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Whole JVY. 85 l. Tarbnrouglu (Edgecombe County, JY. C.J baturday Jane 25, 1842, Voi.xriuxo 25. The Tarborough Press, BY fi ROUGE HOWARD, Is published weekly at Two Dollars and F'ft' Vents per year, if paid in advance or Three Dollars at the expiration of the subscription year. For anj period leas than a year, Twenty-five Cents per month. Subscribers are at liberty to discontinue at anytime, on giving notice thereof and paying arrears those residing at a distance, must invariably pay in advance, or give a respon sible reference in this vicinity. Advertisements not exceeding a square will be inserted at One Dollar the first insertion, and -25 cents for every continuance. Longer advertise ments in like proportion. Court Orders and Ju dicial advertisements 25 per cent, higher. Ad vertisements must be marked the number of in sertions required, or they will be continued until otherwise ordered and charged accordingly. Letters addressed to the Kditor must be post paid or they may not be attended to. FOR THE TARBORO PRESS. TO ONE. Farewell ! indeed ah, none can tell, How this bosom bore the crash; "When the fatal sentence fell Upon it, like an avalancliei When I heard that cruel word, 1 own I was confounded qnite; Not more astonish'd had I heard The Andes tumble from their height. Didst thou not bid me hope, dear one Wasn't promise painted on thy cluekl What was rnutter'd by that longue, When too feeble 'twas to speak But away with that sad theme, 'Tis deepest cruelty to me; What was my hope 's an empty dieam, What is my pain reality. Heaven, canst thy pitying hand, Turn aside the mortal blow; Oh, heaven, how can I withstand The blight of hope, the gush of woi Righteous heaven, is it thus You make a judgment of my breast; For all those who too fondly trust, In female smiles for happiness Dearest heaven, hadst thou will'd Our fondest hope our one request; My cup of bliss had then been filPd, Our hearts for earth had been too blest. Hut alas! the chain is broken, Which bound together our hearts; And the words which you have spoken, Tore the links in many parts. Yes, alas! and thou art gone, To return to rne oh, never! And thou hast from this bosom torn Its hope, its life farewell! for even Thou art shut out from me like A spell with desolation fraught; Within I feel the demon blight, This heart through persecution wrought. Life for me has now no charm, When those sighs no more I hear; Low breathing from that bosom warm, Steal like music o'er my ear. Had my cruel fortune piled Upon me chill adversity; At all her trials I had smiled, Had my girl been spared to me. Yet, heaven, I do not arraign Thy just decrees no, foj my life; No, my pray'r is yet to gain, A victory o'er my bosom's strife. Yes, heaven, let me pray for power, To stay awhile a sinking heart; To learn me through the adverse hour, I feel my light and life depart. Give me strength, indulgent heaven, To struggle with my load of grief; And to a heart wrung, worn and riven, Impart, I pray, thy kind relief.'- Lady, on the past ne'er think, The future's all that's wotth to thee; Let no reflections o'er thee sink, Veil the past in obscurityi Lady, let no starting tear, Bathe that tender cheek for me; All old recollections dear, Blot from thy female memoryi If misfortune's clouds should lower, O'er thy youthful head alas! 1 will pray yon heavenly power, To avert the fatal blast. , When disease's iron hand, Shall wring thy tender frame oh, then, I could sweetly by thee stand, As a faithful ministering friendi I do not breathe a prophecy, That thy heart cannot be blest, In its future destiny; That thought would rob that heart of rest. But thy prospects are most bright, A time must come you blestlhould be; When a dear connubial light, Should illume that tender breast. And if thou should'st be possest By another, love him true; But when thou'rt to his bosom prest, Think of what I've felt for you. ROSCO. THE GREAT MEETING. We copy from the Fayetteville Journal the following particulars of the great meet ing of the candidates for Governor at that place on the 7th inst. The two candidates for the office of Gov ernor of the State, met, in this place oi. Tuesday last. Gov. Morehead is a stout, athletic, robust man, of iron constitution. and in excellent health Mr. Henry had neen very Hi in tn? est, had returned from thence weak, debilitated, and suffering very mucn irom a serious injury which hi H ,n ii rwl a i.yik OtO f t fjuic ui o year.- ago. lie was, however, anxious to meet Gov. Morehead, and ill and feeble as he was, and as hi opponents win acknowledge he was he determined to m ?et the Governor at every hazird and under all disadvantage and well and nobly h she sustained the contest, truly has he sustained himself with a skill and ability hardly expected by his most sanguine friends. There were, at times, in nis t-iioris, bursts of eloquence which riveted the attention of his h-arers, so thai not a breath arose to disturb them while heir close was responded to by rapturous applause. Gov. M. led off at U o'clock. This speech was put out as a little feeler, an educer to draw from his opponent the charges he had & intended to make, against his administration. Altogether, it was a small and weak effort consisting mainly or an attempt to repel the charges of pro scription, false promises, &c, preferred by uie Democratic party ol K. 15 Freeman and little Piyor. Mr. Henry then met him on State politics proved conclusively that he had violated his pledge to be the Governor of the State and nut ol'the parly laid before the people his heedless, violent proscription in the very teeth of his pro mise to "proscribe proscription" exhibi ted hisiulawful extravagance in the face of his solemn pledge to administer the Government in an economical manner to retrench and reform exposed to I he scorn ;md contempt it sorichly merits, the Gover nor's miserable plagiarisni of Prollitt's wit, and his contemptible dealing in the "ice, soap, towels," &.(., of the President's pal ace, which he so lavishly did in 1S40, and proved to the world by Morehead's own acts and doings since, that his course in pursuing the very conduct he then consid ered criminal established his condemna tion. Gov. Morehead then made, we do him justice to say, an ingenious effort to defend himself, but there had been stub born facts cited by Mr. Henry, which he could not surmount, oppose, or evade, and he fled to a discussion of general national politics, and branched out on the old track the extravagance of Mr. Van Buren's ad ministration, and arraigned again this much abused man as though he were on tri al again before the people. There were many equivocations resorted to by his Ex cellency, of so glaring a kind as to strike the attention of every one acquainted with the facts; one we are prepared to show; he introduced the report of Mr. Woodbury, the former Secretary of the Treasury, to prove the amount of expenditures, and ex traded therefrom something relating to a certain S millions received in Hank bonds; afer wards in speaking of 40 additional millions, he used the preceding very eight millions to make out the forty introduced it into the calculation anil made it an item of the addition. Had we the documents we could prove many other such decep tions, in addition to this he quoted gar bled extracts, isolated sentences, made them bear a different construction from that they were intended, and made thereon his own calculations. But Mr. Henry, though very much enfeebled by his previous effort, and evidently suffering under excruciating pain, arose and met him on national poll tics', and we are happy to say he here com nletelv demolished the Governor. He fully exposed to public view Gov. More head's extraordinary, glaring inconsistency how that in 1S32 he was for Gen. Jack son now he is against him he was then against, yea on the electoral ticket against Clay now he rides him he was against a Bank, now he is for one he was against a tariff, now he is for one he was for I y ler, now he is against him. He has been A black spirit, and white a blue spirit and grey. And turned ahout and wheeled about and jumped Jim Crow. And Mr. Henry established from these fre quent, numerous tergiversations of Gov. Morehead, either that he is of too changea ble a character or too mistaken a judg ment to be the "ruler of a free people." He showed that the whig party were re sponsible for Mr. Tyler'sadministration that they had, if they had lost power, losi it by a want of confidence in and a quarrel ling among themselves that their present state resulted horn their miserable policy of "concealment of principle," which ren dered them ignorant of each other; so that when they came to a distribution of the spoils, like thieves and robbers, they fought over their different shares and now in tead of promoting the interests and meet ing and relieving the wants of the people now, when they have a majority, a large majority, in both branches of Congress, in stead of doing their duty, they are miser ably engaged in reviling and abusing each other each endeavoring to stamp upon i he other, stigma, opprobrium, and dis grace. Mr. Henry continued to expose their reckless proscription for opinion's sake cited instances within our own State inder our own eve, about which there fully cAiumieu tne pernsot a lunding system in overacting, enormous banking system, and a high tanlt protective system how mat nice would create a class of associa 'ed weilth, opposed to the people would raise a standing aristocracy arraved in deadly hostility against the best interest of the Democracy. He proved from history that ihe United States Bank had not regu lated but had injured exchanges that it h.ui controlled and corrupted the State in stitutions so that they greatly needed refor mation; and he established the fact, -that Gov. Morehpnil fsviirprl o TTIirwl Vtito.. - ...-.V. LA UUIII.U I'lUlT.-l Bank; favored a high tariff; favored a fund ed system; favored the Distribution; favor ed taxation; favored an aristocracy; was a l lay man in the worst and most danger "" icr.-jiaiiuii ui uie term. ivir. nenrv went on in an able, eloquent, and most leeling manner, to show from an array ol circumstances which must have struck eve ry one forcibiiMhat the judgment of Prov idence had fallen on this corrupt and faith less pat ty that the rescue of our country from their hands, has been none other than the hand of (iod. Mr. Henry then suc cessfully contradicted the false and un grounded charge, that he was in favor of extravagant Internal Improvements showed that when he did err in '33, he err ll I . I I . P a 1 1 t.u iviui uiu wisrsi ami oest oi me wnig party ihat with this same parly he cor rented this error in 73S, and that in the classification of different schemes at that time, the State was guarded and protected from extravagance, and that that conven tion determined that the State should be kept within its ability and means and he proclaimed that he was and is in favor of wi.se, prudent, economical Internal Im provements. Gov. Morehead again rejoined, in a re petition of his former speech, pretty much; and then, atter some conversational re marks between the gentlemen the discus sion ended. This was a proud day for Mr. Henry's friends. The exhibition fully refutes the gross slander of his fearfulness or incapacity to meet either the "Tartar" of Buncombe, the "Mountain Boomer" of Yancy, or the great "kagle 7 of Surry, while it gives an earnest to his friends of what he has been able to do when he was strong in health Sick, feeble, and debilitated as he was, he has boldly, firmly, undauntedly bearded the lion, and grappled with the bear, and has come from the contest unscathed. we have heard several gentlemen say that the closing scene of Mr. Henry's speech, when he drew together the inci dents connected with the death of Gen. Harrison, was among the greatest bursts of eloquence they ever heard. v e heard many say that Mr. Henry is a great man. In intellectual powers he iscertainly great; and if he only had the iron constitution of Gov. Morehead, to follow him and reply to him, we should be as sure of his election as we can be of any thing. Great Defalcation. The news of the defalcation recently discovered in the 0 cean Insurance Company, has excited con siderable astonishment all over the city. The length of time through which the frauds have been continued, and the gen eral estimation in which the offender has heretofore been held, have both tended to increase the surprise. James S. Schermerhorn, it appears, has been the secretary of the company for some fifteen or twenty years. In 1S32, he was induced to engage in certain speculations in stock, in which he was unsuccessful; and, in order to make up this deficiency, he abstracted the amount from the funds f the company. From that time he became a regular "operator" in the stock market, and met with perpetual losses, which he was compelled to make good, as in the first instance, by appropriating the money of the company, and lorgmg the receipts of the cashier of the bank where it ought to have been deposited. This process was continued for ten years, and would not, probably, have been discovered now, but that the Ocean Company has lately been merged in the General Mutual Insurance Company, and it became necessary to make a settlement of its affairs. The sum thus purloined is said to be over Si 00,000. Mr. Schermerhorn was himself the first to communicate the frauds to the directors; and he remained at his desk yesterday morning, until arrested by the police officers. He was generally regarded as one of the most upright men in Wall street, andhadahvays lived economically. SS. Y. Kve. rost. Thrilling Incident. At New York, on Thursday evening, as the celebrated wild beast performer, Uriesbach, was performing with his animals at the Bowery fheatre, the leopard and tne nger volun teered an extra incident tothe performance, by a regular set-to while Driesdach was in the cage with them, which came neai costing the latter his life. Driesbach had succeeded in separating tne combatants could be no mistake. Mr. Henry J one of which (the leopard) he caused to leap upon his shoulders, when the tiger made spring upon him also, and buried his teeth and claws into the unfortunate tamer's face and head, tearing off a portion of his scalp, lacera'ing his face' in a" most shock ing manner, anil covering him with blood. The indomitable courage and address of the heroic German, however, was never more conspicuously displayed than upon this occasion; and so effectually did he subdua the enrage I animals, even while in the most imminent peril, that some part of ihe audience were not aware of the acci dent. fJP'T he Railroad Cars near New Or leans, have scythes attached to the sides, to keep down the grass. A nego was lately caught by one of them, and cut to pieces. JThey have a man in Philadcphia as tonishingthe natives by his immense strength. A day or two ago he raised an anchor, weighing about 1,100 pounds, sev eral inches clear of the ground. After wards he raised 12 fifty-six pound weights with one hand. Jl Shucking Murder. We learn from the Sparta (Tenn ) Gazette that, on Wed nesday night, the 11th instant as Mrs. Ma ry Hunter (relict of the laie Joseph Hun ter) was sitting by her fireside, a few miles from Sparta, in company with' two other ladies, she was shot w ith a rifle ball through the head, by some person unknown out ol doors, and expired in a a few minutes The perpetrator of this horrid deed li red in the dark through a window, and has thus far escaped detection. not her Slave Case Week before last a Mr. Watson, of Virginia, claimed a female slave who had run away from him several years ago, gone to Philadelphia, where she married and had since been liv ing. Upon the application of Mr. Watson a writ was granted for her arrest & impris onment, preparatory to hearing his claim. Before she was arrested, however, Watson got an opportunity to seize her himself; he availed himself of it, placed her in a carri age, conveyed her to Wilmington, Del., thence took the cars and brought her home. This abduction created a stir among the Abolitionists the driver of the hack which took Watson & the servant from the Hotel, was arrested and held to bail in the sum of S300. to answer the charge of as sault and battery upon the woman; based upon his assisting her into his hack. Something 7iew Under the Sun. A new enemy to the cotton planter has made its appearance in Panolaiand De Soto coun ties, Miss., in the shape of innumerable snails, which eat up and destroy the plant, commencing with the leaf, and ending their repast with the bud. They are apparently the common sized snail without a shell, such as may be found adhering to the bark of trees in wet weather. Several entire cotton plantations have been ruined by ill em. Singular Phenomenon. We learn, 7 says the laiiahassee oeminei. irom an J ' the ... ii i ..-- . . . .i ii mil limit in CAI1VPO Ih'lt Ihp IILV3liniP PIUUI! and lakes and rivers in Hamilton and Alachua Counties, and also in Lowndes County, Ga., roe a few weeks since, about three feet in five minutes, and immediately fell. A slight shock of an earthquake was felt the same day in Thomas County, which probably occasioned the singular phenom enon, as there had been no rain. Mexico. The Journal of Commerce says By the schooner Rosal, Captain Baker, we have Tamaulepas papers of the 1st instant. If the Mexicans have frighten ed the Texians, the latier in their turn have frightened the Mexicans. Under date of the 1 6th April, from Matamoias, they say that intelligence had been received there that a column of Texians, preceded by a horde of Indians, were marching to ihe destruction of that place, and two procla mations have been issued in consequent e by the commanding General, calling ihe inha bitants to arms. (JThe Cincinnati Gazette of the 7th inst. contains an article in reierence tothe great reduction of banking facilities in that city, as seen by a comparison of the pres ent with the past year. On the 1st of June, 1S41, the loans and discounts of the font- banks amounted to the sum of 5,91G,777. On the 1st of June, 1S42, the amount had been reduced to &3, 725,336, showing a reduction of loans and discounts in one year of $2, 19 1,44 1. At the former period. the circulation of the four banks oi Cincin , nali was 1,433,424; and, al the latter, only S294,220 being a reduction in the ciiculalionot 51,139,204. The total reduc- lion in loans and circulation, in one year, has been J$3,330,G45. Ji Daring feat. On Tuesday last, as one of Neil, Moore & Co.Y Stage Coaches was descending a hill west of Zanesville, the lever broke suddenly, which accident 'brew the driver fiom h;s seat. The horses s'aried off at a run, and whilst at their full speed a passenger, who wan inside of the to.ich, m maged by some means to get on top, then into the driver's seat, down on the tongoe. from which last place he jumprd on one of the wheel ho)ses. and finally succeeded in stopping tne team. There were sex eral passengers, and all of them testified to the coolness and self possession of the gentleman who risked his own life to save his fellow -passengers. Ztnesv lie Hep. Contracting disease. At Worcester, Mass., on the tisth ult., Mr. Samuel Har rington, aged 50 years, an undertaker, and his wife Nancy, b dh died of erysipelas, contracted by Mr. H. from a corpse which he assisted in laying out on the 23d April. A daugh'er very narrowly escaped death from ihe same eause. While adjusting the head of the corpse in the coffin, he got erysipelas matti r from the deceased person into a slight cut in the ball of one of his thumbs, made with a glass a few days previous. Shortly after, he experienced a sensation of heal and very soon erysipelas distinctly manifested itself about the cut, and, extending through his entire arm, pro ved fatal His wife and daughter both contracted the disease while attending him." Resumption in Tennessee. Resump tion by the Banks inTennessee is, by law, to take place in twenty days after the Banks of Louisiana and Kentucky shall have resumed. The Banks of Louisiana, our readers arc aware, have recently resumed; those of Kentucky will resume on the fif teenth of i he present month; and, there fore, if the law of Tennessee is complied with, her banks must resume on the 4th of July next. Bait. Sun. Kentucky Ranks The banks in Louis ville have voluntarily resumed specie pay ments, redeeming their notes in specie as they are presented. The Journal of the 30th says: Kentucky paper is now fully up to the standard made at par. Exchange onf the East is very plenty and dull, and five days' sight has been offered at par. Bank rate 2; out of doors 1. Alabama paper is now at 30 dis. (P We learn from a Mount Morris (111.) paper, that a Mr. Harrison, a young man of good character, was recently murdered by a Mr. Bell, in Lee county. The cause is said to have been jealousy. Bell met Har rison with apparent cordiality ; shook hands, using his left hand for that purpose; and, at the same moment, plunged a Bowie knife to the heart of his victim. He then rushed into his house, seized a double-barrelled gun, and ran towards a neighboring wood. Afier tunning several miles, he vvasoverta- ! ken by his pursuers, whereupon he surren dered without resistance. Lull. Jim. The last of Vendovi. The Fejee chief Vendovi, who arrived at New York Fiiday, T .. Ar.A nMr.U,r Ua ; V j'au au l nl Ilia It rot iitor n n rl hon tiAan I H l.flllll I Ud I wi lilt lllt "Oiwi aim unu u i- v 1 1 . . . , , , , . ,. I . I - c inin li r. hwl Y.nn r mil llnAn on 1 1 K K CVCi mill c lie; mm itcn uui uijvii aaii, v beef. This chief, several years ago, captu red tlip Charles Bagget,a Salem Brig, and her crew of eleven merican sailors were devoured by his Feje highness and family. He was one of the curiosities brought home by the Exploring Squadron. Richmond Compiler. Monroe Edwards. The trial of this person, f"r numerous forgeries, commenced in New York on the 6th inst., and yes terday morning the jury rendered a verdict of guilty. The crime for which he is convic ted subjects him to five years' confinement in the State prison; and, from the evidence against him, we are led to believe that he will be sentenced to the extent of the law. Earthquake in Hayti. Later accounts state that 17 towns and villages suffered in the late Earthquake, with loss of lives in nearly all. During the earthquake at Santiago, the inhabitants rushed into the Roman Catholic church to implore mercy from the most high (iod, and filled it to overflowing; and when it fell, rivers of blood were seen to pour through the ruin-, proceeding from the bodies of the poor unfortunate souls crushed within. Taming Horses. A successful method of taming the wildest horses by breathing into their nostrils, has lately been tested by numerous experiments in England. Mr. Catlin, in his Manners and Customs of the T. American Indians, says he has often tried the experiment so successfully on Buffalo calves, in concurrencs with the custom of the counirv, that ihey would follow at the he. Is of his horse as closely and affectionately as if accompanying the dams. The Indians tame the wild horses in the same manner, after having caught them with the lasso.
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