JC" J?"
Oh! who shall lightly say that fame
Is nothing but an empty name;
Whilst in that sound there is a charm
The nerves to brace, the heart to warm;
As. thinkinfr of the misrhtv dead,
The youiiK from slothful couch will start
And vow, with lifted hands outspread,
Like them to act a noble part!
Oh! who shall lightly say that fame
Is nothing but an empty name!
When, but for those, our mighty dead,
All ages past a blank would be,
Sunk in oblivion's murky bed
A desert bare, a shipless sea?
They are the distant objects seen
The lofty marks of what hath been.
Oh! who shall lightly say that fame
Is nothing but an empty name!
When mem'ry of the mighty dead
To earth-worn pilgrim's wistful eye,
The brightest rays of cheering shed,
That point to immortality?
STJJVZJS.
What is hope? a smiling rainbow
Children follow through the wet;
Tisrot here, still yonder, yonder
Never urchin found it yet.
What is life? a thawing iceberg
On a sea with sunny shore;
Gav wc sail it melts beneath us
VVe are sunk, and seen no more.
What is man? a foolish baby,
Fighting fierce for hollow nuts;
Demanding all, deserving nothing
One small grave is what he gets.
JL iter a ry Con ve n t io n . ' r h e
Literary Convention closed its
session on Saturday, 12th inst.
The business done was summed
up by the President, J. Q. Ad
ams, in his farewell speech, as
follows:
The President rose, as he
said, to return his thanks to the
members of the Convention,
not only for their kind partiality
in placing him in the chair, but
for the further honor they had
done him by the vote they had
just passed. He had come hi
ther upon an invitation from the
Committee of
arrangements
of
the last year. It so happened
that he was unacquainted with
the proceedings of the last
Convention, amj knew verv lit-
lie oi wnat was to be brought
forward at the present. But he
ehould do injustice to his feel
ings were he not to say that he
Lad seen and heard things du
ring the meeting, which had
made the present one of the
happiest weeks of his life. Ho
had heard things which he ought
to have known, but of which he
was totally ignorant. Other
things he had heard, which he
knew partially before, but which
had nevertheless imparted addi
tional information. On the
first day of the Convention a
communication was read, of a
most interesting character, on
the state of learning in Colom
bia a country with which wc
are connected by the most im
portant relations, of daily in
creasing interest. The subject
of establishing a College at
Athens had been introduced,
carrying back wisdom to the
fountains of inspiration, and a
report proposing to make the
Bible a classic in our literary in
stitutions thus uniting Ionia's
streams with Siloas' fount that
Si 1 " .
mmeu last by the Oracles of
uod. un another occasion he
had learned the condition and
prospects of an Institution at
West Point, which, altho' upon
a very different foundation from
this, was yet of an interesting
character. A new practical
system of education had hppn
submitted, which was spoken of
J wins ot the highest admira
tion; and this morning a report
'ad been read on the establish.
ment Professorship nf Hi.
tory ,n our Universities; which
he deemed of high importance.
matt An Imti
to found a Literary Institution of
a permanent nature, to unite
men of literature and science in
this State with those of like cha
racter in every part of the U
nion. These things must be
gratifying to all who feel an in
terest in the weltarc ot tne Hu
man race, and arc calculated to
inspire their most sanguine
hopesas to the future condition
of man. Under these circum
stances, we may well return our
thanks to heaven for the past,
and solicit its blessings for the
future.
Q7Mr. Samuel Withers was
shot on Wednesday at the War-
renton races, Virginia, by a
Captain Gale. They were bet
ting on a race, which produced
a quarrel. Mr. W. struck Capt.
G. who immediately drew a pis
tol from his pocket and shot
him in the stomach. He lived
two rlnys after he received the
wound. Milton Spec.
rr !,.? OiT) 7 i
i . i I r .1.1
nave lo-ciay goou news ior me
sugar planters in Louisiana.
The Secretary of the Treasury
has fully sustained Mr. Gor
don, the Collector of this port,
in his attempt to prevent the in
troduction of dissolved sugar in
to the United States, under the
name of strop dc battcrie, upon
the payment of 15 per cent, du
ty ad valorem, which is equiva
lent to about one half cent per
pound, upon the sugar into
which it is immediately upon its
arrival re-converted.
Religious Frenzy. The Es
sex (Mass.) Chronicle, says:
Mr. Porter, a portrait painter,
who has for a few weeks past
been engaged in this'village, at
tended the four days nicotine
here and was seriously impres-
sea. ins intellect is now pros
trated, and he has become a per
fect fanatic. He went to Bos
ton on Monday last, to make
spiritual communications to
Dr. Beecher. Previous to his
departure, he urged that a child
recently buried should be dug
up, confident that ho had been
invested with power from God,
to rc-animale him. Humanity
and philanthropy weep over the
multiplied and multiplying in
stances of mental alienation.
A Newport (N. II.) paper
. . . . i.
mutinous mo case oi a youn
lady who had been brought to
that town for medical advice,
sue having totally lost her rea
son Irorn the oiled of religious
excitement, occasioned by at
lending four-days meetings.
steamboat Accident. A let
ter dated Memphis, (Tenn.)
C? 4. gvti looi iit
ofiu. 4, iooi,says: -we nave
just heard by a flat boat that the
steamer Union, which left here
on Sundny, 13th inst. on her
passage up, struck a snair near
I lumb Point: boat and carcro
entirely lost, and 16 passengers
drowned. These are all the
particulars yet arrived.
AT A schoolmaster in Rense
laer county, N.Y. has been finet
$1000 for kissing one of his fe
male pupils.
(TTTlic word veto is thus ex
plained in a late letter from
Kentucky: "When the plaguy
Congress pester the old chap
(the President) with any of their
law ne uont nice, he throws it
down and stamps it all to brick
and dust; and as he never lets
them have it any more, this is
caned putting his five toes unnn
it, for V stands for five you know
for short. See, Jim, what it is
tu uuve larnen."
THE Subscribers arc now open'ng
at their Old Stand, a general '
ASSORTMENT OF
Seasonable Goods,
Which they will sell at their usual low
prices for Cash or Country Produce.
D. -RICHARDS c$- CO.
Tarborough, Oct. 20, 1631.
Millinery, c.
qMIE Subscriber informs her friends
and the public, that she has just
rpppived her Fall Supply of articles
in her line of business, viz:
Pattern Velvet and Silk bonnets,
Leghorn, Dunstable, and Navarinodo.
Superb white and black ostrich leathers,
-. . i . ... r-
Head tircsses, ornaments, wv,.
Feathered and velvet Flowers,
A great variety of ribbons, &c. &c.
The Subscriber still carries on the
Millinery and Mantua-making busi
ness, in all its variety.
A. C. HOWARD.
Nov. 5, 1S31. '
Jit Hamilton.
rplIE Subscribers having just com-
pleted a large and commodious
WAREHOUSE at this place, on the
Roanoke, which is the head of steam
boat navigation, will receive and ship
Colton or any other articles which
may be sent to their care, agreeable
to instructions. Those wishing to
send produce to market by the way
of Roanoke, will find it to their ad
vantage to deposit it at this place, as
the steamboat can come here at all
wasons of tHe year. Every attention
will be paid to the receiving and de
livery of such articles as may be for
warded to I heir core. Storage of
Cotton, 125 cents all other articles
in proportion.
EXUM L. LOWE $ CO.
Hamilton, 30 Sept. 1S31. S
WEW IVIUXiXiBTS.
1 0 BARRELS of New River Mul-
icis, just received anu lorsaiooy
IX RICHARDS cS- CO.
Tarboro', Nov. 12, 1831.
MANUFACTORY.
THE Subscriber takes this method
iiiiuiiu iiju i;iu.eii ui j arooro
and the public in cencr.il. that he has
just received, direct from New- York,
a general and handsome assortment of
materials in his line of business, and
is now prepared for carrying on the
Conch and Gig-making,
IN ALL ITS VARIOUS BRANCHES.
lie has in his employ a first-rate work
man, which will enable him to have
his work done not inferior to anv
that is manufactured in Uie State. He
hopes, therefore, by his strict atten
tion to his business, to merit a share
of the public patronngo.
Repairing, of every d script ion,
executed with neatness and despatch.
ISAAC B. BRADY.
Tarboro', Oct. 17, 1831. 9
For publishing by Subscription,
A CONCISE HISTORY OP THE
Eehukec Baptist Association,
From its original rise to the present time.
BY ELDER JOSEPH 1JIGGS,
Under the supervision of a Commit
tee appointed by the Kehu
kee Association.
rFHlS work will be divided into two
parts Part 1st, will contain the
History of the Kehukee Association
from its first organization until the
year 1S03, as compiled by Elders
Burkitt and Read, (omitting such
parts of it as are considered superflu
ous.) Part 2d, will embrace a con
tinuation of the History of the Asso
ciation, until the present period, by
Elder Joseph Biggs, &c.
CONDITIONS.
The work will be printed on good pa
per, with a fair type, and will make about
.?0 pages, duodecjmo. It will be fur
nished to subscribers, neatly bound and
dozen' " Sl nSlC CxPyr S10 Per
(ZTPersojis holding Subscription
papers will please send them, on or
before the 1st of April next, to El
aer Joseph Birsn tir;n: ...
tor, to Geo. Hoivatd, Tarboro' X C.
R.fyS. V. Cotter
HAVE tust received and arc now
opening their FALL SUPPLY,
comprising a very Urge and splendid
assortment of
STAPLE AND FAWix
S2A.TS, SHOES,
Groceries, Hardware, &c.
They invite the public to call and
examine them before they purchase,
as they are determined to sell very
low.
N. B. For cash or produce they
are determined not to be undersold
by any house in this place.
Tarboro' St'h Nov. 1831. 13-3
JM ' ' w
MERCHANT TAILORS,
WISH to inform their friends and
customers, that they have just
received from New-York, their
Fall Supply of Goods,
In their line of business consisting
in part of the following articles, viz:
Superfine blue, black, brown, green, and
claret Cloths 2d quality do. do.
Superfine blue, black, and fancy Cassi-
mcrcs 2d quality do. do.
Satinetts, superior article,
Superfine goats-hair Camblet, for cloaks
2d quality do.
Petersham, for overcoats, a supV article,
Bang-up cord, flannel shirts and draws,
A splendid assortment of Vesting, to wit:
plain black and fig'd Velvets, dark and
light color'd Valencias, in great varie
ty of patterns,
A splendid assort't of Marseilles vesting,
Also, a handsome assortment of stocks,
besoms, and collars,
Also, a handsome assortment of pocket
handkerchiefs, black and white cra
vats, cravat stiffencrs, gloves and sus
penders, 1st and 2d quality
Tcgctherrjith a complete assortment of
All of which will be sold low for
cash, or on a short credit to punctual
customers.
They also embrace this opportuni
ty of informing their friends and cus
tomers, that they will make and trim
gentlemen s clothing as low as it can
be done in this place, and in the most
fashionable and approved style.
r1rlrr., Ci C ICO!
FOE SAXiES,
By the Subscribers, a quantity of
Corn, Bucoiu & Lard,
Which they offer low for cash.
D. RICHARDS S- CO.
Tarboro', May 23.
Notice,
fpIIE Co-partnership of Andrew
Anderson & Co. is by mutual
consent dissolved.
ANDRE IV ANDERSON.
E. C. MIX,
ROBERT II. MOODY.
The business will be continued at
the same place by Andrew Anderson
and Isaac T. Elwood, under the firm
of Anderson & Elwood.
A. ANDERSON,
ISAAC T. ELWOOD.
Tarboro', Nov. 21, 1831.
"OERSONS wishing to purchase
wood, will be furnished at their
dwellings with good oak and hickory
at $1 62$ cents per cord or, if they
prefer hauling it themselves, at 60
cents per cord, within 3i miles from
town. Apply at Mr. W. P. Had
ley's tavern, to
IVM. JONES.
Oct. 14, 1S31. 9-6
Periodical Publications.
THE Publisher of the Saturday
v....B i uai, A nuaaeipnia,
poses to compile and publish in
pro-
pam-
pniet torm a list of the periodicals
the United States for 1831. He I
m
be
ueves inai such a work will be valua
ble for reference, and of much benefit
iw c.;iiarus anu others desirous of
-uv ubing, ana he respectfully sol
cits the aid nfho nror .
l
to render it as complete as possible.
inir
xic uesircs mat one or more num.
oers oi each publication in the Union
. uu lorwaracu to him as soon as
possible at least two numbers should
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lailurn nr tn ivni r, rrt
- v j uiuciciii maus, io avoid
w. .M.gi,uilW, . IQ
who comply with this request, a
those
copy
vTuiA mm uu lorwaracu
completion.
The object of the publisher
on its
is not
realize prom, but to afford
the
i wr Wi,cn cannot but
be of
therefor. ;""-'nePr'ce
will,
of the undertaking will aMmit.
expense
Merchant Tailor, 3
WISHES to inform his friends and
the public, that he has just re I
ccived From New-York, his "
Of Fashionable Goods
In his line of business, superiortoaii;
he has ever brought to this market '
consisting in part of the follow
articles: -Superfine
blue, black, and brown Cloth
2d quality do. do.
Fine green, drab and steel Mixtures,
Superfine blue, black and brown Cay.
meres,
Fine drab and light Mixtures, latev
fashion,
Superfine mixd Sattinctts, beautiful a
tide,
Brown Petsham, for overcoats, supci;r
article,
Goats hair Camblet, for cloaks,
Fine Ladies Camblets, for cloaks,
Plain and fancy Velvets for ve&ting?,
Plain and fancy Valencias, for do.
Plain white and fancy Marseilles, 0.
Suspenders, cravat stiffeners, linen celiac t
White and black cravatis, fancy do.
Best quality buckskin Gloves,worsted do
Gentlemen's half hose, superior qualitv
Pocket handkerchiefs, superior article"
Canton flannel for drawers,
Fine heaver Hats, best quality,
Black and fancy stocks,
Together with a general assortmer:: of
Those goods were purchased at re
duced prices, and will be sold low for
Cash or on a short credit to punctual
customers.
Gentlemen wishing to purchase the
above articles, will do well to call and
examine for themselves as he is con
fident he can please such.
Those gentlemen that furnish their
own cloths, can have them made in
the most fashionable manner, and as
low as they can be made in this place
Tarboro', Sept. 26, 1S3I.
THE Subscriber having removed to
Stantonsburg, where he does in
tend to carry on the mercantile busi
ness in future, it therefore becomes
necessary that all persons who are in
debted to him, either by note or ac
count, should make payment during
the fall and winter. The notes and
books are with Mr. 13ENNET E.
BELL, who is fully authorised tore- 1
ceive payment and give receipt:
Good baled and seed Cotton will be
taken in payment, viz: baled Cottcn
at 7 cents, and seed Cotton at II els.
A1J who fail to comply with the above
requisitions, between this and the 15th
February next, will find their note? ,
or accounts in the hands of an officer
for collection.
N. H. ROUNTREE.
P. S. Any person holding orders
against the County, will please pre
sent them to me at Stantonsburg, tt ?
to Mr. Bennet B. Bell at Tarborough,
who will advance the cash for then
on demand.
N. H. Rountrce, C. Trustee.
Tarboro', 1st Nov. 1831.
Mrs. JD. Wopiblej
TTAVING been well patronised dJ
ring her long residence in th;
Town of Halifax, has recently maik
arrangements for a permanent settle-'
ment, and will therefore find it he
interest, as it ever has been her plea
sure and duty, to execute all order'
with taste, fidelity and promplitute.
Mrs. W. is now opening her sprlnj
supply of Goods, in her line of busi
ness, and respectfully solicits her cus
tomers and friends to call and exam
ine them amongst her assortment
will be found
Pattern Satin-straw, Silk, and Battel
bonnets, latest fashions,
Diamond-straw dunstables, plain do.
Leghorn and straw bonnets,
Elegant turbans, &c.
An assortment of puffs and curls,
Gauze & barege scarfs & handkerchief.
Straw and fancy flowers,
A great variety of ribbons, &c. &c
All of which she is disposed to sci'
at her usual low prices.
Ladies' pelisses, cloaks, dresses
&c. made to order, in the latest and
mosi approved fashions.
Leghorn and straw bonnets bleach
ed, dyed, or trimmed.
Halifax, June 2. 1831. 42
Just Published,
At this Office, (with additional notes)
a second edition of the
Patriotic Discourse,
DELIVERED BF TJIE
Rev. JOSHUA LAWRENCE,
At the Old Church in Tarboro N-C'
on Sunday, 4th July, 1830. .
Price, 10 cents single or, $ perdtf
Tarborough, April Id.