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Newspaper
Tarboro Press
Location
Tarboro, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 30, 1839
Page
2
A congressional floor struggle is recounted over Mr. Atherton's resolutions and the right to petition on abolitionism. The speaker denounces North Carolina's Edward Stanly for absence during a crisis, condemning disloyalty and urging adherence to constitutional rights amid sectional tension.
A. Duncan accuses a North Carolina congressman of acting as a tool for abolitionist rhetoric and amalgamation aims. He decries anti abolitionist speech, claims the representative is influenced by abolitionist prompts, and asserts the need to expose supposed horrors of modern abolitionism. He references a debate in the Intelligencer and offers no further testimony.
A serialized exchange between Mr. Duncan and Mr. Stanly is printed with strong editorial caution. The piece urges readers to weigh anti abolition resolutions and Stanly’s conduct, and notes his past ties to Texas questions and Vermont Massachusetts allies.
The Governor has notified his Council to convene in this city on April 15 to advise on appointing a Public Treasurer, replacing D. W. Courts who was appointed Consul to Matanzas. fal. Keg.
Reports circulate about a smallpox outbreak in Wilmington but official inquiry shows only five cases ever, all treated at a hospital five miles away, and no current cases exist in town.
By a late arrangement of the General Post Office the mail is to be carried from Washington City to Weldon D C in nineteen hours. A travelling Postmaster on the route will distribute mails without detention to steamboats and cars. This plan already used on some great northern routes.
Craven St Davis of Martin county is committed for trial at the upcoming Superior Court for forging a note of hand on Samuel Clark Esq of Leachville Beaufort county. Washington Rep.
The New York Star reports the season’s first shad was caught off Staten Island on Thursday night and sold for our Dollars, highlighting an early market pickup and local catches.
A devastating fire damp explosion occurred on the 18th at the Black Heath Coal Pits near Richmond Virginia. Between 50 and 60 black pit laborers went down while three men at the pit mouth were killed instantly. The fate of those below remains uncertain as rescue efforts lag.
The Havana files report that the Guadaloupe quake's dead exceed four thousand after buildings collapsed. Messages via the American brig Madrid from Barbadoes to Trinidad Cuba confirm the ruinous toll, with later market notes on cotton and commodities in Fayetteville, Washington Market, Norfolk, and Petersburg.
The Washington Whig critique on Mr Stanly and Mr Duncan prompts a proposed exchange of letters. New Hampshire Concord Patriot notes a Democratic landslide: John Page elected Governor by 6000+, four of five Counsellors, ten of twelve Senators, about 142 of 235 Representatives, and broad congressional and county wins.
A testimonial proclaims a fifty four year asthma case cured by Dr William Evans Vegetable Medicine. The patient, once ill for decades, reports relief after using two packages and asserts permanent recovery, noting prior exhausting treatments and disbelief in cure.
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