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'S HI I Ptlill.lSHFJ) WEEKLY BY CII. C. RABOTEAU, TERMS : $2 50 PER ANNUM IN ADVANCE, OR - EIHTOR A.D f HOPRIETOH. $3 00 IF PAYMENT IS DELAIED SIX lUOXTHS. VOL. III. RALEIGH, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1850. NO 41. FOUORT-ME-NOT. Thvvery mine if I,ove'i own Poetry, : Born of the heart and of the eye begot, Nured amid cijflt nndl smiles by Constancy. And ever breathing, 'Love, Forget me not.' Love Rnd flowers caused the wise kingol Israel to break forth into song, and the lay he chanted tj the dark-haired daughter of Egypt, are among the richest notes that ever hung upon the golden chords of the lyre. That the divinity he adored was the fair daughter of Evo, whose beautiful form often plided through the fretted chambers of the princely palace of Jerusalem, even our most learned and grave commentatore have been com pelled to acknowledge : showing that the language in which we express our admiration of the match lea loveliness of woman, approaches so near oar imperfect utterance of the adoration oC heaven, that it is l.ove which first loams n to lisp the ho lier language that is wafted upward, and on the wings of prayer borne to the abode of the angels. To what a sea of bliss must the heart of tho mon- rchhave floated when, looking out of his case ment over the green gardens of Jerusalem, he saw the whole land-scape steeped in sunshine, as if thrown back and reflected from a mirror of gold ; and gently awaking his beautiful and dark-eyed Egytian bride, he breathed into her ear a sweet lay of love, told her that the flowers had again appeared on the earth, that the singing birdB had returned fnm distant climes, and the voice of the tortle was heard in the land, that the grapes threw out a sweet smell, and the young roes were feeding among the lilies. He bade her come forth and show her beauty, like an apple tree in full blossom, amid the greenery of the surrounding woods. While lie murmnred in her ear, a nd plac ed his left hand under her head, and she looked back upon him with half averted eyes ; the ban ner that waved over him was Love. He led her forth by the hand, and as her sable tresses blew back in the morning breeze, her queenly scarf streamed in anarch, like a rainbow, "backward borne," and she came down ii.to the garden with a dancing step, skipping along in the very fullness of her love, like a young roe upon the mountains, Her lips were like a thread of scarlet, her neck like a stately tower, her hair like the floating silk of Cashmere ; her teeth white and beautiful as a flock of lambs returning from the washing j her eyes, now and then hidden by the raven ringlets which blew across her Queenly brow, were softer than the eyes of the dove when it bends over and coot to its young. As she walked along, a smell of spikenard, and cinnamon, and myrrh, perfumed the air; and as he gathered flowers, and placed them in her hand, he called her his garden his de light , the sweetest blossom that ever hung over or was reflected in the Nile, or opened beneath the earliest sunbeam that ever gilded the summits of her father's pyramid. They rambled onward through the garden of nuts through the valley cov ered with myrtles, that evergreen emblem of Love, where the tendrils of the vine swayed idly in the morning air, and the pomegranates put forth their buds ; they went far away among the pleasant field ; and, throwing aside their regal dignity, rest ed themselves among the homely villagers. He told ber how I-ove is stronger than Death that the wide water which overflow Egypt would be unable to quench it : and that while be slept, his heart was still awake, and that his dreams were ever of Love. Although the Myrtle is consecrated to Venus, and formed the garland with which the Goddess of Love and Deauty was crowned, growing also a round the temples which were dedicated to her worship, still its antiquity dates not so far back as the Forget-me-not, which is as old as memory and coeval with the creation of man. It was a' mong the first flowers that sprang np front the sat urated earth, after the overwhelming waters of the great deluge had subsided. lis history is founded in the earliest records of the world, and woven with those legends which were current among the builders of Babel, who, in their ambition, attempt to rear a tower, the summit of which was to reach the stars. Thousands of the traditions, that were rich in the lore of the antedeluvian world, have been Inst for ages, and it is only in those countries which were first peopled by the sons and danohter of Noah, that we are able to trace the faint outline of their origin, and in one of these of forgotten poetry, we find the legend of the For- Iget-me-not. It was on the site of one of those old homes of the early world one that had stood beside the hank", where as beautiful a river flowed as had ever flashed back the golden lines of sunlight from the moving mirror of its waters that a lrat angel sat down, sud and sorrowful ; li s face buried in the palms of his hands, his long ringlets, which the celestial air nf heaven had many a time fanned, drooped negligently over his rounded shoulders and his broad white wings, which fell folded upon his back, looked as if they had borne the brunt of many a storm, and shaken from their white plumes the blind rain of many a descending shower. He was one ol those who had lost heaven through the ove of women, and had floated long day through It solitary air, his own image the only moving hin shadowed in the ftilent water that covered the earth, whilst all below, saving the ark, was iiriV,! Iieneath the det deluge. Hut the waters 11 1 ---L-U-J liitla had harAif ttiAi ian now sgonii,iii arm all summits, snd the outstretched plains at their eet were once more visible. But the xop of many Jr. ' mountain had been washed away, and fields fwjiich before waved with a thousand flowers wer now Vply covered beneath a new soil the grave ht all that was lovely and beautiful among wo men. And she, whose loss the angel mourned, Ivhose image had so often floated between him and leaven ; rising before him when he stood with bowed head tmid tlie ranged ranks of the winged -herubioJiwhilo the remembered echoes of her voice still seemed to sound upon his ears, and made the holy anthem which pealed through the vaulted gold, grate like harsh music, she, too, was buried deep below : the loveliest flower which the deluge had destroyed, amid all it wrecks of bright and beautiful blossoms. He raised the dim starlight of his eyes and gazed around, but not a vestige remained behind to tell of what had been. The trellised bower, over which, even at noonday, a green kind of shadowy twilight seemed to hang, was swept away, and not a trace left to mark out the spot where it had once stood. Groaning, he threw himself upon his side, and his great immortal heart beat, as if it ttould hsve burst, while the snowy whiteness of his plumes was dabbled over with the dark soil, which had settled down and blotted out the light of her beauty whom he loved. " Never more," ex claimed he, in the utterance of his deep agony, shall I lean upon thy warm shoulder in the even ing sunset, listening to those silvery accents, which to me were sweeter music than that which floated through the envied heaven I have lost. Never more will those milk-white arms embrace me, nor shall I again taste the bubbling honey which steep ed the rounded roses of thy matchless lips, far sweeter than the dews which swell the pouting blossoms that blow in the immortal gardens above : those golden ringlets, which hung upon the downy whiteness of my wings, like the last deep rays of sunset shed over bed of lilies, have now blended their golden clusters with the clod of the valley : those eyes, which but to look on made the stars, that pave the azure floor of that heaven which I shall never again tread, look dull, and dead and rayless; and that heart, which was a fitting sanc tuary for the Holy One himself to dwell in, is now cold, and hushed, and motionless, and dark as the chaos 1 fiew over at His bidding, long before the first morning upon the void." With one hand shadowing his face, he arose from the earth, mute and sorrowful ; and tears, the first that had ever yet dimmed immortal eyes, ooz ed out from between the unstained whiteness ofhis fingers, and fell like a shower upon the ground He 'ooked upon the earth, and stood ankle-deep in the blue flowers of the Forget-me-not they had sprung from the angel's tears; and high in the air he heard a floating, unembodied voice, sweeter than that music which had cheered hie lonely watch, when he kept guard beside the battlements of hea ven, while the helmed cherubim new tortn to wage war against the fallen angels. It was the voice of her for whose love he had sacrificed he ven: and kneeling amid the blue flowers, with clasped hand, motionless as a statue, the low, asrial mimic shaped itself into words, as it fell upon his oar i and h held his breath with awe, for he knew that it was now an immortal voice which Baid By the wold and by the wildwood, By lonely moor and water'd lea, Haunts of age, and sportive childhood, I am doomed to follow thee : By the torrent it was uttered, 'Mid the flowers that round it blow, And upon the breeze was muttered That sad sentence of our wo And each bud and bell that's hollow, Bade thee lead where I must follow ; Till the flowers thy feet surrounding Shall be planted every where, No shaded stream but what they're found in, Throughout the summers of each year : And in remembrance ofoursorrow, Many a maid shall seek that spot In twilight glooms, and when the morrow Gilds the sweet Forget-me-not Where the river murmurs hollow, Lovers ages hence shall follow. And where the forest brook runs brawling, Hera in sunshine, there in shade, Lovers shall be oft heard calling, While they traverse glen and glade : As they search each woodland spot, Hazoled dell and briery brake, For the blue Forget-me-not, Which they'll cherish for our sake And up to heaven's high arching hollow, Many a sigh our loves shall follow. And in the flower they shall see blended, The golden star that emblems thee, Rimmed with the blue thy wings descended, The heaven, that's lost through love of me : Without repining or complaining, Must thy weary task be done, If thou hast hopes of e'er regaining Those lost realms beyond the sun- For the Voice said, low and hollow, " Where he gooth thou ehalt follow." A LUMP OF GOLD. The wife of Mr. Solomon Geer, residing a few miles from this place, found a lump of gold on the day of the big rain, or the day after ,which weighed sixty penny weights! It was lying in the edge of the spring branch when she discovered it, the rain hav ing washed the dirt offit, and left it tempting beau ty bare. This lump, said to be the largest ever found in this country, was picked up on the land of Mr. Mr. Samuel Hampton. We learn that several large lumps, weighing from 8 to 16 pennyweights, have been found near the same place. Who knows how near California is to us ? Mountain Banner, Vandalism. The Washington Republic sn nounccs an act of vandalism that has excited to a high degree the indignation of the people of that city. On Sunday last the beautifully sculptured stone presented by the State of South Carolina for the Washington Monument, was wantonly defaced by some miscreant The stone is adorned by the wt of arms of that State. The head are broken offthe male and female figure, and the truirp of fame, held by an angel above these figures, is also broken. Order were on Monday given for the restoration of this work, by deepening the engrav ing, and the ston will be soon elevated to the place it it designed to occupy, TEMPORARY SECESSION. I This is the latest improvement in the plan of j disunion. Mr. Rhett, who glories in the name of traitor, as he understands it, recommends " tempo rary secession," as the proper thing just now. It is quite evident that there is molhod in (he madness of these heroic persons, and a faculty of calculation in respect to other kings than the val ue of the Union. Temporary secession is to come in as an experiment; it may be well to try how it feels after the manner of the amateur who was curious to know the sensation of a man under pro cess of being hanged. In the latter case, however, it unfortunately happened that the experiment went too far, and the world to this day is without any report or authentic record of the experience of a suspended individual haltered and strangled. Temporary secession, we may presume, is inten ded as a sort of trance, a species of paralyzed a ni mation, a state of somnambulism, in which the patient goes far enough towards the confines of this mortal life to get a peep into the regions be yond. Mr. Rhett and his associate practitioners have been, administering chloroform in a political way very assidiously for some time past with a view to nreaare the Slate of South Carolina for successful trial of her capabilities in the way of seeing visions and dreaming dreams We must regard this idea oftemporary secession as a most happy conception. It plays around the precincts of treason, and possesses all the fascina tions of danger without any of its risk. Some reck less votaries who know not the secret may indeed go too far, and undertake to convert a pl?asant game into an earnest business. Such stupidity of course could not claim any sympathy at the hands of the contrivers of the diversion, who would be the first to leave the luckless dupes to their fate in the purgatory of fools. South Carolina in a state of temporary secession ! Disgusted with the world she climbs a tree. . Van itas Vanilatum ! So the grizzly tenant of the po lar zone, when the season of blubber is past, gos grimly into torpidity and with surly independence sucks his own paws. Temporary secession! It is a phrase ofsnch exceeding good command that it claims place at once in the vocabulary of sedition, and bids fair to supplant " nullification" . Itself. Instead of the overt act with its ugly consequences, the irrevoca ble plunge into the boiling ocean of civil strife, temporary secession" is a dignified isolation, and would mean not that South Carolina had ab solutely cut her acquaintances, but simply that she was not at home to visiters. Her nerves being un steady, she takes chloroform and does not wish to be intruded upon. Or liko the burgomaster in the play, she has a great deal of thinking to do, and takes her time for it. Or, possibly, remembering the advice of Hamlet in allusion to Polonlus, she may be of the opinion that when one is bent upon performing a certain character he should shut the door, and play it nowhere but in his own hoitse. The cat is fond of fish, but dreads to wet his feet More happily endowed than the cat, a common' wealth hankering after treason yet shrinking from its penalties, strikes upon the felicitous compro mise of temporary secession," and pars dry. footed over her fish without perceiving that it is stale and already putrescent. After an experiment of " temporary secession," it would be interesting to see the returning prodi gal come back into the family circle, pale from I diet of husks, and haggard like a half hanged man. The wayward straggler would have a strange sto ry to tell, and words perhaps would not be adequate to portray the state of stupid semi-consciousness, the night-mare terrors, the hideous dreams, of that sort of life in death which was the lot of the wan derer in the desert regions where " temporary se cession" abides. Cadaverous as from a resurrec tion, the poor victim, once more restored to life and happiness, would ever after shudder at the mention of the darnel house which it the dwelling place of ." temporary secession. BaU Amer. A NEW CAR. Messrs. TV. C. Randolph and George Vogler, of this place, have put up a new kind of Car or Truck, or something of the sort, which has excited considerable interest in our Town, for a few day past. They intend taking out a patent right for it, It is capable of transporting, they think, by tbe power of one borse, more than two teams of six horses with the common road wagon. However this may be, it is very evident on looking at the model, which they have made, that a working Car built after the plan, could sustain all the weight that could be placed upon it. There are no axle to break, or wheel to crush; and we doubt not on a very smooth hard road one horse could draw almost a mountain of lead. We are afraid, however, that on common roads it may not be found to answer. But as an offset to our fears we must mention the confidence of success of Messrs. Randolph and Vogler, eithet of them be ing far more competent than we to decide the ques tion. We sincerely trust we are mistaken, and shall watch the result of a fair experiment with no little interest. If it should so turn 'out, why then here is a great thing, which, for many pur poses, is destined to lay road wagons completely in the shade. Salisbury Wath. A PUBLISHING ESTABLISHMENT. The New York Methodist Book Concern printed in 1845, seventy-nine millions seven hundred and sixteen thousand pages of Sunday School Books in 1847, forty-seven millions seven hundred and eighty-eight thousand pages; and, In 1848, forty- six millions nine hundred and ninety-nine thou, sand; making the astounding aggregate of one hundred and seventy-four millions five hundred and three thousand pages of Sunday School Books in three years. To this tnnst be added the annual circulation of about eighty-five thousand copies of (he Sunday School Advocate, "A Elective JcMcuRY.-We are nleased to find that our neighbors in Vireinia bid fair to set as & good example injudicial reform, in the impor- tant measure of electing the Judges by the people. That Virginia should take precedence of us in the adoption of this constitutional provision we have no objection; but it will be to our discredit and mortification hereafter, if we should fail to follow promptlyin this significant feature of reform. It is desirable, as the time draws nigh for the choice of representatives in the convention, that the peo ple of this State should consider the importance of the opportunity committed to their hands, estab lish their purposes and adapt the machinery to the end in view. It is very satisfactory to ebserve a prevailing disposition to select men of experience, judgment and practical character for the duties of the convention ; men upon whose deliberate qual ities public confidence will repose, and from whose labors we may inticipale the best of results. But choose whom we may, they are but men, and will naturally look to their fellow-citizens for counsel and encouragement in their responsible office. '. v.'.'v' . The subject of an elective judiciary has been presented heretofore, and discussed pretty general ly before the people ; but while there did not seem much probability of accomplishing the proposed reform we suppose the subject has not commanded that particular attention to which it is settled. It is, in our estimation, quite a prominent item in the general purpose of effective reform, and should constitute a theme for serious twideration. We cannot anticipate the amount of opposition itmay encounter ; but opposition will do no harm, for it is a measure with respect to which the people should have all the light that Can be brought to bear upon it, from experience and matured opinion. The subject is inducing an expression of sentiment in Virginia, and from sources unaffected, appar- ently.by extraneous influences. We make th following extract from a letter to John Letcher, Esq, written by Judge Bayly, who, with Judge Duncan, served several year in the judicial office, enjoying the confidence and respect of the people. Both now advocate the election of judges by the people, and Judge Bayly says : "For a long time I have been decidedly in favor of electing all of the Judges by the people directly and for a limited period. This would secure a real responsibility, (which in the Judiciary, a in every other department in a Republic, I should be the last to dispense with,) without impairing a prop er independence which I would be the first to pre serve to as full an extent aa possible, compatible with such a responsibility. And my experience convinces me they are not incompatible. "There h no class of public servant for the selection of whom the people are better qualified than the Judge. There i none the selection of whom they would make more intelligently or Im partially. The selection must be from the bar. And there is no class of men of whose qualifica tions the people are better judge than of lawyers, as there is none whose success depends so little upon mere personal popularity. "No man ia any circuit can tell when his dear est rights may be brought before the court ; and in electing a judge the same considerations will control him that do in selecting his counsel. He would vote for the lawer best fitted by bis temper, industry and talents, for the station. Of course there would be exceptions to this ; but they would be too inconsiderable to affect the truth of the gen eral statement. "These opinion are fortified by experience of others. I have conversed freely with the lawyers I have met with in Congress from those States in which the judges are elected by the people direct ly, and for a limited term ; and they all agree particlarly those from the slave States, that the system works well, and that it has more than met the most sanguine expectation of its friends." Mr. Snowden, spoken of as a whig candidate from Alexandria, in a letter to a friend, in which he touches upon a variety of reform topic in a truly liberal and republican spirit, thus speak of the point nnder notice: "lam In favor of an elective judiciary the Judges to be chosen by the people, but so arranged and detailed as to their continuance, re-eligibility, die, a to secure for them the greatest possible in dependence. And I use the word independence in its proper and legitimate sense freedom from fear of popular displeasure , in the administration of justice, and freedom from the desire of mere popular applause. Thus Virginia begins to designate her purpose with reference to this issue ; and we anticipate at her hands action upon other matters of reform which may properly engage our attention, as we progress in the work before u- Bal. &un. Governor Quitman f Mississippi, in a late letter, announces his determination, in case of a collision with Texas, to convene the Legislature, and recom mend immediate hostility against the United States. If the indictment of a grand jury beany evidence, the Governor was probably foiled by the United States, in hi intention upon Cuba He seems to be fully resolved to have a fight with some body. 1 We have repeatedly expressed the opinion that there is not a single disunionist in Maryland, snd we firmly believe it ; for we have not wen or heard of one man who favors a dissolution of the Union, under any condition of things. We are satisfied that such is the attachment of the people' of this State to the Union, that it would be unsafe for any man to address to a public assemblage such a speech as that recently delivered to the people of Charleston by Mr. Rhett. He would be hissed from the stand a a traitor, and the finger of scorn would be pointed at him as an enemy to his ooun try. Bali. Clipper, WILMINGTON. A friend who recently visited Wilmington on business, has given us a glowing account of the enterprise and hospitality of its citizens, and we believe that it is a fact that there is more enter prise in the town of Wilmington thai in any oth er portion of the State ; and as to liberality and hospitality, their forefathers were famous for these qualities, and the sons, nobly emulous, have ever preserved this character for Wilmington. We hail with joy the prospect of a connection by Rail Road with that whole-souled community a connection which we doubt not will be mutually profitable, and as pleasant as it is profitable. We published some time since an article showing the amount of produce consumed in Wilmington annn- ally, and the prices paid for it to the citizens of states, all of which could have been supplied by the county of Orange, and Wilmington in turn might have supplied us with our Groceries, which Bhe will do for the most part, we opine, when the Road is in operation. Thus thousands of dollars would have been saved to Orango by the sale of articles which are now of but little pfofit, and a brisk trade would have been opened for Wilming ton by which she would havo been benefitted. The citizens of othor states have heretofore been reaping the advantages from a ready communica- tion with the most important town in our S'.ate, while we have been entirely cut off. But a bright. or prospect now opens belore us, and we hope soon fully to realize the anticipated benefits Hittsboro' Democrat. IS SUICIDE A CRIME? The Montgomery Atlas seems likely to be come as famous for its moral paradoxes, as it a ready is for its political heresies. It has lately broached the doctrine that in certain cases (that of Professor Webster, for instance,) Suicide ia not only permissible, but actually commendable ; and it supports its theory with arguments so plausible that we have laid them aside for future reference, in case we should ever feel an inclination to put it suggestions in practice. Editors and printers are especially interested in having this new theory of the Atlas brought in to general repute, as there is no class in the com munity whose starving occupation more frequent ly inclines them to "shuffle of their mortal coil." No matter how heavy their load of life may be, Death never troubles himself to come to their re lief. To them may be applied the feeling observa tion which the venerable Samuel Weller makes about post-boys. "Who ever know'da grave yard where there was a post-boy's tombstone, or who ever see'd a dead post-boy ?" So it is of edi tor and printer no one ever saw a tablet chis eled out In memory of a defunct Typo, or ever read an inscription over the grave of a "lamented Editor."' The fact is they never die. After un dergoing a process of desiccation a kind of dry ing up dragging out, from year to year, and from place to place, a weary and miserable existence, they at hut vanish, nobody knows where, and no body caret ! Some one else takes up the compos ing Mick, another fills the editorial chair, the work of printing goes steadily on, and that is all the world asks or cares for. Now if it were allowable to lay down the heavy burden of inch a life if a printer or an editor could, justifiably, "His quietus make With a bare bodkin," how many a poor "devil" would quickly end "The heart-aches and the thousand ills That flesh is heir to ;" Viewing the matter in this light, we cannot help thinking that the Editor of the Atlas has entitled himself to the lasting gratitude of all his brothers of the type and quill, by his plausible and oppor tune defence of suicide. We were, therefore, no little tnrprised to see him severely rebuked for his "indefinite notions of morality," in a latenum ber of the "South Western Baptist," a paper pun ished at Marion, and conducted with much abili ty. The Editor of that paper is, we presume, one of those few happy mortals whose life-path has been ever strewn with roses whose existence has been uncheqoered by misfortune whose health and purse, have alike escaped FalstafTs in, curable malady, consumption who are never troubled either with duns or doctor, and especial ly are never annoyed by. "That climax ofall earth ills, The inflammation of their weekly bills." For them, as for the happy dwellers in the vale of Cashmere, all things in this cold, but smiling world, are tinged with "the purple light of love," they would fain dwell in It forever, and they have therefore little sympathy with one, who, tired of buffett ing with misfortunes, opens, with his own hand, an entrants to . . "That undiscovered country, from whose bourne Wo traveler returns. Happy editor of the South Western Baptist ! how few must be your delinquent subscribers ! how lib eral your advertising patronage I how flush your sub treasury I Bitetttrqw, heatut! how gladly would we change placet with you ! Tuskaloosa Monitor. ' New York, Sept. 6. Fire in New York. Beebe & Co 'a hat store, in Broadway, was par tially Wroyed by fire this morning. It broke out in the rear of the store, and entirely destroyed the four-story building in the rear, used by the firm as a hat factory. The steam engine is tendered worth ies. The loss I estimated at from 1 15,000 to $20,000. . " ' ' ' - 'Honse, what's the matter? V ' Mine Cot, the sorrel waggon has run sway mil de green horse, and proke the axletree of de brick house, what ttand by de corner lamp post aroii do way from de apple trees run Yaupey and stop de telegraph. Alius Lot, Wia; BWeiWl i AOm? uMlchnan, From the Asheville News. IT WILL BE SO! Col. Rfid and the Eastern Democrat' if-: str iij- gling hard to prevent the Western people from in sisting for a change in the basis of representation. but we tell them that the people of ihe Wet ar determined upon that change it icill be m : ?: it must come! The Western counties hvo been imposed upon long enough already, ami i:,ith,r,j but a thorough and radical reform m'the roastiM tion in this particular will satisfy ti'.' .tfoj.-i..-.--' . .' Eastern politicians and Editors may raw Hit? cry.of abolition, or whatever else may unit their tas'e ; and-' while we hurl hack the epithet as false and slan derous, we still claim a change still inHirt tion our rights. The western peo-ile xre not u('ition-.-.. ists those who would make the rh:mge know bet ter. In nearly all the Southern States tin" iin-ie of representation is white population. Are they all Free Soilers ? No, not of a truth. Some of those who pretend to be most uneasy lest a change of the basis should squint at abilitionit-m, and thus give aid and comfort to our common enemy, had better look well to their own course on the subject ofSoutli ern rights, and see if they have not been nearer committing treason against their own section, than the western people are when they insist upon a change in the basis. No it is all gammon . nobody believes that a change of the basis would affect in any way the question of slavery. It is only a lame excuse for perpetuating a gross wrong for continuing upon the western people the de grading manacles which now fetter them. We can tell Col. Roid one thing that he is probably not aware of the western people don't want they u-on't hitve Free Suffrage, wkhqxit EQUAL SUFFRAGE. M.uk Che words. When it i tested whether they will not indignantly spurn tliissWutc of a right this tinkling brass, unless they get along with it that which it wortksomething that which has some substance connected with it a change of the basis. The day is coming when this right will be grant ed such rank injustice stinks in the nostrils of all good men, and ' offensive to Heaven. Time will effect this change it must do it in the very na ture of thingo. Nothing short of this will satisfy the people. Their will is omnipotent and must pre vail. . . A SLENDtD Description. One Paul Denton, a Methodist preacher in Texas, advertised a barbe cue, with better liquor than usually furnished. When the people were assembled, a desperado in the crowd cried out, "Mr. Paul Denion, your rev erence has lied. Yon promised us not only good barbecue but better liquor. Where is the liquor?" "There !" answered the missionary, In tones of thunder, and pointing hi motionless finger at the matchless double spring, gushing up in two strong columns, with a sound like a ahont of joy from the bosom of the earth. "There !" he repeated witfi a look as terrible as the lightning, while his enemy actually trembled on his feet; "there ia the liquor which God, the Eternal, brew for all bis children I Not in the simmering t till, over smoky fires, chok ed with poisonous gasse,and surrounded with the tench of sickening odors and rank corruptions, doth your Father in heaven prepare the precious essence of life, the pure cold water. But ia the green glade and grassy dell, where the red deer wanders, and the child loves to play, where God brews it, and down, low down in the deepest val lies, where the fountain murmurs and the rill sing ;and high upon the tall mountain tops, where the naked granite glitters like gold In the inn ; where. the storm-cloud broods and the thunder storm crash, and away far out on the wide, wild sea, where the hurricane howls music, and the big waves rear the chorus sweeping the march of God there He brews it, that beverage of life ; health-giving water. And everywhere it is a thing of beauty ; gleaming in the dew drop ; ting ing in the summer rain ; shining in the ice-gem, till the trees all seemed turning to living jewels spreading a golden veil over the setting sun, or a white gauze around the midnight moon ; sporting in the cataract; sleeping in the glacier ; dancing in the hail shower ; folding its bright snow cur tains softly about the winter world ; and weaving the many-colored iris, that seraph's zone of the sky, whose warp is the rain drop of earth, whose woof, is the sun beam of heaven, all checked over with celestial flowers, the mystic herd of refraction. Still alwaya it is beautiful that blessed life water i no poison bubbles on its brink ; its foam bring not madness and murder ; no blood ttains its liquid glass ; pale widows snd starving orphan weep not burning tears in it depth ; no drunkard' bricking ghost from the grave curses it in words -of eternal despair ? Speak out, my friends, would you exchange it for demon's drink, alcohol tn A shout like the roar of a tempest answered "No." ' - - - - Slavs Emigratiok toCamtorku. The Steam, er Commodore Stockton is advertised to sail shortly from Charleston, for California, with a number of Southern gentlemen, accompanied by their slaves. It would seem from this that the scheme for estab lishing a slave colony In that territory, for the pur pose of washing the gold mines, 1 not altogether a humbug, nn h been ronjoctured. Tho N.w V..rk (5 o'ie says: "Some of the Free; Soil organ" lime iir tmpndVaee to speak with sat isfaction of the Democratic triumph of North) Car olina." And mny they not do so with some show' of reason? Did not Duvid S. Reid vote for the Wilmot proviso in the Oregon qneition.and did not Mr. Calhoun denounce him and ether Soothers ' members for that vote ? Sal. WoteS. V The Raleigh Standard and Raleigh Times ate each to be published temi-weeklr and weekly after the fint of Novembou They are both well edited paper, and deserve the tupportof tMIti friend respectively. A thviUe Wwt ,
Raleigh Times [1847-1852] (Raleigh, N.C.)
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