turbed state which accounts from other
quarters had represented. A few agita
tors, and enemies of the constitutional
system had been endeavoring to excite
disturbances, but this was confined to a
narrow space, and their designs were ef
fectually frustrated.
FRANCE.
We have little to notice respecting
France. The new ministry were occu
pied with making arrangements conse
quent on their accession to power. The
funds had undergone considerable varia
tion, and the Courier remarks that this
indicated " the existence of political cau
ses connected either with domestic or
foreign policy." In reply, the Morning
Chronicle observes, " we are unwilling to
pronounce an anticipatory judgment on
the present French Ministry. We can
not help, however, observing that their
pledge to compensate the emigrants for
their losses is of itself sufficient to excite
an apprehension in France far from favor
able to the public credit. Without real
ising this pledge they cannot expect the
support of their party ; and by realising
it to such an extent as would satify that
party, they would inflict a very serious
blow on the French finances."
GREAT BRITAIN.
The ferment, if we may judge from
the tone of the papers by this arrival,
which prevailed as to Ireland, has greatly
subsided. It appears, indeed, that the
greater part of what was lately said as to
that country being in a state of actual re
bellion, turns out to be unfounded.
The meeting of the English Parlia
ment has been prorogued to the 5th of
February.
A vessel had arrived at the Cove of
Cork, Ireland, from Lima, having 300,
000 dollars, exclusive of silver bars, on
board, for account of Lord Cochrane.
This is stated to be the second precious
importation for the same distinguished
character, a vessel having lately landed
at Plymouth a quantity of silver estima
ted at 100,000. sterling.
A further reduction has taken place of
the Clerks in the Hank of England
Extract of a letter from an American gentleman
at 1'aris, dated December zt .
"Mr. Neuvillc's friends are in power,
and, if here, he would be Minister of the
Marine.
"The only intelligence from Turkey
is in a letter from Prince Mctternich at
Vienna, who, without official intelli
gence, is of opinion that the report of the
Revolution in Constantinople is true, and
it is feared the ambassadors have fallen."
K.1
iS B ITU V :
TUESDAY MORNING, MARCH 5, 1822.
gCTWe have received a communica
tion respecting the late disturbances at
Columbia College, S. C. and the suspen
sion of nearly all the members of the Jun
ior Class, written by. one of the young
gentlemen suspended, with a request to
have it inserted in our paper. He says it
is " an unvarnished statement of facts,"
and we doubt not that it is ; but it is like
wise, in the introductory paragraph, very
personal, and speaks rather too severely
of one of the Faculty of the Institution :
by publishing it, therefore, we should (if
nothing more) very probably be involved
in a controversy at once uninteresting to
our readers, and disagreeable to ourselves.
Wc must, conscqucnly, decline publishing
it in its present shape. But should the wri
ter consent to expunge a part of the first
paragraph, or so to modify it as to remove
the objections which lie against it as it
now stands, his request shall then be com
plied ith.
C6ngress. -The debate on the Bank
rupt Bill still continues; and from the
present appearance of things, is not likely
soon to terminate. We arc not sorry for
this. Opposed to a Bankrupt Law in any
shape, but particularly to one so anti-republican
in'its features as the Bill now be
fore the House of Representatives, we
wish the subject to be fully discussed ; we
wish the House to proceed deliberately :
because we are confident that the Bill,
viewed either as a public benefit, as moral
in its tendencies, or just and equal in its
operations, cannot be supported ; and that
the freer the discussion, the more odious
will the Bill appear, and the more deci
sive will be its fate.
The proceedings of the House of Rep
resentatives, aside from the debate on the
Bankrupt Bill, possess little general inte
rest. If our extracts from, therefore, are
few, it is because the whole are unimpor
tant. The Senate, at the last dates, were
emraced in the discussion of the Appor
tionment Bill. An amendment reported j
by the Judiciary Committee, to strike out
40,000, the ratio fixed upon by the House
of Representatives, was agreed to by a
vote of 22 to 16; but on the question of
filling the blank with 42,000, as recom
ded by the committee, a pretty lengthy
debate followed, which ended in the post
ponement of the question to another day ;
we are of course ignorant how it was dc
cided. o1
FOR THE WESTERN' CAROLINIAN'.
There appears to be no subject within
the whole range of legislative attention,
which so completely baffles the wisdom
of our law-makers, as the providing some
method of educating the poorer classes
of society. Committee after committee
have made report after report ; and yet
the matter remains in the v ery same situ
ation, as to legislative direction or assist
ance, among us, that it did among our
Indian predecessors.
It would, perhaps, be worth our while
to inquire why this business, which, it is
universally admitted, is of primary impor
tance, has still been passed over. I don't
much like to speak my mind, but really I
have an opinion (perhaps one of my own)
that our representatives arc Traid that
nothing effectual can be done, without in
curring expenditures beyond the present
resources of our treasury, and of course
requiring some addition to be made to the
taxes. 41 Ay, there's the fub." They
may do what they please with any surplus
they may find in the treasury ; may give
it for pictures, for statues, for roads or li
vers, or whatever else their wisdom or
folly may dictate : but woe be to the man
who shall advise, or support any measure,
however beneficial, which may eventuate
in an increase of the Utxes. In truth, I
am a good deal that way inclined myself,
:wd must be fulh convinced that the ob
ject is of national magnitude, one. to
use a hackneyed expression, of vital im
portance, before I would g'e my repre
sentative leave to put his hand into my
pocket anil dtiw thence as much as he
pleases. This sencis us back again to the
origin:;! inquiry ; it compels us to exam
ine what we had tken for grunted in the
outset, the magnitude of the object in
view. It seems somewhat difficult to
maintain by argument a preposition that
none denies. But there arc arguments,
and forcible ones too, in support of the
education of the poor, if wc should be
happy enough to find them. I do not
mean to plead for the necessity of educa
tion for the rich ; they can take care of
themselves ; and whether the legislature
aid them or not, they will find means to
educate their children. Not so the poor.
I would premise, that I am not about to
indicate such an education as is piopcr
before the pcison can be said to be
44 learned," in the common acceptation of
that term ; but only such a degree of
learning as is usually understood by the
trim, an English Education. This is
certainly necessary to the great mass of
the people, whether they be considered
in a civil, or political, or religious capaci
ty. Not to insist on the increase of pleas
ure that must arise to a reasonable beinr
from a capacity of conversing with the !
living, or the 44 mighty dead," by means 1
of books, the various transactions of man j
with man, and with which every man
must be more or less conversant, call dai
ly for the" exercise of reckonings and oth
er acts which are neither 44 innate," nor
to be obtained without instruction; so
lar education is necessary to all men eve
ry where. But in our country there ari
ses another argument for it from the
structure of our government. In arbi
trary states the duty of the subject is con
tainedinonc word, obedience : but even un
der the milder forms of monarchy, where
the laws arc in any measure the directory
of the community, a knowledge of those
laws in some good degree, becomes highly
expedient to every subject, for the plain
reason, that he may know how to conduct
himself conformably thereto. But in a
republic like ours, a fundamental princi
ple of which is, that the majesty, the su
preme, the law-making power, is resident
in the people, the argument is irresisti
ble, that the great body of the people
should be well informed of their rights,
their privileges and their duties. Public
opinion, when strongly expressed, can do
much in any country ; in ours it does ev
ery thing. And it seems to me that this
is a reason of no small force for universal
education. Education is necessary, both
for the proper exercise of power entrust
ed to us by our lorm of government, and
to the perpetuity of the government itself.
Ignorance is always liable to imposition.
I should hope that no person, honoured
with a scat in any of our legislatures, will
or does 'disapprove of a general system
of education, from a conviction that : .n
increase of intelligence in their constitu
ents would be fatal to their apotheosis.
But I think it may be asserted, without
fear of contradiction, that ignorance is the
piopcr soil for the operations of dema
gogues. Another consideration, which leads to
the same conclusion as the former, is,
that it is necessary to tbe understanding
of our religion, that its professors should
In able to read the records in which it is
contained. Wc profess to be a ration of!
i
christians ; our constitution recognizes
this religion, and the whole structure of
our government supposes its reality.
Witnesses, jurors, judges, officers, legis
lators, are all sworn on the gospels. I am
not now arguing for the truth of Chris
tianity ; Lam asserting that it is the re
ligion of the state ; and this is undeniable.
The religion of the bible is in a great
measured historical, and is all of it con
tained in a book, or rather in sundry books
collected together. In order that oaths
should have a proper bearing on the con
science, it is necessary that we have some
understanding of the contents of the book
o: which we arc sworn. But iT we admit
the truth of the religion itself a still more
momentous reason arises, why every pro
fessor thereof should have education e
nough to read and in some degree to un
derstand these sacred books, namely, that
the concerns of eternity depend on the
belief of certain tenets and the practice of
certain duties ; which tenets and which
duties are to be sought for and to be found
nowhere but in'hc scriptures.
Hoping that some or all of these argu
ments are satisfactory to every person, I
think I may venture to affirm the necessi
ty, the imperious necessity w hich is im
posed on the legislature, to devise and
provide, by some general system, for the
education of every member of the com
monwealth. Lycurgus, it is said, arrived
at the same conclusion by a shorter road.
He asserted that every child born in the
republic was the property of the state.
Although I am not exactly able to com
prehend the truth of this position, the re
sult, so far as made it the duty of the go
vernors to provide the means of general
education, was a general benefit.
The greatest obstacle which occurs to
me at present, to some general plan of
education, arises from our dispersed and
thin population. But although this rea
son may make it difficult to do all that
might be wished, it certainly does not
hinder us from doing something. Every
county might have some schools for the
education of the poor, supported in whole
or in part by the public. The plan that
strikes me as most likely to obtain the ob
ject would be, to empower the county
court to appoint some number of intelli
gent persons in each county as a school
committee, who should decide when and
where those original seminaries should be
placed ; should inquire into the qualifica
tions of teachers and contract with them ;
and when it should happen that the amount
agreed on could not be raised by volunta
ry subscription, to apportion the balance
among the inhabitants of the district, of
the courts, or of the state, as might ap
pear most advisable on calm consideration.
I am not, however, tenacious of any par
ticular plan, so that provision be made
that those children, whose parents arc
unable to give any thing, may not be ex
cluded from the school.
A FARMER.
THE INDIAN WAR.
FROM THE ARKANSAS GAZETTE.
We learn from the Indian country that
the Cherokees and Osages, have lately
had some fighting, in which the former
hove been completely successful. The
ChcroVces were divided into parties, one
of which, amounting to 50 or 60, 'fell in
with a party of Osages, (principally com
posed of old men, women and children,)
and killed and took nearly the whole, and
have brought in about 63 scalps and pris
oners. One Osage woman, refusing to
follow the Cherokees, was set on a horse
and shot, and her body afterwards thrown
on a fire, and consumed. Another party
of the Cherokees, consisting of about
200 men, had not returned at our last ac
counts, but we learn that they had fell
in , ith the Osages, and killed and took a
much greater number. These successes
had occasioned great rejoicings in the
Cherokee nation, and the lives of a great
number of the defenceless prisoners had
been sacrificed.
The Cherokees took a large quantity of
skins, furs, and other property, from the
Osages, a considerable portion of which
was burnt, they being unable to bring it
with them. Among the articles brought
in were the hats, cfothes, Sec. known to
have belonged to one or two white men
who are supposed to have been murdered.
Hi tract of a letter from Capt. Jiamcge, of the IT.
States schooner Porpoise to the naval offcer
commanding at Charleston, dated
" Off the VorA Coast of Culm, "
25th Jaii. 1822.
44 1 have just time to tell you I shall be
at Charleston in two or three weeks. I
have taken and destroyed six piratical
vessels, burnt two of their establishments,
killed some of their people, and have now
some prisoners on board. I also re-captured
from them an American vessel,
which had been in their possession three
days. I have one of the schooners taken
acting as a tender, and find her of great
service."
From the National Intelligencer, F
:!.
FJavana papers of a late date have
been received in this city by a gentleman
in Congress, the contents tl" which are
quite interesting.
Among theAilTicial papers, is a declara
tion of independence of the people of the
Spanish pail of San Dom!ngo. This act
begins thus: " Ko more dependence, no
more humiliation, no more submission to
the caprices of the cabinet of Madrid."
After the usual protestations and oaths,
they enter into a long list of grievances,
and declare that a pupilage of 32S years,
an imbecile loyalty to the king of Spain,
a perfect abnegation of self, living, mov
ing, thinking and acting only for Spain,
was long enough. They complain of the
cession to France, their abandonment and
suffering during the war with that repub
lic, of the ingratitude of the mother
country towards the native heroes who re
conquered several strong places during
that period, the general devastation and
misery brought upon them by the total
neglect of the metropolis, the preference
given to Europeans for high offices and
sinecures, expensive military establish
ments supported ov.t of the exhausted
revenues of the Province. They say, that
if an uninterrupted scries of abuses, vex
ations, injustice, and neglect, were want
ing as a motive for this salutary change,
no part of America could exhibit a pic
ture so charged with black and horrific
spectres, as that unfortunate Island, which
was the first in order, and the last in those
improvements which constitute the hap
piness of nations; but-sentiments of hon
or, principles of justice, reasons of utility
and public expediency, arho noble mo
tives which stimulate them to pronounce
an eternal emancipation from Spain, Sec.
Sec. This state paper bears date the 3d
day of January.
Not less interesting is a letter from O
Donoju, (now deceased,) to the Secretary
of War, giving an account of the condi
tion in which he found the people of
Mexico, on arriving there; the futility of
any attempt to oppose the revolution by
force ; and the motives of policy which
induced him to enter into an amicable ar
rangemcut with ltuibide, Sec. to place a
Bourbon on the throne of independent
Mexico. We shall endeavor to publish
a translation of the whole of this letter.
Several other documents are published,
relative to transactions in Mexico, which
could not be accounted for until after the
death of O'Donoju.
The late Governor of Vera Cruz still
holds the castle of San Juan de Ulloa,
from which he xvill not withdraw without
an order from tne Cortes. It is said this
resolution has been taken by him in con
sequence of the despatches by the packets
for O'Donoju, Sec. having fallen into his
hands sj the commander in chief, since
the death of O'Donoju, and departure of
the late Vice King, which put him in
possession of the secrets of the ministry
and the King, tt which he was a stranger
before.
At Havana, there are two Vice Kings,
and an immense number of officers of ev
ery grade, and of men, on their return to
Spain. The ship of the line Asia, and
the sloop of war Deamante, were to sail
from Havana for Spain on the 24th ult.
with a large convoy, and a vast quantity
of wealth. It is supposed that this is the
last cargo of the kind that will ever sail
from the Americas to the. mother coun
try. with about 70C0 volunteers, well armed
and rigidly disciplined. This force gives
protection and comparative tranquility to
the city.
Among the volunteers in the cause of
Greek freedom, is Mr. Gordon, at pres
ent Commandant of Tripolizza A Scotch
paper gives the following account of this
gentleman :
44 Mr. Gordon (not Sir Thomas, unless
he has been invested with some foreign
order of knighthood) is a Scotch gentle
man of fortune, and was formerly an offi
cer in that distinguished regiment the
Scotch Greys. He is a man of great zeal
and personal bravery, and of very consid
erable acquirements. He travelled much,
some years ago, in Greece, where he ac
quired a knowledge of the country, and
of the language (which he speaks with
perfect fluency.) While in Turkey, he
married an American lady. On the
breaking out of the war between Russia
and Napoleon, he entered the Russian
service as a volunteer, and served during
the famous Russian campaign, being at
tached to one of the- commanders as an
aid-de-camp. He afterwards retired to
Scotland, where he remained till the pres
ent year. On the breaking out of the
war in Greece, in the fate of which coun
try he naturally took the warmest inter
est, he quitted his estate, and taking a
large sum of money with him (it is said
20,000.) went to Marseilles, where he
purchased a vessel, "freighted it with arms
and ammunition, and proceeded to the
Morca. He is nigh in the commence ot
the local government, is at the head of
Vpsilanti's staff, and is, as we have stated,
Commandant ot 1 ripohzza.
THE PIRATE
Was published in England, on the 24 th
December and in the United States on the
7th of February, but 44 days after its
publication in England. The Commer
cial Advertiser informs us that on the ar
rival from Philadelphia at New-York on
Thursday evening of the Pirate, " the
rush of the reading world was tremendous.
Every volume, and there were several hun
dred received, were taken per force in a
few minutes.' The first copy of Ivan
hoe which was received in Boston from
England was sold at auction for seven dol
iir.j, read a week, and then re-sold for ele
ven dollars. The Pirate is now in press
in New-York and Boston. Three editions
are printing in New-York, we know not
how many are printing at Boston.
1-lorida Wc have seen a gentleman
who has surveyed ali Florida, and exam
ined it thoroughly. He says that there
are twenty millions of acres of the best
sugar and cotton lands in the world ; that
ali the fruits of St. Doniin.ro are found
there, such as Lime Trees." Plantain, Al
ligator Pears, Sec. Sec. growing wild ; that
the Live O ik is abundant and of immense
size, and that he saw a great number of
large Olive Trees, as fine and more flour
ishing than any he ever saw in France.
Fed. llcju
JUllIHED,
On Thursday, the 21st ulti.no, in this county,
Mr. J:nuel Elliott, to Mr?. Pullu Cline.
In Mecklenburg county, on the 21st Ultimo,
Dr. Joseph IJ. Hoss, to Miss 'Sophia Springs, both
of that county. ' .
In Rutherford county, on the 3 1st ultimo, by
the Rev. Henry M. Kerr, Col. Isaac Craton, of
Uutherfordton, to Miss Elizabeth JWUer.
liSU! Il'OW 1UA C'AStlUgS.'
TIIU undersigned for the accommodation of
his customers, has brought to his Furnace,
seven miles and a half west of Reattie sFord, on
Catawba, a large and general assortment of
BAR lltUX, consisting of wagon tire?, plough
moulds, axe-bars, Sec. ficc. The Furnace being
in blast and forge in operation, he expects to
keep up at said Furnace a constant supply of
bar iron and castings. Corn,, flour, and bacon,
(.as much as wanted,) will be received ia pay
ment at a fair price.
J. GRAHAM.
February 25, 1823. Gv. 91f
A g yIcvAVuyuI.
FTHF. Rowan Agricultural Society will meet at
JL the Court-House in Sahsburv, on Thursday,
the 28th iiiGt. at 10 o'clock, A. M.
JOHN BEARD, Jr. Sec'i
Jrarci 1, 1822. 4v91
To all -whom it r.iaij concern:
j "VrilEREAS T, David T. Talman, bachelor,
, V T of IincoIn, X. Carolina, have for serious
of times been endeavouring to get a wife, ad
I have ascertained effectually that it is impossi
ble, unless the devil and his followers were where
they belong1 ; and in order to give relief to their
wicked hearts and tongues, and save them of
further trouble and uneasiness of mind, this is
therefore to inform them of this vicinity, (and
indeed all others,) that I have relinquished all
ideas of ever making any further attempt to ob
tain the above object ; which was a very desira
ble one to me, in my present situation.
lip DAVID T. TALMAN.
SCYfPs Sale.
ISHxVLL proceed to sell the following" tracts
of land, at the Court-House in Morgunton,
on Saturday, the 27th day of April next, to satis
fy the taxes due on them for 1S20, viz :
250 acres, given in by Ephraim Evens, lying
on a branch of the Catawba river, 6 miles east of
Morganton ; value 250.
150 acres lying on the waters of Silver Creek,
given in by John Reinels ; value Sl
50 acres on the waters of the south fork of
Catawba river, given in by Daniel Workman ;
value 25.
100 acres given in by Eli Hufman, on Rock
Creek, a water of the south fork of Catawba, for
1817, 1818, 1819, and 1820; valued at 100 the
three first years ; at $50 for 1820.
M. BRITTAIN,
SJirijf Burke Count i, -V. C.
February 20, 1822. 7w91
THE. following tracts of land will be sold, to
satisfy the taxes due on them for 1820, on
the third Monday of April next, at the Court
House in Salisbury, viz :
190 acres, belonging to Allen Cook : tax,
SI 01.
161 do. belonging to Thomas Pollard : tax,
S00 50.
196 do. belonging to Julius Daniel : tax,
SI 05.
JOHN BEARD, former Sheriff.
Salisbury, March 2, 1822. 6-.v91
State. o Xo'U-aroiia,
TVTLKES COUNTY.
lOURT of Pleas and Quarter Sessions, Feb
XJ ruary Term, lS22......George Parks, &. Co.
vs. James Grav Original Attachment. Sum
mons Jesse Allison as Garnishor It riTinrnrinf
to the court, that James Gray, the defendant in
this case, resides in another state, it is ordered
that publication be made in the Western Caroli
nian for three months, for flip defendant to sn.
-- - i
pear at the next court to be held for said count-,
on the fifth Monday in April next, and replevy,
plead to issue, or demur, otherwise judgment by
default will be entered against him.
A copy from the minutes,
tc2JA R. MARTIX, C. JJ. C. C.
AVILKES COUNTY.
COURT of Pleas and Quarter Sessions, Feb
ruary Term, 1822 John Dula and wife,
and others, vs. Kphraim Allison and others
Petition for Partition. It appearing to the court,
that the defendants in tills case are not inhabi
tants of this state, it is ordered by the court, that
publication be made for three weeks in the
Western Carolinian, that the defendants appear
at the next court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions,
to be held for the county of Wilkes, at the Court
I louse in Wilkesboro and plead, answer, or de
mur, otherwise the petition will be heard ex
parte, and judgment entered accordingly.
A copy from the minutes, "
3w91 " R. MARTIN, C. Jr. C. C.