Fayetteville Weekly Observer from Fayetteville, North Carolina • Page 1

VOL. XLIIL FAYETTEVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA, OCTOBER 15, I860. NO. 2263. Foreign Aeict.

The Vanderbilt. from Havre "OBSERVER. Murderers at Large Fn Hundred Dollars Reward! (jn Thursday last, the 4th instant, two brothers residing at, Washington. N'. Ca committed PRINTED EVERY.

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E. J. Halk It was my (rood fortune to be at Newton Grove, in Swnpson County, on Ihe 5th iat. where Mr. O.

H. Dockery, Elector on the Union Ticket, made one of the best political speech-el ever listened to. I took no notes and will not attempt to give a correct synopsis of all that was said. Suffice "it to say, that the Union men of High Sampson'' are proud of their candidate, and he-may well be proud of them, for a more loyal community is not to be found in the State. They are justly entitled to the appellation of "Wide Awakes," whenever the Institutions of their country are in danger.

The remarks of Mr. Dockery were attentively heard, while in the first place he denounced Mr. Lincoln as the common enemy against whom all parties should make battle: alno when he took up Mr. Douglas and showed how odious his squatter-sovereignty doctrine was tp the South, and while in doing so he proved most conclusively that the whole Democratic party is fully committed to this same "squatter doctrine," and that Mr. Breckinridge chas been equally as much of a "squatter sovereign" as Mr.

Douglas, and that Mr. Breckinridge is now the candidate of the Southern Faction of the old Democratic Party headed by W. L. Yancey, Whose purpose is to effect the election of Lincoln as a pretext for dissolving the Union. In showing all this Mr.

Dockery's evidence (which was abundant,) came from the Democratic side, to-wit: their speeches, their votes, their letters, their "Platforms;" and the Kansas-Nebraska Bill a democratic measure and one of which the Party heretofore boasted as their pet. I say all this was attentively listened to, but when Mr. Dockery warned his audience of the consequences to' the country which these factions and pactieswere about to bring upon us, I could see the fire kindle in their eyes, and when he recommended for thejr support the names of John Bell and Edward Everett as the only National candidates before the people, whose Platform is "the Union, the Constitution and the Enforcement of the Laws," the recommendation was received with immense cheering. In concluding his remarks, Mr. Dockery returned his thinks to the ladies (a number of whom graced the meeting) for their attendance and their smiles, and implored them to nerve'the arms of the sterner sex in preserving the Union and in giving peace tp the country and quiet to their homes.

i The Prospect. We cannot hope to have for to-day's paper the results of any of the important State elections which took place on Tuesday; but it is encouraging to find that the correspondents of the N. Y. Times in Pennsylvania and Ohio oulyclaini majoritieii of 5,000 to 000 in Pennsylvania, and 15,000 if Ohio. These are small figures in an aggregate of nearly half a million of votes which can be given iu each of those States.

The Bell, Douglas and Breckinridge parties have generally fused in Pennsylvania, though it is said that some Bell men will vote for Curtin for Governor, Curtin being a Tariff man and denying that he is a Republican. As to Georgia, it is known that unless a clear majority of all he votes cast should be given for one ticket, the Legislature will have to choose the Electors. A plurality of the popular" vote is not sufficient. It is not likely that in a triangular content, such as the present, a majority can be had by either ticket, and therefore it is considered pretty certain that he Legislature will have to make the election. It id supposed that the Breckinridge party has a majority in the Legislature, but the Augusta Constitutionalist, a Douglas paper, says it is "satisfied that if the ten votes of Georgia can elect either Breckinridge, Douglas or Bell, the Breckinridge majority will so vote." Douglas and Bbeckikridge is Virginia.

The Breckinridge and Douglas Committees were in session in Richmond on Friday and Saturday, and came to the conclusion that a fusion between the two wings was utterly impracticable. The Douglas men, the Richmond Whig says, wound up the meeting by dispatching a messenger to who carries with him a request to Mr. Breckinridge to answer the Norfolk ques-. lions. Thk Whig Mass Meeting at Salisbury to-day and to-morrow, will doubtless be a very large and important one.

The weather i propitious, and the first orators in the State are there. We notice that Gov. Morehead delivered a speech to the Bell and Everett Club of Beaufort' on Wednesday evening last, and George Davis, a speech at Hon. Z. B.

Vance, we see by the following paragraph, "won new laurels at the mass meeting at Knoxville, Tenn: -Knozville Hats news is to the effect that at least twelve thousand people attended the Mass Meeting at Knoxville last week. Various distinguished gentlemen were present and a glorious time generally was had; We are informed that the Hon. Z. B. Vance, in response to the calls of the people, made three or four telling speeches during the occasion and was deputed to gt.

to Jonesborough, and meet A. O. P. Nicholson, United States Senator; in debate. He made one of his happiest efforts there and was literally covered with boquets by the noble and patriotic Tennessee women who were present.

Athevttle. Spectator. Salisbury Democratic Mass Meeting. We learn from the Watchman that this meeting was rather thinly attended, owing to the very inclement weather the largest number at any one time being -only about 400, big and little. The orators were, Hons, Weldon N.

Edwards, T. L. Cli nginan, i and Bedford Brown, E. G. Haywood, W.

W. Avery, and C. J. (and perhaps some others.) Gov. Ellis was present on the stand.

1 i and Southampton on the 26th arrived at this port on baturday night. Her advices have been anticipated by tb arrival of the City of Baltimore off Cape Race; but we obtain from our European files most interesting details of the late important events that have occurred in Italy. The breach between Garibaldi and the Count de Cavour appears to be widening, and is viewed with grief and consternation by, Italy's best friends. The uarrel, indeed, amounts to an open rupture; and whether Garibaldi has or has not demanded from the King the dismissal of his Minister as a sine qua non, it is very certain that the two men will not act in concert or in concord. One or other will have to disappear from the political arena.

Garibaldi's letter, avowing his animosity towards Cavour, almost amounts to an insult, especially since its publication, by the Dictator's orders, in the Umcial Gazette ot Naples. Alluding to the annexation of Nice to France, he says that he will 'never reconcile himself with men who have hu miliated the national dignity and sold an Italian borne interesting particulars are re ceived of the battle of Casteltidardo, near Ancona. The Sardinian loss amounted to 1,000 men in billed and wounded. The final struggle with La- moriciere will take place in Ancona, and we may daily expect to' hear that the assault has been made. The Pope, it is now said, wilt not quit the Vatican, feeling confidence in the protection of the French troops under Gen.

Gari baldi seems to take every opportunity to announce publicly that he will only proclaim the Kingdom of Italy from Rome. He has done so again in a proclamation to the people of Palermo. LOSS OF THE FINE NEW STEAMER CONNAUGIIT, AT SEA! She. Sprinit Aleak, and then Takes 591 Jersons on Ihetr Appalling Danger! Providential RelieJ, and all Saved! Boston, Oct. 9.

-The fine new Steamer Connaught, of the Gal- way line, from Gal way, was burned Sunday, at sea. I Capt. Leith reports that on the 6th, at 8 P. when 150 miles east of Boston, she sprang a leak in her engine rooms, lhey succeeded in keeping the water below the fires till 4 Sunday morning, when it gained rapidly and extinguished the fires. At 9.30, smoke was discovered issuing from the aft stokehole.

Notwithstanding the utmost ef forts, the fire gained, and soon drove the cabin The water and tire both continuing to gain, the boats were got ready'. The first that was lowered was stove. Six others were launched successfully, and filled with the passengers. About 12 o'clock the Brig Winnie Schefler saw the signal of distress and bore down for the burning steamer. At 7 p.

commenced embarking the passengers, the Brig having a hawser to the steamer on her starboard side. It was now very hot. At 9.30 all the passengers were got safely on board the Brig. The mails were saved. Capt.

leith was the last man to cave the wreck. last that was seen of the was at 2 o'clock Monday morning, when she was one mass of flames. Fifty cabin passengers, 417 in the. steerage and a crew of 124, constituted the whole number on board, all, of whom were saved. "Behaved Himself like a The Holly Springs (Miss.) Constitutional Union says: In his speech at the Court House on last day week, Senator Davis was very severe on Mr.

Douglas for taking the stump in his own behalf. ie called him an itinerant advocate ot his own claims, and said that this of itself disqualified him for the Presidency. He remarked also, that he would have been better if Breckin- had not listened to the solicitation of his neighbors, and refused to make any speech. In this connection we were glad to hear him applaud the course of John Bell, by saying that he "had stayed at home and behaved himself like a gen tleman. Chairman of the National Breckinridge Com- viittee.l.

I. Steveus, late Governor of Washing ton Territory, is the Chairman of the National Executive Committee of the Breckinridge party. We learn, from the Louisville Journal that he is a defaulter to the Government in a very large sum. In the report of the Third Auditor of the Treasury, transmitted to Congress last February, there is a statement of all accounts which have remained unsettled, or on which balances appear to have been due more than three years prior to July 1st, 1859. On page 23 is to be lound a memorandum on account of a survey of railroad from' the Mississippi to the Pacific, charging Gov.

Stevens with a "balance, Sept. 30th, 1848, 816,315 45. There is at his credit, on sundry accounts, 86,173 18; still leavingagainst liim the of 810,142 27." And on page 56, in the statement of the names of officers whose accounts. for advances made, or balances unaccounted for for one year prior to the first of July, 1859, as it appears from the books of the Second Auditor of the Treasury, have not been settled within the year, may be seen this item: "Stevens, 1. late Governor, 830,940 32 balance.

So according to those official papers, the Hon. Mr. Stevens owes the Government the sum of 841,082 59. JSasnvi i South. Nashville Banner.

Inother Storm at the South. Another fearful storm has occurred atthe South, involving con siderable loss of life and trreat damage to Dronertv. Like the one which occurred only a lew weeks CJ a. since, it appears to have extended along the whole Gulf coast. At ew Orleans and vicinitv how ever, its fury was most seriously felt, and the damage resulting from it there is estimated at 8150,000.

The back portion of the city was en tirely submerged. Eleven miles of the Jackson Railroad were washed away, together with a large number of houses on he route. The damage on the Mississippi River was also very heavy, a num ber of steamboats being: blown ashore and coal- boats sunk. Sweet Potato Vines as Hay. It is remark able that planters will allow their potato vines to be killed by frost, to the serious injury of the root, and total loss of the Vines, previous to gathering, and yet they will spend time in saving pea" vines that are done growing and partially and fodder (porn blades) alter the corn is matured when neither or both together are worth as much as the potato vine for stock food, by "25 per cent On the 20th of this month, and earlier -in pro portion as you go northward in the cotton region, the potato vine is in a state ot luxuriant growtn having shed none of its leaves full of saccharine matter aud starch.

They may be gathered with great rapidity, and easily cured, as there is rarely rain about the 20th ot October, lhere is no forage in the class of hays for stock, cattle and mules, to be compared to well-cured sweet potato yinea. American Cotton Planter. FAYETTEVILLE. THURSDAY EYENIXG, OCTOBER 11, I860. Thk Banks.

We are informed that a report is in circulation, to the effect that the Banks in North Carolina have resolved to stop discounting. We think, and most earnestly hope, that no such resolution has been adopted. The system of over-trading, of buying more goods than we can pay for. in produce, to which we have alluded frequently of late years as, prevailing in North Carolina, has, indeed, the banks, espe cially within the last few weeks, to act with more than their usual caution, to discount less freely than they-or the public could wish. But in our opinion scarcely any policy could be more injurious to both banks and people than a sudden and total cutting off of the usual bank facilities of business.

We need not specify all the evils which every business man in every commer-eiaj community understands full well as inevitably to result from such a state of things. It would be almost equivalent to a general stay law. Debtors would not pay either banks or individuals, but would make it a pretext for holding on to what they have. Business would be clogged in every branch. We earnestly hope, while a due regard for their own safety and credit prompts the banks to great caution, that they will not generally adopt a policy so injurious to themselves and the public as that which report attributes to them, incorrectly as we believe.

Census of Fatettkville. Frank N. Roberts, tlie Deputy Marshal for the portion of Cumberland county lying West of the Cape Fear river, has politely furnished us with the result in this town: The total population is 5,077, against 4,640 in 1850, being an increase of 431. Cumberland Taxes. The Sheriff of this County set tled with the Comptroller last mtnth, paying over the State's share of the taxes for 1859, collectable and col lected in 18C0.

We annex a statement copied from the Comptroller's receipt, and connect with it that for the previous year. It will be seen that the amount collect exceeds that last year (which was an advance over the previous year of 25 per cent.) by $4,499 04 about 25 per cent. The increase of the Merchants' Tax, (paid almost exclusively by Fayetteville,) is $808 05, rather more than 14 per cent. I860. 1859.

Land, 524G6 38 $2334 64 Town Property, 1390 94 1380 16 Polls, 2798 OO 2666 40 Interest received or due, 990 38 551 21 Dividends and Profits in Stocks, 1980 03 1895 24 Salaries and Fees, 841 69 802 68 Liquor Dealers, 2841 94 OO OO Stud Horses and Jacks, 26 00 34 00 Note Shavers, 76 00 00 00 Daguerreotvpists, Painters, 10 00 60 00 Toll Gates, Bridges', 5' 42 00 OO Pistols and Knives, 37 60 ,45 00 Dirks and Canes, fi 00 5 00 Gold Watches, 109 72 288 75 Silver 35 25 55 50 Piano Fortes, 118 50 127 50 Plate and Jewelry, 75 40 68 16 Playing Cards, 9 80 1 75 Pleasure Vehicles, 343 OO 343 57. Merchant's 6513 28 5705 23 Marriage Licenses, 107 6 152 la Mortgages, Deeds in Trust, 103 31 60 70 Circuses, Exhibitions, for reward, 105 00 105 .00 Ketailers of Spintous Liquors, 3(H) OO 300 OO Howling Alley, 60 OO OO OO Billiard Tables, 250 00 190 00 Insurance Companies, 200 00 300 00 Horse and Mule Drovers, 00 00 1 00 Livery Stables, 60 00 25 00 Commissions on Com. Merchants, 2 50 00 OO Auctioneers, 154 42 90 89 Patent Medicines: 190 48. 84 30' Natural Curiosities, 00 00 20 00 Itinerant Musicians, 00 00 00 Delinquents for 1859, 00 00 7 35 Privileged Voters, 54 40 7 20 Distilleries, 1 50 OOOO $22,252 57 17,753 53 890 .10 710 23 Commissions, Net amount, $21,362 47 17,043 30 In connection with the above we have ascertained from the Deputy Sheriff Hardie, that the amount of County Taxes collected in addition to the State Taxes, was $19,795 11. Total for State and County, $42,048 68.

These amounts were collected from the several Districts of the county as follows, (Fayetteville District paying $25,826 79 out of the $42,048 68, all exclusive of the Town Taxes proper.) Amount of State Tax paid by Fayetteville District, $17,336 37 Rockfish 1,053 94 Black River 309 79 Quwhiffle 461 32 Seventy-first 1,125 61 Flea Hill "616 17 Lock's Creek 616 68 Cedar Creek 268 12 Carver's Creek 565 57 $22,253 57 Amount of Taxes for County uses paid by nayeuevuie mainci, Rockfish $5,186 16 1,387 95 415 89 634 18 1,486 34 704 31 636 06 338 98 817 02 Black River Quwhiffle Seventy-first Flea Hill Lock's Creek Cedar Creek Carver's Creek 1 $11,606 89 Amount of Taxes for Rail Road paid by Fayetteville District, $3,304 26 Rockfish 1,002 08 Black River 839 45 Quwhiffle 616 34 -Seventy-first 1,099 89 Flea Hill 624 88 Lock's Creek 624 21 Cedar Creek 270 29 Carver's Creek 600 82 $8,188 22 Cape Ff.ak Bands. The account of the rise in value of lands in this county and Bladen, published in our last, was not quite so favorable as the facts would jus tify. In the tract bought and sold by R. M. Devane, the price realized by him was $5,700, instead of $4, 5(H).

And the actual advance over the cost to him was about $3,100, instead of $1900, as we were in formed. The Railroad Collision. Mr. Laspeyre, the Conductor who was injured by the collision on the Wil mington Weldon railroad, died on Saturday evening, 24 hours after the accident, and 15 minutes after his leg had been amputated. He had been jammed in be tween two cars', and was only extricated by sawing off the platform, an operation that took an hour and forty minutes, during all which time he suffered excrutiating pain.

Mr. Maguire, the engineer of the freight train, was arrested and discharged by the magistrates after an ex amination into the facts of the case; but Judge Bailey ii said to have issued a bench warrant for his re-arrest. a murderous assault upon John W. Grist. 1 an estimable citizen of Washington, N.

Cwhor was mortally wounded, and in the affray a negro man received injuries, which it is thought possibly survive. The brothers are named, respectively, George A. and Chas. H. They have fled from justice, and a reward of 9250 each will be given for their The difficulty between the Lathams and Mr.

Grist, is of several months duration. It grew out of a misunderstanding in regard to the question of ad valorem taxation, anterior to the late Gubernatorial election, at which time the liepassad, and blows ensued. Last Thursday, Geo. A. Latham and 'Mr.

G. met, when the difficulty was renewed, followed by an altercation, in which Latham was knocked down with a stick. Latham, greatly exasperated, went off and communicated with his brother, and the two, armed with revolving pistols, got into a buggy and started in pursuit of Mr. Grist. They came up with the object of their vengeance fronting the Banking House, and commenced tiring.

Mr. Grist immediately drew his pistol to protect himself, and some fifteen shots were fired in all. The random shots struck parties in the vicinity. A negro man engaged at woit on a new building near by, attracted by. the firing, made his appearance at the front door, when a ball struck him in the breast, which it is supposed will prove fatal.

A Mr, Morin, a white man, who was near, received a ball in one of his arms, inflicting a painful but not danger-ous woiind. The shooting occurred on Main street at mid-day, and the wonder is that a great many more persons were not injured. The brothers Latham leaped into a buggy near by, immediately after the shooting, antf made good their escape. Mr. Grist, "we understand, is a gentleman of high respectability and large means, and has a family.

The brothers Latham are also wealthy, but unmarried. Great excitement prevailed in Washington. special messenger was immediately sent to Newborn, where he chartered an engine, and proceeded to Goldsboro', the nearest point of telegraphic communication. Here despatches were sent off in every direction, describing the fugitives, and offering large rewards for their arrest. It is thought that the Governor of the State will also issue his proclamation, and offer a sum as large or larger than that already offered by the friends of Mr.

Grist. P. S. We learned yesterday' afternoon! that Mr. Grist was dead.

Pet. Express. Thk Pringb or Walks at Mocht Vbrnos. On Fri day last the accompanied by the President of the nited state. Miss Lane, Lord Lyons, Secretary Hoy a and lady, Mrs.

tills, niece of Wm. R. King, and the Misses Slidell, proceeded in carriages to the arsenal, where the party embarked, on the cutter Harriet Lane, for Mount Vernon. They spent some time at the tomb, the baud playiog a dirge. It was a suggestive incident, the heir to the throne of England standing at the tomb of the man who, under Providence, had wrested from that throne its most valuable territorial possession.

Salutes were fired on the embarkation and debarka- tion of the party. That evening the Prince dined with Lord Lyons; and a gr and display of fireworks in his honor took place in front of the President's House. On baturday, the Prince and Suite visited Riohmond, and returned on He proceeds this week to Baltimore, Philadelphia and New York. A CONTENTED LIFE. BT JAXIS NACK.

(At Thtrty.) Five hundred dollars I have saved A rather moderate store No matter; I shall be oontent' When I've a little more. At Forty.) Well, I can count tea thousand now Thai's better than before; And I may well be satisfied When I've a little more. (At Fifty.) Some fifty thousand pretty well But I have earned it sore; -However, I shall not complain When I've a little more. (At Sixty,) -One hundred thousand sick and old Ah! life is half a bore! Yet I can be content to live When I've a little morel (At Seventy.) He dies to bis greedy heirs He leaves a countless store; His wealth has purchased him a tomb And very little more! MARRIED, At Rockfish -Village, on Thursday, 4th by Rev. Jno.

Buie, Mr. GRAY HOCKADAY of Fayetteville, to Miss CAROLINE WILKINSON, of the former place. Also, on Thursdav, 4th by Rev. w. C.

West, Mr. RUFUS JOHNSON to Miss OATSEY, daughter of Gilbert Brumble, all of Rockfish. Also, on Tuesday, 9th by Rev. Geo. Benton, Mr.

WM. BROWN of Robeson county, to Miss MARY daughter of Alex. Kinlaw, of Rockfish. On the, 2d of in Montgomery N. by E.

G. L. Barringer, Mr. JNO. M.

BRUTON to Miss LUCY J. HAYWOOD. In Mecklenburg county, on Steel Creek, on the 4th- at the residence of R. W. McDowell, by Rev.

J. Rumple, Gen. SAM'L II. WALKUP, of Union county, to Miss MINNIE PRICE, daughter of the late Reese Price, of Mecklenburg. At Shallow Ford, Yadkin the residence of the bride's father, on the 1st by the Rev.

T. G. Haughton, Lieut. J. M.

KERR, U. S. to Miss JENNIE PURYEAR, eldest daughter of the Hon. R. C.

Puryear. DIED, In Columbia, S. Sept. 21st, DAVID WESLEY, third son'of J. C.

and E. A. Dye, aged 7 months and 22 days- COTITIKRCI VL RECORD. ARRIVALS. Lutterloh's Line.

Oct. 8 and 10, St.rN. Carolina and Fanny, with Goods for A McDonald. Leete, Roherts Co, Beaver Creek Co, 3 Tilliaghast Co, (i Williams Co, RE Heide, Brandfi A Steel. Siedman Co, Gilchrist.

Mitchell, Lilly, 8 Lutterloh, Fayetteville Gas Co, Boon Co, Baldwin Co, VanorsdelL Huske Anderson, McLauria, I Swett, Mrs Evan. Joel Williams, Geo McNeill, A Kuper, Errant Wilson. Orrell Dailey's Line. St'r Sun, with goods for Jaa Marline, Harris, McLean, Geo Brandt, A Thornton Co, Peinberton Sloan, Orrell Dailey, II Ellis, Loab Co, A Johnson, T. Freight Received per Western Rail Road.

Oct. 8. 20 bbls. Spts. Turpentine, 171 do.

Rosin, 3 do. Dried Fruit, 28 bbls. and 3 sacls Flour, 17 Cotton, 4 bbls. Cruue Turpentine, and Sundries, lo T'S Lutterloh, Moore, Williams A Co, Me-Laurin, Starr Williams, Haigh Sons, Jos A Worth, Shaw Rhodes. Wednesday, Oct.

10. 23 Boies and 11 bbls Dried Fruit, 47 bbls Flour 14 bags and 2 boxes Rags, 1 box Shoes, 237 bbls Spts Turpentine 210 bbU Rosin. 6 bales Cotton, 1 Cow and Calf, 48eS feet Lnmber, 13 cords Wood, 1 hhd Coal, 1 box Slate, 1 hhdOre, and sundries, Williams Haigh Sons, Welsh, Orrell, A McDonald, A Worth, Starr Williams, Walton, Shaw Rhodes, Martine, TS Lutterloh, A McLauchlin, j.uid in advance; $3 50 if paid during the year yf subscription; or $4 "00 after the year has expired. i inserted for GO cents per square of lti lines for the firsthand 30 cents ion "each succeeding publication. SPKCIAL NOTICE.

From and after, this date, no name ofj a new tulscriber will be entered without payment in jjvunce, nor will the paper be sent to such sub-icribers for a longer time than is paid Jach of our old subscribers aa desire to take be on this system will please notify us wbcn making remittances. 1, 1S5S- 1 THE STUMP. is a peculiarly American" institution. This is a nation of orators. One man in every five is endowed with the gilt of the gab.

Our common street conversation is often delivered with the em-phaM and gesticulation of a iormal oration. In hiL'li pari ty times we frequently behold at street corners one man haranguing another man with elevated voice, with head and hand in motion, occasionally doubling his fist and brandishing it' with suck vehemence that we are tearful ot assault and battery. The, audience, however, shows no tear, enlv a lively sense of misery till its turn comes to be speaker, and then, like somo dammed up stream which has broken its boundaries, it pours forth a krreut that threatens to sweep everything before it. As a general thing, neither listens to the other, and both are well satisfied if they merely have is to let off their superfluous steam, izl attract by their oratorical display the curious gjc ot the bystanders. The monarchists of who are compelled jt their existence in dumb silence upon flatter themselves with the idea that lte- j.utiiaoisiu in the Lnitcd States has got along well up to this period because of the vast of our territory and the sparseness (of- our peculation, and that when we become dense and pvpjljus we shall go the way of all ltepublics.

Tfcij is a grand fallacy. The real safety-valve of the American steamboat is the stump. If the prodigious power let off through that medium had no means of escape, there would have been a grand tXpWon 4ong ago. All the superabundant valor, ferocity, fuss and fury of the nation find vent periodically through that agency, and then ensues a period of perfect repose and security, In Europe, where people are obliged to hold their tongues, they have a revolution every ten years; here, our only war is a war of words, and there is no slaughter except of the King's English: Of course, as there is no earthjy good without ib disadvantages, the stump has some characteristics' which are not eminently beautiful. But we do not expect a culvert to be as elegaut or as cleanly as a drawing room.

We do not expect the roar of escaping steam to be as musical as a piano. We need not complain then if the utterances of, the tump are not always as vigorous arfd polished as the tulminations of Demosthenes. Ot all the speech-making in the world nothnigis easier than to ruaLe a political speech With a brazen countenance, a glib tongue, a politic-ad scrap-book and a Joe Milkr, a man may travel from one end of the country to the other, electrifying vast audiences, and being extolled by' the press of his party as V'ie of the greatest orators the world has ever seen. The delusions of the populace upon these occasions are among the most interesting phenomena uf tie huiuau mind. The stalest joke is applauded as if it were the brightest witticism of Sheri-Jan, and the feeble flights ot an oratorical fledgling admired as it they were, the magnificent soarings of au eagle.

The baldest professions of patriotism are accepted as-. Gospel truth, and the most nauseating egotism and self-laudation, which in a private circle would provoke only contempt and ridicule, elicit uproarious applause. We have often seen a veteran party hack, who was perfect ly incapable of breathing a patriotic breath, jfhose whole hid had been spent in hunting olhce and who was- as incapable of declining political patronage as the thirsty earth of refusing to drink iu a refreshing shower, declare before the people with an air ot patriotism which George Washington would have been too modest to assume, that, let others, if they choose, link themselves to the chariot wheels of party, HE disowned, disdained and trampled under foot its petty and acknowledged no allegiance except to hia country! AU this brought out with a sonorous and em phatic "utterance, and both hands thrown up to the ceilmg, usually brings down the house in the "aiost rapturous' shouts, and thrills every intelligent and virtuous mind with intense satisfaction. We see accounts in some of our exchanges of political gatherings, at which the speakers held lorth to -entranced audiences" from half-past s'-veo till half-past eleven, and in one case till hiili-past twelve o'clock at night, on the mysteries 'j' 'iudtter sovereignty 'and the abstruse doctrines ol revolution and nullification. When it Considered that the great majority of these au- 'Hences i composed of laboring men, many of "Jin nave been hard at work since day-dawn, it VXV III m(i irhtr hrtTT olitili-f Via (lantfunoofl hv tiiL elaborate V1UL1UI13.

1 11V TV OUVIV1 liifcV ever fl.rt rl Iia! a L- in aonaofl Lul orators find to talk about, bo as to oc-lour mortal hours, is a mystery which passes touiprthension. The orations of the 'great icrs ol ui.r.,...:, ,.,11 Imir' in i.f...... i. in most cases is iu uiuoe "'en, and -the only "srallantrv" that hard. Which enablei a man to make the tide t- unsupported by a par- Halt.

A mencan. lelon fJur Xvjroei. At a Bale of Bldves in the estate Jesse Gill, dee'd; made on 'Satirday last, the following Uave, GO years 800; nil. rt. i ei aii-ui.

i- 7 ailllm. I IUUI. em. I. miuu au aversge Ol UvJ -f "other mystery connected with stump nU" hear of the orator8 "wrkihtj and yallantlu" for thejr cause, Maria and child, 30, 'J' i Uah 5 700; Samantha, 4, 1 H-SM10; Wa.h, 17, Vic, 17 -5, si.ivu.

note Such, gentlemen, is a hasty outline of the proceed ings at Newton Grove on the 5th, and it is in contemplation to hold a Mass Meeting there ou or about the 1st of Nov. Due notice will hereafter be given, and all Union loving men would do well to attend and have one day's enjoyment among those whole-souled people. Truly, sc. UNION. FOR THE OBSERVER.

At a meeting of the' Union men, held at Newton Grove, in Sampson County, on the 5th Col. George Draughon was called to the Chair, and Messrs. D. A. Bizzel and W.

D. Pearsall were requested to act as Secretaries. At the request of the chairman, O. H. Dockery, explained the object of the meeting to be to respond to the of the people of Salisbury, received Through Mr.

W. A. Smith, to. meet them on the 11th and 1-th for the purpose and in the hope of strengthening the cause of the Union throughout the country; whereupon, on motion it was ordered, that the chairman, appoint fifty delegates to represent Sampson county iu said meeting. Incompliance therewith the following gentlemen were nominated, to-wit: Messrs.

A. B. Barker, B. Lee, Ransom Taylor, Rob't A. Mose-ley, II.

Blackburn. G. Williams, W. Williams, Lewis C. King, E.

Thornton, U. W. Cox, W. H. Bryan, Josiah liryan.

Jno. A. Dates, Thos. Ash ford, John Ashford, Isaac Marshal Flowers, Isaac D. Williams, T.

N. Culbrcth. W. Culbreth, James C. Draughon, II.

Lee, Lewis Tew, Josiah Jernigan, J. K. Jernigan, J. A. Bizzell, J.

Monk, E. B. Owen, W. Henry Morisey, Dr. II.

Faison, H. D. Lewis, J. A. Darden, Q.

Barbery, Allen Barbery, E. Vanderwood, Jacob Vanderwood, B. M. Herring, H. 11.

Cobb, II. II. West, Jno. C. Williams, Benj'r IIargrover C.

Graves, Wm. G. Micks, C. Lee, B. Lee, W.

Lee, Bryan Williams, S. S. Thornton, Garry Williams, and Blaney Williams. On motioh, ordered that the chairman and secretaries be added to the number, and that a copy of the proceedings be sent to the Fayetteville Observer for publication. No business coming up, the meeting adjourned.

GEO. DRAUGHON, Ch'n. D. A. Bizzel', W.

D. Pearsall, Secretaries. Mass Mfttini at Wilmington. Mr. Meares from the committee appointed to take in to, consideration the propriety of holding a Bell and Everett Mass Meeting at this place, reported that the Committee had determined to hold a mass meeting on Friday the "liith being Friday of Superior Court week, to give a public dinner, and at night to have a grand torch-light parade.

Distinguished speakers, from our own and other States, will be invited. nilrnxngton Jlerald. Carteret County. Population. The entire population ol the county is 8181, divided as follows: White Males, 3UU6; white females, 8056; colored free males, 63; colored free females, 80; slave males, 981; slave iemalesftrBb.

Property. The valuation of real estate is and ot personal property aggregate valuation of 83,101,047. Social Statistics. There are in the county 8 paupers; 14 idiots; 7 insane; 0 deat and dumb and 4 blind. Ihe number ot children in atten dance upon school during the.year, has been 911; there" were 60 marriages; the number of per sons of foreign birth is 18; the number ot slave owners is 231; the number of white houses 1170; number of slave houses 197; the number of fami lies 1122; and the average number of each family less thaji eight.

Productive Industry, There are 150 farmers that make over 100 dollars each, and of 6mall farmers whose average production is 60 dollars, there are 335; of companies and individuals who produce articles to the value of more than 500 each, there are 41; '000 persons are engaged in fishing, and the annual produce of their la bor is there are 120 Turpentine makers, not enumerated above, who produce annually 812,000. Common Schools. The number of teachers 13: scholars, 906; money expended 81,489 92. Taxes. The tax of the county including that for railroad subscription is 811,742 20.

Church Statistics. There are 11 M. K. Churches with seats to accommodate 3,300, aggrje gate value seven O. Baptist, seats for value three "Missionary Baptist, Keats 700; value 8800; one Bible Baptist, seats 300; value 8400; one Free Will Baptist, seats 20U; value 8250; and one P.

E. Church, 400: value $4000. There are in all 24 Church buildings, capable of seating 6,800 persons, the aggregate value of which is 814,900. These general statistics compare very favora bly with those of 1850 and show a gradual but ima rnv increase ii: iwuuiauuu, icBuuira, u-v The comparjson we will make in a subsequent is 8UC. Beanjort tn ion nanner.

Wilson County. Thepopulation of Wilson coun ty, N. is by the census ot iou, whom 3 316 nrp. slaves. Ihe town ot Wilson contains 750 inhabitants, of whom 200 are slaves The county of Wilson last year produced about three thousand bales ot cotton.

nit. uuurnai. a $12,000 N'orth Carolina State bonds sold in New York on Monday at 98. $4,000 Virginia at 90. lea The Great Union Meeting in New York was held at and in the neighborhood of Cooper Institute on Monday evening last.

The Journal of Commerce estimates the number present at 30,000, and says that "The demonstration was one of the largest, and in all respects the most brilliant which has enlivened this- Presidential campaign. And one of the most wonderful things about it was, that from first last there was not a sign of disturbance. Every one present appeared to be profoundly impressed with the importance of the occasion." The Times Republican) says it was "an immense gathering," a "Monster Fusion meeting," and that "strong Union speeches were made by James W. Gerard, Samuel J. Tiluen, Charles O'Connor, John Cochrane, Hiram Walbridge, Theodore E.

Tomlinson, and others. The demonstration outside was one of the largest yet held iu the vicinity." Is He for Bell or Lincoln? A question having been raisei in the Kentucky press with regard to the political preferences of the Hon. James Guthrie, late Democratic Secretary of the Treasury of that State, Mr. G. has published a letter in which he states that, soon alter the nominations of Mr.

Douglas and Mr. Breckinridge by the divided Democracy, he declined to pledge himself to the support of as he did npt consider either of them the regular nominees of the party. Ma. Bell's Record. The Democralic papers in this and other States have been publishing "a Review" of Mr.

Bell's public career, made up from the Nashville Tenn.) Union, (not the National Union.) Its general character may be inferred from the fact that one of its most serious charges is against Mr. Bell's course on the Compromise measures of 1850, it being alleged that he voted with the fanatics of the North against the South. But it is shown that the Nashville which now assails him for his course then, did in 1853'eo far approve of that course as to express it satisfaction that Mr. Bell was re-elected to the U. S.

Senate rather than any other Whig, and moreover that Mr. Bell owed his election then, iu 1853, to Demociatic votes, there being a contest between him and another Whig. Now can it bo believed that if Mr. Bell had been false to the South iu 1850, the Democrats would have voted in 1853 to send him back to the Senate? or that the Nashville Union would not have assailed him then, as well as now, lor his faithlessness? The whole story is evidently trumped up. IUsumon.

A public meeting in St. John's Parish, Santee, South Carolina, on the 29th unanimously resolved, 'That we will support every and auy measure that may lead us successfully out of the Union peaceably if we can; torcibly if we must. "That the election of a Black Republican President, upon avowed sectional grounds, would demand the with Urawnl uf every slavehulding State from a Confederacy which is so hostile to their institutions, and subversive of their very existence. "That we would regard the revival of the African slave trade as a measure calculated to strengthen our position, politically and socially, and the best means of sustaining our agricultural prosperity. "That as a measure of retaliation to the State legis lation OKthe North, in nullifying Ihe Fugitive Slave law.

we' would regard counter legislation, affording oro- j- 1 lection to their citiiens engaged in the importation of Atricalns wuhin their as not only expedient, but justifiable, among the slave States NOTICE. A Bargain and no Mistake! ON THURSDAY 18th ot me place on which I now live will be offered for bale, known as the McALISTER place, containing 400 acres of land This land is all good farming land and is pronounced by good judges to be superior to any in the neighborhood, It lies in Richmond county, 34 miles from Fayetteville, ii miles from Laurel HH1, 1, mile from Spring Hill church 3 miles from Montpelier church, within nine miles of the Wilmington, Charlotte Rutherford Rail Bond, and in as good a neighborhood as there is any where. Any person wishing a bargain, will do well to come to the gale. Sale positive; terms made known on day of sale. M.

N. CAMPBELL. Richmond County, Oct. 5. 69-2t nesbee Wj.

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