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,v i -V I r From lb Christian Observer: ' ) - TURN IN 15 OVIEII ANEW LEAF. ,vVMl, toinurro' Ne w Vear's. and I in. tend lojiurn over n new leaf," said James II. lo wife. But manjra New Year's had come i aod g4e w'lh ihe plromiet since hi marriage, Uod still there wa po reformation. TheT.ict was, Jattaes was bneof those per ;sons who are al way's intending to " turn oyer a lnw leif," that is. to da better, jet never; ac- :' cbmplished it. Tbey make fair promises, and do ; Indeed, perhaps, feel in their own mind,! that vther are coini? to he successful in breaking fl i froth old habits audi old associations, but that s til ; th'ey litre and tpey die, making good re so :utiont, ' I - ' ! il 1 once knew a man in New York, wealthy and of la liberal education, with high hopes of iffainini honor and fame among hui?IIw men, Ibut be had formed the habit of taking a little Uomelhinz," as he called it, every day, until at Ilast be found that hSs business and reputation Were hut on ih oVcline. As each year drew ;ieir us ciuir, ins irV'j iuiuoisihuhwum- .i'ces of! friends; " Well, when New Year's come, I intend to turn over a leaf." Bui al r ways when 4he duly came, instead of acting W bis good resolution, and making it a better day, be1 made il the worst of all. There it is r the custom to cull on all your friends on that iVday-i a pleasing custom in some respects, but one which is too-ofien' abused by the use of CHANGING FRONT. " : : r A free. soil paper, the Cleveland Democrat gjres the following relative tb 12 of the 15 noo. savenolding states, who a jyear or iwo gu were all for the V ilmot rrouso . i v oira For the Compronise, Wisconsin All for peace and rescinding the resolutions parsed in '48, instructing Senator Walker to resign or vole foi the proviso. Illinois Pro-slavery out kndjtiut, and Sena tor Shields, elected as iTFje Boiler, changing from. , -f ( . Indiana AH for the Compromise, and re- electing Mr. Bright U. S. Senator. Ohio -For General Cass, Michigan Servile to the lowest degree. Pennsylvania Electing is (J. S. Senator, Broadhead, as rank a pro s avery man as can be found. ' C New' Jersey Tut the Compromise in all its parts. ' I J Connecticut Compromise arid peace. , "Massachusetts Governor elected by the votes ot the Free Sotlers, and as boldly pro- slavery as can be. New Hampshire Utterly sejvile. Maine For the Compromise." Most readers know, (saysj the Buffalo Com mercial Advertiser) thai the, Free Soil papers stigmatize as servile and pjro-slavery all who do not denounce the Constijuliojh as "anatro cieus bargain," and who art not willing lo sac rifice the Union and the w4llar of more than S: wines and liquors', 'as a part of the good Ltwenty millions of white people in obedience i cheer pf the day And in the 9ae of this man, to one impracticable idea. faking tbis ne- (, It always proved a temptation too strong to cessary allowance for the peculiar phraseology l rriake ew Year's ike beginning of a " new of the Democrat, lis statejnenjs are substan. H leaf."! -And so It went ony promise after pro. talW correct, as to the portions occupied by iie, juuiil intemperance brought him ia thJ most of the free States in rlegard to the Com- promise measures. I ! This turning over a new leaf," is a very The Journal of Commerce says : " We do (t common eipressioii. Very common an ihe not consider Wisconsin, Ohio or Massacbu I; New Year commences we hear it often made sella, sound, as yet, on the Subject of the Com- promise, &c, but they aref tast becoming so. California is undoubtedly prepared to sustain ( old year, that he was determined to begjn a J different life when the present year began, if j be had turned over that new leaf" yel ? N'o,' was his relv, " but I intend lo. It is bard to do right, though one may desire to do ,;; so, but think 1 canj break off old habits when v 1 once begin." THS EMBRACE OF THE EXTREMES MR. - CLAY'S MOTION TO REFER THE PRESI . DENT'S MESSAGE.! , s " : The 22d of Febrlary, 1851, will be remembered alike for what was seen tad what was said in the Senate of the j United States. The debate on 'Mr. Clay's motion to re- t fer to the Judiciarjr Commktee the message of the Fre eident and the accompanying documents, in relation to the recent rescue of a prisoner from the officers in Bos- j ton, has brought out and stamped the purposes and mo- ' tives of certain gentlemen in colors too marked to be mis taken. It is idle to say that the motives of public men ought not to be impeached they ought to be, and will be successfully impeached in all cases of conduct or lan guage tending to produce, if not designed to precipitate, a catastrophe upon which all patriots must look with hor ror. F i The appearanceof Mr. Rantoul, the Coalition Sena tor from Massachusetts, was a suitable prelude to the de monstrations that followed. His seat is the earnest by which the Abolitionists of his State have bound the bar gain and sale designed to rest the six year's Senatorial term in an individual who represents but a fragment of the people of Massachusetts. By his acceptance of it, Mr. Rantoul has boiind himself, on the principle of hon- or among thieves, to consummate the disgraceful trans 1 fer of the Democracy to the embrace of Abolition. For to our free institutions, without effecting their j nine days' occupancy of a seat in the Senate Mr. Ran- avowed objects. i i tout has forfeited ail claim upon the respect or conhuence ! - . i .il ii n-ii v t To all true men of the North, who stand up i OI ms pany.ana separaiea nimseii irora an i noiunuie VIRGINIA AND THE UNION PATRI. , ; . , OTIC RESOLUTION. At the celebration of the 22nd of February, by the people of Berkeley county,-VaM a series of patriotic resolutions were adopted, a portion of which we copy : V Resolved, That we deem the U nion of the U. States, as synonymous with truis liberty; Tin dependence and future pospeiityi''.si'--.';': i That we here pledge bur lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor, to maintain it inviolable : and we will inculcate uponj our; children as a watch. word of duty l&at f ' it must be pre- served.",. . ! .- '-A That we view with great alarm the preva. lence of a feeling in the North, of a bitter and unjust prejudice against bs, and our institutions, manifested to the extent.) even, of disregarding the constitution and the laws of the land ; and we warn the violent among them, that a per sistence in this course can only result in ruin mise, grave, iV the Compromise as it isi Rhode Island is doubtful. Vermont is -dejided;iy heretical. New York is like J'Jebuqhadiezzar's image, made up of discordant materials. The Sew. ardites in the Legislature Would gladly avoid a declaration of sentiment oft ther subject at this Baiiiiii wall Ir rw w i n it ihatllhp can ret noth. T - - ! - f". J! Yes, it is bar todo right when wf depend ing through, of so objecti4nal a character as the resolutions ot the last! Legislature, which still stand as the voice of the! Empire State. Messrs. Beekman, Thonjipsoti, Anthon and Varnum, will however givje them no rest till ihey show their hands, li is pjrobahle that we shall have to wait anotherjyeal bofore we can wipe out the dishonor which how rests upon our escutcheon. But it will be done, or we are for the compromise of the constitution, and the lawsofthe land, we tender our hearts and hands in the spirit of brotherly kindlier. That while we deeply sympathize with our brethren of the South, in feelings naturally en gendered by such wanton and unfraternal at tacks upon us and our rights ; yet we view with pain and horror in some of them, a rash spirit of disunion which would lead to more disastrous consequences than the factious and fanatical spiri. in the North. We -recognize no suijih doctrine as "the peaceable right of a Stale to secede from the Union" Obedience to the constitution and laws is binding in perpeuify, as our govern ment is perpetual, Thej right of revolution is an appeal to arms and thej God of battles, when civil war and intestine strife is preferable to ty- ranny. recession is nothing more ; and we see no cause yet for this awful alternative. That while we have a! solemn sense of the perils that in our peace, we look lo the future hopefully. We trust that better feelings are beginnii g to prevail ; and we invoke our fel- low citizens of all sections of our country ; by associations. "Whatever ability he may possess, whatev er may have been his former services, henceforward his sen-ices and his ability will be but of small account ; for he is a party, by ratification, to one of the most disgrace ful arrangements for selling the honors and dignities of a State to a disorganizing and revolutionary fraction that ever blotted our history. Not the most disgraceful, per haps, for Mr. Chase, of Ohio, is indebted tor a similar combination for a position from which he ventures, as THE CAROLINA "WATCHMAN. J. J. CRUXER, Edltsr 4. Proprietor. VoLvn.j Salisbury, Hf. C. No 44 TMUSDAY EYOTXC, MlCfH 13, 1851, A Plank Road meeting was held in Taylorsville on Tuesday of last week, and we regret to learn that the result was not as favorable as we had hoped it would be. Two books were opened ;jone for subscriptions to the Charlotte and Tay lorsville Plank Road, and one for the Sal isbury and Taylorsville Road. All the "subscriptions made, up to the time of our jnformant's departure, were put downTb the former of these schemes with a cer tain proviso, however, which, under cir cumstances therein enumerated, the a mount subscribed may yet be passed over to the Salibury and Taylorsville Com pany. Be this as it may, it is clear that the people of Taylorsville have a leaning MessrsPe arson and Bettls, of Pntt county, passed through this place on tv oay last, on meir return from California They had been two years oprjand to tt; place; had cleared;about $24,000 each We saw a bag full of California mens of gold in their possession; andrj ally it is not surprising that so many venturers have been drawned to tjj. land of treasure to seek their fortunes they are so temptingly rich and beauU. ful. - These gentlemen say the newjpapef counts of California are generally Jq region. It is their opinion that the mines are almost ineibaustible. We make the lollowing extract frottl a communication in the last Wadesbprr Argus. The writer is talking about Roads and taxatien in the several Statei; My principal object, however, U 0 send jo a reliable siateineni ol the amount f IleveMit raised in a large number of the Statei, in f. der that yeur readers may see betaerik,! to the Charlotte Road in preference to the are orm,uly taied r companion to othrr' ' i DPOOie. I Will nln (tun lK rx,,,..: r -i i -.vr.v....-w.v v...v w.v-w iyuc wijicu uuiiiifuia wiiu s piace. 1 uis States in whop rovonno ;a j ; or four hundred thousand voters, to epeak ex cathedra, , V -taies in wnose revenue 18 laul down : f, on our own reolutlont. without seeking the J; sislance of (iotl to enable us to put them into 1; nraclice, Thera is where the difficulty lies. I We trjink we can re1 sift temptation, and give up our old customs just when we please. But ''I, how many spend years and years, "going to turn over a new leaf, and yet never begin. ,"jf ; ' But bow different would it be if all our good i h resolutions and promises of amendment were no prophets. All we askj of the members i, A ... IiU A.- A'.ml n I,t If. I a I ( ... ii,l... tVA.r conrt! Will irnii enalsin ; t;iuiiiuaiiiru hum uioici iui uiiiid aiui i us v urio i in. j smuu, . iuu ououla. ; stead of using the tame blotted page of life, the Compromise, including the Fugitive Slave Law, or will; you go for j repeal or esseutial modification ? On this issue : the politics of New York will hereafter turn, until a decision shall be reached that is decisive and final. So mote it be." not only for Ohio, but for the State of Massachusetts and the entire North. ' Several Senators,, to whom we listened with much pleasure, took parti ih the discussion of Saturday. Mr. Downs concluded thie remarks commenced the day pre vious, in a patriotic, liberal and conciliatory spirit. He was not disposed to. regard the recent outrage in Boston as any thing more than a sudden movement of the mob, which could not haye been anticipated. Mr. Clemens, of Alabama, followed with a spirited and pertinent speech, in which her cordially conceded to the President the charactert)f a patriot and a statesman, and express ed entire confidence in his administration of the laws. Then came in the j Disunionists. .When we listened to Mr. Borland, Mr. Turuey, and Mr. Chase, we were pre pared for the indignant invective jwith which Mr. Doug las denounced traitors and conspirators within the sound of his voice, and -for the sincere and fervent though somewhat rugged eiiquence in which Mr. Dodge of Iowa vouched for the loyalty of his State, applauded the con- the hallowed association of this day: by the duct of the Administration, and announced his determi- memory ot the great and Ood Washington ; nauon le measures oi compromise io give u nis should not, however, cause any relaxa tion in our efforts to push on the work. A road in the direction of that place will pay a good dividend it it goes no farther than Third Creek. But we are confident it will reach Slatesville, and there we will shake hands with Taylorsville, al though all her help may be given to build the Charlotte Road ; for one of the terms of her subscription is that that road shall pass through Statesville. by all the united glory of our past history ; by our reasonable hopes of a noble future destiny for our country'; to cultivate and encourage a spirit of concession and harmony, and brother ly love and charity. That the best of our opinion, these senti ments of ours, this day expressed, are the deci ded views of a majority of ihe people of Virgin- iia; ana as such, we dersire them to be pub lished. Arming Out of the j we might long ago tave turned over new lef, ' SB nrl trAkAn lurninrf fv a ftnh n A j vm a r A ot tun a "3 ' SMV4 S W IUI Bit If Ull im fs.U tw J k I ii9 l upon juirmaking each better than the last, with fewer blots aqd stains upon it to testify against our advancement in a better course of life. This islhe only way lo begin. Old habits ; jtre not easily shaken off. It is only by waich- More Suits in Boston ' j lulneSs and prayer that we can be successful. I Slave Case. It was stated in a dispatch in the , Hjiw many have put in practice ihe resolu- yesterday Sun that a. writ had been issued at tlon to do beiterl when the present year began 1 Boston, at the suit of Burton, a colored Salem ;l Manj promised lo do so, but how few have yet barber, against United Stites fdistrict attorney begun to fulfil that promise. They did'ntl re. Lunl, for false and malicious prosecution, the -olve'in the right taiy, and there' the reason damages being laid at 810.000., AVe find in t they pave not even yet made an attempt. evening edition of the Tribune the following j j- " IDon't Know, JW Know About That," jj: Of course yoii dc n'i, you endless croaker. jlNo one ever knew you,io be quite satisfied, l.wunianv thinjr, eicept vour own opinion. ? iThefe never was a plan proposed to which you did not object ; nor ' an enterprise undertaken i lo which you did not complain ; if it failed you iikalw it would; nd if it succeeded, it was coore by bit than by! wit in the projector. No line can be drawn so straight that your squint ye'eannot detect a curve in it ; no web can b6 special dispatch dated Boston, Feb. 27 A writ was issued about a week since (or the arrest of Copehart, aiforney of Debree, the alleged owner of Sliadrach, hut he has thus far escaped the officers. Mpn are employed to find himand are to be rewardd if they suc ceed. Tb case will cofne before the Court of Common Pleas, in Salem, on the third Mon day of March. ' A writ of attachment has first been served by Deputy Sheriff Coburn upon the goods and the estate of Ueorge r. CurtUs, United States woven that your sharp eye cannot see through commissioner, and Patrick Riley, deputy Uni- it; no wall can be built so compactly that you i cannot pick a flaw in it. You have indeed a ; wet cloth to lay on everything that comes wiih ' your reach. It never rahis when il should, mnd a it should ; it is always ton wet, or too i:jdry j! it is too hot, or it is loo cold. You fret ; yourself, and you fret all around you, and that , continually. In it word, you are a poorr4jn- happy croaker. Now, such characters, more ,.or4ss fully developed, are to be found in eve j I rjr community, ever surrounded by an atmns Vpher peculiarly their own, in which neither l!the lungs nor the heart of any one but them. iiselys can fieely playan atmosphere like that j .il i which uie poor neeaie grmuer labors lull ' fif sharp and deadly particles. i! 1 , . :: ' ; il Gambling Kstahlisnment Broken up. A 1 lawyer named Lawrence Gardiner, accornpa ! hied by two polire ollicers, yesterday proceeded In the upper part of the house on the corner of Broadway and Warren street, and arrested in ! bis bed, Robert Willis, charged with keeping tjft gambling establishment at that place, and conveyed him before Justice Mountfort, who -! hsld him to hail in $500. Mr. Gardiner then 1 applied to Alderman Sturtevanl to seize the II gambling apparatus in the apartments of Wil Hlis, but he having no authoriiy to enter the pre. . Smites, and ihe o Hirers refuning for the same rea sonj Mr, G. procured a horse and carl, and up i$ on his own lesponslbility seized the furnUure ;ad1 implements of gaming, and delivered lliem ;ii safely to iutice Mountfoil. An application for jlja warrant for felony against the gentleman , ij Mra4 refiued. ... ,. The contents of ihe gambliug table, its nu i merous secret drawers, silver boxes rnade lo j draw two cards as the occasion might require. :i ivmui wiiu muiiueu rujjos, piaies be- Iween which they ate pressed for ihe purpose of : ihaving the edges, together with the loaded dice, (uf which ihere ar several sets.) are all j vecured, and will (says the Tribune) affiiid'a l tjch display to the uninitiated, in the Court of Led States marshal, for SllO.OOO damages. This suit was brought onj behalf of Shadrach, the alleged fugitive, alias Frederick Minklns, laborer. The suit charges that defendants did arrest and caused to be ar rested, and did then beat and ill-treated ihe said plaintiff. The defendants are held for trial in 840,000 each, to appear at the April term of the Court of Common Pleas.- Seireral S other Govern ment and State officers will be arrested short ly. The5 ground upon which these suits are brought is that the fugitive slave law is un- constitutional, and that j t be officer prosecuted actd without authoriiy. j The examination of Bayes the superintend, ent of the Tremont Teniple, who was arresied for aiding "in the rescue pi Shadrach. has been postponed in consequence of; the absenee of one ol the witnesses at Washington. The Whigs of the city of Philadelphia held a large and enthusiastic meeting at the Chinese Museum in (he city on Thursday last, for the purpose of expressing their approval oflhe Com promise measures passed the last session of Congress, and to determine upon the propriety of requesting their representatives in the Leg. islature of the State to vote for and support a bill for the repeal of the obnoxious features of the act of Assembly passed the third day of March, 1847, relative to fugitive slaves. A mong the resolutions adopted were the follow ing : Resolved, That in the judgment of this meet ing, so much of the act of Assembly of March 3d, 1847,irj' relation to fugitive slaves, as re fuses tho bse of our prisons, for the detention of persons who may be claimed as such, under the recent act of Congress, should be repealed. That, acknowledging, as we do, the right of a citizen of another State to secure his properly, which he may find within our borders, it be- comes our duty to furnish him -with such facili ties he may in such case require. That the due execution of the act of Congress renders it necessary that the use of our prisons shall be granted the Judicial authority of the U. States, earnest support. And when we heard Mn Chase com plimenting the opjaions of his friend from South Caro lina, and agreeing with the gentleman from Tennessee and the gentleman! from Arkansas, and the fire-eaters ' generally, we werei prepared for the expressions of sur prise with which the Senator from Michigan comment ed on the strange associations and onnnious conjunctions 1 which the Senator had that day witnessed. Strange it is, indeed, to mark the numerous points of agreement between; Mr. Chasend Mr. Hale upon one side, and Mr. Mason, Mr. Borland, Mr. Jefferson Davis, and Mr. Turney oh the other. Unless we misunder stand the position af the honorable senator from Virginia, he believes that the Fugitive Slave law never can be executed in the northern States, because it is repugnant to the sentiment of ithe northern people. At the same time, he avows that if the lawTs not ex ecuted, the failure; will be a sufficient cause for dissolv ing the Union. But Mr. Mason is the author of the law. It follows then that Mr. Mason advocated the passage of the law with the belief that the catastrophe would follow which he does not pretend to deprecate. Worse than this, by his Very vaticinations, he seeks to bring about the state of feeling at the south which will receive a partial or temporary failure of the lay as equivalent to its entire and absolute non-execution. To distinguish between an effort jof this kind and a treasonable purjHse of Disunion, requires nicer faculties of discrimination than ire possess. j But it is not Mr. Mason alone who believes that this law cannot be executed. Mr. Jefferson Davis agrees with him in the opinion ; and Mr. Borland and Mr. Tur ney swell the chorus of Disunion with their feeble and discordant voices. In the case of the gentleman last mentioned, the " venom of the 6haft" does hot compen sate for the lack of ?' vigor in the bow ;" and it is only because they add numbers to the ranks of conspiracv, that they extort the compliment of notice. These gen tlemen, in the debate, coincided, in their action and lan guage, with Mr. ;Chuse. They all agreed in assailing Mr. Clay as an agiutor. They all agreed in denounc ing the Compromise, not only on its original merits, but on the ground that it had failed to produce the repos and quiet that were expected to flow from it. They all agreed that the Fugitive Slave law had proved and would prove of but little practiqal value, whether it were executed or not. They all, in short, breathed the spirit of disloyally and Disunion, not to say of conspiracy and treason. It was with sincere, pleasure, therefore, that we listen- eu io iur. uoucre, arm Air. uouir as. ana to uen. Lass Congress adjourned at twelve o'clock on Tuesday. We have not received the particulars of the closing of the session ; but anticipate the defeat of the river and harbor bill in the Senate, by the parlia mentary expedients resorted to by the mi nority. The Republic says : "It appear ed that there was a combination among certain individuals to prevent the passage of the appropriation bills unless they could have their own way with the river and harbor bill. By this time the issue had been made np shall the minority or the majority govern ? It was clear, by numer ous votes that had been taken during the day. that there would be a large majori ty in lavor of the bill; but the doctrine of the new light democracy is,, that the minority ought to govern by trick, indirec tion, contrivance : by speaking against time, by reading long reports and messag es to which nobody listens, if they&can thereby defeat the will of the majority. The west and northwest have been over slauged and deprived of the legislation for which they have so long called and call ed in vain, by a combination of the disun ionists and secessionists with the hair split ting abstractionists of the democracy. States. Maine, N. Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Tennessee,. Kentucky, Revenue. 147,167 95,783 471,776 64.MO0 90,000 1,073,249 170375 2,331.705 42,352 743,779 1,503.743 &4.79G 30631 314,905 243,648' 311,160 746,794. 27 1 23 Fop. in 1840. 501, 732 ' 284,574 291,943 737,699 . ' -108,830 309,978 2,604,495 3730r 1,721,022 78,0r8 469232 1.239,797 753,419 594.3 - 53o,:5t; : 375,Cil - 352,411 1 )2I0 1 77323 -543,749 ; ' uut, Mr. Lditor, this is enough. It t noj necessary to give th taxation and popuU of ihe remaining Stateg. Any one can see lhat they haje been taken " as they come." What does it show us ? Why, that .Maine New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts Connecticut, New Jersey, Maryland, Georgia, Alabama, Mi-inippi, and Louisiana, all hat ing less population than our own Slate, pay largely more than we do. Maine, (I mean each person in Maine,) pays ix imesaimucb into the Public Treasury ai each person ja North Carolina, each person in' New Harnp. shire four times, Vermont three limes. Mam. cbusetis fie limes, Connecticut two timet, New York five time, and in every other Stale largely more than in ours. Are they noi proi. perous? Is not Georgia doing well? Yet, sir, is it not strange thai we should be told that our taxes will drive our people away? You will excuse TnUtakes, Mr. Fulton, I am a plain farmer, not much accustomed to writ, ing, and hence apt to commit errors.. If your readers will look over the fads w hich J havi written it will do them no harm. Plank Road. whenever they may be required, for the safe. ! in their replies to the men who pursue measures and -ail r . " keeping ot the rugnive, until hearing, lor which that act provides, can he fully obtained. That in the opinion of this meeting, so much of the said act of Assembly as prohibits the use of the public prisons of this conbmonwealth, in such cases, or in anywise obstructs the execution ol A GOODlSTOklY. An old lawyer of the tiiy of N. York tells a good joke about one of 1iU clients " A fellow had been! arraigned before the Police; for stealing a et of: silver spoons.- The articles were found upon the culprit, and there was no use ih attempting to de ny the charge. Lawyer G- was applied to by the-prisoner as counsel, except on the plea of insanity or idicy, lie instructed the lellow to put on as silly ia look as possible, to utter, in a drawling mariner, he M spoons." It successful, the fee ws to be twenty dollars. The Court proceeded to irial ; ihe charge was read, and the question put to the prisoner guilty or not guiliyi" j 4 Spoons, ejaculated the prisoner. " The Court put several questions to him, hut spoons spoons,' was all the answer that it could elicit. 1 The felhtw is a Ipol, said the judge; 4 let him go' about his business.' The prisoner left thie room and the lawyer the recent act of Congress, or conflicts with the. constitutional rights of the citizens of other States shall be forthwith repealed. Resolved, That the thanks of the Whig par ty of the Union are eminently due to Daniel Webster, for the positions which he has assert ed and triumphantly sustained in his recent cor respondence withthe Austrian Minister. That we recognise, in his reply to that functionary, the true principles and policy of the American government, in its intercourse with loreign na lions, and a proper expression of our sympathy in every movement which occur among the nations of the earth, for the extension of those republican doctrines which form the basis of the American Constitution. avow principles that ivill render Disunion inevitable, and to those who by their prophecies and denunciations are aiding them in their unholy purpose. Il was not mere ly that they abandoned their political prejudices to do justice to the President that we heard them with satisfac tion, but chiefly because they pave warning to the coa lition of extremists to the Abolitionists and Secession ists to conspirators and Disunionists of all quarters and all complexions, that no party associations and no party antipathies will prevent them from rallying to the sup port of the Administration in a matter that involves the supremacy of the laws and the perpetuity of the Union. Washington Republic. Messrs. Stanly and Inge, the former of North Carolina, the latter tf Alabama, both members of Congress, had a duel a few days ago. They exchanged shots without injury to either, and then the dif ficulty was arranged by their seconds, and Foor.-Since our last we have bad j the combatants shook bands. another flood, almost equal to the great flood of August. 1850. The mails were all intercepted for one trip. Mr. Palmer, the contractor on the Western line, lost a stage in attempting to cross the Catawba river ; and had he and his driver been drowned, (and they are indebted to the t good swiming of their horses for their j DCr The lion. J. P. Caldwell, passed own safety.) those editors West of us, who ; through this place on Monday last, to his have heretofore been rather unsparing of, residence-in Statesville. Mr. C. is look abuse to the Contractor on this line, would ! ing remarkably well. W e caliche attention of all persons con cerned to the Mail Contract advertise ment in tbis paper. The time for receiv- i i ing bids closes on the 1st day of April. j Those who intend to put in bids bad bet ter do so without further delay. Important if Trce. We copy the following para graph from the Auburn, N. Y., Advocate of Wednes day : A Great Invention in the Art of Printing. Mr. I. L. Burdick, of ,Utica, has succeeded in inventing a new cylinder printing press, which is certainly far ahead of anything now in use. This piess prints both sides of the paper by one revolution ; will print twice as fust as the Hoe's press, and do its work as well or better than the Adams press, and it requires but half the labor in feeding it, while the cost of the machine, it is believed, will be less than that of any power press. There is one of these presses now at work in Utica. Printers, and all concerned in the businees, will do well to call and see for themselves. have bad a mournful evidence of bis ! fidelity to bis obligations. For we feel ! confident nothing but the most determin- j ed purpose to p?rform his duty could have j led Mr. Palmer to forget all considera '. tions of personal safety as in this instance, j To our knowledge he is neither sparing j of his means or wanting of industry and ! attention to the fulfilment of his contract. ' But it should not be expected of him to perform impossibilities. DCf3 See the notice headed Arey.Shfm well & Co. Our late young townsman Mr. James 11. McDonald, it appears, has gone into business at Fajetteville. He deserves success, and we believe be will receive it. m'ioui, where a fujl exhibition will be made ol ihe mysteries w bin the trial takes place. fiV. Y, Mirror, I; Cause of Mr. Kaufman's Death. The Wash tngon correspondent of the Baltimore Patriot, peaking of the death of Mr. Kaufmana Rep. f if ntative in Congresi from Teas, ays f j tt& died very suddenly. I belieye be died not of a disease of the heart, a ha been stated, but! from a pitol ball wound which he received 'orae eight or ten jyeare ago, while be was Speaker of the lower House of the Texas Con- - . t . , i- Cress in a rencontre wnn a member or the am body. Y His .friend. Commodore Maore, feels rertftin that, that wound was the cause of Mr, Kaufman's sudden death, on Friday even. ing last. The ball entered the centre of the body in front, and as I understand was nater j,:S We ahoiild posses i dignity without pride, af. ubOiiy without njcamneu, and elegance with out affectation. ' Now, my good fellow, that twenty dollars." J'The rogue looked! the lawyer full in the face, and putting on a grotesque and silly ex. preision, and winking Iviih his eyes, exclaim ed' spoons I and then made tracks." Orders for United States Officers in Boston. A letter from the Secretary of War to Bvt. I Major George A. Thomas, commanding officer at Fort Independence, directs that officer to place himself and the troops under his command as a part of the posse comitatus at the disposal of the United States Marshal, whenever the Judges of the Circuit or District Courts, or, in their absence, the Marshal shall ceitity that such aid is required for ihe purpose of duly ex ecuting the fugitive slave law, kc. A letter of similar import was addressed by the Secretary j of the Navy to Commodore Downs, command- j Another Cuban Expedition. The Ero df ant at the navtf yard, instructing him, in the 1 Italia, the Italian paper published al N. York, contin other ano aid the Marshal in making arrests, in pre. ; ed against the Island of Cuba, and that it re venting rescue, or in recapturing any person grets to learn that some soft headed Italians ose who are enlisting under the any process "in his hands. tsoston rost. ; oanner oi L,opez, ine hero ot Uarfienas, who gained the victory of fifty thousand dollars ! BlackwooiCs Magazine for February has been received. We have glanced over its pages and find it, if possible, more than usually interesting. ' w 0"A Gentleman' was once stopped in the streets of London by a stranger who asked him, " Did you ever thank God for your reason !" " I don't know that I ever did," the gentleman re plied. " Do it quickly then," said the stranger, " for I have lost mine." We are very liable to forget to thank God for his com mon mercies, whose greatness we can never duly esti mate till we have experienced their loss. CHARLOTTE AND S. C. RAID ROaD. At a meeting of the South Carolina Direc tors of the above road, the following rtsolu- DCP Allen, Giddings, and other aboli tionists, have made a real blood hound at tack on Mr. Webster, Secretary of State charging him of having required a bribe Uon were adopted : from certain persons in New York and Resolved, As the sense of the Board of DV i, , ,.. .... . ' rectors, that it is highly expedient that such I Boston, as a condition of his acceptance , . , . , , . -w ;rirt ' force be put on the Kail Road a9 will insure of the Secretary-ship, with a promise that j lne completion of the superstructure to Chit- he would use the office, to their advantage, terville by the first of October next. Mr. Webster was ably defended by sever- ! sed, That no further payment, from . t, , , , , w . , funds of South Carolina be rnade on contract al Senators, and through Mr. Ashmun, a Nolh Carolina, and that the Present he. member of that body, pronounced the i and he is herehv rlirerted in hrin suit agams. ingency stated, to order the marines or any j says it has received inlormai.on Irom New Or- rurrr Av rvnrilinpn Pr,. i all defaulter, in ih Kmt of Noth Carolina. r force' under his command lo accompany i lans that a second expedition is being prepar. x , , " . Resolved That the President be autfeori followed close in his wake, arid when they had , who has eseaped or been rescued by virtue of j are among th got into the hall, the counsellor tapped his cli- any process in his hands. Boston Post. banner of Lo ent on the shoulder, saying Webster's powerful influence, arrayed as it is, against these abolitionists and for the weli fare of the country, is driving thern to desperation. Surgical Operation. Tht operation for the excision ofhe lower jaw to j remove a tumor, (osteo sarcoma.) was performed on Mis Gray. (23 years, of age) frokn Nbrth Carolina, on Monday last. The bonp was diseased from the (so called) stomach tooth, on the left . side of the jaw, to near its termination theright side ; and the cbiu and right tide! of the jaw bone were therefore removed. The operation was performed by Dr. Thonlas F. Andrews, of this rily, assisted by-Drs. Higgiiis, Rose, Wrightj "Granjer and Moore ; jad is the first of the kind of equal magnitude which has ever been per formed io this city. The patient, we were in formed yesterday, was going remarkably wtl. iMorjolk Herald. If there's a will there's a way. A glover's apprentice- in Edinburgh once resolred to quab ify himself for a higher profession. The rela tion with whom he lived was very poor and could not afford a candle, and scarcely a fire at night and as it was only after shop hours that this voung man had leisure, he had no alterna live but to go into the street at night, and plant himself." with bis book, near a shop. window, the lights of which enabled him to read it ; and when they were put out he used to climb a lamp post, holding on with one hand, while he held his book with the cither. The person liv ed to be one of the greatest oriental scholars in the world, and the first book in Arabic, print ed in Scotland, was his production. In a future number the Eco promises to speak more fully on the subject. Swift Retributton. A man was found on Satarday last burnt to death at his house in New Haven, (Conn.) On Fri day evening hr had come home drunk, and after cruelly beating his wife, turned her and his children out of doors. In at tempting to undress himself, it is supposed that bis clothes took fire, and that without assistance hetnus met bis awful death. Mysterious. A gentleman from Lin- colnton arrived here on Monday night last about eight o'clock, on his way to Mil ton. He stated that a difficulty had late- i ly arrisen in that Town between Mr. Ait- drew Motz, and a Mr. Moony. That tbreatshad been made by the latter against the life of Mr. Motz ; and that both were now missinz. The last time they were ! i to call in two additional instalments trom Stockholders in North Caroima. Resolred, That the President be directed t bring suit against all Stockholders now is r" rears in South Carolina. The Directors from North Carolina nfre not at the meeting, as they were nol notified10 attend on account of ihe disease in Charloti' We think the meeting might hae been po' poned until the North Carolina Directors ccu hae been present. Charlotte Journal. "Boy. who do you belong to ? " said a gentleman on board of a steamer, to a ne gro leaning onithe guards. "I did b'long a- Simile. .Mark how erect is he who treads : the Dlain how bent his figure who ascends I to Massa William, sir, when I come ihe mountain, and you ijvill learn that content- board ; but he's down in de cabin playin' mem, only, is uprightness, and that ambition ' poker wid de captain, and I dont know J compels a stoophjg. j who I b'long tb now." SHOT AND ROBBED. On Saturday evening laM, about dark, Mr D. Gilchrist, of Davidson county, while on bi W V hnmr. was shot and fell 10 the grour.0. seen, each, from opposite directions, were 1 whereupon two men came up and demand going towards a bridge which spans the h,s muon .LPn m u" 7' . 6 , , , , , ( ney, be leceived a heavy blow on the back river ; and that the hat and coat of Mr. ; lh(. head vhich rendered him insensible fo anj Motz had subsequently been found in the ! ibing that took place lor some time after. On river below. The gentleman who.brought ; hundred and five dollars were taken from ' .i . w,. i . i nerson. together with all his noies and o" mis news, was going to .union on oust- j . .r. . af, r. ,h(l uTi P,N i ness in some way connected with the affair. jed tk1 ik rMi M b tt a iKtnh A hnn 14 pntprtlinf' his wounds will not prove latal. Wr.OUcnn tiy. F 4 for U 'i St r iai Ti 1 C ' u b Vf bi i ci e h U n i o V c b t I I t ... 1 1 A I 1 -1..
Carolina Watchman (Salisbury, N.C.)
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