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Tl '1 11 If I IM'I IMTTT (KILIEAMMB, WJ Any HI Wa 'A PBIXTED BY U. S. NOBLE, SALEM, STOKES CO. NORTH-CAROLINA JOHN C. BLUM, PROPRIETOR. VOL. I. TUESDAY, JANUARY 13, 1829. NO. 2. w. i 1 I f i ( I I I )&r SEtrrftls leaner II NU.1TXD AND rriLIIHED IVItT TCLSDAT MOtXlXQ. TERMS 01 Dollar per annum, if paid in advance ; Onz Dollar and 23 Cests, at the end of six months ; but if not Eaid within the year, the price will be Owe Dollar and 'ifTT ClTS.. ' AD VERTI8ELM ENTS will be inserted at fifty cents per (square for the first insertion, and twenty-five cents for each succeeding week. All letters on business must be post paid, or they will not be attended to. MISCELLANY, I ROM THE 5AT10XAL I5TKLLIGE5CEK. American Enterprise. Gentlemen : In performing some of the du ties assigned me by the Secretary of the Navy, during the past summer, I had occasion to ad dress a circular letter to a number of masters and owners of the whale fishery, and fur seal and other trades in the Pacific, with a view of collecting such information as they had treas ured up, in' the numerous voyages they had made in high Southern latitudes, that might be useful to the Navy Department, in direct ing the operations of the exploring expedition, now preparing for the enterprise. Answers were readily returned to my letters ; log books and journals w ere freely offered for examina tion, and a disposition to communicate freely was evinced in every personal interview I had with the intelligent gentlemen engaged in the several branches of the business of the Pacific. This information has been combined in a re port to the Department. In the course of these researches, many anecdotes, strongly illustra tive of the enterprise hardihood and success of our mariners, have been collected by me, and which were either too minute, or did not come within the objects of my report, which, however, I esteem of great value, and shall preserve for future use. One of this kind I have recently received from Capt. E. Fanning, a gentleman distinguished for his adventurous and successful voyages in the southern hemis phere, and I cannot forbear to communicate it to the public, as it ought to be known, to show our enterprise, and Russian justice and liberality. Respectfully, vours, &c. "j. N. REYNOLDS. " While on the business of discovery f says the Captain, I cannot but digress, to mention a little circumstance, to the credit of American enterprise, viz : The two discovery ships sent out by tho, late Emperor Alexander of Russia, on their oyae aromidhe world, being between the South Shetland and Palmer's Land, but much the nearest to the islands, were becalmed in a thick fog ; when the. fog cleared away, they were surprised to find one of the Stonington South Sea Com pany's barques, a little vessel of about fifty tons, between the" two disco ery ships, which immediately run up the United StaN's' flag, when the frigate and sloop of war set theira, and the Russian Commodore despatched a boat and officer, with an imitation to Captain Palmer, of the American vessel, to come on board, which he readily accepted. hen he arrived on the Commodore's deck, ho was asked what islands those were in sight, and if he had any; knowl edge of them ? " Yes, sir," replied Capt. Palmer, " those are the Shetland islands, I am well acquainted with them, and a pilot here. I U-lon?, Sir, to a fleet of five sail, out of Ston intou, under the command of Captain B.Pendleton, whose ship is now at anchor in a good harbor in that island ; and if you wish for water or refreshments, I win" pilot you in, and toy Couunodore will be much pleased- to render you any as sistance, to obtain tr you such refreshments as the country afford.- " I kindly thank you, sir said the Russian Com modore, " but previous to being enveloped m the fog, we had a tight of those islands, and coneh?ed we had made a new discovery ; and behold, when the faz lifts, t our utter sur prise, a beautiful little American vessel, to alt appearances in 41 toe order as if she had hut yesterday left her port in tho United States, is discovered along' aide my ships, the master of which readily offers to pilot my vessels into port, where At Commodore will tender me every aid for refreshments ! We must surrender the palm of enterprise to you Americans' said the Russian Commodore. " Sir, you flatter me," repli ed the American Captain ; " bat there is ua immense extent of land to the South, and when the fog is entirely cleared a way, you will have, from your mast head, a fine sight of its mountains." " Indeed," observes the Commodore, " you Americans are a people that will be before us, and here is now in your information, and what is. now before my eyes, an example and pattern for the eldest nation in Europe. Where I expected to make new discoveries, I find the Amer ican flag, a fleet, and a pilet " After treating Captain Palmer in the most friendly man ner, the Russian Commodore was so much struck by the cir cumstance that he named the coast Palmer's land, and it bears his name, at this time, oa the recent Russian and Eng lish charts." A Horse Leap. A most extraordinary acci dent, and 4 hair-breadth, escape,' happened last week to an old 4 gray mare,1 in the village of Mount Pleasant, in Westchester county, N. Y. the details of which u may be interesting to our readers!" This fortunate old animal was em ployed in carting stones to a new building e rectecf a little distance from the west bank of a mill pond, and, when urged to a slight retro gade movement, plied her perambulators so dexterously that way, as soon to be unable to maintain her equilibrium or foothold, and then plunged side-long into the 4 depths below,' be ing a precipitous descent of fifty feet, carrying with her the cart, stones, and shrubbery, into the water. After remaining a few moments under water, eight or ten feet deep, she again made her appearance on the surface, and made use of her best exertions to regain the oppo site shore, which she effected without having injured hide or hair of her. Mr. J'oah?s best We perceive by the Con gressional proceedings, that Mr. Johnson has presented the Anti-Auction memorial, which is said to have been 50 yards long. During our revolutionary war, Sir George Saville pre sented to the House of Commons a petition a gainst the American war, from the county of York. He unrolled the memorial, and leaving part of it outside the door, presented it, saying, 44 Mr. Speaker, here is the head of a petition from my constituents, against the American war the end of it is in the county of York.1 Mr. Johnson should have done the same, say ing, 44 Mr. Speaker, here is the head of a me morial to put down Auctions the tail of it is in Pearl-street," and then we should air have said, 44 What a long tail our puss has got." Hints to Mechanics. Avoid giving long cred its even to your best customers. A man who can pay easy will not thank you for thc,;delay ; and a slack doubtful paymaster is not too val uable a customer to dun sharply and seasona bly. A fish may as well attempt to live with out water, or a man without air, as a mechan ic without punctuality and promptness in col lecting and paying his debts. It is a mistaken and ruinous policy to attempt to keep or get business by delaying collections. When you lose a slack paymaster from your books, you only lose the chance of losing your money and there is no man who pay more money to lawyers than he who is least prompt in collect ing for himself. Minds ashamed of poverty, would bo proud of affluence Customs of Nantucket. A major part ad hero (o the old method of riding in a horse cartr without either springs or seats. When ladies ride in them, the cart is backed up to the door, the lady brings out her chair, and steps from it into the cart, and then drawing her chair after her, sits down in it, and the carriage drives off! As fashion rules in every thing, this is just as well as any other way, since the first and weal thiest make use of it as well as the poorest In this place, as a man is neither known by the company he keeps, nor the coat he wears, the wealthiest merchants have been often taken for common draymen, when driving their carts, and have often been called upon to act in that character. While we were there, some stran gers from the continent on arriving at the wharf, pressed into their service two cartmcn, whom they loaded most unmercifully with bag gage, and put their services in rcqmsition in unloading and stowing away, at their boarding house, but found, to their utter mortification and surprise, upon offering to pay for those services, that their cartmcn were two of the richest men on the Island, who of course refu sed any compensation, saying, with a good na tured smile, that whenever they wanted their services again, they would know where to calL There is not a public house on the island, but if all the boarding houses are of a similar char acter to the one at which we stopped, no ono can complain of his accommodations Be sides, the known hospitality of its citizens al ways insures to a respectable stranger every proper kindness and attention. Worcester Yeoman. The following is the most singular remedy for intemperance we ever heard oC After this. Dr. Chambers1 famous prescription must 44 hide its diminished head." A drunkard in the town of Lewes, England,, had been long yoked in matrimony, and was surrounded with a hopeful progeny. His wife at length finding if her husband drank so much, she and her children must leave off eating, de termined to follow Irim from pot-house to pot house, which she did, seating herself at bis side, calling for the same beverage, regaling herself in the same manner, and singing songs in con cert. She neglected her children, returned home jovially drunk, always in company with her husband ; the man swore the woman chimed in the husband left home she follow ed. At last, he was disgusted with the public house, because his phantom wife was there and the thought of his children made him a convert. He left the public house -so did his wife ; he attended to his business so did she ; he became a good father she a good wife ; thus exemplifying a new way of curing a hus band. Some persons are very particular in sowing their seeds in a particular time of the moon. ! Let such regard their moonshine iimay make me negligent plant tneir seeds in season, ilut he that has Kb ground well prepared, and plants good seed, and does it earlv, will find j that nmshint will affect his crop more than. moonshme. Weak people, arc apt to be positire.
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