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Newspaper
Tarboro Press
Location
Tarboro, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 06, 1838
Page
1
The Tarborough Press shows weekly price lists by GEORGE HOWARD with subscription rates two dollars fifty cents advance. Monthly, quarterly and yearly terms vary. ads are charged by the square, with penalties for late or extended insertions. Notice that distant subscribers may pay in advance or provide local references. court orders and certain notices incur higher rates.
A 1838 correspondence from Fort Lil cites Rep Elmore and Senators Calhoun exchanging letters and toasts at a Republican dinner. The text discusses Union versus Separation of Government and Banks, defending federative principles and warning against consolidation, with references to Virginia and Kentucky resolutions and the party’s origins.
A prolonged analysis argues that uniting banking with the general government shifts vast power to federal authority, favoring high taxes and large expenditures. It contrasts constitutional strict construction, warning that a national bank undermines state banks and state rights, urging separation and adherence to constitutional limits.
In a partisan defense of strict Constitutional construction, the speaker argues against government bank unions, warning such measures threaten republican equality and promote consolidation. He emphasizes the federal character and the dangers to liberty, urging adherence to old party lines and the separation of government from banking. The finale invokes a crisis parallel to 1798, signed by Calhoun and Goodwyn.
The article reports strong denials that Mr Biddle violated his charter by sealing in merchandise and states Federal papers declare his cotton purchases false. It notes The London Times has begun an exposure of Mr Biddle's Bank.
A Boston Daily Advertiser excerpt reports claims that the United States Bank pushed cotton sales to threaten insolvency charges in London. It cites a Liverpool merchant noting 50 000 bales could be sold for about £600,000 and accuses Biddle and associates of monopolizing trade to the tune of millions.
The Baltimore Sun reports that flour price rises are driven by New York dealers who monopolize bread stuffs. They buy and store large quantities to create scarcity, then sell at high profits, with Albany and Schenectady warehouses filled with thousands of barrels. Farmers may profit from fair crops, but only if speculators do not hoard supplies to push prices higher.
Articles of association for the North American Trust and Banking Company under New York Bank Law set a start date of July 4 1958 and an end date of November 1 301. Sylvester's N.Y. Rep.
A Boston advertiser obtained a license to exhibit a striped pig during parade day. The pig, painted with stripes, drew visitors to a tent charging six and a quarter cents. Guests received brandy and water or a similar drink at no extra cost. The exhibitor reported brisk business and favorable reviews.
A Bristol paper correspondent reports a Bristol style incident from Monday in Newport. A woman named Philips wished to attend a fashionable bazaar for a new church benefit, but her husband objected as her services were needed at home. She threatened to chop off her finger unless allowed to go, and the threat was treated as a joke by onlookers.
In a remarkable incident a woman, attempting to temper her impulse, repeatedly reached for a hatchet and severed tendons in her hand rather than accept restraint. Surgeon Harry Ivy responded as the patient faced a second amputation of both stumps. She insisted she would repeat the act to avoid constraint if necessary.
A Louisville correspondent relates a Mississippi incident in Raymond, Hinds County, where Sheriff and Bright clashed over a service. The sheriff struck with a cowskin. Bright retaliated, flogged the sheriff, and fled after threatening bystanders. The mayor’s deputies failed to arrest Bright, who surrendered later and was bound for circuit court. The tavern finale saw drinking and more violence as Bright attacked the host.
A black woman named Sarah Fullerton jealous of her husband attacked a young servant at a Wooster Street house. She seized a bottle of oil of vitriol and poured it over the girl’s face, causing extreme agony and flesh to be torn away. The demon was immediately committed. A similar Paris case from years ago drew much work.
In Abington Virginia an old white man named Marsh, recently jailed, claimed a spell or charm was cast by Yates to justify shooting him as he rode home on horseback. The Abington Statesman reports the incident as a brutal killing tied to belief in superstition and fear of enchantment.
A Roxbury man named Wells owns a hen that last year laid an ordinary egg on five weekdays and skipped Sundays, but produced a doubled yolk egg on Saturdays. For the last five weeks this year, the bird began similarly with five weekdays of normal eggs and a double yolk Saturday, with no Sunday laying, according to the Boston Transcript.
A Providence editor claimed ladies always pull off the left stocking last provoking a stir among readers. They denied the claim and called him out as impolite, while the editor backs the point with a playful argument about removing stockings in sequence.
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