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Tarboroagh, (Edgecombe County, JV. C.) Saturday, May 27, 1837
Vol XIII Xo. m
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VIRTUE AND VICK.
I saw the virtuous man contend
With life's unnumbered woes,
And he was poor, without u friend,
Prest by a thousand foes.
I saw the passion's pliant slave
1 In gallant trim and gay;
His course was pleasure's placid wave,
His life a summer's day,
'And I was caught in folly's snare,
And joined her c'lddy train,
feut found her soon the nurse of car,
And punishment and pain.
There surely is some guidin power,
That rightly suffers wrung;
Gives vice to bloom her little hour,
But virtue late and long.
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I A SMART RETORT.
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, Lord Erskine declared in a lare party, in
' which Lady Erskine and Mr. Sheridan
t were present, "that a wife was only a
', tin canister tied to one's tail;" upon
J which Sheridan presented Lady Er-
skine with these lines:
"Lord Erskiue at woman presuming to
rail,
I Calls a wife 'a tin canister tied to one's
tail.'
. And fair Lady Anne while the subject he
carries on
j Seems hurt at his Lordship's degrading
I comparison.
But wherefore degrading? considered a
I right.
f A canister's polished and useful Si bright;
And should dirt its original purity hide.
t That's the fu!t of the puppy to whom it
, is tied.
: From the New York Mirror.
I THE DEAD DANCERS,
f A most astonishing story which
'was lately copied from a French
journal, describing the death of a
genueman vvnue warning,, is go
ring the rounds of the newspapers.
jThe incident reminds us of anoth
fer which is said to have occurred
j in this city many years since, and
which might furnish the ground
' work of a fashionable tale of hor
ror. Miss , a young lady of
beauty and accomplishments, but
!of a disposition singularly per-
verse and exciting, was betrothed
I to a French officer who had been
j placed upon the half pay list from
j being incapacitated for service by
a musket ball which he received
I in his breast, and which had not
been extracted. Captain
was an excellent walizer, but ow
ing to the state of his health he
could never take more than one
or two turns upon the floor with-
i out being overcome by exhaus-
s tion, and indeed his physician had
i expressly forbidden him to share
tin that exciting dance. Waltz-
in, though subsequently written
j out of fashion by the authors of
1 oalmagundi, was at that time
j nearly so much in vogue as at
present, and Miss , who af-
j fected to be a leader of ton, was
one of the first always to join in
the graceful whirl. Partners,
however, were not easy to be ob
tained unless foreigners were pre
sent, and it chanced one evening
that Miss entered a ball room
just when Captain had walt
zed a few turns, and overcome
with the exercise, was about reti
ring from the room. The lady
was provoked at having arrived
too late to secure her lover for the
first dance, and with a want of
consideration truly unfeminine,
laid her hand upon his arm to de-
tain him in passing. Poor Mon
sieur though pale and sink
ing, had too much of the French
man about him to resist the ap
peal. He begged a short respite
however, which was granted, while
the careless girl rattled away with
the beaux who clustered around
her, as she leaned upon the arm of
her silent lover. After a very
brief time, a single quadrille only
having intervened, the waltzing
couples were called to the floor,
and the thoughtless Miss
hurried her partner into the gay
circle. The band struck up. The
dancers moved, and the slow time
enabled the invalid captain to get
through the first round with appa
rent ease. He seemed, too, to ga
ther life as the time of the music
quickened, and the waltzers mov
ed faster and faster; nay, his
strength was bo renewed, that he
tired out the other couples.
The floor tvas left to this single
pair; and now so swiftly did they
whirl around, that the musicians
in turn had to follow them with
the most rapid execution. The
gaze of the whole company was
fixed upon this eccentric pair,
when suddenly the face of the la
dy was seen to turn of a purple
color, while the features of her
partner worked as if affected by
some hideous spasm. Her eyes
rolled with an anxious appealing
look, while his became fixed with
the stare of a maniac. Her arms
fell listlessly by her side his
seemed to contract like hinges of
iron about her person, which, fol
ded in his embrace, was flung,
with the last move of the delirious
and dying man, a corpse upon the
floor. The horror-struck specta
tors sprang to the assistance of the
unfortunate lady, but she was al
ready gone, and her lover expired
before she could be released from
his arms. An examination of the
officer's body proved that his
death ensued from the dropping
inwardly, upon a mortal part, of
the bullet he had so long carried
about him; and, in the sudden de
lirium of his death agony, he had
wrought some fatal injury to the
lady by the horrible compression
in which he held her.
The Newspaper. How end
less is the variety of newspaper
readers, and how hard it is to sat
isfy their wants. Mr. A, believes
he shall discontinue his paper, be
cause it contains no political
news and B, is decidedly of opi
nion that the same sheet dabbles
too freely in the political move
ments of the day. C, does not
take it because it is all on one
side; and D, whose opinion it ge
nerally expresses, does not like it
because it is not severe enough
upon the opposition. E, thinks it
does not pay due attention to fash
ionable literature; and I , cannot
bear the flimsy notions of idle
writers. G, will not suffer a pa
per to lie upon his table which
ventures an opinion against slave
ry; and H, never patronizes one
that lacks moral courage to ex
pose the evils of the day. I, de
clares he does not want a paper
filled with the hodge-podge pro
ceedings of doings in Congress
and the Legislature; and J, con
siders that paper the best which
gives the greatest quantity of such
reading. K, patronizes papers
for the light and lively reading
which they contain; and L, pre
fers lengthy political disquisitions.
M, will not even read a paper
that does not expose the evils of
sectarianism; and N, is decidedly
of the opinion that the pulpit and
not the press should meddle with
religious, dogmas. O, likes to
read police reports; and P, whose
appetite is less morbid would not
have a paper in which these silly
reports are printed in his house.
Q, likes anecdotes; and R, would
not take a paper that publishes
them. R, says that murders and
dreadful accidents ought not to be
put in papers; and S, complains
that his miserable paper gave no
account of that highway robbery
last week. T, says the type is
too small; and U, thinks it too
large. V, stops his paper be
cause it contains nothing but ad
vertisements; and all that W,
wants, is to see what is for sale.
X, will not take the paper unless
it is left at his door before sun
rise; and Y, declares that he will
not pay for it if left so early, that
it is stolen from his domicil before
he is up. And, last of all, come
the compliments of some of the
Ladies, who declare the paper is
uninteresting, because it does not
every day contain a list of mar
riages, just as it were possible for
poor printers to marry people,
whether the parties will or not.
New Bedford Gaz.
Most melancholy casualty. We
have the painful duty of announ
cing the death of Col. John Bran
don, of this county, who was acci
dentally killed on Wednesday eve
ning last. The particulars, as we
have heard them from a neighbor
of Col. Brandon are as follows
On the evening of his death, Col.
Brandon was present where his
hands were engaged in felling a
tree: as the tree fell, it lodged a
gainst another, slided back some
ten or fifteen feet to where Col.
B. was standing, and caught him
under the end, and literally crush
ed him to death! The accident
happened about 4 o'clock in the
evening, and Col. Brandon died
at 1 1 , the same evening. He was
highly esteemed by his neighbors,
an intelligent and useful citizen,
and a sterling patriot.
Salisbury Car.
Outrage. We lament for the
honor of human nature, to state
that an outrage of the most revolt
ing character, which should never
be named unassociated with a sen
timent of the deepest abhorrence,
was perpetrated on Monday after
noon, a few miles from the Boro',
on the Princess Anne road, by a
couple of ruffians on the person of
a female whom they met return
ing home from market. Delica
cy to her suggests the propriety of
omitting for the present, her name
and the particulars of this most
atrocious act. She is a voung
married woman, whose husband
cultivates a small farm some four
or five miles from town. The
shocking bruises on her person
bear testimony to the energy with
which she resisted. The ruffians
were unknown to her, but we un
derstand that a warrant has been
issued against a suspected individ
ual. Norfolk Her.
f?The Legislature of Maine
passed a law dividing the portion
of the surplus revenue accruing to
that State per capita to each in
habitant. This was absurd en
ough on the face of it: and Judge
(late Senator) Shepley, of the Su
preme Court, has promulgated an
opinion adverse to the constitu
tionality of the statute.
N. Y. Star.
Theft in High Life. Two sis
ters from the town of Riga, in this
Slate, and of a most respectable
and wealthy family, were detect
ed, says the Rochester Democrat,
in stealing goods from the store of
Messrs. Griffiths, Brothers & Co.
on Thursday last. While the
younger chatted with the clerk,
the other secreted a piece of satin
under her cloak, which being soon
missed led to the apprehension of
the parties. On being arrested,
one who had taken the silk was
found also to have purloined and
placed under her cloak a piece of
gingham and two pieces of calico.
The other sister who had taken
"French leave" was traced to the
hotel, where she was confronted,
and a small basket with the piece
of satin, discovered between two
beds in a room adjoining the sit
ting room, when they both con
fessed their guiltand", with "ma
ny tears," spoke of the wealth and
respectability of their parents
deplored their fall and begged
that they might not be exposed.
They were, however, taken be
fore the police, tried by three jus
tices and fined ten dollars each.
It appears that they were indu
ced to this crime from being, told
by some ladies of their acquaint
ance with what facility shop lift
ing could be carried on in Roch
ester. ib.
A fresh arrival. The Cleve
land (Ohio) Herald, announces
as an arrival from Ohio city, on
board a scow boat, a two story
frame house, 20 feet by 40, chim
ney and all fixtures standing. . It
was launched about 3 o'clock, all
safe, and made port in a short
time, to the admiration of the be
holders, and no small satisfaction
of the manager,- Mr. Erastus
Smith, a master workman of that
place, whose ingenuity devised,
and whose skill executed this un
heard of species of transportation.
It was the store of Messrs. Scher
merhorn h Co.
(7It is stated in a late number
of the Medical Journal, that the
early use of cotTee, prevents the
full growth of the human form.
Specie. To those who argue
that a suspension of specie pay
ments by the Banks could retain
the precious metals amongst us,
we would submit the following
facts which we have collected from
a very able and useful work, enti
tled a History of Paper Money
and Banking, by M. M. Gouge.
During the war nearly all the
banks in the United States sus
pended payments of gold and sil
ver, except those of New England,
the consequence of which was an
influx of the precious metals into
that section of the Union. This
influx was so great, that the Mas
sachusetts banks, which had only
$1,500,000 in specie in 1811,
had in 1814 in specie in their
vaults, $0,393,718. It was use
less to keep such an amount of
specie lying dead. The abundant
issues of Treasury notes by the
Government afforded easy means
of paying duties. There was
enough either of specie or of notes
of different kinds in circulation to
supply all the wants of domestic
trade. The specie was therefore
exported in such quantities that
the amount in the Boston banks,
which had been $5,406,759 in
June, 1814, was in one year redu
ced to about $2,800,000. Such
was the effect of a suspension of
specie payments upon one part of
the country, and of a non-suspension
upon another. The precious
metals in the former were entirely
drained off into the latter; and
the latter had not only enough for
its own use, but an overplus, andj
found it convenient to export large
quantities to Europe.
New Orleans Bee.
Anti-abolition Convention in
Pennsylvania. A correspondent
of the Globe, under date Harris
burg, May 2, writes as follows:
The State anti-abolition Con
vention assembled here on yester
day. This Convention was com
posed of delegates of all political
parties, it being the common ob
ject to frown down the abolition
ists. It was very fully attended,
there being delegates from almost
every county in the State. They
adopted spirited resolutions, and
appointed a committee to prepare
an address to the people, which
will have a tendency to do much
good. The abolitionists are few
in numbers, but they are industri
ous in the dissemination of their
doctrines. The people of Penn
sylvania, however are not to be
led away by their pictures & tracts.
Progress of Fanaticism. blr.
Arthur Tappan presided at the
recent meeting of the Anti-Slavery
Society in this city, at which it
was stated that 483 new associa
tions of this description had been
formed in our country during the
past year, two of which are said
to be flourishing State Societies,
making the whrle number 1006.
The amount of moneys received
this year is near $37,000, being
$10,000 increase since last.
Number of publications 0G9.000;
number of agents, 70..JV.F. Star.
Abominable attempt and abomi
nable legal proceedings on it. A
mulatto fellow from this city, at
tempted a few days since to com
mit violence upon the person of a
white woman of good character at
New Haven, and the villain in try
ing to gag his victim, lacerated
her mouth severely. A citizen
happening near the place, rescued
the woman, and the miscreant
:was carried before a magistrate.
'Strange to say, however, he was
admitted to bail in the sum of
$500! but it is gratifying to hear
that he was arrested on n second
complaint, and fully committed
lor trial. JV. Y. Gaz.
Inland water communication
from Norfolk to Charleston.
Congress made provision last ses
sion for the survey of an inland
water communication for steam
boats from Norfolk to Charleston,
and we hear from the Norfolk
Beacon that arrangements are
now in progress for the immedi
ate survey of the various obstruc
lions in the rivers and sounds
connecting these points- Col.
Kearney, of the U. Si Topogra
phical Engineers, with numerous
assistants, is entrusted with this
duty. Among the waters to be
examined are Pasquotank river
and the Albemarle, Core and
Paml ico Sounds, as far as Beau
fort, Cape Fear river, and the
Waccamaw to Georgetown
Where obstructions in these wa
ters are serious, canals will be re
sorted to. JV. Y. Star.
Inhuman brutality. ThePenn
sylvanian states that a brute in
human form, whose name is sup
pressed, was on Saturday night
committed to prison by Alderman
Badger, charged with the seduc
tion of his own daughter. There
are further particulars connected
with this shocking business, which
are utterly unfit to meet the public
eye, but which give painful evi
dence of the depth of degradation
to which human nature can be re
duced. Philadelphia Gaz.
Gentleman Forger. John A.
Robertson, proprietor of the Sul
ly estate in Fairfax county, Va.
has been arrested in Stockport,
England, for forgery.
Horrible steamboat Catastro
phe. The New Orleans Bee of
the 11th inst. says: Une of those
terrible accidents but too common
on the Western rivers, occurred
on Tuesday about one o'clock in
the morning, by which about one
hundred and fifty lives were lost.
The steamer Ben Sherrod, Capt.
Castleman, left this place on Sun
day morning, bound to Louisville,
and at the time just mentioned,
when about 30 miles below Nat
chez, she was found to be envelo
ped in flames, and out of near 200
persons on board, only about 50
or 60 were saved. The fire is be
lieved to have originated from the
wood used as fuel being piled up
near the boiler. The story of the
disaster was related to us by a
young man who was a cabia pas
senger, and it is awfully interest
ing, and "his own escape almost
miraculous. When he awoke,
he put on his clothes, and leaped
into the yawl, which was hanging
at the sjerti, and was followed by
about 40 other men, one of whom
cut the rope connecting the stern
of the steamer to the bow of the
yawl, and the latter canted over
and hung in a perpendicular po
sition, the bow towards the water.
All on board were precipitated in
to the water, and are believed to
have been drowned, with the ex
ception of the narrator, and he sa
ved himself by clinging i0 t,e
thwarts. In a few minutes, about
twenty of the crew made their
way to the stern of the steamer,
and placed themselves in the boat
suspended as she was. One of
them imprudently, took out his
knife and cut the rope which at
tached the steamer to the yawl,
and she plunged, as might have
been expected, full twenty feet un
der water. All that had been
hanging to her were missing ex
cept four, and the individual who
relates the story. He says when
he rose to the surface, he found
himself under the yawl, and she
was lying bottom up. Being
strong, active, and exert at swim
ming, he 'worked his way from
underneath, and mounted on her
bottom, where he was soon joined
by the four other men who had
saved themselves, and in this situ
ation they floated twelve miles
down the river before they were
picked up by the Columbus.
There was some powder orv
board, in what quantity we know
not, but the knowledge that it was
there seemed to have paralyzed
the efforts of the crew, and its ex
plosion added to the deep horrors
of the scene. We are informed,
that there were nine ladies on
board, only two of whom were
rescued.
A ferocious beauty. On Satur
day, at Bow street, a pretty look
ing lass, named Caroline Newton,
was charged by a man with hav
ing committed a brutal assault on
him by biting off his nose. The
complainant slated that he met
the prisoner and her sister in a
public house, and because he re
marked to the prisoner that her
sister was the prettiest, sie imme
diately attacked him, and having
thrown him to the ground, seized
the end of his nose and bit off a
portion of it. He was under a
surgeon's care for three weeks,
and had not been able to find the
prisoner until he heard she was in
custody on another charge. The
prisoner in her defence, said that
complainant attempted to kiss her,
and in order to extricate herself
she bit his nose. The prisoner
was remanded until Tuesday.
London paper.
QT-The Grand Duke of Flor
ence, is not the most affable pot
entate in Europe. He was not
long since, told by his servant,
that the American Minister had
sent up his card, and waited an
audience. The Duke immediate
ly went down to his illustrious
visiter, and gave him a long intsr
view. What was his rage, on
learning that his visiter was only
an itinerant Yankee clergyman,
who, by adding the word's Ameri
can Minister to his down east cog
nomen, forced himself whenever
he chose on the petty princes and
small dukes of Italy.
,C7"A blustering army officer
not far from Detroit, lately assert
ed, within hearing of a tavern
Keeper to whom he had just giv
en the "put off." for his croer bill.
"that men of his cloth were the
pillars of the nation;" "yes," an
swered old drawcork, "the cat
terpillars." .
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AnU.A small quantity of fish
oil is said to be an excellent recipe
for destroving anu.