The Charlotte journal. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1835-1851, 1839-02-08

! ~" w 'hke from SubservIent Speaker the
appointment Of the Investigating Commit
tee the delegation from this State voted az
follows:
for me bdtiot.-Messrs. Deberry, Ora.
nam, kencher, Sawyer, A. II. Shepperd,
Slanly and Wilams.-7.
Against n-Messrs Bynum, Conner,
HAWKINS Mckay, Montgomery, and c.
Shepard.-6.
Is WIN deep regret that VIC find Mr.. c.
'iepafu 10 such company.-FGy. OBS.
Graduation BiH.-The bill now before
me Senate, 10 graduate the price of the
ruolc Lands, proposes that 81 cents be
me lowest Price, bot limits the quantity To
De entered at the price, by any one indlvid
uai' 10 SIX hundred aud forty acres. The
effect OF this measure would be to bring all
the lands, after having been offered in
market, TO the price of 37I cents an acre.
The quantity of land now 10 market, and
subject TO The operation of the bill, is up.
wards OF seventy millions of acres. L.
would no doubt suit the pew States 10 get
the public lands at this price or for moth.
ing. But the old States have deep inter.
est IN this public domain, and if their Rep
resen,a,lyes will faithfully reflect the wish.
es OF their constituents all such schemes
for robbery and plumber would he perfected
at the threshold. RAJ. Register.
/ CottoR.-Sales at 10 10 Is cents. A
very beautiful lot, remarkable for the care
With which II had been handled, was brought
in by Jacob Blount, Esq. of Robson, and
l 3 cents paid for it.
Al New York, fair business doEe at
l23 10 l63 cents holders firm. AtCharles-
ton, II 10 l5l -Fdyetterilie Observer.
France and MeEico.-A news slip from
the office of the New O,leans Commercial
Bulletin of the 10th instant, received last
evening, furnishes the following informa
ton, which is such as to induce US all to
lo"k with increased interest 10 the direction
Of the coast Of Mexico MAJ Int.
From Harand.-By the brig Comet,
arrived Yesterday evening from Havana,
whence she sailed the 9th inst, 10 the after
noon, information is received of the arrival
al that port from Rocheiort, France, of the
steam ship Of war Veloce, with dispatches
from The French Government to the CON.
mander OF the blockadIng squadron. The
import OF the dispatches was not made pub.
lie, but the presumption is that they are
highly important, from the fact that their
contents were kept secret and their recep
ton vas followed immediately by the d.
partute of the Prince de JoinyllIe for Vera
Cruz, on board the Creole ship of war,
which sailed the 9th instant"
Letters from WashingtcG state that Mr..
Speaker Polk IS very sick, but that the par.
~ insist on his going to the house every
morning TO organize II, and then call some
Lecoioco to The chair in his stead. This
is done to prevent The election of speaker
pro ten. who would, as late events ludi.
cate, be decided opponent of the admins.
tration,
S. J. Sylvester, Editor Of the Reporter
and Counterfeit Detector, has handed US
the following description ola spurious bill
sos Exchange Bank Of Norfolk, Va. dit.
lerent letters, and payable to various per
sons. They are calculated TO deceive the
best Judges, beng The genuine plates, which
have no doubt been stolen; and can be de-
tected by observing that the filling up are
IN the same hand writing, and are executed /.
in a remarkably careless mauner,-[N. T. /
paper.
The Philadelphia Saturday Courier says
that gentleman of that city has received |
a letter from Louisville, which states that
the individual killed in bloody atfray in |
tina, city, under the assumed name of Gales, |
was Richard P. Robinson, Who was tried
for the murder Of Helen Jewett.
In the Legislature of the State Of Ala I
bama proposition to change the mode of
elec,ing Representatives 10 Congress from
the District system to that of General
Tickle, has been rejected.
The New Orleans Bee, hitherto an Ad
paper, has hois,ed the Wing
flag, and goes for Henry Clay.
A Ner Years Gtf.-rhe congregation
Of the Rev. Mr.. McGliI, of the Scottish
Kirk, AT Niagara, Upper Canada, presented
that gentleman on the Is, INST. with E200
Isl ,20o,) as a New Years gift. A sub
stantlaI New Years present, and that TO a
deserving man.
TO Hire,
A NEGRO WOMAN, good Cook. Enquire