wlbsmmbisr daltt(dllllttlia£f voli iii s.wasuy u x.e tu v.sim \, sia'tv.miuuv i4 1h no lao , mil 111 im i i.i ' ' . iiviihy lll'lill cable methotl of obtaining i'cdl'csu of oui grievances the grand jury recommend to their fell iw-cilizens to meet at their respective muster grounds on some day between this and ihc day ol and make . hoice of delegates ; and that he delegates so ( lioscn meet at the court-house in wilkesboro ou thc day of to devise such measures of relief as may be deemed most prudent and effectual with con and water i gave them imme diately some coal which they eat with surprising avidity in preference to fresh food then thrown in with the coals and al in preference to their drink which iv s brown in fresh or new ; for i should not say fresh as i frequently put s_.lt in the water for fattening hogs antl it might have been so at that time ; ihcy neither stopped to drink nor to eat grain until thc coal was all eaten as the hogs are not yet killed i cannot say what the internal appearance may be but thev discontinued their rooting w-cre more quiet and ap peared to fatten faster 1 omitted it for a few days and they commenced rooting ; i gave it again and they discontinued rooting i now continue to give ihem a moderate quantity tlailv siv lhc b'lzc ol a hen's c;j;g two pieces to cacii but if more is given it will do no injury an excess will operate only as a moderate purgative j liner farmer account of the death of thc capt pacha the chief actor in the iragedv at scio stored lieut curtis put on board and came oui of port on the 13th of august in co with the porpoise which was bound to vera cruz via porio bello and < ha res lir bingham - willi k " divine vengeance begins lo be dis played and the cause of humanity has found avengers the captain pacha thai ferocious mussulman who plunged all the inhabitants of scio into the abyss of calamity no longer exists i'he creeks h.ve displayed a courage and a boldness the result of which will resound through all kurope on he 22d june the eve of the feast of liaicni three reek vessels charged with combustibles passed the turkish leei ami under cover of the friendly flag which thev had hoisted ap proached thc ship of the admiral the turks occupied wilh preparations for theie le t paid little attention to the lire ships and the creeks bad ihus time to throw their usees on the admiral's ship which soon was in flames disorder im mediately spread among the crew and each man tried to save himself from the conflagration the captain pacha halt burnt was transported to lhe blood stained shores ol the isle of stio which he had atrociously laid w.iste ; where after hall an hour of torment he expired three turkish vessels were much damaged and the real of thr fleet dispersed in different directions dreading an attacked from thc itiji b i ur 1 11 v j 1 01 i'.l.rii-i alt i /.'.'.:, / wl i i i . ... v 1 . s co rl j i \,;,:, ■ : term is the affairs of i oi . bi.i were in a good condition the utiii.s miy prevailed among all classes und the , olintrv « as rid of all its enemies exceptin , at the sin gle city of porto ubello which was still held by he spanish forces under la i or re hut as so closely besieged b gen eral paez as to assure iis red in tion in a short time a super house has been tilted up by the government at santa le for the accommodation of a ministci fiom the united slates the rami buy for lhe county ol wilkes nre seriously impressed with the belief that a gieat portion of the good icople o the st.ite 1 north-carolina la bor under grievances and inconveniences from very material defects in the con titulion ol said state it will be recol lected lhat this constitution was adopted in the year 1776 ; at a time when tlie peo ple of the several t.ites were in an actual hostility with great britain fighting for tint independence they uftcrwurds ob turned antl which was confirmed by the treaty of peace ol 178 i this grand jury are i.u from wishing io throw cny kind of blame upon the wise and patriotic men who formed the pres ent constitution it was pcrhapn the bet that under all the circumstances of tlie case could then have been adopted i'he presence uf a powerful army in llie couniry uiaile it necessary that the legis lattice should meet frequently in order to provide lor ihe defence of tlie stale jul t repair the injuries inflicted on our dtizens and property hv the liiili_.li army uu by disaffected citizens in vaiious parts if the st.ite litis unsettled and disturbed iitate of the country required the constant and unremitted attention and vigilance of the state legislatui e ; and consequently , the constitution provides that ihe general assembly shull meet at least once in ev ery year but will any reasonable man now say that in a time of profound peace unl quietness there is a necessity for an annual meeting of the legislature ? mor especially as the defence of the country is confided to the general government this grand jury would beg leave to call the attention ot the people of theii county to the acts of lhe legislatuie passed annu ally for the last ten or fifteen years and to point out a single act that required the immediate interposition of ihe legislative body the art coinmonlv called the revenue law to provide for the payment of thr civil list and contingent charges of government has heen passed almost in the same words for the last seven or eight years it would therefore be pro ductive of no inconvenience io enact ii tor two years instead of one and should lie constitution provide fo the meeting of the legislature only once in two years he saving to the people would he about twenty thousand dollars a year i his ii the short space of len vears under our present rate of taxation would leave in the treasury thc cnormus sun of two hundred thousand dollais subject to he laid out in 1'c il and useful purposes this grand jury consider the great number of members composing the le kibu'ure at present as a serious evil and causing a useless expense to the people ; not only as regards the pay of so many but the delay caused hv the deliberations of so numerous a body contributes to lengthen out the session to twite the number of days necessary for transacting all the business which conns before ihem should the number be lessened one-third we are of opinion the business would be equally as well done and in a much short er time ; and the savin to the country would bc at least ten t!.o'-.sanddojan^m .., l.u^__^^^^^^^^^b edmi m jos cs /■'. • hicks combs lolin kind 11 john m'l.ueri'v william in i.i henrv linn hv john livingston jonepli uavs ahijah tuirchild w lliam demit l'l'.'.l rick i im r benjamin walls samuel i'ml'e benjamin beach men dith i httrmond itobert suit benj imin levi i kzi i.i i brown the famous lafitte had got a schooner of about 40 tons and a commission from the government and would be ready to sail in a few days on a cruise and may be expected to annoy american as well as spanish ves els the west india sras were filled with spanish privateers from porto itlco who lie in w.,it at the passages and capture and rob all they meet fourteen have been lined out wilhin the last week agricultur vl from the boston sentinel wc in ■ i of one fanner ;.. new-york raising ooo bushels of u !..• ■'. this season his acres averaging forty bushels each ; antl we have been told oi other instances of unusual ingatherings of early harvests throughout new england the fields are loaded with excellent indian cun -, un commonly tine crops cl ve barley and oats have been well i . . ed potatoes and all the other vegetable tribes promise abundance in size and superiority in qual ity ; and the orchards in almost everv di rection are lit ei illy breaking down with vvhich they are burthened while our country presents these gratifying pros pects we gladly hear of the state of our neighbors the last quebec paper says '• we o not recollect for many year -> sea>on so favorable to the farmers near halifax as the present seasonable rains have fallen at least once a week and have tjiven thc fields an uncommon richnt - • ' verdure the crops are all supe i r and remarkably forward mer adv intelligence wsu\wn late fltii.m exglaxd extract from the ■• minutes of the an nual conferences of the methodist lpis ropal church for the vear i822 just published bishops and superintendents — wm m kendrce knoch george robert u rob cits methodists by the line ship w in i hompson capt thompson from liverpool wc have received our regular files of london pa pers to the .'• 1st july and liverpool to the 2d august intelligt nee had been received from spain via of paris that a counter revolu tion had broken out at madrid and that illo had placed himsell at the head of cal party and had rescued thc king ■ . tt the hands of the liberales this ! news however is not credited the j com iev doubts its authenticity in fart the intelligence received of the destruction i of the guards and lhe triumph ol the i constitutionalists render this statement • nworthv of credit there is a great con sten ion in madrid antl things still re main in a very unsettled state the strong coition of troops which france has ordered on the borders ol sp.iin under the pretext of keeping out the vellow fever continues to cxi ue great sensation it is supposed thai lewis lhe i hi h wishes to assist his cousin ferdinand against his constitutional subjects ; but il a french soldier crosses the pvrennccs lor this object hc vvill not return the reek c.usc continues to flourish • it will be pen rived that thev have burned another i urkish fleet new york sept 6 ' letter fiom st petersburg of the lo;h july gives as frightful accounts of the deplorable state of lhe russian peas antry as the letters from ireland contain of the wretched suffering of that popula tion the farmers can get no buyers for their produce and the people arc perish ing with hunger the nobles so fur from reaping benefits from iheir posses cessions find themselves obliged io pur chase lood for iheir vassals there is plen ty of food but the great mass of consu mers have no money the plague it is announced which has raged at algiers since the month of april spreads daily i hr deaths are numerous and many of the inhabitants endeavor to avoid the contagion by hinjlit a private letter from zaiite dated june | itiih savs - the chanticleer came in i this morning from patras bringing an ac , count that the suliotes have bealen the i turks near prevesa killing 2000 and ta king 00 prisoners a congress of crowned heads was to bc openn at verona on the 1st of sep tember russia was to be represented by the count nesselrode and senator i atis cheff ministers from the other powers had not been appointed the funds collected for the starving irish were exhausted without any appear ance of a relaxation of their miseries — famine and disease continued to make terrible ravages in one parish mayo containing a population of 300.000 there vvas only 4o,(>00 who were noi dependent on charity which was received weekly from lngland liverpool al'g 2 travelling preachers i 00 preachers admitted on trial this year i uj remaining on trial 24 admitted into full connexion '•> localtd lhis year 47 deacons 155 elders elected •- ordained this year 100 supernumerary preachers 4j superannuated preachers ii ministers expelled from connexiotv^m total numbers in society do i < h a 1 " h i'r'm m 1,-1 do i d o i tobacco from the gr enshurph penn ) gazette 34 4 i 23,7 2 9,940 17.630 5.55 1 34,796 25.954 37.881 34,770 25.992 20,024 27.201 odced in umr nir.er of the 5*!i ins the growth of 1 crop of obacco in one of the out lo's adjoining this place from plants raised in a hoi bed from seeds procured from the havanna t's pro rc-.-s from that time has been astonishingly great the blossoms of some stalks left for seed have already fallen and the pods are full of seed last week and this three or four cart loads have been cut and housed some of the leaves measure tvven v live inches long and sixteen broad the remainder appears 10 be ripening hist — mississippi s carolina virginia baltimore philadelphia mew-york n england genesee subscriptions continue for the suffer ing ii ish . the king was making prepa rations for his visit to scotland letters from constantinople were re ceived in town yesterday morning which v;ive a variety of versions of an engage ment said to have taken place in the neigh borhood of bagdad between the turkish hoops under the command of the vice roy of ihtgdad and the persians in which the latter is statetl to have been complete ly routed the accounts are extremely confused and contradictory but it seems quite certain thai an en k ai_;ement has ta ken place in vvhich the turks are deci dedly the victorious party ; the number of killed and wounded however on ei ther side does not appear to have been very great total of the above number 44,377 ivere people of color total last year 297,62c 28m46 increase this year 16.476 the seed we are assured is of the very ! best quality of tobacco raised in the i si i and of cuba and procured in that district ! of country called in havanna •- yuelt '• abago which is so peculiarly sought af j ter for the manufacture of cigars ; we arc assured that this tobacco sells in lhe ha vanna for eighty dollars per hundred if by means of the hot-bed tobacco even of the quality of thc james river sweet leaf could be raised in this country it mav form an important article in its exports the luxuriance of vegetation in early plants as already evinced in the experi ment made would appear to more than compensate for the expence of the hot bed ; and mav at least place us on an equal ity in raising this article with some south ern latitudes it iv generally supposed that the affairs of lhe morca assume a gloomy aspect for the porle the greiian senate at cor inth finding the coffers of the nation de clining have adopted an admirable expe dient lo pav their hoops hv a decree of the 7th may every soldier is to he allow ed an acre of land per month for his ser vices i his is giving to each man who will defend the soil of his ancestors an interest forever in that soil ; and the i;ood it-suits of this project were soon visible ; 5000 peloponnesians have joined the ar mv on the frontiers cen norman has sou europeans under him ; these hiving formed a junction wi'h the army of eta ha and aic.iii.nii which consists of 1500 men was on full march for epirus the mountains and defiles of creecc have for many centuries and in various battles protected the people against the attacks of superior numbers ; and once accustom ed i llie field of batlie the creeks vvill find no difficulty in establishing their in dependence — x'ational advocate a man wh tiiuls no satisfaction in himself seeks for it in vain elsewhere it is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy ihosr that follow he who imagines h can do without the world deceives himself much ; but he who 1 ncies the orld cannot do without him is still more mistuk n some disguised falsehoods r so like truth that it would h j :^. -., ill not to be dec iv.il by if fin extract oj a letter from genoa -- mr croce master of the sardinian ; brig la pace arrived at this port yestct day from constantinople which be left on the ' i ith ult reports that the grecian fleet on the 18th july burnt and destroyed the greater part of ihe turkish licet off cisi.ie by means of lire ships mi iiii i b iii.ith i'l tix'h a ', r ic'-.l-h liliml i'.v'ch part h it.th h .' ..,-| ties in the past send one hundred and five c ar : cn i\s,-ti i,i j',:ttc^ii~ft~~7 m m nieniheis as long as lids inequality ex i„cinnali,(0.)jan vi 1822 -", the rand jury blniosl despair ol . ,. . , ,',,,, any aid from the legislature in one idea has entered my mind which enioving ihe above and many olher may be voith mentioning but not for the jpievanccs tinder which ihc rood people p rcss ; you can perhaps improve upon i . • this st ,:,- labor whit hthis grand jury the f attcn i nk poultry upon carbon or car | car now to enumerate thev here one of the active means to lore highly approve the course pursued c ! v he grand jury of rowan and recom gether with aunt dinah s theory sugges mend the plan suggested by them which ed to me the propriety of giving it to is that the freemen ol each county meet hogs when penned and high fed for thc at the place of meeting i each captain's -^ of bcing fattened while stand district und choose one or more delegates ' . .,____, i . i bv a ncn 1 observed lhc hogs to roo 1 the delegates ol each county so chosen m b u > u i 1 io meel al their respective i ouit-hoiises very deep with much labor i watched on some day lo be fixed on to appoint a ihem to know ii possible the object ol committee for the purpose ol opening u j reat exertions until i saw one come correspondence wnii like committees in ,. .. ,. ,- ,■ , ....... . ■ . . ..,!■. un wuh •"■ mouth luu ol nesn tann i.i i i ni ntn s in ordt i lo state linn ' . ,. grievances ir snli . manner as to b in ■ '■ ' -< " : '" '-•' ppa wlity about a convention tor the purpose ol re while another would be engaged in lhc f ii ;•, thc abuses under which wc la-l s(inie ;. the moment the hist would hc l0 v r '. ■ • • . mv presum tion was that it was used i'i in vuy is we do ll.i.t it . • t irs , to ■ . . . . . , ( l legislature mi the suhject »* " corrector of some morbid fluid m the • - ■ j is the bc ' - ■ ' ■■: ■ ■ • ' "' ' " ' ' ' ■ ' decency i • ' ■ • -■ of all laws hut the most s rictly ibaerved none but tin jontemptible re ap prehensive of contempt those who art themselves inc.p tilt ol great crimes arc u t ready to sus lhcm.h extract of a letter from constantinople we are extremely quiet and lhc late bail-am has been passed with incredible order and tranquility it would appear from the measures recently adopted by this government to maintain order that it has finally succeeded and put the rebel lious laiussai its under some subjection is more opposite to i'liino my than liberality few things are impracticable in themselves ; ami it is for want of appli cation rather than of means that men fail ol success fuom carthagena german papers tothe d inst have arrived this morning the folio win is au extract : new voill sept l the schr william bayard arrived last evening in 2 1 days passage capt peter anner late master having died intestate ihe vessel was seized by the authorities under an old law that the property of a foreigner dying thus shall escheat to the government at the time of her seizure both ., li'n ers and several of the crew were sick and mr robinson was absent for tunately he u s schr porpoise cap iun ilamagc arrived al thai juncture bringing mr robinson from st martha :.; i immediately investigated and laid the affair ! eforc i plain ramage who ,;, i mded her restoration but finding tin i intcndant extremely reluctant to coraplv i with in demands look charge of lhe : s ho ncr det taring her under the prolct . the united states after son ,'.' i and the determination of ( tain 1 to bring ihc vessel to se unle ■. fo ... the schooner raa re in every pr fession everv individi al affects to appear what he ou linglv be esteemed ; so that we sav r world is composed of nothing hut ap pcarances one man mav e more cunning than another but not more cunning than all the world that conduct often seems ridiculous the secret reasons of which arc wise nil solid it is now very tlillicult u obtain from constantinople inlormalion that can be depended upon it is affirmed that since the events at the close of the ramason when the sultan is said to have threaten ed io leave the city a general alarm pre vailed,und the letters were opened only ii e who have a correspondence with iii malic persons can depend i i au thentic intelligence wf arrive novices at the different tgis of lite ami want experience hough we have had many years to aill it the greatest nf all cunning is to ,, in blind to the snares 1 id for us men are never so easiu ' ceiv«*d as accounts from stockholm announce that tie norwegian i)i;-t will be . in bled in lhe course of two months i ■• lhe ise of regulating the public debt ol i.o o 1 -. i i ,, -. on . ■•:.'. the l'aiis papers of wednesday tain an . itnle from constant ople d te ' •: . ■-') ult wl ■ hile they are endeavoring to deceive jihere