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tJjc Cliilictbi xtar, nnD x3crtbcKolina eastern .Tntcllia'cnccr. G en c. r sv A s s c mi v . N Trout fic liakii lighter. fix . , - i tie re-iof h inm o ,h atlvnnc d, t Is at a eo-jcdui" may be formed, with !rme decree of certainty, as to the probable period of. its adj-mrn- ment. Saturday, the I l:h h ihc ear luvit tlay uc have -Jieard mentioned though' we doubt whether the large mass of bimit!nfi, yet on the table of 1!ic two UoustM, csn be disposed, r.f before the Tuesday or Wedne-d;ty fallowing. There have been, so far, 15 Ac's of a private nature, passed, iiboul a dozerr Resolutions uf various kinds, and ouy Jive Public Acls ! The Resolutions, introduced some (lays store, cm the subject of ealkjg : Convention, for t lie purpa;j of a ...endtng the Consul uti(fi in certain Specified particulars, bid fa.r to OC' r - 1 " ) m "1,1,u 1 flip llritid A AM nmtnnna IJ.i I IU I.P T V 'UI?I1IUU9( in; J 1 t ' taken up on Wednesday, in" Commit tee of the whole, Mr. Haywood tT the chair. Mr. Kisiikii ppened the debase in support of the Resolutions, bat did not go imich .tnlb detail, re serving the right of reply to such ar guments as might- be advanced in opposition. Ue remarked with ic gard to their having been presented at this time, that it was tbe most ap propriate -moment for considering them, a Census having just been completed, ;by -which the , claims of the. West were placed on stronger ground in consequence . of the -great increase of population in that ' see tion'vf the State, ille was followed by Mr. Pearson, in favor of calling a Convention, but opposed to the de tails of the Resolutions, on the ground titat the ratio of : population nd taxatiou in not ; extended to both Houses. lie went at length into the merits of the ' Convention (Jicstion, and, in conclusion, proposal to a , mend the Rrsidution by. striking out that part which specifies the abject for which lite Convention is to be called, arid substituting in its place, a provision, w hich releases that bwdy from any resti iciion, atid directs ihat the Constit ution, when framed, hall be submitted to the; people for, rati- . ficattnri. During Mr. 1". remarks, ir X 5 ! t V - Comet which will complete it rcvo lu'i'Mj' around the neStt June, i to pa., a it retires, rcri nfeir ou planet ; ih;u it our earth n ill be u tb't -p;M of her orbit, which is neat, the orbit f the Comet, just nUiha' precise lints when the Comet will pns a etc 'f'f-si a nee which. Astrono mers 533, has not occurred brfote, perhaps since the U od. ; It i.- upon this fivcf that German Astronomers 1 t t t . 1.1 ... Ill I. Calculate inr . in villi iiicn undergo foci? great and tremendous re volution. They calculate, that the mutual njtraction of those two bo dies nay poib!y bring them into contact, in which case an immediate explosion must ensue. " 1 Wh i can tell but that this athy ht the great ngent employed by the Ue ito brush away the Heavens nnd destroy the Ivirlli ; or, in the sub 1 1 iuw H" v IliSLMIiUIUU I W ,,se Heavens to pass away I. .. 1 with a irrcat noise, the elements to melt with fervent heat, and the earth and thty things therein to be burned up ?'' This event we all know, is Jo com : and it h to come uias a snare upon all litem that dwell upon the face i i - t ... - . i . . ol Hit xthvle earm, and as a thtef in the night, Uut whether these terribly suhhoie moveoteot, and this awlully grand, display of -Hebve'a! superior power, will take place on the 20ih oi J une cusutnsr, i the: ( nearest approach of this iComet to our eartl) is .not for the writer of this to deter mine. A Lecturer in ibe Nor'th'i, ivilh hia orbits nnil ilinornm.4. i pinlpapnrinor to uemonsuate that this ! Chmet and 1 our earth will be. less than 20,000 miles aart on lhat dayquite near enough, one would think, lo create a pressure ipon our atmosphere (un less a higher agency shall interfere) sufficient to cause 11 the seal and the w aves thereof to roar," The Vt enr It and Ameiican Astrono- mers believe the Comet illj pass our earth uithoiit any maJetipl or iinjurtuus effects to us. . Hut it is not itonr tefort ihat time, and those-then living will hae a fair opportunity to lest the triiith f all the as'ronomk rd calcuh i tins that ha v c been made ar;d arc now being made upoti the sujf t. ' -- : , Should theOrrman Astronomers have made J.li$9'trfcsr calcnlatinni, tiien on the his w -ifj feet in the j, ocean of eternity, ainl this "world and the fasf.i-.ri thereof filt -pass awy ! Hut. whether irihj or wrnn in their calculations, it i.neer theless true that this evrnt will come. Ves ! it is ivriitfrt if in ivriitrn ith the finder of unerring truii, and standeth fast forecr, " Time shall be no "more," This world and the fasiiron t f it I is now passing awa?. It rapidly approximates its end, and ill soon, cease to be. 1 My ohjsct in making this communica tion will have hetn answered, should those who are in 'the habit of making' calcula tions, faorj the public with their iews t upon thissuhject. Atvdmore particular y shall I he irratified if those who may t read this brief notice- will lay to heart the ; fleeting truth, thnt, this woi Id is deslinrci Rie pla' e to another that it will soon superceded, by . the " new Heavens 1 id the Tie w liliarth.' wherein dveUcth ,. Ar-rit'erniMie. ; Norfolk, Jan. ,1832. .From the .1m-rican Sentinrl, A LETTER FROM WM. II. 'cRAWfORD. l ,'. iVuod JLniun 5th Drc. 1 83 1 . I ' DeAIV Siu: Your fiiendly letter on he sulject f the Hank of the United fStatcs lias been reccivrl by due course f mail. I he -optr.ion wh'u h I formed f the c.ons'.ittitinahiy and expediency of :ie Hank of the "Unite d States when I vas a member of the-(Senate was the re kull of a careful examination of thc ron- fhtitution of the pnited States, tiiadewith out any pteconci : ed opinions. That o ipinioO is rerotded in two,speeches 'which I made in the Senate in the year 1811. ' Since that time 1 hate had no occi!o of , teylewing the q-iestion. My opiniorj re Y mains unaltered.' 1 was Secretary o(thc - Treasury more .than eiht years, andMu- ring-that time I had ample evidence of ; the great utility of the Hank of the! Unit' ed States, in managing the final ifon- . cero.s t.ft he Unian, I am persuaded that no man, whatever his preconcei1 ed opin I ion-s majr be, cau preside over the Freas- ury otie year, it hut .beiu deeply ini I presed ith the expedienry of the Bank i of j'he United Stae in conduc ting the finances of the Union' The proi-ion in the constitution which gives Congress "l thcr power to pass all Jaws -which may -be necessary and proper to carry into efTect the enumerated powers, gjes Congress I die right tt pass the Hank hill, unless a ; law most proper i.j carry into r fleet the power to collect and distribute reveoue, j ihvuld he excluded by that provision. : The opponents t.tti.e conjitit utionality tA ? the Hank, place great trr upon tin ; word necessary, contained in the grant of power, and insist! t Mat n la ran In; f necesvarj but audi, thai wjihout whichlqueits of Mr. Giraid. e pc f , -.nit.j not be carried ir.tut fTtcf ,n.bij :on?rttf tiotj appears ;to ne t e i!(lcfrni le. It d.e cm tome, ih.i' ,v,d ncces-savy 3?;ftt i t i j j j r" can tot cxt iuue a Iaw that i& most, pmper y the power in o effect. Yet ths. n oniKyotiality ;f .the bank can be pro 'ouiictd only upon thai construction. I does appear to me ttiit the framers of the otw.itu'.iou nec r could hae. intended to exclude the pa53gc of a ia v most pro per to Carry a pocr into efiVctbecaue t night be carried imperfectly into ef feci by another law. My construction ol the grant of power t pass all laws wi.h h may be: neceaaary to carry the enumerat ed powers into effect, includes the power lo pass all Uw. wrich arc necessary and proper to cany the enumerated powers into effect-in the most perfect and com plete manner, and not in an" incomplete and imperfect manner. I have not seen a complete develope. ment of the President's plan of a Dank It is possible that by this plan, the trans mission of he revenue may be effected, but ins satety of the public deposits can not be effected by the President's phn: 'The adtaatagc of this security; to the public is incalculable. . It ought not to. be relinquished, unless it can he s itisfnc. torily proved it hat the Bank of the .United Sta'es iiluncuristitutional. ," i This. I. think cannot be saiisfactotilv shun n, M.y speeches are recorded, and can be re-published ;if necessary, i They coiitato t,hs, result of the best investiga tion I was able , to give t!e subject. I am perstiladedj I could not improve upon it now, iX.il had the means of investigating the sut'jcjtt, which I have not. i - 1 am. Sir, your friend, &c. WM. H CRAW FORD Czi'.var.ks Jued Ingeusoll, Esq. I ! STEPHEN GiRARD. The Philadelphia (RmlSonVO Ad- vcruser contains the lollowinsr an thentic abstract from the will of the late Stcpien Girard. The editor re marks 4f There is' not' perhaps an instance I recorded in tho history of the world, ol one human being de- lotirgsuCh an immense, .amount of '.yealth for the beneht f. his fellow men, as the venerable deceased lias piven to he city of hi adoption for the lautlabie purpose f us improve ment,-anI for' the melioration of the condition of ifs itihabltan's. sST El'U KN i G I R A R YS W I LL,' Gives td tlrei Pennsylvania Hospit al, snhjecti to the payment of an an uuiiy ad $200 to a female slave, whom he set tree ,3On0(). i To t fie 'Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb 20,000 . . S To the Orphan. Asvlum 10.00Q, To lli-comptrollers cf the Public Schools 10 000; To the City Corporation, to be in vested, and interest to be applied, annually in the ptirchase ol Wood for Ihc Poo J 10 000. To the Society of Ship Masters, 10,000. j ' " To the I ree Masons Lodge, "20, 000. ; "For. a school 'to lie erected im the township oflPassyunk, for poor white children, G,000. j. i i Sundry Legacies loijndividuals'a mouniing to 1 20,000. !. Several annuities amounting to a- bout 4,000. To the Ci y of New Orleans 1000 acre." of improved Land in the Ter rioty of Mispsippi, and one ihiid of 207,000 acrejs of unimproved Land in the i?aue territory. To the CilJ-of Philadelphia thd re maining two third of tbe said unim pioved Lands. fThi land is said to be now -worth 500,000 dollars. To te City of Philadelphia Stock in the Schuylkill Navigation Compa ny 110,000. Worth it) the market considerably, more than. this sum.- For a Colic ;e for poor w bite male children, and its' proper endowments, the sum of 2,000,000. . - T 'nnhtTCTiyt of j Philadelphia V for certain City Improvements, to be in vested, and the interest to! be annual ly applied 500,000. ; Al his remaining Estate, real and personal (no part of the real estate :o be sold) is to be applied as . fol lows, in further aid of the said Col lege ittiprovemcnts of the City and in relief of ihe j Taxes -This Estate is vety large, but, not yet valued. To the Commonwealth of. Penn sylvania to be'appjied to Internal im proveinenls by C a n A I , p r ov i d e d the Legislattire shall, within one year from Stephen Girards decease, pass laws. authorising the Cit y of Phila delphia to make the intended im provements other wie to the; Unit d States for the same object 300,- ooo: iv:'-ig-,v J : ;,yi I ;- The New -Ynfc Evening Jotirrinl gives the follow ing.as the piivalc be To Jffs, John Hemphill, a nicer, I'd w ar, a gun hrig 3rd uani.-mrt ship ar AjO.OOO, Sml to her husband 10.000. jtid a" p!acc uu anchored just out. I'o Xjrs. Clarke, (for.-i.rily. Lllc hAB,t-Mnnnn ... -'Ji ; he same amount. To tbe .daughter :f Mr. L?d!ensand, who resided wilh Mr. G. 0,000. To those of bis sea captains, li no shall returnjtheir ships in safety, 1,500 each. To a brother residing in trance, 2J0(JO. ,1 he clerks m his bank' are also presented with handsome gratuities ; and a large a m.oun bestowed on various charita ble institutions.' We learn thai Mr. G. bj various commercial operations since the war, has lost property to the value of one aod a half million of dollars. His estimate of hc aggre gate if bis estate,' we are told, is SG, 000,000. ! Satunlay, January 11 1832. Titie Stt-of .January, the antiitersary of the tictory at New Orleans,? falling this yearion Sunday, that event was celcbtai- ed in this tcKvn on Monday thfc 9ih imt. in a becoming manner. The volunteer corpsror Cavalry and Infantry met in the morning about II o'clock, ar.tl paraded ihrotigh the streets, the latter firing -sa-lutes'at thice different parts of the'town; after Aiich, they assembled at. the Na ii.Sia Hotel about '2 o'clock, and partook of" a sumptuous and excellent dinner; prepared fur the occasion by Mr. Wrm HI'gejrsiin. At night the streets and sev eral hiuildidgs were iHumin3led,' and the day pissed off with music, mil inland glee. ' I" -.-'"-:-':.--;..."''.' i t ; e have commenced oh the page of tlfiji paper,, the Address ol tlkeiNational Hcpohiican Convention to the people ol the U week. States, and shall concludj: it next Ve recommend it to our readers without comment; We the fol are requested by . the writer to use I . . . , . . I owing letter to stir up the1 citizens Qf our yilllage to-be prepared in i case of fire. It is needless fjr us to inform them ttiovxT situation that our houses, with a few exciepiions, are built of combustitde materials-p that. bur engine is a very in t Ci- tCh one and as to water, we' might as well ihave none; for in the fi rat place we have iho few wells, and owing to the decayed state of the pumps-in those we have, the Water cannot be "raised in suffi- ".' -I i '- . - - 1 - .-''-' cient qtiantiiies. Our citizens are know- ing to these facts. They know that jf a fire was !to get fairly 'under way, with the wind blowing fresh, our town would be in a few jhours a heap of ruins, and many of its inhabitants houseless and -perhaps penny les?. i While the citizens of many of the .towns in our State, from neglect and .carelessness, in not being prepared, have suOcred severely, we have thus far, I - -1 . : - - , - - - T ,- thanks toia! kind Providence, beeh ex- - - - i . i .- . . - - t i . empt from the destroying element j We have indeed"been singularly fortunate. JIow long we shall remain so, none can tell. At any rate, it W ill be wisdtim in us to use all due caution, and make every necessary provision; or, depend upon it, we shall repent w hen too lateJ ... We pope our new Police will attend to this suhject, Extract'of a letter to the Ediior from a citizen of this town tlated j Ra'leigh, Saturday morning? 1 J oViock, Jan.' 7, 1832. . Dear' Sir, t7 1 regret lo itdorm rou that a fire brok.out in this town this morning about 4 o'cloi k and consumed from 20 to SO storey and houses w'ith the building appurtenant, j The flames are arrested but nearly a whole square is in ruins.-1-A good supply of water with an engine and thirty tpen would have exYmguisjv' d the fi.-c w4?h comparatively little damage, but uhfortunaiely there was but one small engine in town and that ' uttei ly useless, nor could water he oMained in snffn nt quantity. The fire was arrested by i-e moving the buihthtgs sdj if ent. Dovilny ; dear sir use jthi tostir up our citizens ) taut act of the session is one -pro hi not only to dhtain an engii-.o hut to make j ,,g for thn 'surr'eu aml occvpnncn of the ter. ' - IS . ' The Convention Bill was rejected yes terday. - 1 i : j - - Eliza! City, 1 1 Hi Jan.; 1332. Sir If t he folio inti rrtr.iikt nni( tin our Navy, UL win find a place in yur Ppci, pcrnapsiyou win ty the insert on i.- i ..... . . i i do a service to bur common" country. If this is acceptable, 'perhaps you may have anouicr calltd -No. 2. H. II NAVAL. .No. I. Extract from a book of rematk. &c. ic ! OFF JEGUOR s. Sunday ? .11 2Ut June,S29. J About the 8th of thi rnoth the Dutch squadron consisting of a fr igate, a slooi t5 1 hc ric;;sqadron sailfd M'rom Port Mahcn this i.ntini?. This inotr.ioz a sreaot boai'r.arr.e in from sear this is tue tiist tloi 15 ac seen since I left the U. it. Tie c Jim ate in this place is much cohler than sr y it at I have been in in the summer scascni The mertU?y in the thcrmcmetcr abouttwelre or four teen days ago, stood at i5?y degrees at isix o'clock in - the morning, and its gen eral averages during all ; tl.is.month, (at the same hour,) is from jSOto 65 degrees. Lest I should be tedious I will to tho point, and tell you the proceedings of a Sabbath, as it is spent ch board one of" them,(a U. S. Vcssr 1 of war.) At daylight, and frequently , an hour before, the bustle is heard to begin en the mam as, well as on the birth deck the men tutning out, lashing up their ? hammob ai d travctlingj withthem on J the spar deck to have them stowed in the netting. Then the Quarter .Td aster of the watch makes his appearance on the main deck and begins. to bawl out' M usic ! Music ! -turn out j White, tho drummer Heby, i the bugler -Backley and Nelson, the fibers all, all turn out ' hurry up on deck,, bear $ hand, bear a hand, it is very nearly daylight. . Having got on deck, frequently half an bour be fore daylight makes the feintest, appear ance, they are ordered to roll off. Then commences the music of the noisy drum and sbrillibg fife, which continues rattling away for the space of five or ten minutes. So soon as this is over, the bugler strikes up a harsher note and makes the welkin ring vith the old fashioned rune qf "O er the- hills and far away." or some oth er old tune worniout in the using perhaps centuries ago. ; 1-, i ; . - To be continued. Fifih Crnsw. The followingjs a con dtnscd svat5nert of the recapitulation taken by the editors of the Intelligencer : Total number of free whites, IO,,526r058 Total number of slaves, 2,010.629 Total in mer.of free colored,' 319.466 Total aggregate of the U. S.. 12,856,153 ' If the ratio ol- le presentation should be fised at 50.000, the increase jn the ntirn bcr ol members ol the House ot liepre sentatives, ill be only apnrn. ,Thfe East cm and Middle States will retain about4 the same strength that they ajt present possess; the Southern willosc somewhat, and the Western "and Southwestern will acquire all, nr nearly all the additional numbeis. fRal Rei. . . - . - Internal Improvement. It is pleas- fy ' w . iiiiui was WW 111 VII beginning to manifest itself j in the community,; on 'this all important subject. The stirring spirit of the a ge has reached North C a r b 1 in a , an d her cilizens are beginning to move under its awakening influence.; In . addition to the public meetings here tofore noticed, one was held at Hill borough on the 24th intant at which Dr. J;ime Webb presided i;and Mr. John U. Kirkland acted a Secretary. . A memorial to -the Legislature, drawn by Dr. J ames S,. Smith, Mri Walker Anderson" and P. H Winston,! Esq. trie commtttee appointetl lor the pur- pose, wan . adopted.; This able pro- duction, which was prescnted'in tb& House at Commons on Monday, by Mr. Mebane, at-d ordered to be print-1 cd,point4s out the parlicularicircum stances which depress the Agricul tural interests of the State ; the plan" which it is thought would be most (T. :. . .i .1....L . viiiruiiiui in i riiieijjriug tuwsc CVIIS , and flie means tvhich rhby be appli ed to the,, accomplishment .-of 4his mo-it desirable object It. recorn- menus, a 'central ran roau, iron Beau fori, passing through New hern,' Ra-, leigh and Salisbury, to the fto(of the mountains ; which it estin.ates may -be ;c on strnc fed for less than two mil -lions of dollars It m recommended that the one half of this sum bp sub scribed by the State, and jthe Iptber half by individuals. Hal. blar. 1 The Legislature of the. SfaftCof Georgia has adjourned "after a Item- pefuous session. The most imonr- l.lllll IMTHIIIl' Mlir ft 11 31 II t 1 IHMMIIHK 1 IIV the Cherokee. I he Recorder, a journal of high standing in the. Staie btddlj, arraigns this act as " unjust, if not itnpIitic," " injurious, fo tho ir- . v : ' cz . . . cnaracier oj me otate, and oangerr to the harmony of tLe Ufiibni'' hu, tai seems to oe considered art ,i ... i. .- . . . i . . almoRt .equally important objection. u-. :v-uv..juiru to emoarrass ma President f the United States.' The Recorder further stares I that 4Mhc tnore. prudent and respectable poiiion of the citizens .of Genrgi With hj,t -few efccVption, are decid edly opposed to a forcible survry kud occupaucy.1 Yj. Int. .1
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