TO THfr CITIZENS -
OF THE 8TH CONGRBSSIQNAt MSTRICt
OF. NORTH cXRQtTNXr.
' cosci.cio; t -ii vu.
I have thus, fellow-dtisens, given, tnany
I " - rmm th. speeches of Mr.": Clingman,
: r KU vntes in Con eress, while acting
m TOgnt "and reprWtireV anM ask YOr
as jour w r.itvfti- -.fleeted in
whether ne n wj 'T- .J r u:.
ti: h-ruh!iA efintiment of hl
j:. f Bat let u -examine hia public acta,
when not proteasing to act as jour ; wpnaenwr
Jy,and sea if thesa are. obUtfwpabk Jhu
iiTeooguised as one of the Whig diatiicU of U
a xr.-ni;rman has always been eleo-
KM.VW InMaylasWwhen
rTl wk:rm.mtwinAf Couzress met .for the
t . time and "olace for the
..Al-Ir K National Whir Convention, to
rominat candidate. WgtT for
President P.yaJ
States, Mr, uungman, wuw;t
-v-n d nrbara attempted, to; break up the
meeting, for the reason that Mr! Mangnnvthe
.v.;.n wnnld not entertain a proposition to
make a platform of. principles for the delegates
tn th oonvention to nomi-
vat candidates for ;President and V.ce Pres
.dent" to acton, sin other words, Clmgjaanand
rdnndrers- " keot toitether solely by the oh. Gen. Fieroe reoaiTed I,553,5 ; swott
S0f pSlicpWder" estoodbt ! Hale, AboUtioni.t, MoeiTedl586. WJJor
'KfGS ,W JoseoV CarO inaPierw'eot39.744;Scott39,058; Pierce's
r.lu.ZZZ'rZZZ: 3 "-Su Emnfre maioritrin the Stat was 686. In this Gongrea-
vewen, "-" " ., ' i .j.t fiMi ssm . Pierce Z.
twenty-four North Carolina Senators who. Toted
for Eunet, And. against' xpulsion-i-and. there
nteod all the traitor tronr the Whig aanse since
1840. headed by John -Tyler,' Uenrt " A. Wise,
jaieo using, irrous, wnciwr-wm
ThM nlrf nftAnamtaneti ot jar. vuDEmu
his co-laborers in behalf of Gen. Pierce, and
the'nlatform of Drincioles upon which he stood
. - .. . '.i . ; :
was nothing, more tnan a reruun oi ibi pnnw
n) of tht - nxi-tT. heretofore proclaimed in
their national oonTentionS, with the ad4i-ia f
the compromise measures,' and one or two otners
w. W 1
which Mr. Jlins3nan,Has oiten aenuuuuw.
So -Ton see. fel-
low-citisens, that if our Tote for Gen: Scot is to
be attributed to. our ignorance oi uen. tw..
merits or demerits, we had more political asso
ciates at the polls on that day, than we ever me
v-r nn . .;rr.u.i wuainn. If we were lrno-
rant, then were one million three hundred and
eighty three thousand three noareoiinu -j-seven
Whigs in the same situatipn. Thirty nine
thousand and 'fifty-eight of. them-were in our
own State.; But supposing Mr. Chngman did
entertain objections to Gen. Scott, was inere no
respect due to the opinions of others of his par-
ty who were supporung mm i "B
reimlar candidate of the party T If Mr. Cling-
OfiLWla : tn'did not intend to abandon the whig party
r r , T T ' . .... nr. y Am I l I J k... . o.iimai a. nftut.rft.1 nosition. DUI
MaoUied, That the proceeds oi tne puw.c
they should do. When such proposition was
Wed oat by th chairman, and the decision was
a C- mninritv of members, Mr.
Clinzman, Gentry and company, indignantly left
the meeting, rtr. Oingman thinking that it
was all-important for the whole nation, and the
rest of mankind," to know the reasons why he
-i uft tint caucus, writes a letter on
the 10th of May, to the editor of the Republic
nr. u: ...iminir his mouTea. in which
.v f w5K therefore, to be understood
a neither advocating nor oppoeinglhe lng
of the eonvention, and do not mean to be bound
bT iu action to go further man mj v
Syp"mpt 1 shall, hereafter, upon aull
' .V .ii II. .t-...m.)anM determine what 1
ought to do." la conclusion, he "nf k", that
"I wish to be understood as being neither the
advocate nor the opponent of any nant cana
j -j . , tv,;. w. nn the 10th of May, and Mr.
Clineman was neither for nor against the Whig
Convention's being .called, neither for nor
aeainst any of the " named candidates of the
Whie -party. Who were the named candidates
' tov.f. T Pnuiident Fillmore, Gen'l
. YeL on the 10th of
OCQ.V H XI.. . ' www-. ' t -
u- f- fflnntn had no choice between
, them. 'l wish.", says he, "to be understood as
v.: tAMulvnoate nor opponent of any
UOlBr udwu"aa w- . , i
of them." -'At this Um, the most of the; dSie-
a-- it.. n,r,Tntmn had been aDDomted,
aVd it was well known that there would be but
these three distinguished gentlemen before that
body. The Convention met in the city of Balti
th Ifith dav of Juno. General Scott
was nominated on the 22d. and wrote his letter
of acceptance of that nomination on me ta oi
June. General Pierce had been nominated by
the Democratic party in May preceding, and
i,. ..Anl th nomination. Both parties were
then fairlv in the field. The canvass i opeoed ac
tively in Mr. Clingman's District. His organ
i.k.;il Vawh. nrinted in his own town, lm
mediately hoisted the Democratic flag of Pierce
.rA fot President and Vice President, and
tw; s Ro!d fnr r.nternor. Some of Mr. Clinr
man's Whig supporters and followers took the
nd came out boldly for the Demo-
.:. ....... tr riiniriaan himself was at
Wmahintrton. auiet and uncommitted publicly,
and no one authorised in his district even to say
how he was going n the Presidential canvass.
Tt SbUa eleedan lakes place, and Uov. Keid is
re-elected by a large majority, and the two par
ties are nearly equal in the Legislature. It is
-...t.;n.wJ tht thfr is & contested election
from one of the Eastern Senatorial districts, and
if the Democratic candidate is aammea, men
the Democratic" party has a majority of two on
joint ballot ; if the Whig candidate is admitted,
thorn ia n. tie on ioint ballot. Mr. Chng
man t.ni does not define his position on the
Prudential Election. Gov. Reid calls an extra
session of the Legislature on the 4th October.
Congress Wing adjourned, Mr. Chngman
" happens to be in Raleigh " at the meeting of
the Legislature, (it being the duty of that body
to elect a United States Senator, to fill the va
cancy caused by the expiration of Mr. Mangum s
term, on the 4th of March last, and Mr. Cling
man always happening to be in Raleigh on such
occasions.) The first businessof the Senate was
to decide the contested election between Dr.
Shaw and Mr. Barnard. On the 7 th day of Oc
tober, Dr. Shaw, the Democrat, is admitted to
his seat, and the Democrats thereby get a ma
jority of two on joint ballot, and have the power
to elect a Senator. On the 8th of October, Mr.
Clingman comes out with his letter to Dr. Mills,
and takes his position on the Presidential can
Tass, and immediately leaves Raleigh for his
own District; and engages actively in the can
vass for the Democratic party, lie arrives at
- Asheville on Thursday night or Friday morning
before day in the stage. On Saturday morning
he leaves for Henderson, attends a muster, and
makes a speech on the Presidential election.
On Tuesday following he is at Yancey court,
replying to Mr. Caldwell, one of the Whig sub
electors for this district then at Morganton,
when he is airain met bv Mr. Caldwell. He then
v goes to McDowell court, and conducts a public
with Mr. Baxter, the Whiz candi
date for Elector, for four hours. Thence he
goes to Caldwell county, where he is again met
by Mr. Caldwell, and they address the people on
the Presidential election, on the day before the
election.
Immediately thereafter, Mr. Clingman returns
. to Raleigh to participate with tne aemocracy in
their exultations over the victory they had ob
tained. It is announced by telegraph from
Raleigh; to the editor of the Union, at Washing-
von. luat ioriu Vniuii,iiur mo ui vnuc u
twelve vears.1 had rone for the Democratic par
ty, and that it was Clingman's district that had
done the work. Mr. CTineman, in bis late ad
dress, modestly claims the credit of it himself.
On page 16, he vauntingly boasts, that "no man
can fix upon me a greater snare or the responsi
bility for Gen: Scott's defeat, than I am ready
to take ;" and, on page 9, he says, that "the de
feat of General Scott, under existing circum
stances, accomplishes more to repress abolition
and advance tound republican principles, and n
proper regard for the limitation of the Consti
tution, than. any event in our time." Does he
not talk like a real, live, unterrified democrat, and
act like a new recruit, who had just taken, the
democratic bounty, and been mustered into ser
vice, "and, to Show his seal to his new allies, goes
immediately into the recruiting service ? This,
in the earlier part of the canvass, many of you
know I charged upon him, as being his position
in the late Presidential canvass, and that he had
made at least five speeches for General Pierce,
which he did not deny or controvert until we
reached Caldwell county, en route to Wilkes,
where, to my great surprise, he interrupted me,
and said that I was misrepresenting him, "that
he had made no speeches for Gen'l Pierce dur
ing, the canvass." I then asked him if he had
not made five speeches on th6 Presidential elec
tion, and if so, on what side of the question did
he make them 1 To which he replied, "that he
had made five speeches against General Scott,
but he had made no speeches for Gen. Pierce,".
. but be. admitted that his object was to defeat
Scott and, to elect Pierce. This, gentlemen, is
the statesmanlike manner in which your late
representative (whose friends claim for him "a
national reputation,") endeavors to escape, the
anathemas of the Whig party, by a mere quib
ble, that is en worthy of a man of sense. lie
. attempts in this way to evade the responsibility
of advocating the election of Gen. Pierce, and
, the repudiation of the principles of the Whig
party, involved in the contest He is as much
. -responsible for the administration tf General
-Pierce, as any one of his" democratic friends.
that'fcanTass, Mr. Clingman voluntarily
trtAk his nosition upon the democratic vlalfnrn.
b the side of Genl Pierce, under the Mjr 6f
tne aemocrauu jmji nes, jace to
'fkea. all the exeat ven of the democratic nartv.
-whom he bad formerly denounced as a band of
ought to be sacredly applied to the national ob-
itwtm .niffii in a rnfi tntion. and that we
J vvw svvviuwv mw w .... f I
are ommaed to anv law lor we
such proceeds among the States, as alike inex-
peaientana unconsuiuuvuM. . r-
is in these words : "That the war with Mexico,
nnon aJl the nrincioles of patriotism ana me
laws of nations, was a just and necessary var
on our part," Ac. Mr. Ulingman iormenj
hU coadjutors wished the members of Congress T0cated,6 dirision of the proceeds of the pub
to dictate to the delegates of the people what Uc lands the states. He now advocates
the election of a candidate pledged to veto sucn
a bill, as alike inexpedient and unconstitution-
He formerly taught nis consutuenw w mr
.i
CI. v . u. - - J O . ,
,k. h. vrATi&n war was uniust ana uu
necessary, and brought on by Presideut Polk in
. l it Ib.a MariAttn
m wnin tr l mm uriii v iulu mtaivn j
Now he thinks that the war was just and neces
sary.on our part, and all those who did not
think so ihen, were "giving iuu
the enemy." Thus has Mr. Ciingman endorsed
the Baltimore Democratic Platform, by going
. ...nl.
i. i nia tad innnon uo inisi
;n.n .a AM -a vial form, and in the midst of
k hm hA haa denounced as belonging to
the "Spoils party," kept together by the cohe
sive power of public plunder, many oi wu
he has charged with high crimes ana misae-
meanors r I, at least, do not envy mm nis ieei
in ps or bis honors.
Tt.it Mr. Clingman now savs that he made
speeches against General Scott, in order to elect
fl.n Pii.ro hilt that he made no speeches for
V , U Vvv) .
Pierce. This is a refinement ot thought tnai
is too attenuate for an existence in any other
Win than Mr. Clinsrman's. It is a distinction
without a difference. Why make speeches
...;n.t rn Simtt who was a consistent and
ti? 1UC X, M
tm Whior rerularlv nominated by his party
and running upon a platform of principles that
no TV nig nas or can uim; ? e
;n hi utter to the Republic, on the 10th of
Mar. save that he v as neither for nor against
nnv of th named candidates ; so, Uen. ocott,
being then one of the most prominent of the
n.rr...i omHiiktM. we must infer that Mr.
Clingman was not then hostile to him. But in
hi, Utn address, he savs : " I rom the morning
on which I read his (Gen. Scott's) letter of ac
ceptance, I felt it to be my duty to use my 1est
f,,rt- to nrocure his defeat." lhis was on tne
24th of June. What bad occurred between the
10th of May and the 24th of June to change
Mr PHmrman's views in reeard to Gen. Scott,
so as to constrain him, under a painful sense of
tn ns hi best efforts to defeat him r une
tlimff hp. aavs in that address I would call par
tionlar attention to. Gen. Scott, in his letter
r aantun. declares "that he will neither
countenance nor tolerate any sedition, disorder,
faction or resistance to the law or the Union, on
n nrA.te'xt. in anv part of the land." Mr.
Clingman says .-"This declaration is so broad
and so strance. that we might, perhaps, regard
it as a rhetorical- flourish , were it not a part of
a well considered and carefully prepared paper
It is inconsistent with every notion of the limi
tations of our constitutional system of govern
ment, and at war with every principle of the
old republican party." The Constitution of the
United States requires, that the President shall
take an oath of office, which is in these words :
" I do solemnlv swear, that I will faithfully exe-
Mit the office of President of the United States,
and wiU- preserve, protect and defend the Con
stitution of the United States ;" and in the 3d
section thereof it declares, that the Fresident
Kail talrA Mnr that tha laws be faith full u exe-
auait iastu v. h - r
cuted." But Mr. Clingman thinks that it is at
war with everjt principle ot the .Republican
nartv. for a President to pledge himself to exe
cute the laws and preserve the Union ! I sup
tiosa. in Mr. Clinsrman s view, the converse oi
Gen. Scott's proposition is true, and consistent
with his notions of Republican doctrine ; that
is, that a President should countenance and tole
rate sedition, disorder, faction and resistance to
the law and the Union, on any pretext, and in
anv part of the land! The Congress in 1792
differed in opinion with Mr. Clingman, and
passed "an act to provide for calling out the
militia to execute the laics of the Union, sup
press insurrection, and repel invasion. uen.
Washington, in 1794, under this law, differed
with Mr. Clingman. and called out fifteen thou
sand militia from the States of Maryland, Vir
ginia, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, and
marched them into Western Pennsylvania and
put down "the whiskey insurrection," and thus
had the law executed. In 1833, Gen. Jackson
took a different view of his duty, as President,'
from Mr. Clingman, and in his proclamation to
South Carolina, he declares "the laws of the
United States must be executed ; I have no dis
cretionary power on the subject. My duty is
emphatically pronounced in the Constitution ;"
and he sent Gen. Scott with a part.of the army
and navy to Charleston, and forced tftat State
to submit to the tariff law, and her citizens to
pay the duties upon imports. Gen. Scott said
nothing more than it would have been his duty
to perform, and was following the teachings of
our ablest and purest public men.
Another reason Mr. Clingman assigns for op-
Jssing Gen. Scott is, that Gov. Seward, Gov.
oh n son, and Greely, Freesoilers, were suppor
ting him. Is that any reason that he should
abandon his own party and get upon the demo
cratic platform with Pierce, whose election was
sustained and advocated by Martin Van Buren,
who ran as the freesoil candidate four years ago,
John Van Buren, John A. Dix, Preston King,
B. F. Hallet, B. F. Butler, David WJlmot, Dorr,
Hamlin, Brown, At wood, Norris, Cleaveland,
and a host of other Abolitionists and Freesoilers,
who were going for Gen. Pierce ? But the rich
est specimen of egotism and vanity I have met
with, is in that part of his address in which Mr.
CUnzman attributed the large vote that Gen.
Scott received to the ignorance of the voters in
this district. On page 8 he - says : "It is my
settled opinion, that if all the facts with
in my knowledge had been known to you gene
rally, that General Scott would not have ob
tained five hundred votes in our district."
When and how did Mr. Clingman acquire so
much information in regard to Gen. Scott, that
was unknown to other men T If be was in pos
session of this secret information, and felt bound,
as he savs, from the morning that he read Gen
Scott's letter of acceptance in June, to use his
best efforts to defeat him, why did he not com
municata it to his constituents f Why did he
bleep upon this knowledge from the 24th of J une
to the 8th of October ? Why didhe not tell us the
new. strange, and important "factsUn his Mills
letter t why did he not disclose the whole mat
ter against Gen. Scott in some - of his election
eering speeches for Pierce in the canvass ? why
not tell all in his recent address ? And finally,
whv not out with everything against Scott m
his speeches now making in his own defence
and justification ? Yet we have heard nothing
from him that was not known at the time of
General Scott's nomination.
He writes and speaks of Gen. Scott's defeat,
as though he was supported only ty a small
faction of the Whig party under the control of
Seward, whereas, the fact is notorious, tnat at
the late Presidential election, Gen. jioett receiv
ed more votes than were ever castfor any Presi
dent except President Pierce. ..The. whig party
never gave so large popular. Ypte & at the
last election. .Gen Scott received 11,699 more
vote tbaaXton; Taylor : 31,909stnore than Mr.
Polk ; and 98,612 more than Gen. Harrison.
he could have assumed a neutral position, but
instead of that, he goes over and joins our poli
tical opponents and travels ana mases election
eering speeches for the democracy. A true and
patriotic American win never vuru mo iu
xle of his musket towards his own country."
Mr. Clingman complains in bis late aaaress
that the last Legislature did not elect him to the
Senate of the United States. He says when it
found that he was about to be elected, it
was thereupon at onoe determined that tnere
should be no other balloting and no election of
Senator. Why was this so 1 W hen other can
didates were running there was no difficulty in
getting ballotings from time to time. Why this
sudden stoppage ? Now what are the facts con
nected with the senatorial election oi mo i
Session ? The Democratic party have a ma
jority of two on joint ballot and had the power
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tn Alant a Senator, hut the W nigs nau nui. a
Democracy nominated Mr. Dobbin, and pressed
his election from time to time for many weeks,
but could not get Mr. Byrd, a Democrat from
Yancey, and two or three others, to unite witn
tKiAm on Mr. Dobbin, and therefore could not
elect him Mr. Bvrd all the time casting his
vote for Mr. Clingman. The v hig party maae
nn nomination at first, but cast their votes for
manv balloting f-r different distinguished in
dividuals, of the State, of both parties. They
then nominated Mr. Kavner. and on the nrst
hal lot he came within two votes of an election,
receiving all the Whig votes, I believe, but Dr.
Mills, of Rutherford, who aiways voted tor 3ir,
Clingman. Mr. Kayner was then withdrawn
and Mr. Woodfin placed in nomination by the
whir nartv: and alter one balloting tne ue-
mocracv withdrew Mr. Dobbin and ran Mr.
Clingman, as the Democratic candidate against
Mr Woodfin. The result was. that Mr. Wood-
fin was supported by all the Wbigs but Dr
Mil s. Blow, and Uen. uynum, ana wr. nng
man by all the Democrats but a few who would
not support him under any circumstances.
The two parties finding that each had a few
members that were known as "out siJers, who
would not co-operate with their respective par
ties in an election, finally abandoned the effort
to make an election. The idea, that Mr. Cling
man had not a fair chance in the election,
simply ridiculous. His name and nag wore
keot flviae during the whole of the fight, by
his constant and sturdy inenas, mow, oira
and Mills one democrat and two professed
whigs who would not go into caucus with tneir
brother whigs on the election of Senator. It is
ell known that the Hangman party in tne
Legislature was composed solely of this trio,
ana they were the only members that, in reali
ty, desired his election. Mr. Clingman says in
his address that "They," (meaning, I suppose,
the whig party.) "have made an attempt, wheth
er bona fide or not may be questioned, to elect a-
nothcr person (Mr. Woodfin) in our section,
with the hope of punishing tne thereby." This
is as cool a piece of vanity and arrogance, as I
have ever met with from a man of sense. Mr.
Woodfin receives all the votes of the party but
three, but Mr. Clingman doubts whether they
were in good faith, and says they were cast to
punish him. If he is so god a whig, why would
that party want to punish him T lie received
a large democratic vote, which, I suppose, by
the same process of reasoning, was cast to re
ward him for his recent services to the Demo
cratic party in the Presidential campaign, and
of course was given bona fide and with the
hope that he would be elected, thereby sup-
Washington to Raleigh to. Tm run by th" de
mocracy, to beat the candidate of the Whig
party to the U. S. Senate. His address npon
the Senatorial election in 1848, denouncing the
Whig party generally, but the Whigs of the
West in particular, for not electing him. Sena
tor, stands in judgment against., him. ilia
course npon the compromise question-was in
opposition to the leading and boasted measures
of Mr. Fillmore's administration; and adverse
to the opinions of the most ot tne leauing wiup
P.K TTnion. and in direct: opposition to the
views of nine-tenths of the whigs of his own
State. His notions of secession and disunion,
.vnaael in hU aneeches of 1850 and 51,
are in direct conflict with one of the cardinal
principles of the Whig party. For it is a re
markable feature in the history of the two great
parties of the present day, that you find no
i-F i f a .u ju,nnaa nf nullification.
secession, or of any of those polit'cal heresies
that tend to the dissolution of the Federal Unj
on Mr Cline-man's course in the last Presi
dential election, in opposing the candidate of
the Whig party, and making an active election
eering canvass for Gen. Pierce, the democratic
candidate ; his denunciations of Gen. Scott,
and his efforts to disgrace him wnom ne
well to be one of the most consistent wui6 "
the Union, and to have served his country
with a patriotic devotion, to her best interest,
for more than forty years his charge in his
Mills letter, that Gen. Scott had no claims upon
k. P...;.iAr,v Knt hi military reputation;
liiu .a. igoiuvuvji t a m
his descending to the low billingsgate slang oi
th. Aa.mratn rmi to Axnress his mock sor-
.u-i. rt.r. il.ntt'. imoortcrs. instead oi
iun vuab udu. uvw. " - r '
meeting the issues presented by the democracy
in the canvass, were merely striving to get nip
an excitement in relation to his military servi
I
ces, by the exhibition of pictures, &c; bis re
joicing over the election of Pierce, and proclai-
ng to the world that the defeat ot Uenj aeon
d the party who supported him, "had done
joicmg
mi
an)
more to repress abolition, and advance sound re
publican principles, and a proper regard for the
planting all their own distinguished veterans
in the cause of Democracy, and that too by ele-
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vating so good a Whig as Mr. Clingman, to
high an office:
Mr. Clingman, in this same address, denoun
ces the present organiiation of this Congression
al district. He thinks that it might have been
left with great propriety as it was. "If, howev
er," says ne, "it was thought necessary to in
crease it, the addition of Gaston, or Lincoln,' or
Catawba, or even Watauga, would have brought
it up to the proper ratio." If Mr. Clingman is
really a whig, what does he want with Gaston,
Lincoln, or Catawba, in his district ? In each
of those counties the democracy have very large
majorities, and a whig stands no chance of pro
motion in either. iut hear him further: "In
stead of this arrangement, however, the county
of Cleveland has been taken off, and Wilkes and
Watauga have been added, giving thereby the
most inconvenient form to the district that it
was possible to do." ne here complains that
Cleveland, the only strong democratic county
in his old district, has been cut off from him,
and the two strong and gallant Whig counties
of Wilkes and Watauga given to his district in
place of Cleveland. I he Legislature has given
him two Whig counties for one Democratic
county, and still he complains that tfe is cheat
ed in the swap, and talks about bad motives,
conspiracies, and frauds having been practiced
in the trade to his injury. 1 entertain quite a
different opinion, and think we made a fair bo-
nafide trade and got much the best of the bar
gain, ue got two ivhig counties lor one dem
ocratic and gave no boot. He says : "It was
done tabeat me. If it had been known in Ral
eigh, on the first day of December last, that I
was a dead man, no one will pretend that any
such district as this would have been made."
Who does be intend to charge here with unfair
dealing towards him ? Is it the Whig party in
the Legislature that was so anxious to beat Mr.
Clingman, as to arrange a district for his defeat
He professes to be a Whig, and why would the
whigs want him beaten T Is it the democratic
party in the Legislature he alludes to, as form
ing the district for his defeat? This cannot be
so, for he was a great favorite of that party and
one of their candidates for the Senate of the U
nited States and is now supported in this Can
vass by them as their candidate and by every
democratic paper in the State. This idea, that
the district was formed expressly to beat Mr.
Clingman, is a false clamor, gotten up by him
self and friends to enlist your sympathies, and
to enable him to get op the cry of persecution,
and attract thereby public attention from Mr.
Clingman's public and political misdeeds. In
the apportionment of the members of the House
of Representatives, under the last census, North
Carolina lost one member, thus rendering it
necessary for the Legislature to lay off the
State into eight Congressional districts, instead
of nine. The matter was referred to a commit
tee, who agreed upon an arrangement which
left our district as it was formerly, without al
teration, and Mr. Gilmer, of Greensboro,' as chair
man, reported the bill to the Senate, late in the
Session. On the second or third reading of the
bill, Dr. Shaw, (the Democratic member whom
they had admitted in place of Barnard) moved
to amend the bill by striking off Cleveland and
adding Wilkes and Watauga counties to this
district, and that party having the majority, and
wishing to give the strength of the Cleveland
vote to the Charlotte district, carried the amend
ment and passed the bill in that shape, and it
finally became the law, without any reference
to Mr. Clingman, or any knowledge as to wheth
er he was dead or alive 1
I have, thus, fellow-citisens, sketched the po
litical life of Mr.' Clingman and given a few of
his most prominent antecedents, that you may
judge of the future by the past. His public
acts, since. 1848, establish Mr. Clingman's ali
enation from the Whig party and his connec
tion with the Democracy beyond any question.
First, he permitted himself to be brought from
limitations of the Constitution, than any event in
our time; (is this the language of one who is
devoted to the great conservative principles of
the Whig party, or is it the language of an ex
cited and gratified democrat, who wears the
robes of whiggery simply that he may thereby
injure the party more successfully?) his
course on the recent Senatorial election, in per
mitting himself again to be run by the demo
cracy," as their candidate, in opposition to
the whig favorite, as he did in 1848 ; and, his
doleful lamentations over the loss of his favo
rite county, Cloveland, and his repugnance to
the reception of Wilkes and Watauga into his
district all these things show most conclusive
ly that Mr. Clingman has abandoned the Whig
party, its principles and its policy, and that he
has gone quite over to the democracy!
But in addition to all thi, why is it, if Mr.
Clingman is still a whig, that he has become so
nrp!it .1 favorite with the Democratic party in
thw SfntP and osnociallv in this district ? Eve
ry democratic paper in the State is out for him.
The democracy in tlio district are running him
as their candidate andexhibiting more interest
in his election, than anyothorsof his supporters
Whv is it that Mr. Qfingman has lost tho con
fidence of the whig narty as far as he is known?
The whiz members df the Legislature turned
from him in dUgust -and the whigs of his own
district are, at last, getting their eyes open, and
are seein this man now" as other men have
looked upon him out of the district for years
as a Democrat, calling himselt a whig Decause
the whig party have a majority in this district.
But I must bring this communication to a
close, as I have already extended it, I fear, to
an unreasonable leneth and leave the matter
to bo decided by the freemen of this district be
tween Mr. Clingman and myself. My political
principles have never been concealed, but are
well known to you. I have frequently in life
been favored with the discharge of high public
trusts, and have I not always proved faithtul
to the -ublic interest? Have I ever permitted
my partizan feelings to affect me in the dis
charge of my public duties? Will not my demo
cratic friends do me the justice to say, that l
have ever been liberal, fair, and just to them in
all the relations of li'e? In case I shall be grati
fied in my present aspirations, 1 assure them I
shall not go to Washington to make war upon
President 1'ierce s administration, right or
wrong, but shall judge the new administration
bv its acts, and sustain all such measures as I
think proper and for the best interestof the coun
trv. M v opponent sometimes asks, in his public
speeches, what new measures have I to promise
the public that will promote the public good r
This is a singular question to be asxed by a
gentleman who has been in Congress for eight
years, and cannot point to one single bill he
has ever introduced and passed into a law, as
tho fruits of his long public service. I can at
least promise that I will do as much as he has
done, and shall be found advocating and sus
taining all the leading principles of the Whig
party, and combatting and resisting all the ra
dical. progressive, manifest destiny notions, of
the "young Americas," which he had not done.
In this circular I have followed the teachings
of my honorable competitor. I have not said
much about myself, oj what I will do, and have
not written this address so -much ia favor of my
self ; but have made an argument against Cling
man and to show you that he is not the man
with the object to defeat him and elect myself,
as Clingman did in the late campaign. He
made no speech in favor of Pierce, but against
Scott, with the object to elect Pierce. I know,
fellow citizens, that much will be said in the
canvass by the parasites of Clingman against
me, and that no stone will be left unturned to
defeat me. They will resort to the miserable
falsehoods they did two years ago, and many
others probably of recent m tnufacture. I have
heard of some already, such as that I took the
benifit of the bankrupt law in 1841, and that I
am a Son of Temperance, and that I hunted up
all the overseers of Roads in Rutherford and
McDowell, and indicted them .to make money
all three ot which are laise. ihe overseers in
those counties, some years since, were all pre
sented by the Grand Jury, and I thereupon sent
bills and convicted them. I then gave each of
them time to put their respective roads in good
condition, and let the cases go off on payment
of costs, without paying judgment on them. I
had thought that my course as the prosecuting
officer of the circuit had met with the approba
tion of the public, i, at least, endeavored to do
my duty to the State, faithfully and with an eye
single to the public good. Many of vou know
that I suppressed many trivial and unimportant
prosecutions out of which I might have made
money. The demweracy iri the Legislature,
out of the circuit, has endeavored to disgrace
me by proscribing me from oflice. let I look
upon the record of the votes I received, as the
highest compliment ever paid me by my friends.
I was not in Raleigh during the session and did
nothing to secure my election, and still received
all the votes that were cast in the election from
my circuit, but one. My competitor, Mr. Bur
ton, has the honor of receiving one vote in the
I circuit, where we both lived and practiced, af
ter an active canvass in my absence.
In conclusion, permit me to say, that the
whole matter is now in the hands of the freemen
of this district, and it is for them to decide
whether our district, that is decidedly Whig,
with a majority of two thousand four hundred
and seventy eight votes for the Whig candidate
for President, shall be represented, in the next
Congress, by one who has always been an ad
vocate of Whig measures and men, and one who
labored for the cause in the late Presidential
election ; or by Mr. Clingman, who (to say the
least of it) "comes in a questionable shape,"
and who advocated actively the cause of the
Democracy in the late Canvass. But whether
I am sustained in the present election, or defea
ted, I shall ever feel grateful for the many fa
vors and acts of kindness I have received at
your hands, without distinction of party. I close
this communication, as Mr. Clingman did his
Mills letter, in relation toGens. Pierce and Scott,
by asking the question : "Is it not, under all
the circumstances, .better that I should be elected
rather than Mr. Clingman?"
B. S. GAITHER.
Morganton, June 8, 1853.
v Poyr-Ornc DraTitxsT,
-i JnW 2d. 1853.
Sir i 'The t attention of this Department has
been called -to a Communication i iroui
President of the Raleigh and Gaston Rl".
published in the Semi-Weekly Raleigh Regis
ter, of June 25, 1853. in reference to carrying
the United States Mail. - ' . .
Mr. Branch says : " Until 5th November last,
the cars on this road had been running in con-
the New Orleans
route. On that day, an order was made tor us
to change tho schedule and run at night. In a
letter to mv predecessor in omce, aaiea xut
a - 1 1 1 wtAMkTTlTW
November, even a tew aaja aeiaj wo
Willi iouowii -
mAA than ai frnt VRar. i.iih ouuuuiv v
the Raleigh and Gaston Railroad involved night
service, and no change was applied for until
December 1851. Then it was represented to be
,'mTvnrtant tn reduce the. Service to tTl Weekly,
for the purpose of expediting the reconstruction
of the road, ana the toiiowmg soneuuw
Leave Raleigh every Monday, Wednesday and
Friday, at b A. iu.
A..:. f Huston same da vs. bv 6 P. M.
Leave Gaston every Tuesday, Thursday and Sa
turday, at 3 A.M.
A .f Palelvh nanriA dav. bv 14 P. M.
r om Maw lR;i2. vou reported, that the
mw-.. nf tha Railroad" was such, that, ly
leaving Raleigh at 5 A. M., mails would be de
livered to the Express line between Petersburg
and Weldon, from and alter nrsi uue, vun.u
lut March. 1852.)
Such running was thus actually commenced
4-.. y.. si withont any formal ordei
from the Department the whole service on the
route being then regarded as only of a tempo-
rary character scarcely suojec w mo uu
n aa ann vn.rin.me hixuiuiml vw vuo
Railroad. No further action on the subject
vaa t pi If An nn til 9th September. 1852, when
lpt.tr waa received from you. with the iniorma-
tinn that daHv RArTice would be resumed on the
, . T) -i 1
13th of that month, ana mat me inruu
Company wished to connect "witn tne train
leaving fetersDurg, at
immnrliafAlv answered, that such a schedule
would dplav the more important mails, includ
. . . ... j iTT -u: .
ing especially the Baltimore ana v asmugiuu
" r. r . , . ,-r.i. ci i. 1 10SO n
Under the date oi nm oepiemuor, iw,
President ot Kauroaa com
illnrobablT not exist much longex.there being (JHEMIvALLi PREPARED MANURES
ui pruuuu -inainir the great mail by the r .V BY THE
Wilmingtoa :'aadjMfaWe.wfiwir-;j:
aianenflod with, and
W Mordecai. then
n,nv formallv nronosed to perlorm daily ser
J r, ri i ..on.k C
vice. It was oraerea accoruingij, vu
tember. at the old pay of $100 per mile : and
on 2l8t September, Mr. Mordecai was written
to as follows, viz :
A schedule of departures and arrivals win
be arranged, connecting with the morning line
from Washington city, (and evening line from
Petersburg, V a.,) to leave Uaston, say at iij
P. M., and reach ttaieign oy o a. iu. iue
connexion proposed by you, with the Express
line going South, cannot be sanctioned, except
temporarily, under the circumstances mention
ed by you, in order to facilitate the comple
tion of the Railroad, and with the distinct un
derstanding, that it is to be changed at the ear
liest day. It is ill adapted to the arrangements
of the, Department, but may perhaps be allow
able until the Railroad is completed, unless
that period is too long deferred in which case,
an earlier change may be required."
Mr. Mordocai requested a delay ot "a tew
weeks," and no schedule was therefore ordered
until 5th November, 1852. On the 9th Novem
ber, he enquired, by telegraph, whether the
schedule of 5th was to go into operation im
mediately, and an affirmative answer was made
by letter of 11th November. Having had
nearly seven weeks delay, he asked no more, and
he will scarcely concur in the statement ot xur.
Branch, that "even a few days' delay was per
emptorily refused" by the Department.
Mr. Branch, however, asked and obtained a
suspension of the schedule, on 26th November,
and after allowing tun time to ename mm to
show cause why it should not be enforced, he
was, on the 21st December, informed, that the
interests of the service required "the running
on the Raleigh and Gaston Railroad to be in
connection with the regular night line between
Petersburg, a., and WCldon, N. C.so that the
mails may leave trasmngion city une niumiug,
and be delivered in Raleigh the next morning,
say in 24 hours or less."
On 24th December, Mr. liranch proposed run-
ning two daily trains, at w-iw per mue.
This the Postmaster General could not allow,
consistently with the laws and regulations of
the Department, but he decided to allow zo per
cent, additional pay, under sec. 19, Act 1845,
in consideration of the night service required
by the schedule of 5th November. Mr. Branch
was so informed on 11th January, 1853, and on
14th January he assented to those terms.
On 5th February he again applied for a day
schedule, and although before informed of the
reasons which prevented a compliance with his
wishes, he was again addressed and furnished
with those reasons in full, hoping to convince
him of their sufficiency. They may be summed
up as follows :
The Railroad Company propose connections
with the local mail lines: running 6 timesa week.
The effect would be, to delay the afternoon mails
from New-York and the morning mails from
Baltimore and Washington 15 J hours. That is,
instead of reaching Raleigh by 6 A M., they
would be delayed until 'Jj P. M., which, being
too late for delivery, the actual difference to the
citizens would be 24 hours. The Express mail
not being run on Sunday, the connections at
Weldon on that day would be with the Seaboard
and Roanoke Road alone. The mail brought
from Raleigh for points this side of Weldon,
would remain there until 11 P. M., (10 hours,)
and there would be no mails to take away (to
Raleigh) at 3 P. M., except those brought from
Norfolk, at 2 P. M., and those from Petersburg
and Wilmington of the preceding night at 10
P. M., (after a delay of some 17 hours.) On
Monday afternoon, the Cars for Raleigh would
convey no mails from points this side of Rich
mond, except those leaving Washington Sunday
morning there no being Sunday evening mail
from Washington to the South. Mails leaving
Washington five days in the week, at 9 P. M.,
would go through without detention on the way,
and reach Raleigh by 9 P. M. next day. Those
leaving Saturday evening would not rea:h there
until Monday evening.
"Mr. Branch says, in reference to the mail
from Baltimore, to whose papers we look for
our current news, and that from Washington
City, for which nine tenths of our citizens Took
with most eagerness, the Express is the belter
connection."
The fact is, that the morning papers from
those cities would be delivered in Raleigh by
Railroad on the evening of the second day 15
hours later than by the schedule of the Depart
ment, and would not probably be delivered to
subscribers until the morning of the third day.
This delay was understood from the begining,
and not first suspected in November last, as in
timated by Mr. Branch, and it must always be
considered a formidable objection to his ached
ule, even though the Department were assured,
that the people interested would not, hereafter,
as he says they have not, heretofore, made the
discovery,
"So much for the Northern mail. How is it
with the Southern mail ?" Mr. B. says, "the
boats between Wilmington and Charleston run
bid once a day and that in connection with die Express."
During the summer, or in good weather, such
connection is usually made, but in winter and
stormy seasons, rarely, if ever. So that, in fact,
during, say one-half of the year, at leasts the
Doats 1 rom Charleston connect witn the cars
which leave Wilmington in the afternoon that
is, the regular and not the Express line
Before 1st March, 1852, when there was only
a single daily line from Wilmington, it had no
regular hour of departure, but waited for the
ooats, sometimes to a late hour of the day
causing confusion in connecting lines, and fre
quent failures this side of Wilmington : and it
was mainly to obviate this difficulty, growing out
of the uncertainty of the boats, subject as they
are, necessarily, to the vicissitudes of wind and
weather, that two lines between Washington
3 ITTfl . . it!" . Ma. "
ana Wilmington were eataoiisnea. mis cause
now
the Express:Hne inaye
connection, for IWefgV-Norfolk, &o., will, of
courted baye fcr.be. maaeirup "8 "J
line. A ' . rr; , 'Ivl'dl.
, Mr.vBranch isT much misMUten uie.
ment that "the road from Savannah to Macon
and that from Macon . to- Atiania,an youtfei-,
cakhyinq NOTfirnra but way mail, and a number
or otner Toaas, ge xi o per uub.-,
That is the pay on the Savannah and Macon
road, for two daily trains, but they convey mails
for five connecting nauroaas, vis : vr juwi,
Milledgeville, Macon, Western, Muscogee ana
South Western Road, supporting Southern Geor
gia, and parts of Florida and Alabama., Also
for daily line of steamers between Savannah and
Charleston. - ,
The road from Atlanta to Macon (styled Ma
con. and Western) has but one train, and that
by night for.which $li per mue is anowea.
What "other roads" Mr. Branch refer to, can
not Ka conjectured. "
. . . . j "i i
His last preposition, to run two aauy nueo
at $175 per mile, the Post Master General was
constrained to decline, because the public ser-
vioa ro hires but one line ; and he was inform-
. . . . . .. . . .
ed that the night scneauie must oe conuaueu n.
$125 per mile ; otherwise the uepartment snouia
be compelled to seek some other mode of con
veyance for the principal mails destined to Ral
5frh and points beyond, involving a reduction
of nav on the Railroad to $50 per mile, for the
way mails, that is, those for the country between
Raleigh and Gaston or Weldon alone. The an
r to this proposition was. that the Railroad
Company would take the entire mail, in con
nexion with the Express, at $100 per mile, but
would not "have the responsibility and trouble
of any portion of it for less than that sum.
Tha withdrawal from the Railroad of the lar
ger and more important portion of the mails,
neopasarilv involves a change of classification,
under the law, from the second to the third
class, and a change of pay from 100 to $50. per
mile. In this matter the Fost Master lienerai
has no discretion. $50 per mile is the maxi
mum allowable by law forconveying such mails
as those in question. Mr. Branch insists on
$100 a mile, upon the ground that the Seaboard
and Roanoke Koad is paid at mat rate tor con
veying "nothing but a way mail. Ihe cases
are however not parallel, as Jrortsmouth ana
Norfolk are dependent on that joad tor the
Southern mails, and it is alf o a road which, in
case of any difficulty on the present great route
between Washington and Weldonmay bo used
as has been done heretofore, for conveying" the
great Northern and Southern mail. - It has
been classed with the Raleigh and Gaston Rail
road and paid $100 per mile for a day schedule.
On the latter road a night schedule is necessa
ry, (for reasons not applicable to the former)
and accordingly the Department has paid 25
per (Sent, additional, which is all that the Jaw
allows. But, as already stated, if ali--the mail
belonging to the route is not conveyed Xi it,
the classification is necessarily changed.
After being compelled to seek some other
route for the larger portion of the mail, the
Post Master General could not reasonably be
expected to continue the full compensation of
$100 a mile, even if he had the power to do so,
under the law. This, however, is what the Rail
road Company demand. They will perform no
service for less than $100 per mile. The De
partment has never supposed, or intimated, that
the mail that is to go west of Raleigh can be ex
pedited 16 or 17 hours if sent by stages from
Wilson, instead of by Railroad in ' connexion
with the Express line. 'All that has been
claimed is the practicability of conveying to
Raleigh by 3 or 4 P. M., the principal mails
(including Baltimore and Washington papers)
which under the day schedule proposed for the
Railroad, would not be due there until 9J P.
M., too late for delivery that night, being the
6am e mails which might be conveyed to Raleigh
by 6 A. M., provided the Railroad Company
would conform to the schedule of the Depart
ment. It has not been supposed that the stages for
the West could be made to leave Raleigh before
the arrival of the cars, and consequently the
most important mails for that section, which
heretofore left Raleigh at 8 A. M., will be de
layed there at least 12 hours. Whether the
people ot the Western portion ot iorth Caroli
na will be content with this, remains to be
ilJMOUHlLimCAL WORKS, L.I.
f-tnPM:HosPHAT or limk, c.
- k f GRICULTURE forms the foundation of a wel-jEy-fare
of a people in a higher degree than all
Other nourishing pursuits. When the Emperor of
China once a year touches the plough with his
own hands, and the gooa ana great Emperor Jo.
seph, in travelling through jsohemia, ploughed a
furrow himself, such actions express to us their
acknowledgments of the importance or agriculture
in which the best and greatest men oi tne country
have not been backward. "
Agriculture, as the most important branch of in
dustry, has generally only been carried on by prac
tical experience. Every one must admit, that at
a tune when modern chemistry has become so pre
cise and mathematical, great benefit may be deriv
ed by scientific observation and the application of
such means as have been proved not to fail.
In order that a system can conciliate and gain
for itself the sympathies of all, it is necessary that
its application should be easy, not too expensive
. .r -. j x i i i . '
ana its superiority eviueu uu cieanj demonstra
ted. All attention which we pay to the plants,
any offered sacrifice, meets its reward. Let us',
for instance, compare the small bulbs of the wild
potatoe from the Mexican mountains with those
under cultivation: the small and sour forest apple
with the excellent fruit of our orchards ; the wild
turnip with the nutritious vegetable of the same
genus raised in our gardens and fields.
It has been sufficiently proved that from a field
containing four acres, planted with wheat, 130 lbs.
alkaline salts, 67 lbs. phosphate lime, and 360 lbs.
silicum are extracted. Should we continue thus
for several years in succession with the same crop,
it is clear that we would extract a considerable
portion of these mineral substances, and render
the soil unable even to repay us its seeding.
It is, therefore, of great importance to the farmer
to know, not only the nature of his soil, but also
the substances necessary to the growth of his crop.
The better he is acquainted with it, the easier he
will be able to judge the kind and quantity of ma
nure required. He will often find a single sack of
suitable fertilizing substances producing a far bet
ter effect than a wagon load of unfit manure.
The different parts of one and the same plant
contain unequal quantities of mineral substances ;
also is the quantity of ash of different plants and
the combination of it not alike.
- Phosphate
100 Parti of the Ash of Pot&ih Lime and Flint.
Soda. " Magnetia. Sillicum .
WWl'-l Straw ' 22 00 TOO 61 00 "
wneat JGrain 47 00 44 60 o i
Barter 1 5trw 20 00 20 20 " 0
JJrwV J Grain 29 00 32 5 35 5
Pea Straw 27 82 63 74 7 81
Clorer 39 20 66 4 90
. . 1 Stem and Leaf 4 20 69 40
Potatoe. JBulbs g581 I4M r
Yellow Turnips 88 12
White ' " 81 60 18 40
seen.
It is the exclusive duty of the Post Master
General under the law to classify all mails, to
be conveyed by Railroad, and he can have no
motive to act otherwise than with pertect lm
partiality and a strict regard to the best inter
ests oi the puDiic service.
When a Railroad Company refuses to acqui
esce in his decision (ana to tms case ne has
given his most serious consideration) he is re
quired by law to make other provisions for con
vevinsr the mail.
lhis he will do in the case ot the Kaleigh ana
Gaston Railroad, and although the service may
not now be in all respeots satisfactory? yet the
period is probably not tar distant, when the
whole mail for Raleigh and beyond may be
better provided for than is now contemplated
by the Department.
very respectiuiiy,
Your obedient servant,
JAMES CAMPBELL,
Post Master General.
William White, Esq., P. M., Raleigh, N. C.
BUFFALO SPRING.
THE prevalence of disease in the middle and
southern portions of the United States, during
past winter and spring, admonish the people to
look out for some safe summer retreat, where the
ills inflicted by winter maladies may be removed,
and, at the same time, secure an exemption from
the harassing complaints of the hot season of the
. ... ... . ... , T .
year. As a locality propitious to tnis ena, l neg
leave respectfully to call the attention of .the pub
lic to my watering place, the Buffalo mineral
spbing, situated in tne upper end or Mecklenburg
County, Va. , several miles west of the town of Clarks-
ville. . . ."S"-Vvh i
The tonic powers of this water, so potent laim.- I
nartine tone and vigor to the digestive organs, and
its diuretic qualities so efficient in purifying and
cleansing the blood, renders it a pleasant and user
ful remedy in a wide range of disease. Its curative
powers are more conspicuously manifested in the va
rious forms of dropsyP protracted intermittent fe
vers, chronic diseases of the skin, functional de
rangements Of the liver, stomach, spleen, bowels and
kidneys, and last, though not leasts Female com
plaints, and almost every chrome disease of the
pelvic organs in both sexes. For further informa
tion, however, on this subject, I weuld refer the in
valid to a pamphlet already before the public, by Dr.
8. H. Harris, of Clarksville, treating more elabor
ately of the water and its special application to dis
ease. Added to its acknowledged remedial powers,
it is equally celebrated as -a prophylactic, impart
ing tone and energy to the general system, enabling
it thereby to ward off disease.
Having been purveyor to the establishment for
many years, I can bear testimony to the. astonish
ing effects of the water on the appetite, and the per
fect impunity with which quantities of food may be
taken, which under other circumstances, would be
wholly inadmissible. To meet this exigency, there
fore, I can only promise to do my best in the cuisine
department, and will pledge myself to the summer
voyager to make no charge against him if his ap
petite or digestion fail him. '.
The yearly increase of visitors has compelled me
to prepare for the comfortable accomodation of four
hundred and fifty persons. In addition to a band
of music engaged for the season, other sources of
amusement will be found ready at hand, billiard
tables, bowling alleys, &c. ' . t
Moss & (Jo's Four Horse Post Coaches leave
Keysville, on the Richmond and Danville Railroad.
on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays at half-past
11 o'eloclc,' A M.', aiid. arrive at Buffalo Spring at
naii-pasi seren same aay . rover Horse post Coach
es of the same, tjomp&ny; leave. Ridgeway, on the
Raleigh and Gaston Railroad, on the same days: at
M.v.same flayOri the same days, Post Coich'
es leave Taneeyrille, via MUton, Blackwalnut, c,
and arrjye.at Buffalo Spring at 4 e'clocky P. M. "
. s v;t - iatu SHJSL.TOR, Proprietor:
June 22, 1858. Vw4w 5I
This table shows what difference there is in theSsh of sun
dry plants, and eTen in the parts of on of the same. In th
ash of pea straw we find 63 00 lime salts; in wheat straw on
ly 7 00 ; while the grains contain 44 00. We must, therefore
with certainty conclude, that every plant requires for its
growth a certain quantity of mineral substances.
In the sand of pure quarts, peas, for instance, will sprout
and grow ;Jut they do not bear, when by the addition of a lit
tle lime and alkali, the fruit will be produced.
in many plants, one or the other substance prevails as in
wheat, silicum; in peas, lime ; in roots, alaa 1 i .
According to this we may divide them, viz : A Ikaline Plants
Turoipa, White Turnips, Indian Corn.
Lime Plants Clover, Beans, Peas, Tobacco. a
Silicum Wheat, Oats, Barley, Rye and Grain, and Grass
es in-general.
The foregoing shows us the necessity to restore to the soil,
tn a measure, such substances as we take from it. This is
done by manure. Ammonia and pboFphorns are the most fer
tilizing substances. The value of it is constituted by these
prevailing quantities.
Believing that we can offer to Agriculturists at large an ar
ticle which, in every respect, possesses such qualities as to
meet the approbation of the mose scrupulous, we do not hes
itate to recommend it if not superior, at least equal to Onano,
containing in a higher degree the ammoniacal and phosphoric
salt, and combining, beddes, a sufficient qnantity of animal
organic matter, to produce a more lasting effect in the soil.
DIRECTIONS.
For Wheat, Rye, Oats, all kinds of Grain and
Grasses in general, from 800 to 450 lbs. Corn about
the same. Tobacco 400 to 600 lbs. Potatoes 200
to 400 lbs. Buckwheat,' Carrots, Turnips, Beans
and Peas, by the application of from 300 to 400 lbs.,
will produce a good crop A top dressing of half
the quantity for all the above will ensure a propor
tionate yield. An addition of Ashes, especially
with Corn, Tobacco and Potatoes, will prove bene
ficial. The proportions are calculated, for one acre, yet
it is evident the condition of the soil has some in
fluence. It should be applied broadcast, before
er after the seed is sown and harrowed The best
time is after a light rain. It will prove to advan
tage and repay the trouble, when mixed with two
parts of good soil, and still more when the land has
been prepared m the Fall, and lightly manured with
stable manure.
Bg&For sale at the principal Agricultural Ware
houses throughout the United States, in bags of 150
lbs. each, containg full directions for use ; also y
HOYT & CO.,
Agents for the sale of Acids, Fertilizers and Seeds
of reliable quality.
No. 15 BURLING SLIP,
fNear Fulton Ferry.) NEW YORK.,
AND L
DEMAREST & HOYT,
No. 122 West Street, corner of Dey Street,
NEW YORK.
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SELECT CLASSICAL
AND
MATHEMATICAL SCHOOL
WARRENTON, N. C.
R. A. EZELL, A. M. Principal,
JOSEPH McMURRAN, A B. Assistant.
THE Fall Session will commence on Monday
the 4th of July.
Additional arrangements have been made which
will enable the Principal to accommodate with good
board and spacious rooms the. constantly increas
ing number of applicants for, admission into the
School: Boys from a distance are required to
Board in the family of the' Principal, where the
supervision is exercised over their morals, and
where they receive every kindness and attention
conducive to their comfort. The Principal relies
with proud confidence upon the merits of his School
alone for success ; and refers the public to his own
well known skill and experience for more than 20
years, in the business of teaching, to the undoubt
ed ability and fidelity of his accomplished colleague,
to the good behavior, moral deportment, and intellec
tual improvements of his students, and to the already
extensive and constantly extending patronage bes
towed upon him, as the. best and most reliable rec
ommendations of the School which it is in his pow
er to exhibit. His patrons are the best judges of
the character of the Seminary and to them he con
fidently refers an enlightened public. The School
is independent of any Board of Trustees, and un
der the exclusive management of the Principal.
Jkir. AlcMurran, tne able coadjutor of the Princi
palgraduated with high distinction at Hampden
Sydney College And brings with him testimonials
from the President and Faculty of that Institution,
evincing his great moral Worth and high order
of scholarship, especially ia Mathematics and the
solid sciences. He has, likewise, a letter of rec
ommendation signed- by every member of the Board
of Trustees of Greene Academy in Alabama, of
which he was Principal until his services were se
cured for 'f. this School;? expressing their exalted
iense of hu qualifications' as a Teacher and their
deep regret at losing; hU valuable services. Be
sides the testimonials above alluded to, he is strong
ly recommended as a gentleman and Teacher by
the Rev, Dr.'Hall of Huntsville. Ala., by the Rev.
J..T, Hargrove; Middleburg, .Va., by the Rev. Mo
ses D. Hoge; Richmond, Va.,by A. D. Dickinson
and Sam'l C. Anderson "Esq'rs, Prince Edward Ct.
Houe; Va7,by the:Rev. W S. F: Graham, Presi
dent of lele ware College, and by the Rev. Elipha
let Nott,vD;;D.i L. L. D. President, and Messrs.
Jacksoa, Xewis and Reed, Professors of Union
College, NT Y;
like the Principal, McMurran is a southern man
by birth and-educati on; ; "
i er tscsswn oj jive Mont is.
Board;;:t..:.
Tuition in the English branches,
. -; fi- Ancient languages
and Mathematics, 17 50
Tuition in the Modern Languages (each) 10 00
. Fuel at School Room, 60
June 22nd, 1853. w4w 51
$50 00
12 60
-fei -TEMAlE SCHOOL.
HILLSBOROUGH. N. C.
'THEnext session of Ma. and Mas. Bukwell's
School will commence n Wednesday, tha 20th of
July 1853.;
' For terms Ac, address Rev. R. Burwell, Hills
borough; NC. " .
June 22nd, 1853. w4w-ol