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Tea-borough, ( Edgecombe County, JV. C.J baluvday, Fehi nunj ?, i8-h
Vol. XVUs-Xo. 9.
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Doctor Wn. EVAN'S'
For children Teclhiw
PSEPA3ED BY HIMSELF.
To Mothers and .Yurses.
IE passage "1" l lie Teeth through the
gums produces troublesome and dan
gerous symptoms. It is known hy moth
ers that there is great irritation in ihe
(noutli and gums during this profess. The
gums swell, the secretion of saliva is in
creased, the child is seized with frequent
lid sudden fits of crying, watching, start
ing in the sleep, and spasms of peculiar
tinrlj, the child shrieks with extreme vio
ence, and thrusts its fingers into its month.
l these precursory symptoms are not spee
dily alleviated, spasmodic convulsions uni
lersally supervenp, and soon cause the
dissolution of the infant. If mothers w ho
have their little babes afilicted w iih these
distressing symptoms, would apply 1 Jr.
William Kvans's Celebrated Soothin"
Syrup, which has preserved hundreds of
Infants when thought past recovery, from
leing suddenly attacked with that fatal
malady, convulsions.
: This infallible remedy has preserved
hundreds of Children, when thought past
fecovery, from convulsions. As soon as
llie Syrup is rubbed on the gums, the child
ill recover. This preparation is so in
pocent, so efficacious, and so pleasant, that
Bo child will refuse to let its gums be
fubbed with it. When infants are at the
ge 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
uhoul the Syrup in the nursery where
there are young children; for if a child
akesin the night with pain in the gums,
the Syrup immediately gives ease by open
ing the pores and healing the gums; there
to)' preventing Convulsions, Fevers, Sic.
To the Agent of Dr. Evans' .Soothing
Syrup: Dear Sir The great benefit
afforded to my suffering infant by your
Soothing Syrup, in a case of protracted
inrj painful dentition, must convince every
leel
x's parent how essential an earlv ap
plication of such an invaluable medicine
s to relieve infant misery and torture, Mv
nfant, while teething, experienced such
acute sufferings, that it was attacked with
convulsions, and my nife and familv sup
posed that death w ould soon release the
babe from anguish till we procured a bot
tle of your Syrup; which as soon as ap
P'ied to the gums a wonderful eh mge was
Ponced, and after a few applications the
c)ld displayed obvious relief, and by cou
tinuiiifr , ;,s ,)Se j am (() jfl)rm
you, the child has completely recovered,
jnd no recurrence of that awful complaint
.has since occurred; the teeth are emana-
I ,nS daily and the chil
d enjoys perfect j
neaHh. I
giveyuu my cheerful permission j
? "maKe this acknowledgment public, and
''l gladly give any inform ition on this
I Clrcti mstance.
VHen children begin to lie in pain with
; ieir teeth, shooting in their gums, put a
' ll. e of l,le Syrup in a tea-spoon, and
I K f,lSer lel lhe cUUV Snms ,)e
rubbed for lW() or a,ree miMMtcS) t,ree
jmei a day. musl 0l ,)e pnl ,n ,he
, orcast im-nediatelv, for the milk would
; ake the syrup nit too soon. When the
ih are just coming through their gums,
"10lh!rs sho"'d immediately apply the sy
, Pi U wd prevent the children having a
! tiorT'f I U,,,,erS0'"S Ibat painful opera-
: makeMl nC'",q lhe g,,ms' wh,ch aUa's
i lnro . le ,0()ll much harder lo come
Ug ai,J sometimes causes death.
ttcuarc orcouiilcrleits.
sine nutlor- He particular in purcha-
New V (!hlaui U al l0 Chatham St.,
4ew York, or from ttie
REGULAR AGENTS.
J- M. Redmond, ) fT, .
Geo. Howard, Tarboro .
, M. Uussel, Eliiabeih Cily.
January, 1S40.
(tiy ATrriiouiTi".)
L YWS OF THE UNITED S TATES
PASSKD AT TUB SKCOXD SESSION OF TIII2
TWE.V IT-SIXTH CONGRESS.
Pur.Lic No. 4.
A V ACT lo authorizi the issuing of Trcas
ury notes.
Re it enacted by the Senate, and House
of Representatives of the United State
of Slmer ca in Congress assembled.
That the President of the United States is
hereby authorized to cause Treasury notes
to be issued for such sum or sums as the
exigencies of the Government mav require;
h it not exceeding ih sum of five million
uuihi.i in ii i is emission, outstanding at
any one time, to he reimbursed in the "last
qu u ters of t he year, if the condition of the
Tre.isury will permit it, and to he issued
tinder the limitations and other provisions,
contained in the act, entitled "An act to
unhorize the issuing of Treasury not-:s,"
approved the twelfth day of October, one
thousind eight hundred and thirty-seven,
and as modified by an act, entitled " Vn
act additional to the act on the subject of
Treasury notes," approved the thirty-first
day of March, one thousand eight hundred
and forty, except that this law shall expitc
in one year from and alter its passage:
Provided, That in case the Treasury notes
outstanding and unredeemed, isued under
former laws of Congress, added to the a
motint of such notes issued under this act,
and actually expended or issued to meet
pay mcnts due and payable before the fourth
day of March next, shall, on the fourth
day of March next, exceed the sum of five
millions of dollars, then the President of
the United Stales shall be, and he is here
by, authorized to issue, by virtue of the
provisions of this act, such fuither amount
of the said notes as will make the whole
amount issued under this act, and applica
ble to the payments falling due after the
third day of March next, the full sum of
five millions of dollars.
R. M. T. HUNTER,
Speaker of the. House of Representatives,
RII.M. JOHNSON,
Vice President of the United Slates,
and President of the Senate.
Approved, February 15th,lS41.
M. VAN BUREN.
From the Washington Republican.
GEN. WILSON AND THE HANKS.
We publihed in our last number mie
important propositions concerning the
Hanks, offered to the lastGer.cral Assembly
by Gen'l WiUon, t!ic Senator from Edge
combe, and promised to rem irk upon the
points involved in future number. We
now resume the subject These proposi
tions were in the form of ajmndmcnts lo
a "Hill concerning Hanks," &c.
Gen'l Wilson's first amendment propo
sed, That if at any time hereafter, any
Hank established within this State shall
suspend, or refuse to pay any of its notes,
to the holders thereof, in specie, when de
manded, at the Hank or place where the
slid notes may have been issued, it shall
not be lawful f n any Hank so suspend
ing specie payments, to collect any of its
debts, due at the time of suspension un
til the snid bank shall resume specie pay
ments: Provided, such person or persons
as may be indebted to said Hank or Hanks,
shall renew their notes, as thev shall fall
tIRl .mvinji the in'ercst .and invinn such
serl,rity as may be deemed nood and suffi
cient lor said debt."
This measure seems to us so perfectly rea
sonable and jut, that it is difficult lo imag
ine the reasons which operated on the
minds of those members who voted against
it, except upon the supposition that they
forgot that they were representatives of
lhe people, and considered themselves the
representatives of the Hanks. However
singular such a misconception may be, it is
by no means unprecedented in American
legislation. What can be more fair than
that those who refuse to pay their own
debts, should not compel others lo pay
them? Will it be replied iha't those per
sons who hold the notes of the Banks can
sue them, as well as the Hanks sue their
debtors that the Courts are open to both?
It is not a sufficient answer. True such is
the law, but the law is almost a dead
letter; and so far as the community
is concerned the law might as well confer
on the Hanks a perfect immunity from
suit. What individual is rich enough or
bold enough to go to law with a moneyed
corporation controlling a capital of millions
and holding the purseslrings of every citi
zen? Some broker from a foreign State
may occasionally be found who finds it to
his advantage to sue a Rank, and his busi
ness relations may be distant enough to e
vad' or perchance snug enough, to defy
Ms malice. Hut such cases are excontions'
nere is.ne whowill go to law
with a pv.verlu Bank? Those (if there
be anv miIi) who might otherwise be dis-
I . . I T . . . ... I
posed to sue the Hanks, are in far-t general
y Miicivi.oiuers in sucli institutions, and
then fore find it to their interest to wink at.
their iniquities and oppressions. Those,
on the contrary, who owe the Hanks are
generally persons of limited pecuniary re
ourees, who borrow for the purpose of in-
leasing the amount of their business, and
whoso far from being able to become an
tagonists of those corporations in the courts,
ire not less persuaded by a hone of future
lavors, than constrained by then condition
to succumb. We repeat then, that so far
as real results are concerned, the Hanks
might as well enjoy a legal exemption from
suit. The truth is, that' we find almost
every Legislature, clothed with the whole
power of the State, neulectinsr or refusing
to hold these corporations to a just accoun
tability for their violations and abuses of
their charters; how then can it be expected
tint individuals will, singlehanded, call
them into court. It 13 no answer, or at
least an insufficient answer, therefore, to
object to the proposition of Gen'l Wilson,
that the courts are open for individuals to
sue tin? Hmks, as well as for Hanks to sue
individuals. The law itself should inter
pose its shield between the powerful and
the weak.
Hut it may be said also, (we wish to give
the Hank-advocates the benefit of every
objection.) that if the Hanks are not al
lowed to collect their claims they could
never resume. That depends entirely up
on the cause of suspension. It is very
clear that if the Hanks throw too much pa
per in circulation, they must curtail that
circulation before they can resume; but it
is equally clear that they ought never to
create such an excess of circulation, & we
arc quite sure they never would if Gen'l
Wilson's proposition was adopted. Hut
the fact is that the Hanks of North Carolina
do not admit that they have overbanked.
The Presidents of those institutions, being
interrogated by a committee of the last Le
gislature as to the caiises of the suspen
sion, attributed it not to an excess of circu
lation, but to the suspension of the Hanks
of other States. The resumption there
fore, cannot take place until the cause is
removed, until the Northern Banks re
sume. It is not necessary to curtail their
circulation therefore. Hut it will be ob
served that the amendment of Gen'l Wilson
is prospective, as the politicians term it,
that is, that its operation would be limited
to such Hanks as may, "at any time hereaf
ter suspend or refuse to pay any of its
notes." And its object, no doubt, was as
much to prevent such a state of things as
lo mitigate its calamities.
The amendment secures also the debt,
the payment of which it suspends, by pro
viding it shall be regularly renewed on the
payment of the interest and with ample se
curity. Thus just and safe in its provis
ions, it is difficult, we repeat, to conceive
any good reasons which operated on the
minds of those Senators who voted against
it; and we cannot doubt that their constitu
ents will demand of them at least a plausi
ble excuse for their votes.
We know very well that whenever a De
mocratic Editor discusses in his columns
the management of Hanks, and the action
f public bodies upon them, he is charged
with a design to inflame public prejudice.
In iruth, the appeal to popular prejudice
comes from the other side, and if it be con
sidered that one party are two apt to repre
sent them as monsters, it is not less true,
that another habitually regard them with a
veneration due only to a grade of being be
tween men and angels. We regard them,
precisely as they are, as soulless corpora
tions created for presumed public advan
tage which they are prone to forget in pur
suit of profit, and requiring vigilant watch
and strict legal limitations.
We shall notice the other amendments
hereafter.
fjpThe following extract from the let
ter of Mr. Hunter, Speaker of the House
of Representatives, to the Richmond En
quirer by which it will be seen, in the
words of the Enquirer, that "if ever he was
a whig, he has tm-whigged himself" and
is an advocate, in loto, of democratic doc
trines! "1 have seen, or at least I think I have
seen, too much of the importance of these
great principles to be unwilling to frater
nize with any who honestly and faithfully
maintain them. In accordance, then, with
what 1 know to be the wish of some, and
with what they assure me is the desire of
many, 1 now declare myself a candidate
for the suffrages of the people generally,
and without reference to party. My prin
ciples of public action are unchanged, and
the leading articles of my political faith are
so well known to you, that I need not recapitulate-
them. 1 am as heretofore a
gainst a U. S. Bank, a protective Tariff,
and a system of Internal Improvements by
Ihe General Government.
The opinions which I have formerly a-
vowed to you on the various branches of
the currency question are unchanged, and
I desire lose the proceeds of the public
Ian, Ls applied to the current expenses of
the General Government.
KTIt seems that the fall of stocks is
ruinous to many of the s'ock-gambling
iraternifv. I he Aaliona Intel isr-ncer's
correspondent announces the slopninjr of
what is called "a large banking house" in
Wall street and svs that others are
"shivering in the wind."
The state of things in the Pennsylvania
legislature consequent nn the third stop
page in Philadelphia, will be seen in lhe
following extract of a letter:
"Our Legislature, douhtlcs, will be
flooded with projects of relief, as Ihe re
presentatives of t he banks are here and on
the alert. Already the Committee on
Hanks in the Senate Ins introduced a rc-
solution suspending the penalties of thejJed wi:h talents and respectability, are the
present laws for forty d tvs, so that the bo
dy might ascertain what relief the banks
want: and in the House a resolution has
been introduced by a city member to le
galize the suspension until 15:hof Fcbrua
ry, 1842; but if the Hank of the United
States is included in these resolution, neith
er the forty days nor the year and forty,
will he time enough for her, ami next year
we will have another legalizing of suspen
sions. "If the Philadelphia Banks had per
mitted the United States Bank to die on
the 15th of January, without involving
themselves by loaning her money, they
neod not now have been standing at the
bar of the Legislature, supplicating for
mercy, ami that mercy now should only
be extended to them on condition that they
would leave her to her fate, and take care
of themselves.
"Shortly, however, this who'e subject
will be up, and we'll see."
Savannah, Feb. 5.
From Florida. By a passenger in the
steamer Isis, Capt. Pitcher, we learn that
Lieut. Col. Clark, of the Sth Infantry, had
in charge thirty-two Indians, who showed
themselves in the vicinity of Fort Dade,
and were brought in by the friendly dele
gation from Arkansas. They are on their
way to Tampa.
Information that can be relied on has
been received from Col. Loomis, of the 6th
Infantry, that a number of Indians were
expected to come in, say thirty to forty,
and would proceed to Tampa.
Among them was Ilcho Emathla, the
chief of the Tallahnssecs.
The prospect of the termination of the
war, it is thought by some, is rather bright
er; whereas by others the promisr-s of the
red men are looked upon as a mere humbug-gcr
United States Navy. 'The navy of , w""e many speculationsaie anoat concern
the United States consists of eleven ships ,nfi the Personal iden'ily of the witch a
of the line, four of which
ichareonthe stocks
one razee of 54 g ins;
t.,i fi-iir'itrii! i
of the first class, rated at 44 guns each,
six of which arc on lhe stocks, and two
of the second class, rated at 30 guns each
twenty-one sloops of war, of from 16 to
20 guns each four brigs of 10 guns, and
eight schooners, 10, 8 and 4 guns each. In
addition to the above, two steam frigates
are now building at New York and Phila
delphia. The oldest ships in the navy,
are frigates Constitution, built at Boston,
the United States built at Philadelphia, and
the Constellation built at Baltimore, all in
lhe year 1797. The oldest ship of the
line is the Franklin, built at Philadelphia
IS14.
The number of Post Captains in the na
vy is fifty-five, the oldest in rank being
James Barron. The number of Masters
Commandant is also fifty-five; of lieuts.
2D0; of passed midshipmen 191; of mid
shipmen 231 ; of Surgeons 61; passed as
sistant surgeons 17; of assistant surgeons
51 ; of pursers 51 ; of chaplains 13; and of
sailing masters 29.
The pay of a senior captain on sea serv
ice, is 54,500 per annum; of do. on leave
S3, 500; captains of squadrons 4,000; do,
on other duty S3, 500; do. off duty S2,
500; Master Commandants in sea service
S2,500; do. on leave of absence $1800;
Lieuts. commanding SI, S00; do. on other
duty Sl,500; do. on leave SI, 200; surg
eons from SI, 000 to S2,700; according to
their term of service; assistant surgeons,
from S650 to 1,200; chaplains at sea Sl,
200; do. on leave S$00; passed midship
men at sea S750;do waiting orders S600;
midshipmen at sea S400; do. on other du
S350; sailing master of a ship of line at sea
Si, 100: do, on other duty, Si, 000; profes
sors of mathematics Si, 200; teachers of na
val school, S4S0.
Saving at the Spite, fyc. A Subscriber
yesterday sent us a request to discontinue
his paper, assigning as a reason, that the
times were so hard, it became necessary to
lop off expenses. So far as our cxperi-
ence goes, it establishes the position, that
the very first expense a man retrenches,
when he gets into an economical fit, is the
subscription to his Newspaper. -'Newspapers
aie things," argues be, "which can
be dispensed with, and costs money that
might be saved." Agreed: so may the
Schooling of our children so, indeed,
may nine-tenths of the articles necessary
lo our eomforiabb support. Any man
may get rih who will live on bread and
water, and clothe himself in rags. Hut who
would live like a brute, for the pleasure of
saving money, which he cannot carrv hence
with him! There are a few such five or
ten in a million and how wretched are
they? Most men, sensible ihey must die,
are disposed to enjoy a little of the fruits
of their labor; and nothing is perhaps more
necessary to the enjoyment of cociety, or
self-s itisfacticn in retirement, than a well
informed and virtuous mind. It gives a
zest to all things in prosperity, and is the
best resource in adversity.
Newspapers, though not always conduc-
best possible channels for obtaining an ac
quaintance with the affairs of the world,
and lo implant desires in the hearts of
youth for more solid reading, zz they go
onto maturity. In truth, they sre the
great engine that moves the ir.cral and
political world, and not only l'A in estab
lishing thecharacter, but in preserving the
liberties of a people. Viewed in this liht,
and it is not too strong a one, we would
ask Are there not an hundred items of
xpenditure, which a person ought to cut
ofl, rather than deprive himself of the
solid benefits derived from a good Newspa
per? Rat. Reg.
Witchcraft Revived. For several days
past, some excitement has prevailed in the
neighborhood of Charlotte street, North
ern Liberties, relative to certain enchant
menls supposed to be practised on the per
sons of several children. The symptoms
of supernatural influence are discovered in
an astonishing degree of crossness in the
little innocents, an incessant screaming
and kicking, which is said to be caused by
certain cruel pinches bestowed on the de
licate hides of the young sufferers. One
child is reported to be pinched all cyer as
blue as an indigo bag, and to be in perpet
ual danger of falling into convulsions. A
physician (not of the regular school, we
presume,) pronounces the cace to I 3 evi
dent witchcraft, and has commenced the
process of exorcism. Hitherto his labors
have been unsuccessful, beeaur he says,
the parents have not sufficient failh in the
undertaking. The mother of the children
believes devoutly, but the father es yet
proves himself an obstinate infidel as far
as witchcraft is concerned. It is the opin
ion of some of the neighbors that nothing
can be done for the poor little creatures
until their papa will candidly acknowl
edge himself a jackass for denying the re
ality of the necromancy. In the mean-
i-i i.
! ve'T ancient lady living in the neiglibor-
hood is chiellv suspected. Une account
says that a man perceived a beautiful white
rabbit playing in the yard, and chased it
into an out house, when it was suddenly
transmogrified into the old-lady just re
ferred I o. This story shows her to be a
witch in the estimation of certain folks;
and of course she becomes responsible for
all the unaccountable mischief which is
done in the neighborhood. Think of all
thislo happen in Philadelphia in 1P41.
Ledger.
Important to Horsemen Jl Secret
worth Knowing. The day before yester
day, we happened to be passing in front of
the United States Hotel, when we obser
ved a large crowd attracted by an omnibus
laden with passengers, which the horses
refused to draw. The driver had tried
every expedient to urge on the animah
such as the ordinary modes of whipping,
coaxing,&.c, but all in vain, whenour
townsman, John C. Montgomery, Esq.,
suggested the plan of tying a stiir.g tightly
round the horse's ear close to the head
the driver apprehended that Mr. M. was
disposed to quiz him, refused to make the
trial, but upon Mr. M.'s lying the twine
around the horse's ear having
the driver to resume hi3 sent and to give
his hcrse a loose rein, without applying
the whip it operated like a charm, and
the sni.nsls started off without fuither diffi
culty, to the infinite amusement and grati
fication of the bystanders. Mr. M. stated
to the crowd, that he had tried the experi
ment more than a hundred times, and had
never known it to fail but once.
Philadelphia Paper.
A Younq Scamp.-'Thc Baltimore Clip
per states that a lad in that city, on the even
ing of the eclipse, persuaded his compan
nions that the eclipse could only be seen
from his mother's yard, and charged thenx
i C, ,1 rv-ntcinn i 1 hp IIPACOn
a
cent eacn ior w.m .
says
that fellow win oecome a uau wuvt
cer yet.'