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THE CONSTITUTION AND THE UNION OP THE STATES THEY MUST BE PRESERVED .
Volume XVII.
CITY OP RAL EIGH, NORTH CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY MORNING, NOV. 6, 1850.
Number 840.
-ifF NORTH CAROLINA STANDARD
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TlMI OF THE Wk"- Two, do"ars Pfrtlannum1'
1 ERMS OF TK m()nth fw) dol,are anJ
,n advance, or jcIaved x months ft and Three j
fifty cents, if paymcn i m0nths froin the lime of :
in advance, or witmn ine . montha , Th ;
vonar , r constantly increasing obligations upon us to keep a
TmT tbs Semi-Weekit. Four dollars per w,tchover the habits and morals of our slaves.
.Jvance, or within the first month ; Four .
annum, -Mj ccn if payment be delayed six months; j II s doe 10 candor nd 3u8tlce t0 ,hat w nave
Jd"n!'DoIlars, if not paid within six months from the j among us some free persons of color who are worthy
time of subscribing. Land industrious citizens, and who deserve the respect
The above rules will be inflexibly adhered to. i confidence of lhe communities in which they res
nvLHTJSEMNTs not exceeding fourteen lines will . "
be inserted one time for one dollar, and twenty-five P"-"" '- "
cenU for each subsequent insertion; those of greater ' population are vicious, idle, and disorderly, and there
lenjtth in proportion. Court orders and Judidicial Ad- ; forea jgaj Weight upon the body politic. They con
vergent will be chared 25 per cent higher than the j but prodace nothing; and in addition to this
above rates. A reasonable reduction will be made to K '
those who advertise by the year. Advertisements inser- i they corrupt our slaves, and render them, in many in
ted in the Semi-Weekly Standard, will also appear in j stances, insolent and insubordinate. Any law, look
the Weekly Paper, free of charge. j 0 to the removal of free persons of color, would
Suhsrriltfrs, and others, who mav wish to send money ., . , , , . .-
t he Editor, can do so at all times, by Mail and at his necessarily operate harshly upon that worthy portton
risk. Kcceipts tor all sums will be promptly transmitted.
Letters to the Editor must, come free of postage.
THE WEEKLY STANDARD.
RALEIGH:
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER , I50.
OUR FIRST SEMI-WEEKLY.
We gave notice in our last that we should publish
our first Semi-Weekly on Wednesday next, and our
nest Weekly on the Friday ensuing; but finding,
after more reflection and inquiry, that it would be
best to continue our Weekly on Wednesdays, on ac
count of the run of the Mails, we have changed our
plan and present our first Semi-Weekly to-day. The
Semi Weekly Standard will therefore be printed and
mailed on Wednesdays and Saturdays, and the Week
ly Standard on Wednesdays, as heretofore.
Our enterprise, we are glad to inform our friends,
is likely to be well sustained. We are in the con
stant receipt of subscribers both to our Weekly and
Semi-Weekly ; and the prospect in addition is, that
llia will rouivp frnaiflfrah!n nrppsainns fmm
, , . . . , , . ., . ... I
names brought in by friends, at the opening of the
Legislature.
Our most grateful acknowledgements are due, and
are hereby tendered, to those pesons who have taken
an interest in our success, and contributed by their
exertions to extend our circulation. To our brethren
of the Press also, we are under many and lasting
obligations, for the very kind anu liberal manner in
which they have been pleased to notice our enterprise
and humble labors.
Particular attention is directed to our "Terms,"
as published on our first page.
CENSUS RETURNS FOR 1850.
We are indebted to Col. Little for the Census Re
turns from Camden, Carteret, Stanly, and Wayne
Counties. A mistake having occurred in our publi
cation of the Census of Wayne, in a former number,
we insert that County again, together with all the
Counties thus far heard from.
1840. 1850. Increase.
Hertford, 7,481 8,319 828
Pasquotank, 8,514 9.033 519
Tyrrell, 4,657 5,128 471
Wake, 21,118 26,468 5,350
Guilford, 19,175 19,731 556
Camden, 5,663 6,049 336
Carteret, 6,590 7,001 411
Stanly, 5,609 6,983 1,374
Wayne, 10,891 13,487 2,596.
The above exhibits an increase of 12,491 in nine
Counties. If the 79 Counties, large and small, should
come in as the above nine have, the increase in pop
ulation in this State, since 1810, will be a fraction
over 100,000 ; but even with such an increase, we
fear we shall lose a member of Congress.
INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITION IN LONDON.
Gov. Manly has appointed Col. James F. Tayloi
of this City, an Agent through whom Societies and
individuals in North Carolina may forward articles for
admission at the Industrial Exhibition to be held in
London, in May, 1851. The appointment is an ex
cellent one. No one would give more attention to
this subject, or perform the duties in question with
more intelligence and discrimination, than Mr. Taylor.
This Exhibition is to be a great Fair, at which the
productions of all the nations in the world, both raw
and manufactured, are expected to be displayed ; and
the result ot this Exhibition, it is anticipated, will be
a better understanding of the resources of various
countries and climes, and a consequent improvement
and advancement in the mechanical, agricultural, and
commercial interests of the world in general. The
President of the United States has placed a vessel at
the disposal of the Executive Committee at Washing
ton, for the purpose of forwarding articles from this
country; and a number of the Governors of the re
spective Stales have already appointed Committees
to co-operate with this Executive Committee. Gov.
Quitman, of Mississippi, has appointed a Committee
of twelve for this purpose, to act for that State.
LITERARY NOTICES, &c.
Mr. Henry D. Turner has laid upon our table "the
Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey, edited
by his Son, 5th part," to be completed in six parts.
This is a deeply interesting work.
Also, the " Illustrated Family Christian Almanac,"
printed in Boston, and published by the American I
f . tJ i
Tract Society.
Also, the "Church Almanac, for the year of our
Lord 1851." This Almanac contains a mass of val
uable information in relation to the Protestant Epis-
. copal Church in this country and in England , Ireland, i
Scotland, and the English Colonies. The list of
the Bishops and Clergy, which it gives, and the sta
tistics of the various Diocesses, most render it ac
ceptable and useful, especially to the Members of
that Church. It is very neatly printed; and so is
the "Illustrated Family Christian Almanac." men
tioned above.
Mr. Turner has also sent us a lovely miniature like
ness of the immortal Jkny Lino. A friend, who
hat seen Jenny, and heard her sing, pronounce it
aexceHent likeness.
We regret to learn that the Steam Saw-Mill of W.
S. Ballenger, Esq. of Johnston County, was destroyed
few days since by fire. We have not heard the ex
fctt of his loss.
FREE COLORED PERSONS AND SLAVES.
Publiettention in North Carolina haa been for
&
some plan for preventing the increaae of free persons
oi coior, ana 01 ultimately removing- inem entirely
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from the State. A course of this sort has been ren-
UBrea Ine more necessary, oy we aggression, oi me
free States upon our rights and interests, and by the
dered the more necessary, by the aggressions of the
oi mem niteuuy icicmcu uu, a mi n9 fUi-
pose would most probably be general, and they, we
apprehend, will be ultimately compelled to share the
same lot with the vicious and disorderly. We pro
pose no plan on the subject. We merely allude to
it, in obedience to the demands of public sentiment,
leaving it to our legislators to devise the plan and
apply the remedy for this growing evil. It may be,
however, that some measure may be adopted, which,
while it will rid the State of the great mass of this
class of our population, will at the same time permit
those to remain, of a certain age, (say beyond sixty,)
who can establish a good character, or who may be
able to show (with a good character,) a certain amount
of property as the result of inheritance or honest earn
ings. This would operate as a reward for well doing
to the industrious and deserving, and also cut off, by
the restriction as to age, any chances for an increase
of this kind of population.
One of the free States Illinois has already, by
a Constitutional enactment, excluded free persons ot
color from coming within her limits ; and Ohio is
about to follow the example. The day is not distant,
in our opinion, when most of the free States will !
adopt a similar course,
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ji me mat session ui uic ". j
law was passed appropriating $30,000 and levying
a tax of one dollar on each free colored man, to be
applied to the removal of litis class of persons from
that State. This appropriation of $30,000 is an an
nual one, and it will no doubt be increased in the fu
ture, if any increase should be necessary.
A friend at our elbow suggests that nothing would
please him better than to see every free colored per
son in this State taken up bodily, and set down in
the old-fashioned, law-and-order State of Massachu
setts. Such an event would create a delectable stir
among the descendants of the Puritans. It might
serve to cool their affection for fugitive slaves, and
incline them to restore the stolen property of the South
ern people. Or we might visit them on this score in
another shape, by offering a premium of three or four
hundred dollars cash, to be paid on due proof from
the State Treasury, to each free negro who would re
port himself within a certain time as safely landed on
the soil of a free State. This would diminish the
evil in our midst, and at the same time please and
gratify our Northern fellow-citizens.
It is of the first importance to the value of our slave
property, as well as to the welfare and happiness of j
the slaves themselves, that our laws in relation to
them and to free persons of color, should be rigidly
enforced. We call upon the Magistrates, County j
Attorneys, and the officers of the law to be vigilant
and diligent in this matter, and to see that the laws
are observed. We demand this of them, in the name j
of the people, and by every consideration connected
with this subject, which can address itself to their
sense of duty and their consciences. Our space will
not permit us at this time to point out the various
laws on this subject, but they are well known to those
charged with their execution. Among them, howev
er, we may allude to two evils : One is, the hiring of
their own time by slaves ; and the other, slaves go
ing at large on Sundays and at night without written
permits from their masters or overseers. These evils
ought to be corrected at once ; and if the present law
on the subject is not stringent enough, let it be
amended at the ensuing session. By the 86th Chap
ter of the Revised Statutes it is made the duty of the
County Courts to appoint Patrollers once in each year,
whose duty it shall be to patrol their respective dis
tricts and preserve order among the slaves. Do the
Courts perform this duty Do they see to it that
Patrollers, thus appointed by them, are active, vigi
lant, and faithful 1
We take the liberty of calling attention to another j
provision of our laws, on this subject. By the 17th
section of the Chapter on " Crimes and Punishments,"
it is enacted that any person who shall " knowingly
bring into this State, with an intent to circulate, or
knowingly circulate or publish within this State, any
written or printed pamphlet or paper, the evident ten
dency whereof would be to excite insurrection, con
spiracy, or resistance in the slaves or free negroes
and persons of color within this State, or which shall
advise or pursuade slaves or free persons of color to
insurrection, conspiracy, or resistance "such person
so offending shall be guilty ot felony, and on convic
tion thereof shall, for the first offence, be imprison
ed not less than one year and be put in the pillory
and whipped, at the discretion of the Court; and for
the second offence shall suffer death without benefit
f rl Now this section oughl to be altered
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in our humble opinion, so as to take away irom suou
person his benefit of Clergy, and thus subject him to
the death-punishment for the firtt offence. This is
the section under wnicn mw
. Mentde were indicted at Forsythe Court. Mc-
Bride was convicted; and if the law had been as
strong as it ought to have been made at first, instead
of being at large, as he now ia, onder a light forfeit
ore by way of bail, the gallowa would have risen up
before htm as the merited end of his folly and wime.
We shall allude to this subject again, in its various
aspects; and in the meantime we hope our brethren
of the Press will generally speak out, and give to
their readers the benefit of their reflection and opin
ions upon this important ssatter. The Legislature is
about to assemble, and our lews oo this subject will
doubtless be brought befose it for revision and amend
ment. Under these circumstances the Press can
nerform no dnty more aeoeptable or proper, than that
of collecting and condensing the views of their re-
spective commanities, so that the amendments, addi
tions, and alterations proposed may not only be well
considered and matured in advance, but be in accord
ance, as nearly as possible, with the wishes and judg
ment of the public generally.
BOSTON NULLIFICATION.
Boston is just now the seat of great excitement, on
account of the Fugitive Slave Law. Indeed, all
Massachusetts, with the exception of Daniel Web
ster and a few of the faithful Democracy, appears to
be arrayed against this law, and determined in the
first place to evade it, and in the second to repeal it,
it possible, at the next session of Congress. We
copy the following articles from the Boston papers,
showing the nature of the excitement and its extent :
FUG1T1VE-8LAVE EXCITEMENT IN THE C1TV. There
was some slight commotion in this city yesterday,
in consequence of the issuing of a warrant for Wil
liam Crafts, and his wife Ellen, fugitives from Ma
con, Georgia, claimed by a person named Hughe,
said to be a jailor, and acting as agent of the master
of the Cratts. lhe rumors in circulation yesterday
in relation to the affair were numberless, but the facts
we believe to be as follows :
Mr. Hughes applied to Judge Sprague on Thursday
for the warrants, and they were placed in the hands
of George Devens, United States marshal, that night,
or early yesterday morning. It was known to Crafts
and his friends that an agent was here in pursuit of
him, and his determination wis to resist seizure; and
for that purpose he armed himself, and professed to
wait for the officer and agent, at his residence in
Cambridge street, where he also has a small shop, in
which he worked, as a cabinet-maker. In the course
of the forenoon, however, his friends prevailed :ipon
him to retire to the house of one Hayden, in Southac
street. In the course ot the day both houses were
reconnoitered by persons in the service of the agent,
but there was no attempt to enter and make an arrest.
In the forenoon E. G. Loring and S. E. Sewell,
retained by the vigilance committee as general coun
sel for fugitives, called upon Judge Sprague at his
chambers, and interrogated him, specifically, wheth
er he had issued any warrants, and, if so, against
whom. Judge Sprague declined giving any reply
other than to say that he regarded such warrants as
standing upon the same ground as all other warrants.
and therefore that he was not at liberty to make any
disclosures in relation to them before they had been
served. He also declined to answer whether he had
or had not issued any warrants. At one time there
was a large crowd near the court-house, and ono white
man made himself conspicuous at the corner of Frank
lin avenue and Court street, by haranguing the as
sembly, and advising them to resist unto the death,
if any arrest should he made. Considerable crowds
were also collected in Ann and Cambridge streets
about the middle of the day ; but, as no open meas
ures were taken towards serving the warrants, the
excitement died away during the afternoon.
Boston Post.
The fugitive slave excitement in Boston. Yes
terday afternoon, towards night, the excitement about
Court square and Court street had subsided, and the
only place of excitement, apparently, was at the west
part of the city, where William Crafts, the fugitive
against whom a warrant was generality understood
to have been issued, was quartered.
At noon yesterday it was advised by some ot the
particular friends of the fugitives to issue a circu
lar, to he sent round to all the fugitives in the city.
A circular was subsequently issued, generally circu
lated, and reading as follows: "To the rescue!
Three fugitives about to be arrested ! William Crafts
supposed to be one ! Be on the alert! No time to
be lost ! Friday, noon, Oct. 25, 1850."
During yesterday afternoon crowds continued to
collect in the western part of the city, in expectation
that some demonstration might be made. We un
derstand that the United States marshal, Mr. Devens.
endeavored during the day to secure the assistance of
constables, and other officers of the city government,
in making arrests, but was generally refused. One
of the constables a good-looking, able-bodied man
said that sooner than go in he would leave the city,
and go out to Porter's and board, and let the parlies
" settle their own hash." Boston Times.
Bv telegraph to the N. Y. Journal of Commerce.
Boston, Oct. 28.
The fugitive-slave excitement. No arrest of
fugitive slaves has yet taken place, and the city is
quiet, although incendiary handbills are posted about
the streets. Win. H. Hughes, of Maron, Georgia,
who came on to reclaim Crafts, has voluntarily given
bail in $10,000, to answer to a charge of slander in
stating that Crafts was guilty of theft in stealing
himself and clothes. Knight, who was arrested on
Saturday afternoon for slander, came on here on his
own private business, and was called on by Hughes
to idenlify Crafts, whom he had employed in Macon.
The vigilance committee has been increased to
100. C. G. Loring and other leading lawyers have
volunteered to defend any fugitive who may be ar
rested. Crafts remains quiet at his house in Southac
street. The houses in this part of the city are barri
caded, and plentifully provided with arms and am
munition. The house of the fugitive slave is his castle.
The Boston Journal states that, on inquiry of the
marshal, Judge Sprague has intimated that the pro
cess for the arrest of a fugitive slave is in the na
ture of civil process ; that in serving it an officer will
not be justified in breaking open the other outer door of
any dwelling-house; that every dwelling-house is
the castle of its occupants. This protection, how
ever, is confined to the dwelling-house, or house
where a person sleeps, and not to his place of busi
ness. It is also confined to the outer door. If this
is left open, or if the marshal is admitted within it,
he may break open any inner door.
Thus it is that the laws and Constitution of the
country are disregarded and trampled under foot, in
one of the most enlightened cities in America ; and
lawyers are found mean enough to advise the arrest
of a master claiming his slave, on the ground that he
had slandered the slave in saying be had stolen him
self! As the Washington Union well says: "A
lawyer who would advise such an arrest must be as
ignorant of law as he is lost to all sense of profes
sional duty. The words imputed to the witness
would not be slander if uttered a thousand times. To
say that they would be is as absurd as to charge a
man with slander for saying of another, He is guilty
of murder for he murdered a mad dog.' "
The houses of the fugitives in Boston are, it seems,
"barricaded, and plentifully supplied with ammuni
tion." .The wronged and outraged slaveholders of
the South look to the President of the United States
to enforce the laws. High times, indeed, when runa
way negroes, protected and fortified in the bosom of
a sovereign State, are too strong for the laws of Con
gress and the Constitution of the land ! Who has
any thing to say now about Southern "disunionists"
and South Carolina " nullification " 1 From the bot
tom of our heart do we hope that the vile fanatics
and their natural allies, the Freesoilers, may be over
thrown and crushed in the contest now going on, and
the Union come forth unshattered and triumphant;
but while we hope we fear also, for it is apparent that
the deadly poison is circulating, more or less, in all
Northern veins, and that the madness now prevailing
among large portions of the Northern people is des
tined to increase both in its intensity sod sway.
Here and these we can see a bright spot in the midst
of darkness ; but ia the very " cradle of liberty " the
suo of the Constitution now casts its palest and sick
liest beams. We turn with hope to New York City,
and to glorious old Pennsylvania, and to portions of j
Michigan and New Hampshire ; but we expect noth-
ing calculated to cheer any lover of the Union, or
friend of Southern rights, from Ohio, Iowa, Wiscon
sin, Massachusetts, or Maine. Who, we repeat, are
the " disunionists " now ? Let events, rapidity trans
piring, give the answer.
The fate of the Union hangs on this result. There
is no doubt of it. If the people of the free States shall
crush this foul spirit of rebellion, and stand up to the
Constitution and the laws, the States of the South !
will acquiesce in other measures already adopted, and i
the Union will endure; but if not, and this Fugitive '
Slave Law is repealed, or its vitality destroyed, sep- j
aration will and ought to ensue.
CHICAGO JUDGE DOUGLAS.
WTe copy from the Washington Union the follow
ing Telegraphic account of the action of the City
Council of Chicago, Illinois, with reference to the
Fugitive Slave Law, together with the well-merited
commendations bestowed by that paper on Judge
Douglas, for his patriotic efforts in breasting the
storm of folly and fanaticism in that City. The
Union says :
41 We have received a telegraphic despatch, dated
the 25th instant, from S. S. Hays, at Chicago, stat
ing the efforts of the city council to nullify the lale
luguive stave taw, ana me conseqent assemblage oi
a large public meeting to disapprove of the act. We
subjoin the interesting bulletin to our article.
Judge Douglas, of the Senate, addressed this meet
ing in a most able and eloquent speech, vindicating
that law, and condemning the efforts to evade it. The
effect was tremendous the meeting unanimously dis
sented from the act of the council, and that body sub
sequently rescinded the act. Such is the force ot
truth, boldly, openly, and manfully maintained.
Judge Douglas deserves the highest credit for his
patriotic efforts to sustain the law and the constitu
tion of his country.
We see in this memorable transaction the triumph
of a great principle, which we have so often endea
vored to impress upon our young countrymen. We
see in this case the triumph of Truth when she is
boldly and frankly vindicated. "Truth is mighty
and will prevail : but it is because she has cham
pions worthy ot her cause. Had Judge Douglas
consulted the dictates of prudence, and shrunk from
the contest, or had he entered upon the discussion !
with half his armor on, and shorn of half his moral!
power, he would not have achieved the decided victo
ry which he has won. Never was a more triumphant J
tribute paid to the cause of truth, maintained with firm-
ness and advocated with eloquence, than in the effort !
of Judge Dougla8on this delicate and trying occasion.
That one single man should, by his moral courage j
and his intellectual resources, so successfully turn the
tide of opinion in a meeting ot 4,000 citizens that
he should, by a single speech, have effected an "en- !
tire revolution ot public sentiment," and that he
should have induced even the council of Chicago to
council its nullifying resolutions is a feather in his j
cap, which any orator might desire to wear. We know
not whether it is a higher compliment to the force
of his talents or to the power of truth. With such j
champions, the Union may defy every attack. Let
American patriots but boldly speak out in the North
as well as in the South, and all sectionalism, all ul- j
traism, all Seward ism, all disunionism would vanish, ,
and this Union would stand upon a rock, which ;
would defy all the winds of Heaven and all the ele- i
ments of Nature to shake it from the firm basis on
which it rests :
Chicago, Oct. 25, 1850.
the Editor of the Union :
" Great excitement in Chicago. The council has
passed resolutions nullifying the act of Congress re
lating to the fugitive slave law, releasing the police
from obedience, urging resistance, and denouncing
our congressmen. Last night four thousand citizens
assembled, the Mayor presiding. Senator Douglas
made a great and glorious speech in defence of all
measures of the Compromise, and the fugitive-slave
law particularly, effecting an entire revolution in j
public sentiment. It was resolved unanimously to
sustain the law, and the action of the city council 1
was repudiated. " S. S. HAYS."
Chicago, Oct. 26, 1850. j
" Since Judge Douglas's speech, the city council
has rescinded the nullifying resolutions.
"5. S. rl. 1
The Democratic Press. We are gratified to no
tice the signs of improvement exhibited by the Dem
ocratic press of this State, both at the seat of govern
ment and elsewhere. Brother Holden is doing yeo
man's service, and besides editing an able paper, pub
lishes a handsome one. Our friend Eccles, of the
Lincoln Courier, comes out in a new dress, and
makes a very handsome appearance, and the matter
is well worthy of the manner. Eccles is a trump.
And then there is the Hornet's Nest at Charlotte,
originally something of a Whig, and with Whig
sympathies, until his honest convictions forced him
into the ranks of the Democratic party. He is now
on the right track, and although in somethings we do
think that he goes too far, yet, for all that, he errs on
the right side, and can take our right 07". We
have already noticed the improvement in the Golds
boro' Patriot. We think it improved both in appear
ance and matter. We hope that our friend Robinson
may be amply sustained. The Warrenlon News is
also a considerable improvement on the old Repor
ter;" and the Pioneer, at Elizabeth City, is a valua
ble accession to the Republican ranks. We have here
only noticed those papers which have recently effec
ted changes or improvements on their " personal ap
pearance." Many of our standard papers are as they
were, and as such are always welcome. By the by,
we have not said a word about a paper which we do
think is rather neatly printed than otherwise an un
pretending little sheet published in the little village
of Wilmington the Wilmington Journal. We know
the Editors very well, and tbink them reasonably
good fellows and worthy of support, which, we have
no doubt, a discerning public will award to them.
Any one in North Carolina who can print a neater
sheet can take our hat.
Wilmington Journal.
Here's a health to the Journal and its worthy Ed
itors : May its Price continue to be cheerfully paid,
and may it always abound with aFul-ton of the best
matter.
But seriously, the Journal is one of the best papers
in the State, every way, and the neatness of its ty
pographical execution almost excites our envy. Suc
cess to it, and to the Press generally. Wilmington
can boast her full share of excellent papers, from the
Commercial, with its clearand vigorous articles, to
the Aurora, startling us ever and anon with its bolts
of sarcasm and its flashes of genuine Southern in
dignation. Elective Jvdiciake. The people of Pennsylva
nia have given a majority of 73,340 in favor of an
elective judiciary, and the constitution is to be amen
ded accordingly.
We learn that the Consulship to Havana, in Cuba,
has been offered to Hugh Waddell, Esq., of Orange
County. This is a " snog " office, and we presume
that as s matter of eoose Mr. Waddell will accept tuJ
The Virginia Reform Convention, now tn session
at Richmond, has at length orgs nieed its Committees,
and is now fairly at work.
ARRIVAL OF THE STEAMER CANADA.
Affairs in England and France Denmark and the
Duchies Cotton Firmer Breadluffs Firm Su
gars and Molasses advanced, d"c, 'c.
Telegraphed for the Baltimore Sun.
Uiririr Hot OQ Tk. .1 m J
arrived here at 10 o'clock this morning. She brings ' c,wn,on ,or ine eniorcement ot the fugitive Slave
dates from Liverpool to the 19th instant, and London ! aw ' Boston, and place United States' troops at
to the 18th, being three days later than the advices '' the disposal of the authorities,
by the Pacific. She left in about an hour, for Bos-1 The Governor of Pennsylvania has appointed the
ton. She made the run to Halifax m less than nine 1Q,h f n,-mK f i. t n . L
davg j ot December as Thanksgiving Day in that
England. The political and general news since! State and the Governor of Maryland has appointed
the sailing of the Pacific, is, as regards England the 28th of November for that State.
without interest. ... New York, October 31st, 1850.
Five new Bishoprics have been created in the An- rafkt r- w . . . , . 7j . , .
glo-Catholic Church. Cardinal Wismer has receiv- A gfeat Ln,0n Meet,n was held ,a8t n,?ht ,n th,s
ed the Archbishopric in Ireland. j CuJ- ani wa largely attended. George Wood pre-
The farming operations for the spring crop have sided, and a number of patriotic Speeches were de
commenced upon an extensive scale. j iiverrrj in favor of the rjnion and opposition to
fRANCE. I he revenue returns for the past nine i vu. . Jr ... I,
months have been published, and show an increase an-y ?n and fanaticism. A letter was
of 29,000 francs over the same period last year. i read from Daniel Webster, strongly in favor of the
The National asserts the probability of a consid- i Constitution.
wi,,. v. 1 hit iuiai sicauirr aiuina. 1
erable modification of the Cabinet taking place. j
1 he President s treatment of the army is the sub
ject of much comment in the various journals. The
cries of the army will be put down, and string
ent measures taken to prevent insurbordination in the
army, or any feeling to threaten the republic.
I he Republican and Orleans parties respectively
have become consolidated, white the Legitimist and ,
conaparusi tactions are daily becoming weaker. j
By telegraph, we have advices from Paris to
Thursday, which state that it is reported that if to- j
wards the end of the President's tour it should be '
thought right to ask the country to decide be-
tween a monarchy and republic, it was promised
to throw no obstacle in the way of such proceeding, j
Denmark ano the Duchies. Nothing new has
wu..u ... ..... "o.cw.o , uiniuun ouii:u
the assault upon Frederichstadt. It is confidently
asserted that diplomatists will be called in to adjust
the difficulties with Hesse Cassel, All the newly
appointed ministers are strong adherents to the Con
stitution. The popular voice is said to be greatly in
their favor. The revolutionary feeling is increasing
upwards of two hundred officers have resigned
their commissions in the army, which is now in a
most disorganized state.
.ictuiuiiix 10 ieuer irom rransmn, II is saiu to oe
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the intention of the elector of Hasse Cassel to abdi- Massachusetts, under the act of 1793. He is mis
cate. The Prince of the Cassel will succed him. taken as to the fact. I could refer to a very promi-
In the last sitting of the College of Princes at j nent case, occurring in the year 1819. Some slaves
Berlin, M. de Radowitz formally announced that the eloped from King George county, Virginia and weia
Prussian Government wcnld not suffer the Federal conveyed in a vessel from Fredricksburr tn Boston
Assembly to meet at Frankfort. They were arrested under that act, inUietownof
A Congress of Deputies of all different committees Dedham, near Boston. The aent and counsel for
had been established, to raise funds, in support of the 1 the claimants was the Hon. Samuel L. Southard a
Schleswig-Holstein war. Nothing special has been Judge of New Jersey, and afterwards Senator and
effected, however, beyond the pnblisaticn cf an ad- six year3 a member of the Cabinet under the admin
dres. and the passage of some strong resolutions, i istratior.s" of Monroe and J. Q. Adams The slaves
The Markets. Livshpool Cotton Market, Oo j were delivered up as fugitives from labor and service,
tober 19. 1 he Circular of Messrs. Holt & Co. no- . and without any mob, riot, or resistance,
tices a better feeling in the cotton market since the ! There were no objection to the law in Massnchu
early part of the week, the depression then prevailing : setts till after the year 1833. After that time there
having passed away, and with a slight yielding in ! were decisions that slaves brought by their owners
prices, although the quotations current last week j into the State and remaining there, were not fugitives
are reported by the committee of brokers as current , But there was never a case of a refusal to deliver tiri
tLla aAl n.. -I V. n S Si- 1 1 - r ' f ... r
U.M aim ma uiaiKcicaii oe saiu reany 10 pre-
sent no new feature except at the very latest moment i
there was somewhat more firmness. The week's
salt s amonut to 30,290 bales.
Tobacco continues in good demand, and prices ful
ly sustained.
Breadstuff's. In flour there is no change to notice, i
Sales are making freely at full prices as quoted last
week. There is no change to notice in wheat a fair
demand. Indian Corn is steady without alteration
in prices. i
Havre Market, Oct. 16. Cotton. Sales of this
day 1.044 bales, at advancing rates. Sales of this
week 5,500 bales.
NPW YORK PT PPTinv !
t - Vl? ELECTION. ;
lhe people of New York will vote on Tuesday
next lor uovernor, members ot Uongress, and State
Officers. Horatio Seymour, Hunker, is the candidate '
for Governor of the Democrats, and Washington Hunt, '
Sewardite, is the candidate of the Whigs. This'
election is attracting universal attention. It is des
tined to exert a very great influence over the politics
of the country. j
The Albany Register furnishes the following list :
of the candidates for Congress :
" congressional nominations.
Whigs.
A T Rose
Obadiah Bowne
James Bowen
Democrats.
John G Floyd
C S Bogardus
Emanuel B Hart
Henry Arcularius
John Cochrane
A P Stevens
Gilbert Dean
Wm Murray
Orson M Allaben
I Sutherland, Jr.
David L Seymour
Erastns Coming
I W Thompson
Joseph Russell
Thomas J Marvin
Alex H Buell
Preston King
VVillard Ives
Timothy Jenkins
W W Snow
John J Taylor
Leander Bnhcock
Daniel T Jones
Thomas Y Ho wo
Robert Halsey
Jnmes C Smith
P G Buchan
J S Wadsworth
Reuben Rohie
R E Fenton
F P Stevens
W M Sprague
Sherman B Piper."
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James Brooks
John C Cruger
Thomas MuKissock
M Schoonmaker
Edward P Cowles
Russel Sage
J L Schoolcraft
John H Boyd
Charles F Taber
John Wells
H P Alexander
John W Grant
Charles E Clarke
O B Matterson
George H Chase
Henry Bennett
John Williams
Vivius W Smith
Edwin B Mo.gau
H S Wallbridgo
Wm A Sackelt
A M Schermerhorn
J Horsiord
Philip Church
F S Martin
Solomon G Haven
A P Hascall
Lorenzo Burrows
THE UNION MEETING. I
The call for the Union Meeting on Wednesday j
evening will be found in our columns to-day. The;
signers, numerous as they are, could have been dou-i
bled, tripled, or quadrupled but "enough is as good ,
as a feast," and there was no occasion for more.
The signers embrace men of all professions, though ;
most of them are merchants. The idea that thisuieet-'
ing originated through fear or cowardice as to the
course of the South, or in any manner by Southern ;
dictation, is as gratuitous as it is untrue. Tha meet !
ing originated according to the best ot our knowledge, j
in the purest and most patriotic purposes, in a love
of the Union, in a determination to stand bv the Con-
stitution, in a common resolve to obey the laws of the
land, in a detestation of fanaticism, in a weariness of j
agitation, and in an earnest anxiety to end debate up- j
on settled questions of public policy. The signers j
wish to show the North, more than their countrymen i
of the South, that they are ready here, and now, to I
frown upon the spirit of Discord, Disunion, and Nolli- j
ification so rife for mischief in our midst, and that.!
too. regardless of all legal restraint, and all sense
moral obligation. New York Express.
This Meeting was held on Wednesday evening
last. It was expected to be a great demonstration on
the part of New York City, which ia, in many re
spects, sound on the Slavery question. The Express
of Tuesday last contains the names of some fifteen
hundred persons to the call for (his Meeting.
Immense depositee of Iron ore have recently teen
discovered near Psrkeraburg, Vs.
Telegraphed for the Standard.
Washington Citv. Nov. 1st, 1850. )
Nine O'clock, A. M.
President Fillmore will probably issue his Pro-
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New York
Markets. Grain unchanged : floor
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firm; and tobacco, both leaf and manufactured, tend
ing upwards.
Correspondence of the Baltimore Sun.
Wash i5gton Oct. 29, 1850.
Important from. Boston Determination of the Marshal.
me lmw oj in Boston 1 he duty oj the North
Course of the South, Sec.
Private advices from Boston render it probable that
a fugitiveslave riot will come off to-morrow, or some
day this week, and that the law will be enforced, at
all hazards, without any interference on the part of
the federal executive. The marshal will summon a
posse under the act and the act will be enforced. We
suaii sr w neiner me ccsionians will countenance
resistance to the law, and a practical nullification of
the law. Their action will give tone to public Sen
timent in all the Northern States on this subject. It
is with them to decide the question whether the law
can be enforced or not. Mr. Winthrop, Mr. Horace
Mann, and Mr. Qoincy, and Mr. J. G. Whittier as
sert thai it caitiiot be executed.
Mr. Quincy, true to his peculiar principles, advis
es resistance. With a view to encourage if. h m.
. . . .
sens that no tumtive haj vpr horn ....
a luguive, or ot forcible resiskince to the act of l?93
The first case of a refusal to deliver un a fncriti
was in New York, and by Gov. Seward. A slavefrom
Virginia was claimed as a fugitive from justice and
from labor, and Gov. Seward, upon some technical
p oint, refuseJ to surrender him, at lhe demand of
Gov. Gilmer, of Virginia.
Congress however attempted, bv another and mnn
j efficacious law, to give effect to the constitutional
; provision. If the new law cannot be executed, it
j will remain for the Southern States to decide what
measures of resentment, retaliation, or redress they
shall adopt. Many men in the Southern States have
; considered this question, and decided that thev will
not, on that account alonjVconsider a dissolution of
the Union as necessaryThey will, nevertheless,
consider the conduct of Northern people as unjust,
"nmrss, aim unpnncipiea.
It is to be apprehended, however, that in some re.
spects there will be a majority in favor of retaliatory
measures measures already contemplated and even,
in some cases, already resorted to. It will be re
membered that the'revolution was ushered in by re
taliatory legislation, by non-intercourse, and non
consumption laws in Massachusetts, in Virginia,
and other States. j0If
j New Orleans, Oct. 27.
I he sales of Cotton on Saturday amounted to 2000
j bales, at steady prices : Good Middling, 13$. The
j sales of the week are 23,000 bales,
j Hon. J. H. Harminson, member of Congress, died
on Friday, after a lingering illness,
j John McDonough died of cholera on Saturday. He
j was a naiive of Baltimore, and noted for his miserly
j habits. His estate is estimated o be worth over ten
i millions of dollars, which the Picayune says has been
: left for the benefit of the poor of Baltimore and New
Orleans.
j Philadelphia, October 29.
j Jenny Lind will give several concerts here about
; the 20th of next month, and then proceed to Balii
more and Washington. Possibly she may go to
Richmond, Charleston. Havana, New Orleans, St.
; Louis, Cincinnati, and will nrobahlo nil tv.r f nn.i..n
to atter
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ttend the W orld's Fair.
New Orleans, Oct. 26.
Important prom Texas. The vale in Texas on
the Boundary question gives a heavy majority in fa
', vor of accepting the proposition.
i The Tobacco Business. There are in operation
! at the present time in Richmond, forty-three Tobacco
Factories, in which are employed over 2,300 hands,
; and which produce in manufactured tobacco fourteen
; millions five hundred thousand pounds annually.
Richmond Dispatch.
j The " Notorious" Flying Machine is to make an
j ascent opposite New York to-day, with Capt. Taggart
I on board. The announcement creates some sensation
I among the sight-seers. Bait. Sun 30th ult.
f ,
! Gov. Manly has ordered an election to hn hM in
the County of Johnston, on Tuesday, the 12th day
of November next, tosupply the vacancy in the House
f Commons, occasioned by the recent death of Jas.
Tomlinson, Esq., the member elect. Register.
Monster Cigar. A Cigar manufacturer in Bristol
(R. L) is exhibiting a cigar five feet long, twenty,
five inches in circumference, and weighing thirty-five
pounds.
THE MARKETS.
Petersburg, October 29. Tobacco scllinir at th
1 following prices : Ordinary lues $6 60 to StO SO. aaA
and m u3a 10 SO to 912, common leaf $ 12 to $14,
fine l"f for shipping $15 to $16 SO, fine manufacturing
leaf $15 to $20. The market active, and some parcels
h,1 at higher prices. Cotton selling at l'ij to 12j centr,
with a 8ood UPP,J snd quality better than last year,
Wheat 95 to 1 08 cento ; com 60 cento ; bacon, hog round,
7 ,0 7 cent8 5 tard 9 10 9 c0 ur $5 to $7 50.
Wiwihotos, October 30. About 300 barrels of
of i . wPfnune sold at l 10 per barrel, for yellow dip.
Nothing doing in Spirits Turpentine ; last sale at 26
cento per gallon. The river low, and but httle produce
of any kind arriving.
Ca&LESTOx, October 29. Holders of Cotton j enter
day became free sellers at price refused on Saturttoy,
and the market, in consequence, was decidedly in fcvor
of buyers. The sales amounted to 1900 balap, at prioei
ranging from 19 to 13$ cents.
, Kew Yobk, October 29. Bolder hrt pot Cotton
up, but buyers do not meet them. Tobaroo firm. t HjU
prices ; cornet from 71 to Tt cento per bubal ; fidur 4
j & to $5 ; wi 97 to f?t ceafc