North Carolina Newspapers

TO) Tavhovoagh, (Edgecombe County, JV. C.) Saturday, August 12, t843. VOL XIX. JVo. 32. The Tarborowgh Press, BY GEORGE HOWARD, Is published weekly at Two Dollars and Fifty Cents per year, if p:id in advance or, Three Dollars at the expiration of the subscription year. For any period less than a year, Twenty-Jive Cents per months Subscribers are at liberty to discontinne at any time, on sjivinnj notice thereof nd paying arrears those residing at a distance inust invariably pay in advance, or give a respon sible reference in this vicinity. Advertisements not exceeding a square will he inserted at One Dollar the first insertion, and 25 cents for every continuance. Longer advertise ments at that rate per square. Court Orders and Judicial 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 Editor must be post paid, or they may not be attended to( A DECLARATION OF LOVE. "I am for a plain simple love, without any mToroidery." ""A fair face will wither; a full eye will wax hollow bnt a good heait is the full moon, for it shines bright and never chan ges." I love thee! but I do not think, Thy form is perfect grace, Nor that the charms of Venus dwell In the features of thy face. I love thee! hut I think I've seen A smaller foot than thine, 1 also think I've seen before An ankle much more fine. I love thee! but a brighter eye, A ruddier cheek I've known, A whiter forehead, and a mouth Much prettier than thine own. I love thee! but I know I've seen A whiter neck and hand, And tresses that more highly waved, When by the breezes fanned. I love thee! but I do not mean To flatter thee and swear That thou art perfect and divine, When I don't think you are. 1 love thee! but if thou my love Dost scorn, 1 never do Intend to pine and die for thee , And yet I love thee too. I love thee! for I never saw One of the woman kind, More richly downed with the gifts Of pure and noble mind. I love thee! for there never was A heart more true than thine. Or that could touch more thiillingly Responsive choids in mine! From the Democratic Signal. Mr. Clay's reply to the Whig Caucus Committee, inviting him to come to North Carolina. Any one who has read the correspond ence between Messrs. Moore, Barringer, and others (authors of the lale Caucus Ad- j dress,) and Henry (-lay, as published in last Friday's Register, will no doubt agree' with us, that the great Statesman of Ken- j tucky must have been sorely puzzled to make a suitable reply to the adulatory let ter of the distinguished Committee. It will be observed that the entertainers do not invite him afresh; but only "remind him of his contemplated visit," and now iclaim of him the performance of his pro mise" to come to Raleigh: as if Henry Clay were to be held bound by any other than that sort of whig promises which are now becoming so proverbially pie-crusty. The facetious old gentleman must have almost split his sides at the very idea of such a joke as he has played oir upon us. Verily, he must have said to himself, "what green ones these North Carolina Whigs ate! Pledges? why did'nt I pledge my reputation as a statesman, to adhere to the Tariff Compromise? Yet that did not prevent me from taking the lead to break it; and then quit the Senate to look calmly on, and see the dupes fasten burdens on the backs of their constituents for my sake. Did'nt I pledge my 1840 veracity that fif teen millions would suffice to carry on this Government? and yet 1 was the first to pro pose a tax of 24 millions, as the requisite amount for a Whig Administration. It is litte short of the folly of children for one who can get such pledges as these still to treasure an idle promise made to the importunity of these very hospitable whig politicians, to go and help them eat a heil erat Raleigh. Charles!, says Mr. Clay, bring me my pen and ink, and help me to a reply to this North Carolina Committee. What shall I write, my man? Ah! I have it; I'll say I feel gratitude for the honor that honest old State has conferred upon me eh?" 'But they voted against you in 1824,' replied Charles. That vvas kind!' says Mr. Clav. They repeated the favor in 1828 by vo ting against President Adams and denoun cing you for bargain and corruption! Charles. says That was kind Clay. again! answers Mr. And they confirmed this sentence against you in person when you were a candidate in 1832,' continues Charles. 'That was very kind too!' rejoins the old gentleman. 'In 1834, they expunged your censures against old Jackson and instructed your man. Willie P. to go more for Jackson and less for you; and even Van Buren got their vote for V. President, after you had in '32, vetoed his appointment as Minister to England,' ad. Is Charles. Another specimen of North Carolina kindness to me!' replied the old gentle man. Judge White was stabbed by them unuui juui Mcies, ann oecause ne was suspected of being your friend, was reject ed torn tneir support,7 quoth Charles. Another mark of their kindness!' res ponds the great statesman. In 1840. these Whigs sent delegates to Harrisburg to nominate you for President, hut the)' preferred another one more availa hie, and elected ' Tip and Ty' to the chief seat in the land,' says Charles. 'Excessively kind!,' rejoined Mr. Clay; 'and now they're got into a minority at home, these dear friends are claiming of me the performance of promises to go and see them! Charles! Charles! what can I say in answer to such a hoaxing letter?' Jus! come it over them by a little iro ny, massa Clay!" 'Right! right! I'll tell them of my gratitude say that my grali tude to the Slate is too strong to have al lowed me to forget my engagement to visit them another pen, Chat les!! and if they believe it, the Committee can get up their parade, and invite the Patchogue De mocrat (Webster,) too, to help cat Mr. B's cake!' 'Good!' rejoins Charles, and accordingly the letter is indited indue form, the hoax completed; (and despatched just in time to be published for a designed effect on the eve of our August elections.) 'Upon honor,' said Mr. Clay to himself, the thought was a bright one. My man Charles is no fool if he is black. Political gratitude is the anxious expectation of favors to come; and Heaven knows it is the only sort of gratitude Henry Clay owes to North Carolina! 'Is thy servant a dog,' to remember with thankfulness the dis graceful kicks which that honest State has bestowed upon him heretofore! Depend upon it, there isno little of the Coon in all this. Oh, whiggery! whigge- From the Madisonian. Ca nnihufism. General Cass mention ed in his oration, at Fort Wayne, on the 4i h instant, what will probably be new to most readers, that the powerful tribe of Indians who formerly occupied that country, had a "Man eating Socie ty." We give the extract: "It is forty three years since I landed upon the north ern shore of Ohio, a young adventurer seeking the land of promise, which hns been to him, as to many others, the land of perlormance. At that time the Territory of Indiana, of Illinois, of Michigan, and the Territory of Ousconsin, formed one gov ernment, under the name of Northwestern Territory. I shall not stop to bring before you the incidents of a frontier life, nor the difficulties and privations, and sufferings, in peace and in war, by which the forest is acquired and reclaimed and finally sub dued. During many years this region had its full share of troubles. The line of your canal was a bloody war path, which has seen many a deed of horror. And this peaceful town has had its Moloch, and the records of human depravity furnifh no more horrible examples of cruelty than were offered at fus shrine. The Miami Indians, our predecessors in the occupation of this district, had a fearful institution, whose origin and objects have been lost, in darkness of aboriginal history, but which was continued to a late period, and whose orgies were held upon the very spot where we now are. It was called the Man Eat ing Society, and it was the duty of its asso ciates to eat such prisoners as were preser ved and delivered to them for that purpose. The members of this society belonged to a particular family, and the dreadful inher itance descended to all the children, male and female. The duties imposed could not be avoided, and the sanctions of religion were added to the obligations of immemo rable usage. The feast was a solemn ceremony, at which the whole tribe was collected, as ac tors or spectators. The miserable victim was bound to a stake, and burnt at a s'ow fire, with all the refinements of cruelty which savage ingenuity could invent. There was a traditionary ritual, which reg-, dialed with revolting precision, the whole' course of procedure at these ceremonies. ! Laiterly, the authority and obligations of the institution had declined, and I presume it has now wholly disappeared. But I have seen and conversed with the head of the family, the chief of the Society, whose name was White Skin. With what feel ings of disgust, I need not attempt to des cribe. I well know an intelligent Canadi an, who was present at one of the last sac rifices made to this horrible institution. The victim was a young American, captur ed in K-ntucky, during the revolutionary war. Here, where we are now assembled in pence and security, celebrating the tri umph of art and industry, within the mem ory of the present generation, our country men have been thus tortured, and murdered, and devoured. But, thank God, the coun cil fire is extinguished. The impious feast is over. " From the Globe. Distressing Shipwreck. The Halifax papers give an account of the wreck of the btrque Alert, on Goose Island, about thirty leagues east of Halifax. She had recentlv been lau iched, and was under contract by the Messrs. Cunard to convev the sixtv- Messrs. Cunard to convey lourth regiment to Ireland. She sailed on Monday with the troops and ninety women and children, and in less than twenty-four hours she was a total wreck. Having struck a ledge, she was run on shore, where she went to pieces. During the pe rils and distrrses of the shipwreck, five in fants were born. The lives ot all on board were saved, but every article belonging to them, except what they stood in, were lost, and they are left in a deplorably wretched Condition. From the Raleigh Star. Surrender of Fugitive Slaves' In the House of Lords, June 30, on the motion of the Earl of Aberdeen, bills to give effect to the recent treaty stipulations with the United Siates and France, for the mutual surrender of criminals, were read a second time. Lord Aberdeen emphatically de clared that the bills would not be used to authorize the surrender of fugitive slaves. Lord Brougham said the additional clauses in the United States' bill might be ne cessary to make that point clearer; but fi .i i 1 1 i ! i generally me Dins nau nis nearty concur rence. Lord Cotlenham and Lord Camp bell expressed similar sentiments. Lord Ashburton said, it was now settled and ad mitted that a stave arriving in the Briti territories, under any circumstances, never could be cla:med or rendered liable to per sonal service. ff7 1 lie steamer Columbia, an account of the wreck of which we gave in our last, is a total loss, having goneentirely to pie ces, il vvas hoped, however, that part ot her engines might be saved. The Colum bia was insured in London for S250,000.j'. QpThe last St. Louis papers contain ac cotT7itsfrom the Indian country at the head of the Platte River, from which it appears that the Sioux Indians recentlyT madea de scent upon the Pawnee settlement, whilst the men were absent on their Spring hunt, and committed great depredation upon life and property. Several of the old chiefs and braves who had Deen lett at home, a number of women, children and young men, were brutally murdered. The wife of the U. S. blacksmith and Lashapel, the U. S. Interpreter, among the Pawnees, were also killed. Of forty-one Lodges, twenty-one of the largest were burnt, and most of the horses were stolen or killed on the spot. ib. From the N. V. Journal of Commerce. Immigrants. There were never such shoals of them before. Not less than elev en or twelve hundred arrived yesterday Norwegians, Germans, French, and Irish. They are in general hardy, laborious, and economical. Every year brings better and more wealthy classes. Those who came first, were many of them little better than paupers, and some of them no better; but now, people who were living in compa rative comfort in Europe,are determiningin great numbers to make their condition still better by coming to this land of plenty. Some come for the sake of liberty, especial ly religious liberty. May neither they nor their children forget what liberty is worth, or relinquish one iota of it, either political or religious. No doubt the numbers will increase from year to year. How happy are we to pos sess a country so much better than any other, that the inhabitants of all others are rushing here for wealth, liberty, every thing which can render life desirable. Let us be thankful, and faithful to our high trust It is gratifying to know that the im migrants do not now, as formerly, fall into the hands of villains, to be cheated as soon as they touch our shores. It is worthy of remark, that while the number of immigrants arriving here is far greater than in any former year, the num ber arriving in Canada is but about two fifths as great as last year. - Melancholy 1Jfitir.-We regret to state th t a rencontre occurred in Warrenton, Fauquier county, Va., on Monday evening last, between S. E Lee and Richard Moore, whiclvresulted in the death of Mr. Lee, from a pistol, ball, shot from a pistol, by Mr. Moore. This melancholy and tra gical result is a continuation of the unhappy feuds which have existed in the county of Fauquier, some years past. We purposely omit all details, contenting ourselves with a simple statement of the termination of the ilray. Jilexandri i D C. Gaz. (TJA gentleman al Cleveland had a ve ry narrow escape on Sunday of last week from the noose of matrimony. He was acting as groomsman to a (nend who was about to be 'tied up;" and, when the par ties appeared before the altar, the Rector, mistaking him for the happy man, placed, him beside the bride that was to be, and. asking his name, proceeded with the nup ti al ceremony. The groomsman was so astonished, that the ceremony was hall through before he found lougue to explain; which done, an exchange of places was made, and the right parties were united. ISew York paper. Melancholy Tragedy. Jesse A. Bry- an. iq , ot Montgomery county, lennes ?ee, was shot on Wednesday evening last, in the public room of the Nashville Inn, by Gideon C. Matlock, of Carthage, and died in a few minutes On the circumstances attending the perpetration of this bloedy deed, we forbear comment, as they will doubtless be the subject of judicial investi gation as soon as Matlock, who has fled, is apprehended. This dreadful event has plunged in grief a large circle of highly res pectable connexions. Nashville Ten. Banner. Horrible. The Osage (Missouri) Yeo man, of ihe 12th inst. , says: "We are informed by an acquaintance of ours from Springfield of a horrid trans action, which occurred in Barry county one day last week. A man, whose name our informant forgot, had been in the habit of treating his wife in a manner too bruta and shocking to think of. On the mor ning of ihe day mentioned, he told his wife to get up and get breakfast for himself and two children, and then to commence say ins: her nravers. for she should die, he swore, before sunset.. She got up, made' a fire, and returned to the room where her unnatural husband slept. He was laying on his back in a sound sleep. She took the axe with which she had been chopping wood, and with one blow sunk it deep into his head, iust through the eves. She im mediately went to the house of a neighbor, and related the circumstances as they occur red, giving as a reason that she vvas certain he would kill her that day, and she conclu ded that it was his life or hers. He was her second husband, and not the father of her children. We learn that a special term of the circuit court is to he held in Bates county to try the woman for the crime." :$r From the Tallahassee Floridian. Governor Call has issued his proclama tion offering a reward of two hundred dol lars for the apprehension of Captain Wm. Burney, and his brother, Mr. David Bur ney, charged with the homicide of Mr. Joseph Manning. The friends of the de ceased have also offered an additional re ward of three hundred dolhrs. The hom icide was committed about two weeks since, at a public gathering near Bunker Hill, in Jefferson county. We are not fully informed of.all the particulars; and if we were, it miht be improper to publish them in advance of a trial, as it might pre judice the public mind. It is not, we think, however, improper to state that the origin of .the difficulties between the par ties is said to have grown out of reports circulated recently upon the alleged au thority of confessions of two convicts, re cently sent to the penitentiary of Georgia, from Lowndes county, for manslaughter, which implicates several citizens of Georgia and Florida as being concerned in some of the murders in the territory hitherto at tributed to the Indians, and in forming an organized band for abducting slaves and plundering other property ; and on a list had by Mr. Manning and others, were said to have been the names of the Messsrs. Bur ney. We have not words to express our hor ror on account of the reports founded upon the alleged confession of the Georgia con victs. We learn several citizens of Flori da, heretofore esteemed to be respectable, aretiamed, in conjunction with some of the veriest outcasts of society, refugees from other oarts, brought hither since the war, as being members of an organized gang of robbers & murderers! and it is asserted that circumstances are detailed of their person al participation in deeds of outrage and murder on their neighbors, in the disguise of Indians, loo horribe to repeat, and too incredible to be believed. If there is a shadow of truth in these reports, the mat ter should be ferretted out; the facts should be made public. The innocent should have an opportunity of disproving the alia gations implicating them, and the guilty should be punished. The circulation? of these reports and rumors should cease, un less legal steps are taken to investigate the guilt of those accused. Private malice sometimes, in this irresponsible form, at tempts to usurp the functions of the advo cate of public justice. This should not be. (P"The Newark R J. Advertiser aayi there are two millions of dollars paid annu ally for stockings, and notices a stocking manufactory at Cohooes on the MohaWk which makes $S00,000 per annum of coarso hose, and by machinery so constructed that one man can perform as much as eight on the European plan. Wonderful Escape. The Macon Alt- bama) Banner, published in Clarke county in this Slate, publishes an account of a dreadful accident in thatcounty,and a maV- velous preservation of human hie. I hree of the children of John A. Coote, Deputy Sheriff of the county, in the absence of their parents, undertook, in the company o! tour negro children, to kindle a fire; and for tfie purpose had a keg of powder brought to tne piazza. A gun was used to ignite a piece of cotton, but one of the children held it till he felt the fire, when hastily throwing it from him, it fell on the keg, and a terrific explosion followed. The noise was heard 8 miles. Four of the staves of the keit were driven through the roof, and thrown, fifty yards, yet none of the seven children were killed, though all were hurt; two Only dangerously but it is thought they will re cover. Circumstantial Evidenct - writer in the "Macon Messenger" under the sig nature of "Justice,' says a gentleman re cently stopped in Forsyth, Monroe county who stated that a negro man who had been taken up in Alabama for some offence, and while under confession, said he had mur dered the little girl in Baldwin county, (Ga,) for which the Methodist Preacher, John son, was executed in Milledgeville some years ago. ' 2pThe Cojumbus Enquirer, says the reported murder of Mrs. GacheOs two daughters, of Barbour county, Ala., is A hoax. Subsequent information from one of the family has but the report to rest. The girls are alive and as lovely as ever.' By a vte of the Board of Directors of the Northampton (Pa.) Bank, John Rice has been expelled from the President cy of that Institution, and from the Board of Directors, on account of his defalcations and other misconduct while connected with the Bank. -1 More Rascals We copy the following from the Jackson (Mississippi) Southron of the 19th: "Defalcations and 'Elopements It is rumored in town, with how much trut we know not, that the examinations nowr going on by the committees of the House have developed, and are still developing fac's, which render it probably that other individuals, and that too in high station, be sides Pagaud and Graves, will be implica ted in the peculations and forgeries upon the public Treasury. The higher the sta tion the darker the crime. We hope the committee will do their duty, without "res pect to office, station, or personal populari ty, and thereby secure the lasting gratitude of an injured people.' J "Hard" Case. There is now said to be exhibiting in London, a female, a ria live of Holland, whose body with the ex ception of the face and bust, is incrusted in a hard substance, which grows upon and completely.covers the skin. This lidy it thirty- seven years of age, and is in all res pects, as well formed as the rest of her ape cies. Site has, it is alleged, been enrelpp ed in this thorny excrescence sinee her birth. Her feet and hands, particularly the former, are a hard as horn, with thick masses of which they are, indeed, entirely covered. Her arms present a most singu lar appearance, the true skin being com pletely hidden from view by an incrusta tion of an uniform dark brown color, re sembline the outer surface of a bead purse. 6 N. r. Sun. KTi 'There should be caution used in handling roses," as the lady remarked to the gentleman who stuck a pin in hisfin ger in assisting her to get out of her : yehin cle. "So 1 perceive, ma am F a httlft vexed. if I; If; If lit ir. 1? Hi