nesseeans", while Virginia was rpl
oniied by English caValiers and ia pure
ly tttt English country , and the Ken
tuckian is the modern English cava
lier, with a good deal of John Bull In
th sturdy manliness of his character,
Hence, no two States are more unlike
than Kentucky and Tennessee, in pap
tilation, tastes, manners and customs,;
and aspects of the people. The Ken--tuckian
js a tall but fleshy roan, anil
remarkably well-made, while the Ten
heeseean is equally tall, but thin and
fcpare. Both people are equally brave
in battle ; and the Tennesseean Scotch
blood once up on the field, no, fpe pan
stand before Vis rifle !
Kentucky is full of fine looking men,
especially in the agricultural districts
and the women of Kentucky are among
ih4 most beautiful in the world, and
' ri tafi n vit vciri en
and graceful carriage,
Messrs. Pool and Ellis at Newbern,
The editor of the Kinspn Advocate,
who was n regent at i the discussion in
jNewbern between the capdidates.Jbr
Governor. Dublishes a renort of that
discussion in his last paper, from which
we make the following extract ;
RAILKOiXDS.
Mr. Pool said, my competitor has
compared the amount paid into the
treasury by this district with the
amount paid by the 8th" Congressional
district, and has. been comparing the
amount paid by each county in which
we have spoken with the amount paid
by Burke county, and has based up'on
these data an appeal to Eastern men !
acrainst Equal Taxation upon the
ground that the East has contributed
largely to Western llailrpads, and that
the West is already j lavgely indebted
to them. Such is not the fact. The
East is rather indeptcd to the West
for a large proportion of Railroads of
the State. I have fed an . investiga
, tion made of .this subject which I be
lieve to be accurate, and I do not be--teve
that my competitor or any one
vise will deny its accuracy. Of the
M$ miles of railroads completed in the
State, 489 miles are East of Raleigh,
and only 204 miles West of Raleigh.
The East has more than twice as much
railroad as .th.p West, and two dollars
have been expended! for Eastern Rail
roads where one has been expended
for Western roads. L If this then, is a
question of seetionalj indebtedness, we
of the East are already largely indeb
ted to our Western friends. But there
is another matter in this connection to
which I, desire to call to the attention
- of slave ow ners. Railroads are espe
cially for their benefit, for by increas
ing, the facility of getting the products
;'tf slave Jabor to market they increase
the value of that labor, and add large
Jyto the profits .of- slave property.
The railroads of the jjtate run through
many p, f the. largest slave holding
Counties, and three tifth of the whole
. slave population of tli e State is in those
, eonnties through whit:hte Railroads
run, to say nothing of the adjoining
counties which are also greatly bene
fited by them.
The Jblack polls of the Counties
traversed by Railroads sum up as fol
lows: I
Ral. & Gaston R. Ill
Wil. &Veldon R. R.
23,364
16,583
16,173
N. Car. II. II.
A. & tf. C. R. R.
Wnaf.- k n R J?
5,120
16,877
WiL'SrCMrlottee R. R.
8G,03&
Showing three fifths of the black
polls m the State j in the counties
through ,which these Railroads runTf
It we should count also the counties
adjoining these, thii portion woulde
greatly Increased, lis there , any rea
son tlien, why slave property should
not contributeits eqjual proportion to
the buildingf these roads ? But even
llailroa(ls in.the West, while furnish
ing faculties .forgetting to niarket, are
of equal henefit to the East by furn
ishing freights to our roads and. pour
ing intotthe lap of our Eastern ports
the rich products of the West. (Ap
plause.)' I said in Currituck and else
' where, and I say hire to day that I
ara in favor of rundinjr the Western
Extension to the Tennessee line at the
earliest practicable lime. Gov. Ellis
aays that -he is also in favor of this.1
a votea ior is in tno last Liegisiature,
workea for it and talked for it, and
intend to continue to do all I can to
..accomplish-it, whether in the East or
j We$ whether-in th legislature or out
, oi it, or wnetner elected Uovernor or
not elected Governor. It is no ques
tibn of East and West ; it is a question
, involving the interest, the prosperity
t ana the .glory ol my native State
-c riremendous applause. South Caro
lina and V lrginia have had the credit
i and the benefits of the products, of
JNortu Ajarol na.
This should be per
mitted no
longer
Xiorth yarohna
should he un
aeu in
interest and feel
mg as it is in the glory arising from
. the memory of the past. I. depreciate
such sectional appeals as I have heard
here to-day;. We are one people -we
have & common interest in' the deeds
and fame of our revolutionary fathers
-common reverence for their mem-
ory, a common pridj in the battle fields
of liberty. , We are linked together
; by the glories of thie past, and by the
hopes or the luture,! let us also be link
ed by the interest f the present.
am an luaatern man and am speaking
to liaitern inen, and I tell them that
if I ara elected Governor, I shall be no
. Governor of the East, but a Governor
- of North Carolina, j f Applause.
l was nora in tne r-ast and reared
in the East, and I cherish the associa
tions of my early days.. I am attached
to4her plains and her sea coast to
the sluggish stTeamUhat winds by the
place of my humble! birth, and washes
the play ground of by childhood to
the brotul river, whose swelling tides
pass by the scenes of the labors of my
maturer manhood, j But while I chef
ish these, I thank niv Creator tliat 'I
9
have a :heart large enough to desire
the prosperity of every portion of my
native State." Continuedf applause.
I give no ear to sectional appeaja 1
acknowledge no sections in the good
old orth ptate, hut shall continue to
labor for the prosperity of 'every por
tion of it from the mountains to the
seaboard. - -s'-
From the Charleston Courier.
The Baltimore Convention.
Our special Treptches . inform our
readers that John Bell, of Tennesse,
has been nominated for the Presiden
cy by the Constitutional Union Con
vention, at Baltimore, We give a few
particulars of the life and career of
Uhis distinguished citizen. -
,John Bell was born in Davidson
County, near Nashville, Tennessee, on
the 18th February, 1797, and received
his preparatory education in Cumber
land College. At the age of nineteen
(in, 1810) he was admitted an attorney,
and be;an his professional career at
Franklin, in Williamson County, j In
1817, before hisl legal majority, he was
eleeteiTa State Senator. After one
term he, retired from political life, and
continued actively; jind successfully in
the legal profession for nine years. In
1826 he appeared in a Congressional
canvass against Felix Grundy, and
was successful against odds that would
have defeated any other man of hi
political household.
For fourteen years he continued a
representative in Congress, and during
this period (in 1834) he was elected
Speaker, in place of Andrew Steven
son, who had accepted the Mission to
Great Britain, and in opposition to
James K; Polk. ; In 1841 he entered
the Cabinet of President Harrison, as
Secretary of War, but soon retired,
and for six years remained in private
life.
In lo-H he was called out to nu a
special vacancy in the United States
Senate, and in 1853 was reelected for
a full term of. six years.
His character, andi labors, and me
rits are acknowledged by allA and by
none more readily than by Apolitical
opponents.
Edward Everett, who has been un
animouslv nominated for i the Vice
Presidency, on the ticket! j w ith John
Bell, has been lately so prominently
and favorably before the American
public that we shall pot at present at
tempt a sketch, '
The Squatter Sovereignty Convention
Adjourned.
Our readers will see that our anti
cipation, that the Convention could
not agree on a nomination of candi
dates for the Presidency, is realized.
Thursday, on the meeting of the Con
vention, Mr. Russell, of Virginia,
moved that the Convention, should ad
journ to meet in Baltimore on the 18th
of June, and that the Democracy of
the States, where there are vacancies
in the delegation, be requested to fill
the samel The Convention is under
the control of the Northern States,
which seem determined to rule the
nomination, or to haye none. The
Southern. States, which act with them
appear to be not only very patient,
but cheerful under their domination.
The inequality of power whereby Nor
thern States, that 'were hopelessly
anti-Democratic, vould rule the Sou
thern States, which w e"f e reliably
Democratic the antagonism of inter
ests and of principles rendered the
whole affair as absurd in its constitu
tion as it has been abortive in its ter
mination. Without legal authority
without common principles without
harmonv as to men the corrupt fun
us has'burst, and is only carried to
Baltimore with its impurities to spread
still wider the pestilenca ot its rotten
ness. We believe that the system of
National Conventions is at an end
j Charleston Mercury
A Strong Stomach.
The Jonesborough Express, an Op
position paper, says Douglas, accord-
.1 XT 1 -11 TT 1
mg to tne lxasnvine union ana Am
erican and Memphis Avalanche good
Democratic authority is a 'gambler
in politics' a 'swindler' a pettifog
ger and demagogue a 'sneaking as
sassin'-r'-a 'rogue.' a 'traitor,' and a
Judas, ready to betray with a kiss,
and asks the Greenville Democrat, the
home organ of Senator Johnson, if it
can 'support a character ?' To which
the Democrat aforesaid replies :
' In short, if Douglas should be the
nominee of the Charleston Convention
having implicit confidence in the in
tegrity, intelligence and patriotism of
the men who will compose it, we will
take him 'gambler, stoindler ipet-
ttfogger,. ' demagogue, ' assassin,
'rogue,' ' traitor,1 'Judas' and all.
v e hope this will be satisfactory.
entirely satisiactory : iou can
pass, as a practical, live specimen of
modern Democracy. r o one will doubt
your genuineness as long as you keep
that stomach for the reception of the
Charleston Convention prescription.
Richmond Whigf
The Little Ad A Campaign Papr.
The editors, of the Greensboro Pat
riot, will commence the first iveek jn
May, the publication of a campaign
paper, " The Little Ad," to be issued
three and a half months.. The " Ad
will be devoted mainly to the ; subject
of equal taxation and will be pub
lished weekly at the price of 25 cents
The " Ad will he printed on a medi
urn sized sheet; and will contain a
large amount of reading matter, as no
advertisements win oe aamittea.
On Monday evening, says the N. Y
Express, the Rev. Daniel Worth, who
haibeen confined in Greensborough
jail, .North Carolina on a charge of
circulating the Helper book r and liber
rated on bail, delivered an address jit
the Assembly Rooms, in New York,
ill which he claimed all the honors of
martyrdom, in the approved faslrion
of John Brownism. A collection was
taken tip in aid of paying tfye forfeit
on nis Dona.
Befogged.
His excellency.- Governor Ellis, in
his great Raleigh speech, which unfor
tunately tor mm is a collection r qp
pbsites, contrarieties, antagonisms ap4
contradictions, not to be found in any
other production of the same dimeri
sionSi in speaking of the Opposition,
says they nominated " a gentleman
who has vpted against every iiauroau,
in some form, now in course of con
struction, and who never voted for,
talked for, or worked tor any Kailroaa
that ever has been built in North Caro-
lino, or, m my opinion, that ever will
be built, . - r
.Now the .Governor has either wil
fully misrepresented' Mr, Pool, with
the hopo of making capital in certain
localities, or he betrays an ignorance
concerning the Legislative history ot
the State that is absolutely discredi
table. Tjpon referring to the Journ
als, we find that Mr. Pool supported
and voted for eleven Railroads, while
the Governor only -squinted at six V
Le t the Records speak, they are of
democratic origin, and of course can
not lie they say that Mr. Pool went
for eleven Roatjs and that Governor
Ellis went for but six ! Let the Gov
ernor explain if he can why it was
that he had not consulted the docu
ments before the delivery of that un
mitigated still-born monstrosity in the
city of Raleigh, and in the last days
of the democracy, on the 9th day of
March, 1860. Washington limes.
Gov. Ellis Contradicted by his Own
Organ.
The Murfreesboroush Citizen, the
. .
Democratic paper which gave an ac
count of Gov. Ellis's speech at Gates-,
ville comnarine the West to 'a horse-
leech, crying give ! give ! ! says
thatl
its reDort is correct that Gov. Ellis
did say what at Smithfield and Golds
borough he denied having said. We
think there never was a clearer case.
Poth the papers at Murfreesborough
lerave the language as uttjered by the
jrOvernor language which neither of
them would ever have dreamed of if
it had not been uttered by the Gov-
ernor. The Governor waits three
weeks before he makes any denial in
the mean time being very particular
to correct an error on another point
which the Democratic paper had made,
at the same time affirming the correct
ness of the Whig -paper's account on
that point. It is impossible to resist
the evidence that the Governor did
say what was thus reported by both
Whigs and Democrats. The people
will make their own conclusions.
Fayetteville Observer.
The Standard and Mr. Pool
The Standard continues "its work
of misrepresenting the position of Mr.
Pool. It declares that Mr. rool as
serts that the ad valorem . system of
taxation will not increase - the tax on
slave property, notwithstanding Mr.
Pool and his friends have denied this
time and again. As we staged in our
last, Mr. Pool believes, and has so de
clared, that the tax on slaves which
are now taxed will not be increased,
but that other slaves, under that sys
tem, will be subjects of revenue, and
therefore, the tax on slave property
will necessarily be increased. Will
the Standard note thi. and state Mr.
... . - . .
Pool's position correctly ? Mr. Pool
has taken no other position but this in
this section, and any statement to the
contrary is a misrepresentation of his
position. We hope the Standard does
not intend to continue its, misrepre
sentations in the face of so many cor
rections. Elizabeth City State.
Rooms of the National Executive Cen
: tral Committe, of the Constitutional
Union Party, Washington, D- C., Ap
ril 20th, 1860.
Editor Register, Raleigh, N. C
The following are the members of the
National Committee of the U nion Par
ty, who have been elected to represent
in that Committee the State of North
Carolina :
State at Large.
Hon. George E. Badger, Raleigh.
Hon. Wm. A. Graham, Hillsboro'.
Congressional Districts
1st. John Pool, Esq., Elizabeth
City.
2nd. John H. Haughton, Esq.,
Newbern.
3rd. O. P. Meares, Esq., Wilming
ton.
4th.
5th.
ville.
6th.
George Little, Esq., Raleigh.
A. G. Foster, Esq., Thomas-
R. C. Puryear, Esq., Hunts
ville.
7 th.
Thomas P. Ashe, Esq., Wades-
boro'.
8th.
Tod R. Caldwell Esq., Mor
ganton.
The Hon. John A. Gilmer, of your
State, is a member of the National
Executive Central Committee.
Yours Respectfully,
F. W. WALKER, Secy.
Slaking Cake Without Butter.
A New England lady, who is quite
a famous housekeeper, recommends an
economical plan for making cake with
out butter, which pay be useful to our
readers. Take a piece of salt pork,
fat, and melt it down, and strain it
through a piece of coarse, thin mus
lin. Set it aside until cool. It is then
white and firnij and may be used like
batter in any kind of cake. In pound
cake, she assures us it is delicious.
She says that after one trial she never
- -mm- r?. ... .
useu ouiier again. mainem armer,
i High Prices for Tobacco.
r We learn from the Milton Chronicle
that the crops of tobacco raised by S.
S. Harrison, Esq., of Caswell County,
N. C,L were sold last week in Danville,
V.a,"at forty dollars per hundred, for
tbfc home crop and twenty-fire dollars
per.hundred for that raised on another
plantation. Ihfise fine prices were
"Zty casT I g
eaiesj iox uttuiui vi gwu looacco,
wjnle Up WUK of tht lot went for
scarceiy nyuung ai au oui ior me
entire crops, lugs as well as top lf.
JhMI
EWENE B. SHAKE 4 SON,
EDITORS AKD PROPRIETORS.
STATESVILLE,
O
FRIDAY, MAY IS, I860,
Our Terms.
THE "IREDELL EXPRESS" ia published apon th fat
lowing Tirsis, from which there will be po deTiatioo.
SuUcribert therefure will govern the tune 1 Tea accordioglr.
I cvpy one year, if paid in Mvanc, - ;
uysia witmn 3 munths,
If paid within 0 months, 2 W ;
If not paid till tha end of tha anbscriptian jeu, S 00.
Nominees of the Union Convention!
For President :
JOHN BELL,
OF TENNESSEE.
For Vice-President:
ED. EVERETT,
OF MASSACHUSETTS.
Justice Demands tfuit Like Valuta in Slave
Should Pay, Equal Taxes with Lands and oth
er Jaxable Property.
PEOPLE'S TICKET.
FOR GOVERNOR,
JOHN POOL,
OF PASQUOTANK.
National Convention of the National
Constitutional Union Party.
The National Convention of the Constitu
tional Union Party, assembled in Baltimore
at noon on the 9th instant. All the States
but two were represented. Hon. ? John J.
Crittenden, of Kentucky, called the Conven
tion to order, and moved the appointment of
Washington Hunt, of New York, as Chair-
man.
"Mr. Hunt, in' taking the chair as perma
nent president, said thu unexpected manifes
tation of kindueaa and continence filled his
heart with emotions he was unable to express.
The honor Was one he most deeply prized,
and should remember with prolbirud grati
tude during his life. He regretted that the
hoaior had not fallen on one wore able to
bear it. He would, however, discharge the
duties belonging to the place he was called
upon to fill to the best of his ability, and
would ask the co-operation ot all tne gentle
men present. in discharging the duties of the
position. He trusted that in the course of
their proceedings they would be able to im
press the country with the conviction that it
was not yet too late for gentlemen to come
together and deliberate in a spirit of -union
and harmony ; that theyj might come together
like the patriots of the days of franklin, and
the patriots of the revolution.
1 hev had come here as the representatives
of free, independent States, which have unit
ed their destinies together. Ihey represent
ed States widely different in climate to class
es of States, as they are sometimes termed,
differing in their local and social institutions.
There were those who would organize strife
into a system, and make discord a founda
tion in our country. God forbid that they
should give countenance to any such. There
was a large class of people represented here
to-day, who wish to put away dissension, and
establish peace and amity between the differ-
rent members of our country, lie was one
of those who .would bring back the country
to the consideration ol those rights which
concern the whole country. Let them do
what they can to promote and diffuse a broad
nationality, and a spirit ol forbearance ol
those questions which distract the country..
Let us all remember the differences of our
education and structures of society, and that
we all see things differently. Those differ
ences ought not to estrange the people of the
country. j;
A few days ago, lor the bretjjime, he was
induced to exttnd his journey west to the
Mississippi river, which by nature s .organic
law lias declared we are to be one and indi
visible He could nbt but feel that since na
ture had given us such, a bond of connection,
how vain, how prepostergus the folly of man
to endeavor to separate that which God has
put together; God forbid that any ot us,
or any portion of us, should support senti'
ments calculated to sever our country. v e
are one people and one country, and go upon
national ground, and he believed the people
of this country would prove equal to their
destiny, and their duties to those who come
after them. He only repeated the wish that
their deliberations and proceedings would be
distinguished for harmony and dignity that
no disturbing element might come m.
He trustednot to be troubled with the con
struction of a platform. ' He would not waste
strength in endeavoring to establish a general
platform. They had not come here to dis
cuss territorial and other questions -they
could not settle them if they would, ne pre
ferred to leave them where the constitution
left them let every Slate be in possession of its
own rights and independence. He trusted a
spirit of generous forbearance and toleration
would become the order of the day. J here
were signs that such will be the end of the
discord and disunion prevailing ever since the
repeal of the Missouri com promise. : He hop
ed the time would come when the people
would not abuse other sections of the coun
try, but would deliberate on tlie good and
welfare of the whole country, .North, bouth,
East and West. He invoked a spirit of union
and harmony over their deliberations, and
relied on tie members of the convention to
sustain him ia the discharge of his duties. .
The Cotfyention ignored all platforms but
the Constitution of the United States, which
was adopted a their platform ia the follow
ing resoldjona :
WherAs' experience has demonstrated
that all platforms adopted by political parties
have the effect of misleading and deceiving
the people, and encouraging geographical and
sectional parties, therefore,
liesolved. That both patriotism and duty
require that we should recognize no policy or
principle but those resting on the broad foun
dation of the Constitutional Union of the
States and enforcement of the laws, great
applause arid six cheers and that as represen
tatives ot the Constitutional Union Jf arty,
and of the country, we pledge ourselves to
maintain, protect and defend these principles,
thus affording security at home and abroad,
and securing the blessings of liberty to our
selves and our posterity."
Hon. John Bell of Tennessee, was nomi
nated, on the third ballot, by a large majori
ty, as the candidate of the party for the Presi
dency of the United States, which was re-
ceived with great applause.
1 L rr
Hon. EdwardEverett, of Massachusetts,
was unanimously declared the choice of the
convention for the Vice Presidency, on the
first ballot.
xmripz the deliberations oi tne conven
tion not a discordant word was uttered, but
every thing. was done in the most harmoni
ous and good humored manner. '
We congratulate the friends of the Union
every where the people of the whole conn-
try--poq this nomination. Bell sad Ever-
' are 'not only well-tried Statesnien, but
friends to every section alike whose devo-
tion yatrioism oo ma can eaU in pes-
tioni-South, North, East or West, They
1 wuj stand as the olive-braach of peace be-
$ween th TOectiona of the Untpn, jow j
arrayo) jp antagonism to each pthr an
umpire for settling j differences, by drawing
to theif standard t.he jconserratire of all parr
ties, antf all whaps nnw illjng to plunga $s
country in remediless ruin. Planted pppn
the;Constitution of their country, t-he&e pure
aod good men Bell and Everett are offei
ed to the American people as the last and
pnly hope for preserving the Amerieaa Union
and the Liberties and prosperity of the na
tion. It can he no forsaking of principle or
cause for shame to rally to their standard
for it is the Ensign of the Unipn which was
consecrated by the j hand of Washington
and hantized in the blood of the Martyrs OI
the Revolution.
The Baleigh Munchausen. "
We have so often corrected the errors of
the .Raleigh Standard, and other prints oppos
ed to equal taxation, that it might appear un
necessary to notice any more of their mis
statements; indeed, they ore so given to
making bold and groundless assertions, that
their readers now expect to see nothing else
paraded in tlieir columns. Habit, in their
case ha become second-nature and inwrought
into a constitutional complaint,, beyond the
control of alterative or tonic remedies. Ba
ron Munchausen has been well studied, by
these anti.ad-valorem Editors, for, really ma
ny of them can excel tlieir notorious eld pre
ceptor in his great art of blanket-stretching,
and short-cuts to immortality, as taught in
' v
his college otfalseJuopd. The Standard in
late issue says: "The truth ia, Mr. Pool
meets no question fairly or squarely." Now,
we would simply atk the renders of Mr.
Poors speeches, if they think that to be a
truth, which the Standard has asserted. A
pain: "All the nropciiv of the State is to be
lupipcd and then taxed at the samt rate". Is
that the truth, fellow-citizens? "The race
horse ia to be taxed the plow horse is to be
taxed; but the fohiier is to be taxed noliigher
than the latter." Is that the truth t , Tbe
billiard table is to be taxed ithe threshing
machine is to be taxed, but the former is to
be taxed no higher than the4atter." Is that
the'trM7 Let us introduce figures and see
if the Standard be: not simply mistaken in
these matters. A irace-horse w worth, usu.
ally, from $1,000 to S3.000, some of them
$10,000, a plow horse is worth from $75 to
$150 Sportsmen all know the value of the
former, and Farmers all know the value of
the latter. Now if each pays equal per cent-
age upon their value, how can the plow-horse
pay as much tax as the racer? The asser
tion is more than absurd. A billiard table
is worth from $1,200 to $2,000; a threshing
machine is worth from $100 to $125. Now
if each pays equal per-centageupon their val
ue, how can a threshing machine pay as
much tax as a billiard table? Any child can
make the calculation and tell the difference.
But the Standard and Gov. Ellis boldly as-
.... r
sert, that one would have to pay as much
tax as the other, under an equal system of
taxation!
But a such stuff as this is all the capital
which Gov. Ellis and his friends possess in
the world, to trade upon in this canvass, it
might not be hardly proper to dispossess
them of it, and leave them bankrupt. This
capital we do not tlhirk they have borrowed,
but it was inherited by them ; otherwise, as
Gen. Jackson said, they ought to break.
As they have nothing better to go upon, we
hope they will keep on using it.
Since the canvass opened several Iocofoco
journals in the State, have indulged in utter
ing statements about' the proportion of re
venue that each section pays, and other mat
ters, which are as far removed from truth as
falsehood . can well go, and when exposed,
their editors never have been known to make
the first correction. They generally contend
that the East pavs all the taxes, the West
none ; with other assertions equally munohau
sen, and expect the people to believe it. In
this, Gov. Ellis was the first to set them the
example, in his Raleigh speech, and his par
asites follow the bidding of tlieir master. The
Favetteville Observer says :
We take the trouble to show? up, week
after week, the errors of fact of the leading
Democratic jonnuiB and erators, for the pur
pose of showing our readers that thev are not
reliable, even in the plainest matters of fact.
Whether their blunders are owing to ig
ranee or design, it is not our province to de
termine ; but it is our duty to show that they
are blunders and that they are persisted in
after being shown to be such manifesting a
determination, not to enlighten the public
mind, but tc deceive it; to do any thing, and
say any thing, that may possibly help to se
cure a political triumph, and to retain the
honors and offices
The Washington Constitution, the organ of
the President, continues its attacks on Mr
Douglas. The "patriotic Senators from Louis
iana, Indiana, and JJeiaware are defended.
and the friends of Mr. Douglas are held uj:
as exhibiting "the rage of disappointed parti
zanship and defeated personal ambition.
Now we think these attacks on Mr. Douglas
and his friends have gone farenougb. Silence
is at least due to the man who commanded a
majoritv of the whole Electoral College in the
late Convention, and whose Democracy, what-
ever may be ins faults, is quite as sound as
that ol many who assail turn Standard.
Pray.how long has it been since the Ral
eigh Standard was the "organ of the Presi
dent?" - Every Democratic Convention and
meeting that have been held in the State, in
cluding the one held in Raleigh that nomina
ted Gov. Ellis, have endorsed the "course Of
Mr. Buchanan," since he came into office,
and the Raleigh Standard was foremost and
loudest in proclafyningit all to the country,
Moreover, scarcely a year has elapsed since
the Standard was denouncing Douglas for an
abolitionist, and one no better than Giddings
and Seward, Now,' why is the Standard un
willing to allow the "Constitution" a similar
privilege, wnich it once enjoyed T .
But the Standard knows a thing t or two,
and worships the rising sun, in preference to
the waning luminary. It says to Mr. Buch
anan; now, "goto grass 'oldVhoss,' your sands
of life are almost run ; we have rode you to
the mill, Just as long as will be in your power
to carry us -and we have no farther use for
yon ! We will now straddle Douglas."
Poor Mr. Buchanan ! now that he con be
of no further service to his political friends
he is to be laid aside as a piece of worthless
old-trumpery.
It is not the object of the Express to en
gage in religious controversy, nor can we ad
mit into oar columns communications having
a tendency that wav. Each denomination of
professing Christians, we believe, now have
organs of their own ia the State, at least in
the Union, and to them, respectively, should
all disquisitions upon sects be sent. For this
reason, we have declined publishing a com
munication which was sent as from Chatham
county, and for doing so we hope that our
correspondent will be satisfied.
jgy We have been no, little surprisJ to
see paraded in the columns ol two or th&ge of
our exchanges, (that belong to the nectral
and. religious catalogue of publications,) spec
ulations despairing of the Union, becaasatbe
Democratta politicians who assembled .in
Charleston, split and adjourned widtout awak
ing a nomination. . To our mind, that at
the best omen that could be gfven for ? the
safety othe Union aod preservation, cjtbe
country. It was a breaking assuijder of the
corrupt ligament, which for the past fifteen
years has bound the country in'fetteis.0COf
thanks of every Southern State for the eowe'
they pursued; at Charleston, in leavingthe
Douglas-abolition Convention. And hope
they will never stultify themselves; tr
reuniting with the Douglas wing for,, ts be
tween TJojiglas and Seward there is nol)Wfeiv
ence, Thfr secedera shew by their wU3raw
ol that, principle 4.n4; not spoils, governed
But. jLowrfocoisnli hoi MJ long wielded the
destiniesf this nation that many hayeieen
brought id think, no other party hare.tSe aS.
bility to govern the conntryy and most assur
edly none can doit aftera worse fashioj and
more destructive t6 the welfare of the naBon.
Who, we ask in al) candor, is responsible for
the present distracted and threatening condi
tion of the American Union, if it be not the
politicians to be found in- the ranks' T the
self styled Democratic party ? And. yet, there
are men who appear to desire that this' same
party would continue in power.
A Boquet.
We were agreeably surprised on our return
to the sanctum last week, to be shown; a beau
tiful Boquet, from the Floral garden o Misses
S. and W., complimentary to the ,Jahkr.
The fragrance wafted on the morning air
from the delicate and blushing flowers was
but the sweetness of Spring, while the us
ciousstrawberriesj with which it was gemmed
vied , with the Floral collection; It was suffi
cient kind donors, tojmpriut a happy nrinent
on the tablet of memory. ;-lJfay thetJtjddess
of Flowers precede you through iif and
strew your pathway to the garden of happi
ness, is the "sincere wish: of the Junior. -s
The Union Conyention ; . ;
Were in session only two days in Baitipore,
and transacted thjr important business with
out the least manifestation of
on the part of any delegate.
dissatisfaction
The tnea, who
went there, having in view onlv a high and
oly purpose, like the building of Solomon's
Temple, finished their labors in propertime,
and returned to the bosoms of their families
and friends, to behold the'glorious work pros
per as the good sense and loyalty of this peo
ple of the country shall will It. Well-done,
good and faithful servants. " i
"Little AdV . VT f
We have received the first tminb! of n
campaign paper, which has just been smarted
at Greensboro, si. U by . Messrs,' txherwood
& Long ; the mission of Little Ail. will" be to
advocate Equal Taxation, and distribute int
elligence generally among; the- peopMupon
the Biibject of ad valorem. The "Little Ad"
will be published i three months, and mailed
to clubs, at 25 cents each for distribution
among the masses. The "Ad" has on"' each
sheet a picture, that is worth more than the
subscription price. Address Sherwood and
Long, Greensborci', N. C. ';.
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Douglas and Anti-Douglas j
One hundred guns were fired in New Or
eans, on the retiirn of Gov. Mouton' ad his
party ofseceders from Charleston.
Per contra. One hundred guns were fired
at Cleveland, Ohio, on the return jf the
: - i- t.-
Douglas delegates to that, place. ? V
The poles of the earth are not widej apart
than the difference between Douglas arid anti
Douglas. I
Per contra again. A salute was fifed from
the battcrj- at New York in honor-of the re
jection of the Fernando Wood delegation at
Charleston.
The Female College, at Cbtnmbus, Miss.,
together with the boarding ; house' attoehedr
were destroyed by fire, recently. It waj eahsed
by the descent of a fire-balloon upon thereof
of one of the buildings. . i)- ".
A rtother large fire occurred In New Orleans,
recently ; also one Tn Mobile, which destroyed
the theatre and a large amount of other pro-
port y. '-CV- .
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Ifominations'in Eowan. j;
The Democracy iof Rowan have nojfhate!
Charles R Fisher for the Senate, : N. N.
Flemming and Maj. N.' F. Hall, for the Com
mons. wi: . -
Tlie Whigs of Rowan hare nominaied Dr.
J. G. Ramsey, for he Senate. F. E,vf hober
and H. C Jones, Jr., for the Commons.;;
, . : .-i. ...
Straw Berries. '
Thanks are tendered to Mrs. T. IL Macro
rie and Miss Mary Kerrfor presents fjdefi.
ious Strawberries, from their gardens 'li
1 , 1
The Homestead Bill in Congress.
Tills bill, the chief object of Which U to mitt tWpoWte
lands gtill farther upon foreigi Immigrants eoiaHg," into
the country, titi ftrea gtbenjng tqwitter tovcreignty, to
the territories, hM tJnadv eoomuiMd much pf ifyi tten-
tion of both House of CesgnaB. It was before Bus Senate
on the 9th Mj, aid vmrloof. amr admen U ao4 ituxtiflc
tioDi were proposed, whjch wen vote down. :jj;-, ,
Why w allade to it mt this timm is, to tie the re
marks of Mr. Bragg, of Worth Carttlina, la opparftloa to
one of the woe DdmraU and indeed to the whols bJ. Tbs
report my : . . -t h
"Mr. Brase spoke tn opixwitfen to theamemtaMcU. eo-
teBding that the eflect of this system of disnosiAof the
public' lands oM be that the old SUtss wolt. rscetrs
uuimng w. mi kit taeiEJ.' s ;t;; ; ,
This U but a straw, hot it shows that the winij,chaDr.
ing, st least with a porttoa of the North Carolh Oeinoc-
racy, npoa the subject af wasting the pnblis..Vtds, ia
grants sod donations apon corporations a4 if jidaals,
and rinrivii Iks .A -r ... a . . . . r
al domain. That portioa of (he pablie laads wl loco-
-----" vmmam ut wt inceree ia anin.
locoingresaes dfd not bestow spon tbs free StatL while
la power, it 1 bow proposed by the Wack republjWas to
dispose of in erecting a number of other fret 6tfi4'&j th
psasago of this homestead bUU) which wiU abssrl', ewy
era, and depri.re the old States of their qnittii rights
forerer. This result was Ion dues foretold by ; Whig
party. We fcs that Mr. Bragg has opened kbC im to
Isia. V
fCsV-
t A, few years aeo, the Iocofoco itirese
in the State, indulged the habit of f asiug
Hon, Kenneth Rayner, without stintj ir as
abolitionist and Know Nothing . S(nj the
rumor that Mr. Kayner bae gone oir :to
Democracy, we hear nq more of this ttng
although Mr. B. may still be a wjjii, for
aagbtweknow.. . ,;'
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The ExprM, also had. , RepiJer in
Charleston during the sitting of the hUelem-
ocratie CooTention, and, we thie wte fur
nish his graphie and truthful disenntwa of
ue proceedings aaa in stxu angmj' body,
which may be seen on the first pefr,f lt is
t the best rerxirt we Lave resirl 5 i.
J Our re porter will likewise repair h Sal ti-
r . f . , . . i .
more the 18tu June, and supply . tMa4ere
w uw jrjrrcsM wiui u, iuii aetaa ot JV- pro-
eeedniga. . .B;r
Ad Valorem in McDowill
A correspondent writing to th IRuther-
fordton Enquirer from McDowell, says :
"Ad valorem is theall exciting topic and
a fair discussion of it ia thia countyt will re-
buii in anoverwoeimmg vote ior u. ; i learn
trom good authority, that several prominent
democrats in adjoining bounties will be can
didates for the Legislature, running on the
ii valorem ticket. . It Has Caused a consider
able uutteriBg among the old Line democrats,
and many of them arc openly in favor of it.
Got. -EUig eourse ia the East ianot at all in
am iavor, ao4RM fling at the 'Working Men
will not add to his strength with that body of
our citizens. -
foreign Moffozinet. '
The Westminister Review and Black wood's
ine for the current quarter, have been
received from' Messrs. L. Scott 4 Cot, Ameri
can pobliebeTa, New Xrk. -
Both publications are very interesting, and
afford the best medium for obtaining an in
sight into Europe literature and British
governmental policy. . See advertisement.
Tbe N. C. Journal of Edncatioj,, and N.
C. Kanter, for the current met1, are to
hand. hBoth capital issues.' Only $1 each,
Hon. W. L. Yoacy'i Speech.
We are indebted to the Editor of the Mont
gomery (Ala.) Hail for ; Extras issued from
thaJUoffice, containing in extenso, the speed)
lof Ho$. V. L, Ysacy, of1' Ala., delivered in
the Charleston Con veuttoir.
Gov. KUls ad tlie Charleston Conven-
': .tion,
It no dottht struck the intelligent
and knowing portion of Uov. Ellis' '
friends with some considerable sur- l
prise that he shonld denounce the
Southern secedeta from the; Charleston 1
Convention in such unsparing, indig
nant and intensely bitter terms as he
did at this place on Saturday last. It
must indeed hare grated harshly upon
the ears of all those leading Demo
crats this section who tave not on
1 entertained, but expressed very de
cided and nnequivbcal sympathy with
the seceding Southern States. In
apeajking of these seceders Gov. Ellia
said :
one delegates went to the Charles
ton Convention to prevent a nomina-'
tion, and to dissolve, the Union. I
am gkctthey left the Convention. It
was a happy riddance. When thev
left we got clear of the disunionists.
That fellow from Delaware 'by the '
name of Bayard he Ls a Democrat
went off to the seceders 'to. work the
political wires for pcrsoBal frieodo.
l iidpe never to see these seceders in
the .Democratic party again." i
crats e nave beard express any opin
ion at alt on the subject have taken
shies unequivocally with the seceders.
maeeuweuu not now recollect an
excepticni. True, during the delivery
of that portion of the Gov. E's. phil
lipic against these gentlemen who felt
it their duty to resist . Squatter Sov
ereignty, there were a few who ap
plauded. Bat upon noticing we dis
covered they were not the most intel
ligent portion of bis friends! at all.
They were those who know nothing'1
absolutely of the political questions
.which divide parties or of the argu
ments1 or positions assumed by either
ot tne candidates, but applauded be
cause Gov Ellis was saying some
thing which to them seemed sharp,
taking it for granted, perhaps, that it
applied to his opponents, whereas he
was belaboring that portion of his own
household who was, in Democratic lan
guage, standing, up to the rights of
the South.' No wonder the better
informed portion of them refused to
applaud just here. - Indeed wo should
not bo surprised to learn that on re
flection and consultation, that the se
vere language the Governor applied
to them was somewhat modified in fu
ture discussions. However that may
be he was not particular about selec
ting soft words for the seceders here.
Whatever our report of hia remarks
may want of entire accuracy, ia in in
tensitv of bitterness. But we are sus
tained by the recollection and report
by others soon after the close of the
discussion, which we presume no one
will gain-say in any material point.
, .na as u is a matter wnten me
Governor, and bis political friends,
who have hitherto made such exten
sive professions of sympathy for the
defenders of " Southern rights," we
nope iney win maintain neir consis
tency when assaults are made- upon
those rights and their defenders. isj-
ard, of - Delaware, we have been taught
by Democratic organs, was not only a
noble hearted Democrat, whose emi
nence and whose eloquence constitu-
tea mm one ot the nrst statesmen oi
the country, lut thai be was one of
those Southern allies of whom we hare
beard ! I . But when Democtats fall
out the country gets its due.- Kinston
Advocate.
The opposition party of the 7th Dis
trict held a Convention in Salisbury
last wieek. , Five counties were repre
sented. No delegates were present
coin and Catawba.
. W. P. Bynum, Esq., of Lincoln, was
appointed Elector for the District, and
Gen. Young and M. L McCorkle as
Assistants., uoi. vy m. m. urner
sub-elector, for Mecklenburg, j H. W.
Guion 4 for Lincoln,' Rufus Barringer
for Cabarrus,. A. J. Dargan for An
son, C. M. T McCauly for Union, W.
C. Lord for Bowan, W. J- Montgom
ery for Stanley, and Wm. Pegram,
Esq., for Gaston. :
Angustus M. Conor attempted to
ascend in a balloon last evening from
Castle Garden. The balloon after
reaching - aT considerable height sud
denly. collapsed, and Connor was pre
cipitated? upon the roof of a building,
and so much injured that be expired
about 11 VclocL j .
Death of Ex-GovcrnorTazcwelL
i Noetolk, May 7.
-The venerable. Littleton Waller
.Tazewell, formerly J TJ. S. S e n tor
from,, and Governor of Virginia, died
yesterday, at the age of 85. His re
mains will be taken to the Eastern
Shore for interment.