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I I . Whole Xo. Gjtt. Tarbarough, (Edgecombe CounlyX. C.J Saturday, May 20, 1837 Vol XIII Xo 20. i 7e "Tarburoush Press,'1 BY GEOKGfi 1IOWAKO, Is pnhlislie.1 weekly at Two Dollars and Vifhl Cents per year, if paid in stnnc or. Thru Dollars at the expiration 'he fciibsei ipiion vein'. For iiny peril le than a year. Tiecntu fire Cents per nrniih Subscribers are at liberty to liscouintie at any time, on eivir. notice thereof ami paying arrHi those rtiUtno at :i dis tance must in variably J"y in mlviinre, or givea resp onsible reference in tlii vi inity. Advertisement not exceeding 16 lines in length (or a square) will be inserted at 50 cents the first inaeriion and 25 cts. each continuance. Longer ones at tlint rat for every square. Advertisements must be marked the number of tnseitions reqni red, or they will be continued until other wise ordered, and charged at rorlin j ly . Letters addressed to the Edi'or mnt be post paid, or they may not be attended to. isceliattcous- UNFADING BEAU IT. He that loves a rosy cheek, Or h coral lip admires, Or from str-likc eyes doth seek Fuel to maintain his files; As old Time mtkes these decay, So lib flames must waste away. Cut a smooth and stedfast mind, Gentle thoughts ami calm desires, Hearts with equal love combin'd, Kindle never-dying fire-: Where these are not I do despise Lovely cheeks, or lips, or eye;. ' , STANZAS. x Ctin Friendship need a token k To recall tin; happy past, J When the last farewell is spoken, The last kinJ glances cast! Can memory ever slumber i Though that look no more is met? Or a mute memento number, I Our emotions of regret! Ah no! when true the feelings J (When kindred hearts are join'J, Tbey need not such revealing Through absence to remind ) j It whispers in our gladness "0 would my friend were here.'" j And in the hour of sadness "How kindly he would cheer'" Yet still, so fond our sorrow, I So fanciful our grief, From fifles oft we borrow j A thought of sweet relief; To know that what we treasure ; Was giv'n by one wc love, Will yild a mournful pleasure All gayer joys above. Tis this endears the Token ! When it recaU to mind Lach word that then was spoken, : Each look and action kii:l. " To memory's pensive dreaming It lends a holier s pl I ! ! And hope's more buoyant scheming 1 Will fondly o'er it dwell ! TRAGICAL SCENE. I We witnessed the most tragical i scene at Yancy Superior Court, (says the Rutherford Gazette,) jthut has ever been acted iu any I Court in North Carolina. The Macts were as follows: About two I years since, a man by the name i of John Wilson, married Eliza 1 belli Rey of that county. They lived together about seven weeks, when some disturbance look place j which caused their separation. I Six months ago the husband filed a petition for 'divorce, selling forth various causes declaring i that he was young and inexperien- Iced when he married her, and was not acquainted with her true cha ( racier, that her conduct during the , time they lived together, was in j supportable, and by him could j not be endured. She answered, that they were raised in the same j neighborhood, and had known j each other from their infancy up; i lhat he knew her character and 1 circumstances in life perfectly 1 veil when he married her, and had taken her with his eyes open I to all her frailties; she positively i denied ever having been guilty of any misconduct, during the time they lived together, but that she acted towards him the part of an affectionate wife. She farther as serted lhat when he was about to leave her, he made no charges a- I gainst her, but gave as his reason hr separation, that he did not, nor J had he ever loved her; that his friends had induced him to marry her merely for her property, and j thai he had ascertained he could with a wotnan lit' did not love. At the last Court an issue wa made up and submitted to a Jury. The petition and answer having been read, evidence was then in troduced which proved decidedly in lavor of ihe petitioner. On the part of ihe Plaintiff, ihe cause was submitted without any argument; but the counsel for the defendant resisted the divorce by a long and feeling speech, in which he allu ded to the solemnity of the mar riage vow, the mutual duties it imposed on the parties, and the want of sufiiaient cause in that case to dissolve the bonds of mat rimony. During this investigation the parties were both in Court. The husband was apparently young and simple, and iu fact a mere boy, and there was nothing in the least prepossessing in his appear ance. The wife seemed some thing older and altogether the su - perior. She is a fine looking wo- j man, with dark hair, black eyes! and very expressive lace; she ma nifested great interest iu the trial. The Jury after retiring a few moments, returned a verdict for the plaintiff. The parlies were still in their seats behind the bar, some six or eight feet distant from each other; the wife asked a gen tleman by whom she was sitting for his knife, as if to trim her fin ger nails; she felt ol the edge, rose to her feet, paused a moment, turned pale, her eyes Hashed fire, and then suddenly sprang forward with the drawn knife and aimed at her husband a deadly blow. But fortunately a lady who was stand ing by saw her get the knife, and perceived from her countenance that she was meditating something of a desperate character, watched her until she saw the blow aimed at the throat of the unsuspecting husband, and instantly seized the arm of the infuriated wife and di verted the weapon from the object at which il was aimed; but deter mined on her helliih purpose, she threw the knife w ith great violence at her husband, and turning, made a most furious attack on her whose hand had arrested the blow and thwarted the wicked de sign. The Court ortlered her in to custody; she was arrested and borne out of Court, making the most wild and frantic exclama tions calling to her husband iu the most tender and passionate language, and seemed to be en tirely deranged. Her conduct was strange and unaccountable, but all who wit nessed the scene agree that she must have loved her husband. She had listened attentively to the investigation of ihe whole mailer, heard the pathetic speech of her counsel, and then the verdict of) the Jury pronouncing their final separation; she felt that she loved him above all others, and the idea that he was then at liberty to mar ry again (for that was said to be his object) was more than she could endure. Her heart was de voted to him, and sooner than see him pledged to another, she would see hi in die, and that too by her own hand, in the presence of the Court and the multitude that sur rounded her. Of the consequen ces to herself she never thought, nor for them cared; they could not have been greater than death, and no doubt she felt at that mo ment, that she would gladly take refuge in the arms of death. She remained in jail until the nexi morning, when she was brought before the Court, and after being severely reprimanded, was senten ced to five days imprisonment, for contempl to the Court, and requi red to give bond and security for her good behaviour for the next twelve months. Guilford Superior Court. At the recent term of this Court, the not enjoy life trial of North (removed from! Rockingham) for the murder of Oxford, came on. This trial was mended with considerable excite ment of feeling, orcasioned by the ;igns of insanity real or feigned exhibited by the prisoner, on which his defence was principally founded. But it availed nothing, for after two days were consumed in examination of evidence and in argument, the Jury, about 12 o' clock on Wednesday night, retur ned a verdict of Guilty. On Tuesday, commenced the trial of Wm. Shaw, indicted for the murder of his son-in-law, John I oor, some miles south west of Greensboro'. Shaw's wife and two daughters, one being the wi dow of the deceased, were ar raigned with the prisoner in the same indictment, charged with aiding, abetting, encouraging, ckc. the said Shaw in the commission of the crime. Bv request of the j defendant, a severance was grant- ed, and Wm. Shaw was first tried alone, which occupied the entire Tuesday, and on Wednesday un- in near nigni; ana, at a late Hour in the evening, the Jury returned; a verdict of manslaughter. Fanaticism and Outrage... There appears to be ho limit to human credulity, even among the people of a country like this, where all are supposed to possess a certain degree of information and intelli gence. The Rochester (N. Y.) Democrat cives the subjoined heart sickening detail of fanati- cism, winch shows that when one impudent and blasphemous im postor is exposed and driven into obscurity, another soon arises, who finds no lack of disciples. It appears that in the vicinity off Auburn, Cayuga county, N. YJer 1,1 lne afternoon, when four in a knave by the name of Sweet, dividuals were brought up before has gathered around him half a I lne Mayor, charged with having score of silly women, who believe abducted and confined a young him to be a divine being, whose j "'"man. The atrocity for black commands they are implicitly and j heartedness is unparalleled. , One unhesitatingly bound to obey, un- j lne individuals had been bro't tier the penalty of the displeasure, UP fr 11 a day or two before, but of heaven. His household con-! discharged for want of evidence, gists of himself and six w hite and Still public opinion fastened on one black woman. These delu- him, and he was accordingly ar ded beings, although most of them rested a second time, and brought are well educated and respectably . UP vv'ln tne l,,ree others. Miss connected, reverence him as their Allen, is the name of the young "divine lord," and hold them- lady abducted. The fellow Mor selves in readiness at all limes to fit had called at Mrs. King's, yield obedience to his wishes. ' where Miss A. resided, and ou That they are obedient has been pretence of being sent for by her repeatedly demonstrated. On one dying brother, brought her out on occasion the impostor commanded j her way to the singing school, and the wench to take a huge carving j carried her off. She was absent knife, and proceed through ihe;two weeks. The testimony of streets and slay whatever might 'Dm- Drake and Rives, proved impede her progress. She en- ; Miss A. to be insane. Morfit and lered upon her task, and had not Lazarus were committed, and two lhe instrument of dealh been others held to bail for $50,000 wrested from her hand by lhe first eacn- The examination was con person whom she attacked, she eluded on Tuesday. The two would have obeyed the command Levi's were acquitted. The oth- j to the letter. On another occa-, er two lie in prison, but the last sion, he commanded three of the accounts, Tuesday evening, 8 o' whiie women to proceed on a Sab-; dock, April 25th, there was a bath day to a neighboring church ; mob of 4,000 iu Main street, and where the communion was about . Gen. Lylle was endeavoring to to be administered, to upset ihe 1 persuade them from acts of vio- table, scatter the vessels and drink up the wine. Accordingly, at the proper hour, they entered the house, singing and dancing as they proceeded, and performed the duty assigned them. These outrages incensed the neighborhood, and it was secretly determined by a few who had im bibed an attachment to the code of Judge Lynch, to present the whole household with a coat of tar and feaihers. For this purpose some ten or twelve young men blacked their faces, and otherwise disguised themselves, and procee ded at a late hour on Monday or Tuesday night of last week, to Sweet's house, which they entered, seized several of the inmates, a mong whom was Sweet, covered their bodies with tar, and then feathered them with the contents of a bed w hich they took from the house for that purpose. 1 he intruders then retired but again soan returned, and stole a large quantity of maple sugar with which they decamped. Ou making this second visit, one ol the disguised gentlemen was re cognised, and the next day arrest ed, examined, and bound over for trial. During the examination, the females repeatedly declared their belief in the divine character of "their lord," as they called him, and their obligation to obey him implicitly. We have not heard the result of the subsequent exa mination, nor whether any dispo silion has been made of the im j postor, who has been instrumental in establishing this new creed in Cayuga. Abduction Case serious excite merit at Cincinnati Military pr dered out. A gang of fellow: have been prowling for some time about this city, insulting and frightening respectable female On Saturday, April 22d, one of the cane named Henrv Jones, was ; detected in the act of insulting by his indecencies, some school citls. and was committed to inil On Monday following, his trial came on before the Mayor, and a great crowd gathered apparently resol ved to take the law in their own hands. It was proved that he had been for several weeks hi these practices, and had, in some in stances attempted violence. He i was 'ound 'iliy on six charges. a"d fined $20 for each, the extent ol the Mayor s power, and then remanded to prison on the charge of rape. The prisoner is a gen teel looking man. False keys were found on his person. I he excitement was still great lence. 1 he military were order ed out. Later. The Whig of April 2Glh, alludes to the mob as hav ing been dispersed. A. Y. Star. Infanticide at Cincinnati. Not less than ten infant bodies, some dead and the rest we presume left to die, have been found at Cincin nati within the last three mouths, according to the Cincinnati Post. Steamboat Disaster. We learn from a gentleman, James Kinzie, Esq. of this city, (says the Chica go Advertiser,) who has just as cended the Illinois river, lhat a most melancholy occurrence took place on Saturday, the 1 8th inst. at about five miles from its mouth, where, through the obstinacy of the captains of two steamboats, one of their boats was sunk, and lhe lives of all the deck passen gers, amounting to more than twenty lost, and the freight and baggage entirely destroyed. The captain of the Wisconsin, which was then ascending the riv er, had repeatedly .stated, that if he should meet the Tiskilway, and her captain would not give him a clear channel, he should run her down. This, it seemed, provoked the captain of the other boat, and he became as oLstinaie: ly determined not to turn out of his course. Both boats met about 5 o'clock in the morning, at a lime when all the passengers were in bed, and steered directly for each other till within only a few rods, when the captain of the Tis kilway endeavored, but too late, lo avoid the concussion, and turn ing a little out of the course, thus gave a fair broadside to the as cending boat, which look her be hind the wheel, and she sunk in less tlmn three minutes after she was struck. The first notice of their extreme danger, which the cabin passen gers received, was the screams of those below, who were drowning, and without even time to put on their clothes, they merely escaped by jumping through the window s of the cabin, which, fortunately for them, had been completely se parated from lhe sinking boat by the shock. The captain of the Wisconsin is stated lo have acted, even lo the ladies, in a most brutal man ner, having put them ashore bare footed, at more than a mile and a half from any habitation, and with nothing but their night clothes ou. Report says that even the men were worse treaied, as he endea vored to prevent their gelling on board the Wisconsin at all. A large sum of money belong ing to one of the ladies, had been recovered, subsequently, from the ladies cabin, and one gentleman was fortunate enough to find his coat floating on the river, with his money, amounting to about $4,000, iu the pocket. Awful Event. Mr. John Mc- Clure, of Knox county, Indiana. recently went into his cellar and shot himself while his wife was lying dead in the house. He has eft nine children. CJ'The alleged piece of gold found iu Albion, and which has created such a stir among the ge ologists, turns out to be a piece imported from South America, and falsely stated by the proprie tor of the land to have been dug up ihere, by which infamous piece of chicanery he sold a tract in Boston for $3,000. AY Y. Star. Extraordinary Sursrical case. Considerable interest has been ex cited lately among the members of the medical profession at Edin burgh, by the admission of a pa tient into the Royal Infirmary, who reported that she had swal lowed a brass padlock! The pa tient's history of the case was as follows: That, about five weeks ago, while amusing herself with a friend, she put the padlock into her mouth, and it instantly slipped down her throat. An emetic was soon afterwards administered, which she found great difficulty iu swallowing; vomiting took place immediately afterwards, ac companied with great pain in the throat, and a discharge of blood. During the succeeding 24 hours she fell as if the padlock were wedged in lhe throat, and experi enced a painful sensation of suffo cation, after which she felt little pain or inconvenience, and con cealed the accident from her friends until Sunday, the 10th ult. She was soon afterwards admitted into the hospital as a patient of Professor Lizars, who, from the moment of her admission, was of opinion that the woman's report was accurate, bui doubt existing in the minds of his talented and tespeciable colleagues, he defer red performing the operation for lhe extraction f the foreign hedy whirh, in his opinion, was neces sary to place the woman in saftiy. fsierday ce'nnight the poor woman was attacked with i.ltni vomiting, accompanied with a fetling of suffocation and great pain iu the throat, whiih continu ed all night. Dr. James John ston, Professor Lizars hospital as sistant, was called at half past 2 o'clock on Sunday morning, and, finding the patient in imminent and immediate danger, he in stantly and unassisted introdnted an instrument, invented for the purpose by Mr. Macleod, surgeon instrument maker, College street, into the gullet, anil happily suc ceeded iu extracting the padlock, to the immediate and complete re lief of the sufferer. The padlock weighed upwards of six drachms, (nearly an ounce) and measured an inch and on eighth iu breadth, and one inch and two-thirds in length; with ihe exception of the iron part being covered with rust, it was in no way changed in ap pearance. London paper. Dreadful slaughter and Canni balism in Xew Zealand. Late accounts stale that the flax estab lishment of Mr. Jones, ai Sydney, was attacked by 800 of the na tives of Waikattoo, Matamala and Touranga. Of 120 iu the estab lishment, every man was killed, and the women and children made prisoners, which latter were sav agely butchered with tomahawks, their heads and limbs scattered about in every directicn. On their return, they fell in with 13 of a hostile tribe, whom they mur dered, and then feasted on their flesh, which they baked in ovens. Ral. Standard. Extraordinary Suicide. The body of a man was on Saturday, found on the banks of lhe Seine at Rouen, in one of his pockets was found a paper on which the following lines were written in a trembling hand: "She is sixteen. I am almost thrice her age. It is long since I saw her for the first time; she then smiled upon me with the inno cence of childhood, and her sweet little hands played wilh my hair. "She is sixteen this day I am more than forty her hands are more timid, and her angel eyes are abashed when 1 look upoti her. Why? "I would almost wager this girl of sixteen loves me, for I have seen her weep, 1 have seen tears in her eyes when any danger has threatened me. "And I! But I am more than forty and she is scarcely sixteen yesterday she was not so. "Is she noi too young for me, or am I not loo old for her? "It is belter to terminate this business. "1 destroy myself, not because I am more than forty, but because she is not more than sixteen." The body has not been recog nized. Puris paper. A Corn Meal Rusk. Take G cupful of corn meal, 4 of w heat flour, 2 cupluls ol molasses, and 2 table spoonfuls f saleratus, mix ihe whole together and knead it into dough; then make two cales; bake them as you would pone, for three-fourths olan hour, and you will have one of lhe most grateful descriptions of bread lhat ever graced lhe table. Question for Debating Socie ties. Is a small dog whose tail curls so tight as to lift his hind legs from the ground, a biped or a quadruped? Kennebec Jour.
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