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T "per JCd IFioJc.lfc, 963. Tarboroitgh, Edgecombe County, V. L Saturday, .lugtist IT, 1 'S-li.. J'ol, XI. Vo. 3& . 7-7- : . 'The Tarboro?Ii Press, !By George Howard. Jr. W oo Pns notice thereof and pay.ng: arrears Admfisements not exceeding a square will he 'inserted at One Dullar the first insertion, fend 2a 'centi for every continbance. L6naer advertise- Wft a that rate Per s,,are' Courl.ders an,d Judicial Advertisements 25 per cent, higher. Ad vertisements must be marked the number of inser 'tions required, or they will be continued until otherwise directed, and charged accordingly. Letters addressed t6 the Editor must be post (paid, or they may not T-.e attended to. 6 FOR THE TARBORO' PRESS. THE YOUNG HICKOftY. The storm raged loud, the oak was rent, The wind blew hijh the poplar bent; The willow waved the storm drew nigh, The Hickory stood the crash and cry. The thunders rolled, the lightnings played, .The elm gave way, the walnut waved; The Hickory braved the front and storm, It stood quite firm without a harm. The Buckeye rbwerd to his Tate, The black jack nodded when too late; Its Branches stript its body bare Hickory flra to his post stood there. The Hickory is our country's boast, A tree in storm that's quite a host; And Bo'U'is out people say, It grows not on the ground of Clayi , . . , A YOUTH. Tarbbrb' N.'C. August, 1844. From the Petersburg 'Republican. FOft POLITICIANS. We have made oat the following list of the APPROACHING ELECTIONS in the Chronological order .n which they will be held, with the No. of Presidential Electors. STATE ELECTIONS. August 1, North Carolina, Tennessee, 5, Alabama, kWtucky, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, September 3, Vermont, 9, Maine, October 2, Maryland, 7, Georgia, Arkansas, 8, New-Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, 14, South Carolina-, November 4, Mississippi, Michigan, 5, New York, 11, Massachusetts, 12, Delaware, PltESlWSNTiAL feLfeCTlON. November 1, Pennsylvania, 26 Ohio," 23 4, Maine, 9 New Hampshire, 6 Connecticut", 6 Virginia, 17 Georgia, 10 MiS"-siprji, 4 Kentucky, 12 Indiana, 12 Illinois, 9 Missouri, 7 Arkansas, 3 Michigan, 4 5, New York, 3G Louisiana, 5 Tennessee, 13 5 and 6, New-Jersey, 7 6, Rhode Islarid, 4 11, Masachusbttsj 12 Maryland, 8 Al.-bama, 9 12, Vermont, 6 Delaware, 3 , 14, North Carolina, 11 December, South Carolina. 9 This taie vbi.es on the 4h, instead of the 14ih Nov. , The following tame contain lhe,volc3 of the States, arranged according to the rein five majorities they gave for Harrison or Van Uuren. Harrison. Van Buren. 1. Vermont, 32,410 i S;bS 2. Kentucky, 5S,4?9 32,61$ 3. Rhode Island, 5,27 3,301 4. Louisiana, 11,296 7,616 5. Massachusetts, 72.S74 51,944 6- North Carolina,46,376 33,7S2 7. Indiana, 65,302 51,604 8. Georgia, 40,264 31,933 9. Tennessee, 60,391 4S,2S9 10 Connecticut, 31.601 25,296 11. Delaware, 5,967 4,8S4 14S,157 124.782 33,528 28,752 19,51S 16,995 12. Ohio 13. Maryland, 14. Mississippi, 35. Michigan, 15. New Jersey, 17. New York, lh Maine, 22.911 21,138 33,351 31,034 225,817 212,527 46,613 46,200 J'Sjn'ylvania, 144,021 143,672 26. Virginia, 42.505 . 43,93 47.476 33.991 32,761 29.760 6. 048 Legisla- 2.'. 22. Illinois, 45.537 Alabama, 2S,441 N. .Hampshire, 26.158 Missouri, 22,972 Arkansas, 4;363 South Carolina voles by 23 24. 25. 26 ture. Majoritv for Harbison. Vote. Alojoritv. 1. 2. 3 4. 5. 6 7. fc. 9. 10 11 12 13 Y. 15 16. 17. I5? 19. Vermont, 50.453 Kentucky, 91,105 Rhode Island, 8,578 Louisiana, 1S.912 Massachusetts, l.S IS North Carolina, S0.15S Indiana, 116,906 Georgia, 72,197 Tehnessre, 10,680 Connecticut, 56,897 Delaware, l6.v5l Ohio, 272,939 Maryland, 62,280 Mississippi, 36.513 Michigan, 44,017 New Jersey, 61,35 New York, 43S.314 Maine, 92.KI3 Pennsylvania. 2S7.693 H.422 25,873 1,977 3,6S0 20,930 12,594 13.69S 8,336 12,101 6.305 1,03 23.375 4.776 2.523 1,805 2,317 13,290 413 249 .Majouiit for Van HufcEN. 20 i2l 22 23 24 25 Virginia, 6.398 minor?, '93,013 Alabama, 62.392 N. Hampshire, 5S.919 Missou-i, 52,732 Arkansas, 10,411 1 ,388 1,939 5,450 6,603 6,788 1,6S5 26. South Carolina, (unanimous.) The Slates which voted for Mr. Van Briren in 1S40, have no v CO electoral votes 'the same humber.they had in that election. The States which vo'ted for Gen. Harrison had then 234 votes: now they have but 215. To elect Polk and Dallas we will have to g un, (13S being necessary to elect our ticket,) at least 78 votes. The four States which stmtls lowest on the list of the Harrison State of "40. no w poll pre- ciselv 78 votes, and, tki;-.; the vote of 140 as the basis, it w ould require a change of only 8,17 votes in those States to elect our ticket. Of those four States we carried Pennsylvania in 1843, at the the election of Canal Commissioners, by 14,536 major ity, and in 1841, at the Gubernatorial Election, by 23,0G0 majority; in Maine we elected the democratic candidate for Governor by 1000 majority over all other candidates; in New York we elected our candidate for Governor In IS43 by 22,000 majority over the Whig candidate and 14, 500 majority over the Abolition and Whig votes combined; in New Jersey we elect ed 4 out of 5 Members of Congress in 1S43. Besides, the majorities of Harrison in N. York, Pennsylvania &. N.Jersey were owing in a great measure, if not entirely, to the outrageous system of pipelaying practi sed by the Whigs in the election of '40. Louisiana gave Harrison and Tyl'sr 3, 60 majority; the recent elections show that the Oemocratic parly have a majority of about 1000 in that State. If a similar change were to take place in popular senti ment in every other Stale, Mr. ('lay wuiihl receive the voles bnly of Wrmdnt, Ken tucky and Rhode Island. So much for the Coon victory in Louisiana. he result would be 22 votes for Clay 253 for Fol k and Dallas: what a gloiious Coon victory in Louisiana! A change of 19,395 votes would give us Michigan, Mississippi, Ma rvland, Ohio and Connecticut, with, 4S electoral vote: inlhiscast Polk and L)j1 las would. have a majority larger by 8 votes than Clay's entire poll! Are we likely to carry them? In Michigan we elected, in 1S43, our candidate for Governor and all our candidates for Congress; in Mississippi we elected, in .1843, all our Congressmen; in Maryland we elected oUr candidate for Governor in 1841 by 639 majority wu were defeated at the last election for Con gressmen, when it was supposed that Mr. Van ouren would be our candidate: in Ohio we elected our candidate for Govern or in 1842 by 3,500 votes, and 12 out of 21 Members ot Congress; in ionnecttcut in 1843 we elected all our candidates for Con eress and our candidate for Governor re ceived 1,82 more votes than the Whig candidate, but as the Abolition candidate received 1.S72 votes, there was no choice bv the DeoDle. Do not your hearts sink within you, oh ye Coons? From the Globe. LETTER FROM GEN. CASS. The following admirable letter from General Cass, ought long since to have found a place in our columns. YVe give it now, and with it a notice of his remarks at a recent gathering of the democracy at Ann Arbor, Michigan. We hope yet to see a more extended account of these remarks No man understands better that grasping British policy upon which it will be seen he commented and to which he has given stfmach ofhiS attention through life. Prom the Detroit Free Press. Letter Jrom General Cass. We copy from the Delaware Journal the- following admirable letter of General Cass to the D- mucrailC ASSOCiatlOn Of Wl minorlnn. n! the reading of the letter "a degree of eh musiasm, . seldom surpassed, was dfs piayed." Detroit, June 15, 1841. Sir: I have received a copy of the pro ceedings of the Democratic Association of VVilmington on the 5th instant; and I beg you to convey to that body my sincere thanks for the evidence it affords cf theiri favorable sentiments towards me, and for fhe terms in which they have been pleased to speak of my services. Their kindness is the more precious to me, as in my early years 1 resided in W ilmington; and time neither will nor can efface the impression which the high character; of its citizens has left upon my memory. I was then young. just preparing to enter upon hie; and it is among the most gratifying incident in a career, hot now a short one, that the de mocracy of your State should have evinced its partiality in the general convention to wards one who, almost half a century ago, came a stranger among you, and lei t you to seek the chances of life in the then dis tant 3nd unsettled West I respond cordially to your resolution respecting the nominations of James K Polk and George M. Dallas. The choice of the Cemccracy has well fallen upon these eminent citizens unsullied in private life, their public course is before the country; firm, consistent, honest, and able. I have the pleasure to know them both intimately: and 1 have had cause to watch with solicitude heir public conduct; for each lent efficient aid to the administration of General Jackson in some of the most dif ficult questions, whose happy solution we owe so much to the rare qualities of that great and upright man. They never will disappoint the expectations of our party, nor of the country. The fundamental principles laid down by Jefferson, and pre served by Madison, by Monroe, by Jack son, and by Van Buren, will guide James K. Polk in the administration of the gov ernment, should he, as I confidently be lieve he will, be called to the chief magis tracy of this great republic. To insure this result, nothing is wanted but the uni ted and vigorous action of the democratic party. The sympathy as well as the judg ment of the American people is with it and its principles. Where it has failed, its defeat has been owing to accidental and temporary causes. Its natural position is in the ascendancy, and the signs of the times are most auspicious that it will re gain this position. The unanimity dis played at Baltimore in the nominations, and the favor with which this has been re ceived through the country, augurs well, and will be among the causes of success. And the eminent statesman who has alrea dy administered the government with so much honor lo himself, so much satisfac tion to the parly, and so much advantage to the country, and who was again the choice of a large portion of the democracy for that high station, has set a noble exam ple in the cordial adhesion he has publicly ! given to the decision of the convention, no Ies3 honorable to himself than gratifying to his friends and to the democratic party. Let lis all follow liim iii this path of duty, and ren. ember the past but to be more ear nest in our exertions for trie future, anil to secure the triumph of our principles, by securing the election of our candidates in the coming struggle. Begging you to communicate these sen- timen's to the democratic association of Wilmington, and tendering to them and to you my acknowledgments, I am; sir, with great regard, Your obedient servant, LEW. CASS. Edward Worrell, Esq , chairman cor responding committee of the democratic association, VVilmington, Delaware. Gen. Cass's remarks at Ann Arbor. The Editor of "Trie Signal of Liberty" takes the following notice of Gen. Cass arid his remarks at the democratic mass meet ing at Ann Arbor, on the 4th inst. Trie Signal of Liberty is the organ of the aboli tion or liberty party in this State, arid goes ito the death" agairist trie annexation of Texas: "Gen. Cass arrived at a lite Hour, h having been detained by an accident on the cars. He spoke briefly and comprehen sively, with good taste. He referred ap propriately to the day, and its celebration in the West at different periods since he had become a western man. I hirty-two years since, he had employed the Fourth of July in constructing a bridge over the Huron river lor the passage ot t the regi ment he commanded. He, with his troops, Had been lost in the woods of Washtenaw, and Were suffering from hunger and desti tution in the county that now teems with all the varied products of human industry. "He then spoke of the party principles respecting a bank, tariff. &c. which he des patched in a few sentences". The demo cratic nominees he knew personally, and could assure the democracy of Washtenaw, that they were eminently, worthy of their mnl tpi L a o,,n;n.i lfA ,n,.l,A ni have it; for if we did not take it, England would. He went on the Grounds enumera ted in his letter. Texas w-as an open coun try, and the possession of it would enable England to fill it With, feltck troops, and assault the Southern States with her nume rous armies, having a paradise before them and leaving desolation behind. There was a large desert between Texas and Mexico, which, with Texa annexed, would make a natural boundary, between us and that re public. ... He dwelt on the power and am hi tion of England, and the necessity of re sisting her encroachments. She had estab lisheU hei military posts in every poition of the earth where there was a nation to be conquered, or wealth to be acquired, and I on her empire the sun never set. She had made a red imrk on the m:ip of our north eastern boundary, designating how much she would have, and had taken it; he had made another on the map of Oregon, and, a, usual, she had taken 'the lion's share; but she had made ho m irk on the rna'ji of Texas, because she intended to have the whole of it. England was surrounding us on every side -on the eat, cn the north, and on the northwest and now she wished to complete the chain, by enclosing us on; west and southwest afso. . Should we per mit a nation of kindred oi igin, kindred 're publican faith and civil 'institutions, and. kindred language and religion, to knock in vain for admission to bur republic, when a refusal to receive would be the means of throwing her into the arms of a nation whoe power enabled her to subjugate em pires, and vyhose grasping ambition was, at the same time, so minutely argus eyed.' that not the smallest of the islets that "sprin kle the ocean was considered loo insignifi cant for her cupidity? . ,. "The whole of the General's discourse was received with unbounded applause. He is a 'good siz", portly-looking man, with quite a larg )head, evincing much force of character. As an individual, we have respect for the General. His moral character is said to be irreproachable; and he has, through life, been a strict total abstinence man. We remember, that he was quite popular as a Governor of Michi gan Territory." From the Indiana State Sentinel. LETTER FROM GENERAL JACK SON. , Uerrkituge, June 24, 1844. Sir: I am in receipt of your letter .of the 1 fth inst-, and though in bad heahh' myself, cannot forego the pleasure of say ing a few words in reply to it. You requtEl ray opinion ol the nomina tions recently made .at Baltimore by the Democratic party. I am entirely satisfied with them, and have he doubt, if the gen tlemen nominated are elected, that the peo ple will.find ,their administration true to the old Republican landmarks, and every way worthy of their support. Mr. Polk was raised in my; neighbor hood, arid went into public life as a Jeffer sonian ljemociat. To the great principles of that illustrious reformer of our system of Government, he has been, ever faithful; and has proved himself, on many trying occasions, the able advocate oi popular lights, and the sagacious friend of the mea sures which were Heces.'ary to defeat the machinations of the Federal party. His moral character is pure; his capacity for business great ; and, to extraordinary pow ers of labor, both mental and physical, he unites that tact and judgment which are so nquisite to the successful direction of such an office as that of Chief Magistrate of a free people. . , With Mr. Dallas, I am not so intimately acquainted; but from what 1 knew of him when he represented Pennsylvania in trie- Senate of the United States, and fas char ged wilhhigh public trusts in various other irhportant stations at home and abroad, it cannot be doubted tliat he equally deserves the confidence and atlrhiration of the peo ple. The favors that have been conlerred upon him by the Keystone State, whose citizens are distinguished for love of order, for the subfb'ri only of what is calculated to spread the blessings of equal laws, are jjrc'of that he has all the characteristics which are needed in a crisis, nue mis, 10 rally the sound feelings of the country at large, , . . - . . I thank you, Sir, for the solicitude you have expressed for my personal welfare. My race is nearly run. I am noiv not aDze to attend to the duties of correspondence without the aid of an amanuenM; but 1 thank God for the privilege yet accorded to me, of comprehending the designs of the Fe deral party. As long as I live, J will warn my country againsi mc uuich which will attend the success of Mr. Clay's pro position to establish another mammoth Bank: to break down the security which the people possesses in the veto power giv- have heard no reason sssied for the act. en to the President by the Constitution; to He has lf a wife at ML Clemens, we un change the system of taxation unflcr wh , . dtretand. Ztoroi Adv.,Zvgut we have so lone prosnered bv adrr.tlintr the principles claimed in his bill f uinn luuuiiii ui ue proceeds ot the U lands; and lastly to prevent the annexation of Texas to the United States; for it cannot ' be denied, that his position on this question is utterly at war with the true inteics'sof the country. He says, virtually, that Tex as ought hot to be admitted 'into the Union, while there is a respectable and considera ple portion of our citizens opposed to it. On such a condition, it is obvious annexa tion can never take place. IJritish influ ence had considerable and respectable ad vocates in this country in our revolutionary war, arid m our second vvar with her. Will it ever be without them? Never. As long as there are fanatics in religion, as long as there are diversities and difference in human opinion respecting forms of gov ernment and the t ights of the people, such advocacy will he found resistingthe advance" of institution like ours, and laboring lo in corporate with them the features of an op posite system. Who does not see that the people of the United State- are competitors with a the people of England in the manufacturing arts, and in the carrying trade of the world? "and that the question is soon to be:, if it be not already, whether Texas and Oregan are to be considered as auxiliaries to American or British interests? whe?o-r these vast and fertile regions are to b set tled, and worked by our posterity, blessed by Republican Government or are to be come the theatre of British enterprise, and thus add another link to the Vast colonial chain by which that great Monarchy up- holds its .Lords and Nobles, and extracts from suffering millions the earnings of their labor? ftor is the question altered by the alleg ed interest of Mexico in the Texas territo ry.. As far as treaties are concerned, gojJ faith is not involved in our decision.. If the proposition were to annex Mexico w ith her assent, Texas could not complain. Hut we all know that the treaty argument is not only inapplicable, but incapable of use in the determination of the question, either as it affects us, Mexico, or other powers; Texaj is independent of Mexico made so byjh'e power of her arms, in the same sense th&t we became independent of Great Britain. She is independent of Mexico in another sens'e; that is, in never having constituted a part of Mexico, except by a compact, which the latter has violated, and .which compact would never have beeri formed if the United States had performed its duty; But without pursuing this view of the subject, it is enough for us to look at the question as it is practically presented to us.' Texas tells us that she is anxious, to com p into the Union. Being originally a part of our Union', knowing that she cannot exist happily as a State without the protection of our laws, that her geographical position, as well as the character arid interest of her citizens, naturally altach them to our terrt tpry; and feeling, as we may well suppose she does, a greater concern for the fate of our free institutions than she can for those of any monarchy, she is desirous that her fertile lands and genial climate should share the glorious instrumentality of cherishing and maintaining the blessings of freedom. Is this natural?- Can it be wise for us to turn a deaf ear to her entreaty, because Lord Aberdeen and Lord Brougham, as British statesmen; choose to withhold their consent and indulge in vogue apprehensions res pecting the effect of the measure cn their scheme of abolishing slavery? Shatne, mame on such patriotism ! Shame on. the credulity which call be duped by gu -.; 3im sy pretence! The American people cannot be, deceiv ed in this manner. They knojy. ;tj at the real object of England is jo check the pros perity "of the United States and Is.eH their power to compete with Engla"' hi 'a naval power, and as a growing agrn... -i'.ut-al, manufacturing, and commercial cjun trv. Thev know that Lord Abenen; 'in the midst of thousands and thousands of starving subjects of the British monarchy is more anxious, or ought to be, to relieve the wants of those wretched people than he can be to alter the relation subsisting Be tween the white and black races of this country or Texas. The American people know this: and hey will disappoint me if they neglect, or rather if they permit, those charged, with ihe administration of their nationaj.inter estsy to let slip the opportunity now offered of cementing their Union, and promoting the general causes of their prosperity and happiness, by the annexation of lexas. I am, very truly, , Your ob't serv't, ANDREW JACKSON. Suicide. We learn that a German named Hafts, recently arrived from Ger many, committed suicide, by hanging him self on Tuesday, on the Gratiot turnpifeC ahnnt 10 or 12 miles from this city. We L