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removing and leaving it uncall is " prima facia " evidence of intentional fraud arrival of tbe steamer canada one week later from europe hv magnetic telegraph translated forthe baltimore american st john's n b oct 3 the royal mail steamer canada arrived at halifax al a quarter past nine o'clock yester day morning and her news reached here to lay by overland express she made her pass age in less than ton days the commercial news upon tho whole ex bibits no special change or movement the i'roduce market was fairly supplied but the demand for most articles was inactive the colton trade has been rather languid at fair prices tbe money market continued abundantly supplied and bills were sei ing at 1'2 per ct premium the political news presents no new feature of special moment there was considerable firmness iu bread stuffs and higher ptices had been paid a moderate business is doing in cured pro visions at steady prices hungary comorn though besieged still holds out and ! can defy its besiegers one entire year the influence of russia and austria is being exert ed to compel the porte to surrender the hun garian chiefs who have taken refuge in tur key letters irom constantinople state lhat ibis has been positively refused the latest intelligence from hungary receiv ed by die london sun says that peterwardein surrendered to the imperial troops on the 5th ultimo the magyars decided to still hold out but the majority overruled them the garrison of comorn is well provisioned with 20,000 men a state of complete discipline officers held a meeting and resolved by a majorily not to surrender according to lhe vienna journals 80,000 men are to be comorn tbe bombardment was lo com mence on the 13th when the austrians occu pied a great patt of the island but without re ive a part ofthe hungarians werestrong renched before the fortress and it was ex pected would yive the austrians battle it was rumored at vienna tbat cen bern had i into the hands of his russians since 15th a large number of hungarian oflicers beeu put lo death at arad and temesvar 1tay the pope has quitted gaeta and proceeded to naples his reception was of lhe most stiil ng and popular character he will not go rome for he present the cholera was still committing great rav es at trieste spain intelligence was daily expected from moroc > where tbe spanish and french generals tiied likely to produce something more than i mere demonstration the moors were ex i to make au attack on massila having ■ idv cut off supplies the newly appointed ministers were assem bling at madrid but no notice seems to be taken of events relative to cuba england and ireland the weather has been very wet in england but not materially aflecting the crops the late downward tendency in the corn market h vin checked and a slight advance liken place caused by the unfavorable reports relative to the potato rot the bop picking in england has been very disastrous one gieat effort has been made v the growers to procure relief from govern a favorable change has taken dace in ihe mortality from cholera throughout england — 1 lie new cases occuring here having declined ne halt since the commencement ol the dis v 13,000 persons have been swept from i ndon the potato disease is beyond doubt extend .' into several districts of ireland though it '•> not by any means become general prance — a good deal of attention is di aled to the metropolitan council ol the cler bj which has commenced its siltings al paris t the bishops and distinguished cler i of fiance are assisting at tbe graifd coun 8 cholera appears to have permanently di ujjjished in paris . ll>e conspirators of june 1349 are to be pj a versailles lland — i'he papers received this vr"'nr announce tbe unexpected resignation t e butch ministry en masse alter delib l0 the king accepted their resignations and !, ructions fir the formation ofa new " me p^e circums(ances which led to itpd ol transp'red l || kkey — all honor is proclaimed to ah ' wind and to the turkish ministry ; they have nobly done their duly and refused lo become panders to tlie vindictive lilood ihirstiness of joseph and nicholas i'he rus sian ambassadors at the porte demanded a sur render of the hungarian oflicers kossuth dembinski perczel mesmerosses and their companions the russian general had arrived at con stantinople his mission being to bully the sub tan into a compliance with the demand of aus tria a council of the turkish government was immediately held and they unanimously resolved not to surrender the hungarian refu gees to either the russian and austrian go vernments on this decision being impressive and determined manner that the refugees should not be given up let the consequences be what they might we trust that lord palmerston will do his duty as nobly as the sultan lias done his that russia and austria will be given to understand lhat war with turkey wilh surh a cause means war with england we aro rejoiced to find that kossuth and his companions are furnished with passports from | the english ambassador and that every assis tance to their support will be rendered by en gland the independence of turkey should be secured from the attacks of russia and its vassal austria liverpool markets sept 22 cotton — the demand for cotton was rath er quiet at the close the sales ofthe week a mount only to 28,000 the committee quote the same figures given at the sailing of the pre i vious steamer prices it is thought are not j likely to advance further unless encouraging accounts should be received from india beeadstuffs — best western canal flour ! was soiling at 19 to 20s per bbl philadel phia and baltimore 23a24s ohio 24a25s d , s red wheat 5s 2da6s 3d white do 6s 2da 7s per 70 lbs indian orn 126 to 27s for yel low and 23s per quarter for white provisions — the arrivals of cured provis , ions continue small the demand for ameri can beef is fair at steady prices pork is rath j er more inquired for though dull and difficult , of sale inferior sorts bacon sell with more j activity but in other descriptions the transac ! tions have been unimportant the market : generally wears a dull aspect for provisions — both hams and shoulders are selling at form ! er quotations viz : 27s to 42s per qr for the ■ latter and 19a22s for the former lard was i in better inquiry prices stationary at 38s 6ii ; ' to 42s per cwt according to quality and 26d 29s for inferior iron remains without alteration the responsibility a young man in virginia had become sadly intemperate he was a man ofl great capacity faci nation and power but he had a passion for brandy which noth j ing could control often in his walks a friend remonstrated with him but in vain and as often in turn would he urge this friend to take a social glass in vain on one occasion the latter agreed to yield to i him and as they walked up to the bar to i gether the barkeeper said gentlemen what will you have ?" wine sir was the reply the glasses were filled and the two ! friends stood ready to pledge each other in renewed and eternal friendship when he paused and said to his intemperate friend — now ifi drink this glass and become a drunkard will you take the responsibil ity v the drunkard looked at him with se verity and said set down that glass !" it was set down and the two walked away without saying a word o the drunkard knows the awful con j sequences ofthe first glass even in his own madness for liquor he is not willing ' to assume the responsibility of another's ■ becoming a drunkard if the question was put to every deal er as he asks for his licence and pays his money are you willing to assume the responsibility how many would say if the love of money did not rule take back the licence — ex paper qo^ln the last raleigh times is a i lengthy article headed " editorial respon ' sibility in which the editor says very truly the pay of an editor in north caroli na is always small — for we dont suppose there is a journal in the state that bas o ver 3000 subscribers — the greater number less than 1000 many of them would be far more ably conducted and much bet ter printed with prompter pay and a more extended subscription list if the continued struggle for tne means of exig ence were spared to some of them we know that our state has among its con i ductors of the press men who would raise its character to an enviable height and i their papers would equal in ability beau < ty and dignity of tone the distinguished i journals of other states they need we ' ireely admit better papers — but they ean ' not have them unless they afford the \ means by a general increase of patron i age to those they have of improvement , and enlargement enable their editors . to shake olf the trammels of poverty — to put competent hands in their places at ( the press and at the composing slick and c devote their whole time to their editorial a duties and the careful adornment of their columns and then the newspapers will be , what they ought to be c « major general of the itli division lexington skit 29 1649 messrs editors in regard lo the election of the major general of the ith division two articles appeared in the lincoln papers a few weeks since — one in the " carolina republi can lhe other in the " lincoln coutier one of which was transferred to the columns oflhe north carolina standard together with a letler written by col john h wheeler to go vernor manly in those several publications attempts are made lo prejudice the community against me by the indulgence of assertions lhat have no foundations in truth before proceeding to reply lo so much thus written as merits any noliee i will here say that were this election to be held over again my official acts should under similar circum stances be preeisely what they have been in every important particular for the plain and ob vious roason that the course i have pursued i was fair and just and legal now lo show that col wheeler intended lo cast censure on me unless a majority of the of ficers in the brigade under my command sup ported him i invite attention to the letter of governor manly ofthe 4th of may copied into the standard to which col wheeler's now under consideration is a reply there it will be seen he commenced his attacks by insisting on the illegality of the election in the 83th re i giment as early as the first of last february now it so happened i was preseni at that i election which is the upper regiment of da vidson and i undertake to say it was held ac cording to lhe law as laid down in the loth sec ! ofthe 38th chap of the act of 1846 to which ' col wheeler refers and which merely requires the polls shall be opened at eleven o'clock and : remain open until three on that day the polls were opened accordingly between 11 and 12 o'clock and remained open until after 3 o'clock i — there having been elections held also for field , officers of lhe regiment this state of facts 1 can be established if necessary by certificates ! or affidavits of gentlemen whose attention were i called to the law on lhat day and who possess ' as high character for truth and integrity as col : wheeler there was a full attendance on that j day as the vote shows and strange as it may | appear to the public col wheeler was present , — having reached there a few minutes after my ; arrival and when but two votes were cast the colonel's and lt colonel's and at bis wheel er's request i suggested to the officers to cease : voting that he might address them they did i so and listened for a considerable time to what ! an officer in conversation with me afterwards j called a windy egotistical speech 1 knew that j col wheeler would be on — having passed hint j and i proceeded accordingly to wri'.e tickets for j wheeler and gailher ; and when he wheeler j reached there i presented them for which he i thanked me ; and during the election at least a ! part of the lime we were in conversation i ; attempted to exert no influence eilher way af terwards we parted as we had met courteously and politely and not a word of complaint was he heard lo utter now if the election had been illegally held 1 or if any injustice had been done him and i surely no one had the opportunity of knowing \ belter than himself that such was nol the case why were no complaints heard on lhat day ? — was not that the proper time ? but why were they not heard until it was well ascertained | that if the whole division had the opportunity ■ of voting he would be defeated .' for the rea son in my opinion already given ; that he in tended to complain and to attack me either i directly or by insinuation unless a majority of the officers of my brigade supported him in his letler in regard to the election in this regiment he uses the following language : — " as regards the election in the 83ih regiment : being illegally held and not in accordance with the act of 1846 tbe same enactment i have referred to — this is not now germaine to the issue if it ever was germaine to the is sue why not so now ? this was written 1st of june before any commission issued — i were not the same facts then existing and tlie same principles still involved ? surely they i were so much for col wheeler's complaint i in this matter which i have shewn is without foundation and which in fact be himself a bandons after this discovering lhat his first charge was not " germaine to the issue and . after its abandonment he takes new ground i and prefers other charges equally untenable and hopes thus lo convince the public that the ' law countenances the complaints and croakings of a defeated candidate for office and that they are to be taken as a good foundation for order i ing a court martial on faithful officers who have discharged tbeir duiies i but before opening fully on me the big guns of his battery be commences by boasting that he heal general gait her in davie county where he never was in all his life he informs the world lhat he did not know personally a sin gle officer in that regiment now may not this be ihe very reason he got a majority in davie ? at any rate no grumbling is heard as to any illegality in this regiment where he received a majorily of votes but his vote in davie surely " is not germaine to lhe issue i after the relief afforded from a disclosure of i his wonderful success in davie the cause of i which is well known there and elsewhere and < not perse very complimentary to him he iro i ceeds to pay a deserving compliment to one i i had known for years as a true gentleman and 1 the report of whose gallant bearing and tin i daunted bravery in the battle fields of mexico < produced a thrill of pride and pleasure in lhe i heart of every true north carolinian i beg ! capt hoke's pardon for ihus alluding to his i name and have only done so in reply to col l wheeler and to say how much pleasure it t would have afforded me to have exerted my in < fluence in bis behalf had he been the candidate ( indeed on hearing that capt hoke's name was i spoken of iu connexion witb this office i in ( formed gen gailher that if he hoke wouid t consent to run he would in my opinion receive < an almost unanimous vote in my brigade t and i submit it to lhat portion of lhe public i who know capt hoke personally or by repu t tation o say whether in their opinion had he t been a candidate be would have accepted the oflice of major general bad il heen tendered him upon receiving a mere plurality of votes wben two entire counties had not even heard of the election and bad never therefore had he opportuniiv of voting ihe man who would seek to obtain an oflice of honor in this way in our republican land ; — who woulj seek to take advantage ofa diminution of the record so to speak is to be pitied most surely lut nol envied ob ! no bul col wheeler afier giving up his first issue and complaint makes other charges on me directly and still more grave by de manding ot the governor repeatedly a court martial on me for delay in making my return now having made this demand so often and so peremtorily and with so many flourishes — and having in his letters whicb have been going the rounds of tbe newspapers attempted io ex cite prejudice in the public mind against gov manly for disregarding bis second " charge and specification i deem it proper to inform col wheeler notwithstanding be is a law yer and the very few others who do not alrea dy know it tbat ibis issue is slid less ger maine than his first tor tbe plain rpason that the law does not give governor manly tbe rigli or power to order a court martial on a briga dier general — even were the acts of such ofli cer unmiliiary or illegal — neither of which state of facts exist in this case and if col wheeler did not know this he ought lo have known it now where is tbe law lhat authorizes the go vernor to order a couit martial on a brigadier general .' or where is the law tbat fixes a lime that a brigadier general shall make his return ? such law cannot be found because it has never been enacted and yet without any law or any justification he demands of he governor a court marlial on me i sincerely wish that such a law existed then i could have a court martial in my case when my official acts could be triumphantly vindicated and the misrepresentations and untruths of newspaper scribblers r.nd letter writers could be more fully unmasked and more generally exposed but notwithstanding all this because governor manly will not do that which there is no law ' for and which he bad no right and no powet to do he is to be called by carping newspapet scribblers a partisan governor , but i am perfectly willing that col wheel 1 er and his special friends shall entertain the belief that my delay prevented a commission from issuing to him ; which i feel sure by the way was not lhe case and shall prove it pre sently for even if it were so 1 should have the satisfaction of knowing lhat this delay re sulted in lhe awaid of justice lo the candidates and in the maintenance of republican princi ples i have already shewn that the elections were properly and legally held throughout the brig ade under my command — a larger vote wasrasl than in either ofthe other brigades constituting the division ; — that no complaints were made at the time from any quarter and that governor manly had no right in law or otherwise to or der a court martial on me ; and i shall now proceed lo shew that had this delay so much harped upon been intentional which i will yet fully prove was not the case tbat stiil my re turns were legal and also made in due time tbis position might be established in every reasonable mind by the simple statement of fact lhat my returns were made to the adju tant general some lime before the suppleraen al or amended returns of gen neal reached raleigh : and both law and justice required that this amended return should be made before the elections throughout the division could be com 1 plete and before the adjutant general could make known officially the result and before therefore the governor had the power to issue a commission now lhat this proposition may be fully understood and proved it becomes ne cessary for me to show that the first orders is sued by gen neal was nol such as the law re quires as to the counties of montgomery and stanly and in establishing this proposition i shall not attribute lo gen neal any improper motives or any unfairness in the malter or in dulge in such language as one or two newspa pets have towards me even wben 1 have done my duty — language which i cannol out of self respect stoop to notice but i will suppose it was the result of an honest error whicb to his credit was promptly corrected tinder the second order of the adju tant general by his neal issuing legal or ders to montgomery and stanly and by his sub sequent amended return : without which i re peat the governor bad no right lo issue a commission to any man well now to the law and the testimony the 40ih see of the act ol 1s36 — 37 requires the officer issuing orders to lodge said orders in the post office properly directed written on the back public service with bis name and grade and tbis is a sufficient order in law now was tbis law complied with ? i say it was not i insist lhat the ouly orders issued in the fir-t instance were nothing bul newspaper notices and that these notices never reached the colonels of montgomery and stanly at all so that they could not vote in those counties or even know what day the election was oniered on and 1 assert this on the authority of offi cial communications from the colonels ot those counties directed to gov manly in the form of official cbargps and complaints and banded to me for perusal by mr gailher and upon the authority of those and ether papers and ex hibits filed iu the adjutant general's office i further say lhat nol only the officers but many of lhe private citizens of those counties were indignant at what they regarded as an attempt to stifle the voice of iwo sovereign counties and thus virtually disfranchise them and such ihey believed was col wheeler's desire and the sequel bas shown whether ihey were not correct in their opinion 1 have heard ihese complaints again and again and i was told by lbe members of the legislature from ihose counties that they were general and that for a commission to issue placing them under the command of an individual who was unwilling tbey should have an opportunity of voting would he a monstrous outrage on the rights of tiee men and would never be submitted to they thought as everv man i have heard speak of lhe matter thinks who knows the facts tb.it lbe governor by issuing a commission to col w heeler under ch peculiar circumstances would not only hare violated the law but also the plainest principles of republican govern ment l.y thus fisting upon lhc brave soldiers of the divisii n a man who had onlj received before the returns were complete a mere plu rality of rotes and whom a majority ot the voters of sai 1 division bad pronounced at the ballot box with somi emphasis as not meriting their support but i insist further that upon lhe law quoted and the existence of these facts that the first order of gen neal was not only not legal but absolutely anil and r id as to montgomery and stanly they weri not such as lhe colonels commandant of those regi ments could have been punished for disobeying — they not having in fact been forwarded or received it may therefore be ass jm^d as true lhat no ord-.-rs weie issued at all to tlmse regiments in the first instance and was gov manly of the adjutant genera to blame for his ! surely not the mistake originated wiih gen neal and by him it o'l^bl lo have been corrected and by him it was cone ted as before mention ed there was no necessity of ordeting the election in other parts of liis biigade or of the division over again : for it there had been any irregularity of orders in other parts of the di vision they had been cured by a knowledge of the time of tbe election by the different regi ments having actually voted and by no com plaint baling been heard in any olher quarter either from tbe oflicers or otherwise and he sides the law does not ieq-iire the election to be held on the same day throughout a brigade but such limes as the commanding officer shall direct now in this case there was a remedy and the law i have alluded to points il ou with out such icmedy candidates for this oflice would be at the mercy and entire disposal of subal terns who could order the elections in some parts of a division and suppress it in others just as they mighl desire to serve a iriend or grossly wrong an enemy i have now made good my • proposition tbat gen neal's first notice was ■ no order at a but a tnere nullity — and that therefore my returns wore in in due time ant according to law since no commission coulc legally issue until bis supplemental return . reached raleigh and the case stands thus : the adjutant general and the governor pur sued the law and performed their duty and i stand acquitted of censure by every jusl and fair-minded man so far as any farther defence of my official acts is necessary i might stop did i rot stand pledged to show lhal my delay in making re turns although of no importance was never theless unintentional .- and were it not that upon this very point col wheeler holds the following t tnguage in his letter under consid • eration : — " 1 waited until the legislature ad , journed and i ih°n learned th it jen leach had made no report and had declared he would make none.1 now what mispresentations in tei meddlers may have made lo him 1 care not : for i am able fortunately to prove ibis state ment is untrue : lhat it not only carries on its face when understood its own refutation but that there are olher undeniable proofs of its falsity now the readers of the passage of colonel wheeler's letter which i have just quoted as well as those parts of it demanding without any cause but with cool effrontery a court mar tial on me would very naturally suppose es pecially after the news of the overwhelming avalanche from davie that the redoubtable colonel had swept my brigade horse loot and drag-ions !" thai after having received such a vote in davie as excites his own astonishment and lhat too where he bad never never been : but where only the blasts of fame's trump had sounded his name and proclaimed his military f»enius ; surely it would be supposed lhat his presence in the other counlies of my brigade together with his flaming speeches on war and blood — mexico and gm pillow ! — would have secured to him a tiiumphat major ity besides it is alleged that my object was to elect gen gailher and defeat him col wheeler and therefore i would not report — had " declared i would not now after all ihis fanfaronade of col wheeler whal wili the public think when tbey learn the fact lhat gen gaither received ( i javie included a clear majority in my brigade of 29 votes ! and that if i had nol repotted wheeler would have been elected and gaither defeated by some two or thtee votes so therefore lhe facts are i did report and that report resulted in the election of gen gaither a most worthy and high-minded gentleman bul i am able to show lo a still fuller de monstrate n how untrue this is and at the same lime prove beyond controversy that my delay in making returns teas imt intentional although ihey were made in due lime i carried wilh me to raleigh as i thought the returns ot the colonels commandant o rny brigade lor tbe purpose ot reporting at s..me i isjre time during tbe session and i sup pose that coi wheeler however captious and cavelling where i am concerned ii 1 bold me lo a stricter account lhan gen n al whom he so highly comjiimenis up lot tirn of his second order he made his return to the adjutant general the 23d of deccm.-.-r i cannot be complained of therefore up to that time the only reason i bad for making a re port dnriro-f session was that it would take but iitlle lime and save the trouble of transmitting bv mail and tbat i would have it to do some lime in conwi«a!ion with gen haywood about lhe la^t of december or the first of jan uary he remarked i had not made rny refirns that the others h^d come in a short time be fore we ihen spoke of what had been beard and said as to montgomery and stanly cunties atid both thought that gen neal ought at once to amend his return and give those counties lhe privilege of voting 0:t separating i totd bim i would bting up lhe papers whenever i thought of it at my quarters accordingly a lew after i did so aud wenl to lhe adjutant gener ai's office he was not in i returned t the llouse of commons nnd deposited lhe paper in the drawer a mv seat ivj»ere they reman some iwo weeks or more entirely forgotten and lhe best apology lo col wheeler is lhat when lhe house was not in session i was a mos.t constantly engaged on the judiciary or internal improvement committee ; or election eering " might anil main by day and by night for the location of the lunatic asylum at my town ; which by ibe aid of friends we sue ceed«-d at one lime iti gelting ; but which af terwards on a re consideration of lhe vote we lo and truth lo tell i fell a great deal moro in«ere»t iu these matter and in he central rail road and western turnpike a_c and lhe sittings <•! lhe h n.-e thin in that of my report ami returns bul about lhe twentieth or twenty-fifth of january i ag.;in carried the papers to the adjutant general's office and sat down to make my annual re'.urn to bim and also the return of this election and actually commenced it when to my surprise i missed the repnit of the colonel of the 7ih regi ment gen haywo 1 assisted me in search tor it in his oifice i looked for it at my desk and at my quarters did not find it and not recollecting the vote of that regiment i could i bat lime proceed ftriher w hen i reached home i found it having in lbe hurry of departure left it ; and after attend ing court three consecutive weeks i made out my returns and forwarded ihem and this closrd the matter such are lhe material facts of ibis matter fiom beginning to end and i can as i have shewn establish them in every material part by others than myself shewing that col wheeler's complains and charges throughout are gratuitous and without foundation now 1 do not say that col wheeler has as serted knowingly that wliich is false i hope he has not and therefore make no such charge — i can suppose that what i may bave said in ra leigh and elsewhere waa falsely represented to him but this i do say lhal he has endeavored to cast censure on me without any good autho rity for lbe correctness of what be bas said and written to the colonel's pot iry i shall not reply i do not conceive it is •• germaine to the issue and besides i have nol as possibly he bad my shakspeare before me one word in reply lo the article in the •• lincoln courier for i h-»ve heard from re liable sources that the f.ditor ot thai paper is a gentleman and therefore il is my duty lo notice one sentence which he uses — it teads bus : the governor seeing from jen seal's report that staal and montgom ery had not voted although legal orders to vote had been duly vent vtit by gen 7\cal and leach still withholding bis report — instead of making leach report vce now if he is ajust man — and i have beard as much of him — i hope he will retract this language since i have fully shown thai gov manlj has done his duty lhat he had no righl atml no power io make me report — that gen seal's li orders were nut legal — lhat ihe law does not prescribe a time when a brigadier general shall make returns — and in fine tbat the delay on my part was net intentional on a more attentive perusal of the article in thc carolina republican i find it substan tially a transcript of coi wheeler's letters except tbe language is coarse and abusive i shall not therefore reply lo it : for i desire lo have nothing to do wilh that individual or his dirty dollar sft-et incomplete ibis miserable quattlebum farce i have understood lhal col wheeler applied lu lhe supreme court for a mandamus lu com pel gov manly 10 issue a commission to bim notwithstanding he had been beaten and if he never knew i before be ihere probably learned that lbe supreme court had no juris diction in lhe regulation of our militia svstem : and lhat the verdict rendered against bim by the officers of the 4th division would not ba diustrbed by that high tribunal now if the leiiers written and lhe proceed ings had in ihi mailer have lieen carried on lor a political harvest i think the crop to be gathered will he exceedingly smai ; for gov manly's reputation for viriue integrity and in lellectual superiority is loo well established lo be thus affected or lo need any defence : and these wilh other sterling traits of characier make him an honor to lhe stale ; and lhe good old mother mindful of her noblest sons has iu return honored him and if further the object of those leiiers nnd newspaper squibs bave been intended indi rect iy lo injure me politically or as an officer or otherwise lhe failure will be most humilia ting to ibe projectors their aiders and abettors for as to myself i am unpretending unambi tious and litlh known — unlike col wheeler nol even desirous of appearing weekly in the public prints ! but where i am well known these productions have been regarded with pity and contempt i have received loo many tes timonials of es'eem from my friends of both po litical parlies xo fear thai such puisne efforts will injure rne wiih either no longer ago than list summer i an inform those genilerneti that notwiihslanding there was more than a a lull w hig ticket iu the field and when great exertions were made lo defeat me with au ablo and distinguished opponent i was supported bv hundieds ofmy democratic friends who voted lor me from persona attachment and whoso confidence in me i am proud to believe is not shaken i for such friends without regard to tarties and whenever unjustly attacked i will ily to their aid and denounce their assailants is ihey have mine in this case in alluding lo guv manly i have done so trilbout bis knowledge and only because at ernpts have been made to excite the public nind against bim on my accom i now take leave of this matter by regret ing lhal i have been compelled lo write this ong communication j m leach fall and winter fashions for 49 fc'50 hoiace ii be1rp *___, ftk l''3l-^-z>2'm tm 9 tt ■: his jl m ■ 1 trom new if ctf i if --:.-;- i ■ , rnn and en ls ~ t"^&x 1 ' ■•-''-'- fall v •*-'■'• vt and ir 5 ' p w ve ihem § ; - ared to ' i ii nab'e ' / ; h i and workmanlike mar " . expei i the art ot il that he <• he re-pectfolly rel ms his ' n'u and the psblic for rhtii lumhereto fare.aad vflleudeai r ... : ih>-irtavorsv horace h beard n.b ati kin daof reontry produce taken at the mar k tit tor work irft«rf , srjrt 21 '.- - t(47 i salisbury n c thursday october is 1819