North Carolina Newspapers

Tavborongh, (Edgecombe County, JT. V ) Saturday, September 15, 1S38 Jo AiF-. yi? Tarhorough Press, BY GEORGE IIOWAUD, t. mlblisloJ weekly . tre fl 5ll ;c nm.l in aiivance or. inrcc it1" ' . ;iinri nf thft subscriDtion vear. in PfriJ les3 tha" a yar' 1 utcnt.V"Jtve ' , r. A, m -vnth. Subscribers are at liberty to r'ntinuVat anytime, on giving notice thereof '.(C irrpnrs those residing at a distance i ',1 P.n-npr arrcars-mose r; J invariably pay m ad; r'. .f..r.Mico in this vici Ivance, or give a respon P'"st ,". : thic virinitv. i fcWertisemcrtts not exceeding a square will be I - j at One Dollar tlie first insertion, and 25 Psfr, for every continuance. Longer advertise fnl" jn proportion. Court Orders and .lu ;hl advertisements 05 per cent, higher. Ad " .'ienients must be marked the number of in rpimired, or they will be continued until ici-r'lOH 11 1 . , , i i; i f .. 0v; v orjerea ana cnargeu mxuiuiiiiy. i otters Riiu'essi" i i i - ...1 dm Ivilitrvr miivt lm nncl Jor they may not he attended to. I by itcqrnsT. From the Iltdngh Standard. ' The influence (f 829 State Jinnies in k Unitid States The Hn. Mr. Allen, lie able ami accomplished Sen.ilor in the Cmv'Kss of the United Stales from the Sine of Ohio, and a native of.tlie Stale of 'i'.irili Carolina, in his remnks made in Senate of ihe United Stales on the n0di of February last, said that Banks derive tlieir being bom Legislation. They areof political origin. They sustain ami perpetuate themselves by reacting upon llie source of their existence and iherelon recessaril v become an aliment of political power. K cli Bank is a monopoly as trains! the community the common oh jrt of spoliation, but all stand upon a k-veliu regard to each other as co-agent in plunder. Among themselves ihey an "r.-H beings of a distinct existence, but an 'cohesive parts of a great system. The lViinsvlv.uiia Hank of the Uuiietl States, .wnli -Mr. liiddle al its head, is the centre 'of ilie sstem, because that is the member in which the greatest power is accumula ted, and which stands in the region when ce payments of the continent aie made. Tiiis system of 8-9 Hanks is lolluwed by ,a" army of 75,000 slot kholders, whose rear is covered by a train of dependants hrtefi litely long. When these 829 Hanks suspended specie payments in Ma, 1837, 1 their loans and discounts verged lose .ijwnthe sum of five hundred millions ol :d)llar!! This amount, if loaned for the usual period of 90 days, in the proportion of one thousand dollars to each man, then tlie Hank borrowers in a single year would ' number t'.vo millions of men a number far transcending the entire voting population of the whole Union. But these Hanks distribute their favors not so equally a lliis. And now 1 ask who are the men ' "ho compose this amazing concuufse of bankers, stockholders, borrowers ami de fendants? Where are they to be found? Are ihey among the humble citizens who are doomed by the necessities of life to tod ia obscurity? Are they to be found in the - fit-Id or the workshop? No, sir no, they are t ) be found in the shade of summer laiidta the sunshine of winter: they are to ' be found in the forest of Hanks that over- j tiiadow the cities, towns and villages of llie Republic. There they are, and there !iey may be found at this moment, crouch . ':'g in servile submission to these insiiui Uons defending their frauds, the most stupendous that ever were committed . defending their open rebellion against : public law, and reviling the Government iflheir country, and the friends ol the G'verment with all the bitterness of mer : senary malice. Firm sir, must be the heart of that man, and strong must be his . r-erve, who dares to complain of the op pression of the banks who dares to lilt the voice of patriotic warning to his coun ; toymen stern must be his soul, and indo tillable his fortitude before he presumes to rebuke the power of the Hanks a power ; ul'ich has already coiled around the sa ; Cred forms of the Constitution, which is day ; nv day increasing the intensity of its pres i.ure and strangling public liberty in its I I ask again who are these men, and here to be found? True it is that many jtf l')em are citizens good and valuable I ;JUt lrue it is also, that they are men who :ri general live by devices, by trafiic and j peculation. They are congregated in ; Ches, towns and villages, where the Banks j "''Pense most of their favors, and w here ; lJley combine to defend all the injustice of tne dispensing power. Thus each one of l"e Hanks stands securely in the midst j a faithful garrison. Let an injured ci- ; "zen utter a word in complaint of his 5v.ronSsiamd he is in a moment denounced, j 1S character assailed and his influence j paired or destroyed. Let a public Jour- i 31 print an unfriendly line, subscriptions j .. u,al paper are stopped, advertisements j .ununueu and the aftnghted pnnterper sttuieu into submission or beggarv. Thus ihat loud sentinel the Press, intended as it was to sound the alarm on the fust ap proach of danger, is subsidized by fa vols, or silenced by iniirnidaiion. If it speak at all it must speak in the praises of the Banks and in treachery to the people. Among this crowd of dependants are louiid many Hank lawyers, men whese habits of speaking publicly in the Court Houses give the.n much influence over the public mind. They one and all stand loi th in aid of subsidized presses to justily every enormity the Bank may commit against the people, and asciibe all the crimes of the Banks to the Government ol their country. - Is it then wonderful, that a system which has prostituted and puuhased into its ser vice so much of the -intellect, which has combined in its support, so many of the active elements of society, should have as sumed a despotism almost absolute over ihe public judgment, and laid the country under tribute, even with the country's con sent ? In speaking of the influence of ihe Bank f the United Slates, .then under Biiitlleas head, and Clay, Webster 5c Co. as aiders nd abettors, while attempting to force a re-chai ier from Congress, Mr. Allen sayi. : "In 1834 (ihe panic session of Cnngiess) i majority of ihe Senate then in la-r ol ihe Bank of ihe United Slates, instructed the ( o.umilite on Finance, which was also I ivorable to the Bank, to "involigate tht a flairs and conduct1' o! that institution; and that ciiminiiite made through Mr. 'lyler, d Virginia, a report upon facts furnished oy the Bank itst If. What then are the I u ts, thus furnished and thus reported? Here they are in words and figures, gmug day and ear, with all the (iitioclin ss and accuracy of the tabular form. The labie Mippicsses the names, but exhibits the uum bei ol membi rs of Congress who obtained l ausof the Hank, and the amount obtain t o from l626to 1834 Now sir. let the Senate and Ihe nation bear in mind that it was in his message of 1S29 30 thai l'ie .ideol J.h kon aouonnceo his objections to the rti.ewal ol Hie charier Fiom that moment the renewal became the subject ol political striU; and let it neer be loigot len that it was through I ohgiess that the Bank was to pass or die Few if any ol the members wtie met chants whose busi ue:s 1 1 quired large advances of m-ney. It members wanted loans, why did they pass six or eight hundred State Banks at iheir doors, and apply to the only Bank upon whose life or death they had lode tide? But can this be the tat i? Yes ibis table furnished by ihe committee answers these questions. And it I mistake not will astound the nation, li shows in ihe first year of the Bank contest, ihe year 1830, and each year after to 1834, as follows: In the yeai 1830 the bank loaned to 52 members ol Congn ss $192,161 lo 1831. to 5'J members. 322.199 In 1832, lo 44 members, 478 009 In 1833, to 58 members, 374,700 In 1834, to 52 members, 238,580 205 $1,005,781 Thus this sum of one million six hun dred and five thousand seven hundred and eiizhiv one dollars was bestowed in loans to 205 members of Congress, as bank ac commodations, at a lime of pretended pres sure, upon the very men of whom ihey Wfre ;isliin a re-charter. ll will also be recollected that ip 1832 when near half a million of dollars was loaned lo 44 mem bers of Congress as above staled, was the very lime its re-charter was pending anu passed. I know not one, by name, who received these moneys; lor iheir names are suppressed in the report of the committee wiiml imi therefore lo criminate or wound the feelings of any one. But sir 1 IJVU. - - know the nature of man. I know thai coming to Congress changes him not for the better. But sir is this alir uere ihere no other influences but bank loans during the contest? How many men sei here (in Congress) who were the lawyers, stockholders and borrowers of the numer ous State Banks which had petitioned for ihe re-charter of the Bank of the United States, because interested as a part of the svstem? How many such men were to be found in the State Legislatures, bending the influence of w hole States lo bear upon this carnal object? A North Carolinian. From, the Norfolk Herald. The Commercial Convention. We re wW to the annexed proceedings of ihe peo ple of the Borough preparatory to the iwililinfr of the Convention in November, nnd can assure the friends of the trade of Virmnia and North Carolina, that they will receive a cordial welcome. Now is the lime for the bisteri?tates to act m um '"" "'"- 1TBTI.I son, and lay the foundations of a foreitfn trade deep nnd strong. Eastern ol Vir ginia and Eastern Carolina will recover much of their original wealth if ihey are w ise and energetic now, but if ihey remain supine, they will repent their conduct when repentance is vain. We call upon our editorial friends in North Carolina aim Virginia to put their shoulders to ihe wheel, and urge it onward. Beacon. At a meeting of the Citizens of the Bo rough of Norfolk, held at ihe Town Bali cm Thursday Evening the 30ih August, IbJb. agreeably to public notice. .Allies King, LsqV, was called to ihe ''hair, and James T. Soulier and John H. Butler were appointed Secretaries. The following resolutions were then submitted and adopted : 1st. esolvtd. That no Stale can ad vance to wealth and greatness without -direct and extensive irade and commen t with othr States and nations that the re sources of Virginia justifv her pretension. to such a commerce, and that we ought to use all honorable means to obtain it; that we approve of frequent meetings of Un friends of a direct export and import trad, for the purpose of conference and concert nd view with undiminished interest lh ipproaching Convention to be held in tin place on the second Wednesday in No vember next. 2l. Iltsohtd, That the Chairman v this meeting appoint a committee of fiw who shall constitute part of the delegation to rcprecent this Borough in said Couven lion, and thai it shall he the duty of sale ommittee'lo select twenty five other dis reel and energetic citizens, wno, will themselves thall compose the Norfolk Bo rough delegation in said body. 3d. liesolvcd, That ihe trading anil commercial interests of a large portion ol North Carolina and Virginia are naturally onm en d and should be closely and cor dially allied, and we invite and will wel ome lo our Borough such of our North Carolina friends as may be pleased to par ticipate with us in ihe deliberations of ihe Convention 4th. Ilesohfd, That il be the duty of said delegation to fill vacancies in their body; to appoint from among themselves a general corresponding committee, consist ing ol five, who are her by instructed to address letters of invitation to the Citizens of North Carolina and Virginia lo attend said Convention, and to make such other arrangements as they may deem necessary. 5th litifhed. That the deh gallon have the power (if thvy deem it expedient to do so) to appoint horn their body, represen tatives to attend ihe Commercial Conven tion to be held in Augusta in Octobei next. Gtli. Resolved, That the Editors of Noi lb Carolina and Virginia and of the South generally, be solicited to copy the above lesoluiions, and to co-operate with us in sustaining the commercial interests of ihe South. On motion, Resolved, That the Chair man be added to ihe delegation. Io conformity with ihe first section ol the sect nd resolution the Chairman ap pointed the following committee : V. Soulhcaie, W. E. Cunningham, John 11. Butler, T.J. Soulier, 11. 13. Kear don. The meeting then adjourned. MILES KI.G, Chairman, Jlnd Mayor of the Uorovgh. j. II. Butler, J. T. Soulier, Secretaries. Rise of the Lakes. The New York Journal ol Commerce says A gentleman who has just relumed from the V est, slates that forests of oaks have been killed by the rise of ihe waters in the Lakes, and that some of the trees, on being cut down are found to be marked with the growth of a hundred and forty years; thus proving that during thai long period, the waters had not before been so high as at present. The Cataract of Niagara has gained in grandeur, while many cultivated faims are now only to be found under water, and the city lots which had been sold for thou sands of dollars, are in ihe same submerg ed condition. Dwelling houses, barns, &c. stand "in the water and out of the water," and the fences which once divided estates, now only divide "water wastes." The rise has been regularly going ou for seven years, and irregularly for seven more, li is however stated iti the Buffalo Advertiser, thai within the last iwo or three months, owing probably to the great. evaooration by heat, the water has fallei a few inches. Lake Erie is now about 4 feet higher than in 1825, and Lake Oata rio about 01 feet higher. Highly Encouraging Duff Green, late of the United Slates Telegraph, has pub lished a statement of ihe amount due him from delinquent subscribers in the slates and territories of tht Union. The sum to tal is fifty five thousand six hundred dol lai s ! ! There is but one preventive of this migh ty evil. It is notorious that small debts ire ihe most difficult lo colled, especially d they be subscription debts, no matter lo what : lo a newspaper or a magazine; a dance or a dinner; a political festival or i l eligious rejoh ing. The principle ol ui lion is the same. It is easy io sign u name, and it is as easy lo say, "I will pay;" but how few, comparatively speaking ousider the moral force of iheir obliga tion. Many a poor printer or enterprising publisher has been induced to make oui 'ays of money and urge his credit lo ihe tmosi extension, on the fallacious assur ance that he would be repaid by subscrip on, and his subscription list has shown a goodly number of ihe well vvihers. Sill tem out when the lime of trial comes, ami ien look at the mountain of cb fl', ami ompare it with the small pile of wheal v no can wonder that newspaper publish r-s, in tow ns and counties where ihe popn ttion is sparse and debts ' difficult lo b ollected, so often complain of negligent- f subscribers? No one, who knows any dug of the system the impovering sy s t-in of publication, so universal in (his uniiy. There is bul one preventive : ay menl in advance. Boston Transcript. Providential Escape As a young lady f Philadelphia, ou a visit to her friends u this place, and Miss Kohier of this city, were looking over the precipice of "Wood - ird s Hock," she fell down the precipice nto the Conesioga liver. The height ol ihe rock above the river, into which ihe ady fell, is 94 feet, almost perpendicular. I'he water was about three feet deep where she fell, and will in some measure account ior her miraculous escapt ; for what is most extraordinary after emerging from the wa ter, she declared that she was not at ail hurl. This is certainly one of ihe niosi providential escap.es we have heard of. Many years rgo a youug man, a son ol Mr. Franciscus, was looking over the very same spot, w here the lady fell from, and in like manner fell down the precipice, bui was instantly killed. Two other cases of accident at ihe same spot are fresh in our memory, and in each the gentlemen bare ly escaped with life. Lancaster Jour. (tTA letter from Texas of ihe 1 Gib Julv last says : "The Hon. James Collins- worth, chief Justice of the Repi blic, was found drowned in the bay ol Galveston a few days since. The body was much mu tilated, and there were marks upon it which led to the belief that he had been murdered. He is said lo have had oni- derable money with him when at Galves ton. He was a man of extensive research and of superior talents." Scarcity of tvives in Teaas. A corres pondent ol the New Yoik Commercial Ad vertiser, writing frcm Texas under dale of 25th July , say s : " Our Congress has passed a law, grant ing a bonus of iwo-thirds of a league, or 2.9G2 acres of good land, to every woman who will marry, during the present year, any ciliztn of ibis Republic who was such at the lime of our declaration ol indepen dence. .The consequence you may easily imagine. Every stogie lady, young or old, good looking or ugly, has been sought out and led lo the altar; and yet nineteen out of twenty of our bachelors are not only unmarried, but unengaged, although their dispositions are ihe best that can be-imagined, and their efforts corresponding. "A few weeks since a family arrived from Ohio, bringing wilh them a young woman as a servant. Our young men took it very much in dudgeon that so pre cious a commodity should remain in a si tuation so unbecoming and unprofitable, and accordingly held a meeting, at which a considerable sum of money was raised by subscription, with which the young damsel was placed as a boarder in a re. spectable family. Then ihey clubbed to gether, and bought a young man's head right of 1,481 acres, which they presented to her as a dower; and this evening she was married to a respectable planter, who re ceives with her the 2,962 acres, in addi tion, from the Government." Biting a man's nose eff At a lale hour on Wednesday night, a man named W il liam Russell, a pie-baker, in Spruce street, and a man named Edward Norris, met to gether in a public house in Park row. when some difficulty occurred between them, and they commenced fighting ac cording to ihe most approved method ot bulldogs, biting each other's faces most fu riously, until al last Russell gained a c,(?ni- plete victory by biiiim off his opponent's nose; not merely a small bit of ii, but the entire nose, as if it was cut tfYwith'a knife. He I hen very deliberately spit it out on the fl -or, and walked out f the house. The man who lost his nose yester day complained at the police fli- e, and Unssell was taken into custody ; but as it appeared thai the complainant w a equally blameable as himself, he was held io bail to answer the charge only in the sum of $100 A. Y Jour of t cm. Occident Near Milan, Ripley county, Indiana, iwo brothers named Kisiuuer, wenl out hunting, and perceiving son e thing move about 100 y ards distant, sup posed to be a deer, one of them fired, and on approaching the spot found lie had killed his sister, who w as hunting the cows. Defeat of the Government Troops m Brazil A letter from Bio Gi anile re ceived at Philadelphia, speaking of ihe worse than Waterloo' defeat of the young; Emperor's generals on April 30ih, of hich we had already been advised, s -vs ihe grand division, amounting to 15-00 men under Geo'U Barretlo, Cunha :nul Caleron, al Uh Pardo, was entirely routed by the Republican Generals Benin, Ma noel and 'elto. Such was the deleat, though shameful to rflate, that only thirty men, among whom were the three generals escaped. Unfortunate Occurrence On the 20th ult. Mr. Frederick JI. Pitiman of Augusta county, was shot through the hodv. at the house of Mr. Surrer, near the While Sul phur, by Richard C. G walking, formerly of Lynchburg, Va. Mr. Gvvatkins was immediately taken into custody, and sub sequently committed to the jail of this county for trial. Lewisburg Enq. Crows versus Jlkohol. Qa. B. has bne of the best farms on the Illinois river. A bout one hundred acres of it are now cov ered with waving corn. When it first came up in the spring, the crows seemed determined on its entire destruction. When one was killed, it seemed as though a dozen came to his funeral. And though the sharp crack of the rifle often drove l hem away, they always returned wilh its echo. The Colonel at length being weary of throwing grass, resolved on irying the vir tue of stones. He sent to the druggist for a gallon of alcohol, in which he soaked a few quarts of corn and scattered it over his field. The black legs came and partook wilh their usual relish, and such a cooing and cackling, such a strutting and stag gering, the scene was like but I will make no invidious comparison yet it was very much like When the boysaUempted to catch them, they were not a little n used at their stag gering gait and their zigzag course through Ihe air. At length they gained ihe eoe of the woods, and there being joined by a new recruit, which happened to be sober, they united at the top of their voices in haw! haw! hawing, shouting either ihe praises or the curses t f alcohol. It was difficult to tell which, as they rattled away without rhyme or reason, so very much the Colonel saved his corn. As soon as they became sober, they set their faces stedfastly against alcohol. Not ano ther kernel would they touch in his field, lest it should contain the accursed thing, while they went and pulled up the corn of his neighbors. To return like a dog to his vomit like a washed sow to the mire like not they. They have too much re spect for their character black as they are again to be found drunk. Peoria (Illinois) Reg. Jin observation onflmerican society.- The sons of the poor die rich while ihe sons of the rich die poor what an encour agement to toil through life to accumulate wealth to ruin our children. Better do good with our money as we go along. Educate our sons secure their virtue by habits of industry and study, and then let them take care of themselves. Franklin. (QI am acquainted wilh a great many very good wives, notable, and so mana ging that they make a man every thing ihat's happy and I know a great many others who sing, and paint, and play, and cut paper, and are so accomplished that they have no time to be useful. Pictures and fiddles, and every thing but agreeableness and goodness, can be had for money; but as there is no market where pleasant rrry tiers, and engaging conversation ,fl4 Christian virtues are to be'bf me, thinks it is a pity the ladie do J,0j oftener try to provide them ilXQme. Hannah Moore fl3T!ere is said to be a man living down east," whose feet are so large that he pulls his pantaloons on over his head, 1 1 if' J mpi! Km mmmMmmimmmmmm)iiiimmm