' IV hole Yo. o02. hmw mi mm m. arrrcmamn Tarborough, (Edgecombe County, A". G.) Friday, May 9, 1834. Vol. X No. 34-. 7Vie iTurborouh Free. Press" BY UEORUE HOWARD, Is pu!)lihcd weekly, at Tvjo Dollars and Fifty Cent per year, if paid in advance or, Three Dol lar, at the expiration of the subscription vear. For any period less than a year, TvJcnty-Jive' Cents per mciuh. Subscribers are at liberty to discontinue at any time, on givinj; notice thereof and paving arrears thoe rcvidnss at a distance must invariably pay in adv.tnce.or give a responsible reference in this vicinity. Advertisements, rut exceeding 16 lines, will be in serted at 50 cents the first insertion, and 25 cents each continuance. Longer ones at that rate for every 16 line. Advertisements must be marked the number ot i;i'Ki:)us required, or they will be continued until otherwise ordered, and charged accordingly. Letter addressed to the Editor must be post paid, or they may not be attended to. Superior Court. The week was oc cupied by several highly interesting cau ses, Judge Settle presiding. This is the first time the Judge has visited this sec lion of the Slate, since his promotion to the Bench, and we speak the sentiments' of our cummuniiy, when we say, no Judge has ever given more satisfaction fur his prompt and enlightened decisions as well as the urbanity of his manners. The criminal Elijah Hawkins, was put upon his trial for killing Green Mills, both free persons of color, and found guilty of murder in the first degree. Sen tence of Death was pronounced upon him by Judge S. in a truly feeling and ap propriate manner. The day for carrying into effect the sentence of "law, is fixed on 23d May new. Halifax Adv. Latejrom Africa. By the arrival of l ho ship Jupiter, at New York, thirty days from Liberia, letters have been re ceived announcing the death of Mrs. Wright, wife of one of the Methodist mis sionaries, on the 9th February last; and also of Mr. Savage, the young gentleman sent out last year by the Presbyterian Church, who died of the fever on the 8th February. From the intelligence re ceived by this arrival, it appears that the general health of the colony is good, &, its affairs prosperous; that a wide field for missionary labors is opening in Africa, and that the prospect of success is be coming more and more encouraging. The natives in the different towns on the coast are, most of them, anxious to be instructed in our language. About one hundred miles in the interior, is a town of four or five thousand inhabitants, in the dominion of King Boatswain, who has put himself under the protection of the Colony, and requested that his people might be educated saying he will do all m can to encourage a school, in the town, if white men will go there and es tablish one. The climate is very heal thy there, and the country far more pleas ant than at Monrovia interspersed with mountains and valleys, with running brooks, and large streams, and numer ous springs of clear fresh water all of which are seldom seen on the coast; and when the people from thence visit the colony they take the fever like the Amer icans. Ral Star. ting, as he had the strongest conviction of its correctness, that it should not be altered. For, says he, "I am quite will ing to meet ridicule, censure, and even angry abuse and contempt, because I conceive I am doing a duty. The only material, I believe the only changes, are 1. a single " fur a 7" not accented. 2. "e" omitted at the end of such words as "discipline." 3. the silent e" omitted in such words as "suppressed" &c. I call them, you see, mUptllings and tnis orthography, to accommodate others. I hold them to be the true spelling, and do trot doubt they will ultimately be adorn ed." ib. The Polish Emigrants. The Com mon Council of New York have taken steps to ascertain the circumstances of the Polish exiles, recently landed in that city from the Austrian frigates, and to advise measures for their relief, as far as they may need it. The New York A merican states that these unfortunate men have been brought to this country, not only without their consent, as it Is understood, but protesting solemnly a gainst being forcibly torn from Europe, and thrown destitute upon a land of whose language they are ignorant, and where they will be without any means of subsis tence. It is stated that they were gath ered together from different parts of Aus tria passed from brigade to brigade down to Trieste, and there, being each furnished with a great coat, a pair of trowsers, and one or two other necessa ries, sent on board the frigates and thus were brought away forcibly from Eu rope. They are each to receive here a sum of about 22: there is only one fe male, seven or eight officers and the rest soldiers. OjGeorge Stebbing, who, some months since, was arrested and commit ted to the jail at Port Deposile, on the .barge of the murder of Miss Evelina Cunningham, in 1825, has been tried and acquitted. But the Cecil Republican states that the nature of the evidence was uch as to leave on the minds of all who were present at the trial a very strong Oispicion of his guilt; and almost imme diatrly after he was discharged, he was "Sain arrested and committed on a charge of stealing lumber. ib. Improvement in Orthography. The Hon. Thomas S. Grimke, of South Car olina, recently delivered an eloquent for ensic speech against the constitutionality ot tho Test Oath; and having prepared a for the press, he calls the attention of the editor, in an accompanying note, to u peculiar method of spelling, reoues- A Hard Case. Amongst the peti tions presented to the present Lecisla- iture, is that of an unfortunate husband for divorce from his wife, who appears to have left him almost before the honey moon was over, because she .could not love him. The young couple were mar ried in July last, & according to the state ment of the gentleman at whose house they were married, and in whose family the lady had previously lived, the bride accompanied her husband to his house about a mile and a half distant, but in four or five days returned in great dis tress, declaring that she had no affection for her husband, and that the thoughts of spending her life with him was painful and repulsive. All that could be said to her was of no avail to quiet her feelings; and soon after she declared that she had made up her mind to leave him, and ac cordingly her husband returned her with her goods and chattels to the house whence he took her, with the hope that time and the counsels of her friends might influence her to a different state of mind. He subsequently called once or twice but found no alteration in her feel ings; and has therefore petitioned the Legislature to set him and his hardhear ted fair one free from the bonds of mat rimony. The petition is accompanied by the certificate of the Methodist min ister of the circuit that at a class meeting on the 11th August, 1833, the lady allu ded to, expressed her feelings towards her husband, and gave them as her sole reason for leaving him, declaring that he had used her well in every respect. Her husband is a member of the same church in good standing The minister, after endeavouring in vain to bring her mind to a better state excluded her from the church. The Legislature adopting the princi ple on which our laws are based, that there is but one crime which will justify divorce, refused the .prayer of the peti tioner and no doubt decided wisely for the good of the community, though, per haps, tjnhappily for the parties. It is worthy of notice that the lady ex pressly declares that she was induced to marry by the advice and influence of oth- i ers; and the result may serve as asaluta ry caution to those (and they are not few tn number or over modest in there inter modling) who are disposed to judge what is for the happiness of othersand to place their judgment above that oflhe parties themselves. No doubt there is a just and necessary right in parents and guardians to use a certain degree of in fluence to prevent ill assorted marriages; but when they or any other persons exer cise power or influence to form connex ions against the free and unbiassed incli nations of either party, they assume a re sponsibility of which they know not the weight, and to which they can have no pretence of claim. American Adv. K?A meeting was held at Chapel Hill, on the 5th ult. at which Resolutions were passed, expressing a determination not to support for the Legislature any Candi date opposed to the State taking shares in incorporated Companies for the pur pose of Internal Improvement; and pro posing a County Convention, to be held at Hillsborough, for the purpose of nom inating suitable Candidates for the next Legislature. (ErA serious riot (says the Boston Post) took place among the labourers on the Railroad, in Mansfield, on Mon day. About four hundred of them struck for higher wages, armed themselves with clubs, and attacked one of the contrac tors, whose life was put in imminent per il. The High Sheriff of Norfolk, with the assistance of a company of militia, succeeded in arresting nine of the ring leaders, who were lodged in the jail at Dedham. Mr. L. Sweet, n Deputy Sher iff oflhe county, also called a company of militia, and arrested six of the rioters, who were also committed to jail on Tuesday. The militia remained under arms until Tuesday, when order was ful ly restored. CTVi black fellow having been arres ted in Alb any on Tuesday week, on a claim that he was a slave, about a hun dred blacks assembled and rescued him from th constable, They secured the black fellow, piuccd him in a wagon, and drove off. Horrible Barbarity. The conflagra tion of the house occupied by Madam Lalaurie in Hospital street, has been the means of discovering one of those atroci ties, the details of which seem to be too incredible for human belief. We would shrink from the task of detailing the pain ful circumstances connected therewith, were it not that a sense of duty, and the necessity of exposing and holding up to the public indignation such a wretch as the perpetrator, renders it indispensable for us to do so. The flames having spread with alarm ing rapidity, and the horrible suspicion being entertained among the spectators; that some of the inmates of the premises where it originated, were incarcerated therein, the doors were forced open for the purpose of liberating them. Previ ous however, to taking this liberty, (if liberty itcan be called) several gentlemen impelled by their feelings of humanity, demanded the keys, which were refused them in a gross and insulting manner. Upon entering one of the apartments, the most appalling spectacle met their eyes. Seven slaves more or less horribly muti lated, were seen suspended by the neck, with their limbs apparently stretched and torn from one extremity to the other. Language is powerless and inadequate to give a proper conception of the horror which a scene like this must have tnspir ed. Vc shall not attempt it, but rather to the reader's imagination topic ture what it was! These slaves were the property of the demon, in the shape of a woman, whom we mentioned in th beginning of this ar ticle. They had been confined by her for several monlis in the situation from which they had thus providentially been rescued, and had bcwi merely kept iu existence to prolong their sufferings and to make them taste all that the most re fined cruelty could inflict. But why dwell upon such aggravating and painful particulars! We feel confident that the community share with us our indignation, and that vengeance will fall, heavily fall upon the guilty culprit. Without being superstitious, we cannot but regard the manner in which these atrocities have been brought to light, as an especial in terposition of heaven. Since the above was in type, the popu lace have repaired to the house of this woman, and have demolished and de stroyed every thing upon which thev could lay their hands. At the time of inditing this, the fury of the mob remain ed still unabated, and threatens the total demolition of the entire edifice. New Orleans Bee. A Counterfeiter. Thomas D. Condy, Esq. U. S. District Marshall, arrived iu this city yesterday, from Greenville, via the Rail Road, having in custody a per son named David Twitty, charged with counterfeiting Bills on the Bank of the United States. Twitty will be brought up for trial before the Federal Court, which commences its session in this city, on the 23d Juno next. We were favored with a sight of two of the counterfeits, one a 10 Bill of the Branch Bank at Nashville, (Term.) the other a $10 Bill of the mother Bank at Philadelphia, both of which were well executed, and calculated to impose upon any who were not good judges. Charleston Courier. C?An individual named Williams was recently tried in Luzerene county, Penn sylvania, for sending a written challenge to Capt. John Charles, of the same coun ty, to fight a duel with pistols. It ap pears that Williams, who is a man of not very good character, was at the time somewhat excited with liquor, and had hung about a Justice's office nearly all day, for i he purpose of intercepting and fighting Capt. Charles, who was expected there to enter a complaint against him for another offence. Towards night he sent the challenge, and was arrested and bound over to Court. The evidence a gainst him was so clear, that the jury could not avoid returning a verdict of guil ty; and the Court sentenced him to one year's confinement in the penitentiary, to pay a fine of 500 dollars to the Common wealth, and the costs of prosecution. By the law, the Court could not sentence him to a less severe punishment. ft? A daring outrage was committed at Columbia (Tennessee) on the night of the 11th instant, on the person of P. W. Porter, Esq. Cashier of the Union Bank. About ten o'clock on that night, when but a few steps from the bank, he receiv ed a violent blow on the head and a stab in the side, which rendered him insensi ble. The keys of the bank were then taken from his pocket, the vault entered, and 819.G00 taken therefrom. Mr. Por ter was accidentaly discovered, a short time afterwards, and when spoken to (bought himself sick, and was not con scious of having been seriously hurt until he was brought to the light. Ho could recollect nothing of being knocked down. Cure for a Rim in the eue of a Horse f . v w or Ox. Put into the ear opposite the ... f injured eye, a table spoon full of soft lard. This has" it is said cured several in 24 leave itf hours time. (Undertake not what you cannot per.' form: but carefully keep your promise

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