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r 1 I..:rESSQR WEBSTER C " 24 PARKMAN.-; Bostos, July 2, 1850. . At mteting of the CouacU. thi moraiag, the'caie of Professor Webster wm referred .to & Committee. , ; 'v ' j- .Before the. Commtttee; at 12 o'clocV, ap peared,' Re r. Dr. Putman, the spiritual adri ser cf the condemned; -with a petition for a cotfiT.. station of jiaaislirnent, JoVethet with a conf. .oa that ,he killed Dr, Pstrkmia- r-Tta ller. gentleman prefaced the stale. meal by a few remark relative to At man , aer in which the. confession was' made to I him.? . He stated that be bad no personal ac ' quamtanceship with . Professor WebsUr be fore beinz called to act in the capacity of his ritual adviser. In he firit few weeks .of ( hi VisU. he sought no ackaowledgeroent of the im toner. . At leneth on the 23rd Mar. he visited him in his cell and demanded of himTfor hu own well-bem. that he should tell Ihe troth in regard to the matter, and he acceded to the request by making a state ment which was now submitted lor tne con siderahon of the Council. It was as follows : I sent the note to Dr. Park man. which it appears was carried by the boy Maxwell. banded it to Littlefield unsealed. It was to ask Dr. Parkman to call at my rooms on Fri day the 23rd. after my lecture. He had be come of late yery importunate for his pay He had threatened me with a suit, to put an officer into-my boose, and to drive im from my professorship, if I did not pay mm. i ne purport of roy note was simply to ask the conference. I did hot tell him in it what I could do or what I had to say about the pay ment.. I withe d to srain for those lew days a release from his solicitations, to which I was liable every day, on occasions and in a manner very disagreeable, and also so avert for so long a time at least the fulfillment of recent threats of severe measures. I did not expect to be able to pay him when Fri day should arrive. My purpose was, if he should accede to the proposed interview, to J state to him my embarrassments, and utter inability L pay him at present, to apologise for those things in my conduct which had offended him, to throw myself upon his mer cy, and to beg for further time and indul gence for the sake of my family, if not for my own, and o make as good promises to him as I could have any hope of keeping. I did not bear from him on that day, nor the next, (Wedne-day.) but I found on Thurs day .be had been abroad in pursuit of -me without finding me. I imagined he bad for gotten the appointment, or else did not mean to wait for it I feared he would come in 'upon me at my lecture-room or while I was r . . r - u r r-eparmg my experiment ior u wciciuic called at bis house on that . morning, (Fri day,) between & and 9 o'cloek, to remind him of my wish to see him at the College at 14 o'clock my lecture closiag at 1 o'clock. r did not stop to talk with him, for I expect- r . .. . " ! m. - l - ed tne conversation woumi oe . a tong uue, and I had my lecture to prepare, for it was necessary for me to have my time, and al so to keep my mind free from other exciting matters. Dr Parkman agreed to call on me as I pro posed. He came accordingly between 1 . a . - W . and 1 o clocK, entering at tne lecture room door' I was engaged in removing some glass es from my lecture room table into the room in the rear called the upper laboratory ; be im mediately addressed me with great energy, M Are yon ready for roe, Sir have you got the money ?" I replied, No, Dr. Parkman, and was then begining to state my condition and my appeal to him, but he would not listen to me end interrupted me with much vehemence ; he called me a scoundrel and a liar and went on heaping on the most bitter taunts and opprobrious ephilhets ; while he was speaking he drew a hand full of papers from bis pocket and look from among them ray two notes and also an old letter from Dr. Hosack, written many years ago and con gratulating hira on his success in getting me appointed Professor of Chemistry. "You ee" he said, "I got you into your office, and now I will get you out of it." He put back iota his pocket all the papers except the lat ter and the notes ; I cannot tell how long the torrents of threats and invectives continued, and I cannot recall to memory but a small portion of what he said. At first I kept interposing, trying to pacify him. so that I might obtain the object for which I sought the interview, but I could not .stop him, and soon my own temper was up ; I forgot everything, and lelt notning but the sting of his words. I was excited to the highest degree or passion, and while he was speaking and gesticulating in the most vio lent and menacing manner, thrusting the let ter and his fist into my face, in my fury I seized whatever thing was handiest, (it was a slick of wood, and dealt him an instantaneous blow with all the force that passion could give it 4 did not know, or think or care where I should hit him, not how bard, nor what the effect would be ; it was on the side of the head, and there was nothing to break the force of the blow ; he fell instantly upon the pavement ; there was no second blow ; he did not move ; I stooped down over him, and he seemed to be lifeless ; blood flowed (com. bis mouth, and I gat a sponge and wiped it away ; I got some ammonia and applied it to his nose, but without effect ; perhaps I spent 10 minutes in attempts to resuscitate him, but I found he was absolutely dead; in my horror and consternation I ran instinc tively to the doors and. bolted them -the doors of the lecture -room and of the labora tory below ; and then what was I to do ? It never occurred to me to go out .and declare what had been done, and obtain assistance ; I saw nothing but the alternative of a suc cessful movement and concealment of" the body on the one band, and of infamy and destruction on the other. Tie first thing I did, as soon as 1 could do anything, was to draw the body into the private room adjoin ing', where I took off the clothes and began putting them into the fire, which was burn ing in the upper laboratory ; they were all consumed there that afternoon, with papers, pocket book and whatever they contained. 1 did not examine thi ; pockets nor remove anything except the watch. A saw that, or the chain of it, hanging out . I took it and threw it over tne bndgs as I went to Cam bridge. - Mr next move was to gel the body Into theiink which stands in ! the small pri vate room. by settinz the body partially erect t m. tl i Lm AitHinw ts r inlit 'the sink tin there was oukklv done, as a work ofl terrible and desperate necessity. .The only instrument rs rh. which I keDt for cuttiriecOTaxl mi thA tnne sound, dv ine emcers uo made no use of the. Turkish knife ailt was we corner, sou uj gemua iuw myself. I succeeded ia drawing it r it was entirely "dismembered : it called it the trial: that .had lonrbeen kept on my parlor mantel-piece in Cambridge, as a curious ornament, ray aaagniers irequeai cleaned it; hence the marks of oil and po lishing found oa it.' I had lately brought it into Boston to get the silver sheath re paired. -.t:. While dismembering the body a stream of Cochituate water Was. running through the sink carrying off the blood in a pipe that pas sed down thrmi gh; the lower laboratory There must have been a leak in the pipe, for the ceiling below was stained immediately around U.- There was a fire burning in the furnace of the lower laboratory ; Littlefield was mista ken in thinking there bad been no fire there; he had probably never kindled one, but I bad done it myself several times ; I bad done U that day for the purpose of making oxygen gas ; the bead and viscera were put into that furnace that day, and fuel heaped on ; did not examine at night to see to what degree they were consumed ; some of the extremi ties were put in there, I believe, on that day. The pelvis and some of the limbs, perhaps, were all put under the lid of the lecture room table, in what is called the well, a deep sink lined with lead ; a stream of Cochituate was turned Into it, and kept running through it all Friday night ; the thorax was put into a similar well in the lower laboratory, which I filled with water, and threw in a quantity of potash which I found there. This dispo sition of the remains was not changed till after the visit of the officers on Monday. When the body was thus disposed of, I cleared away all traces of what had been done. I think the stick with which the fatal blow bad been struck proved to be a piece of the stump of a tarse vine say, two inches in di ameter, and two feet Ion?. It was one of the several pieces which I had carried in from Cambridge long before for the purpose of showing the effect of certain chemical fluids in coloring wood, by being absorbed into the pore the grape-vine being a very porous wood was well adapted to this pur- pose. Anotner longer sucic naa Deen useu as intended and exhibited to tne students ; this one had not been used I put it into the fire. I took up the two notes either from the ta ble or the floor, I think the table, close by where Dr. P. had fallen ; I seized an old me- fall nn Ivinff run th tahk dach! it across the face and tn rough the signatures, and put them in my pocket ; I do not know why I did this rather than put them in the fire, for I had not considered for a moment what ef fect cither mode of disposing of them would have on the mortgage, or my indebtedness to Dr. P. or the other persons interested, and I ! had not yet given a single thought to the question as to what account I should give of the objects or result of my interview with Dr. Parkman ; I never saw the sledge-hammer spoken of by Littlefield never knew of its existence at least I have no recollection of it ; I left the College to go home as late as six o dock ; I collected myself as well as 1 could, that I might meet my family and others with composure. On Saturday, I visited my rooms at the College, but made no change in the disposition of the remains, and laid no plans as to my future course ; on Saturday evening read the notice in the Trantcript respecting the disappearance ; I was then deeply impressed with the necessity of im mediately taking some ground as to the char acter of my interview with Parkman, for I saw that it must become known that I had had such an interview, as I had appointed it first by an unsealed note on Tuesday, and on Friday I had myself called at his house in open day and ratified the arrangement, and had there been seen, and had probably been overheard by the man-servant, and I knew not by how many persons Dr. P. might have been seen entering my room, or how many persons he might have told by the way where he was going ; the interview would in all probability be known, and I must be rea dy to explain it Tne question exercised me much, but on Sunday my course was taken. I would go into Boston and be the first to de clare myself the person as yet unknown with whom Dr. P. had made the appointment ; I would take the ground that I had invited him to the College to pay bim money, and that I bad accordingly. I fixed upon the sum by taking the small note and adding interest, which, it appears, I cast erroneously. If I had thought of this course earlier I should not have deposited Petee's check for $90 on the Charles River Bank on Saturday, but should have suppressed it as going so far as to make up the sum which I was to have pro fessed to have paid the day before, and which Petee knew I bad by me at the hour of in terview. It bad not occurred to me that I should ever show the notes cancelled in proof of it or I should have destroyed the large one and let it be inferred that it was gone with the misting man, and I should only have kept the small one, which was all that I could pretend to have paid. My single thought was concealment and safety every thing else was incidental to that I was in no state to consider my ulterior pecuniary interest money; though I needed it so much, it was of no account with me in that condition of mind. If I had designed and premeditated the homicide of Dr. Parkman in order to get possession of the notes and cancel my debt, I not only should not have deposited Petee's check the next day, but I should have made some show of getting and having the money the morning before. I should have drawn my money from the Bank and taken occasion to mention to the Cashier that I bad a sum to make up on that day for Dr. P. and the same to Henchman when I borrowed the $10. I should have remarked that I was so much short of a large sum that I was to pay Parkman. 1 borrowed the mo ney of Henchman as mere pocket-money for the day. If I had intended the homicide of Dr. P. I should not have made the appoint ment with him twice, and each time in so open a manner that other persons would al most certainly know of it, and should not have invited him to my rooms at an hour when the College would be full of students and others, and an hour when I was most likely to receive calls from others ; for that was the hour just after the lecture, at which persons having business with me or in my rooms, were always directed to call. 1 look ed into my rooms on Sunday afternoon, but did nothing. After the first visit of the offi cers I took the pelvis and some of the limbs from the upper well and threw them into the vault under the privy. 1 took the thorax from the well below and packed it in the tea chest as found. My own impression has been that this was not done till after the sec ond visit of the officers, which was on Tues day, but Kinsley's testimony shows that it must have been done sooner. ' The perfora tion of the thorax had ' been made by the knife at the time of removing the viscera. On Wednesday I put on kindlings and made a nre in tne lurnace below, having first pok ed down the ashes. " Some of the limbs I cannot remember which or how many were consumed at that time. ; This ia the; last i had do with the remains, The tin oox was designed to receive the thorax .though I had not concluded where I should put the box. Tb fish hooksV tied up as grapples, were o be used foriarawing uf the parts in the vault whenever I, should determine now to' disnose of them and get strings enough. 1 had a confused double object in ordering the box and making the grapples, i nad be fore intended, to get such things to send to Fayal -the box to bold the plants and other articles which I wished to protect from the salt water and the sea air, and the hooks to be used there in obtaining Coralline plants from the sea. It was this previously inten ded use of them that suggested and mixed itself up with the idea of the other applica tion. I doubt even now to which use they would have been applied ; I had not used the hooks at the time of the discovery. The tan put into the tea-chest was taken from a barrel of it that had been in the laboratory for some time ; the bag of tan, brought in on Monday was not used, nor intended to be used; it belonging to a quantity obtained by me a long time ago for experiments in tanning, and was sent in by the family to get it cut of the way. Its being sent in just at that time was accidental. I was not aware that I had put the knife in the chest ; the stick found in the saucer of ink was for making coarse dia grams on cloth ; the bunch of filed keys had been used long ago by me in Frontist, and thrown carelessly into a drawer : 1 never examined them, and do not know whether they would fit any of the locks of the Col lege or not ; if there were other keys fitting doors with which I had nothing to do, I sup pose they must have been all duplicates., or keys of former locks, left there by the me chanics ot janitor; I know nothing about them, and should never be likely to notice them among the multitude of articles, large and small, of all kinds, collected in my rooms; the Janitor had furnished me with a key to the dissecting room, for the admission of medical friends visiting the College, but I had never used it The nitric acid on the stairs was not used to remove spots of blood, but was dropped by accident. When the officers called for me on Friday, the 30th, I was in doubt whether I was under arrest or whether a more strict search of my rooms was to be had, the latter hypothesis being hardly less appalling than the former. When 1 found that we went over Craigei's Bridge, I thought the arrest most probable ; when I found that the carriage was stopping at the jail, I was sure of my fate. Before leaving the carriage, I took a dose of strychnine from mv pocket and swallowed it. I had prepar ed it in the chape of a pill before I left the la boratory on the 23d. I thought I could not bear to survive detection. I thought it was a large dose. The state of my nervous sys tem probably defeated its action partially. The effects of the poison were terrible be yond description. It was in operation at the College and before I went there, but most se verely afterward. I wrote but one of the a nonymous letters produced at the trial the one mailed at East Cambridge. The little bundle referred to in the letter detained by the jailor, contained onl3' a bottle of nitric acid for domestic use. I had seen it stated in a newspaper that I purchased a quantity of oxalic acid, which it was presumed was to be used in removing blood-stains. I wish the parcel to be kept untouched that it may be shown, it there should be occasion, what it really was that I had purchased. I have drawn up in separate papers an explanation of the use I intended to make of the blood sent for on Thursday, the 22d, of the conver sation wi h Liulefield about the dissecting vault. I think that Pctee, in his tes imony at the trial, pui loo strongly my words abou' having settled wi h Dr. P. Whaiever I did say of i be kind was in the hope that I should be able to pacify Dr. P. and make some ar rangement with him, and was said in order toquiei Pe ee, who was becoming restive un der the solicitation of Dr. Parkman. After Dr. W. had stated most of the facts recorded above on the 23rd of May, this question, with all the earnestness, solemnity and authority of tone that Dr. Putman was masterof, was addressed him : "Dr. Webster, in all probability your days are numbered : you cannot, you dare not speak fahely tome now : you must not die with a lie in your mouth so prove to yourself that your repen tance for the sins of your past life is sincere, tell me the truth a confidence to be kept secret during your lifetime and as much lon ger as my regard for the happiness of your family shall seem to me to require, and the interest of truth and justice to permit. Search to the bottom of your heart the history of your motives, and tell me, before God, did it never occur to vou, before the decease of Dr. Parkman, that his death, if you could bring it to pass, would be of great advantage to you, or least that personal injury to him might possibly be the result of your expect ted conference with him ? As a dying man I charge you to answer me truly and exact ly, or else be silent. Had you not such a thought?" 'No, never!' said he, with en ergy and feeling ; as 1 live, and God is my witness, never ! ' I was no more capable of such a thought than one of my innocent children ; I never had the remotest idea of injuring Dr. P. until the moment the blow was struck. Dr. P. was extremely severe and sharp, the most provoking of men, and I am irritable and passionate. A quick hand ed and brief violence of temper has been a besetting sin of my life. I was an only child, much indulged, and I have never ac quired the control over my passions that I ought to have acquired early, and the conse quence is all this." But you notified Dr. Parkman to meet you at a certain hour, and told him you would pay him, when you knew you had not the means?" "No,"' he replied, I did not tell him I would pay him, and there is no evidence I told him so, ex cept ray own words, spoken after bis disap pearance and after I had determined to take the ground I bad paid him ; those words were of the miberable tissue of falsehood to which I was committed from the moment I had be gun to conceal the homicide. I never had a thought of injuring Dr. Parkman." This was accompanied by the statement in which Professor W. attempts to explain as to his seeing Littlefield, sending for blood, and of inquiring about gasses from the vault After reading the statement, Dr. Putman proceeded to argue as to its truthfulness, say ing that it was made when the writ of error was pending also, that Prof. Webster's es tate was worth several thousands of dollars, and that he was hot in such a strait as to com mit such a crime deliberately. The previous petition from Prof. Webster, protestinghis innocence and praying for abso lute pardon, he said, was got up by his fami ly, who were unwavering in their belief of his innocence until his confession was commu nicated to them about a Week since. He concluded in asserting his belief that the Confession was true. GOV HrWY AT.SALEU-. Frdm tht GreensW Patriot. V A friendly correspondent furnishes us the following hasty sketch of Gov. Manly s re ception and speech at Saf em the forepart of this week.Wo are delighted to hear of the indications of enthusiasm in his favor in that quarter most especially in this season of commotion, when the whole conservative power of the State ought to be put ;forth in favor of peace, order and the Union, I '(r The VVhigs of Guilford, we trust, will res pond to the enthusiasm of their brethren of Forsyth. We look for enough votes in our good old whigt4omihioh )f Guilford, to make up for any defection feat may occur among the discontented spirits of Ruther ford. Salem, July 3, 1850. Messrs. Editors : It would have done your hearts good to have witnessed the warm and cordial reception ol Gov. Manlt at this place yesterday. I will endeavor to give you a brief description, although it is not Within the power of any pen to delineate on paper the feelings of enthusiasm that seemed to pervade every breast. You should have been eye witnesses, to appreciate it. Having learned that the Governor would leave German ton early in the morning of yes terday, (where he bad addressed the people the day previous,) our citizens fell to woTk, with a full determination that the Executive of the State should be properly honored here. At 9 o'clock, A. M., numbers of the citizens formed a procession on horseback, accom panied by the Brass Band and its soul-stirring strains of music, and, meeting the Gov ernor three miles from town, escorted him to his quarters at the S!em HoUL where a large assemblage hal collected, and was there welcomed by Mr. Wharton in a neat and ap propriate address, tendering in behalf of the citizens the hospitalities of the town. Gov. Manly responded in his peculiarly happy off hand style, bestowing many well deserved compliments on the quiet, order and neat ness of the town : the industry of her citizens; the success of every enterprise they put their hands to ; the prosperity of her institutions of learning, and particularly ol the aalem r e male Academy, bestowing on it a high-mer ited tribute of praise in remarking, that when ever he met a lady who had been educated at Salem he found one with a well cultivated mind and accomplished in all the amenities of social life. After concluding, he retired to the parlor and there welcomed a large crowd of citizens in his very affable manner, with a good old fashioned shaking of hands that would have made your hearts glow with delight to witness. He continued during the vmng to receive the calls of his friends. To-day. at 1 o'clock, P. M., according to previous notice, the discussion between Gov. Manly and Col. Reid began, and continued for five hours before a large, respectable and intensely interested audience in the public (square in front of the Academy. Gov. Manly opened the discussion with an eloquent appeal to the audience not as Whigs not as Democrats but as whole souled North Carolinans, whose patriotism he knew would soar aloft over mere party feeling and prompt them generously to unite in all the great measures that will add to the prosperity of the good old North State and the happiness of her citizens. He then com menced a review of the public acts of Col. Reid, by calling the attention of the auditory to his (Col R's) votes in the State Legisla ture on the bill establishing Common Schools. He gave a brief history of the origin and ob ject of this school fund. He said the fund was created to school the whkc children of the State, and particularly the poor and igno rant portion : that the votes of Col. Reid had been to divert it from this purpose, and had been in part the means of this fund being divided among the counties according to federal numbers, instead of being divided ac cording to the white population, as should have been done. That by. these votes of Col. Rcid's (he West had lost thousands of dollars annually ; and thus the wealthy slave holding counties ot the East, where they were able to send their children abroad to school, received an undue proportion of the school fund. While speaking on this subject he made a thrilling allusion (which brought the big tear drops to the eyes of many of the audi ence,) to his poverty in early life. He was the son of a revolutionary soldier who spent his all in the service of his country, and at the close of the war, his only legacy was an honorable discharge ; that he had to battle with the chilling blight of poverty, and to la bor with his own hand, unaided to procure the means of an education. He had by force of industrious habits, and the generous con fidence of an open-hearted people, become what he was. He next showed up to the satisfaction of all Col. Reid's hobby of Free suffrage" that if the privilege ol voting for Senators was allowed to every man now entitled to vote for a member of the House of Commons, it would not, as Col. Reid contends, equalize the right of suffrage. For illustration : The county of Onslow, with 800 voters, isnow en titled to a Senator, while the counties of Wilkes, Caldwell, Burke and McDowell, with 4000 voters, are only entitled to one Senator. This is a glorious reform indeed ! Yet Mr. Keid was opposed to any change in the basis of representation to remedy this gross injustice ! Gov. Manly' s views on this subject appeared to meet with the unani mous approval of Whigs and-Democxats. Gov. Manly, with gioves off, then open ed his battery on Col. Reid's Oregon votes in Congress, which demolished every thing before it He showed that Col. Reid voted for the Oregon Bill with the identical provis ion in it that was contained in the odious Wilmot Proviso thus betraying the rights of the South, and yet he is the authorized leader of the Democratic party, who self-style themselves the peculiar defenders of the ngnu oi ine oouui. y tie then snowed up in a glowing manner the vast difference between their professions and their acts, in a way that produced bursts of applause from the audience. To go through an entire review of Gov. Manly able address would require more time than I have now. The mail is about to close -not allowing time to add any more nor to review what I have .written. But rest assured that the Whigs of Forsyth will roll up such a vote for Gov. Manly as was never before "polled, even during thv palmiest days of log cabin excitement Indeed, . several Democrats are so well pleased with his ad dress, that they declared they willvote for him next August , VElAS. (Since the above was given to the com positors, we have received the favor of an other correspondent, giving substantially the same account, with the addition of the ap propriate speech of Mr. Wharton to the Gov ernor as follows.) ' Sir : We welcome you with pleasure As a hue and sterling son of the old North State, devoted to the improvement of her crmdition and thVelavatioa of Mr character and standin among her siste? - States, as an enlightened and patriotic sutmanrwe. this occasion ' to .express bur 'admiration, of your character and our high appreciation i of your services: Shy er are happy' to have tniS opportunity ot manuesuug wi for one who by his own unaided merit has raised himself to the first office in the State ; and H is with not Jess pjeasure.that ,w ex press our full and cordial approbation of the abUily and fidelity 'with which you have dis charged the duties of that office . Surround ed by many difficulties new and unusual to Such has been your wise and prudent course with regard to that unfortunate ' question which has so much disturbed the peace and quiet of this whole country as to entitle you to the lasting gratitude and confidence of your fellow citizens. To you, sir, much is due for the patriotic and temperate course which has distinguished our State in this un happy difficulty. And to this expression of our approbation of your official conduct, per mit us also to add our warmest wishes for your personal happiness, and to tender to you in the name of the citizens of Salem a cordial and hearty welcome. COMMUNICATIQNS. FOR THE. REGISTER. TO THE INDEPENDENT VOTERS OF WAKE COUNTY. Fellow Cmccits : At the urgent solicitation of many personal and political friends, I declare myself an Independent Whig Candidate for the House of Commons of the next Legislature. I have been brought to this determination purely from s love of those conservative principles which have ever guided my course a? an humble voter, and to preserve our organization in some sort, by offering my feeble exertions to uphold that stand ard which lears upon its folds, the inscription of the only true Republican farty. In thus pre senting myself for the suffrages of a free people, it is my duty to say who and what I am being for the first time before the public. I am not an ex Minister, nor am I an ex-Marshal, but I am an ex-cellent Whig, and a good mechanic. I have not an insatiate thirst for ull the pap which North Carolina receives from the public crib, nor the vaulting ambition to hold all the offices of the country, (or any ; from the con stable of a district to a foreign Minister.) at one time. Nor have I any crocodile tears to shed at not being able to hold an office for life an office which had been insidiously takm from an old and intimate friend, whose bread and cheese he had eaten for twenty years, who was left to die of sor row and chagrin. But I am influeoed by no selfish considerations other than to be the instru ment of usefulness to my country and my fellow citizens of Wake County in particular. W'hat irver I am, I owe to my own exertions having always eaten the bread of my own industry, and having no powerful influences to help me on in life except that which is derived from a life of truth ami virtue. 1 have been brought out by no clique, I have been nominated by no irresponsible caucus and t laced upon a rickety platform which will be nocked from under nie by the first )A Roads meeting which may assemble. I am no imitator of the crawjith, to maintain my strength. Iam no COMPROMISER of my indenendence.my respect ability, my principles, or the truth but I have declared myself in the good old way of our fath ers, resung upon my personal character and the nnegniy oi roy political principles to support me. I am, therefore, an Internal Improvement man ; and if elected, will use all my exertions to carry out a judicious system, and especially to foster uie isenirai nan uoad scheme, by making any alteration in the Charter which may be asked by the State,or by the Slockholders.which may be ne cesary to carry out the objects of the last Legisla ture iu building the Uoad, and to preserve the public faith by dealing honestly and fairly with those of my Idlow-cmzens, who have subscribed their means for the eood of tne Dublic. I think lU State and the citizens of the Stale, are about the same thing. At any rate, it would make no difference with me in doing justice and riht, wnemer it was asked by the State or the Stock holders, (citizens of the Stated At nresent. I am decidedly opposed to the subscription of any more nioney, (for any further works of improvement) in uenau oi me oiaie. vv e shouM first make a fair trial of their practicability in North Carolina. I subscribe heartily to the Resolutions of the late Whis Convention, which assembled in Ra leigh, and I believe the carrying out of the princi ples wiereiu contained, will secure the best inter ests of the whole country. We may be called submissionists by our opponents now but if the worst should come, they will know where to look lor help to get Uiem out ol their dilnculties, as they did ouce before, not many years ago. I dislike powder, guns and gas. It is an empty wagon which makes the most noise. Let us stand upon the Constitution ; it is broad enough lor us all. and when that is violated and set at naught, then (although trom the previous and prevailing ap petite of my opponents, I must confess that they would be a litile ahead, when the offices were to be distributed) they will find that we will be no ways laggard to do our whole duty. I am a supporter of the present Administration, and will labor ardently for the re-election of that sterling Republican, Charles Manly, as Governor of North Carolina. These are some of my views upon matters which concern us as a people, and believing them to be well founded myself, I hope a majority of my fellow-citizens may agree with me and take me from amongst the yeomanry of the county to represent them in the next Legisla ture. I shall attend such gatherings of the people as my crop and other business will allow me to, when I will hold myself ready to give my opin ions on all other matters which may be required of me as a Candidate. And although I have nev er had the advantages of my opponents, and "SrX-iKIlTG INTELLIGIBLY OTfLT OWE LAKGTMQK," I am ready to meet three out of four of them at any time and place. Should I be elected, I will endeavor to do my (hrry-to '"the State ar targe j but will especlatty be found sticking to the interests of Wake County, and promoting the advantage of those generous friends who lend me their suffrage. KINDRICK JOHNSON. July 8th, 1850. fOa THE ir.lilrri Mr. Editor : I was present on the last day of iuc itc juKujwiauv uiireanon, ana neard the addresses of Messrs. Saunders, Clark, Shepard and McRae. The last mentioned gentleman cora menced with considerable asperity, ejecting his venom upon the Whig Party m great profusion, saying they did not act upon true republican prin ciples, from the fact that Democracy was progres sive. I must confess that I am unprepared to say how it is Mr. f McRae thinks democracy is progressing, unless that he happened to cast his eye upon two of those Whig deserters that fought so nobly under the Whig Banner in 1840, who then occupied seats in the Democratic Convention. Mr. McRae exhorted his brother democrats at con siderable length to be up and at work, and not be caught napping as they were by the coons in 1840. W hen Mr. McRae used that expression. I cast my eye on one ot the old 1840 count, that occu pied the Secretary's Chair, and I tell you, Mr. Gales, though he was seated in a Mahogany chair and bad the honor of being Secretary, he did not look so much at home, as hethd in that memora ble rear seated in a toz cabin, with CoonfaVinc an1 turpentine sticking to his breeches, br barrel of nam ciuer, snooung " jiurrab lot Old Tip' The other old coon did not occupy quite so conspicious a seat, for the reason, as 1 suppose, he has recently laid aside his coon skin, and has not suffi ciently become contaminated with Loco Focoism. ' The Whig party were accused of having neith er name nor principle t or if they have any, that they have no tide whatever to them, for they the station, we nave-.wun pleasure seen steadily pursuing a prudent but liberal policy, the wisdom of which is now manifest to all. had gone-lo the gravel of-theCdead and; stolen ihmi . finch indecent- exDTessions-will: not be tolerated by the sober part of the community ; and n.T.(. Jinn'ina' will iiarhf mirul II IUO T lugs III nvnu T".V thk diabolical eharee. and CO lathe Polls, in Au gust, and not suffer themseivea to be fed astray by the detestable artifices5 fcf Loco Foconmy'we win prove, Dy re-wecnng-..viuT. auij, - , nmnhant mnioritrnhat .we'traTe" both name and principles, which wetfap; aids. Correspondenoe of the Register- Pasola, Misswsirpt, June "18tb, Mr. Galu: Soon after nij arrival hsre 1 srrsUl you a long letter, in which 1 gave decriptia of the Coautry and my opinion o it ; and a prqnuM to write agaia and give, ny sentimeuta concerning theaJr ministration of justice the manner of electing pub He fnnetionariee the police of the State, and the octal and domestic relations of its Citizens. . Con cerning the fertility of be soil and ita capacity for producing cotton, com, wheat, rye, oata, peas, pump, kins, potatoes snd eulinnry vegetables, 1 have noth ing to add ; sad am still of the opinion 1 then ex. pressed, that it is the beet Country I have aeeu fur poor men of large families. It isfarover an aver age Country for health aud comfort ; and the labor uecessarv to insure the latter is insignificant, wheu compared with the requisition for it in the older States. Yon will remember that when t wrote 1 had not attended a Court, aud consequently did not ex press au opinion iu connexion with the Judicial ar rangement under the constitution of the Sute.'Like others, who have been legislated oat of their rights, until they scarcely deemed themselves competes to exercise any, save nominal, I conceived and "OS risk ed an unworthy prejudice against the capacity of the people to select suitable presiding and prosecuting officers; but am now convinced that Misslasippians- those of the ?tb Judicial District, at least artfully as competent as their Legislature; and I doubt wheth er any district in the Union has better officers than Judge Miller snd Mr. Solicitor Thompson. The Old North, my standard for honesty, patience, in telligence, patriotism aud virtue, has none better adapted aud more faithfui, though she my present some more emineutand renowned. I may here m.ke the remark as applicable to this subject in North Caroliua and Mississippi, that M DeTocqueville did concerning Democracy in France and the U. States that, while it was suitable for the one, the other could never, or for a long lime, prudently ven ture on its exercise Mississippi is composed of men who have come here as men, and who do their own thiuking and voting. Coming from ditf reut parts, and no ways uuder the influence of cabals and fic tions, each cousiuers himself, and justly too, entitled to au equal participation in all the privileges of free-ciiitenship,and does what he.thinks most condu cive to its happiest, most independent stale; and this he knows can only be arrived at and maintained by the rigid enforcement of those laws euacted for that end. While iu North Carolina prejudices and partialities are transmited trom father to sou- per vade neighbourhoods counties,nay, whole districts, and even divide the State itself. Men, families and parties all have to be consulted ; and proscription follows him who has the temerity to dare and the nerve to act contrary to the behest of the ehlcis or the rulers. This jo knovr, sir, to be true, and therefore you bad as well go on one way as another. A new race of men, one resolved to act for themselv es, must spring up. before you ean know your rights and knowing dare maintaiu theui. This County has only been settled about twelve years, no young people have grown up and intermar ried and consequently there is but little social inter course neither is there any thing here that deserves to be JiguifieJ by the title of hospitality. I. of course epeak generally, for individual instances there are not ouly of generous and liberal but of elegaut and gay mansious of hospitality. Most people here are in debt, and money is scarce. A continued run of bad crops has greatly retarded the prosperity of Northern Mississippi. She has not a Turnpike, a llnil Koad nor a Plauk Road, and tier rivers are as when canoed by the Indian. Two schemes are now in agiution, oue for a Plank, the other a Rail Road to Memphis from this place or Belmont above Ou the Tallahatchee. I think one or both projects will be embraced ; a spirit of enterprise seems awaken ing and sLite pride exciting to some iucepliou that will not ouly prove valuable and convenient to the citizen but creditable to the State. The Roads here are horrid in tha winter the only time they are used They are altogether under the Police Court a board of five members elected by the voters ot the Country The Judge of the Probate Court, elected in the same way for two years, also grants administration, qualifies Executors, appoints guardi ans and has the settlement of all intestate's estates. The jurisdiction of a Justice of the peace extends to all sums under Fifiy dollars, and either party, iu a matter before him, may appeal to a jury, who is summoned by a Constable yes, by a Constable, for know ye, tbatsnch a pest to gentlemen's repose like wise pervades Uiis land. Our circuit Courts are twice a year in each County and generally twa weeks at a session. The Judges jurisdiction comprehends all matters in Law; and all sums nnder Five Hun dred dollars in Equity from his decisioufln appeal lies to the High Court of Errors and Appeals We also have a Chancellor and Vice Chancellors and district Chancery Courts. All of these are elected by the people as are their Clerks, and there is no complaint as to partiality and incompetency. The prospect for crops is truly cheerless and dis heartening. Corn, that his been properly worked, though late, looks like ranking something; so do the few oats and little quantity of wheat sown, but cotton is thin, late, grassy and weedy, lousy and puny there cannot be as much made this as was last year and I would not be astonished were it to start next fall at 12 or 14 cts- 1 returned from Orleans, np the river by Mem phis to this place a few weeks ago, and saw on the whole ronte uot one promising field of any thing. It rained continually from the 1st December until May and has been dry since. Corn is eellinp for S5 and sometimes $6 per. bbl snd scarce at that. Floor is worth $6 in Memphis Cleared land is in such d-maiid for cotton that these essentials are neglected. x nis is a nue sou ana climate tor wheat but there are no mills to grind it fit for use. We have fine gardens lambs and fowls in abundance Cows are fat and milk and bnlter delightful. .t No political subject now agitates this industrious community snd the politician who represents it otherwise does the people injustice. They are loyal to the Constitution and tenacious of their rights and interests, but not boisterous nor clamorous ; and the most sober, moral folks I ever saw, and entirely free from bigotry and fanaticism. Yours Truly, W- S. R. I. 0. 0. P. FIRST PRIiJIlUjn AWARDED by the MARYLAND INSTITUTE. 1848, and 1849! to & GIBBS fc SMITH, ITB egalia and Uauiier Alaiiafacta LLfercr, for their Superior Style and make of Kegxlia, Banners, &., Gibbs 4r Smith would res pectfully inform tha different Order and Societies throughout tha Country, that they keep constantly on hand, a Urge assortment of Odd Fellows Sons of Temperance, iUasoiiic, Red Men's, and all other Ret alia. Banners, Sashes, Roues, Caps, Jewels, &ct all of which are got up ia the best manner. Individual or Associations forwarding their orders may depend oa a much care being taken in select, ing the goods, and upon getting them at the same prkes, as if the article were ordered in person. . GIUB8 & SMITH, No-73, Baltimore Street, Baltimore. November Si, 1849. ' -6 93 AT THE undersigned bavs formed aa association with the visw of opening a LAW SCHOOL in the' Taw a of UiUaboro. Young gentlemen will t instrocled in the various departments of. the Law and cars wilt be taken to prepare them for the prac tice ia the several Courts in this Sla,te The School will be opened for the sdmiaJon of Students, on Monday, tha xOth instant. . J. L. BAILEY. Hiil.boro'. June 13th. A "im PURE COD UYER OIL. 2 LARGE supply of Pars Cod Liver Oil just re U cetved sad for sals by Raleigh, April 8th. 1850. - lfJEC AOSE el Ae large prises of Ifc&.to Riohnva4iB,thkttws yA mtlVv" Lotteries, and they eoaUnoe-1 send mo ' lbeil than sll other omaagemsots together I" " The whoM Of $38,000 snd 30.000 sold it, n Lotteries ia the last 12 months, will amount L money than sllhe targe prices sent bv nth-. agements in the hat S sr 10 year LlSt OPfR)?ESTSEN't TO RICHMOND ,v rpainJt Lotteries uitke tost ttcclve monU "v'Vf .Grand Schemes for July t83o - V 40,000 ! .15,000 ! 7,500 ! j Grand Consolidated Lottery Class 20 to be j at -Baltimore o Saturday Jalv 6 it. iqmi Nos. 10 Drawn: s . 9' J?-- i CAPITALS t 1 prize ( 40,000 I I of 1 - v 15 W00 '1 of , 1 da of -7,500 I 115 of Tickets 10 : halves 5 : muirlM o m CertMeate of a package of Wholes tiss i? 75. Oasrters.31 5U . - . ' t r 33,00022,000,11.000. Susquehanna lottery Class No. 32 to h An at Baltimore, oa Wednesday, JIj to. 75 drawn, '' ' 13 CAPITALS. of . 33,000 1 1 of 22,000 1 of 11,000 ( 20 f 5.495 I 20 of of 3 of of is Tickets S10: Halves 5: 7fc Certificate of a package of wholes $lio: Uau, BRILLIANT LOTTERY 50,000 Grand Capital 0 250,000 ia 15 prises of $10,000. Gnrut I 'ad lk 1i.lil.l f jiium. ni.. .1 . w- - r . i. : u i . . ' o bi mniiuum, oaiuruay, July 13. -g CAPITALS: 1 0' 50,000, 5 of 1 0,000 . 194 Lowest 3 No. prise 400 Tickets 15; Hall 7 50; Quarter 3 75 m kA k v " 3 lui IK 130.000. 20.000. tn nnn. Susquehanna Lottery Class 33, to "be draws Baltimore, ou Wednesday, July 17. 7S . drawn. w u CAPITALS- 1 prize of I u I " 1 sjo,ooo I 1 prise of 3.061 2S7l iq,otJt 20,0d I 1 10.000 I 50 . 5.000 I in Tickets $10; Halves 5; quarters 2 50. S0( BRILLIANT SCHEME FOR JULY 20 ISSO Eighteeu drawn Nos. in every packnge 'of 2t Tickets $40,000,20,000, 12,000! Grand Consolidated Lottery.CUM 2 1 ,to be drawt at usuiiuviC) wi ouvuruity, July 20 drawn. CAPITALS: I of $40,000 I 2 of 1 of $0,QUa2ef t of 12,000 j 2 of 1 of 8,000 I 2 of '8 A' os., It $J.000 2.000 LOOK 840 1 or o,ooo 1 8 of ' 1 of 4-000 ! 80 of 501 301 1 ickets i 15 ; Halves 7 50 ; Quarters 3 75 B 1. 2. 3. drawn Nos $15, 4. 5. 6 drawn N01 10 I TOO A V AC, Tl I . .. . H ,.0. uiikii ao Balance 01 tee amele Sot prizes 5 88. Certificate of a package of wholes $223 : haln 111 50 ; quarters 55 75. GRAND LOTTERY FOR 27 JULY 60,000 30,000 20,000. 115 prizes of 3750 the lowest 3 No. prixe. Grand Consolidated Lottery, Class 0.. to b drawn at Baltimore oa Saturday. July 27. 78 Jfoe 10 drawn. CAPITALS. 1 prise of 60,000, I of 30.000, I of 20,000, 1 of 10.C00, 1 of 8,066, 115 lowest 3 No prixe 3,750, 63 1st &. 2d drawn Nos. 600, 68 3 and 4 do do 400, 68 5 and 6 do do 200, 68 7 and 8 do do 100. Tieke $20 ; halves 10 ; qnarters 5. (J eruncate of s package or wholes 320 ; Halrej 16' quarters 80. O" Orders meet our usual prompt attention. For Tickets ia the above, or in any other Lotter drawing daily, (price of Tickets from $ltoS36 under onr management ; sddress as, or C.W.PURCELL, Agent for D. PAINE fc CO., Richmond, V. MUSTARD. IN i snd 4 Boxes, equal to the imported, it 1 tune! less price, in store and for sale bv WILLIAMS, HAYWOOD & CO June 29th. I860. S3 "i laSS Jfurs, 3J dozen assorted low prie Jf Jar for Preserves aud Confectioner use, So sate st the Drag Store of WILLIAMS, HAYWOOD & CO. N (Quarts and Pints, just received aud furlti . the Drug Store of WILLIAMS, HAYWOOD 4 CO. Female Academy, A FEMALE ACADEMY will be opened new the residence of the Subscriber, 10 milrs Sooil of Kaleigh, on the 22nd instant, under tbe superit tendance and direction of a very competent Ytw Teacher. Board and tuition moderate. Earlj if plication Is desired of those who wish to send. THOMAS G. WH1TAKER July 3d, 1S50. . 54 3L H 0041I Biisliel of Flax ecd. for JlXrJ? hich the market price will tgi"" WILLIAMS, MAY WOOD & CO. SPRING GOODS 1850. THE Subscriber ia opening bis Spring Stock, h old stand, of the latest importations sod Don tic Manufactures, consisting of Staple and Fancy Dry Goods, Hals, Shoes, Crockery, Hsrdwaie, sad Grocctw AJIO.KG THEM 100 pieces Calicoes, various colon. 100 Brown and Bleached ShirtiuesD811 ing. Ginghams, Lawns, Irish Linen, Holland' tonsde and other Summer Goods for msn sad' bfj' Padded for children, Brown, Refined, Clarified, Crushed oi I-01 Sugar, Java, Lajuira and Rio Coffee, Cat Nil and Brads, California, and other Hats for men sad tey,a All of which will be sold on reasonable lens W Cash, or to prompt customers on time. 1 BROWiV Ttf O F.valLCTill bt RilfinK li,,ii Ik ism 31 IV P ... ..k..;.l in announce tr . mmw IU.UUIIHU w - .I w P.. 1 (" &Uy. aft Iris. fttianiniT - A .it. art WLionl. UrUaUV JUf re KIVCllaTU kv , V rafts fill fr ftksa. A-a S.l tiaa hflC rC ' the hands of the people of Wake Countj. be P klma-if -1 . ,hm lutiet o v oriic with renewed seal and application . Raleigh. May 23rd. 1850. ta 41 WE are authorised to Will lain II Hi" Vwki didste for the Sheriffs!' of w st tbe ensuing August election- Rsleigh.jHne6thl850, WE are requested to announce , K nnKon riominf as w . 1 11 .1- af.wk pendent Candidate for the How Commons from Wake County. June 12,1850. PEEBLES, WHITE & DJhti Grocers and CoinniiMioii Were"" - AM eiM.t Prtsrthnr. Va -EEP alwsy. on hand a large . Jraed supply of Groceries, and pay P"1, tenu3n to the sale of Cotton, Tobateo, Flaur. and all other jfi"ftZBvi. r THOMAS WHITE. PETER R. DA'W'.', 68 If Petersburg, July to
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