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crDmmttnicatiiJn Uv i:i-:qiws'1'- Prom ihr Halifax Advocate. 1r Editor'. ! lno ronflict of con trary testimony, noun so cifci.liMlly satis fl0tl,o mind and relieves it of doubt, a that which is clearly known to ourselves. ItVoriiniaMdy happens to a very large portion d our community to be able, from our own knowledge to settle tin truth of several of the statements contain (u in the two opposing reports which lately emanated from the committee ofj the Senate on Post olllce and Post road-! IZ-lu the report of the minority of thi;S 'committee, composed of Messrs. Gruud; j and Robinson, it is stated, that Aver1 j Tompkins and Saltmarsh contracted with the department for ''running times a week between Nashville and Tarbo rouiih N. C. 23 miles, in two horse stages, at 450 dollars a year: and for running once a week on horseback between En field and Tarborough, 24 miles, at 70 dollars a year. These contracts all bear date Oct. 20fh, 1830; to commence January 1st, UJ31, and to continue four years." Afterwards, and before the commencement of the contract, "the route from Nashville to Tarborough, 6Jo miles, was ordered to be run in four horse post coaches, instead of two horse stages. The route from Enfield to Tarborough, 24 miles, was directed to be performed tlnee times a week, in four horse post coaches, instead of once a week, on horse back'. The minority then proceed to state, that 82000 per annum extra had been allowed to the contractors for the above mentioned improvement, and con elude their paragraph relating to this su')j' Ct by saying "the contractors furn ished satisfactory evidence to the depart ment ?hat the improvements increased th'jir expense ecpial to the allowance which was made, and there is no cause; to doubt it." Now it is perfectly well known to the citizens of Tarborough and J ishville, that the contractors have nev er, for a single month, run a four horse post coach on I he route from Nashville to Tarborouuh; but have otdy performed the original contract, in two horse taijes, for which they were to receive $'150 per annum. And it is equally well known, to the citizens of Tarborough and Enfield that they have, for only a part of the time, run a four horse post coach from Tarborough to Enfield and are ?toz0 run ning a two horso stage. As the contrac tors have not in the slightest degree im proved the route between Tarborough and Nashville, it follows that they have been receiving 2000 per annum for the last three and a half years for the im provement on the route from Enfield to Tarborough, from a horse mail once a week, to a two horse stage, 3 times a weekj The above mentioned facts, admit of no denial. Five hundred witnesses can attest them. And now Mr. Editor, was there ever an instance, in an econom ical government, of a more aggravated imposture Will people talk of an op pressive tariff with rage and indignation, and quietly submit to swindling like this? I will now calculate the sum which these contractors will have received, on the 3Ut Dec. 1834, out of our pockets, for which no service will have been per formed. As the Nashville and Tarbo rough route has received no improvement from the original contract, at 450 dollars per annum, wc may exclude that route in our calculation, iou will attend to the fact, Mr. Editor, that the 92001) ex tra is over and above the sum first agreed on between the contractors and the de partment, that sum is likewise paid them in addition to the extra allowance. On the Tarborough and Knfield route; of 24 miles on horseback once a week they receive the sum of For the improvement of this route they receive extra per annum, Making the yearly allowance for this route, 2.070 Jn,s or lour years ending 3lst Dec. iJ4, will be gS,2S0 The minority of the committee say "there ia no rule by which a pro rata can be established between a horse route and a coach ruut With this difficulty in our way, it may be supposed that wc are stopped; but I will remove it so far as concerns this, with great ease and equal liberality The route from Tarborough to Enfield is 24 miles over a fair road that from Tarborough to Nashville is 28 miles. The contractors undertook the latter route at 450 a year, to be run in two horse stages. limes a week This is iart the service that has been, and is now performing on the Enfield and Tarbo rough route. The contractors cannot therefore, complain if I allow them for 24 miles, as much as they voluntarily un dertook to run 2o miles for. We will therefore put down this route in two hors'.i stages 3 times a week at 8450 per nnu This for four years ending 31st Dc-c. 1834 to be $1,800. instead of this, however, I have shown ;hat tit that time they will have received $3280. The difference between these sums is G480 dollars, and this is the sum which wiH have been received by them, for which no service will have been per formed, on these two very inconsiderable routes!!! Thus much for the contractors, and I leave them to your readers. I will now brief!), but fully ami fairly examine, in the Inguage of Messrs. Grundy and Rob inson, whether supposing all the extra servi, s to have been performed which were stipulated, "this allowance was greater than what law and equity would warrant." The report of these gentle men say, ''fitly per cent on a two horse stage line, is estimated by the depart merit as the pro rata increase for im provement to a four horse coach line." Now let us take this rule of the depart ment as the test of the equity of allow ing $2000 per annum for the routes afore said. The route from Tarborough to Nashville Raleigh Register, wc observe t"he following: OCT , An Order was made on the petition ol Trustees of the University of N. Caroli na to pay over to Petitioners money un claimed for mere than seven years, on account of a legacy from Mary S. Blount to Elizabeth Hunter. in a two horse blage was bid off by the S 150 225 S70 2.000 contractors at Fitly per cent, on the amount for im provement to .i four horse line is Making the Tarborouc;h and Nashville route improved worth per annum, We will now allow t ho sum lor the En li'Id and Tarborough route improved, Making both routes, improved, worth per annum, $1,350 And let us see Mr. Editor what they do, in fact, receive for both of these routes improved First, thev receive on the Tarborourh and Nashville ionic. Second, they receive on the Tarborough and Knhtld route, Third, they receive in extra allowances on both routes, The amount actually received per annum for thee two routes, improved, is $2,520 The difference then, between a fair pro rata allowance at 50 per cent on the original contracts, and what thev do in fact receive, is $'I 170 a year, making, in fnr years, $'4Go0 I now leave the Post Master General to your readers. A S-150 2,000 GT'The rebuilding of the State House at Uuleigh progresses very slow; but the work is executed with neatness and great durability. When the corner stone was laid, July 4, it was estimated that it would be completed in two years from that time. The second story is not yet done, (and as the workmen ascend they make less progress,) we suppose it will be at least two years more before the whole building will be finished. Chapel Hill liar. Shoero Springs. Kxtract of a Letter from a traveller, to his friend in Petersburg, Va. "I cannot here close without a few te rn irks on my visit to the Shocco Springs, in Warren County, North Carolina, situ ate in a high, healthy, wealthy and a greeable neighbourhood. The houses are spacious, numerous and all finished in the neatest manner, and present to the approach of a visiter, (if you can imagine such a sight,) the ap pearance of a thousand mounds all cov ered in snow. And notwithstanding my opportunities to sec company from my childhood to the present time have been unlimited, never have I been struck with more timidity than on my arrival. The Portico, I'JO.feet in length, was literally overflowing with company. I the following extract of a letter, which we fr in the Philadelphia National Gazette: "The dragoons arc crossing, and we have thus commenced the cariqmirn Since the first of May, 300 miles uf roil( have been completed. The drngoorn are moving upon it to make a peace with the Pawnees. Wc expect to find tl0 about G or 700 miles from here, and ui have a peace with them, if we have t'j fight for it. They are killing our citizens daily, and robbing every one tin y ( a find." From the Telegraph. Internal Improvements. We eall the Vf particular attention of the South, to the follow ing extract from the debate in ihe IIoio 'J(.r resentalives on the appropriation for (Jye0 Harbor. Nothing can more plainly show rhp nature of the system under which the money 0f the people is expended, than these IV w remark of Mr. Sutherland. lie strips the matter of,,!! difiguie, owns it is a log-rolling concern, that however improper, and partial, and uselei may be the appropriations, yet they mut stick by each other, and vote for each other's pro.)0. -si t ion, or lose all. It is just like the candor which Mr. Sutherland exhibited in a certain memorable letter, it also shows that ;r Sutherland, who is a shrewd man, Kr.ew tho character of a majority of the House; and though; it the best policy to drop the curtain, and open ly let all parties wee thai it was a log-rolling; con cern in which he was willing to lake a share. The concluding remark is significant, "Ohio was well, New York was well, and Pennsylvania was pretty well." Ohio, New York, anil l" Penn sylvania, sharing out the public moneys as they think proper. Strikingly Characteristic. Mr. Sm!h crland said that ho had been one of the first in favor of embarking in the penile man's Red river concern, and the House had pi von tin: gentleman's constituents 50 or 60,000 dollars at a dash. Now, this .i c i . . rvir . met mo gaze oi auoui -o spenaiuis. Immediately, however, on alighting from my S.dkey, I was attended by four active (n contained ten or twelve appropria- servants, to whom, witn ineir attendant, tjong for the benefit of Slates which had was intrusted my horse, vehicle and I ni.ped the gentleman on that occasion, irngc, whilst I was conducted by a gen-; ail(1 n wou(1 be well enough for the gen teel, graceful man to the bar room, and 1 tL.mcn l0 remember that he, with others, presented with every thing pleasing to j wns embarked in this bill. He must sink the eye, or that appetite could crave. j ()r swim wit, jr They were all in one A very neat cabin, with walls ot snowy j boa( an(j ,ey ollgj,t l0 act accor(jjny. whiteness, was very soon assigned me, , The apntlmnn had not .SO OnO. nnrl his t-i r 7 FRIDAY, AUGUST i, ls.'3t. 03 On Sunday last, a valuable negro boy named Wellington, aseil about IS years, the property of Mis Abby Mathewson of thi place, was drowned in Fishing Creek, into which tie had gone to bathe. (fJAn election wa held in this county yes terday, for members of the next General Assem bly and Sheriir the polls of the several districts will he compared in this place to-morrow. From the unofficial .statements received, it is generally supposed that I lardy Flowers is re-elected Sena tor, and John W. Potts and Turner Jiynutn re elected Commonersand that William D. Pet way is elected Sheriff. We will give the official statement of the poll in our next. There was no question of national politics in volved in the contest for members of the Legisla ture the candidates being all for Jackson, and all for the re-election of Mr. Brown to the Uni ted States Senate. C3" Among the recent proceedings of the Su preme Court of this Stale, as published in (be and an attendant at my call. My arrival was in a few minutes announced to our mutual friends Old Hal and Thomas, (also, on a visit.) who in their usual ex eu'ise -f gallantry, conducted me into a spacious Hall thronged with visiters, 1 believe, fr.:n every part of ihe world; a majority whom, after my introduction I found fee, easy and affable, all shewing a di'stre to contribute to my comfort and relieve me front embarrasment: It proved ellectua!, for in a few days I was as easy as at htme, and better fixed 1 .assure you! Indeed, my dear Fellow, I had most delightful limes. Among my numerous female acquaint ances, I met a little nymph from Virginia, whose bewitching ryes almost caused me to forget that I had ever known an Eliza. 1 will not, however, confine my re marks longer to one individual. tShocco shewed forth all its fair and beautiful flowers with unusual brightness. Our delegation from Virginia was re ceived under almost, a general acclama tion of joy. Suffice it to say, it was com posed of her most brilliant jewels. I much regret that the limits of this ad dress will not sufler me to give you some account of its very valuable waters, and its general accommodation. I had not an opportunity to form an acquaintance with the Landlady, but shall do so on my return to Shocco about ten days hence, and will at that time give you a full history of every thing that may "tran spire. With much respect, and in haste, Your friend. Lynchburg, July 12th, 1834. thought this was pretty well for the pres ent. Mr. S. had voted to make it 50,000 dollars, and would have been willing to have raised it to 100,000, but the House had determined otherwise; and the gen tleman bad better submit with good hu mor, lie thought the bill did, upon the whole, as much as could be expected. Ohio was well, New York was well, and Pennsylvania was pretty well. It was best to quit debating and come to voting. (jfThe following; appropriations were mads at the late session of Congress, for Public Work; within this Slate: For carrying on the improvement of Ocrncock inlet, North Carolina, fifteen thousand dollars. For improving Capo Fear river, below Wilmington, North. Carolina, five thou sand two hundred and thirty.four dollar?. For a light boat to be anchored in r. proper place, at or near the mouth ofihr Roanoke river, N. Carolina, ten thousand dollars. For completing Fort Macon, (Beaufort Harbor, North Carolina,) repairing the wharf and dike, and for the protection ot the site of that work, seven thousand dollars. OThc Wilmington Press, in men tioning the arrival at home of Gen. McKay, the Representative of that trict in Congress, says, "As the result ot exertions, we mention, that the route froin the Waccamaw Lake to the Capr Fcai River, will be surveyed immediately, ty' an Engineer, at the expense of the United States. A survey will be made in Ons- P. S Arn vnn fniiit f fr.tYw.1 ,.:.. Imw nr thn month nf TVom Rii'pr hv jv,,. ,! ui iiuiiii; Mjuiuiy, " " v xir in i "j fine music, the festive dance? Do vou desire- health, enjoy good eating and drinking! Meet me at Shocco! In haste yours, -4 Speck of War. By advices received from thn head quarters of Gen. Leavenworth, on the South Western frontier, near the Arkansas Riv er, hearing date the 17th of June, the prospect of a httle acuve service is offered to the portion of the army stationed in that district. The Paw nees are committing depredations, and nothing hut the loss of a few lives it is feared, will have a tendency to seal a bond of amity between the White and Red man of that section. Wc sive United States' Engineer, who will e provided with the necessary instruments the expense, however, to be borne by the citizens. The cause of this differ ence is, that the latter is considered by government as a local affair, and the for mer as national; as it is a link in a great chain of internal communication, long spoken of at the seat of government-" Fay. Obs. At a meeting of the Board for the ex amination of Midshipmen, which assem bled at Baltimore in May and adjourned
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