30 Sep 1843
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Newspaper
Tarboro Press
Location
Tarboro, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 30, 1843
Page
1
True Tarborough Press describes weekly publication details by George Howard with annual and monthly subscription options and advance payment requirements for distant subscribers. It outlines advertisement rates for short and long notices, court orders, and general terms including postpaid letters to the editor.
A reflective verse on enduring sorrow with cheerful heart and faith. The speaker notes common troubles shared by many and finds solace in the belief that God measures each burden and grants strength to endure. He urges cheerful conduct, aiding others, and trusting divine care through all adversity.
Narrator recounts a late night stroll through Five Points New York with a distinguished party guided by Officer Stevens. They descend into Almack's of the Five Points and witness crowded dormitories, filth, poverty, and mixed crowds including Black and white residents. The piece ends urging benevolence and public action to alleviate the district's horrors.
The Ohio delegate cast 148 votes for Vice President while the presidential tally favored Cast for President. The gathering erupted in cheers as prayers and a commemorative song followed. Abbey Kelly spoke on the A S S and Liberty Party relations before adjournment sine die at 1 a.m. Friday. The proceedings featured heated rhetoric and calls for constitutional overhaul and servile war, with the Buffalo Advertiser ranking the preceding colored convention higher in decorum and eloquence.
A south traveler T Pollock Idurgwyn was assaulted near Hesnat Street by rioters returning from a fight near Moyameusing prison. He fought back with a sword cane but suffered blows to eye and head. Women named Robert Tomlinson and John Somerville appeared at Mayor’s court on riot and assault charges. bail set at 31000. Also reported is William Goddard of Petersham confessing forgeries totaling 841000 affecting Ware Bank, W H & J B Foster Boston, and Chase & Craw Boston.
Saunders, age eighteen, forged a large sum on Aus ten Wilmerding Co. deck, attempted to flee on the steamer Great Wesera but was captured and most funds recovered. New Jersey murder case ends with not guilty verdict for Joseph Carter Jr in the Castner murder near Washington, Warren County. Evidence shows large sums of paper money, gold, and silver found in Parke’s chest and various places, including Belvidere and surrounding counties. The trial described circumstantial evidence and disparate currency details across multiple safes, chests, and drawers.
Several other wells in the western part of Long Island have sunk about fifteen feet, causing great inconvenience to owners. The note adds not to alarm, as unstable foundations threaten houses above, per the Journal of Commerce.
The Sandwich Chronicle reports three enslaved men who escaped to Canada West worked with local farmers for months. Their owner sent a nephew to fetch them with a promise of no sale or punishment. The master pledged safe return, then left. The men, adhering to the pledge, boarded a ferry to Windsor and voluntarily went back to slavery, one noting he had never known hard work until Canada.
A Texas resident writes to the New Orleans Picayune from LaGrange noting crops in very finishing condition. He predicts corn plentiful at 1¼ cents per bushel cash and cotton could yield 2500 to 3000 pounds per acre if conditions stay dry, with some local wheat trials near LaGrange yielding 35 to 40 bushels per acre. A Austin-area merchant wheat harvest reports 500 bushels from 16 acres.
The Intelligencer notes calm in the Cherokee Nation with government functioning normally. Wann and Hicks are not dead, Bushyhead was killed during the election, and three murderers are arrested or pursued, including a white man, as police chase remaining suspects.
A Weymouth petition to Governor Morton seeks mercy for Leavett who is sentenced to death for cold blooded murder of a married woman he lived with as her paramour. The petition argues he was under the influence of rim and deserves life. critics condemn the plea as mawkish and cruel.
The Journal of Commerce reports Clerk’s fees in New York bankruptcy cases totaling fifty thousand dollars and assignee Wad dell’s at one hundred thousand. The Courier has earned over twenty thousand dollars from advertisements.
From the Raleigh Independent a report notes Alan by the name Ing of Baltimore confided a sum between $17,000 and $18,000 to a keeper for exchange. The fragment hints at a financial arrangement and possible misdirection in the handling of the funds.
A man reported he had been robbed after leaving a sum at home and traveling to Frederick. On arriving in Frederick he announced the theft, but upon returning to the city the money was found safe. The suspect has decamped.
A June 13 incident near York when the Baltimore bound train carrying a large Defenders party broke an axle leading to three cars leaving the track. Eleven were injured, none killed, with flesh lacerations and broken limbs. Wounded were taken to York hospital.
Jewelry valued between twenty and thirty thousand dollars was stolen from W and S Rockwell Jewellers in New York a few days ago. The thief reportedly made a clean sweep.
A New Orleans paper reports that cheap action has turned planters in the state's southwest toward indigo cultivation. Once profitable, indigo has been edged out by cheaper imports from the British East Indies Manila the Philippines and South America. In some areas it could yield more profit than cotton or sugar.
In late August abolitionists held a convention to nominate presidential and county candidates. Today the Recorder's Court seated jurors for the term including Abner H. Francis, a Black man with a wig, marking the first known instance of a Black man serving on a Buffalo jury box amid white jurors. The writer laments the event as amalgamation and predicts further such appearances.
An English traveller recalls two historic female Masonic Lodges in Paris named Candor and Fidelity. He describes a royal reception led by the Duchess of Bourbon with dignified ceremonies, brilliant decorations, and a solemn, impressive atmosphere. After serious lodge business, a play and a ball concluded the evening.
A London paper quotes official reports declaring that children of the working classes in most manufacturing districts live in blind ignorance and consequent immorality. The piece warns this condition is a disgrace to any Christian people and unseen in any other country.
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