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F I1:', '.L'.;) ti) ! ' ' , r WHAT DO WE LIVC FOR, ECT TO 131 rhOTC ''OURSELVES ASD CE USErt'fc TO ONE AXOTIIER ? "Volume hi. ASUIiBOKO', (N. C.) FRIDAY, MAY 3, .830. NU3IBEH 14. r ts- 0 ti in rtt la ird ia ; c nit; lui; 1 1 cm irstr he I ons at ti is V; av Sal ctsk Tl;-; IK I i i.M drift omn. AN. 4-tt at t falf - J i M Lilt j of 1 "urcb jved r mf loneH 1'UULISIIED WEEKLY: ' "'". ....... " ' i ' ' '. '- , ' B t .V J.3 .V IV S WAl ' . . ' i it '.' . av ' I "TMltfSft! thrco month from the data of tho, HID. " - - - - i .. j lUDscniiuu w ..u.u,u u. discretion of the lilitor. f: ' A failure to order a dUconlinuance be fore the expiration of iho subscnp tton year is equivalent to a cew mcnt .' All Utters Communications, to come poit paid. - " ' Prices for JJperjlising. ... , Advertisements wilj te conspicuously and handsomely insert d at l CO per square 'of 10 lints; and 2. c.ch.tff,r ev cry suliscnucnt inferti?m.---N6 odrcr UMimeni, nowever won, win uo cnarg cd less than for a Kiuare., Court Orders ami judicial advertise mcnis will be charged 25 percent high er ; ( c sometimes ha ve to wait so long for i!ie P3V.V ' " ' " 1 I Tlve w'ho advcrtUe by the year will Sfl tnti li'd to a deduct noi m; per ceni dvance. From a Mamnttpt volume if Ln eonm, by the AVp. . Vol ton, VuUeJ'"XMtM Navy. a The vanity c.f, those distinctions rn which nsankind prUa .jhemjelvcs will le sufficicently apparent, if w e consider ihethiec rlarci in which all men must meet on the sameloVcl: at the foot of the cross, in iho crave, 'and at the iudirmeiit-bar. ' ' THOUGHTS rOMTIIOSE WHO d I f A politician, who has, no resources of , nl his own, always connects Injnelf w i.h rttr lwi great tcmoirary excitement just J . V..,- . ... i .... .1 .1.. J ! UUUZIf SUUIIk IU9IIV9 III II1C wale (fa shin, to pick i p the damaged ; rovisions, amputated liinU, and even ! L shoes, that may bo thrown over ijara. , ' . . The cloo.Tj.of ir;'.ri!QWcd..fro.Ti tho maladies of his naturv that of Young from thj maladic of his amM lion. ' loo former was a viciim a-jainM his will, and sought to veil his sorrows crcn irom the few; the litter threw him. elf on the rack, and called on the world to ttlincss his ac;onv. ' ; " "'' '"'r'iZ Lawyers find their feci in the lauhs of our nature s just as wood-peckers gci their worms out of the rotten parts o trces.'Vi'T.'V:'"? ."'"' iS'C Tlie pulpit ha h amateurs, and tlw f.J4!aUo: and tliey both jtrform oc cajioAlly for Uio , amusement of man kind. . ,:, '"i-j: - There is no diMimulation so impene iraf-Ie as thai, which apparently leave ;:ochio to penetrate - It is art without .artifice, : concealment w jthout "disgtiise, ana uanKDcss wnn'mi imccriiv.,' no who can sucacssTuily practise these roav escape emvure. Lere, ut must mevita lly lo detected m that dy when the uvan win oe r 'urea io give up us se crcis, and tl. o turrendvr it djad, The crowr ;crt y 'ul .the eoul h itrtininorTStify i vk i.houl this, iiu'.iueiive nature miht almost sport with its tre tensions, but w ith if an angel scarcely swops to pn vy. ' , , T ; v , :; Those habits whira dignify or di-hon or manhood obtain tb,?ir; shape arid cotp I exion duriog our earlier year. The o' lu oj summer, and autumn vcLotate 1 ' ihs spring, "rid tin harvest ol old Avroti,!ea in youth., 4 -1, : v ' . ' I Tiis patronizing air with which some r ipo to every great movement 1 community-i4 otten extremely ih.j t o.it. Tlie vast ob erts on wh ch thovl bestow their gratuitous, favor, so far.dary of the foris.1 This .added .to the from lifthirr ihr.n Hitn imle mvn elfmpni. G10 acres will make 800 acres of lind. fnd making them pai lakers of their su.ihe bounty for, settling in ouo of the Wimity and crandcur, otjly havo the, ef- choicest portions of the earth I feci to dwarf thoni the more, to render V 1 have appended h'cte-unto a copy of uiHigoincfllice f 1,11 more jwipaoiu, ar.d exhiko , their vaiiiiv to the minh of 'iiatikind. , ' Thev re cmblo ? ono who ,'.ould CddkvM thdtlertVd 'Sahara, ti the towering ciJu'iinat-ftanJ, whir Mm.. .1 1 i'iiir in innii iHfknt ti aI'm I he piety of the humble and obscure it . ..' I . .... ... . . it is more simple, than 'hat w inch ema nates from ' unapproachable superiorly. Thc,motntain torrent' may dash down ward "magnificently f to the plain, and roll on In 'splendor to the oceafl J tqt ii ,s tnc httle streamlet; winding around in ikn m n A trt tiw- it. wv4-k AWA lc.,f Inland pri.r, Tu ftf mvu,.,, u w,., ,, The effect of mystery1 Is much the laniMA nowever mn er nvmoie u sourcc. fience is, that .a. soldief guardma monarch,anda boy incharcc of a bal.oon, are alike full of the parade and circumstance of office. ; , Igporance is often, the source.cf the moit intrepid action and the most im plicit faith i. since there are nope so fear less as those who have not, light enough to see their danger j and none so con fident as they who have not sufiiecnt know ledgo to discover their own errors. . If the chargo of perfect stupidity is ever jij't, it is nrplicablo to that roan who u in a state of suspense: for etcti error, . strenuously juf purled., would at least ra iso hnn above our pity and con tempt. s , - , r , Some, men . nscrita all their unhappi ncss to the narrowness of their means; but place them in the immcdiateenjoy mcnt f all Jhat enters within the circle oi mcir present nopes ana acsircs, ara they will no sooner have tjr.tcred on die enrspturin possession, than new hopes and desires will bezin to manifest them elves. -I oa cannot place a' man ' in tuvh a situation that he will not look a bovtHtirid "beronditrciYeT him tlie whole of this world, and, like the hero of Marcdon, he will inquire for another. Ho w ho has struck his colors' to the powef of an evil habit hat surrendered hiTsclf to.an cnemv, bound by! no arti cles of faith, and from whom he can cx peel otuv mo vucm ireauncnu Heath may remove from us the creat and good, but the force of their actions still remains, r The bow is broken, but the arrow is sped, and will. dk its olSco From the II tUfmn vgh' Recorder. Extracts from a letter from John Scott, Ej. formcily of this town, to a gen tlernau in this pjace, dated , City of Houston, Texas, ' , T ; 1 March 10, 1839. An emigrant should not stop short of Texas. 1 bousands from the richest arts of the valleV of the Mississippi are pouring into this new. republic. ,! A far mer may crow rich here upon one fourth of the labor it takes Makes to support his family in Orange, all let them come to gcosraphraf account of the country, is ! " "c one lately published in Aew iork y n Mr, iewan. rrooaoiy lurncr, cc bably Hdges of Raleigh, may havo it'fof sale, i i .i. t ..r iuc mm iuium ui Alias. i i u-buiuii . 1. , I t e t, volume. The Ti"' k " ''isccuoD oi inis aci late Consrcss appointed fivol.L.-. i commissioners loners V locate' the scat of 'government." It-, wilt be on the Color iido, of e little cast of it, in a fertile, well watered, and delightful country, as healthy as any par, of ihc globe. , v;... ''' fli- iinunr hil (all (istrh lii'it nf n family will secure C10 acres of bounty fcnd f Wilt ll.l. t . . . .' . .wu v. . , U provided they rnveMur the fir,tday,httfirsl d f Ja ' e th 4 January ,1610,. ,t: tune , the eiWkattonLhnll 1. mti- t 'ino iaic Ln2TC55 nassca a law io cMabhxh lino of niilitary fortv- from . ii i . -. .. ii .j l: - ... I: . f of six hundred miles, oyer a delightful ii'.u ai tv. iv ir- vi.tiubi w uintuiii. i and salubrious and fertile Kaio -of countryi to protect the frontier settlo inents. 'Enrh firt is tdroniain a square re.of land.of ino utiles each way, laid oil ! " 11 I ' I tntp sectKHW foi iw acres; eacn. t A bounty of one section is to bo given to in i every abie badicu settlor, who will i lucate himself, and open a farm and keep it up for three years, within either boon o.u um.j;t am mw uuiivu juauu ui i iov the act, exempting fioi? execution cer : tain property therein 'named ; 'also the pri cs ats t.he Iouton market.; ,Corn you scf, is four "dollars I This fcxorhi lani price is uwinir boic v io uit-i.trmuim created by the constant influx of-cmi .... . . ....... ... ,.. ....( .:'...... . . . . v Families who come to Texas by I land, should cross the Mississippi river somewhere betvycen Natchez and Vicks J en or one horse, twenty hogs, and one burg, and enter Texas on the Red HivilyearVpt'ovisionsJ .apd that all laws and er tide. x It will be the shortest and most direct' route to- the newcityflthQ proirisiont of thisf Aetr be and :the AustihT -?7f y f : Houston was commenced in March, 1 837, w hen tlie first house ; was huilf; now its population is about d.urJU souls, muster strong here ; more so, perhaps, I he lianltf tm nt "thftn Id Aorlli Mfttn" I thantrom any other state ol Uie Union. Alemoftan Hunt: (nrmerlv of GranvillflJ is now Secretary of the Navy. . . , . . . ? ; - j., , . I An Act entitled an act to extend to the I "late emigrants, or .those who may I H emigrate within a specified, time, a) donation ol land. U j , ,f ; 1 Sec 1; lit it enacted h the Senate and Home of Representatives of. the Republic of .Texas in Tongrehs asr iffiMf,That every person who emi grated to this Republic since tte first day of October Anno Domini one. tKu- saud fetght hundred -an4 'thirty seven; kuu ijr emigrate tenuis . rcpuouc 1 bvthe first day of January one thoa sand eight hundred and icrty, who is a free w hi to person and the head of a family, and who actus v resides. with in the government witti his or her !fam ily, shall be 'entitled to1 a conditior.a iva irvs uisi,r 1 grant of six hundred and forty acres of r..-i k.; .- VF VVIIVItlVHUI survey'ing.' The conditions" of thV said Rranuhall bcthat' both crantco and hisoiherfamilvslian-remimrro. side perrnancntlvi within this republic, and do and 'perform any and all "duties required of other citizen for. the term of three years, after which time lie or his lepaf representatives shall receive from tha rnvprnmnnt nAd iinronditinnal I deed for that no sale government shau be valid in Jaw and binding Mponltoj .... . . I unui an unconaiuonai oeeu wau m oo thTdnintifm hiT nlwitf" h( " ' . " T. saiwiacioriiv Droven mat a i tnc concu- ...v.. fl lr ,u teen and upwards who baviW to this republic since the first'd n.k. L- ,1,..,. ' 1 to litis republic by the first day of Jan- nn.JnJ,kM.i f ' b(J bundfcd .fl,..,..,.....i 1 nnAlXn TZ ret)eaw . ; ; ... -I :j m... 1 all permanent resident citizens ' iw vi liiajr nunc ., j r :... i vijuuiu ut . 1.11111 aula - njf 8 h i d r.tiiui t u . of land as emigranU f "La; T u' vwumwi M4a. J ; n. a- ii ' . ii ot ' a a , ' ' ; r TuVi. 7 r T hcCt!lce:0! T61 t!eIiV? ?d tted totho sameouantitv of and . that I tort In thrt i.i.:.:' :..u i . ,i.i? thev would have if their families had. emigrated i to i the ; conntry .with J . - : - i .1 " , . f ? "' --"' f ?uuuw iocxcmFi ccr. Isaid grant of;fand, provided JSX of said claim to land by the L,T,"T"!;' - l tu: I a nas 0 manage 1he Government, I tarn propesty therein named from ex-' , Howseveri Gincral Scott did'nt for ccutwn. A f , , 4 ia i.n;et me, and said 'if there Was anv fight Sec. 1. Efjt enacted Iw the 51frt ate and House rf Rtprcscntatiic of the Repubhe-vf Texas tn asembed, That from passage of this Act, there served to ever v citizen of. -head; of verv citizen of.: head; of a to stand firm and 61ey no orders but friends' and ::' punishing enemies," at)2 -lus Kepublicr free and inde Gincral Scott's -that it was a Nation you went on the principle of finding f a writ , of icueiciasf or at matter, and he was a N(ttwnatpff botharid one was about as hard work family in this uendenttfia other execution issuing iron, any coun f w ' - . n't vu uo two hundred dollars.) all im plcments of Tiusbars1ry,TXpr6vidcdjlhey shrill not ."exceed filtv dollars in value.) all v .1 .. a 1 ?r compten ,u lSaic,,on wna ever, , ii- noo," vnen io marci. arm i.ovv mm io - Klade baint got i ty .acres 6f land or on: ownbt, inclu- oor llahfax. ot - my other f A l d.ng lus or her homestead, and improve olaco bcg.nmn- with ff-tf ho chose to N - rint meutsnol ( exceeding five hundred doN feud rand in tKat way they -would i not j W x suf po3; V0lfn Cfit iars in value, nil house hold and kttchon only h ve a Faireld, but' would be ehow tial way sU - : . furniture (provided it docs not exceed sure of a, IVUfeld; and that was more , your fricnd n tixric- anj timVf to the trado or profession of any citizen, vc milcb cows, one yoke.of work ox parts of laws contravening of. opposing same are hereby repealed 'Prwided, The pawace of this Act shall not inter fere with Contracts between parties ncretoiore made. Extracts from, the Prices Current, Hous- ? - . .. . -.. ' :..-. i - - wa -uarkei. n,Flour, $21 to23 per barrel. ;.. ?Ia',s 27 to 40 ; middlings 2& to 30. Lard, 30 to 33 per lb. , luUer, 45 to 100 . . Corp, $4 per bushel. . Qats, $3,50 to 4,00 per busheL . ; oalt per sack, $8,50 to 0,00. i 2j lb. 1 wiiiuic3. miiUM. ijour ia. : f II... . mm 1L : Molasses, 2,00 to20 pergaL l oiaiocs, cio per. oarret. , , , . A From the fow YfiKk "Eprti. LETTER FROM MAJOR DOWN- ..v. -f y : iiu nv ; y-: k ;Washiniion April 2; 1839. 7T Squire tfiddlt : got your? let- ter tellin me you had quit the Bank, and I intended, if you could possibly so man- i possibly so man-one - ' - , 1 r 3 v t . 1 1 11' I 7" " f .VX' that you would do so mis nas always oen your nouon. ana 4 as soon as you ? a" ll"nSs a.r a.hoa! .and. a nun ? "H! ? 5,ph!ns 80 tar1 a$u lie, nowrnuntvEaYsome nghi to go and atg nis own potatoes, ana noe his own corn, and lake, a little comfort in his own way. But somhow I feel, Squire la lectio womblccropt, jut as idid when 3 w"Crai ICH and went to the Hermit- hone Viin will keen n pvn r mnttpn j-. d r . , DIat , llis - b5nc, iff the r-n. Thojact Js, you and the GineraL al wavs thought was madecf nrettv mnrh .. , , ... . .r .. tho' the bineral cot the best pay.; 9 , half; you, not onlr do Government Skor,tP ) tjtl S? '.3 .kJ f ever tho-ght on .f and the fact n, the Gmeral did carry t(;sor;;or "c'o kw uiiiks irvui ijg was not mixed up with, till it got sa at last t,,at aIm0t every old lady about the country wouia nisei a nen wiinout wn- S8 1 0D1 il 8,mosl vore' n5m 40 s!ia arul bone. I bl'cve you was the only h,l a.i f ' llt . ... . f man.that was able to out work the Gin'- era, ; and j j. hadal that voa was a lectio younger than he was, he'dtf ado a tooth-piak on you as he did of pretty Iroucfi all the rest 'of ereation. r Uut, as 1 Uta before, 1 slm considerable womble- crept at your eavinj pubhc life. for, and youf too, i reel orncivltat cot -out :r. 't---'- ?Una!T fl,a 50 Pl um .v ttt. auwuwj H A,H li A.ll rW tt AnltrttArf I - .kr.MA " " I utuii a uiuii uiui uuuauMA uio ail uui- low, as he docs pretty much every man now-a-days. - - injr to be done among the Loggers, he knew who ho could count on, and loot . 1 m t .. i ' ., ni i'i uongrets ea roe cxrau in me lace ; ana i sac aown have cone bvonlv with rm . - i r . v i aiiu niicr uio auu wru icuurinarKu cunnucmtut rorenPe i ,a tha'ti mn.-n 'a shall be re- to the 2d lingadc," and tcll'd 'em to ramR rrnm , r.;, Mrlnn nf M ijtcerj ana .wuen : do saiu rtoiioutaerias f0ther. - important j in this matter of fighlihg, there is ona thina I always' keep my eye on,- and I if i in .. .1 thinking ; and that is, to depend less on folks w ho say they are . ready to shed the last drop of their blood, than oo folks v who are ready to shed the first drop. Givo a man eigfJbljare a dajiw mako ipeeetiff in i Congress, with the right of ; free postage, and you hej(r enuf of Hast --:-drop" matters; but , when It comes to camp; duty,-: nnd raw; beef and stala bread; nnd basnet work.thenlhe first (drop folks have to stand the racket at eigm oonars a montn. 1 telrd the Gin . cral says I; Gincral I suppese yoti would about as leave fight ; as eat; for 1 that's your nature--but for my part, seeing as how thing are getting 6n re markatly smart all over tha country. and the spring of the year, too, a-d thq new improvements ever day, and tha " green lea vc. and the ' grass, aud - the little children,' ail sportulg, and Ute ca nals and lailroads all about half madc ard the cotton crops just about begin ' 1 ning, and the banks all jest getting mto specie paymenisand every thing look ing about slick; to say nothing ubout tha the steamboats crossing the Ocean ev ery week it does seem; to mo . that a war won't help matters no how." . - , 5I know that, Major, says ho "war 18 a great calamity, an4 there aint only '"'n worse, " says lie, r V bat's that,, says . "National diahonor,'' says he -straitening on pretty nigh like an Aroostook pine, v! Go ahead, yon crittor,'saysl, "and if there is any chopping to be done Down East, let ma know. Well, you see ' what has n ' dohe, and alM've'got rtoytay ab t it is, that when you come to thmk that a man nigh upon seven feet high and as -strait as a bean pole, and all grit from one eend to t'othef, is willing to work like a beaver at 'all pints South and Southwest, North and Northeast, and ' Loicneatt,io keep an honorable jpeace, and watching like a Linx to see that the nations honor, rs no way sailed I do think tho' a;war would give me a military rank, Ut man who keen, tha fnu led to a.nspecially if war ms iraae. thatjs in commandmi the sanices of ad matters qfthis natur ; and there is only one thins more I think is wantimr. nd thatthe.e are entitledto; and i'8 T,! ! maaSe matters of the-country as (welL Iro ontlie principle that if a man does nt ins jano, uuu suwuij uie oesi cram jest so the President does rite in calling into the sarvice of the country jhp best . me country nastne peopieare entitled SOTne years back- " sci and smutty crops7-but , , 1-. - J , scratch plouhini enough of this. I thank vou for vour kind, invitation ' to stop and eat Peaches with you when iney gci ripe; ana, as i remember you l . . I , . " navo gci some capuai eariy appio trees on your farm, I'll stop and take 'a bita on my way to the North; Vhd a'chanqo at the peaches wtied I return back, just irJ ,lie banUfor jost ; so suref you 're Me.ttw . reacnes.wouta oe rtpe m September, tliey Would be down upon s.n II . . . m !t.,r a "'P. 5? W Apples; in one, and then tetcn un on the reaches , alter wards. :-S :.""-vvi-'-' The fact is Squire,! am dc'sparatery afraidrnow that ypu and the Gincral have both backed out and gone to get some quiet and rest that a: good many on us will have cause to fee' that iswi thisdif extra work rewarding tunes, prcseat, and timc3 to come, . . "4 j J. DOWNING, Major. vis, apparatus and books belonging ' found Gincral Scott in the same way of ' Bowningy:l!Q Malitia, 2d Brigade ;, ,. 7f;-:i -l. 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