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Tarborough, (Edgecombe County, .V. C.J Saturday, Jlpvil 27, 1833.
Vol. IXJfo 35.
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fi?At the last term of Burke Superior
Court, says the Salisbury Journal, Tisdale
Spencer was convicted of manslaughter
for killing James Murphy. Ral. Star.
Great shot. The Charlotte Journal
stales that Mr. Dan. Moore, of Mecklen
burg county, a few days ago, killed four
teen wild turkies at one shot; one of
which weighed 25 lbs. nett, and all of
which made an aggregate nett weight of
ii37 lbs. lie must have inherited Capt.
Bobstay's old Blue Trigger. ib.
Atrocious Murder. On the morning
of the 31st ult. two young men at Nasff
ville, Tenn. by the names of Michael
Hoover of that city, and William Pryor,
from Clarksville, were found in the room
of the former individual, dangerously
wouuded. Pryor died in a few hours af
ter, and Hoover's recovery was consider
ed very doubtful. An investigation into
the facts connected with this atrocious
outrage, led to the suspicion that Thom
as Hill, a youth of about 19 or 20 years
of age, had committed it. Hill made his
escape, and several persons were in pur
suit of him. ib.
Memphis, Ten. March 20. On Mon
day last, Underwood, the pilot of the
steamer Scotland, was arrested at our
wharf, for having shot 11 years since,
a Mr. Davidson, of the Western District.
Young Mr. Davidson was the onlv wit
ness that appeared against the accused,
upon whose testimony he was commuted
to Jail, to await his final trial. Times.
What next? A new College has jusi
been chartered by the Legislature of In
diana, to be called the "Christian Col
lege," alike open to males "and females,
with power to confer degrees. In ihe
female department, they have established
the degrees of Doctress of Natural Sci
ence, of English Literature, Belles Let
tres, Languages and the Fine Arts so
that in a few years, Doctresses of the
Sciences will be made, as commonly as
our medical schools turn out doctors of
medicine. There is something radically
wrong in all this; indeed had we not the
fear of the ladies before our eyes, we
would say, that the idea of their partici
pation in these learned distinctions, is
supremely ridiculous. And while remar
king on this subject, there is another con
nected with it, in some degree, on which
we would say a word or two. We allude
to the practice of teaching the learned
languages to young ladies, which we un
derstand has become quite fashionable in
some of our northern seminaries. We
are sure that the early years of the sex
might be more suitably and profitably
employed, even in cases in which real
erudition should 'be the result, h has
been well said, that education ought to
bear relation to the state of society, in
which the individual is destined to live.
That which awaits the American females
of the present day, is in no manner suit
ed to the display of scholarship on their
part, and in fact, requires the devotion of
meir youth to the acquisition of other ac
complishments. The paucity of the in
stances, in which any thing more than a
smattering of the ancient tongues, is like
ly to be obtained, and - thn. nim
ainty of even that superficial knowledge
being neglected and lost in after life,
form additional objections, upon which
we need not dwell. Raleigh Reg.
Important Legal Decision... Court
of Appeals ot South Carolina has unani
mously reversed the decision of Judre
Bay requiring an oath of allfgianceto
the Mate, in addition to the oath of fide
lity to the Federal Constitution, as a con
dition of admission to citizenship. It
will be recollected what a handle was
made of Judge Bay's decision, by the
Mercury, and the Nullifies generally, du
ring the last State elections, to persuade
adopted citizens that their primary alle
giance was due to the State. It was in
vain that we contended, that the oath of
allegiance to ;he State was required with
out warrant of law that it was an inter
polation into the law of naturalization -the
Mercury could not be convinced, be
cause it would not. The highest judicial
tribunal in our State has now hmvevpr
settled, beyond further cavil, that foreign-
ers may now become citizens of our
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greai anu glorious Kepublic, without
uther pledge of their allegiance than m
the Constitution of the U. Slates in
which, we readily admit, is implied and
included, fidelity to each and every State
in the Union, in which they may happen
to reside, in all matters not conflicting
with the "supreme law of the land" to
which they have pledged their faith by a
solemn appeal to heaven. It may also
be remarked, that as the Appeal Court
has now unanimously decided that a for
eigner, by simply taking an oath to sup
port ihe Federal Constitution, may be
come "a citizen of the United States," it
is time that the Nullilicrs should begin to
suspect that "there is such a thing, strict
ly speaking, as a citizen of the United
States." The Court of Appeals consist
ed of Judges David Johnson, O'Neale
and Harper. Courier.
CT'The New York Standard says:
The encounter which enlivened Wall
street yesterday, has excited so much in-,
terest that we suppose we must give
some account of it, and have made the
necessary inquiries. Mr. Webb of the
Courier and Enquirer having in his pa
per charged Mr. Leggeit of ihe Evening
Post wiih asserting a wilful falsehood, the
latter demanded that it should be retract
ed, and that being refused, satisfaction of
another kind was required, which also
was refused. Mr. Leggetl then meeting
him in the street, called him a "cow
ard and a scoundrel," and spat in his
face; upon which Mr. Webb struck
two or three blows at him with a stout
stick, and that being wrested away after
a running fight across the street, some
fisticuffs were interchanged, and then
the bystanders separated them. Neither
was much hurt, though each had a blow
or two in the face; but the general opin
ion seemed to be that Leggett was rap
idly getting the advantage when they
were separated.
Atrocious Murder. Passengers from
Bordentown, N. J. in the steamboat yes
terday morning, brought the thrilling in
telligence that a most singular, unlooked
for and inhuman murder had been perpe
trated in that place, by a young man na
med Joel Clough, upon the person of 'Mrs.
Mary Hamilton, an estimable young wi
dow lady, consort of the late Dr. Hamil
ton. It appears that Clough had been
for some time a boarder in the house ot
Mahlon Longstreth, Mr. Hamilton's fa
ther, at the corner of the Main street ani
the road leading to Trenton, where Mrs.
H. also resided; in the course of which
time, Clough had formed an ardent ai
tachment to Mrs. H. and had repeatedly
offered to wed her. She in the meat
time, however, had favored a rival suitor,
a highly respectable citizen of Borden
town, and it became rumored that ere
long they would be united. This was
too much for the unfortunate Clough.
About twelve days ago, he left Borden
town and went to New York, returned
on Thursday, and on Saturday feigned
sickness, retired to his room, and thus
prevailed upon the lady to enter his apart
ment, under the expectation of adminis
tering relief; when he suddenly sprung
up, seized her by the arm, drew a dagger
and threatened her with instant death if
she refused to marry him. She did re
fuse; and he instantly stabbed her; and
before her screams brought assistance,
he had inflicted eleven wounds upon her,
each of which would have probably kill
ed her! A gentleman hearing her cries
rushed up stairs, just as she had broke
from the demon's grasp, and was de
scending them, the blood gushed from
her mouth and wounds! She fell in his
arms, and was thus carried into the par
lor below, fche lived about a minute, du
ring which she told her mother who had
wounded her, and why it was done, and
died. On examination, it was found that
the weapon had entered her heart three
times; seven times in her side breaking a
rib, and once in the left arm, which was
also broken.
Mr. Clough, we learn, has parents or
other relations, residing somewhere in
New England, and has hitherto bore -an
unsullied and amiable character. He
has been an extensive contractor for
stone work on rail roads, and was recent
ly engaged on the Camden and Amboy
rait road at Bordentown. After he com
mitted the rash act, he swallowed a quan
tity of laudanum he had prepared, with
the hope of destroying his own life; but a
medical process soon frustrated that part
of his purpose, and he was secured and
committed to Mount Holly jail, to await
his trial at the next Court. ThiL Inq.
Rail road accident. The Baltimore
Patriot says: We learn that the passen
gers in the train of cars yesterday, on
the Newcastle and Frencluown Rail
Road, on their way from Philadelphia,
were most completely cowed. The par
ticulars, as they have been communica
ted to us by one of the passengers, are
these: About 8 miles from Frenchtown,
one of those stupid animals, enemies to
rail road travelling, was in a ditch unob
served by the Engineer the car going
at the rate of about twelve miles an hour.
The cow sprung from the ditch on the
track of the road, as the train of cars ap
proached the engineer, as soon as he
perceived the luckless animal, endeavor
ed to reverse the engine, but in vain! it
was too late one victim must be sacri
ficed and endanger the lives of about
two hundred and fifty passengers, to
leach the rail road company caution for
the future the poor cow was knocked
down by the engine, and dragged about
sixty yards by the ash-pan. The engine
then passed over the cow she was then
thrown across the rails, and passed over
by every car in the train: the engine, to
gether with two cars immediately attach
ed to it, kept the track, but the third was
thrown off the rail in that position the
.train was drawn for a considerable dis
tance, till the frame holding the iron bar
which connects the cars together, uras
broken to pieces, and thus released the
cars The engine, with two ears, passed
on for -about a hundred yards before it
was stopped. One of the ears was bro
ken from the train and thrown into a
ditch against a bank, and thus saved the
iives of the passengers. As good luck
would have it, no one was injured in the
east degree the whole catastrophe was
o sudden that the passengers were not
j ware of their critical situation before
they were apprised of their safety.
C7The Philadelphia Herald says: We
earn that a person on horseback wa3 run
down on Saturday last on the German-
town rail road. It appears the horse re
fused to move to his master's bidding, or
was refractory, snd not getting out of the
way, the locomotive struck him, and tur
ned him over several times. The unfor
tunate rider falling on the line of one of
the rails, was run over by the car and
killed instantaneously.
Steamboat accident. The Cincinnati
Gazette states that the steamboat Keap
er had sunk in the Mississippi, about six
ty miles above New Orleans, and that 15
persons had lost their lives.
Horrid Murder. The Canton Ohio
Repository of the 5th inst. says: We have
this week to record a most horrid mur
der, and the first ever committed in the
county. On Tuesday morning last, Mrs.
Mary Bachlle, wife of Christian Bachtle,
of this township, was found murdered in
her bed. The act was commuted dur
ing the night previous, and by her un
feeling husband. A jury of inquest was
called by A. Lind, Esq. coroner of this
county, who on examining the body,
found a large cut in her head, which frac
tured the scull, and one of her ears was
nearly cut off. From the evidence given
before the jury it appeared, that on Mon
day Bachlle was working for his mother-in-law,
who lives near his residence; that
he left there to go home about 4 oVIek,
in company with his wife and their three
small children, apparently on friendly
terms; that he is an habitually intempe
rate man, and kept whiskey in his house;
that he drank on an average more than a
quart a day; and when drunk was of a vi
olent and vindictive temper. Bachtle
fled, but was pursued, overtaken near
Wooster, and on Wednesday night safely
lodged in the jail of this county. Since
his apprehension, we learn, he has con
fessed the murder; but as the subject will
undergo a legal investigation, we forbear
saying any thing further on the subject.
QOn Monday, the 8th instant, at Ed
ward S. Jones's Long Point plantation,
in Jones county, a large wolf was caught
by Mr. John R. Chesnut. Having suf
fered no other injury than a fracture, in
flicted by the steel trap, the valorous rap
tor spared his life, .and conveyed him
home for the gratification of the curious.
From the day on which, he was taken, to
ihe following Sunday, when our infor
mant left that neighborhood, he sullenly
refused-all kinds of food that were offer
ed, showing a desire for nothing but lib
erty, water, and the delicate fingers of
his keeper, on the latter of which he made
a partially successful attempt. His in
fluence among the sheep may be inferred
from the fact that he weighed eighty
three pounds. Newbern Sent.
Blooded Horses. Why is it that our
Farmers neglect their own manifest inte
rest in not paying more attention to the
raising of fine blooded horses! The fact
is notorious, that one of this description
can be raised at the same cost, with that
of the meanest scrub. Yet the first will
command at any time, and in almost any
place, from 100 to 500 dollars, whilst it
is difficult to sell the other at more than
from 40 to 75 dollars. But beauty and
value out of sight, and yet the blooded
horse is still the best for the farmer,
tradesman or gentleman: He is more
hardy, lives longer, is more healthy, and
more useful in any capacity he may be
placed than the common horse.
Ohio Repository.
CTMr. Wm. Carver, one of the oldest
and most experienced farriers of Phila
delphia, who has wr'tten many newspa
per articles and pamphlets against cruel
ty to horses, says: No worse is worth so
much by twenty-five per cent, with his
tail cufoff."
C?A wager is a fool's argument.