FRIDAY, FKHRUARY 2,
(t3Anolher alteration having been made
in the arrival and departure of the mails at
this plnce, we shall hereafter issue our pa
per on Saturday.
JVc are indebted to the Hon. Robt.
Si range lor a copy of the Sub-Treasury
bill, recently reported to the U. S. Senate
by Mr. Wright, Chairman of the Commit
tee of Finance; an abstract of which we
published in our last paper. We regret
to perceive that the veteran Editor of the
Richmond Enquirer opposes this bill, as
lie did that of the extra session, and still
adheres to the State Bank system; but it
can be of no avail, for daily developments
indicate very plainly that the choice is
narrowed down to Sub-Treasuries or a
.National Bank.
Shad. We arc informed that a few
Shad were caught in Tar river at Green
ville, on Saturday night last. We hope
soon to hear of these welcome visitors ma
liing their way up the river to this place.
(D Wc learn that authentic information-
lias been received by the relatives of the
late Dr. Join Parker, formerly of this
place but recently of Florida, of the recov
ery of his body. He mysteriously disap
peared a short time since, under circum
stances which strongly attached suspicion
to two of his negroes; on finding his body
a rigid examination took place, when it
was clearly ascertained that the Doctor was
accidentally drowned in attempting to pass
in a canoe to the island near Pensacola, on
Tvhich his plantation is situated. It is a
icurce of great consolation to his rela
tives and friends under this afflicting dis
pensation, to know that it was not occa
sioned by the hand of violence.
CJWe cordially greet the following
article from the Philadelphia Herald of the
21st ult. We view this as the most im
portant step yet taken by our Northern
brethren, to check the abolition fanatics in
their mischievous and dangerous career.
Its salutary effects no doubt will be soon
perceptible, and this timely movement on
the part of the citizens of the Key-stone
State properly appreciated in the South.
The Negro Suffrage Question Settled.
By the proceedings of the Convention of
Saturday evening, the question was taken
on the proposition to insert the word
"white," as one of the qualifications of
voters, in the Constitution, and decided by
a largo majority, in the affirmative, thus
excluding negroes from theriM of voting
at elections in this Stale. So far as we
have been able to ascertain the sentiment
of our community upon this question, it co
incides with the decision of the Convention.
CONGRESS.
The Senate, on the 25th ult. passed Mr.
Benton's bill for the increase of the Ar
my. This bill proposes to add 62 to each
Company of artillery; to each of infantry,
63; and 5 to each of dnirnnns Tho T,-o
sident is authorised to increase the corps of
v. r,; ...i , . - .
-'"S'iij:-, wnencver lie may deem it ex
pedient, to 21 officers of various grades.
J he several sections of the bill authorize
additions to other departments.
In the House of Representatives, on the
S-Uliult. the bill making a partial appro
priation for the suppression of Indian hosti
lities for the year 1S38, was discussed at
some length in Committee of . the Whole,
Mr. Conner in the Chair. The amend
ment of Mr. Wise, reducing the appropri
ation from 1,000.000 to 500.000. was
rejected without a division. The bill was
i:eo uiu iiiuc To be reported to the House
The committee then took up and consider
y bill making an appropriation of
r ;,', .; iu, lur the protection ot the .North
ern frontier of the United States." and
then rose and reported the two foregoing
hills to the House.
The contested Mississippi election is yet
vinucr discussion in the House.
Numerous petitions for the abolition of
s.avcry in the District of Columbia, and
against the annexation of. Texas, continue
"to be daily presented to both Houses.
The following are the abolition resolu
tions submitted by Mr. Clay to the Senate,
cn the lSlh ult.
Unsolved That the institution of domes
tic slavery, as now existing in many of
the States of this Confederacy, is subject
to the exclusive power and control of those
States respectively; and that no other
State, nor the people of no other State, nor
Congress, possess, or can rightfully exer
cise, any power or authority whatever to
interfere, in any manner therewith.
Resolved, That if any citizen of the U.
States, regardless of the spirit of peace,
harmoay, and untou, which should ever
animate the various members of the Con
federacy, and their respective citizens,
shall present to the Senate any petitions,
touching the abolition ot slavery in any oi
the States in which it exists, all such peti-.
tions shall be instantly rejected, without de
bate, and without further or other jjrocee
dinys thereon, as relating to an object pal
pably beyond the scope of the constitutional
power ot Congress.
Resolved. That, when the District of
Columbia was ceded, by the States of Vir
ginia and Maryland, to the United States,
domestic slavery existed in both of those
States, including the ceded territory; and
that, as it still continues in both of them, it
could not be abolished within the District
without a violation of that good faith which
was implied in the cession and in the ac
ceptance of the territory; nor, unless com-
nenpation were made to the proprietors of
slaves, without a manifest infringement of
an amendment to the Constitution ot the
United States; nor without exciting a de
gree of just alarm and apprehension in the
States recognizing slavery, for transcend
ing, in mischievous tendency, any possible
benefit which could be accomplished by the
abolition.
Resolved, therefore, That is the delibe
rate judgment of the Senate that the insti
tution of domestic slavery ought not. lo be
abolished within the District of Columbia,
and it earnestly hopes that all sincere
friends of the Union, and of harmony, and
general tranquility, will cease to agitate
this disturbing question. But the Senate
feels itself, at the same time, constrained,
from a high sense of duly, in respect to the
constitutional right of petition, to declare
that it holds itself bound to receive and re
spectfully treat any petitions, couched in
decorous language, which may be present
ed by citizens of the United States, touch
ing slavery w ithin the District of Colum
bia. Resolved, therefore, That upon the pre
sentation of any such petitions, they shall
be received, and referred to the appropri
ate committee.
Resolved, That it would be highly in
expedient to abolish slavery in Florida,
the only Territory of the United States in
which it now exists, because of the serious
alarm and ju.st apprehensions which would
be thereby excited in the Slates sustaining
that domestic institution; because the peo
ple of that Territory have not asked it to
be done, and, when admitted into the
Union, will he exclusively entitled to de
cide that question lor themselves; and also,
because it wouid be in violation of a solemn
compromise, made at a memorable and
critical period in the history of this coun
try; by which, like slavery was prohibited
north, it was admitted south of the line of
thirty-six degress and thirty minutes north
latitude.
Resolved, That no power is delc-iratiid.
by the Constitution, to Con 2 re s. to nro-!
hibit, in or between the States lolr-min,.-
slavery, the sale and removal of mh nnt I
sons as are held in slavery by the laws of i
mose states.
Resolved, That whilst the Senate, with
painful regret, has seen the perseverance of
certain citizens of the United States in the
agitation of the abolition of domestic sin.
very, thereby creating distrust and d iscon-
tentand dissatisfaction among the people of
me unncu states, wno should ever cherish
towards each other fraternal sentiments, it
beholds, with the deepest satisfaction.
every where prevailing an unconquerable
auaenmcnt 10 the Union, as the sure bul
wark oi the salety, liberty, and harmincss
of the people of the United States.
Presidential Recom mendntinns A
resolution has been introduced into the
Kentucky Legislature, recommendins:
Hcnry Clav ss a suitable candidate for tho
next Presidency, and expressive of a de
sire to leave the final decision to a Nation
al Convention.
A very large meeting of the friends and
neighbors of General Harrison rnroml,-
took place in Cincinnati; Judge Burnet in
me -unair. An address and resolutions
were unanimously adopted, and a recom
mendation to hold a Convention in Pitts
burg in June next.
Sunerior Cnnrfx Thn rt...: Jt
'uuuwiujiis me
arrangement of the Judges for the Spring
Spring.
Settle.
Baily.
Saunders.
Toomer.
Fall.
Baily.
Settle.
Toomer.
Pearson.
Saunders.
Nash.
Edenton,
Salisburj'.
Ncwbern,
Hillsboro',
Raleiirh.
Pearson.
Wilmington, Dick.
Mountains, Nash.
Dick.
Raleigh Standard.
Important Decision.-At the last term
ot Guilford Superior Court, an indictment
was lound against Ilom-v n.. i .1
i , V Z. J u"ijuit;ys, me
proprietor oi the Mnnnt Tri.. m-.m: r
: . . v.w mills, ior
issuing certain Due Bills, in violation of
Inn Arts of iKn 11 ...
.1U.IUI iiemDjy, prohib
iting the circulation of small promissory
notes, &c 1 he Defendant was tried and
convicted, and judgment being pronounced
against him he appealed to the Supreme
Court. That Court having reversed the
judgment, and ordered a venire de novo
we have examined the Opinion, and find
ct of'TsTr l Q . that as the
Act of 181G makes it an indictable offence
nSUeLass' or recclve Ntes, Checks
or Due Bills, as change, or as a p of the
circulating medium, instead of cob, the in-
lent mat a Note should so pass currant as
a substitute for money, or that in fact it
was issued and passed as such substitute, is
an essential ingredient of the offence, and
must be averred in the indictment, and
proved on the trial. The indictment and
proof, as appeared in the case, being de
fective in these particulars, a new trial has
been ordered. '
' Tn answer to the obiections. that the
statute is unconstitutional, the Opinion of
the Court is very explicit:
"If an act (say the Court) cf which the
object and operation are so very salutary,
were in violation of the Constitution, it
would be a source of sincere regret. But
the Court is at a loss to conjecture on what
ground the position is taken. It is and
must be an attribute of every government,
in some department, to prescribe and to
regulate the currency; to protect the com
munity from that which is spurious or
worthless; whether it be of coin or paper;
and to prohibit the making of such con
tracts as are contrary to good morals and
contravene public policy; and there is no
provision of our own Constitution, or of
that of tha United States, in restraint of
v,. ...w . 7 --
uch action by the Legislature, as may be
j 0 j
directed against the fraud and swindling,
which would be prevalent, it every per
son, at his will, could throw into circula
tion paper trash of this kind."
After this decision, by the highest tribu
nal of the State, we, at least, shall be ex
empt from the miserable shin-plasters with
...U:..K . U r 1 1
wiiiuii uuicus iiic tui acn. z nave OUcli
induced to take this extended notice of this
Decision, on account of its impoitancc. and
to prevent misapprehension in consequence
of the reversal of the judgment below.
We learn that the opinion of Judre
Saunders, who presided at the trial, was in
accordance with that nronounced hv tho
Supreme Court, and that there would have
been no tiiuicuity in adducing the necessa
ry proof to establish the intent of the De
fendant in issuing ihe bill, (for the county
is full of them) had such an objection been
then taken. But it was not; and ihe face
of the bill itself was considered sufficient to
show that it had been issued in violation of
the statute. ib.
Cotton. In Fayetteville, S a 10 in
Petersburg, 9 a 10 3-S in Liverpool,
rather declining. Rat. Star.
Raleigh and Gaston Rail Read.
The annual meeting of the Stockholders in
this Company was held on Monday last, in
this City. We hope to beable, in our next,
to publish the Report of its indefatigable
President. In the meantime, we state that
the deliberations of the Stockholders were
characterized by great unanimity. The
old Board of Directors were re-elected
without opposition The Resolutions ne
cessary to enable the Board to take proper
steps for providing ways and means to pro
secute the work vigorously, were itnani-
ninasty adopted. Resolutions were also!
r.'icpU u, showing -a firm detcrminnfmn. nn
tiie p,iriof the Stockholders, to extend the
uoaa sou in ironi Kalciffh.
The work has been excr.utPf!. thm f,r
... . , . 1 . tuiMviiu, m luucuii county, on
with unusual despatch, and is now in rapid j the first Monday of September next, un
procrcss. Hie Stockholders wnm i..fn,M : der tlm s,mnr;n(o,u.. ' r o
ed that ten miles of the Road will i
in Mare,, and that lorty-e.ght miles will
i! tlie hrstoi July, or sooner,
.7. 1 ' " V . . 1 T WtJrk tu le,ghishngcVnotice of the time and place of
uuuci txiuiraci, ana a
large
hands are employed. AW. Reg.
numuer
oi
Daring Robbcry.-On Tuesday last,
George Dailey, of Richmond, Va. was ex
amined bciore Mark Cooke and William
1 hompson, Esquires, on a charge of Rob
bery, and committed to Jail, to take his
trial therefor, at the Spring Term of our
Superior Court.' The circumstances, as
dctai ed on the examination, are these :
Charles F. Osborne, Esq. President of the
Petersburg Rail Road and C. F. M Gar
net, Esq. Engineer of the Raleigh Road,
occupied the same room in the third story
oi Capt. Guion's Hotel. About two o'
clock in the morning, xMr. Garnctl was
awoke by a noise in ihe room, though it
was so dark that he was at first, unable to
distinguish any object. After looking,
however, steadily in the direction of the
window, he observed the outlines of a
man s shoulder and arm, and rousing Mr.
Osborne, both leaped from the bed in pur
suit of the fellow, who took to his hels
most lustily. He descended to the base
ment story, and endeavored to escape
through the outer doors, but his pursuers
were so close to him that he was unable to
effect his purpose. Finally, hownmr
ran against the door of the Parlour, and
burst it open, where, unable to extricate
nimself, he remained, with his pursuers at
the door to dispute his egress, until their
cries brought Capt. Guion and his servants
with lights, when he was immediately se
cured. On going back to his room, Mr
Osborne discovered that his Pocket-book
had been rifled of several hundred dollars,
but the Prisoner boldly denied any knowU
edge of it, declaring that he had entered
the room by mistake, supposing it to be his
own. On searching th Pn u
carefully, two rolls of money were found
in the corner of the fire-place, where they
nau ueen.no doubt, th
and where thev wnnlrl L' '
burnt. Jndeed, it is possible that $l5
were thus destroyed, as that sum is still
missing, and no traces r It ..m u 1 V
1. w -vuiu ut; lOLinrl
on his person. Some time elapsed after his
w"-"vui;oyery ox ine raouey, and
the amount regained bears evident marks
of halving been subject to the action of fire.
The Prisoner is a well dressed, genteel
looking, young man, of two or three and
twenty, a House and Sign Painter by
trade, and had brought letters to Mr. Gar
nett, (probably forgeries) recommending
him highly as a workman. He had been
in this City only about a week, and no
doubt, in his occasional visits to Mr. Gar
nelt's room, had discovered something to
tempt his cupidity. ib.
Editorial Convention. Tho Viririnin
Editors met in Convention at Richmond,
on the 17th inst. according to appointment.
1 homas Kilchie, Jsq. was called to the
Chair, and Wm. M. Blackford. Esn. of tho
Political Arena, was appointed Secretary,
Seventeen Presses were represented. The
President, upon taking the Chair, delivered
a neat and very appronriate Addross.
Three Committees were appointed to re
port upon ihe several subjects presented
for consideration. The whole affair ap
pears to have eone off admirahlv. and a
few days of social intercourse seems to have
1-1- 1 r 1 . . ....
..w..Uv..ul VUV,I.W III OUlUUiUlg pUllUUU
prejudices and party feelings. Itwasde
nau awonuertui etlect in soitoning polilica
termincd to hold another Convention in
la-bruary, 1839.
We observe that C. F. IlillEsq. of the
Wilmington Advertiser, beinc in Rich
mond, was invited to take a Beat in the
Convention, and did so. ib
Cherokee Country. We have been
much gratified by the inspection of a Map
of the country lately acquired by North
Carolina from the Cherokee Indians. It
was executed by Col. R. Beaver, of Bun
combe, who was appointed by Gov. Dud
ley, under the authority of the last Lcgis
lature, to survey these lands, with a view
to their being brought into market. The
Map is most bcautifullv delineated, and
has given us an idea of the value of these
lanus not ueiore entertained. The number
of Tracts surveyed is 1,393 containing
eacn irom 00 to 400 Acres and making,
in the whole, 210,592 Acres. The land is
divided, as to quality, into five classes, and
. 1 . 1. .. . '..
me act 01 Assembly prescribes the mini
mtm price at which each quality shall be
sold. Supposing that it should onlv sell
at the prescribed rate, it will nroduce to the
State 591,791 ; but some of the land equals
in lertmty any on the Koanoke, and is ex
ceedingly rich in mineral productions, and
win, no oouDt, command a price three or
four times as sreat as that fixed upon it bv
! the State.
mis section 01 country will, in a very
short time probably, be erected into a new
Tl - . - . ....
County, and will almost rival old Bun
combe in extent of territory, which last, it
is now generally known, covers a greater
area 1 nan either Delaware or Rhode Island.
W e arc confident from the manner in
which Col. Deavcrhas discharged his duty,
uiai uiu governor was most tortunale in his
selection of an Agent to carry out the
views of the Legislature.
An Act of Assembly prescribes that the
Sale of the surveyed Territory shall rnm.
mence at Franklin, in Macon County, on
sionersVpiZro; ZVo
We have no doubt that the Governor will,
at an early day, issue his Proclamation eiv-
Sale. ib.
Politics and the irmy. The Secreta
ry of War, Mr.-Poinsett, has issued a bul
letin respecting certain abuses in the army,
from which the two following paragraphs
arc extracts :
"I have learnt, with regret, that an offi
cer, high in command, extended, on a late
occasion, to an officer in charge of them, an
order to lend certain field pieces for the
celebration of a party triumph. The can
non belonging to government were made
for the defence of the country, in time of
war; and their only legitimate use, in time
of peace, is for instruction, and the celebra
tion of national triumphs, or national fes
tivals; all orders to apply them to party
purposes, of any description whatsoever,
are improper, and ought not to be obeyed'
uram cnarge ot them. You will
therefore, cause the regulation to be repub
lished, and direct that it shall in no case,
be departed from.
"SThe Department condemns all inter
ference, on the part ot the officers of the
Army with the party politics which, from
he nature of our institutions, so often ami
ate the country. If lhey take an active
part .apolitical strife, passions and preju
dices will be enhsted for or against hem,
and heir condition become" dependent
upon the success or defeat of a party ; engen
dering a state .of feeling fatal to the stand
ing as well as to the discipline, of the Arm v
but these efforts will be unavailing, uS
seconded by the conduct, good sense and
proper feeling of the officer!
CCT The number of Militia reported to
Congress in 1836, was 1,339,001. The
number in .North Carolina is 64,4 15.?
rsew York, which prohibited the Banks
annvCUdgnbil,SK0f i? leSS d on
than nvc dollars, has been repealed.
Banks -The New" Haven (Conn.)
fe?, M0Chanics and
rh I .p,aCC' novv Pa' 'Pccie. .
Ihe Middleies Bank Boston has clo-
s-eJ its doors and suspended busn ' "
the Commonwealth Rank did a f"'V- .
before. Mr. Simpson, late lVe , V
the Commonwealth Bank, isv
debtor to the amount of 5250,000 e'4 lu
The Mobile branch of the AIai.n i- "m'r
Bank is stated in the ISfe!
have 8340,910 of bad debts. r:v VJ.C(
,The Supreme Court of Louisiana,.' '-V-xa
last date, was engaged m the case - sc
trial of Solomon Andrews, on a cha - tu
having defrauded one of the banks ofV -
bile, of which he was a Director nr ' ;se
sum of 3450,000. ' m y
Fatal Rail Road Occident -Xj , ( ' ' n
comotive on the Fredericksburg and klfi"
mond Hail Koad ran off the track ad f '" A
two since, 12 miles from Richmond H " " i
..,i.;nh iiun f i,n uuby .ti-
ushed J1
his life is despaired of. N. K Star.
njurcd th-
Jlttcmnt to Murder. On ivr ,
evening last, the citizens of the very h -
- .... iuuu Cries f'"
Murder ! On reDairinirto thn snnf "? '
found that a coloured man named EnhJi ,; 1
with a brick, by which his skull wassho4 '
ingly fractured. Suspicion having
cd to two white men. named Frn,i.:.,':
Jones and Allen Kowcll, they were hL '
up, and alter examination, fully commiitM
for trial. There is little or no hone c' "
Hammond's surviving the injury. : -
I'ayctievtlle Observer, j
From Florida. -The shin FM; . . "
by, arrived at New Orleans Jan. i i, fi' "
Tampa Bay, having on board l.n J: :
nole Indians and negroes, under guard of i;
puny oi v. oiaies iroops. Jt was reported t
when the E. & A. left that Fnrt n;A
had b-en attacked by the Indians; but mi.
thing positive had transpired in relation to t
the action. ' 1
The Tallahassee Florid
derstand that the fuiritiv r
Florida have at length been induced to sub-1 '
mit and have come in under the conduct of "
their chief, Co-a-ha-sro. and Sfi r:.u
ards, Lsq. who had been sent i:- ,
Call to treat with them. This intelligence
is communicated by a letter, received a
few days since bv tho G
Richards; who states, that the Indians, to
me numuer ot O, which is supposed to bo
all who were out are now UMIW.
- 1 1 ' Q
I own, on the Apalachicob.
The patriots have abandoned thoir hnnr? v
quarters, Navy Island, restored the govern
ment arms thev had in their nossessinn.
and dispersed in other directions. Van
nenssalaer, their General, has been arres
ted by the U. S. Marshall, and bailed.
Gen. Scott and the British, it will hy
seen from the following, have almost come
in contact with each other. The steamboat
Barcelona was threatened h
from British armed schooners in American
waters. Gen. Scott advised thr British ;
officer in command, that if the attack were
made in the American waters bo shnnM
feel it his duty to repel it, and he ranged
his cannon alontr the banks of tho rvnr ac
cordingly. The boat was permitted to :
pass unmolested.
It will also be seen that nonsTdprahlft ''
excitement existed for awhile at Drtroir.
Michigan, and the imorcssion snpmm! to I:;
prevail that the scene of war would be :
transferred to that nart of tho rmmtMr So. i
veral hundred of the patriots had embodied
themselves on a British Island, called Bois
iane, and also a large number at Suo-ar
sland. A small schooner, sent with .n ,1p.
tachment of 40 men from tho l.i ttoi tn 1 lir s
former place, was on the 11th taken by the '
Queen's forces, and it is rpnnrtorl tW -
every soul on board was inhumanly butch-
ered. The Governor of Michigan visited '
the camp on Sugar Island, and prevailed r .
uiu lorccs mere assembled to abandon
their expedition; and the forces on both !.
Islands, it is reported, have dispersed; arid
the war is considered at an end.
Uen. bcott has been ordered to Detroit
i
Fro?7i Texas. Bv the flnnstif nf Inn i -
steam-packet, 49 hours to the Mississippi f
trom ualveston- tho Now rri
have dates to the 7th "uit. News from V
Antonio to the 4th, brought by Mr. Moore,
editor of the Houston Telegraph, confirms ;
the last intelligence that the Mexican Inva-
ding Army, so called, were only in pursuit .
of some marauding Indians and to protect '
the Mexican herdsmen, who were driving
in their cattle from the Rio Grande. : "
e have confirmation also of a skirmish !
eight miles below.Bexar, on the 20lh ult. "
between Col. Karnes and a party of 50 I
Mexicans, in which the latter tied. The -x
Texiai Government have purchased a brig I
carrying 11 guns and 200 men. The mi- I
n , ,s. be,nS re-organized. Thomas J. I
Kusk is appointed Major . General, and t
Messrs. Burleson, Bake Dyer, Douglass, t
Brigadiers, and McLeod, Adjutant Gene-raI-
On Christmas Day, Gen. Rusk issued a
general order for the militia to hold them- f
selves in readiness for an apprehended in-
vasion, or what is deemed more probable
to march into Mexico. The Texians are
confident, and volunteers and subscriptions
are pouring in.
President Houston on Dec. 25th, issued
a proclamation revoking the powers of all
agents authorized to sell land scrip. None "
to be sold hereafter under Si 50 per acre