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I I I II MU , .lll I I. . M , mm Win',., , ; .11, "' " - rtl ' -: J ill dm fa "character is as important to states as it is to individuals; and the glory of the state is the common property of its citizens."- H. It. 'HOIjMES, Editor and Proprietor. FAYETTEVILLE, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1839. VOI.. 1. KO. 30. . TERMS. , H2 50 per annum, if paid in advance ; 63 if paid at the end of six months; or 3 50 at the expiration of the year. Advertisements inserted at the rate of sixty cents per square, for the first, and thirty cents for each subsequent insertion. ttyLctters on business connected with this estab lishment, must be addressed H. L. Holmes, Edi tor of the North-Carolinian, and in all cases post- paia. fl H Hhds. Prime Porto Rico Sugar, 5 rrtg. N. O. ' do. 50 OasUs )'nA ThoniBticnLim 30 HhJs. Molasses, 5 Barrels N. O. do. 20 Boxes Bar Soap, 1 00 Sacks Blown Salt, 20 Boxes Fayettcville Mould Candles, 10 Boxes Smoked Herrings, For Sale by GEO. McNEILL. June! 5. 16tf. i IS VALUABLE PROPERTY FOR SALE. THE plantation on the Cape Fear River, re cenlly owned ami cultivated by John M. Dob bin, Doc'dt better known as the "NorthinMton Ferry plantation". Embracing in all about 2200 acres much of it in a high state of cultivation, ami well funccd, the balance well tiinberod with Oak, Hicko ry and Pine. It has on it two comfortable dwel ling Houses and other convenient outbuildings, tine water, streams on wliicli-ore now standing a mill and Gin House. The Ferry is also included and being on the best road to Chapel Hill and Hillsborough, .with but little attention might be profitable property. Distance from Fayctteville about 32 miles. Capital sites for Cotton Factories. The plantation is susceptible of a division into two or three parts, which would be made to suit pur chasers. If the above property cannot be sold at private sale before the ensuing Fall it will then on further notice be disposed of at public sale. Per sons residing in the low country and others desi rous of purchasing a healthy situation and valua ble plantation would do well to examine it. For further particulars apply to, JAMES C. DOBBIN, Exr. July 6. IS39. 19 tf. Favetteville Female MR. BAILEY respectfully skives notice that, in order to meet the increasing patronage of this School, and advance its interests, he has associated with himself in copartnership, Mr. Gustavus Spkx-c-kk, who, with his lady, will commence their labors at the opening of the next Academic year, Oct. 15. Mr. S. is an experie nced Teacher, and has had charge, for the ppst vear, of the Female Seminary at Char lotte, in this State. Mrs. Spencer will take the special charge of the Elementary Department, in a roo;n entirely ppcarate fi o n the irneral School Room. Seven rooms in the commodious buil-.iing hitherto occupied, will he devoted to the use of the School, and the classes divided according to their ages, and scpirated as much as possible from each other. The convnodiou? arrangements for Boardinir will be coniinu-d a? l:'.t year, and Mr. Beach will bo prepared to tnko 10 or 12 young Toadies in the Semi nary Buildings, where th-v will have the benefit of cootaiit intercourse: with all the Teachers. Mi-ssrs. Bailey and Spencer will seek to furnish nblc instruction in every department, and considera ble expence has been incurred to increase the ad vantages of the Pupils in this School. The Academic year will commence on the 15th of October and cloie on the 18th of July following. The year is divided into two Sessions of twenty weeks each. Parents and iruardians are reminded that it is very important to Pupils that they should enter early, and begin with their respective Classes. Every week they delay, they lose ineffhettico weeks. TEU3IS-In Advance: Elementary Departmcut or 2d Class, 8 per Session, First Class, IG do French Language. 10 do Drawing and Painting, 10 do Music on Piano Forte, 25 do Music on Guitar, 25 do Use of Piano, 3 do Incidentals and Stationary, 1 do July 13, 1833. 20-tf PIANO FORTES. An -Airf-rier is appointed in Favettevillc tor the sale of the most approved New York Piano Fortes. They will be sold at the lowest JNew York prices, with expense of trans portation, and warranted. If not satisfactorv. thev may be returned. They may be packed for safe transportation to any part ot the State. They may be seen at the Female Seminary, where purchasers PARLOR ORGAN. The Parlor Orffan, or Seraphine. which has hnon used and generally admired at the Seminary for the ... . Ct' I ! , " Pti winter, is now ouereu lor sale at cost. June 8. 15tf, ENTERTAINMENT. j Hp HE SUBSCRIBER, having been satisfactorily JL engaged for more than three vears n t tendi n t Board i 11 r TTmie eels encouraged to say to the public, that her -iHOUSE and S TABLES are well furnished for the jjjrrcepuon ana accommodation ol those who may be J -"VM . - .IUI. All the STAnTTS grriun ( anrl ,1 . . House, where seats are secured, and no exertions .Spared tO .wive .ORnpral Kntiafjif inn tn . T) - - r- . jancustTB. i Mv residence ii nn thr -ro-ni. r z ,ltie lot formerly occupied by Mrs. Barge, convenient cue inaiiv;i, aiju jteor me orate liank. , Mrs. E. SMITH. Fayctteville, August 24, 1839. 26-tf C?The Raleigh Register, Wilmington Adver win insert the above 3 months, and forward their ac- LAFAYETTE HOTEL. Fayctteville, Xorth Carolina. THIS ESTABLISHMENT will be open after the 1st of August, under the management and direction of the Subsrciber. The House has been thoroughly repaired, and will, in a few days, be well furnished; and every cfibrt will be made to render it worthy of patronage. EDWARD YARBROUGH. vlugust 3, 1839. 23-tf ItFThe Augusta Chronicle (weekly,) Raleigh Register and Standard, AVihningfon Advertiser, Greensborough Patriot, Salisbury Watchman, and Cheraw Gazette will insert the above three mouths and forward their accounts to the subscriber. E. Y. REMOVED. TThR Tliomas J. Jordan has re- jjLjJ moved to Liberty Point, on thu north side of Person street, a lew doors above Mr. John M.Stcd man's store. " mar 9 2tf Valuable Land for Sale TIE subscriber intending to remove to the Soilt.il AVest. nlKirs tor snle. hi tr:n:t il" hind lying on the East side of the Cape Fear River, nine miles above Fayctteville, containing 400 acres, 50 of which is under good fence, and in a good state of cultivation, and inferior in point of quality, to none on Cape Fear River. The buildings are a good frame dwelling, and all necessary out houses. Persons wishing to purchase, are requested to call and examine the premises. JOSHUA JONES. Col. Alexander Llliott, J Thomas Ashe, Sru F. C. Armstrong. August 31, 1839. 27-tf 'rference.1. TRUST SALE. IN conformity to the provisions contained in a Deed of Trust, made by WILLIAM S. LAT TA to me, I will expose at public sale, on Tuesday the 12th day of November next, at the Market House, in the Town of Fayctteville: 3 Negroes. 10 to 14 head of Horses and Mules. 30 head of Cattle. 60 head of Hogs. 1 Sulkey, Burgv & Harness. 2 Waggons Sc. Gear. Also ALL the FURNITURE belon-mg to the said W. S. Latta, now in his possession. TERMS liberal, and made known on the day ot sale. H. BRANSON. Trustee. S. W. Tilling ii a st, .laclioneer. August 2Sth, 1S33. 27-tds 1 ithan f FOR SALE, A Valuable Tract of IiANT. mil IE subscriber wishes to sell tint vnli,al.l --,.t IL of land on which he now resides, containing 562 Acres, with a comfortable Dwelling House, and ail the ne cessary out houses, on the road from Fayctteville to Greensboro' 42 miles from Fayettcville, and 1 1-2 from Tyson's Bridge; with about 150 acres of clear ed land, the balance well timbered, and nearly all adapted to the cultureof Corn, Cotton, Oats, Wheat, Tobacco, &c. Some first rate meadow land, which might bo made valuable in the production of hav, as any quantity of that article can be sold for- cash on the road. Persons wishing to purchase a valuable and heal thy residence, would do well to exnmine the chove land, as it wilt be sold on accommodating terms. For further particulars apply to tho subscriber, or John R. Martin in Fayetteville. JOSEPH M. BUCHANAN. Moore county, Sept. 7, 1833. 28 tf. STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA. Sampson Courtly. j Courtof Pleas and duarter Sessions, Ausust Term-, 1839. Theresa Carr, "I vs. - I Petition for Dower. The Heirs at Law, of Jona Carr, deceased. IT appearing to the satisfaction of the Court that Harry Carr, Alfred Turner, & wife Ann, reside bevond the limits of this State; It istherefore order ed, that publication be made for six successive weeks, notityinir said non residents, personally to be,md appear before the Justices of the Court of Picas and duarter Sessions, at the Court to bo holden for the said County, at the Court House in Clinton, on the third Monday in November next, the and there to showcause, if any they have, why the praj'er of Petit ion should not be granted, otherwise, it will be taken pro confesso, and heard exparte, as to them. Witness, Thos. I. Faison, Clerk, of said Court et office, the 3rd Monday of Ausust, A. D. 1839. THOMAS I. FAISON, Clerk. August 17, 1839. 27 6t. VALU ABJL.E LANDS FOR SALE. THE Subscriber wishing to change his business, offers for sale all his LANDS, containing 4000 acres, lying in the Counties of Cumberland and Bladen, viz: 1000 acres where he now lives, in Cum herland Co. on Harrison's Creek, on the East side of Cape Fear, 13 miles below Fayetteville, on which issituated a good SAW and GRIST MILL, with a quantity of srood Timber; a large pond and good stream. The up land is good with a small farm on it; the mill-pond is as fertile and well adapted to the growth of Rice, as any in our State; on a part of said pond, there now is Rice growing. ALSO several other small tracts in said county. In Bladen County, on Indian Creek, 1700 acres, a good portion of it good pine land as well timbered as any in the Stac; on the swamp part of this tract, is a great deal of good Juniper; this tract of land is a most ex cellent situution and good water, on which is a first rate mill site, and a small farm. Several othr smaller tracts of land in said county, well timbered. Any person wishing to purchase such land, won d o well to call and view the premises, and judge for themselves, as a bargain maybe had. September 14, 1 S3. 20-tf DIVISION ORDERS. THE several Regiments composing the second Division of North Caroli na Militia, will assemble at the usu al places of Regimental muster in their respective counties for Review and Inspection, as follows: Tho 2ndor Sampson Regiment on Saturday October 26th; the 41st or Bladen Regiment on Tuesday Oct. 29th; the 8oth or Columbus Regi ment on Alonday Oct. 30th; the 42nd or Robeson Lower Regiment on Thursday Oct. 31st; the 43rd or Ro beson Upper Regiment on Friday T' ...... I , i .1 f 1 , ' 1 , . iiuicuiuw isi; liii: ru or menmonu 2nd Regiment on Saturday November 2nd; the53rd or Anson Lower Regiment on Monday November 1th; the 54th or Anson JJppcr Regiment on Tues day November 5th; the 51st or Richmond 1st Re giment on Thursday November 7th; the 44th or Moore Regiment, on Saturday Nov. 9th; the 34th or Cumberland Upper Regiment on Monday Novem ber 1 1th; the 33rd or Cumberland Lower "Regiment on Wednesday November 13th. ECTThe Review will be made at 12 o'clock, and the Inspection immediately afterwards. Bv order of Maj. Ges. McKAY. JOTIN McRAE, . Division Inspector. Head Quarters, Ehzabethtown, Sept. 7, 1839. 28 6t. NOTICE. THE Subscriber hav.ng at September Term, of Cumberland Countv Court, qualified as Execu tor to the last Will and Testament, of HENRY W. AYER, deceased; hereby ogives notice to all persons indebted to the estate of said deceased, to make im mediate payment; And all persons having claims airainst the said estate, are required to present them within the time prescribed by law, duly attested, or this notice will be plead in bar of a recovery. iirlJN It X JNlcL.fc.AJN, Kxecvlor, of IIEX-RY W. .'IYER, dec' J. Further Notice. THE Subscriber will sell at public Auction no Monday the 23rd of September next, the per sonal property, belonging to the estate of Henry W. Aver, dee'd.; consisting of Household & Kitchen fur niture, Horse, Carryall, Cart, Carpenter's Tools, Pa tent Balances, Rifle Gun, Pistols, &c- &c. Also A Brigadier General's Uniform and Equipments, complete. The Negroes belonging to said estate, will also be hired at the same time, until the 1st day of January next. HENRY McLEAN, Executor tf Henry W. -Iyer, deceased. September, 2nd, 1839. 28-3t NOTICE. mTHEREAS, Malcom Monroe and Robert V W Monroe, ot the County of Cumberland, and State of North Carolina, have obtained letters of Administration, on all and singular, the croods and chatties, rights and credits, M'ithm the State of North Carolina, of Lauchlin McKay, dee'd., late of the State ot Mississippi, which appointment, hath since been affirmed by the Superior Court, we do therefore hereby give notice thereof, to all whom it may concern: Callins upon all persons who may be in debted to the estate of the said Lauchlin McKay, to come forward and make payment; and desiring all havinir claims aeainstthe same, to present them in due time, otherwise, the Act of Assembly, under which this notice is given, will be plead in bar of their recovery. SlALCOM MONROE,) ROBERT MONROE, Mnts ts September 3, 1839. 28-3t VALUABLE LAND FOR SALE. F1HE subscriber having purchased Land on the U West side of Cape Fear Kiver, adjoining Ins residence, offers for sale his Plantation lying on the East side, containing 255 acres, about 125 acres of which are cleared, & the balance wood Land. Said Plantation is capable of producing 2,000 bushels of corn in the season. i.e Lana is as gooa as any on the River, and but three or four acres of it is subject to inundation, and that only in the highest freshets. 1 Said Plantation lies about two miles above the Clarendon Bridge. adioininr the Lands ot v m. S Latta, (formerly owned by Judge Toomer,) and Sampson Boon, and was lormeny Known as ue "Stawnll Place." - ICF'To a person disposed to embark .in the brick-making business, this Plantation aflbrds a strong inducement, as a Kiln is already erected, and there is no better clay in this neighborhood than can be found on this Plantation. For further particulars apply to , . H.B.BEATTY. Fayetteville, Sept. 7, 1839. 28-4t- Just Received and for Sale, - Casks of Water Lime, for building M-P Cisterns, or darning water in any way; it will cement stone or brick together, and make a wall entirely water-tight, and the water cannot act on it in any way, after it is kept ofT six hours. I have also 12 casks of ROMAN CEMENT, fresh, and in snod order; five tons CALCINED PLAS TER of PARIS, superior in quality to any that I have ever seen in this market." Also, 12 casks of Piaster, for Manuring Land; 150 bbls. Thomaston Lime, LATHS. NAILS and HAIR, for Plastering:. For all. or any of the" above named articles call on the subscriber, 3 doors South of the Market House, where all the above articles, and tools to put them on with, can be bought low tor cash. JOHN E. PATTERSON. Fayettcville, September 10th, 1839. 29-lt The North Carolina Standard will insert the above four weeks, and forward the account to J. E. P. NEW STAdfE LINE, From Fayetteville to Warsaw T HE cheapest and most expeditious and com fortable route North and South from Fayette' e,is THE NEW 'STAGE 1UN IS the subscribers estaolisncu in January last, . b fro i n Fayetteville, intersecting the Wilmington and Raleigh Rail Road at Waisaw Depot, VII i arrivui!! in tunc for the Cars both North and South. This line has one day's advantage over any other line between r ayctleville and Augusta, da. Jras- sengers only have the fatigue of 49 miles staging, and loss ol one nurul's sleep, from f ayetteville (via. Wilmington and Charleston) to Augusta, in forty hours. Going North by this line, passengers will find less staging than on any other Route now in opera tion; and in a few months, the Wilmington and Ra leigh Rail Road will be completed, and there will only be 49 miles staging from Fayettcville to New York. Passengers by this line can have their choice at Wcldon, N. C. to go bv Washington City, or to Portsmouth and take the Bay Boats for Baltimore. On this line the stages leave Fayetteville Sundays, Tusdays and Thursdays, for Warsaw Depot, Leave Warsaw Depot for Fayetteville, on Mondays, Wed nesdays and Fridays. The subscribers having prepared themselves, passengers will find on the regular stage davs, two stages, if necessary; and will run an EXTRA STAGE at all times when necessary. No pains will be spared on this line to give the public satis faction. BAKER & BLOCKER, Fayettcville, Sept. 14, 1S39. 2tf Proprietors. FOP ESHTo A FTER 1st Nov. 1839, my BRICK HOUSE -lBl and LOT, at West end of lower brick row, Haymount, now in complete repair, house, kitchen and stable. LOUIS D. HENRY. September 13th, 1339. 23-tf MISCELLANEOUS. FHEIE subscriber has about three thousandof JL these trees FOR SALE, the price of which for the present, will be one dollar and fifty cents per hundred for buds, arid twenty cents for roots. On sales of SI 00 and over, the roots will not be charg ed. Many of the trees are now eight feet high from the bud. I. WET MORE. I have 1000 small trees average 'bight 3 feet, which I will sell at 50 cents each. I. W. Fayettcville Sept. 7, 1839. ' :- 28 tf- STORY OF THE IRISH PEASAN TRY. BY MRS. S. C. HALL. "Mind not high things: but condescend to men of low estate." St. Paul. "It's only a Drop.' It was a cold winter's night, and though the cottage where Jidlen and Michael, the two surviving children of old Ben Murphy, lived, was always neat and comfortable, still there was a cloud over the brow of both brother and sister, as they sat before the cheerful fire; it had obviously been spread not by anger, but bv sorrow, x he silence had continued long, though it was not bitter. At last Michael drew away from his sister's eyes the checked apron she bad applied to them, and taking her hand affectionatelv within his own, said, It isn't for my own sake, Ellen, though the Lord knows I shall be lonesome enough the Ions winter nights and the lonn summer days with out your wise saving, and your sweet song, and your merry laugh, that 1 can so wefl re member ay, since the time when our poor mother used to scat us on the new rick, and then, in the innocent pride of her heart, call our father to look at us, and preach to us against being conceited, at the very time she was making us proud as peacocks, by calling us her blossoms of beauty, and her heart's blood, and her king and queen.' 'God and the blessed virgin make her bed in heaven now and forever more, amen,' said Ellen, at the same time drawing out her beads, aud repeating an ave with inconceiva ble rapidity. 'Ah, Alike,' she added, 'that teas the mother and the father too, full of grace and godliness.' 'True for ye, Ellen; but that's not what I'm after now, as you well know, you blush ing little rogue of the world, and sorra word I'll say against it in the end, though it's lonesome I'll be on my own hearth-stones with no one to keep me company but the oul black cat, that can't see, let alone hear, the cravthurl' Now,' said Ellen, w iping her eyes, and smiling her own bright smile, 'lave off; ye're just hUe all the men, purtending to one thing, when ye mane another; there's a dale of desate about them all every one of them and so mv mother often said. Now, you'd better have done, or maybe I'll say something that will brinr. if not the color to your brown ' - cheek, a dale more warmth to yer warm heart, than would be convauient just by the men tion of one Mary Mary! what a purty name Mary it is, isn't it: it's a common name, too, and yet you like it none the worse for that. Do you mind the ouki rhyme: 'Mary, Mary, quite contrary.' Well, I'm not going to say she is contrary I'm sure she's any thing but thai to you, any way, brother; can't you sit still, and don't be pulling the hairs out of Pusheen cat's tail, it isn't many there's in it; and I'd thank you not to unravel the beautiful English stocking I'm knitting; leave off your tricks, or I'll make common talk of it, I will, and be more than even with you, my fine fellow! Indeed, poor ould Pusheen,' she continued, addressing the cat with great gravity, 'never heed what he says to you: he has no notion to make you either head or tail to the house, not he; he won't let you be without a misthress to give you yer sup of milk, or yer bit of sop. He won't let you be lonesome, my poor puss; he'a glad enough to swop an Ellen for a Mary, so he is; but that's a sacret, avoorneen; don't tell it to any oue.' Auy thing for your happiness,' replied the brother, somewhat sulkily; 'but your bachelor has a worse fault than ever I had, notwith standing all thft lecturing you kept on to me; he has turned for the drop, Ellen; you know he has.' - j 'How spitefully you said that!' replied El len; 'and it isn't generous to spake of it when he's not here to defend himself.' You'll not let a word go against him,' said Michael. 'No,' she said, I will never let ill be spok en of an absent friend. I know he has a turn for the drop, but I'll cure him.' 'After he's married,' observed Michael, not very good-nature"dly. 'IN o,' she answered, 'before. I think a girl's chance of happiness is not worth much who trusts to after marriage reformation. I won't. Didn't I reform you, Mike, of the shockin' habit, you had of putting every thing off to the last? and after reforming a brother. who knows what I may do with a lovet! Do you think that Larry's heart is harder than yours Mike? , Look what fine vegetables we have in our garden now, all - planted by your own hands when you come home from work . planted during the very time which you used to spend iu leaning against the door cheek, or smoking your pipe, or sleeping over the fire; look at the money you got lrom the Agricul tural Society.' ' 1 hat's yours, Ellen,' said the generous- hearted Mike; 'I'll never touch a penny of it; but for you I never should have had it; I'll never touch it.' 'You never shall,' she answered; 'I've laid it every penny out, so that when the young bride comes home, she'll have such a house of comforts as are not to be found in the parish white table-cloths for Sunday, a little store of tea and sugar, soap, candles, starch, every thing good, and plenty of it.' 'My own dear, generous sister,' exclaimed the young man.' 'I shall ever be your sister,' she replied, 'and her's too. She's a aood colleen, and worthy my own Mike, and that's more than I would say to 'ere another in the parish. I was'nt in earnest when I said you'd be glad to get rid of me; so put the pouch, every Lit of it on yer handsome - face. And hush! whist? will ye! there's the sound of Larry's foot steps in the bawn hand me the needles, Mike.' She braided back her hair with both hands, arranged the red ribbon, that confined its luxuriance, in the little glass that hung up on a nail on the dresser, and, after compos ing her arch laughing features into an ex pression of great graviyt, sat down, and appli ed nerselt witn singular industry to take up the stitches her brother had dropped, and put on a look of right maidenly astonishment when the door opened, and Larry's good hu moured face entered with the salutation of 'God save all here!' He popped his head in first, and, after gazing round, presented his goodly person to their view; and a pleasant view it was, for he was ot genuine Irish bear ing and beauty frank, and manly, and lear less-looking. Ellen, the wicked one, looked up, with well-feigned astonishment, and ex claimed, 'Oh, Larry, is it you, aud who would have thought of seeing you this blessed night! ye're lucky jutt in time for a bit of sup per alter your walk across the moor. 1 can not think what in the world makes you walk over that moor so often; you'll get wet feet, and yer mother 'ill be forced to nurse you. Of all the walks in the country, the walk across the moor's the dreariest, and yet ye're always going it! I wonder ye had'nt belter sense; ye're not such a chicken now.' 'Well,' interrupted Mike, 'it's the women that bates the world for desaving-. Sure she heard yer step when nobody else could; its echo struck on her heart, Larry let her deny it; she'll make a shove off if she can; she'll twist you, and twirl you, and turn you about, so that you won't know whether it's on your head or your heels ye're standing. She'll tos&icatc yer brains in no time, and be as composed herself as a dove on her nest in a storm. But ask her, Larry, the straitlbrward question whether she heard you or not. She'll tell no lie she never does.' Ellen shook her head at her brother and laughed. And immediately after the happy trio sat down to a cheerful supper. Larry was a good tradesman, bly the and 'well to do' in the world; and had it not been for the one great fault an inclination to take the ''least taste in life more" when he had al ready taken quite enough there could not have been found a better match for good, ex cellent Ellen Murphy, in the whole kingdom of Ireland. AVhen supper was finished, the everlasting whiskey bottle was produced, and EHen resumed her knitting. After a time, Larry pressed his suit to Michael for the in dustious hand of his sister, thinking, doubt less, with the natural self-conceit of all man kind, that he was perfectly secure with Ellen; but though Ellen loved, like all my fair coun trywomen, well, she loved, I am sorry to say, unlike the generality of my fair countrywo men, wisely, and reminded her iover that she had seen him intoxicated at the last fair of Rathcoolin. 'Dear Ellen!' he exclaimed, 'it was only a drop,' the least taste in life that overcame me. It overtook me unknownst, quite against my will.' 'Who poured it down your throat, Larry?' 'Who poured it down my throat, is it? w hy myself, to be sure; but are you going to put me to a three months' penance for that?' 'Larry, will you listen to me, and remem ber that the man I marry must be converted before we stand before the priest. I have no faith whatever in conversions after' 'Oh, Ellen!' interrupted her lover. 'It's no use oh Elleuing me,' she answer ed quickly; 'I've made my resolution, and I'll stick to it,' 'She's as obstinate as ten women,' said her brother. 'There's no use in attempting to contradict her; she always has had her own way.' 'It'3 very cruel of you, EHen, not to listen to reason. I tell you a tablespoonful will of ten upset me.' 'If you know that, Larry, why do you lake the tablespoonful?' Larry could not reply to this question. He could only plead that the drop got the better of him, and the temptation, and the overcoming- ness ot the thing, and it was very hard to be at him so about a trifle. 'I can never think a thing a trifle,' she ob served, 'that makes you so unlike yourself; I should wish to resp&ct you always, Larry, and in my Heart, 1 believe no woman ever could respect a drunkard. I don't want to make you angry; tod lorbid you should ever be one, and I know you are not one yet; but sin grows mighty strong upon us without our knowledge. And no matter what indulgence leads lo bad; we've a right to think any thing that does lead to it sinful iu the prospect, if not at tne present.' 'iou d have made a fine priest, Ellen,' snid the young man, determined if he could not reason, to laugh her out of her resolve. '1 don't think,' she replied, archly, 'if I was a priest, that either of you would have liked to come to me to confession.' " 'But, Ellen, dear EHen, sure it's not in positive downright earnest you are; you can't think of putting me off on account of that un lucky drop, the least taste in life I took at the fair. - You could not find it in your heart,- Speak for me, Michael, sper.k for me. But I see it's joking you are. Why, Lent '11 be on us in no time, and then we must wait till Easter it's easy talking.' 'Larry,' interrupted Ellen, 'do not you talk yourseii into a passion; it win do no gooa; none in the world. I am sure you love me, aud I confess before' my brother, it will be the delight of my heart to return that love, and make myself worthy of you, if you will only break yourself of that one habit, w hich you qualify to your own undoing, by fancying, be cause the least taste in life makes you what you ought not to be, that you may still take it' . I'll take an oath against the whiskey, if that will plase ye, till Christmas.' 'And when Christmas comes, get twice aa tipsey as ever, with joy to think yer oath is out no!' 'I'ltsware any thing you plase.' 'I don't want you to sware at all; there is no use in a man taking an oath he is anxious to have a chance of breaking. I want your reason to be convinced.' My darling Ellen, all the reason I ever had in my life is convinced.' Prove it by abstaining from taking even a drop, even the least drop in life, if that drop can make you ashamed to look your poor El len iu the face.' 'I'll give it up altogether.' 'l nope you win, one of these days, from a conviction that it is really bad in every way; but net from cowardice, t:ot because you don't trust yourself.' 'Ellen, I'm sure ye've some English blood in yer veins, ye're such a reasoner. Irish women don't often throw a boy off because of a drop; if they did, it's not many marriage dues his Reverence would have, winter or summer.' - 'Listen to ms, Larry, and believe, that though I spake this way, I regard ycu truly; and if I did not, I'd not take the trouble to tell you my mind.' 'Like Mike Brady's wife, who, whenever she thrashed him, cried over the blows, and said they were all for his good,' observed her brother si ily. 'Noneseuse! listen to me, I say, and I'll tell you why I am so resolute. It's many a long day since, going to school, T used to meet Michael minds her too, I'm sure an old bent woman; they used to call her the Wicked of Ballaghtou. Stacy was, as I have said, very old entirely, w ithered and white headed, bent nearly double with age, and she used to be ever and always muddling about the streams and ditches, gathering herbs and plants, the girls said to work charms with; and at first they used to waU h, rtlher far off, and. if they thought they had a good chance of es caping her tongue and the stones she flung at them, they'd call her an ill name or two, and sometimes, old as she was, she'd make a spring at them side-ways like a crab, and howl, and hoot, aud scream, and then they'd be off like a flock of pigeons from a hawk, and she'd goon disturbing the green-coated waters with her crooked stick, and muttering words which none, if they heard, could un derstand. Stacy had been a well-raised wo man, and knew a dale more than any of us; when not tormented by the children, she va3 mighty well spoken, and the gentry thought a dale about her more than she did about them, for she'd say thf-e was'nt one in the country fit to tie her shoe, and tell them so, too, if they'd call her any thing but Lady Stacy, which the rale gentry of the place all humor ed her in; but the upstarts, who think every civil word to an inferior is a pulling down of their own dignity, would turn up their noses as they passed her, and maybe she did'nt bless them for it. One day Mike had gone home before me, and, coming down the back bohreen, who should I see moving along but Lady Stacy; and on she came, muttering and mumbling to herself, till she got near me, and as she did, I heard Master Nixon (the dog man's) hound in full cry, and seen him at her heels, and he over the hedge encouraging the baste to fear her to pieces., The dog soon was up with her, and then she kept him off as well as s4ic could with her ciutch, cursing the entire time, and I was very frightened, but I darted to her side, aud, with a waltle I pulled out of the hedge, did my best 3 keep him off her. 'Master Nixon cursed at me with all bis heart, but I was't to be turned off that way. . Stacy herself laid about with her staff, but the ugly brute would have finished her, only fo . Tax-gatherers were so called some time aaofe ' Ireland, because they collected the duty on dogs. 5 I I- r-3 iff -1 fl tit w if J ft! i. I I 4 k P ! si 11 i P: 5 S-
The North Carolinian (Wilson, N.C.)
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Sept. 21, 1839, edition 1
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