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No. 50.
HALIFAX, JV. C. FRIDAY, MARCH 4, 1825.
VOL. L
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THE "FREE PRESS,"
:JBy George Howard,
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DOMESTIC.
National Industry. The
two facts we are a jw a bo? it to
state are of infinitely mo; - inter
est to the statesman and the pa
triot, and vastly more suspicious
to an increase in national wealth
than the facts stated in the a
bore paragraph, however inter
esting they may be;
1. Within twenty mile round
the City of Boston, whrre arc
now annually made forty thou-
Sana pieces oj r lax.nel, each :
t . ft f. I
piece containing 46 yards; the. t
largest quantity of the san.e ar
ticle ever imported in any one
year, was 55,000 pieces.
2. Not a vessel now leaves
the port of Baltimore (and we
presume this to be true of other j
ports,) for South American j
ports, which does not carry, as
part oi tier cargo, American
r i r i
Manitjactures oj Lotion to j then., with :rent care, separately j permit the Attorney General to
the value of ten to twenty Mem-- fron their other cotton. Theyj proceed. Colonel Berkley, who
sand dohars. Nat. Int. j produced this year the above; treated this woman, the mother
. j menti3ned bae of cotton, which,! of his children, with such pro-
Rapid Settlement of the when orougtit to market, was j fiigate and infamous levity, is
West. if the settlement of the proounecd superior to any seen supplicating the pious George
West continues to increase dur-J here. Vas season, and command-! IV it seems, for a peerage and
ing the next fifty years in thejed two cents per pound more: will, no doubt, make an egregi
ratic it has for the last ten, the; than hid been previously giv-: ous constitutional adviser of the
shore ot the racijic will then:
be variegated with our cities,!
the bays and rivers whitened i
with our canvass and the fields1
will teem with the yellow sheaf, sible. It .ean hardly be doubt-1 son of one of the noblest fam-j of Representatives, published
The longest voy age an Arnei- eci that such a change, from a' ilies in England, has proved his ' this evening, in which he inti
can ship will then.be ahle to : foreign country, from another . consistency by a subsequent ; mates his willingness to decline
make, will be from one port ifistate, or even from an adjoining marriage with Miss Pa ton, of j in favor of the candidate having
the United States to another, I county, will be attended with ! the English Opera House, who, j the largest minority in the elec-
and both on the same continent.
The rapidity of this increase of
western settlement, is illustrated I
bv the fact staled bv the
BufTiio N. Y. Journal, that a;
daily line of stages now runs!
from Buffalo to Erie, Pa. This England to renrest-nt this coun-! disgrace the record of the trial
road, though the -i-iiy direct one try as in an immoral and licen-j of our lowest vagabonds in the
between the tw ptaccs, uppor-; jiojs state of society, from the j Police Office. The wisest wri
ted, three years since, frit one influence of a purely popular I ters in England of the present
stage a week. Such is the pro-i form of government. Ourcom-jdav are unanimous in express-
gress of enterprise.. ..Ball. Fat.
Seduction. At the last .Jan-j
uary term of the County Cojrt!
of Gennessee, N. Y. Hopestill existence of different ranks in
Bebcc obtained a verdict of 600 ; society ha upon the public mo
dollars damages against John rdity is beautifully illustrated
II. Uice, for the seduction of, by the report of an action lately
his daughter, the amount of . Wrought; by v. London ac tress-a-damag
is being all the defendant i o-ainst a young man of more
was proved to be wortn.
Anecdote of Gen. Jackson.-
When the British fleet arrived ;
off New-Orleans, in Dec. 1S14,
previous to Packenharn's land
ing his army, the Admiral of
tne nect sent ins compumtjii's iu
Gen. Jackson, and informed
him that he (the Admiral) would ing lived under the protection
do himself the honor of eating! of Col. Berkley for five years,
his Christmas dinner in New j had, it seems the good fortune
Orleans. "May be so," repIi-:"to captivate a silly lad by the
ed Old Hickory; (but I shall dolname of Hayne, who with a
myself the honor of sitting at
the head of the table."
CJannLA rnr-
respondent of the New York
Statesman gives the following
beautiful account of the great
canal from Schenectady:
The magnificence of the scene
at a distance, may be imagined
and its beneficial results partly
conceived but to have a just
estimate of the genius that plan
ned, and of the dauntless perse
verence that carried this mighty
work into successful operation,
it must be seen. It shoots across
the plain with simple grandeur, J
le
caps over the valiies, and sve-
thes through high lands, feildsi
and forests, in a silver current,! is writing letters to her "dear
as it were,, by enchantment. est Hay ne," being, quoad the
To see the exhaustless wealth L tier, at a watering place for
of a country, hitherto controll-' her health. She assures Mr.
ed in the exercise of its nativci
energies, rolling on with a stea-j
uy course, and dispensing its j
beneficence with a
generous
hand, is enough to make a man
proud of the characteristic en-
terprize of his country, that al-!
most vies with nature in its;
operations.
Favellevillc. Feb. 17. A
bale of cotton was brought to
this market last week, by Mr.
Need ham Smith, of this coun
try, which, for its quality, de-
t sf rves a particular notice. We
understand that this gentleman
and his brother, Mr. John
C-'itb, obtained, a year or two
a, a few cotton seed from
"-'
Mexico, and have cultivated!
en. We think this fact will in-
duce those planters who havej
been in the tiabit of using seed j
from their seed as much as pos-1
advantage Obs.
From the Boston Patriot.
English society miss foote.
It is the favorite province of i
a large class of men of letters in
nu.nily, without the Coiintriian;
capU:i of a privilcdged order, j
is denounced at once unsate eijben repeatedly stated trom the!
intelligent. The eifect that the!
wealth a.id ta nily pretention
than discretion, tor a breach of j
promise of marriage. This re-
port to gratify the delicate taste
of the British punlic is printed
in extenso in the .London pa
pers, and fills some twenty col
umns of very close print. Miss
Foote, the lovely plan titi, hav-
full knowledge of her character
proposes to marry her. The
o-allant Colonel, from caprice
O . . . i
or some other motive, causeq
this marriage to be broken off?
al though he had parted from the
iau amsi nimseit ; and this ac
tion was in consequence brought
to recover damages, not against
tne Colonel, whose promises
had been as thick as autumnal
leaves, but against the unfortu
nate second suitor, who was on
ly prevented from fulfilling his
vows by a kind ditress imposed
on him by his friends. The
neartlessness of the lady is a-
musing.
she spends Chrjstmas
avBaicrop, the Colonel's r
sidence, and in the mean tin
e-
me
flayne, in one note, that she sprovemenl
affectionately his thanks him (alias dung,
in the same breath for the very
renned present ot " "rouse,
he had sent her, and very soon
after begins a letter to the other
lover with an acknowledgment
of the more substantial douceur
of" a 50 note Without enter
ing into this correspondence fur
ther, it is sufficient to remark
that an English jury gave this
heartless woman, who, the mo
ther of three illegitimate child
ren, was practising on the folly
of a green lad of 21, an English
jury gave her 3000 as a tribute
to her character and prospects,
when had the court known what
was due to the dignity of public
justice, it would have refused to
Defender of the Faith ! His
friend Lord William Lennox, sentiments of Mr. Adams, as
who assisted the Colonel in pro- may be inferred from his letter
securing Havne, and who is theito the committee of the House
however, wo believe still figures
on the scene, aod in fact the;
whole of the report with tiie vo-!
luminous correspondence sus-
nended, displays a succession of
! mean profligacy, which would
ing their alarm at the state of
the public morals, and it has
high places of justice, that there
I seemed to be a radical change
in the character of the nation,
from the enormous and dispro
portionate increase of. crime.
Regarding this with pain, we
may still be permitted to con-
sole ourselves, it consolation be
needed, lor the wants of Jlris
tocracy, by the reflection that
even the English nobility are
not immaculate in the example
they are setting the civilized
world. A. W.
The Ducking Stool. Our
readers will recollect that Nancy
Jones was sentenced to be duck
ed, as a common scold, in Phil
adelphia, some time ago. An
appeal was taken on the judge
ment of the court, on the ground,
that the law of the ducking
stool was one of those specks of
rust, caused by the raists of the
darker ages, and which had ad-
hea red to our escutcheon in
spite of the burnishers of the
more modern ages of light and
liberty. Judge Duncan of the
Supreme Court on Monday last,
set aside the sentence of .the
lower court, observing, that in
cases of such barbarous retri
bution, he "was not disposed to
attach his chain to the dung
cart of the common law.''
There is a burnisher for you.
But what does the learned Judge
mean by the "dung cart?" If
he continues the figures, he will
make scavengers of legislators,
farmers of Judges, plough boys
of lawyers, and glele of the peo
ple at large for whose im
the common law,
was intended.
Baltimore Patrol,
Salisbury, Feb. 15. An in
quest was held in this place, on
the Sth inst.' over the dead body
of a new born white infant
child, found within a few steps
of the Mocksville road, about a
mile from town. The verdict
of the jury was, "that the child
came to its death from the vio
lence received at the hands of
its mother, or some other per
son unknown" The citizens of
the town procured the body to
be decently interred, on Wed
nesday last, the 9th inst.
JVes. Car.
GENERAL JACKSON.
We are very sorry to see insin
uations thrown out from any
quarter, that the election of
General Jackson to the Presi
dency would have been a bad
precedent or could have endan
gered the liberties of his coun-
try. Such surely are not the
toral colleges, were it possible
for another election to take
place.
Our doctrine is, that no Pre-
sident has it In his power to
subvert the constitution, or put
our freedom in jeopardy.
Washington himself could not
have done it. The hands of the
Executive are effectually tied by
the co-ordinate branches of the
'government, and a Caesar or a
j Napoleon could not muster a
physical torce in tne American
Republic, which would be sufh
pient to crush its liberties. Pub
lic opinion is omnipotent, and
would not sustain for a moment
the schemes of a tyrant.
But the character of General
Jackson does not justify any
such fears. He is not a military
despot ; but blends the virtues
of the civilian and the citizen,
with those of the soldier. In
the strongest measure of his
military career, he found an a
ble advocate in Mr. Adams, Se
cretary of State ; and we believe
it is acknowledged on all hands,
that he was actuated by a sacred
regard to the best interests of
his country.
General Jackson's conduct
during the whole presidential
campaign has been of the most
dignified, moderate, and deli
cate kind, furnishing no grounds
for believing, that his election
would have been a dangerous
precedent. He has manifested
the same, eqanimity, and we
may add, magnanimity, since
the election as he did before that
event, and as he has done from
the time of his first nomination.
His refusal to accept the invita
tion of his friends to a public
dinner at Washington, evinces
peculiar delicacy of feeling, and
a prudence which others might
not have observed. He is em
phatically a great man, and any
reflections upon his character at
this moment certainly come
with a bad grace. Statesman.
, Tea. We are informed that
there are several small planta
tions in the south part of Loui
siana on which the tea plant
thrives most luxuriantly. The
soil is said to be more congenial
even than that of China. If so
why may not tea become, with
proper attention, an article of
export? There might at least
be a sufficient quantity cultivat
ed for home consumption, by
which the U. States would re
tain vast quantities of specie,
now sent to China. That this
article might form an important
staple of America, there is little
doubt, when we reflect upon the
rapid and unexpected increase
in the growth of cotton. Twen
ty years ago, cotton was not an
article of export from the Unit
ed States, it was cultivated
only for domestic uses. Look
at it now : what is its commer
cial importance ? It is this; Its
exportation gives employment
to more than 500 ships, and its
annual value is not less than
$25,000,000. Mabamian.
The Slave Trade. Two
hundred and twenty associations
for promoting the gradual abo
lition of negro slavery within
the british dominions have been
already formed in England ; ;
and nearly nine hundred peti
tions on the same subject were
presented to parliament during
its two last sessions.
According to the last annual
report of the London African
Institution (for 1S24) in one
year, 1822, there were shipped
from Africa, for Rio Janeiro,
31,240 negroes, of whom 3,434 m
died on the passage. Into Ba- J
bia, 8000 were imported the
same year. In 1823, the total
number shipped for Rio alone
amounted to 21,473, of whom
nearly 1800 died on the passage,
and there is reason to think that
there was at least an equal im
portation into the other Brazili
an ports, attended by an equal
mortality. In the first six
months of 1824, the number
imported into Rio Janeiro alone,
was not less than 16,563, with
a mortality of 2,247, The
trade for Brazil is carried on
north as well as south of the
line, in spite of treaties,
The last number of the Edin
burgh Review accuse the French
government of still COnniviner
at the equipment and escape of
French slave vessels. It calcu
lates that "about forty thousand
wretched Africans were carried
away in a short period by the
connivance of his most Chris
tian king's government, not
withstanding his laws and
ties," and supposes that of these
forty thousand above, 9000
must have Derished mispraMv
on the voyage.
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