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,t - VOL. 1. LEXINGTON, . NORTH CAROLINA, ERIDY, . JANUARY 4, 1856. 11 1 11 ? 1 1 111 1 '.i: 1 1 I "'. 1 1 1 vji i: 14 i-f . mm til a 11 1 ; h. . i I II I.. I L w .j ,i i l l I . . .v-i II I 711 1 r flag. PCBLISHEO WEEKLY BY JAMES B. SHEITOS JAMES A. LONG, Editor. Trms 2 year, m ? J50 after U rnonfaand fl? Itate of Advertising. . .. ' ,-rtMi iinps for the first 7 One dollar per square y - k th -k anI "twenty-five cents 1or every v.eefc there Deduction, madin favor of standing ad rrtisements as follows : . 3 MONTHS. ) MO Ill - ' " Two squares, ..J ,,ono Three " ( coi.) io.w , Half column Occasional rone wals w itLout additional charge j ted to those who advertise regularly tnrougn gran the year. Three dollars for announcin candidates for of-! I ' "curt orders harged per cent higher than the j .hnvf -rates. Orders for dixorce of husband and wife. $10 each. . '! Persons sending advertisements are requested to stale the number of insertions required, or they wdl be inserted until forbid ; and if it is wished they bUould occupy the least space .ossiblo. write upon the back " close." Otherwise they wiFl be put up Mhe usual style and charged accordingly. tSXo discount on these rates. ,.- ' JPCiTFORai Of THE AMERICAN r-AlfXY ofclVORTlI CAROLIXA. At a Convention of the American party, j held at Haleigh, on the 10th ol Uctobcr, i 1855,he following resolutionsvere adopt- fd. "V' x ,x ItesolueiL That, as the causevhie rWo.l the secrecy of the American org:mi npppssnrv ill its infancy, nopnger HIV11 - j - l -.11 fi corrpt rprmonials ot tnexor Lexington anb Qabliin A y a der whether ol" initiation, obligations, igivla full" length of the Commander-in-Chief, constitutions, rituals, or passwords be abol- j "painted by Peale in 177G, during the Revo-.bed-that we do constitute llltion. This Peale may be very properly a puollCiy organrf uyyw v uKiMiuuu w.... j lenge our opponents to the public discuss- ; ionB6f our principles and we do hereby ; invite and invoke the aid and co-operation of all the citizens of the State, without re gard to their former political affiliations, in maintaining and carrying out the great aims principles and objects of the American par ly. lhsolvcdy That we do hereby ratify and endorse the principles enunciated in the ni..rWi-m 7f trio American pavtv, bv the iviavAvrxAAa . ' - - - - I nf the same, bejrim 11,1 at Philadelnhia. on the 5th day ot June, ' 1855 in relation lo Jhe political poll, y of! the Government whilst at the same tune, we consider the three great primary princi ples of the organization, which constitute the basis of our party, as paramount in im portance to any issues of mere govcnnenU 1 policy. llcsolvciL That these three great primary i principles are, the conti .nemcnt ol the , honors, offices and responsibilities ol poht- ical station, uiider our government, to na- j tive-bom Americans, with a due regard, at ; the same time, to the protection of the for- j eign-born in all the civil rights and privileges I guaranteed to freemen by the constitution, whether Federal or State. Secondly, Resistance to religious intoler ance, anda rigid maintahance of the great principle of reliirious freedom by exclud ing from office and power, those who would j persecute for opinion .sake, who would control the politics of the country through Church influences or priestly interference; j and who acknowledge an allegiance to any j power on earth, whether civil or ecclesias- 1 tic'al, as paramount to that which they otc j to the Constitution. nrl. TInrdhi. unswerving devotion to the Union of these States, and resistance to all) fat-lions and sectional attempts to weaken j its-bonds. j , t7 , jiesuivtu, i n:u ni an iiouiuwuuua iU4 j- litical stalirtii lierr after to be made by the American Party, it is recommeuded that the same be done in open public meeting and that all those who agree with us in principle, and who concur in our aims and objects, shall hereafter be recognized as members of the American party Jicsolved, That it be recommended to the , American Party -in this State to hold a Con- -vention of delegates, to be appointed in pub- ' uc primary meetings m tne respective eoun- ties, ,11 Grc-ensboro,' on Thursday the 10th 1 day of April next, for the purpose of nominating- a candidate to be run by the Amer ican party for Governor at the next e lection that each county appoint as many Del egates as it chooses, and that the mode of voting in said convention be reflated by j the convention itself. . , j Resolved,-That "we consider the 22d day j ,,FMnaTi' nXl)enm0 '!er?.frf S" lectcd by the National Council ot the Amer-; ican order, for the nomination of candidates ! for President and Vice-President, as too arly a day for .tliat purpose, and we do j hereby rernmmprwi to nnr bre:itbren of thfi 1 American party throughout the Union, the j r - , 1 1 i -1 . . . . a. 1 . I . . . . 1 . . . .T7..AM 1 . . i nrnnii.. c . ....... .1. . 1 11: c "1 r-iu.c oi postponing uie noiamg 01 saiu convention, to some time in the month of June or Jnlv ! Resolved, However, lest such postpone- ! merit may not take place, it is deemed ad- ; Msable to appoint two delegates to represent , he State at large in such nominating Con- j vention, and it is recommended to the A- , jnerican party in each Congressional Dis- ! oLh rd PEillliary m!etin?? in the rcsPec,- j ueic!ratr f 1 1 fiaid nominating Convention. , Resolved, That an Executive Cential Committee of five, be appointed by this body ue duty it shall be to attend to the thiUal conceus of American party in f.18 tate, to carry on the necessary cor Padencc, and t ike such inceptive steps as"may be deemed, necessary for the mora thorough organization of the said exeedtive committee be autnonzea ana reqaestea to appoint a County Executive Committee for each County in the fetate ; and that said County Executive Committee do further ap point a sub-committee for each election pre cinct in the county with a view to a. more thorough and complete orgamzatiwir -of. the, American party, in JNorth Carolina. , Portraiture , of Washington. BEIXC. AX APPEJCD1X TO THE CLSTIS REC0LECTI0X3 AXD pr.:v.vTK?iK v.-it:s It is assuredly both desirable and prop er that there should belong to the American people, and descend to their posterity, a faithful portraiture of their Washington-. 'riev have in their own country alllhe ma- tenals nece&sary and requisite lor, sucn a . nor need they go abroad to.cnsure its most haPPy execution they having art-; istic skill of the highest order at home. The earliest original of the Pater Patrie' is tha portrait of Colonel Washington7, painty ed by Charles Wilson Peale, in 1772, and now in fine preservation at Arlington House. This splendid and most interest ing picture formed the principal ornament of the parlor at Mount Vernon for, twenty seven years, and for the truth of its resem blance to Washington'of colonial times Dr. James Craik was frequently applied to, who pronounced it to! be a faithful likeness of the xx-o vi noi al Colonel in the prime of life. The veneraule James Craik, it is well known, was the associate and bosom friend of the Chief from 1761 to the last days at Mount Vernon. Next in the order of succession, we have stvled the .soldier, artist : for in spring time lie would -lav aside his palletto, and commanding a company, fight a campaign", and on going into winter quarters, take up his pallette again, and paintthe portraits of the great men of the arnjy of Independence. The soldier artist gave axmost grhic and amusing account ; of his painting the ior iruit of General Greene at Valley Forge. lie said, " me wretcnea nut tnatrmea my studio had but two articles oi lurniture . . . - -i r . , an old bed stead and a three legged chajri The Ccnrr.d being a heavy mali I placed him upon the bedstead, while I sca died lilVSOil ; well as I could upon the rickety ir ; i; was awfully cold, and I had eve- ! ry few moments to thrust my hand into the fi . fina!ile me to hold my pencil." Tn . d a lianceSf . 11 was pointed the only reliable likeness that we have of the illustrious soldier who was tie uero Qf the South, and second only , - , f t f all Peale delighted to relate incidents that occurred during his intercourse at various times with Washington particularly the physical prowess of the Chief in 177-2. lie said, " One afternoon, several young gentle men, visitors at Mount A'ernon, and myself Werc engaged in pitching the bar, one of the athletic sports common in those days, when suddenly the Lolonel appeared a- mongst us lie requested to be shown the pegs that marked the bounds of our efforts; then smiling and without putting, on nis coat? icu out liis hand for the missile. No sooner observed the narator, with cmpha- , , TC SIS, UUl me ncuvy nun uai icn his mighty hand than it lost the power of gravitation, snd whizzed through the air striking the ground far, very far, beyond our furthest limits. We were indeed amaz- ed. as we stood around, all stripped to the ! . . . i t' it ' bull, w ith shirt sleeves rolled up, anu iia- iag thought ourselves" very clever fellows, j wjlile the Colonel, on retiring, pleasantly! , ,ttlv.nil v111 i1Rnt that nitch. . ...merauj iwummug,,,,, , ? " vnnmr irunt cniPll. I trV atTaiil. ' ' In 1790 appeared the equestrian portrait of the Chief by Colonel Trumbull. In the execution of this fine work of art, the paint- er had standings as well as sittings the white charger being fully caparrisoned, hay- jnT been led out and held by a groom, while the Chief was placed by the artist by the lde of the horse the "Sht arra restluS 011 the saddle. In this novel.mode the relative positions ofllie man and horse were sketch- .i . 1 r. j . r,,t in lir eu uui iiim autTwarus ujhdicuvu canvass. There is a copy, size of life, of , . . , , . . tne equestrian portrait oy x rumuuu i Citv Hall of New York. The fiirurc of Washington, as deleneated by Colonel Trumbull, is the most perfect extant., .7 .u I H89 the first President lost his teeth, and, the artificial ones with which he was furnished answering very imperfectly the purpose for which' they were intended marken change occurred in the appearance of his face, more especially in the projec tion of the under lip, which forms so distin guishing a feature in the works of Stuart, and others -who painted portraits of the j great man subsequent to 1789. " - : We come now to a brilliant, era in the history of the fine arts, jn the United States, in the return of Gilbert Stuart to his native and from a. long sojourn iuuy-bpe' where his great fame as a portrait painter obtained for him the title of the modern Vandyke. The distinguishing excellence of Stuart, as a portrait painter, consisted in his giving the expression of character to his portraits, a novelty in portrait painting in the United Statds jiiore thun half a century ago. Sto arPsobject.nd ambition on returning to A merica ; were ,to pai Jit the. great raan of his country -i He -gave to this work alLhis ge-" nius, all hiaf skilL , and the best feelinjrs of his heart. The. first, portrait of Washing ton ,by Stuart created a great sensation on its appearence. in, Philadelphia. , It yas.soon followed by the, celebrated full-length for the Marquisrof-Lansdovrne. In this splen did pipture StuarLhas failed hi the figure of the; Chief, : unapproachable; as .he was in paiptipg the; lead. . The great artist had neverjmade.the human figure , lis peculiar Study or- practice. ; IIenc,e, for the correct figure xf. Washington, we must refer, in all pases, to ;the wp.rks ol l rumbuii. it was our good fortune to see much of Gilbert Stuart in his studios of Philadelphia and Washington, vciy, and , tpi hear him say, "I do nopretend to have painted Washington as theJ General "of the armies of Indepen- denceV Tkiiew' htrrf'as such ; 1 have'painted t"he firsfPiesident1 of the' United States." And ao-ain. un'on his beinjr asked, . Whom O ' i, -. - did Washington most resemble ?" he re plied, ' No bne''but himself." Stuart com plained bitterly of his painting for the Mar-J quis of Lansdoyne- having been pirated ty Heath, !the engraver of his Brittanic, Majes-f ty. He showed us a copper-plate prepared in England for the celebrated . Sharpe, the firsfengraver in Europe, who, although re- tired from the burin, had consented to ex ecute a fare well engraving of Stuart's AVash ingtoi;.. ThQ copper-plate was large, thick, and heavy, and polished like a mirror; while Stuart, laying his hand on the plate, observ ed, with much feeling. "The profits, rhy young friend, of this copper-plate engraved by Sharpe were all the fortune Iexpected to leave to mv familv." Heath-made a noV f- . e njrravinff of the work j v, " . . . o. .. - ofStpart, which engraving is superb Specimen of the art.. 7 ' N Washington was a bad sitter. It anoyed him exceedingly to sft at all ; and, after every sitting, he was wont to declare this must be thVlast. Sjuart. once finding the Chief very dull, bethought himself tof intro duce the subject, o horses. This roused up the sitter, and the artist obtained the desir ed expression. : The last original (profile in crayons) was - fby Sharplcss, 1796, and is now at Arlington House. So much ' was this performance admired for the exquisite likeness and un common truthfulness of expression, that the Chief ordered portraits by the same artist of everv member of his domestic family, in? eluding George W. Lafayette. Of the first President there was also a portrait by Rem brandt Peale, son of the soldier artist, pain- i ted from sittings during the Presidency. It elicited much commendation .from Revolu tionary worthies, and adorns the hall of the United States, Senate. ,- 7 We have thus enumerated all the reliable orMnhls of the Pater Patriae from 1772 to 1796, with remarks upon each. These, with the stature by Houdon inyl786, con jn OUT humble opinion, all the re- semblances in paintings and sculpture of the beloved rAATashihton that will decend vene- ral(?(, anJ a(imjred to posterity. Gracci's j r r,Pf ;s a failure: his bust of ; jjampton magnificent. ' v c painliUg said to be an original, by" xvcrlmuUer, andexecuted about 1795, we f . iron mt ! . 1 -4. f . , Pc iWinfii man- j sjon t single tlay. Again, .through whose ' influence was the sitting obtained for a j picture said to be for a Swedish nobleman ? j Tt,js , notorious that it was only by hard i begging that Mrf, Bingham obtained the j sittings to the Marquis of Lansdowne's fctJe. , And, again, we knew little or .pw ' , 1 .u;a nothing of Sweden in the olden daj s, while we had and still preserve a most . honored reccolection of Denmark in the memory of n ... Ti r.noi TT'oKinror ji distiil- valiant - jLiiiic, vuiuun v-"ci ' , . ' - - gUished officer of our Revolutional army. j - - r r roa .,:ntP(i Ana, lastly, n u.e c j,-.- about 1795, where is the distinguishing feature in the physiogomy of the Chief at that period the projection of the under np? --r4r:. : ,'In, giving agrasphic description the statue and form of Washington, we give not only the result of our personal .obser vation and experience for many years, but information derived from the highest authority- favorite nephew. 7 ... 7Major Lawrence! Lewis asked his uncle what was . his height in the primeof life t He replied, In ray ben days, Lawrence, I stood six feet and two inches in ordinary shoes.' . AVc know that he measured, by; a standard, precisely six feet when laid out in deathv Of his weighted are f an evidence, having heard him say to Crawford, : Govern or of Canada, in 1799, My; weighti imy best days, 6ir, never exceeded froo) two hun dred and ten to twenty.' His form, was unique, unlike most athletic, frames, that ex pand at the shoulders and then geather in at the hips. The form of Washington de viated from the general rule, since it descen ded from the shoulders to the hips in per pendicular lines, the breadth of the trunk being nearly asi great at . the one as at the other. His limbs were Jong, large, and sin ewy t in his lower limbs, he was what is u sually called straight-limbed. His joints, feet and hands were large and could arcast have been made from his right hand, , so far did its dimensions exceed naturels ; model, that it would have beon preserved in muse ums, for ages, as the anatomical wonder of the 18th century. Lafayette remembered this remarkable hand, when, .during jiis. tri uroph in America, he said to us, in the por tico a Mount Vernon, 'It was here, in 1784, I was first, introduced to you.bythe.igOod General; it is a long while ago ; ,you were den a very little gentleman, rigged out in a cap and feather, and held by one finger-of the General's mighty hand. - It .was all you could do at dat time, my. dear sir," 'The eys of theChief yee a light, gray-' ish blue, deep sunken in their sockets, giv ing the expression of gravity and thought. Stuart paintqd those, eyes, of a deeper blue, saying, in a hundred years, they will? have faded to the right color- His hair was of a hazel, brown, and very thin in his latter daj's. In his movements, he preserved, in a re markable degree, and , to an advanced age, the elastic step that he had acquired in his service on the frontier. 7 r Being ordered, one morning very early, into the library at Mount Vernon, a spot that- none entered without orders, the weather being warm, we found the Chief very much undressed, and, whilelooking on his manly frame, we discovered that the centre of his chest was indented. This is iui exception to the general rule laid down' by anatomists, that where the human frame possesses great muscular power, the chest should rather be rounded out and protuber ant than indented. We were equally sur prised to find how thin he was in person, being, with the absence of flesh, literally a man of "thews and sinews." He wore a round his neck the minature portrait of his wife. This he had worn through all the vicissitudes of his eventful career, from the period of his marriage to the "last days at Mount Vernon." In the apperance of Washington, there was nothing of bulkiness, but there was united all that was dignified and graceful, while his air and manner werc at once no- ble and commanding. No one approached him that did not feel for him. as Lord Ers kine observed, "a degree of awful rever ence." Ite wore a sword with a peculiar srrace. The Viscomte de Nouilles said it was because "the man was made for the sword, and not the sword for the man." Lafayette, not long after the war of the Revolution, wrote a letter to Colonel Trura- bull, urging him to paint an equestrian por trait of the Chief, as he appeared on the field at Monmouth. The illustrious French man, America's great benefactor, said to u. " I was a very young Alajolv General on that memorable day, and had a great deal to do, but took time, amid the heat and fury of the fight, to gaze upon and admire Washington, as, mounted on a splendid charger, covered . i, mounted on a splendid charger, covered ith foam, he rallied our line witl words A u t an . .Qtnnil fnt mv bovs ivcrto.be forgotten : 'Stand fast, my bs, W nev and receive your enemy ; the Southern trrtfina arfi advancinff to support vou !' I )' rT f J 1 thT , UlOUffni llieil, SS i UU liu , - . good Lafayette, "that never have I seen so superb a man. Our .readers ,may ask, -".Shall the stan dard portmtilrehe equestrian ?" We reply, to the portrait of one so accomplished a ca valier as Washington was, the vThite char ger, with the Leopard skin .housings, fcc., would be an embellishment, the Chief to be dismounted, with arm resting on the saddle, after the manner of Trumbull. 4 But, -whether equestrian or nqt, the A mericans have the materials for the stan dard before them in the ' head from Stuart, with some slight modifications from the original of 1772, and the figure from Truni buli entire. They haye only to choose their artist, and let the work be done. When this, noble empire shall have achieved its high destiny, and, embracing a continent, attained a power 'and grandeur unexampled in the history of nations, the future American, irom tne topmost f h, orrpntnpss. w-iH look bact upon tnc v .. 6 , - 4 early days of his country, and call up the time-honored" memories of the heroic era and the aire of Washington ; and, when con- templatinw the image of the Pater Patriae, I perpetuated by the mellowed tints of the canvass and the - freshness of time-endnring bron2e, with honest pride of ancestry he will exclaim. My forefather was 1 the associ ate of that great man in the perils Jahd glo ries of the struggle for American indepen dence; Let there ; be' undying honor to the. memory of ' Washington Ever green be the taurels that deck Ids trophied' tomb ; ever living le ihe" homage in ihe'hcarts of his countrymen and "mankind for the patriot, the hero, and the sage, who, tinder Provi dence, with humble means, so'iniieh con tributed to' raise his native land from the .... . 1 utpma ui ucjicuuciac aitu iO pirtCV llti 111, the rank of nations ; .wbo presided over her civic 'destinies in the dawn of the great ex periment of self-governmeht ; and who, af- ter an illustrious life spent in the:serice of liberty and mankind, " and without la cloud to 'dim the lustre of his' fame, descended to thfe grave with the august title of the Father of his Country! - '-.Col. Wheeler in Danger, v Rumors from Washington City say that our old friend Col. -Wheeler, Minister at Nicaragua, and formerly Treasurer and His toriographer to the-jtate of North Carolina, i.ppt likely to be - sustained by the" Presi dent in his action towards the new authori ties of the Government " to which he has been accredited. rIf this be true, we trent ble for our favorite Historian ; andean im pute the President's ; course to nothing but an envious spirit'which cannot bear to hear of the masterly diplomacy of the busy Min ister ' " :- :" : . The Colonel, it is" well known, is not on ly a writer of great celebrity, but also,. an or ator of.no mean . repute. We do not mean to say that he ir altogether equal to the fam ous speakers of old ' Whose restless eloquence, AVielded at will the fierce democratic, - "Shook the- arsenal, and fulmined over ! Greece, ; -. - . . To Macedon and Artaxerxes, throne,' but we do say that he was a member of our State t Legislature in 1852-3, and by his per suasive arts got that learned body to sub- rscribe for fifty copies of his book ! en, me uvcriuruw ui uic uiu iiuvcni' ment of Nicaragua and the establishment of the new furnished too good an opportunity for oratorical display to be missed by the provident Minister, and accordingly he con- . , . ". i - try' ii-.-" i- . t.:: triveu to get nis .rxceiiency uun l ainciu Rivas, President of the Republic, the Pre feet -of "Chin ad a, the Reverend Clergy, and such others of the milk-and-cider ragmuffins of the city as choose to do so, to meet him at the house of the United States Legation, where he stretched' forth his hand, after the manner of the most famous orators of anti quity, and delivered himself of a most pa thetic and soul-stirring harangue recogniz ing the independence of the new Repubiic, and hailing the treaty of the 23d October, between the chiefs of their respective armies, " as was the sacrred dove bearing the olive branch of peace, proving that the bitter wa ters of desolation and destruction had sub sided." His Excellency Don Patricio Rivas, him- self no slouch at a speech, gave his nasal or p-an a sonorous twang, and replied to ' Mr. ... . 1 , 1 fi Minister in a suitame narangue. Here upon the ragamuffins aforesaid flourished their duds with approbation, the Minister was escorted to his house, and a national salute was fired. The tidings of these proceedings, grand nd imposmgas they were, seem, neverthe less, to have met with a cold reception at tjie white House ; why, we cannot divine, j unless it was because the President is him self an orator, somewnat lonti 01 popular display when he has his speckled shirt on, and he felt that the Colonel was taking the wiud out of his sails. . , . The fact is, this is an envious ago ; and if Colonel Wheeler will take our advice,' he will throw his commission in the Presi dent's face, return to North Carolina, write history, and get his " friend and pitcner, I tjje Euit01. of the Argus, to review his vol- ; Umes upon shares ; and if President 1 lerce ! 1 ' .f-i 1 .J i a .. ...Uk j umes upon shares ; and if fresident 1 lerce ' and his Cabinet do not patronize us with a liberality becoming their high position, in -.n retiremBenU n their name, . . , , jU doul)ticss be pun- ishment 'enouffh for their meanness. Fay etteville Argus. v Rags and Paper. Tlie London Economist observes: So greit is now the consumption of paper by the reading and writing population of the two countries, that rags enough, to make the required quantity of paper cannot be had.; To show the wounderlul rapidity with, which, the consumption of paper in GrcatBritian has increased, the jEcon omist gives the following table' of paper i manufactured: i In the five years emlin;? 1835, I ,13H lbs. 7O.0S8 In the five years ending isas, ' 151,-234,179 " Increase, lls. S0,246,047 or 114 per cent., while tlie whole popu lation in that period did not increase more than 16 percent The average yearly import of rags in the three years, 1801-2-3, was 3111 tons; in the years 1851-2-3, the average year ly import was 9332 tons. V - - That was a keen reply of the buxom Uasrie to a little picmy of a man j ,. , i nna.v',nn . soiiciieu a matriiiiuiiia tuuucAiwii no," said the lady ; " I can't think of it for a moment. The fact is, John, you ! are a little too bie to put into a ' cradle and a little too small to put into a bed.'! j yirgus. Tls American BXoTCEicnt. 0 FobIeioxis;axd Catiioijcism Requisite QuAxtricATioNs ron Oftick-. We publish- I ed in our issue of Saturday, a statement to thaeffect that the Postmasfer. uenerai nao. determined not to appoint anyvAmencan to office, ' We ? give beI6tvrtra ; letter rfrorh khe Hon. R. C, , . lunfeay 1ft reUtion1 'to7 the matter, which wilPgnre ' the - country, some idea bf tlie Jesuitism, in Uiis Department, and ! the proscription.- which is practised against Natives and Protestauls, ; a Jall Hovsk of:RkpreseS'tatives, Dcc. 54 55. , Dear Sir ,1, see? in your paper -of: .22nd instant, a. statement concerning tlie appoint-, en.af a post master , if) m$i district at Madison, 7 Rockingham , Coupty, North Carolina, which desire to correci. The conversation to 1 which lyou allude was be tween Mr. ' Horatio B. King, 1st Assistant Post Master General, arid myself,1 and not with Mr. Campbell, the Post Master Gener al, as stated in your article. With this ex ception, the statement is correct, as'far as it goes, but itdoe'nt embrace all that occurred between Air. King and : myself on hat peca- - sion. 7 .. .7-."-'- I".:-. i. ' r7l' ? . sf .When I made the, application ,fo the ap pointment, Mr. King asked me . if the appli cant were a Know othingi I asked hiirt if it were possible that his, being a jKnotV Nothinff would bO an bbjectioh?v lie re plied, "Yes, I am'actin under orders not . to appoint any Know ! Nothifig, and to turn out all Whom ! , know toi belong to the or- , der." ' I then asked him if a native-born citizen and a foreign - Roman Catholic, both . equally competent, were - to " apply 1 for the appointment, onl which would he bestow it! He said he should be compelled o appoint the foreign Catholic. I then left the de partmcnt, and do not know whetjier any appointment has yet teen made or not, 7ery respectfully, 1 1. : ; . -i.v . Your ob't serv'L R. C. PUR YEAR. The Nationality op the DjiMo'cnACY. When it is remembered that MK Riclfardson, the Democratic nominee focSpeaker receives only seventeen" votesfrom tle i ree, r tates, and that he justified his vote on thelvansas Nebraska bill on the ground that he princi ples oflhat bill jWonld make jhosq ?rritories free, fait sample of 4he. nationality of the DeWbcratic party is; obtained: Those who voted for Mr. Richardson for Speaker, from the free, States, are as foljo.wsf t. J?rom the six New England States and New York, are those of Mr.4 Fuller, of Maine, and Mr. Kel ly, of New York.s Mr J Fuller Us an old member and a consistant Dcfmocrat'.i Mr JCelly is the successor of Mike Walsh. From othe r free States, "Mr. Richardsort has re ceived as follows: Pennsylvania-Florence, Caldwallader, Hickman, Jones and .IJaclay. Indiana Miller : and -English. .Illinois Harris, Allen, and Marshall. '" iVlichigan Peck. Iowa Hall. Wisconsin Wells. California Denver and Herbert- The Democracy prate loudly aboute their nationality, but "the above -is rather a meag er showing. 7 ' '77 : 7 Leaking Oct. The Democrat, a lead nig Demdcratic paper, published at Chic ago,, Illinois, - has the following signifi ; :" '"-! -ir.T'-..-j v. -.:... cant remark,: . .. fr. 7,."...", "The same Democratic principal, that makes us detest slayer makes, .us anx ious for a healthy foreign emigration, as the best means of, getting rid of it," What say our Anti-American J)emo crats of the South to this Argument of 'the Chicago Democrat in . favoraof for eign emigration ? ' The freesoiler tjf Illi- nois understands the character of the mass of the emigrant population, and is looking to them for material aid in over turning our institutions. " These tame emigrants; our Southera democracy say, are the real . and reliable patriots. . 7 Columbus Enquirer. The best and most jonclusiy.e reason for an effect that we ever remembered to have heard, writes a western corres pondent, was given, by a " one, idea " Dutchman, in . reply to a friend who re marked: . . - ? Why, Hans, you have the most fem inine cast of countenance that T have ever seen?"' J UA ;i i " 0 yar," was the reply, I know de reason for dat : mine moder vaa von wo- . .i man. ,7 7 Jenny Linp. rXl will , sing for the benefit of thef poor herefjx said Mad. Jenny Lind Goldschmidt. .when in Ve- . vey , a small to wn, in Switzerland. But before! the day appointed for the concert arrived, the Nightengale became oarse -and could not sing, f The poor cannot wait a day," said the singer, anAstfe sent them two thousand francs. , i t .r Election op SENAToa-TrrThe? Hon James M. Mason, Senator fron .irgina, was on Saturday re-elected to the Uni ted State Senates, for sixy ear Titom the, expiratiori of his: presentternt of service, i. e., from' tHet oflarch'n. - - .3-di A client.' jJih dt if f j
The Greensboro Patriot (Greensboro, N.C.)
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