The North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1834-1850, 1850-10-02
GENERAL FOOTE.

+. GENERAL FOOTE.
1t is very amusing to observe how people change
their personal estimates of politicians, the latter
shift and change their positions the political board
An instructive lesson may be derived from contem.
plation of these changes. The lesson is this tina,
we may differ from others in opinion without being
justified in impugning the moral honesty or intellec-
tnal sanity OF our opponents.
In this country it is too much the habit to impeach
the hearts ntellects of those who cannot, OF will
not, agree with in views of political subjects.
Political discussions invariably sink into personali-
ties. A sturdy partisan is considered going too
far when he admits the leading of the opposite
ed in their upper story. This would not look 80 bad
it, in the constant changes and fluctuations of parties,
there was not a chance, almost a certainty, that
these very partisans, before they have got to the
end of their row, would be found singing the praises
of the very politicians whom, former PERIOD they
were SO loud in denouncing 1t is therefore, in
fer the best policy to combat the principle and attack
the arguments of the political chief you are opposed
to, but to abstain from imputaons upon the sanity
of their minds or the integrity of their hearts.
The best illustration of the danger of the opposite
custom We have seen for long time, is afforded in
the of our old friend Gen. Foote. We have
known the General long time, as high-minded
tie wayward, and sef-wlled as politician, and ex-
citable as man and speaker. The General came to
this city some years ago, with the view of being ad
mitted to the bar. He was examined about the same
time we were. He was rejected, we were admitted.
He is now Senator, and we poor editor. Despite
this inequality of fortune, (hough in justice to
selves, must state that the General is greatly our
senior in years., have felt interest in the
Generals political career, and have been soely tempt
ed at times to depart from independent neutrality
to defend him against the floods of abuse and scurri
ty which it was much the fashion of some writer's
short time ago to pour upon his head. But the Gen.
eral has had his revenge. These very persons, who
then abused him without stnt are now his tulsome,
eulogists. His course the Compromise bill has
entirely changed his mind, heart, and character. He
is now orator of burning eloquence, singing
casm and powerful nvectve. little while ago, with
these very Same people, he was the clown of the
Senate-a pestent little mischief-maker-a dimnu-
tive cur, swapping at the heels of elephants and wild
buffaoes. His quite creditable, though little ego
s,ica orations, faces, disgracetul to the Sem
ate and his exhibitions of pugnacity truly hu
initiating to all who venerated the Conscrpt Fathers
of the Republic. Now, he is powerful in debate, a
five feet nine Hercules. who every day breakfasts
sts and sups on old Benton, served up with roasted
Chestnuts!
"Oh! what change is here my countrymen! :"
w i'll some one hunt up son.e extracts from the Bull
etin and Crescent upon General Foote, few months,
ago, and compare them with their present views OF
the same distinguished gentleman? ". O. Della.
STRANGE INCIDENTS ATTENDING DEATH. Under
this head the Christian Register relates the follow
ing remarkable incident. We do not think it impro-
per state that the individual referred is the late
Mr.. Greigg, who was lost at Gloucester, Friday,
August 18th, 1850, by the capsizing of boat in a
squall. 1t was at Gloucester, also, the day pre-
vious to this causualty, that his adventure with the
robin occurred and it was at Brighton, in our neigh
borhood, that his family met with similar adven-
ture. Boston Transcript.
The following is statement of facts as they oc-
cured as simple and short as We can make them. 1t
would be easy TO give wide play to sentiment and
fancy, in connection with striking and unusual
occurrence. Superstition might attach to it irrational
fears, or hopes as groundless. We confess we hard
ly know what do with events like these ourselves
breaking in, they do, upon the settled order of
our experience, and startling with some new ex-
cepton to the common course of our observations.
They evidently belong to system of distinct and
Ineligible communication from the other world to
this. 1t is easy imagine satisfactory plan of
spiritual disclosures to which they would be harmo-
niousy adjusted. In that sense they teach nothing,
and yet to US they appear capabe-all inexplicable
and exceptional as they clearly are, and though we
cannot take the first step towards interpreting them
they appear capable of leaving US more pure,
reverentiaI, and more believing than they find US.
We rejoice in religion which does not exclude from
its subordinate combinations the vaguesand most
Ineligible mysteries, forbid creatures less
than human to be humble and dumb witnesses to its
spiritual promises.
gentlemen, with some friends, was lately ramb-
ling the rocks, near the water in of
shore towns. His attention presently attracted
by robin, full grown, and apparently quite unhurt,
running in his path fitting about his feet, and,
trary the proverbiaily shy instinct of that bird,
keeping very near him. He took it up in his hand
ondled it, pated its feathers, and, after showing it
tossed it into the air. The next day, this gentleman,
having put out from the adjacent beach in boat,
with four Others for SALON his return, and when
within sight of land by the capsizing of the boat,
sudden leak sprung in her, was drown ned with all
his companions. His body was recovered and a few
days afterwards was buried, in cemetery some
twenty or thirty miles distant from the scene of the
disaster.
The day after the burial, the grave was visited by
his wife and daughter AS they approached the spot,
they were in hesitation for moment,-not being
familiar with the pace,-whch, of several new-made
graves, was the one they were seeking. At this in
slant a tame but sprghtly robin ran on the ground
before them and stood by them before the grave Of
the husband and father One of them took it up and
caressed it, and after remark about the sngu-
larty If its conduct, let it go-when it flew down,
alighted on the raised mound the grave, and
laid itself close to the earth. The daughter immedi-
ately took it up again, and it was dead.
The Great Western Rail Road, from Niagara Falls
to Detroit, is put under contract, and will be CON-
menced Immediately on the section lying between
Hamilton and London. meeting was held few
days since at the Clifton House, Niagara Falls, al
which all the Directors and majority of the Contrac
tors were present, and the spirit manifested promised
vigorous prosecution and early completion of the
work. The distance of 24O miles from the suspen.
sion bridge at the Falls of Sandwich, the grade o.
the road will be almosta perfect level, except noun
tain at Hamilton. Another remarkable feature of this
road will be directrun of fifty miles, being the long
est tangent of the kind in the world 1t is expected
.ha4 from, Nianara Ealls Nefroif will