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Tavborough, (Edgecombe County, JV. J Saturday, .May 19, 1838 1 Jof. XIF JYo. 20. Dhole No. 038. j Tic Tarborough JPress, I BV GKOUGE HOWARD, T? pultlisIicJ weekly nt Two Dollars and Fifty 'ft-ih per year, if paid in advance or, Three j)!!jrs at the. expiration of the subscription year. J or an porioti less than a year, Twenty-five fmts per month. Subscribers are at liberty to discontinue at any time, on giving notice thereof piying arrears tnose residing ai a distance J, u-t invariably pay in advance, or give a respon sible reference in this vicinity. A lvi-rtisemeuts not exceeding a square will be j ;,t rtv -1 at One Dollar the first insertion, and "25 tents for every continuance. Longer adverlise j euts i like proportion. Court Orders and Ju Vi'iil advertisements 23 percent, higher. Ad- rrti-ciijoats must be marked the number of in c. r:i :s required, or they will be continued until it'ierwise onlercu and charged accordingly, i I, etirrs addressed to the Editor must be post p:.iJ er they may not be attended to. 1 1 1 I From the Albany Evening Journal. TO MY WIFE. IVavest, blest, and brightest one, Hi.! could I see thee now, . Mv liL'art would light with pure delight : I pon thy lovely brow, .'lis long, indeed, since last we met, And yet it may longer be; And dearest one, I love thee yet I Oh! say dost thou love me? J I have travelled many a mile, dear, Through forests wild and free, OVr flowing rills, o'er craggy hills, ith heart right merrily; il have travelled the ocean dark and wide M ;st drearily to see, i An I oft, at night, with humble might, I've breathed a prayer for thee. !M( thinks I see tliee lovely one, Amidst thy children dear, Hastening ty their little tales, i Willi a mother's watchful ear. Tit v youngest one doth gaze on thee : Thy oldest with childish zest, ' P. ays like a star in the heavens afar, Till nature sinks to rest. ; Aul now adieu my brightest one, J itli thoughts upon thy shrine i I pray that God be with thee, love, And peace be ever thine. f And oh! the time when once again We meet ne'er more to sever, j That happy day, like the sun's brightest ray, ! bhall lidit this heart for ever. TO A LADY, JVi.o hinted her wish for a new thimble and a copy of verses. I send a thimble, For fingers nimble, "Which I hooe it will fit when you try it: It wilQast you long, If it's half as strong As the hint which you gave me to buy it. From the Raleigh Standard. OUR TRIP. We make no apology for giving our readers some observations relative to our visit to Wilmington, where may be always found a sample of good old North Caroli na hospitably and kindness, as well as in the staunch Democratic counties of New Hanover, Duplin, aud Sampson, through which we passed and paused. W- mike no anolotiv. we say for these observa- Hons relate to improvements, most ol which are interesting to our citizens gene rally. And first, as to the Wilmington and Ra leigh Rail Road. There are 55 miles of this road graded from Wilmington, in a continuous line, besides aboul 22 miles in detached pieces between the termination of the 55 miles and Waynesborotigh Near ly all the heavy grading between Wilming ton and Wayuesborough is completed; the gaps that are to be filled in are mostly the light work. At the Ruanoke,end, the road ii graded lo Enfield, 12 j miles south of Halifax, aud the superstructure nearly completed; this with the h miles from Halifax to Weldon, already finished, will nuke 20 miles at the north end of the road, which will be in use by the middle of June, and probably earlier. At the Wilmington end, the rails are now laid and ready for the iron, for about 43 miles, and 10 miles more are in a state of forward ness, the timber being dressed and most of it laid down The necessary iron is hour ly expected, which can be spiked down at tiie rate of 1 mile per day. It is confi dently believed that the road will be fin ish'.'d to the Duplin Court House road, be fore the expiration of the month of Jol next, and that a Locomotive and train will cross the Neuse by Christmas. Of the steamboats owned by the com pany, we shall not attempt a description. We can give dimensions, speed, power, &c. but it is difficult to enumerate the va ii us elegancies and conveniences of a mo dern steam packet. There are two pack eis the Boston and the North Carolina The Kosion is MS feet long; 28i beam; ad 9 hold; burthen 380 tons, and draws j lo 8 feet water when leaded. She has! Jo engines wiih copper boilers, each 75 horsepower and finished in the best style i "urumausn.p. A lj0 uostou ,as lhrce cabins, besides slate rooms, and can ac commodate 300 passengers. The North Carolinals IG7 feel long; 24 feet beam; 9 (Vet hold; burthen 370 .f I. I r... J "'a, mm uraws y teet water aiw . I .1 r r when luaii- eu. tier engine is 100 horse power, with copper boilers, he. of the mo.t an proved construction. She has a ladies and two gentlemen's cabins, besides the saloon and -tate rooms, and can accommodate SO to 100 passengers. At present, the boats run (between them) but two trips each week. Another boat similar to the North Carolina will be completed in July, when three trips per week, to Charleston, will be made. The North Carolina has been running since the iMh December last; and although the cap. tain has positive orders to run no risks ol bad weather, she has lost but two tri her regular days. ips on The North Carolina cost nearly sixty thousand dollars; the Roston about friy five thousand. The Boston has been out in two severe gales, and made a harbor each time without anyd:ffi ulty. The only buildings as yet erected by i!, company, are a m idline shop, 150 bv 40 feet, of brick, covered with slate; a tempo rary wooden building for blacksmiths and carpenters shops, and a wood shed. Oth er buildings will be reeled as the road progresses. There are, as yet, but u. locomotives on the road; but" W others. manufactured in Richmond, Vii daily expected. art I he habits of the operatives on toU road, are strictly Umperale; we think this an impoitaut matter; none but temperate persons should be trusted with the mm ngement of locomotives, steamboats, or stages. Were this universally the case, it is obvious that accidents would be much less frequent. Business is unusually dull on the sen board at this season, and in Wilmington it is uncommonly so at this time. There is, notw ithstanding the "hard limes," a mark ed improvement in the place, and a sober and discreet rise in the value of property. The Baptists have just completed a very neat edifice fr public worship; and seve ral private dwellings are going up. North Carolina I 'opper Ore. We have just been shown specimens of Copper Ore from the Harlan Copper Mine in Guilford county, N. C, that are most beautiful, and may be seen at the office of M. V. O. Hern, corner of Wall aud Nassau streets. We understand it has been worked suc cessfully for several years for gold, and re cently for copper. The specimens spokui ol above, come from an opening to depth of 1 10 feet, ami consist of Vri- I o w I'vrites, or as it is common! v r:i!l! "Yellow Cupper Ore," yield upon analy sis from 31 to 33 per cent, of metallic Clipper. The mine, as fir as it has been worked, presents an extensive mass or vein of this rich aud beautiful ore, from three to twelve jfeel in thickness. The galleries are open ed to the extent ol 0 or 700 feet on the di reclion of the vein. Competent judges, accustomed to mining in England, have recently visited this mine, and pronounce it equal in value for ike extent of the opening, to any in Europe or the world. They represent ihat all the indications are in accordance with the best mines in Eng land. I hey find the same kind of prima ry and secondary formation in this mine, that uniformly characterize their rich de posites, which is blue and -while slate, commonly called Kellis by the miners of Cornwall and we have every reason to believe that copper mine found of this description, will be as enduring as mines found in the same formation in England. We are happy to state that a company of enterprizing individuals have purchased this valuable estate, with the determina tion of developing its resources forthwith. A large quantity of the ore has already been mined and brought to the surface, and is now on its way to England, where it will find a ready market. We can only say we wish them success. A. Y. Star. Information to Pensioners. The, Edi tors of the National Intelligencer having addressed a letter to Mr. Edwards, Com missioner o f P eusions, requesting informa tion concerning the forms used under late regulations for obtaining payment of pen sions in arrears, have received from him in return a communication on the subject, from A. K. Parris, Esq. Comptroller ol the Treasury, of which the following is the substance The writer says, that no new- forms are required tinder the act of April last; the only requisition being to follow the forms heretofore prescribed Where the payment is to be made lo an attorney, he roust make oath as prescribed in the circulars of June, 1833, that the power was not given him bv reason of a sale. transfer or mortgage. No claim can be admitted by the accounting officers until it shall appear by a certificate from the Pen sion Agent on whose roll the name is, that some portion of the pension has remained uncalled for during eight months after its being due, which notification the Pension Agents have been requested to forward forthwith Where a portion of the pension has been uncalled for eight months and a portion not, that part only which has so remained uncalled for during eight .n inths will be paid by the accounting officer of the Treasury. Application for the resi due must be made to the Pension office where the pension is payable. Bait. Fat. France. General Cass, our Minister at Paris-, has commenced a correspondence with Count Mole, in relation to a letter emanating from Martin du ord, minister f commerce, in which that statesman says that, on account of the feelings and unsettled stale of this country, nothing is sale. This has induced many of the French merchants to abstain from sending out goods to this country, which they were before disposed to do. General Cass is determined to have the matter fully ex- pi nned. Count Mole has replied but General Cass considers that reply e. 'remely unsatisfactory N. Y Express. New York Internal Improvements. A noug the appropriations for Internal Im provements made by the New York Legis Mature during its recent session, are '1,000.000, for the more speed enlarge ment ol the Lie Canal; $3,000,000 in aid of the construction of the New York and Li ie Railroad, this sum having been pre viously authorized in a manner less favor able to the company $300,000 to aid in the construction of the Catsdiill and Cana joharie Railroad; t-275 000 to the Oswe go and lihara Railroad; and $200,000 to the Auburn and Sviai-ose Railroad; being an aggregate of $7,750,000. American Stocks held abroad From a statement in the N. Y Journal of Com merce, it appears that the following Ame rican Stoc ks are held in Europe, princi pally in England: Louisiana Bank Stock and Bonds of the Slate, Pennsylvania State Stocks, do. U. S. Bank, New York State, $22,000,000 IG.0U0.000 20.000,000 4,500,000 1,500.000 4,500,000 2.000,000 3 500.000 3 000,000 2,000.000 2,000.000 4.000,000 do. City, Alabama State, Mississippi do. Ohio do. Mary hi nd do. Virginia do. Illinois do. Indiana do. Plot id a Territory, Farmers' Loan and Trust Co. 1,500,000 5 per cent, bonds, - 3.000,000 New York Life Insurance aud Trust Company do. do. 1.500.000 American do. do. do. 1,000.000 .Mississippi Bank Stork, 1,000,000 Tennessee do. do. 800,000 Delaware and Raritan Co. and Camden aud Amboy R. R. Co. bonds, - 2,000,000 Miscellaneous Stocks and Se curities, - - J4,2U0,UU0 $110,000,000 The interest on a& the State stocks, since the suspension of specie payments, has been paid in specie, or its equivalent, except those of Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Mississippi. National Jockey Club. First Day Match race between Col. Heth's chesuut mrse Decatur, bv Henry, and O. P. Hare's chesuut mare Fanny Wyatt, by Sir Charles, twenty thousand dollars, four mile heats. Won by Decatur. First Heat. Time 7 minutes 45 sec onds; won with ease. The best time, by five seconds, ever made on the course. Second lit at. The mare pulled up at the end of the third mile, therefore not timed. Nat. Int. Races Union Course, Mile Heats. The $40,000 purse agreed upon four years, ago by forty individuals (each subscribing $1000) on the produce of their respective ihree year old studs, came oil yesterday l ive Morses were entered, ana a great concourse attended. Mr. John C. Ste vens' Fordham, won without a struggle. r. Star, May 1. Patent Bee Hive. We lately copied from the Richmond Whig, an interesting notice of a new Bee Hive, the model ol which was then exhibited in that city anc favorably regarded. Mr. Marshall Bay liss, who has the right for Virginia, is now in this Borough and will remain for a few days to dispose of a pait of it. (See his advertisement in another column.) No one, we think, can examine the model of this invention without being forcibly im pressed with its utility in promoting one of the most delightful branches of rural eco nomy. The plan is ingenious but per fectly simple; a common hive in which there is a swarm of bees being placed on the lop of the structure, the industrious in mates descend to the chamber appointed! for them and commence their interesting1 labor of filling w ith clear and delicious ho ney, glass vases, so placed as to be easily removed without disturbing the operations of the little manufacturers, who having plenty of space to work in, are never so oppressed by an overgrown population as lo be under the necessity of migrating an nually, and hence, they are not subjected to the destruction which always attends the process of hiving after they have swarmed; and that which is still greater, of taking the honey from the hive in the old barba rous way. Mr. Bayliss has shown us numerous tes timonials from highly respectable country gentlemen in Virginia and .Maryland, ol .the great utility of this interesting inveu- imhi, uenveu irom ineir own experience Mr B lyliss puts up at Walters' Exchange Hotel, where he will exhibit the model to those who may please to call on him. A miniature one may also be seen at our of fice. Norfolk Herald. (?A schooner built in Indiana, and de signed for Texas, recently reached New Orleans, having been lowed down by a steamboat. Siie was laden with the frames of eight or ten new houses, for settler in I cxas. ib. Charleston and Cincinnati Railroad. ive per cent, of the capital slock of this road having been paid in, the Governor of I eune$ee has subscribed $G50,000 on behalf of the State. Another dreadful scene of Blood. The Loufeville Ky. Journal of the I7th ult. savs: 1 here was. we umlprt.nml u liinoilv piece of work at Smishlaiid, in this Slate, on Friday last. A gentleman from that jlace relates the circumstances lo us as fol lows: A physician, boarding at a tavern in the town, offered an insult to the landla dy in the absence of her husband aud she ordered him in consequence of it to leave the house immediately. He refused to go, and the bar keeper, with a view to en force the order, followed him to his room. Hie physician, after entering bis room, drew a pistol and threatened the bar keep er With instant death it hp nnni nnrhpd 1'he bar keeper, nevertheless, continued to idvance, aud the physician shot him thro' the body; 'Whereupon the former drew a Bowie knife and laid his antagonist dead pon the spot. 1 he phm iaii died with si arielv a stroecle. and the bar keener f . Kj i - f ' breathed his last shortly afterwards. Romantic A few weeks since we noti ced the accidental drowning of four men in the Lic king river, by ihe upsetting of a skiff; and the preservation of another, na- n:ed Jones, bv the heroic conduct of a Mrs. Lee, who plunged into the stream, and succeeded in rescuing him from the fate of his fellows. Mr. Jones, we learn. is a young man of fortune and accomplish ments; and immediately after the event, he made inquiries respecting the preserver of his life, and ascertaining that she was a young widow, he offered his hand in mar riage, which was accepted; and the parlies were joined in wedlock the next Sunday three days after their first "meeting in the waters." Mrs. Lee, now Airs. Jones, can congratulate herself upon having "fished lor a husband with the most entire suc cess and from the most laudable motives. Lexington Ky. Int. fXMrs. Chloe Knowles, of Farming- ton, Ontario county, N. Y. a young lady highly esteemed, committed suicide at that place a short time since. She had been married but fifteen days. Menagerie and Circus lost. Yre learn from Ihe Cincinnati iews of the 30ih ult. that Raymond h Co.'s Menagerie and Circus, which left that place a few dajs since, has met with a most melancholy ac cident. In crossing a bridge over the riv-:-r at Franklin, (Ohio,) the bridge gave way, and several teams were precipitated into the stream. Five men and eight hor ses were lost. N( further particulars given. Dreadful Death. J. Delaw, a young man employed in the Iron Works at Sau- certies, UlsterCounty, N Y. drank- for a wager a pint and a half of brandy, and oon fell senseless. He was bled, but no blood oozed out of the vein until jnst as he was about to Je buried, whicfi gave rise to a groundless report that be was buried alive or in a swoon. Paralysis from Cold. A young man in England, who was ignorant of the very low temperature produced by what chem ists coll the "freezing mixture," lattly un-. del took, for a trifling wager, lo hold his hand in a basin full of snow and salt for fifteen minutes. He won the wager, but at the expense of his hand. It was so pa ralyzed as to remain powerless ever after. Horrible and disgraceful. We are pain ed to be compelled to record of late, from every section of our country, so many re volting personal contests ending in death. A few days since at Claysville, Marshall county, Alabama, Messrs. Nathaniel aud Graves W. Steele, while riding in a carri age, were shot dead, and Alex. Steele and Wm. Collins, also in the carriage were se verely wounded, (the former supposed mortally,) by Messrs. Jesse Allen, Alex, and Arthur McFarlane, and Daniel Dick erson. The Sleefes it appears last year killed James McFarlane and another per son in a similar manner, which led lo this dreadful retaliation. (?Something must be done lo stop the wanton effusion of blood, or the character of the country and its peace are loit forever. N. Y. Star. Melancholy event. -Nr. Quarles, near Clarksville, Tenn. was accidentally killed by a ball passing through his bead, occa sioned by the accidental discharge of his gun, which his wife had taken up to re move from the bed where he had just pla ced it. Verdict, killed by his wife by ac cident. ib. Influence of the Moon on Timber. A very intelligent gentleman named Ed mondstone, who was nearly thirty years engaged in cutting timber in Demerara, and who made a number of observations on trees during that period, says, that the moon's influence on trees is very great. So observable is this, that if a tree be cut down at full moon, it will immediately split, as if torn asunder by the influence of great external force. They are likewise attacked much earlier by the rot than if allow ed to remain to another period of the moon's age. Trees, therefore, which are intended lo be applied to durable purpos es, are cut only during the first and last quarters of the moon; for the sap rises lo the lop of the tree at full moon, and falls in proportion to the moon's decrease. Meteoric Shower. The Knoxville Ten. Register states that Ihe meteoric phenomenon which occurred on the night of the 13!h November, 1S33, to the gene ral astonishment, and in some instances to the great consternation of the uninlomed, was again witnessed at that place on Hie night of the 20th April. The Register tales that the periodical return of the phe nomenon was expected, bv Professor Wright of that place, who kept a strict watch during the night, from the observa tory on College hill, and has made the fol lowing report of his obsei vations Since the very remarkable Meteoric Phenomenon which was observed through out the United States on the morning of ihe 13th of November, 1S33, Ihe attention ol may has been drawn to notice similar phenomena which have occurred, to as certain if possible, their cause, origin and the laws by which they ar governed. To such it may not be uninteresting to know, ihat on the night of the 20:h ol April, in stant, between the hours ol 10 and 4 of the morning, 154 meteors were countpd hy two observers stationed on the College hill. Some were of considerable size; and nearly all were attended by a train of shining vapour; many doubtless escaped notice in consequence ol the inability of the two observers lo maintain a sirict and continued watch upon eTery part of thje heavens at the same time. W. Knoxville, April 21, 1838. jJ New Invention in Fire .firms. The N. H. Courier says;, that J;imes Eaton, a gunsmith of Concord, N. II has invent ed an important improvement in loading and discharging ihe muskel cr the rifle, with a rotary magazine capable of con taining powder, balls and caps, sufficient fir twenty four rounds, and it may be loaded in one minute, and give twenty f ur distinct charges in four minute! One chamber is assigned for balls, one for pow der, and one for caps. It'loads itselffiom the magazine, and puis on the cap, merely by turning the magazine halfway round; and its construction renders it ptif.ctly safe, as no ball can be lodged midway in the rifta : nor can fire communicate with the magazine. Twenty-four pit ces, in cluding every sprii g, fcew andpiri, com plete this wonderful piece of machinery. Pet. Int.
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