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"THE PUBLIC GOOD SHOULD EVER BE PRKFEKFED.TO PKIVATE ADVAJSTAGE." Lincoi.nton, North Carolina,, TrEsbAY, . December 22,1846. Number 24 I - ' - 4 4' ! FRINTBD AND PUBLISHED1 WEEKJ.Y, BY THOMAS J. .CC1B. Tsawo. Two dollars pei annum, payable in advance ; $2 00 if payment be delayed 3 aionths. Flo subscription received ior icss man a year. i Cy- TO CLl'B-. Three papera will t seat to ! any one Post office for $5 and seven to ant di- ; f..iii :r ; Advertisements will be conapicuotily inserted, at $1 00 pel quare (12 lines) for the first, and S." cents for each luhaequent insertion. jrNo communication attended to unless the ! estage is paid. Ldncoln Business directory. Court Ujjicers Jupenor Court F. A. Hone, ! k hqusl n. W sanis' '). eleik. County court Kier' Wiui.-u ami, ck-tk- l.-ch ! tfiCe fhi . m th Couit Houe. VV. Lander, Sotinior, hw offi' on an mam sneei, east f the public squire. H. N Gaston, Shenti; Paul Kilter. Deputy. Keguaei, V ; J. Wilson; Deputy, C C. Henderson. County Sum jot. Inane Hit land: t'ounty Procession 1 1. H. Holland. Coron. r, Wrn K It Hand. . Lawyers tn wood W Gurlti, 11 nin st. one dour t-Hsi. L. E. I hoiiioii, main M. e.iM'. 3i fquHr Lender. n.aui si..ea.t, 3d tiqourc. V. A. .Me Bee, and V,. W ii JiiiiMon. "ffieei at McBee'a building, in in at. 2d quar-, east. Physicians P. Simpson, main street, w-st. D W.Senritek, (and Apothecary , niitiii st. 'W d-ors east. Ellin Ca'del) n.m-!reH, 6 doors eal. Z. un, .ffi ce opposite Mrs iotz's hoel. A Kanisour, m ti west. Merchants Vni Hoke.nortb on square, east nm.ei. B. S. Jonnon, north ti square weal corner J. A Raunour. on square, north wt comei. C. Henderson, on quare, (post office) south. J. Uamsuur Son, niHtu st., o doors west. Johnnon 6z Bed, 011 sqtMreiuh west comer main t. Academies Male, B. Sumner; Ft mule, un.tt r the riMige ( Mr Sumner alto; ei d'-uce mini a. 5n corner south east of lh Col.' 1 hU-se. Hotels Mm Mote, . vr. corner of mam St. :iml sqinre VVm. Siade, main i. 2i C truer -hi ut square. A. McLane, Vn torn.'r, vr o in i. B. S. Johaa'on, Dorth west, on quarc. Groe ra ii. PiHsnelt, ntain it. 4 door?. e)aV ol qtire. W rn. K. Kdtrd, ouii.- wei j i.ir L. Roihrock, ouihwei Cone r I q'iine. Tailors Dn'e 5c Senile, main l. one gii r w-'tt ol tiqunit . Al-e. Ab xaod-; on square, s. by w. .mJc. Mo te 6i Cobb, on iqtiare, iort t wpt cfirner. lVr Mikcr and Jeweller Charles Sc ".H. i-tiit . 4 b4 rs east. Suddlr and Harness Makers J.T. AI ex.tnief, mam .0. -iT corner eaxi .quare. H. A 6t F. J. Jetton, on quie, north by tret J. A. Jelii.ij 6i ('.., main t. weft. Printers V, 2. K cle, Courier ffic m'tMi"' st end, outh ensi corner ih Chrou- MMfl. . Back Binder-F.'k Hoke, main at. on 2d q-ia e west of cnuri hous. , . Painter H. S. Hicks, next lo F. A. Hoke, et. Coach Factories--Samuel Lander, main St. e;i-:, m 2d r-quare (rum Court liou.-e. Amier McKo, m un at. eust,on 3d square. S P. Si'iois'Hi, street north ot main, and n. tr. of court house. laac Erwin, main at., west, on i nquare. A. & R. Garner, on m.i"i st.eant end, north side. Blicktmiths Jacob Rush, main st. 5th Coiie.r ens: o court houae. M. Jac lb, - rnaiu 4.., east end. A. Dela n, main at. near "oi ud. J. Hsanuer,o ck st. north west of public square. J. W. Pa sour, se.il ond. Cabinet Makers ThomasDew. 4t, Son, q 101 xi. e;Mi, n 4th -quare. Carpenters, Jfc. D.iitel Shuford, main t. e !t. 6m coron from square. JameH Tnplet:, tuaiii l. M'llee'a huitdit. Isaac Huer,'"iii 8t wi st end. James ells, m -.west if square. Brick Masons Willi Peck, (and plas terer) nt hi., east, 4th corner Irom square. P a,er lltuser, 011 east aide of street north f sqo -. Tin Plate Worker and Copper Smith X '!. K Stmford, main st. est, on outb ' fidrt f 12i -quare. Shoe Makers -J hn Muggins, n back t., !outsi esl of -quire. An. Fort 4c Co. wo ith west comer Charlotte road and . main at. east end. Tanners Paul Kistlar, main-at. west and. J. Ramsour, back mrth est of quare. F it L Hoke, 8-4 mile weatof ilM, m 'II "nd Hat Manufactories John Cline, north ft'o.n public square, 2 doors, west side of t. i-th'i Butts 61 on,on square, south ide. Oil Vi Petei a..d J E Hoke, 1 mile aoui'. fiown. Y rk r ar1. Paprr Fac'ory (. & R. Mosteder, 4 '.mile s -titn eai otcoui' bou."e. Cotton Factory John Huke &-'L. D. jChild. 2 n-les sooth of court houe. ! Vi' T'a T Daniel Shuford and others, oii- -oilth. . ED A vtiuih of about 16 ytars i-as an aptren ie to th Printing bu im, Apply iv ihjs olfis. i Ballad f the Army. LEI US FILL FOR THE HOPE TO-MORROW. (Written the night before the Battle or Palo Alto.) From the sunnySouth from the Northland drear. With our starry flag above us ; . At our country call we are gathered here, To light for the hearts that lots us ! The ee ol a nation, wide and free, Grows bright urn it watches otr us. For wo own no heart tuid bend the knoa To the proudot toe before us ! The fi?nds of the ocean heid their wratbr As our baiks o'er the waves tame leading, And the steady tiadf wind s moot Vd our path On the deep whiisi the storms are sleeping. Ail strong of arm and fiim l'Lart, ' ; W e now bold the J'exan boider, And crava one tight helurr we part, Jul to get our boys m order. Bwt sim e we cannot fight to day. Lei 'f. fill for the hope to-morrow ! And plrilge to the true hearts far away. Whom our absence till with sirrow. And if in fight our blood we spill, "J'is a hsppy consolation, To know that for us, an eye will fill V ho divd for acuexatior-. lutcrtaliiig Letter. 'I'he follow u g ia sn tx ttei from a let ter rereivn! in this count), wi.tch ha an lnttet, if not herise, m rtininx trou tne of tur own B'fioys. E. Lincoln C0VKIER.3 L. C a tup near .1onterer. Mt-Xico. i Ocniher I'Sih. IM6 J- Dear Father 1 gladly embnee the present opportunity of synting you a latter to let)ou know that I am in gooo health at prcaent, and htipe these few lines still find you enjoying the taote bleosir.g. Since 1 wrote to you at Camp Beiknap, e moved up the RioUrand to Cauiargo, and wer aiii.ned thrre a month, we rnv I from Ca marjfo. on th SOth int.and after a few dajs march ?rrivd at this place on lbs l.ih. U'e had quit a dry read Un tf eaereuty imta train Cantsigo, hut frrn Seralvo. a town forty miles 11 1 h of M er, we had mountatna and a plenty tg.-od limestone water U'.til e came here and here I suppos. there are fifty springs in mile and a naff, and Nome of I lie bes; land! f ver aaw. ' I ha? risited the City ot h.nterey, and firm it to be a great p.ace. r is rebularly built, the ftrcets cn.ssuijr eaeh other at right anjxl; thv side walks are laid with flat rotk, and the streets paved with round pebbles, the lowest in the middle so aa to run off the water. The houst'M are boil' entirely of nck, and covered with th satae and plaateied; On the -at,out-and weal, the tnouniitiia rise in majst.e grand ur, vti9 pillar behind another, until their tops mingle with Ibe clouds. There is a pretty run ning fit tie mt "r crerk from west to east, on the south side vf ih town, wtW the moun tain, and seve al mall streams runntg in in same direction through the City, and watering their gardens and orchards. Where the streets crosses these streams, they have beautiful rock brids;es over them, an-l jast look into the back yard and you will see the Orange, the Fig snd Lemons and apples in abundance . it i avteiy pfentlfu Country tor fruit snd the seeond crop t.f corn ia now getting too bard iir roasting ear. 'I'hbtaek fort at Mnntrry is one id the strongest pieces ut w-rk thai ever was seen. ltHtTersax acre Lit.d,and ia built of stone .five feet high, tnlve fe.it thirk. with apertures f-r ihet.an non, ar.d a Ii ch jten teet deep, ien leet wide at the top and sloped to to the bottom I have described this fort thus particular but I will now tell you the whole town was a fortifies lion, and it looks very surpns ng that the Americans e vtr came in postion of it, and nvrewhen we consider the gf-ry faZon th- Volunteers. The Troneee and Miaaissippi R.giments, have tnisiorlaliaed tbeniaelvea. Ya Hill we a more correct aoountot thabaiile in the pa pers than I give you. and to truaa I wiff rexYr yo. JOHN A RohER'i Agrlcaltnrc In IMexic. The iVjt r.oiisFjagniaksthe i.ilowin; rematka on the growth ot sugar cans op the banka of the Rio Grande, and the geneiai neKlect of'he Agnruttural advantages nf the country by the people of Mexico. The sugar cane grown 00 the R.oGrande is said to yield m..r to the acr a. 4 .. rt quire much letv laboi m tha cunitatmi. ikau in the best sngar districts m Louisia na or Texas, and with ptopercu.ture wtiuid qua I the produce of Cuba both m quantity id quatny. The cane, after being plant, ed. ia leu by the Mexicans to mature with out any further a'fenti tn ben g uvin 10 it. .nd from what we can leHrn li"ie i ernn any whrf on the river, although the whole -nur.try . it) alike productive. The same wisvJbe'Mid in regard to rot ton, witch pm dtieen here rqua! to any part ot'th' world. Yet . wi h ali 'he aCvamages the Mexicans toei in unil and ciio'a'e.nof a arfprieiicx f I'her ofihtw artu ley is raided lo M-p-ply the imnied'ate wau:sof the it,,;,l.iiants. he tobacco growth is monopoi z d by the ! teinn ent, and to possess hein;eive ol in article whi' h al nae and all c u!d grnw, 'hey are reduced to-the iteceMtj ol'Mnuw Ul'ti; a into the country. Laisv qua1 uties. are? hruht in w,in Um4 11 uas b ei; the principal nem of traffic hctween iheiti ze.is of Uesiern Texa and the . Mexican population of the Rio Grande for a nuu bei of year.. Tobnecn such .s is un. d n r m kn g ciantt s, which s purchniefi in New Of leans roin ltie hogsheud a' front $1 n. $i 0 jer ci. when haled up aud o o gted into Mexico has bt en known to mH t fii'y, six -v or seventh five dollars per cwt. Even now wheri thi. tobacco is taken to a ov of 1 he t .wns not iBim d -itely on the ri ver, it comnwod r adil froih iWMity-the to thirty dollars. And this, t.,,, as we haw before when an article equally o. .d can be grown all ov r the'eountry. S uh cotton, whuh ia nmugbd in lot co sumption of lite manufactories, not :f ortic i.c being raised toMtppiy the limi ted nuo.ber in oper-itmp. F om the Aew O l una Picayune 28lh ult sLutest frut ttae Araiy. MOSCJ.Ol'.i Mj LiilH L A HUA TAKES. KXFEOITION AQA'NST V'tCToRU MiRCH Of THK AMfcRtCAN hOKCES Vfos SaLTILLo. l'he steaiuship MrKf.., J. B Prck, master, ai rived last evt ning from the Bra 1 . winch piace h.e left on the 24t" inst. Capt. lv M. Divh (a.d Gen. S n Ids) reports that Geu. ;Wool ok pe ceable posfession of M nt'lnva on the 30il Ocir Tne t"'r"'r tiouthei d the principal citiftcns lonneo.an escort and mat Gen Wool about tour unlet Irom the city nid welcoaied turn as a Inend. Oue of tne best huut-cs 111 the pUce was ff. red 10 oiui f.r his head quarters hic?i oiler was aeceptd . Gen W oolV ari-y, . umbering 2600 men, was in exreilsnt health and "puns. Gen. Wool marched from the Pteeido del at 10 Grande to Monclova, a distaaee 01 two hundred and four miles, in clove, marching day?. He took along with him l'riy day 'f provision for hta columns, and anottter train with an equal amount, was a few days in his rear. I'nese were the last supplies tie expected 10 receive Jrma Pori Lav arc a, a he deigned opt mng coinmu uications with Gen. Tayior for receiving future supplies. . - News was received at iVrfUl 3d linsL.that Col. Doniphan, ofihe.Mis- sourt volunteers, who hid been detacher by Gen. Kearney, at Sama Fe, for that du ly, had taken the city of Chii,Uahua. with 700 men. He entered the place without nnpcdt-eent -the town having surrendered without ajjun being fiteo, a we alwavs said would be the case. Col. Rtley, of the 9d Infantry, has been ordered in march with the whole of his re" ginient upon Victoria de Tatuultpas. Upon the ai nvai of despatches from the Unoed State Government ordering an end to be put to the arrotice, Gen. Taylor despa'ched Major Graham to Salitllu. to in form them that each party was at liberty to act an it might i"ink fit. Not an officer nor a soldier was to be s-en at Salulio.and he returned to Monterv. Letters continue to speak ol Santa An na's preparations at San Luis Polos 1. t was reported that he had collected 30 000 tneo ; hut this was considered by many an exaggeration. IVoss f the Stesamcr AtJaatic. MHiMHGLl LOSS Ot LIFE. Net tearhvd this city n atjuurdar morning, through tne Magnei.ir Teieraph. of the nia in Long Isiand J .uu.i. f the new and spit mild sieauYer Atlantic. Capt DttusttQ, auendei! by a vary srious of life. The-N Y paper f Situtday af ternoon, fum us with lull particulars of the fearful disaster- W ropy follow ing arotitiot from an extra Irom the office of . N Y 1 raid: It is with fceimgs cf the most painful nature that wejind ourselves constrained tn publish the particulars of the loss nf the onre magnificent steamer A.lanttc, and a bout forty lives. She had. comparatively, a small number of passengers. If he had been as crowded as she usually l as been, ih dat:er would of course have been omrc dieadfut and irniMe in ns results. The passengers for tin ill fated s'i 3;iiei le t Boston, at l.alfpaMfive oclork on Wnhie-Jay aht-rnooi:. They procetdtd li ver the W orceMer and Not with. Roads, and reach d Allvn Poiui at half past eleven on tiiat nitn. I here iu y went on board the Atiamic. Si.e lt-ft for New-York be lvten twelve and one oclock on Thursday iiiormn Tuere were between seventy and eigh ty persons on board in all, inclmting pas sengers, officers, crew, and servants .The Atlantic got well underway, and as nun 1 g alonji finely, when ihe steam chest exphitied.' and almost the san e mot rneht the wind abided fiom the nonh-eas 10 me norih-wcM, and blew almost a per feci hurricane. The sieamer was thrown into the midsi ft darkuebs and coiifuMun, and ti e air re KoumUti WiUrthe eiica of the acahied. Ii was a tristful Cfne io behold. Cap tatn Dutatt instantly call, d all hands to the fori- dick, and ordered ihem t heave over t'e atichorf, nin it y'dt- louud almost im possible for a man 10 stand on deck, 111 cot eq..ei,ce of the violence of the gale, the sea cun.inually making a breach over her bos l)iiig to this, 11 took nearly in hour to get out the three anchors. The strainer woiktd eavy,- plunging her bows under at evt ty lurch, and drag ging her anchors. Between the tune ot anchoring and daylight, it is thought that she dragged about eleven miles. This was a terrible time to all u board. The fiies were all put out at daylight on ThufsiJav. and Jfoto that time to the peri I'd of going ashore the pasengers and crew suffeied irom the intense coltl. The only means . f keeping warn was 10 wrap them selves up in blankets, and walk briskly a tound the steamer. All. at this time, began to look to their on personal safety. All put on the hfe preservers tnat the ship was so plentifully supplied w ith, and prepared themselves for anv emergency. I he doors, shutters, set tees. fcc. &lc. , were detached and cut a way, for diafto to drift ashore upon, when' ever she should strike. Tne gale increa sing in violtne , Captain Dustan. who pre served his M-lt-posseasion throughout the perilous tune ordered about forty tons of" coal to be thrown overboard, in order to lighten the vessel. Ahout noon on Thursday, the smoke ;upes :hich were ry larjje and heavv, were ordered to be thrown overboard. This was done, the Captain assisting, and the steamer was eased for a abort time. There w as less offered lo the force of the wind. Th" steamer continued to drift, howe ver, and everything looked terrible and hopeless. The danger increased so rapidly, that between 2 and 3 o'clock Capt Dustan or dered the decks to be cleared of all mer chandise, or everything that was in the way. Cases of boots, shoes, barrets of fl tur, stoves dV . including . one package said M contain $7,000 worth of plate were thrown overboard. There were eiavit thousand dollars worth of lace on board, belonging to one of the passengers, who had previously said that he would give the whole to any one v ho would put him safe ly ashore. This lacs was titet wards seen strewn along the beach, Ail these efFtrts. however, to save the steamer were unavailing- No person worked harder than Capatn Dut4ti, and his p-tafcugers and crew. It w.-. for tile ot death- After these repeated and antted efjorts Ji&d failed, all hopes of safety were over, and all felr desirous snd anxious that the r -s ii'er should strike the beach It was liighttnl sight, but the feelngot those on board h?d been wruugot to ueh a pitch, that reaction cauie over them, and they were resigned to their fate. About midnight she partea ne of her cables, there being four oui, one attached to ti ;,ty hundred weight ol furnace bars J and the others to anchor, fier this the sa!c continued to increase and blew a per. feet hurricane. Sue was driven still hearer the shord, but passed a point that all expacted ho would strike upon. She then drifted about eleven mi!e's more, making nt all twenty, two mi Irs more, whtch occupied about fun ly right hours of ttrrible uncertainty and sufl". ring. She then struck, siern first, on a hdge of rocks n Fishers Island. A treiuendtous ea threw her up to the very i'P of - the ledge; to far up, as almost iq throw her over on ihe other side. TMs wax the crisis in the disaster. It teas Ur, rtble, and heart rending in the extreme In fire mmutes after she struck, she teas tn pieces. In these five minutes at least one half of those on bourd the Atlantic were taken rov. time into eternity. The screams, lite Ciush, the roar of the sea wee dread . There were six females, four children, and two infants anong the p-iSdenjjers. All ihe lemale- wre drownpd or crushed ut deatn. Only, one of me chddien was saved, and he was the only one in the fam ily ol which he -.as a member. His lather. mother, married Msit-r,at;d a younger sister, and two young brtier, were on board. Tue poor l.ltle orphan thu saved, and thus intown alone on the orhi. is only twelve tears of age. The two tit a us were drowned, fr. X; n, or crushed m death. All thisoi'cnri.d at hail pat four o'clock on Friday morning. I he particolais given bv our informant, Mr Varnum Marsh, of Haverhtil. Vla., are painfully ihr.ilmg. When the Atlantic struck he was sitting in the gangway ; his fi at iropressioii was that a heavy sea fiitck ihe steamer. In a moment after, "hot ever, (although every moment was an age to those on board.) the ea stove in $ne siua ol the vessel at " his back, and swept i.-m along, and dished hiro against the sound side uf the ettamer. Betore he uid re cover iiuosrl , another tremendous sea came and threw hi n againsw the upper stdo of the vessel. Thence he waa ihroti n anning every thing moveable on deck, and considerably bruised as we have eeti Aher he was thron Up the third time, he succeeded in ca c' ing hold of the sky light frame, and there remained a few moments, and the ,nly iersoc, nea him to be sti nor nenr-t, was t ie small buy wno as saved. He was on the top of thd ledge amottgsi the wreck.- Our it f..ruiani here discovered ihat he wa made laak by an iron h.'iok. on a bar of iron, whicti had become entangled in one ofms life preset vers; -ifier geai exertions, he made out to throw oite of the snaps over his head,, which drew the other ul tighter" je thfii thought that all "was over wnh-himj bt by an almost superhuman effort, tie uc-etdcd in d awmg thai .ff lie ,i,en loiind hai the othejr pair praervert ; which he had on. were entangled witu those ha had thrown off To ex.ncale hi.nsetf from this d-fllculiv he laid down and drew all off. over hit feet, an I threw ihem a' way. During this lime, the sea was broking up the steamer, and dishing" the piece of wreck abtiut, alone time against Mr. M .rH, and at another crushint; tnbet a p.mr pas sengsr or a i unfortunate sai or to death. After Mr. Marah had thrown away his life preserver, he saw a glea u of ligm fr .,a the upper sida ol me vesael. The Au.01.1c was then lying tQ Dtr bean end, a .d her decks covered with ice. By home inV ins, wholly unacci.untable at this time .0 Jr. Al.. he made his escape through the aide of tne vessel tnrougti which tne glean ol 1-ght came. Before he reached that point 1.0 a ever he saw a human bring taiidtu near the aperture. Atier reaching to within six feet of the 1 inside, he called to the person whom he saw and who proved to be the little boy, t 1 pass him a piece of board or eumhmg i else, to enable him to get over the ice. I h boy thought that .Mr. .11. told iih.i 10 leave the aace Tui induced tne boy o leave, arid Mr. Marsh ciepi out over wnat he uppsed to be a Ue id body, it was too dark to tell with certaiu.y. Ttitn ho took hold of a part of the wreck on the side of the ladies saloon, aud walked 11 te edge of the vessel. On 4ioking up, he aw the mast, with aeveral pieces of or sparf aitachedi ffwitigmgtu'and fr9 X
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