SATURDAY, AtiGOST 6, 1836.
Rep u blica ft Jfbmina'l ion
Ton president,
MARTIN VAN RUREN, of N. Y.
FOR VICE PRESIDENT,
RICHARD M. JOHNSON, of Ky.
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"DISTRICT ELECTORS.
1. Robert Love, Haywood Co.
2. George Bowers, Ashe.
3. John Wilfong, Lincoln.
4. Arcu'd Henderson, llowan.
5. John Hill, Stokes.
(3. Jonathan Parker, Guilford.
7. Wm. A. Morris, Anson.
S. Abraji Venable, Granville.
9. JosiaiiO. Watson, Johnston.
10. Nathaniel .Macon, Warren.
11 Wm. i Lock ii art, North'n.
12. Henry Skinner, Perquimons.
13. Louis D.Wilson, Kdgecombe.
14 Wm P. Perrand, Onslow.
15. Owen Holmes, New Hanover.
Election on Thursday, the 10th
November next.
(70n Wednesday last, the
new Court House in this place
was struck by lightning, and the
building much damaged, but luck
ily not set on fire. The lightning
descended one side of the belfry,
tearing off a considerable portion
of it, and then went down both
sides of the building, breaking the
windows, he. Fortunately there
was no person in it at the time.
Dreadful Accident... While sev
eral persons were engaged in loa
ding a cannon (which had been
fired several times during the
day,) at Greenville Pitt county,
on Friday 29th ult. it discharged.
ana Kinea toward iiarnner, sen.
an aged and respectable citizen,
a negro the property of Arch.
Parker, Esq. and one the proper-
ty of Capt. George Eason. There ' , , , T 1
n 1 . j o m t have alwavs thought that such was
were 9 whites and 3 Blacks woun- , 1 . r . .
caiculateil to call into existence
ded, some of which are consider- par,y fee!infff w,lidl u ouM enlire.
ed dangerous. Such was the ex- y destroy that dignity and solem
citement and confusion produced nity in which alone the occasion
by the unfortunate occurrence, should be celebrated. It is true
that none of the bve-standers ll,al lhis sentiment 'as given, and
could mve anv catUfnrinrv nr.
. r. . ... .
count of the manner in which the
explosion took place.
ELECTION RETURNS.
Edgecombe County. Thos. H.
Hall, no opposition, Senate. John
J. D.miel and James George,
Commons. Poll: Commons
Daniel 891, George 670, Jos.
Jno. Pippen 512. Wm. D. Pet-
way, no opposition, Sheriff. For
Governor: Spaight 1191, Dud
ley 71
Pitt. Alfred Moyp, no oppo
sition, Macon Moye and John
Spiers, C. Poll: Commons
Moye 605, Spiers, 520, John L.
Foreman 512," John H.Bumey
4S7. For Governor, Spaight
51 1, Du !lev483.
Braufort'..). O K. Williams,
no oppositiou, S. Messrs. Sat
terthwaite and Smallwood, (.
The following is the official
districts in this count :
Spaight
54
52
1.
Tarboro
12
Sp'u-er's,
Armstrong's,
Barnes',
Sharp's,
Barterfield,
S iratoga,
Sparta,
Penders,
U-dluck's,
1 I
o
0
0
0
15
3
o
0
1
1
0
0
8
5
1 I
3
4
5.
G.
7.
8
9.
10.
164
55
55
84
129
62
61
67
50
67
69
34
74
44
70
1191
11. Han-ell's,
12. U lrper's.
13
14.
15
16
17.
B- van's,
1 i'Tboro',
Cherry',
Manet's
Forbes's,
71
Allen Grist, re-elected without
opposition, Sheriff. For Gover
nor, Dudley's majority is between
5 and COO.
AW.--We learn verbally from
Nash, that Saml. L. Arlington is
re-elected without opposition, to
the Senate and that Gen. Henry
Blount is elected to the Commons,
bv a majority of 7 votes over
Ford Taylor. For Governor:
Spaight 07G, Dudley 102.
Franklin. John D. Hawkins,
5. Joseph Macklin and Thomas
I lower ton, C. Poll: Hawkins
2G1, H. J.G. Uufiin 151. Mack
lin G53, Howerlon 603, Dr. W.
T. Johnson (Whiff) 3GL For
Governor: Spaight 5G4, Dudley
303. Gustin Perry re-elected
Sheriff, by 247 votes over N.
Gupton.
QTlie elections in the coun
ties of Edgecombe, Beaufort, Pitt,
Hyde, Washington, Warren,
Nash, Franklin, and Granville,
took place last week. In the
counties of Tyrrell, Columbus,
Craven, Jones, Lenoir, Wayne, i
Johnston, Green, and Carteret, on
Thursday last. In all the other!
counties, on Thursday next.
FOR THE TARUORO PRESS.
Mr. Howard: I was not a little
surprised in my examination of
the volunteer toasts given on the
day of the celebration of the 4th
July last, one published appro
batory of the election of Judge
White, and not one published lor
Mr. Van I3uren. 1 attended the
meeting, and partook with de
lightful pleasure and heartfelt
gratification, in the enjoyment of
the festivities of the day, so plenti
fully granted on the occasion.
The meeting by taking into con
sideration, the inclemency of the!
day, was very respectable and un- j
expectedly numerous. Among'
the number there were so fir as I j
recollect, but two men among the'
whole that were professedly ad-i
vocates for Judge White. I
thought myself that it was dis-
linctly understood that, there
should notj (evcn jfe,,) be any
jsentiments published, that advo-j
"cated in the least a personal or:
: political predilection, lor any can- j
lii(,ae hc,d before l,,e people for ;
''"mediately answered by one in
favor of Martin un huren: but
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all sucli took place just on the eve
(lfan a(jourmnent o- lhe meeting.
Had it been known that this toast
()f a solitary character was to be
published, the Van Buren toasts
would also, but for that dignity
and solemnity in which they
viewed the occasion; they looked
upon such as highly incompatible
with the object far which they ns-
sembled together. My only ob
ject in making this communica
tion is to prevent an erroneous
opinion that may be formed a
broad, that our meeting was com
posed of White men. The
Whigs no doubt will harp upon it
as such, as we all know that they
are extremely anxious to obtain
every thing in their power, no
matter how trivial to carry their
point. But if they put such a
construction as that upon our
statement of the poll in the several
Dudley.Hall. Daniel. George
Pippen,
40
40
49
12
1 I
34
67
24
17
27
27
27
13
19
35
24
46
Pet'y.
38
55
161
54
66
71
129
63
54
63
43
63
56
12
41
3
78
16
23
55
144
42
50
66
103
46
40
62
20
32
51
26
41
27
58
43
10
92
45
3G
34
65
22
48
7
61
49
63
13
33
22
62
20
88
32
35
41
60
22
24
27
23
31
34
1G
40
31
28
573 891 670 512 1090
meeting in Stantonsburg, from the
mere fact that this sentiment was
delivered, they must certainly
pardon me for pronouncing them
to be in a very great error. 1 do
not by any means accuse the au
thor of the toast of being guilty
of any intention himself to pro
duce abroad a misconstruction
similar to the one above alluded
to, but from the fact that it may
have a tendency of that nature, in
justice to the meeting and myself
I have thought it a duty incum
bent upon some one to make an
explanation denying that it was a
White celebration. Yours, he.
JUSTICE.
Wilmington and Raleigh Rail
Road. Mr. Gwynn, Chief En
gineer, arrived in town a few days
since. He has completed the
preliminary surveys, and in a few
days, will be prepared to report
on the comparative advantages of
the difierent routes. A meeting
of the Directors is called on the
15th Aug., at which time the loca
tion of the road will be determin
ed upon. The work will imme
diately be put under contract and
prosecuted with vigor and earn
estness. Wilmington Adv.
Our Shoal. We are gratified
to learn that Congress, at its late
session, appropriated 5,000 dol
lars for deepening the shoal a few
miles below this town. The
Dredge boat, he. at Portsmouth,
has also been procured for the ac
complishment of the work, and
will commence its operation in a
few weeks. The deepening of the
river at the place referred to, is a
desideratum, we are pleased to
see, which is about to be accom
plished. Much good will result
from it; there will be a large a
mount of expense and time saved
to the commercial interest; and in
fact the deepening of the shoal
will be a general benefit. The
thanks of our community are due
to otir much esteemed representa
tive through whom the above ap
propriation was obtained.
Alexander J. Swift, Esq. one
of the corps of the United States
Engineer company, arrived here
a few days since and surveyed the
shea!. IVashington Whig.
0C?"The Norfolk Beacon says,
among the new routes recently au
thorised by the Postmaster Gen
eral is the following:
Norfolk to Halifax. (N. C.)
four additional trips per week be
tween Norfolk and Portsmouth
making a daily mail.
The " Distribution System,"
The President of the United
States having been invited to a
Democratic celebration of the 4th
of July in lhe city of Philadelphia,
returned the following answer to
the letter of invitation:
IVashington, June 29th, 1836.
.Gentlemen 1 regret that my
public duties will not allow me to
accept your kind invitation to
unite with the democratic cit
izens of the city of Philadelphia
in the celebration of the next 4lh
of July. It would afford me great
pleasure to join them on that oc
casion so well calculated, as that
will be, to revive the recollections
of our revolutionary struggle, and
to confirm the confidence with
which we all rely upon the effica
cy of the great principles on which
the patriots of that day founded
our system of Government Guid
ed by those principles, the demo
cracy of the Union, of which the
people of Pennsylvania are so
distinguished a portion, have no
thiug to apprehend from the at
tempts which may be made to
build up a political power, irres
ponsible to the will, or faithless
to the trusts, of the majority.
In compliance with your re
quest, I subjoin a sentiment to be
offered in my name to the compa
ny; and have the honor to sub
scribe myself, very truly and sin
cerely, Your fellow citizen,
ANDREW JACKSON.
To Henry Horn and Henry
Simpson, Committee.
The Constitution of (he United
States. What it does not author
ize, is forbidden to those who act
under it. A cbnstitutional right
10 apply, and a necessity for such
application, are the true sources
and limits of the power to tax.
When the taxes produce more
money than can be rightfully ap
plied, the appropriate remedy is
reduction or repeal. To continue
a tax without necessity, and for
the sake of distribution, is to sub
vert the principles of the constitu
tion, and must end in destroying
the liberties of the people.
Public Land. The Baltimore
Chronicle says Such is the im
mense amount receiving at several
of the land offices in the West,
that the Government has deter
mined to demand additional secu
rity. The penalty in the bonds
of the receivers has, therefore,
been advanced from $50,000 to
$200,000. Some of the offices
have been compelled to close their
doors, to enable them to bring up
the accumulated arrears of busi
ness. It is calculated that the
receipts from the sales of public
lands may be doubled during the
next six months, as compared with
the last.
The Smithsonian Bequest. Ac
cording to the United States Gaz
ette, it is rumored that Mr. Rich
ard Rush has been appointed by
President Jackson as the Com
missioner or Trustee to attend to
the large bequest of the a.2 Mr.
Smithson, of England, made to
the United Stales for the purpose
of establishing a National Univer
sity at Washington.
CCJr'Gen. Cowan, for many
years Clerk in the Senate of our
Stale Legislature, has been an
j pinled a Clerk in the Post office
Department at Washington,
j Col. Coleman, of Cabarrus, al
i so a Clerk in the same body, has
i been appointed Assistant Post
I Master General, with a salary of
i $2,500. Raleigh Reg.
The "Sun " This paper, de
voted to the cause of Judge White,
and printed at Washington City.
I the publication of which was tem
porarily suspended, we are glad
to perceive has been revived. It
is now published by Mr Thomas
G. Forster, recently of this City,
who being a good practical prin
ter, well acquainted with his bu-
: siness, the regular appearance of
the paper will be ensured. ib.
Supreme Court, This tribunal
adjourned on the 23d ult. In ad
dition to the Opinions heretofore
announced, Chief-Justice Ruffin
delivered one in the case of the
Slate v. Miller, from Wake, con
victed of Murder. Judgment of
Death aflirmed. ib.
State Loan. We learn that the
Loan of $400,000, authorized by
the last Legislature, has been ne
gotiated atar. interest payable
ii r.. 1. .1 r
I in iuiciu. uue-iourin inereoi
j was sold to our University, and
three fourths to the United
j States. ib.
INDIAN WAR.
CTll was reported at New Or
leans that Black Hawk had com
menced hostilities on the the Wes
tern frontier, at the head of 6000
; warriors. The Gov. of Wiscon
j sin, it was said, was preparing to
' march against them. The report
was discredited.
Milled Seville Julu 19. The
j Georgia Infantry have been dis-
ctiarged, leaving now in the ser
vice, of our troops, Col. Beall's
Regt. and Maj. Alford's ballall
ion of Mounted Men. -When these
will be discharged, seems, from all
we can learn, to be doubtful.
The Indians in small parties still
continue to commit depredations.
The band in the Chickashatchie
swamp have not yet been taken,
and are supposed still to be in that
swamp. And finally, General
Jessup, we understand, has issued
an order, requiring all the In
dians, without exception, to come
in by a particular time, for emi
uralion: threatening to consider
those who do not comply with this
order, as outlaws and enemies,
and to treat them as such. '
From the reluctance of the In
dians to emigrate, this order, it is
imagined, may probably produce
farther hostility, and Gen. Jessup,
it is supposed, will find considera
ble difliculty in consummating his
designs. Recorder.
.Montgomery, Ala.) July 16.
About three thousand Indians left
our wharves on Thursday last, on
board the steamboats Lewis Cass
and Meridian, for their destined
homes across the Mississippi, un
der charge of Lieut. Barry, of the
United Slates army.
From the inauspicious season
of the year, and the crowded state
of the boats, it is but reasonable
to expect that the Indians will, on
the route, suffer much from dis
ease. We look forward to such a
result, but hope for a different
one.
Previous to the departure of
the Indians from this place some
days since, many serious distur
bances occurred. Upon the re
quisition of the Governor of Geor
gia, preparations were making to
so chain and fetter some twelve or
fifteen of these deluded wretches
that there could be no escape,
when one by a sudden and ener
getic effort, succeeded in getting
from the grasp of those in whose
possession he was raised a ham
mer, and inflicted a very severe
blow upon the head of one of the
guards gave the war whoop,
and then took to flight; he was
immediately shot dead by a Mo
bile volunteer, and another bayo
netted, and died in a few hours.
Oil the evening three succeed
ed in escaping from the guard
one was on Thursday brought
into town under arrest and while
proceeding through the street in a
wagon, took a large knife and cut
his throat and instantly expired.
OCT'The Post Master at Colum
bus, (Ga.) has notified the Post
Master at Augusta, (Ga.) that all
the mails for the West may be
forwarded as usual. The road
between Columbus and Tuskegee
which had been seriously injured
by the Indians, has been repaired.
Two Military posts have been es
tablished on the Mail route, and in
addition to the regular troops at
these posts, mounted escorts are
furnished to accompany the mails
throughout the nation. Individu
als may also travel by this route
to the West in perfect safety.
CCTThe accounts from Black
Creek are truly deplorable. Fifty
two died there in 40 days, from
Measles and Diarrhoea.
There were 146 reported sick
at Fort Drane, among whom vrere
5 out of 7 Officers.
OufAii engagement between
the whiles and Indians took place
on the head waters of the Suwan
nee, on the 15lh; in which the
whiles killed all the men, 16; and
captured allthe women and chil
dren 20.
Three whites killed, and 6 or 8
wounded.
(TThe mail h as again com
menced running through the
Creek nation.
TEXAS.
Official despatches from
General Gaines, dated Camp Sa
bine, June 28, 1836, communicate
the intelligence, that the Mexican
army at Matamoras, under Gen.
Urrea, had been reinforced to the
number of 7,000 men, and was on
the 18th of June on its march, and
rapidly advancing towards Guad
aloupe Victoria, and the head
quarters of the Texian army. The
motto to which the Mexican army
were sworn, was "extermination
to the Sabine, or death. :'
Before receiving this intelli
gence, Major Sterling C. Robert
son had reported to General
Gaines, that two men had been re
cently killed and another wound
ed on the waters of the Navasota,
in Robertson's colony, about 20
miles west of Nacogdoches, by
the Indians of several different
tribes (Caddoes, Kitchies and oth
ers) who had taken and carried
away several women and children
of the families of the men killed.
General Gaines, tor,,
the part of l!le ,tuil11
prompted by their lavil
advised of ile Jar ;S K
Preaching Matamoras a 1 1 '
expectation ihat the T -v
would be driven off and cf
be given up l0 jlem h -f'
;;pon the Governors cf
Jennessee, Mississippi,;1
each f0r a' U.
runted guiv men, toco-op1
th he regular force und? !8
command, including tJe , i:
It vvashis intention, if t
lot m the interim recVuesai r
tory assurances that tl,e lndi ,C'
npou our borders had 0 ,iatl ??
the late murders on t!,e "
to march to Nacogdoches as
as he obtained the immediate"
operanon of the three compart
of dragoons and six companies'" f
the 7th infantry at Fori Towsa?
Santa Anna. -The
town Metropolitan takes a L
interest in the fate of Santa Anna
and by way of giving its sen,.'
ments in regard to him someim.
portance, undertakes to utter tL
for the President of tlle United
States.
"It is understood (it says) tf;,t
the President of the United bta4
has expressed the greatest solid,
tude for the fate of tl,e juslrioB.
prisoner, whom the fortune of war
has thrown into the hands of the
Texians."
Santa Anna's advocate directly
inverts lhe opinions of the Presf.
dent, unreservedly expressed Lv
him to all who have conversed
with him, and repeatedly staled
in our presence. So far from
ever having "the greatest solid
tude for the fate of their illustrious
prisoner," the President has agai:i
and again declared thai he deserv
ed the most ignominous death;
and that the oaly justification for
the lenity shown, him, was 10 be
founded in the condition of Tes
as, which might make it proper in
subject the demands of justice to
the policy of getting rid cf the
armies of Mexico, through the in
fluence of the chief. ib.
Petersburg .Market, July 29.
Cotton. There is not much do
ing at present; prime qtm!iiies-are
scarce, and in gocd demand: the
inquiry after it is not readily met
by holders. Low ciniity very
dull and not wanted. We quote:
Fair, 151 to 16; Good, 16 to 10';
Prime, IG2 to 17. Con.
Virginia Crops. -Vie Rich
mond Enquirer says of the Wheat
harvest
The crops generally turn ui
even worse than was espoctec
There is straw enough: butdw
heads are withered, and yieM
comparatively few grain?. ,e
are assured that some cl the far
mers will not make seed nUa!
others have ploughed upthej
fields without reaping man.v "Jl
uot make half a crop others not
a third or fourth. The ravages
from various causes, the lb'llie
wet, smut, freshet, kc. &c. w
more or less felt by almost a..
The complaint extends to
sides of lhe mountains in Virgi,a
But the corn looks well, ad ttlfi
oats are verv fine. i .
We cannot quote any otiu'.
prices for Wheat. b tin uP:,.f
alleled state of the crop,
Iers are unwilling to bid too jig
as the farmers are to ask tooli'
We have heard of $2 being ofle
cd in Petersburg. The
talk of sending to Europe lor
plies.
CTJ-We hear favorable tidiDSj
from the country of the projpe
ol the Indian com -r- j
it -
doing passing we
II a vveeii ar
,Bl,a3a...fo .ierajfl 10
ly wanted a seasonable"
on
start it a neaa. ai
than done: Last Friday there
r 1 ,h r i nenc'rait
bountnui ram, . l !,nv
to the tie pin 01 T
,he surface of the earth.
. 1 c J.jvc 01 u
e r,.,r niches
Ac.A four uav
scorching weather, '
day afternoon anon' - -
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