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Tarborough, (Edgecombe County, X C.) Saturday, January 28, 183?.
Vol XIII Jo. 4.
The "Ttirboraugh Press,"
Bi' GKOKGR HOWAIID,
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I Letters addressed to thefcditor nuist he
post p lid.or they mav not he attended to.
!!S!bMS!l(3 BPS1
! AT COST,
1 CERTAIN.
! -:i-
; King SpEdmon dson
Have now on hand a variety of
j Spring and Similiter
llardivare. Groceries. rc.
i . .
fAU of which they are willing to dispose of
j At cost for Cash,
Or at a very small advance on a credit to
punctual customers. All persons wishing
.to avoid paying a large profit on (oiU,
should not fail to avail themselves of this
i Great Opportunity
IWe would further say to onr customers, we
do this for the purpose of making room for
j A larger Stock of Goods
fin the Fall. Call at the si:n of . King,
I where the bargains may hi- fiund.
King cf lidmondson.
Tarboro', July 1st, 1836.
Si m
II. JOHNSTON,
M12KCIIANT TAlI.OIt,
Is now receiving from New York,
1A Splendid Assortment of
i
j IN IIIS LINE OF mJSlNKS,
Suitable for the approncliin Season.
I (lentlemen wishin to pmrhase the most
fashionable and best goods, at a small ad-
vBnce on the cost, will Io ell to call mid
; xnmine his Stock, as he is determined to
n !l very low for Cash, or on a shwrt credit
I to punctual customers.
Among them are
j Superfine blue, black, and brow n Cloths,
j 1M qualify do. of all the most fashionable
1 colors,
Sup'r corded and plaid fancy Cassimeres,
3 White corded i drab drills tor pantaloons,
Crape Camblets and Bombazines for thin
j coat?,
' A superior assortment of Vestings, of eve-
Iry description,
Plain brown Linens for summer jackets
and pantaloons,
Plain black and fancy Stocks, (a large as
sortment, )
Fancy silk Handkerchiefs,
ftlack silk Cravat linen Collars,
Plain and ruffled linen Bosoms, a new and
superior article Suspenders,
Silk Shirts for gentlemen, a new article,
Also, most every other article comprising
gentlemen's wear.
I lie also keeps on hand (of his own make)
a small assortment of
Beady made Clothes.
I lie has on hand a few best white beaver
Huts, which will be sold at New York cost.
I U 1 uciiiiciiiii luiiusiinig ii
J Clorhg can have them made and trimmed
in the most fashionable manner, a.id at
j the shortest notice.
Ta Thorough, Apiil 14lh, 1836
State Bank
orth Carolina.
5
URSUANT to a Resolution of the
stockholders of this Bank, at their
last annual General Meeting, all persons
having claims on si. Bank for Dividends
of Capital or Profits IVposites, or Notes
issued by the Principal Bank or its Bran
ches, are earnestly desired to present them
lor payment to the Treasurer of the Bank,
on or before
The first Monday in )e
c ember next,
Otherwise, they will be barred, as the
Stockholders wilj then make n final divi-
"end of the effects of the Rank.
S. F. PJlTTMiS(JN,Prest.
ftfcigh, Oec. 23, 1836.
Scotland JYeck
Female Seminary.
THV. public are most respectfully in
formed that the Kxuminatiou of the
above named Seminary will lake place on
Friday, the 16th ii-st. at the lesidenre of
the subscribe , at which time Parents and
Guardians are particularly invited to at
tfiid. The F.xenWes of the instituii'.m
will reoinmence on
Monday, the ifith of Janu
ary next,
Under the direction as heretofore of Miss
Rownn, of New York Mm Hanks, of
.ew York, will superintend the Muic
Department.
The following w ill he the course of stu
dies Ueadin, aiiiiug, geography, gram
mar, sjeiling, composition, arithmetic,
ancient and modern history, history of the
(Jniled States, rhetoric, loaic, natural phi
losophy, nstronomy, moral and intellectu
al philosophy, natural theology, elements
of criticism, chemistry and botany:
For tli above branches per
session of five mouths, $10
Latin, - - 5
Drawing, - 5
Flower Painting, - 8
Painting in oil colors, 10
Fiench, 10
Music, - - 15
Board, per month, - 7
Lent. L. Parker.
D c. 9 163i.
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ME LS CHANTS.
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WE have in-poiied by the ships Hark
Away. Minnoia, George Wash
ington, and llibcruia,
The heaviest and oest assorted
STOCK OF EUROPEAN
GOODS,
Kver in our possession. Our assortment of
American Goads,
Is very extensive and complete. These
Goods we will sell WIIOLF.S LK, we ve
rilv believe as low, and in some instances
lower than similar Goods can be bought in
any Northern Market, and on as liberal
terms, thereby saving to the Country Mer
chant, Insurance, Freight, and other inci
dental expenses.
Paul, Moll an Co.
Petersburg, Va. Sept. 12. 37
JYotice.
JU3T RECEIVED, and for sale, au
Assortment of
Vy n ho'woide or retail
AITLY '10
Isaac B. Brady.
July 7th, 183d.
Chinese Jflulbcrry.
THE subscriber has for disposal seve
ral hundred rooted trees and cut
' tilths of the noted Aloi us Mnlticuules, or
New Chinese Mulberry;
Found doubly advantageous for silk cul
ture, and one of the most beautiful orna
mental trees, of moderate size, t lie eyp
can rest upon. Of the ease of propaga
ting this nee and its rapid grow th the pub
lic may judge when inlormud that from a
small rooted plan!, for which a dollar was
paid at Baltimore about four years since,
the subscriber has disposed of a large
number, and has yet as above stated, and
that his first propagateJ trees are near
twenty feet high and beautifully propor
tioned. The leaf is a dark green color
and often 16 inches long and 11 broad.
The price, (now reduced) is 60 cents
each for plants upwaidsof o leet high, and
proportionate for those of a smaller size Si
when a number nre taken at a time.
SIDNEY IVELLER.
Brinkleyville, Halifax county, N. C
Dec. 15, 1S36. J
P. S. Mr. Geo. Howard is my Agent for
vines and trees at Tarhorotigh and vicini
ty, and those desirous of any plants would
do well to make early application, so that
they may be included in a box about to be
sent to Mr, Howard. S W.
Strayed,
OR stolen from the lot of the Subscri
ber, on Thursday night, the 10th of
November, 1836,
A dark bay Mare,
About 15 hands high, and blind of an eye.
Any information respecting her, given tn
the Subscriber living near Tarborough,
will be thankfully received.
Henry Shurley.
Nov. 14th, 1SS6. 45
Miscellaneous
INDIAN WAR.
Florida The brave Tennes
sean volunteers are returning
liome from Florida. They were
the flower, it may be said," of the
western chivalry in their beau
tiful steeds, complete equipments,
&c, and though they have fought
certainly as gallantly, and effe':
led more than any other troops
perhaps, that Golgotha for our
army both as to its impenetra
ble (tiorasses and Osceola's rill
has proved equally disastrous
to them as to their predecessor
and companions in arms. Not
more than two-thirds of the fin
brigade who left Tennessee, anil
most of whom were planters of
fortune, will, it is said, ever return
home. And to this 500 of their
horses, which were chiefly of blood
races and the best of cavalry, have
perished in the lagoons and ham
mocks. About 300 of the Ten
nesseans have arrived at Mobile
the rest have gone direct to New
Orleans. A. V. Star.
The Court of Enquiry. The
proceedings of the Court of En
quiry have been rendered more in
teresting by the arrival of Gen.
Gaines at Frederick. The vete
ran, it seems by the reporter of
the Baltimore C hronicle, is highly
excited, and insists, in some man
ner, of examining Gov. (.'ass, the
late Secretary of War, now in
France. The General, in full
uniform, walked into Tourl and
reported himself ready for trial;
he stated that lie was ordered to
appear before the Court that lie
had done so, and charged the
Court with proceeding illegally,
and claimed the right of cross ex
amining the witnesses. The Com t
intimated its willingness to give
Gen. Gaiue? every facility after
the case of Gen. Scott was dis
posed of, but the old Chief was
jnot satisfied and interrupted the
tvotirt until it was cleared, and
finall y the Protest of Gen. Gaines
was accepted and recorded, and
the examination will progress
tranquilly. ib.
From .Irlcanscts. Tuck-e
batch-t-had-jo, with his body of
Creeks, two or three thousand
strong, has stopped above Pott's,
it is said, and will go no farther
until it suits him. lie says he is
west of the Mississippi, and there
is no power to compel him to pro
ceed. CCKlack lawk has been
drowned by the upsetting of his
canoe in the Iowa. His life has
been one of despondency, and
chagrin since General Jackson, af
ter exhibiting him in his triumph
al train, caused him to abdicate
in favor of Keokuck. He has
drunk the cup of bitterness to its
dregs, ant met with a death w hich
must have seemed ignominious to
this chivalric warrior of the north
ern tribes the only legitimate
successor in bravery and skill to
Tecumseh.
Texas. By the correspondent
of the Courier, under date of New
Orleans, Jan. I, we learn by late
arrivals from Velasco, that all un
easiness respecting the invasion
of Texas had ceased. The army
remained at their quarters. The
citizens were all armed, and it was
calculated there were from 8 to
10,000 riflemen in the country.
There are said to be two great
parlies in Txas, an Austin and
Houston; but their opposition to
each other is conducted with mod
eration. Emigration activrh
continues, both by sea and land.
Santa Anna. The Lexington
(Kentucky) Intelligencer, of the
30th Dec. has the following para
izraph: Gen. Santa Anna, Presi
dent of Mexico, arrived in thi
ity, on his way to Washington,
yesterday. He is in bad health,
and will, we understand, remain
in this city until he recovers so as
to be able to travel.
A lucky escape for Santa Anna.
-It wns probably a very fortunate
circumstance for Santa Anna that
he was slopped by the ice between
this city and Louisville, and that,
in consequence he was induced to
take passage by land via Lexing
ton. We understand that a gentle
man of this place who had a fa
vorite son slain at the time of the
massacre of Fannin and his partv,
(which massacre it will be recol-
eiiea was occasioned by order of j under him. An Aikansas paper
banta Anna,) so soon as he heard j says
of Santa Anna's arrival in Louis-j The circumstances of this crimi
ville, started for that place amply! nal outrage are aggravated by
armed with pistols and other dead- the fact, that the evidence against
ly weapons with the full determi-i the negro was of such a charac
nation of shooting the t) rant ati ter, that there was no chance of
sight. Fortunately Santa Anna' his escape from a just expiation
had taken another dirpninn ulUrhiirnmn k., t i i
thus eluded the vengeance of an
injured father. Cincinnati Whig.
Fatal effects of Intoxication,
Yesterday about 4 o'clock, P. M.
as one of the deck passengers, by
the name of Barlow, on board the
steamboat Cuba, as she was about
to leave for Louisville, was pass
ing by the engine, in an intoxica
ted state, he stumbled over the
shaft and was pitched forward;
when being struck by the wheel.
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his head was cut completely off
Irom just above the mouth back
wards, presenting a most awful
spectacle. ib.
flTThe great Internal Improve
ment Bill of Indiana, pledging the
State to the prosecution of public
works for several millions, has
been lost in the lower house G4
to 33. This is richl perhaps when
considered maturely. There is!
mm ii u.uigri mi matting inese
heavy pledces and apnrom iations
of public money in prospective.
fX7The Rev. Samuel Strong
has been reprimanded before the
Bar of the Ohio Legislature for
his attempt to bribe a member.
Ancient American Citadel with
Unck n alls. The Chicago j the help of steam, is exhibited in
American has h tiiagram of an in- j Loudon. It is complex, but per
closure of a very ancient d.tie, i feci in its construction, and works
lately discovered by some persons beautifully. The following is a
of Milwakie, on the Crow -fish riv-; desci iption:
er, a branch of Hock river. h; "The moving part of the mod
i.s an oblong square, walls of brick el does not exceed 1 cwt. but ol
about 12 feet thick, now quite de- the machine itself, which is in use
cayed, enclosing the remains of at the quarries near Arbroath, the
about 50 houses. The vestiges of moving part weighs two tons, and
a longer wail, about three miles I may be compared to a vast hand
i,ua.c, uic visiuie, oi me same
material, the whole timbered over
like the adjacent country. The
names of individuals are given
and the American seems to credit
the report. Cleveland Ohio Gaz.
A Man Killed by his (Fife.
We are informed that a man by
the name of Terry L . Burns, a
resident of Greece, in this county,
died on Sunday morning last, a
boul 8 o'clock, from a blow re
ceived at the hand of his wife on
Saturday afternoon, under the fol
lowing circumstances. Burns
was engaged in mending shoes,
when his wife asked hitn logo and
get some wood, but he refusing
to do so, received a blow in the
face from her hand, which lie re
turned, or attempted to do, when
his enraged wife seized a stool and
struck him therewith, and felled
him to the floor. The stool used
had one of its legs projected
through the seat, which prejection
came in contact with his temple.
Finding him severely wounded,
.lie neighbors were called in, who
Assisted to place him in bed auu
iressed his wounds. He spoke a
few words while undergoing the
operation, but not afterwards. lie
died, as stated, Sunday morning,
and was buried on iMonday.--The
coroner, as we are informed,
was twice sent for, but did not at
tend, consequently no inquest was
held. Why was a death under
circumstances so aggravated pass
ed over unnoticed by a public
officer, whose duty it is to exam
ine into matters of this kind?
Burns was about 54 years of age,
and has had three wives.
Bochester Daily Adv.
m 0C?The negro who murdered
his master and 4 slaves in Arkan
sas, and afterwards burned their
remains, was taken lately from the
Sherilf. tied to a trrP. nrnl r nntum.
ed by a slow fire which was built
! - j Km. ins coiiuem-
nation was next to certain.
A Bcvolulion in JYaval IVar-
fare. A correspondent of the
National Intelligencer alludes, in
the following positive manner, to
an extraordinary invention of
which we had already heard some
vague rumors:
"It is very probable that it will
not be long ere th whole system
of naval warfare will be changed.
The ingenious U. L. Stevens ol
Hoboken, has invented a shot
which is hollow, and is filled with
some kind of fulminating powder,
which is ignited by the compres
sion of air when it strikes the sides
of a vessel, and on its explosion, as
nas been proved by experiment,
will tear all to atoms! This sys
tem, when perfected, will super
sede the use til first rate men-of-
War; for two Shots from a slnnn i
wa would as easily destroy a 100
: gun snip as a gun boat. Sloops
of war would, therefore, be the
class ol vessels most required; and
our waters are sufficiently deep for
this purpose."
Useful Invention. The new
machine in Great Britai ., for
planing rough masses of rock as
if they were pieces of timber by
plane Si 1 leet in length, traversing
bed of stone, with as much ease,
apparently, as the tool in the
grasp of the hands of a carpenter.
During the last summer there were
at the Leystnill's quarries six of
these machines at work, which
planed upwards 170,000 feet of
pavement; and the whole number
of the machines were propelled
by one steam engine of six horse
power, which, besides, w orked two
inclined planes, up one of v hich
the stones are dragged from the
quarry to the machine. Where
stone is plenty, and not exceeding
ly valuable, the invention must he
of great advantage to the proprie
tors of quarries."
CTWe see it stated that the
Germans have succeeded in ma
king an excellent Beer from Pota
toes. It is the color of wine, is
very strong and very agreeable to
the taste.
Burning the Scriptures. The
Gieek clergy at one of the mis
sionary stations, as we have re
ntly learned, required the peo
ple to bring in all the books w hich
they had obtained of the tnissiona-
ries, and caused them all, to the
number of five or six hundred
copies, spelling books, geogra
phies, arithmetics, pentalmchs,
psalters, New Testaments, &c. to
be burnt in the church yard.
05 A man named Brown, at
Baltimore, who. had been three
months married, and lrd a very
unhappy life with his wife, went
into a porter house, and laying
himself down on a bench, drew
his hat over his face, and then ta
king a pistol from his pocket, dis
charged it at hi& head aj$d killed
himself.
C7At Krie, Pa. on the 23d
ult. a man by the name of H.
Francisco, was imprisoned on a
charge of killing his w ife, by ad
ministering laudanum, about three
weeks after their marriage.
Mobile. As one of the morn
ing papers has announced a report
of thirty failures in Mobile, we
deem it proper to stat, that let
ters received some days ago to
Dec lGth, mentioned 5 failures,
and named some 15 other houses
which would be obliged to sus
pend payment, if not relieved in u
very few days. The report wat
current on Saturday in Wall
street, that thirty houses had fail
ed. The whole difficulty results
from the low slate of the rivers.
The crops of cotton upon which
the Mobile merchants had accep
ted, as is their custom, to immense
amounts, lay piled up on the
banks of the rivers waiting the
rising of the waters. Ifihe rivers
had but risen at the usual time, the
cotton would have come to hand
and been sold, and all would have
gone off very well. But the a
mounts are too great to be sus
tained long without the property,
and thus a calamity has been in
duced, the extent of which in the
confusion it may introduce, it is
difficult to foresee. The Mobile
houses which have suspended, are
most, if not all of them, of ac
knowledged wealth, and their final
solvency is not doubted.
A. Y. Jour. Com.
Freezing. A young man in
this town froze his foot, w hich was
perfectly cured in less than 24
hours, by the application ol a
poultice made ofyeast and Indian
meal it is equally beneficial when
applied to a burn.
Boston Silk Manual.
little sweet oil with nut
meg grated over it, given twice a
day to children with the whoop
ing cough, is said to be a sovereign
remedy if administered in the first
stages of the complaint. It can
do no barm and possibly good.
A Reason for Dissent. When
I resided at Iluricoru,J there was a
woman of the name of Mrs. John
son, who gave the best reason for
preferring one place of worship
to another that I have heard.
Mrs. J. having left the eslatjlished
church and gone to the melhodist
chapel, was asked the reaon for
so doing; to which she replied,
That it was on account of her pi
being exactly ready when the
melhodist chapel came out; where
as, when she attended the church,
it was always overdone.' It would
appear that Mrs. J indulged her
self on the Sunday with a pie,
(not a bad Sunday's dinner,)
which she put into the oven vvhen
she went to church, and as the
morning service of the church cf
England is rather long, she found
that her pie was always loo much
done when she came out, and not
so juicy as she could have w ished.
The melhodist service was rather
shorter, and her pie was done to a
T. This pie, very properly, de
:ided Mrs. Johnson's religion.
English Paper.