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Tarborough, (Edgecombe County, A'. t) Saturday, December 5, is to
Vol. A JlXo -4 9.
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Doctor Win. KVAIVS'
SOOTIIIXG SYRUP
For child mi 'Feething,
PREPARED BY HIMSELF.
To Motlters and .Yur$ps.
THE passage of i tie Teeth through the
gums produces troublesome and dan
cerous symptoms. It i known by moth
ers that iliere is great irritation in the
ni'iuth and tiums during this process. The
gums swell, the secretion of sa!iv i is in
creased, the child is seized with frequent
a-id sudden fiis of crying, watching;;, start
Jul; in the sleep, and sp s;ns of peculiai
puis, tlie child shrieks with extreme vio
lence, and thrusts its finders into its month
If these precursory symptoms are not spee
'dilv alleviated, spasmodic convulsions uni
; versal) V supervene, and soon cause the
I dissolution of the infant. If mothers who
. Iiave their Utile babes afflicted with these
distressms: symptoms, would apply Ur
William Evans's Celebrated Soothing
Syrup, which has preserved hundreds of
infants "hen thought past recovery, from
being suddenly attacked with that fatal
malady, convulsions'
This infallible remedy has preserved
hundreds of Children, when thought past
recovery, from convulsions. As soon as
: the Syrup is rubbed on the poms, the child
will recover. This preparation is $.0 in
, norent, so efficacious, and so pleasant, that
rm rhild will refuse to let its gums be
rubbed with it. When infants are at the
age of four months, though there is no ap
pearance of teeth, one bottle of the
Syrup should be used on the gums, lo
open the pores. Parents should never be
without the Syrup in the nursery where
5 there are young children; for if a child
; wakes in the night with pain in the gums,
I the Syrup immediately gives ease bv open
I ng the pores and heating the gums; there
by preventing Convulsions, Fevers. Sic.
To the Agent of Dr. Evans' Soothing
Svrup: )p,ir Sir The great benefit
afforded to my suffering infant by your
Snoihinc Syrup, in a case of protracted
and painful dentition, must convince every
fueling parent how essenti.il an early ap
' plication of such an invaluable medicine
is lo relieve infant misery and torture. M
'"full, while teething, experienced such
, acute sufferings, that it was attacked with
convulsions, and my wife and family sup-
. posed that death would soon releaseihe
jbihefrom anguish till we procured a bot
l'p of yor Syrup; which as soon as ap
plied to the minis a wonderful change was
Priulnred, and after a few applications the
rhilil displayed obvious relief, and by con
h urine iniis use. lam glad to inform
the child has completely recovered,
aiidn.i recurrence of that awful complaint
hls since occurred; die teeth are emana
,', nVdv and the rliihl enjoys perfect
lea I tiiveynu my cheerful permission
. iis acknoAledgmeut public, and
tr,'",,.v 'e any information 0:1 ibis
, circumstance.
1 'ipu children hecr',n jn )P in pain with
litT Tf,h sUT,inur 1,1 ll,eir "n' P"1 a
e 0 the Svrnp in a tea spoon, and
' m l '11"8" 'el the child's gums be
rubber fr .,, , .
or three minutes, three
'"s a dv 1i 11
. . v It mtist not be put to the
. "nnediatelv, for n,e mik would
Wit, 1 p-SVr"?0ffl'm SOOn- When ,hp
tiviil ""-J"'" r0!ig through their gums.
rim.'-" TU '""wHiatelv apply the sV-
lu wi! prevent the children having" ,
VmnVf 1 M",er',in',t painful opera
"mpj the gums, which always
llJrn l 'e ,nol,, nuch harder to come
' and sotnetimeS canSe3 death.
j wavc of Counterfeits.
, Sin , ""Wii.Be particul ar in Durcha
JV
e Yuri V 1 100 ua"ani St.,
1Ufk,or from the
REGULAR AGENTS.
J- M. Redmond, ) .
Geo. Howard, Tarboro .
nviary, xl' Eiibeth City.
MESSAGE
From Ik Qoucrnnr of North Carolina
to the General .Assembly of the Staf
af the commencement of the Session
of 1-40.
continued )
ThisS'ate participated less in specula
ttons of th day th n any other in the Un
ion. We felt for a while the influence of
ill- general prosperity of the country, from
'he Institutions and means of other Sta'es
more thin from our own Hank capital
has increased but little for many years,
and except what funds were devoted to the
construction of Rail Roads from the surplus,
a rnall amount on loans and the credit of
the State, the ac'ive c ipital has decreased b
investments in the stocks of rail roads and
m inufacturing companies; but surely fur
nisliing a basis abundantly justifying its res
toration and increase c )mmenurately with j
our wants. And until some general arrange
ment can be made to put tho State
H inks of the country on higher ground,
and capible of more solid and useful
purposes, or the establishment of a Nation
al iianU, I would respectfully recommend
the increase of the capital of the Rank of
the State and Cape Fear, one million of
dollars each, and that the State hand over
to them equally, as her subscription of
stock, all the Cherokee bonds, and the bonds
and notes belonging to the Hoards of the
Literary Fund of North Carolina, and In
ternal Improvements, convertible as col
lected, with such other funds as can be
sp ired from other purpose; provided the
Hanks will lon o the Wilmington and
Raleigh, and Raleigh and Gaston Rail
Road Companies 300,000 to 400,000, on
the bonds of said companies, guaranteed
by the State, on the property of which
companies the State being already secured
by mortgage, at a rate of interest not ex
ceeding 6 percent, per annum, for the pe
riod of ten years, unless these compa
nies are enabled sooner to pay the same.
The higher the grounds upon which the
State.can place these Hanks, by protection
and strict supervision, the more she will
inspire public confidence, (ill the subscrip
lionand enable them the sooner to re
sume specie paymenls and extend their
usefulness. For the recommendation of
increasing the capital of our Hanks and re
quiring their aid to the Ruil Roads, 1
would endeavor briefly to assign you my
reasons.
And although I have the pleasure of con
gratulating you on the completion of two
Rail Roads in our State, which, for cheap
ness, length and rapidity of construction,
are comparable to any in the world, yet it
is attended with the regret of having to in
form you their cost and extra expenses
have exceeded their means. In short they
are in debt, and turn to you for assislance;
furtheieisno other source whence they
can and should so rightfully seek it. No
doubt they do so with reluctance, yet
this but proves the urgency ol their necessi
ties. Whatever reports may be made now by
iheir officers of the prospect of profits to
die stockholders, the advantages to the
State, lo the farmer, the land holder near
them, lo the mechanics and laborers, and
their great utility lor the d illusion ol" knowl
edge and for the concentration of troops'
im caes ot emergency, cannot now be ques
tioned. Their tiisiimcs seem now more
or less identified with the character and
prosperity of the State. Many patriotic
persons have nobly put their shoulders
to the wheels, invested their money in the
stocks of these works, & will for some time
receive less compensation than Ihey might
have done by other investments. If a
lew mouths operation of a Rail Road have
given evidence of great proflit and the
lioad needed immediate assistance, would
it be the policy of the Stale to withhold it?
I should say not Then how much more
tiie necessity of exerting the policy in grant
ing assistance to establish these Roads on
such a footing that they may freely and ful
ly test their utility.
The advantage from such improvements;
to the State, are of higher and loftier im
portance than can possibly accrue to her
from any pecuniary profits, which her in
vestment could yield. She isabiveall risk.
Hut ihe Stockholders derive or receive oth
er advantages but those arising from divi
dends, and while these are devoted to tin
payment of the debts And yielding no remu
neration cannot reasonably be expected to
enlarge their investments.
It is generally admitted, and I believe,
cannot be denied, that one half at least ol
travel has been arrested by the disastrous;
times brought upon the country, as 1 have
endeavored to show, by the acts of the
Federal Government. We may now trut
that more prosperous times will, ere long,
oe restored, and the travel resumed.
On the Het us alone" principle, the
recuneritive powers of this new country
would soon restore prosperity. But we
expect, in addition, the hearty co-operation
of the fostering powers of the General Gov
ernment in bringing about the highest state
of national prosperity 1 rather assisting and
relieving, than reviling and distressing
all the institution of the country. As the
country becomes more thickly settled, tra
vel must increase on the roads and enhance
the income in proportion. In proof of
this 1 have seen no report of the operations
of Rail Roads in this country or Europe,
which does not show an increase of re
ceipts; and their operations in our country
will yield a great increase on account of
our disposition for travel.
It would be idle, gentlemen, to talk
to you relative to the many advanta
ges resulting to the country from the estab
lishment of Rail Roads. They havt
ccaed to be experiments. Their facility
in expedition afforded to travellers, in con-
ncetion with Steam Boats and Steam Ships,
will ensure their construction where the
current of trade and travel require. The
may be subjected to mutations in profits, as
all other property ; but if correctly located,
economically constructed, and well man
aged, they must be good property to the
Stockholders; and if not, their utility to the
other interests of the country cannot be
queiioned.
The attack of the President of the United
States on Rail Roads, is exceedingly strange
and unjustifiable. In the transportation of
the mails, ditfusionof knowledge and inter
communication, the easy and quick con
veyance of armies to points where the
country may be assailed, must be decided
!y important and necessary to the Gov
ernment and favorable to the liberty of the
citizen.
Where, then, can be the sense of pro
priety of these attacks of spleen and enmity?
I am satisfied your honorable body can en
tertain no such feelings; but that you will
afford such relief and succor as is commen
surate with the means and character of
the State and the wants and merits of the
work.
It may be contended that our Rail Roads
have been injudiciously located, too expen
sively constructed, and even badly mana
aged. But we should bear in mind, that
they are our first experiments, and made
at a period when the country was in more
prosperous circums'ances, and every thing
of higher value: That both mistakes and
uunecessary expense are the usual results
of new works, but it should also be held
in remembrance that many individuals
backed their favourable opinions of these
enterprizes freely with their own money,
and that they could not have practiced any
intentional deception on the public, when
it would fall as heavily on themselves.
Suppose we should admit the fact that
our Roads have not, so far. met public ex
pectation, or even of the individual stock
holders to the full extent; yet should we
shut our eyes to the cause? Should we
not remember that the general prostration
of all other branches of business may have
reached the works on the Roads; that few
extensive works immediately prove pro
fitable: and that they have been only a few
months in operation certainly not long
enough to test their worth to the stock
holders? To all other interests, their utili
ty can be of no doubt. We see every spe
cies of property greatly sunk in value;
slaves, our most tangible and active pro
perty, depieciated at least 50 per cent;
land yet more; and lots in our most favour
ed places, scarcely selling for the cost of
improvements; very few farms yield legal
intercstj and, in the aggregate, probably
not 2 per cent, on their value; yet who so
bold as to say that we should abandon the
farm or neglect to build houses and improve
town lots?
What, it may be asked, is the cause of
such a state of things? The President of
the United States informed us, in his mes
sage at the extra session in 1837, that it
was overtrading, sumptuous living, and
the issue of too much Bank paper. But
such icasons, however, apt for other pla
ces, are totaly inapplicable to North Caro
lina. There has been no overtrading here,
no extravagant living, and less Bank is
sues than tve had twenty years ago; and
although our Bank capital was increased a
small amount four years since, we have
about the same now we had 10 years ago,
exclusive of the capital of the branch Hank
ot the United Stales, which was employed
in this State: during which time our de
mand has certainly greatly increased. It
is the want of Hank or other active capital
which has been the cause of sacrificing re
al estate and every other large amount ol
properly, when forced into market foi
cash. More is actually required, not only
to save oroDerty already existing from
changing hands at great and ruinous sacri
fices, but to assist the manuiacturer, trader,
mechanic and laborer, in the various bran
ches of butiness, and the improvement ol
j the natural advantages of the State.
Under a lesolution of your honorable
body, at its last session, I addressed a com
munication to the Governors of the sever
al States, requesting information on the
subject of Penitential i s, Lunatic and Or
phan Asylums, and Houses of R.tfuge;
from whom several interesting replies
have been received, but not sufficient to
enable me to give you mil oh light on tbos1
subjects. 1 hand you herewith marked H,
the information obtained, and submit the
following general rem irks: That all seem
to concur in their usefulness; that by the
establishment of a Penitentiary' the pun
ishment of crime may be more correctly
graduated to its atrocity. Under our pre
sent code of criminal law, many punish
ments are fixed, and others left, to ihe ca
pricious estimate of the Judge; and lo ma
ny cases neither the one or the other ap
pears so fitted as to give satisfaction to
public feeling. The result is, that in al
most every case, a petition for pardon is
preferred to the Executive, with whom it
is idle to say that the petition of many re
sptctahle persons should have no weight
Although he may be satisfied that petitions
are generally drawn by partial or prejudi
ced hands, in the absence of all informa
tion which no law provides for his guide,
he is not enabled to act satisfactorily lo
himself or justly to the btateor petitioner;
but where a doubt is raised, he feels im
pelled to act on the side of mercy.
In the establishment of Penitentiaries
and Laws for their government, punish
ments could be belter graduated to the
crime and leave less room for complaint
and petition. As they are generally used
in all christian countries, to avoid shedding
human blood and the exposure of punish
ments, in obedience to the mure advanced
slate of civilization and refinement, profit
and loss should not be a matter of consid
eration in providing the means of saving
human life and obtaining a mode of pun
ishment adapted to the crime. Regard
ing them, however, in an economical point
of view, it would probably be less burthen
some to the country than the present mode
of confinement in the jails of the coun
ties. As regards Lunatic and Orphan Asy
lums, I presume there can be but one opin
ion. The returns of the Clerks and Sheriffs of
thirty-six counties shew the number of
Lunatics to be two hundred and forty
nine of poor, wretched creatures, most of
whom call strongly on our charity and
philanthrophy for shelter, food and nur
sing; and no doubt if the number and con
uilion of the orphans could be ascertained,
the appeal to oursympaties would be equal
ly strong.
The State is abundantly ab!e to construct
the necessary building', and il only re
quires the action of your body to establish
the puncipleand place, upon which theyjmand will go, mere never was a more ap
shall be erected; the appointment of acorn- propriate period. The disbursements in
potent superintendent to visit the various' the construction would benefit every branch
establishments of the kind and collect the! of business in its vicinity, by giving
necessary information, both of Peniten- employ ment to laborers, mechanics, and a
tiariesand Lunatic and Orphan Asylums, market to the farmer; and the work could
and to commence the work as soon as the j be executed more readily, and al less cost,
niin cUii.tho nnnrnn.fi hir thp H o v ernor . than i n more prosperous times. In what
or a Board of Commissioneis raised for
that purpose and an appropriation to meet
the expenditures, placed subject to the Gov
ernor's warrant. In the mean while the
necessary code of Laws might be prepared
under a commission granted by your hon
orable body for that purpose.
Most of the counties have adopted the
common school system, and a few have
received the Slate's quota of money to aid
them in this most estimable object. The
want of School Masters is the only com
plaint which has reached me, and will, in
all probability, be the most formidable ob
stacle to further success. By applying
the proper corrective, that and all other
difficulties, I hope, may be overcome.
The several couniies which refused the a-
doptionofthesystem.no doubt acted on
mistaken views, or- wrong information;
and their participation should, in justice,
be provided for by law.
It is with the most unfeigned gratifica
tion that I congratulate Ihe General As
sembly on this work of their own, which
has placed in reach of poor parents the
opportunity of obtaining for their childien
what will so eminently improve their
moral and mental condition, to make them
better and more valuable citizen, and in
spire them with grateful feelings to their
country, which will never be forgotten in
the hour of danger.
It is with great pleasure I have to in
form you that, in obedience to the direc
tion of Ihe last session of your honorable
body, a survey of Nag's Mead has been
procured. Under their resolution, direct
ing a reporl to be made by some able and
experienced Engineer, the Board of Inter
nal! mprovements appointed Major Wal
ter Gwynn, who commenced operations
m May last, and reported to the Hoard in
June. This able and lucid report amply
sustains the propriety and importance ol
your inviting the attention of Congress to
the opening an Inlet at that point as a na-
tional work of the highest, importance.
The resolutions claiming the atie t'.ion of
our Representatives and Senators in Con
gress, were forwarded to them. The Rep
resentative from ihe first district, in which
Nag's Head is si'.uatcd, gave the subject
his prompt and unremitting attention.
A copv of the rep rt and map of the sur
vey were also forwarded to the represen
tative from that district; but it leaded
Id.n at too late a period of the session to be
acted on.
Would it not be well agrin to ure this
work on Congress? 1 am decidedly of the
opinion that the enterprise is among the
most important of any in the United States
in a national point of view, in the sa
ving of lives and vessels, and the increase
of the revenue; and to the State, in enhan
cing immensely the value of the lands and
their products, and securing a mart to a
large section of country, which has now
to seek one elsewhere at a greatly increa
sed expense and hazard. No principle
has been belter established by practice,
than the right and propriety of the Federal
Government to execute works cf national
importance; and none, in my opinion, is
more clearly so in the United States, than
opening an inlet at Nag's Head. If we
turn to the estimattsof the War Depart
ment for improvements, we shall find
many vastly inferior, under the patronage
of the General Government. It is, then,
due to the State, and pirticularly to that
section, to urge the execution of this work
on the Gov eminent.
The very able report, on this subject,
by Major Gwynn, will be submitted by
the Board of Internal Improvements; to
which 1 beg to invite your especial atten
tion. The woik for draining the swamp lands
has progressed considei ably. The Pungo
Canal is finished, and the Alligator about
half completed. The lateral ditches on
Pungo Canal are now being cut, and some
15.000 acres nearly prepared for market.
I sec no reason to doubt the wisdom of
this improvement.
1 am very clearly of the opinion that
opening an inlet at Nag's Head reclaim
ing the swamplands improving the Neu
se river as far as practicable, and thence
the construction of a rail road to Raleigh
and turnpike to the mountains and the
construction of a rail road and turnpike,
flanking South Carolina, from the head of
tide water, on the Cape Fear, to the West
form the system of improvements alike
demanded by the character and interest of
the Sta'e, to be accomplished whenever
her -means will permit.
The depressed state of the pecuniary
affairs of the country at home, and its im
paired credit abroad would not justify un
dertaking, at present, improvements of
very great extent and magnitude; but as
j far as the means which the State can com-
could the surplus money and credit of the
State be better employed, than by relie
ving the distresses of her people, and the
improvement of her natural advantages?
As an improvement particularly called
for by the wants of the State, entirely with
in her means, and important as the connec
ting I would call your attention to the im
provement of the Neuse river from Nevv
bern as far up as practicable and useful;
thence by rail road from the Wilmington
and Rdleigh Rail Road to this place, for
which the country and material are best
adapted; and thence to the mountains by
turnpike, as best suited to the use and ma
terial of construction of the country.
I his chain of improved communication
and intercourse, is due to the State, and
especially to ihe northern tier of counties,
the trade of which has been diverted from
our own markets to one in a neighboring
State. This improvement would place at
the pleasure of the farmer one or many
markets, in or out of the State, with equal
facility", and regain their iost relative posi
tion; and as il may be presumed that most
would prefer those in the State, il would
secure the profits which might otherwise
accrue to our neighboring States, and as
sist in obtaining the balance of trade in
our favor. At least, a fair competition
would be afforded. The advantages to be
derived in the purchase of West India
produce in Wilmington and Newbern,
and their better, facility for shipping will
more than equal any ad vantages iheir corn
petit itors abroad can offer.
Il is probable the stock would be readily
tak n by individuals, if companies should
be incorporated fbr that purpose, for the
iwo-fifihs or one-half of the amount, with
proper priviltges of pay ment.
Tne rail roads in our State have not had,
as yet, sufficient opportunity to test the value
of such stock; and as for investments in
turnpikes, we have but few data on which
to base an efctiuiaie. The Buncombe road