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Tarborongh, (Edgecombe County, JY. C.J Saturday Jttnum-y 16. 1341
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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.
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