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v 7 1 1 . . t .... .; Br BEXJAMX SWAM. TVJIATDO WE LIVE FOR, BUT IV IMPROVE OUUSELVES AffO BE 'USEFUL TO OXE JXM'UEIU volume iuincn is- TUUMS S2 II? ADVANCE, ASUBO ROUGH, N. C. SATURDAY, AUGUST 12, 1837. 4: l ... J Qr S3 AFTER 3 months. OUTUKRNCL'nZKNv Kvery Saturday Morning., fidavits of John -Clayton, bno of tho Ju rors, ami Martin Ii. Brim. -".Tho affida vits of Clayton and Brim, shew that af ter tho Jury were sworn, and during tho continuance of tho trial, which lasted VT?ilM.w) . fc Iscveral das a Dart of tho Jurvdid vo- -Two Dollars per annum in advance; or, iIrcqucnUy of a night after they-had Thmn Tlollars. If iiot paid within three retired from the Court, absont themselves months tfOmlHO 0310 Ol uiu ii hw.iiiui un; uawm.u ui uk juiy wiuwui iw Any subscriber may discontinue within remain absent lor tno space ot tuiccn or L first s months of the publication, twenty minutes; ; f ' 1 No subscription to be discontinued till all Tho prinoipal question in this caso is, arrearages bo paid unlcsa'at, the dis- whctherdie Court below erred in refu- 'uin r thn iviitor. , 5 wnz 10 scram a new inai ior me causes. All letters, commutations, &.C, to como I set Yorth in their affidavit Wo think postpaid ' I . ' - uaiu. .ina rigni wmaiDVJury.nas Advertisements; inserted on tlio usual always m hngland and in this country terms. I v " iDcenconHiacreaoi sucn siiai imparlance to tiic security or tnp lite, lioerty ana to Fifr-pnsiTlftSTrus property oi uie ciuzcn,tnat.grcai care JF T PP. i rt ! 'tilt wu has been taken io prevent it unimpared. ihorwa Mfl&qitertd to ict ijent for ht That the person accused may have the "soli ill wtN cmt kn." ite r a Mtsf .c full benefit of a judgment by Iiis peers, it r. - . ..i ..-..4. .t I Ina incfi thflt inn imnroaciAn shrinM ftit mimI iti iri n now iiic rciwa wut' i ui i.v uiu'isiiivh wivwm v fy. U orJer tht you mj .tay k ow heth.J maJ0 fo t.pcratb Oil thenf eiCCpt what trite peiM.MfMi HfepNM" mm. j dcriVC(j from Uw testimony civen ill luctanuy vcoinmenceQ our return to Uxe camp, j: : :.r . V V .V 1 The ajrow1 root abounds and is in- stood i-ery noarly as if there had beeii them. The .matted saw grasv which direct and posiUycroof tImt the Juror wounds like a razor, and t!io deep sluices, durui his absencuiud seen or contcr whi5li - intersect tlfo glade, prevented scd ;vttiv no,, person whateycj-tChwf;acCQSi to them on foot; I found itUm. Justice iluffin in his opinion says, WI can- practicable to navigate lho,' glades," at not think that an absence of a Juror for iljig atajra of water, in keel boats, though two minutes 1 Ute wiuiuui uuiinjiuiuuauii vvuu any per son, as far as appears upon this , or any other subict docs "by itself annul the tammgr It tno absence had been lor doed' almost, peculiar to this' section of a pcriod of time sufficiently long to have Florida,-rlt tho brcacf,' and tho thief enabled persons, to tamper with the ju- sustenaticS of tho SeniiKIo Indians, arid ror; or to operate on liis hopes or fears, wUbout which thermiht bq starved. ' ,W$ found the coast of tho continent a low, arid, at ,'hfh tide,' an' inundated sh6fd,4dcfpndcd from' tlie sca by a breast work of tangled manirbvey, nearly iii- a(y:essiblctf itbo; inhabitabfe, ' it fs barely possible to -credit lU 'a Teri niilcs from tho eastern point of Cupe babie, we find the first sand beach.' A strii of shelly jand sepi.Tates the sea from the jycrgiaaos ; nna irom tno t appearance of tho soil in this dry season, it must bo tuuiiuaiuu nuit uiu yvai. , - ' j . v; cibcr or not, kirtne wora "gratuuvtuf?. Court and that they, should continue iumittne mr bt mic -iifmi.lt it my J impartial and unbiassed. Thcso ob- tfiftseulwhave no preconceived -dpin- riik, in current JUok NaUi of Virjii -South -Cfolrr -- -r i-ruT jB.scsprtrpiprr.teUrse:;Miiifeo.i as tothoguilt or uiooccnco of tho tiic w; iww iMnnrntctrnm oarn MJinr .altnrthrvhnvn been ftwora and minslod with tho bal- 91 r rvj I Tl r tlx r t WL t VL t ancc of the community. This was ili' -5; - - -1 rectcd to bd done in the case now 'under laaoiiRci r tmtikw kcvbt ulurr V consideration, but was ' not -complied '' .cntinnniTrf w r I wiw Affidavits which arc nncon ASnBOiutUiI N. L. , J tradicted hcw conclusively that several a . V in laa-t M 100 Jury repeatedly separated rom ftatuttta i olusust 1J Wil. others rith,ut the care of tho officer appointed by tha court to attend them", verr ol, a tihd were absent for tlio space of fif- would tne juflgo navo said tho same thing? we artorehend not, ftjr stress' is aid upon tho time, 'two -minutes. but if tho decision is to bo considered as sus taining tho s proposition as " broad! as has been contended for, tp wit r that no unauthorized 'separation - ci a Jury du ring tlio progress, of tlie trial will vitiate tho verdict unless there bo proof of tem- normf with thif Jurvl We raniwit rpf nt. r rt - jw . --r --.a-. nisc tho.autlioruyof tho caic.cspceially. - I ' I 'II .1 . ! . - as 11 jsa mucn wcaKcnou oy mo uissent ing opinion of that able lawyei', Judge paston2',-.i'l'i;W-.' , Thcro am several other questions pre sented, by this record ,v9 Consider un nccessary1to''c jarhinc as the points al ready censidered;arefdccisstvooftho casc.-The judgjnenti"wil be reversed and; tho cause remanded to W ecklcy wumy; for a new uiai. , -H-A rQucrV as r to" Deputy Sheriff, is received; and will be ccn or twenty minutes; long enough to duly attended to. - vw:. ulr?lvi " ; . been any disposiUon to do o. ;f It is not ' mtii MrratKi cititts. "''.. necessary for the prisoner to prove that -(fyuettiont by a Subicribtr;) - theywerc during their abseace subject- 1st; - If n6 bo indicted ami acplitted, . Wf ha, Uio aerk a right to bsue .an execu, "J?1 ".l?11 him for his own'cost, (fir "r-.TL V r ""V1" - K ruiooi pracuco, wt wohiu oc airnosi :r 1 impossible ever to bring direct proof of the fact that it was dona s 4- . t This question has been fully examuv Coast of Viorida. This gentleman sent with boats in tho Vdndaua sloop of if ar m vcioucr itisi, io anuiro - iiiu Everglades' (Slanjrrove Islands) form- inn tho iunumerablo ishnds, inlets, ivvamps, lagpons, tec. on the south coast oi r lonaa iias lurnisnea a fl'guyjnier tion against instate, witnesses to establish' his innocence;) if not, "how arc liis witnesses ttgttlly to collect Ucir attendance dues? ? 20-1, I u " : if so, does such confession of Judgment iffixt the interest of prior creditors ? "estlug rcporlFon 'this subject front which wo. .-make-, the-- lullowiiig ex trnrtv- V VY; '-.s j Wo ran along the coast for tho most part in tha night, looking into Jlarhtce bay and Lon river, on tho 17th. This is tho real Shark river, their being no Ciini ittf "UM creeks letwccn it and Ca;c Sable i and Long Uiwr dues not deserve ilienameraOTlytui' outlet fo,r tho waters of die Everglades, through as many months as there arc islands, tliesc bcin innumcrahta i Y c pulled with thc oar$.fulI twenty miles on Long amo out to sea a tow macs THE. BLACK DEATIL ; There isa paner iii a late nUmber of the lilectic-Medical iournnlup ontliu Sirfid" isHan e rud t m ic scourge, U was at this period that- Dempark anil orway wcrq obliged' to suspend tKeir.Kurthem voyatres. and JjbcJ.owerius icebergs s accu- " Is to p reventr al I ' subsequent fcora . municaapn wuii tne uoJcuy there located; and "no mortal from that V ; time forward, has ever seca'ttr i- , tabiiaats.?-VJ2urope': lost during ihi lireyalence'-iirthisr' IJii!ewir2: twmtyjivf millions oLinliauitahts. ft' ! MercKanta whosparniiisa and C poasessidns nubouhded, cold ly Und wllfjtfv reriodnced -,theirv i earthly goods; xVh cy carried! t h eir .treasures' to monasteries and church- -es aad laid them at the fooVof the falter 'but gold had bo charms for the; monks for itv brought ; them deatu. : ihey ahut thtirgatesj yet still it 'was : east lo . them over the convent walls. People would brook no impediment -to the last . pious vVort io which they were driven by 1 deipair.'i'vVVhen the plagne ceased, men J nought they, were :stm s-wafi- - i .Ln :; t . e .i o. . . c vi; ... :;r..:.i..i :.. ...... pi oy.inc.ucnerai douri oi me oiaic oi IlltU Oil IIUU1 IUUJI 19 MUH Hi- I f . . . I . : n,.... r....i u r. irmnia, in uie enso ci uic vominoii. nvur, aim i .. . . i - . I u-enlth flinst Johii Air.flalL Isf.i Vir- fratnin-startnl!? DOint. judgment to the Clerk, for fine and cost; U "Jt"1' In . Coast seems tp be form od r.- " , r i t . i . I aration of tho Jurv waa mil undr morat of a mass ofmanarrovjasiauds, packed exceptionable circmiistancesJhor for "n In '.unoacach 'other, an I separated Iroui lonr timn than-1 in thl f n"V r VTHf thniW fiy'tlirt f-Tlli.ds4yi, lagoon there proof of any actual tampering or fresh or salt by turns, as tuo lido or wa convcrsatioa on the subicct of the trial tcrs of the elados prevail. - To Snake with the Jurvmen: Tho Court hdld that t river it would ' bo difficult to . find au 1. ANSWER. The Clerk Is not onlyal liberty, tut absolatcly bound to issue Execution asaint tho defendant (or his costs. For s to jret Uieir1 at- tins decision is,.wc thmk, supiiorted byJ present a sandybcacii, wun Aero.-. ana -a 4 r--;r--: v mo imgusn auuiorit), ist, umtty s Uuii- mere apatcnoi ary laim, unusuuiim i. .p5 V inalLaw,C31, , ? ; deed is tho character of the coast as far t ispcndmg, the witness- .Tlocaso of tho State vs. Merrill 3rd- as Cape Eomnin. The Indians who thc Jendant lorllieir lor, determined by the- t5Uproaie"TJourt frwiucnt thicomitry arc fishermen, and that pervaded f Eurbie', ' Asia and rtirica in uie lourieciuir c?niuryj and vsprea(l ' d eolation and! "death wherever it bade its' appearance; v Home idea may be formed bt tU yii1cncof;tlil pestifdne- .frifr . tliehigh'. fate i of; mprtaliiytnirit induced; thus7at Cairo', froci 10 to 15,pqp; died'daily.lejngas as in modern' times,' great 'plaguM havjcarriediilE during thejr whole course; in China" more thaii 1,000 peHshedIudia jWas bepopulaled; Tartaralesopotamia,i53yria and Arrneuia were Covered with ' dead bodies; .in! Caratnania and Qxsarea hone were 'left alive on the roads V-n the earaps-i01 th caravanier- tscprpses alone werolseehirt Ga za2,bcq peoiile v and most s' of the animals were destroyed; typrus was deprived of all outt inhabitants. In the countries of the JEasj, China exclnded;. tibphty three , mil(wrist eight hundred andjbrty thousand individuals fell victims to' it.' " It swfjptoverthe.water as well as the land, ferrettrng out the doomed on by tho Sui of North Carolina af tho Juno Term, 1830, is referred to by the 'Attorney judgment as that jnen- nnl . Tli lIint rt t!l(fJllPV, hJ t it-wfts not necessary that this should be j acre of dry land "on winch to encamp. I tiroven in order that tha Viirdict s hnu d t ram ino Tnoum oi mis oaoko nvci after tho suit is decided; there Is n oth- be sot aside and a, new trial cranted. to l'avillon kev, several of these inlands er way for liis itncssc: tendance.' Wliilotiio sui w rnayjwarrant attcadaoce, and recover before a magis v 2. Such a honed in tho V'na tiucry, is not absolute- jwrmittcd to retire under tho custody of lyvoid, but voidable only, A Court tho Sheriff. In a few minutes after wdit never to enter such "a iudlmcnt i w3 the Sheriff returned with'clQvcn Sn lc ihsn twn mimitoe iii! a Certiorari, lint of irror. or other wheinhejudgo expressed his "strong process", as die case may require? But disapprobation of. his conduct,1 excused while it remains hi force, it has prcciso- lamsclf - by stating that ho was obliged ;u i,;.-rffit;,' Htr.thr.f,?.r4 w sterBiu toy iiaus-e.iiamrqrt .11 HIV SUI1IVI VUMVl V VIIIVI JUUZ' lira . - '-----Tfi'uc:,. y- .,;,?! lliti was insisted upon as a cause for a tncn' , . Jncw trial, which was refused bytho sljn4iurtweclr,'we; have not court br!ewrr Oif an - appeal to tfie Su- tl'mo to search for authorities; but ; we prelne Court it was held by Ruffin C. J. havc'no doubt that tho law is as" above stated. - , , - ,. - . j.. ..... 4 From the JtcHm 7tA TtUe 'r. & IVaniel J to be a reason for applyina to tho discretion of the Judge. ui the court below for a new trial, and not to render t!.c verdict a nullity and a ventre J novo proper. But Judire Gaston dis- LEC.AUIN vTHlJ SUPHEME scntod nn I fudd that minor irrchirities tOUHT . AT JACKSON-Al'UIL arc attMnxdi for now trials addressed to IhKM. ' ; ; V ' : . . ' ."' tha discretion of , tlio Judge who presi- George McClain . The' State, ded at tho trial, but that any uriautheri-;no-.Aer;reret:W jed or uncxOaincd .aration of a jurof . Jf ' from liib' k fellows, m a capital caso in , ;.r.,,-Jn1it-Jurley, - laW,vitiatcs;tho .verdict and n'renirc At tlio Octhlcr term ; of tho Cir- facia de novo, should bo awarded. ; juit-Court id' JVtakley Comity, Goifrgo"' . It is to bo observed of this case, that McClaPn was convi(tc((' of tho erimu of under W.circiimstanccYm which tlio murder in tho fiwt dorccu'. During the Juror separated frdm.his fellow?, and progres')! of tho trial, Fo veral bills ot' ex- tho short period .1 of timo vii two aiin- ccpttons wero filed for imularity in 'luteO which' hd remained absent from tonduetmg tho sanie, arid aftor tho ver- them, it wasljfliKFssilihuHfiW m " - J- A I . S " urci uati oecn returned, a motion, vvn mi therefore his enso frc4ucnt thicomitry secin to have left tlieir usual haunts. - Early in tho moniinr anchored in the Caximbo river, , where was fuico a settlement of Marcos Indians. We spent a week iri tliaexammation of tho islahdsand numerous lagoons to the distance of eighteen or more miles fiora our encampment; . Mr.'" Ccarles Johnson cncrasretl to show us tho dwel ling of tho Indians ; but after a most la borious excursion through lagoons, and swampsvhere we sometime cut a pas-.1 groves, we rctunicd to tho camp, unable to discover traces of Indians of thair vil- rVq ancliorcd bur boates that night in tho great inland ba'sin of S5uth Flor ida, known as tho Exenjlados. We had now a hich view of tho coast ''that en circles the glade , Porcsts of pines and cypress, enclosed us on an siuca hko a black wall: wlilc on tho other, the grass, which covers tho whola surface of this shallov lake, sflgrcd no obstruction to the cyp as it wandered over tho drea- ry waste. nero on uiu uiauniinu, or on tho islands m me giaaes there wero if commanding pussitibn, but tho boats, althoti'rh tho smallest of our Jittlc fleet, could not near .either1 of dtring among the dead, soappallini way the livid i aspect of-the snrvi- .. In nnnn.,i..Vrtl lVthey'jia4VndcrgonefVl''d the un avoidable infpetion of the air. " Ma ny destreiljjliemsel freozyfqrieray ceremenies' ,vt re heglectedj ;mbraU eyeyy where "dc- -tiorited.'j and f tha wrvioe of tiod was. in ajgreai measure laid, asiuf the i churchts were"; deserted; the people reihiiued reuts neglected their children, aad children abandoned their parentr; the erops were blasted; tht beesls . of the fields, the" bird of the air, the .inheuttanti; or 1 the bnny.Qttp perished by thousands and tcLaof thousands. Parliaments and thb Co tifts of Justice j'tre ioseuer erf the dosom of jevtry ocean, sea and river; so that ships destitute of crews were drifting about at the sport of the elements spreading the seeds of disease whithersoever they chanced to uiive ashore. . ( ; - -rually;maiignantaa ro'pe; 60,000 dying in Florence; 50,000 in Paris:; 100.000 in Veuigef , the same number in London; -124 433 Franciscan Friars in GermaVy, c. &c. .More than' two hundred thonssnd'small towns and pillages lost t every 4 inhabitant. In uiany parts, of France not. more than. two out of twenty escaped; int one Par; isiaji. Hospital aipne the daily mor tality amounted .to 500. y n one burinl ground in Londorj, 50,000 corpses, were arranged: in layers laadbuiicdinhforuUIivAvigQop the roqe touna unnecessary , to consecrate . the .HhonjiIiat might be thrown:, inttf it 1 without delay as the church yatdi could ."not. contain them. . . r u " Even in Germany, which was a favored land1, one million twd'huit' crctt ana jortyjuur inousanaxjuy' hundred and thirty fqitr diedu alv lost half its inhabitant some portions of It still morefr fjaio 1 l,.iln. I iirs ea jiu janunia tiiing slHocl still, save the. working of mehs evil passions; but these still; Warred - violently," as may be learned by reading of the bloody quarrel that raged between Edward III, and Philip Vi; t The Naloral phenamena that prevailed just previous to the out uSLOLtnis pestilence, ami tne ' a - moral' efftcts, that were , witnessed immediately ; subsequent thereto, . were of -a strange order, I but- We- " ! cannot,' now, dwell opou them. In ine.wnoie range oi mstory, we anow -nnt of r period that opens so, wide and. gtimoua a jjieJd i. for. tbe .w,riter of romance, than the 'one of which we hayebeen speakini abounding as it does " with tKe grahd the ter rible and the sublime. v ",. ... J nipt. i'ii(ia. j twfl ;hirus Venirce Mrths, nnd tho ffirviviaitli fled from t,--'AUv. it forlorn and de ntt UUr L1US3H1LU, iiui ik. uiu I " jr- --. " . c ... ' wetdd. ceruunly- .have ! been seen bote. Al' lomice a prommuun us. With tho dawn Wejwdv0 was irs-fd againsrpubU&hiug'the tho grassy sea beforeusi.?. dehV, and tolling the.bells at fu ; TPf the living might not a: wvrtho, horizon as wo nr,r bandon themselves to despair; f IV ven the " frozen tesion of Iceland and (trccnlaud did hot escane the . SOYREIGNS (OF EUROPE. v:The following are tho ages bf the res pective s6vreiis6fUurope--'-' The King of Swecdcn, (Beruadotte) 72 V , Pope of itome, t ' 71 .King of England, V VI .King of Denmark, i: , TlClrifPrxBsta; 1 . " ; King of the Netherlands, " ' Kins of the French : , . King of Wortemburg, 5 -M Kiryrof Bavaria. ' : .lug ui me neigians, mperoir of Russia, J Kinj of Sardinia Kong of Naples, - Kins of Greece, 1 , , Queen of Portugal; v ' ;,'; Queen of Spain, ' , - 65 50 4(5 40 St? V7 rtftf of v?.-4t is cstimatcil tint tho piles of glaciers 'which lie heaped upon each other upon tho gorge.? and Sides of Mount Blancl, reach to the height of 800O; feet- perpendicular; and tKat the snows of U10 upper parts' occupy a additional space of 4000 feet perpendic-ulaiw-thus making together, a mass of twelve thousand feet of , ice and snow without, including' tho irregularities of the feui; 4 mauc lor a pew trial founded on Uw al- :'-V- 1': r-U -n'5it-V1. '.V; ' . '.".Vi. " r : ,' . . M '-.,. ... '
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