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Turborough, (Edgecombe County, A". C.J siatiirdayi September &jt ,8H
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A NEW SO NO TO AN OLD TUNE.
From Washington the other nhjht,
The sieambn ii Ciiuie with all her tubrht, .
To tell us of ,i nble fi.lit.
Ilea led by Captau Tyler.
J dm Tyler's a eour.iore.ins man,
And with the vet ) in his hand
He vanquished Clay and Hertford Uan,
And all the jjreit loirrahin claiii
Then Dcmerais hurra, hurra;
The Monster's jrot a crippled paw,
And Humor, he has lost his jaw,
Uy the Veto of Captain Tyler.
On Capitol Hill they formed their flank,
Entrenched themselves behind a Uank,
lijth federal whis and co.n skins rank,
To head brave Captain 'Tyler;
But Tyler he was wide awahe.
And the State bights road did boldly lake,
And through their Uank he made a break,
Tree'd their coon, and scotch'd their snake.
Then Democrats hurra, huira, &c.
They entered into a fortification,
t 'ailed by S. the Fiscal Corporation;
And swore they'd desolate the nan m.
Or ' bend" brave Captain Tyler.
Hut Old Virginia's noble si n,
With doubh barreli'd Veto gun,
M ule a second fire and away they'll run,
With straight coat tails from Washington.
Then Democrats burn, hurra, &ci
IIUCE PAW.
LEITEK FUOM Mil. VAN BUKEN.
Kinder hook, Sept. 4, 1S41.
flentlemcn; I h i ve ice. ived with much
satisfaciion your letter cominunicatinjr 0
me, hy the direction of a Democratic Con
vention held in the Nin'h Waul of the
cit' of New York, a copy of its proceed
ings in which the conduct of Mr. Tyler,
in placing; his veto on the Fiscal Bank
bill, is highly approved, and the repeal
of the Independent Trea.-ury system deci
dedly condemned.
The compliment pnitl to Mr. Tyler by
the convention fur what has already been
done was well deserved, and if, as there
seems to he good reason to hope, he shall
complete the work so wisely begun, by
disapproving the bill for the creation
of a Fiscal Corporation, he will be entitled
to the thanks of the country.
No one can fad to .-ee that the provis
ions of the new charter are not only in
all respects as objectionable as those of the
former, but hive in addition been made
to asume a form infinitely more oft' nsive
:o a sine etc State rights man. That the
institution proposed to be established by
tie first bill would have been a corporation,
as much so as that embraced in the second,
is ceitain. Why, then, it may be asked,
w..s the name changed from a "Fiscal
Bank" to a "Fiscal Coi potation," if it were
nut to met t tin constitutional question more
fully in l he face, and to assert, in broader
and less eq-.ii vocal term?, the general au
thoriiy ol Congress to establish corpora
lions, with puwer to operate in the
States?
A grant of power lo Congress to estab
lish corporations, was, it is well known, in
express terms ieiued by the convention,
and the absence of such a power was dis
tinctly urged by Mr. Jefferson, as the
piomineul ground ol his opposition lo the
establishment of Ihe first Bank. To meet
the otherwise unanswerable argument
found upon the recorded fact of the refusal
of the convention to grant this power, it
was urged by the Federal school that, in
constructing the Constitution, they were
not to becontroted by the intention of the
convention which framed and the people
who adopted it, but were at full liberty to
put upon it any interpretation which the
wor isof the instrument would, in their
opinion, justify. A better device to
strengihen this heresy, so anli-Republican
in its character, and so destructive of the
just rights i f the people, could not well
have been conceived than that. which is to
be found in the phraseology of the second
bill.
It would doubtless have been eminently
advantageous to the country, jf there had
also been a concurrence in sentiment be
tween the Chief Magistrate and your
Convention, in respect to the Independent
Treasury and other important measures
which have been acted upon by the two
Houses at. the present session. But in ex
pressing their approbrtion of the good
vhich he has done, and in regarding with
indulgence his conduct upon points in re
lation lo which the Convention differs from
him, the members have only given effect to
the principles by which the Democracy
of ihe United States have ever been gov
erned. Every public servant whose intentions
are pure, can always rely upon receiving,
at their hands, respect for his motives
and a just credit for his acts, whatever
may be the character of their political rela -
lions with him and however much thev mv
differ from him in other respects.
For the avowal of approbation, respect,
and regard which yon have communica
ted to me in behalf of the Convention, i
return mv sincere aiknnwleil
and am, gentlemen, with unfeigned
thanks for the friendly spirit in which yqii
liave discharged the duty assigned you,
very sincerely, your friend and ob't serv
a! M. VAN BUR EN.
To flarrit Gilbert, esq. President, and
Edward Patterson, esq.
Secretary ofthe Convention.
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The Fiscal Corporation. Mr. Ben
ton, in his speech on the Fiscal Corpora
tion, denounced the whole affair, an I
thaught it should be called a "Corporositv,"
or the "Meal Tub Bank,'' or the "Shake
poke." lie concluded his remarks as fol
lows: "I do not pretend to impose a name up
on this bantling: that is a privilege of pa-
lci uiiy, vi ui spansorsnip, ana l stanu in
neither relation to this babe. But a name
of brevity of brevity and significance
it must have; and, if ihe fathers and spon
sors do not bestow it, the people will: for
a long nime is abhored and eschewed in
all countries. Remember the fate of John
Barehone, the canting hypocrite in Crom
weiPs time. He had a very good name,
John Barebone; but the knave composed
a long verse like scripture, to sanctify him
self with it, and entitled himself thus:
'Praise God, Barebone, fur if Christ had
not died for you, you icould be damned,
Barebone." Now this was very sancti
monious; but it was too much of a good
thing and so the people cut it all off but
the last two words, and called the fellow
'damned Barebone, and nothing else
but damned Barebone, all his life after.
So let this corporosity beware; it may get
itself damned before it is done with us, and
T) ler loo."
The British Bankers, at fault The
money articles of the last N. Y. Herald
lifts the curtain from the designs of the
British bankers and their agents who have
flocked to Washington to work the wires.
They hold large quantities of depreciated
State Stocks which they are trying to raise
in value and then to sell out. The Herald
states the amount ofthe depreciation at 30
to 40 millions. The Land Bill was to
give them 3,000,000 per annum, from
the public treasury or 330,000,000, in ten
years, and to raise the value of stocks at
least &30 000,000 more. The revenue bill
was to have supplied the deficiency in the
treasury. 1 he loan bill was to have been .
the basis of an increase of importation and
exchange operations, and the new bank
the instrument in putting the whole in op
eration. It is true, the bill excludes for
eign stockholders, but nothing is more eas
ily evaded than such a provision.
The vitality of the scheme was in the
Bank of Exchanges. In that was Ihe germ
of a power lhat centered in London and ex
ercised through proxies was to have placed
the whole money and commercial affairs of
these U. S. at the feet of the Rothschild
the Baring9, the Hopes and other foreign
houses.
The exports of last year were $126,
000,000. This formed the basis of for
eign and domestic bills to the amount of
250,000,000, The inland bills growing
out of sales of imported or domestic goods,
and the movement of the produce amount
at least to Si, 000,000,000. All these mov-
ments it is proposed to centrol through the
instrumentality of the new Bank. The
Bank once got into operation in dny sbape,
and the currents of business flowing to this
centre the politicians through that corrup
tion of which the public have seen so ma
ny startling specimens, would be dragged
along in ,ls broad wake, the character
amended to suit the views of the wildest
visionaries, and its accumulating power
would soon set the laws and Cdngress at
defiance. This great scheme has been de
stroyed in the bud by the firmness, clear
sightedness and unwavering integrity of
President Tyler.?. Eng.
Explosive Shells. We witnessed on
Friday afternoon an exhibition of the ex
plosive force of some detonating shells,
prepared for the purpose by Dr. Alexander
Jones, formerly of North Carolina, but
lately from Europe, who has invented or
acquired, the secret of their composition,
and ofthe means of regulating their explo
sion. Those exhibited were mere tin ca
ses, about three inches in diameter, filled
with the combustible matter, and were
thrown from the hand into the canal, adis
lance of some twenty or thirty yards. On
touching the surface they instantly explod
ed with a report equal to a four pounder,
casting up a column of water fifty i'eet int -the
air, and showing lhat, on a larger scale
and discharged from a mortar, they would
constitute a most destructive engine. Thert
was no fuse used to ignite them. The smalt
size might, we should think, be employed
as hand grenades with great effect agninsi
bo.it attacks, or against attacking "force on
laim. ur. j. is a scientific citizen who :
has spent some time in Eur one examininir;
i.i i . . . . - '
we in muiar.iunn.; establishments, puultc
works, &c of England and the Continent.
Nat. Int.
Melancholy Jlcciclent. l U with re-
gret, (siysthe Columbia S. C. Chronicle.) !
that we announce the death of an in'elii- j
gent young l.d, William J. Debnihl, son i
of Jeve Djlmihl, Eq , la!e Sheriff of ih sj
District, from the result of an acci lea':-! i
discharge of a gun in the hands of 'ai o j
his coiiipanio.is. 11 was an oalv son. and i
me Ov leavemunt is; an aiiliolin one to his
parents, sisters, relatives and frien !s.
Fraught as ibis dispensation is with woe
we trust it will be an ad.noni:ioa to Pa
rents to caution them agunst trusting fire
arms to the management, of youth -a cus
tom loo prevalent in this vicinity.
.!.. . .... . j '
Shocking and Fatal Occident We
record with unfeigned sonov the follow
:., . i i- . . .
which took phce ycsteid..y u.uitii.ur :lb0 it
uig neari-ronuing anl laul occurience
ten o'clock, at the Navy Yard, in ;he e.st
ern portion of this city. Whde Capt. Ja
cob Bright (Commander of the Marion
Rifle Corps, &. Master Armorer in the Na
vy Yard) was engaged in a room attached
to the laboratory, in chher charging or
handling (which does not appear lo have
been clearly ascertained) a tiii iy tvo lb
shell, tilled with detonating pj.vder, ii
suddenly exploded, and in a moment ble w
Capt. Bright into atoms. The foice ol the
explosion was so great, that the h ft arm ol
the unfortunate victim was literally separa
ted from his body, his entrails weie scat
tered, and his face and head shockingly
mutilated and disfigured. Nat. Int.
The "shower of flesh and blood."
Our readers are greatly indebted (says tin
National Intelligencer,) lo the Principal of
that excellent institution the Alexandra
Boarding School, for the following scienti
fic elucidation ol the phenomenon in Ten
nessee, designated by the above heading:
Alexandria Boarding School, )
9 mo. 2d, 1841. $
Friends Gales & Seaton: I notice in the
Intelligencer of to-day, under the head of
"Atmospherical Phenomenon," an article
from the Nashville Banner, describing
what is stated to have been a "shower of
flesh and blood," in the vicinity of Leban
on, Tennessee. The same account, or a
similar one, has also been published insev-
eral other papers. There are many per
sons of that peculiar temperament that i
unfavorably affected by intelligence of so
unusual and awful a character; to such it
may be a relief to learn that the pln-nome-non
alluded to finds its ready explanation
in a well-ascertained fact in the economy of
insects. In the interesting ai.d instructive
work of Kir by & Spencer, on the "Natur
al Ilistoiy of Insects," ate the following
rcmaiks, vi hich explain the whole subject:
1 Many species of Lepidoptcra, But
terflies when they emerge from ti e pupa
chrv saiis state, discharge a reddish fluid,
which, in some instances, where their
numbers have been considerable, has pro
duced the appearance of a shower of h'ooJ:
and by this natural fact, all those bloody
showers, recorded by historians as preter
natural, and regarded, where they happen
ed, as fearful prognostics of impending
evils, are stripped of their terrors, and re
duced to the class of events that happen in
the common course of Nature. That in
sects are the Cause of these supposed
showeri is no lecent discovery; lor Slei
dan i elates th it, in the year 1553, a vast
multitude of butterflies swarmed through
a great part of Germany, and sprinkled
plants, leaves, buildings, clothes, and men,
with bloody drops, as if it had rained blood.
But the most interesting account of an e
ventofthis kind is given by Reaumur,
from whom we learn that, in the begin
ning of July, 1603, the suburbs of Aix,
and a considerable extent of country round
it, were covered with what appeared to b
a shower of blood. We may conceive the
amazement and stupor of the populace up
on such a discovery, the alarm of the citi
zens, the grave reasonings of the learned
All agreed, however, in attributing the
appearance to the powers of darkness, and
in regarding it as the prognostic and pre
cursor of some direful misfortune about to
befall them. Fear and prejudice would
have taken deep root upon this occasion,
and might have produced fatal effects upon
some weak minds, had not M. Peiresc, a
celebrated philosopher of that place, paid
attention to insects. A chrysalis, which
he pieserved in his cabinet, let him into
the secret of this mysterious shower.
Hearing a fluttering, which informed him
nis insect was arrived at its perfect slate,
he opened the box in which he kept it;
the animal flew out and left behind ii a red
spot. He compared lids with the spots of
die blood shower, and found they Were a
like. At the same time he observed there
was a prodigious quantity of butterflies fly
ing about, and that the drops of the mirac-
! -In
rain were nnt to he fou-'d upon th'
. .
t if V, n r eve n;vn th? up -cr s u face of
the stone, ha' chu lK- i., i nh -sand nhirr
wh( re rain could
nut
easily
conie. i ii u 3
cli
rs ! i tic; 'U .-.On i v r c siv I th li?n-
)s i v r
rant f.-ars and terror n-hich a natural phe
MOTe"on !, id "atned. " Vol. l vni 35.
Thoe wishing further information -on
the subject will find it in Comstock's Pky.
iolostj ! and in No. LXXIV of Uarptr'i
F..vi ly Library.
I h- iu.Mmctf m.mtionf d in Ihe Nashville
ccoo it nt sh nnnfripg wth the-blood,
"J donht w;h tiieVesidt ofthr it-seci having
pei is'-ed i:i ihe i.cnrs of iraii.lciiin .tinn.
The Parson's T.jiizhrr Old Parson
I. (1 -V or ros'.er Cou.jIv. ucd
hi e
to b? absent on a
niw-iona'-v
tour.
Once on :i line, having jnst returned front
a short excursion, he found hts congrega
tion quite droway, and wishing to w;ifce
them up, h; broke off in tlte midst of his
-ernvMi, and h-'g-i to tell ihrm what won
di'rfnl things he ha ! ten in Yrk St?te; a
arrong other wondets, hesddhe had seea
monstrous gre.il m )sch'lo;s so laige that
nrnny of them wo i':d wvigh .a po'ir.d ! The
people wvie by this time wile awake".
Yes,' eiitiiu d the Parson, moieover
they ip ofr-m koO'vn to climb up on thu
trie awd bark 1"
Th ii-! day one i.-f the Deacons called
; upon him, U lung
j inel I.i e i ucie im
him that many of the
uu h scandalized at th'; bi
s'OMrs l o tool the day beioie. What
stoi ieo?: 'say Parson M. 'Why sir, you.
sid ihi't the rnoschoioes in York State were
so iaigjtiiil many ol 'thorn would v.tdgh a
ponn-iP 'Wv'il,' rejoiu -d the minister, I
do re;dly think that a great many of them
would Hugh a pound,' ' 'But,' continues'
the Deacon, 'you also saiil ihey would
climb up on the trees ami bark. 'Well,
sir,' a ; s Parson M. "; s !o their climb
ing up on the tices, I have seen them do
that hav'ut. von, Deacon!"
ell,' how could they climb
trees and not i.linib on the bark?
eon was of com e nonplussed.
0 yes
up on tho
The dea-
(pThe magnificent Railway called tha
Great Western, extending fron London to
Biistol, Ixi) miles, was opened throughnut
it whole extent on the 30di of June. One
of the tunnels of the road was" cut thred
milt s through solid rock. The cost of the
whole work was upwards of 5,000,000
or about twenty three millions of dollars.
t7 Crystal Bedstead. Among the '
many presents sent to the Shah of Peisia
by the iuuiperor nf Russia, and w hich are
coron ary i'1 '-'lc r'ast, after the conrluioii
of pe.ico, is a bedstead of extraordinary
m;tg!iif:ceiic It is entirely made of crys
tal, and is :n cessible by steps of the same
maitrial, all worked in imitation of large
diatv.ouds. in-rus'ed in solid frame. On
each side thete are spouts made to eject
scentmi w;itr r, which, by its murmuring,
invites to sh-ep. It is crowned by a largo j
cbainhlhr, which spreads liht in such a
manner over itst If. ad the rest ofthe frame, ,
as o jnvethe whole the splendid, appear-'
ame of millions of dhmonds reflecting
thcirbrilliancv nt onre. Thp bedstead, the
only one of the kind ever imagined or at
tempted, has been worked at the Imperial
manufactory of St. Petersburg!).
Female Resolution A remarkable in
stance of female resolution has recently
been reported in Spiin. All the werld
o . er the sex are alike, and nol easily swerv
ed from th'-ir determination. It is said
tiiat a lustice of the peace while proceed
ing to pu the s alson the goods of a de
ceased lady ns a protection to the interests
of an onlyT daughter, said to be insane, was
much surprised by the sudden appearance
of this daughter who declared that she op
posed the seals being but on, intending not
to be charged with the expense of the op
eration, adding 'I am not mad, as il has
been reported; two and twenty years ao,
my mo'ht r prevented me from marr ing
according to my liking, an 1 locked me up
in a room: 1 then made a vo v, never to
speak to anv one again, as long as my i
motln-r should li re. 1 h ive kept to it, and
here 1 am lo lord, after my own concerns." .
The lady continues ihe account from
which we quote appears in no way affect
ed menially by her long confinement, but
her per on is much altered, and she is now .
in her 40th year.
Origin of the word Tailor. It is sairf
that the tailors derived their name from
an odd circumstance, as fallows. Jvine
stout fellows weie at .vork one day, sitting j
cross leggtd upon a bench in tin ir shop,1
when auuW sow entered, and gobbled up
four at as many n.outhfuL! Whereas the '
crook ofthe ;u;, defending himself with
Ihe shear., cried out 'tail her tail ht.rl
when one of die aflVighiedMifr.v szi tha'
aniiiidby the n.cc.suiy ap;end:g , he
tail, and diagg d hero t of the shop! Ever
after, the craft were called tailors, from thar '
circumstances of hiving tailed the old-
Upw.
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