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4 JUT mm mm mm VOL. XLII FAYETTEVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA, JUNE 13, 1859. NO. 2193. 1MI to The Bank ot England American Credit.

FOUR DAYS LATER FROM EUROPE. Cape Race, June 4. The1 City of Washington, from Liverpool May slav of a silly "convention," which thinks that John Marshall soiled the dignity of his judicial ermine by joining in these harmless sports with his neighbors. To a critic of this description all were his intimate friends. These were truly a noble group not unknown to fame.

There was John Wickham, the Achilles on the side of Aaron Burr at the time of his trial for high treason of whom William Wirt, in his "British Spy;" declares that the kindness of his heart and his sense of propriety scarcely availed to prevent him from showing in his manner the consciousness of magnificent abilities. There was Dr. McClurg, the man of science, the polished wit, the delightful writer, the poet, the travelled gentleman and famous scholar in all departments of belles lettres and deep learning; who had led a wild life in hie youth with Tom Jefferson and Jack Page, whom he lived to see President and Governor afterward, who wrote the "Belles of Williamsburg," and shone among the finest fine gentlemen of his early days, and now lived at the present "Madison House," in Richmond, one of the beaux esprits of the brilliant circle; curing the sick, and cracking jokes, discussing "high philosophy" and playing County Court. The June Term of the County Court of Cumberland is in' session this week. We learn that a large number of litigated cases have been disposed of at this and the Special Term of last week leaving, however, plenty more on the Docket.

Yesterday a meeting of the Justices took place, wheu provision was made to meet the demands of the Insane Asylum tor several indigent patients in that Institution from this county. Bank of North Carolina. The Raleigh. Commissioners have notified subscribers to stock that a meeting will be held at Raleigh, on Wednesday, July 20. See advertisement in this paper.

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Such of our old subscribers as desire to take the paper on this system will please notify us when making remittances. Jan'y 1, 1858. From the Century PERSONAL TRAITS OF JOHN MARSHALL. Richmond, May 5, 1859. Somewhat more than twenty years ago, a stranger, visiting the city of Richmond, would have been struck by a singular looking personage, perambulating thestrects.bowingcourteouslytoevery-body, and receiving in return 'salutes indicative of the deepest respect and affection.

There was nothing in the external appearance of this person to explain such veneration almost. His figure was tall and commanding, it is true, but possessed neither symmetry nor grace. The limbs were "loose-jointed" and angular. The head was too small in proportion to the body. The hanging upon, rather than clothing his form, was anything but attractive or imposing.

It consisted of a loose black coat, with broad skirts, a long, badly fitting waistcoat, knee breeches, of no cut particular, and "dry-rotted" flaxen or yarn stockings, ending in buckled shoes. The tight fitting hose defined limbs of remarkable ness -the narrow countenance was nearly lost to view between the pimple whito choker and the overshadowing hat. The movements of this personage were careless and unstudied. His gestures possessed no grace. At times he would dangle along, so to speak, with the air of a rustic, used to plowed ground and rough country paths.

And yet even before the amused stranger heard his name, something would strike him, in the tall form, which had stepped out, it would seem, from the frame of some portrait of the last century. There was a look of kindness and benevolence In the small dark eyes which charmed you. The lips were wreathed with a quiet, good humored smile. There was so much simplicity in the countenance, so much heart in its expression, that you felt that this was a good, if not a very great man. He was both.

For the person whom I have thus rapidly outlined was John Marshall, Chief An American writing from London to the N. Y. Express, gives an account of a visit he was allowed to pay to the whole interior of the Bank of England. He says: "The building covers about three acres of ground. Many of its rooms are copied from the classio models "of Greece and ome.

The employees number about one Several of the officers reside in the Bank. No ote is ever issued the second time. The notes redeemed each day, are checkedt cancelled, and put away in boxes. After keeping them ten years they are Dura ed. The accumulation of the last ten years, now in the vaults of the bank, amounts to three thousand million of pounds! And yet any one of these notes can be referred to in a minute, and tne history of its issue and its return given.

The bank does all its own printing, and several presses are kept busy. Everything is done by machinery the note is not touched by the pen before it goes out. I held in my hand yesterday, one note for one million of pounds, and two little side-pocket packets of notes amounting to two million of pounds. In the bullion room ingots ot goia were piled up like cords of wood, and silver bars in vast mountains. The machines for detecting light coin and for cutting them are exceedingly curious and yet simple.

Every banker's deposit is weighed; and all the light pieces cut nearly in two and returned to him next day. Ihe system ot tne bank is as perfect and as exact as clock-work. And yet in spite of all precaution, some small forgery is almost daily detected. But since the great forgery committed by Asttellell for and by Fauntleroy for 360,000, the Bank has not lost any very heavy sums; although in 1822, capital punishment for the crime was abolished, when the old fogies predicted that everybody hard up would turn forger. "In the Specie department of the Bank there were bags and boxes of sovereigns and half-sovereigns enough to make a miser mad.

Mountains of "Mint drops," for which millions are sighing, and dying, and perpetrating all conceivable crimes! I was asked to lift a big bag of sovereigns, and for once, I must confess, I felt a sovereign disgust for money. With a half dozen pieces of these little in my pocket, I retired from the Bank, feeling a thousand' times more comfortable than some of the millionaires who had been shaking in their boots, in the applicants' "Sweating Room," while the official dispenser of the golden blessings had been so generously initiating me into the sublime mysteries of the "art of money making!" There was one item which I learned from the bank, decidedly gratifying to my national pride. It was this: Not. a single, piece of American paper whieh laid over during the late panic now remains unpaid. This, says Mr.

Elsey the Governor, cannot be said of any other nation on the i MARRIED, In thU county, on Wednesday tbe Bth by the Rev. Mr. Wych Mr. MALCOM J. McKAY to Miss ELIZABETH MURPHY, daughter of the lat William Murphy -all of this county.

BUD, On Tuesday, the 31t ult, in the vicinitv of French's Creek Church, Bladen DUNCAN L. McMILLAN, formerly of Cumberland county, aged 43 years. Cut off in the prime of life, in the mid9t of usefulness, he leaves a place vacant, not only in his family, but in large circle of friends and relatives, that will not easily be filled. "Leavs have their time to fall, flowers to wither at the north wind's breath. Birds have their time to sing; But Thou! thou hast all seasons for thine own, A.

i Wilmington Herald please copy. I In Raleigh, on the 3d day of June LIZZIE, only daughter of Hon. Rion H. Rogers and Jane his wife; aged one year, ten months, ana twenty-three days. At his residence in iiutler on Uie ism ot May last, Mr.

NEEDHAM SMITH, aged 66 years. Mr. Smith emigrated from North Carolina in tlie year 1826, end has since resided at and near Lowndesboro', until recently, when he removed to Butler county. Ecmsxiah Hall, Davidson College, i June 8, 1869. At a called meeting of the Eumenean Society, the undersigned were appointed a committee to draft resolutions expressive of the deep feelings of.

regret enter tained by that body, with regard to tne or sir. D. K. Sinclair. Whereupon the following resolutions were submitted and adopted by the Society: Whuicas, Almighty God in the mysterious designs of his Providence, has auddenly removed by Mr.

Duncan K. Sinclair, member of our siBter society; a gentleman just entering into manhood with buoyant hopes of a long, active and useful life; and gentleman whose high-toned moral and intellectual worth, and -(above all) whose high-toned Christian demeanor, had justly won our universal love and esteem; therefore be it, Resolved 1. That we have heard wun unreignea regret of the death of our beloved fellow-etudcnt, Mr. Duncan K. Sinclair.

Resolved 2. That we bow in humble submission to this dispensation, of Divine Providence, confiding ia the wisdom and goodness of Him whose "ways are unsearchable and past finding out." Resolved S. That this melancholy event shall make us more humble, and teach us the necessity of being, at all times, prepared for death, since we "know not at what hour the son of man cometh." Resolved 4. That we deeply Hympathise with the Philanthropic Society in their great bereavement. Resolved 5.

That as a token of respect to the memory of our deceased friend and fellow-student, we wear the usual badge of mourning for thirty days. Resolved 6. That a copy of these resolutions be lent to the relatives of the deceased, and also to the Philanthropic Sooiety. A M. P.

OTTS, I W. MeDUFFIE, VConi. J. P. GRAHAM, At a meeting of the Philanthropic Society of Davidson College, N.

the undersigned were appointed a committee to draft resolutions respecting the death of Mr. DiuKCAK K. Sinclair. The following resolutions were drawn up by said Committee: I Hall, 3d June, 1859. Whereas, God, in his all-wise Providence, has seen fit-to jtake from us our much esteemed friend end brother, D.

K. Sinclair, in the bloom of youth and vigor pf health; Be it resolved, That while we deeply lament the un timely death of our fellow-member, whose prospects for a long and useful career were eo promising, we humbly submit to the will of Uiiu "who doeth all things well." and say in the language of the Psalmist, "I was dumb, I opeaed not my because thou didst it." Resolved, That this sudden and fearful Providence may ihake us more mindful of the fact that xve too must soon appear before the judgment seat -of Christ, and makema more diligent to "keep our lamps trimmed and burning. Resolved, That we tepder our heartfelt to the' family of the deceased in their sad bereavement. That as a token of our regard for the memory of our companion, and as an exhibition of onr grief for the loss of uch an amiable member, we Wear the usual badge of mourning for thirty days, and also that our Hall be draped In mourning. Thai a -copy of these resolutions be sent to the family of the deceased, and also to the Fayetteville Observer, C.

Presbyterianf: Marion Southern Presbyterian; with a request to publish. II. W. McLEES, JAS. D.

MelVER, T. B. McLAURIN, Committee, 25, passed Cape Race to-day. -i battle was fought on the 21st of May, near Montebello. It is stated that the Austrians, fifteen thousand strong, attacked the position of Marshal Baraguay d'Hilliers, and after four hours furious combat, were repulsed, with a heavy loss in killed and two hundred prisoners.

The Allies carried the city of Montebello; but did not pursue the Austrians further. The French loss is reported to have been ,700 killed. The actual number of the French engaged in the battle. is not known, but is estimated at between six and seven thousand, besides a regiment of Sardinian cavalry. The allies lost many officers, and one Austrian colonel was among the captured.

The Austrian account of the battle, however, differs widely from the foregoing. The King of Naples is dead and Francis the Second ha3 assumed the government. 3t. Louis, June 7. Later from Utah.

The mail from Utah has arrived, bringing a proclamation by Gov, Cum-mings, ordering the immediate dispeisal of various parties of Mormons assembled in a military character in the mountains surrounding the Salt Lake Valley. The anti-Mormon organ of the Territory asserts that treason is as rifethere now as before the arrival of the army, A gentleman of intelligence just from Utah asserts that the bands spoken of in the proclamation are a portion of the Mormon militia called out by Gov. Cummings to resist the entrance of the Gov ernment troops to the city during the session of the court. The same authority corroborates the conclusion as to the treasonable condition of sentiment in the territory. The Mormons, he says, are augmented every month by thousands of foreigners, and every intelligent observer sees but one result, and that a bloody one, unless the whole community are transported, or kept in subjection by martial law instead of civil.

St. Louis, June 2. Immense Damages in a Breach of Promise Case In the case of Miss Carstrange vs. Shaw, for a breach of promise of marriage, the jury this afternoon rendered a verdict for the full amount of the petition of the plaintiff, $100,000. The Presbyterian Assembly, Old School.

This body, after an interesting session of 13 days at Indianapolis, adjourned sine die on the 2d in stant. 1 he Assembly has had some dimculty in reference to its Board of Home Missions, in which the slavery question has been to some extent lm plicated. The Board has so conducted its affaire as to leave a large balance on hand, whereas the Assembly considered that all receipts should be annually expended in missions. It appears that one young man was refused as a missionary to California because he was an "abolition agitator, the reason assigned, however, being a want of funds; and three Princeton students have been prevented from making the same application. supposing there were no funds.

The Assembly has overthrown the management of the by electing. new A large majority of the Assembly, however, are jiu favor of having nothing to do with the slavery question in any shape. Cold Weather in June. It was almost cold enough for frost here on Monday last. We see in our exchanges this morning that there was a severe frost at Buffalo and all the Northern part of New lork btate, at Pittsburg, at Cincinnati, Cleveland, and the States of Ohio and ndiana generally.

The crops of wheat, corn, po tatoes, fruit, grapes and vegetables, are reported to be destroyed, or very greatly injured. The Old Homestead. -There is food for re flection in the following extract from a letter to the North Carolina Planter, from G. D. Harmon, of Milliken's Bend, Louisiana.

We have no doubt that there are thousands of men, and even more of women, who look back with longing towards the deserted homesteads in which their youth was spent: "I was pleased with the remarks in your April current volume, under the' head "Spirit of Emigration. It reminded me ot the time in 42, when I left the old hills of North Carolina, my old friends, the old orchard, the. old home upon the hill, the cool: springs ot water, the old church, my father's grave, and started on my journey for the "new -purchase in Georgia. "1 have tried the States ot ueorgia, Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana, cultivated the hills, the river landa and the swamps, and after an experience of sixteen years, my opinion is, that if I had my time to travel over again, knowing what do now, 1 should be at home, in my native State, improving the old red hills, hill-side ditch them, horizontal plow them, subsoil them, com post them, prune the old orchard, fix up the old barn, clean out the old spring house, enjoy the society of old tried friends, visit the old moss- covered church, go to camp-meetings, and do riaht. i "But I.

am here, one mile of the "lather ot Waters," and he is pouring forth an angry flood upon the country, destroying cotton, corn and stock. But who knowi," dim-sighted mortals that we are, but what it is all tor the best? Ihis flood may drive some ot usj into the hills, where we will be compelled to improve the soil and do some thing for posterity. ho knowsr FOR THE OBSERVER. Messrs. Editors: man calling himself J.

Whitney Brewer, who' says that he is from Moore county, N. was arrested and committed to the Jail of our county at this place on yesterday (the 7th inst.) under the charge of having stolen a horse, the property ot Jlr. ltandal bhawol iladen county, on the week previously. The supposed thief arrived at this place on Saturday last, and was stopping at the Lumberton Hote 1 when arrested. At the time he was committed to prison his plunder was all carefully searched, as required by law, when to the astonishment of the performer, were found thirteen keys, of various sizes and qualities, no two of which were precisely alike, and suited to almost any lock which he might feel disposed to unbolt.

-In addition to those keys, were several other articles, seldom found in the possession. of the honest traveller. In "view of these facte we feel it a duty we owe the public to make known this casej that communities at large may be the more particular, and always on their guard when even suxpiciaus characters are in their midst. 'JUSTICE. Lumberton, Robeson N.

June 8, 1859. true admirers of high character, of genuine dignity, might say Friend, there is something nobler and moreTeautiful than the etiquette of courts; a grace bevond the hauteur of the courtier or the hanger-on in palaces it is the unaffected simplicity and real dignity of the honest gentleman who is not afraid to be natural! Above all should you respect and make your lowest bow to the great intellect and pure heart which relies upon the public respect and regard, and does not think it necessary to wrap itself in vain trappings, or send a heraldbefore to clear the wav for the empty pageant. Louis XIV would have cheerfully died, I imagine, rather than take his coat off and pitch quoits with his brother monarchs or his nobility, and doubtless his views upon the subject were correct. He was little in the midst of all his greatness, and compelled to guard his prestige. John Marshall was loftier.

I He was always great. As you knew him more familiarly you loved him all the better. You saw; that this man was one of nature noblemen that a childlike kindness and sweetness was in his heart. The immense intellect was playing, in its season of relaxation, i i wee. FAYETTEVILLE.

THURSDAY KVEMXG, JUNE 9, 1839. Thk President and Mr. McRae. We have heird from different sources that the conduct of the officials at Raleigh, in fixing Mr. Buchanan's arrival at Chapel Hill after the delivery of Mr.

McRae's Annual Address, was much talked of at the late Commencement. It is understood that Mr. McRae is personally intimate with the President; that the President desired and intended to reach Chapel Hill on Tuesday night, or to breakfast on Wednesday morning; that he might easily have been there at either time, instead of being at a Hotel in Raleigh; but that it was otherwise arranged at Raleigh, by which not only the President but the Governor of the State, the several committees, which escorted him, and an immense concourse of people, were all kept back till after Mr. McRae's Address had been The world at Chapel Hill, so we are informed, were so uncharitable as to attribute this to a desire to deprive Mr. McRae of some of the eclat which it was pretty well known would win on that theatre.

We are not precisely, in formed as to the persons who were responsible for the change of the President's plan- not the Governor, we hope, ne, however, would have gained some credit for chivalnc magnanimity to a vanquished opponent, if he had insisted on the President's being there, and on being there himself. What does it Mean? We copy the follow ing paragraphs from tKe Wilmington ournal of Saturday last: "It may not be improper here to refer to a matter which seems to have been talked about and written about a good deal more than importance deserves: The question of a military escort to the President, and the selection by the Gov ernor of any particular Company for that position. "The Governor would have liked to have had all the Volunteer Companies in the State, and with that view, communicated informally with all, or at any rate endeavored to do so. All ex pressed their willingness. The law; however, had made no provision for the entertainment of the Companies, and the Governor found that other arrangements could not be made in time, and therefore no official call was made or invita tion issued.

The Wilmington Light Infantry, having their own accommodations, offered to go wholly on their own expenses and their offer was accepted, as would that of any other Company The W. L. I. escorted the President throughout. because thev volunteered to do so.

There was no favoritism, special invitation, or ground tor jea lousy." This certainly appears to be speaking by au thority. Yet on or jabout the same day, the Charlotte Bulletin announced the return of the Company of that place, as from trip to which thev had been "invited" by the Governor. So i many contradictory statements, from so many dif ferent quarters, really excite our curiosity to know what to believe. It is very certain that the Journal has been misinformed in one particular The Governor did not communicate, formally or informally, with; all the volunteer companies in the state. mere are seven such companies, we believe, in this town and county, and if he com municated with any one of them we have not heard of it.

Among these is the only company in North Carolina that ever marched to the de fence of ihe soil against an enemy, the oldest company in the State, and among the oldest in the Union. If the Governor invited a Wilming ton company to perform an honorable and not dangerous duty as has been both asserted and denied, and a Charlotte company also, as has been asserted and re-asserted, it teas a slight to the other companies in Wilmington and elsewhere in the State. If he wished to communicate with al companies, how easy to have done so by either a formal or an informal notice in the Standard. Une tnmg more: VV hy did the tn companies which, besides the Wilmington company, met the President at Raleigh, not go on to Chapel Hill? It is supposed that most of them, if not all, left home with that intention. Escaped trom Jail.

Bob Revels, a -free negro confined for burglary, and a negro named John Brace or John Franklin, taken up some months since as a runaway, escaped from the jail in this place last night at about 9 o'clock. See advertisement We learn that they managed to foroe their way into the hall, and thence by the scuttle from the roof to the ground, by blankets tied The moon was shining and they were seen by persons at the rear of the jail. quits the favorite of all who knew him, the life ot the company, the model of a gentleman the breathing reflex, in a word, of the exquisite epitaph inscribed on his tombstone in the old churchyard of "St. John's," which was written by one of the circle which he adorned, and which never lost the memory of Jus virtues and accomplish ments. There, besides, in his plain old wooden dwelling, quietly sleeping beneath the foliage of the great elms with its old-fashioned garden and trim hedges ot box there, near the Chief Justice's dwelling, lived the amiable and accomplished Jaquehne Ambler, formerly Treasurer of Mhe and called as I have said in a former sketch, the Aristides of Virginia.

He was a gentle spirit, but with rigid ideas of justice one ot the most charming men of his time There was still, again, Benjamin Watkins Leigh, the inflexible opponent of the expunging resolutions in the Senate, under Jackson; the envoy to South Carolina during the troubles of the procla-tion; the great lawyer the compiler of the Vir ginia Code; the impassioned advocate, and the de lightful companion, whoso smiles and whose voice I shall never forget, as I shall ever xecall his af fection and gracious kindness. These and others great associates on the bench and at the bar the good Parson Buchanan, one of the lights of his epoch and more than one member of the fraternity ot merchants; these, and many more persons whom I have no room to mention, were grouped, as it were, about the tall central figure, and made up a society of rare charms and attraction. It was the honest Old Virginia love for companionship which, brought them- together the desire of congenial minds to mingle in the social scenes of private life, after the exhausting toils of the law, or commerce, or physic, or di vinity. There was no ceremony, no stiffness All was perfectly plain and undress. A debate or a jest was equally appropriate, and the dinners were festive occasions of the purest enjoyment.

Here the erect form of Wickham would relax and bend forward to catch the jest from the other end of the table the wit of Dr. Clurg would raise a broad smile the benevolent countenance of the good old Chief Justice would reveal the deep enjoyment with which he listened to the an ecdote or the narrative which kept the convives at table long after nightfall It was at "Uuchanan bpnng, however, on the outskirts of Richmond, that the Judge and his friends shone in all their glory. The old oaks, under the cool shadow of which the "Barbecue Club" used to meet, are still standing, and the Club exists to-day but the choice spirits of whomlwrite have passed into the land of shadows. How they chased the gay hours with laughter there, of old! how they pitched quoits, without their coats, and feasted on the roasted shoat, and drank moderate iuleps in the days long ago! Of these innocent seasons of convivial enjoyment, the Chief Justice was one of the brightest luminaries With his coat thrown down, his eyes sparkling with pleasure, the crowd looking on eagerly, anxious for his success, the Judge addressed him self with ardor to the rear business of the day. This business was to overcome all his competitors in hurling the peaceful discus at the stake in the ground.

His most dangerous opponent was a worthy clergyman, between whom and the Lhiet Justice many struggles for the mastery toolc place But the latter was the favorite or the bystanders measuring the distance of bis own and his op ponent's quoit from the peg, the arbitrator would jrenerally manage to declare in tne Judge favor in favor of law, and against divinity, it cheat ing was necessary to arrive at this result, so much the more unfortunate, but that was all Marshall was to be, under any circumstances, triumphant; for he was the favorite of all, the pride of the members of the Club, the nibst despotic pet of them all. When he made a bad throw, or his quoit rolled away to a distance, all faces be- came elongated: sadness entered every heart, and his opponent was regarded with ill-concealed hos- tuitv. nen. nowever. tne quoit went, siraigni to its place above all, when it "rung the ineg," that is, fell plump on top and encircled it, the enthusiasm of the crowd knew no bounds.

And the hero of this achievement himself was not destitute of elation. He thrilled with all the delights of victory. Clapping his hands like a boy, he would triumph over his foe, and mingle proudly in the general rejoicing. To a stranger all this might have seemed undignified unworthy of the udges of the Court of Appeals, and the most famous counsellors of the Commonwealth. But it did not so seem to their companions, nor long to such visiters from a distance as witnessed the scene.

There was so much simplicity and ease in the group such unconscious grace in the most care less movements, that the picture was redeemed from the least touch of the ludicrous. Baron Guenet. a French gentleman, was invited one day, and informed before-hand that the Governor of the Commonwealth, the Judges of the High Court of Appeals, and the Chief Justice, would be present to banquet with the rest in the open air. and pitch quoits with the other members of the Club. A he Saron exhibited unanected as tonishment, and asked, "if it was possible that the dignitaries of the land could thus intermix with private citizens." Worthy Baron! He was des fined to be still more confounded at what he saw under th oak trees.

The spectacle was nothing less than His lixcellency, the Judges, the Chief Jus tice, and their great associates, all with coats off entering into the game with boyish enthusiasm-kneeling down to measure distances, crying out when they triumphed, and acting generally in manner the most "undignified" imaginable. The cood Baron was taught a lesson which he had never learned in Europe; his ideas were extended, and he declared with enthusiasm that he "had never before seen the real beauty of republican ism." 'Are there any intelligent Americans at the present time who are disposed to thinklessof these celebrated men for their boyish sport? We trust not. That mind must be mean, and the Mr. Miller's Lecture on the Eighteenth Century at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington City. Among these were 500 ladies, three members of the Cabinet, the Mayor of Washington, several members of Congress, and manv distinguished iterary and clerical dignitaries.

At the close of the address a large crowd, of both s'exes, gathered upon and around the rostrum, and congratulated the speaker most warmly on his effort. The National Intelligencer has two communi cated notices of the Lecture, written by two gentlemen of that city, of whom the Editors say, 'their prominence as leaders of public thought, and experience as long and serviceably engaged in posts c-T high public importance, entitle what ever they may write to the confidence of the reader." Hyde County, N. Very few persons in this part of the State have an idea of the fertility of the North Eastern counties of North Carolina. Their tradd is mainly out of the State, and their intercourse follows their trade of course. We doubt whether there was ever a citizen of Hyde county in Fayetteville, or a citizen of Fayetteville in Hyde cotnty, except the Judge who held their Court last fall.

They consequently know but little of each other. Yet Hyde county is one of the most productive parts of the State or of the Union. A rriter in the Southern Farmer says it is "the moit beautiful farming country on the face of the globe" a perfect "garden spot." As evidence of its productiveness he says that "it has a population of 5000 to 6000, and ships from 500,000 to bushels of com, some 50,000 bushels of wheat, with peas, potatoes, Well may the writtr say that this is hard to beat. We have heard almost equal accounts of the other counties in that section of the State, from Halifax to Pasquotank, and from Martin to Tyrrell. Good Sense and Sound Morality.

We are glad to find such sentiments as the following in the New Orleans Picayune, on the subject of the movements at the South in retaliation for the disregard of the fugitive law at the North: "We hold that in morals and duty the delib erate abandonment of our own duty is not excusable because others have willfully neglected theirs; that we may not defiantly annul one law that, we do not like, because men, whose principles for so doing we have denounced as treasonable, have wickedly trampled upon another which they And on grounds of policy we urge, that for a minority section the law of order, protection, and safety is in the supremacy of constitutions and laws. When we discard that for a contention with the majority, which shall most thoroughly succeed in setting at naught the- laws it dislikes, and baffling the efforts of the regularly constituted authorities to enforce them or to apply the penalties for disobedience, we enter into a conflict in which we must inevitablv get the worst. In a contest of mere numbers, which we accept, we are the weak er, ana win De outvoted ana overwneiiueu. iue subiects in controversy are vital to us; essential -ii i i ji i 3 rr-i parts of the system by which we live, and with out which we perish; with our adversaries they are fanatical ideas, which do not touch the social or individual well being. We play fortune and life against worthless counters with which our adversaries make the game in which they risk nothing, and therefore we have urged that it is suicidal folly for the people of the South to give anv -countenance to the theory of individual or nnnnlar ritrht to set private interpretations of 2 a a duty, or considerations of local interest, over stat utes and constitutions.

Every word of this is true, and it is moreover true, that in every contest which the South has waged with the North the former has suffered, not at home indeed, but in arraying rr more the Northern feeling against us. It is true that there never was a time when the South was more united in determination to maintain itsrights There" has been a thorough concentration of its feeling on this point. But it is equally true that there never was a time when she had so few friends at the North. What has driven from her troops of her former friends in that section? Manifestly, as we think; the movements of those who hope and intend thereby to bring about a dissolution of the Union. To that effect speaks the Charles ton Mercury, as quoted by the Picayune: "The Mercurv partly admits says the Pica yune that such conduct Southern retaliation would be "stupidity as flagrant as it is if we nuroose to remain in the Union.

It treats the course of those who refuse to enforce tire con stituiion and the laws with regard to the slave trade, as consistent, and wise, and respectable. only as they mean revolution and are preparing for revolution. In doing so, their object must be "to put an end entirely to the constitution an our union-with the Northern States, who refuse to be bound by the compacts which it Hence" the Mississippi mob, which drove a collec tor of Northern debts out of town, is invested with the same character as to the lawfulness of these acts, and their political tendency, th revolutionary partv who threw the tea into Bos ton harbor. This is not the "higher law" of the Northern Abolitionists, only because that affects to adhere to the constitution, except when some superior obligation of conscience interferes, while thin meditates revolution, and is an overt act. ustice of United State the man, as Wirt says, of "gigantic genius," possessed of the "su pernatural faculty" of penetrating to the core of the knottiest subject, and extracting the real truth with the ease of a man amusing himself at a game t.IT in a iormer sKetcn, i presented some scenes from the youth of this celebrated man.

The design was to draw a picture from authentic fami' ly records of the early days of the gTeat Chief ustice. I showed him to the reader in the atti tudes of a young lieutenant of the "Minute Men;" of a devoted lover, and a reader of songs and ballads to the smiling circle in the good old Ambler mansion at York. I wish now to present a sequel. as it were, to that sketch a companion piece to the picture, la this old age, as in his youth, there was so much to charm and benefit the that my time will not be thrown away The mere "public events" of his life may be pass ed over. They are to be found in many books ia the volumes of our historv, in the records of the Supreme Courts and Congress, in the -volumes of annals which treat of the great political Strug gies wnicn iook place arounu tne cracue oi mt new-born Republic.

As member of the Council of the State of Virginia as representative of the city ot nichmond in the stormy year ot 17o7 when he and Janieg Madison fought shoulder to shoulder for a 'Constitutional Union, after the model of Washington as member of the Virginia Convention of 1788, to ratify or reject the Federal Constitution, in which the gigantic leaders, Patrick Henry and others, fought mortally for victory on opposing sides as defender of Jay's treaty in 1795 as Envoy to France, where his state papers extorted the admiration of Talleyrand, anu secureu ior mm a inumpnai entry into iew i orfc on bis return as the mouthpiece of the na tion in announcing to Congress the death of his beloved friend, General Washington as biograph er of the hero as the prop of the administration of Adams in the famous case of Jonathan Robbins, ijwhen his' speech, as said Judge Story and Albert Gallatin, was such as no human intellect could answer as voter against the Alien and Sedition laws as Secretary of War and au thor of the instructions to Mr. King as Chief Justice finally of the Supreme Court of-the Unit ed states as statesman, counsellor, envoy, ju risconsult, and lastly President of the ultimate resort of justice In these positions and all these characters, he was prominent among the mighty intellects of his epoch, and won for his name the imperishable laurels which await the man who dedicates a long life and great genius, unmingled with the least alloy, to the service ot his county This public phase of the life of John Marshall need hot here be presented. It would only be a bald repetition of what has been printed elsewhere My aim will be rather to exhibit the kind gentle man and in-eat man in his hours of leisure in his moments of relaxation from the struggles of the lorum, or the toilsome duties of his judicial posi tion. If the sketch is brief and rapid, it shall, at least, be truthful; That is all the merit of these sketches but it is a great one, It was here in Richmond that the Judge was most at home. He always loved the place, and the people loved him devotedly.

Everybody knew him, and he knew everybody. There was such a hearty kindness in his manner, that the humblest man felt at his ease immediately, and could scarcely believe, when he encountered him for the first time, that the unassuming old gentleman, in hie slouching attire, and apparently so unconscious of. his great position, was, "Judge Marshall." He Beemed to take as much pleasure in chatting about stock or the cropswith a homespun farmer, as in listening to ana joining in the brilliant conversation of the brilliant men who I i.