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Newspaper
Tarboro Press
Location
Tarboro, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 21, 1838
Page
1
The Tarborough Press weekly at two dollars and fifty cents per year in advance or three to decide expiration of the subscription year. For any period under a year twenty five cents per month. Subscribers may discontinue on notice while paying arrears. Advertisements under a square are one dollar for first insertion and twenty five cents per week for continuance. Longer ads and court orders priced accordingly. Letters to the editor should be postpaid.
A poetic meditation contrasts time with life and love using water imagery. The piece ponders time as a river, life as a flowing stream, love as a fleeting dream, and death as a vast ocean swallowing hope.
The excerpt presents a garbled verse in which the speaker claims not to be ugly, notes he is twenty, and broaches themes of love, worth, and social judgment. It appears as a disjointed lyric fragment with misspellings and archaic phrasing, reflecting a damaged text.
The General Banking Law, passed committee and awaiting senate, would allow any number of citizens to form a Bank Association. It would open all banking activities except note issuance, requiring deposits of stock and mortgages with the Comptroller to back notes. Notes would be issued in denominations as needed, redeemable in specie, with failure subject to auction of assets to cover them. The measure signals a radical shift in state currency, while preserving existing banks to operate alongside the new system.
The Michigan House approves a 30 to 18 vote to suspend the new General Banking Law this year. The move halts formation of additional banks for the current year, deemed unsuitable to present conditions and aimed at curbing expansion.
The passage notes an excessive number of ranks in the State exceeding church counts and four times that of seminaries above common schools. It condemns a system viewed as not free, likening it to Madame Frances Wright D Arusmont's Matrimony scheme.
Detroit reports from Bank Commissioners list failing institutions under the Wild Cat system. Noted as forfeiting public trust are Bank of Lapeer Farmers Bank of Genesee County Farmers Bank of Sandstone Jackson County Bank Exchange Bank at Shiawassee Wayne County Bank The Bank of Manchester is alleged to be in rotten condition with Genesee Farmers Bank described as worse than its peers. The commission may not have examined all banks.
Failure to stop payment on March 2 leads bank directors of Farmers' Bank of Canton Ohio to blame evil reports that gained currency. They claim the affairs have been seed without loss to the community before and hope to repeat it.
The New Mississippi Asioun Bank with capital of fifteen million dollars will begin operations. The Legislature placed the main bank in Jackson and branch sites include Macon in Noxubee County with 1.8 million, Aberdeen in Monroe County with 1 million, Lexington in Holmes, Holmest County with 1.9 million, Pillatoha in Pallatiatchie County with 1.3 million, Vicksburg with 1.5 million, and Liberty in Amite County with 2 million.
A report from Norfolk Herald details a theft aboard the packet steamer Georgia. Harper used a ruse to remove boxes consigned to Cook and Brother of Portsmouth by stowing them at the wharf and transferring them to the Georgia, with stock certificates used as security. The ruse was uncovered as the Georgia neared Charleston likely Monday morning.
Merchants of New York now purchase their cotton at Mobile using Bank bills of the State of Alabama received from debt collections. Bills of Exchange are not rare due to enormous rates, and many from last year remain protested.
An extract of a London chemist’s letter describes a gardener’s discovery of a method to generate intense heat without fuel. The apparatus, housed in an urn, can be suspended in a room like a lump and may reach temperatures sufficient to melt its container. The heat-producing means remains secret with the inventor.
A state law requires parental consent for any minor to obtain a marriage license from county commissioners courts. Without such consent, minors cannot marry. Many young couples travel to the opposite side of the Mississippi where no license is required, leading to frequent runaway matches. a recent humorous incident illustrates the trend.
A 17 year old heiress to a $10,000 estate fled with a bride’s attendant and her lover after her guardian refused consent. They crossed to an island near the river’s head, escaped danger from ice and current, and later returned, while the cowardly lover fled debt and ridicule. The episode ends with the lovers separated, the guardian resolute, and the menacing river in the background.
An Erie report describes a nighttime attack on Miss Hamot of Haumut and a young man, allegedly by Captain Robert C. Bristol and four others aboard the steamboat Madison. Miss Hamet was forced onto the dock and onto the Madison as the boat set out, amid a pursuit by the Revenue Cutter and another steamer. The incident has stirred local concern, with speculation about a possible Canada crossing or a Gretna Green scenario, amid doubts about the defendants.
The Massachusetts Legislature, the largest deliberative body, approved a bill to ban the sale of ardent liquor in the House by a vote of 229 to 106, detailing a prohibition move amid ongoing legislative activity.
The text notes a negotiation to prohibit spirits in quantities under fifteen gallons with exceptions for physicians apothecaries for medical use and for manufacturers and arts. The attempt to extend the ban to wine beer and even cider failed.
The Tennessee legislature at its last session prohibited the retail sale of spirituous liquors in quantities under one quart and imposed severe penalties for carrying and use of Bowie knives.
During a New York visit a mulatto man once enslaved in North Carolina now poses as a white man in New York and runs a profitable business. He longs to return to the South, saying he prefers being a Negro there to being a white man in the North.
Two Canada patriots Lount and Matthews died at Toronto for high treason and were condemned to death on March 28 by Chief Justice Robinson of Upper Canada. John Anderson faced sentence the next day. Montgomery was convicted and recommended for mercy. Sutherland was found guilty and to be executed immediately.
Upper Canada reports Gov Marcy received a cordial message from Sir George Arthur the new Governor expressing hope that the previously amicable relations between the province and the United States will be promptly re established.
A girl inquiring about her vanished father prompted a public appeal. The father, replying from Charleston, South Carolina, confirms he has been located. Readers will be glad to learn Harriett Billings’s missing parent has been quickly found. Religious notes conclude the item.
The Boston Supreme Court adjourns the Kneeland blasphemy trial at his request due to his ailing wife. The piece challenges who defines blasphemy and questions possible persecution over mere opinion and alleged robbery by rag banks.
The Ann Arbor State Journal reports that on March 12 the village church was entered and depredations committed including lamp smashing and pulpit hangings. Trustees offered 100 dollars reward and the town council another 100 for arrest and conviction. A public meeting condemned the act as execrable and warned of a destructive class in town.
On the 20th at Mills Point on the Mississippi an affray between Dr Ferguson a physician and Mr Rivers a lawyer ended with Ferguson mortally shooting Rivers. Rivers brother then hunted Ferguson with a rifle wounded him and then shot him dead in a retaliatory clash.
The Cincinnati Who of the 4th instant reports a horse keeper near the Brighton House few miles from the city was instantly killed yesterday by the horse biting his jugular vein. The name of the deceased is not known.
Mr Thomas Trench of Ithaca New York is constructing a patent printing press at the Speedwell works near Morristown The Jersey man mentions it is to be attached to a paper mill describes it as taking paper from the paper machine printing on both sides passing through drying cylinders to produce a smooth finished sheet in one operation
A new continuous sheet printing press can produce a 350 page pulp or 216 page Juvenile Reader in moments, roll up editions for distant distribution, and cut the cost of standard works and school books. Industry leaders foresee bibles and spelling books ordered by the mile rather than volume.
The Legislature adopts a common school system reallocating 3,500,000 previously set for a pauper school and academic fund plus one third of surplus revenue to create a dedicated fund for supporting common schools.
Reports in the Savannah Republican indicate Cherokees stand with their leader Mr. Russ and refuse removal to the new home beyond Georgia. Mr. Reagan recently enrolled Indians in eleven Georgia towns, around 2000 people, with at least three fourths declining U S A W s enrollment.
A stranger stops for the night in a Georgia settlement and attends a local ball. Whiskey and gin wine are served as ladies eat roasted potatoes, using peels as crumbs. He asks a young woman to dance and she answers Yes, Horse, if I knows myself, I goes it, while a friend jokes about her partner.
The Exeter News Letter claims Plymouth settlers did not keep horses until two decades after the Pilgrims. John Allen married Miss Priscilla Mullens and rode a bull to the wedding with a ring in its nose, Priscilla riding beside the groom. Their descendants reportedly include early Cape and Colony families and two U.S. Presidents.
A tale from American Monthly Magazine recounts Lord Brudenell of Cardigan eloping with a married woman who becomes Lady Brudenell. He offers a duel to the injured husband, who replies with wit, acknowledging the fault but rejecting vengeance. The exchange ends with the view that revenge cannot repair such wrongs.
Historical note describes the dress tail of Queen Victoria measuring 16 yards and weighing 20 pounds carried by the Duchess of Kent with three noble ladies assisting. An account claims Victoria had a coarse figure with a flat foot beefy ankle and an ugly face.
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