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Tavborough, (Edgecombe County, X. C.J Saturday, June 25, 1836.
Vol. XII JS o. 25.
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Letters a-llivse.l t the Kditur mint le
m.tp'iJ. "rlliey may not he attended 10.
Miscellaneous
vnro MESSAGE.
Tiie following message was
cjinmunioateil to the Senate on
frjjav, lOlh i list . by the Presi
jef of the United Stales:
'j'.jtkc Semite of the United Slates:
The act of Congress 'to ap
pl'it a day fir the annual meet
ing of Congress,' which origina
ieili:i die Senate, has nut received
cv signature. The power of
Coiiaress to fix, by law, a day for
Hie
regular annual
of
Congress is undoubted; but the
concluding part of this act, which
j; intended to fix the adjournment
of every succeeding Congress to
ue second .Monday in May, after
the commencement of the first ses
ion, does not appear to ine in ac
cordance with the provisons of the
Constitution of the United States.
Tiie constitution provides
1st article, 5th section 'That
either House, during the session
cl' Congress, shall, without the
consent of llie other, adjourn for
Lure than three days, nor to any
other place than that in w hich the
;wo Houses shall be sitting.'
1st article, Gth section 'That
every order, resolution, or vote, to
which the concurrence of the Sen
ate and House of Representatives
may be necessary (except on tiie
question of adjournment) shall be
presented to the President of the
United States, and before the same
!)a!l lake effect, shall be approved
Uby him,' Sec.
2d article, 2d section, 'That he
ttlie President) may on extraordi
nary occasions, convene both
Houses of Congress, or either of
them, and in case of disagreement
between them, with respect to the
time of adjournment, he may ad
journ them to such times as lie
ttizuks proper,' &:c.
According to these provisions
the day of the adjournment of
Congress is not the subject of
legislative enactment. Except in
the event of disagreement between
the Senate and House of Repre
sentatives, the President has no
riglil to meddle with the question,
in that event, his power is exclu
de but confined to fixing the ad
journment of the Congress, whose
branches have disagreed.
The question of adjournment is
obviously to be decided by each
Congress for itself, by the separate
action of each House for the time
being, and is one of those upon
bich the framers of that instru
ment did not intend one Congress
jbould act, with or without the
Uecutive aid, for its successors!
As a substitute for the present
le, which requires the two Holi
es by consent to fix the day of ad
journment, and in the event of dis
aSreemcnt, the President to de
J'i it is proposed to fix the day
bylaw, to be binding in all fu
lue time, unless chanced by con-
SeiHof both Houses of Congress.
ail(! to take away the contingent
Per of the Executive, which, in
?Ill'cipated cases of disagreement,
lasted in him. This substitute
!t 10 aPp'y not to the present
Ungress and Executive, but to
jjur successors. .Considering there
iJ1"c thai this subject exclusively
belongs to the two Houses of Con
gress, whose day of adjournment
is to be fixed, and that each has at
that time the right to maintain and
insist upon its own opinion, and to
require the President to decide in
the event of a disagreement with
the other, I am constrained to deny
my sanction to the act herewith
r.c nai t ft. 1 1 . 1 .1. r
ivoptnnnij iciuiiieu in me sen
ate. I do so with greater reluc
tance, as, apart from this constitu
tional difficulty the other provi
sions of it do not appear to me
objectionable.
ANDREW JACKSON.
Washington, June 9, 18JG.
The message w as ordered to be
printed, and made the order for
Wednesday next.
Henry Clay. A committee ap
pointed at a meeting of the .citi
zens of Bolivar, Tuscarawas
county, Ohio, addressed a letter
to Mr. Clay, urging him lo retain
his seat in the Senate of the United
Slates. From Mr. Clay's reply,
we extract the following para
graph: "It is my purpose, if my health
will allow me, lo remain in Con
gress during the present session.
I reserve for future consideration
w hether I shall serve out the teruf
for which the Legislature of my
state did me the honor last to elect
me; and your wishes will have
due weight in any decision, 1 may
form. Beyond that term, 1 can
conceive of no probable contin
gency which would reconcile me
to a farther continuance in the
Senate."
Internal Improvement. Mary
laud is taking the lead of every
State in the Union, in the extent
and magnificence of her Internal
Improvements. A law has just
been enacted by the Legislature
of that State, which appropriates
three millions to complete the
Chesapeake and Ohio ("anal to
Cumberland; three millions to
continue the Baltimore and Ohio
Rail Road to the Ohio, one mil
lion to construct the Rail Road
running down the Eastern Shore
from Cecil county to Pocomoke
bay; halfa million for - Canal to
connect Baltimore with tiie Ches-
apeake and Ohio Canal and half
a million to connect Annapolis ,
with the Chesapeake and Ohio
Canal. It provides for a loan at
six per cent, redeemable in fifty
years, for the above purposes, up
on which loan not less than twenty
per cent, premium must be obtain
ed, amounting lo one and a half
million, which will constitute a
sinking fund adequate to redeem
the principal in years, all the
profits of the several improve
ments being pledged to the State
for the payment of six per cent,
interest upon the several sums re
ceived by them, after three years
from their receiving the same.
Hal. Iteg.
Constitution of Texas. We
are indebted to the Charleston
Courier for a synopsis of the Con
stitution of the Republic of Texas,
adopted in Convention the 17th
March, 183G. It is modelled
(says the Courier) in its great
leading features, and most of its
details, on the Constitution of the
United States, allowance being
made for the difference between
n federative and single govern
ment. The first President is to
cprvp two vears. and his successors
three years, and to be ineligible
fni- flip npxt SU
cceeding term. Ine
iudtres are to hold their offices for
four vears and to be re-el.gible.
Sprvitude is established as to
cIovpc now in Texas, and as to
he brought from the
it Cnnrrress is denied the
power to emancipate slaves. Free
,cr. f African descent, in
whole or in part, are forbidden to
rpcirlpnermanentlyinthe republic;
and the importation or admission
of negroes, except from the United
Slates, is forever prohibited and
declared to be piracy. The acts
of the Legislature of the Slate of
Coahuila and Texas, in 1834 and
1835, in behalf of Gen. John T.
Mason of New York, under which
1100 leagues of land have been
claimed by sundry individuals, is
declared originally illegal, null
and void. Pet. Con.
Important Decision Three
Day's Grace. Many banks, both
in this stale and elsewhere, have
immemorially followed the prac
tice, in discounting notes, of
charging interest for four days
more than the time specified on
the face of the instrument. This
was done by allowing three day's
grace, and by counting both the
day on which the note was drawn
and that on which it fell due. In
the case of McNeelv, assignee of
the state bank at Trenton, vs. the
heirs of Drake, this point was
raised by the counsel for the de
fendants; and the Supreme Court
decided that practice was an usu
rious one, and vitiated all the con
tracts it entered into. In other
words, that it is usury to estimate
both the day of the date, and of
the maturity, in discounting a note
or bill.
Another point raised by the
counsel in the same case, says the
Trenton Emporium, was that the!
practice of taking discount out of j
notes drawn at ninety days, as
ough they were drawn at three
mouths or one fourth of a year,
was also usurious. Although no
express ypiuion was given by the
Court on this point, a sufficient in
timation fell from two of the jus
tices to put the community on
their guard against following this
custom.
The Court determined in the
case before them that the usury
not having been between the par
lies in Court, the verdict for the
plaintiff must be sustained.
Newark Advertiser.
Important Law Decision. Su
preme Court hareul P. btaatSj
vs. John Thompson. This was !
an action brought by B. P. Staats,
president of the Albany couniy
medical society, against John
I hompson, a botanic physician,!
for practicing medicine contrary j
to the laws of this Stale. Defeu-j
dant produced a patent from the j
United Stales to his lather, lor
the exclusive right and use of cer-'
tain botanic medicines, and he'
assignee of the patent, claimed al
right under said patent to practice:
and prescribe for patients. The;
Justices' Court of the city of Al
bany decided that he, Thompson,
lad no rtght lo practice medicine
for fee or re wardt unless he had a
diploma from some regularly in
corporated school or society, and :
fined him the sum ol 5; li om
which decision Thompson appeal--
to the Supreme Court. The Su
reme Court affirmed the decision;
consequently botanic physicians;
have no right to recover lor ser
vices. Many JV. Y Argus.
Interesting to Shippers of Cot- j
ton. From the circular ol Mes-!
srs. Geo. Holt &Co. dated Liver
pool, Friday evening, 15th April, i
183G, we compile the lollowing;
Statistics Ol llie uuuuu waue.
During the period from 1st Janu
ary to 15th April, 1836, the im
portations of Brazilian, Egyptian,
E. and W. I. cottons, (as compar
ed with those of the same period
in 1835,) have increased 53 1 8
bales. At the same lime ine im
portations of American cottons
during the same period have de-
creased 40,ou oaies; xuc
computed to be on hand of the A
merican qualities on 15th April,
was less by 5G.500 bales, than the
quantity computed to be on hand
rtfp In 1835. while the
nil &auiG
stock of Brazilian, Egyptian, E.
&. W. I. qualities computed to be
on hand same date this year, was
more by2 1 ,500 bales than on 1 5th
April 1835, and while the quali
ties, taken weekly for consumers
use, was only 165 bales more, the
average quantity of the above
foreign cottons taken for consu
mers use weekly was 1717 bales
more this vear than 1835.
Niagara Ship Canal The ar
duous and responsible duty of
making a survey for a canal
around the falls of Niagara, was
entrusted to Captain W G. Wil
liams, of the U. S. Topographical
Em :iueers. Three routes were
surveyed. Tiie estimated cost of
the Canal on the route preferred is
$4,G 10,433 47. The length of
this route is 15 miles. The esti
mated cost of the short route by
single locks is $2,5G8,899 3G.
The length of this route is seven
miles and three nuarters. The!
i
project contemplates a ship or1
steamboat canal and assumes for j
the length of lock 200 feet, breadth j
50 feet, width of the canal at the j
surface 110 feet, and depth 10:
feet. The report of Capt Wil-,
liams is spoken of as exhibiting
great ability.
Land Sales in the Chickasaw
Cession.. ..The Washington Globe
contains a letter from Pontiloe,
Chickasaw Cession, dated April
2 1st, which stales that Gov. Car
roll had approved the sale of 1 138
sections, for which there has been
paid to the Chickasaw s upwards
of eleven hunderd thousand dol
lars, all of which is on deposit at
the Agricultural Branch at Ponti
toc. This is the amount of only
about one third the average reser
vations. The reservations gener
ally contain each two to four sec
tions. (tA person named Martin
supposed (o be a resident of Hinds;
county, Mississippi, was recently i
murdered near Kinkwood, Pres- i
ton county, Virginia, by one of a
gang of slaves w ith whom he was
travelling $1841 were found
amongst
ceased.
the c fleets of the de-
The Cherokee Purchase. A
writer in the Philadelphia Adver-I
liser, supposed to be Mr. Boudi-j
not, late editor of the Cherokee!
Phenix, states that the profits of
the speculation to the United
States, by the late treaty, will
amount to fourteen millions and a;
half of dollars. The country ce- I
ded, though worth 20 millions,1
has been sold to the U. States for,
five and a half millions. I
Abolition riot at Marion city
and college a citizen stabbed and ;
killed by an abolition preacher .
college burnt. Within a few ,
weeks since, (as we learn by the!
Louisville Ky. Gazette, of May
30th) some free negroes were ad
mitted to the privileges and bene
fits of the college, in consequence
of which a large number of stu
dents withdrew indignant at the
result. Since that, injury has
been added to insult by transmit
ting to the college several packa
ges of abolition and incendiary
pamphlets. On the 2 1st of May,
the excitement among the citizens
was such ihat the publications
were demanded by them & burnt.
On the 22d, a few miles from Ma
rion, at Palmyra, Mr. Muldrow,
one of the professors of the col
lege, afier delivering a sermon,
rose and commenced reading one
of the obnoxious documents. Dr.
Boswell, who was one of the audi
ence, interrupted him, and inform
ed him that he must desist, as the
reading of such incendiary papers
would not be permitted. The ac
count then states, that Muldrow
rejoined that he would read iV,
pkm at the dapper's vomt. An
Vw .- AJCJ -4
altercation ensued, and Dr. Bos
well struck Muldrow with his
stick. He was immediately caught
by another individual connected
with the college, and in this situ
ation received several stabs from
Muldrow, of which he died the
next morning'.
The homicide immediately fled
and concealed himself. The citi
zens assembled in considerable
force, proceeded to' Marion col
lege, where they supposed Mul
drow was hid, and threatened to
burn it down if he was not given
up. He was then produced and
conducted to Palmyra. The in
dividual, his name not learned,
who held Boswell when he was
stabbed by Muldrow, escaped, by
swimming the river on horseback.
Other passengers on a boat
which arrived here since, have
brought the rumor that Marion
college has been pulled down or
burned, and that the Rev. Dr.
Ely has been most terribly whip
ped. The first part of this intelli
gence is doubtless correct, as it
came from a source entitled to
confidence. The latter, about the
destruction of the college and
flogging Dr. Ely, we do not vouch
for, but think it quite probable.
N. Y. Star.
Progress of Abolitionism. In
proof that the abolitionists ate
still successfully at work with
their nefarious designs, it may be
mentioned that the American Anti-slavery
Society at its late anni
versary at New York, reported to
the Secretary of the society, 52G
auxiliaries, more than three hun
dred of which had been acquired
during the last year. ib.
Encouraging. We learn, says
the Boston Centinel of Saturday,
that yesterday all the banks in the
city agreed lo extend their dis
counts in the course of this day
and the coming week, to the a
mount of 5 per cent, on their re
spective capitals, and that the
Commonwealth Bank voted to
extend to 10 per cent, on its cap
ital. This will add to our circu
lating medium one million of dol
lars, and at once give relief to the
money market. This is a very
important movement, and the mo
ney will come in good lime.
Two per cent, a month has been
paid for loans on bank securities.
This accommodation from the
banks, together with the French
indemnification money, which will
be distributed in the course of the
month, will put an end to llie des
ponding apprehensions of our
merchants and traders.
Female Heroism. A letter from
Columbus, Ga. in giving an ac
count of the attack upon the
steamboat Hyperion, by the In
dians, mentions the following in
teresting incident: "The captain
run ashore on the side and jump
ed into the water and came up
here. The hands also escaped,
leaving a lady on board, who after
all had left gathered up her hus
band's money, her jewels, watch
es, &c. and jumped into the wa
ter, and with her hands paddled
along to the shore amid a shower
of bullets. She then walked three
miles through the swamp -and
plantation, until she came up with
some of the boat hands, who got
her on a mule on which she rode
up to town. Her husband who
was up here met her, as he was,
with a few men, on his way down
to the boat."
(I7At Chambersburg, Pa. late
ly, a rope was stretched from the
third story window of the Frank
lin hotel, to a poplar tree on the
opposite side of the square, a dis
tance of 160 feet, and a daughter
of Mr. Sciarra, the Italian equili-
trist. acred 9 vears, mounted the
9 w
rope and walked the whole length
in safety. A purse cf from 90 to
100 dollars was made up for her.
Singular casualty. The Knox
ville (Ten.) Register says: A cor
respondent at Tazewell, commu
nicates to us the following extra
ordinary and distressing intelli
gence. " While Mr. William Wal
ker, at Speedwell, Claiborne coun
ty, an elderly gentleman, was ma
king a fence, he discovered a large
spider which he killed wiih a stone.
In afterwards prosecuting his work
he had occasion to handle, the
same stone. A mortification
shortly afterwards commenced in
his hand, and increased until it
prodmed his death in 8 or 10
days. At the time he handled
the stone, he had a slight sore on
his hand in which the mortifica
tion afterwards commenced, which
was supposed to have come in
contact with some poisonous mat
ter from the spider left on the
stone. Dr. William Rogers, who
attended Mr. Walker, and who
also had a sore finger, died wiih a
mortification, in four days after it
was first discovered his firgn- was
affected. Our correspondent fur
ther informs us that a number of
those who assisted in laying- out
Mr. Walker have been seriously
afflicted some are now very low,
but only the two deaths above
mentioned have taken place.
(UYoung Robinson, charged
with the murder of Ellen Jeeit,a
woman of ill fame New York,
has been tried and acquitted. The
trial occupied several diiys; but
the verdict of the jury was made
up in fifteen minutes after they left
the box.
Murder. At Argyle, Me. two
monsters murdered their father in
the presence of two younger bro
thers, who ineffectually attempted
to interfere. It appears they had
a trial of strength wiih 'the father
who overthrew them brth, which
led to angry .voids, when they fell
upon him and beat lorn to death.
jY. Y. Mar.
CCAn Editor in Illinois excu
ses himself for delay in publishing
his paper, on the ground that the
ague has shaken all his tt eth loose,
and has compelled him tonse both
hands to keep his breeches on.
U.S. Gnzttte.
The above mentioned Editor,
w ho is a married man, may con
sole himself with the reflection,
that some husbands, without hav
ing the ague, are unable u keep
the "breeches'' even" with the use
of both hands. Prentice.
Foreign. By an an arrival at
New York, London papers of the
14 th and Liverpool of llie I Gth
May, have been received. They
do not contain any news of in
terest. A great battle was fought on the
5th May between the Carlists and
the British legion, at Si. Sebas
tian; in which the CarlUts were
beateu, having had 2000 killed
and 2000 taken prisoners. The
remainder of the army fled in
great confusion, and ihe British
entered St. Sebastian. The civil
warjn Spain is now considered to
be virtually at an end.
The number of legitimate births
in Paris, for the year 1835, was
11,119; that of illegitimate births
9985, being more than two-thirds
of the entire number of births.
The Arab, of Liverpool, has
arrived at Gravesend, with nine
stout English laborers, who emi
grated from the north of England
as substitutes for 4jie emancipated
negroes, but found themselves
completely unable to stand a tro
pical sun and climate. Twenty
two other laborers went with them
to Jamaica, of whom nineteen died
of the fever, and the remaining
three were left in the hospital in
the city of Kingston, Jamaica.