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Vnrirkiia la lament ., f L. - J..LI L- l ki. .,, ' r i i oiuii.ui3 ji me uuei wuica occur- , whiQR will amount to four dollars H-lhetween Gol. John Baxter! and mvself on ne 4tn mat., havjng been nui in circulation for lesson of heart, and sb ....t- oiil Inn Iv in! ,twas hwbulnility and patience, tha;t he was rev led, ho rev leu not agair). ' j-nnished tihe multituile and his di4- fJ not to do like the Serines and Pharj- L wbosaid he.Tove the uppermost roomjs .cf Htid the chief seats in the byrial- " anJ creitings in the markets, anl The Gospel is preached to the pooK called of .men, Itabbi.l lUbbi. Bult if iCabbi ; for one I I jlv an J si rn pi i ' .L . I I i iDe aposues :hy Patriate! uit the taste 'i tern i i' cnopi oi jini, nor uia ? oi me toutu ers ot our Mve chllecr JCahbi ; lor one is your ;.er cveh Chhst i and all, ye are bre- ! L And call jno man your father upoji fartri; lor onp is your miner wdicm n heaven. Neither be yje'called mas- ; for orie is j)irr niastef, even Christ j whosocvcrhall exalt himself shall flha.ed ; and $e that shall; humble him- shall be exajtcd. rather was a name :le of dignity.as well as jlabbi among lebrcws anfJ' was applied to their ors and . distjjngurehcd men, and the 5ol our 8'avio jt gave th Scribes and risecs plainly shpvv tht he disap- LfJ of titles of dignity, nnid the reason Jcnt, because, they foster and in- rcing the priap ahd arrogancy of the !sand l'harjfeees arrayed himsell as r.g, and movd aing the streets of tsalem in a ptrtmpous style, would y V.uve invalidated his advice and all ipotlcs put oil a regalias the ensign Ljalty.and furnished themselves vvitji JianJ flig", and paraded, the streets ii. -.ill 1 1 'i . i i i. ;A wun Dialing lamps or lorcn light, dthis haVe cen an example of hu- ty f I thhdv not. And met in council, is it pro- that they, addressed thir president, 1 -?This sort of style did iif those men taught in t nor did it suit the republic. -4- o persons Torn ttiemselvps into a sp or an asspefation ' and- fiame them- t, the name ought to be appropriate. jhave now an-asociatioji who call Nflve? inn flons ot 1 emperance.--implies-thatHheir fathers were teen e men. vvhlcli can hardly be the case general thenar. We read of persons j Pre called the sons of God, and why ttly called so ? Hecause thev re- icauod. ltwouId seem that the have imblbejl the. notion that they ' pposed because they ari) endeavor- i jptit down tlje utinccessaijy and bane- ' of spirits, omc may Oppose them i ground, Lot as a geneiral thinyr it t the case,. bibause there are thous- m fQUch opposed to intemperance to the 'uscVqf spirits, as!a common rg;'aany 5on of their Order. As fUcan learh'.ilhe principal ground on attiey arc ofhosed is their Constitu- Mini miuiii; kji nciiii. i ney adoptel fifths better adapted to a jvchjr than ja Republican Govern- aha. Grand iScribe. and hy Patriarch. The word recralia. 'J. ''P'"8 ' of .royalty, arid hence jit Jem thatihe framersof their Coh- 'n were nuin who were fond of rojy- auu Minonuc words. Again, their f actins, tV manv. is nAt nnnrrtvUl bjyr parading the streets in the'nidht am! tnml linV.f ia Ln fitting 'a tnjiitary oflicer musterihg ?nthan teachers of maml ilnti.L dlll'lpa orl U .1.. II' I I I i -...a 'ic iiraiiy Hinru io sacreo F' and ouchttlin 1a tmri " the jear of God, otherwise the tef IHesupficial. G. G M. tells us I lae lJ!e degraded I drunkards 9 '"viMoniroom, and ciarry u a course 'of hr-Ami lull U Tl Do THIS, AWD LlBERTT IS SAFE." Gen-1 Harrison. NEW SERIES. VOLUME VIII NUMBER 17. C, THURSDAY, AUGUST 28, 1851. - and sixty cents the first year, and in each succeeding year two dollars and sixty cents. Nxjwon these terms a great number of miserable, penny less drunkards must bef prevented from joining their Or der, and consequently cannot be admitted into the a Division room to be carried through a course of beautiful and inter esting ceremonies, and to te warned a-i gainst the baneful influence of spirituous liquors. Thse terms differ very much from the terms of the Gospel. Christ said. preached to the nooK This is one excellency of the Gosnel. it invitP. j-- - ----- the poor in a special manner to receive salvation without money and without price. It invites the drunkard, who has no money, into that fountain of life which! cures intemperance and every other dis ease of the soul. This is the best Divi sion room into which a drunkard ever went or can go. In this he will find sub stance instead of parade, and empty cer emonies. Intemperance, as well as all other sins, originates from a vitiated heart, and it is a spiritual disease, and must have a spiritual remedy : natural means in such cases, signify just nothing. In temperance, as well as all other stns, go- U 4. .. 1 . I . . fin ihh out out ny lasting and prayer, therefore I beg leave to ask do the Sons when they take the degraded drunkards into a Division room, fervently pray to God that he may cast out the demor.sand restore them to their right minds. Is Mr. P. S. White as well furnished with faith and prayer as he is with laugh able "anecdotes ? If he is, the evil spirit will not have the assurance to say, Jesus I k now ; and Paul, I know ; but who are you But if he has not these Christian graces, the probability is. that the demon will leap upon him as it did upon the sons ot ocova and cause him to flee naked and wounded. Doctor Clarke says. " several systems of religion have some good ordi nances, and moral precepts they speak against sin, and recommend a moral life i but under them not one sinner is convert ed ; and why? Because they minister not the power of God. Nor Hops vn the strong and forcible preaching of the ! divine precepts of Christianity itself, pro duce this. Where Juses is not preached as the power of God, as well as the wis dom ot God. no sinner is converted from the error of his life. The profligate con tinues bis course, drunkards, swearers, li ars, Sabbath breakers, the unjust, the un clean, and the unholy, continue under the influence and power of sin, though they may frequent the ministry of those who, not knowing the work of God upon their own hearts, think God works not at all ; and endeavor to produce the wonderful change which the Gospel requires and the state of the soul demands, by moral sua sion, and administration of the divine or- dinances ! Vain labor U Without this ; power of God, no good can be effected. ! Jesus, as putting away sin by the sacri- fice of himself, and sending fprththe en : lightening and powerful, influence of the i Holy Ghost, must be clearlv. faithfully, and incessantly preached. Where this is , done, sinners will be converted unto God, and believers built up on their most holy , faith. This was the Gospel which St. , Paul preached, because he knew it to be the power of God to Salvation. He had felt it to be such; and he witnessed it as thm in tie r- ! I . i -,rilKmif,?, an warn tnem against i anful iluepce of spiritous liquors, nothing a-lout those beautiful qer- i i cs. rn r i.3.t a i , I'Ul l kl i iw mill ooi-rj m nrt i t. i -t I iiiv VI ll-IIIUIIICOi III I. and espfially a numbler of them,- -HHiie vnlop. I fear thi Sons have - rearms with m ich powder the Bible. -'uie ieai u i...t v,uurcn;ot Kome distinguished r"aoove a IrChnphJ- 1 the only means of saving, either a lost world, or a lost soul." Now if the Doctor is right, and there can be no doubt but he is, how can the Sons expeet to change4he heart of drunk ards by fantastical means and ceremo nies? But the regeneration of. the heart appears not to be their object, because Sobriety says, " We do not hold that the temperance society ever regenerated any one,' yet they represent themselves as pi oneers preparingdrunkards fortheChurch, but if regeneration is not taught and urg ed upon their members they are badly prepared to be put into that sacred build ing- i In the foregoing observations I have pointed out things in the system of the Sons which many think to be repugnant tto the doctrines of the Bible, and it is the wish of mahy'that some jw niter of their Order will confine himself to this point, and prove, if it can be projved. that their andfl with those of 11 vj 1. Hi' o v - -I- - the purpose of iniurinfr me I am inn.ir.;n. : f O 1 -mm -'9mU9WWt-M III justice to myself, to make a simple statement Of the facts in the caee, in order that the public, if they feel any interest in the matter, may at least, form their opinions correctly and under standingly. j The cause of our quarrel is a matter of no great importance to the public, I though it was truly set forth in an article published in the Ashefille News, of the 24th inst. Suffice it ; that Col. Batter insulted me, by proclaiming me to the World, through the Messenger, as a liar, and I challenged him. The pajer containing this charge appeared on Tuesday afternoon the 15th of July. I sent ibe challenge the same af. noon by my friend, Dr. E. R. Jones, and re ceived Col. Baxter's reply throlgh his friend Mr.jJ. W. Woodfin the next morrjing. This re. ply bf Col.: Baxter was insulting, and of a char acter which would have justified jme, according to the laws which govern gentleman under such circumstances, to have refused to notice it. I wever, waived any objection to it. My se cond ihen sought an interview wjih Mr. Wood fin, Col. Baxter's second for the purpose of ar ranging the preliminaries of our riieeting. All that! was agreed upon was the weapons. Dr. Jonls had had several other interviews with Mr. f Woodfin, insisting all the iime, that the terrris of our meeting should be reduced to writ ing.and signed here befre we left. This pro position was declined, and I left here in compa ny with my friend Dr. Billiard, on the 23d, knowing nothing of what sort of meeting I had to expect with Colllaxter, except that we were to use the ordinary duelling pistols. When we arrived upon the ground a formal acceptance of my challenge, dated at the Salu da Uap was handed me, and the ' terms of the meeting in Col. Baxter's hand writing were submitted to us for out consideration. They are as follows : 1st. The weapons shall be the ordinary duel ling pistols, loaded with one ball and the dis. lance forty feet. i 2nd. The parties shall hold their pistols by their sides in a perpendicular position, with the musel to the ground. 3rd. The word or signal for fireing shall be given by the friend of one of the parties, to be determined by lot, in the following manner. The person giving the word or signal, shall ask 41 are you ready ? ' And on receiving an affirm ative reply from both parties, he? shall proceed to count " one, two, three, fire. Neither party shall firo or make any attempt to fire be fore the word " fire : And the person giving the word or signal for firing shall repeat the manner in which he will do so in the presence ot both the parties before they take their positions It will be remarked by those who are conver sant with the manner of giving the word on an occasion of this sort, that the method selected by Col. Baxter was in contravention of the or dinary usage. No words of hall were called after the word fire, and the object peemed to be to ensure some one being hit. My second ob jected to the unusual manner of giving the word but upon a little conference betweejn Mr. Wood fin and Col. Baxter the latter gentleman not vieldinff the point. I instructed mv second to make no further olnection. The seconds proceeded to loacj the pistols, when Mr. Woodfin found he had np charger for Col. Baxter's pistol. I offered mine which was accepled. Mr. Woodfin charged Mr. BaxteKseeing the size of the Mr. Woodfin to put in another charge, j Mr Woodfin, hesitating, said it was sufficiently well charged, whereupon Mr. Baxter remarked he could not put in too much. Mr. Woodfin accor dingly put in the additional charge of powper, and Mr. Baxter selected and rammed the ball down with his own hand. He then selected a cap, put it upon his pistol, and we took our po siliohs. Mr. Woodfin gave the word and at the word fire, I distinctly saw Col. Baxter's hand raise and level his pistol at me. j 1 shot, and heard but one report. Dr. Hilliardj my surgeon, Dr. Jones, my second, and my servant who was standing near me heard but one report. Mr. Woodfin was standing nearer Col. Baxter and thinks he could distinguish a difference in the report of the pistols. My ball struck Col. Bax tor between the knuckles of the second and ihird fingers of his right hand, ranged up the hand and arm, and lodged in the arm. Any one may make the experiment and they will see at once his pistol waspresented at me. ( A few moments after Col Baxter was shot, and while the medical gentlemen were dress in" his wounds, Dr. Jones came to me and said thatiCol. Baxter had authorized htm to say to me that he had not intended to fire at me, and should not have dune so, had my ball not hit hi hand, and caused his pistol to fire. Dr. much credit should be attached to this man's as sertions that he did not intend to fire at me. Nobody in this community believes it, except a few contemptible slaves, who ill ay any thing they are paid for, and perhaps a few crazy old women. MARCUS ERWIN. The above statement has been submitted to us, and we find the facts in it correctly and tru ly stated. W. L. HILLI RD. E. R. JONES. Asheville, July 31, 1851. Dear Sib : ; The accompanying statement of the affair between Col. Baxter and myself, I submit to you for lbe purpose of asking wheth er,""as far as you know, anything in it is incor rectly, or unjustly stated. Very truly yours, MARCUS ERWIN. J. W. Woopfin, Eq., Asheville, N. C. DISCUSSING SECESSION. We yesterday said a word of the effects pro duced towards bringing about Secession, by me merely vindicating it as an abstract riht. while confessing that there exists occasion for resorting to it. whig opinion inlouisiana: At a meeting of the Wht of: Ascension and St. James Parishes to appoint delegates to a nominating Conrei.tion, the following truly National Whig resolutions were passed : Resolved, That, however uncalled for and supererogatory, under ordinary ciraurastances and in ordinary times, might appear the form, al declaration by American citizens of their fi. delity and attachment to the Federal Union, the menacing attitude of South Carolina, and the treasonable language of some disaffected spir. its in other portions of the South, render it in. cumbent upon us, as Southerners, to profit by every fitting opportunity to reiterate publicly our profound and unalterable love for the glorj. ous free Republican Government under wETch we lire : that, accepting in goodJaithlhe serie of measures known as the Compromise as a definitive settlement. of the dangerous and ex citing questions which for years back have been nn nr.iani We have now to ' Krrm,l,,a unwisely to disturb our national peace we repeal now, what we have already proclaim, ed, that we ask for no other Constitution and speak of other pernicious effects that must in. eviiabl? flow from all such of one of those deplorable political catastrophes i no olber Union ,ht 'hose with which we weri which, if it ever comes at all, had better come upon us unwarned, than come prematurely. the pistol. charger, told i. ' Asheville, N. C JuJy 31st, 1851. Dear Sir : Your article making statements in relation to the difficulty between yourself and Col. Baxter, has been shown to me, and hastily examined. By first expressing my regret that anything further should be said in the public prims in rngaru io me auair, anq renewing mv ormerly expressed desire, fas made known to you and Col. B.,) that nothing further should be said in regard thereto in a public manner; I will answer, that 1 see no statement of facts giv. a . . . en, as coming within my observation, which I could deny. I am of course, expressing no opinion upon the correctness of your conclu- sions, and particularly with regard to the one in reference to Col. B. a intention not to fire. I will state one fact which is rejrred loin your article; lam clear and distinct in this, that there was a difference perceptabie in the re- port of the two pieces. I mentioned it imme. diately on the occasion, and cannot be mistaken in regard thereto. I am very Respetfully, J, W. WOODFIN. M. Erwin, Esq., at his office. . MOB IN COLUMBUS, G A. We find the following dispatches in the Macon Journal and Messenger of Wednesday last : Columbus, Aug. 123 30 P. M. Messrs. Editors : There is a great mob raging here at present. The negro man Jarrett, convicted by two successive Ju ries of the infamous crime of committing a rape upon a little girl of leu years old, was to have been hung to day. To the sur prise of every one, he was pardoned by Gov. Towns. This has created great in dignation among the populace, and a mob of five hundred persons are now before the Jail awaiting the hour of 4 o'clock, at which time they expect to hang him. Columbus, Aug. 126. 10 P. M. The mob assembled at 4 o'clock, pro ceeded to the Jail and demanded the keys. The Sheriff refused to give them, up the doors were broken open, and the negro brought out and hung to a pine tree back of the Jail. provoked by the rash and irreverent debate of a subject too sacred to be touched until we know that it must be deliberated, because it must be acted on. There are public sentiments in abundance there are private affections there are prin. ciple of morals there are points of faith, which rest not upon reason, but are derived from na ture and the heart; ar which none discuss but tools that never fell them or snphUters in whom they are lost. What is the u.e of con. sidering whether a man should love his coun try or not? his parents or not? He has al ready lost half the feelings of the patriot or the son, who consents to hold a question with him. self of either duty. Many of the great points of social action must be accepted as instincts, adopted as ultimate truths. We must adore God, not examine him: we must revere Mar riage, not philosophize with our wit about what human wit never invented : we must respect Property, lest we should, by speculating on how or why it came, sink into that worst kind of thief who fancifully styles himself a Social ist. So of a hundred other things bf the affec tions and sentiments ; they love not to argue ; they recoil from the rough and frigid touch of logic. By the lime a woman has analyzed all the principles of Modesty and Chastity, how many women will have any of either left ? Like these is that intimate, that reverential. that grateful, that fillial idea, that political in. stinct of our hearts, which the noblest man amongst us have ever cherished and honoured as little less than a sort of religion and myste ry, even in that early day when the prophetic eye of patriotism itself could yet see but dimly the benefits which this Union was to bestow upon us. They bade us, from the beginning. look on it as a consecrated idea, a sacred ar rangement of our public safely, which it would be profane to handle. They evidently regard ed, as not merely for us a national good the vastest, but an indissoluble necessity, from which there was and would ever be no outlet but into absolute mutual ruin. Its very discussion, therefore, they charged us, with every solemn warttng, never to touch. How wisely, the event, though long after, has unhappily proved. For the mere raising of the question, in South Carolina, some 25 years ago the mere claim of freedom to talk about its !. .1 i ... .1 possibility tne simple enunciation mere, ny that famous doubter of every religiou idea, Dr. Thomas Cooper, has led, by gradual weakening of every instinctive feeling of loyally and na. lionality, to the entire state of popular disaffec tion which now prevails there, and exlingush ed in the general breast every American sen. timent, every thought of this as their country. They began twenty-five years ago, by only claiming that there was no harm in 44 calcula ting the value of the Union ;" they have end ed by the very arithmetical results of that calculation, and ascertained, by the rules of Cocker, that it is worth considerably less than nothing at all 1 If we, in Virginia, desire to be led to the same wise conclusion, we have only to lolerate that presses and politicians ould destroy our inherent repugnance to the like, by familiar izing the public mind with this fatal idea and uprooting all the old reverence for what Wash ington and his compeers held loo holy for de bate. If the very principle of institutions, the very hie of States, is to be submitted, just when it endowed by the founders of the Republic Kesolced. That the present Administration deserves the gratitude and hearty support of all potriotic Americans, North, South, East, and West, (or the firm stand it has taken and main, lained at every hazard in favor of the Constitu. tional rights of the South ; and that we hail with unalloyed gratification the repeated evidences of a returning sense of allegiarle to the laws manifested by our Northern, ilethren, under the teachings of our most eminent political lead ers of both parties. HOLD THEM TO THE RECORD ! So signal has been the defeat of the Seces sionists in our State, wherever the issue has been fairly made, that every effort will be att empted by the leaders, to take the back track. No stratagem will be left untried, to extricate themselves from the position they assumed du ring the last Session of the Legislature, and in the recent campaigt, for Congress. They a I. ready see and feel that their doctrines are odj. ous to the Union-loing People of the Slate, and whilst they do not intend to abandon those doctrines, they will, nevertheless, endeavor to evade the true issues. But their opinions aud , purposes are on record. That record they can- not eipunge. They have done what they ! could to break down the Compromise. They ! have bent their whole energies lo establish the ; doctrine of Secession. They bare given "aid ) and comfort " to South Carolina in her designs ! against the Union. They have done all this j in the face of day. Let the friends of the Com ! promise and the Union be on their gaard, and I hold them lo their doctrines make them stick lo the record Remember the Standard" has proclaimed that " Secession is a trdinal prin ciple of the Democralic faith !" Keep this be fore the People and we have (hem "just where we want them." Raleigh Register. From the Charlotte Journal. CHARLOTTE AND S. C. RAIL ROAD. A meeting of the Directors of this Com pany took place at Chester, on the 13th inst. We learn from a gentleman pre sent that the road is progressing as rap idly as possible, but it will not reach Ches ter as early as was expected, as one of the contractors has been materially retar ded by coming across a bed of rock. -The road has been doing a very gpod bu siness for the past three months, which are usually the dullest in the season. The following was taken from the books of the Company, as the earnings for the three months : Receipts for May, June, & July, $9,728 CO Expenses 41 " 44 5,479 35 BEAUTIFUL MINERAL. We are indebted to Capt. Eudy, super intendent of the Hodgin Mine, for a splen did specimen of Quartz Crystals, taken from the' deepest tunnel, 120 feet. He thinks California can hardly beat ourState for fine specimens of crystal quartz rock, j pleases every rash and bad anatomist, to his The crystals are thrown together in mass-(dissecting knife, what government ever so es of the most fantastic forms, as though ! healthy must not presently perish under ir.ves Nature had first completed her heavier , ,iSa,ion I What reverence, and finally what made her playthings of this magnificent mineral. Greensboro' Patriot. Humors of the World's Fair. The. Bos ton Transcript publishes a series of inter esting and amusing letters in relation to the World's Fair in London, from Mr. J. V. C. Smith. The following anecdotes are related in one of his letters of a late date : 44 A portly fellow, with an eye glass pres sed into the orbit, inquired of another, in the act of inspecting the properties of Mr. Clapp's very beautiful coach from Pittsfield, whether "the Americans ever rode in carriages." Another sapient, with nnmntnmpH hftir and tarrvin? a ffold hea- Jonfs said to me that as my friendconsidering j asked a visitor from the other side, of the water, if the "Rocku Moun- M. rebels by jpurple and plendoir of Vf . I . i.L . v -.or, by richness and ny-utnp and naikde of'lier "or'e, inciif. .irl'tices fiL'.Ji,..: . ... . . Mn " ' ,,l"llu' 111 auu ostentation "V their jfaojumunion. And also, l"ey set un ltro .i ...... i.i. i-n -i. i . ' " ' "Ul1 !ll'u i ii i lie f'Uhd highwavs nn,! .v. . r lrS, atlil Qarrieil iinu trot. rwl .Ji;A mVm. I i ......j,. ? emu IHIIU3 S mus,(nd singing." The $ons prance tell i. itit .uL. -X and Hapv, Ivi i ,i ' fi. usc ut,r rQrd fnUr C0Urse to Rdd to , ...... duataciua i nun i r-j i Church seeju Resolving a Difficulty. As the cham bermaid of a steamboat upon the Ohio, was passing out of the ladies' cabin, an old lady, in a plaintively husky tone re quested her to shut the door, as she had caught such a bad cold at Detroit, that she wasaltTmt dead. At this momenta very phthisic old lady occupying a berth near the door, forbade the girl to shut it on account of her shortness of breath. "Shut it, or I'll die," squeaked the De troit lady. " . . , 'Leave it open, or I'll smother to death, gasped the other. Ai tfr.., irr wRtpil warm, a wag in i L-3 I IH - - . . - , the his head from v'ieu.i. ... i. -um i ill? vi 1 1 1. ; . any thing like a ' " T I i " : I too tni1r4i 4 l Rome. A,t,.:.L r r mv u: A.a, th rhambermaiu S ------ i & til is. -w m -m & m 1 1 i v l i iir-i.iija.ia v v v- quandary, by ordering to -open that door WMhink ifhe willcalm- ac-per- until thn Dpiroit ladv dies of her and then close it until the other one smothers to death." thf nature of the message, and the manner in whlLh it was delivered to bim, he thought it his duty lo advise me to approach Col, Baxter, and show a willingness to reconcile our difficulty. I said to Dr. Jones that I did not believe what Col. Baxter said as to his intention not, to fire at rhe, and that his object was only to get some advantage of me in bringing the affair before the1 public, or he desired to put me iu a situation where he could insult me with impunity. Dr. Jpnes insisted that . I should approach Col. Bax ter, he believing that Col. Baxter's message xv a a intended as an offer of friendship; and 1 l 1- I was finally prevailed upon to do so. I advanced to Col. Baxter and said : Col. Baxter, from the message you sent me by Dr. Jones, I have been induced to approach you. I am willing now that this matter should drop here, and we should be friends. Col. Baxter said : Mr. Er win, from what has been passed between us, I cannot consider you my equal. Said I, stop l rUrtnr; I should certainly not have approached yoti, had I not received the message I did by Dr. Jones ; and I turned and walked off. I did not care to bandy words witn a man who would act thus, and I could not resent the insult then, as my antagonist was bled. 4 'iThesa are the simple facts in the case. I leave it to an unprejudiced public Ho say how the public authority sustain, where men even though that authority is themselves and can al ways be, wilh a little patience, brought to the real expression of their will, will yet permit themselves to attack its very existence, and turn to upsetting when they have only steadily and wisely to control it ? I There can, in short, be no excuse for those amongst us who volunteer these discussions of the right of secession and revolution. They admit of no apology but an irresistible neces sity. Men do not discuss such things, they on ly act them. He who talks of them when there is something else to be done besiJes do ing them, is a public enemy- What use, what effect can they now possibly have, in this State, but to aid the cause of Disunion aud en courage the intended course of South Carolina ? Are they meant lor anything eUe. We will thank the Enquirer to explain. Rich. Whig. tains could be seen from New York.'" A FIGHT AND TWO MEN DROWN ED. The Cumberland Civilian says: 44 On Sunday last, as a cartal boat was passing through the Four Locks, below the Tunnel, a fight sprung up on board be tween a white man named Snyder, at tached to one of the boats, and George, a negro, belonging to the estate of Henry Bevans. deceased. In a short time the two combatants found themselves in the lock. Upon rising to the surface they re newed the struggle in the water, carried it on so fiercely that in a short time both sunk to rise no more in life. Their bod ies were afterwards found in the lock." Very Ferocious. The ultras of Jasper Co. Ga., held a meeting on the 23th ult., at which they resolved that if Soufh Carolina should se. cede from the Union, they would support her cause 4 with muskets and daggers unto death.' As these brave men say nothing about cannon, we suppose they must be deficient in artillery practice. The allusion to the daggers evident ly contemplates very close quarters. We think we see an army of the Jasper county ehivaliy marching toward the South Carolina frontier, and each one exclaiming 4 is this a dagger that 1 see before me.' What a magnificent sight it would be. X O. Picayune. Some things hasten into being, others to decay. Of those in being, a part is al ready gone. The world is renewed by flux and change, just as time is by the infinite successions of eternity. Now, who would attach importance to matters hurried down the ever restless stream ? CANADIAN AND NOVA SCOTIA RAIL ROAD. Toronto, August 14. In the Canadian As sembly last night, the Government resolutions were adopted, by which siiteen millions of dol lars are appropriated towards ihe construction of the great trunk railway through Canada to Halifax, N. S. The decided action of this pro vince, and the known favor with which this long talked of and great national enterprize is regarded in the lower provinces, leaves little room to doubt but that il will now be proecu ted to a successful issue. Balance, $4,249 24 This must be principally received from passengers as very little freight could be passing. At this meeting, the following resolu tions were adopted : Resolved, That the President of this com pany be authorized lo make a contract for the remaining portion of the iron for the Rail Road, and that the T ra;l pat tern of Sllbs to the yard be adopted. Resohcd, That the permanent work shops of the Charlotte and South Caroli na Rail Road Company be established in the town of Columbia South Carolina. Rtsolccd, That the Chief Engineer be authorized and instructed to contract for the erection of the neccessary work shops, and procure such machinery as may be required for the use of the company. Resolved, That the President be author ized to enter into a contract with the Post Office Department upon the terms proposed by the Post Master General for the transportation of the mail on the Rail Road, for a period so long only as the Rail ' Road is in an unfinished state. I Resolved, That the President be instruct ed to bring to the notice of the stockhold ers at their next annual meeting, the pro priety of taking some action with regard to delinquent stockholders, and that it be urged that no dividends be paid to them who are in arrears after a given day. Resolved, That the Chief Engineer be instructed to take all the necessary steps to procure; as soon as practicable, the timber required for the bridge to be built over the Catawba River, and to have the same framed and ready to be erected as soon as the superstructure reaches that ; point. i Resolved, That a free ticket on the Char lotte and South Carolina Rail Road to Columbia atid back be granted to such , survivors of the Palmetto Regiment as may attend the celebration of the anni versary of the, battle of Churubusco on the 20th August. Resolved. That alike privilege be ten--dered to such volunteers in the late ?M ex ican War from North Carolina, as may think proper to attend. Yarrants for the Arrest of Fugitive Slaves. Boston, Aug. 16th. It is stated that one of the U. S. Mar shals has a warrant for thearrest of a fu gitive slave in this vicinity. The affair creates considerable " excitement among the abolitionists.
Carolina Watchman (Salisbury, N.C.)
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