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Tarborough, (Edgecombe County, X. C.J Saturday, June
, 1833.
Vol IX Xo 43.
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From the Warrcnton Reporter.
Shocco Springs. This pleasant and
delightful relreat is I understand' now
open for the reception of company under
the superintendence of its former occu
pant, Mrs. Ann Johnson, whose qualifi
cations are undisputed, and whose knowl
edge of the business, together with her
desire to please, renders her house an
agreeable retreat. The Springs are sit
uated nine miles south of Warrenton, a
delightful village. The sick can find re
lief in the pure and balming influence of
the water, the efficacy of which has been
tested by ths most experienced judges.
The old may enjoy themselves in quie
tude and contentment, while the young
and gay can participate in the pleasure
of dancing and other amusements calcu
lated to instruct and amuse. From a
personal acquaintance with Mrs. John
son, I feel fully justified in recommend
ing her house as a pleasant and comfort
able retreat. A Visiter.
Editorial Change. Burton Craige,
Esq. has relinquished the editorial
management of the Western Carolinian;
which is hereafter to be conducted by
John Beard, Jr. Esq. In assuming the
editorial duties of the establishment,
Mr. Beard issues a well written address
to his patrons, declaring the principles
by which he will be guided. He is in
favor of "a strict adherence to the plain
intent of the Constitution; and, on th
subject of State policy, he observes, that
he is decidedly in favor of internal im
provements, and of a system of ciemeu
tary schools for the extension of educa
tion." Raleigh Star.
me orancti ot the Dnr en R.nb m
Georgia, has beeu convicted of the charge
d embezzlement, and sentenced to th.,
f euitentiary for six years.
The Indians. Cani.Thomoson. nf th.
steamer Arkansas, which arrived yester
day from cantonment Gibson, inform
that there has been a conflict between
the Pawnees and the Osages, about thir
ty six miles from that place, in which the
former were defeated. The Paiv.P-
entered the settlement of the Osae tribe
tiuu sioie away some horses, which, it is
upposed, was the occasion of the battle.
New Orleans Courier.
Infidelity in the United States. We.
were not before aWare that the immnr.il
& infidel principles of llobert Owen and
Ianny Wright had made such progress
in this country, as to be supported bv
twenty periodical publications. This is
a startling fact, and one which requires
of the friends of virtue, piety, and good
order, to look about them and see wheth
er they have not a duty to perform.
44 Vice is a monster of such frightful mien,
As to be hated, needs but to be seen."
Let, then, these doctrines be stript of
their false coloring; let their inevitable
tendency be clearly understood; let them
stand out to public view in all their na
tive deformity, and we trust there will
be found a strength of mnr;d nr'mr'ml,.
in this country sufficient to starve them
out of it. Salem Observer.
Cholera. After a lapse of a fortnight,
in which no case occurred, this disease
reappeared in Nashville, Ten. on the
29th ult. in a fatal form. Upwards of 20
persons were reported dead on the next
day. It is said to be making dreadful
ravages amongst the negroes on the
plantations in the vicinity of New Or
leans. Upwards of one hundred have
died on one plantation. On the 31st
ult. it was raging in Maysville, Ky. to
to an alarming extent, attacking and
sweeping off many of the most temper
ate and exemplary citizens; and the city
is literally depopulated; all who could
procure carriages, wagons, carts or hor
ses having left it. Accounts from Whee
ling to the 1st tilt, slate that the pesti
lence was making fearful devastations
at that place, seizing indiscriminately,
as its victims, the old and young,the rich
and poor. A letter from that place suys
"death surrounds us on all sides; busi
ness is at a complete stand; and it is said
by the people here that it is worse than
it has ever been in any other place
thro'out the United States according to
the number of inhabitants." The dis
ease has made its appearance at Mount
neassnt ana ot. utairsville. and is
sprendiug through other parts of Ohio.
It has als) appeared at Montgomery,
Alabama, having been carried there by
the steam boat Sun, from Mobile. A
negro, who visited the boat, was attack
ed and died after a shoft illness. ib.
G7A Law of Virginia allows the
retailing of spintous liquors at "proper
places," in the different counties. In one
of the counties the magistrates have de
cided that there is no proper place within
their jurisdiction for such a purpose.
Trial of Clough. It is said in the
Philadelphia papers, that on Friday, 7ih
inst. in the case of Clough, the mur
derer of Mrs. Hamilton, after on hour's
absence, the Jury returned at 2 o'clock
into Court win the verdict, which was
Guilty of Murder in the first degree.
A correspondent of the Philadelphia
Gazette gives the following particulars:
Gentlemen The scene is closed the
die is cast the jury have pronounced
Clough to be guilty, and I am sure a ver
dict was never returned in more complete
'accordance with public opinion. At 12 to
07Edwin R. Harford, late Cashier of
day Chief Justice Hornblower delivered
his charge to the jury; about two the
ringing of the court house bell announced
the jury were ready to come in with their
verdict. The rush to obtain seats was
really dreadful, the ladies continued to
attend even to the close, in as great num
hers as ever. Silence being called, the
foreman of the jury pronounced the an
ticipated word which sealed the fate of
the culprit; a murmur ran through the
vast concourse thai thronged tin? build
ing; I turned my eyes towards Clough,
but his countenance shewed no change
whatever his inflexible features gave no
evidence of his being the least interested
in the result. His counsel remaining
silent, the Chief Justice demanded of the
prisoner if he had any thing to say why
sentence of death should not be passed
upon him. Clough made no reply,
whereupon Judge Hornblower addressed
him, reciting the most prominent part
of the testimony when he was -interrupted
by Clough, who commenced an
attack upon all the evidence, both for
and against him. He said that he dis
claimed every plea of insanity that he
stnbbed Mrs. Hamilton deliberately,
knowing what he did; that he intended
to kill her, but that after he had stabbed
her the first three or four times he lost all
recollection of what he was doing.
He then paused, and the Judge contin
ued Clnutrh:arain interrupted him, and
commenced an appeal to the mercy of
the court, and the sympathy ot the audi
ence. Several ladies fainted away and
were carried out of court, and it was not
until near 5 o.clock, that the sentence
was finished. Clough was recommitted
to prison, where he is so closely ironed
as to place the commission of suicide
entirely out of his power; as some fears
had been entertained that he would make
away with himself, in case of being found
guilty.
Clough was sentenced to be hung on
Friday, the 26ih July next.
Trial of Mr. Avery. The closing
scene of this remarkable trial is said by
those who witnessed it to possess sur
passing interest. After the Court had
re-assembled to receive the verdict, an
interval occured of ten or fifteen minutes,
ou account of the absence of the prison
er's counsel; and although the court
house was crowded to its utmost capaci
ty the audience preserved a profound si
lence and all were fixed in a gaze of ea
ger and intense curiosity. Mr. Avery
himself, says the Editor of the Boston
Advocate, "during this trying moment
of suspense and uncertainty, when his
life or death hung on the breath of the
jury, maintained the same steadiness of
nerve, and immobility of countenance,
which distinguished him throughout the
whole trial. The wonder is, that, inno
cent or guilty, he has been able to sus
tain this awful pressure with such forti
tude and equanimity. At one period
when the Attorney General was minute
ly describing, in thrilling language, the
probable mode in which the fatal deed
was done, the prisoner fixed his large
eyes upon him, and scarcely moved them
till the fearful picture was finished."
After the verdict was recorded, and the
Attorney General observed as a matter
of course the defendant was now entire
ly discharged, he became suddenly but
slightly affected, and a tear started to
his eye. He passed his right hand de
liberately under his glasses, and held it
over his eyes for a moment, and in the
next, with great composure received the
congratulations of his friends who were
present.
It is stated in the Boston Atlas, on the
authority of one of the. jury, that ten out
of twelve found no difficulty in coming to
a verdict of not guilty; the other two were
opposed to it for some time. All the
jury, except these two, were citizens of
Newport. On the question of suicide,
it is understood, the jury vere divided
about equally in their opinions; but on
the general question of his guilt, they
stood as above related. Phil. National
Gazette.
(I? An anti-Tobacco Society has been
formed at N. Haven, Con. It goes up
on the principle of total abstinence. At
the organization of the society, Professor
Siliiman made a powerful speech against
the noxious weed, describing its poison
ous qualities and giving examples of its
pernicious effects.
(17 A person has been apprehended in
Washington City as a mendicant and va
grant, sleeping many nights successively
in the market house, upon whose person
was found, on his commitment, money
to the amount of 2325 dollars! The
greater portion of the money being in
large notes, renders his right to if ques
tionable, and it will therefore be with
held from him until a further investiga
tion of the matter.
gentleman of extensive information, &c.
&e. If such a man is disposed to de
scend from the respectability of his con
dition, and play the part of a strolling
musician beggar, (one of the most con
temptible characters, by the way, that
infest our cities) we have no particular
objection, though we think he might be
in better business. But that the Ameri
can press and the American people
shouldso far degrade themselves as to en
courage his nonsensical undetaking, is
humiliating in the extreme. What d.e8
he propose to do! Why, to ascertain, in
connexion with his co-fiddler, whether
the hospitality of Great Britain, Ireland,
and the United States, is greater or less
than that of France, Belgium, and Italy.
And what is the standard by which their
hospitality is 10 be measured! Why, the
encouragement they afford to strolling
pipers and fiddlers! a set of beings who,
instead of being fattened at the public ex
pense, deserve to be taken up and lodg
ed in the poor house. And how does he
propose to ascertain the degree of en
couragement afforded to such characters!
Why, by acting their part " in disguise,
1. e. by making his real character known
wherever he goes, and inducing a too
gullible press to trumpet, his coming be
fore hand, and exhort the people to meet
him with money in their hands, and res
cue the country from the degradation of
being pronounced inhospitable strolling'
musicians. "Oh, he does not ask for
money, he only receives it when offered
him." We never knew a strolling musi
cian that did. They do not ask in words,
but in the more expressive language of
looks and gestures. They do not ask,
but if you do not give, their sneering
grimaces will follow you with all the
woes of the Apocalypse Why do they
not beg in words! Because it would ex
pose them to ihe almshouse or the peni
tentiary. But this gentleman beggar
gives all his receipts to benevolent soci
eties. Who knows that! He may give
something to benevolent societies, but
who knows that he gives all, or even a
tithe of what he collects! . And supposing
he d'ul, have our intelligent citizens so
litile confidence in their own judgments,
that they need the aid of a foreign street
piper to choose for them the objects of
iheir charity! Charity indeed hides a
multitude of sins, but it is new to us that
its folds are so ample as to cover such
egregious folly as this.
If our reputation for hospitality de
pends upon the report which this piping
beggar gentleman shall carry back tQ
Europe, k must be in a very precarious
condition indeed. Europe has already
had sufficient proof of our hospitality, in
the friendly reception we have given to
thousands and hundreds of thousands of
her oppressed and miserable population;
and if she wants further evidence, let her
send us men who will at least keep up the
forms of decent society. We Lave no
hospitality to bestow upon vagabonds of
any sort; and if the gentleman so much
cajoled and applauded, "down east"
comes to this city, he need not be greatly
surprised if we afford him hospitality in
some of the numerous institutions provi
ded here for those who "have no visible
means of support."
The Piper. We extract the following
from the NewYork Journal of Commerce:
If this "wandering piper" is going to
travel through the United States "in dis
guise," as he has begun, we think it high
time that the American public should be
prepared to give him a proper reception.
We will take it for granted (which, how
ever, we do not know)that he is no im
poster, but a bona fide Scotch Highlan
der, an ex-officer of the British army, a
Sunrise Bells. The city authorities of
Boston ordered the Church Bells to be
rung at sunrise. This is a good regula
tioii, and the Traveller remarks "it ha$
already given a sensible impulse to busi
ness aroused the laborer at a regular
and early hour and invited the indoleut
to behold the beauties of the morning,
and to enjoy the delights of health."
Ohio Repository.
07The Circuit Court of the United
States lately held at New-Haven, deci
ded that the law prohibiting unnecessary
travelling on the Sabbath, was unconstitutional.
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