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Tavbovongh, ( Edgecombe County, X. C.J Friday, September 20, 1833.
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1 enucsseo has a school fund of about
half ti million, but complaints ore made
th.-n it i8 not well applied.
Kentucky had a fund of $140,000, but
a portion of it b,l!? l,(,on nsl
In Ohio, a system of free schools sim
ilar to thai of New England, is establish
ed by law.
In Indiana, Illinois nnd Missouri, no
legislative measures for the support of
cuuois nave oeen adopted. AH th
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School Statistics. About one-third of
tlits population of this country are be
tween the ages' of three and sixteen or
eighteen; and of course are the proper
subjects of school education.
In Maine, the law requires that the in
habitants of every town pay annually, for
the support of schools, a sum equal, at
least, to 40 cents for every person living
in it. That amounts to about $120,000.
Their expenditures are more than
8140,000.
In New Hampshire, a separate tax of
890,000 is raised for schools, besides an
annual appropriation from a tax on bank
stock, 9,000 or 10,000 dollars.
In Vermont, more than 50,000 dollars
are raised for schools, from a three per
cent, lax on the grand list, and ns much
more from district taxes, besides an in
come of nearly 1,000 dollars from banks.
In Massachusetts are nearlv three
thousand schools, supported bv public
taxes and private subscriptions. In Bos
ton, the schools contain about 12,000
children, at an expense of about 200,000
dollars.
In Rhode Island are about seven hun
dred schools, supported by a legislative
appropriation of 10,000 dollars annually,
by taxes and by private subscriptions.
The Connecticut school fund is nearly
two millions, but fails of its desired ob
j;ot. Children in the Stale, S5,000
chools, about 1500.
In New York are more than 9000
chools, and over 500,000 children taught
in them. School fund, 1,700,000 dollars
distributed anuu dlv, 100,000 dollars
but on the condition that each town raise
by tax or otherwise, as much as they re
ceive from the fund.
New Jersey has n fund of 245,000 dol
lars, and an annual income of 822,000.
In Pennsylvania, during the last vear,
more than 250,000 children, out of 400,
000, were destitute of school instruction.
Delaware has a school fund of about
70,000 dollars.
Maryland has a school fund of 75,000,
and an income for schools from banks,
which is divided between the several
counties.
Virginia has a fund of 1,233,000 dol
lars, t ho income divided among the coun
ties according to the white population,
and appropriated to paying the tuition of
poor children, generally, attending pri
vate schools.
North Carolina has a fund of 70,000,
designed for common schools.
South Carolina appropriates $40,000
annually to free schools.
Georgia has a land of 500,000 dollars,
and more than 700cornmon schools.
Alabama, and most all the western and
south-western States, arc divided into
townshipt six . miles square, and each
township into sections one mile square,
with one section, the sixteenth, appropri
ated to education.
Mississippi has a fond of 280,000 dol
lars, but it is not available till it amounts
to 500,000 dollars.
The Legislature of Louisiana grants
to each parish or county in that State
82 G2) far each voter, the amount for any
parish not to exceed 1,350 dollars, nor to
fall short of ttOO dollars 40,000 arc ap
plied to educate the poor.
University of North Carolina. We
understand that the Trustees of this In
stitution have appointed Mr. Walker An
derson, of Hillsborough, to I lie Profes
sor's Chair of Rhetoric and Belles Let
ires, and have tak'ii an advisari as to
the appointment of Professor of Modern
Languages. Ra 1. Rrg.
Fright. A daughter of W. II. Ro
chester, residing near Bowling Green,
Kentucky, aged 5 years und 5 months,
died a few weeks sinc e, in consequence
of a fright she received from a rude boy.
She had commenced going to school, and
on the evening of the fourth day after
her commencement, she was frightened
ami run, by some boy, who had on a
false face or mask, into a pond of water.
She was conveyed from that place to her
father's house, where she remained con
fined near three weeks; sometimes seized
with the most severe convulsive or ap
oplectic fi's, until worn out nature had
to yield. Rat. Star.
Dear Peaches. Peaches command a
high price in the New York market. A
basket, of less than a bushel, sells from
81 25 to $4. A man in Wall street gave
$16 for four baskets, which he sold in a
few hours at from 2 to 12$ t ents per
peach; nnd five hundred baskets met a
ready sale at 1500. ib.
the search eventually successful, unless
indeed the crew of the vessel (a schoon
er) have left the country altogether, and
added piracy to murder. Phil. Int.
A Petrifaction. Baron Steuben died
of apoplexy at Steuben, Oneida county,
New York, in November, 1795. Agree
ably to his request his remains were
wrapped in his cloak, enclosed in a plain
coffin, and deposited in a grave without a
stone. Many years after, as we learn by
a memoir in the N. Y. Commercial Ad
vertiser, his body was disinterred for the
purpose of burial in another place, nnd
was found to have passed into a state of
complete petrifaction, and is believed to
remain in that state of preservation to
this day. The features of his face were
as unchanged as on the day of his interment.
CTThe Cherokee Phoonix, lately pub
lished at New Echola, in the Cherokee
nation has been discontinued. It was
the first and has been the only, and we
fear it will be the last, Indian newspaper
of this western world. Philadelphian.
The Revenue. It is estimated that a
surplus of ten millions of dollars will re
main in the Treasury, on the first of Jan
uary next, after paying olF the whole of
the public debt, and all the expeuces of
the government.
Mysterious Murder. A correspon
dent of the Philadelphia Intelligencer,
some time since gave an account of a
corpse washed upon the beach at Sein
ers' Point, N.J. Mis arms were lashed
behind him, and he bore the traces of a
severe rencontre, and murks of great per
sonal violence. No clue was found by
which his name, his residence, or tin; cir
cumstances of the mysterious and dread
ful murder could be traced. All was pro
found and inexplicable mystery; ami the
only conjecture justified by the facts
known was, that the deceased, a genteel,
eleuantlv dressed, and Handsome young
man, had been robbed by the crew of
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some coasting vessel, muroereo ano
hrown overboard, and was washed by
the current upon the beach where his
)odv was found.
The affair rested thus, until recently.
Hie account given in the Intelligencer
was extensively re-copied, and among
others was transferred into the columns
of a North Carolina, paper. Here it
met the eye of a lady whose husband had
sailed from n port in that State to the
north. His arrival at bis port of destina
tion had not been announced, nltho' the
vessel had got there safe. This, with the
omission of letters, and the mysterious
haste with which the vessel lefi the north
on another voyage, all tended to feed her
apprehensions. I he account in trie in
telli"cncor conlirmed tier worsi icnrs.
The description and ihe circumstances
accorded with 1 lie conviclioo inai me
rornse was the body of her husband. An
anxious correspondence ensued, ano me
fact was still further confirmed. JYlea
sures were accordingly taken to appre
hend the lawless perpetrators of the mys
terious and atrocious outrage. Agent.-
have been sent to several different ports,
n.wt nvHrv means taken tor the detection
nnd nnrirchension of the murderers. No-
thincr further has been disclosed; but ihe
facts ascertained are sufficient to render
Mourning Apparel. The Baptists in
South Carolina have passed a resolution,
recommending that ihe practice of wear
ing mourning apparel upon the decease
of relations, be abolished. They declare
the habit, "a custom of the world, and
not according with the gospel."
Chapel Hill, Sept. 3. Wc learn that
on the 23d ult. a young man of about 20
years of age, named Archibald Thomp
son, son of Mr. John Thompson of this
county, was thrown from his horse, and
by some means the animal fell upon his
)ody. Mr. 1 . was so much injured that
le expired in about two hours after the
melancholy accident occurred. Harb.
The Cholera. The latest accounts
from the West represent this disease as
laving almost entirely subsided. East
ward of us, a few cases are stated to have
occurred in the State of Maine, but does
not seem lo carry with it the usual ma-
ignity. ib.
sociation; or who sh til publicly renounce
or denounce all participation in said re
solutions." Now the grocers have as much right
to proscribe tin; temperance men as the
latter have them; and who can blame
them for paying off their opponents in
their own coin.- Boston Post.
Rail Roads. A correspondent of the
Fredericksburg Arena, who has just vi
sited the Petersburg and Roanoke Rail
Road, writes as follows:
The Locomotive Engines travel at the
rate of twenty miles the hour, with ease,
nnd with a t rain of ten to twenty cars,
all loaded some with passengers and
others with produce, of every deserip
tiuii, staves, lumber, &,e. The whole
line of the Petersburg road presents a
scene of cheerfulness and industry, not
t be seen on any other road in Virginia.
Plantations that have been abandoned,
are now resettling; houses repairing, nnd
fences of the best kind erecting. Id ihe
bodies of wood, through which the toad
passes, workmen are employed some
getting staves, some sawing and others
clearing, and in fact, on the whole line,
there is a spirit and animation that is de
lightful to behold.
Marriage Extra. At New York, on
Thursday morning last, by the Rt:v. Mr.
Thompson, Mr. John Robertson, of Man
chester, England, manufacturer, lo Miss
Rebecca Williams, of Boston, Mas-.
The gentleman above named is the indi
vidual who advertised, under ihe assu
med name of Ralph Ricard, in the col
umns of this newspaper, a week or two
since, for a wife. A few applications
came from questionable sources in this
city, but as the advertiser regarded them
as the productions of those who wero
disposed to quiz him, he did not give to
any of them his notice. The lady who is
now his wife, applied first by letter, and
then personally; and after an acquaint
ance of a few days, the match was set
tled. We wish the happy pair all possi
ble felicity, and cannoi but persuade our
selves that ihy will be mutually bless
ed. Prov. Gaz.
icn at Norwich, Conn, the ec
centric Lorenzo Dow, presented the Pre
sident with a Pole having some clav
astened to the lower end, some mother
wort in the middle, and some hickory
trigs at the top. On presenting them
he said, 'Here is Clay at the bottom,
Wirt in the middle, and old Hickory tri
umphant above them both, and then lead
ing up his wife, he said, "Friend Jackson,
shall I introduce you to my wife Lucy!
"How do you do, Lucy! said the Presi
dent, as he took Lady Dow's hand, amid
shouts of mirth.
Tit for-Tat. Not long since the Tern
perauce Association in Providence, R. I.
adopted the following resolution:
"Resolved, I hat it be recommended to
the members of this association, and to
all friends of temperance, to trade exclu
sively with ihe temperance dealers."
In consequence of this, the grocers of
that city held a meeting on the 8th iust.
at which, among other resolutions, the fol
lowing was passed:
"Resolved, That as the only resort left
us, to counteract the baneful effects, which
that nefarious resolution is calculated to
produce; that we will not buy any goods
of any member of that association, nor
employ any doctor, school master, or any
other person who is a member of that
association, unless he or they shall have
first withdrawn themselves from said as-
Chapter on Noses. The New Haven
Herald advertises a "Lecture extraordi
nary on Nosology" with a diagram de
scriptive of the different parts of the nose,
which indicate various pin nomena. It
is a hit at phrenology only usin'g ihe
nose as the index, instead of the jskull.
The several indications are marked off
on the organ are, Penetration lutus--
susception Abduction Ala mentation
Contemplation Inhalation Pot at in
Elongation Interpunction C.om.
punction Function Metliation-Qoak
lition Consolidation Homarj0tion
Magnification Insinuation Angulation
Nulliffication Rev ision-Secession
Mystification ObUjnebrrdion Substan
tiation and Rublficati.no, (an accidental
organ,) ngainsj whith the Temperance
Societies direct all Jieir weapons.
Richmond Enq.
Nothing mudt in vain. A chap from
Vermont w had "hired out" in Boston
as a 'Kitvhen Colonel,' wished to ape the
city davidh$ by th6 cultivation of a hugo
pair of whiskers. In a few weeks he
flight be seen with a basket on his arm,
following his master to market with an
important strut, his cheeks covered with
a pair of whiskers of the color and confix
guration of a squirrel's tail. Not long
after, his sweet-heart, a fat corn-fed bss
from the same place, came to hire ithe
same family. As soon as she recognized
her lover, she exclaimed. '0 Bill! what
do you wear them great tiglv whiskers
forr "Why darn it, Sal," replied the
swain, "the fellers all have th m down
this way, for the gals to warm their
ses in. Fan. Obs.