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Tarhorough, (Edgecombe County, JY C.J baturday Jane 4, 1842.
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FOR THE TAKBORO PKESS
Written for a certain Lady's Jilhum.
There is a bright seraphic form.
That heaven's hand has made for me;
A fair this lonely heart can charm,
If I that dear fair one could see.
Oh, Heaven! I should love too well,
Could I that fair creation see;
My heart too big with joy would swell,
To find such being made for mei
But there is such an one on earth.
And of hei name and face I've heard;
I love her for her truth and worth,
Her name my fate is in the vord
KASSELAS,
HOME.
When 'mid the world's vain, empty pomp.
It is our mournful lot to roam
How fondly cherished is the thought
Of those dear friends we've left at home.
Remembrance clings around the spot
Tho' far in manhood's age we rove,
"Where first we saw a father's smile,
Where first we knew a mother's love.
E'en tho a cottage thatched with straw,
The dwelling be which gave us birth,
And crumbling be its lonely walls,
Yet 'tis the dearest spot on earth.
'Twas there in childhood's pleasant hours,
With thoughtless joy we "hailed each morn,'
When time presented only flowers,
But treacherously kept back the thorn.
A brother's and a sister's love
To feel, 'twas there our happy lot;
Which yet in gentlest accents speak
The magic words, "Forget me not."
From the Globe.
Always the same The parallel is be
coming perfect between the Federalism of
179S and the Whigism of 1S42.
The Federalists increased the public ex
penditures. So have the Whigs.
The Federalists increased the public debt.
So have the Whigs.
The Federalists increased the people's
taxes.
So have the Whigs.
The Federalists increased the navy.
So have the Whigs
The Federalists increased the army.
The Whigs proposed to add several re
giments to the army, and one thousand
men to the marine corps.
The Federalists employed the army to
overawe and control the people in the ex
ercise of their rights.
So have the Whigs.
The Federalists passed a bankrupt law.
So have the Whigs.
The Federalists treated the Declaration
of Independence as a bundle of absirac
tions, not to be regarded in practice.
So do the Whigs.
If they have not. passed an alien law, it is
not from any liking for emigrants from op
pressed Europe.
If they have not passed a sedition law,
they have introduced new and unheard-of
measurses to prevent ellective debate in
the House of Representatives.
What could more effectively show the
identity between the Federalism of 1798
and the Whigism of 1842?
The object and intentions of the Demo
crats is
To reduce the public expenditures.
To pay off the public debt.
To reduce the people's taxes.
To reduce the navy to the limit of 1S41.
To prevent an increase of the army.
To employ the army and navy only for
the public defence.
To repeal the bankrupt law.
To treat emigrants from Europe as men
and brothers, entitled to the rights of men.
To allow full scope to discussion of pub
lic measures and the acts of public men.
To maintain in practice as well as theo
ry the pure and glorious principles of the
declaration of Independence.
JGen. Burleson, now Vice-President
ollcxas,isa native of North Carolina,
and early emigrated to Tennessee, return
ed to North Carolina, m irried and resided
there 12 years, participated in the battles
of the Creek war, emigrated to Missouri,
thence agiin to Tennessee, was elected
Colonel of the Militia in each of those
States re moved in 1330 to Texas, settled
on the Colorado and was chosen Geteral
of the Volunteers who in the Fall of 1835
besieged Gen. Cos at San Antonio.
Raleigh II esc.
Divorces It is a singular faetjhat there
are perhaps, more applications for Divorces.
m i omecticut, the "land of steady habits,"
as it is called, than in any other Si ate of tin
Un ion. It is accounted fur on the ground
that the facility of obtaining a divorce,
encourages gross violations of the marriage
vow, as the readiest means of securing the
desired result. The number at the present
Session is very large, though the committer
on that subject state, that the applicants
are fewer than usual. One of the success
ful applicants, just made, was from Daniel
Matthews, to br; divorced from his wife
emanth;i! Mr. McCurdy, Cha irrnati of
th3 Committee, read several Letters from
the lady, addressed to her new lover, from
one of which we copy the following touch
ingly sentimental Postscript :
"Canaan is my native place,
Norfolk is my station,
Hut I will marry the man I love,
In spite of my relation." ib.
Dath from carelessness. Mr. Isaac
Smith, a citizen of this County, descended
into a Well, in Chatham, a few days since,
for the purpose of cleaning it out, and was
shortly after discovered at its bottom,
without motion. He was drawn up to the
mouth of the Well, hut died in a few min
utes, owing, no doubt, to the foulness of
the air. 1 low often mut people be told, that
the presence of foul air may be accurately
tested by simply letting down intoa Well
a lighted candle, and ;hal no one should
dare to go into one, without such experi
ment? If the air is unwholesome, the candle
will burn very feebly, or at once go out,
and death will certainly be the fate of him
who exposes himself in such an atmos
phere. But if the candle burns freely,
then no danger need be apprehended from
a descent. ib.
J2 banditti exposed. A man named
John L. Scott, was, a few weeks ago. by
his own confession, convicted of horse
stealing, before the Circuit Court of Dale
county, Alabama. He subsequently made
some confessions, by which it appears that
there has for some time existed a Company
of robbers, who spread over a large part of
Alabama and Georgia,, committing acts ol
theft, robbery, and sometimes cool blooded
murder. The names of fourteen persons
connected with the gang are given in the
Southern Shield, but these are not suppo
sed to be all. Among the ruffians is one
named Allen McLean, livingon Pea River,
a Justice of the Peace! Also a Doctor living
in Dale county, name not known. These
men call themselves "Murrelites," in honor
of the distingut.-died ruffian of that name,
whose ciimes created so much indignation
some few years ago. Hal. Stand.
Death by Lightning. There were
three persons, two young men and a young
woman, camping out under a tree, six miles
from town, on the Augusta Road. They
were named Hutchison, and were faom
Emanuel county. One of them, a lad, who
was lying with his hand touching the tree,
was killed instantaneously, the fluid enter
ing on the back of the head, singing the
hair and making a furrow across. The
female was in the cart; she is very much
scorched and yesterday morning was insen
sible, and in a very dangerous situation.
The other young man, who was also lying
on the ground, was struck on the top of the
shoulder, the fluid running all over the left
side and completely excoriating him, and
then passing to the right thigh and down
the right leg. He is not in so dangerous a
situation as the woman. The tree was a
hollow one. Their dog had crept into the
hollow to sleep. He was killed as he lay.
He evidently had not moved a limb. The
fluid must have descended on the inside of
the tree, as there were no marks externally.
There were no marks on the ground. The
accident occurred between 10 and 11 o'
clock on Saturday night.
Savannah Georgian.
(JpM. Jolivet, in the Chamber of Dep
uties of France, in censuring English phi
lanthropy, stated that a traffic a thousand
times more odious than the Afrcan slave
trade, is now going on in India. This is
it, tr.,(riP nf infants of every color and of
l IIL tlUUJV v mf
every caste. The laws there authorize the
selling of children by their fathers ami
mothers; and each year millions of desert
ed children arc sold to perpetual slavery.
Index.
Florida a State. The Star says the
committee appointed by the State Conycn
lion hive decided to issue immediately
writs for the election of State officers. ib.
Strange Occurrence. Some weeks
since an old gig was sent to Mr. Samuel
M. Gover, auctioneer, to be sold. On
Wednesday last it was knocked off to an
individual for the small sum of S2 50
Subsequently the purchaser disposed of the
gig to Mr. Moody. On removing the
lining on Friday, Mr. M. discovered a
pocket book, which, on being opened,
was found to contain a number of current
H ink Notes, amounting in all to the sum of
S750. As fir as the former owners of the
g'g have been traced, no one seems to
have any knowledge of the existence of
the money in its hiding place. American.
Assassination of Ex-Gov. Boggs
The St. Louis Era, of the 11th, contains
the following particulars respecting the de
liberate assassination of ex-Gov. Boggs, ol
Missouri:
'-Foul Deed. The steamer Thames, just
from Missouri river, brought us a handbill,
offering a reward of S500 for the person
who assassinated Lilburn W. Boggs, late
Governor of this State, at Independence, on
the night of the 6ih inst. Gov. Boggs, it
is staled, in a written memorandum, was
not dead, hut mortally wounded.
Since the above was written, we have re
ceived a note from the clerk of the Thames,
giving the following particulars:
Gov. Boggs was shot by some villains
on Friday, 6th, in the evening, while
in a room in his own house, in Indepen
dence. His son, a boy, hearing a report,
ran into the room, and found the Governor
sitting in his chair, with his jaw fallen down
and his head leaning back. On discover
ing the injury done his father, he gave the
alarm. Fool tracks were found in the gar
den, below the pistol picked up, supposed j
to have been overloaded, and thrown from
the hand of the scoundrel who fired it.
4Three buckshot, of a heavy load, took
effect: one going through his mouth, one
into the brain, and another probably in or
near the brain all going in at the back
part of the neck and head. The Governor
was still alive on the morning of the 7th;
but no hopes of his recovery by his friends,
and but slight hopes from his physicians.
"A man was suspected, and the sheriff
most probably has possession of him by
this time.
"The pistol was one of a pair stolen
some days previous from a baker in Inde
pendence, and the legal authorities have the
description of the other."
Bankruptcy. It will be remembered
thai Judge Betts recently decided in the
matter of Kasson, that the jewelry of a
bankrupt's wife, if belonging to her before
her marriage, do not vest in the assignee,
but may be held by her. On the other
hand, the last number of the Law Report
er, (for May,) contains the original opin
ion of Judge Story, in which he goes into
the subject at length, and rules among oth
er things, that the husband becomes enti
tled to all the personal property belonging
to his wife at the time of marriage, unless
his martial right is excluded by some ex
press or implied trust; and his creditors
may take it in execution for satisfaction of
their debts; so that, ordinarily, all the wife's
jewelry must pass to creditors, in case of
the bankruptcy ol the husband.
JV. Y. Evening Post.
fl Rogue caught. On Saturday, the
14t h inst., a complaint was made to the
chief marshal of this town, that a man call
ing himself Hiram Wilson, and pretend
ing that he was a native of Orange county,
and recently from Cherokee county, North
Carolina, had picked the pocket of Mr.
Washam, a partner of Mr. Cox, (negro
traders,) of his wallet, containing about
41, and stolen from him a dirk.
South Carolinian.
Jl she Devil. On Monday, the town of
Lynn, Mass., was in a state of great ex
citement, occasioned bT the murder ot a
fine little boy of that town, by a female de
mon who kept a school there. On Satur
day, the lit tie fellow came home and com
plained that the mistress had whipped him
severely; but his complaints were not alar
ming, and nothing more was thought ol :ne
matter. At night he retired to bed with a
little brother, who, on waking in the mor
ning, found him dead. On examination,
his body, limbs, and head were found much
bruised and swollen; and it was very evi
dent that his death had been produced by
congestion of the brain, occasioned by the
treatment he had received from the wo
man; who, it turned out upon investiga
tion, hung him up by the heels, and beat
him for a long time and with great vio
lence with rulers! The wretch was imme
diately secured, to be dealt with as her in
humanity deserves.
Liberation of the American prisoners
in Mexico. The Southern mail of yes-
teday, brought intelligence of the arrival of
Gen. Thompson in me city oi luexico, anu
the prompt relese of the American priso
ners. Bait. Sun.
Mexico. The British steamer "Tevi
ot," arrived at Havana from Vera Cruz,
on the 29th ult. bring the news that the
elections in Mexico had gone entirely for
Bustemeute. In consequence of which
Gen. Santa Ana had ordered 5.000 men to
tha' capital. Butemente was to have sail
ed for England on the 1st of May.
The Invasion of Mexico. The Texas
Consul at New Orleans, in a letter publish
ed in the Bee, says: "Officially, I am au
thorized to say, a rigorous invasion of Mex
ico will be commenced in a short time, and
can ied out to its fullest extent. "
Mr. V,m 2. indt acquitted. We learn
that the Ecclesiastical Tribunal, which had
the case of Mr. Van Zandt under consider
ation, has acquitted that personage of the
crime (seducing a young lady of his con
gregation) for which his connexion with
Grace church was severed, and of which he
was convicted by the Circuit Court in Ro
chester. The Ecclesiastical Court is thus in con
flict with the civil tribunal; and what the
upshot may be it is difficult to determine
Rochester N. Y. Post.
Large Ox. Edward A. Smith. Esq. of
Long Island, N. Y. has r used an Ox. said
to be the largest ever seen in the United
Stales. He is 6 feet 2 inches high, 13 feet
4 inches in length, 9 feet 11 inches small
est girt, and weighs over 4000 pounds.
He is not 6 years old.
Breach of Promise. A v'oung woman,
named Lydia S. Smith, has recovered
3300 of Samuel Blanchard, of Unity, N
H., because he said he would marry her
and didn't do it but made a mistake and
married another. Sun.
(J!pEvery body has heard of Collins'
Axes, made on the Farmington river, in
Connecticut. The Marietta Gazette states
that this manufacture employs 100 men,
who make 500 axes per day. Each axe
passes through 13 hands. The first shop
you enter contains two ponderous ma
chines where the iron is cut into bais of
the proper size, the head formed and the
eye punched. In two minutes from the
commencement of this process, it is ready
for the next shop, where the steel is put in.
From 12 to 14 ounces of steel are used in
each one. They then pass successively in
to the hammering, tempering, and grind
ing shops. In this last one each axe piss
es through four hands the first stone be
ing very coarse and the last very fine.
They then go to the polishing shop, then
to the finisher, and the whole time em
ployed from the first heating of the bar to
the last finishing, is two hours.
Natchez Free Trader.
Engines of IVar. The New York
Sun, after noticing the destructive shell in
vented by Dr. Alexander Jones, and the
floating battery proposed by Mr. Stevens,
as very tfl'edive engines in war, adds
Scarcely a week passes but we receive
information of some new warlike inven
tion. We know ol a cannon in this city,
that throws 120 balls per minute with the
greatest regularity and precision, indepen
dent of the direct action oi sieim or gun
powder. We know of a submarine ma
chine, which can be propelled with the
greatest facility and made to remain sub
merged any length ol time. And finally,
we know of an invention at once the most
magnificent of the age, in comparison with
which Jones's shell, or Stevens's battery,
would blush fiom very shame of merciful
ness. It is to apply electricity in warfare,
and however novel and preposterous the
idea, it has been examined by several mag
nates of science, who have unhesitatingly
declared it to be based on strict philosophi
cal principles, and decidedly the most im
portant discovery in modern limes for pur
poses of warfare. 1 he inventor, whose
name we are not at liberty to disclose, has
been engaged for several years in perfect
ing this noble project, and if experiment
and philosophy are at all to be depended
on, we may fondly anticipate, that the pe
riod is not far distant when, as a conse
quence, the term war will be ejected from
our language. We have given the subject
this notice, not only trom a sense ol the
obligation resting on us to chronicle all im
portant inventions, out also to inspire with
full confidence those who erroneously ima
gine that we are unable to cope with the
hist nations of the earth.
From a late English Paper.
Statistics of ilistressThc propheciea
Earthquake. The alarm which man
foolish persons at present entertain of an
jDoroachine earthquake, which it is feareo
will swallow up the metropolis, is founded
on the following ancient prophecies, one
professing to be pronounced in the year
1203, the other by Dr. Dee, the astrolo
ger, in 159S. There is nothing particular
ly alarming in the coincidence of the as
signed peri.ul of the earthquake, for the
knowledge of the preceding prophecy
would of course form the foundation of the
second:
"In eighteen hundred and forty-two,
Four iliings the sun shall view;
London's rich and famous 'town
Hungry earth shall swallow down;
Storm a id rain in trance shall be,
Till every river runs a sea;
S'iiiii shall he rent in twain,
So say I, the Monk of Dree,
In the year twelve hundred and three."
Har'e:an Collection. (I3riti.-h Museum)
1006, folio 319.
"The Lord have mercy on ynu all.
Prepare yourselves for dreadful fall
Of house and land and human soul
The measure of your sins is full.
"In the year one, eight, and forty-two,
Of the year that is so new,
lu the third mouth, of that sixteen,
It may he a day or two between.
"Perhaps you'll soon be stiffand cold,
Dear Christian, be not stout and hold;
The mighty kingly proud will see
This comes to pass, as my name's Dee."
150S. MS. in the Hritish Museum.
Ji second Universal Deluge. A new
theory of medicine has been discovered in
Germany. It is the application of water
for every complaint, chronic or acute.
This theory is in the full tide we mean
no pun of succes-ful experiment. The
founder of it is a peasant who one day had
two of his ribs broken, and who cured
hims If in the incredibly short period of
welve days, by ihe use of wet bandages
and draughts of water! Princes and prin
eesses, judges, divines, scholars, and even
doctors of medicine, are among his patients
and followers. The current of his popu
arity is fast running all over Germany.
Never before have we fully understood
the physical dogma, that water will find its
own level. Hut now it is level to the
humblest capacity. This is no joke, but
sober earnest. According to the system,
water is the sovereign remedy provided
by nature for every malady of the animal
frame. The system is called Hydropa
thy, and is washing away the dissoluble
fabrics of Ahopalhy and Homcepathy by
its onward flood of truth. Water alone is
to remove all imaginable complaints.
Quere hydrophobia?) Water .for pre
entation, alleviation and cure; in sick
ness and in hedth; for better for worse;
for richer, fur poorer; for fevers and for
colds; for repletion and depletion; for
mental aberration, local inflammation, coun
ter irritation, aod suspended animation;
for broken sleep and broken bones; for
pains, sprains, chilblains and crack brains.
Water, only water for every ache and ail
ment. Water ex'ernally, internally and
eternally for all the ills that flerh is heir
to, and m my more that fishes share too!
This practice will undoubtedly soon be in
troduced into the Uni'ed States. Hasten,
therefore, oh, Drandrcth! hasten, Pease,
and all ye Indian Vegetable and Life men!
Sell out your pills and your patents whilo
you may, before the German Water system
under mines your towering quackeries, and
you behold them dissolve like the baseless
fabric of a vision, and leave not a wreck
behind! North Jimtrican.
Petrified Rain. In Huugry there wag
a shower of meteoric stones instead of rain
a few weeks sir. re. To convince himself
of the truth of this phenomena, a German
Philosopher visited the spot and examined
for himself. He says millions of little peb
bles, unlike any that can be found on the
earth, may be seen through a large district
of country. It seems to us these are silent
messengers sent to give us some idea of the
world above us.
A Lesson J or Scolding wives "And
I dare s.y you have scolded your wife of
ten, Newman.'' said 1 once. Old New
man looked down, and the wife took up
the reply. "Never to signify; and if he
has, I deserved it. "And I dare say, if
the truth were told, you have scolded him
quite as often." "Nay," said the old wo
man, with a beauty of kindness which all
the poetrv in the world cannot excel, "how
can a wife scold her good man, who has
been working for her little ones all thy
day? It may be for a man to be peevish,
lor it is he who bears the crosses of the
world; but who should make him forget
them but his own wife? And she had
best, for h-r own sake; for nobody can
scold much wh-n the scolding is all on one
-ide." Bulwer's Student.
Better than none. A poor married
woman was telling a lady, on the wrong
side of fifty, of some domestic troubles,
which she in great part attributed to tho
regularities of her husband. " Well," said
die old maid, "you brought these Iroublea
on yourself; I told you not to marry him.
I was sure that lie wouiu uoi mae you a
ood husband." "He is not a good one, to
oesure, madam," replied the poor woman,
-but he is a power better than none."
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