SATURDAY, OCT. 7. 1837.
G?We liave been favored by
the Hon. R. Strange, with a pam
phlet copy of the Speech of Mr.
Calhoun on the bill authorising an
issue of Treasury Notes. We ob
serve with pleasure, that this gift
ed statesman yields a liearty as
sent to the measures suggested by
the President, for separating the
fiscal operations of the Govern
ment from the banks. Mr. Cal
houn says:
"The proposed re-organization
has been called a sub-treasury; an
unfortunate word, calculated to
mislead and conjure up difficulties
and danger that do not in reality
exist. So far from an experiment,
or some new device, it is only re
turning to the old mode of collec
ting and disbursing public money,
which for thousands of years, has
been the practice of all enlighten
ed people till within the last ceu
tury." CONGRESS.
In the Senate, the following bills
were read a third time and passed:
A bill to remit duties on certain
goods destroyed by fire in New
York.
A bill making additional appro
priations for the suppression of
Indian hostilities.
A joint resolution, fixing the ad
journment of Congress on Mon
day next, the Dili inst. 'was taken
up and agreed to. In the House,
it was subsequently laid on the
table.
The sub-treasury bill is the prin
cipal theme of discussion in the
Senate.
In the House of Representa
tives, the bill to postpone the Oc
tober instalment of the Deposites
to the States, finally passed by a
vote of 118 to 106.
Mr. Stanly offered a resolution
enquiring of the Secretary of the
Treasury how many sub-treasuries
were contemplated, what new
buildings and what additional offi
cers would be required, with what
falaries and commissions, with an
estimate of the whole expense.
Remonstrances against the an
nexation of Texas, and petitions
for the abolition of slavery in the
District of Columbia, continue to
be presented in great numbers,
mostly from "female cititens."
Another decision against the
Bdnk.-w-h . will be remembered
that, immediately preceding the
stoppage of the New York banks,'
Mr. Webster was invoked to open
the campaign for the great bal
ance wheel of federalism, by a
speech at Niblo's. Then follow
ed the suspension, and it found
Mr. Webster at his post in the
"West, making those harangues for
the bank which should come in
aid of those petitions which the
Chamber of Commerce despatch
ed after him for the signatures of
the people of the West. Some of
these petitions were forwarded to
members of the Senate, to be laid
before that body, and were, by it,
referred to the Committee on Fi
nance. The committee reported
the following resolution as a re
sponse: "Resulted, That the prayer of
the respective memorialists ought
not to be granted."
Mr. Clay proposed to amend
this resolution as follows:
"That it will be expedient to es
tablish a Bank of the United
Stales whenever it shall be mani
fest that a clear majority of the
people of the United States desire
such an institution."
On mbVion of Mr. Tallmadge, it
wa3 amended thus:
"That in the opinion of this
Senate, a clear majority of the
people of the United States are
opposed to the establishment of a
National Bank, and that it is in-
expedient to .grant the prayer of
the petition." -
To this Mr. Clay proposed to
add
"But that whenever a clear ma
jority of the people of the United
Stales shall be in favor of estab
lishing a national bank it ought to
be established."
In this posture of the question
an animated debate arose, which
will be given to-morrow, but the
resolt is so decisive of the sense of
tbe Senate in regard to public opi
nion, that it cannot b'ut strike
dumb for the future all who hith
ei to hoped for a bank as a part of
the Government.
All the amendments were suc
cessively voted down. Mr. Clay's
had but IG in its favor; Mr. Tall-
madge but 3, when put as an in
dependent proposition; and the
original, as reported by the Fi
nance committee, was carried by a
majority of 31 to 15!! It as but
yesterday that Mr. Clay proclaim
ed iu a voice of thunder to the Se
nate, that the voice of the people
.demanded a bank as the only
maans of relief that there was
but one choice left a bank or re
volution and disunion. While he
was yet speaking, the House of
Representatives upon a test vote,
discredited his statement by a ma
jority of 33; and to-day the Sen
ate, after foiling all his attempts
to escape a direct vote by legisla
tive chicane, seeking disguise in
amendments on feigned issues,
finally pronounced the verdict of
the Chamber, by a vote of more
than two to erne, against all the
solemn asseveration on which he
had but the day before based his
argument, and entrenched as a
permanent position for his party.
The democratic party have now
only to guard against leaving an
opening through which the great
bank power may force its way in
to the Government through some
concealed avenue. If the door is
partially opened, so that it may
get an arm or foot thrust in, it
will presently force a passage for
the whole body. If a league of
small banks are introduced, we
have seen enough to know that
they will break down the wall to
let in the mammoth. i
Globe, 26A ult.
lndians at tVashington City.
A deputation of the Sioux Indians
are at the seat of Government,
proposing to sell their lands, for
which they ask $1,600,000; they
have been offered $ 1 ,000,000.
Another party, consisting of lo
was, Foxes and Sacs, are also
.there for the same purpose.
And, the Cincinnati Gazette
stales that, a deputation of the
Winnebagoes are on their way to
Washington City.
(t?The announcement of the
death of Judge Gaston, copied in
to our last paper, is a mistake.
William Gaston, a distinguished
merchant of avannah, is the gen
tleman who died on the 21st ult.
in New York, of apoplexy.
(I7"We see occasionally notes
of the old State Bank and of the
Newbem bank, still in circulation.
These notes after the first Monday
in next month will be worthless,
audit may be perhaps advisable
for the holders to present them
without delay to the officers of the
present Banks, by whom they are
yet redeemed.
Our University. We learn from
the Raleigh Register, that the
number of Students now enrolled
in the collegiate list is greater
than has been before it any time
during the last thirteen years; and
that the number of Freshmen and
Sophomores, which is usually, re
garded as the best evidence of
prosperity, is greater than has ev
er been known since foundation of
the Institution.
CC?The Kehukee Baptist Asso
ciation held its annual session at
Lawrence's meeting house, in this
county, on Saturday, Sunday and
Monday last. A large number ol
preachers from different sections
of the State wre present, and sev
eral churches were added to the
Association. -An immense con
course of people attended, on Sun
day estimated at upwards of 000.
The weather was very pleasant,
and the proceedings wete uninter
ruptedly conducted with the ut
most harmony and decorum.
C7"TheContentnea Baptist As
sociatiou will hold its annual ses
sion at Town Creek meetiiig
house, in this county, commencing
on Friday before the fourth Sun
day in this month.
Halifax and ffyldon Rail Road.
This Road is now in full opera
tion. Passengers travelling eith
er North or South will do well to
lake this road. A coach leaves
this place every morning, in con
nexion with the Norfolk and Pe
tersburg roads, and returns , the
same evening in time to meet the
coaches going South. Our mer
chants have received the greater
part of their supply of fall goods
by the way of the rail road. A
few weeks, and the. bridge will be
completed across the Roanoke,
when the cars may run from Hali
fax to Norfolk without the least
delay. Halifax Adv.
Rail Road. We were inform
ed, y one of the Assistant Engi
neers, that the iron would be laid
as far as Smith's Creek, by the
28lh inst. (Sept.)
As an earnest of what the
Stockholders and the public are
speedily to expect, we announce,
inai oom locomotives nave been
removed to ihe Depot, and placed
uon the track.
n ilmmgton Adv.
0CThe steamboat Boston has
completed her repairs, and will
resume her trips to Charleston, as
soon as a piston can be obtained
from that city. ib.
Meteors. The Hillsboro1 Re
corder says that on Sunday the
24th ult. in the afternoon, a mete
oric explosion "was heard in that
place, the noise of which resem
bled a heavy loaded carriage pas
sing rapidly over a rough pave
ment, and continued one or two
seconds. The noise was heard
from 18 to 20 miles round Hills
boro' in all directions.
About the same lime and on the
same day, a similar explosion was
heard in this city, and at Liberty
meeting house, ten miles north of
this place, which for a lime quite
alarmed the congregation assem
bled there, for ihe purpose of a
camp meeting.
Several meteors, somewhat a-
bove the size of the common
shnotiug star," have been re
cently seen in this vicinity.
Raleigh Stand.
Newbem Spectator. R. G.
Moore, Esq. has again associated
himself with the establishment of
the Newbern Spectator, and that
paper will be conducted as for
merly, under the firm of Pasteur
U Moore. It is enlarged in size
and improver! in appearance, and
the Editors promise to add to its
improvements if the patronaere is
extended, or the present patrons
will strictly comply with the
terras. ib.
Speedy Justice. The negro
man who murdered his master
(Hardy Jones) about a month
since, in Johnston county, was
tried at Johnston Superior Court
last week, convicted, and senten
ced to be hung on Friday, the
first of December.
Raleigh Reg.
Maine Boundary. Sir John
Harvey, the Governor of New
Brunswick, is moving up troops
from St. John's and Frederickton;
upon -the Madawaska disputed
territory. The American troops
at tloulton, on the frontier, are al
so in motion; and the forces may
meet. It is a shame and a dis
grace that Mr. Greely should be
imprisoned, for doing that in the
disputed territory, which the Brit
ish do with impunity every day in
the year. If Congress does not
take up this subject, it assents to
the disgrace and shame. ib.
Cotton, Cultivator. This is the
name given to a new inventio..,
which has just been patented at
Washington City, and which is
considered by Southern gentle
men as a very useful contrivance
for cultivating and thinning cot
ton. It is expected to do the
work of fifty men. Its operation
consists in first removing the earth
from each side the row of cotton,
to prepare it for thinning; then
thinning by means of hoes set at
regular and equal distances; and
lastly, in harrowing up the ground
after it has been passed over by
the Cultivator. ib.
GjP"The President and Direc
tors of the Literary Fund have,
we understand, fortunately suc
ceeded in procuring the services
of Mr. Charles B. Shaw, late
Chief Engineer of the Public
Works of Virginia, as Engineer
to superintend the drainyig of the
Ssvamp Lands of (his State. Mr.
Shaw is expected to enter imme
diately on the discharge of his du
ties. Raleigh Star.
INDIAN WAR.
The Jacksonville Courier of
the 19lh Bit. says: Gen. Jesun had
a 'talk' with Coa Hajo, Tuskine-
haw, and Billy Hicks, at b on
King on the 19th and 20th ult.
The former represented himself as
being an envoy extraordinary, &c.
Irom JMicanopy, Jumper, Alliga
tor, and others, of that belligerent
mass, made professions of friend
ship and as being determined to
fight no more, but as adhering to
their treaty to move West. The
General named the 1st of October,
as the time for them to be at Fort
Brooke to embark: they thoucht
the time too short, but promised
to communicate with the Chiefs
immediately the'result of this con
ference they further promised to
cause the horses recently stolen
from Fort Brooke and MicauSpy
to be returned, and to commit no
further depredations.
They state the Micasukeys,
headed by Abiaca (Sam Jones as
still being for war, but that they
were not without a hope of bring
ing them over to the peace parly.
The officers very generally dis
trust all these professions, and im
agine that we shall have a sharp
contest yet.
I hey have all left the vicinitv
of Fort Kinc by the last advices.
and have committed no depreda
tions.
More troops for Florid
x -
Gen. Atkinson of the armv. N.
West, has accepted by order of
-I III -v T
ine war Uepartment the services
C OrfM-k 1
oi ouu mounted volunteers or the
Stat of Missouri, under Maj. A.
S. Morgan. The V rendezvous at
Jefferson barracks, between the.
7tii and 15th October.
N. Y. Star.
The Chtrokees.Gen. VVonl
has arrived at Richmond- V It
is believed the sentence of the
Court Martial upon him is an Imn.
oraoie acquittal. Hicks, one of
me nan-Dreea Hierokees has pas
sed through Richmond on his
way to Washington, to effect a
change in the treaty. Col. Nel
son appointed to the regiment just
raised by Gov. Schlev. of fipnr.
gia, for the protection of the Che-
rouee country, writes from New
Echota, Sept. 7, that at a recent
council held by John Ross it was
determined not to remove but by
force. The Colonel is for war
and immediate action. He says
the 1500 Creeks prowling about
can now be disarmed without dif
ficulty. ib.
Texas. The Congress of Tex
as wa's to assemble at 'the city of
Houston on the 25th of last month.
The principal object held up to
View, in t hp nrncUmiMn,, r rt
j if r " in rre
sident Houston announcing the
proposed session, is, as stated in
that Document, the "serious im
pediment, growing out of the cir
cumstance of our unsettled boun-
day on the ea&t, which has re
cenlly presented itself to the exe
cution of the land law, passed by
the Congress of this republic, at
its last session."
It is reported that G en. Hous
ton, encouraged by the partial
success of the rebellion in Mexi
co, will resign his office. of Presi
dent of Texas, and take command
of an army destined to invade the
parent State.
The Tetfas Telegraph states
that a young man named Jackson
M. Parker, had been recently kill
ed by the Indians near Neuces,
and that a large parly of tlie Ca
manches were ravaging the coun
try west of the Rio Grande. The
wealthy Mexicans were removing
their families to Zacatecas, fearing
the approach of a Texian army.
Negro Stealer. Thos. Evans,
of North Carolina, was taken tip
at Charleston, S. C. charged with
selling to Mr. Ashley, of that
State, a negro boy whom he had
kidnapped. He had also decoy
ed an old negro man, whom he hi
red out. After he had disposed
of his plunder, the negroes, who
had before kept silent for fear of
being murdered, exposed the trans
action, and though the theft was
committed Saturday night, 100
miles from Charleston, the culprit
was pursued,. and within six days
lodged in jail, and the money re
covered. N Y. Star. j
An abandoned villain. A cor
respondent of the Kentucky Com
monwealth, under dale Louisville,
Sept. 1, says: At I o'clock to
day, Jones and Thompson (assu
med names) were hung for mur
dering and attempting to rob
William S. Thomas, exchange
broker, of this city. They rode
from the jail to the gallows, each
driven in a bggy by one of the
sheriffs of this county, smoking
their cigars with great calmness,
till the moment before their caps
were pulled over their eyes, ivhen
they shook hands with each other,
and without apparent trepidation,
were swung into eternity. Thomp
son was without any genius of his
own, and has been the mere exe
cutioner of the daring villany of
Jones and others. Jones has made
a donation of his Confession to
Mrs. Oldham, widow of the late
jailer: According to this, it seems
ne was uorn in England, ol good
family, and was a men ham in
London, where he failed for three
hundred and fifty thousand pounds
sterling showing assets for one
hundred and ninety one.
Here, he says, he deposited fif
ty thousand pounds, without the
knowledge of his creditors, in the
hands of a rich banker; brought
his wife and three childreu(daugh
ters, whom he educated well) to
New Vork, where, they married
respectably, and still live. At
this place his wife died, after
which he returned to London and
claimed of his banker the fifty
thousand pounds; .who, after re
peated applications, persisted in
denying all knowledge of the mat
ter. He presently met him at
some distance from the metropo
lis, and stabbed him to the hearl,
the blood gushed from his bosom,
and he dropped out of his carri
age a corpse. After this, Jones
went to the seaboard, engaged in
the naval service, excited the crew
to mutiny, murdered every soul
on board w ho refused to join his
party, except the captain's wife,
with whom he lived six or eight
months, and afterwards murdered
her. He then took id d.;n nA
crew to Africa, took on board
three hundred slaves, and steered
for the West Indies, twenty-fire j
w...tj ui wuiiui uieo soon alter
leaving the African coas.t, and be
ing pursued by a British man of
war, to escape detection, they
drowned all the others. Jones
landed at Charleston, South Ca
rolina, murdered some man for
his money, was thrown into jail,
where he lay thirteen months. He
went from thence to New Orleans,
put up at the best hotel in the ci
ty, discovered sone gentleman
boarding in the samejhouse who
had $7,000, murdered and rob
bed him in one of its passages,
and remained unsuspected, in the'
same place for stveral u.
then took a steamboat il l,e
St. Louis; on hi, tl?. ' ni k
acqua.ntance with Tliom '
connexion -with ul.nn, i. v 1 ' U
ed and robbed a man t c.'?1
of 2,000. Came to Lo ui
watched Willie S. Thuk
e.ght or ,c.dei
house on 5(h street, near Mft;n '
the most public part of lhis Vtt
at 9 o'clock iu the nioruintr ?
dered him, but were interCi
in their intended robbery bvTh
mas's servant bursting open
door at the moment il,ey ie 7
fling his drawers ofthfcirco
Jones was about forty-five fi
fifty years old, six fm J
straight and slender, well educj
led, and uncommonly preposses
ing in his manners. He was-
infidel; declined all intercoure
with our clergy (,nosi of
called on h.m) or even namW
the subject of religion in his pre!
sence. So that he who l,as prQ,
ably graced, by his presence
some of the first circles in Lot
don, and certainly possessed aa
intellect uncommonly William h
a misdirection of his gifted poj
ers, perished in a strange laud
ignomiuiously perished under tic
gallows.
Foreign Missions During i,e
year past the receipts of the Am
ricau Board of Foreign Missions
have been $252,07G 55; andil
expenditures, including t!,e
of last year, $293;45G 03.
07No less than GS9 bales of
the new cotton crop of Louisinw
arrived at New Orleans the 1 5ih"
Within the few. da s pr.vioiii
there also arrived near 4000 bar
rels of flour, 900 of which came
from Virginia.
N. Y. Star.
Washington Market, Oct. 3 -
J urpentine, new din, j 90;-,
Tar,$l 50. Whig.
Petersburg Market, Sept. 30.-
Cotton Ihe market is duli: pn
ces range from 8 lo 10 cents, a
in quality; our receipts for lie
past week have been large, caus
ing a considerable addition loth
stock on hand. There lias been
but one bale of ihe new crop bro'i
to market, such is needed lor oar
manufactories and will loinnmil
T 1 cents. Con.
The Market. Tie money mar-
ket is in :i frmu niw!iri(in. SfK
. e " i.
cie has fallen to 5 'per mil. Brit
ish Government bills have been
sold at 17 premium. Our banni
are curtailing ranidlv. ut
discount every note growing ott
ol new transactions, ulncii p,:"
sesses reasonable strength, anil al
ter doing this have money M
which they would be glad to loaf-
Genessee flour, common brand?,
is $9. The cotton market is nwrt
animated at steady prices-
Corn lends upwards. Soutberr
is worth 104 a 105 lis. per b,,5l'e''
N. Y. Jour, of Com.
MARRIED.
In this place,' on Sunday even
ing last, by H. Austin, KsQ- r
Elijah Elliott lo Mrs.
ret Ford.
DIED,
At the Hot Springs, in Vif?''
nia, on Thursday, the 28ih
Mr. Spencer D. Cotten, merely
of this place. Mr. Gotten wa511
many years at the head ol uie
mercantile - esiaoiism'c"1 .
;i!orr w,i p teemed i";
his correct mode of dealing
i lie suavity oi ins iii'"-'-
wn nut nf nur most wealll'Vi 1
. ii' ...... t- i I ..nrirrht C'"-
leiugeni, useiui aim i-j-a
lens. He was in the 59th
nf hie nnrl tiflS left a "e 2.
two HiilHrpn. and an extensive
cle of relatives and friend
i ... . CandaV'8-1
ill mis count v, ui. -- . j
chariah Sassnettt aged abot
'earf .... Mr.
Also, on same
Lane, aged about o j
ing a wieand several t!'lu