XV Tarborough, (Edgecombe County, JV. CJ Tuesday, April 3, 1833. To?. VIII Xo 33. 7?e "Xorth-Carolinci Free Press9 BY GEORGE HOWARD, Is published weekly, at Two Dollars and i-'ifiy Cnit per year, if paid in ad vance or, Three Dollars, at the expira tion of the year. For any period les than a year. Twenty-five Cents pet month.! Subscribers are at liberty to dis continue at any time, on giving notice thereof and paying arrears those resi ding at a distance must invariably pay in advance, or give a responsible reference in this vicinity. Advertisements, not exceeding 16 linc"s will be inserted at .50 cents the first in sertion, and 25 cents each continuance. Longer ones at that rate for every 16 lines. Advertisements must be marked the number of insertions required, or they will beJcontinued until otherwise ordered. iJyLctters addressed tojthe Editor must be post paid, or they may not be attended to. From the Kalcigh Constitutionalist. NORTH CAROLINA Was discovered by Arthur Barlow and Philip Amidas on the 22d of July, 1584, who com manded two small vessels built by Sir Walter Raleigh under a patent from Queen Elizabeth to tike any barbarous land. Their first landing is supposed to have been on Ocracock. It was called the county of Albemarle in Carolina until about the 18th century, when it assumed the title of the colony of North Carolina. In 1715 Charles Eden was Governor of it in 1727 it was formed into a dis tinct province, and from that period until 1773 it was govern ed by the following Royal Gov ernors successively Sir Rich ard Evcrard, Gabriel Johnston, Matthew Rowan, Arthur Dobhs, William Tryon, Joseph Martin. On tin 18th day of Decem ber, 1776, the Constitution un der which we now live was adopted in Halifax by the Re presentatives of the people elected for that purpose. Ri chard Caswell, was the first Governor elected, which was in 1776; from thence in regular order until the present time were the following gentlemen elected to that office -Abncr Nash, Thomas Burke, Alexan der Martin, Richard Caswell, Samuel Johnson, Alexander Martin, Richard D. Spaight, Samuel Ashe, Benjamin Wil liams, William R. Davie, James Turner, Nathaniel Alexander, jBenjamin Williams, David Stone, Benjamin Smith, Wil liam Hawkins, William Miller, John Branch, .Jesse Franklin, Gabriel Holmes, Hutchins G. Burton, James Iredell, John Owen and Montford Stokes, who is now in office his second year. A Governor is chosen annually in North" Carolina, bv joint ballot of the Senate and House of Commons. No Gov ernor can serve but three years out of six. He is assisted by an Executive Council of seven members who are elected an nually in the same manner, and at present are Mcshack Frank lin, George W. Jeffries, Alfred Jones, Owen Holmes, William Williams, Nathan B. Whitfield and Robert C. Watson. There are sixty-four counties in tin State, each of which is entitled to one Senator and two Com moners in the Legislature which meets annually on the third Monday in November, in this city. ha h house e ects its . own officers. Every Senator .must have resided in the county he represents one vear before Uis election, and lor the same time have possessed a freehold of 300 acres of land. Each member of the Commons must also have resided in his county one year, and possessed 100 acres of land six months before his election. Qualifications for voters for Senators, a year's residence in a county and 50 acres of land; for Commoners, the same length of time and to have paid public tax: both electors must be 21 years of" age. Those qualified to vote for Senators may also vote for Commoners. The Legislature is denominated the General Assembly of North Carolina. No unnaturalized foreigner can vote. The towns of Edenton, Newbern, Wilmington, Salisbu ry, Halifax, Hillsborough and Fayetteville are each entitled to one Representative in the House of Commons. OFFICERS OF GOVERNMENT AND SALARIES. Montford Stokes, Governor salary 82,000. Members of both houses of the Legislature, S3 per diem Speakers, $4. John B. Muse, Private Sec retary to the Governor, 8350 per annum and foes. William S. Mhoon, Public Treasurer, 81,500-Clerk, 8400. James Grant, Sen. Comptrol ler, 81,000. William Hill, Secretary, 8800 and fees. JUDIC I A RY S UP REM E COU RT. Leonard Henderson, Chief Justice, salary, 82,500. John Hall and Thomas Ruflin, associate judges, 82.500 each. JUDGES OF THE SUPERIOR COURTS OF LAW AND EQUITY. William Norwood, Joseph J. Daniel, John R. Donuell, Rob ert Strange, James Martin. The State is divided into six circuits, each circuit consists of about ten counties in each of which courts are held every six months. Salaries of Judg- r.r( r i es, lmj lor every court t icv hold. Romulus M. Saunders. Attorney General of the State John Scott, Solicitor General A. Troy, Stephen Miller, John L. Bailey, and William J. Al exander, Solicitors. COUNTY COURTS. A court is held in every coun ty in the fctate every three months, at periods fixed by law, by the justices or magistrates for- the several counties for which they are eommisMoned. The county courts are courts of record, and have cognizance of all crimes, the punishment of which does not extend to the privation of life, limb, or mem ber. An Attorney toprasecuie for the State, all offenders com ing within the jurisdiction of these courts is elected in every county, once in four years, by the justices, who allow a salary annually, independent of the fees of office. Each justice has jurisdiction at any time out of court of any litigated account not exceeding 8100, from whose judgment an appeal lies to the county court, from the county an appeal may be taken to the Superior, and from the Superior to the Supreme Court, which is held in this city on the 2d Mon days of June and last of Decem ber. John L. Henderson, cl'k. U. S. CIRCUIT COURTS FOR THE DISTRICT OF N CAROLINA. The United States Circuit Court, is held in Raleigh, for the district of North Carolina, by Chief Justice John Marshall and Judge Henry Potter, on the 12th of May arid 12th of No vember in each year. The U. S. District Court at Edenton, Newbern and Wilmington. District Attorney, T. P. Deve reux Marshal, Beverly Daniel. MILITIA. The militia of N. Carolina, consisting of infantry, riflemen, artillery and cavalry, amount to 64,775. schools. There is scarcely a neighbor hood without a school, and in every village two or three may be found under the conduct of instructors well qualified gene rally it would be a tedious task to undertake an enumera tion of the many incorporated academies. There is but one College in North Carolina, Cha pel Hill, which was founded in the year 1795. It has generally flourished and been of great ad vantage to the State. Both of our Senators now in Congress, and most of our Representa tives received their education there. Nearly all the members of the liberal professions and an incalculable number of Re presentatives in the State Le gislature. There are upwards of 100 students at present re ceiving their education there. ECCLESIASTICAL REG I STE R . The Baptists in this State have 14 associations, 272 chur ches, 139 ministers and 15,530 communicants. The Presbyte- rians have 12G churches, 57 1 females; total free white popu ministers, 9 licentiates and 5907 jlation,' 472,843 of these, 203 communicants. The Mctho dists.32 preachers. 12,641 mem hers. The Lutherans, 45 Con-bcr of free white population are prestations, 16 ministers and over 100 years of age. Of deaf 1383 communicants. The E- and dumb there arc 230of piscopalians, 11 ministers. The blind, 223. Of slaves the itum United Brethren, 4 congrega- ber of both sexes is 245,601 tionsand 1,727 members. The Friends have a number of So cieties. GOLD MINES. The first notice of gold from North Carolina, on the records of the Mint of the U. States, occurs in the year 1314, within which it was received to the amount of $11,000. It conti - nued to be received during the succeeding years, until 1824 inclusive, in different quantities but all inferior to that of 1824, and on an average not exceed ing 82.500 a year. In 1825, the amount receiv'd was $17,000 in 1826, 20,000 in 1827, about 821,000 in 1828, nearly $46,000 in 1329. $128,000 and in 1831, $294,000. NEWSPAPERS. Raleigh Register and N. C. Gazette, by Jos. Gales & Son, Raleigh. Star and N. C. State Gazette, Lawrence & Lemay, do. Constitutionalist and State Rights' Advocate, Ransom & Ramsay, do. Newbern Spectator, John I. Pasteur, Newbern. Newbern Sentinel, Thomas Watson, do. Carolina Observer, Edward J. Hale, Fayetteville. N. C. Journal, llybart &, Strange, do. N. C. Spectator and Western Advocate, Roswell Elmer, jun. Rutherfordton. Western Carolinian, Burton Craige, Salisbury. Yadkin and Catawba Journal, Lemuel Bingham, do. Roanoke Advocate, Edmund B. Freeman, Halifax. N. C. Free Press, George Howard, Tarborough. Oxford Examiner, Robert J. Yancey, Oxford. N. C. Miscellany, Meredith & Pell, Edenton. mittees, her Vice Presidents, Miners' Journal, T. J. Hoi-.Secretaries and Judges? No ton, Charlotte. where! Like Pennsylvania, her Warrenton Reporter, Robert! lot is to hew wood and draw N. Verell, Warrenton. The Union, George Houston, Washington. Cape Fear Recorder, Arch'd M. Hooper, Wilmington. Hillsborough Recorder, Den nis Hcartt, Hillsborough. Greensborough Patriot, Wm. Swaim, Greensborough. Milton Spectator, Nathaniel J. Palmer, Milton. Farmers' Journal, John C. ! Blum, Salem. Elizabeth City Star, Benja min Albertson, Elizabeth City SEAT OF GOV ERNMENT. Ralci"h has been the seat of governmcnt since 1794, at which ner, loaded with salt and corn period there were only five . manded by Capt. Nicholas Sut- buildmgs in the dace. 1 he ci ty is very pleasantly situated in I a healthy and elevated part of the country, and nearly the cen- tre of the State there are 1700 inhabitants within the limits ofiCalled the John Brown, belonir- the corporation, and upwards of 2,000 including the precincts. POPULATION. North Carolina contained in 1330,. 734,470 inhabitants of this number 235,954 were free white nudes, 236,339 free white only were foreigners not natu ralized! 58 of the whole num- and ot the tree people ot color, 19,543. Of this number of co lored persons, 247 are over 100 years of age. From the From the Raleigh Register. The last census discloses a 'fact which proves that North ! Carolina is one of the most 'healthy States in the Union. ! Our population amounts to i 738,470 souls of this number, 304 have attained the aro of 100 years and upwards. This gives a centenarian in every 2425 persons, throughout the State. What will foreigners, who deny American longevity, say to this? The Washington Correspondent of the Philadelphia American Sentinel, makes the following:, in the main, just remarks on North Carolina: But I confess 1 was gratified to learn that in a forthcoming publication of authentic mate rials, it will be proven beyond a doubt that North Carolina anti cipated Virginia in promoting the Declaration of Indepen dence. I like North Carolina, because in adhesion to the Uni on and disregard of office, she has always resembled Pennsyl vania. I like her for another reason, because in Congress while her unity and weight are always felt, her sterling merits are disregarded and her claims to important stations postponed to those of more boasting and exacting States. Her represen tation both in the Senate and House, like that of Pcnnsy-lva- nia, is highly respectable; her moderation respecting the Ta riff and whatever else she may disapprove of: the consistent and unassuming course of her State politics all her public characteristics are highly 'hon orable and praiseworthy. Yet 'where are her chairmen of com- water, Lven in the society ot Washington, among the diplo matic corps, and the festivities of the place, as she does not in sist upon, she does not enjoy the consideration to which she is entitled. The foreign min isters here, the charges and at taches and all that sort of things, even they too are taught to slight Pennsylvania and North Carolina. CCr-Thc Elizabeth City Star, in giving an account of the snow storm of Saturday night, (17th ult.) states that a small schoo- ton, of that town, sunk in Albe marle sound Saturday night, and it is expected all on board perished, as nothing had been heard of them. A schooner ing to Mr. Taylor, on the Ca nal, John Hoy, Master, is also missing; supposed to have been lost in the sound that night. Another victim of Intempe ranceOn Monday, Asa Baw cum, an aged planter of this county, (about 60) was found dead in a small creek or branch about 12 miles west of this place, into which, it is suppo sed, he had fallen in a state of intoxication. The deceased has left a family to bemoan his untimely fate. Raleigh Reg, C?The Greensborough Pat riot of the 14th inst. states, that on Sunday evening last, Henry, infant son of Henry Hum phreys, Esq. of that place, aged between five and six years, while playing with the boys who were tending the cotton machine of his father, was ac cidentally caught between the cog-wheel and vvallower, and literally crushed to pieces. The little sufferer struggled a few minutes, and expired. R.Siar Free persons of Color, The bill providing for the removal of free persons of color from Vir ginia, which passed the House of Delegates of that State a few weeks ago by a vote of 79 to 41, has been rejected in the Senate by a vote of 18 to 14. A law has been passtfd by the Legislature of Maryland, appropriating $200,000 for co lonizing the free blacks and manumitted slaves in that State. "(?"A case of mal-practicc was recently decided at Litch field. Connecticut, -in which a young physician, for having in oculated a female just below die elbow joint, wounding a nerve, and effecting an incura ble injury, was fined S400. CTNot to return one good office for another is inhuman- bat to return evil for good is diabolical

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