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V GDIBdD m TaPbbrb&gii, Edgecombe County, J vsaturrtfttj, July 20, IS 14. . XT. wVo. 29. The Tarboroiisfh Tress, 11 v ilvnnr.V. HoWARD. J R ls published weekly at Two Dollars per year, '.LttrSr MX- Subscribers are at liberty to discontinue at any time on giving notice thereof aod P1"?"- . Advertisement, not exceed i ng a s nare w, I be inserted at Out IJollar ine nrsi insertion, anu w cents for every, continuance, liougrr nuveiu ments at that rate per square. Court Orders and Judicial Advertisements 25 pf r cent, higher. Ad vertisements must h marked the number of inser tions required, or they , will be continued until otherwise directed, and charged accordingly. Letters addressed, to the Editor must be post aid, or they may not be attended to. FOR THE TARB0R0 PRESS. MY MARY'S SMILfi. What care I for summer weather, Since it lasts so brief a while? Twenty summers come together, If I see my Mary smilei I need neither fruit nor blossom, . Nature's bounties, cheap and vile: AH my .fruit is Mary's bnsom, All my blossom Mary's smile. Should 1 fill, like some',, my eight full. Of all scenes, from Thames to Nile: Tell me what is so delightful As to see my Mary smile. Let them travel, who in duty s Visit many an ancient pile; 1 admire no gothic beauty; Let me see my Mary smile, Snow-capt hills are brijrht at even, ; Towering upward many a mile; I am always nearer heaven When i see my Mary smile. Cbuds may. hide the sun herr.after, As they oftthave done erewhile; care not fo'r nature's laughter, If I see my Mary smile. Learning makes the brain but rnudtiy, Drowns the laboring soul in bile; This my only book and study; All I read is Mary's smile. Side of song runs smooth and steady; Art could scarce improve my style; What's the cause? Tis said already, When 1 boast my Mary's smile. B. The following poetry is from the pen of a lady, a native of the Old Dominion. She now resides on the ban!: of Tippecanoe creek, in the State of Indiana, and is a better poet, in our bumble opin ion, than the hero of Tippecanoe was a politician. If some of the ladies who design attending the whig barbecue at Bladeosburg to-morrow, voiild stay at home and try to emij'ate her example, even if it should be in writing lines in favor of Clay, they would be much more respected, no matter who may be elected. Barbecues and bull baits are not places for ladies. , , Ah, why despise the name of Pofk! A name that rhymes so well with folk,. That crowds may rally round this nam?, And trust to Polk their country's fame;, 'Tis a plant used by dames and. swains," To cure their fierce rheumatic pains; If Uncle Sam is sore beset, i. Writhing with anguisH, prJn anl debt, (Worse than disease of joint or limb,) Surely 'twill health restore to him. 'Tis said the juice, with care preserved,. :. To flush the cheek with bloom has served. Since oft in pleasure's idle riiaze, Nature's fresh, blcoras too soon decays, Ye fair, who wish the cheek's bright glow, On Polk your favor, then, bestow. Surely such halcycn scenes 'twill raise, Aa, vying with these fabled tlayp The golden age which poets sing, , New bloom to every cheek will bring. A simple viand for the. poor ? . Js this same Polk: why ask for more? If beauty, health, and food it give, Let Pi Ifc t-5 Surie forever live. , . i AV'hen, spring high, our eagle proud ('leaves with its the thunder cloud, n tee same talon, bright and keen, Where the green olive branch is seen, The imperial bird the Volh shall bear, rtiftb ihro-igh the azure field of air. ....... raLSJ From the Democratic Signal. Mr. Graham and the Public Lands. Look at this record- ; , - , Mr. Graham, the Whig, Candidate. or Governor, was a member of, the ; Legisla ture in 183S. He supported Ray ners Resolutions. lie was an actor in the Cau cus which framed them, and a leader of the party which passed them. Among those Resolutions, was the following: "Resolved, That wc consider; l)i2 Pub lic Lands of the U. States, a3 the common property of all the States, and that we therefore condemn the. late Act ofCoo: gre5S; allowing settlers on the public lands the rig'.ht of pieemption at.the, minimum price, as afl act of gross injustice to the od Stales who originally ceded them, or who contributed to a common fund for this pur chase." , Our Senators in Congress at that time, (Brown and Strange) were accordingly in formed by Mr. Graham & Co , that . they would" represent the witd)CS of a majority 'of the people? rtf this State, by opting to car ry out the foregoing Resolution. Now Look at this record. Mr. Graham succeeded in driving Mes- Srs. Brown and Strange from their seats in jthe.Se,wbe5,Vr.,OT. vote for pre-emptions., lie succeeded in getting himself elected to one of the vacant places, -; - ' . , WV "''ft. CM num ixortn Carolina, he voted for the Distribution Act, which enacted: "That from and after the passage of, said Act, every person being the head, of a fam ily, or widow, or single man over the age of twenty-one years, and being a citizen of the United States, and who,. since, the 1st of June, 1840. has made, or shall hereafter rcake, a settlement in person on the pub lic hir.ds &c. 4 Should be entitled to a Pre emption. "''(Are Act of Congress passed 4th Sept., il. If Mr. Graham had ben actuated pure ly by ambitious self interest, he could not have been guilty of grosser inconsistency, or a more palpable violation of political good f.iith. In view of such proofs, ordi nary candor would dictate a confession of guilt. In 4hc brguugu of the Resolution, he did an act, whilst Senator, of gross in justice to (North Carolina) one cf the old States." He voted for pre-emptions to "settle rc on the .public lands," and thereby, according to his own shewing, vi olated the ."wishes of a majority of thr people of his own State." lie disregard id his own solemn declarations of what were her rights and wishes: he condemned others for what they .did not, assuming that they had been guilty, and yet upon the first opportunity, he himself .perpetrated the offence which by his own Resolutions in 1838, he had denounced as unjust grossly unjust to N. Carolina. Mr. Graham has attempted, we under stand, to excuse hi.T.stlf by pretending that the pre-emption law, which he voted against in the Legislature at home after it had passed, was not identical with the pre emption law he supported in the Senate. How uncandid! The offence was great; but really the excuse is worse far worse. We have quoted the Resolution word for wcrd it was against ajlowing pre-emptions o "settlers upon the public lands." The Act he voted for in the Senate, pro vides, in express terms, for allowing pre emptions to "every man and widow who has made or shuJl make settlements on the public lands." It is an insult to com mon sense to attempt tc make a distinction between what Mr. Graham as a member of the General Assembly thus denounced, 2nd what as Senator he approved and sup ported by h'.s vote! It remains tc see whether on enlightened people i v ill trust him with the high interests of the State, after such an inexcusable betrayal of public confidence. "Out of the frying pan into the fire " The "Register" of Tuesday last, charges the Signal with a misstatement of Mr. Clay's vote against repealing the Bank rupt. Law; and pharisaically takes great credit to himself, for his charity in no.t de nouncing it as a wilful falsehood When wc sianu in neeu 01 tne negusrer s cnaruy, we shall probably be more grateful for jls 1 1 c 1 ti . 1 . exercise than :n the present instance. Our statement (quoted by the Register) was, that Mr. Clay was, 'In favor of a Bankrupt law, authori 2, wholesale repudiations of honest debts; and voted against the tepeal of Ihe Uankriipt Act." : . , ;. Arid that, too, after he had received in formation cf the wishes of his Stale that it should be repealed., . ... .. , , Now, docs not the Register . know ; that Tlifc ABOVE IS TRUE? that HEN RY CLAY DID ,: VOTE AGAINST TIIE REPEAL OF THE LAW, AS WE CHARGED? ("If he does not know it, as a political teacher, it was his duty to have known it;" and that he.may not fall into like errors again, Vc lake the liberty of referring him to the record , of the Sen ate's proceedings on ,28th Jan'y 1342, where he will find that, .'fupori the Bill of the House of. Representatives to REPEAL THE. BANKRUPT LAW," HENRY CLAY voted "NAY," and it was lost by a majority of ONj. . . :. . The Register will no doubt agree that he lias adopted an exceedingly, poor way to excuse his fault of publishing a lalse ac cusation against the Hon. Andrew John son j whilst for the purpose not of vindi: eating himself but of retorting a like charge against us, he could not have fallen upon a more unfortunate paragragh in the last Signal, than the one he selected. ib. Mr. Clay Mr. GrahantOJJicc Stekers. If Whig politicians. were judged by their professions, one would suppose lha.t J.hey have no love whatever .for office seekers. In this however, as in other respects, they profess one thing, and practice another. ,Mr- Clay, for his part, has been a stand ing candidate for. President ever since the year 1S23. r Just twenty years ago, he started in pursuit of that ofGce, First, he ran before the people in 1824 and got beat em ,He then .bargained with j. Q. Ad ams, to getfint6 tjie "line of safe. prece dents," and they two fought in.cop&Ytncr ship, against Jackson in ls2s . and were both routed. In 132, Mr. Cla again tried the chances, and took a nvce against .lack son aloiie, and was distanced!. In 1S.36 he could net even get the nomination, bui he tai led Harrison in the West, and While in. the South,, to breakdown Va.i Bui en and the. Democratic party, and the .whole ombination was defpajed. In IS10, Mr. Clay was again in the field, and once more, in his own person, sought the nomination at Harrisburg, but was unexpectedly set aside by his own party to wait till ano ther time! In lS44,he is still seekingtbe office, and, in the desperation of , a last struggle for the shining prize so long rov eled, we find him, riding the circuit cf the whole .South, and from tovvn to .town, jfrom New Orleans to. Washington City,, letting himself down to the .electioneering h i- rangue: dency : of a stumD candidate for the Presi- V hat. an antipathy these V.'higs feel for ouirc seekers! Vrt'.. : M f u .1 T- 1 1 i- ISor is Mr. braham, the V ederal candi date for Governor, far behind his great lea der. He has been a candidate , for more high offices than any man of his age in N. Carolina, or perhaps in any other Slate, lie Ins done as little and sought as much p3y,for it, as any; man ve know of. , In 1835, he. was a candidate for Speaker of the House of Commons, and was beaten by Mr. Haywood.. In 1S36, he was again an unsuccessful candidate, for the , Speaker' chair. In 1S35,. he vyas a candidate, for Judge,, and was beaten by Geh. Saunders.. In 1837,. he was a candidate for Congress in the, Wake district, and. was beaten by Dr. Montgomery, .In 1S39, he was asnce more a , candidate for Speaker and was elected. In 1840, he was re-elected Speaker of the House, and during that same session. was 3 candidate for. Senator in Congress and was elected in place cf.Mr. Strange, whom he had aided to . instruct, out of his 1 office. How disinterested! In 1S43, he. was again a candidate for U. $. Senator, and a3 de feated. Now, in 1844, he is a candidate for. Governor of. Nortfi Carolina. :l Ilere then, is a young mn who, in the lapse of ten years, has been eight times a candidate for the highest offices in the State; . and yet he and his supporters affect to denounce office-seekers! . , Kealjy, , really,, it would seem that no one else of the Whig party is lit to run for office but Henry Clay and William A. Graham. ib. From the Raleigh Standard. Philadelphia IUots. There has been another disgraceful , riot in Philadelphia. The military were called put ?,id fired iipr on the., mob, and. for several hours a most sanguinary battle raged v between them. Some thirty or. forty were ..killed and a w . . - considerable numoer wGunueu. . ill was quiet at the ,ast advices. Nye fear these disgraceful scenes will not be terminated until llio Whirr ro rt v ri 1" f 4io NJrrlh n- - - denpunce and proscribe Democratic Irish- men. ... A very recent letter rf0m a friend iii New York informs is that ihey expect daily in that city, c repetition of the Phila delphia outr.ige.s. No, matter who is im plicated, let the military do their duty. The Philadelphia "Inquirer, in. its: ac count of the riot of Sunday night, says: The heaviest discharge of fire arms took place at about half past ten, when two pie ces of artillery were fired in quick succes sion against the military ; and instantly fpl loweifby.a rolling fire of. musketry, evi dently from a large body of soldiers. A rain,a brief pause, ensued; only brief, how ever, for the discharges and volleys, both of artillery and musketry, nqw camp, thick and fast. The scene in the immediate vi cinity was indeed. appalling; wives scream in for their husbands, children,, for their fathers, and all alarmed and terrified in the extreme. Mangled and dead bodies ever and anon home along, reports of friends or relatives killed, rushes of the crowd from some false or real ground of apprehension; all bore witness to a frightful drama that was in progress. Another Mineral Spring in IVarren We are gratified to learn that another mineral spring has been discovered at Shocco whi2h. is likely to become a very valuable one. W.ehave not tasted the wa ter ourselves, and. if. we had,, do. not pre tend to., be very competent, judges about such matters, bgt we learn, from, a gentle man who has cirefully examiner Ihe wa ter and who hah frequently visited the Virginia Springs, . that it. .very . nyich re sembles the , water of tle . Hed Sulphur Spring of that State. The, newly discov ered spring js situateil between the, dwel ling house and the old .spi iog.. It is bold and runs from a ridge of recks. The wa ter is strong and has. a great deal, of sedi ment. t, It ,is moderately cool, of a pinkish or rather ola mild purple color, and ex ceedingly clear f,r water .of that cast .When hint taken from thq spring, it tastes somewhat of iron,,nd after standing a while smells, strongly. ,.of s.ulphur, ..We learn tht White. Oak bark when.deposi'ed in t he water,, givers it immediately a deep p.i.rple.die, although, it. docs not discolor) i lie other wan r at Shccpo Springs.; 'ei are.jnformedj I hatt Red. .Sulphur water tested, by Whi'e Oak b.rk. Our informviori as to. the Sprirjg and its qualities, we thinkl,. may be relied upon with entire confidence. The Mormons.. The Cincinnati Atlas of July 4, contains intelligence. from Nau voo up 19 4. o'clock on the evening of th 2Sth of t June... . We cojy ihe following from ih;,t p.p'-r: . ,t , .t ;Thc Gteamb'iat Mendcra, at ?.. Ioui'. loft. Jcuvoo at 4 o't lork, Captain Riley siys he sloppeil at Nauvgo sevtT'r.l hours, and ,lalf:el wi'li a huinber.of the iNJohnons; and. thai while there a body of ,Mprmou came in. bearing. the deid bodies of .foe and Hiram Smith. Ir J'heJps was nol kilhd, ed, but was in Nauvoo when, the Mendora 1 1 r 1. . .. u .. X t . . 1 ihm, matting : uercu,iu uir imui iimmi-, aun 1 . -n ; . nil iMU" i'iciii iu uraic. ., 1 vii 11.11 viw v.io nut injured;. no Mormons bemg killed, ex.cep' Joe and Hiiaqi Smith. . .The Mormons all txpress a dettrmin;ition to keep the eace. and not t,o resort to arms except in ntces - sary defence. . Hurrah jor Young Hickory. Thirty three new Democratic papers have bten started sjnee the meeting of the Baltimore Convention. QJ'Yhe Lexington (Ky.) Gazette says: '.'T he relatives and Iriehds, of Colonel John nation of Polk and ltlv Me dealt, blow . n . r .1 n - -r ' 1 lo Clay's project for ll Presidency . and son in this neghborlioodt regard the nomi iippori 11 wiin ine creaiesi cnerKy aiui en- thusiasm." . The Duel. We stated on Saturday, r.n ihe authority of the Norfolk Herald, that John Tyler, jr., apd(vHugh II. ,pieasants. ! frrned .hip'vajje character. ,. ltispajidlb.it junior, editor otJhe .Richmpljd .Whig, had hs has. neither actually, resigned, pr.indica goue into North Carolina for the, purpose; ,ej his intention to do so immediately--of fighting ,a duel,t tIt appears that ihe day 1 ,hougl) for ihis.we have.nq reliable aulhori- antl hcur were apppjntetl, and the Parts- j Y. Courier and En 'q. mouth IndeXjSays Mr.Tyler duly.arrived j . on the ground .wiiji us second, . and. after j , fjA special Convention of.the Episr waiting a considerable, time for; his adv er Slr i I f!-inrh !n Putin sv I van la is.IO he hpld ry,.. was auo.ii preparing 10 reure, wnen a .Philadelphia on t!ie 5th of September messenger amve.d.stating f ba . Mi;. Pjeas- nrji, to act uppn the communication of the ants was at.jhe house of Mis. Dupre, about jj-hop of that Diocese, th? rtey. Dr. H. U, jwelves nules off, 'roaring cr.zy with ijie 'Hnderdonk' tendering '..his, resignation on xtamaa petit1 and that as he. had not been P.wa,re of the ti me. agreed .0.11 by Insj v . . ( f . second, he, the said . s.eccijd, would , mteil Shower. (f $lones.,. is staled.uppn Mr, Tyler if he would wait. Mr, Tyler, j R()0(, gUlhui iy that ihe farm of. Ux. KeJiyi jgvCVer,.bting satisfied that he..Ua,d filfil-jja Vera n go township, was visited on Satur jed his part pf ihe contract, immediately j day ast. .with a very singular -.phenDme. returned to Washington. n0n. ( The nr.ale,poftion,of Mr.. K.s fami- ; ..... . r ly were in Jhe iield hoeing ..corn, when. The. Western Ftoo(l T er Mississippi . stones commerced falling around them so Llivcr at St. Louis was st.il ! rising on the ! evening of the 24ih ult. but as the. uppgi river had commenced lalling, it .was. conti dently hoped that, it would come to a stand and begin to fall ihe day following; It was 3 feet higher, than, the great fio.od of 1 7c5 The .distress, and uih. created by this flood, is.immense. ... Not only the. Missou ri, bqt the Arkansas, White ( River.vand Red tfiver, and finally ih.e great Mississip pi itself, have, overflowed, their, bounds, covering wide and feitile.plain3, and sweeping away crops, ..cattle) fences, and in some instances, houses and families. Nu merous towns,and; villages, have been in undated, wholly, or, in part, some of them to. the.tdepth.oi;. 10 or 20. feet. The St. Louis Republican of ihe 24'ri ult. says: At pr.esen.1. there are in the city of St. Lou is, five, Hundrecl prions w,hO ;hafrb been driven from their homes by the flood. Most horrible Accident. On Wednes day mbrhing, a youn5 ,ady n-med Susan Logan was killed under the most frightful circumstances. She started from her home, a few miles beyond Chartier's Creek, on horseback, to come to the market, and had come but a short distance, when the horse became frightened and ran off; she exericd herself tor some time to retain her ieat in the saddle, but the horse still becoming more unmanageable, she was finally thrown off, her foot remaining in the stirrup. The horse sped along with frightful rapidity, drazninc the Door eirl, whose, head beat agaiuit the ground at every leap, until aM Ja?! the saddle stirrup gave, way, .and. her mangled body was left lying t .pjiartier' Creek .bridge, on the Steubenyille road, where she died a few' mi antes after. . Pitiiburg Age. fTJ3 VVe harn, from the krattimore Su.n, ih;?.t the gambling f stabli'shment in Calvert street, a few dqors from Jiallimore street? in which Mr. Abraham Hyam some year Ib.ack was fieeced oiil of SIS,000, has been broken , up. A thorough examination .of the premises. was made on Saturday, by he Sheriff and HigK Constable of Baltimore, aivl with the assis'aoce of M,r. Green, t.e reformed gambler, seyeral items of tho swindling machinery of.the gamesters fully explained... The most .important pf jlust conliivances. was that of a hole through ihe ciling, immediately over the gambling ta bleland a secret slide in a rejector orrr va large swingmg lamp, whjch could beremo- ved by a siring at pleasurethrough which !!and a hole i.'n th ceilipg a person Above could look down a" d ascertain the cards in the hands of a stranger who might be play ing with one of these honorable swindlers, Tne means through which he was enalde,d to communicatc his discoveries to his part ner below was by a string, which, passing along the floor to the wall and ihencetolhe room belo.w, hahgindqwn about three fet from the ceil, with a tassel on the end, .as, if the appcndage.of a bell extending to some other .part,. of the. house. , A, kind of tele graphic alphabet .having been .previously igrpcd upon between the gambler and his colleagues, 30 many jierks of the tassel wcr$ given foe each of the .important .cards in his opponent's hand. And. hence the fleer cing of a green horn was made more ra; :i ai.d certain. Distressing Occurrence. OnTues Uv week. ''Ije wife of Dr. Urantner, of Pcttsr ville, Pa having left her infant child, about 6 months old, asleep in, her chamber went ! belo,w to attend to some of her, cio.mcslic uunes. , upon reiui ning, sneiyuiiu a Cat laying upon the infant's fyreast, with its head near the child's mouth; as if i the act.of sucking, jls breath,,, Upon ex amination the child w.as discovered to he dead, having met its death in this most ex traordinary and horrid manner. fTWe are.infoarned, on what we be 1 .- it .... : i.r. 1 1 lieve to be good authority, that a letter was "''RW?. to. Bhop H..U. Oo.- derdonk of he Pipcese. of. Pennsylvania I g sii,v.eillht ce,,ymeri.pf hi.Xli, " r ' ,. ' L ! w J o " r ; : O 1 ' and threatening ,in rasp this request was not complied with before a given day, to bring before the proper tribunal certain charge .'nrniiKsi him. which it is understood con- account of ill health. AT. Y. Jour. Com. J thick and fa.st that thy- were, cw,mpelled to w-ek $afety in a 'precipitate, r.sjreat. They retired to the. house, and white! they were sitting in the kitchen three stones fell upon the floor, apparently .from the ceiling. One of j He yoiing men had occasion to go to the stable, c.nd ihe same scene was present ted there... On Monday the 24lh inst. the samr mysterious and unaccountable phe nomcnon occuricd again. Sbme bf the stones weighed seven, t ten, and some aa high, as Tdteen pounds, and were of the common slate and sandstone. We have received our information from a source on which we place the utmost reliance, al though ihe description of llie scene is very imperfect. We understand lhat ten or twelve persons of unimpeachable character intend giving llitir affidavits to the public in coiruboralioii bfthis report, Meadville Pa.) Guz. Th rp.i Vpter. arrived at INew York, brings London dates to the 21st, and Liverpool to the 22d ult. three days later than the inteligence bro'l by the Britannia, The news is not of much importance excepl a? fraa Cotton is concerned, which gieat staple has advanced fully one eiglnh. Iron Soles. Boots ana shoes are adver tised in Cincinnati, with iron soles, whjch can NCput on and taken off at pleasure, be-. ingvery ngnt. ana ai me aauiw uvan- titulanu uuraoiq.
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