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f . . .. ,. . ... .... Sjpatpaig W w Tpyp Trr : " 1 I I I II II I !! ! " Whole JVo. S3 1. TarborquShy(EdSecdmbe County; J C.J Saturday, Deveinhn- ii, 1 84 1 H) AT2 50. The Tarboronsrh Press, BY GEORGE HOWAim, " Is published weekly at Two Dollar and Fifty Cents per year, if paid in advance or Three Dollars at the expiration of the subscription year, for anj period less than a year, Tweili-jice tents per month. Subscribers are at liliprtv to discontinue at anytime, on giv'm r notice thereof and paying arrears inose residing at a distance, itiusl invariably pay in advance, or give a respon- Siuic imwuvu in hiit vicinity. Advertiseitients not exceeding a square will be inserted at One Dollar the first insertion, and 25 cent3 for every continuance. Lontror advertise ments in liko proportion. Court Or.lers and Ju dicial advertisements 25 per cent, higher. , -Advertisements must be marked the number of in sertions required, or they will be continued until otherwise ordered and charged accordingly. Letters addressed to the IMitor must be post paid or they may not be attended to. Pianos for Sale. WO second hand Pianos, in good r uer, lof sale on reaon.i!de term. Apply to GEO. HOWARD Tarboro, July 1. 1841. 27 WAUREATOA Female Seminary. - 3 . ' Mr. ami jUirs. UIMVES j "BliAVKthe pleasure to in I nti the Iriends oi education and the public generally, that all the departments of in sliuction in this Iaslituti n are now filKd with experienced teachers, who devtK their indiv d lal ilten i m to the i rell ci ual and moral improvement of their pu pils. By extenuing iheir supei vion to the most minute concerns -of tl.e school and securing the services of the most able and successlul teachers, they will endea vorlo render the Senuuaiy worthy oi tin patronage which it has so generally re ceived during the fcv mouths it has been in operation. 7Ir. T. IS. Windcn Ecrg. Has recently been appointed Professor of Music and entered upon his duties. Hi thorough acquaintance with the science of music, skill in imparting it, and extra ordinary execution upon the Piano and Orgin with the vocal part, have deserved ly placed him among the first of his pro fession in Philadelphia. The village of Warreriton is notorious for the salubrity of its climate, and, being situated within three miles oi the Hal eigh and Gaston Rail road, is easy of ac cess to pupils from the eastern and south ern parts of this Stale. The year is divided into two Sessions of five months each. The first, which is the beginning of the y ar commences on the first Monday in July, and closes th last Friday in N ivemher. The second commences the first 'Monday in January and closes the last Friday in May. ANNUAL EXPENSKS.' Summer Session. Hoard, per session of five months $50 00 Tuition for Knglih Blanches 12 50 fuel for School Uuonn 00 50 Stationary - 00 75 $63 75 WINTER SESSION The charge for the Winter Session is the same with the exception of Fuel which l$l 00. Extras per Session Music on the Piano S20 00 Use of Instrument 3 00 Music on Guitar 20 00 Accordian 5 00 Landscape Drawing & Painting: 10 00 Course ol Lessons in Wax Flowers 6 00 do in Wax Fruit 6 00 Various kinds of Fancy and Needle work 5 00 Mezzotinto and Chinese Painting 8 00 The Languages each 6 00 COUNCIL WM. PLUMMEU, E-q. THOS. WHITE, E.q. H. L. PLUMMEU, M D. J. B SOMERVELL, E-q. WM EATON, Jr. Eq INSTRUCTORS. N. Z. GRAVES, A. M. Prhic!jjah Mrs. K GRAVES, lr'c'Pals- J- WILCOX, Assist un I. T H. VANDEN BERG, Professor of Musc N"V. 20, 1841. - 48 5 Notice. T HE Subscriber offers for sale on very moderate and accommodating terms, JM. good Cotton Gin, u' 37 saws it is in prime order and ready for immediate use. . Also, one of Harman's Patent Thresh ln Machi nes, which with one horse it is said will 1 ' Wheat, rro nnlo nr.. I - ,1 l,nm 1 Sfl 200 bushels of peas per day. ' T GEO. HOWARD. larboro', June 3, 184 L - FOR THE TARBORO PRESS. Mr. Editor.- At the su-rgftstion of a lady I en close yQii the subjoined verses f.nr publication. 'Pis believed they have never appeared in print, They are entitled "The Bride," and I think you will concur with me in the opinion, that they are not only inexpressibly tender, but the true emana tions of the "imagination all compact." "The mere rhyming of the final syllable," says a wri ter, "even when accompanied by the presence of a certain number of feet, does not constitute the whole art of poetry." Nay, there must be some portion of fancy and imagination a liveliness of conception and a power of invention qualities be longing to those only of the true poetical temper ament. The writer is peculiarly happy in the ch oice of his similes, and seems indeed as if OVr the- harp lie threw his fingers hurriedly, and tone3 Of melancholy beauty died away Upon its strings of sweetness" Yours, very truly, Tarboro, Nov. 30th, IS 11. Take her, her earliest love was thine. And all unchanged still cling to tliee; Twining around thee like the viae .Around its chosen forest tree. Take her, a frail but lovely flower. And next thy heart the bright thing wear; And let her ne'er regrot the hour. That placed her young hopes blushing there. Take her, and when your morn of joy The visioned future oi Id s with light; Think not that bliss hath no alloy, Or that lcvM'sky is always bright. Take her, and when in after years The storms of life blow loud and chill; Be thine the hand to dry her tears, And thine the Voice to comfort still. UNITED STATES BANK. United States Bank. The . distress which the Utter bankruptcy of this institu tion has produced, is confined to no nation or tongue. The whole civilized World seems more or less involved .in its down fall and ruin. Abroad, in the minds of fo reigners, who identify the banks with the Government, our rulers are' execrated, and as a nation we are regarded as no better than outlaws and swindlers. Melancholy and disastrous as the result is to individu als, it is equally hurtful to the integrity of the States and the character of the whole country for probity and honorable dealing. Take it for all in all, it is the greatest ca lamity that has yet befallen the Union. Years of contrition and honorable mercan tile intercourse, cannot wa.sh out this foul stain. North American. A melancholy picture, but a true one, and very skillfully delineated; yet it is j strange that they who so thoroughly appre ciate the dreadful evils inflictid upon our Country by a National Bank, should he found among those who advocate the crea tion of another similar institution, and would erect a new Juggernaut while the land is still quivering from the fall of the old idol. What else can they anticipate from such a course, if it could be success ful, but results precisely of the same char acter as those which have brought down ruin at home and disgrdce abroad? We shall be told perhaps ol modified charters and restricted powers -of a "fiscality" bound in by regulations and confined by laws. But experience has taught us over and over again that a concentrated money power is not thus to be controlled regula tions, resiiicltons and laws are nothing in its e)es. With it, might makes right, and a new Bank would in all likelihood be a gain insolvent almost from its outset, again warring for political rule, again scattering bribery and corruption throughout the Uni on, again having recourse to panics and pressures to blow up at last, with its stock worth four cents in the dollar. Pennsylvanian. (Q3 The London Banker's Circular ha the following paragraph, which cuts home: "The affair of the United States Bank is too important to be huddled into a para graph amongst other matters; it must have one to itselfi The proportion of its capital held by British subjects, is nearly four millions sterling; but ii may be described as an entire loss. And this loss we ven ture, upon some consideration,' to say, is greater than tbe aggregate of all the losses sustained by the inhabitants of the British islands from the failure of banks in the country, since Mr. Patterson established the banks of England and Scotland at the close of the seventeenth century. The small population of Guernsey and Jersey nold 290,000 of the stock of this; United Mates Bank Call it an entire Ioss; and it is equal to a levy of three or four pounds on every man, woman and child in the whole community, of those islands a sum greater than was ever raised by taxation in a single year on any people in the whole world. Are these important facts? if (acts they be. Then let statesmen medi ate up n them, for by their errors and . ..... iuuuuciiuc in ueiusive uieone.s they have been produced." (J A Reverend scoundrel was lately arrested. in New Orleans for embezzling the property of a lady whose will he assist ed to make just b?fdre her death. Owing to the "tes'peciabiUty" (?) that is the word; the respectability of !he parties the culprit was bailed out of jail in the paltry sum of five hundred dollars. Never sav a gain that Justice is blind; she can see a fine cjat and a rufile shirt, although she has a b milage about her eyes. Does any one suppose that a rogue in rags would have fared as well? lluzzi! for equal law: long live the impartial administration of justice. We are a great people. ; Old. Dam. Philadelphia Punishment of Bigamy .Mrs. iJroad, alias Foster, a '"highly re- speciaoie lady,' convicted in Philadelphia ofbigamy, has been sentenced to thirt days imprisonment. . If this sentence be comes a pn cedent, polygamy will become fashionable. Mail Robbery. The great mail madr up at Augusta, Geo., on the 23d ult. for New Orleans, has been stolen, with h contents. It is supposed to have contained the New York mail of the 19th ult. A Yankee Governor. A late number of the London Courier contains the following extract of a letter from an English gentle man travelling in America. We should not have ventured its insertion, however, if we had not found it in a Vermont paper; 'I am travelling in Vermont for pleasure and information. I have journeyed five hundred miles in my own carriage, by easy stages, and have not seen a single person in my progress, to whom I should have dared to offer alms! As 1 was detain ed an hour or two a few days since, 1 saw a sturdy looking farmer pass the inn, dri ving a one horse cart loaded with wool, on which he was seated. He drove to a store, shouldered his bales of wool one after an other, and placed them in the merchant's shop. Who do you think it was? Palm er, the present Governor of Vermont!' Proportion of males and females in the United Stales That indefatigable statistician, Hazard, .has in the last num ber of his commercial and Statistical Regis ter, published a series of tables, compiled with great care from the census returns of IS 10, ahowiug the comparative male and female population of the United Slates. From these, it appears that the whole male population is as 100 to 96,52 females. The male population being 8,683, 141, and the fcinJe 3,3S0,425, thus giving an excess in ti.e United Stales of 301,716 males This is cei tainly an encouraging view for our fair young friends, as it indicates no lack of husbands, when marrying time shall come. The ratio of distribution is not uniform in all parts of the country. The States of Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island. Connecticut, and Vermont number 1, 110,011 males, and 1,124,811 femalestotal 2,234,822, being in the pro portion of 100 males to 101,33 females; td)owing in the New England States an ex ees of 14,800 females. In the Middle Stales, viz: New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware, the males are in the excess. The joint population is 4, 604,345, of which the males number 2, 326,117, and the females, 2,278,22S, or a proportion of 100 males to 97,90 females. The excess of males in these States, is 47, S69. The Southern Stales, or Marylaud, District of Columbia, Virginia, North Car olina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Florida, give an excess of 66,063 males, or a proportion of 100 males to 97.51 females Their en tire population is 5,165,244, or which 2, 6 15,654 are males, and 2,569,591 females. In the remaining, or Western States, the excess of males is 202,564, in a population of 5,05,154, or a proportion of 100 males to 92.29 females. The States in which exist an excess of females, are New Hampshire, Massachu setts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Mary land, Noith Carolina South Carolina, and ihe District of Columbia. The greatest excess is in the District of - Columbia, where the proportion is 114 98 females to 100 males. The excess of females is nu merically greater in South Carolina and Massachusetts, the first having 8,322 more woman than men and the latter 7,033. The excess of male9 over females, is nu merically greatest in Ohio, rising there to 4S.737. Next comes Illinois with 38,375 more women than men. New York fol lows, having an excess of 33,411, Indiana )3 ?7'1?4; f'4'sVina .23jl93; Missouri! -'"'N Kentucky 20,3ls; Alabama 19, 40?; Mississippi i 6,297: Michigan 15.30.9; Georgia 11.091; Pennsylvania 11,0S1; Tennessee 10.201, Arkansas 6 5S2; Wis consin 6.779; Iowa 5,598: Florida 5,307; Alaine 5,605; New J.-rsey 2,970, Vermont 1,536; and Delaware 427. One of these tables shows the propor tions amoug the white population exclu sively. It decreases the average excess of mdes in the whole popula'tieh, the propor lion of female blacks being, to the male blacks, as 100,53 to 100, or an er.resS ov i males of 7,703. The number of white males in the United States is 7,2 19.266, ;ind of white jenulos 6.939,S42 on a pro portion of 100 males to 95.73 females. The white male excess is 309,424. -rA curious result is shown when the pro portions are applied to the colored slave nd irec population, distinctly. It has been seen that, in the whole black population, there is a nrouorlion of 100.53 females to 100 males. In the free black population. which amounts to 386,245, or 186,467 males, and 199,778 females, the propor tion is 107. 13 females to 100 males; while in the black slave population, which is 2, 487,213, or 1,246,40S males, and 1,240, 805 females, the propoetion is 100 males to 99.55 females, showing an excess of fe males among the free blacks, and an excess of males among the slaves. Between Vir ginia and South Carolino there is a re markable difference. While the latter lias the large excess of 9,632 femaUs, or 106. 10 to 100 males, Virginia shows an excess of S,235 males, or lOO males to 86.39 fe males. We find by these tables that there is in New Hampshire oneslave, a woman. In Rhode Island five, 4 males, and one female. In Connecticut seven males and one female. In New York 4 slaves, all females. In Pennsylvania 64 slaves. In Ohio 2 slaves. Indiana 3, Wisconsin 1 1 ; and in Iowa 16. The tables given, close with a summary view of the proportions of the sexe?, in their different classification, which exhibits a proportion in the whole population of 100 males to 96.52 females, in the white popu lation 100 male to 9563 females, in the colored 100 to 100.53 females, in the free colored 106 to 107. 13 females, and in the slave 100 to 99.53 females. Important Medical Discovery. A late number of the London Lancet contains an interesting report of a case in the Middlesex Hospital, the result of which was import ant to the medical profession. A man was admitted into that hospital about six hours after having taken an ounce of laudanum, (containing 26 grains of opium.) At the lime of admission he was apparently life less; the surface of the body was cold, countenance pale and livid, lips purple, pu pils contracted to a mere point, respiration scarcely perceptible, pulse hardly lo be felt. The laudanum was removed by the stomach pump; but, in spite of every exer tion, the pulse became more unfrequent, and was at times imperceptible, when re course was had to electro-magnetism, which was applied by means of a small battery, with coil and contact breaker. One wire j w!i.innlipl tn thp nw.k. and the o:her to'nol was administered, and produced one the region of the heart or region ot the heart or epigastrium and by these a succession of very powerful shocks was given. The good effects were Very appaient. The muscles ot respira tion were set in action, and the diaphragm contracted powerfully; the chest was more fully expanded, respiration was more per fectly carried on, and a corresponding im provement was observed in the counten- ' ri. I J L'" ance. l he pulse improved ana oecame more powerful, becoming steady when the current was interrupted for a few minutes This application was continued for several hours, and was finally successful; thus clearly establishing the influence of electro- magnetism under circumstances hitherto considered hopeless. Neio Machine A German paper states that a new machine for spinning and twist ing silk, of which report speaks favorably, has been invented by a person named Hen ry Gref, a Swiss from Malhausen, who is now in Si. Petersburg. It is expected that by this new machine silk thread may be manufactured by a single ope ration, and without the application of spin dies. - Green and Dry Wood. It t jadicidUS ly remarked, in the'Maine Farmer, that a cord of Green Wood contains 1,443 pounds of water, equal to about one hogshead and two barrels. This should be borne in mind by those who haul wood to market; for by cutting down ihe wood and suffering it to dry some lime before it is brought to mar ket, causes the load, (a cord) to be more than a thousand pounds lighter, and ot course hauling wood is so much ies injuri ous to the horses that draw it. Besides this advantage to the wood-stlier, the wood-buyer would have a much better fire Many regard it as extravagant to burn dry wood, because it burns out faster than the green. So it does, but your room gets the advantage of being well and quickly watme i rjy the thy wood whde a green wood fire keeps you shivering for hours, and when it burns down, your room is not half warmed; for the very good reason, that a large portion of the heat has been carried up the chimney, in the form of steam from the moist wood. In a Tovvn like ours, where there are no chimneysweeps; ihcre is another advan tage in using dry wood; it requires very htle 1 ght-wood to make it burn; and chim 'ey, therefore, do not so sooii become fool, which lessens the danger of the house taking fire from sparks, or IlAes" ti" burn ing soot. S. C. Advocate. Nutmegs. A correspondent wishes to caution the public through the medium of our paper agin.st the deleterious effects of a too free use of Nutmeg. He ays:-- "Havi ng recently purchased the article; I took a broken One and put into my poclt et and in the course of six houiS I had eat en about half of one. Soon after, I ft It a dizziness- arid an unacountable derange ment of intellect transient loss of meino' ry yet a perfect consciousness of all that I s;iid, or did. I became remaikahly p quacioui and seemed to be neither in ifris world nor the other, fell hapnv and free from any pain I was truly in an iudes- citbable stale. I felt as I have supposed one might feel, that had been magnetized; My friends were g;eatly alarmed, and the doctor was sent for, post haste Bleeding was proposed but, as J thought 1 knew at least as much as any one, I was not will ing to be bled. After keeping them laugh ing and cryingtill about 1 1 o'clock at night, 1 retired to bed, without any thing having been done for me. 1 awoke in the morn tug and was as well as usual, having never been sick a-day in my life. Since this oc currence, several cases have come to my knowledge in which persons having eaten of nutmeg, we?e affected the same as I hail been. Had I eaten a very little more l have no doubt it would have proved fatal. as I learn it has been, in other cases." New Fork Commercial Advertiser. Tobacco a remedy for Arsenic. A young lady in New Hampshire fell into the mistake, so often committed, of eating a portion of arsenic, which had been prepar ed for the destruction of rats. Painful symptoms soon led to inquiry; and her mistake was discovered. ' An elderly lady who was present, advised that she should be made to vomit as speedily as possible, and as she had always felt a perfect loath ing for tobacco in every shape, it was sup posed that this would at once effect the purpose. A pipe was used but without producing nausea. She next chewed a large portion of strong tobacco, and swal lowed ihe juice, and that even without a sensation of disgust. A strong decoction was then made of hot water, of which she drank pei haps half a pint. Still there was neither nauseau nor dizziness, nor did it operate at all, either as an emetic or cathartic. The painful sensations at her stomach however, subsi ded, and she began lo feel well. On the arrival of physicians, an emetic ot blue vit- operation. One or two days alter there was a discharge of dark green color, ap proaching to black. No ill consequences followed; Another case occurred in the sahie place" a few years subsequent, in which arsenic" wa taken through mistake, by a sick per-s son, and she employed tobacco with the same success. She, too, had always loath-; ed tne article, but now chewed it, and swallowed the saliva, without producing sickness at the stomach. No emetic was administered nor any other remedy. Dreadful Fire in the ToWer of Lon don. The far-famed Tower of London including, 4The Grand Storehouse and small Armory, 31 containing, in addition to an almost innumerable quantity of trophies and other evidences of British glory, no less a number than 300,000 stand of arms, Sic, has recently been totally destroyed by fire. It is stated that the damage sus tained by the building, together with the arms destroyed, cannot be replaced for less than one million sterling. (jJA woman in England, the other5 day actually dislocated her lower jaw vtfhlle scolding at her husband. He com pelled her to nod affirmation to a solemn oath that she would not scold again, be fore he permitted the surgeon to mend the dislocation. Tight Lacing It is said that the French Fashionables have discarded tight lacing and thai the Grecian models, which are only the fair and ' beautiful proportions of nature, are henceforth to be the stand ards of fashions fur ladies' waisls- iuslcad of ihe wasp, hour glys, &.e. Sond the loud ua.biei o'er hill, valley and sea. The tape-strings are broken, and the wo mea arc free!