Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1857-12-23

h n Later from NewogAs - y
sNEx YAK December 49, -Thssstealller Adriatiee
wkhH vespoaf fmils bihe 6th infant ssHived her
tkday.4 81 81 ~
aParlsuish mst' on tbssd Instant anashe oneenI
Speech Wa delivered, ~ herself IN person, but
vas very vague It recommends the passage OF an
Indemnity Bill for bank promises, parliamentary
reform, and deplores commercial disasters She re-
oices at the success of the British Army in Indian
and commends the attention Of Parliament to the al
fairs Of Iada. The Queen entertans .no fears OF
tranquility in Europe.
In Parliament Lord Palmerston gave notice to the
~Geusrnment that he would INTRODUCES q bin for the
management of India, after the holidays were over
The launching Of the LeviathSnis slowly progress
ing. .-...-.-r~ --'r.---- -
The financial accounts are deplorable-may ad.
ditoDa failures had taken place. including that OF
Messrs Herman, Cox & Co., Of Liverpool, who were
engaged in the cotton trade; their liabilities are
e6O, 600, P Magee & Co, Of Liverpool, Bischof,
Been & Co., of London. Hersch, Moses & Co., Ste-
tin; Hoffman & Co., and Decosta & Co., both of
London have failed The latters liabilities are three
hundred thousand pounds. Many others have also
failed
Several additional failures reported in London
The crisis in Hamburg is fearful, and business is
generallI suspended. = s. as q x
The Prussan government has issued orders for
tue Suspension OF tue uSuTy JAWS. IT. !
The Spanish Government refuses to accede to the
demands of Mexico and insists that her Envoy shall
be received prior to any negotiations.
The Bank Of Prussia is making advances on stocks.
Numerous, additional failures are reported at
Stockholm. The crisis is alarming.
Advices from Cuba received at Madrid states that
fleet will be held in readiness to sail at moments
notice, against Mexico. .'-th.'
LIVERPOOL MAEKET Dec Cotton has declined.
Breadstuffs very dull. Money is active and I'M
changed .t7.i, q. -.,r'..s.H
CsEcoND DESPATCH. rf
LIVERPOOL, Dec. 5.-Cotton opened at decline
Of to I'd, and closed slightly lower, except for
mddling qualities Sales of the week 46 900 bales,
of which Spectators took $1,000 and exporters 4,
500. The market closed with downward ter dency.
The quotations Fair Orleans g.; mddling
9 l6; fair Mobile So; middling s.; Uplands 81;
middiing 81. Stock in port 81, 900 bales-15O,0OO
American. Manchester advccs are unfavorable.
BKEADsruFFs. Richardson, Spence q Co. say
Flour dull and declined Is. since Tuesday. Wheat
has declining tenpency. The Brokers' Circn!ur
says Flour closed at advance Of Is. on the week,
and wheat at an advance of 3d.
Provisions dull
Common Resent a. 3d. Spirits of Turpentine 33s.
LONDON, Saturday-Sugar has advanced 6d.als.
The bullion in the Bank of England has increased
f94, 600.
HENRY S. FooTE.-This remarkable individual,
somew hat more notorious than distinguished, made
his appearance in our city, on Tuesday evening.
The Ex-Governor and Senator and ex.everything-
else that savors of political He accompanied by
several of the most distinguished members of the
Yerger family, including George and William. to-
gether with beau Ed, who recently made small ex-
pertinent for Governor in this State.
The gentleman from California seemed to be as
attractive to his old associates in humbug Unionism
and Know Nothingism, if the issues of 81 were
still before the country and if the political d.
VIII how IN honor had nj
months since, kicked darkanternism, as it tumbled
down the hill to be buried amid the forgotten lum
Der and trumpery of the past But they will never
TO love the changclng whose treachery to the
South enabled them to secure victory over the De-
mocracy. -r....s .......:
Poor Foote! Though he has done little good in
his day and generation, he may yet serve some USE
full purpose a warning to the youth of the coun-
try, who coming upon the stage of political fe
He is melancholy monument of that over weaving
ambition that "oereaps itself and falls 'tother
side" Though possessing many social virtues and
ordinary talents incurabe itching for notorie
ty has marred his every prospect
He was never content to pursue the even tenor OF
his way, a man of sound principles and settled
views of right and wrong. He would rather be a
comet, starting madly from its sphere" Fighting
the nations with its fiery tail, than fixed star, bes
sing the world with its radiance. To startle the
great object of his ambition rather than to be useful
Hence he was Everything by turns and nothing
leng:" . ,. p. 81,
bread of life. For this he deserted the Southern
Rights party in 1860, knowing it would produce
shout in the camp of the enemy and make him the
'nabob of an hour" This two was the motive o.
his personal assaults upon Hale, Seward and Benton
in the American Senate: it would make him the
theme of remark amoug the Washington letter writers
for a month. So strongly does this feeling predom-
nate all other elements in his composition, that
had he been contemporary with Erostratus, he would
have disputed with that worthy the honor of burn
ing Diana's temple.
r. Perhaps it was this same feeling-the desire to
startle-that caused him, in one Of his difficulties
with Old Bullion, to announce that new and remark
able principle previously unknown to military tao
ticians-'adrancing By a parallel moremeut." How
ever this may be-whether the General accomplish
ed his purposes then or not, it has certainly
prised nobody observatory of his history, that he
has been " advancing backwards :" ever since.
1t is said that this weather cock statesman and
turner EMBELLISHMENTS, designs rounding Of
his public life in series of lectures vindcatory &.
that great and good man, Robert j. Walker Ifany
thing could sink little Bob yet lowet in the estima
ton Of every Southern patriot it would be his de-
Tense by the hoary traitor of '505l. They are wor
thy of each other, the advocate and the criminal
and it only needs this final folly of Foote to sink
both 80 low that the hand Of the resurreconist cal
never reachrthem.- Mississippi Commonwealth
The first Constitutional Convention of Ohio, fran
ed Constitution, under which the people of TIL,
State were. governed for Jorty.nine gears. Til
most singular part, however, Of the whole histor
people for their Approval bit ABSOLUTELY refuse
By the Conoentions to be so submitted. resolutio
was offered in the Convention declaring, in sui.
stances, that when the Constitution was finished
Should be submitted to the people for their adopto
or rejection, before it should 60 into operation "