prrrsBoscr convention.
pursuant to previous notice, a Convention tf
Delegate from ibe counties of Chatham, Moore,
Cumberland, Brunswick, tnd New Hanover, as
sembled in Pittsborn, on Friday, 18th inst., to
consider the suhject of openiog Cape Fear and
Deep Rivers, from . Fayetteville to Hancock'
brid&Ct in the "County of Moore.
The Convention: was temporarily organised by
the apprwMment of Dr. Isaac Hall t Chairman,
and& L. Riddle, as Secretary.
The Cbantier represented in the Convention
were called, when the following person present
ed their credentials and took their seats.
New Hanoxer. Gen: Alex. McRea, George
Gillespie, Dr. A. J. DeRoaset, Robt. Maxwell,
Thomas Lcrinj, N. M. Hill, B- 1. llowze, and
T. M. Gardner.
Moore. Dr. Robt. K. Smith, and Dr. C. Chal
mere. 4
Cumberland. Col. A. S. McNeil.
Brunswick. Dr. Frederick J. Hill.
Chatham Dr. S. McClennehan, Thomas, Far
ish, Isaac Clegg, J. IL Haughtoa M. Q. Wad
dell, W. Stedman, J. J. Jackson, V. T- Home.
J. Q. A. Leach. O. A.Stedman, W. Lea, N.
Clegg, John Seymore, J- Haughton, Peter G.
Evans, L. J. Haughton, B- Harris, S. L. Riddle,
Dr. Isaac- Hall, Thomas Hill. John Lea, Wm.
Snipes, Henry A. Londoo, Hardy Lassatcr, and
W. M. Bums-
Mr. Jackson, of Chatham, moved that a com
mittee of three be appoinied by the Chair to re.
commend permanent officers for the Convention.
The motion was adopted and the chair appointed
Dr. S. McClenehan, H. A. I.ondon, and W. T.
Home, Esqrs., said committer.
The committee retired and shortly after re.
ported the following officers, viz :
Dr. F J. Hill, of Brunswick President.
VICE PRESIDENTS.
Gen. A. McRea, of New Hanover,
Col. A. S. McNeil, of Cumberland,
Dr. Chas. Chalmers, of Moore,
TJios. Parish, Esq , of Chatham,
Isaac Clcgg, Esq. do
SECRETArtES.
Dr. A. J DeRosset, of New Hanover,
William Stedman, of Chatham.
Which report was unanimously concurred in.
The president having been conducied to the
Chair, made his acknowledgments for the honor
conferred on him, and for aboni three quarters ot I
an hour, in a lucid and masterly manner, demon-
strated the great importance of the proposed
work, iis Defect feasibility, and the cheering
prospects of irs commencement and completion.
The following gentlemen were then, on mo- !
tion, appointed to report resolutions for the con- j
sideration of the Convention, viz : Thomas Lor
inr, and B I. Howze, of New Hanover ; J. H.
Haagbton, and J. J- Jackson, of Chatham ; and
Dr. R. K. Smith, of Moore.
During the absence of ike Committee, the Con
vention was snccesively addressed by Gen. Al
exander McRea, of New Hanover, and Dr. S.
McClennehan, of Chatham, in speeches abound
ing in sinking statistical information and practi
cal facts.
The commi.tee on resolutions having returned,
through J. J- Jackson, Esq, presented the follow
ing report, viz :
0 REPORT.
"We are warned by events of every day's occur
rence, that the time has come, when more than ever,
the people of the South should avail themselves of
all the advantages for commerce, and call into active
plsy all the elements of prosperity which nature
has bestowed on them. These advantages arc
ereat, and no where are they Isopcrior to those of
North Carolina, tsiessca oy nature, wun a ueai
thy climate, a soil eminently productive; with a
great amount of mineral wealth, and a vast amount
of water power for manufacturing purposes, North
Carolina, with, a proper spirit of enterprise on the
prt of her people, would in a short time be surpas
sed by none of her sister States in her progress to
greatness ana power, mn unionun.neijr, wus spir
rit has been hitherto wanting, and it is with shame
ire are compelled to admit that we present another
exemplification of the fact, that those portions of the
world upon which a kind Providence has been most
lavish of his blessings, have been most cursed by the
indifference, the neglect, the supineness and the al
most criminal inactivity of man. We rejoice in the
belief, however, that her people are beginning to
-wake op to a proper sense of their interest, and to
the importance of developing her resources.
In the opinion of your Committee, there is no en--terprize
which should more engage our efforts, and
in which the warmest sympathies and feelings of
onr people should be more thoroughly enlisted, than
that of rendering Cape Fear River navigable, above
Fayetteville, to Haywood and Deep River, as high
op as Hancock's Mills. This work once completed,
and its great advantages to all the interior of the
State, being once practically realized, it requires
nothing of the spirit of prophecy to foresee that in
a short time a rail road or turnpike, or some other
easy mode of communication, would be constructed
from the head of navigation, on Deep River, to some
point on the Yadkin, above the Narrows, a distance
not exceeding forty miles; the effects of which
would be to open to the products of the great West,
ah easy and cheap means-of transportation to a mar
ket on our own course. This would at once devel
ops the resources of the most productive part of
North Carolina. It would give a new impetus to
industry; labor would receive a fair reward; it
vtould necessarily cause a vast amount of produce to
lie raised, which we, have never hitherto raised, on
ly for consumption at home, because it would not
bear the cost of transportation to market in wagons,
and for the latter reason, it would greatly lower the
cost to the citizens of the interior of the State of various-articles
of prime necessity. In a word, it will
greatly augment the amount of prod nee raised for
market ; ' it would greatly enhance the price of it,
and diminish the cost of transportation, and for that
reason lessen the cost to the farmer in the interior
of the State, of every article purchased by him.
It would at the same time necessarily build op a
flourishing City, within our own borders. The ad
vantages of this work to the town of Wilmington,
would be incalculable. The products of the larger
and most productive portions of the State would find
a market there. There are few towns South of the
Potomac, which could in this case surpasss her in
commercial. ad vantages, and whose friends could look
forward with more confidence, to a continued and
increasing prosperity.
It is believed by the Committee that this work is
entirely practicable. From information which can
be relied on,' there can be but little doubt but that
light steam boats can run up the river as far as Smi
lie's Falls, twenty-five miles above Fayetteville,
'Without any improvement in the river at alL From
this point to Hancock's Mills, there are only twelve
or fifteen miles of the river which will require im-
VTOVCmeii. &nd .from Inflnrmattin vtiioh im f tVi a
highest authority, your Committee are of opinion
that the whole fall la this distance cannot m1
seventy feet.. In Deep River, the only serious ob
stacle to enect a navigation, are two falls within less
aaa ten miles ociiay wood, which can be easily .0-
TWtLJJ1''v T-JP snjv-word is re-
to take all other nect&rfn proper step br fur
thering the " T' Vi x.
The Convention then adjourned until 3 o'clock
P. M. . '
ArTcanooit Skssiom.
The Convention met pursuant to adjournment.
Speeches were then made in support of the report,
by J. J. Jackjwn and B. I. Howte, Esqs. after which
the Report was unanimously adopted. - -
The Chair then appointed the following gentle
men as the Committee, under the 2d Resolution,
vit:
Gen. Alexander McRea, Col. A. S. McNeill, and
Dr. A. J. DeRossett; and on motion of Mr. Haugh
ton, the Chairman was added to the Committee.
The following gentlemen were appointed by the
Presidenf, the Committee provided for by the 3d re
solution. Tlx:
Dr. Charles Chalmers, and A. R. Kelly, Esq., of
Moore. B. F. Atkins, and CoL Alexander S. Mc
Neill, or Cumberland, J. J. Jackson. J. H. Haugh-
ton, W. Stedman, Isaac CJlegg, v- - ixarnss, m.
Q. Waddell, and Dr. Isaac Hall, of Chatham, and
II. B. Elliott, of Randolph.
On motion of Mr. Loring, it was
Besohed, That all money collected for the pur
pose of a Survey of the contemplated improvement,
be paid to the Chairman of the Committee of three,
and if the amount subscribed be insufficient, the said
Committeo 6hall take the necessary steps to increase
the same by application to the Finance Committees
heretofore appointed, and if there shall be an excess
it shall be scaled to the subscribers pro rata, and
that those to whom subscriptions have heretofore or
may hereafter be made, be requested to collect the
same forthwith.
On motion of Mr. Haughton, it was ,
Besotted, That J. W. Pegram, Dr. J. W. McKay, ,
and J. Bethea. be added to the Finance Committee,
and that the Committee heretofore appointed to col
lect funds for the purpose of survey, be continued,
a r..,...ct tw tlipv Droceed with their labors
with all possible despatch, and that, they report as
I earlv as Drncticable, to the Chairman of the Com
mittee of three.
On motion of Mr. J.icfcson, the thanks of the Con
vention were tendered to the officers thereof.
On motion of Mr. Stedman, it was ordered that
the proceedings of the Convention be published in
the Communicator, and that all the other papers in
the State, be requested to publish the same.
The Convention then adjourned, sine die.
F. J. HILL, President.
ALEX. McRAE, 1
a. s. McNeill,
C. CHALMERS,
THOS. FARISII,
ISAAC CLEGG,
A. J. PeRossett, Jr.,
W. Si EDM AN, J
Vice Presidents.
Secretaries.
From the Philadelphia News.
A PLKASANT INCIDENT, A YOUNG SOL
DIER FROM TAYLORS ARMY.
A: a meeting of the Rough and Ready Club
of one of the Philadelphia city wards he'd on
Tuesday evening last, after the business had
been transacted and an adjournment was about
to take place, a pale faced youth, apparently
about niucteen years of age, and a stranger to all
present, asked permission of the President to say
a few words about General Taylor. His request
was of course granted. There was a profound
silence in the meeting when he rose, and with
some trepidation, apologised for asking to be
heard. lie said he bd reason to know Gen
eral Taylor ; he knew him as a man and a soldier.
He had been in his army seventeen months, and
a portion of that time, when he was sick and
exhausted by long marches and ready to die, he
found a warm hearted friend and protector in
Genera Zachary Taylor. Gentlemen," said
he, "I am but nineteen years old I am a stran
ger here, and never attempted to speak in public.
But I have read in some of the papers attacks
upon General Taylor's character as a man
charging him with inhumanity and cruelty, and
I want to say bluntly, that such charges are false
false from begining to end, no matter who ut
ters them. I have seen cruelty and inhumanity
on the part of subordinate officers to their men
in human punishments inflicted for slight offen
ces : but never in the presence of General Taylor,
who was always a kind father and protector to
the poor soldier, and whom every honest soldier
in his army loved. No man of honor who
ever served under him will charge him with cru
elty, either to his own troops or to the enemy.
I was with him at Fort Brown, marched with him
to Point Isabel was in the battles of Palo Alto,
Resaca and Monterey. After the capture of Mat
amoras, instead of using one of the houses in the
city as his quarters, he gave them all up to
the sick, wounded and suffering soldiers, and
6lept in his tent on a bed that was not more
than four inches above the mud and water that
surrounded it."
The speaker related many interesting inci
dents connected with the movements of the ar
my; illustrating the benevolence of Gen. Taylor,
and the perfect confidence of the troops in the
goodness of his heart, and his skill as a com
mander. " He made us all feel as if every man
was double, and had twice the strength we
really possessed, and could do twice as much
as any other army in the world. He was al
ways the first to meet danger, and used to tell
as to watch him close, and never run till he ran.
But he never ran from the enemy; he never
turned away from a suffering soldier without
doing all that he could to relieve and cheer him.
On the march to Ceralvo," continued the youth,
" my strength gave out, and had it not been for
Gen. Taylor, I might have been left upon the
road to die or be murdered. But he saw me
and knew from mv looks that I was exhausted.
He took me up and sat me on his own mule
and I rodo with him in that way for several days.
He saved my life then, and I am ready to give
him every drop of my blood, whenever he wants
a soldier.
At one time we were almost out of provi-
sions. we naa nothing to eat out mustv bis.
cuit, and slushed, magotty pork. An officer
went to General Taylor, and complained that
he could not eat such food. 'Well, sir,' said
General, come and take your dinners with me.
The invitation was gladly accepted, and the of
ficer eladly anticipating a first rate dl.ner,
dressed himself up, and went to the quarters
of the General, but instead of finding a regular
dinner ta&le, tilled with delicacies, he saw the
General sitting before a fire, toasting a piece of
the old sloshed pork on a stick, and that, with
some musty biscuit and a' little bean soup, made
the dinner for himself, and the disappointed
officer, who expected to dine on roast beef and
plum pudding. That gentleman didn't eat any
more dinners with Gen. Taylor."
The young soldier continued his interesting
narrative about twenty minutes, his bright eye
often flashing with indignation, when speaking of
the slander with which uen. iaylor is assailed,
and bis voice trembling with emotions of gratitude
and affection in the relation of the benevolent
act of the noble hero and patriot. We need not
say that ho was frequently interrupted by the
fjneany applause ot me meeting. At tne conclu
n of his
1 1 j . - - -
5? ffowthe stranger his name, announced to
uienceitbat the young man who had ad-
mem was Sebg't Edward Sherman,
'CHUSETTS.
erman was elected bv acclamation an
Imember of the club. If this paragraph
umSeyrehe would obIi?e Ufl "li
ke office of the Daily New..
Wa'shinoion Uninn .
fto tl. pkT-. -V. ' - j m uen..wig s
rhort. At n ' r::. 7' 1 n ' v Be.-8ure.
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A I -11 lv IO -.BUI C,
At all events, i.l P, -'
rt ihat we
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ever
A VISIT TO GEN. TAYLOR.
The appearance of the Old hero His opinion
of Free Soil Movement The Missouri Comprom
ise Slavery and the Abolitionists, &c.
The following interesting and freely written
letter we find in the Mobile Tribune, a neutral
paper. It purports to give the views o. Gen.
Taylor on many important subject, such as the
Free Soil movement, slavery, acquisition of ter
ritory, kc.
East PASCAOOUtA, August 19.
My object in coming here was to see the grand
review, but that turned out to be all a eham.
No review was intended, and, indeed, none could
have taken place, for there is no ground conyen.
ient to the ca:np fit for the purpose, and of all
the soldiers here. I have been informed, there
are not more than 500 fit for duty.
The first object that attracted my attenl. on in
approaching the Hotel was Old Zack," He
was clad in an undress military frock, white pants
long boots, and a fine drab beaver hat, which was
squelched down on his head at an angle of forty
five degrees, the rear part of the rim resting on
the oldgentleman's coat collar. I saw, without
direction, that the figure before me was the hero
of the Mexican war not certainly, however,
from anything particularly military iu his bearing,
but from a knowledge of the innumerable por
traits which are scattered in all parts the coun
try. These portraits are by no means correct,
although they are sufficiently like him to
have a recognisable intention. The original is
belter looking. The artists, in attempting. to
impart a military contour to the old gentleman,
have exaggerated the defects of his face, and sup
pressed the parts which give it character For
example, the under lip to the portrait is the main
feature : in the man this does not stand out so as
to undershadow the nose. Gen. Taylor is also
not so large a man as we have been accustomed
to believe. His legs are quite appropriate egs
for his body, and not slumpy little pegs stuck to
a huge frame a the pictures represent. Occa
sionally, I observed that he tottered when rising
from his seat, as though the exposure of t lie
camp and the battle field had left upon him its
marks. But this, perhaps, is the natural result
of age, or prepossession, for one js disposed to
associate with the frame of the old hero, that in
domitable iron nature which he has exhibited so
much throughout his long and useful life.
His head is large the frontal development
massive the forehead high and full the base
broad, as is the case in all famous soldiers. It
falls off, however, towards the crown, seeming
to indicate a lack of both firmness and self es
teem. Vc should say, too, that there is a defi
ciency of what the phrenologists call individuali
ty. Bai n'importe ; a phenological examination
must be close and careful to be useful. One can
not judge of a man's brain as of a tree, by exam
ining it at a distance.
For the rest, the general impression made by
the old hero is quite agreeable. There appears
to be a total absence of selfishness in his man
ner. He moves along through the crowd appa
rently quite unconscious of his celebrity, and has
a kind word for every one who addresses him.
In short, he looks more like a solid old farmer
than the hero of some of the greatest battles of
the age.
This morning I rose a little after daylight,
when very few wore astir, except those who had
not gone to bed, and the first person I saw was
old Zac, sitting sidelong on a chair, with his legs
crossed, spectacles on nose, and body bent, read
ing a newspaper, which, for its better manage
ment, was doubled up into a small compass.
You have seen a very common portrait of Frank
Im in a similar position. The picture before me
resembled it exactly.
The old man seems to be frank and without
craft. He shuns no topic and as far as I could
discover, is accustomed to utter his opinions
without regard to politicians or newspaper Edi
tors. Iast eveninu, a group of some dozen or
more of us gathered round him eagerly listening
to an animated conversation, in which his native
simplicity of manner was quite charming. He
ran through various topics, which he illustrated
with excellent sense and varied information.
Speaking of the "free soil" movement in the
North, he expressed fears that it would be the ab
sorbing question in the present canvass and en
gross all other questions. He said that he con
sidered the " Missouri compromise" a fair and
liberal line for settling the slave question, and
he was willing to see it adopted.
He did not hesitate to pronounce slavery an
evil and blighting in its effects upon the agricul
tural and commercial prosperity of the South
Virginia, andi
he thought it would extend to other slaves stales.
He spoke at some length on this point, and drew
many of his illustrations from ancient history.
While however, he regretted the system, he de
precated the foreign attempts to abolish slavery.
He thought the agitation on the subject perm-
cious to both whites and blacks. The two races
could not exist together, and a mixed race, such
as obtains in Mexico, was tho greatest evil that
society could be subjected to No plan of erad-
icating slavery met his approbation, unless the
freed negroes could be removed from the coun-
try. He would not emancipate his own slaves
except, on the condition that they were will
ing to go to Africa. To the northern States he
wojld not send them. Their condition there
would be w orse than that of bondage. He thought
that if the really philanthropic men of the norih
whose efforts to abolish the system, are restrict
ing the privilege of the slave, could see its prac
tical operation, the agitation would cease, and
there would be less zeal and more wisdom ex
hibited in the cause. As he expressed it, they
would better observe the "eleventh command
ment," which prescribes that every man shall at
tend to his own business.
In reply to a remark made by the person whom
he was conversing with, he said that most of the
old party questions were obselete. He daily re
ceived letters asking his opinion in relation to a
U. a. Bank. To reply to them were idle, forthe
bank was dead, and it was as wise to think of re
storing a dead man to life as to give it a new
existence. In all respects he uttered sentiments
which expressed his unlimited confidence in the
will and honesty of the people.
uen. iaylor disapproved emphatically of the
spirit of conquest, and attributed the present po
litical divisions and discussions to a lust of con
quest. On this point he exhibited much famil
iarity with both ancient and modern history and
frequently drew his illustrations from it. Greece
said he, lost ber liberty and nationality by the
spirit of conquest. He alluded to the reigns of
James I, Louis XIV, Napoleon and LouisPhil.
uppe, wnicn as tne conversation became some
what contraversial, added zest to the discussion
and left a favorable impression of the philosophy
he gathered from the history of the past.
But I have no space to write in full all the
prominent points of this conversation, or to des
cribe several interesting events, such as the
speech of Gen. Taylor in reply to a speech from
Col Root, who was spokesman of a large party
of Mobiuans ; or the many pretty women I saw,
or the glories of last night", when the whole face
of the waters here was illuminated with a Dhos-
phorescent light, as though the world were turn
ed upside down and all the stars in the firma
ment were taking a bath within the email com
pass that one's eye can enclose. My object was
to see V-Pld Zack," and 1 gathered enough of
what I saw of him to believe that he is an honest
man not .politic not afraid resolute mode
rate steering between the ultras, and southern
enough in his nature 10 be quite worthy of as
much honor as wp can lay on his sho:i!ders.
MARCH OF "TIME, OR THE PLEA OF
-- THE FAIRIES. X: X
Titanla and her moonlight Elves, were under
the canopy of a huge oak, that served to shelter
them from the moon's radiance, which being at
her full moon, 6liot forth intolerable rays intol
erable, I mean, to the subtile texture of their lit
tle 6hadowcy bodies but dispensing an agreea
ble coolness to us grosser mortals-r An air of
discomfort sat upon the Queen, and upon her
courtiers. Their tiny fnskings and gambols
were forgot; and even Robin Goodfellow, for
the first time in his little airy lifo, looked grave.
For the Queen had had melancholy forebodings
of late, founded upon an ancient prophecy, laid
up in the record of Fairy Lands, that the date of
Fairy existence should be then extinct, when
men should cease to believe in them.
And she knew how thit the race of the Nymphs
which were her predecessor?, and had been the
guardians of the sacred floods, and of the silver
fountains, and of the consecrated hills and woods,
had utterly disappeared before the chilling touch
of man's incredulity; and she sighed bitterly at
the approaching fate of herself and of her sub
jects, which was dependent upon so fickle a lease,
as the capricious and ever mutable faith of man.
When, as if to realize her fears, a melancholy
shape came gliding in, and that was Time, who
with his intolerable scythe mows down kings and
kingdoms; at whose dread approach the Fays
huddled together, as a flock of timorous sheep,
and the most courageous among them crept into
acron cups, not enduring the sight of that ancient
est of monarchs.
Titanu's first impulse was to wish the pres.
ence of her false Lord, King Oberon, who was
far away in the pursuit of a strange beauty, a
Fay of Indian Land that with his good lance
and sword, like a faithful knight and husband, he
might defend her against Time. But she soon
checked that as vain, for what could the prowess
of the mighty Oberon himself, albeit the stoutest
championin Fairy Land, have availed against so
huge a giant, whose bald top touched the 6kfes.
Soin the mildest tone she besought the Spectre,
that in his mercy he would overlook and pass by
her small subjects, as too diminutive and power
less to add any worthy trophy to his renown.
And she besought him to employ his resistless
strength against the ambitious children of men,
and to lay waste their aspiring works, to tumble
their towers and turrets, and the Babels of their
pride, fit objects of his devouring scythe, but to
spare her and her harmless race, who had no ex
istence beyond a dream ; frail objects of a creed ;
that lived but in the faith of the believer. And
with her little arms, as well as she could, she
grasped the stern knees ot Time; and waxing
speechless with fear, she beckoned to her chief
attendant and Maids of Honor, to come forth from
their hiding places, and to plead the Plea of the
Fairies. And one of those small delicate figures
came forth at her biddings, clad all in white like
a chorister, and in a low melodious tone, not loud
er than the hum of a pretty bee when it seems to
be demurring whether it shall settle upon this
sweet flower or that, before it settles set forth
her humble petition. We Fairies," said she,
are the most inoffensive race that live, and least
deserving to perish.' It is we that have the care
of all sweet melodies, that no discord may offend
the Sun, who is the great Soul of Music We
rouse the lark at morn, and the pretty echoes
which respond to all the twittering choir are of
our making. Wherefore, great King of Years,
if ever you have loved the music which is rain
inr from a morning cloud, sent from the mes
senger of day, the lark, as he mounts to Heav
en's gate, beyond the ken of mortals ; or if
ever you have listened with a charmed ear, to
the night bird, that
In the flowing spring?,
Amidst the leaves set, makes the thickest ring
Of her sour sorrows, sweeteued with her song :
spare our tender tribes ; and we will muffle up
the sheep bell forjhee, that thy pleasure take no
interruption, whenever thou shalt listen unto
Philomel.
And Time answered, that he had heard that
song too long; and he was even wearied with
that ancient strain, that rpcordrd the wrongs of
Tcreus But if 6he would know j'n what music
Time delighted, it was when sleep and darkness
lay upon crowded cities, to hark to the midnight
chime which is tolling from a hundred clocks, like
the last knell over the soul of a dead world ; or
to the crush of the fall of some age worn edifice,
which is as the voice of himself when he dispar
teth kingdoms.'
A second female Fay took the Pica, and said,
Wc be the handmaids of the Spring, and tend
upon the birth of all sweet buds ; and the pasto
ral cowslips are our friends, and the pansies ;
and the violets, like nuns ; and the quaking hare
bell is in our wardship; and the hyacinth, once
a fair youth, and dear to Phccbus.'
Then Time made answer, in his wrath, strik
ing the harmless ground with his hurtful scythe,
that ' they must not think that he was one that
cared for flowers, except to see them wither, and
to take her beauty from the rose.'
And a third Fairy took the Plea, and said, We
are kindly things ; and it is we that sit at even
ing, and shake rich odours from sweet bowers
upon discoursing lovers, that seem to each other
to be their own sighs; and we keep off the bat,
and the owl, from their privacy, and the illboding
w histler ; and flit in sweet dreams across the
brain of infancy, and conjure up a smile upon its
soft lips to beguile the careful mother, while its
little soul is fled for a brief minute or two to sport
our younger Fairies.'
Then Saturn (which is Time) made answer,
that 'they should not think that he delighted in
tender babes, that had devoured his own, till fool
ish Rhea cheated him with a Stone which he
swallowed, thinking it to be the infant Jupiter.'
And thereat, in token, he disclosed to view his
enormous tooth, in which appeared monstrous
dints, left by that unnatural meal ; and his great
throat, that seemed capable of devouring the earth
and all its inhabitants atone meal. 'And for
Lovers,' he continued, my delight is, with hury
ing hand to snatch them away from their love
meetings by stealth at nights, and to ravish away
hours from them like minutes whilst they are to
gether, and in absence to stand like a motionless
statue, or their leaden Planet of mishap (whence
I had my name,; till I make their minutes seem
ages.
Next stood up a male Fairy, clad all in green
like a forester, or one of Robin Hood's mates,
and doffing the tiny cap, said, We are small
foresters that live in the Woods, training the
young boughs in graceful intricacies, with blue
snatches ot the sky between ; we frame all shady
roofs and arches rude ; and sometimes when we
are plying our tender hatchets, men say that the
tapping. wood-pecker is nigh ; and it is we that
must scoop the hollow cell of the squirrel; and
carve quaint letters upon the rinds of trees, which
jn 6yivan 6oiitudo sweetly recall to the Oiind of
the heart oppressed swain, ere heji's" down to
slumber, the name of his fair one. . Dainty Amin
ta, Gentle Rosalind, or Chastest Laura, as it may
happen.
Saturn, nothing moved, with his courteous ad
ilress, bade him begone, or if ho would be a wood
man, to go forth and fell oak for the Fairies cof,
fins, which would forthwith be wanting. For
himself, he took no delight in hunting the woods
till their golden plumage (the yellow leaves) were
begining to fall, and leave the brown black limbs
bare. Ii'ittt Nature in her skeleton dress.'
Then stood up one of those gentle Fairies, that
are good to man, and bltuhed as red as any rose,
while he told a modest story of one of his own
good deeds. It chanced upon a time, he said,
that while' we were looking cowslips in the
meads, while yet the dew was hanging on the
buds like beads, we found a babe left in its swath,
ing clothes a little sorrowful deserted thing ; be
got of love, but begetting no love in others ; guilt
less of shame but doomed to shame for its parents'
offence for bringing it by indirect courses into the
world.
It was a pity to see the abandoned little or
phan, left to the world's care by an unnatural
mother, how the cold dew kept welting its child
ish coats ; and its little hair, how it was bedab
bled, that was like gossamer. Its pouting mouth
unknowing how to speak, lay half opened like a
roselipt shell, and its cheek was softer than any
peach, upon which the tears, for very roundness
could not long dwell, but fell off, in clearness like
pearls, some on the grass, and some on his little
hand, and some haply wandered to the little dim
pled well under his mouth, which love himself
seemed to have planned out, but less for tears
than for smiling. Pity it was, too, to see how
the burning sun scorched its helpless limbs, for
it lay without shade, or shelter, or mother's breast,
for foul weather or fair. So having compassion
on its sad plight, myfellows and I turned our
selves into grasshoppers, and swarmed about the
babe, making such shrill cries, as that pretty lit
tle chirping creature makes in its mirth, till with
our noise we attracted the attention of a passiog
rustic, a tender-hearted hind, who wondering at
our small but loud concert, strayed aside curious
ly, and found the babe, where it lay on the remote
grass, and taking it up, lapt it in his -russet coat,
and bore it to his cottage, where his wife kindly
nurtured it, till it grew up a goodly personage.
How this babe prospered afterwards, let proud
London tell. This was the famous Sir Thomas
Gresham, who was the chieftest of her merchants
the richest, the wisest. Witness his many good
ly vessels on the Thames, freighted with costly
merchandise, jewels from India, and pearls for
courtly dames, and silks of Samarcand. And
witness more than all, that stately Bourse (or
Exchange) which he caused to be built, a mart
for merchants from East to West, whose grace
ful summit still bears in token of the Faries' fa
vors, his chosen crest, the grasshopper, and like
the grasshopper, may it please you great King, to
suffer us also to live, partakers of the green
earth !
The Fairy had scarcely ended his plea, when
a shrill cry, not unlike the grasshopper's was
heard.
Poor Puck or Robin Goodfellow, as he is
sometimes called had recovered a little from his
first fright, and in one of his mad freaks had per
ched upon the beard of old Time, which was
flowing amply and majestic, and was amusing
himself with plucking at a hair, which was indeed
so massy, that it seemed to him that he was re
moving some large beam of timber rather than a
hair; which Time by some ill chance perceiving
snatched up the Impish Mischief with his great
hands and asked, 4 what it was V
Alas!' quoth Puck, a little random Elf am I,
born in one of Nature's 6ports, a very weed, crea
ted forthe simple sweet enjoyment of myself, but
for no other purpose, worth, or need, that ever I
could learn. Tis I, that bob the Angler's idle
cork, till the patient man is ready to breathe a
curse. I steal the morsel from the Gossip's fork
or stop the sneezing Chapter in mid Psalm ; and
when an infant has been born with hard or home
ly features, mothers say that I changed the child at
nurse ; but to fulfil any graver turpose I he mt
wit enough, and hardly the will. I am a pinch of
lively dust to frisk upon the wind, a tear would
make a puddle of me, and so I tickle myself with
the lightest straw, and shun all griefs that might
make me stagnant. This is my small philosophy.
Then Time, dropping him on the ground, as a
thing too inconsiderable for his vengeance, gras
ped fast his mighty scythe ; and now not Puck
alone, but the whole 6tate of Faries had gone to
inevitable wreck and destruction, had not a timely
apparition interfered, at whose boldness Time
was astonished, for he came not with the habit or
the, forces of a Deity, who alene might cope with
time, but as a simple mortal, clad as you might
see a forester, that hunts after wild coneys by the
moonshine, or a stalker of stray deer, stealthy and
bold. But by the golden lustre in his eye, and
the passionate wanness in his cheek, and by the
fair ample space of his forehead which seemed a
palace, framed for the habitation of all glorious
thoughts, he knew that this was his great rival.
who had power given htm to rescue whatsoever
victims time should clutch, and to cause them to
live forever in his immortal verse, and muttering
the name of Shakespeare. Time spread his rock
like wings, and fled the controlling presence.
And the liberated Court of the fairies, with Titan
ia at their head, flocked around the gentle ghost
giving thanks, nodding to him, and doing him cour
tesies, who had crowned them henceforth with a
permanent existence, to live in the minds of men
while verse shall have power to charm, or Mid
summer shall brighten.
What particular endearments passed between
the Fairies and their Poet passes my pencil to
delineate, but if you are curious to be informed, I
must refer you gentle reader, to the Plea of the
Fairies' a most agreeable poem, lately put forth by
Thomas Hood : of the first half of which the above
is nothing but a meagre, and a harsh, prose ab
stract. William J, Clarke,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
RALEIGH, N. C.
Sept. 4, 1348
I 6m
JOHN GRAY BVNUM,
A TTORNE Y AT LAW
Solicitor iu Chancery,
COLUMBIA. S. C.
Aug.3L 71 tf
Head Quarters 17th Brigade, N. C. M.
Louisburg, August 28, 184S
Urders xo. I.
THE Regiments composing the 17th Brigade of
North Carolina Militia, will parade for Review, at
the following times and places:
22d Regt at Nashville, Oct. 10th, 23d RegL at
Warreuloo, Oct 12th, 29th Regt. at Louisburg, Oct.
14th, 35th and 36th Reg'ts. at Raleigh, Oct. 17th.
. By order or GEN. LITTLEJOHN.
George E. B. Singeltary, Aid. 71
JYOTECE.
THE Subscriber, having at August Term, A. D.
1848, of Wake County Court, qualified as Executor
of John Bhaw. dec'd. hereby gives notice to all per
sons having debts, claims, or demands against his
said Testator, to present them to him for payment,
properly authenticated within the time prescribed by
law, otherwise this notice will be plead in bar of their
recovery and those indebted to said John Shaw, de
ceased, are requested to make immediate payment.
JNO. B. LEATHERS, Exr.
Wake County, Aug. 25. 69 3t
BY Virtue of an Order of Person County Court,
the Undersigned, Sheriff of said County, will
expose to tale, for casu, at the Court House door at
Roxborough, on Tuesday, the 19th day of September
next, being the second day of the County Court, a
Negro slave by the name of George, who has beeu
coi.fiaed in the Jail of said County, for more than
tweiye months.
JNO. M. WINSTEAD, Sheriff.
June 19 51 la
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' - WILL. PECK 8l SON.
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Rev. Dr, Hooner's
FAMILT SCHOOL, in tte counts
WARREN cnmvnv- kt mrT.
NE Aft LIT T LET ON DEPOT.
TOHE Subscriber, having spent upwards of tkl,
L1 ty years a an lnstruc.or in the College, of I'
tsvo Carolina, wuh some degree, he trust, of .
ceptanceand success, is desirous to retire fo ,?
rest of his life to a more private situation. p?T
ing. however that the qualifications Ca0ircd .
long course of study and experience ought not LV
thrown away he propo.es to continue the bus
of teachrtrg, but on a plan more consistent with
present views and to open in January next a SclTl
of the kind indicated by the title at the head 0fi?
advertisement. To this end, he has purchaJd
Farm in the healthy middle region of N U H
thinks that among all the Schools ofooreoiiM?
there is wanting o Select School fur xovneb7'
where they can be safe from the dissipation, extra'''
agance and idleness of which they run so
risk in our Towns and Villages. What parent IW
sees our streets full of boy., aping the manner. 5
men, must not wish for a retreat to his youne
from such manners, to say nothing of the more s
ous evil practices which he may apprehend when ti ''
are out of sight. It is to meet ihis sorely felt wa ,
of a safe Seminary for Boys of a tender ace th,
the present School is designed. Besides the retir
location of the School, the number of pupils
small and select, so that the Proprietor can take thpm
into his own family and make their manners, moraU
and intellectual improvement, the object of his per
sonal vigilance and care.
As to the subscriber's fitness for the task he has
undertaken, be must irust, where he is known, to the
character he may have acquired in his long servire
Where he is not known, he hopes to inspire pubjjj
confidence by the following testimonial, kindly for
warded to him by the distinguished President of s
Carolioa College :
S. C. College, April 27, I84S.
My Dear Sir: I earnestly hope that your projfCt
of a select School, may meet with great sucrfSs
not only on account of the lively interest I feel in
whatever concerns you, but also for the sake of those
who may have the good (ortunc to be entrusted t0
your care, for indeed I know of no one to' whose
training and leaching, whether 1 regarded morals
manners or scholarship, I would sooner entrust a
son than to yours. When I endeavored to dissuade
you from your purpose of leaving this College, I wa
prompted both by the desire to retain your vuluable
services to the Institution, and to continue mnst a
greeable associations with a highly respected and
honored friend With these opinions and feeling
sincerely entertained, I should be happy to think that
my name might be of service to you.
Your friend. &c.
WM; C. PRESTON.
, As the number of pupils will be small, it will be
well for those who intend to avail themselves of ihis
School, lo make immediate application to the subscri
ber, at Wake Forest College, N. C.
LSI OS Sid S3 3
1 . The price will be $250 per annum, payable
semi-annually in advance.
2. There will be two vacations in the year, embrs.
cing about 10 weeks, during which the boys will be
expected to return home.
3. Every pupil must be as much as 8, and not
more than 14 years of age, and it is not expected to
retain boys after they have attained the age of 15, ex
cept in cases of extraordinary promise.
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4. bacn pupil must, at tne time ot admission, be
well acquainted with readmit, writin?. and thp fun.
diimenta! rules of arithmetic, and at first, a preference
will be given to those who are just ready to com
mpn" it T.atin roil r bp.
5. No boy of immoral character, will be admitted
into, or continued in we cnoot.
' WILLIAM HOOPER.
Wake Forest College.
August 24, 1848. 68 w4w
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