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FOR THE TARBORO PRESS.
TO MARY.
Sweet Mary! yonder heaven knows,
Thou art beautiful and bright
As yon lovely moon, that throws
O'er the world her silvery light.
Lovely Mary! thou art sreet
As the hrealh of early May;
All that's bright in beauty meet,
O'er thy rosy cheeks to play
Dearest Mary! I would give
Worlds to call thy heart my own;
Dearest Mary! I could live
Upon a sigh of thine alonei
Mary! may I hope for thee?
May this bosom beat for thine?
Mary! can you think of rre,
May that lovely heart be mine?
If that bosom's dearest seal,
Can be wou by purest sighs;
For all I've felt; for all I feel,
For thee, that heart should be my prizei
Yea, I can say, that there is not
On earth a heart can love thee well
As mine whatever may be my lot,
But that's reserved for thee to tell.
Yet, lady, if that tender breast
Cannot heave for me a sigh;
I would not rob thy heart of rest,
No, lady, 1 would rather diet
No, no, if that lovely heart,
Cannot love me, quickly tell;
And I'll from all 1 love depart,
As I breathe farewell, farewell!
But yet I hope, now passion's gush
Springs within my heart anew;
For I feel you cannot crush
The sweetest bud of love for you.
WILLIAM.
KINDNESS.
A little word in kindness spoken;
A motion or a tear,
Has often healed the heart, that's broken,
And made a friend sincere.
A word a look has crushed to earth,
Full many a flower,
Which, had a smile but owned its birth,
Would bless life's darkest houri
Then deem it not an idle thing,
A pleasant word to speak;
The face you wear, the thought you bring,
A heart may heal or break.
From the Haleigh Register.
OUR UNIVERSITY.
We have been favored by a friend, with
the following; interesting account of the
Exercises at the recent Commencement at
Chapel Hill:
Mr. Gales: For the gratification of those
who could not come up to the great Litera
ry Festival of our University, I beg leave
to furnish you with the subjoined hurried
account. Though from several causes, the
number of Visitors was not so great as on
some occasions, yet no one hence inferred
a diminished interest in the public towards
this nursery of its youth; on tbe contrary
there were decisive indications of unabated
interest, and renewed determination to
sustain tho Ilniversitv. Mioultl not our
youth be inspired with additional rever
ence for age and mature manhood, wh'Mi
they see the venerable Clergy, the severe
and learned Judge, the eloquent Advocate,
and the Farmer the key-stone of our sys
tem of Government leaving their busi
ness and families, and encountering heat
and rain and dust, to do them honor and to
cheer their young heart? And how un
grateful it would be in them not to strain
every nerve, to provide a rich intellectual
i .i i
Danquet lor mose who come up to our
Literary Metropolis, to honor knowledge
and its votaries? It our College Youth
only see themselves as the wise see them,
the cherished hope of the Country, the sub
ject of unceasing petitions at a 1 hrone of
Urace, and the destined fathers of a Repub
lic, they would shun idleness as infamy,
anu dissipation and insuooruinauon, as
treason to their State. The time has been
m the history of our country, when the
sinewy arm, ana me orawny hand were
niost'in demand and most valuable; it was
when the primeval forest had to be felled
and freed from savage beasts and Indians
still more, when our fathers sought deliv
erance from foreign domination. But the
times have changed; now, ttiore than at any
other period in the history of man, is know
ledge power, happiness and respectability.
The Citadel of free lorn and justice is no
less fiercely assaulle l than formerly, but
in a different way; the weapon of attack
is not the sword, but the pen; the liquid
shed, not blood, but ink; and disputes are
decide 1 not on the battle field, but on the.
Legislative arena. These considerations
are a motive fora continuance of palronage
and support from the Public, as well as fyr
untiring application in the young Student.
The examination began on Monday, the
23d of May, and was continued through the
forenoon of Tuesday, the 31st, at which
time the President examined the Senior
CI .iss on National and Constitutional Law,
in the piesence uf the Governor of the
State, and other Gentlemen of the Hoard of
Trustees.
In consequence of the failure of the two
Societies to choose Representatives to ap
pear on Wednesday evening of Com
mencement week, the competitors from
the Freshman Class did not appear on the!
Stage until Tuesday evening; hut an in
structive exhibition had been provided for
Mond ay evening, when Professor Green,
at the request of the Senior Class, preach
ed a Valedictory Discourse from the text
"Remember this, and show yourselves
men" Isaiuh, chap. 46, verse 8. The
Preacher seemed to feel that the occasion
was no ordinary one, and spoke with great
dignity, pathos and unction; he did not
"shun to declare the whole counsel of
God." He drew such a full, fearless and
faithful picture of their responsibilities, and
of the diseased and brutish libertine, as will
be long remembered.
The public Exercise for Tuesday, is
exhibited in the following bill:
Dcclaimcrs selected from the Fresh
man Class:
1. De Witt C. Stone, (Franklin)
Sprngue on the Massachusetts claims.
2. Eugene J. Hinton, (Bertie) Sheridan
on the trial of Warren Hastings.
3. Owen D. Holmes (Wilmington) Ber
rien on the limitation of the Veto Power.
4. Jesse P. Smith, (Fayctleville) Ames
on the British Treaty.
5. James J Herring, (Lenior) Clay on
the Compromise Bill.
6. Waller R. Staples, (Patrick Co. Va.)
McDuffie on the Amendment of the Con
stitution. The forenoon of Wednesday was set
apart for the delivery of the Anniversary
Oration by Judge Mason, of Virginia, but
when the hour arrived, the President read
to the expecting multitude a Lettet from
Judge Mason, in which he feelingly re
gretted that the pressure of indispensable
business prevented him from attending.
But the audience did not retire until they
lad been gratified by a novel, instructive,
and entertaining exhibition. The indefat
igable Professor.of Chemistry, Dr. Milch-
ell, made various very successful experi
ments with the fine electro magnetic appa
ratus fwhieh the Universitv has lately pro
cured from Boston.) He produced power
fill and most ramd motion by magnetism
alone, and demonstrated the practicability
of its application to the useful arts, but
seemed to think that the cost of copper ami
zinc (materials indispensable to the excita
tion of the magnetic inlluence in such a
decree as to be useful) would hinder it,
from coming into successful competition
with steam. -'
When the Professor finished his Lec
ture, he gave notice that the luneral ot
Miss J ane Wilson, (daughter ot the Kov.
Dr. Wilson, President of the breensboro
Inslitute,) who died at Professor Phillips'
the preceding day at half past 4 o'clock, P.
M. would be preached over her remains in
Gerard Hall, at 4 in the afternoon. The
demise of this amiable and intelligent
young Lady, & the deep sympathy felt for
her excellent father, increased by the meek
ness and Christian fortitude with which
he bore his bereavement, produced a state
of feeling but ill in unison with that which
had brought the assembled multitude up to
the annual Literary Festival of the Uni
versity. Perhaps never has the awful truth
that "in the midst of life we are in death"
been more forcibly proved; and how must
the pealing music, the lengthened proces
sion of the young and thoughtless, and the
sounds of applause have ailectcd the senses
of the bereaved ones!" in the aiternoon
Professor Phillips preached an excellent
f mi . .
and effective bermon, irom ines. 4tn
r.hnn nnd3th verse. Her remains were
then attended by the greater part of the
congregation to the College burial ground.
On Wednesday evening, the Speakers
selected for the Sophomore class appeared
on the stage, viz.
1. John Cowan (Wilmington) Character
of Mahmoud II Anonymous.
2. "Robert H. Cowan (Wilmington)
Rayner on the New Jersey contested elec
tion.
3. John Ballanfant (Maury Co. Tenn.)
Rhett on the Appropriation Bill.
4. Robert T. Fuller (Caswell) Everettj
on laying the Corner Stone of the Lexing
ton Monument.
5. William A. Blount, (Washington)
Influence of Revolutions on Society An
onymous. 6. Robin Ap. C. Jones, (Hillsboro')
Prospects of our Country. Dr. Hooper's
Address before the Liteiary Societies.
Thursday (Commencement day.)
The procession moved, at 10 o'clock A.
M. fiom the South Building for Gerard
Hall, in the following order, viz.
1. Musicians.
2. Members of the Freshman Class.
3. Members of the Sophomore Class.
4. Members of the Junior Class.
5. Members of the Graduating Class.
o. Alumni.
7. Strangers and Visitors.
S. Teachers of Schools.
9. Parents and Guardians.
10. Clergy.
11. Faculty.
12. Trustees.
13. Governor of the Stale and President
of the University.
14. Speakers of the Graduating Class.
The Procession passed the Monument
of Dr. Caldwell with bared heads and en
tered the Hall in reversed order, when
there was
1. Prayer. By Dr. Mitchell.
2. Salutatory Oration. Francis T. Bry
an, Haleigh.
3. Oration. "Obligations of Educated
men." Joseph J.Summerell, North
ampton. 4. Oration. "Principles of the Old
Federal Parly." Rufus Barringer,
Cabarrus.
5. Oration. "Spirit of Reform." Wil
liam II. Haigh, Fayeltevilte.
C. Oration "Reciprocal influence of Sci
ence and Religion." William F.
Lewis, Edgecombe.
Afternoon.
Procession as in Forenoon.
Exercises.
1. Eloge de Louis-Phillippe. William
A. Bell, Greene Co. Ala.
2. Oration. "Reverence for the Past."
William S. MuIIins, Fayetteville.
3. Oration "The Middle Ages." Wil
liam F. Martin, Elizabeth City.
4. Degrees conferred, viz: A. B. on
the Graduating Class, and A. M. on
the following Gentlemen, viz: Albert
G. Hubbard, Newbem. Rev. Thom
as R. Bond, Brownsville, Tenn.
5. Report of the Faculty.
6. Valedictory. Thomas J. Morisey,
Sampson.
7. Prayer. By Prof. Green.
Names of the Graduating Class.
Richaid J. Ashe, Rulus Barringer, Wil
liam A. Bell, Francis T. Bryan, Jas. A.
Caldwell, James W. Campbell, Robert
McG. Campbell, David Coleman, James
L. Dusenbery, Stephen S. Green, William
II. Haigh, William W. Harris, Charles P.
Heartwell, William J. Hayes, Peter J.
Holmes, John F. Jack, William F. Lew
is, William F. Martin, William P. McBee,
Thomas J. Morisey. William S. Mullins,
Israel L. Pickens, Nathaniel H. Quince,
George W. Baffin, John B. Smith, Ashley
W. Spraight, Joseph J. Summerell, Ruffin
Kv. T omlinson, Richard D. Wilson.
The Public Exercises of the young Gen
tlemen were well performed. The Spee
ches of the Graduating Class were marked
by manly good sense and many of them
by a gracelul elocution.
A new and interesting ceremony was in
troduced on this occasion, viz: the presen
tation by the President in the name of the
Faculty, of an elegant copy of the Holy
Scriptures to each Member of the Gradua
ting Class.
Mr. Van Ihiren at Ashland. The
Lexington, Ky. Reporter of the 25th ult.
says:
We (noticed in pur paper ol Saturday,
Mr. Van Buren's arrival and reception in
the city, the evening before. He remained
at the Dudley House, where lodgings had
been provided for him until the next day,
when he had accepted an invitation from
Mr. Clay to visit Ashland, where he has
. i t Ti lt- - - : u 1. :
since neen. iir. l'auming is wun nun.
We nnderstand they leave on Thursday
next for the residence of Col. Johnson in
Scott, and after spending a few days with
that gallant old soldier, will leavetor Louis
ville and St. Louis The distinguished
gentlemen have been treated with great
ittention and courtesy hy our citizens gen
erally, who, regardless ot all other consid
erations, have been governed by iheir con
victions of what was due to them as gen
tlemen. Rhode Island. The Washington Cor
respondent of the N. Y. Herald, concludes
nis letter with the following paragraph:
"It seems that the Rhode Island difficul-
tips are not vet at an ena. a messenger
arrived from Governor King to day, bring
ing the intelligence that the late insur
gents are raising money & organizing men
lor another otrteote, which is expected to,
come off early in June
Ex. Gov. Dorr has put forth an Address
to the people of Rhode Islsnd, in which he
gives a detail of ihe melancholy occurren
ces which led to his discomfiture and flight.
He denies that there was any. compromise,
or that he ever would consent to any. He
claims still to be Governor, and asserts
that "the People's constitution cannot be
overthrown by a failure in arms, or by the
resignation of those elected to office under
it, and the duty to maintain it has not been
affected by recent events."
He doe- not say where he is, or what he
intends to do.
The Providence Journal states, that
requisitions have been made by Governor
Kinguponthe Governors of Massachusetts,
Connecticut, and New York, for the ap
prehension and surrender of Thomas W.
Dorr. They were made on Monday last.
Gov. Davis, of Massachusetts, and Gov.
Seward, of New York, promptly granted
the requisitions. Gov. Cleveland, of
Connecticut, although he has not positively
refused, ha ot yet granted one.. .Pet. Int.
Attempt at Assassination. One of the
most atrocious attempts to take away the
life of a respectable citizen that it has ev
er fallen to our lot to record, occurred
last Saturday night, about ten o'clock, in
the first ward of this city, at a building noi
fir distant from the Executive Mansion.
Two assassins entered the studio of Mr.
Pettrich, the sculptor, and after a severe
struggle stabbed him in two places. This
fiend like and cowardly attack was made,
as it is thought, by two white men with
their faces blacked. Mr Pettrich received
two stabs on the left breast and in the ab
domen, with a(sword-cane or pointed in
strument, which entered obliquely. It is
tho't by Dr. Miller, the attending surgeon,
that Mr. Pettrich may recover, although
the wounds are severe and his situation is
critical. We understand that the Mayor,
who received information of the occurrence
about 11 o'clock, remained with Mr.
Pettrich until 12 o'clock on the night of the
atrocious outrage, and took steps to set the
city police on the alert for the apprehension
of the assassins; to whom no clue, however,
has yet been found. It is earnestly to be ho
ped that their efforts ma)' prove successful.
Since writing the above we have just
learned from Dr. Miller (at 8 o'clock, P.
M .) that Mr. Pettrich is better.
National Intelligencer.
Munificent Donation. John Jacob
Astor, of New York, has given four hun
dred thousand dollars, for the purpose of
establishing a Library in that city, and a
grant of Land in La Fayette Pl.iceon which
to erect the building. It was erroneously
stated that he had given $30. 000 and we
thought that a large sum. But four hun
dred thousand! Surely that man John
Jacob Astor "must be the philosopher's
stone." Hal. Stand.
Cotton. It is admitted by the most en
lightened manufacturers in America, that
the present depression in the cotton manu
facture ol the United States, is owing mainly
to the deranged state of the currency, and
the glutted slate of the. foreign markets,
caused by over production. The world, of
late years, seems to have bten inundated
with Cotton. America has overstocked
England with the raw material, and Eng
land has overstocked the world with the
manufacture. Petersburg Statesman.
Extensive Hobbery. The Ballimore
Clipper says that a gentleman whose name
is S. M. Pike, a passenger from Mobile,
arrived in Philadelphia about two o'clock
on Monday morning by the night line from
Baltimore. After leaving the depot he
proceeded to Oltenkirk's Tavern, at the
S. E. corner of Eleventh & Market street
engaged a room, went to bed, and lefi
his door Unlocked. During the time
he was asleep, his room was entered
and his trunk carried off, containing S2300
in gold, two five hundred dollar I reasury
notes, $1000 in ten dollar notes of a Boston
Bank, and three thousand dollars worth of
watches. 1 he vigilance of the police was
immediately put into n quisition, but so
far without detecting the lobber.
From the Pittsburg Jid vacate.
Jin hour in a Powder Mill. The
Pittsburg Powder Mills are situated on the
north banks of the Monongahela, about two
and a half miles from the city. For the
purpose of lessening the disasters attending
explosion, the building cover a large ex
tent of ground, and each of the many pro
reuses to which the material is subject be
fore it is turned in the form with which the
world is loo familiar, is performed in a
separate building. These buildings are
connected together by a railway.
But to begin at the beginning
Good
gunpowder, such as Mr. .Watson makes,
requires good charcoal; young and sound
wood is required, the water maple being
cj a
the most desirable.- Of thdf Mr. WatsO
has large plantations, which field whai
wood h rprinirrt, bpside9 furnishing a
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considerable number" of ycfung tree's to the?
citizens for ornamental purposes. There
are also on the premises plantations of ayca
more for hoop poles, which yield about
5000 per year per quarter of art aCre
From the plantations wevent to the stearrt
engine. And here the dread of fireY which,
habit has made a second nature to the
powder-maker, has suggested a number of
ingenious contrivances toprevent ifscdming
in contact with the "villanous saltpetre."
The smoke from the fires under the boil-
ers is conveyed undtf ground some300feetf
and then by a Chimney 60 feet high itf
carrie I off, at a supposed safe distance. Iri
directly the opposite direction the steam
is carried a considerable distance under
ground to the engine, which is distant from
the place where the last processes -which
by its aid the powder undergoes some 700
feet. The engine has six boilers attached
to it, each 30 inches in diameter, and 22
feet S inches long, and consumes 45 bush
els of coal per day.
The wood'is converted into charcoal by
being burned in large cast iron retorts, and
the gas that is evolved is conveyed by pipes'
into the fire under ihe retort by which one
third of the fuel which would be otherwise
be necessary is saved. The pyroligne
ous acid which the wood contain and
which this process evolves, it is the pur
pose of M. Watson to distill into trine
gar, as soon as his arrangements for that
purpose can be effected.
We followed the charocat Into the Cortf
pounding house." Hereafter having beeri
crushed between rollers, it is placed in a
hollow cast iron globe, in which are a con
siderable number of small balls; these
globes are made to revolve rapidly, which
speedily reduces it to impalpable powder
It is then-put with the other ingredients, 111'
the proporiions of 15 of charcoal, 10 of Sul
phur, and 76 of nitre, into a "mixing bar
rel, "which is made to revolve 36 times pef
minute.
From the mixing barrel it is taken to the'
"mill house," where 4 large roller's of cast
ison, weighing about 250 pounds each, of
the shape of mill stones, placed. on end
chase each oiher round a cast iron circle
weighing 70,000 lbs. Under these roller
it is crushed for about five hours, and then!
it is taken to the "press-room." In the
press-room it is put in layers between
cloths and boards alternately and aubjeO
jected to the immense pressure of a hy
draulic press. This is done to condense
the powder into a solid substance. The
cakes or slabs are then taken to another
building and passed through a pair of coarse
ly grooved rollers, which break it intd
small lumps. This is the first process of
-graining.
These lumps are then placed ofi shelves irt'
a room heated by steam for the purpose df
being partially dried, when they are agaitif
passed through various rollers, until the
desired grain is obtained. From the rol
lers, the gunpowder, as ' it may now tnr
termed, passes through a hopper In a re
volving wire cylinder, the different de
grees of fine'ies in the length of which
scieen it into as many kinds of powder; the
finest, which is mere dust, is taken back to
be leworked.
The remainder is placed in barrels, shout
25C lbs in eich, which are made rapidly
to revolve for the purpose of "glaring" it.
Bui one operation now remains, and that i
the final drying, which is effected in the
manner in w Inch we have before described.
It is then taken to the packing house, and
from that lo the "magazine," which is a
fire proof building at a long distance front
the rest of the works.
National Debt of the European C6verrt"
menls in 1842.
Great Britain, 790,000,000
France, 220,000,000
Austria, 85,000,000
Holland, 82,000,000
Spain, 75,000,000
Russia, 00,000,000
Belgium, (Old and New,) 50,000,000
Prussia, 26,000,000
Naples, 20,000,000
C recce, 4,600,000
Denmark, 4,150,000
Portugal, 3.500,000
The National Debt of Great Britain ex
reeds Ihe debts of the eleven Powers
above enumerated by 3159,741,000. It
is also equal to 'SS6 4s. 7d. per day since
the creation of Ihe world, though opwafds
of .700,000.000 of it was contracted in fif
four ears only, during the reign of George
the Third.
Alia Falsehood. The report that a!
scholar in one of the schools in Lynn, say
the Boston Bee, was tied op by his heels'
md whipped by the instructress of Ihe
chool, and was found dead in his bed Ihe
noii mnrnincr- is contradicted. The Chair-
i man of the School Committee of that town
I . ...
has addressed a note to trie editor ol the
Post, in which he says "there is not one
I word of truth in the report."
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