Miscellaneous.
inreme Court, he marries them asl principal of the debt, this year
Selected for the Free Press.
STANZAS.
Crown ye the brave! crown ye the brave!
As through your streets they ride,
And the sunbeams dance on the polish 'd arms
Of the warriors side by side;
Shower on them your sweetest flowers,
Let the air ring with their praise,
For they come from a far and foreign land,
The standard of war to raise!
Crown ye the brave! crown ye the brave!
. They have heard, with proud disdain,
That a tyrant seeks your beautiful land
To bind in his iron chain;
And now they come, with hearts and arms,
To the land that will be free,
With their bloodo give in the cause of those
Who fight for their liberty!
Crown ye the brave! crown ye the brave!
As they wend them from the shore;
For many of those who ride gaily now,
Ye never shall look on more;
Amid the battle's fiercest rage,
, Unnoticed and unblest,
Woe for the forms on the bloody field,
That will sink to endless rest.
EPITAPH.
Stop passenger, for here is laid
One who the debt of nature paid.
This is not strange, the reader cries,
We all know here a dead man liej.
You're right; but stop, I'll tell you more,
He never paid a debt before:
And now he's gone, I'll further say,
He never will another pay.
Marriage
Ceremonies. We
our papers the an-
a marriacre bv II.
perceive in
nouncement of
C. Fay, Esq. The Commercial
Advertiser objects to the right of
any person not a justice of the
peace, exercising the privilege of
reading the marriage ceremony,
and uniting couples in the bands
of matrimony.. .the Commercial,
we presume, meaning that none
but clergymen, or justices of the
peace, have the right of marrying.
The fact is, our laws are not suffi
ciently explicit on that head, and
there is great difficulty in making
them so, in consequence of the
ceremonial laws of various relipji-
A 1!Y
uu.s uuuumiiuuiuiis uiiierinjr so
marerially. For example, the so
ciety of Friends have no marriage
ceremony at all; the parties stand
up, in the presence of witnesses,
and make an avowal of their in
tentions. The Supreme Court, in
the case of Fenton vs. Reed, 4th
Johnson, 52, decide as follows:
"A contract of marriage, made per
verba dc present i, amounts to an
actual marriage, and is as valid
as if made in facia ccclesia;" and
IiOtd Eldon says, by the canon
law, which is the basis of the mar
riage law, all over Europe, assent
alone to a contract of marriage
dc presently is sufficient to render
this contract binding. It follows
from these decisions, that no ce
remony at all is required, and if a
Crim. Con. An action of this
nature, in which Valentine W.
Rathbone was plaintiff, and Lu
ther Trumbull, Jr. defendant, was
brought before the County Court
at its present term at New Fane.
The action was defaulted, and the
Oourt assessed the damages at
85000. Vermont paper.
(the whole having been out of the
per ceni. siock; win save iu
more man
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a notary public, and gives a valid
notarial certificate, out it cer
tainly is a very loose mode of the nation, next year
transacting a very important piece
of public business. Marriage is
a religious as well as a civil tie; it
carries with it great moral obliga
tions, and the fulfilment of high
moral duties; it is the most re
sponsible and enduring act of a
man's life, and should be surroun
ded by all the solemnities of reli
gion, and all the securities of le
gal restrictions. The rights of
property, the rights of primogeni
ture, may be involved in a ques
tion of legality of a marriage con
tract or ceremonv. Therefore,
generally speaking, such contracts
should be confirmed by persons
known to be in authority.
New- York Enq.
hnlf n million of dollars in inte
restleaving so much more ap
plicable to the redemption of the
principal of the debt, or to other
great national objects. Nat. Int.
Fatal effects of Intemperance...
On Saturday morning last, Jesse
Hunt was found dead, in a branch
just below Brown's still-house in
this county; there is no doubt that
his death was caused by intempe
rance, as he had been for a day
or two previous drinking at, and
in the neighborhood of this still
house. This should be a warn
ing to those who are fond of strong
drink. Greensboro Patriot.
Another Suicide. We were in
formed a few days since, that a
man by the name of Lemuel Tay
lor, a resident of Currituck coun
ty, put an end to his existence on
Friday last, by shooting him
self. Elizabeth City Star.
Methodists. The number of:
persons in connection with the
Methodist Church in the United
States, is 421,105. Last year it
was 31,997. Increase this year,
39,108. Az. Star.
Creek Indians. The Colum
bus (Geo.) Enquirer states that
the Creek Indians have lately held
their Annual Council. One of
the Chiefs was arraigned for for
gery and one for lying. The low
er Creeks have fallen in debt for
provisions furnished them, seven
teen thousand dollars more than
their stipend. The upper Creeks
made the most of their own pro
visions, and drew the money that
was due them. The Mad Tiger,
the principal Speaker of the lower
Creeks, opposed
open council. ...ib.
A Flight. ..The Reading Chro
nicle states, that at a dinner in
town, among other toasts a Mr. P.
II. Hawk gave the following:
"The fair sex. ..brilliant decora-
ments that luminous in the dia-
Roman people, and the decline of
their liberty. Says the Roman
historian, "the principal officers
were saluted even by the Sove
reign himself, with deceitful titleg
of your Sincerity, your Gravity,
your Eminency, your Sublime and
Wonderful Magnitude, your Illus
trious and Magnificent High,
ness. Boston Statesman.
Dancing. We go to a ball.
Mercy upon us! is that what you
call dancing! A man of thirty
years of age, and with legs as
thick as a gate post, stands up in
the middle of the room, and gapes
and fumbles with his gloves, look
ing all the time as if he were bury
ing his grandmother. ' At a given
signal the unwieldy animal puts
himself into motion: he throws
out his arms, crouches up his
shoulders, and, without moving a
muscle of his face, kicks out his
legs, to the manifest risk of the
byestanders, and goes back to his
place, puffing and blowing like an
otter, after a half hour's burst. Is
this dancing?
emigration
in
National Debt. The late ad
vertisement from the Treasury
Department for paying off, during
this year, another sum of more
than four millions of the Public
Debt, is a very gratifying incident
in the fiscal operations of the pre
sent year. It is more so, certain
ly, than any that has occurred in
that Department of our govern
ment for several years past. With
out the least aid from loans, or
any other source, upwards of nine
millions of dollars of the National
Debt will have been extinguished
within the year, out of our surplus
1 he regular annual ap
Bacon. ..Wc see it stated in the
Tuscaloosa (Alab.) Sentinel, of
the 30th ult. that the necessary
article of Bacon has again be
come very scarce in that place;
its selling price is from 14 to 16
dem of familiarising intercourse,! cents per lb. for hams; 121 for
whose placid salutes are more li-l middlings; and 10 to 12 for shoul
cious than nectar, vocalness har-jders. Bacon sells in Salisbury
moniously enchanting as the me-,(N. C.) at 8 cents per lb. where
lodies of Arion, optics more ad-'corn can be readily bought at 15
mirable than the diamond that -cents per bushel. ...Carolinian.
glares upon their ornaments; sa-
luters as attracant as attraction of Modesty is one of the chief or-
rI heir presence casts inaments of youth, and has ever
magnetism.
around existence, a charmingness
that revives in its irksome pilgri
mage; their vicile in the causation
of suffering virtue, wards ofF cala
mity's vehement darts:
"Of all the beauties polish'cl nations boast,
You, lovely fair, shall ever be my toast."
Really the flight of this Ha wk is
enough to make the hens cackle.
oeen esteemed a
ing merit.
presage of ris-
Ji List of Letters,
Remaining in the Post-0 fjice at Ha
lifax, N. C. on the 1st of October,
1S2S, which if not taken out be
fore the 1st of January next, ivil be
sent to the General Post-Office as
dead letters.
Ladies' Club. ..An the Chester' Archer William Harris William W
(EncO naner. wn find nn nnnnnnf 1 Kurlon H G Gov Hawkins Ambrose
of thtt celebration ,f nn A nnWw .1 BishopmandaMiss Hail Mary Mrs
revenue.
propriation of money, applicable
to the public debt, is ten millions
man declares, in the presence of of dollars, which includes the an-
witnesses, that he takes a certain
woman, then present, as his wife,
and she assents, the parties being
of age, the marriage is binding.
In the present case, the lady and
gentlemen are members of what
is called the Free Press Associa
tion. ..an association of Philoso
phers, as Dr. Franklin would say;
and as Mr. Fay lectures in that
society, they considered him le
gally qualified to unite them: and
he was so, because, in addition to
ms ocing sustained by the Su-
nual interest on the whole debt.
More may be paid on the account
of that debt, if the Treasury be
rich enough. Happily, this is the
case on the present occasion.
There will have been paid, this
year, in principal and interest, on
account of the debt, between
twelve and thirteen millions of Highness, and Protector of
viuuuia. xuis is, it win oe seen,
two and three millions more than
the annual stated appropriation
for the debt.
The payment of so much of the
sary at Wrexham, which is wor
thy of notice: "On Tuesday, the
Ladies' Club held their annual
at the Bowling Green,! Hai,ev Valentine
. Aftnr honriv,r ,,,. ! BrO wn W II
Boseman John
Bailey Zebidee
Bishop Drury
Buries A S H Dr
meeting
Wrexham. Aft.nr hrnriinr
rnnnnpnrit nn.l
up with great spirit
through the evening."
when dancins
was kept
m
Titles. Shortly after the time
when John Adams wrote his book
in favor of Monarchy, and his no
bility letters to Samuel Adams,
and about the time when John Q.
Adams was writing his Ptiblicola
Essays in Benjamin Russell's pa
per, against "the mechanical hor
ror" at the mention of a King, and
the "physical antipathy to the sHit
of an innocent ribband" indulged
by the people of the United States;
it was gravely proposed in the Se
nate of the U. States, of which
the First Adams was the head, to
confer upon the President a Ti
tle. This title was to he ";
tea j Bush Ledge
Cormack Francis
CrovveJl John Esq
Collins Thos
Cor ban Thos
Cockron dam
our
Liberties." This piece of non
sense which evidently was sha
ped on the Adams last, reminds
us of the titles established in
Rome after the degeneracy of the
Holt Harvey
Heptinstall J J
Hines Martin
Harison Patsey
Hicks Charles
Hawkins & Harris
Johnslon Starling
Jones Cnpelo
King John Mrs
Long Richd H Capt
Long Leml Esq
Lancaster Jno I
Levesty Henry I
CPU Sup'r Courts Morast John M D
Church of Christ Marshall R L Esq
Carter Saml Marshall F S Esq
CarsonThos H Esq M'Neal Archibald
Cole Joshua Esq PettwayM H Esq 11
Cummins Eliz Mrs President of the N)
Daniel Jos J Judjre C Society of the
Cincinnati Hal. )
Rhodes David
Smith Miles Rev
Sledge Daniel
Sheriff Halifax NC
Freeman K B Esq2 Thompson Turner
Fort Ricks Thorn William Esq
Fenner D C Col Taylor Wilson
Green Geo Turner James Capt
Gary Liuleb'y Esq Valentine Austin
Gilmour Charles P Vaden .Tames Capt
Gladdish Jm B Willcox L H Dr
Gun John M Willcox L Esq
Gee James Maj Washington Mr
GarettMarij LMiss Wilkes Henry Esq
Gee Charles Maj Wood Stephen
Garien O'Neal Woodcock no
Harvey John . Willis Anderson
97 JOSf L. SIMMOXS, P
Daniel Willis
Drake Mary Mrs
Drew Julia Miss
Eure E H Esq
Eslis Triplett T