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pioceed in the first instance onjat Best also, one Cooper, who isj uiu uauuuuuu, umuuai uiu uiiii-i t noiitnir r o e no tr iiliic ami j. i o " cipal.) 23. Concerning the swamp and marsh lands in this State and for other purposes. (Directs the Board of Internal Improvement to cause to be surveyed certain swamps, and determine whether it be prac ticable to drain them; and, to en able the Board to carry the provi sions of the act into effect, autho rises them to raise 850,000 by lottery.) 29. 'Concerning the entry of land m this fctate. (Declares that it shall not be lawful for entry-ta kers to receive entries of vacant and unappropriated marsh and swamp lands, except where the quantity of land does not exceed fifty acres in one body, and that situate between the lines of tracts heretofore granted.) 30. Prescribes the mode of sur veying and selling the lands late ly acquired from the Cherokee Indians. (Enacts that the Gover nor shall appoint one or two com missioners, to superintend the sur veying of said lands, which have not been heretofore surveyed.) 31. To anient the act of 1822, declaring what hogshead and bar rel staves shall be merchantable. (Declares that all red oak hogs head staves, three inches wide, including sap, shall be merchant able.) 32. To aid the opening and completing the State road from Iluntsvillc; in Surry county, to the Virginia line, by way of Bowers' store, and for other purposes. (Appropriates 8500, out of the fund for Internal Improvement, for the purpose of carrying the object of this act into effect.) Communications J" OR THE FREE PRESS. JUET IT ESPRIT. Doctor Johnson says, that pun inakers rank with pick-pockets; but, as it is probablo that the mem bers of our Assembly will return home pcnnyless, 1 cannot believe that his assertion will be sustain ed. However destitute they may be of money, many of their names arc distinguished for application and sound, and may be humor ously and innocently j)uiid by their constituents. Our Legisla ture docs not present as great a variety of names, as the Virginia Assembly, that are "signs of things;"' consequently I must close in with the assertion, that "there is hardly a legislative body in A merica, which presents a greater variety of names, than that of the Ancient Dominion." To begin then our Legislature is defend ed, by a stong Pickett, with a Locke which secures it from in trigue and corruption rtwo Bells whose united sounds may be heard in Holland two Kings who manifest great contempt for the legitimates of the IJoly Alli ance, but at the same time exhibit much political attachment to Ad ams. There are four 7-fifl in tho you may discover the secret ma chinations of the enemies of Jack- j.. j.1...lllL,Uj tilMUII, til sou- there are two Sharps, who vancing their own prospcritv i make very Poor representatives mong us. lYilcs' Re?. stands in need of Morehcad. Our Legislature carry on domestic manufactures to a considerable extent, for they have two excellent smiths, to shoe and cobble tor ci tizen Burke they have but one Baker, and he is a Blount man and wears n. long Beard-1--there is a Swain whose Floiccrs of Love rival those of Bums they have a Webb, that looks Strange, for it i-s White and not Gray, and often looks Green-also, a Bullock, whose Boddic when Dunn, will feast the enemies of the present administration they have but one member to foot it home, he must be a great Walker they are also blessed with a Potter, a Hunter, and a Martin, who is sometimes their Foreman they have but one Ship, and she sprung a Leake on her passage from York they have the light of a Mhoon, to guide them in legislationalso, a Boon to bestow on the heirs of Montgo mery they mc JYcicland to stay the emigration of our citizens to the westward; and but one Shep hrrd, and he is pronounced to be Ball one Joyncr, one Fisher, and two Moore. RIP VAN WINKLE. Selected for the Free Press. American Bible Society. The amount of receipts during the eight months since the date of the last report, is J 830,071 53; of which 811,409 72, have been in dona tions, and 24,601 71, in payment ior Jiimes and lestaments. The issues of Bibles during the same period, have amounted to 23,()4G; and ot Testaments, 22,830. Ma king a total ot 45,782. Sunno- sing the ratio of issues to continue the same during the remaining tour months of the Society's year, mo wnote number ot Uiblcs and lestaments will be 03,073; while those of the previous year were 07,134. And supposing the same ratio ot receipts, the whole amount during the year will be 854.109 20: while that of the previous vearwas ?oi,oov v-i. miring the last eight months, thirtv new auxilia ries ha,ve been recognised by the Society, making the whole num ber jive hundred and thirty-six. The whole number of Bibles and Testaments issued from the De pository since the formation of the Society in 1810, is four hundred and eighty-jive thousand eight nunarca ana ticcnty-ninc. Who can tell how many desponding souls have beencomtorted by these messengers of mercy; how many DII1IIAU.I 1... 1.-. 1 1 eimiuia uuvu ueen reclaimed irom the error of their ways; how manv songs of salvation have already been sung in glory.- Obs. $ Chr. A frican Colonization .-From the proceedings had, it anncars probable the Legislature. of Ma- ryland will appropriate 81000 a year to aid in the transportation of tree persons ot color to Africa, un der direction of the Colonization Society. We earnestly wish thai this appropriation may be made. .XariJortmc, SATURDAY, FEB. 24, 1827. jTpVVe wiH give place to the favors of our poetic correspondents after the ensuing week we wish to dispose of several selected pieces, which we have had in type for some time past. Let us keen tl in floor nnon rw f Legislature, from the top of either egress of this class, who seriously VOll mnv rliarnvnr tlir in,-....-.,.,-....:!. l i intcrferewith the pursuits of a mom desirable noniiinti j - j .w.., m tnn;iiu till- a- Prcaching.FAd'cr P. W. DOWDy has appointed to preach at Mams' Cha pe!, on Thursday, the 19th of April next Friday 20th, at Rocky Swamp Saturday 21st, at Quankey Chapel Sunday 22d, in Halifax town Tuesday- 24th, at Smith's Church and, on Thurs day night, 2Cth, in Tarhorough. Com. We have received from thq Hon. JR. Hi ncs, at Washington City, the remarks of Mr. Bryan, of this State, in the II. of Representatives, U. S. on the "Woolen Hill." As our limits will not permit us to insert the whole of this interesting Speech, we have selected the following passages, as being peculiarly worthy the J attention of our readers: "I pronounce this bill, Sir, to be vicious in principle, and unjust and unequal in its operation; and I think 1 shall be able to demon strate it to be so, by applying to its examination the soundest prin ciples of political economy. Any interference with the in dustry of the citizen, except so far as is necessary for mere nurnoses of revenue, is much to be depreca- hold Sir. flint .this slim,li i 7 UP cr. niucii mvorea Dy tins government as a bale of cloth. Their ability to supply themselves with the ne cessaries and conveniences of hf," depends upon the value of Ulc-J products; and, if by the operatic of this, bill, more of these pro. ducts or their value is required U exchange for ' articles of wooIf IJ manufacture, so much of the fruits of the fruits of their industry is certainly taken for the beuclu of manufacturing industry. 1 will now, Mr. Speaker, under take to acquaint the House with the magnitude and value of a sin gle agricultural product of South, which I conceive must be materially affected by the opera' tion of tliis bill. The export of Cotton for 182uwas 192 millions of pounds, which, at the low-price of Cotton at that time, was worth about,24 millions of dollars. The. whole of the exports of the United States were valued at 78 millions of dollars. The value of the Cot ton exported in 1825, was 156 mil lions of dollars, though less ia quantity by 16 millions of pounds, than the export of 182U. Tl honorable chairman estimates the Cotton consumed 1 manufactures, at. 54 millions of pounds, making an agreiate of near 250 millions of pouiidsof this product consumed by manufactu ring establishments, of which we have ai account. It must he ob vious to gentlemen, that a consid erable quantity must be used throughout the" country, which is not brought into the account. These facts must crive the House a lively idea Of the immense value ted, and is onlv to be iiictifinrl lv its necessity for the preservation! capital and labour devoted of the independence of society, or to tms product; how infinitely some great common nood. That each man should be left at liberty to pursue his own happi ness in his own way, and sit un molested "under hisown vine and tig tree," was, I had honed, con secrated as a maxim of American polity at least. The experience of ages has shown, that no irov- ernment can regulate or control the industry of its citizens with such -skill and success as thev themselves can, if simply let alone. The bill under consideration proposes to impose duties enor mously high un011 certain foreio-n woolen fabrics, most of them such as are worn, by the middling and poorer classes of society; and some ui inese uuues are so high, that the Chairman of the Committor of Manufactures (Mr. Mallary, of Vermont) has not scrupled to ad mit that they amount to a prohibi tion. Now, Sir, I contend, that these duties, so far as the v am dp- signed to operate for any other purposes man those of revenue are just so much bounty bestowed upon one class oi the community, (the manufacturers, and that ton at the expense of a much more nu merous class, viz. the consumers. These consumers, too are mostly the cultivators of the soil: tbr.o who earn their bread bvthe suvnt of their brow, and whose proper- v mmnoui uiuiuuui distress is alT ways visible and liable to the hand of taxation. The product of their land and labor fin the District which I have the honor to repre sent) is usually embodied in the shape of a bale of cotton: and; 1 greater than that sought to be un justly preferred to it bv this bill; ana also, what discouraging fluc tuations in the value of their prin cipal product this great interest endures. In 1825 170 millions of pounds of cotton are worth 30 millions of dollars; in the 7cxTyear, 192 mil lions of pounds are worth onlv 24 millions of dollars. Here, Sir, l is a mighty iluctttation -it is in deed, the rolling back of the waves. But, Sir, this suffering class have not called for any re lief from the Government. Thev look to no other source of relief than their own exertions; and they are obliged to console them selves with the hope of better times. Their silence. Mr. Sneak er, is by no means to be regarded as any evidence, that they can bear this state of things better than the manufacturers, but arises hr i great measure from their different habits and dispositions. They have not been accustomed to he nourished and fostered by the Go vernment at the expense of other classes of their fellow-citizens; and when they find themselves is a sinking condition, they endeavor to sell out and try their fortune ia the wilds of the South or West. They are compelled to sell their patrimony and the acquisitions ot their own labor, in many instan ces for one-third of their valm1. and thus to sacrifice their capital at "one fell swoop' Congress. As the present ses sion is restricted to the 1th
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