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dilemma to be placed in; it is lite rally tailing' into a pit of c digging. villc llejj. our own Drought ami transcribed into his pa-(no rival in the citv-it ivns ,. p,r. xus. awKwanlinizod by all classes of n ,,l irom the Governor down to the soldier. The alarm was given on finding the -little girl did not re turn in due time she was traced to the shop alluded toand some gentlemen who had seen her en ter, deposed that she had not come out. A guard was ordered to search the shop, and hopes w ere entertained that a nest of Kidnappers was about to be dis covered. In searching the house, a trap-door was foundthro' which the party descended into a long and gloomy vault, strewed with human bones. In this subterra nean Golgotha, a miserable old negro was discovered chained to a post, and employed in chopping the flesh of the unfortunate girf, preparatory to its being served up in the pastry, which had acquired lor the shop so distinguished a re putation. The old in the South. Tho last Macon (Geo.) Teleirranh. af ter stating the very flattering nros- pects of the planter a few weeks since, says--"The scene is now changed. From almost every part of the state, we hear the most 1 I. 1 r . i uieianciioiy accounts oi the exten siu and long continued Drought, and the utter prostration of the kfesof the farmer the structure on winch the prosperity ot the whole community is based. With few exceptions, the drought is ve ry general. In some districts no vain has fallen for many weeks; the earth has become fairly bak ed, and vegetation entirely sus pended. hole cornfields arc entirely destroyed: the corn Wades, contorted and scorched, fall to the ground: and the shrivel led stalks smoke with heat. The cotum plant, from its slower growth and deeper roots, sutlers later than corn; but it also begins to feel the elfects of the drought. The leaves burn up. and flowers wither and fall, leaving no bull in their place. The animal as well as the vegetable kingdom pants with the excessive heat & drought. Inhabitants of ponds and streams are boiled in their own element, vi i'ummiu) its evaporation, iar tle crop the juiceless herbage, and look to man in vain tor succor their emaciated carcasses and sunken eyeballs, as they watch the reluctant clouds, snonk- thn I-o.mi. ness ot their su(lerin. Lare streams have sunk to narrow rills, and fountains are drying up. In stead of dew, impalpable dust, lifted into the air by its dryness and buoyancy, falls on the thirsty herbage. Indeed the atmosphere in many parts, travellers assure us, is so filled with dust, that respira tion is extremely i i flictnlt."" This 5- a melancholy picture but the -cue ere this is changed we hope. ('of ion maunacton. The Pe ' e r s b u r g 1 1 i t e 1 1 i g e n e e r o f r I' 1 1 e s d a y ist, states that a Cotton Manufac ; -1 y, the jirst Virgin in cttabl ish - '.', is about to be put in opcra i' :i near that place it will start yy about 2000 or 2500 spindles, Miniated to turn out something ;ing of 1000 yards of cloth per ' j adding to the number accord 'ii to the demand for the Lroods. And many a bumpkin now lies stupified; with rum. The coursers all I ween, are stretch'd upon their down, Seven in number they, only three won victory's crown; Between the noblest two, ihe race is not yet run, Success to , yet, let the people's will be done. 2 full blooded Republican. HUM 1 Saturday night, 23th July, 1827. Prcacung.--The Rev. JOHN ARM STRONG will preach at Battle's Meeting-house, in this county, on the fast Sunday in September next. -Cow. DIED, In Newbern, on the 27th ult. in the 21st year of her age, Miss Maria Loui sa Murphy, daughter of the late Mr. Wm. S. Murphy, of Pitt county. Price Current. JULY 27. Bacon. that he had been confined, and! n.r:ind)r -thus employed for three years, in'cX'n, - ' -which time many of his fellow ;Coflw' creatures had passed through his!?1"' :imily' hands. -. The shoo keeoers wr-m Moi'issrs. - arrested, tried, and four of them !fum' '"-v"r. 1 - , . uut-.ll . i execmeu a tilth was condemned to perpetual imprisonment." rmvn, lraf, The C ol a n iz a i ion Socic t i . people of this State (snvs the Ohio rotate Journal) are deeply interest ed in the success of this Society. We are suffering under many of the pernicious effects incident to a slave population, without any of Tea, Youth1; Hyson, I in iit rial, - Wheat, - - -Whiski'v. - - per Ih bw'h lb l)bl ton gal llj bu'l gal. J'cttrs'g. 8 8 75 100 50 55 8 10 16 17$ oOO 750 $U)5 112 35 4j 42 4 a i'A 12 1 X '25 100 125 140 150 90 IOC 36 ;8 .Y. York. 9 11 60 01- lOJ 13 17 475 550 790 100 "2 ?5 58 39 7 10 17 19 75 125 11 3 11. ' W it, '27 ri Eelbeck in Geography 3d class, and. North-Carolina Bank Notes. At Peterlmrg, 4 to 4 discount. At New-York, 5 discount. Notice. i i.n; j'uuuiaiiuii, wiinoui any oi . T r , low beiictits which are deriv-1 A1';.,11'0,0 ";at ,3te i c. iir i i .Subscriber tor last year' bted to the . .... . "uuji i uli iu i.iTii. i s :i I'ff in ii r Cd Irom ItO lHr iivm. ni.l...:n ... r , . ' - , J ; in mc:sl' come lonvaru arm settle the "1, ,l,; iiuniuers oi muiailOCS are same, as I intend to go on to the North continually nockmu, lv tens, and by the last of August next. hy hundreds, into Ohio. Their fecumlity is proverbial. They arc wurse than drones to society, and th(T already swarm in our land J hke locusts. This; ssfntn nV ilino-: calls loudly for logislatiyc interfe rence; ami whilst the Colonization Society rids us of a few, the Le gislature ought to devise some mode to prevent the neonle of this State from sullerin-under nem Iv! ,n ,c,,lliC n ii. J ready monev mi uiu im,uu IJIIIUIIU.'S illlll UClL'ie- rious effects consequent upon slave-holding. FRANCIS CAMPBELL. Tarborcr, 2Gtii July, 1S27. 50 Notice. J V virtue of a Deed of Trust, execut ed to the Subscriber by Zachariah Munchausen Story. Tn these frce times lor news, Editors are ''p' to catcli at any thing in the ;Viy of the marvellous nccord-H,-'ly we extract tho following ;10,o the Fredericksburg Arena: "lu the summer of lu24, seve ,VI (i the citizens of Havana miss s m.iny of their little children, llifl the impression was general 'rd tlu-y liMl been kidnapped, ;,,ut Id the plantations in the j!ll:-nr. The attention of the po-ii;:- u ascalh;d to the subject, but 111 vigilance ol the constituted tiiomies was not able to effect a scovery. A little negro g'nl was ut iy hcr mistress to a cook WjPj at which were sold meat Diffh in Salisbury, on the ITlh ult. Alfred Macay, Esq. in the ?)2d year of his aire. His death was produced by a largo draught of laudanum, taken by him in u moment of the deepest depression of spirits; an act of rashness in itself, over which his friends mourn, and which they pity and forgive, as having proceeded from an excess of that sensibility, which, properly regulated, is the parent ol much virtue. Car. Ambrose, bearing date the 2d of Janua ry 1S27, and duly recorded in the Clerk's Office of Kdgecombe County Court, I shall, for certain purposes there- pose to public sale, for efore the door of the Court-house in Tarborough, on Tues day the 2Sth August, (being Court week,) a valuable The tide to said negro is indisputable, but as Trustee, I shall only convey such a right as is vested in mu by the terms of the deed. SALOMON PLNI)EJi TV. Tarboro', July ."I, 1S27. 50 FOR THE FttEE PRESS. NIGHT THOUGHTS. The sun is hid behind the western hill, The night is dark, the bustling world is still; The dav is nast. tho race in E is run, The die is cast, and the deed indeed is rlrnf Now contention o'er, noisy tumult's dumb, And awful silence reigns profoundly grave and glum; Gabble's tongue is mute, abuse and bick ering's o'er, And nothing now I hear, but the bousy sleeper's snore: "c. n ... I . v-" , - - " ' usages, iSLQ. remarkable) Argument is hush'd and vituperation s 'heir delicacy. The shop had! dumb Qiianky Academy. RESULT of Ihe EXAMINATION HUM UH lilt; v.JU) llli, illIU n.tJlll, illiU of the Exhibition, on the 26th of July. Previous! the names of all the Scho lars were placed on class papers, accord ing to the "bchool Kejnster. Weekly through the session, on examination of a class and marking mistakes, the mem ber having the fewest had been entered as first, and so the scholar found to have been oftenest, or the greatest number of weeks first, was placed head on the class paper, and others according to their num ber of weekly marks. By the Register, tjien, Frances J. Pierce was head in the Union Primer, Child's Instructor, and Catechism, 2d class. Mary W. Pierce in Murray's Spelling-book and Watt's work for children. Wm. Smith in 2d Sncllinsj-book class. Armarilles Whit- A v ' field in Brown's Questions 1st class, and Colburn's Arithmetic 4th class. Tho mas 1). Purnell in Arithmetic 3d class. George W. Sledge in English Grammar 2d class. Henry I. Eelbeck in Col- ! burn's Arithmetic 3d elm Daniel B reading 2d class. Pleasant Crump in reading 3d class. John R. Drake in English Grammar 3d class. Rebecca Bishop penmanship 2d class. Wm. S. Pierce in the general spelling class. Wm. Carstaphcn in Ingersoli's Murray 1st class, and geography 2d class. Tho mas M. Pierce in the highest reading class, or that reading and criticising out of Goodrich's History of the United States; also, in penmanship 1st class, Pike's and Colburn's Arithmetic 1st classes; in History of the United States, Adams' Geography, and in Latin; the grammar 2d class, JEsop's Fables, and Hitoria Sacra. James M. Turner in speaking. James R. T. Jelks in gene ral grammar class. Thomas Jones in natural philosophy and speaking. Tho mas Moore in Latin Grammar 1st class, and Cicero's Orations. Henry M. Pur nell in Uiri Roma?, Latin Introduction, and in general class English grammar. Marcus Lafayette Bishop in Smiley's and tColburn's Arithmetics 2d classes, in Parmelee's Scripture Questions, Speaking Dialogues, in Composition, History, Horace, Greek Grammar, and Greek Testament. Through the days of examination the same method of noting the relative me rits of the scholars was pursued, as that' mentioned tor ascertaining their weekly standing. The individuals at the head of their respective classes retained their pre-eminence with the following varia tions: in the Child's Instructor, Wm. Smith attained the first place. In Watts' Works for Youth, Armarilles Whitfield. In the general spelling class, Marcus L. Bishop. In English grammar 2d class, Henry Eelbeck. In general grammar class, Thomas Moore. In astrouomy 2d class, Wm. Carstaphen; and 3d class, James P. Pierce. In History of the U nited States, Marcus L. Bishop. In Colburn's Arithmetic 3d class, Richard B. Parker. In Parmelee's Scripture Questions, Thomas Jones. As a Committee for adjudging the re lative merits of the specimens in writing, Messrs. James Marshall and Thomas M. Scott, out of near forty of fine-hand ones, placed that of Marcus L. Bishop's first; out of the same number of text-hand, that of Thomas Jones first; and of coarse hand, thereof Thomas M. Pierce, Wm. D. Purnell, and Geo. W. Sledge were considered superior. Messrs. James Grant, John A. Jelks, and John Gee, as a Committee, adjudged the extract of George W. Sledge the best, and the rest approved; the transla tion of James R. T. Jelks the best, and the rest good; the original compositions ot Marcus Jj. isishop and 1 nomas Jones best, the rest approved. In the report of Thursday mornina: each scholar's progress and conduct, on presenting himself to the spectators, was announced according to a daily account thereof, during the session, by register ing srood, ordinary!, indifferent or bad: and then making out weeklyaccounts and combining all into an aggregate, for the term of 150 schooldays. The following individuals stood unexceptionable oral most so in both progress and conduct, or with few or no delinquencies marked against them, viz. Marcus Jafayette Bishop, Henry M. Purnell, Thomas M. Pierce, James M. Turner, James R. T. Jelks, Thomas Jones, and a few others. Mr. James Grant and Col. Nevill Gee acted as a Committee, to pass upon the performance of the youth on the day of Exhibition. They made the following report, viz. out of thirty-seven single pieces all approved except five: six pro nounced good, and seven very good, viz. those of John M. Pierce, Wm. R. Da vie, Willis Arrinston. Thomas Moore James R. T. Jelks, Henry M. Purnell, and 1 nomas Jones. Of the eleven dia logues, all the performers approved some of the performances were declared good, 3nd others very good, as that of Marcus I.alayette Bishop. The next term opens on the Gth of August. It is earnestlr requested that all about to enter would do so as early in the term as possible. RICE B. PIERCE, JAMES BISHOP, JOHN PURNELL July 30? 1527,
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