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Communications. FOR THE FREE TllESS. CONSTITUTION, No. I. Mr. Editor: Equity in the enactment and uniformity in the administration or lavvs, form t li o highest considerations in every government. The legislator and the magistrate should ever act with an cye single to these great points: But, Mr. fJEditor, 1 apprehend that in our own Slate 'there is far mure attention paid to die statute hook than to judicial records. Is it not a fact, Sir, that nine-tenths of the debts recovered in N.rth Carolina are collc tcd by virtue of judgments issued by Justices of the Peace, who ran lay no claim to an acquaintance with the laws of the land? Is it not also a fact, that these dehts are recovered in manifest vio lation of that clause of the Constitution of the United States, which explicitly de clares "that in all suits t law where the 6um in dispute shall exceed $20, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved!" Jt is an absurd evasion of this clause to say, that an appeal may be grunted to a liigher tribunal, where the parties may have the benefit of a jury. It must be recollected that before the parties can obtain the benefit of a jury, the party cast before the magistrate must i:ive security therefore. Does it not sometimes hap pen that such party cun give no security! It is no answer to this, to say that this will seldom happen. If it happen but one time in a hundred, nay one time in a thousand, the infraction upon the Con stitution is equally glaring. If a law op erate unconstitutionally in one insianci , it is just as much an unconstitutional law os if it did so in all. Another considera tion is, that there are many people who may have trials before magistrates, who ore themselves so ignorant as to believe the decision of the magistrate must ne cessarily be law, or if not that by any means is likely so to be, and they are thereby deterred from prosecuting their suit any farther. In these cases then mast evidently neither the letter nor the spirit of the Constitution are complied with. The object, Mr. Editor, of those So lons, Lycurguses, Fredericks, &c. who have thus clearly trampled upon the Con stitution, was, I doubt not, to render jus tice more speedy, and prevent .a heavy accumulation of costs in the Court House. The object was good, the mo tive pure, but the consequence a sad in road upon the very Magna Charta of our noerties. fco tar as my information extends, which 1 admit to bo limited, a higher. regard has been paid to the su preme law, and however desirous upon public policy, other States might be to extend the jurisdiction of a magistrate withoui n jury, beyond the sum specified in the Constitution, they yet found ihem selves so situated as to preclude the ex ercise of their discretion. In my next I will endeavor to point out some means by which the ends of pubic justice can be os speedily and as safely, while at the fiame time constitutionally, arrived at as they now are. Constitution. Bears. The Fayelteville Journal states, that a very large bear was bro't to the market of that place a few morn ings since; which is the sixth that has been killed in the same neighborhood (10 or 12 miles from town) this summer. New York Criminal Law. The Al bany papers noticing the death of n Mrs. Helen Pearse by intemperance, say that two years ago 'she was sent to the State Prison for hihcock-alorcm.9 We have asked a New York lawyer for an explan ation of the term, without success. Ohio Repository. Singular Phenomenon. We learn that from some cause unknown, the fish in,-he ponds at South wich, Mass. are in a diseased state, anj vast numbers of them are already dead, and the remain der upparenuy in n dying condition. It is said that loads of b,rge pickerel and peich may be picked up or taken with tho hand near the shore. ib FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1833. (3No pnper was issued from this office last week. We must ask the indulgence of our pat ronsboth our assistants have left tis in conse quence of ill health, and our enfeebled condition will not permit extra exertion. We shall proba bly not issue a paper the ensuing week after that we expect to resume our wonted regularity. (QThc Fall Term of the Superior Court for this County was held in this place last week, Judge Martin presiding. The Court got thro wilh the businc ss on Thursday, and adjourned. No case of public importance was tried. fTWc have been ofHciallu informed that lhe expences of the Poor House of this county, Irom the 25tli ol 3lay, ISiiS, until tbc 25ii oi May, 1S33, amounted to the sum of S731 22. Ntw Cotton. A w a son load of new cotton, consisting of five bales, from the plantation o: Maj.W. K Bullock, of this county, was brought to ihis place on Saturday hist and 14 cents refu sed for it. We understand, however, that it was subsequently sold to Messrs. Evans & Andrews, at Sparta, at thai price. At Petersburg, on the 16th, new Cotton was quoted at 13 to 174 cts. At Fayelteville, on the lOlh, at IG 1-8 cts. At Columbia, S. C. on the 3d, at IS to 20. At Charleston, on the 13th, at 16 cts. At Columbus, Ga. on the 31st ult. at 25 to 254. At New Orleans, on the 26lhtilt. at 16 cts. wc nro not at liberty to doubt it, or any of the above facts. A vast deal of suffering will follow this unparalleled visitation. Many poor per sons, whose whole crops have been des troyed, and whose solo dependence is thn rut off. will have to anneal to the charity of their neighbors. Fay. Obs. (T?Ve regret to state the death of John K. Campbell, Esq. District Attor ney of the United Stales, for the Middle District of Florida, in a duel with a mer chant by the name of George Hamlin, on the 29th ult. A private letter from Tal lahassee states, that "they mcj in Geor gia, at 14 paces that at the first fire, Mr. C.'s pistol snapped, and Mr. II. missed, but on the second fire, II. fired at the word "three," shot Campbell in the head, and killed him instantly." Mr. Campbell was an tleve of the Or phan House of this city, and in conse quence of his early display of talent, was educated at the South Carolina College, at the expence of the State. lie was fast rising to eminence in his profession, and was married but in May last, to the niece of Gov. Duval. The Tallahassee bar, met on the melancholy occasion of G7The Hillsborough Rail Road Con vention met on Monday theOthinst. De legates appeared from the counties of Rowan, Caswell, Wake, VVnrren, Per son, Orange, Granville, Guilford, and one from this town. Judge Rufiln and Gov. Swnin were both nominated for President, the former was chosen; the vote was, for Rufiin 26, Swain 16. Messrs. Walker Anderson and Sandy Harris, were elect ed Secretaries. The attention of the Convention was almost exclusively di rected to the consideration of the expedi ency of extending the Petersburg, Virgi nia, or Portsmouth Rail Roads into the Western section of this State. Indeed the Convention resolved that by the terms of the notice calling the Convention, tho members were restrained in their action to this particular subject. On the report of a select committee, the following re solution was adopted accompanying the report. Resolved, That it is the opinion of this Convention that in every project to im prove any part of the Stat by means of a rail road, or other public improvement, where the citizens friendly to such oro- ject shall pay or secure to he paid three- ntins or the cost ot such improvement, an enlarged and enlightened policy requires that the State shall pay the remaining two fifths for the completion of such work. ray. Jour. was reported on high authority, htursigni fied to the representation of Don Pedro their wish that lie should withdraw nil pretensions to the Regency of Portugal, during the minority of the Queen, iti fa vor of one of her aunts. The Slavery Abolition Bill bus passed the British House of Commons. -Markets continued active and steady. The Slaves in Cuba. The New York Journal of Commerce gives the following particulars of an insurrection among the slaves in the island of Cuba. It appears that 500 or 600 slaves had been smuggled in from Africa and laud ed at a place about 30 miles wet of Ha. vana. Some communication took place between them and the slaves on the neighboring plantations, in which the for mer wero given ta understand that a grievous mortality was prevailing among the blacks on the Island, cholera, and that it was occasioned by poison admin istered by the whites. This drove the new-comers to desperation, and thinking that they might as well die in one way as another, they rose upon their keepers and murdered them. Otl this intelligence heinrr Knrnml a . . '. . . . . ... . " rs f 't - Ins death, passed resolutions expressive i military Lvaptain, with two other persons, oi ujcir uuiinruiiou ui inu laiuiu.i uuu m- . nroceeueu io me landing, in order to do - i i i i .... r I ... tamments oi trie deceased, anu ueienni ried to wear the usual mourning for 90 days. Charleston Courier. Mr. Campbell formerly resided at Ha lifax, in this State, and subsequently act ed as Private Secretary to Gov. Bur ton. Ed. Free Press.' Great Hail Storm. A hail storm of greater extent and violence, and attend ed by more disastrous consennenrps than anv we ever heard tf. rin irjt in this State on Wednesday the 23th ult. It extended from Stokes county to Wayne county, (and how much farther we can not say,) and was, as well as we can as certain, from six to twelve miles in width In it course, ir Iims 1 1 II n n I tf-i n -J entire crops, in some places leaving cot ton fields without a green leaf to be seen; broken down and broken to pieces, corn stocks and ears of corn, so that the pro prietors have been forced to turn their hogs in to consume what would be other wise worthless. Birds, poultry, and ho-s have been killed, the roofs of houses split to pieces, and an immense .nnnntitir ,.r IVlnilAlli nine-. I ..... I- " " m,,,,i" iuo5 uroiteri Its duration was u i i r . p'uvc nan an hour; and hail fell to the dpnh r, i inches, the globules being from the siz. of a partridge eg to that of a man's fist. the statement from so many sources that C?"At a public, and, as wc arc told, a very numerous and respectable meeting of the citizens of Columbia, (S. C.) held in tho Town Hall, on Tuesday, the 27th ult.it was resolved, that the meeting "re gard the Rev. J. B. Pinny, a Missionary, from Africa, as a dangerous character, whose conduct has already been produc tive of serious evil amongst us, and that this meeting do therefore give official no tice to Mr. Pinny, that he leave the town immediately." Norfolk Her. E?Atlhe late election in the State of Tennessee, the votes of the people were taken on the question of calling a Con vention for revising the Constitution of tnnt fctate, and decided in the affirma tive. So that a Convention is to be held; at what particular time we do not know. Halifax Adv. CCTDr. Aylett Hawcs, who died at his residence in Rappahannock county, Va. on the 3lst ult. has bequeathed freedom to about 100 slaves, and $20 for each to assist the Colonization Society in con veying them to Liberia. ib. E7A very splendid stage coach has been made, at Baltimore, for Messrs. Stockton & Stokes. Attached to it is an Odomoter, which records the number of miles travelled these are exhibited on a handsome plate just above the front seat, and may be seen by all the passen gers. The inventor of'the machine is William A. Turner, Esq. of Plymouth, in this State he is nrenarinrr in nntom t in Europe, where it will, no doubt, be highly profitable to him. We recollect to have seen a machine of this kind, sev eral years ago, constructed by Mr. Tur "Rr ,on a in which he travelled to Nashville, Tennessee. ib. FOREIGN Latest from England. By the arri val at New York of the mail packet La dy Ugle, Enolish dates tn i,o m.i, a., have been received. They contain-the important intelligence that the forces of the Lx-Lmperor of the Brazil i,.-n tamed possession of Lishnn ,t,;K quietly surrendered tn thom July, theM.guehte army, under the Duke :- iuavai retiring northwardly into the interior. Having the ea, all tlieciii!8 f ,he coast, in course, Sllhmittswl i. v..av, Won I edro arrived at Lisbon, from O porto, on the 28th July. A severe battle had been fourrlt at O porto ,r, which the Miguelite array wore defeated by ,!, forces of Don I he British and French Cabinets.it away the impression prevailing among the insurgents, and bring them back to subordination. These men were also killed. A troop of cavalry consisting of about 30 men, was then sent against the insurgents, who by this time had bt en joined by some of the slaves on the neigh boring plantations, and a battle ensued, in which a number of the blacks wero killed, and also two officers and several privites of the troops. The remainder, finding their force insufficient to suppress the insurrection retreated. A large bo dy was then sent, and poured a terrible fire upon the insurgents, which killed 400 to 500. The whole loss of the whites is stated at 30 or 40. At the date of the last accounts, the rebellion was consider ed at an end. The negroes, we under stand, had no weapons but clubs and stones. Earthquake in Canada. The last Minerva contains a strange account of an earthquake, which is said to have occur red at St. Leon, in the district of Three Rivers, which, if true, is well worthy of attention and public notice. About five in the morning a general convoUion wast felt throughout an extent of fifteen nvres at the least. It is said to br impossible to describe the scene of desolation w hich that spot now presents; all is overthrown ami fallen to ihe banks of the river. The house and barn of Isaac Lesage have sunk in, as also the 'house and barn of Augustin Ferron. Isaac Lesage is now dead, from having been crushed under the ruins of his house. His wife, w ho had gone out to milk the cows, saw the house sinking in. An old man saved himself, with several children, by getting out by the roof. The body of Lesage has been found, all dreadfully mangled. The house has so sunk into the earth, that nothing but the head of the chimney is now visible. The barn has entirely disappeared. The family of Lesage, who have lost all their provisions and most of their properly, are in great pri vation. It is said that a large cross, erected on the road side, as is customary, through the devotion of the inhabitants, was conveyed to a great distance with out falling, and Is even mnrp nprnonriimi lar than it was before. The whole of the accident occurred within a short dis tance ot tne church at St. Leon. Montreal Gaz. Camp Meeting. .Thorn k . n n.. I., c M, " .w ucdvyump ;vieet in neia lor 1 arborough Circuit, at Will iams's Uiapel, ,n Martin county, commencing 27th inst. MiCr?nfe' under lhe direction of the BHf v Mle.Stan' Church wiI1 b "eld at Bradiord Meeting House, in Halifax county. commencing on Friday the 11th of October, to which our friends are invited; also ministers and brethren of other denomin.uFnn 9Pa 'nvited to unite with us in the work of lhe Lord. IvP Burodl temple will preach at Waynesborousr h the 5!h K..o,i., : o' and Saturday before; on Monday after at Friend- u t . a "ear ureeb; Wednesday, at the Meadow: Thursdnv m i nn r.:?. , -"j 9 vriu . wva ureeit;
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