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V- WW k - I . r , x 1J xz M0 Whole Xo. 02 j. Tar; orough, (Edgecombe Courtly, X. II) Saturday, October 8, i33i To. Aii Jo SO- y'ir Tar?)rntgk Press.'1 r.' GEORGE U0WA1U, uiMi'liod wrekly.at Two Dollars an v , C"'i-' l-31" Vf.ir.if pa'fl in alviuiu- ""r.n'fi ')ull trs, at lit expiration ol'Hi. "criptioa vcar. F-r ni.y period I. - , , vp;--. Twtii'.ihfieeCcnts wr mo.ul. .fibers are i liberty!. dUo.uiuue at " Vine. '' civiii untie i hereof and &:lVi'' arrears those it'M.lii'U sit a AU fice m'usi invariably pay in n.lwai, or .a responsible reference i tlnsvicinity . tiV. iIvt.,iienHMil3, not exeeedinp 1G lines . , ',!,, (or a square) will le inserted at S f t lie fi i t i n s e r t i i) n 25 ce n t s e a c li ?,ii"a"ct'- Lo"Sei' o"f t rate f every square. Advertisements musl marked the miniber o insertions recjiii- or ihcv will le cominned until other "Ve order- d.anl charged arcordingly. Letters addressed to the t'ditur nuist be iot p.iiJ, '"" I hey may not he attended to. Miscellaneous. F01i THE TAK23KO FKESS. jincricrji System of Vine Culture. Mr. Howard: Press of business ias caused me to defer answering vour letter respecting vines. j 1 have more than twenty kinds; ami lifiy varieties. But of these; a lew kinds only 1 would recom- mem! as excellent for table use and1 wine, or worthy in all respects of cuhivation, viz: the Scuppernong,j a native of this Slate, yon know; agreed by all acquainted with it o be of superlative excellence. The Halifax, a native of this conn iv; a grape of like worth. Again: 1 have the kinds generally known in the whole of our country as ex cellent, viz: the Isabella, Cataw ba, and Herbeaut's Madeira and some again not so extensively known; as, Bland's Madeira, York Madeira, Cunningham, Woodson, Coles Wine, and Fragrant or Transparent; the last a grape lint when ripe diffuses a delight ful fragrance a considerable dis tance around where cultivated. The foregoing are all native. Foreign vines are found by all uperimenling to be not worth cultivating by Americans; unless the purple English, sometimes succeeding for a while and some seasons ripening its fruit. But all , foreign Kinds are found liable tot te killed in winter as to the vine,! ami to shed their fruit before ma-j luring bv rot or otherwise. I have tried both French and English vines without any satisfactory re sult. 1 sometimes have had fruit of the English, but from the French never. The foreign system of trim- mug ami managing vines win not dolor this country; or that sys- tern commonly laid down in trea tises on the vine culture. 1 he ; uailWsn testimony of correspon-j dents on this subject, as found in: ilie columns of the "American Farmer' and other agricultural j 'wks of our county, is that at tempts to keep vines humble or law with us, destroys them or cau ses tlicm to dwindle to nothing. Some have pursued with conside rable success a medium plan, viz: a keep the vines eight or ten feet I'igb, confined to stakes. This is 'he plan, I believe, of Mr. Hern don of Oxford, of our Slate. But uiiat I call the American system ,Jf vine culture is attended 1 be lieve with uniform success. It is britfly this: to let the vines run unchecked as to length, and even 'ually tn train them over frames or scaffolding, or on trees. But while unchecked as to length, they aie to he kept clear of all lateral Ranches tiil six or eight feet from ground. This operation is to 'performed in the earliest stages f their growth, by pinching off, separating by trimming, the Wral buds and branches. Con trary io received opinion on this jutyect, as well as foreign practice, ') as well as some other successful Vle culturists of our country, 'uvc found that the season ol Growth is decidedly the best time ,a trim vines, or to manage them as above mpmifmcd. 1 have now Isabella, Scupperuong, Halifax, d other kinds, set out last spring a year, with. fifteen, twenty, th'nty, and more fine clusters of ripe fruit on individual vines respec tively. Some of these vines are twelve, twenty and more feet in length. Persons, at this period, visiting my vineyards are ready to suppose these vines from their size and abundant fruit, to be four or five years planted, instead of fourteen or fifteen months, as is actually the case. My plan for sustaining a vine is briefly this: before partially filling up the hole with surface earth or manure if necessary, in preparation for plan ting a vine, 1 set a stake on the north side; afterwards in place of tnisasappling ol sassalras or cedar with a bushy top left when cut; and next a forked or straight post with fleets or shingles nailed on the sides at top to support the scaf fulding. 1 plant Scuppernong and other far spreading vines twenty-five feet apart each way and plant the New Chinese Mul berry, the Locust, or fruit trees, ten feet distant, or at intermediate distances, to eventually answer as a post and other support for the vines. For garden culture the Scuppernong should be planted some feet from the paling to pre vent the reflection of the sun from injuring, and then eventually trained on scaffolding outside. The danger of forming a canopy or arbor over the middle isle of a garden is, that in the course of time the whole garden may be come covered and shaded. Be sides trimming, as aforesaid, sev eral limes during each season of growth, each vine should be as . and v arney. Jn the midst of the carefully cultivated, by stirring! conflict, Garrett's wife came to the ground around and weeding, the relief of her husband with a as a cotton or corn stock. Noth-'gun. As soon as she appeared ing should grow within a foot or j with the gun, she was knocked so of a vine. But I have as much prostrate by Farney, and on re cotton a season to the ground, by covering from the blow she seized a little extra manuring, in my j a large knife, and with it gae vineyards for two or three years, Farney one mortal stab, while he as elsewhere. But cotton shades 'and Nihlon were beating her hus- loo much. I now prefer cabbage, mangle wurtzel, ruta baga, and; Irish potatoes. The last I colli- from the blows inflicted by Nih vate in the interval distances of , ton and Farney; and the other fell the same row s as the vines, and j by the hand of Garrett's wife, their upper covering of pine straw j She w as much injured in the bat or coarse litter greatly facilitates, I tie our correspondent does not when rotting, the growth of the; know whether she will recover or vines. But I am becoming tedious and must not enlarge. Yet before closing 1 will answer your inquiry as to terms of selling vines. My price for a well rooted single vine is a quarter of a dollar. But w here a dozen, fifty, one hundred or more are taken at once, or box ed and sent the same direction to one responsible person, a hand some deduction is made. Say 10, 20, 25, or 30 per cent. Or extra ones thrown in propoi tionably to the number taken. Yours, Sec. SIDNEY WEbbER. Brinkleyville, Sept. 13, 183G. Violence in New Orleans. On the 28th Aug. last, A. R. Bruz, a young man a native of Augusta, Ga. but for some) ears a citizen of New Orleans, where his good conduct won the favor of every body, was shot iu the streets of that city by young Giquel, also a young man of good family and standing. Giquel was brought before Judge Preval to know whe ther it was legal for him to give bail, and it was proved to be mur der in the first degree. He was then put in irons. A few days afterwards he was brought before Judge Bermudez, who liberated him on a bond of $15,000. Gi quel immediately left the city. The community was so exaspera ted, that a mob formed about 1 1 at night and attacked Judge B.'s house. The attack was anticipa ted, and preparations were made to repel it. Judge B. and his friends were well armed, and men were stationed in the house. Mr. John C. Eaean, and John Baily, Jr., two young gentlemen much esteemed by all who knew them, were shot and cut to pieces. Ber tnudez was saved bv the heroic conduct of his wife: as Earran drew a pistol and was in the act of shooting, she struck up his arm, and the ball just grazed his head. She then caught Eagan and held him till her husband killed him: Bailey was shot by a young man the Clerk of Bermudez, named Bauregard, with a charge of buck shot. Public sympathy has never been so excited Eagan and Bai ley were both buried on the 6th. by a very numerous procession. All portions of the community, exasperated at the circumstances, have determined to have justice executed on Giquel and Bermudez. Merida, who was wounded at the house of Bermudez, has since died. Woodlief, who was taken prisoner, has been liberated on giving bail. A Mortal Combat. The Flo rence (Ala.) Gazette of 25lh ult. says: A friend at Waterloo, under date of the 17th inst. has inform ed us of one of the most "glaring outrages ever witnessed in a civi lized community." It happened on the south side of the river, op posite Waterloo, and not far from a place called Chickasaw. A man by the name of Garrett, who lived at the house of Abel Ment zer, was much abused, (tongue lashed, we suppose,) on the even ing of the 17lh inst. by two men, George Nihton and William Far ney, when a fight ensued between Garrett and his two foes, Nihton band to death. Both Garrett and Farney died instantly; the one- j not. iihtou made his escape Garrett and Farney were both dead before our informant could cross the river and arrive at the scene of death. One cannot help sympathising with the wife of Garrett; a more tragical instance of the faithful ness of a wile, we do not remem ber ever to have heard or known. Premature Cold. It was so cold at Montreal (Canada) on the morning of Saturday, Sept. 10th, that the ferry-boats were encrust ed with ice. The swallows have left earlier than usual. Still we predict a mild autumn for the U nited States and Canada, to make up for the extreme severity and long duration of last winter's cold. For on comparing the ag gregate amount of caloric in me teorological tables for each year, it is generally found to be the same on an average, and this is a wise end necessary provision in the economy of nature's law s. wV. Y. Star. Green Corn and Snoto Balls. The Portsmouth N. H. Journal says: On Wednesday morning we noticed in a market wagon, con taining corn in the milk, the strange sight of a snow ball, be tween two and three inches in di ameter. It was formed from the frost which on that morning was visible in every direction around us blasting, we fear, the small hopes many of the farmer had cherished of their corn crop. Shocking effect of a scarcity of women. A. western paper states that a woman w hose maiden name was Sarah Ramsay, was lately! ."tn.in.ew- iu inr jjcniicmi.iry at iew Trenton. Indiana, far mm- rym three husbands! The edi- 7 7 tor attributes it to the scarcity of wives in that part of the Union, iialan inducement lor some of the surplus ladies of the eastern States who are fading "like the last rose of summer," to migrate that way. ib. Horrible murder. One of th most revolting murders on record, was commuted in the city ol iev, York, on the IGth ult. on the body i of Mrs. Alice Ackiey, by her own nusbamJ, batnuel Arkley! It seems the monger effected his hendish purpose by impaling his wife with a rod of wood or iron, Daring Robbery. A most da forcible inserted to the depth of a- ring robbery was committed on boui sixteen inches, and causing board the steamer Rhode Island, almost immediate death. on her trip from New York, on 'PI - .1 , rv . . . i ne 10101101 us summoned 10 view the body, winch was found $36,000 in gold, belonging to the dtad in ihe room of her husband Fulton Bank, was broken open and entirely without covering; no and the contents abstracted. The marks cf violence w ere percepti- keg was placed in the Captain's iIe. and as the deceased was office under the care of one of the known to be of very intemperate officers of the Bank. It is suppo habit, a veidict of death from in- sed the villain put his hand thro' temperance was recorded after a the blinds of the office and took siigtM. examination by a surgeon, out the keg without being observ whust opinion was given to dialled.. The contents were then sto eifect. By mere chance one of j len and the keg returned to its the persons occupying another a-j place bottom upwards with the partmeui in the building, found j head broken out. In this situa- concealed it the privy common to all the occupants of the house, a '. the boat at Providence. No clue shirt and demise both completely has yet been discovered which may saturated with blood, and on rais- lead to the detection of the thief." ing the body of the deceased to i place her in the t rfiin sent for its ; Ludicrous effects of Stramoni recepfiun by the commissioner of urn. A correspondent of lire Me the alms house, a large quantity dical and Surgical Journal, who of blood was found beneath her, : w as called to visit an Irish family rendering it evident that, either at New Haven who had been poi froin some peculiar disease, or soncd by eating datura stramoni from some serious ii.lt rnal injury, um. (thorn apple, or apple Peru she had suffered severely from he- ' sometimes also called devil's inorrlnge. Tins ied to the sec-: apple,) w hich had been accident ond examination before the coro- ally mixed with a mess of greens ner, above mentioned, when Dr. and boiled for dinner, thus des David b. Rogers was sent for to tribes the anoearauce of the firoun: open the body, and the alarming ful was discovered that the poor crenture had been put to death by the monstrous and appalling tor- ture of impaling. The coroner's jury returned a verdict to the ef- feet that tiie deceased came to her death fiom the injuries inflicted bv the hand of her husband, Sam- crous. 1 he children were laugh uel Ackiey and the Coroner ing, crying, singing, dancing, and made out a warrant for his imme- playing all imaginable pranks. dial committal to prison. i distance, or the size of objects. Prices of Produce in Greens- were reaching their hands to borough, Alabama. Corn, per catch hold of objects across the bushel, $2; Foddn, per 100 lbs. room, and again running against $2; Flour, per barrel, $15; Ba- persons and things which they ap cou, per cw t. $18; Mai karel. No. peared to view as distant. The 1, per bbl. $18; Pork, mess, $35; nail heads in the floor were pieces Sugar, per cwt. 17; Co flee, per of money, which they eagerly tri cwt. $20. We name these as the ed to pick up. A boy, apparent leading articles, says the Greens- ly fancying himself undressed, boro' Sentinel, but every thing caught a hat belonging to a stu else, in the provision line, is gene-": dent, thrust his foot into it, pulled rally in the same proportion. j with both bands on the brim, j and began to fret that he could J"cw States. Two more new not "get on his trowscrs." The States, making twenty-eight in all, ; parents frequently called on the are already hecun to be talked of. I children to behave themselves; and their names are already given Iowa and Wisconsin, at present comprised within the newly form ed Territory of Wisconsin. This tract by the flood of emigration which is pouring in there, already amounts to 50,000, of which the Iowa country contains 25 to 30, 000. This latter lies west of the Mississippi river, and is 450 miles in length, including the head of the Mississippi, which is techni cally called Itasca, ingeniously and playfully derived by the lear ned Editor of the Grand Gulf (Mississippi) Advertiser, from the Latin words Ver-Itas (truth) and Ca-pnt (head.) The same Edi tor adds: "To the west of the fu ture State of Iowa, others will soon be added, and the child lives who will travel through twenty States ly ing north of the mouth of the Ohio, and west of the Missis sippi, and containing twenty mil- lions of human beings as yet tin- uoro. jy . I. otr. Amal carnation under a new ' form. A Methodist paper called j the Olive Branch, meplion6 that a proposition has been made for a Congress , or Convention of all creeds and religion, that they may amalgamate and consolidate in to one. 16. Methodist Watchman. A Da- ! per with this title is proposed to be published in Richmond, VTa. by Etheldred Drake, forhierlv Editor of the Christian Sentinel, so soon as one thousand subscri bers are obtained. tne iytn nit. a keg containing j tion it was found on the arrival of The countenances had a wild idiotic expression, the ptipils wide- Iv dilated, the sensorial functions perverted, and the muscular ys- tern subject to an irregular agita- tion somewhat resembling that of the cholera. The appearance of the family was extremely ludi- iThey had no correct estimation of hut their own actions being equal ly eccentric, they afforded a ri diculous exhibition of family gov ernment. CA gentleman was coming to this city from New York, some days ago, when he happened to get a spark from the locomotive engine into his eyes. He tried various means to remove it, but all to no purpose; the spark re mained in his eye, and gave him very great pain. Coming on board the steamboat at Burling ton, such w as the pain he suffered, that 'le accident became known to the passengers generally, and finally reached the ears of the en gineer of the boat, who. taking a horse hair with him, went to the cabin and sought the sufferer. "Are you the gentleman," said he, who has got a spark iu your eye?" Being answered in the affirmative, ''well, I am the man that can ti-ke it out;" w hereupon he simply for med a kind of loop of the horse hair by bending it round and bringing the two ends together, wheir, raising. the eje-lid and in serting the loop between it and the eye-ball, and then kiting the lid fall again, he di'ew the hair out, and with it the little cause of the great pain. The gentleman was at once relieved. This is a very simple way of removing whatever may have got into the eye, and it vv ill be Well for every body to remember it. Philadtlphia Gaz. Subterraneous Heat.- It ap pears that in searching for water, the earth has been bored in. Paris to the depth of 100 feet. Water had not been found, but the expe riment has been made subservient to some investigations on subter ranean temperature made by M. Araijo, who by means of a regis ter thermometer, has satisfied himself that temperature regularly increases from the surface of the' earth towards its centre, so that at the depth of 400 miles all known substances must exist in a slate of fusion. According to this view, water, if found 1000 feet deep, should be sufficiently healed to serve for supplying warm baths, washing, cooking, and various domestic uses. OCr'The bondon Herald gives the following description of ar extraordinary invention and sub stitute for steam: We larn from Genoa that Dr. Giovanni Palmer mi has just invented a new ma chine of iron, w hich, though of the utmost simplicity, will, by a mo tive principle hitherto unknown, act with all the multiplied theory of Archimedes, and at the same time with the regularity of a steam engine. It is only about 5 yards and a half Ion" 6 aids broad, and 3A feet high, and el is ol 1,340 horse power. CTThe bondon Globe says that' a vessel of extraordinary speed, propelled bv quicksilver, isplving on the Thames. Scriptures for the Blind. The Bristol Society for the embossing and circulating the authorized version of the Bible, have receiv ed 100 from the British and Fo reign Bible Society, towards prin- ting the scriptures for the use of the blind, I means of the embos sed sten Draphy invented by Mr. be wis. CCA blacksmith of Milan, na med Ponti, has discovered that, by suspending a length of chain to one of the corners of ihe anvil by means of -i ring, the noise of the hammer may be entirely deaden ed. This discovery is of trrcat - o importance in large towns, where the noise of the hammer is so seri ous a nuisance. How people live in Town. A very honest hearted Dutchman, who had seen but little of the w orld, took it in his head to visit the me tropolis, a place he had never be fore seen; but, among all the wonders which perplexed him, he "couldn't see how de people all got a liflen upon de town; dey all stands or walks about, and doesn't work at all." One of his more experienced neighbors explained ihe mystery thus: "1 tells you, Hans; dey follow shealen one an oder, and dat dey calls piziness, and dat's de way dey kits deru liffen!'' A scientific Tailor. A tailor lately replied to a gentleman who complained that his coal fitted badly, "I beg pardon, Sir, but the coat must fit, for the measure' tight, and we always cuti on a, jotnetry principle.