Whole Ao. 531. Tarborough, (Edgecombe County, X. C.) Friday, December 5, 183. Vol. X JVo. 03. The Tarborough Free Press," bi' r.KOHGR HOWARD, )ui)lisiied weekly, at 7'7:o Dollars c::d Fifty .'cuts ;-r year, it" j;ud ia advance or, Three J)ol .u' at the expiration of the subscription vear. Tor iiy period less than a year, Twenty -Jive Cents per iK iuh. Sul)cri!)ers are at liberty to discontinue at any tinu. u civini; notice thereof and paying arrears -those reKliiii; at a distance must invariably pay in a.l iikc'T iive a responsible reference in thisvicinity. A. U ei tiM-ments, not exceeding 16 lines, will be in srr tol at 50 cents the first insertion, and 'J5 cents each c.i,iiiii:uance. Longer ones at that rate for every 16 it--. Advertisements must be marked the number insertions required, or they will be continued until i :lierwise ordered, and charged accordingly. Letters addressed to the Editor must be post paid, v they may not be attended to. To the Public. VINl eM.iMished myself in the Town of Halifax, the1 object of this is to say that I have j;ist purchased J lsiivge J Warehouse, And made every necessary amme- .J?J men lor the Storage and Shipping SSSlii' of COTTON and other Produce, to Petersburg, Norfolk, or New York. This houe is situated very high and above the danger of the rie of water, to which some of the Warehouses are subject. Should any of my Edgecombe acquaintances, and of the adjoining counties, be dispopd to send Produce this way, their former knowledge of me will be sufficient for them to know that their business will be faithfully attended to. IV ILL. II. H ILLS. Halifax, 2'2i Nov. 1 S3 1. Just received and uovv opening. At the Cheapest Stove in this place. A large and handsome assortment of seasonable STAPLE AND FANCY Cloaks, Blankets, Hats, Caps, Pools, Pumps and Shoes, S.uldle, Hridles and Harness, Hardware and Cutlery, Iron and Steel, Ploughs and Points, Cotton Nagging, Ropf and Twine, and every other article usually kept in si milar establishments; all of which may be bought at prices as cheap as at any Store in ihi St.ite. J. IV. COTTES. Tarboro, 13lh Oct. 1S3 L JYoticc. flMiE Subscribers are now removing ft om their old stand to the Store formerly occupied by Messrs. llyman & Lawrence, and directly op posite to John V. Cotten's. They will in a few days offer for ale, a quantity of S', Molasses, Sugar and Coffee, Hugging, Hope and all ol the heavy articles which are important to farmers it thi season of the year. CASH, and the highest price, will bp p. ml for baifd Cotton. niciuutns & co. Tarborough, Nov. 27th, 1 S3 1. U2 Family Jtlouminsrs. Just received, and now ready for inspection, Jit the Cheap Cash Store, Black Italian Lutestring, Gro de Swiss Gro de Berlin, and Gro de Naples, in great variety, cheap, Jlack India Satin Levantine and Sarsenetts, English and French black Bombazines, Black French and English Merinoes, Black Bombazeltes, Circassians, Calicoes, and Ginghams, Ladies black silk, cotton, worsted, and lambs wool Stockings, Ladies black hoskin and silk Gloves, Ladies black silk, gauze, and merino Shawls and Handkerchiefs, in great variety, Flack silk Fringe, Ulack worsted and silk blond Edging, 5-4 black Crape, made expressly for veils. JAMES IV ED DELL. Nov. 20th, 1834. Tallow, Tallow. GOO POUNDS prime Tallow, for sale by J. IV. GOTTEN. 20th Nov. 1S34. FAXVZFHXiETS, Published and for Sale at this Office. A PATRIOTIC DISCOURSE.... the xVorth Carolina Whig's Apology for the Kehukee Association. ...and, A Basket of Fragments, by tbt Rev. Joshua Lawrence. Also, A Review of Clark's defence and justification to the Kehu kee Association, written by a lay member of the Association. ...and, Occurrences in the life of El der Joseph Biggs, wrote by himself. Tarborough, August 9. on tin Vs. CONTENTNEA Association 'Sm?!00"!"1 U,i0n mee,in" h0t,Se'iM f Cy -j wwi. lust, niju continued in session three r rom inn Mimuoc !...-.. i . . . . v, ..w t.diii mat leuers iroia eighteen elmrches were handed in by their delegates, from which it op paired that during the past year there were baptiz-d therein 4; received by letter, 7; restored, 1; dismissed better, 23: excluded, 9; dead, 10; member., 677. The following s the Cir cular of the Association: CXRCUXiAK LETTER. The Contention Association, assembled at Union M- II. ecombe county, on the. 21th October, 1S34, to all the churches ant brethren composing the Association. Dear Biietiiken: According to former mage we address yiu by Cir cular. As this kind of letters is offered but once a year, we "M Really anxious to present something that will aid you to grow in gra and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. do not know how to do this better than by exhorting you to attend ta he li-ht and to the HEADING OF THE SCRIPTURES. The Bible is the word of God. It contains tbe matter and si. 0f all things concerning the salvation of sinners, and the comfort of saint Pur suing the letter and the spirit of it, we never wander, nevrr nistake. Aside Irom the scriptures, all else is but the wild superstition of haihen ish darkness, or at best, the imagination of enlightened men. Al false religi..:) arises perhaps from false conceptions of God: and as the Bible is all the work that gives correct views of him, we cannot read it tb fre quently nor too carefully. The scriptures display his character as ctator, and decide whether he willed in sovereignty, or depended on the coun sel and will of others; whether he worked with sovereign power, x de pended upon the aid of others. They exhibit him in providence aid re demption with the same decisions of character. They prescribe thenan ner in which he will be worshipped by us, whether it must be lv the offering of our bodies,orof our spirits: whether he will be worshiped as a merciful Cod only, or a just as well as a merciful God: whether hewill be worshipped as having only a claim of obedience from us, or whther h' has not a claim of punishment also. T he scriptures exhibit him to in the awful and sublime character of judge of quick and dead. Shoving us whether in judgment a knowledge of our crimes will be lacking, onot, and whether or not, he will call every sin in to judgment. U'hethe or not. he will acquit all the human family, or a part, or none: and The acquits any, they show upon what principle, and if he condemns any, Hey how upon what principle. They show us our relationship to him: whth er in our primitive state we did or did not, owe him perfect obedierce: whether we maintained that state by obedience, or fell from it by trns gfC"sion: And, if we fell by transgression, whether our transgression ex erupted us from the debt of obedience, or incurred a new debt of punsh ment or suffering: and if a new debt of punishment, whether it be tm porary or eternal. They show whether transgression did or did not is (pialily us lor ptying the debt of obedience: and, if it were possible fo.us to pay the debt of obedience, they show us whether that would pay bth debts, obedience and punishment, and whether one debt will pay tyo which aie separate and distinct. If we thus owe a double debt toGd, which we cannot pay, the scriptures show us whether God has cone scended to grant any discharge or not; and whether that discharge or fr giveness be the reward of human works, or the gift of divine grace: wheti er sinloi, lost, condemned and wretched man may become the child T God; whether ibis is by any change in man or not, either in reforming tb external deportment, or in repentance toward God, and faith iowati our Lord Jesus Christ, making him a new creature. They show whetl er such a jer?on loves nn, or holiness; whether he loves Jesus Christ an' his service, or satao and his service: whether a saint of Christ can sin an still remain a spirit; whether or not he is saved so long as he maintains ai upright walk, and again condemned as soon as he transgresses; or saver with everlasting salvation. If the scriptures afford this light, (and abun dantly more. I you will at once agree that there is great advantage in read ing them. You will pardon us also for pointing to a few of the disadvan tages of not leading them. As often as you read, you hear in a manner the voice of your God, your Father whom you love. JNot reading, you lo-e this privilege. As oft as you read yon see, even if it be dimly, the lace ot Jesii Christ, and hear his gracious will concerning you: not rend ing, you lose these blest enjoyments. By reading, we find whether we have passed from death to life; not reading we may continue; to be deceiv ed. If the Holy Spirit has wrought the work of salvation within us, and revealed Christ the way, the. truth and the life, to us, reading tbe scrip tures makes the way more open and clear, the truth more sweet, and the life more delightful and heavenly. You loe, in some degree, tbe comfort of these by not reading. In short, brethren, if you neglect the reading of the scriptures, you will not be prepared to converge with the brethren with so much satisfaction, you will lose much even in meditation; you will not understand preachiug so well; you will grow more worldly-minded, lukewarm and cold; more feeble to resist temptation; have less zeal for the prosperity of tbe church and the cause of God generally; be more liable to receive eironeous doctrine. A sound ministry goes far towards maintain ing the truth in the church; but whenever the church gives over the read ing of the scripture to the ministers, it takes the first step toward Jepart ing from the truth; and continuing to neglect the reading of God's word, the church will sooner or later be seen departed from the truth ar. over whelmed in error. It somehmes happens that ministers of our ovn de nomination through mistake, quote that for scripture which is mere tradi tion; if you do not read carefully you will receive it and set it do.vn as scripture. Men through design may quote wrong, and largely ningle their own trnditious, self-will, and self-choice, and you will not be pepar ed to detect;.! hem. If he preacher reads a text which you have nu seen nor heard, you miy judge there has already been a great neglect of read ing. If you feel more interest in reading men's books than the wcrd of God, it augurs badly. The truth of the, scriptures is a charge comnitted to the church for sale-keeping; and it is as though the Lord had said, Heave my truth in your hands; take care of it till I come. Much depend on reading the scriptures; perhaps more than upon all other religious exercises n.ii together. Mav we rend them constantly and impartially; and the Lord give us understanding in them. May we make them, (and not wlat men think about them,) the rale of our constant faith and practice. Tie Lord be pleased to guide you along the narrow way, and lead you thmigh the strait gate to his rest, for the sake of the Lord Jesus; to whomoc glory throughout all ages, world without end. Amen. 0?Thc State of Georgia has purchased of his owner, at the enormous price of $1800, a negro man named Sara, wih a view to his emancipation, for his services in extinguishing he fire on the State House, which occurred upwards of a year a;o. OR TOE FREE press. INTERNAL IMPROVEMENT. Jr. Editor; As internal improvement has for n series of years, been a subject of much public as well as private contro versy, and few people in this part of our State, being acquain ted with the sea coast of North Carolina, I will, through the medium of your paper, if you please, oiler a sm all communica tion to the public on that subject. This communication being intended to give some informa tion, relative to the nature and situation of the ea coast of North Carolina, and the country thereunto adjacent, I will be gin with the southern part of the State; or that ot the Cape Fear River. That river, where the great impediment to navigation subsists, is from two to three miles wide; in the river ui that place is an island, a few miles in length, which is calleu Long Island; this island is much nearer tiie eastern shore than tho western; the course of the river nearly due sou'h. t This island appears to have been formed by the action of the current; the river above and below this, is margined with rice farms to a considerable distance: which are of recent date, as shown by the spunge which forms this soil: tho ditches that are dispersed through them in all directions, from four to livo feet in depth, cut ibis decomposition of vegetable matter with timbers intervening, in all directions, the whole depth of the ditch: which is unquestionable evidence, that these farms were once occupied by the water of the river. This some miles of obstruction to navigation, is about the middle grounds, between Wilmington and the Sound. Before there was anything done to improve the navigation, the western side of this Island, called the western channel, was if my memory serves me right, agreeably to w hat I was informed in the neighborhood; about two feet and o half the best; but the engineer, after inspecting the situation of the place, advis ed, that a gettee should be constructed across the western chan nel, stopping the current altogether on that side, by which the whole action of the water would be thrown on the eastern side of the island; that channel being much the narrower of the two, would be acted on in such a way by the current as to improve the navigation, by cutting out the channel, and thereby get water sufficient. A gettee through the auspice of the engineer, was intro duced by the Board and undertaken at five thousand dollars: this getiee extends across the western channel, and is, I think, from half a mile, to three quarters long (I have Walked on the gettee, backward and forward) it is built of large timbers, perhaps, from twelve to fifteen or sixteen inches square; two tier of these timbers are drove perpendicularly into the bottom of the river, from twelve to sixteen feet asunder; these girded together at the top, with timbers of the same kind, and the interval between, filled up with whatever they met with on the bank, convenient for floating to the gettee. There was an old gettee, two or three miles above, the particulars of which, as to dimensions, cost, &c. I did no understand, but was informed, it had no effect in improving the navigation, for which purpose it was intended. We will now return to the five thousand dollar gettee; which being of mammoth cost, was exported to effect a great improvement in the navigation, which as above stated, stopped the channel, that had two and a half feet the best water; and the action of the current, did not have any effect on the eastern channel, as prescribed by the E ngineer; and here was an expenditure of five thousand dollars, for improving the navigation, aud had made it two and a halt leet worse than it was before they began. Then, to obviate this impracticability, the plan of a drudging boat was idopted, with which they were going to apply steam power, md rake out the bottom of the river, to any depth that might le necessary; this a performance of manual labor, would not, Ike the gettee, fail to effect a grand improvement. This trudging machine, is the contrivance of a boat that goes by seam, in which there is a large shaft, that is put in motion by seam power, this shalt lias arms, or timbers to it attached, to tie extremes of which, are attached iron buckets, or scrapers, tint by the action of the shaft, are made to pass down, and scrape the bottom, fill themselves, come up on the opposite site of the shaft, and empty themselves into the boat. Thus, wien a boat load is obtained, go off and empty. The labor bestowed in this way, for several years, that I waisome little acquainted there, if I mistake not, had little or io effect: and we do not hear of any great improvement unt) this day, and it is highly probable, there never will be any last ng improvement, in the navigation of that river. 'ihe land on the eastern side of the river, from Wilmington to Federal Point, a distance of twenly miles, is light sand, whidi yields to the action of the water at every impulse; the bed if the river, likewise, being of a submissive nature, these, yieldng to the action of the current, in its descent, and pre pondiration, will, in air-probability, continue to be thrown in to the channel, so as to prevent any improvement in the navi gatioi. 1 will give it as my opinion, at least, (though, I do not pretend to possess the knowledge respecting those things which many profit to do) that with all the labor, or drudging, they cm. bestow, for half a century to come, that the naviga tion will not be standing, as good as the western channel was before there was any thing done for improvement. We will now attend to the improvement, which has been endeavored to be effected below Newbern, the particulars cf

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