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Tavhoronlu ( Edgecombe County, JV. 6J buturday May 2, 1843
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BY GEORGE HOWARD,
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Till HUSBANDMAN.
By John Sterling.
Earth, of man the bounteous mother.
Feeds him still with corn and wine;
He who best would aid a brother,
Shares with him these gifts divine.
Many a power within her bosom,
Noiseless, hidden, works beneath;
Hence are seed, and leaf, and blossom,
Golden ear and clustered wreath.
These to swell with strength and beauty,
1 the royal task of man;
Man's a king, his throne is duty,
Since his work on earth begani
Hud and harvest, bloom and vintage.
These, like man, are fruits of earth;
Stamped in clay, a heavenly mintage,
All from dust receive their birth.
Larn and mill and wine-vat's treasures,
Farthly goods for earthly lives,
These are Nature's ancient pleasures,
These her child from her Jcrivesi
"What the uream, but vain rebelling
If from earth we sought to flee!
ris ourstored and ample dwelling,
'Tis from it the skies we seei
Wind and frost, and hour and season,
Land and water, sun and shade;
Work with these, as bids thy reason,
For they work thy toil to aid.
Sow thy seed and reap in gladness,
Man himself is all a seed;
Hope and hardship, joy and sadness,
Slow the plant to ripeness lead.
THE DOOM OF ENGLAND, RUS
SIA, AND FRANCE, IN 1S4S.
We derive the subjoined ominous ti
dings from a letter from St. Petersburg,
published in a continental print:
Our lovers of the marvellous, and good
folks who believe in dreams, predictions,
celestial sign5, and the concordance of the
stars (and the numbers of such credulous
people are as great here as elsewhere,) are
much occupied with the predictions of a
monk whom the Emperor lately ordered
to be imprisoned in expiation of the rash
ness of one of his oracles.
"The monk comes from Jerusalem. He
is an old man, who is said to be a Russian,
and who represents himself to have reach
ed an age which renders his existence a
prodigy. On his return from the Holy
Land, he obtained, it is affirmed, an au
dience of the Czar, when be predicted to
his Imperial Majesty an inundation and a
sedition over the bargain. This was twice
as much as was nee Jed to render the hoary
Cenobite suspicious, and the consequence
is that he has been deemed mad, and shi?f
up in the fortress. Hut solitude, and the
frugal diet of his new abode, hive not ten
ded to restore him to his senses, for since
he has been in durance, he has uttered two
other predictions. One is, that in lfs42,
England will disappear from the globe
by submersion; the other that in the same
year France will fare like a ship tossed
about by contrary ivinds.
This monk, in whom the gift of second
sight is but the terrible faculty of seeing
fearful things, is, if we believe him, the
very same who, from Catharine 1o Alexan
der, always warned our Sovereigns of the
fatal citastrophies which have befallen
them. It would appear, that tired of draw
ing the horoscope of his brethren of the
convent, wherein Irs profound ignorance
isuied its oracles in obscurity, he fell anx
ious to shine on a more conspicuous stage.
Deeming himself, perhaps, commissioned
by heaven to give wholesome warning to
the powers of the earth, he came to St.
Petersburg, asked to speak to the Empress
Catharine, and was repulsed by the Palace
people. He persisted in his application,
but was again rejected. Unable to attain
access to the Empress, he stationed him
self on a road through which he knew she
sometimes passed, and watched an oppor
tunity of addressing her'. When he saw
her hb approached her, arid extended his
hand to hei' 1 prevent her Majesty's suit
from driving away a religious mendicant.
The Empress gave him some money, and
he, after thanking hef9 said to the wife ol
Peter III., 'Madame, never go alone to any
place, for a misfortune will befal you.'
"The Empress looked at the bold bog
gar, ami, taking his simple looks for "a
sign of mental derangement ordered him to
be conveyed to a st.te orison. Three
mon'hs after, Catharine was fo-md deid of
apoplexy, in a place which M. do Chateau
briand has ventured to name aloud in the
French Academy ; whilst dwelling on the
history of one of the Emperors of Rome,
but which we cannot, designate: all that we
can say is, that she Jud been to it alone
despite the wizird's warning.
'On the demise of the E npress Paul I.,
lemembcring the monk who had foreseen
the death of Catharine, sent for him," and
told him tint he might, come to the palace
whenever lie had occasion to speak to the
Emperor. 1 have nothing to say to him
just now,' replied the necromancer, 'but 1
may have something hereafter.' lie re
turned to his convent, and was not heard
of for four years after. He then made his
appearance again at the Palace, solicited an
audience, in compliance with the. Emjie
ror's former promise, and when he was in
the presence of Paul I., said to him, 'Your
subjects are discontented; and God tells
me tint if you do not alter your conduct
you will be strangled'. Tlv prophet's au
dacity irritated the Emperor to such a de
gree, tlr.it by his commands, the monk was
once more thiown into a dungeon. The
wizard had been clear-sighted; in 1S01
Paul I. was strangled.
This is not all. Alexander succeeded
Paul I. Struck at the coincidence of the
death of Catharine and his father with the
monk's prediction, he restored him to his
convent. Altera lapo of two years, ih
prophet again made his appearance at the
imperial palace. When hi arrival was an
nounced to Alexander, the latter ordered
him to be brought in. "What Inst thou
to piedict to me?'' "fi is not the death of
a man, Sir," replied his inauspicious visi
ter, "it is that of a great city; yes one of
the most splendid and riches cities cf the
empire will shortly perish. The French
will penetrate to Moscow, and Moscow
will vanish in smoke, like a handful of
straw or dry leaves." "Madman," ex
claimed Alexander, "go thou and pray
God to cure thy poor head. Begone to
Archangel, its air is wholesome to the in-
sane:
"A convent of Archangel did therefore
receive the monk, whose strange fate was
to quit a convent for a prison, and a prison
for a convent. The year IS 12 beheld the
accomplishment of his prophecy, when
Alexander recalled the diviner, to whom
he offered a compensation for his captivi
ties. The monk only asked for a sum of
money to enable him to proceed to Jerusa
lem, where he wished to visit the holy pla
ces. The money was given and he took
his departure; and at this moment there is
in the fortress a monk who Ins come
back from Palestine, and who slates him
self to be the prophet of 171)6.
"If the monk of 1841 be the very same
who, forty-five years ago, announced the
death of Catharine, let 1!j hope tiiat he lias
completely lost the lucidity of his second
sight, and that his almanac for 1812 will
prove just as infallible as Matthew Lacas
ber's." JVriting on Papers. The New York
Sun saws: "A large number of suits are
now pending against persons for violations
of the post olTice law, m writing on news
papers sent by mail. If even the initials
of a person's name are written on the pa
per, it subjects him to a penalty ol fco, and
S3, 62 costs. 11 the case is sued ami goes
to judgment, an expense of S40 accrues.
I he law is very strict, and leaves no op
tion with the Court."
East India and America n Cotton.
The Hoston Atlas affirms that every arri
val from England, shows the constant in
crease of imports of East India cotton, and
the constant decrease ol American. It is
stated that during the three months of Jan
uary, February and March, Ifs4l, there
were 188,423 nates ot .American cotton im
norted. beinff 47,333 less than during the
same period last year! During these same
months, there was, as compared wiih the
vear before, an increase of imports of In
dian cotton to the amount of 40,014 bales!
ITie decrease of American imports was at
the rate of twenty per centum; the increase
of the East Indian at the rate of oue hun
dred and fifteen per centum!
Fraud in the Manufacture of Salt.
A correspondent of the Cultivator makes a
statement of interest to all purchasers o!
-alt. He says that the manufacturers in
the Western part of the State are in tht
habit of introducing large quantities of lime.
for the purpose of giving it that beautifu
vhite appearance for which New Vorl
alt is so celebrated. He says as a proof oi
this, that a few weeks since he put dowi
everal barrels of pork very nice and sweet
t the time of packing; used overonebush
lof salt (so called) to every two hundred
pounds of meat, and covered it with a vc
jy strong brine. Some three or four
J weeks alterwards, upon examination, he
. found it nearly worthless. The meat ap-
,..-.. ,. ,w iii.iaii lUtWCU Willi unit:,
and was utterly unfit for table use.
A: Y. Tribune.
Horrible Murder. By a letter in a St.
Louis paper of the 14th, we notice a terri
ble outrage at Burlington, Iowa. A Mr.
Hridgm in having had a difficulty with a
citizen of the place, Mr. Ross, brother-in-law
of the latter, provided himself with
one of Colt's revolving pistols, met Mr. H.
in the street, and discharged the contents
of fi ve of the barrels at him, each shot ta
kingcft-ct. Mr. H., although terribly
wounded and dying, returned the fire and
killed Ross on the spot.
Something of a Row. There was quite
a novel proceeding in the Rose-street Qua
ker meeting, in New York, on Sunday.
A prea. her named White, of the Hicksite
Sody of Friends, denounced the temper
mce and abolition societies in no measured
terms. When he had finished, an aboli
tionist rose to answer him; & then there was
the venerable Beelzebub to pay. The meet
ing broke up in confusion, and the pretty,
sweet Quaker girls retired, frightened half
out of their senses.
Mi ssing. T he Natchez Free Trader
says I hat Major W. R. Peyton visited the
residencie of F. L. Claiborne, esq., a
bout five miles from Natchez, and, in the
absence of all the white family, took a double-barrelled
shot gun, and told the servant
that he was going on a squirrel hunt, and
would return the same evening. This was
on Wednesday, the 27ih April. He has
not been heard from since, although the
most diligent search has been made. He
is a brother of the Hon. Balic Peyton, of
lennessce. I he most fearlul apprehen
sions are entertained for his fate.
Myslcriotis the lost found. The bo
dy of Samuel W. GaiIey,ofMt. Jackson,
Beaver county, Pa., whose mysterious dis
appearance from this city was noticed some
weeks since, was found floating in the O
hio river on the 24th ultimo. His body
was not recognised until a few days since,
in consequence of the dress he usually
wore (of line cloth) having been changed to
an ordinary working suit. This myste
rious circumstance leads to the suspicion
of there having been foul play somewhere.
Pittsburg Morning Chronicle.
Expedition for Liberia. The Colon
ization Society has chartered the fine ship
Mariposa, to convey to the Colony the
valuable &. interesting company of liberated
slaves (more than eighty in number,) and
who will be accompanied from that port,
by several free colored persons, from differ
ent parts of the south western country.
This ship is expected to sail from New Or
lyptis from the 20th to the 25th of May,
and w ill proceed thence to Norfolk to re
ceive there, from the 5th to the 10th of
June, an additional number of seventy Or
more emigrants, with any freight which
missionary societies may desire to send to
Africa, or any passengers who may wish to
embark under their auspices.
African Repository.
From Liberia. On Thursday week
upwards of 100 free persons of color pass
ed through Lyuchburg, (Va.), on their
way to Norfolk, where they will embark
for the free colored man's best home Li
beria. We understand thev are all from
Tennessee, and that many of them are man
umitted some of them bT Judge Lucky
and others by the Rev. Elbert F. Sevier.
Phe Wvthe Journal, sneaking ot this com
pany of emigrants, states that it was collec
ted together by Ij. Walker H.gq., agent ot
the American Colonization Society, assis
ted by the Rev. Zion Harris, a colored
man, formerly of 1 ennessee, but tor twelve
years past a citizen of Liberia. We saw
and conversed with Zion Harris some
months atro, on his wav to Tennessee on a
visit to his friends and connexions,- and
we found him to be remarkably intelligent,
as well as pleasant and unobtrusive in
his manners. He is devotedly attached to
his home in Africa, and spoke with enthu
siasm of the future prospects of the Colony.
Lynchburg Virginian.
' Libel for Divorce. The Philadelphia
Gazette of Friday says: "The jury, in the
case of a libel for divorce, instituted by E
lizabeth H. Hutchinson, by her next friend
igainst herhnsband Sam'l W. Hutchinson,
ind tried in the Court of Common Pleas
before Judge King, yesterday rendered a
verdict for the plaintiff. The libel set
forth that he struck her over the back twice
vith a poker while she was in a delicate
situation, and that on another occasion he
jjflicted a wound upon her head with his
oot, cutting an artery, and then refused
o allow the attendance of a physician
md that at another time, when preparing
o o"o to church on the Sabbath, he tore her
Iress and bonnet off her person, and com
pelled her to relinquish ihe design of attend
ing religious worship. Hutchinson has at
present a large ice cream establishment in
Chesnut street above Eighth. His wife is
the daughter of our respected ft How citi
zen Mr. Parkinson, in Chesnut street a
hove Seventh."
Duelling Shocking BusinessTho
New Orleans Jcffersonian, May 3rd Says:
A duel came off this morning some
where in the neigborhood, between a Mr.
Dronnet and a Mr. Kelly; tne latter of
whom received a ball in his side, from
which he died in a short time. The
weapons used were pistols. The quarrel
originated in a settlement of certain ac
counts, we are Icld.
The Great D fault.' r. The suit of the
U States against Wm. M Price, the asso
ciate of Swartwout, and formerly U. S.
District Attorney in New York, was bro't
to a close in New York, on the 2Sth
ult. , the Jury giving a verdict against Mr.
Price for 82,27 1 83 cents.
Acquitted. The Liitle Rock (Ark.)
Advocate of the 25th ult. says: "Mr. Nel
son Philips, charged with murdering Dr.
N. Menefee, in January last, was tried at
the Conway Circuit Court, on the 1 5t ii
instant, and acquitted. The trial commenced
on Friday and ended Saturday evening,
when the Jury, after an absence of twenty
minutes, returned a verdict of "Not Guil
ty," and the prisoner was discharged."
Slippery Elm Flour. The Shakers of
Pennsylvania have invented a new diet for
the sick and convalescent, that promises
to be a great blessing.
The inner bark of the slippery elm, di
vested of every thing hut the purh labur
num, is dried thoroughly in a kiln, ground
and bolted.
In that form it has the appearance of fine
flour. A tabiespoon full of it is boiled in a
pint of milk and makes a healthy palata
ble diet for the sick. We are told that it
is even superior to arrow root or any other
imported article used for that purpose.
The elm is found in every part of the U.
States, and very abundant in the West, and
the manufacture of the bark into flour mafy
become a profitable branch of industry.
The Richest Woman in France1. The
Paris correspondent of the Independent
S3ys: "The Princess Dernidoff, is own
niece to Napoleon, and daughter to Jerome
Bonaparte; besides being a princess by
birth, she is also a princess by marriage.
She is now the richest woman in France
Her husband is the Russian Dernidoff; and
their annual income is exactly S200,000
She is young, (only 23,) very beautiful,
and highly accomplished. They have
such a palace as I had never imagined could
be inhabited. Nothing but splendid artic
les in every corner: pictures, gems, car
riages, tapestry, all grandoise and sump
tuous, except the prince and princes?, who
arc simplicity itself."
jjWcfind in a London paper tlie fol
lowing account of the birth ofsix children
at once, which is copied circumstantially
from the Port Philip Gazette, in the neigh
borhood ol which place the event is stated
to have occurred. i
Extraordinary Birth. A woman of
the name of Ferrers, living in the district
of Grange, was brought to bed; on the 3d
of July last, ofsix children atone birth;
a circumstance we suppose unparrdlclled in
the records of medical history. The mo
ther is wife to an honest and industrious
man, following the labors of splitter and
fencer, she is rather a small Woman than
otherwise, and professes to have felt no
more inconvenience previous to confine
ment than in ordinary caes. Her height is
five feet four inches, fair complexion, and
freckled, light blue eyes, brown hair, and
an intelligent expression of face. She is
Irish by birth, she came here in one of
Marshall's vessels and is 26 years of age.
The only remarkable symptom she experi
enced was in the growth of an inordinate
appetite, her husband having been obliged
to purchase an extra ration for her use
during the pregnancy. She was first taken
ill on the first of July, had several pains
during that and the following day, and
was in actual labor sixteen hours. The
children are, or rather were, all girls; one
however, was stillborn, and two died af
terwards. Fortunately the poor woman had
several female acquaintances, who took care
of the little strangers, and consoled her
under the prospects of starvation1 and atten
ded their first appearance. She is now
suckling tw herself, while her eldest gill
feeds and nurses tie third. They are remar
kably thriving, and the mother, recovered
from the fright and wonder attendant upon
so extraordinary a " birth, is gelling quite
proud of tier off-pi ing. During the period
of laDor she was fed at intervals with a tea
spoonful of brandy and water, having in that
distant part of the country no other luxury
or remedv whatsoever to resort to. We
' have often heard of the fruilful nature of the
climate, and its woderful effects in assisting
the disappointed passion of philoprogeui
tiveness, but could scarcely credit, unless"
assured from nit deniable sources of its truth,
so singular and powerful an instance of its
effects.
Texas. Galveston dates to the 3d inst.
have been received at New .Orleans.
A Galveston letter to the editors of the
Picayune furnishes the following items: .
The people of Yucatan are determined
to continue the war against Mexico at
every hazard.
Mr. Lubbock, one of the Santa Fe priso
ners who.cscaped from Mexico, arrived ii
the San Antonio. Santa Anna has embodied
35.000 tronns dnstiiipit for Tevas and Yuc
atan, and purchased two' merchant vessels
at Vera Cruz, for transports.
I he church has given Santa Anna all
nronerfv held bv them in mortmain, am
ounting, as it estimated, to 15,000.000 to
be applied to tlie prosecution of the war
against Texas. He" has also made a forced
loan ol SO.OOO doubloons, from the priests
ot ruebla.
There are now L000 meri at Comus
Chrisli, and 300 men at Victoria, all under
arms, and anxious to give battle to the
enemy.
"Set'n on a Rail. ''Captain Wither
stine, of the Pennsylvania, says the Phila
delphia Chronicle, better known in the dis
trict of Spring Garden by the soubriquet
of Lucky, was rode on a rail through that
district, with due military honor's fa'ii
Thursday last. The captaiii, who" i a ve
ry tall man, as it so happened, came on pa
rade a leetle corned; now, his men, who
are a set of jolly dogs, full of fun and frol
ic and ripe for mischief, thought this a fit
opponunity to court-inartial the captain.
It was carried without a single dissentient
voice, that th captain should have a re
frejdvr, and then be carried through the
district. This was set about immediately,
and off the procession started. Whenever
the captain gave a lurch, he was brought to
his original position by an application of
the flat side of his own sword tohi9 back.
The whole affair concluded by each man
dismissing himself, and the captain retlirri
ingto his home "o'er all the ills of life vic
torious." The day of Judgment. As this topic
is creating some considerable interest a
mong a portion of the community, who are
believers in the doctrines of the Rev. Mr.
Miller, and as the time is rapidly approach
ing which-will test the truth of his prophe
cy, we extract the following for the bene
fit of the curious.
The Rev. gentleman sas:
"I understand ihe Judgment will be si
thousand years long. The righteous are
raised and judged in the commencement of
the day, and the wicked in the end of the
day. 1 belie e that the saints will be rais
ed and judged about the year 1S43. Ac
cording to Moses' prophecy, Levit. 26
Ezcki Daniel 2; 7, 8 td 12 clttfiS: Ho-
sra 5, I 3, Rev. the whole book; many
other prophets h ive spoken of these things.
Time will soon tell if I am right, and he
that is righteous let him be righteous still
and he that is filthy will be filthy still.
I do solemnly entreat mankind to make
their peace with God, and be ready for
ihe.-e things. " I he end ofall things is at
hand " 1 do ask my brethren in ths gos
pel ministry, to consider well what they
ay; before they oppose these things. Say
not in vour hart ''my Lord delayefh hitf
coming." iet ail do astney wouiu wish
they had, if it does come, arid none will
say they have not done right if it does riot
come. I believe it will come; but if it
should not come, then I must wait and
look until it does come. Yet I must pray,
"come Lord Jesus, come quickly.
Hoax. A number of eggs were recent
ly discovered in the vicinity of Monu
ment, (Sandwich.) with the words "Mil
lennium, IS44," in raised characters about
the thickness of a shell on the surface.
The discovery caused some excitement
among the credulous and 6'nenlightened
portions of the community. 1 he h"oa is
very easily explained, as every one cart
determine for himself. Trace out any
characters on the surface of an egg, in tal
low, of any other substance of' a like na
ture, immerse -lie egg in vinegar lor a lew
hours, and you have the desired effect.
of this vegetable the abomination of
Pythagoreans in the lOilowing ncn strain:
(i'l'lia it g- r1 slmiras rmot 1 " 1 1 tl ("ID
Urons s.rvlrl li.i'l'A.l tinono lrvilfrl in II h.Ttr'
UUdllS IIIIACU Willi IUMI "-
beans in all their variety and excellence.
U . !' . . . 1 1 1 1 . - drinir trQ M C
lneyareioiKS wno -Knuw uwus. wu
Sundays, especially do they attack these
poor innocent vegeiauiea.
mime wno iaootcu .
ing toWrs, made a calculation by which he
concluded that he preached to about four
bushels of beans every Sunday. A con
gregation of vegetables."
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