Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1833-07-19

benefit of Clergy.
improvement Conrention.- "A State Conven
ton on the subject Of Internal Improvement. re-
Gently assembled at Raleigh, North Carolina,
Gov. Swain, President The Raleigh Register
states the results agreed 10, to be as follows:
l. That the condition of the State requires
that liberal system of Internal Improvement
should b. Immediately organized and vigorously
prosecuted.
g. That the Legislature ought to provide a
fund, BY loan or otherwise, to enable the State
to contribute substantial assistance in the pr0secu
ton Of works of Internal Improvement
s. That true policy requires that said fund
should be appropriated, IN the first instance, 10
Guild M markets in our own State.
4. That It be recommended to the Legislature.
+ to provide by law, that the State shall subscribe
for two fiiths Of the Stock in any Company here
after incorporated for the purposes Of Internal
Improvement, whenever the other three. fifths
shall be paid, or secured to be paid, by indivi-
duals
That the President shall appoint Commit.
tee TO prepare an Address to the people of the
State, on the subject Of Internal Improvement
| 6. That the proceedings Of the Convention be
laid before the Legislature at its next session.
/ z. That Committees of Correspondence be ap.
pointed in the several counties.
That il be earnestly recommended to the citi.
Z.ns of the several counties in this State to elect
| three delegates from each county. tdQsbld Con-
vention in the city Of Raleigh, on the 4,h Mon
day of November next. TO deliberate further upon
the subject Of Internal Improvements.
The following article is from the London
Times. The editor Of that paper would be
greatly edited by the doctrine which was adop
ted at Washinston-tbat the use Of foreign
capital is injurious to our country,
ut is a matter not less curious than instruc.
tive that sume of the States Of the American
Union are adopting measures in regard to bank
Ing on a principle which has frequently been
iucuIcatcd here, and which is not unlikely. from
what has recently transpired upon the subject,
| to be adopted bv our own Government 10 the
new arrangements about to he made with the
Bank of England. The State of Alabama, for
example, has recently made loan of 8, 500 600.
dollars, in arder to raise capital which is meant
to be again lent out, at superior rate OF In
terest. to the banks Of Mobile, Montgomery,
and Tennessee VALLEY. Thus these economi
cal little governments endeavour to apPr"pri.
ate to themselves the profit arising from banking.
as well as from canals, since they borrow, 10 ef.
feet. at the rate OF about five per cent. to OBJ
tain bank capital that will yield them from
eight TO nine per cent. This process requires,
of course, to be carefully watched lest it should
lead to system Of extravasant, instead Of solid
and useful, speculation. On the whole, p row
ded the States adhere together, career OF pros.
perlty seems 10 be opening for the great Ameri.
can Union such as the world has never before
witnessed"
Hon. to carry an Election. We find in the
York papers the following notice:
Another person was arrested yesterday on a
charge Of having falsely sworn in his vote at the
recent Election in the Sixth Ward. In his exa.
mination before the police magistrates. he admit.
ted that he had only declared his intention Of be.
coming a citizen on the lst of July last, but pro-
tested that he did not understand the oath that
was administered to him.. From the affidavits,
however, Of several residents Of the Ward, it ap.
peared that the man, on Offering his vote, was
challenged, but refused to swear, and went out
of the room; but at the solicitations of several
who surrounded him, again went forward, and
took the oath. He was committed to Brldewei,
to await his trial for the offence.
| We are informed BY a gentleman. who has Just
been to the City Of Washington, that the Presi-
dent looks badly; but bis spirits are good, and he
says he is better than when he first returned
from the North. He will go in day or two to
the Rip Raps, for the benefit Of retirement and
Of the sea bath He speaks in glowing terms Of
the contentment and prosperity he witnessed in
the Northern States-but doubts the moral effects
Of the factory system on the female. employed
The prosperity Of the manufacturing establish.
ments seems to be sufficiently great to dispense
With the necessity Of almost all artificial pro.
lection. Rich. Enquirer.