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R. I. WYNNE, Publisher. C. C. RABOTEAU, Editor. " GIVE ME THE LIBERTY TO KNOW, TO UTTER, AND TO ARGUE FREELY ACCORDING TO CONSCIENCE, ABOVE ALL OTHER LIBERTIES." Miltox. NEW SERIES. VOL. V NO 12 TERMS. The Times is iuned every Thursday, and mailed to subscriber at Two Dol'ara per aunum, in advance; Two Dollars and Fifty Cents if not paid in six months; and I hree Dollars u payment be delayed to the end of the subscription year. O To Clubs, we will send Six Copies for Ten Dollars, and Twelve copies for Eighteen Dollars, when the money accompanies the order. - t ADVERTISEMENTS Not exceeding sixteen lines, will be published one time for One Dollar, snd Twenty-five Cents for each subsequent insertion. Court orders and Judicial Ad vertisements will be charged 25 per cent higher. A reasonable deduction will be made to those who ad vert'we by the year. Letters to the Editor must he poet paid. . Money lor the (JSice may be sent by mail at our risk, in pay snsnt for subscriptions, advertisements, jobs, &.e. KTOncsT0M nrcmnus sr., - soot ism WHIG PARTY AND REFORM. The last "Newbernian" throws out some suggestions in relation to the above subject, which are deserving of attention the more especially as they proceed from an earnest wish to bring about agreement upon the course of policy to be pursued by the Whigs in the coming State canvass. We pledge our hearty co-operation to this good end, declaring that our object all along has only been to ascertain, that we may adopt, the best means by which our people may be brought to such a general rally, s to over throw the present Locofoco rule in North Carolina; secure to the people their just rights; and take fron, the hands of an un scrupulous party the power of trading, for their own purposes, upon the organic law. The Newbernian says : "We presume it will hardly be denied by any intelligent Whig,' that the importance of success in the approaching canvass, to the party with which we act, as well as to the best interests of the State, can scarcely be overrated. Independently of the immediate consequences of defeat then',- h will dampen our ardour in the ensuing Presidential elec tion in November it will possibly keep the Whig party down in the State for years it will entail upon us for an untold length of time, the evils of Locofoco quackery prac ticed upon the constitution -placing amend ment after amendment to that sacred instru ment in their hands, as an. electioneering hobby, on which to ride year after year,and exposing it for an untold length of time to be dragged into and through the filth of electioneering campaign after campaign, until it will become a hissing and a bye word of derision." : "To ensure success some palpable, dis tinct and practical issue, -on this question with our opponents, is very important if not essential To suggest a platform upon this question ' itttdef all the circumstances, that will amount to this, and that will be com posed of popular elements, and at the same time rally the whole party in its support, is as we before remarked not a little difficult. We shall venture however to suggest one, and the only one so far as considerable re- flection has enabled us to see, that offers any rational prospect of success. Whether or not it will be .deemed practicable to ad opt it, we leave of course to the judgment of those better qualified to decide than we ' are. The best grounds then on the whole, that present themselves to ns are these : -1st, a bold, decided stand against amending the constitution by means of Legislative enact ment. 2d. An equally bold and open stand in favor of Free Suffrage, election of Judges and Justices of the Peace, and some State officers by the people. 3d. The submission of the question of Convention or no Con vention to the people, and in favor of call ing on if the people sanction it or what would In our estimation be better, as more definite and direct, an open stand for the call of a Convention in either case to be called on the same basis as that of 1835 and to be free to make any changes in the Constitution, except that of changing the basis of representation. We are aware that in the first place, it may be said, ' that the Legislature has no power to restrict a Convention. We are of a different opinion, and have never yet seen any good reason advanced why it cannot now be done, as well as heretofore. Again, it may be said that in the West, the propo sition to restrict the Convention as in chang ing the basis, will meet with opposition granted, but our Western brethren cannot ask as to yield every thing. This platform is suggested in view of all the facts in -the esse oae of these is, that the Wfeigs in the "Eastern counties, are satisfied with the con stitution as it is, and desire no changes, nor any convention; a compromise is then all that can be expected and all they ought to demand. Again it will perhaps be said, that the TluKtArn Whicrs would he nn willincr to risk any tampering with the basis, and would object to any convention. In an swer to this we remark, that if the Whig party by mutnal consent, and a majority of the Whig Convention, take a stand against any change in the basis, that it puts the par ty, as a paity, in opposition to any change, and carries the canvass forward, on this ground.- .This is all that can be reasonably required, and at the close of the canvass, it leaves the basis in as safe a condition in any event, as it is now. la short, we believe that could such a platform be adopted by the Whig Conven tion, and a candidate placed on it of per sonal popularity, and who would stand up j"v a asm nil '! r st k Vins svsASAca utlrl M s U uil pill 'Oy sya w uuvuvu n au be certain, both ia the Gubernatorial elec tion and Legislature. The only question is, as to its adoption by the convention. But at all events, will ur'Whig friends, and es pecially our brethren of the rress give the the proposition their serious attention, and 'in ny event, ask themselves the question, - f . i - - - . i . i .i ii aonjemiiig tiKe tms is not aaopiea, is mere any better, or indeed any way to manage the (question with any rational prospect of success" The Letter of Mr. Clay, avowing his preferences for Mr. Fillmore for Presi dent and giving his reasons for those pref erences, bears date "Washington, March 6th 1852," and the permission to publish it, if need be, was daled March 13th. The letter of Mr. Clay, we observe, is published far and wide, and is everywhere producing its effect. The Washington correspondent of the Tribune, (the paper which gave the most currency to the cal umny which originated in Louisiana, that Mr. Clay had avowed a preference for Gen. Cass,) and the Rochester Democrat affect to sneer at Mr. Clay's letter. The same writer having recently expressed the pinion that Mr. Seward's speeches, u Congress wore tar etrpenaz to those Fair. Webster and Mr. Clay, the airtnonty a gainst Mr. Clay, no doubt, deserves great consideration. There is another class of persons exceedingly troubled by Mr. Clay's letter. I hey are his old political enemies, who derive all their prospects of future suc cess from the hoped for divisious in the Whig Party. Mr. Clay's letter is" calcula ted to influence Mr. Clay's friends, and these are legion in all sections of the coun try. They respect him so much, and have that confidence in his wise judgment and purity of purpose, that any opinion expressed by him is unquestionably destin ed to have great weight in the community. Hence the reflections of both the Boston and New York Post. They dream un pleasant dreams, and see disordered visions in every opinion expressed by Mr. Clay which has a political bearing. A more recent letter from Mr. Clay, written on Friday last, in reference to the lost medal, is also in his best vein and hu mor ; but we are sorry to see that while his spirit is as hopeful and unflagging as ever, his intellect unimpaired, and his af fections unabated by disease or age, the in firmities of the body seem to grow upon him. His prospects of life rise and fall like the mercury of a barometer. Alter nate hopes and fears excite the friends a- round him. This physical weakness is painful, and Mr. Clay is accustomed to speak of himself now as but "an old hulk." Let him remember the hard service which that "old hulk" has seen, the voyages it has made in both the Old World and the New ; at home as the star of hope in the way of a bright example to the aspiring of humble birth ; abroad as the Minister of Peace, negotiating with a powerful and hostile nation, there, too, at Gotteaburgh and Ghent, and as well known in Greece, in South America, and in Africa, for the welfare of whose people his voice was ev er raised and his pen ever ready, as in his own Kentucky, his seat in the Senate Chamber, or among or presiding over the Representatives of the people. For forty years this "old hulk" has been borne up on the ocean, sometimes amid tempest and storm, as in a circle, with icebergs or rocks all around, andsometimes in contrast rap idly carried along under genial breezes, with all sails spread, wind and tide favor ing, to a goodly haven. The "old hulk" for more than two score and a half of years has never been out of service. While its course has been as free as the winds of heaven, it has been guided both by chart and compass. It has made for each of its round of years a voyage of Patriotism, a circumnavigation in constant pursuit of peace, honor and truth, and all "for the public good. - Freighted with those prec ious blessings, the Pilot who lias weather ed so many storms at last feels the boards crack under him, and the enfeebled ship seems to be falling to pieces. In his vis ion he seems to see, one by one, masts and spars, rope and sails, yield and break a round him. But the "old hulk" remains safely moored and fast auchoied. While there is existence, the wreck of life will be remembered for its uses in the days of its strength and power ; and when, like a wrecked or burning ship at sea, it goes down to the grave of waters, the remem brance of long services and prosperous voy ages will never be forgotten by the coun trymen of Henry Clay. CASS, BUCHANAN, DOUGLAS. The "harmonious" Democracy in the House of Representatives, very spicily dis sect the rival aspirants for the nomination. As they know ait about these things, a mong themselves, we suppose what they say of each other and their respective favo rites must be about right. t The following colloquy appears to us particularly rich. Mr. Smith of Alabama is leading offt "He repudiates as cruel aud ungener rous the term Old Fogies, as applied to those who have rendered efficient service in the field and in polities. Having vigo rously sustained Mr. . Cass, in 1848, he now wanted to raise a new banner with a new candidate. When an old man has been defeated, he ought to give way for a new name and young blood. He look it for granted that the great body of the De mocracy are not bringing Mr. Cass out. But it is due to Mr. Cass's own dignity that he should retire. To nurse an old man four years is long enough. It is the duty of Mr. Cass's friends to advise him to retire. (Laughter.) He should not be deceived by appearances. He is evidently in the decline of life, not intellectually, but glo ry, like all other "things, pass away, and he should therefore quit. Mr. Smith said he would ask the young men of the country whether they are still willing to hold the milk bottle to the lips of second childhood. Excessive laughter. Is it the duty of the. young mep of thisnge to nurse the old ones. For-himself, Jie was willing to quit. Cries, good, good." He did not wish to be understood as making a "Douglas speech." Kentucky has more great men than Gen. Butler. Georgia has a distinguished young man, Mr. Cobb. And he (Mr. Smith) declared here in his place that he had not made up his mind as to whom he would support. Aud wound up with an exhortation to young America to assert their rights. Mr. Nabers would ask the gentleman from Alabama exactly what he means by Young America. It .either means noth ing at all, or something bad. He wished to know the difference between Messrs. Bu chanan, Cass or Butler, with regard to pro gress, and the opinion of Young America as to progress. Mr. Smith I reply -with pleasure. I think I have made myself perfectly un derstood by the House, and don't wish to be dragged into a quarrel a3 to men. Mr. Nabers B e short. ' Mr. Smith, resuming, I have nothing to say of Mr. Buchanan as a man, but I do not wish to include him in Young Ameri ca. Mr. Nabers I wish to know whether Young America includes in its principles a change of the long established policy of the government. Mr. Smith 1 say, yes but not in a manner of promotion. I want the young men to come in and share equally with the old ones. That may be bad. Mr. Nabers The steady reflecting and sober man of the country, look at the mat ter properly, and wish to nip the mischief in the bud, which in the end may involve our country in very serious difficulties. It strikes me that the speech of the gentleman would cover all of Kossuth's affairs non-in. tervention and all. It strikes me that a wonderful change has come over the gen man within the last few months. Does Young America propose a universal Re public? 1 think Young America means, that, or nothing else. If 3Touug America comes to the conclusion that the world is now prepared for freedom, that is enough to put me against young America, although the gentleman included me in 5'oung A merica. I sav now it would be with ex treme reluctance that I would support for President, any man endorsed by young A merica." THE CONVENTION QUESTION. We publish in another column a com munication from a prominent Whig in an Eastern county, urging the Whig party, East as well as West, to consent to a Con vention for the amendment of the State Constitution. We have not changed the opinion which we formerly expressed, that a Conveution is the proper mode by which to amend the Constitution. And, it being settled be yond all controversy, that the Constitution must be amended, in the matter of Free Suffrage at least, we think it ought to be done by a Convention, and not by the Le gislature. The experience of the last ses sion sufficiently proved this, as we think. But if the Legislative mode of accomplish ing it be tolerated, not a year will ever pass again without an attempt, more or less imposing, to make another and anoth er amendment. The State will be kept in a turmoil for all time to come, by these movements, generally the result of dema goguical aspirations. Settled by a Convene tion, on the contrary, things will be settled for ten or twenty years probably, for it will take about that time for a new genera tion of demagogues to discover that their predecessors were fools, who knew noth ing of the science. of government. Ihe objection urged in the Last against a Couvention, is, that the West would make an effort in such a body , to change the basis of representation, in the Legisla ture to abolish the mixed or federal basis. We admit that many persons in the West are in favor of that change; but we deny that they would have the power to effect it. There are several counties in the West which never could be brought, in Conven tion or out of it, to vote for such a suicidal change of the Constitution suicidal whe ther considered in a State or a National point of view. We refer particularly to Anson, Caswell, Cumberland, Granville, Mecklenburg, Richmond, and Rocking ham. Perhaps there arc others. But with out the above, the West cannot possibly carry such a . proposition . Then let the tast, and those whose interests are with the East on this question, meet the issue at once, and put a quietus on all further agitation of that and other proposed chan ges, consenting however to that one which is so generally demanded, the abrogation of the property qualification for a voter for Senator. Fay. Obs. An Awful Fight. " Madrid, Febru ary 18th.- A letter from Logrono men tions a murder committed by one priest upon another, in the vestry of Brieves church. A quarrel had taken place be tween them as to who should say the first mass. After a furious personal conflict, in which they struck one another with the sacred vases, one of them who is not ed for his ferocity beat out the otherss brains with a crucifix. The authorities have ordered an investigation, which will bring to light facts, showing into how low a state of immorality the Spanish priest hood is fallen. : Even the Nuncio is said to have complained of the facility hitherto offered to taking orders, and stringent meas ures will be probably taken by the ecclesi astical authorities." "-An hour in the morning is worth two in the aern.ppix, "" . FREE SUFFRAGE. The Wilmington Herald discusses the politics of the day in a free and easy man ner that always delights'us, although we don't both see out of the same spectacles. Our readers will find in this extract from one of its articles, matter worthy of their consideration : '." "This Free Suffrage business proves in the strongest manner, the power of a pop ular hobby. Here was the firmest Whig State in the country, made to turn a com plete political summerset through the ha' ping of a cunning politician; (without any of those essential elements of statesmanship which: dignify oflke,) upon a popular note It was a mere hobby to" gull the people and ride into power, and it was entirely successful. But the evil did not end there. The discussions growing out of it had at tracted the attention, and awakened the desire of the people of the West for larger and more comprehensive reforms in the written charter of our fights. They insis ted that if the Constitution was amended at all, that the mode proposed by Govern or Reid was not the proper one j that the people should demand an open Conven tion, and make such alterations as that col lected body should deem expedient. This proposition, Iiowever, received but litde fa vor among the Whigs of the Eastern sec tion of the State, because they were appre hensive that the tide of a so called Reform would sweep down all the barriers and guaranties of the past, and that in the zeal for progress, certain measures would be carried, in which it was contended, not only would there be a sacrifice of policy wrought, but also injustice to this section. They contended that no change in the Constitution was desirable that for years it had proved itself fit for all the purposes of government. That it was good enough for the people as it was, without a single or wholesale alteration. And this is the pos ture of affairs at the present time. On the one hand are the Democrats with Reid at their head urging on Free Suffrage, and trusting entirely to its popularity for suc cess. On the other are the Whigs of the West demanding strenuously an unrestric ted Convention for the amendment of the Constitution, and the Whigs of the East, generally opposing both propositions, and insisting that the Constitution shall not be touched. In the meantime the season for the marshalling of the elans' is hastening on. The two Conventions will soon be held, aud the action of these will indicate the direction of the popular will. Every true son of so worthy a mother, should use all honorable means to put down in their inception, the formation of sectional par ties in North Carolina. When the West shall be arrayed against the East, or the East against the West, the fellowship so necessary for the advancement and happi ness of both sections will be made to yield to the unhappy feelings of estrangement find perhaps of hostility. - These can only exist to the injury of the best interests of the State. For all this confusion present and prospective, the people of North Car olina have to thank David S. Reid. He is the Marplot of the whole business. He fanned a flame and it may turn out a con flagration." DELEGATES AND ELECTORS. The decision in Congress that the next Presidential election is to be governed by the Census of 1850, presents serious diffi culties in this and other States in which the number of Electors of President and Vice President is thereby changed. Some action will be required, and that speedily; for the State is now divided into eleven E loctoral Districts, from each of which an' Elector i to be chosen, according to the present law of the State, whereas, the State is entitled to but ten Electors. We douot see how an Extra Session of the Legisla ture can be avoided. The law is express, thai one Elector shall be an actual resident of each of the eleven Districts. Difficultias will also occur in the selec tion of Delegates to the National Conven tions. Bat for these, provision can be made by the respective State Conventions, perhaps by allowing each of the present Congressional Districts to select a Dele gate, and the Conventions-to appoint only one, instead of two, for the State at large. Fay. Obs. WE KNEW HE WOULD COME. The mau who refused to take the paper was at the last circus He brought his whole family in a two horse wagon. He still believes that Gen. Taylor is president, and wanted to kuow if the 'Kamschatki ans' had taken Cuba, and if so, where they had taken it. He had sold his corn for 25-cts. the price being thirty one but on going to deposit the money, they told him it was mostly counterfeit. The only hard money he had was some three cent pieces, and these some sharper had 'run on him' for half dimes; his old lady smok ed a cob pipe, and would not believe that anything else could be used. One of the boys went to a blacksmith shop to be mea sured for a pair of shoes, and the other mis took the markethouse fora church. After hanging his hat on a meat hook, he pious ly took a seat in a butcher's stall and lis tened to an auctioneer, whom he took to be a preacher. He left before 'meetin' was out, and had a good opinion of the 'sarmin.' One of the girls took a lot of 'seed onions' to the post office to trade for a letter. . She had a baby which she carried in a 'sugar trough,' stopping at times to rock it on. an old shocking ,:ncf sang 'Ba bary Allen.' The oldest boy had sold two coon skins,' and was on a bust. When last seen he had called for a glass of 'soda water, and stood soaking ginger bread and making wry faces. The shop keeper, mistaking his meaning, had given him a mixture of sal soda water, and it tas ted strongly of soap. But he'd heard tell of soda and water, and was bound to give it .a fair trial. Some 'town fellows' came in and called for a lemonade, with a 'fly in it,' whereupon our soaped friend turn ed his back and quietly wiped several into his drink. We approached the old gentle man and tried to get him to subscribe,' but he would hot listen to it. He was op posed t internal improvements, and thought 'iamin' was a wicked invention, and culterwaten nothin' but wanity and wexalion. None of his family ever learn ed to read but one boy, and he 'teached school awhile, and then went to study vir ginity.' Western paper. A Housewife of California writes home to her northern friends that she has made $1 8,000 worth of pies about one third of this has been clear profit. One year she dragged her own wood off the moun tain and cut it, and never had so much as a child to take a step for her in the coun try. $U,0Q0 worth of the pies she says, I baked in one little iron skillet, a conside rable portion by a camp fire, without the shelter of a tree from the broiling sun. But now I have a good cooking stove, in which I bake four pies at a tin?e, a comfortable cabin, carpetted, and a good many "Rob inson Crusoe" comforts about me, which , altho' they have cost nothing, yet they make my place look habitable- I also hire my wood hauled and chopped- I bake on an average about twelve hundred pies per month, and clear 200. This, in Califor nia, is not thought much, and yet, in real ity, few in comparison are doing as well. I have been informed that -there are some women in our town, clearing $60 per week at washing, and I cannot doubt it. There is no labor so well paid as women's labor in California. The Mount Holly N. J. "Mirror" thus notice the changes in the good for tune of Prince Murat: "There are very many in our country who remember Prince Lucien Murat, the sporting good-natured soul, who formerly dwelt at one comer of the late Joseph Bo naparte's estate, rt BordentownKving no one knew hardly how- wild and reckless, to-day flush with money, to-monow not a shot in the locker. Well, this same jovial Prince has given a practical illustration of the truthfulness of Sliakspeare's saying, that "there's a tide in the affairs of men, which if taken at the flood; leads ono fortune." The elec tion of Louis Napoleon was the flood-tide with him for he and his family are now at the head of the heap in France, rich , courted, living in grand, royal, superb style." He has risen from his obscurity at Bor dentowun where he so often enjoyed his punch and wine with boon companions, or startled the wood-cock along the low banks of the Delaware and been sum moned to the height of whatever fame the French President has to lend him. He wears the velvet uniform of a Senator his finances are said to flourish and his off spring are greeted with every promise of having a position and making a noise in the world, as the following notice taken from a Parisian paper will show. "The baptism of the infant of Prince and Princes Murat took place at the elysee. The infant was held at the baptismal font by the Prince-President and the Princess Ma.hilde." Success to ourfriend the Prince. May he live long to enjo' his new bom wealth and honors. HISTORICAL NOVELS. Who is to be the Sir Walter Scott of the next generation ? Most sadly is he want ed, for fiction is falling into a maudlin con dition generally, and before long, if some great historical novelist does notarise.things will be bad as when Mrs. Radcliffe ruled the hour, or the author of "The Children of the Abbey" coined a small fortune by hef sen timental trash. Novelists of real life, as they are called, are plen'y enough, and to spare: from Dickens and Bulwer down, we have authors in crowds delving in the field. But a good historical novel is a thing the public has not been favored with since the " Last ef the Barons" appeared. A change, and not a beneficial one, has come over litera ture in this line. Instead of having novels, written with fidelity of history, we now have histories indited in the spirit of the novel. To onr notions, the old practice was the best, and in every particular. When Sir Walter Scott wrote a novel, the reader knew that though the facts might often be differ ent from what the writer told,- the pictures of the age, and even of the historical char acters, were accurate. But when Macaulay writes history, his delineations of men are frequently as idea! as the hero of a novel, and the reader is puzzled to tell what is truth and what is not, till, in despair, he throws the book aside as a tissue of fables. In Ivanhoe, though a novel, we find the best portraits of Richard Coeur de Lion extant. In Macaulay, Penn and Claverhouse are drawn like villains in a low novel. Give us the historical fiction,' therefore, rather than the fictitious history'. "The first may be sometimes wrong in detail, but it is true as a whole. The last is false as a whole, though the details may be true. But the history, to the popular mind, passes for ac curacy itself, because it is called a history ; and when once read, not only is it accept ed as correct in every pr iticular, but further inquiry is considered useless. The histori cal novel, on the contrary, whets the men tal appetite, nor are its statements believed in till it has been verified by research. It is a natural consequence to the sincere in quirer, to study Thseny'-s JVonnu Con quest" after Ira ring, read Scott's "Ivanhoe; t- examine De Comines and Monstrelet af ter perusing Bulwer's character of the King Maker. Hence good historical novels real ly do a benefit; while the new style of his tory, if we can call it history, does only harm. Nor is this all. We question wheth er the public will not always take its notions of history from novefs, rather than from his tories themselves. Ten men derive their ideas of Mary Stuart from the "Abbr t," where one man obtains Eis opinion of her from studying her biographers: ai.d this is not on'y true of the present,but will, we sus pect, be true of the future, for it has its ori gin in a characteristic common to all hu manity. Cive us, therefore, historical nov els, rather than novel-like histories ! Since novel-readers there will be, let us have some thing better than sentimental nonsense. Oh ! for a second Sir Walter Scott ! Philadelphia Bulletin. A Cockney Astoxisiied. It is to be hoped that the English have gained some additions to their knowledge of American rivers since the Reverend Dr. Breckenridge made his visit to Europe several years ago, aud met the following incident, which is recorded in the memoranda of his travels. A gentlemah-like and weH informed Englishman, who was in the stage-coach with me. and who found out that 1 was an American, after dilating on the greatness, the beauties, the majesty, in short, of this noblest of British rivers, (the Thames,) concluded thus : "Sir, it may seem almost incredible to you, but it is nevertheless true, that this prodigious stream is from its mouth to its source, not much, if at all, short of one hundred and. fifty miles long I" I looked steadfastly ia his face to see if he jested ; but the gravity of deep convic tion was upon it. Indeed, John Bull nev er jests. After composing m'self a mo ment, I slowly responded "Perhaps, sir, you never heard of the Ohio river? "I think I have." "Perhaps of the Missouri?" "1 think so, though not sure." "Certainly of the Mississippi ?" "Oh, yes, yes !" "Well, sir, a man will descend the Ohio in a steamboat of the largest class, a thou sand miles." "Of what, sir? how many, sir?" "A thousand miles ; and there he will meet another steamboat of the same class which has come in an opposite direction twelve hundred miles down the Missouri, and then, after going fifteen hundred miles more, down the Mississippi, he may see that flood of waters disembogue by fifty channels into the sea' I had made up my mind to be consider ed a client so I went calmly and emphat ically through the statement. As I pro gressed, my companion seemed somewhat disposed to take my story as a personal af front ; but at its close, he let down his vis age into a contemptuous pout, and regular ly cut my Bequaintauce. The Poets of our age, an illustrious brotherhood, how rapidly have they been following each other adown the dark val ley! Keats, the youngest of them, was the first to die, and Rogers, the oldest who began to publish ten years before Keats was born is still living thirty years after the death of his youthful contemporary. Af ter Keats, then Shelley, prematurely drow ned; then Byron, in the prime of his man hood. A'few years later Walter Scott, af ter making and losing a princely fortune, just when the autumnal touches showed the ripeness of age, from prodigious over working of his powers, with his mind a melancholy blank. Shortly afterwards, Coleridge, "the rapt one with the godlike forehead," with the intellect of a superior being, and scarcely the moral purpose of a child, after years of languishing, produced by the tyranny of opium, found rest. Then Southey, with his powers exhaust ed like Sir Walter Scott's, died with his mind insane; then Campbell, scarcely passed the time when a man is in the vigor of his faculUes, became fatuons, and ex pired almost an imbecile; and now Tom Moore, the bard of bis native Erin, with all the brilliant faculties dimmed by pre mature decay, dying as it were like an old man asleep, in a childish dream. Keat in his manhood, Shelley on the threshold, Byron at its prime, and Scott, Southey, Campbell, and passing as it were, at one stride, from day to darkness from the pride of power to the humiliation of sec ond childhood . The great exception is Wordsworth; he died full of years, full of glory, and full of intellect; m sank like the sun through a cloudless sky in the o cean, showing his subdued splendors a long the deep further and further till he sets,'"' Never open the door to a little vice, lest a greater one should enter also. New Marriage Machinery. Not long since a marriage took place at Skan eateles, N. Y., rather out of the ordinary line, but still, it is said, perfectly legal. The parties were Mr. Samuel Sellers and Miss Sarah Abbot. The ceremony is thus described by an eye-witness. After giving his views in a brief speech, Mr. Sellers took his bride by the hand and said : In the presence of all who are present, I take Sarah Abbot to be my wife, mak ing no promises of continued affection, aiid invoking no aid thereto, but hoping, trusting, believing that our characters are sufficiently well adapted to enable us to bq to each: other faithful and affectionate hus band and wife during our hves.- Miss Abbot then said : j In the presence of all who are present, I take Samuel Sellera to be my husband, making no promises, but hoping, trusting, ahd believing that our characters are suffi ciently well adapted to each other to ena ble us to be faithful husband and wife while We live. j They then signed a paper with their de claratioftof being husband andUvife, and the company present signed a certificate as witness to the ceremony, and thus they be came husband and wife. i Massachusetts. A large and har monious convention of the Whigs of Mas sachusetts was held at Boston on the 10i.li inst. Upon the Presidential question there was but one expression of opinion and that was the submission of all private and per sonal preferences to the voice cf the Na tional Convention. To this course, says the Boston Journal, "each speaker most heartily gave his consent, and added his earnest pledge to bring to the suppoitof that nomination whether it be of the De fender of the Constitution, the Hero of Lundy's Lane, or the piesent excellent and able occupant of the Presidential chair --all his powers of body and of mind. The hearty responses given to this senti ment by the whole body of the convention showed that it struck a chord the vibrations of which will go foith in clarion tones, sounding the note of preparation for iho contest and for victory. Abimelech came home on Sunday a lit tle later than usual to dinnci, 'which recal led to Mr. Slow's mind the fact that he had not seen his boy in the family pew during the reading of the 'lethergy,' and both facts together FHggesretLlo him the bare possibility that he had not been to church. ''Bimeleeh,' said Mr. Slow, solemnly, as he stood with his baek towards the grate ; ''Bimeleeh, have you been to meetin'? ' Yes, sir,' said Abimelech, stoutly, 'I've been to the Universah'st.' j 'Well, my son, l'ant like a good many fathers that don't want their children to go any where but just where they say. No, my son, I ain't one of these. Toleration is my motto largest liberty and all that, that cur forefathers fit and died for. Yes, my son, go where 3'ou please to meetin,' I don't care, only this I will say, that if I ketch you goin' to that meetin', I'll take your hide off.' i This practical lecture, so sound and lib eral in its character, wrought so effectually on Abimelech 's mind, that he cheerfully abstained from wandering, and never flared to go inside a Universalis! church again. Carpet llaf. Confirmed. Among the list of con firmations by the Senate, of appointments by the President, just published, wc dis cover the name of James H. Norwood, of N. C, Indian Agent at the Upper Miss ouri Agency, in the place of Peyton P, Moore, declined, i , - . j Five States, out of the original Thirteen have so far taken measures to be represen ted in the Convention to be held in Phila delphia on the fourth of July, with refer ence to the erection in Union Square in that city, of monuments commemorative of the Old Thirteen States which formed the Federal compact at the time of 'the de claration of Independence. The States that have chosen delegates thus ir are : Massachusetts, New Jerseyr PetHieylvania, Delaware and Georgia. Bait. American , Great Sxow Storm. On Thursday morning snow tmd fallen two feet deep on the eastern division of the Erie railroad. The storm was furious in many places, particularly on the seaboard. At lJoston and New York it was a violerrt snow-storm accompanied by a galer at Norfolk, Vir ginia, it was rain and hail, with lightning, thunder, and wind. It certainly acted it little like the line storm, awl it is so regard ed in Boston, where the people seem to stand in no particular awe of the scientific savans, who, in grand convention here last summer, decided that there was no such thing as an equinoctial stormno such institution at all, and never had been! I Albany Register, 22d. , We understand the Democratic Rcviiu for March, which is not yet issued, has a teirific txticle on General Scott, stripping every laurel from his brow, and making the late Col. Duncan the hero of the Mex ican Warf It also has an article on "Old Fogyism" and the "Young Democracy" in other words, the relative merits of Cass and Douglass. Mirror. 1 Be net above your, profession, it is tho best that any man can follow. It is easier to suy press the first desire thau to satisfy all that follow it. That virtue which parleys is near a sur-r render.
Raleigh Times [1847-1852] (Raleigh, N.C.)
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