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A oat in entered aa lha ran gar book a bay mere, blase in tba (ace, 14 1-J hands high, no brands or marks of gear, euppeaed is be 1 or 14 years old. valued at f 30.00s taken p ia March mat, and at now ia the poeseeeion of im McCutlum, Anenn Co. Kichardaoa'e Creek. The owner is requested lo eomply with the lew and aka away the property. . . M. W,CUTHBEHT80X, Ranger. AseoB, May S7th. 18t, - 3131 THIIEB IIUXDRED PEKSOXS. 1 1 AVE bought and fairly levied the quality af S P. NASHV PIANO FORTE", and hold themselves ready to rcesHomrnd them to those mh may be in want of the article, Don't paf for tba Piano nnlil yoe ore what it U and the) you an aura of not being imposed apoa' ID Bosseriuer onera aia tastrnmenls spon trial X t ' B. f. NA6H. ; wetter at vevK aa fiance, 19 Ptler.borg, V. v " ' SWEET. A ttwhand in Philadelphia advertiace his wie will pay no debts of her contracting. The amiable dear replies, that people need pot be alarmed, as- he pays no debl of any kind. ' - ; - . - "1 .TRr"A;Tir J " North Carolina .--.i tvtiit t 1 ' 5 ' LETrER FROM GEN. SCOTr. GOV. DORK. ' The Hairisburg Telegraph ssys it will bo J The Providence Chrouicle of SaturJar remembered, that at the recent county meet- ( ays: "Wilmington Aldrich, of Bristol, R in5 of the friends of Gen. Scott, a commit ; ,, tells a friend of ours that he saw "Gov." tee .was appointed to propound certain. questions lo him and receive his answeis.. I This committee, consisting of Messrs, Mac- lay, Dunlapand M Ulure, immediately w rote to Gen. Scott, and received his prompt te P-JJ Washi-oton, Jul 15, 1812. Genilemcn I have the honor lo acknowl edge your letter of yestetday, written as you flatteringly inform me st the instance, "of - a large and respectable meeting of your (my) friends, convened at the Court House, in Harrlabog, Dauphin county, Pennsylvania,' and propounding certain questions, which I shall cheerfully answer. Int. "Do you believe that it is the duty of an bxeeuiive, in an elective Government, lo appoint lo office, as a general ml', per sons of his own political opinions and friend ly 10 his administration?" I not only belirve it to bo his duty to ap point to office, persons of that general party which elevated him, but, lam of opinion that the exceptions to the "general rule," if any, ought to be exceedingly rare, ami foun ded, not on considerations personal to the Executive, but on .the good of ilia public serviceas the possession of some acciden tal or peculiar qualifications in opponents, for the particular employments in question. 2d. "What are your views wiih regard to a Tariff of duties, not only for Revenue, " ' ' '""'"' bM&t Protection'" Although long; in the way ofexprcssin my humble views on this subject, -havi never before been e tiled upon to givelilLn in wiiiing. V. .That the necessary revenue of the federal government, for general purposes, may, in lime of peace, be most cheaply and conve niently raised in the form of Custom House duties, and that it ought to be so raised, in the whole, ara questions, which, in my judg ment do not admit of a doubt. From a familiarity with the principal wit ters 011 political economy, I was esrly much smitten with the doctrines of Free Trade; but between the years 1824-8, being stimu lated by the discussion of the period, to re consider first impressions, I soon became thoroughly persuaded that the theory of wealth, however beautiful, would impover ish this country in . its trade with many, whose rival products are shielded by duties generally high, and in many cases, prohib itory. Until, therefore, the other great com mercial nations can be forced- to practice upon as well as to propagate in speeches, and writings, the liberal doctrines, I shall be in favor of countervailing and retaliatory du ties at homeso that, in raising the neces sary revenre for an economical administra tion of the federal government we rosy, by discrimination, effectually protect our own industry-agricultural, mining, and mechan icalagainst the half starved labor of for eign countries. I consider this line of defensive policy which has heretofore succeeded with us. and for that reason, again entitled lo a (air ex periment, in the present general distress to be as much in the spirit of national inde pendence, as it is, in my judgment, indis pensable to tlio internal and lasting prosper ity if ail parts of oui cherished Union. Deeply sensible of the high honor done me by the meeting which you represent, -: I remain, gentlemen. With great respect esteem, Your friend snd fellow-citizen, I ; WINDFIELD SCOTT. Messrs R. P. Alaclay, J. D. Dunlap, . J. M'Clure, Committee, dec. : . Mr. Hint, the Secretary of the Corpor- als's Guards of the City and County of Philadelphia, haa addressed a letter to Mr. Wise, announcing the fact of his election as a honorary member of that Association Mr, Wise, in answer to this letter, travels out of his way to abuse Mr. Clay, -calling him Dictator, Ac and glorie in the cognomen of ;; Corporale Guard," which, he says, "was given to us by the Dictator himself." Has Mr. Wise forgot the randatoty language he m ployed in 1840 in defence of this same Dictator, when he wrote to the Hanover Dinner! If he has, it would be as well to refresh his memory by the following extract from ihat letter: TV.. Int. "He (Mr. Clay) has already acquired what neither fiteiwlo nor foes can take from him fame for which he himself has fought and to which no man's praise ean add. and from which no man's censure ean detract and that lame is his reward. Office could not add a cubic to bis statute." DEATH OF DROWNING. We leara that a man named Maeay, was drowned on last Sunday week, in lha north part-of thia county, while bathing M Ivy creek. To add to lha gloom and horror of the occasion, be was, ss wa have been been infntsned, a wiek ed man; and among his last wot da, ware wuhs and blasphtiniea. V Sabbath breakers take waminp! ,, . , .. , ,. - . iiu. . ;j" ,v.----v h im" f . ' ' WHIG PROSPECTS IN VIRGINIA. " The Alexandria Gazette saw: "We have the most encouraging poli':evJ aceonnls from the Northern Neck of V, tiiiis. ; Tbete is' said not to be seven Tft nen in the seven counties and several gendemen who voted for Van Buren at the last Presidential elect ion have now come out openly for Clay," BL7 A bale of new eat ton, th first of the session, was received at New Oilcans oa the Srth nit. , Powerful in mora), in intellectual, and in physical renourcea the land of our sires, and the .. ... . ., . i . - ' " ' : RALEIGH S. C;VENE8DAY, AUG .17, 1842. Dorr in Beck man street, New York, yesier day morning, between ten ,nJ eleven 0 clock. He has known him intimately for fifteen years, is not, neither can be, mistaken in the man. James Sears, mule spinner in J. F. Sim mon's .n ill, Simmonsville; knows Dorr well. He stales that he saw him at Anthony's house, also at the fort of Qhepachet; that be met him in Broadway yesterday, between ten and eleven o'clock, a. m.; thai he spoke to him, addressed him as Governor Dorr and shook hands with him." DISAPPEARANCE OF ELDER ORSON PRATT! The Warsaw Signal, a paper published near Nauvoo, states thst information had been received at Warsaw, of the sudden disappearance of Elder Orson Pratt, a prom inent Mormon. He left a paper stating that his disappearance was caused by Joe Smith's treatment of his wife, and by some wrong doing in the church, He confirms General Bennett's statement relative tn Joe Smith's attempt to to seduce Mrs. Pratt. It was supposed by some in Nauvoo, that he had committed suicide, and about 500 persons were out in search of him. THE BOUNDARY AND A DINNER. The Washington Correspondent of the New York Uniuu saya: I have met with a friend who has given tne some account of the dinner, st the dwelling of the Se cretary of State, on Saturday; in celebra tion ufihe settlement o! the N. K. Boun dary question. The President, the whole Cabinet Lord Aahburton and suite, Mr. Fox and suite, the Commissioners from Maine and Massachusetts, a few Senalurs, and those of the gentlemen engaged iu the North Eastern Boundary surveys then in the city, Msjor Graham and Capt. Talcott, made ip the company, The must har monious and peaceful spirit prevailed. Mr. Webster gate a toast '-Queen Vic toria! Lung may she continue to reign ivrr a p'o-perous and happy people." Lord Ashburton gave "The President! Perpetuity to the institutions of the Uni ted State-. The President give "The Commissioners! bletseJ are the peacema ker." ' Mr, Lawrence gave Lord Ashburton, who has always manifested ihe most friend ly sentiments towards the United Stales-" Lord A. said, in reply "Thai at his time of life nothing certainly but a strong regard for his kinsmen on this side of the Atlantic, a desire to see removed alt cau ses of dispute between them and his coun trymen at home, so that nothing might re main to interrupt the friendly regard, and a confidence thai a settlement might be made of all those controversies which every honest man in either country would approve, could have induced him to un dertake such a voyage and such a task." The Secretary of War was then toasted, with Some pleasant allusion to hi busi ness being spoiled by the the Commission era, &e &c. The party sat down at five and rose at nine. The dinner was very plain, though handsome enough, and quite in keeping with the unostentatious simplicity and good taste of Ihe Secretary. . NEW POST OFFICF RATES. A bill is now pending in Congress, pro vided fur the reduction ol Postage rates, and making it uniform wi'h our currency. The N. Y. Tribune gi-e the following synopsis of it: - -i ' "Every letter conveyed a distance not exceeding 90 miles, shall pay five cents every letter conqered over SO and under 140 miles, shall pay ten centst over 150 and not exceeding 300 miles, fifteen cents) over 300 and not exceeding 500 miles, twenty cents Over 500 miles, twenty-five cents. All way newspaper! are to be sub ject to letter postage, aud none will pay the simple" newspaper postage but those from the office of the publisher. Th size of hewspajters is to be limited also. Rail roads, steamboats, e. are prohibited from carrying letters and parcels Private expresses also prohibited, except on a sin gle occasion, and where no compel) saiiou is received." ', ' ., Tttllmony of Heptct. 1 he New York Courier sys "As the steam ship Great Wes'ern approached the City en Saturday i it was perceived that she had the French Sag flying half mast, and the rumor Smmedi ately spread that Louis Phiilippe was dead, bat Capt. Hosken having with all expedition sent his papers, and lettert en shore, it soon, became known that the Great Western bore this emblem of mourning in conse unence of the Duke ol Orleans, the oldgst aara and presumptive heir to the Throne of tn iving ol the rrencn. i he r rencii wsr steamer Le Gomer in our point, immedi ately commenced firing guns every fifteen minutes, whiih she continued te do until set down yesterday. She was answered throughout Satnrday by thr U. S. ship of tne line isortn Carolina, tne tort at Uo eernor's Island and the British1 frigate Warspitc, which fired minute guns, the number corresponding with the ace of the prince at his death. All the ships of war in port lowered their colore halt mast, with the French flag at the fore.V ' PARTY DISCUSSIONS. AVe think there is much error in the mode of discussing polities by the two great parties arrayed against each other, Ihe eifect of which on the nohlie uiiu.l is far from producing- Ihe wholesome results wnicn ouitltt tu be Orsireil ahtf eineeted from a full, free, and candid exposition f party principles, 'I he greet mistake to winch we allvde, is the lolly ol judging ne representative oi bngianu, no ever, and charactetixing parties by soma one or, ha I an audience n the samediy, the mo two isolated sets of policy, instead of la-! of which is not known. The Ainer king a comprehensive view of the tenden- ican'olBrer immediately embarked on b-ard cy of the whole system of politics of ei-j " Spanish vessel, to report the result of ther party, and slanininz them according- his mission to Commodore Morgan." ly. No party probably, ha existed which I could boast, with any shadow of truth, that its every act was either peifrct or laultless:or which had for its every act, a a as a s ' ne entire approval even ul ail its own con stituency. And no party ever can exist which will be able to make such a boast with truth. Error is attached to all things subluna ry; and no party has existed or ran exist, which may challenge exemption from the inherent frailty. Hence the excerdihg mistake of forming a judgment of parties by any one or two isolated acts. The pro per subject of inquiry should be, what is the genius snd tnid-ney of the poliiicsl sys'em of the party whoe politics we are investigating? Aa a whole, are its ten dencies conservative of the -great interests of society, especially by Ihe enforcement of the mutual and relative obligationa of Ihe various parts of which it is composed? Does it tend to the preservation and peace ofaoriety, ss well by the guarantees of civil liberty it stiorda, as to On perpetuity by the enforcement of the wholesome and necessary restraints incident to all social existence? These are the questions which should be aked and delermjned not a mere isolated question, here and there which may be right or wrong, politic or impolitic, without at all deciding ihe rea! character of the party through whom it may have been originated. j ooulhtrn Hecordtr. Win Pascagouia Th$ , Mytttrioui Mu$ie.'lUt .strange, wiUl. ai'd as yet unaccounted for this fairy-like music, still floats over the beautilul Day in I run I of Mrs. McRea'a at West Pascagouia, and was distinctly beard I by a party uo Monday morning last. It was about daylight when- the music first struck up, and alter slowly rising aa it were, from the water immediately under the beast, circling a bout in the air for some little time, it fi na I ly appeared , to separate and fly oil in different directions until ihe cadences died away in the distanre. At first the sounds, lo use the remarks of a gentleman present, were like the drone of a bagpipe, then they resembled the hommingof a bee in a small and confined soom, and finally, as they were losing themselves in air,: floated oil like strains of the Eolian harp. - Furmelv, neither threats nor blows could indues the ignorant blacks in the neighborhood to venture out after night, and even to thia day.it is difficult to catch one of them olone in an open boat upon the quiet waters of rascegouia xtay. HEAVY DAMAGES. The Eitrl of Rinnoul presented the Rev. Robert Young to the living of Auchter warder, in Scotland, and demanded of the Presbytery to give him a trial. This wa refused. An appeal was hed to the Sy nod, which body ordered the Presbytery to confornf to the wish of the patron. It refused, and the Gei.ersl Assembly sus tained the refusal. An appeal was had to Ihe House of Lorda, when the judgement of the Synod was confirmed, The Synod refused to coulorm, and legal proceeding! being had, Ihe Presbytery was ordered to pay 5000 to the Earl of tinnoul, and 80,000 te the Rev. Mr. Young, aa dam ages. . i . We have been permitted to make the following extract Irom a letter: from a physician in a diatant county of Kentucky to his friend in thia city: j Hun. Uomp. j "Dr. G., my brother, and myself, are in attendance, at this time, upooone of the most extraordinare cases, f suppose, that history gives an account of. Oar pa tient ia a y'oung lady, 24 or 25 years of aee. ! ho hat been subject to a dislocation of almoat all the j dnis belonging to the ho man system, ever since 1832 also to vio late spasms. Some time last fall, (here commenced forming in her mouth ossifie watter, and during the months of Novem ber and December, there wore taken from her mouth some 25 or 39 bones, of various sizes and shapes, after which she appeared partially to regain her health, but within the last 40 days, Dra. 0., F., W., and myself, have taken from the mouth, ears, nose, throat, left arm, side, and all the way down to ihe font, bones amounting in all during her last illness to 193. One thing is very remarkable, that no matter where these bones present themselves, not s drop ol blood follows their distodgement from any part of the body. 'The young lady possesses cheerfulness and vivacity a midst all her tufieringt, and appears to entertain n doubt of hr recovery. w sfArigton Intelligencer! , Tbev have a real Mermaid ia Philadelphia e- bont tbras feet la length, half fish and half mon key, which was caught near, the Fejee Islsnds home of out affections .. . No . Muncca and the United States. A lUr fmm Gibraltar, dated June fiSd. in (he Madrid journ ls, says: "An officer in the American qnarlron having solicited an audience of the Emoeror of Moroco. f(r the puepose of repi rsenting to him the rompuinta ui too aurnts ut tne cniieit Stales, wa refused, although, it must be diiiiited in i term f ..exquisite pwlitf nets, i Home League Toasts, on the 4th ultimo. The Belles of Broadway the lilies of our lands: "They toil not, neither do they (pin, yet Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed .like one of these." Matrimonial Compromises A Judicious tariflfof duties, looking t protection as well as revenue. " , .. "The world owes us a living," but like many other debts, in these turns, it is pretty hard work tu collect it, as many find. HYPOCHONDRAISM. Every practitioner must have seen or heard of persons fancying themselves made of glass I once had occasion, says Mr. Wadd, to visit an earthen-ware patient. A fat gentleman sent for me, having jnet with an accident, notirery serious in its na-1 lure, but painful. Lotions, bandages, and plaisters, were applied, sectmdem artrm, and the case wegt un most prosperously j but in proportion as he got on surgically he fell off physicully, snd, instead of being pleased and thankful, he became querulous and morose. Remembering Uouvirt's scale for convalescence, and, that "good morning, Mr. Houvart," was the announcement of a perfect cure, I guessed thia was my patient's case. I did not, however, perfectly com prehend all its bearings till his valet, a very shrewd fellow, said Bless you, sir 1 you must not mind him, he's only coming back to hia old ways." Old ways!" "Yes, sir, he's going to be a tes pot 1" -,"A whatr" "A tea pot I Thia may seam very ludicrous, but U Is very serious, and must be treated seriously, when it occurs. Theso kyyochondriucs are like Moliere's sick man, they always fly into a passion when credit is not given to their complaints you may easier call them scoundrel, than tell them they look well and, as Montaigne very justly remarks, they will allow themselves to be blistered, snd bled, "for evils which they feel only in their conversation. many ingenious eontrtvsn ces have been resorted to in these rases. Wa read in ancient history, that Philotimus cured a patrician, who fancied he had lost his head by putting a heavy iron hemlet on his skull, the weight of which successfully convinced that he had atill a head on his shoulders. A worthy, fat. hypochondria cal bachelor sent for ino one day, to tell me that he was dying t lhat he had left 'direct ions I should open him for the benefit of mankind j and, that, if it was important, it muht be done immediately after the breath had left his bo lyj only taking care to pierce him through the heart, to prevent resusita lion. This scene was repealed at least once a year, for twenty 'years t at last he died. with as good viscera us any gentleman of seventy-nine years of age was ever blessed wiih. lie was one of those who studied the art of srlf-tormenting, a comfort which, unfortunately for those about him, he dis pensed with a liberal hand. J'tiv seemed the pabulum of his life t and to exact com miseration for imaginary ills, 'Which real ill, and they alone ran cure,' was the great object of his existence. He ste well, drank well, slept well but. what of that I He had "weak stomach and giddy head flying gout, wind in hia veins, and water in his akin, with constant crackings and burnings." His business seemed seek ing for new causes to mske himself misera ble, "Your pulse is very good, sir." "Ay, so you say every body ssys so 1 that pulse will be the death of me t my pulse deceives every body and my complaints are neglect ei necause 1 happen to have a good pulse i:: j'Your tongue, sir. is clean." Ay; there it is again ; you should bave seen it in the morning as white as a sheet of paper." v A GOOD REPARTEE. 1 1, A Democratic lawyer of this city, with a bundle of Bankrupt" papers under, his arm, meeting a Whig friend, a day or two since, exclaimed How much we are obliged to you Whigs .for that glorious Uankropt Law!" J 1 'Rather thank your own party that it made the bankrupts," was the ready and ippropriate rejoinder. . , ! oanannan Republican. The Harriahuri Reporter contains an ad dress to tho Deinocratio citizens of Penn sylvsnia from a committee appointed at Har risburg on the 33d of March last, in which the claima of -the Hon. James Buchanan are urged in favor of hie nomination as at candidate for the Presidency. The address I ill. HMIMM..J. iL.I . .....Iim t. held at Harrieburg en the eighth of January next, for the purpose of making an expres- sion of public opinion in relation to the sub- ject. VETOMKSSAUii. ntifthut if Krprtfmotirtt alAa XT. StWi J.iv triih gnlaiie4 regret 4ht 4 turf j invieli Hllier the necetaitjof returning ta t the lloute of Rrpretenutif et, witK pta uujetuons, a mu emitieu "An act to pro- -vide revenue from imports. tnd to change and modify existing, laws imposing duties oo imports, and fi r olhrr purposes. -Nothing can be more perfffrtl ,te any indi vidual called upen to perform the chuf Executive duiica under our limited Coo , sti utt.m, than to be constrained to with -hold his assent from an important measure adopted by the Legislature) yet he would neither fulfil tin btgli purposesVfhia sta tintt, nor consult the true interest or the solemn will of the People, (he common constituents ol both- branches of the Gov. eminent, by yielding bia wellconsidered most deeply fixed, and repeatedly rieclar ..... . d opinions on matters of grvat public con ccrnment to uwse oi a co ordinate denan e menr, without requesting that -department aerionslyr toreeiamlmtliei ttbjecl ofthc8rdif fcTence. The exercise of some independence of judgment in regtrd to all acta el legisla tion is plainly implied in the responsible ily of approv ing them I at all times a duly it becmiisea a peculiarly solemn 'and im perative one when the subjects passed sp on by Congress happen to involve, as in the present instance, the most momentous issues, to affect variouly the various parte of a great country, and to have given rise in all quarters to such a conflict of opin ion aa to rentier it impossible to conject ure, with any certainty, on which side the mjiriy really is. Surely, if the pause-for reflection intended by the wiae authors of the Constitution, by referring the tub ject back to Congress for. reconsideration be ever.expedient and neceotary.it is pre cisely such a esse as the present. On the auhjecj of distributing the pro feeds of the sales of the public lands, in ihe existing state of the finances, St has been my duty to make known my settled convictions oo various occasions duringthe i present session of Congress. At the ope ning of the extrasesiion, upwards of twelve pfr,Jrnin!. p.pey ,d cfedit, I .i J - VZ l.tJ?:: Z. mouths ago, sharing fully in ' the general. recommended such Idistributitmf but that recuminendatvun was even then expressly coupled with ihe condition that the duties ori imports should not exceed Ihe rate of 0 per rent, provided by the compromise act uf 1333. t hese hopes were not a lit tle encouraged and these views strengthen ed ty tne report oi Mr. (swing, then sec I retary or the l reasury which was shortly . thereafter laid belore Congress, in which be recommended the imposition of duties at the rate of 20 per cent, ad vulorem ou all free articles, with spsctneu excectionii and stated, "If this measure be adopted there will be received iq the Treasury from customs, in the last quarter of the present year (1841,) t5.30O.00Oj in all of the year 1842, about f22,S00,000j and in the year 1843, after the final reduction V nnderJhe act LMrchiVl833 About - 20,800.0OiH and adds, ' It Is bellved -that after' the heavy expenditures rrqui rrd by the public service in the present year shall have been provided for, the rev enue which will accrue from that or a near ly proxitrate rate duty will be sufficient to defray the expenseiol bt Government, and leave a surplus to be annually ap- ' plied to Ihe gradual payment of the nation al debt, leaving the proceeds of the public lands to be disposed of as Congress shall see fir." . I was must happy that Congress st Ihe time seemed entirely' lo concur in the recommendations of the Executive, and anticipating the correctness of the Secretary 's conclusions, and in view -of an- actual surplus,' passed tha distribution act of the 4ih September last, wisely lim iting ils operation by two conditions hav- ing reference, both of them, to a possible state of the Treasuiy, different from that which had been anticipated by the Secre tary of Ihe Treasury, and to the para mount necessities of the public service.. ; It ordained "lhat if at any time during the, existence of that act Jhrre should be an V i imposition of duties on imports ioconsit-t ' tent wiin tne provision oi unset oi me u March, 1833, and beyond the rate of du ties Gxed by that act, to wit, 0 per cent, on the value of inch imports or any of them, then the distribution should be sua-; pended and should continue so suspended until that cause should be removed,", By a previous clause it bad, in a like spirit of wise and cautious patriotism, provided for another case in whichall are even now agreed that Ihe proceeds of ihe sa'es of Ihe public lands should be used for the de- ; fence ol the country. It was enacted that the act should continue and be in . force until otherwise provided by law, un less the United States should become in- ' volved ia war with any foreign Power, in which event, from the commencement of hostilities, the act should be suptnded an- til ihe cessation ol hottmiies.- . Not long after Jh, openbg . of the prea- ent session ot Congress, the unprecedent ed and extraordinary difficulties that have ' -recently embarrassed Ihe finances of the : country began to assumes serious aspect, .ji lt toon became nuite evident that Ihe hones - nnder-wliieh the set of 4th September was passed, and which alone iustibed it . in the eyes either of Congress who impo sed or oCthe Executive who approved-the ' first of the two conditions just, recited, were not destined to be lulfilled. -Under the pressure, therefore, of the embarrass ments which hsd thus unexpectedly an- ' sen, it appeared to me that the course to be pursued had been clearly marked out ' fr, the government oy- thai set itaeii.. The condition contemplated it, it at re- -' quiring a suspension of its operation, had occurred. It became necessary, in the opinions of all, to raise the rale of duties . upon imports above SO per cent and with r. . ir.i . .i. .,.. a view both to provide available means tu meet present exigencies, and to lay the B.t.l!.M fa. . .M.....rnl M..All.il..n m.t loan, I felt it incumbent upon me to urge upon Congress to taise the duties accor- dingly, imposing them in a spirit of a wise discrimination, for the two-told object Ol '1 -
The North-Carolina Star (Raleigh, N.C.)
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Aug. 17, 1842, edition 1
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