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A ;l!UI).Y, .JUNE 23, 183S.
AtNOriinK IKE,DFUL STEAM
BOAT CATASTROPHE.
We learn Iron) ilie passengers in tin
Wilmington stages, that ilie steamboat Pu
laski, plying between Savannah, Charles
ton, and Norfolk, hurt her boiler on Fri
day night I5ih int. about 11 o'clock, 40
miles north east of Cape Fear, and soon
alter sunk, turning down the whole of
the passengers and crew said to be abotn
tivo hundred in number, including women
and children' excepting 21 that got into
the boat; which swamped, and of these
only 1 1 of the passengers and 5 of the
crew, safely reached the short! The ow
ner of th Puhski, Mr. Lamar of Geor
gia, and his whole family were on board
the boat, and all are lost. These oft
repeated steamboat calamities forcibly re
mind os of the salutary advice given by
one of the ancient sages, "Never travel by
water when you can go by land."
Extract of a Letter to the Editor, dated
Washington, June Slh, 1S3S.
Mr. Kditot : Things go on here about as
uso il. The Democrats hold n for their
principles and the pe p'e's rights and inte
rests; the Federalist, Biddle li iuh lltnk
parly, t ist and turn, "serpent like,5 for the
chances to sling to death the body of the
Democracy, but each tflrt only exhausts
their poison without taking tfiVct, except
upon themselves. In June 1S36, when th
deposile act pased, all the Federalists vo
ted for il exee'pi two or three, and pro
claimed it the triumph of their paitv.
In M ly 1S37, when the banks, "Arnold
like," deserted the Administration, combi
ned with Biddle and his British bank, to
suspend, break down and destroy the Ad
ministration, they declared ihe Specie Cir
cular to be ths cause, and thr; as soon as
that was removed, they would resume.
In May 1838, that measure is repealed,
thereby removing all the causes that the
banks claimed as necessary, to resumption;
and the next day after the passage of the
act, Biddle, "I suppose with the advice of
Mr. Cowel, bis British bank counsellor,
who is in the next room in the marble pal
ace with hiu) and British representative,
for nearly or quite half of the stock of lhat
bank," exultiugly declared that the only
obstruction to the resumption was now re
moved and he would forthwith resume,
and ordered all his satellites to do so also.
He dashed oil to New York, and purcha
sed tw o or three millions of specie from
Piime, Ward &r King, and pioclaimed a
new happy era had arrived, and on and af
ter a certain day, Monday about the first
of June, he w ould pay specie; and behold
the day arrived and he found himself able
to pay only the fractions of a dollar, in
change; not able to pay one whole dollar
in specie, out of nearly twenty millions of
liabilities. This is Nil k'Biddle's and his
Federal friends' mighty regulator of the
national currency, not able or willing to
pay even one whole dollar in specie. This
is the bank that II. Clay, D. Webster, J.
Q. Adams, and the grand Federal, Blue
light, Abolition phalanx, swear must be
our master, our great money king, and
lhat w e must submit to his dictation.
Suppose one of our farmers would run
in debt to all his neighbors, declare he had
plenty of means to pay, but he would not
pay one dollar until a certain day; when
the day would come, he would still say he
was able to pa', but would not pay, only
to amounts less than cue dollar to each
creditor, what would honest men say of
him? Will the country allow Biddle and
his British bank lo practice all these
frauds, and still sustain him? Let the peo
ple answer. Will the people allow the
banks to collect out of them every dollar
they owe the banks, and the banks refuse
to pay them a single dollar, and still be
daily taunted by the banks, that they "the
banks" have plenty of specie; which is
true, and they are speculating on lne j)eo.
pie daily with it, and will continue to do so
Do ihe people know that the British
bankers have a Mr. Cowel living in lne
Pennsylvania Bank of the United States
associated with Biddle, representing and
managing their British stock? Such is the
fact, and they should know it.
asTong as the people will submit to it, by
telling the people when they want payment
of the banks that, we will pay you when
N. Biddle and the Philadelphia people
will pay their debts. Biddle tells the peo
ple that he will pay his creditors when all
the other banks wid agree to pay, so Uivy
bandy ofl the day as long as they please.
Suppose we the people would tell the
banks lhat we will pay them what we owe
ihcm, when the people of New York and
Philadelphia will agree to pay their debts;
how would the banks like that game?
Would they agree it was right or honest?
This will ultimately be the case, because
the people cannot always pay the banks
and ihe banks never pay the people.
Call out the candidates for members of
Assembly, and make them pledge them
se Ives to remedv this rauu. oncress
has no power over our State, banks a.u
can do nothing with thenii The Slate
Legislatures have the power, and must
compel them to act like honest men. With
oui compulsion they never will. Yours, 8cc
j j 7if4iicitj u ij uic; x i una iu, u j uim
with the advice and consent of (he Senate.
Henry Atkinson, ol North Carolina, to be
Governor, and William B. Conway, of
Pennsylvania, to be Secretary, of the Ter
ritory of Iowa, from and alter the 3d day
ol Jul , next
Aaron O. D.tvton to be Fourth Auditor '
of the Treasury Deartment,in the place of
J C. Pickett, appointed Charge d'AHYns
lo the Peru Bolivian Confederation, (in
the place of James B. Thornton, decea
sed.) Globe.
COX GUESS.
Mr. Preston's resolution in the Senate,
relative lo the annexation of Texas, has
been hid on the table by a vote of 21 to
14. It probably will not be taken up a
g.tin this session.
In the House, on ihe 6th inst. Mr. Drom-
goole, from ihe Committee of Foieign
All airs, made the lollowin report :
The Committee on Foreign Affairs, to
whom was referred sundry Executive com
munications, and resolutions of Stale Le
gislatures, together with numerous peti
tions and memorials relating lo the annexa
tion of Texas lo the United Stales, present
ed at ihe late and present sessions of Con
gress, report :
That there is now no proposition pend
ing in this House, either for the admission
of the Republic of Texas, as a Slate, into
ihe Union, or for its territorial annexation
to ihe United States.
The committee do not deem it advisable
to recommend any action on the part of
the Mouse ol Uepresentalives calculated
to prejudge any such proposition, should
it hereafter be formally submitted for deci
sion, or to forestal public sentiment in re
lation thereto. In consideration whereof,
ihe following resolution is reported :
Resolved, That the Committee on For
eign Affairs be discharged from the further
consideration of the whole subject, and
lhat all the papers relating thereto, and to
them referred, be laid on ihe lable.
This report has given rise lo considera
ble debate, and is not yet disposed of.
On the 14ihf the bill granting pre-emption
rights to settlers on the public lands,
was passed by a vote of 107 to 52.
CA Treaty Ins been made between
the United States and Texas, in relation to
the boundary line between ihe two conn
tries. The survey of the line is lo com
mence immediately.
From the Globe.
eiv Circular, and Deposite Banks.
We have been quite as much abused, as
provoked, at the stupidity of many of the
attacks of the Opposition on Mr. Wood
bury's new Circular, because it does not
allow noies of banks to be taken which is
sue bills less than five dollars. The Sec
retary of the Treasury was also assailed,
wiih about the same propriety, during the
last summer, for discontinuing the depof ite
banks which did not pay specie.
In order to put at rest both of these
groundless and ridiculous charges, we in
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insert below an extract from the act of
June. 183G-which act U.p inu fW.
June, 183G which act the whole Oonosi
lion exultingly voted for, and which is
now m lull force, unrepealed.
The community ni l see !,o support
.l.e laws, and JiS, then, to be To-
beyed.
.
An act to regulate th&deposites of
PUBLIC HI ON KV Annrnveii 9,1 l,.no
public money. Approved 23d June
Sec.
o. Jlnd uc it iurthcr enactpil Tlmt
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no bank shall be selected, or continued, as
a place of deposite of ihe public money,
which shall not redeem its notes and bilU
on demand, in specie; nor shall any bank
be selected or continued as aforesaid,
which shall, after the fourth day of July
in the year one thousand eight hundred
and thirty-six, issue, or pay out, any note
ur uim ol less denomination than five
lars- nn. ci it ,i .
bank Z nteS r hl)U U"y
OatlK be received in navmonl nf nn ,!i..
4 J " J UVU1
due to the United States which shall, after
the said fourth day of July, in the year
one thousand eight hundred and thirly-six,
issue any note or bill ol a less denomina
tion than live dollars. -
Mint of the United States. June 5, 1838.
Sir: I send you lo day ihe usual report,
required by the Department, of the gold
coinage in May, and I now present to you
the following statement of the whole amount
of coinage done at the Mint during ihe
same mouth.
Denomination- Value. No. of pieces.
Half Eagles, 105,292 00 39,059
Quarter Eagles, 21,972 50 8,7S
Half Dollars, 174,000 00 348,000
Quarter Dollars, 49,000 00 19G,()0()
Dimes, G2,500 00 025,000
Half Dimes, 20,500 00 530,000
Cents, S,785 00 878,500
Total,
5S3;052 50 2,G25,313
This statement shows an amount of
work greater than has ever been hereto
fore done at . the Mint in ihe same time,
since the labor is proportional not lo ihe
value of coins, but more nearly to ihe
number of the pieces. It will be observed
that 2.229.500 coins have been struck, of
d less denomination than the half dollar; and
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we are still busily occupied with ihe fabri
anon o these small coins, lor w nu n tin
demand seems to be but little diminished.
The Mint at New Orleans, after having
various unforeseen difficulties to overcome,
commenced coiuincr on ihe 7th of lasi
nonth, so lhat all the branch Mints are
now in full operation.
Very respectfully,
Your faithful servant,
(Signed)
II. M. PATTERSON, Director.
Hon. Levi Woodbury,
Secretary of ihe Treasury.
Bank of the State of X. C The last
Raleigh Register contains a comparative
statement showing the condition of 'hi-;
Bank, as of May 1837 and May 1S38,
signed D. Cameron, Pres'l. During that
period il appears lhat the bills and notes
discounted and bills of exchange have been
reduced from $3,402,195 81 to .$21 53,
389 81; the notes in circulation reduced
from $1,451,510 lo $1,029,219; and the
specie increased from $492,197 89 to
$523,437 9G. We believe there are but
few banks in this country that are in such
a sound and healthy condition. The Pre
sident, in his address to the Stockholders,
observes:
This Bank is, as you will see from the
Statement referred lo, fully prepared lo re
sume the payment of its liabilities in Spe
cie, and will do so to the fullest exieut, on
the day on whirh the Banks in V'ngioia
shall resume payment of their liabilities in
like manner. It would not comport with
your interest, or lhat of ihe community,
lhal this Bank should anticipate their ac
tion on this subject.
There is now a reasonable ground of
expectation, lhat the Banks in Philadel
phia will vuy soon resume Specie'pay
ments. They will be promptly followed
by the Banks in Maryland, Virginia and
this State. Under the impression thai an
event, so much desired by all, will lake
place at an early day as well as under
the conviction that a forbearance longer to
make a Dividend of a portion of ihe profits
among the Stockholders, is not necessary
for the security of the creditors of the
Bank, ihe Directors have unanimously de
clared a Dividend of 5i per. cent., which
will be paid (after deducting the tax to ihe
Stale) on and after ihe first Monday in
July next, as you will see by the notice
given by the Cashier, of this date.
C7"The Bank Convention of Ohio has
agreed that the banks of that Stale shall
resume specie payments on the fourth of
July, provided Philadelphia, New York,
and Baltimore, pursue the same course by
that time.
Gt?Touching ihe new bank about to be
established in New York, the Express
says
"We announced yesterday the organi-
4uuij ui a uew live mi lion bank m t hie
cjlv The nhn . . " ' . ", Uw
?, Y" ,e ,,an 13 1,1 acl,ve operation, and
ihe articles are now nil
Presidentis fixed upon. Directors named.
inrl nil :. I A' . '
" , 'V i S 7,",,p ,y con'me-
Z ta . .Tte bo. 7? "
. be but abo,u five "I'lhous, yei
the stork iv ! II lis inoio.-i r... V
-- v v. i vuocu iu tony or iiitv
millions. It is intended that the caoital
el,lll iK ...i . vujjiiui
, shall be sufficiently large to secure perfec
hiu enure con h pmpp mwi o.i:. -im.
. v -v- vj vicun. i lie
stock of iIip incMt. ...:n . r
,, win tousisi o casn
an bonds and mortages, and the number
of directors is to be between thirty and
"ij. n i rcMuem Ol cliarnrinr lw,c
a ready selected. These are the general
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plans of ihe bank, but details are yet to be
arranged."
What does this mean ?The New York
fdrror.,,,.,.! . r .i .i . . ...
vw..taJuiiuciii oi me National Inte gen.
cerwrile follows :-"Soutlcrn funds
. ,Bh:.n.. . 1 uous
'"I ,uv improving iicrc. bomcofour
Banks have offered to the -Southern Banks
large credit here, which has a decided in
fluence in templing them to the resumption
of specie payments. The 'Philadelphia
Banks are also purchasing Southern pa-
per. The exchanges feel the benefits of
these movements." We ask, what does it
mean that the Philadelphia banks are pur
chasing up Southern paper? These Banks,
it is well known, are under the control ol
Nicholas Biddle's Bank, and refuse lo
come into the measure of resuming specie
payments. Why are they buying up
Southern papei? Is il to hold a rod over
the Southern Banks, and prevent them
from resuming, or if they resume, to make
heavy runs on them? A short time will
show. Salisbury Car.
Living up to the Means. The Greens
boro Patriot tells a good story, and locates
it iu this county, (Wake.) It says, thai a
man w ho was in ihe habit of raising Sweet
Potatoes lo speculate on, finding himself,
ihis Spring, entirely out of Potatoes of his
own raisiutr. found it necessary to buy of
' CI t r
his neighbors; and accordingly purchased
10 bushels at GO cents per bushel. Hav
ing procured ihe Potatoes, he buried them
in ihe ground lo sprout. The Potatoes
having sprouted out of the ground, he
pulled the sprouts from ihe Potatoes aud
planted them out then took ihe Potatoes
out of the ground, washed the dirt from
them clean, and took them to Baleigh and
sold them out at sixty-two aud a half cents
per bushel! We think our friends of the
'PatrioT have been imposed upon, as lo
the locus in quo. We do not like to run
the risq-ie of doing the injustice lo another
county, which we are confident has been
done to Wake, or we could put our finger
on a county, where, we think.it is more
probable this cute trick was performed.
Hal. Beg.
What are we coming to-.- Some idea of
the distress aud embarrassment, which pre
vails in ihe country, may be gained from
ilie following statement. The '"Voice of
Suinier," p. iuted at Livingston, Ala. says,
that on the night previous to the lime of
bidding the Spring Term of the Circuit
Court of Lauderdale County, Missisippi,
the Court finis. was burnl down. When
the Judge arrived and determined to hold
Court in some other building, the Sherifl
resigned. The duties devolving on the
Coroner, lie loo resigned, and ihe Judge
was completely defeated in the attempt to
hold a Conn. It is said that a very large
number of suits had been commenced in
lhat county. ib.
(?Toe unfortunate City of Charleston
appears to be infested with a daring gang
of Incendiaries. Almost every paper we
rec eive gives some account of attempt to
lire lhat City. The Mayor has called
up.m the citizens to do patrol duty, and
we trust that ihe villains may yet be
brought to justice. Hanging would be too
mild a punishment for the wretches. ib.
OHichard H. White, charged with
burning the Treasury buildings at Wash
ington, has been acquitted. ib.
Homicide. A man by the name of Cut
ler shot another by the name of Williams,
a few days since, in Dinwiddie. Williams
survived ihe wounds about 4S hours.
Fct. Int.
More trouble in Philadelphia. We re
gret to learn from the U. S. Gazette, lhat
the trouble in Philadelphia has not vet
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ceas,eK iasi weeK a v atcliman w as killed
bv n IMt'-nrn lilitn-o,l i .1
j - --tvw "-"vwx.,j iu mactiic, clUU on
Saturday, a Mr. McCarney, a butcher, was
killfil V! onnllmi. I?-
j w"ivi. i i iiu me account
given, this seems to be an act of deliberate
(llilrrlcif ..,1 il.... . t. IVT
.. uu uim inu ixegro was prompt
ed to ihe act. bv iht hplipf ilmi M- Mr..
' j " ntiuai-
ney had listed in arresting ihe necro
uim hill.-,! il.o IV.,1 e. . ?
; v u "iuiinuii a iew nays be
fore. Great excitement nrPvn'.L ;..
. ....i.iIVV in I II J J-
sequence of ibis occurrence, and a riot was
senously apprehended. But the Police
.l,u yuy and County, succeeded in
mnihliiiiiuin . v . J -
iiuiiiiiiiiiiu uiuer. iu.
Late from Eurone. Th r.firnnni
packet Cambridge, and the Havre packet
t are ooui in at New York
having sailed from their respective ports
From ihe English p.apers, it appears thai
II1P ilprlinn in il.,. '.'
-- ... .c .cveiioe ana the stagna
tion ol trade had nrodnrp,! knnn:ni i
m He money market. Large sales of cotton
i,,c at good prices, but to-
wards ihe last the demand slackened h
seems the Biddle Agency had thrown a
large quantity of cotton in the market,
Which occasioned snnif. rnmipL-
l,rouaile ronsequences on individual
enterprise. The political news is devoid
ol interest. A general calm pervades the
continent.
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Petersburg Market, June 10. Cotton
10 cents Flour, $7 25 lo 7 75 -Corn
wholesale,) 3 50 to 3 75 Bacon, (Hog
Kound,) 11 to HI cts nr.
Norfolk Market, June
to 9i cents;. Corn, 73 lo 75
ceuisi ul;
dull, 8 to 9 cents. Her.
Washington Market, June. 19 f
tine, new dip, $2,50; Old $ (j07
$1 00. Tar, $1 75. 7i;.r. '
Election on Thursday, 2Gth Julj-,H,t
GENERAL ASSEMBLY.
EDGECOMBE COLW'TV.
For the Senate.
House of Commons.
James Georok. William S.
DIED,
In Nash county, on the 18;li inst. Jl,
Mary E Bellamy, only daughter nf,i'
Kev'd William Bellamy.
At Tarboromxh and J'cw York.
JUNE 19. per i Turbnro X-. f
Uacon, - lb 8 10 l;i .";
Brandy, apple, gallon 100 12.") n
Coffee, - lb 13 IT, y .'.
Corn, - bushel 50 55 M i'-
Cotton, - lb I 8 h s
Cotton hanging, yard 20 ,
Flour, - barrel $8 0 :s J-
Iron, - lb 1 5
Lard, - lb B 10 !H, j,
Molasses, - gallon 50 55 is"
Sugar, brown, lb 10 I2h t ,,
Salt, T I. - bushel 60 Gj" 35 "
Turpentine, barrel 125 130 2.')7
Wheat, - bushel 100 125 Kj i;,)
Whiskey, - gallon ; 50 55 30 ?r
JYoticc.
rWWlhl Subscribers have for S.iJpoOrr
GO hbls CORN, a quantity cf TORE,
a parcel of
1 -Vic? Cut Herrings,
A large supply of fresh LIME, ar.b
fresh supply of Dr. Peters' Pills.
. cS T. IIYMU.
Tarboro June 15, 1838.
Pay your Taxes.
TWWW Subscriber informs nil thoe con
cerned, that be has been rppoinic.
Collector of the Taxes
In District 1.
lie therefore requests all persons
have Taxes to pay in said district, mew
fvrvvatd and settle the same without ddsj
J1S. M. liEDMOXD.
Tarbcro, June 14, 183S.
Jesse IT! Taylor,
ESPKCTFULLY informs the cii
zens of Kdjr combe and the ndioinir:
counties, that he has commenced the
Tayloring- business
IN TARBOROUGH,
Next door lo the Si ore of Messrs. H
2 list in 5' Son.
He hopes by a diligent attention to
business, and a faithful and prompt rx
lion of the work entrusted lo him, IWJ'
and receive a bharc of public patronag1
June 14, 183S.
jYoticc.
TRAYED from Josiah Harrcll'f,
this counlv. about ihp 20lh May
I small bay jinny iJJVLf
Belonging to the Subscriber, will) &ft
on her fore feet, (whether her hinJ le'-!
were shod is not now recollected,)
three years old. I purchased said
from a horse drover, so it is very uncer
tain which way she may have gone;
ivhfin lr.r. I I r I in tY
w'hen Inst hpjini rrrwr. cun miis
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- " i' runic uni.
and if so, any information respecting i:ej
will be thankfully leceived, and the Pcr
on amply compensated for his trouble-
IV1LLIAM D. MUJ'-,
Greenville, Pitt counl-, June 4lM
Printing neatly executed,
AT TIIIS OFFICE.