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Tarhorough, (Edgecombe County, JV. C.J Friday, March 7, 1834.
Vol. X JVo 23.
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From the Chapel Hill Harbinger.
COUNTIES OF NORTH CAUOLLNA.
(continued,)
1777. The restraints by which the no
tion of the Legislature had been check
ed and controlled, being nt length remo
ved, that body proceeded with all conve
nient speed to diminish the size by increa
sinir the number of the counties, and to
accommodate both to the new scheme of
civil policy lately introduced and to the
wants of the country. Several of the
counties erected about this lime bear the
names of Hrilish statesmen who were fa
vorably known as the friends of civil lib
erty in general or as the patrons and
defenders of the rights and claims of the
colonies in Parliament. Such are Cam
den, Burke, Wilkes, Richmond and
Rockingham.
Caswell was formed of the northern
part of Orange and included at first ihe
existing county of Person. Richard Cas
well of Kinston, in Lenoir, had been
Speaker of the House of Commons un
der the royal government, President ofj
the Convention that formed the Con
stitution, and was at this time gover
nor. Camden. Pasquotank river was made
the dividing line between that part of
Pasquotank county which retained the
original name, and a new one erected on
its eastern bank. Charles Prat;, chief
justice, was at this time Huron, and in
1736 became Earl Camden.
Burke. Rowan was divided, leaving
Iredell to this original county. This was
in April. In the act passed at this lime
it was provided that the new county.
should not cross the ridge and extend
over the western waters, but in the ses
sion held in November it was made to
enmprehetid Buncombe and the whole of
the southern part of Tennessee. Ed
mund Burke was during the revolutiona
ry struggle one of the most conspicuous
member of the opposition in the British
Parliament.
ry. Debtors will settle their accounts forthwil
as no induiencu c;m be given.
JOA r MERC Kit, Mm'r.
Feb. 2S, 1S34. 125-3
Wilkes, formed by a division of Surry,
included at the time of its erection the
county of Ashe. The life and character
of that strange compound of learning,
patriotism, wit and wickedness, that bore
the name of John Wilkes, are doubtless
familiar to many of our readers. Like
Burke he was attached to the party of the
opposition in the British Parliament.
1773. Jones, the southwestern part of
Craven. Allen Jones, of Halifax, was
appointed commander of a brigade of the
Stale troops at the opening of the war,
and a member of the continental Con
gress in 1779-80. lie was at this time
Speaker of the Senate. Willie Jones
of the same countv, was a member of
Congress in the following year. They
were both leading men, and active in the
cause of freedom.
Franklin and Warren. The county
of Bute was divided, and the name now
become odious to the people of North
Carolina, discontinued. The Earl of
Bute had the confidence of his master,
and was the adviser and promoter of
those acts of oppression which had led to
the separation of the colonies from the
mother country. Franklin requires no
statement or remark. Gen. Joseph War
ren fell in the battle of Bunker's Hill,
June 17lh, 1775.
Oates includes parts of the original
counties of Hertford, Chowan and Per
quimans. Horatio Gates, first Adjutant
General, was afterwards commander of
I he American forces at the capture of
Burgoyne in 1777, and of the southern
army at the balileof Camden on the lGth
of August, 1780. Had the action of the
Legislature in relation to this county
been delayed a little more than a year, it
would probably have borne a different
name.
Montgomery was separated from An
son, leaving to the latter the existing
county of that name and Richmond.
Gen. Richard Montgomery fell in the at
tack on Quebec, in Dec. 1775. The
person who has been at Mount Pleasant,
the seat of justice for Anson, before this
dismemberment, and noticed the beauty
of its situation, depending on the grace
ful outline of the surrounding hills, the
fertility of the soil, and proximity of a
noble river can hardly help regretting
that the three are not still one great coun
ty, determining by the location of its
court house, the existence of a flourish
ing village on this spot. The place is
said to be unhealthy but for this circum
stance, there is not a more beautiful spot
for a town in North Carolina.
Randolph. Guilford was reduced to
its present limits by the separation of
Randolph. Peyton Randolph, of Virgi
nia, was President of the first Continen
tal Congress, which met in Philadelphia,
Sept. 5th, 1774, and of the second, w hich
met May 10th, 1775.
Lincoln and Rutherford. Try on
countv was divided and the old name, as
in the case of Bute, exchanged for those
of two American patriots. Gen. Benja
min Lincoln, of Massachusetts, assisted
at the capture of Burgoyne in 1777, and
commanded at Charleston when the town
was besieged and taken by the British on
the 12th of .May, 1780.
Gen. Griffith Rutherford, of North Ca
rolina, was with Try on at the a Fair of
the Regulators on the Allemance, and an
active and successful partisan officer in
the revolutionary war.
1779. Richmond was separated from
Anson. Name in honor of Charles Len
nox, Duke of Richmond, "a nobleman of
respectable abilities, active, indefatigable
and ardent" opposed to the oppressive
measures of the ministry.
Wayne formed by a division of Dobbs
by a meridian line into two equal parts.
Gen. Anthony Wayne, of Pennsylvania,
was distinguished for his impetuous val
or on several occasions during the revo
lutionary war, and especially in the at
tack on Stoney Point, on the night of the
15th of July. 1779.
(to he continued.)
Tie Constable Laic -The Salisbury
Journal says that in the county of Wilkes
70 or 80 indictments have been found
against persons for fighting at Consta
bles' elections; and in the county of Sur
ry there has been much fighting and
quarrelling at every place of election in
the county except one; and at one place a
broken head, and death in a few days af
terwards was the consequence! h
A Mob.TUe Newark (N.J.) Daily
Advertiser says: A temperance meeting
at a school house in Finesville, Warren
county, was interrupted and broken up
the 5th instant, by a mob, in a manner
which disgraces the neighborhood, and
which we believe is without a parallel in
the history of our State. The meeting
had been called in the usual way, to con
sider the objects and principles of the
temperance enterprise, and as we learn
by the statement in the Belvidere Apollo
of Messrs. Peter Sharp and Robert S.
Kennedy, who were a committee to the
meeting from a neighboring Temperance
Society, was respectably attended. On
repairing to the school house the com
mittee stale that they found that a pole
had been raised by tho citizens of the
place during the day, in front of the door,
with a flag inscribed "Liberty forever!"
with the explanatory accompaniment of
a rum jug.
Several 5G lb weights bored out to be
used as mortars, were placed around the
door, and were loaded and firetl in quick
succession from the time the people be
gan to assemble, jeopardizing the lives
of all who entered: the jug being lower
ed at every discharge to give new inspi
ration to these ardent patriots. Not
withstanding the tumult, a large collec
tion of people of both sexes assembled
from the adjoining neighborhoods, and
the meeting organized to proceed with
business. The mob however surround
ed the house, and effectually stifled its
proceedings by shouts and screams, and
the noise of trumpets: not content with
this, they assailed the house violently
with showers of stones, and threatened to
blow it up with gunpowder. Fitiding it
dangerous to remain longer, and the la
dies especially being extremely alarmed,
the meeting withdrew, leaving the rioters
in possession; every effort to conciliate
having been found ineffectual.
Oyln our last we gave an account of
the discovery of an attempt at Richmond
to abduct several slaves. The Whig of
Monday furnishes the following addition
al particulars: "On Saturday, Captain
Townsend, of the schooner Charioti,
who had been arrested for secreting on
board his vessel, nine slaves, was brought
before the Mayor ami discharged from
custody upon the criminal charge, it ap
pearing from the testimony that they had
gone on board the night before they were
found, while he and his mate were both
absent. We understand a prosecution
for a penalty of twenty dollars in the
case of each slave is still under advise
ment. It is contended that the gross
negligence of the Captain in leaving his
vessel under charge of the Steward, a
colored man, during the night, subjects
him to this penally. As there has been
many exaggerated statements of this
transaction in circulation, inculpating the
Captain, it is but an act of justice to give
the following brief abstract of the evi
dence. It appears that the Chariott was
not quite loaded with coal, in throwing
it into the hold, although the vessel near
the hatchway appeared full, the coal in
rolling down all sides, had left a vacant
space at the bulkhead abaft. In these
corners the negroes had contrived to se
crete themselves by crawling over the
main body of the coal on Thursday night.
To discover them it was necessary to re
move the coal forward. As more coal
was to have been taken in on Saturday
morning, it is more than probable all
these negroes would have been smother
ed had they not been discovered. It has
not yet been ascertained whether the
Steward was concerned; but we under
stand a slave living at Rocketts has been
clearly proven to have been the chief a
gent in inveigling the runaway slaves for
which he received of them ten dollars."
and they had several meetings or can
cusses, at which a young woman presi
ded, who took an active part in persuad
ing her associates to give notice thai they
should quit the mills, and to induce them
to "make a run" on the Lowell Bank,
and the Savings Bank, which I hey did.
On Friday morning the young woman
referred to was dismissed by the Agent,
from her place in the mill whnrs she
worked, and on leaving the office, after
receiving "a bill of her time," as the
phrase is, waved her calash in the air, as
a signal to others, who were watching
from the windows, when they immedi
ately "struck" and assembled around her
in despite of the overseers.
The number soon increased to nearly
eight hundred. A procession was form
ed and they marched about the town to
the amusement of a mob of idlers and
boys and we are sorry to add not altoge
ther to the credit of the Yankee Girls, if
we are rightly informed of their proceed
ings. We are told that one of the lend
ers mounted a pump and made a flaming'
Mary Woolstoncroft speech on the rights
of women and ihe iniquities of the moni
ed aristocracy, which produced a power
ful effect on her auditors, and they de
termined "to have their own way if ihey
died for it."
The storm, however, has been, as wo
learn, hushed for the present, and hopes
are entertained that it will be entirely lul
led by casting on the troubled waters a
little oil of conciliation. The Lowell
Journal of Saturday is silent on the sub
ject, from which we are disposed to be
lieve that the reports current in the city
are exaggerated, altho' there is no doubt
of the principal facts as stated.
(E?There is in the library of a gentle
man of New Haven, Connecticut, eight
volumes of the "Mercuric" the first news
paper ever established, comprising part
of the reign of James the 1st, Charles tho
J st, and the commonwealth under tho
protection of Cromwell and his son Ri
chard. The size of the paper is threo
inclies wide by seven long, and abounds
with quaint sayings and singular notices.
C?The bill to re-enact, with amend
ments, an act of the Legislature of this
State, incorporating the Greensville and
Roanoke Rail Road Company has pass
ed the Virginia Legislature. This road
will, we understand, commence at Wil
kins' Ferry on the Roanoke, and intersect
the Petersburg Road at Belfield.
Turn Out at Lowell.- 'The Boston
Transcript says: We learn that extraor
dinary excitement was occasioned at
Lowell last week, by an announcement
that the wages paid in some of the de
partments would be reduced 15 per cent,
on the first of March. The reduction
principally affected the femaje operatives
0L?The Cape Fear, Yadkin and Pedeo
Rail Road Company was yesterday or
ganized, by the election of James Sea
well, Hugh Campbell, Sen., Samuel F.
Patterson, Robert Macnamara, Edward
W. Willkings, Thomas N. Cameron and
Williamson Whitehead, Directors. By
the act of incorporation, the appointment
of the Directory gives immediate exist
ence to the Company. We are informed
that measures will be taken without de
lay, to commence this important work.
Fayellcmlle Obs.
(GA new blacksmiths' bellows has
been invented at Charleston, S. C. by a
Frenchman. It is so constructed as to
keep up the blast in ascending as well as
descending; they must come into general
use, as they enable the smith to use the
hard coal, and the blast can be regulated
to suit the convenience of the operation.
OT'Thc freedom of a negro lad, who
made exertions to save the Court-house
at Milledgeville from destructive fire, has
been purchased, by act of the Legisla
ture of Georgia for $1800.
OA man named Shrader, of Henry
county, Ky. after a drunken debauch,,
killed three of his children, and so shock
ingly abused his wife that slio is not cr
pQCfccd t0 recover..
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