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Whole Xo. 917. Turhoroagh, (Edgecombe County, X. C.) SaUinliy, September 30, 1843. VOL XiX. Xo. 39; The Tarborongh 3rcss, BY GKOKGG HOWAllD, Is published weekly at Ton Ddlars anJ Fifty t'tuts per year, if paid in advance or, Three Dtllars at the expiration of the subscription year. For any period less than a year, T aynty-Jive Vents per month. Subscribers are at liberty to discontinue at any time, on givinir notice thereof and paying arrears lho-;e residing at a distauee hiust invariably pay in advance, or give a respon sible reference in this vicinity. Advertisements not exceeding a square will be inserted at One Ihllar the first insertion, and 25 tents for every continuance. Longer advertise ments at that rate per squ ire. Court Orders and Judicial advertisements -J 5 per cent, higher. Ad vertisements must be marked tne number of in sertions req-iired. or they will he continued until Otherwise ordered and charged accorHinglyi Letters audressed to the K.I i tor must be pdst paid, or they may not be attended toi CHEER UP. BV EDWARD YOUNT. Cheer up! cheer up! Why look so sad? Though earth in sombre guise is clad, What good will sighing do? 'My u;ri -fs arj very gret." you say, Q lite likelv; almost every day 1 have my troubles too. And so hns every other man; It is our lot, but et we can Well bear them if we will; There' not a giiof the world can bring,, But what despite it- sharpest sling, It has some comibri still. Tho' friends grow cold, as tome friends will. And fottune prove unkindly, still I hold it sin to pine, While round me fellow men I see, Whose loaiisof care and misery, Are heavier far than mine. If ever I'm disposed to sigh, 1 turn my thoughts in years gone by, And view each passage oer, And though I find enough of ill. This truth is plain to cheer me still, The good is ten times more. This strengthens me in every grief) And fixes firmer my belief, And trust in God s cure; I know Ik- sends to none below A greater load of rare and woe Than each can well endure. Nerved by this tho't 1 play my part; And ever kep a chetrful htai t, Whatever may befall; And doing all I can to cheer The sorrows of my fellows here, Trust God, and hope through all. From the National Intelligencer. A VISIT TO THE FIVE POINTS. By A'. P. Willis. As I presume ou are interested in the one portion of New Yoik made classic by a foreign pen, let me jot you down a wett'rors of wa t and abandonment he almost or two from my fir.i visit to Dickens' Hole j within the sound of your voice, as you pass at the Five Points, made one evening last; Broadway! The officers sometimes make Wtek with a distinguished party under iheja descent and Carry off swarms to Black charge of the Buz officer. (well's Island for all the inhabitants of the I had an idea that this celphratf.fi snm Was on the eastern limit of the city, at the end of one of the omnibus routes, and was surprised to find thai it wa not more than three minires' w.dk from Broadway, and ia full view fio.n on. of the fashionable corners 1 lies, indeed, in what was once a secluded valley of the Island o! Manhat tan, though to believe it ever to have been green or clean requires a powerful efitjit of the imagination. Ve turned into Antho ny street about half past ten, passed the tombs, and took the downward road, as did Orpheus and Dickens before us. It was a cold night, but women stood at every door with bare heads and shoulder, most ol them with something to say, and by their attitudes, showing a complete insensibility to the cold. In every thing they said they contrived to woik in"the word "shilling." I here was very few men to be seen, and those we met skulked past as if avoiding Observation possibly ahameii to be there possibly shrinking from any further ac quaintance with officer Stevens, though neither ol these leelings seemed to be sha red by the females of i he community. A Hltle turn to the left brought us against what looked to be a blind tumbled down board fence; but the officer pulled a latch and opened a door, and a flight of step- as disclosed. He went down first and threw open the door at the bottom, letting UP a blaze of light, and we followed into the subterranean Almack's of the Five Points. And really it looked very clean nd cheerful. It was a spacious room nh a low ceiling, expressively white washed, nicely sanded, and well lit, and the black proprietor and his "ministering spirits" (literally tilling their vocation be hind a very tidy bar) were well dressed ii J people, and received Mr. .Stevens and his .-ueiairs wim the.ot .. . muiuer lams. we were a little early from the fahionabl hour, the "ladles not having arrived from the theatres;'' and proposing to look in again after making the round of the other depots, we crept up again in the street. Our next dive was into a cellar crowded with negroes, eating, drinking and dancing, one very well made mulatto girl playing the casianets, and imitating E sder in what she called the crack over again. In their way these people seemed ch erful, dirty and comfortable. We looked in after wards at several drinking places, thronged wi'h creatures who looked over their shoulders very significantly at the officer; 1 11 n 1 1 t'iitK n rrrinn r. . i i- tounct one or two bar rooms kept by wo men, who had preserved the one Virtue of neatness, (though in every clean place the hostess s emed a terrible virago) and it was then proposed lhat we would see som of the dormitories of this Alsatia. An, at this point must end all the cheerfulness of my description This is called "mur- .in mfc, .mey , snu our guide. We enter ed between two high brick walls, with barely room to p,ss, and by the police lantern, made our way up a 'broken and filthy staircase to the fl-tnr of a I rge build ing Under its one roof the officer thought there usually slpt a thousand of these wretched outcasts. He knocked at a door on the left. It was opened unwillingly by a woman who held a ditty horse blanket over her breast, but at the sight of the po lice lantern she stepped back and let u pass in. The floor was covered with ho man beirgs asleep in their rags, and when called by the officer to look in at the clos ) beyond, we could hardly put our feet to the ground, they lay so closely together, black and white, men, women anc children The doorless apartment beyohd, of the -ize of a kennel, was occupied by a woman and daughter, and the (laughter's child, lying together on the floor, and covered by ! rags and clothes ofno distinguishable color, the rubbish and dirt only displayed by their emaciated limbs. The sight was too sick ening to endure, but there vyas no egress without following close to the lantern Another door was opened to the right. It first disclosed a low and gloomy apartment, about eight feet square. Six or seven blaek women lay together in a heap, all sleeping except the one that opened the door. Sometimes s'irred in a heap of rags and one of the partv removing a ditty piece of carpet with his cane, discovered a new. born child. It belonged to one of the sleepers in the rags, and had an hours expert nee ol the tender mercies ol this ano wen mannerec world, nut these tales are disgusting, and!e(l a are have gone far enough when they have shown those who have the common com ! forts of life, how inestimably, by compari son, thev are blessed! For one, I had never i before any adi quale idea of poverty in cil- tes. I did not dream that human beings, with- in reach of human aid, could be abandoned to the wretchedness which I there saw and I have not described the half oTit, for the delicacy of your readers would not bear it, even in description. And all these hor Five Points are supposed to be criminal and vicious but. still thousands ate there, subjects for tears and pit v anil starving, like rats and dogs, with all the sensibilities of human beings. A. returned we heard screams andrv Hrnt;nlr I ihlnk iwn.thirrU nfi fighting on every side, and the officers of! the watch were Carrying offa party to the j - astn bills. V e found no New Hope lockup house. We descended O' CG more . Delaware Bridge money. Most of the to the ground ball room, and found the) gold was in sovereigns, some American dance going on very merrily. Several j coin. The silver was principally Ameri very handsome mulatto women we e in can; some five franc pieces, and some the crowd, and a lew young men about town," mixe l up with the blacks; and al together it was a picture of amalgamation such as I had never before s en.- I was very glad to get -out of the neighborhood, leaving behind me, I am free to confess, all discontent with my earthl) allotment. One gentleman who was with us, left behind him something of more value, having been robbed at Almack's of his keys, pencil case and a few dollars, the contenis of two or three pockets I wind up my "notes" wiih the hope that the true picture 1 have drawn may touch some moving spring of benevolence in private societies or in the Common Council, and that something may be soon done to alleviate the horrors of Five Points. From the N. Y. Journal of Commerce. The Liberty Parfy"s Nomination The National t onvention, sitting at Buffa lo, proceeded on 'Thursday, to vote by States for candidates to be supported by the Liberty Party, for the offices of Presi dent and Vice President of the United Slates. On counting the votes, it was an nounced that James G. Birney, of M chi gan, had received 148 votes, all that were cast, for President, and Thomas Morris. Uhio, 143 votes for Vice President. 1 he nomination was received with loud and enthusiastic cheers. As soon as si lence was restored, Mr. Keep prayed for Div ineN blessings on their proceedings, and tor ihe advancement of human liberty This was succeeded by a song, composed in honor of Birney by Elizur Wright. To cap the climax, Abbey Kelly came for ward, and harangued the convention on the existing relations between the America) A. S. S and the Liberty Party. Her ad dress was cut hort by the adoption of a motion that the convention Would hear Miss Kelly, after the business had been transacted. The convention adjourned sine die atone o'clock on Friday morning. Its proceedings were characleriz d by g'eit intemperance of J inguage It adop ted resluiions recommending the nullifica tion of the Constitution of this confederacy and approving a resoit to servile war The colored convention which preceded it, is declared by the Buffalo Advertiser to have been vastly superior to its successor. in wisdom, dignity, order, intellect and el oquence. Jin Outrage. A gentleman from the ouih stopping at Jones Hotel, named T. Pollock Burgwyh, while walking along l-hesnut street near 9th. on Tuesday even ing between 6 ami 7 o'clock, was attacked by a number of rowdies, who were retur nmg from a pitched fight in the vicinity of Moyameusing prison. He attempted to use a sword cane which he carried, but before he could place himself on the defensive, he received a severe blow under his eye, and on the back of his head, which felled him to the earth. There was no provocation whatever given for this shameful treatment Two men were shortly afterwards arrested, named Robert Tomlinson, and John Som er ville. They had a hearing on the charge of a riot with others, and an assault and bat tery on the above named gentleman, before his honor the Mayor, yesterday morning, which resulted in their commitment in de fault of 51000 bail, to answer, at Court. Philadelphia paper. (PWilliam Goddard, Post Master of Petersham, Massachusetts, a man hereto fore deemed of sterling integrity, has been detected and confesses Forgeries amounting to $41,000 which have been taken and are now held, 18,000 by Ware Hank, 10,000 bv W; H. & J. B Foster, Boston, and 10,000 by Chase & Craw, of do., &c. A youth eighteen years of age, named , Saunders, succeeded in for ging and obtain sum on the forged check" of Aus- 5 ton, Wilmerding & Co., New York, and -'attempted to get off in the steamer Great Western but failed to do so. He has been taken, and most of the money recovered. The New Jersey Murder. The trial of Joseph Carter, Jr . indicted for the mur- . ()er t)f ,on. Castner. Maria Castner, John B. Parke, and Maria Matilda Castner, near the village of Washington, Wart en county. New Jersev, on the first of May last, has been brought to a close 'I he jury ren den d a veidictof not guilty." The evi dence against the pi isoner (who is a rela tive of the murdered family) vvas altogeth er circumstantial. One of the witnesses testified as follows: 'We found in the house of J. 13. Parke 5,625 32, 3,000 in paper, $185 in gold and the rest in silver The notes were in Belvidere, Easton, Sussex, and Morris county, rsutchers' & Urovers ?tate nank vv kJ I w I k.-iait un"a the n.ner money was in Belvidere and Spanish dollars; someol the specie seemed to have lain a good many years The bank notes were nearly all found in Parke's chest, at the head of his bed. The money in his pocket book was not labelled. There was Si, 000 wrapped in an old pair of stockings, gl, 000 in a small book and the money seemed to have been there a great while, and the notes were glued to gether. The book was found in the chest with the clothes; the stockings were found in the bottom of the chest and the pocket book in the till. There were two apart ments in the chest that contained silver; it was wrapped up. Some of the gold was found in the desk that was unlocked, in one of the small drawers. There was some gold found in another part of the houe Some money was found in a musk rat trap in the garret, which was covered up wiih old boards, dry herbs, and an old cradle and scythe lay near. I think J 1,200 in sdver was in the trap. It looked to me as fit had lain there a good while. 'There vere old newspapers in it cut up by mice n old trunk in the garret was found, and in it 800 in silver." More fVells, bottoms out. In addition to the well of Mr Church, near Foft Ha- milion, Narrows, L 1., which we men- him, a hort time since, at a Bank in Fred lioned the other day, we learn that several erick. Md. He left the money at homo others in the western part of Long Island and upon his arrival at Frederick, announ have sunk about fifteen feet, to the great ced at once that he had bt en robbed. Few inconvenience of the owners, not to say j believed i, and on his return to the city, alarm; for if thir wells rest upon so un-: it was found that th money was safe and stable a foundation, their houses may be, exposed to a similar disaster. N. Y. Joilr. of Com. From the Globe. Voluntary return to Slatery-The Sandwich (Canada Wes' Express) chroni cles an occurrence that look place in that neighborhood on the 21st ult, which may be interesting toouranti slavery friends in thi vicinity. Three slaves, who had es cape I from bondage in the United States, had been working for some months past with farmers in the vicinity oT that town. Their owner (for they are all the property of one man) having- discovered their place of refuge, s-:;ut his nephew to persuade them to return, and to promise, if they would do so. ihev should not be sold or punished for their absence. The quondam slaves replied that if their master would himself come and ive the assurance, they would return. The master came, gave the required p'lt-dge, and then left them, lest his presence might be considered as coer cion. The three men, true to their pledge", packed up their clothing, and, un accompanied by any white man, proceeded :o vVindsor, crossed the river, and volun tarily went back to slavery; one of them observing as he went on board the ferry boat, that he never kriw what hard work was until became to Canada. Prom the Madisonian. Crops in Texas. A letter to the edi tors of the New Oileans Picayune from a gentleman residing at Lagrahge, Texas, under dale of August 1, sys. the crops of Texas, are in a very fl un i-hing condition Three times as much corn will he gaiher ed this year as will be necessary for con sumpti )n. It sells at 2 cents per bushel, for cash. "It is the prevailing opinion among the farmers," adds the writer, that if the army-worni should not moles' the cotton, and the fall be moderately dry, that there will be gathered from 2500 to 3000 lbs. to the acre, of seed cotton." Some of the farmers have made an experi ment of whal raising in the vicinity of L (irange. It has proved very successful, the soil yielding from thirty-five to forty, bush els to the acre of excelh nt grain. A gen tleman in the neighborhood of Austin gathered from sixteen acres the neti amount of five hundred bushels of mer chantable wheat. The Cherokee. The Van Buren (Ark ) Intelligencer, of the 19lh ult., has the fol lowing: We are highly gratified to have it in our power to announce to our readers that peace and quiet prevail in the Cherokee Million. I he wheels of srovernment are - m in regular operation; and as little excite ment exists in the Nation at this time as did I at any other period, except in th neigh borhood where the late murder was com mitted. Vann and Hicks are not dead. Bushyhead was killed during the election, and three of the murderers are apprehen ded, one of whom is a white man, and the police are in pursuit of others." Philadelphia paper. fr-pVVe see by a Taunton (Massachu setts) paper that the people of Weymouth Ill i . are petitioning governor iwoikmi iu pa, don the man Leavett. now under sentence of death, tor cold blooded muroer oi a mar ried woman, with whom he was living as ihe paramour. The jury that convicted him. and five thousand others, have signed this stranne n til ion, solely on the ground lhat the murderer was under the influence of rum when he committed the crime. Poor man, he is our brother, says a corres pondent of a 'Taunton paper; why should he be sent out of the world! It is enough to make a man lose all patience with his race, to read such paltry mawkishness such sickening, disgus'ing , sentiments. Not a particle of sympathy is fell for socie ty, for the victim herself, or for her inno cent orphan children; but to hang her mur derer is something exclusively cruel and unchristian. N. Y. Courier. Great Fees in Bankruptcy The Journal of Commerce states that the fees of the Clerk in the United States District Court, for New Yoik, in bankruptcy ca ses, have amounted to Jifty thousand dot larSy and thoe of the assignee, Mr. Wad dell, to one hundred thousand, while the Courier has received over twetty thousand for advertisements. From the Raleigh Independent. 1 slight mistake -A man by the name of Ing, a broker of Baltimore, had confided to his care a sum of money j say between gl7;000 and 18,000 to be exchanged by sound. The fellow has decamped. Hail Road Occident. A dreadful aci dent ocimh re 1 on the Su-quhamah Rail Road, on the 13thint. When the first Iratrl from B dtimore, which left at 7. A. M ith a large party of Defenders, Military and Ci tizens, on thtor vvav to the celebraiion at York, had reached a point about e-ght miles from York, the front axle-tree of the first passenger car broke, throwing that car and th' two following it off the track and splintering all three cars, the fust one be ing almost entirely demolished. The cars being crowded with people, a scene of con fusion, and dismay ensued which may be readily conceived. Eleven persons wei 8 more or les injured. None, were killed. but several had their flesh lacerated and limbs badly broken. 'The wounded per sons were taken to the hospital at York.iA. Great Robbery. Between twenty nd thirty thousand dollars worth of Jewelry was sio'en a few days ago from the store of W &S. Rock well. Jewellers, in New York. The thief, it is said, made a clean sweep ib. Ind'mo. A New Orleans paper says thai the low price of cotton has directed the attention of planters hi the southwestern part of the State to the cultivation of in digo. It was formerly a profitable crop, but has been driven out of the market by tiie indigo from the British East Indies, Manilla, the Philippine islands, and Sodtl? America. It is said that in some places it can be made a more profitable crop than cotton or sugar. Ib. Correspondence of the N. Y.) Courier and Enquirer. Buffalo, Sept, llthj 1843. Friend Webb: You have been apprised that the political Abolitionists held a con vention in this place on the last three days of August, for the purpose of nomin::! ? i t candidates for President and Vice Presi-1 lent of the United States, as well as candi dates for county offices, at the ensuing election. To day has shewn up a new feature in amalgamation; the Recorder's Court commenced its session this morning and after swearing in the Grand Jurors for the term, the panel of Petit Jurors was cal led, when among others who answered to : heir names was Abnei H. Francis, a BLACK MAN who has had the wool shaved offhis head, and its place supplied hy a wi got straight black hair. The first cause tfied was an action of replevin; and among the first jurors drawn vyas this black, and hilel write he sits cheek by jow l in the jury box with eleven while' men If the impudence of amalgamation can go farther than this, I know not how. Francis is a tailor here, and the owner of a small property, and as he has beeH regu larly drawn is perhaps not so much to blame as the whites who have urged him to go forward and take his sett. The Court of course can do nothing Unless the jurymen protest, and if Ihty do not do so,' I only wish the mercury in the thermometer marked 90 for their especial comfort. 'This is, I believe, the first ins'ance on record, in this country, where a black man has been permitted to sit in the jury8 box; but it will not probably be the last. Yours, W. Female Masons Half a century agry there were two Masonic Lodges, composed of females, in Paris: which are thus descri bed by an English traveller. They were" called by the pretty, and we presume, ap propriate appellation of Candor and Fidel ity. Says our author, we attended one of thee of which the Duchess of Bourbon is grandmistress some years ago at the reception of a sister; and were highly pleased to find the utmost dignity and de corum prevail; a most splendid assemblage of Brotheis and Sisters, of rank and fash ion, attended the ceremony, which was awful, solemn, and impresssive; the deco rations of the apartments; which are situa ted in a large building, appropriated solely to this purpose, were exliemely brilliant. Eloquent and suitable orations were deliv ered on this occasion; and when the seri ous buiness of the lodge was over, a playj and a ball, terminated the amusements 6f the night.' Children in Factories A London paper states that 'lhe official reports show that the children of the working classes in most of our manufacturing districts 8re living in a state of blind ignorance and con- eatient immorality wnicn wouia De a Dis grace o any Christian people, and such as ; is not witnessed in any otner country oo the face of God's earth"
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