FIAT JtSTITIA
Rf AT CtELUM.
Til EC AROL I iX I AN.
SALISBURY:
.Saturday Homing, June 27, 1 s:i"5.
CANDIDATES FOR CONGRESS
The Hon. ARIIAIIA.M KEXCIIKK. and BURTON
CRAIG & RICHMOND M. PEARSON, and JOHN
C. COTTON, Esqrs., are candidates to represent this
.(Rowan) district in the next Conjrei of the U. States.
y A meeting was held, on the 10th inst, in tlic
Scotch Irish Settlement, to nominate candidates to re
present this County in the next legislature. The Nt
minating Committee, consisting of about forty incm.
Jx-rs five from each Captain Company, unanimously
agreed on Gen. THOMAS (I. POLK as a candidate
for Senator, and on ROBERT N. FLEMING, Esq., a
a candidate for one of the Representatives of this Coun
ty in the Common. An ineffectual attempt was made
fo nominate a candidate for the second Representative.
Major JAMES K. KERR, and VM. I- CRAW
FORD, Esq., have heretofore been announced as can
didates fcr the House of Commons.
TI I E C( VENT I ( )N.
From our sketch of its proceedings, it will be seen
that this body has disposed of some of the most imjort
ant business for which it was called. ...That of etpializ-in"-and
distributing the representation in the two branch
es of the Legislature ; the substitution of biennial for
annual sessions, and the prohibition of the right of free
iiptrroes to vote at elections. The Convention, at our
latest dates, had not decided the file of the Borough
representation, though it was the general opinion that
all the Boroughs, with the exception of fur, would be
abolished. We arc decidedly of the opinion that the
whole pissc should be alxdished ; and we believe that a
l.ire majority of the people of the State are with us
we do not wish to see the principle of this corrupt sys
tem cngrafl.d in the new ('-.institution. The question
of retaining or expunging the 32nd section of the old
Constitution has not yet been agitated.
We hive not. as yet, received any account of the
npnortionment of the Senatorial representation. That
boiy, however, is to consist of f0 members, to be elect
ed bv district, according to population ami taxation.
From a Jitter, written by a member of the Conven
tion to a gentleman in this town, we have been polite
lv permitted to extract the following bt a lenient witli
regard to the number and distribution of the members
of our future House of Commons, as fixed by the Con
vention. By this, it will be sw?n that the House is to
consist of 1-0 members, and that the West will have a
decided nnjority in that Udy.
It will be observed, however, that this list is not com
pl. te. The Counties of Northampton, Randolph, Roek
inirliani, Simpson, Warren, Wayne, and Wilk" are
omitted. We think the representation in these Coun
ties would stand thus: In the West, Randolph :i, Rock
; an Wilkes 3. In the East, Northampton 2,
Warren 3, Samps-m 1. Wayne 2 giving the West G
members, and the Eust 51,
Rat.eioii, June 13, lR3-.
Dear Sir: We have just uken a vote on one of the
difficult questions before us, and one that promised to
protract our session....! moan, fixing the number of mein
l?rs in tfie House of Commons, and in distributim the
members. From the vote taken, the following will be
the arrangement, to wii:
Lincoln and Orange (Motilities will ho entitled to 4
Members; Hurke, Chatham, Granville, Guilibrd, Hali
lifix, Iredell, Mecklenburg, Rowan, Rutherford, Surry,
Stok'cs,and Wake to 3; B -rtie, Beauf.rt, Craven, Cabar
rus, Caswell, Cumberland, Duplin, Davidson, K Igecomb,
Franklin, Johnston, Mont-romery, New-Hanover, Per
son, Pitt, R:chmo!i I, Robeson, and Anson, to 2; Ashe,
15 incombe, Bladen, Currituck, Camden, Carteret, Gates,
Hyde. Hertford, Lenoir, M irfin, Wre, Nash, Onslow,
Perquimons, Pasquotank, Yancey, Brunswick, Chowan,
Columbus, Haywood, Greene, Jones, Macon, Tyrrel, and
Washington, to 1,
Mr. Van Buren has accepted the nomination of the
Baltimore Caucus, in a letter writton in his own best
btyle speaking much but asserting no! hing, or any t hing,
as may hereafter suit his convenience or circumstances.
He say s, that he has neither solicited the aid nor soiifrht
the support of any man in reference to the high office
for which he has been nominated. And he appeals to
editors, politicians, corresjondcnts, friends, &c, fi.r the
truth of his assertion. No, indeed we believe Mr.
Van Buren is too distrustful of every body to risk any
written memorial which could ever after l- produced
against him. He is truly a nun- r.inmittal man. But
that Mr. Van Buren b-i not sought tho support of any
man is most abundantly proven to be false, utterly false,
bv the fact, that the patronage of tho Federal Govern
ment has been shamelessly prostituted on brawling par
tizans to aid the election of their imrnaculato Martin
Van Buren. Yet, of all this he is ignorant and inno
cent! Oh yes: every Office-holder lias been repaired
to give in his adhesion to Van Buren as Gen. Jackson's
successor, or to give up his office; but this model of pu
rity knows nothing about iL He has solicited tho aid
of no one, no, not he. Gen. Jackson, forgetting hi af
fected concern for the purity of elections, and disre
garding the dignity of his high office, writes election
teringepistles in favor of the Heir Apparent, yet this
wily politician has not himself solicited the aid of any
,nTne readers of Mr. Van Buren's letter will sufficient
ly admire his assurance in the following paragraph:
" I am not aware that there is any point of interest in
the general policy of the Federal Government, in re
spect to which my opinions have not been made know n
by mv official acts by my own publio avowals, and by
he authorized explanations of my friends. If there be
any such, however, you may rest assured of my ready
disposition to comply, on all suitable occasions, with the
wishes of my Fellow-Citizens in this regard. 1 content
myself, on this occasion, with saying, that I consider
myself the honored instrument, selected by the friends
of tho present Administration, to carry out its princi--Ai
and policy; and that, as well from inclination as
fro n duty, I shall, if honored with the choice of the
American People, endeavor to tread generally in the
footsteps of President Jacksonhappy if I hi be able
to perfect the work which he has so gloriously liegun."
Now it is notorious that the only subject of general
policy, concerning which the Kinderhouk man's opini
ons are known, is that he labors to avoid committing
V uself cn any. There is, however, one point of hi
the "official
acts" of himself and his coadjutors. It is, that "office
is the spoil of party," and that it is to be so distributed
as to punish the refractory, to buy up the unprincipled,
and to reward the subservient.
As to his " perfecting tho work which Gen. Jackson
has so Gmrioily begun," we exclaim God forbid !
For, in that case, ho will finish by being the last Chief
Magistrate of these United States.
Daily observation convinces us of the necessity of
increased energy and vigilance on the part of those who
wish to preserve the remaining portion of the civil and
political rights which were fought for and handed
down to us by our forefathers. To the patriot and
admirer of political rectitude, the present course of po
litical profligacy must present an ap;ulling view. Ob
servation cannot but tdiow him, that the men w ho now
share the honors and emoluments of this Government
are actuated mostly by a desire to maintain power,
and thereby continue to receive their bread fiom the
public treasury. No individual is permitted to hold any
office whatever, unless he will prostitute it to the ba
rest schemes of electioneering intrigue to maintain the
ascendance of the present corrupt dynasty. Men, who
were honest and well qualified to manage the business,
have been turned out of office solely fur opinion's sake,
and others put in whose sole merit was devotion to par
ty. ..politicians by trade. What el hi could be exact
ed from such a course of conduct, but that the Man
dard of public morals should be low ered....that every
vestige of moral obligation in the management of our
politicid affairs shoulu be entirely obliterated. This is
indeed lamentable, but not the lea. true.
Jt is said that Gen. Jackson is np(scd to the inter
ference in iolitical contests of those who hold office
under him. And how does even he himself act? A
Mississippi pipr now leforc us, states, that recently a
vast number of packages have been srnt from Wash
ington into all parts of that State, franked "free An
drew Jackson, P. V. " When these packages come
to be opened, they were found to contain thousands of
copies of the I'rtrn (Jlole, which was got up for the
express purpose of aiding the election of Van Buren!
Awnkr, at The Editor of the Nashville (Ten
nessee) Republican has issued projos;ils for publishing
an Extra, to diffuse correct information among the pet
ple, in the coming contest, and to counteract " the ill
efl-cts of the ten thousand filseh-io ls daily circulated
through the columns of the Washington Globe. f
lJovv strange it is, that the editor of the Republican
should son acquire such a holy horror for the con
duct of his late ally in the general crusade against the
poor Whigs and Nullifiers. Three tdiort mouths ago,
when the friends of liberty were struggling against the
approaches of desjxlisin, in the form of the most dar
riag usurpations by the President of unauthorized jkw
er ; when the most outrageous attempts were making by
the President and his worshipped, to crush and destroy
a co-ordinate branch of the Government the only bar
rier betwixt himself and absolute power the Globe re
sorted to every means calculated to mislead the people,
and to hido the corrupt manner in which the Govern
ment was conducted. And whore was the Republican
all this wdiile? Why, almost as clamorous in support
of all these abuses as was the Globo; and, indeed, it
was looked upon as the mere echo of the Globe,
We think the cause of the IlcpuLlicans's late eevcrU
rlty upon the Globe, is very well ortrnyc'd in the fol
lowing extract from Col. Davy Crockett's "Travels in
the Kist." The Col. is describing the chat which took
place between himself and a wealthy manufacturer in
an eastern city. He says:
"Well," bays I, what do you think of Nullification
tip here V " Why," says he, ' they say, some of them,
that it was got and bred by the 'I a riff. 'Squire Wil
liams, my neighbor, said he did'nt think so: it was a
kind of come-by-chaiice, that was too wicked to know
its own kin ; aril he thought it was a very ugly thing."
4-Well," says I to him, 'Squire, setting a case: now
supposing the Congress of Jackson men should pass a
law to tax all tho looma and spindles, and letting cot
tons and woollens come in from foreign parts free of
duty, what would you do! " hy, ask em to repeal
it," says ho. tSupiose they would not do it; and when
Vou were growing rnxjrer and jioorcr, the tax gntht-rer
should come to sell you out, t-toek and fluke ?" Why,
I'd dirfputo his authority desperately ; and if that would
not do, I'd fight him, by the blue Id.tzes!" 44 And so I
would, too: but aintthat nullifying, or nomething migh
ty like it?" 44 Well," says he, 44 thr toe. that's' trainj
ful on feds most, and a man that do'nt swear had bet
ter not try a stumpy field with a young yoke of cattle."
But, far be it from us to reproach the Editor of the
Republican for his present manly course, in opposition
to the piratical crew of office-holders and office-seekers,
who arc attempting to take, by storm, the citadel of
American Liberty. On the contrary, we rejoice that
ho has at last got his eyes opened to the corruptions of
times; that he now sees the political 44 Slough of Des
pond " U.ht which we are soon to bo hurled, unless we
make a bold light. We hojo his Extra will l literal
ly patronized, and that he may slay the office-holding
gentry "like a two-edged sword."
The whole IIoo, and the whole y.s. Some of the
Virginia organs of the Kitchen Cabinet are ready to go
the whoJo hog for Van Buren, but they cant quite so
easily swallow Johnson. Most of the Collar presses
in other t,ection, including the one at our wat of Go
vernment, go the whole jtrn. Van Buren, Johnston,
and his litter, bristles, irW, and all.
Georgia State Rights Conrcnlion. A Convention
of the Stale Rights party of Georgia assembled at Mil
ledgevillc, on the 15th instant, for the purjoso of nom
inating a candidate for Governor, and also, a candidate
for Congress, to fill the vacancy occasioned by the ap
pointment of the Hon. James M. Wayne to a seat on
the Supreme Court Bench. Judge Charles Dom;hkrty
was nominated as the candidate for Governor, and the
Hon, Geoiuje IL CiiLMER for Congress.
THE MARKETS.
It gives us pleasure, in being able this week to lay
before our readers a list of the Prices Current in Che
raw. Since the publication of the Gazette ceased, we
have been without advices from that, to our Planters,
important Market, until Messrs. L.tcosrc & McKay,
of the extensive linn of tint name in Che raw, were so
kind as to be at t!u trouble and expense of forwarding
us a list by letter; and prauiie to continue it weekly.
For this kindness, we doubt not but the Planters in this
ection will sow their obligation by a liberal encou
ragement to tl.ese e!.terprizinj gentlemen. For our
selves, we return them our most sincere thanks.
Their last letter says: 44 There is very little Cot I on
comin" to market. Since the Liverpool accounts of the
th ultimo a choice article would briug 20 a 21 cents."
The Columbia Times of the lOili instant says: "Sum
mer has fairlv set in not wit listen lir.g there was so! I
yesterday 200 kales of Cotton, at 17J a ISiJ, and one lot
bf 70 bales at 1-"
We have just received the June No. of the "Farm
er's Register. Any of our friends who may wish to
examine it, can have an opportunity of doing so, by
callingatourO.lice. We annex the Tableof Contents:
Original Communications. Essay of Price the
cause and effects ot the fluctuations considered, and the
principles maintained applied to the present rage for
speculation, (o; On the culture of orchard grass, 72;
Rice bread on corn mixed with other crops, JX) ; On
saving corn-stalks, and preparing them as food for cattle,
HI ; The pea and sweet potato harvest, on the plan of
mixed crops, V2; Chickasaw pea pea fodder,
Amherst tillage, 101; To kill persimmon bushes, 101;
Wheat crop in Montgomery county, Md., 101; Com
ments on No. 10 of Farmers' Register, 111; Comments
on Xo. 11 of Fanners' Register 114; On the falsifica
tion of the anirnalized carbonaceous manure, 120; (yp
sum, as manure, not injured by being heated, 12-"i; Herds
grass on salt marsh, l'Jfi; "Stump and barrel legisla
tion" the fence law, 1J0; Iactoline desiccated milk,
PJ7; Xew disease of hogs, l'J7; Delinquent subscribers,
l"J-; Terms of publication and agency of Farmers' Re
gister, rj; Note to Essay on Priee, 12S.
St lections. Locust and Mulberry trees, 72; Lice on
cattle new way to kill them, 72; On animal and ve
getable manures, 7H; On the produce of a dairy, n ;
Visit to the Egg-hatching ovens of ('aim, 7; Manage
ment of Irish jtotatos to produce crops unusually large,
70; On artesian wells, 2; The Chcnoailium Quinoa,
4 ; Proeeedingsof the James River and Kanawha Com
pany, Kj; Principle of breeding management of
mures and their foals, K7; Submarine architecture
Alexandria aqueduct, K; Profits of silk culture in Con
necticut, 01; Superior quality of American silk, 91;
List of the forest trees of America, 91 ; The vices, and
disagreeable or dangerous habits of the horse, W On
the culture of milk weed (Aschpias Sirinen,) 10.";
Palm leaf hats, 107 ; Curing clover hay, 107; Making
clover hay in cocks, 109; Hail storm, 110; Hammering
by steam, 110; Ice and ico houses, 110; Fertilizing
properties of lime, 111 ; Temperance on rail road, 111 ;
Anirnalized carlton, a new manure, 120; Potatoes, 121;
On the preservation of pot itoes over the year, 121;
Slate of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, 12"; The
Ports-mouth and Roanoke Rail Road, 12-"i; luqinrted
sheep and hogs, 127; Time tor painting hou&es, 127.
07" A Sign. The 44 Rutherford ton Sjteetntor" a
Van Buren paer, Ins recently been discontinued, with
out doubt, for the want of patronage ; the light has gone
out lor the want of oil to feed iL
Lexinuion, N. C, June 20, 1V.
Messrs. Smith .v Hampton. ..(Sentlenn n : A large
meeting f the citizens of Davidson County is expect
ed, on the 4th of July next, at the Courthouse in this
place; at which time and place, it is requested that the
candidates tor Congress, in this district attend and make
an exiisition id their ltolitical sentiments. The secu
rity and permanency of our lilerties depend much up
on the dillusion of intelligence among the People.
MA.NV CITIZENS. 1
lom the Raleigh Register, of June 23.
State Court ntion. The most iniortant question
on which tho Convention had to act, viz: the num
ber of members of which each House shall consist,
has Ieeti settled ; after an exciting and protracted
debate, it is true, but without having engendered,
we Udieve, any bad feeling or laid the foundation
for unpleasant reminiscences. Wo know wc shall
not Ixi considered, ly any of the Speakers, us ma
king an invidious distinction, in referring to the
splendid eflbrt of Judge Gaston on Thursday last,
which, for manner, matter, and effect, will long be
remembered by those who were so fortunate us to
hear it. It will he published, of course, in the or
der of debute, though we are not certain we shall
reaeli it in our next.
The Senate is to consist of Fifty, and the House
of Commons of One Hundred and 'lccnty Mem
bers. On Saturday, it w as decided, in Committee of the
Whole, that the Sessions of the Legislature shall
hereafter be biennial ', instead of annual j and by so
large a majority as leaves no doubt that tho Con
vention will confirm tho decision.
Supreme Court. (I. W. Caldwell, of Charlotte,
and lbirwell Feathcrston, of Itin.c..inbc, have been
admitted to County Couit license.
()hiov. extra Session of tho Legislature of
mis Iiuto is no'v i: Session, convened in reference
to the dispute with Michigan alxut tho proper Immiii
dary line. It appears, from the (inventor's Mes
sage, that ho is in earnest. He speaks in strong
term and recommends decided measures.
Donaldson Academy. This Institution, at Fay
etteville, is in a flourishing condition, and will meet
the most sanguine expectations of its friends. We
erccive, by the Catalogue for lH:j'i, that there are
Students, bO of which are classical scholars.
Juital affray. On tho 15th ultimo, a rencoun
ter tok place at Courtland, Alabama, between Al
fred (iibson and He::rv 1. Jovnor; in which the
latter received a pistol shot from the former, and
dii-ti almost instantly. The deceased was formerly
a resident of this city, mid emigrated to Alabama,
when rjuito young.
The Constitution, with Mr. Livingston mid fa
mily, from France, put in to Plymouth harbor, Fng
land, on the 10th of May from whence she would
sail immediately for the United States.
Cherol fc Treaty. At the Indian Council, held
on the 11th ult., at lied Clay, by John Ross and
his party, they resolved to reject the late Treaty
proflered lo them by the President of the United
States,
DREADFUL EARTHQUAKE IN CHILI.
The ship Coral, Captain Whitten, arrived at New
Iledford, on Saturday evening, bringing an accout of a
most distressing earthquake in and about the city of Con
ception, in Chili. She left the port uf Talcahuana, 0th
of M ch. The first and most disastrous shock occurred
on the 20th f February. Of the large town of Concep
tion, not a building was left standing, aalcahuana, and
five Kniall villages in the harbor, were entirely destroy
ed. A tier the first shock the vessels in the bay were
all left aground, but soon the sea rushed on in great
rollers, and, rising twenty-five or thirty feet, completely
overflowed tho land, sweeping away the ruins. Many
ersous were- saved from untimely death by the active
crew of tho Coral. The shocks continued (three or
tour every day,) up to the time the ship left. On the
22nd, a large portion of tho Island of Caracanan, at the
mouth of the bay, wasswallowed up. The 5th of March,
it was stated there, that, from 25 to 30 towns, lieeides
many small villages between Conception and the Cor
dilloras, were scenes of complete ruin. From four to
five hundred lives were lost in that section of country -
but the extent of the suffering is not yet known pro-
bihly thrice that number have been buried in the rums.
The condition of the people, who formerly inhabited
spacious ami convenient dwellings, where now not even
a brick is left to mark the spot, is one of the utmost
suflerirxg. The poor people who live in the country in
smdl reed-huts have suffered but liltte. Their houses
withstood the shocks, and to them is preserved a roof
for shelter. Tfione who tied to the hills erected little
shantces, on the sjiotsof land least broken up, and were,
compelledto le constantly at work, procuring the food
necessary to satisfy hunger.
The scene during the first shock was appalling. The
trembling of every thing around the boiling of the
sea, as when water is heated over a fire the earth ope
ning wide, giving forth the most terrific moans, and la
boring with eternal fires. Buildings tottering in every
direction, and now w hole blocks of brick dwelling rock
ing from their foundation. In their fall they meet oth
ers, and all, as if locked in death, sink, with a tremen
dous crah, into the gaping earth, leavi.ig no trace of
their existence save memory, and the smoke and ashes
which arise from the confusion. The scene was one of
thrilling and awful sublimity.
When the first intimation of the breaking up of the
convulsed earth was received by the inhabitants of the
cities and towns, they were struck with horror, ran into
the middle of the streets and knelt in fervent prayer to
God, to save them from the threatening destruction. Our
informant, who was among the number, says that he saw
families run from their doors, and just as they left their
thresholds, their buildings, mostly of brick, came tum
bling down after them. It is a most fortunate tiling for
the people of the country, that the shock came at mid
day. Had it taken place in the middle hour of night,
they would have been compelled to flee for safely witfi
out even the one suit of clothing they now have, ma
king the tuHcring much greater.
Death by Lightning. The bouse of Mr. William
Morris, in this town, was struck by lightning, during
the thunder storm on Thursday, the 11th inst., at half
past one o'clock. Miss Elizaleth Hamilton had just ar
rived from the country, and had been in the house not
more than a minute, when she was instantly killed, ha
ving retired to a email room to divest herself of her wet
clothing. A little girl of Mr. Morris's, about 14 months
old, was considerably injured, and had her cloths torn
from her body she is in a fair way of recovery. Two
negro children were also knocked down and hurt, but
are recovered. The lightning struck two trees, about
10 feet aiart,oneof which was within 10 feet of the
shed room, into the south corner of which it entered,
and whero Mis Hamilton met her melancholy fate.
The room was literally torn to pieces, and nearly eve
ry sleeper in the house was broken; a distance of 110
feet. Wilmington Press, of June 17,
iVcgro Outrage and Riot at Hartford. The
steamboat from Hartford, which arrived yesterday
morning, brings intelligence of an horrible trans
action in that city on Tuesday last. It seemed
that u negro named Coojier had an altercation, on
that day, w ith a w hite citizen ; and, having first snap
ped a pistol at him without etlect, he went into his
house, p roc u ret Hi giin hvuled with shot, and return
ing, discharged it with fatal cfiect. Coojkt, upon
this, was arrested and committed to jail; but the ex
citement against the blacks became violent, imme
diately, and the populace assembled in great num
bers, mid tore down a house inhabitod by negroes.
One of our informants states that still greater ex
cesses were apprehended, and when the bout came
away, it was exjiected that further vengeance would
lie inilictod on the blacks. We Iiojkj not. We
hope the authorities succeeded in protecting these
miserable creatures from the fury of the jeople,
lor it is quite likely that the fate of the innocent
would be as hard as that of the guilty. A mob has
no discrimination, and never does justice. They
ought never to be allowed to sit in Judgment. It
is the duty of all well regulated communities to put
them down promptly, and with the strong arm of
the law; but there is in sucli a case as this very
little to wonder at in the popular exasperation. It
is time to look about us when the black desH?radocs
of the country, encouraged by foreign miscreants,
in the impudence of their assumption, walk through
our streets with loaded muskets, and shoot down our
white inhabitants like dogjs ! Wc have long known
the pampered insolence of the New l'ngland ne
groes, but wo v:.te hardly prepared to hear that
the African chtvalrv of that region had arrived at
this pitch. Wc did not believe that a "colored
gentleman " would venture yet to murder his "white
oppressor" with tire arms in the streets of a popu
lous city. Courier and Enquirer.
AFFECTING INCIDENT.
Ellen was a lovely girl of fourteen, the eldest
and the favorite of a once happy family. When
the school boors were over, she would hasten homo
and sit with her needle-work by her mother, or
tend her little brother, yet in his cradle, or do
whatever else was required of her, so. kindly, so un
complainingly, that her presence in the family was
like an angel's visit. When she was alwut tho
house,. in her pleasant and quiet manner, her mo
ther's brow of care would often be lighted up with
hope and joy. She would sometimes sit and fond
ly gaze upon her daughter after having listened
to the sweet tones of her voice, while she narra
ted some little occurrence, some passing event, and
as she looked upon her in the loveliness of her
young and unembittcred existence, she felt all the
aflection of a maternal heart. And yet her eyes
grew dim with the rising tear as she thought of
the future; as she more than anticipated the woes
which might, in coining years, be the portion of
her tutloved child. Hut, only a short time lrom the
period of which I am now speaking, a change
camo over tho spirit of the mother; for a change
had passed ujkii the lovely daughter. Ellen be
came icnsivc and languid. Her eye was sunken
her cheek was pale her form emaciated, and she
lay languishing upon her couch, over which her
mother watched by night and by day, till the eve
ning to which I refer. It was the hour of twilight.
The streets were getting still. All was hushed
around tho dwelling of , where lay the wasted
form of Ellen. She had been raised up in her bed,
that sho might sea the sun go down in the West.
She watched grew tired with looking. She had
just seon his rays as they lingered upon the distant
hills, till she was placed in a more reposing posture
-when the very room where sho lay bocaino tho
scene of strange confusion. From the hoarse
throat of the drunkard ! were poured forth a vol
ley of oaths and horrid imprecations. The room
was filled with tho stench of his sepulchral breath.
Tho oare-vvorn and hoart-broken wife was rudely
driven from the bod-sido of the dying Ellen.
The younger children were huddled together in
one corner of tho room pule with fear, and their
eyes rod with weeping. The senseless, babbling,
ami noisy violence of the drunkard still continued.
Tho breath of Ellen grow fainter and shorter.-
Sho raised her little skeleton hand and beconed her
inothor, who stotKl weeping the other side of the
room, to cotno to hor. She came. The poor child
had only strength to say "Why iroCt you ask
pi to be still while I'm dying ?n These were the
the last words of EHou but they were in vain.
With the last sigh of her gentle spirit, there went
up to heaven also, the inhuman ravings of the di -oaken
father! This story is not a fiction not a mat.
tcr of imagination, but of real occurrence. Ioii
ell Pledge.
A postcript to a letter from Savannah, of the 17th
instant, says: S2T,000 of the Darien money found to
day in a pile of Cotton on the vyhaif." Augw,ta (Geo.)
Sentinel, of June 10.
From the Cincinnati Whig.
The Mysterious circumstances, set forth in the
following communication, we are assured, by re
spectable authority, are founded on actual tacts.
The circumstances, as detailed, can be substantia
ted, it is alleged, by numerous gentlemen, of tho
highest respectability. We recollect, several years
ago, that a similar mystery occurred in Washing
ton City, and which, at the time, produced a great
sensation in the public mind.
VERY MYSTERIOUS !!!
New England may boast of her witches, and
the North of her fairies, but Cincinnati can now
btKist of perhaps as singular a phenomenon as is to
be found in the Union.
A gentleman, on Fourth-street, having had some
Bells hung, (among others the street bell,) was ex
ceedingly annoyed by having his servants and oth
ers called to the door some twenty times a day, or
oftener, but, on opening the door, lo and behold !
there was not a single soul to be seen ; the gentle
man and his family watched, but still the bell rung
by no risible means. Under these circumstances,
the bell hanger was sent for, and requested to fur
nish a correct bell, or remove the old one ; the bell
hanger, after examination, declared it was iinpro
erly hung, and that he would right it at once ; but,
after various experiments, what was his surprise,
to find that no silence was obtained the bell con
tinued to ring, louder than ever ! Perplexed and
puzzled, he at length quit the premises and called
on a friend to advise with, who also took his friend
and went to examine the premises. They at first
supposed that Rats might have some agency in the
business, but, on boring some 15 or 20 holes in the
joice, it was decided nem. con. that they were not
the .aggressors, and on cutting the wire within a
few inches of the bell, (at intervals) the ringing
was as violent a9 usual ; they then united the wire,
and, while holding on in two different places, the
bell rung worse than ever. Under these complica
ted difficulties, what was to be done : the gentlemen
recommended that a request be fbwarded to a num
ber of scientific persons in the city, and if ossible
to ascertain the cause of this singular Phenomenon.
Whereupon, several gentlemen were called on to
examine the premises, and if possible allay the evil
spirit, (if any existed.) One gave it as his decided
opinion, that the noise was occasioned by Electri
city, or galvanism, operating on the clapjer of the
lell ; another, by Meteoric phenomena ; whilst ano
ther stoutly maintained thatit was the 1) 1, or his
agent, (which, lie could not tell,) but sure he was
that one of them had a hand in the matter. It
soon got noised over town that the house was haunt
ed ; and the proprietor of the house was at length
compelled to take the bell down.
Great Sale. -The Philadelphia Gazette says: "The
prison lot, at the corner of Walnut and Sixth streets,
was recently sold at the rate of 11U1 (K) per foot; the
whole sum given was 220,000."
UNITED IN WEDLOCK,
In Lexington, Davidson County, on Tuesday, the 2nd
instant, by Joseph Conrad, Esq., Mr. PETER FRANK,
(a widower) aged about forty-seven, to Miss PEGGY,
youngest daughter of Mr. John Ricard, Sr., aged about
forty-three.
"Little Peter Frank" has play'd another prank,
A second rib he has spared from his side;
Batch'lors be asharn'd! for he single but remain'd
Two or three weeks without w ooing tin's new bride.
f Com m u n icated.
In Lancasterville, S. C, on the 10th instant, Mr.
JAMES W. 1TTTS, formerly of Wilkes county, N. C,
to Miss SARAH, second daughter of the Rev. Daniel
Button, formerly of Charlotte.
DEPARTED THIS LIFE,
On the 10th instant, at the house of Major Robert
Smith, in Cabarrus county, his daughter SARAH, the
w rife of William Phifer, Esq., of Concord, aged nine
teen years.
In Salem, Stokes County, on the 13th instant, Mrs.
MARY MAGDALEN A, consort of the Rev. Gotleib
tShober, aged T7.
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Valuable Stand for a Tavern
YOU
rlMIE Subscriber, desirous of removing to the
South-West, Offers for Sale tho large and
commodious TAVERN which he occupies, si
tuated in the Town of Charlotte, North Carolina,
three doors west of the Courthouse, This estab
lishment has all the necessary conveniences for
carrying on the business for which it is designed.
The Kitchen, Stables, Cribs, &c, are in gocd re
pair. Its present patronage liberal. For the pur
poses of a Tavern, this House affords many ad
vantages from its situation. The village of Char
lotte is generally healthy, and its condition flou
rishing. It is situated in a populous and wealthy
community, and is the thorough-fare of the tra
velling from the North and Eastern sections of
the Union to the South and South-west. Having
determined to remove, the premises will be afford
ed at very liberal terms. If they are not sold be
fore the first of September, they will be offered
for rent or lease. WM. S. W. HAYES.
Charlotte, June 27, 1835. p6
I WISH to purchase TWENTY or TWENTY -F1VK
NEGROES, for which I will give li
beral prices in Cash.
Persons having such property for sale would
do well to give me a call, either in person or by
letter. Any communication, addressed to me at
Salisbury, N. C, will meet with prompt attention.
SAMUEL REEVES.
June 27, 1 835. t f
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