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WHAT IS THE WORLD? What is the world, and all its joys? Fleeting shades without a form. What are pleasure's gilded joys? It tinsel wears with every btorm. What's the ball-room's giddy throng? Envy, care, and jealous fears. What's the play house' thrilling song? An interlude to mad'ning tears. What's the gambling house of woe? The carnal tomb of blasted fame, Where ambition's deadly blow Stabs the wretch then steals his name. What's the goblet's ruby wine? Disgrace, with its attendant train, Where borrowed wit will often shine, Drawn from the fever'd throbbing brain. What is pleasure? A name for fiain. And happiness? Ideal joy. What is love? An iron chain, Drawn by a fickle, foolish boy. WHAT IS MASONRY? Tis not to scan Thy fellow man And drive him from your door, Because one sin Is found within And he is old and poor. Tis not to view A brother true Expos'd to winter's storm, Nor yield relief To sooth his grief, Of bread and garments warm. Tis not to dry The widow's eye, With calculating-care, Nor yet to hear, With careless ear, The orphan's anguish'd prayer. Tis not to know A brother's woe, From slander's sharpest tooth, And join the cry, To aid the lie That triumphs over truth. But tis to be Of charity The herald and the hand; To feed the poor That seek your door, And clothe the naked band. And tis to know The widow's woe, To feel and to relieve, To wipe sincere The orphan's tear; And soothe the hearts that grieve; Freemasonry Is charity Upon a general scale, That feels for all, Both great and small And ne'er ou earth can fail. From realms of lighf, In glory bright, The lovely genius came, Great nature smil'd Upon her child, And first pronoune'd her name. L EPITAPH. Here lies my dear wife, a sad slattern and shrew: If I said I regretted her, I should lie too. Extract of a letter from Mr. Jefferson to Major Cartwright, dated Monticello June 5, 1824. With respect to our State nnd Federal Governments, 1 do not think their relations correctly understood by foreigners. They generally suppose the former subordinate to the latter. But this is not the case. They are co-ordinate departments of one simple and integral whole. To the State Governments are re served all legislation and admi nistration, in-affairs which con cern their OWn PltlTOno i-kttlir and to the Federal Government is given whatever concerns fo reigners, or the citizens of other States; these functions alone being made federal. The one is domestic, the other the for eign branch of the same gov crnment; neither having control over the other, but within its own department. There are one or two exceptions only to this partition of power. But, you may ask, if the two depart ments should claim each the Bame subject of power, where is the common umpire to decide ultimately between them? In cases of little importance or ur gency, the nrinl parties will keep them aloof i,T-V: 4u8iionable ground: but if u can neither be avoided nor compromised, a convention of the States must be culled, to ascribe the doubtful power to lhat department which they may think best. You will per ceive by these details, that we have not yet so far perfected our constitutions as to venture to make them unchangeable. But still, in their present state, we consider them not otherwise changeable than bv the authori ty of the people, on a special election of representatives for that purpose expressly: they aro until then the lex legnm. But can they be made un changeable? Can one genera tion bind another, and all oth ers, in succession for ever I think not. The Creator has made the earth for the living, not the dead. Rights and pow ers can only belong to persons, not to things, not to mere mat ter, unendowed with will. The dead are not even things. The particles of matter which com posed their bodies, make part now of the bodies of other ani mals, vegetables, or minerals, of a thousand forms. To what then are attached the rights and powers they held while in the form of men! A generation may bind itself as long as its majority continues in life; when that has disappeared, another majority is in place, holds all the rights and powers their pre decessors once held, and may change their laws and constitu tions to suit themselves. No thing then is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man. Nullification in Alabama. At Mobile, lately, an action was brought before one of the coun ty Justices by the Postmaster against the Captain of the steamboat Star, trading between Tuscaloosa and Mobile, for the recovery of the penalty prescri bed by the Gth section of the post office law for carrying and delivering'lettcrs, without hand ing them over to. the post office to be charged with postage. The justice declared that part of the act unconstitutional, and decreed that the penalty could not be recovered, and advanced some strong arguments in sup port of his decision... Rat. Star. (TTlie Selma (Alabama) Ar gus says that Solicitor Eli B. Terry, jr. was killed on the 19th ult. while attempting to ar rest a Mr. Reel. A Disclosure. By an adver tisement in the Norfolk Herald, it appears that the mysteries of Mons, Chaubert are to be un veiled. Mr. Houghton, the ce lebrated American Fire King, promised to explain to all, who would attend his performance, the means by which his fiery experiments may be effected without injury, also the antidote to the poison, a mvsterv with which Mons. Chaubert has so long astonished the world. Mons. Chaubert intends pub lishing by subscription a work on chemistry, in which he dis closes his antidote for poison. Blacks in Ohio. It will be recollected, says the Zanesville (Ohio) Gazette, that a pretty severe bill was reported last winter, but it was postponed to the first of December next. The law therefore stands as contain ed in the revised statutes of the preceding term. By that law it is provided that no resident of the State shall emplov, harbor or conceal any black or mulat to person, who has not given security according to law, undtr a penally of S100, one half to the wjormci't and tne other half to the poor of the township i which the colored person shall reside. And the employ er, moreover, makes himself lia ble lor the maintenance ot the ncirro should he become unable to support himself. It would be well lor those interested to consult the law at large. ( Ansiccr to a challenge. The eccentric II. 11. Brackenridge, one of the Judges of the Su preme Court of Pennsylvania, when a young man, was chal lenged tu hunt aduelbv an En glish officer, when he answered as tallows: "I have two objections to this duel matter. The one is lest I should hurt you, and the other is lest you should T 1 1 . It me. l no noi see any goou u wouiu do me to put a ball through your ho tly, for I could make no use of you when dead, for any culinary purpose, as I would a rabbit or a turkey; I am no cannibal to feed on flesh of men. Why then shoot down a human being of which I could make no use? For though your flesh might be delicate and tender, it wants the firmness and consistency which takes and retains sail. At any rale, it would not be fit for a long sea voyage. You micrht make a good barbacue, it is true, be ing of the nature of a raccoon or pos sum: but the people are not in the habit of barbacuing any thing that is new, now. As to vour hide, it is not worth taking off, being little bet ler than a two year old cull. So much for you. As to myself, I do not like to stand in the way of any thing that is narmtul. 1 am under the impres sion that you miirht hit me. This being the case, I think it most advi sable to stay at a distance. If you want to try your pistols, take some object, a tree or barndoor, about my dimensions. If vou hit that, send mc word, and I shall acknowledge i that if I had been in the same place, you might have hit mc." A seven fold intermarriage... A pretty considerable piece of matrimonial business has lately been transacted at Saco, Maine. On Christmas Eve, the Rev. Win. Jenkins married Thcophi lus, Richard, Thomas, Titus, Jonathan, Ebenezer, and John Ilutchcsonxo Miss Martha, E liza, Sarah Aim, Mary, Judith, Virginia, and Teggy Wells. Literary Notice. rjMIE Hon. William Gaston will deliver the Annual Address he fore the two Literary Societies at Cha pel Hill, on Wednesday, the 20h of June next, (the day immediately preceding Commencement day.) A comment on the competency of thai gentleman to discharge the duty as signed him is deemed unnecessary But it is hoped, from the pre-eminent station which he occupies as a jurist, a politician, a scholar and an orator, that the attention of the public, and especially the Alumni of the Univer sity, will be sufficiently attracted to ensure a respectable concourse of vi sitors on that occasion. Published by order of the Philanthropic Society. Slate of JVorth-Carolina, EDGECOMBE COUNTY. Court of Pleas $ Quarter Sessions, FEBRUARY TERM, 1832. Benjamin T. Stanton & others, x t i -" . f Petition Lemuel D. Berry, Adm'r of for set James Stanton, Sen. and V tlement James M. Stanton, J T nnnenrincr tn ill, c r, : , f : r the Lourt, that James M.Stanton, I e of the defe one of the defendants, is not a resi dent of this State: is therefore or dered, That publication be made in the Norlh Carolina Free Press for six weeks, that the said James M. Stan ton appear at the next term of this Court, to be held at the Court-house in Tarborough, on the fourth Monday of May next, then and there to an. svverthe allegations of the said peti tion: otherwise the said petition will be taken pro confesso as to him, and set for hearing accordingly. p Witness, Michael Hearn, Clerk of said Court, at office, the fourth Monday of February, 1832 . MICIIL. HEARN, C. C. Price adv 3:50. 33.6 (BQKBlDSo rpHE Subscribers are now opening ASSORT3IENT OF Seasonable Goods, Which they will sell at their usual low prices for Cash or Country Produce. D. RICHARDS 8? CO. Tarborough, Oct. 20, 1831. Millinery, c. THE Subscriber informs her friends and the public, that she has just received her Fall Supply of articles in her line of business, viz: Pattern Velvet and Silk bonnets, Leghorn, Dunstable, and Navarino do. Superb white and black ostrich feathers, Head dresses, ornaments, &c. Feathered and velvet Flowers, A great variety of ribbons, &c. &c The Subscriber still carries on the Millinery and Mantua-making busi ness, in all its variety. A. C. HOWARD. Nov. 5 EP. NASH & CO. have for sale the following CHARTS of the very latest edition: Chart of the West Indies, do. of Bahama Banks & Florida Const. do. Southern coast of the United States from New York to St. Augustine, do. rsoTth East coast ot N. America, do. of the Mississippi, do. of the Western ocean. do. extending from New York to Ha vana, embracing the surveys made by order of the govern ment of the United States of the coast of North Carolina, do. East coast United States. As well as a number of others equally vaiuaoie. ALSO, Ward's Lunar Tables, Blunt's American Coast Pilot, Nautical Almanacks, Bowditch's Navigator, cc. Norfolk, Va. March 2S, 1S32. Patriotic Discourse, EL1VKREI) by the Rev. Josh ua Lawrence, at the Old Church in Tarborough. on Sundar. 4th nf JnK 1830, (second edition)"for sale tit this Office. Price, 10 cents single, or Si per dozen. Tarboro', JS33 KAN AWAY from the Subscriber, in May Court week last, a bright mulatto boy named About 19 or 20 years of age, 5 feet G or 7 inches high, thick set and well built he has a scar under his jaw, (I think the left jaw,) and thick an cles. He is a shrewd fellow, and will perhaps alter his name and attempt to pass as a free man. His father is a tree negro, named Hardy Jassiter, living on Toisnot. The above re ward will be given for John's appre hension, if delivered to mc in Edge combe county, or secured in any jail so that I can get him again. All per sons are hereby forbid harboring, cm ploying, or carrying off said boy, un der the penalty of the law. SAMUEL FARMER. Nov. 28, 1831. 33 XTThe Roanoke Advocate will insert the above three times, and forward acc't to this office. List of Letters, Remaining in the Pnx.nfir Tarborough, on the 1st' day of AnriL 1 T , w.uut ij uvi vuiica for and taken out before the 1st day of July next, will be sent to the General Post-office as dead letters. Anderson Joshua h Lawrence P P Baker Moses Lawrence Wright Baxter Mrs M B Bell Bythal I Bell Ricky Bullock Robert Ceach Miller Collins Patrick Mann Daniel May Drury Esq May Drury or next triend Mercer Jacob jun Parker Thomas Philips MissSE2 Philips Dr Eth'd Pitt J P Potts Dr J VV Procter Win Kichardson Mr Sawyer Isaac 2 Sharpe Benjamin Cromwell Eliz'h an,c' empscy I Draughon Wm 2 Running Lorenzo Ellenwood I K Frizzle Henry H Grace Matthew ntrin Wm ij l"J,""s n snuriey Henry larreliesse SmithATEq nS, I8?,- '"lgpeu James limton ArlrlUnn r A'., ri Hopkins Miss Mar Walton Dr James Horn VVm Ward Rosley HuntcrMissAMCG Warren Joshua Hyman Arthur B Worsley William Jackson Mrs Pris'a Werrcll Ferraby Johnson K M Wilkeinn u KcaJolm "keison Bcnj'n 60 J- R. LLOYD, P. At Constables' Jilanks for sale AT THIS rFICE. Gins & Fanning Mills s HHHE Subscriber rcsneptfi.n,. JL forms the public, that he continues to manulacture ai nis shop in Tarbo- ough, near the onclge, GINS FANNING MILLS Of the latest and most approved con struction. He will make his work as heretofore, in the best manner ami as expeditiously ns possible. Persons will please apply to Mr. Besj. Jackson, in my absence. JOHN JVILSON. Tarboro', Nov. 2S, 1831. 15 A LL those indebted to the Subscii bers by account, are requested to call and close them by cah or nofe. KING $ GATLIX Tarboro', Jan. 19, 1832. BIOVtGJE. Y virtue of an Act of the General Assembly of the State of North- B Carolina, passed at the last session entitled "An Act to incorporate the Tarborough and Hamilton, .Rail Road Company," the undersigned Commissioners therein named, VjVc notice that Books will be opened for subscriptions on the 31st day of March next, at the following places, under the direction of the following persons viz: at Tarborough, under the direc tion of Michael Hearn, Theophilus Parker and Spencer D. Gotten in the town of Hamilton, under the di rection of James L. G. Baker, WiU liam R. Bennett and Exum L. Lowe in the town of Williamston, under the direction of James B. Slade, James Shaw and Henry Gray in the borough of Norfolk, Va. under the di rection of James Gordon, John New ton and John B. Roy in Elizabeth City, N. C. under the direction of John L. Bailey, William Gregory and Charles R. Kinney. It is confidently believed that no stock has heretofore been offered to the citizens of North-Carolina, which has had so many claims to their at tention ?s the present Rail Road, whether individual profit or the gen eral prosperity of the country be ta ken into the estimate. It will con nect two rivers and make a safe and speedy market for all the produce which shall be collected at Tarbo rough, the most prosperous town on Tar river. The distance is short, the intervening country level, and the most durable timber is to be had con veniently on the whole route. When this Rail Road shall be completed, our neighbors of the counties of Nash, Franklin, Wake, Greene, Wayne and Pitt, will find a ready market for all their surplus produce at the highest price, either at Tarborough, Hamil ton, or Norfolk. We deem it useless to say more to induce subscriptions to this stock. The Company will be or ganized when 300 shares shall hot subscribed. The Commissioners will make returns to us of their proceed ings and amount of stock subscribed, with the names of the subscribers, by the first day of June next. Michael Hearn, ") Theo. Parker j Com'rs. S. D. Gotten, Feb. 27, 1S32. 2S H7"The Raleigh Star, Elizabeth City Star, and Norfolk Herald will please in sert the above until the 1st June next, and forward acc't to this office. FROFOSilEiS, For publishing by Subscription, A CONCISE HISTORY OP THE Kehukee Baptist Association, From its original rise to the present time. BY ELDER JOSEPH BIGGS, Under the supervision of a Commit tee appointed by the Kehu- tee dissociation. HIS work will be divided into two parts Part 1st. will enniain !he History of the Kehukee Association from its first organization until the year 1S03, as compiled by Elders Burkitt and Read, (omitting such parts of it as are considered superflu ous.) Part 2d, will embrace a con tinuation of the History of the Asso ciation, until the present period, by Elder Joseph Biggs, kc. CONDITION'S. The WOrk will hf nvintr1 -n rrr,A D2- per, with a fair type, and will make about 300 pages, duodecimo. It will be fur nished to subscribers, neatly bound nnd lettered, at $1 per single copy, or 10 pcl" dozen. Nov. 7, 1831- (tJPersons holding Subscription papers will please send them, on or before the 1st of April next, to El der Joseph Biggs, JVilliamston or, to Geo, Howard, Tarboro' N. C
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