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Jarftorozi-, (Edgecombe County, X. C.J Friday, August i, 1834.
Vol. XXo 46.
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When the populate found this out, they,
entered the Church in great numbers J
took the latter forcibly from the pulpit, J
conveyed him to the jail, threatening to!
tear it down if the jailor did not receive!
mm, locKert him up, and then returned ! notes, which lie got shaved in this city,
to the Church, broke the windows, tore jThe loss will probably fall on "entle-
uown uie pulpit and pews, and reduced
the edifice to a shell. ..iV. Y. Comm. Adv.
A Warning. Public sentiment runs
so strongly against llie Fanatics in New
York and elsewhere and especially the
riots in that city, speak a prophetic lan
guage lo them, which is sufficient to warn
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iuj inn iuiiiiiiicii. niucii as im: uuacKs
on African Churches, and on the persons'
offanaiic minister-, and of the negroes
of N. York, are to be regretted, yet the
Abolitionists should look to themselves
as the first movers of these attacks.
Tim Citizens of the South cannot see
without satisfaction the strong sentiment
which has been provoked by the
Anti -Slavery Society. May they not
trust to this sentiment for the means of
putting down the Fanatics of keeping
bright the chain of fellowship that binds
the North ami South together and of
savjfi ; the Union itself! Without such a
sympathy and fellowship, this blessed
Union must inevitably split into pieces.
Tin; effect of the excitement in New
Yo'k has been, to induce Williams (a
colored minister) to resign his member
ship of the Abolitionists Society to
compel Cox (another minister) to dis
claim ever having declared from his pul
pit 'hat the Saviour of man was a negro
and to induce Aithur Tappan, and six
others, members of the Executive Com
mi: lee of the A. S. Society, to address
Mr. Lawrtnce, the Miyorof N. York,
explicitly renouncing any claim to inter
fere with tiie "exclusive right" of any
State "to legislate in regard to abolition
in said State." Yet we -warn A. Tappan
and his associates further. They have
no right, whatever, to meddle with the
South upon the subject. Let them put
d'wu their Anti-Slavery Society, in any
for. n or modification, altogether. They
are quarks, who know but little or no
thing about the disease they profess to
remedy We consider their conduct as
the effect of a troublesome and imperti
nent spirit and only calculated to do
mischief among our slaves, and to create
heartburnings between the citizens of the
North and ourselves. . If A. Tappan
fc Co. do not choose to give their money
to the Colonization Society, be it so.
We have no right to complain of this
Thus Jar and no farther is it right, and
politic, and decent for them to proceed,
but we beg them in all other respects to
let its alone. They are absolutely blind,
and are not aware of the mischiefs they
are doing both to the North and to the
South. Rich. Enq.
Another Abolition Riot On Thurs
day night last, a riot took place at Nor
wich, Connecticut. It appears that some
person from Boston had the evening pre
vious preached an abolition sermon in the
Rev. Mr. Dickerson's First Presbyterian
Church in that city, which passed of' qui
etly. The next evening he made a sec
ond attempt when a mob, headed by a
band, marched to the church, proceeded
tip the broad aisle, took the parson from
the pulpit, and forced him to march be
fore them, at the same time playing the
rogue's march, till they actually drummed
him out of the place, threatening if ever
he returned again, to "give him a coat of
tar and feathers." Gazette.
Q7It appears, from the American Re
publican that the name of the white man
in Chester county, who advertised a short
time ago for a black wife, is Isaac Sheen,
of Uwclnn township. lie is an English
man by birth a stocking weaver by
trade; has never been naturalized, and
has been heard to say he never would be.
a few days ago, having forAt as we
learn, the signature of his father, Mr.
Edwin Powell, of his brother Mr. Wilson
Powell, and of Messrs. William R. John
son and Peterson Goodwin to negotiable
. sh;
ibly
men very capable of sustaining injuries
of the same sort.
We hear of the arrest of another indi
vidual charged with similar offences.
Compiler.
Death by Lightning. A Boston pa
per states that during a thunder storm on
the 10th instant, the lightning struck the
Roman Catholic Chapel in Charlestown,
in which a school was kept, and killed
three boys from 13 to 15 years of age,
and stunted several others.
G7Tho infuriated mob, (luring their
attack upon Mr. Tappan's house on Wed
nesday night, were for a moment arres
ted in their work of destruction upon the
furniture by the discovery, that they were
about committing to the flames fhe 'like
ness of Washington' a general cry was
sent forth; "it is Washington; in the
name of Cod don't burn Washington."
It is unnecessary to add that the painting
was borne off in triumph by the popu
lace. iV. Y. Merc. Adv.
Riot at Newark, N. J. It seems that
the Rev. Mr. Weeks, who has been re
cently inoculated with the amalgamation
infection, introduced a colored man into
his pulpit on Friday evening, against the
previously ascertained will of the people.
0C?"Mr. 11. II. Madra has issued pro
posals to publish at Morganton, Burke
county, a periodical, to be entitled the
"Mountain Sprout." Our intimate
knowledge of Mr. M. enables us to say
that his talents and skill will render the
proposed publication an ornament to the
periodical press of the State. The poli
tics of the paper will conform to the Re
publican standard of 'W...OiJord Exam.
A Mormon Battle. We learn from
Missouri, that a body of well armed Mor
mons, led by their great prophet Joe
Smith, lately attempted to cross the river
into Jackson county. A party of the
citizens of Jackson county opposed their
crossing, and a battle ensued, in which
Joe Smith received a wound, of which he
died a few days afterwards. The Mor
mons were obliged lo retreat... Ral. Star.
The wall and roof of two brick tene
ments, fronting the basin, in Richmond,
Va. occupied as a grocery and warehouse,
fell in on the 14th inst. burying under
their ruins several individuals, who were
in them at the time of the unfortunate
occurrence; all of whom, however, except
a negro boy, were extricated alive. The
accident was produced by an attempt to
let down the lower floor to a level with
the street, which had been recently cut
down. ib.
Mr. Thomas Allen, of York county,
Va. was shot through the heart in the
streets of Hampton, on the 16th instant,
by Maj. John B. Cooper, and instantly
expired. The unhappy affair grew out
of a difference which had long existed be
tween the parties respecting the Hamp
ton Academy.
The scene was rendered peculiarly af
fecting by the circumstance that the de
ceased had just arrived in town with his
family, with the intention of taking a trip
in the steam boat, which was going on a
party of pleasure to the capes; that the
tragical affair took place within 80 yards
from the house at which he had just left
his wife; & that his two little sons were
standing by, and as soon as the pistol
was presented, uttered a cry of terror and
ran off exclaiming, "Old he is going to
shoot father!" ib.
tt?"The Patriotic Bank at Washington
City has resumed specie payments.
Tennessee Convention. The Nash
ville Banner, of June 24th, says: "Sever
al important principles have been virtu
ally settled by the Convention, viz:
That free white population shall form the
basis of representation that a property
qualification in representation shall be
dispensed with that no qualification of
age (after twenty-one) shall be required
that the number of members in both
Houses of the Legislature shall be grad-
tmlly increased." The Republican, of
the 2Gth, says the Convention rejected
the proposition to give the Governor a
Veto power.
Death by Lightning. Mr. John Futch,
of this county, was killed by lightning on
the 10th insi. He was about 43 years of
age and had no family. Wil. Press.
A child was destroyed by Laudanum
in this town, a short lime since. The
mother had gone out on some business
and left the infant in charge of the nurse,
who to quiet its complaining, administer
ed laudanum. Wc make this statement
as a warning to the careless. Such ac
cidents art; frequent, and too much cau
tion cannot be exercised, in placing rued
icine out of the reach of those unacquain
ted with their effects. ib.
Richmond, July 15. Thomas C.
Powell, keeper of the Eagle Hotel in this
city, and late of Petersburg, absconded
West Point Academy. The Report
of the Board of Visiters of the Military
Academy at West Point, has been pub
lished. It comprises a short general Re
port, signed by the Board; four reports,
from distinct committees, on internal po
lice, course of studies, military affairs, and
fiscal concerns, and a paper signed by
John ll amm, Esq. a member of the Board
from Ohio, and hate U. S. Charge at Chili,
stating his individual objection to the
principles upon which the Academy is
organized. Two other members,
Messrs. Smyth and Scott, appear to
entertain doubts on the same points.
In giving their signatures to the general
Report, they append a note, declining to
express an opinion upon that part of it in
which the Institution is commended as a
valuable and essential part of the Army
establishment of the United States.
The sub-reports are in the highest de
gree favorable to the administration and
condition of the Academy. Every thing
is commended, in the discipline, deport
ment, and proficiency of the officers and
cadets. Some deficiencies in the artille
ry are pointed out, and the inadequacy of
the buildings in several particulars is no
liced, with a recommendation for the en
largement of those used for the lodgings
of the cadets, and the erection of a new
fire proof building to contain rooms for
the library, the philosophical apparatus,
i he chemical laboratory, and the museum,
with suitable halls for lectures.
The erection of an astronomical ob
servatory is one of the suggestions of the
committee an the course of study. They
also advise greater attention to the in
structions in belles IpttPra nn,l thf. addi
tion to the present subjects of study, of a
course of cavalry tactics.
1 lie expenditures of the institution are
drawn from two sources the general ap
propriation tor the support ot i tie army
out of which the pay and subsistence of
the cadets and their officers are defrayed; j
and the specific nnnronriation for thi
i r r i -
Military Academy, which is applied to the
particular objects of the Institution, in
eluding the increase of the library and
apparatus, repairs, &c. of buildings and
other contingencies. The average of the
sums expended out of the first fund has,
for the last four years, been 893,566 52,
and out of the second fund 823,500.
The whole average cost has therefore
been 8117,16552.
There is in the hands of the financial
agents of the Academy, an unexpended
balance of appropriations amounting to
S3,764 87, a fact which the committed
considers a strong evidence of the econo
my with which its affairs are administered;
It ought to be mentioned that Mr.
Hamm, in his card, takes two specific
objections to the principles which have
prevailed, in respect to the Academy.
He objects to the power of selection
which resides in the Members of Con
gress, which he charges as a fruitful souice
of favoritism; and to the exclusive right
to promotion in the army, enjoyed by
graduates of West Point. Bait. Am.
Distressing Accident. We an; in
form by a gentleman who came off th
steamer Lancaster last evening, (on her
way up) that yesterday iiie20h, sometime
in the day, the passengers of that boat
were called td witness one of the most
awful scenes that could bo imagined.
By some mishap or other, a Mr. Wilson
VVatly, of the cabin, while passing through
the engine house was caught by the fly
wheel, and instantaneously severed iri
two by the irresistable force of that pow
erful machine; his head, arms and breast
were found in the hold, and the other part
of his body still hung above. This un
fortunate man, we are informed, was oa
his way home to Evahsville, la.
Illinois pr.
A Valuable Hint. A writer in tho
Boston Medical and Surgical Journal,
Dr. Comstock of Lebanon, (Ct.) furnish
es an interesting article on the mode of
extracting foreign substances which have
been introduced into the ear. He says
that he once knew an instance of a lady
in whose auditory passage a btlg had
flown, whose anguish proceeding from
the motion and noise of the insect, was
beyond all former experience or present
endurance. She described the noise
while the insect was in her ear, as ex
ceeding the falling ofa mountain, or tho
crash of thunder, whilst its motion gave
pain unutterable. The writer recom
mends that the feather end of a quill from
a raven, goose or eagle, smeared in hon
ey, should be introduced into the ear,
which will immediately stop the hum of a
bug, or the buzz of a fly, and extract it.
If the substance to be extracted is a cher
ry stone, or shot, or kernel of corn, can
died honey may be preferable to that di
rectly from the hive, because mure tena
cious and adhesive, and there may be
cases where something more adhesive
than honey can be used with propriety.
But by dipping the feather end of a quill
into the latter, introducing it into the ear,,
and turning it round, every substance
which lies loosely in the passage may be
extracted. This will supercede the use
of forceps, and do away the barbarous
term, and more barbarous operation, of
auricular lithority.
The Cholera still prevails to some ex
tent in the Western States, but its rava
ges are most severely felt on the lower
part of the Mississippi.
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