THE NORTH! -CAROLINIAN
From the Boston Courier.
THE FIRST DEAR THING.
The first drar thing that I ever loved,
Was a mother's gentle eye ;
That smiled as t woke on the dreamy couch
That rradlaJ my infancy.
I'll never forget the joyous tliri.'i
That smile in my spirit stirred,
Nor how it conM chaim ine against iny Will
Till i lat.gh.ed like a joyous bird.
And the next fiir thing that tver I loved
Was a bunch of summer flower.3,
With odors, and huoa, and liveliness
Fresh ad. from Eden's bowcrtf,
I never can fi:id such hues ajain,
Nor smell such sweet perfume:
And if there bo odois as sw eet as these,
'Tis I that have lost my bloom.
And the next fair thing I was fond to love
Is tenderer far to tell :
'Twas a viice, and a hand, and a gentle eye,
That dazzled me with 1's spell,
And ihe loveliest things I had loved before
Were only the landscape now,
Cn the cairvass Driht, where I pictured her
In the g'uw of my early vow.
And the next ood thing I was fain to love
Was to sit in mj cell alotse,
Musing o'er ail tbesti love'y things,
Forevc, foicvcr flown.
The.i out I walked in t!ie forest free,
"Where wantoned the au mun wind,
And the covered boughs huti shivciingly, .
In harmony wilh my mind.
And a spirit was on me thai next I loved,
That ruleih r.jy spitit still,
And m.ikitli me murmur these siti-so:i words,
Albeit against my will,
And I walked the woodj till the winter came,
And then did I Lie thesnow , aij'ei?,
And I heard the ga'cs through the wild wood
Like the Lord's own organ below.
And the bush I had loved in my greenwood walk,
I saw u lar away,
Surj-iiced with nuws, like the bending priect
Ti;at kneeU in the c'liuch to pray.
And i thought ori the vaulted fume on h i-.,
Where I stood when a Iit.'lu child,
Awed by the lauds sunt; lhrilli:ig!y,
And the anthems undented.
And again to the vaulted church I went,
An'l I heard the same sweet prayers,
And the same full orari pc;ils up sent,
And the ama soft soothing cu3 ;
And I lc!t in my spirit ?o drear and -trane,
To think cf the race I ran, change
That I icved ihe sole thi:;, that I knew r.o
In tUe scle of the boy and man.
Miscellaneous.
From the East Alabumian.
TAKING THE CENSUS.
sy ' chickk.I man"' of "40.
The collection of statistical information
concerning Ihe resources and industry of the
country, by the assistant Marshals who were
employed to take the last census, was a very
difficult work. Ihe popular impression that
a tremendous tax would soon follow the mi
nute investigation of the private HtTaira of the
people, caused the census-taker to be viewed
in no better liht tlini that of a tax "athcrei ;
and the consequence was that the information
sought by him, was either withheld entirely or
given with great leluctance. The returns
therefore mado by the Marshal exhibited a
very imperfect view of the wealth and indus
trial progress of the country. In some por
tions of the country the excitement against
the uufoitunato officers who were known
as the " chicken men " made it almost
dangerous for tbem to proceed with the busi
ness of taking the census; and bitter were
the tauafs, threats and iibuse which they re
ceived on all hands, hut most particularly
from thf old women of the country. The
dear old souls could not bear to be catechised
about the produce of their looms, poultry yard
and dairies; and when they did "come
down " upon the unfortunate inquisitor, it
was with a force and volubility that were sure
to leave au impression. We speak from ex
perience, and feelingly on this subject ; for it
so happened, that ihe Marshal of the south-"
ern district of Alabnmn, "reposing especial
confidence" in our ability, invested us one
day with all the powers of Assistant Marshal,
and nrming us with the proper quantity of
hhiuks, sent us forth to count the noses of all
the men and women, children and chickens,
resident upou those nine hundred square
miles of rouh country, which constitute the
county of Tallapoosa. Glorious spott ! thought
we; but it did'nt turn out so. True we
escaped uithiiot any drubbings, although we
came uu pleasantly near catching a tTozen,
and ouly escaped by a very peculiar knack
we have of 'sliding out;"' but then we were
quizzed, laughed at, abused and nearly drown
ed. Children shouted, yonder goes the
chicken man !" men said "yes, d n him,
he'll bo after the taxes soon " and the old'
women threatened if he came to enquire shout
their chickens, "to set the dot's on him"
u -i . .. .
-.nine mo ;uuu; women ouserveo "iney end nt
know what a man wanted to be so pertie'lar
about gals' ages for; without he was a-gwine
a-courtm' -" We have some reminiscences
of our official peregrination that will do to
laugh at now, altho' the occurrence with which
they are connected, were at tha time, ouy
thing but mirth-in-spring to us.
VVe rode up, one day, to :be residence of a
widow rather past the prime of life (just that
period at which nature supplies most abun
dantly the oil which lubricate the hinges of
ure iniimc tongue; ana nitcningto the fence,
walked iuto the house.
"Good morning, Madam," said wu in our
usual bland, and somewhat insinuating-man-lier.
'Morning,' said the widow gruffly.
Drawing our blanks from their case, we
proceeded "I am the mac, madam, that take
the census, and,"
' The mischief you are!" said the old ter
magaut "yes I've hearu of you ; Parson W.
told me you was coming, and I told him jist
what I tell you, thst if you said "cloth," "soap,"
ur "chickens," to me, I'd set the dogs on ye
Here Bull ! Here Pomp !" Two wolfish
curs responded to the call for Bull and Pomp,
by coming to the door, smelling at our feet
with a slight growl; end then laid down on
the steps. "Now," continued the old she
savage, "them's the severest dogs in this
country. Last week, Bill Slonecker's two
year old steer jumped my yard fence, nud
Buil and Pomp tuk him by the throat, and they
killed him afore my boys couiui oreafc em
j loose, to saye the woild."
! "Yes ma'am," said wc, meekly, "Bui! and
j Pomp seem to be very fine dogs."
' "You may well say that : what I tells them
! to do, thev do nod if I was to sick them on
your old horse yonder, they'd eat him up afore
you could say Jack Koberson. And Ksjtst
what I shall do, if you try to pry in my con
sarus. They are none of your business, m.r
Yau Buren's nulher, I reckon. Oh old
Yanburen ! I wish I had you here, you old
rascal! I'd show you whsl I'd I'd make
Bull and Pomp show you how to be sendiu'
out men to t;ke down what little stuff people's
got, jist to tax if, when it's taxed eDough
a'readv !"
All this time we were perspiring through
fear of the fier-e guardians of die oid widow's
portal. At length when the widow paused,
we remarked that as .she was determined uot
to answer questions about the produce of her
farm, we would set down the age, sex and
complexion of her family.
"No sich a thing you'll do no sich a thing,"
said f,he ; "I've got five in family and that's
ail you'll gil from mo. Old Van Buren must
have a heap to do, the dratted old viiiyan, to
send you to take down how old my childreti
is. I've got five in family and thoy are all
between five and a hundred years old, they
are a!' a plagy sight whiter than you, and
whether they are he or she is none of your
consarns."'
We told her we should tepoti her to the
Marshal and she would be fiued, but it only
augmented her wrath.
"Yes ! send your Marshal or your Mr Van
Bui eu here, if you're bad otTto let 'em come
let Mr Van Buieu come" (looking as
savage as n Bengal Tigress,) " Oh I wish he
would come" aud her nostrils dilated and
her eyes gleamed "I'd cut his Head off:"
"Thst might kill him," we ventured to re
mark, by way of a j'ke.
"Kill him! kill him oh -if I had him
here by the years, I leckon I would kill him.
A pretty Tellow to he eating his vittils out'n
gold spoons that poor people's taxed for, and
raisin' an army to get him made King of
Ameriky the audacious, nasty .stinking old
scamp!" She paused a moment and then
resumed, "and How, mister jist put down
what I teli you on that paper, and don't be
telling no lies to send to Washington city.
Jist put down "Judy Tompkins, agenble wo
man and four children."
o objected to making nny such entiy,
but the old hag vowed that it should be done
to prevent any misrepresentation of her case.
We however were pretty resolute, until she
appealed io the couchaut whelps i5ull and
Pomp. At the first glimpse of their teeth our
courage gave way and we made the entry In a
bold h-ind across a blank schedule :
''Judy Tompkins, ogeable woman and four
children."
AVe now begged the old lady to dismiss
her caniiu- friends that we might go out and
depart : and forthwith mounting our black, we
determined to give Ihe old soul a parting fire.
Turning half round in order to face her, we
shouted
"Old Vn,an !"
"Who told you t. call me old 'oman, you
long-legged, hatchet-faced whelp, you, I'll
make the dogs take you off that horse if you
give me any more sarse. What do you waul?''
"Do you want to get married?"
"Not to you, if I do!"
Placing our right thumb on the nasal ex
tremity of our countenance, we said,
"You tieed'nt be ur:ea-y oid !uu, on that
score though you might suit sore-legged
Dic k S up our way, and should like to
kuow what to tell him he might couut on if
he'd come down, next Suudav !"'
'IIere Buil" sh.oiud the widow "sick
him Pomp!" but we cantered off, unwouud-
ed, fortunately by the fangs of Bull and Pomp'
wno Kept up the chase as long as they could
hear the cheering voire of their mistress
""3ie4i.&jmp s :-!., sick, si-c-k him Bull
suboy ! suboy ! siiboy !
Our uext adventure was decidedly a dan
gerous one. Folding the Tallapoosa river
where its bed js extremely uneven, being
formed of masses of lock full of fissures and
covered with slimy green moss, when about
two-thirds of the way across, we were hailed
by Sol Todd from the bank we were ap
proaching. We stopped to hear him more
distinctly.
"Ilellow ! little squire, you a-chicken hunt
ing to-day?"
Beiug answered affirmatively, he continued
"you better miud the holes in them ere
rocks, if your horse's foot gits ketched in 'em
you'd never get it out. You see that bia
black rock, down to your light? Well there's
good bottom down below that. Strike down
lhar, outside that little riffle and now cut
right into that smooth water and come across!"
We followed Sol's direciion's to the letter,
and plunging into the smooth water we found'
it to be a basin surrounded with steep Iedes
of rock and deep enough to swim the hrse
we rode.Round and round the poor old
black tolled without finding any place at which
he could effect a landing, so precipitous were
the sides. Sol occasionally asked us if the
bottom was'ul firstrale, but did nothing to
help us. At length we scrambled out, wet
and chilled to the bone for it was a sharp
September morning and continued our jour
ney not a little annoyed by the boisterous,
roaring laughter of the said Solomon, at our
picturesque appearance.
We had'ot more than got out pf hearioe of
- vuvmuniwi implosions, uetore we met
one of his neighbors who gave us to under
stand that thejducking we had just received,
was but the fulfilment of a threat of Sol's, to
make the "chicken-man" take a swim in the
"Buck Hole." He had heard of our stopping
on the opposite side of the river, the night
previous, aud learning our intention to ford
just where we did, fixed himself on the bank
to ensure our finding the way into the "Buck
Hole."
This information brought our nap right up,
aud requesting Biil Splawu to stay where he
wa4(ll we returned, we galloped back to Sol's
and found that worthy, rod on shoulder, ready
to leave ou a fishing excursion.
"Sol, old fellow," said we, that was a
most uuforlunate lunse I made into that hole
in the river I've lost $25 in specie out of
my coat pocket, and I'm ceitaiu it's in that
hole, for I felt my pocket get light while I
was scuffling about io. there. The money
was tied up tight in a buckskin pouch, aud I
must get you to help me get it."
This, of coutse, was a regular old-fashioned
lie, ns we had not seen the amount of cash
mentioned as lost, in "a coon's ae." It
took, however, pretty well, and Sol concluded
as it was a pretty cold spell of weather for the
season and the water was almost like ice, that
half the contents of the buckskin pouch would
be just about fair for recovering it. After
some clinffering we agreed that So! should
dive for the niuucr "ou shares," and we went
down with him to the river, to point oat the
precise spot at which our pocket grew light.
We did so with anxious exactness. aav-.'Sol
soon denuded himself and went under the
water in the Buck Hole, like a shuffler ?:uck
with his wing broke. Puff! puff! as he
rose to the sutface. " Got it Sol '(" " No
dang it, here goes again" and Sol disap
peared a second time. Puff! puff! and a
considerable rattle of leeth as Sol once more
rose into upper air. "What lock, ole hotse?"
"By jiogs, I felt it that time, but some how it
slid out of my fingers." Dow n went Sol
again, and up he came after the lapse of a
minute, still without the pouch. "Are you
right sure squire, that you lost it in this bole,"
said Sol getting out upou a large rock, while
the chattering of his teeth divided his words
into rather more than their legitimate number
of svbhles. "Oh perfectly ceitain Sol, per
fectly ceitaiu. You know $25 in hard dol
lars weigh a pound or two. I did'nt mention
the ciicomstauce when I fiist came out of the
river, because I was so scared and confused
that I did'ut remember it but I know just
as well when the pouch broke through my coat
pocket, as can be !"
Thus re-assured, Sol took the water ngain,
aud as we were in a hurry, we requested him
to bring the pouch fitid half the money to
Dadeville, if his diving should prove success
ful. " To be sure, I will,"' said he and hU blue
lips quivered with cold and his whole frame
shook from the same cause.
" The " river ager" made So! shake worse
than that, that fall.
But we left him diving for the pouch in
dustriously, and no doubt he would have got
it, if it hod been there!
Once, &s we were about to leave a house
at which we had put up the night previous,
one of the girls a buxom one ' of tw enty
followed us to the fence, and the 'following
tete-a-tete ensued. ;'" , .
" Now, 'squiie, ihey say UnowaHd I
want, you to tell me, ef you please wWat will
chickens be worth this fall?" v i ,
" How many have you'f w ? '
" The rise of seventy, and three hens a
scttiu'!"
" Well, now, Miss Betsy," said we, " you
know how much I set by the old mau, your
daddy and the old lady, you know how she
and me always got along aud Jim and Dave
you kuow we was always like brothers aud
yourself, Miss Betsy, I consider my particular
friend and as its you, I'll tell you !"
" Do 'squire, ef you please : they say Van
Bureirs going to feed his branny on fowls ;
and some folks say he's goto' to take 'em
without payin for 'em, and some say he aim
and I thought, in course, ef he did pay for
'em, the price would rise."
" Well, the fact is but don't say ncthing
about it the army is to be fed on fowls ; the
roosters will be given to the officers to make
'em brave, and the hens to the common sol
diers, because, you see, they aint as good."
"Ia course !"
" So, you .see, the hens will be wotth about
three bits, and the roosters a half a dollar, aud
ready sale at that.''
She was perfectly delighted, and we do not
hesitate to say, w.iuld have rewarded us, with
a kiss, if we had asked it ; but in those days,
modesty was the bright trait in our character.
As it was, she ouly insisted on our taking "a
bit of something cold " in our saddle bags, in
case we should reach town too late for din net.
Our next encounter was with an old ladv
notorious in her neighborhood for her garruli
ty and simple-mindedness. Her loquacity
knew no bounds; it was constauf, unremit
ting, interminable, and sometimes laughably
silly. She was interested in quite a large
Chancery suit which had been "dragging its
slow leuglh-aloag " for several years, trv.-u"hr-nished
her with a conversational fund which
she drew upou extensively, under the idea
that its merits could never be sufficiently dis
cussed. Having been warned of her pro
pensity, and being somewhat hurried when
we called upou her, we were disposed to get
through business as soon as possible, nud
without hearing her enumeration of the' strong
points of her law case. Striding into the
house, and drawiag our papers,
"Taking the census, ma'am!" quoth we.
"Ah 1 well! yes, bless your soul, honey,
take a seat. Now do ! Are you the gentle
man that Mr Van Buren has seut out to take
the sensis ? I wonder ! well, good Lord look
down, how was Mr Van Buren and family
when you seed him ?"
We explained that we had never seen the
Piesident ; didn't " know him from a side of
sole leather :" that we had been wiitteo to to
take the census.
" Well, now, tbar agin ! Love your soul !
Well, 1 'spose Mr Van Buren writ you a let
ter, did he? No? Well, I suppose, some
of his officers done it bless mv soul! Well,
God be praised, there's mighty "little here to
take down times is hard, God's will be done;
but looks like people can't git their jest rights
in this country ; and the lew is all for the rich
and none for the poor, praise the Lord. Did
you ever hear tell of that case my boys has
got agin old Simpsou ? Looks like they
uever will git to the eend on it ; glory to His
name! The children will suffer, I'm- mighti
ly afeared ; Lord give us greV Did you
ever see Judge B- ? yes ! Wrell the
Lord preserve us ' Did you ever hear him
say what he was agwiue to do in the boys'
case agiu Simpson ? No ! good Lord !
Well, squire, will you ax him the next time
you see him, and write me word ; and tell
him what I say ; I'm nothing but a poor wid
ow, aud my boys has got no larnin', and old
Simpson's luk 'em in. It's a mighty hard
case on my boys any how They ought to
ove had a mighty good start, all on Vrn, .but
God bless you, that old man has used 'em up
tell they aint able to buy a creetur to plough
with. It's a mighty hard case, and the will
oughtn't uever to have been broke, but "
Here we interposed aud told the old lady
that our lime was precious, that we wished to
take down the number of her family and the
produce .raised by her last year, aud be off.
After a good deal of trouble we got through
with the description of the members of hei
family and the "Statistical tablo " as far as
the article " cloth."
" How many yards of cotton cloth did you
weave iu 1S40, ma'atr ?"
"Well now! "The Lord have mercy!
Less see! You kuow Sally Iliggius that
used !. live down in the Smith settlement?
poor thing her daddy drov her off on (he 'count
of her havia' a little 'un, poor creetur ! poor
gal, she couldn't help it, I dare say. Well,
Saily he come to stay 'long wi' me when the
old man druv her away, and ahe was a pow--erful
good hand to weave, and I thought -he'd
help me a power. Well, arter she'd bin heie
awhile, her baby hit ink sick and old Miss
Stiinger she uudertuk to help it she's a pow
erful good hand, old Miss Stringer, ou roots
and yearbs and sich like ! She mnde a soil
of lea, as I was a'saying, and she gin it to Sal
ly's baby, but it got wuss the poor creetur
and she gin it tea, and ttin it ten, and looked
like, the more sho gin it tea, the more "
" My dear madam, I am in a hurry
please tell me how many yaids of cotton cloth
you wove iu 1S40 ! I want to get throagh
with you and go ou !"'
"Well! well! the Lord a mercy! who'd
a thought you'd a bin so snappish! Weil, as
I was a'sayin', Sail's child, hit gittin' wuss,
and old Miss Stringer, .she kept a giviu' it the
vearb lea fell nt last the child hit looked like
it would die any how. Aud 'bout the time
the child was at its wut, old Daddy Sykes he
come along, and he said if we'd git some
night-shed berries and stew 'em with a little
cream aud some hog's lard now old Daddy
Sykes is a mighty tine old man and he giu
the boys a he-ap of mighty good counsel about
that case boyn, says he, l it tell you what you
do ; you go "
"In God's name, old lady,"-said we, "tell
about yoi:r cloth, and let the sick child and
Miss Stringer, Daddy Sykes, the boys aud
the law-suit go to the devil. I'm in a hurry."
" Gracious bless your dear soul ! don't git
aggrawated, I was jest a - te!li' you how it
come I didu'l weave no elotirla-st year."
Oh ! well, y ou r dtcla't weave any cloth
last year. Good ! w e'll go oi to the next ai
tble." ':;'X", '
" Yes ' you see the child hit begun to swell
and turn yaller, and hit kept a waHhi' its eyes
and a moaniu', aud 1 knowed
" Never miud about fhe child just iell me
the value of the poultry you raised last year."
" Oh, well yes the chickens you mean.
Why, the lord love your pore soul, 1 reck
ou you never iu your born days seen a poof
creetur have the luck that 1 did and looks
like we uever shall have good luck agiu ; for
ever seuce old Simpson tuk that case up to
the Chaucery Coint
" Never mind the case ; let's hear about
the chickens, if you please."
" God bless you, honey, the owU destroy
ed in and about Ihe best half of what 1 did
raise. Every blessed niht the Lord sent
they'd come aud set ou the comb of the house,
and ItPo-hoo-hoo-teuh, and one night paitikhtr,
I remember I hud jest got up to git ine night
shed sale to 'niut the little gal with "
" Well, well, what was the value of what
you did raise V
" The Lord above look down ! They got
so b id the owls did they luk the old hens,
as well as the young chickens. The night I
was telling 'bout I hearu something squell !
equal! ! and says I, I'il be that's old Speck that
u a sty oudaciuus owl's got, for I seen her go
to roost w ith her chickens, up in ihe plum tree,
Jorneiist the smoke house. Sol went to whar
oki miss stringer was sieepm , and says 1,
Miss Stringer .' Oh! Miss Stringer! shore's
you're born, that stiukiu' owl's got old Speck
out'n the plum tree ; well, old Miss Stiinger,
she turned over 'pou her side-like, and says
she, what did you say, Miss Stokes? and
says I "
We began to get very tired, and signified
ihe same to the old lady, aud begged she
would answer n directly without circumlocu
tion. "The Lord Almighty love your dear heart
hoticy, I'm tellin'you as fast as I kin. The
owls they got wuss and wuss, aud after they'd
swept old spect and all hei gang, Ihey went
to work on tothers ; and Bryant (that's one o'
my boys) he 'lowed he'd shoot the pestersome
creeturs and so one night arter that, we beam
one holier, aud Bryant he tuk the old musket
and went out, and sure enough" there was
owley as he thought) a settiu' on the comb
of the house ; and he blazed away, and down
come what on airth did come down, do
you reckou, when Bryaut fired 2"
" The owl, I suppose."
" JVo p ich a thing, no sich a thing! the
owl ttarri'i ihar. 'Twas my old house-cat
come a tumblin' down, spittin'. sputteriu' aud
scratchiu', and the fur a fly in' every time she
jumpt, like you'd a busted a feather bed open !
Bryant he said the way he come to shoot the
cat iustood o' the owl, he seed something
white "
" For Heaven's sake, Mrs Stokes, give
me the value of your poultry, or say you will
not ! Do one thing or the other."
" Oh well, dear love your heart, I reckon I
had last year near about the same as I've sot
this."
Then tell me how many dollars' worth
you have now, and the thing's settled.'!
" I'll let you aee for yourself," said the wid
ow Stokes, and takiug au ear of corn from a
crack between the logs of the cabin, and shel
ling off a handful, she commenced scattering
the grain, all the while screaming, or rather
screechiug " chickchick chick chick
chickee chickee cbickee-ee !
Here ihey came, roosters and hens
and ' pullets and little chickens crowing,
cackling, chirping; fluttering and flying over
bed, chairs aud tables ; alighting on the old
woman's head and shoulders, fluttering against
her aides, pecking at her hands, and creating
a din aud coufusiou altogether indiscribable.
The old lady seemed delighted, thus to exhib
it her " feathered stock," aud would occasion
ally exclaim "a nice pastel, ain't they a
nice passel !" But she never would say what
they were worth ; no persuasion could bring
her to the point; aud our papers at Washing
ton contain no estimate of the widow Stokes
poultry, though as she said heiself she had
" a mighty nice passel "
An Ameiican, describing the prevalence of
duelling, summed up with, " Ihey even fight
with daggers iu a room pilch dark." "Is it
possible?" was the reply. Possible, sir!
returned the Yankee, why, I have seeu them."
A schoolboy, coming utie day to that cele
brated liue of Pope "A little learning is a
dmgerous thing," read it, ','A little lawyer is
a dangerous thing."
The difference between tweedie-duru and
tweedle-dee is this: One is wiitten with
more ease (ee's) than the other.
Kilts. "I t-hall be off to the hi.4iland.st
this fall; but, cuss 'em, they haute got no
woods there ; nothiu' but heather, aud that's
only high enough to tear your clothes. That's
the reason the Scotch don't wear no breeches;
they don't like to get 'em ragged up that way
for eveilaslinly ; they can't afford it ; so ihey
let 'ern scratch and tear their skiu, for that
will grow ngin. and tiousers won!." .Sew.
Slick tn England
Short and Sweet. "I can't speak iu-q
pu lie never done such a thing in all my
life," t-aid a chap the other night at a public
meeting, who had been called upon to hold
forth, "but if any one in the c. owd will speak
for me, ' hold his hat ! ' Portland Jjrptis.
The Latest Case. A very modest lady
who was a passenger ou board a packet ship, I
it is said, sprang out of the ber th and jumped !
oveiuoaiu, ou ueaiingine captain, during a
storm, older the crew to haul doxen the sheets.
Complimentary- An old cleigyman and
lather au eccentric one withal, whose field of
labor was a town iu tha interior of New Eng
land, one Sunday at the close of his services
guvi; notice to his congregation that in the
course of the w eek he expected to go on a
mission to ihe heathen. The members of his
chmch were struck with alarm and sorrow at
the sudden and unexpected enuouncement of
the loss of thesr beloved pastor, and one of
the deacons in: great agitation exclaimed :
"Why, my dear sir, you have never told us
one word of thi before ! What shall we do ?''
Oh, biother C ," paid the parson, with
the grcagest sang (Void, "I don't expect to go
out of tow n."
Curran said to Father O'Leary, "Reverend
father, I wish you were St. Peter." "Whv?"
said the piest, "because then you would have
the keys of heaveu, and could let me in."
" I had better have the keys," said Father
O'Leary, "of another place, aud then I could
let you out."
A person was remarking the other day,
'How cheap every thing is got.' 'Not every
thing,' said hkj fi iend, woman is always dean
NEW AND CHEAP
CASH STORE.
rgTXHESubscrUiiisi iakt-n ill- newly tui l Store
H on Persoa SlieefJ. next door iu CM. 5j T
Hawley's a;id i oinediately opposite MrP.TavIo'e
Siure, where !)'! '8 now receiving and opening from
New York and Fhiiaelpa a, A NEW STOCK of
FOREIGN'AN D DOMESTIC
.Imong ichiclt may be fnrf Super fio - black
and Ij.ui.' L o idcli tiip, Ca.-S:iiit-i f! and -an jn.-! j
super, king. isli t.l.ick !S;itin and other Vetinrs ;
black and blue-b'ack Siilts; figured arid fancy co
lored ditto ; black sind colore t A p;u us, forrie vc iy
handsome; French and Kr.iish ChaWys and Me
rinos; French, fclrtijiflh, and Aiw.ni an Trims, a
good ssoi t.'nent oflhu newest (very cheap;)
AluslmJ and Cr.-ipe-rie-L.ains; B nnui Crapes;
L.udi' s' f.on y Silk Cravat; Woollen and other
.Shawls, super. J3 aver Ctuih ; French Cassimeie ;
black Silk and Alpaci Cravats; Stocks; Irish
Linens and Lawns ; L-inen Cambric Hunk rchielis;
diltn Hem-sttclied, si.me very fine; Limn Cam
bric; Muslms and Cambrics ; Laces, EIn)j and
Inenin ; Patent and Spool Thread ; Sewing
Silk a id Twis-l; Coat Cord and Binding ; VelveT
and iiher buttons ; Silk Velvet xtra ; Flo ence,
pf.in Soaw, Willow, ami Cypress Bjnnels ; fancy
Sdk and single and double 94ie:l Abert ditto ; bon
net cap and iiuc it Ribbons, newest sty les ; artificial
Sprigs nnd Wreaths , scarlet and white Flannels ;
KoMuckjf Jeani; Kersetn ; B ankets ; Fur and
Woo! Hatsj tyert's, Boys', Youths', and Children's
Cioth, Fwr. ahd Glazed Caps , some fifle Fur, Seal
and Muskrat dftto; Shoe?, all sizes ; Umbrellas ;
Hosiery f Ladies' fine white1 cotton Stockings;
colored ditto ; superior Cashmere Prtis-ian black
ditto ; Qenik-rnen's and Ladies' black ilcskin and
Kid G.oves; colored ditto ; Silk and Cotton ditto;
together with many other articles not mentioned.
As I am determined to sell for the luweft Cash
prices, and for CASH only, persons may relv upon
good bargains. Call and examine for yourselves.
C. C A ISO A".
September 20, 1843. 239-tf.
NOTICE.
ALL persons are cautioned against purchasing
from Alex. Williams, or any person acting tor him,
any part ol thi Lands known asihe BiffLerov. con
taining 3000 acres, and bounded as follows: "Begin
ning at Cole Camp Driile, and runs with the
County line to Bijr Hock fish, then up said Creek
to near Davis' Bridg, then North to Bcmes Creek,
then io Bukhead, then down said Creek to Little
Rock fish, following Litilo Rockfish to McNeill's
Bridge where thn Lumherton road crosses the same,
then with said Road totfie beginning- The under
signed holds an interest in the above named Lands,
and any Titles for them without his signature to
the same will be held void. Those found treppas
sing on the above named Land w-ift he prosecuted
by J.C.DAVIS.
Sept. 20, IS43. 239-if.
TO FAMILIES & INVALIDS.
The following indispenM&te family rme.
dies may be found at the vilinse drug stores"
and soon at every country store in the tue'
Remember and nerer get them unless iht
have the faosimile signature ef
by the same names are base impositions and counter,
feita. ' If the merchant nearest yoa has them not
urge him to procure (hem t-rj
next time he visit New York, or to write for them"'
Tfo family thould be a toer& without these remediet
BALM OF COLUMBIA, FOR THE IIAIR.
which will atop it if falling out, or restore it on ba' j
places ; and on children make it grow rapidly, er ori
:hote who have lost the hair from any cause.
ALL VERMIN that infest the head of childrsn
:n schools, are prevented or killed by it at nr.ee.
Find the name of tjgfQ on
it, or never try it. Remember this always.
RHEUMATISM, W
Dutii lively cured, and all shrivelled muscles and limbs
are restored, in the old or young, by the I.vbu
VtaiTABI.E El.lXIE AMD NERVE AND Bo.NE LlSIMENT
but never without the name of Comstock & Co. on i'..
ar wholly prevented, or governed if the attack hsi
come on, if you use the on'ytruis Kv' LjNiMENT.frtim
and ever; ihiug relieved by it that admita of an out.
ward application. It acts like a charm. Use it.
Wi
HOUSES that have Ring-Bone, Spaviri
rid-( Jails, &c, are cured by Roofs Specific': and
jFottllflfrt'dl horses entirely ,-nred by Roofs'
Founder Ointment. Mark this-, all horsemen.
lYZEgical Fain Es
tractor Salve. The most extraorduif "y
remedy ever invented for all new or old
and 'sores, end sore j jgfig 5sSf It has delighted
thousands. It wiii take out all paiu in ten minutes,
and no failure. It will cure the
LIN'S SPREAD PLASTERS.
A better und more nice and useful article never was
iiitc'e. AU should wear them regularly.
B.l.VS TErriPJERAJSCE BITTERS!
on the principle of substituting the tonic in place of
.h-j stimtiiau! piinciple, which has reformed so many
Jranknriis. To be used with
I-IN"S fSjggffijSj PILLS, superior to all
others for cleansing the system and the humors affect,
ing the. blood, ?nd for nil irregularities of the bowels.
him t!:e !r-ncral ncalm. ijj
nature, thus :
DR.SPCHN'8 HEADACHE REMEDY
-ill rtVeetunlly cure sick headache, either from the
i "jjyjgMI or bilious. Hundreds of families are
1 using it with great joy.
DR. SPOHN'S ELIXIR OF HEALTH.
.or th? certain prevention of I S i?jra or 8"'
j.-neral sickness ; keeping the stomach in most per
.'ecl order, the bowels regular, and anletemiination to
the surface.
pnins in tiie hones, hoarseness, and
are nuickly cured by it. K..1OW this by trying.
CORNS. The French Tlaster is a sure cure.
hair any shade you wish, but will not color the skin-
S ARSAPARILL A. COMSTOCK S COM
POUND EXTRACT. There is no other prepara
tion of Sarsaparilla that can exceed or equal thisi
If you are sure to get Comstock's, you will find ii
superior to all others. It does not require puffing.
CELESTIAL. BALM
OF CHINA. A positive cure for the piles, and all
external eilings all internal irritations brought to tha
surface by friction with this Balm ; o in coughs(
swelled or sore throat, tightness of the chest, this Balm
applied on a flannel will relieve and cure at once.
Fresh wounds or old sores are rapidly cored by it.
Dr. iJnrtnolrmrto's
rill prevent or cure all irlcipient consumption,
taken in time, and is a delightful remedy. Uemem.
6er the name, and gat Comstack'Si
KCLMSTOCK'S VERMIFUGE
ii!!
eradicate all in children or adult
with a certainty uite astonishing. It is the same sr.
that made by and sells with a rapidity
almost incred'ble, ty Comstock J- Co.t New York.
TOOTH DROPS. KLINE'S-ufe effectually.
Entered anrtinit to ct of ConrrwiB. in the r;jr bjrOwfiw
4- Co.. 10 Uie(Jlmll' office of the Southern Uistrict of Jt Yoi.
By applying to our agents in each town and
village, papers may be had freej showing the mot
respectable names in the country for these facts, so
that no one can fail to believe them.
fjrj- Be snre yon call for onr articles, and not
oe put off with any stories, that others are as
good. HAVE THESE OR NONE should be
ronr motto and these never can be tnit and genuine
Without our names to them. All these article to bo
aad wholesale and retail only of ns
21 Courtland Street, near Broad way, N V
THE above articles for sale by
JAMES A. McRAE,
Djuggitd, Person Street, Faye (fevilfo.
ALSO, a general assortment of Drugs and
Medicines, at prfces to suit the limes. 20Sy