And why should not North Carolina ac
complish this enterprise ? I believe she
will ; ahe has already authorised surveys to
ascertain the cost of extending the road over
the mountains and granted a charter for a
Rail Road to Nevvbern ; both schemes are
entirely feasible and practicable, and will at
no distant day, I have no doubt, be accom
plished. They are probable in theory, and
what is probable in theory " has in practice
always proved true. Bnt these schemes
are in the future, although in my opinion
in the certain future. I prefer reasoning
from the past and grasping what is before
me. Looking, then, as I hare said, to the
widespread demand, and to the ability and
capacity of the Country on the immediate
borders of the road to supply that demand, I
have no fears of the result and feel no need
of travelling beyond the borders of the State
in search of trade and travel to demonstrate
the prodsctiveness of the stock of the North
ti i n i Rait TtrkrkA T n m linu'prpr Tint
.indifferent to the income arising from the
through business; it is one of the eertain
ties of the present which Icount, large
ly uponV from our connection with the
Charlotte and South Carolina Rail Road.
Having, however, in the outset confined
myself in the limits of the road, and to a
simple statement of its influences in pro
moting home industry, and thereby add
ing to the wealth of the State, and creating
business for itself- I have , although enter
taining just expectations, not felt myself at
liberty to draw heavily from other sources
I prefer leaving that branch of the esti
mate to others quite as competent to the
computation as myself ; to make such addi
tions as may suit their views.
The effect of rail roads every where is
to increase the value of lands. The ratio
of the soil and the remoteness of the lands
from market, and the amount of increase
is- exactly the capitalized sum which the
saving in transportation upon the annual
produce of an acre would give. For in
ci'ini'a if tVio nnnnnl enviner in the trnns-
OklUlV J mav ..j.a.at. --
portation of the produce of an acre of land
is one dollai, the value of the land will be
increased $16,2-3, the capital which at six
per cent, would yield a dollar. My own
impression is that the lands on the line of
North Carolina Railroad will be increased
n a greater ratiothan this, now univcrsally
acknowledged principle of computation
would give, for the reason that they are
Som some cause greatly underrated, espec
ially from 1 icxington to Charlotte ; the lands
--on 'this portion of the road which grow
Cotton as-well as Grain, compared with
lands inr Virginia similarly situated in refer
ence to markets and which grow only grass,
are valued at very little more than half the
price of the lands in Virginia. ,The effect
of the Rail Road will be to raise these lands
to their proper standard cf value and add
also thereto the enhanced value arising
from the diminution in the cost of trans
portation. The manufacturing establishments on
the linc'of work, which are now in a com
paratively feeble and declining condition,
will receive an impulse that will reward
their enterprising proprietors, and and revive
- the drooping hopes of the advocates of home
mdustrv. i or it must be obvious to cverv
one how thev are affected by the cost of
transportation.
The expense of transporting the raw
material: and manufactured goods, consti-
. tutes an element in the cost of those goods
in market. The means oi transportation
are in fact but a part of the machinery m
the manufacture of goods for market, and
the same principle applies as well in the
improvement of the one as m the otrrer
The maf with good machinery can man
ufacture profitably and sell at a price at
which the one -with the poor macumery
Would be ruined. If then we apply this
nnneinle to the transportation of the raw
material, bread stuffs, and other articles of
consumption in manufacturing establish
ments. it needs no argument or calculation
to shew that he who can make use of a
Hail Road for this purpose can always un
dcrsell those who are wilhouthe accomo
dation. This is the true secret of the sue
cess of die Northern manufactories ; the
liberal system of internal improvement at
' the North has cheapened the transportation
of their supplies. I doubt not, it would
Drove upon investigation, that the transpor
tation of a bag of Cotton from the interior
f Georgia in the vicinity or her ran road to
Lowell costs less than the transportation to
many manufactories in North Carolina,
within a hundred miles of the Cotton
neius. .
The reduction in the price of transpor
tation must be attended at least with the
working of the existing establishments up
to their full capacity, and with their success
the erection of others will follow, until in
course of time the State will become a
manufacturing and by consequence a con
suming as well as producing State.
The home market built up by the Man
nfacturinff establishments will stimulate,
encourage and fosterthe agricultural inter
est, which is-the great interest of the fiFtaie.
And thus the great ends of government will,
be accomplished by the silent workings cf
the system of internal improvements,- withw
out doing violence to the theories or preju
dices of any one. The greatest' benefit wiil
be conferred on the greatest number, fn
fact all will be benefitted. Fop the North
Carolina Rail Road is not a mere line of
sRail Road accommodating a single line of
' tiavel and: operating on a narrow secuowof
.the State-r there is scarcely any portion er
any interest in the State that is not benefit
ed by this work. It traverses nearly the
wbolelengh of the State, it is the Central
Rail Road projected fay the old" and ardent
friend of internal improvement, crossing
- he channels of some of the principal rivers,
bringing their water falls and Manufactories
into the actual vicinity of the Seaboard.
Il would be difficult to plan a work,soprop
orly, so obviously and so essentially a State
work. The people themselves have made
it so by their wide spread and unprecedent
ed individual subscription of a million" of
dollars, and by their endorsement of the
copartnership of the State from one end to
rfie'other, in her subscription of two mil
jor3 more. That they will not be disap
in thftir. expectations, I am qnite
sure, unless it should turn out, and there
is no rersona why it should he so, that the
same cause in North Carolina 'will not
produce the same effects as in other State ;
ortl, Soitfh, East and West. In thow
Stales it is found that rail roads relieve the
buiden of taxation. First by the difiencc
in the cost of transportation by common
roada and by rail roada, which may be sta
ted at alxmt two to one. Secondly by in
creasing the taxable property on the line of
the road, a general reduction of taxes is
made, -thus lessening the taxes on lands
more remote, giving them an additional
value and thus the benefits of the road are
extended far and wide, and are felt by the
whole agricultural community, And fur
thennorey the general benefits which result
to trade and commerce from railroads in
other States extend to every portion of their
territory ; every branch of indnstry is effect
ed by the trade and commerce opened by
these channels of communication. No
one can doubt that the same results will be
experienced in North Carolina. In short,
the effect of a judicious system of internal
improvement is to unite a estate as it were
in one great community with all their wants
demands and supplies brought to view,
stimulating enterprize and industry in all
the arts and various pursuits of man.
And last, though not on tins account the
east, of the important benefits of the North
Carolina Railroad, is the effect ijLwill have
to wididraw the inducement to emigration
which every year deprives the State of a
portion of her most vigorous, enterprising
and intelligent population.
I am, t ientlemen, very respcctfully
Your obedient servant.
WALTER GWYNN.
Civil Engineer.
The Wilmington Commercial, a
paper very ably conducted by Mr. Loring,
speaks thus in behalf of a measure almost
unanimously opposed by our Eastern
friends. We are pleased to sec a gentle
tleman of Mr. Loring's talents thus boldly
espouse the cause of the people, determined
to plead for justice regardless of location
and the sentiments of narrow minds.
CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM.
"Meetings are being held in several
counties in the upperpart of theStatc, with
the design of holding a Convention to sus-
ain the views of those who advocate an o-
pen and free Convention of the people to
amend the Constitution, and who are a-
gainst amendments by the Legislature.-
W e hope this movement will be successful,
and thus defeat the objects of those politi
cians who expect to have a political hobby
lor the next half century, by which to nde
into power. At every election there will
be some new phase in thi3 political humbug,
and the public mind kept in a continual
ferment, unless the question is settled at
once by submitting it to the people, who
have the sole right of judging of the na
ture and the extent of the reforms required.
We hea- it stud that an upon Convention
will not do, for fear the pcple will do thus
and so. Ah, is th.3 the progress we arc
making in the science of government, and
the development of republican principles:
It ia worthy of the darkest days of mon
archical prerogative and aristocratic pre
script ion-. , ..','-.
TONE OF THE NORTHERN PRESS IN
REGARD TO SECESSION.
Wc are filad to see the moderate and con
ciliatory spirit in which the New York Ex
press refers to the secession movement m
South Carolina, tve hold that it is only b
the exercise of such a spirit that her seces
sion can be prevented. Moral force goes a
great dea farther m the V. States, than
physical force. It is the par of wisdom in
this case to-exhaast all moral appliances, be
fore even talking of any others. Those men
who would resort at once to swords and
bayonets, must recollect tlvatthis is a strong
governtrjest ordy so far as it rs supported by
the affections- of the people. -Lveri it force
could be used with the certainty of perfect
success, victory might prove more ruinous
than defeat. South Carolina, we arc well
satisfied, if once embarked in a war, would
fight it out until she became a desert. At
all events, let every method of persuasion
be adopted to win her from her purposes,
before the "last argument," often fatal to
both sides of a controversy, is employed,
RALEIGH AND GASTON RAILROAD.
The Fayettevclle Observer is mistaken in
supposing that the effort of Petersburg to
raise a hundred thousand dollars for the Ral
igh and Gaston Road is "a spasmodic ef
fort," and that wc have stopped after getting
a subscription of $36,000. Upwards of $70,
000 ha.'e been subscribed in Petersburg,
and the Committee appoiuted to procure
subscriptions arc still at work, and we can
say with confidence that, if the portion of
North Carolina which- is interested in tle
Road would do as well as Petersburg, it wiil
be reconstructed.
fj Since the above was written, we have
seen a telegraphic despatch fi on Ealcignv
which informs us that the Central Hail. Road
lias been located, and that the contracts are
to be jet out in thirty days. Our fellow-citizens
of Petersburg know, as well as we do,
what the effect nf the construction of this road
now rendered certain will have upon us,
in the ovent that the Raleigh and Gaston
Road shall be kept up. If the latter Road,
terminating as it does at Raleigh, and crip
pled and dilapidated as it has been for years
past, has been so conducive to our prosper
ity,- to what may we not look forward j wiicu
itshtdl be put in first rate order, and placed
in consteetion with the road, which will pen
etrate as fertila a region'as any of which our
country can boast?
Do notuse your arithmetic about this mat
ter, fellow-citizwns of Petersburg, but work
the sum for yourselves. If you will only do
it if you will oi.Jy revert to what you have
made from the Raleigh and Gaston Road, and
calculate what you can make' from it when
its Southwestern terminus will be at Char
lotteand only there for a short time, for it
will go further to the Southwest :.re feel as
sured you will do the needful towards put
ting this R! &-G. Road-on its legs again.
- Pet, Int.
"1 TREAD' NO STEP KICK WARD."
. Daniel Webster, iii reply to the invitation
of more than five thousand citizens of New
York to visit that city and give its people his
views upon publio affairs, says t "One thing,
gentlemen, is certain, that if I address-y
at any time, yon will hear ;tio change- cf
tone, nor any faltering voiced in eupporf of
that case which is ea dear to yeur hearti
and to mine - ' i :
" A noble declaration; nd characteristic
to the utishrinking patriotism and unyield
ing firmness of Daaiel Webster.
RALEIGH TIMES.
tJfpT ':'
OFFICE OF THE TIMES,
OX r ATETTE VILLE STREET, NEAR1V OPPOSITE
THE CITY HALL.
R A L E I G If, N. C.
FRIDAY MAY 23,-1551,
CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM.
The demand for a reform in our Consti
tution has now become general, and the
voice of the people in their sovereign ca
pacity must not be disregarded. We shall
at present briefly consider the questions
what is the reform proposed ? and in what
manner shall that reform be made ? The
change to be affected is in the basis of rep
resentationshall it be confined to the
free whites, or shall the basis remain a
mixed one, made by adding to the whole
white population threc-fifihs of the slaves ?
The adoption of the present basis was
undoubtedly the result of a compromise of
conflicting, interests at the time necessary,
and designed to secure to the slaveholders
a due share of power and representation m
our lcgisladvc councils but the necess
ty no longer exists, and the signs of the
times and the cardinal features of our po
litical instutions demand a radical and
thorough change We hold that all powe
is vested in, ami derived from the people
only, and as this is a representative gov
ernment possessing no power but Uiose
conferred by the people, it would seem to
follow as a necessary' consequence that the
people only should be represented Wrfio
then are the people ? the answer is con
tained in the above declaration. The peo
ple arc those in whom the sovereign pow
vests by force of inherent right- who con
tribute to the support of government, and
who arc interested and consulted in the
passage of laws. Apply the foregoing defi
tions and the conclusion is evident that the
white basis is the onlv one congenial to
the republican spirit of our institution:
those who pay the taxes, and who bear
the burdens, which government imposes,
are the people, and the people alone should
be represented.
But if it be argued that, taxes paid upon
negroes go into the public treasury and
contribute to the support of the govern
mcnt, they aTc rightly represented, the an
swer is briefly this negroes are property,
taxable property certainly but still not en
tided to be considered in any olher light- -
for the objection might be argued with c
qual force in btrialf of any other taxable
property, jacka'saes for instance which
pay a higher tax than negroes, and thus
the amount of property in a district, and
not the number of its inhabitants, would
determine the representation
But secondly, in regard to the manner
in which this reform is to be made. W
arc axlvocatos of a general Convention with
plenary powers. If the subject of reform
concerns the people so neariy, det men fee
appointed to consider this question only in
the legitimate' and constitutional way-
thus shall we secure the desired end by tne
employment of the best means for chosen
for a specified object, untrammelled by the
party issues of the day, they will carry
with thenithe confidence of the whole peo
ple, and all be disposed to submit with
cheerfuhiess to their decision, convinced
that it is for the public weal.
We conclude this articlcwith an ex; intf
from the '-'Ashevilice News" denying that
the convention movement is a sectional
one. The "News" says :
It is cfiargetl diat the Convention move
merit is a sectional movement. Wc deny
the? charge. The whole State every
part of h is interested in preserving the
constitution from the hands of men who
made such4;? t:fist" at mending it as the
last Legislature did. They jawtially sodd
crcd up one flaw which was- discovered in
this venerable (?) instrument' and how ?
By an entirely new, patent, retrogressive
method ; by knocking out" the biggest
patch the convention of lS3ohad put on it.
Free Suffrage was passed, bnt along with
it was coupled the extension of that privi
lege to free negroes.
A very intelligent gentleman writing to
us from the Eastern part of this State gives
the following is the sentiment of the peo
ple in his county on this question : "They
say if the Constitution is to be amended
they desire to select men for that purpose
and that albne. This doctrine is daily
gainingfavor'here. The conservative por
tion of the community see and fear the
danger of allowing this vital qu est ion to be
mingled with party and sectional strife.
They have more confidence in the honevy
and palriotisTJ of the people than the lead
ers of the Democracy seem .to manifest.
They had rather trust tfee people thau the
politicians. 'We are satisfied that the a
bovc extract embodies the sentiment of ma-
ny intelligent men in the East. For the
West, we can say she i3 not disposed to
push her peculiar notions to an un. easona
ahle length. Our claims we believe are
just. YV e at least want them settled oy
the supreme voice of the people of the
State. If they decide against us we will
cheerfully submit to the verdict.
Epitorial Correspondence. We
have the pleasure of presenting another
letter on the state of affairs in South Car
olina, from a correspondent than whom
South Carolina contains no citizens of bet
ter practical common sense a quality
which ought to be in high repute in a State
whose people seem to be delivered over to
madness : Fay. Obs.
Charleston, May 14, 1851.
Dear Sir : The Southern rights conven
tion has held its meeting, and the mem
bers have returned again to their respective
homes.
1 have never scon a more respectable or
intelligent body of gentlemen assembled
together. Ther were "picked men"
and ceitainly if they - represented Uie feel
ings of the people of South Carolina, our
State will not remain one of this great Con
federacy longer than the 4th of July, 1852.
Between four and five hundred Delegates
were present, and although many individ
uals coincided in opinion with Mr. Chev-
es and Judge Butler, as to the expediency
of separate State action , yet when the vot
ing was done, the preponderance of the
immediate Secessionists was - absolutely o-
verwhelming. -
Indeed, Judge Butler himself seemed
to give the matter lip, and advised .."Mr.
Orr, who seemed disposed to continue the
debate, to yield the point, and let them
have their own way !
I wish it were in in' power to look in-
io the ftitnrey and tell you what i3 to be
the result of all this. Notwithstanding the
apparent unanimity of this Convention,
numbers of individuals who composed it
liftve gone home with strong doabts as to
the propriety of their course. Many who
came to the city, resolved to secede at all
hazards, have, on the representations of
tbeir citv friends, reconsidered their decis
ion and now hesitate as to immediate se
cession.
Charleston is decidedly opposed to this
course, and if her leading men were to
move at once and With energy, a strong
party in opposition might be formed. But
you know how difficult it is for moderate
men fo" f eeomc violent in their moderation
You perceive the advantage which a well
organized party, with a plan of action laid
down, and with a special object in view,
has over art opposition whose leading idea
is negative and wlvose business is to stand
still.
Yet the argument of Mr. Ban well must
have made some impression on the mem
bers of the Convention, lie told them,
"that on the question of Slavery the world
was against us, and until the South could
show 'en united front, the protection of the
Inst itution which our Government at Wash
ington afforded was stronger than any oth
er ; and to break the chain of opposition to
the encroachments of the world, by sepa
rating South Carolina from the other Sou
thern States, would be an act of suicidal
weakness."
One good thing this Convention has
done. It has awakened the people to a
sense of the fin portance of their present at-.
tiUidc.. They Will now commence the dis-
cussion of this great question, and if seces
sion should be resorted to, it will not have
been done till the people of the State have
fully examined its difficulties and dangers.
The fact that the other Southerly States
are identical in their interests with us,-and
have an equal participation in all the great
questions which now agitate us, will cause
many to pause in their career, until Jie
action of the North becomes so decidedly
hostile, as to unite the" South in one com
mon front, against a common danger.
The position which We have asaifmed
is offensive to our neighbors. We say to
them in so many words, "We alone of all
the men of the South, have the intelligence
to perceive ouf danger, and the courage to
resist it,"
This is not the method1 to gain friends,
and there are thousands of our citizens
who deprecate most earnesdy the ill-feeling-which
this kind of language must produce
on our fellow citizens e ''the other Southern
States. If division must come, we arcde-i
sirous that all the South should unite jrt
one common cause. r
THE GENTLEMAN.
No
man is a gentleman, wno wiiuoni
provocation,, would treat with incivility the
humblest of his species. It is a vulgarity for
jrhich tlo accomplishments of dress or ad
dress can ever atone. Show me the man
who desire to make every 6ns happy around
him, and whase greatest solicitude is never
to give just cause of offence to any one,
and I will show yon a gentleman by nature
and practice, though he may never have
worn a suit ofbroadcloath, norevenhenrdof
a lexicon. I am proud to say, for the hon
or of our species, there are men, in every
throb of whose hearts, there is a solicitude
for the welfare of mankind, and whose every
breath is perfumed with kindness ,
Is is- a bad sign when a prenshcr tries to
drive , home his logic by thumping the desk
violently with his clenched hand. His ar
guments arc so-f-ical!
MEDICAL CONVENTION.
The Second Annual Meeting of the
Medical Society of North Carolina con
vened in this City, on Wednesday last.
We leam that the number of delegates
present is quite respectable.
On Thusday, the Annual Lecture before
the Association was delivered by Dr. Cms.
E. Johnson, of this City. Dr. J's Ad
dress is spoken of, in warm terms, as a high
ly scientific and able production, well cal
culated to elevate the standard of medical
literature io North Carolina. We hope
soon to have the pleasure of seeing it in
print. " .'
We are compelled to defer a more ex
tended account of the details of this meet
ing until our next. litister.
GOOD WITNESSES.
Messrs. Bacon and Delyon, who went to
Boston after the fugitive Sims, aihe agents
of Mr. Potter, his owner, publish t.e follow
ing card in the Savannah Republican of the
1st inst. They testify to the kind urannor
in which they were leceived and treate.'' by
the citizens of Boston to the liberal "f
fers of aid tendered them and close by ex
pressing the opinion that the recovery oi
another slave in Boston "would bo attended
with very little trouble or expense."
To the People of Boston.- The undersign
ed received during their late visit tc Boston,
at the hands of the good people of that city,
so much marked kindness, attention, cour
tesy and aid, that they feel it to be thoir du
ty to make some formal and public acknowl
edgment of it. : v
We went to Boston in the pursuit of a fu
gitive slave, as entire strangers, with one
or two letters of introduction, and possesin r
no' claims whatever on the people of th:-t
city. Under these circumstances wc werr
most honorably received, and were surround
ed, during otlr stay there, by many hundreds
of gerrtlemefi, who aided us by every nifians
in their potter The merchants of the city
in particular wctc conspicuous in their ef
forts to serve us It would give us pleasure
to enumerate some, of these individuals, hut
the numbes were so great that it woud be
wrong to particularize. To ..Marshal Tukey,
officer O. A. Butman and the Boston police
generally,- We are indebted for the most effi
cient service and friendly advice. Indeed
our reception could not well have been
more kind and encouraging. From letters
which can be seen, now in our possession,
coming from merchants of hisrh standing,
we have ho doubt that we could have ob
tained security (had it been required) to the
nmountof a million of dollars. Everything
"we saw and heard in Boston has left on our
mind the strong find enduring impression
that the respectable citizens of that place
are a law-abiding people, determined to pee
the laws ex'edntcd, and determined to do
justiceto thesouth. We venture to remark,
in conclusion, tlvit the recovery ot another
slave there would be attended with but little
trouble or expense.
JOHO B. BACON,
M. S. DELYON.
PROFIT AND LOSS.
.Here is an nccouut of the flight of more
slaves in one week, from two counties in
Kentucky, than have been recovered under
the Fugitive Slave law in all the Northern
States in eight months,
?Jegro StamptDe. The Maysville Pot
Boy of the 2nd instant, says -.Southern
Press. '
During the past week, a leave-taking fea
Vcr has prevailed among the s-laves in this
section. On Sunday night, a woman and
three children the propctrv of F. M. Wee
don of our city, left. On Wednesday night,
nineteen in one gang left their owners in
Lewis. weight belonging to Mrs. Eliza Shep
pard, two fo Chas Wood, and the remain
der, owners names were not ascertained.
From Nicholas several have also depart
ed from freedom the past few days.
We worild be glad to kuow what deduc
tion the sage editorof the Southern Press
draws from the facts shore stated. Will he
pretend that the Union should be dissolved
because slaves run away from their owners ?
If so we would respectfully enquire if disso
lution would be an adequate reme iy ? It
seems to us that, in the event of a dissolu
j tj0 Qf the Union, slaves could escape to a
foreign nation quite as readily as they now
do into the Free States, but with this mark
ed difference : we can now reclaim them
from the Free States, and would loose them
entirely, if they made their way into a for
eign nation.
boston, May 16, ISol. The Senate
of Massachusetts, and the Fugitive Slave
Law, 6,'c. The Senate, this -.morning,
formed the following resolve on slavery,
by a vote cf 33 yeas to 5 nays the nega
tives being two Whigs and three Demo
crats..,; '.--.'-
'.Resolved, Thai Massachusetts protests
against the Fugitive slave law, as hostile
in the sentiments of Christianity and abhor
rent to the feelings of the people of this
commonwealth ; that such a law will nat
iimllv fnil to secure that support in the heart
and conscience of the community, without
which any law must, sooner or later, De
dead letter.
Mr. Russel's South' Carolina resolve was
arso adopted by 35 to
BEAUTY OF WOMAN
Ta tliArf. not aheautv and acharm in the
venerable woman who sits in the "majes-
fv nf nn-e." beside the fireside of her son
she nursed him in his infancy, tended him in
his vouth. counselled him in raanhocd,and
who? now dwells as the tutelary goddess of
his household ! What a host of blessed
memories are linked with that mother, even
in her reverential arm-chair days I What
a multitude of sanctifying associations sur-
lound her and make her lovely, e.ver. on
h. vrtre of the errave ! Is there not a
beauty and acharm in die matronly woirma
wlin B;t Inokin? fondly on the child in hw
Unl What thousrh the lines and linea
ments of youth are fled ? Time has given
far mnrA mnn he has taken away. And is
there not a beauty and a cham in a fair girl
who is kneeling before that matron, her
own woman sympathies just open into ac
tive life, as she folds that infant to her bos
om. All are beautiful the opening blos
som, that mature flower, and the ripening
fruit , and the. callous heart or ths eensure
n-imd. that rrronea for loveliness as a tim-
ulaut for passion, only shwsthat it has n
correct Feme ot beauty rcuncu taste
The Government Secret Expe. t
Hon. The New York Mirror says tha ;
the price paid for the steamer Crescent Ci
ty, chartered so suddenly in that cily, t
go South on secret orders, is $1,200 pcrr
day. Thd Journal of Commerce, of Mon
day evening says : !
"The steamship Crescent City has not(
yet sailed orders having been received
from Washington to delay her departue.
The general belief is that she is designated'
to watch the movements of the Cubar adventurers-.
The following is a list of the of
ficers in command of the troops, of whom
there is said to bo about 300 : .; x
"Brevet Colonel J. L. . Gardner, (Mexi
co) commanding ; Brevet Major Williams,.
(Mexico) Brevet Captains Getty, do ; De
Russey, do ; Howe,do ; Lieutenants J. A.
Brown, do ; R. C. Drum, do.; Hudson r
Culberston, Booth, Winder.",
The New York letter to the Philadel
phia Inquirer says that the probability is,,
that the sailing of the Cresccut City, will
be deferred indefinitely, and adds :
"According to all appearance, there is no
necessity for the employment of any force
in this region, for it i not supposed that a
ny parties seriously entertain j any idea of
invading Cuba." j
A disp tcli from Washington fo the same
paper, actually says that there is no trutls
in th report that a steamer has been char
tered in New York -y Government ., to
cruise along the Southern coast I The Cres
cent City lias evidently been chartered for
some purpose, however. The dispatch
adds : j
"All the information received here leads
io the belief that, the Cubnn invasion has
been postponed, and the South Carolina
secession movement delayed fr the present.
The best evidence that i.oihing ii appre
hended, is the fact of die President leav
ing as he has. j
"Measure. will he taken :o collect the
revenue,-should it?' collection bo resist td in
South Carolina, which is not (anticipated,
and beyond this no steps are contemplated.-'
The President, before leaving this morning.,
gave emphatic instruct ions on thi- point.
" The President expects to!ao back on.
Wednesday week. 1
The Union. Dr. Collins oi Georgia, the
owner of the slave Shadrach, who was res
cued from the officers of the law, in Boston,
writes upon the subject of the Union in the
following expressive terms, They are the
more remarkable becaues a great many oth
ers have pronounced the Union! not longer
worth having, for the reason that Shadrach
was carried off : I
Artd although I would not follow the ex
ample of the great Cnrthagenian general, by
swearing my children to eternal war upon
the opponents of tho Government, yet so
important and so sacred dn I consider t be
cause of the Union, that should I it ever be
my fortune to present a son at; the altar of
any church for its Christian rites, I shoul I
desire the font to be .filled with the mixed
waters from the four quarters oPthe Repub
lic, that he minrht be baptised truly in the ele
ments of the Union, so that in all after lite,
the association most deeply impressed up
on his mind'should be the Union of this
country with the worship of God.
Ingenuity of Parisian Thieves.
Two well-dressed persons stopped, one
evening, belore l lie snop ot a grocer, at
Bercy, and burst into loud laughter.
I tell you that t will doit, said one.
'I'll bet you five francs you do not,' said
ihe other. 1
'Done ; I take the-be.'
Both then entered the shop. 1
'Do you sell treacle?' said the first.
' Yes, gentlemen, 'said the grocer.
'Give me two pounds-of it !
'Have you a vessel to put it jn?'
'INo ; but put it here.
'What, in you hat?'
'Put it in it's for a wager.
The grocer took the hat, placed it in the
scde, and, much amused at the idea, poured
into it two pounds of treacle, i
'There a the money, said the purchaser,
and he threw down a five franc piece.
The grocer began to count the change,
when the man said : j
"Pardon me, sir, but your treacle has a
queer smell.'
'It s very good, I assure you.
'No smell it.'
The grocer put down Fiis head to the
hat, and at the same moment the customer,
by a rapid movement, thrust the man's
head into the fiat, and as tne grocer in
stinctively raised his head the customer
knocked ihe hat over his eyes. (The other
man then j lunged his hand into the till,
and seized a handful of mony about thir
ty francs. ' Both got clear off before
the unfortunate grocer could give the a-
larm. i
PAT AT THE POST OFFICE.
The Following colloquy actually took
place at an Eastern Post Office : j
Pat -'I say Mr. Postmaster, is there a hi
ther for me? v !
P. M. 'Who are you my good sir ?"
Pat 'I'm myself, that's who I am. .
P. M. 'Well, what is your nsrae V
Pat 'An' what do ye wnnt wid my name?
is'nt i on the littherr' ?
P.M. So that I can find the letter iP
there is one,'
- Pat 'Will, Mary Burns, thin, if ye must
have it.' '
P.M. 'No air there is none for Mary
Burns.' i
Pat -Is there no way to git tn there but
through, this pitn of glass ?' . ;
P. M. 'No sir;'
Pat -It's will for ye there is'nt- I'd
teach ye betther mnuBrs thin to insist on a
gintlemin's name ; but yc did'nt git it after
all -So I'm even wid ye, divil the bit is m.i
name Burns !' j
A Bov Carrie u over Xiagaka Kali Xiagari
Falls, May 19- A bey two years old, named Jam-
Mc Grath, was carried over the Falls this niornin '.
Ha waylaying on a board at Strjrt's factory, on tli
Canada e.r.e, in company with an eWer brother; thrir
father saw them, ami chided the older one, whosud
.lenly junred offi whea the other w precipitated
into the stream. He soon pol into, tho rapid, ami
the father harried to reacts him; but in vaia tho
boy went over the Falls. Great eoiisUrn Jtion and
horror prevailed in every quartos, audi this-Jistr -ia
incident has created such an steitrrrient assel
dom arisef from such a cause. But few cjc of this
k!nd have creorrrd it Niaeaa fui'n