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Tarborough, (Edgecombe County, X. C.) Friday, September 12, 1834.
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C(Jx,The fulJowiiii; handsome and iust cum-
pliaient t iht itiii.V.jitanl of t he Somli, is copied
the subject. Accordingly, aft cr mature
deliberation, ho gave his decision ,-ind is
sued an order in favor of one of tin; par
lies, who took possession of the Church
on Tuesday last. The malcontents,
however, determined not to he put down
by the mere dictum of a Chancellor, re
solved upon repossessing themselves of
I he property. Accordingly yesterday
morning, some time before church hours,
a party of them, armed with crowbars,
forced an entrance into the basement sto
ry, and took possession of the building.
The worthy pastor having been apprized
of this movement; wisely resolved, in or
der to avoid the scandal of a brawl, not
to solemnize divine service, and, with his
foil owers, went to another meeting. In
the mean time, those who were opposed
to the decision of the Chancellor collcc-
iiofn the Noi thamplon (Mass.) Cornier.
Southern Manners. The manners of j ted in the church with the females of their
the Southern people we like better than ; families, and, assisted by a young clcr
those of our own. They win confidence gyman whose name we have not learnt,
without effort, and create a feeling of so- performed divine service. At one the
ciality without ostentation, and throw a- crowd in front of the church conducted
round them a sentiment of kindness with- j themselv es so disorderly that the Alder-
out affected display. We know not what! man of the Sixth Ward requested the in-
may assume ihe character, and present
themselves ns such to the people of thai
State. The true claimants and their a
gents will be provided with documents to
identify them.
The whole of the conduct and corres
pondency of these unfortunate exiles of
this country, has impressed the public
with feelings of respect for their charac
ter and sensibilities.
produces this obvious difference be
tween the two sections of the country,
whether it arises from habit, climate, or
education, but it is a very apparent and
striking one. The people in the South
are warm hearted, courteous, free and ar
dent in their conversation and manners.
They meet you with unrestrained cordi
ality, and enter quickly into your feelings
and sympathies. They are particularly
attentive to those small matters of civili
ty which cost so little effort and confer so
much pleasure. The manners of the
tenerence oi mo lolicc. Lyons and
Smith, the officers, were accordingly sent
to keep the peace; and the afternoon ser
vice passed off quietly. As the gates of
the iron railing in front were locked, those
in possession of the church at one time
resolved upon forcing them, in order to
give ingress to the congregation, but hav
ing been given to understand by the of
ficers that such an act would lead to a
breach of the peace for which they would
be held responsible, the refrained from
proceeding. Accordingly all who came
people of the North, on the contrary, are to church, male and female, were oblig
but too often cold, heartless and repul- ed to scramble over the iron railing at
sive, chilling every thing that approaches some risk of impalement. ..Ar. Y. Coitr.
lo warmth ot heart or cordiality ot teei-
ing. The Southern man meets you with
n ready hand, and a kindness and free
dom ot manners which at once captivates
and delights you. The Northern man, on
Fatal Accident. Capt. John Wilson,
one of the oldest and most respectable
inhabitants of this place was found yes
terday morning, lying, in the agonies of
the contrary, from his austere manners death, on the lirst floor of I he building used
and cohl demeanour, w ill too often repel . by the Collector of the Port for storing
all attempts at intimacy and unrestrained j goods. I lis sleeping apartment was on
intercourse; chiding the feelings of oth- the second floor, and it is presumed that
ers, and stopping the spontaneous rush ! on Monday night last, in endeavoring to
of kindness and generosity f rom the descend the stairs in search of a light, he
heart. They are often mere icicles, mistook his way and fell through an open
which even the warmth of a southern trap door. lie was insensible when d
breeze can never melt or soften.
Oll will be recollected that N. Syl
vesier absconded from Philadelphia on
the Oth June last, with several packages
of bank notes, amounting to 4000, be
longing to some brokers in this city.
He directed his course south, and left
Savannah in the brig Romulus, which
arrived at Havre On the 15ih July. The
fact of his departure was communicated
loMr. Beaslcy, our Consul at Havre, in
a letter sent by way of England, which
fortunately reached him before the arri
val of the Kornulus. Mr. Beaslcy writes
from Havre, under date of the lGth ult.
is follows, "Your letter of the 24th ult.
(per ship United States: via Liverpool,)
was received just in time to accomplish
the object ofu; the Romulus arrived in
the roads soon alter its receipt, and, with
the aid of the police, I secured the person
of "Sylvester" before ho landed, and I
have obtained upwards of o000 in spe
cie, notes, and drafts, the particulars of
which, and the means I made use of to
serve you, the sailing of the packet will
not permit me to give by this conveyance.
iV. Y. Mcr. Adv.
Dry picking. A mail carrier in In
diana not long since, cut open the mail
bag, and after opening all the letters,
found one at last containing one dollar,
enclosed to a printer in Pennsylvania,
which he had the cruelty to appropriate
to his own use. Quito too bad to rob a
printer of so much money!
Anticipation. A man by the name of
Murray was to have been executed in
Philadelphia on Friday last, but on the
morning of the day was reprieved. The
people, however, who had got up a dying
speech and confession, together with a
full and true! account of the execution,
for the occasion, not willing to lose their
covered, and expired in about an hour j labor, were hawking the same about the
The Blacks. The Woodbury (N. J).
Herald says, that ihe upper part of Glou
cester, New Jersey, "is literally overrun i
wnh blacks, driven by the violence of an
infuriated ninb from their homes and
property in Philadelphia, to seek shelter
and protection among the farmers of our
county.' Their numbers, previous to this
influx, had become in some places troub
lesome in others a burden and a nui
sance;. A temporary sojourn among us,
considering the circumstances of the case,
may be borne with but the first indica
tion of a permanent residence should, and
we feel confident will, call forth a rigid
enforcement of the statute against the
admission of blacks into our boundaries."
We have no doubt that they may return
to their proper residences with perfect
safety.
The. Canterbury School Mr. Will
iam II. Burleigh, (as we learn from the
New Haven Herald,) who was employed
as an assistant, and we presume succes
sor, in Miss CrandelTs School for color
ed females, at Canterbury, was arrested
on Wednesday afternoon, for a violation
of the law relative to the education of the
blacks from other States.
afterwards. Petersburg Int.
QIn answer to a late address to Mr.
McDuffie, by his constituents at. Abbe
ville, he declines being a candidate for
Congress, at the ensuing election, on ac
count of ill-health, and states that if his
health should not improve in the next
two months, he will be compelled to re
sign his seat for the unexpired term for
which lie bus been elected.
C7"Tlic number of postmasters in the
United States, who receive a less annual
compensation than ten dollars, exceeds
3100. Nine of these are in the receipt of
an income of ten cents each. There are
25 others who receive a smaller sum.
The postmaster of Novi, Mich, obtains 2
cents.
A Church Braicl. Our readers are
not perhaps 'aware that a difference, or.
doctrinal points, has, for some time past
existed among the congregation of l)r
MLeod's Church, in Chambers street
and so many difficulties have, in const
(justice arisen, that the Chnacellor ha
been invoked to exercise his authority on
G7Thc Poles to whom the grant of
land was made by Congress, have accept
ed the warm invitation given to them by
a public meeting in Illinois, to make the
selection from among the public lands in
I hat State. They have appointed two of
their number, Baron Louis Chlopichi,
and John Prehal, to be their agents in the
-election, who will set out for Illinois in
a few days. The committee of the Poles
who expressed their acceptance of the
Illinois invitation, added a caution against
imposition, which it may be worth while
o mention, for the benefit of our citizens
elsewhere. They say they are not aware
hat any of their countrymen have yet
proceeded to the interior, but are "fear
ful" that some of them who may not be
"creditable specimens" of their body,
streets, all the same as though the man
had really been hanged.
GJLconard Harbaugh, of Franklin
county, Pa. who was tried and acquitted
of the murder of Miss Jane Gonder, has
been since tried and found guilty of ad
ministering poison to her for the purpose
of producing abortion, and sentenced to
4 years imprisonment and lo pay a fine
of 50 dollars.
Melancholy Accident. On Thursday
last, eleven young persons, seven gentle
men and four ladies, residents of Brid
port and Addison, in this State, started
on an excursion for the purpose of gath
erinir blackberries. In order to arrive at
the place where the berries were expect
ed to be found, they were obliged to pass
over a portion of Lake Champlain. I In
they attempted very imprudently to do in
an old anil leaky fish boat. They had
proceeded but a short distance from
shore, when, melancholy to relate, the
boat filled with water, and nine of the
eleven, five gentlemen and four ladies,
before assistance could be obtained, in
the midst of life and pleasure, and with
scarcely a moment's warning, met a wa
tery grave. The other two saved them
selves by swimming ashore. On Friday
night seven of the bodies had been found.
The gentleman who was said to be the
best swimmer in the company was drow
ned; when found, was hooked up with
three of the young ladies still clinging to
him with so firm a grasp as to render it
difficult to separate them.
Vermont Statesman.
CyA copy of the Declaration of Inde
pendence, in verse, tor the use of schools
by a lady, has been presented to the edi
tor of ihe Charleston Mercury. Tho
performance, snys that paper, is a litera
ry curiosity, and is executed very ingeni
ously and neatly.
Curious fact in Natural History. A
snake nine in-hes in lonoih, was found
in the cellar of the Hon. David E. Evens
of this village, suspended by the tail from
a spider s web, shnpen like, an inverted
pyramid. The reptile hung frooi the
apex by a knot tied in its tail, and like
another Gulliver, was "being teased" and
preyed upon by. its Lilliputian enemies,
the spiders. We profess to be able to
see as far into a mill-stone as the most
hawk-eyed of our learned Thebans, but
we confess that we should be terribly
puzzled were we required to describe the
precise process by which his snakeshiri
was thus suspended in durance vile.
Batavia N. . Advocate.
A Double Fish. A pair of cat-fish.
connected together by the skin at the
breast in the manner of the Siamese
twins, were taken alive in a shrimp net,
at the. Cape Fear River, near Fort John
ston, N. C. about a year ago, and presen
ted to Professor Silliman. One of them
was three and a half, the other two and a
half inches long.
Important hint to Farmers. A gen
tleman, residing between ibis town and
Boston, who has been making some agri
cultural experiments, requests us to men
tion, for the benefit of other agricuhur
ists, the result of his experience during
the present season in the use of manure.
In September last he spread a quantity
of stable manure on part of a meadow;
and February he manured the remainder
of the field in a similar manner. The
crop of grass on that part which was ma
nured in September has turned out re
markably heavy, while from that manur
ed in February a very light crop indeed
has been gathered, lie accounts fat
this difference in the produce of the same
field, by the fact, that the manure spread
in February prevented the rain from
reaching the roots of the grass. Tho
moisture was retained by the manure, and
was evaporated on the first sunny or win
dy day; whereas, during the wintet
months, the moisture does not evaporate
so speedily, but has time to soak into tho
ground. Preston Pilot.
ffT'It is a fact that cannot be too gen
erally known, that if the wound made by
the bite of a snake be immediately suck
ed, the poison is mostly extracted, and
the danger averted. In some of the
French Hospitals, women are specially
employed to suck wounds, and extract
poison; which is always attended with
good effects to the patients, and no inju
ry to the operator.
Casper Hauser Redivious. In Mon
treal, a person has been committed to
jail, for want of a better place, with whose
name and history no one is acquainted.
It appears he was brought to the Emi
grant sheds at that place, at tbo dead of
night, by a carter, with no covering save
a blanket. He is a young man about
twenty-six, perfectly idiotic: he neither
speaks, nor observes passing events, but
sits on his haunches the whole day, swin.
ging himself backwards and forwards,
and playing with his fingers. He ap
pears to have suffered from punishment,
for the moment any thing like a whip is
presented to him, he becomes very much
alarmed. The only sound he utters is
like the suppressed bellowing of a frog.
His hands are soft, but the soles of his
feet hard, as if they had never been cov
ered with shoes. In running, he exhib
ited agilitv, particularly in leaping fences,
N Y. Evening Star.