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Tarbarough, ( Edgecombe County, JV. Cj bulurday, July i
31, 1841
Vol. xnixo. st.
The, Tarborough l9ress,
BY GBORiSK HOWARD,
Is published weekly at Two I)Uar$ ami Fifty
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Letters addressed to the IMitor must be post
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(jjThe moral of the following, which we cut from
an exchange paper, is too obvious. It should
be headed
"CAUTION" TO THE PUBLIC."
I knew two friends, as much alike
As eVr you saw two stumps;
And no phrenologist could find
A difference in their bumpst
One took the papers, and his life
Was happier titan a king's;
His childrt-n all could read and wiite,
And talk of men and things.
The other took no papers, and
While strolling through the wood,
A tree fell down upon his crown,
And hurt him, as it should !
Had he been reading of the news
At home, like neighbor Jim,
I'll bet a cent this accident
Would not befallen him!
From the New York Sunday Mercury.
A SERMON.
FOR THE BENEFIT OF DELINQUENT PAT
RONS. By Dow, Jr.
"If ye are honest, honorable men,
Go ye and pay the printeri"
My hearers There are many seeming
trifles in this world which you are to apt
to overlook on account of their apparent
unimporiance, the neglect of which has
plunged thousands into the deepest mire of
miery,and sunk their characters into in-
extncable degradation. Amonir these o
tensible trifles, that of neglecting to pay !
one's honest debt- is the most common and
attended with Ihe worst of consmuenccs.
H lakes off all the silken furze from ihe
fine threads of feelintr creates a sort of i
misanthropic coldness about the heart
skims off ihe cream that mav chance to riscltude which you owe to II. m irom whom
upon the milk of generosity and makes !
man look as savagely upon his brother man '
asdoes a dog upon one of his species, while
engaged in the gratifying employ ment of j
e'tinsr his m.nsipr's dinner. One deht he-
gets another. I have always observed that
lie who owes a man a dollar is sure lo owe
him also a grudge; and he is always more
ready lo pa)' compound interest on the lal
ter than on the former. Oh my friends,
to be over head and ears in love is as bad a
predicament as a person ought ever to be
in; but to be so deeply in debt that you
can't sleep of nights wiihout being haunted
by the ghost of some insatiate creditor, is
enough to give a man the hydrophobia,
"1-iKe mm bite a wheelbarrow cause it to
fun ma l, and creale a general consterna
tion among the lamp posts.
iy dear li iends the debt that sits
heaviest on the conscience of a mortal
provided he has one is the debt due the
printer. It presses harder on one's bosom
man the nightmare galls the soul frets
and chafes every ennobling sentiment, and
squeezes all the juic- of fraternal sympathy
Irom the heart, ami leaves it drier than the
c....r. r .
u.iace ot a roasted potato. A man who
Wrongs the printer out of a cent can never
expect to enjoy comfort in this world,
and may well have doubts of finding hap
IMnoco i., .i .. ... .
ui any ouilt. ne will be sure lo
Ro down to the grave ere Time shall have
bedecked his brow with the silvery blos
soms of age; and the green leaves of hope
will fall before the first bud of enjoyment
A" expanded. It is true the mushrooms
01 peace may spring up during a short
night or forgelfulness, but they will all
Either beneath the scorching rays of "re
morse. How can you, mv friends, ever
Javeihe wickedness and cruelly to cheat
Jne printer when you consider how much
has done and is every dav doing, for
3U. He has poured into the treasuries of
W minds some of the most valuable gifts
"at any thing short of a God can bestow
al riches with which you would not
an? lhe Pnsession of the whole world
ven vvtgageon asma11 corner of hea"
heha U,uhe keys of magic, as it were,
nas opened the iron cased doors of the
n understanding dispelled the dark-
ness of ignorance, and lit up the lamps of
knowledge and wisdom. Tint mighty en
gine lha Press is surrounded by a halo
m gl rv, an I its effulgence extends all over
me orovi emp-re ol the nur.d, illuminating
the darkest avenues of th'3 heart: and ye
the printer the mm who toils a! the lever
of this sml enlighte ting instrument is of
ten robhed of his Inrd -earned bread by
thosfj whom ho Ins delivered from mental
bondage, and pi ice I in a pnadise to lay off
and grow I at upon the fruits of ins labors!
Oil, you ungrateful sinners! if you have
hearts moistened with the dews of mere',
instead of gizzards filled with gravel, take
he.-jd what I say un'o yoi. If th"re be
one among you in this congregation whose
account is not settled with the printer, go
and adjust it immediately, and be able to
hold your head up in society, like a giraffe;
be respected by ill-? wise and the good
free from the tortures of a guilty conscience
the mortification of repea'e l duns and
escape from falling into the clutches of
those licenced thieves, ihe lawyers. 11
you are honest and honorable men you
will go forthwith and pay the printer.
You will not wait for the morrow be
cause there is no to-morrow, it is but a
visionary spectacle for unredeemed pro
mises; an addled egg in the great nest of
the future; I he debtor's hope and the cred
itor's cursi. If you are dishonest, low
minded sons of Satan, I don't suppose you
will ever pay the printer, as long as you
have no reputation to lose no character to
sustuii and no morals to cultivate. Hut,
lei me tell ou, my friends, that if you
don't do it your path to the tomb will be
strewn with thorns you will have to
gather your daily food from brambles
your children will die of the dysentery,
and yourselves will never enjoy the bless
ings of health.
1 once called on a sick person whom the
doctors had given up as a gone case. I
.sked him if he had made his peace with
his M.iker? He said he thought he had
squared up. 1 inquired if he had forgiven
all his enemies. He replied yes. 1 then
asked him if he had made his peace with
his printer. He hesitated for a moment,
and then said he believed he owed him
something like about two dollars and fifty
cents, which he desired to have paid before
he bid good by to the world. His desire
was immediately gratified; and from that
moment he became convalescent. Me is
now living in the en joy ment ol health and
prosperity at peace with his own con
science, his God, and the whole world.
Let this be an example for you, my fi iends,
patronize the printer: take the papers: pay
I for them in advance: and vour daS will
be long upon the earth, and overflowing
wiin the honey ol Happiness.
Myheaers! Pay all your debts and
keep an honest reckoning with your fellow
men: but above all, keep paying by daily
instalments, that everlasting debt of grati-
you ob'ained capital sufficient lo begin the
first transactions of life; so that when you
come to balance accounts at the day ol gen-
eraUettlemeni, all things may appear fair
and aboveboard. So mote it be!
A lock which defies Robbers. Tin
"New York Commercial" notices the com
bination lock of Mr. Andrews of that City,
as the most ingenious contrivance ever de-
vised for fastening a door. The Commercial
sav: ''It is unquestionable that this lock
can neither be loieed unless perhaps by
a sledge hammer Picked open with
false key, nor even with the true key, save
!v the same combination, out of many
thousands, bv winch it was locked. Not
only burglars, but ingenious locksmiths,
have tried their patience and skill upon it,
but in vain. Tne security it affords is per
feet. No impression on wax can possibly
be taken of lis interior; and if an impres
sion is made fio..i the key, and a false Key
nude, or even if lhe key is lost and Llls
into ihe hands of a dishonest person, the
treasures guarded by the lock are siill in
safety. The most powerful instrument
known among burglars for breaking locks
;Jnd they have them ol tremendous power
can do nothing more with this lock than
breaking away a portion of the interior,
the absence of which only increases the
difficulty of forcing it. In a word, the
lock has never been, and cannot be, violat
ed." Important Invention. Mr. Williams
P. Baker of Boston, machinist, has made
an important, but simple improvement in
the Lock, which he calls iTkief Detector.1
This machinery occupies but a small part,
and can be introduced into most common
bank and store locks. The machinery is
attached to an air chamber, (into which air
is compressed with a pump,) by wires con
nected with the bolt, door, windows or
other opening to the store, any movement
of the wires sets in motion the machinery,
and opens a whistle, which continues to
blow nil the machinery is run down. The
noise produced may be heard a great dis
tance, and is similar to the steam whistles
attached to locomotives on our rail roads.
An Important Invention. The Lees
burg. Va. Genius of Liberty states that
Messrs. Phillips & Jackson 'have inven
ted and patented a machine for cleaning
wh-at, which will separate garlick, cockle,
ch'jat and all impurities from the grain.
u is sain mat tne machine can be furnished
at a price within the reach of anvone who
miy require the use of it. This invention.
if it answer the purpose stated, will he of
essential use to farmers, as the great diffi
culty, and indeed impossibility, of senara-
tmg garlick, &c. from wheat and rye, has
deducted largely from the value of their
crops. We have na doubt the machine
will be introduced into general use.
J2 Horse Thief Drowned. On the
1 3th ultimo, says the New York Sun, a
young man made his appearance at Kat
Berkshire, Vermont, with a horse he was
suspected to hare stolen, and in an effor t
lo escape from the sheriff, he leaped into
the river and endeavored to swim it, but
vis drowned. His body was recovered,
and S605 in counterfeit fives and tens upon
Vermont, Connecticut, and New York
banks, were found in his pockets. The
horse was recovered by its owner.
A Galena paper says: "Some weeks
since, we noticed the death by drowning
of Mr. Morton N. Birge, of this city. A
lay or two ago, his friends received intel
ligence of the death by drowning of his
brother, Mr. Ephraim Birge. They per
ished within a few days of each other."
Who wants a cheap Home. 'The
Southern Shield stales that the Legislature
of Arkansas have passed a law offering
great inducements to those disposed lo em
igrate. 'lt is well known," says the
Shield, "that a large district of country.
embracing some of the best bodies of
land in the State, was many years since
set apirt for Military Bounty lands. The
owners, in most cases, dead, or scattered
throughout the distant States. The land
h.ts been neglected and either sold or struck
on to the State for the non -payment of
taxes and at this . time the State
holds some of the best land in the counties
of Phillips, Monroe, St. Francis, Poinsett,
Green, Jackson, Independence, Arkansas,
Pulaski, White, Conway, Izard and Law
rence; which, by the law referred to, is
offered as donations to actual settlers, free
of all charge. Each settler can, by going
to the Auditor's office, select a tract of
land, no more than one quarter section,
and by a settlement thereon secure himself
a home."
A Good Law. The Legislature of New
Hampshire, by a vote of 1 33 to 99, passed a
bill, which makes the private properly of
the stockholders of all banks hereafter to
be chartered liable, to a certain extent, for
the debts of the institution.
The Fisheries. Accounts from Mar
blehead state that the few bank fishermen
who have returned, have not averaged a
fourth part of the usual number of fish.
This is a very gloomy prospect for the
hardy and honest fishermen.
J New Invention. The New York
Tribune stales, that J. A. Etzler; a native
of Germany, and now a citizen of the Uni
ted States, has made an invention which is
confidently expected to supersede steam in
navigating the ocean. The advantages
consist in a new plan of sails, which will
secure the whole power of the wind, and
can be far easier managed than the present
sails, and in applying lhe force of the waves
as a propelling power.
Animal Magnetism. A committee of
savans in Boston, who have been constant
in their attendance of Dr. Collyer's lec
tures on animal magnelism, have passed a
resolution that while refraining from ex
pression any decisive opinion as to the
science or principles of animal magne
tism, they freely confess that in the expe
riments of Dr. Colly er, certain appearances
have been presented, which cannot be ex
plained on the supposition of collusion, or
bv a reference to any physiological prin
ciples known to them.
Steam Bridge. A striking use of the
steam engine has been adopted at Ports
mouth; it is a floating bridge, seventy feet
long and sixty feet wide, impelled by two
engines u iwcui) nuut " e
the passage, (2,200 feet,J at the speed of a
nout 450 feet in a minute. The bridge
draw?. With ail IIS macmneiy, uui iw
u,a ' i .: .:ll -.,11.,
fvet I his capital invenuuuwui naiuiawj
supersede the awkward contrivances ol
bridges ol uoais on uie ju.v-..
..;..orL and will, not improbably, obviate
thu formidable expense of building bridg
es and must greatly facilitate communica
tion in colonies and new settlements in
every part of the world. St. Louis Ar
gus.
Rebellion at Cambridge. harvard
College, was a few days ago in. a state ot
complete inubordin ition and disorder- ! A an instance of the immense money
I he students refused to attend at the red- trans ictions of lhe hons, we will observe
tations or to submit in any other way to ! thai in the spaoe of twelve years from ih
the authority of the officers. They have, 'year 1331, SGOO 000.000 were SCCeptat
pittoith veroally a Second Declaration of j upon account of the European Fovereiirr'
in. iep-rvience, and demand the expulsion
of one of ihe tutors. The officers, of course,
refuse them this snvdl fivor, b?ing more
accustomed to exp-d students than tutors
The burning of a wooden building on the
college ground, a few days ag, is suppo
sed lo he connected with these troubles
I he affair grew out of an attempt lo sup
press a "Hasty Pudding Club". Quietness
has .since been restored.
Lynch Law in Illinois Some weeks
ago an association was formed on Little
Uoek river, for the purpose of ferreting
out and ridding the country of a body o1
horse thieves, who had taken up iheii
quarters in that vicinity. At the head
of the association was Mr. Campb-:ll, whom
the desperadoes shot in the presence of his
wife. A father and two sons, named Dris
keil, were supposed to be the perpetrators
The volunteer asociators of DcKalb and
Winnebago counties then started in pur
suit, caught old Driskell and one of his
son, tried them before Judge Lyueh.
and convinced t'nat they were the cause
if not the perpetrators of the murder, pla
ced them all out ten rods off, giving ihem
five minutes, and when it expired, tin
word was given, and they fell, pierced
with some fifty bills. The company then
slaried after the other Driskell who had
fle l with a confederal, and for whose ap
prehension a reward of G00 is offered.
Bait. Sun.
Remarkable Case of Suicide. One of
the most singular cases of suicide was dis
covered yesterday, the like of which we
do not recollect ever having been called
upon to record. While several hoys were
fishing at Arch street wharf on the Schuyl
kill, one of them drew up the bodies of a
man and woman, the hook of the line hav
ing caught in the clothing of the female.
To the astonishment and wondir of all, the
bodies were tied together at the wrists by
a red silk handkerchief, the right hand of
the man and the left hand of the woman
being thus united. The man appearing to
be about 26 years of age, and the female
about 19. The man was dressed in a new
blue cloth coat with gilt butions, drab cloth
pantaloons, black silk figured vest, muslin
shirt, calfskin boots, new, and white socks.
The female was dressed in a musseline de
laine frock, yellow ground, with a small
dark flower, blue calico petticoat, light
colored summer shoes and white stockings.
She had on a straw bonnet, and had a pair
of common gold rings in her ears.
A pistol loaded with ball and capped,
was found in the pocket of the man, and
one of the same kind similarly loaded, in a
pocket in the petticoat of the female. The
Coroner held an inquest upon the bodies,
and a verdict of suicide was rendered.
They were taken to green-house for the
purpose of recognition by their friends.
bince willing the toregoing, an aincie
has reached us extinguishing all the ro
mince of the said affair. The girl ivas a
servant girl of abandoned character, and
the young man a gambler, residing in
the country about fifteen miles off.
Fcnnsylvanian.
The Rothschilds. The June number
of the Merchant's Magazine contains an
article oil tbe great bankers Roihschild, by
Louis Harper of Gotingen: from which we
learn that the property of the house is esti
mated at from twenty-five to forty millions
of dollars, besides which it is able lo com -
mand seventy-five millions dollars more
Thp. founder of the bouse, Mager Am
scher Rothschild, was born at Prank-
fort-on-the-Maine, in the year 1734. lie
was a Jew by birth, and being in indi-
gent circumstances was titsuncu ior u.e
profession of a teacher. After having
taught for some years he abandoned the pur
suit, and engaged in the occupation oi buy
ing and selling ancient coins, from which he
derived considerable profit, and afterwards
obtaining a lucrative situation in a house of
exchange in Hanover, he acquired in the
course of several years a handsome loriune.
Hp ihpn returned to Frankfort, and there
founded the banking house which still ex
ists. In the year 1S06 the French army ap
proached the dominions of the Landgrave
of Haessia whose aguit Rothschild was;
and this prince compelled to flee, this im
mense private fortune was entrusted to the
care of Rothschild, who only paid two per
cent, for the use of ihe revenue which it
yielded. At this time, also, Rotjschild
made his great loan of 5,000,000, to the
King of Denmark.
The founder of the house died in the
year 1J12, in the 69th year uf his age,
leaving ten children; five of whom, being
sons, continued the business of the house,
ind were located at the following places;
Aschel at Frankfort; Solomon at Herlin
and Vienna; Nathan at London; Charles
at Naples and Jacob at Paris.
through its mediation, pu tly as a loan, an.i
putlv :?s iMib-idy; of wh'n-h 250.000,000
were for England; 60 C00.000 for Ans
lm; $50 000,000 for Prussia; Si 00.000, -000
for Trance; 50,000,000 for Naples;
S 10,000,000 for Russia: Si 5,000,00'. ,
fr Bra.il; and S5. 000. 000 lor son.'!
small German Courts. Besides lhec
enormous sums the houe of Rothschild
procured .several hundred millions .T
i' reach indemnifications of war, and mac!'-
many, traiwei.l opfralionS of different
Governments on commission, whose tot;ii
amount may have surpassed the above
mentioned sums.
Cast of Glory. In the last wnr between
England and France, two millions one
hundred thousand men were slain. The
cost o"the same war to England, in money
was one billion and fifty-eight millions of
pounds sterling, most of which is yet un
paid. Hypocrisy of the British Government.
They are importing large numbers of
Blacks into Jamaica, from Africa, under
trie title of emigrants. This is the phi
lanthropic people which sends its emissaries
among us to stir np disunion and sc lition,
while they nre extending slavery under
this specious name. Let them first stop
this and then emancipate their millions of
Hindoo tributaries and serf, and then
with a better grace they ma' insult and vii
lify us, as they have done for some years
past. By the last accounts from Jamaica
t appears that the project of introducing
laborers into that Island from Africa, was
going into operation. The ship Hector
arrived at Kingston on ihe 26th ult, 30
days fiom Sierra Leone, Africa, with
267 colored emigrants, 179 of whom were
liberated Africans, and 64 Maroons. The
ship Elizabeth, with 182 emigrants, left
Sierra Leone on the 1 1th of April for lha
Island of Trinidad.. Savannah (Ga.) Iiep.
An Accession to Christianity. The
Boston Post s'.ates that the Druses of Mount
Lebanon, a sect of heretical Mohamme
dans, numbering 70,000 or more, who
have heretofore been subject to the Maro
nites, are now resolutely determined to
cast off that subjection, and to have a prince
of their own, subordinate to the Porte,
and under the protection of England; a
urge prt of them are inclined to abandon
their old religion, and to receive the A
merican missionaiies at Beyrout as their
spiritual guides.
Fiery flying serpent. Mr. N. M.
Ward, a gentlemen connected with the
mission at Pedang, on ihe coast of Sumatra,
has published a well attested account of a
Hying serpent, seen by the narrator. He
saw ihe animal fly from a tree at the height
of lifiy or sixty feet, to another tree some
forty fathoms distant. It supports itself in
the air by drawing in its belly, widening
itself and forming an arch ns far as the ribs
extend, and forces itself ahead with the ra
pidit of a bird, by sinuous motions, like a
serpent swimming. There is nothing in
the reptile which bears any resemblance
to a wing. lis length is about four feet,
and i s bile is dangerous. Another de
scription of flying or darting serpents, is
described by lhe natives, whose bite is in
stant death. J I leaps and flies only about
half the distance of the other, and makes
none of ihe sinuous, waving motion in Ihe
!2"" -
This discovery, of the truth of which
there can be no doubt, shows that the por
tion of scripture which speaks of "burning
fiery serpents" had a literal fact for lhe ba
sis of its figurative language, though the
species is now extinct in the region of
the Bible. What a terrible scourge must
be such an animal. Give us the sterility
of the frozen, rather than the ferliliiy of
lhe tori id zone, with such drawbacks.
Popular bears are mere agreeable than fly
ing serpents. hew York Tattler,
QIPThe following anecdote is from thd
Naichez Courier: Old T. was well known
several years .since on the Yazoo river, no
less for his peculiar stutter, than as a dex
teiioug player at old sledge. He once
managed to get a game with a gentleman
who on sitting down pulled out two hun
dred dollars. It was not long before T.
was the owner of half of it, when his adver
sary proposed to quit.
"Oh no," said T. "g-g-give me a ch-ch
chance!"
"Chance the devil!" said the gentleman
"have you not won an hundred dollars
from me?"
-Y-v-ycs" said T., "but I want a chance
for t-'t-toihtr hundred!"
The Ladies forever. The Ladies of La
fayette and Clay counties, Missouri, havd
adopted as a standing rule, a resolution not
to marry any man who does not subscribe
for a newspaper.