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Newspaper
Tarboro Press
Location
Tarboro, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1836
Page
1
George Moward advertises weekly publication terms with advance payment, monthly count limits, and liberty to discontinue. Notices from shorea residents require timely payment. ads must show line count and will be continued or charged accordingly. Editor letters must be postage paid.
From Macon Messenger May 19 1836 reports the Creek Nation war spreading destruction around Columbus with estimates of at least forty killed. families flee along Talbotton to Columbus road as white and black enslaved people perish. towns witness burnt plantations looted bridges and mass displacement. Chiefs appear hesitant but lack control over followers as attacks intensify near Port Mitchell Tuskegee and Ben Marshall’s landing.
Reports recount widespread Indian attacks near Columbus from a caravan robbery and horse theft to the burning of stores and staged captures. The steam boat Hyperion was fired upon, with crew and passengers wounded, and the boat later towed to safety. Militia mobilizes as Governor calls for volunteers while Col. Howard leads among Texas veterans in a separate detailed battle narrative against Santa Anna, including prisoner Santa Anna and captains Ward and Fanning, with heavy Mexican casualties and Texian survival.
From the Mobile Mercantile Advertiser May 13: Two or three gentlemen who fought under General Houston in the recent victory over Santa Anna have arrived in Mobile. One, Joseph Andrews of near Merriweather Springs, Georgia, bears documents from officers praising his manly deportment in the fight between Colonel Ward's command and the Mexicans, and in the battle with General Houston's forces.
The General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Cincinnati on the 4th instant adopted an almost unanimous resolution opposing abolitionism. They voted 94 to 37 to fix the Book Concern location at New York.
The sale on Saturday at Powelton attracted buyers from across the country. Twenty three animals sold for eight thousand five hundred forty dollars, averaging 362 dollars each. A bull brought seven hundred dollars and a cow six hundred.
Hillsborough reports George Huston also known as Ezekiel W Morson and Ezekiel Morgan was arrested yesterday for attempting to negotiate a forged seventeen hundred dollar note at the Bank of Cape Fear agency. He is to be held at Guilford county Jail pending the next Superior Court.
In Milton on May 17 Caswell Superior Court adjourned Friday. On Wednesday Henry Harris, a man of color, faced trial for setting fire to and burning the Orange jail. After the judge charged the jury, they returned a guilty verdict under the 1830 Act making such arson a felony. The prisoner was brought in Saturday for sentencing.
The Raleigh Register notes that in 1824 gold yield in North Carolina was about 4000 dollars, rose to 470000 dollars by 1833, and has declined again since 1833. The item highlights the early mining boom and subsequent drop in production.
A reader in Lorain County, Ohio, describes a new Mormon temple in Kirtland costing $40,000. The 60 by 60 by 50 foot stone structure features four pulpits, movable canvases concealing dignitaries, and four attic floors for a theological seminary and manual labor education. He notes intense study of Hebrew by all ages and reports claims of revelations and miracles. Wilmington Journal.
The Archbishop of Bordeaux, formerly Bishop of Boston, has been invested with the cap and purple. It is reported he will likely succeed the pope upon the current pope's death.
Captain Gabriel Winters of Donaldsonville Louisiana has devised an apparatus to prevent fires caused by sparks from steam furnaces. The Planters Advocate notes the device as promising for sugar planters using steam power and anticipates major importance in the industry.
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