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TIMES. ID A Mlilri r SSL GIVE ME THE LIBERTY TO KNOW, TO UTTER, AND TO ARGUE FREELY, ACCORDING TO CONSCIENCE, ABOVE ALL OTHER LIB ERTIES' Miltqx. NEW SERIES. R. I. WYNNr Publisher. VOL. V. NO. 30. RALEIGHFRm agar j.-umwuawj''''1 I " C. C. RABOTEAU, Editor. , J '' ' u-" TERMS. She tried how Two Dollars and Fin v Cents if not paid in six mouths; and Three Dollars inpayment be delayed to the end of the subscrption year. JT To Clubs, we will send Si.-.. TopW- for Ten Poilars, and 'Jvo!ve copies for Feiriue.-ii Dollars, when the motiev e.eiroinoioii-s tb order. ADVERTISEMENTS, X it ox-.r-'i : hiu-en lines, will be published one time for One Dollar and Twenty-five Cents for each subsequent insertion. Court ' -iters and Judicial Ad vertisements will be r.liarsred 2, per cent higher. A fowiliiiMi' dednetbn will be made to those who ad vertise bv the Ve i". I, -Iters ii the M litr,r mint le piwt paid. Money fr the Odic- may l" sent by mail 'it our risk, in pay Ill -lit for sulwcMptioiis, advertisements, jobs,, tic. O )??i.:o.v F.vviirrKviLLS sr., one dooii eelow POST OKFICi-: : A TOUCHING SrOIlYV T II E D E A D II E A RT. 11Y CAROLINE cnESEBKO i manv a deed he wrought The Times is issued everv Thursday, ot;d mailed I ()evoj V) with' the charity that thillketll o subscribers at Two Dollars per uminm, in advance; ; ' : 1, lv for. hu t: , u , i.w juijti. i lie 1 iuuv. 11 j ced iipco her of his ungenial and unwor ihy spirit; and had this been a possibility, she had certain!) succeeded in an effort so continuously and so faithfully made. - It was only afier years had passed, that the truth, which slowly but surely gather ed its force, 'buret full upon her, and the wife knew that the doom of solitariness in the midst of splendor was upon her. Ur ged then by the "strong necessity of lov iii"," she folded in a more idolatrous pas- ! sioc her young children to her heart,' and she made gods of Uicm. It was said by tome who inquisitively watched the fading of Iier face, and the sadness that revealed itself in her eyes and in her voice, that Evelyn Clause was but reaping in bitter appointment the fruit which she well deserved,,, for wedding where her heart could not by possibili ty have chosen its home. But no word from her lip ever added to the testimony of hei face; and it was not the truth which they spoke, who looking on the apparent wreck of her happiness, told "of the just re ward of the covetous. If it had been a self immolating sense of duty. to her par ents which led the girl in her youth to wed with Jesse Clause, it was likewise a sense of justice, lofty and holy and stern, that prompted and constrained her to be to the husband all he should, have' been to her. The "consciousness of his utter uncongeni ality was witli her constantly, yet she con tinued unwearicdly f.tilhfuland devoted to him: s' ill how often, how very often, her heart fainted and failed within her, need I teli? Let the mortal who has looked for ! love and found only wealth who lias re ceived a stone where it craved for the bread of life answer. Yet the reader has seen that entire bank runtcv was not forced upon the wife. In On her twenty-ninth birth-day Evelyn Clause bent over the body of her lifeless son, and saw him, the eldest, the most beautiful, die last suiviving of her four bright boys, placed in the coffiin for burial. iShe watched and even assisted in this du ty, with a calmness that, was almost fright lul to behold: and the hearts of those who witnessed the strange composure of the be reaved mother trembled and fluttered into quiet even while theit hands were busied with arranging the robes of the dead; the tears which had gathered in their eyes fell not; voices which had faltered as they strove to utter consolation or sympathy grew calm and strong suddenlj;; even the grief of the nurse who. had watched over Frederick from his infancy was hushed, and became voiceless in the presence of the mother, who stood so calm and silent be side her lifeless child. When Clarence, the haby. died, it was far otherwise with her. Never was infant icd With such wild, such exceeding sorrow as lie. Night and day through his j illness, and after his death, the young mo ther clung to him, until at lastlhey were compelled by force to remove her from the , l,ii tli. fimern liour wasioiue of beauty was on his h.tir, and in his eyes and in his graceful figure. Vv hen he was merry she was a very child in her gladness. His Vyyish grief made her also so sorrow-f:-..:V seemed indeed an elder sister ra- tner than ine momer oi uie iau; .i ;;CMUl'). fond, and proud companion, rather than an instructor or guide. As year by year passed on, and still the child was spared, the trembling foreboding with which Evelyn had, on every succeed ing morrow, clasped him to her breast, passed, and a blessed conviction that He, who is most merciful and just m ail his ways, would" grant long life to her darling, began to fill her mind. Then she built up high hopes of his manhood; she saw him pressing on in the loftiest paths of be ing, and how earnest was she in her en deavor to educate his heart. And a bright reward was given the mother foi this labor of love in the honest and noble spirit of the boy, in his virtue, in his filial reverence and devotedness to both parents. Look-in"- then into his clear eyes, she read a joy-. fin truth in them, respecting the .lofty cha racter of her child. "That he should die!" No warning of a calamity so awful was given in the healthful look, the ringing voice, and the winged footsteps of the boy; and indeed it was without any warning that Frederick was called away. There were but a few brief moments 'of solitary struggle in the night-time that passed between the sleep of life and the breathless slumber of the dead! '.-And she was not there to hear his struggling and his cry; to hear him, when the convulsion and the agony was over, murmuring her name with his dying breath ! When the .sunlight of .morning stream ed in at the window t-f his room, which was close '"adjoining hers, '--Evelyn stood by his bed side, as she was wont, to wel come him back to day and to her heart; the children given her, the craving spirit j but his greeting was for her ear uo more; of life within her found consolation; in their unfolding natures her resigned heart corpse wt c . ' - weep aroused to act; the floods which had been It seemed then as though she wo.ua v.otp . . i-r ,i ,!, ninIim;1Vr ;a ! fast selihng :nto a Dead Sea were arrested, her very life aw av; and me mouin.nb in . o .. . , . , . , 11.1 m--.j , I -..ri-rwl nrrti!!.. 1 I 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 S wllicll WPIft which her form was enrobed was not corn- were stirred again: the clouds which were i i - i .1.; ii -;ni- n,T ( k nun 1 1 ii ea ii i ii 1 1' iia:Miiiit.u ti parable in gloom with that natural mourn- - i i r I snnhi inlif liPBs nnw) more. her .lovety iace. j ;n ., -o I Frederick:, the hrst bom, was a loveiy i Kim- Th Iiiin t!i eniil nf 1 1 i-i inn! I irr see 111- uu . i. ' i iiiiii . w. ' -- - - ed nersonified; and well . . - I 1 I . , ..,1 Iz-i.-o'i, m,T wir.cn enveiopeu nu i.v.. Thouo-h three children still remainci. her, it was of him who .was lost that she held most constant remembrance; it was of him, the affectionate little'.' one, who had never learned to express his love in words, who had never even learned her name, t hat her stricken heart held continual thought; and she who had lived all of life real life that had been given her to live in her children trembled now, and look ed with constant fear on the future, in them she had fixed all her hope and love, and behold, one already was taken! her might she look with pride on him, who .was the first in all the world to love her as she prayed one human being might. She was satisfied when his eyes fixed upon her, w hen his voice called her, when he followed in her footsteps, like an attendant angel. She asked no more of earth's good filing when his merry laugh rung in her ear, .vhen his smiling happy face was before her. With the oilier children b;rn unto these parents.' there was a mother's love born a twin T.' I.... f'lnico I 1 I! Pit 111 " ,,-iin had witu eacii, a protector to cacti, xi simy """ ?., .. '- ....t. voutli, to a "merchant pi already been twice married. They stood too-etber at the altar a strangely matched nnir- slie a verv 'rliild in experience and in ; i j j beauty, and he worn in the world's service his hair already tinged with gray. There were some witnessing this bridal who envied the new-made wife of Jesse Clause; for lie was a man respected aid looked up to in the world; but he was also one to' whom it would seem the fancies or the hearts of the youthful would r.ot natu rally incline. But he had money, and to the young creature who in the morning of her life joyously consented to wed him, this was bis sole recommendation tlieon- with them into suc i cxuitant life, that none w ho looked upon Evelyn then could his smile Was no longer to uval that sun shine which flooded the little chamber. Long, long continued was" die- vain effort to bring hint back again, and frantic was the voice that rung 'through the solemnly silent room, whpae walls alone coldly ech oed his dear' name;, and all the while upon his young face -was an expression inexpres sibly tranquil and soft, which, while it bitterly mocked her despair, seemed to re buke her sorrow. As 1 have already said, when Frederick was arrayed for the grave, and placed in his corTmi, there was a wondrous calmness a strange composure in the face, the voice, the manner of the mother,. Yes, for in her also had their been a death and a bu rial, and she had wept the last tears, had funeral, which had cone forth from her home. There Were a multitude who ad mired her, a multitude who envied her ; but, alas ! she was of all about her the most miserable ; not because sick at heart her heart was dead but in 'that afflict ion had driven her from Him who "wounds us for His mercy's sake." The life which she lived what was it. to her? Yet as the wife of Jesse Clause it was the only life which she imagined she could live ; and w hen Evelyn saw that in thi3 career she had reached the standard which Was perfection in her husband's eyes, she abated not one jot. She suffer ed him to find his pride in her because for herself she knew there was nothing, noth ing but an automaton existence, which, by reason its of nature, could not find in the world anything to charm, or to interest, or to rejoice it. To many there was something too cold in the supreme indifference, the perfect calmness of the lady ; but the most about her saw only the perfection of style in her manner and her raimei.:, and they labored hard to imitate that which, alas ! i i -. . . i. - ' - . . . i . m lveiyn was diu me nauuai e. pi ce.-uu-u of one whose heart is dead ; over whom the burial service most solemn has been read ; for whom in this world there is no possible resurrection. So long as her husband lived, this was the w ife's mode of life ; but the old man died at last, and left his fortune without a single reservation to Evelyn. Then there wns an instant change, that -might have be tokened much to the wondering world in her. Among her husband's relatives and her own, in charities wide and almost numberless,1 that immense property was dispersed, and penniless die widow went a way from' the world w here she had suffer ed uncounted agonies, and shone a brilliant s!ar to silence and obscurity in a convent. There may be some glancing over this record who have not yet forgotten thus much of her history, and my Words may how-have w akened freshly in their remem brance the beautiful woman whose sudden departure from among them was an event so far beyond their comprehension. O, then, reader, could I unseal to you those years of convent life which passed over her head ; i oti'd I tell you of the prayers that went up from the hearts of the holy Mr. Pierce'ssoundness on the Compromise; but are nevertheless curious to know how it happens that editors w ho scanned with delight, the replies of actual candidates, have not deigned to enlighten their readers in relation to the reply of the nominee the man to w hose response the accidents of the convention have attached a special im portance. - There is propriety in reminding our co temporaries of the omission, because by a singular coincidence or, fatality Mr. P. in his letter of acceptance docs not notice the point mooted by Mr. Scott ; and the omission is turned to account by Freesoil prints as evidence of their own consistency in supporting Mr. Pierce's pretensions.. Let us have the epistle Without further delay. Let us have tangible proof that the Democratic organs spoke truly when they said that before his nomination Mr. Pierce put his signature to a promise to ve to any bill repealing or weakening the. Fu gitive law. The publication is essential, not less to vindicate their own character, than to place their candidate in a proper liLrht before the country. Jlcn uu.i c . Caafessia:! of Jans Wniiars. Froai the Richmond" dispatch uf ycsterd iy, We learn ilia t this negro has made a full confession of ll.e murder of'Mr. Winston and family. Siie tx oiit-r tes her huabar.d from all parlifipaiion ill llie liorrid aff.ir. From die same source, we loam that 'Mr., Wins ton is rapidly recove rinj, and there is every :probar bility lie Will now get -entirely well. His mind, al thoiieh occasionally clouded, is almost restored. Inreplv to en q-.iiries for his Wife and child, he has been inf. ruied tliat they ai-e sick at the house of a friend in r-faid to his woiuitls, lie has been told that he received them in a tall wl'Ue wal!u;ir in his sleep. Full particulars of the confession will be found below : v On tS.iturd.iy evening, about 7 o'clock, the Rev- Mr. Uvl md. pa-tor of the African I'pti.-t Church of. which Jane Wi'liains is it niiMiiher, visited her, aid exhorted her to make her peace with God, as she would undoubtedly be hung. Jane replied dial shainteniletl doing so. ai,d that thpre was something on her mind which Am stated that she alone mur dered Mrs. Wia-toi. and h r il.i tighter, aud inllii t ed t!ie woiiiidi upon M r. AVin.slo:i?s head She ex culpate! hrr husband entirely, stating that he was asleep at the 'Man site committed Uie bloody d eil anJ knew noihiiig of its pere:r.iti.-ni. Sliedid not go into the particulars of Ihe transaction th:m. Yesterday, by reVe-t, Mr. S:arke, her ja ilor. nicde of amending the Constitution, and that he was a thorough Convention man he triumphantl .refuted the charge attempt ed to be circulcted to his injury that he had one set of opinions for the East anc one for the West, by calling upon Gov. Reid who had been with him both in the East and West, to state if his positions here were difT arent from what they were in fiber portions of the State. The Governor -.vould not dare assert that he was dodging my question. The facts taken together, that Mr. Kerr's opinions are more acceptable to this section than Gov. Reid's; that ha is rea ly a better free suffrasre man than the Governor, pro posing to secure free suffrage to the people in the only republican mode it can be ob tained, will not fail to secure to him the en tire -Whig vote with a portion of the liberal minded Democrats of this division of the State. I have said nothing of Mr. Kerr's ability on the stump, for the reason that his elo quence is known and appreciated all over the State; and where is there a North Caro linian that can hear John Kerr, and not feel proud of him as a native North Carolinian? Having been in Burke and McDowell since the candidates for Governor were there, and having heard through a reliable source from Rutherford, the same favorable state of feeling was produced. My information from Rutherford is, that she will her usual Whig majority at the August election. No odds what reportsyou may hear to the contrary, the w hole West may be set down as thoro' ly Whig now, as heretofore; and John Krr mav be classed as one of the favorites of the West. These statements will be fully veri fied the 5th of August. BUNCOMBE. Asheville, July 26, 1852. ; would open in thy heart, that might nev er be sealed again ; and bearing her in mind, how humble henceforth nay how thankfully wonldst thou receive at thy Father's hand the cup of grief, knowing that these light afflictions, bitter -..though they seem, are but for a moment. It was a dreary life that Evelyn Jed I passed the last a-onV. All indeed of life j had almost said it was a hopeless death she was over to her ; and whatsoever of ..mis fortune or of suffering might yet befall her would ba without a name, and without reality to hear. Of old a bright, bewilder-ino- light had dancedin her large eyes, say, "She is unhappy." She became j gloriously brilliant w henher heart was more beautiful then than she had been in her girlhood, and the peaceftdness, the continual harmony of her existence in those days, proved that she was satisfied. In those 5'oiiiig beings her own dead youth was beautifully revived; in the sunshine that enveloped them she revelled; and the "liglil-joy" of perfect innocence and con tentment, which was over them, reflected itself in and through her. How terrible then was the awakening from this security of happiness to an imitii- glad, mournfully sweet in the days of sorrow : that light was now entirely vanished, and it was dulling for the heart w hen she fixed her gaze on the things of the earth, winch were now but i . i . i ' 1 as chaos, as voia to ner. untc in jiei youth, and after her marriage, iudeedher voice vibrated, like a rich stringed instru ment, with every emotion, but a cold, lv reason whv she for a moment thought j agi,ed, unthought of sorrow! The immu seriously of his offer. 1-or Lvelyn.was the daughter of a poor family, (a large family moreover,) and it had been sheer madness in her, and profound selfishness also, (so her own generous heart assured her,) to decline so precious rn opportunity of aiding her beloved ones at home. Willi he sincere earnestness and heartiness of youth, Evelyn strove to feel for her great benefactor more than gratitude, more than respect; she tried to love him. Poor child must she also learn that bitter lesson, which they 'who thus bind". Poverty and Wealth .oo-ether so often, so invariably, so fully learn? As Evelyn learne ! her husband, to knew his nature as his departed companions had a wild suspicilm would anon torture her; that love which she had vowed to main tain for him was not that which she must ' -'strive for; to preserve that reverence which she had for him, that respect, that friendli ness, that gratitude, she must struggle. Ah. reader, no task like that can be giv- j ' en the bewildered young soul Gou gave thee from the necessity of learn ing it! It was then that Evelyn hushed, With an effort that one must have himself made in order to fully appreciate, the in dignant voice which Nature prompted Her til raise against many a word lie uttered, lability of her idols had seemed a thing uncptestioned ; she had never borne to think they might be shattered, she had never thought it. And, therefore, when Death came and stood before her, and clasped her infant in his arms, she was frantic in her grief. In her bereavement the wife wras indeed most lonely. During the several months in which one by one the three younger boys successively sickened and died, it was in Frederick's presence, in his voice alone that she found any comfort. Her hus band's tears did indeed fall with" hers over the lifeless children, and vvilh a heavy. heart he followed them to the burial-p!ace, but it seemed the loss of heirs that he most mourned. The children had never been to him what they were to her. It was in the passionate grief of the last surviving son that she could best sympathize; and with him clasping her hand when the third of her offspring was laid in the grave, Eve lyn felt that there was yet left on earth a comfort and an exceeding joy. How in finitely precious he became in her sight , whoso has bound up all their hope in this life, and all their deep affection in one hu man beng, will fully comprehend. He was her future. The rainbow of promise circled his glorious forehead, the sunlight . . - ; . . iii questioned her concerning toe waiter, ana sue also sisterhood for her, day after day, through nude fullan J prompt confession .to him. ofcmmr.it all those many years, .' a fountain of tears tiiig the murJer. ;S ie also tU him die particulars ot the transaction, . D.ie s.iij mat a: iiuie uemre .! i v-i.re:ik. and ill advance of her u-Mia! hour of rising, she rose without . 'disturbing her husband, procured the broadened hatchet, ei tered top house, psoreedi d to -Mr, Wint;mV room, and commer ced her fi -n lisli laborsbyknocking Mr. Wins'o:i sen-e-tess. Ileseiiree'y struggled.. On leaving hiin,she stepped around the bed, and commenced cutting in-, to !)? Ih'.m! of Mrs. W'iiis'.ini. Mis.AV.'s struggles were sn great, that Jane savs she inflicted stronger and more frequent blows upon her head than she did on Mr.'s in order to ti died ; bu t that I may not sav, tnat I will not believe ; for they who entered hei cell late one Sabbath morning found her on her knees and she -was dead ! And so her last breath may have been a prayer. New York Knickerbocker. THE FISHERY QUESTION. The treaty of 1S18 was negotiated by R. Rush, and it is under the British construc tion of the British Convention of that year, the British Ministry have issued their recent orders in regard to the Fisheries. Mr. Rush says, in regard to this convention, that he found it difficult to introduce that word 'for ever' in opposition to the doctrine of the British government, that war should be con sidered as abrogating these rights. The British government for thirty-four years, ac quiesced in the American construction. The right of fishing is made absolute to cer tain defined coasts, bays, harbors and creeks, and then there is a limitation of the right,as to all other coasts, bays, harbors and creeks, so far only as" to prevent fishing within three marine milts thereof. The idea that this line of exclusion was to be drawn from headland to headlandinstead of along the shores of bays, &c, originated with the leg islature of Nova Scotia in '41, and w as car ried out only by an interpolation ofthe word 'head!an J:" which is not found in the con vention. , A diiliculty arose prior to 1S45, between our fishermen and the British Colonial au- A NARROW ESCAPE. The men were about to pitch my tent near some suspicious looking holes, but I had it moved to a clear, open space not far distant In the morning as Achmet was about rolling up my matrass', he suddenly let it drop and rushed out of the tent, ex claiming, "-oh, master come out, come out, there is a great Snake in your bed !' I looked and true enough there was an ug ly, spotted reptile coiled up in the straw malting. The men heard the alarm, and my servant Ali came running up with a club. As he was afraid to enter the tent he threw it to me, and with one blow I put the snake beyond powcrof doinc harm. It W'as not more than two feet long, but thick and club-shaped, with a back cover ed with green, brown and yellow scales, very hard and bright. .The Arabs, who by this time had come to the rescue, said it was a most venomous creature, its bite causing instant death, f Allah hereon!' (God is merciful !) I exclaimed, and ihey heartily responded, 'God; be praised!'- They said that the occurrence denoted long life to me. Although no birds were to be seen at the time, not ten minutes hau elaps ed before two large crows appeared and a liglited near the snake. jThe walked a round it at a distance, occasionally ex changing glances and turning up their heads in a shrewd manner, which plainly said 'No you don't old fellow ! want to make us believe you are dead, do you ? They bantered to each other to take hold of it first, and at last the boldest seized it suddenly by the tail, jumped two or three feet and then let it fall. He looked at the other, as much as to say, f If he's not dead its a capital sham!' The other made a similar essay, after which; they alternately dragged and shook it, and consulted some time before they agreed that it was actual ly dead. One of them took it by the tail and sailed off through the air its scales glittering in the sun as it dangled down ward. Bayard Taylor's Letters from the Nile. I ice her q-Jick! V MR. PIERCE AND THE RICH MOND INQUISITOR. AYe have dipped into each succeeding number of the "Richmond, .Enquirer wish the expectation of discovering Mr. Pierce's answer to Mr. II. G. Scott, of inquisitorial celebritv. The first idea that occurred to us on perusing the batch of epistles which even metalic ring, was now in the cahn i that genileman managed to elicit from the She then killed the child, wash- t thorities, as to the consti tiction ofthe terms ed off the blood, a I'd hid it in the cradle. She then washed the blood off of tl' hatchet, hid it nn.J then gavetbe al irm.-"' Ja ne further stated, that she con sidered she had been ill-treated by Mr. and Airs. Winston, and let, I been brooding over her bloody revenge for soui time. -. . '-' ;. The devil, she sta'ed, h id such possession of her last Monday morning, 'hat she believed she c ml ! liave wpiiI further than she d.d, if necessary. She denies stealingtiie w itch and clothing, a our re ji.vrter undi rstoi d. She will probably reiterate her confession in f ill on Tuesday uox;, when brought it f- r trial. ' Pc--r.-A.7rg Express. cadence of her words. Jesse Clause knew that there was a change in his wife, but he could not un derstaiid it. When after two years of 1110111111117 she laid aside the dreary gai- ments, and went with him into the world, to become like the mass with w hom they mingled, only more brilliant, more cour teous, more enchanting than the syrens there to be found, he was vastly proud of ierr,rouder than he had been when he wedded the timid, lovely girl. Freely he laid before her the wealth which made their d w elling-place to rival all others in .splendor i and their magnificence became their fame. The life which .Evelyn Clause now led was the same as is vouch safed to many, and is lived in complete ness by them ; only her career as a fash ionable woman was not marked or marred by littleness in any shape ; she had no faults that any could discover ; she was generous and just, not only to the beggar at her gate, to the people in her employ, but also to her daily companions, and to her husband. Iier tongue spoke no evil or malice ; her counsel was never denied when it was sought. But bvelyn was without God, without hope iu the world. To him who had taken away the treasures that He gave, she never bowed her knee or soul. Into the house that is made with hands, the earthly courts of the Almighty, Democratic candidates for the Presidency, was that the whole was an ingenious con trivance to kill off all .competitors to make room for others less hampered with pledg es. The notion was repudiated by thejor acles as an imputation that would in due time receive ample exposure. Mr. Pierce, we were told, had been addressed in com mon with Messrs. Cass and Douglas, and ihe non-aDDearance of his reply in due . -1 " . time was attributed to bad roads, post offi ce dilatoriness, and we know not what be side. By and by, it was added, Mr. Pierce's response would be sent forth, with the two fold purpose of proving, firstly, that Mr. Pierce was from t ie first viewed propheti cally as a candidate ; and secondly, that upon this vital question of the Fugitive Slave law kris pledges were as distinct as j those of his less fortunate rivals. The country has -waited., patiently' for weeks, and still the promised revelation is withheld. The Richmond Enquirer, the Washington Union, and their allies, shout ed in triumph over the fact that "each and every one" of the candidates "pledges himself to prostrate by the Presidential ve to" "any repeal or modification of the Fu gitive Slave law." Mr. Pierce's pledge is not in the list ; and yet neither the Enquir er nor the Union has ventured to explain the causes of his silence, if he were silent, Fur t ho Raleigh Times. Mr. Editor: The candidates for Govern or addressed the voters of Henderson Coun ty, on Fri lay the 23d, and of Buncombe, on Saturday, the 2-hh. at each of which ap pointments they had large and attentive an-: dionccs. The voters of each county turned out to see and hear for themselves; and the result of the two meetings proved highly ad vantageous Vi our talented Vhig candidate for Governor. Mr. Kerr's positions had been differently represented to"- the people of this district, and they had generally sus pended their opinions until they had an op portunity of hearing him; and I take plea sure in announcing to your readers that he fully satisfied every Whig, and that he so far conv inced a number of Democrats of the correctness of his position, as to silence any open opposition IS him. If under the inllueuce of party drill they vote for Gov . ReiJ, it will be. without that warmth and enthusiasm that usually char acterizes their support of their candidates lit the Whig ranks we had a genuine revi val, such as will tell with effect upon the elections in August and November ; and whenever you hear it said the West has cooleJ down, that there is less enthusiasm, less attachment to WThig principles, and less zeal for the cause than formerly, you may write it down a slander upon the Whigs of the Western Reserve. Mr. Kerr, both at Hendersonville and this place, marched boldly up to the issues, and fully satisfied CALIFORNIA NEWS. The Steamship United States, with ten days later intelligence from California, ar rived at New York, on Thursday, at 9 oclock, A. M. She brings intelligence of the entire destruction of the city of So nora by fire loss $1,000,000. Lt. Gov. Purdy, of California, and Major Sibley are among the passengers and had their baggage robbed at Cruces of a large a mount of gold, letters and valuable securi ties. Crime continues to increase through the country. The prospects of the miners are encouraging. j - Dates from Oregon ere to the 22d In the election the Democrats claim a victory in the Legislature. i of that convention,, in an important particu lar. The British insisted then that the pri vilege given to the.Uuited States was to fish within three marine miles ofthe headlands. Mr. Stevenson, our Minister in England, uro-ed upon the British government a pro per regard to our construction of the con vention of IS IS. Lord Stanley requested Lord Falkland to suffer the question to lie till it could be further examined, and, it ap pears, that he was in favor of the American construction, though the decision of the British government was, ultimately, adverse to the American construction. Lord Aberdeen, it is known came to the determination to concede to Arnericj fish ermen their right of pursuing the occupa tion within the Bay of Fundy. Our fisher men had also the right to land and dry fish on certain unsettled and uninhabited shores. They may havv abused this privilege. But the authorities of Prince Edward Island were desirous that the Americans should be al lowed to land there; as by this means alone could they derive any profit from the fishers. The) petitioned the British government to allow the Americans to land and cure their fish, and trade, &.c. The people of the British provinces do riot; it is said, avail themselves, to any great extent, of their fisheries. The people of Newfoundland are not much concerned in the fisheries on their own banks, and they attribute the success of the Yankees, to the encouragement which they receive from the United States Government,in bounties,coin mercial treaties and securing to them for eign markets for their fish. It seems to us that the British Govern ment cannot for a moment sustain itself in the position now sought to be maintained by Lord Derby, and our government we are sure Will not be driven from a right which we v-justly claim, and the justice of which so many in Great Britain have hitherto admitted. Crawford's Statue.-T1ic Sculptor writes to Mr. Mills, 'i3 architect of the Vir ginia Monument, as follows: 3 i The statue, as I am now modeling it rep resents the great man iu the at of medita tion. He is partly enveloped in a cloak, which gives it a very scholastic effect and my object has" been to create a perlect im pression of though. The costume, so far as it is seen, is the same worn by Jefferson. As soon as a cast of the settle is made in plaster, I will send you a photograph of it. 'Pa, how many legs lias a ship?' A ship lias no legs, my child.' 'Why, pu, the paper says she draws twenty feet, and that ehe runs before the wind.' or the tenor of his letter, if lie did per- every unprejudiced hearer, that an anres- A Passing Thought.; Rothschild is) forced to content himself with the same sky as the poor newspaper-writer, and the great banker cannot order a private sunset,or add one ray to the magnificence of night. The same air swells all lungs. jEach one pos sesses, really, only his own thoughts and his own senses, soul and body these are the property which a man owns. All that is valuable is to be had for nothing in this world. Genius, beauty, and love are not bought and sold. You may buy a rich biacelet, but not a well turned arm to wear it a pearl necklace, but ot a pretty throat with which it shall vie. The richest ban ker on earth would vainly offer a fortune to be able to write a verse like Byron. One come? into ihe world naked and goes out naked; the difference in the fineness of a bit of linen for a shroud is not much. Man is a handful of clay, which, turns quickly back again into dust. Wrhy does the blacksmith seem the most dissatisfied of all mechanics ? Because he nanus, me eartuiy couttis oi me xniiiiniv, -- i ' . -. ... , , , ,.. B.ri1-ini f.ir wW she never entered from the day of Ilia- last ' chance indite one. We do not impugn tricted Convention rs the only republican .sonunu.dly sa.k.ng for we,. A wallet, presumed to have beam throwu there by a person suspected of passing counterfeit money, was found, as we learn from the Marshall Jungle, on the bank ofthe river near Gnniersville, A'a., a few days bince. It contained counterfeit bi!l.i to the amaunt of about $lC88. as j lollovvs ; Seven 100 bills oii Merthonts, Bank of S. C ; one 8 100 bills on the Canal bank of New Or leans ; two .$20 bilk on tbe bank of Georgotown, S. C; seven $10 bills on the State Bank of N. C-. ten $10 on the bank of Augusta well executed ; two 3 bills on tho Bank of Cape Fear, "and one S2 on the Uank vf Kentucky.
Raleigh Times [1847-1852] (Raleigh, N.C.)
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