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j,VT for their inspection her
Assortment of Fall and .Winter
CC;CC(C(! wit!, care by herself, and com-
pri -i ir 'he eml varutv, viz:
variety ct "Pattern lion nets, latest fashions,
Wt'TU. Orifiit.il, and line -plit straw bonnets,
' ; Vish Straws. I hren."c braids, IJreeians, mix-
, Straws. Shakers, 'e.
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C-. mi liiJi i Siik, ll,i-k Mode,
s A Krinje, v.iri us colors,
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!Kpd rMgings and Footings, Inserting,
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T,uhom Nov. 11, 1S3S.
At lite cheap Cash Store.
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JAMES WEDDELL,
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China. 6' Am and Earthenware, Cot
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&(He of J forth Carolina,
EDGKCOJIDi: COUNTY.
SUPKU10R COUIir OF LAW.
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; wc. 5th, 1838. Price adv SG 25.
ovERo:rs message.
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There areothar xv.irks of no los, imnor-
wc, which I hat almost said the stva
Itoii of the Stnc : requires Cat she should
pK,.np,ly a:id viS.ronsly enS,Ke. On our
WanefTort ,s making hy So ah Carolina
o crovs our State hy rail way, to seom-3 t )
Charleston U10 produre of Cut fertile rc
S'on wh.lst the establUhmenl of her Soutii
Western IJmfc u-ith a IJranc!, in (Vlr ini.
its, not only insures the success of the first
enterprise, hut by supercedin g th circu
lation of our Hanks, destroys our currency,
and controls our credit system. The lar
Stia.se of the friends of this IVelve Million
iKtnk, is Mh.tl il will be to the South Wes
tern States in currency and cschac,
what the B ink of the United States wa" to
tlic Unimi., Should Sou-h Carolina suc
ceed m carry in-r out h-r views as to the
currency, and as to a South Wct-Tn Con
federacy (or league) our fears cannot be
bounded by mere pecuniary loss. Wo
should be driven to trade with Charleston,
and to chrsh section d feelings until Oitr
attachments to the Union itelf would be
come impaired. We . cannot serve two
masters with equ d fidelity and attachment.
Should no counteracting incisures bea lop
t.l o.i our pirt, I should f..ar that sv
would succeed bjlh in directing our trade
and superseding our currency.
The liank i have j)ron )ed would remove
the latter apprehension, and to rented v the
former, I would respectfully propose the
ennstruction of aKail Ro mI from the head
of liile water on the Capj Fear River, com
mencing in Bladen count v running west
and fl inking South Carolina a nar as pes
sible, passing through Robeson, Richmond,
Anson, Mccklcnlur, Lincoln, and into
Rutherford, and if experience justifies it,
further still, into Tennessee, and to the
shores of ihe Mississippi.
This road wouM intercept the produce
made on the north of its line draw no in
considerable quantity from the contiguous
districts of South Carolina, and deliver it!
to a market of our own on the Cape Fear.
The travel on this road 1 have no doubt
would be considerable. Persons on the
Louisville, Cincinnati and Charleston road,!
bound north, would unquestionably take!
this route, avoiding thereby two hundred:
miles of travel, and a sea voyage. The,
country, from the Cape Fear to Rockingham !
in Richmond county, on the Peed re some:
eighty-five or ninety miles, present? the,
herd, facilities for a rail road of any in the)
Mates. Its surla.ee is level, and abounds
in timber ol the urs. quaoiy there is but
one stream to cross Lumber river nd
that of no magnitude, in the route.
This road would be of immense impor
tance to Wilmington on the Cape Fear, r.l-
ready one of the best markets in the world !
for lumber, and for furnishing cargoes of
naval stores, ad-ip:ed to the West India
markets. The return cargoes of West In
dia produce, redundant for the hitherto de
mand, would furnish supplies to the interior
on the Icst terms.
The Cape Fear River is navijrab'c for a
ny size crafts to the point indicated as the
starting point of the Rail Road, and below
Wilmington asfaras the outletstotheocean,
bus been ami is now greatly improving
under the operations of the United States.
Its depth, breadth and straitness have ai!
been increased, and it now affords full thir
teen feet of water on its worst shoal, which
is progressively deepening. The new in
let bar. it is confidently believed from oh
servations upon it, is capable of being read
ily and permanently improved, and as this
comes within the acknowledged province of
the Federal Government, it is hoped she
will take speedy and effeetuabmeasures for
the accomplishment of so important a work
to a State that has asked and received so
little at her hands.
Improvement in the eastern section of
theStatcalso demands our consideration in
an equal, if not superior degree. The
whole Albemarle country embracing some
20 counties has a dangerous and inadequate
outlet, and for this reason has been driven to
trade with Virginia by the use of her rail
&. other roads, and of one of the most incon
veniently located canals possible. The
small vessels which navigate the water
courses of this section of country, are com
pelled to seek an outlet, at Ocracoke, some
100 to 200 miles south when their destin
ation generally is north.
Col. Kearney, United States Engineer,
who has recently had charge of a survey of
that county, reports that Ocracoke inlet is
closing, and expresses a belief that ere
long il will close entirely. In which c
vent vessels will be compelled to seek an
outlet still farther south, through the sound
at Beaufort. This of course will throw our
trade to a still greater extent into the mar
kets of Virginia. Can we submit to
this? . .
The difficulty of the navigation of the
Sound and of the outlet to the ocean 13 no
doubt a superadded cause, but, remove
IVn-fioron-A, recomii- County, A (7 J aiirJuy, J?,c,?
these; and there is no doubt, that these
,in Dficnmo the garden spot of the
ptatc, instead of a wilderness of worthless
ami and a fertile source of pestilence and
disease.
Nagshe:id,ntthefootof the Albemarle
Souml, seems designed by natures for the
outlet. It is formed by a very narrow
s'np of beach, which divides the sound
IfOm the Ocean- ami whinh Is nfvnrv lit to
elevation above high water. It has often
Jecn surveyed by very distinguished en
gineers, and for the nractieabilit v of nnan.
"t, I bog to -.efer to their reports. The
very circumstance of its having been so of
ten surveyed, and so often alluded to as the
subject of improvement, proves the value
and ihe pricticability of the enterprise. It
is difficult to explain why it has not before
been undertaken. The reason may per
haps brj found in its magnitude as a State
work, arid to the impression that it should
and would bo executed by Ihe general gov
ernment, as coming properly within the
cIjss of works belonging to it. It is now
too essential tons, to be longer delaying,
and must be "accomplished by some pow
er. Nagshead is greatly more eligibly situ
a;e I for an outlet, if Crouton Sound was
closed, than was the new inlet on the Cape
Fear, which was opened within the recol
lection of persons now living, and his al
ready 14 feet water and gradually improv
ing. The Albemarle and tributaries, probably
discharge live times the quantity of water
which the Cape Fear does, and its course is
directly for the Ocean, until it approaches
sn:ne hundreds of yards, when it tm us off
ai right angles and seeks an outlet 100 miles
d isi ant at Ocracoke.
The Cape Fear pursued a similar direc
tion antl nearer the Ocean to about the
same distance, a similar beach intervening,
then turned offices abruptly and found an
outlet (th emain bar) in 10 miles, and at
the te.ru oil" a storm washed over the beach
and cut out the new inlet. The Croaton
Sound intercepts the water and draws it a
way before reaching Nagshcad? Closing
that sound, it appears to me, would force
the water on Nagshead in such a body and
power anil with some slight assistance by
cutting the strip of beach to give it a pas
sage in the first instance, as would make the
outlet
This however, is a matter for the science
of . ogincering. That the work is practi
cable all have agreed that it ought to be
accomplished none will deny who will re
flect upon its immense importance to the
State, both $ to character and profit.
Congress iti 1S32 yielded the power to
the State to impose a Tax on all vessels
which might pass through an outlet to be
made at N;'gs,'ead. The undertaking is
evidently one which belongs the General
Government, wh'-rc the power is lodged to
regulate commerce in the States, and be
cause it would be a source of revenue to
her.
It would be of mere consequence to
trade, industry, and commercial enterpize,
to say nothing of its greater cheapness than
the Delaware Breakwater, nd many other
works which have hern promptly underta
ken by the General Government,
From the Chespeake to Ocracoke, a dis
tance of from 200 to 300 miles, there is not
an Inlet or Harbour for vessels, driven on
thecoas' by stress of weather under such
eiTumstatices a dull sailor cannot be kept
off, and the consequence is that the coast is
lined with wrecks and covered with the
gnves of our seamen should Ocracoke
e.lo-e as anticipated by Col. Kearney, the
inaccessible coast is increased some 30 or
dO miles, and with it our maratime dangers
and losses.
The public prints in Virginia have alrea
dy directed the attention of her statesmen
to the feasibility of drawing the trade of
our State even as far as the Ocracoke coun
try to their markets. To seizing upon and
stripping the carcass, whilst the limbs are
yet quivering with life. Shall we submit
to this? Drained by South Carolina on the
one hand, and by Virginia on the other,
can we exist with honor or profit? Shall
we not rather play back upon them their
own game? The Rail Road, from the head
of tide water on the Cape Fear, flanking
South Carolina, may remedy our humilia
ting position in the one instance, and the
opening an inlet at Nagshead, in the other.
Some twelve hundred vessels now cross
the Ocracoke bar annually; and produce, of
the value of one million of dollars, passed
through the canal, besides immense quanti
ties in other directions to the Virginia mar
kets. Not only all this trade, embracing
the whole of that in the Albemarle country,
but a large amount from several counties of
Virginia lying on the tributaries of our wa
ter courses, would seek an outlet thro our
State by the opening of Nagshead, and go
to build up a market in its neigborhood, e
qual, if not superior, to any in Vir
ginia. A survey and estimate of a ship channel
trom the Neuse to Beaufort would afford
the necessary information both of the prac
ticability and cost of a work to relieve the
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tiher 15, 1S38
navigation rmd trade of that section of conn
try. The outlet at Nagshead would have
some beneficial influence here, with the use
oi inc ounii, and a more direct communi
cation by a rail road to the town location
on the Albemarle.
The selection between the rail road and
ship channel, would be decided by the in
formation to be required by the survey and
estimate.
It is very evident that the trade or the
Cape Fe u cannot be carried to the Albe
marle, and vice versa. Two points will
therefore become necessary, at which to lo
eate our home markets, and to these all our
roads and other improvements of naviga
tion should be made to loot; and concen
trate. If roads should be located, running form
the ports and markets of Virginia and South
Carolina,-through the interior of our State,
it is very clear that all the produce and
trade above such a line of road, would be
carried to those markets, dividing our State
horizontally, the upper from the lower
part, and virtually transferring the upper
portion to our sister M ites. 1 hey, getting
the substance, we retaining the semblance
of a State. But, if the figure be reversed,
the apex of the angle resting on our own
Potts and Markets, running its legs into
our rich interior North and West, the ef
fect would be to concentrate our wealth and
resources within our own limits.
Let Wilmington be. one point, with
Roads running to the North, the direction
of the Wilmington and Raleigh Rail Road,
and to th West, the direction of the Roads
heretofore recommended, and she must e
vcntually, at least, receive the produce and
trade of those sections, and commensurate
ly increase in size and importance.
Let a market town, at the head of the
Albemarle, if we succeed in opening Nags
head, or at Newborn, if a ship channel can
be made to Beaufort, be the other point,
and similar roads resting upon it, will give
to the trade of the country through which
they pas, a similar direction. And the
intersection of the northern road from Wil
mington, widi the western road from the
point oti the Albemarle or Ncwbern, would
lay open an intercourse between all parts
of the State. The transportation of troops
in ihe time of war. to the points of invasion
and attack on Ihe seaboard, with rail road
facility, would be of incalculable impor
tance Th transportation of the mail to
our commercial points, adds no little to the
value of such roads.
The construction of a turnpike road from
Raleigh via Chapel Hill to the west, has
been spoken of as highly desirable. On so
rough an 1 broken a route, I am inclined to
believe that its cost would be more com
mensurate with its utility, than that of a r iil
road. And if a rail road should not be
constructed from Raleigh intersecting the
Wilmington and Rulcigh rail roads, which
is high!' important, I should recommend
a continuance of the turnpike on that route;
ultimately to be continued to the Albemarle
or New hern, the selected point for a market
town in the cast.
Home markets of consumption would nat
urally spring up alongthe line of improve
ment and home markets for exportation
and importation on the seaboard The val
uable results of this state of things, will be
the establishment of common .schools, by
the increase of the population and wealth of
the State the bringing together the citi
zens of remote districts into an intercourse
of trade and friendship the removal of
sectional and geographical jealousies and
the assumption of that elevated position a
mong our sister States, to which every hon
orable incentive impels us.
The currency of the State is intimately
connected with the subject of domestic
markets. The essential requisites to our
currency are, that it be adequate to the ex
changes of commodities into a circulating
medium, and that it be so used
As almost the whole of the agricultural
products of this State are sold in the mar
kets of other States it follows that the
money paid for these, consist principally of
the currency of the States in which sales
arc made such currency is put in circula
tion even in this State, to the exclusion of
our own but when merchandize is pur
chased in foreign markets for consumption
here, and paid for in the currency of this
State, it is brought back for redemption in
specie. Thus, by this operation, the cur
rency authorised by this State, is restric
ted between the smallest limits if, indeed,
it can be properly said to have any circula
tion at all.
Home markets in which our people
could both buy and sell, would permit the
circulating medium of the State to pursue
its appropriate function, without embarrass
ment. Having no foreign rival to struggle
against, the amount might be safely increa
sed to the extent required by the communi
ty it would be kept in active employ
ment, and be absorbed in domcstie com
merce. Without home markets, its amount
must necessarily be fluctuating and uncer
tain, because depending on causes beyond
the control of tha agents authorised by this
State to supply.
Vol XIV To. 50.
I know that to accomplish these work",
and to carry into effect ihcsyem of Gen
eral Improvement I have proposed, reces
sarily involves the expenditure of a large
amount, rind I know too that our people
are too poor and too sparsely spread over
a large territory to enable us to command
the means at once from our private resour
ces. ; We have but one alternative, and
that has no bugbear terror to a mind of en
larged and patriotic views, I mean the em
ployment of the State's credit in foreign
markets. In England money is abundant,
and maybe borrowed on State stocks on
excellent terms, say from 3 to 5 per cent,
interest. This is a most fortunate con
juncture, and may never happen to us
again. Wars destroy such opportunities
ami arc of such frequent occurrence in
Europe, that they may soon breakout and
rob us forever of the golden moments
whiclscem beckoning us onward to pros
perity and improvement. The credit ol"
the Slate is all that is asked or that is re
quired. It will iuvolvc no taxation, for if
the works should be as valuable as I be
lieve they will be, the profits arising from
them will not only pay the interest of the
debt, but the principal also.
I have already shown how much the pre
sent generation has done for posterity in
the privation of two wars, and in the dis
charge of the immense public debt created
by them in the construction of forts, the
building of vessels, and other matters of
consumption, draining and exhausting the
means of the citizens and making the coun
try poorer. It is now time that we looked
to the permanent improvement of our be
loved State; here the case is quite reversed.
Money borrowed and judiciously applied
for this purpose twice blesses the people:
in the disbursements firs', and in the value
of the improvements afterwards.
Gentlemen, we have no choice in this
matter. Our course must now be onward,
orve must sink into insignificance and
ruin. Our Sister States are up and doing;
they arepullingusat two of our extremes,
drawing from us the life-blood of our ex
istence; and unless we act, and act efficient
ly, we become the humble tributary, a
mere Province of our neighbors. En
ergy and enterprize alone can rescue our
trade, redeem our commercial degradation,
and place us in that elevated and appropri
ate position which it becomes us to occupy
in the sisterhood of Republics.
Cast your eyes on the surrounding States,
and you can but contemplate the results of
their energy with delight and admiration.
Their canals, their rail ways, their facto
ries, and high state of agricultural im
provement, rival the best and most early
settled countries of the world; whilst their
moral and intellectual advancement has
been stimulated by, and kept pace with,
their physical improvement.
If we are unmoved by facts so striking
if illustration so practical and so decisive,
tails to convince, and to induce immediate
and efficient action, argument is in vain
Ihe case is lost the State is doomed and
the hopes of our Patriots' sons blasted for
ever. A topographical, geological and mincra
Iogical exhmination and survey of the
Stale, is considered highly desirable. The
minerals and ores are believed to be incal
culably valuable, and the limestone and
marble which might thus be brought to
light, would benefit the farming interest
beyond the eostof the undertaking.
The Literary Board employed C. B.
Shaw, Esq. Engineer, to superintend the
drainingof the swamp lands; surveys have
been made of a large tract in Hyde county;
two canals located to Puno and Alligator
Lakes, and small portions of them put un
der contract. Difficulty has been experi
enced in obtaining bids for contracts, or
more progress would have been made on
the work. The law confined the Board
to contracts only. If the employment of
hands had been within their power, very
probably more would have been done. In
season, a report more in detail will be sub
mitted by the Board on this very impor
tant subject.
The important subject of common Schools
was intrusted to the Board, that they might
digest some system applicable to the crying
wants of the Slate, and they have given it
most anxious consideration. A variety of
lawsandsystems have been politely furnish
ed by the Governors of the States, to aid in
the prosecution of this work. The result
will also be communicated in season. A
considerable fund has been set apartfor this
purpose. In Bank Stock, Si, 020,700. In
Rail Road Stock, $600,000 as soon as the
last instalment of the State's subscription
has been paid. Of the surplus S200J0O,
for draining swamp lands; $61,654 11 in
cash and notes on hand; S33,500 stock Cape
Fear Navigation Cn SPS.ftOO in Ho-
o r v
anokc Navigation Company; making the
sum of $ 1,939,351 11, besides the income
arising from entries of land, license to re-
lanersot spintous liquors, anu m autuuu
eers; and the swamps lands not granted tQ
individuals before 1536, which will proba
bly yield an income of $120,000 to $150,. .
000 per annum, and would seem to warrant