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Newspaper
Tarboro Press
Location
Tarboro, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1836
Page
1
Republished weekly by George Howard at fixed prices for ads and notices. Rates include cents per wear and monthly charges with advance payment required. Advertisements over sixteen lines priced per square, with notices of insertions. readers must remit payment and include number of insertions.
The Floridian reports preparations for an expedition to the Withlacoochie led by Gen. Call to destroy Indian crops. About one thousand mounted Tennessee volunteers arrive by the 11th, joining regulars and Florida militia. Col. Warren of Duval County killed seven Seminoles and wounded another in a prior surprise attack.
Letter from Columbus dated the 25th reports a battle near McCrary between Major Alard's 98 men and about 200 Indians. Whites lost 6 killed and 15 wounded. Indians killed 210? wounded unknown. General Sandford moves toward the scene with mounted troops. Reported location Quarles' Pition, 22 miles below Columbus. Indians seen moving toward Florida.
A St. Louis correspondent reports a June massacre near Fort Ton at the mouth of the Yellow Stone River. The Duchamp half breed family killed Jack Ram, triggering a neighborhood and French voyageur vow to exterminate them. A blockhouse fire was set as defenders fought for survival amid screams and smoke.
A telegraph note describes a massacre in which eight people were killed and several wounded, with the Duchamps largely exterminated except for a few small children.
The Louisville City Gazette reports Mr. White of Woodruff and White died after a bee sting to the temple while inspecting a hive yesterday morning. He had been in good health earlier, and was buried that evening.
An OA traveler, posing as a businessman, was arrested in Boston after overdrawing accounts at Hancock Bank Traders Bank Bunker Hill Bank Nahant Bank Lynn Bank Fairhaven Bank totaling several hundred dollars. He used aliases including Charles Adams Samuel Drew John Brown John Brooks Jas Brooks and Samuel Brooks during the fraud.
Count Constantine Bretos, long known in the city, roams Baltimore causing annoyance to boardinghouse keepers and tailors. He uses his formidable mustaches to intimidate them into paying bills they cannot collect.
The Cincinnati Evening Post reports the destruction of abolitionist presses on July 12. A posted handbill warns against incendiaries and denounces abolitionists as undermining business and property. The piece notes deep excitement and calls for action against the reform movement.
Fredericksburg Arena reports in Fauquier County the Phenix Company has begun operations under flattering auspices while the United States Copper Mining Company starts up in Orange County on the eastern side of the Blue Ridge. The vein is described as 50 feet wide and five miles long.
A Maine Augusta agent for a manufacturing firm suspected of using false weights to lighten farmers loads was nearly tarred and feathered. The remark links rogues in the South with knaves in the North, illustrating widespread deceit in commodity trade.
The Sussex Register reports John Brown a native of Ireland and longtime New Jersey resident died in Mansfield Warren county on Wednesday the 22nd, aged 140 years.
The Boston Galaxy notes that on portions of land where speculators have been active the situation remains unsettled. Local observers report ongoing negotiations and potential transfers among developers and investors.
The text describes humble bees and grasshoppers struggling to access clover and mullein stock across a forty acre field, noting tears in their eyes as they survey the land and labor under strain.
A new US process transfers printed type from a sheet to a metal plate. A wetted sheet is pressed between polished iron plates, heated and pressed, copying letters onto metal. The plate is etched with nitric acid to hollow uninked areas, creating an economical stereotype.
Mr William Dukehart of Baltimore has devised a new harness making method that eliminates sewing and uses copper rivets. It is claimed to be more durable and economical.
The New Orleans Advertiser reports Mr Caldwell has authorized his Europe agent to offer Madame Malibran ten thousand pounds sterling for one year to perform in Italian and English Opera in the United States.
A traveller reports that stage drivers on routes from Albany to western New York mix a little wood ashes with horses’ water to protect against bot attacks, a folk remedy noted by the observer.
Acts of incorporation have been obtained from the Legislature of New York and Upper Canada for the erection of a bridge from Lewiston to Queenston. Books for subscription to the capital stock were opened in New York on the 7th and will stay open for ten or twelve days. Engineers deem the work practicable and potentially profitable.
A brief dispatch notes extreme weather across Canada with harsh winters and scorching summers. It highlights snow cover, freezing temperatures, and droughts threatening crops and parish livelihoods below Quebec, risking starvation. The source names V. V. Star as the author of the observation.
A bull that escaped its pen charged a passing locomotive on the railroad near Coatesville Pennsylvania. The impact killed the bull instantly and its carcass dragged for a distance before the engine was stopped. The cars were tossed from the rails but no people were hurt.
Lieut B S Roberts of the Dragoons at Fort des Moines writes to the Secretary of War dated July 14 1536 denying claims that Black Hawk is hostile and that the wampum belt has been circulated among western Indians. He states Black Hawk and family are in their lodge within two hundred miles.
The Globe reports a Native elder encamped within five miles of the post for a year, having left only five or six weeks to raise corn on the Des Moines river near Keokuk. He fears illness will end his resistance and believes whites' power would make future war futile for his people.
Delegates of the Cherokee Indians in the chartered limits of North Carolina and Union County Georgia publish a peace declaration. They claim progress toward civilized life, no reliance on hunting, no military system or supplies, and no ties to belligerent tribes, saying war brings only loss.
The Journal of Commerce notes unprecedented labor demand across the nation with wages at a high level. It states the surge affects all classes of workers, including farmers, and that even with many foreign workers imported each year, demand remains unabated and grows.
From letters received this morning we learn that while the examination of two enslaved women detained in Boston proceeded yesterday before Judge Shaw a mob of blacks and whites burst into the courtroom, knocked down officers, rescued the prisoners and carried them off in a coach amid city excitement. Police pursue ringleaders and arrests expected.
Texians report Mexican army halted, desertions rising, Texian arms and supplies ample. Santa Anna seeks Jackson mediation and Mexico urged Texas independence recognition. Brutus and Hard are blockaded at Matamoras by the Vencedor.
The piece describes Texian and Mexican naval movements near Velasco with the brig Vencedor and captured vessels. It notes a breastwork of cotton bales on the steamboat Ocean carrying volunteers and speculates that the Mexicans may suspend hostilities for the summer, withdraw from Texas, and leave independence secured.
From Liverpool papers to June 27 in New York the trial of Lord Melbourne for an alleged crime with Mrs. Norton ended in his acquittal. Mr O Connell moves on June 27 in the House of Commons to refer to a committee for public reform of the Lords by extending representation in the peerage and changing elector quality and election. No decisive news from Spain’s contending parties. Cotton markets remain dull with little price change.
A May 25 debate in the French Chamber of Deputies centered on West Indian slavery in Guadaloupe Martinique and the Isle of Bourbon. Proponents urged immediate unconditional emancipation disregarding owners rights and slave readiness. Opponents urged careful consideration and opposed rash action fearing ruin for colonies and colonists.
The French Chamber of Deputies passed a vote to suppress all gambling houses in Paris from January 1838. The company that operated these establishments had offered to shut down gambling places frequented by artisans to avert the measure.
The Home and Finance Ministers warned the revenue loss and urged gradual suppression. The Chamber adopted M. Gztan de la Ro chefoucauld’s motion fixing 1838 as the start of permission for such houses, per Constitutionnel.
A mine disaster at Grescenil near Framieres killed many workers after moist coal caused a sudden flood. About 180 to 200 miners were at work when a pickaxe blast opened a torrent 120 metres above the floor, filling galleries instantly. Pumps failed and only a dead young woman’s body was recovered yesterday as families were swept away.
Surgical reports from Paris indicate Doctor Deval, a orthopedic practitioner in civil hospitals, frequently performs a novel operation that straightens club feet in thirty to forty days without pain. The method, not previously done in Paris, has cured patients for up to thirty years. Committees from the Academy of Sciences and the Royal Academy of Medicine were appointed to examine these results.
The Austrian Observer of June 14 cites Syria on June 17 reporting a Jerusalem mutiny quelled with effort. Vagabonds criminals deserters and refractory conscripts converge at Karak beyond the Dead Sea aided by Bedouin Arabs. Estimates place their force at 13 000 to 15 000 with arms and provisions. Anarchy and crime spread through Syria as authorities fear dislodging them.
It is said green or dry sage leaves scattered about places infested with red ants and left to remain during the season will extirpate these insects. The proposed remedy is simple and worth trying.
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