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- -1 j Hi in n rri Tt 1 in PUnMSHED WEEKLY BY Oil. C. UADOTEAU, tlUTOU iHH PftCrRIETOR. " - TERMS: $2 50 PER ANNUM IN ADVANCE, Oil $3 (JO IF PiVMEXT I DELAlEDSIX MOXTHS. you in. RALEIGH, FRIDAY, JUNE 11, 1850. NO. 28 HP- MIS. TERMS. TtiK Ralki.hi Tiuks will be sent to Subscribers M Two Italian jnd a half per annum, iT puid iu ad Wanea. Tlirc Dollars' will be charged, if payment ha deWved six mrniihs. Thess Terms will be iuvaria- ly aduorcd to. A'JVESTIsnMEMS. Kor evarv Sixteen lina, rr lf, One Dollar for th Mrst, and Twenty-five Out for each subsequent in- rtim. t-onrt OnleiH, vc. will tw charged iso nor ant. higher; hut r rt iiaonaMe de duction will be made lo thow who ndvcrtwe by the Y-'r. HT Latteri on busiuuM. and ail Lommnmcattons iitiu1'a(J lor mthliciiihiii, nmttt be atm reused to the EJitor, and pitxt jmiit. MISCELLANY. FAYETIT.VILLE I'L'ANK ROAD. E. L. Window, Ewj. the President of this Road, !n his recent report to the Meeting of Stockhold ers, speaking of tho ad vantage of Flank Roads, says : "This system of improved transportation is ex actly adapted to tho wants of our State, and par ticularly Middle awl Western North Carolina. These Roads can be built cheap. Where Rail iRoada cost thousands; those Plank Roada coat hun dreds, Our people like to take their own produce to market; they have been raised to do so.. They prefer to sell llicir produce and buy their supplies, to make theirown trades. "These Roads work no violent change in their habits. They double the value of the means which every farmer has for going to market. He does the work with two horses lhat ho would with four; his wagon and gear are doubled in value, for they will last double the time they would on road he baa been accustomed lo travel to market. ;: "Our people will find it their interest to extend the construction of these Roads. Simple and cheap is they will be found to be, and finding it to their interest, they will radiate, it is to be hoped, from every market town, and spread over the whole State., "The advantages of these Road are so appar ent, where they have been tried, that a discussion now would be a waste of time." lo 10,000 inhabitants. The total value of the ag ricultural products of the Island in 1849 have been estimated by judicioui writers on the subject at sixty millions of dollars. In 1849 the exports of sugar from the two ports nf Havana and Matan zas were 850,000 boxes, nf molasses 97,000 hhus. of coffee 372,000 arrahas. There are nearly or quile 20,000 Spanish soldier on the Island, sta t! -ned at various places. t uba was discovered by Columbns in 1492. It was called Juana.in honor of a Spanish Prince. ihenFerdinandina, in memory of King Ferdinand, then succcssnely Santiago andAve Maria. The name of Cuba was that in use among the aborig ines at the time of its discovery by Cnlumbuv Cuba is also a Spanish word, signifying a cusk or barrel. -. L Si PLANK ROADS, Our sister Town f Washington, and the coun try in that region, have it in contemplation, we see by the North State Whig, to make a hard push for plank road from Raleigh to some point on the Pamplico,oas to connect the central and western portions of the State by means of a cheap and ex peditious mode f conveyance, willi Washington. Wt are willing and anxiouslo see every portion of the Stale wuke up to the necessity of internal im provements. A tyslem of improvements is now perhaps the only chance to redeem the State, and secure her permanent prosperity. Wemay dread the tax, we may dread the burden on ourselves, and our children. But is not this, a things now are, a choice of evils, or rather the meeting and endur ance of a present temporary evil, to save ourselves from linking to the lowest point of Commercial dullness and insignificance as a State, and to lay the foundation for certain prosperity J In regard o thi Plank Road scheme, we are not prepared from any knowledge of the subject to pasi our o- pinion as to its importance and utility compared -with the cost. If it can be shown however, a its friends'confidently assert, that its cost will be tri fling compared with its advantages, let it be built by all means. The east should pull together. We We a yet reaped little or no advantage from ex penditures for State improvement, or fur other Suate purposes. We must look to our own inter ests more, The centre and west seem to be In a fairway to take care of themselves. Let the east we' repeat, unite, and let the friends of all really practical, judicious and advantageous plans for the benefit of this region, pill together. Let tie look out how we take hold of a scheme, that ia visionary, and that will end in disappointment, lot in regard to all truly beneficial pmjecle, let the friends of one aid the friends of the other, and al low no local prejudice or interests to defeat a gen eral benefit to the State, and to this section ol the State, because we are not to reap immediate and direct benefit from it. A plank road may be, and probably is, better than a rail road upon aome par ticular lines of communication; but again under a flange of circumstances a rail road, and an im provement of water carriage, although at a hea vier expenditure, are much the best for another, lift a work cautiously, but iu concert, and with jleUrmiae'd perseverance. .YetfJernfan. , THE ISLAND OF CUBA. Publie attention being now directed to the Is- 1 land of Cub;i,nme account of it will be interest luff to the Generality of reader. This Island is lit largest of the Antilles, Accordin; t0 McCul i loch its greatest length, followinjetho curve, Is a- Hi oreauui, whhu i tcit mcjju Jar, varies from 85 lo 135 miles. Jt Contains, a. estimated, 45,630 square mile, being 30 sqMre miles Utrt than the Slato of North Carolina. From the Southern point or Florida to the nearest point of Cuba i 113 miles. From Cuba to Vuca- .u i. lS'l miles. From llavti.Cu- r. t. l. 4oil...Iitant. from Jamaica 95 mile. It la mnrt, indented, and it ia surround' roasmaraTii; ..I k.. ...,. .mall islands, islets, reefs, &c; etmse iiuei.t1y,tti difficult of Pi roach, with the excep . r... h.rbors. The land along the sea- ,hore,.!most all.aronnd the WaWt.Jl M tow ami flat a t he sorely raised above the level of the Mean. . A mountain ridge atretche from one end of tbeWsndlo the ether, riaing in snow part in , ak of barren rkl seera hundred feet high. ridee divide. Jb MM l"'0 ,wo nwI"," " Th. whole poi'iUtion ' ; om- . a-f million. u '4nilvaria contain- l""" .. . 0.all.i HOW TO EDIT A NEWSPAPER.. There is nothing in the world easier than to ed it a newspaper; all you have to do ia to lake every Imjy's advice, (nnd it is one of the things that eve ry body will give .advice about,) and the tiling is done. The author of the well known fable of the old man and his ass, was an ediior who wished to show the benefits of disinterested advice, wheue vil followed. We met a worthy gentleman the other day, one whose advice any prudent man might safely take, and whose opinions we should respect on al.nost sny subject, who said in hi kindly manner: "What your paper wants is short articles, little tel ling paragraphs like the editorials in the . Those long article will never do in a paper like yours; people won't read them." ' We felt obliged for the hint, and promised to think of it. ' But about an hour after, going through Wall street, we met another friend to whom wej have been indebted for many kindnesses, and for whose opinion we have high respect; he caught us ' by tho button, and, after remarking the atate of the weather, said : "1 tell you how it ia, in a friendly way; what your paper wants it a good long leader every day, that a gentleman can ait down and read through a cigar. Those little paragraph like the leaders in the will never do. People don't care a copper abouMheiu. A good, long, senaible) leader is what you want." - ' Excellent advice, we acknowledged, and prom ised to think of it. We shall endeavor to follow both suggestions. X Y. Mirror. certain number of months a year to teaching, or pay a sti t -d amount for tuition. Let there be County Superintendents, District Superintendents, and a Superintendent of Common Schools for the State at large. If the school fund is not large e nough to pay them, let a tax be levied for that pur pose, upon some of the nuisance which nilest al most every community. Let each achool District, in its discretion, by the vote of all tax payer at the ballot box, ascertain what tax shall be levied for building school houses, buying school libraries, &c. If the supply of Teachers coming from the Normal schools should not meet the demand each district can, in the manner aforesaid, levy a tax to supply such deficiency. When the achool taj is so levied, let its collection be enforced by the Board of Superintendents in each count', and not by the County Courts. If such a law or similar to it, should meet with the sanction of the Legislature, let it not be iiifurced until it is submitted to the voters'ef the whole Slate and approved by them. The writer is a citizen of the State and one who feels a deep interest in the education of her sons and daugh ters. A law"; witji the above features wi.l, in his humble opiaion, do more for the improvement of Common schools, than any thing that has hereto, fore been done in the State. He is the more free ly impressed with that opinion from the fact, that the idea of such a law has not wholly originated with him, but that similar laws have been adopted in those countries where Common schools have long flourished. I connection with this subject it is submitted, that the object of Free Schools, the education, as a matter of State policy, of all the children of the State, the pour, as well as the rich, requires, and no doubt their efficiency depends upon the equal distribution of the Schfio Itm as directed by an act of 1825 and re-enacted iu 1 83d. If the law remain as it now is, the poorest counties in the Sta.te Will receive lees advantage from its benefits, than ihoee more wealthy. The above suggestions have been hastily thrown together by one who-is.not in the habitof writing for the Press, due allowance can therefore be made for their defeats. Uhiversal Educatiox Waynesville, N. C, Ian. 1850. .- bama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Misainsippi South Carolina, Tennewtoe, Texas and Virginia ; Judgs Shaikey as President. The cuuventiou then adjourned until to-morrow. POLITICS AND NEWS. pi n "'III' o" I'lOW ARE OUR BCHOOLS TO BE SUP PLIED WITH COMPETENT TEACHERS 1 To the Editor of rte Com. School AaVerde : It is almost universally admitted that onr Com' mon School Law is defective. Governor Graham in his last message to the Legislature say: "There i now no eufficieat accountability for the expenditure of the money, or the effective admin' istration of ti e system. When it operates well it is rather owing to the pablic spirit, and enlightened labors of it administrators, than any legal obli gatinn upon them. Our misfortune however, is that in many situation we can obtain no knowl edize of it operation at all. Not more th twe thirds of the counties at the utmost, have reported its- condition in them, except in drawing their share, In the distributions made from the Treas' ury." Does the Art of 1848 remedy the evils .a bove pointed out J lias the law received any ma terial improvement aince that message was writ' ten T The law haa been in operation nearly ten years. The writer i of opinion that it ha been recommended to every legislature since its adopt ion, that it needed amendment or improvement The "Acta relating to Common Schools" have been amended and consolidated again and' again. The Law isetill objectionable, and so far as the knowledge of the writer extends, it has failed in almost every respect, to meet tie expectations of its friends. The people must become, interested in the matter. It is a subject in which every citizen of North Carolina should feel deeply interested.T The Legislature has failed to execute the trust re posed! n it. It should, at least a half century ago provided the means for theeducation of eV'!ry free white child in the Slate. If is hoped that the es tablishment of an effectual school system will be thoroughly discussed by the Press and in every county in the Slate during the next canvass fr the Iegis'attire. Legislators should go to Raleigh next winter, instructed to spend less time in po litical discussions, and prepared to ettabliilt a school system which will meet the wishes of an enlightened people, "and which will not be tup. planted by another at the next succeeding sessiioi). The importance of increasing our School Find' will not be denied. But this communication will be principally confined to the question sUMd in yonr first No. "How are onr schools to be ; sup plied with competent teacher ?" The investiga tion of the subject, is one of the avowed object jr nt your valuable paper. The want of school mas tors wa pointed nut by Governor Dudley In his message to (he Legislature in 1810 as the most foruildsol; f brtacle to the future snccewt of Com mon schools. Though the Act of 1846 was pas, ed in rererenee lo that object it has done little or nothing.; -tfieher$ mvstbe educaltd. TlSere is an a hrmiug deficiency here. Men who are qual ified (and they are few) will not teach in our Common Schools, lor the small pittance distribu ted to each district. The result is that the com mittee of examination (very oftenasignorauUf tye qualification oi a goou i eacnn. - who com before them,) ha veto give cimm... to a porfloor those who come fife them, and oroUblt not one be qualified a the law requires. Hm aft our l;JtW to ii tupplied with eomjulnt Tatcitt t Tim annual, income of the Litefs-.j Fund must be distributed among the sevrral aoun liee for the education of Teacher. Let a Notmal school b ettablislied hv every county Inutile State, where pew a Hoh young men etr fce 'eidnfafed fot Ten'kTf, o cowdiiinr h u (hej devol a SOUTHERN CONVENTION 2b. DAY.' Nashville, June 4. The convention met this morning in the McKen dree Methodist church, and waa opened with prayer by Rev. J. B. McFcrren. Mr. Winston, of Alabama, moved that ai much of the report of the committee of organisation pi es enied yesterday as referred to the matter of voting in convention, be recommitted. Mr. Crawford,of Georgia, said it would be belter first to ascertain who were members of the convention. ' Judge Smith, of Mississippi said the committee on elec tions were ready to report. The question being taken, on motion of Mr. Winston, it was adopt Gen. Pillow, chairman of the committee on elections reported the list of ddegute elocted to seats in the convention. Mr. Rhett, of South Carolina, moved lhat par liamentary law, a contained in Jefferson's msna- al.be Adopted for the government of the convention. The motion was carried. Mr, Brooks' resolution coming up, it was op posed by Mr. Eiwin, of Alabama, on Ihe ground that the report of the committee then organized should be disposed of. Mr. Perkins moved the adoption of the report of the Committee of organization. Mr. Erwin opposed the motion. He said he could not support the report; if it was adopted he might acqnieace, but that it was subversive of the authority of the people ; that the delegates had been appointed by the people lo represeriiThattte at large, and others to represent Congressional districts j he was one of the laltor,and had no au thority to ref resent the State. Each Congression al district was entitled, he contended, to a sepa rate vote.' Unless this vote was allowed them, how, he ask ed, were pceple of the districts, who appointed them, to know whether they had been properly represented. If the principle recommended wa adapted, where, he asked, would it be stopped. If the convention wis permitted to exercise this stretch of power to appoint delegate for Arkan sas and Virginia why should it not also appoint delegates for Missouri and Kentucky, which had no delegates here. This convention, he said, Was no ordinary body the eceasion no ordinary one. No step eheuld be taken without mature delibera tion. The diectilslon waa continued by Mr. Erwin, Bald, and Galthwait, of Ala. Goode, of Va.,Pic kens, of S. C, Col. Quitt, of Ga.t and Brown, ofTennessee. When Mr. Brown concluded, Mr. Brown, of Alabama, called Tor the previous question, but f. ferwards withdrew his call. The conversion got into confusion, a number of gentlemen endeavored to bring order out of chaos, and the Presidents nelly assumed authority to decide the manner of voting, and stated the order of the questions before the Convention to bt, fitst on, the amendment from the gentleman from illnnasippl ; second, on thai nt the gentlemsj) from Virflnia, and third, en the report of thj committee.' The question wa then taken m the first proposition and rejected. The pystion was then taken on the second proposition and also rejected, The queatiori Was then taken on the proposition of the committee Of organization and adopted. , ' . The convention; aftVf an exciting debate of three hour, decided to' tote by State, each State having mt vofe ; State vnresentcd",vi: A4 POSTHUMOUS PAPERS. Shade of the Pickwickians arise ! The Posthu mous Papers of Polk's Administration are about to throw the bagatelle of your own inimitable broth erhood into the shade. The Nashville Union and the Raleigh Standard, both funny sheets, are a bsut to bring them out in a form of which no less daring wags would ever dream. The Posthumous Papers of Polk' Administration, edited by locofu- coum in general, and the tialeigli Standard in particular, Veto ia bagatilk. On the 12th of August, 1848, a bill was pass ed by Congress establishing a territorial govern ment for Oregon, which bill contained the princi ples of the odious Wihnot Proviso. On the 14(h of the same month, Mr. Polk in a message com municated lo the House of Representatives the fact that he as President, had signed his name to (hat bill, and that it had become the law of the land. These are facts which Loco Focoism fertile in ex pedients, and reckless in assertions, as it is, can naither palliate nor deny. These stubborn facts stand recorded and stare locofocoism in the face. The Raleigh Standi rd give an article copied from the Nashville Union, containing an extract front what purports to be a veto message prepared by President Polk to be used against the Califor nia bill if it should be passed by Congress, with the VVilmo. Proviso attached. Now, we cannot believe that the Standard man or any other man in his right mind, would seriously produce thisex tract which, even admitting it to be genuine, is only an intention to do right in one instance, as a set otT against a positive wrong, really done and perpetrated in another. Doeathe Standard seri ously attempt to do away with ene of the most sol emn acts of Mr. Polk s administration, by produc ing an extract from his posthumous papers to the ffect, thai he had determined not to repeat a sim ilar act? Or would that sheet assert that the rights of the South were vindicated from the wrong done in extending the Wilmot Proviso over Ore gon, by Mr. Polk's assertion that he would not aid in its extension over California and New Mexico? The proposition is too preposterous even for the Standard, ami we can only regard it as a curious piece of Locofoco pleasantry. The argument is this: because Mr. Polk is said to have prepared a veto messagcto be applied in one case to the Wilmot Proviso, ergo, hi sanctioning it In an other instance was no sanction at all. Bnt 'we are also told that Oregon is north of the Missouri compromise line, while California is, south of it, and hence the difference between the two cases. Now the Standard and other cham pions of Locofocracy, know two things well First, that the Democratic doctrine as promulgated in the south is, that Congress has no control over the subject of slavery in the '.erirtories, either north or south of tho compromise line. If this be so, any compromise (which hi in fact legislation) must as a necessary consequence be unconstitutional, and of course null and void. They know secondly that the North never called for the exclusion of slavery from Oregon upon the basis of the iVis. souri compromise, but upon the ground of "oppo sition to the extension of the area of slavery" the same ground the Wihnot Proviso is based up on in every instance. 1 hese tools ol parly know that Northern men had denounced and abandoned the Missouri compromise, and that Oregon was the first point in their attack ori the fights of the South the first link in the chain which Northern fanaticism and aggression are attempting to throw around the liberties of '.he South. This they knew in their support of Mr. Polk and his administration; but Mr. Polk's faults glaring and damning as they would have beert in a Whig, are as nothing in him, for truly the broad mantle of Democracy coV' erth a multitude of sins. We present a dilemma, and the Standard can take either horn it. choosey. First then, Mr". Polk either signed the Oregon hill in the spirit of the Missottri compromise, which compromise was legislation by Congress on the subject of slavery in the territories. But the Democratic creed South, is , that Congress has no constitutional right to legislate on slavery in the territories ; hence if the Democratic doctrine is true, the Missouri com promise is unconstitutional and of necessary con' sequence Mr. Polk, in the face of his Inauguration oath, gave hi sanction to an unconstitutional piece of legislation. Or taking tho other horn of the dilemma, Mr. Polk sanctioned the Wilmot provt so voluntarily and without excuse, Granvillle Whig. TO CONVERT THE Catholi: clergy from their vow of celibacy, but al so aaaured him that he.entertained serious ideas of adopting such a plan in tho early part of hit reign, especially after having received pressing letters upon the subject from Germany, but that, in the present state ol Italy, and indeed of the whole con nent, any innovation on his part would be danger ous, even if he had the power to act freely, which he had not, being by no means the free agent that he was on his first accession to the throne." The same object would prevent him from calling a'gen eral council, or attempting to unite the great atid divided family of Christians, although he fully ad mitted the grandeur of the scheme, protesting his own desire for peace and harmony, and wept at Dr. Townsend's enthusiastic picture of England recognising in Pio Nino the head of a Universal church. After three-quarters of an hour's discus sion the revermd canon took t oik his leave, pla cing in the hands of his holiness a document containing the principle heads of his argument, which appears to have made some impression on thepintiffV mind, judging from the fact of his having sent to the doctor's residence on Sunday last, only two day after the interview, requesting to be made acquainted with the period of Dr. Townsend's return, (he has gone toNaple,)as he should llien like to have some more conversation with him. ITALY ATTEMPT POPE Runt, May, 8. One of the most interesting occurrences of last week was the interview of Rev, Dr, Townsend, Canon of Durham, with the Pope, I mentioned In a' pmviomr letter that the Rev, Dr.'s object was to endeavor to induce his holi nees lo do away with the Dickering, animosities and polemic?.'! discords which keep the various de nominations of Christian separate and at enmity, s),by calling a general council, to establish the basis ef an universal creed. , h was certainly bold attempt for a protesiant clergyman to convert the Pone himself, bot the doctor was resolved beard the lion in birden, and on Friday last he went to the encounter in full dress canonicals. After having knelt to' kis the Pope's hand, Dr. Townsend was invited by ht holiness to take chair, and an animated conversalieit commenced in L thi. a fitlarwraaire for controversy, and on in which the disputant Wight be presumed to a match foir each othef. The Pope was, upon the whole, very tolerant, as may be imagined from h having not only hstened with calmness to Dr. Townsend's srgnmenta iu- faJt of releasing the HOW THEY DO BUSINESS. To show the very great interest the members of Congress feel in the absorbing questions before the country , we quote from the Globe the following re port of an Evening Session, June 4, which was fol lowed by long-winded speeches to the sixteen embers present from Howe, Venable, and Taylor. One member, Mr. Dunham, had some pretty little mahceuvreing to escape from addressing the emp- scats : EVENING SESSION, .- ' The recess 'haying . 'expired, (at the hour of seven) . The ihmr (technically speaking) was again prcaent, in pufsuance of the order this day adop ted. Eight members were grouped together in one por- jn of the Hail, among whom were Mr, Speaker Coob, and Mr. Boyd, chairman of the committee of the Whole on the state of the Union. At four minutes past seven Mr. Croweli entered the Hall from ihesidedoor on the left of the Speaker's chair (making eight members present.) Passing dovfn the isle Urihowell rapped with his knuckle or) ene of the tables', ;and said, "The House will come to ordef."- '.,..' . The House did not come to order. At five minutes paat seven The chandelier mad its entrance, from a- bove, surrounded by a hundrod glittering satel lites ; and light appeared Where almost darkness icds. At twelve minutes past seven, fourteen members were present. At eighteen minutes past seven Thcypenker took the chair,-and called tSe House to order. ' - There was an aggregate prescrlco. of sixteen member. Mr iioyd moved lhat the House resoved itself into committee of the whole on the stale of the Uniun. The Speaker put the qustibn, and declared that he mo.ion was agreed to. Death or Rev. Joim Newland Mmit. The Mobile Herald, of the 30th ult,, received last night, fully corroborates the report by telegraph, of the death of the Rev. J. N. Maffit. The Her ald says : "Late yesterday evening, after a few hours of severe illness, John Newland Maffit breathed his last, at the residence of Major Chamberlain, at Toriaiinville. Soon after the attack, Dr. Gains was called in anu louna uie paueni sunering iron excruciating pain in the pit of his stomach. Med icine waa speedily administered, and a favorable change occuired in few minutes. Afterwards calomel wa given with the happiest effect, the cold and clammy state of the extremities and eur face given place to a gentle, warm and healthy glow, Eolh physicians and patient thought the danger passed. But suddenly the pain -returned, and shifting to the region of the heart, soon pro duced death. Dr. Gaines denominates it a spasm of the heart. "Time has passed away suddenly and unexpec tedly one who has figured prominently in the Meth odist Church for the last thirty years. All this time he enjoyed strong and unflinching friendship, while, at the same time, he was beset with spiri ted and unceasing opposition,, both in and , out of church. He has gone to settle his aeoonnts; there fore, let his good deeds be remembered, and what ever, that is censurable forgotten." ,. SPEECH OF HON. TRUMAN SMITH. From theable speech of this gentleman on Brad bury's resolution relative to r.emovala from office j and which was delivered in the Senate on the 21st of March last, we present the following extract thia week. The speech should be in the hands of every friend ol General Taylor. We propose to give a i.umber of fhsr passages from this same great speech, when our space will allow : "Having shown fully under what circumstance President Taylor became a candidate, the relations in which lie stood to the whig parly, and a recog nition of that relation both by the late honorable Secretary of Stato and the two Houses of Con gress, and he having been triumphantly elected, it may well be asked what, on coming into power, should he do? He finds neatly alithe places un der the Government filled by one class men who had been engaged in hunting down and proscribing others and that his political friends hud been treated as if they were enemies to the republic, and utterly excluded Irom all participator) in the honors and' emolument of office.'-'. Was he bound to lend himself to this vile system, by continuing the pro scribes in place and powet ? Or 'might he, by adop ting the principle of equalization, dojustice to eve ry class, and uphold the riglita and just profusions of all ? It was alike his duty and his inclination to observe the rule of moderation ; and this he ex plains in his second letter to captain Allison, dated at East Pascugoula', September 4, 1818, as follows : "1 have said I am not a party candidate; nor am i, in that straightened and sectarian aens which would prevent my being the President of the people; in case of my election." "I am nt engaged to lay violent hands indiscrim inately upon public officers, good and bad, whomay differ in opinion with me." "That is-what I. mean by nut beingaparty candidate." "Precisely so. He has not laid "violent hands iudiscriminately on public officers, good and bad," who belonged to the opposite party ; bnt neverthe less, he has endeavored to carry out tlx ptedg which lis gave in face of the Philadelphia Con vention and the wh ils country, to make such "a change of men and measures" as was required by the high interests of the republic; But now wa hear one universal cry, set up all over the coun try, of proscription! breach of faith! promise-breaking ! The democracy can carry on proscription ad libitum. They spare no man, no matter what may be hi age, his Integrity, experience, or abil ity to advance the public interests. But the mo- uient the people, in their good pleasure, hand over the Government to their political opponents, the world-is filled with denunciations if a single balr ef the democracy is touched. Indeed, the Senator' and his friends are to have all the offices anyhowj If we have a democratic; Executive, then they take them because they are for ihe prescriptive policy ; and if a whig Executive, then they are to held on because we deprecate that policy. The Senator says, "It is not the policy of removals that I assail or call in queition ; it is the inconsistency between the professions and practices of the party in pow er.'' Eves) so. There 1 always a clamor about whig inconsistency and whig violation of pledge. Indeed, it is apparent that the democracy in! nd tf make good their hold on the treasury lid, (which they have had possession of for so long a period,) by a torrent of abuse alike impudent and false. They fasten themselves on "the spoils" with the grasp of death ! But it will be in vain. . The peo ple are too intelligent notto see through these shal low pretences. They know thsl Zach&ry Taylor has given no assurances snch as are setup here j Pledges are not to be extracted or inferred even from his early correspondence. Hence the Presi dent is at liberty to pttirsue such a course as wilt best subserve the public interests. He has a right to do justice to his own-pxlitical friends." RisiGiuTlos or a Catholic Priest. A card from "Rev. Mr. Brown," who says he i a Catho lic priest, from Franc, appear- io the Richmond, Va., papers, declaring that he has "resigned all functioa of the 'sacerdotal ministry,'' having dis charged for two years fhf pastoral functions uf a Catholic congregation, attended. by Gorman and French people living ht Richmond, lie gives a mong others, (he following retaons therefor : " - "I cannot keep from avowing that my principles, la regard lo the temporal power of the Pope, and in many other respects, are not iff harmony with the principles Of the Church of Rome. I think (lie sovereignty of the Pope' i tontrary te the doctrines and example of Christ, an obstacle to the liberty and welfare of the people, and a cause of discord nd treuble to the oup'tlc od religions world." A Distinguished Disuttiottisi. Ex-Governor Tazewell, of Virginia, has written a letter, in which) betakes ground distinctly for disunion, believing that the relations heretofore and now subsisting be tween the free and slave States ire injurious to the' interests and safety of the latter. He says : " 1 am now convinced that although this government, nnder som temporary modifications of it, effected by construction, compromises and concession, wilt last beyond the short Space of the life of a very old man, the next generation will surely witness it an nihilation," A false prophet we hope and believ. , St. Louis, June 4. GREAT UNION MEETING. An immense meeting of the citizen was held1 last night, and resolution passed d(laring a deter' mination to adhere to the Union, no matter what might be the disposition of the fanatics of the North, or the hotspnrs of ihe South. The resolution sU so favored the compromise upon the slavery qive lion, proponed by the committee of thirteen,' ia' Con 6M- ,;.;'' , i . ' . -Our friend of iht Petersburg Iritell igenett say "What NcxtI , A report is in circulation that Mr. Clay i abort to join the Loco Toco party. We shall probably next hear that he has denounc ed Christianity a ud turned Mussulman. One la abotrlasptobableastheother.'j. ,: Jusf lbrrnt. i The Pope taming Mermen ir Kossuth turning Austrian; would not be whit4 more probable. 4 - -iV" . Tis Lawsce Divoaci Cash. In- court, at Louisville, &V 'he 25th ult. , tU application of Mrs. S. W. fcawtrenfls) for a dlvure from her hus band, T B. Lawrence, wa tried by a jury, who rendered a verdict in the lady's fa nor. The base was wholly ei parte, ar there wV na opposition ofierel by Mr. Lawronce, The jv'jje rv-Kstw hUdi4niUUia-kuuiro"Jt'y. '" .'
Raleigh Times [1847-1852] (Raleigh, N.C.)
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