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y : i ' - . ; i - -- , ; ' i" i . . i v i . t . 4 '. A'-.:'. ) j j ' i -c. i '! 'I , .-. '!-: . -. , i ill. zi cii','izznciid' 'Si7!!-?: Liberty; Peligibn, arid Law,' :Vol::I. E D EN TON, ( N. C. ) S A T URD A Y, MAY" 1, 1841 K No. i: . -1 .Jid. iZl.9 ' ' ' - i - -. -' I n PUBLISHED; WEEKLY' By BARCIilFT & WAFF, JLi $2 bOper annum, payable in advance, - . or 3 if 'not paid wffliin six montlis. 7" Advertisements, not exceeding square, rill be inserted ai the rate of One ' Dollar jor like Jirst three insertions and 25 cents Jbr every subsequent puQlicatipnlt . Those of greater levgth m proportion. f ;ii " ;. v-.-'OCT Court AdvtrtisemeiltSf icill fie charged :25 per tent higher iJian the usual rales.' k V-JA liberal deduction urill be made , to those who advertise hytlie year, f , , . j i QZjTjob Work, in all cases, musi be paid for - . on delivery. ' ' i -'t- r . -" . i OrNo paper sent out of the Slute unless the subscription id paid m advance. u . 1 v3 Letters and -Communications ?icul not be received unless the postage is paid. - ROBINSON TilE MURDERER. : . . The murderer Robinson, at NpwBryns .'i wick has according to i a le tter'an th&New : ark Daily, manifested recently less obJu ? racy, and has fully confessed the murder. . He says he called upon Mr. jSuydam tha : night before the murder, "fc.r.d intited him to his house, under the. pretence of paying off the note and 8300 on thcr bond and j mortgage r-he was prepared to assault him on his entry and haaVplaced his hatchet in ' the side light of the front door; intending as : he passed in to seize it and maUa the at tack; but Mr. S. came in.' the back door, ! which frustrated this plan, -i They, went into the basement storv, and Mr. S. enter ' cd into familiar, conversationj about the Fhouse, remarltedto him that he was getting r along well, and would soon be through, . &c , but jSeemed to ; keep his" eye on ; his ' guilty associate, who had takcij up a mai lt let. They passed into the first story, and there Robinson said to Mr. S. that his wife i had gone out for pen and ink and, V would 1 return. . Mr. S. .replied, "1 jl walk out a few .minutes and return again, by that time ! he may be in' and advanced jo the door. Robinson stepped behind him ;and struck the bloNV Vvith the mallet, which threw off . . his hat and brought him on hii hands and knees-r-a second blow brouehtl him to the li - l - O; ; floor.; He then went down to prepare the i grave, and whilst digging he heard a noise ) up stairs and. returned and found Mr. S. on his. hands anu Kness, ana at tne mo ment took his : hand and wiped the blood from bis eyesand said, in a faint voice, "oh Peter, oh Peter !" Tliese words, the con- vict says, ring continually iri his ear. He then gave the fatal , blow and; parried Kim down stairs and let him lay till the grave was finished. - '- ' ' - - ' From the New York Daily; Cliroiiiclc- EXECUTION OF PETER ROBINSON for the' Murder 'of Abraham' Suydam. . ? " '' ; New Bauxswick, April 16, l - if . ' . . V .At an early, hour this morning, the town ! of New Brunswick was in a state of great i bustle and excitement, in consequence of ? the approaching execution of Peter -Robin- , son. 1 he time appointed forlthis last aw- ful ceremony . of the law to take place, was - between the hours of 10 and 2 o'clock. From the time ofday-breiak until the hourot execution, large crowds 01 persons . . ... . . - - - - were, seen entering tneiownjn we nope ot witnessing the execution, hut it was ar- ranged fo be strictly private, no persons, except those privileged by i,the bheritt, were allowed Jo be present. s i he jail is a plain two story stone, build- ingt one half aprppriatedie useof the the prisoners... On one side dif the passage might he seen.ine lauginug ctuiureu i me jailor, full of njirtn. and gleef playing, while a fearful scene' was about to be 'enacted.- Amur- derer and a felon, about (6 py the penalty The place of execution was small en closure, in front of the jail, about six feet in width, and abdut twentv-five feet in length. In one corner of this spacef the gallows y twelye feet high," werp fixed 6n the ground and abeam placed across the top. :Thro,.J The wholo time spent, from the. unlbck this rope runs connected with a third up rights and to this rope was attached five heavy weights, raised about four feet trom the ground.: - Between the two first up rights, a small scaffold was f raised, about eight inches trom the earth. The tence a a a , j ' 'la-: m-m- . '. n 'Which enclosed this space was 'about six- teen feet high. Outside of this, was form- ed'in line, two comDanies of ti volunteers to - Jceep off the crowd. - the pm DuJng the whole of Thursday - 4. . i" onetwas attended by several clergymert, in.duding Dr. Howe and v- the Rev. lie. rilch, of New orunswiCK. These persons continued to . sing and pray, with him? the whole ot the day. la the eveninff, his wifej his ibrxither, and .his; brother's' wife, visited:hirr for the last time. Whei the hour of parting came jtheyj were very much afiUcted, , but PeterV appeared as stoical as ever, not seeming .the least . oyercome.r His brother remained with him during t ie greater portion of the; nigHt. Several per sons sat up with him afl the night, singing and praying occasionally,!: but Peter heed ed them but little.' The morning, which was cold, rawand misty, cleared off about seven o'clock, and the sun shone forth in full meridian plen dor. . At: an ea rly hou r " the clergymen vvcre-again with him,!singing and-pmyih, and remained with him until the time of his execution. ,': "f ; :: ; : About a quarter, past, ten, o'clock the Sheriff, jailor, and a gentleman, who had prepared a dress for.himfor theoccasion, entered his cell, at whicHtime we vere admitted; j None who knew Peter Robin-I son, Deioje ine commission 01 inia jppsid brutal murder, r up to the time'of his cbni viction, would now recognize him. Then he was a. hale, hearty, muscular man,withi firm nerves, and upright gait : .now he was but a shadow 01 :iis former self. 11k; gnashing of impenitent' remorse- has done its -work on him. 'That juggling fiend that never spake befor. But cries, "I -arned thee,' when, the deed is o'er. had Completely pvei mastered its victim r The sunken eye, the "pallid cheek, and th quivering muscle, showed ,that a fearful struggle had" been going on within. The gaze of the morbid and the curious, tager to catch a sight of the culprit, was nothing to lum.i He had done with the world, and was only anxious to escape from himself, to leap from life to death, a Here is a wide field of inquiry for the divine moralist" and tnr 'fp7 philosopher. ! Here was a man, sober, gal, and: industrious, yet guilty of the mbst heinous; crimes in th calendar ; !f r Iho iauor unlOckcu the manaelcs on his foet and was about to put the kty in the lock of the hand cuffs, when Peter Mr. .Cowenhoven you liavo riot cot the right keyj you will ha Vfi to set the other key.' Another was brought and the hand cuffs were taken off-l A larce white mus- ress was then put on him, reaching down to his feet A white cap was also placed; on his head, i He asked to shake hands with all in the cell before' his hands were tied, which he did. He shook hands with the jaildr and said, "I hope God will bless YOU j and your family, for you have ireaieu me hkc a iaiuer. j , nis uauua i jv then tied bya rope to Ins sides, and at ex- actly 23 minutes past 10 o'clock, preceded im ' i. L.. it:. uJIjI '11- by a clergyman, and walking .between the Sheriff and the jailor, he passed through the main passage of the prison to the cell, The rope was then adjnsted on his neck, and instantly, without Speaking a ; word, the Sheriff with a hatchet cut. the rope to which the ' weights were attached,' when they fell; 'the ropej that was around his neck; here slipped over the culprit's ear, and he fell with agroanjon the scaffold.- A shriek ot horror :burst trom all present. Mr.. Hoagland, the Marshall, immediately lifted Peter Hp and although he appeared stunned with the shock: yet he stood un- 1 . . . 1.1 . . - . , - . - aided again under the gallows. , tie ex- claimed when he was p aced upon his teet, rhe L,6rd have merer on me.'i . l,he Sheriff and Jailor then tc-adiusted the rope of deathtand the bearri-ropei being again cut, the weights fell; the prisoner f jerked up, and man.mstant with one convulsive spasm of agony, he was launched into jE- I lapsed from the time he left his cell, before i ne was m me arms oi aeam, J ing the usual timei.thej body Alter hang, was cur down, 1 and placed in a plain, painted." common look ing I coffin, to be delivered to fins friends. - I . i -. i not) - evince the slightest tear or trepiqation ; he waiKea irom ins ceu witn a nrm, careiess step, and mounted the scaffold with much sah froid. as one would walk up tonished every beholderv - mg 01 the . manacles, to ;.-ms hnal exit,i!dict not occupy morel than five minutes. 4 Not a word tarther than the short sentence that fell from Peter's lipsilafter his first plunge escaped either from ofheers or- spectators, - a' at .a who numbered in alt about sixty ;- among whom we noticed Attorney General Mol- leston ; I District Attorney Vandyke Mr Wood Jone of the Counsel for- Robinson Mayor'ofNew Brunswick,, several xf the - assistant Judges, and the high Sheriff of New York, who isi$ed. the place for the purpose of witnessing! .the process of exe r the same principle -as that in use in the State of New Yof;ncl 'different from the form in Pennsylvania! 1-1 '--.- - rrom-tne un erred raannerj of the females connected wthvth.b j prison, who bout to go out, the! yoPS guardsman him were busily emplSyel -in cooking articles elf was ushered into lis library land 'the for;dinncivarid tie iple pfaftle of children banker prepared to give his hini and cive by their side, notflen foet from the scaf. fold, it j was ncxtto j Impossible - to realize that an exccutipnjlpal jin progress.! - . Thus ended tbi tciirrencies of the day, and thus has i&bijjivo' joc, ever slow but sure, overt atfen: jits victim. Thus has been taken awajtinhc full flush of. vigor and tnimhood, PIjer RoBifsshN. a iust ex piation to thepffdl laws' ojf his country; From rAtcxa0erys Messenger, THp BANIvER'S DAUGHTER. , , j BY J. tt bF JAMEfe, ESQ. ' -There was orice5 great banker in Lon- P6rt- land Place, and ia ery dirty old house in tnc city; anu 11 in-auer loaxea tne jnragc of business and mcW the:' firmer looked the pipture of Jiucnry Jand jdisplay.- He nimself was a mdftnan, rwhise ostentation was of a quiet, bnot the l&s of ah active kind. His mov&merits were always calm I and tranquil, anhis clothesplain; , but the former were statyf, the1 lattir were in the best fashion. . IfoIitch was his coachma- ker in those day;0do's fist cousin was his codk; his serlairtts walked up stairs to announce a visi(piip the timt of the Dead marcn in oaui, afwj jopenea nun vaivcs 01 the folding doorlj'ot once, M.ith a grace that could only fje" acquired by long'prac- tice. I i Every thifir seemed ! to move in his house by rule, aid jSothing wai ever seen to go wrong. .U,thc lackeys wore pow- der; and the Vjanen-servanu had their caps prescribed fioithem. (HisA wife was the daughter of ;oountry gentleman bl very bid -.'.racci ft;:-man of good manners ofia tcountrv centleman ot nd a warm heMl f , though there were two carriages afeiW at her, especial com: f u..n'kn Ammwt. 'ibif niiKwr m 1 even in London and would) not sufler an the "Moniiriiz Pesflt k The banker and his wife tiad but onlhild, a daughter, and a very pretty anus very, sweet; girl se was, as ever my eyes-iaw. "She! was not very I tall, though venfl bjeautiful formed and Henry Ashton sailed for Canada, and exquisitely gracjful 'She was the least saw some servic there. Ho 'distinguish nffor.tnd norsnn'tthat ever was N seen : for. ed himself a9 an oflwfir. and his namfi was I accustomed fror'4 bdr earliest days to per- feet case in eyry tespecvdenied noth- mv hoV mnthAr ti timnt 'hifrh nnalitina. ,mg mai .was vmuus anui rigm, -laugni V? li. ; , " ,. r " . n 1 too much haqtuated to weajth to regard jt as an object,--ahd too frequently brought m contact whhflrafik to estimate it above its value, she !ad nothia to covet, and nothing to assujiej Her face was sweet and thoughtful, !;hogh ; the thoughts were evidentlv cheei-ul'ancs. nd hervoice was fuu 0f mclody ikid gentleness. Her name was! Alice HerVrt and -'she was soon the r . . w ' Jrf ' .11. admired ofamdrfiirers;. People looked for her at the $jera. and the park, declared her beauti i beeame the wonder; and every body they spoke about her that she 11 lr lild haw? half a million at the. least. . Nfiv,! Mr.! Herbert himself wa3 not at all!-Jxious that his daughter 1 , - w 1 Ti r , , D sho ld marrv Sih of the men that first presented theiiiielf es, because none of hhem were aboim the rank of a baron; nor wiMi; Hr1?1it fmxinn Pither. because shedid not wis'i io toart with her daughter; nor irasalice lrfelfI donot kn6w well why, perhapft 4 thought that a part of themen wholhurrounded her were fops, rest; were tools; m Alice did not feel more inclined to chflVie cut of those three class- es than her fattu-r md out of the three infe- rior grades oturs noointy indeed, a youi -man in the There was, Guards, dis- tantly conncctlthvith her mothers family, who was .neither fo libertine, or fool, a gentleman, ant;ccompjisnea man, anu a man of good ft mih, who w&3 often aMr. a daughter, all liQudht: him out of tho ques daughter, all touht him. out of tho ques- tion; the fathej because he was pot a duke; the mother, b:ause he was a soldier; the - J daughter bectj-jise be had Jnever given her thJ slightest riasoft to believe that he either adhiftedor ed her. As he had some t t a 'a. T1i mm Alice certainr liked, him better than any man she had tver seen, and once she found his eyes fixedupoh her from the other side : of a . ball-roofo, with an exnretsion that j made her forret what her partner was say J ing to her. Irhe! qolor came up into he: 11 it; 1 J: 4 f - -IX t a frood mafeHfbr a clerffvman a daughter, now went out evervl mnmmcr nt nn earlv hand, although he was mucn- O- f " T? OJ O I , - tJ 3 J I : - J . but could notf Pretend to Miss Herbert. hour, she rose oneidav sooner than usual, surprised; but his sensitions -. i- J- .A . 1. 9 . i .a.. - ' I a. . -! Ashton courage ta come up and iask her to dance.. She danced with him on the fol, iowing night, too, f arid! Mr. Herbert, . who remarked the fqct, judfbd that it would be but right to give Henry Ashton hint.' Two days after, as Mice's, father was it plainly, too. He as shved the trouble, however; for Ashtonfs. first speech was, have come to bid yow farewell, Mr. Her- bert. i Wo are ordered to Cana'da,: to put down the evil spirit there. I set out in an hour to take leavoj of I my mother, in Staf. fordshire, and then enbark with jail speed." Mr. Herbert economised hi hint, and wishqd his young friend all success.- "By the 1 way, Mrs. Herbert may lik' to write a few lines b) you to her brother a Montreal. You know he is her only brother:, he made a sad business of it,-, what with building, and planting, and farming, and such things. 0 T . 1 ? ' -. . . ,: ' 1 So I got him an'; appointment in Canada, just that' he might retrieve. She would like to write, know. You will find her up stairs. I, must go ' out myself. Good fortune attend you," ' " 4 "Good fortune'' did attend him, for he found Alice Herbert'alohe in the very first room he entered.' There was a table be- fore her, and she: was leaninc over it," as if very J)U3y; but when Henry Ashton ap- proached her, he- found that she had been carelessly drawing wild leaves on a scrap of paper, wliile her thoughts were far away, She. colored when she saw him, and was evidently agitated; but she was still' more so wncn ne repeatea . what he haa told her father. She turned red, and she turned pale, and she sat still and said nothing. Henry A fehton became acitatcd himself.- "It is all m vain." il know her father too well; and he rose, asking where he should find her. mother.! ; '. Alice answered in a faint voice, "in the little room beyond the : back ; drawmsr littlej room beyond the V room;" 1 l j Henry paused a temptation was too af moment longer: the great to be resisted; he rT5AV Ai' .Maf r.i k.." t a his lips, and said, "Farewell, Miss Her- any one like you aain: but at least it is a blessing to have known you though it be 1 out to regret that, fortune has not tavoreu me still farther ! l farewell!, farewell!" in several despatches. A remnant of the old chivalrous spint! made him often think wncti nc was auacKing a iorunea viuage, or r.ha'rmncr a hnHv 'of infiiirtrAtitct.' "Xlfro Z' . - 'o o . TJ ."TP 1 . Herbert wilt hear ol this !" but often, too, he would ask himself, "I wonder if she be married yet ?" and his companions used to jest with himv upon always looking first at the woman's pah of the newspaper: the births, deaths, and marriages. His fears, if we can venture to call them such, were vain,! Alice did not marry; ali though aoout a yeartter tienry Asnton - . . t A. -w -w A I had quitted England, fher father descended a little from his high ambition,' and hinted that if"she thought 'fit, she' might listen to the vounc Earl ofrl Alice was earl not inclined to listen and gave the I nlainlv to understand that she was not in- clined to become his countess: -The carl, however, persevered, and Mr. Herbert I 1 -: now becranto add his influence: but Alice 1 was obdurate, and reminded her father of a promise he- had made "never to press her marriage iwith anl Kne. Mr. Herbert f TTnrKPTt seemed more annoyed than Alice expect- ed, walked up and down the room in si- lence, and on- hearing iV shut himself up with' Mrs. Hdrbertfor nearly two hours. Mrs. Herbert frorri that moment looked grave and anxious. : Mr, Herbert insisted that the earl shou, d; be received at the though he urged his house as a friend, daughter no morei t m m 1 and palls and parties succeeded each other ' so rapidly that the quieter inhabitants hi Portland Place wish- ea me oanKer anu nis iamuy, wnere aucc herself wished to bd-in Canada T In the mother, whose healt Was evidently suffer- ing from some cails;, but Mrs. Herbert would consult no physician, and her bus- I band seemed nevej to perceive the; state of I weakness and depression into .which she was sinking. AUce; resolved to call the m m a a a and knocked at thei door 'ot his dressing room. There was no answer, and unclos I ing the door, she looked in to see" if-he were already fconei The curtains were still drawn, but through them some of the her j morning beanos foii id their way, and by , cheek, too, and that seemed to giyc Henry thet dim sickly light,' Alice beheld an object that made her clasp her hands and tremble violently." Her fatleVs chair before thei . dressing table was vacant;-but beside it lay , upon the floor, something like the figure of a man' asleep, -lice approached wjth her heart . beating so violently , jthat- she" could hear it, and there was: no T;ther sound in the room. She knelt down beside him'r it was her father She :buld , not: hear him breathe, and "she drew back the cur-. tains. He was pale as' marble, andius eyes, were open, but fixed, - Shei uttered not! a sound, but with wild eves cazed. round - the room, thinking" of. .what she should do. .Her mother was in the chara bei; at the side of the dressing, room; but ' Alice, thoughtful, even in the deepest agi tation, feared to call her, and rang the bell . forf her father's valet. The man, came and raised his master, but Mr.; Herbert had evidently been dead for some hours. , Poor Alice wept terribly but still she . thought of her mother, and she made no noise, and the valet was silent too; for, in - lifting the dead body to the sofa, he found , a small vial, and was gazing on it intently had better put this away, . Miss Her bert," he said at length in a low voice; ;fl had better put this away ; before any one else comes." i : . " , jA.licc gazed at the vial with her tearful eyes. It was marked , Prussic acid ! poison! " . -."'" : l - " ; ' . ; This was but tlie commencement of ma -ny sorrows. Though the J coroner's jury pronounced . that Mr. Herbert had died a . natural death, yet every one declared that . he had poisoned himself, especially "when it wag found that he had died utterly inspl- . vent. That all his4ast great speculations ' had failed, and that the news of his abso lute beggary had reached him on the night ; precedidg his decease. Then came all the 5 horrors of such circumstances to poor Al-. ice and her mother ; the: funeral the . examination of the papert : -the sale of thp house and furniture ; the tiger claws of the law rending open the house in all its . dearest associationyj--the cornmiseration of friends ; tho taunt3 and: scoffs of those Who tjirricd and -hated ia Jsilence. -Then-forj poor Alice herself, came. the last worst v blow, the sickness and, death bed of a -mo- . ther sickness and death in poverty. The last scene was . just over;- the earth was j"s. iuu ujjuu ukj wiuu ui "wucn. and ! Alice sat with her eyes drooping fast, thinking of the sad " What next 7" when a . letter was given to her, and she'saw the . hand-writing of her uncle in Canada. She had jwritteri to him on her father's, dcatli, and now he answered full of tenderness and affection, begging his sister and niece in-" I. stantly to join him in the new land which. ; hejhadmade his country. All the topics . of consolation which philosophy ever dis covered or devised' to jsoothe the man un- " . der the manifold sorrows'fmd cares of life, are' riot worth a blade of rye grass inv com parison wth one word of true affection. , It was the only balm that 5 Alice Herbert's heart should have received ; and though it did not heal the wound, it tranquilizcd its r aching. . ' ; - r Mrs. Herbert, though not rich," had not been altogether portionless, and her small fortune was all that Alice now condescend- y ed to call her. own. -.There had been, in-', deed, a considerable jointure, but:tharAl- 1 icel renounced from feelings that you will understand. - Economy, however, was now' ' a necessity ; and after taking', passage in . one of the cheapest vessels she could "find bound for Quebec ; a vessel that -all the', world has heard of. named the bt. ' law. retice, she set out for the good cityvof ; Bristol, where she arnved m safety on the 15th day of May; 183-.- - ; ;- : I must now, however, tura to the history of Henry Ashton. - ' ' '.' " y - It was just after the business in Oanada were' settled," that he. entered room in Quebec, where several of the ofBcers of his regiment werc assembled in various occupations, one writing a letter to go by the packet which was just about to sail, two looking out of the window' at the noth. - , i ing wmcn was aomg in.; ine -sireeis,-anu , J one reading the newspaper. : 'jThere were and Ashton ;took up one of 'them. - As 1 usual, ho turned to the record of the three great things in life aiid read, first the - I marriages, then the deaths; and, as he did . J so, ho .saw, "fcuoaeniyvat nis nouse m Portland Place, Wilham-Atithony Herbert, movea ana were very said truly, ho gave his thoughts, and they "were sorrow ful, to.the dead, the second were given to Alice Herbert, and he asked himselfi-Ia mixea, ana aunougnf ue iv -m a i - m 4 1 possible that she can ever' be mine?- ? isonciwica on sccwut page. . i - -1 r: A ,-1 -1:- i ,- .-si TV- i i u. f 4 ! i . t- i i i i i . 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