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Tarborough, (Edgecombe County,. X. V.) Friday, April 4, 1834
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Outrage. -In tlic late Southern pa
pcrs, we find a statement, signed by the
passengers rind officers of the brig LOneo
miuin, wrecked lately on her passage
from Charleston to New Orleans, giving
an account of the inhuman treatment they
experienced at Nassau, N. P. Among
the passengers were Haynes and John
Waddcll,. Esqrs. of Wilmington, N. C.
It appears that besides every indignity
that could be offered, 45 slaves, the prop
erty of the passengers, were seized by
the Governor, and declared free, and
when some of them, tired of their liberty,
relumed to their masters, and begged to
be brought back to the United States,
their owners were threatened that if they
presumed to remove the negroes they
would be hanged." The authorities of
the place also threatened to fire into the
vessel in which they were conveyed to
Nassau. The passengers call loudly up
on the government to resent the indigni
ty and wrong which they have suffered.
The friends of the Messrs. Waddell will
fiad the full account at this office. We
have not room to publish it entire.
Fatettcvillc Obs.
seription, on one side, "Let love abide
forever;'1 and this will doubtless cause
her to be known.
The Cholera. We regret to learn
from a letter received in this city, from a
gentleman residing in La Grange, Ten
nessee, as well as from some of our ex
change paper?, that this dreadful disease
has again commenced its ravages on the
-Mississippi river. The steamer Hudson,
on her late passage from New-Orleans
to Louisville, lost several, of her passen
gers by it. Raltigh Star.
(tTAt the lnte Term of Surry Superior
Court, Benton C. Stoncstreel was sen
tenced by Judge Strange to six months
imprisonment, for the crime of man
slaughter upon the body of Cornel Jones.
i ne extreme youtn or me prisoner is
supposed to have influenced the Court in
fixing so light a punishment. The Sal
isbury Watchman says: "we have seldom
heard a finer specimen of eloquence, than
the address of the Court to the prisoner
in pronouncing sentence. lb.
(t?"Thomas W. Harris, charged with
he murder pf Junius V. Fenner, in Lex
ington, Ky. has been tried & acquitted. .ib.
Despatch of Business. A Mr. Gore,
of Bellville, N. Y. complains that a pub
lic print in that region, in announcing his
marriage, did him injustice by slating
that it took place "after a long and te
dious courtship of three days." He says:
"I consider it derogatory to my character,
and an insult to my dignity, to have spent
so much time in. the vain and frivolous
business of courting. Why, in fact, sir,
it was but three hours.11 ib"
0C?F1ouf sold in Alexandria, D. C, on
the 14th inst. from the wagons, at $3 75
per barrel; which is said to be lower than
it was ever before known to sell in that
place.
Riot A Mobile paper of the Gth inst.
says: We lourn that on Saturday night
last, a disturbance, which resulted in a
serious riot, broke. out among the Stu
dents of the University. The dwelling
of the President was attacked, the win
dows of the Professors broken in, and
several fire arms discharged. We did
not learn that personal injury was sus
tained by any of the parlies, nor does our
informant know tlx; particular cause of
the disturbance, or in what manner it
was quelled. We wait with anxiety for
the particulars of this disgraceful affair,
which will doubtless be furnished by our
next advices from Tuscaloosa.
CTThe Philadelphia papers slate that
the chains, locks, and rivets, of the mail
b;io;s containing the southern and the en
tire south-western mail, were taken from
the wreck of the steamboat William
Pent), and brought to the Post Office in
that ciiy. This mail is supposed to have
been valuable.
During the nnxieiy to escape from the
steamboat, a lady presented herself at the
hows with a very young child, and a gen
tleman ottered to assist her. He took
the infant, wrapped it carefully in his
large cloak, and called to a person stand
ing in the mud to catch it. The person
addressed did not probably attend to the
call. The little child was thrown into
the marsh. The gentleman, however,
supposing the infant safe, helped the
mother to get on shore. Thai being ac
complished, the child was not to be
found; but as it had been directed to
somebody, there was no doubt but it
would soon appear, and the mother was
removed. Afterwards a person discov
ering the cloak, thought to rescue it from
the tide, when, to his utter astonishment,
he perceived that it contained a living
child. He conveyed it to careful hands;
find the next morning it was restored to
the anxious mother.
It is stated that the lady whose dead
body was found near that of the Rev.
Mr. Moore, was not his wife, and that
she is not known to his friends here, tho'
they believe she was travelling under his
care. On one of the fingers of her right
hand was found a gold ring, with the in-
Divorce. A bill has passed the Sen
ale of Ohio, authorizing the Supreme
Court of that Stale to grant a divorce in
case of "fraud in the contract, habitual
drunkenness for two years; or tolul gross
neglect of duty.
Good! We heard yesterday of a cou
ple of singular marriages which took
place not long since in O amden. A gen
tleman not arrived at his grand clim'acter-
ick, but old enough to have a -son grtwn"
dp to man's-estate, fell in love witha
beautiful young girl of 17, to whom he
told a soft and tender tale, which moved
her to become his bride. H is son resen
ted at first an action so incongruous, and
made the nuptial tie a jest among his
companions. Shortly afterwards, how
ever, he learnt the fact that his step-mother
was the only daughter of a hand
some rich widow, when he immediately
paid them a visit. Strange to tell, he
was . captivated with his mother-in-law's
mother, (a pretty looking woman of 32.)
She consented to the match, and they
were married a week afterwards! Sun.
A Retreat. On Monday afternoon, as
a carman was harnessing his horse in
the rear of 365 Monroe street, the animal
evinced a disposition to refuse the ad
mission of the bits between his teeth.
The carman struck him a blow over the
head which caused him to "back up"
against the door of the house, which not
being fastened, immediately opened, and
Bucephalus immediately wheeled and
walked in. The carman followed, and
the horse retreated up' stairs.. The car
man followed on, again, and the fright
ened. animal retreated up second pair
of atairs,and entered the chamber, to the
no small fright of five or six clever old
ladies, who were standing around the bed
discussing the merits of a new bonnet
which had just been brought in from I he
milliner's. "Murderation! what's thai!"
said one of them, as the animal poked
his head round the corner of the hih
bed post and smash went the new bon
net on to the floor, while the Indies!
sprang to the farthest corner of the room. I
By this "time the carman entered the
room, and explained the whole affair.
liy the assistance of the neighbors, with
ropes, &c. the animal was safely conduc
ted down stairs, where he stood for some
time, with a most solemn look at the car
manas much as to say, "I guess, if you
dont want I should go up stairs asainV
you'd better treat me rrtore gently." ib.
I
Robbery. A young Englishman, who
had been but a short time in this country,
and had converted all his effects and mo
ney into gold, which was carefully placed
in his trunk, in the American Hotel, in
the room in which he lodged, and the
key of which he had; discovered! to his
surprise, yesterday morning, that his
trunk had been opened, and his money
taken out. It consisted of 77 gold sove:
reigns, 4 doubloons, - 1 eagle and 1 half
eagle, besides some other coin, in all,
nearly $500. He lias no suspicion of
any one except th; chambermaid, who
had a key of her own, got in, in his ab
sence, and made up his bed; -and as she
left the house forthwith without any no
tice of her previous intention to do so, it
creates a well grounded suspicion that
she may be the perpetrator. A7. 0.Bce.
Singular Circumstance. A young la
dy at Bristol was struck in the face (some
years since) by a snow ball, which bruis
ed her face much, but it soon got well;
ever since, in snowy weather, a redness
appears, and clear water runs down her
face in large drops, so as to wet a napkin
very soon; medical advice is to no pur
pose; yet in fine 'weather it dries up, and
her dace appears as if nothing had been
the matter.
Recipe for Scarlet Fever. Tho New
York Commercial Advertiser says that a
"
mixture of Cayenne Pepper, Salt and
Vinegar, as a gargle, has been used with
good effect in that city.-.
Fatal Mistake On Saturday . ven
mg, the son of Ehsha Nnrcross, of this
city, a fine boy, eleven years-old, took ill,
and his mother wished to administer mag
nesia lohim. She thought he had some
in the house, and having searcheil for it,
found it, as she imagined, in a bottle, from
.which she look the necessary quantity
and gave it to the child, immediately
he complained of internal pain, which tho
mothe attributed to the effects of the
magnesia; but the child became so rapid
ly worse, and so convulsed with torture,
that she thought it necessary to call in a
physician, who on being shown the sup
posed magnesia, pronounced it to he' ar
senic. It was then too late to attempt
c!kuinv Ka.p. ." I l. .1 I.. . f
o.iwuiij uicaiiiiu a nie, uuu ne snomy al
ter expired. ib, -
The way to Jill a store. Gmnt Thor-
burn, in his Autobiography, recently pub
lished in London, says, that he commen
ced the hardware business once, in this
eity, with about 250 capital.' The
goods made no show, so he . procured
blocks, square and round, wrapped them
in iron-mongers paper, and tying a knife
and fork, scissors, and divers other arti
cles, to them as specimens, soon filled hi9
shelves, and "made, a great display.
Meanwhile he kept what he could afford
to buy in a glass case, on his counter,
and never had occasion to disnlace iho-
covered blocks, until he was able to do it
with real goods, bought and paid for out
of i he treasured earnings of his small re
tail business. ib.
d'Wo regret to learn that one of the
Baltimore banks has failed. The Board
of Directors of the Bank of Maryland
have given notice that; being unable to
proceed with the business of the institu
tion, they are resolved to transfer its ef
fects to a trustee for the equal benefit of
the creditors of the Bank. The Board
expresses a hope that the assets will be
sufficient to discharge all thedebts of the
Bank; and advise its creditors not to sac
rifice their claims. Pet. Int.
C7The Grand Lodge of Rhode Island
has come to a determination to give up
its charter; and likewise to recommend
all subordinate Lodges throughout the
State, to surrender their acts of incorpo
ration also. ib.
A Foundling. A female infant, about
six weeks old, was yesterday found in a
basket deposited on the stoop of a house
in the neighborhood of the City Hall, and
was taken to the. Alms House to be pro
vided for. Some time previous, a lady
of fortune, who 'had lost several children
by death, had made application to Col.
Mann, the Alms House agent, for permis
sion to adopt some one of the foundlings
that should be brought .to that institu
tion, to which proposition he assented.
Yesterday afternoon she was sent for, re
ceived the little treasure, and declared,
her intention of giving it such an educa
tion as should in after years render it a
useful member of society.
Neih York Paper.
Horrid Accident. A most distressing
accident occurred in Wiochindnn (Mass.)
Factory, on the24h ult. The following
particulars we get from a letter from that
place, lo a gentleman in this town: A
mos Adams, a young man about J 8 years
of age, one of the card strippers, in at
tempting to unwind a belt which had got
wound up round the main line of a shaft,
(a three inch shaft, whiehwe are inform
ed revolves more than a hundred times a
minute,) in the card room, caught his
fingers under the strap. His right arm
was wound round and round the shaft,
breaking it in four places, smashing tho
collar bone, and. 'drawing the shoulder
from its socket. In the fright and con
sternation of the moment, most of the
girls stopped their machinery, thereby in
creasing the speed of the shaft. In this
horrid situation he was carried round
from 50 to 100 times, with the .haft ev
ery revolution doubling his body, and
threshing his legs against the floor above,
and then against the cards below, break-
ing one of his thighs in two places, and
knocking his feet to pummice. iicg
case was beyond surgical skill, aD'cl in
operation was performed. He survived
the accident seven hours. His nd was
uninjured, and he retained his mental fa
culties perfect, to tho last. He bore his
misery with the most astonishing forti
tude, and related all the circumstances of
the case with great coolness.'" He seein-
fed to take a kind of satisfaction in look
ing at his mangled limbs, and every now
and then his head, at his own request, was
raised up for that purpose.
Dunstable Teh
Anecdote of Lorenzo Dow. Tr is rela
ted of this departed servant of God, that
being one evening at a hotel kept by one
Bush, in Delhi, New York, the residenco
of the celebrated Gen. Hoot, he was im
portuned by the latter gentleman, in the
presence of the landlord, to describe.hea
ven. 'You say a great deal of that place,'
said the general, 'tell us how it looks.
Lorenzo turned his grave face, and long,
waving beard, towards Messrs. ttoot and
Bush, and replied with imperturbable
gravity: 'Heaven, friends, is a vast ex
tent of smooth, rich territory; there is
not a root no'r a busk in it, and there ne
ver will be.'