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a--"-1 j ; - I t . " ' m ' i kEPDBLlCAMlSM: piE PALLADIUM OF jQUA RIGHTS. c- - - iv mo man The "Tarborough Stavola," EDITED BY y M. E. MANNING And printed by J. W. Manning. TERMS. . publifthed crcry week at Tfcret dollars pr annum,' if paid within the wr.nr -Thrre dollar! and fifty cents, if not paid ti'.l ihr end of the subscription year. It will be p. o.ary fr those lirinff at a distance, or out of V, .State to pay invariably in advance. No sub frri'ion will he reclred for a leas period than a yrar, and the papr will not be discontinued until rd ri are teemed to that effect, and all arrearages I.i.tr to the Editor, must come, free cf postage, ar thffv will not be attended to-. ! AnTtTHtMCTra will he inserted at the rate ofi ii . r... .1 i ? ! o&d'iiiar prr square, tor mree insertions, and :.' cxnis for t ach subsequent insertion. A liberal discount wilt be made to those who advertise by die Trar. Those sending in advertisements will mark the number of times they wish them inserted. Miscellaneous, himself, indirectly, and eive encou ragement to the artist, directly. T I We do hope, and believe, and trust, that, as the aze of humbtitr ni nr itvM -,i , t 0 f. -- p, - , MU nun ana common sense betnn to tv i;4n . ed to a little, our mpn nfwltb will o see the folly of their nast rouTL nrl will I toramence, in earnest, a reform in so much of their domestic rrnnomv n rInt 0 the) adornment oftheir houses. ; A proper national nride is a blessing. since it leads to the cherishing of national alent in science, literature and art. and directly J promotes so much of the nation's g!oiy as; depends upon this talent. We ought to be proud of our artists, and we ougnt to bo deeply sensible that hithert they have been neglected too much, while me ivealth that should have cherished and encouraged them, has been squandered i lore gn Inpnery. .Let us learn our and do it. ' them, will be furnished. j As an act of justice to Mr. EthrrrJi, it is requested that those parwnrUvhich have published the i account oPthe accitlent will also copy the zhov&sXorfolk Iter aid. The present state of things cannot continue, is hoped that an abstract, if not a report without serious iniurv to themselves and the country. hy should they wait fir the action of Congress? Let them at once fix as carljr a day as possible for meeting togetherlay before each other their true cqndition-H-and then agree upon some period for fulfilling their engagements with the public. Even if they . cannot have a full meeting, they may devise some plan for gathering the sense of a majority of tpr Banking institutions of the countryBy taking some such step, they wjllprove to the anxious minds of the people their si n- t.N'COUR AGEMENT OF Til E FINE ARTS. . - Among the noblest patrons of the fine arts, in all aces, we find the rich merchants of prosperous mercantile countries. It i true, that Athens and Rome derived the wealth which they lavished on the arts, ehicfiV from conquest, and the tributes of . their foreign dependencies. But Gorinth Tyre, Sidon, Alexandria, and Carthage, tverc enabled by their commerce, to adorn themselves with the richest productions of . architecture, sculpture, and painting. The illustrious family of the Medici, the chief patrons of the fine arts in the middle ages, wcreengageu in commerce neiorcthey be catrjc princes; and the patrons who liberally rewarded the great masters of the Flemish icliool, were the rich merchants and burgo masters of the Fclmish commercial cities. At the present time, the first commercial nation1 in the world is Great Britain, anu its rich citizens, merchants, and the sons. of merchants, spend more money in painting . and sculpture 'than all the world beside. It, is much to be regretted that our coun try, the second in commerce, should be al most the last in the encouragement of the fine arts. I he rich merchant of Brussels used to deeorate his house with the exnui- site landscapes of Tcrniers and" Wouvcr jnans, or the beautiful flower pieces or Van Iluysem. The rich merchant of New York or Philadelphia spends thousands of dollars on the useless mirrors that cover the walls of his drawing-room, but . grudges a hun dred Hollars for a portrait by Sully or In man, orp landscape by Birch, or Shaw, or Doughty, or Russell Smith, The best painting talent in the world, at this time, is American, as the names of AWston, Les lie, and some others, prove. But the sur plus wealth of. America, to our shame and disgrace, cannot be spared for pictures. The American Artist of high genius, must From the Albany Edily Advertiser. 1 1 THE ARTOF; PRINTING. Of alljhe arts that man has invented or discovered, there is no one that stands so pre-eminent as the art of printing. With the discovery' of this art commenced the re generation of Europethe great religious reiormauon me civiiizauon ana eniignt- enment of mankind. It aroused the peo ple to a j sense of Uicir rights and liberty. Literary treasures, that before the inven tion ot this- art were unknown to an v but the monks and a favored few, were pub lisheel to the world. Books, that, before the discovery of this great arti would have costla kingdom to purchase, and in fact, could.not be purchased at any price; -may now be found in the hands of the poorest in the not fact centy in professing awiilingncss to return to specie pay meptsT -Besides, we under stand that ihrate of Exchange is declining, audthe Drfce of Silver in England has been prohably reduced: from which we may an- icipate that less specie will go abroad and the resumotion of sneeie navmentj bv the 1 ! I j I . . 13 an tea be consequently much facilitated. anu perhaps acceIerated.4-i?tcAmortt Ehq. 1 iPownal. Vermont. r There is a curious anecdote told about the first acttlin land. Even kings and nobles could obtain them for it -is a well known that HenrV IV. of France, before he conld obtain the loan of a book, had to leave his jewels in pledge with the monastery to which it belonged. . I lis now upwards of 1400 years since the art ot printing was . discovered " by John Gencstcish, surnamed Guttenbure, who first! printed the Alphabet. It ; was done with wooden blocks that seryed'only for the worlc printed. About the year 1445 John Fausitis invented moveable types. He re- ceiveu assistance iroui ins 5uii-iiiiav, ruicr dchaeiier. woo, ii is. saui, ueviseu tne moulds, ci for casting them. It is conten ded! by some that Faustus was the original inventor. In the year 1462 the first book was printed, which was the Vulgate Bible, oy rausius, lie soiu ji at nrsx as nign as 500 j crowns per copy. Having afterwards reduced the. price to 30 crowns, he was se riously charged with being in league with the Devil, and had he not explained his art he crafl first w Inf ri.r i . ij r .ii i .i4t rownai anu oi ine aajoinmg towns, wnicn is worth relating, as it goes to show how the character of a place is often formed by Its first settlers. It is as follows: Mr. Robert sort who superintended the settling of the country was a Presbyterian and resided in Bennington. He .was always sure to ascer tain what relieiou purchaser was. If Presbyterian he would show him a farm in Bennington, if a Baptist, in : Shaftsbury, i an Episcopalian, in Arlirigtoii; but if of no reliiiion Pownal! was his place. -These towns have, been settled from sixty to sev enty-five years, and yet the geueral charac ter of each shows most clearly the original stamp fixed upon it by Mr. Robertson, the land holder. Auburn banner. TO BE REMEMBERED. The bank men talk as though their id i "I. ! i In . ? .-ii from ptt Tallahassee Tloridian. TTie-iate ; siorm at Sl Marks is without it1parallel in thc hiftory of the place. The gale commenced about suorisc.on the mor ning of the 31$tr from the north cast, ac companied with rain, and continued to in crease during the day. At noon the town was inundated, and the waters continued rising until eiftht o'clock at night, when they stood at the depth of scTen feet over the town, and from three to four feet deep in the warehouses, which were exoected. from the violence of the wind and waves, to be swept from their foundations. ' Sev eral houses were washed down and torn to pieces. Uoats were upset in attempting to pass from one house to another, and the surrounding country presented the appear ance ot the open sea. Ihe citizens roostly licd to the fort for safety. A boat contain ing five negroes, belonging to Wm. C. Campbell, in attempting to reach the fort. was driven out to sea and swamped, and all on board Dcnshed. Mr. C. and fa mil r. - - --- : -y who were in another boat, narrowly es caped, by grasping the tops of some trees in their course, and holding on until the waters abated. As night closed in, the waters still continued rising, and the spec tacle now presented was appalling. The swells, lashed hy the lury ot the wind were rolling and dashing oyer the country as in tne main ocean, every one expecting to see his dwelling hurled from its founda tions, and buried in general wreck The rain still fell in torrents, and the darkness rendered the danger still more fear fnl. A 8 o'clock, P. M., the wind came round th north, and increased in violence, and the was down Dowerless.! But it still exists, waters commenced falling, and the ncx and as Biddle himself says, stronger than morning had retired to their uual level. before. If able and disiosed to work such Unly one whart at bt. Marks were leit good, why does it not do it? Read the standing. The schooner Washington lies word of lJiddle himself. in tne marsh, some hunurea yards irom the courting orer the land, a south rax wind prevailed at sea. This Is frequently trm case, and invariably produce a high tidoT iic cuuuu crop ou arncii i'Oint is aimov. total loss.1 In this vieinitv it r.U short of the expected vield ten rcr cent.'. which, eonsiderios the reduced price of th article, must be regarded al t heavy loss to the punter. A Xatal Intelligence. Commodote Dal Lard, of the North Carolina. -under date of Callio, July 11, states that the Peacock Commodore Kennedy, sailed thence fur the Untied States, Jul v 5. UeuL Ulendv is appointed to the Enterprise' chooner, and Itieut. r icholson to the Boxer. The latter has gone to Panama. Commodore Elliot in the Constitution. writes from Malta. June 7, that he left Palermo, the 3d, with out haviDir had any communication with the town. At leirhom tht nrimi month he tool in three distressed seamen. who afterwards proved to be infected with small. pox. The cases were mild, and by mems of vaccination (thcludiug the family bf .Governor Cassoa board,) the disease did not spread, rrom Malta he was to go.ta Athens and Lonstanltnopie. Sovereign, of Europe. Great Britain, Alexandria Victoria, born May S4, lM9j! If .11 . I -1 ?!! ' t t t a iiouanu, ivuiiam rreuencK, oorn August 14, 1772; Belgium, Leopold 1. bom Dc cember 10, 1750; Austria, Ferdinand b born April J9, 1793; Prussia, Frederick William III, born August 3, 1770; France; jLouis Phillippe, born October 6, I77i Spain, Isabella II. born October 10. IS30i Portugal, Maria, ll. born April 14, ISlPj Denmark, Frederick VI. born Jan. 23 J7C3; ,Sweden, Charles Uernadotte, born, January 20, 1740; Russia, Nicholas 1. born July 6, 1790; Turkey, Mahmond II. born July 20, 1735; Greece, Otho I. born Juno 1, 1815. It is remarkable that the three, only female so Njigus j of Europe should also be tbc three you ugesL i f On the dividual s Mr. Bidd 20th of February, 1836 the In- river. Vast quantities of groceries, pro- ockholdcrs, in the United States visions, &c, belonging to the government bank were convened for the purpose, when and private individuals, are destroyed, and e presented them with a charter, the loss cannot be Jess than thirty thousand obtained from the Legislature of Pennsvl- dollars. vania, lncorporaiing uie same siocKnoiaers, .nue uiimuusc, mc njicujujccu excepting tal, etc. The! Would have been sacrificed for witch- ;J About the year '1473 -printing-was commenced in Lngland by a German. the - Government, with the cani- Ject higherlhan has ever before been known, sweeping away every house except tire On that occasion, Mr. Biddle, in enume- brick d welling of the keeper. I hrec ne- rating the advantages which the stockhol- groes belonging to 11. J. Ilackley, t-sq.,ot ders derived under the new charter oyer this place, were swept off m one ot the thhsn crivJm in the old. named that of "Us buildings, and drowned The inhabitants ! rHE GOVERN- Kobertson and family, who lastcned hia . . .. I. k . .l i r L : t l:. .1 i seems that all the I ooai 10 ine tops 01 some nign ousnes, anu. first Geographical work was printed ' ' paint portraits for half their value, or go to . London, or starve. He can hardly earn a subsistence by painting any thing but por traits. , i ; : . ; -: ; v: . .; : How much nobler it would be if our rich tnen took pride in cherishing native talent; and ornamenting their dwellings with pic tures, y our own living painters, instead of the gaudy trumpery which one sees in al most every parlor in the city:,grcat bou ' qucts of artificial French flowers, covered with glas cases, and stuck upon the manlle-piccc--French porcelain images'which cost , enough to buy a picture that would do hon or to the taste of the purchaser--these, and mirrors twelve' feet long and seven feel broad, costing more than Allston was paid for his great picture, at the academy, 1 are the the fashionable parlor decorations of thci djy-; i-i . i i If the rich merchants will not do their duty in this respect, as a matter of taste, they might at least do it as a matter of in terest. Suppose the merchant has a thou ' sand dollars wliich he wishes to in vest" in ( a suitable ornament for his house in town. Now, is it not better to 4go in" for a histo rical picture hy Allston, or two full-length portraits hy Sullv or Inman, than for a - A A great looking-glass? Ihe looking-glass is total separation fromlMtl the ocer? ? with their lamilies, compellea to Uke re the General Uovernmertt. an unnatural lugem Doais, were unven ou witn tne ex ctTMnenturni BENEFICIAL NEITHER ception of the one which contained Mr. TO THE BANK OR MENT. So it now i . i.-.i - 1 1 f 1 ...:iu A i . u:i: services wnicn the oanK was ior years wic auu.wiunui wmue, .'.;nWt:nL V,C " AavA K I recleil in kprnimr it n ho vn water tlurintr ... J.UOU. ,c . .1 -.u. r Government, was a mere sham: that it Was the night. The boat containing the family without foundation; in fact, that it wasal- of Mr. Kennedy was next morning found together false. It must be so, if the above to be three miles from the water, in the declaration pf Mr. Biddle is true Uhat the p'C woods on Shell Point, where they bad connection' between the bank and the Go- secured themselves. Mr. A. ruber, S. ve'rnmcnti was beneficial to neither. I Crosby and at Italian named Nicholas, Agai n said Mr. Biddle, "bearing the pushed off in a boat from the light house to same name, continuing t in the same place; save three lads who were drifting out to land with the same organization, it enjoys sea on the rool ot their dwelling, which of. the excitement caused in Europe by the discovery of America. In the year 1531, the first newspaper was published. It wa,s called a Gazelle, (frOm a coin named Gazetta) and was prin ted at. Venice. In 1583 the first attempt aj periodical literature, called the "English Mercuric," was printed at London. The first nrintinn ofiicc established on tl ' : I - Mi C 9 (fJVoltai re describes . the business transactions,' by which he put money ia his purse. He made himself one of tha :richcst of poets and philosophers, a clasj not generally overburdened with this world's wealthi "1 haves friend (aaid he) who is a director in the Bank of Prance who writes to me when they are going tu make rooncv plenty and make stocks ruet and then I give orders to my broker to sell) and he writes to me when they arc going to make stocks fall, and then I write to my broker to buy; and thus, at a hundred leagues from Paris and without movicir e 1 . . i irnm m u nn!ir i mit. mnn.v " Vt-ry liable i to tet broken, and will depro- cnic in vaiuc every year. 11 is ucciucmy 'a poor investment." The picture, com ing from first-rato hands, will advance in . value every year, and will be doubled in Value when the painter dies, and the further - trv t s supply ot his works is stopped, uecuica ly, it is the better investment of the two. There is! no great exertion of patriotism required to get one's portrait painted, since it i a tribute to personal and lamtly priue. ' J h i 3 circumstance enables the portrait pain ter to live, while he who confines his pencil 'to historical subjects, or landscapes, or sea pieces, is left without patronage. If the American patron of art must have his per "sjnal vanity flattered, let him employ a good landscape painter to do a view of his Mitilo place over Schuylkill," or get Birch to paint a portrait of his ship, the Uorothy .-nn, just coming up tne river, oriei uuu- ?i(1e make a atrikinir likeness of bis race e continent of America, was at Cambridge, (Mass.) in the year 1C39. IniloGl was published the "Public In telligence," the first news 'paper in Eng landand in 1705, (134 years afterwards) was! published at Boston, by a Scotchman, named John Campbell, "The Boston News 1 : . - . .... Letter," the first -newspaper in- the United States. f, ' ' About the year 171S, there was publish ed at Philadelphia, n newspaper (the hrst in this city ) called the "Weekly Mercury." Iii June, 1728. was published the "New York1 Gazette," the first paper in the State. Previous 10 the yeai 1 1 32, the punting was nearly an uone on pareiiuicui iu uwi year, the first printing on paper, within the present limits Tot the United States, was donij. -1 ' - ' :i Id no country in the world, h" the art of nrintihir improved so rapidly as in the United States. As tor the newspaper there" is no end to them every little vil lage of 5 or 600 inhabitants, has its "Ga zette," or its "Courier." u ,t thn iMr . it was calculated that was at that time, about Sine Hun- (its established credit, as well as its old con- had been dasued to pieces by the winds neclions abroad and at home, and it inner- and waves. 1 hey succeeded jn saving the its a circulation of 22 millions." 1 lads, bu; could not; return, and were ear But Mr. Biddle did not stop with the rieoVby.the tempest for four hoursexpect "inheritance" of the new bank. He soar- ing every moment to be engulphed. A ed still more loftily. After making a strong little after dark, they caught the tops of reference to the war which he had been some snruDS,anu maue tne Doat iaat m seven wacinz acainst the administration previous- feel water, and next morning were aground hi he exclaimed in an air of triumnh. "how several hundred yards from the sea. 1 he -i.. i.'M . . 1 . - .1 ... . .1 that strife! was conducted you all know;l"ss sustained at uie ugnt nouse cannot oc how it has ended is proved by the events leas tnan hve thousand dollars. of the day. WHICH RENDER THE Mr. C. Nelson,! Mr. Salec, Francois L I .-.i.i Ii ' : - ii i- BANK SAFER! S I KUNUtill,;, AN1J urereuz ana a lau nameu jonnson, an irom MORE PROSPEROUS THAN IT this place, on a fishing excursion at Shell FVPR WAS " 1 J i Point, with thrte Persons from Gladsden Accordinir. therefore, to the testimony county, whose names we have not learned, . . t --.!- t - I . 1 . i 1 ' Of Mr. Biddle, the bank became stronger wnen uie waters rose arounu mem, at- ,r.r t had arnuired a charter from the tempieu to escape in mexr coat, wnicn 11 1 - 1 t w".:. . .. 1: :: Stale of Pennsylvania, and ceased all con- w swamjjcu aucr go.ng .snon uuiaoce, 1 ' i--rt-t-- k a . a nriinn w th the Goternknent. than it was in sight 01 a negro, wno nau not oeeu able tvhito it was oberatiu-t Under the charter to reach them betore they put on, and w1k frranted to! it bv Coneress, and while the!aved himself by climbing a tree. Mr. limht wa its associate nartner. 1 ! Roan, and Mr. and Mrs.- Taylor; from w v w . - ' - ar : ' - ! w I the dred newspapers published in the United It . . . 1 1 onj?. Statea and its territories anu in .000, onlv S vears after) the uumber had increa sed 400 making the number published that year, 1 fifteen Hundred, besides whic i, there are numerous magazines and nihpil nrriodicals published all ovcrthe J .r- , - . counirv. CONVENTION OF BANKS. We trusCthat all the State Banks that have kt heart the speedy resumption of spe cie navmcnts, will persevere in Uie plan of holding a fJonvention. in spue 01 iuc viu- lent opposition oi iuc w. wfuivj j the Philadelphia Banks immediately under M-ii.olu, who encamped at Sora rue's Point, were also drowned, making in all Mount Holly (X. J.) Herald. 77ie laU Kail fo A sloop thesuperinUndant of the train of cars which with the name of alady from Augusta, Gs. came in contact with the passenger tram with some articles of female apparel, bare and Roanoke Rail Roadi conJc ashore. 1 1 he Sea Horse, an Ln iihsh brig ot 73 tons, was lost on leuar l.ois? cr hi- pointer. All these will glori-jthe influence of that powerful InsUiutfon.-- on the Portsmouth the result of which w as the deplorable loss of'iives which has already been noticed in this pper. After a full and laborious ex amination of the whole case, Mr. Ether edge vas j unanimously acquitted. The blame, wherever else it may rest, was clear ly shown not to be ImpoUble to the Captain of the lumber train; The Court was com posed of CoL LTosiah IUddick. presidiog Justice ami John I B. Benton, Mills Rid- dick, J. Hplbday and W. Sumner- Esqs. ! Key during the gale. . The vessel is a total loss: the cargo, consisting of cedar, fustic and mahogony, will probably be saved ft the south and west the gale wa.1 net felL a-a A . k m m - m m m a a Ine Schr. LoJy Washington has s:nce come in, and reports that at the lime of the gale she was becalmed this side 01 Key West. At PensacoU there was a sligb siiower. but no wiud. The wind being otl sliore, it is difficult to account for the tugh 1 evidence in this case' tide, which prevailed at the lime; bui it is are deeply interesting to the pubUe, Mdit3 the north caster was The proceedings a The Queen of England. A perusal of the English (papers amuses thercpubli cans somewhat. Tof instance, it is grave ly stated that the Queen's foot and aneU are the handsomest in the kifgdom ihO jmic 3 racciuuy cm vun poim -ihat hcT bust is jerfect her carriage graceful her face intellectual and her manners gra cious. Take her all in all, she muatbc jewel of a. woman. The congratulatory loyal addresses apeak of the "attachment of her subjects to her rojkl person.' ' TIiI we may well credit from the cdmplaipts'of some of the editors and the correspondent., urn hit mijcsijr cannot rule out lor airing without celling mobbed. We do not meaa hat her leigc subjects intend anv ill-will but their exuberant kindness smoanls io an Imposition. Every road upon which thu royal cortege is expected to drive is Iine4 ueiorenand by a crowd, and the appearance; pf the Queens equipage is a signal for shouts, oj ai cuougn, but too loud to be coveted ou every occasion upon which she ventures outside the walls of the palace. The paco of the horses is necessarily restrained taa walk to avoid running over people who are straining to geta peep at the )oung. bcao tiful female royalty. Such kindness is re ally ;Joo oppressive, and to avoid it, it haj been lound necessary to drive out brstca tb ind even to announce the royal intention to ride upon one road, and take sn opposite. one. One loafer, we perceive by lie pa- yit is iuiwnuDiie in pis aucniiOD sia tioning himself at corners where he can stare her majesty out of countenance. This has been Ions his eouru Itefor iK calh of William, it was necessary to barb a police man in disguise, when Ihe princtjs waixea in the ark. to detenu her against this man's attentions. . lie, was the Tietim of a hoax, and imagined himself a favored suitor 01 the vueen, aod in regular episto lary correspondence witn fcer A knot 01 wags answered his letters, and he fancied the only reason that Victoria did not throw herself into his srms, wss the restraint ia posed upon her by he r mother. Freeborn, ef scbr. Kxdu&ge, amv eii ycstenlay. from Turks Island confirms the report that most of the skit Had been destroyed by the lata hurricanes. American produce very low provisions would not sell at Jiny jirice. pi. Y. Con. Adv. r
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