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Turborough, (Edgecombe County, X. C.) Saturday, February 7, 183.5.
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tharta yo.ir, 'frriihftrf d nts t month.
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Any time, on -riving u.iiie- tlieivof ami
'paying' .'iinns i!i.i;e re-i.linij ;i a dis
tance umt im ui tilv p;y in ;lv;ince. or
give 8 rt niii!te i "terein e in tin vrinitv.
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w ill he i'.i.eileii :it iiO cents file t'l t inser
tion, nn ) "J ) ei.fs e.rh com iii n;i ice. !,nri
rcr ones ;it tint rate I'm- every lt lines.
AderiistMii''it must be m u k-,t tin- num
ber of iiiM-itions iCtp'tml. r thev i ! I be
coniinn I until nthtrivie or.lernl, an. I
rliarel ;ic cm dinU -.
Letters a'lili'sti t the Kditnr nuist be
post p-ii !. "i ibey iihv not be titenll to.
JudL- M' Leans Dunions. We
have been obliinIy fmnisfu-d witli
the r.)llov::ii; copy ot ;i letter troai
the Hon. John M'Lean, of Ohio, to
a gentleman in this St;tte, which
gives the opinions of that distinguish
ed iniliviiiu.il on important constitu
tional (Million.: Hal. Star.
Knoxrille, 23d Oct. 1S.TI.
My D vir Sir, As I am about
leaving this place for Ohio, I have
hut a lew moments to reply to
your favor of the -1st instant.
In my view, no powers can he
exercised by the Federal Govern
ment, except those which are ex
pressly delegated to it; and I
should think that the experience
we have hail, ought to convince
every one that any extension of
the Federal powers most endan
ger the permanency of the Union.
All judicial questions which
arise under the Constitution and
laws of the 'Union, are referable
to the Supreme Court of the U
ni-
ted States, and
ils decision is hnal
in such ease. This tribunal is
expressly vested with the power
to decide such questions bv the
Constitution, which was adopted
by the people of the respective
States. The Supreme Court, then,
has befm made the arbiter in such
case's by the States, and its decis
ions are binding mi all litigant
parties.
But, if a political power he as
serted by the Federal Govern
ment, which is controverted by a
State, and it cannot be made a ju
dicial question under the Consti
tution or laws of the Union, there
is no tribunal common to the par
ties; and, in such a case, effect
cannot be given to the power.
The deciion of a sovereign State
in such a ca-e is as good as the
decision of the Federal Govern
ment, and, of necessity, there
must be mutual forbearance.
An unconstitutional act of Con
gress imposes no obligation on a
State, or the people of a State, and
may b re-istorl by an individual
or a community. No one. 1 be
lieve, will controvert this.
Hut i a State bound to sub
mit to a systematic course
of oppression from the Federal
Government? I answer no. It
should remonstrate again and a
gain, until all remonstrance is vain
and useless. An appeal should
be made to the other State, in
nil the forms sanctioned by the
Constitution; and ample time
should be given for reflection.
But if all these efforts shall pro
duce no effect, and the oppres
sion be continued an oppression
'which withers the hopes of the
State, and dries up the resources
of its prosperity and the people
of the State are forced to the al
ternative of choosing, under such
circumstances, liberty or slavery,
they may, and should reject the
Latter, and assert the former by
open resistance. This is an inhe
rent and an inalienable right,
which may be asserted and main
tained by every organized com
munity. Instead of enlarging its powers
by a rule of construction, which
may be contracted or extended at
pleasure, the Federal Govern
ment should act within the sphere
allotted to it, and consider that the
true glory of our federal system
consists in attaining the great ob
jects of its formation, with the
least possihle action upon the di
versified and conflicting interests
1 of the people. In this way, and
in this way only, can this system.
so eventful in its origin, ant
which ha excited the astonish
merit and ad-niratron of the world
be made perpetual. And I need
not ay, what every enlightened
individual must admit, that upon
its perpetuity the cause of rational
liberty depends.
If time permitted. I would give
a more detailed reply to your in
quires; but I trust this very hasty
scroll, under the circumstance:
wiii be received.
Very truly and sincerely yours.
JOHN M'LEAN.
Li I entry. The Honorable
Thomas Ivuflri, Chief Justice ol
the State, wv are gratified to
learn, has been appointed to de
liver the next Annual Address
before the two Literary Societies
of our Universary. Hal. Star.
.Alabama. The resolutions
nominating the Hon. Hugh L.
White, of Tennessee, as a candi
date for the Presidency, have
passpd both branches of the Le
gislature of Alabama the House
of Representatives by a vote of
?) to 20, and the Senate by a vote
of 19 to 1 1. Tfie Huntsv'ille Ad
vocate says that nine tenths of the
South Western States are in favor
t f J u d ge White. ib.
(3 Henry Wilkes, Eq. has
been appointed Postmaster at
Halifax, in this State, in the place
of Joseph L. Simmons, Esq. re
signed. ib.
(J3"At a public meeting, held
at Walton's Cross Roads, in Cho
wan county, on .he L'Oth ultimo,
resolutions were idopted, declar
ing that a rail road from Kdenton
to Suffolk woull contribute to
the prosperity of that section of
the Slate particularly, and that of
North Carolina generally; and in
structing the members of Amena
bly from that county to vote for
all measures which may be deem
ed necessary for the construction
of such a road by individual con
tribution. ib.
fJJThr Rev. Joseph Caldwell,
the President of the University of
this State, is no more. A cor
respondent advises us that this
venerable servant of God, and
Father of Learning and Science
in our State, departed this life at
the University in Chapel Hill,
about 1 1 o'clock P. M. Tuesday
night last, f?7lh Jan., without a
struggle era vtw. Hal. Standard.
Suicide at I 'f 'ashing ton. We
learn from the proceeding6 jn jlc
Senate of tire United Ststes on
the 21st inst. that Col. John IIu
dry, of New Orleans, committed
suicide in Washington Cty on
the night of the 20th int. It ap
pears Col. Hudry behaved with
great gallantry at New Oleans
during the late war; havin par
ticularly distinguished him-elfin
the battle both of the 23c Dec.
1S14, and of the Sib Jan. IS15;
and made great pecuniary sacri
fices, having expended for nuni
lions of war, &.c. some ten to fif
teen thousand dollars. The jus
tice of his claim having been es
tablished, Mr. Benton, from the
military committee, on the morn
ing of the 21st, reported a bJl for
his relief, when it was announc
ed by Mr. Waggaman, from Lou
isiana, that Col. Hudry hail, the
night previous, committed sui
cide, through despair of receiving
relief from Congress. Some sen
sation was felt in the Senate on
the announcement. The bill was
then amended, so as to allow the
heirs and legal representatives of
the (taceased and ordered to be
engrossed for a third reading....
Enterprising. Isaac M'Coy
and others, propose to publish, on
the Kansau river, within the In
dian territory, about 300 miles
west of St., Louis a semi-monthly
periodical, to be called The In-
di Advocate, de voted chiefly
to Indian Affairs, to the devel
opement of their character and
condition, which, it is said, have
hitherto
been imperfectly under-
stood. ib.
Prolific! 'The wife of .Mr.
David A very of Westminister.
Vermont, has presented her hus
band with fire children withit.
fifteen months, one quarterly!
1 not her: Mrs. Abiza Snow,
of Brunswick, Maine, recently
made her husband the handsome
present of three boys, weighing
21 lbs., all in one day, and all do
ing well at last accounts!
"A fool for luck, nd
aith the old saw. ib. "
Great Pork Market. A cor
respondent of the Baltimore Pat
riot, under date Cincinnati, (Ohio)
Dec. 15, says: Cincinnati is the
greatest 'i'ork Market 7 in the
known world. The number of
)ogs slaughtered annually, and
the perfection and seience to
which the art of 'hog killing' has
been brought, is indeed astonish
ing. The business of butchering,
is carried on distinct from that o!
packing, and by different persons.
The most extensive establishment
of the kind, is the one on Deer
Creek, owned and conducted by
John W. Coleman. At this place,
last year, 100,S64 hog-: were
slaughtered. There are four hou
ses situated at different points on
the ground occupied, which is a
lot of eight acres the ground is
divided into pens some dO or .50
in number, where the hogs of each
owner are put by themselves, pre
paratory to the masacre. About
10 men are employed in each
house, and each ha his separate
and allotted duty to perform, and
receives on an average about
Si 2 j per day. Each house has
two scalding tubs, one at each
end, so that the work of "death
and destruction" goes on double
in each building. At each end
of the house is a small pen, into
which they crowd 40 or 50 hogs,
or as many as can possibly be got
in; then walks in on their backs,
the dark and bloody executioner,j,iian af an ;red lady, Mrs
holding in his hand a large sledge j Ii,M.(.y. nablek) make her way
hammer, with which he "deal-
death" to the unoffending victims
alter which they are dragged
inside the house, a knife passed
into the throat, and after bleed
ing a few seconds thrown into a
kettle of hoi water, from thence
to a block, where the bristles are
scraped off with iron scrapers,
made expressly for the purpose
then strung up by their hind feet
and dressed thence removed to
another room, where they remain
to cool, until morning, and then
taken on wagons to the packing
houses. It is hut little over one
minute from the time the execu
tioner enters the pen and knocks
the hog tlovvn, till he is strung up
and dressed. The bleeding,
scalding, scraping, stringing up,
and inside dressing, is all accom
plished in about a minute Thi
will be thought marvellous but
it is no more strange than true.
I have frequently witnessed wilh
astonishment the operation. At
one of Mr. Coleman's slaughter
houses he has a man that opens,
removes the offal, and completes
the dressing of three hogs in a
minute to this man (who is a
sort of king among the hog kill
ers) he pays $2 per day.
They can slaughter at each of
the houses, and have them com
pletely dressed and strung up
(preparatory to removal in the
morning to the packing houses,)
six hundred and fifty in one day,
which is altogether, at this one
establishment twenty six hundred
and this done from day light in
the morning till dark, say at this
time, about eleven hours, allow
ing 30 minules for dinner. Mr.
Coleman informed me, that he
has already killed this fall be
tween 50 and 60,000, and has
been at work but 3 or 4 weeks
the only py he receives is the
offal, consisting of the rough fat,l
oap grease and bristles this gnn-
erally nett worth 20 to 25 cents)
each hog. It is supposed h
cleared at this business Iat sea
son, (and the season lasts bul a
bout three months) some 15 or
20,000 dollars. The whole num
ber of hogs killed last year, ii
the city and vicinity, is ascertain
ed to be a little over one hundred
and twenty three thousand. Deer
('reek is a stream lunning into the
Ohio river on the eastern suburb
of the city about half a mile up
this stream, these slaughter hou
ses of Mr. Coleman are situated
and during the whole 'hog sea
son,' this stream, from the. houses
to the river, is running blood, and
generally gecs by the name ol
bloody river.
Gibers are engaged in the
slaughtering business, but not on
so large a scale as Mr. Coleman,
who is, what Yankees call, a
Smart' man.
From the slaughter house, the
bogs are conveyed in large wag
ons that hold from 25 to 40, to
the various packing houses, which
are situated in almost every part
of the city, and there weighed,
cut up, packed, &c. The pur
chasers pay for them as per the
weight, after being dressed.
These packing houses are upon
the most extensive scale. The
capital employed every year in
the 4hog business is immense,
probably about two millions of
dollars.
Knoxville, dan. 1G. We are
seldom called upon to record a
more distressing and heart lend
ing catastrophe than the occasion
of this notice.
On Friday night last, just after
those of the family at home had
retired to bed and were asleep, the
dwelling home of Mr. James
Drill, in this vicinity, took lire,
and before it was discovered the
(limes had progressed so far that
a ytiu,ng woman, a young man
and sever I children escaped with
much difficulty without their
clothes, which, with every thing
in the house, were entirely con
sumed. But mot e tnid inpludt-
out, shared the same fate of the
building and its contents. Mr.
Britt and his wife were absent at
the time on a visit for a few days
to the mother of Mrs. Britt... fteg.
Se77inole. Indians. We sta
ted in our paper last week that this
tribe would probably submit to
the U. States authorities, and be
removed beyond the Mississippi
River, without any resistance.
From a gentleman who has since
returned from Fort King, we
learn that, on I he 27lh Dec. about
250 of the tribe met and held a
talk. About one half were for
emigrating peaceably, and the res
idue were disposed to shew fight.
One of the chiefs said, he had on
hand one hundred and fifty kegs
of good powder, and that he never
would consent to go Until that
was burnt. The warriors were
generally armed with rifles.
Much apprehension was felt by
some of the white settlers, that
serious mischief would occur be
fore the tribe were removed.
Eight or ten families constantly
lodge in one house, and are arm
ed to meet emergencies. One
house has recently been robbed
of fty niture, beds.&e.
Florida Paper.
(tyA man named Shumm, who
had lived for 20 years in apparent
poverty in New-York, died in
that city early last month. Pre
vious to his death he sent for a
neighbor, who had often given
him charitable relief, to draw his
will. To the astonishment of his
neighbor he bequeathed various
sums amounting to .0,700 dollars
to children and other relatives in
Newark and Albany, and inorm-
ed him that the money in gold was
sewetj in ins oreecnes ami iiicKei. .
i i i i i -i i '
which he slept in. He also stated)
that he been a porter to n
merchant in Hamburg, and with
large sum of h$ employers money
he absconded, Arrived nt New
York, and with i bought two
houses, which were shortly after
burnt. This he considered a
judgment upon his dishonesty
With Ins remaining mea5 he
commenced business as a Tobac
conist, determined if possible G
i. . . . . .
maive restitution ot ttie amount
-. . I T r i
Moien. in a years ne accumu
1 I i 4 irr 111 i
mien i4,uuu oouars: ana was
preparing to remit it to Hamburg,
when he learned that his old cm
plo ver had a store in Philadelphia
he repaired to that city, and paid
the sum with interest, but the in
terest was returned to him.
OITThe New Brunswick, (N.
J.) Fredonian, gives an account
of atrial of extraordinary interest
which took place at the Middle
sex uyer and Jerminer. 1 he
prisoner, a young woman, was
indicted for horse-stealing.
When put upon her trial she plead
ed guilty and refused to retract
her plea, although her counsel
was permitted bv ibe consent of
the Court, to withdraw this plea
and enter a plea not guilt'.
I he story of the adventure of
the accused girl is one which
enlisted the sympathies of the
Court and jury. It is briefly as
follows. She is an English girl.
Having formed an attachment for
a young man in the service of her
father, her lover w as banished
from the house of bis employer,
and sailed for America. Shortly
after his departure, the young
woman left her father's house,
assumed man's apparel, travelled
from Yorkshire to Liverpool,
where she engaged as a common
sailor and sailed in search of her
lover. She arrived in this city,
and after wandering for some time
through the streets, she traveled
to Boston, subsequently i.o Phila
delphia, and afterwards to New
York, and started again for Phila
delphia. On her way to that city,
she stopped for a night at a bam
near Kingston, where it w as her
intention to commit suicide. She
was diverted from this course by
circumstances which eventually
exposed her situation, and result
ed in her trial and acquittal. She
caught a horse in a field near
which the barn was situated, and
rode oil towards New Brunswick.
Horse-stealing being in her own
country punishable with deathj
she probably supposed that bv
committing this crime, she would
put an end to her sufferings and
sorrows. Those facts were elicit
ed on the trial, and the iurv
brought in a verdict of not guilty.
03 A story equal to the fhinn
per of New Jersey is told ofa
deaf individual at New London,
(N. H.) named M oses Heath,
who, whenever he goes to pray,
the house in which he ives is
seized with a trembling ami jar
ring. Prodigious! A" Y. Star.
jThe southern sportsmen
are concentrating all the beauty
and swiftness of their differnt sta
bles at Columbia,(S. C.) ready to
start for the race grounds at the
adjoining places, and to meet in a
body at Charleston during the ra
ces of next month, where a sport
ing convention will be held.
The course this season will pres
ent an unusually brilliant appear
ance. The suppression of politic
al differences, and absence of lhat
extreme party spirit, will tend to
disperse that austerity and gloom
which heretofore have dimmed
the pleasant faces of many w ho,
on this occasion, will enrich the
excitement of the turf with their
lively jest and sparkling wit.
From sleepy North Carolina, two
nags, brought by Major West ex
cite attention. Lucy Ashton is
praised especially, while Don
r..i ,i i . - .
from his appearance. The Ber-
trand illy, from Kentucky, is on
the ground rendy to run for a
name. From the Carolina moun
tains, a gray tilly, called Chastity,
belonging to Col. J. E. Caihoun,
promises well, ami is freely back
ed by hercountiy boys, who plank
flown the coon skins and gold
dust freely upon m. (.'ol. Fer
guson's stable was; on the spot.
Ceoige Taylor, Esq. from Cam
den, has alr eady brought his ani
mals up. arid . numerous other
s)ortman, with their different
slaUr, are daily flocking in. to
contend for money and for
fame. if,.
83" At 0,,-aml Gtdf, (Miss.)
Mr. William C. Hillford, in the.
employ of Wils0 & McDonald,
as clerk, was killed by the dis
charge of a pistol. Ji appears that
a few evenings pieAious to his
deatii, the deceased, Mr. Hillford,
and another individual, had some
slight difficulty, and an a'tacl; was
threatened by both parties. Mr.
IL prepared himsel with a couple
of pi-tols, and loaded them. Du
ring Monday evening be retired
to his room with the pitoN in his
possesion, in rather on inebriated
state. A young gentleman, also
clerk in the same store with him,
iy the name of Dickson, went up
with the laudable intention of la
king from him the pistols. Hill-
foid gave one up. xMr. I), re
turned ami begged him to let him
have the other. Hillford refused
a struggle ensued between
them, as to who should have the
pistol, and during the struggle
the pistol accidentally went "off,
and its contents lodged in the low-
r part of the abdomen of Mr.
Hillford. He survived but a few
moments. Not ihe least blame is
attached, it is said, to Mr. Dick
sou, the young gentleman who
has been the innocent ami unwill
ing instrument of this distressing
event. ib. ' '.
Injluenzical. Almost w every
man. woman and child, within
five hundred miles of this av:ient
metropolis has suffered with the
Influenza within the
past, six
weeks. Head aches, coughs,
agues, swelled heads and levers,
are its natural offpnng, ami
sweats, poultices, blisters, herb
tea, ipecac anil senna, ihe' wea
pons wherewith to destroy them.
Mrs. Snooks, how I sneeze
my eyes are painful and my head
aches. Snooks, you have got the
influenza; you must go to bed ear
ly ami take a sweat; if your lungs
are sore, have a blister upon your
chest, and a mustard seed poultice
on the back of your neck for
headache; soak your feet in warm
water, and you will feel better
to morrow. Thus is apoor'fellow
stewed in hot water, blistered
with smoking dough, flyblown,
blistered, and his' body conver
ted into a steam generator, in his
contest with the common enemy
of his race, the influenza. There
is no dodging it: no coaxing it:
it must be met with the weapons
aforesaid, or per flercule. ten
chances to one you are'iis victim;
we are just from the1 .arena our
self, but the Edile h'ad not vet de
cided which is the victor.
Bos ten Post.
flTesterday morning a shock
ing accident occurred m the
family of J. W. Chis, Esq. of this
city, which was near being at
teiKled with fatal consequences.
It appears (from general rumour)
that Mr. Otis had occasion, a few
days since, to leave town, and
during his absence, that some per
son left at hi house, and in his
name, some ground coffee, by
the way of a sample. This coffee,
was used yesterday, and the
whole family, S in number, bare
ly escaped being poisoned to
death! Happily, however, they
are now out of danger. If there
be any suspicion that this dread
ful deed was wilfully perpetrated,
no effort should be spared to bring
to uslice the diabolical author.
A'. Y. Gazette