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; July 12, 1831.
Cheap Wholesale
Clothing Warehouse
THE Subscriber has removed his Es
tablishment from No. 18$ Maiden
lar.e to the spacious Store No. 133 Peai 1
streer, over Messrs. Hyde, Cleveland &
Co. where he will keep constantly on
hand a much more extensive assortment
than formerly. The i-tyle, make, and
materials of the CLOAKS will be greatly
improved, and will be sold at about the
same low prices as those of the last sea
son, lie lias also on hand
fl large assortment of low priced
Clothing,
Made in good style, expressly for the
Southern and Western trade, that will
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most inferior quality. Also, an assort
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Tarborough, (Edgecombe County, N. Tuesday, October 11, 1831
No Tariff of Trices.
Looking-Glasscs, c.
THOMAS J. BARROW & CO.
Importers, 8S Water st. New-York,
QFFKH FOR SALE, the largest
and most complete assortment of
Earthenware, Glass, China, plain
and gilt Looking-Glasses,c. which
the New-York market will afford,
comprising every style and variety of
the newest patterns. They return
their most cordial thanks to their
friends in the Southern States, for
their support in the persecution now
carrying on against them, for their re
fusal to join a combination in fixing
one tariff of prices for Crockery,
throughout the trade. It is mainly
attributable to the influence of our
Southern friends that we have been
enabled to survive thus far, in this
most trying situation; exposed to the
combined influence and capitol of the
whole trade, endeavoring to effect our
ruin anil expulsion from business.
Ve pledge ourselves to our friends to
give them every satisfaction in out
power as regards the quality of our
goods, the excellence of our packers
and the lownessof our prices for cash
or city acceptances; and in return, so
licit from them a continuance of their
patronage, and particularly request
those who have influence with their
friend to exert it in our behalf, as we
trust the cause is one they are all in
terested in, and much benefit will ac
crue to us from their friendly acts in
this way. It has been said, the com
bination was broken up. As it re
gards prices, this is true, and all, we
think, friends or foes will allow that
we h-ive eflected this change; but we
do assure our friends, that at no peri
od since we commenced our system
of unshackled prices were we in great-
er want of assistance than at the pre-j
sent moment. This combination of
men are leaving no means untried for
viiti-iiu i:ui luiu. ;. ..v. .!. --
VlVft tllft Old svslnm? rim- Prdit anil
character are assailed in every shape,
our importations wayiaiu anu stopped n-iuiy ui t aMiiuiuu.
in every instance where threats are! "A single fact, known, to be
sufficient to intimidate the manufac- SOf by l0SC among whom 1
turns from supplying us;-i Ucritc, v:n a decisive an-
no vexation or trouble which the ma- in.- r
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glected in this struggle to subdue us. jhinntioti in the Cabinet, to ex-
Wc once more calf upon every friend elude Mrs. Eaton from society.
of a free trade to come up to our siip- It is, that the question of exclu-
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The Cabinet Controversy. Mr.
Berrien has again addressed the Pub
lic, through the columns of the Na
tional Intelligencer, in reply to the
"multiplied misrepresentations which
are contained in the recent publication
made by Mr. Eaton." From Mr.
Berrien's reply we make the follow
ing extracts:
"I never was on terms of inti
mate friendship with Mr. Eaton.
This declaration isalike due to
myself, and to those with whom
1 have the good fortune to stand
in that relation. I have already
said that I attended his wedding.
1 did so upon an appeal made
to me, as a member of the Sen
ate as a political, not as a pri
vate friend. Circumstances
soon disclosed to me the infer
ences which would probably he
drawn from this occurrence, and
I limited myself thereafter to a
civil intercourse with Mr. Ea
ton, when wo met. I was not
in the habit of visiting him,
ettlier before or after marriage
Still I had no hostility towards
him, and in looking to the cir
cumstances so often adverted to
in this controversy, whether be
fore or at the time of his intro
duction into the Cabinet, I cer
tainly indulged no such feeling
I have before said, and now re
peat, that my conduct while
there, was studiously, regulated
to avoid olfence. I could not
gratify the loo obvious wish of
the President in this matter. 1
thought any interference on his
part, unfortunate for himself,
;,IK1 for tie country; but I did
.i... r.-.i:..
- tv iu milium: un; iuuniig
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:d bv the indis-
crcet attempt to COlltro! the so-j
- is
that and the succeeding month,
this nucrstiou had Iiclm! tried
those who composed the Cabi
net on that subject, could only
therefore have had for its ob-
Jcct l0, rfverse tllJ,t decision to
tntroduce and not to exclude.
I had no part in this matter. I
was during that winter a mem
ber of the Senate, and did not
'enter into society and my fam
ily did not reach this place un
til the following summer. I did
not believe that, as a member of
the Cabinet, I had any thing to
do with the regulations of this
society, and in connecting my
self with the community as an
individual, I conformed myself
to what appeared to me to be
already established in relation
to its social intercourse!"
"Mr. Eaton has made a la
bored effort to attribute the dis
solution of the late Cabinet to
the intrigues of the partizans of
Mr. Calhoun, rather than to the
feeling which had been excited
by the attempt to control the
social intercourse of Washing
ion. That effort is vain. Tito
public judgment on that subject
is believed to be irrevocably
fixed. However, under the in
fluence of various motives, men
may differ as to the character
of the act, among the vast ma
jority of ihe American people,
there are few, I believe, who
doubt that my colleagues and
myself might have retained our
places in the Cabinet, if, con
sistently with our sense of pro
priety, we could have taken a
different view of that subject.
"The charge that I was at
any time the partizan of Mr.
Calhoun, is utterly destitute of
foundation. Mr. Eaton cantiot
impute to me any act or expres
sion which will give the slight
est countenance to this asser
tion. In the contest of 1825,
my wishes were openly avowed,
and acted upon, in favor of Mr.
Crawford. The earliest mea
sures of the Administration
which then came into power,
and more especially in relation
to the interests of Georgia, pla
ced me, in the opposition to that
Administration, and I remained
there during the contest which
succeeded. I entered the Cab
inet in 1JJ29, as the political
friend of Gen. Jackson, with
every disposition to fulfil the
duties, which that relation pre
scribed, but with no claims up
on him as an individual, and
wilnout believing that 1 had in
curred any obligation, as such,
from the fact of having been
called there. These duties,
however, in the view which I
took of them, independently of
ail other considerations, were
sufficient to preclude mo from
being the partisan of any man.
On the contrary, I endeavored
uniformly to inculcate the pro
priety of abstaining from all
agitation of the question, who
should be the successor of Gen.
Jackson. This exposition of
my particular views would be
entirely unimportant to the pub
lic, and would not have been
presented to their notice, if a
contrary course had not been
untruly imputed to mo, for the
purpose of concealing from
them the real causes of the dis
solution of tin? bite Cabinet."
The Editor of the Halifax Advo-
cite, commenting
on
Mr. Eaton's
publication, says:
"Now we have the highest
authority for asserting that when
this combination is said to have
been entered into this dark
conspiracy against so very in
considerable a personage as
John 11. Eaton, possessing as
he did before the woman affair
was discussed, no sort of influ
ence when, we say, this plot
was first formed by Berrien,
Branch, and Ingham, to thrust
him out of the Cabinet, or rath
er, at that time, to prevent his
entrance into it, because he
was "not the friend of Mr. Cal
houn," neither Messrs. Berrien
or Branch were the partizans of
Mr. Calhoun, and Gov. Branch
in particular, was decidedly in
favor of Mr. Van Buren. This
fact can be established by the
most disinterested witnesses,
both in this State and at Wash
ington City. Further, we are
informed, at that period, Maj.
Eaton was himself undecided,
if not clearly the friend of Cal
houn; and this was long before
this imaginary distinction of
! parties rrdstcd in the Cabinet
Vol. VIII No. 8.
of Gen. Jackson, for in truth no
such division did exist. True,
Messrs. Berrien, Branch, and
Ingham did not show a deposi
tion to promote Mr. Van Buren
to the succession, but a mani
fest unwillingness to subserve
his "ambitious aspirings," and
it is equally true they were not,
nor are now, the partizans of
Mr. Calhoun. This alone is an
ample refutation of the argu
ment of Major Eaton, and the
public will believe there was
some other cause than the divi
sion among the members of the
late Cabinet in relation to tho
claims of Van Buren and Cal
houn to the succession."
The Editor of the U. S. Telegraph,
in a note attached to Mr. Eaton's
publication, says:
"It may be that Major Eaton
saw Mr. and Mrs. Calhoun's
cards in possession of Mrs. Ea
ton; but we are authorized, up
on the highest authority, to say,
that they were not left by Mr.
or Mrs. Calhoun, or by their or
der. The question then is, how
did their cards then come into
the possession of the lady! Vi
siting cards arc usually placed
within the reach of all those
who have access to the parlors
of the houses at which they are
left; and we recollect to have
heard that, about that time, sev
eral persons were, without their
knowledge, represented in the
parlor of the honorable Secre
tary, by visiting cards."
"We believe that Mr. and
Mrs. Eaton did call on Mrs.
Calhoun; and no one who knows
that accomplished lady, can
doubt that they were treated
with politeness. In this City,
it is usual for the servants to in
troduce all respectable looking
persons into the parlor. Major
Eaton was a Senator, and his
introduction by the servant was
a matter of course. That the
names of Mr. and Mrs. Eaton
were sent up, and that they
were then invited into the par
lor, we do not believe.
"There is another fact which
puu the seal of fiction on the
story of the cards. Major Ea
ton was a Senator; Mr. Cal
houn was Vice-President. The
first call was due from Mr. and
Mrs. Eaton; and no one ac
quainted with the usage on such
occasions, can believe that the
cards thus formally introduced,
and which m1akesd large a show
in Major Eaton's replyw(ir0
left by Mr. or Mrs. Calhoun, ob
by their order."
CTMr. Hunter's Poem, deli
vered lately before the Federal
Adelphi of Rhode-Island, was
highly creditable to his talents.
The subject was the destruction
of Canova's statue of Washing
ton, by the late fire at Raleigh,
N. C. His description of tho
conflagration, and his allusion
to topics connected with the
character of Washington, and
especially his references to the
scenery and history of our own
State, were highly patriotic and
poetical; and, we doubt nof,
have added to the already exten
sive reputation of our distin
guished townsman. R. 1. Rep.
C?It has been discovered that
by mixing lard with butler, sand
with sugar, water with milk, and
brickbats with cotton, that the?
k will go much farther.