Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1859-10-12

our late NJ G. elect, the following admiraDlc ana
truthful extract from the address Of Wan. Eaton,
Esq, before Davidson College at it last ANIMAL Com
mencement 1t is worthy Of perusal y q. - e
1.-The thrones of princes are surrounded by corr
tiers who regale monarcls ears with the language
of adulation.. They degrade themselves and human
nature by their servty, hyprocrlcy and sell abase
mcnt; and give rise to many of the worst abuses
which follow in the train Of depotism. Every
American would speak with indignant disdain Of
these fawning sycophants. But is the courter, who
with obseouious men and tind footsteps treads the
floor of the imperial palace at Paris st. Petersburg
or Vienna, and offers the incense of false praise
to the emperor any worse than the demagogue 6:
American Is alulation more innocent or harmless
when addressed to crowned heads than when breath
ed into republican ears? The man who fatters Ere,
men for their votes would be ready to crouch at til
foot of the throne if he lived under an absolute MOI
archy. The great Napoleon, when the sparklin
diadem was placed upon his brow, found that Il
demagogues of republican France were among Il
most servile minions of the empire. Denlagogu
were the bane of the ancient republics and contr
butcd more than all other causes combined to Coz
rupt their morals destroy their domestic peac
tarnish the lustre of their fame, and sink them in
slavery. They dug the grave and rung the funcr: .
knell of Greek and Roman freedom, always profe :
sing too like their in modern times, Diet
devotion to liberty and exalted patriotism. Dem ,
gosucs are the curse of the United States, and !
our gallant ship of State shall ever be dashed up'
the rocks, shattered by the hurricane of civ
commotion, on their heads will result the tremei
dous responsibility. We have nothing to fear fro
external enemies so long true to ourselve
The danger Is from incendarieS and mischief make
at home In my structures upon this sub iect | a
Jude to those men who have no fixed principles in
ference to local national affairs, but who advocat
any doctrine which they believe to be acceptable
the dispensers of reward and distinction. and sa
under any colors which will probably hear them
the haven OF power and place; men whose onl
motive is self advancement, to be gained at all haz
ards and by almost any means calculated to accom-
plish the object We are told by Scott in his life
Napoleon, that there was certain character
France during the days of her bloody revolution
who loved to be strong on the strongest side an
safe on the safest side. There are some of the san
sort on this side of the Atlantic at the present tim
Demagogues lend themselves to every prevalir
ferment in the public Mind and ready to rais
any tempest which is to lift them above their prs
per level in society. They are willing to traduc
the wisest and most deserving men in order to ris
on their downfall and too often succeed in consgl
Ing talents and worth to the shades of 0bScurity-.
They prepared to upon our best institution
ii they find nothing else against which to pOil
their artillery in the struggle for public favor
Some politicians chameleon like, have the facult
of adapting themselves to the atmosphere in whi
they move and OF entertaining views all occasion
which are most agreeable to those who control
ballot box. They remind me of the excessive col
plaisance of ono of Queen Elizabehs maids of homo
who, when she was asked by her sovereign VIII
o'clock was it. replied "any time which your majest
pie ,scS. - Western Sentinel
NoRrn-CAEoLINA CorroN.-Thc Petersburg E.
press of the Goth alt rcoiceS greatly over the il
creased Cotton receipts in that city during the pa
as compared with the preceding year. We take Il
following paragraphs from its article, showing II
growth Of the BUSINESS of Petersburg and also wha
becomes of our North Carona produce:
The total receipts of cotton in Petersburg 70
the year commencing Sept 1853, and ending Aug
1889, approXimatcd the unprecedented figure
nearly 1000 bales, and exceeded those of the
responding period for 1S57-5S, nearly II 600 bales
The receipts at Norfolk the past year estina
ted at ID, 700 bales; at Portsmouth 3,0O0-whc'
added to the 2S69S bales received at Petersburg
give grand aggregate in the three cotton markc
OF Virginia, of ttty-one h0umrnd three hundred a.
ninety-eight bales! OF this quantity at least tw.
thirds were grown in North Carolina, and the q,
ceipts at Petersburg from the county of Edgecomb
alone during the past season. estimated at S, 0Ou
bales
The average price in this city throughout the sea-
son, has been about II cents and the value of the
crops sold in Petersburg, is estimated at orer one
million and a quarter Of dollars :"
How much North-Carolina Cotton is bought at
or shipped through Wilmington and Newborn we
do not know. About 1000 bales seek market in
or through Washington. A very large quantity
goes to Cheraw, and still larger to Charleston
At this place the receipts for the year about
12,oo0 bales, consumed by the manufacturing estab-
liShments in this place and vicinity and shipped by
our merchants to New York. The price here during
the period averaged liz cents that Fayette-
vile paid the Cotton planters, estimating 400 lbs to
the BALE nearly $60O,O0O. Adding the increased
value given to about 5000 bales of it 10y Its manu-
facturc here, the whole worth about a million
of dollars in the North RI markets.-Fay Observer.
MuRDERoUs DoINGs AMONG THE MOaMoNs-DATEs
| FROM UrAm TO SEPTEMBER 1.-Some months ago the
United States Marshal of this Territory arrested Nc
Donald, kearns, and others, deeply implicated in
the deliberate and das.rdly assassination of the
Parishes. Marshal Dotson, well knowing that if he
| turned these prisoners over to any of the Mormon
local authorities for safe keeping they would be al
lowed to escape requested the military authorities
at Camp Floyd to hold them for him until such time
as they could be brought to trial Some time since,
! however, he was compelled in obedience to positive
instructions from Washington, to turn these prison.
over to the Mormon sheriff of Utah county
| The immediate result was what everybody in Utah
knew it would be. The prisoners, though in custo-
| dy for offense not bailabe, were at allow
ed to go at large to enable thcm it said to see
after their crops. Presently, on the opening of a
term OF the United States District Court at Ncphi,
they were got to together on wagon by the Nor
mon sheriff, on the pretext of taking them to Ne.
| phi, but after driving out mile or two, they very
quietly jumped out and took themselves off. The
sheriff fired several Shots taking good care howev
er, not to hit anybody.
McNa too, who had brought suit against Brigham
Young for damages for false Imprisonment, was shot
down in the streets of Salt Lake City the night be-
fore the day fixed for the trial of his suit. The
Mormons say that they had nothing to do with his
death. \
A man by the name of Brown, an apostate, sued
the notorious Bill Hickman promssory note
before the United States District Court in Salt Lake
City, at the recent term, and got Judgment. Short
ly afterward he was attacked at night, in his owr
| house. by two men and murdered: according to his