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irhorough, (Edgecombe County, X C) Saturday, Jlpril 25, t8S5
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"t, if. ,', C'V',I:J rmti-'i hereof ami
' ' irio (' n-'S remitting; at a dis-
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M "rir"!'' '',,M'eiue vx fl,is vcin'uy.
r' lvnt.MMit not exri-iMliiiff 1 I;,,.-.
,Mlf ,,,rl.-.l at .V rents t!ie fi -1 i..Mr
" ' aii 1 ' i '"iit f iclt coiitinii nuv. L-mi-l'"P,U";it
that rate for ewry lulu,.'
. ' . t'-fioo,il' r" ni:ilvil thf ruiiii
'", i'i.ert't,n required, or tlify wi'l lr
1 ;r,",upJ ""' otherwise ordeitd, ami
',,..-,! aci-ori.'incly.
' a.t.livseil to the I -tlitor must tie
, ,.i pii i. orthev iimv mi atien-Juil n.
livery. Un Hie Mh tilt, a
m.ui calling himself James
j reuce, was committed to the
J iH in this town, having been de
noted in purloining a coat and
;j;ne oilier articles, at his board-
- hojse. A subsequent e.xami--r.ion
ot his trunk increased the
ill of the accusation. In it
were found 12 pair of shoes, of
various descriptions; a pair of
iHtabons, belonging to a gen
jcnian here ; a close borlied black
ijit, of small size, and a silver la
vile, marked with the initails .. L.
The property is in the possession
iiDaii'ul Shenvood, Esq. Town
Magistrate, on whom persons
having lost such articles, are in-it-jd
to call. The ladle is valu
ed at from 1G to 20 dollars. Law
rence came herein the Favette
i!'.e Staze. Wilmington Press.
Th-: Figure ILal. We under
stand, from good authority, that
Capt. Samuel Dewey, late of the
tr;; Curlew, was the person who
decapitated the image ot Andrew
Jiikson atiixed to the bows of the
r'.gate Constitution, anil that he
In hice been incarcerated for
eighty-one days in the Blooming
dale Prison, Xew York, for sup
posed insanity. Boston Tran.
A very pretty speculation. The
Cittskill N. Y. Kecorder tells the
itory of a negro speculation, much
beyond anv thing we have
lieanl or read of in the annals of
ankeeism. A line intelligent
looking negro who had been em-
j'loyed during the summer in a j
cinai boat, not liking to be idle,
't Lis wits at work to contrive
jorrje war of turning an honset
penny during the winter, and at
whit upon the follwiug cxpe-
f-iit. Taking a stau'c driver of
' acquaintance they journied
inidy together to Richmond,
a. i.ear winch the negro had
J l-nrtrly lived. Here he was sold
j :,; a slave by his friend, the stage
t Wr. for eight hundred dollars.
d be stage driver immediately de
. 'nped, and the negro took meas
les forthwith to prove, and ob
l j lam his freedom. In this, bv aid
tl friends, and papers in his pos-j-:;on,
he soon succeeded was
grated and returned home;
Jere, much to his satisfaction, he
luL"d that his partner, agreeably
J1 Promise, had deposited four
pLu,,cred dollars, the half of his
P'Tchase monev, to his credit in
Savings Bank. Courier.
'Wean Si:. Raw silk, we
from the Burlington Free
rre?j t . P
I "a5 ween produced this
; 1 J-ar m Mansfield. r,.nt;,..,
,: ihe amount of over $00,000.1
! 'e, COu,"y of Windham, Ct.
l-es five tons of silk annual-'
p- valued at $500,000, and if
j ji.' Uo'ld be worth double
I Zr1?' Tlie same PaPer seems
V ,k l!le cultivation of silk in
1 'twould prove mil as, if
. V ,re valuable than wool; and
;lt the Yankees, by their
I1Ulty, have made more im-
rSmems in lh? raisinS of lhe
and simplification of
Kvr- J : ret,lngand manu-
in twenty years.
than Lurope in live centuries.
The seed is cheap, and he advises
everv fanner to sow an ounce of it
in the spring. A society has been
formed in Hartford, Conn, to in
troduce and extend the knowledge
of silk manufactures, the growth
of the w orms, &:c.
A mechanic in Northampton,
Massachusetts, has invented a
most ingenious machine for reel
ing, spinning or twisting silk, ap
plicable to domestic purposes, and
to horse and w ater power. The
(.'mirier of that town says. "By
this machine, the silk is separated
from the cocoon and made into
silk threads of any size wanted,
spun, double and twisted, placed
on quills reeled or wound into
balls, by one and the same opera
lion ready made into twist or
sewing silk, or for coloring and
weaving. The space occupied
by the machine is only about five
feet from the cocoon ti the com
pletion into silk finished'
C7It is stated in the New
Orleans Advertiser, that upwards
of live million of acres of land in
Louisiana are subject to annual
inundation, and that amount com
prises about one-sixth of the entire
territory of the State. From the
same paper we learn that the
gross amount of land under culti
vation does not exceed forty thou
sand acres, the annual product of
which is about ten millions of
dollars, or an average of two
hundred and fifty dollars per acre.
In view of these singular and
striking facts, the editor urges the
necessity of suitable efforts to re
claim the inundated lands, the
profits arising from which would,
he contends, be enormous.
CJrThe shrinking of tlanncl is
one of those mysteries that we
have never yet seen satisfactorily
explained. A garment of fine
lamb's wool, made lor an adult,
becomes, by a sort of miraculous
contraction, the vest of a child or
infant, after a year's wear. It is
the peculiarity of wool, like hu
man hair, to contract by mois
ture.3 But then how to account
for this interminable shrinking or
principle of self-annihilation' We
have heard many plans proposed
to obviate thi inconvenience, so
profitable to the wool-grower and
manufacturer, but none have ever,
as far as we know, succeeded.
Would not a remedy for it be a
suitable prize-subject V house
wives and others, to be proposed
by the American Institute? 1.6.
Value of Scitnce. Three far
mers in New Hampshire, who had
attended a course of lectures on
Geology, and thereby became
familiarly acquainted with the
different kinds of minerals, after
wards purchased a quantity of
land abounding with the finest
granite a fact unknown to the
owner of the soil for S3000, the
price asked for it. They have
since been offered $500,000 for
the land. Cin. Mirror.
The United States. The an
nual increase of the population of
the United States, from emigra
tion, is estimated at 250,000;
while the annual increase of native
Americans is about 300,000.
Curious Coincidence. Aaron
and Robert Fay, two brothers,
who lived in the town of S. in the
county of Worcester, and who
died near the close of the last cen
tury, had each born to him (wen
ty children, each brother had two
wives, each wife of each husband,
had ten children, and each of the
four wives had seven sons and
three daughters. One fact more.
One of each family only
survives, and that one in both
cases the youngest born.
Boston Centmel,
Casualties. On the 9th inst.
body of a strange man was found
on the South Mountain, in Frank
lin co. Pa. His feet were in a
hole frozen fast, and the (lesh on
his head, neck and breast was
mostly eaten oil by wild beasts.
He was 40 or 45 years of age,
but had no papers about him by
which to identify him.
Infamous. A short time since
the corner stone of a church at
Grindstone Hill, Guilford town
ship, Franklin co. Pa. was cut
out and robbed of the coins, &ic.
deposited in it.
(jpThere is a brick machine
now in the course of erection in
Louisville, which is to he worked
by steam power, and is expected
to turn out 200,000 well finished
bricks per week.
street tlisciverii if true -
Portable Milk. Th- prjr.eiple
or essence of new milk has at
length len extrac e.' by evapo
ration at P;iris, called Lactoline,
w hich is unalit red hv heat and
moisture, and to which the addi
tion uf nine truth of waier make.s
excellent new milk. What a
marvellous accommodation this
would be for our pack -t- and all
ea vessels, and for travellers.
lirrach of Promise. At the
March si vion of the Circuit
Court, and Oyer and Terminer of
the county of Herkimer. N. Y.
Lvdia Fos'er recovered from
John English, for brrach of mar-
riacje contract, 1,000 I he dc
fendant was proved to be worth
S000 dollars. At the same Court,
Suj;ui Eastbrooks recovered from
Nelson Dunn, StiOO for seduction.
.7 wretch and his victim.
Adelaide Watson, of 79 Grand
street, was put to the bar, on the
charge Ot seducing another wo
man's hubamt, viz: a young man
who was clerk in the store of
F g & Co. The prisoner was
young, good looking, and alto
gether her peisonal appearance
was extremely interesting. She
was said lo belong to highly re
spectable parents in the State of
Maine, hut had, unfortunately,
while on a viit some time back,
to Boston, met the clerk above
alluded to at a ball, dauc d with,
and fell desperately in love with
him. He like a scoundrel used
his utmost endeavors to make her
believe that his inii-t.tions toward
her were of an honorable nature
and he fed the flame that fie saw
was conMiminr her. Wh n it
had reached a height so geai a
to take paramount possession of
every other feeling, tic attacked
her virtue, and she, in an evil
hour yielded to hi entreaties, and
thus lost her happiness forever,
lie left Boston, came to New
York and married, and is now
the father of two small children.
Whether he wrote to his victim,
or whether she followed him on
to New York of her own accord,
is not yet known: sufliee it to say,
that she reached this city, found
out her seducer, enticed him to
leave his wife, and live with her
the unhappy victim of his arti
fice. He did anandon his wife
and live with the prisoner; and
what added to the enormity of
his crime is the fact that his un
fortunate wife was, at the time,
lying upon a sick bed ; and were it
not likely lo add to the afflictions
of his neglected wife, we would
certainly publish the scoun
drel's name. The lost and mis
guided girl, (the prisoner,) not
satisfied with having drawn the
reckless husband from the arms
of his wife, went still further; and
ina fit of frenzy, for she could
not have been in her sober senses,
she went to the bedside of the
sick wife, and taunted the poor
invalid with having drawn away
from her arms the wicked object
of her unhallowed attachment.
"But," added the miserable
maniac, "you'll have no more
happiness this side of heaven, foi
know to your annoyance, that
your faithless husband pillowed
his head upon this bosom and
slept last night within then
arms. A scene of confusion en
sued, and the employer of the
husband, Mr. F g, ultimate!
took the misguided girl to tlx
watch house. In the morning,
Justice Wyman very admirably
and judiciously reprimanded her,
and remonstrated with her on the
madness of her conduct, and com
mitted her to prison. Mr. F r
in the course, of the day, was al
lowed to take her away, and put
her on board of a vessel that was
to sail directly for the residence
of her parents, under whose roof
we hope that she may be restored
to reason and comparative respec-
lability. Mrange lo say, it was
stated at the public office in the
aft rnoon, that the scoundrel of a
husband was about to pack un his
things and follow his paramour
to her native place.. A. Jr. Trans.
(011 will be recollected that
two children of Mr. Th
Mervin were lost on the 26th of
Feb. last, in Baldwin county,
near Mockton, on their return
Irom school. They were seen, for
the last time, near home, at 5
o'clock that day. Bv a letter.
dated Blakely, March IS, we are
informed that they were murder
ed by two negro men, who are
now in jail at that place. The
discovery was made by the at.
tempted perpetration of an act
equally atrocious. It appears,
that two ladies, daughters of Mr.
Moye, were riding on horseback
along the road siyne few miles
below Montgomery Hill, when
a negro rushed suddenly upon
I hem in such a manner as to
frighten their horses. One lady
was thrown from her horse, and
the scoundrel, probably, thinking
himself secure of her, set ofTin
pursuit of the other, whose horse
ran with her through the woods.
In the mean time, the former re
gained her saddle and rode off in
another direction, and was soon
able to alarm some persons, by
whose exertions the villain was
seized ami secured. On being put
to the question, he confessed him
self the murderer of the two chil
dren above alluded to, and stated,
that the bodies would be found in
Mr. Moye's mill creek. The
elder of the two children was a
igirl eleven or twelve years of
age, which may account for the
wanton and horrible nature of the
crime. Another negro, who is
said to belong to Mr. Moye, is
implicated with this wretch in
the commission of this most hell
ish act.
The letter adds, that the attack
upon the ladies was made on Sun
day las!, and that, up to Tuesday
morning, the bodies of the chil-
uren nau not oeen tound.
Mobile Register.
Printing for the Blind. The
benevolence of several individu
als in New Bedford and Nan
tucket, has furnished the New
England Asylum for the Blind,
at Boston, with a font of types,
adapted for printing in raised
characters, which diminishes - he
size of the letters, and the un
wieldy bulk of the books for the
blind, more iully than has been
accomplished by any previous
plan, in the hooks printed at
Paris, there are 40S letters, on a
page of 7, or 56 square inches; at
Edinburgh, by the improved me
thodj 509 letters; at Boston, 7S7
letters; at Philadelphia, but 322
letters to 56 square inches. The
plan of the N. England institu
tion gives twice as much matter
in the same space as that adopted
in France; and by admitting of
the use of dry paper, much thin
ner, the quantity of matter in a
book of the same size is three
times as great, and in a character
sharper and more distinct. The
setting of the typs and printing
may be done chiefly by the blind.
(The book of Acts is now nearly
completed, and the Proverbs and
i salms are in progress. Types
jre also prepared for printing.
I hese and other improvement
in the instruments for the in
struction of the Blind have been
made, and are going on under the
direction of Dr. Samuel G. Howe,
the celebrated Phil-JIellenset, the
able editor of the New England
Magazine, and the enlightened
Superintendent of the Boston in
stitution for giving intellectual
eyes to the blind. The engrav
ing of maps in the sunken work,
practised at first, which involved
a very great expense of printing,
has been superceded by the use
of others engraved as they would
be for ordinary printing; and the
frame employed for arranging
arithmetical characters has been
greatly reduced in size, weight
and cost, by the ingenuity and
labor of Dr. Howe.
Charleston Courier.
Jl considerable "Monster."
The editor of the Buffalo Journal
saw a cheese in that city, a few
days since, almost large enough
to be mentioned with old Parson
Leland's celebrated present to
Mr. Jefferson. The Buffalo
cheese was made by Clark Dart
and David Camp, of Hamburg,
and weighed 300 pounds; being
eight feet and three inches in cir
cumference. Indiana Oak. Near Conners
ville, Indiana, an Oak tree was
cut down, which measured 7 feet
in diameter, or 21 in circumfer
ence. It yielded the owner $G
worth of bark, 700 rails, 300
stakes, 4 cords of wood, and a
bee w hich after a part had been
lost by falling the tree, and about
50 persons eat u hat they could of
it, still S gallons of honey was
saved.
Melancholy Accident. The
Bangor Daily "Whig relates a
melancholy accident which oc
curred in Solon in that state on
Wednesday last. David Spencer
who was at work near his father's
house, getting out fire-wood, was
kiled, together w ith his parents, in
the following singular manner: ! '""""f a "aDK.' ro"!cn1. ca" he
The son had just felled a large j6.0"' y boy, it wil duchirge
i t , iii i , 'sixty balls per minute, and that
beech tree, which lodged m l,e;ivitlf , for of ' nds on
upper orancnes against anouier
IrPP Will flip tnitf t it c 1 1 r nor!
tree, w hile the butt of it slipped
over the stump, caught his
feet, and pinned him to the
ground. His screams for assis
tance brought out his parents, and
the father seized a stick of wood,
with which both of them labored
to remove the tree, which being
somewhat decayed, suddenly
broke in the middle, and falling,
crushed all three of these unfor
tunate beings to death!
CCTAn extensive robbery has
been committed on the premises
of Dubosy and Baton, jewellers,
Bank street, Philadelphia. The
burglars must have been very la
boriously at work for hours in
forcing iron chests, zc. before
they could accomplish their ends.
The shop was guarded by a fero
cious dog, but they were prepared
to silence his wrath by bringing
with them an animal of the same
species, but ot opposite sex.
Three men have been arrested.
Itis supposed the jewelry will be
recovered. The robbers are pre
sumed to be persons who had
visited a number of jewelry and
watch stores for the avowed pur
pose of purchasing goods, repre
senting themselves as country
merchants, and thus taking an
opportunity of examining the con
dition of different establishments.
The Quarrels of Benevolence.
The following is a liberal ex
emplification of the doctrine of
provoking one another to good
works. We take it from the
Cazenovia, New York, Monitor:
A strife, of rather an unusual
character, was carried on in
during the last cold
The Mayor, Ebenezer
cave public notice in
the city papers on the
10th Feb
furnish 23
poor fami
to supply
ruary, that he would
cords of wood to sufti
lies as were unable
themselves, with a proviso, that
"none need apply whose poverty
has been caused by intemper
ance" This brought out Manly Col
ton, Esq. on tlie l8th, who gave a
like notice, that he would give "to
the shivering mothers and chil
dren of the city, w ho have be
come poor and destitute in con
sequence of the beastly crime of
intemperance on the part of their
protectors," 25 cordsofwood.
The next day, O. H. Dibble
gave notice that he would furnish
25 cords of wood to such families
as were unable to purchase it,
without requiring them lo prove
either that thev are "beastlv
drunkards," or "that they have
never expeuded money in intem
perance."
The day following, Samuel
Twitchell, jr. offered to give 24
cords of wood to such as were
destitute, and unable to purchase,
"no matter from what cause they
became so."
On the same day-, Alanson and
Julia Palmer, announced that
they would give one hundred dol
lars, in provision and clothing,
to the needy. They say, "It is
enough for the applicants to be
poor we wish not to know the
cause of their misfortune, but
wish all to be temperate, industri
ous, and happy."
John Wheelock, a butcher also
gave notice on the same day, that
he would give to the suffering poor
of the city, 25 pounds of beef for
every cord of wood the Mayor
should furnish and would "not
go into a detailed examination of
how they became needy."
ftir Gun. A young gentle
man of Cincinnati has nearly com
pleted an Air Gun, which he
thinks will supercede all other
guns; it is so constructed that by
lurninz a crank, which can he
h ba xVhlch js h
..
force on a
placed in
rifle ball: the balls are
a funnel on the top of
the gun from which they run in as
fast as they are discharged.
On the same principle he in
tends to invent a musket which
can be handled with as much ease
as the common muskets, and be
no heavier; and on the same prin
ciple balls of any size can be dis
charged by any person.
Provisions. Speculation.
The rage for speculation prevails
in our Provision market, almost
to a mania. We begin to appre
hend that the rise of prices is more
attributable to this than to in
creased demand or diminished
supply. In these Teachings for
sudden and enormous accumula
tions to the few, the many pay
the piper. The exactions upon
the poor, in the present prices, for
the necessaries of life, are sevejre.
It is pleasant to hear that Mr. A.
has made 20,000 dollars in a ba
con speculation; but it is a damper
to see a poor industrious woman
in market, chaffering for a few
pounds of flour, and required to
pay 20 cents for a half peck of po
tatoes. The prosperity is on the
surface, and runs lo waste; the
suffering is out of sight.
Cincinnati Gazette.
The TVill for the Deed. On
opening the will of a gentleman
who had expended an extremely
handsome fortune, amongst other
articles it contained the follow
ing: "If 1 had died possessed of
a thousand pounds, I would have
left it to my dear friend Mr.
Thomas B but as I have not he
must accept the will for the dud."
Buffalo,
weather.
Johnson,