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FRIDAY, JUNE 5, 1829. Common Schools.. .We have received a pamphlet copy of a "Plan for promo ting Common School Education in Greece... adopted by the Greek School Committee, New-York, May, 1S29:" addressed "to magistrates and gentlemen of intelligence.,, The Committee pro pose to establish in that country: "I. A High School or National Academy, at which young men may be trained for superintend ing elementary Schools, and for the study of the useful professions. II. A High School for females, designed primarily for the instruc tion of those who may become teachers. III. Several elementary schools as models of the most approved unon the nublic to subscribe ten - j or twelve thousand dollars to be sent to Greece, look at the state of education in their own country." IhwJ&fGfcHftt. Banking system is deeply agitated in several sections of the Union, as well as in this Stale. We think it highly probable that something important 3nd decisive will be adopted, respecting our Banks and banking ope rations, in the next General Assembly; and that our readers may form a correct opinion, and instruct their representa tives accordingly we will occasionally present them with such views as may come under our observation. A writer in the Richmond Enquirer, under ihe signature of George Clintorij has pro gressed as far as his sixth number in an attack upon the local Banks of Virginia. His object evidently is to get rid of all the batiks in that commonwealth, and his arguments may perhaps be conden sed in the following pithy remarks from Niles Register: "Banks are the curse of an ag ricultural population; the blast, and the mildew, the cut worm and the rot, the hessian fly and the catternillar. drought or flood; are methods of instruction" harmless agents of ruin, compa- The Committee commence their Ad-! d with banking institutions, at 3ress "to the citizens of the United which farmers are liberally ac States," as follows: J commodated." "The Greek Committee believe1 In noticing these numbers, the Wash that the cause of Common School inSton Cily Telegraph observes: Education needs no advocate in! "If George Clinton be serious this enlightened nation. The i" opposition to all Banks, we miseries of the Southern half of would request him to solve us the our continent have been prolong- following queries: cd by the want of good Com- Will the refusal to re-charter mon Schools." ' the local Banks ensure a specie "If ten or twelve thousand dol- circulating medium! lars can be collected here, annu-i If so, will not the amount of ally, tor a lew years, the present that medium be much less than i :ii u i I. '!, r i jjiuii wm ue cruwueu wnn com- amuum ui uiu specie now in 1. 41 I I . 111 . Let those who imprudently call; the following paragraph from the Richmond Compiler of Thursday: "As the notes of the Bank of the United States, payable at the offices south of this place, are not received at their oflice in Kich mohd, they are not current here but at a discount. This notice is given for the benefit of the South ern dealers, who usually bring such paper into Virginia." This determination of the U. S. Bank, in Richmond, which doubtless has its cue from the mother bank, has made its ap pearance at a very opportune pe riod. The question of renewing its charter, is already agitated: and if we are to judge from what appears in the newspapers, a pow erful opposition will be made to its renewal. A few such eviden ces of its shaving disposition, as is noticed above; will complete the downfall of an institution, which has never been wielded for any beneficial purpose, but has operated to the detriment of the whole community. Unconstitu tional in its enactment, it has been felt only as a scourge, and its dis solution will be hailed with glad ness by the American people. Petersburg Old Dominion. plete success." circulation, added to the paper With due deference to the onininns currency convertible into snecie. of the "gentlemen of intelligence'' u ho also in circulation? form this committee, xve cannot but ex-j If so, will not the substitution press our belief that it would be equally 0f Q metallic for a paper curren nhilanthronm and mnn mnrp natrmf n n . .. r I UIIUI .J. ' nr hp frlmivrwl tm Ktr i;nii.. relief of the "miseries o( the Southern!110" ot the price of property, at; infT wjfn t,em nau ol tneir own country, if they have no worthy objects nearer home on which to exercise their benevolence. We give publicity (o the Plan propo sed, in the hope that it may help to en lighten the "magistrates and gentlemen of intelligence" who may compose our next General Assembly, in such a de gree as to enable them, after a lapse of more than half a century, to fulfil Ihe unequivocal and uncancelled obligation entered into by their predecessors, and engraven on the Constitution of this State, in the forty-first article, viz: "That a school or schools shall be established by the Legislature, for the convenient instruction of youth, with such salaries to the masters, paid by the public, as may enable them to instruct at low prices." FOR THE FREE PRESS. With concern, and not without some apprehension, we may look upon the arguments used by ma ny, alternately to recommend those who may be aspiring at of fice, and to displace those who may be tn. We had formerly been taught to suppose, that the pretensions of men to office were based upon talents and integrity of heart. Never, surely, did we expect to hear United Americans offer such arguments. Yet, often do we lK3ar them; and the public prints are more and more teem- The arguments the State, to the prosperity 0f t j people as the constituents of a commonwealth, than all the a ii that can possibly be dug from 1 neath our soil. Heartless associ ations of strangers, and opulent capitalists, will be the principa recipients of the riches' flowing from the gold mines; while the great body of the people, the a? ncultunsts, the manufacturers" merchants and mechanics, would be mutual partakers of the wealth and prosperity which would inevi tably result from the accomplish ment of a prudent and wise sys tem of internal improvements. The only way in which the gold already found, and the immense amount which, there is no room any longer to doubt, must hereaf ter be found, can be rendered ex tensively beneficial to the State... to the physical and political con dition of the Stale. ..is by making it subservient to, and consequent ly promotive of, the great elements of every nation's prosperity, ag riculture, commerce, (internal es pecially, as well as external,) and manufactures. And we indulge in the pleasing hope, that our gold mines will, in this way, be promo tive of bur best interests, by resto ring soundness to our currency, and affording us the means of de veloping the illimitable resources of N. Carolina. ...Salisbury Car. Petersburg, June 1. The mar ket but little doing the past week, and our quotations are merely nominal Cotton, lh a 83. Flour, 7a lh. Bacon, 5 a6...Ti. A correspondent of (he New-York Enquirer, remarks: "It seems there is a proposal to get up a society, having for its ob ject the establishment of schools in Greece. Have we no children to educate in this city! None to educate in this state! None to ed ucate in the United folates! If not, why then let us look to Greece. Our American charity glows with more ardor, in proportion as the object is distant. And many of ii i ' r. .. our piiuaniuropisis preter sending their money abroad, to assisting those under their own eye. And why! Because to do their duty gives them no eclat; and they like to see their names in the papers as presidents, secretaries, &c, as Tll7' "ol Ster inan :0 jludc(1 10 are 8Uc ag the follow thc j diminution of the currency! j A ht tohavctll6 offlcc hc If so, will not that diminution rc hu Circumstances afc limit h!r;cc of VVY derange cd! B ht t0 out bteaun he the existing relations between- 5?c; cricied b w debtor and creditor, greatly to the kYere oflices desi gned to be given njuryoftl.e former enriching the to men in consideration of their latter without merit, and ruining : .-v the former without crime? I J?.1 l! :1 u i , .l" wit i i 'lias u uvur uuun uuiunnmuu juai. Ajrain. Wi the destruction of.. , . , 11117 lllllll WUUOU tJUIJUl 11UIJ IS lUIU- the local Banks not substitute the notes of the Bank of the United Slates, in lieu of those now in cir culation! If so, will not the pow er of that Rank, and the abuses practised by it, be more oppres sive by one hundred fold, than those of which "George Clin ton" complains! This is a subject upon which the country at large is deeply con cerned. Wo have witnessed the progress of the Bank of the Uni ted States witli alarm, We have believed that the local Banks are the onhj barriers against a monied aristocracy, more absolute and oppressive than eastern despot ism; and we confess that we look to the Bank of the United States as the moving cause of the late pecuniary embarrassments in the South, Wo have witnessed its devastating influence in the West, and regret to see that the doc trines proclaimed by George Clin ton are not answered in the. Rich mond Enquirer." U, 8. Bank Notes. We copy ly improved by the profits accru ing to an office, shall for this wor thy cause alone be removed! And shall these things now obtain, and establish a precedent which our posterity may hereafter execrate! We trust that men wiU let no man's poverty or wealth, either introduce him into office or ex clude him from it. Spectator. We are authorized to state that Thomas II. Daves, Esq. of this county, is a candidate to repre sent the district of Newbern, in the next Congress of the United States. Ncicbern Sent. Counterfeit Notes. Counter feit S5 notes of the Petersburg Branch of the Virginia .Bank are now in pretty extensive circula tion. 1 he imitation ot signatures and the engraving of the plate are very well done, and requires a nice judge to detect them. The prin cipal defect is in the vignette, which is badly executed, and also the President's signature 810 of the Lynchburg office, but badly engraved. ib. Internal Improvements. Al though the gold mines of this State will no doubt in a few years prove a source of inexhaustible wealth, yet, a judicious system of internal improvements the mak ing of good roads, the clearing out of obstructions to the navigation of our rivers and bays, the con struction of rail roads and cutting of canals, will be infinitely more Top Gallant, which took place on tuoicf .iH nt tli Hunting 1 arIC L 1 1 1 wlOl Li I VI V4fc beneficial to the solid interests of Course, four miles from Treaty with the Turks. We published in our last, an extract of a letter from an American offi cer, at Smyrna, on the 1st March, speaking with much confluence ot the United States forming a com mercial treaty with Turkey and stating that a part of our squad ron was at Smyrna waiting for the result. We have since remarked an article in a German paper da ted, Constantinople, March 10 which says: "M r. Ofiley, the North American Consul at Smyrna, who came here some time ago, with the view of concluding a commercial treaty with the Porte, has return ed to Smyrna, without succeed ing in his object. Rich. Enq. Union Course. Betsey Ran som was again victorious on the 27th ult. She bore off the purse, $600, with ease, beating Ariel in two 4 mile lats. There were no other competitors for the prize. Time, 7min. 52sec. and 8m. Is. Trotting. The trotting match hntvveen Enhraim Smooth and
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