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Tarbornuzh, (Edgecombe County, JV.C.J Saturday, Octobtv I, 1842
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BY G EOR3 E HOWARD,
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FOR THE TAUI50RO PRESS
TO AMANDA.
Lady, life is bright to thee,
All a vision of dejight;
Lady, nought is dear to me.
When I want thy lovely lighti
Let the festive scene pas by.
With its beauty, with its glare;
I heed not how the moments fly,
If Amanda is not there.
Lady, things that flit along
Thy rosy path of girlish glee,
Slav enchant with siren song,
Hut are not what they seem to be.
Lady, life is like a stream,
With its scenery lovely bright;
But along its margins teem.
Hideous forms of gloomy nighti
S1LVIUS.
SELECTED FOR THE TARB0KO PRESS.
Mr. Howard: Here is a morceau for you! T de
fy the whole host of "metre ballad mongers" to
beat iti They are the lines of Lee, the mad poet.
Hide your heads, ye worshippers of the gentle
nine!
Oh! that my lungs would bleat likebutter'd peas,
And by their frequent bleatings catch the itch;
And grow as mangy as the Irish seas,
To engender whirlwinds on a shabby witch.
Not that a hard-rowed herring dare presume,
To swing a tithe-pig in a catskin purse;
Because of the great hail stones that fell at Rome,
A lessening of the fall might make it worse.
I grant that drunken rainbows lulled to sleep.
Roar like Welch rabits o'er a fair maid's eye;
Which made him laugh to see a pudding creep,
For creeping puddings only please the wisei
The reason's plain, for Charon's western barge,
Running full tilt against the subjunctive mood;
Beckoned to a porpoise and made the charge,
To fatten padlocks on antarctic food.
AN A13DUCT10N PLAN.
The Richmond Whig of Thursday con
tains a letter from John H Pleasants, Eq
detailing a pbn which he says, was deter-:
mined on pending the Presidential election !
oflS40, for the abduction of Mr. Van j tlemen were his humble servants forth
Buren from Washington, in the happening j with. They rode round for him, pun lns
of a certain contingency. The letter is in j ing horses, buggies, ami stocU. He drove
reply to an anonymous note addressed to
Mr. P., asking for information as to the
true nature ol the plan, if it was formed, as
it was likely, the writer said, to be talked
of and exaggerated.
In November 1S40, before the final re
turns were from New York, the Whigs of
Richmond apprehended for 24 hours, that
the State had gone against them. The
Democratic papers claimed it, which Mr.
P. says, afterwards appeared to be a strata
gem to affect Pennsylvania, which voted
a few days after New York.
This was not suspected in Richmond at
the time, and the Whigs were thrown into
the greatest consternation; 'for,1 says Mr.
P., 'if New York had thus disappointed
the sanguine calculations made upon her
vute.by the Whig Party, it was not doubt
ed that Pennsylvania whose vote was ho
ped for rather than confidently expected,
would follow her lead, and the vote of Vir
ginia was already sufficiently in to rentier
it next to certain that she had vo'ed for
Mr. Van liuren." The excitement in the
city was very great, and w is much increas
ed by the 'universal conviction of the Whig
party' in Richmond, 'that (here had been
fraudulent voting in Virginia to much ex
tent.' If by this fraudulent voting the State
should be cast for Mr. Van liuren, and the
States of New York and Pennsylvania had
gone as it was then feared, it was assum
ed that he would have been indebted to
fraud in Virginia fi r his election. The
Whigs enquired, says Mr. P., what was to
oe done:' Legal gentlemen were con
suited, who decided there was no rem
edy in such an event that the returns of
the Presidential Commissioners were final
a;id conclusive, and could not he looked
behind.
Mr. P. says, political and pirty passions
rheady in high ferment, were still further
jrniame by the assurance that the laws
cguld afford no redress for the m jnstrou a
crime of strangling the voice of a free Peo
ple by corrupting (he ballot boxes. If it
should even be demonstrated that it had
been committed. In this s'ate of feeling,
three individuals who happened to he to
gether, interchanged opinion, found an en
tire concurrence of sentiment among them
selves, and lustily arranged the heads of
a plan for redressing the wrongs of the
countrv by securing the person of Mr.
Van Buren previous to his inauguration.
Three tilings were to precede putting it in
execution. i. The election of Mr. Van
Buren. 2. That he could not have been
returned without the vote of Virginia. 3
Proof, carrying positive and undoubted cer
tainty with it that this majority in Virginia
was fraudulent. The preliminaries ascer
tained, twenty persons, men who could de
pend on one another, were to be admitted
into the association under the pledge of se
crecy and fidelity. Ten of the number
were to proceed to Wahington in a fast
steamboat, giving out that their object was
a jaunt of amusement, to witness the ap
proaching inauguration. It was imagined
that there would be little difficulty in liul
ing an opportunity of conveying Mr. Van
liuren on board by stratagem of force, and
this done the boat was to run with all de
patch for Albemarle Sound, previously a
grced upon as the destination. There the
ten were to he met by their associates, and
Mr. Van liuren to be escorted by the
whole into the upper Districts of North
Carolina. Cornwaliis' 'most rebellious
People in America,' and whom we knew
to be known as staunch Whigs as their
fathers were in 17S0. Arrived there a
manifesto was to be p-iblished, addressed
the Ameican People, declaring the motives
anil objects ol the act, and the vicinage as
s-mbledand appealed to. Mr. Van liuren
himsclf was to betre.tel with tin gie ttest
possible repect and courtesy compatibl
with s lie custody. I he mamtesio was to
demand a new election and the restoration
of the rights of the majority.
jpThc Trade Resistor contains a list
of the Banks that have failed in the United
States since the report of the Secretary of
the Treasury for 1S41, with the amount of
capital, circulation and specie of each. The
capital of the whole of them, one hundred
and fifteen in number, is set down in the
table at 5132,362,398; the circulation of
the whole at 543,329,554, and the specie
on hand at 10,289,571.
' Perry's Victory. The Anniversary of
the memorable battle of Lake Erie was
ce'ebrated on Saturday last at Pi evidence
(it .) bv a irand Military Fe-t'ival and
Review, to whic h all t he companies ol
Stale were invit d. The Journal says
pageant was the most brilliant one ot
kind ever witnessed there.
the
the
the
Hail Riding. A man made his appear
ance lately in Castile, Wyoming county,
N. Y., and paimel himself oil as a drover
He exhibited a large roll he called money,
and dechred mat "he was right in town
with a pocket full of rocks'.'' Certain gen -
with a pocket
the best horses and the handsomest buggy
in town, and was the admired of all obser-
vers. He examined and purchased a quan-
itity of cattle; and all were to assemble at
the hotel on a certain day to receive their
pay. A crowd assembled, but our h ro
was minus the needful! The duped he
came clamorous, and the drover insolent.
A Lynch court was held; the criminal was
sentenced to be dipped thrice in the horse
trough to have one side of his head shav
ed; and to he rode out of town on a rail;
which sentence was carried into effect
forthwith.
Conviction of Sfeg'tll.We have just
been informed that Stegdl, the individual
charged with the murder of the German
Pedlar, in Halifax county, in March lasi,
was put on his trial before the Superior
Court, Judge Leigh presiding, on Saturday
last, and that on Monday, the Jury render
ed a verdict of guilty of murder. The evi
dence although circumstantial was such as
left not the least doubt of his guilt, on the
mind of any individual.
We trust that the Executive arm will
not be interposed to shield the culprit from
a punishment demanded no less by the se
curity of society than bv the just claims ol
ihelavv. uanviue ttep oj rriuay.
j3 Moderate Fortune. It is stated that
the Rothschilds of London have off-red to
compound their tax, undr the new Income
Tax Act of Sir Robert Peel, for the three
years at 24,000. In other words theb
aic willing to be let off with the payment
to the tax collector of S40.000 a year
They admit therefore if the report be iru.;,
that their annual income is at leat one mil
lion three hundred and fifty thousand dol
lars. is a Humbug. The Richmond Whig
gives a humorous sketch of a series of expe
Hmentsin Animal Magnetism, before a
select company, (Mr. Ritchie being one of
the number,) by two young gentlemen of
that city one the Mesmeriser, and the ,
other the Mesmenzee. The eyes of the
latter, after being magnetized, were effect
ually bandaged, and in that condition he
swdlowed, tasted, saw, and heard with the
faculties of the operator, as in the case of j
mi. rmncii, anu just as successiuuy
establishing the "community of sensations' j
to the satisfaction of all present. Mr
Ritchie declaring both results to be similar,
though
more perfect than those of Mr.
French! So far, so good but then came
the grand denouement. The two young .
gentlemen, having thus shown their ability
to deceive the persons present, declared
that there was no magnetism about the
matter that he who was supposed to be
in a profound sleep was all the while wide ,
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awake, and that he was enabled to give
correct answers to the questions asked by
pre-concerted arrangements with the pre
tended magnetizer.
The Divining Rod. The art of discov
ering water courses under the surface of
the earth by means of a green rod newly
cut from the peach, hazel or cherry tree,
hs been known in Europe for several
years It is said the discovery was made
n Germany, but by whom is uncertain.
Until a very late period it has been consid
ered an imposture, and ranked with the
arts of magicians and other vain preten
ders to mysterious powers. This opinion of
the power of the 'divining-rod' or 'magic
wand,' as it has been termed, has undoubt
edly arisen from the fact that in the hands of
many persons the action of the rod is wholly
imperceptible, while in others the attraction
ol l,ie waier, especially u u dc near me sur-
e ami the vein large is surprisingly gieat
When the wand is of a brittle nature, the at
tractive power is so forcible as frequently to
break it.
From the numerous experiments made in
France, since the commencement of the
present century, by ThoUvenel and other
men of science, the claims of the divining
rod arc found to rest on well known mate
rial powers. The art of finding water by its
means is well established and promises to be
of great utility to our country. The
theory explaining the phenomena of the
'magic wand, supposes that the water forms
with the earth above it, and the fluids of
the human body, a galvanic circle. This
circle is mote or less perfect, as the state
and condition of the body of the operator
qualifies it to be a better or worn conductor
. of the galvanic fluid. The human body
is one of the best conductors yet discov
ered, and weakly or debilitated persons
are said to be better conductors than per
sons in sound health, and the attraction is
greatest whentheskin is wet, particularly the
hands & arms. Salt water, or a weak solu
tion of muriatic acid, are the best fluids for
moistening the skin. The effect will he
increased if the operator be barefooted.
j his leet and hands having been previously
'netted with cither ot the aforesaid fluids,
1 h U luj Iiavc silk S,oves or stockings on,
the rod will not be suspended by an elect
ric, or in immediate contact with an elec
tric no attraction will be felt, and the de
gree of attrction varies as any substances
ly"g between the water and the hand of
e operator are more or less auapieu to
coihiuci me gaivauic uuiu.
Such are some of the facts stated by wri
ters on the subject, but of the reality of the
powers attributed to the 'divining-rod,' we
now need no foreign authorities to carry
conviction to every intelligent mind. We
have in this city several operators; men of
the most unquestionable character, whose
powers have been tested by the severest
scrutiny, and who have never failed to con
vince the most incredulous. 1 he writer
has known several stout unbelievers thrown
into the most ludicrous predicament by
suddenly discovering that they themselves
were among the magi, and had all the
nowers of the best water-finders! The
powers of the 'magic wand' being natural
powers, it oniy requires mat me natural
means be present in any individual to
produce the necessary result.
Anv person may discover whether or
not he has the powers of a water-finder by
the following experiment: Let him cut
branch of peach or cherry tree having a fork
with two twigs ot a length and thickut
nearly equal, and slender enough to be
unite flexible. If formed correctly it will
iieai Iv represent the letter i. L.et nun
take the small ends of the twigs, one in his
i j iriit hand and one in his left, and hold it
so that the main branch, where the fork
begins, shall be uppermost and nearly
perpendicular to the earth, but a little incli
ning forward. Holding it in this position,
!el him walk slowly and carefully over the
Mound where water is to be sought for,
md if the body of the operator be a good
-dvanic conductor, the wand when over
a vein of water that is near the surface, will
be drawn forward and downward with
onsiderable force; and if the vein be large
it will point directly down to the earth.
The causes of this phenomenon being nalu-
ral, and invariable as the principle of j
gravitation, water will always be found
nearer the Surface of the earth when thus
indicated bv the divining-rod, than in other
places. Delaware Journal.
DTho New York Journal of Com
mtrce stales that the world of science is in-
debted to Col. Payerne, of London, for the
discovery of means whereby persons are
enabled to remain under water in divine
bells any desirable lime within the limits
of twenty-four hours, without a supply of
lresh air from :ihvi Thij rlii-:ihh nli.
iect is obtained bv takimr ,f,wn in the, boil
two chemical substances the one to ab
sorb the carbonic acid gas as fast as genera
ted by the lung the other to give out oxy
gen gas to supply the place of that consum
ed. The first, of these, is found in nine
potussa, which readily absorbs h df its own
. . . y
vvtriuiui earoouic acm gas; tne other is
the sulphurate of poiassa, which when
heated, gives out a very large proportion
of pure oxygen. Wit.hihe.se two simple
bodies, says the Journal, Col. Payerne late
ly descended in a divin& bell, to the bed of
the Thames, where he remained for the
long and hitherto unattained period of sev
en hours, cut off from all communication
with the upper air, without experiencing
any of tne unpleasant eff-cts usually attend
ant upon such experiments, to the great
surprise of a number of distinguished men
of science, who witnessed his performance
without the knowledge of his novel appli
cation of a couple of well known facts in
Chemistry.
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fyThe Jonesborough (Tennessee)
Whig gives a long account of an assaul
committed upon its Editor, (the Rev. W.
(t. Hrownlow,) on a Sabbath day, at a
camp meeting, by Col Fayette McMullen
of the Vir ginia Senate, and two of his bro
thers, with clubs. The editor drew his
pistol and snapped it. at Col. McMullen's
breast, but the cap exploded without firing.
The Editor was severely bruised and
cut before the combatants were separated.
The cauc of the assault was a harsh criti
cism, in the columns of the Wrhig upon a
speech delivered by the Colonel at the
Polk-barbacue at Rogcrsville a few weeks
igo.
The old Horse Eclipse in Marketl
Mr. Wm. Dodd, of Georgetown, Ky., the
agent of Col. Wm. R. Johnson, oi Virgin
ia, advertises for sale, Eclipse, Mons. Ton
son, Siili Hamctk and some fine brood
mares. 11 not nrevious v disooseu oi ai
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private saic, inoy wtie 10 oe mjiu hi hut
tion, at Lexington, on Saturday last, ilC
34th. Mr. I), in his advertisement re -
marks of Eclipse, who was twenty eight
....,Ami llio OJtlwif lnv hist th.-il Iih
is in fine health and vinor. havini the an-
f l -i.i- i i- ii...
nearanee nf his vouthful davs. Pethaos a
horse of the same constitution never was
seen or heard of before.
Good Xews. The interest on the Debt
of the State of Alabama due January 1st,
IS 11, was la-t week remitted to London.
This will do something toward tbe restor
ation of our National character for honesty
in Europe.
Wh'.t A.z7? We received the "Pe
tersburg Intelligencer" of the 22d int
with the following endorsement, viz:
kiThis paper is made entirely of Moras
Multicautis leaves." The specimen is
very fair indeed, and the body or texture
of the paper is most excellent and substan
tial. The colour is not so white as it
might be, but, no doubt, as its use becomes
more general, some means of bleaching it
will be devised. It is now an excellent
Printing paper, and we should like to know
at what price per Ream, the Manufacturer
can furnish it. We copy from the "Intel
ligencer," the following account of the
Experiment:
rome twelve months asro. our i owns-
l)r. P. C. Spencer, conceived the idea! ki a selt;ement at the Ma.quesas M-
r.....:. r, i...,a .-.Hands, situated in the Pacific Ocean, in 11
man
ot manuiacturing pape
inu iuv; in i 1 1 j ti wdijui ii win iiiv, n. ii Kit
that, of late, much neglected plant, theegn es oi
Mot us Multicaulis, and communicated hisj'ati s that
ideas on the subject to our n.-ighbor.
With the assistance of Mr William Mil
ler, the Manufacturer oftheMatoaca Paper
Mill, Dr. Spencer has succeeded in manu
facturing excellent paper from Morns Mul
ticaulis leaves, and we have now in ourpos
session several numbers of our issue of to
day printed on this paper.
The discovery of Dr. S. will prove, we
have no doubt, highly useful. The diffi
culty of pi ocuring suitable rags'd b en a
draw-back on the operation of Paper Mills.
This difficulty will now be obviated. Su -h
is the proline nature of the Multicaulis
plant, that in one year's lime a sufficient
number can be raised to supply "stock" to
all the Paper Mills in the United States.
Dr. S.'s discovery, we have no doubt,
will be much improved upon, and we
should not be surprised, if, in the course of
a year or two, the use of rags in the nunu
facture of paper were entirely abandoned.
lialeigh Register.
Murders William Martin, of Stokes
county, was recently kille I by a man nam
ed Tilly, who is now confined in jail a
waiting his trial for the fact. Tilly was in
Martin's employ, as overseer, and hd for
so -in; time cherished ill will to wards the de
ceased. Some altercation took place in the
woods where th- hands were about making
boards, and Tilly struck Martin on the
head with his gun, which fractured the
skull and caused instant death. The accu
sed wo understand acknowledges the act
but stys he did it in defence.
There is also in Stokes jail a man by
name of Dunkley, awaiting hi trial for
stabbing a man, in the neighborhood of
IJ jyles' store, who died of the wound.
Greensboro Pal.
jTA heavy gale was experienced at
Turks Uland on the 30th ultimo, occasion
ing a loss of salt to the amount of over one
hundred thousand bushels. At Grand
Turk the loss was equally severe.
Washington Whig.
Suicide of Dr. Peters. Dr. Joseph Pe
fprs, of New York, ''manufacturer and
vender of Peter's celebrated pills and loz
enges," committed suicide on Saturday
night by strangling himself with his pocket
handkerchief in his room at the boarding
houe of Mr. George Ruck, No. 127 Lib
erty s'reet Deceased it seems had been
for several years in poor health, and of late
has been v-ry much depressed in spirits.
One day last week he purchased some
prusic acid for the purpose of destroying
himself, but was prevented by some of his
Iricnds who became acquainted with the
fact, to whom he stated that he was very
much embarrassed in his pecuniary affairs,
from which it was impossible for him ever
to ne extricated. He was a man ot 30 or
35 years of age, and of temperate habits.
On Saturday night he retired as usual, and
on Sunday morning was found dead in his
bed chamber, having strangled himself
with Jiis handkerchief by attaching it to
the bed post, his leg resting upon the floor.
A letter was found in his room addressed
to his wife who is at present in Portsmouth,
Rhode Island." Phil. Inq.
fi poisoned Spring. Some one is wai
ting to Mr. (Iwin, Representative in Coa
gress from Mississippi, giving him an ac
count of a poisoned spring of water that
has been discovered in the unsettled part
of the State of Arkansas. One report
says, Some hunters, on arriving at the
place, being thirsty, a part of them drank
;nf hn iivifrr unil u-imp immn.-II.-lt.dv !)Trt
j - v
; ed, and in a few hours died; upon which
1 the rest became alarmed, and refrained
! r,l drinking; and, on examination, they
Hound
the earth for a mile or two around
illm Sririmr strnivn with liorif nf birds.
1 eats, and some human nones.
Madisonian.
Distressing Occident. As the morn-
ing train west, yestcnlnj morntng, approa-
jehed Schenectady, the engineer discovered
a man sitting on the rail, with his head res
ting on his knees, apparently asleep; but,
as he was in the shade of the bridge, he
was not discovered until the train was
within a few rods of him. The engine
was immediately reversed, the breaks ap
pliid, and the alarm given, but the man
could not be aroused to his danger, nor the
engine prevented from sti iking and drag
ging him forward some two rods, his legs
becoming entangled in the machine, and
badly broken. He was laken to Schenec
tady, and every attention bestowed upon
him; but it was supposed he must, die His
name was ascertained to be Ezra Smith,
j ,)jt hJs r(.s;(ence Was not known. suppo
sed to be Utica. Jilhany Jirgus.
New French Colony in the Pacific.
The Paris Journal des Debats publishes a
letter from Valparaiso, which discloses a
project of the French Government, of ma-
' . . .
South latitude. This letter
R- ar Admiial Dupeiit I hoiiars, who
had arrived at Valparaiso in the Reiue
lilanche frigate, was believed to have been
sent to those snas for that purpose. Il
wis to he joined by a flotilla of four cor
vettes one f which the Priumphante, had
alieadv reached thrc, having on board a
company of Maiine Artillery. A large
transport, theJulex Cesar, had been freigh
ted by the Rear Admiral, and laden with a
considerable quantity of building materi
als, which he had purchased previous to
his departure. The captain had been in
srm ted not to open his drspa'che.s until
he was far out at sea. 'If the expedition
has this obj- ct in view,' adds the corres
pondent of the Journal des Debats, Ml is a
noble conception, for ihe situation of the
Marquesas Isiamls is peculiarly favoiable,
eing
placed precis iy on i iic iutu . ..v-
new line ot
rope and Asia, across the Isthmus of Pa-
uauia.
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