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Tavborough, (Edgecombe County, X. C.) Saturday, April 11, 183.5.
Vol XI Xo. id.
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a was trap
.Superior Court. The Supe
rior Court for this count)' com
menced its Spring Term on Mon
day last Judge Norwood presi
ding. The only case of impor
tance on the State Docket was that
of Murphy, indicted for the min
der of Mrs. Sugg. In conse
quence of the supposed insanity
of the prisoner, the trial was con
tinued to next Term. ..Hat. Slur.
(JA cooper at Reading:, Pa.
by the name of Samuel James,
aged about 40 years, died on the
18th ultimo, who starved himself
to death; having voluntarily ab
stained from food, and drink of
every kind except water, for up
wards of fifty days. He left a
wife and five children to deplore
his rash ac ib.
Casualty. On the 22d ulti
mo, a boat, in attempting to cross
from Charleston to James Island,
was capsized, and eleven Negroes,
out of the twelve that were on
board, were drowned. ib.
Government Patronage. A
Correspondent of the National
Intelligencer, who signs himself
"A North-Carolinian," .states the
remarkable fact, that out of 969
Offices in the several Departments
of Government, only eleven are
filled by citizens of this State! In
the State Department, comprising
206 appointments, Jour are rilled
by North-Carolinians. In the
Treasury Department, embracing
174 appointments, we can boat
of one Clerkship. In the War
Department, where there are 396
appointments, we count three
subordinate offices filled from
this State; and in the Navy De
partment, with 47 appointments,
we have wo Clerkships. In the
Post Office Department, compris
ing 92 appointments, there is not
one from North-Carolina. This
State, being the fifth in population
in the Union, ought consequently
to be entitled to one fifth in the
division of offices and emoluments,
if she asked it; instead of having
meted out to her, with a sparing
hand, an inconsiderable number of
appointments of the very lowest
grade.
We regard however, the naked
fact, that North-Carolina enjoys
so few of the ''crumbs of patron
age" as an honorable testimonial
to the independent character of
her citizens, It proves too, what
we have before asserted, that
fewer applications, for offices of i
any sort, are made from this
Slate, in proportion to its popula
tion and territory, than from any
other in the Union. Long may
it be so long may North-Carolina
be distinguished for this in
difference to patronage for this
lofty independence which spurns
the shackles of office... Hal. Beg.
Early Ti?nes of Virginia.
It is both pleasant and instruc
tive, to recur occasionally to the
early times of Virginia.
The manner of getting wives,
in those days, was truly a novel
one; and it will he perceived,
from the fact of giving preceden
cy to debts contracted for these
indispensable comforts, that they
were considered, as they ought
always to be, the highest objects
ol man s solicitude.
We have no doubt many young
gentlemen would, even now, read
ily exchange tobacco, luxury as
it is, lor wives. Mr. Burke says,
in the appendix to the first vol
ume of the History of Viiginia.
I find in the proclamation ot
ihe Virginia Governors and Coun
cils, the rates of some commodi
ties, and something like a scale of
exchange between specie and
tobacco. During the administra
lion ofCapt. Argail, Tobacco was
fixed at three shillings the pound.
In 1023, Canary, Malaga, Ali
cant,Tent, Muscadel, and Bastard
wines, rate at six shillings the
gallon payable in tobacco. Sher
ry, Sack, and Aqusviiic, at four
shillings, or four shillings and six
pence tobacco. Wine vinegar at
three shillings, or four shillings,
and six pence in tobacco Cider
and beer vinegar at two shillings,
in tobacco. Loaf sugar one shill
ing and eight pence per pound or
two shillings ami six pence in
tobacco; butter and cheese eight
pence per pound, or one billing
in tobacco. Newfoundland fish
per cwt. fifteen shillings, or one
pound four shillings in tobacco.
Canada fish, two pounds, or three
pounds ten shillings in tobacco.
English meal sold at ten shillings
the bushel, and Indian corn at
eight. Alter a careful inspection
of the old records. 1 cannot find
any rates of labor specified, al
though they too are mentioned, as
forming apart of the subject ol
proclamations. "
Holmes, in his Annals, sup
plies one deficiency in Burke's
price current; namely, the price
of passage from Europe.
" The enterprising colonists be
ing generally destitute of famil
ies. Sir Edward Sandys, the
Treasurer, proposed to the Vir
ginia Company to send over a
ft eight of young women to be
come wives fur the planters. The
proposal was applauded; and nine
ty girh, young and uncorrupt,'
were sent over in the ships, that
arrived this year, (1620) and, tht
year following, sixty more, hand
some and well recommended lo the
company lor their virtuous edu
cation and demeanor. The price
of a vvife, at the first, was o)ie
hundred pounds of tobacco: but.
as the number became scarce, the
price was increased one hun
dred and fifty pounds , the value
of which, in money, was three
shillings per pound. This debt
for wives, it was ordered, should
have the precedency of all other
debts, and be first recoverable."
The Rev. Mr. Weems, a Vir
ginia writer, intimates that it
would have done a man's heart
good, to see the gallant, young
Virginians, hastening to the water
side, when a ship arrived from
London, each carrying a bundle
of the best tobacco under his arm,
and each taking back with him a
beautiful and virtuous young wife.
Bemarkabte. A dog belong
ing lo a gentleman in Wilming
Ion, was missed some weeks ago,
and nothing was heard of it, until
one day last week, when a boy
passing by an ice house near
the premises of the owner of the
animal, was attracted by the whin
ing of a dog, and upon making
search, the missing dog was found
at the bottom of an ice house, in
to which it had fallen about 25
feet below the surface of the
ground, where it had remained no
less than three weeks without
sustenance of any kind. The
dog is now alive and doing well.
Wilmington Press.
QJ A few weeks ago we stated
our belief that the stock required
to put the Merchants' Bank into
operation would be subscribed for
and paid. We now have the
pleasure of informing those inter
ested that more stock has been
subscribed for than the charter re
quires to give legal existence to
the corporation. The town will
experience the beneficial effects of
this new institution when the next
cotton-buying season comes. It
will be emphatically what its
name imports a merchants' bank
conducted by experienced and
liberal men, and our country
friends may rest assured that they
will feel its influence in the in
crease of their next year's re
ceipts. Newbern Sped.
(fjWe learn from the papers
that a College for young ladies
has been established in Kentucky,
in which degrees are to be con
ferred. If the founders of this
institution wish to make it really
useful, they will add to the de
grees which we have seen men
tioned, M. C. D. (Mistress of
the Culinary Department,) M. N.
(Mistress of the Needle,) M. F.
C. (Mistress of Fireside Com
forts,) and especially and above
all, P. M. O. T. (Perfect Mis
tress of her Own Temper,) should
stand pre-eminent in the diploma
ot every petticoated graduate
whom the Kentucky alma mater
shall send lorth as rip;oi r:de hnr ih
f?3Ti.e Spring Term of the
Superior Court of Law, for Duplin
(outity, was held last week
Judge Strange, presiding. Solo
mon, a slave, was indicted for the
murder of his wife, and found
guilty. Nathan, a slave, was in
dieted tor highway robbery, and
also found guilty. Boib convicts
will be executed on the 24th day
of this month. Nt'vbern Sen.
(HNo less than 31,998 per
sons have signed a memorial to
the Pennsylvania Legislature ur
ging the abolishment of public
chouls.
Burden's Patent Horse
Shoes. We became accidentally
in possession of a horse shoe man
ufactured at the Troy Iron and
Nail Factory, by a machine late
ly invented by Mr. Burden,
which, in addition to the rich re
ward the inventor cannot fail to
realise, is conferring a lasting
benefit on the country. These
sh is will be put up in casks of
assorted sizo (similar to nails)
and sdl at a price but little above
that of horse shoe iron in bar
(bus saving the laborious process
of pounding them out with the
hammer, as has been done from
time immemorial. Probably a
greater curiosity is not to be seen
than to witness the number ol
useful inventions introduced by
Mr. B. within the last thirteen
years, and which are now in ope
ration at the Troy establishment.
We truly condoled with Mr.
B. in the recent loss of his steam
boat, at a moment when he was
about to realise his expectations;
but on the whole we think he ha
no cause to regret his success in
the mechanic arts, as we are cred
itably informed that in every at
tempt to improve he has succeed
ed to the utmost of his wishes,
which is seldom the lot of an in
ventor and we do not hesitate
to predict that his plan of steam
boat will yet succeed to his most
sanguine expectations, being foun
ded on principles which to us ap
pear to be as immutable as the
fixed laws of nature.
We are happy to learn that a
gentleman is now in this city for
the purpose of ordering two en
gines for a boat at present build
ing at Troy, on Mr. B's plan, in
tended to ply on the Farmington,
Hampden, and Hampshire canal,
which (so far as the size goes)
will prove the great value of the
invention. We understand the
boat will be in operation sometime
in May next. Mr. Burden has
also, we learn, received authentic
letters from Paris relative lo a late
meeting there of scientific men
on the subject of his steam boat
one constructed on his model be
ing, as we have already stated in
our paper, about to be placed on
the Seine, to run between Paris
and Rouen.
As to his horse shoe, one of
which is in ouroffice, the machine
turns out thirty horseshoes, curv
ed, regulated and uniform, in one
minute, the greatest of all modern
I i m iiriiuii m'ii i V V W-,
A scene of horror. The Exe
cution of Charles K. S. Boying
ton, for the murder of Nathaniel
Frost, took place yesterday, pur
suant to sentence, about two and
a half miles from the city. A
large crowd of spectators assem
bled to witness the dreadful spec
tacle. Two-thirds of the popula
tion of the city were on the
ground; and many hundreds, we
might almost say, some thousands,
from the country. Different com
putations vary the number from
six to nine thousand. The
smaller number, is doubtless near
er the truth -but the concourse
was really immense, considering
the size of the town. The public
mind had been so intensely excit
ed by the circumstance of the
crime; the place, so open and fre
quented, the broad sunshine,
so audaciously chosen for the
deed the mode, so savage and
cold blooded, the victim, a con
fiding helpless invalid, the mo
tive so base and sordid, by the
flight and pursuit of the accused,
his extraordinary coolness and
self possession on his apprehen
sion, and at the trial; and the ru
mors that have prevailed since, of
his hardihood in all respects, re
lating to the crime and the pun
ishment, to life, death, judgment,
and eternity that a case never
was presented, combining more of
the elements of fearful interest, of
curiosity deepened by wonder and
horror. The expectation was
universal, that he would address
the public, either in confession or
denial of the offence, and as it
was known that he had been en
gaged in prison, in drawing up a
long document, many, who in
general avoid executions, were
induced to swell the number of
spectators.
The demeanor of the prisoner
on his way to the scaffold, corres
ponded with these intimations.
Declining assistance and refusing
to ride, he walked with a step as
firm and unwavering, and a mien
as undaunted, as any one a
mong the escort. Not a muscle
seemed to shake, or a feature to
be moved; and it was remarked
that his foot kept time perfectly
to the dirge that followed him.
The procession marched so
slowly, as to be more than an
hour in reaching the place of ex
ecution; during all of which time
Boyington seemed, by his deport
ment, more like the chief person
age in a grand mounring proces
sion for another, than a condem
ned criminal, carried to a certain
and ignominious death. Indeed,
his subsequent conduct, leaves a
general impression that he did
not believe himself going surely
to his death; but expecting, with
out the slightest ground for such
a delusion, but nevertheless ex
pecting, a reprieve, or some other
chance for safety; and had pre
pared himself to go through the
ceremonies without shrinking so
as to produce a public impression
of his innocence, and popular
sympathy for his sufferings.
This is the only rational interpre
tation of his whole conduct. His
hope was the heated and fervent
conclusion of an over sanguine
disposition, persuading itself irra
tionally of what was impossible,
or among the most improbable of
possibilities; yet upon such delu
sive speculations did he rely to
the last minute of his existence;
discarding for it, every atonement
for earth, and every thought of
eternity.
When the scaffold was reached,
he was permitted, as a matter of
course, to address the multitude,
and commenced the expected ad
dress. Its particular character
we cannot speak of, except by re
port, not having heard any por- j
tiou of it, or seen it. '
It is described as an ingenious
and elaborate comment upon tht
testimony which convicted him.
designed less lo show that he was
innocent, than that he was not le
gally convicted. But the true
purpose of preparing it was to
produce delay. Among his cal
culations for delay, was one
formed on the notion, that, if bv
any chance the execution of the
Sentence should be protracted be
yond the hour appointed by the
Court, Ins life would be safe.
Notwithstanding the warnings he
received that this would not avail
him, he seems to have clung to it
to the last, eagerly repeating the
enquiry while standing on the
scaffold, and still persevering to
believe at least that there was a
chance for postponement.
He was permitted to proceed,
until the hour of four had nearly
arrived. He was then informed
of the necessity of closing and
directed to prepare for the final
scene. The shroud and cap had
not been put upon him, aud this
annunciation appears to have been
the hrst circumstance that waken
ed him to the realitv of his fate.
Standing under the gallows,
with the instruments of death a
routid and above him, his preter
natural resolution and sanguine
hope of pardon, reprieve, or de
lay, never gave way until the
ministers of the law commenced
robing him for death, and fixing
the noose about his neck. His
whole soul steeled and nerved, as
it had been up to that minute,
cowered and sunk at once into
abject desperation.
A more sudden and fearful
transition, according to all ac
counts, cannot well be imagined.
When his abrupt and eager in
quiries of the attending ministers
of religion. Is there no hope?
must 1 die? were answered so
lemnly in the negative, the dread
ful certainty overwhelmed him.
His nerves were apparently shat
tered; the blood forsook his
cheeks, and despair was written in
awful marks upon his ashy fea
tures. As a wild chance for the
life which he coveted, now that
death was so close to him, he
dashed from the foot of the scaf
fold, in the frantick hope of es
cape among the crowd. This
futile effort was easily defeated,
and it is remarked as a proof of
the universal detestation of the
foul crime for which he suffered,
that there was no movement of
sympathy with his desperation
among the crowd. Had there
been a doubt of his guilt had it
been less atrocious -less Sordid
less cowardly in its unprovoked
mercenary blood guiltiness, there
would have been an expression at
least, of commiseration for his
agony. But the thousands that
surrounded the pole were passive,
and the fugitive who, in his be
wilderment, rushed among the
military escort, rather than a
mong the multitude, was easily
secured, aud reconducted to the
spot of execution.
Some are of opinion, that even
then the attempt to escape was in
accordance with all his other
course of conduct, and designed
to obtain the delay which he ima
gined would carry the time be
yond the hour named in the sen
tence, and thus save his life.
This is corroborated by the fact
of his having inquired of his
counsel after he was shrouded,
whether, it he could keen the exe
cution off till after 4 o'clock, he,
the counsel, would interfere in his
behalf. The reply simply ad
monished him that no Such pro
crastination could take olace.
When he leaped from the scaffold.
he told the Sheriff he would es
cape if he could.
Thed ensued a scene of horror.
which we pray may find no paral
lel hereafter in the execution ot
laws. The hopeless agony of the
criminal was displayed in obsti
nate resistance lo the performance
of the necessary duties of the
agents of the law; and even when
at last suspended from the fatal
cord, his desperate clinging to the
life he had forfeited, was shown
by" struggles to free his arms from
the pinions, and clutching at the
rope. He succeeded in thrusting
his hands between the rope and
his throat, and thus resisting and
struggling to the last died des
pairing, and for aught human eye
could read, impenitent. The last
five minutes of his lile were mark
ed by a horror of dying, a pros
tration of energies, as remarkable
as the sternness of nerve and
reckless levity of carriage which
had signalled him during the
whole of the trial, and in the in
terval between condemnation and
execution, up to that moment.
Such was the end ofCha'sR.
S. Boyington, a dreadful end of
a bloody tale. The horror of
the punishment with winch it
closes, compares fitly, in tragic
intensity of interest, with the
terrible atrocity of the crime.
The victim a gentle and confid
ing in valid, fell by the hand of an
assassin, -that assassin his pro
fessed friend, in an open thor
oughfare, beneath the Walls of the
grave yard, the busy hum of
human Voices warning him of the
neighborhood of busy life, and
the tombs of the dead speaking to
the murderer of the end of life,
the beginning of eternity.
Mobile Register.
' ,
A Sensible Verdict. A man
named Hunt was found frozen to
death under a shed, in New Bed
ford, on Sunday, 22d ult. with an
empty bottle by his side. The
Coroner was called to view the
body, but he did not deem it ne
cessary to hold an inquest. The
editor of the New Bebford Ga
zette has, however, rendered the
following Verdict: "That became
to his death by taking poison, in
Ihe shape of New England Hum,
administered by some person or
persons unknown!"
TT?On Tuesdav last (St. Pat-
rick's Day) a desperate affray
took place between some of the
inhabitants of West Trnv. Npw
York, and the Irish population of
h.ast 1 roy, in consequence of the
former having chosen to suspend
an effigy to the branch of a tree,,
at which the national feeling of
the latter took umbrage. Not
contented with forcing the West
Trojans to cut down the saint;
they determined in their wrath to"
cut down the tree also. While
they were in the act of lavinc- thp
s. o
axe to the root of the tree the
Trojans raHred, and rushed to the
rescue, but were valorously re
pelled with many broken heads.
Determined, however, to gain the
day, they mustered a strong rein
forcement, and finallv succeeded
in overpowering the Irishmen,
and chasing them to Gibbonsville,
doing much execution upon them
in their flight. Two .cartloads of
the rioters were brought into town
on Tuesday evening, who, after
being confined all night, anil re
ceiving a wholesome rebuke, were
discharged yesterday morning.
in .
sitoany u. Jidv.
Death from the Bite of a rat.
Last week, the infant son of Air.
Passmore, saddler, of Truro, died
in'cohsequence 'ii having been bit
ten by a rat. The boor babe
which lay asleep in a cradle in an
adjoining rootn wa$ heard by us
father lo cry, and on his going td
lodk after it, a large rat escaped
from the Cradle. Un examina
tion, it was found that the rat bad
severely bitten two of the fingers.
Lvery attention was paid tb the
case, but in vain; a severe inflam
mation took place, and mortifica
tion at length terminated the life
of the innocent sufferer.