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Newspaper
Tarboro Press
Location
Tarboro, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1838
Page
1
Tarboro press subscription terms offered by George Howard with weekly issue at two dollars and fifty cents if paid in advance. Yearly totals. monthly option available. Advertisements under a square priced. longer ads charged proportionally. Postpaid ads required to be sent to editor.
The Globe reports Mr Clay’s fifty million bank bid in New York led many to view it as a bid for New York’s presidential votes and a bid to disrupt existing banks. The piece condemns the move as shocking to the republic, noting remarks by Mr Strange of North Carolina and calling for constitutional limits on former Congress members seeking the presidency.
A harsh editorial accuses Mr. Clay of fourteen years of bid for presidential votes using public funds and favors. It contrasts his tactics with historic leaders like Washington and Madison, condemns attacks on opponents, and asserts the country will rebuke such conduct. It warns against auctions of the presidency to banks and large interests.
In a Washington Chronicle commentary on congressional threats and state rights, Georgia asserts it will proceed to seize the Cherokee Territory despite federal pressure. The piece condemns federal coercion as central despotism and warns of violent passions and public excess if action lags.
The United States Bank holds a Michigan state loan of 5 million dollars for Internal Improvements. Jodiana sells 1 million dollars of Internal Improvement stock in New York. The Louisville Journal notes 1.225 million dollars of Kentucky bonds recently sold will boost Eastern exchange for Kentucky and aid its banks in resuming specie payments.
The Montreal Courier notes chartered banks in the city resumed payments on the prior day and expresses belief that banks in Quebec have followed suit. It is hoped that Upper Canada banks will also adopt the same course.
A note describes grain quality classes such as First quality Red Dog second quality Wild Cat and third quality Catamount. It states that five pecks of the best quality are needed to make a bushel.
An extra Charleston relief session in Columbia authorizes Governor to issue bonds totaling two million dollars for fire relief. One million due in 20 years and one in 30 years, interest over six percent, capitalized by Bank of the State, loaned to towns at appraised values with semiannual interest and principal in 12 years. Resolutions favor separating government from banks and constitutional currency, urging transmission to U S Senators and Representatives.
At the last annual meeting in New York the Antislavery Society reported that between three and four hundred new societies have been formed within the past year, bringing the total number recorded to about fifteen hundred.
The New York Star protests proposed Sunday paper bans and enforcing chaplainlike controls, criticizing sensational religious zeal and Priestcraft. It argues genuine religion should be mild and persuasive, not repressive, noting increased churchlike pressure over decades.
Love a half breed claimed 67 negroes among New Orleans Indians migrating west, saying they belonged to an old negress once his property. The court found they belonged to an Indian, having descended from his father. The group was nearly handed over on the 21st as per court ruling, but Barracks Indians numbering 1200 resisted, needing military suppression.
Brief note states that the body of Indians were in consequence to be detained four days. The terse line records a brief detention action pending further development.
Reports from Barbadoes indicate the Colonial assembly with the Governor and Council have resolved to grant complete emancipation to the island's eighty thousand slaves on the first of August next.
The Norfolk Borough Court, before adjournment, ordered removal of branding shackles and staples from the pillar in the hall, relics of a harsher penal era. The act by the last Virginia Legislature abolishing branding in the hand prompted the move to erase these marks of punishment.
The National Gazette reports ongoing conflict in the Presbyterian Church as the New School elects six trustees for the Theological Seminary while six old trustees remain. The board resists seating the new members, prompting an expected writ of quo warranto to settle rights to the General Assembly name and property.
The Arctic problem is solved with evidence of a water passage between the Atlantic and Pacific around the northern American continent. England gains credit via Hudson's Bay Company for the discovery and prize honors the enterprise.
A Baltimore paper reports a human skeleton was brought to the city from the Missouri headwaters region in the Rocky Mountains. The relic stands eight feet nine inches tall and weighs about one hundred ninety pounds, described as extraordinary and of possible scientific interest.
A simple 19th century remedy claims strong ley from wood ashes can cure locked jaw. Bath the injured part in the leg wash or apply flannels soaked in it for swift relief and gradual cure. Simple methods are praised for their efficiency. Greenfield Gazette Mass.
Mr Asa Whitman and Horace Woods of Walpole Massachusetts report several months of work on a new invention a self moving machine capable of exerting limited power and potentially adaptable to machinery using water and steam at reduced cost.
A playful note praises a metallic nasal protrusion linked to spectacles. It mentions Dr Smith and Dr Harwood, cites the Medical Journal and Nantucket Eignirer, and suggests Brazen Nose College could award an honorary degree. The nose is removable and practical for defense, with a suggestion to make it trumpet shaped for noise.
A large crowd gathered on Thursday night at Washing ton, Milk and Summer streets in Boston after word that a Free Church in Marlborough Street would be defaced for all colors. Rev. Charles Fitch led the parish as police dispersed the gathering before riotous acts. Many colored attendees were present and rumors claimed whites and negroes were seen arm in arm. The light infantry battalion were under orders to respond.
A terse wartime snippet notes action and the readiness of troops with ample ball cartridges prepared. The concise line reflects ongoing military readiness and disciplined supply lines amid tension.
Report on Connecticut prison and free negroes notes disparity with laws aiding their condition. Zealots push to allow Negroes to vote, backed by petitions signed mainly by colored people. Legislature defeats measure 165 to 33 in the Whig House. Senate fate likely the same.
Calvin R. Stone of Stone Field Marks in Louis Missouri is identified as the man who died after falling from the Moselle boiler loft and being driven through a dwelling roof in Cincinnati. He was well regarded and left a wife and five or six children.
The article notes renewed efforts to reopen and operate Virginia gold mines and outlines a broader southern gold region from Virginia through North Carolina and South Carolina into Georgia, Alabama, and Tennessee. It cites 1831 estimates of 20,000 workers and about 100,000 dollars weekly production, with most gold going to Europe, especially Paris, and Virginia’s mint receipts increasing from 2,500 in 1829 to 104,000 in 1833, alongside legislative incorporation of several mining companies since 1832.
The Maine Legislature repealed botanical medical restrictions placing botanic practitioners on par with licensed doctors. The New Haven Herald notes this marks the ninth state to repeal similar laws in recent years, expanding rights for botanic physicians to collect for services.
The Lyons to St Etienne railway spans 34 miles with twenty tunnels to maintain a level route. One tunnel reaches a mile, another half a mile, and it passes beneath a river bed crossing.
A Western editor declares he has tested both paths and concludes that bachelorhood is simplest while marriage yields greater happiness, a sentiment echoed as a parable attributed to Adam.
A reader recounts a striking case of absence of mind in a local couple. Mr F. and his wife prepared for bed placing shovel and tongs under the covers by the fireplace and only realized the odd scene when the tongs called the shovel “my dear,” a curious anecdote from the neighborhood suitable for a brief journal item.
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