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Tarboroiigh, (Edgecombe County,'. C.) Saturday, August 20, 1837.
Vol. Xlll No. 34.
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Miscellaneous
THE WINDS.
I We come, we come! and ye feel our
I might,
I swe arc hastening on our boundless
j And over the mountain, arid over the
deep,
I Oar broad invisible pinions sweep.
I Like the spirit of Liberty, wild and
free!
And ye look to our works, and own
tis we:
j Te call us the Winds but can ye tell,
I Whither we go, or where we dwell?
I Ye mark, as we vary our forms of
power,
And fell the forest or fan the flower,
When the harebell moves, and the
rush is bent,
When the tower's overthrown, and
the oak is rent,
As we waft the bark, o'er the slum
bering wave,
Or hurry its crew to a watery grave:
And ye say it is we! but can ye trace
The wandering Winds at their secret
place!
I And whether our breath be loud and
i high,
Orcnnie in a soft and balmy sigh,
j Our threatnings fill the soul with fear,
i Oi our gentle whisperings woo the, ear
With music zrial, still 'tis we;
i And ye list and ye look, but what do
ye see!
: Can ye hush one sound of our voice
I to peace,
'Or waken one note when our nam-
bers cease?
, Our dwelling is in the Almighty's
t nana:
! We come and we go at his command,
i Tho joy or sorrow is on our track,
j Kis will is our guide, and we look not
back !
j And if in our wrath ye wouM turn a-
way.
Or win us in gentlest airs to play,
j Then lift up your hearts to him who
binds
! Or frees at his will the obedient
, Winds.
j den. Jackson. The following
extracts of a private letter front
j the late President, dated Hermit
age, July 7th, published in the
Globe, show how little trulh there
is m the report recently circulated
by the Whigs, that the late Presi
dent Lad changed his opinion and
as now in favor of a National
Bank:-
"Now is the lime to separate
the Government from all banks
to receive and disburse the reve
re in nothing but Gold and Sil-
j Ver coin, and the circulation of
ur coin through all public dis
j tursemems will reeulate the cur-
rency for ever hereafter keepj
j the Government free from all em
barrassment, whilst it leaves the
commercial community to trade
I upou its own capital, and the
tanks to accommodate it with
f such exchange ami credit as best
j suits their own interests both be
fog money-making concerns, de
Vo'd of patriotism, looking alone
ll) their own interests, regardless
f others. It has been and ever
ill he a curse to the Government
to have any entanglement or inte
rest with either, or more than a
pneral superintending care of all.
111 the commercial community
Jjtherto has been fostered bv the
Government, to the great injury
('l 'he lahnr nf ..r,t;i
the
he country,
Mercantile aristocracy, com-
biued with the banks, have assu
met! the right io control and m tri
age the Government, as their p u
Ucular
interest requires, reerard
.ess of tlm great democracy o!
numbers, who they believe ough'j
l be, and they are determine;
they shall be, hewers of wood and!
drawers of water. I repeat, thai
I am proud to see the firm and
noble stand taken by the Execu
tive Government on this occasion
The people are with if, and will
support it triumphantly."
"The history of the world nev
pr has recorded such base treach
ery and perfidy as has been com
mitted by the deposite banks a
gainst the Government, and pure
ly with the view of gratifying
Riddle and the Barings, and by
the suspension of specie payments
degrade, embarrass, and ruin, if
THEV COULD, THEIR OWN COUN
TRY, for the selfish views of ma
king large profits by throwing out
millions ol depreciated paper up
on the people selling their spe-!
cie at large premiums, and buying'
up their own paper at discounts!
of from 25 to 50 percent, and
now looking forward to be indul
ged in these speculations for years
to come, before they resume spe-:
t ie payments."
In another letter, dated July 23,
Gen. Jackson observes: j
" My Dear Sir : I have just re-j
ceivetl the Globe of the 13iu, and
am pleased to discover from it and
other papers that the democracy
are uniting upon the plan of sepa
rating the Government from cor
porations of all kinds, and to col
lect the revenue, keep and disburse
it, by their own agents. This a
lone can secure'safety to our reve
nue, and control over issues of pa
per by the State Banks. The re
venue, reduced to the real wants
of the government, payable in gold
and silver coin (no credits,) to be
disbursed by the Government in
gold and silver, will give us an un
deviating metallic currency, pre
vent hereafter overtrading, and
give prosperity to all branches of
business; whilst the banks and the
commercial community will be left
to manage their exchangts, and all
matters between them, in their own
way. I hope and trust that the
whole democracy of the whole U-
jnion will unite in adopting these
measures, and the democracy of
numbers will never have another
contest with the aristocracy of the
few and their paper credit system,
upon which they at present rely to
rule the country."
'! hope no Treasury notes will
be issued. The Treasury drafts
upou actual deposite are constitu
tional, and do not partake of pa
per credits as Treasury notes,
which are subject to depreciation
by the merchants and bunks, and
shavers and brokers; and will be,
if issued, and the Government can
not avoid it.- Different must it be
with Treasury drafts, drawn upon
actual deposiles; and from the con
duct of the banks and merchants,
they deserve no favors from the
Government, which they have at
tempted to disgrace, and to de
stroy its credit, both at home and
abroad. It is the great working
class that deserves protection from
the frauds of the banks."
Plumbasro. It was lately sta
led in tne English papers, that the
celebrated Mine of Plumbago, or
Black Lead, at Borrowdale, in
England, was exhausted, and that
no other source of obtaining this
useful mineral was known. It
has since been stated, in some of
the papers of this country, that
Plumbago can be obtained in any
quantity in the vicinity of Ra
teirh North Carolina. To con
firm this statement, we have plea
sure in publishing the following
extract from a Geological Report
made to the Legislature of North
Carolina several vears ago,. by
Professor Olmstead, then Profes
sor of Chemistry and Mineralogy
t the University of that State,
nd at present Professor of Ma
thematics in Yale College.
" This great deposite of Black
Lead,"' s.i s the Professor, "lies a
iittle westward of Raleigh. The
whole formation consist ; of a great
inmber of parallel beds, varying
in width from a few inches to
twenty feet. They lie in a singu
lar variety of isinglass rock, (mi
caceous schistu,) usually of a
bright cherry red, but sometimes
of a silvery white color. These
beds occur throughout a space not
less than three fourths of a mile
wide, and ten miles long. I have
never read of any mine of Plum
bago which can compare in ex
tent with this, and have reason to
believe it is the largest mine on
record."
Professor Sillimnn having had
a specimen of this Plumbago pre
sented to him by the late Judge
Johnson, of the Supreme Court of
the United States, said, "it is of
very fine quality, and appears
well adapted both for crayons ant!
pots." And Professor Dewey, of
William's College, Massachusetts,
on viewing another specimen, de
clared "it was the finest he ever
saw." JVar. Int.
Extraordinary Longevity. Tlie
Richmond Wing contains the fol
lowing instance of longevity in a
Guinea Negro, which has few pa
rallels on record. The native Af
ricans are among the longest liv
ers in our southern latitudes. We
could count up more than a dozen
within our own recollection, who
numbered upwards of 1 00 ears.
Norfolk lltrald.
Died, on the Gih day of April
last, in Nottoway county, JIMMY,
an African, the property of Mrs.
Margaret Marshall, at the advanc
ed age of one hundred and forty
years, or more, as believed by his
mistress. Although Jimmy had
been long in the country, it seems
that not the first principles of the
Christian religioncould beengraft
ed on his mind. To his dying day
he believed, that after death, he
would return to the land of his fa
thers. But Jimmy was an honest
man and a faithful ervant anil sen
tinel, for Mrs. Marshall felt that all
was safe when she left home, if the
key was in the possession of Jim
my : not to while or black would
he have delivered it ImiI with the
loss of his life.
Jl IV Idle Negress. There is a
female slave aged I 1 years, belong
ing to Mr. John Craig, on Keowee
river, Pickens District, S. C. de
scenced from full blooded African
parents, and who has been since
the age of seven gradually under
going a change from black to
white. On her neck, breast and
shoulders, says the Columbia
Times, it is perfect; of a soft, deli
cate, transparent and healthy ap
pearance, unlike the Albino, nor
are her eyes pink like those of an
Albino, but natural. This is not
the first case of the Ethiopian
changing his hue.
N. Y. Star.
Elopement. A man with a 'false
bosom marked H. C K. Gannett,'
is said to have stolen the young,
intelligent and handsome wife of
Mr. Babbitt, of Barre, Mass.
Why didn't he take off some of the
patriotic single ladies of that no
table place f ib.
Life in Missouri St. Louis
Gallantry. We learn from the
St. Louis Republican, that on
Wednesday night last, three well
dressed men and three women e
qually well dressed, went on board
a steamboat lying at the St. Louis
wharf and took possession of a
portion of the cabin. They were
discovered about I o'clock when
the crew took tbera all, men aud
women, one by one to the capstan,
and gave them one hundred stripes
apiece with the rope's end well laid
on. This lynching of females ap
pears to be coming into vogue.
We must have fallen upon the 'age
ofchivalry.' Louisville Jour.
Horrid. n attempt to poison
a whole tvedding party was made
at the house of Mr. John Harris,
of Morgan county, Georgia, in the
last week of July. Vhxrty six out
of forty present' says the Athens
Whig, were made sick but ail re
covered. The poison was mixed
with the dressing of the Turkey,
and the cook, is suspected.
A". Y. Star.
Death by an Elephant. A coun
tryman named Mason, during the
circus performances t Horuell
ville, in the western part of this
State, having jerked a wisp of
straw out of the elephant's mouth,
was taken up by the probosis of
the latter, and dashed about 10
feet to the ground. He survived
about 3 hours, and the keeper gave
his widow $40. rib.
Fruits of Abolition. If we mis
take not, Utica was the head quar
ters where the Abolitionists some
time since held their grand con
venticle, and kicked up a row in
the church. -Here is some more
of the fruits-of their incendiary
doctrines of agrarian amalgama
tion :
Yesterday morning (says the U
tica Whig of August 8th,) a fight
look place between a negro and a
tvhite man near the intersection of
Genesee and Seneca streets, in
which the former attempted to bite
oil" his adversary's nose, but made
a mistake ami bit off his ow n lip.
The Last oj the Ycmassees.
This once powerful and warlike
tribe, it is well known, after being
nearly exterminated and driven
from Carolina and Georgia came
to Florida where thev continued
lo reside for some time near St. j
Augustine, under the protection of;
the Spanish government, & thence ,
went into the interior. A tradi- :
lion we are informed exists among
. . .
I ip SPinmn pj. i mi i hov ivpwr rLiine wen. me. waisri miii tuu-
veu by lhe Creeks and Muscogees
upon an island in the everglades
where they all perislred except one
man and woman. Jumper claims
descent from these two as also Al -
ligator though he is tiot so pure in
blood as the former. Those two
are the only representatives of that
numerous tribe, the Yemasees, who
once inhabited the whole coast of
South Carolina and Georgia.
An Indian prophecy also exists
among the Seminoles, that like the
Yemassees. ihey are lo be driven
on an island, where they are to
perish. This is implicitly believ-
ed by them, and fatalists as they
are, uot to die before their time, can
it be expected that they can be
brought to emigrate.
Florida Herald.
Another Suspension. A singu -
lar suspension lately occurred in far-famed brunette damsels of An
Plympton, Mass. A man, while dalusia. So says the St. Louis
descending his cellar stairs, in ! Observer. Here is the founda
something of a hurry, missed hisjtion for another Pocahontas royal
foot-hold, and falling over the
steps, was caught in his descent
by the turned up point of a nail,
through the gristle of his nose,
aud remained in this state of sus
pension until the 'weight of his
body had pulied the head of the
nail through the other side. Iv is
said he grunted considerably while
undergoing the operation of the
Experiment,' but his probosis re
ceived no very serious injury.
Gazette.
An Irishman having accidental
ly broken a pane of glass in a win
dow of ,a house in Queen street,
was making the best of his way lo
get out of sight, as well as out of
mind; but, unfortunately for Pat,
the proprietor stole a march on
him, and, having seized him by
t'te collar, exclaimed, "You broke
my window, fallow, did you not?"
"To be sure, I did," said Pat,
"and did'nt you see me running
home for monv to pay for it ?"
Edinburgh Paper.
Caution to the Ladies. The
Chicago Democrat advises Ladies
from the East, who are on a visit
to that plwe, uot to take up with
the first offer. It will, it says, be
for their advantage to look round
a little, after their arrival, before
they maUe any engagements.
Chaps. pretty girl was late
ly complaining to a friend, that
she had a cold, and was sadly
plagued in her lips by chaps.
4 Friend,' said Ohadiah, thee
should never suffer the chaps to
come near thy lips.
The following from the Findlay,
(Hancock county, Ohio,) Courier,
of August 3d, is certainly the most
remarkable phenomenon we re
member ever having read of. The
country, for miles round, presents
nearly a dead level.
Strange Phenomenon. On Sa
turday the 29th ultimo, Mr. Rich
ard Wade, jr. was engaged in dig
ging a well on his premises, about
four miles south of Findlay; after
having dug down something like
IS feet, appearance of water was
evident. Mr. Wade being anx
ious to obtain water, seized a crow
bar, which was standing near, and
made several strokes near the cen
tre of the well, whereupon the wa
ter gushed forth in vivid torrents.
Had not Mr. Wade been extreme
ly active in attempting to escape,
he would have perished almost in
stantlv. At the lime of the water
gushing forth, a continued roaring
ensued similar to a loud clap of
thunder, which shook the earth
violently for several hours. By
r i
an application ol a lire-orann to
lhe waler il loo,i fire nmI burnt
Alcohol, the blaze struck five
feel above l,,e surface of the well,
anJ at the same time burning the
: puncheons that lay on the top of
ii rm. . ...:n
tinues to boil.
An American Princess married
j Amalgamation. The Hon. Le
j vi Gilman, a Justice of the Su
preme Court of Missouri, has re
cently married an Indian Prin
. cess, brought up in the family of
. Theodore Davis, Esq. of Gibson s
Creek, in that Stale. She is the
j daughter of Ive-ok-her-sha, or the
Black Bear, a Fox chief. Her
father, since dead, had placed her
with Mr. Davis, to learn the art of
"talking on paper." Mr. Davis
having no daughter, and being
' wealthy, sent Nydia, as 'she was
called, into New Jersey, where
, she received a superior education.
j She is said to be witty and agree
able, beautiful and accomplished;
speaks French fluently, aud has
! all the appearance of one of the
I line for Missouri.
Horrid Depravity. A few days
since the wife of Timothy H.
Hartwell, of Lunenburg, entered
a complaint against her husband
for improper and unlawful inter
course with his own daughter, a
girl about sixteen. This unnatu
ral and revolting connexion had
subsisted between the father and
his child for the last six months,
without the same going abroad,
Hartwell having threatened death
to any one of the family who
should disclose his inhuman quilt.'
Reckless of his threat, Airs, riart
well, on the 9th ult. made com
plaint against him. Hartwell, up
on discovering this fact, decamp-
ed, but was overtaken in Milford,
N. H. brought to rilchburg, and
bound over for trial at the next
Common Pleas in Worcester, in
the sum of $1,000, and for want
of security was committed to the
countv iail. While under charire
pif keepers at Filrhburg, the
wretched man attempted to hang
himself with his handkerchh f
while in bed, but routing them by
his noise, they rescued him in time
to save his life.
Pennsylvania paper.
An Incident. The Hempstead
L. I. Enquirer says: An amusing
scene was enacted at one of our
churches last Sunday, which af
forded considerable amusement to
the congregation. Amusei ieul is
somewhat out of place in a church;
nevertheless the affair occurred.
A young man whose iniigiualion
is rather disordered, fancies that
he can sing better than the leadet
of the choir, consequently, he has
cultivated a son ol rivalry with
that individual, aud Ian Sunday, it
is supposed, was sei apart by the
imaginary vocalist for a trial of
skill. Accordingly, w hen lhe iug
iiij commenced, he began.aif?ex
hibiuou ol his powers li.llie sing
ing way, and the mode it. w hich he
sang was "caution." With both
arms swinging, by way of beating
time, (and legs loo, for what we
know,) he bawled at the lop of his
voice. Some of the performers
thought he vas performing that
beautiful ballad, entitled "Jim,
Crow," or that touching gem oi
music, "setting on a rail." While
others, concluded, he was trying,
"O, sounds so joyful," Irom La
b'omnambula, by lhe way in which
he emitted them. However, tither
of ihose pieces was mul-apropott
and the sooner suppressed, ihe bet
ter. The chorister advanced to
him. and ordered him lo keep qui
et. Our singer supposing this lo
be an unfair attempt lo prevent
him from gaining Hie victory, sus
pended his beaiing of time lor the
purpose of beating his antagonist.
He attempted to deal him one or
two blows with his fist when a gen
tleman came up and tried to expos
tulate witli him. With all the im
portance of insulted dignity, he an
swered, "1 wish no acquaintance
with you, Mr. if yoti
please." At this juncture, a gen
tleman, who was acquainted with
the young man, politely took his
seal by him, and by evincing a
kind disposition towards him, soon
succeeded in quieting his musical
ambition, when the exercises of ihe
church were resumed, aud contin
ued without further interruption.
C?The new and improved Lo
comotive for the Morris and Es
sex (N. J.) rail road, constructed
by Mr. Seth Boyden, of Newark,
goes at the rate of 00 to 70 miles
an hour. The passengeis are
wholly protected from the fire of
the chimney, the sparks according
to the Morristown Jersey man, be
ing taken to the ash pan beneath.
' N. Y. Star. '
f!7An affray took place in
front of the Post Office, at Cam
den, S. C. on the 5th inst. be
tween Mr. Bronson, one of the
proprietors of the Camden Jour
nal, and Eldridge Brown, agent
for the Express mail. Shots were
exchanged at about five paces,
tnd the latter was killed on the
spot. ib.
Another Sam Patch. M 4 oV
lock on Wednesday evening, a
boy about 17 years of age, look
leap from the mast head of a
loop, about GO leet in height, at
he foot of Canal-sireet. He
uounted the mast in perfect cool
ness, smoking, a tigar, fell hand
omely in the water, and then
awam to ihe wharf. There were
1200 persons present. ib.