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Tavhorough, (Edgecombe County, X C) Friday, January 10, 1834.
Vol. XJTo 17.
Town Creek Slcadcmy.
T11' Subscribp wi,l ,e:,c" SCHOOL at Town
Creek Academy the ensuing year, comm. n
c;ng second Monday in .January next.
MAHK BENNETT.
D?c. 23d, 1S33. 15 1
joticc.
rpiIE Subscribers believing it to be their own
interest to asochte themselves in business
fjr the purpose of undertaking and conducting
A GEtEUAL AKKXCY
And Commission Business,
And by so doing, believe that they cap. promote,
in some degree,, the interest of the Farmers and
Planters, fcy the saving that it will be to them
from the strict and personal attention to all Pro
duce and Goods consigned to them, and in order
to do which the better, they have taken the
jNew Hou.se immediately at tht Hail Hand De
pot in Petersburg
That they may he on the spot to examine and
receive all Produce as it come in and in order to
prevent its being exposed, to have it with their
Aiwn hands carefully put away or carefully de
livered to the buyer before any injur v can be
sustained by which the purchaser may claim a
deduction, and from the general complaint a
mong the Planters growing out of the wa;t of
some special attention to I heir general interest;
the undersigned in offering their .services for
.such purpo expect only to meet that sort of en
couragement that their strict attention shall seen,
to merit, nor will they ask more, under the full
belief that such a house is greatly needed and
will be largely supported. The Subscribers
have put the prices of their labor o low that no
one will feel it, while they are satisfied that
enough will see it to their interest, to encourage
them loan extent that will compensate them for
services rendered. II. li. Montague, late of
Richmond, has been for many years engaged in
the Tobacco business, a part of the time as Man
ufacturer, and feels that he can give general sat
islaction to all sending to the house that article,
knowing what suits the Manufacturers of Ibis
place as well as those of Richmond, if he cuuld
not. obtain prices to suit, he would semi it ti.ue.
J. 1) Williams, a native of Norlh Carolina, has
been long acquainted with the article of Cotton,
and from the general satisfaction given when he
has sold for his friends, we have no doubt of be
ingof ue to ourselvesas well as to those that
may choose to employ us.
The following charges will be made on con
signments: Attention to receiving and stlling Cotton, 50 cents
per bale.
Receiving and shipping Tobacco to Richmond, 8a
cents per hogshead.
Do. do. Flour to the North, 10 cent per bar
rel it sold in this market, 12 cents per barrel.
Receiving and shipping manufactured Tobacco, 12J
cents per box or keg.
Do. Wheat carefully taken off the Cars, sold and
bags sent back for 2 cents per bushel.
Corn do. 1$ do. do.
Advances made on Flour or manufactured To
bacco if required when shipped to the North.
The usual Commissions charged when advan
ces are made on Produce for this market.
Advantageous arrangements may be made by
ihose, shippinjr Goods from the North, as this is
one branch of our business, to which our atten
tion will be particularly directed. Goods bought
and sent to Planters without Commission when
we sell their Produce, or if in hand.
MONTAGUE 4. WILLIAMS.
Petersburg, Va. Dtc. li, 1S33. 14-4
II. P. M. would refer to Bagwell, Smiths
William? A. Peticolas & Co. Richmond, Col.
Sand. Win free & Tims. Shore, P.M. Petersburg
We shall keep our customers regularl v advi
sed of the state of our markets, if they will let
us know the nearest Post Office to them.
N. 15. An Agency will be formed at Hlakely,
to see that Produce intended for us is forwarded
in proper time and in good order, and that Mer
chandize forwarded by us to the Merchants and
Planters is delivered to the wagoners in good
order.
We do not intend to charge the Managers of
the Rail Road with remissness by any thing we
have said. JVI. & W.
Constables Blanks for Sale,
The. Factious Fanatics. W v. have n0
doubl, that all the well informal ami the
great mass of the citizens of the North,
ire most strenuously opposed to the
movements ofTappan, Garrison &, Co.
Yet there is no doubt that the fatuities of
I hat country are at work. The laie
meeting in Philadelphia is a proof of ii.
With the view of putting our citizens on
their guard against such machinations,
we lay the following communication he
fore our reader. The police should he
on the alert, to detect and to arrest these
vile incendiaries. These wretches must
be circumvented, or they may do mis
chief in their way. Are our laws strict
enough at present or, is there tiny de
fect in them, which the present Legisla
ture may supply!
Communicated.
A letter from a gentleman in Philadel
phia to his friend in this city, speaks of
the proceedings of the National Anti
Slavery Convention, (which was held in
private, with a sentinel at the door.) He
says, when he went in, "Garrison had the
floor, and spoke for about half an hour
against the people of the South, in the
most malignant manner conceivable.
After he had addressed the meeting, he
begged leave to introduce to the house
two Presidents of the Anti-Slavery Soci
ety of the New England States; and lo1
and behold! who should they be, but two
fellows as black as midnight! They made
their remarks, and read several letters
from this Sambo and that, from different
parts of the United Slates. One was
read by Garrison from a black brother in
Petersburg, who said the time was fast
approaching when liberty would be soun
ded in Maine and echoed in-Georgia.
Garrison read as many as five letters from
different men in the Southern Slates,
and several from Missouri. Among the
resolutions adopted, was this, brought in
by Garrison. He' moved that a cata
logue be made out of the different Minis
ters of the gospel in the United Stales,
who were base enough to hold slaves,
and thai their names should be held up
to the world, as men who were daninin"
themselves at every breath! A commit
tee was to be appointed, to go ihe rounds
of the Southern States, to find out the
preachers owning slaves. You may ex
pect a supply of such men in Rich
mond. Richmond Enq.
The Sleeping Preacher. A corres
pondent of the New York Commercial
Advertiser under date Springfield, Muss.
Dec. 16, 1833, writes as follows:
I received yesterday your letter of the
14th, in atiswer lo which I cati say gene
rally, that the accounts you have seen in
the papers of your city are perfectly cor
rect. There was an account in the Jour
nal of Commerce a few days since, which
I saw, and which was true. I have seen
the young woman once, but have seen
her at oilier times walking in the street.
The accounts you have seen, are strange
and wonderful, but not less true than
strange.
The idea of any kind of deception be
ing practiced upon you, never enters in
to your mind after seeing the young wo
man. She has no motive for such .1
thing, and she has every appearance of
oetng in a good deal of pain during these
paroxysms, and complains of great pain
in her head; and for the purpose of relief
from that pain, always has a bandage tied
round her head. She has now left here,
and gone to the hospital at Worcester, in
the hope that something may be done for
her for I think there is great danger of
her becoming an idiot, if something can
not be done to give her relief. When I
saw her, she had been, I think, seven or
eight hours in one of her paroxysms, (a
which times it is impossible to wake her,)
and had had so many people to see her
that she was tired but I saw her read in
a book a bank note, which she could
never have seen before. I wrote my
name with several others, on a card, wiih
a pencil, and though she had her eyes so
covered that it was impossible sho:ould
have seen, she read 1 lte names on the
card as quick as they were placed be
fore her.
Dr. Osgood, and the other clergymen
of this place have all seen her; are aston
ished, but have not the least idea of any
thing like deception.
She lived in one of our most respecta
ble families, and they all speak in high
terms of the young woman's moral cha
racter, and were very much attached to
her; and her own family is respectable,
but poor; so that the expense of her go
ing to, and remaining in the hospital, is
mostly defrayed by the voluntary contri
butions of our most respectable citizen?.
I was told by the lady with whom she
lived, that once she got up in her sleep,
went down stairs, set the breakfast table
in order, and did other work about the
house, and went to bed again, and had
not the least knowledge when she got up
in the morning of what she had done, but
upbraided herself for laying in bed, and
allowing some of the young ladies of the
family to do her work before she got up.
At another time she went to one of the
neighbors, in one of these fits, and staid
several hours, talking as if awake, and fi
nally awoke, to her perfect astonishment,
away from home. She has read in a
room jit night, when in bed, when it was
as dark as it could be made by the dark
ness of night, and window blinds and cur
tains. It is one of the things that we
find it impossible to believe on any other
than ocular proof; and 1 should myself
have had doubts, had I seen the same ac
counts of a similar thing any where else.
But no one can doubt for a moment after
seeing her. It was painful to me to see
her. She .cannot keep her head in its
natural position, but it falls on either
side like a dead limb, and her respiration
is not natural.
Dr. Celden, of this place, who is a ve
ry intelligent and scientific man, has paid
a great deal of attention to her case, and
took her to his own house, and carried
her to Worcester. He told me he in
tended to publish an account of this case
in some of the medical journals, at some
Moure tune, when lie found how she got
along in her new situation. I know only
ot one. person in your city who has seen
her, who can probably answer any ques
tions you may wish to ask. If I have
been able to give you any of the desired
information, I am very happy to have had
it in my power lo oblige you.
The Mormon lVar. fierce contest
has lately taken place in Jackson county,
M issouri, between the citizens and the
Mormons. It appears that this sect had
proclaimed that the spot they had select
ed was the Zion spoken of in scripture,
that the present inhabitants would be
driven off, and that they, the Mormons,
should inhabit the country. This arro
gant pretence, coupled with an invitation
to all the free negroes to come and join
them, aroused a spirit of opposition, and
induced the citizens, last summer, to pull
down their printing office. They were
proceeding to other extremities, when ex
postulation ensued, and a treaty was
made, in which it was agreed that the
Mormons should move away before ano
ther summer; and, in consideration there
of, the other party were to make good
the loss sustained by destroying their
printing office, instead, however!' lea
ving the country, they proceeded to arm
themselves, &e. which provoked a renew
.1 of hostilities, and several skirmishes
ensued, in which four of the Mormons
and two of their opponents were killed.
The report that twenty of the inhabitants
had fallen, is said to be erroneous. By
the last accounts, peiu:e had been resto
red, and the Mormons were rapidly mov
ing away, with the inientiotrof forming
another community elsewhere. Rat. Star,
CTThe editor of the Middlelown
(Conn.) Sentinel slates thai he has re
ceived a communication signed by two
gentlemen residing in that vicinity, who
profess to have seen an angel, and recei
ved a communication direct from hea
ven. The information disclosed is, that
there is shortly to be a great famine, mid
between this and the year 1847, "the
earth will open, fire flame up, and the
whole world would pass away with a
great noise.1 '
(general Assembly.
Abstract of such of the proceedings of the Legisla
ture as are considered interesting ti our readers.
S K N A TE Tuesday, Dec. 3 1 .
Mr. Colli ns presented a lull to author
ize the clerks of the courts of record in
this Slate, and those holding the office of
clerk and master in equity, to act as no
taries public. Read the firsl time.
1 he bill to'amend tin? act of last ses
sion relating lo the militia laws of this
State, passed its second and third read
ings, and was ordered to be engrossed.
On motion of Mr. Morris, the vote of
yesterday, rejecting the engrossed bill to
incorporate the Fayetieville Transporta
tion Company, was reconsidered.
The Senate took up the bill to regu
late the practice of courts of justice in
capital cases; when the said bill was read
the second time and passed; and being
read the third time, Mr. Mendenhall mo
ved to strike out the second section. Mr.
Martin, of Rockingham, then moved that
the further consideration thereof be post
poned indefinitely; which motion was a
greed to ayes 34, noes 26. Mr. Mor
ris moved that the report of the commit
tee on the Judiciary on the said bill bo
spread at length upon the Journal of iho
Senate; which motion was not agreed to.
The bill to prevent free persons of co
lor selling spiritous liquors in a quantity
less than five gallons, passed its second
and third readings, and was ordered to
be engrossed.
HOUSE OF COMMONS.
Mr. Marsteller, from the committee on
Military affairs, to whom was referred
the bill to amend the militia laws of this
Slate, and lo promote military discipline,
reported unfavorably thereon, and the
said bill was indefinitely postponed.
Mr. Marsteller, from the same com
mittee, reported a bill requiring colonel
commandants to drill their officers twico
a year, and a resolution directing the
Adjutant General to collect the public
arms; which were read the first time and
passed.
The following engrossed bills passed
their third reading and were ordered to
be enrolled: The bill to give further time
for paying in entry money; and the bill
supplementary to the act of 1832, enti
tled an act to enact, with sundry altera
tions and additions, an act entitled an act
to incorporate the Portsmouth and Roa
noke Rail Road Company, passed by the
Legislature of Virginia on the 8th May,
1832.
The bill to incorporate the Episcopal
School of North Carolina passed its third
readingand was ordered to be engrossed.
The House resolved itself into a com
mittee; of the whole, Mr. Long in the
Ch air, on the bill creating seven Judicial
Circuits in the State; and. after some
time spent therein, the Speaker resumed
the Chair, and the Chairman reported
the said bill to the House without a
mendment. The bill was then read tho
second time, and, on motion of Mr. Wil
ley, indefinitely postponed yeas 74,
nays 52. Messrs. Bynum owl Potts in
the affirmative.
The bill exempting certain articles
1 herein named from execution, was n
mended, read the second time and pass
ed vcas 75, navs 52.