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Newspaper
Tarboro Press
Location
Tarboro, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 06, 1836
Page
2
On Wednesday last John G. Lawrence was killed in an affray by Napoleon Cromwell in this county. Cromwell, about 21, had just returned from Alabama and was to be married soon. he fled after the shooting. Lawrence was about 30, leaving a family.
The Petersburg Constellation reports England has offered mediation to settle tensions between the United States and France and that the offer was accepted by the President with cabinet approval. The paper stresses national honor remains intact and warns acceptance does not guarantee immediate peace, noting France could reject the mediation.
The New Orleans Post reports on the Mississippi Legislature ballot by ballot results for United States senator. Walker received 44 votes, Plummer 19, PoinDexter 7, giving Walker a majority of 18. The Raleigh Standard confirms the outcome.
Congress reports that the Calhoun introduced measure to reduce the patr wage of the Executive has passed the Senate. The bill repeals a provision from years past and imposes limits on the periods of service for certain offices.
The House contentiously debated the fortifications bill and its failure, with Mr Adams urging a select committee and broader access to papers. Wise and Cambreleng defended the House, accusing New York’s Cambreleng chair and a Virginia senator of missteps, recounting last session chaos and challenging published charges.
Members consider suspending remarks as a motion to proceed to private bills. Petitions demanding abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia continue to flow into both Houses.
Estimates have been sent to the proper committees for expenditures tied to national defense. The total includes 5,000,000 for fortifications and 1,373,748 for armament of fortifications, powder, shot, and related needs.
The article notes a six million three hundred seven thousand seven hundred forty eight dollar aggregate for fortifications not including ordinary appropriations for arsenals and armories. It lists fortifications and repairs sought, with six hundred sixty thousand dollars for steam batteries, arguing grants would improve seacoast defense.
A striking remark notes that there is not a single Minister Plenipotentiary at any European court including England France Spain Portugal Russia or other states.
Petersburg Market notes active demand this week with sales at 14.415 cents and receipts steady. By Feb 2 cotton shows real sales at 14.4 to 14.5 cents for best lots, indicating cautious improvement in prices.
Mr. Thomas L. Wilson retires from the Petersburg Intelligencer, now published and edited by Robt. J. Birchell Jr. Esq.
The Halifax area reports that on Monday the 25th ult. Thomas Green went to Hamilton Weldon's yard and fired a buckshot loaded gun, striking Weldon in the chest and abdomen. A coroner's inquest named Green as the assailant with malice and aforethought. Green has not yet been captured.
Two enslaved men named Ned and Jacob were seized from a cave near this place on Wednesday. They carried a gun, scythe blade, axe, spade, and hoe, with the hoe and spade likely used to dig the cave and the others as weapons against a small force. Fresh meat also found with them. Jacob had fled for almost two years. Ned for about four months.
The article reports Levi a enslaved man owned by Mr L Abingdon who escaped in April. He was shot and killed a few days earlier near Henry Doggeu’s plantation after a reward of $100 had been offered for his capture.
We learn with regret that during the late disastrous defeat of United States officers and troops at Tampa Bay Lieutenant John L Keats formerly of this town, an amiable young gentleman and a few months since a West Point graduate, was engaged in action with the Indians and was killed.
A fragment reports a fatal assault with multiple injuries. The phrasing attributes the act to a Black assailant, noting the victim died from the injuries and was subjected to violent post mortem treatment.
In Newbern on January 29, authorities report one patient died after worsening, another has passed the crisis and is recovering. No transmission within the town has been recorded, according to the Spec.
On Monday evening in this village a fight between John Bellamy and William E Mayfield left Mayfield with a dirk wound to the left side. He died about an hour later. Bellamy fled the scene the same evening. Both men were family men in Warrenton Rep.
The Greensborough Pat riot persists after the death of the editor. It is now issued by Alfred B Manner administrator pro tem on the estate of the late William Swaim for the benefit of the surviving family. The Southern Citizen planned by the deceased to publish at Greensborough is proposed to be issued from New Salem by Benjamin Swaim Raleigh Reg.
The Harrisburg Reporter notes a bill to virtually recharter the Bank of the United States. It would incorporate stockholders excluding the United States to 25 million dollars for thirty years and grant the bank wide powers. The measure repeals the state personal property tax, fixes a two million dollar bank bonus, and includes a six million loan to the commonwealth with a five hundred fifty thousand dollar subscription to certain internal improvement works if directed within a year.
The legislature sets up a committee to probe alleged evils of Masonry and summon witnesses and papers. Gen Wolfe and several notable figures including Geo M Dallas and Josiah Randall appear or resist, with some attachments for contempt. The dispute stirs great excitement across Pennsylvania.
Reports describe the killing of Mrs Cooly and her three children and a hired man at their Cape Florida home. Neighbors saved other family members by resisting the attackers. News notes troop deployments from New Orleans and Charleston and about 400 volunteers from Charleston, Augusta, and Savannah join the feeble frontier force. Banks in Charleston advance $25,000 to fund the war as Charleston city council acts.
Gasin paid all expenses to equip and transport 100 volunteers from that city. Three volunteer companies depart Charleston, while two more offered services that could not be accepted.
A Charleston Courier correspondent reports from Washington that Gen. Jackson directs troops in Georgia to move into Florida and, with militia, refuse any peace terms to the Seminoles. Each Indian is embarked toward the West of the Mississippi per the 1832 treaty.
A delegation of Cherokee chiefs led by Boudinot Bell Ridge Fields Welch and Tshyeske traveled to Washington City bearing the US treaty negotiated by Commissioner Schermerhorn. They report domestic reconciliations and express friendship toward whites as they proceed.
In Raleigh on Saturday last Gen Edward B Dudley of Wilmington was unanimously nominated as Whig candidate for Governor at August election The Whigs also confirmed the renomination of Judge White for the Presidency and recommended John Tyler of Virginia as a fit Vice Presidential pick on the White Ticket
The New York Legislature unanimously passed a bill authorising the city to issue a six million loan to the Fire Insurance Companies of New York to ease their difficulties caused by a recent large fire.
The Chesapeake and Ohio Canal company reports a dead stop toward Cumberland due to high labor prices and insufficient funds. It is suspected that a two million dollar loan from the State last year has been used to settle earlier debts. Meanwhile Baltimore seeks to raise millions for rail extensions to the Ohio River and other projects, risking Maryland’s ability to finance all efforts.
About 150 passengers left Baltimore on Monday hoping to meet a steam-boat at Newcastle. Failing to find it they journeyed toward Philadelphia mainly by land, using carriages and wagons. The road was extremely poor with six feet of snow in places and deep mud elsewhere, causing many vehicles to break down and contents to spill, yet most reached their destination.
The gentlemen in custody at Harrisburg refuse to answer questions on Masoory, holding firm as authorities press for statements. The incident centers on Masoory inquiries, with no disclosures yet from the detained men.
The readable text shows an unclear fragment about a release from Vine House and Ry with a warning about silliness. The item lacks concrete names, dates, places, or outcomes to form a full card.
A fragmentary critique condemns the system of apprentices shipped to Europe as cheap labor, arguing that thousands will be forced into servitude or exposed to sickness. The author accuses pious hypocrites of robbing planters of humanity while masking exploitation with virtue. The text reflects anti slavery and anti indenture sentiment from a historical perspective.
Fragmentary OCR notes reference Governor Bins and a Pottsylvania state deficit forecast dated February 1, 1831. Includes garbled phrases about a farewell address and parliamentary or ceremonial items. Content is unreadable in places but suggests official communications from a state body and a concluding statement.
An account from St Augustine describes an attack by over a hundred Indians on New Smyrna and surrounding settlements. They plundered and burned houses and sugar works, seized livestock, and damaged or destroyed multiple properties along the Mosquito Inlet and Halifay River areas, with the raiders moving toward Tomoka and Tomoka vicinity.
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