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Tarborough,( Edgecombe County, N C.) Saturday, February 11, 1837;
Vol. XIII No 0.
f "Tarb jrnit;h Vt.vv,"
J lU" GKOKGK HOW A HI),
j h published weekly, at 7tP9 Dollars anil
iFiflnCcnls per year, if paid in advance
or, Ttirce Dollar s, the expiration ofthe
s iliscr iption vcar. Kr any period lss
tli.in a y far , Ttcr.nl y-fivtCents per month.
Subscribers a re at It be r I v I discontinue hi
"any lime, on jrivinsr nolic thereof an. I
ptv'ini4 arre:ir lhe resiiling sit dis
tance must invuriablypay in advance, or
give aresponsible reference inthisvicinity .
A'l vet tisements not exceeding 10 lines
in length (or a square) will lie inserted at
5') cent g the first insertion &25cents each
continuance. Longer ones at that rate
for every square. Advertisements must
the marked the numherof insertions requi
;rJ,or they w ill he continued until other
wise ordered, and charged accordingly.
I Letters addressed to theKditor must" he
post paid.or they may not be attended to.
AT COST,
CERTAIN.
King JfEdmondson
Have now on hand a variety of
Spring and Summer
Hardware, Groceries, cc.
AU of w Inch they are willing to dispose of
At cost tor Cash,
iOr at a very small advance on a credit to
punctual customers. All persons wishing
t:i avoid paying a large profit on floods,
should not fail to avail themselves of this
Great Opportunity
3 We would further say to our customers, we
sdo this for the put pose of making room for
A larger Slock of Goods
In t lie Fall. Call nt the sign of It. King,
(where the bargains may b- found.
King & lidmoudson.
Tatboro', July 1st, 1S3G.
II. JOHNSTON.
MERCHANT TA1I.OK,
Is now receiving from New York,
A Splendid Assortment of
IN III3 LINE OF BUSINESS,
j Suitable for the approaching Scaton.
K.entlemen wishing to pui i h:ise the most
fashionable and best goods, at a small ad
vi'nce on the cost, wL! tin w ell to call id
Jextniine bis Stotk, as he is determined to
j sell very low for Cash, or on a short credit
jto punctual customers.
I Sluioiig them are
i Superfine blue, black, and brown Cloths,
VIA quality do. of alt the most fashionable
colors,
Snp'r corded and plaid fancy Cissimens,
hile corded &i drab drills for pantaloons,
(Crapt Cainblets and Bombazines for thin
I coat?,
J A superior assortment of Vestings, of eve
I ry desci iption,
I Plain brown Linens for summer jackets
j and pantaloons,
I Plain black and fancy Stocks, (a large as-
sortment,)
Fancy silk Handkerchiefs,
i Black silk Cravats, linen Collars,
f Plain and ruffled linen Bosoms, a new and
I superior article Suspenders,
Silk Shirts for gentlemen, a new article,
8 Also, most every other article comprising
! gentlemen's wear,
lie also keeps on hand (of his own make)
a small assortment of
Heady made Clothes.
He has on liaml a few best white beaver
Hals, which will be sold at New York cost.
inrGentlemen furnishing their own
Cloths can have them made and trimmed
in the most fashionable manner, and at
the shortest notice.
Tarborough, April 14h, 1836
State Bank
OfXorth Carolina.
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URSUANT to h r.esolulion of the
Stockholders of this Bank, at their
last annual General Meeting, till persons
having claims on said Bank for Dividends
of Capital or Profits lpositr-s, or Notes
is.nted by the Principal Bank or its Bran
dies, arc earnestlydesired to pt esent them
lor payment to the Treasurer of the Bank,
on or before
The first Monday in De
cember next.
Otherwise, they will be barred. a the
Stockholders will then make a final divi
t'ei:i of the effects of the Bank.
.V. F. TVER SOX, Prfift.
Ual.Mijh, Dec. 23, l3t. 1
Scotland JTcck
Female Seminary.
HE public are most resppctfullv in
formed tliiit the E. unihaiioit of the
above named Seminary will take place on
Friday, Hit IGih i St. at the residence of
the 9uhscriltei , at which time Patents and
tiuat diahs are particularly invited to at
tend. The ExerrUes of the institution
will reomnicnci: on
Monday, the ifii of Janu
ary ne.vt,
Under ihe direction as heretofore of Mixs
lioican. of New York Miss Hank, of
iNew York, will superintend the Music
l)e parlmeot.
The following will be the course of stu
dies rUadiu;, vvritin:r, jreosiranhv. cmui-
mar, siielliug, composition, arithmetic.
ancient and modern history, history of the
United states, ih-tortc, Ionic, natural phi
losophy, astronomy, moral and intellectu
al philosophy, natural Iheido-rv, elements
ol criticism, chemistry and botany:
For the above branches per
session of five months, !0
Latin, - - 5
Drawing, - - 5
Flower Painting, - 8
Piiinling in oil colors, 10
Frmch, - . Jo
.Music, - - Jo
Hoard, per month, 7
Ixm. L. Parker.
Hec. 9. LS36. I ;
7"E have iirpofied by the ships Hark
Away. Marmora. George Wash
ington, iind tlibeioia,
The heaviest and best assarted
STOCK OF EUROPEAN
GOODS,
Lver in our possession. Our assortment of
American Goads,
Is very extensive and complete. The?e
Goods we will sell WliOLF.SM.K, ve ve
rily believe as low, and in some instances
lower than similar Goods can be bought in
any Northern Maiket, and on as liberal
terms, thereby saving to the L.untry Mer
chant, Insurance, Freight, and other inci
dental expenses.
Paul, Moll an iy Co.
Petersburg, Va. Sept. 12. 37
Notice.
JUST RECEIVED, and for sale, an
Assortment of
Hy wholesale or retail
APPLY TO
'Isaac II. H rady.
July 7th, 163f.
Chinese Jtltdbcrry.
THE subscriber has lor disposal seve
ral hundred rooted trees and cut
tings of the noted Morus Multicuules, or
New Chinese Mulberry;
Found doubly advantageous for si'k cul
ture, and one of the most beautiful orna
mental trees, of moderate size, the eye
can rest upon. Of Ihe ease of propaga
ting this tree and its rapid growth the pub
lic mav judge when informed that from a
small routed plant, 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 propagated 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.
Th nrire. fnow reduced is 50 cents
each for plants upwards of 5 leet high, and
proportionate for those of a smaller size Si
when a number are taken at a time.
SIDNEY IVELLER.
Brinkleyville, Halifax county, N. C )
Dec. 13, lS3ii. i
P. S. Mr. Geo. How ard is my Agent for
vines and trees at Tarborongh 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.
MS
Strayed,
U stolen from the lot of the Subscri
ber, on Thursday night, the lOthof
TO
MELSC11ANTS
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MOIL AS 5
November, 1836,
A dark bay Marc,
About 15 hands high, and blind of an eye.
Any information respecting her, given to
the Subscriber living near Tarborough.
will be thankfully received.
Henry Shnrlcy.
Nov. 14th, 1836. 43
Miscellaneous
INDIAN WAR.
Still Later from Florida. By
the schr. George and Mary, Capt.
Wiley, al Charleston, 19 hours
Iroin Jac ksonville, we learn that
nn express was met from Gen. Je
sup, directing all the waggons at
Black Creek to be sent with pro
visions to Fort Drane. The ar
my with Gen. Jesup were near
Dade's battle ground, on their
march to Fort Drane.
The hostile Indians had not
been fallen in with by the army.
Jim Boy has succeeded in cap
turing GO negroes near theOckla
waha. They are said to be Indi
an negroes. They were well ar
med and made resistance, but so
suddenly come upon that they
were captured by only two friend
ly Creeks!
Primus, the negro spy of Gen.
Clinch, who had joined the Semi
noles, and who is among the cap
lured, has been spared his life by
Gen. Jesup for a specified num
ber of days, provided he points
out where the Seminoles are. The
way these savages baffle our army
is a little humiliating to the pre
tentions we make of superior in
tellectual ability and sagacity.
After "scouring out," as we are
told Gen. Jesup has, the Swamps,
Coves, Hammocks, and Ever7
glades, we find him compelled to
importune a captive negro to
ktiow where the enemj' are!
The Indians continue their de
predations and murders in scat
tered parlies. They had killed a
jMr. Jesse Bandy, and wounded a
IMr. aistrunk, residing about 20
miles from Suwanee Springs.
They had also fired iuto the house
of a Air. Wells.
More alarm in the Cretk JVa
tion The Indian warriors en
camped 25 miles from Columbus,
under charge of Liettt. Sloan,
broke loose and took to the woods,
carrying with them their rifles,
ammunition, Sec. They are a
bout 200 in number, and their in
tentions are taid to be hostile.
TEXAS.
Another Minister from Texas.
The Hon. M. Hunt, Minister
Plenipotentiary, and Envoy Ex
traordinary from the Republic of
1 exas to the United Elates, arriv
ed al S. W. Pass, Sunday, the
15thinst. in the armed schr. Ter
rible, on his way to Washington.
The Hon. Mr. Green, member of
Congress, Mr. Faloei, Esq. and
Dr. De Shields, are passengers.
New Orleans American.
Texian Officers. The acting
Secretary of War, S. Fisher has
published an official order, de
claring all persons impostors who
appear in this country with the
uniform and military badge of the
Texian army and navy. This
order, he says, has been rendered
necessary by the fact that many
persons in this country, without
authority, have been parading
themselves in the garb of officers
of the Texian army and navy.
Bait. Chron.
QCAn animated discussion has
commenced at Cincinnati, between
Alexander Campbell, of the Re
formed Baptist Church and the
Right Rev. Bishop Purcell, of the
Catholic Church.
fXThe grand debate between
Mr. Alex. Campbell of the Bap
list church, and Bishop Purcell ol
the Catholic, at Cincinnati, was
concluded on Saturday, Jan. 21 ,
after an eight day discussion of
about four hours each day. The
interests and the audience con
tinued to increase until it became
the chief topie of conversation in
the city. The opinion is that
Protestantism gained nothing in
the contest, and Catholicism suf
fered nothing. Alex. Gaz.
The Lost JVb. We learn
from the Richmond Enquirer of
Tuesday, that about S39.000 of
the bank notes cut ofl'in.a trunk
from the Lynchburg Stage, were
found on Friday in Manchester it.
a lot near Perkins's, and were de
livered to the Banks on Saturday.
About 27,000 dollars belonged to
the Bank of Virginia, and the
residue to the Farmers' Bank
The notes were damp, muddy,
and seemed to have been thrown
forth to all the winds of heaven
The notes of the new bank were
in some cases intermixed.
An idea of our Newspaper
Mail. Four and a half tons ol
newspapers were started from
Covington, Ky. a few days since.
Buried Alive. The Philadel
phia Ledger gives an account of
a mulatto woman of that city,
who was placed in her grave in
about twenty hours after she was
believed to be dead The grave
digger had thrown a few sho?els
full of clay upon the coffin when
bethought he heard a noise within
the grave; he listened awhile, then
threw in a few more shovels full
but now he distinctly heard a
groan proceed from the corpse.
Seized with a panic he dropped
his shovel and fled for assistance.
The coffin was, after some lime,
disinterred, and the lid was found
to be partly forced off. !t was
immediately unscrewed, and the
corpse discovered not in the posi
tion in which it had been placed
but turned round upon the side,
and showing other evidence of
having been alive while in the
grave. It was taken into a church
and kept there for some time,
when no signs of life appearing, it
was again interred.
fJGrFifty-six ships and barques,
ninety-seven brigs, one hundred
and twenty-one schooners, twelve
sloops, thirty boats, and eight
hundred and twenty-six lives, have
been lost during the last year on
the sea-coast of the United States.
Important Decision. The Bos
ton and Providence Rail Road
Company have been recently
mulcted in damages to the amount
of $11,350, for injuries sustained
by certain passengers in their cars,
from the collision of two trains
belonging to the company.
As common carriers they were
responsible for all accidents or
misfortunes which might have
been avoided by diligent care and
attention on their part or that of
their agents.
Shocking Event. We copy the
following horrid details from the
Louisville (Ky.) Journal of Janua
ry 7th.
We learn that a most disastrous
encounter occurred two or three
day ago on Plumb Creek in
Shelby county. The circum
stances, as we are informed, are
nearly as follows. There had
been for some time a dispute be
tween Mr. John Turnham and
Mr. Greenfield Allen two young
gentlemen of wealth and respecta
bility, both just married, in regard
lo the boundary line between a
couple ol plantations. On Tues
day or Wednesday last, they met
on or near the disputed line, each
attended bv friends or relatives,
and after some wrangling, Turn
ham shot Allen through the breast
with a rifle, whereupon a cousin
of Allen, with auother rifle, shot
Turnham through the head. Both
died on the spot.
Lamentable Accident. A pain
ful incident occurred on the La
mine river, Missouri, in December.
An elderly geutleman and his la-
dy, strangers in the country, at
tempting to cross in a barouche,
the carriage became uncoupled
in the water, when the lady must
have perished on the spot. Tht
gentleman, according to the Boon
ville Herald, succeeded in reach
ing the bank with the horses and
fore-wheels of the carriage but
in rescuing the body of his drown
ed wife from that portion of the
carriage which drifted down the
stream, he became so much ex
hausted and benumbed with cold,
as to be unable to walk or to make
any exertions to preserve his own
life. The bodies were both found
near the water's edge the next
morning the one having been
drowned and the other froien to
death. We have been informed
that their names were Paine, and
the heads of a respectable family,
living in Cold Neck settlement,
Pettis co. They had been on a
visit to some friends in Boone.
Strange and Distressing Death.
A young woman named Arnold,
in attempting to pass over Seine's
reek, near Conuorsville, lud.-, bn
the ice fell through, and sunk to
her arm pits, her arms resting on
the ice around her. In this situa
tion she was found frozen lo death.
Execution. On the Gth inst.
at Cincinnati, John Washington
was executed for the murder of an
old man named Wrn. BeaVer, in
the vicinityi of that city, in Sep
tember last. He has made a con
fession, setting forth a tissue of
thefts and murders, almost in
credible. He represents himself
as being only about 23 years ofl
age, and yet he appears to have
been concerned in some 30 mur
ders; and thefts and robberies al
most innumerable. The most
exaggerated of his marvellous
tales, is a story, that he, with oth
ers, made an expedition to Meta
moras, from which they returned
to New Orleans, in six months,
with 1.200,000. in gold and sil
ver, which they soon dissipated at
the gambling table, and in oilier
extravagancies. At the gallows,
he stated, that if he were permit
ted to go through the crowd be
fore him, he could point out from
12 lo 15 persons who were his
accomplices in crime. He at
tributed his untimely and wretch
ed end to gambling and intemper
ance. Death of a Miser. A singular
and most eccentric old hermit of
a miser named John Yeargain,
died a few days since al Char
lottesville, Virginia, aged near 70.
He had come to live there from
some other county of the State,
about 1795, and after following
saddling kept a liquor shop, in
which he vended chiefly to the ne
groes, and accumulated much mo
ney. From some dispute with
(he university students, he had,
for many years, a chain on his
door, and never went out except
at night, and had no communica
tion with any one except they
wished to purchase. He livet( in
the utmost filth and seclusion, and
ale only com bread, cheese and
bacon saying that slops killed
people; yet he was known to give
money for charily, and was polite
to all that he admitted into his
room. He wore constantly buck
skin breeches and a coat of the
same, and his room was filled w ith
broken furniture barrels, &.c, and
dirt and rubbish which had been
accumulating for twenty years.
He slept on a miserable bed up
stairs, under deer skins. His
neighbors on Saturday evening
hearing nothing from him, broke
open the door and found him dead
with bis head on the ashes and
much burnt having doubtles
died with apoplexy. Search was
soon made for his riches, and four
or five pots were found buried two
j feet under the floor, containing
near $0,600. It is supposed there
is more. He had ho rrlaiions, and
is stipposed to have crme from:
Scotland. His whiskey, from its
ace, bail a great repute and was
called yeargaih. Frai.k'in and
Pope's works, were his favorite
books. He read the papers touch
but subscribed to none.
Pathetic. At a Lite fire in Bar
clay street, N: Y. a gentleman
rushed upstairs through li e crack
ling flames and brought down an
infant, which he snatched from the.
burning cradle; and handed to its
mother. "May ;tlie blessings of
St. Patrick light on you for sav
ing the little cratur, bu; won't yet
honor be good enough to pi up
agin and save tny barrel of flour
what's in the pantry.".. N. Y. Star
OCAn extraordinary rtuiosity
is to be seen al No 807 Broad
Way, at iiorhe's (formerly Pal-,
mo's) Garden. It is the head of
an enormous animal, in a most
perfect state of preservation, and
measures eighteen feel in length
and seven in breadth, li is ex
pected that some of mr learned
men in this city wiil gratify the
public by giving an accurate de
scription of it, and designating
the species and class of animals to
which it belongs. This curious
relic was found in Louisiana. ib
ttJThe Committee of the Ken
lucky Legislature have arrived at
Louisville, and are busily engaged
in examining into the accusations
against the banks of that city. The
Banks are ready, and will, it is
Said, clear themselves cf all impu
tations: (TThe Official Report or the
Auditor of Pennsylvania give 49
Batiks in that Slate, with a capi
tal over 58, millions 17 are ill
Philadelphia. They are in a
sound condition.
CJAccordihg to the accounts
of the State Treasurer of Louis
iana, it appears that the gross re
ceipts. for the year 1830, including
the balance from last , year is
$G3,394 99. The Slate Debt is
$325,000. The Treasurer re
commends that the old law-, licen
sing gambling houses be reliev ed,
as the hew laws have not suppres
sed the vice, and leave a deficiency
of $100,000 in the revenue accru
ing from that source.
fXMichael Singwright, an
Irishman, was killed on the New-,
iiik Rail Road on Saturday after
noon, by being run over by"" the
cars. He had imprudently taken
to the track on his way to this city,
and in the heavy snow storm was
run down before discovered by the
director.
Sacrilegel-Si. Patrick's Church
in Camp stieet was entered last
night by some villain or villains,
and plundered of all the sacred
vessels! two Chalices, a splendid
Remonstrance, Ciboriumand Gold
Pyx, used to convey ihe Commu
nion to the Sickj The wretches
lore and destroyed the vestments,
ripped ofl the gold lare and tas
sels attached to some of them. The
little church was poor, and just
emerging from its incumbrance,
by the liberality of our generous
citizens... Louisiana (N. 0.)Adt,
Folly and its consequences. At
a shooting match at Chicago a
few days since, the bar tender of
a tavern was shot through the hip.
The turkeys were tied upon the
top of the box, and the young
man, uuknon n lo the rest of. the
company, after tying a turkey,
crept into the box, where he was
penetrated by a ball, which passed
through the back side oftl.e box.
His cries for a while were excru
ciating, and hts sufferings seemed
past endurance.