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i r : n . i , F. C. HILL, Editor and Proprietor BE JUST Mn FE.1jR JOT. 4 ! Wilmington, North Carolina. 7F YOU VI NO 12. THURSDAY, APRIL 22, 1841 WHOLE NO. 2721 - - 4 MMMMMMME3M------i------------------------------------------- - PUBLISHED EVERY TIIURSDA Y .MORNING Til II EE D01LARS PER AJCNCM, IX ADVANCE. ADVERTISEMENTS Not exceeding a Square, inserted at ONE DOL LAR the first, and TWENTY-FIVE CENTS for each subsequent insertion. Legal Advertisements will be charged 25 per cent higher. ' No Subscriber taken for less than one year and all who permit their subscription to run over a year, without giving notice, are considered bound for the second year, and so on for all succeeding years. ' i.; ' No paper discontinued until all arrearages are paid, unless at the option of the Editor. OCT Letters to the Editor on business must be post-paid.' , From the Frisk Penny Journal. REMORSE AT NIGHT. 'The last night of the year was about to "expire; the winds, after a day of stormi ness, had subsided into slumber; the white earth lay outspread, like a shrouded map, under the moon ; and innumerable stars arose out from the remotest abysses of heaven, twinkling as brightly as they had but then began their existence, and were neyer to suffer impairment. Eleven o'clock had tolled from the tower of an an cient Gothic church: and as the vibrations died away on the transparent air, an Old Man drew night to the window of a dark room in the desolate dwelling of which he had long been the solitary tenant, and cast his dull despairful eyes upwards to wards the immovable firmament, and from thence down the blank waste of the earth, and then breathed a groaning prayer, that those eyes might neyer survey that firma ment or that earth again. "Wretched was he, in truth, that Old Man, beyond all parallel ! and beyond all consolation for his grave lay open for him, as it seemed, by his side; it was thinly covered over, not by the flowers of Youth, but by the snows of Age; and when, heartsich pf the sight, he looked away from it into himself, he saw that the sole fruits that he had gathered from a long, and eventful life were sins, re grets arid maladies a decayed body, a plague-smitten soul, a bosom full of bitter ness, and an old age full of remorse. The beautiful days of his youth now came again before him like ghosts, resummon ed to his remembrance the cheerful morn ing upon which his venerable father had first placed upon the great Cros-road of Life a road which, trodden on the right hand, conducts the pilgrim along the noon day path of Virtue into a.spacious, joyous land, abounding in sunbeams, harvests, and angelic spirits, but yhich, followed on the left, betrays him through lampless jand mirv ways, into the rueful wilderness of Vice, where serpents forever swarm, and pestilence chokes the atmosphere, and to quench his burning thirst the sluggish black rivers yield him but slime and pois- Alas ! the serpents were now coiled about him the poison was rilling through his heart! Alas for him! he knew too well which road he had chosen where he was and what he must undergo for eternity -foreternity ! With an anguish, with an agony, with a tjespair, that language cannot even faint ly portray, he uplifted his withered arms towards heaven, clasped his hands and cried aloud, O ! give me back, give me back my youth !;.' 0 ! my father, lead me once more to the Cross-road, that I may once more choose and this time choose with foreknowledge! But his cries wasted themselves idly up on the frozen air, for his father was no more, and his youth was no more both had alike long, long ago vanished, never to reappear. He knew this, and he wept yes, that miserable old man wept; but his tears relieved him not; they were like drops of hot lava, for they trickled from a burning brain. He looked forth, and he saw flitting lights wills-o'-the-wisp dancing over the morasses and - becoming extinguished in the burial grounds; and he said, "Such were my riotous days of folly!" He again looked forth, and he beheld a star fall from heaven to earth, and there melt away in blackness that left no trace be hind, and he said, I am that star ! and with that woeful thought were torn open anew the leprous wounds in his bosom which the serpents that clung around him would never suffer to be healed. His morbid imagination, wanderino- a broad till it touched on the confines of frenzy, showed him figures of sleep-walkers traversing like shadows the roofs of the houses the chimneys widened into furna ces vomiting forth flames and monsters the windmills lifted up their giant arms, and threatened to crush him and a for gotten sceptre left behind in a. deserted charneA house, glared on him with a hor rible expression of malignity, and then mocked his terror by assuming his fea tures. On a sudden there flowed out, uoon the air a deep, rich, and solemn stream of mu sic. It came from the steeple of the old Gothic church, as the bells annouced the birth of the new year, for it was now the twelfth hour. Its cadences fell with a thrilling distinctness upon the ear and the heart of the old man ; and every tone in the melody, through the agency of that mysterious power which sound possesses of re-assembling within the forsaken halls of the soul, images long departed, brought be fore his mind some past scene of his hie, vived as a panoramic picture. Again he looked round upon the lucid horizon and over thefrosted earth : and he thought on the opportunities he had forfeited the warnings he had slighted theexamples he had scoffed at. He thought upon the friends of his youth, and how they, better and more fortunate than he, were now good men, at peace with themselves teachers of wisdom to others, fathers of blessed families, torchlights for the world and he exalaimed, Oh ! and I also, had I but willed it, I also might, like them, have seen with tearless eyes, with tranquil heart, this night depart into eternity. Oh, my dear, father my dear, dear mother! I, even I, might have been now happy, had I but hearkened to your affectionate admonitions had I but chosen to profit; by the blessings which on every returning New Year's Morn like this, your tender ness led you to invoke on my head ! Amid these feverish reminiscences of his youth, it appeared to him as tho' the spec tre which had assumed his features in the charnel house gradually approached near er and nearer to him- losing, however; as it advanced, one trait after another of its spectral character -till at length, as if un der the dominion of that supernatural influ ence which on the last night of the old year is popularly said to compel even the Dead to undergo a change of form, it took the appearance of a living young man the same young man that he had himself been fifty years before. He was unable to gaze any longer: he covered his face with his hands; and, as the blistering tears gushed from his eyes, he sank down, powerless and trembling, on his knees ind again he cried out, as if his heart would break, O! comeback to me, lost days of youth! comeback, come back to me once more! And the supplication, of the Peniteiit was not made in vain, for they came back to him, those days of his youth, but not yet lost! He started from his bed the blue moonbeams were shining in through the windows the midnight chimes were an nouncing the beginning of a new year. Yes! all had been but an appalling dream all, except his sins and transgression these, alas! were but too real, for con science even in sleep is a faithful mon itor. But he was still young he had not grown old in iniquity and with tears of repentence he thanked God for having, even by means of so terrific a vision, awakened in his heart a feeling of horror for the criminal career he has been pursu ing, and for having revealed to him in that glimpse of a land full of sunbeams, harvests, and angelic spirits, the blissful goal in which, if he pleased, the path of his existence might yet terminate. Youthful reader! on which of these two paths art thou? On the right hand path! Go, forward, then, with the blessing of thy Maker, and fear nothing! On the left hand path? If so, pause: be forewarned turn while yet thou-mayest retrace thy steps make a happier- choice! I will pray that the terrors of this ghastly Dream may not hereafter be arrrayed in judgment against: thee! Alas for thee, if the time ever come when thou shalt call aloud in thylespair, Come back, ye precious days of my youth! unlike the dreamer, thou wilt but be mocked by the barren echo of thine own lamentation, the precious day of thy youth will never, never come back to thee. from the Philadelphia North American. "Woman's Love." One of our corres pondents not long since, in a poetical effu sion, very ungallantly sung of woman's love as fickle and false. Another one, to show that these aspersion on the sex have no influence over his devotion, writes us several stanzas on the subject; the con cluding one of wjiich runs .as follows; My lone heart has looked, in its sorrow and care, To dear ''woman s love as the charm of my life, And I trust it will yet be my fortune to share My joys and my griefs with a. dear little wife! Happy, is he who can say, when he lies down, No man can reproach me with his affliction, his misfotune, or his captiv ity; 1 have not injured the reputation ot any one; I have paid due respect to the property of others, the certain pledge of the repose of families, and the laborer's hire has never remained in my hands at sun setting, according to the expresion of Scripture. ' "Stammering. An operation was lately performed in London for the cure of this de fect, by Mr. Bennett Lucas, at the Metropoli tan Free Hospital, in the presence of numer ous medical gentlemen. The patient was a man aged 30, and after the operation which consisted in dividing some of the muscles of the tongue, he was enabled to pronounce with great accuracy and distinctness many words which before, the operation he could not. This operation has been performed in France ind Germany, but never before in England. We are not aware that it has ever been per formed in this country THE WEDDING FINGER There are few objects among the pro ductions of art, contemDlated with sfh lively interest by ladies, after a certain age as the simple and unadorned annular implement of Hymen, y'clept the wedding ring; this has been a theme for poets of et ery calibre: lor geniuses of every wing, from the dabbling duckling to the solar ea gle. The mouldy antiquary can tell the origin of the custom with which it is con nected, andperchance why a ring is round, and account for many circumstances con cerning the ceremony of the circlet, on the most conclusive evidence, amounting to absolute conjectural demonstration; amidst all that has been said and writen in refer ence to the ring, I believe the most lovely part engaged in the mystic matter, the ta per residence of this ornament has been neglected; now this is rather curious, as there are facts belonging to the ring finger which render it in a peculiar manner an appropriate emblem of matrimonial union; it is the only finger where two principal nerves belong to two distinct trunks ; the thumb is supplied with its principal nerves from the radial nerve, as is also the fore finger, the middle finger, and the thumb side of the ring finger, whilst the ulnar fin ger and the other side of the ring finger, at the point or extremity of which a real union takes place ; it seems as if it were intended by nature to be the matrimonial finger. That the side of the ring finger is supplied by the ulnar nerve is frequently proved by a common accident, that of striking the elbow against the edge of a chair, a door, or any narrow hard sub stance ; the ulnar nerve is then frequently struck, and a thriling sensation is felt in the little finger, and on the same side of the ring finger, but not on the other side of it. Modesty. Who shall win the prize There was a meeting of the flowers, and the judge was appointed to award the prize o"f beauty. "Who shall win the prize?" asks the Rose, proudly stepping forward in blush ing bsauty, with full assurance of its winning worth. "Who shall win the prize1?" asks the rest of the flowers as they came forward, each conscious of its attraction, and each equally sure of receiveing the award. "I will take a peep at the asssmblage," thought the Violet, not intending to make one ot the company, "and see the beauties as they pass. Just as it was raising its modest head from! its humble and retiring corner, and was looking in upon the meeting, the judge arose to render his de cree. "To the Violet," says he, "I award the prize of beauty, for there is no ftrate more rare, none wore enchantly beautiful than MODESTY. ; Emmet's Last Moments. One day, previous to the trial, as the Governor was going his rounds, he entered Emmet,s room rather abruptly; and observing a re markable expression in his countenance he apologized for the interruption-. He had a fork affixed to his little deal table, and appended to it there was a tress of hair. "You see," said he to the keeper, "how innocently I am employed. This little tress has long been dear to me, and I am plaiting it to wear on the day of my execu tion." On the day of that fatal event there was found, sketched by his own hand with a pen and ink, upon that very table, an admirable likeness of himself, the head severed from the body which lay near it, surrounded by the scaffold, the axe, and all the frightful paraphernalia of a high treason execution. W hat a strange union of tenderness, enthusiasm and for titude did not the above traits exhibit! His forti tude, indeed, never forsook him. On the night previous to his death, he slept sound ly as ever; and . when the fatal morning dawned, he arose, knelt down and prayed. ordered some milk which he drank, wrote two letters one to his brother in America, and the other to the Secretary of State, en closing it and then desired the sheriff to be informed that he was ready. When mf they came into his room he said that he had two requests to make -one that his arms might be left as loosely as posssible, which was humanely and instantly aceed ed. "I make the other," said he, "not under any idea that it can be granted, but that it may be held in remembrance that I have made it; it is that I may be permit- tprl in dip in mv uniform." This of course could not be granted; and the request seemed to have no other object than to show that he gloried in the cause in which he was to suffer. A remarkable example of his power over himself and others occured at this melancholy moment. He was passine out, attended, by the sheriff, and; preceded by the executioner in one of the passages stood the turnkey, who was personally assigned to him during his con finement; this poor fellow loved him in his heart, and the tears were streaming from his eyes in torrents. Emmet paused for a moment; his hands were not at liberty : he kissed his cheek and the man who had been an inmate of a dungeon, habitu ated to the scenes of horror and hardened against their operation, fell senseless at his feet. Before his eyes had opened again upon the world, those of the youthful suf ferer had closed forever. The color of the rebel uniform was green. j vjood i oate. -Among the toasts 1 tl m give at a recent Whig celebration at Og den&urg, N. Y. was the following: powwm. A mother, she cherishes and corrects us a sister, she consults us ahveet-heart, she coquets us a wife, she-f omforts and confides in us without her,?whjft would become of us?" Become of us? Some of us, you mean. Marl without a woman, is like shell with oute oyster just ike it. In our sim ple aid humble opinion more like thalt than'Vnv thin? else. ! One crnnd onrt Innr. . I of oyier-shells is worth more than any two eddmusty, crabbed, dried up old oacA elors.L Who decides against us? We ap peal t all the sensible men, (that is, all that are married,) and all the pretty wo men ii the world! Pitts. American' There! you may go up to the head?- Whatflo you know about the worth of old bachebrs? They have been the greates beneffors of mankind. Aristotle, , Ra- pheal.uVIichael Angelo, Bacon, Locke, Newtai, . all were old bachelors. And were iot these men worth "a cart-load o oystershells?" Petrarch was a bachelor, and Laira was an old maid. And don' you ktew, Mr. American, that the two best female writers in this country, are old maid? Washington Irving is a bache lor rid James G. Percival is a bachelor; ahho gh he says, j " -he is proud, Ay prouder than the proudest, when his arms Arqnd that form of loveliness are flung', An.jwhen those melting eyes are on him hung, Anqwhen those lips a e moving in sweet tones, I hai tell, whate er the words, that she owns No ther for her love." Wb buys sugar for the boys, and "doll;" for the little girls? Who take the chilfreri out riding, and go with the young lachq to singing schools, sewing societies, and tmcerts! Old bachelors. Out upon you. Cleve. Herald. from the New Orleans Picayune. IREBT BRITAIN EXCITED. Enjand, Ireland and Scotland were "half as over" last evening. A Sawney, a Padi' and a Johny fell into company, wherethey fell to singing, after which they fell out and fell to fighting, and the result was that Great Britain in- gWiously fell! " r x! t : i rorso?ue lime liwas a iiarniumous inu, aid very good songs were very well sung bj the convivial representatives of the tee kingdoms. John Bull sung 'Bri taiia rule the waves;" he was a pursy Acid faced, stout built, red whiskered spe- cimn 6f the genuine efficacy of roast beef in jving jolly roiunaiiy 10 uiu iiumaii fork Paddy followed with the "Groves of Barney," and sawney called for more gla."es, that proper justice might be done to iuld Lang Syne." Sawney was a rawpned, red-nosed, Jiollow-cheeked, carrots-polled, pock-marked, long-legged son of ! otia, with a twinkle in his eye par tak ig in expression both of shrewdness anc jenevolence. Paddy was what Pad dy ; all over the world a fellow with a lau ling mouth, a rosy cheek and a ro Sfuiti eye ; an intricate combination of fun anqTeeling, of sentiment and drollery, of firejndtow. Ijtddy became patriotic as the alcoholic spiri began to circulate in his veins, and he cjiclared, knocking off a leaf of the ta ble fith his fist, that "Ireland wzk the greafcst country in the world, on land or watfer, and e'er long she would kick Eng landand Scotland into the Ocean, and be Ted)v3med, regenerated and disenthrall ed."' "Lnd there you have it now," continu he! beautiful words of -KA I UKAKJ , j kingDan himself, that is to be." "loot, awa' wi' you; dinna ye ken it's laird Byron you're quoting?" said Sawmy, looking in astonishment at Pat. ! "0svil an English lord ever said any thinghalf as thrue," said Paddy. "CConneli's a rogue!" said John Bull. "ifm it's yourself that's a rascal!" said Jaddy. "Vhat's that?" said John Bull. 0, mother of Moses ! I'm ready for you ith," said Pat, tearing off his coat and flIKng up his coat sleeves. Tl4 three friends were instantly locked togetir in a furious contention, and the bark(C?per jumped over to protect hisbotdes and bsses. "Watch!" was cried from the dtr, ratdes were sprung in the street, and sxn after the rose thistle and sham rock 4ere bundled off in a bouquet to the watel Hhouse. The Recorders sentence and te destiny of Great Britain will be made known in due time. Thsands whom indolence has sunk into conteaptible obscurtty, might have come for ward to usefulness and honor, if idleness had notJVjstrated the effect of all their powers. A Srs. A gentleman by the name of Towle was Jequently praising an interesting young ladjfy calling her a Belle, &c. A facetious femdfe friend observed to him that he had beetfringing that belle long enough, and to b:fnk, &he would advise him now to make her towle. Portsmouth Journal. hall only be idle a minute." A minute! flasld upon Skakspeare's mind. A minute! in wheh Napoleon gained the summit of the Alpl." A minute! in which a tear reached the eye pf the repentant prodigal. From the National Intelligencer. REFLECTION'S IN THE EAST ROOM April 7, 1S41. The great East Room of the President's House that room in which I had seen a thousand gay and joyful faces glowing in the light of ponderous chandeliers, radiat ing the light of a hundred burners, was now the scene of death ' Those brilliant fountans of light were hid in the dark robes of mourning. The splendid mirrors, which rose almost to the lofty ceiling, re flecting on every sidethe brilliant crowds which rofien thronged this' room, now re fused to look upon the scene before them, and buried their polished jjosoms in the habiliments of sadness. In short, this magnificent room, in every part of it, spoke in the appropriate language' of silent grief, annoucinff to all Death is here! The coffin rested in the centre of the room, and was richly and beautifully dress ed. Closely attached to it was a covering of black silk velvet. The edes where the top rested were delicately faced with fine gold lace, and on either side and at each end of the coffin the same material was formed into beautiful squares. A gor geous velvet pall hung gracefully over the whole, with a deep rich fringe appended to a border of gold lace. On the top of all rested two elegantly wrought swords in mourning, buried in a profusion of lovely and fragrant flowers, which Flora had consecrated to this sad and melancholy service, as if to express the idea that sweet ness and beauty could conquer the sword and survive death itself. Around the coffin, and'at an appropriate distance, was formed a circle composed of the new President of the United States, the heads of departments; the clergy of every denomination, judges of courts, and members of the bar. The next circle con tained the foreign ministers in their rich and varied court dresses, writh a number of members of both Houses' of Congress and the relatives of the deceased President. Beyond this circle a vast assemblage of la dies and gentlemen filled up the room. Silence, deep and undisturbed, even by a whisper, pervaded . the entire assembly The solemn event which they were now ga zing upon fixed every eye aqd hushed every tongue. When, at the appointed hour, the officiating minister rosefrom his seat, and as he rose in solemn tones announced these words, I am the resurrection and the life!" one simultaneousj move -placed this vast assembly upon thqir feet on the first sound of the minister's! voice, and a feeling of deeper awre rested upon every countenance as he uttered the above sen tence. Never before did I realize the gran deur and sublimity of these words never before did I feel the thrillingi effect which the enunciation of this glorious Christian truth is capable of inspiring. At the close of these religious ceremo nies the coffin was conducted) to the fune ral car specially constructed for the occa sion, where it wras met and saluted by the solemn dirge of appropriate music; and the procession moved off uijder the dis charge of funeral artilcry, i'hich uttered loud and long a nations'? grif. M. GENERAL HARRISON AND? HIS WIFE. r A touching reminiscence connected with a visit made by the vocalist, Mr. Russell, to North Bend last summer is given in the New York Express. J The sweet singer, like! every other riend found a warm welcome atthehospi able mansion of General! Harrison. Among the songs sung was a plaintive do mestic one, happy in its thoughts and i . -l . .,i..i ,, jr . if ) ouchmg in its language, enimeu "my utu Tflfe." The language was strikingly adapted to the happy life and loves of Gen eral Harrison and his "old wife," both of whom found in the society oJf each others the most perfect happiness which it is pos ible to enjoy. The music was overpower ing at the time, recalling as it did the events of years of uninterrupted domestic bliss. Mrs. Harison wept like a child, and as tears are contagious when the buntains of sympathy are not dried np, the husband of "the old wife" could not refrain from weeping also. The remark of Mrs. Harrison in excuse for what she deemed a woman's weakness, was the dread of change, which of necessity must come a change of resident from North Bend to Washington, and in a change ot condition from the humble citizen super- intendinar his farm to the President of a nation, with cares and responsibilities of Government upon his shoulders. 1 wish." said Mrs. H. tfbt my Imsband s friends had left him where he is, happy and contented to retirement. General Harrison's heart, in the hour of social quiet, surrounded by, the remnant. of his family respondent to tne -sentiment, anu doubdess felt the vanity of all things earth ly. Alas, how full have been the dark forebodings of the wife realized'. She who a week since was "the goocj old wife," is now the lone window, and before the eyes of the reader are fixed upon the paragraph we write, relating the simifly story of a pious and good woman, her'p are filled with tears at the los of one deader to her than life. How often will the 'recollection of the wish we have narnl return to her, and how many and painful will be tho re grets that husband and wife, who had liv ed so long and so happily together were separated in the hour of death. THE WORK OF. REFORM. Our information from Washington is to the effect, that the new Cabinet have been dilicr ently engaged in investiraiing tbe condition of their several departments, and they find every branch of tha public sen-ice in a deplor able state of confusion and dilapidation. In many of the bureaus, no regular accounts have been kept, and thousands and hundreds of thousands have been squandered without vouchers, and without the scratch cf a nen tf tell where they are gone. Thisvstem was introduced bv Kendall, to avoid"" detection but it may be, that he is destined to. disappoint ment. Skilful and laborious men are jupon his track, and they will leave no stone. upturn ed to expose to the people the pillage to which, they have been subjected. The amount of the public debt imposed up on the country by Van Burch's administration, has not been fully and exactly ascertained. It is known, however, that there is a national' debt, of many millions. All the resources of the Government will be consumed by the 1st of May in meeting these pressing obligations . and the accruing revenue will be barely suffi cient to defray the daily expenses of the Gov ernment till the Mxtra Session." This is one of the boasted fruits of 12 years of Loco Focorule : A Government abounding in wealth reduced to the verge of bankruptcy " by prodigality! , 1 Such is the escape which this country has had, in not having been aq-nin cursed with tho supremacy of Loco Focoism by the election of Van IJuren. From what a precipice havo" we been saved! How fortunate it is for tho country that President Harrison has selected for his (Cabi net co-laborers in the great work of Reform and Restoration, of such laborious habit3- and business powers as Jawing and Bell of such wise and discriminaiingjudgmerit as Critten den and Granger and of such gigantic intel lect as Webster and Badger! For mighty in deed is the task which they have before their. ; Every branch of the public service" is in a confused and dilapidated condition. Eight years of usurpation, proscription and corrup tion, followed ; by four of imbecility, have combined to present a Herculean task for the Administration, to whom the people have as signed the mighty labors of renovation and . reformation. Is it not too much to expect that all the mischief which past Administra tions have wrought, can bo repaired by tho present? Is it a possible thing, that in four years the public service can be restored to it3. ancient vigor, efficiency and economy! an the country, by any human means, in so short a space of time recover its wonted" strength and prosperity? If such things can be done by human means, we fully and sincerely be lieve they will be, by those to whom the peo pie have, in their wisdom, entrusted the gov ernment of the country. Happy the men who may be the means of efTcctin these p"lorious results!. They will deserve the lasting Grati tude of their country. The work' of reforro. has commenced. Each Department, of State is laboriously at work in the prosecution'of their labors. Alrea dy- have they reached disclosures of waste and corruption, which should make the American people rejoice with exceeding joy at their blessed deliverance frotn the dominion of ft dynasty, which has so long ruled only to plunder, and so long held power only to abuse it. Boston Jlflas Commerce of Boston. -During the month of March there were 80 arrivals in the port of Boston, 287 coastwise and 09 foreign. During the same period of lime , there were 283 clearances, 212 coastwise and 71 foreign. 27 ships and 7 barques were from New Orleans, out of .47 ships and 24 barques which came durir.gf the month of March. They brought 20,057 bales of Cotton; enough to keep a mill or two in perpetual motion. -Phildd. North American. THE CIRCULAR TO OFFICE HOLDERS As many persons professing JefTersoni2n democracy with their lips, affect to regard the late circular as anti-republican end tyrannic!, we think it inay be useful hdre to remind them of the views and practice of two former Presi dents whom they profess' to respect. The cir cular treads in the footsteps' of Jefferson, and carries out the views of Jackson, as the follow in extracts will serve to show. MR. JEFFERSON'S Circular. Extract from Mr. Jefferson 8 . Circular uddr tiled to offce holders under hit.iulf - 4The President of the United Stales '.has seen with dissatisfaction, officers of the Gene ral Government, taking, cn various occasions, active parts in the elections of public function aries whether of the General or State Govern ment. Freedom cf election being f-ssential to the mutual independence of Government, and of the different branches cf the same Govern ment, so vitally cherished by most of our con stitutions, kis deemed improper for officers depending on the Executive of the Union, to attempt to control or influence the free exer- cies of the elective right. . fr is erpecied that no officer will attempt to influence the rales of other men, nor lake any parln the business if elcctioneernins that being deemed inconsis- - . r - 1 tent with the spirit ot tne v;onstuuuon ana his duties." From GEN. JACKSON'S Inaugural Address: "The recent demonstrations of utibhc senti ment inscribed on the list of Executive dutiesj in characters too legible to be overlooked, the task of reform which will require particular ly the correction of those abuses that have , brought the patronage of the Federal govern ment into conflict with the freedom or elec tions. SALE OF BANK STOCK. One hundred Shares of the Stock of the Bank of the State of North-Carolina, were sold at Auction last week, and brought 91 Ot per share. .Raleigh Hegistcr. The Lexington Intelligencer of April 2 sayj Wednesday niffht last, We are gratified- uThA Hnn. M IMaV-r reaCiltU uuuiv. be able to say his health is entirely res though he is still feeble." , TO .A, t i
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