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Tarborough, (Edgecombe County, X. C.) Saturday, May 18, 1833.
Vol. IX Xo 38.
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Slavery, c. "Straws shew which
wnv the wind blows." Notwithstanding
the cant of curtain fanatics in the non
slavehojdiug States on the subject of
slavery, ami in relation to the degrada
tion of the free blacks, it is certain that
there is as little disposition among the
white people of those States as there is
with us to break down the broad barri
ers which divide the two races, as bv an
impassable gulf. One or two years ago,
for example, an effort was made toestab:
lish a school ut New Haven, Connecticut,
for ihe purpose of educating the blacks,
hut it was put down by the voice. of the
people of that place; and the New York
Journal of Commerce informs us that an
attempt to open a similar school iu Can
terbury, in the same State, has met with
a like fate. The New York Evening
Post says,- on this subject: "A few hair
brained zealots may go about preaching
the doctrine that the free States ouht to
interfere to oblige the South to abolish
the institution of slavery; but the mass of
the community arc steadily and immova
bly against the project. Right or wrong,
the prejudices which separate the white
and colored races have lost nothing in the
northern and middle States, but have ra
ther increased in strength during the fifty
years of our national independence.
Several of our States have passed laws
against the ingress of Africans, whether
bond or free, from other States. Ohio
refuses an asylum to emancipated ne
groes. In Illinois, an emigrant negro is
seized and whipped, and the castigation
is repeated from day to day until he is
whipped out of the State. There is
scarcely a public journal, from the Poto
mac northward, that does not reprobate
the scheme of the emancipation party."
It is somewhat singular, that whilst the
respectable northern newspapers are thus
denouncing the Abolition scheme, a
press in Virginia should be found advo
cating their views, and endeavoring to
extend their circulation. Yet such is the
fact. We allude to the Rockbridge In
telligencer, which is as ultra iu its senti
ments as the "Emancipator" itself.
Lynchburg Virginian.
Presentments, We lately published
the presentment of a Georgia Grand Ju
ry against Mr. Forsyth, one of the Sena
tors in Congress from that Stale. We
have since seen another from Newton
county, iu the same State, wherein the
Grand Jury present Gen. Jackson as a
nuisance, and the "enforcing bill" as a
grievance and in which INI r. Forsyth
and Mr. Wayne are very roughly hand
led: the former gentleman, they say, hav
ing "but just dropped the pea fowl plumes
of republicanism and exhibited himself in
the true jackdaw character of federal
ism." Tlje pea fowl plumes of republi
canism! there's a figure for you!
Alexandria Gaz.
rope and Americn: nrwl no iL
gathered by us innrHftSna ,.r...ii.. ...
... . ,v" "iiuuuiiy, me
proportion will be in all probability for
j.o v.Ai.ciiuing in our favor.
Libel Suit.-TUc Pennsylvania Intel
ligencer, in noticing the trial of T. Fenn,
editor of the Telegraph, for publishing a
ibel on John Zearing, says: The jurv
found a verdict of "not guilty," but ai the
same time decreed that the man, whom
ihey pronounced not guilty, should nay
the cost! J
The earliest precedent we have of de
cisions at all akin to this principle is, we
believe, recorded in the History of New
York, by Mr. Knickerbocker. The case
was that of a civil suit, or action for debt.
The worthy magistrate on taking up the
statement.of accounts as submitted by the
parties, and poising them, one in each
hand, found them to he of the same spe
cific gravity, or equally "balanced," in the
literal sense. He therefore decided with
much judgment that there was no cause
of action on either side, and ordered the
constable to pay the costs. Bait. Pat.
Love of Notoriety. The Philadelphia
Gazette published lately a marriage be
tween J. S. P. and S. A. W. Air. P.
immediately made a public statement
that no such marriage had taken place,
or was likely to occur. The editor of
the paper, in publishing his letter, says:
"We adopted the precautionary measure
of securing the name of the person who
brought the notice to us. It happens to
be the identical Miss S. A. W. herself,
who brought us the fabulous account of
her nuptials."
American Gold.U is estimated bv
the Superintendent of the United States'
Mint, that one half of the gold found in
his country, is coined at home; and that
the amount of last year's production was
a million and a quarter of dollars. This
is estimated to be equal to one-sixth pari
of the entire quantity produced in Eu-
Manvfacturcs. The Boston Courier
says: A merchant left at our office last
week, for the inspection of the curious, a
piece of India cotton, as a specimen of
what was sold at auction in 1823, at 85
cents a yard by the bale. It would nut
now bring 10 cents a yard.
Destructive Fires. The New York
City Motel, a vast structure, occupying a
whole square, o stories high, took lire on
the morning of the 25th ultimo, and be
fore the flames could be subdued, the up
per and attic stories were destroyed.
The body of the edifice was saved. The
damage sustained by the building, inde
pendently of the great destruction of fur
niture, is estimated at not less than
20,000 dollars. An incident occurred
during the fire of painful and thrilling in
terest. In attempting to check the pro
gress of the fire, two individuals had as
cended the upper story, immediately un
der the roof, and before they were aware
of their danger, the flames invested them
on every side, and precluded their des
cent by the stair case. The building
was so high that no ladder could be rais
ed to relieve them, nor even near enough
to throw a rope by which they might de
scend. In this perilous situation on
the verge of the roof, and the raging ele
ment making frightful advances towards
them, they had for some time the melan
choly prospect of being crushed by the
fall of the burning timbers around them,
or of perishing in the flames. Long lad
ders were spliced; but for some moments
all exertions to reach them were in vain,
as the ladders could not be raised to the
cornice, and the persons exposed were
upon the roof, which was burning all a
round them having emerged through a
dormer window? At this perilous mo
ment, when hope had .almost fled, a
young man, by an extraordinary effort,
threw a rope from one of the upper win
dows to the roof. Providentially it stuck
fast, and the genllemen were enabled to
creep along the gutter, seize the rope, and
fasten it to the dormer casements. They
then successively let themselves down un
til they could be reached and taken in at
an uooer window. Their situation had
been watched with great anxiety, and their
coolness and intrepidity, during the trying
moments of their peril, was hailed by the
liveliest acclamations of the spectators,
the moment their safely was insured.
Another dreadful conflagration occur
red in New York on the 27th ultimo; by
which at least one hundred houses were
destroyed and five hundred families
thrown out of a home! One woman lost
her life.
The British American Hotel in the ci
ty of Montreal was burnt down on the
24th ultimo. Here aUo 4 gentlemen and
between 20 and 30 ladies were almost
miraculously saved from imminent peril.
They were in a room four stories high4,
when the flames burst suddenly in the
room with an indescribable fierceness,
and left 'them no means of escaoe. At
this critical moment, while they were ex
pecting nothing but instant death, a lad
der was raised to one of the front win
dows, on which they all descended in
safely. Raleigh Star.
Divorces. The Legislature of Geor
gia, at its last session, passed acts divor
cing 27 couples. ib.
(CrOn the night of the 10ih inst. a
horse drover named Baldock, stopped at
a house on Sassafras river, Delaware: In
the course of the evening, he discovered
some suspicious conduct, which induced
him to get his horse and proceed: he had
proceeded but a short distance, when the
man of the house caught hold of his
horse's bridle and demanded his money;
when Mr. B. drew out a pistol and in
stantly shot him.
GThc Presbytery of Carlisle, (says
the Carlisle Herald of the 23d April) af
ter being in session from the 8th until
the 17th inst. the whole of which time was
taken up with the case of the Rev. George
Duffield, was at last brought to a close
by the adoption of a resolution, synoni
mous to an acquittal, to wit: that he be
"warned not to propagate opinions cal
culated to impugn the standards of the
Presbyterian Church."
C7Capt. Paddock, of the whale ship
Catharine of Salem, Mass. arrived at Val
paraiso and landed in a deranged state
of mind: went into a store, shot two
clerks; went into the street, shot a Span
iard, and wounded three others, when he
was apprehended, tried and sentenced
to be shot.
Ol?A bull belonging to Henry Wheel
er, of Nelson, N. H. lately found a pocket
book containing 61 which he swallow
ed: He was killed, and the money recov
ered without injury.
ETMr. Shadrack Husted, of Lyme,
Ohio, being choked by a piece of meat,
gave a sharp suck to one or his sons push
it down, in doing which his throat was so
much injured as to cause his death.
Imposition on Courts of Justice. A
fellow lately confined at Hackensac, N.
J. on a charge of Perjury, just before his
trial came on, as afterwards appeared,
feigned having been afflicted with a par
alytick stroke which disabled one side,
and so well did he disguise it, that he was
carried into court, while there lay on a
bed, and during the trial affected to faint,
and appeared to be on the brink of the
grave: his case excitedt'ne commisseration
of the court and audience, and the court
set him at liberty upon the payment of a
nominal fine of 85: He was conveyed out
of town in a wagon, and was shortly af
ter seen walking alone, and laughing at
the trick he had'played.
At Newark, N. J. a man named James
Springer with another person was appre
hended for passing counterfeit paper: He
plead, in his examination that he was
only in company with the other as an
agent of one of the New-York police
officers; with a view of discovering and
detecting more concerned in the busi
ness: he moved to postpone the trial in
order to obtain proof of that fact, which
was refused, and he produced a letter
from the police officer confirming hid
statement, but being engaged in court in
New-York could not attend,. &c. Tho
court, owing to the prausibility of his
statement, fined him 825. The letter
proved to be forged, & he being discharg
ed could not be arrested again upon it.
(ITWe learn from Hartford, that an
insurrection took place among the con
victs in the State prison at Weathers
field two or three nigh.ts since. A des
perate fellow had contrived to get loose?
from his shackles, and to release two or
three others, when they attempted to
force their way out. The first step was
to destroy the life of the man on watc h
who was unarmed, and was instantly
killed. The noise which was occasioned,
alarmed the woman who had the over
sight of the female department, and she
rallied the guard, who immediately sup
pressed the insurgents, and secured them
in their cells. N. Y. Daily Adv.
Accidental Death. On Saturday eve
ning, one of the guards of the U. S. Mail,
from Philadelphia for New York, was un
fortunately sht at Bristol, in a singular
manner. The pistols had been placed
at the bottom of the carriage, with a mail
bag over them. When the stage arriv
ed at Bristol, the guard, Mr. George Hil
son, or Washington, our informant not
being certain which, took hold of the
bag to remove it to the other stage, and
as he raised it, one. of the pistols was
discharged by the motion. The young
man received the contents in Ins head.
A ball passed through his cheek, direct
ly upwards through the roof of mouth,
and lodged. Two buckshot were found
in his forehead, and another in the lower
part of his face. He was yet living when
our informant left Bristol, and we un
derstand that Dr. MeClellan left the
city immediately, to see him. The un
fortunate young man bears an excellent
character, and is much esteemed by his
employer. Pennsylvania!!.
Danks. Eight banks have been incor
porated during the recent session of the
Legislature of New York making an in
creased aggregate capital of 82,200,000.
A Veteran. An old Revolutionary
worthy of Chatham County, who visits
this place regularly to receive his pen
sion, and who is now in the 77ih year
of his age, performed his last journey
during the past week, a distance of 72
miles, on foot, and was but two days in
accomplishing it. When we saw him, he
was about to start on his return home in
the same way. Fayetteville Obs.
Characteristic. A gentleman, resid
ing in Beaver, Pa. related to us, a few
days ago, an anecdote which pleased us
much. At the time of the late distur
bance in Economy, the people near that
village collected in considerable numbers
to preserve order and to suppress any vio
lence which might be attempted. Among
those thus assembled were some, known
not to be very friendly to the Economites,
and yet, these persons were as ready and
willing to interfere as were the warmest
friends of Mr. Rapp and .the Society.
The assailants were much surprised at
this, and some of them exclaimed Why
do you take the side of the Economies;
we know that you do not like them? "It
is true " replied the men thus appealed
to "It is true that we do not like the So
ciety, but we take the side of the late.
The. Germans could not understand this
kind of abstraction. They expected
that the yeomanry of the surrounding
country would make the matter entirely
personal, and take siaes, according to
their respective predilections. Gaz.