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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1829. and ruin will extend when a com pliance with the Bank demands becomes as it must be wholly im practicable. We say this without any feelings of hostility to the Banks, for whom although we have much regard yet we have more for an oppressed communi ty "Not that we love Ciesar less, but we love Rome more." De lays are dangerous, and we com mend the subject to general and immediate attention." Congress. In the Senate, on the 3d inst. the following resolu tion, submitted by Mr. BRANCH, was taken up: Resolved, That the Committee on Commerce be instructed to in quire into the expediency of ap propriating a sum sufficient to make a ship channel from the Al bemarle Sound to the Atlantic o cean, at or near Roanoke Inlet. Mr. BRANCH observed, that he hazarded nothing in saying that The Petersburg Intelligencer no- tices this subject as follows: "We give to day the report of the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads of the House of Representatives, on the numer ous petitions which have been presented this session against the carrying the mails on Sunday. This document is somewhat re markable for the inconsistency of its reasoning. While the com mittee consider it inexpedient and improper to order the discontinu ance of carrying the mails on Sun day, they declare it unjust that a portion of our citizens should be compelled, by law, to perform certain duties on that day, which such persons may consider moral ly wrong; and therefore recom mend that the postmasters should be relieved from a small portion rink- of their Sabbath duties. If it is unjust to require from post masters the performance of du ties on that day it would appear I equally so not to relieve the mail i . i the subject embraced in the reso lution, was as important as any! contractors also; nor is it easily The Banks. In our last paper we gave an article, from the Newborn Sen tinel of Saturday week, relative to the pecuniary embarrassments of the people of this State attributed to the operations of the Banks, and suggesting the pro priety of having an extra session of the Legislature to devise some mode of re lief. The last Washington Echo has some remarks on the same subject, and arrives at the same conclusion both pa pers expressing the opinion that public sentiment appears to be decidedly in fa vor of an extra session of ihe Legisla ture. The Sentinel of last Saturday, pursuing this subject, among other re marks gives the following: "The people of this State are indebted to the Banks in the sum of not less than 85.000.000. It is useless now to discuss the imnru-lever presented to the considera-1 perceived how the injustice is re- dence and mismanagement by 'tion of Congress. Its importance' moved in the case of the former Which this indebtedness accrued;';had been not only manifested in by dispensing only with the least the main fact of its existence is.the reports of the ablest civil En- part of their labors. We notice beyond dispute. The whole cir-'gmeers in the State of North Car- this novel mode of reasoning for culating medium of the communi-jolina, but recognized in the re- the purpose of showing the flimsy ty, being the amount in which the:Prts of the Engineers in the ser- grounds upon which the opinion Banks are indebted to the People; vice of the United States. When of the committee is formed, that does not exceed 1,600,000. By'.the subject came to be investiga- the law requiring letters, &c. to the late regulation, some of the jted, and all the facts connected he delivered on the Sabbath should Banks require a payment of 10 with it, submitted to the Senate, be repealed. The mails would per cent, from their debtors at the ne bad no doubt but the proprie-l still have to be made up at, and expiration of every 90 days. The ty of making an appropriation to; dispatched from the post offices Newbern Bank calls for onlv 5 effect so desirable an object as on that day, and we cannot see percent. As the State Bank, tnat contemplated by the resolu-; the force of the arguments advan however, has larger claims, we tion, would be admitted on alljced why the delivery of letters ... li r-mt i . 1 l tli ii may call the average proportion minds. LAno resolution was then should oe suspended, the more cinnati with strains of national music played by a band on board, and a hickory broom at each finer sum, urnvea wun mm. The brooms were pointed out by one of the gentlemen to the General who replied that he had seen a great many of them on his journey and supposed they must be very useful. His appearance is said to show how much he has suffered by his late domestic affliction. A Committee of the Senate con sisting of Messrs. Tazewell, Sand ford and Webster, was appointed on the 3d inst. to join a similar Committee of the other House, for the purpose of agreeing on a mode of examining the votes for President and Vice President and of giving notice to the persons e lected. We learn that heads of the dif ferent departments, with the ex ception of the Secretary of War, are prevented by indisposition from attending personally to their oiheial duties. N. Y. Ev. Post. of debt called in every GO days, adopted. particularly as releasing the per- The Supreme Court of North Carolina adjourned on the 6th inst. The Raleigh Registerstatcs, that the sickness of the late Chief Justice, (whose lamented death is noticed under the proper head,) prevented judgments from being entered up in a number of Causes which had been argued and sub mitted to the Court. During the recent term of the Supreme Court, Thomas P. De vereux, Esq. was reappointed Re porter of its decisions for the en suing year. Internal Improvement. We copied from the Raleigh Register, 8 per cent. Upon a debt of Mr. IREDELL submitted the sons employed in the offices for a tew weeks since, a notice of the So,000,000, the sum, therefore, following resolution: the lew minutes which need be; proceedings of a meeting ofMem called in everv three months is Resolved. That the Secretary ' occupied with that duty, mbht be bers of the Legislature and oth- $400,000, together with the inter- of War be directed to transmit to attended with evil consequences est on the whole debt, being a- this House, as soon as the same; to the commercial community, bout 875,000 more." shall be completed, the report of. We arc opposed to the interfer This is truly an appalling picture, and survey made by the United' encc of the National Legislature if the subject had not fully engaged the States Lngineers, in pursuancej in matters of this description; and, attention of the Legislature at its recent jof the resolution of Congress tOitho' we respect the motives of the session, no uuuui couiu ue cnienamea oi jusceruuu me praciicaouiiy or o-i petitioners, we must oe permitted the propriety of the membors re-assem- hling to take it into consideration the conflicting opinions and diversified pro jects then submitted, strikingly illustrate the difficulties and perplexities with which this subject is surrounded. It has been agitated but little in this vicin ity, so far as we have heard a corres pondent, however, has favored us with the following remarks: "In the very alarming situation which the Banks have placed the community at large, and where unhappily for want, of union of sentiment, the Legislature have left them, it appears indispensa bly necessary that speedy mea sures be adopted for general re lief. At this interesting crisis we notice some of the presses are calling aloud for an extra meeting of the Legislature, and it does verily appear that some such mea sure must be resorted to, and that without delay, in hopes the inter posing arm of our representatives will avert the distress which oth erwise appears destined for us. The Banks arc now demanding 10 per cent, quarterly, or 40 per cent, per annum, equal to two millions annually, for the citizens are indebted to them five millions. Who can pretend to say where mis pening an outlet from Albemarle Sound to the Ocean, at or near the former site of Roanoke Inlet, and also the report made some years ago, to the War Department, by General Bernard, and other engineers, upon the same subject. In the 11. ot Representatives, the following, proposed by Mr. liryan, was read and adopted: Resolved, That the Secretary of War be directed to communi cate to this House a copy of the survey and report of a canal route trom Neuse river to Beaufort harbor, in North Carolina, (made by a brigade of United States En gineers) in continuation of the great inland seaboard navigation, from the Dismal Swamp Canal southwardly. Mr. McKean, from the Com mittee on the Post Office and Post Roads, made a report rela tive to the transportation of the mail on the Sabbath, and the de livery of letters, &c. The report coincides with that on the same subject made by the Senate, so far as regards the transportation of the mail, but it concludes with earnestly recommending the rc neal of the lVist.OfTinn lnr ...: b I - vui WAAvvy lVIUl- r rrl i 4. . i j- 6 wiiiittoiuis iu ueiivurieiiers, ccd.or to what extent the dwtressjnewspopew, &c. on the Sabbath! to doubt the utility of their efforts." U. S. Senate. The National Intelligencer says: "We under stand that Mr. Adams has con vened the new Senate to meet on the 5th of March, agreeably to the usage in such cases. They will have to pass upon such ap pointments as the new President will be pleased to submit to them." It is supposed that in the next Congress the parties will stand thus: In the Senate; 27 for Jack son and 21 opposition in the H. of Representatives, a majority of about oU tor Jackson.J From Washington. Letters from Washington represent that the city is all alive with the intel ligence that General Jackson is expected there every moment, and all are preparing to give the old hero a hearty shake by the hand, not exempting even the Adams men. On his arrival at Cincinnati on the 24th ult. the shore was lin ed with people waiting to behold and congratulate him, and he was saluted with a heavy firing of can non from the Cincinnati shore and the steam boats at anchor. Three steam boats lashed to each other crowded with the citizens ofCin- ers friendly to Internal Improve ments, at the Capital in Raleigh, by w hom a Society was formed to collect and disseminate among the people information on this all important subject. The Register of Friday last, contains the Rc port made to that meeting by Wm. B. Meares, Esq. of Wilmington, from a committee previously ap pointed for that purpose. This report provides for the appoint ment, by that meeting, of County Commitees, to consist of five persons in each County; the ob jects to be effected by which, are, to lniorm and interest the public mind on the subject, by conversa tion, by Addresses, and by furnish ing written communications for the newspapers of the State. Al so, to ascertain the amount of pro duce & manufactured oods, sent to market from each county, io what places sent, and the expense of their transportation. A gen eral meeting, composed of Dele gates or members of the County Committees, to be held in Raleigh; annually, on the 1st Monday December, where gentlemen will be expected to enter into a free and full comparison of their sen timents on the general subject oi Internal Improvement, with a view to union and co-operation. Such meeting to decide by vote to what particular object or objects they will recommend that the energies and resources of the people should be directed, and also to apply t the. Legislature for acts of ineor-
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