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V EVANS, MILTON, N. C. SATURDAY. -ill.' 28, 1847. AUGUST i I V lelf in- d. Four i 'r&jftm A rt A r4' Ipnt hsr 'nlch is the least 'Half naked, her (no longer con IMaaarae Belig borough ; her friends filked with a steady Uoni vshed, and sought range proceedings. lat theaanamers of two jlalliog upon the gravestone re carving near a tomb 'd eart h of which still rose n graves The name of Clc she bore, was already en- P e sione; oeiow tue inscrip- ded the ood qualities ol the nTAhrecksLL des camos at (f J." &Jtfi . T.niri VViJh sturet she motioned them a started at her without under i - dne mace a lasi. euon to ?r tears ch'oked her Sne no iTrl -k f -.h. f.-a-3r- -ll "" l. fe was vtoiently agitated, the her delicate, arms, attested decree of het sufferinsLife vTnz before the extremity of her r- ; e. fchis xhaustion was followed byj delirium one overinrew me e of her new born babe, whose birth she had so much desired. Sleep had closr ed her eyes for a single moment ; alt at once she aroused her&elt, crying out, No! he cannot have idiefl without my being near him! he is not dead, I shall see him again-s This thought became fixed to her brainsne pressed her hand upon herfoTe beadTher look becanje animated and she attempted to arise- Her mother, on her knees, sought in vain to appease her. i They were compelled to follow her. CL. dsn ivnrnnta' Inaff fhi i rrm Ser'with insanity: but what matters it to er? .bhe r r pretexts- ne is t Hducted ion, her resoluuon iot be poor daughter is mother, who e tDrew a man- et out Her compani them of the the Y v,.,.. ps'Clev And bis the bor ,rrdame de Be ht to be buried a er J Women and -hildrei t Tbe cry of 4oh ijjt GoJ III approach. Ma- : dima flU. 4 co --luuug. They 4 tried Ufd1scjiarge ber from tbe corpse; u was noi ueau: u uie.:ucu; uu yet, four days bad itbeen interred. They were terrifiedi some of them press- he w comes. It is. necessary to re-""-jta crovd, whose impiety is yet no gainst , their superstition. Clera 'h to thelMense. There is no ! tfaul V 1 . m m b I Ud the 1 J rMl - I H is corpse is restored this whole body if found tQmeve. .They wrap him up- Twr thours arel eoent'in bestowing upon him i cares; At lengtn tie copies our irom v orrible letharcry that bad continued "7jniwin in narif vravB. nr. in now demands his wife. She had to live! Death had let one prey him, only to seize upon another. Is indeed dead. Poor Cieroeoce! upg to lovely!. so aUtess.and soever! no-with nadness. jolbermigbtejhapescrjbe these &tt&-.&s4 Thae ' ' done - but ords can picture me oespair oi ivi. I j, ! I i ne. Gnet restored nim ail nis iacui iA He would have resigned himself to no, he would have regretted his escape from it, had not the child which they pla ced in his arms needed him his own child, whom he kissed for the first time. What stronger tie could bind him to life? & what can sever that tie, save death alone?! JONES OF PINEVILLE. Letter to General Taylor, Deah General, Sense you've got to be sich a big General and so terrible popelar, I spose you get more letters than you care bout payin'the postage on, and being as old Mr Johnston aint very UDerai in nis aeauns with the publick, 1 don't care much about patronizin hinn mysell, whea I can help it; so I've jest put this letter in the Continent, whar it 'ill be cer?ain to find you, if you don't . let Santa Anny git ahold of yer mail bas asrin. Well. 1 don't want vou Jto think that I'm ar.ter a oujee, lor, General. I scorns to mention sich a thing til after you'r elect ed President, andv settled down in:tbe White House ready to receive com 'iny, when there aint no danger but what you'll have applict'ons enuff, to-give you a fair i hance for the' exrciseof your judgment ta makin appintmeals. It aint lor no of. ticht;i'ra wjitm; liijt lo tel' yon hovv-things ip gwine on he re in the States sense, vou've been t out to Mexico I killin uld'snrngle-shint. Tber!s; somucli shc coonery gwine on now-a-days, and the po litical papers gits things muxed all up so its rite hard for a body to make out the true brains of things, and I jest thought that as I was one of your old Florida cam paigners, A moughl take the liberty to help you out of the log. Well, .then, you must know, that things is in a tenible Hustration here jnst now. Nothin oon't seem to work lite for nobod y, aud the politiicans is' almost leady to give up the country in despair. v ' You remember bout the time you was ordered down from Corpus Cristy to Mat tynoros, to ax the Mexicans whether they was really gwine" to fijel or was jest sha min, General Scott took it into his head how heouirht to have the command. Well the government din't seem to care per tickleily about -his services jest then, and in the squabblement what tuck place about it, the old General upset a plate of soup on himself what like to scalded him to death. That accident made a tenible fuss, aud the General did'nt git nothin el&e but soup in thepapers for a long time; but while 1 . . . tors was crowin over it, here comes s or your battles of Palo Alio and e la Palmv, what tuck the ad- tion slap bang, one after the oth two claps of thunder, on the same the hed; and if it hadn't been for scape-valve for tber glory what Mr. Ritchie put in the Union the next morn in. its generally believed they never would got over it in this world. Well, things went on pretty welt wnue - " jr Marcy was busy skinnin Geo mins, for rallvin the Louisiana boys ewl itme of vuur lickin the Mexicans out o Monterav. inai was a lernoien A m m mi a a "it mml wicked piece of business, and Congress was a great mind to court-rsartial you for not killio every mother's son of 'em, and the government was deetrmined not to trust vou with the business by yourself any more. After that, General Scott didn't have no more difficulty in gettin a thowin, and for fear he wasn't enufi; they was gwine to git a new suit of regiment als made for Mr Benton and send him out to keep.you all strait. fi Sout this time the people begun to nur ra and luminate their' houses for your bat tles, and sum of 'ere said they'd be drat if they did'nt vote for you 40 be President too. Sum of tbe whig newspapers begun to crack ;you up, and tber was a terrible rumagin through the old papers to find put who your daddy was, and whar you come from," and what your politics was. f I liir Ml FJ Vd 1 All at a sudden the government became 'terrible anxious to faket be castle of Vera Cruse, and bein as Mr. IteNTON would nt go cause Congress wguld'ht give him big enough commission, they lent General Scott to do it. Thenewa" cum bow the GiueraLhad tuck aXyour troops from you, leauin you with only a few volunteers to keep off all thefightin Maxicans therwas, and some of the papers sed it was a bomi nable shame to s,rve you that way;, but tee norm mey ioo u raonsirou easy, ana begun to stick upCJineTat Scott's name U or --the' . PreidIntfl,Tb'ar -ivwaa' a ". terrible. naui in me winu. jeveu lutsemmycraisi r ,i . r 1 ' 1 I 1 I J t ieji to prcisin occn:Tf ana very ooav was thinkin how manff Mexicans be would have to exchange , for you when Santv; Annv tuck you ppsoner. Every body was certain you was bound to be licked all to pieces, and we was all bolen our breath to hear the dreadful news, aud sum very smart rr.ea was beginuin to wonder whv vou would be sich a fooll as to expose yourself in sich a position. But Gineral, it would be worth half a lifetime for you, if ou could jest been here when the news cum of the gloiious battle ot Bony Visty. Sich ano'jjer shoutin and hurraying, and shootin of cannons, and 'luminatin of mf towns I Nothin like it was eyer heard or country. Even the Jgeed before in this wimin cried for joy, and they forgot wheth er they was iDemmycrats dr Wbigs, hur raying for you and your bra veboys what shed sich impe rishable glory onour arms. Even Mr. Greeley, the abolition editor what lost the election ol Mr Clay in 1844, drapped old Tom Corwin, and cum out lin the iiibune for yon to be President. Sense thajl Gineral Scott has licked the Mexicans two or three times, and has brushed up his aneient fame asa scientific soldier and a brave Gineral, but it seems like iiotbin cant cum up to Bony Visty, and jour popularity its breakin out all over the country, thick as be masels, in spite of all the politicians can do. t , f ;Wfcl,?Gi?kir;that' tfciyvay things stand nowrand sich another ihufllin and squirmin as iher'is among the political leaders; of-&t parties was never seen be? fore. Thefre trying to gel up a general convention to musteji 'em into rank, but it wont do. Sum of 'em sesyou'r a everlas tin old Whig ; well, the people say they don't care if you is others- s'es you'r a hominable Democrat, and the people say they dont care for that nether they're like the boy was when hi Idog was licked, they knowod you is old Rough aud Ready, what never lost a battle, and 1 'that's ejji dent.' ' Sense you rit that letter whar you say you don't belong to no party its worse and worse, and the old party , riders what's been all their lives ridin the people into of fice with a party bit in then mouths, is mountin and dismountin aud changin sad dies in every direction, so it aint possible to tell whar they do belong. The people aint gwine to have the wool pulled over ther eyes not by none of 'em. They've watceed your course- they've heard bout yous battles, and they've red your letters to the goverment, and they tnink all the more of you, cause you don't suriender to the Maxicaus nor no body else, Whig or jJemycrat. Mr. Greeley, with the Abolitionists and free niggers, is down on thousand of brick, cause you're you like a a Southern man, but that's enuff to elect any man in creation, and all you ve eation, and all you've got to be atrlf that him and bis internal, pack of fon&r is that him and bis infernal, pack offon&T ticks and anti-renters, will take itjintother heds to quii old Tom Gorwin and go for you. Yon possibly mought stand sich a mi&fortin, but you're the only man in cre ation that could. If you'll take my advice you won 4t let 'em take no more picters of you, for you may depend it aint your good looks what's gwine to make you President. Ther's been any numbet of young Zacxerys christened this year, and the ladys is for you in spite of your looks, but it's well enuff, Gineral. not to let 'em see your pic ter 00 much. Hop in you'll take monstrous good care ot yourself, and not let any of them bom inable Mexicens kitch you in one of ther infernal slippin-u oasts, j . I remain your frend til detb, ' - Jos. JONM. ANECDOTE OR GErAyLORJ . The Cincinnatus-like simplicity and un affected n ess of old Zacks habits have fre quently been celebrated. Bat it is not commonly known,, perhaps, that he does his own washing Of a pleasant evening, alter the warlike toils of the day are closed, the old bero may be seen at the opening of bis tent, 'sitting plump on the ground with a camp kettle between his le'g atid with short sleeves rolled up, creating i a loud splashing of his sarmants in the suds. The old General, by the way, wholly ei- eludes bard soap, as an unsoldier-hke lux ury, and usea nothing but soft soap ; a bar rel of which furnishes part of bis teat fur niture. - !r The old hero, bqwever, on account of mm 'mm a' m m - . 4 ' ' bis evesisrht. is not verv nimble wiln, toe needle. Nevertheless, he insists upon do ine .his own rnendine, rand Lparticttlarly prides himself upon the neatness and epc pedition with which he pots a new seat inJiis ample pants, j These nether gar ments of courses require frequent repairs, owing to the constant practice . and habit the old. hero has of violently slapping his person when excited. At Buena Vista, his being a longtime in tbt saddle, unit ed, Jo the ire -provoking and dastardly con duct of the Indiana regiment , came near entirely riding them in pieces, and it was late before the General retired, as he al ways makes it a principle not to permit his basket of new cloths jto accumulate. At Monterey, when the deputies from General .rhpudia were first ushered into the presence ot the old hero arauumar ters, they found him sitting cross-legged upon a sun carnage, and earnestly engag ed in letting out the seams of his coat proceeding necessitated by his increasing: bulkicess. YankttBoodUi GREAT CLOCK.AT STASBURG. From the bottom to the topjs fi'ot less than 100 feet, and above 30 feet'wida and! 15 deep. The Clock is struck in this way:! The dial is some 20 faet from tbe floor, on each side from which there is a church,! or little boy, with a mallet; and over the dial is a small bell. The church on the left strikes the first, quarter, that on the right the second quarter. Some fifty feet; oyer the dial, in a large niche, is a huge! figure of Time, a bell in his leiV aoy ihe in his right hand. - In front stands a Bgure of a young man, with a mallet, who strikes the third quaiter tn the pell in the hand of Time; and then glides, witji a slow step round behind Time; out coraei an old mao. with a mallet, and places himself in front of him. As the hour of twelve comes! the old man raises his mallet and dell ber ately. strikes twelve times on tbe bell, thit echoes through the building and b heard round the region of the church. Then the old man glides slowly behind father Time, and the young man comes on, ready to perform his part as Time comes rQund a gain. Soon as the old man struck twelve and disappearde ano ther set of machif nery is put into motion some twenty feet higher still. It is. thus: There is a high cross, with an image of Christ on it. The instant twelve has struck one of the apos tles walks out from behind, comes in front, turns, lacing cross, bpws, and walks around to his place. As he does so another comes, out in front, turns, bows, and passes on; so twelve figures, large as life, walk ar ound, each to his place. As the last dis appears an enormous clock, slowly flaps its wings, stretches forth its neck, and crows three times, so loud, as to be heard outside the church to some distance, and so naturally as to be mistaken for a real cock. Then all is silent as death. It was made in the year 1500, and has performed those mechanical wonders ever since, ex- oft. fifty years, when it was out of r.t 4 AUiiON, t 1 Who ever became a man of influence by sitting under tbe barrow of desponden cy? What slowpoke ever benefitted the world, his friends, or himself. There is nothing like action, coupled with cheer fulness. We see it every where. Who is he sitting on that empty barrel on tbe wharf? A man with no energy a prey to grief. He dosen'tknow what to do; & how to start. Who is that man with fold ed arms standing in the market place? a fa zy, do little sort of a vagabond, who hardly earns his bread and butter. Do you wish to become such a character? Then arouse yourself, away from the arm chair up from the gutter out of the downy bed Move your arms, kick your feet, and stir about; eive tbe blood a chance to circulate through voor veins, and tbe air of heaven-J to entetyour lungs. Seize the first jab presented, and dispatch it at once op tor the pay, and get another forthwith You will soon earn enough to purchase a wheel barrow or a hand cart, and then you will begin to live , Whb knows what you may become? Energy is half omnipotent. Small beginnings end in large gains: 'ft peany well turned bring a fortune. Re soit memo ao jomeimng ana oe some 1 ii xuiog, ana our wora jor ii, you win uitts us to your dying day for vpreaching.thui faithfully to von. ' . ? M . . f o- A -WlFB BILLED , .BY HER HUSBAKO. A melancholy accident occurtd v- near Troy, Pa, on Thursday nightSf fast week Sometime in the ntgbfierccifl ot Iir J i Pierce, bad occasion to go tQ too 2 g window -of the chambers in which they j e?e sleeping, leaving Doctor P. asleep? i I iTtarfaSng of the wirk him; J ; and ha instantly ae jzeni wjbichf I was near bis bedside, supposing that somei After Mrs P. bad letfrown the window I she advanced toward the bedDf Pi erco called out 'twice to stop, or he would fire; but she still advanced and be fired, whea she was near the muzzle of the gun tho whole charge of shot entering her breast, and she fell dead on the floor. He ' then folt in iKo Krt fnr V hia nrifn tn tm 1 ka ti o had killed soma one, when not finding! ur, ine uma uasueu upon mm mat not f had shot his own wife; . ANOTHER "IRON DUKE." There has recently been in. our town, 5gan old Revolutioner,' who calls himself a? James McDonnell, brother to the distiri- guisned oracer ot mat name who fought side, by idc with General Marion 'Mc McDonnell is a very remarkable mao He say 8 he is 104 years old; his oldest son 81, and his oldest grandson f over 60. He h very active uncommonly so for a mia of 70. During the revolutionary war he fought ia several bloody battles: fl3f wounde in the hands, and had cne of Lii j eyes knocked but. S W e heard him also stale that when he was in this place $1 years ago, there was) Itpnly 2 or 300 inhabitants '.mostly blacks. nHe say s that hejwasfor,20 y ears professor in the-.Military Academy nt W Point and has a son t now inMexico uufpeti cott. He started South a tWv4aysjago. V Whethe hi? torj' iattue or riot we wjll not pretend 10 say, as we know nothiug to ihe contrary. Wfimington Chronicle i. CURIOUS WILL. JThe following U an extract from 4he will of a gentleman of Philadelphia, fatel deceased. His wife, children .and mother in-law had conspired together (o ruin his raputalion: , , , :V' ''U.rj- my daughter refused me a night's lodging in her house when I had no place for abode, I therefore leave her on, eefit, and; to her henpecked' husband half a cent, as a man Who allows nis wife to insult her father in his presence, is no man. To my other children I rocom mend a perusal of the fifth commandmeati To my mother-inlaw I' bequeathe six cents, provided she buys therewith a hal ter to hang herself, for having swindled the Elict out ot a gold watch : she wears, under a pretence of benevolence " and Christian condnet and behaVlour.' " COL. DONIPHAN. A correspondent of fh New Tbrk Mir ror says that Col. Doniphan is a1arge,ffinel handsome-looking man, and as brave at a lion, but . entire Sgnoxaotf b( airmilitary science. He gives the following anecdote as an illustration of I he gallant Coldnel'i manner of settling' a dispute: " A mule had been captured from the en emy, lo which several of his men laid claim. An appeal was, made to the Colo nel, who, after hearing the facts, proposed mai 11 snouiu oe oepided by a game at loo I and he actually sat down with the disputants beneath a mosquito net in the woods, to play for the mule. While these military loo players were deep in the game an attack was made on the camp bv the enemy; in a twinkling the cards 'were ' dropped and the enemy.defeated. So goes the story and I baVe no doubt of iU truth. SOMETHING NEW, 5 Amg of zinc arid ene of copper plac . ed in contact around each fruit or orna mental tree, will prevent any insect froia, ascending andinjuring:them, ,The mo ment the insect touphes the battery, it re- ceives a galvanic shock, and is killed, or falls to the ground. The action of the batter ;i unceasigs1 fceing t sufiiciently powerful in either drjjor wet weather. So says the Macon Joomal. " 1 To Speculators.-- Wanted-T wo lines of matter to fill out this column. B.C. 1 4 11 1 1; it 4 .,
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