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VOLUME III. Asminniio, (i;. c.) "FnunuAiiT-n, mso. PUBLISHED WEEKLY: BY BEX J JIM IX S IV A 1, If. r T1.KH1S-" , " Tv:o Polhrsr t-or nrr.um. ti advance. . I ' r ) hif( l-.l'-ir it tiAf mi.l Ml'iIn ' .1.- f. ... il,. J. f .1... !No. subscription to le discontinued till all arrearWs be raid; unless at tbe'ed in 11 e regisiei's cilice of said couniy. j .. .. i i m ti . s .1 . I rl ... .1 I A failure to order a dhcgnliminnrc be ' 'ivrti the expiration of the sub&crip lion year, ' is equivalent to a new 1 engagement. , ' AU letters, Communications, &c, to come post paid, ,- ; 4 , , ', 1 Prices for rfdpertiswg , 4 ' ' Advertisements will be conspicuously ' VIOVIVIIOll VI VSfV JVUlt arid liandsomcly ' inserted at il 00 per square of 16 lines ; and 25 cents for ev ery subsequent ' insertionv No adver tisement, however short, will bo charg ed less than for a square. a , ' Court Orders' and judicial advertise ments will be charged 25 percent high er ; (we sometimes have to wait so loug ior thepav.) : . ; v'Those who advertise by the year will he entitled ti a Jeduction of 83j" percent, provided they pay in: advance.;," . ; C03I.OXCUO!iLS. AN 'ACT to divide the Counties into ; School districts, and for other purpo. aes. f - Btit enacted by Ike General Assent htyof the State of AVA Carolina, MWi u ti nereoy enacted by the au thority of the . tame, - :That tt shall t ,tbc duty of ihe-shcrnT of tbo seera! counties of this State, when they adver- tise the' next election for. members oil congress, to give . notice, at the same time, by public advertisement in every tk&m predncW tht i election,' will be held to ascertain the voice of the petv - pie upon t he subject of common schools'; and all who are in favor of raising by taxation cne dollar fot every two dol lars proposed to be furnished out of the literary fund, for the testabJishment of common schools in each school district, win deposite their vote . with the word Schoot", writ ten on it ( those opposed to it, will vote School-; upon their ticket and all who vote tor memnericctjve districts, upon the certificate of the house ot 1Cfmmorjs shall Iks entM of the diafrWu of tlie board ot superin- ilea to vuie. Aw ii suaii oc iiiq oii oi the poll keepers to count the votes given at each jirecrinct for school 6r no school, and treturn the ame to the sheriff; who i j a ..... ... a ti. i ii l. - . I r snail count logemer au im votes ; ana if a, majority snail be found in "favor of schools, it shall be the duty of the sher iff to furnish i certificate of the fame to the next ctiuntcfiurt of iis county & any sjberitt failing to comply with the lequistrfons of1 this act, shall suflcr all the penalties Jmposcd by law. for failing to discharge bis duty in any election for; members of Assembly. t : 2. M it farther enacted, That the several courts of picas and quarter scs sioiis in each )unty of the Statu of North rariillni i K!I iii Kilt-b r'niuittf nt ahull determine to accept Uieso tenns, at the first court that may liajipen atk-r such election, a majority ol the justices of such county being present, proceed to "elciginfiis1esshBirlive7 nor-nwrq Uian ten persons, as superintendents of com mon st liooh , for such county ; and in such election it shall be necessary for a bal.nn r,h jpLliie. pury.u elected shall receive u i najonly ot the vetcs ol all ihe justices present. ; fit '.he it further enacfed, Tliat said sti crintcnicnts, ir a majority of them, shall meet within a reasonable time thereafter, ard shalt buve power to cbtyiseoiieVd'thcir'nutnlierascirman, aid shall prceil to divide their respec live ''counties iuio school districts, for the purpose of establishing common schools, Oniaitiing not mora, than - six miles square, but .having "regard to ihe num ber o white .children in each,' 'so far as tlteyicari ascerMiii fie same:' Provided, nevertheir-sis,' hn no jjrCJicr numbered nXaitA districts flinll btj laid oli'iii any euuintv than shail he equal to one for ev ery six 'miles srju iry ol inhabited, terri tory in said county . 4. lie H further enacted, That said supvilfltctjuenll skill uumbci" lhe disl- v, t- -1 i ".., f , , - .. ,,- -v-j.V .'' rif.ls.iuid make rtiuni tiiuuii U luUi.ia - county court i) the several ci unties which shall bo heldafter the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred . 11 1 . 1 1 . 5. Vt ifvtur enuclc((t That the a- i foresaid boards of superintendents,' in? each, conity, ufier cuu pSetinfi the divis-! ion as aforesaid, shall arruiut not less than three, nor tnorq tlmn'. sixi school t cummi'tte ineich district, whiso duty it iball be to assist said superinten dents in all matters pcrtahiing to the es tablishment of schools for their respect ive districts, V''. a it il further nrtcteJt That if a ny person who shall l thus appointed to servo as superintendent shall refuse or neglect to do so alter having accept ed said .nppnintinrnt, he shall forfeit am) oav the sum.orfijiv,dill:js.to. le recov ered bv action of debt in anv court olf record in this State ; and such . penalty when recovered, Iol be paid over to the President and Directors of the Literary Fund, and to be Ojpropriatcd, tQ the Literary Fund ; arid it stmll be the duty of the county attorney Tor the State to prosecute suit in all such cases for and on beh:lf of the I'a-sidenl and Direc tors of the Literary Fund. 1. Helt further enacted That in a ny county where . ii.aiority of the votes Jiave been for, comrrton schools, ipd a certifieato ofthe surnc has ken furnished by the sitcritf to the said suitcrintcndcnts of common schools, it shall be the. duiy bribe upcnuiender.tstr transmit the same with a ccrtdica;cof the number of school districts in their roKective coun ties, to the president of the literary fund. 8." ' lit it further enacted, That in ev ery county in tha Sia:e, where the vote shall be.in favor of common schools, it shall be the duty of said county courts, at tlie first term that shall happen after the first Monday in-January, one thous and eighf, hundred and forty,,a majority of the justices being present, to levy "a t;x to the amount uf twenty dollars fcr each district in snkl county; in the smo manner that other county taxes are now t levied f for'othcr county purposes, to bo paid over the school committee ol the . ' . tendents. 0." He it further enacted, Thut for ty 'dollars nut of theinstt income . orthe liters ry jfu n t irj he y ea fone t houiTa nd eight hnndicd and thirty-nine, is hereby appropriated to each district; in said counties where tlie vote shall be in fa vor of tlie tslrblishmcnt of common schools, which shall be yaid by tliepub lic Treasurer, upon the w arrant of the Governor, upon1 the certificate of the Chairman of ihe board of surintcn dents of said counties that taxes have been levied to the amount of twenty dollars for each school district in their respecti ve counties, and that school hou ses have been erected in each district suificicuLtaacconiuiodutcjitieaitJifty scholar . ,10. licit further enacted, That ev ery county which tdiall refuse or neg lect to levy a tax, atxl build the school lionsrs- :ereTrisj)Ccified,"8fiaH7at any time ht' i ea Iter be entitkd to receive tho forty dollars hen by appropriated to each district, upon complying with the terms liercitibtftoro sticcified. '' 1 1, lie i further enarfed, .That if in taking the next census of tlie United States, Congress shell fail to provide for ascertaining the number of inhabit hnis, and especially of white children in the several school districts of North Carolimt,iLshil Ictbe iut v MjJ)e.XIir vernor, as presideiit of the board of, common sciiools, to make such arrange ments with the marshal 'of the United States for tho district of North Carolina or with his deputies in llw several coun ties, or with such other person' or per sons as hu may deem' proper, to cause such census to bo ascertained, together wthany other information which ho may deem Important to the establish- ! ment of a just and equal svtcm of com-! mou schools throughout tho State and o communicate the sstc, together with a Till report ol the returns of tho sujcr-j i- y - '... . Jf' s;fa'.r .-' 1. and tony ; ana u snail no me uuiy 01,11 sunn oe uieowy 01 um coumy irusietr said superintendents, in making their re-'or the agent of the public accounts,, in turnm designate, n well as they may, each 'county, to transmit tq the Govern tiiq'nainral Douriluiiea and prominent or, as President of the board of common object? if J.he.H'JndaryM f each and accurate statement district; I and it Vhail be'the duty of safd rof thew hole amount of taxes-levied & ccurtt- a use such return to he" record-? collected in his county for the years one i. find the proceedings ot the board of common schools i.nderthis act. . . 12. lnLbe it further enacted, That ... 1 ... 11 1 - . 1 .. 1. .1. ... ....... . thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine ..' I ..... ,.1. J .:.Li I l 1 ..... .1 and one ihousaud eight hundred and forty, .(excepting the public revenues paid into the, public treasury by the slteriflj,) specifying in such , statement what wero tlie si tijectx from w hich such taxes were levied, and how much from each source of taxation ; also a jfull & true account of the disbursements ol the monies so collected, showing cspe cially what amount have been paid for the proi.cvjiij'en of j"'lve,!it criminals, and their maintainaiice iu jail; and thai such statements shall be returned to the Governor on or before the fust day of December. no thousand eight hundred and forty ; and if aiW county trustee or Other agent of priUie arcountishaHTaiT to make return as aloreaal, huh:;!! ft rl'eit and pay the sum of two hundred dollars, to be added to the fund of com mon schools, and it shall be tlie especial duty ot tho solicitor of each county to i,uc for the same, if any f ailure slull oc cur iu his county. ; Head three times and ratified in Gen eral Assembly li.i 6th day of January, A. D. 183.. . ' .Win. A. GRAHAM, S. IL C A. JOYNEll, S. S. , SPEECH OF AlRTWlSE, On the iubjcctttftke late defalcalionr Friday, Dec, 21, IMS. ' Mr. , Wise rose to address the boase on Mr. Cambreleng's motion for a se lect couimirtce to inestigute'the defal cation of Samuel Swartwout, late col lector at New York- Several gentle men solicited him to defer his remarks until to-morrow. . Mr. Wise declined, and said : Mr. Sneaker :AfleTonce :lo"sirg tho floor in :Lo manner 1 did, ly comjdying with such requests the btlit'r day, & by your decision yesterdajp that petitions had prcceJence for thirty days over this motion,! feel very timid of locofo coisin in yielding it again. I see, sir, gentlemen 'desire tnat this discussion should not proceed, at least not yet.--'lliey are a'fraJd that public sentiment will be fi)restallei.:rhey are heartily 'ck 6f this Lsubjecf alrgadytand woulil gladly Ret rid of it altogether. For their sakes, then, I shall go on f let them be patient under the operation j if they are hungry, let them go homo and get their dinner ; 1 shall not have conclud ed before their return, for, by 'refusing inc leave to proceed yesterday, they have only given me more time to pro vide more materials j thev have 'only laid un for themselves wratK against the day of wrath. I feel better prepared, much better, in body and mind, than 1 was before, and, with this bank of doc mteiils. before-jne.l:could Jain -forty day's and fiwty nights upon their sins & iniquities! Sir, in my rambling remarks the oth cr day jsd many things whjchXwill irovenVwvi I said the proposition of the gentleman (Mr. Cambreleng) did not go far enougli. Instead of inquirins only into the manner and -extent of Swart- impe on which to base the articles of specifi cation. Let gentlemen understand, mo. I mea sure, my terms. I speak in no spirit of bravado. I declaim not when I say that if a majority of this house would do their duty without fear, favor, or a fleet ion, the Secretary of the Treasury would, before this house adjourns, be impeach ed. . If ever a felon deserved the hang man's knot, the Secretary of the Trca- , Bury, ijvi t oHioury uusLTves impuacn . . t ji...- j .. . . ? i ment ! That is the proposition which I w ill now nroceed to demonstrate. " This is ft bold declaration I i J the weight of its responsibility; it requires : some exertion to prove it ; and I must mow bo permitted to go b ick a little, to take 1 w,.'.;f. .? i.r;.---, 'J . .i '-t'V', : wi ,:: ii;t....tt . . , ....r-..j., ... i"vm an ui truuoro irwiu uie proms oi lavorea raucwm execuuve majority the apnoint investigationofthe olficial conduct of mail contractors; and.the rest and worst mDt of a committee of imWigation. the secretary of ihe Irensurywith a view of the rubers wero retained in their pla- It would never have been- wanted h,t UliUn 4tilAWUtUhnAl AlftMftl.L ssiia . m -rtf I . ... f , - ., i4. . Sfc- 1 . ,.,. ...,. U , Irill- aenmem, ii sumcicnt bo loum ccs. - - - a review ot hie past, trom the beginuiiij ami to gather, and group, and array all try exhibits and proof. ' To go back to the 'iM'ginuing. thenj you all know that this present Admmis- - . , . . . whom they might gam public Confi dence by making an example of one of fender, which would at once blast tho character of the past administration, and emblazon their owtj immaculate purilv anu vii-i.iuiitcvu(iiv!. Alley, succeed ru. m our umi aim iasi victim was ..j -. .. r.. i 1- . .- . Tobias Watkius they seized upon him and his cflects incarcerated him near ly four yenr for a defalcation of less hriJlour tfiausand dollars, prostrated me power ami tne rarty which trusted him w lib place, and ingratiated them selves in tlie favor of the nation as pure patriots and honest men vho would rc ibrninnd re'rench nit abuses, and who were, themselves, incapable of like trans gresvions. . ' .'.-"'. They were vigilant and faithful, encr ptic( and efficient, untiring and relent lessthey swept like new brooms.' thev swept clean as Jong as any of the dirt of the Adams administration was left in any of ihe departmer.ts.-- .They in this time exposed all the enormities of their predecessors, and began to form a char acter for themselves. It was", thought that they they who had been such scourgcrs to all oucndors against the purity of the Government, would hard ly be suspected of ; like offences them selves. But, mark you, sir, as soon as the immaculate Adnuriistration of Gen- eral Jackson had been long enough in power to conceive aniquity and hring forth corruption and crime, worse ten fo'd blacker than hnd ever before been perpetrated, all. at c-nce. we . w itness an entire change, and hear from "the par ty a ditrerent tore. The cry of cor ruptiou was now heard from another quarter tho trumpet blast came .Joud and long from a different point' of the fiold. ;The post office department was first charged with every crime in the calendar of malversation and malfia sance in office. The charges were de nied, those who made them vilfified, & investigation was scorned and scoffed al.juntiLJhej uiai wuo uiHitwitu luiir, commit tee was at last granted by both houses of Congress, their investigations could nol be stifled, and their reports' from both sides, in both branches of congress, exposed more bribery and corruption, more flagrant violations of official duty and crying abuses of official power and trusts, than had'c'er.rbccD charged or drcahicd to cxi.t. The Administration made a na rrow, escape : dipy run the gauntlet through this exposure, and they . k . I . I .. !i I I " - weru laugiu icvson oy n Wilicn tnoy have cversiuce remembered not fool ishly again to grant or yield, to another investigation. To apjK'aso the public indignation Mr. Barry, the only honest man atrtong-that-den of thievcs,-wai given over to the tender meicics of what a foreign mission J O. B. Brown was permitted to resign with eclat and tho gains ho had Jaid up. against a day But, sir, I was not for permitting the Administration to bo 44 whipped and cleared", after conviction upon indict ment against one department, the post ollice, alone. ' 1 believed there were other departments as foul, and that in vestigation was more necessary in the Treasury' department, especially than any other, 1 so ' charged during the long session of 183.VC I was laughed at as a madman.? The Globe denounced me. us the tool id" a faction, and daily were I and my friend (Mr. 'Peyton) pla carded for calumny and falsliood, "by authority,' in the olficiu' Orgari. Dur ing that session, whilst there was time to investigate, wo were not heeded, ex cept by bitter denunciation for false cla- I.1UON ui.ii now in, is only a continua-: Jn . Ueeeniber, ma, Gen. Jackson ti.ii of the one which went before it; a 'sent lo us his Hast annual nrasa'M," in dlUercul stage of tho same disease. It ; which he gave a certificate of honesty, came into power a reform adininistra-1 probity" and good demeanor to all tlui twin amriiu uivetigaimg udinitnstratMiif tlifers of ail the executive d.'partnicnts; les, sir, they were hot in the pursuit " It was given, no doub,expn ily to fal and detection ol all tho iniquities ofthe;ifv the diarges which had been intima reign ol the venerable gemle.nau beloi ej'ted by oiyst jj and others at "the previous me, (Mr. Ada..is,) and they found vie-! session, respecting the then 'connexion timsonwhom to glut and gorge iheir! between the Treasury and licubm M. p.irty vengeance, on whotrt to vent their i Whitney. He-licld to congress Milan holy hatred of corruption, and through 'guago: : iiiors, Eet orr 1 1 ii.icrs i .tiii'A firi'i fruit at the next session an oilirial no tice, though indirect, in tho message of of the President the last annual mess age of the greatest and best. "Lelore concluding this paper, I think it due to the various executive depart- mcnis u near testimony to their prose rous condition, and to tho abiliiy and in. tegrity with whirh th?y have ban con, ducted. : It has been my aim to enforce" iu all of them a vigilant and f;:ithful dis charge of the public business; and it is gratil)ing to me lo believe that there is nq just cause of complaint lrom any. quarter, at the manner in wbif h tk.. have fulfilled the objecu of, their creai ' lion.' , And, sir. as if lo give this -certificate, all pssilde solemnity of asseveration, it was made immediately to precede that closing paragraph,, in which, as with a ' a sigh of regret heaved from the bosom of the old Caesar at the thought of leav ing power, he pours outhis gratitude to .-MV yuvu9 iui men cucouragc ment and simport expressing his Cons ciousness of having come short of .all ho ".''"'""oconsirucuon ot his motives, his consolation that his inrmrir wmiM find a corrective in the intclliirence and patnotism of thosQ who would succeed x him kla tnan.M:. - I ' . ....... .... ... lutauii u, lubivascu conuu- encc in our insiitut ions, and his tIcd!.t r i... - j .i . - , vu vy age ana mnroi ueaith in re tirement, so much desired by him, lo in.. voKB mai ; Deneticent Being to whose providence we were alreadv cn a;nii indebted, for the continuance of his bks- sings on bis beloved country. ; :, - ,- t . , w-'-'w www Miwuivi liJvi IJ HUICI errors to be corrected, and time has de velojwd w hether intelligence and patri. otism suUicicnt in those who succeeded him have been found to apply the cor r-euY." . Sir. I forthwith joined issue with the propositions of Una certificate. I ed this 'last annual message' in a speech, to which I now refer, as Dart of ihe &csta of this subject I denied the pro- 1st. That the various executive do. partmcnts. were in a prosperous condl-7 aa. 1 nat they had been conducted with ability and integrity. . . 3d. That it had been the aim of tho .... A I ."' .: Affiutiliii. " . 11 . r -""""i'Y vuivi iu u 01 uicm a vi gilant and faithful discharge of the pub- 4th. That there was no just cause of - . 'v i:r, anne man ner tq which thev had fulfilled th K jects of their creation. r I charged the very reverse of theso propositions upon the pure virgin admin-' istrationM httn who could Ar and declared it was more corrirot than .. niuuu uuu, on inn pica ot corrup- uin, oecn mrusi out ot nower. 1 n ml. -j .e - 1 1 r- - ruB' v ro piuui, iiu uemanacd a commit, tee. It was not until within one month and twelve days till uV4th of March.' i847,oi the expiration of the 24th" con- gross, that I was able to wrlnff from a not an issue been tendered bv thn dent himself. ' r v"' T- And here, sir. before I nrorwit ;n regular chronoloirv of vcstigatiwi, I must pause to draw your " attention to tho mcssaM of nr,! ' Van Burenof Dec lOthA tihg Mr. Secretary Woodbury's report of Uec Gth, 1838, "in relation to the re- ' wmiy oucoveroa uetault of Samuel Swartwout" &c . Sunh i tbfl n, ;.! of this old work"! The fact disclosnd n this report, to which I wish to call your attention, is, that tho deficiency of Mr. Swart .vout at the end of each success! year, was as follows: ' On tho 31st Dec 1830, ; On the 31st Dec. 1831, $022 31 1,108 87 ,30,801 33. un the aist Dec 183S,
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