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"r. v . AA, : aCv-.4 1 VOL. 1. LEXINGTON, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1856: 10.27. , .' ""at, J 1 T 1 WT:; t n I II 11 - I I' Lexington hub tfablim flag PCBU8HSD WEEKLY BY JAMES B. SHELTON. JAMES aTlONGK Editor. Terms : $ year' in adance ?Tfter six months, and 3 00 after twelve Jnths.from date of subscription. Rates of Advertising. 'One dollar pe'r square (f-6"" --reek and twenty-five cents for every yek the re X Deductions made in favor ot standing ad vertisements as follows : 3 MONTHS. 6 MONTHS. 7f0 10.00 m m . . . . a the districts, statins: the diversity ot i from thk richmoxd whig. practice no .v-existing; but in view of j The continued disorganization of . the the difficulty of having at present a sat- Ilouse of Representatives is , the snbjecrof isfactory and uniform rule, I also sug- : general surprise, mortification and regrret. gested, that it "may be best to leave this . At a roost critical period of European affairs (the mode of division) to the discretiou I when abreach with'Denmark is so imin- of the Uounty Hoards, under the advice ",a ,u . vic cuuxse OI ninety aavs it I of the Superintendent," $c. Poss'i- ",aX fara mw-ppen war-wneo au- blv, if the subject were so left to the riuies wir me empire nae as: voluntary action of the Boards, under 3' an ter, that our lead. 1 VE.VB. 14.00 20.W 35X One square, Tmmi anna res. Three " (J col.) 10.00 lo.OO ,Tlr -l..rr,r, -1R (10 25.00 Occasional renewals without additional char-e granted to those who advertise regularly through the year. Three dollars for announcing candidates for of- fiCCourt orders charged 25 per cent higher-than the .hove rates. Orders for divorce of husband and wife, 10 each. me aavice oi me oupci imeuucu we places in the Senate, tbe gravest insults at migni, Dy piuiing Logeuier me much- lts Government, and. when the power so ence oi uinerent sections ana uuiereni officers, and by. patiently hearing and discussing the views of all parties, finally arrive at a uniform, simple and judici- ous plan, based on the idea of equal Dis tricts,. of small size, convenient tor one sc!iool, &c, &c. But the great question now is, what are we to do under the present law ? It will certainty cause serious injury to undertake to execute the law in part without first doing what the law intended should be done, that is, without making the Districts as nearly equal as possible; where there is no dis position to make an attempt of this kind and where Districts are very unequal, Boards of County Superintendents will have to continue that method of divi sion which formerly gave most satisfac tion. This advice is given, not because it is believed that County Superinten dents more than any other executive officers of the law can undertake to say what laws shall and what ones shall not be enforced; nor can any one, except the law-making power, to wit, the Legisla ture, undertake set aside any law be cause he may deem it unwise, improper; or injurious in any way. I cannot and would not have any such power, nor can Greensborough, N. C, Nov. 14th, 1855. Dear Sir : I have just received your i favor of the 8th inst.,mailecl on the ljtn, (yesterday.) Some of the points arising from the late acts in regard to Commoti Schools, to which you call my attention, have caused difficultiesin other Counties besides Alamance. My opinion, which you desire, I will proceed to give at once, as plainly and briefly as t can. First, As to the mode of dividing the School fund among the Districts, j I suppose that the object of the Legisla- j ture was to have the Counties laid off i into Districts of a uniform size, and j r. 1 1 1 A . JU large enough lor one cnpoi oniy. a ; your Board of County Superintendents ; you are aware, ery wrgo hut when hnv seems, under tbe cir- small Districts are a nuisance: and you ; cumstan to be impracticable, and also are fully aware of the difficulties m , when we interested are so asreed the way when there are to be several we can fail tQ execnte it with the lull Schools ,n one District Such Districts , consciousness that this failure will he give rise to endless troubles and dis- , . h ... unti, Droper ahcra. and in some Counties alt the' . , c..u OUtll YlU 1111 IU1 counties on this pui, aim m - ! tions can be made. Mictriotc i f o I o r-rrr. pnnilffh tor SPVPia ! V x-i 7u& . imer practice in many Schools while the division is very un- j ' . equal and imperfect in others. Besides j ve7 ' , I am ulad that, vou have, as von in- form me, applied to judge Ruffin for his opinion on thematttr, and as he has advised you to continue your former equal anu imperic all this, as you also know, there have been difficulties heretofore in the mode of dividing the School fund, and the for mer lnw wns spldnm romnliod with. Now, I suppose that 'the Assembly method, I feel much gratified to find were aware of these things and wishing j that the course I have had to recom to have a uniform and satisfactory meth- i mend has met the approbation of one od of dividing the fund everywhere es- I whi- long expounded the law with great tablished, and wishing also to have all learning and ability, and who is emi the Districts convenient in size, not too ; nently conservative in all his opinions, large or too small for one School, and ; His reasons are doubtless similar to those thus to put an end to continual change 1 have given ; and, while I have no lies and to avoid the confusion incident to itation in advising as I have done, in these changes, enacted the law requir- i this matter, I wish to impress on the inc the fund to be devided equally ; minds of all our officers the importance, amonir the Districts. It was presumed, generally, oi a sine . compliance wun me law. I do hope that at an early day its provisions will all be made consistent and practicable ; and that then every part'will be literally executed. If this course is not pursued, a time of great litigation and confusion will overtake us ; and nothing but general forbearance on all sides has prevented suits, the de cision of which, either way, would un settle the practice ol ninny and m::kc void many important acts. Sevetal suits of this kind .uaj now pend- mr ; tnev are trounicsome. tneir ueci- of course, that the Districts would be made as equal as possible ; perfect equal ity in size, none would expect or hope for, while it was believed that the Dis tricts in all parts of the State could be made of a size convenient for one School. If these ends could be obtained they would, as you well know, produce an immense change for the better. The idea of permanency being attach ed to the Districts, from their just ar rangement and division, an ei d would be put to those perpetual agitations for change and division so injurious in many sio11 either way invalidates many offici- sections. I he school-house would be j al acts in various counties, and they located as near the centre as possible, i show what vast confusion might be and this location being considered as j caused by formor practices of parties fixed, there would be more disposition ; everywhere were disposed to be litigi to improve the site and to build a good ! ous- house. These are verv important ob- Secondly The penalty to which you jects, and it may be laid down as a gen- j alluded, oi' fifty dollars on Committee eral rule that so long as the School in men failing to act after accepting office, any District. Believing the objects of is precisely the same as it was in the the Assembly to have been such as I former law. You will find it in the have indicated they were founded in former law. You will find it in the just and wise views; but whether .hese j pamphlet of School Laws, compiled in objects can now be accomplished, or im- j 1853, page 10, section 24 ; it was a pro mediately accomplished at any time is vision of the act of lS44,-'45, and has another question. Perhaps it would be ', been in force ever- since. The penalty impracticable to have the whole State , is large, but I cannot see how it can re-districted at once; and certainly now . operate-unjustly ; those only are liable seems not to be a favorable time, the ; who accept an office and then refuse or public mind being wholly unprepared neglect or refusal as would be injurious lor such a great change. Besides, the to the schools, in which case, that is in object of the Legisture in this is only case any one is going to act thus, he "Feu, anu u is lo.oe regretted that . certainly ought not to accept ; contemptuously treated is girdled, with i strong 'aliances and panipoled - with mut tary preperattoo-in?wltch we are notori ously deficient at this delicate conjuncture the popular branch of Congress cahrjot find in its numerous body a man To f ' recognised' integrity sufficient to . commend him to a bare majority as its presiding officer. - Inti mately known to'each other fcom associa tion during former sessions, or. during the presure and ferment of the present, their mutual distrust increases with their mutual acquaintance, until the country at large ad mires their just appreciation of character in proportion to the disgust with which they reciprocally regard and inspire their col leagues. The bandits of Mexico the pick pockets of London and the Thugs of: India," are possesed of virtue, or. some available substitute for it, sufficient at least for the purposes of organization; but tosirchmor-' al exultation our Congressmen do hot as pire. The office of speaker, limited and controlled as it is, by the general senti ment of the House, has annexed to it some petty patronage and some casual opportuni ties of political fraud, which a venal major ity is unwilling to forego. This utter de moralization, of an Assembly, whicbronce challenged universal homage, drives us-to the gloomy consolation of finding, in-the very confusion and disorder of a body so lost to "all sense of shame, some security a gainst its vicious activity. We feel a con temptuous pleasure in witnessing their per petual and profitless ballottngs, and in lik ening them to the victims of retributive Justice in the nether world, forever rollinsr stones up an insurmountable hill, and draw nj water in bottomless buckets. ' - Ever s:ne the inauguration of General Jackson, the Democratic party with scarce- j ly an in erval, has been engaged in the fa vourite and boasted employment ot "clean sing the Augean stables" and to this end has recieved into affectionate fellowship every dirty vagabond fromubroad whose indifference to affiuvia and aptitude for the Guano trade, fitted him, for association in their delightful labors.. The Country was promised,, under the Presidency of Mr. Pierce, the consummation of their purgato ry processess, and the full fruition of eth happy results of their policy. J Every indi vidual citizen was to set under his own vine musing praise, and. looking lively gratitude. The fiend of disunion was to be exercised, the troops of fanaticism were to be dispers ed, and all discord was to cease under the glorious noon-tide of a political millennium. White-robbed officials, with clean hands and pure hearts, were to minister around the temple of Liberty no strange Gods were to be admitted within its sanctuary, or any unhallowed fires lighted on its altars. The result is before us, and alas Tor the disenchanting influence of facts ! It may b seen in the ascendency of fanaticism, in tli: disorganization of Congress and in the imim nt danger of disunion. Mr. Pierce, whom we were taught, during the last can- counties, j vass, to regard as the only pilot to weather thfvstorm, is pitiously unequal to the ocea- tbis intention was not more fully ex pressed, in which case more full Justice .ly Committees, h pt the office. owever, under the last act, are now liable to a penalty of five OUlU nave hppn dnnr to tbn mntiro nf dnllnrc a a a i - a. , r . wt iui uui report 10 ine ouniy lose who enacted the laws, while it al- j Superintendents according to law, the ; jvould have been better understood, j number and names of children in their ut you know the amount of labor im- District This is th" only new. penalty to !l Vii laSt AssembIy- In justice ! imposed on Committees and it was im oort a 6 VC l have been itS im" rPosed because of the importance of the .riant designs in the act in question, ! report and the repeated complaints of Dol' f.Vifry benefic5al effects of the Chairman that it was often neglected, policy fully and effectually carried out, j Without such reports the County Sup- tionC1?T th'S rather lonS explana-! erintendent cannot equitably apportion thin a" V Uk lt desirable that these or divide the School fund, or judicious the uhi i -be fuHy understood and ly charge any of the Districts ; and if it vassp 1 it bJect be thoroughly can- ! is not strictly or faithfully made, injus Selm i 7 a 1.thefnendsof the Common tice may be done to many Districts, acools in this Stnt ,t-ua.T a- , J. a a Wi'ik i . I un parties mignt oe Kepi constant- i' - . "n this view it has been mv in. lir rK nr,; . ow become Know Nothings. mention as soon as mv finaammont. ! l L ti,.mi..j JLi- ru-r But whde the holiest impulses of patrot ould permit, to makA n iM.hlio mm., ! i A, - a i ism debar them from an unhallowed union ,ucatio iU u vu"""u piiui-cu uu nie margin oi tne , Dian&s nPn.,i!n infouSh tbe Governor to the fon which Committees are to make their oi me Mate. I suffffested. n ! ronnrt . OO T7 J : Y Assembly, the propriety I am yours truly, ! C. II. WrILEY. Sup. Common Schools. "-Ports to the !?me,alterations in the law in recard divisions of the school fund among sum. iAi.e jarne Partington, ne is "ex cell -lit at a slop or a puddle, but should not meddle with a tempest." He may pass, off a plat tude for a proverb, and toss a cent with the air or sovereign, but his shams and make-believes, however artistically elabo rated, have not been found to answer in the present crisis. Able as we are willing to allow-to spell the word "but " with a pre cision which cannot be surpassed, and fully equal to the filial duty of composing the monosylabilie troubles of his worthy father, he is rediculously unable to appease the rage of faction, or to lull the storm, which his own folly contributed not a little to exeitc. In the triangular contest which . degrades Congress and disgusts the country, it is. al most idle to ascertain the gradations of stu pidity, or to adjust the precedance of guilt. From the Black Republicans, of course nothing conservative can be -expected They are artieled and apprenticed, soul and body, to the Demon of discord. The devil-worshippers of the East rely on prayer and sacrafice, but those of them who invest our national council believe in the superior efficacy of works, and have religiously suc ceeded to the function of the furies in stir ing up strife and multiplying confusion. As is the case with all people of one idea, theirs is exquisitely absurd, and its express ion intensely asinine. They must needs continue as they began, and Banks and Brays, like those of 44 bonie Doon," be as sociated together to the end of the chapter. The little band of national Americans, ex pecting and hoping nothing for themselves, is jealousiy-. excludedby the other parties from all opportunities of honorable public service. In the language of the Enquirer of the 12th of December last, which in the tempest of its denunciations, unconsciously' pays them the compliment, 44 we do not see how the 12th section Know Nothings and the Republicans can unite, unless the Re publicans CEASK TO BE ABOLITIONISTS, and with, the black bands of Abolition, the un dying "instincts of gentlemen" equally for bid tleir co-operation with arrogant and su percilious Democrats, whose views of duty are limited to the appropriation of the Speakership. The notorious "74" offering no compromise, arid interchanging no conn- sei wun . otners, but postponing the public business, and even thwarting their own Ad minstration, rather than surrender any' por tion of the spoils, hare, from the begming, set. apart in sour sullen, i n ocia' isolation. Adopting withTjk ludricous parade of purity, a useful hint from the flash houses of China they' inscribe over their threshhohJ, 44 no cheating done here." and proceed forth with to fulminate a series of injuries and in- i . j . . . suiting resolutions against the national A mericans. , , . . That- .no. .doubt - might . remain as to the ATl -and Puroort-f these offensive resolu tionshey, were immediately followed. up by the Jtunquirers ;r mvective on theV12th of December iast,;which dehdancedLtie Amer icans ag a ' "jesuiticaL league '--politically, 44not men, butautorn'ata---npt equal associ ates for other "politicians, but because they can individually enter '.into no finding agree ment, ;.nojri't5:inttnce.rf''with' others." i When the' origin al' text and the authentic co'nientarjrthQS siimarfly place the national Americans ypijd;;:.ther pale of the moral universe, as ;Panahs whom no engagement can bind, i ajsVau'tomata who uever feel the impulses of Conscience, to- whose abysmal level no other politicians, be they abolition ists or worse, can ever descend, these poor outcasts- car scarcely be expected to scale, for the purpose of co-operation, the wall of fiery denunciation which seperates them from their msultOrs. And if the supercili ous and sanctimonious 74, who thank their God that they are not as other men, nor even as the poor Americans,' area ffeeted with sen sibilities so blunted as to - feel surprise that the subjects of their intemperate abuse do hot rush tbeir assistance, they must call upon their friend Mr. Wise to unfold the mystery, by furnishing them with some 1 dea of 44 the instincts of gentlemen." - As we remember no instance of heroic r'rtue or saintly self den al on the part of these exclusives to warant their supercil ious tone, we must' place it to the account natural and long recognized "Inso'e ce of office." They have fattened on the bon bons of governmental patronage, until, like 44 little Jack HornRr,", they regard every plumb they' extract as an additional proof of personal merit; Fullness of bread inva riably begets arrogance. We read that when 44 Jeshuran waxed fat, he kicked :" though we do not learn tliat, like the imaculate 74, he reinforced the activity of his heeels with the volubility of. an abusive tongue, and blended kicks and curses indiscriminately together. The surporters of Mr. Fuller, being thus cut off frora"all comuination (with the two other parties, either by the pestilent heresies of the one, or the wanton and inexpiable insults of the other, are driven to adhere to their.1 present candidate. He is sound up on all great questions of the day, and admir ably qualified for the office : none need be witheld from his support either by decent pride or enlarged patriotism. In the dem onstrations which the Americans have al ready made in behalf of Mr. Boyce, of S. C and Mr. Smith of Va., both acting with the. Democratic party, they have already suffi ciently exhibited a commendable spirit of compromise. They should not be repeat ed : for those commendations have been disregarded and that spirit of compromise has not been reciprocated. On the contra ry, we are told by one of their most re spectable and influential organs of Dem ocracy, the Richmond Enquirer, that they would "prefer defeat to any bargain any compromise, any cecession to Know Noth' ingism." It remains, therefore, for the "national Americans to pursue the even tenor of their way, in the assurance that whatever of reproach may justly attach to the party which prefers its own sordid interest to the general welfare, their robes are unsoiled. Others less conciliating and more selfish, must abide the shame of nev er suspending, for a moment their Ugolino hunger after office, to act in fair concert with political opponents for the good of their common country. Western IVortli Carolina Rail Road. The Directors convened in the Town of Salisbury, on Thursday last. The Presi dent, R. C. Pearson, and the following Di rectors were present, viz : Messrs. W, W. Avery, Bradburn, McCorkle, Simonton, Gillespie, Shaver Henderson, and Cald well ; absent, Messrs. Walton, Powell, and Clarke. James E. Kerr, Esq., was chosen to fill the vacancy caused by Mr. Caldwell's resignation. The Directoiy continued to gether for several days, hearing the Report of Mr. Turner, the Chief Engineer, locating the Road and making preliminary arrange ments for the letting out of contracts at an early period. The Road will connect with the North Carolina, at the Eastern end of Town, not far from the residence of Archi bald Henderson, Esq., will thence take the route of the Plank Road, and pass Third Creek near O. G. Ford's. We are happy to learn that the resolution passed some time since, which was considered so danger ous and fatal to the work, has been so a mended and rescinded as to remove all doubtsof the success of the enterprise. Messrs. Shaver and Simerton commenc ed work on Monday last, on this end of the Road with a force of a hundred hands. So the die is cast." we presume; and the Western Extension has become a 44 fixed fact." We take pleasure in laying Mr. Turner's Report before our readers. Salisbury Herald. The Democratic Rational Conven tion. -The'Democratic Committee met in Wash ington city on the 8th, and after a brief dis cussion as to a proper day for thejiolding of the National Convention, they fixed up on June 2d as the time of meeting the Con vention. It will be held in Cineinati, Public Expenditures. have compiled from the Various ap propriation bills for the years mentioned the .respective sums appropriated for the support of the respective departments. The fiscal year ending June 30, 1854, which is the first year enumerated in the following table, was for the most part during Mr-Tilt-more's administration, General Pierce hav ing been inaugurated 4th of March 1853 : Fiscal jear ending June 30, 1854. Fiscal year end lie parturients. inr June 30, 1853. State, -Trurjr, v ; Interior, ; -: - War, Navy, Post Office, . Ind"t(Treasury, $76.6:25,00 . 386,384XJ 348,216.00 100,465,00 85,530,00 231,560,00 58,100,00 S 1,276,845,00 Fiscal j ear er.dV Departments, ing June 30, 1853. State, Treasury, Interior, War, Navy. Post Office, 583,550,00 . 598.678.00 382,534,33 11-2,765,00 94,8fxj,00 172,350.98 Ind't Treasury, 58,100.00 ,.374,745,63 -"r- -30Q.477,fi(i " 100,090,00 " 85,030,00 234,55O;0O 59.9O0.OO $1,222,918,36 Fiscal yeaf ending June 30, 1S5G. $116,619,00 7-20,v.r8.(0 699,2 68.00 143,751.90 109,9:3.00 166.052.00 65,600,00 $1,502,828.31 82,015,487,90 By this simple analysis of the appropria tion bills for the four years mentioned, it will be seen that the expenses of the TJe partments have increased from $1,276,845, 00 to $2,015,487,90, or that they, under Gen. Pierce's administration, cost the gov ernment $748,642,90 more than they did during the last year of Mr. Filmore's ad ministration, cost 384 3S6,00 ; during the present fiscal year, notwithstanding the rep utation of Guthrie for economy, it will cost $720,258,00 nearly double exclusive of de ficiencies which are now asked from the present Congress. The expenses of the In terior are also nearly double. But to pro ceed with the analysis, 1853. For the Army, $8.2-26.083 82 For the Army 6,968,827 78 Post Office carry ing the mail 7,134.5 0 00 1854. $9,767,413 44 8,209,260 77 9.228.600 $24,318;411 60 $27,905,174 21 1855. For the Army 10,408,459,65 66 For the Army, 9,306,806 19 Post .Office, carry ing mail, 10,379,000 00 1856. $12;730,846 14 18,583,047 41 9,515,115, 60 $30,094,265 72 $40,829,009 15 The support of the army, navy and mail service cost, during the last year of Mr. Fillmore's administration, $24,318,411 60. It will cost during the present year, $40, 829,009 15, exclusive of deficiencies. The expense of the army mail and navy ser vice, under President Pierce, exceed the expenses during the last year of Mr. Fill more, by $16,501,588' 55. ' The entire expenditure during the four years named is shown by the following tabular statement : 1853. .1854. $15,338,218,89 , $64,651,492,84 1855. 1856. $64,982,996,79 $71,141,623,62 It will be readily percieved that the ex penses of the General Government have reg ularly increased from the time of General Pierce's inaugauration to the present time. The expenses of the present fiscal year ex ceed those of the year ending Jnne 30, 18 53 $25,863,34s 03. This is exclusive of deficiencies. The foregoing is a plain and simple state ment of facts, compiled from official docu ments. And they demonstrate clearly that the claim set up by the venal. press, which has been most liberally fed from the United States Treasury, that thus administered the government witn rigid economy, to be a base and palpable falsehood.. Even the Hoosier Guthrier who has been eulogized all overthe land by the administration press es and orators as a rigidly economical and scrupously honest man, has run up the ex penses of his department from $386,384 00 to 720,258 00, nearly double. We shall inquire into the cause of this . enoimous in crease of the annual expenditure. Am, Or. . Mi. Fillmore. The manner in which Mr. Fillmore dis charged every duty falling under his super vision as President of the United States, while it has won the admiration of his po litical friends, has also on frequent occa sions elicited the praises of his foes. A re cent instance has fallen under our observa tion alike honorable to the parties concern ed. In the argument of the Wells case in the Supreme Court of the United -States, a few days since, Mr. Attorney General Cush ing improved the occasion to pay a glowing tribute to Mr. Fillmore, for the many proofs of his integrity and wisdom which he had left behind him, locked up in the archieves of the government, but which had fallen un der his .(the Attorney General's) official notice. Perhaps we have never had a President who brought to the discharge of his high and delicate duties, a more exalted patriot ism, a sterner integrity, a more comprehen sive judgment, and who so thoroughly ex ecuted the high trust committed to his keep ing. Would that he were President now. Wilmington Herald. m Democatic Convention. The members of the Democratic State Committee met in this city on the 8th inst., and appointed Wednesday the 16th of April as the time, and Raleigh as the place, for holding the next Democratic State Conven tion. After passing a resolution laudatory of Franklin Pierce and his message, the Committee adjourned. - Small strokes fell large oaks. : Tne Clajton-IJnlwer Treaty. .1 As it is a matter of much interest at this time to know precisely what were the terms of the Clayton-Bulwer treaty, we publish below those articles which refer particular- ly to the Central American question. .Article 1. The government of the United States and Great Britain hereby declare that neither one nor the other will ever obtain the said ship canal ; agreeing that neither, will ever erect or maintain any fortification commanding the same or in the viciuity thereof ; or eccupy or fortify, or colonize, or assume," or exercise any dominion over Nicaragua,: Costa Rica the Mosquito coast, or;any part pfthe Central America . nor will either make use' of any protection which either affords or may have, or any alliance which either . has or may have, to or with any Slate or p'eople, for the purpose of e rectinff or maintaining anv such fortifica- O C7 . tions or of occupying, fortifying or coloniz ing Nicaragua, Costa Rica, the Mosquito Pnief rtf onv ror if f!ntr!jl Ampricn. nr yUU ., VA Ull 1 UI VI W AA .A . IVJ v. assuming or exercising dominion over the same; nor will the United States or Great Britain take advantage of iutunacy, or use any alliance, connection, or influence that' either may possess with any State or gov ernment throngh whose territory the said canal may pass, for the purpose of acquiring or holding directly or indirectly, for the cjtizens or subjects of the one, any rights or advantages m regard to commerce or navigation through the said canal, which . shall not be offered on the same terms to the citizens or subjects of the other. Art. 2. .Vessels of the United States or Great Britain traversing the said canal, shall in ttnxr rqp nf war hphvppn lhf pontmclintr ... v,. v. " " o parties be exempt from blockade, detention or capture, by either of the belligerents; and this provision shall extend to such a distance from the two ends of said canal as it may hereafter be found expedient to establish. Art. 8. The government of the United States and Great Britain have not only de sired, in entering into this convention, to accomplish a particular object, but to estab lish a general principle, they hereby agree to extend their protection by treaty stipula tion to any other practical communications, whether by canal or railway, across the isthmus which connects North and South) America, and especially to the interocanic communications, should the same prove to be practical whether by canal or railway,. which are now proposed to be established! by th'e way of Tehauntepec or Panama. Irt granting, hdwever, their joint protection to any such cartals or railways as are4by this article specified, it is always understood by the United State3 and Great Britain that the parties constructing or owing the same shall impose no other charges or conditions of tratfic thereupon than the aforesaid govern ments shall approve of as just and equitable; and that the same canals or railways, being- open to the citizens and subjects of the U- nited States arid Great Britain on equal terms shall also be open on like terms to the citi- mm rm . . ' . zens and subjects ot every otner estate wnicu is willing to grant thereto such .protection as the United States and'Great Britain en gage to afford. . , The Kentucky Democratic Convention, which met at Frankfort, on last Wednesday week, expressed its preference for no par ticular individual for the Presidency; but, from all accounts, it must have been the stormiest and most turbulent body of men that ever before assembled, for any purpose -not excepting the sachems .of J amraany Hall, with Capt. Rynders at their head. The reporter of the Louisville Courier a Democratic paper, -says, that upon the ap pearance of Mr. Swigest, a distinguished member of the AVtnerican party, in the gal lery, which was theoretically opened to the public, a delegate from Grant county point ed him out and denounced him as an inter loper which unmannerly conduct, as the Louisville Journal properly observes, would have disgraced an assemblage of heathen, or Turks, or Mormons; but Mr. Swigest, it is said, remained calmly in his seat, an un disturbed spectator of the tempest of execra tions around him. The Courier, the aforesaid Democratic paper, speaKing oi tne mgnt session oi Wednesday, describes the terrible disorder and confusion that prevailed, in tho follow- inor lanornatrp ? e o o " Babel could not have presented a more startling confusion of tongues than that which prevailed at the convention duiing the night session. Every delegate appeared primed for a speech, and most of them made an effort to be heard. The position of the chairman ovist have been one" of great discom fort He , was called uportfrdri tvery side of the house simultaneously by a hundred voices, and re sponding to one gentleman as the occupant of the floor, a dozen others asserted their rights. The Democratic tempest aged for several hours. " His- (Boyd's) resolution was voted, or rather choked down. During its pendency, there was a " terrible outburst of indignant eloquence. Twenty men were speaking at once, and if they could not get the attention of the chair, would address the meeting at random. Lucian Anderson, of Graves, pulled off his coat and said that he must be heard --that there must be an expression of . the conven tion's sentiments. Other gentlemen doffed their coats and cravats. Chairs and tables were mount ed. Tammany Hall in its palmiest days never presented such a Democratic pandemonium." We may remark, in conclusion, that an attempt was made to procure from the con vention an expression of preference for Lynn Boyd, for 4he Presidency, but it was not successful. Gov. Powell also has a host of backers present for the same high office. Democratic aspirants for the slippers of Pierce appear to be multiplying rapidly. Rich. Whig A plain and unschooled man, who had : -1 l 1 - t, . . reuencu iu t7uuuitiyu principally ueneawi the open sky, in' the field or the forest, and who had wielded the axe more than the pen, when speaking of the children, remarked with true and beautiful simplicity : ' The little chips are nearest the heart."
The Greensboro Patriot (Greensboro, N.C.)
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Feb. 1, 1856, edition 1
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