Semi-weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1852-1853, 1852-04-03

| VIRGINIA's FAvoRITE. There was no test vote ia
ken in the Convention which could possibly indicate
who the favorte candidate of the members of that
! body for the Presidency. There disposition
on the part of of the delegation to declare the
preference of Virginia, but after consultation it was
deemed ineXpedent to do so, and better suffer the
delegates to the Baltimore Convention go there
trammelled with pledges. 1t was thought to be the
more dignfed and judicous to to the
world the cardinal tenets of the Democracy of the
State, and to select hereafter that for the Pres
dency whose principles were most in unsion with
these doctrines But, notwithstanding, preferen-
ces were formally expressed, yet, from all that we
could learn from intercourse with the members,
we do not hesitate to state that there decided
preponderance among them in favor of the claims of
Mr.. Buchanan. Many advocated the pretensons of
Senator Doug las, but, satisfied if a divicion
could have been taken OF the relative strength of the
two, that the Pennsylvania statesman would have
beaten the s. Young Giant two to There
goodly sprnkling in favor of Gen. Butler, of Ken
lucky. Some gave Com. Stockton the first choice,
and he the second choice of a large number.
Every member would have gladly taken Dickinson,
of New York, but distrust entertained that he
could not carry his State, owing to the peculiar
state of party divisions existing there. Gen. Cass
had but few friends in the Convention and as for
Houston. we did not hear his name mentioned once
while in Richmond.
Norfolk .argns.
GENERAL SCOTT. The friends of Gen. Scott, the
STANDARDIZATION branch of the federal party,
pushing his pretenslons with great vgor Two letters
tons, have lately appeared, which are paIpably
inconsistent with his previously expressed views
to make him appear ridiculous. In he " takes
back - and repudiates his famous Native American
letter, in which he avowed himself in favor of repeal
ing the naturalization laws to entirely preclude
foreigners from voting In the other written in reply
to an invitation to attend celebration of Irish Be-
nevoIent Society in New York, he highly extols the
Irish whom he had before proposed to dlsfranchise,
and says of the thousands of Irishmen who fought
under him in the war of 1912 and the Mexican war,
s. not one was ever known to turn his back upon the
enemy or a friend'' This is a very singular state
for Gen. Scott to make, for his dispatches from
Mexico represent that large number of Irishmen de-
serted him there and Joined the Mexicans under the
famous Riley. Gen. Scott must s. cover his tracks -
a little better than this, he will receive fire in
the that will prove fatal to his aspirations This
letter must have been written while he taking
6 hasty plate of SOUP"
New Hampshire Patriot.
Our CALIFORNIA BoYs.'' A letter has been re-
ceved in this place, understand, from Mr. Richard
Saulter, who, in company with twenty others,
left this place for the land of gold weeks since
Mr.. S. states that '' the boys all well, awaiting
from the 1sthmus to San Francisco
There are or 5000 others in the same predicamenr
He winds up with the remark that if he was in Athens
again he would not California for thous
and dollars
The Cassville Standard of last week contains an
extract Of letter from young formerly of that
place, saying I" for Gods sake, tell the people of
Georgia not to come here.'
The Mountain Signal of late date has letter
from Mr. Whelchel, gentleman of the strlctest in
tegrity beseeching his countrymen remain at home.
And yet, in view of this, and thousand other rea
sons that might be mentioned, there are hundreds of
young men, who are and mi ht continue useful mem
bers of society at home, dissatisfied with their lot,
and anxiously watching for opportunity to 60 to
California 1t they will not be warned 6 even
though should rise from the dead.''
Athens { Ga. Herald.