Tnrhnroiizh, (Edgecombe County , JV C.) Saturday, November i0 1842
'of. ATii -No 40.
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rOR THE TARBORO PRESS.
TO BELV1DERK,
I saw a soft, a bright blue eye,
Sparkling o'er a rosy cheek;
And oer her face a witchery lie,
'Round the unwary heart to creepi
O'er a neck of snowy white,
There slept a soft an auburn tress;
That delays the wayward sight.
Hut deprives the heart of rest.
I saw her teeth, those pearly gem?,
In their native whiteness glow;
Her lips like roses on their stems,
Kmbalm'd in summer dews to blow.
Hers an eye where witchery builds,
Her fatal, soft, and downy nest;
The shaft it hurls most surely kills,
But as the victim dies is blest.
Oh, Belvidere! never hurl
Again those fatal darts at me;
Unless you wish to make a world
Of love within my heart for thee.
LAFITTE.
A LOVE LETTER IN RHYME.
Most worthy of estimation:
Induced by the reputation
You possess in the nation,
I have a strong inclination
To become your relation;
And if this declaration
Meets your approbation,
I shall make preparation
To remove my situation
To a more convenient station
To profess my admiration
Of your high qualification.
Now if such an oblation
And this supplication
Be worthy of observation
And obtain commiseration,
'Twill be an aggrandization
Beyond all calculation
Of the joy and exultation
Of Yours, Sans Dissimulation
From the Rochester (A Y.) Democrat.
A NICE YOUNG MAN.
We announced a week or two since that
a young man by ihe name of Charles H.
Stower, who reoresented himself as Lieu
tenant in the Navy, had heen making love
to a young lady in Huston, and was on the
point of being married to her, when the
fact of his having a wife in Huffdo became
known, and that, to escape the indignation
of her friends and the penalties of the law,
he found it convenient to leave that city
very abrubtiy between two days taking a
long with him the trunk of a fellow lodger
well filled with clothing, and leaving his
own filled with stones. We heard nothing
more of the fellow until Wednesday morn
ing, when we were told that the night be
fore he was lodged in our jail, by D. Qnigg,
of Tompkins county, and Francis J. Strat
ton, of this city, charged with horse-stealing.
The facts are these:
Sometime in April last, Stower applied
at the stable of Mr. George Charles, in this
city, for a span of horses and a light car
riage, representing himself as tbe son of
Wm. Bouck, the candidate for Govern
or and stating that he had a note due in Ly
on, which it became necessary to collect
with the least possible delay. The horses
and carriage were furnished him, and with a
segar in his mouth and a flourish of his
whip, Mr. Bouck left the stable. It seems,
however, that instead of going to Lyons, he
proceeded to Auburn, in which vicinity he
cut an extensive swell for some time, and
finally pawned the horses and carriage for
the tavern bill, and l-fi for I he east. After
practising various species of roguery in oth
er places, he proceeded to Boston, where
his love affair was enacted, and on leaving
that city returned to the interior of the
State, and after attempting to play. the
possum' with Mr. Quiggat Ithica, was fi
nally arrested by that gentleman in Oswe
go. We may here mention that Mr Charles
did not obtain his horses and carriage untii
some weeks after they had been gone, an!
only then by his paying the sum for which
they had been pawned about sixteen dollars.
The following may be taken as a fair spe
cimen of the daring robbery of Stower:
Before leaving Boston, he heard of the
desertion of two midshipmen from the na
vy, and forged a warrant in the name of
Commodore Hull for thir arrest Ap
pended to the warrant was a note, to the
effect that if the midshipmen should be ap
prehended, and it should appear thai their
friends were opposed to their entering the
navy again, they might be released upon
the pay ntent of the purser's fee. One of
the midshipmen was apprehended in Pal
myra a short time since, and very cheer
fully availed himself of the condiiion nam
ed in the warrant, by paying Stower the
sum of thirty dollars.
We are told that in most of the places
where Stower has sojourned for some
months past, he has pursued a career of
vice and knavery almost without a parallel
in the annals of crime. The greater pari
of the past winter he spent in the tombs at
New York, lor fraud and ot her crimes.
Slower is about 22 years of age. Ins had
a liberal education, and is the son of the
Hon. Mr Stower, of Madison countv.l
formerly a member of our State Senate, a
member of Congress, and either a Judge ol
me lisinci or supreme court oi r lornia.
We clse this hasty notice by the fol
lowing extract of a letter from a gentleman
of Buffalo, well acquainted with Stower,
to ;lr. uigg:
"To ue the words of his (Stower's) ru
ined father, he is the most consummate vil
lain for so young a man now extant; his
history is one continued chain of crimes;
from ihv time of his confinement in the
Tombs in New York city there has be n
no cessation, but rather increased celerity
in the criminality of his career."
Suit Against Nicholas Biddle - The
assignees of the Bank of the United Stale
have filed a bill of discovery, in the nature
of an equity proceeding, in the District
Court, against Nicholas Biddle, E-q , ask
ing that he may oe called upon to answer
under oath how and for what purposes he
expended large sums of money belonging
to the late bank, obtained by him, upon
certain checks, tickets, receipts, and or
ders, passed between him and John An
drews, first assistant cashier of the bank.
The sums which the plaintiffs say Mr. Bid
die thus drew from the bank amount to
396,000; the whole of which they say
was applied to unlawful purposes, and to
promote Mr. Biddle's own private views.
The) also state that these sums were
drawn from the bank without any authori
ty, and by collusion between the defend
ant and Mr. Andrews. The tickets, or
ders, &c are set foith in the bill, and are
the same as those exhibited before the re
corder, when Mr. Biddle was under ex
amination with others, on a charge of con
spiracy to defraud the bank. On Monday,
the trusiees of the bank commenced an ac
tion against Thomas Dunlap, but have not
ytt It lea a claim in that case.
Phil. Ledger
(JWc are pained to learn that the noble-hearted
young Van Ness, who, with
our associate Mr. Kendall, had suffered all
the punishments and privations of a Mex
ican captivity, was made piisoner by the
Mexicans at San Anionio, where he had
been adjusting the affairs of a deceased bro
ther, and wa, with another man whose
name we did not hear, taken out by order
of Gen. Wall and shot down.
N. O. Picayune.
(flPThe New York Commercial Adver
! tiser, gives what we believe is considered
jthe genuine version of the origin of the ti-
lie "iocii rucu.
The incident lhat gave rise to it is well
known. When ihe present radical doc
trines.of Tammany Hall were first spring
ing up from ihe seed sown by Fanny
Wright and Robert Dale Owen, the lead
ers at Tammany Hall those who had
properly to lose were startled. They
weie ihen as bitterly opposed to those pes
tilent docirines as any of us. And in or
der to break up a stormy meeting of the
rank and file, ihey suddenly shut off the
gas lighisof ihe Hall, and left the meeting
in darkness. But the rank and file, antici
pating the emergency, had provided them
selves against it; anil a hundred locofoco
matches instantly lighted as many caudles,
which had been brought in the pockets ol
the determined radicals. Hence ihe name
al first was only applied to a faction.
In process of time, however, the faction
became ihe dominant party, and the name
is now applied to the whole party, many of
whom proudly wear it."
CoIVs Submarine Battery. The fol
lowing explanation of the method by which
Mr. Cult discharges his Submarine batte
ry is taken from the New Haven Palla
dium Probably we are indebted for the
explanation to th chemical department of
Yale College.
'Two small copper wires extend from
die battery which consists of a metalic
chest filled with gunpowder to a power-
ful galvanic battery, which may be six or Vincennes until he returned. His sisters,
eight miles distant These wires are acting under ihe belief that he was dead,
wound round with cotton yarn, over which sdd the land to Major Barry, of Missouri
is a coat of shellac Varnish. The ends 1 Since the return of IMisle, Mr. Lesieu
which enter the battery are connected by a , and Major Dawson, of New Madrid hav.
piece of platina wire which passes amongst pun-has-d from him the land and intend to
the gunpowder. When the explosion is set up iheir claim to it immediately. Mi
required, the opposite ends of the two j Leieur and Major Dawson can go to Jef
wires are suddenly brought in contact, ih'ferson City this winter and say lo the Leg
one with the positive, and the other withi islature, "Gentlemen, this is our house
ihe negative pole of the galvanic battery ; ' take up yonr kn mack and put " It has
ihe effect is to heat the platina wire instant-
ly sufficient to ignite the gunpowder.
An Appetite The Boston Medical
Journal makes mention of a pauper fr m
England named Chas. Mullen, who has
been for some time in the Boston Work
house, and whose appetite almost ruined
that excellent establishment. He hashed
re shipped for England out of fear we
presume, that he would cause a famine
here. 'The Journal says:
"He could nut be satisfied with eating;
he has devoured six pounds of bread, ami
washed it down repeatedly with four quarts
of water, chocolate or coffee taking either,
indifferently, or as they were given to
him Raw carrots, apples, meat, and in
fact any thing on which he could lay his
hands, he devoured with ravenous avidity.
A pan of bread was habitually placed by
his bed, on retiring,and whenever he woke
in the night, he lunched enormously, and
with unabated satisfaction, at the expense
of the city. A case of bulimia, thus strong
ly marked, has not been recognized by
medical gentlemen in this partol the coun
try for a long time.,,
Apprehended. The robbery of Mr. E
Russell, of $4,000, near the junction of the
Tonawanda Creek and the Erie Canal, was
noticed a few days since. The landlord at
whose house Mr. R. lodged the night be
fore he was robbed, was apprehended on
Sunday last, on -suspicion of being one of
the robbers. All of the money taken from
Mr. R. with the exception of about $10,
was found on his person.
Philadelphia Evening Journal.
Another Duel. Yesterday afternoon,
about three o'clock, a fatal rencontre took
place, between Messrs. V. Decaux and
Bataille. Pistols were the arms chosen.
On the first fire, Mr. Decaux received a
ball through ihe breast. This unfortunate
head of a family leaves a pregnant wife and
a son, eight years old, to mourn his death.
N. O. Courier, Oct. 22.
Singular Results of the Earthquake.
The earthquake at Cape Haytien ha
produced singular results upon the morals
of the inhabitants. Licentiousness has
greatly increased, and ardent spirits are
more freely used. Some two or three
hundred couples, it is added, were married
during the panic, and it is mentioned as
somewhat remarkable that the intense fear
also created intense thirst.
(3 We learn from the Alabama pnprrs
that John Marks, who lately killed Mr.
W. A Clarke while on a steamboat on tbe
Alabama river, was convicted of the crime
and sentenced to the penitentiary for life:
and that on the day after being placed in
the institution he hunghimsll in his cell.
Ral. Stur.
(JjWe take great pleasure in recording
a little incident that took place recently in
Charleston, which, whilst it exhibits a
pure and commendable Christian spirit,
cannot but lead lo a still more kindlier stale
of feeling than existed between the various
sects in that city prior to its occurrence.
The incident to which we allude is this:
The Methodist Protestant Congregation in
Chai lesion having become involved in
debt, which threatened the sale of their
house of worship, were promptly relieved
of their embarrassed condition by liberal
contributions front thirteen different reli
gious sects of that city. ib.
Barbarity. The Chinese occasionally
practise some shocking feats of barbarity.
It is stated that an unfortunate seaman of
a British snip recently wandered into the
hands of a party of Chinese villagers, who
immediately cut off his knee-pans, made
an incision round each wrist, and stripped
ihe skin off each ancle, up to the elbows, &
down off each hand to the fingers' ends,
leaving it dangling. In this condition the
poor fellow was abandoned. On his being
found, the village was destroyed by the
boats of the ships. The man was alive,
and slowly recovering. ib.
Luck is a Fortune. We have just re
ceived information (says the Kaskaskia
Republican) that a man named John Bap
tiste Delisle, was the owner of 270 arpens
of land upon which the whole city of Jeffer
son
in Miccniiri is hnill and that in I.1 I
or '12 helefi Vincennes on a keel for Pills -
hurg. at which place he enlisted in ihe U
nited States army, and only returned a
short time since to Vincennes. He had
not been heard from since the time he left
long been known that ihere was an adverse
claim to a portion of Jefferson City, but.
upon a full investigation of the subject by
committee of the Legislature of Missouri,
the claim was reported 'o be unfounded.
5CPThe Abolitionists of Bos'on, says
the N. York Courier and Enquirer, undei
took on the 29'h nit. to hold an indigna
tion meeting in Faneuil H ill, on the sub
ject of the Norfolk negro now held a pris
oner on a charge ol felony. I he meeting
found it impossible lo vent i is indignation.
by reason ol the more pjwerful indigna
lion from without. -The several speakers
no sooner attempted to address the assem
bly than they were his-?d and hoo'ed
down by a portion of the audience, and the
meeting was obhg d to adjourn.
Slaves A Washington correspondent
of the New York Commercial says, that "a
young farmer of that vicinity being about to
remove to Missouri, where he had lately
purchased a plantation, had procured the
assent of his field and family hands to the
removal, and was about to take his depar
ture, when suddenly all his negroes were
missing He had treated them with kind
ness, uniformly, and their position on his
place was comfortable and happy. He had
procured ihem a supply of clothing for the i
coming winter aid next s immer, and they
were all united in Iheir agreement to follow
the fortunes of their indulgent master.
Judge of his surprise, then, upon waking a
tew muming siiicu, and finding them all
gone! They had not only taken every
thing in their possession of a personal,
moveable kind, but even the beds and
bedsteads, and o'her articles of household
furniture with which their 'quarters' had
been abundantly provided by their careful
and considerate owner."
The writer states further that "about a
month ago, Mr. Mason, a member of the
present Congress from Maryland, lost
twelve of his slaves in the same unexpected
and hopeless manner. He used every
effort, but vainly, to track them, and in the
midst of his endeavors, he received a letter
from (lerrit Smiih, Eq. of the State of
New York, bidding him give himself no
farther trouble on their account; that they
were safe and in good health, and contented ;
lhat they had arrived in good order at hi
house, and he was happy to say they were
on iheir way to the Canada lines wiih
every prospect of reaching their destination
in safety. " The letter-writer adds: It is
said that a well concerted scheme for the
escape of siavts from this neighborhood
has been, for some lime in operation, in
which the conductors of the railroad, afi r
it eners Pennsylvania, are concerned. A
car takes up the slaves at or near i ham
bersburg, they having gone over the Mary
land line on foot. This gives them a start
upon their pursuers difficult to be over
come, and thus the losses are fast becoming
very numerous. The Maryland and Dis
trict pipers are daily full of ad vertisements
for the recovery of lost slaves, anil the
excitement is great indeed."
Settlement of Florida. Now that our
Indi m difficulties aie over, we look forward
to the speedy settlement of East Florida
No part of the United States holds out
such temptations to emigrants as this penin
sula, whether we regard the fertility of is
soil, the mildness of us climate, or the
richness of its productions. And these
advantage s are not confined to any class of
emigrants; there is a field open to the poor
man with limited means as well as to the
wealthy planter lo the former, the
occupation bill offers a home for nothing,
where he may revel in abundance and ac
quiie wealth. I o the latter, our rich
sugar and cotton lands, and our almost
tropical climate, piesent inducements which
are found in no other portion of our country.
The salubrity of East Florid i is well
establihed by the experience of the army
during the last seven years, and is attes'ed
in the able reports and statistics by the
Surgeon General of the army. Our waters
abound wih ihe greatest variety and abund
ance of the finest lisli, and game of every
description is to be found in our forests.
Changes and nearly all the tropical fruiis
may be profitably cultivated, and our soil
isadmitably adapted to the production ol
tobacco, equal to the best raised in th
Island of I uba.
Our peninsular position confers upon ns
immense advantages affording us a cnoici
; of markets either by the Gulf or the Atlan-
tic, and, in addition to this, our fine navig
able rivers penetrate lite great arteries to
the very heart of our country.
The great channel of communication
net we -n the North and New Orleans mu
w, before long, pass through East
Floiida. A railroad of only eighty miles,
from St. John's river to the Gulf, will
connect the Northern cities and Newr
Orleans by a continuous railroad and
steamboat route, which can be eas ly passed
over in six das! This railroad will pass
over a country already graded by Nature,
ami the principal materials ofthe best kind
aie on the spot. The whole country, the
North as well as the South, will require
this communication to be opened as. soon
as practicable. By it a vas quantity of the
lighter a tides, now sent by the long and
dangerous na igation of our lakes will find
their Way to New Orleans, and the mail be
transported in half the time consumed on
'he present routes.
St. Augustine News.
Arrest for Murder. We learn that an
unhappy affair occurred in Fairfield, on
Sunday, the 16th instant; the particulars of
which are briefly these: Mr. Eugene
Cliff rd. living near Faiifield pond, reques
ted his wife to accomp my him on a visit to
a friend, on the opposite side ofthe pond;
asserting, at the same time, (what is report
ted not to be true,) that they had been
specially invited so to do. The day was
rather cold and unpleasant, and Mrs. C
made many objections; but, at the urgent
solicitation of hr husband, she finally
consen'ed: and, taking an infant child, they
left home, and, in ero-sing the water, the
boat was upset, and the mother and child
were drowned, while the husband and the
father esc iped. Cliff rd's story is, that in
ons quence of a strong wind, the boat
rocked so violently that his wife and child
fell into the water, and that, in trying to
rcover them, he also fell in, and, in falling,
upet the boat.
He further says, that, when he rose to
the surface of the water, he saw the child &
heard its cries; hut as he was some distance
tVoui the shore, he made no effort to save
the child or mother, and with the assistance
of the two oars he swam ashore. When
landed safely himself, he made no effort tq
save them; and instead of going to a house
near by, he went about wo miles roundj
ihe pond to a near neighbor, and commu
nicated the death of the mother and child.
The bodies were found on the same day,
and the following day a coroner's inquest
was held and a verdict given "acciden?
tally drowned." Some suspicious circum
stances coming to light, a second inquest
was called on Thursday, and a verdict
given "wilful murder." C. was accord
ingly arrested, and a court of examination
held, which resulted in his committal to,
jail in this village for further trial.
St. Albums (Vl ) Messenger, Oct. 26.
Fashion Again Victorious. The Four
mile Race Purse $2,000 was won by
Fashion at Camden, near Philadelphia, on
Saturday last, in two siiaight heats, beat
ing Col Johnson's Blue Dick, by a length.
Time 7:37, 7:52$.
u The longest way round is the nearest
way home." A gentleman of Raleigh
parsed through here a few days since on
hiswiv to Tennessee, intending to go via
the i reat Mail Route to New Orleans,
and thence up the Mississippi to his point
of destination. From Raleigh to the Mis
sissippi River in a direct line is about 500
mil s. From the same place to the South
western border of Tennessee by the mail
and river routes it must be something like
2000 The traveller, in reference to exT
pediiion. convenience and ease, takes the
journev of 2000 miles in preference to the
e wtT't t ft 7-
oneoi ouu. v umingion inrunicic.
fjXJThe question whether a man may
he permitted to marry his deeeasjd wife's
sisb r, was debated by the Synod of New
Jersey, and was decided affirmatively, by a
vote of 55 to 24 Fay. Car.
(JA Mis Jordan, from Illinois, js
causing great excitement among the Meth
odis's in Cincinnati, by her preaching. She
ho'ds forth at the Radical Methodist
Church, and such is the ruh to hear her,
thatcrovds collect around the Church be
fore the doors are opened.
Suffocating Coitgh. correspondent
OI 'fie I,nnilO'i i'ioiik" n.cit.t iid.i maeuv,
ered a r medy for this distressing affliction:
'Mv method of proceeding." says hr'f
is to close the patient's nostrils with my
thumb anil lorennger during expiration,
and ieajnj mcin ii-u uuiiu iuspiiuuii,
and in a very short time the patient will be
relieved from his paroxysm. I have fol-
i . u i ' U t I 1 I f
lOweu iiii9piaii wncurvrr nave nan uucil
ion to do so, and always with success." "
Reasons for Visiting. "I must call on
Mrs. Graves to day."
1 thought," said the husband, ."you
disliked that Mis. Giaves."
."Oh, so I do 1 detest her; but she has
such a horrid tongue. t is best , Jo.
on the right side of such people."