uie last: If Banks is elected Speaker no party will bo mbre respon- rlTrte ror sueVa result Wth Dem-icracy. have vsxtr witnesNd.iwfrerniringjand manceuverins a aveen in the hHTew'davs. Jlorace-jGreely, of the 7Vy,sems & be, Gie ceiitre of attraction among the . Black Repnbli- cans, ucn.- veon,:aiso, ot -tue Uouner ud Un- It, V quite iyM in figuring ab6uT. jit his' position is not 4well known its GTeerVs.. The .lines of sectionalism are drawn more distinct- i ly. man ever . oeiore, m our , nation s, 'iiswry,-;! brcttherewillVbesqually times befe a Speak er" is elected. ',: Oomfng events cast th&i shadows jThere ,were two; balkks to-4ay On the last, J&nVs'reoeiVed106 ; Uchardson 7S ; j and Fuller '34-talance scattering. Jn the Senajte, nothing was doney f urse. The Sena U rf." 'nieV and ailjourned ; and. then diffnsed tiiemseltes through the. otlier House ime of tWm to pull the ropes arid otii'ers to look u I .saw. Aa ,and Utile O'avy iirtlie Housed .Tiiatnyin Clinjnan. from your StUe, who, I reniemlwrHbused the Deino cr tjso Outrageously inl! 814-'5,,is nbw - oi iie of their. mo6t consistent members,- regularly Toting lor 3lr..iticnaBisonL : 'u i t wli Teaipora.miUdiiiur, tt nos mutamtircutn Uiia" I FOREIONlS.il -ANQ GATHOUCISM BEQUI- "STraUAU:iC4TIONS ?QK OFFTCE ; LETTEB FROM HONvECl PUjlTEARl . The "American Orcan" Dublikhcd in its issue of Saturday last a. statement . to the effect that the Postmaster General had: determined hot to ppoint any American to office , It also irives a etter-from-.tlMS Hoi. .R, CL Puryearii relation to the matter, which, will.-give the . country some idea of the Jesuitism in . this; .Department, and tlie proscription which is- practused agniust Na-trres-aiid ProteKUnts ifrZ? , J'-j -.tJ. vi: House or BKPaKSENTAtiVES," Dec1'24, 1855. .Dear Sib i 1 see in your paper of 22'1 instant nriit(nieht 'coneeminff the . anoointihent of a iximatiteTfinmnr district at Madi.wii,1 Rocking ham county, North Carolina,, which; - desire to correct. i-Tbe conversation to which f, you allwle waa betweear Mr. ! Horatio Km;? 1st- Assistant Postmaster General, and myself arid not with Mn Campbelbthe l06tma3j:er Generial, as stated in your article.. With this exception, -the state ment is correct, as far 4s it .oea, 4utiit thios not embrace all that occurred between Mr. King and myself on that occasion.! .-iiii-f iJ . :When ( made the application for the appoint ment, Mf; King asked me if the .applicant were a voowrNotbing IJ. I.replied. that 1 did not Know whether he-AsasJbr not ; and asked him if .it were possible that his being . hnow-Nothing would be an obiectioft ? i He replied Yes, I. am acting miller orders not to appoint any- Kuiow-Nothing, and W f urtimt all . whom .1. know-' to-belong to the ortier.dlhCTmjwked him, if: a native-born citizen and .a .foreignfe Roman Catholic, both . e- qualiy, competent,, were to apply lor-tne appoinv-mrjiit- on wbieh."w.anld be;5bestow : it t t He aid ha i shbuldi he. ioHJDelladro. appoint the' for- tiffa r UaUioliC.iiC l..xnsn.vien. i.me xeparureuv, - . T -T .1 1 A , j l f ; TTA -4.-. A. And do-ockt knoifcwhetheTny -appointment has ;Yryr rts'pectmllyyQur obedient (serswuif 15 u afnewtm Jh'e l?aractet of the great Stafes'rnan,-ahdsliow LwnicK uistineuish'ed. hinr ipou: theiPublie&rena, were eminennv iisnia.veu iu nic nuvmi ouu v- klfcn?Uff"aVd f PoMERoy for this brilliant biography , of i a most brilliant indVremarkable man--the most gifted j orator,, perhaps- jvi tiv he Jf-i?11'' tbick. have never read a more-: pleasurable or readable f- -' -'J -V. -'- t-.- -".-' - i V T . ' .. . Geopfbei Mostxrriijr,8 thb Faithless Guar PIA2T, few MrssMxdie,iWet are. further indebt ed to Messrs'. DsWlxi & DAVjDsosrrublishers, 160 tfassau SU N.-T.; for this! work of fictions The authoress is well known, and has produced several Interesting novels. " The present work Is spdken bf highly 'Trice ' ; , fi JfflT", Ttia Eastern end of- the-North Carolina rteilrpad-lias beea- ceTOpleted about three miles beyond Greenslwro'. ' The first train arrived at Greensboro 6n i Thursday the - 1 3th ; Inst.- There Temams to be "finished' five miles, which it is expected will bo Completed in a short time. . -WNeW pAPEB.--Eugone B. Drake, Esq., pro noses to'publishJt5 Asheb6rough!i The N. C. Bulletin,' a weekly paper, .;-American mpi- lisherafbr .this entertainine .work.. It affords tics. Terma, $2. 00 in advance. - - ; " r ? Ak AxTtny' VCrimea. The follow r tog extract L Jj letter addressed to a H gentleman of ston. and which appeared Ju the Washington Union, will be read, at this time, with , unusual interest The Unin says that, the writer is a gentleman of education, tra vel and keen observation, and one whoee opinion in regard to military matters is entitled to much consideration, ;::lt will be scan that he regards tie north aids of.Sebastopol as an ' impregnable position : y- ya-i 'y)fy v j . ' ... :-. : . ; i CoysTAKTtNopuE, Nov. 4, 18o5. N Wfltwant'to Sebastopoi I the other day, and spent a week in the EnsUsh camp. I went all met the town two or three times. A more de- moushedlace was never seeu J- Every house iA . nas neen gufted by sheila, and what was left of iiunn uwow aviug. irWulit.A1r O 1 i . 1 3 ' fll ri antnfinAa fT..r A. J.1 -A. t. 1 ?ll fuU.aonnteof affairs at that place, so I will con- fine myself to our personal-adventures. ? ; . ;: i . were - weli received by- the ' British' com-ma8Jer-in-chief, and quartered on Cuthcart's hill, which commands an excellent view of the town, harbor, oppceite side, and of the renowned Malar koff and. Redan. We got passes from the En glish, French, andSardinian Generals, which en abled; us to . penetrate everywhere, eveu when shell and shot were falling. , Tlie Russians on the north side "keep up a constant firing on differ? ,eut parts of the town -where tliey imagine there may be quartered troops ; and they have learn ed; by their- last twelvemonth's practice, to throw a shell with the precision almost of a rifle ball. A friend and myself i were outside of the city' on its south side, opposite Fort Constaitine, and werp counting the number of shot3 that had struck her during the naval bombardment, which we could easily do with our glasses. NAs we were in full vieWjto them, and they probably took us for officers of one of the allied armies, they sent a shell; a? us, which was devilish near putting an ; extinguisher on us and our search for knowledge. It passed a couple of yards overhead, and explo ded a short distance iu the ground behind us. Whilst we were in the town they were constant ly peppering away, arid sometimes they brought down what remained of a house with a great crash. ' l '.' -. The docks are beautiful basins, constructed of a, white sand-stone louud here in great abundance ; the coping is of pink granite. There is room to "dock -eight ships at once. Tn one were the remains of a hjrge steamed, nothing but the iron worki; remaining, the wooden parts being burnt away. , These docks are the only structures that remained uninjured, ouly a few shots having struck them ; but orders had been received to blow them tip. They are too small to admit the large' class of , vessels that are now built, but woud do for the old class liue-of-battle shi. The whole harbor is studded over with the masts of the numerous Vessels that have been sunk du ring the siege..' '..Those that were sunk last year are by this time . entirely; destroyed by : worms, which are very destructive in the Black Sea; and those last sunk will soon be rendered valueless from' the same cause. They will offer noubstruc tion whatever to the navigation of the - harbor whea once the masts' are rwove3, whic'i is easi ly done, for there is sixty feet clear of water oyer their hulls. The tops of the: three-deckers bare ly reach above water, and as you know the length of a three-decker's mainmast; you can judge the depth Of te water.,r - , I, .: ' , The Russians are strongly entrenched on the north side, and twice the force that the Allies have in the Crimea cannot Idrive them out. If the Russians meet them in the field and are beaten, so that the 'Allies can invest them and cut off their supplies, 'they may be starved out. If they have provisions enough; they can laugh at every thing the Allies may d" to drive them out. There must have died of Jhe latter, since the lan- ding in September, 1854, not less than one hundred tliousand -I mean from every cause. No fewer tlutn. two hundred thousand sick and wounded have been sent away from camp. These esti mates may appear exaggerated, but they certain ly are not. f During the six weeks preceding our arrival there, young Bonaparte told its that the French had received fifty thousand men to fill vacancies. . The British army that landed at Eu patoria last year is nearly extinct ; I suppose the per ceutage of those left is not over 15 per cent. The present race of solihers that have been sent from England lately offers! a great contrast to their old . well-dnlled , ones. 1 hev are mostly 1 boys, and appear barely : able to stand the fa tigues, of camp duty, let alone those of a cam paign. ine same may oe saici oi ine new a rencn levies. . . ; , y . ' -J i flwent jll around the French tand Sardinian outposts, and witnessed some firing' between an outpost of the Zouaves and a luissian one. 1. be lieve the former got it up for mv own gratifica-i tiou ; for, when Tasked them where the Russian outposts were, they pointed them out to mo, and I found them much closer than 1 thought, but did not see them at first on account of their grey . great-coats.' .The Zouaves said they would wake them up, and therefore : sent them some Minie balls, .to .which; tae .Russians replied : but 1 be lie ve.no damage was done tpeithersido certain ly not to . the Zouaves. .Ill's was opposite the ruins of Jiikcrmaou,, where the great battle was fought.' 4 'After witnessing this specimen of Z-ju-ave valor; J rewarded the sergeant of the post with a cigar, ayd rode on to the field of battle of the Tchernaya, or Tractir Bridge, where the Rus- gianis were severelv handled. 4 The Sardinian out posts are in beautiful spots," strung along the val ley of the Tchernaya as far as Baidar, which, by reference to the map, you will see is at a consid erable distance about fifteen miles) from Balak ava.!fThey have erected redoubts on every hill and commanding point, and made excellent mac adamized roads leading to every part of their en campments. , They are all building! themselves excellent huts for the winter, and in the way of making themselves comfortable they as far excel the French as the latter do the JSnglisM. The British' trwps have all been converted into navvies, and you see them m thousands making roads with, all speed against the rainy season, which1. is now imminent. . The railway is pretty much of a humbng, and I believe it Was made more for home eft" set or buncombe than from any toal use that it would be to the army. Their camps are: scattered miles apart, Oyer an area of some forty or fifty square miles, and it is evident that a railway which necessarily has hut two extremities can be of .use to those two onlV it I woull be impracticable to have branches leading to.alr the camps, they use it very little, wlulsi the macaaamizea roans, i wnicn iorm a perieci network over tire country, are coveretl with carts. The Sardinians are making a railway from Balak-." lava tovineir uepoi. oi storesu ine ingiisn nave 17,000 mules and .horses, and about half that number! of carts fori their transportation, ' and 11,000' men forming-; what they , call their land transport corps, llalaklava is crowded with ves sels, and we were detained three days outside un able to get in. In fact, the vessel did not ge in for a week, though: we landed from the outside. We -went.to the Crimea, and returned in a splen did English screw steamer, the ImperadT ; where we were treated very handsomely. I was sorry to see the great number of American clippers in the service of the French. i- - - . r M ' ' - " ...... ... - - t - j - ( . , i. . . .... - - ' . RESPECT FOR -AGE." - , There is no more beautiful trait of el .racter in the young; than t, respect for " the old Thnfe is a fitness, a propriety, in this deferential regard, which commends itself to every man, unless his feelings are brutalized and heja lacking in that delicate quality of mind wticH can' weigh pro prieties. , We think that, on this point, there is a great and increasing fault in the education of childrenj They are not taught to '-wrereu.ee age, aa they once were. Tjiere i is, to a far greater ex text than formerly, a disgusting pertneas and Impudence in boys. Instead of dofflcg lus cap, on meeting an old man, and making a respectful salutation, as was the custom of old, tile urchin of the present day is far. mow likely to mock his hobbling gait or his cracked voice. ; ' This lack of respect for supp'-' cinerally, and particularly foi" thebld, h a i-.whlch ta not confined to children, who aw governed .by impulse and.exampie rather than judgment, but is seen most glaringly in many who are ripening men; and are old enough to know its impropriety. In this class, it is indeed but the fault of an early habit, the consequence of a faulty training in cM 'hood, and is not much to be wondered at, though greatly to be condemned. A chap of this description a boy in everything except size, and a man in evervthinc but intelligence and t - --rf , - o honorable feelings who can swing a cane, and j . puff a cigar with an air of importance that might lead you at a distance to suppose he was somebody, would think it a mark of wit to play off a trick upon an old man; or a sign of spirit to jostle him from the pavement, if he happened to be in the way; especially if his coat was brown, with a patch upon his elbow, or he had the appearance of a mendicant ; and this, too, though he might have the white Ucks arid venerable form of a Pa triarch. But in our view, there is no way in which meanness, a lack of all nobleness of soul and good-breeding, can be more palpably dis played than in such and similar acts, or even in others less marked and gross, that merely show a want of that deference to which age is entitled by the general consent of mankind. Such contemp- tible fellows, who cannot distinguish wit from L rudeness, or spirit from insolence, might be aha mod by the simple Indian who has read no book but nis own heart, and taken lessons in no school but the school of nature. Among the Aborigines, Age is always respected; and the blind, white haired old Warrior at the Council has more in fluence than the youpg brave, though in the full vigor of his manhood. ' ' JST The locofocos in Congress seem to be en gaged in an effort to make capital for Bun combe" by submitting motions to resign,- go home, and the like. We would ask attention to Lone of thejrDroDosition, that of. Mr. McMcl- len, of Virginia, "to organize, pass the Appro- priatien bill, and go home." No doubt ! Just sol The "cohesive power of public 1 plunder" has not yet lost its power I Let's put, our hands in the Treasury, take a full grab, and- 1-runl It is, then, but. fair to hold up ;Mr.. Mo Mcllen, and those for whom he speaks, as going to Congress for nothing but money 1 1 j : Norfolk Rests. The ware house erected by our late lamented and enterprising j townsman Josiah Wills, deceased with the wharf known as.: Wills'' Wharf has been privately leased to Messrs. A. M. McPheeters & Co., . for a term of years, at $2,600 I per.', annum. - We 'learn that Messrs. McPheeters & Co. have been! offered an advance of $500 upon their rent, winch they have not hesitated to decline. . . . The warehouse and wharf are known las the seat of enterprise and profit under its late owner, and we trust that the present lessees will achieve, as they will deserve, success. ' i . jWe are gratified to learn by the foregoing paragraph from the Norfolk " Newsi," that our former tiwnsman, who standi at the tiead of the Firm referred to, has such flattering prospects be- i' ' i -w'-'xl I..T1 iV.' i rr' lore mm. m e cueeriunycommenu mm anu nis associates as prompt, punctual, and indefatigable in their line of business. f Tlie Rt. Rev. Bishop Atkihson left this city on Monday, last, for the purpose of making Wilmington his future place of residence. H$ will .be greatly missed from our midst. . PIERCE DELEGATES TO CINCINNATI, We learn from different sections of the country that Mr. Pierce and his man Gushing, have been busily engaged in getting Pierce delegates selec ted for the purpose of packing theCincinati Con vention. In matters ot small diplomacy other wise called trickery Mr. Pierce has already ob tained an unenviable notoriety, and. the scheme in which he is now engaged ; is there , eminently characteristic. In every direction: orders have been issued to the various postmasters, collectors, surveyors, &c, to get themselves chosen as dele-j gates, and in the iSew England States especially, these orders have been successfully carried out, It is,' therefore, far from improbable that the con vention may meet with a nominal majority for the renomination of Mr. Pierce. To be sure, the material which will compose that strength is not very reliable -merc camp followers ready to sell out to the highest bidder. But as matters stand at present, Pierce has secured a good many dele gates, and the only way his Democratic rivals can head him off is to kick up a row in advance, and expose me-iniquiiy oi iue pnciuug system wmcn has been adopted, or" to prepare to bid stronger for the votes than the present Kitchen Cabinet. Of course, the re-nomination of Pierce would 'ead to the certain defeat of the Democratic party in the next election. Whatever else may be uncer tain, this is a fixed fact He has been tried, and '"ound so writing in. all those qualities which the President of a great- country should possess, that ve do not believe he could carry a single State in lis favor. , If the Democratic party -is prepared m commit suicide, they can adopt ne better mode of doing up the work thoroughly . than to fold their arms and allow Mr. Pierce to pack the con vention and carry out his plan. Wjxsh. Letter. THE STEAMER NORTHERN LIGHT. New York; Dec. . 26. At the i suggestion of the Transit Company, the District Attorney has decided that the steamer Northern light may proceed on her voyage,' conditioned that she takes out two Marshal's Deputies to superintend the discbarge of the steamer. The Company stipulating to bnng back all the cannon and mu nitions found on board. ; ' THIRTY-FOURTII CONGRESS. First Session. J . - . --. i W lanrvrr-m TV.- Oi . . 1 The Senate was in session but a few minutes only ; and after the presentation of several peti tions, adjourned until Thursday. . Hocsb of Rkprksestatives. Mr. Leiterj who had received, from time to time, several votes for Speaker, explained, for fear his position might be misunderstood, that he had Uuiforoily voted for Mr. Banks, and. wished it to- be distihd.ly known that he was not a candidate and ne ver would be. I r':.:-i . , Mr. Stewart,of Maryland, said be came here under no special- or distinct , organization : He claimed to represent no particular or special par-; ty, but to discharge his duty to his country as at representative qf the people. He had voted from ' the beginning for Mr. Richardson, (for reasons which he stated,) and in the course of his re marks said tha that gentleman and Mr. Fuller had explicitly stated their positions; but that Mr Banks had not He . wished to know whether the last named had not-declared, -pch- le livered in Maine, that he would "let the Union slide.". - ii;.';. . . ? - v-'' s -; " ' . Mr. Banks replied that he would meet the en emies of the Union on a fair field ; that he t was for the Union as it is ; was for it as the guaran tor of the rights; of the States, and, as the .main' prop of our GoVernraent, he would have it stand on the record oi history, in the language of Wash ington, "erowried with immortal .fame ;" but in a certain contingency, (should the Government prostrate its gigantic' power to the support of a single institution slavery,) in that event he would let the Union slide. Mr. Grow remarked that the declaration had been repeated from time to time, ? by gentlemen1 now. voting for jRichardson for Speakerthat they! 'were ready to dissolve the Union. They voting . for Mr. Banks Would never cqpsent to take any other interpretation of the constitution save that, furnished by thb fathers of the republic, ahd con-j temporaneous lfeports for the last sixty years, j After further proceedings, the House laid on the tabjp the resolution pending from Saturday that no debate shall be in order until after a! Speaker shall have been elected j Mr. Stewart ffered a series Of resolutions, as-, sertiug the principles held by the Democratic! Sarty, as a platform on which the Speaker of the: ouse should sfand. I t- ' ' i Mr. Colfax ofilbred a substitute that this House; earnestly disapproves any attempj, covert or open, to annex Cuba, and approves Of the restore ation of that part of Oregon which was surren- dered by the administration of President Polk.! Tughter.) Ifithe gentleman from Maryland,! he said, would accept of this substitute, he would vote with him. j - Mr. Bocock insisted that the first business in order was the election" of a Speaker and - the; swearing in of the memCers. - - . j Mr. jBrooks, qf South Carolina, said tliat in a contingency the reverse of that contemplated by Mr. Banks, he would be willing to "let the Uuion slide." : ,- i. ,1 - .. ,.. ' .,:-:'" - .1 The House voted, with the following result ; Banks 101 ;. Richardson, 72 ; Fuller, 81 ; Pen- nington, 4 ; scattering 7. Necessary to a choice 108. : - 1 . ,- .-. ' " r :.-:-' " "!'' MrJ Nichols fofferedl a resolution to elect a Speaker by a plurality vote ; but it was laid upon me .laoie-t-yeas jj.o, nays iu . , s. ! i. ne xiouse aajournea max eunesaay.. - -rt- "; ' - :' '"i:-f' -i 1 Washinotos. Dec 26, The Senate cid not sit jto-day.' J I The Hocse passed a resolution that no motion to adjourn should be in order until a Speaker was elected, and then took a recess until to-morrow. 10 o'clock. ; 1 ; ' i . - SKETCHES A QF THE CANDIDATES FOR SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRE SENTATIVES. j Vt '.;- . ,.' ' The uunierou;iiinsuceessf ul ballotings for Speak er of tl.e U.'S. House of Representatives have na turally drawn public attention to the several prominent gentlfemen 'named for the responsible post, and aW'akehed a i desire to know some of their antecedents. e tneitiore conuense irom the New York "herald the foljowiug sketches: ;; Williitm A. njchardson, of IlUuois, was born in Fayette county,! Kentucky, in 1811. His father was a Virginia tarmer, ana ms wite-oue oi tne fidmojidson fanaly ofthe Old Domiuioii. . Her father, and seveik of his brothers, diel in bat tit-. Mr. Richardson studied law"iri Kentucky, prac tised a short time there, and then removed to Illi nois, where he ,v as elected States attorney, which office he shbsequently resigned to accept a seat in the Legislatu -e. For nine years he Was a -democratic uieuibu- of either the State Senate or House, and of jthe latter he was at one time Speaker, In ls46 he raised a company of vol uuteers and proceeded to Mexico, At the battle of 'uena Vista (where he was. promoted to a majl'rship) he d&tinguished himself. Before his return home, hej was elected to Congress, and has been a member Iyer since. Nathaniel P. pinks, of Massachusetts, a natiye of that State, -was. born in 1816, He commenced life by working n a cotton factorythen learned the trade of a nlachini t. Subsequently he stu died law under the Hon. R. Rantoul, and w-as ad mitted to the b-.r in 1848, in which year the de mocrats elected Jura to the Legislature. In 1840 hewas a suppyter of Martin Van Buren, and subsequently of Gen. Cass. In 1851 he was chosen to btthlthe Massachusetts Senate and House. He accepted the latter, and was chosen Speaker by a coalition of democrats aud freeioil ers in 1851 aud!lS52. Iu 1853 he was chosen to preside over the State Cjnstitutional Conven tion, although lj had just beeii elected toOm-' gress by the detocrats. At the last Congression al election he ws nominated by both Democrats and. Know Nothings, and was elected by about 7,000 majority.' J "' .,: . ' '- ' Humphrey Marshall, of Ky., was boru in that State in 1823, aid is. a distant relative of the late Chief Justice Marshall...- His mother is the sister of .John G. Biruy, so often the candidate of the Liberty party f.ff the Presidency.. Mr. Marshall is a gradiute ofVest Ptnnt, and served as a lieu tenant under Geh. Scott in, the Black Hawk war. He alsosered gallantly in the Mexican war. In 184(5 the whigs elected h' to Cjugress, aiid in 1852 he was re-elected,. but resigned his. seat to accept the mission to China. , -Last till he was elected again by the Know-nouungs, nis majority being over 2,500J . . ! ' Lewis D. Campbell, of Ohio, was born in that State iu 181 1. His father was a V irgmun. Mr. C served au apprenticeship at the printing busi ness, and afterwards started a way paper at cut ler Ohio. In 1836 he was admitted to the bar, And in 1840 was'defeated for Congress by Col. Weller, by only 66 votes out of 14,000. In 1843 he was elected to Uongress as a wnig, ana nas been a member ever since. He is distinguished fr hia onnosition to the further spread of sla very. His principal business at home is farming. Henry M. Fullerof Pennsylvania, was born in that State in 1820. ' He is a lawyer by profession, and was first elected to Congress as a vhi in 1850, having the year before been in tlie Legisla ture In 1852 he was defeated by Mr. Wright, derhocrat, but in 1854, by the aid of the Kuow Not kings, was again returned, having this time defeated Mr, Wright. ; j "f .-. I '! ' '?.'. -:.'-...'"';' . ; EMIGRANTS OR "FILLIBUSTERS" FOB r .KTP A R A H-fT A :; . ?, jxsw X9B& Jjeo. Z4.-The steamer xonneru Light has engaged to carry out to Nicaragua five hundred men, pretend' d emigrants, under the protection of Parker H. French. DLitrict Attor ney McKeon has tel graphed to the President for instrutioni- . f ," SECOND DISPATCH. . ' ' New York. Dec. 24; Shortly after 2 o'clock to-day, the U. SMarshall1 received a dispatch trora Washington ordering the seizure and deten tion of the steamer Northern Light. Officers were sent on board. The counsel of the Transit Company declared that the vessel should sail at the usual fiour. .Subsequently, however, he and the Captain wnt to th. office of the U. S.. Dis trict Attorney to see whs arrangements coulJ be made. The result of tide interview is unknown. About 4 O'clock the Northern ' Light got under way, but had not proceeded far,, before she was , lULcrcepuju oy a venue cuuer, wmcgtreu two ehots across her wwawhlekfepiAish to. . Two other cutters then 'went to assist the first. . Between two and three hundred young men were found aboard. Appearances indicated that they were Nicaraguan adventurers. One confessed; that they were such, and had been en gaged b-French and others. A . 1 I WISTAll'8 BALSAM OF WILD CHEERY " Has established for itself a reputation that can not be assailed. Dr. Wra. A Shaw, of Washing ton. N. C. writes, uitderdat of My 1, as follows : "T have heard of many oases of deeded beneficial effects from its use, especially iu ! Asthuia, 'and Chronic Cough of spasmodle chartcter. I I have used the Wild Cherry a great deal in praotiee, and with marked good results. y . "Ivery oae knows the reputation of the Tar pentine and Balsam constituents in protracted coughs The combination of these principles, in Wistar's Balsam of Wild Cherry is ingenious and judicious. " , . I "Medical men are justly distrustful ef Patent Medicines in general, but candor must discrimin ate between outrageous nostrums and humbugs and those medioinee which have proven salutary, and, in many well attested cases. cnrativ." None genuiae, ulss signed I. BUTTS en the wrapper. . For sals by William Jt Haywood. MARRIED. v Iri this City, on Thursday evening, by, Charles B. Root, Esq., William Terry to Ailsey B. Nines. - .;''.. .- DIED. '!. '' In this city, on Saturday morning, at 4 o'clock, A. M., the 22d inst., of consumption, "Mr. Alex ander P. Alsobrook,aged about 40 years. The de ceased left an aged mother, a wife, and four small children, to mourn their loss. . ;j RALEIGH, NOVEMBER 201855. ' THE K AN E HOUSE i j IRE-OPENED UPON THE : CASH PLAN. All the delicacies of, the season served at all hours. (See Bill of fare:)' t-ZCj:. ' .NwB.jClaygetfs guperior" Ale on ya' 4; j Oxford Female Seminary . THE next session will commence on Thursday, the 10th of January, 1856, and e' ose on the first Fridny in the following June, PupiU will be admitted at any time; and charged from the time of entennz to the close of the session ; yet it is very desirable for every pupil to be prtseQ at the beginning of the session. . SAM L. L. YKS ABLE; Trinci pal. Dec. 27, 18"o i . , . 10 -2 w I TAR RfVbR MLE ACAQEM. ! GR.4N'VU.r.E CO. N. 0, rT)HE exercised f 'this School will be resumed 1 1 on the IT th day of J inuarv li 3', uu ler tha in inageme'.it of -.Mr. James Campbell, a graduate of te Uuiversit of N. C. Board $per VJouth ; Tuition as heretofore. For particulars alJres9 the Priacipl either of the Trustees or the Secretary.. ' j Dr. J. A. Ruase'd, Wm. Clement. J4s. C. Coi- art; Esq .Allcu Wallor. L. P Allen. j . C. W. ALLiSiN, SeQretery . Tarltiver P. O- Granville Co. Dec. oo. 101 9t ALE OF LAND, NE.1R0E3,, &. Will be sold on Wejael'W tbo.2 Ji day of Janaarv iiext, on the Plantation of the late iudward li. DijJley, about fivtQiiiei from Jacksonville, in Ons low County, tbe Plantation containing about 4000 acres of laud . of which 2000 acres are cleared, and undef fence, and iu fine .order for planting, and the rest are woodlands. . This well known plantation is one of the most valuable in Eastern N! ("Molina, and offers a rare opportunity to per sens wishing to purchase laade. 4tis situated on New River, about 25 miles from the Ocean, with free and readyx access to the markets of New B-jrne and Wilm'tagton ; there are three good landings on the Plantation, at which vessels of a small size may load. . There are on thei Planta tion an excellent two story dw elling house and all proper out bouses, Overseer's house, cabins to accommodate 200 negroes, two large' barns, a fcteam saw mill, in fine order, with- a thrasher, cotton, gin and grist mill attached. All the said buildings being in excellent repair .. At the same time and place will be sold 35 . valuable slave, all the corn, (about 7,000 bushels,) fodder and peas, &c ; 1 1 mules, 20 horses, about 300. hogs, about 1)0 sheep, about 100 head of cattle' and the plan tation stock and farming utensils. . - - i Terms of sale For the Plantation 3,000 cash, and the bulance at one,' two and three years credit; with interest from sale for the other pro perty all.Bumsr under $100 cash; all sums over $100 and under $200, six months credit ; all sunis ov4r $200, six and twelve months credit. For the deferred payments, notes with approved securities will be requii ed in all eases, bearing in terest: from date.' '' '.'"' ' . 7 '.. " ! Mr. Robert Dudley, who resides on "the planta tion,, will give any information in regard - to it, and will show it to any one dosirous - of purchas ing, or by applying to the subscribers at -Wil-miugton, N. C, any information will be given. '4 -'", C. 11. DUDLEY, . ' Wm. H. DUDLEY. . WUnungton, Deo. 27, 1856. 104 ts Bank of the State of North Car oli- ..,.'. - ! ''."'- na.f .:; : : -:.-y ' A. DIVIDEND of FIVE PER CENT has this dav been declared oh the Capital Stock ef tun Uauk for the last six months payable at the Principal Bank on the first Monday in Janua ry next, and at the Branches fifteen days there after ' - " " C. DEWEY, Cashitr. Raleigh, Deo. 6, 1855. ; Ul 98: 1 French & Mcliean, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Lcmbrrton, Robssos.CO:, N. C. D OBEUT S French and Neill A.' McLean kav V, associated in the practice of Law. l uey will attend tho Courts tf Cumberland. B'ade'u, Riohmond, Robeson, ; Columbus, Hanover. Dee. S, 1855, . t 97 FRESH OYSTERS. R E-C-E-l-V-E-D O-A-H-Y AT THS I , 4 KANE HOUSE." Raleigh, Dsd. 1851. i. ft Splendid Lottery January, 185$, ; GREdOI?,! t MAURTv Vacaturs ' v ' ' . ; (Successors to J. W. Maury & Ce.) . Lottery for the benefit ef the' State of Delaware. 1 Class 9. for 1856. L robe drawn at Wilmington, Di., Satarlar, eft l Jan. 18. Uoi . ,V ... 78 number Lottery and 12 drawe Ballets. 1 RICH SCHEME, 1 Prize bf.....i.. ........ 4o,ec , . - t do. 1 ..- V, 1 da.. ,CCf mo ; 1 , 100 e Prizes of .. 7W 19 114 - : &e. ' ' &e. &e. - "i l Tickets $10 dolls. llalvos $5,00 Qu'r S.M , -Certfs. ef Pks of 26 whl. tiekets, 150 00 do 'do 26 half de 71 09 do do 26 fuarter de j. 17 48 Orders for Tickets and shares aad Strtif ate at .Packages iu the above splendid Lotteries will re ceive the most prompt attention, and a aeeeut ef each -drawing will , be sent immediately after it 3a over to ail who order from me. ) Address P.J. BUCKET, Agent, - ; . Wilmington, DeL . ' ; . , - i , i . . i fees . Wanted to Hire - ' ' FOR tha nuing year, for family of iwe ft sons. ; A good Cook and Waah-womaa aod .s ecr boy. " ' ! " arllSDSALL. IW 37, 1S5J. - 104 tt, J S1 TATE OF MO&TH CAROLINA. -Paw Count. ''!'.' ' Phenetta Wilson and otkars.by their gaardiaa u4 - next friend, Elisabeth Wilson, Vs. Jas. WUsen, ' ' SrM Cannon Wilson and wife L'miaa, James D Wilson, Dicey Cox, John W. Wilson, BsnJ. J. Wilson, Frances Wilson, John Haddosk aa4 wife Dieey, Mary Mills, Lsvis Jonss aai wife Sally, William Wilson and wife Psttsy, Idwla Petit, Oliver Petit, William Petit, aai William MoCullum and wife Elinor. - ; ,.; PsiiTioa toa sals or Laass io Paaxmea ' In this ease, it appearing to th aatUfaotiaa af the Court, tnat the dfealat, fid; via Petit, Oli ver Petit, and WUUim Poiit, art not rstidsats ef ; this Bute, it is'orderel that puifamuoa be male for six suocessire weeks in the Haleigh Bofister,' - for the eaid defendants to appear at. the msxt term of our Court of Equity, to be held for tie -County of Pitt, at the Court Houat, inOraaa- viile, on the first Monday ta 'Maroh nsxt, U and there to plead, aiuwar or dsuxuir te the f Uhv tiffs' petition, r the same will bt Ukan rat . tss'o by them and bt heard sx raaxa Witness, Ooold tfoyt, Cltrt aai Master ef ssU Court, at 1 OflU, i GreenviUe, Deetsihes 21, 1865.''- I Jo " '( ' ? i Q00LD H0TT, 0 tlLl !- Dee. 27, 18H, w4w" STAT OF NORTH CAROLINA, Oiaxaviua Cobstt. Ii Equity. Septembor Tarau Isaaa Adams and wifa, aad othora, ..I . mgnmU : -. . .. :- Elijah Hester and wife, and, tkara. Petition to -elJland for diriSiOa. In this case, on motion, aod it being rati t appear to the salt-faction 'of the Court, that Jeaa Lanier, Georje Caeh si'id Naucy i Jenkins, ol Ike defendants, ;uie -non-rcieidn iii th" fctats : It it ordered, th:t publication bs.fnad in tha P.aJtig a Register, for sis wek acceivsiy, ao:;fy.i!g ihvm j to be and appear bslois th? Coart bl JSquUf. ! J be hd-ld for the Comity of Granville, m tha Coail I House at Oxib.d, oiij 'tat first Aioudiy. in Matk i next, thou aud therito pica J','nwsr or dtimur t .1 said petition ; otherwise the same will bt ts- -ken pro confuto, and heard ts pfU, as ajalasi them, the said defendant. j . . 4 Witness E. H. II teles, Clerk and Matter ef ear said Coutt, aionlce in Oxford, the first Ueniay in September, 165. ! ' j ; ; i . .' " , E. II. I1ICK8, C. M . Nov.S,1855.. .. j:; - 90 wflw ; ; Raleigh Female Seminary.' RALEIGH, N. C. ,1 EV. W. n. CHRISTIAN, A. M., Presidtnt (aided by a number of Teachers jsamoitat te meet all the demands of the School.) , The exercises of this institution will eomtaentt on Wednesday, the 9th of next January. To the buildings already on the premises, which art tpa- cious and comfortable, and which art to bt im mediately thoroughly repaired and fitttd up. Hill be added forthwith a large three story brick bail' ding. So that thert will be tooin for a large number of boarders. Mr. Christian, the Presi dent, is not only a graduiti of ,R. M. Collect, bat' has also graduated in several schools of the Vir ginia Universi. He has had extenslvt txpari ence in teaching in Female School of high crada, to that persons committing their daughters to kit I charge may fetl assured that every tftrt will be made necessary to their improvement. !' Tbrks rss Ssssit er Fivs moxtsis: I Board, including eating, sleeping, lights ' " . and fuel, ."PfiO 09 English Tuition, ' ' 11 09 Musio on Pi iuoand Qultar, " r; ' 90 09 Use of lu trnment, ' j . t 0t French. Italian, Anglo-Saxon Aaelent Laagua ges. Pointing and Drawiug in all their vsrittits, . Needle work, &o., taught at the usual prioes.i , Pertoni intending ts board thtw daughters vith th Pttsidtni should inform him of tKt fact at soon a they can, that httnay maht his arrangsmsnts accordingly. It is preferable that toh young la dy should supply herself with btr towels, with her , name distinctly marked 'en them, as well as hst . other clothing. ' For further particulars, address J-Pfx&W. H. Christian, President i or A. M. Oor-1 I mari7feq., Sec. ef the Board Dirattors, E- leigh, N. V. ' -' -.- ' ; - i Payments one half in advanoe, tha rtmalndav at the end of the Session. 4 - " j It is very desirable that Pdpils Should be res- entatthe beginning of the session, as the alassee will then be formed, and a delay of a ftw 4 ays may subject them to inconveniences. Students will bt admitted any timt daring the session, and charged from .time of tutraate tnly. . DIRECTORS. ' ' C. W. D. Hatchings, T. U. Selby, J; C. Palatr, O. T.Cooke, Henry Porter, A. M. German, . H. Young. M A. Bledsoe, N. F. Raid. I j Raleissh. October ats, iot. wwi f. ItlNarv'i School, Raleigh, N. C RRV. ALDERT SMEDES, D. D. Rector. jrHE 27th terra of this Sohool will commpnet , on the 8 th of January, 1854.. Application for the entrance tf new pupilt should bt ma4t taimediately. ' . . ' . j For a circular apply to the Rector. - ,' Dec. 17,18. .. 1, . 101 M' Eytteyi!'.3 Observer, Ra'etgh Standard,! Wite ..aingten- lieraTd,' Peie'rsbufg Intelligencer,! Nor-, r ilk Herald, SHsuury Wtchmau, Lus City Sen titeL csry, caeh to AmoiMitof and fwrward at oeunte te A. S. I, .'TRS-wrwtrrr