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Tarborough, (Edgecombe County, JV. C.J Saturday, Maya, 1841
Vol.XmNo 19.
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THY AGAIX.
'Tis a lesson you should heed,
Try again;
If at first you don't succeed,
Try again;
Then your courage should appear;
For, if you will persevere.
You will conquer, never fear;
Try again.
Once or twice, though you should fail,
Try again;
If you would, at last prevail,
Try anfain;
If we strive, 'lis n disgrace,
Thoujh we may not win the rare;
What should you do in the case?
Try again,
If you find your task is hard,
Try again;
Time will brinr you your reward,
Try again;
All that other folks can do,
Why, with patience, shold not you,
Only keep this rule in view,
Try a gain
From the Youth's Cabinet.
PRESIDENT HARRISON.
Brief Record of his Life.
William Henry Harrison, ninth Presi
dent of the IT. States, was born in Virginia,
Feb. 9, 1773.
In 1797, two years after the constitution
went inio operation, Washington ap
pointed him ensign in the U. States army.
August 20, 1794, he was aid to Gen
eral Wayne in the battle of Miami, in
Ohio, where the Indians were defealed.
In 1797, President Adams appointed him
Secretary and Lt. Governor of the North
Western Territory.
In 179S, he was chosen a delegate to
Congress.
In 1S01, when Jefferson was President,
he was appointed Governor of Indiana
r erritory, and commissioner for treating
with the Indians.
In 1S09, President Madion re-appointed
l.im Governor of Indiana Territory.
Nov. 7, 1SII, he gained a victory over
GOO Indian warriors at the mouth of Tip
pecanoe river, where it enters the Wa
bash, in the present county of Tippeca
noe, Indiana.
Sept. 11,1812, President Madison ap
pointed him Commander-in-Chief of the
North Western army, war with Great
hritain having been declared the previous
June.
May 1,1813, an American garrison Was
besieged in Fort Meigs near the mouth of
I'icMiuimec River in Ohio, 61 miles south
f Detroit. The siege lasted five days, and
JJM terminated by the sucesrful sortie of
Ge. Harrison.
. In September, 1S13, he regained Mich
'Sjan from the British, who had possessed
"t peninsula about a year.
Oct..1?, 1813, he defeated the British
"M roctor, whom he h id pursued
to
ujnKs ol the Thames Hiver, in
Upper
1,1 1S14, and 1S15, he was appointed by
resulcnt Madison a Commissioner to treat
U''th the Indiana an.l .1, 1,1 I., t . l i
two
I..... UIUV.ll III lUMUIUHill
Mealies, one at Granville, Indiana,
uwe othtrat Detroit, Michigan.
, 111 15, he was elected
to
Congress
irorn (Jhi0,
years.
where he
continued
four
T,,n an-lS18, soon after the death of
haddeus Kosciusko, who died in France,
, L I6 1317, he introduced a resolution
'Jiajle an eloquent speech in honor of that
ti0Ilsh General, who had crossed the Atlan
c to f,ftht fur American liberty, and had
the H
ciy oui
unsuccessfully struggled against
1795 ,uvasion oi ins native land, in
JnfFeb- and March, 1819, lie voted se-
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in "ts ior 11k; continuance of slavery
WesUntUr'' Arkansjs aucl the territory
or.s;w"c,cctc,1,,,e,nbcr
Ohio" elecud Senator in cn-
In 1827, he was appointed minister to
Colombia.
n 1629, 1 resident Jacksorl, by his first
ouiciai act recalled him.
In
1S40, he was chos-n President of;
' --tait., uy me electors 01 .Maine
t , Miss., R. I., (;t. N V., N. J. , Pen.,
Ala., D;d., N. C, Geo., Mi., La.,
Te-in , Ky., Indiana, Ohio, and Miehi'in,
while president Van Buren received but fin
electoral votes.
March 4. 1S11, heen'ere I unon the du
ties of his office.
March 17, 1511, he is lied his nrard im
ation for an ex'ra session of Conirress to
convene Mav 31.
Sunday, April 4, IS 11, at hilf mst
i u ;iock in the morning, he ceased
to breathe, and a nation were his mourn
ers. How transitory is human greatness!
Corrcclion. A pangraph is goinj; the
rounds, which stales that President Tyler
wis nude Governor of Virginia by 'the
death of the Governor, was ma le Senator by
the death of one before his time exnirpd
l() .1.1.1 .. . I
President by the death of General Harrison,
and his lady is the daughter of Cooper the
tragedian. The Richmond Whig says
here is not one word of truth in it, except
the fact that Gov. Tyler succeeds to the
Presidency by the death of Gen. Harrison.
Ills son man led Miss Cooper, an ele
and accomplished lady.
:ant
Mitchell the Forger. Bowyer, the
New York police nifi.'er, has returned
without catching the Knavish Ex-Member
of Congress, for whom lie wash: search.
He followed Mr. Mitchell into Ohio, and
then found out that he was pursuing the
wrong man. The gentleman pursued is
said tobe atall Virginian, named Mitchell.
Bowyer overtook him 3t a hotel, arriving
after he had gone to b ?d at night. The offi -cer's
importunities induced the liar keeper
to awake the lodger, whose appearance in
the Bar-room, in no very pleasant humor,
caused his pursuer to feel considerably dis
appointed and chagrined. He made the
best explanation he could, and retraced his
steps to New York.
The Greatest Natural Curiosity in
the World. The Mammoth Child from
New Hampshire may now beseen atllar
sington's Museum. This child although
but seven years old, weighs two hundred
and twenty pounds just three times as
much as his mother!
(jCol. Harney, in exploring the ever
glades of Florida, killed two animals, said
to be heretofore fabulous, a sort of sea cow,
about 15 feet long, with two fl inner
ncaij
weight, i;.ouu pounds,
the water, but feeds on
margin.
It
the
cannot leave;1"1 " our "anus.
grass on the
si Broken
Heart I A voung
lately at Baltimore
i German, died
under
circumstances deeply affecting. She was
engaged to be m trried to a young man ofj!,,Kl w-'t, the hand Willing of the officers,
Philadelphia, who. for reasons best known !&c- without assistance from the bank?
to himself, communicated to her a short
time since, his intentions of abandoning
her. On receiving this information she
became the child of sorrow and despair for
ten days, w hen reason left its seat, and she
becamean awful maniac, unceasingly calling
on her lover to "come to her." On the
evening of her death, she ordered her
wedding garment to be prepared" saying
that she "was to be married a! ten o'clock,"
the precise time of her departure to a world
of spirits! Baltimore Clipper.
3 A man in Texas, whose ear had
been lopt off in a fight with the Indians,
has had it replaced by one made of In
dia rubber, which looks as good as new,
and answers all the purposes of hear
ing. Distressing Event. On Thursday, 1st
inst., the ferry flat from Lambertsville to
New Hope, with fourteen or fifteen per
sons and two wagons loaded with goods,
was thrown bra ulside against the second
pier from the Pennsylvania side of the bro
ken Delaware bridge, with such force by
the rapid current, that the flat was broken
to pieces. Toi bert Wisiner, a ferry man
Miss Caroline Rose, an interesting girl of
seven'.een, daughter of John Rose, of New
Jersey, near Lambertsville and two child
ren of Johnson Pidcock, of New Jersey,
were drowned, one an infant of two months
old, the other (the only one found) a child
of three or four years old. The other per
sons were taken up by some active water
men, and although some of them were al
most exhausted they were all saved
Divorce in New Hampshire. The le
gislators of the Granite State have passed a
law defining what shall be cause for di
vorce between man & wife. It was enacted
that divorces from the bonds of matrimoin
shall be decreed in favor of the innocent
party, when the other shall beconvicied oi
a felony and actually imprisoned for tht
samej or when the other shall become an
j habitual drnnkard, and so continue to be
for the space of three years: or when ei
ther party shall so treat the other, as seri-
ouslv lo iniure health of nrlon,. 0nn
or when the Conduct of either party shall
ue so gr-.i.ss, wicKea ana repugnant to the
marriage covenant, as to occasion the sepa
ration ol the other lor the space of three
years
1 New Slat el The St
mentions the probability
Louis Gazette
that sometime
within the next hlteen years, another star
will be added to our constellation, with the
r ci.i r T-k ..l i. -ii
mic ui me .-uieui iacoian. it win ex
tent, according to that paper, over the
Prairie region north of Imva. rnt,Mnrr
prooamy, trom the Missouri to the Mis
"issippi river, embracing the country wa
tered by the St. Peters, the Sioux, and Ja-
qups rivers, and include a part of the Go
teau de prairie. Its latitude will be the
ameas Michigan, northern New York,
Vermont, and New Hampshire, with a
soil far s-iperior to the average of these
states taken together.
The Recent Extensive Forgeries the
way in which they were managed. The
daring and dashing style of the recent for
geries in Louisville, Cincinnati, Covin".
ion, liaiiimore, Philadelphia, and New
York, have excited the utmost astonish
ment in the mercantile community through
out the country; and every body is won
lering what description of rascality in the
unaneiai worm will be perpetrated next,
as the sailor said when the showman acci
dentally set fire to a barrel of gunpowder,
and blew theaudier.ee through the roof.
The most remarkable feature in this af
fair is, that all these certificates arc im
pressions from the genuine plate, engrav
ed by Rawdon, Wright, and Hatch of this
city. We compared the one now left with
the Merchant's Bank here, with the ori
ginal proof in Rawdon's possession, and
that gentleman is satisfied it is from the
genuine plate. The question then is, how
did the scoundrel get seven or more certifi
cates of deposite without the connivance of
some of the officers of the Commercial
Bank of New Orleans? Again, the body
of all the introductory letters is in the
handwriting of the clerk of the same bank,
who usually writes those letters, and the
signatures so exactly resemble Mr. Hall's,
that good judges cannot tell the difference.
The paper of the letters is of the same tint
and quality, and water mark, as that used
in the above bank; and there are two kinds
of ink used in each letter, one a blue for
the body and a black for the signature;
both of which correspond with the two
kinds ol ink used by that bank, as seen in
various genuine letters lately
received in
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How h:mpencd all these coincidences
unless there is an accomplice or connivance
in that bank. Again how did this swindler
become so completely acquainted with the
business of the bank, their manner of trans
acting it, their bank agencies in the north
iew lork Herald.
I his is one of the most stupendous
frauds ever practised in this country
that is, illegal fraud, by an acknowledged
rascal: some banking transactions, under
the sanction of law, alone throw it in the
shade. There has been obtained from the
Cincinnati Bank, $13, 000; from the Louis
ville, $ 13,000, and from the New York
Bank of America, 23,000; and S15.000
was successfully drawn from the Girard
Bank in all, 564,000, besides others
Which may not yet have come to light. It
is generally believed that the depredator
has sailed for Europe, and that he is the
same adroit villain whose arrival in the
United States, from London, was lately
announced in the papers.
We have also learned that efforts were
made by this same gang to obtain from the
Farmers' and Mechanics' Bank, and from
the Bank of Pennsylvania, of this city,
through the instrumentality of duplicate
certificates, 30,000 from one Si 7,000,
and lioui the other 13,000; but that they
were unsuccessful in both instances.
Philadelphia Ledger.
U. S. Bank. Referring to the late
expose of this institution, a writer observes:
The sum total of the investigation
proves, that the bank with its enormous
capital, was worse than useless to the regu
lar business men of the country that its
whole energies were used to further ruin
ous speculations arid stock-gambling ope
rations, in which the directors were large
ly engaged with the funds of the bank and
that tney eventually saddled upon the in
nocent stockholders all their losses that
an enormous amount of expenditure under
the immediate eye of Mr. liiddle, is cover
ed with the veil of secrecy, which he re-
fuses
to remove, and that in tne manage
nent of the institution it appeared to be a
prominent feature for the directors and a
i unrp,! itw. to neip inemseives io any a-
.nounl they wished for, without authority,
nd without any regular entries on the
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books of the bank, of the amount taken,
me nature oi their proceedings.
In reference to the same, Kendall's ex
positor remarks:
Ever since that honest man, Andrew
Jackson, caused the public money to be ta
ken out of the keeping of men who are
now proved and acknowledged to have
cheated the stockholders of their Bank out
of about "nineteen millions of dollar' and
the people of this Republic out of many
millions more, we have heard a constant
din about "Executive usurpation"' and the
union of -the purse and the sn-ord."
Many men have been deluded by this cry,
and Mr. Tyler may be one of them; but
tne real object of its cunning authors is to
get the public money back into a position
where it will have no responsible keepers
at all, that it may be used and plundered
with impunity. Io whom would the
1 resident and other officers of the United
Slates Bank have been responsible, if they
had squandered the ten millions of public
money Gen. Jackson caused to be taken
away from them, as they have done the
funds of the Bank?
Bank swindling
I twill be seen from
from Sylvester's Re
the following article
porter, that the corrupt system of banking
which is carried on in the United States,
instead of bting an)' assistance to com
merce, is the very thing that is obstructing
it to an alarming extent:
Their chief assets consist in discounted
notes of ruined speculators, and their sole
dependence is that at some future period
prices may rise to former rates, and enable
them to recover their lossts. These are
the grounds upon which many of our bank
ing institutions, are now continuing their
operations, daily sinking deeper into debt,
without active capital sufficient to enable
them to meet any demands except the pay
ment of their salaried officers. Their disa
bled state prevents them from affording
any assistance to business men, who begin
to perceive their inefficiency, and arc con
tracting their operations within their own
means. 1 his will throw trade into its
proper channel, limiting transactions to
supply and demand, and, consequently,
ail speculative undertakings must sutler.
Bank Bobbery. The Savannah papers
state that the Planters' Bank of the State
of Georgia, in that City, has been robbed
of 37,000, consisting of notes of the Bank
of vaiious denominations, but principally
of notes of 50 and S20. The money is
said lo have been abstracted from the vault
of the Bank. A reward of 3,000 is of
fered for the detection of the thief
Tin- State of the Currency. The Nat-!
chcz Free Tiader of a late date, says: 'On
Saturday we saw a ten dollar eold piece sold
for 100 in Mississippi Railroad Notesjand j
on Mondav a common Marseilles vest bio'l
S100 in notes of the '-Mississippi Ship-
ping Company"- 1 his gives us some idea
of the condition of the cuirenfy in the State
of Mississippi.
Disease in Silk ll'urms. Gideon B.
Smith, the intelligent and ardent advocate
of the culture of Silk in this country, has
addressed a letter to the F.ditors of the Na
tional Intelligencer, in which he states that
hy an examination oi some plates in
v rench .Journal, he has iusi received, re
presenting the different stages of the dis
ease, called Aluscadine, in Silk worms.
he is satisfied that it is the identical disease
which destroyed a great part of the Silk
worms in this countiy last summer. He
announces as a preventive lor the disease,
the free application of air slaked Lime to
the worms, and also to the floors of the co
coonery, and whitewashing all the wood
work of the fixtures. The lime should be
sifted through a fine seive un the worms
two or three times a week, if healthy, and
once a day if diseased, in the morning be
fore the first feeding, and after cleaning
the hurdles. The quantity of lime to be
sifted on the worms may be just sufficient
to whiten the worms and leaves well; and
it should be commenced when the worms
are half grown, say twelve or fifteen days
old. This remedy has, during the past
two years, enabled those persons in France
who used it. to save and obtain cocoons
from ninety -seven per cent, of all the
worms hatched. Bat. Beg.
A tele Ohio paper gives the melan
choly details of the death of two ladies,
Misses Bevins and Cunningham, in the
viciuity of Amherst. The house of a wid
ow lady, in which they were asleep alone,
was burned. The kind and sympathizing
neighbors, who immediately collected,
spared no pains to rescue the ladies front
the devouring element. They procured a
ladder, burst in the chamber window
but they were unable to enter, as a drnst
volume of black smoke rushed out, winch,
on the admission of air, was immcdiatt-ly
followed by the flames. There is no doubt
the deceased were suffocated by the srhokt
I before the fire was discovered, as the
or! w re een lying side by side in bed, artef
he sides of the house were burnpd through
?o as to render them visible. ib
Distressing Occurrence. On Monday
evening last, a little afier sunet, the house
occupied by Mr. Schenig, corner of 1 and
ISth streets, was discovered to be on fire
in the second story. By timely and ac
tive efforts the M imes Wore subdued, and
when the chamber was cleared of the
smoke, the dreadful spectacle was present
ed of the lifeless body of one of Mr. Schen
ig's children on the floor, burned almost
to a crisp. Both the parents were absent
when this sad event occurred. The mo
ther had crossed the street to a neighbor's,
a short time previously, leaving directions
to the eldest daughter to make a fne; who,
having arranged the fuel properly, left a
lighted lamp on the hearth, and went to
the pump for water. It is supposed her
sister, who was about four years old, un
guardedly approached the lamp, and find
ing l.erclothes on fire, hurried up stairs,
and hid herself under the bed, where her
remains were found. A babe which was
slumbering in its cradle in the same room
was rescued uninjured. Globe.
Most Disgraceful. Elder Knabft. i
preacher of the Baptist denomination, has
become the object of much insult and abuse,
in New Haven, from some disreputable
characters in thai city. He has been offi
ciating there with, it is believed, the best
result. The meetings have been throng
ed and the most perfect order preserved,
until a few ''bloods' of that place took of
fence at his free denunciations of particular
vices, and proceeded to violence. Large
collections have gathered about the house,
an I eggs, &c. have been thrown against its
doors, and other outrages committed, and
Mr. Knapp had to be escorted home by
officers of the police. The Palladium is
justly severe upon these ingracious row
dies, and if the authorities know their du
ties, the authors of the outrage will be
justly punished for their scandalous con
duct. A or I hern papet.
Earthquake at jimmerapodrd. This
city is said to have been almost entirely
destroyed by ah earthquake, which hap
pened on the night of the 23d of March,
1S40; 300 persons were killed. The
shock lasted two or three minutes, and ex
tended from North to South. The cities
of Ava and Tragain are also said to have
been destroyed) with many neighboring
villages.
Important Trial. We lc3rri from the
Piciyune, that Williams, who purchased
the felon slaves from Virginia, was arrested
n New Orleans with the negroes, hasbedrf
tried for the offence and the jury not being
abie to agree upon the verdict; he was
he,l jn custody for further trial if the
Attornev General Saw fit again to prosecute.
The evidence seerhed to show that he in-
tended to take them lo Texas.
Absconding Sheriff. Charles F
Alden, sheriff of Morgan county, Ohio, has
absconded, lurching his creditors in the
fum of about 5,000 dollars.
Bones Well Sold li is stated in the St
Louis Pannanl,that Mr. Koch the di?cov-
aiererof the bones of the Missourian, has41
sold these gigantic relics for fifty thousand
dollars.
gThe following advertisement, under
the head of Wife Wanted, is in the Bates'
ville, (Ark.) News:
"Any gal what's got a bed, a calico dress
coffee pot and skillet, knows how to make'
a huntin' shirt, and knows how to take care
of children, can have my services till death
parts both on us."
Jlammatory Bheiimatism.Sini'
pie Remedy. -An exchange paper says:
"To all those who are unfortunate enough
to be afflicted by this painful disease we
would offer for trial a very simple and ef
ficacious remedy, which upon proof lias
been found to give immediate and effectual
felief. It is merely poiutoes, boiled soft
and applied as a pouhice lo the part affect-
ed; when it becomes dry and hard, tenzW
the application;
(TpAnolher new sect is raisingits head
in Bos'on under a new nam?. The call
themselves the No-human government
Sect, arid if we understand their; denounce
all civil government as without Divine au
thority, and therefore inconsistent with the
natural lights of mankind:
(QAmcng others seen standing on one
of the way wharfs, between New York and
Albanv, wailing for a steamboat to take pas
sage in, was an Iri-hman. He was hailed
hy one of the by-stndcrs, who says: Well,
Pat, wheie are you from?' Pat answered;
And sure I'm from every place but here,
and l'il be from here, as soon as the boat
tomes alon-'
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