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Tar borough, ( Edgecombe County , JV CJ Saturday, April 15. 1843
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BT GEORGE HOWARD.
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rOR THE TARBORO PRESS.
TO MISS
While life is bright before thee,
And charms around thee shine;
And youth's fair dreams of fancy,
And happiness are thine:
And brightly oer thy pathway,
Hope doth her radiance fling;
And thou hailest each glad moment
For joy is on its wing:
My friendship would be slighted.
Thou dost not need it now;
But when thy hopes are blighted,
And sadness on thy brow:
And when thou art forsaken.
And a shade is o'er thee cast;
And memory sad thoughts waken
Of the past the cherished past:
And thou hast nought to cheer thee,
Or light thy smile again;
Then would I linger near thee,
And prove my friendship then. ANON.
DISASTROUS FIRE.
On Friday night last, the Court House
of Montgomery county, with everv book
nd paper belonging to the offices of the
two Clerks and Register, was totally des
troyed by fire. It was discovered between
10 and 11 at night, and had made such
progress in the interior of the old combus
tible building, that it was impossible to
save any thing. There had been no fire
or candle in the building for a week, so
that it was evidently set on fire.
On Saturday morning, a negro accident
ally discovered in the woods, a place
where horses had been lied, and the tracks
of a man leading to the ' ouit House, about
half a mile off A party pursued, first the
man's tracks, and ihen those of the horses,
following him all that day and Sunday
morning, through an unfrequented road,
till they led to the house of Elijah Spencer,
about 18 miles off. The man's tracks
agreed in size with Spencer's and the hor
ses with those of two found in his stable
Afresh rain had made all these tracks dis
tinct. Spencer and his son Harbord were
immediately arrested, and carried to Law
renceville jail. They were to have had an
examination before a Magistrate on Mon
day, the result of which we have not
heard. Fay Obs.
Jin Abolition Riot A riot occurred
at Northampton, Mass., lately. The Rev.
Abel Brown, and an African who accom
panies him, attempted to deliver a lecture.
The negro attempted to speak, when a
villanous smelt ascended from the red hot
stove in a fume of assafcetida and pepper.
At the same time the eyes were inflamed
by the finest particles of snuff and pepper,
wafted about the hall by letting fly a cou
ple of doves, whose wings and feathers
were saturated with those irritable pow
ders. This caused a general scream among
the women, and a scuffle among the consta
bles and rioters. The passage ivay to the
door was completely blocked up, and 'con
fusion worse confounded' reigned triumph
ant, amid songs and shouts and taunts.
The windows were finally opened, and all
breathed more freely again the doves flew
out the children jumped out, and the
lights were put out. The hall was clear
ed, and with much difficulty the Rev. Mr.
Brown and the negro escaped with their
lives. Raleigh Slur.
Owners Wanted. The Navy Depart
ment is advertising for the nearest male
relatives of the following officers of the Na
vvt to whom Congress at different time
voted swords, for their gallantry and good
conduct. The names of these officers are
not now to be found on the service roll:
Midshipmen James Bliss, Alex'r Storet,
Jnos.G reeves, jr.. Richardson Prick, and
bos. N. Bonneville, and sailing master
sogers Carter. Thesword9 have been re
pently found in the Navy Department, and
!!IS dirab!e that they should be given to
; , .fficers, if living, or to the nearest male
relative of each.
State Credit. C5reat exci'ement ha
heen produced in New York by an officii!
communication to the Legislature from Mr
Young, Secretary of State, in which he
says that late loans of the State credit to
the Erie Rail Road and some other Corn
panies, to the amount of about i55.000.000.
were made in express violation of the Con
stituiion, which provides that all bills ap
propriating the public money to any pri
vate and local object, shall receive ihe as
entofwo thirds of the members of both
Houses, to become laws. These loans
were made without such majority, and he
concludes th t the people are in nowise
bound to p iy the debts. The communica
tion was the subject of long and vehement
debate in the Legislature, and had not been
disposed of at the last accounts. The Her
aid says its appearance caused a fall in th
price of the Stock. It would appear thai
this clause of the New York Constitu
tion had been entirely forgotten for eigh
yers, and the Legislature will probably
get out of the difficulty by deciding th.it
'private and local objects" are those only
which are so 'private' as to be undiscovera
hie, and so 'local' as to be no where in oar
IClllar. There i no danger of Nhvv York
repudiating . Charleston Mercury.
fT"Thc circuit coint of the United
States for the district of Alabama has de
eide l that the marriage of a white man
vith an Indian woman, according to th
f' rms and customs of the Choctaw nation.
is voi I; that a civilized man is incapable of
contracting marriage with a savage; and
iht their offspring is illegitimate, and
could not inht rit. The court decided al
so that a void will, probated, was conclu
sive and hindingon all parties, until set a-
side in the probate court. Exceptions hav
ing been taken to those decisions, the ca
ses will be carried up to the Supreme Court
of the United States.
Mail Robber and Murderer convicted.
On the evening of the 1 9th of January,
1S3S, the mail from Mobile to Montgom
ery, Alabama, was robbed and the stige
driver, who had charge of it, murdered.
Energetic measures, which the Post Of
fice Department adopted with its usual
promptness, soon supplied the want of def
inite information and collected a chain of
circumstances, upon the strength of which
one John Larkin was, not long afterwards,
arrested on a charge of having been con
cerned in these crimes. The evidence
thus collected, though purely circumstan
tial, was irresistibly conclusive; and under
it, Larkin was tried, convicted, and exe
cuted. Rut the same evidence showed, also,
that Larkin had at least one accomplice;
and from that time forth, the Depaitmeut,
with a vigilance which never slumbered
and an energy which never tired, endeav
ored to trace and identify this accomplice.
Several suspected individuals, in different
pans of the Union, were succes ively ar
rested, and, fur want of sufficient proof, dis
charged. At length, in August last, such informa
tion was obtained as led to the at rest of a
man named Benjamin Whitney; who, at
the recent term of the United States Dis
trict Court for South Alabama, has been
tried as the accomplice of Larkin in this
robbery and murder, and convicted.
It is thus the Post Office Department
proves that it never loses sight of oflVnces,
nor relaxes its exertions for detecting and
bringing to justice the offender.
Mudisonian.
Escape We learn that Morgan We
thers who was arrested on a charge of ta
king from the stage, between Louisville,
(Ky.,)and Danville, $ 10,000 of the funds
of the Bank of Kentucky, escaped on the
nieht of the 19th ultimo from the sheriff
and guard of Anderson county. He was
las' seen in Hcry county.
The circumstances of Wether's escape
were we understand, somewhat curious.
By feigning sickness, he prevailed upon
the officers who had him in charge to take
him to his own house. On arriving there,
he went to bed, and prevailed on them to
let his wife sleep with him that night.
When the lady came into the apartment,
they, of course, withdrew to set her un
dress. The moment they were out of
sight, Wethers, agreeably to a previous
arrangement, quietly slipped out of the
window, leaving his clothes upon the
chair, and put his daughter through the
window into the room. The mother and
daughter were soon lying cosily side be
side, with their heads modestly coteed.
and the officers returned in a lew minutes
and guarded them all night with unsleep
ing vigilance. Louisville Jour nut.
Melancholy Occurrence. We learn
from the New York Courier of Saturday,
that Passed Assistaut Surgeon Richard W
Leecock, surgeon of the U. S. brig Som
ers, committed suicide on Friday evening,
it six o'clock, by shooting himself over
his right eye, with a pistol, in the gug.
room of that vessel. He had been attach
ed to her since she has been in commission
He was q valuable and excellent officer,
stood hijrh in his profession, and VAs much
esteemed by his brother officers. He was
2S years of age, and a native of Norfolk,
Va
This unfortunate occurrence is attributed
o his having contracted the yellow fever
on a former cruise in the U. S. Schooner
Grampus, which left him in a debilitated
state.
Jl Maniac arrested. Yesterday after
noon, a physician named James G. Thorn,
res-. ling at 420 Pearl street, suddenly lost
his senses, and became a raving manias.
He commenced tearing the clothes from
his body, and rushed into the street nearly
naked, declaring he would set fire to the
house. Officers were sent to arrest him;
but before their arrival, he had set the
place on fire, and the firemen were exlin
guishing the flames he raging round the
Greets. With much difficulty, he was
brought to the prison and locked up.
New York Courier.
D-cadful Occurrence. A recent num
her of the Grenada (Miss.) Register informs
is tint the whole family of Mr. More
head, residing near the Yazoo Pass, were
lately poisoned by eating peaches dried on
a punted board. One of his daughters
was to have been married on the very day
she was so suddenly taken from earth.
(CT 1 he Rev. Dr. Bailey, a clergyman of
the church ot hngland, was recently con
victed of forgery and sentenced to trans
portation for life. The N. York Com
mercial, gives the following particulars of
the nature ol the forgery and of the evi
dence:
'The forgery committed by Dr. Bailey
was a promissory note lor a large amount
purporting to have been given to his sister,
Miss Bailey, by an old gentleman of great
wealth and very penurious habits, whose
name was Smith. The note was produced
by Dr. Bailey, after Smith's death, he
alleging that it was given in acknowledge
ment of a large sum deposited by Miss
Bailey with Smith, as her banker. The
executors contested the note mainly because
they could find no entry of the alleged de
posite in Smith's books, and he was known
to be very methodical & careful in his busi
ness transactions. At the trial Bailey
swore that the note was given on a certain
day and hour, in the vestry room of his
church; but unluckily for him, a witness
wns produced who was enabled to swear
that he was with Smith (for whom he was
huildi ng a house,) in quite another part of
London, at the very time designated by
Bailey. The witness identified the day
by the fact, that on that same day he was
married. The verdict was for the defen
dants, the executors, and they then prefer
red the charge of forgery against Bailey.
4' At the trial of Bailey it was proved that
he had borrowed a receipt given by Smith,
from a tradesman who had paid him some
money, and on comparing the forged noie
with the receipt, it was evident that the
signature to the former had been traced
over that upon the latter. But the fatal
testimony against Bailey, was that of a
poor irishman whom he had bribed to
swear that he was present when the note
was given, but who repented and divulged
the fact, producing also a paper, in Bailey's
writing, on which was set down the matter
Bailey wanted him to swear to.
(jpThe Coroner's Inquest, in the case
of Charles G. Corlis, in New York, con
cluded its labors on the 28th ult. and re
turned a verdict that Corlis was murdered,
by being shot in the head by some person
or pers ns unknown. Mr and Mrs. Col
ton were forthwith discharged. Thus ends
the affair for the present. And, as a vast
majority of the people of the city are of
opinion that Corlis merited the fate atten
ded him, it is not probable that extraordi
nary pains will be taken hereafter to ferret
out the murderer. The denouement of
the Coroner's investigation presents a most
deplorable state of public morals!
jJugusla, (Ga.) March 31.
Fatal Jlffray. We are pained to feel
compelled, from a sense of duty, to allude
o a scene, of which our city was yester
day, about one o'clock, P. M., made the
theatie; in which Mr. William R. Hard
ing, clerk at the Arsenal, received a mor
tal wound from a pistol shot by Wm. H.
Piatt, Esq , in a street fight with pistols
and a bowie knife, in yvhich the latter was
the assailant. Piatt, who felt himself ag
grieved by the previous conduct of H.
who declined an introduction to him
ccostecr H. from his rear, and, on Hard
ing's facing round, he was shot directly
through the body the ball lodging in his
clothing behind. Harding fired soon af-
er, but his shot not taking effect. Piatt
ran, when Harding exploded a cap, and
fired at him again but missed; where
upon, Piatt returned, after having run
some 13 of 20 yards, and assaulted H
with a bowie knife; but the timely inter
ference of some ge itlemen, who approach
ed arrested him not however, till after
he had inflicted a slight wound upon the
thigh of his victim. Harding was the.i
taken to the U Slates Hotel, and thence to
Dr. Robertson's residence, where he was
lingering last, without any hope of his re
covery. Plait was arres'ed immediately
after the affray, and committed to prison
for examination; and, as the case will un
dergo a judicial investigation, we forbear
any comments. Chroit icle.
jTr The Boston Bulletin publishes an
account of a magnificent wedding, which
took place in that city on Wedesday even
ing. The bride wore jewels worth SlO,-
000, a lace veil worth 1,200. and the
whole expense of the affair was Si 5,000.
By the latest news from the John
Adams, it appears that there was no truth
in the rumor that a mutiny had occurred
on board that vessel.
Sweet Potatoes. We observe that a
correspondent of the S. Western Farmer,
in Mississippi, declares, that from a tho
rougn trial h-r is fully satisfied that sweet
potatoes, as food for stock, are far superior
t ruti baga, and that he believes they as
far excel the sugar beet. Our early sub
scribers will remember that a northern
subscriber declared in the first volume ol
the Planter, that if the northern people
could raise the sweet potato, they would a
haudon all other roots.
Southern Planter.
New Method of growing Jlsparogus
The Editor of the Horticultural Magazine,
recommends a trial of the following meth
od of growing asparagus, which is practised
at Nice, and of which a high account is
given in the London Gardeners' Chronicle.
Take a quart wine bottle; invert it over the
head of a stalk of asparagus just raising
from the ground, and secure it by three
! sticks so that it cannot be knocked over.
if left in this state, the asparagus will grow
up into the interior of the bottle, and, be
ing stimulated by the unusual heat and
moisture it is then exposed to, will speedi
ly fill it. As soon as this has taken place,
the bottle must be broken, and the aspara
gus removed, when it will be found to have
formed a thick head of tender delicate
shouts, all eatable, and as compact as a cau
liflower. Suicide. The papers yesterday gave
an account of the death of a young Span
iard, who hlew his brains out on the shell
road, about three miles from town. On the
night following a companion of his, who
accompanied him from Madeira, either
through accident or design, fell from the
ship Orion into the river, and was drown
ed. They were both said to be very gen
teel young men, well behaved, and of good
parentage. The cause of their own lives.
is supposed to be poverty. VV hat a tale of
disappointment, mental suffering, mortified
nrtflo orwt K-ifTt .jl li . wi o tliDir nlAiif irftiill
T - . an . . , a ' rn- . f' ivps
to others against indulging in dreamy an
ticipations ot sticcess, or encouraging a
morbid melancholy at the postponement
of their projected schemesof advancement.
New Orleans Bee.
Jl Systematic Girl. Mr. Bourne, in
a lecture at the Farmer and Mechanic Ju
bilee, at Bridgewater, (Mass.) humourous
ly illustratrated the following advantages
ol method and order, by giving an account
of some domesties of his hiring. He once
hired a very smart girl she was ever on
the go from early dawn to bed time. Af
tera few years, the girl (as girls ofien will)
found a husband, and quilted earning wa
ges; and Mr. B. was obliged to hire anoth
er. But she was so methodical, and appa
rently so slow, his wife was of the opinion
that she did not earn her wages. True, she
did all the work, and had spare time; but
she d d not seem to be doing much. He
one day watched her progress, and found
that every movement was like clock work
no missteps were taken; after the fire
was made, every kettle was properly ad
justed, and every dish was ready at the
proper time. I he table was set while
dinner was cooking every thing had its
place, and there was not a lacking article
at dinner There was no blustering,& hur
rying and fretting, and skipping, to show
out activity; but every thing was quietly
performed in order and in season. On no
ticing accurately her mode of doing busi
ness, Mr. B. and his wife were both of the
opinion this wasthe most valuable help he
had hired. This led him to see how some
farmers lose time. They would hurry to
a distant field, and soon find they had left
some important tool behind, a boy must
be sent for it, and the men must sit and
wait.
(3'Vhi following lamentable Instance
of the fatal i fleets of tenor occurred a fev
days ago in the sm ill village of Aubuin, in
the Aisnc. TheiEse Glacier, a young wo
man of nineteen years of age, returned
h me in the dusk of the evening, and find
Ills; the eott.;e empty, sat down to rest
herself. In a few minutes, her attention
was c tiled by the sound of a sharp and
th illing hissing; and, turning to the point
whence it Came, she saw a viper, stealing
its way through a crevice in the partition
which divided the sitting loom from
her fit'ier's sleeping rhamher Another
hi.s was given and the head of the snake
was directed immediately at her. The
sight chilL d all the blood in her veins, she
uttered a piercing shriek, and fell sense
less on the floor. On this, her brotheri
quite a boy, came from the .le-p;ng room,
where he had concealed himself for the
purpose of playing her a trick with a dead
viper, which he had lound in the woods,
and did all in his power to recover her,
and then called in some neighbors. Eve
ry means was taken to restore her, but the
shock was mortal; and before the evening
was over the pocr girl expired.
Jit tempted Murder and Suicide. The
New York Sun stales that, at Brooklyn,
during the storm on Thursday night, a
brute of a man, named Dougherty, hav
ing been arrested for ill treating a poor
weak woman his wife attacked a man
named Hutton, who appeared as a witness
against him, and who lived in the same
house, and, after dragging Mr. Hutton
down a flight of s airs, he fired a pistol at
him, the ball passing through the thigh,
nflieting a daugerojs wound. Dougherty
ih'-n fned another pistol without effect;
when he took a razor and cut his own
throat, but not dangerously. Mr. Hutton,
who is said to be a worthy man, lies in a
precarious state. The fiend was taken to
pi 19011.
Wounds by a Dissecting Knife.
Within a few weeks, says Dr. Smith's
Journal, two highly es'eemed physicians,
in the neighborhood of Boston, have lost
their lives, it is reported, from poison im
bibed in theexamination of bodies, through
some slight scalpel or needle wound on a
finger. It is also currently reported that
Dr. Hay ward, one.of ihe surgeons of the
Massachusetts General Hospital, has re
cently suffered alarmingly from the same
cause. In other places, likewise, fatal ef
fects have been produced from the same
apparently slight cause. By turning to
the third v olume of the American Medical
Almanac, a paper may be found, written
by Dr. Lane, lhal is worth consulting by
those who are prosecuting dissections.
Boston Bulletin.
The Fell Destroyer. An incident oc
curred, in the neighborhood of our office a
few days ago which reads a more impres
sive lectuieon the brutalizing effects of in
toxicating fluids than Pollard himself could
deliver. In a small brick tenement on
Roihery's lane dvelt or rather existed, a
lone and solitary couple, (husband and
wife) withoutany visible means of suppoit,
yet giving themselvas up to intemperance
as it drinking was the sole end and aim of
their being It was on Saturday night
last, that a physician was called in great
haste to this abode of wretchedness. -His
visit was btief: it was to ascertain whether
there might not be a remaining spark of
life thai could by his skill be made to re
animate the wife, who lay a corpse on the
b d: si e had just committed suicide! The
story of her death was told by the besotted
husband. He had tumbled down upon
t e bed, eaily in the evening, overcome by
liquor, and fell asleep. About 8 o'clock he
woke up and ihe first object that presented
itself to his view, was his wife suspended
fiom the top of the bed post by a crd
around her keck. He rose from the bed,
a. id, with as much haste as one in his con
dition could exert, cut the cord, laid her
on the bed and went for a doctor! The
wretched woman had not drawn a sober
breath for three weeks; and the action of
so much excitement, which nature could
no longer sustain, had produced what is
commonly called "the horrors," a stata in
which existence is insupportable- and she
had committed suicide by hanging herself.
They were English people, who had seen
better days and moved in respectable soci
ety. The husband had followed the sea as
a ship master, but heavy misfortunes which
he had not the moral stamina to bear up
against, overwhelmed him; he abandoned
himself to the bottle, that seducive fiend
which so oft n allures the unfortunate to
their des tuction, and his haplesss wife be
came his partner for wo, as she had been
for weal. Norfolk Herald.
S duct ion Heavy Damages. The
Sheriff's jury, iu the case of Ross v-f. De
landorf, for seduction of plaintiff's daugh
ter, have assessed ihe damages at $10,000,
being the full amount laid iu the declara
tion. iV. Y. Jour, of Com. '