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THE NORTH CAROLINA STANDARD WEDNESDAY. JTJNE 6, 1855 BY AUTHORITY. ties and powers of the district courts of tho United State, except the special jurisdiction vested in the said district courts of California over the decisions of the board of cuiv jnissioners for the settlement of private land claims in tvV" fornia under existing laws and that appeals from the ments, orders, and decrees of either of said disirict cou of California, n. the exercise of iis ordinarv shall, be taken to the circuit court organized by this act n' the same manner and upon the same conditions as ujip.ij may be taken from the judgments, orders, or decreesuf'ihg district courts to the Circuit courts of the United States. Sec 6.

And be it farther enacted, That the judge apnoin. ted uuder this act shall, from time to time, or at any when iu his opinion the business of his own court permit, and that of the courts of the northern and southern districts of California shall require, from part ot, and preside over, the said district courts when eiiber ot ibe'u "is engaged in the discharge of the appellate jurisdiction vej. ted in it over the decisions of the board of commissioner Miir the settlement of private land claims in the State lornia, under act of Congress entitled "An act to ar-curia-li and settle the private land claims in the State of Ca: kr nia," passed March third, cighteeu bundled and lu'iv- and by another act entitled An act making appropi tor the civil and diplomatic expenses of the goveriiu.eiii the year ending ihirteith ot June, eighteen huuUrid and fifty-three, and for other passed tlnn i.f August, eighteen hundred and lifiy-two; and iih.di duly of ihe clerks of the respective strict conns ot cRll. fornia to give thirty days' written notice to the judyj ''( the court ortfauizc-d under this act, of the time and -irf ments must have been too stupendous for the comprehension of his or too little to have given-them even a hint of their existence. I am somewhat inclined to favor the latter opinion, and so is every one else.

Indeed, I am very confident that not one of the mortals who heard Mr. Shepard's speech can tell hat conclusion he came to fromany one of his premises. He abused the furriners," of course, but that's all he did for the fellows and he also gave Monsieur, the Pope, a rap or ttvo with his rattan. In speaking of the powers of this personage, he said if he should ever turn his wrathful eye towards this country, he would issue his bull of excommunication not against Billy Hoklen, but against the whole United States Now, Messrs. Editors, as miserable as this ebulition of wit is, it was about the only thing which Mr.

Shepard said that could even tickle us gazers expectant. Excommunicate, not Billy Holden, but the United States Well, we, the unterriiied," and the high-minded, thinking Whigs of the District, will soon issue a bull of excommunication against Mr. Shepard, which will set that gentleman groaning all his life. He endeavored somewhat to console his brother dark-lanternitcs for their unmerciful licking in Virginia, and said that those to whom the Know Nothings were opposed had always possessed a majority ofabout fifteen thousand voters." I use the gentleman's own words. Well, now who are those to whom the Know Nothings are opposed The Democratic party of course.

The speaker here displayed some little confusion, and undoubtedly he stum-b'i upon this pai of his speeeh without thinking. Mr. Shepard and Sam" are laboring under a mutual mistake. He thought Sam a good horse, and Sam thought him a good rider but before long, I predict, they will be heartily tired of each other the August election will set them both weeping. I know of good Whigs who refuse to support the Hindoo candidate, and Mr.

Branch's majority stands a good chance of being 3,000 votes. Shepard had no opponent in his speech here. The Democrats had an idea of placinghim under the care of our popular townsman, Cad. Jones, but he so completely wound himself up in his own cobweb that there was no necessity for such a course. T.

Correspondence of the Standard. HON. BURTON CRAIGE. Cleaveland N. May 28, 1855.

Messrs. Editors On Saturday last happening to be in Shc-ibv, where many of the people of the County had assembled to attend the general muster of Cof. Love's brigade, I was very much gratified to witness the enthusiastic reception given to the Hon. Burton Craige by the patriotic citizens of Cleaveland. His old friends greeted him with a cordiality creditable to them and highly complimentary to him.

The Democrats welcomed him as a public servant whom thev were delighted to honor; and the republican portion of the Whig party those who scorn to be mere stock in trade to be bartered about by the dark-lantern party like cattle at the market place received him with expressions of their sincere regard and friendship, pledging him their support in future against any opposition that may be brought to bear "upon him by the unfair mears now-resorted to. There were also present a few hood-winked slaves of the ubiquitous, nocturnal, treacherous, sneaking Sam," the very sound of whose name has become nauseating to honorable politicians of all parties; jind their reception of our patriotic, true-hearted, Southern statesman was a little peculiar. Being but few, they strove to make up in bluster what they lacked in numbers and although, by equivocal disclaimers, they tried hard to appear Ukefree men, yet the palor of "their cheeks, the wildish glitter of their treacherous looking eyes, and the tremors in the corner of their nether lips'so ciearly marked them, that it was easy to point them out as the slaves of the dark-lantern party. Without paving any regard to the few hood-win-kei-s and dark'lantcrn lighters, who strove to pass current their mock welcome, which, however, was clear! discernable from tbe genuine, honest-hearted, true republican sincerity which came up to his support from everv fair and" honorable man, without re-gardjto party, and from all his old Democratic friends, with a most trifling exception of a very few of the very smallest specimens of humanity that ever were caught in a trap, Mr. Craigc's reception was flattering in the highest degree, and as encouraging as his most ardent wishes could have desired.

At 2 o'clock, Mr. Craige delivered his address, which was in all its parts, one of the happiest eiforts I ever heard on any occasion of the kind. I will not do him the injustice to attempt a review of it. I niav, however, remark that his exposure of the dark-lantern party, tracing their footsteps from their starting point, in the hot bed of northern fanaticism, through the gravel pits of Salisbury and the back shop of a Yankee from Massachusetts, who is now squatting, with his treason, to the South, among the good people of Charlotte, was so thorough and complete that the best informed among those who had already come out of the dark party, were fully convinced that such speeches would have the effect to bring out of tho gravel pit" the Yankee shop" and other hiding places every one of the young Democrats who, after having been inveigled in, may still remain bound in the net. Confidently, then, Messrs.

Editors, may you assure your readers that, although it has been announced that, to divide and conquer" the Democratic party, Col. Stowe has accepted the nomination of the k-lantern party, yet Mr. Craige v. ill be triumphantly elected by a largely increased majority. By his open, frank, manly, honest, upright conduct, he is gaining the support of ten patriotic Whigs, who sneaking meanness, wherever it may appear, for every hollow hearted, "gravel jut" "Yankee shp" Democrat he can possibly lose.

By the why, I may inform you that "Sam's" hiding places are well known and that his dark deeds are beir.g exposed ail over this region. The who still willingly wear the collar of the political slave, are all shotted; and I am happy to add that the number of Democrats in that unenviable condition is now exceedingly small and weekly growing ''beautifully less." At the proper time, I may send you something decidedly "rich," from which your readers will be amused "to learn how lire been fought with fire" how, in their eagerness to secure recruits, the enemy have admitted the if ooden horse within their gates how the 1 has been smoked in his own den! BUFFALO. candidates for public office a like open and manly avowal of their sentiments, therefore 1st Resolved, That the democrats of thw county are neither ashamod nor afraid to proclaim that they cherish the principles ani4u.iin the organization of the great national democratic party of the Limed States, which has carried us gloriously through two wars trampled down an aristocratic national bank, and established free trade; which has uniformly yielded to every class and section of our country us just constitutional rights, and fanatically assaulted none and which alone can preserve the nton ed by our fathers and consecrated to tis as well by our affections as our interests. 2d, That we distrust all political associations wnosc aims' object, principles, and means of operating are secret, and believe them to be contrary to the genius of our republican government, tending to corrupt public morals and certain to end in the ruin of popular rights and freedom. 8d That we adhere to the principles of re.igtous toleration which our fathers taught and practised.

We are opposed to all unions of church aud state, ot religion and polities, and will proscribe no honest and true man for the country in which he may have been born, or the creed under which he worships. 4th, That we fully approve the course of Thomas Ruffin, our representative in Congress, and return him our thanks for his fidelity to our interests an'd his manly zeal for the Constitution. 5th, As it now seems generally agreed by the democrats of the several counties constituting this Congressional District, that a convention for nominating a democratic candidate for Congress is ad-visibie Resolved, That wc do recommend that a coven-tron beheld for that purpose, at the town of New-Berne, en the first Thursday of June next, and declare it to be our wish that'Thomas Ruffin may be nominated by that convention. Gtb, That tbe chairman is authorized to appoint as delegates to said convention two from each captain's district in the county, and twelve lor thistown. The resolutions were unanimously adopted and the following persons appointed Tran ter's Creek Dampsey H.

Lathamand HeDry Hodges. Washington Col. Wm. L. Kennedy, A.

C. Latham John Jordan, James Long, Dr. Wm.T. Bryan, John B. Ross, James W.

Satchwell, Seth K. Cordon, S. T. Brown, Benjamin M. Selby, Major John R.

Carmer and Matthew Shaw. Head of Allen and J. E. Allen. Lc-achvillc Burwell Reddick and Wm.

Clark. Lower Broad Creek W. B. Windley and P. II.

Johnson. North Creek James Pairtree and Geo. Barrow, liath Geo. N. Oden and Bazil Hodges.

Long Acre Caswell Oden and Arnet Waters. Beaver Dam Marshall Congleton and Hardy Aligoou. Choeowinity Benj. F. Harding and Sydney Archbcll.

Blount Creek Jas. F. Clark and Wm. J. Adams.

Durham's Creek John B. Bonner and Charles W. Crawford. South Creek Andrew Buchanan and Thos. W.

Daniels. Goose Creek Zion Flowers and Benj: Campain. In answer to calls made upon them, the Hon. Asa Briggs and Geo. Stevenson, who honored the meeting with their presence, addressed it on the subjects contained in the first three resolutions, with a force and effect that called forth the approbation and plaudits of all.

it was ordered that the prncoedings be published in the Goldshorongh Tribune, Raleigh Stan dard and New-Berne Journal, and the meeting adjourned. MATTHEW SHAW, Ctja'n. II. G. Hh.lon, Secretary.

'Washington, 2'2d May, 1855. A NOBLE AND TRUE-HEARTED IRISHMAN. The name of William C. Bennett, the naval engineer who was met by Lieutenant Strain on the Isthmus of Darien, should be widely published and universally cherished by all who respect the highest qualities of generosity and humanity. Mr.

Deadly has, in several numbers of Harper's Magazine, given the reading public an idea of the awful sufferings of the gallant men who were engaged in the Darien exploring expedition many of whom perished by absolute starvation. To the almost superhuman energy of the officer in command Lieutenant Strain is to be attributed the safety of those who survived. When Strain had at length found his way through to the settlements, he fortunately encountered Mr. Bennett, a "tall, well-formed, manly, noble Irish Strain, says the account, vas reduced by long starvation from one hundred and forty-fhv pounds in weight to suentyfirc, covered with sores and clad in such habiliments as ihe negro Alcade could furnish him, looking like a beggar, ho approached the table where Bennett was engaged with his drawings. As Strain drew near, Mr.

accosted him rather sternly, saying, "Well sir, what do you want?" The former replied, "lam Lieutenant Strain, Commander of the United States exploring expedition." "My God!" exclaimed the warmhearted man as ho caught him in his and pressed him to his bosom, while the tears rolled down his cheeks; "Ah said he, "we had given you up long ago as lost." He ordered dinner at once told Strain he must remain there and recruit, while he himself, though then lame, would go back for his comrades. This Strain declined. He then supplied him with provisions, brought out nearly all the clothing he had forced on Strain his poncho, turned his medicine chest and his yockets inside out, saying, "Take these to the poor men." This was at 2 o'clock in the afternoon, and at 5, p. Strain was on his way back to the rescue. Bennett remained to meet the Virago, a British war vessel, which was soon expected.

As soon as her guns were heard he hurried on board, and by his earnest representations hurried forward with Lieutenant Forsyth and a company who had been sent to Strain's assistance. Having joined Strain at Ya-visa, the party pushed forward to succor the perish DEMOCRATIC DISTRICT CONTENTION. Tn pursuance of previous notice, a Convention of the Democracy of the first Congressional District North Caio in was held at Gatesvillc, on Mondaj-, the 21st inst. Josiah T. Oranbbuhy, called the Conrention to order, and nominated Whitmel SfAi.i.tNC.s, of Gates, as President, and VV.

A. Funi.so!, of Windsor, and E. Hauuki.i., of Gates, an Secretaries. These nominations were untuu-movMy confirmed by the Convention. The President requested L.

I). Starkk, to explain the object ol" the Convention and this was defined to bo the selection of a suitable cor.didate to represent the District in the net Congress cr the Uuited States, and to take suehlaetion with reference to the approaching election las might bo deemed proper. It was then moved and carried, that all Democrats present be invited to take saflts in th Convention, and participate in its deliberations. The following delegates were in attendance from tle several counties named Currituck John M. Tuttle, Enoch F.

Baxter, and John Halstead. -William D. Pritchard, Pasquotank. W. F.

Martin, L. D. Starke, M. S. Sawyer, Dr.

J. D. Godwin, K. G. Holmes, A.

Harney, William Williams, W. C. Hunter, A. H. Cun-an, Charles Davis, A.

L. PeudieLon, and John Kenyan. Perquimans. J. T.

Granbery, J. C. Skinner, Josiah Perry, Joseph Fleetwood, George B. Fleetwood, Solomon Eason, E. W.

Iliddick, Joshua White, M. 0. Jordan, W. D. Riddick, Doctrine Bag-Icy, Jam- Woodard, and John Felton.

Chowan. John H. Learv, J. G. Godfrey, S.

A. Righton, E. G. Lcary, John C. Baihain, John Fleetwood, J.

Small, Richard Small, Richard Simpson, Alex. Cheshire, Dr. R. Dillard, C. R.

Brinkley, Thos. Gr.egory, and C. Sawyur. -W. Stagings, John Wil'ey, R.

Gathng, II Ballard, D. Parker, Dr. Joseph Parker, Benj. Saunders, Thomas Smith, Dr. H.

C. Wiiley, Hardy W.Parker, John F. Parker, Noah B. Felton, Vv. Mills Daughtery, S.

"Walters, Ed. R. Hftrrell, Wm. II. HaiTcil, Wm.

II. Manniug, Thomas P. Cherry, Langston, James Carter, Solomon Ronntree, James K. Coston, Isaac Walte-s, Win. Woodward, Andrew VoighJ, Frank Speight, Wm.

Ward, Miles Galling, Lemuel Riddick, Seth R. Morgan, las-siter Riddick, Gordon It. liinton, Asa Hill, Lem'l Riddick, W. F. Riddick, Wm.

Hudgins, John Powell, W. II. Goodman, D. F. Felton, Isaac Williams, Wm.

Baker, Jno. Williams, James Woodward, Rich'd Cooper. Hkuitord. James II. Parker.

Bertie. II. Viite, J. L. Britton, C.

J. Moore, and W. B. Ferguson. Martin.

W. B. Lanier. Dr. R.

Dillard then moved that a committee of one from each county represented be raised, to report business for the action of the Convention, and to present the name of a suitable candidato for Congress. The motion prevailed and the selection of committeeman was left to the several delegations, when the following gentlemen were named W. B. Lamer, from Martin; H. II.

White, from Bertie James 11. Parker, from Hertford W. F. Kiddick, from Gates; John II. Leaky, from Chowan; J.

T. Granbert, from Perquimans; L. D. Starke, from Pasquotank; W. D.

Pritchard, from Camden and John M. Tittle, from Currituck. During the retirement of the committee for consultation, able and eloquent addresses wero delivered by W. F. Martin, W.

C. II i nter, and J. P. Jordan, ail of whose speeches were listened to with profound attention and received with marked enthusiasm. After which the committee submitted through their Chairman, J.

T. Granrerv, the following preamble and resolutions, wiich were unanimously adopted Whereas, The time has again arrived for the Democracy of this Congressional District to nominate to represent them in the next Congress of the United States Therefore, 1st. Resolved, That after two years we have again assembled as Delegates of the Democratic Part)-, to re-assert and endorse the principles of the part)' as handed down to us from the Sages and Patriots of the past, and to re-affirm our alliance to tho Constitution, as the only safeguard of our national existence against the dangerous plottings of misguided fanatics. 2d. Ilesolced, That we arc emphatically opposed to all oath-bound secret political organizations, as implying an unwarrantable distrust of the masses, and as tending to the overthrow of our political system of government.

3d. Resolved, That tbe efforts now being made in tha non-slavcholding States to repeal tho Nebraska-Kansas bill and re-establish the Missouri restriction, and also to repeal the Fugitive Slave Law, are hi direct opposition to the spirit of the a violation of the rights of the South, and are regard-f as factious and treasonable. 4th. R(r9ti, That we regard with pride the manly, and national position of our Chief Magistrate, -Franklin Pierce, in all the leading measures his administration, and offer to him and his Cabinet our hearty approval of their labors. 5to.

Eenolved, That the Hon. II. M. Shaw, the late representative in Congress from this Cotigres-siodl District, has justly merited the highest approval of a grateful constituency for his untouching adherence to Southern rights and his zealous advocacy of all measures involving our national welfare. With feelings of warm personal good will we can truly say Well done, thou good and faithful servant." 6th.

Resolved, That in the ability and devotion to the interests of his constituents displayed by our late Representative in Congress, the Hon. II M. Shaw, we have a gratifying augury of a bright career of future usefulness, and that we proclaim him as our first, last, and only choice for re-election to a position in which he has reflected honor upon himself and his constituents. On motion a committee of three consisting of J. T.

Granbert, Dr. R. Dillard and W. C. Hunter was appointed to inform Dr.

Shaw of his nomination, and request his acceptance thcrof. Moved and carried, that a vigilance committee of two for each county be appointed, to co-operate in advancing the common cause. The following are tb appointees Currituck B. M. Baxter, John M.

Tuttle. Camden W. D. Pritchard, C. C.

Williams. Pasquotank E. M. Stanton, W. C.

Hunter. Perquimans J. T. Granbery, J. P.

Jordan. Cdowan Dr. R. Dillard, J. C.

Badham. Gates E. R. Ilarrell, W. H.

Manning. Hertford-John Yann, and Col. U. Vaughan. Martin W.

B. Lanier, and McG. M. Staton. Northampton M.

W. Smallwood and Dr. W. S. Copeland.

Halifax Wm. Hill and C. N. Webb. Ttrrell Romulus Knight and W.

B. Etheridge. Washington Joseph Norcom and A. L. Chesson.

Bertie Jamefi Burden and Jno. White. L. D. Starke, Esq.

being called upon to address the Convention, responded with earnestness and warmth. On motion the thanks of the Convention were tendered to its officers for the efficient manner in which they respectively discharged their duties. It was then ordered that the proceedings of the Convention be published in the Democratic Pioneer, with the request that the Roanoke Republican and Raleigh Standard copy them. And, on motion, the Convention then adjourned to meet at the polls on the dav of election. W.

STALLINGS, Pratt. LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES. Passed at tht second session ef 4ie Tuii ty-third Congress of the United i-tales. Shic. 9.

And be it furtitr enaclei, That the proceediogs of summary courts-martial shall be conducted wuh as much consciences and precision as may be consistent with the ends of justice, and uudcr such forms and rules as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Navy, with the approval of the President of the Uuited States; and all such proceedings shall be transmitted, in the usual mode, to the Kavy Department. Sec 10. And he it further enaceed, That any punishments authorized by this act to be intl.cted by a summary court-martial may "likewise be inflicted by any general court-martial. Sec 11. Andle it further enacted, That any person who shall entice any seaman, ordinary seaman, landsman, or boy, who may have enlisted into the naval service of the United States, to desert therefrom, or who shall conceal any person who may have so deserted, and shall refuse to deliver him up upon the order of his commanding officer, shall, upon legal conviction thereof, be tiued at the discretion of the court, in any sum not exceeding three hundred dollars, or be imprisoned for any term not exceeding one year.

Approved, Mai oh 2, 1S55. TPublic, ST. AN ACT to amer.d An Act to establish a Land District iu tbe State of Florida, to be called tho District of Tampa." Be it enacted ly the Senate and House oj Representative of ihe United Stuies of Anu-i ici in Vungrms ensmbled, That the President be, and he is hereby, authorized to appoint, by aud with the advice and consent of tho Senate, a register and a receiver fur the laud district call- Tnipd, iu ihe State of Florida, which district was created uy tha act approved August fifth, eighteen hundred and iiffy-four, whose compensation, duties, responsibilities, and emoluments shall be, the same as is or may be prescribed by law for other land officers in said State. Approved, March ii, lboo. Public 88.

AN ACT to establish the Collection Districts of Cepe Per-petua and Port Oxford, in the Territory of Oregon, and to fix the Salaries of the Officers of the Customs thereiu. Re it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United of Atnorica in Congress assembled. That there be, and hereby is, constituted and established the collection districts of Cape Perpetua and Port Oxford, in the Territory of Oregon That the tirst-named district shall embrace the of the Pacific Ocean, from Kowes Bay, exclusive to Cape Perpetua, and all of the said territory lying south ot a line running parallel with the southern boundary line of Oregon, from Cape Perpetua to the eastern boundary of Oregon, except su much as is included in the districts of Port Orford, and to include all th islands, bays, harbors, inlets, shores, rirers, and waters within said beuo-daries, and that Gardiner Umpquaj shall be the port of entry for said districts. That the last-named district shall extend from the line dividing said territory and the State of California, along the Pacnic coast, so far as to include Kowes Bay thence east to the one hundred and twenty-third degree of longitude thence south along said liue to the liue dividing the State of California aud Oregon Territory; thence by I. no to the piace of beginning; and to include all the islands, bays, harbors, inlets, rivers, shores, and waters embraced in said boundaries, aud that Pert Oiiurd shall be the port of entry; and Kowes Bay the port of delivery for sa.d ihstr.ct.

Sec. 2. And it further enacted, That for each of the collection districts, of Cape Perpetua aud Port Orford, in the Territory of Oregon, the President shall, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, appoint a collector, and surveycr of ihe port, and who shall each reside at the port of entry of the respective districts, and au annual salary of two thousand dollars each. The Secretary Of tiie Treasury shall have authority to iippomt, on the nomination of said collectois, deputy collectors for each of the above-named districts, equal to ihe number of the ports of delivery in said or at as many of said pi i ts of delivery as he shah deem expedient, abd to hx the compen.sa-tiou of deputies, not lo exceed the sum of one thousand dollars per auiiuui. lie may also, if he shall deem it expedient, appoint one clerk for each of said collectors, lo keep the accounts if the olbcc, and act as auditor in the settlement thereof, at an annual compensation uot exceeding litteeu hundred dollars.

He shall also, on th nomination of the s.iid collectors, appoint for sa d.strxts, if in his judgment th-y are necessary, a oinpoient number of weighers, gangers, and measurers, at a compensation not exceeding dollars per day, each and snch number of inspectors as he shall deem expedient, at a compensation Qui exceeding tour liars per day, each, Approved March Hoj. Public S9 AN ACT to settle certain Accounts between the United State and the State of Alabama. Be it enacted by tht natt and IJui.sc Representatives i af Undid Siniej t-f Amu-lea in I 'unaresx asst added. That the Commissioner of the General Land Olliee be. and he is hereby, required to slate an account between the United Slates and the State of Alabama, for the purpose of ascertaining what sum or sums of money are due to said State, heretofore, unsettled, under the sixth section of the act of March second eighteen hundred and nineteen, for the admission of Alabama into the Union and that he be required to include in said accouut ihe several reservations under the various treaties with the Chickasaw, Chostuw, and Creek Indians within the limits of Alabama, and allow and pay to the said State live per centum thereou, as in case of other sales.

Approved, March 2, ISoo. Public, 00. AN ACT to prevent Mia-tnals the District and Circuit Courts of the United States, in certain Cases. )c it enacted lnj the Senate and jfvttse of Jieyretentatives of the United itat. of Anvrica in, Congress assembled, That the trial or hearing of any civil or criminal, in any circuit or district com in the United Slates, which has been commenced and is in progress before a jury or the court, shall not staved or discontinued bv the arrival of i the period nxed by law for another session of said court, and it shall be lawful for the court to proceed win.

such trial or hearing, aud bring it to a conclusion, in like manner and with i he same etfect, as if another stated term of the court had uot intervened. Sec 2. And be- it further enacted, That where letters rogatory shall have be been addressed, from an- court of a foreign country to any circuit court of the United States commissioner designated by said circuit court to make the examination of witnesses iu said letters mentioned, said commissioner shall be empowered to compel the witnesses to apper and depose in the same manner as to appear and testily iu eourt. Approved, March 2, 1S55. AN ACT authorizing the Purchase or Construction of Four additional lievenue Cutters.

Be it enacted by ihe Senate and House of Representatives of the Uniecd Skites of America-in Congress assembled. That the sum of sixty housand dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, out of any, money in the treasury.net otherwise appropriated, to enable the Secretary ofjthe Treasu.iy to cause to be built or purchased, iu such mode as he may deemjbest for the public iuterest, four vessels of suitable size and construction, to be employed as revenue cut ers, on such stations as the said secretary, may designate. Stic. 2. And la it further enacted, That from and after the passage of this act, no person shall bs appointed to the office of captain, first, second, orlhird lieutenant, of any revenue cutter, who does not adduce competent projf of proficiency and skill in navigation and seamanship.

Approved, March 2, lsoo. Public 92. AN ACT to establish a Circuit Court of the United States in and for the State of California. Be it entxeied by the Senate and House ef Representatives of the United Stales of America in Congress assembled. That a judicial circuit shall be, and the is hereby, constituted, iu and for the State of California, to be known as the eircuit courts of the United States for the districts of California, a term of which court shall beheld annually, in the city of San Francisco, on the lirst Moudav of July in each and every year and for this purpose a judge shall be appointed, and the court hereby organized shall, in all things, have and exercise the same ,01 iginal jurisdiction as is vested iu the several circuit courts of the United States, as organized under existing laws, and shall also have and exercise same appellate jurisdiction over the district courts of the Uuited States lor the northern and southern districts of California as by existing laws is vested in the several circuit courts of tbe United States over district courts of the United States in their respective circuits; and the said judge shall appoint a clerk, who shall have the power to appoint a dnputy, which clerk shall reside, and keep the records of the court, iu the said city of San Francisco, and shall receive for the syrv.ces he may preform double the fees allowed to the clerk of the southern district of New York.

k. At 7 mi ..11.... ur. lojurinrrvnaciea, i nat saia judo-e shall have power to order and hold such special or extra terms! wmi, ao ue may ueeiu expedient, anu at such time or times as he shall, by Ins order, under his hand and seal direct, addressed to the marshal and clerk of said court, at least thirty days previous, to the commencement of such special or extra term or terms, which order shall be published intermediately in two or more of the gazetts of the State of California; and at any or all of such special terms tho business of said eourt shall have reference to the immediately preceding regular or special term, and be proceeded with in the same manner and such proceedings shall be, to all intents aud purposes, as vailed as if the same had taken place at a regular term of said court; all which terms shall be held at such place, iuthe said c.ty of Francisco, as the marshal of the United States for the northern district of California, whose duty it shall be to act as the marshal of said court, shall procure for the purpose, under the directions of said judge and appeals from the proceedings of the court organized under this. act shall be taken to the Supreme Court of the United States, in the same mrnner, and on the same conditions, as appeals are taken under existing laws from the other circuit courts of the United States.

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the judge of said ourt shall have the same power to issue writs of habeas corpus and other writs as is vested by law in the other judges of the United States. Sue. 4.

And be it farther enacted, That in case the judge of said court shall fail to attend at the time and place ot holding any regular or special term of said court, before the close of the fourth day after the commencemnt of such term, the business pending before said court shall stand adjourned until the next regular term of said court, or until the next special term of the court, should one be ordered under the authority of this ai previous to such regular term. Sec. 5. And be it further enacted. That the district courts of th United State fbrthe aotthem and touthera district of California, shall hereafter exercise only the ordinary du- the sitting of such district court for the discharge ot appellate jurisdiction and in case the judge ot sllcu leii trict court shall tail, Irom s.ekness or otuer casualty, a tend at such time and place, the judge (if the i zed under this act, is eye by authorized to hold t-aid c3ur! and pioceed with tho business of the court, iu aec ro.ai;ee wuh the provisions pre'ibed for the regulat, uu oi a district court in the act ot Congress heiviubefore i werud to; aud all appeals to the Supreme Court of the Lnied States from the decisions of said district court, held by the last-mentioned judge, or by him in i with the district judge, or by the district jud-re aloiie, M.ad be takeu in the manner prescribed by the ttel i.f lA.nievj passed ou the third day of March, eighteen huudreu entitled An act to ascertain snd settle the vale land claims iu the Slate of California." Sec 7.

And be it urther enacted, That the Sulrirv uf il.e judge appointed under this act shall be four thousand in'e huudred dollars per annum, to commence from the date of his appointment. Sec. 8. And be it further enact-ed. That all laws and parts of laws militating against this act be, antltbeuro hereby, repealed.

Appoved, March 2, 1So5. PuphcTO. AN ACT to appropriate Money to remove the Obstructing in Ihe Savanuah Kiver, below the City of Savannah, iu the State of Georgia lie it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatrot of the Uru'ecl SUtesof Amerim in Cbnyress aswnbUd, th sum of one hundred and sixty-one thound dollars and tbe sanw is herwby, appropr'iKl, to remove the i -S-Etructions in the SuTiuinah IiiTr, the of Sav.u.. nah, in the State of Georgia, placed there during the revolutionary war, for the common deieuce Approved March 3, 180o. Public 93.

AN ACT to amend An Act to carry into Effect a Treaty between the Uuited Slates and Great liritian," signed the fifth Juue, eighteen hundred and and proved August lifth, eighteen hui.died and lilty-four. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rt .4 of the United States of America in Congress (iiWi That from aud alter the date when tbe reciprocity tre.ii ei' the fifth June; eighteen hundred and fifty-four, entered 1:1:0 between Great Lintiuu and the United Slates, shall go effect, the Secretary of the Treasury shall be, and he is hereby, authorized and required, to refund out of any iwjw-ey in the treasury, to the several persons eutitled such sums of money as shall have been collected as duties, on fish of all kinds, the products of fish, and of all oiln-r creatures living iu the water," imported into ihe United Slates from and after the eleventh day of September. eii-eeu hundred and fifty-four, the date" of the by the President of the United States of the entreaty aforesaid, on proof, satisfactory to the said sec: etui that the articles aforesaid were the products of some one i the British provinces of New Brunswick, Canada, Muvu Scotia, Newfoundland, or Prince Edward's Island, and imported therefrom into ihe United States, and duties duly paid thereon, which have not been refunded on export he is further authorized and required, lrom and after 1 he day the treaty aforesaid shail go into off'ect, to canceal, en hke satisfactory proof, any warehouse bonds to secure th-dimes, that may have been given for any of said articles imported as aforesaid. Ssice. 2.

Aid be it further enacted, That from and.at'ier the date wheu the reciprocity treaty of- the fifth of eighteen huudred and htiy-four, entered into between Great liritian and the Uuited Stales, shall go into effect, in tile manner there. 11 prescribed, the Secretary of the Treasury shall be, and he is hereby, authorized to refund out of money in ihe treasury not otherwise appropriated, to ihe persons entitled thereto, such sums of money as shall have been collected as duiies on any of the articles enumerated in tho schedule annexed lo the third article of the rec.pru-city treaty aforesaid, imported into the United States livm the British ptovinces of Canada, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia, respectively, smce the date of the acw of thu.r re spective governments admitting hke articles into said provinces from the United States flee ef duty, on proof, satisfactory to the said secretary, that ihe articles so imported were the products of Canada, New Brunswick, or Nova Scotia, as the case may Le, and imported iherelrom iuiu the United Slates, and that ihe duties duly paid tlieie-ou and he is further authorized and required to cancel, from and after the date the treaty aforesaid shall go into effect, on like satisfactory proof, any warehouse bonds to secure duties which may hae been given for any of the said articles imported as aforesaih. And the Secretary of the Treasury is also hereby iu vested with the same authority and power to refund the duiies or canceal the warehouse bouds en any of the articles enumerated in said treaty, the produce of Prince Edward's Island or Newfoundland, respectively, on said treaty going into operation, should it bo proved, to the satisfaction of the said secretary, that Prince Edward's Island, or ewfoundland, have admit ted all of the articles enumerated in said treaty from the United States, free of duty, prior to said treaty going in operation. Approved, March 2, 1355. (To be continued.) North-Carolina Six Per Cent.

State Bonds. Tbeasuby Department, N. Mav 80th, EALED PROPOSALS WILL BE RECEIVED at this office until 10 o'clock, A. 80th of June nejt. for Ihe purchase of $20,000 of Bonds issued by the State uf North Carolina.

These bonds are issued for the construction of the Fav-etteville and Centre Plank Road. They will bear date Julv 1st, 1855, and will run twenty years. They will have coupons for interest attached, and "both principal and interei will be payable at the Bank of the Republic, New York, unless when the purchaser prefers to have them pavable at the Treasury of this State the interest at six per cent, per annum will be payable the first days of January and July in each year. These" bonds are by law exempted from taxation for any pui-pose whatever. Parties bidding will please address their letters endorsed "Proposals for N.

C. -Stocks," to the undersigned at Kal-eigtOT. C. Successful bidders will be required, upon being informed of the acceptance of their bids, to deposite the amount uf their bids, including the accrued interest from the 1st July, 1855, to the credit of the Treasurer of North Carolina i'n either the Bank of the Republic, New York, the Bank of the State of N. C.

or the Bank of Cape Fear, Raleigh, ai the bidder may prefer. Th right of accepting such bids in whole or in part as may be deemed most advantageous to the State is reserved. The bids will be opened in tho presence of the Governer. Secretary and Comptroller of Staie, and the President of the Bank of the State when the time for receiving bids expires. D.

W. COURTS, Public Treasurer. Raleigh, June 1855. 55 td. MAGNOLIA SPRINGS.

DAVID JORDAN, PROPRIETOR. THIS SPRING IS SITUATED ON THE LINE OF the Seaboard Roanoke Railroad, 13 miles from Portsmouth, and will be opened for the reception of visitors on the 4th of June next, by the proprietor of the Spring, assisted by competent persons, well qualified to attend to tho duties of a Hotel, which wilh the advantages of the Norfolk market and surrounding country will enable thr to keep a good house, which is his determination to do. A Bowling saloon is attached to the establishment, anl Ball room is now being added together with other improvements over former years, ivud bails and cotillion parlies will at all times be provided for at the shortest notice. The Bar will be furnished with wines and liquors of superior quality. The location for health is peculiar to this particular region and is not surpassed by any place in the United Stale, in no instance has there ever occurred a case of billious fever or any of the fall attacks usual in the surrounding country, although it has been settled for the last fifteen years.

As to the Medical properties of the water if there is any truth in analysis this water stands unsqualed by any in ih world, and is only approached by one, to wit': a German Spring in Europe. There are named in the analysis five distinct alteratives, which accounts for tbe large class of diseases to which this water is adapted, and no spring can boast of so large a number of persons benefitted and cared for the same amount uf visitors. The water will be put up in half and magnesia qt. bottles and sent to order as heretofore. May 80, 1855.

55 swfw OStffc NEGRO MEN WANTED, T11E tJV scriber wishes to purchase Fir TY NEGRI' MEN, to be employed upon the works of the Cape Fear ana Deep River Navigation Company, for which a liberal cash price will be paid. The seller will, in all casos, be required to warrant the title and soundness of the negroes. I wish also to hire TWO HUNDRED NEGRO MEN be employed on the work of said Company, for which rwJ prices will be given, and pavment made everv sixty a-ALEXANDER MURCH1S0N, Brett May 25, 1855. 73 NOTICE. rON.

LITTLETON W. TAZEWELL, Va will Tan nddress befol two Literary Societies, of Randolph Maoon College, on Wednesday the 13th of June nt. JAMES C. BAFSS, 9r. S.

the W. I. SeeV-Hay fh, 1855. M-ilW- Correspondence about the "Hairy Baby." Johnston County, N. May 23, 1855.

Messrs. Editors of the Standard After seeing the account of the hairy baby in Mississippi taking the rounds in the newspapers, I had the curiosity to write to the Post Master of DcKalb P. 0., Kemper County, concerning the circumstance. I send you his letter, and hope you will publish it as I think it wid gratify the minds of tho simple. The article referred to is as follows A Mir Aci Lot Warning.

Some week or two ago, savs the Quitman (Miss.) Intelligencer of the 10th ultimo, a strange thing is said to have occurred in Kcrrpcr county. A woman gave birth to a child covered all over with hair. It lived three hours and spoke three distinct words "seven years famine." The strangest thing about it is, half the population of Kemper believe it, and are struck with terror at the por-'entous warning, which they are said firmly to believe is a solution of the purposes of Providence in visiting the land with such strange seasons. Courier. Yours Respectfuilv, A.

D. DeKalb, May 11, 1855. Dear Sir Yours of the 5th enquiring of the modern Esau, is at hand, of whom, it is said, prophesied so great an evil concerning us as seven year's famine. In replv I have only to say that although the fair dames of Mississippi are a prolilic race, they never or bring forth monsters. So 1 nm happy to announce to you that the good people of Johnston may rest contented, as no such hairy prophet has in this our land of stead- habits" been ushered into existence, and, therefore, has never uttered the startling prophecy of seven years famine that has so greatly disturbed the equilibrium of the good people of Johnston.

And furthermore, if you of the tar and turpentine State are so credulous and simple minded as to believe the story of the hairy baby, we of Mississippi will be constrained to send up memorials to some missionary society to send among you some Colporteurs to distribute tracts and pamphlets, which may to some extent enlighten your benighted minds. You will, therefore, tell every one you see and send' word to those you don't see, that as yet no hairy prophet has seen the light in the fast State of Mississippi and do your utmost, I implore you, for the sake of suffering humanity, to quiet the perturbed minds of the good people of the Old North State. I would suggest to you "as I wish to stop the daily that are pouring into me from all quarters concerning the hairy prophet," to have this note published in some widely circulated journal, as the most speedy and effectual mode to quiet the minds of your people. Y'ours kindly, J. B.

Hon. A. II. Stephens. This gentleman, for a long time a member of Congress form'Georgia, and a bold defender of the South, declines being again a candidate for the reason that his friends (the whigs,) or a large number of them in his District, have joined the secret party, and he presumes they do not longer want his services and if they did, they could not get them in the know-nothing movement.

Speaking of the success of know-nothingism, Mr. Stephens says "But let it succeed let it carry all the elections State and Federal let the natural and inevitable laws of its own organism be once fully developed and the country will go by the board. It willfgo as France did. The first Jacobin Club was organized in Paris, on the 6th Nov. 1789, under the alluring name of "the Friends of the Constitution," quite as specious as that we now hear of "Americans shall rule America." Many of the bst men and truest patriots in Paris joined it and thousands of the same sort of men joined the affiliated clubs afterwardslittle dreaming of the deadly fangs of that viper they were nurturing in their bosoms.

Many of these very men afterwards went to the guillotine, by orders passed secretly in these very clubs. All legislation was settled in the clubs members of the National Assembly and Convention, all of them or most of them, were members of the club, for they could not otherwise be elected. And after the question was settled in the clubs, the members next day went to the nominal Halls of legislation nothing but trembling automatons, to register the edicts of the "Order," though it were to behead a Monarch, or to cause the blood of the best of their own number to How beneath the stroke of the axe. Is history of no use Or do our pec pie vainly imagine that Americans would not do as the French did under like circumstances? "Is thy servant a dog that he should do this thing," said the haughty, selfconfident Hazeel. Yet he did all that he had been told that he would do.

"Let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall." Human nature is the same compound of weak frailties and erring passions every-where." Governor Gardner. To those Southern men who represent the Know-Nothing Governor of Massachu setts as a friend to the South because of his veto of the law directing the removal of Judge Loring from office, and who parade it furthermore as an evidence of the anthabolition character of the Know-Nothing party, we commend the following brief but correct synops's of tho antecedents" of this same Know-Nothing Governor "In his inaugural address, delivered less than nine months since, Gardner denounced the Nebraska bill in the most unmeasured terms, and clamorously insisted on its unconditional repeal. In the same document, he denounced the Fugitive Slave law, and calls for its repeal. In the same document, he advocates the extension of the right of suffrage to free blacks, and the restriction of this privilege from all white pe; sons who connot read and write. He was one of the trustees of Harvard University, and when a proposition was made to remove Loring from his Professorship on account of his agency in remanding Burns to his master, he, yes, Gov.

Gardner, voted to do it." South-Side Democrat. The Aetesian Well at Charleston, S. after penetrating to a depth of 1232 feet, has reached a hard rock, the boring of which is found to be painfully slow and tedious, so that thus far it has only been pierced 18 inches. It is thought that the aid of steam will have to be- called in to more the Lincolnton, May 28, 1855. Messrs.

Editors: If you think it worth while to notice the fact, I write you a few items to enable you to inform your readers that Sambo's" friend "Sam" has been fully exposed in this place and that his fortifications have been so completely undermined that his walls ere ready to be thrown down whenever the word is given. To win converts to the dark party, the basest falsehoods were used to induce young republicans to go through the mummery of spurious oaths and obligations, hoping thereby to make them believe that they were morally bound to continue to be the slaves of the keepers of "Sam's" conscience; and under one false pretense or another ihey succeeded so fur as to draw into their den a score or more of the unsuspecting but among them they took a few weak, and several who were sharp enough to appreciate the value of a spurious oath, pretending to bind the political conscience? of patriotic Americans and these, not having the fear of Sam before their eyes, have exposed the whole matter. Some withdrew at once; but others remain in the den, quiet'y amusing themselves with the flatteries and chuckles of Sam's tools, all of which are duly reported to reliable republicans next morning; so that the friends of Mr. Craige and the Constitution, as it stands, arc fully aware of every manoevre. The sly trick of swearing the Democrats by themselves and keeping them out of the darkest hole in the den, so that they can have nothing of importance to disclose, is fully understood and counteracted.

The private meetings of Sam," to which, it is thought, none but the simon pure are admitted, are all well known and when full developments are made Sam's" astonishment will be comical. The grand scheme of nominating Col. Stowe, as a sort of a tub thrown to the whale," will prove the grandest failure of all. The riders that are now traversing the country, swearing in the green ones in every hole and corner, and trying to keep them from a knowledge of the action and determination of the grand council in "Sara's" private sanctuary, will stare wildly when they find how vain have been all their labors. In many instances "Sam's" most trusted private Secretary is watching him the closest, with a view to expose him the more effectually.

I am informed that Mr. Craige addressed the people of Cleaveland on Saturday last, and that his prospects are brighter than ever in that patriotic county. SHADY GROVE. Hillsborough, Orange May 31, 1855. Messrs.

Editors: The candidate of the Hindoos" made his appearance here yesterday, and according to promise addressed his friends and associates. The Court House was appropriated unto his use, and at 2 o'clock, P. when the speaker came in, it was tolerably well thronged with an audience at least willing to hear him. But here is something singular enough the crowd before him at the beginning of his speech was considerably larger than it was at the end. Indeed, if I am not greatly mistaken the gentleman has not left a good impression in this place, and I am confident that the Democrats who heard him are a great deal more firm in their opposition to Know Nothingism now than they ever were before.

I will say that the gentleman has lost votes by coming here of that I am positive and if he has not the palate to relish a most unprecedented defeat in August next, I would advise him, for the gentleman's own sake, to bid adieu to this campaign, and thus wisely avoid the mortification and chagrin which the un terrified are bound to bring upon him. I am rather inclined to imagine that Mr. Shepard is a sensitive being, as most ambitious personages are, and therefore I am the more sincere in my advice. I should really abhor to see said gentleman, as the returns come in next August, bite his lips off, or lose his fair proportions" by pining away into a lean misanthrope. I would like to give your readers an idea of Mr.

Shepard's speech, but I find this not only a very difficult, but a downright impossible performance. By this I mean, of course, that I cannot discourse upon the gentleman's arguments. They were truly incontrovertible for the very simple reason that they were not apparent unto the senses of any of his audience. The speech must have been either a very powerful thing, or a vry shabby thing his argu- ing. The difficulties encountered were so great that when it was found that tho exploring company had turned back towards the Atlantic, Strain had reason to expect that his companions would give out and fuse to advance.

No one could tell how far the party might be, and the search involved the same dangers from which Strain had barely escaped with his life. Bennett knew the danger, and spoke of the anticipated crisis of revolt, advising Strain to try and accustom his swollen feet to the use of a boot, saying, You know when allshall turn back, you and I must shoulder our haversacks and take to the tcoods alone, till we find your men." This noble self-devotion, says Headly, of a stranger and a foreigner this grand high purpose to cast his lot in with the distressed commander, and save his party, or perish with them reveals one of those lofty, elevated characters which shed lustre on the race. The natives gave out the next day, and Strain was compelled to draw his revolver and threaten their lives, to compel them to proceed. Two days after they fortunately overtook tne remains of the party, five of whom had perished. We have never read of a more thrilling scene than that of thi3 rescue four or five of the party only were able to keep their feet and meet their commander on the shore.

Several died afterwards from the effects of their privations. The whole party were reduced to mere skeletons there they lay, lacerated, ulcerated, frames of men. half covered with rags. Some were so changed, from emaciation, that Strain himself could not recognize them as they were stretched upon the ground, unable to get up. As Bennett, the noble Irishman, jumped ashore, and saw the hideous spectacles of scarred and almost naked skeletons, he seized each one by tho hand, while tears poured like rain down his cheeks.

The reader will be glad to hear that this noble Btranger received, in a separate letter from the Secretary of the Navy, the thanks of our government for his devotion and his services. Utica Observer. To Sportsmen. Wash your gun barrels in spirits of turpentine by dipping aag or sponge fastened on your gun rod into the liquid, and swabbing them out three or four times, when they wid be cleared from all impurities, and can be used almost instantly as the turpentie will evaporate and leave the barrels dry even if they are alitlte moist it will not prevent their going off like water. After being washed thus, their no danger of rust as when water is used.

I am an old experienced gunner, and have practiced this for years, and found it useful. Spirits of turpentine can be procured at all country stores, and a small quantity sufficeth. Scientifia American. W. A.

Ferguson, E. R. Harrell. Secretaries. DEMOCRATIC MEETING IN BEAUFORT.

meeting was held in the town of Washington, on the evening of the 22d instant, for the purpose of recommending that a District Convention be held, and to appoint Delegates thereto, for choosing a Can-didate to represent this District in Congress. Tho meeting was organized by appointing M. Shaw, Chairman, and H. G. Hilton, Secretary.

On motion, the chairman.appointed a committee of tvento draft resolutions, namely, Sylvester James Long, Dr. Jesse G. Bryan, John R. Carmer, James Satchwell, Seth li- Cordon, and Benjamin F. Harding, who, after retiring a few minutes, reported, through Mr.

Brown, the following Whereas, it is the inestimable prerogative, and is, we believe, the sacred duty of freemen, t6 express freely, boldly, and publicly, their opinions on all guMtion of public concern, and to require of all.