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SATURDAY, SEPT. 9. 1857. (I7Ve learn that at Martin Su perior Court, held last week, Judge Nash presiding, George W. Coburn was tried for the murder of A. G. Keys, and convicted of manslaughter. He was sentenced to be branded and imprisoned for six months. flyThe Ualeigh Register gives the following statement of the ma jorities in each of the districts at the recent Congressional election in this State: Whig. 405 1st district, 2d " Hep. 70 3d 4th 5th 6th 7th Sth 9th 10th 11th 12th 13ih 066 48S u ( 855 180 2900 1491 2880 9865 4148 1005 2093 191 789 414S 5717 In those districts in which there was no contest between the candi dates of opposite political opin ions, (the 5th, 1 lib and 12th) the vote for Governor is given, as ex hibiting the strength of parties. (t?VVe shall probably receive the President's message by the mail of this evening. It is looked for with intense anxiety. .An un usual large number of members of the House of Representatives were in attendaoce on Monday last, when the election for Speak er was to take place. Mr. Polk will it is said be the Republican candidate, and Mr. Bell, the Whig. The Republican majority is vari ously estimated at from 2 to 10. We earnestly hope that none of the Republican members have been remiss in their duty on this important occasion. OyCol. James Standifer, the member elect from the 4th Con gressional district of Tennessee, tiied in the vicinity of Kingston, on his way to Washington City. (T7The following letter was re cently addressed by the Hon. Thomas H. Benton to a party of gentlemen who invited him to a public dinner in Ohio: St. Louis, Aug. 1 th, 1837. Gentlemen : Your most kind invitation to attend the public din ner to be given to the Hon. Mr. Allen, on the 19lh inst. has been duly received, and commands the expression of my sincere thanks both for the honor done me and the kind terms in which it has been communicated. Were it in my power to attend, it would give tne great pleasure to do so: but the state of my family will require me to remain at home to the last mo to effect a revolution in the Go vernment by scourging the coun try into dchange of Administra tionand to humble the democra cy into a supplication for the re establishment of a National Bank to repair the evils of its own mis rule and misgovernment. Those fine expectations have not been re alized, thanks to the eighty mil lions of hard money which Gen. Jackson's policy had accumulated in the country, and which enables the government and the people to be independent of non-specie pay ing banks, and not only saves la bor, produce and property from the prices of 1819, but gives them far better prices than they receiv ed eight or ten years ago, in the palmy days of Bank and Federal dominion, when those who are now crying out 'misrule,' 'tyran ny,' and "ruin," were themselves in power, the Great Regulator in full operation, and the Federal Government and the Federal Bank in full concert in regulatiDg the af fairs of the country. Reduced to specie and present prices are. far better than they were in that vaunted period, which the croak ers of the present day, consider as the standard of perfection, and to which they labor incessantly to carry us back. What would the farmers now say to a relapse from present prices to those of 1825-6-7-8 ? when flour was four or five dollars a barrel, and every thing else in proportion. Forty-five years ago, it was set down in his memorandum book by Mr. Jefferson, that there was a system formed by the federal party to banish gold and silver from cir culation, and to deluge the States with paper money. Every year which has since elapsed, has given the proofs of the existence and continuance of that system, and the year 1837 would have seen its success, had it not been for the 80 millions of hard money with which Gen. J. had fortified the country. His policy has balked this system, in the moment of its anticipated triumph; and I think that his successor "w made of the stuff" to sustain the policy, and that the democracy of the Union is also "made of the stuff" to sus tain him in doing so. Enclosed, Gentlemen, I send you a sentiment, which I hope you will find appropriate to the occa sion, and acceptable to the com pany. Yours most respectfully, THO'S. H. BENTON. Messrs. John Brough, and oth ers, Lancaster, Ohio. The memory of Mr. Jefferson, wno wrote aown in a dook. in 1792, what has been attempted in 1837, the policy of Gen. Jack son which has balked that attempt posed Its coorse to b wrong, I felt that it would appear illiberal, and be indelicate in me, to become a critic of the conduct of my succes sor. If in the struggles of the bank to be rechartered, my opin ion was against it, (as in fact it was) I nevertheless was silent. The re lations in which 1 had stood to it forbade me to manifest opposition to it, in any way or any degree. It is now no more, and I am free to declare that 1 am opposed to a na tional bank in any shape. I al ways believed it to be unconstitu tional, and my experience and ob servation have satisfied me that it is inexpedient, unnecessary, and dangerous." f7The Express Mail Rider, south of Gaston, was killed on Sun day night. We have only heard that he was found dead about a mile from Gaston, and that his death is supposed to have 'been caused by being thrown from his horse. The mail was brought in to Gaston in due time, by some person passing on the road. Pet. Int. G?" A bale of New Cotton was received in Augusta, Ga. on the 16th ult. It sold for 12 1-2 cts. (7Morris Shehorri was tried at Charlotte, Mecklenburg coun ty, last week, for the murder of Henry Massey, and found guilty. Raleigh Stand. 05 Slips from New Orleans state that the yellow fever is on the increase iu that city, and that the recent cases are "very violent and unusually fatal." FROM FLORIDA. St. Augustine, Aug. 19. We learn by an express which arrived hereon Thursday from Gen. Je sup's Head Quarter's, that infor mation had reached there that the Indians were assembling in great numbers in the neighborhood of Fort King. They expressed noth ing but the most friendly intentions as usual. Orders however have been given to the commanders of posts to be on the alert. It is said to be Gen. Jesup's opinion that they contemplate an attack upon some point; he has gone to Fort King. Gen. J. has ordered the purchase of horses and mules for the ensuing campaign. The force to be employed in the coming campaign will be large, and we are inclined to think, very efficient. The 1st and part of the 2d Regt's of Infantry, and the re mainder of the 2d Regiment of Dragoons, have been ordered to Florida, and from 1500 to 2000 Volunteers, mostly Floridians, &; well mounted, have been raised, organized and mustered into the service of the United States, to gether with 1000 Indians, of vari ous tribes, now on their way to Florida. The whole Army will proWably be composed of about 6000 men. an awful character, the wind blow ing N. E. and S. E. for six hours. Three-fourths of the salt on the Island was destroyed, and all the boats, and many of the houses. Salt had risen to 15 cents: there is not remaining over 120,000 bushels. Salt Key has lost 350, 000 bushels; Grand Key less se verely. JV. Y. Star. Murder. We learn that a dreadful murder was perpetrated in Johnston county, week before last, by a negro upon the body of his master, Hardy Jones. The negro after giving him a blow on the head with a large stone, his master being asleep on the ground, took up the body uid placed the head in a fire which was burning at the time under a still, which they had been watching for the night. The face and head were so burnt as scarcely to be recogni sed. The affair was witnessed by a boy, who informed the family as soon as he could get the better of his fright, and the negro was ta ken. Raleigh Reg. We learn from an authentic source, that a melancholy and dis tressing occurrence took place in the neighborhood of Ransom's Bridge, in Nash county, a few days since. Two children of a widow lady went to a hen's nest near her house and put their hands in the nest, upon which they were immediately bitten by a rattle snake. The mother being surpris ed at their long stay, went in search of them and found them both dead about 12 or 15 feet from the spot. The snake liad twenty- and the President and the! 0,,e rattles. On her return to her Men who are "made of the stuff" to carry out the policy which Jef ferson indicated, and which Jack son has been pursuing Treasury Drafts. The New York Journal of Commerce says: One reason for the high price of Treasury Drafts has been the pur chase by the United Slates Bank of 82,000,000, to meet the first payment for the government stocks. That movement we be lieve is completed. U.' States Bank. The Charles ton Mercury contains a communi cation from the Hon. Langdon Cheves, the distinguished individ ual by whose talents and energy the bank was saved from irretriev able ruin in 1820. Of the per sonal and public character of Mr. ment, and will not afford me a! Cheves, the people of the United spare day to stop on the road as States require no information. His 1 proceed to Washington. I congratulate you, Gentlemen, on the success of Gen. Jackson's endeavors to improve the condition of the currency, exemplified in the present prosperity of the produc tive classes, and in the general ca pacity of the country to carry on its business, and to measure value? by the specie standard in spite of me stoppage of the banks. That event was expected to annihilaiP the specie standartf or value to sinu tne pr.ee of labor, of pro durp niirt nf i r , - Ul LJiuuenv. as intv ac " it fell after the catastrophe of 1819 career in Congress during the war rendered him one of the his torical names of our Republic. The views expressed bv Mr. Cheves are such as might have been expected from a gentleman of his candor, experience, and patriotism. The following is the closing paragraph of his letter : " As to the late Bank of the U. States, 1 have but very general no tions of its transactions since I re signed. I have been principally struck with the extent of them on some occasions. 1 had no interest in it. If on any occasion I sup- house, the unfortunate and afflict ed mother found her youngest child scalded to death. We do not know of a more suitable object for sym pathy than this ill-fated woman, who had three of her children torn from her in the course of an hour. IVarrenton Reporter. North Carolina Great Aien. We hear that Mr. Hugh McQueen is writing a history of the great men of North Carolina, livingand dead. We would like very much to see some attempt made to res cue from forgetfulness the actions of our illustrious dead. We too soon forget the good and the great, and manifest a blameable indiffer ence to letting others know that we ever possessed, or now possess any claim to distinction. The su periority of Greece and Rome is measurably the result of her Poets celebrating, and her Historians recording the wisdom of her Statesmen, and the' victories of her Generals. Who abroad knows any thing of those sons of North Carolina who have sunk into the tomb covered with laurels? or of those now upon the busy scene, who have acquired a proud pre eminence r Even the great Wm. Gaston is by many supposed to be dead. If such a condition of things always last, how can we hope to engender or keep alive among our youth a desire to serve the State and honour themselves. IVilmingtor, Adv, Horrid. Much excitement has been caused at Doualdsonville, Louisiana, by the overseer of Co- onel Pugh having been iound barbarously murdered, his head severed from his body, and bear- ng marks of axe-cuts. The Co onel arrested every one of his r . negroes; seven nave Dee;i execut ed, and the balance are undergo ing their trials. The ringleader, with two or three of his associates, have escaped. ib. Convention of Southern South western Merchants. A meeting las been held in Georgia, at which Judge Clayton presided, which passed resolutions recommending that a Convention of delegates from all the South and Soulh-Wes-tern States be held at Augusta, Geo. on the third Monday in Oc tober next, for the purpose of de vising a plan for a new organiza tion of our commercial relations with Eui ope, by which we shall become our own importers and exporters. The Circular recom mending the measure is signed by Gov. Lumpkin, Judge Clayton, and others. (7 We understand that by the active exertions of Brigadier At kinson, the measures of the War Department for the removal of the Potawatomies, Sacs, and Ioways from the Plate Country tract, a portion of Missouri lately ceded to that state, have been promptly carried into effect. Gen. Gaines had previously assembled the Po tawatomies in council, for the pur pose of disposing them to submit peaceably to the wishes of the Go vernment. A council of the Cherokees is being held at Red Clay, in Ten nessee, from which salutary results are anticipated, as the War De partment has sent a special agent to represent to the nation the views of the Government towards them, and the disposition enter tained by it to execute the treaty in a spirit of kindness and forbear ance. Globe. Sudden and Melancholy Death. Yesterday morning we under stand, Mr. Henry Dudley, (firm Dudley and Stuyvesant, merch ants, Pine street,) arose from his bed, apparently in his usual health. After the lapse of a few minutes he observed to his lady, that he felt faint, and went to the window. He suddenly exclaimed, "send for a doctor as soon as possible," and tell back, immediate assistance was afforded, but in 15 minutes he was a corpse, iur. uuaiey was in the 28lh year of his age, and appeared usually to enjoy most excellent health. On a post mor tem examination, it was found that his death was caused by ossifica tion of the heart. JY. Y. Times. Terrible Steam Boat Accident. A St. Louis paper of August 19th, gives the following particu lars of a fatal steamboat accident in that vicinity. About 3 o'clock on the morning of the 15th Au gust, the steamboat Dubuque, Captain Smoker, on her passage from St. Louis to Galena, collaps ed the flue of her larboard boiler, by which accident 22 persons were dreadfully scalded, 16 of whom are since dead. The West India Hurricane. The late tremendous hurricane in the West Indies, which committed such devastalioo, on the first days of August, at St. Thomas, St. Bartholomews, &c, appears to have been the same which ravaged the East coast of Florida and Georoia. and also the Bahama Islands, and, in a lesser degree, as far north as Charleston and Nor folk. Advices from Turks Island to Aug. 11th, stale that at that place the same tornado swept over J on the 3d of August, and was of dence, on the ih?rj o (lO.h) September,! at Williams' meeting Uk, 'i 1 1 ii i m igjj t Ill ttl'ic r!. rii. ... ...... ti.,.r, Oil i 30th ult. by H. Austin P T If ' i . . ''Ml. inus umuie to MUi p- . 4,05 Lit Planner. DIED, In this place, ?ll last after a hnger.ngii! ' JSathan II. Ilountree, an el- ble and worthy citizen. l left a wife and two children lo" ment his loss. v In this count v. on Fridav . 1st inst. Mr.EUzab(thCtlr. aged about C7 years. 6 "! Prices Current, The Madisonian. We have received the two first Nos. of this new paper, established at Wash ington by lhos. Allen. It is published on Wednesdays aud Saturdays, at $5 a year. It is edited with spirit and talent and is handsomely printed. Mr. Al len declares himself attached to the cause of the, Administration, and to the best interests of the Republican party. He disclaims in tne strongest terms, the idea, that he is in favor of a National Bank. Richmond Enq. (E7"A Christian Missionary has recently suffered martyrdom in China. He was confiued in an iron cage, in which he could nei ther stand or lie, and portions of his flesh were daily torn off with red hot pinchers. jforeigit. Late from Europe. The pack et ship Quebec, at New York, fur nishes Liverpool papers to the 4 ill of August. The condition of the Cotton market was better, and an advance was established of aid upon the previous prices. Money was very plenty in Lon don, and commercial bills of known credit were discounted by the money brokers at 3 per cent, per annum. A fatal balloon accident occur red in England on the 14th July. A Mr. Cocking went up with the balloon, or rather under it, intend ing to come down in a parachute. Mr. Green and another were in the car attached to the balloon; the other was about 60 feet below. When the parachute was cut loose, it fell to the ground, about 5000 feet, without expanding. Mr. Corking was instantly killed. The Cholera is raging to a frightful extent in Sicily and Na ples. Among the deaths at Pa lermo, is that of Mr. Gardner, U. S. Consul General. Washington Market, Sept. 5. .turpentine, new dip, $1 90; JJd 1 00. Tar,$l 30. Whig. Petersburg Market, Sept. 5. cotton b to 10 cents. Con. COMMUNICATED. (t?Elders Adams, Holland and Griffin, are by appointment to preach at Old Town Creek M. H. on Thursday, 23th inst.; Friday 29th, in Tarboro'. CThe Rev. Wm. Hyman will preach the luneral of Elza Haw kins, deceased, at his late resi- SEP!. 5 Bacon, Beeswai, Brandy, apple Coffee, Corn, " I Cotton, Cotton bag'g. r lour, supf. Iron, Lard, Molasses, sugar, brown, Salt, T.I. Turpentine. Wheat, Whiskev, If). lb. gall'i l. bush. Ib. y at d bid. J I). lb. gall'n lb. bush bbl. bus I) bbl. 20 25 80 100 13 15 0 8 20 25 7 $8 $ 5 10 12 10 h -1 i'j ill! 16 J, 3 i 8 Ii 25 & 31 24 5(1 55 6 60 65 12.5 l:w 75 bit loo ij, I 50 55 23 si TARI50H0UGH JOCKEY CLUB. jk MEETING of the Tarhoro'JocW flL Club will be htdd at S. Ptn.hr tH ttl. on Wednesday, the 13th inst. to ratkr arrangements lor the enuin;' fall Rapt A full attendance is reqin stetl. Ej uroei, Sept. 7. 1S37. The Secretary. Rail Road Notice. fip HE Mail and Passengers for Peters. ii burg, Richmond, Washington, Phi ladelphia! he. &.C. wiil. leave Blskeljci Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. a; 10 o'clock, A. M. and will leave Peter burg for Blakeley, he. on Mondays, Wed nesdays and Fridays, at 9 o'clock, A.M connecting at Blakeley with the Tarboro' Mail Line of Slaps, And fft Halifax or Gary's, with the tt'ii mington Line. Petersburg Rail Road Co. OJice, ) 4tli Sept. 1737. ( I. ATTENTION Washington Blues! YOU will Muster at your PriUf ground at William Peii'l"'. c Saturday, the 7lh of October nixl- "fl sons wishing to join said Volunteer pany, wiil attend on that day. By order of the Captain, Lewis de jlrqner, 0. & August 29i h, 1S37. Valuable Farm FOR SALE. THE subscriber wi-hin- ffJ the country, offers for aletM uab'e Tract nf Land on which he known by the name of the Schench Plantation Lying on lr river, one and a half P . ..I.u! above Tarborouh, a-ljoinin? !' ' Messrs. E. 0. Macnair, J. u- ' L. D. Wilson. The Tract coum Upioanis of H00 Acres Of which from 4 to 500 Acres and well adapted to the Srowth rfi Corn, he. There are on the P'e,0l d good Livelling And necessary out-homes f''f Gin, Gin house and screw toge yt good apple and pacb ?"bBW Land is well watered, having ne springs in ech BM-lo. ,,, depoite of marl, sufficient ' f a-es. Terms will be made W further particulars apply tlie on the premises. August 29 h, 1S37.
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