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CHARLOTTE, JV. C. TlESBJiY, BECEMBElt 18, 1827.
[NO. 161.
PUHLISHE1) WKKKLY
By LKMUKL BINGHAM,
Jit Three Dollars a year^ paid in advance.
No paper will be discontinued, unless at the
discretion of the editor, until all arrearages are
T>uill.
Adverliscmrnts will be inserted at the usual
rites. Persons sending in advertismenVt, are
r..-iii'‘stcd to note on the margin the number Of
insi rtioiis, nr they will lie continued until forbid
ami cii-r,:;od accordingly.
STISAin: BOAT
N VMVVW A'A RO\A>* A*
1HIS Boat is in complete order, and will
T..... .
conimencc running to tleorgetown and
Charleston on the first of Octoher, and will car
ry produce at customary rates. The subscri
bers will spare no exertion to expedite the
transportation of proiluce uml goods to :tnd
fVom either of the above places. Tiiis boat has
made atrip from Charleston, with a full treight,
in less than tivc days.
We have a pole boat now on the stocks,
which will be launched about the first of No
vember, calculated to carry five hundred bales
of cotton, and of so light a draft of wali r, as
to be enabled to go at all seasons. This boat,
in conjunction witli the steamboat, will eiis'ire
the certainty of up and down freightB, without
lelay. . . ,
The subscribers will receive cotton to freight
on moderate terms, and make no charge for
storage, if shipped by their boats. They will |
also receive and forward goods, on reasonable j ^
terms, having commodious stores and w arc-hou- (
bcs, for the security of goods.
Mr. Henry \V. Conner, the agent in Charles
ton, will attend to the receiving and forwarding
all goods to this or any intermediate places on
the Fee Uee rivtr, and will receive and attend
to all orders respecting cotton that ni.iy be sent
to his care. The subscribers pledge them
selves to use all diligence and attention in their
power, for the interest of those who may make
Consignments to them.
® J. & J. H. TOWNES.
Cheraw, S. C. Sept. 24, 1827.—8t58
Thomas Trotter Co.
ESPEnTl'Ul.LY informs
% the public that they have
received and ofler for sale a
few gold and silver patent le
ver Watclies, (gentlemen
and ladies) a few good plain
Watchcs, warranted; gentle
men and ladies’ gold Chains,
Seals and Keys ; some hand
some Hreast Pins, Finger Kings, Kar Kings,
Pearl and I'iligree, and Paste in setts, &c. &r. ;
all or any part of which wc will sell low for
cash.
Clocks and Watches repaired at the shortest
notice, and warranted to perfonn. Cash given
for gold and silver.
N. IJ. We expect to receive in a short time
sonie elegant Military and plated Goods, £cc.
Charlo'ue, May 14,' 1827.-30
i’«r IwtciwjvrTftncc.
'rWEN TIKTH CONGRESS.
A Sl’PPI .Y of Dr. Chambers’justly celebra
ted remedy for Intemperonce, has been recei
ved, and is for sale at the Post-Ollice, at the
New-York prices.
IWriwg.
At the late residence of Frederick Dinkins,
deceased, on 'I'uesday, the first day of .lan-
uary nest, 1 will hire out, for the term of one
year, to the highest bidtler, all the LANDS and
NKGUOES belonging to the estate of said de
ceased. ~
JOIJN SPRINGS, Gvardian.
Nwemher 28, 1827.-4t62i*
WASHIHOTOS, I»KC. 4.
The President of the United States transmit
ted, this day, to both Houses of Congress, the
following
MESSAGE ;
To the Senate and Hous« of Beprescntatives
of the United States:
Fellow-Citizens of the Senate, and
of the House of Representatives:
A revolution of the seasons has nearly
been completed since the lUpresenta-
tives ol’the People and Slates of this Un
ion we."e last assembled at this place, to
deliberate and to act upon the common
important interests of their constituents.
In that interval, the never-slumbering
eye of a wise and beneficent Providence
has continued its guardian care over the
welfare of our beJoved country. The
Idessiiig of health has continued gener
ally to prevail throughout the land. The
blessing of peace with our brethi en of the
human race has been enjoyed without
interruption ; internal quiet has lelt our
fellow-citizens in the full enjoyment of
all iheir rights, and in the free exercise
of all their faculties, to pursue the im
pulse of their nature, and the obligation
of their duly, in the improvement of
their own condition. The productions
ol the soil, the exchanges of commerce,
the vivifjing labors of human industry,
have combined to mingle in our cup a
portion oi enjoyment as large and liberal
as the indulgence of Heaven has per
haps ever granted to the imperfect state
of man upon earth ; and as the purest of
human felicity consists in its participa-
Five Cents Reward.
RAN .\y\ AY from the subscriber, on
the 27tli (itOctober last, a boy by the
name of haac Sitifianf', bound to me
by Mecklenburg County t’ourt. Me
y is about 19 years of age, has brown
hair and a downcast look. All per- tion with others,it is no small additlon^o
IS appointed Agent for Yutfn & McIntyre for
Charlotte, and will receive all orders direct
ed to them for Tickcts and shares in Lotteries
before the public.
Sept. 29, 1827.-50
feiale oIl ^oTlAv-l^ai’oWna,
Mecklenburg County.
Sesftion^ 1827.
Jlobert Houston & ilar> his wife, ^ Petition for
x's. s partition of'
Alston Spratt k Eliza’th his w ife. J Lands. j
IT is ordered by court, that publication be ,
made six weeks in the Cataw l>a Journal, for '
sons are forbid harboring or trusting
under j)t nalty of the law; and wlioever
w ill return him to the .subscriber, shall be enti
tled to the above reward, but no ch; iges paid.
JAMES P. ROGERS.
JVWmZ/cr27, 1827.—3t61r
Ten Dollars Reward.
Ran AWAY' from tlie subscriber,
in June last, a negro fellow, 38
years of ag»‘, 5 feet 8 or 9 inrhes high,
N dark complexion, and has a .scar, it is
) believed, on iiis breast. He is sup
posed to be liarl)orcd somewhere be-
tween Charlotte and my residence,
as Ik- lias been frei|uently seen. Whoever will
apprehend sail! negro and return him to me,
near 1 uckasege Ford, or give me information
so 1 get him, or secure him in any jail, shall be
entitled to the above reward.
ROBERT WILSON.
Not'. 27, 1827.—316Ip
Fifteen Dollars Reward.
Ran A>N AY’from the suscriber,
about tlie 25th June last, a negro
man named CUJJiLJ-'S. Said negro
was purcliasut at the sale of the pro
perty of Fn derick Dinkins, deceas
ed, is about five feet seven or eight
inches hi>ch, black color, and speaks
ry broken. Any person apprehending said
the sum of our national happiness, at
this time, that peace and prosperity pre
vail to a degree seldon) experienced,over
the whole habitable globe; presenting,
though as yet with painful exceptions, a
foreiasie of that blessed period of prom
ise, when the lion shall lie down with the
lamb, and wars shall be no more. To \
preserve, to improve, and to perpetuate,
the sources, and to direct, in their most
eirective channels, tfie streams, which
contribute to the public weal, is the pur
pose for which Ciovernmeni was institu
ted. Objects of deep importance to the
welfare of the Union are constantly re
curring, to demand the attention of the
Federal Legiblature j and they call with
accumulated interest, at the fust meet
ing ol the iwuliuuses, after ihcir peri
odical renovation. To present to their j
cotisideratioti, from time to titiie, sub-1
jects in which Ihe interests of the nation j
are most decpiy involved, and for the j
regulation of which the legislative will
is alone competent, is a duty prescrib-{
ed by the Constitution, to the perform
ance of which the first meeting of ihe
new Congress is a jieriod eminently ap-
now my pur-
wtherwise judgment w ill be taken pro confes-
i§) against them.
L ALEXANDER, C. M. C.
6t62.—pr. adv. $2.
Nov. 27, 1827—4162
Horses, Cattle, Hogs, Corn, tic.
1W1I.L SELL, ;• my fornier dwcl!ir,g, and at
a credit of tweUe months, all my stock of
horses, cattle and hogs; and 200 bushels Corn,
Also, tbe plantation, at difVerentcre-
Valiiiible Beal Estate for Sale.
wish to sell the tract of Land I fo«'ea->h; .
* whereon I now reside, distant dits; or it will be rented for one year, if not sold.
' 3 miles from the village of Char-1 >tlicr articles also will be sold. Sale on the
I lotte • containing about 9U0 acres 1 December, to commence at lU o’clock.—
"Tb^Tquality of Sugar Creek land. Two- Hond and security will be required; and due
thirds of the above tract is in woods ; the grea
ter proportion of the balance having been o-
pened within afewvears, will yield, in ordina
ry seasons, from 800 to 1000 wvigbt of cotton
{»er acre. On the plantation is a goo.i Jwi 1-
ing-housc, and other necessary out biiKlngs.
attendance will be given b> me,
2t61 CYRUS Ai-EXANDER.
Conunitled to the Jail
Mecklenbuig county, on the 6th dav of
ndship with the
other nati(jns of the earth, political and
commercial, liave been preserved un
impaired ; and the opportunities to im
prove them have been cultivated with
anxious and unremitting attention. A
negotiation, upon subjects of high and
delicate interest, with the Government
of Great liritain, has terminated in the
luljustment of some of the queiitions at
issue, upon satisfactory terms, and the
postponement of others for luture dis
cussion and agreement. The purposes of
the Convention, concluded at St’ Peters
burg, on the 12lh day of July. 1822, un-
ling-housc, anil otiier neeessiiiv um. | Aujvust, 1S27, iiiiigro nian who sajs his, tier the mediation ol the latt* Emperor
The tract is well watered and has extensive , name is TaKL’I t»N, mid that he belongs to a Alexander, have been carried into elTect
meadows. Intending to remove to anotlu r
state, the above property is olleved low li)reash
or credit; or would be exchanged for rennessce
lands, located within the Middle or Western
Districts.
The Land could be divided to suit i)urctias-
\ WM. J. ro!-K.
A^rcklcnhur^ county, Od. 18, 1827.—5otf.
State lUmk of X(irth-('arolimi,
SAd.ISIitHV IlKANCII, OCT. 25, 18’r.
ORUEUED, l)V the Roard of Directors, that
a payment of one ti iith of the principal be
exac'.exlupon all notes ofl'ered for renewal,trom
and after the first of January next ; and that tlie
C lahi'T give noticc tliereuf to the dcl'tors,
I'V udvirtisemeut in Uic Western Carolinian
and Catawlja Joiirr.al.
A cipy from the Vlinutes.
Jl'MCS SNEED, Casiiieb.
DR. T. 1. .lOIINSON,
HAVIN(; positi\tly declined practicing
ii.edicine in Charlotte any more, requ' sts
all tlio^e who are indebted to him to call and
«ettle their r. sp« ctive iiecounts ; ami he would
iklso »(!{, that those wiio fail to avail themselves
of the time interv. ninp: between the present
date and No»end)cr Court next, will find their
!iotes aiul accounts entrusted to the n,r*nage-
;nent of an Attorney.
Ocio/xT 24, 1827.—54*
N. IV—Tbo.se biiving in thrir possession
cooks, either medical or inis« ellaneous, belong
ing to the subscriber, w ill please return Uiemr
for sale at Ui!8 Oliict*. i
man b\ the name ol' Claiborn Cook, living in
Granville county. The bo> is large and vcrj'
bh. k, Mild staninier > v« ry niueh in speaking.
Tlie owner is n (iiKsted tc. come forward, prove
proju rty, pay charges and takf him away.
57tt' JOHN SLOAN, S/ienff.
tSvaVe ol* Xv>rU\-t'‘tivv)Uua,
Lincoln Count}'.
Court of Eiji'itij. Oriobcr Term, 1827.
llenrv Lut/, vs. 'I'lie heirs of Jacob I.ut;’, sen.
tk ceased—Petition for sale of Lots.
JN this ease, it appearing to the eourt, that
Daniel and Jacob Lutz,sons of (.eorge Lut^,
ilcceasi d, anti I’liilip Ikard and Susannah liis
wile, !*>ally Mead and John Lutz, are not resi-
dtnts of tills State ; It is therefore ORDKItEl),
that publication be irTude for six weeks sueees
.•>ively in the Cataw ba Journal, that they and
each of tbei be aiul a])]iear at the next Court
of Ljnity, to be held for tlic county of l.incoln,
at tlie (^)iirl-llouse in Lincolnton, on the fourth
Minulay d'ler the fourth Monday of March, KS28,
to jdead, answ er or demur to this bill, or judg
ment pro C(Uifes.so will be taken and heard ex
parte a3 to them.
0t62i> 'J est. JAMl-.S HILL, r. M. *.
JUST Pt'Hl ISIl I'.D, and ff>r sale at tiiis of
fire, “Stiictures on a book, en.itlcd, ‘An
Apology for the Rook of I’salms, by iiilbert
M( Master.’ 'I'o w hi-h are aild.i il, lU marks on
a book, [by Alexaii'ler t.ordon] entitled ‘ 1 hi
design ami use of the. Hook if Psaln.s.’” I5y
UtMiT Ki KfNKu, A. ^L >\itli an Appcndrv,
hv Juii^ M. W^I.'J.^. r.;>tk}' Ri^ei pnd
Pl'ilvut--h'7
\
by a suhsecjuent Coiivciition, concluded
at London on the 13th of November,
1826, the ratifications of which were ex
changed at that place on the 6th tlay of
February last. A copy of the proclama
tion issued on the nineteenth day of
March last, j)ul;lishing this Convention,
is heiewith communicated to Congress.
’I he sum of twtlve hundred and four
thousand nine hundred and sixty dollars,
therein stipulated to be paid to the
claimants of inilemnity under the first
Article of the Treaty of (Ihent, has been
duly received, and the Commission in
stituted conformably to the act of Con
gress of the 2d of March last for ihe dis-
tiibution of the indemnity to the persons
entitled to receive it, are now in ^oession,
and approaching the consummaliou of
their labors. 'I'his final disposal of on*'
of the most painful topics of rollision
betH-een the U. States and (ireat Lritain,
not only aft'ordsan occasion of graUilutjon
to ourselves, but has had the happiest el-
fect in promoting a friendly dispojiton, S;
in softening asperities upon othrr objects
of discussion. Nor ouf;lit it to pat.s
without the triljute of a frank and cor
dial ackno'.vIcdjMnent of the magnanimity
with which an lionorable nation, bv t!.e
reparation of their Avn wron|;s, a-
chieves a triuinj'li more glorious than
any held of blood run ever Itcslow.
'I be cf >I .In’v,
of 20th October, 1818, will expire by
their own limitation on the 20th Octo
ber, 1828. These have regulated the di
rect commercial intercourse between the
United States and Great Britain, upon
terms of the most perfect reciprocity j
and they eflected a temporary comprom
ise of the respective rights and claims to
territory westward of the Rocky moun
tains. These arrangements have been
continued for an indeiinite period of time,
after the expiration of the above mention
ed Conventions ; leaving each parly the
liberty of terminating them, by giving
twelve months notice to ihe other. The
radical principle of all commercial inter
course between independent nations,
is the mutual interest of both parties. It
is the vital spirit of trade itself; nor can
it be reconciled to the nature of man, or
to the primary laws of human society,
that any traflic should long be willingly
pursued, of which all the advantages are
on one side, and all the burdens on the
other. Treaties of Commerce have been
found, by experience, to be among the
most efl'ective instruments for promoting
peace and harmony between nations
whose interests, exclusively considered
on either side, are brought into frequent
collisions by competition. In framing
such treaties, it is the duty of each par
ty, not simply to urge with unyielding
pertinacity that which is adapted to the
interest, but to concede liberally to that
which is adapted to the interest of the
other. 'I'o accomplish this, little more
is generally required than a simple obser
vance of the rule of reciprocity j and were
it possible for the statesmen of one na
tion, by strMagem and management, to
obtain from the weakness or ignorance
of another, an over-reaching treaty, such
a compact would prove an incentive to
war rather than a bond of peace. Our
conventions with Great Britain are foun
ded upon the principles of reciprocity.
The commercial intercourse between the
two countries is greater in magnitude
and amount than between any two other
nations upon the globe. It is, for all pur
poses of benefit or advantage to both, as
precious, and in all probability, far more
extensive than if the parties were still
constituent parts of one and the same na
tion. Treaties between such States,
regulating the intercourse of peace be
tween them, and adjusting interests of
such transcendant importance to both,
w hich have been foutid, in a long f*xperi-
enre of yrnr^. mutually advantageous,
should not be lightly cancelled or discon
tinued. 'I’wo conventions for continuing
in force those above mentioned have been
concluded between the Plenipotentiaries
of the two Governments, on the 6th of
Angust last, and will be forthwith laid
before the Senate for the exercise of their
constitutional authority concerning them.
In the execution of the Treaties of
Peace, of November 1782, and Septem
ber 1780, between the United States and
Great Britain, and which terminated the
war of our Independence, a line of boun
dary was drawn as the demarcation of
territory between the two countries cx
lending over neur twenty degrees of
luiiiude, and ranging over seas, lakes,
a»d mouniuins, then very imperfectly
explored, and scarcely opened to the
geographical knowledge of the ago. In
the progress of discovery and ^settle
ment by both parlies, since that lime,
several questions of boundary, between
their respective Territories, have arisen,
which have been found of exceedingly
difVicult adjustment. At the close of the
last war with fireat Britain, four of these
(jueslions pressed themselves upon the
consideration of the negotiators of the
7'realy of Ghent, but withoui the means
of concluding a definitive arrangemet.i
conceruiiig them. They were referred
to three separate Commissions, ton.-.is-
ling of two Commissioners, one appoin
ted by each j)arty, to examine and decide
upon their respective claims. In the
event of disagreement between the Com
missioners, it was provided ihai they
should make reports to their several
(iovernments ; and that the reports
should finally be referred to the decision
of a Sovereign, the common friend of
both. Of these Commissions, two have
already tirtninated their sessions and
investigations, one by entire andtlie oth
er by pcirtjal agreement. The (Joiais-
I sioners of the fifth articlc of the 'i’reaty
I of Ghent have fina'ly dis.’tgrecd, and made
j their coni]ictifig reports to their own
I (jovernnient*.. Hut from these reports
! a great diPiculty has octu’ t ed in mak
ing up a f|uc:, ion to be decided by thi,
I .\i bitrutor. 'i ids purpnc.s has, how-
' ever, been rTectrd by n fotjrili Conven-
I tion, coriluded at London, by the I’leni-
j polentia! ics of the two (Jovcrnments, on
j the _'^th of September last. It will be
i submit'ed, to;;ethe:' with the others, to
; the coni.ideratioti of the Senate.
I While th ese iuestions Iiave been pend-
I ing, incidents have occurred of conllici-
ter, upon the territory itself, in dispuet
between the two Nations. By a cf*mmoii
understanding between the Governments,
It was agreed, ihat no exercise of ex
clusive jurisdiction, by either pJirty,,
while the negotiation was pending,
should chauge the state of the questioa
of right, to be defiuitively settled. SucU
collision has, nevertheless, recently taken
place, by occurrences, the precise char
acter of which has not yet been ascertain
ed. A communication from the Gov
ernor of the State of Maine, with ac
companying documents, and a corres
pondence between the Secretary of State
and the Minister of Great Britain, on this
subject, are now communicated. Mea
sures have been taken to ascertain the
state of the facts more correctly, by the
emph.yment of a special Agent, to visit
the spot where the alleged outrages have
occurred, the result of whose inquiries,
when received, wiil be transmiited to
Congress.
While so many of the snhjert.s of high
interest to the friendly reiations bei .veen
the two countries have been so far ad
justed, ii is matter of regret that thcip
views respecting the commercial iiv«
tercourse between the United States and
the British Colotual Po'-.sessions, havo
not equally approximated to a friendly
agreement.
At the rommencement of the last sess
ion of Congress, they were informed of
the sudden and unexpected exclusion,bjr
the British flovernment, of access, in
vessels of the U. Slates, to all their col
onial ports, except those immediateljr
bordering upon our own territories. la
the aniicable discussions which have
succeeded the adoption of this measure^
which, as it affected harshly ihe interesta
of the United States, became a subject oi‘
expcMulation on our part, the principle*
upon which its justification has been plac-*
ed, have been of a divenified character.
It has been at once ascribed to a mer®
ecurrence to the old long established
principle of colonial monopoly, and at
the same time to a feeling of reseninitnt,
because the oilers of an \ct of P-ii lia-
ment, opening the colonial ports upon
n riain I ;ndiiK i.s, b.td i' i, d
at vvith sufficient eagerness by an instan-
ianeous conformity to them. At a sub
sequent period. It has been intimated
hat the new exclusion was in resentment,,
because a prior Act of Parliament, of
1822, opening certain colonial ports, un-
iier heavy and burdensome restrictions,
to vessels of the United States, had not
l)een reciprocated by an admission of
British vessels from the colonies, and
their cargoes, without any restriction or
discrimination whatever. But, be tho
motive for the interdiction what it may,
the British Government have manifested
no disposition, either by negotiation, or
by corresponding legislative enactments,
to recede from it, and we have been given
distinctly to understand, that neither of
the bills which were under the considera
tion of Congress, at their last session,
would have been deemed sufficient, in
their concession, to have been rewarded
by any relaxation from the Hrilish in
terdict. It is one of the inconveniences
inseparably connected with the attempt
to adj ist, by reciprocal legislation, in-
terest.s of this nature, tiiat neitiier party-
can know what would he satisfactory to
the other ; and tnut, after enacting a sta
tute for th*“ avijw d since'’e purooHt*
of conciliation, it will generally be found
utterly inadequate to liu ixpectatioiiii of
the other party, and will terminate ia
mutual disap’poinlment.
The session of Congress having term
inated withoiit any act upon the subject,
a Proclamation was issui J on the 17th
ol INlarch last, conformably to the pio-
visions of the 6th section of the Act of
1st March, 1^23, declaring the fact that
tlie trade and intercourse, authorired by
the British Act of Parliament, of 24tl»
June, 1822, between the United S' i’en
und the iirilish enumerated colonial ports^
had been by the subsequent Acts ofPurlia-
inent, of 5th .Tuly, 1826, and the order of
Council, of 27th July, 1826, prohibited.
I he effect of this Proclamation, by the
terms of the Act under which it was issu-
d, has been, that each and every pro-
visioBoftlie Act concerning Navigation,
of 18th Ap’ i!, 1818, and of the Act sup
plemental y thereto, of Ijth May, IbJJ,
revived, and is in fill forre. Such, ihtn,’
j is the prt ijcnt condition of the trade, that,
uselul as it is to both parties, it can,
with a single iuumenta."y exception, be*
carried on directly by the ^ousels of
neither. That exception itself ii fo’.nvl
in a Proclumatiun of the Governor of the
Island of!ii. and of the V ir--
gin Islands, invitiag, for three months
f.otu tho jaih cf August last, the im
portation o( tho articlca of the produce
cT the United States, whi-..U conciltutri
iheir export portion of this trade, in tho
veacels of all natrons. That period having
already expired, the state of mutual in-