North Carolina Newspapers

the ih.dc:a'l, i pitil fntKVpAl- tad, AjrtherjWMhe. Mn, ; f i I I l 1 1 ' " , TAUH0U0UOI1 : SATURDAYrAPRIL 21, 1849: c . - - . r Frost The papersin ; every direction , are tilled with details of the. destructive effects of f the severe cold -weather. of Sunday last, ' which was accompanied genorally with a or snow. ' Our' gardens, orchards, 'fields and ' forests, present awfulinstan- t rVi. hUirhtlntr fflfet of thlS UnSCA- ;sonable weather. ; f ; -.t '' MMMMMWMMMBB i' v . - : . . '- - ; v -Snow.-rrWc. have to record a most ex traordinary phenomenon for this latitude i a fall of snow on the 15th of April. rFor some two weeks back, the weather has been warm and delightfully pleasant; -on.Saturday evening last it began to grow 4cold, and what was the astonishment of Uhe citizens of our town, to find snow fall ing when they peeped out from the cur stained windows of their dormitories oh .Sunday morning. The show continued .to fall until night, covering the ground to the depth of at least eight inches where ill did not melt mudi. On Sunday night ;there was considerable of a freeze, long Jcicles hanging from the roofs of the hous CS, and the cround being frozen quite hard. It is feared that the gardens are! ruined and the fruit entirely destroyed, it! is a curious circumstance to see the trees j .almost in full foliage, yet covered withjracter and capacity were deemed safe for enow the beautiful green of spring ming- the trip - led with the cold of mid-winter. Thcf The gallant editor of the Lowell Gou'r farmers generally have finished planting jCr concludes a paragraph about these for- Corn, and we saw some a few days ago tune-hunters by saying: "Heaven guide three or four inches in height. Already, them over the water to the haven whither '.while we are writing' (Monday morning) . they are hound! They are to be the future we can see from ourSanctum the leavesofi mothers and instructresses of a new Pil the fig trees blackened and welted down ; grim racc upon the , shores of the Pacific " .with the frost, and we have no doubt eve-j Mrs. Fafnham was formerly matron ol Ty thing that cannot stand frost is dead', j the prison at Sing Sing, N. York, the wui The oldest inhabitant we believe remem- ow of the late Thos. J. Farnham, Eq . bers an instance of snow as late as the 20th author ot a valuable woik on Oregon. bfMay; but nothing like the present se- - "verity of weather has visited this latitude: ni 1? tipi,,- r J. r r The Fremont Disaster. lheClasgou for a lone period Neicbern liepuolican. , , t- 1 ni:.,rt, n 11, v 1 (ilissouri) 1 imes has from Oliver lJ. 110 i vcy, editor of the -Santo. Fe Republica . From thcjlaltish Standard. ( who has just arrived there altera hurribh- Medical Convention.On Monday J. last in pursuance ot previous notice, a v a number of Physicians assembled in this J'u La. n. . m 1 w 99 m n rt rl - A 1 r it A A M ft m m k V V Frederick J. Hill, of Brunswick County, vas chosen President of the Convention; , T. ,Tr.,,. ir ,.r , and Dr. William H. MpKm. nf W.ikn. nvas appointed Secretary. - After some debate and due consultation, -a Committee was appointed to pepare a Constitution and By-Laws for a State Medical Society, and was directed to re- port to the Convention yesterday at ten . " . . iiuw, o.. . In our next we shall lay before cur read- ... , i. , rs a detailed account of the Proceedings .... ... ,. ofth.s mtelhgent and h.ghly resectable f V ' ' 1 I I -ry n r . . . ; ; From the Raleigh Register . 3 North Carolina Gold. The Editor of tbe Wilmington Journal, while referring to some of the California" gold stories, 'states that three months since he" saw four pieces of native California gold, weighing together over four . pounds. ' The ' largest piece was fully twenty four ounces avoir-;4U0 m,,es lrom th;e Mexican settlements dupnis, and the -smallest twelve ounces. 1 whcn this occurred. Col F. selected 20 These pieces were found on - the surface, of his bet men, gave them 15 days rations, in Richmond county; North Carolina, all and Parted them for the , Spanish settle within less than half a mile of each other, . ments' wilh '"structions to procure a ni arid within a mile of the Pee Dee River ma,s an return. They had been gone Thby' were deposited in tlj Branch Mint rat Charlotte, precisely as found by the "Hon Edmohd Deberry,' of Richmond i "'" ay.s travel, ne ,iounu tnev party en countv : ': - ' " j camped, having given up; and deterhiined tr ' - The Gold Placer oj North. Carolina. At the Mountain Creek mine, in Ca- tawba, county, belonging to Messrs. Cans-1 rler and Shufford. three hands collected Jn) iLwodaysand a half, with the simple pper- "ations of pan and hand rocker, 2,203 .vv.- pl'.gold'''rrom.tbe'vein, and '"fronT-the ?sand below, by. the use of the mill 159 dwts. more. The amount collected during -the week, independent of the ,' products of rthe, rocker was 2267 dwts. At one pan-S nP Mr.0$huffoVd got 21 dwts. "j some'ef xt in particles of considerable size. t, , . , Since' the aboye;; which s substantally correct, was reported, Mr. Canslercaiied $1 cur office,, anc) informed u? thVt, at a subsequent period, which as, on, the 20th inst. one bushel of ore yielded ,1980 dwts f 4 i t rwi . . a .-- i vure gom, i nis, tor jne train oi vyn ch Mass., on Friday, enlisting women for her cuuiwauy to auiornia. ine euuor 01 inei Boston Mail hasihadtaa -interview- her, and gives a veryfavorable view qf her project, on the score of philanthropy, its moral i nflaenceVarid practical ul ility. The Mailsays:. - ... . . . . -... . The company would bo composed of one hundred or more passengers, each one to pay $250;' 5Q of which was to bo paid in advance,. the balance at such a time as was thought best; a portion of this money is to be expended for ai ticks of traffic be fitting the skill and enterprise of females. She proposed to take out 1 wo . frames for houses, one for dwelling' and the other a hospital. , ; ; . " . The vessel she at first thought it best to purchase outright, but upon reflection it was thought that the trouble and expense of selling her at the close of., the voyage, Would be a duty ill calculated for females, and this plan was abandoned and that oi chartering a ship was adopted. The fchip is to go around the Cape, anl thirty days after arriving at San francis co, the company disband, when Mrs. Fain ham is to furnish to the "-company a full statement of all her expenditures, under the agreement, and refund, to the subscri bers such sums as may be left uurxpi nded. She stated that her intention at first uVas not to take females less than twenty-1 five vears of aire: but exceptions would be maitc in this respect, when passengers younger presented themselves, whose cha- ( 4l , . . , . r further particulars of the trip and misfor tunes to Col Fremont's jwrly in the Roc ky jlountains. The manner of the death ofthe heroic young man, Henry King, of J m v mm the District of Columbia, who wa of the j nartw whii upnt mil fnr Kirrnr. i! invnlv. ! ,. A , r ed in some mystery. In the former ac - - ' finiml imm tlta V .1 nma Kannhliqn n i bUUill II will iiiv uu ii l j jiu ui iv-uii w i Col. B remont and one or two others hav-; ing overtaken this advanced party, we j were struck with the following: ''Thi'tr nvprtrwiL' Williams nnd nnn nf , . , , tr- - i HIS COlIIIJUIillUllS. 1 IIC UKILT lJl. ftlllt of the Q, CoIllml)i3j. was sented to have died of the exposure and of , , . . . , . , hunger and in the extremity to which . , . . r they were driven, the survivors were for- ceJ Q Ml g par, ofhis boly Mv. tlovey's account, which he assures the Glasgow Times may be. relied on, is as " , c 0 . , follows, lie left Sante Fe February 10: t4Upon leaving Bent's Fort, Col. Fre mont started upon a new route. The weather was intensely cold, and after trav elling some time, so severe became the weather, that he lost every animal in one "ight!. It. was supposed they were 300 or 20 days, when Col. F. and one man set 0Ut lo See wh-at lla-lL become 0f them; after to maue tnai,tnett "camp pt death." ? i he 1 leader of the party, yas dead, . supposed to have heen shot, by old Bill Williams, who acknowledged hay ing eat a portion of him. The party, was in a perishing condition, from,, cold and hunger, the snow being three, feet (deep, and they out of jirovistons. CoJ?;F. and one man started next day and were fortunate enough to reach Tos.set- Ltleraent in time to send j back,., provisions for tlie,remjiinder,,of , the party Before they, all got together again! jfrojultp 15 pferaad perished. , ;hUl V"in0"v tr From; the. Petersburg Republican. ; ' -J -. " i,"' ?; " VT',' i i ; '; ';.,.: The .Cholera Terrible Havoc. We learn iiy the last.arriya froni Europe, that the1 cholera had broken out in Pjris! tThe I Journals .of the 12th says that ten, .cases; .pler' has also broken - ofti 1 n ergen, ' m.vl-"- -' - r - mnn L nnnr fishermen on thelCoastijs inH'in (U tfinrris. (Jn SOme - . " - j- t c .t "rif -lr 01 iiie larnia whnATiiHpad - liees wept .-off InHheir cohfinement Dr. Brandreth can rc- the city fl0i.case5 hadlreadyqccured,.pf which 501 had been fatal. Upwards of .j ' V ! ' : ' W:l . i: ten were occurring aaiiy. i ins is a iarge; number out of a population not exceeding. 24,000 -The papers state that at Espevar the fishermen are'dying so fast that they have been compelled to carry the bodies to an uninhabited islet, and merely cover them with a few planks, where they were rotting and being devoured by the birds prey. New Application oChlorqfotm. 'Mr. 0. S: 'Bate;-a dentist, writing in the Lon don Lancetrecommends a new way of employing chloroform to abate the horrors of loothpulling, which, if his account be well founded, as we suppose it must be, will supersede f he onTinary method of using it by narcotizing the patent; Instead of being irihaled, the clrioroform is to be applied directly to the nerve of the tooth, which the dentist renders accessible for the purpose, when necessary. ' It is ap plied on lint or cotton. It "causes the most violent pain to subside," says Mr. Bate,' "soon after which the tooth may be! reino3U w,in comparatively no pam. . "ere the pain is to stupity the nerve of the t00th' instead ofhc whole patient a great .improvement certainly, which, by removing ine uanger 01 uieorainary mem-; thousantl matter-of-fact men w ho have ex odot administration, may render the usej perinCed it. Remember, in all cases of ei cnioroiom oy mibu mucn more com - mon than U now is. ' From I he fViltningon Journal. The follow ing statistics which has been handed to- us by. Mr. Crandall, Messrs.! m r .. i9 ..'.. ir . .,, (lapp Sl lownsend's travelling agent, will lurnish the reading public some idea of the ni3nilude of their.Sarsanarilla business at ttieir manutactory which is erected at Al- bany, at an expense ot seventy thousand dollars. They prepare and put up 5,000 bottles , ,i , , r .111 very day; to perform this labor it requires mininn 1, . 1 tiom 70 to 100 hands. In order to sun- pl the Urge quantity of bottle, used, tiro r , , , , , . .1 of the largest glass establishments in the United States are kept in constant opera lion. This sing e item alone amounts to Sl00,000 per annum. Three Napier steam printing presses.' with a double set! ol hands each, are constantly running on Pifmil iro m,i,l Al.onoa Tlit mU iclwul , - . J 1 last year 4,000.000 for gratuitous circula- J 1 -1 T . . - r. . 1 I IU 1 1 , CU II lu I III II il JI I ill VUllvTl' Ul II3CIU1 information, besides their own advertise- j ments. It took 50 females six months to i fold and stitch them. . Their Almanacs nn or trr Inln.nAn f nil iKia . ... . .. : . they publish a full column of their medi cine matter in over 400 papersin the Uni ted States, British Colonies, West India Islands, and South America, where they have extensive sales: this costs them over SS0.0OO ner annum. Thev have a larce . J ; J C number of men and loys engaged in col- lecting root and other ingredients. Indeed all the hands they employ directly and otherwij'c, in making glass, papr, corks, sealinp- wni. nnrkinc hoxps. tnirniliHr iviih' 0 ; i o '"f i .1 . I1 .1 tneir agents in selling ine mcuicine, can - not be less than, 2,000 persons. Thea mount. of capital employed to keep all the Agents supplied,, and .their, whole -.business in successful operation, is not less than 500,000 dollars.- f (fyit , would seem that a medicine which has gained such a high reputation, and such unprecedented sales, swelling to the enormous .sum of SQ0,O0O a year, must possess, in; and of . itself, intrinsic medicinal virtues for the cure of many dis eases to . which the human flesh is" heir to.; . Il?e steamship Herman has -.arrived, at New York with loudon .papers to the 26th Ult.; . . . , ri ,The produce markets were unchanged and dull. ! . ,.Thc sales of cotton at. Liverpool on the 24th, only reached about 3,500 bales, at rices. 'BlitiNDlfEfiPS PILL'S. THE BEST FAMILY WKDICINE. - . r j Lad ies should user 4 he ty randret I3 rpi js frequently. .They will ensure them from severe sickness ,ofrthe;6toni3ch, ?Tandfl frpi. erally speaking, entirely preyeint.it. , The Brandieth Pillsjarc harmjess!,jvT)iey increase the powers of ,dife--they: do TiQt Repress tHem, ; Fcmalcsill findherp . to medicine so safcsithis .!.. -. ' and is now nanAM ticorl hv nnmprniiA LlfilPS tnroilorh vhci auj j cv j com mend his Pills to their parents to .the i nvr1ninh nf nl! ntliftr nurirativps. nrl the "vi; i -7 C fv V ; Tt , T Pi"s beingcoro posed, entirely of Herbs cr VegelaoTe ma tier, pu r i fy tlfelito 0d pa n f 1 carry oflT the corrupt humors of the body, in a manner so simple as to give every day ease and pleasure: In order to discriminate between Truth, which is eternal, and conjecture, which is like a transient vision, we.mqst be guidcel by the light of experience, jo what does experience direct? to the free use cf Dr. BrandvtttCs Pills. : in all cases of bodilv sufierins. As. this advice is followed, so will the health op the body be. The writer has Jong used them and has never found them fail of imparting relief. In all acute diseases, let Brand re! h' Pills and ..','mUd diet be used, and the patient will soon be restored to good health. In chronic complaints let the Pills be used as often as convenient, by which means tlie vitality of the blood wi Jl be improved, and : the crisis will be LKe-l to acule, a few large doeof Pills j j.few days confinement to the house, i chance the chronicallv diseased indi- j vidlJQl to a S0Un man. 'This is no figure ;ofthe imaRinalion5 it can be proved by a jjg no matler whether it be a cold or , i4i.-:. u tion; whether it be rheumatism or pleurisy: whether it be typusor fever-and-ague, or ! bilim,"' fcvcr; "P or. whooping cough or lf , , T small pox: that the rills known as iiran- , , ' .fl ... , ... , . (. licincs ofthe Drugstores for yOt.r ..,.u ....... .,, , , ' reisiorauon . 1: 17. J ; " V ; : L - , " . f( 1 unpersons snouiu raiciuny ur- --J 1 , J, J. - Vu, ;. . : regularly appointed Aehls. I hey would , . ' , , 4 . . thus i insure themselves the genuine article . . , . , rt , "wrKf "W. n.ay ol.en upon Coun'Tlcit article. lie oarolul. ' - ' For sale bv GEO. HOJVJPD. Rev. J. C Rurmssof, the. Universal ist : church, will preach in Tyson's meeling- ' house (Pitt CtMinl V.'i Oil Sunda V next at 11 i i a ivt e i- . -pu i .,,if o'clock, A. M. Subject: 1 he object and . . . . - . . ' rtnciim mnt inn nl I hnl niminn wwi.v. ... - ....ww.w.. MARRIED, In this county, on Tuesaday evening. 3rd inst, by Washington Stanton, Esq., . - , , . Mv. Orange G. Jones, of Ashehorough, iliss Susan, daughter of Mrs. Elizabeth Page. , s , At VVar.wiek, New York, on tlie ,20lh ult. Elder C. Ii Ilassell of Wjiliamslon in HI... !.t 'f 1 i. : inisoiaic, io iMis. niana m. jeweu. t, . Another Revolutionary Soldier, gone. . . Died in this county on the -12th. inst. Micajah Petlawayy in j the. 92nd year of his age. - ; . . ; ( -.h: iv. The deceased was the last but one of the army ofthe Revolution,; in Edgecombe. He was born near;; this, place Jand? at : an early : period of our , struggle, entered he army ; andi served: almost nunremittiugly until the close of the ?war. yiFe w : sewed longer and fevy . rendered more s efficient servjee. ?For six months he formed r. one ofthat stern and unyielding iband (techni cally called body-guard) which stood j ike anvall ofadaipant .around the, persoibof the Commander in Chiei m Wic Urk hour olbatlle:i Het fought; side by side wuh the y oup g La ; Fay ette ratr Brandy wi ne, j j apil mingled his Shouts wjth the vittorjiin thej terrible a$sault! uppnStoningtonvfacightsJ bvlthe headlonstandj.imnetuQus Wayne, i if r aHe was called, by acclWi4tion command x)f ihe GompanVraised'J-n tbU cbuntyoiniiSland marched, at its head;to Notfolk--sharing; With itjallthe privjitiomj iMinoK'na diCt VnM r tA-ye rrtitil frirrnn f uruiuf . - auu ,1441 uau jja vi uii;uui ifnjlhamstonAnril in THEfiralofthelatVVn,; Jhersbee will be conducted in' m.. Vea' der; at his late residence in'Mnr;.N about U. miles fiom Lo C. tt rt uv nouse,on the Grsl: Sunday in Mj.. 1 hp irpltirar. nf . m J "Lirji i next. - - - mi v.iiii,ii in mm inoni i -n.,yinvilerttoaUeDi IVM. Head Qua tcrs 2st Reg'f 1 IJfc, commissioned Officers of this R gimeiH are hereby ordered to aUetld -C' Tarboro', on r the first Saturday (5 May, in summer uniform, for officer drill and Regimental Court Martial. , !. AII-pcpnslhr,ughout the Rcji under the reeent act of Assembly, exempt, ing persons over 35 years, are notified that they must get a certificate from the Regimental Court Martial- and they may attend the Court Martial on the same day, ' J3y order of ' Col HENRY T.GURK. Robt. R. Bridgers. Mft. ----- bau Villi r STRAYED from the Sub scriber, at James Bridgerss, in s?JL5ui-fiU HiCjiecomoe count v. on Tups. tTT mailt licl o li-inirlcnniv: t n . Ka. 7 - -w "7 ' rnnVu 7 , 7 v PEACOCK, with a blaze face, left hind leg roan color, five years old, and about five-lect four inches hich - A reward of v y. . hi tlVPntDidn rs will hp na twenty? dollars will be paid for the deli ve- rU ef.rsaid horse to me, or if secured ?nd . :. . . f ; information given me so Jhat I can cct . .--..' . . 1 n a him again. Direct to Littleton P. 0 UMuta N fc- 1 ! 1 5 i rr.rr.1 DdkfEC. April G, IS49. 15 Notice. j THE Sulscriber -having qualified w Executor to the last will and testament of ihp liln J!imp Thinrnpn Kpn'p lpr' A. at , , rUt t the February I erm of Edgecombe County J . , r. Court, 1S49, hereby gives notice to all persons having claims against said deed lo present them for payment within tlie tjme prescribed by law, or this 'notice will be plead, in bar of their recovery. AJsc, all persons indebted to said decM are notified to, make payment, as.no indulgence will he given. TVM. THIG lJENy ExV. March, 6, 1 340. Notice. ..... , to THE undersigned at the February : Term of Edgecombe County Court, 1840, j having qualified as Executors' to tlie last ! will and testament of the late Theophilw i Parker, nritl letfers testamlentarv having is- ; ,:, n . J 't ' . . !. sued to them, hereby 'notify all persons I having claims against the estate to piescnt them within the, time allowed by law, or this notice will be plead in baroftbcir rc coyerv. ' . , , f JrfMES IVEDDELL, 7 E -5 1 ROB T. R BR1DGEUS, March 16, 1S49. lAstqf Letters, Rernaininff in ttie Post Office' at'.Tarlioro, the ltf :-jof Afrit 1845, which if. not taken outWtore m -,,Isi of .Julj next, will be .sent to -the Gencr Post Office as deaJ lettersi Anderson Henry , Johnson R A Andrevvs Wallis Knight Jesse C Karnes James . . Lane Patrick Bailey Jonathan Jodge Vm Bailey Loo ford .t Liddou '1 lies L Braswell N'WTI llbng Wrn R Bonnstcin H . , Lane AtinL Wis Bradley Willie 3 'Lane NL" Miss CottenMrsTorSam,l M 001 e Elijah Cherry MY iss'. fMayo N Miss Cherry IVl IVUss . , iJayo iiaiy Freeman S Mrs Philips 3 7Ms "... Ftm-i n 1 a i n-W m Pond lUl iv 1 n -Oarrctt J J Dr VUufIin5Mary Mis Garner Eldzatns , r. Savage P Airs Green Thosr W 'f? - Scarborough B Titter Ely W HarnsoVJuliVMiss1 WalsfVWrhM Rc; IrwlrJ iaVCWrs;; Weeks' tov ; JoJinson RcJerV Williams licnry -Tt. . " ,rt .- j ; M i t . s "W ft J Y T r