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Superior Court, Wake toiwi-jsent the Governor, D. Camcroned (up Broadway, accompanied y On Fridav, the 2d inst.! John I).-Hawkins, John Owen, by the sheriff, and guarded by the trial of Richard Hainds, Durant IJatch, and Thomas Tur-.a strong body of troops. In ch-u-od with the. murder of ner, Esqrs. . the wagon, tju;re were two cler- t.L?..t MrUr, xvn tnl-Pii nn ' Thn fnr TW Navigation jrvmen, and Johnson was,arcss- The circumstances mat leu to the unfortunate act, as appears from the testimony given, were .1 .1 1 thesa: the prisoner kept a bil liard tajjle, ond on the evening of the murder the deceased was in the bar-room, adjoining-the billiard-room, and insisted on playing cards,, which being re fused, 'deceased repeatedly ut tered abusive language to the prisoner, who at length said he would not be abused .in such, a manner in his own house, and Tidvanced towards the deceased on the parties coming toge ther, the deceased seized the prisoner by the throat and thrust him with much violence against the wall; in a few moments de ceased let go his hold, ran from the bar to the billiard-room, the blood gushing from his. peck, and in a short time expired. The jury, under the charge of the Court, retired, and in a sjiort t ime returned a verdict of man slaughter. The prisoner was brought in to court on Saturday, and, after praying the benefit of Clergy, was sentenced to be branded in the hand; which sentence being carried into execution,, and the oath of insolvency administered to him, he was discharged. Lemuel Lewis, who had, on the Wednesday preceding, been convicted as an accomplice in the murder of Hinton Pugh, was sentenced to be hanged on Friday, the 7th day of next month. The evidence in the case, as briefly as it can be rela ted, is this: Several persons, among whom were the prisoner at the bar, and his brother Oli ver Lewis, meetinc; accidentally in the road, one of the parties had a jug of liquor, which, as misrht be expected under such circumstances, was freely circu lated. , While the company -.vrro thus emnlovcil, Hinton Pudi',. the deceased, came up, returning from his school to his house, which was not more than sixty yards distant from the place where the party had met. Immediately on his joining them, an invitation was given by some one of the company, to partake of their spirits. Pugh at lirst declined, out uei ng pressed, took a drink. In a few S minutes alter this, Uliver Lewis challenged the deceased for a wrest Ie.which he did not accept, allcnn as a reason, that as he j grew older, he had lost the re lish for amusements of this kind. Oliver still insisted upon a fall, and was encouraged by Lemu el, who said, "try him, Oliver, and if you cannot throw him down, I can, and whip him too." Having made this remark, he threw off his hat, rushed on Push and collared him: he was followed by Oliver Lewis, who also seized hold of the deceased, and both were seen to inflict se veral blows. While engaged in this unequal contest, the wo man, Elizabeth Scott, also ran up., and with a stick held in both hands, struck the deceased two or three times. Oliver Lewis and Elizabeth Scott were to be tried in Frank lin county. Joseph Cooke, who had been convicted of passing a three dol lar Dank note, altered to a hlty, was sentenced to stand one hour in the pillory, be imprisoned six months, and pay a fine of 100 dollars. Internal Improvements. the Hoard lor Internal Im provements met in this city on Monday last, (29th ult,) Pre Company having complied with theterms of the act ol last ses sion, the Board agreed to sub scribe for 25,000 additional stock in said Company-, and will commence operations on the ri ver below Fayetteville, as soon as the state of it will admit. No meeting of the Stockhold ers of the Roanoke Navigation Company having been held since the act passed in relation to that river, nothing could be done on it by the Board, A communication from the Plymouth Turnpike Company was -laid before the Board, from which it appeared, that the re quisite subscriptions for Stock had been made byT individuals for making the road from Pun- go River to Plymouth, , the Public Treasurer had su oscnbed $2,500 in behalf of the State, so that the work will certainly be effected. ; Mr. Fulton will by off the road at a suitable season. Nothing was heard from the Clubfoot and Harlow Creek Na vigation .Company'. : It is pre sumed, therefore, that the pro posed subscriptions by individu als to warrant a further subscrip tion on the part of the State to complete that work, have not yet been made. The next meeting of the Board will be at Fayetteville, on the 13th of May next. Un til which time, the attention of the Civil Engineer will be whol ly directed to the improvements making in the Cape Fear River below Wilmington, which, a- eeably to the terms of the con tract, are to be completed by the approaching fall. Mr. Hatch finding it incon venient to remain longer a mem ber of the Board, John P. Da ves, Esq. of Craven, was ap pointed in his stead. Raleigh Reg. North-Carolina Gold. We have several times noticed the uold Mine said to have been discovercd in North-Carolina, many years ago, but which, has never been worked much until the last year. Benjamin G. Bar-land ker, merchant of this city, has . 1 1 I A . ' f tins morning orougnt to our oi-.ooaraeu tne ong very puiuciy lice a variety of specimens of: told Capt Alkin that his cap- this precious metal, in its virgin state, amounting in all to about 1 700 penny weights. The gold is ircnerally found in a coarse dust, Irom the size ot mustard seed to that of a lanre bean. But Mr. B. has a single mass wciErnins: 315 pennyweights. MM. J a. i nese two masses are worth more than 500 dollars. There have never been any specimens of rold from the mines of South America, equal to these the sight of them really makes our fingers itch while writing this paragraph. Several years ago, there was a single lump of gold found in this mine, weighing: upwards of 28 pounds averdu- pois valued at about 7,000 dol lars. New-York Com. Adv. Execution. An immense concourse of people, many of them from New-Jersey and Long-Island, assembled this forenoon to witness the remo val of Johnson to the place fix ed on for his execution this day. From the Park, as high as Grand street, the crowd was so great that carriages could not pass. On a moderate calculation, this large body is supposed to have consisted of at least 50,000 hu man beings. At 12 o'clock, the prisoner was taken from his cell, and placed on a wagon with his coffin, which proceed- cd all in white with a nightcap on his head. So great was the interruption, that the military could not proceed more than a few yards at a time before they were obliged to stop to clear a way the rabble. They arrived at the place of execution at about 15 minutes past one o'clock, and in about half an hour he was launched into eternity. New-York, pril 2. La Fayette. A splendid hat of exquisite workmanship and materials, is now completing byr Mr. John Hurley, of New-York, called the Washington hat, in tended as a present to tien. La Fayette; it is to have a revolu tionary cockade, and be trans mitted by the first vessel, for him to wear on his landing in this country. Defaulters. Mr. Holly, one of the New-York Canal Com- j missioners, in a report to tne nc pius ultra, a newspaper Legislature of that state, has ac- controversy is carried on be knowledgcd himself deficient in, tween Col. Henry A. Middle- tlic sum ot vjJ0,000. lie ther states, that he expects to be able in a few months to make up about o 15,000 of it. An unlucky discovery is said to have been made, since the decease ol an individual in Washington, to whose hands throws the blame upon his op were entrusted large sums of ponent. We learn at last, in money on account of the Pub- the course of the correspon lic buildings which is no less deuce, that Mr. John L. WilsOn than that the said individual has been found minus S40,000. Outrage. CaptAlkinof the brig Caroline, arrived at Phila- dclphia from Havana, states that the loth March, announces the on Friday, the 20th March, death of Lieut Guion, of the ar when on his passage from Sa- my of the U. S. a most promis vannali to Havana, he was fired ing young officer, who was shot on, off Stirrup Key, by his Bri- through the heart in a duel tannic Majesty's schr. Renegat; about that date. formerly the Saragoranzn, Lt. j Com. Fyatt, a calm prevailing' at the time and the vessels with- at the time and the vessels with- in musket shot. The bris: had , her loretopsail on deck repair- ing. The shot from the schr. i apparently a six pounder, passed ;about three feet from the taffrail, about one foot under the : main boom. The officer who ' 1 1. 1 ll. ' I..!.. 7 'A . tain was much displeased at their not heaving to, when from the dead calm which prevailed it was impossible to obey such a command. The Rcnesrat is the same ves- (scl that fired on the schr. Allen, Capt. Dunham, on the 27th March, off Cape Nichola Mole.' The Pirates are becoming ve ry daring and numerous about Cape Antonio, and the Isle of Pines. A few days before the Caroline sailed, they seated themselves in the mangroves in that quarter, where they had a piece of artillery, which they brought to bear on a boat from a British man of war, and kill ed one lieutenant, one midship man, and five of the boat's crew. Virginia. Wm. B. Giles, formerly a U. S. Senator from this state, has commenced the publication of a series of num bers in the Richmond Enquirer, under his own signature, against Messrs. Monroe and Clay. The first number only has ap peared. It is bitter in the ex treme; and we should think, that it will lose the power of in flicting a wound, by the very great intemperance of style, manifested by the writer. New-York. At a meeting of the democratic members of the Legislature of New-York, held on. ; Friday evening, 2d inst. Walter Bowne, of the Senate, in the chair, Col. Samuel Young was nominated as a candidate for the office of governor of that state, and Erashts Hoot, as iieu tenant governor. The meeting appears, to have been pretty full, one hundred and six members bein sent. governor, 45; Erastus Root for lieutenant-governor received 75, and James Burt, a member of the Senate, 21. Massachitsetts. The elec tions throughout the common wealth of. Massachusetts, took place on .Monday week. The vote for Governor, in Boston, was, for Eustis 3054; for La- throp, 3357. There is scarcely any doubt of the re-election of Gov. Eustis. . fattening. The duelling ma nia seems in Charleston, to have arrived at its ultimatum, or as diplomatists would say, to its ir present: absent clftnr . Lol. loung received GO votes, and Joseph C. Yates, the nre- lur-.ton, and another gentleman, by the name of John L. Wilson. The parties proposed to meet and fight at the distance of three paces, an arrangement which was broken off, and for the ;io- Jation oi which, each party I is Governor of the state, of South-Carolina, whose second was the Sheriff of the county. A letter, received in Wash- ington City from Natchez, of Riot at Yale College. We understand (says the New-York understand (says the Ne Advocate) that symptoms of! "oppugnation" have lately ap- peared among the students of this institution. An attempt it is said was made to blow up the College, which luckily for all parties failed. The selection of A.. .1 . 1 il A 1 1 . a uuor irom a ciasstnat nan just graduated, and placing him over his former fellows, is stated to nave oeen one oi tne causes leading to the disturbance. Smuggling.': On the 23d ult. a man on board of a small vessel, in custody of the Custom-house officers of Charleston, i i f . i for smuggling coffee, was found to have the small-pox. Proper measures were taken by the Board of Health for the removal of the vessel, to prevent the spread of the disease. It is bad enough, (says the City Gazette,) to defraud the government of the duty on coffee; but to smug gle small pox into the country ought to be most severely re prehended. A letter from Montgomery Court-ho.use, ( Va.) of the 23d of March, says, that Wohlford, who broke fail a few days be fore, had, to the astonishment of the citizens, returned to the jail yesterday, after wandering through the country, in the neighborhood of the town, tor the Inst thrpp rLivs. Findinsr it impossible, he says, to effect his escape, and being unacquainted with the country, he thought it best to return. MARRIED, At Fayetteville, on Thursday, 1st inst. Mr. Daniel MacPhcrson to Miss Mary Ann Love. In Eertie county, on the 30th ult. Mr. John .Johnson to Miss Marga ret Thompson. , DIED, At Durham's Creek, on the 31st ult. Jesse D. Carrawn F.vn. na tive of the town of Washington, in the 3 1th year of his afrn At Edenton, on the 27th ult. Mr William Ward; and, on the 2Sth, Mr. Robert Smith, a native of Scotland. In Bertie countv, on the 17th ult. Mr. James B. Ferguson; and, on the 25th, Mr. John Knott.' JN "civ Advertisements. . NEW HERRINGS & SHAD. npHE Subscribers have received , siSnment, about 100 bar re18 SUIHERH1XGS, and a few barrels SHAD, which they offer tor sale. ' " ' ANDERSON, LOUDON & CO. April 13, 1824. 4-3tp THE GREAT PRIZE OP 00,000, s . Is now floating in the . GRAND STATE LOTTERY OF MARYLAND, Abcy drawing in Baltimore. -: . Cohcns Office -Baltimore, Jiril 2d, 1324. it Besides the above splendid Capital Prize of QNE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS there are also now floating in the wheels, the Capitals of 20,0002 of 10,000 5,0007. of 1,000 Dollars, &c. the whole of which are liable to be drawn at the NEXT DRAWING, which, in order to allow time to dis tant adventurers, will take place on Tnursday, iSth of May, In the City of Baltimore, under the superintendence of the Commis sioners appointed by the Governor and Council. Only two drawings remain to complete the Scheme the whole of the Prizes are paya ble in CASH, which can be had at Cohen's Office the moment they arc drawn. Orders ought to be sent on as soon as possible. Persons at a distance may at all times, with con fidence, forward their remittances to Cohen's Office, for if the great Capitals in the Scheme should be drawn when their orders arrive, and the state of the wheel will not justify an investment, the amount enclosed will be returned by the first mail. Whole Tickets - $20 00 Halves 10 00 Quarters 5 00 Eights - 2 50 To be had, warranted undrawn, a: COHEN'S Lottery & Exchange OFFICE, 114, Market-street, Baltimore, Where the great Capital Prizes in BOTH THE LAST LOTTE RIES were sold, and where more Capital Prizes have been obtained than at any other Office in Ame rica. Orders from any part of the Uni ted States, either by mail (post paid) or by private conveyance, en closing the Cash or Prizes in any of the Baltimore Lotteries, will meet the same prompt and punctual at tention as if on personal applica tion, addressed to J. I. COHEN, Jr. Baltimore. it7-COHEN'5 "Lottery Gazette and Register," which is published regularly after each Drawing, will contain the Official Lists of the Grand State Lottery, and will be forwarded gratis, to all who mir- chase their Tickets at COHEN'S OFFICE, and who signify their wish to have the same. -::- Orders will also be received at the POST-OFFICE, HALIFAX, Where the Official Lists of the Drawings are regularly received, for the examination of all Ticket- and Shares, grata AdhI 16. 4-
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