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if ,JV " ashia-gtos, uec. 21. 1841. most aaring robbery wjis Jtrftjed'about noon on Monday last, in r4er ui me raieni vntice ouildinr, occilpied'by the National Institute as a de pository of their numerous collections ofcu- spleSdy:GQld Snuff' Box, inlaid with dia njoinl preiseated to President Adams, by the Imaunl of - Mu tniniuj4S pearls, besides two larger ones,) Bidlte the Whole of which were deposited therS otf their, removal from the Slate De pa rXmeaL- The value of them is estimated jit $13-Jr?t). The sword which was in the 'gold scabbard was left, and, to facilitate the 4 theft", the latter is supposed to have been bent and aoubled so as to conceal it beneath ,acloak or other apparel. One of the oen tlemen in charce of the hall st.-it - - - a u IV. Ii minutes before the articles were missed he was in the room exhibiting them to a compa ny of ladies; and at the time a man was ob served to gaze intently at the identical arti cles, move hesitatingly from the case con taining them to the window, leave the room (which is a small one partitioned off in one corner of the hall,) walk up and down the hall for some moments until the ladies came out, and is supposed to have at that moment entered and perpetrated the act. Officers, Cook, Zell, and Ridgby, from Baltimore, in league with the police of our own citv, are now in pursuit of the offenders, and hopes are entertained of their detection, as one of the ladies minutely describes the person in ittn t.-t . i n I . . - . ' . . 1 - iwwui.it inr unit;, mi wiium suspicion rests. The reward offered is one thousand dollars. Although even note, compared with the rest of the Infinite's collection, these, if not recovered, may b? deemed-no very inconsid erable loss; yet when we connect the Tact with the hopes uIim-.Ii ail Americans place upon this Institute and the result of its ef forts,, we cannot miard ao-ainst regret.?. J his collection, aIhou;rlin its infancy, pre sents hjectswhic.h cannot fii! to draw forth the admiration and wonder of every behold rn. . er. X he ball containing it, is, perhaps, the largest in the country bt-inr, I should sup jitr, unj-yiu ii(i reo varus in length and twen ty in bre'.fth. The eastern end of ihis room is compactly filled with- parts of the collec tion, in which the department of Ornitholo gy, Zoology, and Mineralogy comprise the principal portions! The west end contains the whole of the Treaties made by the Uni ted States with foreign countries, the origi nal Declaration of Independence, specimens of American wearing fabrics, shawls presen ted by the Imaum of Muscat, &c. &.e. It also contains three Peruvian mummies, which were found in a sitting posture, t Your readers are all aware of the erection of the statue of Washington in the Rotundo . of the Capitol, and have read numerous crit iques, &c. upon it. For my own part, I do conceive that one unacquainted with the sub ject as a work of art, should hesitate to give an opinion. - That it will not please the eye of -he common-place observer is to be ex pected. The ?nass would naturally have hi rn as fie teas a man like themselves not a demi-god. JBut there should be this dis crimination: that in passing judgment upon the work of art as it is, we must have enlar ged views; we must comprehend it not as an to tb y T f it 5 r V v1 i V sented in our past history? To what cause to he ascribed the fact, that, of all the magnificent enterprises conceived and co menced in b nyetleviile, none has b cess fully executed? It is that of Avon s Bard) our "exc hned:' and yet "our wi. yes; start a project, wise or si! iv the taming of a ti of Do naldson Acac 'eating of a rock,' of government fro one adopts it wi self into a per lown meetint pointed, and amount deli iv lhat onei audience v vid eloqu mon cry Perchan illumina victory matter all our silence immediat our orato plan is a have bee number o Societies, to have ev we have a heathen wi morn, as star? ed to any of us l might in pas two on the fair lad? connexion with this s? sure that I should never . ... in that case, I should he in the a cat, which had fallen without its c a very ugiv piace, ana one which it is u civil to name, I forbear. But in closing, I have a passing word to say to the young gentlemen of the ton, on the subject of the Franklin Library Society. If there ever was any design conceived in this town, which was perfectly practicable and eminently useful, it is this. The Socie ty has already excited the sympathies and received the aid of many of our most influ ential citizens, and will necessarily continue to excite a more lively interest, the longer it is continued. It is one which appeals to all for assistance, nnd which, the most abandon ed individual in the community would not injure, if he did not aid. Its numerous ad vantages in preventing dissipation, improving the mind, increasing the stock of knowledge, ennobling the ambition, and refining the taste, are known to all who are capable of retlec tion, and it need not be insisted on. And shall the Society be abandoned at the very moment when it has procured a charter, and can commence a career of distinguished use fulness? Will the young men who in so short a time raised as large and well selected a 1ibraiy as that which the Sociely' now possesses, cease their efTorts and permit them selves to be stigmatised as enfeebled bv the same imbecility that has characterized the annals o their town for fifty years? We cannot believe it. They have once or twice exhibited a spirit which would augur any other conclusion than this, and we trust to emblem of an -ict, but of a life; in a word, we see, and that right speedily, some further de- must contemplate it as the Paler Patrice. FOR THE NORTH CAROLINIAN, Troilits. In all our pageant, there is pre sented no monster. Cressida. Nor nothing monstrous either? Troi. Nothing, but our undertakings: when we vow to weep seas, live in fire, eat rocks, tame tigers: thinking it harder to de vise impossibilities enough, than for us to undergo any difficulty imposed. This is the monstrosity in love, and oh! tristissime dictu! in Fayetteville, lady, thai the xeill isinjivite and the execution confined. Triolus and Cressida. "if pretentions are to achieve greatness and success, then may we hope to see our town Jit flourish preeminent above its sisters of tht State: if enterprises rashly planned, and fooVshly adopted, and then more foolishly and rashly abandoned, ere what of profit they tniorht- have a ffordedrias been seized, reflect credit on a community, then may we claim a arrre dividend in sharing the ap pi a use due jo the Old North State, arising not from th proceeds of the sales of public lands or of any thing else, but from a com parison of.the past history of the States, a measure which we pledge ourselves to main tain as constitutional against the whole host of Virginia abstractionists, whether it be considered "per se'1 or in connection with a "caucus dictatorship." But if the rules by which mankind jude, are different from . those I have stated, th u may we not indulge our hopes and assert our claims, for most assuredly such are our onl grounds for either. Some one has said that "it was well at oc casional intervals to look back upon the past that we may be prepared fotthe future; and the present may be as favorable an era for a retrospect as will soon occur. But start not, gentle reader! I have no such savage inten tion as would lead me to inflict on you a re citalof the long list of past failures Uiat adorn our history? Heavens! no; I have too much of the "milk of human kindness" for tk.t, else I might commence with ihe canal, (lough justice requires me to confess that iiat u of some service, inasmuch as our youngsters ii .i ii i .i . snv it serves exceiienuv wen lor ineinio skate on, and catch cat-fish in, which velopements of the same spirit Besides such incitements, permit me to ask in a spirit of submissive deference, have they not pledged themselves to the Platonic Soci ety, and to the community, by accepting the donation of the Platonic Library, to continue t heir Society? And Fayetteville, low as she is in Pubiic Spirit and energetic action, has never, that we know of, violated a pledge, and her young men will never, we venture to predict. Aruf to ensure it, let the pledge be renewed at once. Let the Society be con vened, aid again commence its efforts in the cause of literature and good morals. We await with anxiety a notice from the proper officers of that Society. A LOOKER ON IN VENICE.' FOI1 THE NORTH CAROLINIAN. Mr Editor: In the Fayetteville Observer of last week there are some remarks on the proceedings of the Democratic Republican Meeting which was held at Carthage, Moore county, and which was published in your pa per of the 1 1th ult. The remarks seem to be editorial, and are of a nature that at once convince us of the powerful sarcasm, aud profouud erudition of the writer. In the very outset, he discovers that the time " when " the Meeting was held is not mentioned : then that the descent from Cain to the Whig members of Congress is too sud den, and that both Whigs and Locos laughed at it. Now Mr. Editor, being one of the Commit tee of "eight" that drafted the Preamble and Resolutions of thafiRMeeting, I can giva the erudite "Observer" the reason why those things, which called forth the comments of "Old Finery," came to be as they are. And first, in regard to the f time when " from cer tain facts mentioned in the proceedings ofthe Meeting it was thought lhat these u ho read the proceedings would perceive that 'he meet ing had been held some time since the Revo lution, and with that the Committee, were sat isfied. But if this is not enough for the Ob server," if he will say so, we will send him a statement ofthe "time when" and the "time how loiKr" too. -Secondly, in regard to the descent from Cam to the hig members ot ...rwwBC of rnst inmnrl.Min. m.nnrP,! u-Itli Congress, WC "IVC this I CaSOll I WhCll the I,-.',,,,, not of. that have eno-a-ed the tlVn Committee came to that part in the preamble resources,) and pass downwards until 1 came to our rail-road, (which a friend at my el bow suggests was likewise of some service, as an ohf horse was killed on it by drawing thirty-six bales of cotton, which the Grand Jury ofthe county -were about to present as a public nuisance, on the ground that he was so poor and frightful that, he frightened all married ladies who were in a "delicate situ ation," that come in his way,) and "thus har row up your soul until each particular hair should stand on end." It is enough to suggest the subject, and each one can draw from it the lesson that we all need. Why is it that this lesson is pre- ttVieh speaks of Cain, they thought, that they had come to a very suitable place from nhun to make a descent to the Whig members of Coigrt-ss. Thev thought that the character of Cain sheddin" th blood of Abel was mighty like that of ttie Whig members of Congress spill ing the Wood ofthe Constitution, cay, they thought thatthe character of these two parties were" not onVy mighty similar, but that they were exactly parallel, and they placed them so near to each other that some PJutarch might arise and show their similitude. But on this point we are much indebted to the " Observ er." He say thai the transition from Cain every t .1 r .i- Bpieuuur ui me cavxiui. uimu 1,1 Uctill wonderful lamp. Well this old man, by t vice of his friends is started for the palace, I 1"" a a a ueioie seiuug out ne is prevailed upon to Ji his conscience in the hands of a few friend that, being without a conscience, he wi unable to answer any question that ma put to him. J his expedient succeeds, the old man arrives at the famous palace the magnificent furniture, in the full hopes feasting his soul on novelty and splendor. V hen lo, the whole face of things is changed, and there is nothing found in the place of "the little magician" but "old finery. r Whether the furniture was real old finery " or was made to appear by the magic ait of "the little magician" we are not informed in Ihe farces. But the latter are supposed have been the cause ; tor it is not proba that the old man's friends, who seeme know all about it, would have deceived hin niuch. It is an excellent farce " a mess i - . rc I - t f I 1(1 jvr uiiy, - jjttMiuw oi many taies. ' t ne the "old finery" part came, it caused a uni versal round of applause. Wre recommend to the author the propriety of sending a copy of it to some Turkish Bash aw. He might, by so doing, get the office of barber, or, what would be better, he might get a post in the Janazaries, as we understand that he is much attached to the smell of gun powder. ONE OF THE COMMITTEE. Dec. 23d, 1841. A T.ictter from the Secretary of the Treasury transmitting a Report on the state of the V ina lice s. Treasury Department. December 20, 1841. j Sir: In obedience to the directions of the act of Congress of the 10th of May, 1S0O, entitled "An act supplementary to the act en titled "An act to establish the Treasury De partment," the Secretary of the Treasury re spectfully submits the following report: v 1. Of the public revenue and expenditure. The balance in the Treasury on the 1st of January, 1841, (exclusive of the amount de posited with the States, trust funds, and in demnities, and the amount due from banks which tailed in 1S37,) was, as. stated in the report of the Secretary ol the Treasury, sub mitted to Congress on the 3d day of June last $987,345 OS I tttc pn congress of tlie 4HT3SW bcr last direct its distrib anion!? tlie several states Territories. cs a) Foreign News. The receipts into the Treasury during the three first quaiters of the present year amount to $23,467,072 52 Viz : From customs $10,S47,557 44 From lands 1,104,063 05 From miscellaneous and iucidentalsour- ces 90,691 69 From bonds of Bank of U. States. 662,049 47 From banks which failed in 1S37 51,127 30 1,524,703 SO From Treasury notes per act of March 31, 1840, From Treasury notes per act of Febru ary 15, 1S41, 5,956,932 90 From loan, per act of July 21, 1841, 3,229,946 S6 The receipts for the . 4th quarter, it is estimated, will a moiiut to From customs From lands From miscellaneous & incidental sour ces, From bond of Dank of U. States, Frin Treasury notes From loart-received 2,202,7S0 C2 Estimate for baLnce qr. 100,000 00 Making the total es timated . receipts forthejjear $30,410,167 77 6,943,095 25 4,000,000 UO 350,000 00 30,000 00 10,315 23 250,000 00 And with the balance in the Treasury on the 1st of January last,' an aggre gate of $31,397,512 80 Items received by tlie Steamer Columbia. Private letters from Manchester, adverting j to the failure of Gisborne, Wilson, and Co., the calico printers, state the amount of habil ties at about 80,000. The immediate cause of the stoppage. iTeferred to the liauk of Manchester, which stands as a creditor for 6,000. The misery and destitution of Paisly, so tar from suffering any diminution, continues 011 the increase. The Glasgow Argus states that there are now 7,708 persons in that un happy town subsisting on charity alone. . The British 50th and 9Sth regiments were to proceed immediately to China, having been fully recruited. The failure ofthe potatoe crop in Ireland appeared to have been even more extensive than it was at first represented. There was a great meeting of deputies from all the Anti-Corn Eaw Associations, at Man chester, on the 27th November, at which speeches were made and resolutions passed, verging very near to what would have been considered " treason'1 some twenty years "rnber, dence the 149-6 A slight degree of uneasiness prevailed in the French capital in consequenee of several workmen having struck for wages and patroll ed in large bodies the o'utlets of the city. The troops were kept under arms in the barracks. Another serious inundation occurred at Ve nice about the 17th November, occasioned iiko the previous one, by a sirocco wind of sev eral days' duration. The Adriatic rose to such a height thit gondolas were made to navigate most of the principal streets. DISTURBANCES IN SYRIA. Beyrout, Oct. 29. A hundred villages have been sacked, the loss of human life has been dreadful on both sides, hundreds of chil dren who escaped the ruthless fury of the sword are now in bondage, and the hatred that exists is of such a tiature as to lead to the idea that it will continue fir a length of time. The town of Beyrout has given shelter to hundreds of miserable families burnt out of their villages at an incredibly short distance from that place, to such a point of insolent audacity have the Druses proceeded. Col. Rose, whose courage is proverbial, hastened with some troops and his aid-decamp, t. endeavor to allay the excitement. His endeavors were, however fruitless, as wore those also of Selim Pasha, and even of ihe Emir IScschir himself. EGYPT. It appears from the Alexandria correspon dent of the Times, received by the Eevant Mail, that Mehemit left Cairo on the 3d inst. for Upper Egypt, accompanied by the Copt, Basilos Bey, whom he chose lo assist in or ganizing that proviuce. In the meantime, all the Delta, except thirty-eight villages, which belong to Sheiks who are allowed to re tain possession of them, is declared to be the friendsMk-herC HAVING lakt-uthe neat liule Slor, one door above e, HS..fS. IJ. Atkins, I will endeavor to keep constantly on band, huh articles as ur Hcnerally used in a family, both iti the Grocery and Dry ,Goof line, which I will sell verv cheap for CASH. To my friends in the country I would -i MA ...I.. A f i9 give 'tii ciiw oc-fs wuai 1 can go for YOU, Correcltt ly, pe sav I would take this opportunity to extend mv tlvinka ends who have thus far extended to those of ray friends inc'llieir patronage. January 1, .18-12. CHARLES R.JONES. - 149-tf. LOOK TWO POORS UP IIIGilER. I WILL, try 10 undersell my neighbor C. R Jones as much as possible, and would be 52 lad if h's friends as well as mine wuii'd call and see if 1 don't- t shooH be lad lo cut him out of tvery trade I can, and lo Countrymen I would say ifth. makes yo 1 an off.r come to 111c and I will It- r it. JOHN F. LAIN. January 1, 1812. 143-tf. State of North Carolina. SAMPSON COUNTY. Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions -Vo- v ember Term, 1841. Sabra Porter , t, ,v?' r Pet tion for Dower. K' al L-'at of Hartweli Po tei, dee'd I IT appearing to the Court tint John Porter, one of t'ie h irs at law of Hartweli Poitvr, deceased, 1 not an inhabitant of th:s iSlatc, it is therefore or dered: Tint publication be matlf for six weeks in tlieNoth Carolinian, printed in F.ivetlevi'I, for the said John Porter to ap; eir t tho nxt tsrm of ini Court, t bo held tor the County of Sampson, at the Court House in Clinton, on th 3d Monday in Feb ruary n -xt, and p!ead, anwrr or demur t s-iid pe tition, other jse the same wdl be taken j.ro confesso and heard expar'e as to him. Witms Thomas I. Faison, Clerk of said Court, at office in Clinton, the 3d Monday of November, A. D. 1841, and 66th year ol American Indepen dence. 14rj-6t THOMAS I. FAISON, Clk. C. C. State of North Carolina. SAMPSON COUNTY. Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions Vo vember 7ejm, 1841. John Underwood ) . . xf. Original Attachment. Jacob R. Crumbier. ) "If" EVIED this attachment on a piece or pnrcel of ILiLan l U i;i a-id iein in the County .f Samp son, on th West side of Great Chary, bounded North by the Lmd- of W i'fam C. But r, on the West bv the Lands of Doc'or Rob rt McKay, and on th" South bv the Land.-- known as the Blackman CrnKij 1t Lands, Nov. 13, 1841. AND itapp-aring to the sativf iction ofthe Court that the d' lt-ndant is not an inhabitant of this State i is ord red thaf pnVioainn b? made for i,x weeks in the Norh Carolinian published in Fayette ville, that unless the defendant shall appear at the next Term of this Ciurt to be hfd for ihe Cojjnty ol Sampson, ' at the Court House in Clinton on the 3 Monday in February next, and replevy and p'ead Judgment final by default will be entered against him. Witnes Thomas I. Faison, Clerk f said Court at Office in Clinton, the 3d Monday ot November, A. D. 1841, and 66th year of American Indepen dene. 143-6t. THOMAS I. FAISO, CPk C; C. Bran " app Bacon, Beeswax. Butter,- V. Bale Kop Cotton Yarn,' Coffee, Corr6ft. Cotton Bagging, Corn, Copperas, Candles, F. F Flaxseed, Flour, Feathers, Hides, green, dry Iron, bar, Lead, baf Molasses, Nails, cut, Oats, Oil, Linseed, per gallon, Powder, keff, Rags, per 100 Iba. . Salt, per bushel, Sack, Sns'ar, broWrtf, T J""-P, " " loar, Tallow, Tin, per boxV. Tobaccolea Wheat, Whiskey, Wool. 4-4 Sheeting,-Fayetteville 3-4 - do do 12 a 16 a 10 16 a 2 13 13 7a 8 80 , 25 45 m 69 ! 4 17 a St 25. a 40 I 6J 35 a 49 S t T2j m 14 t a .) I 7 A ,U t m 1 7 m S 27 a 30 6 a 7 a SO 80 a 6J 60 75 S 00 a 5; 13 1 If 18 10 a a a a S SO a 15 , -manufacture, 8 do 6 00 II 00 00 00 20 11 4 1 10 35 20 es. yd. Bacon, $00 8l a f00 9 Butter, 17 a 22 Beeswax, 26 m 27 Brandy, apple, 44 a - 47 Corn, per bushel, 61 50 Coffee, 10J a UJ Cotton, per 100 Iba. 7 a 8 Flour, per bbl. 7 Off a 1 25 Gin, American, 33 18 Lime, bbl., I 00 a SO Molasses, 22 25 Pitch, at the Still, 1 75 a I 50 Rice, per 100 lbs. 3 00 3 10 Rum, N. E. 30 a 32 Sugar, brown, 7j 8 Turpentine, soft, per bbl. 2 4tf Turpentine, hard ha!f price Tar, per bbl. ' , a i 25 Rosin, do - 2 00 a 2 50 Floonng"lards, t. ft a 8 25 Wide do do 6 75 7 00 SlttNGLF.S. Country, do . 8 00 5 75 Contract. do : 3 00 4 0Q) CHER AW. " P.ncon, ft 8 l 16 Beewax, - 42 25 Coffee, 13 15 Cotton, 8 Corn, 50 Flonr, S a 8 Feathers, 40 a 48 Iron, S 50 a 8 50 Molasses, 40 m 50 Nails, ?1 sngn : 1 : 11 o i
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