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of tUo Watchman. ': -m 'J " t-v .: - ' ' it. : oer vesr.-i wo uouiaks pyuic in 'A i 0( if nolPa,1 In advance Two dollars be charged.-. I I t1rt Inserted ft $t for theJir8t,and25cUk (,gfqueftt insertion,. Court orderechnrged V1. hiiilif r thW these rates. A liberal deduc- r thoW no. qeru vy mc jrnr. !4(ll,e t'Jitor8 must bo postpaid. ; ' ; - ' - : 1 r j; j II- -;r- . i ' ; j j , .- ! . .. , . ', ' - , -c : : 1 - 4 "iii ' ' : 1 I ' Jj j . - ' ' - i -. --- ..; T '.' z " " ." . ": j' ' .ill'. 1 ! ' 1 - " i ' , i- ' ' - H KxtJ? A CHECK UPO ALL XOVX i 1 ': '' " BRUNER & JAMES, JSdtlors Proprietors. terminus of this VVesieru Turnpike as ihejter. mins of the FayeiteTtUe and Western Plank Uuad and as the di5tiDguisbd point in th great central tun Koaa. How are you to iKm xht Raleigh Register. iKU ?OUU COUNTY AND GOVS f1 f:. manly.; j . . ; j f lhis Pca 106 Mountain Banner," a r'ir printed in Ilulberlordton, makes an 5i'e(i laud, unjustfasault upon Governor &t tbJu his anpointitjenLof Commission locW ' uripeJ e Weilcrn. Turnpike L(romJ Haburjlo ihe Georgia line. Af (uinjj silent (so faras we know) for bsa 13 a 1 l Governor's course r-ibwioeM.M comes out now Ana charges Ket from Salisbury to the GeorMa line ? Why. fjtb'halg actf d " unjairly with bav. lhgrft arc'i,ul lwu XVays tobe considered: One, r.tharly and hwwingly vwlulcd hu duty hy B&me Ford, Rui berfordton, Hickory jNtil 'Mln&' localed ih road htflf P o Ashevile,and s on. The other, by " -A fatdring tha. ve (tbe people or Ruther. Sate9ville, Morganton, Swannanoa Gail to .d)iftfwi ,"M"r7; 7," , Asneviue, ana so on. Compare these rttes. 7. i.triilalurc passes or our oeneiu. in ir vn tQL- it,., firfit iT.m i... nu:. t (Lee, tlrWrog;ihal Governor Manly cor- T an fcHU crtieditated design, made the -.! for tho express purpose uf in'iur. lbs pdpk-i1' cou,,t ol! Rotherlord, and 5ihe Cwrrtrtiisiiners were .the corrupt and iiii A CHCK UPOrf ALL TOVE , RULEAS. i Do THIS, ASD liIBKBTX IS SAFE.' i Gen'l Harriton. - NEW SERIES. ' VOLUME VI NUMBER 51. SALISBURY, N. C, THURSDAY, MAY 2, 1850. ully said a word, we would have cbeeri submtttea. - Well, what was done t The Gbvcmor pointed Col. Joseph J. Erwin then and noswt a citizeii of Rutherford, one of the Commission. erf. giving Rutherford a 'voice in the Board.! Moreover, we are informed that Ibei Engineer, Maj. Fox, did make a reconnoisahce of "that way before he commenced locating!; and (s to he other commissioners. Messrs. fHayesHand ora, we apprebend that having1 trarejiled: the both these routes over the Blue Ridge for I.1 m'miI 'lii.4rnm.nld In nu nciKIa 1m f t lOOISt UilU luauuilivuia III ui ubhuj vvi winding We lake know a man i lie ibe'charadioriilic rematk : 4 Mt okasitf in saying wo do not knt 3 f!uuntv who will vole lor uim in ki'o riv' mifViinntinn tit .ifTif Ar f"'. . ...T; I . ' r,vi:... . i. fjetC are grave; cuurgea, iur. ijuuur, 10 uo inrih bv the press aiiaiust 1'utic Funciiooa- . Messrs. Editors, when a charge of corrup. tibn, or malleasance is made against a public othcer, the people, his constituents, and each oue.ofrtbem, have a right to know the facts, and ought to inquire into the them and set them right; and this is our apology j lor tbis long ailicle. FAIR PLAY. If you take the first named hy Beatties fVd and Rutherfordton, you locate the Road inUhe neighborhood of the Rail Road authorized to be laiit Iwenty.five years, in sunshine and in rain, built from Salisbury to Charlotte. j ihey were just as competent lb decide upon Secondly," by that route you are gelling near- lbeir relative merits as they would, have fjeen er and nearer as you progress to the Southern had lnt,y made another examination." boundary of the Slate. When you are at deal- 1 was certainly-the duty of ibex Engineerjand tie's Foid, you are within 25 miles of the South Commissioners to have made ari examination Carolina line, while the Virginia'linel on otj'hkt way, or in some proper and Satisfactory the North it is about T5 miles. Whenlvou manner, have made themselves acquainted with reach Rutherfordfon you are only aboul 20 ll claims. But if they did not, why should miles from the South Carolina line. Governor Manly bts blamed ? He bad no fbw. Thirdly. By this route you may accommo. erito coerce nor punish them. n tl date two or three North Carolina counties and But the Governor is charced with having en- sctinjuhder oath, and it is lhe business lhe people and market Towns of South Caroli- lertalned a. preference for the Morganton or iftrj bonest man in the Slate to investigate na, while all the counties anorlb of that route, middle route, and io have appointed the Qlm- tuat c:iUf auu iuai kiiun self:" Now it is1 Dowell, and Yancy, would be shut out frob it, deniabJy true, as we are informed, that the po- In i dane, and whether he is obnoxious to this accusation. jfaa proper "understanding of the subject it ,rcessary to reir briefly to other acts of lhe filature of the' last session. In a liberal ait pf1 Stale '.prfdii, both political parties uni- letting oufoCt several schemes of Inter- i Improve trtent. r. Jlaiong other iac s, one was passed to con aula lUillload connecting Wilmington with f;i5ary ' and i thence to Chuilotte, hlling up x link of ibei Gr at Northern and Southern vel.'i An'olller, y construcli a Flank Road n FayetteVille lo Salisbury. '.-Another to ; it named iahe IoiJk an interest of two-thinls ; ttba , second thrie hfths and the last, this ftiicrn TurnpikH u' lo be made wholly out i'a public-funds, and to be exclusively a hite Road. t J ntod, aUsfy himself 'whether they be true Catawba, Alexander, Davie, Surry, Irrjdell, tnissloners expressly to lb jilse; p J ' - ' t - Wilkes, Asbe. Watauga, Caldwell, BurkejMc- "! be'located the road hims ow, iei us see wnai acn mo iuw ieMumrs Uowell, and xancv, would be shut out trorn it. "eniaoiy irue, as we are i jGoverhiir to-.d in this business, what he jn whole or in part. I mpTt in view of the various schimes of : 1 i ' j I a ! l : I . . . . J I - ; :- i t . . . i 1 Fourthly. Hy taking that route through the vernal improvement projected by the L.e2tsla Hickory Nut Gap, it would go where the Slate tuTe connexion with this question, and from had heretofore spent Urge sums of monejy for bis general knowledge of the topography ofjthe theaccommodation of that section, while! she d'd entertain the belief hat this Trn- had done nothing so far as we know, fur the ought to take the Morganton or middle other section. : route ; that, in his judgment, such route vvould Fifthly. By taking that route and eoiriff-bv accommodate the larger number of our people. Beattie's Ford, you adopt a route which the and would be best for lhe interest of the whole Legislature it seems, expressly repudiate and State ; that he expressed this opinion without refused to adopt. For (in the language of the reserve to all who desired to know his opinipn ; Banner) " an eflort made by Mrx Connor the Senator from Lincoln, to fix Beattie's Ford as one of the points, was rejected." Now cast vour eve airain on the Man. and jpstru'ciikj TurMP'ke Hoad from Salisbury toUOQ; a, other othe mjddle route which the jiGeorsilllirie. In all these schemes the' Engineer and Commissioners hVR arlimt ?i:t look 4i large becuniary interest. In the Beginning at Salisbury and passing near Spates. ville, through Morganton, Ashevillw, Waynes- villi Krunlclin. nnrl vitii maintain in a vr Bin. KMlar manner that same central position) with character, independence and integrity of ranecl lo th Northern and Southern bounda. Engineer and Commissioners? what unij rier of the State there being about an eaual ratable insult ? Why, suppose that, forgeUing Fur 'th. purppsi of surveying and locating amount of Territory on both sides of the route respect due to himselt and these honorable ii Turnpike Ronil, the GUeruor was requir- atid thus afford to'the people, both North and ghtlemen, the Governor had said lo them! that Jkiti ililnl rieiitiun of lh Act to Aoooint he meant to have this road L'o through Morbran- i' , . I . - -fc-i. i.i J . . . ...) .1 ..!.: U . .t. uX l A rl.J 1 e m n n rir,n1 inn nt Prfrn 9inirt ann Innl cnoh n ....i.hi.ind Pit ftifticeu I'iiLMiieer ana inree i tim ' h i .,na iat..ra iai .ko.iariH "o ur iue miuuic rouie. iuai ue uau aoooieieu i y " -r- - . ; ii .1 . " . . . . .. .. r. .u:. :l ;j I pniicnmmalimi nan nevnr tiA fitfninorl c- Inn r- i ii cr i ii 1 1 j i mis r iki-i h i nurnnsp. anil in ii nsv i -t..''.. ..w.w. ww ovr r j j , ,-, j and that, in the selection of commissioners,! he preferred those, of course, who were not ctm milled against that way, but who concurred with him in these views. But the allegation, that he controlled the Engineer; and Co mm is : " 1 ' y . if i and had the road located where he pleased, is, to say the least of it, puerile arid idle. What a gratuitous aspersion is here made SPIRIT OF THE EVENIN0 PRESS. The EvENi?iO Post" correspondent writes from the Capitol, despondingly enough, as fol lows : i All things considered, we are getting along here deplorably enough. Congress is fast abol. ishing itself hy the mingled factionism and im becility which mark its proceedings. It has been nearly five months in session, and has done nothing, and is likely to do nothing for some months to come. There is a very seri ous apprehension that the first of July will find us here without any provision bavins been made for carrying on: the government for the next' fiscal year. i The " Commercial" does not; like the indis criminate and incessant emigration of the best part of our A me r icon population! to California, and having their places filled with foreigners. The Washington correspondent of the same paper says : . " Dissolutions and reconstruction of the Cab. inet are only postponed to a mjore convenient season, and when the change shall occur, I con eider it highly probable that Ma'ssrs. Vinton of Ohio, King of Georgia, and Hon. T. M, T. McKennan, a very able and distinguished mem ber of the Congress of 1842, will be invited to form a part of the President's council. 44 Mr. Webster's health continues very in. firm. It is said to be his intention to retire to Marshfield for a season." N. Y. Express. The Boston Courier has a strong article sustaining the course of Mr. Webster which concludes as follows: 44 When all else that Mr Webster has said and acted, in cabinet, in senate, or in fo rum, shall have been forgotten ; when all other triumphs of his eloquence, his power and skill have perished from the records of literature, and no fragment shall remain of them, to attest the nature of his genius, he will be remembered hy and for his great, calm and unimpasston ed action through tbis trying and perilous crisis. How etsr it would have been for him, to have deepened and played upon the prejudices of the hour; to have de molished the arguments of southern soph- sists.and to have added new iutensityorce and pertinacity tonortbern opinions. He has chosen another part. Instead of in flaming our passions, he counsels our rea son. He risks our displeasure and disap pointment that he may save us from the evils of distracted counsels and clashing interests. Let us, at least, listen to him with that candor and attention due to one who has taken such an attitude, and who comes with such accumulated claims up on our sober reflection." We copy the foil owing paragraph from the Georgetown True Republican , -of yes terday morning r " : EictTfu-We are" InFormed ttpon pretty reliable authority, that Irs, Tim o- tbyQoward,-yho resides at Godfrey' fer ry ori the) Pee Dee, while engaged in fishing sdme fe w days since, heartf the cry bt a child, and on looking in the direction whence the nbise'camf, he discovered art1 object floating rapidly "down the current of the river He immediately went in pur suit of the object, overtook and rraised it into his canoe, when it proved to be a wooden box containing a live infant, ap parently some three or lour days old. The box seemed to have been made with great care, well finished and waterproof and was well lined inside with flannel ; and the little equariun if we may so speak very handsomely dressed in its best bib and tucker. H Fortunately for the poor babe, and e qually fortunate for lhe peace of mind of the diabolical wretch who placed the in fant in so perilous a condition, it has fall en into the hands of a humane atid gene rous man, who sets up a claim of salvage covering nothing short of -the vessel and cargo entire. Mr. Coward would not ex change the little Moses a name we take iberty to suggest for all other babies afloat. The 44 Aim Slavery Standard," of this city, publishes prominently at the head of edi torial columns, Wm. Lloyd Garrison's anounce- menl of the fourth-coming Annual Meeting of I . . i . in d. -. . .i uponjjtne tne American &nu-aiavery pociety, at toe 'be Broadway Tabernacle, 7ih May, of which the unwar- r.u...: : .. . lUiiuvciiig is au cAtiau 44 A contest of near twenty years has proved that the only hopeful issue wit hi Slavery is jba demand for the immediate and unconditional wibo are reuutred by said act ihe-f'jilnivell aiwt A -he 'I i'iaiit an OHf half the stork for the State, and establish tolls tytodisckarge sauiduty to the greatest ad can- n which the State, is interested one hMf. yfuf-tfy State.? .'' That road is now in progress of construction, Soon alter the adjourmmintof the Assembly, ad will connect with this Turnpike in the ieiieverrior proceeded lo jlhe discharge of the rotiuty of Caldwell. And while that road will icy whichi had rieen assigned to him. The awVd an outlet to those land locked, mountain- aies of Ihirleen Uentlemeu rewidmgat ditler- lMUiud counties of Caldwell, Ashe, Wilkesi Wa- hipdints fn the west were, oy tneir respect- tauga and lancy, a most textile and interesting tttnenas, recommenuru as ojiinssionerB, section oi country, now entirely disunite ot 'of thm honorable, iitejllitjr nl men and en marketing and travelling facilities, will, by its connexion with this Turnpike, pour info our State a large and valuable trade from the moun tain counties of Virginia and Tennessee, which reaching Salisbury, can be continued inf their own wagon? on the Plank Road o Fayetteville ; or, by taking the Central! Rail Road, be con veyed to Wilmington thus fostering oiijr own Market Towns: entrenching ourpeopjle by; giving them facilities of trade and commerce : and building up the means, the wealth, the must execute bis hi"b behest : What would have been their reply ? reckon they would have told htm, in very unmistakable language, that the Law under which they weire appointed required them to take an oath 44 o discharge their duty to the best advantage for the State ;" that they should steer by that chart, and not by the wishes or opinions of the Governor or any body else. That is ' what they Would have : thought and felt. 44 He appointed his men. as we maintain a political Union with Slave holders , i It is well that disorganizes thus boldly avow their insane purpose. N. Y. Express. Inly competent The difficulty and embar- Hitneiit til mating a selection among such fen will be leadiiy appreciated, in any at- lnVtve only three could be gratified, while invrero certitnly lo be disappointed. Two ttti consjdeiations were adopted in making Ii selection, . First, to take one from each tad of the tontemptated road, and one Irom the atre; so thai the different sections might be- jfpretentetli Secondly, to apportion this crumb Njiilruaitgej between members ot both the po tbl partie'sj ! Acrodinglyi A. ii. onuiota, oi vaiawna, Cfd. y. Hayes, of Cherokee, and Joseph J. trwHiVat that time and now a citizen of lluth pfuricumv, Were appointed. Smf unavoid- lilideUy aYose in procuring the services of a ttmpelent Lngineer, when jIajr b. M. rox, a atleta.iji iwell qualified and highly recom jfwn3e, was appointed. And, here Gov. M's "ncyiini the location oi me roaa lerminatea. IftJer m'J oathi (of office helappointed such men Uho thought would do their duty faithfully. T llittm ho lj'ft it, under the."oatb .iwhich the 4 lai) enjoined upon them, to do hat 44 duty lo tbe greatest an vantage lor the fetate. Io Engineer ppon whose reconnoissance and prwemuiiai opiuion cnieny resieo ine respon character of our own State, and enabling us to throw off our commercial vassalage tb Vir ginia and South Carolina. Now, without running the. parallel further between these two routes ; we would ak any unprejudiced man, which of them was j to be preferred in order to secure 44 the greatest ad-j vantage for the State I" for mark you, Chat is the question. I . I j Shall this central route betaken by MJTrgan.j ton and so on, thus dividing -the State ty the j road ; equaliztngthe advantages lo the counties ! on both sides, Rutherford fucluded : -opening si j high way to market to I those North iwksterri counties, of ours beyond the Blue Ridge, Which have no market ; connecting with, and aiding another State -work, the Caldwell and Ashe I'uropike ; lringing into our State the travel Union and Compromise Triumph. Position of Mr. Benton, q-c. A correspondent of the Baltimore Sun, writing from Washington Under date ot (says the Banner,) and they have fulfilled ibei r April 17, says ; orders." These honorable ceritlemen are too The friends of Union and comDromise i a well known and respected to be thus denounc- have triumphed in the Senate. It has eji with impunity as 44 the men' of any body been a hard strucirle : but it mav now be Without doubt, they acted fairly arid conscien- I nrpSmed that wc have nassed the crisis . : i.. f i I i i.. j c '.u.lr . ; iusiy. inoceu, sot: cany uoes.i appear uai safely and as soon ag Mr Benton, Mr. one, that we entertain lhe firm conviction lhat . n ,:r . T rpi.-.-. . , czn e r f - i ji vjauiui ilia auu iue itiiuuimi vw- if tbis appointment oi Commissioners had been ... . cbnferred upon any three of the intelligent, ernments, will pass the senate. - honest, and patriotic citizens of Rutherfojti a- .w l" - P ""t "7 lone, however they might have desired to Tavor mendatton of a committee of thirteen their owu county and bring the road into their members, selected from different quarters neighborhood, (and all men might very honest- ot tne country, ana 01 atnereni parties, ly desire to have the road run by their doors,) and any man who may oppose the views yet having taken a solemn oath tot lay off; this of that committee will be put down as a road not for the benefit of Rutherford county, disunionist. There are but two parties to but to the greatest advantage for the Statqj we this question the party tin favor of Union say that we do not believe that arty threej re. by force, and the party in favor ol Union, spectable citizens of Rutherford county cpuld bv compromise. oe lounu, wno, uuuer suun an oungauon, wouiu The report of the Committee will carry not have felt themselves constrained to -give ,;v,t ,;,u. it ;n IJ...,C (W I l' I IT. CX. L VIC Uli VtlLlA lb 111: L11C 11U 1-1 . 1 VJ1 Gov. Ujhazy, and family called at the Irving house. New York, Monday evening last, to takenea with Mad'lle Appollonia Jagello, the modern Joan of Arc. prior to their departure for Iowa. As soon as it became known that the Governor was in the house, the ladies residing at that hotel raised over three hundred dollars, which they presented to him as he was leaving. It was done so delicately that the venera ble Hungarian and family were deeply and gratefully effected. ! Gov. U. has is sued a card to his friends in New Y ork expressive of his hearty thanks for the no ble sympathy and hospitality he has re ceived in that city. In conclusion be says: 4,I bree months since I came from the West of Europe to the East of America, and now I depart again for the far YsSC of this country, whereon the free and tee ming enterance into the great American agricultural family is granted to every one Who has courage and strength to work. 4To these, shores I was driven by tyra ny ; to the fields ofHhe west of this coun try I am now borne by the desire of win ning from mother earth what is so neces sary to the American Republican, a free and independent existence." . . ... . 1 j . , T J I Ulllllinr , iillllKiti" iiiivr kjmi'J hid lc.o, of the oca.ton, the, C."vernor gave no I of glae$ md(Jing ructions as to the route Ae should take, ex .-s v : ... : . i . 1 i.j .. 1... e. a jH'iq i express tne wian, nuuiu n uc iuuuu rcticaj'ie, tnai Hie uoau uiiigui run uuougu teV'eraf Cojirt house Towns of I hp Counties irouh I whicbT it passed,,forfthe gjreater con ence, aud accommodation of the people liv. H on -and abiut it. s . ; - : bthe'montii of July last, the locating party NmPnced operations, and having consideied I cliims of the two mountain passes, viz : the 'Nut I Gap and the bwannanoa Uap, 'one of which ibeiRaa'd must necessa- rS ZP) iJecidtd in favoriof the latter and loca Hfbp foad through Morganton and not through erforutoni It is for ibis act thafthe Gov. or t js held responsible and has beenmade "ircv or the nery inuiguanou 01 ine oioun n!. . I k. '.t .: . 1, n r.. : .i. ' Dinntr. . iow. wc. iiuimiv u laircr tun La to pet every tub stand upon its own tttpai-to jiidge of a public officer by his acts toluol by thd acts ol others. It is quite suffi. atjjora man to be held accountable for his h errors anil imperfections-. f;1 But at Gov M. has been identified with this itioroflo atibn, let us lexamine wheih'er the tcistW of tlila. Engineer land Commissioners sustained- whether the road ought tto 1,1,1 lVvob '"Morganton atid not through Uuth JurJcon, to; secure 44 thel greatest advantage the State. '.. ' " - State llaad is to be made.. '"'It lo ha made, bv the iSlnle'a Awenla ,1, -r x ' " ' " n ;U.M f6 be made out of the State's money. l ? fo be i toll paying road to the Slate. t iV0uo jdcatecf to the greatest advantage ll'Slale ' their verdict in favor of the middle routed no matter what might have beentheirprivale Wish es and predilections. : i! lhe Banner further says, he (Gov. M.jjde- dared 44 that we should not secure any benefit our act freight and profit lo the turnpike Roads, and the Plank Road, and the Central Rail Road ; in all of which the State is so largely interested ? Or shall the Southern line be taken ? Run the Road within twenty miles of South Carolina : cut off the middle and northern comities of our own bt ale trom its Denents : leave the uatdweji and Ashe Turnpike trt the woods without an out let : run it along the line of the Railroad from Salisbury to Charlotte and bring the State's works in collision :; and, finally take it hf Beat tie's Ford, where lhe Legislature refdsed to permiTit to go T How could the Engineer and Commissioners hesitate which of the two to choose f. , . What would thetwefve NorlhWrest counties thiok a fairer rule have 8ai(J. lo lhem bad lbeJ been dePriJed b' the adoption ot the aoutnern line oi ineir anti cipated benefits ? What would the fifty coun ties East of Salisbury- aye, what would the whole State have said, had they, disregarding the obvious, undeniable and incomparable ad. vantages of this middle route, located tbjs road where this large -Public-fund was to be expend; ed, not for the greatest benefit to the greatest number of the people of this State, but for the: benefit of the few, and the people of South Carolina? Depend upon it, they could have held up their heads before the artillery of Wes tern denunciation. ; In our humble conception,: therefore, the Engineer and 'Commissioners have acted wisely and prudently, and for the best interest of;the State in this malter, and ! that they will 1e? sustained by the people in all ! sections and by all parties. - j ' I I iatl t ! Cl!nl.ii.i n ..1 ... XT . I In iklj mmu nf lha eiitit ivntfrA ja IhA .,.f---. U ITglll 4J.I UdliSUUI J AUU I Ull 11 gg( j All 1M1J - "A- " - , lElvr- aiMI-J'- ..v. v j.v - " State, across the Blue Ridge to the foundation and justice ot this onslaught upon uJ?i the Stile of Georgia. . r Governor Manly? How has he acted 44 un. tf reader, cast your eye for moment on fairly, and knowingly violated his duty ?j' tJ vUp of t$e State. Vhere is" Salisbury ? In ihe annointment of Commissioner's, 44 all erifcr i .i , - t .i o . . - - . .. a Mtok' P ' centre oi tne oiaie, mat we desired (says the tlanner) was tpat our to;. r N0rhern and Southern boundary, CO voice should be heard, our claims considered i . ""lift r-. rf . . ' . Im. . ... . " it . j ? I loWi 1 -Virginia on tnei worth.' and ou miles., and it the road had been located at Morganton,; V w -aronna cn ine oouin : seiecieu alter an examination ot , ibe various routes, as this central position as to the j was intended bjr the Legislature, we should not ..(torn an act; of the Legislature, passed for benefit. Now; it is news to us that ihi was passed for lhe benefit of any particular County. . - -r i ; j - It is a general Law, for the benefit ofjthe whole State. But if the writer means ! any thing more than a figure of speech by the Lan guage imputed to the Governor, and me a as to allege that he used those words or any like them, conveying the same sentiment, we; are authorized to say that the writer is mistake, or has been misinformed. That I Gov. M. never did make any such silly declaration. Ij ; In the name of common sense, we would ask, what motive under heaven could Govi M. have, to think, speak or do any think that wjuld injure any man, woman or child, high or fpw, within the limits of the county of Rutherford ? He has -never received any injury from her which he might desire to revenge. Hebas personal and highly cherished friends in ithat County, living, too, on that very Beattie's Ford and Hickory-Nut Gap road, whom it would af ford him sincere and unaffected delight to; ac commodate and to serve. During the last can vass for Governor, be wasreated f with hospi tality and kindness by her people. At the ejec tion, be was sustained there by the votes of his party, for which he feels duly grateful. Whire,. jhen, can be the foundation and motive of iany human being to induce herTpeople to believe thai Gov. M, is hostile to the county of Rutjierv ford, and has maliciously sacrificed her inter ests ? We are authorised by Goir. Manlyj to disavow explicitly all and every such imputed feeling and motive ; to deny the ajlegatiqniand charge ; and to appeal from these Unjust asper sions of the Mountain Banned, (set forth, is to be hoped,' not from malice, but jfrom misap prehension,) to the people of Rutherford them selves ; and to declare, on his behalf, that from his knowledge of the character of that people, he does not believe that there are; ten men inltbe county of Rutherford, who can be persuaded by tjbe- writer io the Mountain Banner to enr tain the opinion, that he has in this matter, wil fully violated his duty and maliciously and pre. Itea1tate4lly' done tbem an injury, j - n many southern members- would refuse to vote for California except in combination, with bills establishing territorial govern ments, j Mr. Benton scouts the appointment of a committee, for the obvious reason that the opinion of thirteen men will be stronger before the country, than that of one. man. It will place the free soilers and Mr. Ben ton on disadvantageous ground. The Crawford investigation committee are moving in a quiet and searching man ner, diligently enquiring into the: history of the claim, and the circumstances at tending its passage through the House of Representatives. , The Secretary of the Treasury has sent a clerk, of his department to California to inquire into the condition of the revenue there, the sub-treasury, jfce. FLARE UP AT TAMMANY HALL. The Hunkers andBarnburners had an other flare up at Tammjany Hall on Mon day night, when an election was held for sachems. The correspondent of the Phil adelphia Inquirer says: The Poll was opened in the usual way and the result announced, Eight Hunk ers and six Barnburners were elected, and there were three ties. sooner was the vote announced, than an attempt was made to get rid of the ties, and, according to all accounts, the scene which followed would have made even ia horse laugh. The Hunkers and Barnbunners had a IMPUDENCE. The Hon. Mr. Kaufman, of Texas, the other day, attempted to introduce into the House of Representatives the following resolution : "That the President be requested lo inform this house whether any of tbe officers of lhe Government have been instructed bjr him or the Secretary of War to prejudice lhe claims of Texas to Santa Fe by inducing the Jpeople of that place and vicinity to form a State Govern ment." The claims of Texas to Santa Fe, in deed ! where Texas never came within gunshot, save but to be made prisoners of war, ;and subsequently to be marched in chains thence to the capital of Mexico. Read Kendall's Santa Fe Expedition. The real honest boundary of Texas on the west is the Nueces, not even the Rio Grande. Hear Gen. Shields on this sub ject : "Texas has no right claim or title, to any portion of New Mexico, either on this side oi ine otner siae oi me uio urande. &he never conquered ii, never occupied it, never reduced it to possession, and never exercised any au thority over it. She has no more tide to San ta Fe than she has to San Francisco not a Remarkable Story of an Albatros.-The subjoined anecdote of an Albatros is taken from a recent number of tbe Montreal Transcript. Tbe writer vouches for its tiueiuy to trutn. Persons wno nave seen that most restless of birds, and are famil iar with its strength and habits, (says the Louisville Journal,) will have less difficul ty in believing the story than those who have not seen it. It is an admirable sto ry, and is very well told : "The following most extraordinary cir cumstance furnished in a letter from an dfficerof the 83d regiment now in India, to a friend in Montreal. Whilst tbe di vision of the 83 regiment to which the writer belonged' was on its way to India, being at the time a short distance eastward of the Cape, one of the menAvas severely flogged for some slight offence. Maddened at the punishment, the poor fel low was no sooner released than, in the sight of all his comrades and the ship's crew, he sprang overboard. There was a high sea running at the time, and as the man swept on astern all hope of saving him seemed to vanish. Relief, however, came from a quarter where no one ever dreamt of looking for it before. During the delay incident on lowering a boat, and whilst the crowd on deck were watching the form of the soldier struggling with the boiling waves, and growingevery moment less distinct, a large, albatros. such as are always found inMhose latitudes, coming like magic, with an almost imperceptible motion, approached and made a swoop at the man, who in the agonies of the death- struggle, seized it and held it firmly in his grasp, and by this means kept afloat until assistance was rendered from the vessel. Incredible as this story may seem, the name and position of the writer ol tbe let ter , who was an eye-witness of the sceno place its authenticity beyond a doubt. But for the assistance thus afforded, the writer adds, no power on earth could have saved the soldier, as, in consequence of the high sea running, a long timcVlapsed before the boat could have been manned, and got down all this time the man clin ging to the bird whose flutterings and struggles to escape bore him up. Who after this should despair? A raging sea, a drowning man an albatros ; what eye will dare to call this chance ? Is it not rather a lesson intended to stimulate faith and hope, and teach us to never de spair, since in the darkest moment, ivhen the waves dftsh and the winds roar, and a gulf seems closeing over our head, there may be an albatros near.' Resemblance between the Black Whale and ihe Sea Strjwnt. This resemblance, as described a short time since by our Beaufort correspondents is thus confirmed by the Rev. Walter Colton, Chaplain of theJrignte Congress. in his work just published, entitled Deck The ship' was last from running for Cape Horn, and was within two or three hundred miles of that stormy Promontory, on the coast of Patagonia, when, the author. says : 44 A large number of Black whales are plunging about our khip. They have a long heavy motion, and move over a swell on the Texas side of the Rio Grande, which I i like a lubberly Dutch merchantman. scarcely think lexas ever conquered. At all How the lazy rascals get their food is on events lean say. that when I was wandering a- j accountable. I should suppose every long the Rio Grande, at one time during the , thing would drift out of their way. They Mexican war, I found Mexican towns in the t movp in Indian file, and their uneven backs oiaie oioanuua,on me i exas side oj ttie nc- , rmnlinir above the water, so closelv re- semble the. bumps of the Sea Serpent, that I began to suspect we had got into lhe neighborhood of Nahant. or that the com manders of our fihiug smacks had lost forever their great marine fiction. " particle. That country, and the whole coun'ry i ami pQri "A was under lhe law, jurisdiction, and authority ifi t ' of Mexico, when it was wrested from that I Janerio, n Country by the arms of the United Slates. I care nothing about maps; I lake facts, and these are tbe facts. I venture to 6ay, further, that in my opinion Texas never conquered all lhe country to the lower Rio Grande. There is a portion of Coabuila, south of New Mexico er, tiving quietly under Mexican Jaw and Mexi can authority ; and if they had ever been con quered by Texas, it was wholly without their knowledge, for they were living jn the most happy ignorance of sucb conquest." j CANADIAN ANNEXATION. j An important debate occurred in the New Brunswick Colonial Parliament on the 5lh inst., on the "state of the province in the course of which Mr. End-drew a : glowing picture of the desolation and ru in'of the country which he attributed to the Colonial policy of the mother country, ; and openly advocated annexation to the ' united States, as a remedy. .He treats the "gagging dispatch" of the Colonial Minister as a hoar. The St. John Mnrn. regular set to, in which! they managed to ; ing ews expresses the opinion that a ma pummel each bluer to their hearts content. !jorily of Annrxalionists vvin 5e returned wniie iney were engageu in mis ciasic , to lUe nexl Parliament, and says "a mas recreation, Elijah F. Fjurdy, one of the j ter spirit is required lo embodv the scat Sachems, snatched the documents and pa- ; tered opjtljons 0f lne people, and to give i pers, rusuru uui oi xaiuumuy unii, nmuc (hf.m substance in the shane of a well de Death of a Bridegroom A man named Wilson, connected withhe Coast Survey office in Washington, was married on Wednesday evening, 17ih inst., to a Miss Little, niece to a lady of the same name, residing on C street, Washington. The bridegroom retired lo bed at 1 1 o'clock the night of his marriage, and was found dead next morning by the- side of his bride, who attempted to awaken him about 7 o'clock. The suddenness of the death of the bride groom, created quite a sensation in tbe city a post mortem examination of tbe hotly developed the fact that he died of delirium tremens. A Wise Measure. The Lei-Tature of Vir- '' :,. .!., l. l I i ----- - ' - tracKS in tne quickest sxyie io some piacc j fined prjncjpa. that can start upon some , ginia has appropriated S30.U00 annually, to aid as yet undiscovered. Qne man's nose was j broad question." ! in the removal of such tree blacks in ibat State put out of joint by coming in contact with an oil lamp, which one of his amiable opponents had "shied" at him. Another attempt at election will be made in a few days. . broad questi Dr. F J. Hill of Brunswick, and Calvin Graves of Caswell, have been appointed by the Goveror and Council as members of the Board of Internal Improvement. j as may be willing to go to Lileria( the sum lo each individual not to exceed $I5. The act also imposes an annual lax of 81 on each male free negro, as an additional fund for the same purpose. Fay. Observer. 4sr ..'ii' -c : , . ; - w.
Carolina Watchman (Salisbury, N.C.)
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