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Newspaper
Tarboro Press
Location
Tarboro, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 28, 1838
Page
1
Published weekly at two dollars and fifty cents per year with advance payment options. Monthly payments allowed, with notice to discontinue. Advertisements up to a square cost one dollar for first insertion and twenty five cents per continuation. longer ads are proportionally priced. Court orders and judicial notices incur a twenty five percent surcharge. Letters to the editor must be postpaid.
Delegates from North Carolina South Carolina Georgia Alabama and Florida convene at the Presbyterian Church with Col Thomas Butler King elected president. A 21 member committee is appointed to report on measures to revive direct foreign trade. papers from Mobile and Charleston are read and a set of resolutions adopted urging direct southern trade and bank participation to stabilize exchanges.
The convention endorses mutual bill settlements and six percent interest from settlement, urges southern ports be first for imports, promotes limited partnerships under southern laws, calls for commercial education, favors foreign agency networks to restore direct trade, and urges rail corridor development linking southern cities with the Mississippi Valley. A committee to prepare addresses and promote cooperation is named, with adjournment to Augusta and printing at Charleston’s expense.
The Norfolk Herald argues that deranged domestic exchanges push the South toward direct foreign trade. High remittance costs to New York strain southern merchants, who must trade with nearby dealers accepting the same currency, boosting local importing houses and country merchants alike.
A report notes three ships arriving yesterday from the West Indies. Two carried full cargoes of sugar molasses and coffee while the third was heavily laden with salt.
A Superior Court dispute over whether a defendant imprisoned for costs of an indictment can be discharged as insolvent when released to pay a fine. The sheriff retook him after the Solicitor General objected, and Judge Toomer noted unsettled law and lack of uniformity across courts. The Ashboro Citizen laments this defect in justice administration.
Negro Jim, owned by Dr. Mebane of Bertie, was convicted at the late term of the Superior Court, Judge Seale presiding, on an indictment for rape against a respectable white married woman. He was sentenced to be executed on the 20th inst.
The Charlotte Journal reports the drowning of a daughter of Mr. N. B. Taylor, about 183 months old, who fell accidentally into a well in his yard on the afternoon of the Sth instant. The notice conveys sorrow and tragedy in this local accident.
The Columbian Times reports Nazareth Allen, an apprentice carpenter, killed a negro boy in a drunken Sunday attack after services at the Methodist Church. No provocation appears from testimony, and the crime occurred on the Sabbath during divine service.
A New Orleans Bulletin slip reports a fire destroying the Levee Steam Cotton Press and the adjacent cotton warehouses rear block. About 10 000 bales of cotton burned, with most valued around 400 000 dollars, much of it insured. The fire is alleged incendiary work. Report by M. vi Star.
A Mississippi reader sent a boot wrapped in straw to the New Orleans Picayune as payment for a prior notice. The item mocks the devalued currency, noting the boot accompanied a newspaper with a request to exchange and credit the boot. The piece keeps a humorous tone about exchange rates and regional economics.
A man named Sykes, residing in Orange or Randolph, committed suicide on the 21st. He was found standing, back against a tree, chin on the gun muzzle. The gun held blood. no cause is known, but mental derangement is suspected per the Carolina Patriot.
A Morristown Rail Road engineer saw a bundle on the rails and recovered a newborn infant alive and healthy. The act appears to have been an attempted murder by a wretch who planned to hasten the infant's death in a horrific, inhuman way.
In Cincinnati a man in a distressed mental state drank oil from a bottle used to darken hair. He immediately changed color and has since become a complete negro. His wife suffers deeply from the tragedy.
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