M hole No. 731.
Tar borough
( Edgecombe County , JV. C.J Saturday) February 29, 1840
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Doctor Win. EVAiN'S'
'SOOTHING SYRUP
Far children Teething,
PREPARED BY HIMSELF.
To .Mothers and Nurses.
rffl H passage of the Teeth through the
gums produces troublesome and dan
gerous symptoms. It is known by moth
ers that there is great irritation in the
month and gums during this process. The
gums swell, the secretion of saliva is in
creased, the child is seized with frequent
and sudden fits of crying, watchings, start
ing in the sleep, and spasms of peculiai
part?, the child shrieks uiih extreme vio
lence, and thrusts its Jingeis into its mouth
If these precursory symptoms are not spee
dily alleviated, spasmodic convulsions uni
versal! v supervene, arid soon cause the
dissolution of the infant. If mothers who
liave their little babes nfllicted with these
'distressing symptoms, wouiti apply ur
William Evans's Celebrated Soothing
Syrup, which has preserved hundreds of
infants when thought past recovery, Irom
being suddenly attacked with that fatal
malady, convulsions.
i This infallible remedy has preserved
hundreds of Children, w hen thought past
recovery, from convulsions. As soon as
the Syrup is rubbed on the gums, the child
will recover. This preparation is so in
nocent, so eflicacious, and so pleasant, that
no child will refuse to let its cums be
rubbed with it. When infants are at the
oge of four months, though there is no ap
pearance of teeth, one bottle of the
Syrup should be used on the gums, to
open the pores. Parents should never be
without the Syrup in the nursery where
-there are young children; for if a child
wakes in the night with pain in the gums,
lia Citrnn immufll'iiulll ITIVllC O'lCO 111' ItllOII.
j . j - j ,
ing the pores and healing the gums; there
by preventing Convulsions, Fevers. &..
To the Agent of Dr. Kvans' Soothing
Syrup: Dear Sir The great benefit
afforded to my suffering infant by your
Soothing Syrup, in a case of protracted
and painful dentition, must convince every
feeling parent how essential an early ap
plication of such an invaluable mediciu.
is to relieve infant misery and torture. Mv
infant, while teething, experienced such
acute sufferings, that it was attacked with
convulsions, and my wife and family sup
posed that death would soon release the
babe from anguish till we procured a bot
tle of your Syrup; which as soon as ap
plied to the gums a wonderful change was
.produced, and after a few applications the
child displayed obvious relief, and by corf
tinning in its use. I am glad to inform
you, the child has completely recovered,
and no recurrence of that awful complaint
has since occurred; the teeth are emana
ting daily and the child enjoys perfect
health. I give you my cheerful permission
to make this acknowledgment nublic. nurl
will gladly give any information on this
circumstance.
When children begin to be in pain with
their teeth, shooting in their gums, put a
little of the Syrup in a tea-spoon, and
with the. finger let the child's gums he
rubbed for two or three minutes, three
times a day. It must not be put to the
breast immediately, for the milk would
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ifiitr iml w vw w-iM urn 1 1 if
teeth are just coming through their gums,
mothers should immediately apply the sy
rup; it will prevent the children having a
fever, and undergoing that painful opera
tion of laiu'intr the izums. which alw.ivs
.makes the tooth much harder to come
through, and sometimes causes death.
Kcwarc of Counterfeits.
QjCaution Be particular in purcha
sing to obtain it at 100 Chatham St.,
New York, or from the
REGULAR AGENTS.
J. M. Redmond,)
Geo. Howard, Tarboro .
M. Russel, Elizabeth City.
January, 1840.
CONGRESS.
MR. BUCHANAN'S SPEECH.
A Washington correspondent of the Slate
Capitol Gazette, published at Harrisburg,
Pa. gives the following synopsis of the
' i .ia it
eloquent ?peecn recently delivered oy Mr.
Huchanan in the Senate, on the Indepen
dent Treasury bill:
Gentlemen: In the Senate of the Con
gress of the United. States this day, the
debate on the sub-Treasury Bill was res
umed by Mr. Buchanan of Pennsylvania.
In a masterly speech delivered by him
before the Senate, he answered all the
objections raised by Mr. Clay, to the bill.
He showed conclusively, that the oppo
sition had entirely changed their ground as
to this measure. The objection; fust raised
had been abandoned. He denied that it
gave the Executive additional power, or
that it was in any way a bank. The
opposition, when the deposit svs'eni
was adopted, declared it to be unsafe
and insufficient; in this they were right,
for it had been found inadequate to
t te performance of the duties tequired;
yet it was not less strange than true, that
they now supported it in opposition to
their former denunciations of it. This
was hut a half-way house, he informed
them, and one not adequate to their comfort
or necessities. A National Bank was
the end they bad in view. A National Bank
had also been tried and had failed to answer
the purposes for which it was designed as
a medium and a certain regulator of the
exchanges. If it answered this purpose,
it would be dangerous to the liberties of
the country. He said that the influence of
the late Bank of the United States, was
such, that no other man hut the old Roman
could have vetoed the bill without being
destroyed; and he, popular as he was, (and
he was the most popular man that ever
lived in the United States,) had his election
taken place six months earlier, he would
have been defeated. The charges of influ
ence by this bank over certain Senators
was made; whether true or false, he knew
not; the -Senator from Kentucky knew.
Charter a bank with eighty millions, and
let it have time to operate, and Hie suc
cession of the Presidents under it would be
perpetual: though the nominations to the
office might be made at the White House,
thev would in fact be made at the Marble
Palace. The opposition had profoscd Jo
wish to restrict executive influence and
power, but had invariably advocated meas
ures which would increase it. He instanced
propositions to the amount of two hundred
millions before Congress at one time.
Banks and stocks created the constant ex
pansion and contraction in the money mar
ket. The buoyancy of the people, their
industrious enterprising habits, had saved
she nation from total bankruptcy. The ex
travagance of our large cities exceeded any
in the known world. Wealth created un
nalural distinctions in society, and destroy
ed republican simplicity. Men of prof, ss
ional skill men of talent were unnoticed
by the rich. A man of Nathaniel Macon's
simple habits would be entirely unnoticed
in Broadway. The late John Randolph said,
as to wealth & power, that God had cteatcd
them male and female. In France, or on
the continent, a man might live better
with five hundred dollars in b ird, than here
with fifteen hundred in rags. It wasoui credit
system that had produced this stale of things.
The Bank of the United States was as
much a National Bank, as it ever was. Its
operations were not confined to Pennsyl
vania. So f;r from regulating the exchan
ges, and producing a sound currency, it
had done more than all other banks to de
range it. All its best friends could now say
of it, was, that it had Ix en able to borrow
of the Rothschilds 800,000 to save itself
from total ruin. He happily replied to
Mr. Clay's prophecy of the fall of the
present Chief Magistrate, by a line from
Henry I V.: "Thy wishes, Hal, were author
to that thought." The answer of Mr. Hn.
chanan to Air. Clay's comnarison of the. Inst
& present administrations, to the monarch
i.nanes I, and onaries n, was happy and
pertinent. Andrew 1st. was unlike Charles
1st, for he was beheaded while An
drew 1st, beheaded his political enemies,
or caused them to fear that, hn
actually behead them. There was the
protectorate between the two Charles': but
the comparison as to the second Andrew
did not annlv. There was n rMrmMnn
I I J I V.MIU1UUH.
between my Lord Protector. & the Sona-nr
from Kentucky, one that had never struck
him until this speech.. Both commenced
and concluded their speeches by prayer.
i ne argument ot me speech was able, and
had a powerful effect upon a very large
and attentive audience. It was dtdvprl
in acourteous manner, and when he alluded
to the charges of bribery by the Bank of
certain Senators, Clay evidently was touch
ed in the sensitive part. Clay was coarse
and personal.
On the whole, Mr. B.'s was a master -
Iy effort, and exhibited conclusively the
power of truth over error, though supported
by the charms of eloquence; of facts over
opinions, though dressed up in the richest
fancy of an enchanted imagination; of sim
ple and plain argument though met by soph
istry the most ingenious, and advanced in
tones which were music to the ear. In
short, the speech displayed the power of
true oratory when proceeding from a sound
head and a virtuous heart over all the thea
trical charms which voice, language, utter
ance and action in the hands of a master,
could confer on falsehood and error. The
Senator from Kentucky, will retire not on
ly from the field of politics, but from the
forum of the Senate, fallen not only in the
estimation of others, but degraded in his
own eyes if he has any sene of honor or
virtue left VERITAS.
Oat at Lnst. The Federal party in
the Senate, afterprotestingfrom the opening
of the session, against the design of propo
sing the assumption of theState debts, have
at last moved a substitute, equivalent to
assumption, for the resolution of the com
mittee, reported by Mr. Grundy, adverse
to the measure. They were introduced
by Mr. Crittenden, and supported by Mr
Clay, who took the ground that it was pay
ing a debt to the States which the Gen
eral Government owed them, and not pay
ing debts for them and now, for the firs'
time since the existence of the Union, do
we hear of a debt doe from the nation to
the several States. It has just discharged
the debts incurred by two wars in the com
mon defence, and its revenues from both
sources of supply, the customs and
the public domain, are barely sufficient
to raise meaus to pay the current ex
penses incidental to the discharge of its
functions of a Government of the Uni
ted States: and it is now called upon to
surrender the resources appropriated bv
the Constitution, ami under compacts with
the States to this specific purpose, to the
States separately or to create a new.na
tional debt to defray a pretendd debt to the
States!!
The flimsy disguise set up by Mr.
Clay to-day to cover the naked assumption
of the State debts, in violation of the Con
stitution, will, we have no doubt, be ful
ly exposed in the course of the debate.
Mr. Allen of Ohio has the floor to-morrow.
Mr. Clay, in his desultory remarks this
morning, gave a fine sample of his political
morality, which served to set off very well
the subterfuge under which he sought to
cover the assumption. In reply to Mr.
Buchanan, who was discussing some point
with him about previous adjournments of
the Senate, Mr. Clay told, as a pleasant an
ecdote, that when Speaker of the House
of Representatives, he had occasionally in
dulged himself in the liberty of counting
one man as ten when he thought the din
ner hour had come; and that the House
should adjourn. In this way he frequent
ly effected the adjournment of the House
against the will of the majority. This was
in fact, a violation of his duty as Speaker;
which he was sworn to perform, and ye!
so hackneyed has Mr. Clay become in the
licentiousness of a drab politician, who
sacrifices every thing to expediency or
convenience so dead to the sensibilities
uhich would preserve strict propriety in
the discharge of his duty as presiding
officer in the House, as to be ready to make
a joke of his disregard. of the sanctity .of
an oath in counting a minority for a
majority, that he might go to dinner!! If
lie could do this for so small a motive, what
would he not do to change the result of a
vote in the House, when a Bank, of the U.
States, or the Presidency of the UniieJ
Stales, was at stake.
In the assumption question now before
the Senate, the nation is apprised that the
Bank of the United States and the Barings,
as well as-other great European bankers,
have a vast stake. That Mr. Clay should
in such a case, with the hope of establishing
as a consequence, another great National
Bank to advance ins political prospects,
strain a point, is not to be wondered at;
but that he should deem the people so sil
ly as to propose to dupe them into his
measure, by cheating them into the belief
that the nation was in debt to the States, ar
gues his want of respectfor their intelligence
as much as his supposition that they would
consider it a piece of innocent pleasantry
in the presiding officer of the House to
make a false count, that he might go to din
ner, proves his poor estimate of the moral
sense of his countrymen. Globe.
(PThe grand scheme for inducing the
General Government to assume the debts
of the several Stales, originated with Bar-
ins
r. brothers, to. as appears irom a
circular issued by them and sent out to
their correspondents in America. Prime,
Ward, & King, ore the confidential agents
of the Barings, and the New York Ameri
can is the family and official organ of this
house. The suggestions of the American to
which allusion has been made, and the facts
! stated in that communicaton, are believed I
to emb-'nlv the sentiment entertained and
the information possessed by the highly-
respectable house which Ins been referred
to. All the papers under the influence of
the moneyed aristocracy, were either pas
sive or gave their sanction to the proposi
tion, and particularly that part of it which
proposed to distribute the avails of the
public lands for purposes of internal im
provement. Albany Argus.
"A New Department of the Govern
ment." IVhat next On Monday last,
Mr. Clay, of Kentucky, "presented a me
morial signed by many citizens, pray
ing for the establishment a new Depart
ment of the Government, for Agriculture
and Education, which should be charged
particularly with the collection and propa
gation of seeds and plants improvement
of cultivation new implements of husban
dry, &c."
This proposition smacks of the Federal
doctrine, which Alexander Hamilton put
lorth in his Report on Manufactures in De
cember, 1791. He there maintains, under
the sweeping doctrine of the general wel
fare, that "there seems to be no room
ior a (lount, mat whatever concerns
the general interests of learning onagri
culture, of manufactures, and of commerce,
are within the sphere of the national coun
cils as far as regards an application of mon
ey." So also the Report of January, 1797,
assumes the same latitude of power in the
national councils, and applies it to the en
eouragement of agriculture by means of a
society to be established at the scat of
Government." The illustrious Madison
(in his Report of '99, 1S00) characteries
both these Reports as thev deserve, and
says, that "although neither may have re
ceived ihc sanction of a law carrying it in
to effect, yet on the o'.her hand, the extra
ordinary doctrine contained in both, has
passed without the positive mark of disap
proval ion from the authority to which it
was addressed.
But this Federal project is again coming
up in the shape of a memorial for establish
ing a New Department of the Govern
ment! What next? Carry out the scheme
of the Smithsonian Legacy ; establish this
new Department of the Government; as
sume by so doing, a new and alarming ju
risdiction over education and agriculture
and thus extend the doctrine of the gener
al welfare and what bounds shall we set
to the encroachments of the Federal Gov
eminent? -Richmond Enq.
Where the Specie is. A letter from
Frankfort describes the money market of
Germany as being so inundated with gold,
that its price has become depreciated
This is ascribed to the large quantities of
corn purchased for the Lnglish market,
which is paid form cash, in consequence
of the diminished and almost nullified im-
portations oi ti.ngiisn manuiacturcs since
the union of the German customs. Bank
notes having no circulation in Germany,
those purchases have been paid for in coin,
of which many millions sterling have been
supplied by the bank of England.
Cin. Chronicle.
Remarkable instance of affection in
two young children of the tenderest age.
It is delightful to watch the young mind
in its development ; to mark the sympathies
of our nature as they are awakened by its
brief progress and intellectual improve
ment. The tender infant in the early days
of iis being, is unconscious of every thing
but that its mother's bosom is its natural
resting place, and the fountain of its re
fn shment. But this consciousness is some
thing more than animal instinct it partakes
of mind exhibiting it m its first dawn it
soon expands, and is next discoverable in
ihe dimpled cheek and laughing eye, visible
on the first recognition of the mother. We
can scarcely allow ourselves to follow up
the chain, enumerating the several links
progressing in the formation of ideas. We
must content us with relating an illustration
which shews at what an early period ideas
mav be formed, and affections of the
tenderest nature entertained.
Mrs Harvey, the widow of a British
officer, at pesent residing in Connecticut,
has been left with two children lamenting
th loss of a kind and affectionate husband,
with nothing more than a widow's pension
for her support, and her children for her
consolation, the one a lovely boy two years
old, the youngest a girl barely seven
months. It is scarcely conceivable that
infants of such delicate ages could exhibit
those feelings and those traits of mind
which are its perfection and its beauty
but so it is they appear as though born
for each other they live in each others
smiles and droop in each others tears their
little looks seem to say "we are father
less." -
' It is now about five week 9 since the
youngest was afflicted with a difficulty of
dentition the boy whose feet were scarce
ly firm upon the ground still exhibited a
perfect consciousness of his sister's danger,
and the settled and silent grief of one who
could thoroughly comprehend the nature
of death. He nev er smiled; and in the
endurance of his mental sufferings, his
round "d form wasted toils anguish. The
mother the poor mother, almost desolate
of heart, the evidence of her speedy bercav
ment of all that was left dear to her, before
her streaming eyes how can we, in the
exercise of fancy, pourtray a case more
pitiable, while the poor boy, struggling
with his owneeling, sought by tenderness
to console his mother in his sufferings
and excite a hope which he felt not. She
had resorted to every known remedy to
restore her youngest bnbe, but all means
had failed, while the difficulty and danger
in "reaped with the symptoms of derange
mint a. id prostration of the general health.
Fever 'Sudden flushings of the coun- -tcnance
with convulsions, and all the usual
attendants upon su.h a case, followed in
rapid succession, and the boy dwindled
before them as the equal victim of their
approach
In this state, Dr. Adams Grant, ahenevo
lentSt experienced physician of considerable
eminence,. waited on the widow, making
her a tender of his services, which were
gladly accepted by the anxious mother.
We shall not dwell upon his mode of treat
ment, which was simple and availing, but
of the active remedy he employed, we
shall speak in his own words, addressed to
Mrs. Harvey: "My dear Madam I
am a profes?ional enemy to all advertised
medications, for reasons based on the phi
losophy of medicine, and a thorough inves
tigation of the hnman constitution. I do
not believe in any general remedy, and
experience has furnished me with convic
tion that there can be none; but I firmly
believe in the existence of several very
excellent remedies for diseases of a local
cause or character, and have never failed
to employ them wherever or whenever I
shall have tested their peculiar properties.
Among this class, I may most confiden
tially recommend the Soothing Syrup of
Dr. Evans of New York, which 1 have
admitted into ray practice. I know noth
ing of Dr. Evans, but I know his Sooth
ing Syrup for children teething, and have
brought you a bottle in my pocketuse it
according to directions and it will save
your child I may say your children for
the sickness of the boy proceeds alone
from his sympathizing with the sufferings
of his sister."
Dr. Adam Grant's remedy was employed,
his course of treatment persevered in, and
the child became convalescent; and,
strange to say, in verification of the Doc
tor's prediction with each progressive stage
of improvement in the babe the boy's
health graduated, and in a few days the
mother's anxious heart was cased, in the
thorough recovery of her children. We
know nothing of Dr. Adam Grant, but we
must consider him an honor to his profession
in the disinterested character of his prac
tice. We know nothing of Dr. Evans, but
in the discharge of our duty to young moth
ers, and in reference to the interesting case
before us, we must say what we think, that
no motherof young children ought to be
without the Soothing Syrup, and that sho
greatly direlic's from her duty in being
se. Ar. Y. New Era.
Constitutional Amendment. A motion
has been made in the Senate of Tennessee
to amend the constitution, so that the
State shall not hereafter become the sole
proprietor of a bank, nor a partner in any
projector business with any individual or
number of individuals, nor with any cor
poration; and also, that except, in cases
where the faith of the Slate is ahieady pled
ged, no moneys shall be raised in-future on
the credit of the State by any forniof loan,
neither by books opened for subscription,
nor by the issuing of bonds, nor in any oth
er manner whatsoev er, unless such moneys
he necessary for the defence of the State,
in case of threatened invasion, or of war
actually commenced. Baltimore Sun.
Adjourned sine die. The Legislature
of Tennessee, after a session of four
months, adjourned on Saturday last without
day. They have done much for the State.
They have checked extravagance in the
State expenditures; hive made arrange
ments for the resumption of specie pay
men's by the banks at the earliest moment
practicable; have improved the militia sys
tem of the State; have exposed the official
mismanagement of the school funds, and
placed them in new Qanris; they nave
passed a "Sub-Treasury bill1' making
the misuse of public moneys by officers a
nfnal offence: have establised new counties
nnd iinnrnved old ones: thev have enacted
sundry bills for the protection of sectional
and individual rights and for the-general
good They have done well; and without
party distinction we wish them all a safe
return to their respective constituencies,
there to listen to the plaudit of "well done,
good and faithful servant." -
trVThe Ohio Legislature have passed a
bill authorizing juries before magistrates.