Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1855-03-14
ANoTHER FALsEHoop EXPOSED.


Tho readers, especially of the Know Nothing pa
pers, are familiar with the statement that previous
to the late Presidential election propositions
made by Bishop Hughes to Gen. Scott and Gen.
Pierce to the effect that the Catholics would support
either who would agree to confer the most Offices
Catholics; that Gen. Scott agreed to confer a Cabi-
net appointment in consideration of the transfer,
and that Gen. Pierce engaged to go" one better
by comforting both Cabinet and foreign appoint
ment. The result was, as stated, that the bulk of
the Catholics and socaed foreigners voted for Gen.
Pierce.
This statement, we felt confident from the first,
was an Infamous falsehood, and we are enabled now
on the aoord Of Gen. Scott himself to brand it
cordingly. We copy follows from the last Wash
ington Union:
LIEUTENANT GENERAL ScoTr BoMBARDs FALSE
HOOD. Hon. William S. Damrel, the anti-slavery
know-nothng member of Congress from Massachu-
sets, having asserted in his lectures in Cheshire
county that the Catholic vote offered to Gen.
Scott at the late Presidential election, several per-
sons who heard him determined to get at the truth
of the matter and therefore addressed letter to
the distinguished veteran, who returned the follow
ing reply. 1t is clincher:
New YORK, March l. 1855.
GENTLEMEN: have just received, through the
Hon. Mr.. Hubbard NJ c., at w ashington, your joint
letter dated the oath ultimo, in which you say to
that in recent political address, delivered
in your neighborhood and in your presence, the
speaker declared substantially that in the last pres
Dental canvass
"Bishop Hughes, of New York proposed to Gen.
Scott to sell the Catholic vote, who hestated to
ply; when the proposition was made to Gen: Pierce
and accepted, and Jesuit was placed at the head
of the Post Office Department.
''That Bishop Hughes's demands were assented
to by the party to whom he first proposed, except
that it demanded cabinet officer upon which you
hesitated; and the proposition was made to Gen.
ID hoo 1foC1)
And your letter to me is thus concluded:
believing the statement to be false and basely
calumnous of the fair fame of yourself and the other
distinguished gentlemen implicated thereby, we
would respectfully request of you to inform us at
your earliest convenience whether the statement Of
Mr. so far as it relates to you, is true"
hasten to say that the statement or statements
have quoted from your letter, above are, in res
rect to myself, ABSOLUTELY FALSE, and IA0re
doubt they equally in respect to my poll
teal friends and orlonents in the canvass alud-
ed to.
remain gentlemen, with grsat respeet your
This deliberate falsehood has for months been
going the rounds of the opposition press, and is still
one of the prime arguments of those now engaged
in the war upon Democratic candidates and princi-
plas. The miserable SANDER, that the present Post
master General, Hon. James Campbell, was appoint
ed by President Pierce consideration for the
Catholic vote, has already been sufficiently and
trumphanty contradictcd, but cannot too high
ly honor that gallant soldier, General Scott, for
tradicting almost similar accusation i'll regard to
himself, and at the time for expressing his
contempt for, and his disbelief in, the charge
against the President Of the United States and the
Democratic party"
Will the Know Nothing papers of this State
which have circulated this falsehood, come for
ward and take it back? We venture to predict
that they acW rot. What sort of cause must that
he whicl, con he sustained n no other than by
direct and unbushing falsehood?
NAVY REGISTER FOR 1855.
We indebted to the politcncss of Chas. w
Welsh, Esq. Chief Clerk of the Department. for
copy of the Navy Register of the United States for
1865 1t is publication of much interest to all
who look with feelings of pridc-and who does not ?
upon gallant Navy.
OF the ifty-nnc officers in the Navy Department
and Bureaux at Washington, nine, including the
Hon. James C. Dobbin, the enlightened and cncr-
getic Secretery, are from North Carolina, to wit:
L. B. Hardin, W. B. Gulick, John Gilman, j. S.
Robinson, Jr, w. W. Morrison, c. c. Hackett, John
w. Cameron, and S Bulow Erwin
eaxg@ The Wilmington Journal, referring to the
proceedings of the meeting at that place of the
stockholders of the Cape Fear and Deep River Nav
igation Company, says
1.-The official proceedings fthe stockholders meet
ing, which publish to-day, precludes the ncces
sity for further editorial report of the action of that
meeting We need only remark that throughout a
harmoious spirit seemed to prevail, and renewed
interests was manifested in the work, and conf
dence expressed in its ultimate and speedy compile
ton which had existed here for length of time
We trust that all these favorable antcipationS may
be realized. There all the clements of immense
usefulness in the work, both to the people of Will
mngton and those residing along the line, and
halin n he pgIni
these clements are shortly to be brought into The
regular meeting will be held here ON Thursday, the
10Th day of April next"
MR. RUFFIN'S SPEECH.
We are under obligations to the Hon. Thomas
Ruffin, of this State for copy of his speech dev-
cred in the House of Representatives on the 9th of
last month, and devoted mainly to a consideration
of the character and tendencies of Know-Nothing-