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Tavhovongh, (Edgecombe County, X. C.) Friday, October 18, 1833.
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AGRICULTURE.
Tlic following sensible and mot excellent re
marks, are from the pen of the Hon. Judge Hu
el, of Albany, N. Y. No doubt they will be
read with pleasure, perhaps wiih profit:
Hints to Farmers. Offices are crea
ted for the public, not for ihe incumbents.
They nevertheless constitute fruitful re
wards to merit; and when spontaneously
conferred, are among the highest honors
thiit a free people can bestow. To de
serve is worthy of your ambition; but. to
depend upon them ns a means of liveli
hood, would be unreasonable ami unwise,
if not dangerous. A thirst for office is
almost as bad as a thirst for rum. The
more either are indulged, the more cra
ving ihey become. Every repetition of
l lie potion but begets new desires, until,
finally, the passion, in one case, termi
nates in delirium tremens, and, in the
other, in delirium candidatoni. 1 have
known many a worthy man ruined in his
usefulness and in his fortune, by this lat
rer disease, and ultimately terminate his
career under the complicated honors of
both maladies.
In selecting your public agents, adopt
the same caution that prudence would
suggest in your jrivale affairs; choose
ihose who are acquainted wiih the busi
ness in which you mean to employ them,
who know your wishes, and your inte
rests, who have an established reputa
tion for integrity, and who have shown
an ability to manage n public trust, by
having eonducted creditably and success
fully their private affairs. Such men
possess civil virtues, and merit civil re
wards. But distrust the man who reite
rates his importunities for your vote or
vour influence, as wanting either good
habits, or good principles. The first
should render him independent of public
aid, and ihe last should make him asha
med to ask for il.
Are we then to reject, as the bane of
our happiness, t the honors and emolu
ment of office! No, accept them when
proffered, as a mandate of duty, not as a
source of wealth; as a compliment to
your merit, and as the requital of an ob
ligation, which you owe to society. Ac
cepted in this spirit, the duties will not
seem onerous, nor the emoluments wor
thy your exclusive regard. And when
you huve enjoyed the honors, and fulfil
led ihe duties, abandon neither your poli
tics, nor your religion, because your fel
low citizen happen to discover in your
neighbor, qualities an J merits equal or
superior to your own. The spirit of a
free government forbids monopoly.
Whether they impose a duly, or confer
honor or profit, offices should be shared
by I hose who are capable and worthy;
and I do not know of a more salutary
provision which would bo engrafted on
our Constitution, than that which has
been thrice -forcibly recommended by our
illustrious President, to limit the tenure
of ofiioe to some definite period of time.
I will also close this number with the
history of a schoolmaster. Job ilterton
commenced life under the most flattering
auspices. $ farm was a pattern of
neatness fields well cultivated, cattle in
fine order, and fences and buildings ia
good repair. Job owed no man, and had
accumulated a fine sum at interest. His
children were growing up under their
parent's example, in habits of industry,
and promised to become respectable in
society. Every thing throve under his
care, and he was pointed at by all as tin;
best farmer in the town of S. fits good
qualities, and the influence which these
procured him, at length brought him into
political notice, and he became a suc
cessful candidate, very much against his
will, for the Assembly. IL? returned
from Albany in the spring, with some
new notions, but the habits of the farmer
still predominated. To a second nomi
nation Job had less objection, nay, he se
cretly intrigued for it: for he thought, as
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he remarked, he was then qualified to do
some good. The second triumph, and the
consequence it gave him at the dinners
and parties in the renowned capital turn
ed ids head, and he came home quite an
altered man. It was no longer "Come
boys,'" with him. Politics engrossed his
whole attention. He became a standing
candidate for every office that was pre
sented: and was in succession sheriff,
senator and member of Congress.
In the mean time, the farm began to
show the absence of the master: the fen
ces were prostrate, the cattle neglected,
and the buildings verging to ruin. The
boys too, as boys ever will, aped the fa
ther, began to strut the gentleman, and to
look up for office and dignities. As in
dustry departed, prodigality entered, and
soon wasted the frugal earnings of for
mer years. At length the illusion van
ished. Allerton found himself deeply in
debt, without means and tcithout office,
with an indolent, extravagant family to
support. Office had ruined him. In his
distress he mustered resolution to do what
hundreds have failed to do, and w ho have
done worse. With the wreck of a for
mer competence, he pulled up stakes and
leaving behind him his oflicial habits and
official pride, fled to the wilds of Indiana,
where 1 am happy to say, he has resumed
again the habiliments of the farmer, and
profiting by the lessons of experience.
Who is there that among his acquain
tances does not recognize, a Job Allerton!
fright, the scalp was replaced upon the
head and adjusted, and the patient con
veyed to iter room. The whole head,
temple nnd forehead, were peeled to the
bone, the blood streaming from the small
veins and arteries over her shoulders,
and to those who had seen the profusion
of beautiful locks that formerly adorned
her head, her first appearance impressed
the idea of a headless trunk. Her pre
sence of mind seemed at no time to have
forsaken her. She was sitting in a chair
when her physicians arrived, and obser
ved that the back part of her head was
severely bruised, the only injury which
she was then, or is even now, conscious
of having received. She is at present in
a comfortable condition, and her physi
cians slate, that every symptom indicates
a firm re-union of the parts, and a speedy
recovery ot health.
Shocking Accident. The Kinderhook
(N. Y.) Sentinel says: On Friday, the
20th ult. as Miss Van Buren, a young la
die of the Valilie, was dressing her hair
in the factory of Mr. Baldwin, she acci
dentally brought it in contact with one of
the horizontal shafts which makes 53 re
volutions the minute. This shaft is
square, two and a half inches diameter,
and is placed about 17 inches from the
upper floor. The young lady was stan
ding nearly under it, facing from it; and,
in tossing back her hair, which she had
been combing over her face, probably
without reflecting that the shaft above
her was in motion, it caught fast, and she
found herself instantly drawn up to
wards it with the velocity of lightning.
With an extraordinary presence of mind,
she grasped the shaft with her hands, at
the saoie time making a violent effort to
place her feet upon it, in order, that by
revolving with it she might escape a dis
location of the neck. She succeeded in
clinging to the shaft during two or three
revolutions, but its velocity was such as
at length to break her hold, and she was
projected 3 or 10 feet from it. leaving
her entire scalp from the extremities of
the eye lids to the lower part of the neck
fast to the shaft and revolving .with it.
She rose immediately from the floor and
proceeded to stop one of the looms she
tended, while the overseer stopped the
wheel.
Drs. Miller nnd Philip were immedi
ately called, and, with the assistance of
such as had not fled or fainted from
New York fiucrs. The R aces on the
Union Course, New York, commenced
u the 1st instant. The first race was a
match for $8,000, four miles out, between
Mr. John C. Stevens' b. c. Niagara by
Eclipse, dam I'rinccss, against Col. John
son's gr. c. Cadet by Medley, dam Sally
Walker. At the start Cadet took the
lead, hard pressed by his antagonist dur
ing the first three miles, but in- the third
quarter of the fourth mile Niagara was
put to his wnrk,nndbru8hed by, winning
by about three lengths time, 8 minutes
10 seconds. After the match, came on
the sweepstakes, 2 mile heats three
horses entered John C. Craig's south
ern gr. c. Jessup, Charles Green's b. c.
Sidi Darnel, and Capt. Stockton's bl. c.
Shark. The three started in fine style,
Shark leading throughout, closelv Dress
ed by Jessup, but winning the heat with
ease ly three or tour lengths. At the
start for the second heat, it became appa
rent that Sidi Hamct was to contend for
it with Shark, while Jessup laid by. Sa
di showed the blood of his sire and made
an excellent race; but Shark proved him
self the best colt, and won the heat nnd
purse without difficulty. Time of 1st
heat, 3m. 49s. 2d do. 3m. 5Gs.. .Ral, St.
Steam Packet to Liverpool. The keel
of a splendid steam packet w ith four en
gines, to ply between this port and Liv
erpool, will be laid this week. She will
be of a large size; and as the enterprize
is undertaken by gentlemen of capital, no
expense will be spared to make the ex
pcriment in the best possible manner, so
that there can be but little doubt of its
success.
State of New Jersey, is a living instance
of the effects of the remedy. .When a
young man he resided in this city, and
being affected with a pulmonary com
plaint, was induced to drink daily of a
decoction of new milk and the juice of
green hoarhound. He is now a picture
of health, although in the full exercise of
his calling. Schenectady (N. Y.) Cab.
Completely lo eradicate this disease,
says a correspondent of the V. S. Gaz
ette, I will not positively say the follow
ing remedy is capable of doing; but I will
venture to affirm that a temperate mode
of living avoiding spiritous liquors whol
lywearing flannel next to the skin, and
taking every morning half a pint of new
milk, mixed with a wine glass full of the
compressed juice of green hoarhound,
the complaint will not only be relieved,
but the individual shall procure to him
self a length of days beyond what its
mildest form could give room to hope for.
I am myself a living witness of th.-beneficial
effects of this agreeable, and tho
innocent, yet powerful application Four
weeks use of the hoarhound and milk re
lieved the pains in my breast, gave me to
breathe deep, long, and free, strengthen
ed and harmonized my voice, and restor
ed me to a better state of healih than I
had enjoyed for years.
Atrocious Murder. A most brutal
and wanton act of homicide was perpe
trated on Tuesday night last, at Pasquo
tank county, (N. C.) by a man riuioptf .
Mark Jones, on Mr. James Williams, a
respectable farmer of that county, resid
ing in the neighborhood of River'Bridge
There had been at Mr. Williams's r'(Ur
ing the day, a gathering of his nei'ftnorg
to assist him in some work he jft
hand, and Jones, who was o-,le ()f tjie
party, attempted to pick a quarrel with
Mr. W. because he corrected one of hi
own servants. Some words pushed be
tween them but nothing monj tjm jones
continued in a very sullen mood cowards
Mr. W. during the remainder of .h,
to which he gave vent at night aferail
the rest of ihe company had departed, by
a torrent of abuse nod insulting language
directed at Mr. Williams. The latter,
highly provoked, ordered Jones to quit
his house, and. whh a view of getting rid
of him opeu'jd the door, ami peremptorily
ordered iim Uut af im joll(1S j, e ms,
made no resistance, but in passing Mr.
Williams o gQ out, drew a long knife
and plugged it into Mr. W.'s right sido
unci hen ran off. Mr. Willi nms survi
ve only lour hours. Jones had not bepn-
We will not indulge ourselves in thelneard of when our informant left the
expression even ot a part of the idc (S
which rush into the mind in coutenpla.
ting the accomplishment of this, on
thought of measure. There i.s enough
before us every day for astonishment In
the immense saving of the time, and over
coming of space by sceam navigation.
And yet there appears to be no end to
the daring spirit of advancement which
characterizes the world, and America in
particular. The Troy project of a steam
boat upon floats, to travel at the rate of
from twenty to twenty-five miles per
hour; is perhaps as extraordinary as any
thing now Qrt xlc lapis; hut it wond re
ally appear as if wo should be astonish
ed at nothing; fur we are credibly infor
med, though it seems somewhat difficult
of belief, that the same distance which is
now comfortably travelled in 30 or 40
hours, viz: between Boston and Philadel
phia, was, some sixty or seventy years
since, advertised in the Boston papers as
follows "The Philadelphia Fly-stage,
warranted through hi fourteen days." i
New York Mer. Adv.
neighborhood. He is a young man of
three or four and twenty, of low stature
and pale complexion. Norfolk Her.
Value of a Name. A French Travel
ler puts us down for the cleanest people
upon the face of the earth; for, said he,
their very capital is called Washing town.
Consumption. We have often heard
of the following remedy for consump
tion, though we do not recollect of ever
before having seen it in print. We lure
induced to copy it from the fact that an
acquaintance of ours, a clergyman in the
C'Wo regret that a good many of the
eastern cotton manufactories have "shut
dowu their gates" in consequence of the
high price of cotton, and yet compara
tively low price of cotton goods where
by many persons are thrown out of em
ployment. Niles.
Very well -Set the rejected laborers
come to Illinois. Here is plenty of room
for regiments of men, and 'miles of girls;'
and favorable chances of entering into
business without the fear of being 'thrown
out of employment,' while the price of
sunshine and rain does not depend on
Congress. Vandalia (111.) Whig.
Mormonism. We learn that for two
Sabbaths past there has been a preacher
of this profession holding forth to large
assemblages in Jackson township, in this
county, and that uowards of 50 nersons
have been baptised in the Mormon faith,
Vino depository.