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AND CARROLL, CHOCTAW; AND TALLAHATCHIE COUNTIES ADVERTISER.
By g. w. n. cnowiv.
Prospectus J
' For publishing in the town of Carrolllon, Car-
roll county, Mm., a weekly paper to be cnti-
tUdihiottthern Pioneer y
(BrG. W. H. BEOWX.)
UNDER the above title of the "Southern Pio
neer," we propose to publish in the town of
Carrollton; a new Weekly Paper, devoted to Politics,
both State and National, Agriculture, the current
news of the day, and the advancement of the great
jinnCA fit Education. This paper will be devoted to
...kot its conductor believes to be the best interests of
the State and county. It will advocate the great Whig
cause which you have recently seen so signally trium
phant. Believing, that the principles put forth by the
great Whig party as the tenets of its political creed,
are the only true ones on which this Government was
originally founded, and on which it should be admin
uiprpd.this pacer will lend to those principles, when
ever and wherever espoused, its humble but cordial
support. .
No man or set of men, will be by us unscrupulously
sustained at the expense of principle, "Principles
aoi men," is our motto by this rule shall we be gov
erned, and in subjecting all to this test, we shall as we
find them, judge with impartiality, admonish with
candor, and reprehend with justice. As humble Pio
neers in the great cause of political truth, we shall
ever point to the cardinal virtues of a representative
Government. ; But, the interests of our State, and
more particularly of our county, shall receive at our
hands a constant and an earnest advocacy. While
our sister counties have been the object of Legislative
action, and Executive patronage, the county of Carroll
has remained comparatively unknown and unappre
ciated. It shall therefore be our pride, as well as our
duty, to develope its vast resources and point out its
numerous advantages. The cause of education, the
cause of enlightened and progressive civilization, the
only true bulwark of a nation's freedom, shall receive
that attention its importance demands. In fine, as
humble. Pioneers in the great crusade against igno
rance and error, we shall shoulder our mattock and
shovel, and taking our place in the great march of
modern improvement, our course shall ever be as JMar
mionsaidto Stanly, ' Onward."
TERMS. The "Pioneer" will be published every
Saturday morning at five dollars in advance, or
six dollars at the expiration of six months, or six
dollars fifty at the end of the year.
0rNO PAPER WILL BE DISCONTINUED
UNTIL ALL ARREARAGES ARE PAID.
ADVERTISEMENTS inserted at the rate of One
Dollal and Fifty Cents per square (ten lines) for
the first, and One Dollar for each subsequent in
sertion. The number of insertions must be marked
upon the ms. or it will be published until ordered
out, and charged accordingly.
Articles of a personal nature, whenever admitted
will be charged at double the above rates. Political
circulars or public addresses, for the benefi' of indi
vidual or companies charged as advertisements.
Announcing candidates for office $10 each. .
Yearly Advertising. For forty lines, or less,
-. renewable at pleasure each, week, $65 .
(tr-Bills for advertising are due when the work is
done, and MUST be paid whenever called for.
JOB PRINTING-
O-In connection wun n i ttu ,
XTLnrtmnnt of new and fashionable Fancy Type,
Mfis us to execute all orders for Job Print
inf in fine style. We solicit patronage in this line,
t nrm the Kfimo as other well regulated omces in
Mississippi. Orders from Attorneys, Clerks, Sheriffs
&c., promptly attended to.
AT J. JOB WORK CASH.
Letters or Communications to the publisher must
be post-paid, or they will not be taken out.
The following beautiful and appropriate lines are
taken from the Baltimore Patriot, and we presume
will be duly appreciated by our readers.
DEATH OF HARRISON.
Waft, waft, ye winds, your rending tale!
Go, bid the nation weep;
The Chief beloved, m lately crowned
With Freedom's honors, now lies bound
In Death's unconscious sleep.
The warrior-heart, in days of dread,
That felt the startling thrill
That bounded when the battle's fires
Flashed o'er Columbia's freedom spires,
Is pulseless now, and still!
In war he won in peace he wore
Fame's rich, undying wreath;
But ah! that loved, that lofty brow,
Is wearing in its paleness now ,
The diadem of death!
Waft, waft, ye winds, with mournful speed!
Haste with your tale of woe!
Tell hearts now beating high for fame,
That like the soul, a deathless name
Alone survives the tomb!
April 5, 1841.
M.
"There is a tear for all who die,
, A mourner o'er the humblest grave.
But nations raise the funeral cry,
And Triumph weeps above the brave."
The death of Harrison has created a deep
er and more melancholy sensation, throughout
the republic, than any other event ot the kind
since the decease of the lather oi his uoun-
trv. In every city, and town, and hamlet,
where the mournful intelligence has been re
ccivedi the expressions of respect and grief
nave been strong ana universal.-juu. summit.
Old Subscribers. The Hartford Courant,
the oldest paper except one in New England,
has a subscriber who has taken that paper for
forty-nine years. The father of the same per
son had taken it for twenty-seven years pre
ceding, so that the paper had been in the fami
ly seventy-six years. .Y. ' ' '
The hundreds of idle young men scattered
throughout the country, and lounging about in
our large towns, furnish indisputable evidence,
that many of the Tising generation are contract
ing habits which, in after life, must cause a
r r?c amount f srrw and wretchedness.
Labor is not respected as it should be, and the
consequence y, that idler.ess takes the place of
industry, and poverty, ghastly and wretched,
that of cheerfulness and content. -
It is said that in Persia, men who are deep
ly enamoured often burn their arms and chests
with. irons, in order to manifest the strength of
their passion for their mistresses. This may j
be called burning for love.
From the National Intelligencer.
COMPLETE LIST OF LAWS
Passed by Congress at the 2d. session of the
26th Congress, which terminated March 3,
1841,
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BILLS WHICH ORIGINATED IN THE HOUSE OF
REPRESENTATIVES.
An act, making appropriations, in part, for
the support of Government for the year 1841.
An act, making appropriations for the pay
ment of revolutionary pensioners for the year
1841.
An act making temporary provisions for lu
natics in the District of Columbia.
An act to authorize the issuing of Treasury
notes. ;
An act to amend the act to authorize the
State of Tennessee to issue grants and pcifcct
titles to certain lands therein described: and
to settle the claims to the vacant and unap
propriated lands therein described; passed
April 18, 1S3G.
An act making further provision for the ex
pense of an exploration and survey of that
part of the North-eastern Boundary line of
the United States; which separates the states
of Maine and New Hampshire from the Brit
ish Provitices.
An act further to continue in force the act
for the payment of horses and other property
lost in the military service of the United States
An act making appropriations for the civil
and diplomatic expenses of government for
the year 1S41; of which there was for the
Post Office $1,812,620.
An act making appropriations tor the JNavy
for the year 1841.
An act making appropriations lor the Army
for the vear 1841.
An act making appropriations for the Indian
Department and for treaty stipulations with
the Indians for 1841.
An act making appropriations for the ex
pense of a delegation of western Seminole In
dians.
An act making appropriation for destitute
Kickapoo Indians, and removing and subsist
ing the Swan Creek, and Black-River Indians
of Michigan
An act tor the rehet oi Mary lucner.
An nnt mrl-?nor nnnrnnrinlions for the SUD
port of the m tary Academy lor 1S41.
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An act to authorize a register to be granted
to the schooner Amistad.
An act to incorporate the Washington Be
nevolent Society, in the District of Columbia.
An act to confirm land patents. , '
An act making appropriations for certain
fortifications of the United States for the year
1841.
BILLS WHICH ORIGINATED IN THE SENATE.
An act suDDlementarv to an act to abolish
imnrisonment for debt in certain cases.
An act turther to amend an act eniiuea an
act to provide for taking the sixth census or
enumeration oi uie miiawrams ui mc uuucu
States.
An act for the relief of Gordon S. Hubbard,
Robert A. Kenzie, and others.
An act supplementary to an act entitled, an
act to encourage the introduction and cultiva
tion of tropical plants. 1? or the benefit of
the widow and children ot ur. tienry rer
rine, killed by the Indians in Florida.
An act to conhrm to tne otaie oi inaiana
the land selected by her for that portion of the
Wabash and Erie canal which lies between
the mouth of Tippecanoe river and Terre
Haute, and for other purposes.
An act granting a pension to Lemuel White
An act for the relief of Wm. R. Rathuone.
An act granting a pension to Hannah Leigh
ton. An act for the relief of Jacob Seely.
An act for the relief Wm. Jones.
An act for the relief of Charles M. Keller
and Henry Stone.
An act for the relief of Lieutenant John E.
Bisham.
An act for the relief of John Carter.
An act for the relief of Joseph Bogy.
An act for the relief of Jean Baptiste Co
meau. .". '
An act for the relief of Acnes Dundas.
An act for the relief of the heirs of Miguel
Eslava.
An act to refund the duties
on tlfe French
ship Alexander. ,
. An act to amend the act entitled an act to
amend the act passed on May 13, 1800, enti
tled "an act to amend an act entitled an.act
to establish the judicial courts of the United
States." - sl -' 'i ' '
An act for the relief of every, Saltmarsh &
Co. ; ? Y y" ' ' 1
Joint resolutions to present incorporated
universities, colleges, &c, with copies of the
of the Library of Congress. -
Thfi Rill for the settlement of the claims of
the States of Maine and Georgia for the ser
vices of their militia, amounting together to
about the sum of $458,000, passed both hou
ses of Congress, and was enrolled and brought
into the House for the signature of the Speak
er just as the motion was made to close the
session; which motion prevailing,' it was not
signed, and therefore did not become a law,
CARROLLTON, MISSISSIPPI, SATURDAY
although passed brjboth Houses of Congress.
AMOUNT OF APPROPRIATIONS.
Made at the 2d. Session of the 26M Congress.
Partial support of Government
(Congress,)
For Civil and Diplomatic expenses
For the Navy,
For the Army
For Fortifications v
For the Military Academy
For Pensions
For the Indian Department
For delegation of Western Semi-
noles, ,
For destitute Kickapoos, removal
of Swan Creek and Black River
Indians,
For survey of North-eastern Boun
dary, o
For Lunatics in the District of Co
lumbia, '
For refunding duties on French
ship Alexandre,
For Avery, Saltmarsh & Co;
For private claims (not pensions)
Amounts specified,
$416,000
8,030,005
5,926,83S
5,441,919
485,400
160,522
1,144,155
875,2S0
15,000
22,000
75,000
3,000
1,030
9,779
4,645
Amount of definite and specific
appropriations,
In addition to the above,
claims are to'be examined, and
the amount found due to be
paid viz:
Claim of the Corporation of
the City of Mobile.
Claim of Clements, Bryan &
Company.
Clerks on Chickasaw treaty
business.
Officers of the customs, ar
rears of compensation for 1839.
Arrears due to Clerks of Bos
ton Custom House from 1832
to 1837.
Same to clerks of Philadel
phia Custom House from 1832
to 1S37.
This may take, in the aggre
gate about
$22,606,193
150,000
22,756,192
From which, deduct the sum
appropriated for the Post Of
fice Department, which is to
be paid from the revenue of
the department exclusively.
Leaving to be provided from the
common Treasury, exclusive
of the redemption of Treas
ury notes and sundry stand
ing appropriations, such as
$200,000 annually for arm
ing the militia, and other an
nual charges,
4,812,620
$17,643,573
PRF.srnF.NT Tyler's Address: We have
pleasure in lavinsr before our readers the sub
ioined admirable address of President Tyler
to the people of the United States, on assum
ing the new and weichtv duties which have
rWnlvpd unon him. It is. in style and sub
stance, all that his best friends could desire.
It is chaste, appropriate and unassuming, and
rrives earnest that the elorious work of reform
so haDoilv besrun. and so ardently desired by
the country, will be strenuously prosecuted to
n frlnrmns consummation. It terminates the
solicitude and suspense which the change o
men in the Executive Department was wel
calculated to excite as to the future policy o
the Administration. It cives earnest that the
new President is keenly alive to the weighty
ohlirrations which rest UDon him, and that so
far as depends upon him, the country shall be
blessed with a pure Republican Administration
The crrcat ' Whisr Drincinles. for which he
and all true Whigs 'have so long struggled
will find in him a champion, on whose nerve
and arm we mav all relv with perfect confi
dence. Under his crallant lead, Reform wil
be borne aloft in triumph, and the Republic
will once more be established upon the firm
and durable basis of simplicity, economy and
virtue. Richmond Whig.
A Good Joke. It is well known that the
Bill to incorporate the State Banks of Ohio
passed the House about 8 o'clock on the morn
ing of the 20th ult. the locos having occupied
the time of the House, in "talking agains
time," from 5 o'clock the previous evening.
It is stated that about 2 o'clock, A. M. many
of the members becoming restive, and some
having already been " talked to slep," by six
loco oracles,' Mr. Buss, a member trom Lo
rain, rose from his seat and enquired of the
Speaker whether it would be out of order for
Chapman, the Sergeant-at-arms, to crow, as i
was near day. A general laugh was the re
suit, which waked up the sleepy members.
By the annexed extract f a letter of March
3, from a london house largely engaged in the
West India business, it appears that the crown
duties in the British West India Islands are
likelv to be remitted. If this occurs, the
export of bread stuffs from this country,, wi
increase.
' "If the recommendations of the select com
mittee that sat last year on our import duties
hn' attended to. we misht expect to see the
duties on corn at a figure which would permi
of imnortations from your side, but we suspec
our landholders are too strong in both houses
f Parliament to irive way much; however,
MAY 8, 1811.
there is to be a committee of the whole House
o tke the subject of Duties into consideration,
and as the commercial commuity is taking
great interest in the matter, it is believed that
modincauon win take piace, and mat tne im
perial duties on importations into the West
ndies for the use of these Colonies, sav on pro-
visions, lumper, ozc, win be removed, llus
would no doubt have the effect of enlivening
he intercourse between these and the United
States.
Extra Sessions. The following extra ses
sions of Congress have been called since the or
ganization of our Government:
John Adams was inaugurated on the 4th ol
March, 1797. He convened Congress May 16,
797. His first annual address was delivered
Nov. 23, 1797.
Thomas Jefferson was inauguated the 4th of
March, 1S01. He ordered a called session Uc
ober 17, 1S03.
James Madison was inaugurated the 4th of
March. 1S09. He convened Congress May
23, 1809, also on the 25th of May, 1813.
Martin Van Buren was inaugurated the 4th
of March, 1S37; and convened Congress the 4th
of September, 1837.
GENERAL HARRISON'S FAMILY.
Most sincerely do we mingle our condolen
ces with this bereaved family. We know
well, as all must, that the blow that has light
ed down upon them from the hand of the Al-
misrhtv. is heavy and severe. But it must be
of exceeding consolation to them, that a na
ion weeps with them, and that a nation will
revere the character and cherish the memory
of one they loved so much and so worthily.
The following relatives ot General Harri
son were present in the city on the day of the
uneral, viz:
Mrs. Jane Harrison, of Ohio, son's widow
and two sons.
Mrs. Taylor, of Virginia, niece a daugh
er and two sons.
Pike Harrison, (grand son) son of J. C. S
Harrison and grand-son of Gen. Pike.
Mr. D. O. Coupeland, ot Va., (nepnew.)
Mr. Benjamin Harrison, of Berkeley, Lnc
phew.l
Henry Harrison, (grand-nephew) son ol tne
. . . . .
preceding, wno has acted as connaeniiai oec
retary of the President.
Dr. John Mmge, of Charles city, Va., tne
phew.) , .
We may also add the name ot Mrs. Jb ind-
av, of Ohio, who - adopt! Aire. Jan Horri-
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son as a daugnter, ana wno aimosi lnvanaoiy
occupied
his table.
the
ri;ht
hand of the President at
The following are the surviving
relations
who were absent.
Mrs. Harrison, the General's bereaved wife
John Scott Harrison the only living son.
Mrs.s Judge Short, eldest daughter.
Mrs. Dr. Thornton, daughter.
Mrs. Taylor, daughter. All these are living
at or near North Bend.
Mr. Taylor and his wife and family wew
expected to become members of the Presi-
dent's tamily lor the whole term ot his ser
vice.
The follow ing are the names of the deceas
ed members of the family.
Lucy Harrison, a daughter, married Judge
Este.
J. C. S. Harrison, a son, married Miss Pike.
Both dead.
Wm. H. Harrison, Jr., married Miss Jane
Irwin. His widow presided at the President's
table, and her personal graces have commen
ded her to the affections of all who have had
the pleasure to know her.
Dr. Benjamin Harrison, a son. Died the
last summer.
Carter B. Harrison, a son, who was a law
yer of fine talents, and accompanied General
Harrison to Columbia. Died two years ago.
All of the sons left children. Madtsonian.
An Extraordinary Present. A few days
since, two stout boys called upon a young
lady in Mercer-street, N. York, with a strong
wooden box well naile'd up, and marked with
her name and number, which they said had
come from beyond sea, and contained a valua
ble present from some absent friend. This
box, they stated, they had received from the
master of a vessel, to convey to the young
ladv; the freight and porterage of which was
one" dollar, which they politely requested the
lady to pay, which she did, and the boys de
parted. Anxious to see what present it was,
she had the box opened with all possible ex
pedition, when to her astonishment she found
25 dead rats, nicely rolled up in white paper,
and exhaling an odor by no means pleasing to
the nasal organ of a fashionable lady.
THE WAirWOMAN'S CREEK.
In Georgia and North Carolina, there is
hardly a river, creek, or stream that has not
connected with it some old Indian tradition.
The title of .the present sketch is taken trom
nn nf thPSP. .1 believe one of the principal
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tributaries of the Natahalee river, in the Cher
okee Nation, North Carolina. - The story, as
Uxr t four Indians remaininff since -the
fall of 183S. runs thus: ;
Many years aco, in the first settlement of
the country, a wondering party of their tribe
attacked the house of a squatter somewhere
tjpon their borders; during his absence, and
massacred all his children, and left his wife
covered with the mangled bodies of her butch
ered offspring; scalped. alike them, and appar
ently dead. She was not, however, woundea j
VOL. I. NO. 21.
so badly as they had supposed, and no sooner ;
did she hear the sound of their retreating foot-
teps, than disengaging herself from the heap
of slain, haggard, pale, and drenched with her
own and the.blood of her children, she peered
steadily from the door, and finding her enemies
no longer in sight, - hastily extinguished the
fire, which before leaving, they had applied to t
her cabin, but which had, yet, made very little
impression on the green logs of which it was ;
composed. Wiping from her eyes the warm
blood which was still reeking from her scalp- ,!
ess head, she directed her anonized cazc to
he bleeding and disfigured forms of those, who .
scarce an hour belore were playing at lnc
door, and gladdening her maternal heart with ,
heir merry laughter, and as she felt, in the ;
full sense of her desolation, the last ray of hope -
die within her bosom, there stole over her '
ghastly face an expression as savage as was
ever worn by the ruthless slayers of her inno- ;
cent babes. " Her eve eleamed with the. wild
ury of the tigress robbed of its voung, as clos-
mg her cabin careluliy behind her, witn a
countenance animated by some desperate pur
pose she started off in the same path by which
the murderers had departed. Heedless of her .
wounds and wasting blood, and lost to all
sense of hunger and fatigue, in the one absor
bing and fell purpose which actuated her,
she paused not upon the trial of her foes, until
at night, she came up with them encamped at
the side ot the creek, which is indebted to her
or its present name.
Emerging from the gloom of the surround
ing darkness,on her hands and knees, she crept
noiselessly towards the fire, the blaze of which
as it flickered upwards, discovered to her the
prostrate form of the Indians, five in number,
who overcome by an unusually fatiguing daVs
travel, were wrapt in deep sleep, with, their
only weapons, their tomahawks, in their belts.
Her own stealthily advancing hgurc, as tne
uncertain light ot the burning pile fell upon
it with more or less distinctness now expos
ing its lincments clotted with blood, and dis
torted by an expression which her wrongs,
and the sight of the desolators of her hearth
stone, exaggerated to a degree almost fiendish,
and now shading all, save two gleaming spec
tacle eyes was even more striking than the
swarthy faces which she glared upon. Assur
ing herself that they were fast asleep, she gen
tly removed their tomahawks and dropped all
but one into the creek. With this remaining
weapon in her hand, and cool resolution n
her heart, she bent over . the nearest enemy,
and lifting the instrument, to which her own
and her children's blood still adhered, with one
terrified and unerring blow, . buried it in the
temple of its owner. The savage moved no
more than partly to turn upon his side, gast-
ed a little, quivered a minute like an aspen,
and sunk back to his former position, quite
dead. Smiling ghastly in his rigid face; the
desperate woman left him. and noiselessly as
e, despatchhed all the sleepers but one, to
hat
long rest from which only the last trump
can awaken them, lhe last devoted victim
however, was aroused to a consciousness of
his situation by the death struggles of his com
panions. He sprang to his feet and felt for
his weapon. It was not there, and one glance
explaining every thing to him, he evaded the
Diowaimed at him by the brave and re
vengeful mother, seized from the fire a burn
ing brand, and with it cucceeded partially in
warding off the furious attack which followed.
In a little time they, fell struggling together,
the Indian desperately wounded, and the un
fortunate woman faint with loss of blood and
her extraordinary exertions. Both were too
weak to harm each other now, and the woun
ded savage only availed himself of hw remain
ing strength to crawl away. In this piteous
plight the poor woman remained unlill near
noon on the following day, when she was acci
dentally discovered by a straggling party of
whites," to whom she'told her story and. she
died. After burying her on the spot, they made
some exertion to overtake the fugitive Indian,
but unsuccessfully. He succeeded in reaching
his tribe, and from his tale, the little stream be
fore mentioned was ever afterwards known
among the Chcrokees, and also by the pale
faces, as the "War Woman's Creek. Indies
Companion. .
LATER FROM TEXAS.
The Steam ship Savannah, Capt. Wade, has
arrived .since our last, bringing Galveston
dates as late as the 13th inst.
We learn from all parts of the country, says
the Houston Telegraph, that most extensive
crops of cotton will be put in this season. On
the Brazos and Colorado more than twice the
amount planted last year, has already been put
in; and every settler, new or old, has given his
attention to cotton Raising. We hail this im
provement as the harbinger of better times.
The Steam ship Zavala, Capt. Lothrop, had
arrived at Galveston from Laguna. The Gal
veston Courier says: "Our relations with the
people of that portion of Mexico are of the
most amicable character, and every courtesy
and kindness was extended to the officers and
crew of the Zavala." v
: Judge Webb was about leaving Galveston
for Mexico, in the schr. of war San Bernard,
in search of peace. The editor of the Courier,
in commenting upon this move says: "How
much better it would be if the Government
had appointed Com. Mopre, to go down ad
minister, accompanied by the whole fleet.
We could then have treated and coerced alter
nate! v, according to circumstances.". .
The Houston Morning btar of the 10th inst.
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