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Tarbovough, (Edgecombe County, X. C.J Friday, March 21, 1834.
Vol X jYo 27.
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From the Raleigh Star.
North Carolina Annual Conference.
Extract from the minutes of the pro
ceedings of the Methodist Protestant
Church lor the District of N. Carolina.
The Conference met according to pre
vious notice, on the 27th February, 1834,
at Mount llermon, Orange county, N. C.
and, after being duly organized, proceed
ed to business.
The following is the list of the mem
bers of the Conference, viz:
Ministers Willis Harris, President;
Joshua Swift, Human Tarkinton, Seth
Speight, John Giles, Win. Bellamy,
Eli B. Whitaker, Albrittou Jones, Sam.
J. Harris, James Hunt, Caswell Drake,
Rich. Davison, Win. W. Hill, Jesse II.
Cobb, C. Allen, Thus. Y. Cook, Win.
11. Wills, Wm. McMasters, Alexander
Albright, Charles L. Cooley, A. Gray,
John Coe, John Moore, Travis Jones,
Wm. Blair, A. Robbins, N. Kobbins,
Jesse Gallamorn, John Gray, Isaac
Coe," John F. Speight.
Lay Delegates Exum Lewis, A.
Benton, Thos. Nicholson, Dr. Mat. C.
Whitaker, L. H. B. Whitaker, Benj.
Hunter, Hardy Pitts, D. T. Paschal, D.
A. Paschal, llobt. Jones, A. Paschal,
Li'wellen Jones, James Grant, J. W.
Smith, Wm. B. Mann, Dr. Wm. D.
Jones, James C. Wren, Nicholas All
bright, Win. Lindlay, J as. 11. Christie,
R. C. Rankin, E. W. Ogbum, Dr. W.
Wethers, R. W. Lindsay, Wm. Gil
breath, James Robbins, R. G. Beason,
John Kirkman, Arch'd Wilson.
Those marked thus were absent.
Jesse G. Beason was recommended by
the quarterly Conference to travel and
preach, and was received.
James H. Christie was recommended
and elected to Deacon's orders.
The Conference proceeded to the elec
tion of President for the ensuing year;
whereupon Alexander Ailbright was duly
elected.
John Coe was elected Conference
Steward.
The committee appointed to fill any
vacancy in the Presidency, which may
occur by death or otherwise, consists of
Elder John Coe, John Moore, and Wm.
Blair.
The Rev. Willis Harris, Minister; and
Col. S. Whitaker, Layman, were duly
elected Representatives to the General
Conference, to be held in Georgetown,
D. C. in May next. Gen. Eli B. Whit
aker and James Grant were elected Al
ternates. The number of members in the Con
ference District is 1832 increase the
past year 417.
The stationing committee made the
following Report, which was adopted,
viz:
Guilford Circuit John F. Speight,
superintendent; Jesse G. Benson, assist
ant; John Coe, stationed iit Moriah, John
Moore Ht Ai, Wm. Blair at Bethel, Isaac
Coe at Red Hill, A. Robbins, Shiloh, in
Guilford county, N. Robbins, Liberty,
Jesse Gallamore, Bethel, on Abbott's
Creek, John Gray, Pleusant Grove, Tra
vis Jones, Flat Rock.
Orange Circuit Alson Gray, super
intendent; Joseph Holmes, assistant; W.
McMasters, stationed at Hicfcorv Grove,
Charles L. Cooley, at Chesnut Ridge.
Granville Circuit J as. H. Christie,
superintendent; Jas. Hunt, stationed at
Union Chapel; Thos. Y. Cook, Cook's
station; C. Allen, at Pine Stake; Caswell
Drake, New Hope; Richard Davison, at
Brown's; Jesse H. Cobb, at Midway.
Roanoke Circuit S.J. Harris, super
intendent; Wm. H. Wills, assistant; Eli
B. Whitaker, stationed at Bradford's;
William Bellamy, at Battle's; Albritton
Jones, at Union; Seth Speight, at Tab
ernacle; Joshua Swift, at Swain's Chapel;
Harmon Tarkinton, at Tarkinton's.
MnWtmuskeet Station John Giles,
Willis Harris, and Wm. W. Hill, Con
fere nee M i ss i o n a r i es.
The next Annual Conference is to be
held at Rehoboth Meeting House, Gran
ville county, N. C. on the 4th Wednes
day of February. 1B35.
SAM'L J. HARRIS, Sec.
Fire. The barn of the Rev. Simeon
Norman, in Pasquotank county, together
with its contents, consisting of ubout 160
barrels of corn, two gigs and harness, and
farming utensils, was consumed by fire
on the night of the 25lh ult. Loss esli
mated at $1000. It is supposed to be
the work of incendiaries, and suspicion
rests upon two negroes, who have been
committed fur trial. RaL Star.
the constitutional requisites, there is no
doubt of her being received.
Melancholy Coincidence. We re-published
a few days since from a N. York
paper, a notice of the death of C. C. Co
hen, a chemist of that city. The extra
ordinary circumstances under which his
death took place, are not a little height
ened by the facts, disclosed in the follow
ing extract from the Evening Star:
"Mr. Cohen, though quite a young
man, was an excellent practical chemist,
and his readings generally were varied,
scientific, and full of interest; but in mat
ters of religion, lie took a singular and
extraordinary turn, and from being well
educated in the Jewish faith, he became
an atheist; and we think we can safely
say, almost the only one of that persua
sion who, in any change of religion, ut
terly abandoned and surrendered all be
lief in a first great cause. Mr. Cohen
joined the society of Free Enquirers,
and preached atheistical doctrines, and
was a correspondent and contributor to
their paper, and we now notice this fact
to relate a singular circumstance con
nected with his wriiings and death.
It is known that the Rev. Abncr
Kneeland was recently tried and con
victed in Boston, of atheism, and before
sentence, he published a kind of expla
nation of his creed, which in a great mea
sure softened, if it did not entirely do
away with the belief that he was an athe
ist. This recantation gave great offence
to the Free Enquirers generally, but par
ticularly to Mr. Cohen, who assailed him
for so doing in the columns of the Free
Enouirer. published in this city. The
words of Mr. Kneeland were
"Hence I am not an atheist but a pan
theist; that is, instead of believing there
is no God, I believe, in the abstract, that
all is god, and that al! power that is, is
god, and that there is no power except
that which proceeds from god."
In an article, which he signs with his
name, Mr. Cohen assails such "jargon,"
as he calls it, and makes this emphatic
Board of Aldermen, recommending that ; remark "For my own part, I should say
application be made to Congress for a j I can attach no idea lolhe word God, and
i
GlBy late intelligence from Lower
Canada, we learn, that all the resolutions
tinder discussion, (ninety-two in number)
impeaching Lord Aylmer, censuring the
British Colonial Administration, and
calling conventions of the people, passed
finally on the 21st of January, by a vole
of 5G ayes to 24 noes. Every amend
ment and substitute, designed to mode
rate their tone, was lost by a like vote.
A special committee was appointed to
prepare an address to the King and both
Houses of Parliament, founded upon
these resolutions. Bait. Amcr.
Emigrants. The Mayor ofN. York
has addressed a communication to the
The pretended religious character of the
work has been superadded by some more.
modern hand believed to be the notori-
ous itiL'uon. J nese particulars liavo
been derived by Dr. Hulbert from the
widow of the author of the original manu
script." Album.
A knotty point for the civilians. Ned
Mitchell, a free man of colour, was mar
ried to his wife Cressy in the year 1820,
she having had one (white) child, but
that was at Chapel Hill. They lived to
gether for ten long years in the enjoy
ment of domestic felicity, and in perfect
harmony, during which time Cressy had
five children, as much like Ned, as shot
are like hullets. At length in 1830, Cres
sy moved to di&tant parts; Ned promised
to follow her, but went to the Montgom
ery Gold Mines and has been there ever
since. Cressy, in 1833, returned to Sa
lisbury, and not finding Ned there, nor
hearing of him thereabouts, she, in the
course of time, gave her hand in matri
mony to another gentleman, by whom
she lias one child. A few days since,
who should make his appearance but
Ned Mitchell, claiming to be restored to
his matrimonial rights; and a devilish
confusion is about to be the upshot of it.
In this priminary, we have been profes
sionally consulted, but not deeming the
mat! r fairly within our province, we
have turned it over to the ecclesiastics,
Dan Macay and Hanibal Brown, and if
they should encounter any difficulty, we
have advised, that they call on the
"Kitchen Cabinet," before which, mat
ters of this kind are "peculiarly cogniz
able," as the Lawyers say .Salisbury
Watchman.
i
ailcires
law relative to emigrants, nu
that several countries make our shores
the depositories of their criminals and
paupers, and alleges that not long since
a set of public robbers were shipped to
this country from Hamburg. It cannot
be doubted that the system of exporting
paupers has been adopted on a large
scale in Europe, and the crowded slate
of our alms houses show the extent to
w hich we sutler from the system. These
are crying evils, and require a speedy in
vestigation and remedy. We should be
sorry indeed to see the path of the free
and noble-hearted exile in any way im
peded. This is unnecessary. The in
terests of the respectable emigrant him
self, require that the abominable system
of pauper transportation should be stay
ed. phU Int.
Ol? We referred a few days ago to a de
cision of one of the Courts of Louisiana,
declaring a steamboat employed in the
conveyance of the mail, exempt from an
attachment for debt due by the owners or
contractors. We since learn from the
Louisiana Advertiser, that the decision
has been reversed by the Supreme Court
of that State, on the ground that the law
of Congress inflicting a penalty for an
obstruction of the passage of the mail,
did not apply to the case in question; but
that a steamboat or other vehicle altho'
employed in carrying the mail, being the
private property of an individual, is lia
ble for his debts; and that whenever the
boat is in port, the creditor has a right to
seize it to satisfy the claim. ret. Int.
OWe shall soon have another star in
our constellation. Our readers have seen
that Michigan has applied for admission
as a State, and as it id said, ahe offers all
cannot consequently believe in him."
This was printed on Saturday, Feb. 10th,
although the paper issues on Sunday; and
on Saturday, on the very day that such
an avowal was made, under deliberate
r . it
sanction ot Ins name, he was blown to
pieces in his laboratory, while making
fulminating powder. His head we learn
by an undemanding among the Free Eu
(inirers. was ?iven to the society for
phrenological studies; his arm, which
was blown off, has not since, as we are
told, been found. Thus his body has
gone one way, his head another, and his
limb another scattered, we may say, to
the winds. Now, philosophers may
smile, free thinkers may laugh, and athe
ists may ridicule the idea of divine inter
position or divine vengeance all have a
right to make their comment. We only
state the fact, and say what they may, it
is a singular coincidence of profession
and catastrophe.?
C?"Poulson's Advertiser says: "Col.
Hackett arrived in this city last evening
to comple the arrangements for the great
pedestrian match between himself and
the Georgia champion. It will come oh?
on the 1st of June, between this city and
Boston. The bets now in private and
club bets, amount to 825,000. The Col.
takes up his winter quarters near our ci
ty, and goes into training for this feat.
He will deliver a lecture in this city next
week."
The Mormon Mystery. We rejoice
that the humbug of the Mormon bible is
about to be fully exposed. A late num
ber of the Wayne, (Pa.) Sentinel informs
us that Dr. F. Hulbert, of Kirtland, (U.)
has been engaged for some time in dif
ferent parts of the state, in pursuit of facts
and information relative to the origin and
history of the Book of Mormon. The
Sentinel says: "Dr. H. has succeeded in
accomplishing the object of his mission,
and an authentic history of the whole af
fair will shortly be given to the public.
The original manuscript of the book was
written some thirty years since by a re
spectable clergyman, now deceased,
whose name we are not permitted to give.
It was designed to be published as a ro
mance, but the author died soon after it
was written, and hence the plan failed.
ttTThe latest information from the
Swash gives very cheering intelligence
of the improvement which has been ef
fected at that place. Thirty-six sail of
vessels, eight of which were loaded with
full cargoes, and drawing from 71-2 to
8 1-2 feet, passed through the new chan
nel during the last month. The owners
of lighters say there is no farther use for
them, and our informant states it as hia
belief, that 10 feet may be had this sum
mer. Neichcrn Sent.
CC?" "It is not by the consolidation, or
concentration of powers, but their distri
bution, that good government is effected.
Were not this great country already di
vided into states, that division must be
made, that each might do for itself what
concerns, itself directly, and what it can
so much better do than a distant author
ity. Every state again is divided into
counties, each to take care of what lies
within its local bounds; each county
again into townships or wards, to man
age minute details; and every ward into
farms, to be governed each by its indivi
dual proprietor. Were we directed from
Washington when to sow, and when to
reap, we should soon want bread. It is
by this partition of cares, descending in
gradation from great to particular, that
the mass of human aflairs may be best
managed, for the good and prosperity of
all." Jefferson.
d?"Thc Legislature of Pennsylvania
have ordered 4,f',00 copies of Washing
ton's Farewell Address to be printed for
distribution- 3,000 copies in English
jand 1;000 ir. Germatu