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Tarborough, (Edgecombe County, X. C.) Friday, February 1 , 1834.
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COU.NTIES OF SOUTH CAROLINA.
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1734. Onslow Precinct. Tint part of
IMevv Hanover county lying on New riv
er, together with a small part of Carter
et on this west side of White Oak, was
this year erected into a precinct having
nearly the same extent with the county
bearing the same name and called after
Arthur Onslow, Speaker uf the British
House of Commons.
Bladen Precinct, was separated from
New Hanover on its north western side;,
(leaving to New Hanover the county of
the same name, Duplin, Brunswick, and
part (if Columbus) and called alter Mar
tin Bladen, one of the lords commission
ers of trade and plantations Thisheiii"
n frontier precinct was unlimited on the
north west.
1738. By an act passed this year it
was directed that tin; precincts within
the province of North Carolina should in
uttire be called counties.
Wholesale UoUnitrjnutts.uj
arrest in Missouri of a swindler railing
h'unsvW James Garland, we have receiv
ed some new light in regard to tin; busi
ness of maunf.iciii! ing atui vending coun
terfeits, which we find to be carried on
in a much more systematic way Mian we
bad supposed possible in this country. It
seems that the establishuiem of which
Garland was the principal was in such
condition as to enable him to print jW
thousand dollars of assoi ted notes in one
day, and that, since the breaking up of
the band of counterfeiters in Canada, last
hpring, he Ins sold counterfeits to the
amount of out million dollars; and thai,
in the prosecution of the business, he has
realized the sum of $100,000!
Northampton county formed bv the
reparation of the upper or north western
part of Bertie was called after the En
glish county of the same name, GO miles
N. N. V. of London,
he was absent oh" a hhboih "... ...
where he is now engaged in extending
the business of his hopeful concern.
Forty or fifty individuals are said to he
implicated in the affair, uud their fina
trial is fixed for the second Monday it
February.
Johnston county resulted kom" a cor
responding division of Craven, leaving
the latter in addition to its present extent
the county of Jones called after Gabri
el Johnston; at this time Governor of the
province.
1749. Duplin county, cut off from
New Hanover included at the linn? of its
erection the present county uf Sampson.
There is a barony of this name in Scot
land the occupant of which became an
English Peer in the reign of Queen Anne
and was taken into custody under suspi
cion of tampering with thj Pretender in
1715. The greater part of t,c BOj uf
the enmity was purchased originally of
the crown by Henry M'CuIloch, also of
Scotland but settled in London, by whom
titles were given to the first emigrants.
It is not improbable that some connexion
which we cannot now discover between
the Scottish Lord and the Scotch owner
of the soil may have led to the imposi
tion of the name it bears.
Anson county. Bladen where it bor
dered on New Hanover Ivin 0I, k0th
sides of the Cape Fear and being with
out limits on the upper waters of that
stream seems to have been regarded at
'his time as comprehending the whole
western part of the State. The country
f the Yadkin and Pedec was erected in
to a county, called first Ansa then Anson,
alter the great English circumnavigator,
who was at this lime admiral and com
mander in chief of his majesty's fleet.
Name proposed by some romantic novel
reader unquestionably.
1753-G. Rowan county. Within
these three years this, and the two follow
ing, were laid off and established as
counties. The original act creating
them having been disallowed by the king
in council as containing clauses injurious
to the prerogative of the crown they were
re-established in 1756. Rowan compre
hended the country on the Yadkin north
of Granfiile's line, and was named in
honor of Matthew Rowan, President of
the council from the beginning of 1753
till the fall of 1754
Orage county was formed of fragments
of Granville, Johnston and Bladen: in
cluding Caswell, Person, Chatham and
part of Rockingham, Guilford, Randolph
and Wake. Subsequently to the year
lG3o this name is of frequent occurrence
on the map of North America in honor
of king William "the immortal and glo
rious memory," as he is still called in
Ireland.
17Tm tVlce countU- This the iwith military weapons. Thev received
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tVUIl. tjrecieu mis vear
chiefly with the view of breaking Orange
and Rowan into fragments and weaken
ing the Regulators by division. Wake
included also part of Johnston and Cum
berland and is said by Martin to have
been so named in compliment to the la
dy of Gov. Tryon.
Guilford county. The western part
of Orange and eastern part of Rowan
extending from the Virginia to Granville's
line and including therefore Rockingham
and Randolph, was erected into a coun
ty named utter Frederick North, Earl of
Guilford, at this time first commissioner
of the treasury.
1771. Surry county including at this
lime the present county of Stokes was
cut from Rowan by a line running paral
lel to the northern boundary of the State,
so that the three frontier counties, un
limited on the west, were Surry, Rowan
and Tryon. It was named Surry after
the county in England lying on the south
side of the Thames, opposite London
where Governor Tryon was born.
1774. Martin county, the last erected
before the 4th of July, 1776, and named
in honor of the last royal governor, Josiah
Martin was formed" chiefly at the ex
pense of Tyrrell but included also a part
of Halifax. to be continued.)
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Cumberland county. The part of eJ 1,1 ; lisl ol' ,,,c Governors of North Carolina
Bladen Iving below Lord Granville's line fn,rn 17'' (,mvn 10 1,10 P'U lime, copied
wns divided leaving Robeson and Co- fro,"lIt,,e llt"lcr inlV,he arWnK" ' J"ua"
lumbns i the ri?n. .i ..... , I L . rygornorol tins State-but only Pre-
luinbus to the original; and the tract cut
oil including Cumberland and Moore,
erected into a new county. Named af
ter a county in the north of England or
more probably in honor of William Duke
of Cumberland second son of George II.
and victor of Cullodeu in 1753.
175o. Halifax county heretofore u
part of Edgecombe was named after the
Earl of Halifax, at this time one of the
Secretaries of State.
Dobh county cut from the eastern side of
Johnston and including the present counties
of Greene and Lenoir was thus denominated
in compliment to the governor Arthur Dobbs.
1759. Hertford county, erected chief
ly at the expense of Bertie, but including
parts of Northampton and Chowan; na
med after Francis Conway Earl of Hert
ford. 17u0. Pitt county was formed by a
division of Beaufort. Name in honor of
William Pitt, afterwards Earl of Chat
ham. 1762. MecLlcnbu rg county separated
from Anson included all that part of
North Carolina lying west of the present
county of Anson and south of Lord Gran
ville's line. In the summer of 1761
George the III. had married Charlotte,
sister to the reigning Duke of Mecklen
burg Strelitz.
1764. IJrunswick county, including a
long with half of New Hanover a small
part of Bladen took its name from the
town that had been established on the
.western bank of the Cape Fear and in
corporated as early as 1745, and where
if a person be romantic and inclined to
wander amongst ruins, he may gratify
his taste to more advantage than else
where in North Carolina. The precinct
of New Hanover and town of Brunswick
combined the two principal titles (duke
of Brunswick and elector of Hanover)
borne by George I. before he mounted
the throne of Britain.
Bertie county, the eastern part of Gran
ville included the cxiefing counties of War
ren and Franklin. Name in honor of John
Stuart, Earl of Bertie who had educated the
reigning monarch and was at this lime Secre
tary of Stale.
1 7GS. Tryon county comprehended all that
part of Mecklenburg 'lying tvest of the Ca
tawba. Named after IVilliam Tryon for
merly a colonel in the queen's guards, next
lieutenant governor and now governor of Mc who were drawn un in battle array, to the
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province. number ot 300, on a bill, armed parti v
.MaUhcw Rowan was never as is represent-
ident of the Council as wa Nathaniel Rice im
mediately before ami James Hasell sometime
alter him. Our friend (Sales who commonly
does things accurately smd well, is found nap
ping in this list. Did he trust to some other
person, or are the errors his own? George Uur-
ringtou who reigned from 1730 to 1733 is omit
ted altogether. Nor was (Jeoige of a temper to
take such slight and insult as this tamely. (See
proofs and illustrations of Williamson's history,
the second volume page 22S 9.) Tis well the
honest fellow laid his bones on Urn other side of
the Atlantic or there is no telling what frightful
form might draw the curtain and look in "upon
the slumbers of the editor of the Register.
their assailants with a volley of fire arms.
but were rooted by superior numbers, and
were pursued on their retreat, througlt
the woods. The battle was one of great
rage and most deadly violence. Five
men were found on the field in the ago
nies of death, several dead bodies were
seen in the woods, ami a number wound
ed in everv ilirpriinn. Tht victorious
party returned quietly to their sections
and shantees, through Williamsport, a
bout 10 o'clock at night. The military
was immediately called out, and an ex
press sent to Washington for regular
troops. At the latest advices, a nrinci-
pal leader of one of the parties had been.
arrested lor examination. lb.
Measles. The contagion which has
been harrassing this community with un
common malignity, is believed by several
intelligent physicians here, to bo a com
bination of measles and scarlet fever it
is, however, (uite variant in its modes;
and from what little we know on the sub
ject, would judge it to be extremely diffi
cult of treatment; we understand that a
malignant form of measles has been ra
ging in the neighborhoods of Huutsville,
Kjiuiun iimj, wvjuue s rum, ami in me
northern parts of this county, and from
what we can learn it is pretty nearly the
same disorder that lias been afflicting us
in Salisbury. The family of the Editor
of this paper has suffered and is still suf
fering intensely with this dreadful com
plaint, insomuch that we have been able
to bestow but little attention upon any
thing else. Salisbury Watchman.
Scarlet FtTcr.The Charleston Mer
cury states that the Scarlet Fever has
made its uppearanco in the neighbor
hood of Sawney's creek, Kershaw Dis
trict, S. C. attended with symptoms unu
sually malignant, and is spreading terror
throughout that neighborhood.. Hal. Star.
Riot in Ulica.'Vhe Utica (N. Y.)
papers give an account of some riotous
proceedings in that city, a few evenings
since. A procession marched through
the citv, blowing horns, rattlinn tin nans.
&c. and among other acts alike offensive
to good order and decency, they hung
the Itev. Dr. Beriah Green, of the Onei
da Institute, or Manual Labor College, in
effigy. The immediate cause of these
outrageous proceedings, was the fact
that Dr. Green solemnized a marriage be
tween a negro man and a white girl. In
ordinary times, we presume, an incident
of this kind would scarcely have attract
ed notice; but Dr. Green has made him
self particularly conspicuous of late, in
opposing the Colonization Society, and
advocating the immediate emancipation,
of the slaves at the soutlh. He also ad
vocates the expediency and propriety of
an amalgamation of colors, by marriage.
Having inflicted lasting injury upon a col
lege in Ohio, by preaching those doc
trines, he has introduced the same into
the Oneida institution, and which, unless
arrested, will be the ruin of that also.
Hence the people thereabouts are ex
ceedingly exasperated at his conduct.
But their feelings should be manifested
in a different manner.
C?"The New York papers furnish an
account of a destructive (ire at Roches
ter, in that State, said to be the most ca
lamitous that has ever occurred in that
village.
Terrible Outrage. The riot which
recently took place among tho laborers
upon the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal,
above and below Williamsport, Md.
mentioned in our last, it appears, was
desperate and bloody to an extent unpre
cedented in this country. The two par
ties assembled in large bodies on ihe
17th ultimo, and commenced hostilities;
and on the next day, they had a general
and disastrous engagement. The party
called the Lonsfords, numbering about
700 strong, astacked the Carhonians.
A Puzzle for 1334. We are a litllo
more than forty years of age four in
number and Brothers and Sisters.
Each of our places of residence has been
in the same town. When we journey or
have any business we go together. Wc
brothers have the most hardship to en
dure, because we carry our Sisters.
We never spoke to each other, and nev
er heard each other's voice. We never
saw each other; yet, when either is in
trouble there is an exertion by each to
relieve, and seldom fails. We never
warn each other of approaching danger,
because we are dependent for a living,
acting, thinking, being, &c. We have
travelled day after day, and we know
when to give the path for our brother tra
vel I ers to pass. Our Sisters are seldom
tired, and are not less than two, nor moro
than seven feet from us. If we are in
trouble, they are quick to relieve us. Wo
have never breathed the vital air; yet, wo
are alive, quick and powerful; and thou
sands have been slain by us. We sel
dom refuse any spot or place. Wo
know no fear, luvs or mercy; yet mercy
we have shown to man and beast and
by our exertion, thousands of the animate
creation are supported. By our exertion
the most populous cities are built and
kept in repair: and many times through
our means they are prevented from de
struction by fire. By us, the maiestic
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vessel that sails on the deep is made:
and the same made to meet each invi
ting breeze.
And now tell me, my friends, what are
our names, what causes us to move, and
where we exist. Drat. l.nq.