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.V THE CONSTITUTION AND THE UNION OF TUB STATES THEY MUST BE PRESERV ED." Volume XVI. RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 23, 1850. Number 794- Carolina fitittlifi. fUE NORTH CAROLINA STANDARD IS PUBLI8HED WEEKLY, BY WILLIAM W. HOLDEN, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. The Nobth Cabour a Sta2tbai is published week ly, at Three Dollar per annum, payable in advance. In no instance will the paper be sent, unless the money for the same shall accompany the order. Subscribers, and others, who may wish to send money to the Editor, can do so at all times, by Mail and at his risk. Receipts for all sums will be promptly transmitted. Advertisements not exceeding fourteen lines, will be inserted one time for one dollar, and twenty-five cents for each subsequent insertion ; those of greater length in pro portion. Court Orders and Judicial Advertisements will be charged twenty-five per cent, higher than the above rates. A reasonable deduction will be made to those who advertise by the year. Letters to the Editor must come free of postage. THE ROSE-BUD OF NORTH CAROLINA. II maS. ROBERT STRANGE. Would you gather a garland of beauty bright? You should wander at dawn, or by pale moon light, While the breeze is fresh on the opening flowers, Or their leaves are moist, with the dewy showers ; One Rose you should gather, and gladly entwine her, The soft opening Rose-bud of North Carolina. Nay, go where you will, over mountain or plain, In country, or City, where gay fashions reign, Wherever Columbia's daughters are found, Fair blossoms of beauty are scattered around: But yet there is one, among all much the finer, The fresh-blooming Rose-hud of North Carolina. In gay festive halls, where the music is sweet, And beauties fike blossoms, in fresh garlands meet, Where light, like a flood, is poured over the scene, And flagrance floats round, as where roses have been, The chief place of all, every eye will assign her, The beautiful Rose-bud of North Carolina. Iu home's quiet scene, where the heart loves to dwell, Mid joys that no tongue to a stranger can tell, Whatever the life you are destined to live, One blossom is needed, her fragrance to give ; Go gather that blossom, and never resign her, The sweet gentle Rose-bud of North Carolina. When sickness and sorrow, shall visit your home, Sad guests, though unbidden, that surely will come, To have by your pillow, a blossom like this, ' Will make e'en your death-bed a region of bliss ; Her breath makes the soul every moment diviner, The pale drooping Rose-bud of North Carolina. SPEECH OF MR. FOOTE, Delivered in the Senate, Jan. 4, 1850, in reply to Mr. Seward of New York, in the debate on the Resolution of Gen. Cass for suspending Diplomatic intercourse with Austria e Mr. President : I do not propose to enter into the debate now in progress upon the resolution of the honorable senator from Michigan, Mr. Cass, atleast so far as the general merits of the resolution introduced by him are concerned. Approving heartily of almost all that has fallen from him on this occasion, and con curring fully with him in all the leading views which he has so forcibly stated, I should be entirely willing to risk the fate of the resolution upon the speech which has already been delivered in its support. At least, it cannot be necessary, at this stage of the de bate, that anything further should be said in support of the resolution, either by its avowed or presumed friends, especially as allusions have been made by the honorable senator from Michigan to two honorable senators over the way, Mr. Clay and Mr. Webster, which, it is to be hoped, will call forth from them such responses as will comport with the high charac ter which they have heretofore acquired in the coun try, and serve in some degree to renew in the recol lections of their countrymen certain glorious scenes in our annals in which they have formerly borne so distinguished a part. As a member of the Commit tee on Foreign Relations, to whom it is proposed to refer this resolution, I shall gladly avail myself of the sage counsels which may be offered upon the grave subject under consideration by more experienced senators, whether associated with one or the other of the two great political parties into which the country is divided. My chief object in rising is to notice the remarks with which the Senate has been just favored by the honorable member from New York, who has been pleased to take it upon himself to complain that the senator from Michigan has thought proper to avow (though in mild and moderate language) his disappro bation of the precipitate departure of the individual nominated to the Austrian court, who has not waited, as it was clearly his duty to do, for the previous con firmation by the Senate of his appointment abroad. The honorable senator from New York says that he finds himself, by the conduct of the senator from Michigan complained of, " exceedingly embarrassed as the friend the personal friend the unwavering friend the devoted friend of this foreign representa tive," alleging at the same time that be has " docu ments in his possession to extenuate, and, as he be lieves, to remove the accusation of precipitate flight from before the Senate of the United States ;" and yet (he continues) " these documents are of such a nature that, in justice to the domestic relations of that individual, he is not at liberty to give them to the world." These are tha precise words used by the honorable senator, who, I venture to say, will not undertake to deny my citation of them. Now, Mr. President, I must say to that honorable senator, to the Senate, and to the country, that I am exceedingly surprised at the language which he has presumed to hold in our hearing upon this delicate and important question. I will remind that senator that the consti tution of the United States has provided that the President " shall nominate, and by and with the advice and consent of the Senate shall appoint, ambassadors and other public ministers," etc. Yea, sir, " by and with the advice and consent of the Senate " is this ap pointing power of the President to be exercised, and not otherwise; and yet the honorable senator from New York undertakes to maintain that it is entirely proper for an individual who has been simply designated to a foreign mission by the Executive, and commissioned during the recess of the Senate, and only a few days, too, before we were to be assembled here for the pur ose of either approving or disapproving such desig nation, and confirming or rejecting the nominations made to us, with his commission and salary in his Eocket, to fly from the country before the Senate has ad an opportunity of determining upon the fitness or unfitness or his appointment. And, sir, the hon orable senator from New York undertakes tomaintain the propriety of such action on the part of his friend, not upon any ground of public policy, not because there was anything in our relations with Austria which made it imperiously necessary that he should go thus hastily upon the mission to which he has been pre ferred ; but, sir, the justification, which he seta up for bis absent friend is based alone upon domestic considerations, of a nature so exceedingly delicate, as be assures us, that he does not feel at liberty to explain them at this time in our hearing, or to do more than refer to them with something of the mys tical significance of the Pythian prophetess herself. Sir, this is extraordinary doctrine, and upheld in an extraordinary manner. I cannot believe, for one I will not so cruelly wrong that high officer and his official advisers, as to suppose that the President and his cabinet have given their sanction to this rash and indecent conduct of their diplomatic emissary to the court of Austria. It would not be easy to per suade me that the intention of Colonel Webb to leave the country thus suddenly was made known to the President of the United States anterior to his depart ure. The President has too often professed and I doubt not sincerelv. his nrnfonnd res Dec t for the co ordinate departments of the government, and his un willingness to encroach upon their constitutional powers and privileges, to allow him for a moment to think of particinatincr in so gross an insult as has been perpetrated in mis instance upon the dignity of this body. So often have those now m power avowee, their apprehension of the undue strengthening of die executive department of the government at tile ex- Eense of the legislative so much dread have they eretofbre avowed of the increase of what they have emphatically called "the one-man-power" of our system that it cannot be possible that this most griev ous encroachment upon the authority of the Senate this most flagrant insult upon its dignity can either have originated with the President and bis cabinet advisers, or have been ortherwiae than deeidedly condemned by them. And yet, Mr. President, the manner in which the honorable senator from New York habitually puts himself forward as the special defender of the admin istration the leadership of which he has, on all occa sions, so authoritatively assumed might almost in duce one to suspect that the language which he has held here to-day in defence of his editorial friend of the New York Courier and Enquirer may have origi nated at the other end of the avenue or may, at least, hereafter be approved in that quarter but for certain nets, familiar to us all, ot a nature to awaken some suspicion that the honorable senator from New York is not so specially and exclusively authorized to represent the administration in this chamber as he seems himself to suppose. It is not for me, sir, to become the Tegular defender of the President and his cabinet against assaults of their own professed friends, nor do I wish to be con sidered as intending on this occasion to render to them more than simple justice. Yet it is in my re collection, and I beg leave to remind honorable sena tors of the fact, that early last spring, even a day or two before the inauguration scene of the 4th of March, the honorable senator from New York came to this city, (whether by special invitation of the Executive or not, I do not know,) according to his own account of the matter, and kindly took charge of the interests of (he incoming administration in connexion with a most delicate and important question then pending in Congress, and if his own printed statement be true, so managed matters in the two wings of the Capitol, in the course of some twelve or fifteen hours previous to the adjournment of the two houses of the national legislature, as to defeat the settlement of that territo rial question which has put the Union in such serious jeopardy, and cut off our fellow-citizens of California and New Mexico from that governmental protection and defence to which they were so clearly entitled at our hands. 1 do not assert, sir, that the honorable senator was actually as efficient in this affair as he has himself claimed to have been. Indeed, I have always doubted whether his influence was very po tentially exerted on the occasion referred to. Nor am I willing to take it for granted, upon any showing that has vet been made in the case, that the acts of the honorable senator, as described by himself to have been performed, have ever received the formal sanc tion of the Executive of the Republic. I will add, that my respect for the high officer just alluded to, personally, in spite of my political opposition to him, will not permit me to lend easy credence to the state ments of an indiscreet friend, who, with a view to increase his own consequence in the public estima tion, may 'possibly have claimed authority to represent the opinions -and wishes of the President and his cabinet beyond that designed to be accorded to him. And, sir, it is chiefly with a view to rescuing this whig administration from undeserved discredit, and for the purpose of saving them from being held re sponsible tor the extraordinary language of the sena tor from New York, this morning, in connexion with the mission to Vienna, that I will take upon myself to go a little into the particulars of that nocturnal scene of the 3d of March last, in which the senator from New York claims the honor of having figured so conspicuously. I have said that the honorable senator from New York arrived in Washington a day or two before the inauguration of the President. His advent had cer tainly been anticipated us all ; but I feel that I can safely assert that no one here expected him to parti cipate very actively in the legislative proceedings of Congress, before he had been regularly qualified as a member of this body, which could not constitution ally take place until the 4th of March had arrived. He reached this city, so far as I know or have heard, without producing any very profound sensation, either among the resident population, the government func tionaries, or casual visiters to the metropolis of the nation, of whom a vast number had already congre gated. There was no special ringing of bells or firing of artillery to announce his approach ; nor do I recol lect that the editorial notices 7f his arrival, in the leading prints of this city, were such as to awaken any particular attention to the fact that a new senator from the Empire State had reached our midst, who would be at once manager-general, on the part of the Executive not yet inaugurated, in and over the two houses of the national legislature. At this period, the memorable amendment to the civil and diplomatic appropriation bill introduced by the honorable sena tor from Wisconsin. lMr. Walker, had passed this body after a fierce and lorig-protracted struggle, and was awaiting the sanction of the House of Represen tatives. The hope was confidently entertained, by all the true friends of the Union, that the' adoption of this measure would forever settle the territorial question, and secure to the patriots of the republic a signal and permanent triumph over the accursed myrmidons of faction. Nothing had been more clear ly ascertained than the fact that this plan of settle ment, brought forward by the honorable senator from Wisconsin, was the only plan the adoption of which could be probably secured. It was most clear to all minds that, if this plan should be defeated, the coun try would continue to be harrassed with the perilous controversy then in progress upon the most exciting question ever agitated among us. It was equally obvious that no one could feel interested in prevent ing the settlement of this question, except, pejphance, some aspiring politician, who, aiming to accomplish his own advancement to high public, honors by sec tional strife rather than by intrinsic merit, might be inclined to throw impediments in the way oi an schemes of fraternal and fair compromise. Certain it is that the amendment of the honorable senator from Wisconsin, with a liberal confidence highly credita ble to its framer, intrusted large additional power and patronage to a President in whose election he had not participated, but in whose .gooa sense ana purity ui heart all the supporters of that amendment upon this floor professed to have an entire confidence. I believe I may add, without the hazard of contra diction, that General Taylor had, himself, expressed a wish to his confidential friends that this scheme of settlement should succeed. Under these circum stances, the honorable senator from New York, according to his own account of his achievements, en tered upon his brilliant career as manager-general. On the 29th of March last, he became the historian of his own exploits as the author of a letter publish ed in this city, in the columns of the National Intelli gencer, in which he states that, "on the morning of the 3d of March, the last day of the late session of Congress, General Taylor, Mr. Clayton the present Secretary of State, and Mr. Ewing, the Secretary of the Interior, severally called bis attention to the ne cessity of having some form of civil government for California established before Congress should ad journ." Yes, sifchese distinguished functionaries are asserted by thoTionorable senator from Now York to have " severally called his attention to the necessi ty of having a civil government for California estab lished before Congress should adjourn." This, sir, is truly a most surprising statement. The two houses of Congress had been gravely considering this matter for months. Many ot the sagesi men in tue repuu licbad been engaged night and day in maturing some plan for the settlement ot this great territorial ques tion. Whigs and democrats seemed in this body, at least to some extent, to have concurred in sup porting the plan of the senator from Wisconsin. Some of the ablest and most experienced members of the whig party to be found iu the republic were known to be then occupying seats in the two houses ot Congress. The attractions of the anticipated in augural scene had drawn together a large number of the wisest and most patriotic citizens belonging to the nation. Instead of permitting the amendment of the senator from Wisconsin to become part of the law of the land, and thus closing the controversial strife which had been so long distracting the coun try instead of urging upon his friends in the two houses of Congress to co-operate efficiently and zeal ously in securing the consummation of this noble scheme of pacification the President and his cabinet are described by the senator from New York as. throw ing themselves at once upon his counsels, and subrait ing themselves in this grave conjuncture to his exclu ives direction. I venture to pronounce this the most as tounding instance of reckless confidence that ever has been recorded by historian, or been depictured by poet or novelist. The elder Pitt once said,1 " Confi dence is a plant of slow growth in aged bosoms." In this instance a mushroom rapidity of growth is displayed, which I feel sure must have been surpris ing to al) who did not suppose the honorable senator from New York to labor under the influence of a special hallucination in imagining himself to have been trusted so exorbitantly. Well, sir, what did the honorable senator from New York do when thus employed as the sole negotiator of business so difficult and momentous ? I will endeavor to give you his own words, as con tained in the letter already referred to, so far as my memory will serve me for the purpose. If I mistake the import of the letter, I hope to be corrected by the honorable senator. This, then, is what he said : "I repaired to the Capitol in company with Mr. Ewing. There I procured a copy of Mr. Walker's amendment, which I had not before read. I immediately prepar ed what I contemplated as an amendment to Mr. Walker's amendment, or as a substitute for it." Yes, sir, he immediately prepared his substitute. The sub ject was not new to him as we all know ; but the existing condition of things could not possibly have been known to him personally until his arrival at Washington. He was quickly called into consulta tion, and his capacities as a manager at once put in requisition. He required no time for deliberation ; the operations of his intellect were like the movements of electricity. There is really a marvellous celerity in the actions of his mind, as so modestly described by himself in this epistle ; the flashes of divine intui tion can scarcely be imagined to be more instantaneous. "Afterwards" he says, "I found Mr. Webster's pro posed amendment, and 1 discovered it contained all the provisions I had contemplated, very tersely ex pressed." Prodigious! He actually found that Mr. Webster's amendment contained all the provisions he had contemplated, and seems to have been not a little gratified that two great intellects should so hap pily have harmonized. The only difference between them appears to have been, that what may have cost the honorable senator from Massachusetts several day sand nights of anxious contemplation and painful scrutiny, was struck out at a single beat by the honorable sena tor from the Empire State. It certainly must be look ed upon as a fortunate circumstance for the country that the amendment of the honorable senator from Massachusetts was actually approved by his illus trious contemporary ; and perhaps it may be some what gratifying, too, to the pride of the last-mentioned senator to know that his amendment has been hon ored with the special commendation of the honorable senator from New York, both as to style and substance. He pronounced it to be very tersely expressed ; that is to say, "neatly" expressed "clear without pompo sity." I regarded the fame of the.honorable senator from Massachusetts as a literary man quite well es tablished before ; no one will certainly hereafter doubt his ability to draw up an amendment in suitable par liamentary language. I hope I may be here indulged in a comparison without incurring the charge of profanity. When the great Creator of the Uni verse "in the beginning created the heavens and the earth," and had brought his goodly work to a con clusion, He is represented to have looked upon everything he had made, and to have pronounced it "very good." And so in like manner, the honorable senator from New York looking upon the amendment of the honorable senator from Massachusetts, and finding it to correspond in substance with his own, pronounced it "very good," and proceeded to act upon it without delay. " I took Mr. Webster's amend ment," says he, "and, having shown it to Mr. Ew ing, who left the whole subject to my own judgment, I vis ited many members of the House of Representatives, and urged the adoption of it. Mr. Vinton, chairman of the Committee on Ways and Means, soon inform ed me that the committee would report the amend ment, with some slight modifications, to which I did not object." "I spent," says he, "the residue of the day in urging the adoption of the amendment of the Committee of Ways and Means upon the members of the House." But his labors did not end here, Mr. President nothing like it. To be sure he had swept all obsta cles before him in one bouse of Congress, but he had yet to encounter still more serious obstacles in the Senate. Besides, the hour of midnight had arrived, and all the surrounding circumstances were striking ly unpropitious to renewed deliberations in this body. And yet there was one circumstance possibly quite unthought of at the time not altogether unfavorable to the contemplated scheme of operation. The mem bers of the Senate might be found overwearied with their several legislative labors some of the friends of the Walker amendment, and of course the ene mies of the new one, might, at that late hour of the night, be perchance asleep or absent, and the dark deed which had been plotted might be accomplished even after the constitutional term of legislation had expired. Note, Mr. President, if you please and I call upon the country to observe that the honorable senator from the Empire Stote had never then occu pied a seat in either house of Congress, and could not be inducted into the seat in this hall, then adorn ed by an accomplished gentleman, now no longer among us, until the succeeding Monday. And yet he did not hesitate to take upon himself the perform ance of legislative functions, which, I believe, no statesman in America had ever before thought of as suming. Having been formally put in charge of this matter in the manner described, and the whole modus operandi having been left to his judgment ; when his labors had terminated in the House of Represen tatives, he glided most despatch fully into the halls of the senate, and. there, says be, " t exerted myseii to procure the assent of the Senate to' the amendment, and I insisted that no different provision ought to pass. I continued my efforts until the Senate decid ed to disagree to the amendment of the Committee of Ways and Means of the House. It is well known that the whole design of a government for California failed by reason of that disagreement." Such are the statements of the extraordinary letter published in the National Intelligencer, on the 29th of March last, over the signature of the honorable senator of the Empire State, now present. And now, Mr. President, is not this a wonderful epistle ? Does it not abound in surprising statements ? Does it not describe most remarkable achievements upon the par liamentary arena ? Is not this letter destined to awak en the astonishment of all posterity 1 There is noth ing, I think, so surprising in all the pages of history, ancient and modern, from Herodotus down to Macau lav, as these exploits of the honorable senator from New York, as recorded by himself. I have several times seen noted equestrians of the circus perform high feats of horsemanship that astonished all beholders. I have seen Harlequin himself bestride two horses at a time, riding around me ring wun anecieo ciown ishness of manner, yet so directing the 'movements of both his well trained steeds as to escape from their backs unhurt: but never did I hear before of a single individual, however distinguished, success fully taking charge of two houses of a national leg islature, representing twenty millions ot people, and so controlling the great and complex machine of par liamentary proceedings, ' as to make it perform its functions, strictly according to order, in both its de partments, without himself enjoying at the time the privileges of membership in either of them, or even possessing a right to raise his voice in debate. In deed, in this instance it would seem that the experi ment attempted did, in point of fact, ultimately fail, as the substituted amendment of the House was not ratified by the Senate. And yet must the efforts, of the honorable senator from New York be regarded as not altogether successless, since he aided so effi ciently in defeating the amendment of the honorable senator from Wisconsin, and thus managed to keep the question of slavery in the territories open, so as to secure to himself some faint prospect of presidential honors in futuro by means of its fierce agitation here after. And now, speaking of the presidency, let us re turn for a moment to the remarks of the honorable senator, to which I am now replying. He calls him self" the personal friend the unwavering friend" Mr. Dodge, of Iowa, from his seat, " devoted" yes, sir, " the devoted friend " of General James Watson Webb, editor of the New York Courier and Enquirer; Why, Mr. President, how is this? How are we to understand the honorable senator ? I am assured by one whom I presume to be correctly in formed that, until a very recent period indeed, the relations between the honorable senator from New York and the subject of bis present commendations were by no means of an amicable nature. I am told that few presses in the Union have erenerallv dis played more hostility to the honorable senator from New York than that of the Courier and Enquirer. Lately, to be sure, it seems to have changed its tone considerably ; and, I am told, it has actually Ventur ed to suggest the honorable senator from New York as the most suitable person to receive the next whig 2 s -t . "Sv t . i . nomination ior me presiaency. inow, mrougn tne little window I have just opened, it may be that some rays of light will come in to irradiate the darkness heretofore enshrouding the subject of present enquiry. I can see pretty plainly how it is that the honorable senator from New York can be, and ought to be, the friend of the comtni ssioned but not yet confirmed em missary to Vienna. I can understand not only how he might well be his mend, but also how his heart might pulsate with grateful emotions for the kind ness exercised and partiality displayed. But the word unwavering is still incomprehensible, as the amity between them is of too recent origin to have been yet severely tested, and may be destined to grow extinct before the fruit of honor shall have been gath ered from the tree of political promise. It may be that this friendship so sudden, so tender, so devo ted is fated to evaporate when our minister to Vi enna shall have returned to his editorial chair in New York, and, under the influence of some new fantasy, shall have resolved to suggest the name .of some othef presidential candidate in preference to that of the honorable senator from the Lmpire State. I should regret this extremely, sir; a mutual affection like that under review, so romantically springing up in two young hearts, within whose recesses the cold principles ot political and pecuniary calculation have never found entrance, should, for the honor of human nature, be preserved in all its original freshness and fervor, until eager appetite shall be swallowed up in abundant enjoyment. 1 here is one view of this matter, Mr. President, that remains yet to be stated. The honorable sena tor from New York tells us that he has documents in his possession of a nature to extenuate, if not en tirely free from censure, his friend, between whom and himself an ocean now rolls its billows, but for whom he still cherishes a devotion as intense as that which he felt before time and space had separated them so remotely ; but he says that these documents " are of a nature that, in justice to the domestic re lations of that individual, he is not at libetty to give them to the world." Well, sir, I regret very deeplv. then, that he alluded to these documents at all. I regret, it sir, for the sake of the individual, chiefly in terested, whose character, and perhaps that of a por tion of his family, may suffer serious detriment from the superserviceable zeal of his champion on this floor. If this topic had not been introduced, we might have supposed that some public reasons, not proper to be disclosed, connected with our diplomat ic relations with Austria, had instigated the precipi tate flight of this renowned Mercury of the press across the stormy ocean. Now, through the discre tion of his most loving advocate; we know that no such public reasons have operated, and we know in addition, that there are some reasons connected with the domestic relations of this personage which have made it necessary that he should quit his native coun try in such ungraceful haste. Curiosity will spring up in all minds now, sir, as to the exact nature of these domestic reasons; some will conjecture them to be of one character, some of another. The news papers of the country, will take up the inviting theme, and edify their respective readers with va rious shrewd conjectures as to the cause of our min ister's exodus. The letter-writers a most prying, ingenious, and active class will cast still more and more confusion over the ample field of conjecture. Old men will talk wisely over the supposed domes tic distresses of the unhappy Webb. Young men will jest sportively and with all the aggravations which a mischievous vivacity can engender. The whole country will be occupied for a month or two to come in considering the overpowenng domestic woes which have come upon the once happy Editor of the Courier and Enquirer of New. York; and without some speedy explanation of the mystery now existing, the world at large will come to the conclu sion, in less than three months, that General James Watson Webb, our nominated minister to Vienna, is the most unhappy man in everything touching his domestic concerns to be fonnd in all Christendom. The honorable senator from New York has certainly been particularly unfortunate of late. It was but the other day that he was ruining the fair fame and uesiroying uie wen-earneu popularity oi me illustri ous champion of temperance the Rev. Theobold J ' a . -1. ml II m- n . Ml Mathew by fixing upon him the odium of aboli tion. Now, he has succeeded in disgracing his own special friend and editorial advocate by adding to the discredit of official delinquency the suspicion of domestic infelicity. Well might the unfortunate gentleman, who is now, perhaps, drinking Tokay at Austrian tables, or smiling joyously beneath the glances of imperial condescension, exclaim with all the emphasis appropriate to persecuted innocence, " Save me from my friends, and I'll take care of my enemies." . The Extent of our Country. It has been com puted that the United Stales have a frontier line of 1,160 miles. One of its rivers is twice as long as the Danube, the largest river in Europe. The Ohio is 600 miles longer than the Rhine, and the noble Hud son has a navigation in the " Empire State "one hun dred and twenty miles longer than the Thames. With in Louisiana are bayous and creeks, almost unknown, that would shame, by comparison, the Tiber or the Seine. The State of Virginia alone is one-third lar ger than England. The State of Ohio contains three thousand square miles more than Scotland. The har bor of New York receives the vessels that navigate rivers, canals, and lakes to the extent of three thous and miles, equal to the distance, from America to Europe. From the capital of Maine to the " Cre scent city " is two hundred miles further than from London to Constantinople, a route that would cross England, Belgium, a part' of Prussia, Germany, Aus tria and Turkey. Sympathy for Hungary. A Preamble and a se ries of Resolutions have been offered in the House of Representatives of Pennsylvania, calling upon their Senators and Representatives in Congress, to use all honorable means to cause to be signified to the Austrian Government the disapprobation the Ame rican people entertain of the course pursued by that Government towards the brave Magyars, in their pa triotic struggle for political liberty, as well as to use their exertions for the discontinuance of all diplo matic intercourse with the Court of Vienna, until the independence of the Hungarian people shall be by it acknowledged. GOLDSBORO' RAIL ROAD CONVENTION. The delegates appointed to attend an Internal Im provement Convention held at Goldsborough, on the 3d day of January, 1850, assembled in the Odd Fel lows' Hall, at 12 o'clock on said day. The Convention was organized, on motion of James Griswold, Esq. by the appointing Dr. S. A. Andrews, President, Dr. J. K. Justice, Dr. J. O. Watson, Col. J. Battle, A. T. Jerkins, Esq. B. Planner, Esq. and Wm. Caraway, Esq. Vice Presidents ; and Col. W. F. S. Alston, C. C. Clark, Esq. Col. W. S. G. Andrews, and W. B. Gulick, Esq. Secretaries. Delegates from various counties were present, as follows: Wake Hon. Romulus M. Saunders. Johnston Dr. J. O. Watson, and D. H. Whitley. Edgecombe James S. Battle, New Hanover B. Planner, S. D. Ford. Craven A. T. Jerkins, E. R. Stanly, Dr. J. R. Justice, George S. Stevenson, Thomas C. Hunter, John Charlotte, William C. Whitfield, C. C. Clark, Henry McLinn, William B. Gulick. Onslow -J. B. Sanders. Wayne All parts of the County represented. The President of the Convention then stated briefly, the object of the meeting to secure the Charter of th,e Central Rail Road. He referred to the-fact, that although the stock of the Wilmington Rail Road did not pay a dividend, still the road was not a failure ; the stockholders on the route acknowledged that they had been repaid tenfold for the money they had ex pended, by the increased value of their property. He alluded to the contemplated improvement of the Neuse that the appropriation of $40,000 was amply sufficient to make it navigable nine months in the year. This would give two markets for the produce of Western Carolina Newbern and Wilmington. He hoped that Wayne county would not be backward in this project, but that she would act as well as think. Mr. Stevenson was then called out, and made a speech of some length, recounting the circumstances under which the charter passed the Legislature, and the difficulties it enountered. He went also somewhat into the views of the Newbern people ; be argued, that as Newbern now competes with Wilmington for the Wayne trade, that the former wonld be certain of securing a portion of the trade of the West. He continued his remarks to some length. Letters were then read from several gentlemen, who had been invited to attend the Convention from Hon. John M. Morehead, Hon. Weldon N. Edwards, Hon. Wm. A. Graham, Hon. D. L. Swain, Hamilton C. Jones, Esq. and others. Gen. Saunders was then introduced by Mr. Ste venson, and delivered most powerful and convincing arguments in favor of the Rail Road system, and of the practicability of the Central Rail Road. It was listened to throughout with marked attention. On motion of Col. W. F. S. Alston, the President was authorized to appoint a delegation to represent Wayne county in the Convention to be held at Wil mington on the 5th instant. The following gentlemen were designated as said delegation : C. J. Nelson, R. J. Gregory, John Everett, Wm. Caraway, G. W. Collier, Dr. Cogdell, Col. W. F. S. Alston, James Griswold, Willis Hall, Jesse Pipkin, Wm. B. Edinundson, John I. Kennedy, Dr. Pope, Dr. William Wilkins, Jesse Bizzle, Stephen Cogdell, William B. Fields, F. L. Castex, Robt Williams, W. T. Dortch, Dr. F. Dewey, and W. J. Rouse. The following resolution was offered by James Griswold, which was adopted ; Resolved, That a Committee on subscriptions be appointed, whose duty it shall be to use their best exertions to obtain subscriptions, either positive or by forming companies, agreeably to the proposition made at the Convention in Greensborough, and that they report their proceedings to this Convention if prac ticable, and finally to the Executive Committee, or some member thereof. The President appointed Messrs. G. S.Stevenson, A. T. Jerkins, William C. Whitfield, John Everett, William Caraway, John C. Slocumb, W. S. G. An drews, and Joseph F. Kennedy, said Committee. The Convention then adjourned to meet at 7 o'clock, P. M., to hear the report of the above Com mittee. Evening Session, 7 O'clock. The Convention resumed its session at 7 o'clock. Reports from Committees being called for, Mr. Kennedy reported on behalf of the Committee on Subscriptions, that the prospect from subscription was favorable, but he could not make a full report ; he would do so hereafter to the Executive Committee. Mr. Stevenson stated on behalf of the Newbern delegation, that they had concluded not to make any subscriptions at this time ; he felt assured, however, that Newbern would do her duty; the delegates pres ent intended to lay the matter before their fellow citizens of that place, and to interest themselves ac tively in behalf of the Central Rail Road. Mr. Franklin Dibble was then called out and en tertained and instructed the audience by a very neat and practical speech. Mr. Lancaster, on the part of Wayne, was also called out, and stated some facts in reference to North Carolina, and deprecated the Rip Van Winkle sleep into which she had fallen. He hoped and urged that she would wake up and place herself among the first States of the Union. James Griswold offered the following resolutions, which were adopted unanimously: Resolved, That the thanks of this Convention are due, and tendered to the Hon. Romulus M. Saunders, for his eloquent, interesting, and instructive address. We hail him as the champion of the improvement and regeneration of North Carolina-. Resolved, That we tender the thanks of this Con vention to George Stevenson, Esq., for his exertions in this great cause, both in the Legislature and before the people. Resolved, That the thanks of this Convention be tendered to the President, Vice Presidents, and Sec retaries, for the able manner in which they have per formed the duties which have devolved upon them. On motion, the Convention adjourned. S. A. ANDREWS, Pres't. Dr. J. Justice, Dr. J. O. Watson, I Col. J. Battle, A. T. Jerkins, Esq., Col B. Flanner, Wm. Carraway, Col. W. F. S. Alston, Col. W. . G. Andrews, W. B.. Gulick, C. C. Clark, Esqs. Vice Presidents. Secretaries. Greensborough, Dec. 23d, 1849. To Messrs. J. Griswold, R. J. Gregory, and others, Committee : Gentlemen Your esteemed favor inviting me to your Rail Road Meeting, on the 3rd of January next, is received. I should be pleased to be with you, but on that day I have a meeting in Randolph, and then a succession of meetings extending nearly through the month of January, in relation to the Rail Road. So, while you are addressing the people of Wayne, let it cheer you to know that I am making the hills of Randolph re sound in behalf of the Rail Road. . It is the result of the age for North Carolina. It is truly the great redeeming improvement which is to make us one people one State one great commu nity. It is a State improvement East and West are equally interested in it and let no croaker against this great State work, ever hereafter talk of patrio tism, State Pride, &c. How small such opposition will look, when the great valleys ot Western North Carolina shall pour along this road its exhaustions E reductions and when the Eastern citizen will leave is rich farm in the East in the morning, and take dinner or tea with his wife and children in the West, in their beautiful summer residences, perched on some mountain side, or in some thriving village, where all tbe children have the best schools at their command. This is no fancy picture it will be realized in less than ten years if this road is built and no people in the State are more interested than the enterprising and wealthy citizens of Wayne. Let them but do one-half as much aa their interest, their patrotism, and their State pride, ought to inspire them to do, and the Road is safe. Guilford poor Guilford, has already dsns more; than she is able to do ; yet, let Wayne and other counties do something worthy the great eause wor thy of themselves, ana worthy the glorious Old North and Guilford, poor as she is, will still do more much more. The Road must be built. Let that be the watch word of every Wayne man, and tbe road is safe. Success triumphant success attend your meet' ing and exertions. Yours in all the bonds that sun unite patriots in a glorious State enterprise, J. M. MOREHEAD. , Hillsborough, Dec. 39, 1849. Gentlemem I regret very much, that I shall not be able. to attend the Rrailroad Convention, at Goldsbo rough, on the 3rd prox., according to your polite in vitation. I am gratified however in. announcing to you, that instead of three subscribers, for tbe balance of the stock, after applying, the absolute subscriptions, according to the proposition of the Convention at Greensborough, the County of Orange will probably raise ten subscribers, either individuals or compa nies, of the One Hundred wanted to take the balance of the stock. I can now speak with confidence of eight. In addition to this, there have been respecta ble positive subscriptions recently, in the country, and the great enterprise is still gaining fayor among our people. What I have said applies to Orange proper. I have no late intelligence from Alamance. May your deliberations result in similar additions to the subscription list, and instead of One Hundred, let us find, when the subscribers meet again, in Gen eral Convention, that the number of those, who com pose the forlorn hope, has increased to at least One Hundred and Fifty.- I am gentlemen, With much respect, Your obd't. serv'L WILL. A. GRAHAM. To Messrs. Jas. Griswold, &c., &c , committee. Poplar Mount, near Ridgeway, ) 29th December, 1849. Messrs. James Griswold, R. J. Gregory, W. T. Dortch, Jesse Pipkin, and S. A. Andrews, Com mittee: , Gentlemen: Your kind letter of the 10th instant, inviting me to. a Convention to be held in Goldsbo rough, on the 3d of next month, "to aid in the design of establishing the Central Rail Road company," be ing directed to Warrenton, instead of Ridgeway, (the Post-Office I use) did not reach me till yesterday. With every inclination to attend a meeting for so laudable an object the intervening time is too short for arrangements for such a journey. But though not present, I shall be with you in spirit and in feel ing. AH my sympathies, and all my best wishes will be in your midst. I have watched with no little solicitude the efforts which have been and are now being made in behalf of the great North Carolina Road and most hearti ly do I wish them God-speed. It is not to be dis guised, that we have reached -a period in the history of our State, when something must be done to im prove her condition to develop her resources to give stability to her institutions to strike off the shackles upon her enterprise and industry and, by opening new channels of intercourse and commerce, to promote harmony and identity of interests among her people in fine, to exert the faculties which God and nature have given us to subdue to our use -the rich bounties so abundantly within our reach. Com munities, like individuals, cannot be stationary. They must go forward or backward and, should the latter be our lot, deeply shall we deplore the emblems of decay which will speedily spring up in cur midst as so many eloquent witnesses, to testify to our culpable supineness. I have faith in progress which, profit ing by the lessons of experience, discards the errors of the past, and avails itself of the achievements of science, and the teachings of wisdom and, guided by considerations of prudence, judiciously responds to the necessities and interests of society, and care fully keeps within the bounds of a wise and just economy. It is deplorably true, that there are no people whose social and commercial relations are so diverse and di vided as are those of tbe people of North Carolina a state of things well calculated to estrange them from each other. Our instincts infallibly teach us to bestow our affections wherever intercourse and inter est lead. This condition of things will not surprise us, when we reflect that some of our sister States have expended and are expending millions upon roads to our borders, in order to command the abundant re sources of our rich west for the benefit of their own people and their own great marts; while the citizens of our own State in the east are, for the want, of commercial facilities within our own limits, compell ed to import from abroad, many of the common and ordinary necessaries of life, to be found in the great est profusion, and at cheaper rates among our own brethren in the west. In this aspect the great work to which you so worthily give your attention is not less an eastern than a western measure. It is emphati cally a North Carolina measure. It is North Caro lina and not sections that demands its constructions it is the people of the whole State, and not the members uf a particular party (Whig or Democrat ic, who can point to it as a wise add beneficent policy. . If our population leaves us if our labor and in dustry seek abroad stronger incentives and higher re wards if our talents and enterprise flee our borders to enlighten and embellish the councils, and illustrate the character of other Republics what matters it whether the Whig or Democratic Party command the ascendency here ? What trophies could either point to? m What blessings can administrations boast of? What weight and imnortance claim, in thp trmat family of States, of which we are most worth v and coequal members? W ith the most ardent wish for the success of the great work, and the most propitious results to the deliberations of the Convention, 1 am gentlemen, with high respect, ; Your ob't serv't. W. N. EDWARDS. Bank op the State. The annual meeting' of the Stockholders of the Bank of the State of North Ca rolina, was held at their banking house in this City, on Monday last. Hon. D. Cameron was called to the chair, and E. B. Freeman, Esq. acted as Secretary. ureorge v . luoruecai, esq., the President of the Bank, laid before, the meeting the annual statement showing the condition of tbe Institution, which was deemed highly satisfactory. The-following gentlemen were elected Directors for the present year : Duncan Cameron, John H. Bryan, Alfred Jones, Geo. W. Mordecai, William Boylan, Wm. Peace and Jos. B. G. Roulhae, Bags. The Directors on the part of the State are the Pub lic Treasurer, Ex-Oficio, Ruffin Tucker, and Richard Hincs, Esqs. Raleigh Register, Typhoid fever is how said to be cured In aew days by the French physicians, in the following manner V Every two minutes the patient swallows a small bk of ice,-equal in quantity to a glass of water every hour. Every six hours a demi-Javement of cold wa ter is applied, and every second day a bath, at twenty-seven degrees of Reau Mus. An Old Mason. Mr. Thos. Pool, of Lafayette Lodge of Masons in C made a Mason in 1796, in Union Cross 61, in England, which would make bina years a member of this great mystical niiinember Lofts, No. society. "
The Weekly Standard (Raleigh, N.C.)
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