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Firm tit Mobil Advertiser. LETTER OF THE 1OSTil ASTER GEN n Vv . ERAlv . ; VH . o .- -' Wm publish below, a letter frpos the Postma. ter General to. Too. P.Craword, '&sv-of Pick ed; ccontf, and which firtVappeired in the Plek era Republics of ihe 24th nit ?" It ahdwa that Jacob Collarner it not the Abolitionist that ht is represented - to berTho tank charges mad against member of the adminiatration ere es dia- miHinT aa thev are nnnrmeirjled and untrue. NoC a leading man In the Ceaservstive Whiif parly it of the tank Abolition caeL The traitors to soethero rights ere la be found ia theraoks of the .Democracy, once fostered and cherished a "northern "men V with r southern : principle-'' Vhn those thus fostered sod cherished nd im oosed upon tu as oaea with "southern principles, because the partisan purposes and party aocceae require ft tot 4be nonce, . ahowr the clov. foot and appear ia their true color ft will not do for XtKofocoisra io cry oot traitora and yet eali upon thei-'hertfpeonl to look lWocwsm for Jheirwet jrsnd a Democratic Congress for their eopport. A burnt chad vnay with reason dread the fire ; end see ia the very character of its cbiv alric appeals, a low and degrading ambition that is one thing to day, to morrow, another ; r'l " ; I. .- WASBaoxon Cirr. July NX 1849. elearStr; I received your of the29th ult, in which yco say that in the exciting Conrres eional canvas in your district in Alabama I am chirred with being "a downright-it &otetenuA'T and that the Democratic candidate calls me a blackhearted Sulphureous Abolititjohist.'' You seem to desire mo o defend myself. Voo, and ail men of ordinary, discernment, moat ; be sensible that those -who use such epi - theu, generally regard the People they address as Iffaorant and excitable enough to be influenced mere by vituperation and personal abate, than either by facts or reason. It is therefore a course which cannot be stopped by anything I can either say or do ; lt I can jay is that I am not now, nor bare X ever Jeen an Abolitionist, and I have al ways received the rooet buter opposition from the Abolition party in my own Ktate. I have always held that nothing should be done by the General Government in relation to the subject ef shivery in the several Slates. I have always discountenanced and opposed all measures, pub lie or private, intended to interfere with or dis turb tbolina tit otion as existing within the States, mm Trrternrmt h th onncmrlnn. Al f ha asm time, H is dde to justice and myself to say, I am an anti-slavery man : that is, f regard alavery as every great political and moral -evil, and think nothing should be done by this government to Increase or extend if. , Yea say Mr. Inge informs the people that as Postmaster General, I can send by the mails or withhold, therefrom any documents 1 wish, and that since I. have been Postmaster General, the South has been flooded with Abolition documents. Now; Sir, (.have had, in Congress, some per socaireequaintacce-and intercourse with Mr. use, and it is extremely difficult for roe to be life he could ever.be guilty of such gross and palpable misrepresentation. It certainly could not be necessary for any one to write to me for information to meet so obvious a falsehood. The Postmaster General has no power, direction or control over the nutter to be mailed. It is reg kted entirely by law. The laws of Congress eatabliahing and regelating the Post Office De partment are in All parts of the country open and accessible to all men. These laws give neither to any Postmaster nor to the bead of the Depart ment any authority or control whatever over any printed paper or letter which any person may think proper to convey by mail. When such a paperor letter, properly directed is presented to a Postmaster to be mailed, he has no right or pow er to open aSd examine ft ta ascertain its con tents or to suppress or refuse to mail it. No Postmaster General ever attempted the exercise f any soch power, and precisely; thev same in structions, regulations; rights, powers and " duties exist in the Department, and offices . whicbrhave . existed, for many years before my accession to office, and no other.: AH this is known, or can be knows, to -any man .who desires 4o know the fxuthTHow . gross sod unjustifiable then must be the representations of any man who attempts to make the people believe that 1 am. or this ad ministration, or even the President, is ia any de pwe answerable for the sentiments contained" io the printed and written papers which all men have the power to sentf in the mails, and which no one has the power to prevent. t II ass, Sir, your humble cervV 1l : -JACOB COLLAMER. To Bcwiat P. CsiwToxa. - - JOR. CULY AND MR. FILLMORE ThtEditor.of the Rochester America a, who was at Niagara Falls when Mr Clay was there, says: These distlngaished Whigs' were both at Nia gara Falls a few days ago, and their meeting, after a long separation, was, as might be anticipated; most inenaijaaa joorcuafe 1 t wui oe recoilectea thai laige majority of the Northern Waits, iacladinral moat the entire delegation at Baltimore, desired the nomination of Mr, Fillmore as Vke President with Mr. Clay. The distinction was; however, conferred VDOB an eminent atmttcf f thm Whir rtr nl . consented to accept a nomiaation aa th can didate of the Whigs of bis owa State for Governor. He shared the fats ef his illustrious friend and of his party generally in that campaign. '" "We lean that Mr. CUt took occasion", at the intern aw above referred to, to assure tbe Vice Pre sident of bis meet friendly sentiment toward Gen. Taylor and bis Administration.. ,-; He said ht had no objects t attain, and no plana to pursue, except to discharge his doty as a Whig Senator; and be ex - pressed himself in a manner which emphatically re baked all intimations and predictions of opposition to proceed from him -against the National Execu tive, s w'.r - . . v Tat DtriLCiTio?. The Washington Un ion ia dispoeed to nndervaloe the importance of the late, diaclosares of defalcaliona by officers who were particular favorites of the late administration. Waat tremendous. cataloge of defaulters has been pardoned, it asks w nh aa air of confident triumph. . Two, Navy agent, whose joint deficit i not mucn, u say ining, snort ot two nandred thousand dollar, arid a surveyor or so, who have keptell that ihey could get, are, to be sore, very, small mattersv too trifling to be worthy of so much t noise as ha bees mad about them. When we recollect bow, inder former democratic adminis trations. Price and Swartwoort, and a few others, pasped millions without a wry face, it fa eertain n very.wafajr to charge the late government with J'? encouraged defaulters. . There has been ji hat wWr to tn who, nn aSSSt11 boWaets, the grave the 5tf??W wUh-which men werf wont to pwpiloBf reWof Jackson j : j .inn in 7::::lX.?i 'j wj txt mmumm IB frrTV" Scer,: under the late ad- - J-?4 -y;MBf hot, humble rrCr. f ihty geal,. -w, . . - - ------ v t tQC If arhlat.tn.nl. tztencocji plundering lb public. r'lhir achivement,4 Jwlnwore Patriots :A cotemporary otters the following maiedie- ttOS ST J Oh Jbr a ton to speak th' doom t Al t aaeak iaro an Cdltoys room fit: ' j 'An4 stial his tery nest and latest txchnnge s : rr.moa Bts-uoje." LOCOFOCOI3M.-: If any one thing is more amuaing than A . 1 enoU.i:: in tnai tirapge icBpoiure whtc pair and Sgected 'moral indignatiow ir.tb whten tt fen- I i .(miMiint oroeess or reiorat now io progreas, "'WWaSiSIIi'' Adminuitraaoo. The whole. UaJ&Z newspapers and HWcfgrv. and aeekers--ps. T'"fu, locme and """ready to servf their country for -con. centuVy, i this free M of oors. as Uie dem wgues of the worst days of Athens, made of Pol. ftfcs a trade, and of the Commonwealth a spot -ia in an uproar, from the Big Dog who do the irrowlin of the Union, down to the -Tray, Blanche and Sweetheart'! of the Tillage Press from the D.vesof tbe political Board, to the Lax arus wbo begs the crumbs from his table. All is wo,snd lamentation, and virtuoua wrath, and out raged moral feeliug! Inured for a generation to consider the oublic offices as their lawful posses. ion. visiting with ruthless proscription sod exclu sion from all the honors tad emoluments of tbe State, ai total as lithium itself could entail, all who did not hail in their banded self-seeking, Uie holiest efforts of patriotic devotion there is some thing ineffably comic in the mingled surprise, rage and terror with which they find tbemselvesvsr a Utile choked off from their hold upon the Pub lic Treasury. The shrieks of-the 'fabled Man drake, when nightly torn from the ground, were a faint image of their agonizing clamour, never indeed, In any of its past phases, has the Party" (meaning thereby tbe amiable association aoovw described) exhibited a more palpable self-convic-tion of the vice which the ablest of them, with a brief felicity not even, surpassed by the Roman historian in his portraiture of the Great Conspira tor, has described as the terv principle of life within it "held together by the cohesive power of the lne . of the public plunder MAnimes audax, suboolus, variutf, cujus rei libet, simulator ac dissimulator, alieoi appetene, sai profusus, ardens in rupiditatibus, satis loquen tie partira." 1 . None need wonder then, at the scurrilhty with which the venerable patriot at the head of the Gtivernmeni ia assailed, for the judicious snd wteady correctiou of public abuses by those who have so long had an interest in maintaining them, from the discarded Commissioner of Patents in the Union, to the learned ThebanXn the Enqui rer, who whimsically denounces .he same act "Thi proscription of John LyncA," as being st one and the same time, one of -Petty tyranny atil coldblooded butchery (Sic.') scurrility so gros?, and so dishonoring to the nation, that if any intel. gent and Unprejudiced foreigner could regard it as fit reading the fit mental - pabulum of the twenty millions of freemen stretched over our vallies . and our hills, he would not hesitate to place us back in civilization whole centuries from where we certainly deserve to stand. So potent indeed, is the weapon deemed by those who wield it, that we beard it said by one of ihe faith ; ful, that Gen. Taylor would not .dare to turn Burke oot of the Patent Office, forfevrofihe vigor of his pen f 'tfo enemies to punisn," quouiaj Are moore snd Collins, el id genus pmne, any more the ene mies of Gen. Taylor, than they are the enemies of every honest lover of his country! Is the on. deviating and systematic excluaion for years, of one half, at leaat, of all the talent, energy and moral worth of the nation, from the hope even or entering the career of. honorable ambition in the public services persisted in for years, and that exclusion professedly based upon the false and insulting ground of imputed hostility to the prin ciples of free government in so much, that, to haveit said in the language of the late immacu late incumbent of Ihe Treasury, uYoa are, and always have been a Whig," affixed a brand of outlawry as ineffaceable as the mark of Cain a system, too, kept up by the conning device of a party discipline which represses every sentiment of freedom in thought or action, and substitutes the wiH of an uelke' Junto, for tbe unbiased suf frages of Freemen is this system of corrupt ter. rorism so great a blessing as that this people shall rise in arms sgains ita correction by the gentle and moderate application of the Jeffersooiau "Proce dure!" We trow hot. We tell these patriots to cease the outcries, with which they make day and night hideous, at an inflietion of justice which is demanded by the highest interests of tbe nation. Were the policy, however, of the Cabinet in re gard to removals precisely what it is not pre scriptive in the roost extreme sense of the term were the "poisoned chalice" which they have so often commended toother lips, returned to their own, until they had drained it to t!e dregs, their own conduct would rob them of all sympa thy, as their present unmanly waitings deprive them of sll respect. The mass cares nothing for them. Not these tbe arts which shall unseal from their heartslhe glorious old chief, who shall be held in honor for tbe service he has done the State, when they, hie revilers, shall in their insig nificance be forgotten; whom; when oblivion shall have overwhelmed, ''recorded honors shall gather round hie monument, and thicken, over it; a so- lid fabric, it will support the laurels that adorn it.", r It were not an unprofitable task to review tbe thev are now crimes of nh party" for which suuering tbe penalties ot lustice particularly in this very mailer of proscription. A received" us age in sentencing great criminals, countenances a review of the causes and motives which led to their guilt, ss profitable to the convict as leading to repentance, and to the witnesses as a lesson and a warning. Something like.this, we propose to do, in regard to the party now on tbe eve of ita 1 dissolution, at the great bar of public opinion. ixKATiwna vy nig. " Voice or thx smtsjleiqn f ori.x will Gu Tatlok TtV'TheaK have been two Locofoco conTentions lately me in Maine and one in Iowa which revamped some of the stale slan ders against the ' Adminstration. and uttered them to the world in the shape of resolutions. This I the Union calls the" voice of the sovereign clc" We had supposed that the voice of . the I sovereign people was quite distinctly heard through the ballot-box last November; but it seems that the fniotf does not admit the sturdy voters of the CQuniry to be the people, unless they vote as it de sires. If not the voice of the people," was it only thunder Gen. Cass heard at the November elec tions. Republic. . The Postmaster General gives notice that mails will be made on at New York. Charleston and Savannah, for Chagres, Panama, San .Diego, Santa -Barbara, &Iontrey( San Francisco, and Astoria, to be - conveyed by the steamship Ohio. which will sail from New York on the 27ih In slant and from Char lesion and Savannah on the us n w ir-i " w . ceedinr half an ounca In welghMWill be 12 cent tb Havana, 20 cent to Chagres, SO cents to Panama, to be pre-paid in all eases; and 40 cents to Ssn Diego, Banu Barbara.- ilonterey. San J FnMiim. nr Aitnni. IA Francisco, or Astoria to be pre-paid or cent un paid at the option of in oder. newspaper and pamphlets sea postage three tents eaeb, and inland postage to be added.' y v .' -r- 07" A modern poet thosuaburthena his mind ia I a veia f peculiar sentimeut r The f.nea Leaf and Wiatlin . Wind , Pro Duces ia me seasativ Mind r -L fffwka eye Kant in Words X pwss, -T Bt mitey strong Nev r?r the Less! n wi i w nw r - -.k .nstair,,, her character for firmaes of pnn- L. ,. w- ,aanrt iKmnrrk amnitHplP . ttrHtm ciples, and elects her' men by majorities sxifficient- lj ceasiTe. Aliens cut w w uiuioc; sf prehend, us to ter position ; nd she has done het whole duty to contribuling to the support of Gen eral Taylor's Adxninlstration. v If the other State?, where elections have been held thia i August, niain-" tain their ground as well, the next House, of Rept resentatives will be Whig, and affair chance Will be afforded to the Adniinastmtion to project and carry out its measures to redeem the country from the sad evils it has suffered during the tnisgQvern ment of successive . Locofoco rulers, and to restore it to its original purity as a government, and pros perity as a jiatwn. In successive struggles to this end, North Carolina has long been not only rel ble,but triumphant. , While others altered she has stood firm t and that, firmness she now main tains, sending her full onota of .Whigs again to Congress. . As to the distinctive features of tlie canvass in each District, we do not know that it is necessary now to speak, as they are well understood by eve ry person here, v The general battle was between Whigs and Locofocos ; and the Whigs, as usual, have gained-the victory: 'There was no bitter ness, perhaps, anywhere but in Stanly's district, where; his is but another name for death to Loco focoism, and "the party' hates" him accordingly, worse than poison. Some local causes have con spired to lessen his majority, and. we confess it is very small, but there is no diminution k of Whig strength in the gauaht District he will gallantly and ably represent. A bitter pill as he is to Lo cofocoism at home, we commend him to -those he will meet at Washington City and he has bur leave to prick them with thorns, and gall and vex them to their heart's content may he spread slip nooses for their feet, or trap them in their own gins, until he shall vtterly trip them up and bring them down ; exposing their corruptions, and de feating their abominable and mischievous plans. Especially do we commit to his guardian care and supervision,' the heavy and obtuse Daniel, (single-minded only in the matters of pay and ra tions,) the volatile and sulphuric Abraham, and the tricky Ashe, of fraudulent ticket memory. These three ornaments of North Carolina1 Locofo coracy, (each eccentric in his own way,) will require a denl of watching, that, however, they may each play the fool for himself, they shall not be allowed to make a fool of the Slate, nor tar nish her fair and honest name. But our mind is pretty well at rest on this subject, as Stanly will be there; and in his hands we are very well con tent to leave them. The Farmer of Wayne can now join Farmer Brogden, whom he no doubt defeated, in a glori ous states of retiracy, until next August; when we recommend them both to be elected to the Legislature, and to come up to Raleigh together. preparea to oppose nauroaas, ixnnmon ocnoois, and every other enlightened measure which may offer. Times. PINE LANDS BEST TREATMENT OP THEM. From a Georgia paper, we clip the following sug gestions as to the proper plan, to be pursued with Pine Lands the value of which every farmer can test for himself. W regret that the article has lost its ear-mark, so that we know not positively to whom to credit it. We believe it is from one of the Macon papers. u It is the prevailing opinion among farmers that the pine leaf or straw is deleterious to land ; conse quently we annually see the region of the pines" burnt over for the purpose of destroying that poison ous substance ! Do such farmers ever reflect upon the wise provisions of Providence? For what par pose does tbe foUags annually fall 1 Is it merely that new leaves may pot forth to beautify and adorn the trunks? By no means. It is that they may go through their gradual and sure decay, returning to the earth not only , the nutriment which the earth had given them, but that richer quality which thev had taken from the atmosphere, it is well.known that nine soils lack Dot ash. and it is nroven br scientific analysis beyond cavil or debate, that the pine 'leaf contains more potaan loan to tear or any other tree ; and potash is one of ths first principles in the growth of all plants and vegetables. What a suicidal poller then to destroy the very substance destined by nature to enrich pine lands, and then murmur at unprodue- uveness f armera wno cultivate pine lands, pre serve your wooas as you wouia your dwellings fro, me ruimess names, i;over your cow pens, you horse lots and your stables with pine straw. Th treading of the animals with their manure add will soon decompose It, which will make a fine coi post jor your vegeiaoie garaen. ri us Den a your pise a m aa. -.. ww m . straw as you would husband your crop, for with it you can make any crop, in th bounds of reason, that you may desire. The finest Irish potatoes that ire made in this climate are mad under Din straV.- This crop has proved almost an entire failure intbsi section this season, and yet "old Ireland, nevevprU duced a more ' mealy pratie' than my crop turns out tbis season planted under straw. There have Wen many failures in attempting to cultivate thf Irish potato in this manner, but it has been owing entirely to not truly covering with straw. Like th fellow that took a feather and laid his head on a rofck, they y if a few straws make each miserable botatoes. what would loads do? . Those who would tare rood Irish potatoes, no matter whether th seasea be wet or dry, plant as follows, and you will not ohlv set a good return of delicious potatoes, but you will enrich the son ana save culture, as soon after Christmas aa possible, plow the piece Of ground designed for potatoes , open trencnes six or eight Inches deep, and two feet apart, across the ground, fill the trtnehes with partially aecomposed wheat, oat or nine straw. Cut the potato once in two,, place the cut aide down wards on th straw, about aix inches apart, now cover all with th remaining earth on top of the ridges, until it is all level, then east on pin straw until it is all leveL then cast on pin straw until it ia eigh teen inches deep all over the piece it will require no after culture, and each succeeding year with the addition ef a portion of straw, will increase in nro- ductivftnes. Aa th winter and snrins rains het down th straw compactly, decomposition commences A. . 1. 1 A . J 1 . av outturn mu uu muer now ary th season may pruTc, mere u always mounure, ana COnseauentlT mealy and good potatoes. Remember ye who have pm lores, mac -pin straw is the very best manure jor pine tanas." FATHER MATH IS W.'. The subjoined letter of tbis distlognished tem perance advocate, is a reply, to an invitation ex tended to him by the Georgia State .Temperance Convention, through their President, Hon Joseph Hofar Lumpkin. The friends of Temoeranesi and Humanity will greet with hearty welcome. Mia, aposue ot nenevoience, tnia best friend of Ireland this friend or man: y : Boston, July 25th. 1849. My Dear Friend. I am grateful for the kind sentiment conveyed in your esteemed . letter. To nave tne pleasure or enjoying the persona) acquaintance of o aealoua and otstingnished a me anN additional inducement to visit Georgia ,v besides-I feel highly complimented by the invi. I j ution, through you, of my friend, and shall, God wining, avau myseir oi me privilege - of meeting them at Augusta, as soon aa prior eDgagemeou will permit. At a fatur period I hope to be able to give timely inionnation of ihe lime that 1 can have .this gralmcatioo.;-i;"it,vVr:. . Presenting my sincere acknowledgements to the member of your eoeiety, and with respectful compliments to your family, I am, io haste, dear Mr Lompkia, -: ,:, Your, devotedly, r , . - - TBtoaaro Matrkw. Hon. Josan Hmar liuarrxraT. Athens, Gav Q: Th Ciacianali toquirer prasovac rv. that Garibaldi, th Italian leader, ev in mat city,. a boax." r- FOREIGN: INTWGUETlIETSBDXrC: A new incident has just been revealed to the public; thattenJi : to invest; the foreigtl" agencies totely so active in. this euy with a fouler cjiara tet than ever: Ouf telegtanhie- despatches . froui New York, which we published last evening, broadly insiunate that one of the friends of me ah- due tea man, J uau e iauvwcu xvey vu vjrama, a Spaniard named Machin, 'deceased, was assasina ted here, on the Bth vlL, and points out Fulgencio Llorentev the indiyidaal who has figured so cou snipuoualv in me examination beXbre Judse Brisht and Commissioner Cohen, as the perpetrator and instigator of the ile deed. To be squeamish or mealy'-mouthed in a case of: alleged murder "'such' as uU9, no miK nuvwaj suuei uy unpiicauuu, would, even in a private citizen, be carrying for bearance to the extreme of weakness, but in a jour nalist it would be a shameful betrayal of his trust. We do not intend to 'incur this censure. ; The N. Y. Post has published a letter from Ma chin, the deceased man, dated New Orleans, the 7m July,'giving the editor of a journal pi New .York, for which he was the agent here, his opin ion" on the threat made by' Lbrente to take his life. Thevery next day, . the; 8th, Machin, was found with his brains blown out.' We have con sulted our files and find that on the 9th our city intelligence recorded the suicide of EL P. Machin, said to have destroyed himself through' love and jealousy. We know not what evidence was ad- duced at the coroner's inquest neia on , me occa- a - 1 a a 1 - sion. it may nave oeen conclusive as to tne mo tive for the alleged suicide, returned by the Jury in the verdict, and it may have Deen the reverse -die evidence, for example, of an interested party, which sufficed in the absence of any accuser, Now, however, that we have it broadly surmised, on documents of undoubted au thenticity we mean the two letters of thedeeeased, written to his friend in New York, both animadverting on the threat of death to him by Ltorente -we - insist that there are grounds sufficient to enable our magistrates to insutute a rigid investigation into the whole affair, An affidavit should be forthwith made by one of the friends of the deceased, deposing that he has good reason to believe that Machin was foully dealt with. The presumption prima facie that Machin did not commit suicide is very strong. On theTth he writes " opinions and advice," the natural off spring of a mind cod and collected; and the next day, without any extraordinary incident, that we know ot, intervening, ne diows out nis brains! Machin was one of Rey's alias Garcia'3 friends and confidents t IJorente is traced to their society, alternately whispering to them his pernicious eoun- seis, ana mumraaung mem witn nis aars tnreais. The two unhappy men are derly mired tm with poliucal refugees or with schemes for the pojitical regeneraoon oi LUoa, tneir aooptea country.- xiow far thn Llorente is identified with the accredited Spanish agent in NewvOrleans, Don Carlos de Espana, we leave to the decision of the law au- .1 I I J . t . L tnoriues, wno nave unaenaaen io uiTtugxe me case of the alleged abduction. We will notpre- mdfire. Our fellow-citizens will not fail to remark that the President is justly incensed by the bare idea that any foreign agent should dare to' perpetrate such an outrage as that involved in the case of Rey. Should the fact be brought home to the Spanish Government here the Consul sinks in to insignificance he will exact signal reparation, or inflict punishment that shall prove a terror to all others, who may henceforward meditate a sim ilar insult to the honor of our country. This is quite in character with the old hero. We call particular attention to our Washington letter, and me telegrahic despatch in reference thereto. The N. Y. Post in the extract we gave yester day, intimates that the news of the alleged abdu csuon had created considerable excitement in that cily. Its opinions as to the mode by which repa ration should be made by the Spanish Govern m at in Cuba are worthy of the highest recom m adatioD. Rey should be brought back to New Orleans, in a Spanish man-of-war; as the out- was committed in the obscurity of midnight, it should te expiated m broad day, that all the orld mav see how republicans act and force oth ers to actiwhen tbe honor of their country has been tresmssed on. JV. O. Picayune. . A Tovchiko Incident Another Ophelia Wc findm tbe St. Louis Republican, of the 23th ulL, the following affecting history of some fair but unfMtunat unknown, wbo, perhaps, has friends And relatives in her own native Germany, unapprised of her pitiful, condition in a foreign land. There is something of the wildly roman tic abjlut her story, which must touch a heart of adaratnt : - ' . AtAhe quarantine groona there is a pitiable. yetfuriou case of insanity, and one which de mands the Interference of some one, for the sub ject of it is a female. y , The person alluded to is a woman apparently about thirty years of age. She goes by tbe name of Catharine, and when she tan be kept still long enough td say anything rational, gives her name as Catharine Weber. We have made sev eral efforts to gather her history from her, but : always laiied, posaibly ; because we have bad to uae an Interpreter, and she talks rapidly, and fre quently Incoherently. The most rational story is, that she fa from Uermaay bes been three ! months in the United States-i-haa a brother, Ad am Weber, a watch makerJwho, she sometimes says, left her in Cincinnati, and at others that he left ber in the mountains of Pennsylvania. She says Ahat Mr. Agelrout knows her family and connexions, and that Ihe has relations living in otosi or Mine ta MotteJbut it is diffi- fro her incoherent' manner, to determine ce. sne m entirely destitute, and pro- ould be made or her. a harmless creature, and might be said re idiotic thin crazy. She roams over all thf ground, visiting every bed, especially the sick,lnd seem to have a very correct idea of those who are going to die A few minutes be forelbath occurs, she is there, stands by them, andirben they die, she ia very officious in closing theft eyes, laying their bodies out, and fixing thes limbs in proper position. This done, she gab out, and from the shrubs she weaves a wftathe, which she insists upon being placed on the corpse. She sees it placed in the coffin, and isf iarticularly captious and nice to see. that tbe ifjie fitted down right ; then follow to the grave aicbief mourner. -At the grave, she ha another -eaih to lay on the coffin ; this deposited, (and ht men all yield to her fancies,) she wait until tie grave is filled, and then for full half an hoar lae stands on or by the grave channting hymns ind songs. She ainga wilh a good elearroice Sbe is up nearly all hoars of the night and day ; and whenever a boat arrives or departs, she stands upon the river bant chaunting. her songs. She mild, always .engaged In some ; work, either sweeping the ground, or making tea or something ior me sica. THE SEVENTH CENSUS. Two-circulars are now beiasr distributed through out the United States, lor th purpose of eliciUnr InibrmatiQsV to render perfect as possible the result of th arrangements for taring, ta census erando. On ef these calls for such Information aaWill enable the Census Board to arrive at th moet proper enu meration of subiects to be embraced la their report : and tha other for aujsestiona as to the possibility of abandoning, la th .several States, questions which have no practical bearing n their respective re sources. Th SecreUry, under the direction ef th Board, ia now busily engaged in th preliminary ar rangements for thia important labor, and it I most deairahl that rtpUe should b sent ea as .early a date at possibl. - AH eomraunicatious should be ad dressed, Department ef Staje Census, ; Washington -' ", '-s-T- -'-" ' . ... " , " - .7 f f j , V .. . trv" "jii'S'f A' " L L y Oma au tlw plans f fair delightful peace; . TJnwarp'd by party rage to lire like) brothers. RALEIGH - N. C. tyiMiiikyj Aagbst '15,. 1849. OU COiraRESSIONAJj I2J3CTIOII. By reference td our Tableut T bfrseen that we have not yet received entire returns from all the Districts in the State ; but sufficient is known for us to announce the following as the; result : -In the first District, Mr. CuwaHiif is elected with out opposition. J In the second, JfosEfH P. Cald well, Whi, has a inajorifytof 5,l&.YMr. De Btaav, Whig, is elected in the third District, by a majority of 600 votes, over Caldwell, Loco. In the fourth District, Sakerxan, -Whig, beats Kekn, Loco, 1267 votes. In the fifth District; VairiBLK, Loco, succeeds over Nash," Whig, by soma 700 votes. The sixth .District was carried by Dakikl over Clakjt,- both Locos, by about 2,000. In the seventh District, Ashe beats Rem, both Locos', by several thousand In the eighm District, the hardest fought battle came off, and resulted in the election of Stanly Whigover Lane Loco, by something like 50 majority. Al though this majority is small, it is perhaps the greatest victory ever achieved in the,District,Mr. Stanly having received the largest vote ever cast in the District, except that given for Gen. Tatlos. The ninth District was carried triumphantly, by OcTtAW, Whig, over Person, LocoFoco. The Whs hare reason to rejoice oyer the re sult ; and we commend to all our Loco friends the following Song from the " North State Whig," written expressly for Mr. Stanlt's District, but which applies with equal force to all our Whig Districts demonstrating as they have done in this contest, mat " its no use" for any Loco Foco to be " knocking at their doors." VICTORY! nURRAU!! We have kept our paper openthough ready for the press since the election, in order to give th result of tbe Congressional election in this district. The final result was not known till yesterday, when the express came in from Tyrrel bringing the glori ous intelligence that that noble, patriotic county had given Stanly a majority of 272. This settled the question, and secured th election of Stanly by a nwjority ef 48 to 70 votsV - W have no tim to-day for comments upon this glorious victory. Only look at the returns. Stanly gets ever 500 votes more than Donnell gofin 1847, and about as many ss Gen. Taylor got in November. He gets the largest vote ever given ftmy candidate ut the district i Oe, Tayl$r ereepted mthut the memory oj mam . wnat feigner compliment :couid be paid wm, or wait wntr eTiaeace pe onsrea oi to esti mation in which he is held by th people Of this dis trict 1 ?- v.f VJ. r'v :-? - jr ,'V-. We writ amid tk firingof cannon and the shouts of th people, and must stop With th following song, which we know will b sung with th heartiest good will, by Whigs everywhere in the district; sono. . r- . To wk Whips that knocking at the dear ! Hurrah ! Hurrah ! The victorv is won ! The right has triumphed, and th '.lav's our own t Twos a hard fought battle, but the foe hav fled, Their leader badly wounded, and their hopes all dead: uut wovi iiuu KoocsiDfat laeqoor.i Oh ! who's 4hat knocking at the door ? Is that you Stanly I No it's Lane. Weil you'd better go back to your farm in " Wayne, (Repeat.) For there's no use knockiug at the door any .more, There's no use knocking at the door. Th poor locofoco are looking very sad, They're calling oot for comfort, but there's none to be had, , : -J " . - ' - Their sua has set, their day's gone by, Their night's very dark, for there are clouds in the say ; ..... . -1-',,-- i-. . . But who's that knocking at the door ? It Oh ! who's that knocking at th door? is that you Lane? No. it'au Pestle,' Go and physio Lane, for he ha got it' in " the tussle,--" ' (tlepeat.) But theiVamo use knocking at the door anv . "' - more, ' ' There's no use knocking at the door. If the tc bushwhacker,'1 wants to represent the State, He'd better stay at home awhile,and learn to calculate, For his brags, and his farm, and his 60 likely niggers Will never put him thro' if he doe n't study figures; Bat who's that knocking at the door? -Oh ! who's that knocking at the door ? ia that you Pestle? No, it' Breg P We'll drink to your health in a glass of grog, (Repeat) But there's no use knocking at the door any. more, There' no use knocking at the door. c Dear nncle Billy, you had better tarn about. auwwu u sAwuuj uuh iub "iflinys JUSS Ottt ' areraaps sawaa um II V0U nave n't rot enonirh v n - j t.. . .... pt m uu uwoniwi ueamuaea again witttsomeofotaniv s ' Bui who that knocking at th door I : Oh i who's that knocking at th door 1 IsthatTOuGulkk? Nt.it'In. " You'r always a knocking, bat yoa need n't knock aesin. . . (Repeat.) For there's no use knocking at the door any more. There's no use.knocking at thedoor -r But Stanly the true 1 1 Hels dear to us all; He ia always ready at his eonntrv never found wanting, the1, he oft heea tried, m-Mfm wnm. mm am n jtr w u a m. mm.. - m i'ihiv m ibb ovum, ana uu nui tt im T'. .Bu' who's thai knockias at the doer 1 ' - Oh I who's thatkaocking at th door 1 i I that you Bill? Na &!.-.'- w , : . uf?, ali along ia, with a blessing on your --'. head,:" - . ' t " j. v -(Reput)'So yon need h'taUno; knocking at tk door , v: Vi- i00 needn't stand knocking at the door. -C . v- s j "i -.. . . - - . The) Internal tmewsxeat AiocUttoni held another gratlfyicg meeting en Mendx ev ninglait.: ' PracGcal and pertinent speeches were delivered by several Gentlemen, and a few. more aubscripUons to th Stock receiTed. - fc We see it stated, that there was net. a newspaper in any part of the United States; issued on Saturday last or, rather oner which -was Worked, on Friday jast. - ESPIOxJaoc QP X1TB tMails. - 4f-ine nrine9'setwforth Ty the Washinm Vvk& and reiteratld by the SouS U foco Press, in rderence to the -powers and dV O F?81 General, wouH dis Russian or Turkish despotism. For, the'sak turning the excitable sensibiliUes of the South f people to rwKucal.account, it is boldly maintain!! to be the duty of the.head of the Post Office partment to authorise hb subordinates to opeull' ten and; packages supposed to contain obiectinr and the liberty ofthe Press becomes a nuHity, 2 the dominate party is invested with full pd' . VPjPn through the mafcof 2 opinions which itmay disapprove If th p Master General can prohibit the deUvervW au' htion NWspaand letters, atd auJrise to teopenedma nothing topreventhim fro2 exercising the same censorial power over his litical opponents. Jlf a Democrat, he maV J!L the Whig party; entirely of the use of the Mail, and at the same time, make them the vehicle of propagating the views of his own party. We a not prepared to charge Mdespotic princj pie Avas odfd C 'r? JMI prexdm p si'dentiarrnpans, hut" certain it is, that it Openly maintained by the Organ of the lafe Ad ministration. 5 " " A If the principle of " espionage; is allowed to be correct; it is a mere'question of prejudice anil pas sion in the dominant party, as to who are to be its victims. In the exercise of it, the Whis (if we can suppose; VVhigi capable of maintalnin such principles,) would suppress the circulation of Democratic doctrines the Democrats those of M t ia turn would close the mails to both the other parties -! There is no drawing a. distinction between doc trines which are crimmal and hurtful to the com munity; and such as are sy.urary.What.is re garded as sound doctrine in New England, passeg in South CaroKha for ranting fanaticism. ,On the h nan1d' Epghmders look upon the majuW andV prmclesVhicli ; are prevalent in South Carolmaas the pffspdnof.rjorharisrn.-. There are a thousand shades of opinion in refer ence to the question of SlayryJay: oi of which stopping short of unqualified approval of the in stitution, would he condemned in South Carolina as heretical; and the promulgator of them subjec ted to insult; n9: nothing-worse. It would be dangerous In South Xaxma for a man to utter the prayer of Genal Cass 'for,the abolition of tUmj:lh& All such opin- ronv therefore would be voted incendiary by a South CarolinavV and the Postmasiers would feel bound to destroy the doc uments contahnng them.' The views daily pro mulgated by Messrs, Clay and Benton, are regar ded in the Palmetto State as no better than treason, and are believed to have the effect of exciting in surrection yet in the States of Missouri and Kea tacky; y 'are daDyv press an( the stumps; and command the support of thou sahdsVf In Massachusetts; ' the sentiments which pass for orthodox in Sduth Carolina, r would excite disgust or ridicule. There is no standard of truth and orthodox in politics at least none to which all parties defer V and such beui the case, the question can never be settled, for what object, and to suppress what opinions, me Censorship of the mails shdukT be exercised. JCertain it is, hower er, tb.ju;ahikl not upholdJhe right of espionage. 'She has nothing to gain' by it now, and will have.less in future years, when the North will be so much aggrandised by the increase of population, natural and foreign, and by the addi- ion6f new States. The immediate cause of the excitement in South Carolina, as we learn from the Newspapers," is an attempt ofsxme crazy fanatic to circulate ah ad dress; intended to operate on the class of non- akve-holders ; and to accomplish this, object, a ri diculous air of mystery was thrown around the subject by the use of cipher, and other secret signs. It seems that no evidence exists; however,' of a ptppose to exeite insurrection, but merely to raise up a Free Soil, or emancipation party, and but for the stupid attempt at mystery and concealment, the whole affair would have passed off without so much as. exciting a remark.; If this is the extent ofthe offence ofthe abolitionists, there, would be no justification of the illegal proceedings that have taken place in Spartansburg. . Indeed we see no necessity for illegal proceedings imder any circum stances. The law is ample for the punishment of the diabolical attempts of abolitionists or others, to exdte insurrection, -and publio opinion every where will justify its Timorous exercise. Every ' ' . 'Ik- - "' m'm 1 "t.-. ' - . arm is nerved tor tne punishment of such villains, and even the summary justice of Lynch law may be excused, though nnneceasWyv and worse than Xmnecessary. ; But for the Dtomulgatioh of opia- kms not tending ..to excite insurrecrion, and not addressed to slaves, but to freemen, we apprehend tkif neither law nor justice will justify their for cible suppression. We cease to be a free people when we cease to cherish the most sacred char ters of our liberties, the Bill of Bights, 'and the Constitution, both, of which gnarantee the free dom of the Press and of speech. ' These were the rights for which our English forefathers fought against the, tyranny, of Charles the II, and for de ny ing them which, '-he loTfeitedius head; and it was in the same sacred cause that war was Waged against James Ii; who; uninstructed by the mis fortunes of his father,' commenced the same ca reer of tyranny, which cost him his throne, i - The legality of arresting Barrett in Spartans burg, and holding him' fo bail in sending him to prison, may justified, if he had gi ven, grounds for suspicion of tampering with slaves in order to induce them to run away or resist their masters ; but the circulation of Suchilocuments as have been published would not warrant his punish ment. , The pamphlets cr letters are address ed to white men, and as Cir ai we have seen, pro pose no resistance, open br clandestine, to the laws of South' Carolina. Bat the pxoceeamgl against the Post !Leare kiMLXj iHegaf, aad a mount to a nuIIuua"of the kwa and Cons mtwa of the United iiimttxCTi,'IB' are these i J. M. Barrett, an emissary of the abo litionists of Ohio or Indiana, had heen arrested in Spartansburg and itwas kpown that he was an- tliAMMI V irm fmm tli Tnc' 2lffiS in that dIsCP thorised to take from the Post Office m l a letter addressed to one fohn Edward Thompson, 1
The Raleigh Register (Raleigh, N.C.)
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