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-a 1 M i " - ifHd UiJ7. larboroiigh, ( lUlgecombe County, JV. t'J afmdat, 12, 1838 Vol. XIV Xo. id. i The Tarh'jrottgh JPrcss, j BY GEORGE HOWARD, i Is published weekly at Two Dollars and Fifty i ' f 1 ' 'Mr Y'W' pe ii jnuu m auvance or, j.nrte Dnllus at the expiration of the subscription year. For an period less than a year, Twenty-Jive Cents per month. Subscribers are at liberty to discontinue at any time, on giving notice thereof jjiul paying arrears those residing at a distance rr.st invariably pay in advance, or give a respon sible reference in this vicinity. Advertisements not exceeding a square will be inserted 0'ie Dollar the first insertion, and 25 ients for every continuance. Longer advertise r.,c:.ts in like proportion. Court Orders and Ju dicial advertisements 25 per cent, higher. Ad vertisements must be marked the number of in sertions required, or they will be continued until c;!iorvise ordered and charged accordingly. Letters addressed to the Editor must be post jiaid or tiiey may not be attended to. SPKIXG. By D. D, Uuymcs. 'fhe spring is now approaching, The flowers begin to bud, Vernal beauty now is coming last like a rushing flood. The spring is now approaching, "l) what a pleasing sight; The winter is now declining, Like darkness yields to light. The spring is now approaching, ' The birds begin to sing, Their notes are so enlivening, They make the wood-land ring. T he spring is now approaching, ,'ev beauties seem to rise; 'All nature now progressing And growing harmonize. Thi: spring is now approaching, Aiul joy is spread around , All nature animating The land scape all around. The spring is now approaching, ;The husbandman awakes, I Early to his ploughing, I A hand in renovating takes. .The spring i3 now approaching, X oar seed begin to sow, I 'Your fields be overspreading With plants that make a show. The spring is now approaching, All nature be engaged, I To welcome her bright coming I And dulness now assuage. A DEFINITE ANSWER. i 'Marriage!" quoth Kate; "define it if you can sir:" 'The bachelor's last folly," was the answer. MORE HVNKS! MOUL HANKS! There never were a people in the re cords of human society so thoroughly run mad about Banks as are a portion of those of the United Stales. They seem to think nothing is necessary to get money but to incorporate Hanks. Though, thereaieal ready more than Eight Hundred iu the Union, not one of which redeems its notes, yet the cry is still, "give us more Hanks." The inuh is, a large part of our popula tion is unproductive; a large number are idler?; and thousands live and die without producing a dollar's worth from the soil, which is the only true source of national wealth. Men, anxious to live luxuriously and without labor, have resorted to a thousand contrivances to get on without labor, among the number of which are Hanks. One or two in each Slate would be amply sufficient to subserve the legiti mate purposes of the system. Instead of which number we have nearly a thousand, and the clamor is still for more Hanks. More offices and agencies are required to support idlers; more stamped paper is wanted to give a bloated appearance of wealth; more means are wanted to enable men to live without labor. There is. but one response lo all this clamor, and the farmer, planter, and laborer would give it at once. To the fields! Go to work and make bread on the terms of your creation. Cease to call out for Hanks, and cease to live without labor. Let the idler and sluggard, the speculator and the stockjob ber, the broker and the banker, and the thousand and ten thousand times ten thou sand that congregate in our cities, and ex haust the proceeds of honest industry, in high living; in luxury, in debauchery, pa rade, and every other vice; let them go to the fields, and from the ever bountiful globe draw out by their labor the necessi ties and comforts of life. Washington City Chronicle. Another Broken Wc The directors of the Farmers' Hank of Canton, Ohio, have announced to the public that they are unable to redeem their paper. They state, however, that they well have secured debts sufficient to redeem iheir circulation. When this bank was asked by the Legis- 'uure of Ohio, when it intended to resume specie payments, it replied that it would do so when the specie circular was repeal ed. The falsehood of this answer is now provedinstead of specie, they are not even able to pay in papereven the pa per ol other suspended banks. 16 Banki ing run mad. The New York Sun gives an account of a recent examina tion of the affairs of the Farmers' Bank of Genesee County, Michigan, which caps the climax of all the I ink follies that we have ever heard of. The committee appointed for the investigation were unable u dis cover any officers in charge of the institu tion, and it was clearly proved that no set ol books had ever been kept in it. Thev found a file of notes, designated "stock notes," a file of receipts of the several sub scribers to stock, and 'unendorsed notes to the amount of Clfiftfin fn v, these notes, amounting to upwards of $60, 000, were given by H. II. Jerome, the President, payable five years after date! Two others, for $53,000 and odd, were given by Dtlos Davis, payable also live years after date! Two others, for $52, 000, given by Kufus Hrown, Jr., were also made payable five 3 ears after date! No specie or foreign bills of any kind were found and copies of the bond and mor tnges given as securities. It was impossi ble to ascertain the amount of notes in cir culation, and to meet the liabilities of the bank there were about eleven thousand dollars of endorsed notes, and the above hupeiul unendorsed ones. Examiner. Tragical Affair. Mr. LoAin, a respec table young man of this neighborhood having early one morning last week left his house to hunt turkeys, was attracted by the .ustliug of the leaves at a short dis lance from him, which he supposed was caused by the footsteps of some animal. Proceeding in the direction whence the noise came, it seemed to descend info the ground, and within a few fttt of where he siood, he heard a man conversing in a strange language. lie called repeatedly; when at last the head of a man was seen rising through a crevice in the rocks, and at the same lime a weapon presented which Mr. L. took to be a pistol. He presented his rifle, when ihe stranger, who proved to be a negro man, begged him nut to shoot. Mr. L. demanded of him, then lo come forth. The negro obeyed, but having ex tricated himself fully from the cave, he made a desperate, lunge at Mr. L. wuh hi butcher knife, he (Air. L. ) having ii the mean lime discharged his rill', which failed to lake effect from being so near lhat the desperado threw the muzzle up uiih his arm. The parties grappled, and stagger ed, when Air. L. having reltuid himself, and supposing lhat he was mou.diy wound ed, having a stab on his fare extending to ihe ear, retreated, and was pursued uv the negro, w ho had obtained possession of ihe rille. Having gained sufficient distance he turned upon his pursuer wuh iwo stones, and fortunately, w ith ihe second he brought him to the ground. The negro w as mere ly stunned, lie very soon recoveiing, re new ed ihe attack. Mr. L. had recovered his rifle in ihe mean time, and gave him a blow over ihe head, which again felled him to ihe ground. He repeated the blow as long as the negro made resistance, which he continued lo do until overpoweied. When neighbors arrived who heard the cries of Air. L. the negro was found sense less and although ihe best medical aid was promptly procured, ihe negro died of his wounds on Sunday last. His skull was fractured to the extent of more than six inches, and the bone driven in upon the brain. We are happy lo say ,lhai Air. Lof- lin s wounu though a severe one, is not dangerous. The negro was apparently about 25 years of age, about 5 feel 8 or 9 inches high, black, of good countenance, doubt less a runaway of many years, his den hav ing the appearance of having been long inhabited. Murjreesboro Tenn. Tel. A Modem Dtsdemona. "There is no accounting for taste," is an old saying, and "beaut3' is a matter of taste' is a tru ism equally as old, both originating with the very respectable old lady who put into practice the maxim of "every one lo their liking,'' by kissing the unwashed face of her pig. We have great respect for the independence of that old lady, aud do not doubt that the aforesaid porker possessed many amiable, qualities seldom found among his two-legged brethren; but on what principle must we account for ihe taste of a young no, no, we cannot call her woman of a white female, then. young, handsome, and well educated, who falls in love with a filthy negro, and be comes for him a vile degraded thing? An instance of such infatuation, which we hoped would ever be confined to the fana tical amalgamationists of ihe North, has occurred in a neighboring county. The female is of a highly respectable family, ami lives somewhere ou Pike Week, in Carroll county; the sable Adonis whose charms have captivated her heart, was a servant in the house where she resided. Their intimacy becoming too apparent, her friends caused the boy to be sold to a slave-dealer in this city, for the purpose of gelling him out of the way. She was, however, her own mistress, aud being pos sessed of some property, determined not to be separated from the father of her child, l'o raise the necessary funds for his libera tion, she sold a t.ouse, worth at least 1, 500, for 1,000, and hastened to the city to purchase his freedom. The price de manded for him was $800, which she in stantly paid down, ami so anxious was she to regain possession of her darling, and so fearful of some obstacle being thrown in ihe way, that she could scarcely wail until 'he necessary articles were drawn up. When every thing was completed, they went oft together, she evincing the great est delight at having her paramour (faugh!) restored to her arms. The polluted wretch gloried iu her shame, and avowed that she had first wooed hiui. Baltimore Sun. Righteous Sentence. A Airs. Tyler was recently sentenced lo one year's imprison ment in the Hallimore county jail for amo tions cruelty towards a friendless aud helpless litile girl, aged nine or ten years, jvho had been placed under her charge. For the slightest offence, the fiend would heal ihe child with a rope, lear her hair out by the roots, and to cup the climax of her b.nbarity. she at one lime healed a dutch oven, aud brought it in contact with the bare flli of the sufferer The hus b and of Mrs. Tyler was also convicted of abusing the child, and fi led $5 and costs. OIt was slated at the anniversary of the .Mississippi Colonization Society, held at Natchez on the I4th nf March, thai Cap tain Isaac Ross of lhat Slate had bequeath ed 10 the American Colonization Society his entire estate estimated at $400,000. His will emancipates all his slaves, amount ing lo 170, and provides for their removal and settlement in the Society's Colony. A It'' off Story. We learn from un doubted authority, lhat an Indian hunter, a tew days since, while hunting near the Alligator Hayou was attacked by a gang of ft roi ious wolves, aud lhat after heroi cally battling it among them, he succeeded in slaughtering seven of the gaunl and blood thirsty animals, but was. finally over powered. He was uexl morning found by his comrades, literally lorn lo pieces, with seven dead wolves scattered around him, and a number of live ones banquet ing 011 ihe dead carcass of the poor Indian, Grand Guff Adv. 0C?"A gentleman asked a wag ihe oilier day, the reason why so many of the tall gentlemen were bachelors? The rrply was lhat "they were obliged to lie corner wise iu ihe bed to keep iheir feel warm, and a wife would be in the vva3'." (17s A dnlchman in describing the ap pearance of his two horses, said lhal "They were so much alike that, when you saw ihe one you would think it was (he olher. One was a plack horse mid a line auui in ilia Idle, illlM UlC wmci ,(j , . ,r ., , , . , . white horse mid a plack spot in Ins face. v n . white spot in his face, and the other was a Saturday Courier. -J (jl Monster. On Saturday the 3!stof March last, a male child was born unto Mr. John Salisbury, of Weymouth, in this State, who had four eyes, four ears, four arms, and four legs! It died ihe day afier iis birth. The duplicate eyes, appeared above the natural eyes, in the forehead the duplicate ears just behind the true ears ihe duplicate arms grew from below and immediately under the irue arms and the duplicate legs sprung from the hips and extended in length a short distance below ihe knees of the true legs. Boston Trans. (important to Snuff Dippers. It is a fact, lhat much of the snuff, which our young Ladies are so found of dipping, is manufactured of the Tobacco which has been chewed and spit out by tobacco chew ers. We once heard of a man whose rig id economy led him to preserve every quid of his own, and not only so, but he picked up all he could find in the public streets and elsewhere, and after collecting a good ly quantity, would sell it. to the trader in tobacco, who, drying and pulverizing it, botlled it up, and sold it for Scotch snuff, and is it possible that our young ladies can brook the idea of bedaubing their mouths with an article every particle ol which, has been thus used? Carolina Gaz7 Manners in Missouri.- A member elect of the lower chamber of the legislature of tfiis Slate was last year persuaded by some wags of this neighborhood that if he did noi reach the Slate House at leu o'clock on the day of assembly, he could not be sworn, aud would lose tiis seat. He im mediately mounted with hunting frock, rifle and bowie knife, and spurred till he got to the door of ihe Slate House, where he hitched his nag. A crowd were iu the chamber of ihe lower house ou the ground nor, walking about with iheir hais ou aud smoking Cigars. These he passed, ran up stairs iu the Senate chamber, set his ri fle against ihe wall and bawled, "strangers, vvhars the man w hat swurus me in? at Ihe same lime taking out his credentials. 'Walk this way" said the clerk, who was at the moment igniting a real Principe, and he was s a oiu without enquiry. When the teller came to count noses, he found there was one Senator too many present, ihe mistake was soon discovered aud ihe huntsman was informed lhat he did not be long ihere. "Fool who! with your com bread!" lie roared. "You can't flunk this chile no how you can fix it. I'm elected to this here legislalur, aud I'll go agin all banks and eternal improvements, and il there's any of you oratory gentleman wants lo git skinned, jest say the word, and I'll light upon you like a nigger on a wood chuck. Aly constituents sent me here, aud if yon want lo floor this two-legged am mal, hop on, jest as soon as you like, though I'm from ihe back county , I'm a leelle smaller than any other quadruped you can turn out of this drove." After this admirable harangue, he put his bowie knife between his teeth aud look up his rifl.j with, "Come here, old Suke, and sland my me!" at ihe same time presenting it at the chairman, who, however had seen such people before. Afler some expostulation ihe man was persuaded lhal he belonged lo ihe lower chamber, upon which he sheathed his knife, flang his gun on his shoulder, and with a profound congee, re- maikcd, "Gentlemen 1 beg your pardon, but if I didn't think that ar lower ruom was the groggery may 1 be shot." Cjiound Robi in. uue 01 me best legal stories we know of is thai of Round Robin, as it is familiarly called iu (he lower cir cuits of Norlh Carolina, aud owes its hu mour 10 the ver3' fertile and cultivated mind of a lawyer who is still alive but in a W est ern State. Alhhe lawyers attending courl about the year J 820 boarded at ihe House of Mr. S , who at the beginning of his life as a publican was assiduous and provident, but riches multiplied and Roni lace became Lzy. crusty and parsimonious. His accommodations, as they are usualh, from being ihe very best had by degrees degenerated into the veiy worst in ihe whole country. - This was borne with mulierings from lime to time until in a fit of desperation, the whole fiateruilv of law yers, after mature delib talinn in Congress assembled, Resolved to quit the House am. go to another iu the same village. The duty of announcing the separation was developed upon the gentleman above spe cified, w ho wi ote ihe follow ing, and scut 10 ihe Landlord, signed with the names ol all ihe decideuts iu a round ring below : A DhCLARA'I ION. When iu ihe course of human events, it becomes necessary for a hall hungij, hall fed imposed ou set of men, to dissolve the i I r I III II I J ,,Kbands of Landlord aud boarder, a decent . ., , 1 respect lor the opinions of mankind, re- quires that they should declare the causes which have impelled them lo the separa tion. We hold these truths to be self evident that all men are created with mouths and bellies; and lhat they are endowed by iheir Creator with certain unalienable rights, among which is that no man shall be com pelled to starve, out of mere complaisance lo a Landlord; and lhat every man has a right to fill his belly aud wet his whistle w ith the best that's going. The history of the present Landlord of kthe While JLion is a history ol repeated in liults, exactions, injuries all having in di rect object the establishment of absolute tyranny over their stomachs and throats. To prove this let faefs be submitted to a candid world. He has refused to keep any thing to drink but ball face whiskey. He has refused to set upon his table for dinner, any thing but turnip soup with a little bull beef and sour crout, which are not wholesome and necessary for the pub lic good. He has refused to let his onh servant blink eyed Joe put more than six grains of coffee to one gallon of water. He has turned loose a multitude of fleas and sw arms of bed bugs, 10 assail us in the peaceful .hours of the night, and eat our substance. ' He has kept up in our beds and bed steads standing armies of ihese merciless savages wiih iheir scalping knives aud tomahawks, whose rule cf warfare is undis tinguished destruction. lie has excited domestic insurrection amongst us, by gelling drunk before break fast aud making his wife aud servant so be fore dinner, whereby there is often ihe devil 10 pa3'. He has waged cruel war against nalure herself by feeding our horses with broom straw; and carrying them off to drink where swine refused lo wallow. He has protected one eyed Joe in his villauy, in the robbery of our jugs, by pre tending to give him a mock trial, after sharing wiih him ihe spoil. He has cut off our trade wiih foreign ports aud brought in his ball laced whis key, w hen we sent him to buy better liquor abroad, and with a perfidy scarcely paral leled in the most barbarous ages," he has been known 10 drink our foreign spirits and fill our bottles wiih the most dire potions. lie has imposed taxes upon us,' tu an enormous amount, btrniust our rniispnt and wiihout any rule but his own arbitrary will and pleasure. A Landlord whose character is thus narked by every act which may define a tyrant and a miser, is unfit in keep a boarding house for Cherokee Indians. Nor have we been wanting in our atten tions to Mrs. S , or Miss Sally. We have appealed to their native magna nimity, we have conjured them i aher a -Male of things which would inevitably in terrupt our connection and correspondence. They, too have been deaf to the voice of justice. W e are, therefore, constrained to hold all three, nf these parties alike inimi cal 10 our w ell being and regardless of our comfort. We, therefore, make ibis solemn decla ration of our final separation from our for mer Landlord, and cast our defiance al his teeth. A rich man lived in a house between two blacksmiths, and was disturbed by the noise they made. At last thev promised to re move, on condition that he should give them an excellent dinner, which he readily agreed to do. When the promised feast was ended, he asked them whither they intended to transfer their domiciles. "Why," answered one of them, "my companion will remove to my house, and I to his." Important Decision. A question of great importance came up yesterday before the Circuit Court of the United Stales, now sitting in this city, and was decided by the Court, Judge McKinley, of the Supreme Court of the United States, presiding. The Cjirrolton Hank, a banking company char tered in Louisiana, purchased in Alohilo, through an agent, a bill of exchange, which being unpaid, the bank brought an action against one of the parties to the bill. The Court decided that a bank corporation of another State could not make a contract in this State for want of capacity to contract; and, therefore, lhat ihe bank cculd not re cover ou the bill. The case w ill go t-p, as we understand, to .the Supreme Court of the United States, where the question will be settled. Mobile Adv. CC?A French i hemist al Paris, M. Gran nal, announces the discovery of the mtaus, ample and economical, of preserving ihe human body, by a new process of emhal ineiil and mvmujication, for an indefioite time, the features piesenting the expres sion of sleep only. The expense varies from three hundred to two thousand francs. A company is forffitt,io guarantee the pre servation. Receipt for Washing. Put the clothes in common water over night. In ihe mor ning, to seven gallons water slice up half a pound of soap, two ounces sal soda, iwo quarts strong lye or lime water. Let.ihe mixture boil one hour. Wiiug out the water first the fine clothes aud those least soiled; put into the mixture as many as the keltic will hold; let them boil for one hour, then place them on some pieces of wood across a tub 10 drain. The mixture lhat drains from them put again into the kettle, and put in more clothes; and so continue until finished. Then rinse them through three different Waters, to the last add fig blue and starch. Do not be alarmed at the appearance of the clothes; when taken from ihe kettle they are very yellow, but will become as white as snow in rinsing. They must be rubbed through the first riu sing. The above quantity is calculated for ten dozen pieces, which can be done 03 one ser vant in a day. This receipt is sirongly recommeuded as being more economical, a great saving of labor, and as preserving (he clothes much longer than the usual method ol washing.
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