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Tse pciven granted under ike Constitution^ being derived from the People of the Vaited States, mtiy.be resumed by the^ uhenerer perverted to their injury or cppressian.^'—Madison. CHARl^OTTE, j\ORTH-CAROI^IXA, MAY 8, ISIS. JEl'i'l-HSONIAN. .1^ AM> 'Uj-l n. D v. i:i:.KLY, DY ?ERII3. sordn ViU ’ c furn'-Ju 1 to subsrrihers • JLL ’ iS •. -M i/ ; adra\‘^i:, | . yri t-: ■ • f ■rmeilt (.if Hit niEJ' W/J. W:" fy Uic pjd ^ , bt :■ I ‘ j -.V .// t^ie KdUcrs f tk. 'ta ‘ ; ^ '. li ■ . y i:‘O- c Dollar per les) f i iC’! k CO . 1 : ldrr>. J drr. :L..‘-ct : ad''^rti!^c f!.f ''ir. Ic^, ir be I 'I V uur Iir / L / R- tn ;alt ! -' TMi * tier ■ u. -*r J' r Bj,— if ni/t State of Nortli Carolina. CATAWBA COUNTY. Court cf Picas end Quarter Sestions. April Terr?i, 1816. John Kelly, Adm’r. vs. David Pryor. rCTlTION FOR SALE OF LAND. !T fippcTriri^r to t!ic salistaclion of the Court, tKrit the D' li'nci.iriti? in ihi? ra^c, David Pryor and 7.'}.oinas Pryor are noii-rf'sideiits ol ihia Slate.: It is iVHTcfoie crJerP'J that puhlifation be ruade lur six Wf-.-kg m the M-jrk!enhurir J. ll'erponian. lirai they app'-ar at the next Court ol Pleas and (iuarter Ses- S'. -ns to be held tor the Coiinty o! Catawba, on the 2:1 Monday in June next, to show caupe il any they h.*ve why the j>rayer of’ the Pe’ition t:houId not he ^•r inted 'and the land condemned lor. PlaimitT'a oI.K'l. Wi^ii George Sctzor. Clerk of our eaid Court, at cfilce. the ii5ih Aprd. 1S4G. GEO. SETZER. r.r.c.c. (Printer's fee S3CJ) 59.-Gvv. l^fsctn.in cu.o. \ rolled spa,Icim away j sueak of |iglm..n, T I /{ail Hoad-Confused UccMec- \ i mouniinss ivent «-| nte through \ irgiuia—lieflections * .ookcu at ir, ond a it?w yards behind us t{)tr i liine to a.x anything ab the Potomac Washington j Selling' off (it From the Vrestcrn CQniinenr. MAJOR JONES ON Ills TRAVELS. Tlie MoJot'^s Departure from Charleston—his hn- prtssion of the iSca—no Smoking aft of the Machi nery—M’lsingson Deck by AJo nlight—Cape Fmr Jliver—Desci iptinn yorth Carolina tions of the Jionte on Haillload Travelling iii General — Washington''3 Tomb—Arri:al at City, Washington Citv. May 18. 1845. j To Mr. Thompson: Dear Sir: 1 left ofT my last iiitcr to you only a i few minus before the o-mnibus cum to lake me from th«‘ [Jwtrl to the steamboat, Vv'ell, I was a little i , ' ; behind the administration in gttin my trunks pnck ! ed ncin, and cum iiionstrous nigh gettin kft. But { Patrick got me down to the wliarf j st ns the last } rirjg uas dyin out of the bell, and in a few minit? j I was afloat oij salt water for the lul time in my ! life. You must know I fdl in a mill pond once hair m curl to break' the harts of the young staj I didn’t gii much good sleep theij'^hl hossfs. It was monstrous still—the monotonoua the itoainboat, and by the ii«ie we got lo P splaa^in of the wheels, the groutto and groanm of ' the H'gine, the rushin of-the foam, and the rumblin ijnd spjtaken of the limbers o{ the boat, ail keep in fcur'g I was pretty vvell done over, and I neve?'' as so glad in my hfe to go to bed. 1 rememberlsi albin j boul gttiin up tfie next mornin fore dayl§l ^aod - ^ ^ •■IWIII4W lurc time ogethcr, made a sort of no:sy siUnce that ft II j getiiii m nn omnibUF, and thtn gtiiin in sCb R^ord nigcl.veiy on the ear. I leaned over the side and cars, and whizz n alotj-T throULMi V’irTi"rH - - ^ ^ ou ns and bridges ’ hirlm past us so rapi( , - - , r . . ! . ^ about ’em. Like Ca^|| was iio track or our passage. I felt alone on the] he got sober, •• 1 remember a heap of l5i vast Dcean, and a feelin of isolation curn over me, | nothing v; rv pertickerly,'’ from the tmie whicf, fore I got rid of it, made the boat seem no j bed in PaeTsburir, til I found myself in tt boat on the Potomac gvvine io Washinntc t- ^ f 1 These railroads play t!ie misJutf vviijj ol set v’ai ions. One i] onghi as v. eli try to bigjT'l* than a teapot, and n»ysp1f a little less ttian nothilrg. I could have preached a sermon on the subliiiity cf creation, and the insignificance of n>an and works, but I had no congrpgijtuai then, and I fethcrs in a pigeon’s taiiVhen he’^ on th i!§ to.ihite noiv. 1 dunt know whnt made me think j to look at ihe^cout try he’s traveiiin thro of lioiit'—but sorni how. 1 fth like I’d ijin a htnp i railroads cars. IIo gi'? a kind c! llvin to be l>jar—I thought of th^ butilul bright t yts thai ' uas cj sed in sleep on my pillow, and the dear liiiU W WT^.iJ f >oseofrnv St'OC'K Of ^ ^ pulhd out by old nigger j bad, a dr_ AJ ^:\ A \DLR. t > f: ' . - ” : ;r'!i of the publir > r m- C’f > ' 'O P i» I > f ‘ i/^, . r; X. c.. ‘y i AT COS T. Pliygi 'i irsp purchasing fo tlie a- n -'nif .( Fifty iVjliars nr rii'>re. can have FKESII MEDlCiNE^j at tu'tiuty per reiit, oti the ro=t.‘ X W\ S. NOIIME.NT. April 13, ISIG. 5i-G;v ■t t 'nr W /i i ; ID V V / /y n LLL rl \V. • n, st v-onJ ■ t. ■ i II ’ . .V ( ' f n 1 N / A . I. • ■ , V 13 i'av rr, ;a .■•>R COJ.OL rJfcJD DAGUEtiaEOTYPE PBRTRAITS. 'r>-;us. DOUATT vV S^llTII would in- S the citizens'ol' Clarlotte. that tiiey will '..lin a I hort titne jri ih«; Town,^iaiul art* pr*']) ired : ke *•*: l^ortrails in the best "I’^en iiWhe Ar*.- with the iatept ini- ; Ir; tr:i:nt?nts atid Clieinicalf? I’urnished, 1-^40. 5S-tf Ned, jest when I had bout luck my last swaller, and 1 spose il’s that whal’s always made me have sich a mortal dred of water whar I can’t letch bot- lonj ever sense, i left monstrousjubous bout gwine aboard, and if ther was any possible way of getlin i round il, 1 wouldn’t a run no sich riska you may j dt peud. It was a biiiiful afternoon and iho passengers ; was all as lively as crickets, talkin and laughin and , lookin iit the city, as the steamboat wnt spankin along vvith'hcr flags a flyin, ond jier wheels turnin | and wttt up stairs, and srnokfd another sejjar, til 1 the sea in^ sodp?u>h^, and leavin a white track in | got prej.y tired, nnJ then I v.rnt in ihe genii.man’s cab iliai was ntsihd in my place. Dlers ther dear | souls-^perhaps 1 was never to see ’em in this world ' acain, 'I'iiese thoughts made me ftel nionsirou? d the m'jre 1 reflected about il. the worse I fell, ii I bheve I would ^in all I had in the woild jest 10 je sure I wouln’i die bt fore I got back. Biiii-by, I thought I’d try to go to sleep, so I went I. jwn into the btd room, ar;d irit d it. But it I was nigo. I got into one of the little boxrs, 'vhat j they cill bt.rihs, but 1 couldn’t ttay born no way I I could B.K it. In the fiisl [doce 1 couldn’t cit stowtd j away, lo how, and in the next place, wtn iif ver 1 ‘shutm’ eyes, i: seemed l.kt* ihe boat was whirlm round |iid round like a trend mill. I got up again. good asons d mo* e two > mor- 1A\-, hul (JCilS'lS, ,*I I 'SRw. ?AIJT3 and others. 'V;aQ S'.LL, LRliaaJST. liul' isf.v ai.il Sail, ^ 1-: ■'! Bi ■ vV (. S * T’l : ‘ t \ > • •. V ‘ ii A * ^ 5 ' e f i'i’ i L.^ . > iili' i t ju t ’ hia frCih kSli K ' 1 11. a:2l \5i5*»’sci;iii Wit ■;2i«*ry, ni*ij c*j*- / UGUSTUR PRIME ret-'pcct.rullv inHirtms the (•ili«ensot Charlotte, ami its vicinity, ihat he ex t.i to'’reniain anionii: them ;i I’evv w’e«*ks.ai»d will 1 p!easi:re in er^eculing orders tor h' h:;nj experience in the art of paintinL^.'^'^nd the iw wti li'lelity of his likent'ssep, he hopes. wiH be* r uHiri -ipt io secMre for hi^i d^e^ j)atrqnage of all who ;'ire ttiijir p.>Hdr:^tf: taketr.» IiidjMJonis aretirMr. oailler’s Hotel, where spe- f'iiiiewK of hi^ ]>ainting may be seen.'S ^ *- j April 10. IS l(j. k5>..p liie water behind us. Ther wus a lieaji.of fchips | parlor,vind stretched myself on one of ihe seairs — and steamboats all about, sum i^andin still, sun> Liwirie out and sum cornin in; at.d liiile boais not bi^’ger than a feedin truugh was ;» bjdgin all about wilh ther uhiiesailsa shinin in Ihe sun like sand hill cranfs in a rice field. The city kep gettin ._.j , smaller and smaller, 111 bin»bey F-.ii Muuliry, whar | fine plac'ations and houses on Ihe hanks when you you ko{)vv the Carojina boys licke^iho Biitish so git near Wilmington. Pretty soon after brtackfusl m the revolutioi), didn't look bigger than a fodder we go', ir. sight of the city, and a few miniis afler- ) 'tiick. 1 hx/ktd around for thi^^ore, but the skv i waids, wf} was long the wharf, and theniggeis was I serm, d to coin down to the water on every side, til j can in l>aggoge up the hill to the railroad.— Wilmington presrnis bout curious a aspect fro.oi the 1 fell alleep ihar someiiine between that and day light, aid never waken up til most breckfust time the next mornin. when they sed we was in Cape Fear, gvine ri^ht up to Wihnington. Cape Fear is a very fine river, and ther’s some M i 1 -Vi 1 1. J 1 . 1 ' J i.. ■ . X}M • nc 1 1 . : • : e- .' ! i the ad- . 1 j.O • i-c. : . h V,: ^ v'‘ ::rr.ar;il (ff 1, ■ a ■ .. r * him r- rs, , ■ : fr- j: — , ssiUic iuiince- ; ty ^ ‘ \ : ■ • j. \V: 1 l»0 ; s Y ■ ’ ts r . tl ^ • f-ri \]ii ^;ecii-^n- /T J !• :iVi_: 1 :f sen iin^ i'uh >r ; .1 . inr . i-s j-i er! ' J . ah 1 f il, tint wag- 1, ! k •ou . i- } ing I ; a:;,l fr‘ :;i i :S . \ I' y r. I'l ; n ’iiii s of •s ! . ' ;;i- ! l!*re:‘ iiaes a Wi t-k . 1 • 1 ■ 't. 1 ’!;( s«', tfi^?-e:her, eori- ' !■ lOT I , ! )tii larj* rrid sr.’%i»!l I t* \ lift 1 r; -■ IV. n;- M. •’V t . : > ‘' Ft V n-F CIV H)' rr’ o ■ i ; "■ -vur S}'ri:;'jr sup- ' i‘ ( . > ; ;.t 1 rect';ve the a 1- - i ; ) C O-T t;tucK ctnnpf i- V('V V rie 1 F ;M alexandi:r. i 10, 1'*= 5b-3t 1 1 LL persons indebted to the Estate of M^osefi Beatly, deceased, are hereh.y notified to come f^ru’ard before the 1st of July and make payment; as I intend fo settle said est;\te at the July Court.— x\nd all persons having riaiais againet saul estate, mu.'t present the same In due form of law\ belbre tiie t.tid Lt of July, or this notice vvil be plead in bur of their recovery. ISAAC S. ALEXANDER. Ex’r. March 2 }, 1^ 10. 5S-3vv BBo. OTICE is hereby given to all persons entitled fo vote for members to the House ol Cf'mmons, tl'.'U an Election v.ill he held at the Courthouse in (’ha.'Ioite, on next Easter Monday, to elect seven Free!i')lder;. as Wardens of the poor for the County for three vears. next ei ^iiini.’’. T. N. ALEXANDER, Sherit)'. March 13. IS 16. f.2 : A :d i'' * i';.\ PA{\TL\(i M ) ''(lilg'lllg'. o f M e c k le n b M r g, CJ TIE firm hereiolore existinix bef veen J. W. J. llaitiey is this day di.^solvcHl, as 1 will not be re.-'pcr;.ihlc for any cotilraci or corjiracts made or contracted by J. lidinev. J.W. RAINEY. it looked j*'si like ihe ciys'.al of my vvvtch, ’ihout a s^tol (yf. yealh to put onfPs foot on as far as the eye could see. I begun to feel mon-irous skary, and 1 dont blicve I ever did draw sich long brtths before in all my born days. I do believe I ihojight of all the ship racks 1 ever red of in my life, and I would a gin ten per cent of ail 1 had in ihe world to had m^V life insured. I held on to the side of the boat vviiii botl) handst and kep as fur ofl' from the biler as I cfHjId. BiiC the lady’s and ijie liLile childr(n I inixul it a bit iird a^P^’WB \V t» uul u! ^lirht of land about a ower I got ‘a liiile over iny skter. l^imbey a nigger feller commenced ringin a bell as hard as he couid ling, and holler in out—‘‘ Gentle- MM‘n what haiiit paid their passage will phase fo walk up to Jhe caj)iin’s oflice and settle! ” As soon as I couid git a chance I paid for my tickets, and pretty soon afier that ihe bell rung agin for supper. We had a fust rate supper, butsumhowit did’i seem ruitural to besvvimin and rockin about in the sea, and ealin same lime, and I didn’t eat much. Be sides, ther was a sort of sickish feelin cutii over me in the supper room, and I went up on ihe roof agin as quick as I could to smoke a segar, liiinkin it mought make me feel belter. By iliis lime il was night, but the moon and stars was shinin above and below', the only difference in _ the sea and the heavens begin that the s'ars and i moon in the w’aier was dancin and capenn about I like they was out of ther senses, while them in ihe I sky was winkin and twinklin in ther old places as I quietly and sober as ever. 1 got a light for my se gar and was jest beginnin to stnoke when a nijiger r I I JO CO leller curn U[) to me, and scs he: “ Alassi, no smokin lowed aft the machinery.” r.H’cr, as any olher town in my knowins. The first thing you see is everlas^in piles of turpewtine barrels, piled up on the wharf in every direction, and on the Vf'ssels in the river. 'I’hat’s the front rank. The next is a plaitoon of wiudtnllls, cnufT to lick all the Don Q.'jicksots in Spain. In them ihey bile the Sjiirits cf turpentine out of ihe cum. 'i'he rare lank—and that's scattered all over iho bill is mudc ojljlf hou=:es and old brick walls, and chimncys of hou?t-s hai s ij» en bufwt uowt>, wjili nere ai^J Ui?.r a rrjo.-o barrels of turpentine. I’hey’ve had i*vo or three fires here lately what’s burnt up the b( St part of the town, but I don’t wonder at if, for would as soon fhink of puffin out a powder house as a place what’s so perfectly'soaked with turpen tine. AH I wonder at, is that.the liver dont keich a fire too. We waited about a ow’er in Wilmington, which afTorded lis a opporiuniiy of lookio about a little.— After fravellin over it, and lookin at some very handsoni*bildins, among which was the new Pisco- pal Ch’irch, a monstrous preily Church, a nionst rous pre:ty bildin, we w’ent back to the cars. When we got lhar, I ax’d a nigger feller whar I could git sotne segars, and he told me to go into a house what f ood rile over a branch, on siilts boul twenty feet hijh, whar lie sed Lucy Ann w'oifld sec ’en» j to me. W( II I w’ent into the house, and sts I, “ Is Lucy Ann liere?” Dils my name,” said a little outlandish person with n coat and britches on, “ I want to see Lucy Ann/’ ses I. “ Ddi’s me,” sfs he. “ What shall I have de plaisure to sell you today, ha?” “ I looked up at the old feller’s whity-brown sort MarrI) 20, 1 |f 0/ -F J. iV uAixs:v ’U- 1 e » t.) t!.e ])ul>Iic in tlie . - * ’ ' >U6 ■. l].i% ii^'’ prepared h:m- i J>;- ! ols: !: J itit nts I'ii '•(\-';')r\ t'' . »n hit^ c^s, ,t 1 1 havi i!! I'COt' , ; « r ■ ■ r id . ►* 1 pr !;y u:e:ini;ag at- cr be is'i Te c l' i..e puMic p-atron- :N i’A J) . \ 11.AO HOUSE in ’ 1- er i l ; SO: ri'^r style and f j . ,:n i! th- ir vfi k 0 '■ ■ / ( ',rUi:''p ^ ^ : I \ n,l ' I: 1- W ,lr‘ t.‘ 1, Lu.'.i- 'if ^\/l hr- tlr;:;k-;My ref^i^'cd x. r :'cd atid fi ru'arJt:d to ;n 1 Us I ess, fpnst-paui) directed 1* 1 rid" ■ \ 11 ,iltt fiut'vJ to. J. W. RAINEY. ’P., 37 ■■ - ■ - ■ Dll MAKING. «r e Overiunn CB ) ; ' '■■■> ' i' ! Is pnd t^-' ie ’ 1 s . 1 ' . • .t; 1. two i’ ' t 7' ^ • r r ,.':y vt * ‘o,, rn i | ir. . ex • a i \v ■ vk i 1 I - -1' ! gl:: -B b i If E LLXB , r' ' !• ; rt ■ 1 t-i date his !.. ■! m ’ • : v • .f ’ ' iry, 1 •? lo. ; t ' r : 1 t \ er sin-ilar i J » "h ; Il -■ t!it* h we-^t 1 s- i 1' pu J a!:| y h: 6h ? i' ir. ’'t s u 1 s tat J ’ r.U i "a ■ ' rs \ ’ t 1' --'11. 1 (1 t- 'h« . \v'. w in 1 'S t. ! Jan. 0, ; I ^ i.i.Nr.. ! sirel e, nr.l I.of with every ' -Try ' .«tv= r 1* iic»' ill the town f I': coK.v, wiii;at, .vxd bacon. 'PD'P rD^IIFi siihpcriber has a larire (junntify of CORN -IL aiid WHEAT lor sale at his plantation at Deat- fy 3 I'ord, N. C. Pt'fsoris .-irons of ]>urchasin»if the sfafl ol Life,” can be suj>p-lied by r;)llin(r on Aug. 27, 1S45. A. NL PFRTOX. P. S. I also l;ave MEDITERRANEAN SEED WHEA'r for sale. ^flHE firm of J. Sumner & Co.. havinir been dis- -4- solved on the first day ol NovemhHr last,* al li;ise imiebted to them cither by note or book 'ac- coor.T, are informed that the saine must be paid by ti e 1st ol January. or their notes and accounts will be given to aii oflieer t'or coIhH-tion wiihont rfs- peet? to persons, as liio business of ihe firm must be closed. “^Oh, thcit s it, ses I, and I went back to the hind ; of .i face, and ses. I, “ I dcint spose it niakes any difllTence, but they told me Lucy Ann kep this shop.” “ Well, sarp, rny name be Lucy Ann, I keep dis. store, and sell you sum vary fine orange, batiana, soda-water, and so forth.” I bought sum segars and sum oranges and went out, but I couldn’t help thiiikin tiier was sum mis j lake about il. if Lucy Ann u’as a u’oman she j wa« the uglitsl specimen I ever saw in my li.^e, I Bimeby the bell rung and the passengers was all t aboard agin in the cars. The lokynjotive man pulled the wire what sot the steam agwine, and away we went, libky teklink, rite among the lar and lurpen'ine what was strung all along the road, every here and lhar, for most a hur;drrd miles.— Like ail the southern roads, this don’i run through I eend of the boat and luck a seat, and commenced a ; right good smoke to myself But 1 hadn’t been lhar more’n a n>init ticfore here cum the nigger fel ler af?m. “ It ou muscn’t smoke aft the machinery,” ?es he. “ W\dl,” ses I, ‘‘ I aint near yer machinery.” “No, but,” sfs he, '‘you is aft.” “ Aft w hat ? ” ses I. “ 'I'he place for gentlemen to smoke is forard,’' ses he. “Well,” ses I, ‘'my buek, I dont understand your gibnsh, but if you’ll j' St show me w har 1 can smoke ’thout any danger to your machinery, I'll go ttiar ” Wiih that the bominable fool begun to snicker, tii he seen my cane was takiu the measure of his o.* fret3 nnif houses, and lowtis and rivers, Sitf' Tenses and bridges, al! mixed up i. gtihrr. one r.^ i into tother, and another beginni:ig bt fore the Jd' one’s left otl. so he cjii’t make li. d n » tai! :o ’en^ And when he dots step a miiiit he's so pes-.eipi wiih hack drivers ar.J poiters, that he ha\*'t haf |y got time to tuy h:s ticket or eat liis brtckfasf, li alone dom anything else, 1 was anxious to h ive look at the old dominion, for a goc li m^ay — I wanted .to see ihe state u har mv f.al er e ther was born, and wijal had givt n'biith to ' great exlrenif s cf American slate:'i:;ai). tl e n lal ani’pod^s, Gtn. Wa^hingt; ri ard Caplj I’vicr. But i tiad sicfi a bonibinuLle { ore c.hai ce,' , don’t blieve I’d know any U'ore nb ut Viiginy hen I see il agin. *haii t. 'I'\ I r d;d atout his uinci* pics when he got to be PresiJ-iii. ^ I'he Potomac is a rsoble livcr, nrd r.s tl no waves to stl the boat a to!!in, I had i f chance to look r.l the scenery cn i's ^ ank^. :>hall forgit my feelins wl;in the b> 1 rur>gi know we was ne;jr Washington’s gra\ir, Vernon. I fi ll that it was a grate g allowed fo look al th;>l sacred Sj -t, wiicrtjtlh of ihe illustrious fdher of hf^c -untry vvas rc| to look* at fhe mound of yeanh tliiu h^dd ^ken to it.«elf ilic noble forn) in w^hich had c-t)tr«!|£ l^much viilue, so much patriotism, ro much val.::'f s »«juch wisdom, £0 much c f cverythirii: that enrhd cs\|]u man natur. I remembered how' cn ■ the very stream on which I was, a Brf.i h once floated, and that w’hen lip'y pass? d 1g^avj of our couwtry.’s sainted hero, they lov^cT djthf r proud banner, in token of r; -peel to the ill did—and when I thought of th:i^ it maie forgive ’em for destroy in t he city th.d' bon^]h Fort Washingto.'i stands high up on llie 1-5 looks down rnonclrt.us sassv ; at 1 I r kc John Ball’s v*'a.>’fo try that garn-r'a£!'iin. tf • tho P.jtomnc .coincwhat rougiii r uav; 111. than it was then. In a few mmifs-more we wa? in sir^h^'d ingtoncily, with the great umbu ll.. loji of { io! loomin up into the heavens, grand ly j*. i peculiar. We wasn’t long; g.t in to the*rf, S 1 after a terrible cr«counier with bout fj,a^ ind^d cab men and porters, I male out to git igoag«. into a hack and druv to Gad bv’^ h: .el, a good supper and soon went to L. j. J I dreamed all night of cog wheels nn 3 jm ic- was St rate never let L3 gines—sumtimes my bed uas a car. then h steamboat, and then it was an omnibus, bu gwine all ihe time, at the rate of lwcn!y*ii\ a ower. My brains haini got more’n bo j»., lied yet, so you must excus; fhi? moristrot§| ter. I hope to git regclat- d in a day of i then I will tell you sumthing about \ City and its lyons. No m- re from Your fiiend til deih JOS •f I. was ia it was mile? llf 8^‘ re 1^- 0, anti ingtgr- ES. idolph 0 thie ’ement rk, 01) k to a Bank yihin^ Dbsiin- htd for a nock down, when he straitened up the | the most inlerestin part of the country, so it wouldn’t [tuckrr of 5iis face and sed— be fair to judge of ihe old Xoilh Stale by what one Cum this way, sir; this is the forard dtck, ! sees on the rail road. The counliy aint much else JOHN RANDOLPH, One or two characterisiic anecdotcs of |R hitherto unpublished, as I beli^^ve will cl article. 'Phey are perfectly autn* tilic. ^ During one of the suspensions of specio in his day, Mr. R. was on a visit to New business. He had occasion lo presmi a t lar^e amount for payment at the Merchj of that cily, for which he refus(d to acct pi but specie, w'hich the t^diers of the b.ink ateiy refuied to give. Randolph disdain'd t Landy woids, wilh either cierks or principals onill ir con duct. which in his ovvn way of thiriking,,a 'tinted to swindling, but withdrew and had a h$ti Ibili is* sued al the next prinlin? rfiif'P, whi-’h in Iv hourb ! was posted over ihe.v. h-de ci’.y, s’ Jirsg iFio •- j ‘^Tohn Randolph, { f lioan-iake. being or i visit ’ lo X-.w \'ork, v\ill adir*5s iiis liow-''itize' ? upon the banking anJ currr rjcy (jurg’.iiai, fi oiij 4 •• iiepa of the Merchanis Bank ai'tix o’clock ih.s ev A crowd bf’^an to gather more than fore the appoiiited time, enlarging so rip amply that before the hour to uddrc'S h id Cliarl-.fte, Dec. 17. 1S45. J. SLWLXER & CO. 40-tf "^OTICE is b.ereby given, that A. A. Norwood L\ is appointed arrent lor meat my Saw Mill, 5 iniies south of Charlotte. A1! contracts made liy bin) ;a the business ol fhe .Mdl, will he good in master. I follered him over to the fore cend of ihe boat, whar sum more lenilemrn was smokin. I had’ni itlched a drap of licker in a coon’s age, but I never was so (Hit to lo walk strait in rny life, Surnhow I c»>u!dn’i ruike no soil of calkelalion for liie floor —one mitiii it was up lo my knee, and the n*\'ct j very level country, and is the straitesl in the world step I couldn’t hardly reach il—and my legs k"p ' one a h nil ‘dl than one everlaslin turpentine plantation, and all i ofHcprs of the bank l .ok the a.arm,; nu one can see for miles, is millions upon millions of his lousing place scnt^one of ihecleiks; pine irets with the tjark half ofT, and the uhitt amount in gold—wfjich Ra*udol{)Ii receiv turpentine runnin down ther sides, and lookin like so 1 '^^douic suiiie and the npl quouui -n *• Cha k many tall ghosis standin in the daik shade, with I auriam reii juii. lie left Xevv^ r ther windin sheets on. The rode runs through a the s!agf = u h.cn at the pen j • gitiin mixed up and tangled so 1 didn’t know having a singlef stretch of upwards of seventy miles uiihout a curve cf hairsbredlh in it. Tiie from U;iher. All the pa^senger.s seemed like they j cars aint quite so stylish as them on the Georgia ‘vas life—sum of em looked monstrous serious, and Railroad, but the conductors is very obligin, atieo' one or two was caskadin over the side of ihe boat ^ uve clever men, and git along wilh as few accident He v.ill at all times be able and nr Miareo toYurni”h * niight. I fi It a little sort | as any conducters io the world, only they dont low Lumber of all kinus, at the lowest prices ^ STEPHEN PETTUS Jan. 30, 1S16 40-tf ^30 REWARD. ii VXA WAY FROM the subscriber, about the 10th of July last, a negro man tiamed JER- t»f fwimmy in ihe bed myself, and I begun lo spici i uo smokin in the cars. We luck dinner on the on I was gt ttin sea-sick, so I tuck a seat by ihe j road—but ihe least sed bout that dinner the bt iier side of the boat and smoked iiiy segar to settle my i —they got my lialf dollar, and I went through the j motion—of course they wasn’t to blame for my not havin any beiier appetite. We go' to Weldon a liule after dark, and lhar we tuck a very good cupper. Here we bought ticket? agin, anJ ther was a big fal filler thar what Ft:r 1 •fc I •• # J ^ i ‘ ^ - P - T -J* rp ^ . i r jlu:nmick. Well, thar I sol and smoked til all the passen gers went doun into the bed room lo sleep. It was a Dutiful night, and the scene was jest the kind lo set a man’s brams to ihinkin. The sea is a roomy place, and th(r’s nolfiing lhar to prevent one’s ijivin RV. He i.5 about 5 feet 10 inches liiuh. j scope lo his imagination — it’s a mighty thing about 30 years old. yellow coniprlecied. i and it a man dont feel some sublime emotions in it? and has a very wild look. He had on prestnce, il’s because his bed woiks is on a mon* «hni 1,0 i-fl nie a i.ove-colore.limirot linsf>v|Mn:a-^strous small scale, Thar it was, Ihe great, ilie k I w.ll give a reward Ol 1 .wenty Dolhy. lo ; eve,I.Et,„ s.a. J:cssed out in its slar-btspangl.d nt = y i,erf^on who ill apprehend said boy anti deliv- r ci. • IT hm to i:;c,or lodgcjum ^ N. C„ will prompt niiention. | vvaves* vvhiie down deep inu^cora^cav^ns, the | coinmodalioQ of ihe pubiic delight, and e.o he v.ns hardly known i the noiicc passtd ciT for a mere hoax on :i The ^’niversaldy of A-..^Jifs .M^irt^ beautifully portrays liie tinivers'ili’^' of L “ 'Phere ntedi no o'.h-r proof that hi the most moral atrnosphur*, a^.^d that lu iinmorlaliiy of man isd»si.inrd ui'.,matel}| than the elevation of £'>:jl, ihe tili_^. us a which attends the fi,st n:5ur:mce, ihe fi certainty of irue lore. 'Phe ^a\ 'Uiun h I u thus of a nation; the warrior is the gr.ce ( ness 13 . h the thrivjp, raiiori, sober leader Il a 'f' i the philosopher is tlie birth of a ih. i;.s luJ years; the •hprp is he n( t? Wfieiev? r p ire loc!; their ch;idr=n there he ha been; lover—where around upon seemed termined lo make us all go the Bay route as ! wherever children are at play t''_,'clher, il.ere Ke he called it, whether we w’ould or no. He banged soon will be; wherever there are roofs u:ide» 'vhich men dwell — wherever there is an MmO'jiert 'ibfo' ting with human voices, 'here is tlie l:,-vi r, ar^ thfre n:s lo!ty Wiusfjip g.)inr: on—ui,=^.CiiL: iUle,l>Ut%e- i A"2;. In. JOii.N W. POTTS. ail the fellers to talk I ever heard in all my born days He got ahead of every body else, pass^ngeis and all, an when I told him I’d be very glad lo com modate him, only I wani*"d to go by V*’ashington. he Sfcd, he’d be dad fetched if he didn’t have the seat ■ the presence, and the ht^h t» in, warn rri i niw illtrWihr ■ 1 n lii ii—i 11 ^ i iC whal uaveift on his line, i homage amidst the meditation of every even ii veahd in the b/isjhlness the eve. 'h*; ot er of thei df ’our>e. its tide. whaits and porpoises w’as ppoulin ther love diiies to i He’s a monstrous good agen^, and oughl to be well 1 the busy hum ci ro ;ar.-l ’ the rj'A'ettheaits, and the raaren^aids was puttint iher» paid for his iroablts ’ 5Uis.’ nvjrnin J
Mecklenburg Jeffersonian (Charlotte, N.C.)
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May 8, 1846, edition 1
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