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When the business demands, the Judge may appoint a special term to hear and end the suits in any county. The Governor spe- cially appoints some Judge for this purpose, for which he receives ninety dollars. The appeal lies from these decisions to the
SUPREME COURT.
This tribunal was created in 1818, as it exists at present. Pre- vious to this, the Judges of the Superior Courts were directed (act of 1799) to meet to settle questions of law and equity at Raleigh twice
* The father of Archibald Henderson, of Salisbury, and Mrs. N. Boyden.
t See Sketch of his Life. (Chapter, Granville.)
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a year, and was called the Court of Conference. By act of 1805, it was styled the Supreme Court. By the act of 1818, the Judges of the Superior Courts were excused from this duty and confined to circuits, and three Judges were elected by the Legislature, who hold their offices during good behavior, who meet twice a year in the city of Raleigh, and once a year at Morganton, to determine questions of law and equity.
JUDGES OF THE SUPREME COURT.
John Louis Taylor, of Cumberland, elected 1818, died Jan. 1829. - Leonard Henderson, of Granville county, elected 1818, died Aug. 1833.
John Hall, of Warren, elected 1818, resigned Dec. 1832.
John D. Toomer, Cumberland county, appointed June, 1829, re- signed 1829.
Thomas Ruffin, of Orange county, elected 1829.
Joseph J. Daniel, of Halifax county, elected 1832, died Feb. 1848.
William Gaston, of Craven county, elected 1833, died 1844.
Frederick Nash, of Orange county, appointed 1844.
William H. Battle, of Orange county, elected 1848, resigned Dec. 1848.
Richmond M. Pearson, of Davie county, elected 1848.
At present Thomas Ruffin, Frederick Nash and Richmond Pear- son, are the Judges of the Supreme Court of North Carolina.
For sketches of the lives and characters of the judges, the reader is referred to the respective counties from which they are appointed.
JUDGES OF THE SUPERIOR COURTS OF NORTH CAROLINA, FROM 1777 TO 1851.
1777 to 1790. John Williams, of Granville County, died Octo- ber, 1799. Samuel Ashe, of New Hanover, elected Governor in 1795. Samuel Spencer, of Anson, died 1794.
1790. Spruce Mc Cay, of Rowan, died 1808.
John Haywood, of Halifax, elected 1794; resigned in 1800.
Alfred Moore, of Brunswick, elected in 1798; appointed Asso- ciate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, December 10th, 1799.
John Louis Taylor, of Cumberland, elected in 1798; appointed . Judge of the Supreme Court of North Carolina in 1818; died February, 1829.
Samuel Johnston, of Chowan, appointed February 10th, 1800; resigned November 18th, 1803.
John Hall, of Warren, elected in 1800; appointed Judge of Supreme Court in 1818; resigned December, 1832; died 1833.
Francis Locke, of Rowan, elected in 1803; resigned February 7th, 1814.
David Stone, of Bertie, elected in 1795, resigned in 1798, and elected in 1806; elected Governor in 1808.
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Samuel Lowrie, of Mecklenburg, elected in 1806; died Decem- ber, 1818.
Blake Baker, of Warren, appointed in 1808 ; commission expired December, 1808; appointed August 11, 1818; died in 1818.
Leonard Henderson, of Granville, elected in 1808; resigned in 1816 ; elected Judge of the Supreme Court in 1818; died. August, 1833.
Joshua Granger Wright, of New Hanover, elected in 1808; died in 1811.
Henry Seawell; of Wake, appointed July 5th, 1811; commission expired in 1811; appointed in 1813; resigned in 1819; elected in 1832 ; died in 1835.
Edward Harris, of Craven, elected in 1811; died 1813. .
Duncan Cameron, of Orange, appointed February, 1814; re- signed November, 1816.
Thomas Ruffin, of Orange, elected 1816; resigned December, 1818; appointed July 15, 1825; resigned in 1828; elected Judge of the Supreme Court in 1829.
Joseph J. Daniel, of Halifax, appointed March, 1816 ; elected Judge of the Supreme Court in 1832; died February, 1848.
Robert H. Burton, of Lincoln, appointed March, 1818 ; resigned in 1818. *
John Paxton, of Rutherford, elected in 1818 ; died in 1826.
John D. Toomer, of Cumberland, elected in 1818; resigned in 1819 ; appointed Judge of the Supreme Court in 1829; commission expired December, 1829 ; elected in 1836 ; resigned in 1840.
Frederick Nash, of Orange, elected in 1818 ; resigned in July, 1826 ; elected in 1836 ; transferred to the Supreme Court in 1844.
Archibald D. Murphy, of Orange, elected in 1818; resigned in . 1820.
James Iredell, of Chowan, appointed March, 1819; resigned May, 1819.
John R. Donnel, of Craven, appointed in 1819; resigned in - 1836.
Willie P. Mangum, of Orange, elected in 1819, resigned in 1823; appointed May 18, 1826; commission expired in 1826; elected in 1828; elected Senator to Congress in 1830.'
William Norwood, of Orange, appointed Aug. 17, 1820; re- signed in 1836.
George E. Badger, of Wake, elected in 1820 ; resigned in 1825.
Robert Strange, of Cumberland, elected in 1826 ; elected Senator to Congress in 1836.
James Martin, of Rowan, elected in 1826; resigned in 1835.
David L. Swain, of Buncombe, elected in 1830; elected .Go- vernor in 1832.
* Thomas Settle, of Rockingham, elected in 1832.
* Those marked *, constitute the present Judges of the Superior Courts of Law and Equity for North Carolina.
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Romulus M. Saunders, elected in 1835 ; resigned in 1840.
Edward Hall, of Warren, appointed February, 1840 ; commis- sion expired January, 1841.
*John M. Dick, of Guilford, elected in 1835.
*John L. Baily, of Pasquotank, elected in 1836.
Richmond M. Pearson, of Davie, elected in 1836 ; transferred to - the Supreme Court in 1848.
* David F. Caldwell, of Rowan, appointed in 1844.
* Matthias E. Manly, of Craven, elected December, 1840.
Augustus Moore, of Chowan, appointed in 1848; resigned the same year.
* Wm. H. Battle, of Edgecombe, appointed in 1840 ; appointed to the Supreme Court in 1848; resigned in December, 1848 ; elected to the Superior, Court in January, 1849.
*John W. Ellis, of Rowan, elected in 1848.
ATTORNEY-GENERALS OF NORTH CAROLINA.
Waightstill Avery, of Burke County, elected in 1777 ; resigned in 1779.
Blake Baker, of Edgecombe, elected in 1794; resigned in 1803. Hutchins G. Burton, of ; Halifax, elected in 1810; resigned in November, 1816.
William Drew, of Halifax, elected in 1816 ; resigned in Novem- ber, 1825.
John R. J. Daniel, of Halifax, elected in 1834.
* William Eaton, Jr., of Warren, in 1851.
Oliver Fitts, of Warren, in 1808. '
John Haywood, of Halifax, in 1791.
James Iredell, of Chowan, in 1779.
'Robert H. Jones, of Warren, in 1828.
Alfred Moore, of Brunswick, in 1790. William Miller, of Warren, in 1810.
Hugh McQueen, of Chatham, in 1840.
, Bartholomew F. Moore, of Halifax, in 1848. 7 Romulus M. Saunders, of Caswell, in 1828. 1 Edward Stanly, of Beaufort, in 1847.
Henry Seawell, of Wake, in 1803.
"John L. Taylor, of Cumberland, in 1808.
James F. Taylor, of Wake, in 1825; died in June, 1828.
Spier Whitaker, of Halifax, elected in December, 1842.
SECRETARIES OF STATE.
James Glasgow, of Dobbs County, in 1777.
William White, of, Lenoir, in 1778 to 1810.
* William Hill, of Rockingham, from 1811 to present date.
TREASURERS OF THE STATE. .
Richard Caswell, for the northern part ; Samuel Johnson for the southern part, 1776.
* At present in commission.
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Memucan Hunt, of Granville, 1777. John Haywood, of Edgecombe, 1787 .. John S. Haywood, of Wake, 1827. William S. Robards, of Granville, 1827. Robert H. Burton, of Lincoln, 1830.
William S. Mhoon, of Bertie, December, 1830. Samuel F. Patterson, of Wilkes, 1835. Daniel W. Courts, of Surry, Jan. 1837. Charles L. Hinton, of Wake, April, 1839. John H. Wheeler, of Lincoln, 1843. Charles L. Hinton, 1845.
* Daniel W. Courts, 1851.
COMPTROLLERS.
Comptroller's department established in 1782.
John Craven, of Halifax, 1783.
Samuel Goodwin, of Cumberland, December, 1808.
Joseph Hawkins, of Warren, December, 1825.
John L. Henderson, of Rowan, 1827.
James Grant, of Halifax, November, 1827.
Nathan Stedman, of Chatham, November, 1834.
William F. Collins, of Nash, December, 1836. * William J. Clarke, of Wake, 1851:
A History of the Bench and Bar of North Carolina will, we trust, at some period be published. Its members have been, at all periods, the firm friends of popular rights, and ready defenders of the privileges of the many against the encroachments of the few. They, as a body, are remarkable for their assiduity, fidelity, and poverty. The following is preserved as a specimen of " the genuine Attic," copied from the Greensboro' Patriot many years since. The names are familiar to western North Carolina.
In one of our western courts, while Mr. James R. Dodge (now Clerk of the Supreme Court), a relative of the Hon. Washington Irving, was making a speech, a triumvirate (Messrs. Swain, Hill- man, and Dews) perpetrated, "with malice aforethought;" this jeu d'esprit, which Mr. Dodge found lying on his table before him when he had finished his speech.
EPITAPH ON JAMES R. DODGE, ESQ., ATTORNEY AT LAW.
" Here lies a Dodge, who dodged all good, And dodged a deal of evil, Who, after dodging all he could, He could not dodge the Devil."
He read the paper, and impromptu replied-
ANOTHER EPITAPH ON THREE ATTORNEYS.
" Here lies a Hillman and a Swain, Whose lot let no man choose ; They liv'd in sin, and died in pain, And the Devil got his Dews" (dues). .6
* At present in commission.
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CHAPTER VI.
A list of the members of the Continental Congress from North Carolina, before the adoption of the Constitution (formed at Philadelphia, in May 1787) ; and a list of the Senators and Representatives in Congress, from this State, from 1789 to 1851; with the ratio of representation for each decade, and the number of members in the House-Present Congressional districts by act of 1846, and the members of each.
THE CONTINENTAL CONGRESS first met at Philadelphia, Septem- ber 5th, 1774. " In January, 1785, it met at New York, which con- tinued to be the place of meeting until the adoption of the con- stitution. General Washington was inaugurated President at this place, on 30th April, 1789.
MEMBERS FROM NORTH CAROLINA TO THE CONTINENTAL CONGRESS BEFORE THE ADOPTION OF THE CONSTITUTION.
From
To
From
To
Ashe, John B.
1787
1788
Johnston, Samuel
1780
1782
Bloodworth, Timothy
1786
1787
Jones, Allen
1779
1780
Blount, William
1786
1787
Nash, Abner
1785
1786
Burton, 'Robert
1787- 1788
1775 - 1776
Caswell, Richard
1774
1776
Sitgreaves, John
1784
1785
Sharpe, William
1779
1782
Spaight, Richard D.
1783
1785
Hawkins, Benjamin .
1786
1787
Swan, John
1787 .
1788
Hews, Joseph .. .
1779
1780
1782
1785
Hill, Whitmill
1778
1781
Williamson, Hugh
1787
1788
Hooper, William
1774
1777
White, Alexander
1786
1788
SENATE.
Those marked * are at present in Congress, 1851.
In.
Out.
*Badger, George E.
1846
1855
Locke, Francis
1814
1815
Bloodsworth, Timothy
1795
1801
Macon, Nathaniel
1815
1828
Branch, John
1823
1829
1831
1837
Brown, Bedford
1829
1841
*Mangum, W. P.v
1841
1847
Franklin, Jesse
1807
1813
Martin, Alexander Stokes, Montfort
1816
1823
Hawkins, Benjamin
1789
1795
1801
1807
Haywood, William H.
1843
1846
1813
1814
Iredell, James
1828
1831
Strange, Robert
1837
1841
Johnston, Samuel
1789
1793
Turner, James
1805
1816
§ 1782
1783
Jones, Willie
1780
1781
Burke, Thomas
1777
1781
Penn, John
1777
1780
Cumming, William
1784
1784
Harnett, Cornelius
1777
1780
1781
1784
1774
$1777
Williams, John
1778
1779
[1799
1805
1848
1853
1793
1799
Graham, William A.
1841
1843
Stone, David
In.
Out.
1782
1784
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HISTORY OF NORTH CAROLINA.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
In.
Out.
In.
Out.
Alexander, Evan
1805
1809
Forney, Peter
1813
1815
Alexander, Nathaniel
1803
1805
Franklin, Jesse
1795
1797
Alston, Willis
1799
1803
Franklin, Meshack
1807
1815
Alston, Willis, Jr.,
1825
1831
Gatlin, Alfred M.
1823
1825
Arrington, A. H.
1841
1845
Gillespie, James
1803
1805
* Ashe, William S.
1849
1853
1833
1843
Biggs, Asà
1845
1847
1845
1847
Barringer, Daniel L.
1826.
1835
Grove, William B.
1791
1803
Hall, Thomas H.
1827
1835
Hawkins, M. T.
1831
1841
Blackledge, William S.
1811
1813
Henderson, Archibald
1799
1803
Bloodworth, Timothy
1790
1791
Hill, William H.
1799
1803
Hines, Richard
1825
1827
Blount, Thomas
1805
1809
Holland, James
1801
1811
Branch, John
1831
1833
Holmes, Gabriel
1825.
1829
Bryan, Nathan
1795
1798
1816
1817
Bryan, John H.
1825
1829
Bryan, Joseph H.
1815
1819
Johnson, Charles
1801
1802
Burgess, Dempsy
1795
1798
Kenan, Thomas
1805
1811
Burton, Hutchins G.
1819
1824
1803
1805
Bynum, Jesse A.
1833
1841
Kennedy, William
1809
1811
Boyden, Nathaniel
1847
1849
1812
1815
King, William R.
1811
1816
Lock, Matthew
1793
1799
Long, John
1821
1829
Clark, James W.
1815
1817
Love, William C.
1815
1817
Clark, Henry S.
1845
1847
Macon, Nathaniel
1791
1805
Cocaran, James
1809
1813
Mangum, W. P.
1823
1826
Conner, H. W.
1821
1841
McBride, Archibald
1809
1813
Crudup, Josiah
1821
1823
McDowel, James
1797
1799
McFarland, Duncan
1805
1807
Culpepper, John
1819
1821
Mckay, James J.
1831
1849
*Clingman, Thomas L.
1847
1853
Mebane, Alexander
1793
1794
*Daniel, J. R. J.
1841
1853
Mitchell, Anderson
1842
1843
Davidson, William
1818
1821
Montgomery, William
1835
1841
Dawson, William G.
1793
1795
Montford, George
1817
1819
Dobbin, James C.
1845
1847
*Morehead, James T.
1851
1853
Murfree, William H.
1813
1817
Deberry, Edmund
1833
1845
Outlaw, George
1824
1828
*Outlaw, David
1847
1853
1845
1847
Owen, Jas.
1817
1819
Pettigrew, E.
1835
1837
Dickens, Samuel
1816
1817
Pearson, Joseph
1809
1815
Donnell, R. S.
1847
1849
Pickens, Israel
1811
1817
Dixon, Joseph
1799
1801
Potter, Robert
1829
1831
Dudly, Edward B.
1829
1831
1803
1805
Edwards, Weldon N.
1816
1827
1839
1845
Fisher, Charles
1839
1841
1841 -
1843
Forney, Daniel M.
1815
1818
Reid, David S.
1843
1847
(1803
1815
Gaston, William
1813
1817
Ashe, John B.
1790
1793
Graham, James
1817
.1825
Barringer, Daniel M.
1843
1849
Bethune, Laughlin
1831
1833.
·
1821
1823
Hill, John
1839
1841
1793
1799
1795
1797
1811
1812
Hooks, Charles
1819
1825
Caldwell, Green W.
1841
1843
*Caldwell, Joseph P.
1849
1851
Carson, Samuel P.
1825
'1833
1809.
1813
1817
McNeil, Archibald
1821
1823
1843
1845
1825
1827
1849
1851
*Dockery, Alfred
1
1851
1853
Purviance, Samuel D. Rayner, Kenneth
1829
1839
1819
1821
Rencher, Abraham
1793
1795
1807
1823
1825
1829
1831
1793
1799
1803
1809
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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES-Continued.
In.
Out.
In.
Out.
Saunders, R. M.
1841
1845
*Stanly, Edward
1849
1853
1807
1813
Steele, John
1790
1793
Sawyer, Lemuel
1817
1823
Stuart, James
1818
1819
(1825
1829
Stone, David
1799
1801
Sawyer, S. T.
1837
1839
Tatum, Abs.
1795
1796
Settle, Thomas
1817
1821
Turner, Daniel
1827
1829
Sevier, John
1790
1791
Vance, Robert B.
1823
1825
Shadwick, William
1796
1797
.* Venable, Abraham W.
1847
1853
Sheppard, Charles B.
1837 .
1841
Walker, Felix
1817
1823
Sheppard, William B.
1827
1837
Washington, Wm. H.
1841
1843
Williams, Benjamin
1793
1795
Shepperd, A. H.
1841
1843
Williams, Lewis
1815
1842
Williams, Marmaduke
1803
1809
Smith, James S.
1817
1821
Slocumb, Jesse
1817
1821
Williamson, Hugh
1790
1793
Speight, Jesse
1827
1837
. Spaight, R. D.
1798
1801
Spaight, R. D. Jr.,
1823
1825
Wynns, Thomas
1802
1807
Stanford, Richard
1797
1816
Yancy, Bartlett
1813
1817
Stanly, John®
180.9
1811
RATIO OF REPRESENTATION FROM 1789 TO 1853.
House of Representatives composed of- 65 members.
66
105
66
1793
33,000
66
66
66
141
66
1813
35,000
66
66
66.
181
66
1823
40,000
66 .
.
66
66
212
66
1833
47,700
66
66
66
243
1843
· 70,680
66
,
66
66.
223
66
1853.
93,702
66
66
66
233
66
PRESENT CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICTS, BY ACT OF 1846, AND MEMBERS TO 4TH MARCH, 1853.
District.
Counties.
Members.
1st. »
1, Cherokee; 2, Macon; 3, Haywood; 4, Buncombe; 5, Henderson ; 6, Rutherford ; 7, Burke; 8, Mc'Dowell; 9, Yancy ; 10, Cleaveland; 11, Caldwell.
Thomas L. Clingman.
2d.
1, Ashe: 2, Wilkes; 3, Surry; 4, Davie; 5, Rowan; 6, Iredell; 7, Catawba.
Joseph P. Caldwell.
3d.
1, Lincoln ; 2, Gaston; 3, Mecklenburg; 4, Union ; 5, Anson ; 6, Stanly ; 7, Cabarrus ; 8, Montgomery ; 9, Richmond ; 10, Moore.
Alfred Dockery.
4th.
1, Stokes; 2, Rockingham ; 3, Guilford; 4, Randolph; 5, Davidson.
James T. Morehead.
5th.
1, Granville; 2, Caswell; 3, Person : 4, Orange : 5, Chatham.
6th.
1, Wake; 2, Franklin; 3, Warren; 4, Halifax; 5, Edgecombe; 6, Nash : 7, Johnston.
Venable. J. R. J. Daniel.
7th.
1, Cumberland ; 2, Robeson ; 3, Columbus ; 4, Bladen ; 5, Brunswick; 6, New Hanover; 7, Sampson; 8, Duplin ; 9, Onslow.
Wm. S. Ashe.
8th.
1, Wayne ; 2, Greene ; 3, Lenoir ; 4, Jones ; 5, Craven ; 6, Carteret; 7, Beaufort; 8, Pitt; 9, Washington ; 10, Tyrrell; 11, Hyde.
Edward Stanley.
9th.
1, Martin ; 2, Bertie ; 3, Hertford; 4, Northampton ; 5, Gates; 6, Chowan; 7, Perquimans ; 8, Pasquo- tank; 9, Currituck; 10, Camden.
David Outlaw.
1803
Williams, Robert
1797
1793
1795
Winston, Joseph
1803
1807
(1801
1803
1837
1843
1821
1827
[1829
1839
1847
1851
1789
1803
33,000
Abraham W.
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CHAPTER VII.
PRESS OF NORTH CAROLINA, from 1749 to 1851-Account of some of the editors, and list of the papers now published in North Carolina (1851).
Beneath the rule of men
Entirely great, the pen is greater than the sword. Behold the arch enchanter's wand! Itself is nothing .! But catching sorcery from a master-hand, And aided by the gigantic power of the press,
It paralyzes the thrones of monarchs,
Gives liberty and life to oppressed millions, .
And strikes the broad earth breathless.
Take away the sword ! States can be saved without it."-BULWER.
THE colonial history of our State did not present a favorable field for the press.
The Proprietary rulers first, and Royal Governors afterwards, regarded the press as dangerous to their powers and prerogatives. The instructions of Lord Effingham, as Governor of Virginia, were "not to suffer in the colony, under any pretence whatever, the use of a printing press."* And Sir William Berkley, one of the pro- prietors of North Carolina, returned thanks to Heaven " that there was not a printing office in any of the southern provinces."
Under different auspices and a more progressive age, how differ- ent do the descendants of this very people conduct the early settle- ments of a country. Scarcely does the American set his foot down on any soil, when a press is set up, and a newspaper is established, informing every portion of the nation of the character, condition, and prospects of the country. "The United States in 1834," says Tymperly, "with a population of (then) 13,000,000, had more newspapers than all, Europe together, with a population of 100,000,000."+
Printingt was introduced into North Carolina in 1749, by James Davis, who set up a press at Newbern. His first paper was called The North Carolina Gazette, "with freshest advices foreign and domestic." It was weekly, on a sheet of post sized folio.
The first book ever printed in North Carolina was by him, in 1752, a revisal of the acts of the General Assembly, a small folio. From the hue of the leather in which it was bound, it received the name of " Yellow Jacket."
* Williamson, vol. i. 165.
+ Tymperly's Encyclopedia of Literary and Typographical Anecdote.
# Martin, ii. p. 54.
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The Gazette continued about six years. On the 27th of May, 1768, it again appeared, and continued until the Revolution.
Davis was a' Virginian by birth; and postmaster at Newbern. He held a commission as a. magistrate under Governor Tryon.
The second press set up in North Carolina was at. Wilmington, in 1763, by Andrew Stewart, called the Cape Fear Gazette and Wilmington Advertiser. The paper was discontinued in 1767. '
Stewart was an Irishman by birth, lived several years in Philadelphia, and was accidentally drowned in 1769, while bathing in the Cape - Fear River.
This paper was succeeded by the Cape Fear Mercury, published October 1767, by Adam Boyd, and continued to the Revolution.
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Boyd was an Englishman, and a true friend to liberty. He was much respected, and one of the Committee of Safety in Wilmington, 1775. His name appears in their proceedings as a leading member of the committee of correspondence. In 1776 he exchanged the press for the pulpit.
In 1776 newspapers were printed at Newbern, Wilmington, Halifax, Edenton, and Hillsboro'. Had copies of these papers been preserved, as is the case now in some States, in the archives of the State Library, the history of that period would have been better known.
In 1812 newspapers were printed at Raleigh, Newbern, Wil- mington, Edenton, Tarboro', Murfreesboro', Fayetteville, and War- renton. Not a single paper west of Raleigh.
The following is the list of newspapers printed in North Caro- lina at this date, January 1st, 1851 :-
1. ALBEMARLE SENTINEL, Edenton, edited by Thomas C. Manning. Born in Edenton, aged 25, by profession a lawyer ; Whig in politics. . 2. ASHVILLE MESSENGER, Ashville, J. M. Edney. Born in Henderson, County, aged 36, by profession music teacher, house and sign painter, auctioneer, to the ancient town of Ash- ville ; Whig in politics.
3. ASHVILLE NEWS, Ashville," T. W. Atkin. Native of Tennessee, aged 29, practical printer.
4. CAROLINA WATCHMAN, Salisbury,
J. J. Bruner and S. W. James. J. J. Bruner, native of Rowan, born in 1817, printer by profession. Samuel W. James, born in Knoxville, Tennessee, in 1819, and a printer by profession. Whigs.
5. CAROLINA REPUBLICAN, Lincolnton, J. M. Newsom. . Native of Maryland, 44 years old, teacher by profession ; Democrat.
6. CHRISTIAN SUN, Pittsboro', -) Committee.
7. CHARLOTTE JOURNAL, Charlotte, T. J. Holton. Native of Richmond, Va., 47 years of age, a printer by profession ; Whig in politics. 8
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8. COMMUNICATOR, Fayetteville, William Potter. Mr. Potter is a native of Raleigh, aged 43 ; profession, preacher and printer. Temperance paper.
9. DEAF MUTE, Raleigh, W. D. Cooke ..
10. FAYETTEVILLE OBSERVER, E. J. Hale and Son. Mr. Hale is a native of Randolph County, born in 1802, printer by. profession ; Whig in politics.
11. GOLDSBORO' PATRIOT, W. Robinson. Mr. Robinson is a native of Ireland, aged 36 years, by profession a teacher.
12. GOLDSBORO' TELEGRAPH, W. F. S. Alston. Wesley Fletcher Skidmore Alston is a native of Wake, born in 1822, by profession a planter.
13. GRANVILLE WHIG, Oxford, George Wortham.
14. GREENSBORO' PATRIOT, Swaim and Sherwood. Lyndon Swaim, 38 years old, farmer by profession until 21, when he went to profession of printer.
Michael S. Sherwood is about 32 years old, printer by profession ; Whigs in politics.
15. HALIFAX REPUBLICAN, C. N. Webb. Mr. Webb, born in Brunswick County, Va., aged 38 years, practical printer.
16. HILLSBORO' RECORDER, D. Heartt. Mr. Heartt is a native of Connecticut, born November 1783, printer by profession ; commenced the Recorder in 1820. . He is now post- master at Hillsboro'. Whig in politics.
17. HORNETS' NEST, Charlotte, L. S. Badger ..
Mr. Badger is a native of Virginia, about 28 years old.
18. JOURNAL OF TEMPERANCE, Elizabeth City. Thomas J. Eccles.
19. LINCOLN COURIER,
Mr. Eccles, born in Ireland in 1823, practical printer; came to Charleston at one year of age ; Democrat.
20. METHODIST PULPIT, Greensboro', Charles F. Deems.
21. MILTON CHRONICLE, C. N. B. Webb. Mr. Webb is a native of Virginia, aged 37, his "profession is printer, publisher, and postmaster."
22. MOUNTAIN BANNER, Rutherfordton, T. A. Hayden.
Mr. Hayden is a native of Florida, aged 42. Mr. Wilson, who has succeeded him, is a native of Caswell, about 30 years old, and a lawyer by profession.
23. NORTH CAROLINA STANDARD, Raleigh, W. W. Holden. W. W. Holden is a native of Orange County, now about 32, prac- tical printer;"studied law and obtained license, but left the bar for the press ; a Democrat.
24. NORTH CAROLINIAN, Fayetteville, William H. Bayne. Mr. Bayne was a native of Georgetown, D. C., aged 36, a practical printer, and a Democrat. He died August 1851.
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25. NORTH CAROLINA HERALD, Ashboro', R. H. Brown. Native of Randolph, "young and aspiring," no profession.
26. NEWBERNIAN, Newbern, . William D. Mayhew.
· Native of Massachusetts, aged about 40 years, educated at Wash- ington College, Lexington, Rockbridge, Va. Removed to Wash- ington, N. C., in 1831, and took charge of the Academy in that place. Studied law under John S. Hawks, Esq., and obtained license to practice in 1836. Married in Newbern, and removed to that place in 1837. In 1844 bought out the Newbernian (a continuation of the Spectator) ; Whig in politics.
27. NORTH STATE WHIG, Washington, H. Dimmock. Native of Maine, lawyer, and Whig.
28. OLD NORTH STATE, Elizabeth City, . S. D. Poole.
29. PRIMITIVE BAPTIST; Raleigh, Burwell Temple.
30. PLYMOUTH TIMES, William Eborn.
Native of Beaufort, 25 years old, Whig.
31. PEOPLE'S PRESS, Salem, Blum & Sons.
32. PATRIOT AND REPUBLICAN, Goldsboro', W. B. Gulick.
.William B. Gulick was born in New Jersey, aged 36, graduated at Princeton in 1844 ; no profession but that of editor; a Democrat.
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