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Newspaper
Tarboro Press
Location
Tarboro, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1841
Page
1
The Tarborough Press announces weekly publication at two dollars fifty cents yearly paid in advance or three dollars after, thirty-five cents monthly, with advance payment required for distant subscribers. Ads up to a square cost one dollar for the first insertion and twenty-five cents each continuation, higher for larger or court notices. letters to the editor must be postpaid.
A poetic fragment titled to a young lady describes love as sweet yet painful. The speaker notes love can lift the spirit but draw tears and bind the heart, likening sorrow to a worm within flowers. The verse closes with a gentleman’s attribution to R Mount.
The verse praises the liberty flag and its long symbolism across seas and battles. It calls for steadfast defense of freedom and warns of national tears if lawless hands seize the emblem or rights. The piece invokes mariners, Columbia, and defiance to the world to keep the flag unfurled.
The Democratic members of Congress sharply critique the Federal administration, praising Benton Calhoun Buchanan Allen Wright Woodbury and Walker for exposing reform failures. Whig plans are dismissed as crude and ineffectual as cabinet missteps and personal detractors mount in Washington.
A critique of leaders including Mr Granger and Mr Badger accuses them of disloyalty and reckless acts threatening the Navy and postmaster appointments. The author denounces cruelty, calls the Whig party unfit, and likens the situation to a Parisian abdication scene with Napoleon.
The New York Herald notes slow progress in Washington over key issues including the United States Bank bill and the public lands distribution. A Baring Brothers letter from 1839 warns of foreign capital dependence and the need for a national pledge to support large internal improvements, urging caution on state loans and the potential for market disruption. The letter links English interests to American credit and contemplates a coordinated national financing approach.
A faction proposes a national pledge using public lands to pay interest while exposing schemes to monetize unsold federal lands. Reports detail land inventories, sales, and amounts paid, plus a treaty with the ree Miami Indians ceding Indiana lands for $550,000 and relocation west of the Mississippi within five years.
A respected Buffalo lawyer newly married was arrested for forgery amid pecuniary trouble from extravagant living. Separately, the State Bank of Illinois branch in Jacksonville was robbed the night of the 11th, taking about $90,000 in cash and securities with a $5,000 reward offered for the culprits.
A man died on a flat-boat at the New Orleans levee on the 6th instant from a disease baffling his physician. Post mortem revealed an insect about an inch long, known as a centipede or thousand legs, had crawled into his ear, causing excruciating death.
Four individuals in Chicok county Arkansas were tried for assault and battery after chastising Solomon Crosby. The jury rendered a verdict of 12000 dollars. A few such verdicts may curb lynch law. A New Mode of Earning a Dollar reports an amused incident in New York on Tuesday the 13th. A man asked alms. the giver suggested work and devised a test with a brick to carry to a pump and back.
The Atlantic seaboard sustains 400 to 500 wrecks annually. In January 1839, ninety one American vessels were wrecked along the coast, yielding about one shipwreck every eight hours for the month.
From July 1, 1840 to April 3, 1541 eleven slavers were captured by British cruisers off the Africa coast and taken to St Helena. On board these ships were found fourteen hundred seventy six slaves.
The speaker notes that Georgia schoolmasters seem “abroad” given the census result. They argue it is urgent for teachers to return home and work, citing 80,754 white residents over twenty who cannot read or write.
P G Gardiner of New York patents a rail car design enabling a twenty four foot car to pass a curve of one hundred feet radius with a switch at the start without slowing or danger. The invention promises safer night passage, life savings, higher speeds, and lower railroad construction costs. An engineer estimates potential savings of half a million dollars in a large railroad under construction.
A man in a state of intoxication fell into a kettle of boiling potash and dissolved completely. Search for his body failed to recover any remains, leaving a grisly disappearance in Two Mountains, Lower Canada.
Four Black men convicted of murdering two clerks in a St. Louis store and torching the building faced execution on the sixth. St. Louis papers report vast crowds at the scene with estimates from twelve to fifteen thousand, including many women, amid intense excitement.
A quarrel between Blackaby and Comely in Lancaster ends with Comely being shot. Blackaby fires, flees, and is then killed with a Bowie knife by pursuers. A man suspected in Blackaby's murder is arrested, with circumstantial evidence suggested.
The Picayune reports a white woman gave birth in a Pontchartrain railroad car on Monday the 14th, tossed the infant toward the lake, believed it dead, but it was found alive at five o’clock Tuesday morning and taken to Dr. Luzenberg’s Hospital where a slave nurse cared for it. The mother was arrested Tuesday afternoon and sent to the hospital for nourishment and succor.
A mother abandoned her infant during a perilous night in the woods. The young boy, healthy and strong, endured mosquito bites and cold night air, surviving a carriage fall that left only a blue mark on his forehead. The distressed mother did not receive aid during labor.
A young woman was thrown into a South Carolina river while crossing on horseback. The horse swam after her, reached the shore, and, by seizing her garments, hauled her to safety, preventing likely drowning. The incident inspires hopes for a marble monument to the faithful animal.
The bark Harvest reports that eleven slavers have recently been captured by H. B. M. cruisers and brought into St. Helena, covering the period from July 1, 1840, to April 3, 1841.
Florida Governor Call proclaims that the officials who admitted Willis Alston to trial were not magistrates as their commissions had expired. He offers a reward of two hundred dollars for Alston's apprehension.
On a Thursday evening near Wilmington the Armstrong house eight miles from town was struck by lightning. Mrs Armstrong regained consciousness first. a twelve year old child died, the husband was badly burned and near death. Three children upstairs were unharmed, a horse and a hog perished. Chronicle.
The Hal Star argues against U S government intervention for Cardinal Reese, Detroit’s Catholic bishop, imprisoned at home by the Pope for ecclesiastical misdeeds. It notes he surrendered to papal jurisdiction by accepting office and expatriated himself, yet allows a citizen to visit Rome if he chooses, advising acceptance of consequences.
A brief European style note reports the McLeod excitement diminishing and mentions Mr. Fox's departure and the phrase dogs of war fading from discussion, signaling no lasting impact or follow up on the earlier chatter.
Late Madrid reports say Spain bans circulation of Papal Bulls and related documents not approved by the government. The Society for the Propagation of the Faith is suppressed and its funds seized. The Pope refuses to recognize Marquis de Villalba as Spanish envoy, who has left Rome for Madrid.
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