Communications.
FOIl THE FREE PRESS.
3Jr. Howard: I have lately read
with great satisfaction and much
interest, the remarks of a corres
pondent of the North-Carolina
Journal under the signature of a
North-Carolinian, headed "The
Southerner;" and although I have
as yet seen only two of Ins num
bers, I am much pleased that one
who appears so well acquainted
with the subject has taken it in
hand. It is true, the facts of
which he speaks are notorious;
but they are not on that account
the less worthy or our serious con
sideration. No native philanthropist can
look upon the present condition
of North-Carolina, either in a phy
sical or literary point of view, and
contrast it witli her sister States,
without feelings of conscious in
feriority and of the deepest re
gret; and, when the causes for
this evident contrast are enquired
into, his mortification cannot fail
to be greatly heightened by a
knowledge of the fact that the
fault is our own. There are none
who do not know and feel the
consequences of this melancholy
fact. All are complaining of the
hardness of the times, the distres
ses & disadvantages under which
we labor. Crowds of our popu
lation are continually abandoning
their native soil and flocking to
distant States, where a more aus
picious prospect opens to
"Their defeated enterprise
Means of successful exercise.',
Wc have the gratification, how
ever, of having lately witnessed in
our own county, and some others,
etTorts alike laudable and energe
tic, to improve the internal condi
tion of our State, and many oth
er evidences of a public determi
nation no longer to talk and spe
culate, but to act.
But, M r. Editor, where is our
literary character! Have we no
regard for our standing in this re
spect? Are we content that this
fact shall go abroad that North
Carolina cannot, or rather will
not support one literary icork;
and that too, on a very small
scale? I, myself, was a subscri
ber to, Smd constant reader of the
Fayetteville Amaranth, and altho'
I do not profess to be a judge of
the matter, yet to say the least, I
was better pleased with it than
many northern works of a similar
nature; and yet I should infer from
I I O cnonrlw I! l! A.1 .
Wlr' 1 " " " - and turpentine, of winch it
llU; auppuri wmcn is supposed, 70,000 barrels aro annually
many ui muse yancce WOrKs re- shipped irom that port:
wtVC "it A!-Caro,l,,a aloncTl " Whereas, the present state of
iiai, ivu. jLiUiiur, uucs mis say
TOR THE FREE PRESS.
ENIGMA.
I am a word of two syllables
comprising six letters, and those
letters grammatically arranged
constitute me a something of very
short duration. But by transpo
sing two-thirds of my whole, (to
wit) my 5th, 2d, 1st and Gth, and
they constitute a something that
will be the last of all earthly ob
jects that shall cease to exist.
From me much can be made 'by
means of transposition, and should
you desire to know what I am and
what that much is that can be
made front me, please transpose
my 1st, 4th, 5th, and Gth, and you
have a word expressive of silence.
Take my 3d, 4th, and 5th, and I
furnish you with a delicious fruit.
Take my 5th, 2d, and 3d, and I
am a composition of metals. Take
my 1st, 2d, 3d, and Gth, and I am
the source from whence sprang
ali the riches of the world. My
1st, 2d, 3d, and 5th, is a savoury
plant; and likewise the place from
which money first issues. My Gth
and 5th is a latin word for your
translation, provided you aro a
linguist. Mv 2d and 5th h; a
word familiar to the most illite
rate. My 5th, Gth, and 3d is that
particular number of injunctions
which constitutes the holy deca
logue. My 1st, 2d, 5th, and Gth,
is the name of a very small insect.
My 2d and 3d is the reverse of
out. My 5th, 4th, 3d, and Gth,
puts the songster into a musical
state of singing harmoniously.
My whole is indispensably neces
sary to the prolongation of exist
ence. I commenced with the
commencement of all things, and
shall only end with "the wreck of
matter and the crush of worlds;4
yet strange as it may appear, it is
no less true than strange, that I
am of short duration. W.
jperson in the county of Beaufort,
ship any barrel of Tar or Turpen
tine, which shall not be or the
ful size of thirty-two gallons, and
fairly shaped, and regularly in
spected and branded, under the
penalty of one dollar for every
barrel any one of us may respec
tively ship, in violation of this re
solution, which wc respectively,
each who may so violate, pledges
his honor to pay on demand by all
or any one of the others; and to
ensure fairness of shape, the bar
rel shall not be less than twenty
eight, nor exceed thirty inches in
length, nor the head thereof be
less than seventeen nor exceed
eighteen inches in diameter, and
as nearly round as practicable.
The staves not to be less than 5-8
nor more than 7-o of an inch in
thickness, and the head not to
exceed inches in thickness, and
no stave more than 4 inches wide;
and the barrel made round and
shaped properly."
Signed by the j) I er chants.
Correction. A few weeks since we
copied an article from the Richmond
Enquirer, stating that '"1600 pounds of
pure metal" were obtained at Capp's
"old mine, in this Stale, in one week
the Salisbury Carolinian says, "900 pen
nyweights is the best business they
have ever done in one week."
Xarl)orougI)
FRIDAY, JULY 3, 1829.
We arc requested to announce Dr.
James J. Philips, as a candidate to re
present this county in the House of Com
mons oi the next General Assembly.
Naval Stores. We learn from the
Freeman's Echo, that the merchants of
Washington, in this State, have adopted
the following regulations relative to the
tor our public philanthropy? If
Patrick Henry wore still alive,
would he not now point to North
Carolina and call her a "poor, de
spised State?"
This, Mr. Editor, is adduced
merely as an instance of the apfj
thy with which we look upon na
tive worth and merit. The pre
sent condition of our University,
if I am correctly informed, speaks
very little in favor of North-Carolina
literature. I shall not, how
ever, at this time trouble you with
any further remarks.
AMOR PATRIAE.
the inspection in town is extreme
ly defective, and a large portion
of the barrels of naval stores,
brought for sale and shipments,
are less than the lawful size, and
many of them fraudulently made,
to the general injury of the naval
store trade of the place, and the
prejudice of the makers of honest
barrels for remedy whereof, so
far as correction of the evil is
within our power
"We the undersigned resolve,
and pledge our honor each to the
other, that from and after the first
day of August next, wc will not,
(on our own account; or for any
Congressional Candidates. So far
as we can ascertain, Ihe following arc all
the candidates for Congress at the-ensu
ing election in this State, in the differ
ent districts, viz:
Tldsnian, Lemuel Sawyer, William 13.
Shepard.
Halifax, Willis Alston .
Edgecombe, Thomas II. Hall.
Ncivbern, James Manney, Jesse Speight,
Thomas II. Daves.
Warren, Rohert Potter.
IVilmington, Gabriel Holmes, Edward
B. Dudley.
Fayetteville, Edmund Deberry, John
A. Cameron.
llaleigh, Daniel L. Barriuger, Nathan
iel J. Palmer.
Caswell, Augustus II. Shepnerd.
Salisbury, John Long, John Giles.
JIecklenburg, II. W. Conner.
Burke, Samuel P. Carson.
Surry, Lewis Williams, Samuel Kin-.
Hard Times and ivorse arc coming .
The pecuniary embarrassments among
the manufacturers in iNew England an-
pears to increase, and is also spreading
ovei the middle Stales. The Provi
dence U. I. Subaltern says: "Within the
last ten days, within the circle of the
ten adjacent miies, upwards of 2500 peo
ple have been suddenly and unexpected
ly thrown out of employment, and the
distress that such an event has produ
ced, can be far better imagined than de
scribed." The New-York Mercantiln
Advertiser says: "A vast many excel
lent mechanics, in consequence of the
want ot employ, have been compelled to
abandon the city." In Philadelphia and
its suburbs it is said: "4000 looms are
now idle which had been employed
within a year past." It appears these
untoward circumstances have varlialht
opened the eyes of the late Adams-Clav-American-System
men, who now begin
correctly to attribute them to the "soph
isms of madmen, and the writings of
cracked-brain philosophers and econo
mists!" Providence (R. I.) June G.
Bankruptcy is now the order
of the day, and the first inquiry
that is made in the morning is,
"who has failed since last night?"
When the present embarrassed
state of our market will cease,
Heaven only knows. Confidence
is destroyed between man and
man, and Rhode-Island wears a
gloomy aspect. Literary Sub.
Beform.The IT. S. Telegraph
the number ot removals in the ui l
departments of the General G0VP
ment, under the present Administration
It appears that out of 274 pcrson3 e"'
ployed, but 27 have been dismissed -1 i
it is said that four-Jifths of those
in office were friendly to the late Admi
nistration. A correspondent of ill
Richmond Enquirer, commenting L
Mr. Clay's late speech, remarks a?
lows on this subject:
"Mr. Clay denounces in lm
measured terms, the late remo
vals, and substantially asserts that
men have a life estate in office
When he invoked the authority of
Mr. Jefferson to sustain him, he
might have recollected that Mr
Jefferson was the author ofhe
Virginia Bill of Rights; and he
might find in that paper this Ian"
guage, that public officers, legis
lative and executive, "simuhf lit
restrained from oppression, b
feeling and participating the bur",
thens of the people, and thatthev
should at lixed periods return t
a private station." "Once in of
fice always m office," is irrei-on-cileable
with the saving primi.
pies of republicanism.
"The President swears that he
will "take care to have the laws
faithfully executed." Can he ac
quit himself of this sucml obliga
tion, when he retains around him
worthless, incompetent, or faith
less agents'? Can he sleep r.
peace upon his pillow, with the
recollection of the tie that binds
him to this duty, if men aro in of
fice, for whose acts he assumes
this heavy responsibility, ami in
whose fidelity, abilities, or integ
rity, he has not full and perfect
confidence! Nay more can those
men who have actively cxertr-ti
themselves against his election,
disseminated the foulest accusa
tions, denounced him, and pro
phecied against the wisdom, the
virtue, or the success of his admi
nistration of the national a flairs
can such men give him a cordial
support'! lie undertakes that
these men will be faithful to their
trust; can men who have so acted
and are so circumstanced, give
their fidelity to a Chief Magis
trate of whom they have so tho't
and so spoken! The severe and
exact responsibility of the Presi
dent should be met, by the em
ployment of those, in whose tal
ents and virtues he knows that
he mav confide."
Proscription. We hear a grea?
cryabout the proscriptive remo
vals by the present Administra
tion. What shall we say cf the
other side of the picture! What
moderation have the Coalition
party displayed in certain States
where they have had the sway?
In Maine, in Massachusetts, in
Delaware, in Maryland, &c.?
The last Fredericktown Citizen
srives n list of 87 officers who
ere removed in that countv
alone, by the Coalition, from their
accession to power, to their ab
solution at Washington. But it
is to be recollected, that this same
party sways the destinies of Ma
ryland. The removees are the
county officers, justices of the
peace, trustees of the poor, and
as many as 34 constables. With
what grace the Coalition party m
Mnrvlnnd rnn rnmnlain of the
removals at Washington, it is dit
ficult to discover. Rich. Lnq.