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tions to thai effect are: given, and ar
rearages paid, but at tht option of the
Editor. y . vV'.:'-;,-:;
J MttrtiBtmtnts of no more length
titan breadth, neatly inserted three
limes for, d dollar, and ticcut y-fite
cents for. each: tontinuane'e ; longer
ones in the same proportion. A
until forbid, and charged accordingly y
unless othtneise marked by the writers.
,Vf ( jrcrtisevient viU beLinserted for less
t)l: i one dollar. ' ,
"' Pmons at distance must accom
pany Ihn'r nicertisements xcith the tno
.rt?, or tfuy icdl not be inserted. .
ICJ0 IsM adhessed to the Kditor
viusi be postpaid or they will not be
BVv Goods, Gvoceries, &c.
Subsc iher ha now on liaf(i
an extensive and general assortment
of Or Goods, and a complete as
porin.nnt of Groceries viz.
Flowr, Rum, Brandy, jWhUkeyj
Suj;ar, Colfee, Tea , ;Mo aes, J
Hh-i!s Cleee, Chocolate, V
Tobacco, Salt, &c. &c. j
; - :. ALSO, i , r
1 f( bhU. Newark Cider,
l.VY 50 do. Applet, ;
I And a choice lot of Westphalia
' llAS, 'v;-.--:-Jut
received a few boxes of ex-;
cellent leather SHOES, mens, wo
met' and boys &c, ' ' y:
' Elizabeth' City, Jan. 20. ;
Ly the schr. New Sophronia, from
Grenada
1 fl pncheos R'nn,
V 25 do.jnolh-fie, prime quality.
Also, ty Schr. Geh. WHri en, , V"i-
nal, fvm Booton; and sloop Mary,
Simaions, from Providence, R. I. -9
bbV N. K. Uum,
500 bushels Irish Potatoes,
10 bbla. Onions,
ALSO, AFLOAT,
1 (C bushels Cadiz Salt,
1 "V Rire, MoTasses, Coffee and
Sugar. For Sale by -
EobesviUe, Jan. 20. T . . . .
Peter H. Clarke.
, Uespertfully. informij the inhabi
tant of Klizabeth-City and its vic-n-ity,
diat he has established Himself
in this place, iri the above business.
n the Store adjotntn Mr'; Maihew
ChitF, n hpre he will be - happy to
ferve all those; who may favor hitn
vvith their patronage,
march 3. : -Y: ' , Bl-
Fi'csh Gar dm SqM !
HE Subscriber has just receive
en, a Small assortment of '
Suitable for the season, xvhich he
can recommendlo be good, as the'
fire raised by an experienced horti
culturist. .
fcSS? (cabbages, ;
Early Radish, " ;
(I
London Leek, m :
Ca'rrot, ' '
Solid Cellery, ! '
1)ouble Parsley, V.
Brown Dutch Lettucej -Tennis
Ball do. ?
Hanover Turnip, -Broad
leaf Kale, . , ;
Spinnach,
Musktiellon superior
Six week Peas, x v
D w a r f M ar r ow fat do.
Blue Prussian, ft
Soap Beans, bunch
And a variety of others. "v
3is i:.Aviate.ft'il-.-
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u
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ich CI:--Frf .24. '
aiiU for sale at this office
-.STOLEN.",-; -
Krinn niY. stable on the;
! J&k night ot the 27th ult. a
JBlLlight; SORRBL HORSFJ,
about , conmont ttze, with a large
blaze iir the ; face ; one of his hips
(believed, to be the Irfi) ha been
dislocated "when a colt, whiefi i now
perceptible, r I will inve WCNTY
j LfOLIVuS t) aiy person Vimi r will
apprehend the thief and horse, or
Ten Dollars for the" horse alone, if,
uui lujuren. , it
JONATHAN SAYU.
Pasquotank county, near Elizabeth- City.
march 3. , I)t i
William : ijjuti, TlVW,
Takes this method to inform the
public ih3t he will in future executt;
work at the fallowing reduced prides:
Making Frock and Dress Coats 5 00
u Short Cloth . do. 4 00
u Summer or Homespun do. ;- 3 CO
Pantaloons, Vests, &c. in proportion!
And he assures his friends that he
will use 6very exertion to give satis
faction. ; ,: : I'
Elizabeth-City, Feb. 24
Tf
Fresh Garden Seed
Just, received and for sale by
IVMl D. G OIWjLV, Agent.
Elizabeth-City, Feb. '3 " 1
.Vrr ami Fafthionable
ttuvtsovi& & Pvkelt ,
Merchant- Tailors
Have taken the sfore opposife Mr.
Fear ingV Grocery, where they in
tend to carry; on'the '.Tailoring Busi
ness in its various branches. -Should
clothes sold and made by them not
fit, they can be returned and the mo
ney cheerfully refuiidftd.
-. , tl-'v- ; on hand, "-'
An assortment of Cleft hsr Cassimeres,
Vrestincrr, and Trittimings.
' Elizabeth- CUy, Feb. 24. r Tf
Doubloons Gold.
The highest premium will be giv
en at C'U U KN b U r V I V I i, N U K
FOLK, fof-DOUBLOONS also for
AMERICAN, BRITISH, FRENCH,
and PORTUGUESE GOLD'.
Ordffs are received at Cohen's
Office for Tickets and Shares in a
ny of the Lotteries, autl every infor
mal ion given gratis,. DR A F'fS on
any df the Northern Cities can al
ways be had i n s u ms to suit, puicltas -ers,
and root kinds of foreign Bank
Bills exchanged on the most favor
able terms. ' - ' r
Feb. 17. FA
JUST RECEIVED
Per Schooner Enterprize Carr,
ItA ' ifijr Bushels coarse Salt,
aiUU and by Schooner Polly
Rider, Dunlap, fro m M artinique,
O A Hogsheads of priuie retail'-;
" f in Molasses, f r f
Also by Schooner Debenture from
Charleston, - -! - - V1:''';'
Glf( Bushels Liverpool Salt,
OUU i0 bbls. -Apple Brandy,
10 do Whiskey,
6 do: Rum, ' .
Bags of Cofiee
Barrels of Sugar,
Hogsheads, of Mofasses,
5 boxes Shoes, (assorted,)
. 7 Cogniac Brandy,
Half barrels of Sounds,
For sale fry
Wanted to luvcuvsi
- .- - - -
Or to hire for the year, a .middlej
aged negrVVoinan without children,
who can Coo krAV'ash and Iron ; " for
which a 'liberal,- price will be, given.
Enquire ti this Office.
January 20. "
W. BECKWIT1I
Has Removed to Elizabeth-City, tvith
the view to resnu.e the Law PraCl
tice ; he will attend the Courts of
this and the adjoining counties, Jitd
expects to give-his attention excui
sively to his professional duties
Elizabeth- Citiu Feb. 24. 7Y
7
L?obes, inn.
he ' carjro off ich'
'f ffers itr sat the ' ca ro off
Cordelia, Capt. JEtheredge,
Si. Martins, consisting of RUM, SU
UAK; MULAbbES anJ oAL 1 ;
ElizabethCity, Feb. H.
FROM THE AMERICAN FARMER.
Advantages of strring the soil.
. ; "The azote If nitrogen 1 of the atmos-
pnere, wnen an is cinnnea interstices o
the soil newly turne? over by the plough
or spade, contribute to the productioi
of the nitrons acid its upion w ith thej
oxygen of the jatmospbere, with Which it
was before only ditTused, or with the
much greater sourcis cf oxygen from tht
decomposing 'water Lf the vil-. At the
same time another part of the .abundant
azote conibineS witithe hydrogen 'of the
decomposiug water pf the soil and proj
duces axninui, or volatile alkali wbWli
ontii!)utts to jlhe gfowth of ieetabks
many wais, as already described." -jDar-win's
Fhytoogia, -x. 9. V;
; 'fnis expiaiiis one of the benefits whici
result Horn frecjclenily stirring the grounc;
amnu the growing crops. Farmers of
the old school; cautiously avoid j hotiiu
ine crops in a ary time, ana otten carrv
the error so far, as to refrain extirpating
v eeds during a drought, under the idea
thatibotb operations dissipate the little
moisture inthe s Vi aivd that weeds arc
beneficial in protecting it from tii intei.sf
rays of the sun. Science, as well as
practice, hs demonsirated, that crop?
are -:' materially j benefited by ' , having, tie
earth iretjvjt-utty atineu,. with the plough
harrow, or c ultivator, even in jth'e .'dryestj
season, provided it is not neie!siv, raised
in iriiis and ridges, and that the benefit ish
increased if tle operation is performed
while the, dew is on the ground. jCahba
ges, iota baga,Stc.ill grovv Letter in a
hi Id, where ihis opeiaiioh is frequentlv
pertormtd with a plough, kc. than in
UGiier son in a gaicien, nere tneoejs
less useo. ui wen s ex penpitmts are
conciUDive as io me utiiUyci ircquent
ploughinnb. lie put cabbages on a few
acres; of a;ifT clyad the plants had , a
veiy rneai-vi aprpearatice till he njt the
plougU-towork ; but by the frequent use
oi tnis,in notn iairectiuns ot me neld, thes
crop jOecau.e astomsningiy great, not
withstanding dry weather,' and many of
the eabhagfcs werhecl 50 lbs. Another
well authc ntu at. J fart iu point, took
place 20 iniUs from me. A field had
been won out b) tiilage, and the . pro
prietor gave a poor neighbor permission!
to try; a Crop upon u. As the latter. was
a day -laborer, he bad no lime to plough
except oiore sunrise, . tie persevered
in this way until he got in a crop of
wheat, which to the astonishment .of the
neighborhood, turned out very abundant
in its MroJuct. j This could he ascrited
to ii other cause than turninc the soil
repeatedly white the dew was upon it.
- INDIAN CORN.
Remarks on MrSedbrkok''s Tasks,
-'";JVos. T and 2. :
lo have come to a juttj:ompari-
son of the relative productivehessV
each "part. of. ihe ear of corn, tliere
should have been three tasks as lol
iuvs :
1.
An
JSo. 3.
POINT.
MinOLE.
BUT END
MIDDLE.
BUT-EN'P
POINT.
BUThEND
POfXT.
MIDDLE.
1
pewnt, nuaaie, ana Dut-end
wouldThen alternately nave occupi-
edan outside, to receive the benefit
of air, so important to a correct esti
mate, j Mr. Seabrook has continued
the middle of the ear in the centre
of each task, hence it has been ex
cluded frSui its equal share of.atmos
pheie. t 1 imagine the upper left
hand corner of task No. 1 was in a
more .favorable situlion to receive
the food for plants, than the lower
right band corner of taak No. 2 ; or
The
i iiv i.i i i.i inn encu lass ti
tice the
saiiie q-iantity "?j t f 1
Wus not the adjacent land
in that direction, or did the evening
or the morning breezes come from
(hence ? v:; : ";', '"::
t'e.rhaps Mr. Seabrook's lat expe
riments (vol. 2, p: 298,) have placed
t h e noi nt of the ear in the cent
centre of
lis ground, and the
but-end in the
moHt lurtuna'.e situation; Lxperi
ments of thit kind can be most cor
rectly tested in the middle of a field,
where alt the parts; are equally se
cluded from anjundue proportion of
he passing breezes; When Mr.
Seabrook has looked over these re-
maiks, and adverted to the probable
ocal advantages of each part of the
ear, he may, perhaps, see tvny me
result of his two f xperiuicnts are at
war with each other.
. It mav not be amiss, whilst 3f; the
subject of experiments to state, that,
like Mr. Mercer (vol
have uniformly, for
8; p.,323,) I
the Hast .four
yars, planted no corn but such as I
had carefully gathered (in baskets,)
in tpe field, wherc-tvvo or more ears
were on the same stalk; take none
but the top ear. j I Was led to thh-
course by seeing a field many
year-
since. It was so prolihc (all
ibugh
I then lived in town,) that 1 inqoiird
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the cause, and was informed that
such, was the practice of its owner.
It is well to remark that the top ear
fitla firRt, (i nrf'snhii nnrm lb Knme
principle that ' buds bnf the tops of
twigs first bnrst,) whether this cir
cumstance conduces to bring it to
earlier maturity, L pretend not to
say.' Lai-t year some of my seetl corn
was planted by two of my neighbort..
They reporl, unhesitatingly, that if
is two weeks early, and more pro
ductive, than theii favorite seed. It
certainly ebocMs most abunilunlly ;
but the number of rais ts in some mea
sure regulated b the season ; if it he
very dry, Ihe top ear may exhaust all
that the stalk can aflord : and "if a
wet season, tvvq or three - good ear
BEPORT
Of the Committee, of the North-Cdrolir a
legislature, on the Resolutions oj Geor
gia, relative to the Election1 of Presi
- .: 1
dent and Vice-President of the United
States. Presented in bebruary,V21.
The Committee, to whom' was re
ferred certain Resolutions of the
State of Georgia recommending to
the several States; thej expediency of
so amending the'ConstHution of the U.
States, as in future to prevent, under
a ny circumstances the election of Pie-,
sident and Vice President from devol-
virg on the House of Representatives
oi tne unitea otatesuiruii i ,
That they are; duly sensible of the
importance ol the subjeqt committed
to them, and the weight of responsi
bility they incur,, when proposing the
amendment, in any. particular; of so
sacredi&n instrument
as the Consti-
tution of the U. States.
But the cir
cumstances attending the late Klec
lion of Piesideht, have given such
general dissatisfaction to the nation,
and nave so clean? snewn: ihe ease
iv'ith which tljej wJpibe people
may be frustrated, that a remedy ap
pears indi&pensable. . . - j '
Voiir Committee believe the inter
vention of Electors Unnecessary, and
t hat so longat that mode of choosing
is resorted lo. the evils so generally
complained of i0ut freque n t jy recur,
and the voice f the people be oft err
iHiatteiided to. In order to illustrate
I hi, they beg leave to put the follow
ing hypothesis : Suppose two Stales,
one entitled to 20 electoial votes, the
other to 21, and
given to each E
give 80,000 vo
that 4,000 vote are
ectprJ This would
e in the one, and
84,000 votes in
other State; A.
and B. are candidates for the Pre si-
dency. In the State entitled to 20 e
lectorial votee, A. has an unanimous
vote, that i, he receives 80,000 yytes.
In the other State, which is entitled
to 21 electoral votes, and having
84,000 voters, there is much divi-
better
. . - . . " ; f .... ; f . ' .
and A. 40,000; Now by the pri rent
mode of elect i n g b t el eel oi ; h.R a i n
this State with 2 1 teclo?al io'e sd
tuat witn 4-i,uuu voies irm.ihe rEO
plc, he ha 21 tote in. ihe Kltioral
Col lege w bile A. with ) (ji.OoO t ca
of the people, ha but 20 vUes;
It may here he said that such a ca6
i not likely t o ha ppe n bo t y ou c r m
inii!et wt)i rtrbt'1 nuKnt
never1 to happe nj neither Miould rhn
be a possibility ot iX happening. Y.ur
commitiee ai e f.iltv aware, .that it id
much -aier io point out a fault, iharj
a cotrection i-evertbele-
whete an enlo palpably txiftv they
t hink it betier to aUetfipt refor mat ton
than subiiitt n sijence.! They ar 6
the 'more strengthened in t hi opit,U.
on, fiom the It dectiori, that t C ii tie
of ameiidifig the Constiuittoti
States,, is j'pe of the safest provision '
in it,- for amendiiiferii t art he recei- '
ved, titl agreed to by hiee fati?ti pi x
the States ; and when M t pn-kief ,
the Vast, extf Jit of our eounirv, the
various interest,- and the various
opinions that fndst exist, on a prtpo
siiion to amend any one articlt , - is
ojore fhliel) i hat a salutary amend
ment should fail, than an evil one be
admitted.: ' V xl: - ". -.'''r;-.''
In that part of the Constitution ot
the U- St a tts, which reiateVtothd
election of Ttehident and Vice Pre si
deht, your committee would say f with
much differ ence,they-ihink no advan
tagcoos allei at ion could he made, but .
on. the hasi. of preserving to each
Stjte, ihe rela'ive 'weight he at , re- ,
sent possesses, and in an entiie exclu
sion of the ll.vise of UepreMiiifi-ivt-g
cf the U. States, (ipiu all t e r t r al
Pjw ej j relaiive to the eh r ii- ii ui 'Pre
sident ami Vie Prej-iiletu. UT-on thesO
principle, iiUU djtr.fhui f i-t. ,-;
ple 'rcliffg relly fat. Prt-tift-in ;rd
Vice Pi tMiirnti, il.y heglt ave io . iet
tli e fo lJov i n g pt a n ' S
It shall lequire a n ajoi iiy of t i ief,
equal la a ft :f he "hehaiois. ntd fe.ie
entatives of tin J. Sraie-'K V t t a
President di d Vice IVes hh it?. 1 hee
votes shall beu btan rj m ilie f low
ing manner, viz, : Elryt - A'l he
held throughout thel i Sai here',
tofore, and the people en tilled io Vtie,
shall vote as heretofore, ho ro for
I.
Electors 1 they shall vote dh ect H for
President and Vice President, df ig
nating in their votes who shall ho
President, and who shall be Vice
President. ..- .' . ' ;-' ;
The returning officers of all the
States, shall transmit to the Govern
or of their respective State, a tnie
list of their poll, with the number of
votes each person had for President
and Vice President ; and the Govern
or of each State, when he. shall thus
have received said list, shall, in the
presence of the Heads of Depart
ments of the State to which he be
longs, cause th'e -wjiole number of
votes given by. the S'ate to be added
up and ascertained.ThiH being done,
he shall causejhe same to be divided
by the nnniber cfRepiesentatives and.
Senators the State i entitled to in the
JjCongress of ihe' U. States. The num-
her of each candidate votes for Pre -
sident and Vice Pr evident,' shall then
be added up separately, and, their se
veral numbers divided by the num
ber obtain ed, by dividin g the vi hoi e
votes of the Stated by ihe number of
Senators and Representative the
State is entitled to ; and as often as
this number can be obtained, out of
t he number of votes given to A. B. or
C. for President, or Vice President,
so manyvotes are xuey entitled to,
and alsoWaiiv actional part cf a
vote. .
X he governors ot tne several Males
shall send the result of the election
each by "a special mesengerto the
President of the Senate of the United
States, who shall open them as here
tofore on the - day of and
count them, adding together also, the.
fractional parts of votes, w hich ech
candidate may-have received ; and in
case no person should have, received
a majority of votes, then ihe President
of the Senate shall transmit to lha
sion ; Diit is. obtains 44,u(H) mtf
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