Turborongh, (Edge combe County, A. C.J Saturday, February in, 1840
Vol. XVI JVo 7.
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Doctor Win. 12 VANS'
SOOTHING SYBUP
For children Teething,
PREPARED BY HIMSELF.
; To Mothers and Nurses.
THE passage of the Teeth through the
gums produces troublesome and dan
gerous symptoms. It is known by moth
ers that there is great irritation in the
mouth and gums during this process. The
gums swell, the secretion of saliva is in
creased, llie child is seized with frequent
and sudden fits of crying, watchings, start
ing in the sleep, and spasms of peculiai
parts, the child shrieks with extreme vio
lence, and thrusts its fingers into its mouth.
If these precursory symptoms are not spee
dily alleviated, spasmodic convulsions uni
versally supervene, and soon cause the
dissolution of the infant. If mothers who
have their little babes afflicted with these
distressing symptoms, would apply Dr
William "Evans's Celebrated Soothing
Syrup, which has preserved hundreds of
infants when thought past recovery, Irom
being suddenly attacked with that fatal
malady, convulsions. '
This infallible remedy has preserved
hundreds of Children, when thought past
recovery, from convulsions. As soon as
the Syrup is rubbed on the gums, the child
will recover. This preparation is so in
nocent, so efficacious, and so pleasant, that
no child will refuse to let its gums be
rubbed with it. When infants are at the
acre of four months, though there is no ap
pearance of teeth, one bottle of the
Syrup should be used on the gums, to
open the pores. Parents should never be
without the Syrup in the nursery where
there are young children; for if a child
wake? in the niht with pain in the gums,
the Svmp immediaielj- givesease by open
ing ihf- pores and healing the gums; there
by preventing Convulsions, Fevers, &c.
To the Agent of Dr. Evans' Soothing
Syrup: Dear Sir The great benefit
afiordtd to my suffering infant by onr
Soothing Syrop, in a case of protracted
and painful dentition, must convince every
.feeiing parent how essential an early ap
plication of such an invaluable medicine
is to relieve infant misery and torture, My
infant, while teething, experienced such
acute sufferings, that it was attacked u ith
"convulsions, and my wife and family sup
posed that death would soon release the
babe from anguish" till we procured a bot
tle of your Syrup; which as soon as ap
plied to the gums a wonderful change was
produced, and after a few applications the
child displayed obvious rebel, and by con
tinuing in its use. I am glad to inform
vou. the child has completely recovered
and no recurrence of that awful complaint
has since occurred; the teeth are emana
ting daily and the child enjoys perfect
health. I giveyou my cheerful permission
to make this acknowledgment public, and
will gladly give any information on this
circumstance.
When children bpgin to be in pain with
their teeth, shooting in their gums, put a
little of the Syrup in a tea-spoon, and
with the finger let the child's gums be
rubbed for two or three minutes, three
times a day. It must not be put to the
breast immediately, for the milk would
take the syrup off too soon. When the
teeth are just coming through their gums,
mothers snould immediately apply the sy
rup; it will prevent the children having a
fever, and undergoing that painful opera
tion of lancing the gums, which always
makes the tooth much harder to come
through, and sometimes causes death.
Beware of Conn tcrfeits.
"Caution. Be particular in purcha
sing to obtain it at 100 Chatham St.,
New York, or from the
REGULAR AGENTS.
J. M. Redmond, , , ,
Geo. Howard, $ Tarboro
M. Russel, Elizabeth City.
January, !S40. I
The
Plan nfthe Campaign Disclosed. I
dny week, the SenKe engrossed the,
o
Frit
In lependent Treasury bill for a third read-!
tnz. As the bttb upon all measures of;
importance, is usually m ade at that stage ol
the proceeding, it was supposed, as it had
passed, by a decisive majority, that point
in its progress the struggle was ended,
and that thii bill would be read and passed
to-day, without further obstruction. The
tilling of the Senate galleries this morning,
gave a sign that the Federal light 'troops
in this city had - received notice that .the
war was to be commenced upon a grand
scale. Accordingly, so soon as the bill was
called up, Mr. Clay took the field-again,
in earnest for his Federal associates. He
has certainly received a new commission.
He laid dovvn the plan of ojira'.ions on the
most comprehensive system condemned,
in the most emphatic manner, the whole
sc )pe of the President's message embrac
ed for the present the whole piper credit
system, as it exists, with its privileged cor
porations and their abuses looking for
ward to a great National" Bank, connected
with the Government, as the reformer, and
only reformer, of the evils he depicted. He
admitted that British influence and control
swayed through the paper and credit sys
tem, but held that it resulted from the re
moval of the depositee and the divorce be
tween the Government and National Hank.
He alluded to the State debts, and sneered
at the repudiation of the plan of national
assumption, as proposed by the resolu
tions introduced in the Senate. In a word,
he boldly took the ultra ground of the
Hamiltonian policy, and showed that the
Federal party had resolved to stake all its
hopes by giving the widest range to the
principle of corruption.
The country now have before it the broad
and distinct platforms upon which the two
parties have taken their positions. The
Demoeracv on the President's late mes
sage; the Federalists upon the Hamiltoiuan
s) stem of implied construction unrestrict
ed corporate paper system and illimitable
corruption. Globe.
From the Ohio Statesman January 22.
Four years ago the friends of Gen. Har
rison acknowledged he was very old, but
as he would only serve one term, he would
do for that. They all admitted that eight
years would be too long for one of his age
to serve. Thousands- then believed the
story that four years might be risked.
Now, after the four years have expired,
we again have the same old song rung in
our ears. Four years only! And the Fed
eral papers, to deceive the people, and by
it they acknwledge all we have said, set
him down some eight years younger than
he really is. But if General Harrison is
not superannuated, why does he not per
form the duties of clerk to the court of
Hamilton county? It is the most profita
ble office west of the mountains, yet he is
not in it for months together, and, by
unanimous consent, he is incompetent to
fill it. Will it be said that he never was
competent to perform the duties? We pre
sume not. No one pretends it. Then
age aione must oe tne deiiciency now. v e
state these facts, not out of any ill will to
Gen. Harrison, hut to expose the fraud the
Federal parly are attempting to palm upon
the nation, merely for availability.
W e appeal to every man of sense if what
we state is not the truth, the whole truth,
and nothing but the truth.
Harrison an Jlbolitionist... The Cincin
nati Advertiser states that Gen. Harrison
is a member of an Abolition Society, ant
says the fact can be proven, if any of .the
Whig' presses meet the charge with an
explicit denial.
STThe Whig of yesterday gives us a ve
ry precious article indeed. It publishes a
paragraph trom the Emancipator of the 16th
January, "containing a regular denunciation
of Old '1 ippecanoe lor his opinions against
Abolition" and asks us what we think of
it. The answer is promptly given. The
candid and honest mind can hardly be
lieve, that the whole article of the Whig is
gross deception, to mislead . the Southern
People. 1 he reader cannot have forgotten
the first article, which was published in the
Emancipator, as soon as the rejection of Mr.
Clay and the nomination of Gen. Harrison
were known. It cried out, in the extre
mity of its delight, "Praise to God for a
great Anti Slavery victory. Let the winds
tell the tale! Let the slaveholders hear the
news, let tne slaves near it." It hailed the
result of the Harrisburg Nomination "as
the most decisive evidence of the power of
the Abolitionists and their control in the
National Convention." The Liberator of
Boston caught the same spirit expressed
the same exultations and exclaimed, "we
have faith to believe, that no slaveholder
will ever again be permitted to fill the Pre
sidential Office in this Republic."
But in a few days, a change comes over the
snirit of their dream and the hollow and
j insincere article which is published in the
I Whig, is ushered forth. Now, why thjs
eh:n:iv? Will not the Whirr tjll? ivr hone
theyill (to use its own.words;) "for we
,..,, tn spo mawtianimitv it is a sner.Mrlp
vvhjch enories human nature to see men
;,J()Ve the contractet an(i selfish .views
of personal orpirty interest, and regardless
of consequences, do justice though the
Heavens tall.' " Hut unless they affect
ignorance, we will tell our readers, that as
soon as the first article from the Emancipa
tor made its appearance in Washington, it
produced a powerful sensation among the
entire Southern Delegation. Some of them
apprehending that this sensation would
extend throughout the country, and pre
ferring a party association even with Abo
litionists, to their country's cause, wrote
immediately, as we understand from the
mot respectable authority, that such arti
cles would ruin the Whig party in the South,
and ihut the Emancipator must change its
tone. Hence we understand, the extraor
dinary and contemptible and unmeaning ar
ticles which have been paraded in the
columns of the Whig. Is the Whig ijmo
rant of these facts and designs?
Richmond Enq.
Ohio. The House of Representatives of
Ohio have adopted a resolution, on which
a bill is to be founded, making it an of
fence punishable by confinement in the
Penitentiary, for any length of time not
exceeding seven nor less than three years,
for the directors or officers of any Hanking
institution within the Slate, to issue, foi
circulation within the State or elsewhere,
post notes or bills payable on time. The
same committee were at the same time
directed to inquire into the expediency of
making all post notes previously issued,
payable on demand in gold and silver, at
the counters of the Banks issuing them.
'Ihey have also passed a resolution (two
only voting in the negative) declaring that
slavery is an institution recognized by the
Federal Constitution; and another, decla
ring that "the unlawful, unwise and un
constitutional interference of the fanatical
abolitionists of the North, with the domes
tic institutions of the Southern Slates, was
highly criminal.
Alishigan. This wise Whig Legislature
has a new-fangled project of a Bank before
the Senate; every county in the State to
have a branch, if it has five thousand inhab
itants; and will take stock to the amount of
twenty thousand dollars or upwards one
fourth of the amount of shares to be paid
down in specie, and the residue to be secu
red by bonds and mortgages. Their new
Whig Governor, (Woodbridge,) in his mes
sage," expresses himself in favor of a Na
tional Hank.
'Alabama According to the Treasur
er's Report, her debt is g 15,400,000. It is
comprised in two classes of bonds, called
long and short bonds. The latter are issued
at two, four and six years, amount to
So, 000,000, and bear an annual interest
of S300,000. The other class of bonds
amount to 2510,406,000. fall due at differ
ent periods between the years 1S50 and
1SSG, and bear a semi-annual interest of
$260,500.
Mississippi. -A petition has been presen
ted to the Legislature of Mississippi, by the
President and Directors of the Brandon
Bank, offering a surrender of the charter,
and begging the State to take- what Rail
road the Hank has made, and consider all
things squared off. After reading, the pe
tition was laid upon the table.
The chartered banking capital of. this
State amounts to $556, 750,000. Gov
McNutt recommends to the Legislature the
repeal of the Bank charters of that State,
under certain conditions. He recommends,
with respect to the Union Bank,; for the
whole of whose capital stock the faith of the
State is pledged, either to place the in
stitution in liquidation, or to repeal all that
portion of the charter giving to private
individuals the power oi holding stock,
and enjoying privileged loans.
Curious case of Divorce. In the Senate
of New York, on Friday, Mr. Tallmadge
reported a bill to divorce David Frost from
his wife. This bill relates to a notable case
of conjugal infelicity, which made a good
deal ot noise here last winter. It seems thai
this Mrs. Eveline Frost was a short time
since a voung single Iadv with a lovcrna-
med but no matter. This lover grew tired
of her after an acquaintance of great intim
acy, and devised a plan to get rid of her.
Says he to Eveline, "There is old Frost
a simple, rusty old fellow would give his
two eyes to marry you; do you just coax
him on to do so and when the ceremony is
just beginning, I will step in, take you out
of his hands and marry you myself. It
will be such a good joke, that all the coun
try will go into convulsions upon it."
The lady bit or was bitten; executed her
part of the Beau s Stratagem; but when the
proper time came, Lothario did not step in
and Miss bveline became Mrs. rost be
fore she knew it all the time hoping that
the next minute would bring Lothario to
the rescue, and thinking only of him. The
moment she was told she had become Mrs.
Frost, she spurned him and has never
thought of recognizing or treating him as
her husband.' On the contrary, she decla
red herself devoted to the false Lothario,
and him alone. David Frost, who was in
raptures with the thought of taking to his
arms a bouncing blooming bride, but
whose. "Dead Sea fruits'' have tempted
the eye but to "turn to ashes on the lip,''
now cries mightily for a divorce. Ought
he not to have it? "Mr. Speaker, I con
firm he ought." -N.
York Signal.
Newspapers and Publishers. It must
be admitted by every one of the least con
versant with newspapers, that there is no
fiction, but on the contrary much sober
truth, in the following, which we copy
from the Alexandria Gazette.
1 "We notice that several of the newspa
pers in the North and West have raised
their subscription and advertising terms.
This is induced by the corresponding in
crease of all kinds. At best publishers of
newspapers are more hardly dealt with than
any other poople, notwithstanding their
services are valuable and every way worthy
of an ample "recompense of reward."
If ever the saying, that "the laborer is
worthy of his hire," was especially true, it j
is in the case of publishers of Newspapers.
No men work harder for what they earn,
and'no men ought to be paid with more
promptitude. The fact is, their terms, in
general, when compared with the prices
and profits of others, are entirely too low.
flow few of them grow rich or or are even
in comfortable circumstances, although
they devote their lives sedulously to their
business! if the public was always just and
true to its own interests, this would not be
the case. Newspapers now have become
as important to the community as almost
any thing else we can name, and the
better they are supported the more valuable
they become They always yield a full re
turn of advantage and usefulness for every
accession of strength and succour they re
ceive." (0We learn from a gentleman, a pass
enger by the stage line from Talla
hassee, that an assault was made by
Mr. Alston on General L. Read in
that place on Tuesday evening, the 5th
instant. It took place in the dining-room
of the hotel, while the inmates were at sup
per. Mr. A. discharged two pistols at
General It. the ball of one of which passed
through his sick- and then cut him severely
with a BowieJuiife. General R. was alive
at the last accounts, and expected to survive.
It will be recollected that a duel took place
a few weeks since between General R. and
a brotherpf Mr. A., in which the latter was
kled Brunswick (Georgia) Advocate.
(J A wild child is said to be running at
large in the vicinity of Michigan City, In
diana. It is reported to be about four feet
high, covered with a light coat of chesnut
colored hair, runs and swims with great
velociiy, and when pursued, utters the
most hideous yells. It has been seen du
ring the summer months on the borders of
Fish Lake, apparently in search of fish and
frogs.
Iicvolting. The Baltimore Clipper of
Jan. 20, contains the following revolting
facts. Are those officers still retained v by
the authorities of Baltimore?
"To give our readers a small insight to
the misery and wretchedness at present
existing amongst the poorer class of people
in this city, we will merely state an occur
rence which, we have been told, transpired
a few days ago. A. watchman, while trav
elling his rounds, arrested a woman with
several billets of wood on her shoulder. He
demanded of her where she had obtained
the wood? She replied that she thought it
no harm to sleal it from the rich in order
to keep her three children from freezing to
death.
This confession induced the watchman
to take her to the.walch-house, where she
begged and-prayed to be let off, or to have
her children brought to her before they
perished. Her prayers we blush to say
were not attended to, and she was kept all
night. In the morning, the hovel of the
poor wretch was visited, and the bodies of
the three children were found in the ashes,
frozen to death.
ft New Governor, and an escort of
Blood hounds. 1 he putney (Florida)
Sentinel of the 10th inst. states that Gov.
Reid and family arrived at Tallahassee on
the 4th inst., escorted by a company of U.
S. Dragoons. He was received with mili
tary honors, and cordially welcomed by
many of the citizens of that place.
1 he same paper states that Col. Fitznat-
rick had arrived from Cuba with 30 or 40
bloodhounds, and that they had been pla
ced underthe command of Major Bailey
and Captain Collins.
(tfThe Florida papers announce the
arrival of Col. Fitzpatrick, from the island
of Cuba, with a pack" of blood hounds, im
ported, as we understand, by the 'authori
ties of the Territory. We haye ascer
tained that the War Department is only ac
quainted with the circumstance through
public rumor, and knows nothing of the
matter officially. It does not surprise us that
the inhabitants of a country, which has
been so cruelly desolated, and when every
hearthstone is sprinkled with blood, should
report to any imaginable means to protect
their families from the prowling and mur
derous savages. Globe.
Dreadful and fatal Explosion. On
Wednesday last, about 1 o'clock, a terri
ble explosion was heard in the neighbor
hood of No. 215 Fulton srec1, which
shook the adjacent buildings and eventua
ted in the loss of life. It appeared that a
young man named Peter Eustace, aged 2S,
i fire worker, who had been in the employ
of Mr. Edge, the pyrotechnist, procured
a keg of powder from the magazine in
New Jersey, and took it over to the rear
of No. 215 Fulton street, to manufacture
some fireworks for himself. The article he
was engaged in making, was what is called
Roman candles and is of that species of
pyrofechnical device that evolves various
colored stars in the air after its explosion.
In the room was no elemented fire at the
time, but by the process of friction, as he
supposed, some scintillations were struck
out which set fire to some powder and pro
duced the explosion that had been heard,
and soon after a second of a more fearful
& fatal character. In attempting to escape
from the room, and in the act of Eustace
descending the stairs, the second explosion,"
took place, which tore his head to pieces
scattering his brains on the stairs, horribly
mangling his face, and setting fire to the
house, which was however soon extinguish
ed. On the firemen and some neighbors
getting into the house, they found a woman
half dead with fright, and the man horribly
mutilated, whilst part of the roof of the
building had been forced by the concussion
into the adjoining yard. The man was
immediately removed to a doctor's,
where he expired in fifteen minutes. Me
dical aid was got for the woman, when
it was ascertained that she was not hurt.
New York paper.
Safe Cargo. The Steamer Belle,
which took fire 80 miles below St. Louis,
was immediately run ashore, and though
full of passengers, all escaped before her
explosion, which was found to have been
caused by sixteen hundred kegs of powder
on board.
New Inventions. It is no slight evi
dence of the inventive spirit of the age
that, almost at the same time, three appa
rently important discoveries in the depart
ments of the fine arts should be made in
Paris, Petersburg, and, Berlin. While
Daguerre, in "Paris, found out how to pro
duce the most accurate copies of objects in
a chemical way, by means of the action of
light while Jacobi, in Petersburg, trans
formed, by a galvanic process, engravings
on copper into works of relief, without de
stroying the former an invention, by
means of which it is possible to multiply
in a mechanical way, oil paintings, with
all their brilliancy of colors, and that with
a fidelity hitherto unattainable, is approach
ing to perfection at Berlin. The inventor,
Jacob Leipman, his been led by his studies
of coloring and the mixing of colors, to
the idea on which he has been already en
gaged ten years, till he has recently been
enabled to accomplish the difficult object
which he proposed to himself.
Attempt to Burn a Bank. On Sun
day night last, an attempt was" made to
hurn the Farmers' Bank of Petersburg, in
the following manner.- A straw bed was
placed in a closet under the staircase, fire
was then communicated to the bed, and the
closet door locked. . Fortunately the smell
of the smoke alarmed an inmate of the
Cashier's family, who broke open the closet
and extinguished the fire before any injury
was done. The fire was discovered at an
early hour in the evening. iW. Beg.
Beet Boot Sugar. It is estimated, ac
cording to a paragraph in the Philadelphia
Inquirer, that the amount of Beet Root Su
gar, manufactured in France during the
last year, was 100,000,000 lbs. In Prussia1
and Germany 30,000,000 lbs. The Troy
Whig states that in the Western part of
Michigan, 240,000 lbs. were manufactured
the last season, and there is every proba
bility of its forming a valuable portion of
the products of that section of the country.
Indeednhere can be no doubt that suffi
cient sugar might be manufactured from
beets raised on the fertile soil of the West,
in cnnnlv all the demands of the inhabitants"
of that region; and this too, without inter
fering with other proaucis.
We may add, that Mr. Child of Northamp
ton Mas. recently received a prize of SI 00
from the Agricultural Society of that State,
for having made a successful experiment .
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