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BV GEO ROB 1IOWAHU,
Mi'hed wrrkly.atTico Dollars mid
itur vrni. in." "
:r nuiil in in vhiiii
f'T rcc lotl'trs,nl the expiration oftl.e
l'Lon vfar. For any period .s
,lb "ear Twtnty fict Cmtsper month,
fvc'r ibers are at liberty to discontinue n t
- -tat oi S'vin? o,,ce thereof and
'"'I, arrears those resirtinjr at Ui.;
''I'niuit invariably pay advance, or
11 . rf5ponible reference in thivicinily.
'jvertisement, not exceeding 16 tines
V (rib (or a square) will le inserted at
iVnt t,,e first in5Cr,ion fc 23 ce,,U each
niioiiance. Longer ones at that rate
fvrry square. Advertisements :Tiut
' Virkfd the number of insertions requi
I'j ortlp' u be continued until other-r-e
or.lcr'ed. and charged accordingly,
"tellers addressed to the Editor must be
nit paiJ, "r Ihey may nol be attended to.
jlteFcUancotrs.
fiecktkr's Gold Coin. Mr.
JJecki'er has politely furnished us
villi ilie subjoined statements of
the amount of money coined by
IjiH from the IStli January, 1831 ,
to the 1 2th December 1836, to
pether with the amount of Gold
jjueJ during the same period.
)oitot this Gobi was taken from
the mines in Rutherford and
Burke counties although much of
:t is stamped Georgia Gold,
f his, we are informed by Air.
Bectuler, has been done rather to
distinguish the different qualities
of Carolina Gold than for any
other reason. The greater part
of the Carolina Gold is about 20
carats fine, and in coining it is all
tonight to that value. The Geor
gia gold is about 22 carats, much
of which has been coined by
Brrhtler. Whenever, therefore
gj!J is brought in to be coined of
i!,e firmness of 22 carats, it is
stamped Georgia Gold.
An impression was produced
abroad some time since, that
:he coin of .Mr. Becthler was not
as valuable as it purported to be,
and it was, in consequence, not as
readily received as it had been
before. Upon enquiry, we find
that this is not the fault of Mr.
Bechller. The assaying has ve
ry frequently been tested at the
United States Mint, and has in
variably, as far as our informa
tion extends, proved to be strictly
correct. Sometimes, however,
the coins have been deficient in
weight. This arises from the
fact that by being handled and
carried in the pocket they are
worn off, as gold is easily worn,
and not because they aboriginal
ly, not of the proper weight. We
are inclined to believe, too, that
some persons amuse themselves
occasionally by films ofi the
elgts. From the precaution we
W.v to he used by Mr. B. and
tarn information derived from
Merchants who have very recently
passed large quantities at the
-Wth at par, we are convinced
tfw all of the pieces, if not worn
or Bled, will hold out according
J tlie stamp. Mr. Bechtler in
wmed ns thai he sent on $400 in
coin to the mint in Philadel
F",ai this Spring, and obtained
Jjesame amount in eagles for it.
1 he five dollar niece" 20 carats
fineweiq!,s 140 'grains 21 ca
ra;s 128 grains.
It will oe seen tj,e sui,j0in.
e,l statement extends no "later
town than 12th December, 1835.
"jce that time, instead of being a
,alllng off, there has been an in
case of business. We paid him
?v'sit on last Snttirdav. when lie
jst polished off the last of
Y00 for a days work. Mr.
'Ias promised to furnish us with
asjtempnt of the amount coined
ai,d fluxed since that period, at as
a dale as possible.
. 1 i he amount coined and fluxed
PSS-j, and $1 pieces, from
',e 1 8t!i January 1831 to 12tb
1Jfcember, 1835, is stated at
nse extent of the mining inter
,,s in this section of the State.
e('r ot know what proportion
llIsfcis t0 ti,e amount actuallv
collected from the mines; perhaps
a lulf, perhaps it isTnot-one fifth.
Yet mining hasHiot fairly com
menced with us. Depoiite min
ing is perhaps more profitable
than ever, and vein mining,
though it has been but barely tes
ted, yet sufficiently so to induce
several large capitalists to embark
if the experiment extensively.
Rutherford Gazette.
General CourtMr. Ran
dolph's IVUL The General Couri
adjourned on Friday last, after a
session of seventeen days. ; On
Friday evening the Court decided
that the will of Mr. Randolph,
dated in December, 1821, with
its codicil annexed, the codicil of
I82G, the four codicils of 1828,
and the codicil of 1831, written in
Loudon, should be admitted to
probate as the last will and testa
ment of that extraordinary man.
The effect of these instruments is,
we understand, to liberate his
slaves and provide for their re
moval to one of the Stales or Ter
ritories. To Judge Tucker, his
half brother, and to Mrs. Bryan,
the daughter of a half sister, (to
each) an estate is devised. The
great bulk of the remaing proper-;
ty is devised to Judge Leigh, but
he having released all his interest,
it will be distributed equally a
ruong Mr. R's. next of kin. The
Court was nearly unanimous, one
Judge only dissenting. An ap
peal, ne understand, was taken to
the Court of Appeals. Rich. Enq.
JIr. Madison. The annexed
biographical sketch of this illus
trious man is said to be correct.
James Madison, late President
of the United States, was the son
of James Madison of Orange
County, Virginia, and Nelly Con
way, his wife and could trace
back his paternal ancestors as in
habitants of Virginia, for about
one hundred years previous to his
birth, which took place at the
house of his maternal grandmoth
er in Port Conway, on the Rap
pahannock River, March 16,
1751. He was educated bv .Mr.
Robertson, a Scotchman, in King;
anri vueen county, and hy the
Reverend Mr. Martin, a Jersey
man, at his father's house in Or
ange county. With these two
learned and accomplished teach
ers, he studied English, Latin,
Greek, French, Italian, he. and
prepared himself to enter College,
which he did at Princeton, N. J.
in I7C9. He graduated in 1771,
having studied the Junior and
Senior classes in one 3'car, but
was induced to continuant Prince
ton till 1772, from a desire to
learn Hebrew, and to extend bis
studies under the superintendence
of Dr. Witherspoon, President of
the College; to whom he was very
much attached. Having a deli
cate frame, his excessive studies
impaired bis constitution, and he
continued in bad health for many
years. In the Spring of 1776, he
was elected by the people of Or
ange county, a member of the
General Assembly of Virginia, but
in 1777 he failed in his election in
consequence of his refusing to
treat and electioneer. In the fol
lowing winter he was elected a
member of the Executive Council,
where he continued to serve until
the winter of 1779-80, when he
was elected by the General As
sembly a member of the Continen
tal Congress, of which body, he
remained a member until the au
tumn of 1785. He was elected a
member of the General Assembly
of Virginia, in the Spring of 1785,
and again in 1780. ne was ejec
ted by the General Assembly
a member of Congress in 1786,
and the same year to the Annap
olis Convention, which made the
present constitution of the United
States. He was elected by the
people of his county in 188 a
member of the Virginia Conven
tion which ratified that Constitu
tion. He remained in Congress
from 1786 to March 179S, the end
of General Washington's adminis
tration. He was elected a mem-
oer ot the General Assembly of
Virginia, in the Spring of 1798,
and an elector for President and
Vice President of the U. States in
1800. Onthe accession of Mr.
Jefferson to : the Presidency in
1801, Mr. IVladison was appointed
Secretary ofState;-and eight years
thereafter he succeeded his great
friend and coadjutor as President
of the United States, to which
high station he was re-elected for a
second term, at the end of which he
retired, jn March, 1817, to his seat
called Moutpelier, in Orange
County, Virginia, where he has
ever since resided except when
attending an Agricultural Society,
of which be was long President,
as a visiter and Rector of the Uni-
versity of Va. and as a member of
the btate Convention to amend
the Constitution of Virginia, to
which the people of his county
elected him in 1829, until he took
his departure on the 28th ultimo
in the SGth year of his age, from
the theatre of his usefulness to that
of his rewards.
A Stupendous Monopoly The
Ohio Rail Road Company. The
last Ohio legislature, in the face
of all the great rail road and canal
improvements, completed or in
progress in that state, granted last
session a charier which, for exclu
sive and extravagant privileges,
we undertake to say, is nol sur
passed by an' thing in the history
of this speculating age in which we
live. Yet if it turn out for good
in the end, we shall not demur.
The ostensible object of the char
ter is to construct a rail road from
some point on the Wabash and
Erie Canal, to pass easterly to the
Maumee river, and thence through
the counties of Lucas, Wood,
Sandusky, Huron, Lorrain, Cuy
ahoga, Geauga, Ashtabula, so as
to connect with the great road
proposed along the southern shore
of Lake Erie, of which the first
link in the east, viz: from Buffalo
(N. Y.) to Erie (Penn.) has al
ready been subscribed for. The
charter is given in perpetuity, with
a capital of four millions, and
gives fifteen years for the con
struction of the road, with the ad
dition of banking and trust privi
leges, which two latter are to be
entered upon immediately. Half
a million has already been sub
scribed. At the expiration of
thirty-five years, the state has
power to purchase the slock,
or paying an advance of yf
teen per cent, on all monies ex
pended by the company.
Assassination. William Mat
thevvson, Esq. a wealthy Planter
of Clark co. Alabama, on his re
turn from Mobile, when near Mr.
John McDonald's in Baldwin co.
was shot dead. The names of
the murderers are not given, and
an unnatural coldness respecting
the whole affair seems to he evinc
ed by the Journals all the par
ticulars given are that no Justice
of the Peace or Coroner was with
in 20 miles, and the neigbors
themselves investigated the affair.
(CpMiss Roby Austin of Scitu
ate, R. I. committed suicide last
Saturday evening by taking ar
senic. She had prepared her
grave clothes a week previous.
No cause assigned for the act.
(XpA man named Boyd was re
cently tried in Nicholas co. Ken
tucky, for murder, and sentenced
to three years" solitary imprison
ment; but the Judge, on hearing
the argument of his counsel, gran
ted him a new trial and admitted
him to bail, which created great
sensation amongst the people.
On the last day of the Court, as
the Judge was returning home, he,
was played upon by an engine,
and profusely covered with sewer
water. The District Attorney,
who was with him, also received a
share, but he consoled himself by
remarking that-"his misfortune
resulted from keeping bad company."
Q?We learn that the Bishop
of Montreal has appointed a com
mittee to inquire into the charges
of Maria Monk against the Hotel
dieu Nunnery in that city, and
they were thoroughly to examine
every part of the convent, and re
port on the 14th inst. The com
mittee consisted ot a number of
respectable Catholic Priests, and
orders had been given that they
should have admission into every
room in the convent.
Since the above was in type, we
have seen a gentleman who hasi
just received a letter from Canada,
and he informs us that the com
mittee is not wholly composed of
Catholic Priests; but that a Pro
testant clergyman is among their
number. New York Sun.
TEXAS.
It may be interesting to readers
to know something of the leaders
in the lexian War of Indepen
dence. Of David G. Burnet Presi
dent, we know little or nothing,
except that a person of that name
had a grant of land similar to
Austin's, from the Mexican gov
ernment. We presume it is the
same.
Gen. Saml. Houston, the
commander of the urmv, was
private soldier imder (en. Jack
son, in the Creek war of 1813.
He was afterwards a Representa
live in Congress, and Governor of
lennessee. Some domestic dif
ficulties for which he was much
censured at the time, caused him
to resign, and leave the State.
Thomas J.Rusk, who was Sec
retary of War, and is now a Brig
adier General, is a native of this
district. His parents are yet liv
ing in Pickens. He was for some
years a lawyer of reputation at
Clarksville in Georgia.
Miuabeau Lamah, who is said
now to be Secretary of War, was
in Georgia a laiv t er of considera
ble talent and was a candidate on
the State Rights ticket for Con
gress at the last election.
Robeht Pottek. Secretary of
the Navy, is well known in North
Carolina. He was in his youth
an oflicer in the United States Na
vy. A few years ago, he was a
member of Congress, and whilst
he was so, was convicted of an
outrageous assault and mayhem
and sentenced to two years im
prisonment. Immediately on his
release, he was elected to the
North Carolina Legislature, from
which he was soon after expelled.
Samuel P. Carson, Secretary
of State, was for several years the
Representative of the Burke dis
trict, N. C. in Congress. He re
moved to Red River a year or
two since, with a very considera
ble property. At the convention
be received a handsome support
for the Presidency of Texas.
Stephen F. Austin, who has
been a conspicuous actor in the
affairs of Texas for some years
past, and was recently one of the
Commissioners to the United
States, is, we believe, a native of
Massachusetts. He obtained ma
ny years ago a large grant of land
in the province which be colon
ized, chiefly with emigrants from
the United States.
Dr. Archer, another of the
commissioners, is a Virginia, n of
talents and character, who left his
native State a few years since in
consequence of having been en
gaged in an uufortunate and fatal
duel.
Judge Quitman, who left Mis
sissippi with a company, for Tex-
as, soon after the fall of the Alamo,
is said to have been one of the first
men of that Stae; a gentleman of
high character, and spotless repu
tation. Pendleton S. C) Mes.
Death of Bishop White. h
becomes our painful duty to an
nounce the death of the venerable
Bishop of the Episcopal Church
of Pennsylvania. He breathed
his last at Philadelphia on the
17thinst. in the 89th year of his
age; being born in Philadelphia
on the 4th of April, 1748. He
was the Senior Bishop of the
Church, and was believed to be
the oldest Protestant Bishop in
the world. "In the course of bis
lengthened labors, he has COnSe-
crated every Bishop of the Epis-
copal Miurch in tlie United btates,:
except the Bishop of Michigan, ;
who has received consecration
since illness confined him to his!
chamber."
Providence, R. I. July 18.
Birth extraordinary. An Irish
lady passenger on board the,
steamboat President gave birth to
a tine healthy iemale child on Sat-
urdav mornincr off Point Judith.
On the arrival of the boat the
mother and child louk passage in
the stage for Taunton!
Another Candidate for Office.
A crazy man named Samuel
Bridge, from Philadelphia, arriv
ed in Washington last week, and
with all dignity drove up to "the
President's House," alighted,
walked in and demanded posses
sion, subsequently, he
called
upon the Secretary of the Treasu -
ry for the keys, and then proceed-j
ed to the house of the Secretary ofi
the Senate, for the purpose of !
making arrangements for calling'
an extra session of the Senate! j
He says it is the wish of the peo
ple of Philadelphia that he should
assume the duties of President of
the United States.
He was taken
up, and committed lor sale keep-
ing. Alexandria Gazette.
Shocking
Disaster at Trenton
Falls. On Friflnv !nci uMIp
Mr. Thorn and family, from New n water and drink it. This rem
York, were on a visit to Trenton etly l)as relieved persons, when a
Falls, in passing round a point of stmg had nearly caused mot lifica
rock, one of his servants w ho had : Hon.
charge of a little daughter ninej
years old, slipped and fell with her important if true. A discovery
into the stream. The servant j0' immense importance has just
was rescued, but the daughter heen communicated to our Socie
drowned, and we understand her My or the promotion of the Phy
body has not yet been found. I scal Sciences. .'1 his di?cocry is
The place where the accident l,lat of an impulsive forte more
happened, is the same at which,
some few years since, a Miss Soy
dam was lost. There does not
appear to be any danger in pass
ing the point where these fatal
casualties have occurred. With
ordinary care it may be passed
with perfect safety; and we should
not think nnec lifo fnnlil ho n
dangered without the greatest
carelessness. Uttca Observer.
A Crash. On Friday morn
ing, says the Boston Courier,
about seven o'clock, the brick!
r . r 11 I'll r I
ironi oi an oici uuiming, 01 ques
tionable fame, situated near the
corner of Ann and Richmond
streets, fell into the slreet with a
tremendous crash. Several com
plaints have heretofore been made
of its apparent insecurity. It was
occupied by a number of families,
and several persons were in bed at
the time of the occurrence, all of
whom escaped without the slight
est injury, though some were most
indelicately exposed.
Ours vs. My. Mr. Slang al
ways used to say "my horse, my
boys," See; Mr. Slang now inva
riably says "our boys, or our
farm." This substitution of "our"
for "my," by Mr. Slang, was
brought about thus: Mr. Slang
had just married a second wife.
On the day after the wedding, Mr.
Slang casually remarked, 4tI now
intend, Mrs. Slangy to enlarge my
dairy. ;'
You mean our dairy, my dear,
replied Mrs. Slang.
Po, quoth Mr. Slang. 1 say I
shall enlarge my dairy.
Say our dairy, Mr. Slang.
No; my dairy,
Say our dairy, say 'our, screa tri
ed Mrs. Slang, seizing the poker.
JHy dairy! my dairj! vociferat
ed the husband.
Our dairy! our dairy! our dai
ry! re-echoed the wife, emphasiz
ing each "our" with a blow of the
poker upon the back of her cring
ing spouse.
Mr. Hnnr relrentprl iinrlpr thf
bed. Tn nassiiifr nnHpr
clothes, Mr. Slang's hat brushed
oil. Mr. Slang remained under
cover several minutes, vaiting f?T
a calm. At length his wife '-saw
him thrusting his head out a? the
I foot of the
from its shell.
What are you looking for, Mr
ci -i a i i
oiawg, bays sner i am lookn.g.
my dear, snivelled he. o see if 1
'can see any thing of oar hut.
j The struggle was over. The titxt
bunday morning, Mr. Slang ask
ed Mrs. Slang if we might war
our clean linen breeches to meet
ing? And in short ever since the
above mentioned occurrerc e, Mr.
Slang has studiously avoided the
use of that odious singular posses
sive pronoun. He stb'ids correc
ted. Eorsooih he considers Mrs.
Slang the better grammarian.
Cure for a Cov2h. Take a
1 lunm of ah m. the M7.e rif p lipn.
! ecc. nut it into a nuarr r,f mo!-
ses, and simmer the same over the
fire in an earthen vessel till the
alum is dead, and when cool take
a spoonful as often as you feel the
cough coming on, and in a short
time you will get relief
Receipt. To cure the noisork
j occasioned by the sting of a bee
wasp, hornet, etc. wash the part
affected with the tvater of ammo
nia (hartshorn) and if much dis-
' eased dissolve a picte of carbon-
ated ammonia (the size of a reaV
powerful than that of gunpowder
orsteam. Our men of science are
in raptures, and are preparing
their reports, which will very
shortly be published! All that
we know is, that the moving pow
er is a galvanic machine, the ac
tion of which, it is said, will equal
. lUat 01 Steail). WlttlOUt tlie eXOPMSe
j a"d without the danger.
x rencn paper.
Breaking up of the Harems in
the East. A German paper states
that the Schah of Persia, in order
to give a proof of advancement of
civilization, had suddenly thrown
open the gates of his harem, and
given their liberty to all the
female slaves it contained. All
the great men of the empire fol
lowed the example, and the inhab
itants of Teheran could scarcely
believe their eyes when they saw
the gates of the palace opened for
the first time for the unhappy vic
tims. This news causes an extra
ordinary sensation here and all
over the eat. It was believed in
Pere that the sultan would follow
the example.
CyThe EnglUh people say
that if you wish to get genuine
Port Wine, you must go yourself
to Oporto, make your own wine,
and then ride astraddle of the bar
rel all the way,