Whole Xo. 528. Tarhorongh, ( Edsecoinbe County, X. V.) Friday, Xovembev 14, 1831. Vol. X Xo GO. unucMrann The "Tttrbtrouzk Frre Press," Bk (1KUROE HOWAKO, Is puhli-htil weekly, at 7?;o Dollars and Fifty Ccn-'n p;-r ycir, if j.aui in ;ulv;iiu-c 01 , 'J'iirtv Dol lars, at the iti .n ol the subscription year. For any pcriu'l less than a yea", Twenty -Jive Cents per :iu mil. 6ubscriyers :irc at libel iy to discontinue at any time, on joviiii; notice thereof and paying arrears thus'.- residing at a distance must invariably p:iy in advance,'"'. v responsible reference in thi-vicinity. Advertisements, not exceeding 16 lines, w ill be in M ted at 5U cents the first ii1va rtion, and cents each j!it:;;uance. Longer enes at that rate for every 16 iiiu-. Advertisements mast be marked the number m! i :, -rttions : equired, or tliev will be continued until v.i!k i wist ore' .-red, and charged accordinj;')'. Letters adilrescd to the lvlitor must be post paid, im- they may not be attended to. I beg you, gentlemen, to be assured, that although I cannot be with you m per son, 1 shall not on that account "particiuaie ...lit. i r i- ' ,vim ,c iticimir in your grmul.-uioiis. I am, very respectfully, Your most oh't. sorv't M. VAN 15UKEN. i (. P. S. Crooke William LeMreJ( Barnabas Bates, p. Wetmnre,7ohn .L Bedienf, Morgan L. Smith, Esqrs, Committee. ' M'- iollowiti is the leitei addressed by Mr. Van Hnren to the Committee of Invitation. ir the nvent iieat Democratic FeMival al Cas tle Harden. Albany, October 24, K,34. Gentlemen I thank you for your kind invitation t attend the proposed public festival at Castle Garden, for the purpose of celebrating the triumphs of our polit ical brethren in Maine, Connecticut, 3miiisvI vani;i, Now Jersey, and Georgia, and I sincerely regret dial it is not in rny power to accept it. I know of no events subject to tiie con trol of the suffrages of the people which are of greater importance to them, or mote deserving of such a commemoration as vou have in view, than those you are about to celebrate. Our political con tests heretofore, have turned mainly upon the feelings and opinions of the people, with regard to the measures of ihe gov ernment, and the selections of their pub lic functionaries; leaving the action of the i t i t public mind untouched, hoth as regards i oer on its freedom and the conclusiveness of its decisions. The results of such contests have partaken largely of the character of a personal triumph, on the part of the successful candidate. Not so with the triumphs you design to celebrate. Willi regard to them the issue was not so much to ascertain what the will of the people was as to determine whether that will, when clearly understood, should or should not prevail. It was sufficiently known last winter that a great majority of the people of this country, were opposed to a re-charter ol the Bank of the United States; and yet, with a full knowledge of that fact, public and private embarrassments of the sever est character were deliberately created, in the hope, and with the design of ht:iug able, through the means of those embar rassments, to coerce the people into the support of that institution. With respect ; the truth of these positions, the muss of thinking and candid minds are now of one aecord. Never, except in cases where military force has been resorted to, have such formidable means been used to bend the determined will of the many, to the inter ested views of the few. If they had been successful, nothing worth preserving would have been left in our political system. The democratic Uiumphs which you propose to honor, have, I trust, saved our country from so great a calamity. Those constitutional expression of the public will, operating in concert with similar expressions in other states, and supported by that, which is, I trust, to follow in New York, will place the abso lute supremacy of that will upon grounds, which, if i liny do not conciliate the re aped and good feeling of every one, can not fail to command the acquiescence of all. You are right, therefore, in looking upon these victories as upon "a general triumph of the great principle of equal rights." In contemplating their consequences, the interests of individual candidates .sink into insignificance, when compared with the additional safeguards which they throw around the interests of the great b.jjy of the people. The Cotton Crop. Clayton & Bur ritfs annual statement of the cotton crop, appears in their Shipping Commercial' list of Saturday. They make the whole crop, a rush, and with a cat-squeal of victory overcame her antagonist, throwing her on the ground and planting her knee up on her breast and her talons in her cheek. From Gulf of Mexico, Atlantic, Total, Kx ported, CoiiMimed, Phis croo has nroved i I Bales. - (MI, 4 3.1 5C3,9.r)l I,205,3!J4 1,027,429 1, U6. ):i5 ' to be 134.95G hides larger than that of the previous year which was itself more than 30,000 bales larger than any previous crop. The consumption in this country ap pears, from the statement, to have "been about the same with the previous year, the whole increase having been exported. et so great has been the increase of cotton manufacturing abroad, that the stocks remaining on hand at the end of 1834, will probably be a good deal less i ban they were at the end of 1833. Journal of Commerce. To the unfortunate. Mr. S. How land of West Brookfield, manufactures wooden legs with joints, that are so light and easy as to answer almost as well as the natural limbs. A man from Vt. lost both his legs not long since by a log's rolling over him; he procured an artificial pair, atid is able, he says, to perform near ly all kinds of work with the same facili ty as before. We are astonished at the varied ingenuity of man. lie has suc ceeded in replacing nearly all the organs of the body which are ever lost. lie makes teeth arid eyes, and clothes the bald head, and makes limbs for the des- I titule. Wtstfield Journal. A Murderer caught. Michael Sikes, who perpetrated a most atrocious mur- rhursdav the 23rd inst. in Nor- Portsmouth and Roanoke Rail Road. The Norfolk Beacon says, "it is almost reduced to a certainty, that within twelve months from this date, the entire route to Wehlon will have been completed; and the Portsmouth and Roanoke Rail Road will demonstrate the successful enter prize of our people." Radford, Oct. 23, 1834. Aicful Occurrence. On Monday, the 20th ultimo, at the mills, near Rockford, urry county, William. G. llayncs, Esq. his sou Stephen, and two or three others, were employed in repairing the saw mill, when, unexpectedly, the decayed and pre carious supports of the upper floor gave way, and Mr. llaynes was thrown a dis tance of eighteen or twenty feet, on the rocky foundation below. On extricating folk County, Ya. on two of his neighbors, Batson Fentress and John Murden, was him from the situation in which the fall arretted on Thursday last, by Mr. Daniel j had placed him, he was found to be badly Spence. in tin? upper part of this County, I bruised ami mangled; he, however, strug in the edge of the Dismal Swamp, and is'gled with all the agonies of expiring na now safely lodged in our jail. j lure, until Tuesday, about 5 o'clock, P .M. We glean the following particulars of j when, after severe pain, he expired, this revolting act of human butchery ! Fortunately, no other injury of conse from the Norfolk papers: Sikes, itap-iqueuce was sustained by the others. pears, had promised Fentress the pick- j Stephen was lighily hurt by the fall, but ings ol his lolil (or taking care ot his en-i Inn since recovered. iy tins unexpect- closures during his absence; but when;ed and premature death of one of our his crop was gathered, instead of fulfill- j best citizens, the neighborhood has lost ing that promise, lie turned in his ownjn friend, a distressed wife a kind and tock, and r entress, accompanied by Murden, set off to turn them 'out. On the road they were met by Sikes and three boys, two sons and a nephew, all armed with guns and pistols. When Fentress declared his determination, Sikes insisted he should not turn out his stock affectionate husband, and several chil dron a good and benevolent parent. Salem Reporter. (T?The Hartford Review informs Us, that a quantity of gunpowder, placed by This some malicious persons at the entrance i produced a controversy, which was sud denly terminated by Sikes, who dischar ged his gun at the breast of Fentress, of the Free Church in that city, exploded during service on Sunday evening last, fortunately without injury to the congre- then but a few feet from the muzzle, whojgatinn. A reward of 100 has been of fell de-ad. Sikes then ordereil his neph j fered for the discovery of the persons who ew to shoot Murden; the boy obeyed audi placed it there. On the same evening, a wounded him in the arm, as he was mak ing oil, lie lurried to remonstrate, tell ing Sikes he had never injured hsm, and betted he would spare his life. Sikes snatched the gun from one of his sous, and lodged the contents in the side of Murden, who fell mortally wounded. Eliz. City Star. (ITA regular North Carolinian, on Monday, made his appearance in the of fice of the U. S. Gazette, measuring six feet eight inches in height, and as straight J i r -lit as a pine tree, ills wiioie lamny oeiong to the breed of "Long tins." The united measure of himself and four brothers a mounts to 32 feet and 3 inches, and they are not the highest that can be produced by "a great smell; for a neighbor of his, measures over seven feet perpendicular." JV. Y. Star. (XT Two well dressed females, on Tues day, i" Philadelphia, in Chesnut street, near Second, got into a regular set-to, scratching, tearing and biting each other, without mercy, ruffles, bonnets, caps nnd shoes flew around, till at last one of Ithcm, summing up all her strength, made! mob collected at the African Methodist church, and an affray took place, in which one colored man was seriously injured. (rA new sect have made their appear ance in Connecticut, calling themselves Perfectionists, and established a paper at New Haven, called the "Perfectionist." The Niece oj George Washington. The story which has been travelling through the newspapers that a woman had lately applied to be admitted into a poor house in Fngland, who, it was as certained was a niece of Gen. Washing ton, turns out as we expected it would entirely false. A writer in the Winches ter Virginian thus settles it: "Gen. Wash ington never had but one own niece my aunt, the Inte Mrs. Charles Carter who never was in England certainly, and 1 be lieve never out of her native State, (Vir ginia,) and who died in my house four years since." A Queer Oath. The Tennessee Con vention, which was lately in session, for the purpose of remodelling the Constitu tion of that State, had cousiclcraDlc Oilii. culty in settling hL. phraseology of the oath to be taken by the members of the Legislature. A great variety of forms were offered by various members, and among others the following by Mr M'Kinnev. It was rejected, we believe but we are of opinion it come? nearer than any other form, to the cour&e fol lowed by a great many members of iho Legislative bodies, and that it might be taken with less risk of violation than the ordinary oath. "I, A. B. do solemnly swear, that as a member of this General Assembly, 1 will, in the first place, do the best 1 can for mvself in the second place, for my friends and in the third place for the State of Tennessee." N. Y. Cour. d?The negro Csesar's cure for poi son for discovering which the Assem bly of South Carolina purchased his freedom, and gave him an annuity of one hundred pounds. 1782. Cccsar's cure for the bite oj a Rattlesnake. Take the roots of a plan tain or hoarhound, (in summer, roots and brunches together,) a sufficient quantity, bruise them in a mortar and squeeze out thejuice; of which give as soon as possi ble, one large spoonful; if the patient is swollen you must force it down his throat; this generally will cure, put if he finds no relief in an hour afterwards, give auother spoonful, which never has failed. If the roots are dried they must be moistened wita little water. To the wound may be applied a leaf of tobacco moistened with rum. CGThe Dog Population of the United States is estimated at one million and three hundred thousand, and the expense of keeping them upwards of ten million of dollars annually. Child hilled by rats. The Coroner of Philadelphia was called a few days since to view the dead body of a black child, which the mother deposed, she found dead in its bed its face being near ly eaten ofTby rats. The Temple Fraud. At the time of the suicide of Judge Temple, agents were in the vicinity of Rutland, (Vt.) in vestigating the number and extent of his speculations. It is stated in a letter from Vermont, that more than a week ago twenty one cases of entire forgery had already been ascertained upon which over S4000 had been drawn; it was also dis covered that considerable sums had been drawn for real pensioners after their de cease. X!ie family of the unfortunate Judge have, with a feeling that does5 them great honor, resolved to refund to Government, so far as his estate will ad mit of it, the money he had fraudulently obtained. The Biter Bit.t is currently repor ted, says the Boston Journal, that a large stockholder in one of our Banks, wish ing to effect a change among the Direc tors, lately transferred a number of shares to certain individuals, with a view to in crease the number of proxies at his dis posal. It is said that one individual who is insolvent, held shares in this way to the amount of 82000; but one of his cred itors casually hearing of the circum stance, yesterday attached the shares, and it is thought that the original, and actual owner, will have to whistle for his property. The First Methodist Conference. The first Methodist Conference held was assembled at London, June 25, 1774. The Methodist Preachers then, through out the world, were six. They are now more than three thonsand, and the actual members of the Society, near a million, CIf you would be rich, think of sav ing as well as getting.

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