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Tar borough, (Edgecombe CoUhlijiNC.) batiirday, lUm ch 18. 1843
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The Tarborough FrcsH,
BY GEORGE HOWARD,
Is published weekly at Two Dollars and Fifty
Vents per year, if paid in advance or Three
(hilars z the expiration of the subscription year
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From Ike Madisonian.
THE FIELD OF BATTLE.
The flag is furled, the cannon hushed,
The work of slaughter done;
A well-fought battle has been lost,
A gallant victory won.
Thick as the forest leaves that fall
When autumn winds sweep by,
The dead, upon the plain around,
Gashed and unburied lie.
The aged mother may no more
Behold her son's glad face;
Sorrow, within the childless home,
Shall fill his vacant place.
In vain the wife wiU vigil keep,
Her lord's return to hail;
The music of the bower of love
Shall be the widow's wail.
The cherished offspring, wont to climb
A watchful fathei's knee.
Is helpless, friendless, left to prove
The cold world's charity.
Fume from the carnage, reeking up,
The Godhead's thrdne assails
And retribution claims from Him,
Whose vengeance never failsi
The laurel-wreath arid man's acclaim,
Cannot absolve from guilt;
iiut lighter than a feather weigh,
Against the life-blood spilt.
0 ye who rule, and whose command
Unsheathed the battle sword,
A Judge impartial and all-wise
Will mete out your reward.
From the N. Y. Sunday Mercury.
SHORT PATENT SERMONS.
The following lines will form the foun
dation of my present discourse:
The hoary fool who mary days
Has struggled with continual sorrow,
Renews his hopes and blindly lay3
The desperate bet upon To-morrow.
My hearers the ignis fatuus, To-morrow,
instead of leading us out of the swamps of
trouble, only involves us in further diffi
culties, and the more we are guided by it
the worse we are off. Ii is but the sun
light of hope gilding the horizon of the fu
ture which recedes as we advance, and fi
nally fades into the dull realities of to
day. That delays are dangerous, and that
procrastination is the pilferer of time, you
have all doubtless read from books and as
certained by experience; and yet you go
on standing still, and weary yourselves in
doing nothing by the job, as though eve
ry object to be accomplished had the innate
faculty of working its own completion-.
The golden eggs that lie in the nest of to
morrow hatch out a very beautiful brood
of anticipations, but more than half ofihem
are sure to die just as they begin to feather,
and feed upon the green pastures of our
bosoms. Therefore, my friends place no
confidence in the morrow. That whieh
is come is no more yours to a rer'aintv,
than the offspring of an unfaithful wife.
Three cents in the solid currency of to dav
are preferable by far to three hundred in
the shinplaster promises of a precarious to
morrow; for the bank of the latter is but a
brittle bubble that looks fascinating at the
fountain of the future, but burts and dis
appears when tossed upon the troubled wa
ters of the present.
My dear friends, that man is a fool
who wastes his time in endeavoring to lav
salt upon the tail of to morrow; for it is a
hy bird, that sings sweetly in the distant
groves, but never was yet captured: and
he too, is a hoary fool whose days and
years have been spent in a continued strug
gle with sorrow, and still depe-ids on hop
for release. Were he to grab the present
hour by the horns, and use every physical
and mental exertion possible, he would
soon be liberated from thraldom, and have
the felicity of knowing that he is the pro
curer of his own peace, and that industry
has made him the master over manifold
miseries. Never, my friends, venture
rashly a bet upon the color of the chameli
on to-morrow. It may exhibit bright and
dazzling hues in the distance, and yet when
appro iched, how often do they change t)
dulness. You must be as green as grass
hoppers to suppose that every star which
glistens in the firmament of the future is
planted with silver, or that the rainbow
colors of expectaiion are permanent and
lasting- The flowerd that grow in the
meadow of memory have a perrennial
bloom, but those that blossom in the gar
den of hope for the most part, squander
their fragrance upon the desert air of ided
ity, and then droop to flourish no more. In
a word, if you think you can lie and snooze
upon the couch of carelessness to day, in
lull confidence of drawing an abundance
from the treasury of lo-morroW, you will
be as much mistaken as the boy was who
endeavored to light a cigar by the latter ex
tremity of a fire flv.
My friendsthere is an immensity of
wealth crowded in the narrow circle of to
day. All beyond is a steiile tract of coun
try overshadowed by the dark wings of
doubt and uncertainly. The whole of
man s s'ore is pent up in the present mo
ment; and if this be neglected, the thiev
ing fingers of Time will pick away quarts
of that seed, which, had it been s iwu in
season, might have produced bushels. Be
up and doing, ye lazy sons of procrastina
tion. Shake the sin of sluggishness from
offyour shoulders, and dig with diligence
for the gems that lie embedded deep in the
bowels of human capacity. All that you
get today is sure gain, but that whhh you
purchase of to morrow will be likely to
prove a dead loss. To morrow comes as
empty as a fish's bladder, while yesterday
is absquatulating with a bag full of thoSi
golden opportunities which you so heed
lessly neglected. When it does come,
what is it? It's morning it's noon it's
night and its nothing but to day after all
It is like all the other days which )OU de
spised on account of their barrenness; and
so you look forward again in full faith and
confidence of brighter ones to come till at
last you find yourselves surrounded by the
darkness of the tomb, with the taper of
hope burning as bluely as a bug lamp to
wards morning.
My worthy hearers you should not
live too fast, but you cannot begin to live
too soon. Don't defer it from day to day,
for your bodies may be prepared to die ere
your minds are made up for living. Sec
onds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months
and years slip by us sofllyj Silently and
almost imperceptibly while We are musing
and meditating upon prospective uncer
tainties. Let us not ponder upon the past,
for it is but afaded picture of what once
was, but no longer i; nor behold ourselves
in the future, for it is a flattering mirror,
t jo f-dse and untrue to be trusted: hut let
us take the advantage of the present be
cause here are planted the seeds of all our
rich prospects; and if we leave the young
shoots be choaked by the weeds of neglect
they can produce no more fruit than the
grape vine.
My friends th re is no such cavity be
tween time and eternity as to morrow. It
is all a delusion; a cheat. The principal,
and in fact the only point in man's exist
ence is now All back of this is swallowed
to the vortex of the past ; and all forward is
unborn a mere fetus in the womb of time.
Improve, then, the present moment; and
do not sit foolishly starv ing, indulging in
the vain hope that the morrow will I'urn
ish you with food, without any exertion
on your own parts. Always be busy, and
you will not be interrupted by care; keep
travelling, and your ways to happiness will
be worn smooth make up your minds
that you will begin to w?rk now f ir your
own salvations and you need not trouble
yourselves about any to morrow, nor enter
tain doubt concerning a hereafter. So
mote it be! Dow, Jr.
"Bishop" Wiley, of the Oxford Mercti
ry, is decide Jlv the most bustling Editor
of our acquaintance. His Reverence takes
frequent occasion to speak of things be
hind the ladies'1 bucks, with a freedom of
speech only to be tolerated in (gentlemen
of his cloth. He seems determined to tin
do the heavy burdens and let the oppressed
go free. In short a greit bustle has been
made, in his section of the moral vineyard
which he says, contains an innumerable
quantity of bran and chatt.
Greensboro'' Patriot.
New Name The New Haven Regis
ter says, that at the late State Coora ven
'ion, one of the leading animals proposed
another change in the name of the party.
He proposed that they should assume the
name of "loco foco Whigs." He gave as
a reason, that the term "Democratic
Whig" had been rendered almost obsolete
in the course of the past year? having been
repudiated by many of the best public
speakers, and become every way unpopu
lar with the body of the people. "A name!
a name! Our coonskin for a name!"
Plebeian.
Great Fire at Port au Prince An
arrival at New York, brings intelligence of
a fire at Port ail Prince, St. Domingo, on
he9th January that destroyed hiin
dred houses. U ridmmericed at 3 o'clock
in the day in a Chemist's shop, and spread
with great rapidity in every direction. It
burnt for three hours undisturbedly, there
being no water iri the fountains that could
be used in subduing the flames. The quar
ter burned contairied the most valuable
stores of the town, and the loss in merchan
dise Is estimated at two millions df dollars.
Altogether at four millions.
Interesting Decision in fetation Id
Church Properly. The New Orleans
Bee gives the following notice of a recent
decision in the Supreme Court of Louisia
na. It was in the case of Martin vs the
wardens of the Church of St. Francis, in
Point Coupee:
The plaintiff was the curate of the par
ish, having been appointed by the bishop
of the diocess. The wardens became dis
satisfied with their pastor, and gave him
notice to quit, and that they would not pay
him after a certain time. "He refused to
leave, and the bishop declined withdraw
ing him until his demands were paid. The
Court decided that the wardens were, un
der the charter, the legal owners of the
church property, and its temporal adminis
trators, free from any control from the
clergy: that the wardens were responsible
to the congregation only; and neither the
pope nor his bishops have any legal author
ity, in Louisiana, either to manage the
property dedicated to ecclesiastical purpo
ses, or to impose priests upon the congre
gation, contrary to their consent. The
power of the clergy is spiritual alone, and
can only operate upon the moral sense and
conscience of the people. The law con
siders them as citizens only, affording them
its protection as such; and the canon law is
not to be considered in the enforcement of
contracts.
(QThe Frankfort correspondent of the
Lexington Intelligencer states that there
was a "relief" row in Trimble county dn
the last county court day. The sheriff",
owing to the excitement, refused on that
day to qualify. That night the clerk's of
fice was burnt down. Governor Letcher
has nominated another sheriff to the Sen
ate. Jit tempted murder of a Wife. A few
days ago, one Doctor Wells, of Madison
county, charged with habitually whipping
his wile, was taken Irom his house at night
by some of his neighbdrs, and severely
lynched. Shortly afterwards, as we learn
from the Richmond Chronicle, he decoyed
his wife from home to a lonely unfrequent
ed place, and then, between twilight and
dark, attempted to murder her. He struck
at her neck, making a slight wound; but
she rushed from him, and fortunately esca
ped by hiding from him in the thick un
dergrowth of the spot.
Louisville Journal.
Hank Failure at New Orleans. We
learn from the New Orleans papers that the
Commercial Bank of that City suspended
payment on the 20th ult. The circum
stance is thus noticed in the Bee of the 21st:
The City was yesterday thrown into re
al confusion by the announcement, in the
morning, that the Commercial Bank had
stooped payment. This fact was the more
astounding as no run had been made upon
it ot late, and some little confidence was
beginning again to be felt in our monetary
institutions. The causes which led to this
result, must have grown out of the previous
managemnnt, whereby she was so much
weakened as to be unable to stand up a-
gainst the natural demands and exactions of
commerce, bhe actually fell lrom exhaus
tion. As was to have been expected from so
untoward an event, the note holders, and
in some instances the depositors, took the
alarm and made a run upon the other
Banks. The Mechanics and Traders, and
the City Bank had to meet the brunt of the
panic. They both paid out specie with
great alacrity; neither made any attempt
t evade the run upon her every officer
being engaged in counting out the dollars
to those who wanted them.
Towards three o'clock, the run upon the
City Bank greatly abated; but the Mechan
ics and Traders kept her doors open for
two hours after the usual time to accom
modate such as desired to exchange her
notes for specie.
Upon the State, Union and Canal Banks,
the run was very trivial.
Extraordinary Proceedings. -. is
known that 1,786,000 in Illinois Slate
bonds, and 8287,501 56 in certificates of
"tate indebtedness, were burnt in presence
f the Legislature on the 9th inst. As
soon as the Governor had accomplished the
work of destruction, the Fund Commission
er appeared, with two trunks full of signed
nd unsigned bonds of various kind, and
commenced piling them on the fire. By
some means, large numbers of the bonds
were gd out of the flames almost urtinj ir-
en. The counons are all signed bv the
Fund Commissioners Rawlings & Oak
ley," and nd d orily the No. prefixed to
make them as good as artv of that descrip
tion sold either in thiscoun'ry or Europe
The Journal df Commerce has received
one of those dottpCns (of inspection. It is
strange, at least, that State bonds cannot be
effectually destroyed, when once recover-'
ed. It is ridt vVort'le fiil thit we have re-1
pudialing States, when such indiff rence isj
shown td so easy a cancellation of bonds,
by the simple process of burning. Think i
dfan august Legisjature witnessing the de
struction of its dblinatiOnSj while the wind
and boys were sporting them away cheat
ing their very eyes.
Days nf Worship The following days
of ihe Week are set apart for1 public wor
ship, in different nations: Suhday, or the
Lord's Day, by Christians; Monday, by
'he Grecians; Tuesday, by the Persians;
Wednesday, by the Assyrians; Thursday,
by the Egyptians; Friday by the Turks,
Saturday, by the Jews.
tirade Generals. An extract frdm the
official letter in the Madisonian, giving an
account of a recent battle between the ar
mies of Generals Vidac and Torrico, about
one hundred and forty miles from Lima
South America, states that out of seven
thousand troops present on both sides, not
more than fitly were killed. 1 he two
generals flfd, and it was with Some diffi
culty that Vidac was" overtaken and per-
uaded that his army was victorious. The
o'her general fled while the chances weie
decidedly in his favor.
NeW Orleans. February 19, 1843
The City was thrown into great conserna-
tion by the repdrt yesterday that Mr., Ln-
vernge, Prtsulent of the Consolidated
Bank, hdd made way with himself. Ear
ly in the morning he Crossed the river and
visited the family burying place, in iht
rear of Algiers, Where he stabbed himself
with a sword carte or poniard. He was
brought over to the City, and expired about
1 o'clock. Mr. Layergne has ever main
trined a reputation for probity and honor
that even in these days of suspicion and
distrust rumor has forborne to asperse:
He was a man of the mdst sensitive
tempef-ament, and it is thought that he fell
a sacrifice to the prompting of a nice sense
of honor, wrought upon by the calamine
that have befallen the institution over which
he presided. Bee.
(yThe numbers of Murders commit
ted in the United States during the Iet
year is estimated ai 193; and the num
bers of Suicides 65.
Lynch Law. The Hannibal (Missou
ii) Journal gives an account of two cases of
Lynch s law, which is snu to have lately
occurred in Shelby county, in that State.
In the first, a merchant of Marion coun
ty, who had a judgment and execution
against a person for forty dollars, levied tip
ort his stock, which was soldj the merchant
buying it in for sixteen dollars. After
wards the merchant sold the ciot'le for one
hundred dollars, and then tried to enforce
from the debtor the balance of the judg
ment. He was summarily waited upon
by a committee of the neighborhood tied
to a tree, fifteen lashes with a hickory laid
on his b ire back, by each member of the
committee, who directed him to leave im
mediately, if not sooner.
In the other case, an inexorable creditor
had sued a poT' man for one hundred and
twenty dollars, and levied upon all his
property, refusing indulgence. On the
day of sale the assembled neighbors le
quested the officers to put up what they sig
nificantly styled 'Judge Lynch'S horse
a fence-rail with legs to it, avowing that
the buyer of the farmer's property must
tdke a ride on the judge's horse. The credi
tor took the hint anil no sale was made.
tf Female Thief taker Mrs. Throop,
the jailoress of the Meadville jail in this
State, came a very pretty trick over" a
horse thief that the whole count y was in
search of. The fellow went to the jail,
and inquired of Mrs. Throop, the jiilor
ess, for one of her sons. Mrs. T. recogni
zed him at once as an old boarder, who
had been sent to the Penitentiary some
three years ago fof horse stealing, and who
was no other .than the thief sought for
Without expressing her knowledge of his
recent offence, ?he entered into conversa
tion with him, and soon asked him if he
wouldn't like to see his old quarters? He
replied in the affirmative, and Mrs. T. im
mediately ushered him into rs lor'mef
place of lodging. No sooner, however,
had he entered ihe room to ffratifv his cu
riosity, than Mrs. I. quickly cioeu ine
loor, and turned the key, tnsormea me as
tonished and outwitted thiel that he was;
her prisoner! Phil9 a Ledger.
(JOn the 19th ultimo, an attempt was
made by a son of Mr. Chester White, who
resides nrjr Bd avia. New York, ttt tjj .iSdfl
h s pa-- rtts and his brother! and sister!'
The poison was mixed amtirig some flour"
Suspicion attached to the son, from thd
f ct df his refusing 1 1 partake of somd
bread rriade from the fVuir.
The flood on Red River. The Wash
ington (Ark ) Telegraph of the 8th inst.
says: We leirtl th tt tne steamer Napoleonf
du her passage to Fort Towsori. picked UfJ
between two and three hundred persons;
and tint Col. James H Johnson and farrii
1 j reported as ldst$ are sa'e The Fort
I'owson ai rived at Fuit m ort Monday
having saved several families below that
place, some of whom were taken from the
tops of their houses. Liter adriounts, viA
New Orleans, say that the river was still
filling, and all appeh.-nsion of further da
mage had passed.
Elopement. Marriage and Seiiard
tion Tt.e Georgetown (D. C.) Advocated
gives an account of the arrival there front
15altimorej of a ydung man and lady, in
sja ch of a clergyman for the purpose of
oletrlnizing the nuptial ntej which being
performed, they set dut to enjoy a delight
ful hortey moon. But on the third day af
ter the man iagej a Mr. ChaStj of Balfl
more, appeared and claimed the happy
Swain as his absconding apprentice. H&
was arretted procured !e:uiity for his ap
pe irdru-e before a magistrate 8Ubeduentiy
ajear.d, but as that officer declined to in
terfere, there being no grounds lor any Ie
gil action, Mr. seized upon the alarmed
and bamboozled youth, pushed him into
his gig. ami sped lor Baltimore, leaving thd
Wife to dige.-t hef husband's exit as best
she could.
Long Fast The State Gaz tteo S ock
nolm contains a long account of a singular?,
fict which occurred in Elfsburg Lehn in
April last. A poor lailor, traveling in
that part of Sweden accidentally fell into si
coal pit, and remained there for' 39 days
without food.
Effects of Miller ism. The wife of Jo
nathan Leveridge, a respectable merchant
df Newark, New Jersey, while laboring
under derangement of mind occasioned by
the Miller doctrine, on Friday admini'tr--ed
arsenic to hcfself and two of her c ."l
dren, one aged three years artd the other
twelve months Before she committed
the rah aC' she sent her three eldest chil
dren to her bunt's in the neighborhood.
One of the children died at 12 o'clock, the
other at 2 o'clock, and the wife died about
9 o'clock.
At a Millerite meeting in Provident
last week, the mill ster got the audience
worked up to such a pitch, that they were
every moment looking for the end of all
things, which he told them would be art
njunced by the sound of a trumpet A
waggi.h boy, taking the hint, procured a
common fish horn, which he blew with a
perfect tempest of wind) theieby producing
such a Climax, that some of the fanatic fflasS
Were froz n wHi fear.
The Mllleriti s of Providence had deci
ded, that the great end of all things was to
come about last Wednesday, and prepara
tions weie maJe to mtgt it. Over ond
hundred passed the night in the burying
gieund, on the west side) some of whom,
if report speaks true, were dn ssed in thellr
a.'Cension robes. They went there to wit
ncs the resurrection of their friends, with
whom i hey expected to rise into the clouds.
Good Parson Miller has decided, that
no man can go up on the 21.-t of March
Who owes for his neW.-p.ipen
(JWe don't know who wrote the fol
lowing article, but whoever he was he has
the right idea of the matter, and we recom
mend his hints to our Patrons and readers!
The nght Way to support a NtUispfc
peri Much depends upon the supporters
of a Newspaper whether it is conducted
with spirit and interest if they are freg
ligmt in their payment, the pride and am
bition of the Editor is broken down he
works at a thankless and unprofitable task
he becomes discouraged and careless
his paper looses its pith and interest, and
dies. But on the contrary if his SubsCri
b-rs are of the right sort if they arc punc
tual, liberal hearted fellows always in
advance cn the subsrription list taking art
interest in increasing the number of hi
Subscribers now and then speaking a
good word for his paper; cheering him ort
his course by smiles of approbation with
such Subscribers as these, 1 would forswear
m 8 df comfor ; ease, leisure everything
that could pos-ibly step between me and
the gtaiific. tion of eery lauJable desire ott
tueir part;l would know no other pleasure,'
than tueir satisfaction, flow much then
can the supporters of a newspaper do, to
make it Interesting and respectable
deed without concurring efforts on their
part, the Publisher of a paper will not, can
not bestow the attention .which, is, ;necea
sary to make it what it &huld .bf "
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