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' f SO U T H E l ? l l l i L I POST. 126 v'4 I , biographi- cal sketch, recently published m the M Magazine, intimate, that the pnde of th two States was touched by the election of a orth Carolinian to the command of tie Southern Department, when these States, and not his pwn, ere tLe theatre of war ; and that Howe, from the beginning to the close of his career, was bever cordially ustain.ed by either of our South ern sisters. It seems that on the 13th August, 1778, there was a hostile meeting at Cannonsburg, in your State, between Howe and General Christo pher Gadsden; the latter having refused to re tract injurious reflections upon the conduct of the former. Barnard Bee was the secoDd ot Gadsden, and General Charles Pinckney of Jlowe. Howe's ball grazed Gadsden's ear, the 'former was untouched, and they subsequently became warm friends. The celebrated Major Andre made this duel the subject of a featirical poem of eighteen stanzas, which,is preserved in Johnson's Traditions and Reminiscence of the Revolution, p. p. 204, 5, 6. ' Harnett had the best possible reasons: fur sus tain ing and cherishing the reputatiou' of; Howe. The latter was not merely a gallant soldier, but a polished gentleman of rare attainments. He is understood to have been a scion of the noble stock that bears his name, and to have jenjoyed extensive intercourse with good society at home and abroad. This may have been one reason for the extraordinary attention which he received at the hands of Sir Henry Clinton. The pro clamation of the latter, issued " on board the Pallas, in Cape Fear river, in the province of North Carolina," on the 5th May, 1776f offered free pardon to all such as should lay down their arms, and submit to the laws, "excepting only. from the' benefit of such pardon, Cornelius Har nett and Robert Howe." On the following Sun day; between 2 and 3 o'clock in the morning, 900 troops, under the command of Lord Corn wallis, landed in the eounty of Brunswick, and ravaged Howe's plantation. These incidents, and his brilliant services in the defence of Nor folk, were sufficient inducements to the Contin ental Congress to place him at the head of our forces in the Southern Department. Can you supply me with satisfactory proof of the real causes which produced his recall! ; The General Assembly of this State,; at the last session, authorized the Governor to appoint an agent to collect documentary information, in relation to the history of North Carolina, with authority- in' his discretion to visit the mother country for this purpose. I have, atJJie request of Governor Bragg, given some attention to our domestic sources, and have succetded in secur ing some interesting papers. The original Letter Book of GovernorlTryon, containing his official correspondence frm Oc tober, 1764, to December, 1771, and theminutes of the Council from April, 1765, to June, 1771, presenting his views of the commotions produced by the passage of the Stamp Act, and: the de tails of the war with the Regulators. A folio of 600 pages is in the hands of the copyist at Cambridge, under the generous supervision of Jared Sparks, LL, D. ; Jfour forthcoming volumes promise to obvi- tiecessity of much research among your public archives. In the Charleston Library, nevertheless, and especially in the files of revo lutionary newspapers preserved there, which my friend Dr. Joseph Johnson has already examin ed for me, with good results, I hope to fiud in teresting materials for history, which do not come within the range of your collections. Can you direct ray attention to other depositories within your State of like promise ? I hope in due time to be able to examine the collections of the Historical Society of Georgia, t Savannah, which I suppose contain riph trea sures of information, not merely inflation to Georgia, but the entire South. Yours very re spectfully. D. L. SWAIN. K. "W. GlBBES, M. D. ' GENERAL ASSEMBLY: DOCUMENTS ACCOMPANYING THE GOVERNOR'S MESSAGE. A. Tennessee river, 35th Deg. ) N. Lat. Oct. 15, 1819. J Their Excellencies, William Rabun, Esquire, ! Governor of the State of Georgia, and John Branch, Esquire, Governor of the State of Jortn vorouna. Gentlemen. Aerreeablv to vour letters of . . - instructions to us directed, to wit : from his Excellency William Rabun, Esq. to Gen. Allen Daniel and Col. Benjamin Cleveland Commis sioners on the part of the State of Georgia, for extending the boundary line between the State of Georgia and: North Carolina, bearing (Tate the 24th August, 1819 ; and from his Excellen cy John Branch, Esq. Governor of the State of North Carolina, to Jesse Franklin, James Me bane and Thomas Love, Esqs. Commissioners for the above purpose on the part of the State oLNorth Carolina, bearing date the 12th July 1819. We, the undersigned Commissioners! jointly convened at Ellicot's Rock, on the Chattoogee River, ou the 20th day of September, 1819, when a personal interview with the respective Commissioners was had, and an interchange of their respective powers exhibited, and the man ner of running and marking the boundary line, mutually agreed on, that is to say : ito com mence at Ellicot's Rock, and run due west, on the 35th degree of North Latitude and marked as follows: The trees on each suie of the line with three shops, the fore and aft trees with a blaze on the East and West side, the mile trees with the number of miles from Ellicot's Rock on the East side of the tree, aujfa cross on the East and West side ; whereupon the Jme was commenced under the superintendence of the undersigned commissioners jointly ; Timothy Terrell, Esq. Surveyor on the part of the Com missioners of the State of Georgia, and Robert Love, Esq. Surveyor on the part of the Com missionersof the State of North Carolina; up on which latitude the undersigned caused the line to be extended just thirty miles due West, marking and measuring the line as above di- rected, in a conspicuous manner throughout In addition thereto, they caused at the end of the first eleven miles after first i crossing the Blue Ridge, a rock to be set up descriptive of the line, engraved thereon, upon the North . aide, September; 55, 1819, N. C. and upon the South side, 35 degrees N. L. G. then after TTik la A M. Hooper, esq-. in crossing the river Cowee, or Tennessee, at the end of sixteen miles, near the road, running up and down the said river, to a locust post mark ed thus, on the' South side, Ga. Oct. 14, 1810, and oft the North side, 35 degrees N. L. N. C. and then at the end of twenty one miles and three-quarters, 'the second crossing of the Blue ridge a rock, engraved on "the North . side 35 degrees N. L. N. C. and on the South side, Ga. 12th ctober, 1819; then on the rock at the end of, the thirty miles, engraved thereon upon the North side. N. C. N. L. 85 degrees G. which stand on the North side of a mountain, the waters of which fall into Shooting Creek, a branch of the Highwassee, due North of the Easteijn point of the boundary line between the Sljates of Georgia and Tennessee, common ly called Montgomery's line, just six hundred and sixty one yards, all of which will more fully 8ppeaj-, reference being had to the survey and plot f the line as laid down by the Surveyors aforefekid, which plot and certificate we re prer sent ajs being correct, according to our best judgment and exhibit as a part of our report. The) Commissioners further remark that in theirjfirst effort to designate the line at the end of thiky miles before mentioned, they found themselves one thousand and seventy-eight yards to the North of the 35 degree of North Latitiide. which line thev corrected by tracing:, after finding the true latitude where the last mentioned rock stands In! testimony whereof, we have hereunto set our hjarids and affixed our seals, the day and year jrst above written. I ALLEN DANIEL, Seal. Seal. SeaC Seal. Seal. BENJ. CLEVELAND, J. FRANKLIN, THOS. LOVE, JAMES MEBANE, North Carolina, Si rrt County, ) October 22d, 1819. j His Excellency, John Branch, Esquire: I have just returned from extending the boundary line between the Stales of North Carolipa and Georgia,. from Ellicot's Rock, 35 degrees North Latitude to the West. Before this reaches you, no doubt you will have receiv ed th$ commissioners' report with a plot of the line, is these papers were confided to the care of Mrl Meb ane, one of the commissioners, and who ilesides nearest the citv of Raleigh. Thl business occupied more time than was expect ed : t jut I flatter myself with a hope that the b correctly done. Should it proe satis work! factory to you, and beneficial to the govern ment.!! shah be gratified.' P 04 my return home, the constant inquiry was 'f how will the laud acquired by the late treaty from the Clierokees, which belongs to North Carolina, be let out." I could only an swer 5:i the negative, that it was a matter of fu ture legislation. However, upon this subject I baveiijio hesitation in my own mind, as the propee course for making the best of them, (which no 'doubt, will be the wish of govern ment I will, with deflerence to the better judgment of others, and w ith due respect to you, briefly submit the outline of that plan whichjhas presented itself to my view. I will first remark, that the country is an ex tensivi bed of mountain, not fit for cultivation, except upon the water courses. To section up the whole, the - expense would not ju-til'y the measure. The River Tennessee, or Coosee, with i s tributary streams, forms the principal part of the lands that are fit for cultivation withit. that part of the tract belonging to the State; of North Carolina, acquired by the late treatyj with the Clierokees. Thcse valleys are narrow, but reasonably fer tile. jjTo effect the object, I would appoint one Commissioner, whose duty it .should be to ex amine) minutely, and point out such lands as should be surveyed then one principal suivey or, wiih as many Deputies as necessary, to eom pletejjhe survey in the shortest time that mav be required. The principal surveyor shou'd superintend the surveys, aud make a connected plot, properly numbered, and designated in a plain! jnanner ; and as tbe survey progressed, re port j rom time to time, to the Commissioner, whose further duty it tdiould be to take proper entry in books for that purpose. The tracts to be laid off either in squares or oblongs, to con tain not more than two hundred, nor less than one hundred acres each. Wji;h industry, these lands might be brought into market by November, 1820. The survey could be completed and laid before the pro per luthority, in due time for sufficient no tice tp be given of the time and place of sales. Theyj should be offered to the highest bidder ; but for a sum not less than two dollars per acre, jat the first sales ; if they did not meet a ready market, the succeeding Legislature could ruake further regulations, by lessening the price or otherwise as the interest of the State miarht i - requiji. That those lands should be brought into market at as early a day as possible, strikes me wijtb great force, because the Indians are all of! nearly so, preparing to remove to the Westj,jand white men getting possession of thei little plantations ; and I have very little doubt that almost every one of these little farms will be cultivated by white men the ensuing season. Manf of them flatter themselves with the pros pect df taking a second crop ; founded in some measure, upon a belief that the government cannot, or will not bring the land into market beforej the second crop is planted. I wjll take the liberty to mention another subject, w herein I think the interest of the State possibly may be involved, viz : The line be tweenlNorth Carolina and Tennessee as a natu ral bohndary, as laid down in our act of cessim to thijU. States, of 1789, beginning upon the extrejne height of the Stone Mountain, where ii . . . the Virginia line crosses it, running from point to point, as therein described, until cails for the n)kin Ridge of the Great Unacoy Mountain, from thence to the Southern Boundary of the State ! t ! The; line recently run between the States of Georgia and Tennessee, commonly called Mont gomeijy's line, has been, extended according to my opinion, many miles to the East of the Un- aeoy.ij Upon the 85th degree of North Lati tudes jwe stopped our line, where we found the Easternmost point of them, or rather a due Nortlij of that point, six hundred and sixty-one yards j I traveled westwardly, from whence we concluded our line perhaps, 12 or 15 miles inauired of Indians as well as white men. wher was the Unacoy Mountain and all concurred in pointing to the West for the Unacoy. VVhat object the Tennessee Commissioners had in view for extending their line to the East of the Natural Boundary, I have not been able to discover. I have understood that there is an arm of the Unacoy that leads up between the waters of the Highwassee, ., and. perhaps the Nantihalea rivers, which joins thBlue Bidgeff near the 35th degree North, which has been contended for by some ' as the Boundary be tween the two States. Should this matter rest for a length of time, may it not be construed into an acquiescence on the part of N. Carolina ? that she claims no further than where we set up the rock at the termination of our line ? I have submitted these remarks with a view to the interests of the State of which I am a citizen. With much respect, I have the honor to be your most obedient, J. FRANKLIN. Extract of Mr. Mebane, one of the Commiss- toners. " Thus Sir : I have given you a detailed account of the manner in which we have dis charged the duties of our Mission ; you will no doubt discover, from a perusal of this Journal that we have met with some disappointments, and more difficulties than we could have ex pected, which have of course, prolonged the time in which the business has been done, and in creased the expense. We however, flatter our selves that we have executed the duties of our office faithfully, and that the Hue as far as ex tended by us, will be found correct, be approv ed by your excellency and ratified by the Leg islature. As to the money which may be due me for expenses, or payment of the hire of hands, I expect to see you, if not before, during the sess sion of our Assembly, when I will give you a correct statement of the whole. If it would jnot be considered assuming in me, I would take the liberty to remark with respect to the country reclaimed to our State by the late treaty with the Cherokee Indians, and enclosed by the line just extended, that I ap prehend, although the greater part of it is moun tains, yet it is much more valuable than gene rally supposed. The mountains afford an ex cellent and lasting range for cattle and horses ; no doubt some valuable minerals, and the streams of water which break through them, many of the best sites for mills, iron works or other machinery that I ever saw. The valleys, especially of tbe Tennessee and and its tributary streams, afford considerable quantity -of as good farming land, as any in the Western country, with as pure and wholesome water as ever ran out of the earth. It is be- ieved by those best acquainted with this valley, that there is now living in it, near about three hundred families of Cherokee Indians, who will nearly all remove in the course of the next year, and that there willbe good land enough to make from 800 to 1000 cood farms of a moderate size, which if prudently laid oft", and sold to the highest bidder, would probably pro duce to the State, from fifty . to one hundred thousand dollare- - tell tLia Lowtrtr. is COHieC- ture, but I am inclined to think it well founded. Although the valley i9 surrounded by moun tains, yet the gap in the mountain, at the head of it, is the-best by far that I ever saw in the Blue Ridge ; indeed it is so near a dead level that no person would imagine whilst passing it, that it, is a mountain at all. The prospect of market to this valley is not discourasrino- ir i said not to be more than 110 miles from Au gustain Georgia, with an apportunity of ma king a very good road and tolerably conveni ent to Charleston, South Carolina, which gene rally afiords a good market for beef, an article which could be raised with the greatest ease in this country. As to the part of our State which still belongs to the Cherokee Indians, it is impossible as yet, to speak wjth any certainty, as the boundary between this State and Tennessee is not yet de fined, and as there appears to be a considerable difference of opinion where it will be finally es tablished, i It would however, seem, from all the information we could procure either from Indians or whites who have been long resident in that part of the country, as to the names of mountains, &c, that our Western Boundary must be finally settled, and we shall have, when purchased from the Indians, (it is said) as much good land on the Highwassee, &c. as we now have on the Tennessee. This together with a plot of the line, Commissioners' Report and a letter from Major Franklin, in behalf of the Commissioners, will I hope, be handed to you by the bearer, to whom I have entrusted them. It is not convenient for me to come to Raleio-h at this time, or I would have done myself the pleasure to deliver them in person. I remain most respectfully, vour humble ser vant, James mebane. November 4tb, 1819. His Excellency John Branch, Esq. The Putrid Sea. By Reference to a good man of the Crimea, it will be seen that a long and irregular shaped gulf extends along the whole northern and eastern coast of that penin sular. This is called the Sivache or Putrid Sea. It is, however, rather a lagoon than a sea, re sembling in many respects the shallow bayous in Southern Louisiana. This sea communicates on the north with the sea of Azof by the Strait of Yeritchi, which is only a furlong in breadth, and it is elsewhere separated from that sea by a narrow sandy tongue of land seventy miles in length. The breadth of this sea is from five to fifteen miles, and it receives the Salghir, the principal river of tbe Crimea. By an east wiadJ the water of the Sea of Azof is foreed through the strait, and often covers the surface of the lagoon, while at other times it presents only a pesufenous expanse of mud. It is this sea of which the allies have obtained command. Geniezi, Gentchi, Denatchi, or Yenitski, as it is variously spelled, and which has been destroy ed by the allies, is situated on the straits at the entrance of this sea, and about sixty miles due east of Perekop. The possession of this place menaces the communication across that narrow neck of land, especially if the northern part of the Putrid Sea is navigable for vessels of a smaller class, as is not improbable. It must be obvious on an inspection of the map, that with the Sea of Azof in the possession of the allies, the Russian army in the Crimea can now only 24 idV dependbpon supplies received by the long and difficult land route via. Perekop, and this com municjtjon is liable at any moment to be cut off byhe occupation of this place. " The im portame of the sea of Azof to the Russian army h the Crimea is made manifest by the fact F'ch is stated in the news by the St. Lou is. SeX two . hundred Russian transports ioue 7oouuv says iwu uuuuim uu -j uio been captured and'destroyed by the allied squad ro. The loss will be seriously felt by the Rus- iians, and will undoubtedly tend to hasten the capitulation of Sebastopol. Boston Journal. ; A Bright Page its Our History We ap pjnd below, a brief extract, from the address de livered by our townsman, George Davis, Esq., before the tuo Societies at Chapel Hill, at the latei Commencement. It speaks in brief but eloquent language of an incident in the early history of our State, to which the due meed of credit has never been assigned. When all the circumstances are considered the position of parties the advance in patriotic spirit which this bold deed denotes its execution without disguise in the open day the importance and high daring of the act, stand out in bright col ors. History has not yet done it justice. The Jet was committed in North Carolina! Wil mington Herald. In the first of the year 1766, the sloop of war DilHgence arrived in the Cape Fear, bringing the stamps. Now, look what shall happen ! She floats as gaily up the river as though she came on an errand of grace, with sails all set, and the cross of St. George flaunting apeak, her cannon frowning upon the rebellious little town of Brunswick, as she yawns to her anchor. Peo ple of Cape Fear, the issue is before you! the paw of the lion is on your heads the terrible lion of England ! . Will you crouch submissive ly, or redeem the honor that was pledged for you ? You have spoken brave words about the rights of the people have ye acts as brave ? Ah ! gentlemen, there were men in North Caro lina in those days. Scarcely had the stamp ship cro sed the bar, when Col'. Waddell wbs watching her from the shore. He sent a messenger to Wilmington to bis friend Col. Ashe. As she rouuded to her anchor, opposite the Custom House at Bruns wick, they appeared upon the shore, with two companies of friends and gallant yeomen at their backs. Beware John Ashe ! Hugh Wad dell, take heed ! Consider well, brave gentlemen, the perilous issue you dare ! Remember that armed resistance to the King's autbo-ity is treason In his palace, at Wilmington, the " Wolf of Carolina" is already chafing against you ; and know you not that yonder, across the water, England still keeps the Tower, the Trait or's Gate, the scaffold and the axe ? Full well they know ; but They have set their lives upon the cast, And now must stand tbe hazard of the die. By threats of violence they intimidated the commander of the sloop, and he promises not to land his stamps. They seize the vessels's boat and hoisting a mast and flag, mount it upon a cart and march in triumph to Wilmington. Upon their arrival the town is illuminated. Next day, wh Col. Ashe at their head, the peo ple go in crowds to the Governors house, and demand of him James Houston, the stamp mas ter. Upon his refusal to deliver him up forth with, they set about to burn his house above his head. Terrified, the Goveruor at length complies, and Houston is conducted to the mar ket house, where, in the presence of the assem bled peop!, he is made to take the solemn oath never to execute the duties of his office. Three glad hurrahs ring through the old market house, and the stamp act falls still-born in North Caro lina. And this was more than ten years before the Declaration of Independence, nine before the battle of Lexington, and nearly eight before the Boston Tea Party. The destruction of the tea was done in the night by men in disguise, and history blazons it, aud New England boasts of it, and the fame of it is world-wide. But this other act, more gallant and daring, done in open day by "well known men, with arms in their hands and under the King's flag who re members, r who tells of4t? When will history do justice to North Carolina ? Never, till some faithful aud loving son of her own shall gird his loins to the task with unwearied industry and unflinching devotion to the honor of his dear old mother. "Can you let me have twenty dollars, this morning, to purchase a bonnet, my dear ?" said a lady to her husband, one morning, at break fast. " By-and-bye, my love." " That's what you always say, my dear, but how can I buy and buy without the money f The husband' handed over. A man will be what his most cherished feel ings are. If he encourages a noble generosity, every feeling will be enriched by it ; if he nurse bitter and envenomed thoughts, his own spirit wdl absorb the poison, and he will crawl among men as- a burnished adder, whose life is mischief and whose errand is death. Rev. Thos. G. Lowe. We were present at the laying of the Comer-Stone of the new Methodist Episcopal Church, in Hertford, N. C. on Satur day last, and had the pleasure of listening to the discourse of the distinguished and eloquent divine, whose name heads this article, delivered on that occasion. We do not recollect ever to have heard the effort equalled on any similar occasion, by any one indeed Mr. Lowe's style and language are approach ed by few, and surpassed by none we have ever listened to. We should do the gentleman injus tice were we to attempt a description of his ad dress. But we can say the subject of his Address, (Free Masonry,) was handled in a masterly and most eloquent manner. At the conclusion of his speech, he remarked, that he had been charged with flattering'the ladies, but whoever made the charge whoever said that he possessed language to flatterthem perpetrated a libel -upon the tex ! All weiWifonly' pleased but delighted with the speech. JV. C. Sentinel. Local Episcopal Preachirs. The Episcopal Church has by a canon created an order of men not unlike the local preachers in the Methodist church. Men in secular life can attain to the or der of deacons, and continue in secular business still. Seven or ejght gentlemen in New York city have complied with the provisions of this canon ; and now although on work days employed in vari ous secular business, on tbe Sabbath assist in the ministrations of the sanctuary ; they are deacons but not permitted to preach without special leave of the Bishop. BANK OF THE STATE OF N. C.-NEW CHASTER BEJECXKD. : The Amraal Meeting of tbe StoAholders of the Bank of tie State of North Carolina, toot place at the Banking house, in Raleigh on Monday last. Hon. D. L. Swain was called to the chair, and E. B. Fimn. Esn.. aDDointed Secretary of the meeting. -- ' - . . The Committee appointed to ascertain tne amoum oi Stock represented in the meeting, in perscn and by pro xy, reported that there were 6,664 shares of stock belong ing to individual stockholders, represented by 154 shares nd entitled to 1,563 votes, besides 1,000 shares belonging to the University, entitled to 70 votes, and 5,027 shares helonging to the President and Directors of the Literary Fund, it being' a very large majority of the stock. The President submitted the usual sUtements showing the condition of the Bank, which Mepe accepted and, ap proved. The question of the acceptance of the act, passed at the last session of the Legislature, to re-charter the bank, was then considered, the following resolution being in troduced : Resolved---That the Act of the General Assembly, pas sed at its last session, entitled, " An Act to r -charter the Bank of the State of North Carolina," be, and the same is hereby accepted. This resolution, after being ably and calmly discussed, was rejected by the following vote : YpAS Fifteen persons, representing 1,360 shares, enti tledto 169 votes. ' Nays One hundred and thirty-four persons, represent ing 6,067 shares, entitled to 1,352 votes. Not Voting Five persons, representing 237 shares, entitled to 47 votes. The Stockholders then proceeded to the election of se ven Directors of the principal Bank, when the following persons were re-elected George W. Mordecai, Wm. Peace, William Boylan, Alfred Jones, John H. Bryan, J. B. G. Roulhac, and B. F. Moore. At the meeting of the Board of Directors, held the next day, George W. Mordecai was re-electad President of the' Board .Reguttr. DEAF I DUMB. I THE BLIND. From the Greensboro' Patriot. IS. C. INSTITUTION FOR THE DEAF AND DUMB A ND THE BLIND. The wonderful discoveries and inventions of the last half century, by which commerce, agii culture, and all the arts that tend to increase tlie wealth, comfort, and material well-being, of our race, are to the humane and philanthropic mind less striking than those less prominent, but more enduring ones, whereby the rays of intellectual light, and the voice of heavenly wisdom are communicated to those whose eyes have never looked upon the wonderful works of God ; who-e ears have never heard the whisperings of a moth er's love, the counsels of a father's wisdom, the songs of Zion or the glad tidings of Salvation by a Savior's cross ; and whose tongue has never lisped a mothers name, or answered to affection's call. s The active energies of these last days have not passed over these unfortunates unbared for. For long ages they were regarded as hope less. But now a brighter day has dawned upon them. An avenue has been found to their minds and heart. The treasures of knowledge, the fields of science, the delights of social inter course, and above all the faith and hope of the Gospel of the Son of Gol with all its other ele vating, purifying, and hallowing influences, have been madeltbeir inestimable inheritance. The countenance once the vacant index, of the blank within is now lighted up with the fires of intell'gence the eye of the mute, once heavy and dull, has been taught to flash and kindle with new emotions, and tbe hand, once useless, has been taght a cunning, ' which well supplies the:want of vocal sounds." "They are indeed excluded from the fierce and heartless strife of political ambition and the busy din of the com mercial mart, but they can converse with the sages of the years that arei past, and have a never-failing resource in the silent and instruc tive companionship of books; they can "com mune with their own hearts and be still." So far, th en, as the mental surpnsses the material, and the spiritual the earthly, are the discoveries and inventions that tend to develope the resour ces of the former higher than those which ter minate only in the latter." While North Coro'ina may proudly point to her rail-roads and river improvements ; to her improved agriculture, increasing commerce, and flourishing schools and colleges; yet with no les real satisfaction, may she point to the provision which though slowly and inadeuqately she is making for the comfortable accommodation, re lief, instruction ud well being of the insane, i deaf, dumb and blind among her people. A deep and lasting debt of gratitude is due by her to the able, energetic and accomplished gentlemen who, some years ago, opened a school for the edhcation of the deaf and dumb at Ra leigh. This was done at his own risk. But feeling confident that such an Institution would be sustained, he went on ; and now we can see the rich fruits that are rewarding his patient, and self-sacrificing labors. ' "W ho can visit the class rooms of the Institu tion occupied by intelligent pupils, full of new life, whose very minds may almost be seen de veloping, trained in every branch of useful knowl edge, and fitted to take their place among the most refined and intelligent class of the commu nity, and not feel grateful that the Capital of our State has such a school, so ably managed by such officers ? It was the delightful privilege of tbe writer of this article to be present, for the first time, at an examination of these pupils on the 15th inst. Seldom have the deeper feeling of the heart been so stirred as when we listened to the sweet mu sic of the blind, or when a mere child, Wm. Covington, of Anson county, read in the raised characters, some of the Psalms of David, which were mentioned by gentlemen present In flu ency, accurate emphasis and distinct enunciation, the reading of this blind child is rarely equalled by any of his age, even though blessed with the possession of every sense, and means of improve ment. It is not my purpose to give any detailed ac count of this examination, but rather to give ut terance tosoibe of the impressions it made upon those presenti A goodly number of clergymen and others from various parts of the State were in attendance, and the dense throng of citizens, which filled every part of the sacred edifice, in which the examination was held, testified to their deep interest in, and cordial appreciation of this noble Institution, and to the success of its wise managers. It was amazing to behold the rapidity with which the deaf mutes could communicate with each other, to see the accuracy of their written language, the facility with which they compre hended abstract ideas ; and especially to look upon the graceful gestures which took the place of sounds, and the high and glowing eloquence that beamed from the countenance, as if the faculty of speech had been transferred to tbe eye, and the whole soul were laboring to give utter ance through that organ to iu swelling emotions. Many a manly eye was filled and dimmed by the tear of deepest feeling as it gazed upon that impersonation of devotion which exceeded all that the poet has ever imagined, or painter de picted, when Miss. Perlina Shelton, of dgecomb county, a child of years of age prayed the Lord's Prayer in the sign language. Never did we witness true devotional feeling till then. It was eloquence of the highest kind. We could realize'the force of Demosthenes' "action," " action," action," as we never before could. Words must necessarily fail tj convey any idea of the manner in which that prayer was prayed W7e might describe the upturned eye the bands nowgentlv moved now gracefully folded the open palms uplifted to heaven. WTe might speak of the bright intelligence the chill like purity the large liquid eyes, and in tense expressiveness i f that lovely chile1, but never could convey any adequate idea of that impressive scene. To -raise such a child from the death-like silence of her former animal exis tance to such a mental, moral, spiritual existance is reward sufficient for a life's labor ; and recom pense enough for all the State has expended in this noble work. And she is but an instance of what Mr. Cooke, Dr. Waddell, and their accom plished assistants are doing for our fellow beings, yea our brothers,sisters, and children in the State. We would respectfully suggest that such ex hibitions of this school should be given at suita ble points over the state. The health of the pu pils would thereby be promoted, the labors of the teachers would be appreciated ; and our representatives in the legislature would fee! that they are only carrying out partially the wishes of their constituents, in appropriating the sums that are now given to provide for these stricken ones of our race. PIIILOK05HON. From the Nashville Christian Advocate. RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION OF DEAF-MUTES- ; Their religious condition before education. ' There is no class of persons whose religious education is ef such peculiar interest, as that of Deaf Mutes. In the full possession of every men tal faculty, and living in the. midst of the .full Lght of science and religion, they are yet as completely shut out from its illumination, as if thev dwelt amonp-st the most benighted tribes of the earth. The ordinary portals of know ledge are closed ; no ray of light- finds admission to their darkened and imprisoned intellects ; their faculties, dwarfed and dormant by disease, fail to pierce and to recognize the significance of what, might, antecedently, he supposed within the power of their comprehension ; their minds remain a perfect blank, upon which no religious idea or sentiment is ever written ; darkness n closes and envelops them on a'l sides ; and thus thev would continue until the imprisoned soul should be free from its earthly tenement, in which it lives a mental death. This is a descrip tion, not over stated, of the common conditiou of ordinary deaf ruute, who have either been born deaf, or have lost their hearing in early childhood. Therd is a class of semi-mutes to whom it does not strictly apply, whose religious condition, however, is only one remove above the strictly deaf mute. Occasionally one of the latter class is found into whose mind a ray of information as to the existence of a Sipreme Being has struggled, by the aid of some inte ligent and sympathizing friend. The most intelligent mute previous to education, whom I have ever seen, was a young woman who had been taught to articulate and read upon the lips of others, to some extent, by a sister, while confined for years upon a sick bed. But even the amount of her rel gious knowledge was very small, embracing the name of God and the Redeemer, with some faint views of their character, and of a future existence of rewards and punishments. I have known no other, who said after education, that he had any thing more than a glimmering idea of the Divine existence, with little or none of the Divine attributes. Such persons have not unfrequently been re ceived into the communion of the Church by baptism. I have just been requested to say bv a young man now well educated, to whom I have communicated the pijeceding remarks, and who himself was admitted into Church member ship previous to his education, that such recept ion of uneducated mutes is wrong, being based upon a totally inadequate knowledge on the part of the mute. At least, such was his case, and I have not koown a more favorable one. He had a brother-in-law, a very able and excellent min ister of tbe Baptist Church, who had given him all the instruction he was capable of conveying, and. who was deeply distressed when told by the young man, siuce his education, that he had previously had no intellectual, much less experimental knowledge of religion. I was once urging upon a mother the duty of sending her daughter, then nearly of age, to the Institution for the Deaf and Dumb, in this place ; and when every other argument had failed to over come her unwillingness to be separated from her, I appealed in behalf of her eternal interests to the duty of affording her the opportunity of receiving religious instruction when she assur ed me she bad no doubt of the conversion of her daughter. Upon my inqiury into the groundssof her belief, she admitted that her daughter had no intellectual and religious know ledge did not even know of the existence of God or Jesus Christ certainly nothing of the Saviour's character or work of redemption. Her faith in the Christian conversion of her daughter rested, and firmly rested, upon the fact, that on a certain occasion, on her way to church, si had experienced a strong bodily sensation, as if she was struck all over her person with pins. It was upon the relation of this experience that the young woman was admitted iuto Church-membership. This is a fair specimen of the religious ignor ance of the unfortunate deaf mutes and of their parents also, in many instances. For these un fortunates are, in many cases, found in families of extreme indigence and ignorance. About one half, perhaps a large proportion, lose their hear ing in the first years of childhood, by various diseases, from want of proper care and medical attention. Very few such cases occur in intel ligent families, where the child is properly pro vided for. j Danville, Ky. 0itrn (ftttelili) BS) ,i,TT TWA nm T ' nrinrrn JAMES A. WADDELL, M. D.; edtos. RALBIGH, JULY 7, 185 o. TermsTWO DOIiABS PEB AJRrrrM ; . 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I the p ess know how to appreciate. literally out of topics. What to say. r vr,"" ! not. Our thoughts and ink have rui. J the same time and we are compel !o to n,) our bow to thi public, with an asMiraDCe tl,ur; if spared and well another week, we will vor to make ame amends f,.f the :.re-m j ciency whichj, after all, w e are not so -.r., 2 eal as to suppose will be regarded as afa;a f flaw in the present issue of ourjpapcr. ! Macaulat.I We observe ;that some wrivf in the New York Times, is endeavoring to tas:;.J upon this distinguished critic fssayist, huJ id torian, the charge of plagiarism, in the CelJ brated passage that perhaps the church ofKuJ " May exist inj undiminished vigor, ttiei, traveller from Xew Zealand shall, in the nvjJ oi a vast solitude, take his siand- on a Irok arch of London Bridge to sUtch th- iu I St. Paul's." A similar idea is traced thri,ni Shelley to Kirk White, bull on a candi.l exi amiuUion of the citations, we kre satisfied t!-;i the charge of; plagiarism cannot be. sustain! against Macaulay. The illustration tmpk.yi by him may hjave been suggested by famiiiariij with the writings of iithnrg, .but Lis u-o t,f I has all the merit of originality, bud cetftainlv in his hands it siands de veloped tn a manner' t.ej ver accomplished bef.re. If h jbt paginri.-m to write d-.wn oljd ideas in new land more eiecaiij form, then evpry modem writer is a pia-hirist by profession, ind literature it;'i but a refined humbug. i I ' ' ' Relaxation". We are trying the b-n. fit of this remeuy for the consequences of fwrd work; and recommend it, to ourtdibojial' b-ethrwi. 4- Come, gei'tlenten,. lay aide the (uil ,-r h mora inexorable -te 1, f .r a few weeks dm n i: :sliot weather, ami it' v the etf-ct of a! Aiv i ,h-i 4 i " ' upon your morals an I your-jninds. .V- Semper arcim tnuht Apollo. h will i ..t do tn grind your noses prp -iually upon the r v-j'.v:t stone of paityj'oiiii.-s. It wiili miik--i ' .4 ful and ui.amiabl , perhaps bitirjai;d mhs ...J.ri p'c. Let party iand personal squabbles ak.t.e Sjr a few mo.ith, ami betxke voiir-efve-, to tbe j ure pleasures .f rejfiiied si.-eiety, or, jtu the eotii.-js-plation of nature in her sublitn'je wiiJk. Y-L may be gainers voius-dves, and ne are sure :hV. j-our c mi try will not -ufler ficjiii a leinp. .imy cessation of ; lib war in winch j yu -are ci.4- g'3d. : . ; I -if i Trees. In jouveratiou with! a frUnd la?' !v, we had our oivn minds unu-fuially imputed with the beauty and value of ire--s, as ol j cts to the eye and pleaaiit featur.is in the land scape. A large oak, w hen its 'j foliage is jus; full and fresh, j especially if its: form symme trical and its pjosition favorable,' is one of the noblest things in nature. We know -of n.jthii:? more beautiful ihan the undulations of it-deiie green leaves inj a fresh wind oh! a summer"? af ternoon, when i storm is approaching. ll4 who wantonly, destroy the finest: growth of the forest, show very little ta-ite an 1 little regard fcf the pleasures of posteritv. j j Poor Mexico. This unhappy country net! withstanding the piety of its inhabitant, c b tinues to be rent b,y unceasing! revolutions.; Strange that so catholic a nation, whose heresy has never poluted, should suffer so muclj irom me quarrels ot tne taithful j3T Our periodical exchange will plea. cuse us if we fail to notice theth regularly hi some weeks to come. We expect to be ahect from the city, apd it will not ben our power to attend to such matters till we rejturn. ! Life Insurance CoMPAxr.-4rhe stockhoU ersofthe Life Ins'. Company hejd their annual meeting in this; city on Mndav jlaM, Mr. J. M? Towles in the chair, and Mr. f F. Tescu'l Sej cretary. i ! I The Directors submitted theii-J Report, sh"ij ingthe operations of the Company for the p' year, and its present condition.;-? Copies of thei Report were ordered to be printed, to be sent U members of the company atfl others. The re1 port shows the i Company to be lip a sound and; safe condition, ;and to be makitfg gradual bt sure pregress in lits 'operations, H ! The following gentlemen were' elected Direc-j tors for the ensujing year : Dr. diaries E John- son, W.;D. Haywood. James F.j Jordan, Qi tin Busbee, 11. W. Ilusted, Dr. H. MfKee,: W. W. H lden.j W,. D CookejjW. H. Jones,! Seaton Gales, Pi F. Pescnd, C. Bl Rot, and K.1 H. Battle. " ! , ' At a meeting; of tbe Directors held on the same day, th; following officers were ejected : i President. J)t. phas. E. Johnson; Vice-Presi-j dent, W. D. Ilavwood ; Secretary, John C., Williams, in place of James F. Jordan, reS" igned; Executive Committer C B. Root,"- j W. H dd.-n,. RII. Bittle ; Medical Board of j Consultation, Drs. Johnson. ; crtee and R- B. j TTavwrv! f;L.i V iJ. v it Mc-1 Kee ; Treasurer, Wr. II. Jones ; jutorney, W. i '-sted. ! - t r r
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