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" " " T- --!?-IMliMwwMMgMHaBma- '"jfcM jifcMBPiiBWBMW JTftolc JVY. 840. Tarhoroitstlu (Edgecombe County, JV. V.J baturday Jlpril 1(5, 1843 Vol. XV III JVo. 15. . i , ! ZYic Tarborough Press, BV GEORdE HOWARD, Is published weekly at Two Dollars and fifty Cents per year, if paid in advance or Three Dollars at the expiration of the subscription year. For anj period leas than a year, Twenty-five C.uits per month. Subscribers are at liberty to discontinue at any time, on giving notice thereof and paying arrears those residing 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 '25 cents for every continuance. Longer advertise ments in like proportion. Court Orders and Ju dicial advertisements 125 per cent, higher. Ad vertisements must be marked the number of in sertions required, or they will be continued until otherwise ordered and charged accordingly. Letters addressed to the Editor must be post paid or they may notbe attended to. THE STARTING TEAR. Trust not the bright and gilded smile, That blushing beauty vlears The da2zling, meteor-flashing wile, That every gazer shares; Trust not the honeyed words of art Low falling on thine ear; But with a firm, unwavering heart, Trust to the starting tear. Beauty hath spirits evei by, Obedient to its thrall; The joyousness of lip and eye Wait but its magic call. A watchful jpcho lingers round Its fairy voice to hear; But oh! no low and murmuring sound Hath the quick starting tear. Unbidden, from the fountain deep The trembling tear may start; The cup, that sorrow learnM to steep, O'erflows within the heart: And grief forgets as silently Those tell-tale drops appear That careless eyes, perchance, may see Its quickly starting tear. It cometh in the lighted hall, Where youthful voices blend; It stealeth by when music's fall Its softest murmurs send; It is the tribute of the heart, For many a vanished year; Believe its truth where'er thou art Trust to the starting lean THE LAW OF THE LIPS. Speak kindly to thy fellow man, Lest he should die, while yet Thy bitter accent wrung his heart, And made his pale cheek wet. Speak tenderly of him, for he Hath many toils to bear; And he is weak, and often sighs, As thou dost, under care. Speak lovingly to him, he is A brother of thine own: He well may clun tby sympathies, Who's bone of thine own bonei Speak meekly to him; be may be A holier man than thou And fitting it may be for thee To him with reverence bow. Speak faithfully to him; thy word May touch him deep within. And save his erring soul from death, And cover o'er his sin! From the Globe. The Progress of the Debt. The money article of the Herald makes the accumula ted debt of the current year twenty-six mil lions, as will be seen by the extract below. But the data furnished by the action of the majority in Congress show that there u great probability that this sum will be ex ceeded. The new loan bill provides for the selling of the remainder of the twelve million loan near seven millions -at whatever it will bring in the market ex tending the loan to twenty years, it au- thorizes the borrowing an additional sum of fire millions. , It authorizes the Treasu ry notes already issued and remaining un paid on the 5th of March, 1842, and those hereafter to be issued, to be kept out on an interest of six percent. This, if we un derstand it, is, in effect, to enable the See retary to make a debt of all these notes by postponing their payments and paying in terest on them. According to the state ment of the money article, these notes, al together, make upward, of eleven millions The new loan bill, then, comprehends debt to the following amount, m round numbers Remainder ot first loan bill, $7, 000, 000 Additional loan, 6,000,000 Debt created on I reasury notes, 11,000,000 To this add thedebt actually fun ded, 5,000,030 And we have, as a whole, 28,000,000 Let it be remembered that the Whigs want a great national debt for two objectf first, that the interest, being a tax on the Treasury, may keep up a high tariff". This was avowed by the Boston Courier, the organ of the interest seeking protect ion Second, that the national debt may be- Bank. They "The debt is composed of Treasury notes outstanding. These have been re ceivable for public dues, but have never had any specific fund appropriated to the payment either of principal or interest; the $ 12.000,000 loan of the extra session which was put upon the market by the Clay fac tion, amidst a storm of discredit and of re pudiation of Stale debts, without means of redemption of any sort, and of ctUrsn but a small part of it could bo negotiated, and that at a heavy discount; and last, then; is a deficit to be provided for $3,254,6;6. These may be summed upas follows: United Stales Debt. Treasury notes outstanding March 1st, $5,539,159 " 44 to be issued 2 65,093 Deficit per report 3 254. 6SG Funded debt 5,320,000 Sty,76G93S The Treasury notes and funded debt are at a discount of 5 per cent. The only reven ues of the Government now are the cus toms. These yielded last year 12.000, 000, and this year will probably be short ot S 1 0.000,000 The expenditure will b.- t least 526,000,000. Now the outstand ing Treasury notes being at a discount, will be absorbed by the customs, and leave the Government without one dollar of rev enue to meet S26,000,000 of expense. The reason that Government credit is at a dis count, while some bank stocks in this city are at a premium, is that no means are nrn- vided to redeem the existing debt. If the present outstanding Treasury notes are absorbed by custom?, 4526,000,000 must be borrowed in some other ivay fur the current year To meet even the inter st of this loan not a dollar of revenue exists. Phe land has been given away and the Customs are absorbed by the Treasury notes already in existence No credit can exist under such circumstances, and the dishon or of the Federal Government will not on ly ruin the State credit, what little remains, but will crush banks, corporations and in dividuals alike, as surely as will repudia tion in the western States destroy the mer cantile credit This overwhelming torrent of discredit and disaster is, by a paltry fac tion in Congress, attempted to be counter balanced by dividing a little land among twenty-six States every year. Can any thing exceed the absurd tolly of such child s play?" Debts of the States. The following statement of the indebiedness of the sever al States of the Union was made b Gener al DuiTGreen, who has been writing a se ries of articles for one of the London papers in clelence of American credit and institu tions. New Hampshire Vermont Rhode Island None. None. None, None. Norte. None. None. 1,640,072 5,149,107 Connecticut New Jersey North Carolina Delaware Maine Massachusetts New York Pennsylvania Maryland Virginia South Carolina Georgia Alabama Mississippi Louisiana Tennessee Kentucky Ohio Indiana Illinois Missouri Michig-m Arkansas Florida District of Columbia 20, 165,254 34, 101,014 id, I uu, jo 6,857,161 3,764.734 500,000 10.859,556 7,000,000 19,735,000 1,7SS,166 4,635,000 13,724,755 12,841,000 12,267,000 2,500,000 5,611,000 2,726.000 3,900,000 1,500,000 J 186, 923, 730 State oj Mississippi, vs. Distribution. We have another State to stand along side of South Carolina, Alabama, and Vir ginia, in opposition to the system of distri bution. This is the State of Mississippi and we shall have New York, and New Hampshire, and other Democratic States, co operating in the same struggle. So thai if Congress should not repeal or suspend the law, in consequence of the forlorn con dition of our finance or, if the President should not veto the bill, which proposes to carry it out, by raising the duties to thirty per cent, there will still be found States e nough to arrest its execution. Rich. Enq QThe Wilmington (Delaware) Ga zette, after noticing the ease with which the Banks of that State had resumed specie payments, says: The ability and credit of our monied institutions have not been im paired or destroyed by the intermeddling Come the basis of a National are essential to edch other. of headlong and ignorant legislatures. Without making pretensions to vast abili ties and profound sagacity the men who make our laws and protect the interest of the Slate, have proved themselves gifted with a wisdom that has led them forth in the path of safety, economy and prosperi ty. For a State, in these times of depres sion and embarrassment to be not only out of debt, but to have a million of dollars sui plu , is something to boast of; and we do feel a pride when we consider the safe and unburdened condition of Delaware. From the New Orleans Bee of March 25 liy the arrival of the steamboat Col. Woods, from Galveston, whence she was despatched on the 22d, brings the confir mation of the invasion of Texas by an o verwhelming Mexican force. It appears that the retreat of the Mexicans from San Antonio was a device to allure the Texan troops, assembled in haste, to go in pursuit bcfoiethey were fully drilled and discip lined. Shortly after the steamship Neptune left Galveston, (which vessel reported the re treat of the Mexicans from San Antonio,) an express arrived bringing intelligence of the advance of 9.000 men on the Matamor as ro id 'toward Victoria, and reporting 12, 000 additional troops on the upper road, marching upon San Antonio. The forces which recently captured San Antwnio con stituting the vanguard of the 12,000, un der command of Vasquez. The impres sion is th ilthe Texan army of 1,500, un der Hurleson, will follow the retreat of the vanguard until brought within the power of the main army. jPThe meetings in favor of Texas in the Southern cities, have been ot the most enthusiastic character. In Mobile up wards of J5 1,000 was collected in two days, and more thjfti one hundred persons ex pressed a desire to "emigrate." One lady, Mrs. Sarah Darnes, gave 200. At Au jrusta, Ga. meetings have been held, and committees appointed to collect contribu tions. f rr rom r loruia we learn mat iiaior Belknap has sent in 27 more Indians to Tampa Hay for emigration westward; news which seems to be considered indica tive of the still nearer approach of the close of the hunt for Indians in that territory. We take the following poignant case of 'distress from the Williamsburg Gazette of Wednesday. Mournful Occident.. A few weeks since M. N. Rowe, of this villiage, picked up lump of crystallized arsenic on one of our piers, which he supposed to be a common mineralogical specimen ol an interesting appearance. Mr. It. carried the article in .question to his residence in N orth Second street, and laid it away in the garret. In pari ot the same house resided M. Kobert liuckmasler with his family. Among the members of the family were two interest ing children, one a daughter of about six years of age, and a son of four. I hese children amused themselves on Thursday last with the arsenic, bit off and swallowed portions of it. They were soon seized with the distressing symptoms usual ly nroduced bv that deadly noison. Not- i withstanding prompt and skilful medical bolh expired the youngest on the snmp ilnv. about thre.R hours nftr hpincr , 0 poisoned, the elder lingered until Saturday afternoon and then sunk in death. On Sun day their remains were committed to the earth, surrounded by a large concourse of friends, who deeply sympathised with the afflicted parents. Two other children in the neighborhood, who had tasted the ar senic, escaped, after a temporary illness. The arsenic, is supposed to have been brought here in a vessel that recently dis charged a cargo of chalk at the wharf j the lump weighs nearly two pounds. j2 Great Race. A four mile race was run at New Orleans on the 19th instant, between Sarah Bladen and Jim Bell, the latter winning the purse in two heats time 7 37; 7 40. The Picayune says it is the quickest successive time recorded in this country. Fanaticism. Some of the persons in Haverhill, Massachusetts, who signed the petition for the dissolution of the Union, are said to be firm believers in Miller's prophecy that the world will come to an end in 1843. . They have taken their chil dren from school, considering it of no use to educate them for so short an existence. Bull. Clipper. fjpThe elephant belonging to the large menagerie now in Mobile has been confin ed in jail whether for debt, suspicion of debt, bigamy, burglary, Or what not, wp are unable to state but on last Friday night, during a furious storm which burst over the City, the Elephantine prisoner took a notion to have a spree, and accordingly knocked down the wall of the jail yard, and walked off, like a four-legged Sampson with the gales upon his back. The huge creature was scarcely at largo before enti cing fumes of fresh breid cdme penetraung the olfactory powers of the aniirlal and without more ado, flat birglary W is perpe trated the elephant breaking into the store and devouring all the bread, crackers, cakes, &c. that came within reach. While thus agreeably engaged, a bread cart cam! up to the do. r for morning supplies, and cotnteroation of the horse, as well as the innocent driver, may be imagined when Mr. or Mrs. Elephant deliberately poked out a long nose and tumbled the Cart over the horse's head proving that there are more ways than one of putting "the Cart before the horse.' The driver, concluding that the Millennium was at hand, or that ihe Florida war was doming to an end, soon made a transfer of his person to a re spectable distance, followed by the horse with the remnants of the brearl cart clatter ing about his heels. Satisfied then with so palatable and unusual a breakfast, the ele phant quietly walked back into the jail yard, and concluded to await his examina tion before the Recorder, the result ol which we h ive not yet heard. It was a most inhuman affair from beginning to end. A. O. Pica mine. J The Philadelphia Gazette says: The Book-seller's trade sale terminate! on Saturday. The number of the craf present was large, the biddings spirited, the sales heavy, and the prices, the times con sidered, Very satisfactory. 1 he sales were about $200,000. Another trale sale com menced on yesterday tnurning in New York' (TyFrom statistics published, it appears that, since IS32, our whale fishery has in creased rapidly, and il now numbers the astonishing total of 650 s il of all classes, and the tonnage of which is 190,374 nearly one eleventh of the whole tonnage belonging to the United States. These vessels employ, in the aggregate, at least 13.500 men in the actual prosecution of their voyages America is, and ought to be, proud of her enterprise, independent as it is of successful competition. Texas and Mexico. We would pub lish, if we could spare the space, the inter esting Correspondence between Gen. Ham ilton and Santa Anna but, as we have not, the gist of the matter may be thus briefly stated: On the recent return of Gen. Ham ilton from Europe, he addressed a Com munication lo Santa Anna, President of Mexico, marked ''Confidential." offering Mexico, on behalf of Texas, 85,000,000. besides 200,000 dollars secret money, if the former would enter into a "treaty of peace and limitation" wiih the latter- Santa Anna published the communication of Gen Hamilton in the Mexican papers with an angry renlv. in which he makes strong threats of what Mexico can and will do to Texas. Gen. Hamilton rrplief through the Charleston papers in a tone of defiance, vvhieh closes as follows: "You accuse me of ihe impudence of having of feted you silver. 1 will not be guilty of the gasconade of offering you steel: but when you do come, 1 hope I may hear ihe neighing of your war steed on the Banks of the Rio Bravo." Santa Anna seems indignant and vindic tive at the treatment which he received from the Texians a few years ago when a prisoner among them. He is very confi dent that, had it not been for Mr. Austin and Mr. Houston he would have been shot, and he is determined now to have revenge for jeopardy of life in which he was put at the time. Ral. Reg. Prospects of Texas In 1736, the whole Republic could only muster 2,500; the battle of St. Jacinto was fought and won by 640. Now, she could throw 10,000 riflemen into the field. The city of Houston last year did not ship 800 bales of cotton; this year it ships 5,000 On the5thult. there were in the harbor of Galveston, 4 British merchantmen, 2 steam ships, 3 steam boats, and many other vessels. President Houston is represented as having wholly reformed his habits, and has for a long time proceeded on ihe tetotal system. The Government is poor, it is true, but the people are strong, and becom ing independent. Tne entire cotton Crop of 1841, for exportation is 01,000 bales. Santa Jlnna and Texas The Globe gives the following circum stances toexhi bit the hypocrisy of the Mexican Autocrat. 4It is singular that Santa Anna should a gain invade Texas. His views of his duty to Mexico have undergone a great change since he was in Washington, or tbe opinions he expressed here were deeply imbued wiih dissimulation. We were preent at his pri vale interview whith Gen. Jackson, (Mr. Forsyth acting as the interpreter between them,) when Santa Anna declared that there must be an everlasting separation between Mexi co and Texas. He spoke of the character of the two people, and their respective positions, as rendering this inev- itable. and their recent ruptures as one that C'iold never be healed. We remember the figure with which lie illustrate this part of his eloquent conversation. He said that. Texas was then to Mexico a broken limb, so utterly incapable of a sound reun ion, that amputation was indispensable, to preserve Mexico itself. With the greatest apparent frankness, however he told Gen. Jack son, that under the cif cilmstanees in which he returned to Mexico, he could not act efficiently to ac complish what was so desirable; that to ad voCate,in the prejudiced state of feeling in Mexico, the independence of Texas, would be looked tipon in him as treason, purchased by the gift of his life: and that to exert his influence immediately forflhat object would only serve to cover him with dishonor, and deprive him of ail power to accomplish what at the proper time in another state of public feeling, he would most eagerly contribute to effect. From his letters now, it would seem that all this Was hypociisy and that he nouaished nothing but (eel ings of revenge for his humiliation, without one grateful recollection of the magnani mity which restor ed him to life, liberty and power Bankrupt Law.. .The number of appli cations for the benefit of the bankrupt law in the United Stales, as far as published, are stated in the New York Journal of Commerce at a little over 7000. Within a few days some very heavy debtors have applied in New York -one owing more than a million. The greatest number of applicants in any Slate, is in MassahusettS and the greatest number in proportion to the population is rn Rhode Island. In v)uth Carolina we believe there have beert 50 applications. Charleston Mer. Singular Bankrupt Devehpanents . The applications for thejbenefit of the Dank- rupt law here, are making sortie singular de velopementsof the slate of society and mo rals. In this dstrict probably about t,700 persons have applied, the aggregate debts of whom will be $10,000,000 or more and their assets only a beggarlyisum of 80,000 or 8100,000 probably jnot so much. Some of the applicants show a'flehedule of $54,000- 000 ol debts some ol SI, 500,000 some of 8500,000, while their asset i seem to bi only a few old chairs or tables, Or Insignifi cant jewelry, belonging to the poor females N. Y. Herald. Ji Decision -Mtt Justice Story has de cided ihata wife's jewelry must be surren dered in case of bankrUpteyi Sun. Singular Circumstance. Some ten of twelve years ago, the wife of si Methodist Minister, named Isaac Taylor, of Jeffer son county, Ala. was missing. Thecircum stances were as follow: She laid dowh at night as usual with her husband) some time after she arose and wefit out and came back two or three times." At last she took up the least child, and after kissing it laid it id Mr. Taylors bosom, telling him to keep it till she returned but site return ed no more. Diligent search was made after her, but all to no purpose. Sus picion rested strongly on her husband, and bones having been found in a hollow stump near his house some years after; he was brought lo trial, but acquitted for want of evidence. He was however generally belie ved to be the murderer, nd on this ac count was prohibited from preaching & was much persecuted; A short time back a letter1 was received by the Postmaster at BloUntsvllle, near w here the occurrence happened, from a man in Texas who, it appears, had been attach' ed to Mrs. Taylor before marriage, and meeting her some time afterwards, ho persuaded her to fly wiih him to Texas. They accordingly secretly equipped them selves and started, she travelling all the time in men's clothes, and arrived there, where they lived afterwards as man and wife. She died in that country, but exac ted on her deathbed a promise from hef paramour, to write back and . disclose thd cause of her disappearance. Thus ha the character of a most pious and worthy man been exculpated from a most foul & unjust suspicion. Seltua Mi.) Press. Slaves in the Northern Stales. -By the late census taken by the States, we perceive that there is 1 slave in New Hampshire; 5 in Rhode Island; 17 in Con- neclicut; 4 in New York; 674 in New Jersey; 60 in Pennsylvania 2605 in Dela ware. And then come the Southern States. The late Elopement. The Legislature of Pennsylvania has passed a law, which places the property of Miss Croghan, tho -chool girl who was induced to marr, the Englishman "Captain Schinley," entirely out of the hands of that gallant individual, confirms the title of ihe whole of the pro7 perty lo the father of Miss Croghan,, and places the same, after his death, in the hand? of trustees, who are to pay , at their dis cretion enough for her support. J
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