LEGISLATORS OF GEORGIA GOV
ERNOR COBB'S INAUGURAL AD
DRESS. The 'Legislature of G-orgia assembled at
Milledgeville, on the 3d inilanl. and both
hou.es were oigan.zed by the election of
Mr MMler, of Richmond, at President of
(he Senate, and Mr. Meriwether a. Speak
er of .the House d( Representatives., go
Wednesday, the 5tH instant, at we learn from
the MilledgeViile Recorder, both branches,
with a large concourse of citizens, assembled
in the Representative Halt, when his excel
leney, Governor Cobb, delivered in an im
pressive manner the following inaugural ad
dress, "which (says the Recorder) will com;
mand the enthusiastic approval of the great
body of the people of Georgia, as well as the
respect Kid approval of the Constitutional
Uniotf people of the entire country."
SlHATORS AND RbPRESSKTaTIVIS: In
obedience to the popular voice of ihe State, I
appear before you to-day to assume the du
ifeVof the executive chair. We have been
called, oentlemen, to our respec ive stations,
at an interesting period in the history ol our
State. I N ,ne departments of life which
.mn the impress of progress and greatness
dob a people, Georgia occupies an eminent
.mono- her sister States of the Re
public In agriculture, the noblest pursuit of
civilized man, she yield the palm of superi
ority 10 none. Endow-a Dy rroviueni-e i.u
a salubrious climate and fertile oil, under
the culture of her enterpmmg citizens, me
..a. fr.rth the ffenerous rival of the fore
most amongst her successful and flourishing
sisters. In manufactures ana me raenui
i m-p Sute Dresents a picture which
her proudest sons may contemplate with
pleasure and graiification. The youngest
mn in mav remember the time when the
11. th tint factory were raised in our
State, and now in every section ot it may be
,h li!v increasing evidences of th
access which has attended the efforts of our
energetic citizens in the manufacture ot -tie
.t American staple. The progress we
have made for the last few years in this and
other branches of manufactuie, clearly fore
.!..! the oeriod as not far distant in the
future h; she will rank among the most
successful of the manufacturing States of the
TTninn.
Nor has Providence beets less generous to
us in the bestowal of those natural advantages
which constitute the basis of commercial
greatness.
Amidst J1 the evidences, that mark the
progressive pint ot our people, 10 none
should Georgians look with more gratifica
tion than to i hose which characterize the
energy and efforts of her principal seaport.
Linked and bound together as are the dif
ferent sections of our State, by her system
of internal improvements, we begin to feel
more truly and justly the identity of interest
and feeling which should exist between our
mountains0 and seaboard. It has made us
neighbors in distance it should make us
neighbors in interest and feeling; in contem
plating these results from our railroad enter
prises!" our pleasure should be enhanced by
the reflection that it is the almost exclusive
work of individual effort and private capital.
The State road constitutes the only excep
tion to this general remark. This work in
iti orisr'ui eave promise of great advantages
to the State, in developing the resources of
that vast ami interesting section of country
through which it passes, and in forming the
most important link connecting the western
waters with the Atlantic coast. In the reali
zation of these anticipations, we find ample
compensation for the labor and capital which
have been invested in this important enter
prise. It now depends, in a great measure,
upon the fostering care, enlightened judg
ment, and unbending firmness of the repre.
sentatives of i he people to renderit a per
manent monument of the wisdom and fore
cast of its patriotic project ois. Whilst the
attention of our people has thus been direc
ted with characterise energy to these sources
of national wealth, they have not been un
mindful ot that important and paramount
duty the education of their sons and daught
ers. It is indeed a grateful tpectae'e to
witness thoughout the State increasing in
terest manifested on this interesting and im
portant subject. In a free Government like
ours, where all power emanates from the peo
pie, we cannot too highly estimate the im
portance of preserving, throughout the land,
pure hearts and enlightened minds. Those
who shall place it within the power of every
son and daughter of Georgia to receive the
benefit of a plain and practical education,
will be justly regarded among the noblest
benefactors "of the Slate. Let our united
efforts be directed undei the blessing of Pro
vidence to the consummation of this great
object the education of the hearts and minds
of the people.
To our hands, gentlemen, for the time be.
ing, has a confiding people committed these
various and important interests of the State.
We should enter upon our duties with a
consciousness of the responsibility we have
assumed, and a determination so to discharge
them, that there may exist in the public
mind no just cause to regret ihe trust that has
been reposed in us. Nor, gentlemen, is the
present a less interesting period, when con
sidered in reference to our Federal relations.
Our Federal Government is now passing
through an ordeal which may jutly'be re
garded ai the seveiest test to which it has
ver been subjected. In ihe issue is involv
ed not only our own peace; and happiness,
but the solution cf that great problem, which
has engaged so much of the time of the
ablest and purest men who have ever lived
the capacity of man for self-government.
At the commencement of the last Con.
gress the country was convulsed with a bitter
sectional controversy, growing out ol the in
stitution of slavery as it exists in the south
ern Stales. The ablest heads were appalled
with the magnitude of the danger that threat
ened the integrity of the Republic and the
stoutest hearts faltered under the weight of
responsibility. It would oe inappropriate to
this occasion to review the history of that
angry ai.d threatening controversy nor
would I cecessari'y refresh your memories
with manv ol its painful reflections but
there are lessons and admonitions to be drawn
from its consideration, which cannot be too
.deeply and forcibly impressed upon the
public mind of the country.
This threatening issue was ultimately
brought lo a close in our National Legislature
by the adoption of a series of measures fa
miliarly known to the country as the Com
promise. That Compromise was based upon
two important principles : The firkt recog
nised the great American doctrine of the
right of every people, io the organization of
their State governments; to determine lor
themselves whether or not they would have
ihe institution of s'avery as a part of their,
social system a principle dear to
nub ican heart, and one upon which rests
Ihe whole fabric of American institution tjtsW H,ler of m7aUon PQD?'? in
thus repudiating that other doctrine, so justly
odious "to the people of the South, of the
.. . . . . pi.i.
right and duy ot Congress to reject a oiaie
pplyins for admission into tne u nion oecause
her constitution tolerated the institution ot
slavery. The o her cardinal principle of
the Compromise recognises the constitutional
obligation to deliver up our fugitive slaves
when ihey may escape into the non-slave-holding
States a duty expressly imposed by
the letter of the Constitution, and the enforce
ment of which it essential to thpermanence
of the. Republic. After the adoption 01 inis
Adjustment by Congress, circumstances im
posed upon the people of Oeorgia the im
portant iluty of pronouncing tne nrstautnor-
ita'ive judment upon it.
To our action the eyes ot the wnoie coun
try were directed, and our fellow-citizens
everywhere looked to our movements with
anxious solicitude. It was under these cir
cumstances that Georgia was called upon to
speak. She spoke, and her voice breainea
a mingled spirit of ardent devotion tf the
Union, and of patriotic warning to its north
ern friends. Looking to the past, and con
sidering the rights and interests that had been
involved in the contest, the dangers and dif
ficulties which had surrounded the country,
and the important principles upon which the
final action of the Government was based,
she solemnly declared her determinatton to
stand, to abide by the Compromise" as a per
manent and final settlement of this danger
ous and -vital issue its finality, and faithful
enforcement in all its parts, constituting es
sential elements to commend it to the favor
and support of herself and her sister States
ot the South. Looking to the future, with
reference to the menaces of threatened ag
gression which had been so freely indulged
in by a portion of the people of the North,
and regarding the adoption of those measure.
against which she raised her warning voice,
in the fourth resolution of her convention, as
invidious blows aimed at her most vital in
terest, she has calmly but firmly said to this
maddened spirit ol fana icism Thus farshalt
thou go, and no farther. Her position was
taken with calmness iz 1850 it has been
reaffirmed with deliberation in 1851; and I
now renew the pledge of my hearty co-op
eration in maintaining it with hrmness and
decision. Georgia has thus placed herself
upon a broad national and patriotic platform,
and invites her sister States of the Union to
stand by her in the preservation of the hap
ptest and freest Government on earth upon
these gre:it principles of right and justice.
Her policy ai-d principles look to the preser
vation of the Union, and the maintenance of
the Constitution as one and inseparable.
Amb.tion can seek no higher and nobler ob
ject than the transmission to posterity of thin
inestimable legacy : A union of sovereign
States, cemented by a Constitution di spens
ing equality and justice to all its members
a Constitution consecra ed by the wisdom
of the great and good men of revolutionary
memory a Union whose flag floats upon
every breeze, is honored in every land, and
regarded throughout the world as the emblem
of consti utional freedom. The maintenance
of such a Constitution and the preservation
of such a Union ate worthy of the united and
untiring efforts of patriotic men Nortti and
South, East and West worthy of their best
energies and purest devotions. Assembled
here in the capital of Georgia, around her
time-honored ad cons, era ed al'ars, let us
unite in one common prayer to the great
Ruler of the Universe that this Constituiion
and this Union may be perpetuated to our
latest posterity.
THE COMEDY OF "THE RIVALS."
A comedy almost as goo I as Sheridan's is
being enacted just now in Louisiana by two
grave and potent Senators Mr. Soulk and
General Downs. To spectators the petform
ance is highly amusing, and not altogether
uninstrucuve; but it may be doubted whether
the performers themselves enjoy the fun they
i mpart to others. Their positions, sayings,
doings, and prospects are essentially comical;
but their manner has an earnestness and fe
rocity about it which say little for their stage
experience, and indicate a finite at variance
with histrionic proprieties.
Some weeks have elapsed since we chroni
cIed Mr.SouLE's6u atOpelousas.the scene
of the earliest stages of the plot. On that oc
casion the learned Senator was very severe in
his animadversions upon his colleague, and
the supporters of the Compromise generally.
He dealt liberally in epi'bets and freely scat
tered imputations on the consistency and
manliness of those who thought differently
from himself. So the play opened.
General Downs's turn has now come; and
that be has not neglected it is apparent from
the circumstance that his performance occu
pies twelve and a half columns of the Ouachita
Register. The general pays back the assault
upon him with usurious interest He accuses
his colleague of deliberate misrepresentation
and divers similar naughty things, none of
them altogether compatible with Senatorial
dignity, or even ordinary gentility. He does
not allow Mr. Suule the benefit of the plea
of having been mistaken, but charges him
with wilfully and purposely misapplying the
language on which he commented. Having
repelled the aggressor, General Downs for
once becomes the assailant. He maintains
that Mr. Soule cherishes du union and seces
sion principles, and tnat his refusal to surren
der his individual opinions to the Constitution
and laws of the land " answereth only to
the higher law conscience" of the fanatics of
either section of the Union.
We have not room for lengthened extracts
from General Downs' speech, but the read
er may rest assured that it is very sharp and
cutting doubled-edged, in fact cutting e
qually poor Mr. Soule, and ihe happy De
mocracy numbers both gentlemen in its list
of friends. We are anxious to know how
the Democracy of Louisianna regards the
whole affair. Is it imagined that these high
mettled statesmen can ever run in the traces
again, or that their respective friends will
ever consent to an experiment (taught with
so much political peril ? Or is the harmony
of the Democracy paramount to consider
ations of personal honor and imputations on
personal veracity ? If there is to be an a
malgamation, who will condescend to make
the first apology the gallant general, with
a breast full of resentment, arising from a
sense of personal wrong, or the fiery Mr.
Soulk, who has hitherto rejoiced in the
soubriquet of "the Saladin of the South ?"
Coil. A beautiful rpecimen of Bituminous
Coal, from a newly discovered deposits on tbe
lands of Mrs. Taylor, on Deep River, has been
left at this office. We learn that the lands have
been purchased by a company of distinguished
gentlemen of our own State, at $21,000. We
most heartily wish them jolden return.
Fayttteville Observer.
STANLY; AJSD THJu VVtllua ur
" WAYNE.
"VThe Hon. Edward Stahly hat'Writen
,be following eloquent apd patriotic letter; in
- T v .T . r .
nit addressed to hlpf some time sinco by a
number oftfie" Whigs of Wayne.; Mr. S'a
absence from home has delayed his reply to
this late period. -r-t v
Washington, Beaufort Co.
Oct. SOtb, 1851. j
Gentlemen: Your very kind letter of the
13th ultimo, was not received ntil a few
days since, owinir to my absence from home.
The result in this Congressional District,
to which you so flatteringly allude, has I
confess been productive of great satisfaction
to me. Not merely because I was the suc
cessful competitor for a seat in Congress, but
on account df the 'baseless fabrications which
were so industriously circulated,' misrepre
senting my opinions and public conduct, but
also for the reason that the people have put
the seal of their condemnation on the odious
doctrine t Secession.
In the excited state of the public mind,
during the first session of the last Congress,
I knew the course I felt it my duty to pur
sue would, if followed, subject me to much
misrepresentation. But that course was de
liberately pursued, for I thought it belter to
disregard personal considerations, when dan
ger was threa-ening our whole country. I
venerated our time-honored Constitution
which had secured to us the be.t government,
the Giver of all good had ever vouchsafed
to man. I ha'd fiom my earliest youth re
garded our Union as full of inestimable b'es
smgs to us and to all mankind. That Con
stitution and Union I thought were in dan
ger, if not of being overthrown, at least of
being assailed. My humble hope and effort
were to warn the people of my beloved
State, where all my affections cling with
a tenacity that nothing lut death can abate,
that there were enemies in our midst, pur
suing schemes, which if successful, would
overwhelm us with unimaginable horrors.
Facts have recently appeared which prove
my suspicions were not groundless. I chose
to incur the risk, of resisting rather than
yielding to the current, for I had an indes
tructible confidence that the people by whom
I was known wou'd in the end do ju-tice
to my raoiives, and do jus tce to themselves
And how nobly have they done so! They have
made us prouder of our Republican institu
tious, and strengthened, if possible, our confi
dence in the capacity of man for self-govern
ment My own B;aufort,glorious old beaulort
ever faithful, ever true, how full of encourage
ment is her conduct to public men, to stand
firm and undismayed in the path of duty,
no matter how thick the clouds and darkness
mav appear before them ! Had Beaufort
alone supported me as she did, so well known
and so long honored by her as I had been,
armed as I was, with "a peace above all earth
ly dignities, a quiet conscience," defeat
woulJ have brought no sorrows to me.
Gentlemen, I cannot express my grateful
sense ofvour kind expressions. There are
associations connected with the Countv o
Wavne, which 1 cherish with increasing
fondness, as time passes away for our fa
titers and grandfathers were friends many
years ago.
Busisness engagements, important to o h
ers, as well as to myself, compel me to de
ciice your invitaioi. I cannot meet you
now ; but I ardently hope to be soon restor
ed to that much desired, happy indepen
dence of a private sta'ion, in which I can en
tov the intercourse ol the eood citizens ol
Wayne, for whom I ntertain the highes
respect, and cultivate friendly relations with
the people of my native State, for which my
atfecnon "grows with mv growth, and
t7 ml J
strengthens with my strength."
I beg -oii, Gentlemen, to accept my grate
ful acknowledgements, for the kind terms of
yourinvi'atioo.
With great respect,
Your, &c ,
EDW. STANLY
Messrs John Wright. A. F- Mosea, Wm
D. Cobb, Thomas Hadley and others, Com
mittee, &c., Goldsboro', N C.
THE MEETING OF CONGRESS
has approached so imperceptibly that we have
been scarcely aware of a until the arrival
Members from distant points of the count
warns us of its being near at hand. On Mon
day two weeks the first Session of a new
Congress (the Thirty-second) will be opened
at tbe Capitol, and all eyes and ears will be
directed, first, to the Annual Exposition of
public affairs by the Chitf Magistra'e ami the
accompanying reports of the Headsof Depart
ments, and afterwards to the action of Con
gress upon the various and great concerns
which fall within the scope of its authority
Upon what is so soon to become matter of
history as to the dispositions of the presen
Congress, it is hardly worth while to indulge
in speculation.
There are two great points, however, upon
which we have a right to congratulate our
readers:
Firs:. That, since the termination of the
last Congress, the Battle or the Union
has been fought and won, the principles
that Union being now in tbe ascendant in
those States in which they were, at the open
ing of the last Congress, supposed to he most
endangered, and now only seemingly threa
tened in one or two other States, in which
parties vie with another in professions of devo
tion to the same Union.
And, secondly, that there is nothing inth
relations of the country with foreign Powers
which threatens any immediate disturbance
of tbe Peace now happily existing between
us and them. Nat Int.
HURRAH FOR THE OLD R. AND G
Tbe hands have commenced laying heavy
Iron on the Raleigh and Gaston Road at th
end at Gaston. About one mile and a half
has been laid, and that in a superior manner
We are informed that there is iron enoug
to keep tbe bands already engaged at work
till the first cargo ot iron contracted for ar
rives, by which time more hands will be en
gaged and tbe work prosecuted to speedy
completion. Warrenton Jfews.
Beateh by Ore. A chap who had his hand
blown off by a Fourth of July explosion, applied
to the Tennessee .Legislature to be made Door
keeper. He tells the story of his failure in the
following style : "Why, sir, there were four one
armed men besides myself two of them with
their limbs off close up to the shoulders besides
any quantity of one legged fellows stumping
about After a while a chap pnt in with only one
arm and oe leg. . He beat us all by one. When
1 saw that I put for home,"
The New Orleans Picayune says, upon its own
personal authority, that after rolling all night in
your berth at sea, till you are miserably sick, it is
irritating to have a steward open the door in the
morning and ask if you will have a fresh roll for
breakfast.
THE WHIG CONVENTION.
We would respecfully urge upon the
Whigs of neighboring counties to hold meet
ings duriag this and the ensuing month And
we hope we may be pardoned for suggest
ing, that the Delegates appointed to the State
Convention be not trammelled with instruc
tions to vote for this or that individuni as the
candidate for Governor. Some experience
in our State Conventions has shown us the
nl of such instructions, by which Delegates
are lent, not to consult with other Whigs as
to what is best, under a view ot all the cir
cumstances, to be done, but merely to record
determinations formed upen local prefer-
nces, altogether irrespective of general pop
ularity, andaometimes utterly at variance
with all hopes of success. It is none of our
purpose to object to Delegates understanding
tbe wishes and preferences of their constitu
tes, and if consistent wi h their opinion ol
the gen eral good, (after consulting with their
Whig brethren from ot her parts ol the
State,) sustaining those wishes and preferen
ces by their votes. That is all right and
proper. But county nominations, and coun
ty instructions to Delegates, are calculated
io forestall public opinion, to array the
friends of different individual against each
other, to obstruct the selection of the best
candidate, and to produce lukewarmness a
mong the friends of those who are nomin
ted. Fay. OA.
THE WHIG CONVENTION.
It seems to us that the task of wresting the reins
ot power from the feeble hand of such a man as
Reid is not a stupendous work ; we have only lo
go the Polls and the thins is done. Ihe state is.
and ever has been, Whig, and if we have met with
reverses, they were occasioned at our own in
stance, or through our family disagreements, and
not by the superior force of our adversaries. W e
question very much, however, whether tbe De
mocracy will allow us the pleasure of beating
tieii u iic a Lt vicu uuiciituii Llii was u iiid&n-oiin
n the first p ac?,nnd his triumph carried joy sole
ly to his own ambition. The party enred not for
turn; he possessed not the abilities, reputation, or
political sagacity to constitute a partizan leader.
I here was nothing in nis nature, appearance, or
associations, to enl st the affections, or take cap
tive the hearts of men. He was confessedly an
artful poiit can of a low grade, and not remark i-
ble lor a sing'e rare gift or striking quality. His
success waa iheretore unexpected, and carrieu
with it no universal sensation of pleasure. The
Democrats rejoict d in the triumph f the party,
not of the leader. Now that they have the power
it will be a struggle with them to retain it. They
will doub less nominate their strongest man, and
Gov. Reid may be placed aside. Whether how
ever ihis gentleman receives a re-m niination, or
another standard bearer be selected in his place
tbe du;y of the Whigs is sufficiently plain. They
mutt lonzet all the differences ol the pnst, unite
fur (he sake of the future, and arrange the prelimi
naries lor knal success. Union and harmoDy
must be secured, or defeat is inevitable. The ne
cessity of a full Convention in the outset as
means df producing these results, and ol enkind
ling enthusiasm, is therefore apparent.
Where shxll this Convention aemble7 out
two places have as yei been suggested, iz: Greens
bijro and Raleigh. On a former occasion we in
dicated a preference lor Lrreensboro , Dec mse al-
litough mre difficult of access, yet to the sterling
Whigs of that locality much was due. We should
be satisfied with either place, however. While
upon this subject a third Domination may be made
without a violation of propriety. The Whigs
ol this section would be phased if Wilmington
were selected for the assembling of the Conven
tion. It would afford them pleasure to extend to
their brethren from all pans ol the State a hear
ty welcome. True I his is not a cent r I point, but
it i quite accessible. We can readily compre
hend the benefits which would probably flow from
the wet-ting, should it take place here, but we
wid not enumerate them; we merely wish to throw
out an invitation to the Whig party in the Sta e,
aud will bo perfectly satisfied with its acceptance
or decimation. IVL Herald.
DR, GRAHAM'S ANNIHILATOR.
Dr. (I baha v has been in our village some
days and has had a model of his Annihil Uor made
with which he purposes visiting Washington soon
to urge his claim for a pt.nt. We have seen
ihe model, which is made of tin, and is quite aim
pie in its construction, though we do not well
know how to describe it. Besides the gas receiv.
ers there are a few lubes aud other pieces, acd
the machine is complete.
The Doctor says that he can project the gas from
his machine to an orJinary height, whereas that of
Philips only permits it to escape. By means of
cocks he can also regulate the quantity of gas, or
shut off entirely, lie thinks that with a few of
his Annihilators he could have quenched the
flames of Moscow in 15 minutes from the time
when Napleoo viewed it and pronounced it the
grandest sight he ever beheld.
The advantages ofDr. Graham's machine over
that of Philips' are many and important It is
more simple in its construction, will pr ject the
gas, regulate the quantity, and, he says, will ex
tinguish fire, which Philips', it seems, will not.
We tru!t the Doctor will realize his most san
Cnioe expectation and the world be proponioua
bly benefited. Mountain Banner.
THE COAL OF NORTH CAROLINA.
The specimens of bituminous Coal left at oar
office for innpectioo, have been examined by sev
eral gentlemen who are competent judges of the
article, and they all pronounce it to be of very su
perior character. We discern in the?e specimens
the harbinger of future wealth and prosperity; for
no one can properly estimate :h great result that
may follow the opening of these mines in Chat
ham and other places within the range of this
great improvement. The specimens are from
newly discovered fields, where the quantity is in.
exhaustible. We may form some idea of the im
portance of this source of wealth to Pennsylvania,
from facts stated in tbe Philadelphia Ledger. It
appears that the Schuylkill Navigation Company
have this year brought rather less than half a
mill ten tons of coal to market, the Lehigh com
panies about 900,000 tons, and the Reading rail
road nearly a million and a half. By the close of
the season, the aggregate will reach three millions
and a quarter or three and a half. This is an im
mense business, and estimating each ton of coal
to be worth three dollars, gives the large aggre
gate of ten millions of dollars.
We are warranted in believing that the Cape
Fear and Deep River Navigation improvement,
row approaching completion, will open a like
brilliant prospect to North Carolina. There is no
better coal in the world than that which can be
procured in the range of the operations of this
Company, and there is no room to doubt but what
the supply will be unceasing. We have all the
means afforded by quantity and quality to com
pete with any market 10 the Union. Will we
lack the industry to make these means available?
We guess not Wilmington Commercial.
County Court. Next week will be held our
County Court, and we hope to see many of our
old friends from a distance. Our towu at pres
ent seems to exhibit a state of unprecedented pros
perity. Every Stoie is occupied. Since last
Uourt, two new and estimable citizens Stan,
mire, Clothier, Lougee, Jeweler have laken up
their abode amoag us. . Others have been here
to settle but could not find houses. The new bell
for the Court House has arrived, and its majestic
tones will, we hope, next Monday announce to
our people that the "blind goddess" is still re
spected in Old Wayne.
We would impress upon our people the vast
importance of patronising, as far as practicable,
in their trading, the products of home industry.
When we ihus begin mutually to aid each other,
we retain our money in our own borders, and e
evenualiy reach a state of independence, impossi
sible to be attained, while we allow it to be car
ried abroad. GoUsbvrti' Republicsn &. Patriot.
UALBI&H RS&ISTBR.
Oars are the plana of fair delightful peace,
rjn warp'd by party rage to live UJte Drouiera
RALEIGH,
Wednesday, Nov. 19, 1851.
THE WHIG MEETING.
The Whig meeting on yesterday, (Monday,)
at the Town Hall, the proceedings of which will
be found in anothercolumn, if not everything that
could nave been wished as to numbers, was char
acterized by a spirit of harmony and animation.
We take pride and pleasure in assuring our bre
thren, in other sections of the State, thatthe Whigs
of Wake are fully aroused to the importance of
the great political battles in which they will next
year be called upon to engage, and that they seem
determined to do their whole duty in the conflict.
The speech of the Hon. JrO. H. Brtas, on as-,
suming the Chair, was an ab'.e review of the
course of our present National Administration ;
and, in contrasting it with that of the earlier Pre
sidents, ho demonstrated, with great force and
truthfulness, how closely the policy of tbe one
has followed and adhered to the other. Mr. B's
tribute to the Administration, and to those who
have stood by the Country and tho Constitution,
and defended them agui nst the assaults of faction,
in both sections, was well-timed and eloquent
We sum up all in a word, when we say, that the
speech of Mr. B. was just the one for the occa
sion that it was the true fire from the truest
flint and that there was not a Whig present who
was not made, if possible, a better Whig after
hearing it !
The remarks of Mr. Miller, though brief, were
no less patriotic and stirring. They could cot
have been otherwise, emanating from the source
they did.
The short time that has transpired since the
meeting precludes, of cours?, any more extended
account of the proceedings. We cannot refrain,
however, pressed as we are for lime, from calling
attention to the Resolutions adopted on the occa.
sion. They embody sentiments that cannot fail
of eliciting a responsive echo in the breast of every
patriotic, Union-loving and law-abiding man.
They present a platform upon whirh such men, of
all parties, can stand and surely stand. Of the
preferences which they indicate, it is unnecessary
for us to say a word. They are our oft-repeaied
preferences, and we shall lose no occasion to com
mend them to the' people of the Country.
ORGANIZATION OF THE WHIG PARTY.
It is hardly necessary lo remind our Whig
friends how important it is that there should be
organization full and complete to ensure suc
cess in the elections which are to come off during
the next year. To effect auch organization it ia
indispensable thxttbe Stste Convention should
be well attended that it should represent the
whole Whig Party of the Stale. We w ould in
quire, therefore, whether the time designated tor
holding the Convention by our friends of Guilford,
the 3rd Monday of February next, be not too
early ? Would not a more distant day say about
the 3rd Monday of March, secure the attendance
of a larger number of Delegates? This would
give the Whigs of all the Counties, which may
not hold meetings during the present year, an op
portunity to avail themselves of the Spring County
Courts to appoint Delegates. We make the sug
gestion. VVe hope the Convention may be well
attended, whenever and wherever it may be held.
Organization, harmony, action, are what we wish
to see.
ATTEMPT TO BREAK JAIL.
Romulus S. Gaines, convicted of Forgery, and
sentenced to receive the full penalty of the law for
that offence, made an attempt to escape from the
jail in this Cityon Saturday night last. He suc
ceeded in his escape from the cell in which be
was con 6 tied, and had commenced operations on
the outer door, when his inability to proceed
further, or the approach of day, revealed his des
perate effort.
An ineffectual application was made to the Gov
ernor for the pardon of Gaines. He underwent
the whipping and pillory on Monday, and was
then re-committed to jail, to serve out the remain
der of his term of confinement.
THE SPANISH DIFFICULTY.
Tbe rumors of a d ifiBculty between this Govern
ment and Spain, in connection with the case of the
Spanish Consul, at New Orleans, turn out, of course,
to have highly exaggerated tbe Aspect of their rela
tions. The "demands'' of the Spanish M mister, spo
ken of, ar confiad, it seems, to the simple requisi.
two, that the return of the Consul to New Orleans
shall be acknowledged with the customary and pro
par respect, and that reparation be made for the los
ses of Spanish residents in return for which, it is
stated, though not at all reliably, or at least, in any
wise officially, that tbe American prisoners may be
sent back to the United Slates.
There is every reason to believe that tbe pending
negotiation has already or will come to a satisfactory
conclusion. It will We observed that tbe "National
Intelligencer," in the course of an article on tbe "Mee
ting of Congress," congratulates its readers that there
"i nothing in the relationrof the country with for
eign powers, which threatens any immediate distur
bance of the Peace now happily existing between us
ani them."
NEW YORK KLECITON.
. The latest accounts announce the receipt of official
returns from nearly every county in the State. The
result is, that the Whigs unquestionably have a ma
jority in the House of Assembly, and only two of their
candidates on the Stale ticket are known to be elec
ted, viz.- J axes M. Cook, State Treasurer, and Hen
et Fitzhugh, Canal Commissioner. Tbe vote for
Attorney General is so close that it is yet doubtful
which of the Candida tesbaa been elected to that of
fice. Nothing is said concerning the position of par
ties in the Senate, which, according to previous ac
counts ,was tied, with a Democratic Lieutenant Gover
nor to give tbe casting vote.
This result will give the Democrats at least five out
of the nine members of the Canal Board, and invest
them with the power to control the expenditure of
the nine million of dollars provided at the extra ses
sion of the State Legislature for the enlargement of
the Erie canal.
The Democratic papera of Virginia are JP2
just now, ,n ahowing up the Abolition aenUmenU
if the ,gc.nda
Mr. Summers, iney " . . "yu
.i iko dafonsive. and Old
Johnson," the Democratic canoiaaie, y. ...
by about 10.000 majority. Standard, 1 Dili.
This attempt of the -Stan Jard" to
facts in reference to the sentiments of the Whig
Candidate for Governor in Virginia is just of a
piece with the whole conduct of that print to
wards its political opponents ot the South. Mr
Summers was a member of the Virginia Legwla
tore at the time of the Southampton tragedy, and
in company with the leading men of the Demo
cratic Party of that State Roane, Randolph, Mc
Dowell, and others, favored a scheme for the
gradual extinction of Slavery in that State. It
was supported by Tom Ritchie, the Editor of the
Enquirer. Mr. McDowell was a few years since
elected by the Democratic party Governor of Vir
ginia. He acted with Mr. Summers, and when
nominated in the Virginia Legislature for that
office, Mr. Leake (the present Candidate on the
Democratic Ticket for Lieutenant Governor) de
fended him against the attacks made upon him on
account of his support in 1832 of this very scheme
of gradual emancipation. So did other Demo
cratic leaders : and yet what was right or perfect
sanaiaaie u - -. - .,
ly excusable in Mr. McDowell, ihe Democratic
Candidate for Governor, ia most culpable in the
present Whig Candidate ! How beautifully con
sistent ia Democracy ! How lynx.eyed it ia to see
the ghost ot Abolitionism in what is done by a
Whig, and bow purT blind it becomes when the
same act is brought home to one of ita own ad
herents !
No man proved himself a more able and zeal
ous defender of the rights of the South whilst in
Congress than did George W. Summtrs, the
Whig Candidate for Governor of Virginia ; yet
the "Standard" would leave the impression that
he is an Abolitionist, whilst it would fellowship
with and vote for Johnson, the Democratic Can
didate in the fame State, who voted whilst in
Congress for the Oregon Bill with the Wilmot
Proviso in it! Shame on such party depravity,
such unfairness towards one whose talents and
patriotism are an honor to his Country ! If such
men as Mr. Summers are to be injured at.d their
influence impaired, by such unjust and false
charges as that made by the "Standard," what
hope is there for the South
WILMINGTON AND RALEIGH R. R, CO.
We learn from the Wilmington papers, that the
Stockholders of the above Company assembled in that
place, on Thursday, and adjourned on Friday, last
The attendance was very full there having been
5,797 shares represented in person, and 5,180 by
proxy; in all, 10,927
Gen. Alex. McRai was elected President, by tbe
unanimous vote of tbe individual Stockholders. The
State vote, under instructions from Gov. Reid, of
course, was cast for Mr. Johx Campbbix, of Weldea
This course of tbe State's proxy seems to have excited
general surprise and a proper indignation. The
"Herald" and '"Commercial" are justly severe in their
strictures upon his Excellency. The former says
"Mr. Fkxnll threw the vateef the State for
Johx Campbkll, Eq., of Weldon. Mr. Campbell
is a warm personal friend of Gen. McHak, and we
have heard it stated woul 1 have declined tbe appoint
ment. This however does not affect tbe case one
way or tbe other. There seems to u a manifest im
propriety in the vote itself. It was in direct opposi
tion to the wishes of all tbe iudividual Stockholders
DreseDt or represented at the meeting. These cren
t leave n were familiar with the operations of the Road,
they knew the value of Gen. McRae's services, that
he was a good officer, ana peculiarly adapted for the
busiuess; that out of confusion and embarrassment be
had wrested order and regularity, and assisted by an
able directory, and corps ot operatives, had succeeded
in placing the Road in perfect condition, and on a
basis interior to no otner in tbe country. J. bey bad
no fault to find with him, no disposition to sacrifice
him, no motive whatever to drive him from their em
ployment, and confer the management of this public
work to uutried hands, and inferior knowledge.
Why then if every body was satijfieJ. if the Stock,
holders living along the line ot the Road, and who
were vitally interested in its management, far more
so than the State, both in amount and feeling; if these
gentlemen were desirous of ret 'imng an old tried and
faithful officer, why should the cHate place itself in an.
antagonist. c attitude, and so far as its action is con
cerned, endeavor to thwart their withes, and over
whelm their desires."
The "Commercial" remarks :
"The State vote was cast for Mr. John Campbell ;
this was probably done under instructions from Gov.
Reid, which induces us to hope that he is uninformed
or misinformed relative to the aff .ira of the company.
It is gratifying to find that party considerations had
no influence on tbe actioQ ofihose individual Stock
holders who belong to tbe Democratic party - the in
terests of the road and the appreciation of indisputa
ble merit in the President prevailing on the occasion.
We have something to say about these matters, and
intend His Excellency shall hear from us "to the pur
pose and the point"
This specimen of party bigotrr, upon tbe part of
our immaculate Executive, is in strict accordance
with all his previous official acts. He endorses with
all his heart, we doubt not, tbe disgraceful sentiment
imputed to Forney, in his recent Speech in New
York, to which we have heretofore alluded, and which
cannot fail to incur tbe condemnation and abhorrence
of every right-minded man.
The following gentlemen were elected Directors
via : Messrs. K B. Dudley, P. K. Dickinson, G. Pot
ter, W. A. Wright, A. J. DeRosset, and E. P. HalL
The gentlemen elected by the Company have hith.
erto held the office on the appointment of the Gov
ernor, whose case, says the "Commercial, " will be
included in the remarks promised above."
A resolution was passed protesting against the
right of tbe State to cast a vote of Q-5 of all tbe votes
present, and praying the next Legislatute lo remedy
the evil and equalize her vote in tbe ratio of her in
terest in the Company, she having transferred 1-3 of
her slo to tbe Manchester Road.
MOST MELANCHOLY OCCURRENCE.
We are deeply pained to learn that a most sad and
tragical affair transpired in the town of Morganton on
Tuesday last, the 11th instant. About two o'clock,
P. M-, on that day, just after Court was called, as
we learn from a letter received in this City, W. W.
Avert, Esq., of Burke, shot Samuel Fleming, of
Yancy, dead in the Court House. The ball from
Avery's pistol struck Fleming in the right side, pas
sed entirely through bis body, and lodged in the left
breast of his vest. Fleming died in a very few mo
ments. Both were members of tbe last Legislature
of this State.
Tbe facts connected with this most melancholy oc
currence, as stated in tbe letter to which we refer,
are briefly.- That about two weeks since, n Mc
Dowell Court, a suit in which Mr. Avery had filed a
bill on behalf of some of Fleming's relations against
him (F.) was heard. The bill, it is stated, "disclosed
a series of frauds on tbe part of Fleming" and Avery
commented npon the facts in "as mild a manner as
his duty to his client would permit, saying nothing
which was personally offensive.'' When Court adjourn
ed. Avery bad no sooner got npon the Court yard
than he was attacked by F. with a cow. hide. Avery
immediately turned and knocked him down with his
fist being unarmed; when F. rose with a rock and
struck him on tbe temples and over the eye several
blows felling him and rendering him entirely insen
sible Since that time, it is further stated, ''Fleming
had beta boasting of the disgrace and infamy he
bad fastened on Avery." Upon the first opportunity
which offered upon meeting him iu tbe Court House,
Avery shot him, as already discribed.
Mr. Avery was arraigned on Wednesday and was
to have been tried on Ihursasy or Friday.'
CONCERNING KOSSUTH ....
We publish, in '
statement of the movements of theHu
triot. Sanan pj
Immediately on the arrival of
at New York, a number of ,he
Press of that city wen. on board ,0 inv, f t!
charges made against Kossuth in , , Si'e
from abroad, among them the riotor"
ter of an Attache" of the United Si.. ll "Ul
tic coris, communicated to the ah
Washinston, and by them. ,hronK 7 a
HaP, Esq., to a portion ofthePre r.'L f?
The "Tribune" says. "naiciijr
" Captain Lone was not on -.j .
carefiTf inquiry we learned from SnrL " VI
well and other officers, that all the mfT'" P"1
men's of the real or pretended A.i.-t.. a'8,ie
ly false, as are the stories rpnerallv nf .e.c
8fe uii.
UVMU1II CilIU lUg Oil CP PS Vh
k.va nrtl (ho allffhlna, C.. I tl6SC SI
ctiltr
1,0. c .,v. .v iwui.uauon id trui, ,
whole of Kossuth's intercourse wi.u .l ln,le
soritj
and men of the Mississippi, he was mo Cp"
dial, gentlemanly, obliging, and is e.,l -
them all in the highest deciren n-.. "eu bv
dispute, not one conflict of vio... a of
word of (li.srpsnortfnt nr unn.,-. '
on?
while they were together. UCCDrffti
When Kossuth and bis comnani. .
sight of the Mississippi, Capt Lon sPnt T
the little Turkish propeller an officer X
ed and reported the arrival of the exiles
api. u'iig men weni 10 meet' 1 lien jjrer
men and rereived them in a bernm;?- "P'a
as the especial gnests of the nation and of th "n
Otninr. r '"
Aar fnr ihpir pnmfnrt Ifnaontk jr. wluf Or.
having large state-room fitted, op Dap. , mJ
for them. So Ctndial were the feeling, 0!f5 jrir
ship and respect between the exiles and 1'
ot the ship, that they united in most in."
a single mess, where good feeling and m
kindness were always prevalent. 41
H ia ntterly false that Kossuth ever exnr 5
a desire to stop at the various ports in the
terranean. He did intend to stop at ihrS
in order to so to England, and rejoin the jt
sissippi at Gibralter, and this intention wam!?'
known as soon as he came on board. He n
desired to land at Smyrna, and it was not on l"'
account that the ship went toSpezzia. At u
place Capt. Long stopped by order of' the Com!
modore. Of course, the people flocked to
Kossuth, cheered him, and otherwise manifey
their feelings, lo all of which he responded in
unexceptionable manner. So much for the io.
diary effort at this little place. CeD"
On arriving at Marseilles, Kossuth asked 100
through France, as fast as the most rap.d ooderf
travel would take him. This request was
graphed to Paris and flat denial was sent ba-U
Everybody was surprised; the people weie
ly excited ; they surrounded the frigate, a' sie
lay in the new harbor, in myriads,"sin'crin iae
Marseillaise and other republican songs, chetrim
the United States, bearing the stars "and strides
surmounted by a wreatn of immortelles, and in
every way testifying their joy that the exiles wn
under the protection of a nation that was in feet
as well as in name a Republic. But Kossuth did
and said very little under the circumstance!; be
acknowledged these compliments as a man should
do ; expressed his undying love for his owqcoud
try.and his sympathy with freedom everywhere.
Very few persons weie permitted to come oa
board the ship, and no apprehension was enter
tained of any difficulty whatever. The absurd
fabrication tha,t Kossuth preferred a comp'aint
against Capt. Long for not lifting his capittoc
who were cheering him ( KossuthJ is one ol the
overdone statemen sof the Attache whico threw
discredit upon tbe whole letter the oiooeat it
saw the light.
When Kossuth found that he would not be 1
lowed to go through France, he concluded to go
to Gibraltar and thence to Englund, as be dtd -When
he left the Mississippi he was honored
with the attendance of ihe whole ships company;
he made a short address and shook them all bv trie
hand, and so great was tbe esteem in which he
was held that scarcely one of the hardv seamen
could refrain from tears. As ne weal off irttba
boat toward the British packet, three beany spon
taneous cheers were given by the entire assembly
on the decks of the Mississippi."
We arc highly gratified at this statement All
our prepossessions are and have been in favor of
this distinguished man; and it was with great
reluctance that, believing the prejudicial rumors
that have been circulated against him, we were com
pelled to forego the exalted estimate we bad form
ed of his character. We shall be glad to see him,
in this country, with nothing to mir the sincentj
and pleasure of the welcome be will be greeUd
with.
INGRATITUDE.
In the transactions of private life all lock open
ingratitude towards those whose kindnesses and
aid have been liberally bestowed, as a sin, sator
irrg more of the principles which govern the Evil
one, and his immediate subjects, than any other
which could be named." From it, spring many of
the worst motives which could possibly gain sway
over the human heart.
But whilst ingratitude is viewed witb so much
detestation, when displayed in the transactions ol
private life, it nevertheless creates bnt a psm?
sensation, when exhibited in connection with pub
lic duties and political action. This is often sw"
in the neglec which follows to the grave, the sel
dier, who spent the spring time of his life iu
service of his Country; and how numeroiu"
the instances, where men who served their Coun
try in high offices, acted as faithful legist
and watchful sentinels, over her rights, in tobMmJ
and dangerous times, have been left in f"0
age to penury and want ! The history of out
own Country affords many such examples- The
could be named, but such particularity wo"1
arouse unpleasant feelings, and could hardly.
kindle for those whe are gone any generocs-
tion of svmpathy or regret. The living
aelvea, a more eloqnent appeal, tbaa m '"
gnage could afford. All remember the exemp
tion of Ca&dhul Wolset,
-Had I but served my God b?'
I served my King, he would not in mm ag?
Have left me naked to mine enemws .
But there is another species of ingratitude wbk
is regarded with less abhorrence or dp!ea
perhaps, than any other. We refer to yt r
Part, icgratitude. All parties take to tbemselj
tha credit of struggling for the sdvancement 0
the public good; therefore, those who are law J
for the triumph of a party are, in the estimation 0
that party, at least, engaged in a 'b
: fCr, it ihnpjise. that tnose
uuii. the las
bear the burthen and heat of the
and least remembered, amidst the shouts oj V
Party triumphs. Even in the foce of ep
perior qualifications, on tbe part of thos! oje
have led the van, in the hour of peril, the
who possessed neither the boldness nweDep0,
assume responsibility, are permitted to .m
lize the honora of eonquest. All Parll
learn a salutary lesson from the examp
certain military captain, who never fcrgo
hour of victory, the means, however hunt
which it was obtained.
Slocks and Markets- gtc(l,
New York, November 14- P-mied
are active and tending upwards. ! gDd
States 6's, 1867, at 116 Canton at w ,
Erie at 83J. . ,n eTin karreis at
Flour is steady. Sales 2,500
81 for State brands. Rye of 5,000
Wheat is lending downwards.
bushels Canadian white at 8j cents. ,
Corq is scarce. Sales of mixed at 6Q