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SYNOPSIS OF ? The Fugitive Slave Bill ? v PASSED BY TH E SENATE.' , Ojf MONDAY, AUOUSTsJOTE Section 1st decrees that all Commissioners in the several States appointed hy the Circuit Coon nhe United Stares, who hold the power of ju tiee oT the peace, are hereby authorized and re quired to exercise and discharge all the powers and duties eonfrrred by ihCact. Sec. 2 authorizes the Superior Courts of the se Yeral Territories to appoint commissioners to take acknowledgment ol bail and affidavit; Ste., who by such appointments are entitled to exercise the power of justices of the peace, and are charged with the performance of the duties conferred by the act. . Sec 3d enacts that ike circuit courts of the Uni ted States, and the superior courts of each organ ized territory of the United States, shall from time to time enlarge the number of commissioners, wiih viw to afford reasonable facilities to reclaim fu gitives from labor, and to the prompt discharge of tbe duties tmposea oy inn aci. Sees 4th enacts that these commissioners shall haTecorcorrent jurisdiction with tbe judges of the circuit and district courts of the United States, in their respective circuits and district within the se veral States, and the judges of the superior court of the Territories, severally and collectively, in iMm. time and vocation : and shall grant certifi cateslusuch claimants, upon satisfactory proof being made, with authority to take ana remove sock fugitives from service or labor, under the re (trictions herein contained, to the State or Territo ty from which such persons may hare escaped or Sec 5th. And be it further enacted. That it shall be the duty of all marshal and deputy mar shals to obey and execute all warrant and pre cepts issued under the provisions of this act, when to t em directed ; and should any marshal or de puty marshal refuse to reetive such warrant or other process, when tendered, or to use all proper jneans iiiigeiiily to execute the same, be shall, on conviction thereof, be fined in the sum of one thou sand dollars to the use of such claimant, on the motion of such claimant, by the circuit or district court for the district of such marshal; and after arrest of such fugitive by sucn marshal or his de puty, or whilst at any time in his custody under the provfeions'ofVbis act, should such fugitive es cape, wheiher vHth or without the assent of such marshal or his deputy, such marshal shall be lia ble on his official bond to be prosecuted, for the benefit of such claimant, for the full value of the service or labor of said fugitive in the Slate, terri lory or district whence be escaped ; and :he bet ter to enable the rud commissioners, when thus appointed, to execute their duties faithfully and efficiently, in conformity with the requirements of the constitution of the United States and of this act. they are hereby authorised and empowered, i within their countlri "respectively, to appoint, in , writing under haads, any one or more suitable persons, from time to time, to execute all such warrants and other process as may be issued by tbem in the lawful performance of their res pec tive duties ; wiih authority to such commission ers, or the persons fo be appointed by them, to execute process as aforesaid, to summon and call to their aid the bystanders, or posse evmitatus of the proper county, when necessary to insure a faithful observance of the clause of the constitu tion referred to, in conformity with the provision of this act; and all good citizens are hereby com niandeJ to aid and assist in the prompt and effi cient execution of this law. whenever their servi ces may be required, as aforesaid, for that pur pose ; and said warrants shall run and be execu ted by said officers anywhere in the State within which ther are issued. Sec 6. And be it further enacted, That when a person held to service or labor in any State or Territory of the United Slates has heretofore or shall hereafter escape into another Stale or Terri tory of the United Stales, the person or persons to whom such service or labor may be due, or his, her, or their agent or attorney, duly authorised, by power of attorney, in writing, acknowledged and certified under the seal of some legal officer or court of the State or Territory in which- the same may be executed, may purue anJ reclaim such fugitive person, either by procuring a warrant frum' some one of the courts, judges, or coram is sioners aforesaid,-of tbe proper circuit, district or county, for the apprehension of such fugitive from fernce or labor, or by svizirg and arresting such fugitive, where the same can be done without En cess, and by taking, or causing such person to e taken, forthwith before such court, judge, or eommissicnTS, whose duty it shall be to hear and determine the case of such claimant in a summary manner; and upon satisfactory proof being made, by deposition or affidavit, in writing, to be taken and certified by such court, judge, or commission er, or by ither satisfactory testimony, duly taken anil certified by some court, magistrate, justice of the peace, or other legal omen authorized to ad minister an oath and bike depositions under the laws of the Slate or Territory from which such - person owing service or labor may have escaped, with a certificate of such magistracy or ether au thority, as aforesaid, with the seal of tlu? proper court or officer thereto attached , which seal shall be sufficient to establish the competency of the proof, and with-proof, also by affidavit, of the identity of tbe person whose service or labcr is claimed to be due as aforesaid, that the person so arretted does in fact owe service or labor to the person or per o is claiming him or her, in the State or Territory from which such fugitive may have escaped as aforesaid, and that said person escaped, to make out and deliver to such claimant, bis or bar agent or attbrner.a certiorate setting forth the substantial facts as to the service or labor due from such fugitive to the claimant, and of his or ner ecape iron the otate or lemiory in wnicn he or she was arrested, with authority to such claimant, or hisoi ber agent or attorney, to use such reasonable face and restrain as may be ne cesary. under the circumstances of the case, to take and remove such fugitive person back lo tbe Siate or Territory from whence be or she may have escaped as aforesaid. In no-tnal or nraring voder this act shall the testimony of such alleged fugitive be admitted in evidence ; and the certifi cates in this and the first section mentioned shal! be conclusive of the right of the person or persons in whose favor it is granted to remove such fugitive to the State or Territory. from which he escaped, and shall prevent all molestation of said person or persons by any process issued by any court, judge, maftsirate. or other person wWorooever. , ' See. 7. And be it further enacted. That any person who shall knowingly and willingly . ob struct, hinder,or prevent such claimant, bis agent or attorney, or any person or persona lawfully as sisting, from arresting such a fugitive, either with or. Without process as aforesaid i or shall rescue, or attempt to rescue, such fugitive from, the cus tody ofsjch claimant, bis or ber agent or attorn er. when so arrested, pursuant to tbe authority herein given and declared ; or shall aid, abet, or assist such persons, S3 owing service or labor as aforesaid directly or indirectly, to escape; or shall harbor or conceal such fugitive, so as to prevent the discovery and arrest, af ter notice or knowledge of the fact that such Person was a fugitive from service or labor as aforesaid, shall, for either ef Said offences, be subject lo a fine not rxceediog M thousand dollars, and imprisonment not ex ceeding six months, by indictment and convict ion before the district court of the United Stages for the district on which sucn oaenee- may have been committed, or before tbe proper court of criminal jurssdietion, if committed within any on of the organized Territories pf the United States; jdhI sbaU moreover forfeit and rpayby way of civil damazes. to the party injured by sachTllezal exmdoct, the sum of one thousand dollars for each tBgitnrtso lost as aforesaid, to be recovered by actios of debt in anv of the district or territorial waru aforesaid, within whose jurisdiction the aidoffience may nave been committed. - See. O.OrOViOM fnr th na v mMl f nT herlal Tpm to the Marshak,and their deputies, and the Clerks . I?' ry V claimant, whether he proves his title to the fugitive or not. . - t-T.P.'J w l1 uPo affidavit mad 4y the chimant ofsuch fuShive, hi acoriorneT. after such cen.ficate has heeo bawd tnatbe has reason; to apprehend that suchUTeWllH re scued by force from bis or their possession before he can be taken beyond the limits of the State in which the arrest is made, it shall be the duty, of the officer making the arrest to retain such fugitive in his custody, and to remove biro to uhe State whence he fled, and there fo deliver him to; said claimant, bis agent or attorney. -' And to this end the officer aforesaid is hereby authorised nd re quired to employ so many, persowas be may deem necessary to overcome such force; and to retain ihem in his service so long as circumstance may require ; the said officer and bis assistants, while so- employed, lo receivf the same compen sation, and to be allowed the same expense", as are now allowed by law for transportation of enn ol the district . ..... m. j . j o 1 - within which the arrest is made, and paid 0atJ me ireasnry oi ine uuiieu oiairs. Sec. 10, enacts than when anyperson held to service or labor in any State or Territory, or in the District of Columbia, shall escape therefrom, the party to whom such service or tabor shall be due, his, her, or their agent or attorney, may ap ply to any court of record therein, or judge there of, in vacation, and make satisfactory proof to such court or judge in vacation, of the escape a foresaid. and that the person escaping owed aer rice or lahor to such party. Whereupon the court shall cause a record to be made of the matters so proved, and also a general description of tbe person so escaping, with such convenient certainty as may be ; and a transcript of such re cord, authenticated by the attestation of the clerk and of the seal of the said court, being produced in any State, Territory, or District, in which the person so escaping may be found, and being ex hibited toany judge, commissioner, or other officer authorised by the law of the United Slates, to cause persons escaping from service or labor to be delivered up, shall be held and taken to be full and conclusive evidence of the fael of escape, and that the service or labor of the person escaping is due to the Dartv in such record mentioned. And upon the production by the said party of other and further evidence, if necessary, either oral or by af fidavit, in addition lo what is contained in inesaiu record of the ideoiity of the person escaping, he or she shall be delivered up to the claimant. And the said court, commissioner, judge, or other per son authorised by this act to grant certificates to claimants of fugitives, shall, upon the production of the record and other evidences aforesaid, grant to such claimant a certificate of his right to take any such person identified and proved to be owing service or labor as aforesaid, which certificate shall authorize such claimant to seize or arrest and transport such persoa to the State or Terri tory from which he escaped ; provided, that noth ing herein contained shall be construed as requir ing the producing of a trauscript of such record as evidence as aforesaid; but, in its absence, tbe claim shall be heard and determined upon other satisfactory proofs competent in law. THE ATLANTIC GOLD REGION. At the late meeting in New Haven, ofthe Amer ican Association for the advancement of science. Prof. Robert R. Johnson, of Washington, sub mitted the following observations upon Jt Gold Formation of JVbrlh Cttnjllna, Vvr zinia and Maryland. The belt or district of coun trv 'in which occur the gold bearing rocks of the Atlantic border of the United Slates appears to ranee longitudinally from North-East to South West, in a general direction, not tar irom i 32 degrees E. This direction is the result of a grand ! number of observations, taken in all the three States, and at points where the formation appears to be the most regular and determinate. It also re sults from a general observation of the relative position of the extreme points at which the cen tral axis ofthe Gold Districts has been noticed. Taking Brookville, in Maryland, and tracing by Rockville to the point of crossing of the Potomac, below the Great Falls extending thence across the Rapahannock 10 miles above Fredericksburg; thence through Stafford, Fauquier, Culpepper, Spotsylvania, Grange. Louisa, Fluvanna, Buck ingham, Campbell and Pittsylvania, in the Slate of Virgiuia; through Rockingham , Guilford, Davidson, Rowan, Cabarrus and Mecklenburg Counties, in North Carolina. By prolonging the aine axis ISonh-westerly, it passes through a part of i ork County , in rennsylnna, in which Gold b said to have been detected ; and several hundred miles further lo the North-east it strikes the tour of Somerset iu Vermont, in which, accor ding to Prof. Hitchcock, Cold was discovered, more than thirty years ago. As the result of special observations on the strike ofthe slate beds in which the gold veins oc curred injected between the plies of sedimentary rocks,the facts observed were louud between KocJc- ville aud Brookville, in Maryland, where the bearing is N. 30 E. on the borders of Spoisy'.va- aia and Orange Cos. in irguua, IS. 2U to 32 E. in Montgomery Co. North-Carolina, at the Rus scl Mine, N. 32 L and in Mecklrnhurg Co. at the. Smart Mine, 20 miles South eastward to Charlotte, the stroke of the be-'s being there IN. 32 E. These are a few ofthe points nuticed, and the results are obtained from numerous observa tions taken at each point. The system of meiaphoric rocks in which the gold-bearing veins occur, appears to have under gone different degrees of change iu the different parts ofthe tract. While in sum: parts the orig inal slaty structure is preserved, in others the animation has been partly obliterated, and the texture changed bv the evident effect of heat. In some points to which observation has extended, there is evidently an intermingling of rocks ofthe Gueissoid character with such as still retain the slaty structure. In certain parts of the North .Car oliua gold region, the granitic rocks prevail, and there the aunlerous reins have various directions, apparently wholly irrespective of the general trend ofthe gold formation. Thus between the town of Charlotte and tne Caiawba itiver, and withiu a circuit about three or four miles in diameter, are found veins which have been more or less exten sively worked, with directions running to the N. 64E.;N.47E.;N.8i W.; N.36J E ; aud N. 34 W. so that if these directions were prolonged, they would in some cases be touod intersecting each other at right angles. In regard to the ma terials or veiustooe in which the aurilerojs par ticles are found, they differ very widely; iu come cases the material is an argillatu re slate, of a dky luster, much iuterspersed with minute cubes or pyrites ol iron or ol copper, or ol bo'.n, as at the Russel mine on the Newberry, in Montgom ery Co. in North Carolina ; in other cases it is par tly in quartz and partly in tbe slaty walls of the veins; and in others still it is wholly in the quartz, being scarcely at all impregnated with the preci ous metal. The materials which exist in the veins are ei ther such as hare been acted en by meteoric in fluences and partly decomposed, or lying beyond the reach of such influences have escaped decom position, and may be regarded as the true expo nents of tbe deeper veinstone. These latter are in general leas rich in gold than in the former, chiefly on account of luring lost a part of their solid material by decors position. But the deep ores owe their inferior value in no sin all degree also to the difficulty of extracting the gold f rom its combination with the autpbureu, which near the surface bare been reduced by the combined action of air, water and other materials from the atmosphere. TCAaar Hot Back to Old Vibgjiua." A ne gro, said lo be a runaway slave, was got away irom Harrisburgysays the Telegraph, of that place. a lew days ago, in rather a cute manner. He wsa employed by a Dauphin constable tolio wmted to make a levy in Cumberland county 1 to drive him over the river. W hen be bad him in a nice place, the wagon was stopped by three mesaaci the ne gro forcibly taken away in another carriage, after being naod-euQed. ine negro bad just been sing ing and was about repealing the stanzas, "On, carry me back to Old YTgui'l It ia said that songs are pouring in at the rate of fifty per day on the Jenny land Song Committee. The Tribune says that an octavo volume of .one thousand pages would not con tain the unsuceufui effusions of American poetical genius.. Thi Rxrcaur. We see it stated at probable that ftZtoao. Sargeat and -Bullitt will be invited bacjt Id use Republic. Aaron A. 1 1 all is tbe sole editor sow. : . . Ft the Eurcpean Correspondence of , the "JYatioiud InteUigencer: V- A PICTURE OF LONDON J What a huge, piriUtirriogul-.boUi to raise and depress incomprehensible Babel it thu London ! And yet, who that has once matered some of its mysteries, and acquain ted himself with some of its many and vary ing phases, does not feel bound to give it a portion of his praise and attachment, and his unqualified astonishment and wonder? Dearly as we'love the fair fields, the green hftre.mwt. and the calm seauestered lanes t andnooks of England, we sometimes ques tion ourselves whether we do not love mis giant London still better. It is impossible to live long immersed in its never-ceasing tur moil and bustle, without becoming citizen of the world without feeling that the poet's assertion is correct, and that "the proper stu dy of mankind is man." There is not a feel inz in the human breast, there is not a fac ulty in the human mind, that one or other of a. . 1 V its ever-changing scenes is not calculated, sooner or later, to arouse. London afford foxxl for every taste, employment for every mintl. Much does it contain, it is true, that is evil and degrading ; but wherever the foot of man has trod, hat it not left evil in its track as well as good ; and if in this great empori um vice and degradation do abound, we are willinz to believe that virtue and elevation of mind and heart much more abound. Were we to judge, from the feverish and turbulent surface of London society, of the deep current that runs below, how errone ous would be our conclusions. How many faces wear tbe stem, hard look of worldly care, which may be moved in a moment to the smile of sympathy and consolation ! - How many hands grasp wltn miserly tenaci ty the very farthings of a mercantile specu lation or a trading profit, that open freely to the demands of suffering and sorrow ! There is no place where charity more lastingly pre vails than in London. It is too generally be lieved that a long intercourse with the woild blunts the better feelings of the heart, and in some instances it may be so ; but they are, we trust, the exceptions to an almost general rule, that a long life in London leads to a di rectly opposite result. If, while passing through it many scenes, and contemp'ating its various phases, we become more aware of man's deception and depravity, we also, at the same time, acquire a more intimate knowledge of his sufferings and necessities ; and it is impossible to avoid feeling, as we are swept along the busy current, elbowed and jostled on every side, that we form one of a universal brotherhood, and gradually be come alive to the common and general claims of our species upon our forbearance, kind ness, and sympathy. The man who can look on the crowded s'reets of London with apathy and indifference deserves our pity tather than our envj'. And in these " pip ing times of peace," when a visit from the Continent is so easily paid -to this great me tropolis, it is truly delightful to encounter, in the Strand or Cheapside, groups of French men, with their wives and daughters, gazing on the objects they knew before only from books or travellers' details ; interchan ging civilities with Englishmen at home ; ask ing, in language almost unintelligible to the passer by, t he road to a point of attraction ; every where received courteously and kind ly ; regarded as friends and neighbors by all ; affording a convincing proof that the limes are past, we trust for ever, when En glishmen and Frenchmen considered each other as natural enemies, whose only busi ness with each other was to cut each other's throats. A walk from the India House to Charing Cross will bring us into contact with men of every nation, and race, and religion ; with Jews, and Turks, and Mahometans; with the worshippers of Brahma. Bhuda, and Con fucius ; with the buiy merchant, the indus trious mechanic, and the importunate men dicant ; with the tilled noble, the eminent statesman, the representative of Ncpaul or Turkey; the raan of business the searcher after pleasure, and the votary of fashion. We shall perhaps be told that we have here tofore drawn a very different picture of Lon don. We grant that we have, and plead, in extenuation of our apparent inconsistency, that every object has, at least, two points of view, that every person has at least two states of feeling, and that the year has at least two seasons. If we have looked on the dark side of London when our feelings, both corporal and mental, were depressed by the dark, dreary, and damp days of winter, shall we be called inconsistent when we look on the bright side of London, when the body owns no pain, and the mind feels no care in the bright and balmy days of summer? We trust not. We are at all times, and in very place, subject to the influences of the skies, and perhaps nowhere in the busy world are these 'iufluences,' so variable, and so powerful, as in the ever-changing atmos phere of England. We have now endeavor ed to draw a summery view of London ; per haps your readers will wibh we had drawn a more summary one. Excuse a bad pun ; we are not often in a merry mood, and shall very seldom transgress by committing sins of this kind." "THE MURDER CITY." This is the title which the Philadelphia Bulletin bestows upon its own city. It thus describes the horrible state of things in that slavery abominating region. Oh, shade of W.illiam Penn, are these thy deicendants ? Does it not make thy bones rattle in thy cof fin to hear the ' City of Brotherly Love' now designated by its own people " The Murder City?" Sayi the Bulletin : The Murder Citt. The morning pa pers are occupied with editorials and com munications respecting the murder of Burd. We ourselves have come to the conclusion that words are wasted on this subject The lawless condition of our population has been known long enough to citizens, yet no suffi cient measures have been taken to put down riot, robbery, assassination. It will not do to laythe blame wholly on the police. For yean the police has been known lo be inef ficient, yet no serious effort has been made for iU reformation. Officers, who acknowl edge their cognizance of crime, but refuse to testify against the criminals from motives of personal fear, are permitted to remain in authority, public sentiment scarcely uttering m tingle censure against them. In a word, the guilt of this lawlessness it almotttmiver aal; for to permit tuchT crimei is only leu criminal than to commit them. We have foryeart, observed the growth of disorder, and prophesied the end to which it would lead. Mobt were first allowed to fire ob noxioui buildings and then to bunr church et.w Next, rowdiet are allowed to fight. with fiU, with clnbt, and with spanners. Immu nity m these things ted -. men- to venture a step further, and nots took place, in which the mob uied fire-armi. And now ine ciimax is reached, and murdereri,-almost in. open day, shoot or stab their victims, instigated to the deed of atrocity by the immunity which former acta of crime have enjoyed. y : The Pavuykanian gives the following further kelch of this Philadalphia, whose JVVM Americans so often make the welkin nn with the horrora and crime of slavery. After chronicling the shocking murder of Mr. Charlet Burd. on Monday evening, the PennsyWanian ayi: . - When are we to rise in the morning with out 6nding that some citizen probably some dear friend has been murdered )n cold blood by the midnight assassin I The character of our whole people is affected bj tSese aw ful atrocities, and the businesa interests of Philadelphia cannot fail to be impaired un less something is done to arrest this dreadful scourge. Venice in her darkest days Spain with her Inquisition even France under the reio-n of Terror was hardly more disgraced than is Philadelphia, when the age in which we live is considered. We know not what to suggest, but the disease is one that demands a prompt and drastic remedy." Whereupon the New York Express re marks : " As the disease has been one of long standing in Philadelphia, and there be ing as yet no remedy found for it, one would think the Municipal Authorities were in pretty much the same predicament as the editor of the Pennsylvanian, who is at a loss what course to suggest. What is the ii p of having- a citv ffovernment at all ?" We cease to wonder at the luxuriance of abolitionism, when we see it springing from a soil fertilized by human blood. THE MACON MEETING. It gives us no particular pleasure to record, what seems to be pretty generally admitted, that this great outpouring and inflowing ofthe wrathful sons of Georgia, proved little less than a stupendous failure ! Instead of the r7y thousand freemen that were to meet in council, there appeared, from ait accounts, some two or three thousand mostly, we presume, of the wirepullers and leaders, who are moving heaven and earth to upneave and set in motion the great ocean of the pub lic mind. Instead of Mason, Butler, Berrien and Soure, whose eloquence was expected to arouse, and fire, and drive to madness the mighty multitude; the disappointed little crowd were doomed to listen to the croaking voice of Field Marshal Rhett, who has been an open and avowed disunionst for the last twenty years ! Others were there from Al abama and Georgia, but they were obscured somewhat by the Magnus Apollo of South Carolina chivaly ! r ? It may not be amiss to moralize a little on the causes which contributed to the thinness ofthe gathering. It was to have been a great mass meeting ; it had been trumpeted forth in great anticipated triumph by every press favorable to its objects ; all Georgia and the rest of the new Confederacy were to have been there ! Where were the masses, and what kept them from the meeting? The I leaders were there, but where were the peo j pie ? Why did they not attend, and hear the reasons that Miould impel them to a separation from our sisterStates ? Ah, there's the rub ! The people of Georgia are intelli gent, think and read for themselves know their rights, and when to resist the wrongs they suffer, as well as their would-be guar dians. They love and reverence the govern ment and Constitution of their common coun try, and have no idea of being dragged into anarchy, bloodshed and lawless violence, un til the last hope for the Union is extinguished by that kind of oppression which every man can feel. This is what kept tbem away. Let the hour come for such desperate energy, and you will find them not only assembling in Macon, but you will see them marshaling on every modern Marathon, and perishing on every bloody Thermopylae. Yet of that hour, THEY WILL BE THE JUDGES. Columbus (Ga ) Enquirer. Census of Guilford Remarkable Longevity. We are informed by a state ment in writing from Jesse Wheeler, Assis tant Marshal for the Southern Division of the County of Guilford and State of North Carolina, as follows : that in enumerating two hundred and thirty-seven (237) families comprising 1400 inhabitants, he has register ed but 9 deaths, the names and ages of whom are as follows : David Beard, sen., 75 years of age. Jesse Burton, 77 " Mordecai Mendenhall, 84 " Mary Wheeler, 73 Sarah Hoggatt, ) 71 " Mahlon Hoggatt $ T7 Samuel Hamphill, 74 " Robert Hanner, 65 " Susanna Jessup, 98 " The average age being a fraction over 71 years, and only one death for every 155 per son, in twelve months preceding the 1st day of June, 1850. Of the above nnmber, 5 were members of the Society of Friends, (commonly ca led Quakers,) all of whom were over 71 years of age. Man and wife. Greensboro" Patriot. Correspondence ofthe Baltimore Clipper.' Washington, August 30, 1850. The vote on the Texas Boundary Bill. If your readers will take the paint careful ly to examine the vote given to reject the Texas Boundary bill, they will find it com posed entirely of abolitionist, rsflnioaists, and New York Sewardites. That all six members present from Sooth Carolina, four from Virginia, three from Alabama, one from Mississippi, and one lrom Arkansas, are found voting with five Seward abolitionist from New York, and tuch fanatics as Giddings, Root, Wilmot, Preston King and Julian. Such an amalgamation as this ia enough to condemn any measure they are found uni ting upon. g$ We are called a tubmtisionist Well, if to be in favor of our glorious Union and a supporter of the supreme law of the land, en titles ut to the appellation of a "submiision ist," we glory in the name. We had rather be a submissioniit than to favor disunion or to entertain for a moment any disposition to mar this glorious Republic of its fair propor Uons. Charlotte Journal. "" 1 ' . 'I'v- In the late "battle of the Books" in the Senate, Benton wasbeautifuuy used up by Mr. Foote. " That big, spiteful "spider," liv ing upon the product of hit own Intettinet, was a most accurate daguerreotype ofthe ven omous and telf-conceited member from Mis souri. An old lady in Iowa while recently in the woods, was bit on the end of the nose by a rattlesnake. The old lady recovered, but the snake 'died. Coroner's verdict i "Poisoned by sntuT!M RALBieHiRBeioTBR? Ours are tbe plana of fair dellghtftil peace, TJnwarp'd by party rage to live like brothers, RALEIGH, N. C. Wednesday, Sept. 4, 1850. DISUNION IN 1833 AND 1850. It is a source of no little personal gratulation, upon comparing the tone of the " Register" during the days of Nullification, at a former event ful era of our Country's history, with tl e senti ments o f attachment to our glorious Uniow, which it is has been our earnest aim to urge and to fos ter, at the present momentous crisis, to find tl at we are treading, faithfully, at all events, in the footsteps of those who have preceded ui. We quote an article from our paper, of April 12th 1833, commenting urion a Speech delivered by Gen. Jess Speight, of this State, in the House of Representatives of that year, upon certain re solutions submitted by Mr. And r$ m, proposing a partial modification of the Tariff. The Speech in question professed a willingness lo co operate in a scheme of forcible resistance to the laws of the Country ; and it is with gratification that, ap plying the sentiments of just rebuke in the follow ing article to those who would now again mis represent public opinion in our Siate, we are en abled to adopt opinions so nearly and dearly allied to our own : " It is true, that in the Speech of Gen. Speight, there is a direct disavowal of any wish to dissolve the Union. But what would avail the declara tionsof a person delected in applying the torch to a powder magazine, that he had no intention of producing au explosion. At a time whe.i princi ples are advocated dangerous to the future pros perity, if not to the present peace of our commu nity when politicians, infuriated with passion, are urging the most desperate measures-. when ev en the chorJ of Union is attenuated by discordant strife, and the sword seems poised to sever it in twain he who assists in exciting, rather than in allaying the popular ferment, will have much to answer for, if momentary irritation should triumph over sober reason. We confess we have no fel lowship with that testy Patriotism, which, on eve ry difference of opinion, indulges in language, the tendency of which is, to familiarize the Peo ptetothat greatest of all calamities the dissolu tion of the Union. For General Speight, person ally, we entertain sentiments of respect, and there is no man in the country who deserves greater credit for the improvement which he has made of his time and opportunities. He is literally a self made man, and if he does not permit the enthusi asm and ardenc) of his feelings to usurp the place of sound judgment, he may become a distingui shed one ; for he possesses some of the requisites in an eminent degree. We therefore regret the more, that he should have so fur mistaken public sentiment in this $taie, as to suppose that his re marks will find any thing like a general response. There may be individuals, who, rather than pay a tax of one dollar on their superfine broad cloth coats, are willing to "stand by their arms," but if there be such, they are "few and far between." No! North-Carolina has always been distingui shed above all the other States, for her unbioken loyalty to the Federal Government, and her citi zens can never be brought, by any management, to adopt those words of delusion "Liberty fur$t and Union afterwards." But, in the beautiful language of Mr. Webster, they will "hug to their bosoms, that other sentiment, dear to every true American heart Liberty and L'ttion, novo aud THE NORTH CAROLINA PRESS In addition to the contemplated improvements among the Press of the State, mentioned in our last, we see that Mr. Mathew, the sterling and gentlemanly Editor of the " Newbernian," also issues a Prospectus and proposes to add to bis present title that of the " North Carolina Advo cate." He truly conceives that the press of the State is now, more emphatically than ever, called upon to advocate with zeal, a fuller development of the resources of North Carolina more reliance upon ber own industry and skill in agriculture, commerce and manufactures ; and her consequent elevation to a more commanding posit iou among her sister States. We admire, and commend to general emula tion, the spirit which marks tbe concluding por tion of Mr. Mayhew's Prospectus. We cannot refrain from quoting : The paper will of course preserve its charac ter of a political journal and to the readers of the Newbernian, it is scarcely necessary to say, its character as a zealous advocate of Whig princi ples. The late reverse which the Whig party has met in tbe Slate, has not shaken in the least, our firm epnwtios, tltai the lasting prosperity ofthe country, and the maintenance of the Constitution in its punty, are identified with tbe success of these principles. That defeat has only animated us to renew the conflict with more zeal and ener gy to pick our flint take better aim, and try ! mi t t : .1 ivr ,i r i- 1 again. ine iiewwrnnn uu iuriii varoiiBa Advocate" will, like the Newbernian, take a firm stand for Southern rights. But believing aa we do that these rights can best be maintained in the Union, and under the Constitution, it wdl oppose strenuously every approach to disunion, except as a last resort, to save the South from oppression and ruin. In these respects tbe paper will con tinue to pursue its accustomed course, but as we hope with more zeal and energy." The Ey esgkeeh is the title of a Literary Pe riodical, proposed to be published under the asso ciated auspices of R. H. Baowir, Esq., Editor of; the " Ashboro' Herald," and B. Ckavev, Esq., Editor of the " Southern Index." The first num ber will appear on the 1st of October next, and monthly theieafter, at $2 per . annum. Letters, &c., most be addressed to R. H. Biown, Ashbo ro', N. C. We cordially, join" the Editors in the hope, that, as our State furnishes no periodical of fiction and fancy; and has jno'exponent of that lit erary taste which has added so much to tbe pages of distant publications, si work- of the character designed will be favorably received by an enlight ened public - - . - "' " ': ; y- - 4, . rr h. B. Bit4xca,Ea4r this City, taabsca appointed a saember of tW Literary BouH, eu Wsxpisa N. Evwaaos, resigned. ... . ,inu uiwa iiiiwjiv.y- i;. 'At the dinner of me Alumni of Yale College, on the occasion ofthe recent 'commencement cel ebration at that insdtutionarnong other distin guished guests then and there7p'resent was Mr. Bates; of Musouri-the emrnent gentleman who declined not long since the Department of the In terior proffered to him by President Fitr-Moae. In acknowledgment of a toast complimentary to the West, Mr. Bates delivered a speech which was received with much applause. We note one passage from the abstract given of it in the pa pers : He said that out of the Mississippi eight mil lions of people drink. t runs through the whole country, and the peopl living on it 'would defend the Union of the Slates with their hearts and arms. No war nor policy can divide it. We want no little rag-flag with a yellow spot upon it. Nature speaks loudest in her grandest work., and the gi ant West speaks loudest for the Union. The children of parents from Connecticut and Georgia on the Mississippi mingle together, and before they know what politics mean, they know what the firesides of their fathers' fathers were. Ap plause. The North aad South seem to have for gotten that the Wet has an interest in the Union. By-and by, when the North and South threaten to fight, the West will, as is sometimes done with pugnacious boys hold them far enough apart to prevent striking, but face to face till they grin each other into good humor. Laughter and applause. There can be no doubt but that the giant West ts destined to exert a great influence in controlling sectional animosities, and upon the destinies of the Union, by giving practical lessons, in its vast growth and unexampled prosperity, of the impor tance and necessity of that Union. And while we do envy for ourselves the gigantic progress of the West, we are still proud, to see its colossal ad vances in the elements of physical greatness. In attachment to the Union, North Carolina need take lessons from no other State. Her people know that book, " by heart." But in another and important particular, they may gather instruction from the example of the West. It is a singular fact that seven eighths of the European emigrants go to the North-Western States. Few of them find their way into the healthy uplands of the South, where they would find abundance of cheap and fertile land, and a climate unsurpassed for sa lubrity. Nothing but the presence of a dense pop ulation can give value to such lands as compose our up country, which are, essentially, farming lands. Grain and vegetables, beef, butter, Stc., are heavy articles in proportion to value, and must depend chiefly for a market upon such towns and cities as are easily accessible. Our farmers, there fore, need never expect that their lands will be valuable, or that their products will command a remunerating price, until the country is studded and permeated with facilities for transportation, and until, by such means, markets are brought to their very doors, in the cities and towns that spring up at the magic call ofthe ileain-vchislL. It is a practical, self evident fact, and no specula tive therory in political economy, that demand and consumption follow upon the heels of population. We see no reason why a portion of the tide of Western emigration might not be directed to the South, and especially to North Carolina. News paper paragraphs, however, cannot do the wosk the grand impediment is the absence of travel ling and of transporting facilities. This is the strongest argument in favor of the vital importance of the (Central Road. It will open the way to the heart of Western Carolina, and it will pave that way with golden opportunities for thrift and enterprize. It will induce emigration from abroad to a region, than which no country offers greater inducements to hiin who seeks a healthy and hap py abode fur himself and posterity. EXECUTION OF PROF. WEB3TER.j A Telegraphic Extra was issued from this Office, on Saturday morning last, three days ia ad vance of the ma'd, giving an account ofthe execu tion of Prof. Websteb, at Boston. This is but one out of many instances, of late, in which we have given the public, :o the West and South of us, especially, the news so far iu advance of the mail, as to make it positively stale, when it reach ed us and them by that means. Our Despatch stated that Prof. Webster was brought out of his cell, into the jail yard, at 9 o'clock, accompanied by the sheriff, officers ofthe court, and the jury, with his spiritual advisers. He seemed overwhelmed with grief, though ap parently resigned to his sad fate. The Prisoner walked with a firm step to the foot of the gallows, and ascended the steps, supported by the clergy men in attendance. The services on the sallows occupied about half an hour the Prisoner join ing in them, with great fervency. When com pleted, he bid farewell to all present shaking each by the hand ; when the sheriff drew the cap over his face, and fixed the rope to his neck. In a moment after, the trap fell, and his spirit passed from time to eternity. The agonies of death seem ed to be soon over, as his struggles were very few. The throng of spectators on the out side of the prison, though they could neither see nor hear, was immense. This unfortunate man has thus incurred the just bnt awful penalty of his crime. For him, the public sympathy had become well nigh exhaust ed. His numerous prevarications, added to his deep guilt, had forfeited for him the commisera tion of the most merciful. For his family, how ever for the wife and daughters, who have been involved in affliction and disgrace, by the deprav ity ofthe husband and father the fears of sym pathy will freely flow, in other sections of the Country than that, which is the scene of their sor row and their shame. " We are pleased to hear and know, says theAI exandria Gazette,' that the Administration of Pres ident Fillmore, both as regards the action of the President himself, aad the Heads of Departments, is such as to command the undivided respect and support of the Whigs in Congress, and of the Whigs throughout tbe country. The dignified yet courteous bearing of the President pleases all who have business with him ; whilst bis hones ty, patriotism, and devotion to the public interests, are beginning to be appreciated and acknowledged, even by those who are opposed to him politically. He will deserve the support of the American people. The "Southern Press," at Washington,, pre dicts, with great confidence, that immediately vpbo the admission of California into the Union, "the Governor ol Georgia will issue his proclama tion, that the delegates will be chosen,, that her convention will be holden, and that the conven tion will see rn secession, the only remedy left her, and will adopt it." The AugtrstaCbroiMcie, which may be supposed to be quite as wefi informed concerning public 'sentiment hT Georgia, as the Southern Press, assures the writer that if he sup poses the people of Georgia to be -equally fanat ical and deluded wiUs himself," ne is very much mistaken. , . -,r " - - - r THE LATE STORM. Our State exchanges brine the ninet a: accounts of the ravages ofthe recent rem, severe storm. Such a desolation, where it, lence was greatest, is not within the mem0rv'!!r that venerable personage, -e oldest inhabitant From the " Greensboro' Patriot." " Last Saturday night, the country was vi.;. bv a storm of wind and rain mrra destructive in its effects thnn ever before within oiip iTCnllMrinn. Wo . CarHe " - ' w , imrc HOI learn 1 how far west it extended, but understand tW ,u waters of the Yadkin were eieetint.. L- . 1 U!e the east, even down to the coast, great dam was done by the wind and freshet. In our section ofthe country, fences, mills, bridges crops on the low grounds have sustained unnr cedenteJ damage. The wind blew ,in,. !pre-- numbers of trees and prostrated the gnjwin? pj We learn that the bridges ai M.n.li onn T l Danville and Milton on the Dan river liavl if i . i . i rt " all txrvu swrjii awajr, uu iue crops OU the bottom? ruined. nrer From the " Charlotte Journal." " On Saturday night last, we were visited h one of the severest storms of wiml we ever perienced, and from what we can learn it has b very general. We did not have much rain bi in other quarters the rain fell in torrents : so muck so that the Catawba river, and nearly every creek was swollen to a tremendous height. A smu man who saw the river on Sunday mornino in formed us that he never beheld such a sight i n h life the whole expanse of water was cover! with rafts of floating timber, watermelons &..--The river was about ten feet higher than usual The amount of damage to the corn in bottom lands must be very extensive, and the destrucu.m to timber must also be very great. Most 0f the corn is prostrated, and from appearances thefbd der will not be hardly worth gathering. In Kml locations the storm seemed to be severer than m others, but we rejoice that we have heard of uo-" damage to individuals." From the "Asheville News." " French Broad and all the creeks in this region have been full to overflowing during the pst week. We regret to learn that heavy ossej have been the consequence. The Free Bridge over French Broad at Capt. Jones', four mili above this place, the new Bridge at Col. Garmnn's four miles below, and Col. Alexander's bndp ten miles below, have alt been carried away, f 1, bridge over Reems' creek is also gone, and it is feared Col. Chunn's and Maj. John E. Pattern's are also gone, though no positive information is yet received on the subject. French Broad was higher on Sunday than it has been since 1840. Much damage has been done to the crops on the river bottoms,, and much fine land washed and injured. The turnpike down the river we fear, too, has been greatly injured, as the river was running over a large portion of if" The "Milton Chronicle" gives an extended ac count, of the deplorable ravages of the storm iQ that quarter. We copy a few extracts : " About one o'clock, P. M., we visited the Dan river, perceived it still on the rise, bat about eight feel below the sills ofthe bridge. We wit nessed quantities of lumber in the shape of wreck ed bridges, mills, fences, logs, &c, dashing mad ly down the river, bearing along tioe-iooiting melons, pumpkins, green corn, tobacco, oats, fodder, and a thousand and one et ceteras, in the vegetable and animal kingdom. We returned home, but visited the bridge again at three o'clock, P. M. To our surprise we found the water had forced its way across the road at the foot of the bill this end of the bridge.and to a depth sufficient almost to swim a horse. " Fears were now entertained (lint the water would sweep away Mrs. Netvbell's house, or get in it and damage her property, and Mr. Samuel B. Jennings wiiii a gallant band of young gentle men procured a boat and managed to reach the dwelling with it the adventure "was one not without danger, and the gallantry displayed by the -voyage is worthy of all praise. Arriving at the dwelling, they tied the boat to oneol the gate posis which was connected with the bridge, aud having loaded the boat with all such articles as were lia ble to damage by water, they proceeded to return at this moment, however, an incident occurred that came nigh costing them their lives : the water being leVel with the bridge, there came a tremend ous raft against it and in a moment the whole bridge, gate, and all, dashed with the speed of lightning down the river ; the " cruising" party had just boarded the boat, and when the bridge gave way one of the "crew" cut the rope and de tached the boat from the bridge, it was the work of a moment ! a second more and all must have been fost forever!" The water (of Coautrjr line creek) almost rest ed tbe second story of tbe urll house, and swept a way a small tenement that stood near tbe Factory's rimith Shop, inhabited by a Airs. Hatchett Mrs.' Duke was driven ont of ber bouse, which was im mersed iu Water to the top of tbe door Alr. Rag land whose name had jusi been changed to Rainer, by marring, ws awoke from tbe slumbers of the honey moon about 12 o'clock on Sunday night, and she and bet "old man" had to fly for their lives; tbey however diJ some tall hallooing first, upon hearing which a boat was sent to bear tbem off. This bappr pair, it seenin, had gone to bed without fear of ikt water getting iuto their house, but were awoke Irom their dreams of connubial bliss, by the water -'steal ing genuy oer mem," whereupon tbey "made ids welkin ring" Tbe water rj a about five feet deep in th:.s house, ere it Ceased rising, and measured fi' feet above ihe floor of the covered Bridge acroi' Country-line, at this place ; the bridge proper stoat firm and unmoved; but the abuttment at this end of tbe bridge gave way and most have beeu lost out for tbe bold and noble daring of Mr. James Bird, ( Carpenter,) who swam to it and tieing one end of rope to it, be dived down about fifteen feet iu the Water and actually succeeded in fastening the otLer end of the rope to a plank fence post, before he caa up out of the water. This equals any feat of di ving that we ever heard of." The " Weldon Herald" mentions a singular phenomenon connected with the storm : A beautiful light, not inferior in brilliancy to that of the Aurora Borealis, as in the case of the great Tornado in Grenada, Mississippi, accoro pained the current of wiud in its destructive pro gress. W1L&11NOTON fk. irti li-RX)MPA3Vr We are gratified to see by a tabular exhibit ia the Wilmington papers, that this Company has been doing such an' increased business. The re ceipts for the past ten months hare been, on aa . average, at the rate of $32,222 20 per month , against $24,818 10 pe month, last year shov ing an increase of $7,404 10 per month, or a ne" increase of 474,041 . tiuk is indeed doing remark aWy weH. - . V 00- The Ad vertisement of ihe loss of 45,000 k Wm. H. Whitehead, which first appeared m this Paper, on Wedaesda J last, turns out to be hoax. We have seen Mr. W., who inform os that it was doubtless designed to injure hbteel"1?'. in some way.' The individual who imposed upon us, has added to this gross Wrong to Mr. VV., e scurvy trick of defrauding us out of the fee - publication t He can and ought to be roadeio sutler for both, acts. Prociedincs or Congress. We regw' to notice, by Ihe proceedings ofthe How ol Representatives, for the last week, that our anticipation of an early settlement of l" difficulties' thai have interfered with the due course of legislation have again Dearly vau ed,n4 that there is ow a prospect of ano- er interminable wrangle
The Raleigh Register (Raleigh, N.C.)
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