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TARSOBOUOH : SATURDAY, SEPFR 13, 1651. Superior Court. The Fall Term of the Superior Court for this county was lick! this week, His Honor Judge Caldwell presiding. In con sequence of the illness of the Judge, but little business was transacted. (j3"NVc have been presented with a fine cymblin, which measures 5 feet 3 in ches in circumference and weighs 7S pounds. It grew in the garden of Col. B. ft. Battle, of Nash, from seed brought by IIr. Lawrence Walker from Mexico. Can't Edgecombe beat it ? FOR THE TARBOHO TUESS. The appointments of Chaplains to the Army, to the Navy, and to Congress and else where ought to he abolished. 1st. Because article 10th of amend ments to the , Constitution, says, "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the Stales, arc reserved to the States respectively or to the people" The a bove article grants no power directly or indirectly to Congress to appoint a nation al set of clergymen to office, (because they arc clergymen) and to rob the treasury out of nearly a quarter of a million dol lar annually to pay them for saying pray ers, &c. 2nd. By article 1st of amendments, the Constitution provides that "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment oT religion.0 Therefore to appoint clcr gymcn of any sect of religion, and to piy thc!ii out of the funds belonging to the whole people, is an establishment to a cer tain extent of that sect, and is at variance with the true intent and meaning of said article; and from the very nature of the office of chaplain, a religious test is a ne cessary pre-roquisitc to determine the qualification of the candidate, as the em ployment of a non professor of religion would be absurd and folly in the extreme. Therefoic such an office is unconstitu tional; because it is an office to which all citizens arc not eligible without a rcli gious test, and is an open violation of article 6. 3rd. The Constitution declares that "no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to an y office or public trust under the United States." There fore to appoint clergymen to such an office or trust is clearly unconstitutional, and is an assumption of power (by Congress) not granted, and a violation of the letter and pirit of the Constitution, which they have sworn to support. The number of chaplains has incrcaseJ the last few. years to a grcart extent; and the report of the Judiciary Committee at the first session of the list Congress gives the number as follows: Thirty in the ar my, twenty four in the navy, two in Congress besides a large number at the various militarv stations and schools and out posts, all put logetl er will make an army of hypocrites (equal to the false prophets of King Ahab and hi ? Queens) to be fed out of the public funds and the people robbed annually to support them by a set of demagogues in Congress, who! love office and government pap better than the Constitution and the equal-rights of the people. ' If Congress has a constitutional right to appoint an army of clergymen (chaplains to the army, navy, &c. &c.) it has the same right to compel attendance; but the trulh'is, it has neither the right to appoint or, compel attendance; as the remittance of the fine and imprisonment of private Buggan by the Secretary of War, clearly demonstrates. Private Duggan was on the 22nd August last tried by a court martial at Port Columbus, New York harbor, and found guilty of disobedience of the order" to attend the chaplain's mummeries at theabovo station and fined by the court $5 per month for six months, the torture of the ball and chain for four .--months, and partial starvation upon bread and water during the remaining two months of solitary imprisonment. ,Here is a cas.e for conscience on an American Citizen, to COmnel bim fn at torn. ftiA rl,, Ni:i! 8 services aa n :L I IS DriCStlv rrth. C V . i . . i -j .v on-yri-vomnjutijj and all true patriots ought at once and forever arise in indienationof the stain placed on our national character and put it uown in:snoi ry another young man -.named Ay this happy land. There can be no remedy for the evil unless church and State is kept separated. Let the chaplaincy be abolished, and gov ernmcnt no longer assunie tho spiritual j supervision of the troops, and there will be no more difficulty from this quarter; but if the goverrfeqent will hire chaplains to preach and pray for the troops and rob the people to payj such hirelings, hypo crites, the military discipline will require the obedience of all orders by the iroops. There can be use in hiring chap lains for the troops, if they were not re quired to -attend and hear them read their sermons and sayj prayers. ' To rid the country of priestenft we must keep 4-.hu i ch and State separate abolish the office of chaplain and appoint none nor donate a single dollar of the people's funds in the treasury to any, nor give to the support of religious institutions, and leave all to give or let it alone as he or they may think proper. True religion requires neither, money, nor the arm of law to support it. A FARMER. Important from Havana. Capture and execution of Lopez and his Com mand. New Orleans, Sept. 2. The Cherokee, from Havana, has arrived. She brings intelligence that Lopez ami his command had been captured by the Span iards and executed. The passengers witnessed the execu tion of Lopez. They say he ended his life manfully. The total failure-of the expedition is attributed to the delay in receiving mic cor. From the separation of Crittenden's command, the Patriots had dispersed to the mountains, only 30 remaining with Lopez. They left himrand without a sin gle friend, he wandered until run down, and was then taken by blood hounds. His last words were uAdieu, dear Cu ba." Gen Pragny was killed at Pogs. Spanish accounts say that of the num ber in the Pampero, (5G0) US have been already killed; 43G arc in prison, of whom one hundred are to be sent to Africa. Lopez declared himself deceived with regard to receiving aid in Cuba. A meeting was held on board the Cher okee, Gen. Lane, of Oregon, presiding, and the following resolutions ptissed. "Kesolvcd, That Mr. Owens, Ameri can Consul at Havana has forfeited every right, and title of an American citizen outraged every sentiment of humanity, ami is deserving the execration of every friend of Liberty. His conduct requires his recall by the Government." From the despatches to the Picayune office, we learn that Gen. Lopez was cap tured at San Christoval and b-ouht to; thecity of Havana, where he was pub- licly girroted on the 29th tilt. All his men were likewise captured and executed The insurgents were still maintaining themselves in the mountains near Pueilo; rnncipc. The punishment of the garrote is de scribed as placing the victim in an easy chair, clamping his limbs, placing a band around the neck, and gradually pressing a a screw until the neck is broken. DEATH OF IfON. LEVI WOODBU RY. PonTSiMOUTii, N. II., Sept. 5 The Hon. Levi Woodbury, Associate Tudgeof the Supreme "Court of the United States, expired in this place at hall-past four o'clock yesterday afternoon He had been insensible for twenty hours be fore his death. Judge Woodbury was about sixty-one years ofage, and had been a prominent statesman of the Democratic party for many years, having been during the last Presidential canvass talked of for the Presidency, and received for that office over 50 votes in the Democratic National Convention. During President Jackson's administration he was Secretary sof the Treasut y, and afterwards was a member of the United States Senate from New Hampshire, of which State he was also Governor in 1S23. The next year, how ever, he ran for Governor again, and was defeated. In 1817, he was appointed Judge of the Superior Court of New Hampshire, and in 1825 he was elected to the Lower, House of the New .Hampshire Legislature, being chosen Speaker. In 1816 he was appointed Secretary of the New Hampshire Senate, and during the administration of President , Polk was ap pointed one of the Justices of the Supreme Court. j3We are informed that a young man by the name of Conn was accidentally cock, in the lower part of this County, on last Friday. The following are the cir cumstances as they were related to us, under which the sad accident occurred: They were out hunting and came to a peach tree, from which they stopped to gather peaches. There was one very fine peach which both attempted to obtain and a struggle ensued, Aycock at the time having the gun in his hand which accidentally fired and drove the charge through the lower part of Conn's abdo men. He survived until Sunday and ex p i red. Far re n Ion News. A Narrow Escape from Death. While Doctor Grav Sills and his sister, iMrs. Outlaw wilii her little daughter and two servants were returning to thei homes in Franklin County, fiom Shocco Springs on the 30th ult;, their lives were in imminent peril of being sacrificed by the occurrence of an accident, on a bridge of some 25 feet height, spanning Sandy Creek. The abutment on the North side of i hat bridge is very precipitous, neces sarily so, by the natural sitmtion of the site where the bridge is placed, conse quently the draught is very great in as cending it. Th collars being too small for the horses, one of them was choked by his collar, and commenced reeling ere he h id half way bcended the abutment, and by the timejthe carriage was fairly on the bridge, he fed (as if suddenly shot down) with great violence on the other horse, who, by tjie previous reeling of his companion in haScss, was placed near the railing. This hid the effect of throwing him also, broadside, on the lower range of railing, one foreleg and one hinder leg dangling between the ends of the plank and the longitudinal sill, a space just suffi cient for them U pass through, the end of the carriage pole projecting at least a foot over the middle range of railing. In this lilemma,& awful situation, they remained until the traces of the off horse (the one, first falling were cut awiy, for the man- nor of his fall, entirely pi collided the pos sibility of unloosing them from the swin gletrce. .This horse at once arose, but the oiher lay perfectly quiet, because entirely unable to make any exertion by the pecn-j liaritv of his fall, two legs being wedged as above described. Those in the can iage, Engineer's office in the town of Green were of course, first secured from their 'Villc, County of Pitt, from the 25th day perilous situation by three gentlemen close f August until Wednesday, the 10th day behind in Bugges, for had the horses been of September next, for Grading and co?i sudilenly p inic Stricken at their situation, 1 ttrucling the Greenville and Raleigh and the railing is weacfy, ami in laei ai-- loficthcrtorA-ii toe too often see bridges, the lives of this family would have been sacrificed at the unpardonable negligence of iose contracting for the; bu.blingot then. Here is a special rro- vidmic.fi in the ircservation of the lives of some of our most valued and worthy fel - low citizens, aril should be a warning to ! aj jn future, nver to permit ladies and children to ridi over b rid ires in-close car- riages, no matter how true their horses ; i j , mav be, at a leavy draught, nor how strong the bridges may be; for numer-;antl sulhctent security to be sent in with ous as are the fiaxims in the world, there, the proposes j js I10t one morJ lrtie lnan this; that "ah j ounce of preventive is worth a pound of ; CUI-C, j Fromlhe Raleigh Star. I ' i The Panic.- panic is said to prevail in the money market of New York, not withstanding Ac lame importations of ' gold every month from California. A writer in the New York Tribune attributes the scarcity of money to the fact, th3t "all our gold which we have got from Califor nia, has gone to Europe to pay for goods imported, which' we ought to have made in our own country.'" This is no doubt true lo a considerable extent. fjJThe Mercantile Convention to assemble at Richmond, Va., on the 10th of September, is being pushed vigorously. The Times says that the finest feeling an imates the Committee of thirty, who will strive to give it great eclat. Invitations have been sent to Gov. Mcrehead and Senator Mangum, of North Carolina, to L. W. Tazewell, Esq., of Norfolk, and to a number of other distinguished gentle men. The Times hopes that delegations will be present from all the cities and towns in Virginia. The establishment of a line of steamers between Europe and the waters of James river will most assur edly revive the declioing commerce of the State. The Randolph Negrocs.--ll will -be remembered that these negroes who had purchased for them a large trad of land J Mercer county, Ohio, were driven from it by the people of that kounty. A cor respondent of the Baltimore Patriot trav elling in Ohio, says that along the canal from Troy to Dayton these negroes are scattered, and adds that the miserable condition of these poor creatures is a sad commentary on the miserable policy of emancipating negroes, and allowing them to remain in this country. The majority of these once invaluable servants are now worthless pests upon the community a- mong whom they are located, and often want for tho common necessaries of life. Several express an ardent wish to return to the shores of Roanoke again, where, they once had plenty, and did not know what it was to suffer for want. Curious Phenomenon. A Shower of Frogs. Capt. Brevoor, of brig Delaware, of Philadelphia, from Cardenas, Cuba, writes, that while at that port, on the 2Slh ultimo, during the afternoon, a co pious shower of rain" fell in and about the town, after which could be seen, not hun dreds, but thousands of small frogs in all parts of the streets, so abundant indeed that one could scarcely walk without trampling them under foot. The captain says as the place is not subject lo that kind offish he wiuld like to know where they come fiom. j j .. . The Steamer Franklin arrived at New, York on the Sih! with late news from Europe. We find no news of importance. The great topic of conversation in Eng land wis the extraordinary sailing quali ties of the yacht America which has dis tanced all the English yachts. Tarboro' Academy, JFcm at e $cp a vim n t . THE next session will begin on the first Tuesday in October. By order o the Tiustecs, T. R. M. B. Owen, Prin's. Sept. 10, 1351. 6 Notice. Sealed proposals will be received at the ua ub..u... cr .signage io im-j son, a .stance of twenty-seven miles.; Abo (ov Bridging the little ncifr hile Oak and Toisnot Creeks. ! Profiles, Plans and Specifications of j - ..h., may uc M-en ai tins engineers fice, after the 25th inst. The work is di- , vided into sections of two and a quarter miles each, baid work is to be graded hy the first day of April, 1852, and the plank to be laid as last as delivered. Honds to the amount of the bid made, will be required of each bidder with good Alfred Moye, President, Uy Goold Ho vt, Secretary. Greenville, .August 20, 1S51. Nails and Coffee. Nails, by the keg, or retail and Cof fee by the bag, or less quant it', For sale by Geo. Howard. Jack John Bray FOR SALE. THE subscriber offers for sale his well known Jack John Biay. seven years old last spring, and has proved "himself to be a sure foal getter. He covers well, get fine large colts and shows to advantage. I will sell him on reasonable terms, if ap plied for soon. L. B. Whitehead. Aug. 25, 1S51. Herrings ! Herrings !! For sale by e0- Howard. Just received, Cole's Dysentery Mixture. For sale by "Geo: Howard. Land for Sale. HAVING joined a club whoSe oM... . v uujr lauu una seme a whole neigh. borhood in Texas: I havf Aninrr; selling the land on which I now live, if r can get any thing like a reasonable offer and will furnish the purchaser; with one hundred barrels of corn at three dollars and fifty cents per barrel, and fodder at 75 cents per hundred. I conscientiously believe that to any man willing to buy land in North Carolina, I can sell as lllll !l r . v.i.jj a uuig jiu ass can dc bought within fifty miles of my premises, and were it not for my children alone. 1 would not exchange my residence for any other whatever. This tract I offer contains Mont 700 icrcs, more than' half cleared; and now in a good condition for cultfvation there is on it a meadow worth at least fifty dollars a year lor grazing or culling hay. It lies im mediately on Fis3iiii Creek, in Nash County, thirteen miles from the Wilmington rail road and five from Hilliardston, where there is an excellent female school, and within a mile and a half from my resi dence is a male school inferior to few, if any in the State that prepares young men lor Lolle&e J3v clearinir and i nave so improved my larm, that anv good farmer with five ploughs and eight or nine hands can make two hundred and fifty barrels of corn and forty thousand pounds of seed cotton. A good deal of the fresh land is said to be first rate for tobacco and of course good forsr.all grain. There is a small swamp running through my plantation on which is a great abun dance of mud a good deal of which is thrown out for composting. There is a comfortable two story dwelling house, and a tolerable sufficiency of necessary out houses; and within forty steps of the door is a never failing spring of most excellent water. 1 havo frequently known land to sell in Edgecombe where I was raised for eight or ten dollars per acre, far inferior to this I offer, and the land generally in this vi cinity, for it is here as elsewhere the land is good on the water courses but come and see, as I am anxious to get off to take a view of Texas. Robert D. Hart. Spring Hill, August 4th, 1S51. The undersignea being acquainted with lhe aboy e premises and having recently r0e ovcr lhe gagne lme n0 hesitancy in certifying lhat there is not a more valuable , t of j and in Nash , and have no doubt that the farm will yield this year eighteen or twenty bales of cotton, besides a plen- tiful support. B. A. T. Ricks, lF7n.II. WlHar d- August 2nd, 1S51. Horse, Groom and Farm for Sate. THE subscriber offeis for sale his noted horse Younsr Boston and his broom Harry. Young Boston is a splendid bay horse, eight years old last spring, five feet six inches high, and in full health and vigor. He was got by the celebrated race horsy Boston, dam by Marion; grandam by old Sir Archy; great grandam. by Potomac; g. g. grandam by President; g. g- g- nral1 dam by Buckham's Partner. For fnrer particulars refer to Edgar's stud book. His groom Harry, is a boy well known, and has been acting in that capacity aboU. five years. The subscriber also offers fof sale tliC tract of land on which he resides, about six miles west from Batlleboro' Dep0' containing About 800 Acres. 200 of which are cleared and well adapted to the culture of Corn, Cotton, &c, are also enough new turpentine boxes c to work two hands, and two splendid b'u marl. beds, one three feet and the otnc foureet deep. There are on the premi ses an excellent Dwelling house, gin I'0'Js and all necessary houses in g00(i or c ' For further particular apply to Hcnty F. Whitley, in my absence. - JoshBUin C August 261351, : -
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