The Delaware register, or, Farmers', manufacturers' & mechanics' advocate. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1828-1829, 1829-06-20
North Carolina Gold Region.-This j

North Carolina Gold Region.-This richest of alb
the American mineral regions saving the coal district
of the middle States and the Iron of New Jersey and
New York, is every day found to be more and more
extensive. We haye this morning had conversation
with gentleman who returned last evening from a
visit to the gold region, made at the instance of two
gentlemen of this city, who extensive landholders
in that country. He has ascertaned that at least 100,
600 acres of the lands of those gentlemen impreg
mated with gold, and has brought specimens of the
ore. The gentleman to whom we refer, visited one
place where eighty men are employed In working
mine, and the product of their labor is about $500
day. While our informant was there, number Of
crucbles were dug up, which were composed OF soap
stone and must have been buried there for ages. 1t
is therefore evident that the mines must at some re-
mote period have been known to and worked by, the
Indians Some gold rings and rude articles of jewell
ery were found in the possession of the Aborgnes OF
that country, the first settlement of the Whites but
where the precious metal came from, has not until
this time been known.
". r. Com. Adp. May 80.
foney Afairs--The New York Herald says
" The difficulties experienced by all classes of the
community are so great to cast a gloom over the
countenances of many People who have heretofore
always been the gayest of the gay. The failure OF
of the country BANKS too, has added to the rou
bles, and begat dstrus that is injurious to every boz
dy engaged in business
cle on the same subject, in which the pressure for
money that is now felt :" not only in the city of New
York. but throughout the state, and along the
board generally is attributed to four principal
es-" the ignorant temperng of the Legislature with
the Bank Charters, and the absurd law which they f.
nally passed. divesng each bank of its separate
possibility for its own acts, and consolidating the
possibilities and the risks Of all in one common mass
where honesty and roguery, ignorance and skill,
poverty and wealth. reduced to the same dead lew
el''-'s the preparation which the u. s. Bank is ma
king to enable the Treasury to pay off six millions
of debt next month";" the short crops of last year"
and "the state of pecunary embarrassment, in which
the world is generally"
Washington, June 12.
The United States, VS.. r. Watkins.-Chief Judge
Cranch yesterday delivered elaborate and able
Opinion upon the demurreY TO the third Indictment
found against DIR Watkins. He commenced by stat
ing that the court had been induced by the high inn
portance of the case and the objections which had
been urged against the opinion delivered in the pre-
cedng cases, most deliberately to examine and weigh
the authorities which had been cited by the Counsel
or the United States and to review the decision to
which objection had been made. The result of this
review and re-examnation, an entire appreciation
IF their former opinion, and the consequent judgment
If the Court upon the demurrer against the sufficient
cy of the Indictment
The fundamental principles which the opinion of
the Court went to sustain were, that in all indictments
for fraud there must be sufficient facts averred to lead
he that frand had desoDed