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They came to the contest They were beaten utterly
demolished, broken up root and branch They then
changed their names, called themselves the true
Americans, and under this cognomen came again to
the field raised the ALARM declared that the Pope,
the Catholic and the foreigner were about to take
once heard the cry that they had become distri-
button Democrats, and that the salvation of the
country depended upon the distribution of the pub
lie lands. Failing IN all these fayorite schemes,
they come forward now under the new style and
titleof Opposition" charging the Democracy with
extravaganza and of plundering the government by
the passage of appropriation bills when their own
Representatives, aided by those Of the Black Repub
licans, have been mainly instrumental in the enact
ment of the very measures of which tn, so loudly
complain, and did it with the studied design Of
making capital for the present compaign. They
were false in the beginning. They have been false
in every instance. They are false now. The pub
lie crib has been their only ambition the spoils of
office their only aim.
Mr.. Scales said that as a representative he had
endeavored to do his dnty, that he had studied the
interest Of his constituents that he had labored to
decide upon the merits of every question upon which
he had been called to VOTE that he had voted accord
ing to the dictates of his mind and conscience that
he had opposed every scheme of extravaganza, and
done under all circumstances what he believed to be
right"
Gen. Leach dwelt at length on what he called the
"extravagance" of the administration; and yet in
the next breath he advocated the pension bill which
was defeated at the last session. and which if had
passed, would have taken from the treasury at one
sweep some twenty-five millions. In one breath
| he denounces ''extravaganee," and in the next he
proposes to add enormously to the national expen-
ditures. But this is fair specimen of Gen. Leachs
consistency No doubt if the pension bill had pass
ed, he would have denounced it as most extrava-
giant measure Oh the part Of the Democratic party.
Mr. Leach, it seems, calls himself Whig When
idbe renegade back to the Wing fold? First Wing,
then Know Nothing, then Wing, and all the
time Fedcralist. Let him 60 to Congress, and he
will act, as Messrs. Gilmer and Vance have done
more or less according TO circumstances, with the
Black Republicans Are the people Of the Sixth
District prepared for that? Are they prepared to
reject Alfred NJ Scales for Gen. Leach? Never
We look forward with confidence not only to the
campaign, but to the results of the campaign. We
appeal to the Democrats of the Districtaot only to
re-elect their but to by an
increased majority. They can, and we believe they
will
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SALE OF CAPE FEAR AND DEEP RIVER WORKS.
These works were sold at Pittsboro', on Saturday
last, and were bid off by Graham Dawes, ESQ.,,
private Secretary of the Governor,) for the State
for 1865, OOO We learn that the liens on the works.
prior to their mortgage to the State, amount to
about $4,000 Of course the State must pay these
liabilities
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District Convention.

The Democratic Convention for this District will
meet at Franklinton on Thursday next, the 2sth
instant
All the Counties have held meetings and appoint
ed delegates The proceedings of the Warren and
Granville meetings will be found in our paper to-day.
We trust the Convention will be full one, and
that harmony and good feeling will prevail
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~ The last Ashville Meas says IAN interest
ing discussion on Railroad subjects took place last
Thursday at this place, by Col. W. H. Thomas, of
jackson county, and Marcus Erwin, Esq, of this
town. We intended to give a sketch of the debate
this week, but our time has been so much occupied
otherwise that we have not been able to prepare it.
We shall do so hereafter"
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EcLEcr1c MAGAzINE.-The May number of this
valuable monthly has been handed to US by Mr..
Rood, the agent 1t contains two beautiful engrav-
ings-one the condemnation of the Princess LAM
balle," and the other, maria Antoinette going to
Execution" The May number is filled with inter-
csting, wellselected matter.
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BANK OF CAPE FEAR-This Bank has declared
semi-annual dividend of five per cent. payable on
and after the I'd day of next month. the annual
meeting of the stockholders of the institution will
be held at their banking house in Wilmington on
Thursday the 18th of May.
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The Annual Address before the Franklin Society
of J. H. Horner's Select Classical and Mathematical
School of Oxford will be delivered by FRANK l.
WILSON, Esq, Of Raleigh, on the 9th Of May next
Leisure Hour
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II HAVE A FINE HORSE FOR SALE good under the
sadde and works in harness. and, think, the fastest
in the Stae-1 to mile -
April 25, 1859. H-w'f.
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RANDOLPH MACON CoLLEGE.-Jno. Parker Jordan,
ESQ.,, of Hartford, N. c., has been elected and has
consented to deliver the address before the literary
societies at the approaching Commencement.
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MARRIED.

Near Smth6eld, Johnston county, the l4th nst BY
B. A. WeOns, Esq, Mr.. w. H. Munden to Miss Harriet
johnson.
In Nash county, the 10Th inst, by Henry G. Williams
Eq Mr. John j. Minsheu Miss Ann Cutchns, Of Edge
conlbe county. -
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ICE! ICE!!

ICE! ICE!l
nUR ICE HOUSE Is NOW FULL OF FINE BOSTON
u Ice and will be ready for delivery Season Custom
ers the LIST day of May.
Those wishing to engage for the season will please send
in their names with the wanted during the present
week, as limited number only can be taken.
WILLIAMS & HAYWOOD.
April 25, 1859. 4O-2t
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r HAVE A GOOD BILLIIAD TABLE TO SELL. LOW,
apply soon at 46 Fayetteville ST. Raleigh write j..
Creech for further information.
April 25 1859. l7-wtf
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4gents for the Standard.

agents for. the Standard:
,,vrs II. B1eGs and R. r. HUDNAL Of Raleigh,
=, e.. McCRuMMEN, Travelling Agent.
All postmasters will please act as agents for us.
.sg- All former agencies are hereby revoked.
August IS, 1858.
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FAYETTEVILLE MARKET.

Ia FL IEV ILHE NANNEI
APRIL %, 1859
FLOUR-The receipts have been light during the week,
and advance quotations 10 cts. y Dbl. a grades;
selling at s. So to IS co.
SPTS TURP.-Has declined fully cent q gallon since
our last.
BACON-There is not much arriving and we note id
vance, at which sales are easily made.
LARD-In demand.
CORN-But little coming to market, and is firm at 81 .
bushel.
COTTON-1O% to 12sas-Carolinian.
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HOLDEN WILSON, STATE PRINTERS,
.on,zrn PUBLISHERS OF THE LAWS THE UNITED STATE
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PETERSBURG MARKET.

April 70, 1859.
TOBACCO-Tbe market during the past week has ruled
active and for all grades of desirable Tobacco prices have
active demand, and for such prices higher The
ceipts about usual for the Owing to the ho
days there will not be breaks Monday and Tuesday
this article but yet the has had effect on the
market We quote at l21lc for prime Other grades are
very dull and unstable Receipts light and stock much
diminished.
WHEAT-The demand is fair and receipts very light.
Prime red Il 45@l A. do white j. 90 Inferior grades
are neglected and mostly nominal.
CORN-Prime white 9Oc
CLOVER SEEDING quote the market at 81, with a
very limited demand.
GUANO.-The following Brands of Guano are in full
supnlY and be had immediately the following prices
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FOR SALE Low FOR CASH.
4 M IMPROVED PLOUGHS, CORN SHELTERS,
AVO Hay and Stalk Cutters with general sssOrt-
Best Family Groceries,
Such Bacon, Lard. Fluur Sugars COees Tens Moas.
Syrups and Candles with various other Goods Also
best old Liquors, by the retail or barrel.
All the above will be sold wholesale retail low for
Cash. the usual time to punctual customers as can
be had at aly house in the City
Thankful for past avors, hope by fair dealing and
strict attention to business to merit continuance Of the
same.
Call on Harget Street, 4th door, north side and you
shall not be disappointed good bargains will satisfy YOU
JORDAN WOMBLE.
Raleigh, April 90, 1859. 4O-L
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Mitchell and Crcusdale Akaed Bone, Ammoniated Sup
Phosphate of Lime $45 per ton.
EXCHANGE On New York Il y cent.
SUGAR-Ths article is weak, and prices have declined
some.
COFFEE-Very firm, and at full price.
ROBINSON'S Manipulated Gusno, s52 per ton of 1000
pounds.
GROCERIES-Are materially unchanged.
BACON-Cincinnatti cured Sides at 10L@11, and
Shoulders at SI@9. Baltimore cured Nc less Demand
increasing with limited stock in the narket.-Erpress
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HARDlNGS COLUMN.
- s.~,,a
OUR ADVANTAGES!

=
MEASURES TAKEN AND FIT IN EVERY RES.
1y1 pect guaranteed.
The attending this branch of our business will
warrant us in calling attention to the fact that can
order direct from our Manufacturing Establishment NORTH
and fill orders in q few days.
Those who may prefer have their clothing made will
please call and leave their measures.
E, L, HARDING.
April eth.
JUST RECEIVED
PER ExPREss,
1(lll DUCK LINEN SACKS.
HUI 100 Duck Linen Frocks
SO Fine Cashmere Sacks
10 Fine Cashmere Frucks,
25 Handsome Cloth Sucks. "silk faces."
SO French Cloth Trucks,
100 Cord Marsei''es Vestngs.
$50 Blk and Cold Silk Vests.
April 4th.
1An CASHMERE FROCKs FOR SUM.
HUI mer srear, very cheap aud handsune-at the
unusual low price Of fec do1d,s.
April 4,h
DOY'S AND YOUTHS CLOTHING
ID Opened this day
E. /. HARDINGT.
April 4th.
nLACK DOE SKIN CASHMERE PANTS,
ID Fancy Cashmere Pants, pLan and side striped full
assortment.
T. L. HARDING.
April 4, 1859. Oily.
70 Register and Age copy.
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T III 4 nj A Il X e + >.
WILMINGTON MARKET.

WILMINGTON MARKET.
APRIL %, 1859.
TURPENTINE- Sales This morning Of 2l2 bbIs. ut IS
SPTS TURPENTINE-Su bbls. changed hands yester-
day ut AZ cts. % gallon. Nothing done this morning
ROSINSales yesterday of 81 bbls. inferior No. at 81
Is II bbl; and 30s do Common ut 81 80 y $40 lbs.
TAR-sa bbs. sold this morning at s. Is . bbl-your.
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MAGNIF EMIT SCH E NET
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5,4s5 Prizes amounting to $4,000
Whole Tickets 80; Halves Is; Quarters s2k.
~ Circular showing the plan of the Lotteries will
be sent to any DESTROYS of receiving il.
Certificates of Packages will be sold at the follow.
ing rates, which is the risk
Certificate Of Package Of 10 Whole Tickets go
" 10 Quarter %
10 Eighth 10
In Ordering Tickets or Certificates,
Enclose the money address the Tickets ordered
receipt of which they will be forwarded by first mail
Purchasers have tickets ending in any figure they may
designate.
purchasers immediately after the drawing
~ Purchasers will please write their signatures plain
and give their Post Office County and State.
~ Remember that every Prize is drawn and payable
~ All prizes of 81 900 and under, paid Immediately
after the dawing-oher prizes ut the usual time Of thirty
days.
NOTICE TO CORRESPONDENTS
Those who prefer not sending money by mail, can
THE ADAMS EXPRESS COMPANY,
whereby money for Tickets, in Of Ten Doars and
upwards, can be sent US
AT OUR RISK AND EXPENSE,
from any city town where they have Office The
POST OFFICE STAMPED ENVELOPE" the Express
Company cannot receive them.
All communications strictly confidential
Orders for Tickets Certificates by Mail or Express to
be directed to
WOOD, EDDY L CO., Augusta, Georgia
WSSB E EBPY Co. x Whining Delaware.
E list of the numbers that are drawn from ne
Wheel with the amount Of the prize that each one entitled
TO- will be published after every drawing in the oow'ng
Ssx York weekly by
moud Dispatch Psulding (Ais') Clarion and NOV OK
Herald.
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A BLOSSOMING NUISANCE.

The avarice of an adventurous Yankee who
some years since, imported into this country a
huge weed from the land of spices, serpents and
poisons, where there is a good deal besides
man that is vile, Bishop Heber to the contrary,
Notwithstanding, has entailed upon this city
nuisance of the greatest magnitude. This
nuisance, which every one will name without
second thought, is the pretty Aianthus, which
is now IN full blossom, exuding its nauseous
odor, and making the atmosphere of our streets
and squares heavy with a sickening and detest
able perfume, which it is impossible to escape
from without going upon the water or getting into
the country. The ordinary odor of our streets
is sufficiently nauseating but the worst scent
which an incompetent City Inspector has given
us is refreshing, compared with the unwhole-
some and sickly odor of the Ailanthus. As this
worthless tree grows rapidly it has given us a
mushroom forest In our streets, avenues, and pub
lie squares, of this vegetable nuisance to the ex-
cluson of our sweet and beautiful native trees
many of which are superior to it as shade trees
and for ornamental purposes. No insect can live
on the Aianthus, nor can any animal feed
its foliage. 1t is as deadly in its effects as the
upas and even where it does not absolutely
destroy life, it mpairs health and enervates
the system. We publish a note from a we'll
known chemist of this city, in relation to this
subject, from which our citizens will learn, if
they have not already made the discovery by
terrible experience, that they have been plant
ing under their very windows a blooming poi
son, which difiuses its odious essence through
all the apartments of their dwellings,, and un-
dermines the health of their families There
are thousands of our people who are driven
from their residences into the country, TO escape
the enervating odor of the Ailanthus The
worst features of the tree belong to the female
In mt hn. md 81 IL -.
unfortunate sex has been everywhere preferred.
The Catalpa is as free from worms as the
Ailanthus it is infinitely more beautiful and
grows almost as rapidly. The Ailanthus puts
out its leaves very late, and sheds them very
early, and very slight wind breaks off its
brittle branches, and strips it of its foliage,
which renders it a most unsuitable tree for city
planting. The Ailanthus nuisance must have
now reached its height, and if our city author-
ties do not pass law to remove it, the good
sense Of the people will, in time, rid us of the
annoyance but for the present, it is hardly en-
durable, and is rendered doubly odious by the
excessive heat Of the weather-N \. Times.
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PRICES OF LAND IN AND ABOUT
NEW YORK.

The prices of land in and around this great
city growing to the owner as also the
would be purchaser, almost chimerical. We
qnote from the Sun:
g Turn in any direction--north, south, east,
or west-and the old occupant of the soil is
made rich by the rise of the value of his prop
erty. He may toll not, neither does he spin,
and yet he rises in the morning of one year
worth thousands more than the year preceding,
and likely to have those thousands still further
increased year later. The Flooding citizen,
who has done well for years, thinks he will lay
away few thousands in a thirty-acre farm near
the city, which he recollects could have been
bought for 500 per acre three years since. He
visits the locality now, and finds his anticipated
purchase held at $4,000 per acre, all through
good land bad land, stones, and swamps-all
alike. The change is startling, but is not soil
tary, and perhaps not as surprising as many
would be apt to believe.
"The increase of wealth in the city Of New
York, during the past few years, has been so
immense, and investments in real estate so
favorably considered by large class of the
community, that the growth and prosperity of
New York's environs can hardly be wondered
at, under the increased demand which comes
from the city for country villas, seats, and resi-
dences. All the available water :ites, as also
the elevated ones Staten Island, have long
been held at $4,000 per acre, and in many
cases ranging from $4,000 to $4,000. The
sandy shore at Bergen Point, which is the great
summer stamping ground of the mosquito
tribe, and which, some four years back, could
have been bought for $3.50 per acre, approaches
close upon 81 900, and some of its pleasantest
spots would readily bring that amount per acre.
On the shores of the Hudson, for a distance
of fifty mhes from town, the railroad is lined
with country villas, valued at between $4,000
and $4,000 per acre. Almost every available
nook and corner is graded to this seemingly
high price, and the purchaser Of moderate
means must be content with a single acre, or
else fall back where his dollars will command
more land in less-coveted locations. The same
state of things exists on the upper end of this
island, bordering on the Harlem river and its
vicinity. Abrupt bluffs of rock and boulders,
fringed with pine trees and juniper bushes,
command 81, 900 to $4,000 per acre, when con-
nected with number of arabic acres on the
summit. In all directions, land is held for what
it will soon be worth in villa sites, and not for
Its present value.
" In Westchester county, along the shores of
the Harlem, no eligible building sites are to be
found at all, and the only plot in that region
not taken mp is lot of twenty-five acres, with
river view, but no river frontage, held at
81 900 per acre. A lot of six acres, near the
High Bridge, being but one immense egg
shaped hill of rocks, coated over with six inches
of soil, is in the market at 5000 per acre, bot
negotiators are after it, and that plot will
speedily be added to the adjoining estate.
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EXCITING RACE ON THE RAIL TRACK.
S275,000.

From l.. ID. Rucker, Superintendent of the
e. and I. Il. r., we obtain the following par
ticulars of an exciting race, in which the steeds
were iron horses, and the stakes greater than
have ever been known on any track. Mr.. Rucker
had the facts from John ID. Campbell, Super
intendent of the M. S. and N. |. r. r. One
day last week, as the eastward bound express
train reached Laporte, Indiana, passenger
stepped off while the engine was being replen-
ished with wood and water, and walked back
and forth on the platform, and continued to
walk until the whistle sounded. The other pas
sengers got on board, and the train went off,
but the gentleman still walked on. A few
minutes after the train had gone, a station man
saw the pedestrian, and going up to him, asked,
in surprised tone, :" What are you doing
here ?"
The man started, opened his eyes, and look
ed around bewildered. The fact was, he had
been tatieued, and had dropped asleep while
walking. Rousing himself, he asked
"Why where am | ?"
"Where are you? At Laporte"
~" Where's the train | came on ?"
- Gone on ten minutes ago."
g Ten minutes ago, and left me / must 90
on that train. 1t is a matter of life and death
with me. Can you get me to it? Have you
got an engine here? Where is the Superin-
tendent?"
The section master had an officer near by,
and the two went to find that official, and to
procure an engine. The traveller stated his
case-he must go on-could not delay-and
offered the officer $3.50, if he would put him on
board the train. This strange demand and
strange offer caused the station master to
hasten to do what he could. The fire was not
out in the engine that had drawn the train to
that point; the bargain was settled a draft
given on New York for the $3.50; and in ten
minutes the traveller started with an engine to
overtake the flying express. After rushing on
for thirty or forty miles, some connection gave
way about the engine. The engine was stop
ped, the engineer found the difficulty, and in
very few minutes had acooden pin Whitfield,
out and fitted to supply the deficiency With
this, ON they few. The train had Of course
many miles the start of them, and despite the
wooden pin the engineer crowded on steam,
and tore through the country at fearful rate.
Thirty miles of the distance passed was run in
t,eenty-secen minutes, but the engagement was,
that they should overtake the train, and do it
they must, and do it they did, but not until
more than one hundred miles had been run,
and they were approaching Toledo. Having at
length overtaken and stopped the train, and
hurried on board, the traveller went eagerly to
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Back from the river, fertile land is held at
$1,000 per acre all through that section, and it
is only quite in the interior that lower prices
prevail. Around the shores of Morrisania
Fort Morris, and all along the Sound, up to
New Rochelle, the same approximate prices
prevail. Crossing to Long Island, the most
eligible villa sites, at Flushing and elsewhere,
are bought and aold at somewhat similar prices.
Passing from the fiat shores of Long Island to
the Palisades of New Jersey, the same state of
things prevail. Everywhere villa sites are com
inandlng prices which drive off the agricultur.
lists, and render the localities merely the sub.
uros OF New York. Our agriculturists have no
other resource than to fall back on the lines of
railroads, which the capital of these villa owners
so frequently aid to build, and on cheaper land.
but with enhanced prices for produce, supply
the ever-mcreasing market demand which New
FORK puts forth"
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a berth in the sleeping car, and took therefrom
carpet bag containing $275,000 His treas
ure was safe, none had molested it and, dis
missing his faithful courier, he went on his way,
rejoicing at the success of his perilous and ex,
citing adventure. CleUeldnd Leader.