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SATUKDAY, AUGUST 14, 1841. THE ELECTION. On Thursday, the 5ih Inst. Solomon T. Braddy was re-elected Clerk of the Supe rior Court of this county, and John Nor fleet, Clerk of the County Court. There was no opposition to cither. The following is the official statement of the votes in the several districts for Cleiks, and for or agnins?. Common Schools. For Superior Court clerk there were 10 scat tering vote?, &. 11 for County Court clerk Districts. Br' y Nor I. Sc's. No Sc's. 1 Tarboro, 61 77 31 16 2 Hrakc's, 53 59 32 22 3 Armstrong's, 75 S7 IS 6i 4 TosnotDepot,63 67 15 50 5 Sharp's, 35 41 1 40 6 Saratoga, 83 SU 25 62 7 Harterfield, 32 49 3 4- 8 Hopkins's, 33 5G 6 42 l Peel's. 29 31 12 17 10 Knight's, 36 37 19 9 11 llanell's, 30 30 I 2G 12 Ford's, 32 34 8 IS 13 IJradley's, 51 53 2 50 14 Anderson's, 19 25 2 19 15 O'NtaPs, 60 64 16 Savage's, 28 31 IS 6 17 Gardner's, 33 46 12 30 75S 879 205 517 Congress. The Land Distribution i bill is under consideration in the Senate. In the House, on the 6th ir.st. the Fiscal ; Bank bill was pished by a vote of 12S to 97. And on the 8th inst. the Sub Treasury was repealed yeas 1 34, nays S7. The Globe says: The belief gains ground hourly, that the bank will be met by a ve to. In the debate on the bank bill in the Saunders of Xorth Carolina went at length against the Bank. He stated that it was not a question decided by the peo ple at the last election. The principal question before his constituents was the testimony in Hooe's court martial, and Mr. Van Buren's gold spoons. He said the people had decided again and again against a Bank, and that the decisions, if ever there been one by the people, which he denied, had been reversed time after time, lie considered the defenders of the old bill! as more manlv, and less dangerous, am scouted the idea of dodging the Constitu tion by shielding the Bank behind the mantle of the District. He thought if the power of creating a bank here, and estab lishing branches in the States, existed. Con gress might declare that, slavery should not exist in tho District, and then every 6lave whoso foot touched this ten miles square, would be free as the vo'ers of the land. He thought it power was i once surrendered it could never be recov cred. Shocco Springs.- correspondent ofl ter of the young man, or his state of pre . i ii ' paration lor so sudden a transit lrom time, e Raleigh Register gives the following ; arp . :nfnrmfl(. the vivid description of this delightful and fashionable watering place: Shocco Springs, July 29. Air. Editor: I have often felt aston ished at the indifference manifested by the Press of North Carolina, towards the de lightful retreats for health and pleasure which our Slate affords; and I have conse quenty determined to call )'our attention to the fact, that no part of the United States affords "so much fun for so little money" as this same Shocco. Other Springs may boast of their five hundreds of Visitors, but every one knows that in such a crowd there can he but little comfoit: while shocco. with her one ortwo hundred, for whom ample room and abundjul tables are provided, promises comfort, conveni ence and rational enjoy ment to all. Here may be seen the young and the old, the gay& the grave, the laughter-loving maiden bf sweet sixteen, (whose bird-like voice ever and anon falls upon the ear like mu sic from Eilen ere the fall of man) and the dignified matron manly youlh, in the per fection of its physical development, and hoary age with its fund of wisdom and (experience, mingled in delightful contrast, and rendering this an epitome of the world wnnuui iis neaniessness or its cares. uur days are spent in intercourses with the elite of our State, denuded of its useless and oppressive forms; and when night comes, rich music summons the young and gay to me mazy wings ot the eiddv dance, in which age sometimes delights to mingle, and forgetting in the excitement of the scene its many infirmities plays o'er again the part of youth merrily trippinr it on the light frantastic toe" to the de lightlul tune of "Jim along Josey." This commingling of exercise with pleasure intellectual converse with physical action fitsus for the enjoyment of "tired na Ur . sweet restorer, balmy sleep," to ; which our clean, cool, and comfortable apartments contribute in no small degree. In the morning, those who choose it will find many a lark like companion on the path to the Spring whose fine tonic wa ters render the sound of the Breakfast Bell (which scarce rouses the sluggard from his morning nap) the most seraphic music to the anxious-listening ear. Breakfast over, we may read, or sing, or dance, or walk, or ride, or play a game of Whist, or in fine do whatever we like to amuse or ed ify ourselves or others. The Warren Sulphur Spring, (genuine Sulphur and no humbug) being hut five miles from Shocco, with every accommoda tion for the comfort and convenience of either sick or well, affords to the visitors of either place the double advantage to be de rived from the use of cither a Sulphur or Chalybeate water, and as there are many in valids who have tiied neither anil are there fore uncertain which would be most benefi cial to them, this vicinity would ofall oth ers suit them the best as a Summer retreat. At present, wc have not a crowded but a most agreeable society at each place and the good feeling subsisting between the Propri etors of the two Spring", renders the in lercourse between the visiters a source of much pleasure. Do tell your folks to come. It won't cos: much, and if they havent the money, why jest let 'em push the credit system a lectte fai ther, and the increase of health, with which they will return to their homes ami their business, will soon enable ihem to pay off all old scores and take a l'resh start. Yours, VlATOU. Remarkable Longevity. Wc learn by the recent Census, that there are 250 individual-sin the State of Noith Carolina over 100 years of age making an average of ne.uly 4 to each Count'. This speaks well for the salubrity of our climate Rul. Re The Crops. As far as we can learn, the corn crops in iNorih Carolina are very promising. i he seasons are lavoraoie, ami !wnl,l mi sinrtti'roroi' tvilhin n fi'v wpeks " ..hnn.lant eroo will be made, not- u iii,s:aiuling the backward sprin; In Virginia, we see from the Farmer's Register, that the win at crop fell con siderable short. The corn and tobacco crops are also said to be quite inferior. IVash. Rep. (jpOn the ISth inst. the son of Brister Warrick, f. rmcrly the properly of John C. Stanly, of this town, underwent the aw ful sentence of the law, at St. Louis, which he so justly merited. The late tragedy at St. Louis, in which this harden ed young wretch performed so conspi cious a part, was one of the most deliberate and cold blooded murders that has been perpetrated in modern times. Newbern Spectator. Death hy Lightning. A young man, by the name of Benjamin Holt, was killed i by lightning, on the 13ih instant, on the ' r r I I.' T T 1 larm oi ramuei rving, in ueuuerson coun ty. He was alone at the time, having bpen at work in the field some distance from the house. It appears that he had, for the purpose of being protected from a shower of rain, retired to a tree, down which the electric fiuid descended, and terminated his earthly existence. This is an addtional profof the danger of taking shelter under a tree in a thunder storm. The lightning is always attract ed by the highest object in the immediate vicinity of its descent. Of the charac- we are not informed. Highland Messenger. Cherokee Indians. We extract the fol lowing from an article written by the Ed- itorofthe "Highland Messenger," printed at Asheville, in this State; There are two settlements or towns in this State, one on the waters of Oconee Lufty river in Hay wood county, and the oiher is, we think, in Cherokee, on a creek called Cheoee. The former, (the one we visited) contains about seven hun dred people, and the latter, from four lo five hundred. Of the seven hundred in Hay wood, we saw at least five hundred. More than four hundred we saw together at a religious meeting, and without a sin gle exception, they were all conifoitably clad, and had every appearance of being as well fed anil as healthy as we would expect to find the same number of people of any nation, or m any country. 1 heir clothing was all plain, not to say coarse, but it was such as would make them altogether com fortable in most cases it was clean, and what was much to their praise, it was most ly of their own manufacture. Their cab ins presented, to be sure, but little neat ness, or what the more civilized and re fined would call comfort, but they, with their corn fields, potatoe and bean patches. presented an assurance that their owners were like for the ensuing year at least, to have an abundance of ihe necessaries of life and to he able to enjoy them under full protection fiom the inclemencies of the acusuu. n iiiwcmc iu wieir situation as it regards sustenance, we confess we were never more agreeably disappointed in our lives. They still retain many of the ancient customs of their fathers, though we were informed that many had been lost. Very few of them speak or understand the Enr. jish language, and we are much inclined to the opinion that it will be well for them to remain so, at least for a considerable time to come", as knowledge of that language would bring them into an association with a class of the whites, from whom they would be like to learn many vices, and perhaps no virtues. At present, they are proverbially sober, and for the most part industrious. They have a temperance so ciety, to which with five or six individual exceptions, they all belong, and no people on earth, adhere more rigidly to their pledge. The principal Chief informed U9 that there were but three or four individu als among them who drank spirits at all, "and these," he added, never drink here they always go among the whites to get drunk!" A fact that must be looked upon by all, as any thing else than creditable to the white man. We are satisfied ourselves, that the true cause why the Indian race has always been found to decline, and in some tribes, to become extinct, when surround ed in their settlements by the whites, is to besought for in this very fact, tfthey gn a mong the whites to get drunkX By in dulging in this propensity, they neglect to make the necessary exertions to procure a sustenance, and in consequence, live a great portion of the summer season on weeds and roots, which naturally, prepared as they are by them, induce disease, parti cularly among the children, and an exter minating death ensues. In place of declin ing, we have no sort of doubt but that they will prosper and do well, though entirely surrounded by settlements of whites, if they can be kept sober. And we have a little doubt of their being kept sober, if proper exertions be made on the part ot those whites who act as their agents, and otherwise have influence among them. Those of whom we have been speaking, have rigid laws against drunkenness, sabbath-breaking, and other more prominent vices, which they most vigorously enforce. From eighty to a hundred among them are members of the church, and at present, they are favored with the constant services of a minister, sent among them as a mis sionary, by the Methodist Church. We were particularly interested with some specimens of their mechanical skill In one instance, at his request, the Agent, (Mr. W. H. Thomas,) had supplied a sprightly young Indian with a set of black smithing tools, who went immediately to work and in a few months presented his benefactor with a percussion pistol, lo?k, stock and barrel entirely of his own man ufacture. The pistol is now in our pos session, ready at any time for the inspec tion of the curious. Finding that we were interested in their work, they kindly pro mised that at a future day, they would furn ish us with a variety of specimens done up in their best style. We cannot, in justice to our feelings, dismiss this subject without bearing our testimony in favor of the zeal, industry and perseverance with which their agent, M r. Thomas, prosecutes his labors for their true interest. We have been able to collect some inter esting matter in reference to this portion of the Cherokee nation, which, at a future day, wc may lay before our readers. Ingenious Contrivance. We lately witnessed an ingenious, and we may say wonderful piece of Mechanism, intended to answer the purpose of a clock. It is the invention ot Mr. Charles Schmidt, a native of Germany, who has lately estaohshed himself in this place as a Clock and Watch Repairer. It has been exhibited in Eng- and, and is thus described by one ol the ondon papers: "It consists of a piece of brass, something like the hour hand of a clock, mounted on an axis, passing trans- ersely through the centre, and without the appearance of any other machinery. hen suspended in the centre ot an hour circle, this instrument will always point out the hour, and if it be taken from its axis and laid on the table for three or six hours, or any other period of time, it will, when replaced, immediately point out the correct hour as if it had not been removed." Mr. Schmidt has been but a short time residing in this place, and is not much known; but, so far as he has been tried, he has given entire satisfaction in his "line of business. Lincolnlon Rep. (TpBy the existing Sub-Treasury Law one-half of all payments to the U. States, lor duties, &c. are to be made in specie, from and after the 1st inst. Attempt to Burn the Bollingbrook Hotel. On yesterday mor ning, about day break, a fire broke out in the basement sto ry of the Bollingbrook, which with some difficulty wasextinguished before any mate rial damage was done. I he fire was discovered to have com menced between the ceiling of the base ment story and the floor of the first story, and is believed to have been the act of an incendiary. Fetersburg Intelligencer. 1 Very late fron Europe. The Acadia, at Boston, brings news 12 days later. There is not much of it that amounts to much. Ireland appears to be in a sort of rebellion. The Military attended the election almost as a matter of course. The Police are out in their full strength. The Friests have been very active, and many persons have been maimed for life, and more wounded. The new Parliament was fo open August 19. Cotton is without change. There was an abundance of money. The rate of in terest was 4 per cent. Among the passengers In tbe Acadia is Mr. Swartwout, late Collector. He says he is anxious for an investigation of all his affairs in the Custom House. (JpThe St. Louis New Era states that Wm. Driscoll, who was recently tiled, con demned, and shot by a self constituted tri bunal of citizens (a mob) in Ogle county, Illinois, confessed, in the brief hour allot ted to him to die, that he had in his time murdered five men, had been accessory to the robbery of several stores, and was pri vy tothe murder of Mr. John Campbell, a few days previous. Washington Market, rfug. 11. Corn wholesale, $2 50. Bacon sides 7 a 8 cents, hams 9 cents. Naval Stores New dip, $2 10; Old, Si 65 Scrape, 70 cents. Tar, Si 10. Fish, shad, 7 a tfs. Herrings, cut, $3 25; whole, i52 50 a $3 00. Rep. DIED, In this place, on Mondav bst, Mrs. Em ily Johnston, widow of Henry Johnston, dee'd, leaving three small children. At Tarbnrough and J'ew York. AUG. 14. per Turban?. Ntw York. Bacon, - lb 7 8 10 11 Drandy, apple, gallon 50 GO 40 50 Coffee, - lb 13 1(1 ) 13 Corn, - bushel 40 45 47 52 Cotton, - lb 8 9 8 y Cotton bagging1, yard 20 25 15 16 Flour, - barrel $u GJ $5 5 J Iron, - Jb 5 b 3 4 Lard, - Jb 8 9 7 10 Molasses, - gallon 40 45 22 30 Sugar, brown, Jb 10 12 0 1) Salt, T. I. - bushel 60 65 32 33 Turpentine, barrel 150 lfiO 225 238 wheat, - bushel 65 75 120 13q whiskey, - gallon 35 40 32 31 TAKB9i:0' Male Academy. npHK Exercises of this School will re -14- commence on Monday, the 13th September next, under the direction ol Mr.Js Crtten. Tuition at the rates of J510 per month for the various English branches; for the Classic, Si 5. Board can be obtained in respectable families in ihe village and vicinity at $6 to $S per month. TRUSTEES. Aug 12, 1S4L 33 JYoticc. i 7T OST, on Saturday, Ihe 21th day of Ju ly la-t, on the road from the subscri ber's residence in Com toe to Tarboro', oi in the town of Tarboro', a bundle of TYotcs orilmifl, The greater part ol which areas follows: One Note against Fivdcnck Jones, de ceased, payable to Eiizihelh Cherry, de ceased, lor 575 S6, interest from l?i January, lfc?39. 0;e do. agiinst the same, for t!.e hire of negroes, payable to same, for $1 10, in teres! from Ihe 1st Jan. 1S10. One do. against Willis Knight, for 62, interest from 1st Jan. 1841. One do. against ihe same, for S6S, in leresl lrom 1m Jan. 1S4I. One do. against Lunsford R. Cherry, fr $76 87, interest from tth Jan. 1841. One do. against Jonathan 1'. Eason, lot SI5. One do. against Jesse C. Knight, for a bout tf70. There are several other notes, amounts not exactly n collected. The public are cautioned against trailing lor any of the a hove described notes. A suitable reward will be given lo ihe finder, on said papers being delivered to H. Au-tin & S.n, in rarboro', or lo the subscriber. S.iLLY R. JONES. Aug. 12, 1S4I. 33 Land for Sale. nnilE Subscriber being determined to remove South, will sell very low lor cash, or young negroes, THE TRACT OF LAXD, On which he lives, 4 miles from Tart oro' on the road lo Greenville, containing 376 acres, most of which is well adapted to the cultivation ef corn and cotton. Theie are i n it several apple and peach orchards ALSO, a tract lying in Martin county, containing Between 4 and 500 acres, Known as the Robertson Place, adj -lining the lands of Wilson Sherrod, dee'd, Ruffi;, Taylor, Win. Best, and others. For fur ther particulars enquire of EP. CROMWELL. August 2, 1841. 32-4 j lipb I wish to JZr" business on the ,s, of rjoU No man need make applieaUo? can brinjr test m(1,,;,i' V l0n onlessi. V . " men.," fir temperance and sobriety Ner be well skilled in cotton aJ' He me. a man who r and 5n far. hand, and who is snfficientVaL w.th arithmetic to measure nL?a,nlfd -HI. I prefer a n-,an wi,h?fer JO fX n 3 RreenvillP, 28th Jlv 1T, . jt-'i. a JJAVINC, recently unde,,00 ' "nimored in the lower coum- ' -....c mill ocuriei Fever ami vl 4 in ugh prevail at and about n0oPln5 SHOCCO SPJli rem it due lo Ihe public ,nU I d o "i-iuci me lumor, and a, 10 end, that no o,.,. nt assure ait occurred at Shocco diirinJ ,L ha that, so f,r :k I -,.ne jear, anj t a case of either in U,e vi'S ace The public m ,ybc ir ird for mv n.vil ;.,,... . cu ,naU no l i 'heir comfort would forbid am'il .." upon them ,vith res,dtorCf ..ce which all know , lle uiosi salubrious siini nD .i .uu, U U)e 31-3 JibNJOHXsox Land for Sale. 1 WISH lo sell the PI.nl io on wh;ch I now 1 1 vp, containing 1,200 or I 30o r.eivs. lying on b )tl, sides of Swift Creek 3 miles below log's mill, and 2 mie, a' hove Battleboro' Depot, in ,he county of Nash. 1 This is a valuable plantation, bind, somely situated, has a r?e two Hory dw llmg house and all other buildjnj necessary for a farm in this country. I will also sell my mill plantation in the county of Edgecombe, containing 200 aces; it has on it a good grist and" saw mill --is well timbered, and the Vi. mingion and Raleigh Rail Koad rum through it. A bargain may be had if application lie made soon, as I wish to follow ray chil dren to the South. IVILLL1M BELLAMY. Oak Forest, July 5lh, 1841. 29 PIANO FORTE .lllff JIUSIC STORE. Hp II K Subscribers respectfully announce lo their friends and the public, that hey are now opening at their Store on Sycunore street, a large assortment of Pi anos, of superior quality, FROM THE MANUFACTORY Of iTScssrs. IViiiiEis & Clark, NEW YORK, Which they submit to the examination of their friends and the public. They have !so on hand the largest & bet selection of AEiierictii and European JInsic That has ever been exhibited here. Al so, sup-ri' r Guitars, Violins, Accordeon?, Flutes, Fif.s and D.'um?-a large aort- nenl of Unman. French & English Harp? Guitar and Violin Strings. They will receive weekly from the .Northern Cities, every m?w pullralionof Mu-ic. intending to keen at all times the Ingest and most complete assortment. And b"ing both of us Teacher6, and " inor tnmn pvnpripp.PP in SPlPCtil'-Z Mil-" . ... v. ... v and Musical Instruments, we ',cPe 10 P.: enabled to keep such an assortment as"'" be pleasing, agreeable and useiui iu who will favor us with their patrona?- W,. hro- Imvp In sav also, that we shall be glad to allow purchasers of our P'an0' . l,r ll.om fV.r o reasonable tlfflC 8R Iry them, b"fore paying for them, ana will lake hick any 1'iano paw " ' . ved to be defective, even after 12 monu trial. Any Piano sold in I own cr - virons will b- kept in tune for 12 mon- gratis. CILIRLES lihtiv -gjPianos tuned and let on hire- i i ic.11 IS l rtiersD'irg, npm &10 R ft ward. , r,X n xr . ' V frnm ihe r .criber, on the 27th ot 1840. nrgro man Said Daniel is about IhiriJ ... . of iX ltl sb years ol ag", me use k. high, dark complexion, and a lin eb . . nn nnP Sid". mouth, which side not ircollecteJ a mM pio-eofuneof l. ,K hii off i. .fight- S''"'f 7 ppr,, from h.rbor.njc M.J ,t, he penalty of the law. ' ,r ahJe lf w,rd to any per." . i ,1 a npsrro, and (It"" ,r :nP, near Oak Grove, s0 ,hat I " V, h m in any.P'' " v N ret him again. vlB" 9 Feb. 24, 1S4I. a us
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