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Whole Ko. 873. Trtrhoronzhi (Edgecombe County , JV. C.J buturduy, JSovembti G, Vol. XV III wVo. 47 Tic Tarborough Press, --- BT GEORGE' HOWARD, To niAl-tir T...n Timlin nnil Pi fill Ccna per year, if paid in advance or Three Dollars at the expiration of the subscription year. For anj period less than a year, Twenty-five f.Mlfst nor mnnth Sithsorihpre nreat HbertV tO discontinue at anytime, on giving notice thereof anu paying arrears muse icaium must invariably pay in advance, or give a respon Advertisements not exceeding a square will be inserted at UneJJoiiar tne nrsi inseruuu, cents for every continuance. Longer advertise ments in like proportion. Court Orders and Ju dicial advertisements 25 per cent, higher. Ad vertisements must be marked the number oi in sertions required, or theywill be continued until otherwise ordered and charged accordingly. Letters addressed to the Editor must be post paid or they may notbe attended to. FOR THE TAUBORO' PRESS. TO SOPHIA. Dear Sophia! oft as night Throws o'er me her "stilly" scenes; Thy fairy form in beauty bright, Steals across my troubled dreamsi And those dreams oft call to mind, As their "gay delusion flies;" Those soften'd tones and glances kind, which ray heart did idolize. But alas! my doom you seal, All my hopes you prostrate throw; And this heart would fain conceal From the world its bitter woe. How the heait must feel bereft. Of all its hopes that lingering lie; Nought but dying feelings left, In lhat heart can testify. Lady, once this heart was gay. When its hope for thee was high; But those hopes must all decay, Founded on an empty sigh. Once to hear that angel name, Linger on a tongue so sweet; A lightning pleasure o'er roe came, which no more this heart can greet. Rut alas! now all is hush d I To me no more lhat voice I hear; I ' And from my heart its life-blood gush'd, i To feel we're not what once we were. 1 But time's stern and ceaseless wing, ' No earthly mortal can control; "Time's changes," alas! what they bring, A damp, a mildew o'er the soul. : Lady, did you ne'er bestow, ? Your dearest, sweetest smile on mel ' Didst thou not bid my gloomy brnw To brighten with sweet hope for thee! f Where are now those smiles so bright, f That once so flush'd that tender cheek? Where is now that hallow'd light, which to my very soul did speak! All's gone, alas! all gone away, That charm was far too sweet to last; Hope's bright empire is a day. Then her rainbow colors passi 'Tis always thus with earthly things, Those are transient most that're sweet; Pleasure's bright and golden wings, Are gaudy, but they are most fleeti Farewell, lady, thou mayst give Thy beauty to a rival arm; And this heart perhaps may live. But can feel no other charmi FERDINAND. From the Baltimore Sun. BANK OF PENSACOLA. How' Banks may be Made The fol lowing account of the Bank of Pensacola, we take from the Florida Herald of the 3d inst. It will be seen from it how banks tnay be made nay, hovvthpy sometimes are made; and it will be seen from it, also, that some of the most distinguished finan ciers of New York and Philadelphia had a hand in making this very bank. "In the year 1831, it pleased their high mightinesses, the gentlemen of our Legis lature, to charter this bank as a snug, quiet little shaving shop, with a capital of $00, 000; but it could not move until an amend ment or so rounded the sharp corners, and made the charter acceptable to a certain capitalists,' who came all the way from Boston. "Well, on the 16ih May, 1833,. the books were opened in Pensacola, and clos ed again; Walter Gregory subscribing for 1,705 shares, eleven residents of Pensaco la (to qualify themselves for directors) 45 shares, and 250 shares were graciously re Served for the Territory, As an instal ment on this subscription, Gregory depos ited $6,820 with a since broken broker of Mobile; and the enormous sum of one hun dred and eighty dollars being paid into the bank, she commenced the manufacture of shinplasters with a nominally paid up capital of seven thousand dollars. You see the advantages of encouraging 'capital ists to come into the. country ! Mr. Greg ory was encouraged! The charter was a mended, so as to exactly fit his $7,000, which he brought not to Florida, but to Mobile; and in a short time he was, as president of the bank, enabled to inform the Legislature that he had put into circu lation paper monev to the amount of sweaty-one thousand four hundred and eighty-seven dollars. Thus did the 'capital ist make money plenty.' "In 1835 a grand scheme was projected for building a city at Pensacola, of about two miles square, to contiin 200,000. in habitants, and a railroad from it,- through Alabama, to all piris of the Union. All that was wanted (especially to create the inhabitants) was a bank charter. Accord ingly, our accommodating Council aug mented the capital of the Pensacola Bank to S2, 500,000, with the privilege of issuing bonds to raise a capital for making the rail road. "On the 21st February, Mr. Gregory subscribed all the new stock, (2 4,000, shares,) but paid nothing; and on the 14th December divided 13.000 shares with the 'capitalists' Thomas Middle, Elihu Chaun cv, Samuel laudon, Charles A. Davis, S V. S. Wilder, and W. H. Chase. At this time S106, 000 was nominally paid up; hut one third was in promissory notes, that have never yet been paid. ''On the 19th of April, 1S35, the bank issued 500 bonds of Si, 000, endorsed by- John H. Eaion, Governor of the Territory, which went into ihe hands of the 'capital ists' above mentioned, who disposed of them, and remitted funds, which enabled the bank to make advances to the railroad, until they amounted to S592.013. The railroad company employed surveyors and engineers, until the funds were exhausted. before they had completed one foot of the roadl "Thus, then, stands the bank. It ad vanced to the railroad company more than the amount of the bonds sold and capital paid up, which was entirely dissipated, with the exception of what might be ob tained by the sale of some of the material The bank has a large amount of bills afloat, and nothing whatever to meet them, ex cept a few worthless notes of individuals. The interest (amounting now to 120,000) due on the bonds, has not been paid for the last two years; and the capitalists who have had the management of the bank are living abroad in their glory. Thirteen stock holders only reside in Florida, who own nominally 3,372 shares; and on these shares only three hundred dollars have been paid, the balance being in unpaid notes." From the Cincinnati Chronicle. NOTES ON THE CENSUS. The Newspaper Press. In France, un der the old Constitution, they had what was called the Tiers Etat, or Parliament, which in finance or power was a large part of the reilm. In this country, and indeed in Europe also, the Press has become the Tiers Etat which though not vested by the Constitution with the forms of power, holds very much of the substance. The following is the number of the different classes of newspapers and periodicals in the United States, arranged according to rank: Dailies Weeklies Semi-W. Period. New York, 34 198 13 57 Pennsylva'a, 12 165 10 42 Ohio, 9 107 7 20 Massachus's, 10 67 14 14 Indiana, 69 4 3 Virginia, 4 35 12 5 Illinois, 3 38 2 9 Tennessee, 2 38 6 10 Maryland, 7 28 7 7 Connecticut, 2 27 4 H Kentucky, 5 26 7 8 Maine, 3 30 3 5 New Jersey, 4 31 1 4 Georgia, 5 24 5 6 Louisiana, 11 21 2 3 Missouri, 6 24 5 Vermont, 2 26 2 3 N.Hampshire, 27 6 Mississippi, 2 2S 1 Michigan, 6 26 No. Carolina, 26 1 2 So. Carolina, 3 12 2 4 Alabama, 3 24 1 Rhode Island, 2 10 4 2 Arkansas, 6 3 Delaware, 3 3 2 Dis. ofCol'a, 3 5 6 3 Florida, 10 Wiskonsan, 6 Iowa, 4 138 1141 125 227 The number of Daily papers in the Uni ted Stales is larger than one would ima gine; and the number of what are called periodicals b much larger than can be pro fitably supporied. It seems there are but five States in the Union which have not daily papers, and here are but four which have not periodi cals. In the following table will be found tin proportion between the newspapers of the United States and the white people. Had the blacks been included, it would - have made a change in the proportion of the slave States. The table, however develops some in structive facts. Louisiana, 1 in 4.773 Mississippi, 1 in 5.S21 Rhode Island, 1 in 6.000 Michigan, 1 in 6,400 Massachusetts, 1 in 7,019 Connecticut, 1 in 7,049 Maryland, 1 in 7,775 New York, 1 in 8,274 Pennsylvania, 1 in S,52S New Hampshire, I in 8,623 Arkansis, 1 in 8,700 Vermont, 1 in 8,853 Iudiana, 1 in 9,023 Illinois, , I in 9,153 New Jersey, 1 in 9,325 Missouri, 1 in 9,285 Delaware, 1 in 9,370 Georgia, 1 in 10,270 Ohio, 1 in 10,700 Tennessee, 1 in 11,537 Alabama, 1 in 12,060 Maine, 1 in 12,230 South Carolina, 1 in 12,700 Kentucky, 1 in 12,980 Virginia, 1 in 14,125 North Carolina, 1 in 17,500 Slave States, 1 in 10,787 Free States, 1 in 8,285 The above proportions are worth look ing at. The following conclusions may be drawn. 1. Three of the oldest and most influen tial States of the American Union, viz: Virginia, North Carolina, and South Caro lina, have the smallest proportional number of Newspapers, (as they have also the few est persons who know how to read,) to the white population, but if the blacks be in cluded, they fall far behind hand. 2 Where newspapers most prevail, as in Massachusetts, New York, &c., there are also most schools most enterprise most wealth, and most progress. The con elusion is not, that newspapers occasion these results, but that the Press "and iuU 1 ligencego together, mutual helps to each other. The proportional number of papers ap pears large in Louisiana and Mississippi; but this is caused by two evident facts. Each of them have large commercial towns, and each have more blacks than whites; the proportion being taken only in respect to the latter. This subject is important in more res pects than one. If the press be thus nu merous and powerful, how is a nation to be purified in its morals unless the press be purified? That which is seen,, read, and heird every day, like the air we breathe, will communicate strength or weakness, healing or disease. Ought not the con ductors of the press to make some sanatory rules for their own voluntary government? (lpThe proprietors of the Baptist Banner, (published in Louisville, Ken tucky,) who also issue a political journal, offer their whole establishment for sale, comprising a paper mill, and one of the most extensive printing offices in the west Their reason is, that their arrearages have accumulated to 580,000, and they wish to withdraw from business to endeavor to collect them. They will sell tbe Banner and a portion of the office separately. The Banner had, twelve months ago, the largest circulation of any Baptist paper in the Union. VVith in the past year 900 subscribers have been s'ruck from the list who were indebted to the paper $9000. For three years past, its receipts have fallen greatly short of its expenditures, but by the erasure of bad subscribers, it has been placed in a safer state. It is the largest Baptist paper in the United States, and has co-editors and correspondents in different states. Richmond Herald. Cotton. Not content with her gigantic efforts to extend the cultivation of cotton in India, the British Government, as we learn from the Boston Journal, on the au thority of English papers, has despatched a Mr. Ellis on a diplomatic mission to Bra zil, with instructions to look closely into the culture of cotton in that country, wiih a view to encourage its production, and thus diminish the demand of the article from the United States. The Baltimore American, adverting to this fact says: lt is evident, from these and other cir cumstances, that the cultivation of Cotton at the South will never be greater than at present, but will probably decline, as the amount produced cannot exceed the de mand." That this anticipation is correct, no one, we think, can doubt, who looks at the great efforts making by Great Britain to dispense, as far as possible, with the Cot ton ot the U. States, and who knows th powerful motives which stimulate these efforts. Kidnapping. On Wednesday, the J 1 9th ult. two individuals came to New- bern, having in their possession a young negro woman, whom they represented as their property, and offered for sale. They stated that they lived in Wayne county, and that the girl's name was Rose. Du ring the day they made a sale of the girl, to one of our citizen who had not the ltat - suspicion hut that all was right for S250, and gave a bill of sale under the names of Wilkins and Mitchell. They appeared very anxious to sell the girl, giv ing as a reason, that a piece of land which t hey owned was soon to be sold under an execution, and that they wished to make a sde to raise money for the purpose of slop ping in time the sale of. the land. They lell town late in the evening of the same day. Some suspicions arising the next day, that there might be something wrong in the transaction, the girl was questioned closely, but still persisted in the same ac count given by the two men who sold her. At length, however, of her own accord, she stated that neither of the men was her master; that their names were not those in the bill of sale, and that they do not live in Wayne county. She says her master lives in Sampson county, and that li;s name is John Uass; that she ran away from him some time since, and agreed with these two men to take her off to some disttnt place to sell her. Their real names she states to be Matthew Rayner and James Weeks and that her own name is Ma 1 inda. The purchaser of the girl returned to town on Thursday evening, and says that he found her statement to be substantially correct. He p irued Haymr and Weeks as far as Clinton, the county -en of Samp son county, hut did not o ettake them. Iiayner, who appears to have b en the princip-d actor in 1 ho business, is a man f conider.ible properly, hut a b;ul character They arrived at home on Saturday night, and learning on Monday that they were pursued, convened th ir lands on the same day, and decamped '1 he Sherin of amp son, with several men to aid him, has none in pursuit of them. The money which was paid for the girl has not yet been re covered, but means are in progress to test the validity of the conveyance of their pro perty, wnich is supposed to be fraudulent and illegal. If this is found to be so, it will be liable for the amount received for the girl. A reward is offered by the own er of the girl of S50 for her recovery, and $50 more for a conviction of her kidnap per. Newbern Spec. Craven Superior Court. When our last paper went to press our Superior Court was still in session, Judge Manly presiding. The case of the State vs. Fiher, was the only matter of interest which occupied the attention of the Court. The defendant was indicted for disturbing a religious as sembly of the Methodist church, called the Quatterlv Meeting Conference, which as sembled at Brice's Creek meeting house, in this county, directly afier divine ser vice, for the transaction of the business connected with the church. The evidence disclosed great abuse of the pieacner who was presiding in the Quarterly Meeting Conference, and continued cursing and swearing on the part of the defendant, so as to annoy, disturb and excite the meeting very much. The jury found the defend ant guilty, and the Judge arrested the judgment on the ground, as we understood, that the offence charged in the bill was not indictable; that the meeting was not enga ged in religious worship, but had assembled after divine service, to transact the busi ness of the church, and to dis urb such an assembly, in the manner charged, was not indictable. The Solicitor tor the State ap pealed from this judgment to the Supreme (.ourt. We are pleased that the oliritor has done so, for if ihe opinion of die Judge be correct, it is high time that our Legisla ture h id interfered, and made such offen ces indictable. It certainly would be a great omission and defect in the law, if a Baptist Association, a Methodist Confer ence, a Presbytery, or an Episcopal Con vention, could be annoyed and disturbed by a reckless person coming to the door of the church, and by loud swearing and cur sing, both the clergy and ihe assembly, and thus interrupting the business in which they are lawfully engaged, he could do so with impunity, and not be made answera ble for the same criminally. We do not set ourselves up against the Judge's opin ion; all that we mean to say is, that if the law be so, the Legislature ought to correct and amend it, and lhat it behoves all deno initiations of Christians to have an eye to it. ib. Jin honorable Bankrupt One of our -subscribers at North Bangor; who went in to bankruptcy last summer, owing seven dollars fur the Democrat, recently disr-har ged the debt by paying the whole amount. vVe wish some who are not bankrupts wer s honest as this man. Bnngur Dem. One of the subscribers ol the Republican Journal of Old Town, who h;is gone into oankruptcy owing 14, whs here a few lays since, came to the office ;md gave his note for the amount, thus acknowledging the debt. He said he. had no desire to a- void such small debts, but there were dc- mands hanging over him which he could' not pay a quarter of in half a century, if he could labor night and day without eating or drinking. - A mechanic, in Portland, recentl) , after being decreed a bankrupt, went to his gro-.. cer, tailor, shoemaker, printer, &c. and, gave his note for the amount due each, say ing these were not the debts to avoid ' which he had gone into bankruptcy., - Belfast Republican. . Execution in Georgia. On Friday1 last, 11. e execution of Hamilton Snead, con viced of the murder of Hugh Campbell a bout a year since in Dahlonegi, took place near that village. We understand that the unfortunate man was deeply penitent for' his crime, and earnestly warned his felloir' citizens against the practice of using spirit ous liquors and carrying concealed wea pons, without which he would probably have been guiltless of murder. But a day or two before his execution he professed to find pardon for his sins, through faith in, the Saviour, and met his fate with calm-; ness and resignation. Athens Banner, Extraordinary event, if true."-The London Courier has copied the following story from the Etoile, a Paris paper, of a-r man being restored to life after having' been frozen in an avalanche for one hun-! dred and sixty-six years! The editors call upon Major Longbow, Munchausen, . and Ferdinand Mendez Pento, to hide their diminished heads: Dr. James Hotham. of Morpeth, North umberland, returning from Switzerland, is stated to have reported that a most extra-f ordinary event had lately passed at the foot of Mount St. Gothard, a league from Aizo-'. li, in the valley of Levantina. At the bottom of a kind of cavern, the body of aF man, about 30 years of age, was perceived under a heap of ice proceeding from an avalanche. As the body seemed to be fresh as if it" had been stiffened only half an hour before. Dr. Hotham caused it to be taken out, and,' having had the clothes pulfed off, ordered it to be plunged in cold water. It was then so frozen that it was covered wi'h a crust of ice. It was then placed in It: warm water. Afterwards it was put in a warm bed, and treated as usual in other ca-" ses of suffocation, by which means anima tion was restored. 1 What was the astonishment of every bo-' dy when the individual, having recovered the use of his faculties, declared that her was Roger Dods worth, son of the antiqua ry of the sime name, born in 1629, who, returning from Italy in 1660, a year after the death of his father, was buried under an avalanche. "Dr Hotham, according to the same ac count, is stated to have added, that Dr. Dodsworth feels a great stiffness in all his. 1 joints, but by rlegrees they will become as flexible as before the accident. If Mr., Dodsworth fully recovers, and should pass ! through Lyons to return to his country, af ter one hundred and sixty-six years ab sence, it may be predicted that he will at j tract, in the highest degree, the public cu- 1 iwiij (TA singular case was lately tried be fore the tribunal of Vermeland, in Sweden. I A miller, in passing a gibbet, where a rob ' ber was hanging, thought he perceived signs of life, and. cutting the man down, I carried him home in his cart, and eventual ly restored the suspended animation. The roooer, tar irom taking warning irom ins narrow escape, resumed his former course of life, and attempted to rob his benefac tor's mill. The miller, having made him. prisoner, felt indignant at his ingratitude, and, getting the. assistance of one of his men, hanged him up to the same gibbet' from which he had cut him down. ; For this act the miller wasbroughtto trial, and sentenced to a fine and three months' im prisonment. London Gaming houses. It is said, that 35,000,000 is annually Ion in the gambling houses of London. One of these1 establishments sold, not long since, with, its furniture, for S500.000, and the re ceipts of the proprietor in one year amoun ted 10 just about the same num. In one house atone, 5.000,000 was recently lost in a single night. Southern Pal, Bleeding at the Nose. Mr. Negrter states the hemorrhage may be almost in checked by raising the arm on the same side as that of the nostril from which the blood flows. JThree person have become derang ed in New England, in const quence of the preaching of the Millerite doctrines. fHSome people trouble themselves moTeabout the payment of ' the debtr of the States, .and other people s debts, than tlicy do about their dwu.' ' )