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I ; "1 1 f i II. tkir 4: "I- , T 9 A. 4 .'HI 'fit if", !-i n c r ni I oft lib Wa t c lima 11 . b ariDtfon. prr,rf r Two boixai pf l hie i i, ' ! i ' D.i if nnt nnl.l Sn ijvinrt Turn Holla I ;.rtJ flftf el- will be charged.' -J--, f, uih !iS'tqVrtt in9rfun.,:; Court orders ch-ijrgel , j'j per ct. hiifr jlhin1 these rites. A, liberal deduc .;wrtib tfcovwno nUTertise ty me year. f i: ' I ' FROM EUitOPE. ( y 'the Atlantic steamer Canada, which afr'''1" nl Aew K 3 esteruay we have I nJricifS from Europe to the 13lh instant, 4lSrv,a(brtiiight (aterihan the previous V Accjordingfo bur understanding of the 'fpitqrnajof hr rjeWs. sMit to u by the , ieiegfppn, it is as toiiovvsi : i fjlthtl PresWehtbf France has been Oc cupied -in giving grand reception ,u "" erf men of ry hade of political opin ion? When !iePrs in pdbltc the p p ittWee receive him with every respect. TherJnad ben ,Vev;ral disturbances! at "r-:'- , - , i . I hrsopl . n,arft,r,8.t,uul,ey were cpA- n&tedA - I : IThfi French fund? vvete rather'lovvej. The Crpat !puht which prevailed respec ting tho uncertainty of the Chamber in bring willing'to ?e dissolved without ariy politioal struggle, is the main cause of the Jrprcion. Trade, however, has impro ' ved. ':Th French five rur ccntsare quo ' tctl at .75 francs. V !'?' 1 " . ! ;.Th(Sl4tc6t date from Paris states that tlie movement in favor of dissolving the ; Katiorjal Assembly meets with favor, and that iV, Limartine. approved of. I and Wuldipupportav measure for the imme "rjiate dissolution of that Assembly which he lately look so much pride in consiruct ing. The collision foreshadowed betjween. :ii6 colordinate departments of the Presi. dent a!hd the Assembly, which js pefceiv ed by Lnmariine to be inevitable, has indu ced h m.to take this step. j Tht President has determined that the candidates for the Vice Presidency -shal I be MiOdilon Barrot, M. Abbattucep, and , M. Bou,Ia"de Laburthe. The former will ! ondotibtedlv.be chosen. M. Dulaure. it is sahj, ivjjl succejciTOdilon Barrot as Min is ister of Justice. W 1 Ko(tB--r-It is:' said on the authority , of ! i M'mislrrial circles in Paris, that interven tion jo behalf of the Pope will be imme. iv diately tiiade by -the great Catholic Pow ; , ers of Europe. ' ! j: AubtriaI- Pesth has surrendered to Windjschjrratz. ! Srm.Ge n.:Concha . has resigncdhi5 C oalcopf Captain Gerieral of CataTopia. be Qarlistsfhavq blockaded Calcma. liwinpooLt Markets, Jan. 13. The pri- CCS O cotlon have advanced one-eighth of a penny. Fair New Orlenhs 4 ja'nd.4f; Mobile 4 a 4j ; Georgia bowed 4 a 4. Sales during the two last weeks of 70,000 4 ' -ti-'.: : : 1 Flour.'United States sweet, 27s. a 27s ) Cl.fndian Corn 29 . a 33s. Indian meal . Us. 3(j a 15-. .9(1, Wheat, United States r td, Gj. 10d. m 7. 21.; white, 7s. 4d.a Is. 9d. ' The general aspect of commercial af- jj hits is irneouraging, and u wood business i nnic)Hien quring me coming spring iMon?y ts quite easy -discounts at 21 to 3j p. cent. making i L - YUCATAN. Tii .New Orleans papers of he 27th contiln'full accounts of thb late doings in j iticitan, ot which we published a tele I graphic report several days a-o. , v It jappears that there lmvrs been se ver bal engagements between tle YucAtan'Iji- ianfi and the American y6lunteers to Yu eatati which were4 raised some time since in Naw Orleans. - In 'one of these engagements he volun ' trers are said to have lost thirty-eight men killcx) and wounded. In the first fight the yblunteeis numbered 300 men, under the command Ol Lieut. Basoncon ; j the Indi nt iyere greatly superior in numerical force and fought ol).stinatel-. This took Jilacc on the 24th of becember. ! Uri the 23d the Indiahs-made an attack upon' the town of Tihosuco. but they were rfpiilsed by the volunteers under Colonel iiuiic, auer a narn action. ii was here j tbnj the volunteers met with the joss- men- j tipned above. ;t4j.Wh'itcaft erwards marched to'n town called Tefu, about eighteen milesdis 4nt,landj was greatly harassed on the fJ by the Indians, who took I every ad- t. viniage of ground, and seemjo havedis i,1 pUt every inch of the road. the. vol- Lppters, however, overcame allj resistance White in this expedition amounted to 700 ..raen Americans and people of the country, i jA lhe Cth of January the volunteers torpmenced their march towards the town of Bacalar. not far from the English set rtlepient oft Honduras, where the Indjarts Wite concent rated In great numbers, un; dr tneir famous chief Pat, or Tah. It ' uSx expected a very severo engagement would cnsue.-iY"' nt- in Paddle Wheels. Mr. WiUtam Webster of this city has invent- hew imnrovpment in naddle wheels. kicV is certainly destined to perform ' V:T?Q-in navigation. He employs two .Jf Bjore paddles like vertical oar blades b?f;een th rim of the wheel instead 9f olid reatangular paddle, and by a jFTy simple and ingenious mechanical ar roCrhent, thei paddles are operated, so. lbcfr greatest amount of s urface, will 5r P the water vvhile jiassing through I lt Prt,Kfnt their edges; to the face 3 l?' yxhec when rising out of, passing J"gh the air, and entering the water. ! fy ftctmost eflectualy where they are i wanted, to act, and ofTer littlejif any. resis-. ,QCe to the medium thbugh which they J?s, where they cannot act o propel the res have heed "re a patent. iV. YASci.Af taken to se- V ScJ. American. I . ri - ' ; ' - v ' : . 4:ir- - :tt rvhf ..rT? , .1 '.T : - , . . I II I IT' II -.11 t'l"""hfl 1 A II JJ'til II. II l : '.t ' ' - I r - I "l Iil I 1 J I . II IK A I- A fV I y .j '! V " 1 - , " -1 . - -1 ' . . Editors fr Proprietor. - : V fL . , -.".iT cro3r Att Tora ' if ;- v Do this, a Libett is safe." y i T JL1 i' ITEMS FOR CONSIDERATION. The.State of Massachusetts has lent ill creditfto Rail Road; Companies j to enabl them to complete, their works,) to the al mount of 85 049.555 5G. She has nelthel Lan nor Poll tax, except for Schools, but derives her.' income chiefly from tax on Banks and Auctions, and Dividends front iima. out: Ii5OOU miles 01 itail IWJ cosiinsr upwards of thir.yiev-Pn nil lions of dollars. The State of Marvland colleri imu-nr.ll of 81.100.000 in taxes from thejpeople olf that State; It pays nearly a billion o dollars interest. The particular of taxi ?ation not stated. I jj Virginia collects in taxes upwards of U0O,U00 ol, which nearly 250.000 is from Jands and town lots, 253,4 17 Slaves arl taxed 32 cepts each. 315.924 horses lOcts! each, 9.378 gojld watches 81 epch. 4.332 patent lever silver Watches 50 pents each 812.981 sil jer watches at 25 (fents eacHI ininiiiu uiocks 'zo cenisfeacn. 3ty v ui..,. cej,is eacn, 12.05 . carnag ?' ' r' ?se, uo carryalls, 3,845; fc.s, .xiiu o.oio pianos. 1 per Cent, orl their respective valuations. Beides these; gojd and silver plate, interest Ion money lent, incomes over 8400, Attorneys, Physf Cians, Dentists, Bridges, Ferries, Newspaf pers.and collateral inheritances, merchantis pedlars, ordinary keepers, houses of pri? vate entertainment, lottery offices, shows, insurance, offices, stallions, billiard tablel and ten pin alleys are all taxed. South Carolina collects upwards of 8300,000 on slaves, free negroes, goods!, professions, lands, and lots. - j Alabama collects taxes to the amount of 829 1.024 a year. 1 f Mississippi collects 8380.000 in taxesj, on lands and toxvn lots, money Kt interest! bank stocks, merchants, auctions, pleasure carriages, watches, clocks, ten iin 'alleys! rrt rwL .....100,0 - " ml jistols, (1G24 at 82 each.) cattle! die or carriage horses, old ami l iaut? irauKs.uowie-Kntves, f 1B4 at l each.l at each.) cattle race, sadi ge horses, gold andsiilvernlatel pianos, bridges, ferries, stallionst jacks, fre negroes, slaves and white polls. (I In Kentucky, a tax of 15 cents is col lected on each 8100 worth of property; besides specific taxes on carriages, &c. 1' In Ohio, the taxes are 80 ceits on th 8100 value of property, besides taxes on lawyers, physicians, Auctions, kc. I ; In Michigan the State tax is 25 cents on the 8100 value of property.! Ij In Indiana. 25 cents on the 8100 valuei, and a poll tax oi 75 cents. . j 1 , Tn Illinois, besides various other taxel not specified, reil and personal propertf pays 25 cents on ihe 8100 valie. jj We have been at some pafns in com piling the above facts from the pages of that most-valuable and reliably work, thd American Almanac for 1849. I We ha vji some hope that they may exercise, an inll fluence on the public mind in Jjorlh. GaJ plina. To us 'they present some obvioul inference. 1st. That the people of everf State 'enumerated, notwithstanding the enormous taxes paid by them, Hre richer more prosperous, more enterprising, betted contented, with their condition prouder of their States, than the people of jNorth Cat! lina, who pay the State only Q cents oil the 8100 worth of real property, nothing on personal property generally, and 20 cents on each whifn nnd hlnrvL- i-wa I OJf.v r -' - i. iifi i. .uv. imi lumr uti'rs air Lijuibiiinu v increas ing in population. ly immigration, whilst nng Ol, IIUIMIO antl r. nuim iyrtiuimtiis superior nrii'uin -l'irriia ivnpih '.... ..!... iu niij uc 01 mem. s r Is it not time that we should abandon Our State policv. or rather want of Static tJt hT?$ North Camlinais daily losing bopulatiorj! aj?c between members from the cities W ' . -""e. Cl r i iew York and Brooklyn. &c. The eh- mate ; mineral, wealth, trtel manufacturing j tire average expense of Congress, inclull- laciiiues, 10 say notr . Bu -pnu, . it Wriy f conducted. But let us look to the com not be in State policy as m o her things, ; pensation of individual members. The that that is most prized which costs, the average of pay and mileage, taking one most ? And that consequently, to giv. ; session with another, is about $2,000 per North Carolina that place in the affections annurn. The number of members of both of her peoplewhich she ought to have. Houses is less than three hundred, and she should im them, make them contrtb-J hy the theory of our plan of government, me liberally to her support, and thus make j the wisest and the best men in the nation thern feel that they have an interest in hef. j. are supposed to be and in fact ought to i ne uiea, ,s not so aosurd as it may af- pear to some. Fay. Observer, Tiei Lost Trn Trihps Minr Trt, believes that the Indians are the descen- the ten lost tribes that were car- oants ot tne ten ried awav bvalmanezer anl went into a tar country. He believes crossed from Asia by Be bring aw - ft I . r s 1 UU turn mem anu nnatly peoj wnoie country. The reasons are stronger evidence nf mr inir of Scvthian than HhrJ, i VI UUI 111111113.' their rights, customs and lajio-uage are recei ve more lban thfiir idle timers worth. ne nas taen measures to secure a patent, radically Scythian. The true test of JevV- i II is the fault of the constituency, the pe- j he is now ready, we are informed, to en ish descent, above all others, iithe fciorl. I pic. if incompetent persons are; selected ' ter uPon negotiations with Railroad Com- tng of the Sabbath." j - j I OCT Mr. Joseph B. Hinton advertises in ihW Rnlftoh nr. u't.'-.i..m.'. i. 1 Raleigh papers that he .smakmg up acomp. 7J?JL Ivfn'si ,rnra "1 , Pri!S U ' particularly anxious for the irls ivho are can - A',Atta for mitrimrtnir i .,ttii J didatet for matrimony to go outf as wel as wiuows wno nave no oijeciion to a good nus- band arid plenty of gold. Each person jwhfn goesjs expected to pay down 8200 towards j chartering the ship. &c. If one hundred, per. j sons cannot he obtained, then the company wjll ' I I . I I-' I !: go hy waggons, ii n which case, aUo, the ladies will be particularly provied fur ! ) .-. i Mr. Hinton will scarcely have rnuch trouble in providing for them, or not many of tbem at least. -A: SALISBURY, N: C, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1849. J . : . I -;!! From the Jonesboro' Whig; THE RAIL ROAD. j The. Lynchburg and Tennessee Rail road is becoming the question of the day. Every section of our .country, and of Southwestern Virginia, is becoming alive lo w ijiiiiuriance ni irir imnrnvmnT; and all parties regard it as the great im provement of the age one, not only Es sential to the prosteritv of East Tennessee - and Southwestern Virginia-but one which . ,1 ...Ml .1 1 ' niuov ujiu win prove ine very saivanpn of both these large, wealthy, and growipg sections of country. The people, the rejal people throughout all upper East Ten nessee, are moving in this matter. Tie farmers and mechanics and day-loborers are moving in this matter, and are deter mined to have a railroad through Est Tennessee and Virginia, if they have !to build it with the products of" theijr farms and shops, and their own hands. j We say to Virginia, in a spirit of kirld- ness and of anxious concern, that she must wake up, and strike now while the ironHs hot. The imnorta importance of this great work of improvement, to the whole State jof Virginia, cannot be: t6o seriously consider ed, by the Old Dominion.. Permit us to say to Virginia, what we know to be true, to wit : That a Georgia Company has sent agents into this county, the counties jof Green, Sulivan and Carter, and to Wash inton county, Virginia, with cash to buy up Wheat, and boat to the teminus of the Georgia Railroad, in flat boats, and last week on a fine tide, in the Holston arid Chucky Rivers, they got their Wheat ojfF. Six thousand bushels went down the Hols ton and four thousand down the Chuckv River, in all ien thousand bushels of the very best article of wheat, purchased at fifty cents per bushel. All this and an hundred times as much more, would have gone to Lynchburg and Richmond, if this Railroad were in operation, to say noth ing of the thousands of our Tennessee Irop, Nails, Castings, Bacon, Oil, Lard, Frut, &c, &c. In a word, Virginia must arouse from her slumbers, or she- is gone hhr political influence is gone the products of her soil the fruits of her industry, ac tivity, and enterprise- all, all are gone. We are determined iri East TennesseV, to complete the Road tojthe Virginia liife and, if she does not meet us there, we will not only take all our trade to the South, but will carry with us the entire trade pf South western Virginia, literally using ifp Old Virginia. We greatly prefer going o Virginia with our trade, -because that is on the line of our trade but a market we must, and will have. I We close these remarks, for the present by calling attention to the Preamble and Resolutions adopted at a late meeting in which party was laid aside, and all came boldly up to the question, like patriots arfd men of sense. Also we refer the reader to the long, able and higly interesting communication, from Col. Jno. Cambejl, of Abingdon a man of experience, pf sense, of observation, and of extensive travel. . ; , 2 'I When we consider the vast importance of the functions of Congress, with an eye to the trifling cost of our national legis lation nri in tho nratont i? o a i .1 it .r . . .If nnn inic 1 inmn iho, ,..- : ji j statesmen ought to be occupied with gra- inor rnmnpnlinn nrinlinrr anA contin- 1 - ; gencies. i.,kiA u. r u 1 ZnS .t,bl1:" L!5a single A nd for this small sum not three per cent. o.,.,, c 111 VUIlflUiaaiUII.-r- nil tlf r!oti ll rff An ssiim.i A . i Legislation of this great empire ; he$ elected to this station. Is it too much to say that, in this nation of twenty-fiye millions ol souls, there may be found three hundred centlemen whose time and ser- ' vices arfe worth two thousand dollars pe annum Are not legislators of the high estiorder of American statesmanship en- " ' V ; that a Iare:e DroDortion of the members i to represent them ; and, as nbljiliscrirnj i nation can be made, it may be necessaily I ! ! a,,ow a 'erai compensation io an, in ortier to secure tne services oi me jew ; and;vatue t(y tbe ae- tio" of our National Legislature.-, f. ! r. . 1 - express. . i , I Since tire appearance of cholera in the West the Roman Catholic Archbishop has i .i u r -wMkiiJt notified the members of the church that abstinence from the use of meat on rri- days is abolished until further! notice. V. The Artesian Well at Charleston. S. C., has now reached a depth of 428' feet and a. A . y . k - that theiv 'iiea to as iioeral wages as the cantai'n ,u& iU oreycni rau-roau collisions, ne . at foreign rowers alter mutual hatred , .. ' . : . 5 Straits to of a steamboat, the superintendent ofSa.nas "ecutedian operative model which , shall have proceeded to the catastrophe ,i't,,'7"",Lr "ri r T. : . : T J'K.r - ilftmonstratik.atKatvn in ihBv.ntf r J Und or wl,er- This threw M t Clement's lied our , . . large Hiai.i- j 7""" " " T 1 1" V . n "J T:l , " ! Wl U.,S.V",UU: , a,lu,u amendment into ridicule, and be dropped ii." bf his belief! uon 5 ,l ls no answer to say mat twe j oiwmis ai iuu sprcu iv v m uperaie , io yield, ana tne oiner wouiu not consent t ,. . r,, ., , r. iiunJKi. ! ablest men are not alwavs elected, arid j without the help of engineer or fireman. ' to concede a privilege so valuable. If. L. Z . J . i 'TV 7,lfrd u''r- i the water s pne fppt from the surface. I - The Southern Whigs have just been put to atrial like that we Northern Whigs went through, when 14 the Free Soil" hob- I oy was got op here, lo run over ns and i k"l!.100r 'e. General Tay- j wi , anu mi iiuiiur nr. in inpm inr inn mun. iy manner they have stood the trial. Our situation was very like theirs and theirs like ours. We were told : General Tav lor owns 300 slaves.' ' You are sold to - - ,-.. .w. ....... slavery,' . The South has whipped you, in your candidate, and fastened General" rn , . . I. iriuiui 1 aylor upon you; It is a victory of the has failed only in the Senate, and there not Sodth overjthe North.' 4 And now, away upon the grounds that such a charge with us to Buffalo ! We did not go. We ; (though legal) was just, but upon the stood the taunts, and staid at home, and ground that as members of Congress were gave Rough and Ready overwhelming poorly paid directly, they should he paid majorities. The Union, the Union. No , indirectly, in any way they could be le sectional issues then were our rallying gaily. criesand then aroused and carried with j Now, however, after all the noise that us the people. Ohio alone went astray, j has been made in the Tribune, the expo and she only because the Whigs there did j sition there, and the hue and cry about it. not do as we in the North didthrow overboard all the disorganizes. Southern Whigs now "are going through in Congress, and are to go through at home, the same sort of trial. Mr. Calhoun, who is an uncertain sort ot a Democrat, after two or three times before. It is human annexing Texas, bringing on the Mexican i nature not even to do right under a threat, war, with the inevitable addition of Free j and reforms are not to be won by per Soil Mexican Territory, now re-mounts sonal abuse, or any of that sort of attack, the ultra slavery hobby, and the party of ; Easy blows do the work, not the lash, which he is now the acknowledged South- j We hae expressed the opinion before, em leader will soon be riding down all j that Congressmen ought to be paid a sal Southern Whigs who will not follow them, ary, not a per diem, the result of which with the cry, These men are traitors tor' would be shorter sessions, less irrelevant the Sooth: they have sold out to the North.'! debate, and more work, it being the inter- 1 ney deserted us in the Southern caucus, Slavery is in danger from treachery at home, and conspiracy with the Northern men. 1 he great effort will be to make the coming Congressional Elections there turn upon this issue only. Now, just as Mr. Calhoun, after causing all this slavery agitation, mounts this sla very hobby, so Mr. Van Buren, after be ing "a Northern man with Southern prin ciples," mounted the anti-slavery hobby, and attempted! through the agency of the Buffalo cabcus to ride over us Whigs. We beat him, though with Cass to boot ; and vve have scarcely a doubt that as long as the Southern Whigs stand up to the Union," they will beat such sectional agi tations also. The position of these Southern Whigs, however, who are standing the test of this sectional appeal upon a topic most exci ting in the South, too, and in which they are probably more interested than the men who afesajl them, is one upon which we of the North ought to dwell with ad miration of their patriotism. Nothing makes us so proud of our Whig Conser vative Party as such a trial as this, when such a temptation is thus resisted. The loyalty of Southern Whigs to the Union, their devotiPn and self sacrifice, are admi rable displays of patriotism, and also of moral heroism We rejoice in and wel come them as brothers. We are in the rnoodf too, to sympathise with them in their trial, for when General Taylor, was nominated at Philadelphia, just such a din wras raised in our ears as rings in theirs, and We passed through the same sort of fiery trial ; and may not our success be a precursor of theirs, under the com mon flag of the Union ? ,But as long as the Whigs of the North and West withstand such inflammatory appeals as we, withstood, after the Phila delphia nomination, and as long as South ern Whigs talie the stand they have just lSen. in Washington, there is no danger toThis UnionJ Neither the sectionalism of a Calhoun, hor of a Van Buren, can jar, I " vuiuumh, iiui ui a nu uureii, can lar, mocb less break, a liak in the Kraod chain nfllninn Tk ; -...II . u w ..ava. a may pun ttvvny, ine. One at one end of the Union, and the other at the other ; but the metal of which the links of the chain are wroujght are of that endu rable texture, that no such forces can tear it asunder. The lesson, however, is thus impressi 1v taught us that there must be modem- fion. We may both inflexibly adhere to our principles and to what we deem right ; and when we cannot agree, there is the Supreme Arbiter of Constitutional Law in the Supreme Court of the United States to decide between us. N. Y. Ex. Invention to Prevent Collisions on Rail- i Koads.---Mr. W. FrcElich, engineer in the a7 ar a Washington, has invented ! an apparatus which is radically selfact- . . I and prevent a dangerous collision. As - ! pans on reasonable terms. The Cherokee Adrocate announces the death , ui '"-"Cr, ,uc pmiL-ipai cmei oi me ! Semiuole. . suddenly, a few days since, at Fort i Gi,f e ae down uPon business, appa. i'rentlv. m the possession, of unusua health 1m t ... , . ere the morning, M.ch-an.no.pee was a corpse. V fndmnpoprmmn.The Ind.an appro- prtaiions by Congress this year amount to 774.. doUarsvUcS uPla " lhan , t J! . .- i : & J v & uii iniuiii . tv w u-j - Enterprise. Mr. Emerson, of St. Louis, is ; Union ; for the impious act cannot be con about to proceed to San Francisco, to build a ; summated without producing tenfold worse steamboat on the Sacramento river. The en. wrongs than any that can be inflicted un gine is to be built in St. Louit, . NEW SERIES, VOLUME V,-XUMBER 41. The Mileage Action of, Congress only shows the impolicy and absurdity of irv- ing to sro ahead in a reform tan iw. nt bvappeals of passion or personal assaul.s. rfilheno. there has been upon a vote, in ' in 1 1 rnca -i 1 ArKAnnn,i..n 1 jonty in favor of doing away with the con structive mileage, which many of the Sou thern and Western members charge, and by which theyiare paid far better than Kawuot ui iiuuirsciiiALiir. n. 1 i 1 i'p in m , QW ..... other members of Congress, who come to Wash in?ton in a dirert linr Tho T nrrv." as if to threaten members with consequen ces, the proposition for the reform" has had only thirty-eight votes ! The mem bers have refused to be whipped, or scar ed into doing now, what they had done st of all of them to shorten, not lengthen the time oi absence in Washington. Wre regret to see, that the House had not the courage-to stand-up to Mr. Schenk's k a I . rt , , amerwlmpnt ni a JsQfinn cnlort- Kf " cu, uui cir jun.ai.uBuig luasicrs i tne governor oi irgima, in aftrighted from it by the fate of the mem- i n,s la,r ,nfssa ill Legislature, propo- t direct bers who voted for the compensKlion bill ; SJ !? VUt b, teaw the Stite. True. w,Lft tit, n.. J 1 u l i i u they work but little, and idleness is the parent of crime When Mr. Clay and John Randolph Were -true, they corrupt the honest and i.idWrious slave, members Ot the HoUSP. People, We are aJ ulet-s to themselves, and a burden and injury to the sure, feel very differently now from what ' SJate That freedom s-o essential to the whites is to-. ikai. ,i;,l TL cr them an unbearable burden. What, however is to bf- the did then 1 he Sessions of Congress come of lOO.OOO r.friendless.free'bl.cksdiven from have necomc longer ; the House IS larger; J 'heir own Siate to lake refuge in the North, where we debates are more scatteringt more time ; allow ,,,m J" frw privileges I Suppose all the slave -wasted, and ihe evils of the existing svs- i ?'a,,M w"r4oy " ' fr bI"ks-" M' "' JfJini . we have rrivrn vnilrinii i.vni.ni.n.lk.J I I tern are extensively felt. Besides, the j salary system is now generally more pop. uiar man the per diem system, and a majority of the people, we feel certain. are convinced, that if members are to be paid any thing, they ought to be paid enough to support, with them their wives 1 r -r I 1 ' 7 U,em l"e,r. U.S and lamiheS in Washington. Nolhing IS more demoralizing than that SOrt of econ- omy, which compels memf)ers ol Congress, ' . . I , , - nine months in the year, to be absent from all family influence and family restraint and to seek amusement, excitement, or pleasure, wherever it can be found, but such is now the economy in the payment of members of Congress. If the Senate were to send back the Appropriation Bill with this amendment in it, we rather think it would pass yet. N. Y. Express. The flippant levity with which many men are now-a-days accustomed to speak of a dissolution of our glorious Union, cannot but make good men grieve. When once the language of reverence is laid aside for that of careless familiarity or in difference, the slightest irritation, real or ideal, produces that of malediction. Is any one so weak as to imagine this Union can be severed, without producing, besides other incalculable convulsions, the horrid crimes and woes of war between the fragments? How would the line of partition run ? Oh ! of course," answers some flippant talker, "so as to divide the Free and the Slave States. Let us sec how this absurd line would run. Wes tern New York and Pennsylvania, Ohio. Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa, and other States yet inchoate, have an imme diate and incalculably valuable interest in the free navigation of the Mississippi. Is that susceptible ol division ? JfaSou I hern Confederacy were established would the States of Virginia, Kentucky, Tennes- see, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, and Missouri, all of these immediately on this great river or its waters, and one of them holding its mouth, give to the members ot" the Northern Confederacy the right to navigate their inland. waters on terms of equalitr with themselves? If the repel- Iant spirit of the two classes of States be .j so great that they cannot dwell together ; under the existing Union, is it to be ex- pected that they will not treat each other ; , f -i r . i ni t . i pected that the millions ot people in Ohio - and other Northwestern States will ever yieiu mat rigni wu cn mey nave uougrn ' and paid. for ? i 0n a Reparation, in what proportion .if. L -i. 1 wouiu tne iragraenis assume me nauona ! xu. 7 Q4.i ku.:a 'Li ; TheSe, and many other equally 'pertinent y . I " . , V ' interrloptor.es that might be propounded. show the foil v. the treacherv. and the des- i peration of any attempt to dissolve the m w inr rri w n r ii.irni j hi iiiii f r. n .v m oeiore tne loresis were .e.n in ive mucKV. Iry , , Wm it suhlime ? And nhj showM a handful of settlers there demanded the he think there was any censure of! the South opening of the mouth of the Mississippi j-eriicrf who went inio Contention !j DWih at all hazards, when the Union asserted ' thinkhe Uni.ia is not worth presernng? Jiud no proprietary claim to it, is it to be ex- it so, does he correctly represent his odsiitu. 4 tjer iLOincinnqii (3ironicle. f- H ;rrrt ABOLrTIOXISJi: The "MubiV AJrertiwr of the"9 Jth sitMj : tbf i morr ta crrate it (be ivnli a rrganf for oar nzht anJ our quiet ia oar domrstie rrlalion. l&aa U -tti JaUuU nations of tbr Cbarlrstoo Mercury, or rwsriUj ibinan ; ifestors from WBsJiington, put lojruWr. r The foi'tortH J is oat of his articles litat every maii fhovM reai.'pTbe iJea thut all ihe Soath rn . SUe abiulj TJr.Ie ib5Uie passage of bw expelling the. free ttacka fruiiirsck Slate, is a gooJ one, so far as it WoaW eoone lionv nt once to the abolitionists, an J show what afftleir sym pathy is maJe of. To favor the escape of few slaves, and to open their arms to receive tbem,isa!l very Wat tiful in humanity, anJ patriotic, when xercisetf ion a,' smaH scale ; but an influx of 200,000 Degrees inl the L. free States woalJ awaken the sense of the free soijraen lo the enormities of iheir miscalled sytnpaihies. At would be attended unquestionably- wiJj cnes.of great ZV'TZ' SJt. JZT-. W.' i If-preserva rton. is hope oar cotcaiporark . will copy. . . . 4 : ' A Fsiexd nr Nbkv The co'rrJ raee in this conn try never wanted friends more than they t'o at ibis time tiol professinyr friends, who calculate ImjW much Jii--ical capital can be made by being clamorous in their ' be- ; half, but true friend, who wista t see thrtn comforta ble, saV and happy. When has Africa been tvppyT Laboring under divm displeasure, a marked and differ- ' ently created race from the white man, always at war .S with each orher in their own'country, sold as staves bf our Xurtkcra ancestors, and purchased by the Soii'h to ' til! the land, the only comfort, protection, security, and saiety which they have ever enjoyed since they leli the land of Cush, is in what is called their slavery in tlu Southern States; and this domfort and safrty ihty are about to be robbed of by aluwt of sympathising politi cian, calling theiuseivt's free soil rnea and the friends of ihe colort-d j race. ' Here, at the Nonh, the poor black are permitted to work alongside of the while mail. S e reduce taem lo the .lowest grades of civilization by making them our dependants. Once thry were permitted i.. follow the humble employment of carrying up bricks' and mortat', but they were kicked from the ladder by our white- fellow-citizens. They clean boots, scour clothes, but are not permitted to swrep n reels ihey do; not own or command a ship; they are only cooks anVI steward they are not merchants, bankers, or brokers :hey hold! no public appuintments, and are rudely tlrrust from oar '. cars end carriages we d not rat wih tbem or. pray with them, and in our places of amusement there: are ' ens and divisions in which thy may sit by themselves. Is it any wonder that they are poor, vicious, and-tbe in mates of our hospitals and prisons I AnJ.yet we, who persecute, neglect and repudiate the free black' ma here, are filled with l.oly zeal to make the slave free '-! the South, and deprive-him of a home, of food an-! clothing, and of a kind, considerate master; anJ e struggle for that freedom even at the expense of break ing down, dividing, and destroying our glorious repub lic f Well iay the blacks say, - Save us from our friends ! Save us from the pity and protection of the ' political abolitionists!" What is to become of the poor free blacks when thrown upon the world without protection, deprived of - 1 IV "- oiirr, BIKl Ol . .i , , ., tneir nappy home in the slave States, and of kind and - - du , uu l ) our al)n II..: f: j ..i . . imioii menus in me xonn are anxious that you should come forth from the iniquity that surrounds you go to them, and see if they will do as much for you as we have done '." What is to become of more than half a million of freed blacks driven forth lo seek ihe cold charities of the North? They it ill ttarrt V.V of i ,hc Norlh W1" give lhln " 8uccr. ' employment, ' yet we "re even in fa!or of rrndinff ou' "Purio' I constitution to pieces in order to give them liberty ! ' When wilt the age of reason be revived ? We cannot ! r'bukt l,ie slave .States in ridding themselves of ihrir ! ff' ;ich.are a .ad P ticm ; rd : yet we oread the day when they shall be thrown 'unon the North for Support and protection. Wherever W ,urn- we nothing in the agitation of the s!a-.e ques-; tion but ruin and distress to the Colored race. A circumstance occurred here last week which lias led to the foregoing reflections. Passing down Nbwii street, three or four persons were, standing inside If a store talking to a black man, and they invire.l us to I com in. tlemen, 1 i:o.- Here is a black man," said tne of" 4ie ie n- who wishes lo sell himself as a slave for We entered thrtore, and saw a fhort, stout fellow, ! in rags, with a good countenance, and no indication of vice. " Where do you belong ?" " To New York. I was borfr here." " Don't you know that you coniot 6ell yourself as a, : slave in this State I" - ' I " What a.m I to dot I can get no work j I hare hid j no breakfast I am almost naked ; no one cares for me, . and I have'o friend. Is it not !etter lo have a pood master whom I can work for, and who will care for me ?" , .,. I Here was an illustration-of the practical .benevolence J of domestic African slavery, while it exhibited ihe rank j hypocrisy of the abolitionists. They coold raise 2000 to purchase the liberty of two-.mulatto girls and jet al ; lowed a poor Mack to offer lo sell himself as a islave to i save hircsdf from starving. in a free; Northern Stale ! Mr. Clement, of Davie, and his amendment. We have omiited, by some oversight, tt call attention before, Jo the fact, that when the Dobbin Resolutions on Slavery and Territories, were under discussion in the House of Com. toons. .Mr. Stanly offered an atnemlni Mil, which he stated was extracted from the Farewejl Ad dress of (Jen. Wushinglou lo his Countrymen, in these words : And to " repel indfgnanily any attempt in alienate any portion iff our couulrv from ihe ren. or to enfeehle the sacred ties which iiow link to- gher the various pris' Afler it wa read. Mr. Clement. fLorn.l wlio mtJ.repres,ented the Waig County ol Darie. !"-, ferrcd lo "amend," ly adding somelhitglike the follow in ; : L "Provided, That nothing contained in ibn said resolution is intended to cast censure ipou those who lately attended the Southern Con veniion. at Washington city, nor upon those who did not at I end. Mr. Hamilton C. Jones ridiculed this amend . cnts! Ilaleigh Register. ' Death of Benjamin Walkins Leigh.-Yt - regret to learn from the Richmond JtepuMiran, that thi euiineni enllernHii died on Friday week, aj;ed about 70. His health"' ad heen iu a decli'nin condition for sereral yeafs, an. I the event which now affect so larjj a portion of his countrymen was by no nieaus uni'xecl ed. ; Mr. Leijh had srrjuired a repot atifn lhrnnS. out ihe whole Country, as a gentle mni ofiiij'i abililie ; anth iii the injrtnt p.iii.i:n fiH. i by rrun, in ihe Convention, in the Senate fihv United Siai. and at the Br, wtm ahv.iys i i Nhe front rank. S rne pen coinp- leoi to-ttivj , task will doubtless da justice to hii cb.tracter. ment, hv moving I.. A.l l(, fr. nmam'Pr.. i i v .-5 - - r ' 1: - J lb ',.1 t r- LI' -1 -1- ; -
Carolina Watchman (Salisbury, N.C.)
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