Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1856-01-26

of the United States before maturity evth at high
premium, the balance in tbs Treasury now woaio
have been about fiftyseyen millions OF dollars Inc
wisdom of this policy is shown both in the saving
Of interest effected thereby and nt the reduction Of
the balance in the Treasury to figure which docs
not affect njurously the business OF the country
The election of Gov Biger to the United States
Sel.ate from Pennsylvania as the successor OF MI.
| Cooper u Wing, and to fill the vacancy, adds an.
other to the Democratic strength in the Senate, and
is realization of the reaction in sentiment through
out the Northern States in favor ofDemocratc prn-
| cipes and Democratic men. year ago and Penn.
| syvana was in the hands of Know NOthings and
Black Republicans, and this combination vas quite
as impotent in the Legislature Of that State as the
same combination is daily showing itself to be in the
House of Representatives. In the former they could
not unite a candidate for the U. S. Senate; ana
in the latter they are utterly unable to effect an Or
gan;zaton AMI elect Speaker, although numbering
| twothrds of the members. year has rolled
| around, the people of Pennsylvania have rebuked
the imbeciles by dspacng them and reinstatlng the
Democracy, and the political machine moves smooth.
| " again. Such is foreshadowing of the general
reaction now in progress, which will certainly re-
| suit in the return of Democratic majority IN the
next House of Representatives, and of Democrat
ic triumph at the Presidential election.
! have before me copies of FL Nicaraguense OF De-
! cember 22d and 29th, published at Granada, con-
tanning several official publications, from which it
| appears that the Walker Government, OF which
President Rivas is the head, has been officially re-
cognized by the Governments of the two Central
| American States of Salvador and Honduras, and
that the Prussian Vice-Consul, DR.. Bernhard has
also opened official communications Herewith, i'm
| plying an acknowledgment of its legally. Hondu-
| ras has appointed Commissioner Manuel Colin
dres, to negotiate treaty between the two States,
| who had already presented his credentials to the
government Guatemala and Costa Rica, the other
| two States embraced within the late Central Ameri-
can Republic, have not yet opened diplomatic rela-
tons with it. Costa Rca, the contrary, seems
disposed to make on Nicaragua. dispute has
long existed between the two States relative to their
respective boundaries Costa RIGA laying claim to
the possession of the San Juan river and the Mos
quito Territory it is probable that this dispute has
quito as much to do with its beligerent attitude as
| its dislike of the Walker government. Walker is
not alarmed at this demonstration, as he has troops
enough under his command to rcpe any force Costa
| RIGA may bring against him. Nicaragua seems al
ready to have settled down into perfect acquies-
| cence in the ORDER Of things improvements are
| going on in Granada, the government is reducing
its operations to order and SYSTEM and every thing
Indicates successful administration OF the govern
| ment.
Private Geographic dispatches have been received
| here from Mississippi, announcing that the Demo
cratic party of the Legislature of that State have
nominated Hon. Jefferson Davis, the present Secre-
tary of War; to the U. S. Senate, the successor
| of Mr.. Adams, whose term expires March 3D. 1857.
Thus this honorable gentleman will step directly
| from the Cabinet of President PIERCE at the close
of this Presidential term into the U. S. Senate.
MECKLENBURG.
For the Standard.
| Editors of the North Carolina Standard:
The following sketch of scene in one of our
County Courts was published several years ago. Its
temperance may raise smile on the faces of some
of our anxious citizens in tn is Of pecuniary
embarrassments and political DISCRIMINATION.
| DAVID PITCHPIPE JESSE NOODLE.
| As good luck would have it three Magistrates of
| the right kidney, ripe for fun, were on the bench
when this called.
| Counsellor g., notorious wag, after looking over
the papers, much after the fashion of peeping
into bone, spoke for honest David and pro-
claimed his readiness for action. The defendant in
| like manner spoke through Counsellor S., and de-
clared himself semper paratus y; and at it they
| went, hammer and tongs.
David Pitchpipe appeared in open court spcct21
Gle we'll calculated to upset the gravity Of any one
who had half an eye for fun. At the announcement
of ready" he hitched up his tight streaked gal-
gaskins, which were already many inches too short
at the neither extremity. if it was at all desira
| BILE that they should have reasonable companion
ship with his copperas socks. Davies coat was an
| elongated swalow-fork, such in vogue some
thirty odd years ago, and tapped his heels at every
STEP Its color sky blue. His was fiat and
wide but of singular shortness, tipped with purple,
and with great inclination to turn over back, just
to see what his eyes about. His visual organs
| were small and his mouth particularly large, and
fully two inches thereof belonged to the right side
of his face. Complete the picture. by fancying him
| with short bull neck foxy hair, unkempt by
horn bone, that portion of his person which he
carried in front inordnatey protuberant and out of
all proportion to the spndling shanks, which he
| was rash enough to practice locomoton and you
will have David Pitchpipe, song singer and master
Of music, he took his station en- arriere of the
Counsel whom he had employed and paid to fight
! his battles Long might you have pondered on this
specimen of humanity before you could have dvin-
ed his true vocation. He certainly had anything in
him but poetry. Appearances would as family have
indicated that he had music concealed in his pene-
tralia. If poetry is welded to song as we have
somewhere read, he would seem to have been gifted
| with neither; but the fact was otherwise. He had
music in him and made it come out and was paid
for it, at least he sought to be thus paid in the pres
| ent action. 1t was an appeal from Justice judg-
ment, given in the following account drawn up in
the own photography and chirography of David
| Quinsey:
"jesse Noodle to david Pitchppe, Esquire, deter
to nstruckshun in Samnlody, IL lessons at 6 cents
and aquarter per lesson, 800 75"
Counsellor G. proved the nstruckshun" as
| charged and rested his
Defendants counsel then rose and stated his de-
fence, viz: that his client Noodle, though he had
been silly enough to receive the plaintiffs nstruck
| shuns in Sammody," such as they were, was not
quite silly enough to pay for them, and for the fol-
| lowing reasons .-rr
| 1st His client had received no improvement in
music, and therefore would be paying for nothing.
The law smiles upon reciprocity in trades and looks
with an evil eye upon bargains in which both par
| ties are not benefited.
I'd. That, though the plaintiff might vainly fancy
himself the Swan of Avon, he was only gander of
Black Creek and was in fact and in truth as utter