25 Nov 1843
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Newspaper
Tarboro Press
Location
Tarboro, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Nov 25, 1843
Page
1
The Tarboroach Press by George Howard is weekly at two dollars fifty cents per year payable in advance or at expiration. Advertisements up to a square cost one dollar for the first insertion and twenty five cents per subsequent insertion. Longer ads and court notices cost more with payment due in advance for distant subscribers.
A reflective poem about cherished memories of loved ones and beauty that lingers after death. The speaker recalls moonlit vows, kind smiles, and quiet tears, praising memories as sowers that never die and charms that have no wing.
A verse tale where Wealth courts beauty and faces rival claims from Love Health and Duty. Wealth gains a welcome, but Duty and Love resist, Love departs in shame, Old Time arrives, Beauty is left to despair as Wealth fades away. Health declines with beauty, proving those who slight Duty for Wealth cannot win love.
Richmond Enquirer discusses Mr Van Buren tariff letter blamed for political capital and public demand. Editors note repeated coverage across papers, presses for the letter’s authenticity, and accusations of forgery while publics press for the document as a political weapon. The piece frames ongoing controversy and media pressure.
A 1843 pamphlet sequence reveals Van Buren's stance on the Tariff Act and Calhouns reply to Nicholas on sugar duties. The editors publish letters from Albany and Washington, noting fear in the South, suppression of names, and republication of Calhouns May 1 1843 missive. The item underscores party contention between Whigs and Democrats and cites responses from Van Buren and Calhoun.
A fragment from a political letter or speech discusses economic limits, urging economy and retrenchment in public expenditure. It defends protecting slave labor interests against opponents and warns opponents aim to undermine property rights, referencing SC Calhoun and the need to balance revenue with fiscal restraint.
James Graham calls for public meetings in Western North Carolina counties to collect and catalog mineral specimens at each county courthouse. He urges establishing a state cabinet of minerals in Raleigh or Asheville with a legislative mandate, a survey by a skilled mineralogist, and widespread public education to unlock the state's rich resources.
In the Raleigh Independent the Prospectus notes that orders for the North Carolina University Magazine should be addressed to Thomas Loring in Raleigh for printing. Subscriptions of more than one copy are $2.50 per year for each copy, payable in advance, with the publisher confident the work will reflect credit on the University and the State.
At the regular term of New Hanover Superior Court Judge Battle presided last week. Sandy, a slave belonging to the John Cowan estate, faced a second trial for arson connected to the winter fire at H. M storehouse.
The Spring Term reports Sandy to seek a new trial after a second conviction due to newly discovered favorable testimony. William Scott, a free black, was found guilty of Mourdison Johnson's murder and sentenced to hang, with an appeal to the Supreme Court delaying execution. Movés Skipper was convicted on two indictments for retailing spirits without a license and trading with Negroes, each count carrying 23 days imprisonment and a 4 fine. An extra session is ordered to meet on the second Monday in January.
Engineers surveying the North Carolina coast near Nag's Head say opening the inlet is practical and cost estimates by Major Gwynn are liberal. Citizens urge Congress to act, arguing the inlet would restore regional prosperity and shield Eastern Carolina from economic decline.
The venerable Col. Trumblill died recently in New York at an advanced age. For thirteen years he received an annuity of 1000 dollars annually from Yale College as payment for a Gallery of Paintings he sold to the institution, which upon his death becomes its property outright.
The Shelbinville News reports a summer tragedy in Shelby county Kentucky where nine members of a single family died from May 3 to Sept 7. The deceased include Mr James Coopr his elderly wife a daughter married to a son and six sons, only one son a boy of ten surviving.
The Tridgeport Standard notes the fate of Esbon Husted a wealthy Greenwich farmer and noted religious professor who pleaded guilty to forgery and was sentenced to three years in State Prison The same period followed his appearance beside a black burglar Gaul in court illustrating a moral about speculative conduct.
The New York American reports baker Gregg of New York has shipped a large quantity of patent ginger bread to China Buenos Ayres and the coast of Africa within a few days. The bread allegedly improves with age and is said to be better after a year compared to when fresh.
The article notes the royal plate at Windsor Castle valued at 8.5 million dollars and a George IV gold service for 130 guests. It mentions vessels from Charles XI of Sweden and a King of Ava, plus pieces from the Spanish Armada and items from China, Burmah, and India, including thirty dozen gold plates valued at 130 dollars.
Martha Brown formerly Martha Cannon was tried for the murder of her husband William Brown. The evidence was circumstantial but strong, the Pendleton Messenger notes. The jury found her guilty and Judge Butler sentenced her to be hanged in January next.
A Brandon correspondent reports a black man named Dave Gridley, accused of robberies, was captured and handed to a yard. He was dragged into the woods, hanged, and his body burned in an abandoned house. The author notes uncertainty about the perpetrators.
Two years after an application to the Brown County Ohio Court of Common Pleas for a license to marry a colored Methodist Episcopal preacher was rejected. The case went to the Supreme Court, which issued a peremptory mandate directing the inferior court to grant the license.
The Hannibal Journal reports that the slave of Mr. T. K. Collins has returned from Canada to Missouri. He found conditions in Canada harsher than slavery in Missouri and was compelled to work harder for promised wages beyond his duties to his master, St Louis Republic notes.
The Leeds Mercury reports England's Dr Hoby from Birmingham and Hamburg preacher Mr Oncken were expelled from Copenhagen on grounds of their Baptist faith. Oncken was jailed and both men deported by the arrival packet. The British envoy and the Baptists Union will seek Foreign Office guidance on British subjects' liberty in Denmark. Similar persecutions of foreign Christians occurred in Denmark years ago.
A reader advertises a Jamaica rum and tar mixture as a cure for consumption with instructions to boil, shake, and dose a spoonful every twelve hours on a light diet. The note asks cured readers to publish their success and bears a sender, Robert Blackwood, near Chapel Hill, N. C.
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