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Tarborongh, (Edgecombe County, X. C.) Friday, October 4, 1833.
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(?We have received from the pub
lisher, Mr. Thomas V. White, of Rich
mond, Va. a copy of the Address deliver
ed before the Philanthropic and Dialec
tic Societies of our University, in June
last, by the Hon. George E. Badger of
this city. It occupies a pamphlet of 21
page?, printed in a style that is highly
creditable to the publisher. Ral. Star.
Serious difficulties in Alabama. The
North American Gazette, published at
Augusta, Geo. states that it was report
ed the 13th inst. that the United States1
troops at the Arsenal near that city, had
been ordered to Fort Mitchell, and that
they were to march without delay a
state of things in the Cherokee nation
requiring their presence.
The Alabama Journal explains the ob
ject of this military movement. It says
that it is reported, on good authority,
"that it is the intention of the Govern
ment to remove all the white settlers
from the Creek lands, and that a suffi
cient force had been sent on for that pur
pose." A meeting has been held in
Montgomery, by the citizens generally,
without any reference to party distinc
tions, at which resolutions were adopted,
declaring that such a measure "will be
an unwarranted and dangerous assump
tion of power, and absolutely subversive
of the sovereignty and laws of the State;"
and pledging themselves to "prevent, by
nil proper means, a mode of proceedings
so repugnant to the Constitution and
laws." The Journal intimates that force
will be opposed to force. It will be re
collected that the Legislature of Alaba
ma has, by various acts, extended the ju
risdiction of the State over the territory
occupied by the Creek Indians, which
territory has been laid out into counties,
and courts of justice have been estab
lished therein. ib.
fX?At the Anti-Masonic Convention,
held in Boston a few days since, Ex
President John Q. Adams was nomina
ted as the candidate of that parly for the
office of Governor of Massachusetts
which nomination has been accepted by
that gentleman. ib.
GTAt the Superior Court of Jones
county, which terminated its sessioss on
the 14th inst. Isaac D. Lipsey, who was
indicted for the murder of Agrippa Rob
erts, of Onslow county, in an affray which
took place at an electioneering muster in
Onsl ow, was found guilty of manslaugh
ter and sentenced to be branded with lhc
letter M, on the brawn of his thumb and
to be imprisoned six months. Ral. Con.
Portsmouth and Roanoke Rail road.
We learn from the Norfolk Beacon
that this important work is in a rapid
stale of forwardness. Surveys and plots
of the whole country between Suffolk and
the Roanoke have been made, the levels
taken, and it only remains for the engi
neer to designate the most judicious line,
when the directors will bend every ener
gy to the grading and construction of the
road. It is confidently believed that,
should there be no heavy rains for two
or three weeks to corno, the road between
Portsmouth and Suffolk will be ready to
receive the rails, and that by Christmas
it will be ready for travelling. The iron
rails and the locomotive ermine have lonr
since been ordered from Liverpool, and
are expected to arrive in a short tunc.
RioL The Muncy (Pa.) Telegraph
mentions a serious riot which recently
took place near Dunnsburgh, Lycoming
county, between the persons employed
on the work of the great dam, and the
boatmen who brought stone to the work.
The battle lasted from Saturday morn
ing until Sunday noon. Two companies
of cavalry and several of infantry and mi
litia were brought to the battle ground.
One man was shot dead, and others were
grievously pelted.
Remarkable Prcservation.On the
4th inst. the schooner New Connecticut,
loaded with wheat and flour, was capsiz
ed about 12 miles below Erie, Pa. She
was immediately abandoned by the cap
tain and crew, leaving a passenger, Mrs.
Appleby, in the cabin, whom they were
unable to relieve. After having been
four entire days in the cabin of the cap
sized vessel, in water up to her neck, to
the astonishment of all, Mrs. A. was ta
ken out alive! She kept from drowning
by suspending herself on the surface of
the water from a hook in the cieling, by
her shawl. She had nothing to subsist
on but a buiscuit, cracker, and onion,
which floated within her reach. Her
brother had been sent for, to receive the
corpse when it should be taken from the
raised vessel. She is now at Portland,
says the Erie Gazette, doing well.
Suicides. Mr. Charles Titlo, of Cen
tre county, Pa. put a period to his life by
hanging himself in his brother's shop,
near Mill Heirn, on the 15th ult. He
was a young man of good character, and
had been married but a short time.
At Middletown, Conn, a lad aged aboui
14 years, lost his life recently from a sin
gular curiosity to know the effects of
hanging. While engaged in trying his
experiments, the rope slipped in such a
position as to deprive him of sensation,
and when found was dead.
CMordecai M. Noah and Thomas
Gill, have issued proposals for publishing
a new daily paper, in the city of New
York, to be called the Evening Star.
Manufactures. The Charleston S. C.
Irishman and Southern Democrat makes
the following prediction respecting the
progress of manufacturing in the South:
"Strange as it may seem, Virginia,
North and South Carolina and Georgia
are destined to become the most exten
sive manufacturing States. It is the only
way the slaveholders can compete with
the virgin soil of the new States. It will
raise up a market for provisions which
will lead to proper husbandry and manu
ring, and increase of population. The
rail road will raise up towns in healthy
spots remote from the sickly banks of
the rivers. A few millions of capital will
give a start to the South that will add to
her wealth, population, refinement and
security. The experiment is fairly began
in Georgia, and it is too profitable to be
relinquished."
Summary Justice. On the night of
the 24th ult. a fellow who had entered
the store of Messrs. Kilgour &, Taylor,
of Cincinnati, Ohio, far the purpose of
plunder, fell through the hatchway, from
the second story to the cellar, and had
his brains dashed out by the fall. The
body was interred the following morn
ing, but was immediately afterwards ta
ken up and exhibited, in order that it
might, if possible, be recognized by some
acquaintance; but the features of the face
being much disfigured, the task of recog
nition was rendered difficult. After the
body had been exhibited several hours, it
was identified as that of John Johnson,
the father of a large and respectable fa
mily. The Cincinnati Advertiser fur
nishes the following additional particu
lars: The man was an old resident of Cin
cinnati, and had considerable property;
how that property has been obtained is
now but too plain. His house was taken
possession of by the police on Sunday
evening, immediately after his being
identified, and on yesterday underwent
an examination, when quantities of dry
goods, groceries, &c. for there was a lit
tle of almost every thing, were found.
Many of the goods were immediately
claimed by merchants who had been rob
bed of them. A larje quantity unclaim
ed, were sent to the Mayor's office, where
they can be seen. Many hundreds of
persons in the course of the day yester
day, went to see the dwelling of John
son, and in the afternoon we went for the
same purpose. The house is four story
in front, upon Water street, and how ma
ny subterranean stories upon the river
bank, we cannot say; we only went down
three, the last, by a ladder; but never did
the ingenuity of man contrive a building
better calculated for the business which
was carried on in it. There are nume
rous apartments dark as dungeons, com
paratively, all the light they received be
ing from a narrow passage of some GO
feet in length.
We understand from the police, that
two apartments were discovered one of
which was without ooor or window, un
der the roof,tand entered by a trap door
opening from the roof; another had a door
so ingeniously contrived as not to appear
to be an entrance, the key hole, which is
small, being situated in what would be
taken for the middle of the door, although
it is in fact the edge. The house has
been some fifteen years building, and not
yet finished.
Johnson was a man of liberal educa
tion and general information; has brought
up a family of six or eight children, three
or four of whom were daughters, to
whom he gave the best of education, and
who became connected, by marriage,
with some of the most respectable fami
lies of the West.
tt7A short time since, as Mrs. Ames,
of the vicinity of Rondsburgh, Vt. wa
returning home from that village, she
was attacked by a hardened villain, drag
ged from her horse, when he drew a
knife and threatened her with instant
death if she resisted; she notwithstanding
resisted until he had nearly pulled ho?,
clothing ofF, when she fell down exhaust
ed, and he then accomplished his hellish
design. He then drew the knife again
to kill her, she begged him to spare her
life, to which he finally consented on
condition that she would not reveal the
act. She went to a neighbor's, gave the
alarm, and the monster was shortly after
apprehended and committed to jail.
When taken lie did not deny the crime,
but expressed astonishment at the woman
breaking her word.
(t?"lt is stated in the Hartford papers
that the trial of Miss Prudence Crandall,
under a late statute of Connecticut, for
instructing colored persons from other
States, was held last week at Brooklyn.
The jury did not agree 7 being for con
victing and 5 in favor of acquitting.
Lawyer's Fees. It is stated that the
four attorneys employed in the great
Quaker case lately decided in Trenton,
N.J. received for their services a com
pensation of 82,500 each.
(GAt the late commencement nt Mis
sissippi College, in the town of Clinton,
in the State of Mississippi, the following
young ladies graduated with the usual
honors: Narcissa Pleasants, Adaline
Brown, Jane and Mary Mills, Margaret
Teediman, Charlotte Wolcott, Maria
Andrews, Frances Roberts, Virginia
Flourney, and Harriet N. Battle. It
would seem from this, that the Suth
are at least one step before their north
ern friends in female education.
Cotton Seed Oil Manufactory. An
extensive manufactory, for the purpose of
extracting oil from cotton seed, has re
cently been erected at Natchez, Miss.
The experiment, so far, has been atten
ded with complete success.
Interesting to Physicians. We find
the following in the N. Y. Evening Post:
By an accidental discharge of a mus
ket, the side of a young man was so much
torn as to perforate the abdomen; and by
the skill of an army surgeon, assisted by
the efforts of nature, it was nevertheless
so healed as to leave the patient in per
fect health, with the opening remaining,
as if for the -express purpose of affording
medical knowledge, and teaching men
the art of preserving health by due regu
lation and a just choice of food.
We are happy in having it in our pow
er to inform our readers, ihat tin skilful
surgeon above alluded to, Dr. William
Beaumont, is now preparing for the press
an account of this very unique case, with
the result of a continued series of experi
ments upon the healthful subject whose
body has been thus laid open and its in
ternal operations exposed, as if for the
benefit of the human race.
GT'A white man named Windor, has
been arrested and committed to jail in
Fairfax county, for trial, on a charge of
seditious conduct and improper tamper
ing with some of the blacks of the coun
ty. They informed against him them
selves. Norfolk Her.
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CThe case of Whipple, at Lowell,
(Mass.) has produced great excitement.
A committee appointed by the chizens of
that place to investigate the facts, visited
this city yesterday, and from the knowl
edge they have obtained, appear to be sa-r
tisfied that Whipple set fire to his own
store. He visited Boston the day pre
vious to the fire, and took lodgings at
Ir. Wilde's. In the afternoon he hired
k horse and wagon under pretence of go
ing to Wilmington, to purchase shoes
but did not return until the next morning,
when he said he lost his way nnd was.
kept out all night. The horse and wag
on were seen in Lowell that night, and it
is supposed were taken there by Whip
ple for the purpose of carrying a-way iho
goods of which he alleged his store was
rqjiid. The insurance upon his slock
&fa 87000; he had reduced his good to
the value, as is estimated, of about 85000,
from which he took the most valuable
portion, and then fired his slre with the
intention of recovering the whole amount
of insurance. When he found that
strong suspicion had been excited against
him, he resolved upon committing sui
cide, and effected it by plunging into the
canal near his house. On the morning
of his decease, he arose as usual, dress
ed himself with care, and left his cham
ber in an apparently unconcerned man
ner. The water was only four feet deep
where he was found, and he had not been
in it more than fifteen minutes, but all
efforts to resuscitate him proved unavail
ing. His coat was folded carefully, and
laid by the side of his hat upon the bank
of the canal. His house was searched,
but no goods were found in it, nor has
any thing yet transpired to lead to the
discovery of the missing property.
Boston Post.
&?"A gentleman in Boston, on exam
ining his well of water, on the 12th ult.
discovered a box containing several
pounds of butter, which had been in the
well eleven years. It was found to be in
a good state of preservation