Whole JVV 871.
Tnrhornvsrb. (Edgecombe County , JV. V.J balurduy, November 13, it43.
Vol. XVill JVo 45.
The Ta thorough Prcss
BY GEORGE HOWARD,
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FOR THE TAKBOItO PRESS.
WOMAN.
Daughters of beauty, choice of beings made.
Much praised, much blamed, much loved, but
fairer far,
Than aught beheld, than aught imagined else.
Pollok.
Hail, lorely woman! brightest star,
Heaven's hand has sent us here;
Thou art a gem too precious far,
For earth a prize for man too dean
Would that I thy worth could tell.
The beauty of thy heart could show;
My numbers in thy praise should swell,
For thee my verse should overflow.
With youth and beauty sparkling o'er
Her sunny brow angelic form.
What man on earth would ask for more.
To add to life a better charm.
Upon her fair and tender cheek.
In living freshness blush the rose;
To the heart of man more sweet,
Than that which in the garden grows.
And in her eye there is a beam,
From man's heart can drive dull care;
And like the magic of some dream,
Restore sweet hope and comfort therei
Woman! ah, thy heart's a prize,
That no earthly wealth can buy;
The only boon, from yonder skies.
For which man brooks his destiny
Yes, within thy heart's a spell,
Which makes us hug the chains of life;
Which makes us love on earth to dwell.
And e'en endure the din of strife
Woman! lovely, harmless thing,
How could we exist without thee;
For thee we to existence cling,
For thee we bear its niiseryt
Within man's heart no rankling care,
Can spring when lovely woman's by;
Let woman enter where'er we are,
And all our gloomy visions fly.
Whether amid the raging sea.
The princely hall or desert lone.
If woman's there, where'er we be,
A magic o'er the heart is thrown.
Woman! thy fund aud geulle heart,
'Is a beauty, and a mystery;"
Lovely, gentle, as thou art,"
Life's an empty dream without thee.
When innocence and virtue n ild,
with beauty empire o'er thee hold;
Sweet is then thy sunny smile,
"As holy incense o'er the souli"
Thou art a beauty and delight.
And to the soul of man divine;
For where he wants thy holy light.
He sinks beneath his noble kind.
Woman! heaven made thfe fair
For man to him was given,
His good, his ill, his hopes to share,
And to direct his soul to heaven.
Her bosom, softer than the down,
Upon the tender cygnet's breast;
Oh, like the healing balm 'tis found,
To the soul of man distrest
Yes, when man's heart is wrapp'd in gloom,
All one desolated pile;
what care his dying hopes relume.
The light from gentle woman's smile.
Woman! what a sacrifice,
Is thy tender heart to man;
For thy faith a fatal price,
It is thine too oft to scan.
Woman! we can tell thy worth,
No better than this much to say;
There is no real joy on earth,
when thy lovely light's away.
Beauty, virtue, goodness, all,
All are thine still men asperse
Thy angel name aud miscall
Thy sweetness beauty, "man's worst curse.''
He does not woman understand,
(Nor deserves her worth to know,)
who thinks that tender creature can
Prove a traitress to her vow.
Why is lovely woman fair,
And all beauty to her given
why to man's heart is she most dear,
If not the richest gift from heaven
Who has heaven kindly bound,
In sympathy to the sex;
who when dangers o'er her frown.
Steps in her tender frame protects
And when her young and tender brow,
Is wrung by rude misfortune's hand,
who should minister to her wo?
Heaven answers it is man.
But I tell it with ablush,
woman'i guardian, man, is seen
The fairest flowerg of earth to crush,
Blasting woman like her fiend.
Yes, the man that can betray
woman's fond confiding breast.
Deny him, heaven, the light of day,
Deny his bosom peace or rest.
Should these verses be considered too hyper
bolical, 1 have to say in extenuation of my crime,
that I have an illustrious precedent as Pollok him
selfnot to say many others. I choose Pollok
for an example, from the circumstance of his hav
ing been an enthusiastic divine at the time he
wrote the "Course of Time," and inconsequence
the last man from whom we should have expected
to have heard
"Daughters of beauty,
' fairer far
Than aught beheld, than aught imagined else;
Fairer and dearer than all else most dear
When found sufficient bliss, &c."
If the subject of woman then did lure the devoted
Pollok off the track of his rp.licrions liplihoratiniu
so far, it may not at all be wondered at, if as insia-
: c . i ! . "
iiiuudiu anu irreligious a worm as myselt may be
found wandering in the labyrinths of female eulu
gium. More especially, when the fact is taken
into consideration that 1 am one of those whn
deem it impossible for man to commit extrava
gance in tne praise ot temale pertection.
IV, E. J. S.
From the Fayetteville Carolinian. j
Mr. Calhoun and the Glob?. ThJ
Ma lisonian charges the Globe with being
hostile to Mr Calhoun as the candidate fur
he Presidency. After giving a denial ol
of the assertion, the Globe says: .
44 As to Mr. Oalhou n, we think that our
paper has long since shewn, that with us,
"by gones are by-gones." We did, in
former times, say some pretty hard thing
of him; and we are afraid, in return, as
hard things were said of us. Hut we have
long since sat down in the same council
house, and smoked the calumet the Indian
pipe ot peacej together. Uur war-
hatchets are unbuued, only to wet them to
the eyes in the blood of our common ene
mies; and, should a national convention ap
point him our great chief, we will follow
his war-path and fight in his shade as long
as a foe to the great democratic tribe re
mains to darken our skies with the smoke
of his wigwam, or leave his track upon the
leaves of our hunting grounds."
That is a very pretty paragraph very
pretty; but we doubt not that Mr. Blair
deeply regrets the circumstances which
called it forth; and we regret as much as he
can, that any of the Democratic Editors
should let passion and political prejudice
carry them so far beyond the bounds of
propriety, as to "auy some pretty hard
things" of their political opponent. In
the first place it is morally wrong; aud in
the second place, it often leids to embar
rassment, and gives our opponents rich
jokes to crack at our expense; as in the
present case, between the Globe and Mr.
Calhoun. It is one of the worst things a
political editor can do; for in the course of
time and change, we know not whit may
turn up If we difft r to-day, we may agree
to-morrow. Then if we have called no
hard names, how easy the te union. Then,
instead of any ing off from each oihcr it
would be a pleasure to embrace.
But such is the error of partiznnism.
Not an editor but what has fallen into this
error old aud young whigand democrat
and a grievous error it is. But let it be
no more. Let us live like brothers; and
when one diflers from another, point out
his errors and convince him by arguments;
aud do not, by saying 4ome pretty hard
things" about him, drive him still farther
off from us, and thus, perhaps, forever
close the door to re-union with us.
" Them's my sentiments," Messrs. Edi
tors.
Jlnimul Magnetism. This is the name
given to an influence, supposed to be exer
cised by one individual on another, thro
means of a fluid or emanation, or merely a
s'tong volition, by which the patient is
thrown into a profound slumber, and
while in that state, appears to see clearly
and to describe objects accurately, though
the eyes are bandaged so closely as to pre
vent the possibility of deception in the
matter. The subject is, at this time, ex
citing quite a sens.ttion in various parts of
the country; particularly in Virginia,
where an animated controversy is kept up
in the papers, between those who b lieve
in. the doctrine, and those who do not. As.
at present advised, we are inclined to con
sider the whole affiir a humbug; but our
opinion may be changed when we have an
opportunity of witnessing some of the
wondeiful effects which are said to be pro
duced by the magnetic influence. The ac
count which we publish in another p un of
this paper, of experiments recently made
by Dr. McCabe, who is spoken of as a lit
erary and scientific gentleman, is, certain
ly both interesting and wonderful, and we
commend it to the reader's attention.
There are more things in heaven and
arth, than are dreamed of in our philoso
phy," and there may be something in An
.limal Magnetism, whether produced by
sympathy, imagination, imitation or cre
dulity, or all combined, we will not now,
Venture ah opinion. Raleigh Reg.
Electro-Magnetism. We perceive by
some of our Northern exchange papers,
aim learn trom other sources, that Edectro-
Magnetism is at this time a favorite sub-!
jeei lor popular lectures both in this coun-jty
try and in Europe; that it is in tact, acqui-j
ing high reputation with medical men as
a remedial agent in the treatment of disea
ses of the nervous system. Norfolk Bea.
Result of Galvanism. Mr. William
I J W! I i . . v .
i. omgieion Drought to our otnee this mor- iw.j cents, aim sold to dealers on arrival
ning a copper die, on which is engraven here, at four rents a quart. The road earn
the seal of the St. Louis Mechanics' lnsti-.ediu ihe whoiu, during the month, $10,
lute. The impression is most distinct and 18OO, of which 56.600 was received fo
very beautiful but so far there is nothing j freight, and JS4,00 for paeng rs. The
wonderful in the description. It is only i jni'k produced, at h df a cent a quart, J5464.
when it is understood that the work was:
performed in Jive days at an expense of
jive dollars by galvanism, whereas it
would by the manual method, have taken
four months, and cost Jive hundred dolla-s
The process was carried on under the eye
of M. Lewis Clark, President of the Insti
tute, and being the result of the first at
tempt of the kind in this place, is highly
gratifying St. Louis Bulletin.
(JA German journal gives the follow
ing account of what it designates as one of
those wonders in which electrical chemis
try is so fertile.
A pupil of Berzelius, who was occupy
ing himself in Sweden with galvanic gil
ding, having used in his apparatus the skin
of a sheep, on which there was some of the
wool remaining, perceived that they be
came partially covered with the gold.
Struck with the incident, he followed up
he idea it suggested, and in time produ
ced an entire golden fleece, preserving the
wool in its original state as to texture and
flexibility. Living in a village, the young
stvan showed the wonderful production to
his neighbors, but the fanatical and igno
rant peasants, regarding him as a practiser
of the black art, attacked his laboratory,
broke all his utensils to pieces, and com
pelled him to fly without his fleece to Up
sal, where he was received with kindness
and consideration by the members of the
University, who, by a subscription, not on
ly supplied him with the means of subsis
tence, but established a new laboratory for
him, and aided him in applying his new
discovery to the manufacture of woollen
cloth. We may therefore expect to have
shortly cloths of gold, silver, and platina,
which will entirely supercede our gold
lace and embroidery.
.1 Curiosity. The Fayetteville Caro
linian says: Some days ago we came aeross
j an old black man, from over the river,
I who his the appearance of a negro gradu
ally turning white. His hands and face
ihave large spots, resembling the skin of a
i white person, and we learn from him that
; his body is spotted in the same way; some
bring as large as the two open hands. We
j asked him several questions concerning it,
jand learned that sometime previous to the
iappearanoe of the spots (which appeared
i gradually,) he was bitten in the foot by a
Ismail snake, to which he attributes the ap
i pea ranee of the white spots.
j Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. The
Baltimore American of the 3d inst. an
nounces the completion of the Baltimore
land Ohio Railroad as far westward as Cum
berland, in Maryland, a consummation of
which the State of Maryland, and especial
ly those citizens who have had the control
and direction of the enterprise, have just
reason to be proud. It says:
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad was
completed to Cumberland yesterday even
ing, making an unbroken line of one hun
dred and seventy-eight miles. This mor
ning at seven o'clock, the President and
Directors, are to leave this city for the pur
pose of passing over, for the first time, the
entire road to Cumberland. The trip thi
ther will be made in nine to ten hours.
On Saturday next, the road will be regu
larly used for the conveyance of passen
gers, and on Monday for merchandise. A
long stride westward is thus taken, and
Wheeling is now brought within some
thirty hours, and Cumberland within ten
hours of Baltimore.
Noble and daring exploit. In Vicks
burg, not long since, a number of children
were playing on the verge of a pond, whn
one of them fell into the Water. The
hild was rapidly sinking, when a lad na
med Randolph jumped in with his clothes
on, saved the child, and succeeded in bear
ing him to shore. The parents of the child
sent him SlOO, which he declined accept
ing, saying that he considered the pleasure
of saving the life of his playmate a suffi
cient reward.
Rijle Match. A great Rifle Match has
ately been determined, between Capt.
Llovd. of New York, and two renowned
Swiss marksmen, Frederick Geannel, and!
I'ierrc Henry Montandon, of the town of
Locle. The match was managed as a com
pletely national one, to determine theeom
paratiye excejieuce of Ihe American and
Swiss riflemen: or rather our countryman
assumed, by shooting against two at once.
(both of whom he as to bat, or lose the
wager) thai we hive greatly the sup nori
with the weapon. The issue coufirm-
ed h s boast.
Milk The E rie railroad brought ti
the eiiy of New York 93.000 quarts o
I miiK, during the month .ot September
' 'he milk is bought in Orange count v at
t . . . . J.
1 ' weight ol the milk was 93 tuns.
fl Slave Case. Considerable excite
ment was created in Boston on Wednesday
his-, on account of the arrest of a fugitive
! slave, the property of James B. Crav. f
Norfolk, Va ; theoha'ge agdnt him wa
roubing his master. An attempt at rescue
was m de by several colored peison with
fome white men, hut they did not succeed.
A writ of habeas corpus was sued out b
t'e Supreme Court, and he was brought j
betore tWe n, but after examination thev
remanded hiir. to the custody of the offi
cers of the police court. Bait. Sun.
The Boston Slave Case The Boston
Bee of Monday says: The slave G. org
now in jail under charge of Mr. Wilson, as
the agent of Mr. Gray", on Saturday last
expressed his uesite to return to Norfolk
with his master, if his wife could be p.r
mailed to accompany him. He savs thai ;
he wis seduced away from Noifolk b
fals: repr. seniations f the comfort of th
free negroes at the North; and told hu, if
hv could once get o Boston he would bea
free man, and i expected like a while per
son at the South. He got here safe, and
with money; but the negroes here have
stripped him ufllu latter article, and, when
taken, not a cent was found upon him.
Another Vicim. It is
New York Tribune, that
staled in the
on Tuesday
night, Charles Pool and John May, pain
ters by trade, went out, and about 1 i o'
clock returned home intoxicated, and reti
red to their chambers in the third story of
the house. Soon after, May was seen to
lall out of the third story window upon the
side walk, thereby fracturing his skull, and
otherwise so seriously injuring himself that
he was left insensible, aud being conveyed
to the hospital, he died.
Parricide. The Jackson (Mo) Advo
cate of the Sth inst. contains an account of
the horrid murder of Mr. John Byrd. of
that vicinity, by his wn son. The reason
assigned by the boy, a lad of about 15
yeais of age, was ''alleged ill-treatment,
and the refusal of his father to permit him
to have the use of a gun," for which it
seemed h ' had always entertained a parti
cular desire. He was committed to jail.
JJThet e is now exhibiting at the fair
of the American Institute, New York, a
sm di India rubber boat, no larger than an
ordinary valice, and weighing only fifteen
pounds. It is intended for t vo persons, &
will support a dead weight ol i,ouu pounds.
The beauties of Li ligation. On?
whole week of the Iat t'Tm of the Court
for thi county, was occupied in the trial of
two actions, one -of which had employed
tne Uourt and embarrassed othr.ca?-es in
Court nearly a week at a former term, and
at both trials the damage recovered was but
14 60. while Ihe costs now amount to a
bout $2100. It was a case of flo xage, and
came from the generally quiet and peacea
ble town of Dunbarton. Now while more
than $2000 have been expended by the
parties where the damages were not aboye
14 60, this case has been to the county
and to other litigants an expanse of more
than 555000, as many cas. s which would
otherwise have been settled during th
four days it occupied the Court, have bet n
postponed to the March term, after de
tainingthe parties here to the close of the
Court.
The other ca9e was, that of ihe Slate vs
Dr. John Kenton of this town, lor a riot on
the night of the 4th of July last, which,
after two days' trial, resulted in'a verdict
of guilty, when the fine will no.t be more
than 10, with a cost of at least 500.
Both of these cases might have been ad
justed in ten minutes by the parlies inter
ested, and saved a great amount ol ex
pense to individuals and to the public
V e say not who is most to blame for such
litigation, but certain it is. this is a foolish
way of spending time and money, and no
one but lawyers profit by it. A. Cour.
Sentence of Sarah
Wednesday last, at N w
Freeman. On
Haven, Chiel
Justice Williams pronounced sentence ol
diat.h on this unhappy woman, convicted
before the Superior Court of Connecticut,,
of destroying her child by throwing it into
a vault. She is to be hung on the lSth
day of June next. The following is an ex
tract from the Sentence, which was solemn
and impressive:
The separation of the soul and body, so
wonderfully united, when effected by hu
man means, is always calculated to make
'he stoutest heart to tremble. Murder in
its Jeat offensive form, indicates dreadful
depravity.
But what must be the thought of the de
pravity, which in a Christian land would
lead a mother to detroy her first-born
child, when opening its eyes upon this
new world, and looking for assistance
from her who gave it birth!
The brute beast will watch round its off
spring, and assumes unwonted courage in
its defence; hut you have not only aban
doned your infant child, but have placed it
where you knew it must perish by a most
loathsome death.
In doing this, you have violated the laws
of the State, as well as the laws of God,
and that holy lav of love which he hasim
pl'ittted deep in a mother hert
For the sake qf concealing your guilt in
one offence, you have, as is too common,
fallen into another Jar mor- black and sin
fui; a crime for which the law demands
your life: blood for blood, so it is written.
Snarl of Governors, ,' and -Governors
in a Snal. Governor K'uig sent Gover
nor Arnold to.Governor,Hubbard. to take
Gov D irr; but Gov. Jjubbard told Gov
Arnold to tell Gov. King, that he, Gor.
ernor (iubb.ird, would not deliver to him
(Governor Arnold) Gov rnor Dorr, for the!
gratification of Governor King; as he. Go
vernor Hubbard, did not think that he,
Governor King, was a Gov -rnor after all
and therefore had no right to send a Gover
nor for a Governor. Providence Herald.
(T The New York Express sayn that
the ingenuity and skill of rogues of the
: present time, is unprecedented. A new
method of making money has recently
been devised that is, by taking six one
hundred, fifty, twenty, ten, or five dollar
bills, and so cutting them up as to make
seven bills, thus. gaining ene in six. The
Banks of that city have paid these appa
rently mutilated biUs. buUhev have multi
plied so fast that lately they have determin
ed to pay them no longer. This is the on
ly method to put a stop to it.
(pTherc Is a great deal of counterfeit
Uui ed States coin in circulation, of all the
small denominations, and it is very difficult
to det ct it. As-. to cents, they are manu
factured and sold by the keg just like nails.
The priva'ely manufactured cents are
worth just as much as those made by the
Government, but in silver coin the free
trade plan gets in too much copper.
N. y. Jour. Com.
Edit) irds the Forger. The New York
Chronicle says that Mori roe- Edwards at
tempted to cheat his lawyer, by showing
him a forged letter of credit on a house in
Now Orleans.
Another Diabolical' Outrage. New
York has been the scene df another most
f0,,i and diabolical outrage. A few days
ago, a widow lady, some thirty years of
age, perfectly respectable in character, ar
rived at Harlem from West Point, in
search of her sister. After an unsuccess
ful search there, she started, after dark,
(accompanied by two respectable young
m-n, to lYiannarxansvnie, anu wnneon me
road, they were overtaken by two fiends
in human shape, who, with rlub, knocked
the two young men senseless to the ground,
and then seized and drazzed on the hem-
less woman,. violated her person in the
most brutal manaer, and robbed her of a
bout Si 5, all the money she had. The
young men succeeded in getting back to
Har!em,-lToih much injured. Their un
fortunate victim, the woman, wa found, af
ter two or three days' search, at a house to
which she had been able to crawl, where
he was afforded a shelter and a bed, and
where she is still confined by her injuries.
The villains, though known, are still at
luge
It1 s a fact Western paper says,
that young ladies who are accustomed to
read news papers, ae always observed to
possess winning ways, most amiable dispo
sitions, inv'riably niake good wir.es and
alwaxssel. ct good husbands.. A truer
thing was never said. -
Spicy Pun. -The following toast was
given at a dinner in the. nutmeg-producing
M.te of Connecticut: The Nutmeg
State. Where shall ve find tgruterV
Some wags having fond a fellow drunk,
placed him fia coffin with the lid unfastened
and placed it in a grave yard; the fumes of
.he ljqour having. worn off, and his body
being somewhat confined, he threw, off the
lid and looking round observed,; nell, if I
am not riz firrt, 1 am d-ly belaud.