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"THE PUBLIC GOOD SHOULD EVER BE PREFERRED TO PRIVATE ADVANTAGE." Volume 5. Lincolnton, North Carolina, Saturday Morning, July 28, 1849, Number 19. PRINTED AND PUBLISHED WEEKLY, BY THOMAS J. LCCIES. - Tebmb. Two dollars pel annum, payable h advance; $2 50 if payment be delayed 3 months. A discount to clubs of 3 or more. ' Advertisements will be conspicuously insert ed, at $1 pet square (14 lines) for the tirst, and 2a cents for each subsequent insertion. BENEVOLENCE OF ABSALOM j BESS. "A benevolent man wa9 Absalom Bess At each and every tale of distress lie blazed right up like a rocket, He felt for all beneath poverty's smart, Who were fated to bear life's rough'st part, He felt for them in his inmost heart, But neverfelt in his pocket. J Oh an excellent man was Absa'om Bess, And the .world threw up its hands to, bits Whenever his name was mentioned; But he died one ay, he died, and oh ! He went right down to the shades below, Where all are bound, I'm afraid, to go, fFbo are only good intentioned." " .t A Good Story There lived lately in one,f ihe moun tainous counties in West,er Virginia many Dutchmen, and, nncn,S 'hem, wne named Henry Snyder, ant 'here were likewise two .brothers, filled George and Jake Fulwder they were all rich nnd each owned a mill;- Henry Snyder was subject to fits of derangement, but they were not of sucl- a nature as to tender him disagreeable to any one. lie merely ccnceiv d fums'lf io be Su pTemr Kuler of-the' Universe, and, while under the infaiuaiicn, had hunselt a throne built, on which he sat to try the cause of all who offended htm ; and passed them off to heaven cr lull, as his humor prompted he personating both Judge and culprit. It happened one day that some diffi culty occurred between Henry Snyder and the Fulwiders, on' account of iheir mill's; when io u ou0h ..c"p snv. der took along wuh him a book in which he recorded his judgments, and mounted his throne to try their cause, lie was heard to pass the following judg ment. Having prepared himself, (acting as judge ye responding for the accused,) he called Gtoige Fuihvider. 'Shorge Fulwid r, stand up. What hash you been doing in dis lower world?" "Ah, lort, I does not know." 'Well, Shorge Fulwider, has'nt you got a mill" "Yes, lort, 1 hash." Weil, Shorge Fulwider, didn't you never take too much tod?' "Yes, Lori, 1 hash when der water was low, and mine stones wash dull, I take a leeile two mucn ton. .'Well den, Shorge Fulwider. you must go to der left, mid der goats." "Well, Shake Fulwider, now you - stand up. W hat you been doin to dis lower world?" The trial proceeded throughout pre cisely like ibe iormer, and with the eame result. "Now 1 tries myself. Henry fehny der, stand up. W hat hash you been dotn m dis lower world?" ?Ah! L-ri, 1 does not know." "Well, Henry Shnyder, has'n) you got a mill V "Yes, Lort, 1 hash." Well, Henry Shnyder, didn't you never take too much toll? Yes, Lort, I hash when der water wash low. and mine stones wash dull, I hash taken a leetle loo much toll." "But, Henry Snyder, vat did you do mid der lolll" Ah! Lort, I give9 it to the poor. (Pausing.) "Well, Henry Shnyder, you muM go to der right mid der tsheep; but it is a tarn tight squeeze!" Old ATai.- Thre are living, on Spring Cieek, in this county, perhaps two of the 'oldest inhabitant" in our ntry. Mr. Wm. vVuody is ill . I , irnHp linn. veaio 1 J .. snlit wafer line . ." & b Inch and ere. k th--?i h-ppew crow hi? path ; 3 lu good health and oi a sound roiad. Mr M. Davis, his cloit- neighbor, is anri we unde island is al- iu yeu's UIU " 'A( veart beyond tne The lor- the scriptural Xtment,;.z:lour scour years. the K 23. -Unite ihtir progeny.v and hev could nay 1-Ple a T'lP'' bey cou oi sc ndau,,- haV,r g A Z lives. Ve trust the ay Sl years, belore they a,e ser. r v OOD.wanted at this office. From the Ashville Messenger. LETTER FRQM BISHOP IVES. To the Diocese of North Carolina. 'ear Brehiren: U ith devout thank u ness to God, I have just rend the recommendation bv the President of the Uni;ed States, of the L-t Friday in August next, "as a day ol fasting, humiliation and prayer," that God may have mercy on us dinners, and in his own good time, avert from us the scourge of Pestilence, which is now sprcadin2 its fearlu! ravages throughout our land. As Bibhop of North Carolina, I her by call upon the Clergy and Christians of my Diocese, to respond to this re commendation of our Chief Magistrate: To abstain on the first Friday in Au gust next, from all regular business, to emplov ihe day in privite self examina tioti and humiliation for m, and in pub he acknowledgement, in oit several churches, of God's undeserved go dness ol "His patience' with us, notwith standing our many great provocations," and in earntst supplication, that in mercy He will turn trom us the awful calamity under which wo so justly suf lar ... Faithfully and affectionately, Your servant in Christ, L S1LLIMAN IVES. July 12, 1849. The following prayer is hereby ap pointed to be said in tie Episcopal churches of North Carolina, on the first Friday in August 1849 immediately be tore ihe general thanksgiving in the morning and evening prayer. O! Almighty God ! the" Lord of life and death, of sickness and health, re gard, we humbly beseech thee, the sup plications of thy church loday ; and as thou hast seen fit to visit us bh a na tion for our sins, with great sickness and mortality, in the midst of thy judg ment, u Lord, remember mercy. Have pitty upon us miserable sinners, and withdraw from ,R'JnYc1i tod"-fti justice hast Kiniciea us ; may mis my Fatherly correction, make us leei ana acknowledge the malignity of our sin, and the uncertainty of our iif; and may it lead U4 to repent and forsake every I . I .A l. ,1.1. .,. ... II.U U t - evil wu)j uiiu io uc uiwciji m '"vj"' lamment of lhat holiness, without which no man can stc thy face m peoe : Grant this. O heavenly Father, through our only advocate and redeemer, Jesus Christ. woman and licr Admirers. U e find the following an.cies in the Lades Department of the Portland Transcript for which paper it was selec ted by a lady trom ihe columns of the iiosion Journal. In looking over our exchange papers. we have request r me to admire the complaceicy ft he edito rial corps, generally, in tendering their good advice and affectionate regards to ihe ladiesi, and have been tempted, on some occaNions, to let the gentlemen ki.ow how sincerely .and how acutely we appreciate their benevolent intentions. This wo may yet do at our leisure ; while, for ihe present, we commend Ihe annexed little sketch to the "careful reading" of all such husbands as expect when ou go home io be palled and petted out ol a passion or an ill-humor, which they have imbibed abroad in iheir contracts with competitors in business, or wnli adversaries in politics. "One would think, dear Editor, that we women were something more than mmnr considerations in this world ol ours, by the time and talent lhat is ex pended lor our impiovement. Every newspaper, pamph'et and magazine, is teeuau ff wuh 'Advice to ives, 'Hints to .t'otners 'Whispers io Brides,' 'A daughter s mnuence, ccc, dec Now, would ii not be well lor some be nevolent genius to turn his intention io the sterner sex ? Let u, jusi for vane tv.havea chapter ol Advice to Hus- band! Hints to Fathers! ;Vhispeis to iNewly made Benedicts ! "We are preached to, talked to, writ ten to here a lmle and there a good deal. He are exhorted to be submis sive, soberminded, patient, long suffer ing, enduring ll things, aod forgiving all things.' VVe are expected lo tqual Moses in meekness, Job in paYence, Solomon in wisdom, David in goodness, anrl Ramsnn in strength : we are to meet our husbands with an everlasting smile; we are. to takeaway his bur his troubled nirit: no iratlei it our own shoulders are overla- Hen w ith our own tasks, no matter it our sints are weary ; the words cross aiui dampish are the husband's special pre- ro-ative. 'IfMr Surly comes home in the fililks. afrtof the pouts is denied his poor wife. He may kick tho dog, box J- nno's ears, nap at Mrs. Surly her- sell, yet she is expected to keep calm, And pour oil on the troubled waters. If there was a better" and a "worse" stipulated for in the marriage contract, tshe mut remember that her husband expects to monopolize the better, while therworse is to fall to her share. "There is Mr. Fairface, Mr. Editor, I wonder if you have ever eeen him ? One of the smoothest, politest, most agreeable men in the world ; ha9 a Kihile for everybody ; a travelling streak of sunshine i- Mr. Fairface ! only see him as he is going home ! how grace ful he bends to ibis and that Tair lady of his acqua ntance, but see htm as be nears hts own door ; the smile turns to a sneer, his face elongates, blackness gathers upon his brow, and by the time he lifts his door-latch vou would harrilv believe him the same man. Enter th1 lii!e back parlor! There e.;A-Myg. Fsirfuce, with a half a dzeh Fair (aces around her. Willi, wants a new string to his kite. Sarah's pantalette is torn off, Jack' rce is daubed with apple pie must be washed. Miry is out of temper, ?nd must be punished ; and lit tle Minnie, the youngest Fairface, is worrying in her mother's lap, experien. cmg the untold agonies of teeth cutting. Poor woman! who will say that her task is an easy one to curb the head strong, rouse the stupid, lend courage to the timid ; and blend all these differ ent spirits into universal harmony? Does she not deserve a kind and encour aging word from her husband ; but does she always receive it? J0; there are too many men, who, like Mr. Fairface, give their sunshine to the world, and reserve the cloud for their own hearth stones. "I do not object to the manv things lhat are said and written to have woman learn her duty,and do it. 1 would have her always gentle and kind ; 1 would have her honor and respect her husband; but I would have him annreciate. in some degree, the affectionatP rHr ftlWijnAnn nrg anu genue io ner. Be gentle ! for ye little know How many trials rise, Although to thee they may be small, To her ol giant size. Re gentle ! though perchance that lip, Mav speak a murmuring tonp, .The heart may beat with kindness yet, And joy to be thine on. Be gentle ! weary hours of pain l is woman s lot to bear ; Then yield her what support thou caost, And all her sorrows share Be gentle ! for the noblest hearts, At times may bve some gne! ; And even in a pettish word, May seek to find relief. Be gputle I for unkindneBS now May rouse an angry storm ; That all ihe after ears of life In vain may strive to calm Be gentle ! none ore perfect, Thou'rt dearer far than life 1 Then, huhband, hear and still forbear, Be genile to thy wife. "Woman's life is made up of petty trial, more wearying than heavy sor rows. I acknowledge that too many juris of the present day are totally un fit for the responsible station they are to occupy ; that of wile and mother. But it a iiiari has rushed heedlessly into ma rimony .without examining critically the character and habits of the lady of his choice, to see if she will be a useful as well as a companionable wile, :he I say, let him bear patiently with her fol ly and ignorance. 'Woman is just what man makes her. Show her that you admire usefulness more than tinsel ; that you wish for a companion instead of a plaything, that you esteem beauty of the nnnd more than personal beauty, and take my word for it, i-he will so educate hersel' es to bo worthy your respect and aff ctioii. Mrs Sicett Convicted. Great ex citemeni has been stirred up, at Port land, Maine, by the trial of Mrs Caro line M. Swett, for a misdemeanor, m breaking the windows, botiles, glasses, Sec. of one CoJe, the keeper of dmiKiog shpp io that ancient city. Mrs Swett, it appears is so unfortunate as to be the wi!e of a man who has become the slave of strong drink; we infer that his circumstances are good, and his po sition in life deirab'e, at trial he was spoken of as riding about io his car riage. Mrs Cswett iollowed him about, even far into the nighi, also in a car riage; ne fetking to escape her remon strances, she fearing that he would com mit suicide, or meet wiih 6ome fatal ac ctdent, while liquor robbed him of his senses. Mrs Swett had often implored Cole nor to let her husband have drink at his shop; but it appears that on -no day of the drinking she found Mr Swett, f ter long search, in the shop, wuh a glass of liquor in his hand. Oidermg h,m out of ihe shop, she proceeded to make havoc among the crockeiy,o! which she broke to the amount, perhaps (including hquors in the decanters and botues) of a hundred dollars. The defence attempted was insanity but though the public sympathies ere universnlly in her favor, the jury couid not believe that she was t.ciuallv out oi her mind. They had to find her guilty, bui added a written request that a leni ent lenience might be pronounced. K Manufactures at the South The N. York Star says Capitalists are g7LZ'i.VXv. , withdrawing a part of their investments frorrT agric&'AMrP, ana com mencing maufactures at ihe ?ouih. Who ,.-..!,.. r.. i.. ..i t ."" j iur uu'iuiog con hi ano woolen mills, are soon filled, and female operatives Ironi Lowell, of experience are invited, by hiyh wage's", tu instruct Southern girls in the an and mysterv of fancy spinning; Hnd they are also laying the foui.datioi for educating the poor girls at the South, who iiexer,nnnl no a, had the prospect of re i z ng anything fiom practical industry . The experi ment is a grat and profitable one, and will go on, from; article to article, until the South will supply the market wuh cotton goods, ironware, mi -very aru cle of domestic conson ouon. Averse as the South is to white labor, vei find ing it d fficult to unite wbi'e arid hiack labor in mills, ihe slaves, released f;om the field, will be plced in ihe forg and steam planeing mills, and in vari ous out. door labor. The North ha fairly rourd up the South to a consider ation ol her ns-uic, and Ihe surest menus ol i s c ve-opment; but the re action, while it wilt establish industrial hicb-LCf "ii!.1" ' authv-wiU-gepriife-au never be able effectually to ihiow of all dependence on Yankee industry. II they refuse to buy aniin:'ii down East, the Yankees will go South to do their manufacturing for them.. If ihey will sail their own vessels, the Yankees will navigate them, antT, il m cessary, to build them they do not care whether they are paid in cotton, at Boston, for their labor, or in con. at South Carolina Still it is a reviluti n injurious io the East, and bent ficial tu the South,brought on by an uncalled for ir.terlerence with Southern rights and Southern lnstiiu- I lions. : Eloquent Letter from Father Ma thtic. The Mayor of New York has received a letter from Father Mathew, in which, "after returning his grateful thanks for the kird reception given htm by the city authorities, he says: From ihe moment I caught the first glimpse ol American land, every inci dent has awakened renewe.l pleasure and delight. 1 have gazed with rapture on the bold outline, ot your coast, and have admired the beaunlul scenery of your noble Bay, unrivaled lor if s man lime capabilities and designed by Na ture as the great entropot ot Trade and of commerce of the Western orld. I have seen your m jesiic Uiver dot ted with richly freighted vessels bearing the teeming produce ol our luxuriant soil to far distant Nauons; and oh. Sir! 1 could not look on lhose winged mes sengers of Peace and Plenty, without associating wuh them the magnanimous bounty of a brave People to an afflicted Nation. ' 1 have visited your busy warehouses, your thronged streets and bustling thor oughfares, and have been forcibly struck with these external evidences ofmer cantile greatness and prosperity which shadow forth the httth commercial des tiny lhat yet awaits your already glori ous "Republic. I have seen in them comfort and abundance enjoxed by all in the total absence of squlid I'overiy, and in the liheral remuneration hich a Wdits honest Toil, pn.ots ot prosperity which contrast .strikingly with scenes that have ohen harrowed my s ul in lhat poor Old Country which, trodden down and oppressed as she is, is still the land of my birth and ol my affec tions. I have visited youi God-hke In smut ions, upheld with a munificence worthy of your mighty Republic, in which you imitate at an humble dis tance the mercy of the Redeemer, mar king the 'Blind to see, the Dumb to speak. 1 have minutely insyec'e'iirTHr internal arrai-gements, and wuue-sed witn intense satisfaction, the philanthro pic syeiem and the absence ol all reli gious exclusion, on which those Asy lum, sacred toHumamty, are based and conducted. ....... Letter from J. Ferguson, CONCLUDED. There are many men here now, in a stale ot de paratiou, monght down to poverty anu want by sutiering them Rive to engage in the wild and despe rate games ol chance. . 1 think the government of New Gienada affutds no la,w, in opposition io gambling, i be following games aro publicly practiced ; where all are made welcome to lake share in on Sunday as well as any other day viz : two' billiard tables, two or three wheels of lortune, many dice tables, cards, and other ables wt gaming, that 1 have mt learned the names oi, also cock fighting, breaking of oxen, by lastening a h.pg coid aiuund 'he horns, and a half doz en men holding at $0 yards uisiauce, while others pour spirits turpentine m the ox's rear, tu put htm in a state of mad disiracnon, while many others are, each endeavouring to display the great est activity by lunntng lor ward with blankeia, in front of ihe .- he w vTv the bi n Re,, would jump 'o . in his hands lhat the ox might pass and miss horns ; some were not acuve enough and ihe ox would hurl him badly beSro those at the end of the long rope would rescue the sutler. Others of the na tives at the same time beating the drym playing the fiddle, hie, flute, corone' duicimer,'and a.vantiy ot other itistru menis. 1 do not profess to be much of a judge ol music, bui i. en ihat came horn Ntfw York and Charleston say tl0 New Grenadiaiis are ihe best musicians they ever hearc. J ho.e emigrants from the States, brought to suffering and want b attend ing the gaming tables, are ieft 'in a for lorn condition. Some of them flad am. " pie means luruished ior iheir transporta tion by wealthy friends; their funds came into .heir hands so easy that thev knew not how tlmv urns in hands of foreign strangers. Some public meetings have been held by the emigrants to raise contributions for the relief ol ihe sick and destitute,. Five men a lew days since were cros sing the Isthmus ; they slopped and put up their tent ; left one man with it ; the others took their guns ' and went hunting for game ; when they re turned they found the man in the tent dirked tiesp' rately, and beaten so that he was entirely senseless of anything. They have carried hini into the cny, twung in a sheet fastened to -a pole, that he may obtain medical intention ; one trunk was taken ; there has been no discovery made as yet of Tne perpetra tors ol'the crime. I Several trunk have been losi and others miscarried -some have beeu found empty near ihe cny. It is supposed by many, lhat a falsa owner td a trunk wWld step op .o a na tive that wouid be carryijg it into ihe city, late in ihe evenhpg and claim the trui k as his own ; paylhe nauve .'or carry n g it; take it into pyssesh.ou ; ri fie it that night ot its eContents ; theu throw it away. f Thoae that meet wyth misfortunes and compelled to stay jbete and make a living b labor, most olyihem we have reason to beh ve will be uiMont,nate in deed. Provisions is dear ad the i.i mate fai difJereni from the temperate zones. The sunshine is so hot ard the bleak winds oi night so cool, that it pro duces so many alternate changes, hat the very tewest constuu'icns is able to withstand the changes of climate long; even ih9 natives raised under its influ ences, we nna are ti-ucii subjected to excessive colds, diarrhoeas, fyc. Emi grants, very rarely escape 'thobe dis eases ; and il they do, lever is ap: to en- . sue. Most ot ihe emigin:s mat have died on ihe Isthmus, has been with le ver. ( 1 will now give a small statement of ihe current market prices here, aliho ihey have risen more than double wt'h in tur months, &s the emigration nas increased -o lapidiy. . C orn. per bushel, 64 Rice, per . do 5 50 Corn meal, do 5 25 Flour, per barrel, 1G . Sea biscuit, p r 100 lbs, 20 Pickled pork, per do, 20 Bacon hams, per do' 27 50 Fresh pork, per lb 18 Fresh beef, per lb 10 Molasses, per gal., 5U Onions, per .-- -, Ejrgs, per dojfT Quicksilver, per lb, 3 A&aiauida, per ounce, 1 Dear Firs, I now confess my inability to give vou a ful' discription of Roman Catholicism in this city. .In former days, as at present, we leant there is no -1 , - .
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