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t i Whole No. 7Q2. Tarborough, (Edgecombe County, JV. C.J Saturday, Maya, 1841 Vol.XmNo 19. "' 1 i ill n, - nm The Tarborough Press, BY GEORGE IIOWA11D, Is published weekly at Two Dollars and Fifty Cents per year, 11 paid in advance or, Three at the expiration of the subscription year. For any period less than a year, Tiocntu-five icnt-i per month. Subscribers are at liberty to discontinue at anytime, on giving notice thereof and paying arrears those resi ling at a distance tnust invariably pay in advance, or give a respon sible reference in this vicinity. Advertisements not exceeding a sqnare will be inserted at One Dollar the first insertion, and 25 cents for every continuance. Lon-rpr ad vertise ments in like proportion. Court Orders and Ju dicial advertisements 25 per cent, higher. Ad vertisements must be marked the number of in gertions required, or they will be continued until otherwise ordered and charged accordingly. Letters addressed to the Editor must "be post paid or they may not be attended to. THY AGAIX. 'Tis a lesson you should heed, Try again; If at first you don't succeed, Try again; Then your courage should appear; For, if you will persevere. You will conquer, never fear; Try again. Once or twice, though you should fail, Try again; If you would, at last prevail, Try anfain; If we strive, 'lis n disgrace, Thoujh we may not win the rare; What should you do in the case? Try again, If you find your task is hard, Try again; Time will brinr you your reward, Try again; All that other folks can do, Why, with patience, shold not you, Only keep this rule in view, Try a gain From the Youth's Cabinet. PRESIDENT HARRISON. Brief Record of his Life. William Henry Harrison, ninth Presi dent of the IT. States, was born in Virginia, Feb. 9, 1773. In 1797, two years after the constitution went inio operation, Washington ap pointed him ensign in the U. States army. August 20, 1794, he was aid to Gen eral Wayne in the battle of Miami, in Ohio, where the Indians were defealed. In 1797, President Adams appointed him Secretary and Lt. Governor of the North Western Territory. In 179S, he was chosen a delegate to Congress. In 1S01, when Jefferson was President, he was appointed Governor of Indiana r erritory, and commissioner for treating with the Indians. In 1S09, President Madion re-appointed l.im Governor of Indiana Territory. Nov. 7, 1SII, he gained a victory over GOO Indian warriors at the mouth of Tip pecanoe river, where it enters the Wa bash, in the present county of Tippeca noe, Indiana. Sept. 11,1812, President Madison ap pointed him Commander-in-Chief of the North Western army, war with Great hritain having been declared the previous June. May 1,1813, an American garrison Was besieged in Fort Meigs near the mouth of I'icMiuimec River in Ohio, 61 miles south f Detroit. The siege lasted five days, and JJM terminated by the sucesrful sortie of Ge. Harrison. . In September, 1S13, he regained Mich 'Sjan from the British, who had possessed "t peninsula about a year. Oct..1?, 1813, he defeated the British "M roctor, whom he h id pursued to ujnKs ol the Thames Hiver, in Upper 1,1 1S14, and 1S15, he was appointed by resulcnt Madison a Commissioner to treat U''th the Indiana an.l .1, 1,1 I., t . l i two I..... UIUV.ll III lUMUIUHill Mealies, one at Granville, Indiana, uwe othtrat Detroit, Michigan. , 111 15, he was elected to Congress irorn (Jhi0, years. where he continued four T,,n an-lS18, soon after the death of haddeus Kosciusko, who died in France, , L I6 1317, he introduced a resolution 'Jiajle an eloquent speech in honor of that ti0Ilsh General, who had crossed the Atlan c to f,ftht fur American liberty, and had the H ciy oui unsuccessfully struggled against 1795 ,uvasion oi ins native land, in JnfFeb- and March, 1819, lie voted se- "C Kllsei. : ... . . . in "ts ior 11k; continuance of slavery WesUntUr'' Arkansjs aucl the territory or.s;w"c,cctc,1,,,e,nbcr Ohio" elecud Senator in cn- In 1827, he was appointed minister to Colombia. n 1629, 1 resident Jacksorl, by his first ouiciai act recalled him. In 1S40, he was chos-n President of; ' --tait., uy me electors 01 .Maine t , Miss., R. I., (;t. N V., N. J. , Pen., Ala., D;d., N. C, Geo., Mi., La., Te-in , Ky., Indiana, Ohio, and Miehi'in, while president Van Buren received but fin electoral votes. March 4. 1S11, heen'ere I unon the du ties of his office. March 17, 1511, he is lied his nrard im ation for an ex'ra session of Conirress to convene Mav 31. Sunday, April 4, IS 11, at hilf mst i u ;iock in the morning, he ceased to breathe, and a nation were his mourn ers. How transitory is human greatness! Corrcclion. A pangraph is goinj; the rounds, which stales that President Tyler wis nude Governor of Virginia by 'the death of the Governor, was ma le Senator by the death of one before his time exnirpd l() .1.1.1 .. . I President by the death of General Harrison, and his lady is the daughter of Cooper the tragedian. The Richmond Whig says here is not one word of truth in it, except the fact that Gov. Tyler succeeds to the Presidency by the death of Gen. Harrison. Ills son man led Miss Cooper, an ele and accomplished lady. :ant Mitchell the Forger. Bowyer, the New York police nifi.'er, has returned without catching the Knavish Ex-Member of Congress, for whom lie wash: search. He followed Mr. Mitchell into Ohio, and then found out that he was pursuing the wrong man. The gentleman pursued is said tobe atall Virginian, named Mitchell. Bowyer overtook him 3t a hotel, arriving after he had gone to b ?d at night. The offi -cer's importunities induced the liar keeper to awake the lodger, whose appearance in the Bar-room, in no very pleasant humor, caused his pursuer to feel considerably dis appointed and chagrined. He made the best explanation he could, and retraced his steps to New York. The Greatest Natural Curiosity in the World. The Mammoth Child from New Hampshire may now beseen atllar sington's Museum. This child although but seven years old, weighs two hundred and twenty pounds just three times as much as his mother! (jCol. Harney, in exploring the ever glades of Florida, killed two animals, said to be heretofore fabulous, a sort of sea cow, about 15 feet long, with two fl inner ncaij weight, i;.ouu pounds, the water, but feeds on margin. It the cannot leave;1"1 " our "anus. grass on the si Broken Heart I A voung lately at Baltimore i German, died under circumstances deeply affecting. She was engaged to be m trried to a young man ofj!,,Kl w-'t, the hand Willing of the officers, Philadelphia, who. for reasons best known !&c- without assistance from the bank? to himself, communicated to her a short time since, his intentions of abandoning her. On receiving this information she became the child of sorrow and despair for ten days, w hen reason left its seat, and she becamean awful maniac, unceasingly calling on her lover to "come to her." On the evening of her death, she ordered her wedding garment to be prepared" saying that she "was to be married a! ten o'clock," the precise time of her departure to a world of spirits! Baltimore Clipper. 3 A man in Texas, whose ear had been lopt off in a fight with the Indians, has had it replaced by one made of In dia rubber, which looks as good as new, and answers all the purposes of hear ing. Distressing Event. On Thursday, 1st inst., the ferry flat from Lambertsville to New Hope, with fourteen or fifteen per sons and two wagons loaded with goods, was thrown bra ulside against the second pier from the Pennsylvania side of the bro ken Delaware bridge, with such force by the rapid current, that the flat was broken to pieces. Toi bert Wisiner, a ferry man Miss Caroline Rose, an interesting girl of seven'.een, daughter of John Rose, of New Jersey, near Lambertsville and two child ren of Johnson Pidcock, of New Jersey, were drowned, one an infant of two months old, the other (the only one found) a child of three or four years old. The other per sons were taken up by some active water men, and although some of them were al most exhausted they were all saved Divorce in New Hampshire. The le gislators of the Granite State have passed a law defining what shall be cause for di vorce between man & wife. It was enacted that divorces from the bonds of matrimoin shall be decreed in favor of the innocent party, when the other shall beconvicied oi a felony and actually imprisoned for tht samej or when the other shall become an j habitual drnnkard, and so continue to be for the space of three years: or when ei ther party shall so treat the other, as seri- ouslv lo iniure health of nrlon,. 0nn or when the Conduct of either party shall ue so gr-.i.ss, wicKea ana repugnant to the marriage covenant, as to occasion the sepa ration ol the other lor the space of three years 1 New Slat el The St mentions the probability Louis Gazette that sometime within the next hlteen years, another star will be added to our constellation, with the r ci.i r T-k ..l i. -ii mic ui me .-uieui iacoian. it win ex tent, according to that paper, over the Prairie region north of Imva. rnt,Mnrr prooamy, trom the Missouri to the Mis "issippi river, embracing the country wa tered by the St. Peters, the Sioux, and Ja- qups rivers, and include a part of the Go teau de prairie. Its latitude will be the ameas Michigan, northern New York, Vermont, and New Hampshire, with a soil far s-iperior to the average of these states taken together. The Recent Extensive Forgeries the way in which they were managed. The daring and dashing style of the recent for geries in Louisville, Cincinnati, Covin". ion, liaiiimore, Philadelphia, and New York, have excited the utmost astonish ment in the mercantile community through out the country; and every body is won lering what description of rascality in the unaneiai worm will be perpetrated next, as the sailor said when the showman acci dentally set fire to a barrel of gunpowder, and blew theaudier.ee through the roof. The most remarkable feature in this af fair is, that all these certificates arc im pressions from the genuine plate, engrav ed by Rawdon, Wright, and Hatch of this city. We compared the one now left with the Merchant's Bank here, with the ori ginal proof in Rawdon's possession, and that gentleman is satisfied it is from the genuine plate. The question then is, how did the scoundrel get seven or more certifi cates of deposite without the connivance of some of the officers of the Commercial Bank of New Orleans? Again, the body of all the introductory letters is in the handwriting of the clerk of the same bank, who usually writes those letters, and the signatures so exactly resemble Mr. Hall's, that good judges cannot tell the difference. The paper of the letters is of the same tint and quality, and water mark, as that used in the above bank; and there are two kinds of ink used in each letter, one a blue for the body and a black for the signature; both of which correspond with the two kinds ol ink used by that bank, as seen in various genuine letters lately received in i, . .. : . i i How h:mpencd all these coincidences unless there is an accomplice or connivance in that bank. Again how did this swindler become so completely acquainted with the business of the bank, their manner of trans acting it, their bank agencies in the north iew lork Herald. I his is one of the most stupendous frauds ever practised in this country that is, illegal fraud, by an acknowledged rascal: some banking transactions, under the sanction of law, alone throw it in the shade. There has been obtained from the Cincinnati Bank, $13, 000; from the Louis ville, $ 13,000, and from the New York Bank of America, 23,000; and S15.000 was successfully drawn from the Girard Bank in all, 564,000, besides others Which may not yet have come to light. It is generally believed that the depredator has sailed for Europe, and that he is the same adroit villain whose arrival in the United States, from London, was lately announced in the papers. We have also learned that efforts were made by this same gang to obtain from the Farmers' and Mechanics' Bank, and from the Bank of Pennsylvania, of this city, through the instrumentality of duplicate certificates, 30,000 from one Si 7,000, and lioui the other 13,000; but that they were unsuccessful in both instances. Philadelphia Ledger. U. S. Bank. Referring to the late expose of this institution, a writer observes: The sum total of the investigation proves, that the bank with its enormous capital, was worse than useless to the regu lar business men of the country that its whole energies were used to further ruin ous speculations arid stock-gambling ope rations, in which the directors were large ly engaged with the funds of the bank and that tney eventually saddled upon the in nocent stockholders all their losses that an enormous amount of expenditure under the immediate eye of Mr. liiddle, is cover ed with the veil of secrecy, which he re- fuses to remove, and that in tne manage nent of the institution it appeared to be a prominent feature for the directors and a i unrp,! itw. to neip inemseives io any a- .nounl they wished for, without authority, nd without any regular entries on the ... . ....... w books of the bank, of the amount taken, me nature oi their proceedings. In reference to the same, Kendall's ex positor remarks: Ever since that honest man, Andrew Jackson, caused the public money to be ta ken out of the keeping of men who are now proved and acknowledged to have cheated the stockholders of their Bank out of about "nineteen millions of dollar' and the people of this Republic out of many millions more, we have heard a constant din about "Executive usurpation"' and the union of -the purse and the sn-ord." Many men have been deluded by this cry, and Mr. Tyler may be one of them; but tne real object of its cunning authors is to get the public money back into a position where it will have no responsible keepers at all, that it may be used and plundered with impunity. Io whom would the 1 resident and other officers of the United Slates Bank have been responsible, if they had squandered the ten millions of public money Gen. Jackson caused to be taken away from them, as they have done the funds of the Bank? Bank swindling I twill be seen from from Sylvester's Re the following article porter, that the corrupt system of banking which is carried on in the United States, instead of bting an)' assistance to com merce, is the very thing that is obstructing it to an alarming extent: Their chief assets consist in discounted notes of ruined speculators, and their sole dependence is that at some future period prices may rise to former rates, and enable them to recover their lossts. These are the grounds upon which many of our bank ing institutions, are now continuing their operations, daily sinking deeper into debt, without active capital sufficient to enable them to meet any demands except the pay ment of their salaried officers. Their disa bled state prevents them from affording any assistance to business men, who begin to perceive their inefficiency, and arc con tracting their operations within their own means. 1 his will throw trade into its proper channel, limiting transactions to supply and demand, and, consequently, ail speculative undertakings must sutler. Bank Bobbery. The Savannah papers state that the Planters' Bank of the State of Georgia, in that City, has been robbed of 37,000, consisting of notes of the Bank of vaiious denominations, but principally of notes of 50 and S20. The money is said lo have been abstracted from the vault of the Bank. A reward of 3,000 is of fered for the detection of the thief Tin- State of the Currency. The Nat-! chcz Free Tiader of a late date, says: 'On Saturday we saw a ten dollar eold piece sold for 100 in Mississippi Railroad Notesjand j on Mondav a common Marseilles vest bio'l S100 in notes of the '-Mississippi Ship- ping Company"- 1 his gives us some idea of the condition of the cuirenfy in the State of Mississippi. Disease in Silk ll'urms. Gideon B. Smith, the intelligent and ardent advocate of the culture of Silk in this country, has addressed a letter to the F.ditors of the Na tional Intelligencer, in which he states that hy an examination oi some plates in v rench .Journal, he has iusi received, re presenting the different stages of the dis ease, called Aluscadine, in Silk worms. he is satisfied that it is the identical disease which destroyed a great part of the Silk worms in this countiy last summer. He announces as a preventive lor the disease, the free application of air slaked Lime to the worms, and also to the floors of the co coonery, and whitewashing all the wood work of the fixtures. The lime should be sifted through a fine seive un the worms two or three times a week, if healthy, and once a day if diseased, in the morning be fore the first feeding, and after cleaning the hurdles. The quantity of lime to be sifted on the worms may be just sufficient to whiten the worms and leaves well; and it should be commenced when the worms are half grown, say twelve or fifteen days old. This remedy has, during the past two years, enabled those persons in France who used it. to save and obtain cocoons from ninety -seven per cent, of all the worms hatched. Bat. Beg. A tele Ohio paper gives the melan choly details of the death of two ladies, Misses Bevins and Cunningham, in the viciuity of Amherst. The house of a wid ow lady, in which they were asleep alone, was burned. The kind and sympathizing neighbors, who immediately collected, spared no pains to rescue the ladies front the devouring element. They procured a ladder, burst in the chamber window but they were unable to enter, as a drnst volume of black smoke rushed out, winch, on the admission of air, was immcdiatt-ly followed by the flames. There is no doubt the deceased were suffocated by the srhokt I before the fire was discovered, as the or! w re een lying side by side in bed, artef he sides of the house were burnpd through ?o as to render them visible. ib Distressing Occurrence. On Monday evening last, a little afier sunet, the house occupied by Mr. Schenig, corner of 1 and ISth streets, was discovered to be on fire in the second story. By timely and ac tive efforts the M imes Wore subdued, and when the chamber was cleared of the smoke, the dreadful spectacle was present ed of the lifeless body of one of Mr. Schen ig's children on the floor, burned almost to a crisp. Both the parents were absent when this sad event occurred. The mo ther had crossed the street to a neighbor's, a short time previously, leaving directions to the eldest daughter to make a fne; who, having arranged the fuel properly, left a lighted lamp on the hearth, and went to the pump for water. It is supposed her sister, who was about four years old, un guardedly approached the lamp, and find ing l.erclothes on fire, hurried up stairs, and hid herself under the bed, where her remains were found. A babe which was slumbering in its cradle in the same room was rescued uninjured. Globe. Most Disgraceful. Elder Knabft. i preacher of the Baptist denomination, has become the object of much insult and abuse, in New Haven, from some disreputable characters in thai city. He has been offi ciating there with, it is believed, the best result. The meetings have been throng ed and the most perfect order preserved, until a few ''bloods' of that place took of fence at his free denunciations of particular vices, and proceeded to violence. Large collections have gathered about the house, an I eggs, &c. have been thrown against its doors, and other outrages committed, and Mr. Knapp had to be escorted home by officers of the police. The Palladium is justly severe upon these ingracious row dies, and if the authorities know their du ties, the authors of the outrage will be justly punished for their scandalous con duct. A or I hern papet. Earthquake at jimmerapodrd. This city is said to have been almost entirely destroyed by ah earthquake, which hap pened on the night of the 23d of March, 1S40; 300 persons were killed. The shock lasted two or three minutes, and ex tended from North to South. The cities of Ava and Tragain are also said to have been destroyed) with many neighboring villages. Important Trial. We lc3rri from the Piciyune, that Williams, who purchased the felon slaves from Virginia, was arrested n New Orleans with the negroes, hasbedrf tried for the offence and the jury not being abie to agree upon the verdict; he was he,l jn custody for further trial if the Attornev General Saw fit again to prosecute. The evidence seerhed to show that he in- tended to take them lo Texas. Absconding Sheriff. Charles F Alden, sheriff of Morgan county, Ohio, has absconded, lurching his creditors in the fum of about 5,000 dollars. Bones Well Sold li is stated in the St Louis Pannanl,that Mr. Koch the di?cov- aiererof the bones of the Missourian, has41 sold these gigantic relics for fifty thousand dollars. gThe following advertisement, under the head of Wife Wanted, is in the Bates' ville, (Ark.) News: "Any gal what's got a bed, a calico dress coffee pot and skillet, knows how to make' a huntin' shirt, and knows how to take care of children, can have my services till death parts both on us." Jlammatory Bheiimatism.Sini' pie Remedy. -An exchange paper says: "To all those who are unfortunate enough to be afflicted by this painful disease we would offer for trial a very simple and ef ficacious remedy, which upon proof lias been found to give immediate and effectual felief. It is merely poiutoes, boiled soft and applied as a pouhice lo the part affect- ed; when it becomes dry and hard, tenzW the application; (TpAnolher new sect is raisingits head in Bos'on under a new nam?. The call themselves the No-human government Sect, arid if we understand their; denounce all civil government as without Divine au thority, and therefore inconsistent with the natural lights of mankind: (QAmcng others seen standing on one of the way wharfs, between New York and Albanv, wailing for a steamboat to take pas sage in, was an Iri-hman. He was hailed hy one of the by-stndcrs, who says: Well, Pat, wheie are you from?' Pat answered; And sure I'm from every place but here, and l'il be from here, as soon as the boat tomes alon-' i ti ' f ,
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