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Newspaper
Tarboro Press
Location
Tarboro, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 06, 1836
Page
1
A fragmented poem praising American liberty and national ideals. The verse venerates brave guardianship of homeland, calls for steadfast virtue, and links England and America in shared liberty across the sea.
A Sumter Gazette reprint describes Sumter County Alabama as settled since 1832 with rapid growth. It spans about thirteen thousand square miles on the Tombeckbee river’s west, bordered by Greene and Marengo to the east and Kemper and Lauderdale to the west, with Noxubee and Sucarnotchie rivers offering navigation. Towns include Livingston Gaines Mill McKee Somerville Jameston and Hughston county seat in a crescent river valley with brick courthouse and planned churches and academies.
The article portrays Sumter County lands as thriving and rapidly settling with diverse soils and rising towns. Gainesville and Livingston serve as commercial hubs, with McKee and Sumterville acting as landing points and growing communities. It notes rich backcountry, navigation advantages, and a plan for future village centers near the Tombeckbee and Sucarnotchie rivers. It also reports a deadly steamship explosion near quarantine facilities and an industrial blast at Spottswood, New Jersey.
On Tuesday the brig Gen. Saum ter, Captain Bennett, rescued Captain Whitemaster and one crewman from the wreck of the Columbia after a gale offshore. The rest of the crew and passengers perished, including Capt W Whitemaster’s sister in law and her husband with three children. The event was reported by the Norfolk Herald.
A tragic incident aboard the steam packet William Gibbons near New York port on Thursday morning left two passengers and several crew dead after the steam chimney collapsed and forced steam into the forward cabin. The vessel was in the Lower Bay near the Upper Middle when the disaster occurred.
The Wilmington Advertiser voices strong disapproval of Reverend Isaac Goward and Mrs. G for opening a New York school called the Thernsiorean to teach dancing on Christian principles. It condemns the plan as covert and morally questionable, urging that if teaching is to occur it be done openly and honorably without impropriety.
A fragmentary morning report notes a violent incident described with racial slur language. No clear location or official outcome is provided, but the text references a Black person involved and a troubling event beginning the day. Further readable details are unavailable.
A bear kept at the Mississippi Hotel fatally mauled a child after the mother allowed him to approach the animal. The child suffered fatal wounds, and a second bear attacked to defend its meal before both were hampered by gunfire. Dr. Dashiel treated the boy, who is expected to recover, in a cautionary tale about exposing children to danger for amusement.
Dr Xavier Chabert famed as Fire King died last Wednesday in New York in a chemical experiment mishap involving phosphoric ether or Prossic Acid. The explosion shattered his body into many fragments, ending his earthly career in a shocking accident.
A schooner named May drifted into Brooklyn Harbor Maine as severe weather struck. Twenty eight crew members aboard were frozen in dire conditions, with the ship and crew facing a tragic, chilling fate.
A North American Review excerpt contrasts European laborers with ideals of liberty. It surveys wage levels, taxation, subsistence, education access, and political roles, noting Norway Sweden Denmark and Russia where peasants face hunger, state controls, or bondage as nobles own land and peasants move with estates.
A travel report quotes harsh living conditions in Poland Austria Hungary and France with peasants eating bread cabbage and gruel, nobles owning land and peasants in bondage, wages in France and Ireland housing in Ireland and England wage details. It notes Seminole raids in Florida and calls for removal of Seminoles beyond the Mississippi.
The Nantucket Inquirer reports the deaths of two widowed sisters found on the floor of their shared lodging, believed to have frozen during a cold night. One sister reportedly rose and fell, and the other tried to help before both perished. Both were born on the 6th of the 7th month, in 1757 and 1769 respectively.
An excerpt references the deplorable massacre of Major Dade's detachment of U.S. forces by Seminoles, noting the historical event and its grim consequences for the marching column.
Jacksonville Flor Jan 21 report arrival of Mr Dexter with details of a clash near the Halifax River where Major Hutman led about 40 St Augustine Guards and Musquito men against an estimated 150 attackers. One Indian killed, others wounded, Dumitt wounded, 17 wounded overall, 16 Indians believed killed. Boats escaped after an hour of fierce fighting with guns rendered wet. Partial wounded list withheld pending full info.
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