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Hints ta Young! Gentlemen.
Don't give up yclir scat in the cars,
.jwhtMkjrou are tired out with your day's
.Work to a pert young miss ho has
been amusing herselfwith a little shop
ping she won't even thank you for
it ; and if a man is going to sacrifice
his cxmfort, he has as reasonable right!
fa expect, at least a little gratitude.
KorUse being polite to some ladies
. there's an old proverb about casting
pearls before what's their names ?
'j "Don't submit to be crowded off the
pavement into ts. muddy gutter by two
Advancing balloons of silk and whale
tone. Haven't your newly blacked
. boots as good a claim to respect as
their -skirts?. Look; straight before
you Ttfid stand up like a man the la
ddies can contract themselves a little if
-they see there's no help for it !
Don't talk literature and the fine
arts to .the pretty girls of your . ac
. uaintance until you are sure they
know ttye difference between Thomp-
v gijm's Seasons and Thompson's Arith
metic. And if they look particularly'
sentimental then you may know they
don't understand what you are talking
about !!.
Den it ask a littlogirl about her dolls,
mless '.you :arc certain she -hasn't
'come out,' and been j engaged in two
or three flirtations already.
.Danlt say complimentary things to
a, .young lady at a party, without 'first
.. waking sure that her! 'intended' is not
, standing behind you 'the whole time.
: Don't accept. a lady's invitation to
go shopping with her; unless you have
previously .measured the length of
vour nurse,- I
Don t stay later tluin eleven o clock
ihen vou snend the eveniner with a
rctty friend lie Avisest and wittiest
man in Christendom becomes a bore
after that hour. ; " j
Don't believe any woman to be an
angel. If you feci ainy symptoms of
that. disease, take a dose of sage tea
and go to bed it is as much a malady
as 'the small-pox, and it is your busi
ness to. get over it as quickly as pos
fible. An angel, indeed! If vou
don't find out pretty soon that she lacks
considerably more than the wings, we
i are mistaken ! j
r Don't make up'your mind about any
creature in a-, belt ribbon and velvet
I.
From the Fajtteville Obwrrer,
The State Constitution. -
We have been a good deal surprised at the
pretence eet up by the Democratic papers, of
reverence for the sacred Constitution of our
State, and objection to disturbing the com
promises agreed upon in 1835, by the Conven
tion which ameuded it. But that surprise
is vastly increased when we see the Demo
cratic Convention held last week, a body so
much more intelligent than the body of Dem
ocratic Editors solemnly resolve, .
"That we are opposed to disturbing any of
the sectional com promises of our Const itution
State or National, and that we especially
deprecate the introduction at this time by
the Opposition party of North Carolina into
our State politics of a question of eonstitu
tional amendment afiecting. the basis upon
which our revenue is raised, believing it to
be premature, impolitic, dangerous and un
just." Now as to the Editors who have harped
upon this matter of the compromises of our
Slate constitution, very few of them are fa
miliar with the history br purpose of those
compromises; but that the intelligent body
; of-' native and treiirrally elderly gentlemen
who composed the Democratic 'Convention
should have et up such;H 1 a b 1 -pretence, in
dicates tidier an ignorance of which we did
not suspect them, or a recklessness by no
men tils creditable to their integrity.
We propose to showithat the compromise
now insisted on was destroyed hi the Drmorrats
thanselcex, and is of course no longer binding
in one part the other being abrogated. And
we propose to show that when it was destroy
ed, it was with a solemn warning of the very
result now impending. We cannot do this
in more clear ami forcible terms than are pre
sented by a sx:ech of Gov. -Graham in the
State Senate in December 1854 a speech
which was published at the time in the Ob.
server arnl other State papers, and in pam
phlet, and we have no doubt was listened to
and read by many of the very persons who
now profess to be shocked at the idea of 'dis
turbing' a compromise which they were then
warned, (only five years ago,) they were a-
bout to destroy by passing the Free Suffrage
bill.
"We ask particular attention to some pas
sages which we have italicised in the follow
ing extracts from Gov. Graham's speech, and
indeed to the whole of the e.vtVacts :
"Sir, to the most casual reader of the Act
of 1 S.i-j, it is perfectly nkanifest that the re
tention of the freehold qualilipation in elec
tors of the Senate was as welJ jdefined and se
cured an object in the adjustment, then made,
as taxation for the basis of representation in
the Senate, and federal population of repre
sentation in the House,' and a much better
seeused object, than any other provision of
and will find reerviU enough to carry it as by
storm. Thus a contest is to be begun, of
which no man iean tell the eod.
"Sir, it is to avoid these consequences that
I offer the amendment under consideration.
Siiice you propose, as I have shown, to aban
don and violate-the compromise of 1835, to
annihilate the checks and balances then es
tablished between conflicting Interests, to al
low one of these interests an advantage it
could never have obtained but for that which
you propose to abolish in another the earlier
and. more calmly you can settle the matter
the better. When a compact becomes disre
garded or misunderstood, and there is a deter
mination to get rnl of its terms, it is nign
time to call together the parties who formed
it, and let them agree i pon new stipulations."
s
EUGENE B. DRAKE & SON,
EDITORS AX PROPRIETORS.
STATESYILLE,
-o
FRIDAY, MARCH 23, 1S60.
' Our Terms.
TITE "TREDELL EXPRESS" is published iijkjii the fol
lowing Tkrjis. from which there will be no deviation.
SHlismberg therefore will irovern themselves accordingly.
1 copy one year, if iw'nl in iiJvauce, $2 00;
If paid within 3 month, 2 25 ;
If jwid within 6 month. . 2 5o ;
If not paid till the end of the snhsoription year, 3 00.
Justice Demands that Like Values in Slaves
Shryidd. Pay, Equal Taxes with Lands end oth
er Taxable'- Property.
rnorLK's ticket.
FOR ' flJVEUXUK,
JOHN POOL,
OF PASQUOTANK.
rosettes without first askinir your sis
ter's a i.l V.lCC. Depend Upon it one "WO- j ,llf amended Constitution, save these two.-l
man can read another better in five 1i ml, as "that 'adjustment was. a compromise
minutes than you can five vears ! of a contention of thirty years, literally a
i i '. n i . ' . " ti i J treaty of peace, the parties to it, aiui all others,
iUU, UVU-C .ill, UUU l lUld-ttlUU incite, -ii i Jntmrrih'fJ fr,., lurlhrr .J-rrnnr, h
j you must keep your lady-talk and gen- Sr,a as one 0f ns fundanu-Htal articles has
t leman-talk in separate budgets, label
ed and sorted, unless vou want the
girls to laulian their sleeves at your
wishy-wahy sentimehtalistn. Talkto
them in a frank, manly style, as you
would to an intelligent gentleman.
Don't suppose because they are wo
men they don't know anything.
Remember all this! advice sir, aiid
you may make rather less of a fool of
vourself than vou would otherwise.
M R S . -G EO H ( ! W A 1 1 1 X G T 0 i" "V Y L L Y t1 .
Life llhht rated.
Death of Qeorge C. Mendenhall.
It is with great, pain that we are
called upon to announce the death of
George V. Mendenhall, Esq., of James
town. YV. arc not acquainted with
all the particulars of the sad occur
rence. We learn, however, that on
Friday the 9th instant, Mr. Menden
hall left Stanly Superior Court for
home, and in the evening of the same
lay wus seen a few miles from Fuller's
Ford" ori 'the Uwharie River. ; The
gentleman who saw him ,was aware
that the river was quite Hush, but as
Mr. Mendenhall had'been in the habit
of crossing at that; place for a number
of years, he said nothing to him, sup
posing that he would not venture in,
if it was too deep for fording. On
Saturday morning about ten o'clock,
u gentleman passing saw the wheels of
a buggy. and a horse lodged against a
raft just below the ford, and supposing
that some accident had happened, he
immediately commenced a search, and
in a 'short time found the body of Mr.
Mendenhall, lying partly in the water
and partly on the bank -he still held
his whip in one hand and-near by him
was his carpet bag. Green borough
Patriot.
How to Cure Tobacco
Tobacco should' be; very ripe when
cut. In order to cure a fancy crop,
it is necessary to select your tobacco
as you cut it in order to get a house
full as uniform as possible of plants
that ripen a yellow color. Tut your
tobacco in the house as soon as possi
ble after cutting it. putting six to
eight plants on a stick four and a half
been abandoned and annulled. I wish this to
be known and remembered by those who have
such dreadful apprehensions from the call of
ii Convention, and whatever changes the Con
&titution may be destined to undergo, that tee i
may hear no '-complaint of' a plighted faith, ami
a departure from the terms of compromise. This
original biH sets the comronise at naught, and
leaves every man to take. part in regard to a
mendmerits of the Constitution, as may seem
right in his own eyes. Sir, there is no es
cape from this conclusion. You propose, by
this hill, a plain and palpable violation of
tlie compromise of 183"), and yet you evince
a very salutary fear of losing the benefits of
that compromise in other particulars. If
there be, as you, I think, vainly apprehend,
a serious or general disposition to disturb the
baeie of representation, you will have lost
more than half your power f resistance to it.
when you have broken the faith "which
binds the moral elements of the world to
gether." "lint, the change in the Constitution pro
posed by this original bill is not only a vio
lation of the compromise, but if it be made
and nothing more be done, it will destroy
the balance between cotillic ting interests then
established, and will be an act of gross injus
tice to the owners of laiuiej property, as con-tra-diitinguirthel
from the owners of proper
ty in slaves. This may not be obvious at
first si;rht. but I think it can be made per
fectly apparent. ' We have already seen that
a Constitution -of a free government is like
the human svstem, compounded of various
parts, harmonized in one whole; and that
such' is the union oi these parts with each
other, that one cannot be disturbed without
atiecting others. It might be supposed by a
sunerticial observer, that the human hand
would be improved bv cutting off the fingers
of equal lengths, and the operation would be
so simple that'any child who could handle
an axe could perform it. And yet we know
that this curtailment of the extremity would
wound nerves and blood vessels connecting
with the brain and the heart, the very vitals
of the system. So this apparently simple
lopping oil' from the Constitution of the State,
what is represented as a mere excrescence,
under the captivating idea of a political right,
would, from the connections and dependen
cies of this provision, produce effects reach
ing far beyond a mere question of equality in
which aspect alone it Is treated by the Execu
tive, and has nsually been considered by the
public I have already demonstrated that
the freehold qalifieation required in the elec
tors of this body was the landholder's defence
against unequal taxation on his property,
that for this purpose it was ordained By our
fathers in the first Constitution, that for the
same purpose it vas revised ami re-ordained
by theirchildren in 18,55, and that the com
promise Constitution then given to us was in
other of its parts built upon this provision as
upon a foundation stone. Being a member
of the I.P'Melature both in 18:13 and 1K34 ond
leet long, placing the Sticks at a Uis- taking an humble part among the advocates
tance on the Her itoles so that the! ,or a Convention, 1 recollect something of the
tmnAlAoa nAt nV uffv 5f history of that Con vention act, and of the ne-
- ... n - r . . fc gotiatiQns by which a sufficient number of
in iu ..uu.-r. uiuuicncc unug mi- votes was given to the bill to allow the ques
. luedintelTT with coal,; at one hundred tion to be determined bv the people. Not
tiecrecs iaarenneit, twenty lour nours m,1.v Wfl8 u repureu mat imsquauncation in
4hc ne5t twelve hours one hundred i 'torial voters should be retained as a pro
V. i , , i teetion to landed propertv, but it was also re-'
acd fire degrees, tho next six hours ; (lilired . anj conceded that the Convention
" one hundred and ten degrees ; then in- should have power to make the capitation
CTCasc' two and a half degrees every i tax 011 slaves and white polls,equal through-;
hour until you attain-one hundred and ! ?nt u, Stute ; an? k ? "f''y cert?'n
. . a ?T -i ' t .v k i lr.mi the uiauner in which the Convention
wxty-fave degrees, and- rernam,aUhat j wa9 constituted, that it would be done, and
' until your tobacco is thorpughly cured, it was done to the fullest extent of the power
The stalk should be dry when you quit conferred. .-Sir, the language of Eastern gen
firing. As soon as your! tobacco is ; ,,e,ucn: f ff J .tir Western brethren,
,v e , i . , was substantially this ! " our protrtv con-
sott ..enough to move fter it is cured,! ?isls for he grCflt part in land; That i
niove the sticks as close together as , protected against unjust levies, by the power
you can, that it niavj more effectually ' of'the landholder to elect the Senate, that
retain its color. " ' ' : Plwer we aSree i l be retained. But we
m- , , r A I own the larger portion of the slaves. Give
ve your barns all twenty feet j us constitutional guarantee against undue
.square and five tier in the body, and i taxes upon slaves, and other matters being
as tight as vou can make them." Have rranSeJ satisfactorily, we will go into con-
? nine fires to each hojuse, made of coal ! n.t,on' and glle, ou Tal rePresen.tatin-"
.i -T, ' , 1 ins was agreed to. Ihe convention was
-. nituer nine or oak. or nnv ntlior- . n i t. j -. . 1 .t..i.. , .
i 1 1 y caneu. xi oraaiueu mat staves, unaer twelve
; Wood is equally as good. - It is neccs-and over fifty years of age, should notbetax-
bary to keen tlie fires night and day. '-edat all; and those between those ages should
A p j be laid on white men. Thus, one halfJn
number of all the slaves in the State is , ex
empted oy the constitution from taxation al
together ; and the other half is exempted from
all tax as property, but is liable only to the
capitation tax imposed on white men. Thus,
the two great subjects of property in the State,
On Wednesday morning last a iliffi
culty occurred" at Emory, and Henry
College, Virginia, between a student
from (TPortii. nametl Reesfi. and .Tohn
G. Brownlow, of Knoxville. Tennes-! !a"dd anj were pWed under the' pro-
t. -. - r p ,tT vi iy i ! tectl0n ot the constitunon, against unreason
bee, ton of Rev. W . G. Brownlow, m ! a,(e exactions by the Legislature-the land
wiiiuu uie latter strucK tne tormer on retaining their old defence, by means of a
'the head with a stiick. Reese died political power in the hands of their ownera
' ' i which enables them to hare a veto on legig.
the same night.
lation, in one House of the General Assem- j repeal of the protection against taxes on slaves.
bly the elaves having a still more effectual
ehield, not by means of a political power in
the owner, but by a positive interdict upon
the Legislature from laying its finger upon
the one half of them for any levies for the
support of Government, and upon the other
half, only so heavily, or fo lightly, as it lays
it upon the white man with a vote in his hand.
Ami nnw. sir. vou wooose ' bv this "Free
Suffrage" bill to take from the landholder the
nrotection which he has had from the founda
tion of the Government, and by reason of
the retention of which, protection was given
to the slaveholder m 183o, and to permit the
protection then for the first time allowed to
the slaveholder fo remain. . This looks to me
verv much like taking out the foundation,
and expecting the superstructure to remain,
poised in mid air very much like taking
out a balance wheel from a complex machine,
and expecting it to run on, as if never dia
turted. Does any one doubt for a moment,
that if the protection to land had not been
continued in 1835, the guarantee in favor of
slaves would never have been adopted? I
was continuously a member of the General
Assembly, from the ratification of the amend
ed constitution until 1840; and 1 am very
enre, that after the compromise of 1835,
down to that date, if a Western member had
introduced a bill to amend the constitution,
by annulling the guarantee in favor of slaves,
or if an Eastern member had proposed a bill
to amend the constitution, by abolishing the
protection to lands, by doing away the quali
fication of voters for the Senate ; either would
have been charged with a breach of faith,
and from whichever side the movement might
have come, it woul 1 have provoked retalia
tion on the other.
"But, I may be told, that Eastern and
Western patjties have passed away. Be it so;
1 .shall be the last to attempt to revive strifes
merely sectional. Jfut the great interests of
society exist now as they existed in 1835 ; and
although men may be individuated, and act
no longer in sectional masses, the question
still is of as much interest as ever is there
to be any check upon the Legislature, in the
imixition of taxes on property? And if
there is. on what species of propertv? Shall
land, the most important of all property, be
cast away, and bear such burdens as may be
imposed at pleasure or of necessity, while
slaves enjoy the exemptions now allowed ?
Sir, 1 fear this subject of amending the con
stitution has been considered too much with
reference merely to equality on days of elec
tion. Let us become a people of equal rights
and equal privileges, says the Governor, in
his message. The problem reallv to be solv
ed is not one of political equality merely, but
of taxable equality also. And whilst I do
not object to all free citizens casting equal
votes on days of election, . I must insist that
along with that change in the constitution,
there shall be security for as near an approach
to equality as possible on the days of tax
gathering, and, when thesheritf makes his
annualround, forthe collection of the revenue,
that each man shall contribute according to
his several ability, for the support of Govern
ment. It has been treated . as a question
solely between the landholder and non-landholder,
in regard to equality of votes It is
an equally important question between the
landholder and the slaveholder, and white
poll, in regard to taxation. We must view
things as they are. What are the great sub
jects of taxation in the State, from which rev
enue is to tje derived? Lands, slaves, and
white polls. You may derive something
handsome from taxes on monevs at interest,
and stocks in Banks, or other corporations,
and a pittance from what is laid on your
daughter's piano, you wife's silver spoons, et
cetera, but your main reliance tor revenue is
upon the three sources just mentioned, lhee
three interests were all represented in the
convention of 1835, were parties to the treaty
then made, and are all protected against un
equal burdens under existing constitution.
The land, by the power of its owner to select
the Senator ; the white poll, bv his power to
select the House of Commons, and the slave
property, by the guaranty already mentioned.
There is, nd was designed to be, between
them, mutual checks against inequality of
imposition. tUio trill oil Oestrov tills
system ; you strike from the landholder his
tower of defence, while you leave to the slave
holder his impenetrable shield. You set out
with the Quixotic idea of establishing equal
political rights, and end bv creating an une
qual and unjust exposure to taxation, a great
er misehief and-grievance than that vou de
signed to remedy ; a natural consequence of
undertaking to deal with the complicated 6nb
ject of the constitution by piecemeal. Sir,
suppose this Senate were sitting as a conven
tion, with power to make and proj08e a whole
constitution to the people ot the Mate, (and
that is the situation in which we should place
ourselves, when we come to devise amend
ments,) and that we had progressed so far as
to establish two branches oi the Legislature,
and to ordain that the electors for each should
be the same that we had further voted that
land should be liable to taxation at the will
of the Legislature, without any restraint, and
then that same member should propose to re-
strain the ueneral Assembly from taxing
slaves, as provided in the present constitution,
how many votes do vou suppose the proposi
tion would receive ? Would it notbeatonce
replied, and perhaps with some impatience,
"No, we have refused anv restraint in regard
to land, and it would be unjust therefore, to
provide one as to slaves." And is the injus
tice any the less, because, both lands and
slaves being pro.'.ected under the present con
stitution, you strike out the protection of one
and leave that of the other, than if you had
a new constitution to make, vou refuse pro
tection to lands and inserted it for slaves ?
Sir, this subject has sooner or later to be met
on manlv and intelligent ground. When vou
take awav the present constitutional protec
tion to land, there are two alternatives open
to your adoption, one of which yon will be
compelled to take; and these are either to in
sert a new provision which shall afford the
protection you have taken away, unaccom
panied by pc liiical power, or to strike out al
protection to property of every kind, and
ieave it to be taxed at the pleasure of the Leg
islature. For, Sir, when it shall become
known to the people of the State that vou
have sent them a coirftitution, as you propose
to do by this Bill, in which no property is
protected from taxation except slaves, and
that, of these, one half cannot be taxed at all.
and the other half only as white polls, vou
will have produced a war upon the interest of the
slaveholder, quite as fierce as that you are now
waging against the landlualder. Let no one ac
cuse me of desiring to produce such?a contest.
The charge would be as unjust as untrue. A
slaveholder myself to a. considerable amount-
of the estate with which I am endeavoring to
provide for. a somewhat numerous family, L
have every reason to desire security and pro
tection tO that species of property But when
we are called on to consider propositions for
change in the structure of the Government, it
is necessary to analyze society, and see of
-what elements it is composed, and how they
consist together. And as a matter of policy,
I douot wish to see slave propertv eniov the
' bad eminence" of being the sole favorite of
the constitution, and subjecting ita owners to
a 'public sentiment which cannot be other
wise than injurions'; and as a public servant,
charged with the duty of guarding alike all
the interests of the State, and to allow to none
an advantage above another I cannot and
will not consent to put the landholder with
out the pale of the protection of the constitu
tion and leave the slaveholder within it."
IJ
"I repeat, sir, it is a delicate, and by na
means an agreeable task, thus to renew the
great interests of the State, and place them
in ap'parent antagonism But it is necessary
that we shall realize what we are about, when
an amendment to the Constitution is urged
which is in the nature of an attack on one
sipecies of property, and survey the whole
field before us. The landholders are not a
majority of thejieople, but they approach
much nearer to U than the slaveholders, and
when vou have triumphed over them, and
exposed their land to unlimited taxation, es
pecially whea you accompany it witji a new
tax bill, they will turn upon you and demand a
We have received the J ounsal of Education
fbr the current month. Contents : The Fam
ily, War of the Regulation (part 2,) Work
ing Teachers, Extract from the Report of the
General Superintendent, Spelling, &c. Ad
dress, JF. D. Campbell, Greensboro', N. C.
Price $1 a year in advance.
Milliner and Mantua Maker.
Attention is invited to -the card of Mrs.
Rutledge, who has taken a residence near the
College, where she will conduct the Millinery
and Mantua-making business.
Clothing Manufactory-
We invite attention to the advertisement
of Mr. O. S -Baldwin, who, is engaged in
manufacturing Clothing for the million, at
his Establishment in Wilmington, upon
large scaled Mr. Baldwin is doing more to
promote the independence of the South, in
his line of business, than any gentleman we
know, and is deserving universal patronage.
B, Our Texas and Missouri correspon
dence, is crowded out this week. It will keep
very well until the next issue.
Congress. .,
In the Senate, on Monday, the resolutions
as to Hyatt's case were discussed at length.
The substance of the preamble and report is,
that Thaddeus Hyatt, a witness summoned
by the committee, has failed to give a sat
isfactory excuse for not appearing before
them, and Mill declining to testify upon the
summons, be committed to the common jail
until he obeys the command of the Senate.
The report whs adopted, 44 to 10, and the
witness was remanded to the custody of the
Sergeftnt-at-Arms, to be placed in the com
mon jail until prepared to obey the mandate
of the Senate. The noes were Black Repub
licans, and Mr. Toombs, Georgia Democrat.
On Tuesday, Mr. Toombs introduced a bill
to establish a uniform Bankrupt. Law through
out the United States. The bill to remodel
the Court of Claims (heretofore noted) was
passed.
In the House of Represents fives, on Mon
1 ':-
Statesville Market -Merchants.
Our merchants are now receiving and open
ing their stocks of Spring and seasonable ; duv. Mr. Gilmer introduced a bill todo equal
goods, which embraces larger stocks and bet- j
ter assortments than ever was brought into
this market before. The styles too are very
beautiful, and, we are informed, that prices
at which most articles will be sold will rule
ower than formerly, the goods having been
purchased cheaper. Stocks of groceries will
be very heavy. The fact is people must have
goods, whether made at the North or else
where, and the sooner our capitalists go to
manufacturing such articles as the public de
mand, the better it will be for the South. But
until this is done, supplies must come from
abroad.
Trade has been vjery thrifty here the past
season a great deal of produce was brought
nto the market and sold for long prices, cash
when the seller requested it. Our merchants
are proverbial for their lair dealing and liber
ality to customers.
A District Convention.
It is time that the Whigs of the Sixth Con
gressional District, were taking steps to bold
a Convention amjiiominate an Elector for
the district, and also, to appoint a delegate
to the National Union Convention, which is
to meet in Baltimore on the 9th Mav next.
pi-tire to all the States, in relation to land
grants, eve which was referred. Mr. Dawes,
(Republican.) from the committee on Elec
tions, reported in favor of allowing A. J.
Williamson, contesting the seat of Mr. Sick
les ( f N. Y., time to take testimony. Mr.
Gilmer, from. the minority, reported that the
contestant had not complied with the usages
in contested elections by giving notice, ami
had therefore lost his right to contest the
seat.
The Homestead bill was passed, 115 toGG.
The N. C. members present voted against it.
Absent, Messrs. Craige, Leach, and Winslow,
On Tuesday, Mr. Valla ndigham attempted
to revive a table bill for the better arming of
the Militia of the States. Diplomatic appro
priations were discussed.
John Pool Esq.
With this gentlernan, who is the
candidate of the Opposition for Gov
ernor, we have had the pleasure of an
intimate acquaintance for four years,
and as a man he is whole-souled, gen
erous-hearted and a true friend. As
a debater and speaker he has not hi
superior of his age, we do not believe
in the Lrntcd btates. With over
whelming democratic majorities a
gainst him in the two last Legislatures
he eciimfrtiled tocarrjanv question
not strictly party to which he
chose to devote his energies. II
power of invective and oratory always
seemed to us like, a vigorous .fanner
laying low the gra.ss with a freshly
sharpened scythe. We have seen him
single tiamkii combat uie wnoie demo
cratic side of the Senate and when the
vote was taken carry his point by a
large majority. We have listened
with pleasure many a time to his strong
arguments put forth with such unre
sisting power, and others have often
done the same. In the Senate' he was
respected and feared and whereever
his sledge hammer power was exer-'
cised, whatever he opposed fell crush
ed, mangled into atoms, before him.
He will make a canvass long to be rc
mcmbered by the people of this State.
It has been said that his record as
to the West is very bad, upon exami
nation we learn from the iotivruils that
he'voted for the bill to allow county
subscriptions to the French Broad
Road, that he voted for the bill to a
mend the charter of the Wilmington
an; t 'Rutherford Road,, that he also vo
ted for the Western Extension bill.
Ashei'ille Advocate.
The Troubles in Texas
Major Ben McCulloch left here
possessed of Mr. Buchanan's private
views, to be communicated to Gen.
Houston, who, it is understood, will
shortly take up his position oithe Rio
Grande to await the action of the Sen
ate on the treaty. If it be rejected,
then some step will be taken, to test
Gen. .Houston's strength and popu
larity of his proposed protectorate.
Money will not be wanting. : Years
ago English capital was offered Gen.
Houston if he would head the move-
Judicial Testimony.
Kowlaiul Bonf, Esq., justice' eg the
peacein Toronto, and jail copiis
sioner for nearljr twenty, yearLfh a
statement to, thej Canadian Parliament
says that nine otst qfrten of thefnale
prisoners and ISf out of 20 of thf V fe
male, have been j brought there b in
toxicating liquors. He exanyned
nearly 2,000 prisoners in theails
throughout 0 an a da, two-thirty of
whom were males and nearly all sighed
a petition for Maine liquor flaw
many of them Stating that their only
hope ot being sayea trom ruin was to
go where intoxicating liquors could
not be sold. In four years there'were
25,000 prisoners; in the jails of Cana
da, 22,000 of whom were brought fcjere
by intoxicating liquors. He hasfjept
a record of the ljiquor dealers of q sin
gle street in Toronto, 100 in num ber,
for 54 years past. In these families
there have been 214 drunkards i45
widows and 2d5 i orphans left, 44 sud
den deaths, 13 sjuicides, 203 prma:
ture deaths bv .drunkenness, 4 our
ders, 3' executions, 1,915 years o; hu
man life estimated to have been lo;;t by
drunkenness, and a loss ot projeprty
once owned in real estate a.moWiing
to 3293,500. : 1 "
. .J r
Edward Bates Nominated by Mfedfuri.
At a full caucus of the 'old Ifhig
and American- members of the (Mis
souri Legislature;, held just befofj( ad-
ournment on the 17th inst., thtj Kn
owing resolution, nominating vJ$dge
Bates for the Presidency, was, unani
mously adopted : V - .f.
liesotvedy I hat the spotless rar-
acter, proved patriotism and conser
vative statesmanship of our distin
guished fellow-citizen, Edward 'ltes,
as well as his unbounded devotijm to
the Union, point him out as thenjian,
above all others, best qualified f the
office of President of the United Jates
in the present position of affair and
we hereby present his name t$ the
people 6f..the Union for that position,
giving at the same time our solemn
assurance that, should he be a c Sndi-
date, he will receive the electoravote
oi iviissoun. j ' - p
Vincent Witched, Esq. jConftnitted-Bail
Ketusea.
It is stated that the examination of
Vincent Witcher, Esq., for the killing
Thomasville Boot and Shoe Manufacto
ries.
4
We next visited Mr. Shelley's Ladies' boot
and shoe manufactory, which is also upon
an enlarged scale, and designed to supply the
wants of the South, with articles in that line.
The finest and best qualities of Ladies boots,
gaiters and ties are manufactured bv Mr.
Shellcv, of calf-Bkin, seal, morocco, la?ting.
cloth, ti'c. None but the best and most skil
ful workmen upon ladies' work are employ
ed; and none but the best materials are used.
The establishment is supplied with all the
mplements, machines, &c,, which modern
skill has discovered to manufacture shoes
rapidly, and at the same time In the best
manner. Five or six different styles are man
ufactured at'this establishment (enough for
a merchant's assortment) and the wholesale
prices are not higher than what is charged
for Northern work, of inferior quality. Mer
chants who purchase of Mr. Shelley will
have no old, unsaleable stock left upon their
hands every pair will sell they are equal
to "custom-make." y
In addition to these establishments, , large
building is completing, to accommodate a
manufactory of fine Boots, Brogans and Shoes
for gentlemen, to commence in a few weeks,
understood, likewise, that other branches
of manufacturing would be introduced into
Thomasville in a short while.
Thomasville has many advantages for
growing into a manufacturing town its posi
tion on the N. C. Railroad healthfulness
cheap living pure w:itcr excellent schools
moral society, ejec.-give to it superior advan
tages for industrial pin suits. There are no
loafers or idlers about the place no grog
shops. While other places have been talk
ing of starting manufactories, the people of
ThomasvillehaTecommenced .in good earnest
to manufacture articles of prime necessity for
the South : and by their energy and enter
prize have added another chaplet to the fame
of the Old North State. Tiiomasville is de
termined to become the Lynn of North Car
olina; and can iit achort while supply every
pair of boots and shoes that will be wanting
Xt L , j , , 4l 0 Kment tor a protectorate, and the same
you go North to buy goods which the South . .' .
.a jaenwu iJ-eserratipn. ;
" When the platform of the late
Democratic - Conrention was about to -be
voted on, Mr. Bledsoe moved for a
divisioniof the question so as to vote
on the resolution denouncing ad rafo
rem separately. . Mr. Bledsoe gaid
that from principle and policy, he wag
opposed to that resolution that he
would defend and endorse the platform
of the parly, but could not vote against
ad valorem. Mr. Bledsoe will find
thousands of good Democrats who will
talce the same stand; they cannot and
they will not vote against ad valorem,
Mr. S. E. Williams, of Caswell, was
also for a division, but said he would
go the platform with a " mental reser
vation in regard to ad valorem.
Grccnsborough Patriot.
Virginia Resolutions.
We insert below a correct copy of
the resolutions passed by both Houses
of the Virginia Legislature, declining
the- proposition to send Commissioners
to a general conference of the slave
holding States. The vote upon these
resolutions in the Senate . was : yeas
thirty-one, nays forty-two.
Retolved by the General Assembly,
That, we have received with deep sen
sibility the communications J which
South Carolina .and Mississippi have
made to the authorities of this com
nion wealth tfirough their commission-
ers. lion. v. tr. Memuiinser ana lion.
P. B. Starke, and we hail with lively
gratification the renewed manifesta
tions of that fraternal affection which
has hitherto- characterized the rela
tions of South Carolina and MississipJ
pi witn Virginia. .
hciolced. That wc perform a pleas-
ing duty in recording and communica
ting to the authorities of South Caro
lina and Mississippi our high appreci
ation of the ability, dignity, and cour
tesy with which their commissioners
have discharged the important duties
of their mission. 4
Resolved, 'That the General Assem
bly of Virginia, recognizing in our
present relation with the non-slave-
holding States an imperative necessi
ty for decisive measures, does not yet
distrust the capacity of the Southern
States, by a wise and firm exercise of
their reserved powers, to protect the
rights and liberties of the people, and
to preserve ttVc Federal Union. For
this purpose we earnestly desire the
concurrent action of the Southern
tate3. But the General Assembly
respectfully submit for the considera
tion of South Carolina and Mississip
pi, and all our sister States of the
South, that efficient co-operation will
be more safely hail by such direct leg
islative action of the several States as
may be necessary and proper, than
through the agency of any assemblage
which can exercise no legislative pow
er except to debate and advise.
liesolvcd, therefore, lhat, in the
opinion of the General Assembly, it is
inexpedient to appoint deputies to tho
conference proposed by South Caroli
na a nrl Mkeieetppi.
Hesolved, That the Governor of
this Commonwealth be requested to
communicate the foregoing resolutions
to the Governors of the States of
Mr. Pool and Equal Taxatio i. South Carolina and Mississippi, and
The Standard and the Journtl andfto the Governors of each of the other
of the three ' brothers, James, Ji.il ph
and Johnson Clement, at Dickif son 8
store, Franklin county, on Sati 'day,
the 24th of February, has resulpd in
his committal tb jail for trial.- rt Bail
Avas asked but rcfusedc Mr;iTohn
Anthony bmith, a grand-son, anl Mr.
Addison Witcher, son of Mr.Yfjicent
Witcher, who were likewise implica
ted, have been sent On. for .trial jefore
an Examining Court, which is4' a be
hcJd-;on Mob day -next, the l.h in
stant. I'eterabxtry xrT?rc, X
Troon for Texas, n?
Lieutenant .General Scott has ad
dressed an order to Assistant Quarter
master General Tompkins, at New
York, from which it appears that all
th disposable itroopa of the -fnited 1
Mates army are to be concentrated in
Texas for the protection of thf ' frpn-
tier.
i.
cannot supply, stop in Thomasville and there
buy your shoes.
The name of Mr. Vallandigham, whose
name appears in the: Congressional reports
very often, should be pronounced Vallan-de-gam,
as if the A were dropped. We charge
nothing for the information.
The British Eeviews.
We have received from the American pub
lishers, Leonard Scott & Co., the North Bri
tish Review for February. Table tof.cbntents:
Salon Life Madame Recamier ; Coast Defen
ces and Rifle Corps-; Erasmus as a Satirist ;
The Science of Scripture ; Austria ; Form and
Color ; Wesleyan Methodism ; Ceylon and the
Singhalese ; Pro. George Wilson ; Fossil
Prints; "Recent Publications.
For terms of these Reviews, see advertise
ment in this issue.
H. C. Planter.
This meritorious Agricultural Journal ia
regular in its monthly visits, and is always
well laden with farm-intelligence. Every
farmer should subscribe for it- "Address A.
M. Gorman, Raleigh, '$. C Price, $1 a year
in advance.
Kerosene Lamp Oil.
Jamison, Si mon ton & Co., advertise a very
superior article of Kerosene Lamp Oil, which
is very clear, and burns beautifully.
parties say they are still ready to sup
ply the sinews of war, while large
numbers of volunteers have tendered
their services. Private information
from Gen. Houston, of a reliable char
acter, states that he only awaits ac
tion on the bill now pending before
Congress providing for a Regiment of
Texas Rangers. Should Gen. Hous
ton's movements meet public approval,
he will aim to reach the City of 'Mexi
co and establish a permanent Govern
ment. He will nbt go into the interior
unless supported in the rear. '
Messrs. Reagan and Hamilton ap
pear before the Military Committee
on Tuesday next,to urge action in
favor of the bill providing for a Texas
.Regiment, the same . with that report
ted in the Senate. The impression is
that the Committee will report the
bill, and recommend its passage.
Wash. Cor. N Y. Times, 12
the Democrat have made a marvelous
discovery, viz : that Mr. Pool voted
against certain ad valorem billticfore
the last Legislature. Very gvKl rea
sons can be given for his otf and
Mr. Pool will doubtless make; them
known in good tiime. We do i pt see
how he could have voted for MfBlcd
soe s proposition ; for he' wasj ejected
to the Legislature to make laVts?under
the Constitution, not in plain violation
of one of its provisions, as .Mf. Bled
soe proposed to do : Nor for a .propo
sition to call a Convention td amend
the Constitution on a most iireportant
point at that time not mooted l)efore
his constituent, who had sent, fiim to
the Legislature on other issues" and for
other purposes;. Fay. Otaer tcf.
Fn.ni tlie Kkletgh Register. !
Mr. Editor : I stepped, j nto the
Democratic Convention the oh?r.'day
and took a look at' the. prominent act
ors in the great drama of humujfgery.
There .was Gov. llcid, whom tJbf'Dem
ocracy had thrown overboard;; "resid
ing. There was Spelman,' ir Eng
lishman, Fulton, an Irishman, t;hclair,
a Scotchman, and Foster, suHa,ne
man, acting as Secretaries tjnd all
Democratic editors, while- Yish,
Irishman, Win! Benj. Smith, yformer
K. N., and Whitaker, a tried-Jt-be K.
N., and Holden, a renegadfj Whig,
were the Democratic editors n atten
dance. , ' , j-
Among the most prominent? actor
were Avery, Kerr, Steele, Barringer,,
and Bledsoe, all renegade Whigs, and
Walter F. Leak, a distributionfDemo
crat, and Edwards, who killeft Free
Suffrage. . i - ' '-. . ?j .
With these things before thfcif eyes,
how can Democrats have the i impu
dence to say one word about e com
position of the Opposition parti. -
Besides, Mr. Editor, thcs& ' jnen
some of them never speak to eijh oth
er some &e ad valorem somxf anti
ad valorem ; yet-these samejen-1 a
miscellaneous crowd they arie have
the face to call on such men aj )adger
and Graham, ; and other pro ninent
Whigs, to come over to them jd help
save the country ! God dei r er . us
from such Union lovers as thee.
HonJ.ZL Leach. V
The friends of the Hon. J. &f.' Leach
will be pained to learn thai he has
been prevented for a'feVdayal, from
attending to his duties in the House
on account of the death of oa of his
children. This i s the second time
slaveholding States.
Resolved, That the President of
the Senate and the Chairman of the
House of Delegates transmitto Hon.
C. G. Memm nger and HonJ P. B.
Starke a copy of the foregoing resolu
tions. Wasiington Constitution.
Rail Boad Between New Orleans and
Mobile.
The Baton Rouge, La., correspon
dent of the Picayune, says :
"That, 'in the House, Mr. Austin,
of New Orleans, presented' a bill to
incorporate the. New Orleans and Mo
bile Rail Road Company. Its capi
tal stock is fixed at five millions of
dollars. The road is intended to run
from the suburbs of New Orleans, near
the foot of Canal street, on ! Metairie
Ridge, nnd rom thence to Fort Mc
Combe, crossing the bayou jSst above,
on to jFort Pike, af which point the
rpadjWill cross the Rigolettes by a
bridge having a draw of one hundred
feet,, so that navigation will be kept
open at all times. From thence to
Pearl river, which stream will be cros
sed by draw bridges to Bay St Louis,
continuing to Pass Christian, j Missis
sippi City," Biloxi,- Pascagoula, and
thence to Mobile. The road will con
nect Mobile with New Orleans by a
run of five hours, and its importance
to the commerce of New Orleans is
too plain to need comment. We are
just as, much in want of this road as'
JMew lorK was tor a road to boston
or Philadelphia. The parties apply
ing' for this charter are men of great
experience and energjr, being bid rail
road men, and all citizens ofjLouisi-
ana.
The roacLhere alluded to ought to
have been built years aeo. .We think
that it would be h great benefit to Mo
bile. -Mobile Tribune. i
i
ine independent UnionClub of within the; last few. weeks, thtSt Geru
New York published an address nomi-j Leach has-been called upon" tOtfnourn
nating the Hon. John Minor Botts for lover the loss "of those who we?, verv
the Presidency, and the Hon. Thos. near and dear to him. If tat arm
Corwin, for the Vice Presidency. The ! pathiea of thousands of devoted friends,
address is signed by jjiX-lxpv. Llarke, can administer any. consobtiOrrto Mr.
J o h n Sessions," and C. Thompson, Leach in his bereavement, heto rjst
wiumiHuji i iMfiurcu iuai , uu lias inpm. r t. raz.
The Diference.
The difference between democracy
and whiggery, ia very marked jmd dis
tinct, in many things. It might be
considered odious to point them oat,
and we therefore forbear, vet. these
differences cannot fail to strikes the ob-
" . . ... ' .. . i
servant and intelligent, nor.; can iaey
fail to make a favorable impression in
favor of the whigs. We would simply
call the attention of our readers to the
fact, that in the late whig Convention
.large whig slaveholders of .th East,
came up manfully and said" that the
Constitution should be altered,! so that
their negroes should be taxed equally
with other property.- On the other
hand, the largedemocratic slavehold
ers of the East declared that to tax
their negroes would be "dangerous and
unjust." Mark the difference. The
Eastern whigs see no danger in taxing
their negroes nor do ther think it
uniust. Greensboro Patriot.
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