The North-Carolinian., 1850-07-06


prices. In Flour moderate business is doing.
Corn is heavy; Wheat unchanged Rice is firm !;
Coffee dull. In Provisions but little doing
Dates from Monrovia, Africa, have been re-
celyed to the 18th, which represent the Colony
quadron are all we'll.
New ORLEANS, June 81.
The Chagres steamer Guadalquiver was dis
covered to be on FIRE yesterday, and her cabin
destroyed, and the furniture and machinery
| injured. Queen Christina owns $40, GOO in her.
The Delta defers its promised disclosures reia-
tive to the Cuban invasion.
The intellig gence from Santa Fe has occasioned
great excitement in Texas. Public meeti ngs
have been held at Austin and other places, and
extra eession Of the Legislature is probable.
The rivers in Texas have been much swollen,
the low grounds overAowed. and the crops
injured
All sections of the Mississippi river are
rapidly falling.
We deem it advisable to repub!sh at this
iuncture, the following article from the Carroll
nian of lS4s:
HON DAVID S. REID. the demo-
cratic candidate for Governor OF North
Carolina, is, as his political opponents
readily admit, ''w worthy man.: he is a
democrat from principle; and by nature he
entertains those feelings which prompt
every lover of freedom to look upon his
felIow-,men as entitled to enjoy equal pri-
| vileges under the laws which govern all;
to have an equal voice in making those
| laws; aud due influence in deciding as to
" who shall be promoted to eaecute the laws.
No republican for we hold that hundreds
Of the whig party are ti-republicans,
which no man can doubt who watches them
Closely need know more than the fact that
SIR Reid is democrat, and always has
been IA democrat; so firm that no ties Of
| kindred could swerve him from his devo-
ton to those principles Of government, Or
induce him to abandon for $ filthy Iucre,"
or the smiles Of pride and power. the great
end and aim of democratic principles.
But if it is required that the public
should know more than this, we doubt not
that Mr. Reid has so lived, and conducted
himself in his transactions ct private l'te,
that he is as willing to challenge the scru-
tiny of the people in this respect. as he is
to invite the discussion of the relative
claims to republicanisln. OF wings and
democrats. 1t We are correctly informed,
he has not been nursed in the lap OF wealth,
nor reared by the sickIy hand of luxury.
He stands forth the architect Of his own
reputation a worthy" example OF what
| industry and perseverance can accomplish,
| III a democracy or government OF the
people. where merit, and not wealth and
blood" is the only qualification neces-
sary to honor and trust. To that honor
and that trust, Mr. Reid has fairly won his
way. The people of his Congressional
district have twice honored him with enc
of the mos; important trusts OF represen
tative governmert-the second time by
largely increased majority.
In the Assembly of his native State, he
has shown that he is capable of represent
ing free people. He was there we'll
| weighed in the balance, and moi found
wanting. Not even the ties Of friendship.
nor self-interest could make him g i've one
vote against the will of those he was re-
presenting. We refer to that session of
the Legislature when the Hon. Robert
Strange aud the Hon. Ihos. Settle were
candidates for the senate of the u. States,
aud the vote of Mr. Reid turned the scale
although Mr. Settle was his relatlon-and
more, his best friend-he betrayed not the
trust that had been reposed in him he
voted that democrat should be entrusted
with the interests Of North Carolina, in
the Senate, in preference to even his friend
and relative of opposite politics. And Is
| there republican in n. Carolina who
! rightly appreciates the representative
character. who does not love and honor
David S. Reid for that vote Not one
we hope.
A learned man was writing to a friend
a troublesome fellow stood beside him,
who was looking over his shoulder at what