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Not paid until six
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Not paid till the year
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No subscription received
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One squareoftwenty-ojj
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iue charged S3 for two
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."10 for twelve iiionths.
FAYETTEVILLE, N. C, DECEMBER 7, 1850.
jjgw Persons who advertise in the newspapers should
always mark o their advertUt ments with the number of
insertions; therwiso they often forget and let the ad
Tertineoient un longer than necessary . and when the
bill comes to be settled, there is something said about the
coir. And when an articie is advertised for sale, when it
is iold. the advertiser should attend to taking it out of
the paper, because it misleads the readers of the paper
besides running Uiiu to more cost.
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AT THE CAROLINIAN OFFICE.
From and after the 1st of Sept. 185 0.
For all such Blanks as we keep for sale, GO
cents per quire.
Where Blanks are printed to order, the prices
will range from 35 cts. to 1 50 per quire, thus:
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Any blank printed to order which has more
matter in it than is usual in blanks printed for
the above prices, will be charged extra accord
ing to the amount of matter, or the fancy-work
directed to he done. In like manner, a blank
containing hut a lew lines of matter to the sheet
will be charged a less price.
""valuable plantation
AND TURPENTINE AND TIMBER
Xian& for Sale.
The subscriber intending to remove to the
west, oilers for sjle his plantation in Robeson
county, 7 miles from the village of Lumberton,
lying immediately on the main road from Lum
berton to Marion Court House. The tract con
tains twelve hundred and fifty acres. It lies
within five miles of Lumber River, and is very
heavily timbered, as none h.is ever been cut from
it. No better turpentine land can be found in
the county. The cleared land (about 1 or 500
acres) yields as good crops of corn and cotton as
any in this section of country. About 100 acres
is perfectly fresh.
The situation is high, pleasant and healthy;
water good ; with a comfortable dwelling house
and all necessary out-buildings in good repair.
There are also on the premises a good water
grist mill, a gin and screw, all in srood repair.
Any person wishing further information, will
please address the subscriber at Leesville, Robe
son county, N C. The subscriber will take
pleasure in showing the land to any person wish
ing to look at it.
A LEX. II. FULMORE.
Sept. 7, 1S-30. GO-J-tf.
WATCH ES& JEWELRY
The subscriber gives notice to his old friends
and customers, and the public, that he has re
sumed the
WATCH AND SILVERSMITH BUSINESS,
and is now receiving a good assortment of goods
in the line, such as
GOLD AND SILVER WATCHES,
Culd fob, vest and guard Chains; gold Watch
Keys; Jenny Liml gold Ear-Rings, (now all the
rase;) gold JJreast lJi ns, Rings, Lockets, Studs,
and Snaps; gold and silver Pencils ; gold Pens;
silver Combs and Slides; music boxes; line
knives, razors and scissors; silver thimbles;
needles; surveyor's compasses and chains: revolv
ing and common pistols; double and single barrel
guns; powder disks ; shot pouches; game bags;
percussion caps: violins; clarionetts; flutes; tiles;
accnrdeoris; violin and guitar strings; perfumery;
steel and gilt watch chains and keys, watch
guards; porte mouaies, &.c. Sec.
ALSO, s dav and 30 hour BRASS CLOCKS ;
ALAR Si CLOCKS. All of which will be sold
as cheap as can be bought in the State, and on us
reasonable terms.
QC- Watches and Clocks repaired and warrant
ed. All kinds of jewelry and other jobs in his
line repaired with neatness and despatch.
A share of tne trade is solicited.
W. PKIOR,
At the old stand on the north side Hay street, 1
doors above the Market House.
Sept 50. 3m.
HATS & CAPS.
I would respectfully call the attention of my
friends and the public generally to my new and
large stock of Hats and Caps. Having selected
them with great care, I feel assured that if there
is anv thing in the shape of a hat, cap or turban,
in New York or Philadelphia, that is calculated
to please the public, they can be suited at my
store, north-east corner Market Square, Green
street.
I am prepared to furnish country merchants at
wholesale on the most reasonable terms. 1 in
tend selling for very small profits.
DAVID GEE.
Sept 21, 1S50.
$10 Reward.
Ranaway from the subscriber on the 0th inst.,
a negro boy by the name of WESLY. Said ne
gro is 27 vears of age; about five feet nine inches
high; weighs about 1-0 or 165 pounds; has
rather a saucy look ; with a scar running across
the forehead above the eye-brow, and he is
of a dark copper color. He has a large natural
gap between the upper front teeth.
The above reward will be paid for his appre
hension and delivery to me, or for putting him
in any jail so that 1 can get him again. Any in
formation concerning hi in will be received if di
rected to me at Rollins' Store. Moore county,
N. C. THOS. HARRINGTON.
Sept 21, 1S50. GOl-tf
$20 Reward.
Ranaway from the subscriber on the 16th Aug.,
a mulatto man named CARY. He is 5 feet 10 or
11 inches high, well built, bright complected,
bushy hair, sharp features; has a slight stoppage
or impediment in his speech. He is about 30
years of age, and ccn read tolerably well. He
has a wife at Mr Jas. Kirkpatrick's", below the
moutb of Rockfish, where he is supposed to be
lurking, or about Fayetteville. The above re
ward will be given for his delivery to me, or
confinement in anv jail so that I can get him.
" malcom McGregor,
1J miles west of Fayetteville.
Aug. 31, 1850. 601-tf
POST OFFICE INFORMATION.
A single letter means any weighing ounce
avoidrupois or less. A letter weighing over 1 oz.
and less than 2 isregarded as 4 letters.
Newspaper, means a paper of 1900 square in
ches or less.
Nop. M. can frank a letter weighing over
ounce, except on 'official Business.'
Postage on letters from any office in the U. S.,
to and fi-om California, or our Territories on the
Pacific, 40 cents prepaid or not. Newspapers
and pamphlets 3 cents each, sea postage, and the
inland Postage to be added, if any.
P. M.'s whose corn's were -20b or less for the
year ending June 30, 1S50, can send and receive
written letters free, not weighing over oz.
each on their own private business. They can
Irank to California, or any other place in the U.
S. possessions, but not beyond.
Postage on letters to China, &c. may be 75
cents or 4 5 cents.
Postage on regular or transient papers, 1 or 1 J
cents, and 50 per cent, commission on them.
Total postage on papers to Great Britain 4
cents, 2 cents to he paid in each country; to any
place through Great Britain 4 cents, prepaid.
The Postage on letters, to or from Great Brit
ain is 21 cts., the single rate.
The franking privilege 'travels with its pos
sessor.' A Postmaster can frank through any
otlice he may pass in travelling, but he cannot
send franked letters from his own office at the
same time.
Postmasters whose annual compensation is not
over i$-200, may frank names of subscribers ami
money to newspapers.
Postmasters are entitled by law to the follow
ing commissions on the amount ofletter postages
received by them in each quarter of the year,
and in due proportion of any fractional part of a
quarter ; but no Postmaster can receive a larger
compensation from cointuissions than 500 per
quarter:
40 per cent, on the first $.100;
" " next 300 ;
30 " " " 2,000 ;
12 " on all over 2,400 ;
A commission of 50 per cent, is allowed on
postage of Newspapers, Pamphlets, and Maga
zines; also two cents is allowed for the delivery
of each free letter, (excepting free packets of
printed matter, such as Speeches, Sec, though
made up in letter form,) to officers where the
commission does not am"t to .v;500.
On let tersrecei ved for distribution at such
'offices as are designated for that purpose by the
Postmaster General, a commission of 7 per cent,
is allowed. Postmasters whose annual compen
sation is not over 200 may frank names of sub
scribers and money to editors.
At offices where the mail is regularly to arrive
between the hours of 0 o'clock in the evening
and 5 o'clock in the morning, 50 instead of 10
per cent, is allowed on the first 100 of letter
postage.
Table of postages.
1-2 ox oz. 2 07. oz.
5 To "20 Tn
10 20 40 GO
2 2 2 2
2 1 4S 06 144
Letters not over 300 miles,
Letters over 300 miles,
Dropped letters,
Letters bv British mails.
Newspapers not over 100 miles,
or within the State, for each
sheet or supplement.
Do. over 100 miles and out of the
State,
To be prepaid if not sent from
the office of publication.
Pamphlets, Magazines, Periodi
cals and all other printed mat
ter, except as before and u nder
meiitioned for each not over 1 or., - oz 3nz. 4 m.
1 cent.
1 1 cts.
2 4 2
A fraction of oz. over not to be
regarded.
Circulars and handbills not over
single cap size and unsealed
(to be prepaid,) 3 cents.
The Cunard line of steamers is under contract
pay with Great Britain, for carrving mails, and
all the postage except 5 cents on letters carried
from the U. Stales by that line, is received by
Great Britain; but the Collins' lino is under con
tract with the United States, and all the postage
except 3 cents on letters carried out by this
line, is received by the U States.
Important to Mill Owners.
FAYETTEVILLE FOUNDRY
AND MACHINE SHOP.
The undersigned is now prepared to furnish
Castings of ever' description, at the shortest
notice. Those in want of Cast i ngs, will find it
to their interest to leave their orders at the
Fayetteville Foundry and Machine Shop.
He is prepared with four lathes and other
tools, to put up machinery of anv description.
HENRY G. HALL.
Fayetteville, Nov. 1G, 150. G12-tf
23T3W GOODS.
WJI. licIXTYRK has received
a general assortment of imported and domestic
DRY GOODS; floor and furniture Oil Cloths;
window, wall and bordering Paper; Hats, Cups,
Shoes, Bonnets, Hardware and Cutlery, bar Iron,
Groceries, &c.
Liberty Point, Nov. 16. 3m
NOTICE.
Taken up' and committed to the
Jail of Cumberland county. N. C. on
Sunday the 17th inst.. a negro man
who says his name is SAM, and says
he belongs to a Mr Spralls of Georgia.
He sflys he was carried to Richmond.
Va.. by a man named Geo. Moore, and
sold to another man named Stark,
who sold him to Mr Spralls. H was
then carried to Aiken. S. C. and put
to wort on the Railroad. Said negro
is 45 or 50 years of age. copper colored; 5 feet 7 or 8 inches
bigb : and had on. when taken up. a grey colored frock
coat, blue woollen pants, andj a cloth cap. The owner of
said negro is hereby notified to come forward, prove pro
perty, pay charges and take him away, or he will be dealt
with as tlij law directs.
WM. L. CALLAIS, Jailor.
Nov 2a,lS50. 613-tf
Application will be made to the
General Assembly for a charter for a Plank Road
from Fayetteville to the Raleigh and Wilmington
Railroad, to be styled the Fayetteville and East
ern Plank Road.
NOTICE.
ALL persons indebted to us either by note or
account, previous to the 1st Sept. last are re
quested to call and settle by the 1st January
next, and likewise those indebted to either of
us previous to the time of our copartnership,
are especially requested to call and make pay-
ment" JONES & NICHOLSON.
Nov. 23, 1S50. 613-3t pd.
NEGROES WANTED.
The Subscriber will pay Cash for likely young Negroea.
male and female, frors the age cf S to 2o years. He may
be seea at aDy time at.the HNSON.
Nov. 331S50. 613-tf
NORTH CAROLINIAN
Win. II. Uaynei Editor and Proprietor.
FAYETTEVILLE, N. C.
DECEM3ER 7, 1850.
CCyWTe learn from the Standard that the young
man from Granville county, named Burge,
charged with robbing the mail, submitted, and
was sentenced to 10 years imprisonment. The
Standard seems to think it a case calling for Ex
ecutive clemencv.
SOUTH CAROLINA. Governors Message.
The public debt of the State is a little over
two millions. The income of the State last year,
by taxes, &c, was a little over 000,000.
Gov. Seabrook recommends, "in view of the
present and future aspect of our affairs, I am
warranted in recommending the establishment
of depots for mil itury stores and instruments of
war at Anderson Court House, Spartanburg and
Marion Court Houses."
Over 20,000 white persons in the State cannot
read and write ; and yet nearly ene-fourth of the
income of the State from taxes, says the Gov
ernor, is expended for public schools.
A revisal of the criminal code of the State, to
conform more to the spirit of the age, is urgent
ly recommended.
The legal rate of interest is now 7 percent.
The Governor recommends that it be made G per
cent.
In accordance with a resolution of the last
Legislature, the Governor has purchased a large
number of implements of war. All the most
vulnerable points in the State have been strength
ened, and it is recommended that the artillery
companies of Charleston be furnished with addi
tional batteries. Recommends the purchase of
additional field pieces.
The Governor then gets on the State rights
subject. The important part of his remarks on
this subject we quote as follows :
"The time has arrived to resume the ex
ercise of the power of self-protection,
which in the hour of unsuspecting confi
dence, we surrende retl to foreign hands.
We must re-organise our political system
on some surer and safer basis. There
is no power, moral or physical, that
cn prevent it. The event is indissolubly
linked with its cause, and fixed as destiny.
In the admonitory language of our lament
ed statesman, "the worst calamity that
could befall us would be to lose our inde
pendence, and to sink down into a state of
acknowledged inferiority, depending for
security on forbearance, and not on our ca
pacity and disposition to defend ourselves.''
I have not attempted to discuss the cpues
tion of secesion. The right of a State to
withdraw from the Union, results from the
nature and principles of the Constitutional
Compact, to which the States are sovereign
patties. While adhering faithfully to the
remedy of joint State action for redress of
common grievances, 1 beseech you to re
member, that no conjuncture of events
ought to induce us to abandon the right ot
deciding ultimately on our own destiny.
In recommending, as I now do, that S.
Carolina should interpose her sovereignty
in order to protect her citizens, and 'that
by co-operation with her aggrieved sister
States, she may be er.abled to aid in avert
ing tiie doom which impends over the civil
institutions of the South, it is fit and prop
er that as a Commonwealth, we should, at
an early day, to be designated by you, im
plore the God of our fathers for the pardon
of our manifoit. transgressions, and invoke
his protection anil guidance in this our day
of trouble and affliction, that he w ould gra
ciously vouch safe to enlighten the minds
of our Federal rulers, the North and its
citizens, and direct them in the way of
truth, of reason, and of justice, and pre
serve a once happy political family from J
the unspeakable horrors of civil strife."
Late From Europe.
The steamer Europa arrived at Halifix on
2"th Nov., with Liverpool dates to the loth.
Cotton advanced J pence in the lower and midd
ling qualities. No material alteration of prices
of other things.
Germany is said to be on the verge of a general
war. Austria and Bavaria are said to be already
under arms. Blood is said to have been shed be
tween the troops of Prussia and Austria.
What is the cause of the war is not stated.
France and England have tendered a mediation.
LEGISLATIVE ELECTIONS.
The Principal Clerks of the two Houses
have appointed William H. Joyner of
Franklin, and Thomas H. Holmes of
Sampson County, assistant engrossing
Clerks to the Legislature.
The Democrats will have a majority on
joint ballot in the California Legislature,
but it is said to be doubtful if Col. Fremont
will be re-elected to the United States
Senate, his time expiring with the present
Congress, on account of his bad luck, in
getting the short straw, when Dr Gwin
and himself drew lots for the long and short
term.
N. C. LEGISLATURE.
November 28th.
In the Senate, Mr Joyner submitted a
series of Resolutions, expressing the at
tachment of the people of North Carolina
to the Union, approving the Compromise
acts recently passed by Congress, affirming
the natural right of every people to throw
off allegiance to an oppressive Govern
ment, and declaring that the people of the
South, in the event of continued aggression
on the part of the North, may be driven
to tin alternative.
Mr Caldwell, a Bill to improve the'pub-
lic roads of the State. Referred to Com
mittee on Internal Improvements.
Mr Davidson, a bill to incorporate the
Charlotte and Taylorsville Plank Road
Company. Referred to Committee on
Corporations.
Mr Bynum, a bill to repeal an act to
abolish Jury trials in the County Courts of
Kuthertord and Cleveland. Referred to
Committee on Judiciary.
Mr Luiington, a bill to incorporate Ful
ton Lodge, No 99, in the Town of Salis
bury.
The Bill to incorporate the Fayetteville
au Southern Plank Road Company passed
its 2nd reading.
Received a message from the House,
proposing to raise a joint Select Committee
on military affairs to consist of 9 on the
part of the House and 5 on the part of the
Senate. Concurred in.
Mr Shepard, a bill to amend an act pass
ed at the Session of 1833 '4, entitled
"An Act to establish a Bank in the State
of North Carolina. Referred to a Com
mittee on Corporations.
In the Commons, Mr Walton then pres
ented the following Resolutions, which
were read and referred to the Committee
on Slavery
1 Resolved, That the State of North Carolina
moved by conservative principles and arden de
votion to the Union which has ever character
ized her, acquiesced in the adjustment, made by
Congress, commonly known as the Compromise
Act.
2 Resolved, That while she thus acquiesces
she at the same time does most solemnly decare
that in the event the law for the recovery of
Fugitive Slaves be unheeded by the non-slave-holding
States, or repealed or modified by Con
gress, North Carolina will adopt the most sting
ent aiKj violent measures compatible with the
Couetii.Jtion of the Federal Government and her
own reserved rights as one of the Sovereign
States, with a view to coerce the maddened ,
misguided , and fanatical population of the
Northern States, into a just appreciation of the
rights guaranteed to the Southern States under
the federal compact, and to the withdrawal of all
opposition either direct or indirect to the execu
tion of the laws made in accordance with the
same.
3 Resolved, That the Governor be and is here-'!
by required to convene the Legislature when- j
everinhis opinion the contingency happees, j
designated in the second Resolution. j
mittee on Judiciary be requested to enquire
into the expediency of amending the act
passed at the Session of 1848-49, en
titled an act, more effectually to prevent
the selling or giving away spirituous
Liquors, at or near places of pubiic wor
ship, and, that they report by bill or other
wise. Agreed to
the calling of a Convention
Constitution of North Carolina,
Mr Rayner introduced a bill concerning
to amend the
which was
ordered to lie on the table and be printetl.
MrR. M Saunders, from the Committee
on the Judiciary, to which had been re
ferred the bill to abolish public executions,
reported the same with a recommendation
to reject, which, after a few remarks from
M r Caldwell, of Guilford, was put on its
third reading, and the recommendation to
reject was adopted.
And Mr Saunders, from the same Com
mittee, to which was referred the bill con
cerning man-slaughter by slaves, reported
the same with recommendation to reject ;
which was concurred in by the House.
Moved, that the Committee on Internal
Improvements be instructed to enquire
into the expediency of amending an act
of 1848 9, chartering the Turnpike Co.
from Salisbury to the Tennessee line, by
making Asheville the terminus of said road
instead of Salisbury ; which was referred.
Mr Tripp introduced a bill to prevent
free negroes from owning and carrying fire
arms. Referred.
Mr Drake introduced a bill to give the
election of masters in equity to the people;
referred to the committee on the Judiciary.
Mr Steel introduced a resolution, that
the coiimittee on military affairs be in
structed" to enquire into the expediency of
abolishing the law exempting men of the
age of 35 years from military duty.
Adopted.
Mr I'ill, of New Hanover, a resolution,
that theSecretary of State be required to
publish 100 copies of the muster roll of the
North Carolina Volunteers for Lie year
1812 i copy to be deposited with the
Clerk of the Superior Court of each County
in the State. Mr Hill explained the ob
jects ofhis resolution, briefly illustrating
the patriotism of our citizens as contrasted
with tin covert hostility of the New En
gland States, during the last war with
linglant.- Mr Saunders suggested the
propriety" as well as necessity of making
some prvision for the exppnse of printing
&c, anion his motion the resolution was
laid on fie table.
Mr Dinlap introduced a bill to incor
porate Cetiar Hill division. No. 16, of the
Sons of Temperance in the County of
Anson.
Mr Bogden a bill to extend the powers
of the Clerks of the Courts of Pleas and
Quartet Sessions. Referred.
November 29th.
In tk Senate, Mr Speaker announced
MessrsClark, Bynum, Caldwell, of Meck
lenburg Rogers and Pender, as Senate
Branchof committee on Military' Affairs.
Mr logerp, a resolution that the Corn-
Mr Haughton introduced a bill to pro
vide for the incorporation of Companies to
construct plank roads, and of Companies
to construct Turnpike roads, and for other
put poses; referred to Committee on Cor
porations. The bill to incorporate the Fayetteville
and Southern plank road Co,, was taken
up, amended, on motion of Mr Bynu-m,
passed its third and last reading, and or
dered to be engrossed.
Mr Cameron presented the resignation
of Mr Jonathan Evans, a Justice of the
Peace of the County of Cumberland : read
and accepted.
In the House, Mr Saunders, of Wake.
introduced resolutions that the Committee
on Internal Improvements be instructed to
inquire into the expediency of repairing or
disposing ot the Kaleigh and Gaston Rail
road. In explanation, he stated that the
road could not possibly be run much lon
ger in its present condition, and that some
step should be taken to restore it at once
to good order, or it must be abandoned.
Either the State shall do the repairs, or a
Company be formed in which the State be
principal stockholder, or the Road be sold.
The engineer now employed to examine
the condition of the Road, would report
in a few days that the road could be relaid
with T iron for not over 500,000 ; pro
bably 8400,000. The resolutions were
ordered to be laid on the table and
printed.
Mr Drake introduced a Bill to regulate
the duties of Clerks of the Superior Courts
Referred.
Mr Brodgen introduced resolutions,
in regard to the southern question , declar
ing that the repeal of the fugitive slave law
will be sufficient cause for North Carolina
to secede. Referred to committee.
Mr Steele from the same Committee, to
which was referred a proposition to amend
an act ot 1848-"9, on the subject of com
mon schools, reported a Bill to repeal a
portion of the same so as to allow the peo
ple oT each School District to elect their
own Committee men.
Mr Saunders suggested that the subject
be recommitted. Information of a staitl
ing character was in the hands of his Ex
cellency, the Governor, which he thought
would be laid before the Committee at a
! proper time, and without which they would
be acting in the dark. Mr Leach moveii
an amendment to the bill, to the ettect
that if the people of any district shall fail
to elect their committee-men, the chairman
of the Board of Superintendents shall have
the power of appointment. Adopted.
Mr Stevenson moved that the subject be
recommitted, and Mr Wiley stated that
there was a bill before the Committee in
which the whole subject would come up,
and hoped that Mr Stevenson's motion
would prevail ; and the question upon re
committal being taken, it was carried by
a large majority.
Mr Steele, from the same Committee,
to which was referred a proposition to
make annual, instead of semi annual divi
dends of the school fund, begged to be.
discharged from the further consideration
of the subject. Concurred in.
Mr Rayner, from the Committee on
Internal Improvements, to which was re
ferred a bill to incorporate the Raleigh
and Greenville Plank Road Co., reported
the same with a recommendation to pass,
with an amendment, restricting the divi
dends to be declared to 25 per cent; which
was adopted. Also, moved as an addi
tional amendment to strike out the term
of 99 years as the duration of the Charter,
anil insert 25 years. Agreed to. I
Mr Taylor moved further to amend, by j
inserting the individual clause, and de- j
mantled the Ayes and Nays upon his mo
tion to amend. And the Ayes and Nays
were called. Ayes 35 ; Nays 73, And
the bill being put on its second reading,
was passed.
November 30.
In the Senate, On motion of Mr Bower,
Resolved, That the Cummittee on Claims he
instructed to enquire and report what was the
cost of the survey of the Salisbury and Western
Turnpike, &.c , and to cause to be printed for
use of the Senate all vouchers for expenses
thereof.
Mr Cameron, a bill to incorporate the
Fayetteville and Northern Plank Road
Co"; referred to committee on corporations
and ordered to be printed.
Mr Wiley introduced a bill to amend
an act, passed at Session of 1830-'31,
entitled an act to establish the town of
Gatesville in the county of Gates, and for
other purposes.
On motion of Mr Wood fin; the bill pro
viding for the call of a Convention to
amend the constitution of the State of
North Carolina was taken up, and made
the order of the day for Monday next, at
12 o'clock.
In the House, Mr Davidson introduced
a Biil to amend the present Militia law,
so as to make all males at present subject
to Military duty, liable to serve ueiweeu
quire into the expediency of amending the
law, so as to require Clerks of the Superior
Court to withold all certificates from the
Judges; until all the cases on docket shall
have beeA tried or disposed of. Adopted.
Mr Cherry, a Resolution, that the Com
mittee on Internal Improvements be in
structed to inquire into the expediency of
permitting the Stockholders in the Raleigh
and Gaston Road to Mortgage the same
fur the purpose of rebuilding; which was
adopted .
Mr Pegram. a bill to incorporate the"
Raleigh and Summcrville Plank Road
Referred.
The reports from the standing Coin
mittees being; now in order.
Air Saunders, from the Committee on
the Judiciary, reported in favor of the bill
to restore Jury trials to the County Courts
of Buncombe, with an amendment, which,
was adopted.
Also reported in favor of the bill concern
ing original attachments, with an amend
ment proposing to strike out the second
section, and insert in the first section a
clause extending the riht to Clerks to
issue attachments.
Also, reported favorably to the bill to
give a name to the County seat of Forsjtli
proposing the name of Winston.
Also, in relation to the memorial to
attach apart of the County of Gaston to
Cleaveland reported adversely, and begg
ed to be discharged from farther couaider&"
tion ; which was concurred in.
Mr Rayner, from the Committee on
Internal Improvements, leported favorably
to the bill to incorporate the Greenville
and Raleigh Plank Road ; with an amend
ment, limiting the amount of any yearly
dividend to 25 per cent. Adopted.
Mr Taylor moved to amend by adding
a section, making individual stockholders
liable for the acts of the company to the
amount of their subscription, and called
for the ayes and uays ; but was finally in
duced to withdraw the amendment, and
the bill was put on its second reading.
Mr Wilson from the committee on pri
vate bills reported in favor of the bill to
incorporate Lumberton division No. 24
Sons of Temperance and the bill was put
on its second reading.
Mr Johnston, from the same Committee,
reported favorably to the Bill to incorpor
ate Robeson Institute, in the County of
Robeson, and also to incorporate Buena
Vista Lodge No. 21, I. O. O. F. , in the
town of Greensboro'; and both bills were
put on their second read.
Mr Cherry offered the following Resolu
tions: Whereas, There are many conflicting
opinions with regard to the aggressions of
iNorthern tanatics upon the
South.
rights of the
Resolved, Therefore, that we will have the
Fugitive Slave law or fight!
Which, on his motion, was made the
spocial order of of the day for the 24th of
December.
The Bills on their third reading being
now in order, the bill to incoporate the
Greenville and Raleigh Plank Road was
taken up and passed.
The Hon Mr Dcberry, escaped very
narrowly from drowning, on Thursday
night last, while crossing the Cape Fear
River. Supposing, in the darkness of the
night that the flat had reached the shore,
he steppeil out, and was plunged into the
stream, where the water was some 12 feet
deep, . lie was rescued with difficulty,
but sustained no further injury, we are hap
py to say, than a thorough soaking. Haiti
Register.
Novel Discover y. We learn that the
recent flood ha revealed "a stranjre siaht
on the banks ol the Dan river, embraced
within Capt. Win. Irvine's plantation, a
few miles from this town. It is the ex
hibition of numerous bones, or skeletons
of human beings pieces of earthenware.
Indian hatchets, bark, lire coals, &c.
Some of the skeletons seem to have been
buried in a sitting posture, and are nearly
whole. There is no doubt but these arc
the bones of Indians, traces of whose en
campments on the banks of tho Dan are
still visible. But to us the mystery is how
they came to be buried in what seems to
bean encampment? Probably the earth
caved in upon them and buried the poor
creatures alive. The late flood washed
the banks of the river so as to expose many
of these bones to the eye, and upon exami
nation, we learn that a variety of curiosi
ties were found in connection. Milton (iV.
C.) Chronicle.
The Rochester Daily Advertiser says:
"We noticed some days since that Presi
dent Fillmore had been hong in effigy by
the Seward Whigs at Warsaw, Wyoming
Co. The Whig New Yorker published at
that place, undertook to smoothe a bad job
over, by insinuating that the outrage was
committed by democrats. This was
necessary, as the Editor of the New York
er is postmaster, and it might not please the
President to learn that his , officials had
permitted him to be thus disgraced, much
less that they had participated in the act
The Warsaw Mirror now asserts that the
rope which suspended the effigy was hunz
the age of 21 and 45 ; which was referred. Lfrom the premises of the postmaster, ; and
Mr A. G. Foster, a Resolution instruct-Tthe lab els attached to it were printed at
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