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Newspaper
Tarboro Press
Location
Tarboro, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1844
Page
1
The Tarborotgsh Press is a weekly paper published for one year at five dollars. Subscriptions may be discontinued with notice and arrears are payable. Advertisements: rates per insertion and annual terms. longer ads priced per line. court notices and legal ads listed with set charges. letters to the editor addressed to Kaifier town post by noon.
A 1844 prospectus by editor Davin Fitton and David Fulton advocates a Democratic Wilmington Journal to oppose Whig measures and support a strict constitutional construction. It outlines prices, aims, audience, and the paper’s open columns for farmers and merchants, emphasizing local circulation and political advocacy in Wilmington North Carolina.
A Virginia tone discusses internal improvements for rivers Tar and Roanoke, dams and locks, and the value of long leaf pine for construction. It argues for surveys, responsible contractors, and public inquiry while urging road and market access for Western regions. The piece also notes state vacancies, calls for judicial and solicitorial appointments, and proposes agricultural and geological surveys to boost farming and mining.
Governor urges Congress to back a canal linking Beaufort Harbour with the Trent and Neuse at New Bern to bypass wide waters. If feasible, canal would allow river cargoes to ship directly to Beaufort, avoiding transshipment at New Bern, with lakes Ellis and Long Lake as potential water sources.
A 19th century piece laments scant instruction in agriculture in colleges and schools. It urges reform to cultivate intelligent, practical farmers, arguing current youth view farming as slave-like and beneath them, and that this attitude must change to improve national progress.
A plea for statistical gathering by County Courts to map acres, livestock, manufacturing, and mining across the state. It urges appointing a State Agent to improve common schools, notes gaps in Deaf and Blind education, and calls for better support beyond poor laws, stressing enlightenment and charity.
A speaker urges thorough provision for the educated and employed disabled. He argues asylum care, skilled supervision for patients, and restoration of the insane, with provisions for the deal, dumb, and blind. He presses government support and public generosity to end misery and despair.
Discussion on reforming the Criminal Code through solitary confinement and hard labor, advocating a penitentiary system as economical and rehabilitative. Praises North Carolina’s revolutionary birth on May 20 1775 and urges preserving state history through archives and English copies, proposing an agent to obtain documents. Notes debt for Cherokee lands remains hard to collect due to western settlement challenges.
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