North Carolina Newspapers

Dhole No. 7Q5. Tar borough ( Edgecombe County, Js C.J Saturday, May 29, 1841. Vol. XVII JYo. 23. The Tarborough Press, BV GROIWE HOWARD, Is published weekly at Two Dollars and Fifty rents per year, " paiu in advance or, 1 Viree rjwflrjatthe expiration of the subscription year. for an) period less than a year, Tivnty-fiee f-nti per month. Subscribers are at liberty to discontinue at any tune, on giving notice thereof and paying arrears tnose residing at a distance must invariably pay in advance, or give a respon sible reference m inis vicmuy. Advertisements not exceeding a square will he I inserted at One Dollar the first insertion, and 25 J cents for every continuance. Lonrpr ad vertise- merits in like proportion. Court Orders and Ju I Ljiciiil advertisements 25 per cent. hir!ier. Ad Ivertisements must be marked the number of in '8Priios required, or they will be continued until tj,erwise orutTtsu anu cunrgcu accrrauiTiy. iptters addressed to the IMitor must be post jj or they may not be attended to. The following lines are from the pen of the Hon. Robert Strange, late a member of the Sen e Ui.u In tk . r .u it:. .i Slates: From the Patriarch, LINES Accompanying the present op an album to MY ONLY DAUGIITERi This bears affection's imirmur'd pray'r "VVhateVr may be thy lot, "'Mid scer.es of jjloom or prospects fair, "Whatever fortune di.oinM to share, 'Loved one Forget me not." When ve these little presents make Although 'tis utter'd not We're striving, lovp, to keep awake In those, who words of kindness spake: And fear to be forgot. We know these fickle hearts of ours, Like insects in the spiing, Through all their sunny, happy hour. In search of pleasure nid life's tlow'is, Are ever on the wing; And e'en an early, happy home Might strangely be forgot. As through life's checker'd scenes we roam Did not associations come To say "Forget it not' And so a father greets his child, Fearing to be forgot By her young Uerrt with rapture wild In folly's giddy nnze beguiled. And prays "Forget me not." Ye3, look upon this ofTring, dear, When years haveroll'd away. And no fund father then be near Tet, fancy still hi? voice you hear, "Remember me," I prayf Yes! yrs! my girl, remember me, Wherever fate may waft; That memory will ever be A buckler and defence to thee Ajjainst the tempter's shaft. And should soft peace and happiness Mingle thy web of fate, Thy pleasures will he none the less, In fancy, should a father bless, And all participate. Hut should'st thou tread where tempests lower Tow'rds thy eternal home, TV thought may south thy gloomiest hour, lhatwe may meet hy saving pow'r, In heav'n beyond the tomb. EPISCOPAL CONVENTION. The Annual Convention of the Protes ts Episcopal Church of the Diocese of N. Carolina, oj ened al St. James' Church in Town on Wednesday list. The Bishop of the Diocese was present," as ere nineteen of the Clergy of the same; b'"'nR ihe whole number but three. The 1'r- Dr. M iy, of Philadelphia, and the P'. Mr. Lyman, of ihe Diocese of Mary and, were also present as visitors. The y delation was small. Mr. E J. of Fayette vile, was chosen Secretary 1 the body. The Convention sermon y preached on Wed uesday morning, by tho it. ... . '1 J N.C. , , and services wt n had in tn. fi nt evenins? of earh d.-iv O jR'rti 'he Bishop administered to twen'y persons four of whom were coloicd e xpressive rile of confirmation. Hon punda'' the Kev. Messrs. Back- iWr ami Cheshire, were admitted Walt er of P,iettt' a,ul Mr- C- I5- .... u reorder of Deacon. A ser- behalf of the M issionarv cause ol v .kIOnCSe' lvas P'cached on Sunday night 0r Convention was held at 6 o'clock mept T y moring; il then adjourned to X n?al0xfo,d inMay ls43' tlcctP,! i , v,nS nametl Rentlemen were C :e,e8-t"tothe General Episcopal Jrsll;Nec"yofNewYork. TheUev.Mes ionirtIn,.S,nl'l:,ry Huxionaml John- fiii.tl I u,U',erRy.and Messrs Judge Huf- C. Lord and Collins of the la-nr m. lrthe.iJ T1 teu,l,S3 were conducted ; euiost harmonvnd u (i chfSo, g,?g of lmost benefi- -eiIi!ere,l of he Die "Kington Chronicle, May 12. Operations of the Branch Mint.n a conversation a few days .since with th Superintendent, in regard to the opera- u me united Mates Uranch Mint at t us place, we were politely informed that ne coinage ol gold at Ihe Mint during the wee-K ending the 1st instant, amounted t upwards of 9.000 in half eagles: and fo ! he week ending on the Sth, over SS,000 in similar pieces. As proof th .t no delay is permitted in the operations oi the Mint, the last monthly record of deposites shows, that bullion de- poided on the first of April, was received in coin by the depositor on I he seventh; a qu intity deposited on the fifih, also re ceived on the seventh; i quantity depos- ieu on me seventh, received on the tenth; a quantity deposited on the fourteenth, and received in coin on the same day! A gentleman from an ad joining Sia'e recent ly came over in the stage with 13,000 in bullion, and returned in the next stage with it all in coin. . ..v..,iV(,ujf miuw great euiciency in the I administration of the affiirs of the Mint, and speak well for the industry and promp titude with which its officers discharge their respective duties. Charlotte Mecklenburg Jeffersonian. Coal on the Roanoke. Dr. H iker, of 'his city, who has just returned from his plantation in Halifax, brought with him a line specimen of bituminous coal, picked up on the bank of the river near his farm. As pieces of the same substance have fre quently been found on the banks of the Kouioke, near that place, it is believed that the river runs through a bed of it al some point above the alluvion formation. We mention the circumstance to call the attention of those red ling on the stream and its branches to the subject. The val ue of ihe article, both in the arts and for domestic purposes and the strong pre sumption thus rused of its existence in that qu o ter, present sufficient inducement to make it an obp ct of search. We ar e not prepared to judge of the dif ferent species of this combustible, except lrom description. We suppose, however, the specimen referred to, from its dark color, to contain bitumen, a mineral sub stance resembling tar or pitch in its pro perties and uses. The anthracite coal, which is found embedded in the earth in great abundance in Pennsylvania and Rhode Island, is harder, heavier, and kss black than the bituminous coals. Hal. Star. The Progress of Crifne. Every pa per we take hold of is tilled with details of robberies, forgeries su indling, swartwout ing, &c, &c, and to their eternd disgrace he n said, nank oUicers appear to be the : principal perpetrators. The public Press teems iih accounts! Never before has j so much rascality been known to pervade this country; and vet and yet, because j we la'elv proposed to t lie public to have "all Ihe nanus invest ig ded, we are as sailed by the "Observer," of this place as cherishing hoswliiy and enmity to these institutions. Will the people of this coun try lis'en to and sustain men who make such ch.irges as these againt the Demo cratic Press, for doing its duly for a wakening the public to a sense of their danger for trying to promote the cause of honesty for trying to have ihe rogue singled out from Ihe honest men, that he may receive Ihe punishment lie deserves? i I ca v t n fo i IV nil! Fay Jo u r. Business. We have heard il rem :iked, thafmore goods are pasing through ibis place for merchants m the into ior, than at any previous lime for the last three years. We hope and believe, that this is an evidence of returning prosperity in the State generally. The last three years have been distinguished for active indus try, for a system of ligid economy; and for a consequent diminution of ihe amount of individual indebtedness There have been so few goods imported, I hat the coun try is ne w ly hare; anil the supply now go ing foiwaid will doubtless be welcomed by all classes. There is probably no State in the Union so free from embarrassments, public and private, as Nonh Carolina. Fayctlcville Observer. "Burn Your Cotton Stalks." .Under this head we find it stated that a small straw colored bug has been found in many of lat year's defective cotton sialks, in lillle cavities formed by itself in ihe limbs near the junction with the main stem. Ii is suggested that by gathering and burning the stalks, a great evil may be arrested.. ii. Arrest rf the Hon. Charles F. Mitch ell. The Montreal Herald, oi the Gib inst. states that Mitchell, the American forger and member of congress,' has at last been captured by Capt. Comeau of the Montreal police. Mitchell was taken atLongue Point, a few miles from that city, and was foolih enough to attempt to throw above twenty thousand dollars into ihe St. Lawrence a circumstance which could not have benefit ed hnn. A National Bank. The Washington correspondent of the Charleston Courier says: "The Secretary of the Treasury has prepared a plan for a National Bank, which lie intends to lav before Congress in his re port, at the commencement of the comim session, in Us main fe.-it.urpa it will rocom ble the late Hank, but will be surrounded with such checks, guards, and restrictions. itmc muicaieu as useiui or ne cessary, lie will propose a capital of thir ty-five millions. Me has not determined. it is said, upon the locality of the mother oanK." ratal Duel at New Orleans. The New Orleans Advertiser of 21st ultimo says; -List evening at 3 o'clock, a duel was fought between Leroque Turgeau, el lest son ot Mr. 1 urgeau, notary nublic. nd a Mr. Talary. Turgeau, fell in the conflict. J alary is an accomplished swordsman. Texas. The national debt of Texas, consisting of bonds, treasury notes, &c. is 7,000,000 dollars. The amount of one year's taxes is estimated at 1,C00;000 dol larsjand the expenses of the Government for the same period 500,000 dollars, par money. West Indies. We published a few days ago an account of the present condi tion of Hayti, as described by an eye wit ness. The picture was that of a country fist lapsing into the savage wildness of na ture: while the appearance and conduct of the people exhibited a mere caricature of civilization, in which the degradation pro duced by slothfulness and vice contrasted miserably with impotent pretences at something like an organized state of society- The present condition and tendency of inings in me tsritish West india Islands au gur a result no better there under the eman cipation act of the British Parliament. It is no purpose that the zealous friends of that policy labor in its vindication by pro curing and publishing the most favorable accounts that partial one-sided reports can exhibit of the condition of those islands. Facts will speak for themselves, and in a manner not to be gainsaid. Instead of their former state of affluence and ease, the British Islands now present a melan cholly spectacle of discontent and daily diminishing production. Various devices have been resorted to for the purpose of procuring laborers to supply the place of the emancipated negroes who will not work. Emigration from England and Ireland has been encouraged, and a fund provided to aid the passage of all who could be induced to emigrate. Another plan was to procure a largo emigration of free colored people from the United States: and the last protect which we have seen in my account of, contemplated a transfer of Alrican laborers from Sierra Leone and liie Afi icm coast a sort of substitute for the slave trade. These expedients have been quite inef fectual thus far; the downward tendency ol things has not been arrested ; on the con trary every year bears witness to the in creasing embarrassments and distress of the British Islands. Baltimore Jlmer Important from New Grenada. By way of Havana we learn thaton the 9th of January, Gen. Ilerran, commanding the Government troops of New Grenada, gain ed a decisive victory over a body of insur gent forces, represented to have been 2,000 strong, under Generals Gonzalez and Pa tria, at a place called Araloca. Many were killed, and about 1,000 taken prison er?, among whom were several chiefs and officers ol the rebellion. Other advantages were subsequently obtained by the Go vernment troops at different points; and it was supposed thai the insurg-nt provinces would soon be reduced to subjection. In fact several of them were already reorgan ized under authorities appointed by the General Government. Baltimore Republican. Murdei'ers Discovered. It is stated by a correspondent of the St. Louis Express, that the murderers of Baker and Weaver, in the store of Collier & Petlus, at St. Louis have been discovered. The follow-in"- is an extract from the letter: 'A few days since, a free negro, in a drunken fit at Alton, disclosed that he knew all about it. He was taken posses sion of, and subsequently disclosed that the horrid deed was perpetrated by four negroes; one or two of them belong here, one !o Cincinnati, and the other and lead ing spirit to New Orleans. Measures have been taken for the arrest of all of them. Thev are all slaves but one or two. The informant has given a particular account ol ihe manner ol the murder. I understand that he says that Mr. Ba ker was killed by a blow upon the head with a bar of iron struck by the slave from New Orleans. Weaver was struck upon me head several times with a bowie knife, but fought manfully, having discharged both his pistols without effect; finally, they got him down, and drove a marlin spike through his head, yet fearing that he was not dead, they struck his head with a crow-bar. Alter a great many fruitless ef forts to get into the vault of the banking- house, they set fire to the house in various places and fled." Revolution in Peru and Bolivia. By way of Panama, the New York Journal of Commerce has iuIvipps frnm Pprn fn thp ISth of February, in a letter dated Callao, February IS, 1S41. Since my last of the 5th ult. the anticipat ed political convulsion in Peru and Bolivia has taken place. Col. Vivanco has been proclaimed Supreme Chief in the depart ments of Cusco, Arequipa, Puno and Mo- quegua; and notwithstanding Gen. San Roman, who was placed in command of the former by Vivanco, has declared a gainst him with about appears to be rapidly the whole community is decidedly agairs me government of Gemoara, who has de graded the country to such an extent a to place it in the class of a Chilian colony, sustained by Chilian control. On the 2 1st ult. a general rising took place in Bolivia, headed by Gen'Is Lara and Iripoyen, who have proclaimed Gen ouma ruz, supreme rrolector. REPORT OF MR. POINSETT, ON TENDERING HIS RESIGNATION. War Department March 2, 1S41. Sir: In tendering to you my resignation f the office of Secretary of War, 1 think it my duty to set forth briefly the condi tion of the Department which I have con ducted for the last fouryTears. More than forty thousand Indians have been removed peacefully, and are happily settled beyond the frontiers of the Western States. Tranquility has been preserved and reigns throughout the whole of that border, and there exist no causes which are likely to lead to its disturbance. The Indians are generally contented, and are gradually advancing in the peaceful arts of life. The only exception to universal peace is the condition of the Indians in Florida. There too, I am happy, to have it in my power to say, that hostilities are being ra pidly brought to a close, by the successful interference of the Seminole chiefs who have been brought there from the West. Contented with their lot in their new resi dence beyond the Mississippi, they are anx ious to pursuade their brethren to aban don a hopeless contest, and join their kins men in the West. My last advices seem to regard these peaceful efforts as likely to prove altogether successful, and the war may be considered virtually at an end. The necessary employment of the mil itia of Florida during the late recess of Con gress, will give rise to arrearages amount ing to about S66l,S16; but according to the experience of the Department in settling claims of this character not more than one half of tills sum will probably be found va lid, which will have to be discharged from the appropriations that have been asked for the purpose. Besides this amount, there is due the Cherokees about a million and a half, and ths balances of former appropria tions for Indian Affairs, which still remain in the Treasury, amount to about a million more. How much of this mav be reouir- ed to discharge arrarages is not now known though it is supposed that the whole will be necessary for the purpose. It was nev er contemplated by the Department, to in vest the amounts for ihe interest of which the faith of the United States is pledged by treaty. It is deemed safer to keep these sums in the treasury forever, aiid ap propriate annually the amount of interest due thereon, to the several tribes. They are not therefore, considered as a part of the arrearages. The amounts due for pensions in the present month and until September next, have been set to the several pension a gents, so that nothing is due on that account. Immediately on the passage of the act authorizing the issue of Treasury notes, I directed that all the outstanding claims against the Department w hich were ready for settlement, and for which appropria lion had been made, should be immediate ly liquidated. All those for work done on the fortificaiions, &: at ihe arsenals and arm ories, have accordingly been provided for, except only about sixty thousand dollars, the payment of which has been delayed on ly because the accounts have not been presented. For the other various objects entrusted to the Department, the unpaid claims art estimated to amount to not more than 200,000, which have not been paid for a similar reason. According to the reports of the different disbursing bureaus of the Department, the unliquidated claims in their respective bi an- jches of the service, at this time, are prob ably not so great, and certainly not greater than they were four years ago; so that the amount of payments made since I took charge of the Department, fully equals all its liabilities created within that period. The army is in a high stale of discipline and is composed of 10,060 men, part in Florida, and the residue stationed along our extensive frontiers. Notwithstanding the many causes which have existed du ring the last four years, tendering to in crease the expenditures of the army, grow ing out of its increase in 1S3S of its opera tions in Florida, and its employment in the removal of the Indians and along our Nothern frontier; by the enforcement of a system of rigid economy and accountabili- iy,the relative expenditures have ween cdri siderably diminished. In a report recent ly made by ibis Department to the House of Representatives, it is shown by an aver age made of the whole expenses of the ar my during each of the four years, that the expense for each individual has been each year gradually reduced with the year 1S3S, 1,000 men, yet he t wh.?n an 'grease took place that. was neces gaining ground, as san,.y 'ci(jfnt t0, !he rajsi"S' S;n6 & pense of each person in the army in 1S37, was S400 15, and in 1S40 S375 96 show ing a reduction of 24 19, or more than ix per cent. The Ordinance Department has been rendered very efficient, and regulations adopted for its government, and for the better ordering of all matters connected with the foundries engaged in manufactu ring cannon for Government. Since the return from Europe of the board of Ordi nance officers, models for guns of the seve al calibres, authorized to be used in our serv ice, have been submitted to the Depart ment of War, and have recived my ap proval, and orders have been given to fur nish the artillery regiments with their prop per arms. The Engineer Office has been conducted in a manner to command my satisfaction. The forts have been, and continue to be as rapidly completed and reppired as the a mounts appropriated for that purpose will permit. The institution f a corps of sappers and miners will tend to keep them in good condition hereafter. The corps of Topographical Engineers is organized and employed so as to produce the most useful and beneficial results to the country. The manner in which its duties have been and continue to be, per formed, has been highly satisfactory to the Department. The improvements introduced into the Medical Staff, render it equal to that of any service in the world. I he Quarter Master General s Depart ment has discharged its duties in a manner to secure the most economical disburse ment of the public funds committed toils charge. Through the agents of the Commissa ry General of Subsistence, the army is abundantly supplied, at diminished cost, with rations of the best description. The duties of the Commissary Gener al of Purchases are likewise performed in a satisfactory manner, and the army is reg ularly furnished with substantial clothing of our domestic manufacture. The army is regularly paid at stated in tervals, in legal currency, and the extens ive duties of this branch of the service have been performed during the last four years without any loss to Government. The long contested claims arising out of Indian reservations under the Creek treaty, are very nearly brought to a close. More ! than three thousand have been decided by , inis Department since 1000, anu uiuso risintr under the contract made by Govfrn- ment with Watsonobo have been decided by the special commissioner appointed for that purpose, and await only the final ac tion of the Department. Having in many coses found that either" the titles to the lands on wdiich forts and fortifications are situated were incomplete, or ihe proper evidences of them did not exist in the Department, measures were promptly taken to remedy this deficiency This desirable and impoitant object has' been accomplished, and the titles are all now believed to be perfect, except that of the Pea Patch Island in the river Del aware, the right to which the Department has not yet succeeded in settling, not withstanding every effort has been made, for that purpose. The expenses of the Department have been gradually reduced, notwithstanding the cost of conduciinghostilities in Flori da. In lS37and 1838 the gross amount of expenditures was between eighteen and twenty millions, owing chiefly to the pro fuse appropriations of those and the pre ceding years; in 1839 they were reduced to less than fifteen millions, and in 1S40 td less than ten millions; being a reduction of more than eight millions in the annual ex penditure, without injury to the service. Vei v resoectfully, Your most obedient servant, J. R. POINSETT. To the President of the United States