jThole JYo. OOG
Tarborough, (Edgecombe County,. C.J Saturday, .May s,
1836.
y'it" "Tarborough Press,"
BV (iKOKGE HOWAKD,
f.pblil weekly, ntTico Dollars and
rf'u Cents jer vear. if in mlvmice
Dollars, n the expiration ol t lie
ihni a year, Tatulif jice C- ;ta per month.
tnv time
on riving nonce inereui a net
jnyiii
ri;irs those re'iuinff at a dis-
(lliCe muM - . i -j . . .
'- ..airspoiisibl'Tt'li'iencf in tlitsvicnuty.
VivritistMn.'nts, not excrptliujr 16 Jj..s
Huh, (ova S(pirtir) will lc iiscitnl at
SU-t-n'st lie first insertion &i25 it'iils eacli
'liniia.KC. linger ones at that rate
fir every 16 lines. Ailvei tisem?nts must
he market' the number ol insertions requi
re! jrtliev will le continued until other
.' onK-i'-il, ami clinrged accordingly.
' .. ; ... iii.ilil i n:iv iii .iilvanrp. or
Letters aililr,sed t the Kditnr must Ih
jr,il ji liJ. or they may not be attended to.
Miscellaneous.
The Land BUI. The Distri
bution bill was subjected to a se
vere dissection on its third read
jucinthe Senate. The extraor
dinary nature of the. bill, and
ihp manner in which it had been
uslicl through the second read- !
occasioned several senators '
to depart from the usual course of
business, ami to give ii a ciose ex-
.i .i- i i-
animation on me miru reauing.
We believe that Messrs. Morris,
Walker, Niles, Wright, and Ben
ton, a!! spoke at large on the third
reading of the bill, and in the or
Jerin which we have named them.
Their speeches will soon belaid
tefore the public; and in the
meantime, it ought to be known
that the Presidential candidates in
the Senate, who are fathers to this
bill, have changed its whole char
acter, and instead of a prospective
till to operate for five years to
come, they have made it retros
pective! reaching back three
years tor the revenue which has
been expended! and adding that i
to this year and next year for dis
tribution. The division of tfie
spoil is to begin on the first day
oi'July, and be continued quarter
until the Presidential election,
both at the polls and in the House
of Representatives, (if they can
ret it there) is over; and after
wards half yearly. If people wish
to know why this change was
made, it can only be answered,
that there was no other way to
stress the debtors to the deposite !
tanks at present, and to make a
pod distribution before and dur
the Presidential election.
They expect to have twenty-eight
millions to begin villi on the first
of July, and complete thirty-eight
millions in su months; and twenty
millions in the year 1837; in all
fifty-eight millions in eighteen
months! the same deposite banks
"'the meantime to p;iy all that is
needed for the support of the Gov
ernment. The nn hi it; will be as
tounded when they come to see the
plan of these Presidential candid-j
ales in the voles during the can
vassi and we may say, while going
!o and returning from the elec
tions; for one instalment is to be
paid on the first day of October,
a few weeks before the peo
ple vote. The exposition of this
plan will be a curious subject for
he contemplation of the people;
!t Mil be a thing to be marked that
J t of candidates for the Presi
de)', all huddled together on the
fluorof ihe Senate, "should send
a proposition to divide above
lllly millions of the people's mon
jy among the managers just be
and after the election; and
ll curiosity of the thing will be
Jothing diminished when it will
pound that to obtain that sum
w distribution the appropriation
. 3 10 be passed at this very ses-
f'0n tt'lll havp in crr niinnwll Voi-i.
.v these Presidential candidates
are moJ, or believe the people to
so. (fThe facts and figures
-"'soon be exhibited. Globe
n
l rights Speech. The
The conclusion of Mr.
nR'H S snpprb Ic rrapn in trip
l01anns of this day's Globe. The
entire.
A perusal of this clear demon
stration of ihe true state of the ac
count between the Treasury nron
er and the land fund, shows that
mere is not one farthing of nett
proceeds from the public lands
Mr. Wright, indeed, concedes ;
surplus of four hundred thousam
dollars by assigning, to the land
the wlwle of certain receipts with
which land proceeds are blended;
uui no one at all acquainted with
the subject, can doubt for an in
siant mat the sum ol the other
proceeds, blended wtih those of
the land, exceeds four hundred
thousand dollars, and actually
makes the laud domain debtor to
the Ireasury. And jet the hon
est opposition, in the Senate, pro
pose to divide seventeen millions
nnder the pretext of nttt proceeds
irotn t lie lands, when they know
mat there is not, and never has
been, a dollar ol such surplus in
l,,e reasury.
All who wish authentic and
perfect information in regard to
jjicicnuru muu surplus, win
.....v.l M ' i
"uum speecn with
care. It leaves nothing to con
jecture. Upon other topics it is
not less clear. ib.
The Indian, Treaties. Much
anxiety begins to be felt about the
fate of the Cherokee and Chippe
w;a treaties, now hanging for a
long time in the Senate, and sup
posed to be jeoparded by the start
which the distribution bill has got
of them. The Cherokee treaty
recpiires $5,000,000, and the oth
er $1,000,000, making about sev
en millions and a quarter; a sum
too large to be spared from the
distribution fund this summer
which is the summer preceding the
Presidential election! and, there
fore, the treaties must yield to the
distribution bill. A few days will
probably decide between these
conflicting measures, and show
what the spoils party are willing
to do in dividing out the contents
of the Treasury. In the mean
while it may be well for the pub
lic to recollect that Georgia, after
waiting Till HIT FOUR
YEARS for the United Stales to
comply with the compact for ex
tinguishing the Indian title within
her limits, has at last extended,
her jurisdiction over all the coun
try occupied by the Cherokees,
laid it out into counties, organiz
ed her judiciary, granted the
land to her citizens, and. fixed the
25ih day of November next for
the dispossession of the Indians.
If the treaty takes effect, the In
dians are to have a longer time
for removal; if not, the disposses
sion is to begin then; and as Con
gress will not be in session at that
time, whatever is to happen be
tween the Georgians and Chero-
tees will take place before any
new measures could be devised or
matured. Violence and blood
shed may be fearfully apprehend
ed; and if it comes, it comes Irom
thp rpiprtinn of the treaty now
before the Senate; a treaty costing
ess by one million four hundred
thousand dollars, than certain
Senators, by yeas and nays, re
commended to be paid lourteen
months ago; a treaty which, if
defeated, will be defeated by men
who for the last dozen years nave
lv orodical of
their tears and lamentations, and
obstreporously clamorous in their
sympathetic appeals in Deuau oi
the Cherokees, but wnose obieiua-
tious and importunate humanity,
so long the annoyance of the pub
lic is now suddenly extinguished
in a new passion, and who, rather
limn H i m I ill Cll thP fund for disln-
l U OL 1 1 U I 111 III
tuition, will deliver up the Chero
kpps lo the rea Hies ot all tne ca
- II
lamities which their fictitious grief
ami ihpntric.il sorrow was lately
nnnrifiivlnir to an incredulous
rnrnmumtv. Rut. hoWeVef COtl
of these
politicians, their motive and ob
ject are always the same; self,
self, self, is always the motive,
and the injury of the democracy
always the object, and they cared
no more for the Cherokees when
weeping over their "hard fate" a
few years ago, than they do now
when willing to ruin them, to save
money for spoil and distribution.-
ib.
Defence of the fVestern frontier.
7-The interesting communication
lrom the War Department, and
the debate upon it elicited in the
House of Representatives on Sat
urday, will arrest the public atten
tion. There never was an - in
stance which so stronalv exhibit
ed the influence of party schemes
upon the minds of partizans. while
thoroughly persuaded that in car
rying out those schemes thev risk-
eu the paramount interest: the
safety of the country. It will be
i "
seen, that at the moment that war
was marching towards our fron
tiers when the General on our
borders, whose charge it is to
protect our frontier settlements.
had actually called a large and
extraordinary force to the lines,
to enable him to guard them from
dangers he considered impending.
the idea of preserving a surplus
lor air. ulay s distribution pre
dominated in the minds of some
over that of preserving our fron
tier settlements from the danger of
savage invasion and servile insur
rection. The troops had been
called into the service to meet this
exigency, and the only question
was as to providing for their sup
port; and we find Mr. Mason of
Ohio opposing it, upon the score
that it was only a pretext to bleed
the Treasury, instead of prevent
ing the frontier from bleeding
Mr. Underwood of Kentucky
(like Mr. Calhoun in the case of
the French) opposing it upon the
ground that the pteoaratiun was
likely to provoke war, rather than
avoid it. Mr. Graves of Kentuc
ky laboring lo postpone action
and bring on the delays, which he
considers, from ids former suc
cess, me most euectual mode ol
enibarrassiiiLr. if not of defeatincr.
the majority in the House; and yet
we find all these western gentle
men at last oblirxed either to re
treat from the House, or give their
vote for what they thus endeavor
ed to thwart and prejudice.
Messrs. Underwood and Mason,
we understand, left the House just
before the vote was taken, one
having declared peremptorily
that nothing could induce him to
sanction the appropriation. Mr.
Graves, although present when his
name was called, postponed Ins
vole (thoug he could not the ques
tion,) and after finding that only
three names were recorded in the
negative, rose, asked to be called,
and voted in the affirmative! 16.
QyThe Superior Court of Law
for this County is now in Session,
His Hon. Judge Saunders presid-
!T f . " .
ing. io case oi great import
ance on the Civil or State Docket
stood for trial. One case for false
imprisonment came on for trial, in
which Jasper was plaintiff and the
Sheriff of Hyde was defendant, in
which the Jury returned a Judg
ment for the plainlitl for lwo
thousand dollars.
This Judgment we hope, will
teach those who are "Dressed
with a little brief authority" not
to "play such fantastic tricks '
with the personal liberty of "the
sovereign people. Ihe readi
ness of the Judge, promptly lo de
cide the many questions ot Law
(and especially those between the
State and her Citizens,) raised
during the weelw, and his urbanity
and politeness to the Bar and the
suiters has given universal satis
faction. On the whole circuit
Judge Saunders has made a very
foi-rmmhle imnression, and he
i a v v. . - - - j
1 1 ...
Judge. Notwithstanding his po
ntical notions we ike him mnM.
"honor to whom honor is due "
t iiiiiik is rignt in tne present in
stance. Wash. (JY. C.) Whig.
(LYVe learn that the Court of
Appeals on Tuesday last reversed,
by an unanimous vote, the deci
sion ot the interior Court admit
ting the will of the late John Ran
dolph to record it bein g believ
ed mat he was insane at the time
of writing it. Per. Con.
A JVew Species of practice.
me lortn River Times, publish
ed at Haverstraw, tells of a young
upstart ot a doctor who has re
cently "settled" in that village,
who was a few days since called
to visit a lady who had taken cold
in a thumb, from which she had
extracted a thorn, and which had
become inflamed. Young Bolus
immediately administered fifty
grains of calomel, and after watch
ing the thumb with great anxiety
for an hour, he poked down a
thumping dose of jalap and wenl
his way. In the course of the
day he again called, and had the
satisfaction to find his patient en
joying a happy state of purgation,
but still no alteration in the
thumb; whereupon he sent home
another round dose of calomel
and left her for the night. The
lady, burning with an inward fe
ver, and unconscious of the nature
of the drug she had taken, drank
plentifully of cold water. Sali
vation ensued; and though the pa
tient saved her thumb, she lost her
teeth, and what is worse, her
health is sacrificed forever. The
husband commenced a suit for
damages, but the doctor proved,
that, in all cases of this kind the
practice in question would be ac
cording to Gunter, or in other
words was scientific; so, that, in
addition to the loss of his wife's
teeth and health, ihe plaintiff lost
his suit and had to pay his own
costs!
Shooting Stars. The great
shower of stars two years ago,
having occurred in November in
this country, Sir John Herschell,
at the Cape of Good Hope, was
induced to watch the heavens last
year that night, and those preced
ing and following it. On the 14lh
he states he discovered some re
markably brilliant meteors, as
dazzling as Venus, whose light in
that hemisphere is bright enough
to read by. He has not seen any
like them since, but says the coin
cidence may have been acciden
tal. J Y. Star.
Important Verdict. Mr. John
Smith, who brought an action
againts the proprietors ot the
steamboat Advocate, for damages
sustained by ihe collapse of a
flue, by which three of his chil
dren were killed and his wife in
jured, received a verdict of eight
thousand dollars. io.
C?Mr. John Carter, a printer,
of Maryland, near Elkton, recent
ly shot himself deliberately
through the head with a musket,
by putting the muzzle in his
mouth, and pulling the trigger
with his foot. The wall of the
room was scattered with his
brains. He gave as a reason of
his suicide that he was tired of
lite.
Suicide at Hoboken.-r-TUe Co
roner of Bergen county, N. J.
was called on Friday evening, to
Hoboken, to view the body of
Miss Catharine Plyer, a native of
England, aged 21 years, who
was taken from the river about
20 rods above the landing into
which she had thrown herself with
the intention of drowning. The
deceased was a young lady of un
blemished reputation and highly
win, we believpj make a useful
respectable family, has resided
with her parents at No. S8 Mon
roe st. this city. On Friday af
ternoon she crossed over to Ho-
bouen, and was seen by some gar
tidier io leap into the water al
ihe spot from which she was tak
en. The gardeners immediately
ran and dragged her from the wa
ter, and made some efforts to res
tore ner to animation, but they
proven unavailing. The bodv
was examined by a physician who
BdVC ' as ins opinion that she had
been rescued from the water in
season to resuscitate her had the
proper means been employed.
Before leaping into the river she
threw her shawl and bonnet on the
walk, and on the former was
found pinned a note, directed to
No. 175 Broad wav. which con
tained the following lines:
Oh Barodiski! may the eternal
curses ot a future world rpst nn
V "f
on thy perjured soul.'
Barodiski, the individual nam
ed, is a young Polish exile, of un
tarnished character, a dial maker
at No. 175 Broadway. -He is re
presented to have been so over
come by the intelligence of the
untimely end of Miss Plyer, which
is, and without doubt truly, attri
buted by her family and friends to
partial alienation of mind, that he
ias since been partially deranced.
He attended the funeral of the un
fortunate girl on Saturday, on!
which occasion he evinced the
most sincere affection for her, and
grief for her melancholy fate.
A. Y. Com.
Massachusetts. There' has
been forwarded to us a pamphlet,
containing the petition of G. Odi
orne and others, to the Legislature
of Massachusetts, with the action
of that body thereon, and a re
port of a majority and a minority
of the Committee to whom the
said petition was referred. The
petitioners complain of the Jaws of
some of the Southern States, as
operating to deprive a portion of
uieir leuow citizens ot iviassacnu
setts, of the privileges and rights
guarantied to them by the Feder
al Constitution. In other words.
they complain that their respecta-
ble "gentlemen of color." who.
when they come to the south, are
mischievous and drunken black
guards, are not permitted to range
through our towns, bullying and
insulting the whiles, and endeavor
ing lo disaffect the minds of our
slaves The petitioners, with
great modesty, desire that the Le
gislature of Massachusetts will,
with equal modesty, request the
Southern States to repeal all their j There was no express promise of
laws "which violate the rights of marriage existing, and Judge
the citizens of Massachusetts." ; Gardner charged that "such a pro
Which is simply demanding that ! n,ise was unnecessary, particular
all laws calculated lo preserve the j attention being all sufficient,
peace and order of our communi- The jury returned a verdict for
ties, shall be repealed, to accom- j fhe plaintiff, damages $450, be
modate the "colored gentlemen" ig less than 38 a year, for
cooks and sailors, with a "spree" i twelve years, of courting. This
on shore, when they come to the
South.
A majority of the Special Joint
Committee, to whom the petition
was referred, reported that under
the present circumstances of the
case, it is not expedient at this
time to take any further order
thereon. Bnt a minority made a
report calculated to aid the aboli
tionists in their designs.
.It is unnecessary to enlarge up
on this subject. No step of this
kiud will hide from our citizens
ihe odious infractions of the Fed
eral Compact, permitted in the
State ofMassachusetts and other
parts of New England. The
laws at the South are such as have
been found necessary for our secu
rity, and will not be repealed or
modified, until such security is
found in the jtfttice of northern
legislators. Wilmington Adv.
OThe Concord (N. H.) Cou
rier states that two men, hitherto
of goqd standing in a neighbor-
ing town, were last week, by per
mission of the Governor, arrested
and taken to Salem, Mass. to be
tried on Jie charge of having sold
the meat of a sick ox in that town
some two three years ago. It was
packed with a quantity making
some two hundred barrels, none
of which has since been sold; the
owners having been informed of
the condition of the ox, and being
unable to select the barrels in
which the infected meat had been
packed. The connexions of, the
accused individuals are said to be
highly respectable.
To Drive Bugs from Vines.
The ravages of the yellow striped
bugs on cucumbers and melons,
may be effectually prevented, by
sifting charcoal dust over the
plants. If repeated two or three
times the plants will be entirely
free from annoyance. There is
in the charcoal some property so
obnoxious to these troublesome
insects, that they fly from it the
instant it is applied.
Indiana. Aurora.
A Gander Pulling. Attached
to the programme of the Lewis
ville, (Ohio,) Spring Races, we
see the announcement, that on the
third day there will be a gander
pulling on Horseback! for a purse
$25 lor every head pulled off!"
"What the d 1 is a Gander
Pulling?" the unsophisticated rea
der may exclaim. We will tell
him- Suspended from the ton of
a stiff post by the legs, just so
high that on horseback, a man
standing in his stirrups could
grasp it, hangs a luckless gander,
with his head anointed with lin
seed oil. The horsemen then, in
single file, dash past him at full
gallop, and he wins the stakes
who succeeds in wringing off the
gander's "dome of thought."
This is a favorite pastime in ma
ny sections of tfie south west; and
it may afford great fun for the
Georgians, but "by George," it
Georgians, but
is no fun for the gander!
A". Y. Spirit of the Times.
Breach of Promise. A trial for
j breach of promise of marriage
was brought to issue, a few weeks
since, before the circuit Court of
Livingston county, New ' York,
Miss Nancy Griffith being plain
tiff, and Mr. Jas. Perkins defend
ant. It was given in evidence thae
! the defendant had paid particular
attention to Miss Nancy for
twelve years past, until a short
time since, when he discontinued
his visits and married another.
s cheapening female society with
a vengeance.
Melancholy Suicide. For some
time past, the family and friends of
R. Henry, Esq. French Vice con
sul for the port of Baltimore, have
observed, with much concern that
that gentlemen was laboring un
der a great depression of spirits....
They had lumped, however, from
his apparent cheerfulness for sev
eral days, his mind was about to
recover its proper tone, and that
the melancholy hour had passed.
In this, we lament to say, they
were deceived. Yesterday morn
ing, the servant, going to his
room to call him to breakfast,
discovered him suspended entire
ly lifeless from the tester of his
bed. It is presumed that pecuni
ary embarrassments led him to
commit this rash and fatal act.
Bait. CAron.
OCTBe a friend to yourself and
others will.
-''"ee.viy u obc contains it
tradictorv the conduct