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t From the Halifax Advocate.
: - A COMIC SONG,
My nott sticks out a feet,
Come listen my dear audience, and hear what
) you shall hear,
I'll sin you of a circumstance occurred not far
i'r.'iii here;
1 wvut into a neighbor's house, they axed I for to
J eat,
i The neighbors all began to bawl your noSe
i sticks out a feet.
- When I was 'bout two years old, I'was my mam-
niy's joy,
iTliC people air caressed I and called I pretty
I )0-v
: Tiu y said I was a beauty, and my face it was
j complete
Except that tarnal ugly bump, and that sticks out
I a ltl
hUcn 1 was 'bout ten years old, I warnt worth" a
j darn, .
Daiidy sent I to school I hadn't sense to
'la"'?
I I g 1 unci with school and books, burnt daddyjs
( stack of wheat,
Dad he jumped and seized tliis bump, and pulled
u out aJctt,
1 1 went to kiss a pretty oirl a day or two ago,
. Am) Hut she was very willing to, as alt cliyou
iuut know;
j We trtcu so very hard, for to get our lips to
II meet
ButcouJuti't for this infarnal nose, for Uiat slicks
I out a let t.
Inext went a courting, I shan't say where I wejit,
Thecal Is all axed 1 who 1 was, and what it w,as
1 meant;
A ( luir set by my lasses side, I in it took a seat,
The galls thty all began to bawl your nose
1 sticks out a leet.
: Now when I go a travelling I never can go right,
- 1 travelled once aJiuli u day and then put up at
niht,
1 AaJ wiiatco you think they laid me on twas noth
I ing out a sheet
Which covered half my body and my nose sticks
out a feet.
I went down to the ste?.m boat to see what I could
see,
' And vim do you think fell overboard? why no
1 hotly el&e but me;
I The sham boat it was shoving off I gave a
mighty leap
Cuiiglit my nose between tho boat and wharf, and j
squetzed it out a feet.
r Tl.cn I axed the Doctor how this long nose did
He said it kaonmed on a time when 1 was not at ;
come,
home,
It v. as a dark and raiuv r.iTht, there came a migh-!
iy ss led
And u us supposed by all who knows, it frozened
eut a teet.
Now (fall the sights that I ever saw I think it is
the besi,
To go and see the circus sir, and all of the wild
beasts,
Eut little something more it wants to make it all
complete,
And so fur more variety here's my nose sticks out
a fft-t.
FOR T11E TAHBOIto' PRESS.
To the Voters of Pitt County.
An article bearing the signature of
"Truth" appeared among you last week, re
lating to the Sub-Treasury and Treasury
Note bills, the object of which was lo nrc-
sent the true features of those bills in order
that those who charged lhat the Suh-Trca-I
fury was nothing more than a Government
. Bank, might have an opportunity of produ
I fini; facts and arguments to prove their as
j sertions. Subsequent to this an article
i siftned "A Citizen of Pitt" also appeared,
j intended doubtless as an answer to "Truth."
, tlow far he has succeeded, can be answer
j C'J by a ten year old boy. Nof an argu
nt?nt does the writer produce, nor does he
fcbite a single fact, to controvert any thing
aiaicu by Truth." And it "A Citizen"
j a-l followed the example of "Truth," by
j rtlraining from making charges, an answer
ouid have been unnecessary.
1 "A Citizen of Pitt" commences by sta-
! tins OriP. fuel. thnt in a fpw rlfivs vrm
viiu meet together fqr the purpose of sc
lecting from among you two persons-to re-
Present our county, &c. and that it is the
fin I C . . i . .
ui every citizen to proclaim nissenti
ttents without fear of offendingwith
hope of reward." .1 sincerely hope
orough,
every citizen will perform that duly, and
no one vv,l attempt to nuroiW k
Lwif; Jn:hl,rief tool public opinion?
".."-.uu-aiorm irom Greenville to the
meetings and musters? You, fellow citi
zens can answer. "A Citizen" asserts
that bus.ness is prostrated: true, that the
mania tor speculation docs not rage to the
extent it did two years since, and money is
not as plenty-. But if the writer intends to
assert that produce does not command as
nigh a price as it did during the existence
1 the old United StatesBank, he mistakes
greatly. Corn in 1325, sold for one dollar
and fitly cents per barrel; Turpentine in
1S27, sold from twenty-live cents to one
dollar and ten cents per barrel and this
while the great 5'Regulator" was in opera-'
tion. And withal docs not the same Bank
yet exist, willi the same President and
Cashier, 'the same Directors and the same
Stockholders, with the exception of the U
nited States? Was it not incorporated bv
the Legislature of Pennsylvania? And
did not Mr. Biddl- the President declare,
that the B.nik was better and stronger underJ
the new charter than the old? So far from'
regulating the currency, the United States
Hank has been the greatest obstacle in pre
venting a resumption of specie payments,in
order that Mr. Biddle might speculate one
more year in produce. The Governor of
Pennsylvania, a thorough-going self-styled
Whig, has been compelled by public opin
ion to issue his'Proelamation, commanding
a resumption of specie payments by the
Hanks of Pennsylvania, on or before the
13lh day of August ensuing. Whether
Mr. Biddle will obey him or not, is yet to
be seen.
4iA Citizen," says: "the ploughshare is
alone at work, but it drags heavily along."
All I have to say to this remark is, that it
some of those who Hiun the ploughshare
because it drags heavily along, were at the
plough handles, there would be less dis
tress and less disturbance in the country.
He says: '"the" mechanic is without cm
ployment." Such as will not work doubt
less are. As his remark, "the merchant
is bankrupt," is a matter between "A Citi
zen" and his brethren, the merchants
chiefly belonging to the self styled Whig
party, they may settle it; only remarking,
lhat I believe our merchants arc as solvent j
as some Whig corporations
44 A Citizen" notices the Sub-Treasury
by saying, it is "a measure which would
have placed the money of the country in
the hands of irresponsible and (awning of
fice holders," &c. Verily, "A Citizen"
cannot have much regard for his brethren; ,
the writer of this is personally acquainted I
with eight postmasters, s.-ven of which are i
oi ine lug party, ami ne eeriainiy pa s
them no compliment when he s.iys that
they ner their securities are not worth
"one thousand dollars."
Without further noticing the abuse "A
Citizen" bestows upon his brethren, 1 will
notice some of his charges oga'u.st the Ke
publican party. He says:
"In our county the party of corruption and in
trigue have selected their most, prominent h-aders,
men who will not slumber nor .sleep in the execu
tion of their designs. They go sicrtfly from dis
trict to district, they write letters lo every citizen
and even to men who are not residents of the
j county, and knowing they have not capacity to
write the views of their party, they copy the torn
of tactics scut from their masters at Washington;
and even in their public speeches they breathe
not a syllable save what is carefully written down
by hired menials, who care no mere tor the wel
fare of our country than fur the prosperity of a ci
ty on the banks of the Ganges."
Fellow citizens, do you believe your
neighbor who differs with you on political
questions, ought to be branded with cor
ruption and intrigue? Has it come lo pass
in this age of the Kepubiic, that men can
not differ in opinion without being liable to
huso? As for the capacity ot the candi
dates selected by the Republican party,
vou are the best judges; you have hereto
fore selected them, and you can doubtless
discover whether they hayerbecomc inca
pacitated. They are farmers they cannot
boast of being "college-bred," which I
have yet to learn is a necessary qualifica
tion. It is true, the Uoslon Atlas, a Wing
paper, says: Let the larmer apply his huge
paws to the plough, they are not lit to ban
die the statute book but 1 will confess
lhat I do not believe such are the senti
ments of the whole "Whig" party. As
for copj ing "the form of tactics," the
charge is out of place; it might apply with
force if properly directed but I make no
charges. Any one at all conversant with
the writings of the "hired menials" at
Washington City, knows to whifh pam
they belong; the tirades of abuse and mis .
representation daily sent forth against the
Administration, show full well how they
get their bread.
You are requested, fellow citizens, to sa
to vour former representatives, "the course
you have pursued ho longer entitles you to
our support." Can you say so.' Hov
have they misrepresented you? They die
hot vote Mfl all the resources of the
country might be developed, however
rough and rugged they might be in their
original form or clement;" because they
(Edgecombe Count,, J. CI) Saturday, July 28, 1838
rmr m ni-a,n-r
believed you were opposed to your money
being squandered for internal improve
ments. They however did vote, lhat the
moneys received from the General Govern
ment should be divided among the coun
ties, and had that bill become a law, the
interest on the amount your county would
have received would have paid nearly if
not quite your State and county taxes; but
instead of this, the money which you have
been promised for years was distributed by
Congress, and squandered upon swamps
and roads without benefitting you one
ccnt.
"A Citizen" charges the Administration
party with saying, "we should have no oth
er than a hard money currencv." The ob
ject of that party has been to restrict banks,
iioi aooush tnem; they wished gold and
silver for the smaller transactions, (and to
prevent sacrifices of property in case the
banks should suspend payments;) and were
willing that bank bills should be employed
in the larger. They are opposed to banks
being converted into political engines, and
for that reason were in favor of the Sub-
ireasury. He concludes bv saying, "that
in all probability a new U. S." Senator will
be elected at the next Legislature in the
place of Strange, who it is reported from
respectable sources intends to resign."
Such is not the fact. Judge Strange will
resign if instructed by the Legislature, but
surely the Whigs will not attempt that; for
one of their candidates now before the peo
ple, while a member of the Legislature in
1S34, voted that a Legislature acting as the
Representatives of the people, did not have
a right to instruct, their Senators.
Freemen, go to the polls, and inform
'A citizen of Pitt" that you have "capa
city" enough to judge for yourselves. lie
not deceived by misrepresentations, ask
those who presume to dictate to yon tocr
plain the Sub-Treasury bill, and all other
charges they may make to convince you
that their representations are true, and
then vote for whom you please.
minother Citizen of I'm.
Jlrginia Manufactures, From the
report of a committee appointed at the Con
vention lately held to take into considera
tion the interests of the Southern States;
to inquire whether manufacturing estab
lishments cannot be carried on as efficiently
and cheaply in Virginia as in the Northern
States, it appears that, in Wheeling. Peters
burg, Kichmond, Fredericksburg, Lynch
burg, and Kanawha, more than eleven mil
lions of dollars are already invested in the
manufactories of these places: that, in
Wheeling alone there are one hundred and
thin v.sx manufacturing establishments.
employing more than one thousand seven
hutnircd hands the chief articles mamifac
lured thcie being iron castings, bar iron,
nails ami glass ware. In Pcttisburg,there
are five flourishing cotton manufactories,
an iron foundry, and several flour mills and
tobacco manufactories. In Richmond
there are also establishments of a similar
kind. In Fredericksburg and Falmouth,
tin ro are several iron and woollen manu
Lclories, with flour and other mills. The
manufacture oi" pig and bar iron is exten
sively conducted in the counties of Rock
bridge, Alleghany, Botetourt, Wythe, and
Washington, in the upper part of the valley ;
and in Augusta, Shenandoah, Page, and
other counties in the lower part of iheval
ley, and in some of the counties bordering
on the Ohio, and in the county of Franklin,
east of the Ridge. The resources of Vir
ginia in iron, coal and salt, arc not surpass
ed in any part of the Union. Arid the
committee gave it as their opinion lhat,
when the banking establishments of the
State shall be extended, and the fa
cilities of communication shall beimprov
ed, as contemplated, no State in the Union
can carry on manufacturing establishments
lo greater advantage to its citizens than
Virginia. Nat. Int.
Dreadful Disaster at Schenectady, N
Y. The celebration of the recent anniver
sary was attended by disastrous results in
Schenectady. 1 he Democrat contains the
particulars, and says :
'Nothing occurred to mar the lestivities
until the pyrotechnic exhibition commenc
ed in the evening. The apparatus for this
exhibition was placed in a boat, which was
towed out in the canal basin 20 or 30 feet
from the shore and crowded with boys
After the discharge of a few rockets the
manager let off what was termed a wa
ter rocket, which, alter perlorming severa
of its destined surpentine motions in the
water, bounded back in.the boat among the
mass ot rockels still undischarged, and
caused them all at once to explode. Al
the individuals standing round or near them
were more or less burned some of them
very severely. In the midst of their agony
thev jumped into the canal, and the most
of them swam -to shore in safety, while
others were drowned. The extent of the
calamity is not fully known, as it has been
found impracticable to drain on all the wa
ter from the canal basin. The bodies of
three young men have been discovered
which were so dreadfully disfigured that
they could be identified only by some arti
cles about their persons. Their names are
Theodore Allen, John Kogers, and
Johnson.
, CCPThc Alabama Banks, at a Conven
tional Tuscaloosa, have postponed the re
sumption of specie payments to July 4th,
1S39. The Banks have much curtailed
their issues. An honorable trait is related
of Mr. Mosely Baker, who some years since
went to Texas; and who has paid with in
terest the S32,000 which he was indebted
to the State Bank at Tuscaloosa, and which
debt was the occasion of injurious reproach
es on the Bank. N. Y. Star.
Death from lhat in Brooklyn. On
Saturday afternoon last, a painter named
Thompson, engaged in painting a house in
the east side ol Brooklyn, was killed by be
coming overheaten. He was '.seized with
a giddiness, and helped into the house, but
was dead almost as soon as he laid down.
A mason engaged on a building in the
same cityTiso lost his life yesterday from
the same cause. "
On the 4th instant, a shoemaker whose
name we did not learn, residing at No. 2S7
Adams st., Brooklyn, lost his senses by a
stroke of the sun. He had lain down in
the shade of a tree, and had fallen asleep;
and before he avoke the sun had progressed
so far that its rays struck with unin
terrupted force upon his bare head. He
awoke a maniac, and continues in the same
deplorable stale. New York Sun.
New York, July 1. From the North
we learn there is a great deal of trouble all
along the Michigan frontier, and in Upper
Canada also. The Montreal Herald says
"S00 Americans" are invading Upper Ca
nada. Expresses have reached Sir George
Arthur, of a landing having been effected
near the entrance of the Thames, and on
the river St. Clair. The number via
Kingston (U. C.) is staled at 1,000. I sup
pose they are refugees, who have been in
the United States. In the London district,
a number of prisoners have been rescued
by the rebels.
Ail is commotion again in Upper Cana
da, troops moving, military orders issuing,
&c. Certain destruction must await the in
surgents in the end. The conduct of some
of the civil U. States and State officers in
Michigan is represented to be most scan-
ialous, inasmuch as they rather abet than
eprcss the disturbances.
Commendable. The proprietors of the
steamboat iieaver, which exploded lately,
on the Alleghany river, have dismissed
every officer employed on board, it being
ascertained lhat the accident was c -used by
the negligence of the engineer, who at the
time was intoxicated.
An Editor with a liace Horse. An
Editor in the Far West had bought a race
orse, for which he paid S'2000. On bcinr
iskcd, what an editor had to do with a
ace horse? he replied, that he was to be
used in "catching runaway subscribers."
Bait. Bat.
Tniamtfacturc of Needles. A machine
h.-hr been recently invented for the manu
facture of needles, by which forty needles
are made per minute; with fifty machines,
five persons can make one million two hun-
Ired thousand per week, a cost not excee-
ling one penny per thousand, including
wages, interest and capital invested, power,
tools, &c.
Something for the Curious. We have
been credibly informed, that a sow;, belong
ing to Mr. William Primrose, ol Queen
Ann's county, recently farrowed a litter of
pigs and pups; three of the lormer, and two
of the latter species. The pups appear to
be of the hound breed.
Kent (Md.) Bugle.
The Glorious certainty of the law. A
civil action was tried at Springfield, Mass.
last week which occupied the time of the
court from Monday until Thursday after
noon. The subject of litigation was a cow,
worth, perhaps, twenty dollars. It has
been tried several times, and the costs of
carrying it on amount to nearly S1000.
St Louis, June 20.
Bloody Affray at Ottawa, lit. We
learned veslerday, by a gentleman from
Ottawa, that an engagement took place
on ihe line of ihe canal, a day or two pre
vious, Tjehveen two parlies of the work
men, which resulted in the death of twelve
or fifteen of them. Those engaged in the
affray were Irishmen; and it arose on ac
count of the national divisions amongsi
them. The militia were called out and
the disturbances quelled. Republican.
Texas. The Disputed Ground. A
gentleman from Red river arrived in the
vicinity of this place on Monday, who
we learn, brings a rumor that the Texan
Congress have passed a resolution suspend
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Vol XIV Ao. 30.
ing the operation of their Jaws-over that
section of the country south of Bed river
which is in dispute between that Repub
lic and the United States, nmil Slllh time
as the line shall be amicably run and es
tablished by the two Governments. We
hope it may be correct. Ark. Gaz.
Cincinnati and Charleston Railroad.
This great work is in progress and will be
in operation to Columbia within a twelve
mouth; distance about one hundred and
twenty miles, or one-sixth part of the en
ure line. A letter from the President of
the Company to the board at Knoxville
says that "Gen. Hamilton, as 'agent of the
company, wd! sail in a short lime to Eu-
fope, for the purpose of sellinc the bonds
of the company for specie, so as to enable
the bank to he put in operation as early as
possioie. cm .mve. rost."
fXTThe Governor of Mississippi has
subscribed for 5,000.000 of the stock to
the Un ion Bank, and delivered Slate bonds
lor that amount lo J. C. Wilkins, of Natch
ez, E. C. Wilkinson, of Y.tzoo, and Judge
Piiu kard, of Vicksburg, who were about
to depart lo ihe norih as commissioners lo
dispose of the same.
Murder of Dutch Emigrants. -The
Grahamstowu (South Africa) Journal of
.March bih furnishes the particulars of the
murder ol lvo hundred ami sevpntv-fivp
Dutch emigrants, by a t hief of the Zoola
country,. near Fort Natal. It appears the
emigrating party sent sixty men in advance
to ihe Zoola chief to make some necessary
irrangeinents or lai d to setileon. The
main body remained behind for security,
bul in a few days after the Z olas made
a night attack upon the main body, slay
ing one hundred and fifteen of their num
ber, and, as far as is now known, ihe first
ixty. The Dutch, however, resisted ihe
Zoolas with spirit, compelled them to re
ireal, recovered back some of their-sheep
and killed a number of men. It is believ
ed that ihe American Missionary, Mr.
Lmdsey, and his family, were among the
slain. The emigrants and old settlers are
preparing to resent the murder of their
companions. JV. Y. Eve. Post.
Fatal Temerity. Yesterday forenoon
a couple of young men employed in a
store in South street laid a wager as to
which could climb highest the fall by
which goods were hoisted lo the upper
stories. One of them climbed to the fourth
story, ;'.id safely descended; the otheyalso
reached the fourth floor, and was siill as
cending, when he slipped his holer and fell
lo the first floor. In passing ne well of
the second floor, his chin caught on ihe
rim of the well, by which he was thrown
horizontally to the floor, and on lauding,
his back was broken in three places, pro
ducing instant death. A. Y. Sun.
0C?"We understand, that on Monday
last, in Blanford, a curious freak of na
ture occurred, in ihe birth of Twin Chil
dren, who were joined together from the
breast down to ihe lower part of the abdo
men. One of the children was alive when
was born, and died directly. They
were perfectly formed, wiih their fares
fronting each oiher. The mother is do
ing well. Pu. Int
OCCapt. Pearson, who was blown into
the sea by ihe explosion of the Pulaski, in
a recent communication on the subject,
says 'MVIien ihe explosion took place, I
experienced rather a pleasant sensation, as
though I were dreaming thai 1 was fling
in the air. I was awakened by falling on
my back in the water, surrounded by ihe
fragments of my room." He thinks-ihat
he swam, with ihe assistance of a board,
about three quarters of an hour before he
reached the wreck.
Trouble among the Doctors. Most of
our readers will remember the account
published in the Enquirer some numbers
since, from a New Orleans paper, of a sur
gical operation said to have been perform
ed by Dr. Luzenberg of that city, upon a
Seminole woman, by which she was com
pletely restored to fight.- It seems that
the ,4Physico-Mediral Society of New Or
leans," have investigated the matter, and
ihe result is, that Dr. Luzenberg has been
expelled from the Society for empiricism
the evidence adduced upon his trial going
to show that the published statement of
his wonderful surgical achievement, is al
together false.
Counterfeits. The Houston Banner re
commends to emigrants not lo purchase
Texas money till they get lo New Orleans,
and ihcn lo have resource io some of the
houses connected with lhat trade? A great
many counterfeits and deceptions are
afloat.
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