Comnutmcatimts.
FOR THE FREE PRESS.
AN ANECDOTE,
At the Fast Office, in this place.
It is not out of disrespect to tin; per
sonage who was a party in this matter,
that 1 offtir it to the press, but merely, for
the amusement of my friends and the
public.
An old gentleman from the country,
one day during our last County Court
week, not in the habit of receiving many
letters nor celebrated for his wit or learn
ing, called at the Office and addressed
the Post M ister as follows:
Well, my friend, have you many letters
on hand now?
P. M. replied Yes, Sir, a tolerable
supply.
Vdl, you hav'nt one from , in
Indiana, for me, have you!
P. AI. I don't know your name, Sir.
La! help myself, you don't! why I am
an own brother of Jemmy's, and every
body knows hi in.
P. M. Weil, Sir, I do not. What is
the name, Sir!
Is there none for any of my relations,
Sir?
P. M. 'cannot tell, Sir, unless know
the name, or names.
Well, well, 1 thought the name always
came on the letters.
P. M. So it does, Sir but the letter
does not point out its namesake, not
withstanding. So you must tell me your
name, after all.
O well, Sir, I beg your pardon. My
name is G .
P M. Well, Sir, I am glad that 1 can
accommodate you there is one, Sir,
from the very place.
Indeed! I am very glad to get it; ifs
from an old friend, and I would'nt take
any thing for it. Oh, what is to pay, Sir!
P. M. Twenty-five cents, Sir.
La! me, that is very high, my friend,
and the times are mighty hard and mo
ney srarce ciln't you fall a little in the
price?
P. M. No, Sir, we never fall in the
prie of letters.
Why I have got Vrn at 10 and 125 cents
many y-nrs ago. H ,w came 'em to rise?
P. M. They have not risen, Sir; this
is the old price. (i depends on the dis-
tance they have to come, whether they
are 6, 10, or 25 cents. j
Well, my friend, I must pay it if you
say so; but if yru sell all your letters so,
It won't take long for you to Svt rich, I
know; for I know you don't give more!
than 10 cents for them where you get 'em
from; for you know Congress has"" taken
the duties off of the Tariff, and I think
letters ought to come low now as well as
other things; and upon my soul it's too
bad that Post Masters has sich 'vantage
over other folks.
The P. M. was much amused, though
being engaged, had to leave him grum
'"o Townsman.
gaming a considerable sum of money be
longing to another.
07We learn on the authority of a Gen
tleman from Newborn, that ihereare
now between 20 and 30 vessels building
at that place, or in its immediate neigh
borhood, calculated for and intended to
trade through the Dismal Swamp Canal,
he demand for transportation which
has lor some time existed, and which
continues to increase, is a satisfactory
assurance that these vessels will all meet
with constant and profitable employment,
lhe fact is the more agreeable as it
proves that the Canal now offers suffi
cient inducements to individual enter
pnse to furnish the planters with ample
means of trans DOrtilKT fllir rn.rw1..
our market, thus fulfilling the object of
the I ransDortatinr, nJ.. -J . .
,r ' " uuijaiiy, wmctl, It)
the commencement was orgnnized to
supply that ,leSi()eratum BIM,0w,lic, a,"
though at a considerable sacrifice of ca p-
Suiee.-Mr Daniel Willis, of Natch
blew o,H hi. brains with a pistol n
ledns,,r,j, h.-r passage from New Or
lo. to hi, own home. Ho had in
SATURDAY, MAY 25, 1S33.
(QPhilatlelphus cannot be inserted until the
author's name, or a reference, is given.
CANDIDATES.
Election on Thursday, 25h July next.
For Congress.
Thomas 11. Hall.
General Assembly Senate.
Gray Little.
House of Commons.
John V. Potts.
Clerk Superior Court.
James W. (,'lark.
Cleric County Court.
.Michael IIearn.
Federal Court. The Raleigh Constitutional
ist says: the important Land cases, in which the
State is so deeply interested, occupied the Court
nearly the whole of last week. On Friday eve
ning the jury retired, and on Monday found a
verdict in favor of the State. It is generally be
lieved that the plaintiffs will appeal to the Su
preme Court of the United States. Land to the
value of nearly a million of dollars is in dispute.
The Register says:
any ordinary man's fancy. We invito the
Editor of the Patriot, to come down and
take a view of the place, and say if he
docs not think we are right. Mr. Ball
Hughes must come back and finish the
Statue; we do not see how he can help
doing so; there are 2,300 yet in the trea
sury vaults for him, if he will, and if our
beautiful little city will not attract him, we
trust a little of the ready will.
Raleigh Constitutionalist.
From the Richmond Enquirer.
An interesting letter has been put into
our hands written by one of the most
respectable citizens of South Carolina.
If his views are correct, it would be high
time for every man, who loves the union,
to be on the alert. He criticises the late
proceedings of the convention, and the
more recent exhibitions in Charleston
and he comes to the conclusion, that
there is a partv in'Soulh Carolina, whose
object is to bring about a southern con
federacy, and ultimate ly a separation of
the union. He contends that the nul
lification of the tariff was one of the
schemes by which these politicians hop
ed to accomplish their object that in
this they have been foiled, as they could
not prevail upon a single state to sub
scribe to their paradoxical and mischiev
ous theory.
Discomfited, hot disheartened, with
out abandoning their project, they have;
changed their ground. They will now
exert themselves to form a confederacy,
by appeals to the prejudices, the fears,
and the jealousies of the slave holding
stales by impressing upon them, lite
absolute necessity of their leaguing to
gether to preserve the rights of the states;
as the only means by which they can se
cure their property in slaves. By the
Mr. Gaston appeared for the Plaintiffs,
atid Mr. Badger and the Attorney Gene
ral for the Defendants. It is said, that perversion of senile of the remarks which
the trial of this cause has elicited lhe were recently mitde in congress uoon the
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aoiest argument, on hoth sides, ever heard essential ditlerence between the labor of
in th 'Courts of this State-
The two leading points of controversy,
as we understand them, are, first, wheth
er the acts of 1778 and 1783 prohibiting
the entry ot Cherokee lands are in force,
freemen and of slaves, Sec. and by pour
traying in the darkest colors the liberti
cide character of the 'bloody bill' they
calculate upon being able to produce a
union ot feeling, and ultimately, a union
and secondly whether the correctness of of action among those, who have hitherto
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remained unseduced by their sophistry
and declamation.
the Pickens l;ne, as run in 1797, can be
enquired into.
On the first point, the Court charged
the Jury that the acts of 1778 and 1783, The Emancipator... We have been fa-
"u, u; reuia.neo in lull lore e, ZOrcd with the first No. of a new nai.or
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and that therefore, all grants within the
Indian boundaries were void. On the
second, the Court held the running of the
Pickens line prima facie evidence of the
boundary described in the treaty of Uol
ston of 1791, but not conclusive.
Federal Court. The United States,
Circuit Court for the District of North
Carolina commenced its Spring Term,
in this city, on Monday last. Present,
Chief Justice Marshall and Judge Pot
ter. There are on the docket several
cases of counterfeiting, and also some
important land suits, in which the State
and many individuals in the western part
of the State are deeply interested.
The trial of these cases will necessa
rily consume much time, and it is there
fore, probable ihat the Court will not get
through its business during the present
week. The number of strangers in at
tendance is unusally great. A state
ment of the causes decided will be given
in our next paper. Raleigh Star.
CC?On Tuesday last, David W. Stone,
Esq. late. Cashier of the Edenton
Branch,was elected President of the State
Ba nk of North Carolina, in the place of
Peter Browne, Esq. resigned. ib.
bearing the above title commenced in
New York on Saturday the 4ih ult. Its
prospectus says it is put into operation
to "advocate the entire and immediate
emancipation of all slaves," on the prin
ciple, that "Slavery all over the world
will be overthrown either by the moral
strength of the free, or tin; physical force
of the enslaved." It contains a valedic
tory from the notorious William Lloyd
Garrison, to his "much beloved, yet guil
ty country," on his departure from New
York for England, "at the request and
under the auspices of the New England
Anti Slavery Society whose object are
the immediate liberation of the Slaves,
and the moral and intellecual improve
ment of the free people of color in these
United States."
Can we longer cheat ourselves into
a doubt as to the ultimate objects of the
Northern Abolition Societies Look at the
simultaneous establishment of this vile
paper, and the setting out of this vile
agent of a yet more diabolical knot of
conspirators, on a mission to England,
whose ministry having determined man
umit the slaves of her West India Island,
is probably to be importuned to lend also
a helping hand to the same cause in the
U. States! j
As for Garrison, let him go. He will
be less dangerous there than here. He
CWe wish we could tell the Editor
of the Greensborough Patriot what has mav herald his, nrrVn ;.. r a .
. ...... . i n,tv ,Il-o nis ariival in .London, tvitli
me quotation of these lines from the
bone was the result of the conflicf
Mr. Luke Robinson, from whom we oh
tainfcd this intelligence, was present at
the'scene, and described it as being very
terrific. We regret that Mr. Robing
was in such a great hurry that we had
not sufficient time to enquire into thf
particulars. The victory was claimed
by the whites: and we presume the quar
rel originated in a dispute about thegm
mines at that place. Cherokee Ga. lut
OCr'Extract of a letter from an officer
in the Illinois Militia, dated Lewiston
April 13th, 1833. "1 am daily looking for
another Indian war. The Pattawata.
mies, Winnebagoes, Chippevvas, and one
tribe of the Sioux, have all come on to
Rock River, where General Stillman
was defeated; making in all 4000 war
riors, and 500 boys able to fight.
"Mr. Dixon, on Rock River, where
I quartered last summer, and who stood
his ground, has been obliged to mnvo
his family to fort Clark also Mr.
Thomas and Mr. Boyd.
'This kind of work will not do; if more
severe measures are not taken, and those
promptly, we shall be annoyed continu
ally." Wash. Telegraph.
More last Words! Mr. Adams has
addressed a 3d Letter to Mr. Livingston,
as "Grand High Priest of the General
Grand Royal Arch Chapter of the U.
States, and Secretary of State for tho
said States!" But he does not yet lee
the Grand High Priest off so easily for
ays Mr. Adams: "I have yet more to
say to you, sir, on this subject, nor shall
I be discouraged from continuing to ad
dress you upon it by your observance of
a 'dignified silence.'" May his grncioun
stars preserve Mr. L. from this cataract
of words! We should pity him for read
ing, much less for answering, these end
less letters. It were well for Mr. A.
if he could only see that, 'dignified si
lence' would become him. as well as it
does Mr. L. Richmond Enq.
University of North Carolina. t a
meeting of the Board of Trustees, on tho
2d day of January last, the following re
solution was adopted:
Resolved, That a committee be ap
pointed to enquire into the expediency of
removing the University from Chapel
Hill to the Seat of Government, and into
the means of effecting this object, and
that they report at the next Annual Meet
ing of this Board That said Commit
tee consist of fifteen members, one, at
least from each Congressional district, to
be selected by the President of the Board
at his leisure."
The President has subsequently ap
pointed the following persons to compose)
this Committee, viz: James Iredell, John
B. Baker, Simmons J. Baker, William
A. Blount, John II. Bryan, John Owen,
William Robards, John D. Toomer, Lou
is D. Henry, John M. Morehcad, John
Giles, William J. Alexander, Thomas
Love, Lewis Williams, and James C.
Johnston.
The gentlemen composing this Com
mittee are respectfully requested to meet
at Chapel Hill, on Monday the 24th day
of June next.
James Iredell, Chairman.
become of Robert Ball Hughes. From
the last accounts he was in New York,
and said that he intended to come on and
finish the Statue. We shall be very glad
to see him here now. Our town looks
very pretty: people are very industrious:
brick buildings are rising up on both
sides of Eayetteville street: the hammers
in the State House yard make very good
music; it would inspire Ball Hughes:
enough port wine is here to keep his spi
rits up; our water is excellent, our market
tolerable; in fine, this little town of Ra
leigh is just such a place as would suit
New South Wales Convicts' Epilogue:
" rue patriot, lf0r be it understood,
1 left my country for my country's good!"
Petersburg Times.
A Battle. On Sunday the 28th A pril
last a battle was fought near Scudder's
in Forsyth county between a party of in
dians and a party of whites consisting
ot about thirty on each side. Their
weapons of warfare consisted of fists
sticks and stones. There were no lives
lost, but many a black eye and broken
Suicide. On Thursday last. Mr.
Richard Bullock, a young man of this
county, nut an end to his existence, bf
placing a gun to his breast and pulling
the trigger with his toe. The circum-
tances, which led to this irrational deed
are not known. Mr. Bullock was a
young man of respectability, and gener
ally Deioved by all who knew him; thus
it is, he has put a period to his existence,
and left behind a largo train of relatives
to mourn his rash and precipitate exit.
Mr. B. was 22 or '3 years of age, and a
native of this county. Warrenton Rep.
Melancholy Accident. We are in
formed by a correspondent that, on Moo
day, the 6th instant. Solomon Craven.
Esq. of Randolph county, while engaged
in burning olFsome brush from a piece of
new ground, was instantaneously killed
by the falling of an old tree which had
become ignited from one of the piles
burning near it. He was literally crush-
r