a,,Kiitin, pf r yrar.Twco Doijuxts payable in
F j JS Bj1 palJ in dv"tf, Two dollars
5.1'li '1! , Je firsr:.nd 25 cts.
iiiiiwQ'irni inseruw".
Li .Kihr i Kan these rotes, i A liberal ueauc-
DCi urkrt advertise bv the year.
.hp l-Mitors must be post paid
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FACTS FROM DR.
ii
rwicnber of known Ian
BACH MAN.
guages in the
m jL qq ; of thete 1024 are in America
shed and renew
j The tempera,
n ail. All the
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- ' fUTLEia. ; , ;- ' 55V '.' -I', I Gen I Harrtton. (
Editor 4 Proprietor.',
D6 THIS, AHD LlBEKTTIS SAFE.
GtiCl Harriton.
have 42 leelh. Cat 30,1 men 32, which
uniformly together wijth 209 bonea in
aimuhject.
uhole race of men
it---- . .
.tbrir up at a particular age.
cJ!ifcei buoy- if the same
mi? p , -ricebe
he sa,ne Pe,io ' longevity. They
4r all chilly e i posed jo the tame diseases,
fhe g; -itl?it naturalists in all ages hare re
trdcd the whole race of man. las one species.
ljCii pi lire the original cijeation of man,
LniN; ditlVreiit races in diflTerenl parts of
jjjj j ;; or if he (orthed di0erent races in
ihf tlffr'1 places at the game time, then
ifaried from those lawj of nature that
liave I :''en ' found uniform in at) other cases.
W'bife (there are many remains of inferior an.
irtjtU ij, older rocks ol the globe, in no in
ittnce hive hitman fnsiil bftln discovered in
(lie oUi'f lurmations. Natuie.jas wfll as the
Djble, it'lii -the truth. Jo race of wild, or of
jonid5cijtril animals can be traced to a mix
ture tflfso or inoie species.
. Varieties ml a species become permanent,
putt iriy rapidly, and run iito other varieties.
SALISBURY, N. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 15,1850.
NEW SERIES.
VOLUME VII NUMBER 14.
I whil
-Bull
of
but a
' Th
ic( ra
ji fou
orld.
clouded
tUo ;
same
varieties, some
The bbcif rat among us, is a native of Persia
and hap wmed a great many
h arr. vhite.
itV Peafowl, and Guinea hen, are found
colors, and often white. Nothing
act of God can form a distinct
qrMt;
i
I
ive
common wolf has the widest ffeouranh-
ige of any of the inferior animals, and
jn nearly or' quite Jill parts of the
rhey .aTH white, blaci, red, (gray, and
ihev dilTer in manv other ie?nects
let they are admitted to belong lo the
lacf : anu wny not me varieties or men
which ar no greater. So the varieties of the
Horce arf tully as numerous, but all belong lo
ont ip citts. Now vast the dilflvrence between
the " i iafsh tackles" of, Carolina, and the dray
borse'nf, ifhiladrlphia, with ijegs 18' inches ifi
circuoi 'erence, and hoofs too' big for a peck
tub, orjih" English racer, or the Arabian horse.
Yet all tlse . varieties of forirl, size, and color,
belong! la one species, i
So bl ;bur Domestic Cattle. Some have
no bonis"; others anain in ! Abyssinia, and
Western Louisiana have horrs as large as the
tuukijif tiie Elephant. Some of the size of a
doj, scin weighing 4000 pounds.
Joiiile fiaye bumps on their shoulders ; some
have long pendulous ears; some have long
mabesl; they are of all colors. The size and
shape Lt (he skull are various.
Tbelie are some animals that when wild pro
duce yiung only once a year, when domesticated
product 2jor 3 times a year.
mtfo breeds ol sheen have 2. some 4. and
htrns. Some have a mass of fat weigh
ori40 pounds in place of a tail There
varieties ot the Canarv birdX
(lowers are single. In the cultiva-
sonte (i
log 30
are
All
Dal co
head!
. ted orttja the piblil are converted into petals.
All leri have the same n
bones J all shed their teeth
ibe saitiQ ttrticuJation of (he
let) have the same number of teeth and
erect in stature :
head with the spi
and hair on the
smooth skin,
Governor Briggs's Address to the jpounxj
cil In pe Webster case, r
- After the' committee on pardons reported to
the, Council adversely to the application rpf Pro.
fessor Webster for a pardon, and recommend
ed Friday, the 30th of August, as the time for
his execution, Got. Briggs read to the Council
the following "
ADDRESS: ' j .
To the Honorable Council : f ,
The Council, having considered and acted
on the ca9e ofjohn W. Webster, a convict, un
def sentence of death, it becomes my duty, as
the Chief Executive Magistrate of the Common
wealth, to make a final decision on a question
involving' the lile'bf the prisoner. I feel the
weight ol its responsibility. But it is a re6pon
sibiliiy found in the path of otlicial dutyi and I
am not disposed to evade it, 4r to shrink from
it. For eight months past this extraordinary
ca,se lias created a deep and painful interest
among the people of Massachusetts, and of the
whole Union. Its history is as brief as it is
teriible and instructive ; every new develop,
ment in its progress has been more strange,
and has increased that interest.
On ihe 23d day of November, 1849, Dr.
George Parkman, a we.ll known and highly re
spectable citizen of Boston, left his house
and family on business, as was usual for him,
and never returned to them. Uis unexpected
absence alarmed his family, and excited the at.
tention of the people in and around Boston.
In' the course of a day or two it wat understood
that the prisoner had said that Dr. Parkman
met him at his rooms in the Medical College,
in the west part of-the city, not far from half
past one o'clock oh the day of his disappear,
anqjp, and that he then and there paid him a
sum ol money, which he, Dr. Parkman, took
into his hands and hastily rushed towards the
outer door. '
Dr. Parkmam was also 9een by other persons
about the same time of day within forty feet of
the College, and walking quickly towards it.
I hese, with other circumstances, directed the
public mind towards the College buildings.
The next Friday, one, week, after the disappear,
ance of Dr. Parkman, the dismembered parts
of a human body were found in different pla-
i t'. t ' -
ces in ana unaer ine rooms occupied ov ine
. I is . !
prisoner, in inat College, some ot tnem in a
furnace nearly destroyed by fire, some 6f them
packed in a leachest, and other parts in the
vault of a privy attached to his laboratory.
Suspicions were strongly fixed on him, and
he was arrested and committed to Levered
street jail. A coroner's inquest was- called,
and atier long examination into facts of the
case, conducted in secret, the jury reported that
the remains found were parts of the body of the
late Dr. George Parkman, that he came to his
death by violence in ihe Medical College in
Boston, on. Friday, the 23d day of November,
and that he was killed by John W. Webster.
The evidence taken before the inquest was not
given to the public. In January, 1850, the
case was laid before the Grand Jury; for the
county of Suffolk, and the investigation before
that body resulted in finding an indictment a
gainst the prisoner for the murder of Dr. Park
man.
He was arraigned on the indictment and
plead, noi guiltv. Two of the most able and
distinguished lawyers of the Commonwealth
Council, by the Sheriff of the County of Suffolk,
according; to the direction of the Statute. I
On the 24th of April, the prisoner sent by
the hand; of his friend to the Governor and
Council, a petition for pardon under his own
hand, on the ground of his entire innocence of
(he crime of which he had been convicted, and
for which he was under sentence of death. -All
proceedings on this petition before the Ex
ecutive were suspended, in consequence of havr
ing received notice from the counsel of the pri.
soner, that they were about to make applica.
lion lo the Supreme Court for writ of error tp
be issued in his case, on account of certain ali.
leged irregularities, which had been discover
ed in the course of the proceedings against himl
The application was heard before the full Qourt
and overruled. y
In the opinion of ihe Court upon that applica.
tion pronounced"by the Chief Justice, all the
proceedings in the case are declared to be
ending to established judicial forms and
laws of the Commonwealth.
On the- day of and before the ques
tion on the writ of error had been settled by
the Court, the Rev. Dr. Putnam, for the -prisoner,
asked to be permitted to withdraw the pe-
acs.
the
amii :
kb same number add arrangement of
the miiscjes in every part) of the body: the
iamejorgfltns of speech and j power of singing.
Ihe Mint mental faculties! and conscience
cipabld uf living on all kinds of food, and in.
habiting all climates: of slower erowth. and
later In! arriving at puberty than any other ani-
tnttl. jl he same period of gestation, produce were, upon his own selection, assigned to him
the sitae .number ol young, and subject to
same diitiases.
the
as counsel by the Supreme Court, and his trial
before the full bench of that Court fixed on the
lition which had been presented to -the Gover
4 . A? i
nor and Council, for further consideration. r
This request was complied wilhijy the Gover;.
nor and Council, and the petition, in a day
or two, was banded to Dr. Putnam. ?
On the first day of July, Dr. Putnam placed
in the hands of the Governor another petition;,
signed by the prisoner, asking for a commuta
tion of his sentence.
On the second day of July, this petition was
referred to the Committee on Pardons, and op
the same day Dr. Putnam appeared before them
and made a statement which he said was au
thorized by the prisoner in which the prisoner
admitted that he killed Parkman at the time
and place charged against him, but denied that
the act was premeditated. He narrated what
the prisoner declared to be the matter of kill
ing, and described minutely the mode and proj-
cess in which the body ot JJr. rarkman was
disposed of alter deaih.
The prisoner alleges that the ' single mow
with a stick of wood two leet long and two in
ches thick " by which Dr. Parkman was killed,
was given by him in a moment when " he was
excited to the highest degree of passion," and,
" while Dr. Parkman was speaking and gestic
ulating in the most violent and menacing man
ner, thrusting the letter and his fist in his face;
that in his fury he seized whatever thing was
handiest, and that was a stick of wood, and
dealt to him an instantanious blow, with all the
force that passion conld give, and (bat he did
not know, nor think, nor care where he should
hit him. nor how hard, nor what the eflect
would be." j j
Upon this statement, and upon the other fapts
proved upon the trial. Dr. Putnam addressed
ihe Committee at length, in an able and itn
pressive argument, in favor of commuting the
Sentence ot the Court. A petition! from the
family of the prisoner was before th Cotnmjt.
tee, and la large number of other; petitions,
some for a full pardon, and others for a commu
tation, wre in the hand of the Committee.-
Most of these petitions, were from people, men
and women, in other States, and; generally
placed their petition lor a remissions mitiga
lion of thesentence, on the grounds of the
doubts of the prisoner's guilt. The Committee
gave three hearings after the meeting at which
Dr. Putnam addressed them, and listened , to
those who desired to be heard in aid ol the pris
cal College in Boston, did at mid day in his
room, in that college, within a few feet of the
place wheie he dally skoodj and delivered scien
tific lectures to a large class of young men,
with unlawful violence take the life of Dr.
George Parkman, a respectable citizen of Bos
ton, who had come to hat (room at the repeated
requests of the said Webster ; and that after
taking his life, he eviscerated and in a manner
most shocking to humanity, mutilated the body
of his victim, burning parts of it in a furnace,
and depositing other parts of it in different pla.
ces in the building, where they were found by
persons who were seeking alter Dr. Parkman,
and after killing him be robbed his lifeless
creditor,. by taking tronhim two noes of hand
signed byiiimselfi toJ which he had no right,
and committed still another crime by making
false marks upon those notes ; and that a jury,
of his country, empannellcd according to law,
under the direction of four of the five eminent
Judges constituting th? Supreme Court of Mass
achusetts, after a lonq, patient and impartial
trial, and after hearing in his defence the argu
ments of learned and eloquent counsel, upon
their oaths found him guilty of murder.
Upon that verdict, the Court pronounced the
awful sentence of death. ! In such a case there
should be obvious and conclusive reasons to
authorize the pardoning, power to interpose and
arrest the sword of Justice. I do not see these
reasons. The combined circumstances of the
case force me to the conclusion, ihat the safety
ol the community, the inviolability of law, and
the principle of impartial Justice demand exe
cution of the Sentence. .;
I hope it is not necessary for me to say that
it would have given me unspeakable pleasure
lo come to a diHerent result, and that I would
do anything on earth in my power, short of vi-
oiaung ouiy, 10 aueviai? me sunerings ot a
crushed and broken-hearted family.
j GEO. NBRIGGS.
Councsl Chamber, 19th July, 1850
The report was accepted with only one vote
in the negative Hdn. p. F. Copeland, Rox-
bury.
Nevertheless, to that
ful, and because she
also she has been faith
has been, you again ad.
among strangers, in'strangeTpUcc; almot art
antiquarian, searching for the re I ids ol some
former age.- A few more deaths of such men
as Davis and Hays will take ihe last of the
generation which knew New Yoik in its birth,
and served as guardians of a thousand precious
traditions, which are passing tway N. Or
leans Picayune. 1
1
From the Aheville News.
IT WILL BE SO!
Col. Reid and the Eastern 1 Democrats are
struggling hard to prevent the Western people
from insisting for & change in the basis uf re.
presentation, but we teH them that thVpeople
of the West are, determined upon that change
ii tcill be made it must come! The Wes.
tern counties have been imposed upon Ion?
.... l r i enough already, and nothing but a thorough
.l .... i. .i-i i and radical reform of Ibe constitution in this
particular will satisfy' the people. Eastern pol.
in the acquisitions for which her best blood has i
been freely spilled to hem her in, cribbed
and confined to a circumscribed limit, while
you range free and exulting from the Atlantic
to the Pacific. To this insulting demand there
should be but one response, and I trust the
Convention about to assemble at Nashville,
will unanimously counsel the South to make it
a firm and uncompromising NO ! and meet the
issue. Your obedient, T.
Charleston, May 22, 1850.
PASSING AWAY.
The New York obituary record of Saturday
week contains the names of two of the oldest
and most widely known residents of that city.
When in their prime the names and persons of
Mathew L. Davis and Jacob Hays were famil
iar to more people of all classes and ages than
those of many more popular men.
Mathew L. Davis was a very long time one
of the most active and influential politicians of
New York. He devoted his lime, his money
and his leisure and at one time he was a man
of large means and much leisure to the direc
tion of party affairs. He had accordingly a
much wider influence than his ostensible posi
tion explained, and was consulted and courted
by the ambitious men ol the city and State.
He made thereby a universal acquaintance with j they w ill not indignantly spurn this thaJnteoi
iticians and Editors may raise the cry of abo. 1
lition, or whatever else may best suit their taste !
and while we hurl back the epithet as false -and
slanderous, we still claim a change still '
insist upon our rights. The western people
are, not abolitionists those who would make
ihe charge know better. In nearly all of the
Southern States the basis of representation is
white population. Are they all Free Soldiers ! I
No, of a truth. Some of those who pretend to -j
be most uneasy lest; a change of the basis j
should squint at abolitionism, and thus gire aid i
and comfort to our common enemy. Lad better '
look well to their own course on the sulycl of
Southern rights, and see if they have not been J
nearer committing treason against their own :
section, thau the western people are when the
insist upon a change in the basis. No it is
all gammon nobody believes that a change of
the basis would aflecl in any way the question
of slavery. It is only a lame excuse for per
petuating a gross wrong for continuing upon
the western people ihe degrading manacles
which now fetter them. We can tell Col. Reid
one ibing that he is probably not aware ol
the western people don't want they iron't hare
Free Suffrage.tcithout EQUAL SUFFRAGE.
Mark ihe words. When il is tested whether
Yot the Watchman.
LtijERTY Hill, N. C, July 27, 1850.
Mr.liruncrSir : You will find inclosed
a few lj ties of information that I wih, and I
believe- the most of your subscribers would
likfc to ei', published to the world, as lollows
19th day of March. Some time before the day oner s petition, and in support of Dr; Puttianj s
nl Irial. ihe Attorney General furnisher! the views.
i jj SECRET SOCIETIES.
"ejbgi.n by making men Pharisees and
end byir4u8fKMiiiig them into Sadusees. To
suppose tuat Christ Jesus for the purpose of
; beuhtlnit or reforming men would have toined
a society j ike- ihe Sous of Temperance or Odd
Fellow pledged himself to keep its transac
lions stcrpt from all ihe female and most of the
male dftciples ; to receive and call ihe mem
bers o silch Hociejies his brethren and pro
nouncing a sort of blessing in ihe name of ihe
Great ('atjiarch above ; to suppose that Christ
would bafc devoted or advised his disciples to
devote thtime and expense called for by such
societies to such ends, lh.il he would have put
on their fV'galia and walked thus in proces
sions ; 'thai he. would have entered into their
, piystrr'tesrjby the Outside and Inside Sentinels;
1 sat With closed doors and shutters i addressed
Ibe presiding officer by the title of " Most
IVortby Patriarch," whether the person hap
pened tp be old or young, worthy or unworthy
uch af title ; to suppose the blessed Jesus
Would liave met in such a secret conclave to
devise treasures and execute schemes of reform
vhich are) kept secret from the persons to be
reformed to suppose ihisis to betray our utter
ijnoracaof Christ, his "character, doctrines
and mission. Christ was opetv in all his pro
ceedins ; theso societies are dark, he re.
jected f pompous lilies- these societies confer
: therrt. g He was a pattern of severe simplicity
in PffrSon, and t)irh lTion ontninv uavili
counsel of ihe prisoner, not only with a list of
the names of the witnesses to be called against
him, which is required to be done in all capi
tal cases in this Commonwealth, but also with
a copy of ihe testimony taken before ihe Coro
nor's inquest, and which had been produced
against him before the Grand Jury.
The time appointed for the trial arrived, when
four Judges of ihe Supreme Courl were present
and sat during the trial. In pursuance of the
provisions of law, sixty Jurors bud been drawn
from the Jury box in the County of Suffolk.
By law, the prisoner had a right peremptorily
without giving any reason, to challenge twen
ty Jurors, and for good reasons lo object to any
others whose names might be called, j In em
pannelling the Jury who tried him, the prison
er exercised his peremptory right of challenge
in only fourteen instances
The trial was one of surpassing interest and
solemnity, aod lasted eleven days. Oivhhe part
of the prisoner, the case was argued with great
nn l.rl,.. amJ lwl2... I. a. 4 I A t I .
t- I lie si or ss, i:uiiuui, auu aounj, uj ine uuii.
Pliny Merrick, his senoir counsel. Aher de
nying that the evidence on the part of; the Go
vernment was sufficient to prove that the pris
oner killed Dr. Paikmati at all, the; counsel
look the ground that if in any event! the jury
should come! to the conclusion that he did kill
him, then the circumstances of ihe case were
such as to satisfy (hern that the killing could
not have been premeditated, but was the result
of an unexpected conflict between the parties,
and of sudden passion.
This position he endeavored to maintain by
an ingenious! and powerful appeal 4othe jury.
The case was closed on-the part of the Com
monwealth by the Attorney General, by an ad
dress of singular point and eflect. After the
The Committee on Pardons, consisting of
the Lieut. Governor and four Councillors, after
a full, careful and patient hearing of all that
could be offered by the friends of the prisoner,
and by others who were pleased to. be heard
in his behalf, came to the unanimous opinion
that there were no sufficient reasons to jusiify
them in recommending the interposition of ex
ecutive clemency. j
They recommended that the Governor be
advised to have the sentence of the law, as
as pronounced by the Court, carried into eflect
on the 30th day j) August next. j 1
The Council, with but one exception, qon
curred with the report of ihe Comimitlee and
advised the Governor lo carry. out the sentence
of the Court as recommended by thm.
In carefully and anxiously examining and
considering the case, I do not feel authorized by
any considerations which have been presented
to my miind, to set aside the deliberate verdict,
of the jury, arrest the solemn decree of Iheslaw
as pronounced by the highest judicial tribunal
ot the Commonwealth, and disregard the opin
ion and advice of the Council. If the circum
stances of the killing.
From the Charleston Courier.
To the Editor of the Christian Enquirer, N. York.
Reverend Sir African slavery has been
a benefaction to the world and har forced it
forward, in art and science, centuries, in the
last fifty years. The steam engine and the
power loom, and the rail road and the magnet
ic telegraph those monuments of the crea
tive genius and skill of man what called them
into existence? They were not ihe result
merely of the progressive spirit they were
not produced by abstract impulses of the mind
there was a deeper cause than that, some
thing tangible, which itself created the spirit
of invention.
I will tell you what it was one of the pro.
ducts of slave labor, Cotton! It kindled the
Promethean fire in Whjitney and, through a
long line, has been blazing brighter and bright,
er, subduing earlh, aijr, waTer, and, at length,
chaining the very lightning of heaven and ma.
king it minister to man's necessities. Is not
this so ? You may deny it ; you hate to con
cede anything lo the culprit institution." But
there stand the facts, and it is as easy to trace
the eflect to the cause, as to refer the riven tree
to the bolt from heaven. ! I will say nothing of
the rice and sugar, and hemp and coffee, and
the various other productions of slave labor,
valuable as they are and ministering as they do
to the wealth and comfort of the world. Throw
them aside from the estimate, and I assert that
the slave-raised cotton alone has exercised a
greater and more salutary fnfluence on the
world, than any oue or one dozen other causes
you can name.
It has revolutionized commerce and manu
factures, created navies, built cities, and af
fords daily sustenance to millions of the human
family. The revenue of nations and the pit
tance of the humble spinner, the price of stocks
and the price of bread all measurably depend
on cotton.
Blot New England from existence, with the
its hundred cities and thou
sand factories, and how Jong would the world
feel the loss. Ten years ? Twenty years ?
Perhaps so. But stop the production of cotton
and the whole world must stand still, and who
can tell how long ! !
This is not hyperbole-! Submit it to the test
of reason and it will be 'sustained by its most
sober deductions.
Don't tell me that the world would find a
substitute for cotton. I know that. The world
musl find a substitute or perish; but when
would it find it. Has; not old England been
growling for twenty years at her dependence
ine leading men ot every part ot ine otate, es
pecially of the old Republican party, with which
he was associated until . 1824-5, when he at
tached himself to the Administration of Mr.
Adams, and continued ever afterwards, to fol
low with unhesitating zeal the fortunes of Mr.
Clay. Mr. Davis was, unless Mr. Sargent, the
Oliver Old School " of the U. S. Gazette, of
Philadelphia, disputes the priority with him, the
original of the class of letter writers from Wash
ing which is now so numerous. He wrote for
the Nej'w York Courier and Enquirer, under the
title of "Spy in Washington," and as he had a
remarkably clear and vivacious style, was care
ful in the quality of his facts, and was evidently
in the confidence of a powerful interest at Wash
ington, his letters were read with eagerness,
and treated with a consideration which does not
belong to Washington correspondents in these
days of profuse .and heedless writing. In bis
later days he became poor, and depended up
on his personal labor' by his pen for his suppoit.
a right this tinkling brass, unless they get
along with that which is worth something
that which has some substance connected uilh
it a change of thdasi.
The day is coming when this right will be
granted such rank injustice stinks in the nos
trils of all good men, and is offensive to Heav.
en. Time will effect this change it must do
it in the very nature of things. Nothing short
ol this will satisfy the people. Their will is!
omnipotent and must prevail. 1
He lost his importance gradually, and tell out
of the public view. He was a long time ihe
American correspondent of the London Times,
under the title of 44 The Genevese Traveller."
Of late years he has been in extremely feeble
health, and finally died from natural decay, at
about 84 years of age. In his maturity he was
a man of remarkable activity, both of mind and
body; of great powers of conversation, abound
ing in anecdotes of public men and public af
fairs, and telling them with point and animation.
In face he had some resemblance to the prints
of the French orator, M. Thiers; and the ra.
pidity of bis utterance, and his habit of shifting
his glasses, when excited, gave him the nick
name by which he was known in party circles,
as 44 the old boy in specs."
The other octogenarion, who died on the same
day, was Jacob Hays "Old Hays " who was
.ii I .ii . ir i , .
me neaa constable ot iew ioik wnen it was
little more than a village, and has held the post
for half a century. Once his name was a by.
word everywhere, with which to throw terror
into rogues, or to express sleepless vigilance iu
hunting out roguer). To set 44 Old Hays" af
ter an offender was equivalent to cornering him
at once ; to threaten to send for 44 Old Hays "
was a sure way of frightening young sinners,
or to still noisy children. His stern face,
swarthy complexion, deep black eyes, and stur
dy, compact frame, were known to every man,
woman and child in New York, as New York
was a few years. Age grew upon him, as ihe
city expanded around him, and finally he sank
THE FOLLY OF PRIDE.
The very witty and sarcastic Rev. Sidney 1
C . L f . r.i ' - 1
omiui, lor many years one oi tne contributors
to the great English reviews, thus discoursetli
on the lolly of pride in such a creature as man :
44 After all, take some quiet sober moment of;
life, and add together the two ideas of pride and:
of man ; behold him, creature of a span highj
stalking through infinite space in all the gran-'
deur of littleness. Pearched on a speck of the!
universe, every wind of heaven strikes into his
blood the coldness of death ; his soul floats
from his body like melody from the string ; day!
and night, as dust on the wheel, he is rolled mJ
long the heavens through a labyrinth of worlds!
and all beneath the creation of God are Aiming!
above and beneath. Is this a creature to make,
hirnsell a crown of glory ; to deny his own'
flesh, to mock at his fellow, sprung from that!
dust to which both will soon return 1 Does
he not sutler ? Does be not die ? When he
reasons is he never stopped by difficulties?
When he arts is he free (torn pain ? When!
he dies can he escape the common grave ? I
Pride is not the heritage of man; humility,
should dwell with frailty, and atone for ignor
ance, error, and imperfection.
j uestructwc and.Jatut Accident on the j
Erie Railroad.
A most frightful accident occurred on
. the New York and Erie Railroad, about
i one o'clock yesterday, which resulted in a
great destruction of property, and loss
life. The freight train from Oswego, for;
; Pierriepoint, was precipitated in the Deli
, aware river, in consequence of the falling
of the iron bridge, about three miles front
Lackawaxen. There were seventeen
, cars, containing 130 beef cattle, 500 sheejl
and 200 hogs, all intended for the market
admitted intelligence, industry, skill and wealth
of its people, with its hundred cities and
of this city. The locomotive passed safet
into obscurity, younger men and newer systems i iv over the bridge, but the immense weight
displacing the old man, yet noi having altoge. Gf lue train cars was more than the)
as stated by the prisoner i on foreigners for that which is vital to her ex-
are taken to be true, It may well be questioned istence ! Has she not exerted her wealth and
whether the Executive Council could interfere j power and skill lo emancipate herself by find,
with the sentence without violating the settled j ing. a substitute or growing her own cotton?
law of the land. In his charge to the Jufy in ; But she has failed in all her efforts, and is now
this case, the Chief Justice says : 44 it is a set- i more securely harnessed than ever.
tied rulc that no provocation with words only j Has not New England been preaching for
will justify a mortal blow. Ihen, if uponipro- a like period about the; sin of the " culprit in
T I t 'j. - j j." 177.. ' 1 . , t . '.II I ! I
r.fgaliaaud cabalistic iariron. Christ exnlicitlv i Attorney General hadfinished his argument
declares that he rpnril in no sfrrtt mihrwl : the Court informed the nrisoner that he had the
right, which he might, exercise or not, as he
pleased, to make such remarks to the jury as
In
to no secret methods
secret have I said nothing;
secret meetings or societies
s "disciples : cables and con.
in their days ; Venus had
of rfform.'
here Were no
arndog1! Chrial
davei Uiere were
ner mysteries and Bacchus hir orgies, and Ju-
r- uis games, anu mese all had Iheir pro-
i k -
iheir lodge
cstiorj;
iheir
igns
of initiation
ana qegrees. But these were not of Christ
nor To Christ. Theliupretended foundation
w philosophy, and their professedend hap
pmess 'and j light ; bul their practical working
wis fr4ud and imposition, superstition and lust,
ho apiuicd the people by shows and proces
ions, hey attracted the superstitious by their
royntcj riles, gained money from all classes,
nd infthA -name of one God 6r another, grati.
fied tha appetites and amibilion of cunning and
corrupt leaders white time bore them off.
I An Abstract from the Princeton Review.
he saw fit. iThe prisoner rose and .for some
time addressed the jury in bis own behalf.
An elaborate, clear, and comprehensive charge
was given by the Chief Justice, after conversa
tion with the other members of the Court who
sat with hnn at the trial. f
The jury retiied to-their room, and after an
absence of three hours, late on Saturday even,
ing returned; into Court with a verdict of guilty.
The next Monday morning the prisoner was
again brought into Court, and received from
the Chief Justice the sentence of the law, which
doomed him to suffer death by hangingr at such
time as the Executive of the Commonwealth
should appoint. ' M
In a few days a copy of the record of his
conviction was transmitted to the Covoroor and
voking language, the party intentionally revenge
himself with a mortal, blow, it is unquestionably
murder."
The only new fact brought lo light as tn the
killing, depends upon the word of I he prispner.
It will hardly be pretended by any pne thai the
declaration of a person under sentence of death
should be permitted to outweigh the doings of
the Courl and Jury, and rescue him frorh the
consequences which are to follow iheir proceed
ings. Il is candidly stated- by Dr. Putnam, in
his able argument, and by several of the peti
tions presented in favor of commutation, re
ceived since his confession, that, standing as
stitution, (but still using toe products and
growing rich on them.J and, if you could have the swamps and thickets,
found a substitute, would you not have sunk ; streets extend for miles, c
ther superceded him. He retained to the last
the titulary appointment of high constable, of
which the duties were merely nominal, open. !
ing the common council and marching in pro
cession with his staff of office. 3Ve saw him
a year or two since, walking feebly along, sup
ported on either side by his family, and yet !
there was a fire in his eye and a quick pene- i
' (ration in his glance which reminded us of the
i time when the sight of him at a distance would
scatter a mob, and clear the streets of all who
could not give a good account ol themselves.
The veteran must have often paused to ponder,
amidst the half million of people of New York, ;
to few of whom be was now an object of cuii- '
osity, upon the changes that have grown up
since his single staff kept the whole city in or
der, and he could walk the streets, seperating
out with bis eye every stranger from among
the citizens, and marking down the suspicious
for further scrutiny. The very place on which
he died, though now far below the centre of
population of the city, was even in his maturer
years, the boy's play ground, out of town ; and
he had doubtless hunted out fugitive rascals in
wheie now broad
covered with rows of
i-
engtneef
saw the
, strength of the bridge could bear, and the
whole was thrown into the river below
a distance of 70 feet killing nearly al
the stock, and five men who were on the)
I , : . I. '
urns, ucsiucs an luuaiy liijuiin iiiu v;uu
ductor and brakemaii. The
; and fireman, as soon as they
, bridge giving way, jumped from the loco
motive, which was stopped,, in consc
quence of the water tank becoming de
tached, and one of the steam pipes brealc-
ing. The conductor and breakman wer
brought to Porte Jervis last night, where
' they remain in a very critical conditiod.
The whole damage, including the destruc
tion of the bridge, is estimated al 8200,
000. j
iV. Herald, t
he doesrthe word of the prisoner is entitjed lo . promptly, firmly, and unitedly, and she may
n r mrf it
If ihe circumstances disclosed on the trial are
relied on to support his statement, ihe reply is,
thai those circumstances were urged in his fa.
vor before the Jury, and they hav decided a.
gainst him. The facts of this appalling case
are before the world ; tbey will hereafter fill
one of the gloomiest pages in this record of
crime amongst civilized men. j
It is undisputed, that on the 23d day of No
vember, 1849, John White Webster, 4 Pro
fessor in Havard University, and in the (Medi.
heavy buildings, and thronged with a. dense
and accumulating population.
Such veterans as Davis and Hays are of
the few remaining links that connect ihe New
York of this day with the New York of the
past, as it was in the recollection of most of
those who left it young, are only roused to a
perception of the reality of its vast expansion
and the insensible lapse of iheir own years by
an occasional event which wakens up the me.
mory. The young men have become old and
changed; the old men die off one by one,
yet stay the torrent that threatens to overwhelm hardly noticed in the throng which has crowd
the South and her institution in perdition.
The world, then, is indebted lo African
slavery, and, like a senseless ingrate, now
seeks to destroy its benefactor. It may sue.
ceed, but if it does, it will inflict the most de
plorable self-punishmenti
I have but a few more remarks lo make, and
they shall be on the duty the South owes to
herself in the present emergency. I shall be
brief, for it does not admit of much argument,
the day tor that has past : the South must act
Acciilent on the Hudson River Railroad.
While about midway between Fishkill
and Cold Spring, the train of Wednesday
night ran over a man named Dennis Cr$
gan, one of the bands employed on section
No. 41. as a flag man. As soon as the
accident was known, the train put baclf.
When the man was found, he was. still
alive, but past all assistance. The cow
catcher bad struck him on the lower paft
of the right leg, and on the chin, nearly
severing the leg. and mangling bis face
and chin in a frightful manner, lie die4
i in a few minutes after. Ar. l'. Herald.
the land.
The South has been faithful to the Constitu
tion, and has never sought to evade any obli
gation imposed by it. Under it, as adopted by
our forefathers, she wWld have been content
to live. But that hasjriot been permitted ; and,
under the aggressive attacks of the North, and
by their votes she submitted to a curtailment
of her constitutional rights in the 44 Missouri
Compromise." It was a fatal mistake I for
when did concession ever stop aggressiom ?
ed in to usurp iheir places ; the old places are
no longer recognizable ; even the natural land
marks which to have a perpetuity like ihe rock
ribbed hills have been displaced; and within
a space of time, not longer than ibat between
boyhood and middle aged in a lifetime, all
things that were appear to be obliterated or
made new. They are not what they were ;
and the sojourner in other places, who goes
back to recall the scenes and the men ul a
quarter of a century only ago, finds himself
SUPERIOR COURTS. j
The Judges of the Suoerior Courts will
ride the ensuing Fall circuits,
lowing order, viz :
in the fol'
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
0.
7.
Edenton,
Newbern,
Raleigh,
Hillsborough,
Wilmington,
Salisbury.
Morganton,
Judge
C-ilJwell.
Ellis. -Bniley.
Manly.
Buttle.
Settle.
Dick.
lie that ful La krre with liua :f wi bare no riralfc
f-
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