1 - , - V 'iHErBGDmO)9 Id 4, ' IV hole Jb IOia. f ,4 Tarborottgh) Edgecombe Count J. C lttilncsflatj, ugusl 5, 1 845. Vol.XXJT.JYb;Ql. j it Xhe Tarborongh Pressi, ; Br Uborg' Howahd. Jr. Is published weklya i Two Dollars pr yoar if paid in advance oi Two Dollars and Fifty Cents at the expiration !of the subscription year. Subscribers are at liherty to discontinue at any time on giving notice thereof and paying ? rrpars. Advertisements not exceeding a square will be inserted at One Dollar the first insertionand 25 cents for every continuance Longer fcdvertimv ments at that rate per square Court Orders and Judicial Advertisements 25 percent, higher. Ad vertisements must be marked the numbercf inser tions required, or they will be conlinu d until otherwise directed, and charged accordingly Letters addressed to the Ediior must be post paid, or they may not be attended to. Family Medicines. rlKE medicines are recomm ended and extensively used by the most in te I ligeni. persons in the Unitel States, iv nti- merotis Professors and Presidents o leges. Physicians of the Army and m- ' : ft I A V Navy, and ot HospHafs and Aimsnouses, an d by more h-,n ve hundred Clergymen of yari ous denominations They are expressly prepared for family use, and have acquired an unprecedented popularity throughout the United States: and as they are so admirably catcuia ted to preserve health a nd cure disease,: no familyjshould ever be without them . The proprietor ot inese valuable prepa rations received his education at one of the (best Medical Colleges in the United State, and has had twenty years experience in an ex tensive and diversififd practice, by which he haslhad, ample opportunites ol acquiring a oracfical knowledge of diseases, a of the remedies best calculated to remove them. Names and Prices of Dr. D. Jayne3 Family Medicines, viz: "i - .-. s Jay ne's Expectorant, per bottle, Si 00 i Hair Tonic 1 00 ALTERATIVE, or Life Preservative, per btl. 00 Tonic Vermifuge P 50 tt Carminative Kalsam, 25 and 50 banative Pills, per box, Kmerican Hair Dye, b 25 b 0 All thej above mentioned Medic les are prepared (only by Dr. D. Jayne. Inven tor and Sole Proprietor, No. . 20 South Third Street; Philadelphia, Pa. who has no hesitatioii-in recornemling them lo tlie com munity as preparations worthy of their en tire confidence, and is fully persuade d from past experience, that they will be found eminently ''successful in removing those diseases for which they are severally rec ommended. For sale in Tarboro )y JjJS M REDMOND, Silent. July 1, 1845 Jaync's Ague Pills, wire warranted to make d perfect and last ing cure, of ever and rigbe These Pills are put up in-vials contain ing from 2S to 30 Pills each, 30 rills each, and being thus excluded from the air, never dbterior ate or undergo any change, and are VV A K- R ANTED, if used according to the direc tions, to be an UNKAILlULih: ii riAj r DY for Fever and Ague During twelve years exiensive 'Practice' in a low marshy dis'rict ol country, where m - r-ever and Agues were very prevail nt, ite u ' : .' ,7 " J" : ; T n i :im i f r u w i iii m-m v w r w i i 11 iri-1 i mi 'i i m i'ivuw i by the use of these Pills. Messrs. J;yne & Pnnco;st jof St. Lofris; Mo., (bund these Pi I If so uniform y suc cessful in curing Fever and Ague, J hat they sold several hundred botiies 10 various persons in Missouri, Illinois. Sic. , agreeing to return money in all cases where they failed to effect a cure, anrl such was the universal satisfaction the Pills gave of their value that they were never called iipon to relund lof a single bottle. . 1 nese r ills may also be used in all cases where aMonic or strengthening medicine may be required. Prepared only by J)r D. JAYNE, No. 8 Souih Third Street, Philadelphia. MS. M. REDMOND, JTgent. 1 arboro', July 12, 1845. Dr. Duffy's A!VTI-BIMOl$ PICS AND TONIC MIXTURE. .'.!'.' '' 1TUST RECEIVED, a supply of Dr. W Duffy's Anti-bilious Pills and I onic Mixture, an effectual remedy for Ague and never, &c ' ! GBQ HOlVARDydgenL arboro', July 16. Pprisiablee Blanks for Jal On ANDREW JACKSON, deliver fn tfc Presbyterian Church at FFash- ington, JS. (Ja. on the 26th day of June, 1845, by William B. Rodman. Published by the Committee appoint ed in Town Meeting. The Providence which gave Andrew Jackson to his country has taken him The event was not unexpected for tlfe measure of his days was full but the loss is not less to be denlored. the , 1 1 , . i - j public grief is not less deep and prevail ing.: i Now for the seventh time a Presi dent of .America has been gathered into the folds of the past. Were he merely one who had been twice elevated by .the free choice of the people of this country to the office of its chief ruler, a suitable demonstration of respect for his memory would be usual and becoming. But the Presidents of America have usually had higher claims to the memory and venera tion of mankind, than the mere possession of exalted office or the decent discharge of its duties. To those who have been thus distinguished, Jackson is an illustrious ad dition. The proud honors and the pow ers which his country bestowed were but a grateful tribute for services as signal and the means for others. His life connects the greatest events in the history of our country. His boyhood participated in the combats and sufferings of the Revolution, his! manhood crowned the close of the last' war with glory, his maturer age was parents were in very moderate circum adorned by civil labors and triumphs no stances: his father died while he was very less useful and illustrious. His life em- j young: his brother was early slain by the braces adventures as extraordinary and ' enemy in the war of Ihe Revolution: his wonderful as any contained in history orj mother followed them to the grave from i f mi r f C .1 A J1 Tl 1 U T l r,rr romance, l oe overpowering torce oi nis, genius impressed itself ineffaceably on the fate and institutions of his country. The volume of history which details the story of his life will be the delight of boys, the study of soldiers and statesmen. The -poet, M the orator and the philosopher will alike find materials there whence to point their appeals to the imagination, the pas sions and the reason of posterity. When we add that his transcendant genius was guided by the love of humanity, his lau rels gained not in conquest but in defence of his country from aggression, his tender ness was equal to his courage, his heart was warm and sincere, his integrity un questioned, his word never broken and a devout sense of religion gave to hi3 cha racter those Christian graces which are bevbnd the reach of philosophy when we add this, it will be manifest that we have, not met here merely for the purpose of paying a becoming respect to the memory j of a departed magistrate, nor even merelv i to render a last tribute of gratitude for public services; but also to indulge that adnjiration which is the irrepressible hom- a of the human heart to him who sur - to its object and to us also who yield it. iiujjuu Astt - v , The facultv of feeling enthusiasm and ad- j faon of sympathising and exulting at n)l rtr Hantlec rnumcrp over on - theitriumph.ot dauntless courage over op v 1 position and difficulty, is not the least, no ble part of our common native. It attests " a generosity of spirit akin to the heroism which it contemplates; it is a feeling which angels might share, it is an aspira tion to the skies with whose inhabitants it declares our kindred. From every part of this broad republic, from every party, sect and opinion the sol emn occasion of the closing of the grave over the mortal remains of Andrew Jack son has called forth this sentiment. In passing through a long and arduous career, in the course of which he was the leader of one party in the fiercest, most interest ing and most important political conflicts which this country has yet witnessed, it could not otherwise be than that there should be engendered much opposition anfl animosity. It was natural too that during his life the prejudices of opposition should often aj5gravate7his infirmities anrl deny justice to his merits. -But these prej unices were already mitigated, by time ana n is a trait honorable to the American character that these animosities are now buried in his grave; that throughout the length and breadth of the republic there is but one im pulsive sentiment1 of grief; for hi,s loss and admiration for his heroic nature. As part of that republic he Joved, and served, and honored, we bear our parlmhe ex- voices to the chorus that swells from mountain and plain arid follows his ascen ding spirit to the skies. He who in this mournful hour when that high soul has re turned to its Maker and earth has received its inexorable debt, can forget the virtues and dwell with bitterness on the errors of Jackson, is not to be envied. Fortune may have surrounded him with her blan dishments and every external means of happiness may be his, but God has denied to his heart that sensibility to lofty and generous emotion, which is the surest and most bounteous source of earthly felicity. The fame of Jackson is too large as his ends were too liberal, his benevolence too expansive, to be engrossed by any party. His Instinctive sagacity saw far into the fu ture, whilst others saw only the present. Hence differences of ppinion. But while time has illustrated the purity of his aims, it has also confirmed the accuracy of most of his conclusions. His fame is the pro perty of his countrymen, his example is the inheritance of mankind. The time would not allow me to give even a brief sketch of the life of GenL Jackson; nor is it necessary, it is already familiar. I shall refer therefore to a very few incidents only and that with all possi ble brevity. He was born in 1767, and South Carolina has the nonor of his birth place. His parents were emigrants from .-the Presbyterian settlement of the north of Ireland. America owes a debt of grati- tude to Ireland. Much of the best blood that flows here has its fountain there. His sriei auu lyu 1ua wia mc uu oa- son left without a relative in a country that was still a wilderness: self reliance was taught: I his native virtues were nursed hv ndvfrsiHr. In anv countrvbut this the orator would pause to call attention to the " j , , --- j j - obscurity of his birth and early fortunes, and contrast them with the splendor of his later renown and the high stations he fill ed. Here such contrasts are ordinary. Our equal institutions give to no one rank a monopoly of the service of the State any more than nature has given it a monopoly of virtue and merit. Poverty and opu lence ascend side by side to the post of power and distinction. I pass over the romantic adventures of the boyhood of Jackson. In those days even boys bore arms for their country and he was taken prisoner. Every one knows how bravely he resisted insult, and how he received a wound whose scar he carried to the grave. He studied law at Salisbury in this State, a place remarkable from the earliest period tor us devotion to iree principles. What is now the State of Tennessee was then a Territory and a wilderness. , Thi- 1 ther the enterprising spirit ot Jackson car- I- a Kl&'ried him. He settled in the town of j Nashville and commenced the practice of 1 " f . ( ms proiession a proiession wmcii in mose days partook of the dangers and required !the courage of the soldier's. The wilder - 1 1 ness to which Jackson went was about to 1 become a State, and Jn 1796 Jackson was t i ' i . il A.Z elected to the Convention to form a Con- stitution. In 1797 he was sent as a Sena - tor to Congress, where he voted with the Republican party against the alien law, Af - ter occupying this post he resigned, and was shortlv after made one of the Judges of the Supreme Court of Tennessee; which place also he soon resigned from a dimdence oi tne sumciency oi nis legai learning to discharge its important duties. Unambitious of public station he now de termined to devote himself to agricultu d settled on that beautiful iai -v..ww., - farm called tfte Hermitage, where he has'fraih from pausing a .single moment over ever since resided when not in the public service, and beneath whose shades his bo dy now reposes. While holding the office of Senator from Tennessee he had been pWted Mai or General of the militia of that State. He held that office until 1 8 14, when he received the same rank in the re gular army. Gehl. Jackson was first called from his chosen retirement to de fend his fellow citizens frbni the bloody ravages of the savage. The Indians living south of Tennessee instigated by a preten ded prophet, encouraged by the British) and countenanced byr the Spaniards in Florida although Spain was at peace with thUmted States, committed; Jhe, most cruel butcfeerie oa tho fronUers, Theown toeir Empathies ar? 9Q the gije pf greatest? excitement prevailed; the West burnfTwithi the: ardor of revenge, and Jackv son was called 'on by the public voice to punish the inhuman enemy. With a bro ken arm still in a sling, at the head of a body of volunteers he penetrated the In dian country. Want of time forbids us from attempting any detail of these cam paigns. ;ine brilliancy oi nis suosequeni oi mat ciouu; no ionge?r are mc;,iHiccw exploits has partially thrown them in the lulled! with; affrighted women: Jackson has shade; but if no other memorials remain- said the words "the enemy shall never ed, they would sufficiently establish his reach the city,r: they could not under possession of every quality which distin- stand it from his lips, his tongue was gnishes a great commander. He pushed strange,, to them: but in his invincible without any certain supplies into the un-j bearing, his ready courage, his incessant trodden wilderness: his own unflagging spirit sustained his soldiers in every labor and privation. By his activity, skill and intrepidity he defeated the Indians in seve ral bloody combats With a moral cour age more rare, more admirable than mere courage in battle, he decided on entering Pensacola, drove away a British fleet shel tered in its harbor, and by this bold step cut up Indian hostilities by the roots. In the course of this service he had occasion to display that readiness of decision and invincibility of resolution which seemed almost to place destiny in his hands. His troops were volunteers, and becoming wearied of traversing forests and streams, and anxious to return to their families and business before the objects of the campaign had been accomplished, they insisted that the term of their service had expired and demanded that they should be permitted to return home. The discontent spread through the whole force, finally a part broke out in open mutiny, actually aban doned the camp and commenced their inarch home. When Jackson heard of this, seizing a musket he mounts his horse and placing himself in front of the muti neers he declares his determination to shoot the first man that moves except to j return to his duty. A pause ensues, num- bers vield to enersrv and the soldiers re- . j , turn to their duty. I hurry over all these events interesting as they are, to reach One which by its im portance and' the glory it shed upon the country eclipses every other, not only in the life of Gehl. Jackson but in the miH- tary history of America. The situation of New Orleans is unri vailed in the world for commercial advan tages; at the mouth of the most extensive river navigation in the world, the exports of the most fertile half of the Union pass es by its levee. The possessor of Nevv Orleans holds the industry of that vast re gion tributary. Louisiana had been but recently acquired; to the Union: the city was unfortified: its population incongru ous and supposed to feel but little attach ment to principles of politics or forms of government. This pre-eminent value and supposed weakness recommended it to English cupidity, and England designed its permanent occupation. With this view was sent, over an army of 10,000 men comprising the flower of those gal lant veterans who had expelled Napoleon j from the Peninsula, admirably equipped 1 and commanded by Sir Edward Packen- .ham, who had acquired reputation as the antagonist of Marshal Soult Jackson I . ...tU. Q Anil man mAetltt --! was sent with about 3,000 men mostly mi , litis, half armed to oppose this imposing . force. Every thing conspired to feed the . confidence of the British to stimulate the hope of ah easy and profitable conquest, Time would not allow me to detail how 'this well planned design was frustrated, ' and the United States preserved from a fa- iai mow aiiueu at uieu giwiu re whole train of events of that memorable period from the debarkation of the British to their ignominious repulse is engraved in everv recollection. But I cannot; re- i .- - j ' . . ..i the last glorious act of the drama, and pre - senting a scene on which every American eye delights to linger. At the dawn of the eighth of January 1815, -a day forever consecrated to patri otism let us take' our stand within the American lines. Around us arethe little band bfregujars, liere the militia in their homespun coatsVliere etciK cmpanies, - 1 .-. . - - V" " .. '-'-'' it they fight in defence of. all that man holds dear against the .enemies' of their native and adopted countries; here too are a band of pirates from Jiaratarja, nobly have they withstood every British1 allurement to fieht against a country ivt 'whica they had found a Tefuge'which tney called their the free, they have volunteered to expiate by their valor past ofiencesagainst society, Behind us lies the famous city For week after week while attack has hung voyer . it like a gathering cloud,, with what emo tions may we not suppose it to ha ve been agitated! But no longer do the-inhabitants shrink in terror from the lowering with those words came a new spirit; Men late hesitating to fight or fly, now spade irtt hancl strengthen the ramparts or are arm 5 ed to defend them; those affrighted wo men make clothes for the destitute sol- jdiery: devotion lends its aid to courage, in the churches before the majestic emblem of Christian suffering and hope, a "holy, vi olence" is offered to heaven by pious ador ation and entreaty. For week after week the cloud has been gathering; the city, its ' wealth and beauty are yet safe. 7 The river rolls its turbid flood yet unstained with. carnage: - but the cloud is now to burst, for in front of the American lines lie the hosts of the enemy entirely -unseen, for" a dense. fog envelops every thing -' It is the Sabbath morn ing, but how: d ifferent from the sound of Sabbath bells inviting: to peaceful worship are the sounds now heard! A cannonade from a battery thrown up by the British during the night and. a flight of rpekets that illuminated the air com mencedhe attack, j At length the sun dispels .the) ,m1sts and exhibits to tb Americans behind their ramparts the cc umns of the British army advancing1 at swift steady pace and already near. Th. bright arms reflect the rays of the morL e men in front carry fascines to fi injr, the men up the trench, their firm step and orderl array indicate confidence and " resolution Now opens the American fire; frpni can non and niusket pours the destructive hail; the advancing columns fare ' mowed like, grass to the earth: and aain and again, as' the brave and disciplined soldiers are led to the charge until courage has exhausted its efforts, until their leaders slain and their ranks confused and thinned by terrible slaughter they retire from the intolerable fire. The sun which rose. on the city de voted to pillage and lust, before he reach ed his meridian beheld its rescue and the repulse of its assailants. Never before was so signal a victory achieved, and such car nage done to the foe with so little loss to the victors. Peace had before been decia-. red between the two countries, though in telligence of it had not reached the com batants. This victory alone WaSjWatitirig to fill the measure of the country's honor and felicity. Its importance is not to be estimated merely by the value bf-the posi tion it secured, great as that is. It gave oiir'country pride, and a character at home and abroad a character which will be f a surer defence a gainst foreign ?, aggression than "walls of stone. The victory of New Orleans will have its weight in the scale whenever the rights or honor of tlie coun try are decided on whether by diplomacy or arms. The fame of every such achieve ment moreover is national property," and strengthens the bonds of union between the States by adding to the ties of a com--mon origin and common interest' those hot less enduring of therecollections of acorn mon peril and the possession of a common glory. -The intelligence of - this victory diffused universal joy. The General after disbanding his troops travelled to- 'Wash ington and New- York, and was every where received with a gratitude and res-' pect such as had been paid to Washington j only before. The military skill displayed in the defence of New Orleans is admit ted by every body: But something more than military ' skill was required;, others might perhaps have d isplay ed : a s much , technical skill in the preparation and con- 1 i 3 ' duct of the defence and as much vigilance and courage. r: But who like Jackson could have chained treason and 1 disaffec- tion, have calmed with a word the fears of the ci tv and substituted a cord lal zeal which brought but all its resources? : Who like him could have infused into raw le vies the coolness of veterans? Yet all this, was necessary to success and to effect this Was! needed his energy his self coiifideQC and indomitable will. ..-- 4? prp. 1 pressioa Qf that "gcatiaxeat and join oux,

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