SATURDAY, MARCH 12, 1836.
(QAn inquest was held in this
county, on Tuesday last, over the
body of Andrew 2nderont
found the day previous about a
mile from the house of Mr. .James
Ellinor. It appeared that the de
ceased had left the house of Mr.
Ellinor, on Monday, the 29th tilt,
in a state of intoxication, with the
intention of going home, having
declined repeated invitations to
remain all night; and that he was
not heard from until the following
v!Iondajr, when his body was
found partly devoured by hog.
The deceased was an infirm and
intemperate roan, aged about 50;
lie lived unhappy with his family
and on the day of his supposed
death, declared he had been fre
quently tempted to cut his throat,
to rid himself of his troubles.
(JThe Wilmington Advertis
er 'states that returns ofsubscrip
firms fni fnlr In the T? i ! I r?r.l
I V J .wi .-ivsvn uiv nail tlliau j
now show upwards of -$400,000,
and several places still to be heard
from. We copy the following
from an article furnished by a
correspondent of the Advertiser:
. "We should have said that esti
mating the income of tin; Wil
mington road frum other sources
than travel at $65,000: and the
number of travellers each day at
70, and their fare at $10, we have
5255,550; making a total of
S328.550; from which deduct fo
expenses, $50,000, and we have
for dividends, $270,550; which is
about 34 per cent, on $800,000,
the estimated cost of the road, and
about 27 per cent, should it cost
$1,000,000.
We will now consider the facil-
'"iivii nit ft 1 1 111 I II LI If lUdU
will offer for the transportation of
goods. I his road is to run the
entire breadth of the State in as
direct a line as possible from Wil
mington to the Roanoke and its
termination there will be about 13
miles below Gaston. It is only
tnerelore to examine the map of
the atate to perceive the various
points where or near which it will
pass. It is not those living on the
route itself that are only to be
benefitted. An extent of country
varying according to particular
circumstances will also particip
ate. Thus the man who even ne
ver thinks of raising produce to
wagon to a distantjmarket, will not
only have a market brought near
to him should the road pass his
plantation, but the planter resid
ing some 50 or 60 miles even will
have only to take his produce that
distance to the rail road deposit
and thus reap the advantage of
comparative nearness to market.
Indeed it is impossible to calculate
he number who may thus be ac
commodated or to estimate the
addition to agricultural product
which must be created.
It will be "emphatically the
Farmer's road," and the resident
above Gaston will have to descend
the River some 12 or 20 miles on
ly to meet a road leading to the
largest sea port of his own State,
and which must become one of the
most extensive markets in the
Southern country. And here it
may be remarked that Wilmington
has been the best port in the Uni
ted States for procuring an as
sorted Cargo. And when she
shall become more intimately con
nected with our productive interi
or by , the present road and bv an
.Union with the valley of the Yad-
. '". uroug" ayetteville, winch
we aye no doubt will soon be
accomplished, there will be no
article of southern production
which will not be found in abun
dance in her market. However
other parts may compete with her
" 53 Ce,rm artk,eS' Pacularly
rsiaval Stores and Lumber s,e
must remain without any 'rival.
Her situation is of easy access to!
and from the Ocean, and we ven
ture to assert that our fellow citi
zens near the Roanoke will yet
find that their goods purchased at
New York and shipped to Wil
mington will reach their destina
tion with greater despatch than
if shipped to Petersburg. We
must remember that after a vessel
enters the Capes of Virginia she
has long run to make up the Ches
apeake Bay and then up James
River, and after all perhaps rea
ches not Petersburg, but is com
pelted to slop and discharge at
City Point; while this extended in
land navigation is being made, a
vessel can, with ordinary chances,
reach Wilmington in much less
time, and goods being delivered
upon our rail road they will reach
their destination, with much quick
er despatch. It was our intention
to have presented to our fellow
citizens, some further and more
particular estimates of the proba
ble amount of transportation and
travel upon the Wilmington road,
but we have not had sufficient
time to procure them. When re
ceived, we shall present them to
the public; and we do not doubt,
but that the most incredulous will
be fully convinced that tlie road
from Wilmington to the Roanoke,
will be not only a work of great
public utility, but that it must
yield to the Stockholders ample
dividends.
Virginia. In consequence of
the expunging resolution, on
Monday, the 24lh ult. the Hon.
John Tyler, resigned his seal in
the Senate of the U. S. and on the
3d inst. the Hon. Wm. C. Rives,
was elected in his place, by the
General Assembly of Virginia.
The votes were: for Mr. Rives
S5, scattering 41 30 members
absent, on declining to vote. The
General Assembly received a let
ter from the Hon. H. VV. Leirh,
the other U. Senator, in which he
says:
I shall hold my seat, only
long enough to signalize my resis
tance to what 1 honestly believe
to be unconstitutional instructions.
I sny now, that 1 shall, in all
events, resign it, at the commence
ment of the next session of the
general assembly.
Mr. Wise, of Virginia, it ap
pears is actitig a very un-ivise
part at Washington. The House
of Representatives, of lale, has
been the theatre of repeated scenes
of violence and disorder, through
his instrumentality end during
which, the Speaker was frequent
ly compelled to call Mr. Wise to
order, &.c. On Monday, the 2d
inst. Mr. Wise having appealed
from the decision of chair, to the
House, the Globe states as fol
lows:
The House then determined
that Mr. Wise should not be per
mitted to proceed, by a vote of
100 to 1 8. It was then decided
by the House, on the appeal taken
from the decision of the Chair,
that the Speaker should be sus
tained yeas 143. nays 40. From
this it appears that the House, by
overwhelming majorities, support
ed the Speaker upon all the points
which he was called on to decide.
And we understand, from specta
tors as well as members, that the
manner of the Speaker throughout
was temperate, conciliatory, and
not in the slightest degree impera
tive. Alter the adjournment of
. me House, the bpeaker lelt. the
j hall for the purpose of going into
; his apartment as usual, to give di
rections about makiner ud the
Journal of ihe day, with his books
and papers in his hands, when, be
tween the two doors, he was ac
costed by Mr. Wise in a violent
and insulting manner, in these
words:
"1 have to say to you, sir, that
you are a damned tyrant person
allypocket the insult if you
choose."
The Speaker passed on without
noticing, Mr. Wise, further than
by making a brief pause, at the
moment the abusive language
caught his ear proceeding on
Vis way before Mr. Wise finished.
The Speaker considering it a wan
ton attempt to insult the body over
which he presided, for a refusal
on the part of the House to permit
its order to be violated by Mr.
Wise, would not enter into an al
tercation with him, believing such
a course beneath the dignity of
the station which he held.
CONGRESS.
Senate. The regulation of
the items in the fortification bill,
has of late occupied the principal
part of the time of the Senate.
House of Representatives.
On the 24th ult. Mr. lioyd, from
a majority of the committee of
elections, reported on the contes
ted election between Messrs.
Newland and Graham their re
port being adverse to the sitting
member, and in favour of Mr.
Newland's taking the seat. Mr.
Wm. U. Shepard moved to post
pone the consideration of the re
port until that day three weeks.
Mr. Bynum opposed this motion;
and alter a short discussion be
tween Messrs. Claiborne of Va.
A. H. Shepperd, Hardin, Bell,
and Hard, the report of the com
mittee was ordered to be printed.
Whereupon, Mr. Claiborne made
a counter report from the minori
ty of the committee, which was
also ordered to be printed; as was,
likewise, a written communication
presented by Mr. Graham, in re
ference to the contested election.
Mr. Richard M. Johnson of
Kentucky, from the committee on
military affairs, reported a bill to
establish an Arsenal of Construc
tion in the State of North Caroli
na; and a hill for the purchase of
certain rights or inventions of
Wm. H. Bell of North Carolina.
Riots. The city of New York
has been again the theatre of tu
multuous riotings, for several
d;iys in succession principally of
the working classes, who in bo
dies demanded higher wages from
their employers. The rioters
were, however, finally dispersed
by Col. Smith's regiment of ar
tillery, without bloodshed.
Petersburg Market, March 7.
Cotton continues in good de
mand, and sales were made last
week at 15!, 1C a 16$ and a frac
tion over. Int.
JS'cw York Market, Feb. 27.
Coiton The brisk demand no
ticed last week has been well
maintained, and prices are a shade
higher. The business done has
been chiefly for home consump
tion, and speculation, very little
having been sold for shipping.-
The sales extend to 3600 bales, of
which 1600 were Uplands, at 15
a 181 cts. the latter price for a ve
ry fine parcel; 1200 Florida, at
16 a 181 cts; 500 Mobile at 161
a 19 cts; and 300 New Orleans at
17 a 18 cts. Star.
INDIAN 1VAR.
0C?We learn that information
has been received in this city, that
General Gaines, with about twelve
hundred men, took up his line of
march from Tampa bay on the
15th ultimo, and encamped the
first night about six miles from the
fort, on his way to Fort King.
He will pursue the route taken by
Major Dade, and thus pass
through the country occupied by
the hostile Indians.
We observe in the Key West
Inquirer of the 13th ultimo, a
contradiction from the collector,
of the story which has been run
ning through the newspapers, that
the Indians had been supplied w ith
arms by the Spanish fishermen.
"Thus," says the editor, "do
mountains grow out of mole hills."
The same paper contains a letter
from Lieutenant Avord, dated at
Tampa bay, in which he states
that the commanding officer had
burnt the quarters at Fort Brooke,
and that scarce a vestige is left of
the cantonment. He adds, "Lit
tle did we think that our first suc
cor would be from the navy.
Glory ever rest npon the 'act!"
Really it seems to us that the pan
ic must have been great indeed,
when officers of the army could
act and write in this manner. We
were brought up in the west, and
have heard many tales of Indian
cruelty and bravery; but that the
Seminoles intended to attack a
fortified position, maintained by
regular troops, friendly Indians,
and some volunteer force, proba
bly to the amount of upwards of
three hundred, and delended by
cannon, is something new. In
the west the women would have
repulsed them, as they aided in
doing at Wheeling and other
places.
It seems that every place in
Florida expected Powell and his
force at the same time. He was
as reports said, at Tampa bay, at
Fort King, preparing to attach St.
Augustine in boats, and looked for
at Tallahassee. And yet for more
than six weeks the Indians have
struck no stroke, nor appeared
any where in much force. They
have done great injury, destroyed
a large amount of property, and
occasioned much waste of life; and
the situation of that part of the
territory where all this has occur
red, is greatly to be deplored.
We trust that in a short time this
lamentable state of things will be
over; but in the meantime the
strength of the Indians should not
be magnified, nor unreasonable
apprehensions be entertained, and
the exertions of our forces thus
paralyzed. Globe.
C7We have announced among
our hems of foreign news, the fact
that the King of France has ap
pointed a minister to supply the
place of M. Serrurier. As the
French Government withdrew
their minister under a false im
pression in regard to the Presi
dent's feelings and intentions, the
early appointment of successor to
Mr. Serrurier evinces a just sense
of what is proper on the part of
that great and powerful nation in
restoring amicable relations be
tween it and the United Stales.
This advance of the French Gov
ernment will, we have no doubt, be
promptly and cordially met by the
American Executive, and. every
tract of the late dissention will
soon be obliterated, except as a
matter of history. ib.
The Michigan Border JVar re
newed. We had supposed there
was an armistice between the Buc
keys and Wolverines, at least dur
ing the Seminole war. Not so.
By the Ohio papers we learn that
a Michigan officer, living north of
the constitutional hue, attempted
receutly to collect taxes from citi
zens of Sylvania, which being re
sisted, he proceeded to levy on the
stock and personal estate of sever
al respectable persons; the dwel
ling house of Col. Hoadly among
others, being broken open and
plundered during his absence.
The people enraged, collected in
a body, and -with a warrant took
the offender aud placed him in the
jail of Wood county. He has
since been bailed out. Great ir
ritation has been produced. The
officer swears vengeance. The
writer of a letter from Toledo,
dated Jan. 30, and published in
the Cincinnati Republican, says
the people in the disputed territory
never will submit to Michigan:
the smothered volcano, which has
been accumulating force within
the last 12 months, will burst out
again with all its violence and
rancor, unless prompt measures
are adopted by Congress to sup
press it. JY. Y. Star.
FThe last Western Carolin
ian asserts, on the authority of a
gentleman direct from Texas, that
the reported death at Robert Pot
ter is entirely unfounded. He is
now in Texas, and actively en
gaged in her cau!e.
Singular Phenomenon Igni
tion of human blood experiment
on a drunkard. A northern pa
per mentions an interesting expe
riment which was performed by a
medical student of South-Berwick,
Maine, on a drunkard. The
circumstances were briefly these:
Mr. Hanson Irad sometime pre
vious to his trying the experiment,
read in some of the physiological
authors that on the dissection of
the cerebrine of a defunct drunk
ard, a fluid was, discovered in its
frontal sinus, which on being ex
tracted and ignited by anatomists,
burned with a blue flame. From
this circumstance, Mr. H. was in
duced to draw the conclusion, that
during a protracted fit of intoxi
cation, the blood must be strongly
impregnated with alcohol, and a
favorable opportunity soon occur
red for testing the truth of his
conjecture. An habitual and con
firmed drunkard, came staggering
into the office cf the physician
with whom Mr. H. was a student.
This object of pity and "disgust
was inhaling an odor more resem
bling alcohol than the breath of a
human being. His eyes inflamed
and flushed, aud his whole system
had been saturated with rum for
a fortnight without cessation; dur
ing time he had taken little food,
but had swallowed two gallons oj
Rum, in the course of the previous
five days. Mr. H. remarked that
there was some danger of his per
ishing by spontaneous combus
tion, and observed to him that he
might derive considerable benefit
from being bled, giving it as his
opinion that the blood was much
encumbered with alcohol, and
that he could ignite it, or in the
words he used to the drunkard,
"set it on fire."
This last remark was followed
by a request from the drunkard
that he should be bled, which was
performed without delay. From
the odor which was perceptible to
all present the moment the fluid
followed the lancet, it was evident
that it consisted of a mixture of
blood and alcohol. This was ful
ly confirmed by the experiment
which followed. A pint bow 1 fill
ed with this fluid was handed to
one of the spectators who ignited
a match, and bringing it in con
tact w ith the contents of the bowl,
a conflagration immediately ensu
ed: burning with a blue flame for
25 or 30 seconds. Mr. H. con
cludes his account of this curious
and interesting experiment in the
following words:
The above experiment which
resulted in a phenomenon thus
brilliant, and which 1 had never
noticed either by observation or
in authors, was uot only witnessed
by myself, and the subject of it
who sat mute, astounded, and in
breathless silence, but by several
respectable gentlemen, together
with a worthy and respectable
physician, ray tutor, who were pre
sent, and who, in the subjoined
certificate vouch for authenticity
of the fact I now submit to the
public. Jacob C. Hanson.
To the Public. We the under
signed, residents of South Ber
wick, Me., do hereby certify that
we were present and witnessed the
experiment above described.
Charles)Trofton,John G. Web
ster, John Kennard.
Mammoth Snow Drift. A cor
respondent informs us that in the
town of Sandwich, New Hamp
shire, some of the inhabitants are
literally buried in snow, and one
drift on the stage road is so enor
mously large that vehicles were
t.i.- .
uiiuuie 10 get over it or go around
It; Consequently, the residents ill
.1 fx" . .
iavurcu ijuaner nave been
compelled to dig a passage way
through it, and stages and other
teams pass beneath a lofty arch of
snow! While other towns are
boasting of their big turnips;
squashes and pnrapkins, the town
of Sandwich may justly boast of
being able to exhibit the largest
snow drift. Mercantile Journal.
SfovtiQn.
Very late from Europe. -The
packet ship Independence, arrived
at New York on the 27 ult. We
have received by this arrival, says
the Mercantile Advertiser, Liver
pool papers to the 4th, and Lon
don to the 3d inst. inclusive.
The accounts of the state of the
Cotton market, are very favorable.
The political intelligence is not
of much importance.
The cotton harvest of Egypt
has not been so productive this
year as was expected. It will not
produce probably, more than
180,000 quintals; of which 80,
000 are reserved for consumption
in Egyptand for the mills yi the
Government, aud So r.
proprialed to anv . "re-
J ""Unj
peuses. -,iutx
nit i ,i i
us.es.
a . r i
ri narceionn. m ,
had been terrih! ..... ' lir?
4ih of - Januarv. ki..!?CS 0,,e
hundred prisoners (C i.i;
massacred bv .1 " T l)
u. , . mf
mils
liie body ol Cn! nu
altaiits.
horribly mutil.iu..? rr-.' e, wa
in . i
nances continued
ie diet,..
nil .1
me ,vi,
4u.ua u, aosm at the t
immediately rpti,.,u.i .. .. '
1 I I V f ' i I
The
- tl' u l IP p..
newsot the ,U. V
C CMy.
in New York o the IS-h 1 Zn
ber, had nroi!npp,i '
IIOII UOlll in
i-onduii anj pai-.
atid in the Iau
cil v. sh..:.
ubscrir.
lions were
- - vol I IT
, -j-vMtu lur me
the suflerers.
"lief U'
The public atuntion at
accordim? to ? I.... i i
n
ran
. P 'i-iicu JOUina
bHween-,he-.m,ancl.,j.(,eli J
of the fire al New Vlki j.
iiijiusjiuii oi me audit
Chambers to the Kin
8
ol the
(tA Letter received at Call;.
more irom a young gentleman cf
that city now at Valparaiso, gavs:
ue "ave accounts here statin,
that Pekin, in China, hns beet,
aesiroyeu by an Lanliqaake, and
line hnnrlrpfl tlimi.,J i
u nouses in-
gulled -so that where the cj,.
stood, there is now a black and
stagnant poo!."
llepublicnn Xominulion.
you PRESIDENT,
MARTIN VAN BUKKN, of K.y.
rOR VICE FKESIDENT,
RICHARD M. JOHNSON, of Kv.
(tPKcv. John A. Miller nil
prrach in the OM Church at t his
place, on Thursday evening ih.
U!h int. And, Dr. milium
will preach in the same place, ou
Sunday, the 20ih. Com.
Pocket Booh Lost
Y? 03T, on Tuesday evening, (bp la
mmI instant, a sheepskin
Pocket Book,
With my name on the inside of ihesirap,
containing twenty dollars in monej, i
the following notfg, (viz:) One ngwuistl-
sauc W. k. John R. Home, for onelbu
sand dollars, due in Aiijr'istVr sept'inkr
last, with a credit of five hundred dolUri,
dated the 23d February Ihm. Onea;in,
James 1'ender, for fifty six dollars, durU
January, 1831, with a credit of melvei-r
thirteen dollars. O.e neaiusl TliomU
llatlin for siily dollar, iiue lt January,
1835. One ngaii st John Crimes for
twenty-five dollars, !ue Is' January, If 2
The above notes are all made payable to
the Subsrriber. One note ptiiit
I,. Sujungtou aud Matthew H-?I. for lea
dollars 81 cents, due in 1H2, payable
Vincent Vauglian together iwili Mitw
olher papers not i collected.
A liberal n ward will be pjven to any
person, who will return said Pocket Boa
aud contents to ine.
JACOB Timm
March 2d, 10
Joticc.
rrilE SuWciiber ItHviou qua!iStJ t Feb
i nary Term, l3o as adnimiitralr(,
the estate of Thomas Lymu A c'. "0,!l,"
aii pcrsmts in..ei,i,dt..i.i WB'
! Immedia e payment, as no imiulgtH"1
M.. : .. ll tlmca Iiafi02 Cll'
Bgaiust the estate, will present 'hem '
in the time prescribed by law.Pr v " .
Ihenticated, or this notice will be pli
bar of their recovery. ,
JJcnnet T. 70,Admr.
March 8, 1836. j,
Notice.
RAN A WAV
scriber, on '
the 24i h February last, mjw
pro boy '
ISAAC,
. Ei-hteen orit.;ea
five feet six or eight inches in?-, , -
bis clothing not n co hrtrd. .
tbat he mny be lurking "fi. '
counfv. or may perUau l'af
five neighborhood, as the lat I nw
him tie was tn tue "JT ,:m.,,0tse
Nash county line, enquires 11 rj
Factory on lar river. yai.
will be paid to any person
iug said boy
me, for mil
Edjrecombe c
f ana . , m
c-..inn. nil' it
me. for ciilei Irom ;"" .ioja
r
Ed-econi! county, or coui
jail so that! get him
at i eei mm s , rr-
COFFIELD ELI-
6th March, 1836.
Cash Wanted.
RESPECTFULLY re,at .
y& ;,thtPd to me, to he to
II tho-:
inakeaa immediate- ,tl1'" '" iu
me to visit the .Norm, '
Spring and Summer s ofl-y .(L
Frances t
5t Munh, 1&35-
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