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TlTlSiri Ten-borough, ( Edgecombe County, A C.J Saturday, July 3 is 1 1 Vol XV II Xo 27- The Tarborough I'rcss, BY fiKORdE HOWARD, Is published weekly at Tiva Dollars and Fifin Cat per year, if paid in advance or, T'tree IhllarsvX 'be expiration of the subscription year. Yor an) period less than a year, Ttonnl -five Irnfs per month. Subscribers are at liberty to discontinue at any time, o:i giving notice thereof nnd paying arrears those resi Hug at a distance must invariably pay in advance, or give a respon sible reference in this vicinity. Advertisements not exceeding a square will be Inserted at One Dollar the first insertion, and Co cents fr every continuance. Lon-rer advertise ments in like proportion. Court Orders and Ju Jl. iil advertisements 2. per cent, higner. Ad vertisements must lie marked the number of in sertions required, ui uiq win ue continue. i uuui otherwise ordered and charged accordingly. I otters addressed to the IMitor must be post j or tney may noi ie .uicuucu io. paid 11:1 7f: y' tS V FOR THE TARBOKO IM'.LSS. NlfillT Til OUGHTS Qn the resurrection of the "great tusk npossoni,' supposed t "1 be slain by the Hero uf New Or leans, but all fudge a hoaxi Another uproar has commenced 'neath the walls Ol'tlieeapit d at Washington Civ, I'he votaries o' inairmon have m-t in the halls To worship that deity what a pity. The "Treat 'p ssoui," which Jackson the hero, the brave, Iliinrriip by the "tail" till he died, sir; Will be raised, it is tho't, ere long frurn the grave. And small ones to his "tail" all be "tied," .sin Such a Unlit" there will be the world never saw, So many small "varmints" contctiding with one "Great tusk opossom," with his powerful paw Will "whip" t very other one under the sun. Congress have nu t for the purpose of rousing The "great tusk opossum" from the dtad, 1 sup pose, The "sub tre asury fx will first get a musing, At which the "great 'possom" will stick out his nose. TVas thought the "great possom" was "dead as a door nail," And buried by Jackson to rise again never; But rise he will surely, with a much longer "a7," And much longer Husks," and fuller than ever. So the "'possom" was "playing opossom" the while, "With a view to gnw fatter and lengthen his "tail," And acquire more strength with an eye to more spoil. In some after day, when the "coons" would pre vail. This ",pcssom,, is destined to be a great thing Perhaps, the saviour of the great western world; Perchance he may honor the land with a king, The banner ef John Bull o'er the eagle unfurlM. Thus aided by "coons" the "great 'jussom" must rise, Triumphant, alas! "o'er the land of the free," Thp eagle outdone, with most terrible cries, "ill stretch out bis wintrs and the continent, flep: lnen "coon land. Will dictate at pi ensure just this tint V) other "varmint" will d, ToonuosR the f, 111! K U .1 V 1 1 f MINK AND POLECAT. Hashingtr n City, June II), IS II, them to the church Q ieen Aunc, and the corporation and State Limes or the hrst and second Oeorge; in a word to the Whig Hmos 0f SiT Robert Walpnle; whose long, corrupt, and pudl I minous administration was n continued practice of tor) doctrines upon Wnig proles-dons, and the source and origin of every curss which no -a- afflicts the English peo ple. We have gon hick to the Ivigji.sh limes vvh-n tho pip.-r sys;C;n, the funding system, the hanking ys!e-n (as hanks u? circulition,) slockj ahhing. i-aiional debt, ....x, ji.ijji liiuney, uans tor the exisiinr eneration to spend and for posterity to piy. chartered companies with exclusive i i vm. a,,,, mon opolies and exemotions I t orn law, the So nh Sea scheme, 'and a thousand other cheating contrivances, were all h, tclid int. uxiience under the hot inpuhition of Wnig legislation. We have g ine hick to th; WalpTh- times when corporations hogui to treat with the (io verntnent as iq.i ils. or to dictate to it as misters; when submission to in-nil and depredation from ahrua-', and tyranny to patriots i,t homo, was the practice and the policy of the a Iniiui.sh-.ition; when the money V H spent for p u ty obj -els, wh'ch should have bi-en devoted to the public de fence; when, to preserve peace, the na iion un not put in armour, hut the minis ter i)!a;v."d noon his kiii'is- w ! i men were and St.te limes of; Treasury notes, rather than let their funds sensibility. The immediate enure, is not I west and Portland on llic ra-t to the city Ue lule. L'nnivn K,. : ..i.. .. ' r vv. I.:.. I , Kn. working upon a mind very delicately eon-' s ind miles! When this is comp'ettd, we stitu e I, are sunoosd to he the origin of have an iron I i -e fiom the east to the west, frpln the central pirt of Missouri. vui i i 1 e'sht ccnts hush- the distress of mind which led to this ca- hu rMi and soul)., and south cs, ofcontin- el. It lus been sold much lower at auc- tistronhe. We forbear to mention hiv tied li.v.s with the exeention of about tun. (7 The cotton crop of 1S40 is estima ted at 1,GOO,000 bales. Florida. David Levy, the member of Congress elect from Florida, received 1SGS votes. The Whins had tw name. It will be known too soon tolhu.-ejhi'y ...1. 1 .-.-Mil.-. i . ! i wnuse iieirts Mii :kj iorn ov the kn-.w- oui ledge, and what will it profit others, to know, who it was whose lacerated feelings drove him into suicide. " Dns. We understand that tmny dog are d inir with Distcmner: and that out- dates in the field who received an aggre-J dose, or t wo at mut, of Lobe!i;, is an tf- lectual remedy. A doe is a large tablc "poonful, in a little sw.t milk. This we gtte vote of 22S6. It is said that Mr Lvvy is the son of a negro woman if so. he isdiqu difijd by law forholding a s eat i hue from a lover of -mod dons, who has in Congress. himself tried it. F,i i.rffrvWa Observer. Lather and Son. In the Senate mil. s from Washington to Fredricks ;, Vj., of iieprly 5 wo thousmd miles. ILtrtfurd C our ant Third Times. It has been said that the of miseries which the United Stales suffer,! Connecticut arc two gentlemen of the is a punishment for our national sins. The! name of Piumb, who hold the relation to inhabitants of other countries seem tothink one another of father and son. We do thai we are not so grievously punished as j not recollect to have heard of a similar some imagine. The number of emi-r .mts i cii eumstanee in ner other IprrUhit ; ir. h,,,!,- this season from Europe, it is supposed will be greater, than any former year; they have averaged it is said 'iOO a day for the past fo; tnight at the port of New York alone. It would therefore appear, that ihe people of other nations suppose times to be belter upon nis unecs; w!K.n g,)yJ j here than any where else. lei M-roieo. a m l ie n:e wen' promoted; when military, naval and civil olhoers were dismissed from employment ;or voting againt the minister, and hi (jainins put iniu i iiice lor vo;i:!g lor him when st crel eommittt es, coni)o-ed of po litical hacks, were m.-de inquisitors into the conduct of their political enemies, and never tailed to find what the minister sent them to hunt lor. We have gone hack to Important Judicial Decision. The Augusta Chronicle states that Judiie An- sjdiews.ofthe Northern Circuit (Georgia.) : I at the late term of the Superior Court ol Oglethorpe county, in a capital case, that a person could not be sworn as a witness in a Court of Justice, who did not believe in the existence of Cod, ihe obligation of an oath, anil a future slate of 'rewards and Hartford Courant. Q rXMno following article fumishe 1 by a plain hut sensible and observant Fanner of I'olk County, Tennessee, to 1 lie Iliwassee I atriot, will give information to many who boast a greater knowledge than the author. "In your paper of the 1 St h inst. my eye caught an, article on the subject of the increase- velocity of a mill wheel in the night, and requesting informa tion on that subject, lam not a Philoso pher, but a plain Polk county fanner; I once owned a county mill and frequently attended it myself, both bv day and night, and my experience has saiUfied me that a Death from Star rat ion. Mr. James Dtnbar, aged To years, died in New Glou ee.ster in this S'.a'e, April 12th. The disia-e w hich terminated his earthly existence, w as an obstruction in the pas sage loading from the throat to the Stom ach. 0$f; cation on some foreign sub' stance had so completely closed the ali mentary conduit, that no kind of nourish ment, could possibly be taken, and conse querily life departed for want of its sus taining nutriment. For the last ten days of his existence, he was unable to swallow the least substance whatever. Ilortiblo as.it may be to relate, he actually died of starvation. Portland SJrsras. 11 ,,N,V u" " '"'V'i ;'cii ..stnis, ipiun.sltmenls. He maintained with the mill will run faster and grind more in the U,K YUiV government; and (.supreme Court of New York, that "Re- 'ght thaji it wi wherv a W big administr.dion gave originals of which our Federal with 11 in the same length oftim all ti iC ; J i L lOll is a Sllhict in which Pvpru man 'ill tllfilhiv 'nv tor thp rpison win; and .... . " j- . ..j lugs are has a right to think according to Ihe die- wherefore: When the sun is gone down now presenting us will) Jaiihlul copies . tates oi his understanding. It is a solemn ! the water becomes cooler, consequently here. In every thmg, great and small J concern between his conscience and his God ! weighs more to the quantity, it" bting a lorugn and domestic, legislative and execu- with which no human tribunal has a right! principle, long since setied in Experimen tive, the Walpolc Whig measutcs of the ; to meddle. Dut in the development of al Philosophy, that cold water is heavier iu ui uuuiuiu u, are me mca- tacts and the ascertainment of truths. Jiu-1 tnan warm. iterfe 5UIWUI UU1 reueiai nigs i.ere; ii the man tribunals have a right, to in master spirits now in command should They are bound to see that no man's rights havens long time to work in, as their ! are impaired or taken awav, but through the ROBERT W. M'CLARY. Cc?io'ous. The insurance companies medium, of testimony entitled to belief; ! of St. Louis, having become satisfied that it and no testimony is entitled to credit unless , was through the exertions of Mr. Michael delivered under the solemnity of an oath, j O'Kjefe, that an extensive conflagration winch comes home to uie conscience ot a great original had in England, they .would pronib.y succeed in giving us as much debt and taxes, as many paupers and pen sioners, and as many corporations to rule, which comes home to the conscience of a was recently prevented in that citv. nre ullage aim bribe us, v,s the -English people wdtness, and will prevent a lie, arising sented him wih a handsome gold watch, now have. But 1 fancy their reign will , from his belie f that false swearing would ! chain and key. That was doing the hand- not be quite so long as that ol the Walpole expose him to punishment in the life to Whigs in England that it will hardly ex- come. On this great principle rest all our institutions, and especially the distribution of justice between men." and "opossum" bt i r lords of the and that; raise t;j Ids hand, tend to twenty-five years; and of this the master spirits seem to be a little suspicious themselves, and therefore are "for making hay while the sun shines" Haste to the wedding, is the tune to which thev dance; double quick time is the time of their step. Hence t lie rapid removals. Hence the hurr y in every tiling. Hence ibis exha E.rplvsion. We learn that on the Sth some thing. File Imposition. We publish the fol lowing article to correct the misrepresenta tions and abu.se heaped upon the Catholic Societ y, in consequence of the story ofMa- The men of ihe west. A recent Nash ville Union contains the following interest iniz; paragraph. Alittlc 'Oup of veterans five in number one of whom was (Jen. Jackson,' all of who.n Were companions in the early settle ment of the Mississippi Valley happened together in the post oflice in this place a few days ago, when in ihe course of their convers iiion about events of olden time, they mentioned their several ages, which, addi.d together, made an aggiegate of 383 years: of the five. Gen. Jackson- who was 74 in March, is the youngest. The Court of Sessions in New York is composed of three judges one a Protest ant, tiie second a Catholic, and the third, an Israelite. 'What a comment on Religious Tolerance. From Ihe Pennsylvania n. LETTER FROM COE. BENTON. IVuiliinxlon City, June S, 18 IE . Dear sir: Your kind 'letter of the 4 h lnt. in relation to the Deir.ocratic meeting st. Fort Moultrie was accidental! v blown 111 oiik, which uneu me papers anu three years gross impos- harreh of powder bv some unknown : lllja arc as vile as nicy arc aarmi;. r i i t i . . 1 ' r-1 i . i t l I- I i snacc 01 hall a dozen Weeks, am inn er ho ...,, ,i. ;.,,. s..t.or.. noiSn4 ; .-.,! commercial. ii:c Jaria iMonK anil iui.-s liies of a sols' it nil summer sun, and amidst I .,iimit ft. fMrt It h ,d not been ascertain- P-rlridfie affairs are blown up. The bo-.)ksdays out. Upon learning this, a great fuss ere killed or wounded. ' writtcn by a young l .wyer ot that wa K.cKet up uy ine aooiu.um uut plished in one of the seven eus' tor up by a communication of fire to the Mag- magazines some two or rzuie, containing some three hundred The authors of such session (!f Congress, whn h in the hi ii f nu aus? whilc it was bemg repaired. There Female Orator. In the New Hamp shire Legislature on Monday last soon aftef the House was called to order, Miss Abigail Fclsom, cf Rochester, N. Ii. who lately figured at an Anti-Slavery Convention in Boston, rose in the gallery and addressed ihe Speaker, in a loud and distinct voice, as follows,4 "Mr. Speaker; 1 have come here with a message from God 1 come to warn yoi against the appointment of select commit tees, to legislate for the people, for they arc not of God, and cannot stand" The Speaker here interposed, and ruled her out of order. She declared that until God ruled her out of order she should speak, and continued her remarks until he was forcibly borne out ot the House by the doorkeepers. Her remarks are re ported in full by the Daily Patriot Abolition movement. A vessel fecent-!- arrived at Boston from Newbern, N C. having on boaid a slave, which they found secreted in the hold, when a few the swelterin" heats of the dor d ays. is'.in ..-n exported to do as much as Walpoh, aceom- Tlu entire structure with seven other j 'v; letters of 'he Rev. George Bourne j I hey would not pay $500 for the fellow'a buildings in Ihe vicinity was blown to . have come to light, which prove his coitus-; release. i.e. ,eap -u ovu uu.u c uui nm bv the- nYn1nion.WiczW ; 1 J thetraudasan aiders abetter; (tie ; was caugut, uiuug.u uau.Hmu-uu ' v 1 i a r I lameii ' s ol Which he was the hig author. As a comp -usat ion, however, for doing so much in so short a time, Congivs is to be permitted to sink into the quiet spring Garden, on the evening of the;aml Pve condition ol a bed of juiice, "A and the resolve there adopted 7o hold a ; (f'ittc de Justice) of the old French mo Meeting of the Democra-y of the city andj,iarchy, for the registration of edicts; or to cunty of Pniladelphi a to form an "associa- realize, for the edification of American lnto promote my nomination and e!ec- lHM,l)ie' the metaphysical conception of the .,10l to the Presidency of the Uuiied States !(1,"ob Eegilatuic which gave so much a the year 181 1, h .s been received; and ' celebr it y to the Abbe Sieves. In a word, 'vhl!e I am duly sensible of the honor done u'1: iU'e 1 ,Je I(,i,niitieil to vote upon the Keby those proceedings, and ex! remely bi,,s? w'iihnut telling the reasons why or Rfateful for the kind motives which in- wherefore, which the master spirits pre dced thom, yet I must hasten to do eve-! r,are for us 1,1 tccret, and lay before us in 0' thing in my power to arrest at the com- I)l,!)!ic- tocncemcnt, a prjeeedin" which, howo- I consider myself called here to be pre er honorable to me, cannot in mv opin- al he immolation ot our Constitution, he beneficial in iho n..,icn i' h.nnMn,. 'and at the formation of a new Government .' ' 'I . I ..1 If l 1 L. ' i .- . -1 ' to oe coniioeo oi nauK. umi oiaie, Mentions for the first place have in all Entries, been the bme of elective Co mments; and 1 have ben fully detcr ned ever since I hive been on the stage Public afiairs to have nothing to do with contentions. I have always s:en, io pari? 'n ,h" ranks f Democra, iv ii?' minV eminent citizens who are jt?r,h'lo fU .he place of President; and tufS m'PurPose now nd it has been here p re t0 P"iote the election, and to sup L Administration (if elected) of era i eS0 f",ll7'ens- Private let- frie i e'r,'Ct 1 ,iave U"5llt-'n ' many JasJJds,n(1fierentpa,tsof the Union, in wri( erto 'heir inquii ies; and what I now Hat i rU "S no,ninS ,)Ut a repetition of have already said and written to a"y others. foru? w'le 1 cannt consent to he brought Nr..Mhe l'8'Jency, 1 am ready auJ"riR 10 do all 'that 1 can for the require Jndmin ?S,f al1 llief"iendsofthc cause, Wd v ndlher be whMd nor re lhe Fed i haVe g0ne back not merely to Nth, In X?es ofGeneral-Hamilton, elder Mr. Adams, but far beyond composed ot JSaiiR ami Mate, in which Bank is to be master, anil State is to be slave, ami the people to be t.xed ami phiiiden d for the benefit, of both. 1 am here at the holocaust of the Constitution. If they succe-1 in their measures there will he nothing left of that instalment but its ashes. This, Sir, is what I snatch a moment to write to you in answer to your inquiries. It is a frank letter, such as my feelings di'Mide, and the times require; and you are' at liberty to use it in any way which will accomplish its object that of preventing inj name from being placed on the list of Presidential candidates. Respectfully, sir, your obliged fellow citizen. THOMAS IE BEN TON. Col. Henry Simpson, Philadelphia. liev. W. C. Brownlee acknowledges thro' ; ncd The cantain loaded some muskets, and The State of New York offers a bounty !tnu Vidicator that he has been duped by of 15 cents per pound, forall cocoons Vvo- wnole party Clinton uoojeveir, a lew ; p.aceu powocr , eneau ., uu,s dne-d in the State, and 50 cents per pound W a member of the Eeg.slature, utat he wotdd blow himself up before for ihe . eeled silk. The bounty is o be : t crs by some of his letters which have the slave should be aken. 1 he mate was r .rc ;, lal.Mi turned up. wrote the preface to I'art- arrested, but Pelore lar.ner steps wuie laweiz " V(" 1 1(11 11 I J LUI.1. twi r T'f, n C T.nnia Murderers. Vr bnvp j. hi. a . " - ii ii . , ... ui . . noticed the horrid murder and destrue -am eiveii oy moe n erao.e u. ,i.i lion of property at St. Louis on the 17.h a,,d ,he,r appendages in male attire U h.le (April and the arrest of the fiends who ! opposing themselves to oe leaning tne emitted it. Madison was tried on thejtrUB ails of Catholic enormities, they u ere reading the prurient n asn oi a starving young law er." alo lurned un. wrote the nrt ri.'h.o's hook ThV f'ommeici.d s:us: "Thn! the vessc 1 was noil est off for Newbern hashc religious public been sported with! It was a Boston vessel, but the captain had no idea ol suumuung to auouwuu uuirage. eomtnitti 21th of May; Brown on the 25th: Sewell on ihe 2Gih, and Woirick on the 27th: And all convicted of murder in the 1st de "t ce. The excitement against these col ored fiends was great, and some fears were entertained that the mob would take the law n i!,r.h own hands. e hope- this may i o -iimL How true the remar nur.ler will out. Herein 40 days from the commission of the horrid deed, tlrj murders have been taken at distant points, tried and convicted, 'and must sutler the penalty of the law. Truly the way of the t ransgressor is hard. Jlich. Star, Book ihtmhug. The greatest and la- Snake Eater. The New York Suit relates a dif-gusling feat pei formed at ona of the public houses in the Bowery. On a wager of fifty dollars, a man ate a living black snake. "The money was posted, test humbug is '200. Pictorial Illustrations ! and the cannibal seizing the serpent with Giving up Us Dead In consequence cf the salute fired yesterday, by the U. S. vessel in port, in honor of Commodore Ciaxton, five dead bodies came to the sur tl iihp. river and bay. One of them of the Bible.' A coi respondent says of the worki "A more rascally gull trap 1 en- k that!ture to s,iy Wi,s never got up in any com munity ; wooden nutmegs, horn gun Hints, oak leaf cigars, are mere jokes compaied with this imposition attempted to be palm ed off upon good people through their res pect for ihe sacred writings. The Illustra tions are nothing more than what we have all seen years ago in the Penny Magazine, and the reading matter is chiefly extracts from Stephens, Eabourde, Belzoni and other eastern travellers; as for eXphna- The Commercial Emporium. A let ter .writer says Business in the city is very dull, and the number of strangers every day lessens. The extreme heat of the last few days has driven "many to the watering places and other summer resorts. Money continues plentiful, so much so that the banks are investing largely in i . t? . T 1 was a woman, supposes io ne aauy jones, v-ho threw herself oil' James Slip, on Mon day n'ndit. , One was a male infant, and the three others were bodies of men unknown. N. Y. Taller. Suicide at Mobile. The Mobile Journ al of the ISth inst. says: "Our city was shocked yesterday morn-in- about breakfast time, by the discovery oHhe dead body of one of our most es teemed citizens, hanging. dead in his own store. There is no doubt he had commit ed suicide, under the influence ofmorbid lion of the scriptures they are not half equal to the old edition of Robinson Cru soe. " . We have seen a copy of this book with a showy cover, and agree with our corres pondent that it is a pretty dear eatch pen ny at 2,00 or S3 per volume. . Clev. Her. Ilailroads. There is now wanting only two or three links to complete the long line of railroad fiom Maine to .North Caro lina 24 miles of which is between Hart ford and Springfield, and fifty miles from New Haven -to the State line of New York, making one entire line from Buffalo on the both hands, sank his teeth into its brains, amid the deafening shouts of the mob, and the agonizing convulsions of the dying snake. Quickly he gnashed his teeth a long the vcrtehrae, and with one effort tore the bleeding victim asunder, its bro ken and filthy entrails falling in the vic tor's bosom." (fJAceerding to official returns for the empire cf Russia for 110, there we.re 1100 murders committed during that pe- riod and 1300 suicides. Upwards of 7000 fires tool: place, destroying 45,000 houses. gjJohn Cox was killed in Church Hilly Queen's County, Maryland, on Sunday evening last, by a man named Roberts, from Caroline. Cox had ctcd as media tor between Rolcrts and John Green; and afterwards went to Dr. Jamieson's office, whither he was followed by Roberts, who killed him in the yard by cutting his throat, although there was a small palling fence between them. Jllex. Gaz. g-jt has been ascertained that bed-bugs ,anbe instantly destroyed by placing them beneath a trip hammer in motion. JiiV
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