Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1853-09-10
CHARGE D,AFFAIRs no ECUADOR

of charge d. Affairs at Ecuador and correspondent
again calls attention to it by reminding us that
although Mr.. White has spent the most OF his life
at the South and West he is well known to our Older
inhabitants, as native of Whitestown, in this coun
/ ty and many of whom feel just pride in the dis
4 tincton conferred upon him by the President. Our
correspondent who is an old and warm personal
friend of the Charge, furnishes us with full
sketch of his career, since leaving this county, from
which we cheerfully extract the following:
GO Having enjoyed the usual advantages of an Eng
liSh education with smattering of the classics, at
the Academy in his native town, under the nstruc-
ton of that eminent Preceptor the late Rev. Luther
Hasey, and his successor, the new Charge acquired
the balance of his " education preparatory to en-
terng upon the active duties of manhood and assum
ing the responsibilities of public life in the same
class of institutions as that at which the illustr
Gus philosopher, DIR. Franklin graduated, to wit :
the Democratic Printing Office that fourished in
Utica during our second war of independence
AS an incident in his early career, foreshadowlng
his future and character, it may be stated that
he early sgnazed his devotion to his country and the
democratic party, by enrolling himself among the
militia levies in the autumn Of 1914, although but
STRIPPING at the time, and serving out campaign
the frontiers while the hosts of powerful enemy
were menacing our borders.
Migrating South at an early age he located in the
interior of North Carolina, in 1920 There, guided
by the counsels of that eminent democrat, the Hon.
Charles Fisher he adopted the vocation of an editor
aprofesson and assuming, in due time, the respon-
sbitcs of matrimonial life, his future fame and for
mocracy of that State Here he continued success
fully conduct the Westers Cdroiniq at Salisbury,
which proved efficient auxiliary to the democratic
partyS until 1880, when General jackson conded to
him the responsible office of United States Navy
Agent, for the Pacific Station Continuing in the
discharge of the duties of that appointment during
three or four years, he returned home in 1884 and
in the latter part of the year he established
the North Carolina Standard, at Raleigh, the seat
of the State Government, which paper Immediately
became and continues to this day, the organ and
able exponent of the Democracy of that State.
At the first session of the Legislature after the
establishment of the Standard by Mr.. White he was
elected State Printer" by majority of six votes
over the Messrs. Gales and all others, and continued
to occupy that position until he declined the HONOR
when, mainly through his influence and his practi-
cal information on the subject the system of an
elective public printer abolished and annual con-
tracts for executing the State printing resorted to-
Through the energy the TACT and the talent of the
Editor of the STANDARD, that paper exercised in
fluence powerful and diffusve among the masses in
the Presidential canvass of 1886, and conce-
ded by all parties at the time contributed more than
any other agency to give the electoral vote of that
State to the then democratic candidate for the Pres
idency. So pervading, indeed, the sentiment
among the democracy throughout the State to the
value of the services of the Editor of the Standard
during the campaign, that at the assembling of the
Electoral College in December, of which body that
patriarch of democracy Nathaniel Macon,
was the presiding officer, Mr.. White unanimous
ly chosen Special Messenger, to convey the official
record of the Electoral vote to Washington City, al
though many other democrats of great personal worth
and political influence, aspirants for the Office
At early period of the Territorial existence of
Wisconsin, Mr.. White removed thither, and adopted
that as his future home. And the democratic mem
berS of the Legislature of that rising State,
their recommendation of him to the President of the
United States, "bear cheerful testimony to his
Unable character citizen his high standing, and
talents public man, and to whole
political life of answering adherence to the party
and the principles of the democracy of the Nation"
The members further remark that "fcw ifany ofthe
leading democrats of the State have laborcd more zeal
ously and efficiently, than Col. White Whether as
democratic editor, member of the Council
Of the Territorial Assembly, Senator in the State
Legislature, Member and President of the Eecto
raj College of 1852, in the divers other posts of
trust and responsibility that have been devolved up
on him, -he has Away occupied prominent posi-
ton among those who have contributed most largely
Of their talents and their means"
And may here remark, in continuation, that
since Mr.. White became resident of Wisconsin, he
has held Pursershp in the Navy, but which office
he voluntarily resigned after some years duty
in that branch of public service. He was also hon
Ored with appointment to an important Consulate
in Europe, by the late President Polk the duties of
which he discharged acceptaby those holding bus
mess relations with the consular Office yet he
recalled from that post by the Wing administration
in 1S49.
We will conclude this brief notice of some of the
incidents of Gen. Whites public career, by express
ing the hope and belief that he will discharge the du
ties of his last appointment with credit to himself
the Government. His familiarity with the idom and
institutions of Ecuador and his past success give
the best assurances of this" Utica Observer.
PATENT MEDICINE ADVERTISEMENTS. We are glad
to perceive a disposition the part of the press to
make the Patent Medicine pay as much for adj
vertsing their nostrums merchants mechanics,
and business generally for advertising their bus
mess. We should think these medicine men might !
deem themselveshappy to be placed on equal footing
with the friends and neighbors of publishers lat
somehow many publishers advertise these nostrums
for almost nothing-a large portion of them cheats
and humbugs-while they charge their neighbors
regular prices. We know not how they reconcile it
to their conscicnces but fully of opinion not
to be mealymouthed about it, that it is not honest
Of course do not blame the advertisers for get
ting their advertisements inserted low possible
The fault is with publishers The advertisers all get
princely fortunes-and publishers would
starve if they worked for their friends and neighbors
1T the same rates they do for these nostrum men,
An agent of a Patent Medicine House in New |
York called upon week or two ago, showed us |
an advertisement and requested that should write
to his house stating terms for inserting it one
year. We did so, and in due time received an an
swer offering just ta00.1stths of what asked,
and that after had stated to them expressly that
we had given them our lowest rates. Now all the !!
harm wished the proprietors of that house, when |
we read their letter, was that they should be
PEELED to take their own medicines
We inform them, and all such, that they can
not get their pills, syrups, &C., advertised in any pa