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W"3'" ' " ' '""'I".'""1"" -j inirmniwiwii i '""'-niriirnn--- rr man ' "1'ifTirniTMrninnn n twi n W hole JVo. 077. Tarborough, (Edgecombe County, JC V.) baturddy, March 3, 1838 Vol. XIV Xo. 9. 27jc Tarborough Frcss, BY GEORGE HOWARD, U publish! weekly at Two Dollars rind Fifly fr.ts per year, u paiu hi auvaiiw or, xurtc Dollars at tho expiration of the subscription year. Vr anj period less than ..a year, Twenty-five CerJs per month. Subscribers are at liberty to discontinue at any time, on giving notice thereof and paying arrears those residing at a distance must invariably pay in advance, or give a respon sible reference in this vicinity. Advertisements not exceeding a square will be inserted at One Dollar the first insertion, and 25 cents for every continuance. Longer advertise ments in like proportion. Court Orders and Ju dicial advertisements 25 per cent, higher. Ad vertisements must he marked the number of in sertions required, ot they will bo continued until otherwise ordered and charged accordingly. Letters addressed to the Editor must be post paid or they may not be attended to. Report of the Judiciary Committee on the Inte violations of the Charter of the Bank of the United States. Mr. Grundv, 1 chairman of the Judiciary Committee, has niida a very able and unanswerable report on the subject of Mr. Middle's late flagrant aad arbitrary overthrow of the old charter of the Hank of the United States, to set up liis new establishment. The report shows that, without a semblance of right, in di rect contravention of the charier, he se questrated all the property of the old bank fcr the benefit of the new that he took no steps towards "a settlement and liquida tion of the affairs and accounts of the cor poration," as expressly required by the charter that he presented no schedule ol the debts and (fleets, and allowed the Ge neral Government no access to the ac counts of an institution which it was bound to see honestly closed that, instead of w inding tip the concern, and cancelling the notes in two years, he now reports nearly $16,000,000 of its paper on hand as a banking fund, and is actually passing out millions of this money, after the insti tution is defunct, as a circulating medium. In a word, that the president has blended the two banks, and gone on with both, in Biter disregard of all law. These facts have been before alluded to in the newspapers, but they have now been the subject of investigation; have assumed an authentic shape, and have been tested by the judicial acumen of the ablest ju rists, of the country. The report, there fore, may be looked upon as a perfect le gal discussion of the matter, and ihe result of the innuirv equivalent in noint of au- tho rity, as regards public opinion, to an elaborate judicial investigation. Globe. Operations.cf the Mint. The Director of the Mint has made his annual report to Congress, and from that we have the satis faction to see that the three branch mints are near about ready to begin their opera tious. and that the one in IVorth Carolina may be considered as having begun. The commencement of operations bv these branch mints is of the utmost possible im purtance to the country in this season ol shin-plaster tickets; and it is believed that a great coinage of small silver, to wit : twenty-five cent, ten cent, and five cent pieces, will be ordered to be struck, to supply the country with silver change; and also that a large coinage of quarter eagles will be provided. The Director of the Idint, Dr. Pattekson, shows that a great increase has already commenced in the small coinage both of silver and of gold, and every citizen feels the necessity of go ing on with the small coinage until the country is amply supplied. The Director of the Mint shows that the coinage for 1837 was : Is Gold Do. In Silver, Do. Do. Do. In Copper, $1,035,910, in half eagles. 1 12,700,in quarter eagles. $1,814,010, in half dollars. G3,l 10, in quarter dollars. 104,200, in ten cents. U3,S00, in five cents. 55,583, in cents. Total, $3,200,898 The whole amount of coinage which lias taken place since the establishment of the Mint in 1793, is: ' In Gold, In Silver, In Copper, Tolal, $23,250,340 48,835,192 795,915 $72,881,448 Of this coinage, about two-thirds of the gold, to wit : fifteen millions of dollars I'as been coined since the commencement of Gen. Jackson's administration, and, of 'e silver, upwards of one half, to wit : aoout twenty-five millions ol dollars. Thus, the gold and silver coinage since Gen. Jackson's administration,, amounts to about fouty millions, and it has been EWn, heretofore, that the importations of Ppce during the same time, amount to sixty-two millions. Now, tbe question is, what has become of these immense amounts of specie? And the answer is, that it is SUPPRCSSEDby the combina tion of banks and politicians who are for forcing their depreciated paper and sliin plasteis on the General Government,' as wel as on the State Governments and the people. But they cannot SUPPRESS it much longer. The quantity of specie which will be imported this year, and the immense coinage which will take place at New Orleans, as well as at the other branch mints and the mother mint, will be so great that it will be impossible for the broken bank and shin-piaster party to con tinue the suppression. ib. Bank Favoritism. Eight Banks in the city of New Orleans loaned the enormous amount of seven millions of dollars to only twenty-nine commercial houses, and the members of these houses were Bink Direc tors. And it is for a system like this, that the opposition require the government to risk the public money; to embark all th; treasures of the Union in "commercial de- velopements," and leave its management to "whig natriots'' of this stamn ! Hal. Standard. Embezzlement. The Boston Daily Ad vertiser .say s: Un the examinational lh iNorth Lank a few days ago, it was ascer tained that there was a deticiency of large amount, .28,500. in a parcel nt money deposited in a trunU in the Keeping of the Teller. It was reported yesterday in a manner which appears to be entitles to credit, that the Teller has confessed hi participation in the embezzlement of tin money, that nearly hail" the amount has been expended, and that the residue has been loaucd, and will probably be recover ed. tt?The Galena, III. Advertiser says, that reports are in circulation, prejudical to the reputation of the bank at Dubuque. One of the rumors is, that the Cashier is a defaulter to the amount of near $4,000, and, that, the statement, made by Mm un der Oath to the Legislature, was lube. People's Bank, Bangor. A notice has been issued by the cashier ol" the People's Bank, Bangor, Me. calling ipn the stock holders of that institution to meet on the 17th of this month to consider the expe diency of surrendering their ctiaiter. What is the matter with the Baugorians? This is the second Bank which has called to gether its stockholders upon the same sub ject. Mr. Rhctt, of South Carolina. This gentleman lias written a long letter to his constituents upon the subject of Aboli tion. He is drawn forth in vindication ol his course in Congress. He had drawn up two resolutions, to be submitted to the House, which involved two distinct propo sitions 1st, a fact, "that the Constitution of the Uniied States has proved inadequate to, protect the Southern Stales in the '.it . - . . peaceaoie enjoyment oi tneir riguts a im properly; ' and 2nd, "that it is xpid:eiil that the said Constitution should bv auiK oil ed or the Union of the States dissolved." in a letter to the Editor of the Charleston Mercury, he stated this fai l; and it w as se verely remarked upon by many of the pub lic prints; and taken unconnected wiih Mr. Uhett's explanation, it is calculated to eh cil enquiry, if not alarm, as to the value of till Union. Mr. Kbett touches upon a painful sub ject, and he seems aware of the fact. But. true to the Union as well as the South, .he is not prepared to see the Constitution per verted from the purposes for which it was made. He says: "If the Constitution prove inadequate to protect the Southern Stales from aggres sion upon this vital institution, (slavery) none but an abolitionist, open or secret, in the North, or a traitor in. the South, could fail lo come to the conclusion that the Con stitution ought to be amended, or the Union dissolved Raleigh Star. (7Professor Rogers, who has recently completed a geological survey of the State of Virginia, is now submitting to the peo ple and Legislature of that State the re sults of his labors, in the form.of lectures, at the city of Richmond. This paper has several times in the course of the past two or three years, adverted to the subject of a geological survey of North Carolina, as promising incalculable advantages to be obtained from it. Almost every Slate in the Union has had such a work executed, and with results most beneficial and impor tant. The field which this Slate presents for the geologist to explore, is almost boundless in extent, anu superiauveiy run in material. The benefits that would flow from a thorough scientific examination of every county in North Carolina, may be judged of by the high value which is set upon such labors elsewhere. It would bring to light now hidden sources of wealth enhance and fix the value of those already kuovn--direct labor in the proper path to success and reward give an impulse to public improvement and filially, determine the great physical char acteristics of the State. Science, indus try, improvement, are all concerned in this matter, and would all receive from a work of the kind, a great accession of strength. Wilmington Adv. Another hvidence of the Wealth of JYorth arylina. It was staled in this pa per a few months ago, that a lot of copper had been sent here from Guilford county, on its way to New York, to be tested in quality the mine having been then re cently discovered. We understand that the lest was highly satisfactory, showing the metal to be of a superior kind, and that a quantity of the same has been ship ped from this port to England. ib. Jllorus Mullicaulis. Copy of a letter from Jos. W. Atkinson, Esq. of Pitt coun ty, North Carolina, In Wm. Prince and Sons, Proprietors of the Nurseries at Flushing, dated Jan. 11, I83S : " Gentlemen: Yours of the 2Gth Jec. requesting me to make you acquainted with my success with the Morus Mullicau lis is before me. The 2000 plants purchased from you in Nov. 1S36, were set out in April, 1837, inordinary soil, and from them we have about 10,000 plants of from 5 to G fret high. We have another Nursery, the soil of which is richer than the one we set the plants in we purchased from you. Tin plants in this nursery are from seven to nine feet high. Our trees are standing in ihe nurseries without an)' protection, and have not received any injury from the frost, with the exception of a few buds near the end of the hu bs which did not have time to ripen. Experience has established the following facts respecting the growing of the M Mult tcatili;- in N. C. That ei thcr from layers or cuttings, the tree will reach a height from 5 to 9 feet in one sum mer, agreeable to the quality of the soil That it is not necessary to move them from the. nursery, nor to protect iheiu in any way dining winterThat those planted in a rich oil may be slightly injured by the frost in consequence of their growing later in the lall, while those planted in poorer soil will mature sooner and receive no injury That any person desirous ol raising the Mullicaulis for the put pose ol feeding the silk worm, may, from a small quantity of cuttings, produce any quantity that they may stand in need ol, in a few years, with as little attention as they could raise a crop of coin."- Hal. Beg. Southern Rights.- The Convention now silting in Pennsylvania, to amend the Constitution ol thai State, is thoroughly sound on the subject of Abolition and its concomitants. A proposition to allow y gitive Slaves the right of trial by Jury bel.'ie they would be given up to their l'Mstf rs, lias been defeated by a vole of 38 Ayes lo 75 Ioes. Such a provision, hai i been adopted, would, in r fleet, have de prived every citizen of a Slave-holding State of hPs Slave who should u?eto Peun sylvania. It could only have been adopt ed by violating the Constitution ol the United States, and would have nullified the act of Congress of '93. ib. Fatalities from Fire. A friend from Lawrencevdle, Montgomery N. C informs us ol the death of Lucy Ann, a very inter esting young girl, aged about 12 years old, the daughter of George W. Hillard of that place, which was caused by her clothes taking fire at a distance from any immeuiate assistance, i lie deceased was on the 1st iiM.mt at the work shop of her father, about 100 yards distant from the dwelling House : finding her clothes in a blaze, she immediately ran -towards the dwelling, but before she arrived there, she was completely enveloped with the fire her mother seized a vessel of water, and succeeded in checking the fire, but it was loo late, the injury had already been so great, as to produce death on the second day, thereafter. Our correspondent men tions this little girl as distinguished for her excellent disposition, and sprightly inlel lect, . In our town week before last, a similar ease occurred in'the family of Gen Polk. His principal house woman, had retired to the kitchen after her day's work was over and engaged in sewing. She had fastened a candle to the wall of the chimney with a fork : alter working sometime, she fel asleep, and the candle burning below the fork, fell down upon a broom which hap pened lo be at her feet, this was set on fire, which communicated to her clothes, and when she awoke, her garments were bla zing all round her. No one being present, she raised a cry, which brought assistance bom an adjoining apartment, but there happening to be no water at hand, the un fortunate suflererer broke loose from the man who was helping her, and ran for a well some 50 yards off. Bv the time she got there, she was burned most horribly : insomuch that she died the second dav thereafter. These facts aflord warning's to parents w ho clothe their children in cot ton for the thousandth time ! Salisbury Watchman. Internal Improvement. New York has expended on internal improvements .h8. 000.000, and" authorized the expenditure 13,000,000 more. Pennsylvania has oustrucled 9G1 miles of Hail Road and Canal, at an expense of $25,000,000. II Imois appropriated in 1837. $9,600,000. or internal improvements. Maryland, ir, 1836, appropriated $8,000,000. Virginia is expended and appropriated $7,500.- 000. Michigan nuoronriiiiHil Lki vpui jf,uuu,iiuw. waiting me amount appro- df-K. frf trr at. i . pri.upd and expended by six States 35. 000,000. A'. F. Stan Methodist Confennce. The North Ca rolina Conference of the Methodist Episco pulChurch has jusl closed its annual session at Greensboro', in this Siale. Bishop Mor ris presided. The Preachers were sta tioned the ensuing year, as follows : Kaleigh District H. G. Leigh, P. E. " Raleigh City Jos. H. Davis. Raleigh Circuit Jno. E. Edwards; B. T. Blake, Sup. Tar River Wm. E. Pell. Warren -Wm. Johnson. Granville J. Goodman, R. C. May- uard. Person Jas. Pervis, Hillsboro'--W. W. Kone, I. T. Wyche. Newbern District J. Jameson. P. E. Newbern George W. Langhorue. Snow Hill Henry Aispaugh. Duplin Alfred Norman. Sampson Chappel Featherstone. Topsail Wm. J. McMasters. Trent P. Anderson. New Port Wm. W. M.Turner". Straits Wm. S. Colson. Beaufort Wm. Closs. Washington District R. J. Carson, P. E Washington James E. Joyner. . Roanoke Henry Speck, T. R. Brame. Tarhoro' Robert P. Bibb. Plymouth Wm. M. Jordan. MattsmusUeet J D. Lumsden. Pvieuse Henry Gray. Portsmouth andOcracock J.W Jack son. Danville District Peter Doub, P. E. Danville Addison Lea. Halifax W m. Carter. Franklin W. W. Allice. Alleghany J. T. Sinclair. Pillsy Ivatiia D. Culhrelh. Rockingham V in. Anderson. Caswell John Hank, Lorerzo Lea, Principal of Leasburg Academy. Robt C. Burton, Agent of Randolph Macon College. Salisbury District James Reid, P. E. Patrick D. B. Nicholson. Stokes Joshua Bethel. Surry Miles Foy. Wilkes H. H. Tippett. Iredell Tho's. Jones. Mocksville Thus. M. Sharp. Rowan J. W. Lewis. Salisbury C. P. Moorman. Davidson Wm. Wash. Greensboro Dist. Moses Brock, P. E. Greensboro' Thus. S. Campbell. Guilford Sidney D. Bumpas3. Randolph D. Barnum. Chatham J. B. Corn. Haw River Wm. Compton. Pitlsborough J. M. Boatwright. Buckhoru T. Gerrard. Orange Jno. A. Miller. Samuel S. Bryant, Agent for Greens borough Female Collegiate Institute. Edward Wadsworlb transferred lo the Va. Conference. Adjourned lo convene at Salisbury, on 30ih January, 1839. The Four Murderers of Col. Ward ar rested. The four brothers Jones wlio murdered Col. Ward near Memphis, Ten nessee, were taken January 23d on Red river, near Fulton, by a parly of gentle men from Hampstead county, Arkansas". They were condocted under strong guard to Little Rock, to be sent from there to Memphis. If a western man may in a per sonal fracas or passion plunge a bowie knife into his antagonist, he recoils' with horror at a deliberate cold blooded rnur- der, and will, as in the above instance, bo among the first lo aid the ends of justice Retribution. W e learn that John Ran dolph, Esq. formerly of this city (we be lieve) who murdered Dr. Watis at the Vicksburg Hotel, some seventeen months ago, was lately murdered by his "own slaves in the lands, near Baton -Rogue, Louisiana, on the. 28th u Ir. A man and woman had been tried, found goilty, and sentenced to be hung for ihe murder. The 19tn inst. was appointed ns the day of execution. Vir.kshnrg Sen. Jan. 15. Silly Errand Messrs. Rurlcigh and Gurm, accompanied by a colored person, of Philadelphia, named Douglass, are in St. Domingo as ng'Mits of some philanthro pists to this country, in order to ascertain the condition of the blacks there. That fine Island is a sorry commentary on abo litionism a complete waste and desert, as all the world know, since it has fallen into the hands ol the free negroes. . jy.Y. star. OCThe Tennessee Legislature ha 3 " passed a bill to establish a State B.u.U with branches, to be called the Bank of Tennessee, with a capital of five millions, founded on the credit of the State, thcr principal bank to be located at Nashville. Resolutions have also passed instructing her Senators in Congress to vote against the Independent Treasury project. Mr. Grundy has signified a determination to obey. - The Mandans not Exterminated. Wre are gratified to learn from the St. Lmii3 papers that a gentleman just arrived there from the Mandai nation reports that the rumors in circulation ol their total destruc tion by small pox are unfounded, only one fourth of them having died -a pretty lair hecatomb, however, we should call it, lo the voracity of the remorseless trader. The Mandans, as pourtrayed in Catlin's Gal lery, are the noblest of the Indian race. Uncertainty of Human Life. The Richmond Whig of the 15th inst. says; "Miss Mary Bowles, an aged lady, who had been for many years a teacher, was passing down the Main street, apparently in her usual health when she was sud denly taken ill, and fell upon the pavement senseless. She survived but a few minutes after being conveyed into Mr. Turpin's cabinet ware-room, where medical aid was immediately obtained." ' A Man and a Horse killed oW the Pro vidence Rail Road.: As ihe Providence cars were passing through Sekonk a day or two since they met at the crossing a two horse wagon, driven by a person on foot, aged about 60, nd apparently deaf. The bell of the engine was lung to no purpose. The cars struck the watron, throwing one of the horses into the culvert, which killed him instantly. The poor man saw too late his danger, and throwing himseil back into the culvert was also killed. (t?Tn the case of Delano f Stockton Si Slokes, wbich has occupied the lime of the lialtimore county court for several days, the jury, on Saturday morning, re lumed a verdict of $2500 for the Plain- tiff. The Plantiff, Mr. Delano, was in jured some time since by the upsetting of one ot Stockton & blokes' stages, and he broughtfthe action to recover damages. He laidlhemat $10,000. Bait. Chron. Bells. There is now in ihe New York Custom House from 50 to 00 bells the history of which is not a little singular. They were collected by Don Carlos from the churches and convents of Spain, aud sold as old metal, for the purpose of re plenishing his treasury; finding their way to Marseilles, they were bought by un American gentleman, and shipped to New York. These bells weigh from 200 to 1700 lbs. are represented to, be of very superior tone, and are some of them 600 yearsold. It is known that in early times, silver was largely used in casting bells- A Nice Point at Law. Blacks t on speaking of ihe right of a wife to a dower, asserts that "if land abide in a husband for a single moment, ihe wife shall be endowed thereof" and he adds, ir 'note, that, "this doctrine was extended very far by a jury in Wales, where the father and son were both hanged in oneeart; but the son was supposed to have survived the father, by appearing lo struggle ihe longest, whereby he became seized of an e6tate by survivor ship, in consequence of which scf)im his widow obtained a verdict for bsr dowel" ..1 V 1 i
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