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TUESDAY, DEC. 5, 1826.
No News. The papers received by
the mails of last week are barren of
news, either foreign or domestic we
have gleaned such items as we thought
-would prove most interesting. Yester
day was the time appointed for the meet
ing of Congress, and as most of the
State Legislatures are now in session, or
shortly will be, we. may soon expect
news in abundance.
County Court. The November
Court of Quarter Sessions for Edge
combe county was held in this place last
week. There were no extraordinary ci
vil case3 tried, and but one criminal case,
which was worthy .of particular notice
it resulted in a conviction of petit lar
ceny, and a sentence to receive fifteen
stripes, which were accordingly inflict
ed but it only afforded another instance
of the inefficacy of this mode of punish
ment, for the fellow immediately after
declared, that "he was as good a man
as ever."
Total Cotter Crop of tlic U. S. j
For the year ending Oct. 1,182G, 720,027
Crop of last year, 569,249
Increase, (bales) 150,778
The N. Y. Price Current ob
serves: The very great transition
from the high prices of 1825, to
the comparative lylow rates of 1 826,
it is presumed, has .tended to keep
the article back, and the quantity
withheld from the market, in the
interior, and the hands of the plan
ters in some of the Cotton grow
ing States, is probably much larg
er than it was last year but as
we have no satisfactory data on
which to found an estimate, our
readers are left to their own-conclusions.
To Correspondents: ."Mink and
Polecat" is inadmissible in its present
form, and we cannot attempt to correct
its orthography, punctuation, composi
tion, &c. Our poetical friends must
.bear with us we have enlarged our lim
its for such articles, and perhaps we may
shortly be enabled to insert them as soon
as they come to hand.
Cotton. This article is brought to
this place in considerable quantities, and
readily commands 9, S), and for choice
parcels 10 cents per pound has been gi
ven. At Norfolk it is quoted at 10 a 10$.
Gen. Jackson. We assist in giving
publicity to the following article, (from
the Norfolk Herald,) although we ques
tion the correctness of its conclusions.
It has frequently been asserted, that the
idea of elevating Gen. Jackson to the
Presidency was never seriously contem
plated, and tli3t he was merely brought
forward to further the views of others
it will be seen however, that as early as
1815, his claims to that important office
were urged at public meetings, and that
too, we are proud to say, by a distin
guished citizen of North-Carolina. And
we venture to predict, that those persons
who are now so sanguine that the popu
larity of Gen. J. "is on the wane," will,
in the fall of 1S2S, "be convinced" that
they consulted their wishes instead of
public opinion.
"It is a fact, probably but
little known, even in this our
Borough, that the idea of ele
vating Gen. Jackson to the Presi
dency was first started by the Hon.
Lemuel Sawyer, Member of Con
gress from North Carolina, in the
jcourse of two or three Orations
delivered by him in Portsmouth
and in this town, as far back as
June 1815. We recollect the cir-
cumstanec as well as if it had hap-
.i iam .liir Trinmhrfilino'V Has he foremilk
son is on me wane, uuu mv ,: , : i , Vl
have confidently rested their hopes that Mr. Rochester, the nval ca.
. :n.. ho convinced didatc to Mr. Clinton, lor the ofiic
Uli It WU1 Vvvljf uwx
that the word of promise has been
kept only to their ear.
At Washington (N.C.) 9 a 10-and at!pcned but ycstcr(lay, though we
Petersburg and New-York agreeable tou0,l .,t 1V,
linn nut, OUIIIU lUUSU Ul UIIHJI,
the pleasure of attending the de
livery of cither of the Orations.
In this town, the Orator held forth
at the Wig-Warn .Gardens, then
kept by Billy Deford; and as a
compensation to Mr. Deford for
the use of his saloon, a tax of 25
cents was levied by the Orator, on
all who went to hear him speak.
v c remember too, that the Ora
tor gained full credit for the zeal
he maniiested in. beJiall of the He
ro of New Orleans, whose laurels
were then green and fragrant, and
whose recent victory every body
dwelt on with enthusiastic delight:
but the idea of making him Pres
ident of the U. States good lack!
nobody, at that time, would listen
to it, without a smile at the Ora
tor's expense. Nobody then would
have believed for a moment, that
such an idea could be seriously
cherished by any other individual
m the whole Union besides Mr. S.
But, as "great trees from little a
corns grow," we find that this lit
tle speck, so long hidden from pub
lic view, has suddenly expanded,
and spreading itself over our whole
political horizon, literally "over
come us like a summer's cloud,"
and like a summers cloud it is
destined to vanish, if wreliave anv
skill in reading the "signs of the
times." The Presidential popu
larity (so to speak,) of Gen. Jack-
irg
our Price Current.
Fayettcvillc, Nov. 29. Our
market has, for the last ten days,!
been uncommonly animated; with
in that time it is probable that 2
?r 3000 bales of Cotton have come
in, and met with a ready sale at
pur quotations (9 25 a 9 05 cts.)
Observer.
Ncicbern, Nov. 25. During the
present week, Cotton has been
brought to our market in consid
erable quantities, and sales have
been readily effected at $10 to
S10 per hundred. A slight
depression in the price of this ar
ticle will be occasioned by the
state of the market in England, as
furnished bythe late arrivals. ..Sen.
Norfolk, Nov. 27. Some small
crops of new cotton were bro't to
market last week from Surry Co.
and met a ready sale at 10 5-8
.cents. We understand that this
is as good a market as any in the
state, and that some of our mer
chants are prepared to buy con
stantly. We are happy to say the
trade of our town is again regular,
and our intercourse with the coun
try has assumed its former activi
ty. On Friday next we shall re
sume the publication of our prices
current which was stopped for a
time in consequence of the almost
total suspension of commercial op-
.9ration.-r-iier.
'Washington, N.C. Nov. 24.
Daring outrage. We stop the
Press to announce one of the most
daring acts of brutal outrage ever
known to be perpetrated in pur
town. About half after 8 o'clock,
as Mr. John Williams was return
ing from meeting, just as he was
about turning a corner to enter the
gate leading to hip house; he was
shot by some villain concealed in
the weeds about 40 yards from Him.
The load, jentered his right side,
iust above the hip bone. Surgical
aid was immediately called in, but
he survived only an hour. Mr. VV .
though a poor was a respectable
man, and a member of the Meth
odist Church, and since his resid
ence among us, has supported the
character of an honest upright cit
izen. It behoves every member
of this community to be on the a
lert; not' one of us is secure while
such villains go at large. Her.
Kidnapping. At the late term
of the Superior Court, held for Ire
dell county, Judge Kuilin presid
ing, John Kennedy was fried for
stealing negroes in this state, tak
ing them south, and selling them;
was convicted, and sentenced to
be hanged, on Friday, the 1st inst!
We understand, Jiowever, that,
owing to circumstances which go
to mitigate the crime in Kennedy,
a petition, for a pardon, signed by
part of the Jury that convicted him,
and a number of respectable gen
tleman, has been sent to the Gov.
It appeared, from facts which came
out on the trial of Kennedy, that
the notorious il car, who lately
escaped from jail in Charlotte, was
an accomplice of Kennedy s in
kidnapping the negroes, or per
haps the principal in the nefarious
transaction. Salisbury Car.
of Governor of N. Y. is a native
citizen of N. Carolina! Has he
forgotten that one-eighth part of
the whole number of members of
the Senate of the l J. States, are
frontlnmnn who were born and nA
ucated in Worth-Carolina! Has
he forgotten, that the cotton, the
tobacco, the rice, the lumber and
naval stores produced iii N. Caro
lina, form a very large portion of
the exports of the City ot N-York,
and tend materially to add to her
wealth and importance.
But we took up our pen, not so
much to refute the slander of this
New-York libeler, as to say a word
to the citizens of North-Carolina.
You see, and you have daily mor
tifying proofs of the fact, how light
ly you are esteemed by the citi
zens of your sister states. The
fault is your own. You are too
supine, too unmindful of what u
due to yourselves. With a soil
and climate equal to any in the
wrorld rich in minerals and in ev
ery thing. else whjch the bountiful
Creator of Nature could bestow
upon you you do not improve
your advantages wisely. You are
politically, too humble; you are a
fraid to put fprtli your strength;
you aire too well content to play a
second part House up for shame
and assume that rank which you
are entitled to occupy.
Great Southern Jloiite.-AVo
understand from Washington, that
it has been definitely determined
by the government, that the great
southern mail route from Wash
ington to Newr-Orlean3, should
proceed through Richmond, Pe
tersburg, Warrenton, Raleigh,
Columbia and MilIedgeyille,.to the
seat of government of Alabama,
thence down to Mobile, and from
Mobile by the Steam boat, to N.
Orleans. -Pet. Rep.
Ncc- York Election. Official
returns have been received in Al
bany from all the counties in New
York. They give Clinton a ma
jority of 3488, and Pitcher 2529.
From the Fayetteville Journal.
Some writer, in a late number
of the New-York National Advo
cate, discoursing on the subject of)
the larill, remarks that "Gold is
found in North-Carolina, the last
Slate in the world, .from which wre
would expect any thing' good to
tome." (We quote from memory
not having the .paper before us,
but believe we quote correctly.)
Has this writer forgotten, or di.d
he never know, that the City of
IN. 1 ork is represented m the Con
gress of the U. S. in part, by a na
tive citizen of North-CarolinafMr.
Presentment. The Grand Juries of
the Superior and County .Courts of
Guilford, at their last terms made a pre
sentment, from which we have extract
ed the following paragraphs:
''The Grand Jury of Guilford
present to the public tjie subject
of Slave-trading through North
Carolina, as a public evil. Not
that the Grand Jury wish an in
fringement made uponthe consti
tutional rights and privileges of a
ny portion of American citizens.
Nor by any means to interfere
with the private property of indi
viduals, further than is perfectly
consistent with free and pure re
publican principles of that govern
ment under which we live, & which
has ever been celebrated for liber
ty and happiness, which through
the mildness and humanity of its
laws it secures to every and all of
its citizens.
But the practice of making N.
Carolina a Highway to a Slave
Market, and the uniisually cruel
and inhuman practice of those so
frequently passing through our
state, commordy denominated
Slave drivers, is so shocking to
the feelings of humanity, that this
Grand Jury being impressed with
the belief that it is a public evil,
from its immoral influence upon
the community, take the liberty of
presenting jt tQ the public leav
ing it then'to the candour of the
citizens of North Carolina to say,
if some amendment of the laws
may riot )jc necessary at least to
restrain the Slave driver from ma
king tfie soil of their state the
high road to market for their slaves
in chains."
Slavery. -The Synod of Ohio,
which closed their session in this
town on Tuesday last, held a dis
cussion on a question which had