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caught. Constantinople can oppose no successful
resistance to any Russian demand. She is already
in the tolls. We do not know thai this would be a
result to be deplored. The Russian people is one
of progress--slow it may be, but still OF progress.
The Turks in state Of torpor, moral, physical
and political. Their subjugation by the Russians
might hasten the deliverance, and advance the civ
ilization Of both people-Rich HKiy.
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G5- 1t is true, that the present senior Editor Of
the Spectator was opposed 10 some Of the doctrines
Of President JACKSoNs Proclamation and also to the
force Bill which followed it. lie has not found
reasons sufficient TO change those opinions. How
comes it the Editor of the indicator does not .'ye
collect that the Democrats 10 man, on that occa
sion, sustained that celebrated Proclamation and
the force Bill too. Perhaps he was too young
in 1892 to recoect this part of the matter. 1t is
also true, that the present senior Editor of this pa
per, was opposed to South Carolina Modification
as palpabe absurdty-he thinks the same way
now. Equally opposed 10 Virginia Notification,
dsunion revolution for any reasons given in sup
port Of Conway's Resolutions. he repudiaies these
last, not only upon their merits as a whole, but be
cause Of his continued adherence of that same force
Bill, or any other
Let us just say in the ear of this consistent Edi-
Tor, it may be well that Gen. JACKSON has passed
from the Stage Of action, for otherwise, upon the
happening Of a certain contingency, on the dark side
of which he has arraycd himsolC-Scorr and his
cohorts might come again.
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CHAPLANs AND SCHOOL MAsTERs.-The Wat
Department have appointed Chaplains and School
Masters for San Francisco and Monterey, in Cali
tornla, Santa Fe and Ell Passo in New Mexico, for
Fort Laramie, on the Oregon route, for Fort Kear-
ney, 22O miles above Fort Leavenworth, and for
fifteen other military posts. The last Congress au-
thorIzed ten additional Chapains and School Mas
tiers. They are allowed $40 month and four ra-
lions day, and must teach the children of officers
and Of enlisted men.
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o. We learn that the Board of Public Works
have elected Col. CRozEr Engineer of the Noun
tain Section Of the Railroad. and ne is now on an
expedition TO examine the recent improvements in
tunnelhng. As soon as he returns the work will
be let ont to contractors
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CANADA-Private accounts from the eastern
townships, represent the people as (norally speak
ing) up in in regard to the bill for paying re-
belon losses.
Numerous meetings still continue 10 be held in
various parts of Upper Canada
In Bellvllle WIN. Lyon Mackenzie, but for his
speedy departure, would have been ridden on rail.
The Toronto papers are warmly engaged in dis
cussing the question ofannexaiion to the U. States
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We are happy to inform our friends Of the Staun-
ton Spectator that the Senior Editor of this paper
is not candidate for seat in the next House Of
Delegates. Some Of his too partial friends propos-
ed him in one Of the papers Of This place, but has
never had the Gaintest idea Of being candidate
We thought our friends Of the Spectator knew him
better than TO suppose he would place himself in a
position of antagonsm to regular Wing nonina-
tion- Havttrsbrg Gazette
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HOUSE OF DELEGATES,

.. 10, we arc authorized to announce HuoH w. SBEr-
FEW, ESQ., Candidate for re election to the House
of Delegates.
o. We are authorized to announce Mai. J. MAR
SHALL McCuE, as Candidate for reelection to the
House of Delegates.
0c- We are authorized to announce Col A ARMSTRONG
RANKIN, as candidate for in the next House of
Delegates.
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The number Of applicants for Office is said TO be
less than has been witnessed under any change Of
Administration within the last twelve years. and
:heir responsibility is equally marked. When men
possessing high claims political favor, and second
ed with the most updOubed evidence of competency
and fitness for the positions to which they aspire,
are brought before the cabinet, lis members may
well hesitate in making selections, and il they are
not prompt in meeting the public demand some al
lowance ought to be made for difficulty of dscfim-
inatiOn between preeDsions which may be properly
pronounced as almost equally meritorious.
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SUIcIDg.-We understand HAT negro man be-
forging to a Mr., BRowN, WIN resides in the neigh
bornood Of the North Mountain, committed suicide
on Sunday last, by hanging himself The rope
was so arranged as to give him fall Of ten feet,
and to leave him suspended in the air. ten feet from
the gruuad.
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Mr.. Fulton, ofVirgnia, (says the Alexandria Ga
zette) on his return homo from Congress, addressed
his late constituents. lie says that Gen. lay Tor
will have no government organ" to sound the
praises OF the Administration. When official no
tees are necessary TO be made, they will be publish
ed in the National Integencer. This is all right,
and Just as the people desire.
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FATHER MArHEw-'The great Irish Apostle OF
Temperance, in answer TO an invitation from Gen.
S. F. Cary TO attend the National Jubilee in this
city on the 18th Of May, states that his health hav
ing been restored, ne will embark for the United
States some time during the month of April Gin
Chronicle.
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-SIE A " ~ IN O Ns@.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL a, IS4o.
CANDID DATES,
CONGRESS.

03- We arc authorized to announce JAMES Mellow
ELL Esq, as Candidate to represent the District
dleton, Hardy, Augusta and Rockbridee in the next
Congress of the United States
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o. Col. HAMTRAMcK, who was announced as a
candidate for Congress in the 10Th District, has
withdrawn from the Canvass.
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MIR. CALHOUN'S ADDRESS AND THE
CONWAY RESOLUTIONS.

The Vindicalor labors hard to exricaie itself from
the inconsistency, not 10 say absurdty, of its posi-
ton in opposing the late delegates on account of
their vote against Conway's resolutions, and al the
same time supporting Gov. McDowELL, as can
didate for Congress, who refused lie sign Mr.. CAL
houn's Address.-But all its efforts are of no avail
1t will be admitted by every intelligent and can
did man that the spirit and tendency Of the Ad-
dress and of the RosoutiGrs are the same As We
remarked las week, the same mind might have
dictated both-and in fact they proceeded from the
same source, the ultra Southern School of politics
No sane man could disarprove OF tee sentiments of
the one without disappearing OF the other also
In declining to sign the Address, therefore, Gov.
Mcdowell az emphaticay expressed his dsap-
probation of the Resolutions as if he had been a
member of the Virginia Legislature and cast his
vote against them. "He had many objections to
the Address," says the Vindicator, ''not the least
Of which was apprehension for the perpeuity of
the Union, if Mr. CALHOUN sectional views were
carried out" Fbr the very same reason mainly,
we, and representatives in the Legislature, and
a large majority of the people Of the County, have
opposed the Conway Resolutions because they
equally with the Address, were revolutionary and
tended to srbvert the Union.
| But the Governor COMMENDED that any action in
regard to the subject OF the restriction of Slavery in
the Territories, should originate with The Legsla-
lures of the Southern States in their legislative ca
paclty, and not with The Congressional representa-
tive in his individual capacity according
to the indicators reasoning, ne mast haveapprov-
ed of Conway's Resolutions. Fine logic, truly =
Any one else would rather conclude, from all the
Governors reasons for opposing Mr.. Calhoun 5 Ad-
dress, that ne would have preferred resolutions, if
any, such as Thomas, for which our representa-
lives voted.
The mind Of the indicator is either confused
and he does not the true ISSUE or he is endeav-
oring to divert the attention Of the public from it,
The issue is, are the Address and the Resolutions
identical in character? All our readers are com
peent to decide this for themselves. If there be
the identity for which we contend, then Gov. Nc
DowELL, in condemning the first, condemned the
second, and the man, Wing or Democrat, who finds
nothing to dsapprove of in his course and yet re-
| fuses to vote for Messrs. SHEFFEY and McCUE, on
account Of their vote on Conways's Resolutions, is
guilty Of gross and ridiculous inconsistency.
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The Kentucky Legislature, during its recent ses-
sion passed six hundred and seventy one acts, and
fourteen joint resolutions. Among the acts were
one hundred and ninety-six granting divorces a
pretty respectable number for one session.
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CONGRESSIONAL ELECTION.

The Congressional election in this State will
take place on Thursday, the Goth day of April
Our readers, by reference to the following table,
will see who are the candidates Of both parties
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NOTICE.

Circumstances will prevent "my being heard,,on
Thursday Evering.-The Lecture is therefore post
poned. j. NJ. LATHAM.
April 4, 1S49
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ARSENIC in large quantities has been discovered
in Chesterfield county, and EwoRY in Gray5on
county Va
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CORRESPONDENCE.
Col. n. Rankin

SIR "A number Of your friends wish
10 know whether you will consent 10 run "a , can
didae to represent in part the people Of Augns,, in
the nsxt House Of Delegates. If YOU will conssn,
ee pleased to reply by the bearer, so that YOUR
friends may have you announced without d.,,
We regard you as a republican in the tru,
ceptation of the term--devoted to our rights =. "a
cured To us by the federal compact and in man
ways suited to represent us according to the true
principles Of our government.
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The SELLING QUESTION sETTLED.-The contro-
versy which has for some time past been going on
between Harper & Brothers and portion of the
Northern press, in regard to their altering the spell
ling of Macauley's England, has been finally settled.
letter has been received from the historian him
self, IN which he notices the fact that Webster's
style had been substituted for that of the native
English authorities but as the difference does not
affect either The substance or style of the work. he
does not consider himself personally aggrieved II
his American readers are only satisfied, that is ali
he desires.
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The Legislature of New York has determined 10
exterminae all claw latin" from legal proceedings.
The effect Of this movement was seen in The Court
Of Common Pleas, in New York city, by the recital
of recent act of the Assembly which says Where
a defendant is about 10 leave the State, whereby
the rights of the plaintiff may be impaired, an or
der of No Go may be granted, and this shall be a
substitute for the writ heretofore known as the writ
of ne. ereGt." This rev legal expression ''No Go"
called up such udicrous association Of ideas, from
the vulgar Specification hitherto attached to it, that
the whole Bar burst into laughter.
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A WORKING RgPREsENrATIvE.-The Chicago
Covenant alludes TO the pilgrimage which Mr.. Bow
ron Representative in the Wisconsin Legislature,
has to undertake when he is called to take his seat
The St. Croix settlement is accessible in Summer by
way of the Mississippi and the st. Cyoix rivers, by
boats. In the Winter it is bound in by vast re-
gion of snow and ice Mr.. Buwron's residence is
about three hundred miles from the capial-iwo
hundred from Prairie du Chen by the most direct
route. To reach the capital at the opening of the
session, he left home about the Oath of December,
time peculiarly inhospitabe for that angry season.
travelled ten days in snow from twenty inches to
two feet deep without meeting human habitation,
and sleeping nine successive nights in the open air.
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cot. FREMoNr-A DISTRESSING REPORT

The Philadelphia papers received last night con-
tain the subjoined painful intelligence relating to
Col. Fremont and his party, which we are sure
VIII be read with melancholy interest by many Of
our citizens, who, besides great personal regard for
Col. Fremont, feel deep interest in the success Of
his enterprise The latter part of the story is evil
IDENTITY mere rumor Wat. Int.
ST.. LOUIS, March &c, IS49.
Intelligence from Santa Fe to Feb. Cd has been
received at Independence, Missouri The Repub-
lIcan contains letters from Taos which represent the
winter as having been very severe that Col FIRE.
mont, while passing through one of the mountain
gorges, lost so mules in one night
Being then left on foot he came to the conclusioo
that was impossible to proceed further and finally
no dispatched three men TO seek the neait st settle
ment and procure succor. This party not returning
In twenty days, Col. Fremont started himself for
aos' distant sou miles, where he arrived in nine
days.
Maj Beale Immediately dispatched party of
Dragons. with mules and provision, to relieve Col.
Fremonl's men, Col. Fremont, though much O.
maciated and worn out by anxiety and the depriva-
Ions to which he had been subjected accompanied
the Dragons
The sulierings of the party are represented TO
have been SO very great that they even reduce
ed to the necessity OF flooding upon the bodies Of
:heir comrades.
MIR. Greene, who brought this news to Indepen
dence, lett Santa Fe several days after its publica-
ton.
Later reports say that all of Col Fremont's par.
ty persisted except HIMSELF and he is badly frostbit
ten.
Our correspondent at independence expresses
doubts to the correctness of this news but we do
| not see with what reason.
LATER-A Telegraphc despatch, dated at St.
Louis on Thursday last, mentions the receipt at
that place of advices from Santa Fe to the 25th Of
February, from which we are gratified to learn OF
the safety of Col. Fremont and most of his CORDS of
brave and hardy adventures. The substance OF
the despatch is as follows:
/ Col. Fremont had arrived at Santa Fe. on his
way to California, intending to take Cookies route.
! lie lost eleven men in the mountains the names Of
only three of whom are given, viz: Mr.. Wise, Of
81 Louis, and MeSsTs. King and Preuss, the latter
from this city.
Col. Fremont did not reach the top of the Noun
tslns. He was compelled TO retire TO the valley.
where snow fell to the depth of about forty feet, COW
ering up all his outfit and killing all his mules
Leaving the valley, he took to the hills and sent
out party 10 obtain relief, giving them stated pc
rod within which to return but, failing to do So
Col. f. himself started after them, overlook them
in six days. proceeded to Taos, and finally the sur
vlvoIs relieved.
| Col. Fremont was furnished with new outfit
! by the United States quartermaster and commissa-
ry, by order of Major Beall and, when last heard
| from, he was -, getting on without difficulty,
and was expected TO be in California in thirty DAYS
! 'TuR SELLING QUESTION sETTIrD Tho contro
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PLANK ROAD CHARTER,

As we expected the last days Of the Legislature were
80 crowded with business. that charter Tor tho Plank
Road from this place tho North Carolina line togoth
or with many other important Bills was not reaohsd,
and that Body has adjourned without passing it. This
is source of decpos, ogrc to tho friends of the meas
urc, and may result ultimately in preventing lis con.
strucon However, we hope that the public spirited
citizens, who have favored the enterprise will not lot
tho feeling abato but will ake steps 10 prosecute the
work. Notwithstanding the misfortune of working with
out tho charter. Believing we do that ths future
commercial existence Of Gumdon depends upon some
speedy improvement Of the Roads, to entice trade, sup.
por, our market and 10 feed our Railroad our people
would bo we'll warranted in taking subscriptions. rails
ing funds. organizing tho Company. and proceeding
forthwith work, expecting from tho next Legislature
suc, a charter as may he needed. lflhe Road is
ever 10 be built, il is clear that should bo built
early possible. We arc not prepared 10 sny whether
ur not there is sufficient public sprj, among our people
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THE ELEGISLATURE.

This Body adjourned on Wednesday The 18th in
stant after passing IS Acts. Those OF general
public interest are few bat highly important. viz
to alter the law in relation TO slaves hiring their
own time; to amend the law in relation to the rights
of sureties, giving them the rights as the ere
ditor when they pay the debt; TO amend the law fn
relation to lien of Judgmenis-to apportion the
Representation Of the Staic,-and TO alter the Lii
eense Laws ofthe State. The opponents Of grog-
cries will bc grali6cd with the provisions OF this
lust, known as Mr.. Tuppcrs Bill, which strikes
deadly blow against that ruinous system Of liqusr
traffic 1t may not be al that the srils Of grog-
shops called for, but it is as strong as the Legisa-
ture was prepared to adopt.
1t provides that no license to se liquor hereal-
ter shall be granted to any one, who does not keep
a Tavern. The applicant i, required to produce
certificates that lie is prepared to entertain with
comfortable lodgings certain number OF travellers
and 10 feed and stable certain number Of horses
befrs ~ gets the license, and for the least VIOLA
,on or ,uv of II, features, the penalties are made
very stringent and heavy.
We trust that the oprrs.iuns Of the La" VIII
prove beneficial, and that il vii! bo fully Sns-a'nco
by the people Of the State,
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Gs,oo, E,Ltorr, q. Co.. Publrshers have placed on
our table their now annual icr 1850. "Thc Poets OF.
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and enbellished, edited by Mrs. SARAH J. HALE we
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From the oxamination we have boon abls TO givs il,
we adopt the language Of the Pcface which apay do.
scribes tho hook, "Thc beautiful illustrations oly
a faint reflection from tho exquisite beauties Of
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est in aspiration is here represented specimens Of The
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piety-a that has most deeply alfred thA soul of he
Anglo Saxon for the last thre hundred ysaFs, j.
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est genius Of ar, We havo, in this bopk brought 70,
gehor tho thoughts and scuimenls Of The two kindred
nations, whose ono languagp is now spoken in every
quarter Of The globs and whose raener pervads, lhs
worldly The work oup be found for sale al A. Yonsys
g. Co. All county merchants and buyers Of book.
that Wait Philadelphia would do we'll to call upon Grigx
Elliot, &, Co.. Publishes.
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CONGR ESS.

Our readers arc aware Of the Great difficulty expert
enced in tho House, in ooclIng Speaker, by reason
Of tho balance of power being in tho hands Of u tsw
Free Solers. Being determined 10 elect ono OF their
party they always manage 10 cast their votes 40 ~ TO
Prevent tho election Of any Southern man. Many hot
and threatening speeches have been made during the
ballotnu, aud dsunonism was fully discussed and do
tenined on by Southern Dcegacs in slavery in the
District Of Columbia or in the Territories was abolished
and nlerfcred with unlawfully
In these debatos, Representatives from South Caro-
lima bore conspicuous part and in speaking ofdcvo.
ton Of States 10 the Union, Mr.. Woodward made n
statement in reply 10 Mr.. Cingman Of N. c., which
il not generally known, that "Suuth Carolina had
Representative in the Convention held in Charlotte IN
May ITS, aud that he.was membor of the Commit.
lee that reported the resolutions declaring lndepcnd'
encc" Letter wri,res from Washington say that these
angry debates in Congress before they are organized
will be follow cd by good results their heated blood
and ultra opinions will havo been COOLED down and
modified by the time they ready for business, and
should they evor succeed In organizing, Members will
proceed calmly to work. carefully avoiding the subject
Of slavery and observing The limits set 10 their zenl-
May it be so. Certainly the North must now believe
the South to bc in earnest in her determination 10 resist
aggression upon hor guaranteed rights and her political
equality.
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sHoRT.sIGHTEp ECONOMY.

Mr. SiMoNs from the Committee on Education. -.
commended 10 the Legislature two resolutions looking
to the improvement, Of the Common School sys.em,
both of which lost. The fsst proposed 10 place
$4,000 in the hands Of the Governor To- employ NJ.
perin.endant, whose duty should 30 10 vi', every
District and correct and report all hedesc,s Of the sys
tenn. The second proposed 10 appropriate 00Q TO be
used by the Governor in procuring suitable tex, books
for common schools Wo believe that tho Represents.
tives from Kerhaw and Lancaster vo,rd against these
important resolutions
II ia astonishing that our Legislature will still cling
10 that old skeleton Of sysem-hat ey'.sore in our
State policy-,hs coInmau schools-and Rol make one
single efor, TO improve it. The Committees on Edp.
cation have reported agaia and again various ehaneca
and alterations. wi,kth hope THAT , Legislature would
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king proper selection of members OF The Le'
gisanre.
Entertaining these views, your 9pmm'thlee
would respectfully submit, the Bill for the cons''
dpratIun nt the House.
GEORGE McC. WITHERSPOON,
X. MOORMAN,
ID. 5. TAYLOR,
WIN. GILES.