i.
The folio w ing Petition to the Legislature,
to. favor of a Lunatic Asy lum, is in circula-
lion in thU county for' signatures, ' Is - not
the subject of sufficient importaticfe;tV elicit
similar movements in other Muntiesi?
'Hillsboro'Jtecorder.
'! 5 AHSKMtfLt orNRTU CaROUSA
We the undersigned, citizen df Orange
county, moved by the unanimous recom
mendation of the Justices, at the August
Court (or the. county aforesaid, andby the
. : settled convictions of bur own minds as to
the propriety of the measure, would ap
proach your honorable body as , petitioners
to favor of the erection of a Lunatic Asylum
m-the State bf North Carolina. ; " . -.
In this enlightened airef whenthe'public
mind of every civilized nation, subdued and 1
characterized by the benign influences ot
our holy religion,' is deeply engaged in
schemes of publje and private beneficence;
when the number and splendor of national
institutions for the relief of human suffering
is n a great degree the criterion by which
national greatness is estimated; it might be
deemed justly offensive to the moral feeling
f your honorable body to urge, by elaborate
argument, the propriety of legislative mea
sure in belralf of that portion of the human
fanjmy, which, beyond all others, is afflict
ed in a manper'most! to be deplored, and
whose situation at -the same time is least
susceptible of alleviation frorn individual ex
ertion. Your petitioners will abstain, there
fore, from such a course, arid confine them-
selves to a very few observations on the
subject. ' ' . . i
There is no calamity to which human na
tur is exposed, so deplorable in its charac
ter and consequences, as that which reduces
man to the pitiable condition of the lunatic.
" Deprived of reason, he is shut out from aU
thejsourc.es of moral enjoy ment, and is dead
to every purpose of usefulness ; with pas
sions unrestrained by the influences of in?
telfetrt, he is at once an object of the deep
est (distress to relatives and friends, and of
alar'm to all within his reach; a prey to the
extravagant fancies of a disordered brain, iie
finds no comfort, from within, and from
without universal avoidance. A condition
so hopeless, so terrible, and so utterly
wrejtched, must excite the sympathy, and
should enlist iu its behalf the beneficent ex
ertion of every feeling heart. In dthcrcoun
trics and in other States that sympathy and
thatj exertion have had their influence, and
much has been done by public authority for
its alleviation; but in North Carolina noth-
ing,j literally nothing ! Here the lunatic,
without the aid of medical treatment and ap
proved scientific methods of relief, without
security "even; against doing or receiving
harm, is left to wearjut,a wretched exis
tence in hopeless misery. If heTias proper
ty.to support 'him, he is, nevertheless, a
1 source of constant and, painful anxiety to
his friends; a perpetual watch must be'kept
over him, and the household of which he is
a melmber, is harrassed with alternate hopes
and fears and ceaseless vigils, till exhausted
by the incessant demands upon its patient
indulgence it, is forced to adopt a rigorous
and pften times unadvisable coifrse of treat
men towards the unconscious offender. As
under happy circumstances the, moral feel
ing is the source of our greatest enjoyment,
SO Under thnSP rf th- nnnnito fhx-anlfr it
T wm-w vm y s m W W J ft 1
is the-source of our deepest distress. The
misery inflicted by the constant presence of
a deranged son or daughter, or brother or
sister, the pain of witnessing daily a spec
tacle isq revolting.Ust keep the feelings
perpetually on the rack, and banish tKe'last
-vestiffe pf happiness from the domicile of
.the unfortunate family) whose lot it 'is to
have within its bosom a maniacal relative.
The (hapless condition of such families, no
less tjhan that of the junatics themselves, it
seems to your petitioners, claims the com
passionate consideration of your honorable
. bodyt and calls for the irfeasure of relief
whicjt an Asvlum would afford.
With regard to that portion of insane per
sons in whose condition a destitution of pro
perty is superadded to a destitution of rea?
son, their lotjsif possible, still more me
Aancholv and more deserving the favorable
J - , r
consideratioivof your honorable body. For
him there is no care, no protection, no com1
fort, but such as the inadequate means of
the poor house supply; no lesser restraints
than chains, and a- dungeon. Debarred of
I . w . -
- exercise, of the very air andlighfof heaven,
so necessary to that state pf health which
alone can afford the slightest prospect of
curej without:crime.and without fault, (for
neither can.be imputed to the maniac.) day
after day and jy ear after year, he dras out
" a wretched existence in the loathsome at
mnnliftR ni a nnntrnr. Yunr nplitinnprn
would represent that this is no faney sketch
of human misery; occurrences within the
limits of their own county show its reality,
and facts identical and of daily observation
,,havq forced this subject upon their conside
ration. There are at this moment three per
sons of this description confined at the poor-
house ot Urange Uounty, two of whom, af
ter al long and close confinement in the dun-
,! geonis of the common jail, have lately been
j re moved to rooms prepared for their recep
tion by the wardens of the poor. Besides
these, there are others in the county, whose
cases are less violent, but who are neverthe
less fit subjects for a mad house. Your pe
titioners are not prepared to state the wants
of other counties in this respect; for the sake
' of humanity It is to be hoped that they are
not so great; but ifr in proportion to thejr
population, they are as great, thii aggregate
of al the counties would show jni amount
! of suffering truly appalling, and would jus
tify, j in the opinion of your petitioners, a
largt" expenditure fof its relief.
Experience ha proved how much human
exertion is capable of achieving, when, aid
ed by science, it is exclusively, directed to
the attainment of any particular object; and
if th6e laboring under mental derangement
werf congregated at a public asylum, under
thcire atment of competent hyficians, whose
LUNAT I C ASLU M
sole attention should oe directed to that par
ticular branch of disease, we mightreasona-
Diy calculate on ine enure cure m iuanv.auu
a great improvemen t in the condition of all.
The statistics of similar institutions are not
within Tthe reach of your, petitioners, anu
they eanoVtnerefbre, refer , specifically to
the haoDV results" which have followed their
establishment in other Statesr but it is an
universally admitted fact, that a great ame
lioration of the condition of lunatics has uni
formlv been the consequence.
Your petitioners earnestly pray, that your
honorable body will institute proper mea
sures for establishing an Asylum within the
State, on a scale commensurate witn its
wants. Such an institution is not of sec
tional, but of general interest, and it con
cerns deeply the honor and christian char
acter of the" State to provide it. Considera
tions of benevolence towards the afflicted,
the high obligations of christian charity,
and a just regard for the dignity of the State,
have impelled your petitioners (a3 members
of the community of North Carolina, sen
sibly alive to, and in part responsible for,
whatever may affect her standing,) to the
duty of doing all in their power to throw
from her the reproach of indifference to the
sufferings of our fellow men; and they trust
they have accomplished that duty in thus
bringing the subject to the notice of your
honorable body.
And your petitioners will ever pray, &c.
An Important Discovery The Teeth.
Waldic;, of Philadelphia, notices a discos
very of no little importance to such as are
troubled with bad teeth. He says :
'Some time since. Doctor Caldwell, now
a practising dentist at No. 68 South Sixth
street, had a favorite horse which had be
come incapable of eating his oats, and on
investigation a carious tooth indicated the
difficulty to result probably from tooth -ache
Extraction was the remedy of course;
poor horse wa3 tripped up by tying his feet
together as custom prescribes, his gum was
lanced as we poor humanities have tod
often witnessed, and jpaif of pinchers were
applied as we have also experienced; even
a mallet and chisel failed of their effect.-
The tooth was intractable; no effort would
withdraw it from its socket. The gum tu-i
mefied and on examining it carefully, the
doctor perceived a ligament at the neck of
the tooth, and without much thinking of thei
effect he cut it; the tooth immediately fell
out, or was extricated with a slight effort of
the thumb and figer. ' f
"This led the operatorto reflection, and
the hint was obtained which confers upon'
suffering humanity a benefit, which may be
esteemed by the sufferer, second only to the
discoveries of Jenner, or the circulation of
the blood ! Subsequent experiments have
fully proven that the human teeth are also
retained so powerfully in their sockets by
a ligament, and it is the breaking of this
which requires so much manual force; and
this, when cut, which gives not so much
pain as lancing the gums, loosens the tooth,
and it may immediately be extracted with
out pain with the fingers ! A physician of
our acquaintance, whose name we are at li
berty to mention if requested, has had the
operation of extracting a large molar, treble
fanged tooth in this way without pain, and
so gratified was he by the fact, that he in
vestigated the anatomy of the parts and ex
tracted all the teeth of a dead subject in the
j.- A- . V
same way, ana with no moreaimculty than
above related.. He is a witness not to be
impeached, who, with many others, have
already been benefited by this great anato
mical discovery."
DO NOT BE AVARICIOUS.
It is astonishing to contemplate the evil
and dangerous results arising from a spirit
of avarice, and we see these dangers ampli
fied in the" case of Benjamin Rath bun; sent
to the State Prison for the crime of forgery.
The West had no citizen more enterprising,
Jbut it was a rash, injudicious, inexpedient
enterprise, Which in staiving to grasp too
much lost, every thing. Mr. Rath bun was
ready for any speculation buy lots build
houses establish steam boats run a line
of stages, erect hotels, and thus shackle
himself with every kind of operation in
stocks, rail roads, canals, manufactories,
buildings, &c. &c.
Having originally but little capital of his
own possessing, it is true, a strong mind
and active habits, he plunged into a vortex
of difficulties.; the panic found him short of
money, and he resorted to forgery, not from
a natural viciousness of character or a love
of crime, but to sustain himself and his
credit, intending, there is no doubt, to take
up these forged drafs when in funds.4 It is
thus that crime engrafts itself insensibly on
injudicious arid unwise projects; men get
excited ny ambition and spurred on by
avarice, and the issue frequently is, that
fraud is called in with the hope of averting
calamity. Let us be content with our lot
-contentment is a blessing, and1, let every
nrau confine himself to the pursuit that ed
ucation, habit and inclination have qualified-
him for. 1 ry hrst'to get a living, thsn to
improve it, finally to make and lay bymo
ney. Let uo man suppose that fortunes
can be made in a day. iV. York Star.
t) .
Galvanism. -The European correspon
dent of the Worcester Spy writes : Apro
pos to galvanism; A fact of no inconside
rable importance has recently been demon
strated by a French physician. It is this :
that Jhe two surfaces of the human tongue
are always in opposite slates, of electricity,
the upper being, if I remember right, ccf-tro-negative,
and'the under electropositive.
This fact is of great importstice itt the phy
siologist, and it may be the means of even
tually enabling us to1 arrive at some positive
knowledge m reganf to animal magnetism
-at the power of detnoristrating whether
inaipresem normy nas, in reality, a local
habitation" as well as u a-Tihlne,."
FltOM AtBANlT DAILY APVEBTlSfi. .
The ub-Vreasury We have repeat
edly endeavoVed tolmpre6S upon mir read
ers the .all-iriportant fact, that when the
novel policy o the proposed sub-Treasury
scheme was first advauced, it was met with
signal opposition by Mr. Van. Buren and
his friends. They now support it, with
out there being auy visible reason for such
a complete and toal abandonment of. prin
ciple, except that he proposed project is
well adapted to give increased strength arid
permanence to the party in power; at the
expense, rt may be aded, of our republican
theory of government and to the great peril
of popular liberty.
Amongf the propositions once sedulous
lyjtnaintaind, but now discarded by Mr.
Van Bureh and his friends, was the superi
or safety nd efficacy of the State Banking
Institutions, over individuals, as the fiscal
agents of the General Government. Upon
this pointy we cite two extracts from the re
port of Levi Woodbury, Secretary of the
Treasury! made to Congress in December,
1834. j
"It is gratifying to reflect,'! said Mr. Se
cretary Woodbury, that thecredit given
by the Government, whether to bank paper
or bank agents, has been accompanied by
smaller losses in the experience under the
system of State banks in this country at
their worst periods, and under their sever
est calamities, than any otherjdnil of cred
it the Government has ever given in rela
tion to its pecuniary transactions. Hence,
unless the States and the United Stales
should both deem it proper gradually, and
in the endjentirely, to dispense with the
paper system, and which event is not anti
cipated, the Government cannot escape-occasional
Ipsses from 'that quarter; and
can never hope to escape all losses from
banks as fiscal agents, except by the em
ployment in their place of other and indi
vidual ageijts, who will probably be fouud
less responsible, safe, convenient, and eco
nomical." . .
It will be seen, from the above extract,
that Mr. Woodbury is, or was until it be
came his interest to profess a change of his
opinions the decided sustamer oi the su
periority of State bank agencies.
Unfortunately for his. present reputation
for consistency, he was not content to refer
only onfce tb the subject, but in another part
of the same; report, by way of showing his
zeal in the cause, enforced his opinions by
referring tojfacts and documentary proof.
We present this extract also to the read-
er, as a still turther condemnation ot the
gross insincerity of the Administration, in
its pretence to a patriotic motive, when it
began to lay its plans for compassing the
custody of die public money.
Mr. Woodbury says that it is a ' singu
lar fact in praise of this description of pub
lic debtors, the selected banks, that there is
not now due on deposites, from. the whole
of them which have;ever stopped payment,
from the establishment of the Constitution
to the present moment, a sum much beyond
what is due to the United States from one
mercantile firm that stopped payment in
1825 or 1826, and of whom ample securi
ty was required and supposed to be taken
under the responsibility of an oath. lf we
include the Ivhole present dues to the Gov
ernment, frorii discredited banks, at all times
and of all kinds, whether as depositories or
not, and embrace even counterteit mils, and
every other species of unavailable funds in
the Treasury, they will not exceed what ts
due from two such firms.1
We learn from the Natchez Courier that
the United States Bank has purchased of
the Commissioners of the State of Missis
sippi, the Union Bank Bonds of that State,
to the ainourit of five millions of dollars,
which are to? be paid for in the following
manner, viz I - -
$1,000,0013 in New York or Philadelphia
in cash down. !
$500,000 jn Louisville, 60 days after 1st
of November. ; i
$500,000 Hn New Orleans, same date.
$1,500,000 in Natchez, in Mississippi
currency, iniDecember.
$1,500,000 in New York or Philadel
phia, 60 days after 1st of January.
In reference to this important transaction,
the Courier says :
" Most sircerely do we congratulate the
State of Mississippi upon this timely and
advantageous! negotiation. Nothing in the
range of, probability could have been so sig
nally beneficial to the citizens of our State,
particularly those of the interior, as this
arrangement.; It will enable the Union
Bank forthwith to commence discounting
which she will no doubt do, as wjB under
stand is the intention, at the rate "of about
a million andfa half a month, until she will
have loaned to' our citizens about seven and
a half millions. This w ill afford great re
lief to those ho are compelled topay mo
ney to the Marshal and Sheriffs at the Fall
terms of the Cjiourts ; and thus save immense
amounts of piroperty from sacrifice under
the hammer fit will immediately, revive our
currency and resuscitate the depressed con
dition of all the monetary affairs of the State;
whereas, if the negotiation had . not been
made with Mr. Biddle, it could not have
been made oi? this side of the Atlantic. And
even if the Commissioners had been sue-:
cessful in Efarope, the relief would have
come too late for those who need assistance
this Fail." ,j -
The great London and Birmingham Rail
Rpad (England) was . to be opened complete
between the. two cities, September 17.
Travelling by the Railroad has been face-,
tiously and comprehensively described by
a ffentlemarfjpf Stamford, who lately availed
t himself of that means of .transit : "All risht!
off youtart4; -you putyour. head 6ut of the
carriage window to look .at the country, get
your eyes full of dustand, before -you ran
jget them clean, you're in London V
"? iHAMECESS AYO WAL.;V;U
For the first time, that we have seen, the
apostacy of Mr. Calhoun and the Calhoun
party in South Carolina, is avowed and
justified.; The Washihgtion Chronicle!-
says: ' ' '' t
" The attitude presented by South Caro
lina, in this great contest, is ' truly a noble
one, ;r Perhaps no State was .- so - generally
opposed to' the present Administration or
felt itself more aggrieved by those of the
same party, who were lately at the head of
affairs. The distrust was general, the dis
like almost universal. No sooner, however,
did the Administration determine upon a
policy, eminently Republican and favorable
to the rights of the States, than South Caro
lina, forgetting her griefs, and solicitous for
principles alone, generously came forward,
and gave the Administration a support, more
cordial, zealous and unanimous; than any
other State of the Union."
South Carolina, then, is to give this
"Usurper" ! ! and the " Royalists," a "cor
dial and zealous support" ! Well, be it so.
We are content.
But we are not done yet. To show the
lengths to which they are going in South
Carolina, we may quote the following from
the Columbia, (S. C.) Carolinian :
" Does Mr. A. not know that the peo
ple re-elected Jackson to the Presidency in
return for: the noble act? (carrying off the
public deposites.) This was ample proof
of their approval of the measure, notwith
standing that a corrupt Senate tried and
condemned him for it; which deed the peo
ple expunged from their records, in farther
proof of their approval of his course."
Thus do they justify the Expunging.
It is in reference to these and such like
matters that the Columbia S. C. Telescope,
thus indignantly and eloquently speaks :
"The history of politics presents us with
nothing equal to this this gross and pal
pable tergiversation this sorrowful and
shimeful sycophancy. All that South Caro
lina heretofore contended for, is abandoned:
all tbat she reprobatod is adopted : all that
won for her honor and consideration and
moral power, is renounced. The new con
verts v Van Burenism would tear from her
history the last ten years. And not con
tent with attempting to sully her now, and
blast her for the future, they seek to humil
iate her by a retrospective degradation.
They claim to support and approve all
measures of the Administration, past, pres
ent, and to come."
The Editor of the Salisbury Watchman,
tells the following excellent story, We
suppose " Jake," is one of those who en
tertain an antipathy to the "tarnal feather
als." "Shortly previous to the last Presidential
election, the Editor of this paper went to
the "Hatter's shop," seven miles off, and
made a speech in fivor of the Whig candi
date, Judge While. As soon as he was
done, an old friend of his took him one
side, and the following dialogue took place.
4 Jones.' says our friend : We don't want
to know any thing about these men you
have been talkin about, and we don't know
how about votin for 'epw 'Spose you come
out yourself every man of us will go for
you down this way. 4 Why, Jake, I am
too poor a man to bear the expenses of
electioneering on such a grand scale ; my
pocket would give out before I had treated
one half of the nation.' 4Ah, that indeed !'
said our friend, and he seemed puzzled ;
he kept repeating, 4that indeed 4that indeed,'
At length starting from his reverie, he says,-
lvell Jones, since you can t (fjer for
President, 1 spose you come out for sheriff.''
The influence of woman is excellent
wherever it is exerted. It is no flattery to
call the other sex " die fairest and best por
tion of creation." The late election in
Philadelphja eity is said to have been one
of the most quiet and orderly ever held
and as a reason for this it is stated that
numbers of females came out to look at the
"lords of-creation" exercising their prerog
ative. Their presence quelled every thing
like riot or disorder. Men could not wran
gle and disgrace themselves under the very
eyes of their wives and daughters.
Alex. Gazette.
Murder. -A most awful murder was
committed in this county on the . night of
the 3d inst. Mrs. Tempy Shaw, wife of
Mr. James Shaw, shother husband thioifgh
the heart, and he expired instantly. We
have not been able to learn the particulars;
but understand that they had jived disagree
ably togetherfor some time; This is the
second murder we have had, to record this
year committed by Females, in this county.
We forbear comment, as the matter will no
doubt undergo Judicial investigation." Mrs.
Shaw has not been committed to jail yetfor
the offence. It is supposea that shehas
"cut out." -Roanoke Advocated .
loiieepaneiu irom oemg overgrown
with weeds they must be plucked up when
they are young ; so when the seed of dis-
content have taken root in the heart, tneyl
must be eradicated;, if peace of mind be in
tended to be cherished. "The bud of disat
isfaction will ripen into the frut of danger
and trouble, unless it be destroyed.
A Wholesome decision. At
thef late
terra of the Superior Court for Hartfod
L-ounty, khsha Kinsbury recovered of
Hezekiah Allen $1000 damages and costs,
the plaintiff claiming thatt-he defendant had
sold to him a qurrtercJ$eefvhich was un
sound and unwholesome, knowing the ani-
mai to De diseased at tlie4 time it
slaughtered.
was
Mosi Hdrriblekt murder, of the most
inst nature r was committed upon the
bodies of Mr. -William Baxter and two of
his children, a sod and daughter, on the 1st
insti near Pendleton, S. C, by a negro
man,...v"MrijL was a native,, and respect
tabWtvCoC this county, and was re
turning -from Alabama, the " time of his
death Arriving near Pendleton he. pitch
ed Jiis tents for the night, and, at the hour
of midnight, when all were asleep, the in
fernal monster sought this opportunity of
carryirigT into effect his diabolical purpose
From the appearance of the Wounds, in
flicted, it is supposed that they were killed
with an axe, the head of the Father, when
found, being nearly splif ni two. The mur
derer was a negro man, whom ike deceas
ed" had purchased, a short time previous,
in Georgia, in which. direction he was seen
returning the day after the murder was com
mitted, do hope that this vile mis
creant may be shortly apprehended, and
made to atone for his crime by the most
severe penalties in the; power of -the law.
No punishment could be too severe for. such
a being. Rutherfordton Gazette.
mOM THE CU.MBKRt.AND ClTILlAlf .
Rattlesnakes. We are informed that
recently, whilst Mr. D. Mattingly and wife
were on a whortleberry excursion near Sung
Run, in the Allegany Glades, in this coun
ty, they killed eighty at one time, and
wounded four that escaped. This is pretty
well, considering too, that a lady should
have participated in the fun of snake killing.
She must be admitted to possesss less fear
than is usually attributed to her sex. The
very dry and hot season, we are told, is
supposed to be the cause ot so many mak
ing their appearance during the summer
and fall. s
Bio Hon . The Cincinnati News giveg an
account of a large hog belonging to Mr J. W. Bell,
of Fayette county, Indiana. Dimensions as follows.-
Feet. Inches.
Length from end of snout to end of tail 8
Height - - - 4
Circumference of the arm - - I
Girth - - - 6
Knee ... - - 0
Hoof - . - - - - - 0
Throat - - - - 4
Tail - ... 0
Length and breadth of ear- -
Length of tusks - - - 0
9
2
2
9
11
104
0
8
14 by 9
8 ,
fully fat-
Supposed weight 1,400 pounds.
The hog would have weighed, wheu
tened, it is supposed, 2,000 pounds.
It is reported that the Van Burenites have
gained a mkmber of Congress in Vermont,
and that he is AN ABOLITIONIST. The
Friends of the South in New York, viz :
the Van Buren men, are preparing to fire
500 guns at the result! And this is
Southern party. Macon Messenger.
the
COMMUNICATIONS.
FOTl THE REG J9TR.
Messrs. Editors: In your last number
I perceive you claim a draft upon my potato
bank, for having proved the Sub-Treasury
project to be a great Government Bank."
Before redeemingmy promissory obligation,
I wish to make a few enquiries, the answer,
to which will enable me the better to judge
of the validity of your arguments and the
correctness of your conclusions. The ar
gument upon which you rely mostly for
establishing your position, and which is the
only one that shows any semblance of
a Bank, is this that the Secretary of the
Treasury is em powered by the Sub-Treasu ry
system to issue notes founded upon a specie
basis. I wish to know if it is contemplated
in the Sub-Treasury plan to issue promissory
notes ? and whether you have not confound
ed the issue of Treasury notes, which is
only a temporary measure, with the plan of
the Sub-Treasury. So far as my informa
tion extends, it assures me that the issuing
of promissory notes forms no feature of the
project. The bill, however, is not-before
me, and if, as you assert, this is one ofcthe
powers, I wish you to point out the specific
article which gives it? But should this
power be incorporated in the bill, even then
the Sub-Treasury would not deserve the ap
pellation of a Bank, for then we might say
that there was already established a Gov
ernment Bank, by the bill which authorised
the issuing of Treasury notes. And u ith
equal propriety might we call every indi
vidual a banker, who gives his note to an
other individual, since both are promises to
nay at certain times. Indeed, the two ca
ses ar so analogous, that I can perceive no
difference, and to show this more fully let
us suppose an example. A, in considera
tion of services done by B, gives B his
note payable one day after date. This note
may be changed from person to person, as
is every days practice, or it may be collect
ed forthwith., No one who would not risk
his reputation for sanity would declare this
to be a banking operation. The process of
the Treasury is exactly similar. The Se
cretary owing C a debt in Raleigh, sends
him a note payable on demand. C can
transfer this note to whomsoever he pleases,
or demand specie of the Secretary. There
is still another striking analogy: the givers
of these notes, A and the Secretary, pay in
terest upon them. But, say you, this is
suing aud liquidating process greatly re
sembles a banking operation, Slo we might
say the issuing and liquidating of notes
among individuals resembled a banking pro
cess. But why is this issuing, &c. not a
banking; process ? Because the Sub-Treas
ury has so few of the marks of a Bank, that
were you to collect all the parts, combine
Lall the shades, and embody all the tints of
it that resemble a Bank, they would not
even form the skeleton of a single prominent
Bank feature. '
What then is a Bank? Political ecomv
mists tell us they differ in different coun
tries. We all know that the Bauks of this
country are Banks of discount and deposit.
They are corporate bodies, com posed gen
erally of individuals, who have throwa to
gether their stocks for the purpose bf ipetj
ulatipn i iv lending money. They areem-
powered to issue three or more doll
notes bearing interest, for every sineuV11
lar in specie, which ' are desi,i e.f. u'"
culatmsr me'dium. Thev rpr1iiQ .i. Clr
for the safe keepim? 'of which tu,, '
with interest upon the notes b?sej upa,lJ
these deposites for rddem ption . T hPSo PP
stitUting the characteristics of a Ba C 'V
hiayjudge what similarity there U . ;
Sub-Treasury The; prime object of n ' )'. '
is speculation ; that of the Sub-Tre ili
to manage the fiscal Jafiairs or the G0
menu The Banks issue their . notes as
circulating itfediunV receiving interest V
the same: the Suh-Trfiasnrv. if xr,v ,'r
.u i v ' "raw
the lreasury notes a part of it, issues
notes in payment bflthe Government due,
al ways paying interest for so doing. $ -
that it is the interest! of the one to flood !
countiy with its notes, and of the other
redeem its notes as soon as possible. gin
there are so many vast differences hpt,,
4. " Cell"
the two insiitutions, even after admitting
fof argument's sake, that the Secretary ca'
issue promissory notes, you must sho
some greater likeness between the Sut
Treasury and a Bank, before they will aD.
pear to my understanding as one anl th
same, and before yon can take a draft of
yellow yams from my bank.
POTATO CUSTARD.
FOR THE REGISTER i
THE SILK; CULTURE.
M essrs. Editors: Pelow, are two ot three1
short,- but interesting articles, which I havf.
cuiieu trom a tew ot your exchange paperj
in the last eioht or inn Hns. rplntivo .l
- - 3 J - 1 '-""'"V VU Hgr
new and beautiful branch of Agricultural ia.
dustry and thrift, named at the head of this
article. The rewards of the Silk culture
by means of the Chinese Mulberry, aresa
astonishingly great, as to awaken public at
tention in every part! of the Union. The
fact3 disclosed in these artides, and many
pthers of a similar character, to be met with
in several of the States and in our own, leave
no room for doubt, that the day is near at
hand, when Silk, will be the great staple,
and source of public and private wealth of
North-Carolina as our climate, soil, habits
.and insulated condition, all, all, eminentlv
favor it: and what is more, it will afford
the most delightful of all employments to
our people, and certain comfort and inde
pendence to the very poorest of them as the
old, infirm,,and even -the very children, can
do far more than support themselves the
whole year, by a few weeks labor, by rais
ing the Chinese Mulberry, or by making
Silk. The patriotic apd public spirited few,
who first embarked in (this enterprise, in this
State, and brought it before our last Le-
gislature, as worthy of Legislative encoiir.
agement, deserve the lasting thauks of their
fellow-citizens.
The Mulberry Mnia, or the fever for
speculating in the Moms Multicaulis, ap
pears to be increasing all over the counirv.
We hear of the intention of many of cur
friends to enter into this cultivation induced
we fear by the large profits that have beea
derived from the sale of slips ; - would it
not be more prudent to confine their ar
rangements and calculations, to the feeding
of the worms, and production of silk, for
which our soil and climate are admirably
adapted? The Bucks County (Pa.) Intel
ligencer, says that one hundred pounds of
the foliage of the mulberry upon which the
worms are fed, will make, one pound ohilk
and fourteen thousand cuttings of the
Chinese mulberry will grdw upon an acte
of land, yielding at thelsecond year's growth,
two pounds of leaves each, or twenty-eight
thousand pounds altogether, which will jive
two hundred and eighty pounds of Silk,
which, at $4 per pmind, will amouut to
$1120, and deducting 300 for labor, will
leave a nett profit of $820, upon one acre
of land. Boston paper.
. Morus Multicaulis. At the great saTe
of these trees in Baltimore, one hundred and
twenty thousand were sold, at 20 a 22s cts
nerfoot height. The trees are measured
from six inches below the ground to the
end of the topmost bojugh. They were all
of the growth of this' season, and measure
on an average about five teet. Terms one
third cash and two thirds on delivery of ths
trees, which is to talte place immediately
after the first frost. Buds are sellinir &
3 cts each. The buds are- delivered on
twigs, and from 30 to. 50 bods are obtain
from each tree. The tiees, trimmed of thtir
iwiffs, sold at the auction foif 13 cts each.
Many individuals havje realized pretty for
tunes from a small outlay, and some who a
year ago invested so much as a fevr thou
sand dollars, have real ized. fifty and a hun
dred thousand in retujrnr and some much
more. Nothing in all mathematics is plain
er, than if you plant luds this year at t
cents each, and the buds bejeome trees next
year, as they probably will, bearing fify
buds eacb, or (to leavp plenty of margin,
guard against all possible disappointments
say twenty buds, andjeach bud should seii
at the, same price wliich the present bud
costs', that the businjess will yield a very
great profit. There & an old rule abont n
such cases.. The Dutchman found the vai
Yankees found the worth of a merino buck-
- - iV. Y. Journal Commerce.
TV- OuUIm. Af IVlkKamntnn tnld
UlUlUiS 1LJ UlViUUUO 14 Y J .
aur.iDuian lor u cau. urat ,i
oecome so vaiuame inai me ugm
umOi thenrt. -Tbid. !
i,iU ine vicmiiy ouue vy o .
propagation of the ftlorus Multicaulis
prosecuting, ty several gentlenueD,
greai vigoT : ana-1 is. prooauii; j.
twelve montns, not iariromv"V
will be for sale here. .
AGRit;"
X1 HI be made to ht next Genera' a
If bl for n Act to incorporate . ifae
nia Firt- Company, and Iso to ine?
Town of BrtTvmu, SUlujs County, w 5i
Oct. i. 1833. f, i