The North-Carolina standard., 1845-09-17

render his compilation nearly complete, and would
present fair claim for liberal patronage on I" the
colder side of the Tweed''] aa t
No. VIII. Office and authority of Justice o
the Peace: by James Davis, Newbern l774
(Presentrd by Hon J. L. Bailey. of EIillsboro'
No. TX, Proceedings and Debates Of the Con
vention of North Carolina, convened at HILLSIDE
rongh on Monday the 2lst day of July, 1888
for the purpose of deliberating on the ConstItu
tion recommended by the General Convention al
Philadelphia the 17th day of September, 1887
To which IS prefxed the same Constitution
Edenton: Printed by Hodge & Wills, Printers to
the State. MDCCLXXXIX. presented by
Rev Prof Green Of Chapel Hill. saa
No. K. Journal of the Convention which &C.
cepted the Constitution of the United States, and
which met at Fayetteville, 1870. From Hon
John L. Bailey, of Hilsborongh.
NEWSPAPERS.
Boston Gazette and Country Journal, No. 245
Dec. 10, 1859. --'e
Connecticut Journal and New Haven Post Boy,
No. l24. March g. 177O; No. 1875, March l6
l770; No. 153, September 81, 1870
Connecticut Courant, Sept II, l77l.
New London Gazette, vol. 9, No. 246, Janua-
ry 10, l772.
Connecticut Gazette and Universal Intellgen
Ger, vol. 12, No 500, May s. 1775
Massachusetts Spy, or American Oracle OF Lib
Y,
Continental Journal and Weekly Advertiser
[Boston.I Nos. 72 to 1o7, Dec. I9, l777, to June
IL, 177S.
Independent Chronicle and Universal Adver-
tiser, vol. 9, No. 479, March 81, 1777.
Continental Journal and Weekly Advertiser,
[Boston.l April to Oct. 8, 1777
independent Chronicle and Universal Adver-
tiser, July l6, 1778, to January Ia, 1879.
American Mercury, from vol. !. No. ], EJuly
IL. l784.l to vol. 2, No SO, Aug. %, 1855.
Connecticut Courant, June 10, 1856; and same
paper, June l6, 1888, 10 March %. l789
Independent Chronicle and Universal Adver.
tiser, (b:oken fiIe,) for 1898 and 1894
Columbian Centinel, one number 1898, two
numbers 1894
Connection: Courant, 1896, 1897, 1899, 1900,
1901, 1902, and 1905. '
Columbian Cen,inel, complete files,) 1898,
1894, and 1906, 1907
Hampshire Federalst-a few numbers for 1909.
Weekly Messenger, (broken file,) 1918.
[The above from the valuable collection oi
Newspapers presented to the Historical Society,
by Rev. Simeon Cotton, of Fayetteville.l
North Carolina Chronicle; or Fayetteville
Gazette. from Sept 13, 1890, to March 7, 1871
From DR.. James Webb, of HlIstoroughl
North Carolina Mercury, and Salisbury Watch
man, vol. 2, No. 62. June 27, 1899 From
Archibald Henderson, esq. of Salisburyl
Four Suppliments to the Cape Fear Mercury,
Nos. 48. so, 81. SO. (Presented by DR.. Deros-
sPtt. and transmitted by Griffith J. M'Ree, esq of
Wilmington.
MANUSCRIPTS.
Ord"r-Book, kept by the late Col. Thomas
Brown. of Blndrn, under the command of~Gen
Waddell, from 5th May TO l1th June, 177I, dur
ing the expedition ngainst the Regulators. Pre-
sentrd by A. Brown, esq. Of Wilmington.
rOrder-Book, kept by English Officers under
the command of Sir Henry Clinton, Gen Leslie,
and Lord CornwaIIis. from September 2, 1880 to
March 20, 1881; found among the papers of the
late William Hooper, Zone Of the signers of the
Declaration Of American Indepcndencp,) and pre-
sented by his grandson, the Rev DR. Hooper
Professor Of the Roman language and Litera-
ture in the College of South Carolina
Biographical sketch of Gen. John Ashe and
other interesting manuscripts; by A. M. Hooper,
esq. of Chapel Hill
Historical sketch Of the Town of Wilmington,
and other valuable manuscripts by Griffith J.
McRre, esq of Wilmington.
Extracts from the Lptter-Book of the late VIM.
Hill, esq. of Brunswick; from letters written
during the years l774 and l775 communicated
BY his grand son, Frederick G.. Hill, esq. of Will
minetonJ
Communication in relation to the RevoIut;ona
~ services of Col. Murphy, father of the late
Judge Murphy; by Jonathan HARRISON, ESQ., of
Chatham -
Letters and papers written during and subse-
1uent to the Revolution; from the collection of
he late james Hogg. esq, of HiIIsboroueh Sc.
ected and presented by his daughter, Mrs Helen
Caldwell. .a
Manuscripts of Gov Richard CaswelI; pre-.
served by his daughter, the late Mrs Gatlir, of
Lenoir. II
A large collection of letters and mnnuscripts.
comprising the correspondence of Gen. John
Steele of Salisbury. '.-1 ue
Gen. Steele was an efficient member of the
Convention which rejected the Constitution Of the
United States, in July 1888, at HiIlsborough,
Ind of the Convention which adopted it at Fay
stteville. in November .17S9. He Represented
he Salishngy District in the first Congress as
'embl+d under the northumberland the mp
pointment of Comptroller of the Treasury of the
United States from Gen. Washington--served
throughout the administration of the elder Adams,
Ind resigned, In opposition to the earnest and re-
peated remonstrances of Mr., Jefferson, in 1902
he subsequently represented the town of SaIisbu-
~ IN the General Assembly on various occasions
and, as the succts ssor of Gen. Dayie, conducted
With great ability, the protracted discussion with
respect to the disputed boundary between this
State and South Carolina; which, after a contest
Of more than half a century, was formally settled
in 1913 His public correspondence commences
with the adoption of the Constitution, and exhib-
its interesting and luminous views of the opera
ions of the Government, by himself and other
distinguished individuals of both the great polti-
;aI parties that divided the country, during the