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Titt.stut and .Friday, by JOSEF liA-LS . OWi . J jt Five Dollars peraoiura-batf $n T11 5. ADVERTISEMENTS . r i ; Vnt exceeding 16 lines, neatly inserted three 2 for a Dollar, and 25 cents for every sue 'Sidin publication ? those of greater length ;n the same proportio..",CoKTmicATioi8 thankfully receiveu..juEi-A. w vwp. mast be post-paia. , , ; . s ir pRE$TTI15NTIjX From the Jfarfford f Conn. J Times. - The Washington Republican, the leading; Calhoun paper, has become so 4n'niw. for its5 misrepresentations, that but little notice appears to be tak en of it in any quarter, l ne euitor oi that paper is a British , alien, and it is .ntml has been but a short time in this countrv. It was that gentleman . wno :.?n.pd the title of - radical and nn-liefl it to the: democratic party of tf,e United States, which shows that while in his native country, he was op posed to the advocates - of. reform ( to wham that epithet is applied; ) and Mas .nnsenueritlv of the Ministerial party. Having been educated in British prin ciples, and lmmoeri.tne corrupt views and pre j ud ices of th e Ministerial party, it d perfectly natural that ; he . should now make a great clamour against the democracy of this country. 1 But what republican of Hartford County could have expected that Mr. Whitman, who wa3 sent to Congress as a represenfa7 five from this State, would adopt this British alien as his political oracle, and send home the hand-bills, &c. pf the -Washington Republicani to instruct the democrats of this County ! Yet so it is, and we cannot forbear making a few remarks to illustrate the conduct of VI r. Whitman, after introducing- a paragraph from the Washington jRef publican, relative to our County Meet ing, in which. Mr. . W. has received some "London particular' encomiums. From the Washington ReptibEcan. j We learn from Hartford Con. that the proposition of the partisans of Mr. Crawford to hold a general- meeting to adopt, some 'measure promote his election to the j Pre sidency, hak received the decided disapproj- . bation of the greater part of the republicans of that county. I This meeting i was compos ed 6f onlvr "about. 50 persons, and a motion , Ull I11C ilUlCJitij 'IU3UJUUCU1CUI Ul UIC BUU ject was lost hy a slender -majority The ar- nvai oi me anu-cauews mamtesTO, Deanngxne v name of tSeir independent representative, "Mr. Whitman, had, we understand, no small , firm in the opinion, that the conduct of Mr Whitman has afforded an additional laim upon the continuance of the confidence which i .... - . . . ... . Jias Deen reposed in him, which will pe as cheerfullv bestowed by his constituents a it isjusiiymemea. ... . .'.j - . 1 p : The statement as to the meeting and the influence ;of Mr. "Whitman's mani festo', is so milch of a h a rri e ature, as to neetl no refutation. Such a state ment surely ought to jro for what it is worth. .- " 't: vyith respect to theVcmfyct o Mr. Whitiaa, which in the opinion of the English editor ,has afforded an addi tional claim to the- confidence which has been reposed in h im, " 'we w ill "state something of it and leave the' wublic to tiecide. The performance: of this duty -c iuvc cimimencea nowever witn re iicta?ice? as we have regarded him as :J He:ih as he is ncw a fiatfon of this Iper ;.biit consfdeltions;of.thisikind mii not ueier us irom discharirinir our some pains' to create an imnression W he was in favor nf a r. Crawford, which ; jnduceaV the neudsof Mr. C. to ring: him forward 3s a candidate for dongresss irtd Ai: was "ost. wiwdly by their exertions: that was nominated for that officer He countenanced' for. some timb t!ie i-npression he had created, and 'rsf&ct 1:g Mr, Calhoun, in our presence, ob- yed, that he considered hira too . ouiig for the tiffioe of President; arid was swy that, he sh6uld ; expose himself to be : rhacle a candidate at nis timel, A short time previous' to departure fofUWasliington- j how ever 'if iu.u.j!:.i;.:jr ' . "no i.iscovercii wun. surprise -tuat he wasin favorof Mr. Calhoun, 3 ft. he was very explicit in-avowing "imseif m favnrnr.a ri.rna ! w :n eiram from oing into furijier particu. t-rs ntd lh?s i9 as little as the occa- Vof M AVhitman.: ; A gentleman V,1IS c,t7 ho though in favor of AS r. nioun, and asider from the rnmWt I- ,I..U V J t II1I or w nrk : ... . . i - j , xmtinns to the republican party, . ( -'M-Vmous to tne nomination of lifr. iitm?.n for Member of Cohjrress, he j . i 1 -. -. . j . j . f 1 1 1 friendly to Mr. Whitman, is so well apprised of, arid views in such a light tne course which he has pursued, that he cannot avoid speaking of him in the severest terms of reproach. : i That the future confidence of the re publicans of this country will be as cheerfully bestowed,' upon Mr. Whit man as it is "justly merited," we have no doubt, and yet we believe that by common consent he will be permitted to retire after the expiration of his pre sent term. : As he had no other influ ential friends in the county than those who aided his nomination last .Spring, and part of those were obtained merely by the. impression he had made that his views were in accordance with theirs on the presidential question, and all of whom now feel themselves betrayed ; and as the republicans of the ; county f enerally do not appear to place a very igh .'.'estimate upon his qualifications, and are withal, some what prepossessed against him, we think, on the whole,, that his prospects of a re-election are, to say but little, not very promising. :T J-"-".' ' j j ; "."s'fi 1 ".;' v Much has been. said in the opposition prints of the appointment of certain custom-house officers at Newport, who Were said to be federalists, to the ex clusion of 1 Republicans, by Mr. Craw ford. Let; any man of principle read the following from the National Intel ligencer, and say if he did not do right Will those editors who build up their hopes on the ruin of the republican can did ate, publish it I ' 1 The New-York " Patriot'? haying published a gross misrepresentation of the Secretary ot the I reasury, in rela tion to certain subordinate officers of,the customs at Newport in the - State of Rhode- island, it is proper to present to the public a correct statement of facts. It is necessary to premise, that by aw, the appointment of the officers in ques tion is Tested in the Collector,' with the approbations of the Secretary ; and that, by established usage, the sanction of the Secretary is necessary: to their removal by the Collector. This controlling au thority in the head of the department, is intended to secure. the proper exer-, cise of-the power of the col lector and, to use his authority beneficially,1 he must know the ground on which the collector acts. Otherwise, as public of ficers haveC the frail ties of otlier ! men, that control which was designed for the good of the public service, and for the Erotection of riieritoriotis officers, miht e usedto sanction injustice. ! "' . On the decease of the venerable Wm. Ellery, hi'3 nephew, Mr. C. Ellery, was appointed to succeed him as Collector or the customs at Newport. One of his first acts," an act to which he is believed to have been prompted by the most hon orable feelings -was tb remove! some of the subordinate officers of his district and appoint others. These appoint ments he submitted for approval to the Secretary of the Treasury. In One case, where the incumbent was a per son of intemperate habits, the change was confirmed 5 but with respect to the other, the Secretary required informa tion;. To this inquiry, the collector re turned the following ansurer: I I ' . Collector 8 ojfice, Port ofJSTevtpoYt ' j Juwe 1, 1820. : ISir-r-Having- received; your letter of the 27th ult. approvinjj the appointment of Josh ua Rath bun, an inspector and measurer at N. Kingston; but observ1npr' that when chang es take place among the! subordinate officers of the customs the causes of those changes ought to be stated,',, it becomes proper foc me to give the reasons not only for the ap poinment of Hathburn, but for that of Ebene P. Shearman, as permanent Inspector; that of David Melville, as , weigher, and that of Isaac Burdick, as guager, the three last for the port of Newport,-whoseappoint-ments were submitted for your approbation, by my letters of the 20th and" 22d f last month. The letters of my predecessor not having been delivered bveV to me with the books of the office, the practice which has prevailed during his period of service could not be discovered by jne and adopted for my guidance but having understood' that ac cording to an opinion understood at the trea sury, the subordinate officers of the customs held their places nt tfie roill of the Colleetor, though subject to the approbation of the Se cretary of the Treasury, I renttifd to make changes and submit for your approbation without causes. These, however, I have 110 difficulty in producing. Inf t he case of Rath bun and, Beckham, the latter had become by age and habitual drunkenness,; incapable of fuscharging the duties of inspector and mea surer while the former, aided by the vjgor C L i 1 '" . ; J. ; i 1 - '-. uf youtn, wen eaucaiea, ano upngiu.iu.vua racter and Conduct ' was well calculated for performing tlibse duties ably," faithfully and discreetly . AVheti ; selecting ; Shearman in Jieu of Yeomans, I believed the first named, who through' misfortune, is poor, to b 1 wor thy and capkhlemnd cohsidering- the other was in the receipt of 5 or 600 dollars annual- .ly, as permanent inspector, of $240 yearly as a revolutionary pensioner, ins sun, aisu, iner in his father's family 1 acting as occasion al inspector, it seemed to! me just, that one of . 1 1 . the posts should be relinqmsneo ana trans ferred Cfver in the manner done ; especially as in addition Yeomansf could not be said to enjoy the perfect confidence of the, Col lector. 1 j The exclusion of Coggeshall, the late weigher and guagerin favor of Melville, the! present weigher, (and Burdicfc, the pre sent eruafirer, tgives to the public the service of two men, for those of one ; the amount of Si. .... ; - . - compensation remaining the same ; and, witn out derogating from the jbharacter of the late officer,1 it may be remarked, that great res pectability attaches itself to the characters of those now employed in his stead. - These, tod, have been found among the friends and supporters ofthe adminitration of the gene ral government from the period of Mr. Jeff ex son's ascension to the present day. Melville is, moreover, a man of rajre genius, sych as it is my pleasure and pride to have esteemed and admired. - Youfjwill; perfceive, slf, that the motives which have actuated me in making the chang es heretofore communicated were good, and, will honor them, 1 think,; with your approba tion. J r: -;" '. ".('!-.';: ; .- - All the officers now serving in the district of Newport, are as I believe, deserving of confidence; of course, jpther removals will, not be; required for the pjiblic benefit. Most respectfully, I ariv sus your obedient servant, F f ". 1 -V Ij !- CHRISTO'PHEH ELLERY. " j i' ' 1 TT. H. Crutofonl, Esq, Secretary of the Treasury. Front this it appears that against one of the officers, whoSe removal was de sired, no complaint whatever was urged and against the other, the only objec tion was, that 6he could not be said to enjoy the perfect confidence of the col lector." The Secretary did not ap prove of the removal on the "grounds presented by the coll ector, and commu -nicated liis decision ill the'follovdng re- ! Treasury Department, . ' i ". , f . Jckk 13,r1820. . j Sir- Your letter of the 1st, statingf the rea sons jjevhidh induced ybu: to remove; certain officers of the customs tender your direction, has been received by yesterday's mail. :. As you could hot "hav had the benefit of the letters of youo predecessor in office, ad dressed to this department, relative to the removal of inspectors, veighers and g-agers, it is unfortunate thatyou did hot apply to this office! for instruction, in k case of so much de licacy. , . . ' - ' "' .. ! . ' . j The records of the Treasurv abound with evidence of the protection afforded by the Secretary of the Treasurv, to subordinate Officers of the customs, against the caprice or favortisrri of 'the principals. The; reasons" assigned hy you for the removal of Yeomans knd Coggeshall, are no satisfactory. That, the subordinate officers! should possess the confidence of their principals, is extremely desirablelif not indispensible : but he mere assertion that they do not possess the confi dence of that officer, cannotbe admitted as a just! ground of . remova The grounds upon which that confidence has been forfeited, must in all cases be settled, in order that a decision may be undeftand?ngly made by the head of the Treasury. You will, there fore,! immediately after I the receipt of this, restore Mr. Yeomans and Mr. Coggeshall to the places which they held in the customs under : your. predecessor in office." : If there is any thing unpleasant-1 to your feelings in this procedure, it is the)! necessary j result pf the! precipitancy with which you have acted, j Whatever vacancies are correctly produc ed.' the appointment of the gentlemen' you have named to fill them will meet, with no obstruction if they desefve'the character you have given them. I am, &c. " S j : . W H.CRAWFORD.' i C EUert Esq. Coltecior of Newport. j - :: I - -: -I "- -: The Collector carried into effect the decision of the Secretary, and there the matter, rested. I -. Whether it was prjoper or necessary to; sanction the removal-of subordinate officers of the customs on account of their political opinions, is a question that; was not presented to the Secretary. The Collector imade no allusion to the political opinions of those he sought to remove ; and from the manner in which he wrote of two of "thje persons whom he wished to!; appoint, it was to be in ferrjed that au the parties were among tiie .supporters of thef ad ministration. l Nearlv k month afterwards, the sub ject was taken tip at k republican meet- lngjatjiNewporT.anai a communication vvas made to the Secretary of the Trea sury, on their behalf,; in which the ap pointment of tbe persons wished by the Collector, was urged on the ground r ot thejr political opinion?. Another re presentation to tiiesaine effect was made by sundry inhabitants of Newport. The 1 langu age ,: of - these papers fsaves but little room to doubt tnat the oflScers who had been removed were of opposite po-1 UtKat opinions, although it is not plain ly stated that they were so. But, if tneywere, it .was tnen9 1 or tne . nrst time, j that the Secretary had any inti mation of the fact, f The subject now- ever, was no longer before? the 1 Secreta- FYvinasmuchfas thej Collector's "appli- cation nau aireaay peen ueciaea upon : and no charge of any kind .was made in either -cmuiaiucation against the o& cers. At no time since,- pas tlie v ol lector submitted to the -Secretary the removal of thesepersonsj jjand it is only upon such, an occasion that the oecretary nas autnonty (to ! This plain statement of act. the case. - it is presumed, completely refutes the charge, which the misrepresentations of the writer in the N ew-Y ork . Fatnot were designed to fix upon the- Secretary of the Treasury, of having abused his authority, for the purpose of keeping improper persons in oificej because they were leaeransts, lnasmucn as it snews that no complaint against the' co nduc of these oflScers , was ever made to the Secretary, and that the fact of their be ing federalists, if they arcj sol, was' alto gether unknown to him when his deci sion was made- The merit of the gen tlemen who were recommended by the Collector was never questioned bv-the Secretarv. The onlv Doint decided hv Itim was, that officers, against whom no misconduct or unfitness jhad been al -leged, were not to be removed merely at the pleasure of the Collector, to make wayfor others whatever) might be the merit of those by whom their places were to be filled. This is,! in truth, the only question presented by the let ter of the Collector ; and called upon as die Secretaiy Was, to decide upon the case as presented by the Collector, it is confidently submitted to ajust com munity whether ie coulcj consistently with;honor or duty, have sanctioned the removal of these officers. . ' 1 1 is, perhaps,' scarcelyj necessary to add, that no such answer as that attri buted to the Secretary, by the writer in the 'Patriot, Was ever mad i to a Member of Congress, or to any ot ler person, in relation to this subject. A.ndof the in sinuation conveyed in that part of the publication, which alludes to an impro per correspondence with i late Senator from Rhode-Island, it would be derog atory to the character of the Secretarv. that any notice whatever ihould be tak en. ; - ' ' An Act to extend the time liniited for the - settlement jof private land 'claims in the Territory of Florida. j - Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Re presentatives of the United States of America' in Vongress assembled, inatjtue time limit ed for, the1 settlement of private land . claims in the Territory of Florida, by an act of the Seventeenth Congest, entitled " An act a m ending, and supplementary! to, the 'Act for ascercauune' claims anu uuesio umu ui uie Territory of Florida, and to survey and disposal of the Florida, be, and the same is provide for the public lands in hereby, extend- Jed and enlarged, until the nrst day of Janu ary next,., when the commissioners tor sucer- taining claims and titles to jthe lands afore said shall make a return of their proceedings to the Secretary oi the Treasury, to be laid before Congress, i ji Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the claimant or claimants shall not Be required to produce, m evidence, a deraignment oi title from the original grantee ibr patentee, but the exhibition of the original title papers,' a fTeably.tothe fourth sectiqn of an act, pass ed the eighth of May, . eighteen hundred and twenty-two, entitled ' An 4ct for ascertain ing claims and titles to lands within the Ter ritory of Florida" with the deed or devise, to the claimant, and the office abstract or ab stracts of the intermediate conveyances for the last ten years preceding the surrender of Florida to the United SUte's V and, they cannot be produced, tneir absence be ing, satisfactorily accounted! for,' shall be suf ficient evidence of the right of the claimant or claimants to the land so claimed as against the United States : 1'rovided, The claim be defined in quantity, and the amount does not exceed the quantity limited in, the second section of the act which this is intended to extend : - And Provided, The conditions re-t quired by the laws and . ordinances of the Spanish government, and the treaty between Spain and the United States, shall have been complied with. , ' I ; Sec 3. And be it father enacted', That no person shall be taken - and -deemed to be an actual settler, within the provisions of the " Act amending,! and supplementary to, an act for ascertaining claims said titles to land in the Territory of Florida;" ' passed on the third day of March, one tliousand eight hun dred and twenty-tjtuee, unless such person, or those under whom he claims title, shall have been in the cultivation, or occupation, of the-lahd, at and before the. period of the cession. I -' :.;:-jv-?j' "f ,!:J i Sec, 4. Andbe itfurtierl enacted, That so much of the act of which this is an amend ment as authorizes the Secretary of said commissioners . to demand and receive from the claimants'. ten cents pet hundred words for recording titles to landylbe andL'the same is hereby, repealed-, ; . ' J ; . ? Sec. 5. And be tijfalieT former Secretaries, or those, who may now be Secretaries, to th said- Boards' of Coin- missioners, who shall have received their sa lary of one thousand two ; hundred and fifty dollars, from the Treasury of the United States, which is, by Uw, declared to be their ! full compensation, shall be, and they are hereby required to pay over, respectively, to the Commissioners," conformably with the provisions of the original law. all such fees as have been demanded, and received". by them, which shal' be appropriated tb 'defray, the expenses of the Commission. V - Sec.6. And be it further enacted; fThat bo : much of the acts of which thi is amendatory . as makes' void all claims not filed before tne ' first .day of December, one, thousand eigt hundred and twenty-three, be, and the same is hereby, repealed j 'and it, shall be lawful for claims to bf; filed any time previous to th$ first day of September next ; but all and eve ry claim not filed by that time, . shall be held and deemed void and of norie effect. j Sec. 7. ftnd he' it further enacted That -each" of the Commissioners heretofore ap pointed, or who may hereafter be appointed, who has performed, and shall hereafter per form, the duties assigned ' him,' siiall receive, from the first. Monday in February until the . first day of January next,' at the rate cf two thousand dollars per annum, in full compen- aauuii lur uis services. 1 Approved, February 28, 1824. CASH will be given for Five Shares of the Capital Stock of the State Bank of this r,. State, if offered immediately Enquffe at the Offi6e of the Registerj Feb. 15. ; -? , 27tt Tor "Eleiit, J THAT valuable Stand for a Dry Good Store on Fayette ville street, ne xt door ; to my Apotnecary store, occupied tor the last five years by Hartwell Webb. The neatness with which it is fitted out, and being in the centre of business, gives advantages which no other can nave in the place. . .. r ' - ,j f y Also the House Jnow occupied by ; Henry Hardie, near the Market, which is an excef- lent stand for a Grocery Store. j ! j-ussetssiun given lmmearareiyw j - RANDOLPH WEBB; Raleigh, March 11. i ! 34 "BanT Stoclc Certificate 4 CERTIFICATE of thirty-seven j shares' ii of the Capital Stock of the Bank of Cape Fear, issued to me in January or February, 1822, haying been lost or mislaid, if I do not hear of it in three months, from the date hereof, I shall apply to the said Bank for a new Certificate of said Stock, -v 1 JAMES SOMERVELL. TVarrenton, Feb. 21,1824 3j3m. University of North- Carolina ; .1 GENERAL Meeting of the Trustees cf J this Institution, is hereby called and de sired to be held, on the. last Mod day, being the 29th day of the present month, at the office of the Executive in this City, oh bUsi ness of importance. j - I I j GABRIEL HOLMES, ; . I j prest. ex-officio. j Raleigh, March 4. : " .. 32 ' ; iState of Alabama. Greene Countv. VV HEREAS my wife Rebecca' MEntire; W. left my bed and board on the 7th day of September, 1B21, without any just cause or provocation,' or my' consent. These are' therefore to forwarn and forbid all arid every person from crediting "her "on my . account, or fpom harboring her, with an f expectation of my paying any thing for any contract she rh;y make, as I am determined notto any thing on her account pay THOS. L MENTIRE. Notice, STRAY Geldingtaken up bjrSanVl. Mitch ( ell on the waters of South nyco, about two. miles west of Simeon Cochran's store, on the 19th of January last. The Gelding is a bay with.black legs six years old this spring, about five feet high, the horse works well and is a natural ; trotter, no' other particular mark, Valued to sixty dollars. Y f h ! WILLIAM LEAi Ranger of Caswell County. ' r 263t. I February, 5. JTOTICE. "PURSUANT to a resolution o Jl- dent and Directors of the ftlie' Presi- CapelFear Navigation Company at a meeting holden at Fayetteville on the 23d day of February, 1824, those Stockholders in the said Compa ny, who have hitherto failed to pay any. part of the First, Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth,. Seventh.- Eighth. Ninth br TVnih In stalments, of either the Original or the In- wcwcu vipiii diock i saia ijompany, are requested to coine forward and make imme diate payment to Johv Causox,' Esq. Trea vu wi vuiii(jKiiy, i xayeitevuie i or their Stock will be anlrVnn W fnurth : TTnn- day of May next, at the Town-House iii Fay- enayiue, ana )roceeoings instituted tgainst any delinauents that mav : thn TMn-.5n fn.f any balances due on said 6tock..r K I V HOBEKT STJIAli GS, rrcst. Fayetteville,. C.5- -V . f r March 1,18241 532tt- . ; , y4 TpHE subscriber having qualified as Ad 1L Tministratorl to his late - Father's Estate, gives notice to1 all persohs indebted to tzid Estate, to pay .the same without delay z and all those to whom his late Father was indebt?. ed are requested to send, account of ths saflie for settlement : . .: Teh. 21,1834." a o 7 -
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