Whole No. 840.
Tarhovonglu (Edgecombe County-) AT. C.J battirday. May 21, 1842
VolXVlll JVo 80.
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BY GRORdE HOWARD,
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FOR THE TAKBORO PRESS.
TO A LDY.
Ah! why, lovely stranger, why,
Still lurks thine image here?
In this heart 'twill never die,
Thou art still, aseverdeari
Thou, the young harbinger of love,
The fairest of thy race;
Thy home must be yet higher above
This earth is not thy resting place.
On this earth thou art a constellation.
Yes, "a bright particular star,"
Who'd gild the highest, noblest station,
In heaven or on earth by far.
Oh, God! that we had met in time.
Our hearts a fond, thy hand more free;
When thou hadst loved without a rrime,
And 1 been less unworthy thee. JUNIUS.
MACHINE POETRY.
Florida News Highly Important!
Hurrahfor our lads of the sabre and trigger,
la history's pages they'll make a great rigger;
No heioes on record were braver or bigger
They've captured three children, two squaws, and
a nigger!
From the Globe.
MR. VAN BUREN'S VISIT TO THE
HERMITAGE.
Thp friends of the venerable nrtriot of
tbp Hprmhaffc cannot but reioice that he
his lived to have one of the first wishes of
his heart gratified that of welcoming
his friend and co-laborer in the toils of his
administration, under the roof of the Her
milage. He has repeatedly expressed the
pleasure he anticipated from this long prom
ised visit; and We are glad 10 learn from
Mr. Van Buren's letter, which we publish
in our columns, that he found his faculties
unimpaired by age, and his health in a con
dition to enable him to extend all the rights
of hospitality, which, we hive no doubt,
was to him the highest enjoyment.
General Jackson, it seems from the
Whig papers, attended Mr Van Buren to
Nashville. From private letters, we learn far
iLi iU r.iiirnn in wliif li hp siihmitti cl. i K'
buoyed up by excitement, almost proved ,j a p.nt.ts am. o.i.y at me genera, gooa.
too much for his strength. He was over- h pnJe ol opinion anu the iorcc ot pre
come bv a fainting feelins. which detained J" can do muCh' bul ,l. 'S . ""poss.ble
him a few days at Nashville, and gave rise
to a rumor that he was seriously indispo
sed. We are happy to hear, however,
that he was sufficiently recovered to return
to the Hermitage.
The Whig presses of Nashville notice
with appropriate courtesy the visit of the
two ex-Presidents to that city.
The following is Mr. Van Buren's re
ply, to the invitation to partake of a public
dinner.
Nashville, April 29 , 1 84 2.
Gentlemen: I have the pleasure to ac
knowledge the receipt of your letter of the
27th instant, and to return my respectful
and grateful acknowledgments to the Dem
ocratic citizens of Nashville and its neigh
borhood, for the cordial, as well as earnest,
expression of their approbation of my char
acter and services generally, but more es
pecially of my official conduct during the
most important, aud certainly not the least
difficult, period of my political life, which
vou have communicated to me in their be
half. Coming from any portion of my fellow
citizens, equally entitled to my respect and
regard, such testimonials could not fail of
being very grateful to my feelings; but I
will not attempt to conceal from you in
how great a degree that gratification is in
creased by the consideration that they have
been offered by the immediate neighbors
and associates of an illustrious friend, with
whose political opinions and public acts by
far the most important of mine have been
so closely interwoven, and who, above all
other men, has had the best means of judg
ing of the motives by which 1 have been
actuated.
In the course of my journey, rendered
thus far doubly gratifying by the uniform
J - " . . .
kindness I have every where received from
my fellow-citizens, I have deemed it most
appropriate to the cii cum-tances under
which it is m ade, the position I occupy
and trig objects for which it wa underta
ken, as it certainly is more congenial to
my feelings to abstain Iro n all discussion
of political questions. I canno-, I think,
deceive myself in believing that, so far as
regards myself, no additional . declarations
can be necessary to enable, my coun'rymen
fully to comprehend the principles by
which my public conduct has been invaria
bly governed, and the objects I have labor
el to accomplish. To communicate these
freely to th people has been with me a
n iiver-failing purpose; and, I allow mysjlf
to nope, it is one which has been success
fully atiain-d with all who are disposed to
ju ke me fairly. That being done, I am,
as 1 have always been, perfecily content to
leave ihe fin d decision of public opinion in
he hands of those who never fail, in the
end, to render a just and decisive verdict;
and will content myself with the simple as
surance, lhat the great principles thus pro
claimed and acted upon by me are unchan
ged and unch mg able. -The acts of thus-'
in whose hinds the power of the Federal
Government has subs quently been placed,
and the consequence thai have followed,
ue before the s,ime great tribunal, to whose
dec:sion I prefer they should be submitted,
without any comments of mine; anxious,
only, that the great benefits anil blessing
so liberally promised from the desired
change may he fully realized by my fellow-Citizens.
In the coure 1 have thu
far pur sued, it is my desire to continue to
die end of my journey.
It cannot, however, I trust, be considered
a departure from the line I have thus mark
et! out for myself, should I embrace thi
occasion to pay a passing tribute of justice,
as well as of affection, to the illustrious cit
izen, no w enjo ing the repose of a well
spent life in the bosom of your fertile and
beautiful State. To him, more than to any
other man living, are owing the successful
progress and ultimate re -establishment of
those great principles by .which my admin
istration of the Government was directed,
and an adherence to which has drawn from
you such unqualified approbation. To his
integrity, firmness, and perseverance, join
ed to a civil courage equal to that he has so
often displayed in the field of battle, more
than to any man living, will the people of
the United states be indebted lor the final
overthrow of false, and the permanent re
establishment of true principles of liberty,
based on the durable foundation of the Con
stitution. My own efforts while in the ex
ecutive chair were, in a great measure, di
rected to maintain the important positions
he occupied on his retirement from public
life; and the result is known to the world.
1 reciprocate, mot cordially and sincere
ly, gentlemen, your congratulations on the
concurring results in every q larter ol ihe
Union, so clearly indicating that the late
struggle, though apparently successful, on
the part of the opponents of our principles,
appears only to have paved the way lor
their speedy and enduring triumph. The
people of the United States are as, patriotic
and decided .n their action, as they are sa
gacious in observation; and the great mass
Inmi nflti I I mif- i hlliwl lham In
II ICY UlllJ IUU IU""U1- - .v. infill IU
the mischiefs ol those political eirors, orig
inated in false principles, now so clearly
demonstrated in the consequences they
have uroduced. Experience and reason,
those safe and unerring guides, are now
steadily performing their destined work, in
producing a quiet levolutton, noiseless in
its steps, hut swift in its progress unac
companied by any other excitement than
the warmth cf conviction and the force of
truth-
Next to the benefits which must always
and inevitably rerult from the triumph of
truth over error, will be the gratification
which every friend of human rights, and
of those who have been their most success
ful champions, must feel in refleclii.g that
it has occurred in the lifetime of him who
placed himself foremost in the contest, and
has done most in achieving the victory ; lhat
it occurs while his mental faculties are, as
it is my happiness to find them, yet unim
paired by tune or disease; his feelings still
partaking in all the warmth and vigor of
youth; his patriotism as ardent as when he
so freely risked his life in the service of
his country; and his attachment to liberty
as strong as when he staked his ieputation
in its defence; that it has come in season to
confirm that generous reliauce on the vir
tue and intelligence of the people, which
has ever been the basis of his political creed
and course; and to close with feelings of
enviable satisfaction a long routine of pub
lie services which will forever place his
name high among the most illusti ious patri
ots of past and future times.
The public dinner which you have so
kindly tendered to me, you must permit
me to decline. Without, in the least,
doubting that there are occasions on which
compliments of that character are not only
proper, but desirable; and without design
ing to quesiion the propriety of a different
course when pursued by others, 1 have,
through life preferred to meet my friends
in the less ceremonious and more generally
accessible way in which it has been my
happiness to receive the greetings, and in
terchange friendly salutations with the citi
neas of Nashville and its vicinity; and
whir-h it will afford me pleasure to continue
with its citizens as long as I remain in the
State.
Accept, gentlemen, my warmest ac
knowledgments for the very obliging and
kind manner in which you have discharg
ed the duties assigned to you; and believe
me to be,
Very sincerely, your friend and obed'i
servant, M. VAN BUREN.
From Ihe Milton Chronicle.
LOOK OUT, GIRLS!
Another Extraordinary case of Biga
my 11 The present is a critical and doubt
ful age famous for every species of villa
ny and rascality; virtue retrogades not
withstanding the march of intellect, &. deeds
hlack and damning are daily committed in
ihe midst of civilization. Well may the
philanthropist weep as he contemplates the
depravity ol the times, and, had virtue a
tongue, well might she exclaim "rescue!
rescue!" in tones of seven-fold thunder.
It appears that a man named, Edward
(not ihe redoubtable Edward 0. Boling,)
A. Callaham was arrested in Roxborough,
Person county, on Thursday morning last,
and committed to jail under the charge of
Bigamy. The particulars, briefly s ated,
are these: Callaham once lived in Gran
ville county, where he married his Jirst
wife; but she died some time afterwards,
and our 4'hero" emigrated to Pittsylvania,
Va , where Christmas before last, he mar
ried again selecting for his "better half"
Miss Martha Harvey, a young lady of fine
respectability. It would appear however
that they did not live long in wedlock ere
he converted its joy into misery he
whipped his wife occasionally, & such ulti
mately was his fiendish cruelty, that his
wife arrested him by a peace warrant and
had him very properly committed in custo
dy, where he remained but a short time,
only, in consequence of giving bail. Thus
manumitted, he left his wife and located in
Roxborough, where he commenced prose
cuting the branches of his professon (Tail
or) and where he succeeded in gaining
the affection of Miss Martha Jeffries, a la
dy of fine amiability and much respected,
who, on Thursday evening before last, in
the full consciousness that lie who woo'd
her was unincumbered by any matrimonial
ties, other than those she was about to rivet
herself, gave the base and treacherous man
her hand, and solemnly vowed with him,
at Hymen's polluted altar, to "take him
for better or for worse," and "to forsake
all others and cleave unto him." But mark
the progress of Justice: His "honey-moon"
S'hone gloriously but a little while on yes
terday morning at 1 o'clock a rap at his
bed room door disturbed his repose, and a
conscience black with guilt penetrated his
callous heart and infused in it a thousand
fearful, torturing pangs but it was im
pregnable to shame! The unceremonious
knocking at the door, and the tumult with
out what could it all mean? Instantly
memory flashed over the past and revealed
htm a monster more terrible than the mid
night assassin vho laughs recklessly as he
bears aloit the lalal dagger reeking with in
nocent blood! His bold, daring hearts
steeped in the foulest corruption, shrunk
back as he approached the door to greet the
multitude! and he paused ere he unlocked
it ! but what could he do! whither could
he fly! there was no escape! Justice
stood close by ! pale and trembling, he o
pened the door! stout arms clasp'd him
and bore him oil to jail, buch a change!
But y eterday and he revelled in the luxuries
of the "honey-moon" to-day that "moon"
sunk to rise no mre! Duty esterday, and
a fair and virtuous woman carressed and
called him husband to-day, she spurns,
despises, and calls him villain, robber, mur
derer! Yesterday s sun went down, and
he reclined on a bed of down, in fancied
security from detection and interruption
but the morning's sun found him a wretch
ed and degraded inmate of a filthy oflensive
prison, stretched (perhaps) upon the hard
cold floor, clanking the culprit's chains!
Such is the destiny of base dishonor, and
vice. Justice will triumph.
Callaham is about 30 years of age, a man
of very genteel appearance, and of hitherto,
fair character, vvnen wnipping nis wne is
excepted. These particulars we have
"alhereu Irom a Dromer-in-iawoi nis, oy
nis second wife.
Items of Interest to Travellers. The
Petersburg Rail Road Company has com
menced laying the T. or heavy iron rail on
their road. Iron enough to extend eight
niles has been received, part of which is
already put down. The company, as we
are informed, expects to have at least one
half of the Road laid with that kind of rai
wis year, in the mean time, there is no
interruption to the regular passage of the
trains over the old road.
i his same enlernrisins Companw the
Halifax Advocate states, are preparing to
extend the Road from Blakely on the Roan
oke, its present termination, to Halifax; an
Engineer being now engaged in the survey.
We learn alo, that the grading of the
Extension of I he Richmond and Freder
icksburg Rail Road to Ihe Potomac is fin
ished, and the superstructure is now in
progress It is designed to have it ready
for travel by the first of September next.
This, and the Iron rails on the Petersburg
Road, will much increase the comfort anil
expedition of travellers bat ween Washing
ton City and the South. IVil. Chron.
Dtsmil Swnmp Canal. This noble
public work which unites the waters of the
Elizabeth with those of the Pasq ooiank
river, will soon be placed upon a footing of
great and enduring usefulness.
We had the pleasure of enjoying on Fri
day last, a delightful excursion to the ria
nal, and to the embryo town of Gilmerton
(named after ex Governor Gilmer) who
visited the spot, he being the first Chief
Magistrate who had honored it with his
presence, when on his official tour of in
spection of the various Public Works of
the Slate in May, 1840, which, we ran as
sure all who have not seen it, is one of the
most beautiful points to be found in this
section of the State.
Our readers are aware that the able and
indefatigable Directors of the Company,
have been steadily prosecuting to comple
tion the new cut of two and a quarter miles,
which we are happy to be enabled to state
will be open for navigation in July or Au
gust next; and that a dam is being erected
in Deep Creek, ol the strongest and most
permanent character, for the purpose ol
supplying the new Canal with water of
suitable depth for navigation at all seasons.
The distance by water from Deep Creek to
the point where the new cut debouches in
to the Elizabeth River, is about six miles
by the present navigation, which is circui
tous and difficult; while that by the new
canal is but two and a quarter, so that ves
sels will not be subjected, hereafter to
vexations delays at the mouth of Deep
Creek or in the windings of the Elizabeth
River. The Lock at Gilmerton, which is
100 feet by 24, and was constructed by Mr.
Williston, is one of the finest and most sol
id lhat we have ever seen, while the dam
in Deep Creek, which is elevated as high as
the summit level of the surrounding coun
try, furnishes, as does the general appear
ance of the work, ample proof of the effi
ciency of the President and members of the
Board in the discharge ot the duties of their
office.
With such a public improvement and
such a neighbor as "the Old North Stale,'
orfolk cannot retrogade but must "go a-
head" in the future. Norfolk Beacon.
(jPFletcher Heath who murdered a
mulatto woman in Richmond artd badlv
wounded (with the intent to kill) his friend,
Carter Wells, in a fit jealousy, has had his
trial and been sentenced to two years con
finement in the Penitentiary a mild pun
ishment considering the crime.
Another man was at the same lime sen
tenced to two y ears in the Penitentiary for
negro stealing.
Afvslerious.'lhe body of a female
apparently about sixteen y ears of age, was
found on the 1 7i h on Gull Island at the
hiouth of Grand river, Canada; from the
marks of violence, on one of her hands,
no doubt is entertained that a most foul
act had been perpetrated, and murder com
mitted. When found, the body was des
titute of all wearing apparel, except an ele
gant lace cap, tied with a pink riband and a
pair of flesh-colored silk stockings, and
was wrapped in a piece ot old sail-c.otn.
Four boards had been rudely tied together,
to serve as a sort of coffin; and the body,
thus prepared, had been hastily buried a few
inches below the surface of the sand, and
was discovered by some boys who being
attracted by a part of one of the boards
sticking up, endeavored to remove it for
the purpose of carrying it home. 1 he body
could have been there but a very short
time before its discovery, as no decompo
sition had begun to take place. The fea
tures are represented as beautiful, and the
hair a light or auburn color. No coroner s
inquest had been had when our inlormanl
Itfu Buffalo N. Y. Econ.
Free Negroes in Mississippi By an
act which was passed at the last session of
the Mississippi legislature, every justice in
the State are authorized, at the request of a
free-holder, to cause every free negro to
give security in the sum of one hundred
dollars for his good behaviourj or to com
mit him to jail, and after public notice, the
sheriff of the county shall sell him. Every
free negro is forbidden to enter the Stale;
and if one such is found having emigrated
into the State under any pretence whatev
er, any white citizen may cause him to be
punished by the sheriff, with thirty ninft
lashes; and if he does not immediately
thereafter remove, he is to be sold. An?
white person who bring a free negro into
'he State is liable to a fine not exceeding,
for the first offence, five hundred, and for
ihe second, one thousand dollars.
Fatal Dnel.A duel W3S fought yes
terday morning, at the Louisiana race
course, between Mr. R. C. Martin of As
sumption, and A. W. Pichot, Eq. Parish
.luge of Assumption, with pistols, at ten pa
ce?. Judge Pichot was shot through iht
body at the first .fire, and died almost in
stantly. iV. 0. Picayune, April 30.
Terrible Mistake. An individual in
Louisville, a short times'ince made, as was
thought, an imprudent diplay in one of
the C-ffee hoilse. of his money; which
was observed by two sharpers, who, when
the stranger left in a hack, followed, over
took him and demanded his money. He
paused for a lime, and finally exhibited his
stock on hand, which proved td be coun
terfeit. He had also a large quantity of
false keys and other implements belonging
to the trade. His assailants were not a lit
tle surprised when they found him to be a
brother chip. ' id.
Methodists. The Methodists of Texas
have added twenty-two hundred to their
church in the last IS mdnths.
Friends. -The Iowa Legislature has re
fuse! to exempt this f el'iiious denomination
from performing military duly.
QpThe Mormons have found a new
book called the Book of Abraharm It pur
ports to have been found in the Catacombs
of Egypt by an English traveller who bro't
it away with eleven mummies. Jo
Smith is engaged in translating this book
for the Nauvoo -Times and Seasons.'
(JThe new system of social organU
zaiiun, invented by Fourie, iri Frince, we
observe is gaining converts iri portions of
our country. In Massachusetts, a number
have gone to forming on ihe community
principle! as we learn. We suppose it is
known that this System i for each member
of the community td draw a share of the
joint, productive labor. Some are to plough,
some plant, while others pursue other bran
ches which an extensive community should
require. It is contemplated to have various
kinds of manufactures with some of the
communities, such as can be appropriately
carried on, where labor is to constitute
the chief capital. Things are on the move
and so we must have a new touch of social
philosophy. The fate of all similar organi
zations in past history, (unless the Shakers
form an exception) holds out but little
inducement for adventurers in a communis
ty of interest.
Out of Employment. TheN. Y. Sun
says: hee are now about 500 hundred
vessels lying in the harbor of New York,
viz: 70 ships, 34 barks, 85brig, 250 schoo
ners, and 61 other vessels. One third of the
whole is said to be lying idle for want of
employment and most of them for sale."
A Dreadful Affair. Tha llichmond
Star gives the details of a circumstance of a
l4ilressirigliaracter, which occurred at Bea.
ver Dam Depot, not far from that citv, in
which James Hamilton, formerly of Rich
mond, was shot by a young man named
Musgrove in the employ of the railroad
company. l he tacis connectea witn mis
painful affair seem to be these: Musgrove
was engaged to Mr. Hamilton's daughter
an amiable, highly accomplished and very
beautiful young lady; but the engagement
was broken off in consequence of a misun-
lerstanding, growing out of hasty feelings
and excitement. Her father became incen
sed and threatened the voUng man's life.
promising that he would give him a call;
Mugrove armed himseli with a gun and a
six barrelled pistol, and upon the approach
of Hamilton, with a friend, ho warned hirri
to stay away or he would Shoot him; the
Warning was disregarded, and IWusgrove
fired. Hamilton fell, terribly wounded
in the face, arms and breast, with a heavy
charge of ot. Musgrove gave himself up to
a magistrate. He is in great distress of mind
and justifies his act, on the ground that he
would otherwise have been killed; ei mere
is reason to suppose this probable, as a
brace of loaded pistols, and a knife dirk
were found upon Mr. Hamilton s person.
f?ttplJJnfrx To Prfliter swellinffS On
horses or cattle, take two quarts of proof
whiskey, or other proof spirits, warm it o
ver a coal hut not to blaze; dissolve in a
pint of softsoap. When cool put it in a
bottle and add one ounce oi-campnur.
When dissolved, it will form a liquid opo-rtphin-
nnrl is then fcjdy for application,
forming a cheap and useful remedy;
When the swelling n on me legor any
oart that will receive a bandage, such ban-
dage should, oe appucu uu vk U4
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