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FOREIGN. ENGLAND. English papers to the 11th Jane have been received. British sfiorts. The rage for pedestrian exploits had spread far and wide in England. Nor was it confined to the male sex only. In Bristol, a female 63 years of age, who had been on crutches for five years, is stated to have been match "to walk up and down Alfred Hill, fifty times in twelve, hours, for a wager of five shillings." 'The old woman is said to be confident of suc cess ; but the odds were against her. A gentleman of Hampshire had of fered to hop one mile in ten minutes, provide his friends would make up a purse of 40 guineas; and in order to stimulate them in his behalf he had already gone half the distance in four minutes and twelve seconds. FRANCE. A Paris paper of June the fourth was received in London by express, from which it ap pears that the French Ministers have been unexpectedly beaten in the Chamber of Peers, where the financial law was rejected by a majority considerably lar ger than could have been antici pated. The number is various-j ly stated; some accounts making it 35; others 31, and others again only 15. The loss of the mea sure, however, is certain, and the consequence was an imme-i iliatefali in the Rentes of above two per cent. At the time the Express left, they were down as low as 102f. 10c. They had begun at 104f. 25c. Various reports were, of course, in circu lation, and among other things it was said that a change of Min isters wouid be the first conse quence of the defeat. We be lieve, however, that the best in formed parties do not calculate fully upon this result. A sub sequent paper says: M. de Chateaubriand, on repair ing yesterday to the Tuilleries, found, it is said the doors, which u-.st-dto open at his approach, shut against him; silence and solitude prevailed during his passage, which used to be through an eager crowd. Before he could comprehend the meaning of this mclancholly change aHuissier approached Sc informed him, that a packet to his address had been carried to his hotel. M. de Chateaubriand hastened home, and found the letter, announcing his destiny. A grand dinner, which was to take place the same day, was immediately countermanded. M. de Chateaubriand quitted at the same time the hotel of the Minis try, to the great disappointment of all those whom curiosity or malice brought in the evening to see how the Ex-Minister supported his dis grace. No successor had been appoin ted to M. Chateaubriand, nor was anyone even named. An ad dress to Louis had been propo sed in .the French Chamber of Deputies, for an indemnity of the proprietors of real estate con fiscated and sold during the revolution. FRIDAY, JULY 30, 1824. Mr. Howard: I have been sur prised to find, in your last paper, my name placed on the list of can didates to represent the county of Halifax in the next General As sembly of this state. This has been done not only without any au thority from me, but in direct op position to my repeated declara tions, that I could not consent to be a candidate. A. JOYNER. Ueldon, 26th July, 1824. New Treasury Notes. We have the pleasure to state to our readers that the Treasurer of the State has, at length, received from the engravers in Philadel phia, apart of the new emission of Treasury Notes, ordered bv the last session of our Legisla ture. We have obtained from him some of the 75, 50, 30 and 25 cent notes, which are hand- somelv embellished and execu ted. The smaller denominations are not yet received, but are dai ly expected. This will be plea sing intelligence, we have no doubt, as the old change is not only become ragged, but very scarce. Raleigh Reg. RUSSIA. S7. Petersburg, May 15. Our differences with the United States of North America, res pecting the north west coast of the American Continent, are now settled by the exertions of the Diplomatic Commissioners, nominated for that purpose, to the entire satisfaction of the respective States whose relations are replaced on the most friecd-K- footinc. Lightning. Last Sunday, (11th inst.) during a thunder shower, one of the chimneys of the Dwelling House of Ambrose Knox, esq. in this county, was struck by lightning, which split open the chimney shatter ed the chimney pieces both a bove and below stairs, destroy ed a mantle time piece and broke the glass in several windows. Mr. K. with several of his rela tives and friends who had dined with him in the room that was struck, had left the house but a very short time before it receiv ed this dreadful visitation. Elizabeth-City Star. Lotteries. Half ticket No. S02S, which drew the capital prize of Twenty Thousand dollars was presented at Cohen's Office in Richmond, on Tues day morning, when the fortu nate holder immediately receiv ed the cash. The owner of the above mentioned prize, we learn, is Mr. Jas. Crovvder, of Spring Forest, Northampton County, North Carolina. one of whom was wounded in the breast and arm. .We have seen their names, but do not think it worth while to give them. New-York Com. Adv. Chesapeake arid OhioCanal. We understand that the Board of Engineers, appointed by the General Government,are iudus triously employed in the ex amination of the country be tween the Potomac aud Yough agany rivers. Three different parties; have been dispatched under their instructions to sur vey sections of the route for the contemplated canal. The Board, from the last accounts, were de scending the Youghagany,inten ding to proceed to' its mouth and thence ascend the Monon gahela and Cheat Rivers. The cursory observation of the Sa vage and Youghagany has shewn them to be excessively rocky and rough, but still offer ing no insuperable difficulties. In many places the banks are so precipitous, that the canal must be made in what is now the channel of the river, and be supported on the lower side by great walls. If the Youghagany cannot be commanded on the summit, it will then remain to ascertain, if Deep Creek alone will afford a sufficient supply of water. To effect this, a nice measurement of the stream must be made, which the rain has hitherto prevented, having swel led the Creek to such a degree as to render it impassable for several days, except by swim ming the horses. The quantity of water in the ordinary state of the Creek, must, of course, be the basis of all calculations as to its power of supplying the sum mit level. This wilf in all pro bability be found to be the only point at which a communication can be effected, in as much as the ridge of the Great Back Bone stretches at a great height, nearly uniform, through the country and the Savage is the jumy sircum mai ureaKS inrougn it; so that its sources are in fact west of the great ridge of the Alleghany. Ba It im ore Am erica n. the war-worn veteran that his claim had been rejected by the President and Secretary of war! The soldier however applied to the President himself, the files were searched and lo! the im maculate Gen. Cocke's reeeint for the money was found! He men sent his son to the man whom he had defrauded of the little pittance which his country had awarded to his old a-e for the service of his yoUth,with proposals of accommodation not because he had repented of his crime and was anxious to repair the wrong which he had done but to prevent further noise! This is the man, people ot Virginia, who heads the as sailants upon the character of your exalted fellow citizens! This is the man, people of the united States, who has ground lessly charged your President with peculation and fraud. Lynchburg Virginian. Milledgeville, Geo. July 6. we are sorry to state that our Cotton and Corn crops have been very much injured by the drought for some weeks past. Our prospects are very blighted, and ruin appears to be staring us in the face. We hope, how ever, the injury will be much ameliorated by a fine rain, which fell here on Sunday evening, and cannot withhold the expres sion of our wishes that it has been extensive. Chivalry. Some malignant star seems lately to have gained the ascendency in this meridian. We mentioned the other day a bloody affair which took place on Friday morning of last week but that was not the only affair of the day. We guess that be fore o,clock of that afternoon, the beautiful greensward of the battle ground was again stained by the purple current of life; and we guess that the parties were a lawyer and a sheriff, whose places of residence are not a thousand miles from Utica And we also guess that the law yer received a bullet in his tho rax, and now lies langushingin this neighborhood, while the sheriff, unhurt, has gone home to keep the peace in his own county. Another affair was to have taken place on Sunday, but "party" was rudely inter rupted. And another did actu ally take place on that day, near Bergen Point, between a couple of gentlemen from the South. Ge 7i. Cocke vs. Mr. Monroe. The attention of our readers will be attracted by the charac ter of the debate which took place in the House of Represen tatives on the 13th May. Gen. Cocke made a charge against Mr. Monroe, the nature of which is as disgraceful as will the ca tastrophe be to the maker. We predict that the Cocke of Ten nessee has 'crowed his last.' He has been for some years past, by his radical imitation of Mr. Jefferson's red breeches, endea vouring to win a hollow popu larity and acquire the title of the second Jefferson! But he ought to have recollected that dolts, like stones, will sink where genius like a feather will float upon the waves; in defiance of tempests and storms. His 'va ulting ambition' would not then have 'overleaped itself,' and he might have avoided the alterna tive which now awaits him, a disgraceful obscurity or a still more disgraceful eminence! It will be observed that Mr. Hamilton, insinuated that Gen. Cocke was himself not free from suspicion and fraud. This in sinuation was founded on some publications in a Washington paper, in which the General is charged with having, under a power of attorney, applied some years since to the proper author ities at Washington for the pen sion of a poor soldier in Ten nessee, received and jacketed and then went home and told Fortunate Discovery. Mr. Henry Topping, who was late ly supposed to have been mur dered, is now alive and in health in the town of Nassau, Rensse laer co. Mr. William M'Kean, a gentleman in Schenectady, who was apprehended and exam ined a short time since on sus picion of havinir committed th murder, feas, in consequence of mis discovery, oecn completely cleared, and his character pla ced beyond the reacli of cal- umny. More Indian murders. Ac counts were received on the 7th June at St. Louis, (Miss.) from the Upper Missouri, that five men of Major Henry's nartv in descending the Platte, were at tacked by a party of Aurickaree Indians and that 3, Moore. Chapman and Glass, were killed; that the others, Dutto and Marsh made their escape and arrived at the Couneil Bluffs. Major Henry had built a fort at the mouth of the Big: Horn a Mr Wheeler was killed by a white bear, and capt. Smith, with some ot the party had crossed the mountains. Disputation. A curious pub lie dispute is waged in Philadel phia. Two of our clergymen, the Rev'd. Mr. M'Cauley and the Rev'd. Abner Kneeland, have been for some days deba ting Deiore a numerous audience in the Universahst's Church in Lombard-street, the ther a part of the human race will be eternally damned or the whole ultimately saved. Three moderators or iudo-pc hnvn kenr. chosen, who sit behind each of me contending divines as he ur ges hss opinion according to his favourite explanation of the text of scripture. The well known Rev. William Hogan is one of the judges ! We Jearn from gentlemen who have entered the church for a short time, that the disputants seemed intensely earnest, and the moderators pro foundly attentive. Steno-1 graphers, it is added, are em ployed in taking down the argu ments, in order that they may J be reported. AUGUST ELECTION, Halifax County. For the Senate. Col. Isham Matthews, House of Commons. Mr. Willis Alston, Mr. Robert A. Jones Mr. Robert B. Daniel. For the Town. Jesse A. Bynum, Esq. Robert Potter, Esq. MARRIED, In Johnston county, on the 10th instant, Mr. Thomas L. Ragsdalc, of Raleigh, to Miss Delaney Hinton daughter of Mr. Hardy Hinton. DIED, At the residenre nf Rnnrmpl Pol- vert, Esq. at Northampton C. H. Dr James Jefferson Marsden. in the 22d year of his age. In Wake county, on the 13th ulti mo, at the advanced aire nf tvt. John Taylor, one of the first settlers ot vvate county. He had been twice married, and has left to deplore his loss. His progeny was numerous cnuaren, iy ot whom are now livincr. 50 erand- children, and 20 great grand chil dren. On board the U. S. ship Hornet, lying in Chesapeake bay, on the 17th inst. Thomas N. Mann. Eso. late of Nash county, Diplomatic A- gent irom tnis government to Guatimala. On the 18th, at Dr. Syme's, in Petersburg, Mary, the second daughter of the late Gov. Turner, of this state. Price Current. JULY 23. Bacon, - -Brandy, Apple, Peach, Cogniac Corn, Cotton, Coffee, Flour, superfine, tamily, - Gin, Holland, - American, Iron, per ton, - Molasses, Rum, Jamaica, Antigua, - New-Eng. Sugar, brown, - loaf, - - Salt, loose, - - sack, - - Tea, Y'g Hyson,1 Imperial, Tobacco, Wheat, Whiskey, - Peters'g. Norfolk: 8to 9 8to 8$ 56 60 53 56 60 62 1 55 60 130 150 110 126 150 200 155 160 13 15 h 12 15 20 25 20 23 500 525 525 575 7G0 800 100 110 100 106 39 40 39 42 $85 100 90 96 30 35 22 26 115 125 90 96 75 80 64 70 40 45 36 3r 8 13 8 12 15 25 15 20 75 871 56 58 300 325 275 120 125 110 116 150 162140 146 $3 10$2i S 85 90 80 100 30 40 29 31 North-Carolina Bank Notes. At Petersburg, 4 to 5 disc. At Norfolk, 5 disc. New Advertisements. Forty Dollars Bezcard, FOR GEORGE and ISAAC George ran away the first Sep tember last; about 5 feet 10 inches high; tolerable black; spare made; thin visage; some teeth out before; about 20 years of age. He has a wife at Speercofield's quarter, on Fishing creek, and is well known as a rascal to the citizens in the neighborhood he visits. He was caught at Speercofield's quarter when brought home last, and no doubt is lurking and harbored in the neighborhood. I will give Twenty Dollars for his delivery to me, or I will give FORTY DOL LARS for his head, and no ques tions asked. ISAAC went off the 12th instant; is abcut 5 feet 4 inches high; of J pumpkin black color; weil made; active and lively; exnert in w! ling, running and jumping; about 2.3 years of acre: has a wife Applewhite's, and I am confident, is in that neighborhood. The negroes I purchased at Sheriff's Sale of the estate of Wm. Lowrr deceased. I will give Twenty Dot- tars ior Isaac, delivered to me, or fifteen if confined in jail sc that I get him. Bit hard Fort. July 23, 1824. 19-tf Blank Warrants for sale AT THIS OFFICE.
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