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BY GEORGE HOWARD.
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From the Norfolk News.
A COUNTRY HOME FOR ME.
I do not ask that city spires
May round my mansion rise.
But that my home may be where trees
Are pointing to the skies;
Where flows the silvery mountain rill
With a sweet and merry sound.
And the echo of the hunter's jrun
Shall through the woods resofnd.
I cannot love the city pomp,
Its fashion and its pride,
I had rather dwell in an humble cet
Upon the mountain side;
W here sweetly blooms the acacia-tree,
The tulip, and the rose.
And where beside the rivulet,
The early violet glows.
I would not give my quiet homo.
Of happiness and health,
For all the city palaces,
Their pleasure and their wea3tV;
I lov to breathe the mountain air,
And roam where all is free,
Let others choose a city life,
But a country life for mei
ABEL HUCKS IN A TIGHT PLACE.
BY THE AUTHOR OF 'COUSIN SALLY DIL-
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Monroe, Union Co., N.
July 4th, 1S51.
Mislc? Porter I wishes to lay a case
before you that I thinks is hard. You
see I was born a poor man, and luck
has been agin me ever sense I was bom;
and what's worse, the law has bin agin
me too. I mout have stole several times,
and not be found out, but that's agin mv
principles. I don't sc how them as gits
rich by stealing can enjoy their riches
Icould'nt do it, and so I would'nt steal.
I mout have lugged and loafed about as
some does, but I'm above that, too; so I
has suffered some in this world, and al-
iuws 10 suuer some more neiore 1 11 eun- quors anu w ines cnougn qi an uinus, 10 rjus, um-ic ua- mvmuiij was i:unmn-i , Protest of an Jlholitionisl while on
er steal or lug. But that's not to the supply a company of returned Califor- mated on the banks of the river under the' rati A few weeks since we pub
pint or rather to the half-pint; for the nians for a day, to say nothing of occa- blue arch of heaven, in the presence of Jjshe(J an aJcont of lhe lynching G( a
worst pint in my case was a half pint torsional glasses of soda water, milk, and ep- friends. The first minister who was call-; nqmoif mpov :n iJjicp collntv Ala
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oegin with. 1 'spose 1 had drunk anoul
that quantity of the ardent, when who j the audience required. Hut the most slmink trom the.task, but one of mo e -pjie samc rnan jia9 ueen agajn mobbed at j witnessed the President and a great por
should come along but '-Fottyfoot Units-; wonderful prrt of this trick was, that the nerve being procmed, he put the matter xiockelty, in the same Stale. A commit- j lion of his cabinel openly influencing, by
ton." Now Mr. P., it so happens that I 'bottle was broken, and found to contain ; through. The bride paid him 20 in tee jfVuizens waited on him, obtain- i lheir speeches and writings, he opinions
am a low man in inches, and I can't bear! only two pocket handkerchiefs belonging gold from her purse. Mrs. Tubbce and . ide ce that ie )acj abolition-! of lie people. Since that period numer-
for one of those tall fellows to be looking
over my head at something beyond me.
Ses I:
"Mr. Houston, look some other course "
Ses he: "What's the matter Hucks?"
Ses I: 'I don't wan't you to be stand-
ni thar a lookin' over my head
"Why," ses he "Hucks you are a fool!";
That was enuff; I had allers wanted to i
hit a till man, and "Fortv-foot" was the
highest I had ever seen. So I goes up
and jags him in the short ribs. Ses he:
''Quit Hucks! you are a fool!"
Well, upon that I digs into him agin. '
Well, then at last Master Houston gets 'the audience. A vase, of ink was turned
toad, and takes me by the two arms, and into water, and water was turned into ink;
Rives me a shake that made my teeth innocent gold fish were made to disgorge
chatter and my eyes strike fire, and he r'ws which, the moment before had been
hands me over the fence to a constable, fired out of a pis'ol; & a multitude of pock
ed he takes me down to SabetVs cross et handkerchiefs gathered promiscuous
'fOids, where the Court was held in a ma- ly round the room, were thrust in a basin
Rheen machine house, and Lawyer "Joo- and washed, taken out soaking, burnt to
lus" was employed to defend me. He is cinders over a spirit lamp, and then found
a mighty good harted man, Joolus is, and neatly iioned and done up in a box which
npd so is Judge Hattle that tried me; but had stood alone on an isolated table all the
there was no chance for me te get off, and while. "'Again, a gentleman deposited six
So I 'fesses guilty, and Joolus turns into watches, belonging to different members
Rgin the Judge. He said I was a poor of the audience, in a box, which he locked
UnJortuiate man, with six children, and and held on his head for safety, bt at the
?!'le given to licker, and there was no' report of a pistol, it was found that they
Higher than Charlotte, and it would had escaped from their hiding place, and
nev'er do to spn.l mp tn Jail. i were hannini? from the bottom of the
"Has Vn-l .rrf nr, t G.n horp?" spc lhf
Se to the Sheriff.
"To 6ur," ses the Sheriff; "this is the
second Court ever held in the county of
Union, and we aint reddy with sich things
yet.
Well, I felt a bit of relief when I heard
the Sheriff anser, and the Judge looked
down at a piece of paper, and then he
sayS
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Court; et Mr. Hucks be confined in the
olocks for one hour. And," says he,
"Mr. Sheriff, you can come as near as pos
sible to executing the judgment of the
Court.' 9
j "How is that?" says Joolus, flaring up
jand looking wrathy at the Judge. "Your
i honor don't mean to inflict any unusul
j punishment?"
"Uh. no!77 says the Judge, laflin, "the
mode of carrying out the sentence is left
to the Sheriff."
And then all the lawyers laft, but Joo
lus and some said " 'enc? Joolus." and
so I got madder still, and says: "Mr.
Sheriff, I dare you to do that!"
And so they took me out of the t'ourt
house on a general laff, and as the lawyers
come along to dinner, thar I was lying
with both legs through the crack of a rail
fence, and some fellers settinn on the
lence making sport of me!
And I heard that queer-looking feller,
-Ham Jones," say kJoolus look at your! of this mass of earth and the tree with
c!lcnl' the body of more than 500 cubic feet of
And then I thought Joolus would havej earth, and estimated by good judges to
iainted. lie turned to the Judge, and he j j weigh 25 tons- was safely deposited in
says: '-My God, Judge! I never had a j its new location; No roots were found in
client in sich a fix before!" jdigging around or under the tree. The
And the Judge and all of them lawyers time occupied in moving it was 40 min
laughcd out. But I I'elt hurtmy feel- utes expense 50. The tree stood upon
ings was hurl as well as my legs. I don't the spot selec ted for the location of the
know whether or not you are a lawyer,
but I want to know whether it is accord-
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a leucr s legs through a rail tence because
they haven't got stocks in a new couoty.
I want to know, , tor of that be accord-!
.ng to the Constitution, I'll go across the:
line to South Carolina and help to nuke a
new v,un3iiiuuom
Yours to command.
BLL 1IUCKS.
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(Jf Professor Andi-r-on, the great En-
g ish Jugler, gave a private exhibition for
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Thursday evening. The Post thus dc -
scribes ome of his manipulations:
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sum satis, which were poured trom it as
lo some ladies of the company. Yet there
was a hat, taken from a gentleman, which
was as much of a horn of plenty, as the
bottle, for it gave forth endless quantities!
of bonbons, bouquets, tin cups, and, last
of all, feathers enough to make a double
bed. Seven half dollars, collected from
persons present, were placed in a box,;
which was locked and committed to the,
care of one of the spectators, but speedily
made their appearance, one by one, in a
transparent box. which, attached to two
long, slender strings hung from the ceil-
ings, vibrating slowly over the heads of
chair on which he sat. The closing feat
was the suspension of a little ooy in me
j air with nothing to support him but a
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experiments at length, but we may say I hc -dccljrcd herself," and the duel
that many of them were of a novel and quickly responded upon his knees, saying
cxlraordina.y character Those which , he had a vision of this happy event. They
struck us as the most curious, were tho .'then partod to make arrangements for the
inexhaustible bottle, which furnishes Ii- hi idal, and met next day again at Niagara
small stick about the size of a walking
cane, on which one arm rested at the el
bow, while the body was stretched out in
a horizontal direction. The performan
ces were received with rounds of applause.
Moving a Pear IVce.Z. B. Porter,
Esq., proprietor of the Cambridge Mar
ket Hotel, has furnished us with a state
ment of a novel experiment tried by him
last week that of transplanting a large
pear tree laden with fruit. The tree is of
the Leperne variety, IS inches in diame
ter, a few feet from the ground, 34 feet in
height, and the distance through the
branches in any direction is upward of 30
feet. The quantity of fruit now upon the
tree, is estimated at two barrels.
The tree was moved a distance uf 32
feet, in the following manner: A trench
in the form of a square 12 feet on each
side, was dug around the tree, to the
depth of 3 feet, A box of plank was
built around the earth thus left adhering
to the roots, and by working in planks at
the sides, a bottom was formed to the box,
1 which thus completely encased the roots
of the tree.
A canal was cut from the tree to the place
to which it was to be moved, of sufficient
depth and width to admit of the nassane
Cambridge Maiket Bank, ami was moved
,y Mr. James Mellcn. of Cambridge, at
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and make room for the election of that '
building. N. E. FABAIEU. j
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RonHnce and Matrimony. The'
C,ief tftho Choclaw Indians of Arkan-
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as, 1 Jr. Uk.'.h 1 utjbcc. was married at
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. .- ..n raiiMJim . 10 a ciiarmiug young
jwh.te lady, who suddenly fell in love
Ilh h!m .lravel,,,,S on a rtcmicr,
and V icloiia like proposed tint they
should be married, lie first captivated
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c. ..y cu -g..m .m.u ,,M ,nKt u.,.i u.lo
; by the music of his words, as he is an
j accomplished man and scholar. When
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her husband returned to Medina. i . .,
the paper at which place relates this affiir.
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The chief goes lo Lurope shortly.
(Tp Wool-growing is the most promts -
ing branch of huabandry in the Union.
' Wc saw a wool grower residing in Vir-
ginia, a few days since, vho has tak'.'ii,
first and last, live thousand sheep irom
V ermont nis native iaie; inio ine uu:
Dominion. His wool this year averaged
j 1,50 a fleece; and all the lambs he is will-
ing to sell average that price in ashing-
ton and Ualtimore markets, lie is now at
the North with a view to purchase a large
drove for the Southern wool growing
market He finds that sheep and grass
seed are adequate to the complete renova
tion of the old fields of Virginia, and
sheep husbandry promises to become ex
ceedingly popular, not only in that State,
but in the Northern portions of North
CaroIina,-South Carolina, Georgia and
Alabama. One gentleman from Western
New York has a flock of 2,000 in Texas,
and others are more largely engaged in
the business. There is no good reason
why we should not export half as much
wool in value as we now do eotton,
4 : Rochester American.
Orange Culture in Florida. t is
said that the Orange trees in Florida are
fast recovering from the blight which has
afflicted- them for the last 1 6 years. Should
this be the case it will be a source of great
wealth to that State. Previous to 1S35,
when the orange groves were killed by
the unprecedented frost of that year, Hot
less than 10,000,000 of oranges were ship
ped from the St. John's River and the
port of St. Augustine, and sold at the av
arage price of 55 1 per hundred The ave
rage produce of an acre of full grown or
ange trees was about Si, 000 per annum,
and one hand could tend 2 or 3 acres with,
ease. Their culture is no more difficult
than any other fruit tree. The principal
mode of producing them is from the seed.
So says the Charleston Mercury.
Fayettevllie Carolinian.
The way they do things on the
Plains. The correspondent of the Grant
County (Wis.) Herald, writing from
Council Bluffs, relates the following inci
dent: There was a train df Suckers from Peo
ria county just ahead of us at Skunk Riv
er, which we found had hilled on the
banks ot the North Skunk, at mid day.
Thinking that something must be wrong.
I made inquiries and found that James
Taylor had been presented during their
few hours stay, with a fine heir, which
pleased him very much, as it would make
him the full section of land in Oregon
this being the third child.
AVell, Jeems," says Mrs. Taylor, "I
reckon ou had better hitch up the steers;
for 1 feet pretty peert now."
Ranis in the United States. The
Boston Bankers' Magazine gives a table
showing the number, capital, and condi
tion of tbe banks in all the States of the
Union. Total number of Banks, S63;jtlial Mr. Webster has determined tore-
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AAq 000. c ,pital $o30 S97 500 New
York leads all other Stales, having 152
vvjh a circulation of S,S,000.000,
while New York citv has 2S banks, and
S6.40O.OO0 circulation.
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Virj,illian gi vcs lhe parliculars of
a h(,mtl affair in (;IarUr counly Va., on;
: Wctlncstlny week, which has excited1
, :miTnat:nn ,in, i;nil Tho ,
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ix.sut Df it was that. Col. James Castleman,
; aiuI ,lis Mll Stephen, were indicted on
: Ao . Jaslt for. iavi cruelly and tin-
mercifully beaten two slaves the Wednes-
day provious (causin lhe death of one of
lhem. bco1Ring l0 lhc form(?r Th
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on t he irround that he was an abo itionist.
. 1mi forthwith ducked him under the
spout of the town pump, and then rode
him out of town on a rail. As the sen-
lence was beins carried into effect.
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ceediims as follows: "Gentlemen, I call
to witness that the whole thine is
j done wilhout my consent, and rather a-
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Montgomery Ala. Advertiser.
fl nut for Abolitionists. A wealthy
planter in the eastern section of N. Caro
lina, who is in the habit of repairing, dur
ing the sickly season, to Nag's Head, on
the ocean, invariably takes with him
some seventy five little negroes, whose
health is invigorated and preserved in that
pure and bracing atmosphere - It is quite
a frolic for the little fellows, and they
bathe in the briney sea with all the gay
disportings of a school of porpoises. We
should like to be furnished with an in
stance in the free States where the chil
dren of laboring domestics are treated with
equally humane consideration.
Norfolk Herald.
Yacht Race in England. The tri
umph of the American Yacht the other
day, in England, over a squadron ofeiglv
teen of the fleetest vessels of John Bud,
h a fact typical of our. advancing great
ness, and honorable to our riayal pride.
The saucy. Yankee,: as slip was called, out
sailed J he others with perfect ease, pass
ing each in rotation. This,, taken in con
nection with the unrivalled speed of our
magnificent Steamships, establishes our
supremacy upon the waves, and plucks a
feather from the haughty wing of Eng
land, f
Suicide of Hon. Luke IVoodhury at
Antrim The following particiars as lb
this mourniul event are . from the Man
chester Mirror: L
'At about nine o'clock he returned
from a ride in company with a little son
of B. B. Mussey,'Esq., of Boston, to get
some black berries, went to the barn, un
harnessed and put up his horse, returned
to the house, inquired for his wife, and
was informed that she was in the garden;
from thence he went directly to the barn,
where he remained so long that his wife
began to be uneasy in regard to him, and
went to the door of the barn by which" he
had entered, and found it locked. She
immediately sent to his brother's store
for a clerk, who, upon search, found, the
body of Woodbury suspended from a
timber up a splice rein. Life was extinct.
Charles Allen, M. C, from Wor
cester, Mass., has a complete list of the
names of those who subscribed towards
Mr. Webster's outfit for the State depart
ment, and also has another letter of Web
ster's which has not yet seen the light,
and which convicts the great pensioner of
all that Allen charged upon him in tho
last Congress.
'It is in anticipation of the opening
up," which his affairs will receive in the
next Congress at the hands of Mr. Allen.
time Congress meets. He. will draw his
salary as long as possible, and for that
purpose will retain the office probably un
til he learns by telegraph that Allen is af
ter him with a sharp stick. Thisi the
'reason, and the onlv reason . which will
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N. Y. Eve. Post. .
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JThe Presidentof the United States
has at length returned to the seal of gov
ernment. Jt was certainly lime that tho
country should bo relieved of the appre-
hension caused by the absence of the
Chief Magistrate at so important a period
as the present. No one would deny to
the President or to his Cabinet officers,
the relaxation consistent with the just
care of the public interest; but this indul
gence at all times demands that absentee"
ism should furnish no just ground for the
fear that other motives than those of use
ful recreation had been consulted. The
visit to Dunkirk, in the midst of elections
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inrtAlninff rv net m rxMronr tam kih An
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ous occasions have arisen which expose
he same hi8h -fficers losuch imputations;
and ,astIy the President himself has
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thrown arounu nis roceni visit to the
! mountains of Virginia too much of the air
and manner of lhe candidate to permit the
idea tI,at be had not lost sight of that del-
icale ancl just sentiment, which enjoins
1 that the patronage ot omce ana power
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the freedom of elections
Washington Union.
(QFThe President has dismissed (he
Collector at the port of New Orleans for
allowing the Pampero to leave with Lo
pez and his. men without clearance papers.
(QCuban volunteers are returning
from New Orleans to Louisville in con
sequence of the report of LopezVdefeat.
Spirits from (he Tomato A Icitizen
of our town has during the:"preisent sea
son, made the experiment and succeeded
in distilling a quantity of spirits from this
delicious vegetable. It is of the most de
licate and pleasant flavor, superior to, but
strongly resembling in taste the finest
Scotch Whiskey; indeed a gentleman
Irom Scotland was furnished with a glass
of toddy without being informed of the
material used, and he did not hesitate to
pronounce it the best ofMountain Dew."
Norfolk Argus.
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