North Carolina Newspapers

jbBbbb&& rY.J 3 HALIFAX JV. 0. FMDA1 FhlMVAKY 25, 1825. JYb. -19. THE "FREE PRESS," 7iy George Howard, Ts published evcrv Friclav, at TIIRE!': DOLLARS per year, consisting of 52 numbers, and in the sr.oe proportion for a shorter pe- !. Subscribers at li:jertv to rtis- co!itinue at any time, on pay in ar- Advertisements inserted at fifty cents per square, or less, for the first insertion, and twenty-five, cents each continuance. Letters addressed to the Editor must be post Jiaid. DOMESTIC. i'OL.V.l EXPEDITION. We perceive by the Ohio and! ing Jet down and again immedi KcnUicky papers, that Captain ately on being: drawn uo on ac- John Cloves Svmmcs has b:en . recently lecturing in these -taPs: and that in a town in the vc State, a meeting had been organ-, ized at which the Lieut. Gov-; experiment, which Mr. W. re ernor, Colonel R. 15. c A fee,- peatcd in various places, and in presided, when a resolution was j various ways, proved highly passed, recommending to the! satisfactory; for alter making consideration of Congress the every necessary allowance, with propriety of fitting out an cxpe-ja futlv-r deduction for inaccura dition for the purpose of exp!pr-:cy th might have escaped him, ins the North West Cor-t, 1 !;; ! ho found that the weight lost Northern Pacific Ocean to the continent of Asia, and the un known regions beyond the Arc tie Circle,' the principal com mand of which to bo given to Capt. Symmes. It isperhaps, not generally known, that the idea of ascer- taining whether the earth is holrjjcctured. Eiated to find the re- low, did not originate with Capt. 1 Svmmcs. In the year, 1S02 ; proposals were issued in London j " ' bv a Mr. Thomas Williams, lor' the purpose ot raisin" money tc. cnable him to 'ascertain wheth-j bung cramped by povety, hav-. them by mail. By accident itiebrated Waltham manufactory; er the earth be a solid body orjing a large family to support,! was discovered, that they had & that he had resolved on mak only a shell.' lie had long! he was unable to carry his de-j writing on the blank leaves at. ing a large purchase of the arti previous entertained the notion ! signs into execution. n the j the end of each pamphlet. -cle. It is said that land given that it was not solid from reflect-j mean time his health declined 1 One of them was directed on! by Congress to Gen. La Fayette, in that the Author of Nature! from intense study as well as 1 the ou'side to ''James Monruc, would probably be located in had made nothing in vain, every y! thing was, of course, construct-! ed without waste oi materials; and it appeared to him that be sides the apparent waste of mfltter that must take place, if Jhc earth, and all the heavenly horli, ivfrn solid, thev would ) much h less secure from tiie effects of internal convulsion Pnrsuiiv- his favorite idea, lie suonosed that the centre, being' the focus of the whole concave! the medical aid ol Dr. Stearns, surface, mMit, by means not ve-; he was relieved before morning, ry diifcVenTfrom what wc mow During Sunday lie was observ do exrt, be furnished with heat ed to be occasionally gloomy, in a sufficient degree to produce i bordering on derangement, and licrhL also, and thus form a sub-1 was consequently watched. ierrauean world, in all respects calculated the abode of millions jvvhuc tno person who waited of inhabitants, enjoying perpet-1 on him was absent lor a moment, ual summer and perpetual dav.'h seized a very dull case knife The ingenuity of Wilson soon; and cut his throat. The wind f,M.nil-.Plh;m with a method of! pine was nearly divided. Dr. n,nvnrnr to ascertain wheth-i er the earth was hollow or not. The fact that the plumb line is affected in the neighborhood of large mountains, has already teen proved; and it occurred to him that, as the earth itself at tracts all bodies, a weight far below the surface would be at tracted upwards by the mass of earth above it, in proportion as it descended deeper. On t-his principle he argued, that if the earth were solid, the point at which a body would lose all its weight must be near the centre; but if only a shell, that point would bo at the depth of rather more than half its thickness. Conjecturing the whole thick ness to be 200 miles, (more or W) the depth at wh-h a body would lose its weight, would be ai aoout iu roues. Mr. Wilson now determined on making some experiments; and providing himself with the necessary apparatus, he chose some deep mines in the West of England. A piece of lead of several pounds weight, being first accurately weighed at the surface, was let down bv a small line, the depth of 100 feet; in which situation it was strain weighed at the suriace,and soon ai iu'j iee oi us descent, till ltjiiany such letter was really reacned the bottom oi the shaft, j i.xcry 100 teet ot the line was I also webbed previously to be count of its imbibing so much moisture from the steam of the i pit as to increase its weight con-j siderably. The result of this jits gravity so rapidly that at the depth of about 35 or 40 miles, it would no longer have descended. According to his cal cuiatiou therefore, the shell of I the earth could not be more than about 70 miles thick in stead of 200, as he at first con suit of his experiments so strong lv favoring his theory, he im- mediately circulated the propo-t sals above mentioned; out ing witn little encouragement, ot disease, and died soon alter-; wards in the 6ist year of his age. About .three weeks since, Mr. Thomas Watson, of Rich mond, Va. arrived in this city and took lodgings at Morse's Coffee House, near the Park Theatre. On Saturday night i ho was attacked with a violent fit of the gout in the cheek. On the evening oi that day,! Stearns was again sent for, and the wound carclully dressed. The unfortunate person is still living, and some hopes are en tertained of his recovery. He is still deranged, and does not appear to be sensible of the act which he has committed. N. Y. Com. Adv. The Ohio "Canal Bill" has passed the Senate of Ohio two votes only against it. It is ex pected to pass the Assembly by a triumphant majority. The Canal is to begin at the mouth of the Scioto on the Ohio River; thence along the courses of that stream and the Muskingum, to Lake Erie The funds to be raised by loan, (at an interest (not exceeding 6 per cent.) -in lS25,the sum to be borrowed not to exceed Si00,000, and each subsequent year not more than 600,000. Whatever defi ciency there may lie in the funds set apart for the payment of the interest, to be made up by a levy of taxes. Bustling in Kentucky. The following letter and com ment are extracted from thp i Frankfort Aprn nf ho mm (of Jan. We have our doubts, j written to the President but its summary of the dreadful e- vils under which Kentucky is groaning, is forcible, am we presume, faithful. Of all the earth, to what portion has God been more bountiful than to Kentucky? A soil teeniinely and profusely fruitful noble streams flowing round the habi tations of the people, to trans port its produce over the world a government and laws of their own choice and creation. The contrast between what Ken tucky is and what she ought to have been, is dreadful and mel ancholy. Richmond Whig. "A member of the minority of the Legislature, about the itime of the late adjournment cf that body, leu in a bookseller s shop in this place a number of the reports of the joint commit tee, raised to enquire into the conduct of the judges of the i Court of Appeals, folded up and directed on the back, with a re- quest, that an envelop ie of paper meet-!sliould ne put over t them with the evident purpose ol sending President oj the united States, Washington" and on the blank leaves were written the following words: "Sir ; Our Judges of the! Court of Appeals repealed out of office, the constitution of our state trodden under foot; our treasury robbed and empty, ca-l pilol burnt down, convicts in the Penitentiary naked and starving, governor's son a mur derer and cut-throat, a deficien cy of $40,u00 in our revenue, a denial of justice by our executi on laws, a relief Legislature think ye, will it nqt take FOR TY THOUSAND BAYO NETS to right us in jJoliiics? This political paradoxy 1 send as a strange comminglement of religion, politics, mathematics and dead languages, in them selves unconjunctionable. A Minority Member oj the Kentucky Legislature" THE FEDERAL PARTY. The hon. Enoch Lincoln, a representative in congress, in a letter dated Washington, Dec. 4, 1S24, conceives the federal party to be stronger at this time than it ever was. He says uThis party, purified by desertion and by misfortune, had never, in my opinion, for twenty years past "and more, during which it has been tried in its adversity, more moral power than it now has." He attributes, also, much of the benefit which the nation has re ceived from the economy intro duced into the general govern ment, 4 'to federalists who have had it in their power to turn the scales, when the beam would have hung level without their aid." "It is," he adds, ''so e vident now, that if a proscribed party, they will unite and con trol measures of any administra tion, that I repeat what I before said, that in the present dis tracted state of the republi cans, they never had more Uno cal power. What is their po licy, and what course will the pursue? They are atlantic, they are commercial in their interests, and they are also not less agricultural than the rest of of us. They must go for Mr. Adams, and if they do so, one principle of amalgamation should have its force. This exposition you will deem rash; yet if it be founded in good sense, it is not so, for even al though it were public, I would never hesitate to repose that con fidence in any community with which lam acquainted, to trust myself to it upon a iV-mk and honest avowal of any sentiment 1 entertain, knowing that correct opinions are always properly ap preciated. " Alexandria He rald. Cotton of Florida. -The ed itor of the Baltimore American Farmer states, that several sam ples of ' cotton, the growth of Florida, hud been passed to his hands. through the Secretary of War, & submitted for inspection i to Mr. Jackson, who had the supply of the raw material un der his superintendar.ee since the nrst establishment ol thecel- that territory. Old Connecticut yet!! Mr. Geo. Philips, of Preston, Conn, fatted, the present season, j four Hogs, of a small lone, j short frame, and smull earsf j which, when dressed and sold, weighed as follows: 562,577, 55, and 14 lbs. Total, 2348 lbs. Another rich and benificent philanthopist, Mr. George Haga, a German, has latelydied in Philadelphia, and bequeathed to benevolent institutions, the greater part of his fortune which had been accumulated by honest industry. The trial of Isaac B. Desha for the murder of Francis Ba ker, which has attracted much of public attention recently, in Kentucky, and elsewhere, after occupying several days, has terminated in a verdict of Guil ty against him. But a new tri al has been granted by the Court, in the case. Breach of Promise of Mar riage. On Wednesday "week came on for trial before the Hon. Judge Edwards, in N. York, the interesting caseofM'Kee vs. Nelson, for a breach of promise of marriage. The plaintiff pro ved the promise by shewing that the affair had so far pro gressed, that the dresses had been purchased for the occasion, and other preparations had been made tor the celebration of the marriage. The parties, nays ( the Commercial Advertiser, are both very respectable; the de fendant is well known as a cel ebrated classic teacher, in this city; has been blind for many years; and at the time the inti macy was broken off with the plaintiff, he was a widower, with six children. The jury retired at 1 o'clock, and this morning; returned a verdict for the plain tiff of 3000 dollars. Charles Ball was recently convicted of manslaughter in Vermont, for the crime of kil ling his father, and was senten ced to the State-Prison at hard labor for life. His mother, who was a witness on the trial, tes tified, she had several children,, and the prisoner was the mild est tempered of the whole of them! Movements of Indians. Tt appears from letters just receiv ed from the Superintendent of Indian allairs, at St. Louis, that a great council of the Cherokees, Delawares, Shawanees, Wcas Kickapoos, Piankashaws, and reorias, residing west of the Mississippi, has been held; at which it was agreed to receiv their Red brethren from the east, and to invite them to come among them as soon as possible , This subject has been in agita tion for about two years; mean while, wampum has been " ex changed in great abundance be tween the tribes east and ' west of the Mississippi, until at last the object of both has " been aT greed upon, and a deputation is now on its way to Vyashihgton, led by Col. Pi Menard, to con clude an arrangement with the President of the United States for the removal of those Indians residing on the east of the Mis sissippi. If the arrangement is made, it is not unlikely but it may embrace the tribes in Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois, except the Ottavvas, and a few others, who it is probable, would prefer to join their friends west of Lake Michigan. Those Indians consider the step they have taken as a very important one to them; and look upon its completion as es sentia to their prosperity and happiness. They were very a greeably surprised on learning what the President had said on the subject in his message to Congress, at the opening of the session: u0ur Great Father,'? said they to Gen. Clarke, "must have been inspired by the Great Spirit, or have studied well our miserable situation with a view to our future happiness, to have, enabled him to speak to the great council so exactly in agreement with the wishes of the Indians, as he has in his talk to Con gress." Nat. Journal. Newspapers. The rapid in crease of newspapers in the east is worthy of notice. In the state of Maine there are now published twenty-four gazettes, where, four years ago, there were only seven. National Int. Thcre is this difference be tween happiness and wisdom: he that tninKs nimselt the hap piest man, really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fop!