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Tarborough, (Edgecombe County, JV. C.) Friday, November 7, 1834.
Vol. X Js'o 59
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Defence of the Revolutionanj History
of North Carolina. Tin; volume by this
ht!t which has just issued from the press,
is from ihe pen of Joseph Sewell Jones,
of Shocvo, iVurlli Carolina, and is highly
creditable to his talents. It was occa
sioned by a letter of Mr. Jefferson, in re
ply to one from the late John Adams, in
the year loll), giving him an account
which he had lately met wilh in one of
the public papers, of tho citizens of Meck
lenburg counly, North Carolina, having
declared the mat Ires free and independent,
on the 20th .May, 1775, more than a year
before the Declaration of Independence
bv the Congress of the United States.
Mr. Jefterson, in his letter, considers this
account as "spurious, and an nnjuslilia
abhwii:," and treats it very lightlv.
The "Defence" of the claims of North
Carolina against this impeachment of
i
them which is now he fore us, is divided
into three parts. The first comprises ;;
history of the Revolution in North Caro
lina to the period of the Declaration of
independence. The second contains the
most indubitable evidence of the truth ol
the Mecklenburg Declaration of Indepen
dence. The last part is devoted to tin;
defence of the character of William
Hooper, of that State, who is denounced
by Mr. Jetferson as the rankest Tory in
the Congress of 1775.
All who feel an interest in this subject,
and North Carolinians especially, will be
gratified by a perusal of this production,
it is severe upon Mr. Jefferson, however;
in justification of which, Mr. Jones, in
the conclusion, of his work, says:
"1 have endeavored to defend the char
acter of North Carolina from the abuse
of one, the popularity of whose name,
with many, gives a sanction even to ihe
fiction of an impossibility. The charac
ter of Mr. Hooper, and the truth of the
Mecklenburg Declaration, are important
points in the estimate which posterity will
make of the character of the Stale. I
feel confident that I have fulfilledf my
promise, and that the character of the
former has been vindicated, and the trulh
of the latter established, beyond the reach
of controversy. In the course of my la
bors, I studiously shunned all equivocation
of language, and have not hesitated to
write with a bitterness of reproach cor
respondent to the malignity of the charge
of Mr. Jefferson. The enormity of the
calumny, while demanded a patient in
vestigation, has justified the severest de
nunciation. " Not. Int.
whether the vessel was liable, under the
taiw of notions, to the same process that
an English or French ship would be lia
ble, under similar circumstances, and it
was decided in the. affirmative, thus ad
ding a new evidence that the States of
the Union, are not mere corporations,
standing to the United States, in the same
relation, that counties stand to a Slate.
It is well known that the Supreme Court
has long since decided that a hilt of ex
change drawn by an inhabitant of one
state upon an inhabitant of another state
is a foreign, not a domestic bill of ex
change; and that process against the
goods of a citizen of one state, found in
another State, must be by a writ for
eign attachment. And yet with such ju
dicial authority before their eyes, there
are people who really believe that the
government of the United Stales is a eon
s o 1 i d a t i o it . Ran net's Exn m incr.
CCTho Alexandria Gazette in com
menting upon the indications given in
some of the late elections, of a disposi
tion to permit religious, or rather secta
rian views and feelings to enter into po
litical contests, justly remarks:
"There is no excuse in this country, for
the mingling of politics and religion. It
is illiberal and unjust to do so. It will
be seen that it is disputed in New Jersey,
whether the fact is as stated, or not. In
Ohio, there can be no doubt, but that un
worthy prejudices of this nature were
enlisted against the Whig candidate.
We care not, by what party, or sect such
a course is pursued, we reprobate it as
highly improper. The thing is radically
wrong. Let us keep Church and State
matters, as far asunder as the poles."
in company with a certain number of
youths of his age, whom lie will select
from the number of respectable applica
tions that he has already received.
Extraordinary Dt jormity. The
third number of the Baltimore Medical
and Surgical Journal contains an engrav
ing which represents a singular deformi
ty in a young woman, now twenty years
of age, living in Asheville, 1 C. She
was born completely destitute of both
arms and legs, the situation o f which is
merely indicated by small round projec
tions, thus being in fact, a mere human
trunk, surmounted by a head. She pos
sesses however, a remarkable power of
locomotion, and can transport herself
over the floor with ease, by submitting
her body to a kind of rotary motion alter
nately from rinht to I ft , and contrary.
By confining the handle of a broom be
tween her chin and shoulder, she can
sweep the floor with considerable dexte
rity. ho can also sit erect, lean back,
or rock herself in a chair as well as any
other person, and when any thing is giv
en her, she makes a sign for it to be pla
ced on her shoulder. If it be any solid
article of food, she eats it from this situ
ation. She is of a full and plump habit,
healthy, and possesses a remarkably live
ly disposition.
The above statement is true in every
particular, us we can well attest, having
seen her several times, and conversed
with her. Rutherford Spec.
A Foreign State. A ease was lately
decided in Delaware, involving the ques
tion whether one of the States of this
Union is or is not to the others, a For
eign State. The facts are these: A ves
sel owned in Delaware, was fitted out with
masts, sails, anchors, .and cables in Phil
adelphia, without which she could not
have proceeded on her voyage. By the
laws of Pennsylvania, the Mechanic who
furnished these outfits, had a lien upon
tin vessel, but before any process was
issued, she left the port, and proceeded
to sea. After her return to the State of
Delaware, she was pursued by the me
h auics and was libelled, and tho case
coming before Judge Mill, the District
Judge, the question presented wa;
(Tr'Robert Temtde. President of the
Bank of Rutland, Vrt. whose death, by
being shot, was noticed, it has been dis
covered committed suicide, fearlul of ex
posures, which would have stamped him
with infamy and dishonor. From the
Globe we learn, that it was discovered
that for some time he had been practis
ing frauds to a large amount on the pen
sion office, by drawing allowances for
fictitious individuals and others who had
been dead for a number of years, to the
amount of 40,000. The discovery was
made through his own fears; alarmed at
the prospect of a publication of the pen
sioners names, he repaired to Washing
ton and attempted to bribe a clerk in the
office to alter the books, he pointing out
upwards of sixty names to be so altered.
The clerk then made a disclosure to the
department, and was immediately de
spatched with a companion to apprehend
Temple, who became informed of it, by
the return of a letter containing a bribe
from him the clerk. Mo obtained the
letter from the post office promising to
deliver it, opening it and discovering its
object, which was explained by a note
from the pension office; he took his gun,
repaired to his stable, where he shot him
selfleaving an amiable wife and family
to mourn his untimely and unfortunate
end.
domicil was fired upon wilh ihe view of
ousting them. Driven to the utmost
extremity, she offered to compromise her
entire claim for $30,000, the proposition
being rejected, she persevered, and being
too indigent to employ counsel, she pros
ecuted her suit herself arguing dry law
joints before courts and juries, with a
force and ingenuity which excited the
admiration and wonder of both bench
and bar. Her efTorts at last have been
successful; and now, forsooth, the per
sons in possession, have offered a much
larger sum in the way of compromise,
than they had scornfully rejected; but she
in turn has spurned the tender, and deter
mined to trust to the justice of her cause
and skill in the law, to assert arid vindi
cate her rights. Resistance to what she
conceived to be ju.-tly her due, the op
pression of those who withheld her prop
erty from her, and the indomitable cour
age of a woman's heart, have made her
not only a successful suitor, but a pro
found ejectment lawyer, and special plea
der. The pleadings in the various cases
are said to be drawn up by herself, and
evince a perfect knowledge of all the
forms and intricacies of the most difficult
art.
The entire property claimed by her is
said to be worth one million of dollars.
U. S. Telegraph.
Cholera. It is announced that a cer
tain cure of the Cholera is now known.
Dr. M'Caig, of Toronto, gives Sugar of
Lead in doses of five and even twenty
grains in solution with water. lie tried
the experiment on two persons who wore
in the last stage of the disorder, and
cured them. This treatment is becom
ing general at Toronto.
Duff Green's Washington Institute or
Manual Labor School," has been aban
doned by him on the requisition of the
journeymen printers, who had combined
against him, ami resolved at a meeting
of the craft not to enter his employ. A
gainst this opposition he was unable to
sustain himself, and has been obliged to
give up for the present tho establishment
of tho institution, which for many years
has been with him a theme of great con
sideration. In his correspondence with
the committee of printers, he expresses a
hope of t heir ultimately becoming friends
to the proposed institution, and void of
prejudice and convincid of the beneficial
results which will accrue from its estab
lishment. As an example he intends ed
ucating his son as a practical printer, on
the plan which has caused the excitement.
7" A number of negroes have been
committed to prison at Jacksonville,
Miss., supposed to be connected with a
case of poisoning committed on the plan
tation of Mr. Briggs, of Beatty's Bluff,
under the most diabolical circumstances.
It appears the cook of the family obtain
ed the heads of a rattlesnake and scorpi
on, and had them boiled in the coffee pre
pared for breakfast. Mrs. Briggs swell
ed and died in a few hours after drinking
of it, and Mr. B. was in a dangerous
stfte.
(7 An old man of seventy-two named
Winchell, was tried on Tuesday last at
Hartford, (Conn.) for the murder of his
son, and a verdict of manslaughter was
returned against him. During the whole
trial he betrayed the utmost indifference,
but was displeased with the verdict and
begged the sheriff to intercede with the
court and endeavour to obtain sentence
of death against him.
A Female, Lauycr.A lady by ihe
name of Bradstreet, has for some years
been prosecuting claims, for land in the
neighborhood of Utica, N. York, with a
zeal and ability which have won for her
the admiration of the disinterested, and
the dread of the occupants of the proper
ty in dispute. She claims in right of her
grandfather, who held under grants from
the proprietary government. The es
tates are of great value, and embrace
many of the most beautiful seats in and
around the place above named. fror
many years, she and her daughter occu
pied a hut on some of the wild lands com
prised in the grants of her grandfather,
w ith a view of retaining their legal pos
session. While thus situated their suffer
ings were great, as the neighbors, in or
der to rid themselves of such unwelcome
residents, refused to sell them even the
common necessaries of life. Indeed, It
is said their lives were frequently threat,
ened and more than once the humble
Mathias, the Impostor, now in prison
waiting his trial, is daily attended by a
young ariist, who is busily engaged ta
king his portrait, which is to be graved
for publication. We were yesterday in
formed of a circumstance in relation to
his business, which serves to exemplify
the extreme vanity of this knavish lunat
ic. When the painter first began his
task he only intended sketching a por
trait of the face, but this Mathias would
not permit, and insisted that the ariist
should draw his figure in full length, rob
ed in his pontificals; which was accor
dingly done. The picture represents
him in his fine embroidered coat studded
wilh siars, and a large silver sun on tho
left breast; the sword of Gideon by his
side, the long rule for measuring Para
dise in his right hand, and a large cocked
hat, covered with a variety of strange
devices, on his head. Our informant
further stated, that Mathias placed him
self in a variety of positions, before he
could determine on one which would
shew his person to most advantage. A
las, poor human nature!. A7.. I7. Courier.
(LT'Therc was a serious riot in Colum
bia, (Lancaster counly,) Pa. on Thurs
day night. A large mob attacked the
residence of the blacks, and nearly de
stroyed four houses. The new cause of
tumult was the reported marriage of a
black man to a white woman. A black
man was greatly injured.
C7Mr. John C. Stevens, of New York,
has bet one thousand dollars, that on or
before the last of April next, he will pro
duce a man who will go on foot at any
gait, i(te?i miles in one hour." But Mr.
Stevens has not seen his man yet, and
he therefore gives notice, that if any per
son will come forward and perform the
feat, he shall have the whole money, while
he, Mr. S. incurs the whole risk of loss.
If three persons should appllv, the first
shall have $500, the second '$300, and
the third 8200. Alex. Gaz.
(GThe Iluntsville (Alab.) Advocate
says: "We regret to learn that the crops
in this and the adjacent counties, which
a short time since were considered very
promising, have sustained a very serious
injury from the storm. It is said that
the planters will not make one half, and
in 3ome places not one third of a cro'p."
Order. Let all things have thrdr pla
ces; let each part of your business havs
its lime.
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