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Tarborough, (Edgecombe County, AT. C.J Saturday, May 26, 1838.
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i From the N. V, Star.
j ADDRESS TO DEATH.
Hail to thee, monarch, hail,
Dark despot of the tomb!
Tlio' other cheeks grow pale
Heft-rc thy brow of gloom
Tho' timid hearts may quail
Ueneath thy word of doom
Welcome, thrice welcome, is to me
The hand that sets my spirit free.
Why should I fear thee, Death !
The poor no robbers fean
Gold 1 have not no wreath
Of fame these temples wear;
Nor must I yield with breath
'; All that the heart holds dear
All that our human passions crave
i For an unsatisfying grave.
But tho' I have not aught
i; To lose with loS9 of life,
A change may come sweet thought
j From sorrow, toil and strife;
A change, which holy writ hath taught,
j With bliss and glory rife;
A change, from poverty and sighs,
To joy and riches in the skies.
Death's iron hand will break
My prison gates away,
Bid my enfranchized soul forsake
The shackles of her clay,
iFrom star to star her journey take,
j In realms of endless day,
; Like the free'd eagle, upward fly,
To the pure regions of the skyi
And death shall bring me rest.
Sweet is the traveller's sleep,
When with his way of toil oppressed,
He yields to slumber deep;
And thus, upon the grave's soft breast,
Will I my slumbers keep,
Secure from earthly cares and harms,
As if within a mother's armsi
TIME'S TELESCOPE.
Time's telescope more wonderful appears
E'en than his scythe, and deeper truths conveys;
His tube prospective lengthens days to years
Reversed, our years it shortens into days!
Then ponder well the substance, and the sum
Of what, unscanned, a contradiction seems
Valued aright, compared with time to come,
Time past is but the wealth of him that dreams.
Knickerbocker.
From the Globe.
THE GOLD BILL OF IS24.
By official returns to the Treasury, it is
ascertained that, up to ihe 5th day of the
present month, the imports of gold for the
present year were $7,054,000, and the ex
ports $484,074, thus leaving, up to that
time, a clear gain of about six and a hall
millions to the country. Since that time,
the arrival of about a million and a half
more, in gold, has been announced in New
York; so that a clear gain of eight mil
lions is already ascertained, and this with
out counting what comes by emigrants.
This is the fruit of ihe gold bill of 1834;
that wise act which was denounced and op
posed by Mr. Clay in the Senate, and ri
diculed by him and all the United States
Bank party for years after it passed. We
say this gain of eight millions of gold in a
few months is the fruit of ihe gold bill of
1834; and prove it by stating that, before
that time, gold was undervalued Gj per
cent, in the United Slates, and by that act
it was restored to its true value. While
that art stood, a loss of G 2-3 per cent, at
tended every importation of gold into the
United States, aud a gain of the same
amount attended every exportation of it;
now gold is even with silver; there is no
unnatural stimulus to importation or ex
portation; but when foreign exchanges are
in our favor, both silver and gold flow in
alike from the countries where they
abound. Silver always comes from Mexi
co because she has but liltlegold; gold al
ways under this law, will come from Lng-
land, because her metallic currency, ex
cept for change and for debts under forty
shillings, is all gold. If the act of 1834
had not passed, no gold could now come
bom England; as far as she sent hard mo
ney it would be in silver, obtained from
other countries, for her silver is only enough
hr chance, and alloved 9 per cent. To
the gold bill of 1834 we are then indebted
for the eight millions of gold received this
spring, for all that we have received in the
last four years, and for all that we shall re
ceive in time to come. It will give us a
national gold currency in
defiance of all that the Biddle bank can
do, and it will give another evidence of the
truth and value of Mr. Clay's predictions
of ruin! for never did he predict more ruin
to the currency from any event than from
this identical gold bill! He and Mr. Sw
ing of Ohio, were its main opposers and
denouncers; and their predictions and as
sertinns then made would contrast most
strikingly with the actual results in the pre
sent vast importations of gold, and its pre
cise equality, in point of value, with the
silver ol our own mint. Our silver and
our gold are of precise equal value, the act
of 1834 having solved that problem in the
'urinative u liirli was before held to be im
possible; namely, to create two currencies
of equal value in the same country. The
gold bill of 1834 has solved this problem;
it has solved it in the affirmative; it is the
most perfect act which ever was formed by
the wisdom of man; and yet this act rectiv
ed from Mr. Clay aud his clique the same
quantum o( abuse, in the same temper aud
in the same words, which they lavish upon
every act of the Administration, no mallei
what.
From ihe Ualeigh Standard.
Shall the Constitution or the Banks rule
in this Country? Mr. Loring: 1 promised
in my last communication, when at leisure,
to furnish you some additional extracts
from distinguished writers on the subject ol
Banking; and haing a spare moment,
which in my opinion could not be better
employed for the good of my country, I
present for the reflection of your inlelli
gent readers, the following sentiments :
"From its nature, the influence of a
Bank most be allied to the aristocracy ot
wealth, and not to the Democracy of num
bers', aud this is more especially the case
with great chartered Banks having im
mense power. The late Bank of the Uni
ted States was one of this description, and
us political influence was prodigious.
London Banker's Circular, Jan. IS37.
'In snite of national beuL'arv. naorr mo-!
ney has still its advocates, and probably,
I no . I I
of late, its martyrs; in spile of national dis
honor, the continental impost is still op
posed with success. Never did experience
more completel v demonstrate the inequalitu
of one, and he necessity f the other. But'
in defiance of demonstration, knaves will
continue to proselyte fools, and keep a pa
per money faction alive. The fear of sue-
per money
cess has annihilated credit as their actual
success would annihilate property "
Fisher .lines.
Banks and other vile freaks, have
thrown the majority into the hands of those
who were shapen into Toryism and in Bri
tish Idolatry, did their mothers conceive
ihem. John Adams.
"I can never give my sanction to an In
stitution which is capable in any emergen
cy, of controlling the mercantile interest of
the country. I cannot recognize the au
thority of Congress to charier a Bank."
James Madison's Veto on the U. S. Bank.
"As soon as the Bank Charter was ob
tained, s friends began to build op prince-
v fortunes (or themselves, at the cost of
the widow and orphan, and all honest per
sons who had subscribed for stock. The
people have furnished thirteen persons (a
majority of the Directors) with a cudgel to
break their own heads; for they can fx the
value of every acre of land, from Florida
to the Lake of the Woods."
JYiles Register, 1819.
"For a long lime, I saw with pain, the
advances of an aristocrat monied institution,
which threatened to cast a poisonous mil
dew over our precious liberties. They
would have rendered our fair country a
passive instrument in their hands, in which
case freedom would have vanished from
among us. General La Fayette, 1834.
"The establishment of a national Bank
not being constitutional, and not being in
his opinion the proper remedy for the then
existinc evils, he proceeded to examine
what it was." Daniel IVebsler, 1816
"I conceive the establishment of a Na
tional Bank as dangerons to the safety
and welfare of this Republic.
Henry Clay, 181 1.
So thought and so spoke the Hon. Hen
ry Clay and Daniel Webster in 181 1 and
'16, in defence of the constitutional liber-
r- .
ties ol the country, liut wnat are now
their sentiments? Are they not straining
every nerve to establish a National Bank
and with all its multiplied evils, expressly
against the letter and spirit of that Con
stitution they have sworn to support? One
of these gentlemen, viz: Mr. Clay, and pro
bably Mr. Webster, also, will be supported
for the Presidency by the Whigs at the
ensuing election; and now I ask, can any
consistent patriot, who retains a particle oi
self-respect, vote for either of these men,
alter the exhibition of the shameful tergi
versation of which they have both been
guilty? No! I trust not! At least, I hope
that no high souled republican patriot ol
Carolina, will ever support a candidate
put up by the "United Stales Bank." At
a more convenient season you shall hear
from mc again. CAROLINA.
Superior Court. The Spring Term of
our Superior Court, closed its Session on
Saturday last. The case of William An
derson who was indicted for the murder ol
James M. Allen, came on for trial on
Thursday last. The jury returned a ver
dict of Manslaughter. On Saturday the
prisoner was brought into Court and Judg
ment was rendered against him by his Hon.
Judge Dick. The Judgment of the Court
was Branding and six mouths imprison
ment. The sentence was forthwith car
ried into execution. Faieltcville Jour.
Lincolnton, Jlay 3.
Destructive Hail Storm. We learn lha.
a most destructive Hail Storm passed ovei
a part of this County, about tenor twelvt
oiiles North- West ol Lineohon, on Thins
day the 2Glh ult. The damages to Far
mers has we understand been very con
siderahle. The storm continued until tin
ground was covered five or six inches deep,
the hail fell in lumps several inches in t ir
mmference, it has completely demolished
the wheat that was in an advanced slate
entirely stripped the trees of their fuliagt
and small boughs and killed a numberol
Hogs, Fowls, &ir. Transcript.
Florida The latest intelligence at
Key Biscayne, was that Aleak Hajo, the
Seminole chief who negotiated with Gen.
Jesop, nod surrendered to him, had been
shot with all his immediatte followers by
order of Sam Jones, the chief of the Mic-
kasukies. This assassination is said very
much to have exasperated the Seminoles,
land many of them now beg our troops to
allow them to remain and assist inextermi
! naiiug their lale allies, Sam Jones and ihe
Mukasukies. Hal. Star.
fTSainuel Simpson, Esq. has been
elected President of the Merchant's Bank
of Newbern. ib.
Important. We learn with much pleas-
jure that arrangements are now making by
ja number of the principal capitalists and
ablest financiers of this city for the eslab-
ity
lishmeut of a great Bank, under the new
General Banking Law of this Stale. The
capital named is forty or fifty millions.
The matter has been under advisement
ever since ihe passage of the law. but ii
was not till the present week that the pre
liminaries were definitely settled. We
presume nothing may be expected to pre
vent the establishment of this Bank forth
with, so that it w ill at farthest be in suc
cessful operation before the fall trade
opens. The names which will be given to
the public are "such as would ensure the
amplest confidence, did not the Law itself
exact a measure of security which would
seem utterly to preclude the idea of insol
vency in the case of any large Bank form
ed in consonance with its requisitions.
More of this at an early day.
JSlew Yorker.
0C?The Nashville Whig states that ex-
Governor Runnels has been appointed
President of the Union Bank of Mississis-
sippi, wilh a salary of $10,000 a year, and
Col. Samuel Gwinn, cashier, with a like
salary.
The Mississippi Banks. Great excite
ment begins to prevail in Mississippi, in re
lation to the Banks in that State. On the
20ih ult. a meeting of the citizens of Vicks-
burg was held, relative to the course pur
sued by the banks. It is said that it was
feared that very hard measures were about
to be used against the president of the
Brandon Bank. The meeting, just afier
having been organized, was broken up by
the cry of fire, which proved to be a very
serious one, as many valuable buildings
and much property was consumed.
A letter received from New Orleans by
the Express Mail, dated April 2 Dili says,
that the Brandon (Mississippi) Bank has
been razed to the ground by a mob, and
the same file awaits the remainder of the
Mississippi.Banks. News of this arrived
this morning." Alex. Gax.
Banks in Massachusetts. The charters
of eleven Banks in this State were repealed
at the recent session of the Legislature,
- j American, Commercial, Kilby, Oriental,
J Commonwealth, Franklin, Lifayetle, Nor
folk, Roxbury and Middlesex Banks.
E7The Legislature of Michigan have
passed an order directing the Banks of that
State to resume specie payments June 16.
f!7The Apalachicola Gazette states
that the Bank of West Florida is about to
recommence operations in that city, under
the most favorable auspices. It adds that
the old bills of the Bank will be paid oil
at sight.
tt?" Fifty-four miles of the great railroad
in Georgia, viz. that part considered the
most formidable, and lying between Chat
tahooche and Etowah, are put under con
tract. About !00 miles will probably be
put under contract this year.
Death of the Indian Chief Jumper.
The last accounts from New Orleans slate
that this Seminole Chief died at the bar
racks in that city, on the 18ih inst. and was
buried the same day. The following par
nculars are given: In his coffin were
placed his tobacco, his pipe, his rifle, aud
other equipments, according to his peo
pie's custom. The military, and a num
ber of citizens, attended his funeral, which
was conducted with all the honors of war.
He had been on a sick bed for nearly two
months.
fXThe Richmond Whig, of Saturday,
; i .i.i
ays : e nave riau me pleasure oi nauu
tmsr a few of the new 1 and 2 Notes of
he Bank of Virginia. They are beauti
ful specimens of the art of engraving.
I hey are payable in specie at the distant
offices. We learn from the Enquirer, thai
the issues from the Farmers Bank will be
out in a few days. The amount of ibese
small notes is to range from two to lour
per cent, on the capital stock of each
Bank. Under this regulation, we shall
probably have about $200,000 worth in
all."
Richmond and Petersburg Rail Road.
This road is now completed. An engine
arrived here on Saturday afternoon, and
yesterday morning a tram carrying the
Directors and Stockholders from this
place, with a number of other gentlemen,
left for Richmond, where the annual meet
iug of the Stockholders was held. The
passenger cars used on this Road are made
upon the plan of those used between
Fredericksburg and Richmond, aud are
the most comfortable we have ever seen.
At the expiration of about a week the
Cars will run regularly, twice a daj,be
tween this and iiiclimoud, in the mean
lime w e understand that a train will leave
each place once a day. Pet. Int.
Resumption of pecic Payments IVcst.
The convention ol Delegates of Western
Banks, held at Auburn last week, respond
ed to the determination of the New York
city convention to resume specie payments
May lOih, and appointed a committee to
confer with the latter.
American Bible Society Anniversary.
The 22d anniversary was celebrated yes
terday, in ihe Broadway Tabernacle,
which spacious building was crowded lo
excess. The venerable Jno. Cotton Smith,
of Connecticut, presidtd. The meeting
was one of thrilling interest, and the great
est harmony and good feeling prevailed
among those of all religious sects who thus
co operate efficiently for one great object.
In the year past 22 new auxiliary societies
have been formed in the different States,
making the whole number 900. The re
ceipts for the year are $85,676 83, being
near $5,000 less than last year. New
stereotype plates are prepared for a French,
Spanish and German Testament. A
pocket bible of diamond type is in press.
Many bibles in foreign tongues have been
imported. The number of bibles and tes
taments issued for the year is 158,208, in
18 different tongues, which is less than
last year. The version published by the
Society is pronounced equal to that of
1611. under Jas. I. Bibles have been sent
to all America, to Greece, the Pacific
Ocean, Asia, hc.t also furnished to the
various missionary societies of different re
ligious sects. The Board have seven a-
gents in the home field, and one in Syria.
Ar. Y. Star.
fXThe American Education Society
have held their anniversary in this city,;
This religious association have prepared;
2993 young men for the ministry. About
1141 have received the patronage ol the
society the last year in theological semi
naries, colleges, Uc. Of the above, 671
are from the New England States. Re
ceipts for the year near $60,000. Expen
ditures near $70,000. The debt of the
society is near $18,000. ib.
Lynching. A negro cook was bound
hand and foot and thrown overboard by
the passengers of the Pawnee steamer on
her way from New Orleans to St. Louis,
in consequence of supposed violence hav
ing been committed by him on the person
of a white dumb girl, who was found se
creted in his apartment, aud whose father
was ou board. ib.
Severe Sentence. The Wilmington
(Del.) Gazelle says: The trial of John
Kennedy, who was arrested a few weeks
since in this city on a charge of robbing
Mr. Thomas Vandever, while on his way
to market, was closed on Wednesday last,
when the jury returned a verdict of guilty.
He was yesterday sentenced to pay to the
State a fine of $500, to stand in the pillo
ry for the space of one hour, to be public
ly whipped whh thirty-nine lashes on the
bare back well laid on, imprisoned for a
term of two years, and upon the expira
tion of such imprisonment, to be disposed
of as a servant to the highest and best bid
der or bidders for the term of ten years.
An unfortunate Knight. A person liv
ing in Indiana lately flogged a man earned
! Knight, and then run away with his wife.
Losing the wife is nothing at all, but the
licking is too bad. Public Ledger.
Bachelors look out! A case was recent
ly tried before the County Court at Rut
land, Vermont, in which a Miss Munson
recovered $1420 of a Mr. Hastings for a
breach of marriage contract. The princi
pal feature in the case was the charge of
the judge, which tended to show that no
explicit promise was necessary to bind the
parties to a marriage contract; but that
long continued attention or intimacy with
a female was as good evidence of intended
marriage as a special contract.
Pruning Trees. Many persons prune
fruit trees in March or April. Experience
proves this practice lo be wrong. Prune
in June, and you will find that the wounds
heal up aud are covered with bark much
sooner thau at any other lime.
Seed Corn. Many farmers in selecting
seed corn, gaiher from stalks having one
large ear. Experience proves that those
selected from stalks having three or more
ears are more productive. The great pro
ductiveness of ihe Baden corn is owing lo
ihe fact, that each stalk has from three to
eleven ears.
Oaks for the parlour. If you hang an
acorn by a string about half an inrh above
ihe surface of some waler contained in a
hyacinth glass, it will throw down long
white roots, while its stem will rise up
wards and become decorated with bright
green aud delicate leaves. When it grows
over the top of a hyacinth glass it becomes
a very pretty object.
Cure for icounds in Cattle. It is Said
that the most aggravated wounds of caltle
are easily cured with a portion of thcwyolk
of eggs, mixed in Florence spirits of tur
pentine bathe the parts injured several
times a day, and a cure will be effected in
48 hours.
fUIl is staled that a dog brought from
England in the steam ship Sirius, was
bought for $300, merely on that account.
What will the sapient purchaser take for
an inch of his tail? Cincinnati Express.
Tohave music at dinner Tell your
wife she is not so handsome as the lady
who lives across the wayt
Good sense Proverbs. If a man cheat
thee once, shame on him; if he cheats thee
twice, shame on thee.
If a man deceives thee, trust him not a
gain. If he insults thee, go away from
liim. If he strikes thee, thrash him like
smoke.
If you have lost your credit, be industri
ous and honest and you will regain it.
If you have lost your property, be in
dustrious, honest and frugal, and you will
acquire more.
If you are persecuted, regard it not; but
beware of persecution.
If people tell lies on thee, regard them
not; but nave care to your, actions, lesi
they tell the truth on thee.
If thou art poor, be honest; and if thou
art rich, be charitable.
If thou art a drunkard, quit thy drunken .
habits; if you are a sober man, remain
such.
If you have a wife, take care of her; and
if you have not, get one immediately.
If you are afraid of witches, subscribe
to this paper and they shall not harm thee;
provided, however, you p-p pay i i-io
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