sus-
every politic d question precisely the re
verse of what I do, and I deeply regret
that those thus thinking are so .numerous.
Hut while I repect their opinions and feel
from their opposition a modest diffidence
of the correctness of my own; jet as a
moral agent, I am hound to yield obedi
ence to the dictates of truth as I am able
to collect these from the sources with which
Jivaven has furnished me : and I have nut
as yet seen nor heard any thing convin
cing me of error. Violent denunciations
both of principles and men it is true are
constantly ringing ir. toy cars and disturb
ing the steady action of reason, but you
will never convince a man who intends to
do right that he is in error by asserting in
his hearing that he and all who act with
him are knaves or lools.
The people of North Carolina have laid
me under obligations I can never dis
charge by the confidence they have repo
sed in mi; whether I merited that confi
dence they were and are the judges. In
teresi no less than inclination prompted me
to every exertion so to fulfil the duties of
the high station tn which they have placed
me as to have not only their approbation,
but that of impartial posterity. 1 do not
claim for myself any gifts of nature or of
art which can attract to me present atten
tion or the notice of posterity; but the
people of North Carolina have placed me
where my position interweaves a portion of
my acts with the history ol our country
and thereby rescues my name from an ob
scurity which must otherwise have been
its fate. If then, 1 am not among the most
grovelling of w retches, what, while acting
vn so conspicions a theatre, could be Ex
ecutive smiles or frowns or temporary in
dividual gains or hopes to the proud hope
that my conduct might meet the approba
tion of good men now and hereafter? and)
what ground is there for this hope for him
who seeks any other guide than his own
sense of rigid? With these views before
me if I have not acted wisely I most abide
the conseq-iences, sustaining myself as
I may wilh the consciousness that 1 have
acted according to the lights 1 possessed.
Hut if as my own reason and conscience
whisper me I have pursued the true inter
ests of our country, I hope for the appro
bation of my cotemporaries, but if disap
pointed here posterity will do me justice
when the mists of passion and prejudice
shall have passed away.
Allow me to thank you for your own ex
pression of approbation and to subjoin a
sentiment or two which I beg, under the
circumstances, be accepted as a substitute
for my personal presence and am with
very high respect,
Your obliged and ob't servant,
and fellow citizen,
HO. STRANGE.
The Memory of Bartlell Yancey It
will be cherished by the County which sus
tained in his deatli an irreparable loss.
Our Country Perish all parties whose
snccess is not identified with her prosperi
ty, perpetuity and peace.
-t . T. V
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1R33.
(X7"We learn that the post office at Hil
liardston, Nash county, has been discon
tinued and the business transferred to Bel
ford post office, same county, of which
JSI r. G. Sills is post master.
(tWe invite attention to the proceed
ing at the Democratic Dinner, at Yancey
ville; and to the interesting letters from
essrs. Caliioun and Strange. Evidences
are daily crowding upon us, that the im
portance of the measure is not magnified,
to aid in accomplishing which Mr. Cal
houn is bending all the energies of his gi
gantic mind and we are satisfied that the
day is not distant, when Senator Strange
will have his doubts entirely removed and
toe convinced, that Democratic Republican
principles are still in the ascendancy in the
State Legislature, and among the people
of the good old Democratic North Slate.
Air. Van Buren. fallinsr. The editoi
of the Hillsborough Recorder speaks of
the "Jailing fortunes" of Mi. Van Buren.
We guess the people of Orange will be
inanniui tor this piece ol information, for
we dare say they had no suspicions that
such was the fact. We should not cease
to admire the wonderful phenomenon ol
hocus-pocus, by which it is made as plain
as day light, that a man is "falling" who
has, in a few weeks, had an accession of
forty or fifty thousand freemen to his par
ty, and several States to his support. We
are edified by this elucidation of thp nrin
ciple of gravitation, by which it appears
uiui a man tans up ana rises down. We
shall be thankful to the editor if he will
solve a problem for us viz: if a man fall
pretty considerably by the gain of 50,000
votes, how far will he full by a gain of
150,000? Raleigh Standard-
GLORIOUS VICTORIES!!
The Ball Rolling Election Returns.
The returns are pouring in upon us, from
Pennsylvania, Ohio and New Jersey, a
full tide of victory lor the numimsirauuu.
The Whigs were told, in the midst of the
Panic, to restrain their exultation. They
were advised, that as soon as the pressure
vanished, and the panic ceased, a reaction
would commence and continue until all
their triumphs were swept away. They
were assured, that the Little .Magician was
not down and could not be put down
thflt a Bank Whig President could not be
elected, and a National Bank could not be
established. But every admonition was
thrown away upon them. They laughed
at these predictions. Like Jeshurun, th-y
"waxed fat and kicked." They ridiculed
the hopes of the friends of .Martin Van Bu
ren. They boasted of the success they
had won. They anticipated new and
more glorious victories. They expected
to sweep every thing before them. They
counted on Maine. They counted on the
Key-stone Slate. They calculated on the
Empire State. Upon Alary land, New Jer
sey, and Ohio, they scarcely thought ii
worth their while to waste any specula
tions. So confident were they of cany
iug them without any struggle. The
exulted in the whole prospect before them.
No warnings were sufficient to arrest their
extravagant calculations. The Adminis
tration was to be put down A Whig Dy
nasty was certainly to rise upon its ruins.
A Whig President, and a National Bank
in his train, were to crown all their hope
and all their exertions. They over a;id
over settled up their Leger of Elections,
and boaled of the balance they struck.
They over and over again jeered us about
our Reactions.
But the whirlwind has come at last!
The day of reaction has risen with tre
mendous vengeance. Maine was the fiNi
to strike the Ball of Revolution, Ma.
land followed. Pennsylvania, New Jrr
sey, have succeeded and least of all that
was expected, Ohio seems to be striking
the Ball with infinitely more force than
all the others. The Empire State will
follow early in November. Van Buren in
his own native Stale, aided by all the moral
force which his recent victories in other
States, have imparled to his cause, will
carry out the reaction in high ly le, by the
election of Governor Marcy by several
thousands. The Whigs cannot arrest the
Ball of Revolution. They cannot defeat
the Administration even with the aid of
those Conservatives of New York, who
have erred in their course. They ought
to have adhered calmly to their position,
in opposing the Sub-Treasury scheme
only, but supported the Administration in
other respects as its other friends wen
doing. Their error consists in first preach
ing up a distinct political organization,
and then throwing their votes into the
scale of the Whigs. Thus they loose all
the moral influence, which they would
have preserved, and injured the good
cause which lhay originally professed to
nave in view.
What a Revolution in one week have
the Whigs undergone! Thev have lost
battle after battle State after State.
Their hopes of a Whig President and a
Whig Bank have melted away, like the
snows under a tropical sun. The Reac
tion will now visit the South. North Ca
rolina will be redeemed. All that we now
want is, a spirit of harmony, of peace, and
of union, in the Old Dominion, lhar and
forbear Conciliation and kindness to
wards each other; No violence, no denun
ciation among the friends of the Adminis
tration. We ask our friends abroad, to let
us alone; and permit us to settle this family
quarrel among ourselves. We cannot
have a doubt of it, if politicians elsewhere
will show a proper degree of concession,
and carry out the maxim of Laissez nous
faire. The same feeling will then, we
hope, gradually prevail among ourselves.
Rich. Enq.
Trade of North Carolina. A writer in
the Norfolk Herald, under the signature
of "Clinton," treating on the subject of a
direct trade to Europe, remarks as follows
on the trade of this State :
" The trade of North Carolina, too as
connected with the growth and prosperity
of our seaport, ought to have claimed
more of the attention of our Legislature.
We have not properly estimated the advan
tages of the North Carolina trade and the
policy of forming a speedy and close con
nection between Norfolk and our neigh
boring sister. In 1830, there passed
through Ocracocke Inlet 1149 vessels,
averaging 100 lon each, the lighterage of
each amounting to $100. This statement
is fiirniuhed by thu collector at Ocracocke.
This data will giv in ome idea of the
trade of Albemarle Sound. Had this fact
been known to the last Legislature, per
haps the necessity of forming a connexion
with that sound and its tributaries, might
have been apparent, and the Edenton Rail
Road bill passed. There is one conside
ration which renders this subject exceed-
in
ok interesting viewed in relation to the
destinies ol lorioiu. ii -
lained to the entire satisfaction of the most
scientific engineers, that in a few years
there will he no communication between
the ocean and the interior of North Caro
!i:. Out of ten outlets to the sea, all
have been closed except Ocracocke Inlet;
nod even this, it is thought 0V oi. ivear
" . i r.- .-,
nevof iheU. S. Topographical engine.,
will m a few years Ut cioseu, ineurpui u.
water having diminished, by filling up, from
1 3 to OS feel at ordinary high tides. From
the facts stated in his report to the War
Department, taken in connection wilh the
high standing of Col. K., who has made
actual survey of the region of country in
volved, I have no doubt of the correctness
of the opinion. If so, there will be in a
few years no communication between the
ocean and Albemarle and Pamlico Sounds;
and consequently, a line ofseacoast of more
than 200 miles extending from Cape Henry
to Cape Look Out will be destitute of inlets
of sufficient depth of water to admil the
smallest size of coasters. The question
should al once present itself to ihe mind of
the Virginia Statesman where is the pro
duce of the Slate of North Carolina, ol
Ihe Chowan, the Neuse, the Tar and other
rivers of the Stale, to find a market? Who
shall have the trade that now goes through
Ocracocke Inlet to the Ocean? When
that inlet shall be closed, w hither will the
I 149 vessels that now annually go coast
wise and to fore'gn ports turn their can
vass? If our Legislature will be upon the
look out will seek an early connection
with her neighboring sister take early
steps and look ahead, not waiting for rival
enterprise lo intervene and snatch from her
grasp what naturally belongs to her will
shake off that fatal spirit of procrastina
tion which has operated so long as an in
cubus upon her prosperity and placed her
so far in the rear if they will act thus
wisely, this valuable trade may be wooed
to Norfolk. The practicability of a canal
across the Slate of North Carolina con
necting her rivers lying above the shoals,
wilh the Dismal Swamp Canal, is also pro
nounced b the same engineer lo he be
yond doubt. This consideration adds new
interest to the subject, for if this be Ihe
fact, a very large p ntiou of the produce
ol the country watered by the several riv
ers of that State, may tie poured into the
i.ip of our seaport. If such a result can
be fT-M'led, Vnginia should not lose a mo
ment in uniting with North Carolina in
constructing the Improvement. It matters
not that the improvement will be in another
iMate. Nor should the expense, no matter
how great, weigh for one moment. Il ls
enough that policy of building up her sea
port would be promoted. It is suffi lent
that Ihe produce of a large and a rich
Stale would be directed to that seaport.
Taking then the consideration thai in a
few years there will be no communication
through Albemarle and Pamlko Sounds as
in the ocean, and that it is practicable to
form a canal communication between the
navigable rivers of North Carolina and
the Southern end of the Dismal Swamp
Canal, this subject becomes one of the
deepest interest to our stare. I throw out
these hasty suggestions with the view of
calling public attention to the subject.
have not had time to give it the mature
consideration which its importance merits,
and do not ohVr what is here said as set-
lied convictions. I hope some one com
petent to the task will take up the subject
and investigate u fully. The report of
Col. Kearney made lo the War Depart
merit in May last, will furnish facts and
opinions worthy of all consideration."
M Vnr!:.flS SUCh aS tO
voyage lrum . r
tain, and add to her high reputation for
speed, and as a sea boat. She has resumed
her station in the line belween Wilmington
and Charleston..
them ascended a tree for
look a gun and said, here :tre
uuu I w in snoot mem. at .i
charged the gun and wmi.wL t
'f r.,t
IW0 ,
i i .i.. . .i
nip ami uie omer was (he-ir Hi..'
in the face, having bod, ev 7.
his teeth broken and uiiu-ru ft i,
- - at
irT-The Steam Saw Mill on the Wacca
maw River, recently built, and put mtoj ly injured, as to pre lude uonVr''''! '
operation by our enterprising Townsman, j covcry. Li, ...
IThe Wheeling Times of , Saturday
says that the Poik packers are making
contracts al six cents. JSorjolk Herald-
tXr"The New York Gazette announces
the death on the 14th instant, of Commo
dore John Urde Creigluon, of the U. S.
Navy. tb.
G?We are happy to learn that the Wil
mington and Halifax Rail Road Company
have opened two sections of their Rail
Road, one at ihe northern end, of 12 miles
ui extent, which brings the road south
wardly to Enfield, the other, of 10 miles in
length, which carries it to Faison's Depot,
at Goshen, completing thereby, 87 miles of
ihe Kail Road, and reducing the staging
to 80 milf.s only. We are informed that
10 miles more will be finished in Novem
ber, and 10 in December next, leaving, al
thai time, bul GO miles of the Road to be
done, when the whole will be completed.
The Company are iiow running daily
their Rail Road and Stage Line from this
place to Weldon, on the Roanoke, and
their Steamboats 3 times a week between
this and Charleston.
The Company's advertisement contain
ing particulars in regard to the new ar
rangement of their line, limes of arrival
and departure, &c. is necessarily postpon
ed (for want of room) till next week.
Wilmington Adv.
fXTVVc neglected in our last paper to
speak of the good Steamer North Caroli
na, having returned from New York,
whither . she went to be overhauled, re
painted, &ic. Her performance on the
fv.wii.iMM w:i burnt down a
Isaac o'iur .
nights since. The loss is very heavy to
Mr. Northrop, there being no insurance
on the properly. ib.
v a , ".U ,'in.ins nttemnt was made the
other night to destroy ihe buildings at the
Mooresville depot, of the Wilmington and
Raleigh Kail Road Company. A parcel
of combustible matter was placed under
one corner of the Warehouse, and fire put
to it, which burnt a large hole into the
building before it was discovered. A great
quantity of Merchandise was stored in the
Warehouse. ib.
Most Horrible. A murder, of the most
revolting nature, was committed upon ihe
bodies of Mr. William Baxter and two of
his children, a son and daughter, on the
lsl inst. near Pendleton, S. C. by a negro
man. Mr. 15. was a native, and respecta
ble citizen of this county, and was return
ing from Alabama, at the time of his death.
Arriving near Pendleton, he pitched his
tents for ihe night, and, al the hour of mid
night, when all were asleep, the infernal
monster sought this opportunity of carry
ing into efikel his disabolieal purpose.
From ihe appearance of the wounds in
flicted, it is supposed lhat they were killed
with an axe, the head of the Father, when
found, being nearly split in two. The
murderer was a negro man, whom the de
ceased had purchased, a short time previ
ous, in Georgia, in which direction he was
seen returning the day after the murder
was committed. We do hope that this
vile miscreant may be shortly apprehend
ed, and made to atone for his crime by tht
moj.1 seven penalties in the power of the
law. No punishment could be too severe
for such a being. Rulhcrjord uaz.
Sickness al the IV est This has been a
year of pestilence and death thioughout
the sickly portions of our Western coun
try, which embrace a good deal more of it
than the settlers are willing to admil. The
unusual high water in the Great Lakes has
a backwater influence on the sluggish riv
ers and low swamps in their vicinity, and
the extreme dryness and heat of the sum
mer has generated a most deadly malaria
over a vast extent of country. The Mau
mee region in Ohio and Michigan has
been especially affected. Chicago and ils
vicinity have suffered severely. I nielli
gt nee from several sources assures us thai
this has been the most sickly season ever
known al the West.
The Wayne Co. (Ia.) Chronicle says:
"The editor, publisher,; printer and 'devil'
of the Chronicle, and the editor's w ife and
two children are all sick, therefore if no
paper is issued next week, our readers will
know ihe reason."
Mulberry mania. At the great sale of
the Morns Multicaulis at Baltimore, 120,
000 were sold at 20 to 225 cents per foot
high. They averaged 5 ft el, and are the
growth of this year. The buds, of which
there are 30 to 50 on each tree, sold at two
to three cents each. The trees trimmed of
their buds bro'i 13 cts. each. Persons w ho
have made small outlays in the mulberry
line, have thus in one year realized from
$50,000 to $100,000 profit! Yet sew iug
silk isstili $1 a pound. Will
bring it down?
this
mania
Beet Sugar. Farmers in Massachu
setts are turning their attention to raising
of the Sugar Beet. The fanners there do
well at this business. They get $5 per
ton for their beets and contracts have
been made at this price, w here twenty tons
to the acre is expected. The Hampshire
Republican says, "lhat the Beet Sugar
Company in Northampton, are getting
their buildings ready to operate on a
large scale. The manufacture wil be car
ried on upon the German principle of dry
ing, grinding and making of the powder a
strong decoction of syrup for chrystali
zing. The whole process will succeed
and drive out of use the cane sugar entire
ly. uangor Whig
C?"The Legislatures of Massachusetts
and Khode Island have passed laws pro
hibiting the sale of spiritous liquors. Much
feelinc annears to exist n ii, c..k:. i
- " it ouwjcui, aou
there are signs, that Federal Poliii ,;il
be merged in the more exciting question of
lemperance or Anti-TVmn0r,.
IMJVI
ttTThe hogs in Michigan, exacnpmid
or maddened by intolerable thirst during
he drought, voluntarily committed suicide
by plunging into the wells, where one far
mer found no less than 47 of his swinish
herd dead and snurrlv narkpH
fore-ilidrtime. 1 '
Small Pox The Si. UnS i '
states that the Small l,x is
giug to n dreadful extent amoj)'' 'n f,
law and Chickasaw Indians
oy have already fallen victims
Jl Wholesome iltcision
At il,0
term of the Superior Court fr r, '
County, Klisha Ki.isburv
Ilezekiah Allen .l()iin,i " UN
v . ,I(J ui:j,r
the plaintiff claiming du, 7
had sold him a quarter of b,ef J.ui, jj :
innuud and unwholesome k M ""
animal lo be diseased at ,t v .e f
slaughtered. " as,
Inhuman Murder in yvm
wile of .Mr. Philtmau Hates w ls j p i:;
ly murdered at Shaftsburp, vCn!'
evening of Oct. 2, by the Visctaf,
rifle through the window, tie i)ajj '
her forehead. The brother of
rested on suspicion, the 0 m'
nmp dlcnnlp vviili .l ..it.. . ''"
r inner rt !a i .
the disposal of the property :f their ti .
The Bedouin Jlrubs ouldoml-w
days ago, as a Dutch hautr U'$ (jj;.',
his bread carl over the brick hiti"
cosset the Washington Canal i.JnU,,
-idence of Mr. Thomas Blur'
horse became suddenly fn'r,!0ll
mounted with hi fore feel on
wall, which suddenly sivii ,,.'
horse cart, and driver were piee;jli(.
into the canal, which is about lory
below the bridge; and yet, wonduf,
tell, neither ihe driver, the hoi cm-r
cart was in any way irijuieu! Alter
an exploit as this, w ill any ci,c pmtij
dmy lhat the Dutch are a mulch i,r s
the world at ground and lolly tumlihr?
Half a Million of doUnn in ?.'
One ol the most melancholy M'i.soI i:
times we have seen is the lad, "ilui c.
half a million of dollars ore MjLi;..
Pennsylvania, on the result cf thai tb
lion. We trust the day is coming
it will be a State's prison cflciice lu!:
money on the result of an election. 1: j
odious, wicked gambling, ten Ihou
limes more fearlul to the morali ol !.;
conununily lhan nil ihe Uoulelie Lilt:
or Gambling
Hells in Paris or London.
N. Y. Expim
Washington Market, Oct. 23.-Tur,-ecf'
ine, new dip, $3,00; Old $1,90; Strap? i
$1 00. Tar, $1 60. Whig. ?
Petersburg Market, Oct. 1 9. Cotton
There is but little change to notice inti-:
article since our last publication. Tf:
receipts of the new crop are yet srca'
We quote new crop 1 1 to 12 cts old 1
to 12 cts. Flour, in the absence til a-'j
demand for S. F. Flour, the price is nomi
nal at $8. Corn, this article on ilie;iifei.
sell at S5. Bacon, (hog round,) 154 !J
1G cents.
Oct. 23. No change in Produce
our last quotations. Int.
Norfolk Market, Oct. 1 9. Colicn,
to 11 cents; Corn, 90 to 93 cents: Bi
con, (hog round,) 14 lo J4; Lard, 13 13
14 cents. Her.
New York Market. Oct. 20 Tire sa's
of Cotton for the week are 3100 bales-!
104 a 144 cts per lb. buyers have f ;
some slight advantages. Corn a
cents, including all kinds.
IE
Shocking Occurrences O
pt. 22d, while th ree briVS woro rn o
burning excursion in the town of Marlbo
rough, Ulitcr co. N. Y. two or ihree of
DIED,
Tn Henrlprfinn rnnnlv. Tenfl. OH l'
20lh ult. after a linnerinc illness of
- - - ....fi-... i
six weeks, Mr. Eebert II hum"-
native and formerly a resident of this cu (
ty. His loss is much lamented by w
quaintances and friends there, as
by his friends and relatives here.
well si
Notice.
(pOMMITTED to the Jail of E'?;
combe county, on Fi relay last) a
gro man tvho says his name is
MIILES,
That he belongs to Dempsey LV
near Suffolk, Virginia, and was h"r ;
Seth Everett, and has been at ;voi
the Wilmington Rail Road near 7.'; ;
boro Miles.is about IS years old. .
1 or 2 inches high, small size. 1 rTj
er is requested to come forwaroi 1
property, charges and taKe r.
or he will bi dealt with as the law"
BENJ. WILUMiSyJ'
Oct. 27, 1S3S. i) '