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Tarhnmusthi ( Edgecombe County, JS C.) bulimlay, May 1 I,
Vol. XV til wVo 19
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AN IRISH I.ETTKR.
t)ear Jim, I'm now after writing a letter.
As perhaps by this same you'll be able to see
AnH as for ourselves we are well if nut hetier,
If you are as well when this finds you from me.
1 ?enA my old rusty brown coat by the bearer,
From which you may make a new one for your
self; And your mother oh! long may the saints above
spare her
Encloses five pounds unbeknown to myselfi
Now lay it all out, not for show, but for use,
Deposit the rest in some one of the banks;
If you don't, let me tell you, my boy, you're a
goose.
Good counsel costs nothing, so spare me your
thanks.
You're old blind grandad dy has got a new shanty.
From which he can have a fine view of the Lif
fey: I've no room to request you would write to your
amity
So that in my next the mail's off in a jifTey.
THE BLUSH.
What is the flower of fairest dye,
That, softly pleasing, strikes the eye!
It is the beauteous female blush,
That modest rose,
Which recommends the lovely bush,
On which it glows.
'fis love's own eloquence, which speaks
Directly to and from the heart,
Pourtraying on the modest cheek
What trembling lips dare not imparti
MR. BKOWN'S SPEECH.
Extract from the Sneech of Mr. Charles
n r n i i'ii 4 .. i., ,i'
Brown, of Pa. on the bill to reduce the ;
' .,,,,,, r n i
cxpences oi me u. o. noose o, iT.
tatives delivered in the House on Febru
ary ISth, IS 12.
There was nothing, he said, in all the
machinery of our government, within this
ten miles f-quare, or elsewhere, that reflect- heivdd: on the next day the messenger
ed back the character of the American peo- 'called and took it away he was not the
pie, or the substantial simplicity of their brtwn of the right color for which lhat lib
republican institutions. Let any plain cit- eral supply was intended,
izen, from any part of the country, no Mr. J. B-own, of Pennsylvania, here
m tier what might be his situation in'life rose and asked Mr. B. what gentleman he
hih or low unconscious of the fact, be . referred lo
transported into this hall would he be- He referred, Mr. B said, to his worthy
lieve himself in the house where the repn-' namesake from Tennessee, Milton
scntativesof the American people assem-! Brown, who gave them -ich an excellent
bled to make their laws? Let him look up lecture yesterday on economy, retrench
to lhat lofty dome, with all its atchitectur- j ment, and reform. Tins was nothing, he
aland sculptural garniture and gorgeous presumed, derogatory to any gentle, nan's
drapery: and, instead of his being in a character. It was common, he supposed,
house for the representatives of the Amer-j and no (''V'dual would he considered
ican people, he would suppose himself in j blamable for it. Mr. B. then went on
some ancient temple ot the heathen gods,
or some enchanted ctle told of in Arabian
tales. Nor that house and hall alone, but
other places and other scenes all and eve
ry thing connected with the administration
of the government of the people, was unlike
the people themselves, and not of them,
nor for them; but seemed to him as if it had
all been got up, and kept up for the people
to gize at with admiral ion, wonder, and
awe, rather than to win iheir.love and con
fidence by its simplicity, utility, and puri
ty its adaptationto meet their wants, or
to effectively execute their will. Mr. B.
s.iid he was no Goth or Vandal die did
not wish to pull down any thing lhat was
really great or good, or to see any thing
connected with the government mean or
grovellingl,ut all should be plain, sub
stantial, economical, and useful; and all
who serve their country should serve it as
they serve their lellow-cit zens, with fideli
ty and industry, and should receive a just
and full compensation for such service no
less, no more.
Besides this excess of compensation, he
felt satisfied, from what observations he had
been able to make, that there was an excess
of persons employed to do the public busi
ness. This, however, was not the place to
consider this biauch of the subject.
This much he had thought it proper to
say in regard to the matter of retrenchment
and reform as it applied to the administra
tion of the government generally.
So far as it related to the subject now
under consideration the expenses of the
House he thought there was as much
room for reform there as any where else.
Many of the expenditures of the llo ise
were unncessiry and etr;ivar nil ly high.
Let the ileun go out to ihe country to our
cities villages, and himleU and'm irk the
astonishment with which ihev would he
vicvved. I le asked what had become of
the objects of expenditure which swelled
np the contingent fund of the 1 tsl Congress?
lie would read, a list of them: &
Here Mr. 11. read a list of expenditures,
among which were
2, it! I reams of envelope paper S12.-1SS 5f)
1. y'i.i tlo. quarto post
l,7s7 do. foolscap
4SI do. note piper
3.i'3 gross steel pens
2, soi pounds sealing-wax
16. 1)00 quills
1,810 dozen tapes
iM do. penknives
4 t gross le ul pencils
1,S54 pounds twine
S( dozen inkstands
G7 do. ivory folders
52 do. ivory seals
1, 1 70 p'Hinds of wafers
50 doz n tin boxes
250 do ink
1,000 papers of black sand
Making 25 200 pein
Blank books and ruling
piper
121 portfolios
Candles
400 gallons oil
If
12,57d 50
!,:! 7 00
2. I3 Hi
2 9-2 25
3, ()02 2 1
1,(57 00
1.135 40
2 201 00
516 00
823 87
571 25
326 50
31.0 50
1,183 03
380 00
S5I 78
50 00
12 50
1,415 85
S.9S 24
1,610 46
43 7
4.816 53
7.JJ14 20
norses am
wagons
Extra clerk hire
Extra compensation to
el Tks 3,500 00
Ext ra compensation to
messengers 20,070 00
Clerk's expenses to New
York twiccand Boston 350 00
Two reams of note-paper for each mem
her! What member there had used two
j reams of note-paper? He himclf had not
used a single sheet. What member would
acknowledge that he had used so much?
Here some member asked Mr. B. if he
was speaking of the present Congress?
He was speaking, Mr. B. said, of the
last Congress, each individual and both par
lies being responsible. Let any whig
member of the last Congress rise in his
place, and say he has not taken his full
share! And let them deny that they did
not use thousands of dollars worth of the
public stationary for electioneering purpo
ses in 1840.
He would mention an incident that came
within his notice at the extra session. He
found at. his room, a day or two before the
end of the session, a ream of note paper, a
V ret
ream ol letter, and a ream of foolscap,
. vh, ti,v of nlI waf sealing-
wax, sand, &c, that had been left there bv
one of the messengers of the House. He
was surprised to find that all this stations
ry had '"Cn provi.ie.i lor mm; out,
lo and
reading iroui uie ui. nei i:, sain or, ;tiu
1,000 penknives How m my did each
member get? He g t but one. Next
come candles and oil over two thousand
dollars. The I louse must have had a great
many night sessions to have consumed so
vast a quantity of oil and candles. The
matter of stationary alone was shamefully
extravagant; and whm we talk, said he, a
bout reform, let us deprive ourselves of
these perquisiies which cost so much mo
ney, and which do not at all promote the
public service.
From the Nuichi z Free Trader.
ROMANTIC STORY.
The Boston Times says "lhat some one
lately attempted to murder a sleeping wo
man bv pouring hot lead into her ear, and
that so shocking a circumstance was never
heard of before. " This is a mistake. A more
remarkable instance occurred some years
ago, in Virginia. We personally knew all
p.rlies intimately. Col. F , a gentleman
of high respectability and frequently a
representative from his county, died leaving
a wife, some sons, and a very beautiful
daughter, about fifteen years of age. The
widow, finding herself destitute, opened a
boarding house at the county seal, & among
her boarders was Mr. W. a wealth v
merchant, in the meridian of life, and ;
very fine looking man. This gentleman
was the prop and slay of the family, gave
employment to the sons, furnished means
to educate the daughter in the most fashion
able manlier, aud conceived for her a vio
lent passion. On hrr return from school, he
addressed her, but she resisted alike his
PI '?'s ml the importunities of her mother
and friends. She had indeed, ' formed an
dlaehin.'nl for a very nice young man in
he same town, but he was not to be put in
competition with the rich merchant, in the
stinntiori of the family. The young lady,
perhaps, thought otherwise. Finally, how
ever, after two years of assiduity and deli
cate gallantry on the part of Mr. VV. and
the combined tears, entreaties, threa's and
persecution of the family, the fair girl stood
before the a liar and became his wife. The
next evening a large party was given them,
ami in the midst of the dance Mr. VV being
suddenly atacked with vertigo and sick
head ache, was compelled to withdraw.
His young wife hungover him in the silent
watches of night, apparently in deep dis
Iress & insisted on giving him a potion. She
poured out a wine glass full of laudanum,
and he
swallowed it without knowing its
nature. From some cause, it immediatel
acted as an emetic, but left him stupid and
wandering. His senses reeled. One mo
ment he would lay motionless and comatose
as if on i he borders of the spirit world, and
hen he would shriek and leap up con vol
sively like a strong man in his agony. Mrs.
W. denied all admission into the chamber
At lengih he fell into a gentle slumber. She
then stooped for a moment over tne smoul
dering em hersapproached the bed, gazed
at her sleeping husband, and holding a heat
ed ladle in ht-r hand, calmly prepared to
pour a stream of melted lead into his ear.
At that instant he moved, and the hissing li
quid intended to penetrate to, and scald out
h.s brain, and thus cause death without a
trace, lell upon his cheek. He shouted in
excruciating pain, and the merry revellers,
moiher, brothers and friends, rushed in.
There writhed ihe still stupid husband, th
h ad rivetted deep in his cheek, and there
stood the fiend wife, her bridal fillets yet
upon her brow, the instrument of death in
h'-r hand and an empty phial labelled 44 Lau
danum, " lying on the floor. The fearful
realities of the case fl ished on every one,
and in the confusion of the moment, she dis
appeared, and was hurried forthwith out of
the Commonwealth to a distant State. On
searching the room an old F rench Magazine
was found containing the death-bed confes
sion of a woman, who had murdered nine
husbands by pouring lead in their ears. The
laudanum and lead, it was ascertained, she
had procured from the store of Mr. W a
few days before the marriage, and the ladle
used was a part of the bridal pre-ent. The
GrandJurynext morning found a bill against
the fugitive, and the Legislature being
in session, immediately decreed a final and
absolute divorce. What renders this case
the more singular is, that Miss T. was
proverbial for the blandnessof her manner,
and the uniform softness of her temper.
She was a blond. The rose leaf tinted her
lillv cheek as a sunbeam glows on snow.
Her blue eyes were indescribably sweet,
and her golden hair floated like drapery of
gossamer, round a form more perfect ami
voluptuous, than ever Raphael dreamed of
or Petrarch sung. Otten have we gazed, as
she stood the cynosure of every circle, and
wondered if angels could be so fair.
But the sequel of this romance is more
singular still. Years rolled by and Mr. W
continued a wretched and solitary man. But
the spell of the enchantress was still upon
his soul. He closed his stores sold out his
estates collected his ample means and fol
lowed her to her distant abode, to make a
new offer of his hand! She had just mar
ried a man of high standing, aware of all the
circumstances, but incapable of resisting her
charms. Poor W. ! Then indeed, did the
iron enter his soul. The deadlv arrow
quivered in his side." His early love his
fluctuating courtship his triumph and the
tragedy it occasioned the flight, the divorce
his years of misery the new birth of
passion and now its disappointment final
and forever came rushing over him like
an avalanche, in the tides of bitter memories
and painful sorrow, and he prayed for
death! Whether this prayer was an
swered we know not. lie may yet wan
der broken hearted over the earth; but one
thing we do know: If he be dead, a more
wretched, yet a purer and nobler spirit,
never winged its flight to Heaven.
Tricks on Ihe South. It appears that
there are a few speculating individuals in
New York, says the Herald, who are con
stantly in the habit of looking over the
Southern and Western newspapers, to see
what negroes are therein advertised as hav
ing run away. And as fast as they find
out, they write on lo the owners, stating
that the negro in question has arrived in
New York, and that the wriicr can catch
him. But first the master must remit the
writer twenty dollars, to pay preliminary
expenses, and afterwards remit one hun
Ired dollars to clear the account. Tin
vriier impudently adds that he has a good
leal of trouble with these things, and a mul
tiplicity of business on his hands, and tha
if ihe owner is not disposed to go through
.vith the thing, and pr)secute it to the ut
nost, henced'nt trouble the wiiter at all.
Now, g- ueral'y, the hait is liken, and ihe!
monev remitted; ami the master find? too
h'le, that the m gm has uevr been oil hi
plantation, or at most on t of ihe conniy.
Hal He;. .
(jJMr. Car.v, t'te Baltimore lecturer
give a farewell Led ore; on Poesdae even
ing. He stated that he should leave behind
him in North Carolina twelve thousand
Washingtoniaus. ih.
f?.T3'rhp Senate have rejected the nnm
inaiionof.l. W. Tyson of Philadelphia
lor the office of Cooimisarv Ceoeial of
Purchases, by a vote of 2lJ to II. The
'Madisouian' atu ihutcit lo Clnyi$ni...ib.
The Great lidce. I he grat Match
f?aef on the Long Island course between
Fashion and Boston for $'-20,000 a si.h-.
will come off on the l()ih instant. This
race is to settle a great contest between th
North and South, and is creating more
excitement in the sporting circles than th
celebrated race between K lipse and Hen
ry. Two hundred thousand dollars are
sid to hive already been staked by the
friends of Boston anil Fashion. ib.
Death of another Catholic Fiisbnp
Ut. Uev. Dr. Conwell, Catholic Bishop of
the Diocese of Philadelphia, died in thai
city Friday afternoon.;.
I Smashing Business. It is estimated
by a gentleman acquainted with such mat
ters, says the Journal of Comineicf, thai
the fourteen British Mail Strainers belong
ing to the London Company, of which one
is now in our port, sink lor their owner.
ten thousand dollars a day. exclusive of the
compensation received from the Bii'ish
(2ov eminent for carrying the mails. The
gross yearly loss, at thi rate, will be thiee
millions and a half. The Government sti
pend is about one million; leaving two and
a half millions net loss annually. These
steamers arc of ih'j burthen of eighteen
hundred tons each, and the company, am
bitious of extending their enterprises, are
now building two more of somewhat lar
ger dimensions.
(JBy Ihe explosion of the new steam
ship Medora, at Baltimore, it is known
there were 27 persons killed, 40 wounded,
and 16 escaped uninjured.
QpAt Cincinnati, on the 16lh, sales of
bacon were made at 2 a 2 cenls.hog round,
for cash. Large sales of city mills flour at
Si. The receipts of wheat were large, with
sales at 70 a 73 cents.
Important Abolition Movement.
The Boston Liberator, alluding to the usu
al annual abolition convention that meets
in New York on the 11th of next month,
distinctly avows thai its purpose now is to
adopt the measure of a repeal of the Union
oj the Slates, and that this project will oc
cupy their deliberations at the next anni-
versa ry . Phi la. Ledger.
Texas. The news from this Republic
is, that the Texans have ahcady assembled
about 0,000 men on the Colorado, and were
making suitable preparations for an invasion
of Mexico. Volunteers continue to flock
in from the United States, and we perceive
from all the Western papers, that they are
dropping down the Mississippi in almost
every boat.
All the late reports of the large armies
of Mexicans seen entering Texas prove to
be false reports; and indeed all the infir
mation that we have in relation to the
intended policy of Mexico, in her contest
with Texas, seems to be involved in mi .s
tcry or wild and incredible rumors. The
report is now, that the invasion will not
take place until the Fall, while others again
say, thai the whole story of the invasion
is only a trick upon the part of Mexico to
molest Texas, and impede her prosperity
by preventing emigration.
Another report is, that Santa Anna is
raising 90,000 men, and that after he has
this force properly disposed, he intends to
proclaim himself Emperor of Mexico.
Verv little dependence can be placed upon
any of these reports, and however great
our curiosity lo fathom the future may be,
we shall be compelled lo await the de
velopments of time, which must ere long
lift the veil that hides from our view the
policy of the wily and able Mexican chief.
Montgomery Jidv.
Alexander VV. Holmes, who was
tried bi fore the United States Circuit
Court sitting in Phliadelphia, was found
guilty on Saturday, but recommended by
the jury to mercy. Holmes, it will be
recollected, was oue of the ship William
Brown, wrecked on the lGih of Apiil,
1S41, within two hundred aud fifty miles
if Newfoundland, and was one of those
vho threw overboard some of the passen
gers who sought safely in the longboat.
A heavy Defaulter. The Commissioe
j.'fs appointed by ihe Stale of Louisiana to
examine into the aff.iirs of the Exchange
hmk, report Mr. Yorkc's (the late prtsi
h uii) hid. htedu(is to tlie instiluiion at
S2 1J.055 Oj). Mr. Yorke has, of course,
guK.' to Texas.
0"3 i'be Cashier of the UnioH Hank at
Boston has reeeived through I lie post office
51000, enclosed in an envelope indicating
that the same is to make good to.the bank
ri loss occasioned by an error of one of lt3.
tellers several years sitice.
J Two children of a family named
Meggher, living near Dartmoudi, N.
cotia, wandered from hoifie on the ilili
instant, aud mhairit d lost till the 17th,
when they were found six miles fro Hi
houiM, dead, locked in each others arms.
The parents were lying sick at the time.
fJn blind man irt Cecil, IVid. named
Mauhiis Forney, on the2Gth nil. got lost
in the woods, and was not found till eleven
days aftt-r ten of which he wjfs destitute
of load When found he was nearly dead
with starvation, but is now doing vvt 11.
The Fortifications of Paris. Tliese
stupendous works are considerably advan
ced. A late account states that the immen
sity of I he undertaking becomes more strik
ing as the progress lowirds completion goes
on The wall is about thirty feet high. In
front is a ditch fifteen feet deep, and fifty or
ixty fett wide. The earih displaced irl
digguig the ditch is thrown into the interior
ol the wall, and forms an embankment
equal to il in height. The embankment
is ii. a le flat at the top, and thus furnishes d.
level surface, giving ample room for plac
ing cannon or soldiers. Independent'of the
great wall, there aie several detached forts
on various heights around the city. These
works are estimated to cost lour hundred
millions of francs.
The proj-ct of fortifying Paris in this
elaborate manner w.;s started some years
ao, when there was some prospect oT a
genera! war in Europe. Tlie French Cap
ital having been twice occupied by hostile
troops during the wars of Napoleon, the
Parisians wished to avert the probability
of such a disgrace again in the event of war.
Hence the idea of these vast fortifications
It is shrewdly suspected, however, that the
works when finished will be found availa
ble, in the hands of a vigorous monarch, for
holding the people of Paris in check, as
well as for repelling a foreign enemy.
(jJB appears by ihe late census that
the most aiuable agriculiutal production
of the United States, is Indian Corn thd
number of bushels raised, according to the
last ee-nsus, being 377,513,75, which, at
50 cents a bushel, will amount to $178,
756,!)J7. The article next in value shay,
the number of ions being 10,21S,000;
which at' only ten doh'ars a ton, amounts to
j10,-iso,000 The next article in im
po: lance is Wheat, viz: S4,823,272 bush
els, w hich, at one dollar a bushel will a
mounl lo &5-l,S23.27k2. Cotton comes
next, viz: 700,479 275 pounds, which, at
nine cents, amounts lo only 5583,043,134.
It thus appears lhat cotton ranks in impor
tance as the fourth agricultural production.
Then come oats and jtot aloes, and then
tobacco, being the seventh in value of agri
cultural productions. Boston Journal.
Extraordinary Feat. Mr. James Mc
Faul, from Baltimore, completed yester
day at 12 o'clock, in Washington, sixty-four
consecutive hours' walking, beat
ing t. W7. Dixon by four hours. I he feat
was performed at Mr. West's Coffee-house
on a plank about nine feet long and three
wide, and was witnessed by hundreds Af
ter having accomplished the feat, and
without leaving the plank. Mr. McFaul
addressed the spectatois for upwards of ten
minutes, stating that he intends io walk a
gainsl Dixon for the London premium of
1,000. He stated that he could wa!k- -'
t ight hours longer; but the attending phy-
sicians were of opinion thai he could not
possibly have survived another hour. His
pulse was up to 120!''
Alexandria Gazette,
Suicide tf a Murderer. On entering
the cell of Bork. the wretched man who
was incarcerated for the brutal murder of
his wile, he wa found suspended from the
door of his dungeon by a handkerchief,
quite dead. Thus has he anticipated ihe
ends ol justice, and added to his miserable
soul ihe guilt of a crime second only to that
tor whicii he was confined.
Albany Evening Journal.
Forgery A requisition upon the Go
vernor was made last week, by ihe Gov
ernor of Massachusetts, for the apprehen
sion of Charles Nichols, alias Charles
South, and Charles Brown, uf Newpoit,
charged with having forged the name of
Abbott Lawrence, on the back of a promis
oiy note, for i?,900. A warrant was is
sued, and the former arrested and carried
to New Bedford for trial.
Providence Journal.
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