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Turborough, (Edgecombe County, JV. C.J Tuesday, March 12, 1833.
Vol IX No 28.
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BY GEORGE HOWARD,
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The Orders. Mr. Poindexter called
for the orders issued by the Executive to
the military and naval officers in and near
South Carolina, with which he could base
an attack upon the President. He got
the orders perhaps more easily and
promptly than he expected. Instead of
finding in them a particle of rashness or
violence, he sees that they are all pre
cautionary and pacific. So far from pro
ving that the United States were the first
to think of the use of force, they show
that not an order was given or a soldier
sent, until government had information
that a plan was on foot among the Nulli
fiers, to surprize and take possession of
the Forts in Charleston harbor. The
first order from Gen. Macomb to Brevet
Major J. F. Heileman, dated 29th Oct.
1832, apprizes him that "from the infor
mation which has been received by the
Executive, it is deemed necessary that
the officers in the harbor of Charleston
should be advised of the possibility of
attempts being made to surprize, seize
and occupy the forts committed (o them."
The General says, "the attempts fo sur
prize the forts and garrisons, it is expec
ted will be made by the militia, and it
must be guarded against by constant vi
gilance and repelled at every hazard."
Thus, near a month before the Con
vention met, the government was appri
zed of the intention of the Nullifiers to
seize the forts, and yet they now pretend
that all their military preparations are
peaceful in object, and intended only to
protect themselves!
These orders disclose another object
of these peaceable gentlemen. It was to
cross the Savannah river into Georgia,
surprize. the Arsenal at Augusta, and
possess themselves of the arms!
The Secretary of War, in his letter to
Gen. Scott, dated 26lh January, 1833,
says "Your order to Col. Twiggs was
right, in the event ot his being compelled
to abandon his post. JLlul before the re
ceipt of your letter, , while we were here
in much anxiety about the Arsenal at Au
gusta, and had not learned the prudent
measure taken by you for its defence, Col.
Twiggs was directed to defend himself, if
attacked, to the last extremity."
It hence appears, that both the govern
ment and Gen. Scott, had information of
a design on the part of the peaceable re
medy gentlemen, not to defend them
selves at home, but to invade Georgia and
seize the arms and munitions of war in
the Arsenal at Augusta!
We are glad these orders are called out.
They prove the forbearance of the Presi
dent and the violent design of the Nullifi
es. They will aid in rallying the coun
try around the Executive, and in putting
down the exceptive treason. Globe.
To show the temper with which (he above
disclosures were received by the Nullifies, we
copy the following remarks made by the Hon.
Warren U. Davis, on a resolution submitted by
him, requesting the President to communicate
to the House, whatever evidence he may have
received, that authorized the belief that the gov
ernment and people' of South Carolina, or any
portion of them, had at any time meditated or in
tended to seize the forts or property belonffin to
the United Slates. 6
Mr. Davis, of South' Carolina, said he
was desirous of giving a brief explana
tion of the object pf the resolution, be
fore the question should be put upon it.
He had not introduced it with a view of
imputing blame to the President, or to
the Secretary of War, for the mode and
manner of the publication of the orders.
The publication had b'een made in obe
dience to a call from the Senate; this fact
was borne upon the face of the docu
ment. He repeated, that no blame was
ascribed by him on account of the private
orders which had been given, but inas
much as they had been made public, and
as they convey an imputation on the
State of South Carolina, he held it to be
an incumbent duty, as one of her repre
sentatives, to meet the charge with a flat
denial. The documents containing the
imputation were now in the public ar
chives; and it was therefore fit and proper
that the proof should be challenged. He
did not know whether the House recol
lected the precise language used on the
occasion in the orders in question, but it
was such language, he could assure them,
as should not pass without a denial from
him. It was imputed to the government
and people of South Carolina, that a de
sign existed on their part of seizing the
arsenal, the arms, the stores, the muni
tions, and the other property of the Uni
ted States, within the limits of that State.
The last order of the series, went nvnn
further, and "accused them of intentions
still worse. It was charged that they!
contemplated crossing the boundary line
which divides them from another State
of a design to pass the Savannah river,
and plunder the U.S. Arsenal in Savan
nah, of the arms and ammunition.
Mr. Davis asked if it could be expect
ed of the representatives from South Ca
rolina to be silent under such allegations
He called for the proof in these cases,
and he appealed to the justice of the
House; to sustain him in the call. The
President might or might not give the in
formation required, or the House might
or might not decide to call for it. He put
it to them, however, whether it would be
proper or just that such charges should
pass unrefutedl and next, whether, wlun
made, the proof to substantiate them
should not be adduced! He denied the
truth of the charge, from whatever source
it had emanated -come from the highest
public, or lowest private-station, from what
quarter it might, he, would say in reply:
"Highland or Lowland Prince or Peer,
Lord Angus thou hast lied."
The Oregon Project. The Taunton
(Mass.) Whig says; We have been anti
cipating for some time the bursting of
this bubble, and our anticipations are be
ginning to be realized. Sometime since
we noticed an advertisement from part of
the settlers who were in New York, sta
ting that any contributions in money,
meal, clothes, &e. would be gratefully re
ceived: in plain English, asking charity
of the community. It appears now that
the land, expedition of eighty men, ac
companied by Capt. Wythe, of Cam
bridge, has been compelled to return,
with the exception of thirteen men, in
cluding the Captain, who arc probably
by this time at rest among the ice cliffs
of the Rocky Mountains. Never was
there an enterprize more rashly planned,
or likely to be more fruitless in its re
sults: yet how much abuse was lavished
upon the philanthropists who at the time
lifted up their voices against the waste of
life and labor which they were certain it
would involve?
at the immediate time was not particular
ly noticed. Shortly after, one of the fa
mily went to the stable, and discovered
the young woman lying down in the last
agonies of death, and on examination it
was found that she had been shot, the
ball passing through her body near the
heart. Our informant slates that Mr.
Harbaugh had no suspicion of the perpe
trator of this horrid deed nor did he re
collect any cause that could have incited
to the transaction.
The following additional particulars
are extracted from an article in a late
Pennsylvania pi.per: -From her delicate
situation, discovered after death, it is sup
posed that the crime of seduction, has
been added to that of murder! Awful
and horrible supposition! enough to
freeze the purple current of vitality! Sus
picion we learn, has been fixed on an in
dividual, but we have riot heard with
what degree of plausibility.
Mr. Smith in the forehead and laid him
sprawling. His clerk rushed to the door,
his clothes and features bespattered with
blood, and screamed fire! and murder!
right manfully. The ladies joined in
the chorus the bells were set a ringing
and the people rapidly assembled, and
gazed with 'horror and consternation on
this unparalleled scene of blood and car
nage. Extter (3Jass.) News Letter.
Horrid Murder. --Thc Hagerstown
Free Press says: A most cold-blooded
murder was perpetrated about 14 miles
from this place, in the neighborhood of
Waynesboro , rranklm county, Penn. on
the 27ih ult. The circumstances are
these: A young woman (name not recol
lected) living at Mr. Peter Harbaugh's,
had gone as customary to the stable to
milk the cows. While there, the report
of a gun was heard by the family which
A Blow up. It is rumored that a most
tremendous' explosion lately took place
in the midst of a populous town in a
neighboring State, which was attended
with loss of life, and created much alarm
among the inhabitants.
Jowler, a fierce, truculent-looking mas
t i IT, of the largest size, by his propensity
for stealing, and divers other unamiable
qualities, had rendered himself particu
larly obnoxious to Air. Jervis, one of his
master's neighbors. Mr. Jervis had in
vain represented to Mr. Jarvis, the own
er of Jowler, that his dog was a bad dog,
and should be corrected for his improper
habits but Mr. Jarvis with unaccounta
ble obstinacy paid no attention to these
representations. The patience of Mr.
Jervis at length becatnc exhausted, and
having again suffered pretty severely from
Jowler's dishonest tricks, he most unjus
tifiably came to the resolution of exact
ing an unheard of and most bloody pen
alty for his misdeeds.
He accordingly went deliberately to
work, and procured a cylinder of tin, half
an inch in diameter and about three indi
es in length, which he nearly filled with
Dupont's best gunpowder, and on the top
of which he deposited a small piece of
touch wood. Soon after ho was thus
prepared, he saw Jowler his intended
victim, prowling round in quest of whnti
he might devour. Mr. Jervis immediate
ly communicated fire to the touch wood,
hastily enveloped the tube in a piece of
fat pork, and threw it into the street. Jow
ler pounced upon the precious morsel
and Mr. Jervis rushing out at the same
time with a huge bludgeon, and assuming
a belligerent altitude, the poor unsuspec
ting dog bolted the wicked compound
instantcr, and rushed into Mr. Smith's
store to avoid the effects of the abused
Mr. Jervis' wrath. Mr. Smith was at that
moment expatiating in the most eloquent
manner on the color and texture of a
remnant of merino, which some ladies
were endeavoring to cheapen, and his
clerk was actually measuring off three
yards of black sarcenet for another cus
tomer, when Jowler, primed and loaded,
and unconsciously carrying within him
the germ of his own destruction, sprang
into the centre of the apartment. The
ladies were frightened, and Mr. Smith
seized his yard slick, jumped over the
counter, and was about commencing a
serious attack on the ill-mannered brute,
when the explosion took place and
direful were the consequences thereof!
With a tremendous report, which shook
the whole building and alarmed all the
citizens in the'neighborhood, poor Jow
ler was blown in ten thousand atoms,
which were equally dfstributed in every
part of the shop! The ladies were cov
ered with the bleeding fragments of the
dog, and one of them had her cheek ter
ribly scratched by the claws which were
ittached to- one of his hind legs, as it
whizzed like a double-headed shot past
her ears. A portion of the spine struck
Indian War. -The Louisville (Ky.)
Journal of the 19th ult. contains a letter
from James Smith, a ranger under Capt.
Boon, dated Cantonment Gibson, Jan.
12, 1833, as follows:
"Dear Friend: I take this opportunity
of informing you of our situation. Capt.
Ford's company of U. S. Rangers left
this place on the 5th inst. by order of Col,
Arbuckle, on an expedition against the
Pawnees, but to their surprise, they were
attacked on the 9th, by a band of Ca
mansha Indians, five hundred in number.
They fought with great bravery for an
hour and a half, but they were surround
ed and overpowered, and compelled to
surrender themselves prisoners of war. 1
was at the fort when the express came in.
One of the Lieutenants made his escape,
and brought information that the savages,
at the time of his leaving them, were
massacreing their prisoners. It is sup
posed that all have been put to death.
Five companies of regulars," on the re
ceipt of the intelligence, immediately
started to rescue such as might still be
alive. There is every probability of a
bloody war with theCamansha Indians."
(rJudge Smith has been impeached
before the Senate of Illinois. Among the
charges is one for imprisoning a Quaker
for refusing to take off his hat in Cqurt.
Suicide. Gen. William C. Butler, of
Fairfax county, Va. put a period to his
existence by shooting himself through the
head, a few days since. He was the act
ing General of the three counties of Lou
don, Fairfax and Prince William.
OCr'The Charleston Courier says: We
learn that 835,000 was offered and refu
sed on Wednesday Inst for old Bertrand.
This sum is exactly ten times as muh as
was given for him by his present owner,
Mr. Lindseu, of Kentucky, who bought
him from Col. Spann, the day after his
great race with Annus & Creeping Kate.
Worth attending to. As this is about
the time when our friends are beginning
to smoke their meat, it may do some
good to inform them that a small bit of
brimstone about the size of a chinquepin,
thrown into the fire once a day, will ef
fectually prevent skippers and bugs from
getting into the bacon. This informa
tion we have from a friend whom we
highly esteem, and who assured us that
he had so fully tried the efficacy of this
plan, that he wished us to -make it gene
rally known. He added that no uncom
mon smell or taste is imparted to the ba
con. We deem this information.of great
importance to those who liave bacon to
cure as also to those who have to buy
h.- Salisbury Watchman.
Grinning Extraordinary. A Ken
tuckiau once offered to bet that he could
grin a squirrel out of a tree. The bet
was made, and off the parlies posted to
find a squirrel. At last one was announ
ced; but the grinner declared it was a
knot. The other party said it wy.s a
squirrel. Well, says the grinner, I'll try.
He grinned, but came down no squirrel.
He again declared it was a knot, but the
company insisted it was a squirrel
whereupon, the grinner made anotjicrf
fort, and the bark flew from thekn-psif
lightning had struck it. Fay. Q.
tThe path of truth is n-MI1? & a safe
path; that of falsehood a flexing maze.