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9
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rpcordea a case . y -
"Trred in this citthe prpx.mfrte cause
toiifttice anower T ,
Der Which tracea toe
W e-lk source, from which raore crime
!0";nate9 than all others combined. On
TU an alarm wa gWen from our
mber of persona repaired instantly to
DU ... r intfino' which, a most
i w" UAr instance oi sen-
IrfAg sfectaele rese
nted itself:--!
Brv -
Beastey, who IhaiT been com-
few days before-on a Peace
Warrant,!
nil---
i issued on the application
i
I vinar on the floor drench-i
-ti rLii j , . ct. , '
in a room adjoining that in which
viho were
deed was perpetrated, hearing an un
the
gual noise, went to Beasley's apartment,
ifhen they discovereti mm lirawing a ia
l0r across his throat yerj rapidly. One. of
the-m made a humane effort to arrest his
purpose, but his, interference was too late.
Xhe decWed W left a large, family in
indigent circumstances. V
Awful Calamity That devoted town,
Wilmington, has been again visited with
most calamitous Ure, wincn nas nestroy-
a
d a
lare amount of property and redu-
cef some from siiuamnis, oi cumiui i, uu
poverty and distress. The worthy Ed
itor of the Cape Fear Recorder is amongot
the principal sufferers, "and we cannot
here, withhold the expression of our most
cordial sympathy for bis loss. A friend
informs us that all the sufferers are most
deserving citizens, afod with one or two
exceptions, unable to sustain theburden
phpir misfortune ! Tue account which
-we subj copiei
from an extra issued
by Mr. Hooper, wlith borrowed mple-
nients, his own, as will be seen, , navinjr
bee entirely destroyed :
The 2nd of August was a day of ex
cessive heat At about 10 o'clock at
night, the atmosphere changed aid we
had heavy falls of rain, attended by bril
liant trail of lightning and heavy claps
of thunder. At about 11 o'clock, the
electric fluid descended on the northern
nd of Mr. Langdon's large wooden
building on Market and Second street
and i a fevv seconds npre, struck the
same balding, near th partition, which
separated it from the house in which was
the Otfice of the Cape-Fear Recorder.
In its course, it set fire to quantities of
jiroduee and merchandize, combustible
in tWit" nature, and ignited some casks
of liquor which burst with a tremendous
cxplosJtm. The flames then began to
bUze forth and to spread through the con
tiguous buildings a-nd soon reached tliose
which were adjoining on the soutfl ano
east, on Second street ; and burned with
prodigious fury, until the whole block of
wooden houses, from Second street to
Mrs." Wright's alley, was consu med.-
During the whole of this awful and sub
lime spectacleribe fire companies of the
town performed'.their. duty with ad mira
blespirit and firmness. One engine was
stationed to protect the -South side of the
Town Hall ; another, at the east end of
the same ; and another, in Second street
near Mr. Hall's Livery Stable. These
! i -iL a: :i.
engines were puea wun an unuincning
courage, amhist torrents of rain ; and a
midst flashes of lightning the most vivid
ana piercing ;! and such rending claps
of thunder, that the stoutest heart might
have quailed under the portentous display
of warring elements. Twice the belfry
f the Town Hall was taking fire. The;
houses on the west side of Second street,
sweated continually from the prodigious
mass of fire on the opposite side; and
large flakes of fire were falling on the
roofs of adjacent and .distant houses.
The progress of the fire, was arrested at
Mrs. Wright's alley, by. the .activity of
the firemen Jn blowing up, and pulling to
pieces a small two Story house belonging
o Mrs. Wright, on the .east side of the
alley , , &
. 'Vhe sufferers in this dreadful fire which
"id not) last much longer than two hours,
were, Samuel Langdoj, fesq Mr. ChamT
tots, Mr. John Brown, E' P- Hall, Esq.
Mrs; Scott, Wm C Lord, Esq, Ancrum
Berrv. Esq. Mrs. Wright, Gabriel Holmes,
Rsq. Mr, Tibbi Us, Archibald M. Hooperr
nd Henry Sampson, (a coloured man.)
After thse detaijs, the subscribers to
tHe Recorder, 'can. have no difficulty in
accounting for the nori-receip of their pa
pery The loss being total, the proprie
fr of that Paper, saw no feasibility of re
v'viTi2; his journal under existing circum
stances ; but the gratuitous liberality of
excellent Ineiuls nas enaoieu mm, ana
hie encouragement of his sympathising
'p'.mw citizens, induces im, to resume
the imhlication of the Cape Fear Record -
which he will do, as soon as materials
fcin be obtained from the North. K
P The proprietor of the Cape-Fear
bo nier having lost every bookand pa-
I'vhis' office, will have some difficulty
cenajtung tne names ol his suoscrt
h rs who reside in the country, or at dis
nt poiat. , He therefore respectfully
Jrv'Jests hU Postmasters, to whom this
lrnbill i adtlressedto tumish him as
a in blood, with kKU throat cut from ear speaking of his excellent Address before
e ear 1 He was not then dead, but ex- j the two Literary Societies of our Univer-t0-
ed in a few moments, a dreadful warn- j si ty, but more particularly of that part of
"1 to the intemperate ! Two prisoners, Ut wbichlludes' with becoming indigna-
ft . i : ; ... ;
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ADVERTISEMENTS noteiceeding sixteenlines neatly inserted 5 times for a Dol1ai',& twenty-five cents for every sacceeiingptiblicatio
you xxix.
speedily as may be convenient, .with the
na;r subscribers to whom paper were
seni uirecteu to meir respective omces."
?- j I i
A "correspondent of the Nevv-Ycrk A(-
mencan pays a just conirjjiment to the ta-
lent of the Hon
Jokn 11. Bryan. In
taon to the excitement in S. Carolina, the
writer says, , it is refreshing to see the
tide of sound' opinion rolling so calmly
near the breakers of misrule and breast
ing with its smooth and glassy bosom, the
e n croach m en ts o f their shallow waves."
Nomination of Henry Clay. At a pub
lic meeting held at Woodbridge, New-
Jersey, on the 24th ult. Joseph CrowelU
President, and Robert Zee, Secretary,- it
-was unanimously agreed to support Hen
ry Clay for President of the U.States, at
the next Presidential Election An ad
dress was agreed upon by the Meeting, in
which they recommend to the friends of
Henry Clav in the several townshins in
the State to choose delegates to a Conven
tipn to be held at Trenton on the 27th Oc
tober next, for the purpose of nominating
a Ticket to be supported at the Congres
sional Election to be held in December
next.
He who makes it a point td accomodate
his situation to the changes whicli are con
tinually taking place in the political com
munity, so as always to be found with the
dominant party for the time being, must
be a shrewd calculator, not to mistake
sometimes his mark in endeavoring to an
ticipate popular feeling. The Editor of a
Jackson paper in Columbus, Ohio, has
just'discovered this. He formerly abus
ed the General without measure, but find
ing that the current was running in his
favor,he suddenly hoisted the Jackson flag
and got along well enough until the Veto
Message. This has produced so great a
reaction irt publicsentnnent in Ohio, that
abusing Mr, Clay is an unprofitable busi
ness. Some of his Subscribers havewith
drawn, aniV he 'complains most piteou&Iy,
of proscription.
; i " -ee- ,
In the general complaint of drought
which prevails throughout the Southern
countrv, the Norfojk Herald says, it is
consoling to hear of exceptions like the
following :
Mr. Daniel Lindsay, a farmer of Curri
tuck county, 'N. C. calculated on makins .
IpOO bblst 'of'corn the present year, which
he considered a fair crop ; but the rains
having been as seasonable as if he had be
spoke them, he confidently calculates on
1500 barrels, an Tncreae of fifty per cent.
His large crop of wheat was harvested in
fine order, and "weighs from 5 to 7 lbs.
heavier than jthe average weight per bush
el of former years.
The prescrrt population of Elizabeth
City in this State i 9Gl. In 1820, it was
a little upwards of 700
The following statement, which we co
py from the Philadelphia Chronicle, may
be interesting to some of the inhabitants
of the Gold Region.
Standard go!d (1112 fiV) f ihe:t)nied States
Mint, is Worth 80 cents per ,.enr- weight.
Pure tfold is worth 97 cents per pennyweight.
The gold of North-Carniina as by assays at the
Mint, Mveiae9 80 cents per penny we.ignt.
That of 'South Co-mina, itverages y5 cents.
That of Georgia a;i,d Virginia, 90.
Value of a Frenchman. -The Dey of Al-
1 rrtrtrv - 11
giers, it is feaici, pays &xiuu ior a uve
Frenchman and. S1G0 for a dead one.
Mr. Edmund Chauncey of Houston,
county Ga. lately put a period to his exis
tence by blowing out his brains. He was
a young man in easy circumstances, and
this rash act is attributed to connubial in
felicity '
Awful effects of Intemperance.. -F 'eter
Douglass, a shoemaker; was taken with a
fit, on Sunday evening last, about 4 o'
clock, in the back yard attached to his
employer's shop, in this town, and expir
ed in about twenty minutes.
The deceased "was ah habitual harif
drinker, and his death is ascribed to that
cause- He came to thisjtown in January
last. , He was apparently, about thirty
years of ige. N. C Journal.
Deathly Lightning We have been
informed that Mr.! William Bruce, of
Spartanburg District S. C- was killed by
liL'htninir on the lutn instant, ine cir
cumstances as related, are that he had
AND WORTH-CAROLINA
' -Ours are thelplans of fair, deliehttu I peace
Unwarpfd by party rage4 to litejike brothers."
THURSDAY, AUGUST 12, 1830,
attended a muster on that day, and haf
rpiurneu nome anci pui nis norse in ine
stable ; but in returniug to his house the
lightning descended an apple tree under
which he was passing, and struck him on
the back part of his head, tearing off his
hatjf clothes &c, and scorching thekin
down to his feet. Mr. B was a young
man, about twenty-one years of age ; he
has left a wife and,, one child, who were
standing in the door of the house and
were witnesses of his untimely death.
Rutherford Spectator.
Disgraceful Outrage. -On Saturday
night the 19th ult. a rape was committed
on CeliafWilliams, a poor but honest and
industrious woman. She lived in a cabin
by herself, near Col. Mills' Mill, on
White, Oak Creek. She awoke in the
niht & heard something making a noise,
she arose to see what it was, and laid her
hand, on some person who immediately
seized her, threw her on the bed, and per
petrated his villainous purpose.
there was no light in the house, and
she could only ascertain that it was a ne
gro He had got in at a window, with
out awaking her, and made his escape in
the same way Nothing has tran$pired
to fix guilt on any one, but it is to be ho
ped that the villain may be yet discover
ed and sutler the penalty of his crime.
' Ibid.
77ie Prospect. Thanks to Providence
first, 'and then to the industry of our far
mers, this section of the country has been
blessed with bountiful crops of excellent
Wheat but the prospect of Com crops
is indeed gloomy beyond description.
We have had nothing like a general good
season for more than two months We
are happy to understand however, that
this excessive 'drought is notreneral, but
that it is confined principally to this and
the adjoining counties. With us, -that
is. in the neighborhood of Greetfsborough,
many large and fertile, and well cultiva
ted fields of corn will not yield one-fourth
part of an ordinary crop- If this should
be the case throughout the country, it is
time the people would begin printer like,
to make their hoe cakes short !
Greensborough Patriot.
A fact to be noted. Mr. Hamtn of Ohio
was, before t ie adjournment of Congress,
appointed Charge d Affairs of the United
States to Chili. Mr. Hainm who is still
at home, and, a we presume, dra vying his
pay, is enumerated in a recent Ohio paper
as one of a Committee of Vigilance to aid
in the success of his political friends in
the. election next fall. A new instance
of Gen. Jackson's declaration ' that the
patronage of the general government should
not he brought to bear on the freedom of
elections-"
Thne who remember the outcry made
because, under the late administration.
Mr. Barbour and Gen. Harrison dfd not
immediately depart on their mission tho'
they carefully abstained, as wa admitted
by their opponents, from meddling in pol
itics after their appointment will be ed
ified by the practice as compared with
the profession, of those now in rjower.
iY. Y. American.
Baltimore, Jnlv 23.
The Rail Road. We are informed that
the third, division of the Baltimore and
Ohio Hail Road, extending from the forks
of Patapsco to the Par Spring Rid me, was
yesterday let out upon contract, and that
the bridging, masonry, excavation, and
embankment upon this division will not
exceed a cost of S7000 per mile. , $
, It is highly gratifying to us to say that
that the supcrmtendant of Construction,
whose efforts to banish spirituous liquors
from the road have been indefatigable, has
at length succeeded in introducing as a
condition in all the present contracts, that
no ardent spirits shall be introduced on
the line. This stipulation, to the! credit
of the contractors, has been wiiliiiglv as
sented to inevery instance.
Fraveaing on the Rail Road. Notwith
standing the great heat of the weather for
three weeks past, the amount of weekly
travel on the Rail Road . ha not diminish
ed the average receibts jbemg much a-
bove one thousand dollars per-week. In
the hottest time of the hottest days the
quick motion of the cars causes a current
air, woicn renders tne rule at all times
agreeable. In many instances strangers
passing through Baltimore, or visiting it,
postponeytheir dppartuiTor a day, and.
sometimes longer, to enioy the. pleasure
f an additional ride on the Rail Road.
We only repeat the general sentiment i
when we say that it is the most delight
ful of all kinds of travelling.''
Forgery. We regret to learn from a
correspondent at Augusta that Mr. Stur
ges, hitherto a respectable merchant of
that city, has been committed to jail (af
ter being pursued fad taken in Milledge
ville !) charged with forgeries to a vast
amount. Ht was the ageht o two opu
lent planters of Burke cottnty. Messrs.
Whitehead and Dowse, on whose genuine
notes he had raised and appropiated to
TED
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V.
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NO.
1,41 i.
from the iBanks andjoherR (as far-as' yet
discovered) g23,000, "m the forged rrotef
of thejlame gentlemen This system of
renewing one forged note by another,has.
been practised for about5-! 8 months. Our'
Correspondent says " to what further ex
tent and what other species of fraud! he
naci com mitreti is not Known, ms wnoie
assets assigned are small indeed.compar-
ed to thef amount he seems to, owe A
member of the Church he has bWh ,abor
suspicion, and the thing comes on usve-
ry suddenly indeed.7
1
Capital Trial. The Court Room in
New-York presented the last week an un
usual spectacle ; a husband tried for the
murder of his wile ; the witnesses, theij?
own children; upon their testimony, a
verdict of guilty found and recorded. ,
The murder was committefFby Stephen
G. Simmons, on the 14th of June last,
in the house kept by him as a tavern,
half way between New-York and Ypsi
lanti. The evidence made the hearers ac
quainted with the condition of the family
for many years past. It represented a
husband sometirrtes forcing, always en
couraging his wife to, drink ; in his mo
ments of intoxication beating her with
the hand, or instruments of wood or iron,
and driving her forth at night to seek
shelter in the woods, following her and
stamping upon her It represented a
inother in a drunken - carousal with her
husbandjin the presence of their, children;
or raving like a fury, and grasping chairs
or boards to beat them from the house.
Intemperate men and intemperate wo
men, can you learn nothing from this ?
Cholera Morbus. This disorder, so pre
valent at this season of the year, fre
quently baffles the most skilled of our
medical practitioners. We published a
week or two since a communication, touch
ing the merits of a medicine prepared by
one of our city druggists, in cases of Cho
lera Morbus and Diarrhooeai or Bowel
Complaint- Since then we have received
from Mr Joseph; Morrison, 518 North
Front Street, an account of the efficacy
of the ffliite Plantain, in similar diseases,
which he desires us to notice for public
good. Mr. M. has himself been twice
cured of the united disorders, and con
siders the salvation of his life solely at
tributable, under Providence, to the great
efficacy of this simple herb. His, direc
tions are as follows. Take two hand ful Is
of the hite Plantain, boil it in three
half pints of sweet milk until reduced one
fourth, then pour the milk off and drink
it occasionally until relieved.
: Phila. Bulletin.
Casualty A man by the name of Aus
tin, a negro speculator, lately from Vir
ginia, was killed near Clinton some shcrt
time ago, by the kitk of a horse. Mr, A.
had just purchased the animal, which was
a very vicious one, and he was trying to
break him when he met with the accident.
He had hold of the horse by the bit, when
he suddenly flung himself round, struck
Mr. A. with his shoulder and knocked
him down, and as he rose-, gave him a
kick in. the abdomen, wjfch caused his
death in a short time. The hbrse had
previously thrown and kicked several
persous, some ofwhom were severely in
jurred. -Macon Telegraph.
The Alabama Journal say a lady in his
district has had $ve children at one ac
couchement, & claims for them according
to the Tennessee law two hundred acres
ofland each, l.OOOacres. Howltohg
will the public lands hold out at that rate?
Vourttand Jlta. Meraia.
Conjugal Affection. We announced a
few days since that M. M Compt
roller of the Mint, hid shot himself. -This
dreadful act was Committed in the
presence of his wife, who had been for se
veral years dumb and deprived of the use
of her limbs by a severe paralysis ; the
shqck she received from Viewing this hor
rible scene, instantly restored, not only
her power of speech, but all her other fac
ulties. Paris Adv.
Fatal Mistake. On Saturday last a wo
man named Bagley, a nativeof England,
residing in New-York, sent a small girl
to a druggist for some opening pills'; the
girl's pronunciation being indistinct, the
druggist mistook the word opening for
opium, arid gave her opium pills accord
ingly,)tie or two of whicrheing taken by
Mrs. Bagley, caused her death in 24 H?rs.
2.1UTJUIK AJ.CTIMa.1
The oriein of Nullification. .. Mrs. Roy-
all claims the rather equivocal merit of
having originated the entire "doctrine of
Nullification in ft letter to Judge Cooper
of Columbia, who, ungraciously, has re
fused and still doth refuse to give her
credit therefor Charleston Gazettei
Junius. The London Herald of the
llth June states, that by documents in
the library at Stowe, the author of Junius
had been discovered. LorclT'emplewho
was killed by a fall-frbrn his horse in
4
n -:
ly it was unoccupied the last oceiinani
U--.r ; u... i'ai ' i 'V . 1
having remove
le iay previous.?
retershurg Times.
The Resident oHine; Unifed S'ntfs, nri
his return from, ifthfille i the HTmi
taget :n, Thursday 15'h in-t. stripped m'a
beautiful grv'fb :U! 3 liiiles frou fmvh,
and there toult ioiir with abfu irur hoti
dreid bfjiis niil triendt kivd tieiohbnr. wh.i
hadiastmhied or the eiprens nurrHtne fif
iner img nun. uvpry liuog wa coiiiluctetl
with the plainness and Ktmpticity of r-pab-liigsin
farmer. A tube upwitrdt of
undrel yards in length Wis spred io the
woods.' and filled with cheerful, contented;
happyitizeos. The fare Wiis-ib4ta'tirJ
but jiot, luxurious, rhere w.i no parade of
effort at display; tht- utmost fredonu arid
respectful decorous familiar try pre atlptli
and the chief MitgK rate if thi grit nati
on mingieit wiih the crowd of hm fellow
citizens as a coinnajiion and a frinid. K
vtry one h td an opportunity of sitcial un-
reserved inteicourHR Wflh him, and he ap
peared anxious t converse freely witb all
who approached him. uch u scene might
well astonish the subjects of European mo
narch, whoVe accustomed to their
sovereigns
at an :wfl distance.-and to
witness the imposing splendor, 'he pomp
and parade wijh widen it is thought Wees--sary
to ortoufd them. It is diiHrult per".
hap9 for the inmateof p.jlaces and ;he at
fendants of princes 10 imagine sach a. scene.
The chief executive 'magistrate of a great
and widely extended nation, unarmed tin'
protectetf, ooMtteiwled even by a train of
household servants, undistinguished by hi
dres equipage, or style, from the rest of
the community, minuted viih ihemuliitude
of farmers,. mechanics, merchantlt "$i other
wuh the amilianty of an eqial, aod par
took oftJieir plain h'imble fire without os
tentation or padde- Siich'i a practical
illustration of th blefsings and .comforts
of a republican goteri.ment.
Nashville Banner. -
Gen. Sumter A South C nd'oa paper
of the 29h ult. in noticing a trinl that
to k place at Bradford Springs, in Sumter
Dis'rict, eon'aiosl thr fvillowing notice of
this relic of the Revolution :
' The trial was an interesting one but
a circumstance extraneous to the trialtill
more, excited our feelings ihat was the
presen:euf the g"d w irrior rnd remark
able patriot, General Sumter, for a few
minutes on Jhe sec -nd day. -' W had a
strong uri sit v to sVe this venerable Sol
dier of the. Revolution, and we scarcely
ever experienced greater gratification than
when we pressed th hand which had s
ofin ' wielded the sword of Libtrty I ."
The whole assemblage reg .rded this Chief,
and Statesman of other days, twith a com
mon feeling of admiration, gratitude ami
enthusiastic attachment. lie is now in
hi 97th year has a h-althy appearance
moves wiih actively ami firmness of ste
mounts his horsead disoniuhts with
greit ease, and is ntrtaintng attd in
structive io conversation. '
The highly important paragraph w.ncft
follows, is taken from the Augusta.
(Maine) Patriot t f 1 t
General "Vjfebster, I who was appoint:
ed by the Marshall of this State to
assist in taking the Census, has .been,
driven back and compelled to desist from,
the perfomance of. his duty in that por
tion of our territory to which the British,
have set up their iniquitouslaims. -The
authorities of New Brunswick have ex
tended their jurisdiction over this terri
tory, and we aret.wfor.med that a Procla
mation was published forbidding the in
habitants to give in their census, and
Gen W. was threatened with anarYest
in case he proceeded further in carrying ,
mto enect one ot tne laws or ine u. states.
He has returned to lay the subject before
the marshal, who will, no doubt, with. his
usual promptitude, acquaint. the Secreta
ry of State with this high handed measure,
of the Colonists, and act under his in
structions. MARRIED
Irl Hillsborough, on the 26th uln by the Rev.
Joseph CaldweU, Samuel W. Tillinghast, Rsq.
merchant of Fayetteville, to Mi&i Jane B. Nor
wood, daughter of the Hon. Jodge Norwood.
In Robeson county, ooithe 29th ult. Joseph
Biggs to Miss Elizabeth Davis.
- DIED, ,
tn. Greensborough, on the 23dult. Miss Mary
Atih Paisley, daughter of the Rev. Wm. D. Pais
ley. She was in her 28th yeaf her sickness,
which Was painful, and which lasted throueii
hear three we tiles, she bore with patience, while
its protracted nature afforded ber lone time to
try , and to realize the power of religion, to sup-
port 11s votaries in me prospect 01 oeain.
In Lincoluton, on the 20th ult. Bererly J.
Thompstm, t2sq. Attorney at Law.
In Lexington, 011 (he 23d ult. lit. Jesse Har
grove. . ,
DRAWING OF THE
Union Canal Lottery
58, a, S, 51, &ss.
Unprecedented Luck !
Jrtr&r-rYehteW&f r morning, between 3
and 4 o?elock, the eegant mansion in
Pride Vfield, 'Belonging to Tlios. Wilcox,
Csq. was discovered to be on fire the
flames had made such progress beFrtre the
arrival of the engines, that the' main buil
ding was entire!? consumed; Forturiatet
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AT HBWSON'S OPFICBy
Petersburg, a! S.cAMoas-sTBjurr
' "Si
J$a. 2, 21, 57, the Grand Little, Prize of TwW
Thousaml Dollars was sold and paid at si?ht ml
he. Delaware trad N. aroka Aoltsry, Olaat 1
jhis owa use gl7,G00besides obtaining
177, is saia to nave eH tne person.