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Tarhorongh, (Edgecombe County, JY CJ baturday, April 23, 1842
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FOR THE TARBORO PRF.SS.
TO A LADY,
On her asking the author why he teas sad.
tady, dost thou ask, why now
This heart is not as light and gay.
As once when thou wast wont to know
Its feeling in a better day
I might answer thee, that life
Is but an empty dream at bpst;
Earth's pilgrimage a scene of strife.
With not a real joy to blessi
I knott, sweet lady, thou wonld'st fain
Redeem this wretched ht art from pain
If thou could'st: tis all in vain,
This heart can never bloom again.
Now, alas! those scenes are past.
Which could once a charm impart;
And their dying shadows cast,
A sad remembrance o'er my hearti
Lady, once this world was bright
Before me, as a meteor gleam;
But I find that earth's delight,
Is fleeting as the morning's beam.
Grief is wedded to this heart,
The heritage is misery;
It boots not where I may depart,
Life has no other charm for me.
Gloom has settled o'er my brow.
With its curs'd companion, care;
Look within this heart, and lo!
Thou mayst see the monster therei
Oblivion! in thy mystic stream,
My weary senses let me steep;
To end one fond delirious dream.
In blest forgetfulness to sleep.
Woman! oh, thy heart can feign
A pure celestial flame too well;
But that heart, that heart is bane,
To the hopes of man a hell
MESSAGE OF PRESIDENT TYLER.
The following is a copy of the Message
of the President to Congress, touching the
Distribution Act.
To the Senate and flome nf Rcpresenta
tives nf the U. States.
Notwithstanding the urgency with
which I have on more than one occasion
felt it my duty to press upon Congress the
necessity of providing the Government
with the means of discharging its debts and
maintaining inviolate the public faith,
the increasing embarrassments of the Trea
sury impose upon me the indispensal.de
obligation of again inviting your most se
rious attention to the condition of the fi
nances. Fortunately Tor myself, in thus
bringing this important subject to your
view, for a deliberate and comprehensive
examination in all its bearings, and I trust
1 may add, for a final adjustment of it, to
the common advantage of the whole Union,
I am permitted to approach it with perfect
freedom and candor. As few of the bur
dens for which provision is now required
to be made have been brought upon the
country during my short administration of
its affairs, I have neither motive nor wish
to make them a matter of crimination a
gainstany of my predecessors I am dispo
sed to regard, as I am bound to treat them
as facts which cannot now be undone, and
as deeply interesting to us all, and equally
imposing upon all the most solemn duties;
and the only use I would make of the er
rors of the past is, by a careful examination
of their causes and character, to avoid if
possible the repetition of them in future.
The condition of the country, indeed, as
guch may well arrest the conflict parties.
The conviction seems at length to have
made its way to the minds of all, that the
disproportion between the public responsi
bilities and the means provided for meeting
them is no casual nor transient evil. It $
on the contrary, one which, for some years
to come, notwithstanding a resort to all
reasonable retrenchments, and the constant
progress of the country in population ami
productive power, must continue to in
crease under existing laws, unless we con
sent to give up or impair all our defences in
war and peace But l s is a thought
which I am persp ' patriotic mind
would, f
Xain. Without
affecting a
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gard to our foreign relations, it may safely
be affirmed that they are in a state too crit
ical and involve too many momentous is
sues to permit us to neglect in the least,
much less to abandon entirely, those
means of asserting our rights, without
which negotiation is without security.
In the Report of the Secretary of the
Treasury, submitted to Congress at the
commencement of the present session, it is
estimated that, after exhausting all the pro
bable resources of the year, there will re
main a deficit of about j14. 000,000. With
a view partly to a permanent system of
revenue, and partly to immediate relief
from actual embarrassment, thatofficer re
commended, together with a plan for es
tablishing a Government Exchequer, some
expedients of a more temporary character,
viz: the issuing of Treasury notes, and th
extens on of the lime for which the loan au
thonzed to be negotiated by the act of the
last session should be taken. Congress
accordingly provided for an issue of Trea
sury notes to the amount of i55. 000,000 1
but subject to the condition that they
should not be paid away below par.
No measure connected with the last of
the two objects above mentioned was intro
duced until recently into the House of Re
presentatives. Should the loan bill now
pending before that body pass into a law
for its present amount, there would still re
main a deficit of 2,500,000. It requires
no argument to show that such a condi
tion of the Treasury is incompatible not
only with a high state of public credit, but
with any tiling approaching to efficiency
in the conduct of pliblic affairs. It must be
obvious, even to the most inexperienced
minds, that to say nothing of any particu
lar exigency, actual or imminent, there
should be :t all limes in the Treasury of a
great nation with a view to contingencies
of ordinary occurrence, a surplus at least
equal in amount to the above deficiency.
Hut that deficiency, serious as it would be
in itself, will, I am compelled to say, rath
er be increased than diminished, without
the adoption of measures adequate to cor
rect the evil at once. The stagnation of
trade and business, in some degree incident
lo the derangement of the national finan
ces, and the state of the revenue laws, holds
out but little prospect of relief in the ordi
nary course of things for some time to
come.
Under these circumstances, I am deeply
impressed with the necessity of meeting
the crisis with a vigor and decision which
it imperatively demands at the hands of all
entrusted with the conduct of public af
fairs. The gravity of the evil calls for a
remedy proportioned to it. No slight pal
liatives or occasional expedients will give
the country the relief it needs. Such mea
sures, on the contrary, will, in the end, as
is now manifest to all, too sorely multiply
its embarrassments. Relying, as I am
bound to do. on the Representatives of a
People rendered illustrious among nations
by having paid off its whole public debt, I
shall not shrink from the responsibility im
posed upon me by the Constitution of
pointing out such measures as will m my
opinion ensure adequate relief. I am the
mote encouraged to recommend the course
which necessity exacts, by the confidence
which I have in its complete success.
The resources of the country, in every
thing that constitutes the wealth and
strength of nations, are abundant, the spir
it of a most indutrious, enterprising, and
intelligent people iss energetic and clas
tic, thatthe Government will be without
the shadow of excuse for its delinquency,
if the difficulties which now embarrass it
be not speedily and effectually removed.
From the present indications, it is hard
ly doubtful that Congress will find it ne
cessary to lay additional duties on imports
in order to meet the ordinary current ex
penses of the Government. In the exer
cise of a sound discrimination, having ref
erence to revenue, but at the same time
necessarily affording incidental protection
to manufacturing industry, it seems equal
ly probable that duties on some articles of
importation will have to be advanced above
20 per cent. In performing this impor
tant work of revising the tariff duties,
which in the present emergency would
seem lo be indispensable, I cannot too
strongly recommend the cultivation of a
spirit of mutual harmony and concession,
to which the Government itself owes its
origin, and without the continued exercise
of which jarring and discord would univer
sally prevail.
An additional reason for the increase of
duties in some instances beyond the rate of
.0 per cent, will exist in fulfilling the re
commendations already made, and now re
peated, of making adequate appropriations
ior the defences of the country.
By the express provision of the act dis
tributing the proceeds of ijie sales of the
public lands among the Stales, its operation
is ipsofacto to cease so soon as the rate of
i he duties shall exceed the limits prescribed
in the act.
In recommending the adoption or meas
ures for distributing the proceeds of the
public lands among the States at the com
mencement of the last session of Congress,
such distribution was urged by arguments
and considerations which appeared to me
then, and appear to me now, of great
weight, and was placed on the condition
that it should not render necessary any de
parture from that act of IS33. it is with
sincere regret that I now perceive the ne
cessity of departing from that act ; because
I am well aware that expectations justly
entertained by some of the States will be
disappointed, by any occasion which shall
withhold from them the proceeds of the
lands.
But the condition was plainly expressed
in the message, and was inserted in terms
equally plain in the law itself; and amidst
the embarrissments which surround the
country on all sides, and beset both the
General and the State Governments, it ap
pears to me that the object first and high
est in importance is to establish the credit
of this Government, and to place it on du
rable foundations, and thus afford the most
effectual support to the credit of the States,
equal at least to what it would receive
from a direct distribution of the proceeds of
the s;des of the public lands.
When the distribution lav was passed
there was reason to anticipate that there
soon would be a real surplus to distribute.
On that assumption it was, in my opinion,
a wise, a just, and a beneficent measure.
But to continue it in force while there is
no such surplus to distribute, and when it
is manifestly necessary not only to increase
the duties, but at the same time to borrow
money in order to liquidate the public debt
and disembarrass the public Treasury,
would cause it to be regarded as an unwise
alienation of ihe best security of the public
creditor, which would with difficulty be
excused, and could not be justified.
Causes of no ordinary character have re
cently depressed American credit in the
stock market of Ihe world to a degree quite
unprecedented. I need scarcly mention
the condition of the banking institutions of
some of the States, the vast amount of for
eign debt contracted during a period of
wild speculation by corporations and indi
viduals, and, above all, the doctrine of re
pudiation of contracts solemnly entered in
to by States, which although as yet applied
only under circumstances of a peculiar
character, and generally rebuked with se
verity by the moral sense of the communi
ty, is yet so very licentious, and in a Gov
ernment depending wholly on opinion so
very alarming, that the impression made
by it to our disadvantage as a people, is
any thing but surprising. Under such cir
cumstances, it is imperatively due from us
to the People whom we represent, that,
when we go into the money market to con
tract a loan, we should tender such securi
ties as lo cause the money lender as well
at home as abroad to feel that the most pro
pitious opportunity is afforded him of in
vesting profitably and judiciously his capi
tal. A Government which has paid off
the debts of two wars, waged with the most
powerful nation of modern times, should
not be brought to the necessity of chaffer
ing fur terms in the money market. Un
der such circumstances as I have adverted
to, our object should be to produce with
the capitalist a feeling t)f entire confidence,
by a tender of that sort of security which
in all time past has been esteemed suffi
cient, and which for the small amount of
our proposed indebtedness will unhesita
tingly be regarded as amply adequate.
While a pledge of all the revenues amount
to no more than is implied in every in
stance when the Government contracts a
debt, and although it ought in ordinary
circumstances to be entirely satisfactory,
yet in times like these the capitalists would
feel better satisfied with the pledge of a
specific fund, ample in magnitude to the
payment of his interest and ultimate reim
bursement of his principal. Such is the
character of the land fund. The most vig
ilant money-dealer will readily perceive
that not only will his interest be secure on
such a pledge, but that a debt of $18,000,
000 or 20,000,000 would, by the surplus
of sales over and above the payment of the
interest, be extinguished within any reas
onable time fixed for its resumption. To
relieve ihe Treasury from its embarrass
ments, and to aid in meeting its requisi
lions until time is allowed for any new ta
riff of duties to become available, it would
seem to be necessary to fund a debt ap
proaching to $18,000,000; and in order to
place the negotiation of the loan beyond a
reasonable doubt, I submit to Congress
whether the proceeds of the sales of the
public lands should not be pledged for the
payment of the interest, and the Secretary
of the Treasury be authorized, out of the
surplus of the proceeds of such sales, to
purchase the stock, when it can be procur
ed on such terms as will render it beneficial
in that way to extinguish the debt and pre
vent the accumulation of such surplus while
its distribution is suspended.
No one can doubt that were the Federal
Treasury now as prosperous as it was ten
years ago, and its fiscal operations conduct,
ed by an efficient agency of its own, co-extensive
with the Union, the embarassments
J of the Shtes, and corporations in therm
would produce, even if they continued a
they are, (were that nossible.) effects far
lesss disastrous than those now experienced.
It is the disorder here, at the heart and
centre of the system, that paralyzes and
deranges every put of it. Who does no?
know the permanent importance, not to
the Federal Government alone, but to
every State and every individual within its
jurisdiction, even in their most independent
and isolated individual pursuits, in the
preservation of a sound state of public opi
nion and a judicious administration here?
The sympathy is instantaneous and univer
sal. To attempt to remedy the evil of
the deranged credit and currency of the
States while the disease is allowed to rage in
the vitals of this Government, would be a
hopeless undertaking.
It is the full conviction of this truth which
emboldens me most earnestly to recom
mend to your early and serious considera
tion the measures now sub mil ted to your
belter judgment, as well as those to which
your attention has heen already invited
The first great want of the country, that
without answering which all attempts at
bettering the present condition of things
will prove fruitless, is a complete restora-J
tion of the credit and finances of the Feder-I
al Government. The source and founda
tion of all credit is in the confidence which
ihe Government inspires; and just in pro
portion as that confidence shall be shaken
or diminished, will be the distrust among
all classes of the community, and the de
rangement and demoralization in every
branch of business and all the interest of the
country'. Keep up the standard of good
faith and punctuality in the operations of
the General Government, and all partial
irregularities and disorders will be rectified
by the influence of its example; but suffer
that standard to be debased or disturbed,
and it is impossible to foresee to what a de
gree of degradation and confusion all finan
cial interests, public and priv tte, may sink.
In such a country as this, the Representa
tives of the People have only to will it.
and the nublic credit will be as hum as it
ever was.
M v own views of the measures calcula
ted to effect this great and desirable object,
I have thus frankly expressed to Congress,
under circumstances which give to the en
tire subject a peculiar and solemn interest.
The executive can do v.o more. If the
credit of the country be exposed to ques
tion ; if the public defences be broken down
or weakened; if the whole administration
of public affairs be embarrassed for want of
the necessary means for conducting them
with vigor and effect, 1 trust that this de
partment of the Government will be found
to have done all that was in its power to
avert such evils, and will be acquitted of all
jnsl blame on account of them.
JOHN TYLER.
Washington, March 25, 1S42.
Mobile, March 26.
Horrid Tragedy. Murder of an Ac
tor. A most horrible and fatal tragedy
was enacted at the Theatre last night. Af
ter the conclusion of the first act of the
first pifce, a quarrel ensued behind the
scene between Mr. Ewing and Miss Ham
blin, both attached to the Theatre, in
which the latter plunged a dagger to the
heart of Mr. Ewing, which caused almost
immediate death. After the perpetration
of the awful deed, Miss Hamblin made her
escape by jumping out at the window,
and at 12 o'clock last night hail not been
arrested. She left in her theatrical attire,
dressed as a page. Chronicle.
This dreadful affair entirely absorbs the
public mind. It appears from what we
can learn, that Mr. Ewingand Miss Ham
blin were married, and for a long time
have lived very unhappily together. Re
cently, however, they agreed to separate,
and it was the design of the latter to leave
the city on Sunday' morning for St Louis.
Whether a quarrel occurred on the day
previously to the perpetration of this hor
rible act, we are nol informed, but during
the first act of the play last night, many of
the audience remarked a peculiarity of con
duct in the parties towai ds each other on
the stage.
There were three wounds inflicted, one
of which grazed the arm, the others were
in the body. The most fatal one was a lit
tle on the side just below the ribs. We
are informed that it is the opinion now,
thai the wound was not sufficient of itself
to cause death so rapidly as ensued but it
is supposed thai its fatality was very much
aggravated by the falling of the deceased.
The manner of Miss Hamblin after the
conflict, was such as lo lead to the supposi
tion thai the act, so far as death is concern
ed, was unpremeditated. She enquired
several times whether the deceased wa
much hurt, and not until there was a cer
tainty of his death did she attempt an es
cape.
A Splendid Folly. When the Will of
Stephen Girard was published and known
he had appropriated two millions of dollars
to the establishment of an Orphan College,
the public attention was much excited.
Some anticipated great results. Oihers
thought it great folly; and others, thought
gain, there wis a principle in that Will
which sooner or later, would destroy all
the good which the right use of so much
capital might have produced. We read
every line of the Will with care and atten
tion. Our impression was, that Mr. Gi
rard had made a great mistake; that his in
tentions would never be carried out, and
that if they were, no real blessing would
res' upon an institution plainly raised upon
an anti christian principle.
The result has come in a good measure,
much sooner than might have heen suppo
sed. Girard drew his description of the
College, so that the building might have
the utmost durability with the utmost plain
ness. No body could mistake his mean
ing. What do the Trustees do? They set to
work to contrive how they can avoid the
intention of the Will. They commence
building an immense marble palace, with
dl the ornament and cost of gorgeous east
ern architecture. They appoint a gentle
man President, and send him to Europe to
cultivate his ideas. Ten years have passed
away, and ihe Girard College is not fin
ished, the Girard Orphans are not there,
but the Girard Fund is rapidly disappear
ing. Such will be found to be ihe History of
most persons who endeavor to execute
their wills after their death. He who
wishes to do good must do it in his life
lime. Cin Chron.
Inhuman. An old gentleman seventy
four years of age, lately died in jail at
Worcester, where he had been incarcera
ted in concequence of a liability he as
sumed in endorsing a note for something
les than one hundred dollars, and which
he was unable to discharge. VTien the
creditor was informed of his indisposition,
he refused to liberate ihe old man.
Extraordinary charge against a man
undivife. At Boston, on Monday, Henry
E. Greatoreaux, organist, and his wife
Catharine G., were brought up for an as
sault on Harriet M Sampson, with intent
to cause her to submit to ihe embraces ot
Grealoreaux. Th'n is certainly a npw
wrinkle incrim. con. A thousand rumors
about the matter, says the Post, were in
circulation, which contained, Jfrobably,
the usual small per centum of fact. A
mong other tilings it was stated- that the
defendants drugged ihegirl with a stupify
ing potion. For want of bail in the sum
of one thousand dollars, they were both
committed to jail to await their examination
on Thursday. Mrs. G., a very interest
ing looking woman, appeared to be in the
last stages of consumption. Bait. Sun.
(QAt Cincinnati, last week, the price of
whiskey was down to 2 cts. per gallon.
Deducting the cost of ihe barrel, the actual
price of ihe whiskey is 11 cents!
A Good Old Age The venerable Dea.
John Whitman, of East Bridgewater in the
county of Plymouth, Mass., entered yes
terday , (2Sth on ihe one hundred and
eighth year of his age, and is in good health
though his sight, hearing and memory, are
somewhat impaired.
A Busy Fellow The New E ra says
there is an editor down east, who is not
only his own compositor, pressman and
devil, but keeps a tavern, is a village
schoolmaster.cantain in the military, mends
his own boots and shoes, makes patent
Brandi eth pills, peddles essences anu tm
waie two days in the week, and always
reads sermons on the Sabbath, when the
minister happens to be missing. In addi
tion lo all this he has a wife and sixteen '
children. The Boston Morning Post says
that is not all - he owns a schooner, and
came to Boston with a cargo of onions and ,
nolatoes last fall, raised by himself, and
gave notice lo his subscribers, when he left,
ihat ihe issuing ot ihe next number ol nis
paper would depend on the wind atmos
pherical and financial, we suppose.
New Remedy for Hydrophobia. Dr.
Heller, member of the Royal Academy of
Medicine, Paris, lately communicated to his
society, that in Gre ce it is a practice to ob
serve the tongues of those persons who have
been bitten by dogs, because at the end of
eight or nine days ih re appears on e?ch side
of the tongue, and near the upper part,
pustules called" lysses, by the Greeks.
These nurftules contain the whole rabid
matier, aiid immediately they are cut and
the w'oundMuterised, which prevents
hydrophobia.
An effectual cure for a Felon.--B :the
ihe part affected in ashes and watertake
the y.dk of an egg, six drops of turpentine,
i few beet leaves cut fine, a small quantity
of snuff or fine tobacco, then add onetnble
poon'ul of burnt salt, and one of Indian
meal; it never fails to effect a cure if applied
tn season. ' m -
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