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From the Democratic T.E TTEK ' Kl' OM iib.v ASA j, T ' "- WlIAIAMSTO., J : , Stahke : On my reUiriome '.list, after en uise:tce of r vt iy ascuminjf somewhat tl. r! .nc. 1 553." .lie itigUi bt I found a ,i circula (or sued from IhG OU Noah uie" office,' -in whi Ml i An aw, mucf- u my surnris o article; styled address of wie Democracy .j . Pasquotank County So theit brethren throughout he Dinrict, purportin-,; te be eigned by Keeling VVtnlehurst, n.sq., and 29 Mhers. "resenting my name an lndt-nen ienl Candidate lor .ConjTress in'this District; and the signers s:.y .they ?":erid to , -vi-u; for me, whether I consent or refuse. .run. For several years past I hare occupied no political position V I have sought - none; and when Solicited to be a candidate, hare in variably requested that : K might be permitted to pur- eae my private and professional pursuits to provide .1 6r my larje and increasing; family. I have urged iny .former activity as some reason why I might for a season at least live in political retirement ; although I have never been an idle, or uninterested spectator in the conflicts of, parlies, t Without the slightest inti mation,, however, of such a movement, and after a Democratic Convention had nominated a candidate, g laid dowa a platform of principles and the canvass ' had commenced, I am startled by an Address " professing-to come from the Democracy of Pasquotank,"-and any name is to be used with or without -jmy consent as an Independent Candidate ! When it v "jr. is i caught my eye 1 did not understand it, (and do fTiToi know "that I do now.) and supposed it was an add res by" the Y higs, dissatisfied with the nomina . lion of Col. Outlaw, as I understood there were acme . of that kind and atiil it was a little surprising to ins thai men professing to be Wh'g, unless from strong personsal friendship, should select my name ; ame ; . hen 1 i bat ray astonishment was greatly increased w found it to be a movement of Democrats to run an Independent Democratic candidate in a Whig district! What coald be the reason ! I find in the came paper (Whig) an editorial article styled the "Democratic Address." ...... - Considered in the general it comes in quite a ques tionable shape for a "Democratic Address," but let us see the particulars. 1 gather from the " Address " that the dissatisfaction with Dr. Shaw is, that there is "reason to believe there is a clique m ihis vicinity , terness, of competition and controversy which de and that he is connected with it and has exerted his auoys those fraternal feelings that shonld character : Influence to eecure the appointments of those to wh diu ; jze the members of this confederacy. You complain the body of bis party is bitterly and irreconcileably j u,ai the land will be squandered among the new opposed ;u and this the address says " warrants a re- States. What will prevent the new States after your pudiation of the candidate." They say they diifer division, from acquiring the land by exorbitant taxa with Col. Outlaw politically, and therefore cannot j tjon j ti,e m0st offensive manner ? And yet prufes support him. Prom the editorial (which 1 suppose ,ted State riAs Democrat in North Carolina are ad was intended lo keep company with the address) I j locating this odious division and distribution to se learn that you have been appointed Collectorat Kliza- j cure y ,jr support? Are they calculating to follow beth City and other persons are expected to be ap-! in the footsteps of aome of their tuceeasful illustrious -pointed to other offices, and this is the cause and the predecessors ? Airain we are met bv Democrats with only cause of the independent movement. Is the patronage of your office so sreat and do you dispense 11 to such odious favorites as to produce such a stir' ?' I may be however that the expectants for the other omces named are the obnoxrous ones and you may be permitted at least to divide the responsibility with them. But. again, it is a little singular that a fuss should : be made before the offieers are appointed. "There is many a slip between the cup and the lip." But seriously has it come to this, that with a Demo cratic President and Cabinet who command and are ntitled to the confidence of the country, a few disap pointed aspirants for office and their particular friends j r'or II)V ,art I prefer being in a sound minority rath shall start an independent democratic opposition be- ! er 11,411 an unsound majority, and I trust the imoure cause'their personal wishes were not consulted in the j distribution of the offices? Can disorganization run . Mnoie riot. I know nothing of the 'clique' and the; ' manoeuvres about Elizabeth CilV. I conclude, how- ; . ever, thai tbe little offices about your town ought not o produce a very great sensation in the first Con .; gressional District ot North Carolina. The only persoo named in th address or editorial as certainly jftt disappointed i iy old friend Capt. James C. Scott, a tried and true Democrat when I last saw him, and still, atrange to say, he does not sign the address, and I therefore conclude is opposed to this separate organization. 1 deeply regret the necessity which compels me to write this I. iter, but 1 have no alternative. A nrl now In ko i nrr VYIiitokiirsl. Ken.. and others I desire to say that if you vote for me, y au must do it not only without my consent but in ex- pre trppuniwn to my withe. 1 appreciate hidify CU9!" J" o m(i cvn your good opinion ; yon have, however, bestowed en- j e,oded bol 1 1 M rV Le.ak wff'. H r2nents tirely too much praise upon me; I am by no means and positions, although given less in detail than up indifferent lo the approbation of my fellow-citizens. ! " t,,e occasion ol the former discussion here on Tues- jVYou desire to elect me, you say, because I am eon- ! daJ Court week, "ere substantially, and, in most ! . .nected with no " faction " and will be " an able ex- i cases, verbally the same, and it will not, therefore, ponent of our (your) sentiments." Now I beg yon ! be necessary 10 go into them now further than to no lo reflect in what a position you place me and your-' lice one or two ilcnis tre fir8t n regard to a po:nt, ! elves. If yoa have had "a free interchange of ; Von hlclt n would appear from his remarks that opinion," 1 must say you have acted without much ' we had in one of our ""des, misunderstood his po deliberation. I had thought a candidate for Congress sition in regard to alternate sections. We say: (his honesty and capacity being admitted) ought to ,! " Uul although we cannot go, as Mr. Leak does, for be elected upon his opinions in relation to the loreign ' alternate sections," etc. Perhaps we should have and domestic policy in the administration of the goV 1 8aid : As a,r Leak 8St5 t',a, ne w"u!d have done, eminent. -"And is the "spoils principle to control j if il could have been shown that tho remaining sec all othe'rs 1 and am 1 to be the independent candidate ; vions were hereby so much enhanced in value as to who is to see that these spoils are properly distribu- ' rel'y lhe Treasury for the sections granted." The ted ? I hope I may be saved from this humiliating ? report of the Secretary of the Interior allows that they position and from being the " exponent ot such sen- i ',ave been 80 enhanced, and we therefore can see lit timents." There are, no doubt, many plausible and ! tie difference in the matter, but as Mr. Leak seems to some forcible objections to political conventions. It ! l"'nIt differently, we cheerfully give him the benefit is more than probable that in the distribution of offi- ! ot lne correction. Another mailer which we would ces Injustice will sometimes be done but as Demo- : notice is, the assertion thai the Democratic party has crats profess to be governed by principles, the nomi- I never taken the same grounds in regard lo ihe lands nation by conventions in" Congressional districts at ' themselves as in regard to the proceeds. This is least, has become absolutely "necessary to secure contradicted by the fact that the last Democratic unity of action, and I ho'd it to be the lutv ni 1 Convention of this State passed a resolution unani- good Democrat to support the nominee ol his party unless he believes the nominee to be personally or politically dishonest, (and Hie difference between personal and political dishonesty I cannot well see) or incapable ; because in this way and in this way .tone, factions are suppressed, great principles are maintained and liberty is preserveJ. I never can . "" consent to take pan in that struggle which degener ates into a mere scramble tor office, although 1 think . in. the administration of the government the President as a general rule ought to select as officers those wl.o agree with him in political opinions. I there fore appeal lo the signers of the " Address" and all who sympathize with them, not to make lhe bestow al of office merely, the watchword of a party, for ander that banner none can. ever succeed. When we ere actuated by high and elevated principles of public policy, we have enough mortifying examples of the prostitution of principles for the sake of the loaves." With my notions of propriety therefore I can never consent to be the standard-bearer of this , new independent organization. Let us therefore bury these personal dislikes and mortifications, and although our candidate may be objectionable to us in eoLSequence ot what we consider injustice to us or our. friends in appointments tooffice, yet by supporting htm we manifest our confidence in the rectitude of. . our principles and oor disapprobation of faction which you seeia to deprecate. Will you not therefore re consider this hasty ebullition ot feeling and sustain ' Dr. Sbaw (if for noothr reason) as the rrpreentatice of the principles you profess? I do not understand from the address that hb has been an active agent in 5- the injustice of which you complain, and nothing else :- appearing, it will afford me pleasure to join you in giving him a cordial support. . . ?v ' 5; .And here perhaps I might stop, bat as I am drawn . jtUi a political letter unexpectedly, I desire to make ' a few bugzestipnsto my Democratic friends in North : -Carolina, in view of a spirit of disorganization which ; ..1 tear pretralle.V We have been fighting in a minori f ' .. ty many lung. years.- The troth and justice of our principles have uliima'ely obtained us a majority in V this State, and lbs representative of our principles s - lias been elected ur power by an unexampled unijCri- ty cf the people of tbe United Slates. A firm adhe . rence to : these prineipU only can maintain that ma jority. We have a President true to those principles, as we believe.. 'J he developments yet made give assurance that he is sound, tlii he belongs to the Old Guard," and is a strict construction; Stale rights - Democrat., Wilt North Carolina Democrats, to se euie Whig support, or for fear of popular clamor in doing right with a view to pander to the fears of the timid or the cupidity of the illiberal, abandon DemocraUc principles or attempt to make new issues to escape old ones I - Some .ecent indications pro due fear and regret.- And on what subjects are these fears entertained ? Internal lu.provements and the -, Public Lands. I entertain the opinion that no two n i- qtiasiions are more susceptible of corrupting iuilaen , !f .e andjistter calculated to destroy the rights of the States, the integrity of Congress, and consequently L-. nfpy iastitutiona and venerated CorjJiUction. v '1 ,V ortl,e diversity of -opinion Hut exists jn . v on ' . -lina (not -confined 1 to parties however) abotrt improvement by the Slate. Klany of the Dem- ortata, myself among ths htfmber, bare opposed many wasteful and extravagant schemes by the State, some of whith ' nead of rorriounj the interest of North OarofipH liov-e.ee. ..d to benefit our sister States at Our c.Kpense; .. . .ecause were opposed td In i ternal IrLDrovensent by the Genera) Government, ex cept" for orects clearly national in, theircaaracler, we are falsely and improperly charged with opposi- i lion to ai State improvements.'" Other Democrats l ave advocate., all the improvements the subject of controversy in the Stite, and they are falsely repre sentedfas being in favbr of Internal Improvement by the General -Government.'' Now, Improvements by the State and those by the General Government are altogether different things. A confusion however on the subject is not difficult, and hence the great care we ought to exercise to maintain our integrity. system by the General Government heretofore prac tised is one of the most corrupting of all questions Take an illustration. The opening ot Nag's Head is believed to be strictly a National work. Our re nrsRentative moves an appropriation. He is told an appropriation will be placed in the general bill if he will vote for the whole. He refuses and loses the ap propriation. He consents, and while he receives $50, 000 for Nags Head votes away 93,000,000 for works local and unconstitutional, infringes the rights of the States, enlarges the powers of the General Govern ment, perpetratea a system of bargain, intrigue and lug rolling and if not checked by the people will certain'y terminate in the centralization ot all powers in Congress, and the erection ot a grand Consolidat ed National Government. Can State rights Demo crats equivocate on this subject to obtain a benefit to their Districts and if Democrats do not stand (nrin what may we expect? Again, we hear those who repudiate a division of he proceeds of the sales of the public land advocate a division of the land among the States, and a dislinc- tjon is attempted which to tuy conception in principle jg the difference betwixt 'twedleduin and twedledee.' Another corrupting appeal to our feais and avarice ! We want improvements and schools in North Caro lina. Give us the lands, say they, and we will have thenttoiMout taxt. Objectionable as a distribution of the proceds is, 1 must insist Bennett's Land Bill is much more so. All the objections to the former scheme with additional ones apply to the latter. In what a relative situation do you thereby place the States ! You create a source of bickering and bit- j strong opposition on free suffrage, d( the argument -advanced will annlv in all their force to the comnro- (uide8 of our present Constitution. Free Suffrage destroys none of these compromises, and amendments by legislative enactment require all propositions to stand upoti their intrinsic merits. How can we act in harmony when such positions are maintained by Democrats? It is utterly impossible that we can succeed as a party except upon a concurrence in principles of public policy. I believe the people of North Carolina will sustain the true Democratic doe- t fines and will repiobaie this spirit of disorganization u.ay be winnowed out. In speaking thus plainly I know I shall subject neelf to censure and illiberal remarks from ome, hut I taavn alwava make it a noint when I unfair- to ! do so aa a freeman who knowiug his rights dare main I tain them. . I can only hope that these suggestions may be profitable, and I submit them for what they j are worth. As my name is submitted to the public through the press, it is proper that my opinions I should be made known through the same channel, i ASA BIGGS. Sfbakikg at the Cocbt House. A very good : ly number of our citizens were present last night at i Uourt House to hear the speaking from Messrs. ! AsHlt a,,d J, candidates for Confess. The dis- mously, directly bearing on this point, and distinctly naming the public land and not the proceeds. Mr. Leak alluded lo his position in regard lo Cuba and the haibor improvements, upon which he and Mr. Ashe agree, so that no further reference is necessary. Mr. Ashe s reply was one of the most successful efforts which we have ever heard that gentleman make, and in our humble judgment completely met every point raised by his competitor. He staled without any circumlocution what he believed to be the naiure and the causes of the opposition to bim among certain parlies here and elsewhere throughout the District. Towards the close of the debate considerable warmth was evinced, especially in the rejoinder of Mr. Leak, but we suppose all these things pass off, as perhaps they should do, with the occasion. Perhaps, we should add, wtial we had overlooked in the hurry of penning the above remarks, that Mr. Leak emphatically stated that he would support no man for Governor at the next election,, who did not come out in lavor of his distribution policy, not even lhe nominee of the parly to which he claims to be long. One strange peculiarity about this declaration is, that Mr. Leak stated, in the course of his remarks, that his notions, upon Ihis subject were avowed as long ago as 184C, when he wanted to be Governor, and yet he bases claims upon the parly for his exer tions in favor ,of Governor Reid, who ran and was elected upon a platform directly the reverse, and that too at a lime when Mr. Leak says that his opinions were the same as they are now. What can we think of his consistency, or what estimate can we place upon the sincerity of this newborn and most " burn ing Vesuvius" sort of zeal of his ? Wilmington Journal. The impeachment 4t'ial of Judge Levi Hubbell is undei way in Wisconsin. The Milwaukee papers are filled with reports of the sayings and doings. The Lieutenant Governor of the State presides, and Judge Hubbell i present from day lo day, attended by his counsel. On the fourth day the Court issued attachments against twenty-three witnesses who re fused to appear, and among them one or two ladies. Tbe Committee of Managers, on behalf of the State Assembly, have put in a replication to the plea ot the defendant affirming their belief in the truth of the charges for which suit is brought. The most impor tant witnesses iu the ease, however, were absent, and the investigation was postponed to the 13th. It is probably now progressing. - Sales or Tobacco in Niw York. It , is staled that there waa a speculative movement in tobacco in New York, at the close of last week, and tbe sales for two days (Friday and Saturday) reached about 1200 to 1500 hhd., chiefly Kentucky, at rates vary, ing from 6 to 9c. fcr good to prime qualities 'This otovement-was- caused by unfavorable accounts re garding the prospects of the present crop, received from the West, especially from Kentucky, where, it was said many plant had beets destroyed, either by die backward spring or the severe-drought which hsd prevailed.' Included in the aalea were considerable putehases made on account of Kanlucl r.aciers. i , , . 4. -- -i v - '' - r i. TH E "VAR BEG UN TH E FIRST .RC ' The opposing carilidates for Congress in t t(iclCuU Outlaw and Dr. Shaw--met, for . lime, on Tuesday last at .Camden, Conrt-ii ouse. There was quite a large assemblage of lhe peojie in attendances-being '(ourt week--and much interest was manifested ; 10 .iiear & discussion between the champions of the respective parties. '.Speculation waa rife as to tho result the' Whigs (as usual and of course) holding out the-idea that their champion j was going to overwhelm, demolish,- annihilate Dr,v Shaw ; while the onterrified Democracy, with un daunted spirit, said " let him doit, if he can." But we will not anticipate. - - - . . : Soon alter dinner, Col. Outlaw took the stand and commenced his speech. We certainly do not know how he fell , but if he felt as badly as He looked and spoke, then was his a most uneaviable position. We do not mean to say that Col. Outlaw is not a man of fair talents for be has a tolerable modicum of good hard common sense ; and we suspect that that was the very reason why his speech was so " flat stale, and unprofitable." How could any sensible man, in the present condition of the Whig- parly and Whig principles, and upon such a rickety platform as that thrown together at Edenton, stand up and make a good speech ? The thing is impossible. Col. Out law managed to flounder through his hour, somehow or other, without having stamped upon our mind the impress ot a single successful point. He would ven ture 10 reter 10 vague generalities, or specious excep tions to lhe personal conduct of some men of distinc tion; but whenever he turned toward me considera tion of principle, the frightful and loathsome ghost of defunct VVhiggery, seemed to rise up and cause him to shudder and tremble. Ugh : but it was a sad spectacle lo see a really intelligent man compelled to occupy a position in wnicn me nooier faculties o: the mind had to be prostituted to lhe ignoble task of tossing about upon lhe political, ocean apparently without an object, and without an anchorage to which he could be moored for any respectable length of time. We speak soberly, and intend no disrespect. But we havrf never seen, before, a political exemplifica tion of Pagauim's masterly performance on a tingle ulriug- and that so weak that there seemed to be a constant dread of Us snapping in twain. These are our honest impressions of the speech, to which we were an attentive listener. But, lest we should be charged with prejudice and unfairness, we will give its main points and submit to the can did reader whether we have judged it harshly. Col. Outlaw started out by referring to his nomination expressing his gratitude lo his fellow-citizens for the repealed evidences which they had given of their confidence in him, and promising his best exertions in behalt ot their interests in case of his re-election, &c. That was all very well in its place, and it was handsomely said, lie then proceeded to say that he should otter no factious opposition to the administra tion of President Pierce; that, so far, we had had no other indication ot the President's policy, except as foreshadowed iu his inaugural ; that that inaugural with a single exception, (the enlargement of our ter ritory,) received his approval ; and that it the Pres ident acted upon it, lie should be satisned. too tar, well enough ; but there is no argument in all this.) The Colonel, however, dove-tailed another little ex ception as lo the President's policy, and that waa based upon his appointments to office. He charged that the President had appointed Dix, the reesoiler. who bad stood upon tbe Uuttilo piaiiorm, ano was about as bad a man as Seward ; tl at he had appoint ed Soule and De Leon, the Southern hot bloods who had jeoparded the safety of the Union, that he had sent Belmont, a foreigner, to lhe Netherlands, &c. This union of extremes be regarded with great sus picion, and thought it was impossible for the party to hanir together successfu'ly for four years longer. He was opposed to fillibusterins He. was in favor of opening the inlet at Nag's Head. He iras in fa vor of Common Schools. He was opposed to the extension of our national domain, except under cer tain circumstances. He was in favor of Dittributiun He was silent as to Free Suffrage and the Maine Li quor Law, and said not one word that we could hear, . -j f . . 1 r i. : l aoouitfwruuaf rapping, in uie course 01 111s speecn, he paid d irlowiiig eulogy to Daniel Webster, Instead of making auy comments of our own, we i prefer giving, substantially, lhe reply made by JJr Sbaw to tne several points toucned upon, r irst, as 10 the ap, ointment of Dix. What right had Col. Outlaw to object to it ? -Did not Mr. Webster, whom he had just lauded lo the skies, stand side by side with Dtx on the Buffalo plaiforui 1 Most assuredly How, then, could he, with any show of consistency. denounce the one and extol the other ? Yet Col. Outlaw bad done so. Then as to Soule whose on ly crime, even in lhe eyes of Col. Outlaw, was that he loved the oouth not wisely but too well an 01 fence which he (Di. S.) could readily forgive. Next as to De Leon Ac was objected to he was Irom South Carolina he edited lhe Southern Press a paper whose leudency was to destroy the Union Dr. Shaw's reply was withering. He said that this charge came with very bad grace from a man who, a lew years ago, tougiu side by ptde witn ue uoon in the ranks ot SuJUfcaliun ! Col. Outlaw himself had been cheek by jole with De Leon in the days of Nul lification then he was ready to stand by bocth La- I rolina in her crusade against the Union; but noio.alas j how changed ! He could not bear the sight of a mau who offered resistance to the federal Government A quondam auume' denouncing a Secautur. ul Satan correcting sin ! Dr. S. might also have added that De Leon had served bis connection witb tne&ouin ern Press " because that paper would not support the Democratic Platform, upon which he resolved to stand; and thai as soon as he did so, the paper died : I Then as to Belmont. Col. Outlaw objected to him because he was not born on American soil he was a foreigner bv birth. 1 his, reinsrked Dr. o., was in oerftel keepim? with Whig policy from lhe days of the elder Adams, when the odious Alien and Se dition Laws were passed, down to the era of Gen Scott, who was so anxious to exclude foreigners from the country, that he proposed to make the army the only avenue by which mey could reach )t I As to filibustering. Dr. S. was as much opposed lo it aa Col. Outlaw and he was ulso as warm a fiiend to the proposed measures of opening Nag's Head Inlet as the Colonel htmselt. As to lhe Distribution nues tion. he made issue with Col. Outlaw on that. He was opposed -to it. both as to its impolicy and its un constitutionality. He showed conclusively thai Dis tributiou would entail an increased tax npon the peo pie. who would be required to raise the amount so distributed and restore it to the Treasury, and pay the expense of the transaction to boot, lhe attea tion ot Col. Outlaw was directed, with heartless cruelty, lo a contrast of lhe position which he former ly occupied before the people of the District and that which he then occupied. Unce the proud ana ooasv ful champion of Mr. Clay's great American system he was now able to point only to Distribution as "The rose in the wilderness blooming alone, To show where the garden had been." But, as if resolved to test Col. O.'s powers of en durance by the severest ordeal, Dr. S. subjected him to the refined cruelty ot an inquisitorial torture. H dosed him with his own physic. He quoted to him his own famous anti-Scoll speech referred to hi subsequent aposiacy from the Hue faith, aa therei expounded by himself, and bringing the two antago nisms together, fairly crushed me oolonel between his own engines ot destruction. I here was no es cape. The Colonel had "nursed lhe pinion that impelled the steel ;" and he could not complain of his Tate. Dr. Shaw endorsed the platform laid down by the Convention which nominated him it enunciated ih principle which his party and himself advocated, an upon which the prosperity of the country depended. We were not afraid norasbamed to blazon them forth lo the world. We have given above a hasty outline of the sub stance of what was said on both sides in the ope ning speeches. We do not pretend to give the lan guage of either of the gentlemen both acquitted themselves creditably in that particular. But the material facts staled will not, we apprehend, be gain sayed by any honest man of either party. We have endeavored to give them fairly and we belive we have succeeded not holding either of tin- speakers responsible for the injustice which our feeble pen might do them in matters of mere style and diction. We did not hear their rejoinders but learn that our candidate bore himself with even greater success than in his opening speech. This we will say that every Democrat with w bom we have spoken opon the sotjeel, was delighted at tbe result, and we have, heard of some. IVkig . hqjhought Jhat Cot. Outlaw might have done Ic'trr than Ae did. W understand, too, that the Cole 1, as If conscious that he had not tuau a veiy decided impression,, apologetically in formed them that he would have another opportunity Tof addressing them before iheeanvasselosedv Better Tut. !r ri0Tt i ;ii inprhiia . V We feel prouder than ever '.of our." champion, in his hands our cause is safe. ; W'e have no fear-s ; but we feel assured that he wilt gallantly bear our glori ous standard until the day ol the election, and that it it is doomed to be. lowered on that day, the fault will not be his. As father Ritchie used to. say ; the skies are" bright and brightening." ; y k; ;. i .Democratic riuneeti " . Author or thc. Rail way System. We move on' ward in every direction in the elegant and comforta ble rail car, with too great a velocity to inquire lo whom we are Indebted for this great wonder of our progressive age, and we know very little of the author ofthis system, which has done much of late years in developing the resources of our country. The bene fits resulting to mankind from railways every one is ready 10 admit are very urge, is not beyond the con ception of any among us, and yet the system is un dergoing daily improvement. Who would think if in our bustling hurry skurry we can think that the man to whom we are indebted for this great good is still living in England, has been ridiculed and scoffed at, and is now generally forgotten? Thomas Gray, the first projector of a general rail way system, was generally laughed a, as the sugges tor of a useless project, met no encouragement, be came i) our. disheartened, desnised and necrWfpH Yet despised and neglected as he was, the work he suggested advanced with rapid strides, and still moves onward with increased and still increasing velocity. Y e Una tne louowing oner SKetcn ot Mr. Gray in one of our exchanges, though we know not who is ntitled lo credit tor it. No one will read it without feeling an interest in the subject and a desire fot farther information of this gentlemon : Cincinnalli Gazette. "Thomas Gray was born tn Leeds, England, a- out halt a century, or more, ago and this is a!! we now of his early tistory. The Middlelown colliery had a railway lo carry coal to Leeds, a ds tance of three miles. I he cars moved Jongat the rate of three and a half miles per hour.. Il was laughed at not by Gray, but by the wise public. Gray 6a w in his little work something that might be augmented into greatness ; and he thought upon the subject and forthwith became a visionary ! He talked and wrote upon his project oQ " General Iron Railway ; " the people declared him insane. He petitioned Parlia ment, sought interviews with the Lords and other great men, and thus became the laughing stock of all England. He received nothing but rebuffs wherever he went. All this took place in 1820, or thereabouts. ' But he succeded at last. The railways were aid. lhe world was benefited by the madness of Thomas Gray.. " Well, what became of him? the reader will ask. We do not know; but we believe he still lives, in Exeter, to which place he removed. Up to 1846 he had been neglected. While thousands have been enriched by the consuraation of his brilliant scheme, he remained lorgot ten forced by poverty to sell glass on commission, lor a living. Howit, in the People s Journal, a few years ago, gave a somewhat lengthy sketch of bis career, thus bringing him into public notice. We have nothing in print in relation to him lately. Elliot wrote a great truth in these words. ' How many men, who lived to bless mankind, Have died unthanked?" How many ofihe railway projectors, agitators. stockholdes, &c, have ever heard of lhe subject of tins brief 8 ne ten j " Eyes. Who has not worshipped eyes? Who has not paid court to his favorite color, apd some time or other courted the muses for suitable expressions of admiration ? Almost every one forms his own stand ard of beauty on this subject. To one, blue is di vine; to another, black adorable. Grey, the " ereedv gre.) , " as the children have it, designates poetry, depth, feeling. Black, passion, sentiment, romance To as there is no more beautiful eye than the hazel ; so full of soul deepening suddenly at the tone of sorrow, lightning at the glance of mirth beaming the very language of Heaven, when the heart beats its story of love. Tbe Savior of mankind is always described as having a " fair, open and ruddy coun tenance, long curling locks ot auburn, and eyes large and of a hazel color." But apart from their hue, many eyes are beautiful from expressicn alone. Whatever of goodness em anates from the soul, gathers its aoft halo in the eyes nd it the heart be a laming place of crime, the eys tell its tale. Seme eyes vary wonderfully arith the passing emotions of tbe hour. We have seen the dull, cold eye,- grow liquid as the first grey light of morning, and as bright as the star of beauty, an der the impulse of some holy and tender sentiment. We have noied the eye that seemed the outward em blem of a meek spirit, flash like the file that leaps from heaven, at the oppression of the weak and help, less. And many an eye thai told of solitary misan thropy, has held a world of feeling in its orb, when other lips have told him, I entrust these treasures to you. They are my dearest, my most sacred oh! be tender ol them Dear mem safely to their journey s end. ' The eyes of a child ! how clear they are ! how sin less ! how full of the pure light of innocence! Is it not a pity that this .ark, cloud colored world should so often make them a mirror for its deformities ? The striking eye is not always beautiful. Fitful, quick, penetrating, it arrests attention if it win not admiration. Black or very dark eyes are generally of this description if their owners be susceptible of strong, emotional feelings possess the temperament of genius. Blessed be the maiden that hath a gentle blue. Over her the graces hold peculiar sway. If the hand of affection has always ministered to her, and influ ences happy and moral hedged her from contact with vice and passion, she is one ot the most amiable, as well as sinless, of I eings. Great strength of intel lect she may not possess, but great wealth of love which is a betiei glory than honor can give, cr fame procure with that will she fill your dwelling and and yojr heart. ' Artists love this style of beauty ; they paint the Mary-mother, that blessed among women, with blonde hair and eyes of heavanly blue, and so love they to portray lhe infant Jesus. Olive Branch. Worked to Death. The New York Times says thai sixteen persous, and the Tribune says twenty- five, died in New York on Wednesday last, from over-work and exhaustion. The Day Book says : " Suppose we should hear of thirty-five, or even lhe smaller number, sixteen negroes in the South dy ing suddenly from exhaustion or overwork. Sup pose lhe New Oi leans papers should announce that ten negroes had been worked to death by their mas ters in the hot sun? What a tremendous hie and cry there would be raised about it all through the North:! Every abolition naper North of Mason and j! fcvery abolition d; t' 1 n A iMtMilyi It r m A Dixon's line would have food for six months, and the whole world would resound with the cry of cruel ty to the negroes and the inhumanity of slave-holders. Another Uncle Tom's Cabin would be written, and the authoress would travel with her baboons and receive the distinguished homage of the English no bility. But such a thing cannot be. No owner of slaves would permit them to work themselves to death in lhe hot sun. Il is only the free laborer, working for his daily bread, that is pressed on to ex tremes. A man whose wife and children at home are vailing hungry for the proceeds of his daily toil, in his desperation takes the risk, pushes on and dies with over exertion." By abolition reasoning these dreadful results arise irom the free system of labor. Interest, and we trust humanity and sympathy, prompt southern people to secure a better fate for their slaves. But it seems that neither has any influence upon the heart of north ern sympathisers with the African race. In New York, free white men perish in their struggles for bread. The number of deaths during last week is reported at CO, from heat and exhaustion. , Wilmington Commercial. I It is astonishing how much may be done by econo mizing time, and. by using op the spare minutes the odds and ends of our . leisure hours. There are many men who have laid the foundations of their character, and been enabled to build up a distin guished reputation, , simply . by making a diligent use of their leisure minutes. . , Professor Lee acquired Hebrew and several other languages during his spare time in the evening, while working as a journeyman carpenter. f erguson , learned astronomy from the - I - 'v i . j t;n heavens while herdin? sheen on the Highland hills. Stone learnf mathematlcs"While a journeyman gard ener, Hugh Miller studied geology while working "ts a day labore jn a. quarry. -.Harper Magazine, i.3-'.w,!..i,. -J"or the Standard. "SHOULD WIDOWS PAV'AX ? v ; t . ; ''Mk.' Koitob . i I bad occasion's few days sgv id visit the bouse of a widow .ladyi -between 1 fifty and' sixty, year old remarkable for economy and.perse- verance. She has around ri ttinlioti.'wl -1 IMU.a tenrlk f"!-n.lc AAtfl nP7rrUH- hilt ... viuau uviiai, :.i i w! . v - ' - - . : U - II 1 r.(.,kln l.oins ' 1 In r 1 rx rr my yisii she remarked that shehad not yet paid her, taxes, and continued by say ing "that though the sum '. was not very large, no one knew wnat a ouraeir 11 , was to her it required money at a staled lime, &.e It occurred to me, while she spoke,, for the first time in my life, that widow thuuld not be required to pay ax. 1 therefore take the nesralive of a aerv obove sob- milted, and tor the following reasons: 1.. the nm 1. iiation of their civil privileges. Now, I do not ad vocate an extension of these privileges, not at all, but I insist upon a correeponcence of dulie.y You know, Mr. Editor, that we Americans are very great sticklers for representation where there is taxation, and vice vena, deny the right of taxation without rep resentation. Now, sir, 1 cannot see that we are not constantly violating this sacred principle,iheoretically dear lo every American hearty by taxing widows. Are they represented in the balls of our legislature? If so, how ? Am 1 told that their, taxes form a pari of the aggregateof senatorial constituency. Suppose they do; the question still recurs, how can they be repretented by those in whose appointment they have no voice f IMow, rt does seem to me, sir, mat tne only way by which any one can become legally and prop erly my representative, is by my own appointment. I know that it is some times tbe case that in matters cf trifling moment, one person voluntarily assumes the representation of another, -in which case he is uniformly styled self-constituted, and his acts are binding only so far as they are understood by bis as sumed constituent. But for a third parly, to appoint for one a representative, involves a course of pro ceeding which 1 believe is never adopted except in cases of minority or idiotcy. And as il is not a Hed ged ot widow a generally that they are either minor or idiot, it is certainly improper lo treat ibem as such. Ii then widows are represented, the question again recurs, who appoints tbem representatives ? It will not be pretended that they appoint them themselves, nor can il be maintained that any one else has the authority to appoint them for them. If, therefore, they do not appoint their own representatives, and others have not tbe authority to appoint for them, it follows that they are either not represented at all, or else illegally represented. Again, as it is conceded tbat they have no voice in the appointment of rep resentatives, and no man or set of men, pretend to appoint for them, it follows that they are not repre sented. Once more: Since it is shown that widows are not represented in the Legislature of North Caro lina, and are, nevertheless, required to pay equal tax es with the voters of the State, it follows thai Ihey have the same cause to complain of tyranny and op pression which drove our forefathers to deny alle giance to the British crown ! 2. 1 contend that widows should not be taxed, in the second place, because of their helplessness. Really, Mr. Editor, the more I meditate upon the subject, the more nearly do 1 1 approach the conclu sion that it is positively ridiculous for us, men, te ask, much more to force, helpless females to aid us, pecuniarily, to support government to help us build railroads and clean out rivers. Why this is clearly masculine work, and should certainly be performed exclusively by males. If widows support themselves and avoid being a burden to the public, we ought to think they dw re markably well, fr, consider the condition in which a widow is left. Having been accustomed, from the time that she left the paternal root, lo look wilh con fidence to her husband for protection and support ; all her wants having been sjpplied by the mere expression of her wili, or perhaps in a majority of cases, anticipated by her faithtul companion; never hating relied on her own exertions for any thing, suddenly deprived of her protector, her support, her entire earthly reliance, her only hope, her all in all, and left broken hearted, disconsolate, and without experience, to contend with the rough uncharitable world for a living for herself and perhaps a number of helpless orphans. And we, heartless men, have no more magnanimity than to take from them a part of that living to help us support government! Knowing your horror of long articles, Mr. Editor, I submit the subject for the present, with the hope that you will favor us with your views. Very respectfully yours. The Widows1 Friend. Wilmington, N. C. Unpublished Letteb from Daniel Webster. The following reply by Mr. Webster, loan invita tion to attend a celebration of the temperance cause in Hartford county, Md., is published in a volume of personal reminiscences and .sketches, by F. W. Thomas, Esq., the well known author of Clinton Bradshaw," which has just been issued by Mr. Hart of Philadelphia. The tetter will be read with in terest. Boston Journal. Marsbfikld, Ovt. 8, 1851. Gentlemen: Il is a matter of deep regret to me that I did not receive your kind letter of the 9th of August till a very lale day. I was in the mountains of New Hampshire, taking a breath of my native air, and it was the last of August before 1 returned. 1 know not whether, if 1 had received your communi cation sooner, it would be in my power to attend the meeting lo which 1 was invited, but I should have been able lo have given a more timely answer. 1 here can be no question that the temperance movement in the U niied States has done infinite good. Tho moial influence of the lAnperance associations has been everywhere felt and always with beneficial results. In some cases, jt is tree, the temperance measures have been carried to excess, where they e voked legislative penalties, and sought to enforce the virtue of temperance by the power of the law. To a certain extent, this no doubt, is justifiable and oseful, but it is the moral principle of temperance, it is the conscientious duty which il leaches to abstain from intoxicating dtaughts such as are hurtful both to mind and body, which are the great agents for the reformation of manners in this respect. Yoaf order is quite right in connecting benevo lence and charity with temperance. They may well go hand in hand. He whose faculties are never de bauched or stupified, whose mind is always active and alert, and who practices self denial, is naturally drawn to consider the deserving objects which are about bim thai may be poor, or sick, or diseased. Love, Purity, and Fidelity, are considered Chris tian virtues; and I hope that those banners" which bear these woids for their motto may rise higher aud higher, and float more and.more widely through this and all other countries. You have invited me, gentlemen, if I could attend the meeting, to address the members of your order on the great subject of Union. I should have done so with pleasure, although I do not propose to con linue the practice of addressing great multitudes of men ; yet 1 could not have refused to have expressed my opinions on the great topics of the day. Oat of the abundance of the heart the mouth sceaketh. I pray you to be assured, gentlemen, that I value highly the opinion you have expressed for my public character and conduct ; and I indulge the hope that i may ere long meet some of you in the city where my public duties are discharged ; and, moat of all, I fervently trust that you and I, and your children, will remain fellow-citizens of one great united Republic so long as society shall exist among as. W hue 1 live, every effort'in my power, whether made in pub lie or in private lite, will be devoted to the promo tion of that great end. 1 am, gentlemen, very respectfully, your obliged Iriend and fellow-citizen. DAN I til. WJSUSTUK Dr. H. M. Sbaw. We do not recollect that any thing has gratified as more in a long time than to hear that the gentleman whose name beads this article is the Democratic candidate for Congress in opposition to Col. Seotl-anli-Scutl Outlaw. Dr. Shaw is a younu man of decided talent. We saw him in Raleigh last winter while awaiting tbe decision of the Senate up on his claim to a seat in that body. The rage of tbe Whig members was concentrated upon him, and with a magnanimity equalled only by his modest, un assuming manner, be bore their abusive taunts for some days, and until impunity emboldened them to transcend the bounds of all forbearance. But they mistook their man, and dearly purchased the. knowl edge that his silence did not arise from timidity. He turned upon his assailants at .last, and with a power that surprised even bis warmest friends, while his enemies sbrank"before him. If we are not mistaken" ha inflicted some wounds that' are hardly yet healed. - 4 We are confident bis party will.rally all it3 strength for him. and we hone to have the pleasur ' hearing that be is elected- . Salisbury Republica. S TJ Tt P H TJR . AND f " TH SPRlKcU tlie7 aters 0f u,. '..V C II A li rpiii. m. . J SflllXCS 1) .1 . I RplmV:k hflVP ! . ' - - 1 tucif nan,. tl nli ,1 - . L . - L- j , il fhaf tt . . u" ... "-aj necessity of lengthy i!;- i; uT I will -say, howevw that I hope with 4ui.J and -Ueutive- Assistants ', oennuu, ui music, a a ic-luimsuca w,ttt te . that can. be procured, aud m o derate , charges, to sati,fr and please alt who may patro me, and herebv ; Uuce them to repeat ti.c tr I r ; RATES OP Y, ) ; in- Vlot J.VRD '.lonthi A FOLLOWS.! ;Ier Season of tthrcc $50 oo 20 00 1 00 5 75 - Per Month, " - - Per Day. - v;- . Horse, per Day.ft;' - - . . . .V . Month, , - 12 50 Children under 13 years of age-' and Servants, half price, oca son commences on tne iatn June. BP" Hacks will always, be found at tbe Warrento Depot, on arrival of the carsfor the accommodation those travelling on the 'Raleigh and , Gaston Railroad There will also be a daily inaii from Warrenton to th opnngs. .... i - .. t . . ; . JlnalffiiB of 1hsttatr; by JL'roT. St tic art, of Bat. . ' r . .. . ; , titnore, . v., WHITE SULPHIJR SPnHGS: Specific gravity, J 000 4. : Reaction Acid. G Asaous Coxtksts Sulphuretted Hydrogen inj Carbonic Acid.- ' .', - ' -- Solid Uostests Sulphate Magnesia, Sulphate of Lime, Corbonate of Magnesia, Sulphate of Lime, wji), a trace of Potash, Soda and Silicia. : - Total solid content . in 7000 grains . of the water I 6one grain and 25 hundreths, -viz: Magnesia, 0 it Salts of Lime, 0 84 ; Silicia Acid, 0 28 ; Potash a trace ' Soda a trace." " ' ' CHALYBEATE SPRING; Reaction Acid. Specific gravity, 1000 8. Gaseous Costbsts Carbonic-Acid. Solid Coste'kts Carbonate of the Protoxide of Iron, Silicates of Lime and Iron, Bicarbonate of Lime, with traces of soda and potash. Each pint of water contains Oxide of Iron, 0 4J Carbonate of Lime, 0 14 ; Silicia Acid, 0 42 ; potash' a trace, soda, a trace. - - ' Total solid contents in 7000 grains of the water 1 05one grain and five hundreths. ' WILLIAM D. JONES. June 30, 1853.--? - : - 65 vr4w. SPECIAL EXPRESS NOTICE. ' TO THE MERCHANTS OF RALEIGH ' AND VICINITY-. ' PA RISEN & KING'S irm. WE arc now running our Express daily, from Pe tersburg lo Raleigh and intermediate points, in charge ol our . Special messengers. ; Tri-weekly from Norfolk and Portsmouth, to Raleigh and he interior of North Carolina. - Every Tuesday and Saturday, per Steamships Roanoke and Jamestown from "ew.York, for all parts of Virginia, North Carolina and Tennessee. Merchants and others wishing to support a truly Southern Enterprize, and desirous of receiving their Merchandise by; Mail speed and the most ecoromical rates, will find us carrying -out bur representations to the letter, by ordering tbtir correspondents to send their goods by Parisen & King's Express ' PARISEN & KING, 2d Barclay St- N.Y. do - "do Bollinbrook rt. Peters'g. V.- DGRONER, Norfolk, Vs. H. D. TURNER, Raleigh, N. C. J. R. &. J. SLOAN,- Gieensboro'.N.C. , On tbe first of August we shall run our Express to and Irom Baltimore and Philadelphia. July 3, 1853. ( 6G If. State of North Carolina, Watauga County. Is Equity to August Tsrm, A. D , 1853. John Dugger, sen-, and others against Michael Snider and others. 1 being made to appear that Solomon B. Snider. .Joseph Snider, William Snider, Isaac Snider ami Baker Snider, defendants in this suit, reside beyond the limits of North Carolina, it if ordered that publicat ion be made for six weeks in the Noith Carolina taa- d.ud, commanding tbe said non-resident partie to-ap pear in the Court ot Equity lor said County, at the near term, tn be held at the Court House iu Boone en tne eighth Monday alter the fourth Monday in Septeinbes, 1853. and then and there plead, answer er eemar 10 said bill, otherwise judgment pro confes will be take as to them and eomplai riant a bill near a tx pane. Witness. J. W. Council!. Uleik ant Master oi saia Court, at office on 2Isf June, 1853. .a a ikY m a Ty J. W. tUUnUU, m. c. Boone, Watauga co., July 4, 1853. 92S w6w. VALUABLE PROPERTY FOR SALE. THE subscriber oilers for sale tbe- Mills on House Creek, in Wake County, formerly the piopo.rty of Richard Smith, dec, five miles north-west of , Raleigh. The machinery for manufacturing flour and grinding cdrn is of the best kind the stream of water is unlad ing, and the custom of the Mill is large. Also, a oaw Mill, the machinery of which, together with that of fie other Mill, is as good as new. These Mills are situated within two miles of the Central Katlroad, and ready ac cess can thus be had to the : markets of Raleigh, W U- minsrton. Norfolk, and Petersburg. : roar acres of ground attached will be sold with the Mill, but the minerals iu the land will be reserved ; and the machinery r on the premises for grinding black lead will also be reserved. This valuable property is offered at private sale, but if not sold before the 15th of JoVy, 1853', it will be ex posed on that day at public sale. The premises will be shown to persons wishing to ex amine them, by Mr. S. S. Barbe-e. . . rKNEL.UrE SiWIIJl. Raleigh," July 1 , 1853. . . . ' , 65 3w. Es? Register will copy three wks. ITHJIES: MULES! I MULES!!! rMHE subscribers respectfully .inform their fuendi JL and thepublic of the Cape Fear region, that they will have for sale 60 ot the finest young moles ev raised in Kentucky, at Ejcypt, on Deep River, on lie 27th and 2Sth inst., at Fayetteville on the 3d and 41b - 1 . Tl" I .1- -.1 . L. ' I. ' - proximo, ana i ciizineui nwuui iuc u. The mules aieoat of thoroughbred mares, sired br the mammoth and warrior Jacks the finest blood known. They ar from fifteen to sixteen snd a hair hands high, smooth and handsome ; equal in form for strength and action to the best horses.. Thev do oot hesitate lo say that i' is the finest lot or muies -in ever been drove lo North Carolina. I ney lespecuui., invite all persons fond of looking at fine stock to riv them a call aad exar-'ne and look lor themselves. Tory fee! assured that no crson will regret anything except not buying. Persons wishing any runner panitu-i will please address the undersigned at Fayetteville- t R. H. GRANT, Wilmington, N. C, Messrs. DUGALS, Elizabeth, do. na Gen. HAYWOOD, Raleifeh.v do.-v.- a v;- H-IV WILSON June 24,1853. . ' - 1 LOST Oil MISPLACED. : THE subscribers, on the 30th day of May last, mail ed in the town of Graham, Alamance County, i C.ihe following bi lie of money to A- W: Steele," Fayetteville, N.C, and they have not since been net " from by them, and by giving this notice hope tu anytpeison should get bold of the letter through fe'( they will keep the money until they can inform tbem the fact whereupon they will attend to it and compe" sate libe'rally any one who will give themany inwraw tion respecting the bills that tber can get . f The bills are one 850 bill on the Farmer sBar.lt Va., No. 1509 payable at Danville-one $50 bill on w Bank ot the State of Nortfc Carol. na,No. 293 J91l" at Tarborough, one $20 bill on the Bank of HamMTf South Carolina . No. lble DpRDEN. Graham, N. C, July 2d, 1853. 66 6vv. NEW CO-PARTNERSHIP- THE Subscribers have this day, formed a Co-pa nership ander the firm and style of For the purpose of conducting a - - ' Wholesale Ilardwarc.Bnsinew. mtl. '' mi . ,i t, ,n,1 Urtre and well " lected assortment of all.: ' 'heir line of Merchants and others who deal in this market are neatly solicited to give tbem' a call. - r ; . . . . . r - JOHN1 A.'MUIR-';''. J VV:iC?i. . CHARLES' S-.'BRYAW. ; j Petersburg. July 1st 1653. -l-kELELTIER'S SAL RILL At feio by - A fit t FESCUD- !IL ply Just received, and ; i t 13-