1 (gft Cfefi Whole Xo. 777. Tarborongh, (Edgecombe County, JY. C.J Saturday Jttnum-y 16. 1341 Vol. XVII Xo The Tttrborough Irc$s, BV HROROn IIOWAIil), Is published weekly at TV;.? Dl,irs avl F'fy Ctts ppr year, if paid in a.l vance or, TT'ore Dtilhrsal the expiration of the subscription year. V'nr an) period less than a year, 7' w: -itf-n:r j f,'y per month. Subscribers are at lihertv 1r fiicoiUinue at anytime, oa?giving notice. l!i"rf-f j fjnii paying arrears those residing at a distance j hiust invariably pay in advance, or give a respon sive reference in this vicinity. Advertisements not exceeding a square will inserted at One Dollar the first insertion, an I 0 )1 cents for every continuance. Longer advertise-': ments in like proportion. Court Orders and Jti-i dicial advertisements 25 per cent, hi jr'.ier. Ad- rertisenients must be marked the number of in-j seriions required, or they will be continued until ' otherwise ordered and charged acc-mliiigl v. j Letters addressed to the IMit r must be post paid or they may not be attended to. j Doctor Wses. Iv.in'S' ! SOOTHING SYIlUpj For children I'telhiim.' i o i PZEPMEO 3Y HIMSELF. ; 7o .Mother and .Yurscs. fjplirc passage of the Teeih through the gums produces ti 'oiiblesmiitf an. dan gerous symptoms. Ii is known by lumb ers that there is great iriiuii n in the mouth and gouts during this process. The gums swell, il:e secretion of saliva is in creased, the child is seized with frequent aid sudden fits of crying, walchings, starl ing in the sleep, and spasms of pecnliai pari?, the child shrieks with extreme vio lence, and thrusts its fingers into its month Iftliese precursory symptoms are not spee dily a 11 e v i a T e 1 , spasmodic convulsions uni versally supervene, and soon cause the dissolution of the infant. If mothers who have their little babes afflicted with these distressing symptoms, would apply Lr ' William Evans's Celebrated Southing - Syrup, which has preserved hundreds of infants when thought past recover), from ' being suddenly attacked with that fatal . malady, convulsions. This infallible remedy lias preserved - hundreds of Children, when thought past recovery, from convulsions. As soon as i the Syrup is rubbed on the gums, the child will recover. This preparation is so in nocent, so efficacious, and so pleasant, that ' no child will refuse to let its gums be ' rubbed with it. When infants are at the age of four months, though there is no ap pearance of teeth, one bottle of the Syrup should be used on the gums, to . open the pores. Parents should never be without the Syrup in the nursery where there are young children; for if a child wakes in the night with pain in the gums, the Syrup immediaicly giveseise by open I ' ing the pores and healing the gums; there I by preventing Convulsions, Fevers, To the Agent of Dr. Lvans' Sooihim: " Syrnp: Dear Sir The great benefit afforded lo my suffering infant by your Soothing Svrop, in a case of protracted and painful dentition, must convince every fee lin tj parent how essential an early ap plication of such an invaluable medicine is to relieve infant misery and torture, .My infant, while teethim;, experienced such acute sufferings, that it was attacked with Convulsions, and my wile and family sop P'ised that death would soon release the babe from anguish till we procured a boji 1 lie of your Svrup; which as soon as ap plied to the minis a wonderful change was produced, ami after a (Vw applications the ! child displayed obvious relief, and by con timiiuT i j,s se J am glad to inform '", the child lias completely recov ered, j and no recurrence of that awful complaint since occurred; the teeth are einana UK daily and the child enjoys perfect j health. lejveyon mv cheerful permission I make this acknowledgment public, and id idiy uive any iufoun ition on t i i i pirr.uiutance. ; ben children begin to be in pain with '"'eir teeth, shooting in their gums, put a jl'ttle of tle Syrup in a tea-spoon, and JWI the filler let the child's gums be ,r,'bhed for uo or three minutes, three ll"ies a day. h must not be put to the ur,,ast immediately, for il ip mil!; would Me the syrup off too soon. When the led! are Just rntnintr throucth their .inns. -',VHt,ors s,,""ld immediately a.mlv the sv- j'P; it "ill prevent ihe rhildren having a ?v", and undergoing i,at painful opera , m "f lancing the g.ims, which always il .lhe ,,,,,h m,,, h li-iriler to cou.e I and sometimes (.aMSt.$ death. I !Jc''V:u-c orCjnnxterfHts. sin!F"l"i0rl' particular in purcha fVv v ?,)Ui,, h al 100 Chatham St., lurk, or from the REGULAR AGRMTS. J. M. !! Geo-Howakd, ( ra,b oro From Ihe Raleigh Stand ird. INAUGURAL ADDRESS of gov. iroitnnr.AD. Gsntlemcn of the Senate and House of C-')l))l;)iS'. t., i.-v.i: . r i i u i.'iiui : i- mi inn ni n: in Constitution, I h we appetred before -ou, and have taken the oaths prescribed, bo f )i e 1 enter upon the duties of the Execu tive Odi -e, to which I have be-n called by my fellow citizens of N. Carolina. I assure you it is with unfeigned dif iidencc tint I enter tipD-i the discharge of 'hi!se high duties; and if I may not hone to bring ai much ability in thi Executive Chair as now loaves it, I will yet endeavor, in the discharge of my official duties, to rival th? zeal of him whose seat I am now i). nit to occunv: And i shall be more than; i U'tun tie. if at the expiration of my term service, it ma.v be said of me, as it may be -.veil said of him, "well done tbovi good und I'aitblol." 1 des;re 1o diseharue iny duties as it be- 'omes the (lovernor of the Slate, and of the whole State; I desire to b the Ese-ec-.iiive of the people, and of the whale People; and it shall be my constant endeav or so to discharge those duties, that the i . . .it -i i,:.ws suggested uv your wis, lorn ami by the wisdom of those who have -one be- tore you shall be so administered, that all the beneficial results anticipated may h-' i j fully realized. i I shall be happy to co-operate with you j I in ormg.ng into operation, all the elements iui KMiiiiM ami ui ust luinos w iui which our State is so abundantly blest. Other States have outstripped us in the career of improvement, and in the develop ment of their natural resources but North Carolina will stand a favora ble comparison with most of her sister States, in natural advantages her great extent of fertile soil her great variety of production her exhaust less deposites of mineral wealth her extraordinary waler power, inviting to Manufactures all, all combine to give her advantages that few other States possess. Whatever measures you may adopt to en courage Agricultui'Cjto induce the Husband man, while he toils and sweats, to hope that his laborors will be duly rewarded; i whatever measures you may adopt to fa cilitate commerce, and to aid Industry in J all the departments of life to nap its full j reward, will meet with my cordial appro ' b ition. j And I am happy to find that the ac 1 1 ion of one of your bodies has anticipated a suggestion that I had intended to make; I allude to the subject of opening Roanoke ; Inlet. This is a work, if practicable, of, the first importance to North Carolina; il is a work in which the State is deeply interest ed recent surveys, conducted by scien tific skill, have shown that the work is practicable, and if so, it should be certain ty executed. The Commerce and Navigation of the Nation would be greatly benefited by it; and if there beany work which the Federal 'Government ought to execute, and which steers clear of all Constitutional objection, this is the work. Thousands of dollars are year ly spent to improve the navigation of rivers within the limits of some of the Sta'es, whilst this would be an improve ment by which the Atlantic itself would be introduced within our borders. If the General Government, cannot exe cute a work of this dc-epption, or if it can and will not, then do we derive but little advantage from our Federal association; we should not ask I lie execution of this work by lhe General Government as a boon, but demand it as a right and I hope the lime is not far distant, when the applications of North Carolina lo lhe Gen eral Government for her lights, will not be disregarded; therefore whatever duties you may choose to assign me, to bring this subject to the attention of the General Go vernment, will be most cheerfully perfor med. As there may be another session of Congress before our Legislative body may meet, again, and as it is probable no action will be taken on the subject at this session of Congress, I would respectfully suggest that any communications which you may direct to he made should be made to the next session of Congress as well as to this. It if equally our duty, fellow-citizens, to attend to our moral and intellectual cul tivation, for upon this depends, our con tinuance as a free and happy people. Our Siate possesses in her University, an inti tut ion that will compare favorably with any other in lhe Union, at which a portion of our youth can be well educated we have a number of Academies and othera;e in their political war fire than are our high Schools at which another portion can j Indians in physirrd tife. receive excellent education-; but it i t' our Common Schools, in which every child can receive the rudiments of an education that our attention should be mainly di rected Our system is yet in its infancy it will require time and experience to nive s o i t its geitest perfection, our Literary Fund should be carefully husbanded and increased, and I doubt not, in due lime, the Legislative wisdom of the State will perfect the system as far as human sagacity can do it. And no part of my official du ty will be performed with more pleasure than lint nirt. wbieh msiv nid in hrinnamr about that happy result. X.Ubini' o iiMi-K' i ml ientn I bp hinnmnse v r"',v"" and prosperity of a people, as numerous School-houses well filled, during the week; and Churches well crowded on the Sabbath, and the l itter is sure to follow the former. If we desin; to perpetuate our glorious po litical institutions, we must give to all our peoje moral and intellectual cultivation that man who improves bis intellect "for six days in the week, and on the seventh, endeavors to give it the proper direction, from the precepts of our Holy Religion, who learns to do unto others, as be would ther should do unto him I hat man loill never become a Tyrant and he can ne ver he made a slave. Believing, as I do, that comity and good f.-eling .should exist between the General Government and all the members of the Confederacy I shall endeavor, while I have the honor to preside over North Ca rolina, on every occasion that may offer, to meet them with that courtesy to which they are justly entitled and which a due - self-respect and dignity of our State require s,o:ibl be shown 1 vvjH cheerfully yield lo the General Government all the powers to which it is entitled, from a fair and nrrmer rnnstrnn- itoit and inlerpietation of the Constitu- ti0n while, on the other hand, I shall Ciircfl!y maintain, protect and defend the rights which pertain to our own State I shall be extremely cartful to see, that North Carolina, when she speaks in her sovereign character, has a right to speak and when she does so speak, through her great seal Ihe emblem of her sovereignty while I have the honor to control it it must be it shall be respected. The days of our political existence, un der our present happy form of Govern ment, are numbered, when the States shall permit their sovereignty to be contemned, and their great seals to be scoffed at am disregarded. In a word, fellow-citizens, whatever measures you may adopt to advance the prosperity of our State, and the happiness of our citizens, will meet with my hearty co operation. I cannot conclude my remarks without congratulating you and myself, upon ihe time and place of our meeting. I hi splendid edifice has nearly approached its completion. i ou are the first legislative body that ever had the honor to assemble in its splendid Halls. I am the first Exe cutive that ever had the honor to be instal C( within its durable walls. It will en dure as a monument, for ages to come, of the munificence, liberality and taste of the age in which lve live. There is a moral effect produced by the erection of such an edifice as this it will serve, in Ihe chain of time, to link the past with lhe future. And if ev er t hat proud spirit, that has ever characterized us which has ever been ready to assert its rights and to avenge its wrongs which exhibited itself at the Keg illation Battle of 1770 which burnt with more brilliancy at the Mecklenburg Decla ration of Independence in 1775 and which boldly declared for Independence in 177G, if even that proud spirit shall become craven in time lo come, and shall not dare animate lhe bosom of a freemar. let it look upon this monument and re member the glorious institutions under which its foundations were laid, and lh noble peoplt by whom it was reared and then let it become a slave if it can. May it endure for ages to come may it endure until lime itself sh dl grow old may a thousand years find ihese Halls still occupied by Freemen, legislating for a free and happy people. THE PERSON FESTIVAL. LETTER OFMK. STRANGE. Fayetteville, October 22nd, 1U40. Gentlemen: Your favor of the 25th ult. , was not received until many, days afler it was writtrn, and the pleasure I derived from the very kind expressions it contains, is mingled with sincere regret that it will not beTn my power to accept your invita- lion. I am sensible that you overrate the servi ces I have rendered to mv country, but no mailer how greatly his friends may over rate the services of a democratic public servant, they can never counterbalance the injustice done him by lhe opposition, who, through their "whig" press, are more sav- Itcmnot be denied that our political s'iv'"'' mcdiciml qualities should have been is much overcast, and the IVe-ddenli d con-1 found in Warren; but that it should hAv test has now attained a point of fearful uiv certainly; but the promise of brighter days is loumi in the zeal an I unflinching firm ness of the true democracy, and in the certainty, thai even if u.isuecessful at the approaching election, our defeat will be for a time only. Indeed, I am by no means certain, that as the Log Cabin and Hard j Cid r delusions have spread so widely, that it will not be better lor the country, that the 'Whigs" should prevail, an I when my fears are greatest, 1 ( he r my self with ibis reflection. If Van Huien is re-ekcled the people will never find om the extent, of tlie p'ot atinst their liber ties, and will have learnt nothing by expe rience. Hut -if Harrison prevails, they will be bro't to p Mceive the edg; of ihe precipice to which they have been conduc ted, and will become S3 much ashamed o! the credulity which lias betrayed themsel ves, that for the present generation at least no one will be hardy enough to tempt their indignation. You thus see, that ou position, is sj far a sacrifice, that if we prevail our enemy is vanquished and scit tercd to the four winds, for the hope ol plunder is their main bond of union, an if that is removed, where are tbc? Bu if they prove victorious, it is a vic tory which will destroy tin: victors and invigo rate the vanouished. Ours is a cause on which we can conscientiously invoke the blessing of H -aven. No lust f power, no sordid, selfish hopes of p cuoiary profi animate our exeiPons, we stiivcfor our country, for the grea'est good of the great est numb T of the great family of man. In such a struggle we must ultimnt 1) con quer and he wno dies in it, dus gloriously. Allow me to reciprocate in conclusion the appearances of personal respect With which you are pleased to honor me, ami to tender through you my most grateful acknowledgements to those for whom you act for the invitation to pattake with the Republican Citizens of Person of a Demo cratic dinner at Roxboro', on Thursday 29th day of October, and lo yourselves personally, for the very flattering and handsome terms in which you have com municated it. Your obedient servant, RO. STRANGE. To Messrs. C. H. Jordan, J. W. Wil liams, J. W. Cunningham, J. Hamblett, C. Taylor and E D. Bolton. r. ft. in lieu oi my presence, pieasc oner in my behalf at the proper time, the lol lowing sentiment: "Martin Van Burcn, our Democratic Chief his opponent arts by a Committee but he will iead his friends to victory in Person.'' ib. Duplin County. We have been re quested to ioseit the following extract of a letter from Duplin county: Kenansville. N. C." Dec. 25, 1S40. Dear Sir: A few nights ago one of those negroes ( Brown's) that were confined in Jail for murdering Fountain, prized open the doors and made his escape through the hole that Powell and others m;;de. Man ning's two negroes did noi get out because they could not g t the shackles off. As soon as Fountain's relations and friends heard of Brown's boy's escape, ihey mus tered a company of 20 odd men and came un here, d ay before yesterday, every man armed wiibhisgun, for Ihe putpose of as certaining whether the other two were safe and would likely be kept until they could!,, mur,,er posi,jV(;l y declared that ho betried. Old Mr. r ountain went in the Jail sometime during the day, and said he had no idea that ibey could be kept until Court. The company knocked about the village all day, and about 8 o'clock at night ihey procured alight and an axe, and went down to the Jail and broke open the doors with the axe, and look the 2 negroes that were left, out, ami carried them a piece be low Stanley's; built up a lig tin lhe road so that they could see, and shot them dad in the road, and proceeded on about their business. I here was a jury held over them the next day. ib. Warren Sulphur Spring. Ve con gratulate ihe people ol North Carolina, and especially our friends in the sickly le gions of the East, upon the fact that the Sulphur Spring which was discovered last summer on the land of William D. Jones, Esq has been analy zed by scientific gentle men and pronounced by them to be ol ex cedent sanative piopertus. The Proprietor has discovered that the main fountain is some six or eight feet from the first loca tion, and. upon changing lhe location, has found lhatthe water is much more strongly impregnated with mineral substances than it was at first supposed to be. Many gen tlemen of intelligence who have visited the Virginia Mineral Springs in the Mountains, pronounce this to berqual in every respect, to any of them. The enter prising proprietor is engaged in building suitable accommodations Iot visitors, ano will be prepared to board a great number , of persons during the next season. We (think it lot tunatc not only that a spring of been found on the land of a gentleman who is so enterprising and worthy as is Mr; Jones. If'arrenton Hep. Cot Ion Planters Convention On the 7th of December, ls10, a meeting was i held at Greensboio', Ala., by a number c.f Planters from Green, Marengo and Perry counties, Al;i., which appointed a commit tee to inquire into the reported deficiency of the Co ton Crop of IS 10, as compared with th it of 1839, and the following are some of ihe facts reported by said Com hi it tee. "That the aggregate production in 1S30 of 16 plantations, ws 17 10S bales, while he yield from same in IStO, cannot exceed S,2bl, or one half. The 7G plantations include every variety of foil. The large bulk of cotton produced on these plantations, is usually derived from lime lands The committee also submitted the follow i ng resolot ion : Resolved, That entertaining the beli' f, fiom the b st inform uion we have been a hi - to col 'eel, tht the relative deficiency d'lhe pr. s-.-nt crop, throughout lhe cntiie cotton growing icg'Oti, is fully equal to h i in ihe section represented by ibis meet ing, we earnestly invite the whole body of he Southern planters to bold similar meet ings hat an early opinion may bg formed as to ihe entire crop of 1S40, appmxima iing very nearly to accuracy, and fortified in such a way as to put lhe matter beyond cavil or doubt. Distressing Murder. The Slar of Florida, printed at Tallahassee, of the S'.h inst. says: A murdu' the most distress ing, was committed on Friday night last, at li .ily's Mills, J fferson county, by, it is supposed, run avay negroes. The vid tim was Mr. James Van Horn, a resident in this citv, who was shot while endeavor ing to dtfend a smoke-house which the negroes were endeavoring to force open. Tuosho s wen fired one at lhe deceased, and one at another person who was with him only one of which took effect. The" camp of, it is presumed, the same negroes, was discovered only a few days previous to lhe murder and about five hundred pounds of bacon taken therefrom. Mr. Van Horn has left a yToung and interesting ; fam;iv ,0 mourn his loss. From the Virginia Slar Dec. IGfh. A murder of the most atrocious charac ter, we understand, was committed in lhe county of Dinwiddic, on Sunday morning last by Jeremiah Conway, on the person of Edward Lewis, a young m.m, only about 18 years of age, who, at the lime w hen the murder was committed, resided with Con way's family. It appears that Lewis had dressed himself with the intention of going lo Church, and was in the act of stepping out of the portico, having his back turned towards Conway's chamber door, when d advanced within a few step of him, (hav ing a gun heavily charged with buck shot,) and fired, when Lewis fell, having receiv ed the entire contents of lhe un in the neck and back part of the head! The on ly supposable cause assigned for the perpe tration of ibis dreadful act, was jealousy, on the part of Conway. After the act was committed, Conway made no effort to es cape, and w hen quesdoned in relation lo knew nothing about il. He h;is been com mitted lo the Jail of Dinwiddie county, where he awails his trial for this outrageous act. S ngular Murder and Suicide. - A correspondent of the Louisville Journal writing from Columbia, Adair Co. , Ken tucky, details the circumstances of a most heart lending murder and suicide The facts, biiefly stated, are ihesei A Mr. Jacob Burke, a plain and honest farmer, residing about two miles from Columbia, I os i his wife about two years ago, for whom he entertained a more than ordinary fond ness. Alter her death he became mor bidly sensitive on the subject of his two little boys, in their lone and motherless condition. One of these ws five yetrs old at ihe time of his mother's death and ti.e other seven. To add lo his misery he look to drink, and from this course his mind was measurably destroyed. In this condition, he determined, il is supposed, to take hi own life, but unwilling to leave his children behind him, he first, with an xe, while they were asleep, nearly severed ihtir heads from their shoulders, and then went to the barn and hung himsell! fjyWc learn from the Elmira Republi can that a young man by the name of Thomas Bouland was killed on the N. Y. Rail Road on Tuesday last by the saw of a Pile Driving Machine, which broke and cut him nearly in two about the hip. 1 1

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