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Volume 3.
es5fNA,' Saturday, April 3, 1847.
, Number 32.
., j0mmA;wm0m , , , - t V ' . xy. Xix v ; a S
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Lincoln Business Director a.
.Court Officers Superior Court F. A.
Iloke, clerk. Equity Wm. Williamson,
clerk."' County court Robert Wiiliam
eon, dark. Each of those tikes in the
Couil House. W. Lander, Solicitor, law
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"square. B S Johnson, Sheriff. L I
'lothroek. Town Constable.
V UegUrer, J. T. Alexander; Count v Sur
veyor, John Z. Falls; County Processioner !
.mbrce Coatner. Trustee, J Kamsour.
"V Treasurer of Public BuildingsD. W. I
jischenck.
Committee of Finance J, T. Alexan
der. Bcnj. Sumner. John F. Phifer.
. Building Committee J. Ramsnur, Peter
uuimey, John F. 'Phifer, and H Cansler.
Lawyers Haywood W.Guion, n.a;n st.
pe door east. L. E. Thompson, main st.
mst, ad squares - W. Lander.main st. east,
2d square. V. A. McBee, and W. Wil
liamson, offices at McBee's building, main
t. 2d square, east.
.Physicians S. P. Simpson, main street,
est. I). V. Schenck, (nd Apothecary,
V" st. two doors east. Elim Caldwell)
J.in-siroet, 6 doors east. Z Butt, offi
fie'e opposite McLean's hotel. A. ilnmsour,
rmin st. west.
jlerckunts-H 8 Johnson, north on square
west corner, J. A Kamsoti'r. on square,
north wast corner. C. C. Henderson, on
square, (post attic ) south. J. Kamsour
Son, main st., 0 doors west. Johnson k
, Heed, ou squnre,s(iuth west corner main st.
Academic Male, B. Sumner; Ftrnule,
under the charge of Mr. Sumner also; resi
dence main st. 5th corner south vasi of the
vCOUrt ho yac- -
Hotels Mrs Motz, s. w. corner of main
st. and square Wm. Slade, main st. 2d
corner east of square. A. A. McLanc, 2d
corner, west, on main st. B. S. Johnston,
north west, on square.
Grocirs G. Presne!!, main st. 4 doors
cast of square. Wm. K. hd wards, south
v 2tt of sqtiaro. James Cobb, south east
corner of Main and Academy street.
Tailors Daiiey & jSeale, tuain st. one
ooor west of square. Allen Alexander,
m square, b. l.y w. side. Moore it CoLb.
en square, norui west cnrr.f.'.
Watch Maker and Jeweller Charles
W m i A t m .I.-, of A rsnc-t
Saddle and Harness Makers J.T. Al
exander, main st. 2d corner easto( square,
ti. M. 6c F. J. Jetton, on square, north b3
west. J. A. Jetton, south west on square.
Printers T. J. Kceles, Courier oflice
5 doors north of court house, Island Ford
road.
Booh Binder F. A. Hoke, main st. on
-iu square west ol court house.
Coach Factories Samuel Lander,tnain
st. east, on 2d square from Court House.
Abner McKoy, nviinst. east, on 3d square.
Sr P. Simpson, street north of main, and n.
. of court house. Isaac Erwin, min st.,
west, on 2d square. A. &; U. Garner, on
Blacksmiths Jaccb Rush, main st. 5th
corner east of court house. M.Jacobs,
main st., east end. A. JJela in, main st. near
east end. J. Bysanper, back st. notth west
of public square. J. W. Pay sour, west
snd.
Cabinet Make rs ThotnasDews & Sou,
main st. east, cn 4th square.
Caren'ers, $c Dmiei Shuford. main
sf., east, Gth corner from square. James
Triplet:, mam st. M'Bee's building. Isaac
Ilouser.main st. west end. James Wells,
mainet. west of square.
Brick Mascnj Willis Peck, (and plas
terer) man si., east.4th corner from so uare.
Peter Houser, on oust side of street north
f square.
Tin Plate Worker and Copper Smith
.'hos. R. Suuford, main sr. east, on south
'ide ot 2d square.
Shoe Makers John Hugins, on back
it., south west of square. Ami FnrJ &
Co. south west corner Charlotte road and
main st. east end.
Tanners Paul Kistlor, maiu-st., west
end. J. Ramsour.bnck St., north east of
Bquare. F & A. L Hoke, 3-4 miie westol
iyn, main rond.
Hat Manufactories John Ciine, north
k'rorn public square, 2 doors, west side of st.
John Butts & son, on square, south side.
Oil Mill Peier and J E Hoke, 1 miio
south wrest of town. York road.
Paper Factory G. & R. .Hosteller, 4
niies south-east of court house.
Cotton Fuctory John Hoke & L. D.
Childg, 2 miles south of court house.
Vesuvius Furnace, Graham's , Forge,
irevard's, and Jobnson's frc.n work, east
VLime Kiln Daniel Shuford and others,
'miles south.
TO WHO! TO WHO!
'Tws on a cold autumnal night,
A dismal one to view ;
Dark clouds obscured fair Ventta light
And not u star appeared in sight,
As the thick forest through.
Muggins aa UfcuaI,MbIue"
Beat homeward, tacking" left and right ;
When all at once bebrought up," rit;ht
Against an old dead yew ;
At which he "rounded to,"
And "tquaiiuoir," if for fight,
Said, with an oath, I sha'iit indite,
' infernal scoundrel you !
'Light an' I'll lick you, black or whitt!"
Just then above Itim fiew
An owl, which on a branch did light 1
A few feet o'er the boozy wight,
And then commenced " Tu trhno
Tu whoot Tu ichoot Tu wkoo
Qui'th Muggins "Do you think to fright
A feliow of my weight and height
With your Ttr-whovt er-wfico,
You cursed buggaboo !
An' cf you're Belzebub, it's quitu
On-necessary you should 'light
i'or Muggins aint your 'due.
My money matters are all right!
Tue Phintkii PAin uj iioxou iiuiciaT!'
Thereat the owl withdrew,
And Muggins too ;
But there are other chaps who might
Be caught out late some dismal night,
Who HATkx'T paiu what's nrt!"
Thoy know to who I to who !
From the South Carolinian.
The Little F;U Man in tlie Grey
Overcoat,
OR, GUN COTTON v. BUSTLES.
Dedicated to Vesper Brackets Esq.
BY COL. KAT SL0CU3I.
On the fifteenth day of December, A. D.
1816, blessed tn memory for a good crop,
precisely at four o'clock in the afternoon
(we aie always particular in matters ot im
portance) "a solitary hor&crrun might have
been seen," picking h;s way along the
muddy, sloughy, sliibbv, market road, lead
ng from the Bunkvmbian Empire, to Co
lurnbia, S. C. For purticular reasons, we
shall say nothing as to the appearance of
the equestrian, foi it was ourself. Nor will
I ?ay more about the horae I bestrode, as
with all my anxiety to know, and the ul
most super-human exertions 1 made, I have
been unable to trace his pedigree back to
an Arabian sire. It may net ha auii.i,
bowev-r, t Bay that 1 was exceedingly
lonely, and would have given horse, saddle,
and bridle -yes, and would have thrown in
the martingale for good measure to have
heard the voice of a "fellow human" for
as Miss Barret says :
"The tempest stretches from the steep
The shadow of its coming
The beasts grow tame and near us creep,
As help were in the human.
Yet, while the cloud-wheels roll and grind,
We spirits tremble under !
The hiiishavp echoes,- but we find
jXo answer fur iha thunder"
From this, my extravagnnt offer and ap
preciation, you, my dear Brsckett, wiil
know at w hat part of the road I was
You, loo, have often passed through that,
Ion, lonely, houseless Streak of Pine y
Woods" which beginning at tht retired
Mathematical Professor's" above our cap
ital, extends in a northerly direction, until
its dreadful monotony is broken by the ap
pearance of the shop where Paddy said
'Acy fell aphcls and melasses made out
tc jnn.r trays, be Jailers." It is seldom
during the wintor, one travels those tedi
ous miles, without meeting and cverlikin"
nunureos of highland ships ycelpt cotton
waggons and in Summer, the cows eeem
to take a particular iancy :o the road-side
et, when "a- luck will have it," you are
caught "solitary and alone," like the poli
ticians bai?, rolling along, and meet with
none cf these pleasant interruptions tothf.
ennui of riding alone, you know then, that
ghominess becomes doubly insupportable.
Such was my fix. Tis irue, 1 did derive
some little amusement from making r,icb
calculations, as to how deep such a rr.ud
hole wcuid allow a wagon wheel to sink ?
and if auch another would not be putty apt
to "take in" an axle, or lay violent hands
on a tar-bucket ? Now, this requiring one
to take into consideration the weight of the
load, and the "itifidity" of the mud : as
Parson Moser's Willis said about Buzzards
lane ; was a nice reckoning very and 1
confesi it did amuse me. But one will tire
of the same thing orer and ovr, and soori
v
jlika the loafer i " jogged for chang-."
wherever the road would permit such e.
questrian performance, I put my "boi!(n)y
steed" to a canter, ond being in a,musical
humour canticvLted rnyself. . Then, I
whittled, and speechified on all manner of
subjects, and for variety's sake, not from
barbarity, for 1 am the best natured fellow
J in the world txcept Betsy Blossoiri who
lives or. thcSaluduFork and who from sheer
good nature feeds her turkeys en milk;
I say for variety's sake, I occasionally
cracked old gray over the head, just to hear
his parchment 'covf re d bones rattle. It
all wouldn't do. I blundered along, bow
ever, through mud and mire and my lone
some diseaae grew so rapidly, that I wa
J thinking of including in my original ollei
for company, an old hat I sirapi for, at
j Buckhalter's dance, and believe with a ve
j rity I would done so and have riddt n into
Columbia bareheaded, i( 1 had not heve in
sight of two old codger who were jogging
on at an easy pace to market. How heart
ily I thanked fortune for, ibis favor. Rain
to tho husbandman when drought bh
burned up his crops pardon to the crimi
nal when the gailowa looms up before him,
ibt raising cry of the hounds which tingle?
at the heart of the fox-hunier, like martial
music, the magnetic evidence of a glorious
nibble, which is conducted by lino and pole
to tho digits of the fisherman, the rinding
of a guinea nest with onu hundred and forty-four
eggs, by Jim Boney, wasn't to' b
compared to the delight I felt at the pros
pect of company. They were engaged in
earnest conversation, on a subject of uppa
ranily deep interest. 1 kicked old gray in
to a canter, and briskly joined them. To
my polite salutation thry returned only' a
silent nod, which did net require the addi
tion ofauinktQ prove to me.that they in
tended to continue ihair discourse. One
was a (at, round p'.urr5pwaistfcd individual,
having on a ciusc-fit tig gray cloth overcoat,
buttoned up with a moat fcufibcating light
ncss, jam up under hit throat, bis full chin
failing in a whelk like a Bologna Sauane
just over the collar. His very counte
nance proved him beyond a "doubt's ehad
der" a regular decendunt of Momus, though
it also led me to believe that some o;:e of
Me ancestor had marked into the ancient
lamiiy o! Bacchus. In hard times he was
just the man whom it did one good to look
at. He was in fact ajolhj pictura of jovi
allity. Hts companion, wearing a brown
seedy camblet cloak, was, what we always
expect to find under audi a coverings long,
lean, caie-worn, discontented lotking fel
low the perfect representative of a fam
ine, and when I looked at him I couldn't
help thinking of the lean hint which puz
zled the .ec romancers of Egypt in Joteph'a
time. His face was o sharp, that I would
feel afe in betting tho above mentioned haf,
against the little end of nothing, that a fly
had not ventured to alight upon it, since lie
wa a babe in bis mother's arms. And his
shadow was bo kien that be shaved himself
with it and one time casting it a little tee
high it cropped nne of his ears, and he la
boured under the disadvantage gf a. foreign
reputation, for the excision was laid to the
charge of a sheriffs action in some barbe
rou land, as satisfaction for riding ofTa
horse which did noi belong to him. But
as that is scandal, we will go no farther,
except it be to ask you lo picture to your
self a fat jolly goodnaturcd bear, and a lank
limbei-Ieggd grey hound, travelling along
"as thick as three in a bed," and you
have my two mm exactly. I drew near
to them as possible, determined, after my
lonely ride ,- now that chat could be heard
for a reasonable price only for listening
-to lose none of their conversation, how
ever uninteresting it might prove.
"Oh I swar its loo orful at my house,"
said Camblet, "1 shan't put up wi;h it no
longer; I had expected to sell bulgin big
crap of cotton this fall, but the tantrums has
bodaciou! robbed me outen at Iea3t a fifth ;
I shan't nor won'tstand it." "Hut, tut,"
ejaculated Overcoat, "when you gits used
to it, as 1 has, yot wont erlow yerself tn
be flung cut by ttese similar like trifles."
"Trifles it looks nity little like triflin to
have one bag outet every five tucken from
you so it does 1 think' "Well that is
a purtey sawa eius gouge said Over
coatfbut if we mata up our minds lo consi
der em as trifles they is trifles, nnd ain't
anything cite " But," responded Cam
Met "itg purtey develish lifl kil! io consi
der em so, when they isactilly so far frum
it. And, then I ve got a piece of land to J
pav for; I expected to do it with ibis cup I
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and I b eve t.-.r. iv.,t r... .i..-
-ad I b-lovclMe fca but fur tbe,,!
foo!,sh notion- ,,y, ,.,i0 ,v crli,r.
all to nitre" .Voii fit
a,j to pieces. "ell. Ill confess when I
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a feller is postered about these things lie I
ia Pestered mihtlv Mwlv r.-..!
Overcoat. " But jest lister, avbi!s tweil
a ;i ."iiivu
I give you my erperence in that luurof busi
i.ess.' I've got five darters, and each one
of 'em wastes at least cai'cI.nions five- ami
twenty pounds prannum. And then there's,
a new hand sot in about a year ago the
old W.au ana though she is now high on
forty eight she jist mounts on appeardntly
an veu tnty at a load. Wlti she i
full rig for meelin, she's the nictat, plum
nesf.iggost little figure of a mortal you "
"Oh Ml be drat if I'd stand that" i'nterup
led Camblet, "1 b'lieve if they hooked my
crap in tint style, I'd venture to set a steel
tra . I dont no, neither they take it bv
degrees so and it gits bigger so graduullv
along, lhat the fust thing a feller knows his
hole crop is packed inter round bales und
slung round his galls. I remember w. en
my oldest gill fust mounted her'n itJ
warm bigger than my little finger, and I
was 'willin to spare her that much if it
helped out licr looks enny. Bui in the
course of a year it kept growjn and swi l
bn and growin" and swcllm ont will now
its nigb.lv as big round as my body- I
wonder any how," be continued in a kind
ofsolil-q.jy, what comfonVin em pe
cially about dog days?" "Precious titUe I
should reckon," answered Overcoat, st.ud
deiing at very thought of if. "I've noticed
my galls lay em by in hot weather when
the dont expect kumpany and its a puitey
good notion of thern, I'm a thinking.'' it
inuit be a great relief to em. Bi t as 1
was a sayin, hear me tell my fuflerins, and
then say if it aint fhe lest not ii koer for
tch things. I fust tried burnin whenever
I could luy hands on em. But soon sw
that was beginuin wrong end up for as
soon as one was burnt, a bigger one corn
to the funeral. Then, i wouldn't get any
more nor rid truck, nnd in that way lhat I'd
purvent women kind from havin enny more
of em for lack of cloth to mako outen.
But was jist about that time my old 'o.
man got to be monstrous fashionable, and
wanted to look fat as ibe best of em. Sue
warnt to be pu; out not she too good a
contriver for that so she cuts up one of
her old petticoals and node one of the big
gest soit tho galU followed suit. My
next plan was to storm it out. I tipped
and tore and, I cussed anefswore,! pitched
wnorted, I roared and kevorted. B,;t the
more I biled and busted the bigger they
got. I then give it up m disgust. Bime
by one of them Mormon Preachers came
aiong. You know ibey pur'end lo cure
th sick and make blind persons see ?"
"Ah-ha-yes." Well, I thort I'd make
one more e-fort to put a stop to hookin my
cotton; and I thort if he could make crip
ples go it and could pluck up trees and
fling em inter tho sea, that he was t,e
man to help me in my t n-de-vours. So I
went to htm and told him I had a j',b tor
him, and ef he'd do it I'd give him ten dol
lars. He said ho didnt charge nothing,
but '.bat the workman was worthy of his
hire, or something to that respect so he
said he'd receive it. It aint common st z,
I, for people about here to pay before hand,
butsz I, F pay you as soon as the job
is done. '1 cant do it for you or anv bo
dy else sez be 'ihou: they has faith, and
your refusing to pay in advance, sez he, n
evidence of a want of faith on yer part."
1 II give you one dolls r now and the other
nine as soon as you git threw, besides stZ
I. vour board !. Z in Kl !
i, uui uutru snau oe Ilunff in. iuw sry
1, thats faith ennffsez I, to make a r.ic"er
shed his heels and toe nails. No, sf z he;
give me the hull string or I wont trv it.
Yer faith sez be is too feeble, you should
have faith to remove a mountain Tha's
jest what I'm after, sir, sez I; come along
home with me, and soon as ycu get there
the money's yourn. But the feller woud'nt
do it, and it riled me. So I up and told
h'ttn he was it derned humbug and a hypo
crit, and axed him if there wis any word
in the.Dyctionary or Kongresa speeches,
worse than ibetn too, to teHMne, and IM
call him that. From that we got to biuh
words and insted of mor.ov I eudtvoured tq
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You give ii ta him
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Imru to Imno in u fi 'bt vet h 1
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No noi exitckelv it uas tu and iu"
who will, ai)d who shi; md we both wa'
initey wiilm to quit. J ihurt we was about
quar w&ph we 'pared but I've beam
Mjnce that bo rentier go: n leetle not
much mind e a leetle the Lest of it.
, Any how. nee that t;mo Fvo let Mor-
in..ii Preachers and bustle aione." Cum
biei did not appear to have ben convinced
that it .v;. best not to care fur such things.
No, he locked, as if, knowing nil the dif-,
lieulties by which be v. as surrounded, ho
iilbO knew hisabillity !o overcome them
and was fsven now arranging 1 bis plan?,
and preparing himself for the mighty strug
gle. As 1 ftlt certain he would shortly
give us the benefit of bis cogitations, I
wou'd not now leave him, although we had
passu-d through ":L lonesome streak of Pi
ntry Wr,oJs," and I stood in no need of
company. H did not keep mo long in
this staie of anxiety.
"vvell, I think 1 know of one plo ihai'l
shortly put a stop to it. You've beam
of the new kind of Cotton they've got in
Kolumby ?" Whit, the Gun Cotton
or the 'Masterdou," "enquired Overcoat.
"Some call it Gun Cotumsoine Explorin
Cotton case it w asfotched by the Explorin
Army. I understand it will be wonh thirty
rive or forty cents a pound. Ef that's so,
it'il be a good speck, anyhow. I'm g wine
to gil tho sed of. it. and plan! my whoU
crap of lhat kind and iben see tf ny galls
ain't remejently taken mighty thin."
As quick as thought the two lower buttons
on Overcoat, were snapped off, and be be
gan shaking and jumping from his boot
heel np io ibe crown of his head. He
reeled backwaid and forward and si Je ways
in is-.s saddle. His feet were no longer in
the stintips. lie became purple in the
face and was just about rolling off bis
burse, when Camblet caught lain by the
coat colhr and steadied him. Then he o
pened bis mouth, nd if all the sounds that
ever were heard bad been blendid intu one,
they would scarcely equal lhat shout of
laughter. I'd give the Slate Bank'if it
were mine, could I enjoy a laugh as be
did. It lasted him from Youninger's
lane to the bridge, & be was unable lo con
verse during ibe time it required to ride
lhat distance. Duringihe intervals of con
vulsions be managed tu say " D-os-a v-e-w-e
a f e-w o f t-h e m s e-e d-s " ' This
Camblet promised him, if they did noi
cost too much, and having reached Butch
ertown, I separated from them. Return
ing home 9 d?y or two afterwards, who
sbuuiJ I overtake but camblet.. I was
rejoiced at this luck, for I desired to learn
his. success in getting the seeds. "Did
you p-ocure those seeds' I asked. " No
Sir r r. It won't do for me for you see
Mister, the boys in my neighborhood is
roity hands to hunt possums in the fall
of the year, when Cotton is jist gittin good
open. Now if I should be a leetle behind
m pickin itou:,.ind they was to go through
my field wilh iheir torches, a spark might
explore my whole crap p'raps blow em
up too and then they couldn't be tried for
arson. So I give it up, and left it to tho
Leg;s!a!ur. Bui, if I was hvin outen a pos
sum range Fd venture it any how, jest to
try io blow up them derned bustles." I
now beard a tremi r.deous shout coming
from the waggon jusi ahead of me. and
, I ' '
bul al the ow-frame
looking in at the bind gale, saw a little
in perfect extacies. That laugh, and lhat
boot, could belong to no one else but "The
Liule Fat Man in the Gray Overcoat."
A new patent stove fur the convenience,
of travellers has just been invented. It is
placed under the feet, and a mustard plas
ter upon the head draws the heal through
the whole system.
A watchmen being asked the name of
his youngest ehild. said be "wantd n
I quarter of tbrep." -"