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jw:at! are ocn thousands of turtk.nnd other 'H animals feeding thereon. The rr.oun-: t-(ns of continents seem to correspond with t :u called the abysses of the c? The high-'st "ttouhlcThs 'do ndFi'i.so iibove a5,vMJ,j'f-i:t ; and allowing for the effects of tho elements, some 8upose that th tea is not beyond 33,000 fe. t in depth. Lord Mul- rave "used, in the Northern Ocean, a very' Uvy sounding lead, and gave out, along with it, cable rope of the lenght of 4,080 JVet, without finding thu bottom. But the greatest dt pth hitherto bounded, was by Captain Scocsby, who, in the Greenland Ste, could find no bottom with 1,200 fath pm, or 7,200 feet of line. According to Li PLice, it mean depth is about two miles, -which, supposing the generally received estimate to be correct, as to the proportion tho extent of the water bears to the dry land on tho earth's surface, would Make about 200 millions of cubic lef t of water. licc.j C. WdlUaCi World of Waters. Printers' Prcreros. Pay thou tho prin ter in the day that thou owest him, that the t-vil day may be afar oil', lest the good man of the law sendeth thee thy bill : greeting. Remember him of the quill, and the de vil around him, and when thou weddest thy daughter to a man of her choice, send thou unto him a bountiful slice of the bri dal loaf. ; Itorrow not that for which thy neighbor hath paid, but go and buy for thyself of him -who hath to sell. . t Thou sholt not read thy neighbor's pnper nor molest him in the peaceful possesion of it, lent thou .stand condoned in the sight of him who drivelh the quill, and thy charac ter be Irawked about -by poor children. Written Jlr the Beacon.. Messrs. Editors : 1 was glad to learn that ou as Editors did not design to take any particular concern in polities, but that alfp.irlics ahould have liberty to be heard l.i yoiif rp'Cr. With your permiUm-l will ttatc some of my reasons why i.i my opin- ion, we t-hould be particular to vote for no air. n for our next Levis' .- ' ..r hi V an Burcmsm. J lie Van men, finding that the people arc turn ing their face against their notions of l' d trul policy, ; re endeavoring to sing it into the ears of the people, that a member of the Legislature has nothing to with general polities, and if they have the integrity and ability to legislate well for tli3 State, they ask, why not vote for them I Bu vrc have a Senator to etaet from this State at "the next session of the legislature, and al though they are now the first to disclaim against the propriety of our legislatures ta king up time with the concerns of tho gen eral government, and promise now to gofer popular measures their party has hitherto opposed, yet these Van men are not to be trusted. It is a true rub- tj j'idge of ti e fiiturv- by the pi --t, and if we -want to know wit!; Cv rtainty v, Ijat a Van mm will do. A gaiu view, their conduct during the last two :r three., aassious of ,mr.liJUt.UCC-.-'..:Tllcy.. all go fogcthi f in solid phalafiX, like a flock" of sheep, as the leaders of the little yankey Van p:rty rn;:y hint or intimate. They nev er loo!; to the interest and welfare of the State, but to the interest of the little in trigue!. lg Van Buren. And these Vannicm bers of our st ate legislature' seem to forget, that they were delegated to attend- to the interest of their own part e alar State, and slnpe tnrir measur ,vs with a view to advance t!i. prospects of their fuyorife candidate for the lYfi-LneV. I am i i t ncssc-e, the ,vor of iTuirh I. White of Teu uf republican. c, Jinn an.l e-ri the Prrs Mil ami lu;i:rt man, lur our next dent. 1 am totally opposed to Mr. Van ihireu of New York, because he is the he.'id of the Albany junto or regency. A set of men not responsible to the people, who hive undertaken by means not legit imate, to control the operations of our gov enntit nt, and trausfi r power from the hands of VtfrajjJlUtnTt to ,tlve: ew, aiid to make the pcoOle nothing but mere puppets to dance as the movers of the wrie behind the scene mny tTirect. The manner Tii wliTcTTlTrey effect their object, is by having agents sit uated and papers established, in every cor ner of the Union." : When thtrRegency wish to curry- any favorite measure it is proclai med in the central paper, and immediate ly every paper and agent of the party is en gaged in its support And woe-betide the wretch,' who shall dare to have any opinion of his own. The party without remorse, w ill pour upon his devoted head all the vi als of their wrath. His motives will be impugned, his character slandered ; in short nothing will be left to destroy him and de stroy him they will. For what man how ever talented and virtuous he may be, can ptand against the united force of a party '? It will be seen that tike eflect of such a sys tem is to destroy all indejendence in pub lic functionaries, they will have no will or mind of their own -they will not consult the interc:-t of the country, but the interest of a party such is the state of things now in New-York ; and such is the state of things which the leaders' of the Van Buren party wish to establish in the United States. . . . JFor what reason is this mode of control ing the public wili resorted to ? The ef fcetfof every government which had exist ed previous. to the American revolution, had been to transfer the benefit, arising from the labor of the many to the few. This 'will "not 'be denied when we" reflect that all the real wt ultfiTin th "world Is (derived from labor fand yet, how few of those, whose la bor produce it,arc even blest with the com forts of life, while those who toil not, are rioting in profusion and luxury. The peo ple of the United-State- believed that the result here.spoken of, was occasioned by priviledged orders, existing in every com munity, distinct from the great body of the people. Te-prevent such an evil, the peo ple of the several States based their govern ments upon this principle, that all men are entitled to equal political rights and privi ledges. They thought that under sucjh go vernments, the laborer would enjoy the fruits of his industry. And the govern ment thus created would have answered the purposes of their creation, if the people would act for themselves if they would make their agents responsible to them for the warmer in which they disehnrgo their duties, and not responsible to a jxirty to destroy the happy influence of govern ments, conferring upon all equal rights and benefits; and for the purpose of directing the popular will, so as to promote the in krest of the few, at the expense of the ma ny, and ti..nsfer wealth from the laborer to the c;:titalist, juntos, cabals, and caucuses were resorted to. Jn New Ydrk,and some other States to the North, they have suc eeedeel. The laboring class have become poor nna nakvu ami nusrraoie, wnne ine capitalir-ts live in splendor, that might be env ied by an eastern nabob. Are the peo ple of the south, and especially the people of the old North State, prepared for such a state of tilings. The election of Martin Van Ibtren, the consequent introduction of New York pol itics into the union, would be our degrada tion," aiid one "half the States in the cunfed e racy, would become the mere provinces of New York, and be compelled to obey the high behest of the Albany regency. ' Martin Van Duren belongs to a party who believe, that it is lawful to use power and patroaage of the general government for ill.- purpose of interfering v ith tlie.frccdpin of elections, a;;d for the purpose, of controll ing their result-'. A party whose motto is "t'lO - '" !' f"T"-.''"--l fn ilio victors," that ia that tlieliiecs, which were created for the benefit of tho whole people of right belong to tin' party who shall pre vail. The eli'eet, that such a party would have on the institutions of our country and upon the freedom of thought and action, (he very life and blootl of liberty, is too apparent to require comment. Mr, Van Buren was nominated by the steam Doctor Ned Rueker Baltimore Con- deri and office seekers for the purpose of suppressing and controlling public opinion. These ilisintcresb-d patriots, the office hol ders, wore not wilting to leave the coming contest to the uninfluenced judgment of the people. They had reason to fear, that that judgment would deprive them of some of the loaves and fishes." They, have therefore, kindly, taken upon themselves the right to think fur, and dictate, .to, the people, and if the people Mibuiit to such dictation, then is the character of our government changed, and the KWrtl4' of our country forever lost. That the members eo.iipo.-ing this conven- j fion, were not d h gated by a majority of the .people of air, of the .States of tins Lni- on, is a (act vv.neh cannot be denn d that its inenibers were not delegated bv a ma jority of the Juckjon party, i;, I believe e- qually true. This Convention then, was not the re presentatives of the' whole people, nor the reprerentatives of a party what was it J A ! anJ which c,tilnat;ug UlC milcuut of monev in meeting of a party , dictating to the whole the nt f)oBO of t((1 lnt ',. Qt American peoph. llns mode ol coiiccn- 40,000,000, stipulate j somet!iiug !;l;c x-OeK,',-trating public opinion as is pretended, t!ie oi r 3 , , 1 i , ,i II- , : tMKI to our State, real design of which is to control and dir.-et : that opinion, is unknown to the Constilu-; (-nce- writing the above we learn from tiun. und if ae.iuiesced in bv the neoide. 4 private letter from W ashington City tint th.s must change the Constitutional mode of c lecting a President. Mr. Van Huren was a Missouri restric- j i . ti'i tionist, tlie great .object of which was to draw the slave hohling states to a perpetual 1 minority, in fact to make them" hewers of wood, and tlrawTTS of water Mo th popl of the non-slave holding States forever. 1 fHF-Miv VitH Uureu seeretly favors the ab olitionists of t!ic north. It he does not, why are all these federal abolitionists so strong for him. Let us not be deceived bv the cry that Van is the Democratic Re publican candidate ho ever heard of av democrat resorting to juntos for the purpose of suppressing aud controling tho public will? What republican candidate for the Presidency ever asked the pope of Koine for his assistance in this country before. Does Mr. Van Bureri intend to encourage Fernery if maele President, in return for catholic votes? Who CYcr heard of a re publican who sanctioned a principle, that it was lawful to use the power and patron age of the Government to control elections, and whoso motto was, " the spoils of the vanquisheel belong to the victors?" Mr. Jefl'ecson has solemnly warned the republi cans to beware, lest a party, who did not hold a single principle in common with them, should assume tlieir name for the pur pose of establishing principles directly at war with republicans in the party, spoken of by Mr. Jefferson is now striving for power in the person of Mr. Van Buren. It is time that the people should compel a party who arc fighting for spoils and plunder, to surrender a name that is deservedly dear to every lover of equal riglits. A LAB6RER. Only 5,000,000 of the -81, 000,000 acres of lanet coTitairrcd irr Lotmam tire vet soht. . . . v nvinrR A few door from tfco towrt Houw, South U GREEN SB 0 ROUGH: 8ATVROAT MORSIXC, JVtY , 1830. (r John A. Gilmee, Esq. will deliver an ad dress before the Adelphian Society of this place, in the. Presbyterian Church, on Monday next, the 4th q- July, nt3o'cIeck P. M. ; to which the citizens and all who may feel an interest in the occasion, are respectfully invited. CAPITOL AT WASHINGTON. The present number of the Beacon is embel lished with a view of tliis stupendous work of art, which is believed by all who have seen it, to be a very correct representation. P-cvcnd other very interesting engravings are nearly in rcadiis for publication, and will be brought out before the close of the volume. Not q wt eiobhe ct, We return thanks to our editorial brethren of this and uther States for the very flattering notices taken of our sheet, but must beg leave to difler with the opinions expressed by seine of them, tlmt we were decid edly opposed to the nurunce of the Ealtimore Convention, and favoraHe to Judge White, &c., in such a manner as might establish the belief, that our columns wouW be devoted to this sub ject. However important it may be in the pre sent crisis of our political alfairF, that the warning roice of the prees threuglwut tlic laiul should be J wised to ref cue and save us from destruction ' ere yet it is Un late: yet believing, that he who traversing the country in bands, murdering, pil takes hjkmi hinwe'lf the U.k of conducting a py- iagmg, and burning every thing they meet with. tilical paper c?rcciallv, should be well versed in i the history of our Government from the hour our I foret'ithero lir-t declared theim elves freed froni I the -hackled of 'Uc mother country, through all nic numberless change?, ramification!!, intrigues; Are., up to the present time, and that the hjH that a piper destit ite of this all important d s ideratiun on the part of its conductors, can ever arrive at any thing like a respectable stand a niong the political papers of its. day, is but f at indeed. And knowing, too, that numerous pa pers have been gotten up and are now publish ed, professing to be staunch party papers, when at the same -time their influence hi favor of the party 'tlft? jjurtehrt to ttpokl, 4 but aa,a drop in the ocean, a mere bubble, circulating their nar row rounds, as the idle wkid unheeded. r' Further, knowing that the highly important subject of literature was too much neglected in our State, as in th southern country generally, and that there arc hut few publications devoted entirely to miscellaneous reading, &.c, we hud determined to jmrsue such a course, and aside from tho ..turmoils of pobibal sinfr, we flatter .a.. i.. ( .i. ,:i .i encouragement so fjr . extended to us, we vi!l yery tsjoii'lie eiul:TM thy the supjwrt of a" enlightened and literature loving public, and that it mny stand forth as a brocon to liyht the student to the paths of lit- crature and distincion. Public Deposited. We hive received a Copy of an Act to regulate the Public Depos ites favored by Hon- A- II. Sueppekd, which is exm-rted to ikism the House in its nrrsci;f form. bill has passed the House, and that too by a vote of 155 to IW: and now onlV wants the sina nature of the President tt becoiuc a law. The following is extracted from the letter a- bove referred to: Wasiusotox City, June 22. T (fcVicTi, P . H. I liave'jtisl retiiriied TriHil the House of Representatives, which is still in sessToiv lite matter under consideration is the appropriation for improvements in the Hudjon river; but members in debating upon it took oc casion a -.usual, to-dug m other irrevalent mat ters, and amongst tlie rest the great Mr- WisK,. of Va. who was speaking when I entered, de claimed in his usual furious style against a measure which has actually now passed both houses', and wants only iho President's signature to m.ike it a hw : I allude to the bill remilatinn' the Public Deposites. This is a nvt important measure, and I doubt nqt, will be a jxpular one. A very important teatuie in this bill i that the money which .shall Iw in the Treasury of the United States on the 1st of January, ls;7, re- j serving the sum of five millions of Dollars, shall be dejHsited with the several States, in propor tion to their representation in Congress. " Much business yet remains to be done, and only until next Mondiy week to do it in; of course much will be left unfinished. The Bdl now passed is amended in several of its sections from that first passed by the Senate. Several Bills of minor importance have been discussed, among which is a bill to provide for the 'erection of a new building for the Patent Office, which was ordered to be engrossed for a third reading'. , We have no particular advices from the Cherokee?, the citizens of adjoining counties are etiltiir rrfcat eciteincTitr- CftKEK.W AR--ThereV no lack of neAys: from here, althongb among all- the reports re ceived, tlicre is but little of real interest tome reader hereabout, being generally the mere re petition of the most inhuman butcheries, the burning of house, and the dcstwyiiigrof plan tation J&c. There are at this time no less than 4,000 effective men, regulars and militia, m and about Columbus, Ga and ij Is surprising that nothing decisive can be brought about. Three thousand men, or thereabouts, are stationed on the Chatahoochie, and yet the Indians with a boldness and audacity really astonishing presume to cross into Georgia and commit their depreda tions. Their whole movements are managed with so much skill and adroitness, and their march through the swam pa aud bushes so velvet footed, that the mischief they design is all done before the whites " smell the rat.' By a ixjsUcrint published from a letter dated Augusta, 10th, to'a merchant in Charleston, we see that a body of about 2000 Indians had cross ed the Chatahoochie and escaped into Florida. The twenty-one hostile Indians who were taken vrisoiurs of war and lodged in the jail of Mont gomery, have escaped from prison at the Head- Qunrtcrs of the Governor, and under ms very nose ! Tlie strength of the Creeks is variously sur mised, some accounts state that they number r?000 warriors, including boys able to do much mischief; from most particular accounts how ever, it may be conjectured that their number does not much exceed 0000. , A cotemporary remarks : Was there ever such miserable mismanagement! Is it possible that the whole United States, cannot protect a small iHjrtion from the ravages of a few thousand, sa- va"-es, when our citiiietiS are c;pable of effect- lUg Uc independence; of Texas ! Florida is al most wholly abandoned to the Indians, who are i'. Cherokee country is without a soldier to jlou jie Indians in check, or give confidence to Vhe settlers, and this at a time when there arc millions in the Treasury without employment, and when every mail tram North, West,- East, or South w teaming with companies of Volun teers leaving for Texas. The Creek Wur. A friend writes us from Columbus, that a report was in town that the Alabama troops had a light with the Indians on Thursday last, the 10th inst. and had defeated them. It is. a melancholy, indication, that no movement of any considerable body has yet thousand troops have been assembled for several davs, or eveu weeks. It is to be feared that another Seminole failure will be the result, if there is much longer delay. Fay. Obs. From the Charleston Mercury, June 20. We received from our Correspondent at if. vuSUa" -?L r"1 papers to uic A inn I 4 . . X - ll . . I ..i.l instant. A lew extracts lollow: Passengers arrived last evening per Rail Road state that iiuthiig f jinporiance lad occ tired with regnrd to the Creek Indians. (Jen. Houston and his Staff had left .New Orleans for Texas, via Nachitoches.' Hubbard, the person who set fire to the C States treasury department at Washing ton was arrested in New Orleans on the 0th inst. He was traced to that place by an officer named Kelly, who suspecting that tic would probably call at the Post office for letters directed to certain individ uals, communicated the same to the Post Maste r, who caused him to be arrested the moment he presented himself. He confesrs his guilt and promises to mike known his accomplices. Bob Short of Georgia, has addressed an epistle to Gen. Jackson, in which he pro (toses to take the Creek war upon contract. He says : 44 If the General Government will pay me eight hundred thousand dollars in good hard money, (drafts on pet banks will not be recei ved,) I will engage (without any extra allowance,") toilrive -every-Greek out of the two States, in less than 0 months. 1 will juft take a couple ef eoltoit i paulet ted Colonies, out of our pine woods, with as many regiments froni our Infcklcberrv swamps, and Fll make every copper-faced rascal of an Indian scamper out of the na tion like rabbits from woods on fire. Texas. Hon. Samuel P. Carson, formerly a resident of this State, now Secretary of State in the Republic of Texas has, we learn, passed on to Washington City, bearing despatches in volving the interest of his adopted country. Gen Houston has so far recovered from his wound, ns again to enter into the duties of his oflice, and has lea New Orleans to resume his command in Texas A ridiculous story is going the rounds, of a pretended agreement between General Houston and Gen. Santa Anna, 5 or 6 years ago, to conquer Mexico .and Texas. They arc said to have met at Washington, and formed their plans, whilst Santa Anna was an exile from Mexico. His party suddenly obtained the ascendancy, and he returned to Mexico, and became President, leaving Houston to lament hi3 disappointment, and to avenge it. . Gen. Houston This successful Chief tain has left New-Orleans, to resume his command in Texas, having nearly recover ed of his wounds. He was invited bv ib citizens ef New Orleans to "partake of a n'uhlic dinner, but he declined to be nresent on any festive occasion, whilst there was a single enemy oi ms auopica country witn in her limits. The Mexican Government, not discouraged by the ill sueeess of tlieir renownedchampion in arrns are preparing for anorlietvigoroui climpwgi'lFtnat e-' vent, Santa Anna will be shw Jthc whole aiexican armyput to tne swora,and la all probability tho whole Empire become in a stato of vassalage in Texas, "Thousands of volunteers will give battle to the Mexicans in Texas, if they do not appear at the gates of the great City of Mexico itself. We see the following paragraph "going the rounds" in some of our exchange papers: Little Rock, May 10. A highly respectable gentleman, who arrived here this morning, direct from the Missionary station in the Choctaw Nation on Red River, has furnished us the follow ing interesting items of intelligence from that quarter. A report was received just before he left, that a body of 500 or 000 Camanche In dians were within 40 miles of Joncsborough, and the inhabitants on the south side of Red River were in a state of great alarm so much so, as to have nearly given up tho intention of making crops south of that river. Col. Vose had received nn order from Gen. Gainc, to have the U. S. troops at Fort Towson in a state of readiness for iimnedi ate action ; and an express had been for warded from the same source to (Jen. Ar buckle, at Fort Gibson, ordering the Dra. goons to. tho southern frontier. No act of hostility had been committed by the Indians, nor indeed, w as there any evidence that they intended any. T a e S Eii i sole s law at present no op-, posing power worth noticing to check their de predations, nur is there any force provided by the Government to prevent either the union of the Creeks with the Seminoles, or the Cherokees with, tlie Creeks. As matters now stand, noth ing particular can bo looked for from Florida, more than that which is daily transpiring. 0O The following Order of Exercises at the lite Commencement, at our University, Chapel Hill, (23rd ult.) we publish for those who fe-el an interest in its prosperity, and in the well be ing of tlie several graduates : MOltMXU. 1. Prayer. -3. Salutatory Oration in Latin, Win. B. Rodman, Washington. 3. Oration on the Study of History, 4. Oration, on the influence of the love of fame on the exertions of Genius. Fred. N. McWilliams, Halifax. 5. Oration, on the relations of the Catho lic Religion to the spirit of free ii(Ttlf tions. James E. Crichton, Brunswick, Va. G. Debate Would it be better to confer upon the Indian Tribes the pri vilege? of American citizenship, or to subject th oi to domestic servitude ? ; rTlicilt3b61;:'Br1ir Thos. S. Jacecks, Pcrquimoiw 7. Dissertation o;. the effects of the u;.. vcrsal difl'ubion of Education. James Saunders, Raleigh. 8. Should the United States attempt the ac quisition of Texas by either purchase or conquest ? Be'iij. J. Ilouze, Ilaywoodhoro'. Wm. L. Stamps, Halifax, V'a i). Debate Should the United States re cognize the Imlcpendcnec of Texas .' Jas. E. Hamlctt, Charlotte, Va. Henry K. Nash, Hillsborough. AFTERNOON. 1. Oration The claims of the Indians with in our limiisupon the justice, commiser ation and liberality of our citizens. - Thos. Jones, Petersburg, Va. 2. Oration, on the inequality of hum.iu genius. Wm. II. Hooper, Chapel Hill. 3. Oration,, on the obligations of the edu , cated of. our, country to preserve its inr titutiih, ---dt'-s. L IVttigrew-, Tyrelh 1. Should England and France combine to restore tlie Natronaltfrtr Poland 1- Robert GY McCutchcn, F. C. Thos. Stamps, Halifax, Va. 5. Debate, on the wisdom of .the Salic Lav.. John A. Downey, Granville. Gohp G. Tull, Lenoir. 0. Valedictory Oration. L. W. Scott. 7. Degrees conferred. 8. Presidential Address. 9. Report on the Public Examination. 10. Prayer. Mr. Pinckney, who, as jvill be . recollected, was to have delivered an address at Chapel Hill on the above day, we arc sorry to learn, could not attend. His address was read by the Hon. President, David L. Swain. LEGISLATIVE CANDIDATES. Rutherford. Joseph McDowell Carson, Senate ; John K. Wells, Dr. William J. T. Miller and Major John II. Bedford, Com mons all for White. Burke. Col. Peter Ballew, Senate; Ed win Jones Erwin, Dr. Ur,. Perkins, Maj. S. Flemrriing, Commons all for White. Buncombe. James Gudger, for the Dis trict composed of Buncombe; Haywood and Macon ; Col. John Clayton, M.'B. Patlon, Commons rail for White. Van Buren Ticket. For Senate, B. S. Brittain, of Macon, and Hodge Rabun, of Buncombe ; for Commons, Joseph Pickett. " Stokes Cownty.--Matthcw R. Moore, . Senate ; M. Matthews, '"'Gri." Wiristoir and -
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