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f The Chances. "
George T. Curtis), -who, foxa season,
was one of the Judges of the Supreme
Ctyurt of the ( United States, but who
resigned his place that he might de
vote more time1' to his profession, op
Wednesday evening made a solid, able
and brilliant speech inRoxbury, Mass.
We have read"nothing more" seasona
ble, statesmanlike and, maste for a
long time. Discussing the chances of
the Presidential contest he said :
: "Well, gentlemen, they tell you that
you will not caTry a single State ; and
as to the vote, of Massachusetts, they
hare whittled1' ; that down to less than
20,000. V-Noir, gentlemen, it is not
my habit on these ! occasions -to make
predictions", butI am in the" habit-of
forming opinions upon groundswhich
Ibelieve to be reliable, ami of deter
mining for myself what appear to be
the. moral' probabilities of the case;'
andlet me state that case to "you. I
take it for granted that no man of cor
rect information and wbo-hasjiot an
object to subserve by making some as
sertions about it, expects .that Mr.
Lincoln will be elected by the vote of
the people, v It may beso You hear
great confidence expressed on the part
of the Republicans', Gentlemen, be
lieve ine, that confidence is neither
very strongly leir, snorts lcwen-iouna-ed.
The view ' which. I am going to
present to you on this subject assumes
that there will be aio election by; the
people. : Under these circumstance
I desire you to . consider, .and if my
voice or Worcls could reach every man
in Massachusetts, I should desire ev
ery voter in the State to consider what
is his duty in reference to that pecu
liar contingency which is in the high
est degree likely to happen.
1 There is, gentlemen, a Very strong
probability that the Union party -will
obtain the' States of New Jersey, Del
aware," Maryland, Virginia, Kentucky,
Tennessee, Missouri, North Carolina,
Florida and Texas. Voice--"and
Louisiana.'; I think it fair, also to
add Louisiana, and I was about to say
that "if 'you add Louisiana it gives you,
without the vote of Massachusetts,
ninety electoral votes. Now, nobody
can entertain irrational a supposi
tion as to imagine that Mr. Douglas
jand Mr. Johnson, or Mr. Breckinridge
and Mr. Lane will obtain any' thing
like ninety Electoral votes apiece.
The consequence wjH be that the elec-
. tiorij if thrown into the House, will go
there in this position that Mr. Lin-
coin will be the candidate on the part
v of the Republicans, that Mr. Bell will
be there on the part of the Union Par
ty, and that Ope of the other gentle
men will of ..course ;be there, because
the three highest go in. Now, the
same vote which places , Mr. Bell in
the IIouso of Representatives ,as one
of the constitutional candidates, will,
in all human probability, and upon ev-
ery reasonable calculation, place Mr. I
Everett in the Senate as one of the
two constitutional candidates for'' the
Vice Presidenoy Well, sir,, who will
be the other candidate that will go in-
sto the Senate for the office of Vice
f President ? Why, Mrl Hannibal Ham
lin, down East there in Maine, Now
do you suppose that the Senate of th(
United States is going to hesitate long
in the phoice between these two men?
Voice "No."- "Guess not."
Why, sir, it is not within the bounds
.of human probability that any Demo
crat will vote for Mr. Hamlin, and I
greatly doubt whether any . Republi-
' can Senator, when the personal respon
sibility for his vote, in the eyes of the
American people, and of the world,
shall rest upon him, will cast his vote
' for Mr.: Hamlin against Edward Ever
ett ; for, bit, the responsibility of that
."vote will be," under the c.rcumstances,
nothing less than the responsibility of
a vote cast to determine who is to be
President of the- United "States ; be
cause if the Housefail to choose
President before the 4th day of March,
the office, of-necessity, under the Coni
stitution, devolves upon the Vice Pres
ident; -and I say, in all human proba
bility, or speaking m moderation, there
is a very high degree of probability
that that Vice President will be Ed
ward Everett. The Senate are not
restricted as to th-3 time when they
shall mate, their choice. They may
choose the Vice President out of the
two candidates before the fourth of
March or after the fourth day of March
Either way, the States voting in the
House for the House must vote by
States, and the' Republicans not hav
ingla toajority there, of course cannot
elect Mr. JLincoin ; the House, 1 say,
voting by States' the Senate will stand,
n" relation to them in this position
you must either make John Bell Prcs-
idenof the United States, or you
must take Edward Everett for the of
' lice. There it is gentlemen. . That is
the contingency, and I ;say that it is a
pontingeney Very likely to happen. I
. go. further, and say that it is more
likely to happen than any other re
sult of this complication of things that
can 'be foreseen. 'V I-;' ,
. -: WUeii, in I852 Governor Graham
was" a candidate for1 the Vk:o-preiden-
ey, "the jDemoc'raticf pajiei-s of the State
scouted tho idea that he should receive
support from North parolinans because
ot.his being one ot their own citizens,
and jone too whose services had always
been devoted to .the advancement of
the interests of his native fetate. r But
HOW, that General Jo Lane is up for
the same office, a man who left the
State in arly youth, and has given all
the service of his. manhood to the peo
ple of free States,1 these same, papers
talk gibily and exultingly of his beirjg
a -native North Caro i nan. - Honest
o!d North Caro.inan, good old Bun
combe bpy, and sup-h phrases as these
they use,-with hope of catching a few-
gudgeons. Oh, ah, yes, to De sure,
North parolina is under, vast obliga
tions to General Jo. f Willnington
Herald. ' '. ' . . ' : '.
. Bpolts and learning may give a man
power .and confidence, but, unfortun
ately, they are often very far from
giving him either feeling or politeness.
Bell and Breckinridge. . -
John C". Breckinridge is not yet for
ty years old ; John Bell has been in,
public life since . he was twenty-one
years old, a period of forty-five-year!
-Before John C. Breckinridge was born;
John Bell was in the, Legislature of
Tennessee-efbre he knew his alpha
bet John, Bell -was , in- Congress be
fore he entered college John Bell was
speaker of the National House of Rep
resentatives, and before Breckinridge
was entitled tp a vote John Bell was
Secretary of War ! In a very short
political life John C. Breckinridge has
been an Emancipationist--in favor of
Sauatter , Sovereignty and of Dis
union ! of which Squatter Sovereign-J
ty is the pnme origin. "
John C. Breckinridge, a resident in
a Southern State, the candidate of
the peculiar guardians of the institu
tion who avow themselves ready to
dissolve this Union if it is not protect-
ied, does not own a negro, but has white
servants in bis family ! But John
Bell owns a hundred negroes and all
he has of this world's goods is involv
ed in the perpetuation and continu
ance of Slavery. "
Yet we find reckless and heartless
political tricksters afid Unscrupulous
demagogues who denounce John Bell
that they may magnity John C. Breck
inridge. Mark it ! The political life of John
xJeH is or longer duration than Ute en
tire existence of John C. Breckinridge,
the Democratic' Disunion candidate.
And yet in this long political life of
forty-five years duration, after ran
sacking -the records of the country they
find one flaw in his political record-
one flaw ! i What man is there that
has lived forty-five years to say noth
ing, about having been in . the public
service for that length of time whose
enemies can find, after laborious search
but one fault in his life ? We do not
admit the flaw,- ut grant it for the ar
gument s sake. .
r Johii C. Breckinridge was. in favor
of 'Emancipation in 1847 and 1848,
apd doies not own .a slave, while John
Bell owns scores of negroes and is
identified with slavery yet John Bell
is denounced as unsound, and his op
ponent is set forth as the champion of
slaverv and protection to the institu
tion. John Bell, by a life-time ser
vice inj the councils of the nation ; has
shownhis devotion to his constituents
and toithe Union in all its parts- while
JLis opponent, John C. Breckinridge,
nominated by the intriguers, and sup
ported, by avowed Disunionists, is de
claredjto be a Union man ! 1
Georgians ! Southerners ! why. will
ye be deceived Wake up ! examine
the records look at the facts you
will then detect the vile trick attempt
ed tP.be played off upon you tle de
ceptioa attempted to be practiced !
Atlanta American.
; Fairly Stated.
The? Memphis "Bulletin" puts the
whole matter of the Presidential issue
in a nut shell, and addresses it to hon
est men of all parties, as follows :
" With a few -exceptions, the De
mocrapy oi tno in or in are arra)eu a-gainst-.
the secession ticket. The se
cession men are arrayed against the
Democracy ot the JNorth. I he bat
ties of the Convention of Charleston
and Baltimore are adjourned to the
wide biattle fields of the country. The
combatants oi the Conventions are ral
lying jtheir followers to the thousand
fields j where ' the sectional battles of
Democracy are to be fought. Breck
inridge cannot carry a Northern State.
Uouglascannot carry a feouthern fetate
One appeals to the north, the other
appeals to the South. Meanwhile Lin
coln strides on with full confidence o
walking in to the Presidency. He
appeals only to the North. Bell ap
peals ito'no section only but the breadth
of hisj principles falls over all the lati
tudes! the Itepublicand the - sun
that rises upon them on the shores of
the Atlantic sets "upon them on the
shorep oi the Pacific.
"Ifow whom ought the people of
the South to support I .It will not do
to say that this or that candidate has
no strength and cannot be elected it
is you, the people who give strength
and elect whom you please. The
en
ask yourselves the question " Wh
ajss
does my country now demand at my
hand ?"
How Judge Douglas became a Slave
j holder.
It has often been asserted that Judge
Douglas, through his first wife, be
canjeithe proprietor of a slave planta
tion, (with slaves upon it. The real
facts are related by his friend and bi
ographer, J. W Sheahan, Esq., who
has recently published a life of Doug
las, for the purpose of advancing the
Presidential prospects of the ' Small
Giant." Mr. Sheahan'says in his
bookjthat on the 7th of April,-JL847,
Judge Douglas was married to Miss
Martha Denny Martin, . daughter of
Col. jKobert Alartmrof Rockingham
couutjy Jsorth Carolina. , That on the i
day titter his marriage Col. Martin
piaceu in me nanas oi nis-new son-m-Iawr
a deed of certain plantations, in
cluding the slaves upon them, in the
State? of Mississippi, and that Judge
Douglas declined to ; accept -the gift ;
that pol. Martin died the following
year,j leaving those plantations to Mrs.
Douglas and her I. surviving children,
witn i the wish expressed in his will
that the slaves "should remain in the
family. Those slaves are now the
property of the children of Judge Dou
glas by his first wife. His wife wax
and his children are slaveholders, and
herhimself .has said publicly in - the
oenase, x nave no wisn, no aspira
tion to te considered purer 6f better
thanf she who was or they who are
slaveliolclers.' Jretertbura Exvress.
Killed By Lifrhtninar. .
On Tuesday last, at a tax-gatherine:
at Hall's Store, in Orange County, four
negroes who were sitting under & tree
during a thunder-storm were killed
by a stroke of lightning. :
More About John C. Breckinridge,
In 1847, or 1848, John G. Breck
inridge stood and battled side byside
'with the notorious Cassius jM. Clay, in
Kentucky, in favor of Emancipation.
2Ze was then an Emancipationist!
Four years! ago he was in favor of
Squatter 'Sovereignty, and stood side
by side with Stephen A. Doughfs, and
now he is opposed the same man for
office, and professes to be opposed to
the doctrine; he espoused and defend
ed four vears ago. Yet the friends'
of this man,: with such a recordj have
the effrontery to come before a South
ern audience and asperse th e fair
character arid fame- of John Bell.
Breckinridge is supported by nearly
ill the. avowed Di$unionists. in the
South, and
by . their support being
is clear they believe they
given him it
can make a
tool.of him to "precipi-
Hate the cotton States into a revolution,; '
He is reported to not own a negro,
though wealthy, and to -have white
servants in his family. Atlanta Antr
eriean: ;
. They Give it Up ! -
see by the report in thew" Re-.
view, puDiisnea at vnariotcesviue,
Va., of the speeches made in that;
town, by Messrs.. : Boger A. Pryor,
Shelton P. Leake, VVilliam E. Gorden
and Patrick Henry Aylett, on the
night of th 4th, that they have no
hope' of the success of either ticket of
the Democracy, and " spoke in the
highest terms of the Old Whig party
and its leaders." The 'Review' says:
" The general tenor of the-speeches
of the night; was the utter futility of
relying on the Democratic party, as a
party, any longer; that it was divided
on sectional grounds, and unable to
deteat Lincoln, buch is the verdict
passed upon it by high Democratic
authority, j On the other hand, 1 1
could riot be remarked how strongly
three put ot; the lour expressed their
confidence in the purity and patriot
ism of the jUnion party. Such tri
butes are daily being paid by the De
mocratic press, and by Democratic
orators, and yet they will not forsake
their ruptured, helpless, effete organi
zation, and endeavor to save the Un
ion by rallying around the only na
tional party that is before the coun-
'.' j" , , -v.
Where Lies the Fault ?
Almost ever since we can remem
ber, we : have - been assured, .at every
Presidential election, that AvaS the
time, the very time, to settle the slave
ry question and to settle it forever.
All we had to do was to vote the Dem
ocratic ticket, and all would be right.
But some how or other, although the
Democratic; candidates got elected,
the slavery question either was not
settled, or it would riot stay settled.'
JNow, We desire to know where the dif
ficulty lies.! It seems to us that it
must be either with the question itself,
or with the; Democratic paaty. If it
is with the question itself, why does
not the Democracy tell us so, and ad
mit, candidly, that they have Seen de
ceiving the! people by pretending that
they could settle it, wheii in fact, they
cou d not ? And if the difficulty is
not with the question itself, it must
be with the; Democratic party, for no
other party has been in power and
with their view 6f it, none but tho pai'
ty in power can settle it. ' . j ;
; Now, we: insist that the Democratic
party has been tried long enough.
Either the Democracy can't settle the
question, or they won't ; and either
way we don't feel - like trying them
any longen - Mr; Polk was to settle
it, but he only made it worse than it
was before! by giving us the Wilmot
Proviso id the -Oregon bill.' Then
Gen. Pierce was to; settle it, but.he
made "confusion worse confounded,"
by sending freesoil Governors and
Judges to Kansas. Finally, Mr. Buch
anan was to make a clean sweep of the
whole matter, and settle it to all etern
ity. But, alas ! it is now more unset
tled than it ever was before, and we
are again commended. to the Demo
cratic doctors, as the only medieine
men that can settle it. The fact is,
we do not believe the Democracy want
.the question settled, and if it was set
tled ever so much as we believe , it is
thev-would unsettle it if thevfonld.
.
. Montgomery JJost
Shocking Accident on the Fourth.
At Akron, Xihio, July 4th, in the
celebration of the - Fourth, a bonfire
was made.; Samuel O'Neil, carrying
a barrel to the pile, which was already
blazing with tar barrels and pine box
cs, by accident,' fell headlong into the
flames, lie vasr, for seconds not coun
ted, in the midst of the fire, and came
odt crawling on hands and knees, with
not a shred of raiment on him. "Kill
me !'he shrieked, 'for God's sake,
kill me ! Cut fliy throat any thing
only kill me After all efforts
that medical or surgical skill could
give had been rendered, he died the
next morning, after suffering physical
distress unspeakable. .
A Legal Anecdote.
In an article in the London Quarter
ly lie view for April, reviewing Horace
Binney'aamphlet relative to the Old
bar of Philadelphia, we find an anecdote
of an Amrican lawyer, Jeremiah Ma
son, .which Wo haveiiever seen in print
befcre. It was told by Daniel Webster.
. Mr. Mason -vivs 'engaged in defence
of a Methodist minister, hy the name
of Avery; jon a charge of turder. The
professionial character of the prisoner
interested'deeplj-fris brother ministers,
who in numbers attended the trial.
The case was Berious, and the advocate
absorbed iintent ywatchihg the pro
gress, of tho evidence carefuhy noting
it, and observing its effect npou the ju
ry when j one- of these ministers, w ho
would , now be called, a Souitualist.
.was led to his side, and in great agiia-
uon Baia,f"jo.r. juason jiir. Mason, 1
have;a most important matter to com
municate; The Archangel Gabriel came
to my bed side, this morning, and told
me that Brother Avery was innocent-?"
ithuuui niuug nis eyes Qr pen Irom
the paper. AJason replied. ''Let him he
subptenadd immediaehV-And contin-!ly power could , induce him to with
ued Juk work. draw his name from the contest.
The Vote for Ctpveraor.
' 1800..
Counties.
Alamaiice,
Alexander,
AnsonJ
Ashe, j
Allegheny,
Burke,;
Buncombe,
Bladen
Poou r Ellis.
793 : tt 771
maj 165 , 000
- '887 289
maj 208 "000
000 000
584 603
maj 025 Q00
000 000
(XJO maj 025
000 ' 000
000 poo
877 . 429
415 960
832 800
8G1; 1023
000 000
.000 maj 265
000 000
000 - 000
000 000
000 " 000
000 .000
540 370
COO t 000
419 ' ' 998 s
1388 - 972
690 .' 481
000 000
000 000
' 1028 . 1015
000 ; 000 -
200 860
978 : - 1143
2137 457
000 000 .
000 000
000 000
- 200 - : - 691
000 000
m 054 -000
000 000
000 000
1716 382"
ooo 000
- 000 - - 000.
. 80u : J134
349 . 55(5
'2.56. 52.0
000 - 000
000 000 ,
maj 060 ' " - 000 .
maj 107 , 000 ,
" -ST.7 174
000 000
757 1274
. 000'' ' (X)0 '
713 , 1549
000 j maj 165
OHO i - -000-
1238 -1109-
000 - 000
COO ' 000 .
000 000
000 000'
000 000
000 000
600 000 -
1079 1160
804, - '701
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. 425 92L
1573 " 1491"
136 ' 874"
000 . 000
000 000
389 1201 "
1419 633 .
113 "919
899 731
000 ft 00
Bertie,
Beaufort;
Brunswick,
Cabarrus,
Catawba,
Craven
Cumberland,
Chowan,
Columbus,
Caradeh,
Carterejt,
Cherokee,
CasvVelJ,
Chatham,
Caldwell, "
Currituck, '
Cleave and,
Davidaon,
I?avie,j . .
Duplin,
Edgecombe,
,For9ytheiv"
Fraokhn,
Ga9tort.
Granville,
Guilford.
Greepe,,
Gates,;
ITaywxjod,
Harnett,
Halifax,
Hertford,
Hyde, .
Henderson,
Iredell,
Jackson, ..-
Jones,; , .
JohnstoB,
Lenoir,
Lincoln, ''
Madison, '
Martin,
McDowell,
Moore,
Montgomery,
Macon,
Mecklenburg,
Nash.
New Hanover,
Northampton
Onslow,
Ofange,
Pasquotank,
Perquimans,
Pitt,
Person, ,
Folic,
Robeson,
Rockingliam,
Row.an, .
Rutherford,
Randolph,
Richmond,
Sampson,
Surry,;
Stoker,
Stanly,
Tyrrell,
Union,
Wake,
Warren,
Washington,
W atauga,
Wayne,
Wilkes,
Wilson,
Yadkin,
Yancey,
, The Treaty with Jipan.
This interesting document has been
pubhjshed. Its provisions M7ere gener
ally known before the publication. They
may De briefly restated, live ports
of Japan are opened to foreign trade,
in which Americans may 'reside, ieai-e
ground' and erect buildings. Ifi 1802
Yeddo is to be opened, also, but ouly
lor purposes ot trade, and Uca m lhoo
For ; these purposes houses .may be
hired in those cities. Foreigners ma
take excursions, not exceeding ten f ri
(n "ri" is somewhat less than ttvo miles
and a , half ) .from three of the free cit
ies.- Americans shall be entitled to-th
free exercise--of their xelie;i6n. . The
President of the United States' is cte
clared to be the umpire or mediator-in
any differeiiees-that may arise between
Japan and loreign powers,. 1 he im
portation of opium is prohibited.
After a careful perusal of the treaty
we cannot refrain from repeating the
admiration previously expressed of the
ability displayed, by Mr. Townsend
Harris fn the negociatiohs which' led
to and in the framing of itx4're&ty it
sell, the matter was necessarily be
sot with great difficulties- such. difficult
ties, ;in 'tact, as probably no. other man
than Mr. Harm could have overcome;.
he having not only a peculiarly correct
knowledge ot the people with wh-oip
he was treating, but experience in tre
ty miakirig under very similar and equ
ally novel circumstances. . The rrovi
sion that constitutes the United States
the referee on the part of Japan in any
difficult' she may have with- foreign;
powers we, regard as one oi the most
signal triumphs yet achieved in drpto
macy. The mbral weight wThicti it
gives to this country in the Orient can
scarcely be over-estimated. - .Y.
Journal of Commerce.
"A Prediction Verified.
Some, two or three weejes since,
whilst urging the Seceders at Balti
more to adopt the candidates of the
Union party and thus consolidate, the
South in opposition to Douglas and
Lincoln we confidently ventured the
p'rophecy that, "no Democrat who Was
Lptora bent in .the race at Charleston
would accept their nomination if ten-
aerea.
The secret history of the Seceders'
Contention is beginning to transpire,
and in it we find a triumphant vindi
cation of our judgment in the promi
ses. It is now said, by authority.
Lthat the nomination nvaa first tendered
to Mr. Hunter and by him rejected;
then to Mr.. Guthrie, and by him also
refused; in the, third resort Mr. Breck
inridge received and accepted it.
-We furthermore have the authority
of the Khoxyille Whig for saying that
the Hon. Mr. Guthrie,"who had more
friends at Charleston than any other
man, save Douglas, has.; pronounced
both the Democratic tickets as section
al, and unworthy the support of Na-
r tional Democrats. Savannah liepub-
1- ; ' .. ' - - 1-
Gen, Houston for the Presidency.
At a public meeting in "the city of
Houston, Texas, on the 8th instant,
General Houston made a speech, in
which he stated that 'he had accepted
a popular nomination for the Presi-
denpy ; anil .that having put himself
i at the disDosal of the neonle. no orth
IrtM
EUBENE B. DRAKE SON,
EDITORS AD PROPRIETORS.
STATESVILLE,
FRIDAY,
AUGUST 10, 1860.
Our Terms.
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lowing Tf.RMd, from which there will be do denatioa.
Subscribers therefore will govern themselves accordingly.
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Nominees of the Union Convention-!
For President ;
JOHN BELL,
: ' For Vice-President :
ED WA1U) EVERETT,
OF MASSACIITJSETTs!
- ' - Election Frauds.
We hav Len informed that, the lowest
frauds and lying were re?orle'd to by some of
the EHis men, on the day of election, which
is a disgraee to those who were engaged in
it ft rjd. a a outrage upon the rights, of -American
reeuieii. We have been furnished with
the naiuti of two or three citizens of Iredell,
thatwe have a niind to publish, men whose
standing hitherto' had been fair in public es
timation; but in list now shik to a very low
degree, who .made .speeches and otherwise'
stated the lucit, la re facel falsehoods con
ceding ad valorem, to dnitiae Mr. Pool !
One, man ruchiinie l ata tax gathering, that
Ad Valorem would imp:)e a ta x ' u .on all
wlvite'clvrliireit-aiitl women, if all fhe negroes
were to be' taxed ; and, no d.oubt, the same
falsehood was propagated generally thretigh-
eut the $tate among those whose eredulity
cOtild be imposed- upon ; thousands of votes
were by thb base means lost to Mr. Pool, in
the State. We hare heard of another man
in Iredell, who is noted as a small potatoe
politician, with just enough of sense tobe a
knave, and physiognomy resembling a cross
between a Gaboon and a Monkev having
the letters J. P. stamped upon a collar which
eaoireles a rather Worthless neck, that may
one of these days wear a hemp necklace ;
this-fellow it is-said, -was busy on tlie ay of
the election and before, pi-oclaiming that the
rea0n why Col. Allison, Col. McKee, Pink
ney Chambers, and others, who own large
numbers of slaves, would vte for ad valorem
was, that if it carried; their slaves -would be
exempt from working the roads, and that the
roads woud then require to be worked and
kept in repair by -white men. This lie, we
have goodreason to believe, was circulated
and repeated throughout the State, by others
as mean as J. P., and h damaged Mr. Pool
thonsandsof votes.
- At Salisbury, the largest degree of fraud
and corruption was put into practice by the
iiis men. The stupendous influence and
corruption of the North Carona Rail Road,
under the direction ami -management of Mr.
Fisher, was brought tu.ber.r against Mr. Pool
and Dr. Ra-tneay, the latter Fisher's compet
itor for the .Senate. All the employees of the
Road who were, legal voters, and those who
are not legal voters, were made vote the tick
et. Myers' whisky was poured down the
throats juf the multitude, ho would tell their
votes for liquor, and the besotted victims con
veyed stagsreriug to the balJot box aud made
vote the Ellis ticket.. Money "was freely of
fered and paid for th votes of such as would
receive it, net a few. One man in .Rowan,
we leam-upon good authority, furhished his
check of $i,GU0 to pay for Ellis votes ! -Th-e
amount of money wLich was paid for
Ellis, to get votes, and liquor drank, was enor
mous in Kowan. . fj
. In Mecklenburg, the frauds and
corrup-Tto
tions that were put mto reiprisition -by the
Ellis men, were more stu pendous, if possible,
than what occurred injtewaa, and Charlotte
was not behind Salisbury, in the use'of mean
whisky for Ellis. At an election precinct in
the lower part of Mecklenburg UK) Irishmen
who were work wig upon the WU. Char. &
Ruth. Railroad, and who were not natural-
ized even, voted in a IrmIv For Ellis and the
Democratic candidates ! vf.
Burke county suffered after the same man
ner, by foul corruption. A large Irish force
from the Western X. "C. Railroad, about 90
in number, voted for Ellis and the other loco
foco candidates in Burke, when thev had no
more right io vote than a free negro. -The
fofegoin-g iS'a small part, only, of the
trickery and fraud which was resorted fd by
Gov. Ellis' party to defeat Equaf Taxation
and Mr. Poof, and perpetuate the burdens of
the people. Whether they have been suc
cessful dr not, a few more days will show.
Such are the means, usually, to which cor
rupt and bad men resort to ride into power,
or to maintaia the dominion which they pos-"
eess already over the destinies of a deluded
and too confiding people. And so it will er-'
erbe until' men learn te think for themselves
and reason for themselves:
TheGord5boro'"Eolypr Uotes
Is a poor wit ! The who'e concern possesses
not the brains of a puddle-duck, nOr eo much
attic-salt as the noddle'of a goose-with blind
staggers a bird by the way, whose senseless
gabble the-Rough Notes much resembles with
its stupid editorials. . The Rough Notes re
minds, us of the swrne, into ' whom the devils
entered that were -cast out of the man-,
and we suppose the Rough Notes to be one
of the herd that escaped from drowning in
the sea. having roamed the earth a troubled
spirit ever afterward, polluting the atmos
pnere with a-filthy odor, and .has now turned
up at GoMsboroV a dirty, locofoco.
Put'this irr your pipe and smoke it, Jrfr.
Rough Notes. "
Charlotte Drug Store.'
; Public attention is directed to the adver
tisement ofDr. F. Scare & Co., Charlotte,
who 'are offering a Jarge stock of Drugs,
Chemicals, Patent Medicines, Oils, Window
Glass, and "a thousand other articles in thW
line of business on the most favorable terms.
"The Express is entirejy mistaken in' his
statement that South Carolina levies an ad
valorem tax. There is this difference, how
ever, in tlie .mode of taxing negro property :
That class of property is taxed from the cra
dle to the coffin, ranging from 80 cents to
fl.00; (seldom the latter flgue,) per ead."
- ' Char. Bulletin. .
The Bulletin alludes to the mode of taxing
slavee in South Carolina
Acknowledgments
The ctfadidatffl, or .rather the members e
lect for Iredell, wet a large col lection OF their
fellow citizens at theCourt House ih.States
ville, Friday last, at noon, and to them tnde
acknowledgments in graceful addressed i . '
Mr. Allison, who had been voted for bj
nigh seven hundred of his iellow citizeng; un
der the impression that he was a 'candidate,
undeceived jthem, while returning thanks for
the suffrages of his over-partial friends, by
telling them that he had canvassed the.eoun
ty for Mr. Pool, and . not for himself - and
that the heavy vote which Mr. Pool received
in Iredell, afforded the highest sat isfaction to
Mr. Allison for any trouble or expetiseit had
cost him to make a canvass of several weeks
in the "hot . season." Mr. Allison fvent
through the canvass energetically mnd llvith
fuHy for ijEfPoof, and In fain andfiuii-shine
8,clYOted EquFfaxatiSn himself th.efrwn
er of a large nHBaber of slafesr witli kbility
io distingnisbed, that the pe'ofjle, at least
e4ytk litlrtdred and seventy-one ol tnem,
thought he ought to-he sent to the.Idisla--ture.
"We never have kaown a high coa
i : i j b-
. Noble Leeds 1
IT
We take up th pen to. complimeVre
were going to say . Iredell countyfcjri.the
handsome vote she poHed for Pool atiotftqujil
taxation. But there are otker cotjnties,
which are deserving of as much prake "as
Iredell, and of them, Rowan stands' ;it f the
head of the list. The defeat of Fisher and ;
the election of Dr. tlamsay, in the $0wan
district, the elose poll between Ellis and Tool
in Rowan, are in themselves great victories,
however the balance of the State may hard
gone. ' Every effort that bribery and corrup
tion could put forth, was made-to save Row
an, by-a large majority, to Ellis Artd-J'iaher.
Gallant bid Wake,"too, is deserving Jtf all
praise.., "Upon, her was brought. to bear the
stupendous .corruption of the Palace,,: Mr..
Buchanan's oMclals, and thotjastend ef the
North. Carolina Railroad., But tbe "Working
Men of Wke 'wiw kjiowiog theii rights
dare assert theux-rbuckled on-their armor of
truth, and jrjth stout hearts met tbS foe at
every point, and drove film from every pOsis
tion, forced him from hij strong entrench
ments and trampled his proud banner' under
foot. T
Glorious old Wake l - 1 ' :
Accounted For.
The Charlotte Democrat boasts that, there
was "a gain for Ellis in Mecklenburg eountyj
of ll&votes. '
We dou t wonder at that, .when we'epnaid
er the gross fraud hV allowing men tof' vote
for Ellis, who had ?k more right 'to, dst a
vote than a free negro, and the Other-stupendous
corruptions that were resorted to by the
Ellis party, a portion of it at least, in JIeck
lenhurg. Deduct the 100 Irish votes, in the
lower end of the County, and other illegal
voting that wa3 secured by various. hifts,
and then the gains o,f- Gov. Ellis wmld be
over the left. Eh, neighbor? - o '.
1 - -L: . . " -i ". . -
. To Campaign Buhscribers; " -
This issue will close the term of ouf cam
paign subscribers."' :. ; ; "
J5ut there is another canvass .' oii'fliahd,
which involves the .safety of -the Unibiv and
the happiness and prosperity of all wlo-;iow
livcundetAhe protecting "Egie of the Con
stitution, and as( the Express will take part
in behalf of the Union, the Coustiuit&n aud
Enforcement of the Lawv with. 3iLl and
Ev erett bearing aloft our noble banner-
we hoje io hat'e a large accession of -Readers
for the next three mooths-at lest. ''
Therefore, we will furnrh the Express to
chibs of not less thaft Jive, for Fifty Cent's a
name, to the first Jay of December next.
The cash in all cases must accompany the
order.
The Result. . .
-We think it highly probable that Govern
or Ellis is elected by a majority of a few thou
sand votes. But be this as it may, tliiresult
is a glorious triumpli, and the -frieudl.of'E-qual
Taxatian have cause for much congrat
ulation. The heavy majority whi'chf.we had
overcome; and the stupendous lying nd.
corruption that was; put into requisitson by
the Ellis party, to secure the electioneer their
candidatehaving no parallel iri any canvass
before held m the State or eisewhe Jper
haps.'madjfs it an exceedingly difffculg maer
to triumph in the canvass more jtlianijff have."
We ndw have brought the foe withiivshoot
ing distance," and the next time, ,'tWo'ears
hence, without doubt, we shall be tyble-with
the weapon Truth to both "dismaiitlt -and
extinguish-hirn... Till then, we command the
principles ofEqual Taxation which the .Op
position advocatedin the' late canvass, to the
investigation of every intelligent ana honest
mind.
Th Census Takers. v
There, will te a.heary responsibility rest
ing upon many of these 'gentrenDen,'.for the
unfair part which they played in tfi$ late can
vass. -Many of ihem . perverted -their!: duties,-
into electioneering for Gov. Ellis, aftd "falsely
declared td the ignorant that their oftice was
connected with imposing a tax ujn; fef ery
thing which they enumerated on a jtn; that
every article of the poor man would-be taxed
if Pool were elected. Thousands f -votes
were lost to Mr. Tool by this dishonorable
course of the U. S. officials, all f wfaotn are
Democrats.- .j . ' .' -.'
Wefeel glad to say that the censiis -takers
for Iredel, form an exception, so fir. as we
leansrv they -have acted honorabljriand we
respect thetn'-for it. .
: 3 -
f Wilmington Clothing mpoiuni.
'? Ma. O. S. Baldwin, of Wihaaregian, is the
Napoleon of the Soath for Cloth inland gen-1
tlemen's FurnisliHig Goods. The clothing
which Mr. Baldwin sells is manufactured of
the-beet materials, and by.skiUfu iPortneiii
and his prices are tower . thih the lowest,. in
any of the seaports. Orders" Sentl Cok; Mr..
Baldwin will be filled as cheaply a if the
applicant were , personally present, aod . all
goods -warranted. ,
; ?f Gains in the Legislature,;
BmMm tpfliir.ino- the maioritv of, th TVHia J
party many thousands, th e Ad Valoiim side)
has gained a dozen or more memt
:moer3 ;ttt n
legislature,-but not enough to prevent the
democracy having theirowa waythe neit
session.
We shall see, what we shall seewhen th&
Legislature convenes, and the Revenue bill
comes up. ' - .
f Personal. '
We lad the pleasure of a call last Tues
day frornlK. BLm, Jrf the Safem Press.'
He was return in from a visit to the Black -
j MoanUfn and a Western tour, where he had
been spending a few weeks very pleasantly.
; 1 ! For the "Iredell Expp
Niw York, Aug. 1, I860.
Mmr,. iyjjKewYorkiserydulUt
the -present writing.' Nobody is in town
this hot weatbir and ronsexjuenUygoewj
is hard to find. New York hMdl9mbog ued
itself over the coiwtry. and the few sad dwell
ers left in our streets avoid each other as if
conscious of some crime and fearful of detec
tion. . Fifth Avenue is a wilderness of plate,
glass and brown stone not a, human crea
ture to be seen either inside or outside of its
stately mansions. Grass is beginning to
eprout be'tween thestones of Broad way ' pave
ments, and the daily papers are only contin
ued in publication for the sake of preserving
full files.' t Nobody reads the papers now
it is too hot. Nobody cares whether it was
a. black dog, a white dog or a black and taa
:Newf5undland-pup which the citizens, of Can-ada,-in
their munificence, have presented to -theBoyal
Pup who is their visitor.. We
can't get up a sensation to save ourselves.
Even a call for "items of the Japanese bill"
is only a feeble croak, wheezed out languid
ly wUhout effectating the result. Thp Great
Eastern has become a bore and steamed up
and left for Cape May Jfcc. - - "
The Blues and Zouaves wiH ahortlj. be
considered nuisances. Yea, even the Bright
est and Best of her sex we confessj it with
pain has 4ost fall one half bef former pow
er to pleas. Slightly altering the 'patriotic
invocation of Patrick Henry, the cry is every
where "Give, us cool weather, or, give os
death!" P.C.CL
Legislature. -rv
,Ve make up the following list of mem
bers elected as far as heard at the time xf g
ing" to press: - j . --
GaslonJ 11 White,dwn nominee, elect
ed Commoner. Poll: White 637; Reagan
..-Lincoln 3 FJHoke, denr., Gomraoos.
Catawba .lohas Cline, dem., Commons.
Jasper Stowe, dem., elected Senatc-r by the
above three counties. No oppoeition. He
received iri Gaston 743, in CaUwba "75
Iredell 1j II Sharpe, senate ; A K Simon
ton, A B F Gaither, jwhigs, commons. No
oppaitio.n. I ; - ' f
Rowan. N N Flemmingand Hall, dems ,
commons. Polls: Flemraing 1162, Hall
1137, Shober, w., 1087, Jones, w., 1059.
Ramsay. w elected t6'the senate from Row
an and Davie.
CbiarruHarris, w., commons. Poll:
Harris 822, Pitts (anti-ad valarem whig) 17J.
Y C Barrirtger, w., electeJ. senaior froin Ca
barrus and Stanly without opposition He
received 820 votes in Cabarrus.
Fbrsytlie Barrow, dem., and Poindexter,
W4, commons. J A Waugh, dem., elected
senator, from Fo'rsy the and Stokes. "
tt rn J W R wfen. dem., senate.
W H Waukm and J Mitcheiier, dems com
mons..
Guilford Morehea.1, senate; Men'denhall
Shober and Gorrell, commons. AH whigs.
7 Alamance Tabscott, dem., and Mebane,
w.? comTnon8. J Worth, w., elected senator
from Alamance and Randolph. -
Orange Turner, d.isenatei Patterson and
Guthrie, whigs, commons.
Mecklenburg Walker, dem, senate ; Davis
and Potts, dems, commons.
Lenoir Wooten, dero, commons ; Speight,
dem; elected senator from Green and Lenoir.
"p xjicibuc riecteu senator ; ivogers
and Battle whigs, 6nd Mordecai, dem, com
mons.' j . !
' Alexander Cnron
Vw..f . f vuni j vy tiu,
Yadkin Cowlcs, w., commons. 1
' Cumberand and Harnett Shaw, dem, sen
ator ; Wright. Harrington and Williams,
dems, commons.
i ' Burke, McDowell and GiMwrllW W A
yeryvjJem; senator. 1 n Burke, Pearson, dem,
is elected to the commons.
Union arid Anson S U Walkup, w., sen
ate. . (Dr. Arilliams, though not a candidate,
reeeifed40G yotee in UrJon for the senate.)
In Union, CXJ Lemmonda, dem, Is elected
commoner without opposition; f';
Johts Ward, dem, elected 'cwminaner.
Bladen Brunswick and Colnmbut-T&ylor,
dem .'.elected senator. "r .
Warren Dr. Pitch ford, demf'setiatorr and
BateheW and CIi.eek,'dems, tommoners.
. 'Hertford-&nghttr, w.senator, and Yates,
w.', commoner, '.
; -J)a'(i5oi--Thoraas, ind. whig, nenator.
GcainVfe-r-Taylor, senate; and Jenkins,;
Bullock and Kennedys commons---alI dem-
'oerats. jU .
Crvf Steele, denu elected senator; Clark
and Alfred, whigs, elected commoner. Poll:
ClarV 875, Alfred 833, McRae'787. Reel 781.
Jlfdore Kelly, whig, elected commoner.
touiripwH raison, gem, cieciea senator;
and Autry and Faisori, dem;, com morns."
J?ew LTandv&rE W Hall, senator S .1
Person and Shaw, commoner all demo
crats. . ' ' ' '. '
Anson Polk and Liles, whies, commoners.
"A'W RuHAil
weayeiana w aters a nrt L,ogan, dems, com-
pnajprity.
liutherfrrdand Folhr-Q, TN Dafis, wltig,
ftnd B H Padgett dem. commpnera.
pdine--llovr&f&, whig, elected commoner.
-,fijiperior Courtsi
The Fall Terms of the Siiperior
(jouftiin this Circuit-will be neld as
follow -Judge Dick to preside :
Surry,
27th August.
3d September.
10th
17th "
24th "
1st October,
8th 1 "'
15th
22d "
29th
Yadkin,
Ashe,
Wilkes,
Davie,.
Alexander,
Iredell,-.
Catawba,
Lincoln,
Gaston,
Union,
At
5th November.
Mecklenburg, ' 12th
Cabarrus, - 19th
Rowan, ' 26th
li
From California.
iBy.the arrival of the Pony Express
at St Josephs, we Have advices from
California to the 7 th inst. On the
to previous to the leaving of the Ex
press, Judge Terry had been quit
ted of killing Senator Broderick in a
duel, bj a jury in Marion County, un
der circumstances which left no' doubt
of collusion. The?iLwitesses against
him,; who- were delayed, it was sup-
I posed vpurposeljf, did not arrive, and
so tne case went to the iury wiinoui
fvidc and a' verdict of acquittal
muycu
; A civil war is now raging in Syria.
Drhses and Christians- numbering hun-
' 4 df eds-aof ; thousands, -,. are now engag-
cu -iu wnuiesaie muruer, aroouj
p'01ag.ef "in 'which fiendish work they
are aided b v. Turks. 'Moslems.' Arabs,
and the people; dtnown as the Me-
wiwaiies.
' The heart is a book which we ought
not tear in our hurry to get at its cpn-
.1 tents.