Virginia free press & farmers' repository. [volume] (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1827-1832, 1830-11-24
TREATY WITH TURKEY.

The New yerk Daily Advertise
states, Mr.. Rsisxp, Co,nmissieass .
Turkey, has arrived in the brig Rhehe
Ana, Tres Smyrna. He bsiNEy 9Th
him the Copssssreiai Treaty negotiated
by him with the Sublime Porte.
MIR. Il. brought out With him four
elegant Arabian horses. which he Oh.
tanned at Constantinople. A policy
was obtained upon them last Saturday.
1t one Of the Marine offices, for $4,000,
at % per cent. premium. cevenantiug
to deliver them at New York alive.
A Russian vessel from the Black
Sea arrived at Coastantinople early in
August. with spenfy beautiful Cireas-
STAN sfores, Who were bought by the
Turkish Lords. at the rate Of 1000 pi-
astres each! The Turks had feared
that the loss Of Anspa would cut OF
their supply Of Circassians.
a letter from Paris, published in
the New York Sentinel. save" Thus
much is certain, let the fact be attri-
buted to what causes il may. that in
no country. at this hour, 10 there more
reading or more thinking than in
France. Since the late revolution, il
would seem that every body reads, or
Is read to, or receives second hand &C.
count Of the reading Of others. In Pa.
ris, you stumble upon reading room
at every tenth step; streets and gar
dens are as thick set with cabinets de
lectures as these again are with read
ers- In the larger commercial and
manufacturing cities, you find the
same, while every small landed pro-
prietor in the departments, has his pa
per from Paris, or reads half a dozen
in the cafes Of his village. On the othe,
hand, the press is as seduious 10 en-
tighten the people as the people to be
enlightened. Notwithstanding the vet
unoiiPped patronage and undropped
police Of the government, i,numersbIe
are the writers who dip their pens in
free INK, who write for the people, un-
der the protection Of the popular opin.
ion and the countenance of the popS.
lar support. No debt is better paid
than the debt to Journalists; fraudu-
lency ia subscribers 10 an almost uu.
known rascality, and here perhaps you
will ind the secret at once Of the su :.
perior independence and the more ele.
waited and gentlemanly tone of the
press OF France: so far a. can Judge,
it 10 now decidedly the frst and the
frcest in the world.
The more popular press of Paris re :
ceiyes much assistance from the Young
and independent talent found in the
popular societies."
Vh0 DOuid NOT subscribe for a Ne,cs-
paper ?-The editor of a paper, (which
Is not to be sneeTed at) published in
Shawneetown. Illinois, says, that he
will receive bacon, tallow, beeswaxs
and feathers, in pay ment Of subscrip-
tions and ADVERTISEMENTS and reques SITS
his patrons TO pay the postage OF all
letters enclosing reniffances!
[Coun. Deicctor.
South Carolina Six and its manu-.
Jacfure.-We have in our possession a
pair of silk stockings, the material of
which was raised by Miss Harriet
Winn, Of Winsborough, in Fairfield
District, and knit by that young lady's
hands; which every one to whom we
have shown them, pronounce beautiful.
They certainly arc beyond any idea
we had formed Of the perfection which
this interesting culture had reached in
South Carolina. II is almost impossi-
BILE to distinguish them from the finest
specimens Of woven hosiery. and they
entitIe our fair friend to very great
praise OF patriotism and ingenuity.-
Such q specimen in our opinion settles
the practicability Of silk cultivation in
our State. Camden Journal.
The following gentlemen will CON
Pose the South Carolina Delegation in
the ed Congress: Col. Drsyton. Mr..
MeDufIie. Col. Martin, Mr.. Barn.
well, MIR. Mitchell, Ga place Of Col.
CampbelD Gen. Blair, Mr.. Nuckoils.
MIR. Davis, Gen. Griffin I'm place OF
Gen: Tucker.)
A white man Of the name of Elijah
kimrough, was hung ut Raleigh, North
Carolins, on the 5th inst. Tor the crime
OF wilful murder. Al the same time.
. negro man named Carey was hung
Tor breaking into kitchen, or out.
house, where no one slept, and rob
bing Il Of articles worth, perhsps, Eve
dollars. According to this tariff Of le.
gal penalties, the life Of an individual
is worth ave dollars; and in the moral
code, stealing fitch or two Of bacon
- - heinous = crime AZ the fouIest
murder! The reader will understand,
Of course, that there Is no penilentiaVy