The North-Carolinian. [volume] (Fayetteville [N.C.]) 1839-1861, 1855-06-09

quesllom the sincerity or accuracy OF Coiicha,s
sta teinents. The facts may be as he has stated
them bnt stiil We are inclined to believe ti,at
the presenee of weli-appointed mi. .esn
Squadron the Gut, nIder The cemmaufl or 4
cool eecioes esltar md det1r mined
tious opposition conccde to an administration
which has shown equally vgor, promptitude, and
success in maintaining the honor of our flag
abroad and i'll repressing lawess expeditions
at home
SIx-wEEKs' Corn, OR FoRrY-pAys' MAIzE.-
There have been received at the Patent Office
several bushels of forty-days' maize or Indian
corn, from the south 'of Spain, reported to ri
pen in six weeks after planting 1t is design
ed to be distributed for experiment in the high
er ATTITUDES of the United States, as well as on
the elevated districts of the Allegheny and
Rocky mountains. From its analogy to some
of our own varieties of corn, there is proba-
bity of its succeeding in any Of the warmer
parts of the country.
Locrsrs Loc| Isis !-These strange and
occasional intruders, have made their appear
ance among us again. They not so formi-
dabe in size or numbers they were said to
have been on the occasion of their, last vista
| ton Of this country. In the valleys of the
Swannanoa, the Catawba and the Iadkin they
have appeared in considerable force, and hogs
are flttenInT upon them UnclE, IL is SdNt.-
AMeralc Spectator. -. ...--....--s-
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
| Every trucuent, tme-serving politician eve
ry shackely, good-for-nothing popularity y-liun-
ter thinks it a safe game to join in the ont-cry
against Franklin Pierce and his administration,
and for that reason, if for no other, we feel
that Franklin Pierce's administration must,
upon the whole, have been bighminded, honora
| BILE land national The denunciations of the
Interested and unprinciplcd about
strong endorsements as the praises of the good
and deserving We don't know-nay, we hard
ly think that Franklin Pierce would accept a
second nomination. but we do say that if he
keeps on as he has started, for him
against the field. That he has made slight er-
rorz in appointments we are willing, to admit
to have appointed Tom or Tom where he ought
to have appointed Harry; but if So these things
mainly affect Tom, Dick or Harry, while the
great principles which undcrIie his policy affect
the whole people of the country, and that poll
cy has been all that Southern men have right
to ask for UH Journal
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The RECENT EARTHQuAKE IN JApAN-We
have already given an account of a terrible
earthquake in Japan, aud the loss Of the Rus
sian frigate Diana. Another account says:
'.Of about 1000 houses in Smoda, but o
were left standing, IN they were all more OF
less shattered During the height of the. scene,
a large junk dashed against the Diana's
bows, and split i'll two; ropes were thrown to
the to themselves, but in blind obedi-
ence to the authorities, which forbids q Ja-
panese to go Oh board of an outsider without
permission, they refused to avail themselves of
any means OF safety, and sank with their vessel
Some two hundred lives We're lost
Nothing could exceed the kindness shown by
the Americans to the Russians; the Powhatan
furnished them with provisions for three months,
fclothes and necessaries, many of the officers
giving away everything they had to their suf
fering brother sailors. Capt. McCluuey, of the
| Powhatan, offered them every assistance, and
rendered them Il. passage to Shanghai. This
act of national courtesy was highly appreciat ted
by the Russian Admiral, but respectfully de-
clined as it would place them in the power of
the English and French -a.
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PRESBYTERIAN GENERAL. AssEMBLY.--In the
New School Presbyterian General Assembly,
| sitting at ST. Louis, while the report CT the
Committee on Slavery was under discussion,-
Rev Mr. Caldwell, of Tenne essee, said that he
| came to the Assembly in the hope that the
unity of the Church would he preserved. If
the report had been such that the South could
appreciated the feeling which induced this yearly
/ agitation. But he could never assent to a report
! which implies a charge that slavery is sinful.
1 We have been told that there is no right to a
slave but a stolen right But what is the origin
of slavery7 Did it not come from the North?
lie did not think II at all true Or falf tn1t every
man holding this relation should be pronounced
manstealer, or an oppressor We are not
oppressors. The spirit foppressoni as foreigf
to the temper of the South; as to any men OF
Garth Instances of as disnterested and self
sacrificing benevolence in behalf of slaves, exis
there, as can be found in all human history: H.
could point to one on this floor who had i'm
povershed himself to benefit his slaves. ii
, hoped the General Assembly will never oommi
itself to the false principle that slavery is sinfu
per Sc. What has been done heretofore ha
only done injury If the South had been lie
alone, not few of the States now oppresse,
with slavery would have been free States Man
begin to think that the Assembly itself is nothing
d but evil. The influence which flows dow
from these repeated discussions upon our church
es, is inexpressby unhappy-dividing AM
crippling them in every way.
Rev. Mr. C. C.spoke with great fuency an,
animation, and not without some warmth. Il
$ the course of his long and impassioned speech
q q he adverted to most of the usual topics in issu
h between the opponents Al nd defenders of slavery
b His fne elocution and evident good nature, a
t we'll as occasional dashes Of humor, conciliatet
the Assembly, whatever their impression of tn
truth Or fairness of his positions.