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?7inff Xo. 870. Tarhnrnvgh, (Edgecombe County , JS'.C.J Saturday, jYovembtr 5 I8-13 Xic Tarborough Press BT G BO KGB HOWATtD. I" published weekly at Tivo Dollars and Fifty rC7is per year, if paid in advance or Three ..7rsai trie expiration 01 tne subscription yv.n. ;,nr anj period less than a year, Tivciity-fice rtpr rinntli. S?'harrihr are at libertV to : : :ui;:n at any time, on giving notice thereof in i paying arrears those residing ai a uismm.e, 'n v.'. ir.v iririhly pay in advance, or give a respon ail.it retertMice in this vicinity. Advertisements not exceeding a square will be inserted at One Hollar the first insertion, and 25 cents f :r evry continuance. Longer advertise ments in like, proportion. Court Orders and Ju lie ial advertisements 25 per cent, higher. Ad- ni nie:iis must be marked the number of in sertions required, or theywill be continued until jtherwise ordered and charged accordingly. Lf iters addressed to the Editor must be post paid or t'ney may notbe attended to. FOR THE TAHBORO PRESS. The following lines were wriiten after dream ing three nights over a piece of wedding cakei A DREAM. She came to me with deep blue eyes, With golden eurls as bright As stars that 9hine in the skies, All on a summer's nighti Her cheek were red as any rose, That ever grew on land; And just between them breathed a nose. That takes the fairest standi Her lips they lookd as soft and sweet, As honey in its prime; And evry time her heart did beat, She breath'd a breath like thyme. Her teeth were white as ivy fair, Without one rotten speck; Thpre beat beneath her flowing hair. Veins of an angel's neck. Her bosom oh, how very fair, It heav'd at ev'ry breath, A sigh, the poet might compare To the last sigh of death. Her hands they were as white as milk, (For she didn't wear a glove;) TVy felt as soft as any silk, And warm as any love. Hrfeet they wore so small a shoe, I now forget the size; If I should tell you number two, Pray open not your eyes. A question I ask'd, then she spoke An answpr you may guess I bit my lips a?'d thought I'd choke, When she didn't tell me, yes! RUSTY NAIL. MESMERISM. A Uule p'eismtry, unmixed with malice jhotild never give ofiVnce;and the gravity cf ti" - S!?'eman may, without any com promise of dignity, unbnd at a touch from !,e wand of the man in motley. We can i f vouch for the truth of the facts related i. the following Communication which ap , .-3rrtd in the "Harp and Compiler" of Sat 'jrrlav; Hut as ('rue or fanciful) they should ive offence to nobody, we have transfer red them to our columns, as a well told storv. liy the, way, although we do not counte nance the intrusion of the Press into the rivoy of the President's retirement, we ;..; act tefrain from relating a little anec dote, as it was related t us, of an incident transpired during his stay at the "Kip :p--..,J Anions; the visitors on one occa sion was an honest Emer.ilder, who had ken his 'morning' a little too freely in o.her words, he was conjured by the bottle imp. Conscious that he was not as .uiftht as he ought to be, he became both ered and confused in the presence of Maj esty, so th-tt, although most courteously re ceived by ihn President, his head turned round, and the fiend took the opportunity t jerk the Chair fiom under him just as hi' thought h; was seating himself in it! A way went his heels, and in the attempt bring them hack to his support they came in contact with the Centre table, well nigh demolishing an Antral Lamp and do ing other mischief. The President, who did not covet the honor of such a prostra tion, was the fir.st to extend his hand to raise him up, and with many excuses for a licketty chair, uneven floor, &c. and en quiries if he ha 1 sustained any injury, re-a-sured the unfortunate wight and brought him to his recollection, and to the gift of the gab. Whereupon with the ready wit of an Irishman he exclaimed; "Well, 1 can say what cannot be said by any other man in company; I was raised by the President of the United States In a little time, honest Pat became very sociable with the President, and, at parting, reminded him that whatever else he might do he must be Mire and give us a United States Bank This was a bit of a blunder in him, to be ure; but the President assured him that he should have a Bank of some sort, even if it as an oyster bank. Noroik Herald. uy ifjf. J... 71 - Mr. Editor: If the following facts are vorlh publishing, you are at liberty to us? them. It is said that persons of nervous temper ament and weak in bodily health and mind. are me nesr. sunjects lor a mesmeric opera tion. This Mr. Fisk found to be true bv his experiments on Mr. Tyler. Mr. Fisk arrived here last Tuesdiv and was imme diately sent for by the President to visit him at the Kip Raps. Mr. Fisk repaired thither with alacrity, thinking perhip the President might wish to give him an office, but such was not the cas he wished to be mesmerised! Mr. Fik very willingly agreed to make the trial, but expressed hi-, doub9 about succeeding (no doubt think ing of the many vetoes.) However, after he arrangements were made, Mr. Fisk re quested permission should he put him to slep, to crry him as fr as possible, as he wished to try some experiments with the two sciences, Phrenology and Mesimrism. Mr. Tyler consented, as he doubted things he had heard about the science, and because he wished to satisfy himself and the gentle men present:- ind he hoped, should he say any thing improper in his sleep, that it would be in confidence. A rocking chair was placed in the centre of the floor, and the President took his seat. Mr. Fisk proposed to magnetise a glass of waier for the President to drink, but he objected a? he had been afflicted with the bowel com plaint, and by the use of Bernard's Cholera remedy he had recovered, and he drank ns little water as possible; but if it was actually necessary, he would drink it with a few drops of brandy to take the cold ff. Mr. I isk willingly agreed to the proposition, and expressed it as his opinion that the more brandy that was mingled with the water the deeper the sleep. The glass of .vater was drank with the accompaniment, and silence was observed. Mr. Fisk made several passes and Mr. Ty ler began to look drowsy; at last one eye was closed and the other a little open, as much as to say, I should like to see the operation,' but a few passes on that side closed it fast. Mr. Fisk asked Mr. Wise to speak to the President, which he did, but received no answer. It was clearly shown that Mr. Tyler was in a mesmeric sleep. Mr. Fisk explained to the gentlemen present how the two sciences should be brought together, and that he would show the effect produced by magne tising any particular organ. Some one of the gentlemen wished him to magne tise the organ of Mune.' and another knowing the President was fond of good living wish ed the organ of 'alimentiveness' touched al so. Mr. F sk said it would be very prop er to magnetise both at once, which he did, and the rffect was astonishing. After pla cing his fingers on the two oigans, the President commenced singing. "Come landlord fill the flowing bowl, Until it does run over, For this night we'll merry merry be, And to-morrow we'll get sober." You cannot imagine the astonishment of those present, but it ended in a hearty laugh, and the experiments were continued. The next was the organ of 'self esteem': he arose and walked across the room with an air of importance, (as much as to say, keep out of the way of my nose.) and at the will of the magnetiser he took his seat. The next organ magnetised was 'benevolence,' and he thrust his hand in his pocket and produced a half dollar; Mr. Fisk asked him what he wished to do with the money, and he said he would treat, which produced another laugh. Several other experiment were tried with similar results. I am fearful that I am spinning too long, and will wind up by saying, that whoever had doubted Magnetism as a science should have witnessed this scene, and their doubts would vanish like snow before the summer sun; and it appears that Mr. Fisk possesses the magnetic power to a surprising degree, as the cause that Mr. Tyler has pursued in opposition to the show that elected him, and his Roman firmness, a decision of char acter and strength of mind that would give the lie to magnetism. Old Point, Oct. 1, 1842. Z. Ji Singular Caie. The last Boston Medical and Surgical Journal contains a wonderful account of an examination of the heart of a living person, through the cavity in theche-t, by Wm. Harvey, the discove rer of the circulation of the blood. The subject was a young man of nineteen years of age, who, when a child, suffered from a fracture of the ribs, which ulcerated, and finally healed up, leaving the aperture u pen. Over the hole a small plate was worn to preserve the par's from injury. The heart and ventricles were handled by Harvey, and without pain to the subject, whence he concluded that the heart is de prived of the sense of feeling. Shocking Death. We regret to learn that James Galbraith, the driver of the 1 mail stage between this place and the Alum President Tyler Mesmerised Fisk. "Hungs, was inrown Irom his box On ves - terdav and instantly killprl Th fnni board which is attached to the driver's seat j - J ......... . ..v, ..v. gave way, in consequence of which he ws thrown amongst the horses, and the whe Nofth'2 stage, heavily freighted with mail b.igs and passengers, passed over his 'uu, and nisiarniv occasioi30 nis cieain. Valley Star, October 6. S'm vtl'ir ejTdd of Mirtification. We undc stand th'a' Dr. Whitney, of Newton, Upper Falls, was called upon a short time sine-, together with a student in Ids oiFiee. to make a post niorte n examination of a woman who hail died in a neighboring town. Mortification had set in before thy subject died; and, in the examination, the uioriified prtrts, it is supposed, cone in con 'act with a small eratch on the bind ot both the operators. Both Dr. W. and his siti deni were soon taken sick, tinder circum stances which left no doubt that they had imbibed a poison from the dead bod v during the post mortem examination. The stu dent died in a few days; but Dr. W.. al though fear were entertained atone time for his life also, has become convalescent. Boston Mail. Loss of steamer Merchant and loss of I'f'- 1'he New Orleans papers of the 8in iust. contain accounts of the total loss, in a gale of wind, of the steamer Merchant, bound from that port for (Jalveston, Texas, together with the loss of eight of her crew and passengers. The Merchant left New Orleans on the 2d instant, with seventy- two passengers. On the next day, during a gale, she sprung a leak; and on the morning of the 4th, before daylight, she was run ashore, upon an uninhabited island, with five feet water in the hold. She was not long in this situation, before she was bro ken up by the violence of the waves most of the passengers, including all the ladies and children, were floated off on the upper deck, and reached the shore in safety. Several remained upon the engine part of the wreck, and were next day rescued by a schooner. The steamer and cargo (a valuable) a total loss, without insurance. A most singular circumstance occurred as the vessel struck. A young man from New Orleans, named Jonah VV. Baker, a passenger, had been observed to be exceed ingly agitated, and was heard audibly praying, calling on his Maker for mercy and forgiveness. Just at this juncture," he drew a pistol, and firing, killed a passenger dead; and then, drawing another, shot him self also dead. The name of the passenger killed was not known. It was impossible for those who observed it to say whether the shooting of his fellotv-passenger was accid ental, or whether it had been mutually agreed upon between them to die in that way in preference to being drowned. Ball Sun. Memphis, (Tenn.) September 30. Murder and jlrr est. A Mr. Camcr on, resuiing tour miles trom Jtaicigh in i j this county, on the La Grange road, was I murdered on Monday night last, by a man ,nampd Abram Spears, a neighbor and bro- ther.in-law of the deceased. Snears fled immediately after perpetrating the horri ble deed but was pursued and yr rested in ArkansH, about eight miles from this city, on Tuesday last, and after examination j committed for trial at the October term of tne tyircuii uourt. me tacts eucited in the examination present the matter in the light of a premeditated murder. Enquirer. -i " . t-s , w,i r .... , Melancholy Occident. We regret to learn, that while Mr. Thomas P. Jordan, of the county of Piince George, was hunt ing on Friday, his gun was accidentally discharged, and the Whole load entered his abdomen Mr. Jordan was alive yester day morning, but we hear that Physicians entertain no hope of his recovery. Pet. Intel. fln old Times Speculator. The debts due by the estate of John Nicholson, once the partner of Robert Morris, cf revolu tionary memory, are said to amount to twelve millions of dollars'. (JfThe editor of the New Bedford Reg ister, noticing the report that John Quincy Adams had volunteered his services to de fend Messrs. Anthony and Pearce, says: "On Vednesday we conversed with the gentleman who called upon Mr. Adams in relation to the subject, and by him we are informed that it is true. Mr. Adams de elated it as his opinion that the People's Constitution was framed and adopted in ac cordance with the first principles of our in stitutions; that it is the established consti tution of Rhode Island, and the supreme law of the State; that Thomas W. Dorr is the rightful and legitimate Governor of Rhode Island, and that there is no escaping irom there conclusions." Pet. Statesman Accidental Death. We have the mel ancholy duty of recording the death of i c .. - ... j vv uiani t-ooke. second son of the hnn.ira. ' Hp Matt. rnnh r I i i- ! year? uuuRr, III ljClV .1 U1V II. a"t-ii I I He was kilh d by the discharge o! a gnri in the hands of his elder brother The rifle had been lent, and, unknown to the vonus? men. u-arpinmprl Li.IaiI Thn ! elder brother had been wioin it. The nine ws disdm-d. the hal passing inrougn tne hoctv ot the deceased m the stom ieh, p?i forating one lobe of the liver Ihose who knew him. speak of him as a young man of much promise, of amiable depot tment, with t dents and attainments bevon.l his years. He had his reason, and met his fate with unusual fortitude. Lnckport Democrat. Fatal Jlccident A gentleman named Parker Douglass, of Middleborough, Mas., ie!t his home on Wednesday last, on a hooting excursion. Not returning, it cre ated some alarm, and diligent search was made till Saturday, when his body was discovered in the wooils in Taunton, near Mr. M rick's, shot through the head. Hr had a double-barrelled gun; and, it is sup posed, while loading one, the other wns discharged, which proved fatal His dog was found in a famished condition, lying by his body. Bait Sun. Dreadful Steamboat Accident Great lass of life. A slip from the office of the Cincinnati Sun brings the following mel ancholy intelligence. It says:- "By the arrival of the steamboat Carrier, we learn that the steamboat Eliza, on Thursday e vening. 2 o'clock, in the Mississippi, two miles above the mouth of the Ohio, sunk to the hurricane deck. Fortv passengers are supposed to have been drowned, and a mong tlvm the captain's wife and child. The Carrier rounded to, but could not ren der any assi-tanre. The Eliza was bound for New Orieans. " (j!JnThe Florida papers give disastrous account of the effects of the recent gale, on ihe cotton crop. The Tallahassee Star says that half a million of dollars will not make up for the losses to Middle Florida. The cot ton crop in Louisiana. The St. Martinsville Creole says that the inces sant rains have caused immense loss to the planters, the picking having been arrested and the cotton on the plant, of course, en tirely destroyed. A change of weather and a long dry spell,, can alone save our cotton planters this.year from total ruin. The Louisiana "Chroniclejtand Red River Re publican, hold similar language. I Mexican Splendir The New Orleans Picayune says: On the evening after Mr. Curson, the hearer of despatches to Mexi co, left the capital, there was to be a grand ball in honor of the late victories of Santa Anna's troops at Laguna. A room in the palace Ind been filled up for the occasion, the hangings and tiappings of which cost 10,000! A throne was erected in the room, on which His Majesty was to be seated. fjpAt Philadelphia, on Thursday lasf, in the Court of Common Pleas, an action was broi.ght by Caleb E. Chambers against the Philadelphia and Baltimore Railroad Com pany, to recover the value of certain bun dles of leather delivered by the former to the Company, to be forwarded to Wilming ton in the State of Delaware. It appeared on the trial the goods reached their destin ation in safety. The consignee neglecting to call for them, they were placed in the Com pany's warehouse, from which they were subsequently stolen. The Court charged the jury, that the risk of the defendants as common carriers terminated on the arrival of the goods at Wilmington, the place of their destination; and that, as no further duty remained to he done by them, their responsibility as carriers ceased. From the time the goods were in the storehouse of the defendants, they occupied the relation of warehousemen to the plaintiff; and it Was only for the jury to pay, whether the defendants in securing the property in ques tion, in the manner exhibited by the tes timony, had exercised the ordinary care which the law required. The Jury, after short consultation, rendered a verdict for the defendants. Means of Renewing poor Lands. A No. Carolina paper says it -is a well-established fact, that any lot of poor land may be enriched to almost any extent, by planting it from year to year with sweet pot-dos, and turning in the whole crop of tines even autumn. Let our planters try the experi ment and satisfy themselves. Select a piece of your old fields, and be willing to incur the triv'ial expense of seed and plant ing. How soon can you r-claim all your old pine fields which now make such an uu- sightly appearance among your best planta tions. Another Warning to the Intemperate. VVe l arn by a letter from Rcidsvill (Rockingham county, N. C.) that Mr Madison P. Legrand who attended the w General Review at the place, on Wednes day, of last Wr-ek, obtained leave of the" 'com minding officer, at an early hour of the thy, to return home with medicine for a sick child The request being granted, the infatuated individual betook himself to thestmd where the '-Devil's dfops' were Q ilt out with a liberal hand, arid becoming intoxicated, remained on the field until nearly sun set, when mounting, not his own horse but that of another, he proceeded in the direction of his home. The return of the horse, without the rider, exVued sospi Ciou tint all was not right. His family b came alarmed and a setrch was instituted and lept up until Friday evening, when ids bjdy was found in the middle of a mill pond which was about a mildtYom the road which he travelled. He was tracked to the pond by one of the company. Our corres pondent writes thit "when the body was borne home, the ciitsof his fond children, the soul-agonizing glance of his sick little son and the shrieks of his siflertionate and fHirt.cd wife, exclaiming in despair 'Oh that death, that untimely death, which has deprived me of a husbmd, and my dear litde babes of a father; oh that awful death, which has snatched from us our only earthly fiieud," combined to make up a scene of deep distress, awful and impr ssive beyond lescnption. ' Danville Reporter. Charleston, October 17. The Br. brig Hector, Anderson, arrived at this port on Saturday evening last, from Liverpool, fell in on the 1 1th ins1, in Lat. 3 3 01, Long 11 40, with the schr. John Hughes, ('apt. Lewis, of and from NcW bein, (N. C.) with a cargo of Lumber lor Barbidoes, bottom up; took off from the bottom Jack M;Glin, a slave, and one of the crew, the property of Thomas McGlin of Newbern, (N. C.) He states that the J. H. was capsised on the. 6th inst. whilst lying to under a storm staysail. The whole of the crew were in the cabin at the time. Capt. Lewis, one of the crew and himself, atier remaining two days in the cabin with the water waist deep,dove thro the cabin windows, the Capt. and the other man perished before they could reach the bottom of the vessel; the cook, a black man, was drowned in the cabin shortly after the capsise. and other two men were also drow ned in the cabin in endeavouring to escape through the companion way. The survivor was on the bottom of the vessel 3 days when fallen in with by the Hector. The following are the names of the lost that composed the crew. Capt. Lewis, Postage, Mate, (christian name unknown,) Dennis Gregorie, Asa Ca sey, & George McGlin, a black man, crew. Fall of Tourists from a Deep Precipice in Switzerland. dreadul accident lately occurred to M. Brossard, professor of Philosophy at the College of Bourg, and his lady, and Madame De La Flechere, a friend," whilst making an excursion in an open carriage. In going down a steep de rlivitv the rens gave way, and the horses dashed over a precipice 300 feet deep, dragging the carriage after them. Madame Brossard was killed on the spot; M. Bros said was seriously hurt, but is expected to recover: Madame De La Flechere, who was thrown out as the carriage was falling down, caught by some shrubs grown out of t he side of the precipice, and was scarcely injured. Qplnthe neighborhood of Cincinnati on the 10th instant, a bufglar was killed under the fo!!ovirig circumstances, as rela ted in the Cincinnati Republican. A negro man named "Jake," who has been the well known porter for Mn Win. P. Rice and his successor Mr. Piatt, for two or three years, w"as killed, last Mon day night, in attempting to break into the dwelling house of a farmer, in Mill Creek Township, about six miles out. Jake ap pears to have been the associate of two or three white men, and stood at the door watching, while they went in to secure the plunder. The farmer sprung from his bed, took down a double-barreled gun, atfd dis charged the contents of one barrel into the breas of Jake and the otner at one oi nis .i . IT i. I .Kn n . associates, but witnotu eweci, anu men es caped out of a window, and alarmed a neighbor. In the mean time tne roooers escaped with a little plunder, and left Jake mortally wounded, ne was Drougni into the city, and died in Jail last Tuesday night, after confessing that he had been ngaged in several robberies. It is well i-nough to add for the information of black legs and burglars, that most ot our nouse weepers are now prepared to give them the ame reception as was experienced by their black associate Jake. (TTA Louisiana paper mentions the ,-eceipl ofa Souh American plant which lears potatoes above ground, just the same s grapes, and as profuse. (rpflusband, 1 (,t,,,,t know where !,Jat lovgot his bad temper not from me, I'm ure. No. my dear for I don't pi eeiv hat you havs'lost any I
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