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H'ftoe JSo. 894. Tavboronghi (Edgecombe Coiihtij" CJ Shliudni, Jlpril Sa, 1813 rot A'iA'.Vo Id; 27itf 'tarhorongh Press, BY OEORBE HOWAItri, 1 1 l 1 1 l .: i , . 'ri li II I LV flV hilar t th- Pvnimtiori nf the subscription vpar - r'or ant period less than a year, Viventy-Jire ant period leS3 than a year C.vrs per mouth. Subscribers are al liberty tn discontinue at any tinrte, on givirtg notice thereof and paying arrears those residing at a instance, must invariably pay in advance, or give a respon sible reference in this vicinity. Advertisements not exceeding a square Will be inserted at OnePolnr the first insertion and '25 Cents for every continuance. Longer advertise ments in like proportion. Court Orders aild Ju dicial advertisements 05 per cent, higher. Al j .:,,,nntc mil -st hf in arked the number of ln- veriiscmi'1 in..-.- - . .. sertions required, or theywill be continued until otherwise ordered and charged accordingly. Letters addressed to the Kditor must be post paid or ihey may not be attended jo. From the Rakish Register. LINES. On a Sulkev drive through the pinv woods of North Carolina, down eastS" in Autumn. The morning sun has ricn agdn, Again Cm on the way. And gliding o'er the leC! plain, As blithely as the day. And ere I'm fairly seated in, And ere the drive btguu: With low hot swiftly rolling din, The first mile-post is won. The road is smooth, the day is clear, My horse is flet and strong. And. he'id erect, and pointed ear, Sweeps free and fast along. The morning breezes rising rtmd, Are freshening more and inorej And through the waving pine-tops, sound Like Ocean's distant roar. The day is bright, and all is right, My horse trots gaily on; The wheels roll fast, the trees glide past Another mile is gone. All clothed in green, with towering hads, I he forest giants standi While Autumn's yellow carpet spreads O'er earth, on either hand. The falling lfl ts lightlj' glidej And o'er my pathway dance. From each one's smooth and shining side, The sun-beams trembling glance. Still, warm and bright, iho' glows the light, My horse trots gaily on. And free and fast, till morn is past, And many a mile is gone. 'Tis noon and with the gleaming sun We pause a breathing spice, More swift and strong, to bravely run And vin oUr. evening race. Again all's right proud in his might, My horse trots gaily on; The wheels roll fast, the trees glide past, Till miles on miles are gone. Till eve has shut the eve of day, And twilight westward fled, And Hesperus, from the full mdon4s ray, Has veiled its beauteous head. In silent night, but silvery light, My horst; trots gaily on; The wheels foil fast the drive is past. A resting place is wori. LORENZO. From the Oxford Mercury. Wm. H. Faulkner, alias Wm. R Jones, tvho murdered Thos. Bledsoe, of Franklin, in November 1S41 was arrested by Maj. das. I. Thomas, of this place and Mr. James House of Franklin, accompanied by two gentlemen of Danville, on Tuesday the 21st inst. about 12 o'clock .it night, on the premises of Col. Wilson of Pittsyl vania, Va., with whom he had lived as Overseer for the last twelve months. He has been safely delivered into the hands of the Sheriir of Franklin, to await his trial, which comes on before the April Superior Court of that county. The scheme for his arrest was wisely arranged: A negro was pretended to have been taken by the par t)' as a runaway, which was led up to Jones' door, and he getting up tosee whether the negid was Col. Wilson's, was immediately made safe. His wife lay silent till she saw through the matter, and then she shrieked most pitifully. Hie cause of the mUrder runs thus: Faulkner and Bledsoe1 were gambling in a do,?gerj, for Z cents a game. B. claim ed the stake, and said to F., any one who vould deny owing it, was a d d scouud rel or, something to that amount. F. rats ed a jug in a striking altitude, and B. rais ed a chair, when the man of ihe house or Jlered them out: F. went out and B. fol 'owed him in the yard; a few moments af- rZF:. !?. :r I?:? Y-T'! ""Tk reached to the bone, from his should ter; Bledsoe was found dead. On his body we're foii nd four large wounds, either of which wduld have ended his life. One i 'h-elbow, the next to the bone, Irom his groin to the knee, and the third in hi lett side to the heart. Faulkner made hi- escape, and went to the house of Mr Warf in Pittsylvania where he pas-d un der tne name ol Wm. K Jones and in .r ried her daughter with whom he was liv ing when arrested. Me left a wife and nine children in Franklirl. So he is now guilty of b )th bigamy and murder. From the Richmond Slut. Great Excitement in Xorfolk - niri- (it of Mr. Gardner. Subscript fhi for his family The death of Mr. Gardner caused gieat excitement in Norfolk and ,al though growing out of troubles in the sain--political party, lias produced mu. h bitter IKS- and animosity. Violence was very much feared at onetime, but the reams of Cooke seems to have allayed the eci e ment. A correspondent of the Baltimore Sun. gives the following a c unit of the ceremo I nies attending his funeral. The funeral of Mr. G. took place from i the Baptist church in Portsmouth, on Sat unlay last, 3 o'clock, P. M All business was suspended on the occasion, the stor- s and shops were closed, and the people tor ued out en masse. The church was not only filled to overflowing, but tlv s'rect in trout of il was also crowded with pct-ons. The procession, which consisted mostly of males, was the larg st ev r witnessed in that place. It is .supposed th.it there were at leat one thoosuid per-o is in it, who followed the remains to the place of inter ment. A banner was earned in the pro cession, and also exhibited in the church during he service, bearing the following inscription: "The working man's friend murdered in defending their rights." Un derneath ibis motto was a representation of the figure of justice, holding in the left hand tlie scales by one end of the beam, which was inclined downward, and in the right hand a broken sword. j After the interment, the procession ! crossed the ferry and marched in a quiet jmd p- aceable manner through the streets I ol our borough, bearing their banner with Ithem. These proceedings Were had in I consequence of the acquittal of Cooke, and j to show their indignation at the proceeds ings of the Court and the Commonwealth's attorney on the occasion. Since the arrest and recommitment of Mr. Cooke, the ex citement has subsided in some degree. Although seiious apprehensions were had that violence wo dd be attempted, yet none occuried, either upon the persons or prop el ty of any citizen. The affair is a deep lv painful and melancholy one, and has produced great distress in the family of Mr Cooke. Mr. Gardner has h f i a wife and three childr. n, which I am told are in very dependent circumstances A sub scription has been s t on foot since the oc currence in Portsmouth, and 1 am lold that the citizens of the place hive subscribed very liberally in behalf of the widow ami children. Yours, &c. fJpAny writing on the margin of a newspaper, transmitted by mail, subjects the vv,,ier to n fi:,eol five dollars. A case of this kind has been recently judicially settled in Halt. more, in favor ol the J. S u.e oueuee eou..s,,ug s.o.p.y ... w ruing i the words. '-From Elder y Gets 'on cS'CV, Raltimore. Young Atrccf acquitted. The trial of i Singleton Mercer tor the murder of Hut chinson Heherton, which commenced at Woodbury, New Jersey on thp 2Sih ult was brought to a close on the 6 h instant, when the jury returned a verdict of not guilty, and he Was discharged from ctlsto dy. It will be recollected that the deceased had seduced and- otherwise shamefully 'treated the sister of Young Merger, and thai he was challenged by the latter and refused to fight; and that Young Mercer pursued and shot him irt a Carriage. The trial efceited great attention at the Notth. It appeared from the evidence, that Heber ton accomplished his desires by the most subtle villany, aided finally by actual vio lence. Testimony wris alsd given to prove that she was an innocent and confiding girl. (indeed but liitle more thatia child,) and her character above suspicion ih.t she tit st conversed with her destroyer un der the mistake that he was a SpnnMi gen- that she conceived a liking -lor him that he undei eived her as to his name, but pretended honorable motives and avowed attachment for her that subsequently to ier violation he made promise of man iage. nd fixed day, &c. Much testimony rela tive to Young Mercer's derangement was ;iven in and it was very strong. The scenes in the Court, at Woodbury, pend ,ng the examination of Miss Mercer am. her aged mother, are represented to have been exceedingly painful. W hen the triumphant acquittal of Mer cer was announced, the manifestations of gratification were strong anil expressive. ootii in Woodbury, where the trial wa heM, in Philadelphia and every other place Great Robbery in New York. Jacob Shipm.in, .lr., many years confidential agent of the banks and brokers of New York and Philadelphia, lias absconded with a large amount of available funds, at the low esi esii nate t 20,000. The New York Ex press s iys that he. was "the last man that would have been suspected of this daring robbery, as he has had hundreds of oppor tunities of taking a larger amount. The general opinion was, that his trust would out be behaved except at the expense of his life, which opinion was well supported by the fact of his having been attacked Sev eral times by robbers, against whom he pro tected the property at the cost of severe wounds." (kP'The Hon. George D. Anderson, Judge of the Superior Court of the Chero kee ('iron it, died at his residence in Rome, Georgia, on the 1st instant. He retired to bed on the eveningof the 1st inst. apparent ly in good health, and was found dead next morning. Rait. American. 3 J. Huston paper states that the re cent month of March was the coldest in that quarter in a period of 26 years. (J The snow in the uppr part of New Hampshire is now five feet deep on a level Maine. The snow is now said tofbe four feet deep, on an average, throughout the Slate. So much snow has not fallen du ring any winter for forty years. By an accurate measurement, kept by Professor Cleaveland, of Brunswick, the snow is as certained to have fallen fifteen feet since the commencement of cold weather. fl respectable Snow drift. A latenum of the Auburn (N. Y ) Journal, in speaking of the late snow-storm, says that between Auburn and Syracuse the now was twenty-five feet deep for a long distance on the track and that east of Utica there was a long piece where it was near forty feet deep. Alosl distressing octutrente. We are just informed of a most melancholy acci dent that took place on one of the prairies in the western part of the State. A fami ly of emigrants, eleven irt number, while on ineir way to lowa, were irozen to death much delicacy to interrupt him, waited pa in their wagon. The horsfcs stopped at a tiently for him to lake his nap out, until at house, when the inmates, not seeing any one alignt irom the wagon, were induced. Moor, and demanded to see him. Mrs by mere curiosity td make a" close exami- ( Graves whispered and Said he was asleep. nation. Upon lookiug into the wagon, and begged he should not be disturbed. they were horror struck at the appalling! aiui pouted to the bed where he was sun . , . , I ,.,i,:u . :.,.ir ... . ., . ' sjicL-i.ii ic "nun nicscuicu useii m hu m view. The father and nine children were the evening, howev( f, the guard declared lying dead in the bottom of the Wagon. '. jlC jiaii enough, and entered thp room The mother probably the last survivtr ' for the purpose of waking him; when lo, was sitting Up and holding the reins, as if and behold! they found ft hdy snugly oc driving. We did not learn the name of'eupxing the bed. and Grues n.i-suig " He, this unfortunate family, or from w hat part j as appears had dressed himself in female of the country they were removing. apparel, and walked out in presence of fie Fekin (Rtinois) Palladium, 'guard. I'utingthe time that Graves was 'supposed lo be asleep, a large likely negro isnjjrring. I he Kev. John street says j tji;ll , u n cl reel s of people' in Philadelphia ttmes, and il is supposed he look the ne I are dying for the want of bread. In oner's clothes, blacked his face a shade or !(;IV jle distributed five hundred loaveV two. ami walked out. The Governor ol aiu numer0us calls that could not be satisfied. There is a good deal of differ-1 euce between this stateof things and the promises made by the Whigs in 1 840 j How dearly are the people paying lor iheir misplaced "generous confidence!" Suicide. Dr. William A. Matthews, well known as one of the bloods" of New York, committed suicide on Friday even ing, by culling his throat with a razor, at the house of his brother. No cause is as signed for the act. The Parricide IV hit e. Benjamin 1). White, recently convicted at Le Ry, Genesee county. New York, of the mur der 01 nis ta'ner, nas oeen sentenced to ne hiing on the 29th day of April next. The Le Roy Gazette extf'a gives a full report of his trial, from which it appears his father was a pious man, possessed of some proper ty, and universally esteemed. The son had conceived a strong hatred of him foi supposed ill-treatment, and especially be cause lie was a Christian the son being a deist Several quarrels had occuried be tween them; and, on the 16th of March, 1 842. the son went to the woods where the father was, had a dispute wilh him, and soon alter followed him home. Ashe was ntering the house, the father attempted to exclude him, when he drew a pistol and -hot him. After his conviction, White made a long, rambling address to the court, n abuse of Christianity and his deceased lather, whose murder he confessed. He manifested no penitence, and was anxious only that a narraiive he had written in sup port of deism should be published. . itrlrribte Murder The New Or-, what is o come. There is a seed, a small feans Picayune of the 17th instant gives he sc( indeed, raised from out the followers particulars, as defiled bv the captain of a of Him who baptized Jn the Jordan. He, steamboat, of a most horrible murder, j the gre i One, who noW dwelleth in thd which for the sake of humanity, is to he; tent of the Eist, who predicted my eman hope I are greatly exaggerated. They are cipation; whom I have beheld in dreams' indeed too revolting for belief: jand visions, is the e'ec.ted one. The mis- 'A man by the name of Stewart, residing deme mors of the scribes (editors) are ma at Cypress Mend, Arkansas, just above nifold, and their deceits aire come before Columbia, was s tine time since robbed of . the Lord. Now, I, Ahasuems, have had a negro by (as he supposed) sdme wood-j d vision. I was in the vale of the father of chopper of the vicinity. THe circum- waters, and nigh to a large and populous stance, it seems, threw him into a vidlent j city. I saw envy in the face of the scribes; and uncontrollable rage; andj failing td arid their words were far from the truth, catch the thief or recover the negro, lie j I h ive seen the four ages of t lie world. swore that his dogs should eat the first j wood chopper that ever again ventured Up on his ground ! 'Only a few days si'ice, Some poor wroteh of a wood chopper stopped at Stew art's door about nightfall, requesting the shelter of the iof till morning Stewart admitted him, and. Soon after," let in upon the man a parcel of savage young pups, se curing the door against his egress. These, however, the poor Wood chopper managed to keep at. bay: upon which Stewart turned in his full grown dogs, urging them to rend an I K'ar the unhappy man to pieces. Dri ven to desperation, the poor wretch for some lime kept oiT even thee. when, like a very fieno in human form. Stewart rustl ed in with 'his gun. and shot down the stranger. The remainder of the story is almost too revolting for pen to write or eve to read. The demon. Stewart actually kept his oath! It is given 1o us in veiiia hie relation, thai, ere lift; was yet extinct, the ravenous dogs flew to their horrid re pat, ;nd tore the unfortunate man limb from limb! The frightful narrative almost sets belief at defiance Stew art insiantU fled, and a reward of SI, 000 is ofllred for bis apprehension part by the Governor of Arkansas, and part snbo ibed by the citizens of Colum bia. The neighbors found the bjnesofthe poor wood hopper scattered about and picked clean by the ferocious dogs! Confirmed. The Helena (Ark.) paper of the I4ih inst. fully confirms the details of the above awful murder; they are even more horrible than those given above. tflrrest and Escape. Wrj have already noticed the arrest of Richard S. Graves, Treasurer of the State of Mississippi, for embezzling the funds of the Stfilte. We now have to record his escape from the of- ncers wno nan mm in cnarge. rrom one of the papers He learn that Graves obtain ed permission df his guard to visit his wife j jn her chamber; and the guard, feeling too ast, becoming weary, they knocked at the posed to he reposing soundly. L.aler in gM went in and nut nl 1li- mom vi- r. I Uhe Slate off -i s a ivw ard of & 1 .000 for his apprehenioii His defalcation amounts to 'about Sl iO.000. He is described as about 23 or 30 year s of age, &c 1'he New Orleans Tropic of the 3d inst. says: Alter all, Mississippi is not likely to loe so much by In r treasurer as was at first expected. We learn verbally, from Jackson, that soon after the deparinie of Graves, his wife sent to Governor Tucker, requesting an interview. At first the Go vernor declined; but on the lady's sending a second time, the Governor called on I he hdy, in company with Judge Buckner. Mrs. G delivered to the Governor a pack age containing S(JG. 000 in gold ami treasu ry notes, also a parcel containing Slate bonds, which had not been examined when our inlormant left. From the Neuj Orleans Tropic. THE "WANDERING JEW." A tU, cadaverous looking man, abdut fifty years of age. came into our ofiice yes terday, and presented us with the follow ing paper:-- The PTision of ilhasiierus, the Wander ing Jew. Glory be td Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. The Lord be praised! for my wandering is ended. I am on the verge of lime tl.g creation is to be annihilated, and 1 am tobe released. 0 hope! thou talisman of every dtspairing mortal, thou hast not deceived me! Wisdom! glorious wisdom has been im parted to the Gentiles. The enemies of my creed have been blessed with a foresight of Fhe gold of Ophir and the rubies and sma- ragdes of the ESt have passed away; this is the fi.-t age. The silver age is past.. The brags is gone, and the iron is almost consumed. Whe.e'fore, I, Ahasuerus, charge yod not to listen to the sciibe who will bring us back to copper cin, and who sporteili philosophy; nor to thdse who are travelling to dud fro on the earth, some time" losing trunks and lirribrellas, or hap lesy go elephanting beyond the sphere of ili' ir business, nor td those who discover holes in the globe, and explore the inside thereof nor td thosei who deliver lectures 011 thi igs bey On d the cdrthj whereof nei ther they n'or any body else here' on earth has atiy correct kndwl-dgej nor to" t'ioie "ho talk in large houses, oh elevated stools, of the wisdom of their Creator, where-'f ihey know as little ds ad Uricirctlm eized child. ' he glory of God is rhatiifesled in the fl sh; anil I, Ahasuerus, having repented of my transgression, eschewing all evjl am! minding my own business, exhort youj by these presents, to do the same. Important front St. flomirigrt By an armal at New Orleans from Jacquemel, . e learn that intelligence hid been receiv ed there, a feW days prior lo her depar ture, that President Boyer had fled the isl and, leaving it in complete possession of the insurgents. The New Orleans Bee of ihe 5th instant, contains the Proclamation of President Boyer, abdicating the chief rnrfgistracy of ihe island of St. Domingo, aS follows: Port au-Prince, March 13, 1843. Gentlemen of the Council: Twenty-fivn years have elapsed since I was called upon to fill the post of President, then made va cant by the death of Petion, the founder of the Republic. Sitice then, 1 hate endea vored to carry out his views, which I had of all olheiS the best opportunity of know ing. 1 have endea O.ed during my adminis tration to conduct the affairs of Govern ment with a Strict attention to an ecomicai management of its finances. In proof of my labors on this subject, there are now one million of dollars in reserve, besides other funds deposited in Paris to the credit of the Government. Recent events, which I do riot desire td characterize, hdve brought dpoh me cala mities which I did Hot fdrescej nor airi prepared to meet. In this emergency, I deem it due to my dignity and honor to make a personal abnegation of ihe powers with which I have been clothed. Doling my presidency, I have adopted the policy of quelling the discords and di visions that made Hayli a" distracted aind! feeble government. I have lived to see the independence of the' nation acknowl edged, and its territory united; and nowj in voluntarily ostracising myself, I give an other proof of rily desire to remove all eause 01 discontent arid division. In conclusion, I may add, that I wish Hayii to bi as happy as I strove 10 render her. BOYER. tnsiirreclian in Cuba VVe are indebt ed to the Charleston Mercury for a slipj containing dates from Havana to the 1st inst. A letter under that date says: "An insuneciion of the negroes em ployed on the Cardenas railroad took place a tev days ago; iney marched into three sugar est.ati s. and after setting fire to tho hotise-j&c. Increased their numbers lo ovef a' thousand; but they were immediately put down by the whiles in the neighbof liOodj aided by a company of tegular troops; the last accounts say that no more difficulty is apprended; So active werfc the whites, that when the mililary arrived, ihey found over forty of the negroes kill ed, and the rest surrounded by the whites and dot daring lo advance." tflarvalion. The editor of the Colum bus Journal gives a lamentable account of Ihe destruction of live stock in the north western counties of Ohio, consequent upon! the Severity of the winter. In Putnam ctr. alone, it was estimated that 300 head of cat tle and 6,000 swine had perished; and in Van Wert county, ih- number of dead and dying hogs lying along the roads exceeded any thingof the kind ever seen or heard of befo e in that quarter. The deer, wild turkeys, and all descriptions of game, had Suffered with the rest. In Allen county, the woods were full of dead hogs.1 1. Y,j !V4 1 ?.)? iii- 1 1 1 4-') !!