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THE NORTH CAROLINA STANDARD : WEDNESDAY, JULY 11; 1865. COMMUNICATIONS. For the Standard. Chowan Cocsrr, July 3, 1855. Messrs. Editors : The candidates for Congress in this District have now finished their public discus sions in Chowan, the last haviDg taken place on Sat wrSayjust past. Never have the Democracy of"" fcdenton District had so just cause to be proud of their standard-bearer as during this present cam paign. His manly bearing, his bold and fearless discussion of the issues between his party and the rnrn fiUira nf ihe lnirlnio-ht cabal, and his vigor and its mode of organization and action, bespeak him as the unquaii ing champion of truth, of liberty, and the Consti WMW Vtw.. X L ' tution. . . . Very humiliating indeed is the position of bis op ponent contrasted with his own, and not less incon sistent and contradictory than humiliating. As instance Col. Paine, in answer to a question pro pounded by Dr. Shaw, admitted that ho was m fa vor of the acquisition of Cuba by honorable and peacsable means. This acquisition being made, there will of necessity be incorporated in our popu lation two millions of Catholics who will by this act be admitted to the privileges of American citizens an immense horde of foreigners, debased and de graded by Romish superstition and Spanish bigotry, and whoHy ignorant of the practical operation of our own government. With one breath, then, the Col lonel avows his desire and determination to deprive the Catholics, so far as he can, by his vote if elect ed, of the power to hold office of any kind, thus making an invidious distinction between them and citizens of a different religious faith to repel the industrious, honest, and down-trodden foreigner from our shores, or place him under a ban, and de prive him for a long scries of years of the highest and most dearly-prized privilege of citizenship ; and in the next breath he declares his willingness to ad mit as an integral part of our glorious Union two millions of men, who are both foreigners and Cath olics, and who, -without waiting the short period of five years now necessary for residence here before naturalization, would be immediately entitled to the privileges of citizenship. Thus much for the Col's, fear of Catholics and hatred of foreigners. The Know Nothings here are in sad plight. They were rash cnousrh at first to declare their ability to carry this County, but their melancholy visages since Saturday betray their inward foreboding of their doom. They have even been so silly as to charge Dr. Shaw with predilections for the Roman Catholic J Church, and are vociferously denouncing the Presi- j dent and his Secretaries for the appointment of for- eigners to office. They have forgotten that the only Catholic now occupying a judicial position in this State (Judge Manly,) was helped to it by the vote of i a large majority of the Whig members of the Leg- isiature of North-Carolina. "Consistency ! thou art a jewel ! " CHOWAN. For the Standard. Pleasant Mount, N. C, June 29, 1855. Messru. Holden & Wilton : Gentlemen: On the 27th June, according to ap pointment, the Hon. Thomas Ruffin addressed a large audience, considering it being in the country, at this place. Mr. Kumn was in nne spirits, anu so was the united democracy, and all things turned to make it a pleasant meetni The speaker received ! i for about one and a ! the most respectful attention half hours, at which time some few whom we may expect to be Know Nothings, or favorable to them, showed signs of restlessness, and at length left could not bear to hear all for the Know Nothings were handled with gloves off. The rise, progress, 'and present position of the party was portrayed with a pencil of light, and the duty of the Sqjith in the present crisis pointed out. Mr. Ruffin showed Know Nothingism in its con ception, its birth, its infancy, and its manhood to be abolitionism in its worst attitude to deceive the South, to disband the Democratic party, to place the government in the hands of Northern fanatics, and to bring the South under their rule, or dissolve the Union. To make these startling facts plain he cited the audience to the result of all the elections that have been held in the free States since Know Nothingism came into the field not a single nation al man has been elected. Moreover, he cited theui to the proceedings of those new elected Legislatures in the free States to show even their actions as well as words, and that every Northern man who voted for the Nebraska bill had been laid on the shelf by the new party. Their present claim to nationality was a farce, a humbug, a delusion, and was so de clared by their own organs in the free States. The Convention in Philadelphia would split on slavery. That the South would look in vain for Constitution al friends at the North outside of the Democratic party. The Know Nothings are our countrymen, our neighbors, friends and relatives, and I hope the' will be influenced by truth. I hope that what few of our Democratic friends have been influenced by the artful snares of Know Nothingism may speedity return to their old and tried principles, better and wiser men than they were before. I also hope my Whig friends, especially relations, will consider their ways, return and be wise, and will cease to help and abet a party that is plunging the country so far as it has the power, into contusion, and that it is rapid ly striding to anarchy and bloodshed Mingling pol itics and religion- -do we not see religion made a test by the Know Nothing party ? As for Demscrats I can speak for them, because, as a party, I as a party, I know thev will maintain their inteexitv. thoue-h some mav O Jl O J 4 stumble, and I do hope the true Whigs who have as yet wimstooa tneir cunning intrigues will uolu out faithful and stand to the Constitution as in former times, and not aid in an attempt to prevent the wor ship of God according to the dictates of conscience. Let us never forget those brave hearts from other chores who crossed the waving ocean to spill their blood for American liberty, by excluding their de scendant? from our shores. Let us persecute no re ligion, but leave' the right to worship God according to the dictates of conscience. Let us condemn Know Nothingism in private and public, its anti slavery proclivities, its proscriptive intolerant spir it, its misrepresentations and cunningness to lure our friends into the Whig party under its new and fascinating name. It is the same old party that ad vocated the alien and sedition laws. Let us remember that the triumphant election of Thomas Ruffin will strengthen ua and weaken the enemy, with all their misrepresentations, &c, &c. A DEMOCRAT. Reported for the Standard. Meeting of the Know Nothings at their little vil lage under the Blue Ridge. A meeting of this order took place on Tuesday night last, at the sign of the Cloven Foot There was a full attendance. As soon as the clock struck one, the president blew out the candle, and business commenced. Col. Saphead rose. If his health would permit, he designed making a few remarks about Columbus. That miserable wretch came prowling across the sea to deprive such men as compose this assembly of the honor of discovering America. He was tired of the cant which attributed any agency to Provi dence in bringing him here. On the contrary, ho believed he was led entirely by his foreign feelings. It was therefore the duty of the Know Nothings to express their strong sense of his rascality. Mr. Greenowl was glad to hear his friend, Col. Saphead, express himself in such decided language. He fully agreed with him as to the contempt which .should be felt for Columbus; but the gentleman seemed strangely to have overlooked the colonists. Before their arrival Aboriginal Know Nothingism flourished in the land. The beautiful forest, the sprightly deer, and the red Indian presented a scene which the most uncivilized might have respocted. But the foreigner came the wild man was driven back towns and cities took the place of wig-wams and cultivated fields intermingled with the forest Can the Know Nothings of the present day forget these things? Never, never! J b Mr. Hardcaso felt gratified beyond measure, at the beautiful and patriotic sentiments of the two gentlemen who preceded him. If the colonists had stopped at merely colonising the country he for one, could have forgiven them ; but their iniquity extended much farther. Notsatisfied with conquest, these foreigners had the audacity to become the ncners of the American race. Perhaps he felt the more sensitive on this point as he had a foreign father hiraselfc It was useless to talk to him about honoring your father and your mother, t your days may be long in the land. A foreigner should not so far forget himself as to beget a Know Noth ing. Mr. Blue Devil called the gentleman to order. A true Know Nothing should never allude to his pa rentage. This rule would not apply to an Indian parent. But as we claimed to belong to the great native American party, any allusion to a foreign nrcrn n-ns tnnst. nnhnit)V. Hei e a green member enquired if a Know Noth ing might be permitted to know his grand-father? Mr. Blue John was astonished at this question. It looked to him very like a squinting towards for eigners. If the member had gone one step farther apd alluded to a great grand-father, he should have moved his expulsion. Why should we as members of this great Know Nothing party, acknowledge fathers or forefathers, who, if they were here, would nodoubt be ashamed of us. Mr. Growngandcr was glad to hear these remarks from the eloquent member. They reminded him of a duty which he had to perform. The people of New Hampshire were in the habit of boasting every year of their descent from the pilgrim foreigners. The rock of Plymouth, on which they landed, in stead of being looked on as a disgrace, was regarded with reverence. While this rock remained it would call up anti-Know Nothing recollections. He there fore moved that some dark night it be rooted up and cast into the sea. It would be no harm if the bones of the pilgrim fathers were cast in with it. Mr. Grimbigot seconded the motion. The Know Nothing party could not expect the American peo ple to act with sufficient animosity against foreigners till thev had forgotten their ancestry. History must be pruned and tradition suppressed. For his part, he disliked to enter an om cnurcn, or reau an in scription in an ancient grave-yard. Any link which connected the past with the present, the living with vthe dead, or America with Europe, he was opposed to. He thought it best, while prosecuting the de velopment of bigotry and persecution, that every association calculated to disturb the conscience should be avoided. The motion was carried. The president then rose and hoped the members would be present at the next meeting, as there was much business to be laid before them. He then imitated the crow of a rooster, upon which the meet ing immediately broke up. For the Standard. Mount Airy, N. C, June 30, 1855. Messrs. Editors : Allow me space in your col umns to notice the discussions in this county, be tween Messrs Scales and Puryear. Col. Puryear makes a labored attempt to justify his vote on the Kansas-Nebraska bill, and declares that he was right that Messrs. Badger and Kerr were wrong that he would again give the same vote, and that he docs not care whether his constit uents like it or not Let that be remembered. He goes the Know Nothing platform, oaths and all; says he would support a Know Nothing Demo crat in preference to a Whig aye, even if it were Henry Clay himself. Yet he says he is a good Whig the same Whig he has always been has changed in no respect. Can honest Whigs beguiled by such stuff as this ? Mr. Scales shows, and that most conclusively to an unprejudiced mind, that Mr. Puryear, in voting against the Kansas-Nebiaska bill, not only deserted tfi Smith nnt nnlv nroved recreflnt to the trust con- i fided to him, but stood shoulder to shoulder, cheek by jowl with Giddings, Wade, Chase & Co., in a war ' upon our dearest and most cherished rights. -Nay, : so much is he embittered against Geo. E. Badger a man who has long been an ornament to the Whig ' party, whose rare intellectual powers, and whose devotion to Southern rights we all admire that in i response to a question put to him by Mr. Scales whether, if he had been in the last Legislature, he ; would have voted for Mr. Badger for U. S. Senator, ; he said it was exceedingly doubtful. Whigs of the ' Cth District, recollect this ; recollect that Mr. Bad ger voted for the Nebraska bill, and for that Mr. P. ' condemns him. ' Mr. Scales asks Mr. Puryear why it is, if he en ! dorses the Know Nothing platform, would not hesi ' tate to take their oaths, and believes tire salvation l of the Union depends upon their success, that he does not join them? And pray, Messrs. Editors, ' what do you suppose is his answer! Because it i might be said he was fishing for votes. But Mr. t Scales asserts and defies contradiction, that out of about 85 delegates in the convention that nomina i ted Col. Puryear, 70 were Know Nothings. Yet he will not join it for fear it might be said he was fish ing for K. N. votes! He is the K. N. candidate, and by such miserable duplicity thinks he will get the votes of honest whigs who do not belong to the dark lantern party. Mr. Scales shows that the Know Nothing plat form adopted by the Philadelphia Convention, may be made to mean any thing may be used as a trap to catch foreign, -cotes: tor what is meant by an "essential modification of the naturalization laws"? Does it mean to increase the term to 21 years, or does it mean to decrease it to 1 year as Gen. Scott wished to do? As his competitor voted for and advocated the election of Gen. Scott, it must mean the latter. Mr. Scales, in a most forcible, convincing, and eloquent manner, points out the prescriptive, intol erant spirit that actuates the members of this party: that such oath-bound political organizations are at war with republican institutions ; that they tend to the destruction of our liberties, and calls upon his countrymen, by all they hold dear, and in the name ot their country, ot their liberty, and of their God, - J ' Jl to strike down men who, for the sake of getting into power, woum crusn out ine vital principles ot the ' ireest ana best government on earth ! lhe Democracy may well be proud of their stan dard -bearer. "Wherever he goes he kindles an en thusiam that we have never seen animate them be fore. Let the people exert themselves, and we will no longer be represented by a man who deserts our rights, who herds with abolitionists, and who obeys tnu behests oi midnight cabals. SURRY. For the Standard. CnAr-EL Hill, July 4th, 1855. Dear Standard : The Sabbath of our country's freedom, redolent as when the angel of mercy first proclaimed to a youthful nation the glad tidings of political independence, passes not unsung over the classic groves and happy homes of Chapel Hill ; for while I thus hold silent communion with thee, the fearless and uncompromising exponent of Southern Democratic faith, the welkin rings with shouts of grateful multitudes who gathered from the Demo cratic dingles and picturesque dells of old Orange, where the cottage, or the man? ion, sanctifies the ground with the name of " home," and where the ploughshare gleams, for the nonce, idly in the morn ing ray, and the "careworn horse set free" rejoices too in a holiday bow down before the God of freedom beneath the shadows of our noble oaks, and lift to heaven the incense of praise from a people's heart, big with the memory of the glorious past. It is, sir, neither my aim nor my inclination to give your readers a trauscript of the proceedings of I this morning in all the critic-daring style or minutiae- loving lormality of modern writers. Ihia w the Fourth of July, and I claim for correspondents, on this day, a portion of that liberty which is peculiar ly its own in the more ostensible affairs of life. Pre suming that the boon is granted, I will take a rapid glance at our village "Fourth " par excellence. Whether, as some suppose, nature sympathizes with a nation's mirth or mourning, I shall leive to more dignified heads to determine ; but, Certes, it has ever appeared to me that the ever changing love liness of the external world, the exquisite variety of landscape or of sky even the glancing sheen and transient ripple of the lake or rivulet appears more beautiful, more clothed in the sweet simplicity of heaven's creative hand on a day like this, when eve ry breeze that whispers by is laden with the aroma of patriotism, or fresh from kissing brows bared to the memory of the illustrious dead. We know, too, that there lives not a man beneath the blue zone of our blessed land, who on this day looks out upon his spreading fields of bending grain, or in upon his little garden and pleasant cot, and as he looks feels not the smile of joy light up his face, and the calm of sweet content dawn on his soul, and appreciates not the noble deeds of those whose festival he com memorates. This may be tho season which made us think this morning's sunrise so truly, so unsurpas sably beautiful, and which added to the feast of our morning's enjoyment. At an early hour vehicles " of various and divers kinds" laden with the youth, beauty and stamina of Orange, poured into our peaceful village, adding to its quota of the fair and intelligent, already on the qui vioe to sustain- their deserved reputation for urbanity and warm hospitality ; and soon in response to "-the sound of the church going bell" whose in viting tones pealed merrily among the venerable trses of the 'Camnus' from the solitary tower, the I revered and ancient Chapel embraced within its walls an auauory oi me etue ui uur viumage. after the audience was seated, a procession, consist ing of the members of an Odd Fellows Lodge, locat ed at this place, in full regalia, and making a fine appearance, headed by Professor Mitchell and the Orator of the day, and accompanied by a rather martial band of sable musicians from our sister town of Greensborough (and here we would hint that our sister make her sable disciples of Apollo keep better time,) entered the Chapel. The Marshal read the programme of the day, and the gentlemen appoint ed to read the " Mecklenburg Declaration " and the " Declaration of Independence " having done so, he introduced II. M. Willis, Esq., of San Francisco, California, as the orator of the day. Mr. Willis de livered a glowing and patriotic address, touching on the various points of interest elicited by the occas ion, and for nearly an hour entertained the audience with a terse and eloquent speech. He was repeated ly applauded. Mr. W. was followed by our esteemed fellow-citizen, Dr. CIoss, who as the representative and defender of the benevolent principles of the or der of Odd Fellowship, and as their (the Odd Fel lows) champion in the good cause by " especial re quest," delivered a very ab'e oration, sparkling here and there with shy veins of wit; and faithfully defend ed the banner, on which is inscribed the noble trio " Friendship, Love and Truth," from the attacks of the ignorant, or the aspersions of the bigotted. A meeting like this must ever be dear to all lovers of true freedom. How vastly different the American character appears under the auspicious smiles of brotherhood, met together to forget in the sacredness of the cause which called them together, the paltry, selfish, narrowminded dogmas and tenets of party, to that it assumes when blinded by fanaticism, or stimulated by a desire to clutch the opima'spoli it developes itself under the cloudy canopy of night in the secret room, to stigmatize and proscribe its fellow man because he dared to exercise the privil ege of an American citizen to believe as his heart directed. Thank heaven that men have learned bet ter that the people, who are always honest, and though led astray for a while invariably return to their true standard and visit the heads of the deceit ful guides with deserved contempt, have awakened to their real interest, cast off the political incubus and stand forth again in great strengththe worthy guardians of the noble principles of civil and reii gious liberty. The monster, that for a while dis turbed the purity of our social and political waters is no more ; with the celebration of the anniversary of that birth-day of liberty, came back the health ful truths, inculcated and fought for by the mixed band of native and foreign patriots, without whose union it never could have been accomplished; and Americans felt again the warm pulse of the days of '76, before whose genial beam the cold, repulsive, unpatriotic creed of " Know Nothingiswi " dissolved as ice before the rays of spring. May each consecutive year find our lovely and be loved land, not only striding onward in the colossal course of intelligent progress, but the possessor of men fearless and faithful as the little band of farm ers, mechanics, and traders, who this day seventy nine years ago proclaimed to the world that ours, at least, should be the home of the free. The " exercises of the occasion " finished, the pro cession again formed and marched in order the band playing "Hail Columbia!" through the Cam pus, and each person returned to his home edified and delighted with the tout ensemble of the affair. Respectfully, CLIO. For the Standard. Messks. Editors: It appears that Know Nothng ism has excited the minds of the people to a consid erable extent, and I am sorry that the dark veil of such an ism has ever blinded a portion of the peo ple or rather the democrats in the county of Nash, who have been lead off by misrepresentations to follow those blind conductors at a late hour in the night to the place called I don't know, where this new party meet to devise means and adopt secret plans by which they may destroy that union, which has so long prevailed with the democratic party. I have had some connexion with that party, though I blush when I think of it, that I have ever belong ed to a party of which I was ashamed to openly avow myself a member. But when 1 reflect ove: what I believe to be the secret aim of that party anil what will soon be the result, I can exult over tho strength they will add to the democratic party of the return of all the true democrats, who have been deceived, and who will hereafter treat all isms with contempt that are gotten up by the whigs and abo litionist at the North. Col. Ruffin addressed the citizens at Joyner's Depot on Saturday the 30th of June in an able manner, which did honor to himself and the cause of Democracy. I here has been council of this new party established thre, which has deceived a few of the Democrats in that vicinity by hearing one S. who is a daily reader of the lvnow Nothing papers denounce Franklin Pierce and the Democratic party. I was pleased to hear a good number of them at the close of the Coi's speech say they intended to withdraw immediately, and never visit one of the dens again. OUiers seemed to bo angry, and said the party had been misrepresented, but they knew that such was not the case. They know the wrong, but still they do it ; They know the right) but don't pursue it. Col. Ruffin told them that he had been informed that the Know Nothings would not let him speak on that occasion, and if such was the case to, come on he did not fear them ; that he was in a fret; country, and should speak his sentiments in regard to this new party without any fear of being interrupetd, It was rumored that Henry W. Miller Esq. would be there to reply to the Col. but he did not make his appearance. The Know Nothings of that place, as I was informed by one of them, had invited Miller to be there without fail, that there was a large council there, and if some person of decided ability did not reply to the able anticipated speech of Ruffin, the probability was that he would mako a considerable fall off in their ranks. Mr. Miller must by this time have become tired of receiving letters from the Know Nothings in the upper portion of that district to re ply to the able speeches of Col. Ruffin, for he seems to be the only man they can think of who is able to defend them in their wickedness, and make smooth the rugged paths the poor fellows have to travel at a late hour in the night, to attend their secret meet ings. There are no fears entertained but what Ruf fin will get a large majority over his competitor, The Rev. Mr. Lathem, who was nominated last week, as I understand, between midnight and day, in the town of Washington. I hope soon to have the pleas urs of sending you a handsome list of subscribers from those who have withdrawn from the Know Nothings, and who desire to be received back again into the Democratic fold, and ask pardon of the Democrats for the misguided step that was taken at a late hour in the night, when all true Democrats were fast asleep. Vicksville, Nash Co., July 2nd, 1855. For the Standard. Messrs. Editors : The Candidates for this Con gressional District, the Hon. Richard C. Puryear and Alfred M. Scales, Esq., addressed the people at Tom's Creek on the 26th instant. Mr Scales made an able and eloquent appeal to the people in regard to Mr. Puryear's course on the Kansas Nebraska bill ; he placed the Colonel side by side, shoulder to shoulder and arm in arm with such abolitionists as Giddings, Wade, Sumner and others, and made him feel that not only the Democracy but all the old fashioned Henry Clay Whigs in this County at least are out and out against him and his abolition allies. Mr. Puryear attempted, in a weak and dejected man ner to justify the vote said that such men as George E. Badger and John Kerr were not io be his politi cal sign-posts, and that shortly after the vote was ta ken upon the bill, that both Mr. Kerr and Mr. Badger came to him and expressed deep regret that the bill had been introduced, and that they were truly sor ry that they had supported it (What say you, Mr. Kerr, to this ? Did you, in deep sorrow, apologise to Mr. Puryear in the manner which he represents you to have done?). The facts speak for them selves. Mr. Puryear advocates the Know-Nothing doc trine most ardently, and claimed almost to have been the originator of these principles. One of the rf Know-Nothings was heard to say that Puryear was a better one than the party desired at this time. Mr. Puryear, while speaking of the Know-Nothing doctrine, was catechised by his opponent, wheth er, if a good Henry Clay whig, even Clay himself, was running for office, and a red mouthed Know Nothing democrat, which would he choose of the two? Mr. Puryear said that he would vote for the Know-Nothing democrat What say you, Henry Clay whigs, who are honest in your principles, and who are opposed to secret oath-bound societies? Mr. Scales is winning golden opinions in this Dis trict, and will be elected by a handsome majority. TOM'S CREEK. Siloam, Surry, June 30, 1845. For the Standard. Messrs. Editors: In looking over the Fayette ville Argus of the 9 th inst., I find an editorial which no doubt made some of the followers of " Sami- h vil " laugh. Mr. Cameron, after abusing Mr. Iverr at a terrible rate, strikes out on a new vein of mu sic, and propounds the following question : " Have not he and Thomas L. Clingman been like Jonathan and Saul lovely and pleasant together ?" What a wonderful discovery what an allwise foreseeing man 1 ! How in the world did you find that out, Mr. Cameron ? Did Samivil bring the news, or did you merely guess it was so ? As the editor is so very particular abojt orderly walking now-a-days, I wish to look into some of his past conduct If it be an unpardonable sin for Mr. Kerr to keep company with T. L. Clingman, how much less unpardonable do you think it is for you to keep company with David Reid the gentleman you were seen walk ing with down Hay Street on tho 5th of the pre sent month ? Now, Mr. Cameron, if you can tell, in any fair way, why Mr. Kerr is not as much justi fiable in walking with T. L. Clingman as you are with David Reid, I should like to hear it Come out Mr. Cameron and tell the truth never disown your brother, if you did once abuse him ; for all is right now. CHATHAM. For the Standard. INFORMATION WANTED! The people want to Know : The exact period of time, when the Hon. K. Ray ner became filled with that " Disgust for the wild hunt after office, which characterizes the age?" (Was it after Mr. Miller addressed him the few lines, which appeared in the Register ? ) Hie people want to Know : If Mr. Rayner would under any possible combi nation of circumstances, accept the office of Presi dent of the United States, if the same were tender ed to him ? The people want to Know : If Mr. Rayner is still, as he always has been, for excluding, native North Carolinians who have not fifty acres of land, from voting for Senators ? Is he, and his followers against free suffrage, or not? If not, when did they chanqe on that question? The people want to Know : If Mr. Miller endorses ALL of Mr. Rayner's speech, delivered in Raleigh on the night of the 27th of June? And if there is a man, woman or child who heard that speech, that believes Mr. Rayner stands now upon the same platform as he did in 1835 ? The people want to Know : What works on theology Mr. Rayner has studied since 1835, which so thoroughly convinced him of the error he labored under at that time ? And when was it he became convinced that a " second reforma tion " was necessary, and that he and his " brethren" were the men to carry it on ? The people would further like to be informed: When the " Register " is going to hoist the name of James B. Shepard at its mast-head. Is the editor ashamed of his candidate? They icant to Know: If the "little twinkler" is in favor of the "relief bill"? They want to Know : If Mr. Shepard is one of those, whose names ara recorded among the archives of the " dark lanterns," as one who never sought office? And if Mr. Shepard thinks, that they would have nominated him, if there had been the slightest possible hope of the election of their candidate ? Reliable information on these points will be thank fully received by a VOTER. Thk "Established" Church in England. Either we underrate the patience ot the country, or the Established Church overrates it. While every gov ernmental organization may be said to tremble in anticipation of an overhauling retrench its arro gance, and mitigate the offensiveness of its preten sions while every other religious ministry devotes its best energies and employs its most persuasive arts to conciliate the good will of the masses, and there by conduce to their moral welfare the State Church the Church whose claim to be deemed the Peo ple's Church is the most effective in securing its tol eration as an establishment, the Church that is en dowed with wealth such as no other Church through out tho entire world possesses in any corresponding degree, must advance its most offensive claims, and outrage humanity, and sense, by the prosecution of industrious individuals, for the recovery of amounts too 6mall to be refused save for conscience' sake ? Does the establishment think this is to be permitted to go on ? Just let our readers take the following case as an illustration of what ws mean. It is by no means the only one, nor the worst we have heard of during the last year ; but it is the latest that has come be fore us, and on that account we hare selected it. The scene is in Cornwall; the victim, a cottager; the sum sought, fifteenpence ; and the claim, church rates. Now, on the face of it, a claim for church rates on a poor cottager has an ugly look with it not at all consonant with the obligations of a National Church ; but an attempt to enforce such a claim, when the money, whether owing to conscientious scruples or to poverty, is not forthcoming, is really shocking; every religious feeling is outraged by it, and yet such an attempt at enforcement took place in this instance. The church warden got two mag istrates to issue a warrant of distress on the recu sant cottager for fifteenpence ; and let the reader mark it ten shillings more for the church warden as his reasonable costs and charges. The warrant was executed ; the goods, valued at thirty five shil lings, were seized, carried off and sold. The account then ran : Rate Is. 3d. Churchwarden's costs 10s. Od. Constable's charges 7s. 6d. Total Goods sold for 18s. 9d. 18s. Od. Deficiency 0s. 9d. Thirty-five shillings worth of goods seized and sold for an unrighteous claim of fifteenpence and Mother Church gains sixpence, and the victim is still nincpence in debt. We don't mean to say any thing against the churchwarden. No doubt he fol lowed the dictates of an elevated nature far re moved from pity, or any other little weakness of humanity, or had never an old coat in his wardrobe, to pawn for the occasion. But we really have something to say to the Bench of Bishops. We would ask their Right Reverend Lordships if this is quite the sort of thing, the tol eration of which can add dignity to the lawn and stability to the establishment ? Passing hopelessly from them, we would appeal on higher considera tions to good men of all creeds, and say is it not your duty to put a stop to such proceedings pro ceedings that sap all respect for religion in the minds of the masses, which become cognizant of them, and convert what should be a powerful engine of mor ality into a deadly and wide spread snare ? Thirty- five shillings worth of goods seized and sold for a rate of fifteen pence, and the poor cottager whose modest dwelling has been gutted, still 9d. in debt A fatality surely attends the establishment London Sun. Use Copperas. The papers are everywhere urer- ing the free use of copperas as a disinfecting agent It is a cheap article, costing only three cents per pound, and can hi found at the druggists, and many of the larger grocery stores. A couple of pounds may be dissolved in ten quarts of hot water, and the solution poured into sinks, gutters. cess-Dools. and all other filthy places, with good effect. We advise all housekeepers to purchase five, ten or fif teen pounds, and make a free use of it as above re commended. Cholera or no cholera, their dwellings and out-buildings will contain a purer atmosphere after the use of copperas. r M I COMMON SCHOOLS. Office Superintendent op Common" Schools of N. C, June 30tb, 1855. To the Clerk of the County Court of, ' County : ' Sir: The chairman of the Board of Superinten dents of Common Schools of EdgeComb county, called my attention to the fact that the Laws of the last Assembly, creating the new county of Wilson, contained no express provision for the organization of the Common School system in said county. It was also intimated that the County Court of Wil son, not believing itself to have the power, under the general law, of organizing the school machinoiy in said county at least being so advised did not appoint a Board of County Superintendents ; and on this state of facts the Superintendents of Edge combe County wished to know my opinion as to their powers and duties with respect to the school Districts in Wilson, taken from the territory of Edgecomb. My opinions were given ; but as the subject is one of grave importance and of general interest, I desir ed the Superintendents of Edgecomb to suspend ac tion until 1 could get the opinions also of the Presi dent and Directors of the Literary Fund. These unan imously concurred in the views I had expressed, and the result was communicated to the chairman of the Superintendents of Edgecomb; and since these occur rences I have seen by the Acts of the last Assembly, now in print, that the counties of Jackson, Wilson, Harnett and Polk were all created by similar l.ws, while the supplemental acts providing for their poli tical organization make no allusion to the Common Schools. Thus twelve other counties are directly interfestod in the opinions- communicated to Edge- comr; while in times past this very subject has caused some trouble and given rise to contradictory precedents, and may still cause embarrassments in tho future, if some general and uniform policy is not adopted. It is to be hoped that to prevent the posibility of disputes and differences, the Legislature will pass some general act upon the subject ; and at the proper time I will communicate to the officers of the Schools my views in relation to this and to some other pro posed additions to and amendment of the Laws in regard to Common Schools. In the mean time, to assist as much as possible in preventing confusion, the result of the views entertained by the Literary Board, and by myself, upon the points sent up from Edgecombe are hereby communicated to the offi cers of your county, and will also be made public. 1. Since the decision of the County Court of Wil son, that it had not power to appont Superintendents of Common Schools, it was not deemed necessary, in this case, to express an opinon upon the application to new counties of the 1st. Sect of the 95th chapter of the Acts of 1848-49, found in my pamphlet com pilation of the School Laws on page 13th, Sec. 1. and re-enacted in the 23d Sec. of the 27th chapter of the acts of the last Assembly. We incline to the opinion, h owever, that in new counties, invested by the acts creating and organ ising them with " the rights, priveliges and immuni ties of other counties of the State," and among these with the right of holding by the existing jus tices, County Courts, that "shall possess and exer cise the same powers, authority and jurisdiction as are possessed and exercised by other County Courts in this State," the county Courts, at the proper time, with the requisite number of magistrates in atten dance, have power to appoint Superintendents of Common Schools for their respective counties. 2. We do not wish to disturb the decision of any county which thinks differently on this point; but even in such cases we are decidedly of opinion that there is no necessity for stopping the Common Schools in these counties, while urgent considera tions connected with the public good, demand that they should go on. 3. In such cases the Superintendents of those old counties from which the new ones are taken, should, until the meeting of the next Assembly, continue to exercise jurisdiction over the school Districts in these latter, taken from the former counties, consid ering the divided Districts as one, and allowing the parts of the divided Districts to act together until the meeting of the next Assembly. 4. It is recommended that the Superintendents of the old counties do not undertake to re-model, or permanently to-' re-arrange the Districts of the new counties, leavifig this tobe done hereafter, by their own Superintendents, acting at once for the whole county, and of course better able to consult the con venience of all its parts. The present arrangement is only to meet a temporary exigency, and the Su perintendents of the old counties will only make such alterations or modifications of the Districts ta ken from the territory of their respective counties, as the present manifest interest of the public de mands. 5. Wherever the Superintendents of the old coun ties exeixise jurisdiction over the school Districts in the new counties, those wishing to teach in these new counties, must obtain certificates from the Ex amining Committiees of those counties from which the Districts in which they wish to teach were taken. 6. All that is said of the iurisdiction of the Super- intendents of the old counties, in parts of the new i ones applies, of course, to the Chairmen of the I Boards of Superintendents; and when these latter make their annual returns to me they can distin- I guish between the Districts in their own counties, and those cut off, putting the latter to themselves under a distinct caption, but otherwise reported like the former. You will please hand this to the Chair man of the Board of Superintendents of your coun ty, to be laid before the Board at an early day; and if there is no Board, to the Chairman of the County Court, to be communicated to the Magistrates. With much respect, I am yours &c. C. H. WILEY, Superintendent of Common Schools. P. S. As a fact having the force of an argument in favor or ine view tnat it aoes not require special legislation to authorise the counties created by the Acts of the last Assem bly to organize the Common School machinery within their limits, I would state that all the law in regard to this school system, was re-enacted at the same session of Assembly ; and among other provisions "the Courts of Pleas and Quarter Sessions of the several counties," at a certain term, are to elect Superintendents of Common Schools, Ac. 4c. Still, as the system can be managed in the manner above suggested, without having at present, distinct Boards in the new counties, it is not desired to induce the Court of any County to act against its own sense of what is the proper construction of law, especially as all doubts can be cleared in a short time, by a new enactment. The Post Office Department. From the ab stract of operations in the Executive Departments published by the Washington Union, we copy the following : Delivery op Letters, &c. We understand fre quent complaints against the department grow out of the fact that postmasters too often, trusting only to their memories, tell persons there is no mail mat ter for them when a subsequent examination proves that there was. If postmasters would adhere strictly to the rule of making a personal search every time lettors and papers are inquired for, there would be more despatch in their delivery. Postmasters' Assistants to be Sworn. Post masters at small offices, we learn, are too much in the habit of permitting incompetent members of their families, and other persons in their employ, (none of them being sworn,- as required by law,) to change the mails, and to perform all the other duties pertaining to their offices. None but sworn assis tants should be allowed to have access to the mails. Loaning Newspapers. Subscribers to newspa pers make complaint of the non-arrival of their papers, and in some instances intimate that the loss is occasioned by the fact of the postmaster loaning to his neighbors the papers of others for perusal. The papers fail to be returned to their proper place, and hence the dissatisfaction. Postmasters are strict ly forbidden to loan newspapers that are in their office for delivery. Cabbages for Cows. The editor of the Agricul tural? Gazette (Eng ) estimates one acre of cabbages to be worth three cres of turnips for cows. He re commends sowing seeds in beds, either in autumn or j spring, and transplanting toward the end of May, at I the rate of 8,000 plants to the acre. One pound of .seed will produce about 2,400 plants. Country Gentleman. To Peevent Bots ix Horses. A person of much experience in veterinary science is never troubled with this disease in his horses. His simple practice during the fall months is to keep a greasy cloth in the stable, and once a week rub with it such parts of the animal as may have been attacked by the nit fly. Grease destroys and prevents the eggs from hatching. North rrnlina S!f T- g . BUUe Stoc State of North Carolina : 6 "nQS 1&"d $90,000, dated J anuary 1st, 1855, and runnino. n 15 000 dated July 1st, 1655, and ruinKn&T T 5,000, dated July 1st, 1855, and running .1,1 y And i $129,000 dated July 1st, 1855, and runnh,, r If these bonds are not all sold on tbat dnv ,S , ears ment will continue until the 1st September r dvert'e. then held, it will be continued until the litv, 5 " alloot They will be issued in sums of S1.000, ?ul!!fiiber. .-mr ti i. VKust n- coupons attached for interest at six nir Wl" W C . i .1 ii ... "uvie mn r,ii-i ...... "dllk Incurs io uave luem payaDie ai the Treasury r ii ua They are exempted from taxation for anv' J Sla;c ever. ' I)UIse wha,. Parties bidding will please address their leii. . :igTt.sforc- st0Ck3'" 10 -feM2 Successful bidders upon being informed ofd tance of their bids, can deposite the amount . f ,, acc,P with the accrued interest in either the Uank .f .! ,.r bida lie, New York, the Bank of the State of NT .5',, Uel'b of Cape Tear, Raleigh. ' ' or Uaok Th right tf accepting such bids in whole or in may be deemed most advantageous to theStn.. i p M lhe bids will be opened in the presence of th.. r fTwl Secretary and Comptroller of State, and th v, ,en'r, the Bank of the State. b. W. COUKTs lof Raleigh, July 10, 1855. I''uUie '-'"rfr. 1 1 t.6 td. J ANTED, BY A NATIVE OFxTT r a graduate of a Southern Collem, ......I'l,. " uu J$ experience as a teacher, a situation in :ui acad.-nir ulne school. Address, D. E. Jordan, Roxboro' 1W. " pRva,e N C and state terms Ac. The highest recUmmeUuU',in,' will be given. "cuuiuuj July 7, 185;". . - . to of ml CHAPEL HILL. THE UXDERSIGXFrTr , his thanks for past patronage, and takes this ,.,,TJ mty of announcing to his friends that his line oil,,,!, Chapel Hill lo Durham's station will, as hcietofor. V ''a connection with the cars at that point, leaving Iwi ? immediately upon the arrival of the cars from le 1 :t"s arnving.at Chapel Hill daily at lo o'clock M 'P the nearest point from R. R. by 4 miles to c' 11 ii iU tne pleasure .o state that he has made vast i .'nipruvi-imjutj and also bv rediiciuu the tare. ... ...o .mc . iuub, Vy auu.ug new anu l i-pan ui;; ul, ont7 There will aUvyfu al b July 3, 1855. J. H. W'ATSiiv I ttr. "im n I rrTT'M'-t-Krv . v . iw...... 1TJH.LAFLEUU late of Paris and St. Petersburg hi X , Autography (or the translation of character" froin i,'',', wntiug) and Spiritual Writtiug medium, tenders i, . Ciiitiug public generally, as an infallible channel wImIi ," their late in life may be veraciuusly exposed, iovcafl'ir amicably adjusted, and their own or the character of A admirers faithfully portrayed. Correct signatures must )'l ilivtlriul-il v- unt nriH (VuiHrlminn m.... V........ 1 .. .1. oivii,it.,lLa, UI,U lOU.UUIie. IIS UW'li .... cents. Address "ilademoiselle Cecile Lafienr" l:;,.i,... . J Va. 1 -.-UUiJI;(J July C. 1855 10S2-StjKl Steam Sloop Proposals for Live Oak for six of-War. Haw Department, Bureau of Construction, Equip'!, June 22, 1 SEALED PROPOSALS FOR DELIVEKLNy o.NE Kjf or more live-oak frames of a sloujj-of-war one to bf livered a each of the navy-yards at I'en.-acoia, X,irllk" Philadelphia, New York, Boston, and Portsmouth, X. 11-1 will be received at this bureau until the od Senie'mber 1855. ' These proposals must be endorsed " Prnjumtlt jf T, Oak," and addressed to the 44 JJureait of Cuitttti'tictionf iy they may be distinguished from other business letters.' The offers must be for the whole of one frame, estimated atiiiir ty thousand cubic feet, aud, as required by law, imi.-t be accompanied by a suitable guarantee, the form of which u herewith given. Sureties in the full estimated aimmni will be required to sign tbe contract, and, as additional aniicl lateral security, fifteen per ceut. will bv withheld on the amount of each delivery until the contract is fullv cimiple. ted. In all deliveries "of the timber there must he a due proportion of the most difficult parts of toe frame, :n,ilt the principal pieces ; otherwise there will be withheld mi h further hujount in addition to the fifteen per cent, as mav bejudged expedient to secure the public interest until such principal pieces sud difficult portions shall he delivered. The remaining eighty live per cent, or other propwiion of each bill when approved in triplicate by the cuuiiuaiuhnt of the yard, will be paid by such navy agent as the cuiinc tor may name, within thirty days after its presentation tu hi in. It will be stipulated in the contract that if default Ixrnads by the parties of the h'rst pait in delivering the timber named, of the quality and at the time and place jiroviilvil, then, and in that case, the contractor aud his Miien'es forfeit and pay to the United Status, as liquidated damans, a sum of money equal to twice the amount of the cui.act price there agreed upon as the price to be paid in case i,f 'die actual delivery thereof, which liquidated damages tuay in recovered or retained at any time from the said parties oi the first part or either of them. The timber must conform to drawings and instructions with which the contractor will be furnished, and work to moulds and bevellings with which he will be provided Iroui the United States navy-yard at Philadelphia. The lvhule must be cut from trees growing within thirty miles of the sea, of which lhe commandant of the yard will require sat isfactory evidence. lhe irauie timber may be delivered in the form of pro miscuous timber that is. sided straiirhtand fair, butruiii'li- hewed the moulding wap, showing a face of two-thirds die siding; the timber need not be bevelled, but .must k-uf sullicient size to work the shape ot the moulds and hold Ui bevellings shown on the bevelling boards. In the measurement, the full moulding size marked on the moulds (which is one and a half inch larger than will be worked in the ship) will be allowed, provided the piecies win noia mac size; but no additional size beyond tuai mar ked in the moulds or in the instructions will be paid fur. The siding of the steam, apron, fure deadwootl, steaiu son, deadwood knees, stern-post knee, and keelsons, unisi he 183 incites ; the stern-post and after deadwood to side 21) inches in the largest place, and the hooks to side li niches. The siding of the frame timber must be 13' to 11 iuchi-s and of the promiscuous timber, one fourth part must aide 18 inches, and the remainder 18J-.J inches. The throat of the floor timber to mould irj-j inches at at the floorhcad 14 inches, and at the plunk shear 7 iuth'-s. The midship or dead flat flour limber has a curve ul' U inches in 20 feet ; the first futtock 4 inches in It fet-t; the second futtock 24 inches in 13 feet ; the third unlock 27 inches in 13 feet;,the fourth futtock i inches iu lla' fob and the top timber 10 inches in IT feet. The entire frame of each ship to be delivered at the re spective yards at the risk and expense of the coiiiracwr, subject to the usual inspection, to the ent ire approval uf the bureau, and all to be delivered on or belore the 1st Oc tober, 1B56. Persons who may be disposed to offer for more thanouc ship will make a seperate proposal for each. FORM OF OFFER. I, of the State of , hereby agree to furnish and deliver at the United States navy-yard at , the whole"' the live-oak timber for one ship, estimated at thirty thou sand cubic feet, be the same more or less, in ci)iiliii,'i;.r with the advertisement of the Dureau of Construction ul the date of 22d June, 1855, viz : Stems, apron, stemson, deadwoods, stern post, stern-p"' knees, deadwood knees, keelsons, aud hooks, estimated to contain 3,600 cubic feet, at per foot J Frame timber of all other kinds, estimated at 20,400 " " at per foot Promiscuous timber, amount ing to 6,000 " " at per foot . Total amount 80,000 ?" (Total value to be written in words.) Should my offer be accepted, I request to beaddre-H at , and the contract forwarded to the navy ap-n' al , or to mo at , for signature and certiticate. (Date.) (Siguature.1 FORM OF GUARANTEE. , Tl, 1 ..r .1 ,..t r . ai AUG tlUUCiniUllCU, , 111 , 1U IllU Ul.l'i. , hereby guaranty ih-J- epted, he or they will, ,v:'';.' " the contract nt the !"' "; tated, execute the c"ir:' ; , oi , in ine orate or in case the foregoing bid be acce in ten days after the receipt of rice named or navv a-cnt desisrnat for tbe same with wood and Ni.riini(nt sureties: in ca-e 1 shntl fail trt ntr i.iti .?nirrin-t n ntori'Sa'.d. We anty to make good the difference between the oiler ol said aud that which may bo accented. Signature of two guarantors. y (Date.) Witnesses; I herehv- ?nrtifv that the nhoro-namr-il A Ii and known to me as men of property, and able to ni their guarantee. (Date.) Signature-.; (To be signed by the United States district jung' j' States district attorney, collector, or navya'jeiit, aiul no uim June '11, 1855. lObl-"""- TWO PROFESSORS WANTED. WANTED IX THE "WAYNE lVT'w Goldsboroueh. N. C two professors o take ciw of the Greek, Cheinicd and Engineering Denarim" Southern men are preferred. Address, ( 2i. U. tJUUii, Uoiasooroufc", - . July C, 1855. O-V-iV-- iOTTOPT FOR SALE THE SUJJSCRIllKB loo bales ot Uotton he wishes to sell, at .f; miles East of Raleigh. ,;-' ouiy i-i, i8oo. BOUNTY LAND WARRANT f-yVofU. ff OST S1XCE THE i'jTU DAY OF LAST a Bounty Land Warrant, No. IS, TTforb0 acres- ie time in "V, 'r. . .,rt;nr for such v oi lanrl wqiio4 ij. V.nfiild Mortrnn persons are hereby cautioned against trading ,0.r,,',,-itie'.i rant, as it was issued after the death of the s'u Viii Morgan, and his widow, Uasketh Morgan, intends an . for a warrant under the act 3d March last. W. H. JOYNEH, Agent for Haskoth M.orSJn,(. June 1S55. 62 EALED PROPOSALS WILl'fV1 C5at this office until 10 o'clock, A.M., 11 th nf i LCE'Vo lor ine nurcnase ot the tollnn re payable the 1st days of January and July F annum Both principal and interest will be puv'ablc ... of the Republic. New York. unloS . i.'C Bant