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SAL.ISBURY TUES DAY MOCMNU J'NE 13, 1C?. By a Ijw passed during the late Session of Congress, the mail route flora Fay etteville to Salisbury was changed so as to go by Carthage, M'Neill's, and Skcan's ferry, and to return by Forrest's tilakcly, Law renceville, Allentown,and M'AuIey's Store. By this alteration, the people on the eastern side of the Yadkin in the low- er part of this county, and in tlic part of Montgomery county adjoining, will be able to get papers from Salisbury within a izeek after they are printed ; now they cannot obtain them at all, without riding a distance of thirty miles. By a regula tion made a year or two since, but which, from some cause or other, was n:ver car ried into effect, the mail was to cross Skean's ferry in gcinj down, and return by the way of Forrest's Store : any way, however, to open some kind of commu nication with the above district cf coun try. We have received a letter from a re spectable gentleman, (James "VVhitaker, Esq.) living at Swanano, Buncombe Co. who states that an insane person, by the name of Archibald Womack, has been at his house for some days, is very destitute, and unable to provide for, or take care of hirqself. Womack says that he belongs to this county, and has children and friends living here. Mr. W. requests us to give this notice, as 44 it may inform his chil dren or friends, who, if they have any human feelings, will try to alleviate the distresses of a father, or perhaps a broth er, who is at this lime withcut either sense or reason, or any thing else, except life alone." We have before slightly noticed a se ries of papers under the signature of a " Native Virginian," which originally ap peared in the Federal Republican, and have since been embodied in a pamphlet and distributed over the Union. Their pretended object is to expose public de faulters and peculators ; and it will no doubt greatly astonish the good people of this country to learn, that from the estab lishment of the government to the pres ent time, they have been govxmed by a set of sharpers, swindlers, and unprinci pled, mercenary wretches ! This a " Na tive of Virginia," alias a native of Mary land, and a dismissed clerk from one of the Departments, has discovered ! And this writer, who has doubtless ere this tickled his fancy with the appellation of the mod- em Junius ; this quondam clerk, whose in tegrity, without question, caused his dis mission from his clerkship ; this man, as pure as the snows of heaven, actuated by motives of the sublimest patriotism, and peculiarly fitted for the task, has under taken to reform the morals of the land, and to expose the obliquities of our Na tional Rulers. Seriously, hovrevcr, this " Native Vir ginian" has come forward with the osten sible motives of exposing corruption : he pretends to be actuated by nothing less than the purest patriotism : and with these professions he attacks the fair fame of our most distinguished citizens ; of men whose good name is the property of their country, and which she should cher ish as she would her own existence ; cf men whose names will be known and rev erenced ages after that of a " Native Vir ginian" shall have sunk into the obscurity whence it sprung. He holds up to the exultation of the governments of Europe, (for his slanders will reach even there,) this Republic, but an infant among na tions, as more corrupt than the most depraved among them ; as having been governed from John Adams administra tion to that of James Monroe, by men who confer as little honor on human na ture as they do on their country : he shows the purity of his intections,his patri otism, in thus holding up his country to the scorn and derision of the world. We are as little disposed to shield lie public defaulter, the peculator, as any one ; nor are we opposed to a rigid scrutiny into the conduct of our public officers. On the f contrary, we third; such a scrutiny abso lutely necessary. Our rulers, State and National, fchould be vrtched with a vigi lant, though not a suspicious eye ; their transactions should be closely scanned, not because we -jiah to discover errors, cr mal-practices, but to prevent them. The confidence and vigilance of the people should go together. Hut while we would render what little assistance we could to the individuil, actuated by honest and up right motives, who would fearlessly drag the public leeches (for such there are) into the glare of day, and expose them to the just execrations of the people ; who would arruign at the bar of public justice the guilty defaulter, and the unprincipled nrnLitnr. . fnr vountr as our country is. ! . K1 . . nrart(.r, . wh;,e w. wouH. vr X - ------w -- we say, rather assist such an individual, than throw the least obstacle in his way, we should feel ourselves in duty bound to; discountenance "A Native Virginian." His zeal is commendable ; but his mo tives, to say nothing harsher, are greatly to be suspected. That to some of the cases he has animadverted upon, he may have attached sufficient evidence of cor ruption in the actors, is very probable ; but that in others he has grossly slander ed individuals, and w hen convinced of it, refused to retract, is notorious In his 6th No. he charges Mr. Jefferson with receiving the money tvjice on a bill which he drew on a banker in Amsterdam, during his mission to France. once, when the bill was drawn, and again, when he retired from office in 1809. And this, he says, " '.vas a palpable and manifest act of moral turpitude, about r.hich no tzv? honest, impartial mtn can posiibly dijfer. ' Mr. Jefferson hus at length replied to this charge, and explained the nature of it so satisfactorily, and exculpated himself so completely, that it would stem to be impossible that instant conviction of its falsity should not Hash on the mind of ev ery one. The fccts are these : Mr. Jef ferson, while at Cowes in Englan l,n 1789, on his return to the United States, drew a letter of credit on a Dutch house at Amsterdam, in favor of Grand if Co. Paris, and immediately charged himself with it as cash, in his account with the United States. The bill was sent by mail, by way of London, to Grand If Co. Paris ; but it being then, Mr. J. states, exactly at the time when martial law was declar ed in Paris, the country all up in arms, and executions by the mob dally taking place, the mail was probably lost, as the ... bill never reached its destination. The consequence was, the bill never -.vas paid. Mr. Jefferson could not have sold it ; for of what value would it have been to any i among the children of fashion I Would ., . .i . c i t thev not call the perverse conduct of those one, without the endorsement of Grand I? 1 .. t . . . , . . . . , , i who rise at one or two, dine at eight, and Co. ? 1 his it could not have received, rcdre tQ bed whcn the movnin; is unfoId- because it never reached them. And ingallitsglories,andnature puttingonher neither the Dutch Bankers nor Grand IS most pleasing aspect, absolute insanity ? Co. in their accounts of that date, or any " Swift ba observed, such is the extent , . , . . .... . c ,. r of modern epicurism, that the world tnust other date, notice this bill ; it follows of Ar etlcompa.,ed brjure a vnsher.mman can necessity, therefore, that it never could tit d,Jsn t0 her treakjast .' i. e. by a voy have been paid, and that Mr. Jefferson age to the East for tea, and to the West h-d rnnfmirntl v a iust claim nn th Uni- ' for 8U?ar." ted States for the full amount of it, which was only 1 143 dollars. A. PRry sum, in deed, for a man like Mr. Jefferson, to In come a rogue for ! The sum of t?ie whole then is," says Mr. J. "that I drew a bill on the U. S.' bankers, charged my self with it, on the presumption it would be paid ; that it never was paid, however, either by the bankers cf the U. S. cr cny body else. It was surely just then, to re-! turn me the money I had paid for it ; yet the Native cf Virginia thinks, that this act of receiving back the money I had thus, through error, overpaid, ivas a pal pable end mawcat act cf rnzral turpitude, clou.: ?hich no tv.'o honest, impartial men can possibly d:jlr.' " It -s much to be-regretted that any one, at this late day, should have rrladc a charge like the one above mentioned, against Mr. Jefferson. Occupying, as he docs, so conspicuous a place id the page cf Amer ican history, his fame, in a measure, has be come identified with that of his countty ; and in proportion as you tarnish the one, you soil the other. The author of the " Declaration of Independence," and be longing to that band of sages and patriots who form so bold a relief in the historical view of our Revolution, he has strong claims on the gratitude, and adds not a little to the reputation of his country. Whatever may have been his error, therefore, it is ungenerous, ungrateful, and cruel, no v.', while bending under the weight of years, tr.d just about to pass off the stage, to charge him with crime. The reputation of Mr. Jefferson belongs not to a party, but to his country ; and his country should protect it. The Portland Statesman gives an ac count of a Quack Cancer Doctor, in Maine, who gives his patients cobwebs and spiders, each dose containing at least Jive large black spiders!' He applies ex ternally copperas, Spanish flies, and ar senic ! No remedy could be more effec tual : the most inveterate cancer would unquestionably be killed... .and the patient too I ' CHEAPER, WHO COULD WISH ? A newspaper printed at Dayton, at the confluence of Mad River with the Great Miami, in the interior of Ohio, gives the following as the price current of certain articles at that place : Superfine flour, S2 50 per bbl ; wheat 30 cents per bushel ; rye, 20 to 25 cents, corn 12 cents, fresh beef 1 to 3 cents a pound ; smoked ham 2 to 3 cents ; butter 5 to 8 cents; eggs 3 to 5 cents per dozen ; barn fowls 50 to 75 cents per dozen. MAXIMS OF HEALTH. Extract from a recent work of Dr. Kitchner's. 44 The more luxuriously you live, the more exercise you require. " Exercise, to have its full effect, must be continued till we feel a sensible degree of perspiration, (which is the panacea for the prevention of corpulence,) and should at least once a day proceed to the borders of fatigue, but never pass them, or we shall be weakened instead of strengthened. 44 vfter exercise, take care to get cool gradually ; when your head perspires, rub it and your face, Sec. dry with a cloth. Be content with one dish ; as many men dig their graves with their teeth as with the tankard. Drunkenness is de structive, but gluttony destroys an hun dred to one. ' The food which we fancy most gen erally, sits easiest on the stomach. k4 To affirm that any thine: is wholesome, or unwholesome, without considering the subject in all the circumstances to which it bears relation, and the unaccountable peculiarities of different constitutions, is, with submission, talking nonsense. " nat we nave Deen longest uicu to ib most likely to agree with US best. : 44 The wholcsomeness, ice ol all tood . ic .,.,. -,,,-u ,iri a.. fl,,ditv nf ir depends very much on the quakt ci and the way in which it is cooked I hose who are poor in health must live as they can : certainly the less stimu lus any of us use the better, provided it be sufficient to properly carry on the circu lation. " The stately dames of Edward the Fourth's Court rose with the lark, des patched their dinner at eleven o'clock in the forenoon, and shortly after eight, were wrapt in slumber. How would those peo ple be astonished could they but be wit nesses to the present distribution of time -JL l J . M.inniED, In Mecklenburg' county, on Thursday, the 30th nit. hv the Rev. John Uobinson. John tt.JU;ans. of CaWus countv, to Miss .Maar.,t inui, daughter of the 'llev. John 31. Wilson, of Mecklenburg. On the 16di ult. by Henry Connor, Esq. Har nett Dougherty, Esq. late of Lincolnton, to Mrs. 1'oUy J'on-rrs, all of the county of Iincoln. UIEJJ, la this county, on the 2d instant, at the house of Jacob Pahel, Mr. iniliam Jtobertson, a tran sient person. He said he lived, when at heme, about thirty miles from Fayetteviilc, and that he left there four children. XjThc printers in Fayetteville might confer a favor on the rela tives of the deceased, by publishing' the above. . In Manchester, X. II. on the 8th May , Ma jor Cien. Joax Stare, aged 93 years, 8 months and 24 days. He was a native of New-Hampshire, and for nearly a century resided cn the banks cf the Mernmac, near Arnosktsjr Fails. When 21 years of age, Le was captured by the Indians, carried a prisoner to Montreal, and re deemed by Mr. Wheelwright of Boston. Soon after, he w3 at the head of a company of gcrs, and by Lis courage, caution, and vigilance, distinguished himself as a Commander of one of those corps which were to IrgbJy distinguished in the French and Indian wirs which preceded the revolution. In this last war, the deeds of Gen. Stark till up many of ths ra.V- brilliant and well known pages of its history. He joined the army at Cambridge, and continued in active se n ice to the close of the contest. I lis achieve ment in 1777, at Bennington, in the capture of the British and German corpx amies, was one of the most intrepid, important, and cheering events of the Revolution. Those only can ap preciate its importance who were witnesses of the gloom which was dissipated by this glorious event, and the spirit it inspired in hearts almost sinking into despondency. At the close of the war of independence, he retired a his paternal residence, and mingling with the hardy and in dustrious yeomanry of his native state, spent a protracted life in innocence and peace, hating outlived at! the General Officers of thi army to which he b longed. Jiotzn Cen'.iiul. ESC UL A PI AN SOCIETY. Charlotte, .Ifec V.vr,r, .V. C. A MONO the various sciences and literary pur A suits of life, there is rone morc pre-enanent-ly important than that which is emphatically st 1 ed the healing art ; which brings health and joy to mankind ; which counterpoises the frail con dition of our nature, and meliorates or remedies the miseries which result from the indulgence of our vicious propensities Several hundred dan gerous diseases have been known to exist, for centuries past, (and the catalogue is annually increasing-,) under a thousand variegated shades and modifications, so as frequently to embarrass the most learned physicians and require the ut most exertion of genius to keep pace wkh the progress of disease. This at once shews the importance of the profession, and the necessity of using1 all possible means to acquire a knowl edge of all the discoveries that are made in Surgery and Physic. And inasmuch as our State Legislature has hitherto nesjleettd to cher ish or support this useful science in any wry whatever, "a number of Physicians from various western counties of th's state, together with some from the adjacent districts of South-Carolina, met by previous appoint:!. cut, in Charlotte, on the 15th diVf May last, and unai:irr.oiily agreed to associate themselves in the form it" a Societv, to.hc known by the name t the LSCULAI'I.N SOCIETY; 'the ohj; cts of which are, to inci e a spirit of investigation and re search ; to tViftuse H'torni-ttion an.uij; the mem bers ; to establish such rules as may promote an harmonious intercourse ; and to advance the character and forward the interest of the pro fession, fiC. The constitution provides that the Societv shall be composed of those who subscri bed at the time of its adoption, and others who ihall he admitted under the fuliow ing- regula tions, vi : ' When any one, vv ! has been reg ular iv educate d as a phvsician, w iahes to become a member, he shall make his intentions known to une ,,p tj(C managers, and at the next irett- iug shall he balloted for, in which rase a major- ity ol the members present snau eiect or reject ; aiid incase unv .shall oiler lor ir.en.bcn.iap uho - formptlv examlneJ. he orthev , e , it,. ,i "iiiii v, I and if recommended bv them, tdll be bahoted , w . . ... I , . , luc as iiuue ouiui. Conformably with the constitution, the follow ing official members were elected to serve cne year, viz : Dr. Samuel Henderson, President. Br. Kobert MKinzic, rice-President. Dr. Stephen Fov, 3 Dr. David H. Dunlap, Cc. Secretan . Dr. James Divings, Pec. Secretary. Br. Joseph W. Koss, 'JWasurer. Br. A. ti. Anderson, librarian. Br. Chas. S. H. Schiefftl.n, " Dr. Joseph It. Darnall, I J .Mate Br. A. School, Br. Samuel S. Harris, Br. Johri M. Harris, After the Society was organized, they pro ceeded to form rules and regulations for their own benefit, and especially ordered that their rates of Fees, by which they have pledged them selves to be governed, and in which the commu nity feel themselves interested, should be pub lished in the Western Carolinian. Those rates are as follows : Fro m To Visits by day, per visit - - - in night, double - - -Mileage by day, per mile - - in night, double - -Cathartics and Emetics - - -I'ilK per doz. ------ Epispasticks ------ Fever Powders, per doz. - -Tinctures and Mixtures, peroz. P. Bark and Columbo, per oz. -Venesection ------ Extracting tooth - - - - - Consultations ------ Written direction or Iiecipes -Oral Advice ------ Attendance, per hour, in day -" in night Obstetrical Operations - - -Amputations ------ Paracentesis ------ Dislocations Fractures ------- Trepanning ------ Depression or extracting Cataract Introducins: Catheter - - - Si 25 50 o 5 50 1 1 1 5(A 50 5(4 5 511 3 1 1 5 o 25 SO 5a 1 20 25 :o 10 10 40 40 - o 1 10 5 5 5 5 20 20 1 Enema - - 50,' (Gonorrhoea j 10 Lues Veneria I 20 Merc. Ointment, per oz. - - I 50j By onler, D. R. BUNL.V.1, Ccr. Stc'r?: IN SALISBURY, NORTH-CAROLINA, BY William II. Slaughter, A T his large and commodious Buildings, two 1 doors east of the State Bank. He has lately employed an experienced and attentive' Bar Keeper, w ho, with the aid of clean, well furnish ed Chambers, a well stored Cellar, Ice-House, Granary, good Ostlers, &c. is able, he flatters him self, to support his claims, in an increased degree, to the very liberal patronage his House has for so manv j ears received. TraitUers and Private Boarders v.'ill continue to meet with these comforts and attentions with which they have, hitherto, been pleased to ex press themselves so well pleased. CjThe Northern, Southern, and Eastern Stages, put tip at this House. .Way 1, 1822. The Editors cf the Georgia Journal, the National Intelligencer, and the Raleigh Register, arc requested to insert the above advertisement in their respective papers three times, and send t their accounts to this office for payment. '4 Sale TosV$mieA. TUP. Sale of the lots ui the town of Salisbury; advertised to be sokL under a decree of the Court of Equity, on the lJth of Jtme, is post poned utitil Monday, the - 3d of September next. GEO. LOCKE, C. M. E. June 11, 1S2J. lw W1IIE Co-partnership of Francis U. John Irwin, JL hitherto existing in Charlotte, N. C. and Jasper county, Georgia, has this d;ij dissolved by mutual consent. Those indebted to the concern will please to make pav merit to either of the sub scribers, who are indi idujJiv authorized to trans act am" business relative to the co-partnership. FitANClS IRWIN, JOHN IKWi.V. .UIiw 1, - Ti A T Rowan county court, V!ay term, 132.?, the subscriber obtained letters of adnrda".st ra tion on tiie estate of the Rev. J Ah Canigan, deceased. All persons indebted to the said es tate, are requested to make payment; and those who lave claims, to exhibit them wiihia the time limited by la, otherwise this notice will be pled in bar of recovti v. jno. m 'culloch, .u.:r. June 8, 1S?2. 3;7 .vo7Tr;;. f flHE heirs and distributives of Henry Deilin JL g"er, deceased, are hereby notified to attend at John Zimmerman's in Lincoln ton, on the Wednesday of the next July court, held there, to render a statement in writing- and upon oath, what property they may have received cf their father, the deceased Henry Bellinger, hy way of advancement, in his lifetime ; and if the." fail to attend according' to this notice, I sh:!l proceed to make distribution of the goods and chattels cf the estate of the said Henry, with out anv reeard to anv claims thev rr.av have. "MICHAEL KKI.MIAKU f, .Id nr. JJ.ico-'nto.i, A". C. .Ma 29, 1S22. 3i'7 400 VhAV.ws 1.yiYv. Savz'wl Ji Lindsa", I ATE a Merchant of Mecklenburg" county, J N. C. h tt his family the latter part of Feb ruary last, and is suppv. sed to hav jjone to i e of the south-western states. Jiiul-.av is a1 '.. : 9 years of age, red complexion, s.uj 'y o':n.d hair, has had one cf his legs h-roka near the ancle, and writes an excellent hand. '1 he last accounts from him, left him in C! .itlesion, .C on the 30th of March : he left there on that J-v, in a. new glr, and bus not since been heard from. He has forfeited all claims to confidence ''.'i; his friends ; has made a default in the pa ru of his debts, of several thousand dollars ; . i 1 lias probably taken a large sum of money v :r!i him. He may probably change his name to that of Wilson, or Carson. The above reward will be given to any pei .-;; w ho will give me information of his place of res idence, so that 1 get him in four inenths; an J half the above sum if found in s'x months. Ir is confidently hoped tht ail friends to honesty and humanity, will use some exertions to discover the same to me, or anv other knowledge they J iua uaie vi unit. ANDREW LINDSAY. Guilfurd Countv, .A. C .May 25, 1822. 2.vt5 N.B. The E.iitorsof the Georgian, Sava-inah tlie Press, Vahaicba, and Republican, II tn;;-.-li'le, Alaba. Floridian, Pensaathi, "and Adver tiser, .Yer--Or!ean$, will please to insert the a above in their several papers, four times. CLOCK & I F. 1 TCU REPAIRING. THE subscriber respectfully informs th lie, that he has again taken h;s shop in lisbury, on Main street, opposite the - ta 1. r , where he is prepared to execute all orders the line of his business. Clocks, Watch Jev, elry, &c. repaired on the shories nr-t-ice. He solicits the patronage cf his friends, his n- cur tomers, and the public in general, and asu os them that he will do their work, and sell '.hem ail articles in his line, on lower terms than at any other shop in this part of the state. HUGH H0RUL Scbiburv, .Mtii 28, 1822. 103 liiiat Von .2nd Pxlrilition, Pleasant Retreat .icademy. in JJncchiton, JST. C. FfHE Examination of the students in the Lir 1 colnton Male Academy, will commence ---n the 2nd July, and end on the 3d. The succeed ing day the students will have an exhibitn, vhich, it is hoped, will be highly entertainm;-, as it w ill consist of a nnmber of select speeches and interesting dramatic performances. Parents and -Guardians, and friends to litera ture, are requested to attend. B. REINHARDT, Sec'ry. Jlag 25, 1822. iwtY IU URKE County, is now open for the recep ,1 tion of Scholars, under the patronage of a respectable Board of Trustees. The mode of instruction pursued is the result of much atten tion and experience, and eminently calculated to fit young g-eivtlcmen and ladies for the active duties of life, and to prepare students successful ly to pursue their collegiate studies. Lectures in an easy, familiar snle, are given three or four times a week, on 1-inguage, His tory, Rhetoric, or 31 oral. Intellectual, Natural, or Political Philosnplry. Great attention is paid to reading, speaking, writing, and pmnoimcinj the English language with correctness and elegance, and to the man ners and moiais of the pupils ; and every thing done to promote their happiness and improve ment. Tuition Per annum, and board on the most reasonable terms. The village is pleas ant and healthy. French and Italian will be taught grammati cally, if requested. Jpril 15, 1S22. 3mtll0 Sale o XegToes. BY virtue of an ord?r of Court, obtained at May term, 1822, w ill he sold at the Court -House in Salisbury, on Saturday, the 29th of June, of the estate of Robert Baird, deceased, the following NEGROES, viz : Rachel and her two youngest children, Nicey and Mary, to satisfy the debts" against the estate. The term of credi one vear. WILLIAM BARBEH. JJV. Jtey 25, 1822. 3s. t'Jp
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