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rttfll-, fetes. UUUAIMJI ill UAAui OUH, ''- EDtfonii AXP PROPRIETORS. STATESVILliE, 1 j? nutty , y uiy ivt iouu FOR CONQBESS. GEN- J. M. LEACH. r..iM n e t om op Davidson cotpfTY. Cansiidtttes Appointmenti. East Bend,JYadkin, Friday, July 15 ; Little Riveri Alexander, Mondiy. July 18 ; Gortnev'a. Alexander. Tueedav. Julr 19 Mt. Mourn e, Iretlell, Wedneedjay, July 20; Urcrtrn b, Iredell, J lmrgiay, .Jf ly.Zl ; Taylor' Springs, IreJoll. Friday, July 22 ; Healing 8nring, Davidson, 3at., July 23 ; Brown's ME11, Surry, Monday, July 25 ' Leach alone; Alleghany Court; Tuesday, July 26 ; " Chwnut Hilll, Aehe, Wednesday, July 27 ; North Fork, Aahe, TTmrtday, jJuly 28 ; e ji v j B, Several interesting Communications it ill be found on the First page. As Jour list of subscribers is daily in creasing, we re-jmbnen our tables showing the extraordinary extravagance of the Gov - eminent. We precede those heretofore giv- en dt a jSiaiemeni oi aisoursemenia lor wie fiscal year just ended. Let no one fail to pe ruse carefully the articles headed " Bead and Reflect.'r Montgomery's Patent Tan Hills. yVe Jiavje received from Baltimore, and now to be seen at the depot, several Fan Mills of Montgomery & Brother's celebrated manufac ture. jThiy are the beat in uae. A good Fan Mill is wliat every farmer ought to have, and after trying Montgomery's they will, hav jl It!.- J; .! A 3 -4.-.T ' 7io Qiner. coin. See advertisement tn another col- Nice Presents. We thank the lady of Mr. William F Cowan oflthis county, for a ilhalf bushel of nice red June Apples ; also, X JL Barkley for a peck of iBcans. Good Cropping. Mr. Hugh Reynolds of this place has in formed uai that he secured from one acre and a half of and, forty-five bushels of wheat. Of coursei we shall have seni to us a bac of flour. Is X. C. Planter. We have received the July number of this valuable Agricultural Journal, and recoup mend it as the best publication of the kind issued in the country. Price $1 per year, ad dress A. M. Gorman, Raleigh, N. C. Forth Carolina College. We have .been presented with a heat jpamphlelj entitled '.Prospectis of the First Session of North Carolina Cojllega at Mount Pleasant,! Cabarrus Co., N. j." It original ly was thje WesteruCarolinajMale Academy, and has been in operation fotp years. It was founded by the Evangelical Lutheran Church, but is saijd to be under no ecclesiastical re strictions, beme free in ail arrangements and discipline. -r 1 Olin High School. Prof. A. H. Merritt, A. il., is now the Principal of this institution ojT learning. Oliiv always a good school, will now take still high- ' A i i . . t ,it . f vr tau a. among me voueges in our estate ior excellence in training the minds of youth.- Prof, Merrit is a native of Chatham county an uppe- Graduate of the Siate University, and a gehtleman of polished ,1 manners, with literary qualifications of the prat grade. See advertisement of Olin High School in another "column. I 1 . -i ; Explanatory. c VV have received a letter jfrom an esteem ed friend in this county .'who! is a Democrat, deprecating the controversy which for sever al week has been waged between the Ex press and Salisbury Banner We need not assure our Democrat, friend, Jfor Jhe knows it already being a reader of botjh journals, that the Express was not the fir at assailant, and has acjtd on the defensive merely, from the beginning. It has, for years, been made a practicej with locofoco editors; of a certain cal ibre. tO JVllifv and ftljinder witfi fliAttlimo fmm ' j . . a wm V V 7aU 4A W their ulcerous throats, all who might dare to oppose htir peculiar dogmas and self-inter-eets.- And of this class are tie Banner and a few other sheets we wot of. Without the capa city to discuss a'question wijth fairness, and no inclination to use decent language in such arguments as they put fortt they seek to triulmpl)i by the uso of offenajve epithets, the tendency, oten the objeqt, Of which,' is, to produce retort and recrimination, with the view of diverting attention froito essential ques- tions, to wrangles and disputes, of a different character. Such scheming the public well understand. A Falehood Exposed. In a late issue of the Winston Sentinel there appeared communication j signed " Dark ' CornerJ" with the caption " Brushy Mount- t ios," jrhich is as false as the heart of the wri 1 ter is depraved or his mind ignorant, wherein , Gen. Ljeach is charged with haying been a member of the " last Legislature" and voted again the removal of Glenn's mill-dam in the Yftdkin river. Now Gen. Leach was not a Member of the "last Legislature," and therefore could not have voted against the removal of Glenn's xnilHata, or upon any question. But it suited the purpose of" Dark Oornerj," who, by the way, must be a verita ble ' tut to write this falehooi, and the $cntir n4 to publish it, without a wyrectiou ! ' The Sentinel editor was, himself, a Clerk to, the iHouse of Commons of (he " last Legis lature" and certainly knew that Gen. Leach, wbonjj his grovelling correspondent has at tempted to slander, was not in the Legialture, but stifl he publishes the falsehood to deceive any that can be imposed upon. j Pen. WtOkup Contiimes. , We jtre pleased to learn from the last Argut tbatGftn. Wajkup will 'noil withdraw, but will continue in tie field against Craige. Noble jresolution. Let the Opposition now as nobly elect him, which they jean do easily by rallying their forces and going to the polls. We subjoin from this Argu the follpwiog: At allate hour on Wednesday afternoon we received a note from General Walknp, in which he says: j "I have concluded to run through this can vass and do the beet in my power at this late stage. 1 will not have time to canvass the District, and may not be in Anson county. They will not needthe in that whole-souled old Whig region; but if I can be among yon I will do so. I cannot get to your Court as I must be in Lincoln and Shelby and Char lotte next week. I will be at Newton in Ca tawba County, and Concord la Cabarrus on next week following, viz : I expect to be in Newton third Monday, and Wednesday fol lowing In Concord during the" Court week. "After mature consideration, and at the pressing solicitation of many friends in all parts of the District, I am now" in for the war!" The Salisbury Banner. The filthy buzzard, who presides as the ed itor of the Salisbury Banner, devotes several vile articles, in his last issue, to a notice of the Express, and endeavors to be personally offensive to us. So shameless has the hypo crite become, towards political opponents, that anything but filth belched from his foul stomach, would be surprising to the public, and we look for it, each week, with the ap pearance of the Banner. The editor of the Banner presumes, that for his manner in conducting his sheet, he will find security from merited chastisement in hie own pusil lanimity of corporeal functions, if not meanness of eoul; but even this may not always avail him. The "privy Counsellor" of Mr. Buch anan, who does the dirty work for his party in Salisbury, in maligning his superiors of the Opposition, is ans abortion, one who came into the world not made in the. image of the Creator, like men ; and his moral organiza tion is more depraved than his figure is offen sive and contemptible in the sight of all be holders. True, the Banner man did not make himself; nor has he the control of his own actions being the property of others, little better than himself. The editor of the Ban ner is one who, will write or say anything a gainst an opponent for a "peck of potatoes' and then swear to the lie! His reputation for truth is no better than any other vile slan derer and his hypocrisy is upon a par with the other base qualities of his heart. With each a creature it is useless to argue a point for depravity has dethroned reason in his mind, and stupidity has supplanted in tellect! But what is the use to tell' what everybody knows? We now dismiss the Banner for whatever its editor may be worth, and that's nothing mentally, physically, and morally. Sticks to His Sins. " Hereafter we shall pay no manner of at tention to the Express's personal abuse, every disparaging word of which we leave to be branded by those who know us best as either ignorant or malicious falsehoods. " Salisbury Banner. The truth told of the Banner shows it up in a sufficiently unenviable light;, falsehood would only, be necessary to give it an appear ance of decency. If there was any thing like " personal abuse " in our previous articles a bout the Banner's veracity, that paper brought it upon itself. But we guess there was none, ast is not considered " personally abusive " to tell an old sinner of his brazen iniquities. We asked the rickety-rnnded and venerable Tom-Tit of the Banner to -correct three foul mouthed, malicious, and wicked slanders which he had published. He did not make the correction, and yet, at first, he dared not deny that he haLperpetrated the falsehoods. But in the above excerpt, he intimates a wish that others should make the denial for him. jMo trutnful person will do. so. Everyone "who has paid any attention to the " passage at arms" between us, knows very well that we have charged nothing upon the Banner which is not strictly and religiously true. If the editor of the Banner were put upon oath as to the specific charges of misstatement wej made against him, unlees even; he is more de praved than we are willing' to believe him to be, he would be forced to admit the truth of those charges. If he did not do so, he would turn from the Sacred Volume a perjured wretch. And he knows it. He ought to have made the corrections asked for. It was his duty as a gentleman and Christian to do so. He preferred, however, to act upon the prin ciple upon which he almost invariably acts, " thai, a lie well stuck to is as good as the truth." We do not like the principle ; and hence our strictures upon his course of con duct not upon his conduct as a Christian, as he complains of, for that would have been as much a paradox as to speak of the virtues of Satan but upon his conduct as a base, un scrupulous hypocrite. All we ask at his hands for gentlemen of the National American Wfcig party, is truth. If he vouchsafe not this, he shall not escape us. This he may confident ly rely upon. The half of his misdeeds have not yet been enumerated. Scales and the Old Soldier. Mr. Scales attempts to escape popular lodi um on account of his voting against the needy and suffering old soldiers, by pretending that he wanted to save the people's money ! When the Washington Police Bill came up, proposing to give the Presidentthe power to pension, in the Federal City, two hundred lazy fellows, foreigners as well as natives, at the rate of seven hundred and thirty dollars each year, Mr. Scales found no objection to this bill. He forgot the people and their money then ! He'could speak and vote for this bill, money plenty then! In substance, when it was proposed to provide the ways and means to pay the board and lodging of political, friends, whilst sojourning in Wash ington begging for office, he was very ready and willing to grant the desired boon 1 But, mark ye, when the poor, suffering, decrepit soldier came to Mr. Scales' door and solicited his aid to enable him (the 6oldier) to procure the necessaries of life, (clothes, bread and meat) the very man who had risked his life and often suffered externa cold and hunger to save his country, to this man, who only asked some six or eight dollars per month for tbb few remaining days left for him on earth, Mr. Scales turned the cold shoulder, with the heart-sickening reply: "The gov ernment has no money for you. We must pay the office-seekers whilst they remain in Washington, in the character of police men, two dollars per day; we must pay their chiefs from twothouaand to twenty-five hundred dollars each per year, Members of Congress must have their three, thousand dollars each per year, and extras and sundries, cannot say how much, besides mileage. We have made large contracts with our friends for mail steamers, and mail contracts over land to Cal ifornia, to meet which we need millions. We have made arrangements to spend mil lions in carrying out large contracts for grain provisions, wagons, carts, horses, mules, 4c, at prices ten times their real worth. We have millions to expend in furnishing the various Departments. We have hundreds nd,thttsanda of appointments and appoin-' t tees, that reouire milliona .more.- We have J . ' , . : , thousands of editors and printers to pay, (for instance Mr.' Alspaugh of the Sentinel, for advertising that we want lumber in Maine,) in fact, so may, so great, and so urgent re the claims of our own friends upon us for money, that we have none for you, soldiers! And besides all this, the President wants thirty millions of dollars, simply to broach the subject of baying Cuba from Spain. He alsa wants the control of the Navy and Army, to take charge of the affairs of several neigh boring nations; and to gratify our President in these things, there is no telling how many millions we will need, and you, old soldiers, positively can't have a dime, for you neither need nor deserve money ! Your fighting days are over you can only vote, and one half of you, from age and infirmity, cannot even get to the polls 1 The fact is, to be candid, we are in a push, and must divide out the mon ey among those who can get for us the most votes. There is our friend Alspaugh, ind others,- must be paid some money, to be sure some more than you aek, but they can do us more good than you can. And besides all this, the President will soon want some two or three hundred millions to build a Railroad to California. To be ; sure, I tell the people, in order to get their votes, that am opposed to the Protectorate, the 30,000,000 bribe for Cuba, and the 300,000,000 for the Pacific Railroad. But I am the defender of the President, who is for all these things ; I am in favor of keeping him ot some such person at the head of affairs, who is for all these things; and it is' the same thing as if I were for them'myself ; and it is a clear case, we have no money for the soldiers of 1812. Now when Mr. Scales, in his dialogue with these old soldiers, made them so happy, and made the tears stream down their cheeks for his patriotic and magnanimous efforts to Save the public money, by denyingthem pensions, (!) if some one had mentioned to these good old men how the public money was really expended, and put on their dimmed eyes spec tacles, so that they might look over the items and see (which they would certainly, iffairly dealt with,) that such "men as Alspaugh get more of the public money for doing nothing of any real service to the country, than was proposed to be given to them ! We would really be glad if Mr. Scales would approach a few of the old soldiersIn this way ,j and then inform us candidly, wha eeemed tjo be their emotion. Let him tell the old soltliers how much he was willing to give these lazy po licemen in Washington City, and then report the result in his political speeches, and we will, perhaps, be better able to see jandknow how the old soldiers and their friends respect his political labors. Salem Press. New Advertisements.! See advertisement of " Wanted a Young Man to go to Texas." j Also, the one " Cook Wanted." j Mr. Scales and the Utah Mission, Mr. Scales in all of his speeches upon the ,stump declares without qualification, that the war which the President has waged upon the Mormons, meets with his unqualified ap probation, and of course the manner of con ducting it, also ; which war, it would appear, is to have no ending, and costing to conduct it the sum of untold millions of dollars ! ! Mr. Scales and, Buchanan could not have devised a more ruinous drain upon the reve nues of the country than this same Mormon war, the design of which seems to be to squander upon favorites vast pumsofthe peo ple's hard-earned cash. The following which we copy from the New York Express will not only shjow the enormous cost of this war, in a fe.w Items, but the enormous swindling al lowed to be practiced upon the ; government by men havmg the control of this business. How the Administration "Retrenches and Reforms" -7-A $400,000 Flour Speculation, ' 4 A Correspondent of the Missouri Democrat writing from Camp Floyd, Utah Territory, under date June 3d, furnishes some startling facts respecting the contract for furnishing the army in Utah with Flour for the ensuing year. The lucky contractors, it seems, are John Holliday and Col. Martin, who receive $28 CO cents for every 100 .pounds of flour they furnish. The average daily consumption by the Camp, is not lees than 5,000 pounds, ma king the annual consumption about 2,000,000 pounds. Now, when it is remembered that Messrs. Wm. Martin and E. P. Stanton offered to fur nish the supply of flour at $10 per 100 lbs., and that Mr. J. C, Little agreed'to take the same contract for . $7 :50 per 100 pounds, is it not strange that Messrs. Holliday and Martin have been awarded this contract at $28 60 per 100 pounds? Does it not; look like collusion on the parf of those in Author ity,? - , 1 And this is bv no mpans the worst feature in the case. For, says the .Democrat Corres pondent, " the quality of flour manufactured in thia Territory is of the poorest description, and would pass for " sweepings" at any mar ket in the States." It appears that since the arrival of the contractors (Holliday andMartin,) they have been contracting for this sort of flour, at from $5 to $8 per 100 pounds. Were they to pay $8 for all they buy, ir1 would only re quire an outlay of $160,000 to complete their contract with the Government, leaving them the snug little sum of four hundred and twelve thousand dollar. Now if, as this correspon dent thiuks to be correct, there are otf part ners in the arrangement, they will realize One hundred thousand dollars each and be at no trouble or risk. The entire wages of the men employed in the ' Quarter Masters De partment for a whole year, would not amount to one-half the sum squandered on this flour contract alonj To what purpose do we hear this cry about retrenchment in .the expenditures of the gov ernment, while the heads of departments are permitted thus to lavish upon contractors hundreds of thousands of the people's money ? We shall not be surprised to learn, when tie expenses of sending out the army to Utah to make peace with Brigham Young are footed up, that the profits of speculators connected with the expedition exceed by thousands of dollars all the other expenditures. Now we would like for Mr. Scales to be able to show that he is not concerned in this Utah flour speculation. The statement says there are four partners, and the rational in ference is that Mr. ScaW is one of them, hence his approval of the Mormon war, and no other leading measure of Mr. Buchanan's adminiatrrtion bo he says. Will Scales en- lighten the public mind upon this subject ? AnotherDemoerat Caught The contest between Gen. Leach and Mr, Scales has tamed mainly upon the extravagance of the Administra tion as shown up in a pamphlet pub lished in Virginia and re-printed at the Salem Press office, entitled "What it costs to be governed," in which ex tracts are made from speeches from Mr. Stephens and other Democrats, and from official documents. The facts there stated I being destructive to . the Erospects of Scales, he and his friends ave resorted to the bold and unscru pulous plan of a denial of their verity. An extract from the speech of Mr. Stephens of Georgia, in which he de nounced the extravagance of his own party administration, and said that government ought to he administered for forty millions of dollarty is denied by the Winston SefttineL Yet it is undoubtedly genuine. We ourselves cut it from a speech of Mr. Stepens in Congress during the late session. j-iic utmiuci w r" " nounces the whole pamphlet a tissue of falsehoods, though in the same breath it admits that it has never seen the pamphlet ! , A part of the pamphlet makes ex tracts from a Report of the Contin gent Expenses vi Congress, by J. C. Allen, the Democratic , Clerk of the House of Representatives, including 1350 for a looking-glass, with many thousands for other looking-glasses, combs, . hair-brushes, &c, &c, Both the Sentinel and Mr. Scales denied that the Clerk had evtir made any re port of the kind, pronouncing it fabe and slanderous. But Gen. .Leach wrote to a friend at Washington to buy him a copy of the printed docu- merit at any price. This was not ea- i sily done. Only one copy for each i member had been printed, and these ; were as far as possible suppressed bj the democrats. Finally one wash pur- chased for $25! Gen, Leach recived I it at a discussion in Yadkin county. j He allowed Scales to make his acens-1 tomed denials, and ; then, amidst the greatest excitement and enthusiastic applause, produced the document, which Mr. Scales was compelled to admit was genuine. Gen. Lr-ach then read from it all the items which Mr. Scales had pronunced false and slan derous. Mr. Scale's countenance, during j all this process, was a stud7 for any "member of the humane society.- Leach ought to have bought one of those 1350 looking-glasses, for Scales to see himself in from top to toe. Fayetteville Observer. The Wax News. There have been no important Inove mehts since the battle of the 24th -the details of which are very imperfect with no reliable estimates of the loss es on either side, but they are admit ted to be very heavy. The battle took place at Solferino. In thfi dispatches of the 25th from Na poleon to the Empress, it is stated "The enemy withdrew last night. I slept in the room occupied in the mor- nmg oy tne Jbmperpr ot Austria. Private dispatches received at Pa ris, say the. Austrians had 35,000 men killed, wounded and missing, lost six- teen flags and seventy-five cannons, but no circumstantial account of the battle had reached Paris. Vague rumors put the French loss at 12,000 killed and wounded.. It is stated that 280,000 Austrians were in the field, and thief lines exten ded 10 miles.. The French and Sar dinians had a much smaller force. The battle lasted 12 hours or more. Man Shot. On Friday evening last, just after supper, Owen Norment shot Charles Tittermerry, at Quinn's 'grocery in this place, with a rifle, the ball passing entirely through the left side of the breast, and through a partition wall of the room. The parties had quar relled during the day, and in the eve ning Tittermcr.ryn-eturned to the gro cery in which Norment was a clerk, and renewed the quarrel. After Vran gling some time, (the deceased, it is said, using very abusive language,) Norment, who was,standing behind the counter, about ten steps off, caught up the rifle and fired, the ball entering the body of Tittermerry as above sta ted, who was sitting in a chair at the opposite side of the room. Two per sons were sitting very near to Titter merry when he was shot. These are about the facts as,we have them from eye witnesses. Tittermerry lived two days and nights after rccceiving the wound, and then expired. Norment immediately made his es cape. Sheriff Grier promptly issued a hand-bill for his apprehension, but up to this time he has not been arres ted. Charlotte Democrat, Fight between a Doctor and Doctress. A ludicrous combat between a fe male physician, Mrs. Stijwell, and a regular trowsered doctor named Mc Neill, took place in the streets of De witt, Iowa, a few days ago. The aff air grew out of professional rivally, the immediate provocation being a lengthy article in the village paper from the pen of the male disciple of Esculapius, severely reflecting upon the character of his professional sister. The latter, after a careful diagnosis of the case, decided that it was one calling for a vigorous application of a stimulant in the shape of a cow-skin. iummg nersen wun mis article, she hunted up her traducer, and plied him so assiduously pith heavy doses of the new therapeutical agent, at re markably short intervals, that the pa tient, unable to bear such hold prac tice, clasped the fair practitioner in his arms, and held her so forcibly and affectionately that the efforts of the town marshal were necessary to release her. At latest accounts, both doctress and patient were doing well. Put them i at Work. A great aim i in family discipline i , , . ' ' i r . i should be to; provide for each" of the juveniles wnne lino of pursuit which will give them a penseof their useful ness: and necessity to the' household. This feeling properly instilled into their minds will make them members of society, valuable to others, and hap py in themselves. The Creator, who makes nothing in vain, does Jiot in vain send human beings into the world if. only they would find their ol aces! and nil them. Idle men and women are the bane Of any community.. They are not simply clogs upon society, but become, sooner or later, the cause ,of its crime and poverty, its folly and ex travagance. In plain old English, ev ery family motto should, read : "Be somebody ; do Something ; bear your own load." Phil. American. Coal Oil and Coke. Henry E- Colton, Esq:, has presen ted to us a lump .of coke, part of the residuum of some Deen River eoal. iiromwtncii, by means t a small re tort i10 ilfi exta.lcteI tho. oil. Ha informs us that he had made 5 gallons of oil from as many bushels of coal and that the'coke is "worth . more. to iron manufacturers than the coal Was before the oil was extracted. jAs we have heretofore stated, Mr. Coif on in tends to engage in the manufacture of the oil upon an extensive scale. Fay. Observer. . To the People of the Sixth District. "LET US SDAUCII TIIE RECOTlD," We have prepared, from official sour ces, the following fact, which we re commend to the careful perusal of all int.) whose hands this sheet may come". The voles, taken from the Congress ional Globe, will how uow Mr. Scales en on so?ne verv lmnortant meas- 1 j w M. - ures, and how expert he was ni, dodg ing que.-ti.ns, by not voting. The staioinojits whieli we are about to sub mit, arc trucj and will expose more of the duplicity and misrepresentations with which wo have had to contend ever since this Congressional campaign commenced. We expect to do our full duty dur ing this canvass, and may hereafter notir-p Kruno nf thh little olpMit-Yktnvirtn tricks about home, which will astonish the natives ! , Eead and Circulate, The Sentinel of week before last foreshadowed the issue of last week, by this ominous foreboding ; , ''In our next we shall commence giving the votes, and we say woe unto him, upon whose head the responsibil ities of these extravagances shall fall. They will not, touch Mr. Scales, his skirts are clear, he voted against them every one. ' But how stands the case with Hon. John A. Gilmer, General Leach's political fatherandchampion ? his vote stands "cheek by jole" side by side with that of the most extrava gant and reckless Black Republican. Should this investigation then fall heav ily upon Mr. Gilmer? Should it grind1 any one to powder; then, are our op ponents responsible and not we." Well, this murmuring thunder in the distant horizon made 'US almost trem- ble with fear, and think of really pre- paring to "stand from under !" The editor, however, has been safely deliv ered, and k doing well. "The moun tain was in labor and brought forth a mouse !" What a miserable abortion ! In the Sentinel's overwhelming ar ray of extravagant votes given by Mr. Gilmer, it is actually shown that, ses sion before : last, Mr. Gilmer voted 790,000 to pay a debt the govern ment owed for paper and printing ! What are the facts in the case ? Simply that an exorbitant contract had been made by those in power, for paper and printing for the government, whereby a debt of $790,000 had been contracted. Although it was an impru dent and extravagant contract, it ncv ertheless was a contract which the" hon or and good faith of the government required to be met. The alternative was presented to Congress to pay it in honor, or to repudiate it in dishonor! Mr. Gilmer marched up like an honest man, andsaid pay it, while Mr. Scales, like many dishonest men in their, pri- vate dealings,, ret used to pay it. Was that common fair dealing ? Another horrible (!) vote of Mr. Gilmer, was a case of this sort : Charles Potterfield entered a parcel of land and paid the Government for it. It turned out afterwards that one Cockran, by pre-emption right, or in some way, had a prior claim to it and that the Government had no right to sell it. Potterfield died, and bis chil dren asked the government to give them back the same number of aerejs. Mr. Gilmer voted for it, Mr. Scales against it. The mere statement of this case, is sufficient to make any man with a spark of honor in his bosom, say, Gilmer did right. If one man buys land of anoth er, and his title fails, f Jie law and jus tice require that the seller should "not keep the money without giving him other land. And we blush for the man who votes against so ust a claim. If it be true, as the Sentinel states, that the Hon. A. M. Scales voted against this just claim, we ask the voters of this District, if he is a fit tnan to re present them? But, Mr. Scales, we do not intend to let you escape with this. You shall have enough of your votes, and you may thank your organ at the court house for it. We intend to hold up to the gaze of the people your record in its true colors. While your friends are caviling and quibbling over a few of Mr. Ixilmer s votes, (for which Gener al Leach is not responsible,) involving a few thousands, we will show that you voted away millions. We will begin with Mr. Scales' votes given at the last session of the last Congress, which lasted but 90 days. During thistime MR. SCALES WAS ABSENT EIGHTEEN TIMES when Uhe yeas f aridiiays were ' ca-Jed, or I -v ,t,nn vaTftTi4Trilit'is'! ' This "dodfred. to shun responsibility ! This is the record of the man, wht' as the Sentinel had the narcunooci t! assert, Hias at aUtimeSt and under al;ircum Stances been jntnctuaUy 'atis pott, and true to your interests' s Absent or dpgded. eighteen times' xn ninety daytiyrhen-h was getting aput 340 per day 1 ! Ho often, he ; vr absent when votes were taken at othf r times, we have no meani of ascertaining. !The Journals only show the lumbers' names wnen ine yeas ana nvys yere called," which "is not j one tinfe in five when a vote is taken. LCotlldp arrive at this, what a shameful recofd of ah senee and dodgiug during th;ge short yu days, ot tpis riaitniui Jtteiesenta trve?'" Mr? Scales, who, tn' Sentinel says, "was at all timpuneudlly d.t his post!"; ' ' )' It; People of the Sixth Congressional District ! -dki you send Mr.?1cales to Congress merely to draw hist$40 per aay, or to attena 10 nis autiey f uan you trust, such a man ? .. Let us examine whether hs record of votes, taken from the Concessional Globe, show any better for frim January 4, 1859 page 21f f-House called. Ho quorum to transact bust ness. JohnA. Gilmer ruesenfi Alfred nr c t 1 x h J.U..-KJVUICS UUStJU, j -v Jan. 10, 1859, "page 276.4vResolu tion pending calling on the Secretary of War for the amount. of mfncy ex pended for barracks, j&c, anfj recom mending a more economical (ystera to be introduced: Mr. Davis, oftIiss,, in order to give his Democratic iiends.an opportunity to shirk the responsibility of a vote, at 2 o'clock p. m., poved to adjourn ; Mr. scales votci f or ad journment, Mr. Gilmer agaiit it. What do you think of thi? wearied Representative, voting to adjourn at o ciock, m me anernoon. . Had he already earned hi(40? Jan. 11, .1859, page SlSScales voted to censure the brave ail gallant Com. Paulding, for havingifarrested that freebooter and outlaw, Wn. Walk er, who was on a piratical efpeUtion against Nicaragua, a government with which we were .it peace. ; Gilmer toted against it. ?)Tcas 56. Nays 128.; . ' . ? Jan. 13, 1859, p'age S61.-On mo- 10n Prm? Evans Geologic Report, t involving ai cost of $7,000. . Scales dodged, Gilmer vot against it ' ' it Jan. 24, 1859-, page 545Uln the Committee of the Whole, toffacilitate business, a resolution; was tiered cut ting dotfn debate to five mirites; the vote was yeas 131, riays 621 Gilmer for it. Scales against it. What an industrious Representative was this Mr. Scales 1 lj . - Jan. 27, 1859, page G35.-4rn motion to cut down the salaries of members of the Diplomatic Corps, v and tb reduce the appropriations from 2,000 io 105,000. . ' ' Gilmer voted for it., Sealep dodged. Jan. 27, 1859, page 635.-yiOn mo tion to give Mr. Buclianan 75,000, to be spent on a few pets wh( i were to go through the form of teaching, in Africa, some captured negrcs, Gilmer voted No. Scales odye$. Jan. 27, 1859, page G36$HScales was absent or dodged three tiroes, when the vote- was taken on the 'African Slave Trade. Gilmer was present. Jap. 27, 1859, page 64l.jL bill was before the House involving ittii expen diture of upwards of two y$wion8xf dollars, ' ii, Gilmer voted against it.,Scijes dodg ed. . l Jan. 31, 1859, page 703.-Resolu-tion to investigate the Willits Point fraud when Mr. Buchanan's Secretary of War had paid ten prices ifor some property. ' i Gilmer voted to invcstiga(. Scales dodged. Was Scales afraid ff involv ing a political friend? ff Feb. 1. 1859, pages 725 ad 720. Two votes taken on the Homestead Bill, giving away the public ands-. Mr. Gilmerwas present angf voted to lay the bill upon thetable, (amounting to a rejection.) Scale? was fbsent or dodged! 1 , -f Feb. 9, 1859, page 894.hen the House had under consideration the Legislative Appropriation Bill involv ing upwards of Ten Millions 'f dollars, voseni, air. Dcaies.'uiiraevpresent. Feb. 9, 1859, page 913:tf hen the Legislative and Miscellaneous Appro priation Bill, involving tenmillions nine hundred and thirty-two ?hou9and three hundred and sixty-ninjf; dollars and fifty cents, ($10,932,3650,) was on its final vote, yeas 9 nayN 83, Gilmer voted against it, anl Scales voted for this monstrous bill, !$r which purposes Mr. Fillmore expended onlv $7,265,000. i 1 g- " Feb. 12, 1859; page 1010f-An a mendment to the Oregon Bilf provid ing that Oregon should not time into the Union as a State till she hd a pop ulation of 93,000, sufficient fj),entitle her to one member, and ptihibiting unnaturalized foreigners frotyj voting, coming up, the vote was ; ' ' For it, Gilmer. Against it; Scales. Feb. 14, 1859, page 1024t-In or: der to have more time to traiflact bus iness, a motion was made to h$ld night sessions. The resolution was 'idopted. For it, Gilmer. Against itjScales. Was He Sleepy T Feb. 16, 1859, page 106-Hour of meeting, 10 o'clock.! At o'clock but 59 members present amoig whom was Mr. Gilmer, but no qtjlrum to transact business : 83 membi ts were absent, among whom was Mr? Scales, tciinouz any excuse. ' 1 Was he punctual av hirpof . Feb. 17, 1859, i-age ill.-The Army Bill, appropriating $15,248,- 657 28,(upwardg of fifteen riillionsof dollars) passed yeas llfjjnajrs'flS. For it, Scales. Against iilGilmex, While Mr; Fillmorej for the r-tme par pose, expended but . 7,898,7.5, (noj quite eight millions, ! of dollarf i) Mr. Buchanan hasmearly douhledit. Feb 22, 1859page 12271 A uciuio ""wo, i-v gc iyu acres of lando Privateers, persons who refus. ea 10 euvcr me rmj, dui Bnder I- ters of marque captured unarmed "Po lish merchant vessels, not engaged fn hostilities: Everyessl, vqth its car. go, wnicn iney apiurea, oecameta property oi iues jrrxvaieers. This class -of toen, who fought fw plunder on the high seas, MT Sca voted to give 160 acres of land, bdi vidually, while he Was unwilling togiv ne dollar, by vrpty of pension to the gallant soldier who regularly entered the American Army, and fought the ttles of our country in the secoiid W ax of Independence,- Gilmer voted for pensionmg'the sol diers, but againtt giving land to Pii Vateers. Scalesj voted for? the priva teer and again$t the soldier ! . Feb. 24, 185?, page 1321.Bill8 before the Housej appropriating large sums of money to pay far printing Blanks and advertising mail rout ta- A motion was made to amend the bill so as to require tlhe advertisements to be printed in thel two papers, in each State, having the (largest circulation yeas 91, nays 104. j For the amendment, Gilmer. Against it. Scales. He iwanted his friend of the Sentinel to hare hissare of the spoils, as pay for defending the conniptions of thej administration. ' Feb. 24, 1859, fcage 1322. By the mismanagement ol Mr. Buchanan sad ministration, thejPost OfBce Depart ment was involveil. ip debt to the a mount of 33,838,28, (nearly four mil lions of dollars.) Mr. Gilmier voted for h Kill nfAnrlinrt rri none f s vkA J. ficiency; Scales vpted against it. Hrvvaa.B m vi4tj V mm W V mi 111a 11 r ' liere is anothef instance of Scales'" effort to repudiate the debts of his own party ! j " - Feb. 25,, 1859p page 1378 Roll called, no quorumi present; business of the House delayed three hours! 103 members absent, aimong whom was .47- fred M. Scales, the Sentinel punctu al member. This was near the close of the ses sion, when the Post Office bill, the Na val bill, and the Misccllaneus apprq- priation bills had td be acted on Feb. 26th, 1859, page 1414. A bill had passed bolh Houses,, granting land to each Statje in the Union, to aid in educating the youths of the country in the, Agricultural and the Mechanic arts,! Under which North Carolina would receive two hundred thousand acres c-fjjland. It was veto ed by the Prfesidqnt. And on a mo tion made in the House toi pass it ov er the Presidents veto,, yeas 105, nays 96,---Gilmerj voted yea ; Scales, in the support of jthe kingly power of the President, voted no. Feb. 26, 1859.f-House! Post Office bill passed, yeas 108, nays 104. For it vxumer. Against, it Scales, by the side of Giddings, Grow, Lovejoyl and others of the rankest Apolitionists ! March 1, I85), page j 1559. On the bill granting 1 $87,000 for repair- the niers at Cliicaco. the residnicr of Judge Douglas, the vote was, yeas 108, nays 70. j Gilmer voted J but Scales dodged, and no mistake : jFor the roll was cal led three other titfies on thje same day, and he answered jto his name. 1 Scales attachment and 'devotion lo Judge Douglas, wiom he sfiys he would cordially; support for President, was so strong that he (fould not vote against this bill, ind' he had not Ihe nerve to vote for it. Canj such a man be reli ed on? I March 2, 185, page 1591. Bill up for appropriating 5o,000 to im prove the St. Cljair Flats, yeas 113, nays 58. ! Against it Gilmer. Scales Dodg ed. March 2, 185, page C03. On a mendment to strike out 9,000, the salary of Gorge V. Marshj, iind insert in Ueu thereof o,000, yeas 105, nays 56. Scales dodged again. June 11, 185$, Journal no. Rrps. 1099. Amendment to the Post Office bill. j ; Sec. 10. An4 be it ejnacted that after the 30th of June, 1858, the rates of postage on all; letters sent through the mails shall pe five cents for any distance under three thousand miles, and ten cents for any distance over ine question jDeing pui, win tne House agree thereto, the vote was yeas-39, nays 121. Scales voting ffr it. Gilmer against it. ; March 3, 1859, page 1673. Mr. Scales voted in favor of tlie bill auth orizing the Administration1 to re-issue twenty or more billions of Treasury Notes, to make tlhe President full-handed, so that he eould lavish the mon ey for electioneejring and other purpo ses, when Mr. Scales had declared in his pamphlet speech, (Feb. 10, 1859, on page 8) that the ordinary receipt? ff sixty-one millions of dollar? tn the Treasury, were ienough for any eco nomical administration. We call upon! our readers to turn IO me lasi clause, ui earn ctcvuj read what he there said, j If Mr. Scales was honest in what he said, why twenty-one dys thereaf ter, did he vote io place twenty milli ons or more in tne hands of the Pres dent to be used "'for corrupt purposes, the Administration alone lenows; why did he vote thusj when h declared that sixty-one millions " ought to be sufficient, and'if properly and econom ically used, would be sufficient for all the'Durnoses of the liovemment. After this practical illustration of Mr. Scales' economy, wel may the honest people oil this District doubtftit tincerity, and attribute this object of that,printed.; spjeech, with! vak-3 the District has hefen flooded, more to' a desire to teeure hit reflection, than to even remotely assist in effecting re trenchment and; reform in jthe expen ditures of the government ! , Salem Press. r -
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