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t Correspondence of the New York Herald. Middlebcrt, (Vt-0 August 24, 1851. The fiftv-first anniversary of the com:"-- an immense ronwu v r;- - i the Union. Our town, otherwise as quiet as usuat, crowded the 2 S,T Judo Douglas, of Illinois was among Sur. arSved in town on Monday last Ta visit to native State, after an absence of on a visit w sooner left the care than twenty years. K old friends, who he was recognised by some o j" iu &e place. In the afternoon Judge D es erted br the president of the College, the Rev. MrLabaree, and a very large number of citizens, visited themonument of Silas Wright, at Way bridge. The monument consists, as you may know, of a simple but beautiful column of pure white marble, about thirty feet high, with no other in scription than the name of Silas Wright, under a basso-relievo likeness of the great New York states man. A plain iron railing encloses the column. This monument was raised by subscription, and cost 5 000. Great credit is due to Mr; Jewitt, the su perintendent, who lives in the neighborhood, and who never fails to hospitably entertain the pilgrims to the shrine of the great patriot of the Empire State. AVere Silas Wright now among the living, there' would be no difficulty in harmonizing the democratic party of New York. On the same evening, the Lowell Brass Band played a serenade in front of the Vermont House, where the greatest number of strangers were con gregated, and where Mr. Douglas had fixed his quarters for the night. At the conclusion of their delightful performance, three cheers were given for Senator Douglas, of Illinois, who had been the sub ject of this polite attention. A speech was of course called for, and Mr. Douglas spoke in substance as follows : He acknowledged the compliment, and express ed his gratification at the kind reception tendered to him wherever he had been through his native State, and especially in this place. This was his first return to his native State, after many years' absence and he had hardly anticipated that he should be recognised, or that his former townsmen should havejtept trace of the wanderer. Mr. D. had never enjoyed the good fortune of being a graduate of the noble institution whose anniversary they were now celebrating ; but he had, neverthe less, taken some youthful lesssons in our town, at an institution somewhat less renowned, but which he remembered, nevertheless, with affection, and the head of it with gratitude. His first visit, after pay ing due homage to the memory of Silas Wright, had been to the old cabinet shop of MrZ Nahum Parker, where, twenty-three j-ears ago, he had been an apprentice. THere some one interrupted the speaker by the exclamation, " Three cheers for Douglas, the cabinet-maker." The three cheers were accordingly . eiven. and made the welkin ring. Another voice 44 We will soon have him again at work at his old trade." Here the outhurst of sentiment was tre mendous. Judge D. could not resist it. " If you do," he cried, u I will try to make the glue stick, and you may rely upon it that the principal ma terial used will be hickory wood. J Judge D. then referred to the present distracted state of the country, growing out of the agitation of the slavery question. He observed that hav ing lived the greater portion of his life in a free State, upon the borders and within rifle-shot of a slave State, he was unable to comprehend ,the ex citement prevailing on that question in extreme sections of the Union. Those who live on the bor ders were m the habit of trading across, the line; marrying, and visiting, and communicating with each other ; they knew the conditions and institu tions of both the free and the slave States, and, because they knew each other, cherished no un worthy prejudices, and indulged in no hostilities against each other. If slaves ran away and fled into the free State, the people of Illinois, like good neighbors, restored them to their owners with a full knowledge that they would be restored to liberty, if entitled to it by law. They do not interfere with their institutions, nor they with the institutions of Illinois ; and for this reason they were good neigh bors and friends. There were no time, during the whole agitation of the question of slavery, when all points in dispute could notjiave been amicably and satisfactorilly settled by the people of the border States, by a reference of all points at issue to two justices of the peace, indifferently selected, one from each side of the line. And yet a question thus creating no heartburning or unkind feelings among those most interested in it, and who had the best means of information in regard to it, was in great danger of dividing this glorious Union, in conse quence of the undue interference of those whose position and residence rendered them ignorant of the true merit of the essential points in controversy. There was one way in which the slave controversy might yet be settled, and that one generally ap proved of by the people of .Vermont on other sub jects, to wit: by every man minding his own busi ness, and abstaining from all interference with the concerns of his neighbor. If all would act on this good old maxim, the Union would be safe, and there would be no further talk about northern ag gression or southern dictation. Mr. Douglas was repeatedly cheered during Lis speech, and his concluding remarks, with many oth ers of a similar nature and character, were loudly applauded, even by those who were known hereto fore to cherish very different sentiments on the sub ject A volley of nine rounds was at last given for w the Giant of the West, and the younc cabinet maker of Middlebury." On Tuesday the exercises consisted of two ora tions one by the Rev. Henry W. Hudson, of the Philomathcan Society, and the other by the presi dent of Knox College, Illinois. The first was yVebsterian in its views full of fancy, and brilliant in ita conception and design ; the second was reli gious in its character, and strongly indinino- to wards the higher law. It is a remarkable factthat Mr. Hudson was apprentice toa wheel-wright atthe same time and place that Judge Douglas was ap prentice to a cabinet-maker. The exercises on Wednesday consisted of music and dissertations on various subjects anion oth ers, on the following theme : "Is civilizationpro"--ressiye f The debate on this subject evinced a very high degree of mental cultivation, and much knowl edge of ancient and modern history. The various degrees were then conferred on the members of the senior class, on several alumni, and, at last the de gree of L. L. D. on Senator Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois, and S. D. Bradford, of Massachusetts! Mr. Bradford is a democrat of the national stamp, opposed to coalition, a gentleman of high literary attainments, and of immense wealth. In the afternoon we had a fine poem by Rev James D. Butler, of Dan vers, Massachusetts, and extemporaneous speeches1" by the Hon. Mr. Law rence, of Massachusetts, thellon. Mr. Meacham, of Vermont, and Judge Douglas, of Illionois. Mr. Lawrence is a native of Middlebury, and a gradu ate of the College. He was a class and room mate m the late Stephen Molen, late president of the V?Beg, the intelligence of . whose death arrived at nU,y on y-- He pronounced an ap tK doquent eulogy on the character of . sed an4 his long-contiued and effective orAAP o Methodist preacher of the holy Gospel in the. southern States. . ... Mr. Meacham made a brief speech in aid. ot tne College funds, which we trust has notbeen uttered in vain.. He evidently engaged the earnest atten tion of the audience. . c. V -,; Mr. Douglas briefly alluded to his former" resi dence in town, and his twenty years' wandering over hill and prarie. Though not having the hon or of being one of the alumni, he felt grateful "to the institution for the honor conferred upon him. There was another institution in town, however, presided over by Mr.. Parker, Jrom,. whom, he re ceived many instructive lessons, and from which he was better entitled to a degree tJiau.from the Coll et. He then alluded to the influence of Middle bnry College on the country to its numerous grad uates now dispersed through all the States of the Union. He had met no less than fourteen natives of Vermont, mostly graduates of that institution, in the Congress of the United States, who repre eTioi tv. sttA nf the Union : and a hisrh re- sponsibility rested, therefore, on the insitution which had trained tnem. ii was necess.iry, uieu, iur mo imfpnrt to inculcate sound doctrines in all HC.IIVV. J - b that regarded the constitution and the Union, and the duties of one section ot tne union toward anom AWe all thinors. it was the dutv of all liter- - -" e ' f ary institutions to teach that liberty in all free gov ernments, rests upon law, and that, under all cir cumstances, tho supremacy of the law must be moitatnosl TTTm the armhiuse intemiDted the UACUAu L " i A X orator.l There was one cardinal doctrine to be taught early, and in tne widest extent ; it was mat which referred to the obedience due to all the pro visions of the constitution. Judge Douglas left here on Thursday last, and nrae f.iilivwoil to the cars hv a lars-e concourse of the people, and numerous warm friends, who gave him f. . . i i -f i- j i t : three hearty cneers Derore nis uepnure. j. revi Wrtlnpsdav. a letter, numerously sicmed lvo- A Amncmts and national w Liars, was handed him. soliciting from him a Union speech at the court- Twrnml liia ivwitroL TTia doctrines were no doubt approved of by the vast majority of all that were present ; out J uoge u. wiu nnu omer means of reasoning them out for the people at large. Socthej's Ideas of Style. It is well known that few writers have equalled Southey in ease and gracefulness of style. In his prose writing espe cially there is that simple mystery of language, and that neatness of sentence which has often been prjiised, and which is truly admirable. In some of his letters contained in the last number of his " Life and Correspondence," just published by the Harpers, he touches upon the subject of style. We infer that those to whom he was writing, had con sulted him upon the subject, and these are his an swers. In one place he says : " As for composition, it Las no difficulties for one who will road, learn, mark, and inwardly digest tLe materials upon which he is to work. I do not mean to say that it is easy to write, well, but of this I am sure, that most men would write much better it" they did not take half the pains they do. For myself, I consider it no compliment when any one praises the simplicity of my prose writings; they are written, indeed, without any other immediate object than that of expressing what is to be said iu the readiest and most persjueuous manner. - But in the transcript (if I make one,) and always in the proof sheet, every sentence is then weighed upon the oar, euphony becomes a second object, and am biguities are removed. But of what is called style, not a thought enters my head at any time. Look to the matter, and the manner takes care of itself." Again : " There may be secrets in painting, but there is none in style. When I have been asked the foolish question what a young man should do who wishes to acquire a good style, my answer has been that he should never think about it, but say what he has to say as perspicuously as he can, and as brief ly as he can, and then the style will take care of it sd" It would not probably be possible for every wri ter to obtain Southey's excellence, even by follow ing his directions, but the opinions of so distin guished an author upon this point cannot be with out interest to all, whose vocation is to handle a pen. Congregationalist. Census Items in Scrry. Mr. Love, the Cen sus Taker for the county of Surry, in 1850, whom we met at Mocksville, on-Tuesday last, gave us an account of several remarkable persons and tilings with w hich he met in the performance of his du ties : He found two persons, each one hundred and three years old, and another, one hundred and two years. He visited forty -two families in two conse cutive days, and found " a right young baby in every family, two excepted." And last but not least, ho found a woman two feet six inches in height, seventy-two years of age, and weighing one hundred and seventy-fioe pounds ! Mr. Love says this is only a priming to some other things he came up with in Surry. Salisbury Watchman. Accurate Calculation. Upon looking over an old file of papers recently, we found the follow ing, which appeared soon after the returns of the census of 1 840 : " The editor of the Cincinnati Chronicle has been examining the six returns of the ceusus, taken at intervals of ten years each, since the adoption of the constitution. The investigations show some curious facts. The population of the U. States increased exactly 34 per cent each ten years, which doubles it every twenty four years. The law is so uniform and permanent, that when applied to the popula tion of 1 790, and brought down to the present time, it produces nearly the same result as showtfby the census of 1 840. And thus we may tell with great accuracy what will be the census of 1850. It will be nearly 23.000,000. lhat was a close shot, was it not i lhe census of 1850 shows 23,267,498. Richmond Rep. Prentice is very determined that some folks down south shall be disumomsts : they are cowards if they are not, in his estimation. It is quite natural that whigs should be indignant at finding no one m fa ir of immediate secession, lireat calculations were made by whigs on this subject. They inten ded to lay in a capital of patriotism, by making war on secessionists that would redeem them from political bankruptcy. Disappointed as they are in their happy anticipations, they can t afford to con fess it yet, They will swear that there are seces sionists somewhere. Ihey will have to hire a par ty to play secessionists, in order to give them an opportunity to snow now tuey can aemousn sucu persons. Louisville Democrat. . fx -1 T . 1 1 1 - 1 1 " I am poor and can hardly afford it, yet I take a newspaper for my children, was the exclamation of an honest hardworking man, on being asked if he had a newspaper. Would that all fathers would do the same and thus place before their chil dren a erood newspaper, which would soon create an interest, ft source of enjoyment which, in after years, they will recur to watn pleasure, it parents instead of giving their children a quarter to visit each traveling show, would invest the money in subscribinsr for a news paper," they would confer a favor upon the child and themselves. , .' . The Last Prize Tale. rAmy's heartbeat as if it would buret, but at length she found courage to say To be continued. ' r " From the Richmond Enquirer. J The Whi" Journals are wasting any quantity of ink and paper in publishing a correspondence which has recently appeared in the New York Herald be tween a Mr. Donaldson of Texas and a Mi. Greer of Iowa on one side ; and sundry prominent politi cians of various shades of opinion in different por tions of the Union, on the other, , These first named gentlemen have assumed the character of members of the DeinocratioNational Committee, in their side of the correspondence ; and in this assumed Demo cratic character, have held communication not only with leading Democrats in the Union -but such Whigs as Joshua R. Giddings of Ohio, and such Freesoilers as Salmon P. Chase of the same State and Martin - Van Bureu of New York . That is the sort of good faith they have observed to tho Demo cratic party which they profess to represent ; and as if to convince the public of the auiJienticity of their commissions, and the sincerity of their pur poses (one of their alleged purposes being no less absurd than to bring General Commander of South Carolina, and ; Joshua Giddings of Ohio to shake hands on the same platform I ) they have publisLed their whole correspondence in the Herald.. Those letters which they have written to national Demo crats, the supporters of the national Democratic platform of Baltimore, in different portions of the Union, have been responded to frankly and in good faith, in the full belief that the tropseudo commit teemen were really entrusted with the commissions and confidence of their party. It appears, however, from the following official announcement, that they are but irresponsible in dividuals, and have no authority to act for the Democratic party in their assumed capacity. Their proceedings seem to be dictated, more by a desire to advance the political prospects of Senator Hous ton than the substantial interests of the Democratic party. We doubt not that this distinguished Sen ator will speedily disavow their proceedings, and prove to the public that he looks as little to such unhallowed alliances as the correspondence of these men would seem to indicate a disposition to effect for him, as the national Democratic party of the Union aim at meh criminal and at the same time suicidal coalitions. The Washington Union has the following reflections upon tho subject. We shall possibly publish the correspondence, if our IV hi g contemporaries should seriously intimate that it contains evidencies of turpitude properly at tributable in any degree to the Democratic party. " The Republic pursues, in another long article, the phantom which its imagi nation has formed out of the letters adverted to in our last issue, and which are calculated, if genuine, to throw suspicion upon the political orthodoxy of a few individuals professing the faith of democracy. If the individu als named were truly members of a democratic committee, to claim for them the right of changing a democratic principle would bo to burlesque all party organization ; but when it appears that those individuals are neither members of any regular committee, nor clothed with authority to speak or write for any committee, the attempt to treat their sentiments as indications of party management siuks to the level of mere badinage. All that the people can gather from these letters is, that the special organ is striving to make it ap pear that the democratic party is as bad as whig gery, and would not scruple to bargain with Sew ard and his allies, if these cunning agents of aboli tion and free-soil had not previously disposed of their stock in trado to the whigs. If this be not the plain English of the effort to make the demo cratic party responsible for the speculations of Mr.' Donaldson of Texas, and his correspoudents, Messrs. Chae and Giddings, why is there no fault found with the notorious and solemn declarations of the whig conventions of Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, and Vermont i These conventions are open commit ments to free-soilism, and are admitted contradic tions of the sentiments proclaimed as a motto for the administration, that the Compromise is a final settlement of the slavery question, and that the ex ecution of the fugitive-slave law is a duty to the South which cannot be disregarded without des troying tho constitution. These conventions have put forward Mr. Vinton,- Mr. Johston, and others, as practical cxemplificatious of the whig sentiment of their respective States, and they are known to be disorganizes of the most exceptionable character : A .1. " 1 t 1 yet tne special organ nas no leisure to expose to the public the glaring opposition thus proclaimed to the only feature in the career of Mr. Fillmore wLich gives him the slightest claim to the confi dence of the people. Does the special organ fall back upon the old platform of its party, and mean to contend that there is no difference between the barnburners and the "Whigs ! And was the pro gramme of the administration, still daily stuck at the head of the Republic, intended only as a decoy, to be abandoned as soon as the coalitions out of wLich have sprung the nominations of leading whig freesoilers become fixed and unchangeable ? In our humble judgment, it would be far more creditable to this singularly unfortunate adminis tration to be employed in vindicating its sincerity when attempting to make the people of the South beUeve that it had not entered into tho coabtion with Mr. Seward, than to be pretending . to find fault with democratic consistency on the subject of the Compromise, because one or two irresponsible men, without any authority to speak for the party, have intimated a free-soil and abolition propensity. But without dwelling on this subject, we call the attention of our readers to the very pertinent re marks extracted below from the Boston Post, sta ting the utter want of authority for the assertion that either Mr. Donaldson of Texas, or Mr. Greer of Iowa, were members of the National Democra tic Committee." The following official disclaimer by the Union of Messrs. Donaldson and Greer is the one alluded to above : " National Democratic Cokvention. We are authorized to state that there has been no meet ing of the executive committee of the National Democratic committee in New York, or elsewhere, respecting a national convention, as has been incor rectly stated in several presses, founded on an arti cle that originally appeared in the New York cor respondence of the Vincennes Gazette. All that has been published or pretended to have been done on this subject is wholly unauthorized from any of ficial source, or from any member of the commit tee. The subject of a meeting of the national com mittee at Washington during the session of Con gress, to consult with members on the call for a convention, and obtain the best concentration of opinion from all parts of the Union as to time and place, has been suggested ; but no person has had authority to act or correspond on behalf of the committee, nor has any meeting been called or held about it. There are two or three vacancies one in Texas, and one in Iowa-r caused by the lamen ted deaths of Mr. Kaufman of the former and Gov Clarke of the latter State ; but the vacancies have not been filled, and cannot be filled without official action of the committee, or its executive members, which has not been had. Mr. Donaldson of Tex as, and Mr. Greer, of Iowa, who have been repre sented as members of the national committee, are not such, and have no authority whatever to act or correspond for them. . The representation of any concert or correspondence between "any members of the national committee, having r the slightest refer ence to the candidates of the national convention, is wholly false and unfounded." Effects of Abolitionism. - Jacob Allen, an old resident of much respectability, hung himself at Cincinnati on the 6th inst, on account of the fanat ical conduct of his wife on the subject of abolitionism. From the Bangor (Maine) Democrat, August 12. J Federalism a.t War with the South. More than thirty years have elasped since the fed eral party commenced its crusade against the south ern " portion of this confederacy - The immediate cause "of that crusade is to be found in the war of 1812, at which time the designs of that party dis covered themselves at thd Hartford Convention. ? That this abhorrence of the institution of slavery, so ostentatiously displayed, was but a pretext to cover their treason towards the South and the Union, and that the real ground of their hatred of their fellow-citizens was the fact that-those citizens were democrats, and consequently , differed from them very widely in their ideas of government poli cy, is plain as the sun in the heavens. , It should be borne in mind that it was but-half a score of years prior to the developments of fed eralism in the Hartford convention that the demo cracy had met them at the ballot-box, and com pletely demolished one of the most formidable or ganizations that ever existed in this country. ().' The political battle of 1800 was fouzht and de cided, purely upon principles long known and thor oughly understood. The great leader of the victo rious party was by birth a southernor, and by cir cumstances a slaveholder. The friends who flew to his standard, and enrolled themselves under his banner, were in the main from the same portion of the country. With the remembrance of that terrible defeat fresh in their minds, and with a determination to avenge the blow which had proved so fatal and deadly, together with an ardent jdesire to reinstate themselves again in power, the scattered elements of that disbanded army were collected together for the purpose of devising some scheme by which their fallen fortunes might again be retrieved, Never was a party so completely demolished as was the federal party in the campaign of 1800. It was an overthrow which wrested from unwilling hands a sceptre which had been long wielded for personal and party aggrandizement at the expense of the public good.' And it was a defeat the more galling, because it gave the people, who were re garded as plebeians, unworthy to be trusted with political' power, a voice in the affairs of the nation which entirely relieved them of all fears of a consoli dated government, and imparted to them the glo rious hope that they were to reabze in their own persons the legitimate fruits of their struggle for independence. The plan hit upon by the federalists was the doctrine of sectionalism a doctrine which Wash ington foresaw might prevail in this country, and against wnicn ne warned his countrymen m his memorable Farewell Address. And this spirit of sectionalism, navmg tor - its basis a pretended hos tility to slavery, has been nursed and kept alive ever since. It has been their morninr sonsr and their evening lullaby. The press, the medium through which the sentiments of a party are dis seminated, has exhausted its wit, its learning, and lis mgenuity in making wider the breach and set tling deeper the rancor between the two localities. For the last twelve years in particular the tone of tne wn. press nas been eminently warlike. INo taunts have been too provoking, no comparisons too odious, no epithets too harsh, and no demeanor too menacing for it to indulge in. And, not con tent with quarreling with their fellow-citizens in the South, every man at the North who would not join with them in their denunciations was regard ed as an enemy, and subiectod to the same treat ment Any democrat who took the liberty to de- a a 1 1 . - - T mur to meir aoctnnes ; who dared to entertain a national heart, and cherish a national spirit ; who presumed to discharge his duty as a citizen or rep- hbcuwuvo ui me repuouc; wno emoracea in nis creed and his prayers the prosperity of the country the whole country ; who regarded the North and the South as but parts of the "stupendous whole ;" whose people were brethren of the same great na tional family, and each and all entitled to the same protection and friendly regard that man was at once set upon by the whig press, and yelped after as nounas yeip atter a panting stag, lie was stig matized as a "traitor to the North," "a doughface,' a " truckler to the South," fcc Who can ever for get the abusive epithets heaped upon such men as Lievi vvooaDury, Atnerton, and scores of others, whose moderate counsels, enlarged views, and patriotic efforts have in a measure rolled back the boiling flood of fanaticism and passion which threat ened to submerge the ship of State in its seething billows I The more prominent leaders of the de mocratic party during the last quarter of a centu ry have all been targets for the hot shot of sec tionalism. The belligerent tone of the whir press, its threats and bravado, its attempts to incite the North to quarrel with their southern neighbors, would lead one to suppose that we were a nation of bull-doss, whose business was to get the bone by fighting, and to ngnt whether there was any - bone or not, No one could fail to see that a press thus prosti tuted to passion would produce the most pernicious consequences ; and consequences the most perm- cions have actually followed. The bonds of the Union have been weakened, religious contentions have ensued, churches have been rent asunder, and the people many of them, at least have come to talk and feel that the two sections of the coun try are a mutual burden to each other, and that there can be no real prosperity without dissolution. It was the tone of the whig press that gave birth to abolitionism, than which a more direful calami ty never visited this country. The abolition party at the outset was composed altogether of come outers from the whigs. But its direful influence did not stop here. The tares which had been sown were bound to vegetate and grow, whatever became of the wheat. And hence we have wit nessed within the last few years the most unac countable and inexplicable phenomenon ever beheld in the political firmanent of this country. We have seen men professing to be democrats and presses claiming to be democratic, joining with the whigs in their wicked crusade, aiding and abetting them in their unrighteous abuse of our political brethren. Many of these new disciples have ex ceeded in virulence the spirit of their old masters. They have so far out-Heroded Herod that they have come to be acknowledged the chieftains of thegue- ruia lorces. wow, it may uo ior modern whigs to imitate their sires, and to consummate a system be gun nearly half a century ago they have some thing to make by it ; it is a game with them that pays ; but what advantage any democrat expects will be derived from it to the party how it is to help the cause of democracy is past our compre hension. Surely it is one of the most lamentable circumstances that ever occurred, that democrats should be so unwary as to be caught in a federal trap, purposely designed to ensnare them. " But it is so, and scores and hundreds of them are fast in the abolition stocks, having sold their birthright for a mess of pottage. - On the first page is a Democrat's opinion of the nomination of Scott. The Pres3 of both parties at the South frowns upon the movement.' : Albemarle Bulletin. . And yet if Gen. Scott should be the Whig nom inee for President, tho Whig party of the South, as a party, will support him. Mark the predic tion. . ; . , Raleigh Standard. And mark too how the prediction will falsify the prediction. ' The Southern , people can never be duped into the support of a man, whose nomina tion has' been effected by the tactics of Seward. The shackles of party will hot prove strong enough to compel Whigs to commit so suicidal an act. " li fHii j . : Albemarle Bulletin. Jidlj Carolina itaujiaru, The ContUtatlon m.m& th TTnloi at tbe Stetcst '$ tiiKT Bnaat b PrcitrTed. " j., it RALEIGH SATUBDAIi September '6, 1851. HON. A. W. VENABLE, . A late number .of the Fayetteville. Observer con-, tafns the following : " Hon. A. W. Venablb. The fear of defeat by Mr. Graves has induced thia gentleman to come out from the disunioniats and avow himself a. real " sub-missionist."- We learn from the Milton Chronicle that he declared in his speech in Granville a few days before the election, that he " would vnconditiotiaL ly abide by the Compromise'' -that he would do nothing to destroy it" " that he would stand by the Union upon the terms of the Compromise.' Of course Mr. Venable will be at once denounced by his Locofoco brethren as a "traitor to the South." At any rate,, he deserves to be. foi moved by the pal try considerations of a seat in Congress and eight dollars a day, he - has avowed his determination to submit to what he and they have denounced as palpa ble violations of the Constitution and the rights of the South." - Now, we have the best authority for pronouncing the above statement of the Observer wholly destitute of truth. Mr. Venable never made any such decla ration in any Speech - delivered in Granville, or else where. On the contrary, he distinctly and emphati cally declared on all occasions during the campaign, that of the measures of 44 adjustment " he voted only for the fugitive-slave bill, and regietted that his vote against the other measures could not defeat them, as such defeat would have compelled the free States to do justice to the South. He denounced the admis sion of California, the New Mexico and Texas bill, and the law abolishing the slave trade in the District of Columbia as disgraceful bills ot surrender of Sou thern rights. Being no Nallifier, and owing his al legiance to North Carolina alone, and obedience to the Federal Government because she as one of the sovereign members of the Confederacy commanded him to obey, he said he would acquiesce in these measures as long as his State acquiesced ; and while he asserted the right of secession, he disapproved of separate Slate action, but would act with his State whenever she might determine in Convention to act. He denounced, in fact, the whole policy of yielding Southern rights for a hollow truce, and declared that the South had been deprived of her Territorial rights, and subjected to a confiscation of property in the slave-trade bill, for the consideration of an empty ac knowledgment of the Constitutional right to recap ture her fugitive slaves. These were the grounds occupied by Mr. Venable in the late campaign ; and he maintained them fear lessly, boldly, and without regard to the so-called 44 Union " demonstrations which were made against him. He has been endorsed by the people by an overwhelming majority ; and if he is a Disunionist, as charged by the Federal organs, then are his constitu ents, or a large majority of them, men of the same stamp. But they are all friend1? of the Union accord ing to the Constitution. All Mr. Venable asks is the Constitution in its letter and spirit; and it is because be was unwilling to take less that he has been per secuted and denounced. The Observer owes it to the cause of truth and justice to correct the above misrepresentations. CUBA. - We give, in another column, from the Baltimore Sun, some highly interesting and important intelli gence from Cuba. It will be seen that Gen. Lopez and his brave soldiers have carried every thing before them that Gen. Enna, the commander of the Span ish forces, has been slain and that Lopez, at the bead of his troops, was marching on Havana!, . This is glorious news. It comes by way of Sa vannah, and was transmitted by the Editor of the Savannah News to the Sun. We see no reason to doubt its truth. The following, from the New Orleans Picayune of a late date, would seem confirmatory of the news above referred to. A correspondent of that paper, writing from Havana, under date August 17, says : 44 The news brought this moment, by the steam er Almendares, from the scene of warfare, is to the effect that General Enna has fallen into the hands of Lopez. The Almendares brings eighty-two woun ded Spanish troops ; and of the number taken prison ers by Lopez's party, he has had the humanity not to shoot one." not only noble in itself, but it is a stroke of policy which must redound greatly to their advantage and success. If we should receive any further intelligence before going to press, our readers will find it immediately following the news here referred to. P. S. The triumph of Lopez is confirmed ! The steamer Cincinnati arrived at New Orleans on the 1st inst., with Havana dates to the 25th, bringing news confirmatory of that received at Savannah by the schooner Merchant. See the news in another column. We shall no doubt receive more stirring and im portant news in the course of a few days, by the Prometheus or Empire City of the Chagres line. A HANDSOME PRESENT. We are indebted to Messrs. F. & R. Fries of Salem, in this State, for a present of some fine black Jeans for pantaloons, manufactured at their establish ment, which is superior to any thing of the kind we have seen for softness, for finish, and for apparent durability of texture. We have no doubt it will wear well. Messrs. F. & R. Fries have been engaged. for some time in the manufacture of woolen goods, and we learn that the demand for. their fabrics is constant, and equal, if not more than equal, to the quantity turned out. They have established a reputation in their business which commands public patronage. Their fabrics are eagerly sought after wherever they can be reached without too much difficulty. The Plank Road, now being constructed to ; Salem and the Central Road, when completed, will add greatly to the facilities of this enterprising Company for getting their goods to market. Why do not some of our merchants take steps for procuring some of these fabrics for sale 1 . Why will they continue to bring the 44 Kentucky Jeans" as it is called, to this market from the North, when they can get a better article here at home : - We will take pleasure in showing this cloth to all who may wish to examine it ; and we shall wear the pantaloons with more pride and satisfaction than if they were made1 of 44 cloth of gold." We trust it will sooo become fashionable for all to wear panta loons of North-Carolina material and North-Carolina manufacture. We are all in the habit of. talking ot the importance of, living within ourselves let as da as well as talk.. . ,7 ... , There are at 'present three Woolen Factories in this State, to wit : The Salem, by the Messrsi Fries, the oldest ; the Rock Island, in Mecklenburg ; and one in Newborn, by the enterprising firm- of E Stanly & Cc ; 7. GREELY AND STANLY. The New York Tribune of4h19ih Ado,,., " . - "o .Uv,o, air. Sta vAilatinn It or ill K AAn iknt VT "-t 111,', buu iucuu wi wwaiu cuici UilUs 11)0 IV very hiehest opinion of Mr. Stanly's patriotism : and ik,. l . the Raleigh' Register in its cry of 44 agitator " 44 disunionist" against such men as Clin?ma Vehable:V: '"' - 404 Nohth Carolina. Stanly's District. Hon f ward Stanly was chosen to the last Congress i ter GenTaylot'a inauguration by a majority nri!Uf" ly 47 votes. In tha t C ongress, he pursued . I of steady and open opposition to the Disunionist to all schemes for disa fleeting the South beca the non-extension of Slavery. He was consta f regarded and spoken of by the Venable's m J",' and Clinginan's as a 'Southern man wiih'NoS, principles 'in effect a disguised Abolitionist ii" declined a re-election to Congress, and Hon W H. Washington was nominated in his stead b u declining, Mr. Stanly was called into the field late hour, as the alternative was a surrender of'i, District without a contest.- The result is hit r I tion by a much inereased,majority and unnn '5 . creased vole." " In the same number of his paper which contain, the above, speaking of the fugitive-slave law.Gree ly says : 44 The Fugitive Slave Law, we hear, cannot be pealed. Perhaps not. But it may be portraved a it shall be. It is the. most infernal libel on the nam of Law which any Legislature has enacted within life-time. It is an act from which Christendom Z coils with abhorrence the shame and oriet' of R .r... ,JU glorJr 0, Aflgt throughout the civilized world. The chainnion. r Freedom and Progress throughout Europe hfie their champion of i . r weir ; happy those who are able to ! It is an act whiA ..., disbelieve its existence! It is an act KU seem to have been framed expressly to defy the axiom that Law is the divinely appointed shield of the weak from the violence of the strong, of the frugal laborer from the rapacity of the luxurious idler, of the sim pie and timorous against the. swoop of the cnnnin and daring. Tc pretend that any just man would take pleasure in its enforcement, we must believe lhat an audience feels disappointed and wronged by the spectacle of Antonio escaping the whetted knife of Shylock. If this law cannot presently be repealed there is so much the greater need of rendering itde tested and infamous, so that no one can be found base enough to enforce it who would not bo the hancrman of his brother for a dollar so that freemen shall loathe it and slave-holders be ashamed of it." There it is that is the language used by a Seward Whig, and by one who rejoices over Edward Stan ly's re-election ! 44 A man is known by the compa ny he keeps." Greely says, in the same article : 44 W bat madness, what futility, to talk of re spectin such an act as the Fugitive Slave Law ! Not even a kidnapper nor a slave-trader can really respect it; Humanity and the sense of Justice innate in every heart imperatively forbid it. The most that a conscien tious man can undertake to do is not to oppose it by force. A certain measure of respect is due to a sub sisting law merely as such, without regard to its in trinsic character. That respect we paid to the Mexi can War, though we execrated and sought to arrest it from the first. We admitted its existence, and ex pect to be paying taxes toward the cost of it for ma ny years yet. But we never wished evil, disaster nor death to the people of Mexico; and we do not now desire the capture of any fugitive from Slavery. vi nuuiQ How could we or should we 5 lhe Uonstitulion is not altered since Milliard Fillmore gave Milton Clark money to aid him in his flight from Slavery, and we heartily approve the deed. We think it reflects more credit on Buffalo than all that her Rusts and H. K. Smith's can do in the way of manifesting their pe culiar zeal for 4 Law and Order for the next ten years. We trust Mr. Fillmore's generosity will have many imitators, and Rust's Constitutionalism very few.'' What a picture is that ! Look at it, ye friends of Stanly in the Eighth District, and then rennet that Greely, who curses slavery like a mad man, and Fill more, who aided a fugitive slave in his escape from his master, are friends if Stanly also ! Mr. Greely speaks generally of Slavery in a late number ot the Tribune as follows : 44 But we are told to leave slavery alone ; it is the special curse of the South, and we have nothing to do with it. This is a great mistake in every way. As journalists it is ourrirht and dutv to discuss wbat- I ever interests the public, or whatever we think ought to interest it, whether in New York, bngiana, Car olina or India. But in slavery we have a nearer in terest than this; for it is an American institution, and exerts its baleful influence over the whole Republic, all of which is weakened and endangered by weak ness and danger in any of its parts not to say any thing of the disgrace this institution casts upon De mocracy in the eyes ol civilized mankind. Besides, we are liable to be called on to send back fugitives, an act which certainly renders us participants in their enslaving. Moreover, it is too late in the day to think of stopping the discussion of this subject. It will be discussed, and the best thing is to look at it frankly and sincerely, and say the whole truth about it. And we tire happy to see in the Southern Slates a WinS ntber J7ty"Ji,J0t!&!L testnnonv relied on, the attitude of the free-spoken portion of the North in the controversy is and has been exceed ingly useful, and has tended to expedite the great end which all enlightened lovers of their country must have in view, namely, the exlinclim of slavery by the Stales in which it exists. - This end we sujpott will be attained sooner than is generally anticipated. TVs do not believe that the beginning of the next century will behold a slave under the flag of this Republic." Comment upon the foregoing is unnecessary. I' speaks for itself ; and Greely, be it remembered, speaks for Stanly. Greely and Stanly, and Stanly and Greely ! We copy in another column, from the Star, a list of the ten best winter-keeping apples for our climale Northern and Southern varieties have been frequently tried by our farmers, and with but little success saw in a few instances the Northern varieties maturing too early in the Fall, and the Southern and Western being subject to blight on the tree before maturing. We have understood from Mr. Lindley, who, with other Orchardists, can furnish the trees here referred to, that no fruit free from worms can be raised if the orchard grounds are cultivated with any thing except the fruit trees ; and furthermore, that pigs kept running in the orchard .during all the growing season, to eat the fruit affected by worms, as it lulls. We understand that a company, consisting of fivej or six Welchtnen, passed through, this City ob Toes day last, on their way to- the Coal Mines on DeepJ River; with the view of working the mines. One ofj the company who had previously visited these mines pronounces the coal the richest and the best in the United States. j .; i ' : The Steamship Atlantic, of the Collins line Cap West, has made the most remarkable trip, o record from New York toTLiverpool and back. She left the 6th August, the whole time occupied' w the paM sage being twenty-five days and seventeen hoars' having arrived again in New York on Monday lg inst., bringing a hundred and sixty passengers. The Petersburg Democrat, speaking of the lal glorious news from Cuba, says : What if the pat riots satch the murderer of the fifty Americanstbe savage Concha 1 They will, make him eorapreheoc what a just retribution is. A gallows ighe'a . mil fnhflQ Hainan's will be his final resting place, i b' - revolution is fraught with momentous conseoeence to our country mark that,'.' ; ; Concha has acted m - , , , ;,k , ect mercy a nena, ana no cum .i. - We bPe at Ibe hands of the" Inamphant pairioia, y soon to "hear that he has been shot or banged.