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Tarborough, (Edgecombe Cduhlij, JV k.) Satnrdni, March 4, 1843
Vol. XIX o g.
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BY GEORGE HOWARD,
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THK MKRRY II K ART.
By Ike Rev. Mr. Milman.
I would not from the wise require
The lumber of their learned lore;
Nor would I Iro n the rich desire
A single counter of their store
For I have ease, and I have health,
And I have spirits light as air;
And more than wisdom, more than wealth
A merry heart, that laughs at care
Like other mortals of my kind,
I've Struggled for dame Fortune's favor,
And sometimes have ben half inclined
To rate her for her ill behaviour.
But life was short I thought it folly
To lose its moments in despair;
So slipp'd aside from melancholy.
With merry heart, that laughed alcarei
And once, 'tis true, two witching eyes,
Surprised me in a luckless season,
Turn'd all my mirth to lonely sighs,
And quite subdued my better reason.
Yet 'twas but love could make me grieve,:-
And love, you know, 's a reason lair,
And much improved, as I believe,
The merry heart, that laugh'd at caret
So now from idle wishes clear
I make the good 1 may not find;
AddWn the stream I gently steer,
And shift my sail with every wind.
And half by nature, half by reason,
Can still with pliant heart prepare,
The mind, attuned to every season,
The merry heart, that laughs at care.
Vet, wrap me in your sweetest dream,
Ye social feelings of the mind.
Give, sometimes give, your sunny gleam,
And let the rest good humor findi
Yes, let me hail and welcome give
To every joy my lot may share,
And pleased and pleasing let me live
YYith merry heart, that laughs at care.
From the Jisheville Messenger.
TOO MUCH LAND.
One of the greatest evils which bes' ts,
afflicts, and prevents the prosperity of a
great portion of the Southern and Western
country, is to be found in the fact, that
nearly nine-tenths of those who have land
at all have too much. Thousands upon
thousands of acres are lyingunimproved
the owners unable or unwilling to improve,
& utterly refusing to sell any to those who
will. We know land holders in this section
of the State, who perhaps twenty or thirty
years last past, have owned thousands of
dollars worth of land which has not yield
ed them in that time, dither by its prod
ucts or increase in value, one per cent, on
the original investment. They still hold
on to it; andirtall probability in the next
twenty years the increase in value will not
be more than ten per cent, above what it
how is. A little re flection, it seems to us,
would serve to convince such that they
ilre acting contrary to their own interest
Here, for instance, is a man who owns
tight thousand dollars worth of land three
thousand worth of which is all that is real
ly yielding him any thing worthy of no
tice at present, or that will yield any pro
fit during his life, tie expects it for his
children, and of course at his death, some
ten, fifteen, twenty or thirty years hence,
his children come in possession of it when
H is worth but little if any thing mote than
at present. They have five thousand dol
lars worth of badly improved, unproduc
tive land. But suppose he sells the land
and puts five thousand dollars at interest
the first year he has 5300 ihe second year
5618 the third year in round numbers he
has 5937. Thus he goes on compounding.
un'il in thirty years he has about forty
thousand dollars in cash to leave his chil
dren, in place of five thousand dollars worth
f land, situated, perhaps, where they
rnay not wish to occupy it, and may sell it
&t much less than its real value.
1 he prosper ityof a great portion of Wes
tern Carolina is, and ever has been, great -y
retarded in this very way and while
the same course is pursued on the part ol
the land holders that has characterised
them in years past, the country only will
"e improved by themselves tenants rarely
er do it, and consequently it goes unim
uyea much to the detriment of
tht
tell
uv..c MLC..,a5 wC aj , me interest oi
the whole community. There never was
uic ui uic i.u 1 1 1 ii i ii u 1 1 v . i i irr h nr vft woo
a muie t:i i uueuus mea man tint a man
prospers most when he invests all his cap
ital in landed estate, could mention
a number of gentlemen who would now. in
ill ri iU iU; i ; .r u.. i . r
, ' " ",,l: ' c "s"fcSS" n oi
larT fortunes if. ihirt r mora iiri tliniT
in vese J and continued to use their canitd
. .... ,,u
ol five or ten thousand dollars othtt wi.se larly four miles higher than its source, a re
than inlands. V e will mentton one case: silt due to the centrifugal motion of the
In an adjoining county there is a certain , earth. Thirteen miles is the difference De
tract ol land, estimated to be worth ten tween the eniintorial ,1 nnUr
thousand dollars? il his !nlr.o.ro,l trw t-U .
s-ime family for some thirty or forty years,
wwuuiLv ii liii;
in which lime the clear
profits arising
from v h ive not amounted to fifty dollars
a year, it indeed so mu di; a young man
has lately taken possession of it by inheri
tance, and now wants almost every thing
but land. He wants horses, hogs, cattle,
hous -hold furniture, farming tools, and in
deed almost every thing; and there, like
hose who have gone before, he is to drag j
out a life of poverty oil a tract of land of se
veral hundred acres, and estimated to be
worth ten thousand dollars! To sell it all
except some two or three hundred acres,
which would be altogether sufficient for
him, would be contrary to the tradition of
his fathers; and Nabolh of old never held
on to hi beloved little vineyard more firm
ly than he holds on to every foot of his
ten thousand dollar rract of land."
We know another family in the western
part of this State, whose boat it is that thny
ue ihe greatest land holders in all the re
gion round about, ' and who have as few of
he comforts of life about them as if thev
were not worth five hundred dollars.
They have thousands upon thousands ol
acres of excellent laud, and on the whoh
there is perhaps not one hundred acres in
a proper state of improvement. They of
ten have to buy coin and bacon for their
own families and yet, strange to tell,
these very persons whenever they can, ,1re
buying land! Their Houses, fences, and in
fact their entire premises, wear evident
marks of dilapidation and decay their
dwelling-houses unceiled their windows
without glass almost without furniture in
their houses no houses for what stock
they have, except, perhaps, an open badly
covered stabld, with the mud 12 or 15
inches deep where the floor ought to be
and yet they want land! Like the daugh
ters of the horseleech, they cry give! give!
land! land!! land!!!
Three things we believe absolutely ne
cessary to the prosperity of North ( aroli
na: 1 A more grneral diffusion of useful
knowledge among the people more in
terest of feeling and greater efficiency of
action on the subject of general education
2. Li ss monopoly and more manufaCtu
i ihg.
J More work and less idleness strict
economy and consequently less extrava
gance. Jlmos Kendall. The New York Jour
nal of Commerce has the follovving jui re
marks on the subject of the late Postmas
ter General's imprisonment for liabilities
incurred by him in the conscientious dis
charge of his duties: Itisa fact Mr. Ken
dall is. and has been for several months pist,
restrained Within the jail limits of Wash
ington city; but it is on account of debts
due by the " government. In form they
may be duedjy him. (for the Court has so
decided) bub' in fact they are due by the
Government. The case is this: Mr. Ken
dall, while Postmaster General, withheld
from Messrs. Stockton & Stokes, mail con
tractors, certain amounts which they clai
med, believing that they were not justly
entitled to the same, and that faithfulness
to his trust forbade' him thus to expend the
public money. It was to him personally
to withhold the payment. If the claim
was juSt, it was not against himself, but
against the Post Office Department, i. e.,
agunst the American people as represented
in that Department. Yet iti precisely" fot
this claim or these claims, that Mr. Kendall
is now in durance. As against him it is a
case of rank injustice, and requires the im
mediate interference of Congress. We trust
there are no v nigs in mat Douy so unrea
sonable as to be willing that an individual
should be compelled to pay the debts of the
nation, or in default thereol, be subjected !
to personal inconvenience and damage. If i
any such there are, they are more to be
pitied than Mr. Kendall, we are glad to
see that he has presented a memorial to the
Senate, praying for relief. It has been
referred to the committee on claims.
Progress of Morality in N. Orleans.
Mr. James H. Caldwell the great mainstay
of the drama in the South, has just open
ed anew theatre in New Orleans, and in
bedience to public opinion, as he says, he
is determined that his theatre shall not be
left open for performance on Sunday night
is heretofore. New Orleans is a curious
place the military parade on Sunday
the horse races take place on Sunday the
theatres, except Mr. CaldwelPs, are opened
'Sunday, and indeed, by the larger portion
oi me population; Sunday is only observed
Qra,i.i.ri,. - i i -
ar a day for : sport and amusement
Bait. Sun.
Water running up hill.Dr Smith, in
a recent lecture on geology, at New York.
mentioned a curious circumstance
...I.L il
connec
Tt n inw-
,ril ,VU1 lue ijississtnni river
from north tn m,ih ; a;1,u
I tU ct nnn ! i . '
, up. llLl in .111111 mima II j a in nea nnu
third of this distance, it being the height
; ol the equator above the pole. If this cen
trifugal force were not continued, the river
would How back and the ocean would over
flow the land.
OOn the 4th instant thelowdr branch
of the Alabama Legislature was thrown
into utter disorder by a personal fight by
two of its members, Messrs. Calhoun ami
Hubbard -the latter havinc assaulted th
for ner for some insulting remark in a
heated dabate. Neither party appears to
have been armed, but they were not sepa
rated until after Mr. C. had received a
wound in the head. A committee of in
yesiigation was raised to report on the sub
ject.
Battle of Mler. We have already pub
IMird a brief account of the capture of
Cols. Fisher and Green, of the Texan Ar
my, at Mier, by Gen. Ampudia, at the
head of the Mexican force; but we did not
know at the time, that the Col Green men
tioned, was our old acqu dntance and friend,
Thomas Jefferson Green, of Warren Coun
ty, who has greatly distinguished himself
by his gallantry in this and numerous other
engagements. We annex from a late New
Oi leans paper, the following particulars of
the rapture:
During the night the Texans, to the num
ber of about 260 men commenced their
attick upon the town, under the command
of Cols. Fisher and Green. They cut
their way through every obstacle till they
reached the artillery.
At this point day
light appeared, when the Texans took to
the houses of the town, from the doors and j
fire upon the Mexicans, whom they cutj
.....v.. ntpiuf,ai.Ui.....Ua.jUj,y lG oelg more man one nunureu anu
down as last as they were brought up td
the guns. This kind of fighting was con
tinued from house to house and from street
to street, ihe Mexicans being piled up in
heaps in every spot where they attempted
to form. In consequence of their smaller
numbers, the Texans, however, were una
ble 10 Silly out upon their foes, but thev
kept up their fire late in the afternoon. At
this time one of the Texan captains, with
...!.: u- I .1 ir l i.i!htu
o .
a llag tronvone o the houses. The Mexi-
can General thereupon sent in one of the
pusuuers ue au tanen uunng me aay, to
ascertain
il the lexans had surrendeied.
A consultation was then held, amidst much
"u,c'"c"1' "huiir uie iexan omcers; me
firing on bdlli sides falling off in the mean -
y u6.ccic (-o'u was aii-M(;onrtof the county, and Postinafcter
sent to Gen. Ampud.a, that the fight , Knoxve al the time of h.s death
should cease on tne part oi the lexans, il
they were allowed to retire unmolested.
This proposal was refused by Ampudia,
who however promised them fair and hon
orable terms, should they capitulate. Col.
Fisher then asked two hours time for con
sultation, threatening that if this time were
not allowed he would recommence his fi
ring. This was acceded to, and by the
expiration of the time named, the capitula
tion was drawn up and signed, although it
was grievously feared it would not be res
pected by the Mexicans.
The battle lasted seventeen hours, du
ring which the loss of the Mexicans was
420 kilUd and 130 wounded many of the
latter having since died. The' Texans lost
but 11 killed and 19 wounded, but one of
whom has since died.
Gen. Ampudia had returned to Matamo
ras with s jch of his favorite regiment as
had survived the severe battle, bringing
with him about 212 Texan prisoners. He
was to leave for Mexico with them imme
dia'ely. We have heard it conjectured, that Col.
Fisher and his comrades will be shot on
Ihis'ir arrival at the City of Mexico, but we
cannot for one moment entertain such a be
lief. Even if so disposed, which wemuch
doubt, the Government of Mexico would
never dare to commit such an outrage.
Jin Elopement, fyc. We have learned
a few more particulars in relation to that
elopement of man and wife noticed in an
other place to-day. It appears that some
twelve months ago, Mr. Charles Miller,
of New York, was married to the beautiful
daughter of Lvman Welfy Esq., a wealthy
gentleman of Yonkers, by which marriage,
he became possessed of a large fortune. In
a short time after the marriage, the feelings
of the' young wife' were seduced from her
husband, and she induced to leave hirri and
return to her relatives. The husband en
deavoring by force to regain possession of
his wife, a quarrel ensued, and the husband
was defeated, flogged and bourid over in
i r. .
o.wuu to Keep me peace.
Well, Mr. Miller was a man of too much
spirit to stay defeatd I, an I he, on Thurs
day afternoon, procured oI'Disbrow, of the
Vauxhall Riding School, one of his fastes
tf.iiris, and drove to Stamford, Conn.,
where he learne J hi wife was stopping
He stopped at Sedy's tavern to get somr
refresh meri's. He was somewhat surpri
sed however, to learn that the object of hi"
search was under the same roof with him
self. He had his team in readiness at the
door, and then went into the room where
his wife was sitting, and seeing him, shr
became alarmed and Screamed lor help'.
Mi Miller, without more ado, sei2d
her in his arms ai)d rushed towards the
door. lie was interrupted in his flight by
the bar-ki-ep'er, whom he prostrated with
a blow, and sifelv lodged his charge in the
carriage, apd ordered the driver to speed
for New-Yrk. Fora lime she Struggled
lo escape, but before reaching the city shp
became rvcdnciled, and corisented to re
unite her fate with her liege Idnl, and ren
der to him due obedience. In one hour
and thirty minutes the parties were in safe
concealment in New York city. In one
hour after, the brother of Mrs. MilleV, ac
com panic I by an officer reached town, and
procuring the aid of Ihe Police, cprnmen
ced se-inMii ig for the supposed f igitives.
Search, however, was in vain, for the next
morning thjy were safely embarked on
board of a vessel, and are now before a
spanking breeze, winding their vay to ihe
sunny climes of the West Indies.
flTlie New Yrk c'o'mmrciai dver
tier states thai on Wednesday week two
ladies belonging to the family of Mr.
Creightoh, who resides near the Clifton
House, at Niagara Falls, had a narrow es
cape from an awful death. They wire in
a sleigh, driving a horse belonging to Mr
Creigh'on, and when near ihe well knowh"
Table Rock, by sou:e liiUmariagcfiierit on
the part of the ladies, the horse backed to
wards the precipice, and fell over into the
dreadful gulf below. Providentially the
ladies sprang out before the horse made ihe
leap. Of course the horse and sleigh were
tlashed td pieces, the height from which
sixty feet.
rjp Elijah fa. Amos, Estj., of Kndx
ville, Crawford county, Georgia, was acci
dentallv killed on Wednesday, the 1st inst.
in consequence of his horse taking fright;
and running away with the sulky in which
" he wasridimr. Mr. A. ws either thrown.
or attempted to jump Irom ihe vehicle
when he became entangled, and was drag
ged near a mile before he was disengaged
i Hp was taken un imnieUiati lv. hut was
deaJ amJ he'( h()rrib, m ,et ,
tJf - ep he (L He wasproba-
. 4 VMM . , n . . a rM.
- , f -,nt.0 .u rv BPllu.
Ill U III Jk HIIUA1 nil. rnn v iiiv v. ... w
ment of the count'; was a highly respccled
an, tnnl1Prti;.,) member of the commui.it v.
1, for m:iny years clerk of .he Superior
at
Messenger.
Awful Calamity. - On the 17th instant,
a great land slide occurred at Troy. N. Y.
by which many houses where destroyed
and buried and forty persons killed!! It
presented a scene of great horror and des
olation. A similar calamity happened to
the same place in 1.37.
Great Flood in Red River There
has been a freshet in Red river unprece
dented in ihe memory of all the present
inhabitants of ihe country. At Jonesbor
ough the river was ten feet higher than it
was in the flood of 1S40. The t amboat
Belle' of Red River, which arrived I st
evening, brings the information received
at the raft by several boats which came
down in advance of the rise. Several per
sons were kno.vn to have bee i drowned
among them, Col. Thomas and h?s family,
npar .lo'nesborough, and Mr. Melan, of
Kentucky. Many others were taken from
trees, arid came down in the boats. Be
tween 5 and 600 bales of cotton have been
fl iated off and lost; and immense damage
will have accrued in the destruction of sock
of all sorts It is stated that more than a
mile of new raft has been made this Season,
and there appears to be no prospect of re
moving it at present. Ex. Pa.
Wonderful Discovery. The system of
artificial u.emorv,- invented by Mr. Gou
raud, and panially exhibited by him in its
results, at the' close of his evening lectures
in the Planetarian, is not only exceeding
ly curious but'rich in promise of most valu
able consequences, if, as M. Gouraud alle
ges, he can teach others how to acquire the
same extraordinary power that he possesses
of charging the' memory with unlimitu
details ot facts, dates, calculations, names,
formulae, &c. His own exploits in thi
line are perfectly astonishing: matters ol
the most complex and heterogeneous char-
HCtT he pours forth witn surprising facility
an 1 accuracy; and it really (loes eeni thai,
his s slrem is adeq'-iate to the 'retention of
ny thing and every thi- g which ii may be
desirable to remember. He proposes oori
to give a course of lectures specifically on
his subject, in which the plan tvill be fully
developed: r.hd hep"edgs himself lhal any
person of ordinary intelligence, shall be
enabled speedily to accomplish wonders of
recollection greater even than any of those
he has et exhibited.
As a ist f his method's unfiling pow
er, he s;ivs lb l he will distribute among
his audience flfiy slips of paper, on which
shall be written, by fifty differ -nt pent ns,
whatever ih-'V choose td put down; craps of
metre, rows ol fitiies; uncouth i ames tl .tes
of events, See. and that, after only twice
reading he will repeat all these fifty things,
backward or forward, wilhdut a single er
ror dr dmissiori. ThiSeemS hard to be
lieve; but we do not know how to disbe
lieve it, after seeing whit Mr; Gouraud
has" doudand doe's nigh ly before his audi
ence. Cummer. Jidverlisery A7; Y. City.
t
(J3The Cincinnati Gazette states that
liard Oil busim ss waS never in a moie flour
ishing condition than at present; There
are fo'itr factories now in I halt city, driving
the bdsiriess successfully. R. W. Lee &
' d. keep two gang of hands cons'antly at
work during the whole 24 hours, one set
reTfe'ving the o'her at stated periods. They
last week executed rin order for their Oil
io be shipped direct Id France. Various
improvements in the machinery and ei-on
omy of the works daily suggest Ihemselv S"
at all the factories.
(Jjp'Gencral Tom Thumb, jr., is the
cognomen of a little gentleman now be;ng
exhibited to admiring crowds in New York
and otb r cities, and of whom a correspon
dent of the Baltimore Sun speaks as fed
lows: "He is very handsome of perfect proportion',-
and the cleverest, bright eyed, rosy
cheeked little Lilliputian ever seen.
Though but eleven years old, he got ( long
sirice got his growth, and now stands 22
inches high. Hrs head comes up to the
knee, pan of a man of ordinary size, and
his limbs; hands, feet, &c. are faultless
He weighs fifteen pdunds!
I cstnnot describe the sensations with
which one looks upon this diminutive spe
cimen of humanity. Were he deformed,
or sickly, or melancholy, we might pity
him, but be is so mainly, So handsome, so
hearty, and so happy, that we look upon
him as a being of some other sphere. He
was discovered in Lancashire, England.
He came out in the Britannia, accompanied
by h;s parents who were common farming
people. They are of the ordinary size,
and have, two other children younger than
this, who are growing up as children usu
ally do. Gen. Tom Thumb, jr., as yoii
may well imagine, attracted crowds; in
deed not less than thirty thousand persons
visited birr! at Ihp Arherirfm fa'u&unV
Oe-'tlemen of the first distinction invited
him lo dine at their houses charming la
dies cam in their carriage s, and made him
valuable presents; and he was for Six weeks
the Hi) n.
fTThe Mormon delusion is not likely.
soon to come to an end for it is said that
Joe Smith has recently sent out a large
number of feniale preachers, of '"great ta
lent and surprising beauty." They will,
do more to keep up the delusion than could .
all the med in Chr istendom. Fay. Car.
Nashville, TenH;) February 11.
(JPayne, Kirby, and Carroll, the first
convicted of murder in the county of Fran
klin, the second of the same offence in the'
county of White,- and the last ofthe same
offence in the county of Sumner, were yes
terday executed by hanging, on the com
mon near the MurffeesbcToirgh Turnpike
a mile from this city. A ri immense crowd,
which commenced gathering from a dis
tance the night before; and continued to
poui in until noon; witnessed the execution;
Whiff.
ifin invasion of Mexico. Reports are
in circulation, says the New Orleans Bulle
tin, and pretty generally believed, (everi
though denied y Some) that in the eastern
counties of Tex-as, several influential meit
are actively engaged raising forces to in
vade the eastern provinces of Mexico. It
is said that Geo. Rusk and-('ol. Mavfidd
have already engaged several hundred wen
from Nacogdoches, Houston, San Augus
tine, and other -eastern colmties, who will
b prepared lo march westward in a short
time, and sev eral other offic rs are raisii e
forces in the Red River counties to join
them.
F'orida. "A w6riia'n in Rankin corm-
;y, Floiila, who last year presented her'
husband with four children at one birth, ort '
x recent occasion added five irioie td tW
family." ' '