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TarWo,, (Edgecombe County, X. C.) Friday, October 17, 1834.
Vol. X JVo. rG.
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Singular Phenomenon. About the
latter end of July last, on a very rainy
day, a singular occurrence was experi
enced in the vicinity of this place, (Jeffer
son, Ashe county, N. C.) On the acliviiy
of a considerable mountain, (a spur of the
Phoenix,) about 5U yarus from a creek of
the same name, which washes the foot of
the lull, a discharge of water from the
clouds struck the surface of the moun
tain, and swept every thing in its way to
the creek. The whole surface, including
large trees and every rock that could be
moved, was swept from the solid rock
foundation of the mountain, and hurled
in a confused mass into the creek below.
A few days after the occurrence, the
place was visited by some scientific gen
tlemen, who happened ut that time to
sojourn here, und they came to the con
clusion, that it was, what naturalists call
:i "Water Spout," some of which writers
on such phenomena describe as descend
ing from the clouds to the earth, as well
os those familiarly known to seamen as
fending from the surface of the ocean to
the clouds. On hearing the strange sto
ry related, the writer ofthis supposed that
the water had issued from the bowels of
the mountain, but on a strict examina
tion, no indications are found to strength
en that belief; on the contrary every in
dication is in favor of the opinion that the
water descended from the clouds; in
truth there can be no doubt of the fact.
The causes that produced such an effect
are not unworthy the research of Natural
Philosophy.
No contemplative mind can witness
the scene now presented at the spot with
out amazement. Lofty oaks of two feet
in diameter, rocks of perhaps two tons
weight, d ished promiscuously from the
surface of the hill into the creek below,
while the trees left standing, on each side
of the tract of the moving mass, show
that the water and rubbish passing them
rose to the height of from 15 to 20 feet.
It is said by the native mountaineers
that such things have several limes oc
curred within the last 30 or 40 years.
They call it a "cloud falling," i. e. they
say here a "cloud fell," or "here a cloud
broke."
A gentleman who passed the scene
above mentioned, a few minutes after the
occurrence, says that for some distance
from the place, he discovered a strong
stench of sulphur. Salem Reporter.
Extensive Robbery. The New York
Commercial Advertiser says: Mr. Win.
C. Patterson, of Stokes county, North
Carolina, lately had his pocket book,
containing thirty-one $J00 hills and one
320 bill of the Bank of the United States
and its branches, cut from the breast
pocket of his coat, in the crowd leaving
the Park Theatre. He had no con
sciousness of his loss till his arrival at
his lodgings, (Orange County Hotel,) in
Courtlaud street, where his attention was
directed to the condition of his coal by
the bar-keeper. He offers a reward of
85U0 for the recovery of the money.
Sudden Death. A distressing scene
occurred, at the second door from our of
fice, about four o'clock last Sunday mor
ning Mrs. Dean, wife of William Dean,
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eat her supper heartily, the night before,
and went to bed as usual without com
plaining. She got up on Sunday morn
tag with an infant about five months old,
in her arms; and in walking across
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house she fell, and before a light could
be procured, the breath had left her for
ever! A physician was immediately call
ed in but all attempts at resuscitation
proved abortive: Her spirit had taken
its flight, and left the clay tenement for
thoughtless mortals to gafce upon, and
remember the shortness, and uncertain
ty of human life! We may dance one mo
ment and cease to breathe the next! "In
the midst of life we are in death."
Greensboro1 Patriot.
tt?"Thc Salisbury Watchman says,
"We are requested to state that Com of
the new crop, is selling in the neighbor
hood of Lexington, at 20 cents per bushel.
Murder. -The Kutherfordton Specta
tor of the 27lh ult. gives the particulars
of an outrageous murder committed by
John Garrett, upon the person of his father-in-law,
William Shroud, of Muddy
Creek, Burke; county, by shooting him
through the side w ith n rifle gun, on Mon
day, the 22d ult. Shroud lived only a
few minutes. Garrett is a young man
aged about 28. It is said he has before
displayed a violent temper, and threaten
ed the life of the old man; and on the
whole sustained a worthless character.
The old man was in easy circumstances
and respected. Garrett made his es
cape and has not been taken, although
efforts are being made to apprehend
him. The cause of dispute was the refu
sal of Shroud to pay a note of one of his
sons who had left the country, and whose
debts he had assumed, which he declared
and judgment of the Court in order to
bring a writ of Error thereon, returnable
in the Court of Errors of this State.
This motion has been within a few days
past decided, and of course writs in slave
cases are declared by the Supreme Court
to be unconstitutional and that decision
appears to be final.
Some of the slaves have been removed
on the requisition of the Governors of the
several States on the ground of criminal
offences a few others remain. The law
will now take its course the Constitu
tion be vindicated and our Southern
friends may be assured that the people
of the Northern and Eastern Stales will
carry into effect with honesty and sincer
ity, the common contract under which
wo have so long lived in honor abroad
and prosperity at home.
iV. Y. Mcr. Advertiser.
to be forged.
Ocracohe Light House is undergoing
the repairs rendered necessary by the
late accidental fire, and the light has
consequently been discontinued. The
Superintendent of lights mentions a
month or two as the time "probably" ne
cessary to complete the repairs.
Aeicbcrn Spectator.
(DThe Nashville Banner publishes a
list of the Members of the late Conven
tion of Tennessee, with a statement of
the places of their birth; from which it
appears that 22 are natives of Tennessee;
17 of Virginia; 12 of North Carolina; 2
of Kentucky; 2 of Pennsylvania; 2 of
Ireland; 1 of Georgia; 1 of Connecticut;
and 1 of Massachusetts. The following
are the names of those from North Caro
lina, together with the counties of their
nativity:
Ifuli C. Armstrong;. Surry county.
Kobei t M. Burton, Granville..
Willie Blount, Pitt.
Newton Cannon, Guilford.
Wm. G. Childress, county not stated.
James Gray, Montgomery.
Isaac Hill, Kdgecombe.
Andrew A. Kincannon, Surry.
Peter Kendall, Montgomery.
James W. Smith, Granville.
Wm. C. Smartt, Mecklenburg.
Isaac Walton, Gates.
V7" lady of much beauty, at Brigh
ton, having been "crossed in love," has
shut1" herself up in total darkness for the
last ten years. We understand there are
two sisters on Staten Island, in this state,
who have for the last twenty years sub
mitted themselves (we do not know for
what reason) to the same species seclu
sion. IX. Y. tStar.
Ntw Invention for making Brick.
The Washington (Geo.) Spyr of the 20th
ultimo, states that a machine for making
brick, recently invented by Capt. Thos.
B. Shaw, of Clarksville, is now in full op
eration in the vicinity of this place, and
makes about one thousand bricks per
hour, with seven hands and one pair of
oxen. The clay is thrown into the ma
chine in its natural state, and from its
gradual operation and working up, is
perpetually casting and moulding out sol
il .brick with smooth fronts and ends,
which for squareness and beauty have
never been equalled in any part of the
country. The brick can he made of any
size and shape, suitable for forming a
square or circle. The whole construc
tion appears to be plain, simple and
cheap, and can be carried on by ncgroe
or any other persons. The respectable
inventor lias taken out a patent.
Ilalley's Comet. It has been stated
in some of the papers that Halley's Com
et is now visible in the constellation of
Taurus. An astronomical friend assures
us that this must be a mistake; and that
said Comet does not make its appearance
till next year. N. Y. Jour. Com.
Slaves. The Supreme Court of New
York at the July term quashed the writs
in various cases, as being inconsistent
with the Constitution and laws of the U.
States but by a rule of a day subsequent
on the suggestion of Council, granted a
stay of proceedings in order to enable
counsel to make a further motion in the
matter. At the August Special Term, a
motion was accordingly marie for leave
to make up a record of the proceedings
Damages against Stage Propric
furs. In a suit tried in Baltimore Coun
ty Court, at the present term, liar son v.
Stockton & Stokes, to recover damages
alleged to have been sustained by the
Plaintiff by the upsetting, on the road
between Wheeling and Baltimore, of a
Stage belonging to the Defendants, in
which was the Plaintiff, his wife, and two
of his children and four other individu
als his arm having been broken, and
the head of his child materially injured.
The evidence proved that the driver was
intoxicated, and that he not only drove
fast, but furiously, notwithstanding the
remonstrances of the passengers.- The
Jury returned a verdict of 750 dollars
damages. It is due to the proprietors of
the stage to state, that, immediately after
this misconduct, the driver was discharged.
Gen. Gaines and the Mississippi
Rail-road. We have read with much
pleasure, a long letter from Gen. Gaines
to Gov. Lumpkin of Georgia, on the sub
ject of the great rail road from Memphis
in Tennessee, to the Atlantic seacoast, at
Savannah and Charleston. Gen. Gaines,
who had already won imperishable lau
rels, and received honourable wounds in
the defence of Fort Erie during the last
war, is the father of this great project,
which will give to his reputation a yet
more enduring immortality. lie has in
this able letter shown how much he has
the subject at heart, and how intimately
acquainted he is with all its details. It
is utterly impossible to foresee in all their
ramifications, the great and beneficial re
sults which will ensue from it. It is suf
ficiently obvious, that by affording a
means of avoiding the insalubrity of New
Orleans and the dangerous navigation of
the Gulf of Mexico and coast of Florida,
it will naturally concentrate all the vast
resources of the boundless and fertile
regions of the Mississippi and Missouri,
and their tributaries upon the seaports
of Georgia and Carolina. At the same
time that it will open for those states in
the west, lucrative and inexhaustabie
markets for their timber, turpentine, cot
ton, rice, &c. in exchange for the grain,
cattle, cotton bagging, &e. from Ken
tucky, Ohio, &e. Also will all the for
eign return cargoes of Europe either pass
directly through the ports of Charleston
and Savannah, or indirectly from the more
tavored and enterprising ports of the cit
ies of Norfolk, Baltimore, Philadelphia,
and New York, by means of a prolonga
tion ot the great rail road frofri the wes
tern borders of North Carolina to Norfolk,
and thence bv steam navigation either
through the great internal route now in
activity from thence to New York, or by
that recently established on the coast be
tween the latter city and Charleston.
Therefore it may be said, the whole ter
ritory of the united States is deeply in
terested in this truly magnificent project.
The country through which it is proposed
to pass, offers every facility by its level,
hard bottom, for the construction of tho
work. Gen. Gaines proposes to avoid
the spurs in the northern parts of Geor
gia and Alabama, by making the road
deviate southerly by a slight curvature
from a straight line. He also proposes
to make the work still more national by
connecting branches going off to the
south to Augusta, New Orleans, Tala
hassee, St. Augustine, Darien, &c. Oth
er lateral branches from the north will
doubiless also be constructed from Ohio,
Virginia, Maryland, &c.
Foreign. We ylean the following, in
addition to ihe items published in our last.
Ev( ry thing is quiet in England; muiey
is getting scarce, and a higher rate of
interest will be demanded.
The cholera had increased to such an
idarmiMg degree nr Dublin that there
vvre i5'J eases Aug. 16. A poor woman
expiring suddenly with it in Marlborough
street on the foot path, caused a terrific
sensation.
Paris papers of the 2lt August
stale, that since July 29, not a drop of
rain had fallen at Paris, till last evening,
when a shower of extraordinary duration
and violence fell upon the capital and
inundated several quarters. At the
Church of St. Eustache, and in the Rua
Montmartre as far as the Passage du Sua
mon, the waler rose so high, that it enter
ed into the omnibusses, and the doga
were swimming in the streets arid in the
houses it was 2 feet deep.
"The poor respectable females," who
lately went on a matrimonial speculation
to New South Wales, have found it a
miserable delusion. Finding neither
employment nor husbands, they became
drunkards and prostitutes. In the streets
of Sydney the unfortunate wretches were
pointed at with scorn, and called in deri
sion after the names of the vessels they
came in, thus: "She is a Bussorah mer
chant, a Red Rover, or a Princess Roy
al," &c.
(E7"From a careful estimate, it appears
that the enormous sum of fifty millions
of pounds sterling is annually expended
in Great Britain for distilled and ferment
ed liquors.
Singular and most interesting cir
cumstance if true. H is stated in a
New Castle (English) newspaper that an
aged widow woman residing in North
Shields, lately applied to St. John's par
ish for relief, and upon an investigation
of the circumstances of her case, it waa
clearly ascertained that she is a niece
of George Washington. Relief wee
promptly granted.
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