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Tarborough, (Edgecombe County, J C.J Saturday, August i t, 1841
VoLXVllXo S3.
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NEVER LOOK SAD.
Xever look sal, nothing so bad
As netting familiar with sorrow;
Treat hi'" to-day in a cavalier way,
And he'll seek other quarters to-morrow.
Loth you'd not weep, could you but keep
Atthebrisht side of every tiiil;
Fortune you'd find, is often most kind,
When chilling your hopes with denial.
Let the sad day carry away,
Its ow n little burden of sorrow,
Or you may miss half of the blis3
That comes in the lap of to-morrow.
New Orleans, July 23, 1S41.
INTENDED REVOLT.
Intelligence was received yesterday by tin:
packet steamer Clipper, from Bayou Sara,
ofa systematized plan on the part of the
negroes to rise upon and murder the
whites. The news, greatly exaggerated
in its repetition, has created quite a sensa
tion in town. The truth is certainly
sufficient to occasion serious apprehen
sions. The particulars that vc have received
are these:
The overseer of the plantation of Rob't
J. Barrow, of West Feliciana, having oc
casion to arise from his bed late in one of
the recent hot nights, heard what he believ
ed to be negroes conversing in one of the
quarters. On silently approaching the vi
cinity anil listening, he overheard two of
the slaves discussing the subject of a rising
against the whites. This lead to the exam
ination the next morning of the two fel
lows, when they confessed the fact, and
gave information that led to the arrest of
several others. The alarm was immediate
ly spread abroad, arrests were made in va
rious plantations, and it was found by the
confessions that they all agreed in the main
facts, that there was to be a general rise,
and that the first of August was the day
agreed upon.
A white man, a carpenter, who had late
ly done a job of work for Mr. Harrow,
'asalso arresled on suspicion, and examin-
ne said he had nothing to do with
the plot that he had never said any thing
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to the negroes on the subject, but acknowl
edged that they frequently spoke to him,
and informed him all about it.
This white man with about 40 negroes,
Uofwhom had confessed their knowledge
fthe intended rising, were in the jail at
St. Francisville, guarded by a company of
Volunteers. The examination by a compe
tent tribunal was to have commenced yes
today at 10 A. M.
At Wood vi lie, we learn numerous slaves
Wete confined in the jail, having confessed
lthe same facts as those arrested at Feli
ciana. 9?- Laurent states that on stopping at
"int Coupee, to communicate information
' the situation of the affairs above,
8everal gentlemen recollected occurrences
' recent date which tended to confirm the
8uspicions that the slaves of their section
were parlies to the wicked plot. Doct.
7 said he had been asked what day
0,the month it was, by more negroes,
jwuhiw the last ten days, than in seven years
?!.orerand herehad been unusual assem
bles of the slaves, in rather by-places, for
everal Sunday's past.
Some of the negroes have confessd that
Natchez Ba'U SaFa t0
Jt may not be amiss to remark, that the
Potations in Feliciana and Wilkinson
who
-iy irom which the slaves were taken
imprisoned, are owned by the
"lost
the s Calthy and rentable planters of
estate, whose kind and humane treat-
iot their slaves is proverbial.
Bulletin.
foSr St Lou8 Gazette, speaking of
is m ' a nnS-leadenn the late St. Lou
"Orders, says:
AsaR W,aS brn m Vir&'lnia the slave of
Pa,:r?ck manand was sold when 12 or 15
a01 age to a negro trader by the name
of Blakey and taken to New Orleans
lie soon obtained the full confidence of his
master returned vvilh him to Maryland and
was encouraged by him to tell "false tales
to si aves, whom we wished to purchase, and
to aid him in coaxing oil, or in stealing and
secreting others. The slaves were told
that his master was from a free state, and
that they would be taken to Canada, out of
the reach of their masters. To the women
and girls, he held out the prospects of mar
rying rich white men, and of living in style
and splendor. Blakey, in connexion with
his partner, having collected from SO to 100
.slaves, started by land to N. Orleans. Uu
ineir return !o Washiuirton, a plan was
formed by which Madison's master was to
sell him as often as he could, after which
he was to run away and go back to him.
lie was sold in this way to Mr. Clay, at
Washington, for Si 300, and soon after
joined his master in B.dtimore. He was
aflerwards sold for Si 000, in Virginia and
returned as before. Near Orange court
house, he st iles that his master robbed the
vault of a merchant of a large amount of
money and bills, amounting to about SlOO,-
000, and se! fire to the building, which was
entirely destroyed. On their return to
New Oilcans, Madison was sold to Mr.
Mlanchard, and the purchase 900, vvas
given by his former master to him as a re
ward for his fidelity. After this he was
engaged, as he states, with a man named
James line!, a clerk of Mr. Blanehird's, in
obtaining goods on forged orders. Soon
afler, Madison concealed himself in the
store of Mr. Williams, which he robbed
of S300. Afterwards, the store of Mr. J.
II. Fields, of Dienville street, was robbed
of S3000; and, in company with a man by
the name of Learned, S-700 was obtained
from the bank on a check altered from
S200. About this time a partner, named
David Rook, was taken into the concern,
and the firm turned their attention to steal
ing negroes, running them to Mobile and
selling them at auction Such are a very
few of the cases of negro stealing, robbery,
and other acts of villiany, in which Madi
son was engaged previous to his coming to
St Louis.
Here, he was engaged, with others, in
robbing the stores of Mr. J. R. Scott, Mr.
Goodell, Messrs. Braun &. Hollander, Sin
clair, Taylor &. Co., and E. & A. Tracy;
and here his infamous career has been
brought to a close on the scaffold.
Contradicted. The Philadelphia
Catholic Herald denies the story, lately
published on the authority of Mr. Castelli,
of the imprisonment of Dr.Reese,an Amer
ican bishop, by the Pope. A young gen
tleman of that city, just returned from
Rome, says that he saw Dr. R. public
ly in the streets, as free as the Pope him
self. Shakcrism. Mr. Carter, a renouncing
shakei, visited this place a few weeks since
and gave two or thiee lectures on shaker
ism, and sung some twenty songs, danced,
exposed Miller's theory, and several oth
er things for the amusement of his audi
ence. 1 tie shakers creed is a very curious
one. Thev believe in one God and two
persons in the Godhead male and fe
male, or Father and Mother called Pow
er and Wisdom.
They believe that Adam was the Father
of the Old Creation, and Lve was the
Mother both being created afler the im
age of God; and thai Christ is the Father
of the new Creation, and Ann Lee the
Mother and that the Millenium com
menced with the appearance of Ann Lee
on earth.
They believe in the immortality of an
imals as well as of men. They say that
John saw horses in the world of spirits, as
rprorded in Revelations. Ihey believe
that all the uglv and venomous animals on
earth are .symbolical of the evil spirits
that inhabit the lower regions ol the invis
ible world, and that all the beautiful crea
tures, such as birds with georgeous plu
mage, are symbolical of ihe good spirits in
the mansions ol bliss.
They believe that the souls of shakers,
in their trances and visions, really visit
the heavenly world. The lancet has
heen annlied to them, and their flesh
been scarified while in this state, wilhoul
producing a particle of blood. One person
who visited the land ot spirits in a trance,
saw all the patriarchs and kings of the old
en times; saw king Liaviu travelling, and
Solomon on a snow white horse; saw Christ
and all the apostles.
Newbury port IValchlower.
Resuscitation from Drowning. A
boy about 8 years of age fell into the river
a Haverhill, one day last week, and his
body was not recovered until it had been
nrwW w.iter a ol ten minutes, lie was
then taken to a dwelling house near by,
where the application of warm blanket
tip frirtion had the desired effect
of restoring life, though to all appearance
the child was dead, his face and hands hav-
ing become discolored, and pulsation en
tirely ceased.
In remarking upon this case, Dr. Spofford,
of the Haverhill Gazette, says that many
persons in the case of a drowned person,
are disposed as the first relief, to roll the
body on a barrel, the consequences of
which in our opinion, is certain death, if
any chance is remaining. We believe that
not one in a hundred would be restored by
this method, while the amplication
of warmth in any manner, by blankets or
a warm bed, will restore ninety-nine in a
hundred.
Dtathofa Hero. Gen. Samuel Dale.
one of the bravest of the Pioneers of the
South West, died at his residence in Lau-
lerdale County, Mississippi, on the 23d of
April. A writer in the JNatchez Free
Trader, relates the following incidents in
his life:
44 Vs a scout a nilot to the emigrants
who blazed the first path through the Creek
nation, from Georgia to the Tombigbee,
wim arms in their hands; and subsequent-
y, as a spy anions the Spaniards at Pensa-
coh, and as a partisan officer during the
most sanguinary epochs ol the late war
present at every butchery remarkable
for hairbreadth escapes; for caution & cool
ness in desperate emergencies; for exhibi
tions of gigantic personal strength, and un
daunted moral courage his story is stud
ded over with spirit-stirring incidents, un
surpassed by any thing in legend or histo
ry, liis celebratsd Canoe Unlit where
unaided, in the middle of the Alabama,
then in its spring flood, he fought seven
warriors with clubbed rilles and killed
them all, and rowed to shore with the
corpse of his last antagonist under his feet,
would be thought tabulous, it it had not
been witnessed by twenty soldiers stand
ing near the bank, who not having a boat.
could render him no assistance.
"Some years ago he was attacked bv
two warriors who shouted their warhoop
as. he was Kneeling down to drink, and
made a rush at him with their tomahawks
He killed them both, and though bleed
ing irom live wounds he retraced their
trail nine miles, creDt stealthily to their
camp, brained three sleeping warriors, and
cut the thongs of a female prisoner, who
lay by their side. While in ihis act, how
ever, a fourth snranir unon him from be-
hind a log. Taken at such a disadvantage,
and exhausted by the Joss ol blood, he
sank under the serpent grasp of the savage,
who, with a yell ot triumph, drew his
knife, and in a few moments would have
closed the contest. At that instant, how
ever, the woman drove a tomahawk deep
into the head of the Indian, and. thus pre
served the life of her deliverer."
The Force of Sumnathv. The Sandv
Hill Herald tells the following good anec
dote:
I'll lell vou. savs an ex-member of
Congress in Michigan, "how 1 secured my
election in this district several years ago.
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v hen 1 was nominated, me party 10 wnicn
I belonged was in the minority, and there
was no hone of succeeding unless some-
thing more than ordinary was resorted to.
After reflecting some time 1 came to the
conclusion to steal a hog from one of my
neighbors, which I did, and in the morn
ing the neighbor traced me to my dwell
ing, and ascertained beyond a doubt that I
was the thief, and published me as such;
when I immediately appealed to the sym
pathy of the people, and asked them if they
thought 1 would steal a nogr iney swai
Iriwprl the bait said it was persecution on
the part of the neighbor, who was political
ly opposed to me; and ine consequence
waj I was triumphantly elected. But the
next time 1 was a candidate for the same
office, a Yankee, from Vermont, was the
opposing candidate, who having learned
the secret, stole a sheep, and run me sky
high."
(TpThc Concord, N. H. Statesman, in
announcing the death of Miss Eunice
Choat, aged 40, states the follwing curious
particulars respecting her:
After she had grown to womanhood, she
lost the power of speech, and for about ten
years, she never uttered a single articulate
sound', yet all this time, her senses were
perfect,' and her physical faculties in other
respects unimpaired; all her correspondence
was carried on by writing. Her speech
went from her in so remarkable a manner,
that it has not been satisfactorily accounted
far as yet, and often both she and her
friends had supposed that she would never
i.rain speak, but in an instant her speech
returned again and she spake as freely as
ever, and it is equally as unaccountable
how'she recovered her speech.
New tight. The National Intelligen
cer states that a series of experiments are
, u0nr made, under the order of the
cn.ot,rr of the Treasury Building, for
the purpose of testing the production of
Oarburetted nyi"se uum
.r.u ciiwprv or white birch tree. These
J .experiments have been directed with a
! view of introducing a bftW and more e
iiiuujiiMi ugni ior ine ngninouses on our
ua;i. 1 lie meinoa 01 manmaciuring un
gas, is an invention of Mr. Robert Grant,
of Maine. The birch tree, from which
the bark used in these experiments is ob
tained, is found in abundance in our North
ern States, and upon all the mountainous
ridges throughout the continent of N. A
meriea. It throws off a large quantity of
fine carburetted hydrogen gis, upon the
application ofa very low heat, which tras
requires to be passed through a few gallons
"f water only, to cleanse it from all impu
rities. Money Market abroad. A late Lon
don piper says: The prospect of the Amer
icans coming into the London market oner
more as borrowers, a prospect with which
we are threatened by a paper of the last ar
rival, has created a strong feeling of tht
propriety of resisting every attempt to send
money to a country where the legal and
moral obligation of Diviner State debts i
still an unsettled question, rather calcuhred,
to elicit the ingenuity ofihe disputant linn
likely to be solved to the satisfaction of ih
lender. A correspondent suggests that tin
ursi enort 01 the kind should he met bv
ihe publication ofa resolution by the com
mittee of Stock-Exchanere against the in
troduction of any fresh loans until all the
Stales have paid up their arrears of divi
dends, and havegiven security for future
payment. J his measure, throwing obs a
cles in the way of every State, on accoun'
of the defalcations of a f 1 w of them,
would be somewhat severe, but the uusalt
appearance of affairs generally is such that
the people of the United Slates must not
be surprised if the resolutions adopted here
are more than ordinarily stringent.
The National Debt. The Conser
vative Star and Times has the following ar
ticle:
" The Loan. It is said that the njrents
of several English bankers are now in this
country, with authortiy to take part of
the new Government loan of 512,000,-
000."
The agents of English bankers are not
only ready to take a mortgage of twelve
minions on the land labor ot the United
Slates, and pay them in British eroods. but
they are kind enough to attend at Washing
ton, and to aid by their counsel and advice,
in carrying out the Federal measures of re
lief to the people, by running them in debt
to obtain the means ot loaning money
through a great Bank, to speculators, and
stock jobbers. The scheme for bringing
mis country into pecuniary subservien
cy to the stock operators of England, is in
a train ot accomplishment, rirst, we are
to have a national debt like England : then
a National Bank like England; to these
will succeed an assumption ot the State
debts, or a mortgage of the public domain
to the fund-mongers of England, to secure
them one hundred dollars for sixty dollars
paid by them on U12 stocks ol many of the
Mates. 1 he public domain, instead ol be
ing reserved for ihe henefit of freemen, ami
subject to their control, is to be mortgaged
10, ano controieu oy, tne lordly siock-joo-beas
of London. Albany Argus
Anew Medical Theory A German
physician has published a medical tract, in
which he maintains that ladies of weak
nerves should not be permitted to sleep
alone. It is said this book is in great
demand. Bait. Sun.
fJA distressing accident occurred on
the Fredericksburg Rail Road the other
morning, as the Coal train of Cars Was
starting out. A woman named Jane Grace
an inebriate -was standing upon the
track, and as the cars neared her, fell in the
attempt to escape, and was crushed under
Ihe wheels of the engine.
(TThe death of Mr. F. T. Jerman,
in the City of New Haven, a few days
since, created a great degree of feeling in
the whole of that intelligent community.
Mr. Jerman was one of the most respecta
ble members of the community, lie was
in the meridian of life eminently pious
an officer of the Church active in all
benevolent objects surrounded by a do
mestic circle that he was particularly fond
of favored with a delightful residence,
and having a handsome competency and a
prosperous business. Yet with all these
comforts he gradually became melancholy,
which finally ended in an aberration of
mimij and in one of these moments of se
vere gloom he put a period to his existence
in the cellar of his own house, suspending
himself by his handkerchief,
Every man is religious. A clergyman
was conversing with a parishoner on the
importance ofa due observance of the Sab
bath, and was surprised to find his com-
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panion reaany seconded nis views uu ine
subject. 'Why, neighbor Jones, you of
ten drive your team, and even go a hunt
ing on the Sabbath.' 'True,' replied
Jones, bnt thrn on those occasions I al
ways whisile psahn tunes.'
To Cure a Bum A Ladv," in the
Ivnoxville Register, gives the following re
cipe for a burn. "Scarce a month passes
away but we read or hnarof nme accident
cruised by fire. I send you the following
prescription for a burn, believing that if it
were generally known, that much suffer
ing might be alleviated. Take a spoonful
f lard, half a table spoonful of spirits of
turpentine, and a piece of rosin as big as a
hickory nut, and simrn r them together till
melted. It makes a salve, which, when
cold, may be applied to a linen cloth and
laid over the burn. If immediately want
ed, Sj.read it on the cloth as soon as melted
it will very soon cool. I have seen it
pplied after corroding effects of chemical
poisons, after a foot has been horned by
bo ling sugar, afler severe scalds, and in
every case the sufferer obtained perfect
ease in ten or fifteen minutes after it vva9
used, It may be applied two or three times
1 day, or as often ss the cloth becomes
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dry.
Diarrhoea. People need not be long
troubled with that disorder, so generally
prevalent at this season, commonly known
as the Summe r or Howel Complaint, when
the certain remedy therefor may be found
on every man's table, in the shape of salt
and vinegar. Two tea spoonsful of the
former, lisolved in a half a gill of the lat
ter, and swallowed at a draught, will in
most case- effect an insiantcure. The sec
ond dose, if needed, will ass ircdly accom
plish it. We are ready to give our certi
ficate to Dr. Fickle in the premises, for we
have witnessed the proof Quod erat de
monstrandum which is as much as to
ay, in Dutch, -it hasch been tried."
This recipe should be published annually,
every summer. lanlucKci mq.
Good. A gentleman in Alabama, has
taken out a patent for the French Guillo
tine, on a small scale, and is selling the
right as a shingle cutter.
"John, how does it happen that you,
who tried so hard to get your wife, through
a long courtship of four 3-cars, now that
you have won the prize, seem to care so lit
tle about her!'7 Why, boss, Til tell you.
I've heard ofa man who wanted to jump
over a stone wall. He took a good start and
run a mile, and when he got up to the wall
he was so tired that he had to lie down
and go to sleep by the side of it. Now,
I loved my wife so hard and so long before
I could get her, that I found my love had.
all run out when I had her fast.
(Jp'Say Pi.t, are the days longer in TitJ
land, than in this country?" "Longer! aye,
you may well 5ay it, antl not only longer,
but thei e area great many more of them!"
Going to Texas. Not long since might
have been seen on the Vricksburg road a
staid looking old gentleman on horseback,
with his coat buttoned tight round him
and an Umbrella hoisted over his head, pto-
tecting him from a drizzling rain that had
that evening "set in" with every indica
tion ofa continuance. His horse moved
sluggish along, as though jaded by a long:
journey. The rider seemed anxiously
looking tor a whereabouts to pass tho
night, when a fire a short distance from the
road attracted his attention. He rode to
the spot, and beheld, what is very common
in this section of the country, an encamp
ment of a family "a moving." By the fire,
with logs of wood for pillows and each
wrapped in a blanket, was lying two fe
males' near them a small child. Leaning
against the fore-wheel of the wagon was a
lad of about ten or eleven years of age; ho
wore a pair of linsey-woolsey trowsers,
too short for him, a roundabout that reach
ed down half way from his shoulders to his
waist, no hat, and possessing one of those
tow-heads of hair so frequently to be met
with among the piney wood nondescripts
of Alabama. There he stood cry ing most
vociferously.
"Ba! a a a Ba! a a!" roared
piney wood.
The old gentleman rode up to him, and
in a tone of voice calculated to soothe tho
lad's distress, addressed him:
"What's the matter, my son?"
"Matter! Fire and d n, stranger!
Don't you see mammy there shaking with
the ager! Da Idy's gone a fishing! Jim's
got every cent of money there is, playing
poker at a bit antee! Hob Stokes is gone
on ahead with Nance! Srd's so corned
she don't know that stick of wood from
seven dollars and a hall ! Every one of the
horses is loose! There is no meal in tho
kvaggon! The skillet's broke! The ba
by's in a 'bad fix,' and it's half a mile to
the creek! and I don't care a d n if I
never see Texas ! ! ! "
"Ba! a a a Ba! a a!"
The old gentleman give spur to his horse
md again moved forward, not having any
Jesirc to prolong his chance visit to a fami
ly going to Texas. Yazoo Whig.
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