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Tarborough, (Edgecombe County, A". G.) Friday, May 9, 1834.
Vol. X No. 34-.
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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
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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