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H 1 -t ! 5, r '--V . i ASK. NOTUINCJ THAT 18 NOT RIGHT SUBMIT TO IWTIIIXO THAT 18 WRONG. JfacksoJL. , -" t -. - : ; UNCOLNTON, N O, MA&CH 6, 1849. NUMBER 15. V J01 V it 4 THE CAIIOLIIJAlBEPUBLICiJI. PIVOTO TO folia, UcniiJi, Jpialttn, BsBrtle isi t FiRlii IifUlrrttf; Ue XirttU, BT T Ttt List Leif ' I Off i!s OC before, - . As be passed by Xim door, Aad agia 1 TL poTrmcnt toor rewound A J W toUrrs o'er tbe ground . With Us "TWj say that in his rrime, 7 lire the ywninj; knife of Time Oat bun down. Not & bett-rr raan vu ftvl IJy the rrkr on hb round . Through tlx towm. S fcrVrn; . ; And he Lxkr KU ecbU kcaJ, TLaI it aceta as If b akl, -TWy ar g"oe-" TL toMr martin rest O'er tK lipni tKit Id tuJ pre J Ia llx-ir W-ca;. AoJ Ux tuion be lorrJ to bear HTe bora carreti fjc maj a jroar Oa ibe kxab. Mr piaJoumtiu haul U c4J UJjr ! be b deaJ TLkt be bl a Ecro&a Au KU chk m like a rce Ia tb taow. 'A1'm bu an U tbin, AjxI it rt opio hi cLIa like a 9txS; AikI a crook u ia hi bark, Ao4 a melAOclxJj rrack - IabUUagb. I kor it ts a tn For dm to Mt a&J grin Al bim bcrt ; Aoi tb Vrwcbc axvd all ikat, , Are wr I AoJ if I honll Ut to he Tbd Ixt kaf ooq the trc Ia the raring Lrt tbem mtk a I do ivm Al tbe oU fwAken bewgh Wbere I wBg. 2mt(mrnt, DRKA3IIXO FOR A J2RKAKFAST. " fvra ia Arxwtxk rrxrntr, Me., a Scotcb jaaa aal aa Irbbman bsppaeI to bo joar wjfag tirtbcr tbrmtgb tbe almcwt inter xaiaabl fmil of thai rrgvsti, aod bj rnie '.zaibapbi Icmt tbrtr wsr, nd ba.J wandered about ia a fUrriag romlitioa for while, vbea tbrj fortanitclj ram acrocs a ml m!k borvt bkb m dtwrrUd mti by a Iom tbickco. Aj tbb poor biped wa tb oolr thin eatable to be bouxwd, tbej eagerly dirpatched and prepared it for sup- i r .1 T. I.. ded itwas tnsuilSdent for the wpper of Ict3i himself and Sawney, and therefore xaad a prtrprxitioa to bis companion that th aboekl rrore their chicken until the -v ( eit moraia. aad tbe ooe who bad the taost ricasaat dreaxa would bare tbe cbkk fs.' which waa agreed to by tbe Scotchman- la tb taorain? Sawaey told bis dream w V m nid be tiought angels were draw lag bim to Lama iat a basket, aad be oertr was jo frJ life. Lppa concluding bb dreass Pal 'exclaimed, Och, sure and be Jabers, I saw yoo gog, and thought you wfulda't crcae back after tbe chicken, al IrXvp ami cflr mttrtf.9 r - . Vrr' u- mr. umu. Our bnat stored UP take in wood. On tie sbrrr, among the crowd, stool a remark abl stoptd looking fellow, with hb hands ia bb pocketj, aad bar Dp bacgtng down. A dandy, ripe let a scrape, tipped nod and -wiak all about sarin: "Now. Ill hart; otne fan, TO fngltca that green born." He jomped ashore with a drawn bowie kaife, braadbblaz it ia tbe face of the prrea ua," aclaiming : "Now TO pun- uh too. I bare beet looking for you werri.- Tbe Ccllow suddenly itarted si bb ir eridcaUy bad not sense - to 1 feared bJtibe bowie :,..Jtatf rear bb fare, ooe cf hb huge C ir;,!lfcly ncalol hb pocket, &nd fell ? anl hfiry IctTcen tie dandy's eyes, a . . ' r-xr f.L'.-ar wis f iaaiair? ia tbe ! riter. Grwuj jumped on board our boat, pat bis bandj ia bU pockets, and looked around. "Ma be," said be, "there's soxne bodj ebe that's been lookia' for me a week." SELLING UXDKR PRIME COST. A bd seeing at tbe window of a linen draper, who bad long been in business, that very common lure" tbe goods f this bop selling under prime cmt ! stepped in to a friend's wbo happened to live within two or three doors, and inquired whether be thought his neighbor was selling under prime cost, and would let bcr have any good bargain,' replied the friend, M I am really at a lorn to answer; bot with repect to selling mtulrr prime nW, that I can most poei lively assure you, nitut be impolitic, fur to my certain knowledge, be has ncYer ! a JlirtKtMj fur a thing bo has in bis shop." TAII) WITH INTKREST. Thomas Fuller, who was a lively writer, bat rather addicted to punning, was oeea nmally re-pakl bis puns with interest. He was exceedingly corpulent, and aj be wm oat riding with a friend named Sparrow hawk, be could not resist the opportunity of cracking a joke upon bim. " Iray, what is tbe difference,' said he, " between an owl and a sparrow hawk " "An owl," replied his frk-nd, 44 is fmllrr in the head, fuller in the bod j, and fuller all over." A DARK TRANSACTION. u How are you? I came to town on StonIay. A nigger Mt next to me in the cars a pretty spruce gentlemanly 'Pancko' as ' ever you see. Tbe sun shining direct ly through the window, I was forced to lean away from bim, like the leaning tower of Fba. At bvt he took umbrage. Said he, looking very black in the face, Is my pres ence dbagreealle to you V 'Not at all," said I; ' I was getting out of the rum, not put of the hml He said that altered the case very much.' " A SLIGHT DIFFERENCE. A colporteur opened the door of an Irishman' shanty in the Second Municipal ity, New Orleans, and putting in his head, in a Tery pious tone asked the owner of the doniicil, who happened to be in at the time, "if be would accept of a tract of the Holy Land," meaning, of cousc, an essay upon an interesting portion of the world. "Yes, be jabers," was the reply of the Hibernian, "a whole section, if you give a good title Jeol Rut I should like to know if there is much of it in prarie, or if-jaew settlers are subject to tbe ague V BETWEEN A WALK axd a STAND. " Who but an Irishman," writes a distin guished judicial friend, " subject as they all are to an extraordinary confusion of idea, could give such an answer a this T" Court. How CmJ were you driving, James? Witness Oh, very slow ! your honor ; xmrj alow! Court. Bat kcrw alow pray ? Witness Why, your honor, leitceen a tcalJL- ami a tiam'l. Court. I don't under- ftAIKj that. Brady, of counsel, suggested that it was very plain. A hackman's $iaml b always on the trull-1 FRINCE JOHN'S LATEST. John Van Buren met Mr. Fillmore at the time of bb List vbit to Albany. " What are you going to do for us, Mr. Fillmore, now that you are in office ?" said the hope ful heir of honor. " Do for you?" said the Vice President elect, rood huraoredly, " we scan do noining we aon t Know you. 44 General Taylor will certainly redeem hb pledge to us," said John. " Hedge ! what pledger Tbe one he gave at Buena Vbta, not to leave hb wounded behind him." AN ODD PRESCRIPTION. An apothecary's boy was lately sent to leaw at one house a box of pilb, and at another six lire fowls. Confused on the way, he left the pilb where the fowb should have gone, and the fowb at the pill place. The folks who received the fowb were as-1 tonbhed at reading the accompanying direc-1 tons " Swallow one every two hours. ... . i.n . An old man at Nottage while at prayer, u nui m -m rw , rc r m i wa1 n i im mm iirv ww was robbed of 170. The thieves wrote on hb door, " Wateb while you pray." " Out of darkness cometh forth L'ght," as tbe printer's devil said when, he looked into the ink keg. Why are Presidents like vagabonds? ' Because they are always associated with lice. CrniH trance. For lh Carolina Republican. Sons of Temperance. Tlte tafrtouM era of the Temperance Reform ihe ritey progre and extent of the Or der of the Sons of Temperance, drc At tbe time this order arose, there was felt a demand in all minds for some new mode of working in the Temperance enter prise. The various eras of the reform had, one after another, spent their vitality and energy. The first open attack upon the grosser forms of the vice that sent its awakening through the land, had . died away years before. It had its mission and accom plished it. It called attention to the was ting destruction of noon-day, but did not reveal tbe pestilence thai walked in'dark ness. It wept over risible' desolation, but did not discern the ever active causes. It arreMed the main streams but left the hid den fountains still rolling on. The history of the first era was complete. The second was ushered in by a new principle of pro gress; and total aftrtiiienee was the battle cry that ran along the ranks. This onset was terrible and effective, and the common enemy was greatly crippled. His power of offensive oppe rat ions "was greatly cut off, but be was still left in undisputed posses sion of bis old fortresses. They form unite charge waver all is lost ! No one thought of attempting a rescue for ihosc already enslaved to his rule. The m work of the second era was done. Then thero arose to herald tha entrance of the third, a new and mightier spirit. It went abroad proclaiming like a gospel preacher, healing for the Lroken-hccuia.1, deliverance Wi'n, liberty to them that were bruised, year of jubilee. When it spoke, many lis tened as to one raised from th dead. Its words were rude and homely, but they stirred the heart like the blast of trumpets. This movement, linking to itself, without sullying it, the noblest name in American history, sent its restoring influnccs as on magnctio wires almost instantaneously through the land. Miracles of healing were wrought, and the lasl victories seemed about to be won. But this agency shortly lost much of its magic and power. The tide f sympathy had reached its flow, and began to ebb. The third era was waning, and still the mighty pestilence raged on every line of latitude that crossed the homes of our land. What shall be done, was the sounding question philanthrophy asked of all her sons, " By whom shall we go up ?" and the response came. The order of the Sons of Temperance arose, and raising a tri-colored banner aloft, glittering in front with the inscription " Love, Purity, and Fi delity," and on th reverse, " Industry, So briety, and Good Morals," lifted its voice among the hesitating councils, and said, " Here am I, send me;" and if wo do not mistake, we have in this agency the genius of the last, and triumphant era of the Tern- I pe ranee reform The merest glance at the statistics of its progress b inspiring as a prophets end. In September 1842, sixteen men stood over its cradle. How little could they have dreamed that the littte one should so soon become a stronjr nation. A year later, at the first annual session of the Grand Divis- ion of New York, there were nineteen sub- ordinate Divbion enclosing a membership of 1,499. Six months from thb date, the National Division was orgamxed, in J une 17th. 1814. with a iunsdiction over six Grand Division, and seventy-one subordin- I ate Divisions, with nearly 6,000 members, tripling the number reported in. October previous. The third annual session gave in a sum-total of fourteen Grand Divisions, er six hundred and fifty subordinate Divisions, I and a membership of over 40,000; the num- bcr of our subordinate Divisions more than tripled, and 25.000 added to those within oar covenant. At the fourth annual ses- Ei00f fa Rational Division found under its twenty one Grand Divisions, one (thousand three hundred subordinate Divis- lions, and not far from 100,000 members, I And in June last, at the fifth session of I f w the National Division, they reported thirty Grand Divbions, two thousand eight hun dred subordinate Division and. '160,000 members. . The hbtory of any association In the an nab of time, may be safely challenged to match a progress like thb. " And which of us docs not feci like congratulating himself upon the character of those with whom be neath our banner, be stands associated. The profession tf medicine, the bar, the pulpit, : the unrtersity, the firstp walks of mercantile life, $e mechanic arts, and the stainless yeomanry of the plough have poured in their volunteers to swell our ranks. In the past history and working: of the order the prosperity now shining upon its path, we read a promise for the furure in the fulfilment of which we shall rest from our, labors, our -issues won. And this. in stitution, began in such feebleness, and sus tained amid such hostility and prejudice, shall become like the Banian tree of India springing on this soil, its branches shall take root i& all lands, and under its shade the kindret ..of the earth,ehall take repose. LuMlnfon,' March 1, 1840.-' r MISCELLANY. Death-Love and Warning. It was getting towards midnight when a party of young noblemen came out from one of the clubs of St. James street. The ser vant of each as he stepped upon the pave ment, threw up the wood apron of the cabrio let, and sprung to the head of the horse; but as to the destination of the equipage for the evening there seemed to be some dissensions among the noble masters. Between the line of coroneted vehicles stood a hackney coach, and a person in an attitude of ex- rectancy, pressed as near the exhilerated a ' group as he could without immediate atten- tion. "Which way V said he whose vehicle was nearest, standing with his foot on the step, " All together, of course," said another. " Pardon me," said the clear sweet voice of the last one from the club. " I secede for one. Go your ways, gentlemen." " Now what the deuce is afloat?" said the foremost, again stepping back on the side walk. " Don't let him off, Fitz. Is your cab here, Byron, or will you let me drive By Jove, you shant leave us." " But you shall leaye me,, and so you are 1 not foresworn, my friend. In plain. phrase, I won't eo with you. And I don't know where I shall go ; so spare your curiosity the trouble of asking. I have a presenti ment that I am wanted by devil or angel ' I aee a hand yau cannot see.' "A a very pretty hand it is, I dare swear,1 said the former speaker, jumping into his cab and starting off with a spring of his blood horse, followed by all the vehicles at the door, save one Byron stood looking after them a moment, and raised his hat and pressed his hand hard on his forehead. The unknown person who had been lurking near, seemed willing to kwv him for a moment to bis thoughts, or was embarrassed at approaching a stranger As Byron turned with his halting step to descend the steps, however, he, came sudden ly to his aide " My lord! he said, and was silent, as if waiting for permission to go , on. " Well," replied Byron, turning to him without the least surprise, and looking close ly into his face by the light of the street lamp. " I come to you with an errand which perhaps " "A strange one, I am sure ; but I am pre- pared for it I have been forewarned of it. What do you require of me? for I am ready." "This b strange !" exclaimed the man. " Has another messenger, then " "None except a spirit for my heart alone told me I should be wanted at this hour. Speak at once." " My lord a dying girl has sent for you." ' Do I know her t" " She has never seen you. Will you come at onoe and on the way I will explain to you what I can of thb singular errand though, indeed, when it b told you, you know all that I comprehend." They were at the door of the hackney coach, and Byron entered it without further remark. "Back again!" said the stranger; as the coachman closed the door, "and drive, for dear life, for we shall scarce be in jtime, fear." Tbe heavy tongue of St, Paul's Church struck twelve, as the rolling vehicle hurried on through the now , lonely street, and though so far from the place from whence they started, neither of the two occupants had spoken. Byron sat with bare head and folded arms in the comer of the coach ; and the stranger, with his hat crowded over his eyes, seemed repressing some powerful emo tion ; and it was only when they stopped be fore a low door in the street close upon the river that the latter found utterance. "Is she alive?" be hurriedly asked of a woman who came out at the sound of the carriage wheels. " She was a moment sinoe but be quick." Byron followed quickly on the heels of his conductor, and passing through a dimly lighted entry to the door of a back room, they entered. A lamp, shaded by a curtain of spotless purity, threw a faint light upon a bed, upon rhich lay a girl, watched by a physician ana a nurse. The physician had just removed a small mirror from her lips, and holding it to the light, he whispered that she still breathed. As Byron passed the edge, of jhe curtain, however, the dying girl moved the fingers of the hand lying on the coverlet, and slowly opened on him her lan guid eyes eyes of inexpressible depth and lustre. No one had spoken. f ' Here he is," she murmured. " Raise me, mother, while IJiave time to speak to him." - Byron looked around the small chamber, trying in vain to break the spell of awe which the scene threw over him. An appa rition from the other world could not have checked more fearfully and completely the worldly and scornful under-current of fiis na ture. He stood with' his heart beating al most audibly, and his knees trembled be neath him, awaiting what he prophetically felt to be a warning from the very gate of heaven. , Propped with pillows, and left by her at tendants, the dying girl turned her head to wards the proud, the noble poet standing by her bedside, and a slight blush overspread her features, while a smile of angelic beauty stole through her lips. In that smile the face reawakened to its former loveliness, and seldom had he who now gazed breathlessly upon her, looked on such spiritual and in comparable beauty. The spacious forehead and noble contour, still visible, of. the ema ciated lips, bespoke genius impressed upon a tablet all femanine in its language; and in motion of fcer band, asd even the slight mo- tion of her graceful neck there was some thing that still breathed of surpassing ele gance. It was the shadowy wreck of no ordinary mortal, passing away humble as were the surroundings, and strange as had been hb summon to her bedside " And thb is By ron ?" she said at last, in a voice bewilderingly sweet even through its weakness. " My Lord ! I could riot die without seeing youwithout relieving my soul of a mission with which it has long been burthened. Come nearer for I have no time left for what' I have to ceremony, ana x must say say, and die 1 Beautiful," IT i she said, "beautiful as the dream of him j which has so long haunted me ! the intellect and the person of a-spirit of light ! Pardon me, my lord, that, at a moment so impor- tant to myself, the remembrance of an earthly feeling has been betrayed into -ex- pression." . She paused a moment, and the bright color that had shot through her cheek and brow faded, and her countenance resumed its heavenly serenity. "I am near enough to death," she resum- j ed, " near enough to point you almost to heaven from where I am ; and it is on my heart like the one errand of my life like the bidding of God to implore you to pre- pare for judgement. Oh, my Lord! with your glorious powers, with your wonderous gifts, be not lost I Do not for the. poor pleasures of a world like this, lose an eter- nity in which your great mind will outstrip the intelligence of angels. Measure thb j rbought scan the worth of angellic. bliss with the intellect which has ranged so gloriously I through the universe; do not on thb one momentous subject of human interest on thb alone be not short sighted I" " What shall I do Y suddenly burst from Byron's lips in a tone of agony. But with an effort as if struggling with a death-pang, he again drew up hb form and ' resumed the marble calmness of hb countenance. The dying girl, meantime, seemed to have lost herself in prayer. With her wasted hands clasped on her bosom, and her eyes turned upward, the slight motion of her lips betrayed to those around her, that she ( were was pleading at the throne of mercy. The ing physician crept close to her bedside, but with bii hand in hb breast, and hb head bowed, he seemed but watching for the mo-. menfr when the soul should take its flight. She suddenly raised herself on the pillow. Her long brown tresses fell over her shoul ders, and a brightness unaatural and almost fearful kindled in . her eyes.' She seemed endeavoring to speak, and gazed steadily att Byron. Slowly, then, and tranquilly she ' sank back aain upon' her pillow and her eyelids dropped, she murmured u Come to Heaven !" and the stillness of death was ia the room. The spirit bad fled. The Rescne. ; It was in- the month of February, 1841, a bright moonlight night and intensely cold, , that the little brig I commanded lay quietly at anchor inside the Hook. ' : ; . , We had, a; bard time, of it, bcatingabout for eleven days off' the coast, cutting north casters blowing, and snow and sleet falling for the most' part of the'tiine. Forward '" the vessel was thickly coated with Ice, and it was hard; work to handle her, as the rin ging and sails were stiff, and yielded only when the strengtbeof the men was ' everted to the utmost When at length we made. port, all hands were worn down' and exhaus- ted. We Could not nave held out two day s longer without relief v J v , r r " A bitter cold night, Mr.Larkin, I said to my mate, .as I tarried for a moment on ; deck to finish may cigar. , - The worthy Down-Easter buttoned bb coat more tightly around him, looked up at the moon, and felt of hb red nose before he replied- j i ; .. - - ; ' . - 4 It's a whistler captain, as we used to Bay on the Kennebeck. Nothing lives comi fortable out of blankets such a night as thb -"! I'jV -.'! ; r 'Cr---M.- 'The tide b running out swift and strong; it will be Well to keep a sharp look-out for thb floating ice, Mr. Larkin.' Aye, aye, sir,' i responded the mate, and I went below. ! ' ' Two hours afterward, I was aroused from a sound sleep by the vigUantoflicer,'..:-. 'Excuse she for disturbing you, Cap tain,' said he, as hie detected an expression of vexation 'in my face, f but I wbh you would turn out and come on deck as soon as possible ' Why, what's the matter, Mr. Larkin V Why, ' sir, I have been watching a largef cake of ice that swept by at little distance a moment ago ; I saw something black on it, something that I thought Voved the moon's under a cloud and I eoutd not see distinctly, but so help me god, I believe there's a child floating out to sea in, thb freezing night, on that cake of ioe.' . We were oh deck before either spoke another word. The mate pointed out with no little difficulty, the cake of ioe, floating ft il - 1 t-e. ft. on to tne leewara, ana its wnite guttering surface was broken by a black spot; more, I could not make out. 'Get the glass,- Mr. Larkin: I said, 'the moon will be out of that cloud in a moment, and then we? can see dbtanctly.' j I kept my teye upon the receding mass of ice, while the moon was slow)y working her way througb A heavy bank of clouds. The mate stood by with the glass. When the full light fell at last upon the water, with a brilliancy only known in our northern latitudes, I put' the glass to my eye. One glance was enough. ' . 'Forward there,' I bailed at the top of my voice, and' wftb one bound T reached the main hatch, and began, to clear away the lit- tie cutter which was stowed in tbe ship yawL 1 I ; ' " " V; Mr. Larkin' bad received the glass; from my hand to took for himself. My iGod !, he said in a wiusper, as he set to work in ' getting out the boat, 'my god, there are tto& . children on; that cake of ice I' ' ' ' . Two men aaswered my bail, and walked lazily aft. j Ihf an' ineredible ,. short space . of time we launched thecutter into which Mr. Larkin and myself jumped, followed, by the men who took ib&oan-I rigged the tillers, and the mate at beside me ya the stern' sheets. 'Do you iseejthat cake of ice, Vfh some-,? v ' thing black Upon it, lads ? put r v . . j ' ' a T ? of that and I'll give you a 1 .le of ru: i each, to night, and mohtL; extra .wa when you're' paid off.' ' . " -n ": ' The men bent to their e. : 1 ' ir strokes where uneven, and fee 'e. v They : used up by the baxd work of the preced fortnight; and though they did their best the boat made liitle more way than the tide; ''. y . ; Thb was a Ioosmffv.ha.sc, and Mr. Larkm who t naa sunerci torture a ne saw now ,111110, no gaihd-criedftl .- 'I t I . .4 ? ' a t r . - -,' . ,-.-1'.;! 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