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.r.J. .a- : : r. c f f . ' ' fir : v! it n ' i A CABINET COUNCIL Present General Tavlor. Mr. Clayton, Mr. Mere dith.' Mr. Kwino-'Mr. Collamer. Mr. Johnson, Mr. Preston and Mr. Crawford. General Taylor looks indignant Mr. Clayton flnrrieH Mr. Meredith. calmMr. Ewinr, bitter- Mr. Collamer, ''detected ' -Mr. Johnson, surprised Mr. Preston and Mr, Crawford, curious. General. I am a plain soldier, gentlemen ; and Vnnw nnThinT of nolhics or e-overmoenls : and I have asked your attendance to-day to obtain information whinh itowm lias been withheld from me. 1 see no papers but Whig papers ; but yesterday I chanced to-prek -op the Union, where I saw it stated that there have been one hundred and sixty post office removals in:Pennn9ylvania alone within a few days. This is mo astound inr. Mr. Collamer, that I cannot believe it. P. M. G. YVhy, sir, you know it was agreed to leave each Department to manage for itself, and upon .this principle, 1 presume, nir. warren nas oeen nwi ing a few changes. President. But surely you do not think it was understood that each Department was to do every thing "to disgrace me to stultify me to violate my pledges made repeatedly before, and solemnly affirm ed after my election 1 . P. M. G. But, sir, similar pledges have been made before by the Whigs, though not as strong as yours; and you know the opposition act upon the doctrine that to the victors belong the spoils. President. First of all, then, sir these pledges were honestlv made, and areas morally binding upon me, as ray oath to support the Constitution; and I .or you have as much right to violate them, as a suc eessful soldier would have in turning his batteries upon his prisoners of war which the opposition are not, by any means, judging by their achievement in Truman Smith's commonwealth after having sol emnly promised that they should be treated otherwise ! P. M. G. But those who voted for you, sir ..: President. Those who voted for me did so under standing my pledges, and though some expect me to violate them, tor their sakes, tne great mass wouia not fail to despise me for it.as I should despise m'yself. The Premier. But did you not yourself declare, before the election, that you would not retain in of fice brawling politicians, or inefficient men? The Presfdent. I did, Mr. Clayton; but, under that I would scarcely have removed Mr. Stubbs, who was by no means a brawling politician, and one of the best officers in your department all to please Mr. -Webster, who declared my nomination " net fit to be made." Nor, my friend, would this rule have induced me to remove Mr. .Wood as Despatch Agent t New York, and to appoint in his place my person al enemy, if his writings mein anything, Matthew L. Davis one of the Van Buren leaders. The Premier. Well, mistakes will happen in our family, as they happened in that of our predecessor. The President. Too true; for at the very first election held since mv inauguration, a Whicr State is revolutionized, and three Whig Congressmen lost. The Home Secretary. And you might add, on ac count of a union between the Democrats and the Free Soilers. The President. The argument means nothing, Mr. Ewing, because Mr. Niles, a Free Soiler, ran for Governor, against both the other parties ; and Heav en knows the Connecticut Whigs have been quite as bitter against the South as 'even Mr. Giddings could desire. I solemnly believe the people voted to con demn the deliberate errors committed here since the For the North Carolina Standard, vr MHoiJktfJARtlated 'March 2TVl&9i published by t Mr. ThomasT' Cauto Reynolds,' in the! Charleston Courier, has been going tlie rounds or tne papers; in, which sundry allegations are made, charge inrr me laie a.u ministration ana mr. oauiiacrs, uui minister at the Court of Madrid, with improper con duct, in reference to the transfer of the Island of Cuba, by Spain-, to. the United States. - Tliis letter was written by the late Secretary, of Legation, as he alleges, in order to remove theerv roneous impressions which exist in regard to his position," in a negotiation, at once so important and delicate. It may well be a wonder to the wise, how this gentleman should deem it necessary to obtrude himself upon the notice of the public; ' He declares that he does so " with great reluctance " and every reader-of the letter will agree with him, as he men tions himself so seldom and with suoh diffidence and huruilitv, and of course no one will he remindeH of the story of " land king Pepin." Mr. R. says that living in a land of freedom, I have an tneomgtble habit of forming my opinions for myself, and being educated with little reverence for great names orpar tizan dictation, I am prone to act upon the opinions I thus form." No one will question it; but if I could whisper in Mr. R's ear, I would advise him if he cannot correct this habit at least to endeavor to-restrain it, for I really fear that a few more essays like tne present would cause him to hear sometning aooui two scripture worthies, to-wit : Nabal the fool, and Judas Iscariot the traitor. It appears that this gentleman-quill-driver, having some knowledge of the Spanish language and being from Virginia, (doubtless of one of the first families, a real F. F. V.,) somehow or other received the ap pointment of Secretary to the Legation of which Mr. Saunders was chief, and after being sometime em ployed in that capacity, was recalled to this country and a successor appointed. In other words, Judge Saunders being unable to find, in North Carolina, a young man of sufficient linguistic and clerical attain ments to do the. translation, interpretation and writing of the mission, was compelled to seek (or get some body else to seek) an assistant over the border, when he was so fortunate as to light uponT. C. Reynolds, Esq., who in addition to these rate qualifications was initiated into the secrets of diplomacy, and although a very modest and unassuming young man, could have held a hand with Richleu, Talleyrand, Fox, or Metter nich ; but whose invaluable services he unfortunately lost one day in consequence of some disgust which Mr. Thomas Caute Reynolds, Esq., took at the man ner in which Mr. Polk and Mr. Saunders were going to annex Cuba. With such virtuous indignation did Mr. Reynolds look upon this proceeding that says he: f Had Mr. Cass been elected, I should, though I am and always have been a decided member oi the political party which chiefly supported him, have felt constrained to take the advice of some eminent coun sel, learned in law, concerning the proper legal mode, f.c .1 i r i .L TT..:.J in aiiv mere De ior a simple cuizcd m me uimcu is. v,Mr. Saunders's ignorance iof the Spanish language seems to a frond a theme of merriment td-Mr.ft ;fla says that Mr. S. complained of him .because, he -did not go to his house one rainy Sunday, to tell him the news that was published Jn the extras..? every jour nal in Madrid. Admit it, and. yet.i it was the duty and custom of the Secretary to inform Mr. S. of the news, be was censurable for neglecting-'' it on so im portant an occasion as the -tne he mentrons. w no would have a dog, and barkfiimself t remember to have heard an amusing Anecdote related of General Taylor, who wishing to dismtssja rowMetican,cnei out wavos. feffffs I rrive the pronunciation.' instead of vgjnos, (be off) when the fellow rarioff and brought aim a nawui oi. eggs .. i , , ,' if . : ' The last thing I shall notice in thia exlraprtaVj letter is his remark respecting the course WthtW S? Legation at Madrid. That course, aavs heAifc.mb- lic.may possibly .suspect to be a sucoessien-ef, adroit manoeuvres; it may dream of skillful: .majogeiAent, of palace coteries, of consultations witk- important representatives of Cnban wealth, of Cuban interests, disclosures over a genial glass of winei earnest con versations to bring over, or light jests to sound some grave diplomatist or minister of State, and all the other dazzling accompaniments of a racy diplomatic contest." . - ., . " - This 1 regard as a testimonial of the magnanimous and honest course pursued by Mr. Saunders. Let the crafty, cunning, subtle, and intrigueing represen tatives of corrupt monarchies resort to the mean and Contemptible expedients of-chicane and duplicity; but let the course of our ambassadors ever be manly. honest and straightforward, knowing-that they, repre sent a mreat nation, able to nav out or .fiffht out of everv difficulty a nation holding forth the olive branch to the whole world, while it draws the sword but to conquer, and sounds the trumpet but to victory. I have noticed the vaporings of this perfidious Secretary, who has not scrupled to betray theconfi- dence reposed in him; that it m3y be seen that Mr. Saunders s friends and neighbours esteem him tor nis talents, and entertain a strong and abiding confidence in his. ability and integrity, and have no doubt that the interests and honor of the country, so fvr'as con fided te him, are perfectly safe in his keeping. OLIVER. April 16, 1849. NORTH CAROLINA STANDARD- RALEIGH: WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18. 1849. REMOVAL OF WESLEY JONES, ESQ. Wesley Jones, Esq., of this County, Democrat, has been removed by President Taylor from the ol States,) of bringing to the cognizance of the House : gce 0f Marshal for the District of North Carolina, of Representatives an Executive proceeding, which I d George Little, Esq., Whig, appointed in his humbly conceive to be not only beyond the constitu- b . tional power of the President or his ajrents, but vio- i P'ace. This we regard as a clear case of prosenp- lative of the copstitutional rights of every citizen of j tion, and we have no doubt it will be so considered the Union, contrary to goad faith, derogatory to the J by everT unprejudiced man who will take the trouble aignuy una eminently ue.rimcuui to tue nucresis or our common country." IJut fortius gentleman, Cuba would have waked up j 4th OI March. I the Senate of the United Statp. hnd known a word about it, a delegation oi .black senators would have thrust their wooly heads within its doors, and de Attorney General. I think I avoided all trouble by retaining my officers, Mr. President. President. Just what I had reason to anticipate, Mr. Johnson; for you were one of the few Whigs who did not hesitate openly to support the justice of the war in which I won my laurels. Secretary of the Treasury. I am sure General, no complaints can be made about the Treasury ap pointments for Pennsylvania. President. No, Mr. Meredith ; I know your good sense, your ability, and, above all, your moderation. This much, gentlemen, 1 beg to say in conclusion, that either my Cabinet must be true to my avowals, or else I take the reins myself. I did not turn poli tician and President to exhibit myself in a humiliat ing attitude to my country. This council is ad journed. If the above scene did not take place in the White House, on Thursday last,, then all the auguries are most deceptive. Penmyfaanian. RESULT IN CONNECTICUT. ! For' Governor there is no choice by the people. The Legislature on joint ballot, according to the Hartford Times, stands, Democrats 115 Federalists 113 Free Soilers 8 and, of course, the fret; soilers hold the balance of power. We trust that the gallant end enlightened Seymour may be chosen governor. His 1 1 envy gain in his own residence shows that his valmhle service at home and noble valor at Chepul t? p?e are properly appreciated. The Democratic State Couvt-ntion, too, which nominated him, avowed sound and liberal sentiment in their address on the territo rial question. Tho Whig papprs are terribly gravelled at the Iretion of three Democrats ami only one Whig to Congress and raise the cry of "coalition with Free Soilm " as the cr.usc cf the Democratic victory. This may be so, though a sr-parate Free Soil ticket was run for Governor and if so, we wish it were otherwise. But, as the Whig candidates were as 1 bad if not worse on this subject, and as by their defeat, I there are secured three opponents of " the American System," against which the South has always pro tested, the South must gain something by the result. But, with what grace can Southern Whigs com plain of the course of Northern Democrats, when they themselves voted for Fillmore, an acknowledged Free Seller, and pledged " in favor of the abolition of sJivery in the District of Columbia?" and when in Gen. Taylor's Cabinet two decided Free Soilers, Ewing and Collamer, (the latter voted for Gott's proposition !) sit side by side, with Messrs. Preston, Crawford and Johnson, Southern Whigs ? Collamer in a speech in 1815, proclaimed that "slavery must ttoit that it may be temnorarily palliated, or excus ed, on the ground of necessity, but that that excuse cannot endure that every man is bouund faithfully to exert himself to remove that necessity :" vet he to acquaint himself with the facts. Proscription by Gen. Taylor, and that too after his most solemn some morning and fonnd herself annexed; and before (pledges, voluntarily made, to the contrary !,' In 1810 the term of Beverly Daniel, Esq.,. the for man Marshal, expired, and Mr. Jones was appointed manded seals as representatives of that Island. " A by President V an Buren to succeed him Mr J ones necessary influence says Mr. It. " from the present t found in office a number of census-takers, selected de facto position of the white population of the island b Mf Dan;e, but wilh that iberaitv which iw8 a and the decision of the Supreme Court of the United i J , .... , ,.. j-j-i States, in the case of the Armistad." And now "re- j waJ8 characterized him, he did not displace one lieved of all feelings of delicacy, in the premises," ! of them, but allowed them to go forward in the dis Mr. R. has sounded the tocsin of alarm, and if it is un- charge of their duties, just as if no change had been heeded, he is not lesponsible for consequences. made j h office rf Marshal. In addition to this, Ihe writer says that Mr. S. went tor ranee in!, . , , . . ,. . , May and returned in September. Whether he went j he re-appointed all the regular Deputies who solicited on a spree or on business he does not state, but as the j it, without reference to party politics; and. in one in Government at Washington seem to have been in- j stance, where a Democrat and a Whig were appli forined or his absence and have not punished him for j for believing the Whig to be the plaving truant, we may infer that he went on leave, i , , , ,. , , .. - .. While Mr. S. was absent, leaving Mr. R. with bffSt qalified, be disregarded his party feelings and limited powers, and vague instructions" the tide of preferred him to the Democrat. During the. entire Diplomacy seems to have risen to the flood ; and Mr. ! nerW of hi srrvirn h haa nprfnrmwl hi j.,t;M tt-HK R. "feeling entire confidence in his ability," being well ' i j .l l i j i assured that he would do it to his entire safisfac- i marked fideht ; and thouSh nown and recognized tion. " was instant in season and out of season To A. ; n B hands as a firm and consistent Democrat, be - , . w vance business. He "kept a close watch on the i has not used his office on any occasion for party purpo proceedings of the agent of the British holders of j 8e8, nor himself taken an undue or improper part in bpamsh stock." But in all the proceedings growing fK . , - , - . f , out of or connected with that affair, " I" says Mr. ! the.PoI,Ucal struggles of the day. These are facts, R. "took care neither to exceed my powers, nor dis- i wh,ch we challenge the W hig party to controvert or regard the stringent and even jealous instructions ! deny. ; - sent by Saunders " (?). In one of the letters Mr. , , , ... r ... U". S. wrote during his absence, be spoke of writing to And noW We ask Was tl,,s fa,thfuI officer rc" Mr. McLane on the subject, "as he had more confi-tu,ored r removed he was, as his commission had dence in him than in Mr. Buchanan. This is herald- j still some three years to ran! The answer is at , ed forth as if there was something wrong in it. Mr. j hand. He was a Democrat, and Whigs clamored S. never intimated that he would disobey the official ! f lt n,. . . instructions of the Secretary of State, and surely he j ior "the8P0l8, Ibe census is soon to be taken, will be allowed to avail himself of the best and most ! an1 the patronage it brings with it was desired exclu-i Mutual insurance companV 4 We ; understand tbat-4 . careful examination w,as made of the affaire'of this Company at their Annual Meeting in January, and the Company Jhaving-.been fonnd to' be in debt some'$6000, (the resulf of actual and incidental losses,) the Board of Directors after j,,! tolihAration nnnnimmisl V concluded that the five per cent, then required on the premium bonds, at the time of insuring, was not sufficient to meet the losses and expenses of the company, i ney ai bo determined to apply to the Legislature (then in session,) so to amend the act of incorporation as to confer the power of requiring tea instead,, of fi ve per cent, "on the bonds of all subsequent insurances. This, amendment passed and since January all in surers have paid ten per cent. s V: . . '. .'' ''. '. 'The next question presented to the Board was, how shall the claim against the Company be" met ! The Directors having considered this in all its bearings, resolved as a matter of expediency to assess all pre vious bonds five percent., additional, thus equalizing the amount paid by the various members of the Com pany, and putting previous and subsequent insurers all oh the same footing, f ' Taking the three previous years of the operations of the Company as a criterion, there cannot be much doubt that the ten per cent regulation will create a fund quite sufficient to meet all the losses the Com pany may sustain ; and the community generally will have increased confidence in the Company, on ac count of its ability promptly to pay all losses that may occur. : It may be maintained by some that the Board did not possess the power under the charter to assess the bonds more' than just sufficient to meet the demands against the Company, and that it was unjust to have gone, further. A strict construction of the charter would Javor this opinion; but it must be remember ed that in this State an Insurance Company was' a new thing, and that nothing short of actual experi ence could enable the Directors so to graduate the scale of costs, &c. as to bring enough 'revenue to cover actual and incidental expenses. We have no doubt but that the members generally will respond to the call of the Directors, and send in their additional five per cent, by the first of. May, (which wc learn is the time specified for collecting the assessment,) and thus show their hearty co-opera tion in sustaining an enterprise which is so im portant to the State, and promises so much good to all insurers. Upon; a careful examination of the subject, it is ascertained that f 500,000 annually have been paid by sfitulion, he will then be able to redeem the pledges people of this State for purposes of insurance; most made to the people, and realize the fond hopes of the oi mis to olocK companies, some ot which were r""" jrftT'f' xf Tfxi inmwKTDlTinV : ' Tbeystefiarsfoa-ittt: endeavoring to create premature and unreasonable j opposition " i to the new administration.' ! L.Tbat paperjsj mistaken, and in 'prbbffAvhat We'say we rfppeiiVto our col umns and to those who have taken the trouble to ob serve ourcourse since Gen. Taylor was inaugurated. On the7th of last month, before his Inaugural was received, we said : ' Gen. Taylor finds the ship of State in good or der, and on the true tack. We shall offer no factious opposition to his course. So far from this, we shall endeavor to judge his acts in justice; and we have to express the hope in advance, that his Administration may redound to the prosperity and welfare, of all.' Again, on the 21st of-March we sai.4 s -- r . We repeat it, we shall not prejudge the new Ad ministration, nor condemn it in advance. We hope it may prosper, 'because the interests of the country we all love so well are inseparably; identified, for four years at least, with its policy and jts measures. .V But it can only, prosper, we beg leave to say, by exerting its energies -to keep things as they are, and by ac commodating itself to the present condition of things. It may preserve and perpetuate, but it cannot improve, except as time and the course of events , may aid it SO to do. - ... r .. ., , .. ; .; If, however, it should, violate its solemn pledges in regard to no-party ism and appointments to office, and : should attempt a revival of those odious Whig msasures ..which the pepple put under their feet in defeating Henry Clay in 1844, we shall oppose it, from the first letter to the lasr line, and shall labor, in common with -thousands of others, for its discom fiture' and overthrow." ... , -Does that savour of factious opposition 1 Is it to ' assail ' Gen. Taylor to hold him to his promises, and to declare that if he violates them we shall show that he has done so 1 j . ; '. . : ' . The Register goes back to the Standard of March, 1845, and'quotes a paragraph to show that we then deprecated " unreasonable" opposition to Mr. 'Polk's Administration. We asked nothing more, at that pe riod than we are willing to concede now. . But why did not the Editor give us the advantage of both sides of the picture ? In the very ' same, paper from which he quotes, we held the -following language : " We are pleased to learn that Mr. Polk will not be disturbed and haunted, as Gen. Harrison was,' with servile and grasping aspirants for office. These are unworthy of his confidence ; and by disregarding their importunities he will have more time to devote to public affairs. He will teach applicants the stern repub lican truth, that othces were made tor the good of the Government, and not for the emolument of the holders ; and that no man can claim them at a right for parly sereices, for they belong to the people, who alone can give and takeaway. Keeping these views constantly before him, as doubtless he will, and selecting those only who are honest, capable and fatihful to ihe Con- . A RARE BIRD. Mr. Alexander Mitchell, an old and Whi? of Eaton. Ohio, heino- u rrr,! . to -fti'U UV political friends to apply for the Post fim f place, declined the proposition and published sons in we juuowuig communication Register: ' ' :- CoHsnnHcr-Foiwr-1 understand t, of my friends wish to recommend me tor P N in Eaton. Some have solicited me on thtRa Although I feel grateful for their kindness"! ' intention; I cannot consent to have anv . . toi el is n 11 it .r? iiii h nmnA . . . " for that office like well to have it, if it could be obtai or and consistency. II there was a or resignation, or otherwise,. I wou ndl 1U Jlk'A .ifc place. But as a consistent Whig, I am still Hf to nartT Droscrintions , In 1840ih .!.. PPoy 1 ' , m r . 1 ; - " w'tKcI Uf). f cried ' ou against proscription, tin-panning and 1 mandering, as the most abominable things And.tbey denounced the saying, " to the victo kI the spoils," as a vile locofoco principle tW " f : owJt uicoo tunics, iu Hc ujjjc- ua vtie ana abottiin it ever, r They seem worse in the whiss than in k. .! as vice in a common sinner. Consistency always compels me to opdos,,l anti-republican things in everv Dartv. I ... ed to the proscription of Isaac Stevens, for hign0?1 opinions. And the eame consistency rpnn;.. oppose the removal of the present incumbent f same cause.. know of no conwlaint ... onltl his nnlilirnl tmininnm v r vrr:. u,ore Poot,j iicBujr wau x am, ana ir ids omce was tentim r good as it is, and it was certain that it could beS'l ea, anaer present circumstances, as a man ifcriJl I could not consent to have it. And it is terv Ttf They seem worse in the whig than in the i ' 8 is ; more odious in a professor tf rtlim tain whether I could be successful. But Ter,, me that tne removal is certain, and that I mava j have the place as .any other. , This is like fat stealing apples. "He concluded that aa nik.,i UfAVllQllAtlf OtAnlttimlL.m'lA mi'.I.i . . 0(Jl ui.vsu. Healing tiicui iic uiiiu as well have tt I ; In the shameful squabbles about the Post Off some years "ago, I stood aloof, and kept my fit clean, and I feel determined not to dirtv thPm. t . uciiuatr ne wa8 notannlt. -im I Whig, ana proposed being the President, not 7,1 party, but tf the whole people. And I fondly hoJfcS administration will not be dismo.P Kir , tolerance and proscription.. Alex. Mitchell! If the individual who lately sent,us, for publij tionr the notice of a couple of marriages, puraorS ol uinsvuie, a., wucn w linn - since asceriainea to be a hoax, should chance tora these few lines, out object in penning them will U gratified. If a fondness for such low and trie! I i bankrupt at the time they effected insurance among us ; and many of our people have learned this when it was too late their property being destroyed, and their policy against a bankrupt Company being re turned without the money. , This large amount of-money has been annually taken from among lis and transferred -to and identi fied with the property of other States and countries. It is time therefore for us to guard with a jealous eye an institution existing in our midst, and one too that is beyond the possibility of failing. man. THE WEATHER AND THE CROPS. Mutable as April generally is, this moath has prov ed moro so than ever before in our time. Seasonable when it first approached it changed to mid-summer almost in a day; and then, changing again, on Sun-j Just w,?at a,i TeaonabIe men anticipated ; and as he day last we had ice, and on Monday the 16th, at ten maae no promises in this respect, so he broke none. Mr. Polk was nominated and elected as a party He was not pledged to proscribe proscrip tion, " or to give the Whigs as fair a chance for of fice as the Democrats ; but on the contrary it was ex pected that without recognizing party services, in themselves, as constituting a sufficient claim to office, he would nevertheless give the preference to his po litical friends. This he did; and he did it boldly and like a man. We heard ho sickly talk from him, or from his friends, about the "examples of the earlier Presidents'; but looking to all the lights of the past, and taking counsel from his own conscience and from the great principles which -had raised him to power, he went forward in the discharge of his duty the people's President elected by the Democrats. If Democrats were put in and Whigs put out, it was was placed by a " Southern President," in one of the most responsible posts of the Cabinet, and with im menaa power to injure the South. AVhen Southern Whigs thus tolerate, nay encourage and honor, our northern foes, how can it be expected, that Northern Democrats, stricken down by the Whigs of the South for their devotion to h constitutional rights, can now go farther than the Southern W hijrs themselves 1 This is our briof commentary upon the taunts upon ourselves in the Whig papers of yesterday. Richmond Enquirer. Two Hoxorkd Victims. Col. L. P. Cheatham, the worthy, efficient, and gentlemanly postmaster at Nashville, Tennessee, has been removed. ' Thia is another instance of pure party proscription. .Colonel Cheatham served the public honestly and faithfully, and was a popular officer; but. he was a Democrat, though not a meddler in politics and for this he was removed. Neither good conduct in office, the wish es of a majority of the citizens of Nashville, (al though a Whig city,) nor the fact that his son Col. B. F. Cheatuian, fought in several bloody battles in Mexico, and aided Gen. Taylor in winning Victories which made him President, could save his .head from being brought to the block. Cul. Cheathem, the son of the deposed postmaster,' waa one of the first officers to . enter a fort at Mont erey. He performed gallant services at Vera Cruz and Cerro Gordo, yet notwithstanding .these facts, his father is removed from an office barely sufficient to support hira and his numerous family, and a large property holder placed in his 'stead.' So much for the justice and liberality of the new administration.. I The venerable Simon Drum, for more than forty years postmaster atGreensburg, Westmoreland coun ty, in this Stated has also fallen under the axe of an administration which came into power with false pro fessions of moderation on its lips. Mr Drum is the fatherpf.the celebrated Captain Drum who fought so heroically at Buena Vista under the flag of his coun try r and afterwards fell in the yalley of Mexico, after baying rec.iptured the guns.hu bad lost in the former engagcniiiits. (GcnciaJ Taylor was appealed to to savo thu sir-cf this gallant tieto.' He was appealed to to.be true to his pledges at least in his case; but all to no purpose., -The enemies of the War in which the chirairic Drum , breathoIT his last, succeeded in forcing General Taylor to allow the memory of the jiluauious dead to ba violated in the person of the yeorau4 living I Pennsy loanian. 'Qji tvs. ' Tht.Gorwin-ia to be sent Minister to .Mc&lco, and that he. is to be received by Riley's .de$rtof3 with ' tke Cohere," lb. - .1' reliable advice in so important a matter, that he can riKtai n 1 r - It appears that an impression was abroad, that England was making overtures to Spain, on the sub ject of Cuba ; that she had offered to receive that Is land in payment of the debts due by the Spanish Government to the British subjects and to give Gib ralter into the bargain probably seeing that it was more to her interest to possess the key of the Gulf of Mexico, than of the Mediterranean. If cur min ister should not be prompt and energetic in forestall ing any such arrangement, he would be recreant in deed to his duties. Mr. Saunders seems to have been fully alive to the importance of the subject, and he declares, in a note to his Secretary, that rather than Cuba should be transferred to England, he would pledge our Government to pay the enormous sum of three hundred and fifty millions of dollars. This was doubtless a hyperbolical expression. I have no doubt but Mr. R. merely understood by it that Mr. S. re garded the possession of Cuba by the United States as highly important and desirable. Every navigator of the Gulf of Mexico knows that Cuba is the key of the Gulf. Let us suppose that any nation, a rival of our3 in commerce, possessed that island. As the whole commerce of the Missis sippi River finds its outlet there, is" there no dan ger that our vessels entering or leaving the Gulf might be forced to pay a tribute to the masters of that island, as every vessel that now goes into or comes out of the Mediterranean Sea? Suppose that Eng land held it, and we should unfortunately become in volved in war with that power; with a small force stationed there she could shut ud the Mississippi River. There she would establish denots of arms and provisions, where fleets could refit or victual without being-necessitated to take a long and hazard ous voyage across the ocean, and thence she could pour in her black regiments upon the defenceless coast of our Southern States, and in such an event (which is by no means improbable) what would even 350 millions of dollars be, compared to the damage we should sustain I Ask the residents ot the valley of the Mississippi if they would not raise the sum, rather .than have the' secure navigation of their noble river endangered, and to a man they would answer yes. T C I. . I -- I ft. -. i xi .aucii is ue case nowj wnai win 11 oe vu years hence? God grant that the supineness of our Gov ernment may not eventually ' make .Cuba cost us a larger sum, and in addition the lives of thousands of our citizens; that we will never see the island change hands unless we Come into possession of it. Besides the Revenues derived from .Cuba are large, and un der a better Government they would be increased ten fold in a few years. For many a long year our Government has been fully aware of the - importance of the possession of Cuba by the United. otates ; and 1 have more than a suspicion that the Spanish Government has been in formed time alter time that in ease they wished to part with the island, we would entertain a proposition on the subject. . And I take it, that though no formal negotiations were entered into on the subject by our present Minister, that there was no impropriety, in his inquiring, in courtly and diplomatic phrase, if Cuba was. in market, and intimating that if such was the case the United States would make a bid.. As to the sneers of Mr. R. at the retired . manner in which Mr. Saunders lived at the Court of Madrid, so far from sinking him in my estimation it raises him, for it reminds me of the republican simplicity of the venerable Franklin while our Minister to France. ' It looks strange. to see an implied censure of Mr. S. endorsed by the very papers, and perhaps, set up in the very, type, that a few months ago recorded de nunciations of Mr. ..Cass , for his princely equipao-e and courtly splendour, while representing our Gov ernrofnt at the Court of Versailles. sively for the Whig party. Off with his head" capable, faithful, and honest though he was. " Off with his head" eject him from his post, though when he came into office, some years ago, he, treated his political opponents, under his control, in a very different spirit from that which has been exhibited towards him. 1 Against the new Marshal, Mr. Liltley-..we'IhaTe . nothing to say. He is a gentleman of character, and well qualified to discharge the duties of the office;. but we call upon the Whig leaders to come forward with their reasons why Mr. Jones was removed. We demand the cause we dare them to attempt a justi fication of their conduct. ; As for Mr. Jones himself, be can live comfortably without this office, and he had no favors to ask of this, Administration. Those who have effected his remo val may make the most of it. A party, broken and divided in the last campaign, will unite and rally aS one man in the next; and the thousands of Democrats and moderate men, who were allured info the Whig ranks only to be trifled with and deceived, will per form their part also in the approaching struggle. Those who are struck down unjustly now, will rise Lwith a just cause in 1852 ; and then let Whirism " flee unto the mountains," and call upon the rocks to fall upon and hide them from the wrath of a be trayed and injured peoplei ' ' ' :r ' - MEDICAL GRADUATES. -? . ,51 - At the recent Commencement of the University1 of Pennsylvania the degree' of Doctor of Medicine was conferred upon the following twenty-seven gentleman from North Carolina, among. 163 others from other States : ' ' '' Henry A. Bizzell, John M." Brandon, Jesse Carter, Joseph M. Davidson,; Simon T. Green, o clock, A. M. the temperature was forty-three de grees Fahrenheit just eleven above freezing. The 9th of April, 1845, there was a similar change, des troying fruit of all kinds, save the blackberry and the strawberry', both of which are indigenous and generally grow in places, somewhat sheltered from the blasts. Six days later than the same period in 1845, thongh vegetation has not made farther pro gress than it had then, we experience thirty degrees Fahrenheit, and; the Weather much colder than it has been in this region for thirty-odd years. On Sunday last we had snow. It was a novel sight the snow- flakes insinuating themselves among the-blooming trees, and falling upon ihe clover and green grass. We learn that the frost on Sunday night has in all probability destroyed all the fruit; and judging from past experience, we should say there was little from R.ilcigh to the mountains, and none at all from this place Northward to Canada, where we suppose vege tation is yet too dormant to be seriously affected by any frost. We have seen it stated that the peach and plum . buds were' killed in the New England States, by germinating during the unusually mild days in December last. A friend just in from the country informs us that the-forests are black , and withered, "as the result of Sunday night's frost. We learn that the crops of Wheat in this and the neighboring Counties were looking extremely well, but we fear that they have been seriously injured. Added to this, the season has been very dry here for some time past ; and unless we have rain soon, Oats and Corn, with vegetation generally,, must suffer materially on that account. Giles P. Bailey, Geo. W. Blacknall, James S. Caldcleugh, Kenneth M. Clark, James B. Dunn, Edmund Burke Haywood, Samuel Hill, Edwin S. Hunter, . William T. Mebarie, . John L. T. McKinnie,' William Nicholson, Calvin C. Peacock, . Gideon Roberts, Joseph J. W. Tucker, Caleb Winslow. John T. Lewter, . Henry Mitchell,' Archibald M. McKinnon, 'Thomas J. Patrick, ' Andrew J. Peeples, Charles Smallwood, Richard I. Weaver, On Tuesday last a young roan was left at the Hotel of Mr. Hall, in this City, in a dying condition, ia t name was Milctiell, from Ureensborongh in this State He had been down the country in company with 'a wagoner by the name of Donnell, we bclieye who abandoned him to the care of strangers.. He died to a few minutes after he was taken frpm the wagon, joT withstanding the medical treatment he received at'ihe bands of Dr. Hay wood, who kindly stepped forward! and attempted to revive his pinking powers.' J He was buried by the County. We make this statement for the information of his friends and relations in Greensborough. , . THE PLANK ROAD. We learn from the last Fayetteville Carolinian, that at a Meeting of the stockholders of the Plank Road Company, held on the 11th instant, the fol lowing Resolutions, after considerable debate, were adopted : "Resolved, That in the opinion of the Stockholders! in general meeting assembled, the most eligible route for the contemplated Plank Road, is what is called the Upper Route crossing Little River at or near Murchison's Factory, thence to Deep River, at or near w 1?.; 1. 1 .1 u . u Counties of Randolph and Davidson to its termination. Resolved, That the President and Directors are here by instructed to have both the upper and middle routes examined' by a competent engineer; and as soon as said examination is completed to or ne'af the village of Asheboro' or Franklinsville, in Randolph county, then the said President and Directors shall proceed with all convenient despatch, to locate the said Plank Road on that route which, in the opinion of the engineer, with theconcurience of the President and Directors, will be the most advantageous to the interest of the Stockholders and the State. V . Edward L. Winslow, Esq., of Fayetteville, has been elected President of the Company. "This Axe ik Motion." The Union of tbe 12tfi, which copies from the National Whig, contains no less than ninefy-six removals and appointmants made by the Post office Department in one day the 10th of April. Truly, Gen. Taylor, has " no friends to reward and no enemies to punish.' ' 1 . P S. The Union of Saturday last contains a list of fortytwo more heads off in the Post Office Depart- imeot. ..This was done between 10th and 12th inst. 'The work goes bravely on" but . "the blood of the martyrs will be the seed of the Church." New York Ettcrioif. Mr. Woodhull, the Whig candidate for Mayor of New York City, has been eected oyer Mr. Van Schaick, the Democratic candi date, by some four thousand majority.' The Whigs have also carried a majority of. the Aldermen. This result is attributable to feuds and divisions in the Democratic ranks. Still be was not prescriptive. - Hundreds of Whigs were permitted to remain in office, and very rarely did it occur that one was removed, except for cause. Bat it was not so with Gen.-Taylor. He was elected with the distinct understanding, and so announced himself, voluntarily, that in appointments to office he would not know a Democrat from a Whig; that in these matters he would look to his country's good, and not to party; and that, in short, he had "no friends to reward and no enemies to punish. " Upon these grounds he was elected, and this it was, among other promises, that elected him. Has he thus far kept these solemn pledges? Let the removal of Wesley Jones, of Mr. Pasteur, and the spirit of proscription now raging in the Northern States, give the answer ! If he had preserved silence on this subject, or had been elected, as Mr. Polk was, as a party man, no com plaints would haye been heard or such complaints, if uttered, would have been regarded as unreasonable. We repeat, if the Register supposes that we intend to wage a factious opposition to the new Administra tion, it is. sirflply mistaken. We shall take things as they may arise, and we shall endeavor to judge of them in a spirit of independence and of fairness. In . no case shall we look so much to the fact that Gen. Taylor is a Whig, as to bis voluntary pledges made to the American people while be was seeking their suffrages ; for these pledges were mainly instrumen tal in securing his election, and by them he must stand or fall. . . The Register says : ' Our thoughts, we must con fess, are turned on peace. We had hopod that the termination of the late contest for the Presidency, which tore the whole country asunder, would have' been the beginning of at least a temporary state o( repose." Kepose indeed ! V hen did Whigistn, out of power, ever give rest or quietude to the Re public? What has it been for twenty years past but an active volcano, shaking the country with its eruptions and its baleful fires ? And now, for sooth, with all power in its hands, and while the axe is descending on the necks of its victims, it talks of " repose"! Let it, if it. wants' repose, cease to proscribe, and hasten to redeem its promises ; or let it hereafter, when it desires power, show its hand plainly to the people in advance, so that when it comes to act it may escape the charge of deception and dishonesty. ''.'''-. amusement is in anywise peculiar to himself, he J .....1, tuiiouiauuu ui &iiuwinr mat no honeslji envies him the gratification. The man, certaS. who could work up a miserable affair of litis cftarac. ter, for the purpose of sporting with the feeJimsol a woman, must be dead to all trenernna nA JL 1. sensibility, and would not hesitate long to peinettv a greater offence. ' 1 Our rule with regard to the insertion of manias? is and has been inflexible: We never publish tl,cu, unices w iieu accouipamneu oy a responsible nan The fact that the notices in question were commo cated by what seemed a responsible person, prora that their author was more knave than fool.- Rcghler. As we copied these Marriages from the Reo-ister we insert the above as the only apology we can offer. The Editor of the Register has given the pitiftj knave who perpetrated tbe hoax, his just deserts; and we take occasion to say that we endorse cverj word he utters in regard to him. READ THE NEWSPAPERS. John II. Prentice, in his recent valedictory on it tiring from the Editorial chair, which he had HM for forty-two years, gives the following good advice: ; "No. man should be without a well-conductti newspaper. Unless he reads one, he is not upon a equal footing with his fellow-man who enjojasod advantage, and is disregardful of his duty to fail family, in not affording them an opportunity of acqo ing a knowledge of what is passingin the world,atik cheapest possible teaching. Show me a family wiii- jjut a newspaper, aud 1 venture to say that therein! oe manuesi in mai lamiiy a want 01 amenity 01 mat ners and indications of ignorance, most strikingly k contrast with the neighbor who allows himself sud a rational indulgence. Young men especially shooli read newspapers. If I were a boy, even of twein years, I would read a newspaper weekly, though! had to work by torch light to earn money cnouH pay for it. The boy who reads well, will leatnti think and analyze, and if so, he will be almost sun to make a man of himself, hating vicious indulgence, which reading is caculated to beset a distaste for." "ALL THE DECENCY." The last Wilmington Commercial, in speaking of removals from office," uses the following express ions: ' "In connexion with this subject, we state that 1 Whig petition has been 5fot up to retain tho Postmas ter of this place in bis present position. We do rot know that there is any ground of complaint against him, as respects the discharge of bis official duties nor lias he been, so far as we can learn, a meddling or vindictive politician. His only misfortune has been lo breathe the political atmosphere imore2rnaled with the breath of leaders, as devilish in heart ani practice as any " human1 can well be." After that, the Editor of the Commercial mayjurt take up the first piece of cbalk he comes across, and write his name behind the door, or almost any where else, as one of the most " decent " organs of VVhigism in the whole country. - How were these same leaders, Mr. Loring, in 1840? Was the "devil" araony them then ? MEDICAL CONVENTION. .On Monday last, in. pursuance of previous notice, a number of Physicians assembled in this City ; and on Monday evening, at seven o'clock, they proceeded to organize. D Frederick J. Hill, of Brunsiwick County, was chosen President of the Convention ; and Dr. William H. McKee, of Wake, was appoint ed Secretary. ' - After some debate and due consultation, a Com mittee was appointed to prepare a Constitution and ByTLaws for a State Medical Society, and was direc ted to report to the Convention yesterday at ten o'clock, A. M. . In our next we shall lay. before our readers a de tailed account of the Proceedings of this intelligent and Highly respectable body. ' " Secretary Ewing, says the Baltimore Argus, has occupied himself in providing his relatives with fat offices, since blsVowVappointment in the. cabinet. His brother-irAlaw, iather-in-Iaw, and son have all been the recipients of his favors. All-right: . He that provideth not for his own household, has denied the, faith, (whig faith,) and is worse than an infidel." If Tom, the saltboiler," should keep on in this ratio the whole Ewing. family will be rolling in spoils and' " licking Government candy " before old Zac's four years expire. . :"',. The Tomahawk. Among the appointmeBts ifl another column, will be found the following: "George Little, of Nortb Carolina, to be United States Marshall for the district of North Carolina." The Intelligencer, of the 9th inst., in which thi announcement appeared, has forgotten toadd,i place of Wesley Jones, removed. This is another de velopment of the unproscriptive spirit of the ne administration. If ever a removal was made upon party grounds it was this. No man could accuse Mr. Jones of any undue interference in elections. His name was never' mentioned as a politician. Nothing of any kind could be alleged against him, except that'he was a Democrat, yet he has fallen victim to the voracity of the crowd of hungry office hunters who disinterestedly support General Taylor. We anticipate a bloody season. Heads will drop by the score, to prove that Gen. Taylor has no friends to reward nor enemies to punish," and to prove the consistency of a no-party President. Wilmington Journal Brigadier General. The recent election forBrig Gen. 5th Brigade N. C. Militia resulted in the choice ot Ihos. J. Person, Esq, of Northampton coomji over joi. 1 nos. 1. Alston, of Halifax county. Tne following is a Regiments : statement of the votes in tbe sere' ral Martin County, Halifax . tt . .. tt No'ampton . Edgecombe 13th 14th 15th 16th 20th 21st Reg'L tt t Per'n. 149 28 57 115 66 66 4 41 11 4 0 1 480 67 Tarborough Pre - The next County Court of this County will ba to appoint t CWer thereof and we are requested if a neighbor to announce his little boy Tommy candidate for the station. Without interfering the claims of numerous applicants, we simply statt that Tommy is a loud one. The Whigs say that tbeDemocrats haveproscribjj them for more than twenty years. Not so. Whig leaders have been proscribing, theie country f since the war of 1812 ; and for this the people Jtep them out of power. Their very last act was a move ment in favor of Mexico and against their own counj try. Such men proscribe themselves, proserin'" J their country. ' Rait. Jrgu
The Weekly Standard (Raleigh, N.C.)
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