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Volume 3.
LmcoLNTON, North Carolina, Thusrday, June 24, 1847.
Number 08;
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Lincoln Business Directory.
Court Officers Superior Court - F. A.
Hoke, clerk. Equity U'm. Williamson,
clerk. County court Robert William
son, clerk. Each of these offices in the
Coun. House. VV. Lander, Solicitor, law
L-tfSire on the m;in street, east of the public
squire. 13 6 Johnson, Sheriff. L V
llothrock, Town Conslab'e. y
Register, J. T. Alexinder; County Sur
veyor, John Z. Fails; County Proeessiont-r
Ambrose Cost;icr. ' ' Tnr;tjf, J R nnsour.
Treasurer of Public Buildings D."V.
Iienck.
Committee of Finance J. T. Alexan
der, Benj. Sumner, John F. Phifer,
- Building Committee J- Kamsour.Peter
'JdUHni'V, John F- P'tifer, and II Causler
Laicyers Haywood W. Guion, main st.
ne door cast. " L. E. Thompson, main st.
past, 3d square W. Lander.maui st. east,
fid square. V. A. McBee,. and U . Wil
liami jn, ollices at McBees building, main
St. 2d squire, east.
Physicians S. P. Simpson, main street,
west. D. W. Schenck, (and Apothecary,
main si. two doors east. " Elim Caldwell)
nain-strept, 6 doors east. Z luit, offi-
J ff? bpposileMc Lean's hoiel. A. Uamsour.
niHiii st. west.
'JMerchants-H S Johnson, north on square
west corner, J.. A Uamsour. on square,
north west corner. C. C. Henderson, on
sqjjr;.', (pist ofiice) south. J. Ramsour
Son, main st. 5 doors weist. R E Johnson,
on square,s(iuth west corner main it. R.
Rok!, oil "quare, south east corner.
Academies Male, B. Sumner; Female,
jn it'r the charge of Mr. Sumner also; resi
dence man: sf. oth corner south east of the
court house.
Hoteh Mrs Mo:z,s. w. corner of main
st. airl sqiuip Win. Slade, ma;n s!. 2d
lorner east ol sqanre. A. A. McLane, 2d
corner, w.st, dm main si. B. S. Johns;on,
north west, on square.
Groc rs ti. Presnei!, main st. 4 doors
east of .sq i ire. W m. R. Edwaid.-, souih-
west of square. Janus Cobb, south f asi
corner of Via in and Aeaderny street
Tailors Dailey & SeaU, main st. one
door west of square. Alien Alexander,
on square, s. by w. side.
Watch Maker and Jeweller Charles
Schmidt, main st. 4 doors east.
Saddle and Harness Makers J. T. Ai
e.vin i'T, main st. iid corner east ot squaa .
J n. M. cc F. J. Jetton, on square, north Lv
,vci. J. A. Jetron, south uesi on squaie.
Printers T. J. Eccles, Courier oflu
5 d ors north of court house, Island Fon;
' road.
'Bonk Binder F. A. Hoke, main st. .;
2d square v'st of court house.
Coach Factories Samuel Lander, n:a;.
Et. east, on 52 d square from Court louse.
Abner McIvo, mun st. east, on 3d square.
S. P. Simpson, street north o! mam, and n.
v. of court house. Isaac Erum, (onin si
c;r.!, on 2d square. A. & R. Garner, on
m.iii' st. east i-rul, north side.
Blacksmiths Jac'h Rush, main st. St ti
corner east of court house. M. Jacobs,
main st., east end. A. Delam, main st. near
east end. J. Bysanger, hack st. north west
. public square. J. W. Paysour, west
end.
Cabinet Makers ThornasPews & Son,
.main s. east, on 4th square.
Carpenters, c. Daniel Shuford, main
si., MSt, Gth torn r from square. James
Triplet:, main st. M'Bee's building. Isaac
Houser.main st. west end. Hells, Cuiry
& Co. main st. east end.
Brick Masons Willis Peck, (and plas-
AAArl irtn f i ot O'idI A t X lnrriDi ( n rr ennnrn
I foi ter Houser, on east side of street north
lW.. 2are..- ;
L;. V i Plate Worker and Copper Smith
', eide ot 2d square.
V Shoe Makers John Huggins, on back
t'st. south west of square. Amzi Ford &
'j Co south west corner Charlotte road and
main st. east end.
Tanners Paul Kistler, main-st., west
v, end J. Ramsour, back St., north east ol
i i square. F Si A. L Hoke, 3-4 mile west of
' town, main road '
J Ilat Manufactories John Cline, north
X from public square, 2 doors, west side of st.
'' John Butts & son, on square, south side.
Oil Mill Peter and J E Hoke, 1 mile
!;' south west of town, York road.
; Paper Factory G.. & R. Hosteller, 4
' miles south-east of court house,
i' Cotton Factory John Hoke & L. D.
- Childs, 2 miles south of court house.
Vesuvius . Furnace, Grahom's .Forge,
Bievard's, and Johrson's Iron work?, east
Lime Kiln Daniel Shuford and others,
miles omh. . J
The tcsf I left Behind Me,
S&'&TJi axna's solo. ' .
I'm fctumpless quiternince from the shot
' Of Cerro Gordo pengin, . ,.
1 left behind to pay the Scott.
My grub, acd gave my leg in.
I dare not turn to view ihe j lace,
Lest Yankee foes should find me ; .
And, mocking, shake before my face
The Leg I feft behind me.
At Buena Vista I was sure
That Yankee to surrender ;
And bade my men 'Hurrah ! for you're '
Aligning on a bender,'
That all my hopes and plans were dashed,
My scattered troops remind me ; ?
But though I tlsere got 60undly thrase 3,
I left no leg behind me. ' x
Should Tat lob of my track get scent,
Or Scott beat'up my quarters,
I may as well just be content
To go across the waiers.
Cut e en should that my fortune be,
Fate has not quire resigned me ;
For in the Museum I shall see
The leg I left behind me.
"Mason andDixon's Line."
What was ihe origin and purpose of it ?
We hear it frequently spoken of as connec
ted with slavery, and as originally relating
o that subject. Nothing can be farther
fiotn the truth at the time that line was
established, slavery existed on both sides
of it. A brief account of. its origin may b
n: some interest just at this time. -
As early as the year 1082, a dispute a
rose between William Penn and Lord Bal
timore, respecting the construction of their
resprciive grants of what now forms the
States of Penn?) Jvania,Deleware and Mary
land Lord Baltimore claimed fo,and inclu
ding, lhe4(hh degree of north latitude; and
W iliiarr.Pt nn mildly yet firmly resisted the
claim. The dehateable land was one de
gree of 69 English mdes on the south of
Pennsylvania, and extended west as far ns
the Stute itself. The matter was finally
brought into the Court of Chancery in En
gland, ar.d after tediou de'ays, on the 1 th
oViy of Mav, 1750, Lord Chancellor Mard
wick made a decree, awarding costs against
Baltimore, nd directing that commission-
rs should be appointed to maik 'he boun
daries between the parties. The comrms
tiers so appointed met at New ' ustle on
:i;e 18th day of November 175, and not
being able to agree, seperated. After
urther Ittigahen and delay, the whole mat
er was settled by the mutual ngreement
between the surviving heirs of the original
litigants.
In the y ear 1701, Mr. Chas. Mason of
e Royal Observatory was sent to Penn
s,lvania with all the necessary astronom"
eui instruments to measure a degree of lati
tucie. That duty he performed, and a re
port of liia proceedings was made to the
R ival Society of London, for the year
17G7.
This Mr, Mason and Jeremiah Dixon
were appointed to run the line ia dispute,
which appears to have been done inconfor
mity with the Lord Chancellor's decree.
This is the famous " Mason and Dixon's
irne," and the boundary between Pennsyl
ania on the south, and Maryland on the
north. Any one desirous of more detailed
information, will find it in Douglass' Histo
of America, published in Boston in 1751,
Proud's History of Pennsylvania, the Me
moirs of the Historical Society of Pennsyl
vania.and 1 Vesey's Reports, 352, Penn rs.
Lord Baltimore.
Little did the actors in this matter think
that in after times, the line established with
so much trouble and expense, wonld ever
be connected with subject calculated to
shake a great nation to its centre. Alb.
Journal.
" Huzza for Doniphan for next Presi
dent, exclaimed a Missourian (half seas
over) on the ennsylvania Avenue a few
evenings since. "No, no," said his com
panioti, "that will never do, we must have
old Zach for President and Doniphan is the
boy to be elected a Judge of the Supreme
Court." " Hardly;" rejoined the other,
"for he never read a fine of law in his
life." "What of that," was the prompt re
ply, "did'nt he whip the Mexicans at Chi
huahua ?" a
The Bible and Liberty.
The Bible, is "the great protector and
guardian of the liberties of men. There
never has been on earth true liberty, apart
from the peecepfs and principles of the Bi
ble. .This remark is fully sustained by the
history of the world. Go to the plains of
Babylon, and jhe entire history of that em
pire, until its destruction by "Cyrus, is a his
tary of the most absolute despotism. E
gypt and Persia were equally strangers to
civil liberty. The same was true, with slight
modifications,of Greece and Rome. Facts
spread on every page of the world's history .
point' to the Bible as the only basis of the
temple of freedom. Where the Bttle forms
public opinion, a nation must be free.
" Christianity," 6ays P.lontesquieu, " is a
stranger to despotic power." De Tocque
viilc says: ; "It is the companion of liber
ty, in all its battles and in all its conflicts
the cradle of its infancy, the divine source
of its claims." The Abbe de la Meunais,
whom a late writer distinguished as one of
the most powerful minds in Europe, speaks
eloquently of the Divine Author of Chris
tianity , "as the great republican of his age."
Everywhere, the men whose minds have
been imbued with the light and spirit of the
Bible, have been the devoted friends of ci
vil liberty. Such were tho Lollards in
England, tlie adherents of Luther in Ger
many, end of Knox in Scotland. Such were
the Huguenots of France who fied their
country, or sealed their testimony with their
blood on the fatal revocation of the edict of
Namz. Such were the Puritans, who, with
the courage of heroes and the zeal of mar
tyrs.stiuggled for and obtained the charter
of liberty which England now enjoys;
Hume, with all his hostility to the Bible,
says, 1 he precious s?park ot liberty has
been kindled wnd was nieserved by the Pu
ritana alone.cc it was to this sect the Eng'
isii owe the whole freedom of their con
stitution. -North American--
The Poisoning: Case-in Shelby
County Texas.
Of this Case, so fiendisn in its concep
tion, so diabolical in its execution, and so
mournfully fatal in its resui s.we have the
fo loH-nig further particulars from MrS ille.
who was the first to inform the public of
the tragic occurrence, through ttte Delia
Many at the time doubted its iruih, for it
was hard to conceive how any n.ind couid
be so totally depraved, so iOst to all the
eehngs of nature and humanity, as lo per
petrate on muocr-nt and unsuspecting vie
urns such w holesale murder. Yet true it
is, (oo true, bearing about it, though i.
dees all the malignant and frightful feature
of ttie first account. Old U ilkinson, it
would now seem from Mr. Snlle's Inner,
is the demon incarnate who d:d the deed
thai is circumstantially evident, Irom the
fact of his sending so goodiv a share of the
poisoned wedding moa;s t Spot Sanders.
whom he deemed his enemy, or at least,
whose enemy he was. But ttey are now
in hot pursuit of him, they will wish that
the slave had fortv thousand lives!
One is too poor, too weak for their revenge!"
But we will not detain the reader from
Mr Snlle's letter.
Bayou Sara, Miy 23. 1847,
Dear 1 returned from a flying visit
to Hamilton yesterday, and learned some
more particulars in relation o the poison
ing fifteen are dead, ami some eight or
ten expected to die daily somegoi better,
but took a relapse and died. The poison
was arsenic. I will reiatc the circumstance
as I heard it.
It appears that old Wilkinson was d roan
of bad character a notorious hog thief
and Morris, the grona, had been twice
whipped in Mississippi for Stealing.
Wilkinson was accused of stealing the hogs
of Spot Sanders, and rou will perceive,
from what follows, how he revenged him
self. He sent to the house of Sanders,
who lives some two or three miles from
him, and who was not at time friendly a
half of a shoat, one turkey, three chickens,
some chicken pie, butter, pound cake,kr
enough to last the family a week, all poi
soned, even to the butter, which was ele
ganily moulded. The family ate of it.
Mr Sanders, three children, and a negro
boy are dead the olher, and only child
left, was dying when I was at our friend
Kerr's. Mr San'ders and seven negroes
are yet sick -some, it is thought, will die.
Poor Mrs Sanders did not know that her
children were dead" or dy ing, and told her
husband to rear them"in nurture and ad;
mo.iition of the Lord.,. She requested, w hen
dying, that ber negroes should come and
bid her farewcllr they could not, ."all being
poisoned. Mr. Sanders' mother, an old
lady of seventy, was a victim also. ' Allen
Haley lost a 'negro man the man's wife
was one of the servants at the wedding, and
look him a piece of pound cake he rat
two mouth's-fuil, and not liking the taste ot"
it, cat no more but that killed him. An
'old lady by ihe name of Etfces; madef ihe
cakes, "and she was poisoned together with
her 6on and a uegro girl tiie girl is dead
and her son not expected to recover. The
buiter that was left at Sanders was thrown
out and some fowls est of it and died in a
few minutes. AHtn Haley and his moth
er were the only persons at the wedding
not poisoned. They came late after the
guest were served, am eat with the family
partaking of trie same, food as they did
even to the cake. Old Wilkinson insisted
on cumug a fresh cake for them, but ihey
refused to par'ake of it and escaped dea'h
by their refusal.
The lady thai made the cakes, Mrs. E
dens, went on the morning of the wedding
day to look at the cakes in the smoke
houie, where she had pui them, and found
that the covering she had put on the top of
them was removed from all the cakes
but one, that was covertd wiih a custard
ihey looked dark and discolored, and she
look loaf sugar, which she grated and put
over them, thinking it strange., that they
ivere so disarranged. Old ilkinson and
his wire, and Morris', wife, were arrested
and examined before Squire Sanders, lm
commuted them to prison, Charles Alex
ander hailed 'he" woman, and vYtlkms n
was taken out by a writ of habeas carpus
before ihe Jduge, Lester, and et at liberty.
He was afraid to leave the houst tiuruig-ihe
day as mere were perons deter.oined on
lulling him. During the night he escaped
on Morris' horse, which Morris brought to
rum. Eight persons are in pursuit of him.
who have eworn to kill turn on sigot.-
Morns is Wilkinson agem; tie wa or
dered io leave, or he wouid first be whip
pet! and then i uug. He refused to go
and we may therefore expect that he wiil
be made short work of.
- I wrote you in rrv Itsi that the negroes
were suspected of having been hired to
poison the food. Such is not the case, as
ihe negroes wre all poisoned, they not
belonging to Wilkinson- .
At the last accounts the pursuers were
but a few miles behind Wilkinson- hea
ded by Mr Cast'.ebcrry, who was one of
the poisoned, and lost his sister: he swore
he would follow him to the end of the
world, being bent on taking his life. 1
have seen sjine of the survivors they aie
black under the eyes, and their finger naiis
and the ends of their fiogers are black
they look like walking ghosts. They all
think that health and airength are gone,
being every one unable to do any laborious
work. Poor souls!
English Views of America.
We extract from the London Tunes, ihe
following remarks on the destiny of ihe
United States: The present position of
ihe United States is unparalleled in ihe
hisiorv of the world. In very much less
th?.. s century they have spp-eg from com
parattve nothingness to occupv a very pro
minent am) influential po-Hwn ao.ong
the nations of the ear.ii. Tnal influence
and lhai power is to be us?d for good or
for evil Tr.ey are even now trembling in
the balance; and all w ise and good men. in
all parts of the w orld, are curious and anxi
ous for the result, A future destiny for
the United States opena in brilliant , pro
speciive before us. Ere ihe close of this
cenmry it is estimated she will claim 100.
000. OOOof people, and will occupy a breadth
of tentory in comparison wish which all
Europe sinks into te shade. , Bui not in
extent a'one is tins future immensity !'a
dowed forth. In Europe we have forty
languages and hundreds of diaiecs; v.e
hate people of various race." obe;viug uifer
ent princes; for ages engaged in contests
with each other, and having opposite reh
gious and commercial interests. Our trans
Atlantic brethertn, on the contrary have a ,
language in common, and that language p
one of great literary wealth and natural vi .'
gor: ihey are sprung from one race and
that race ihe energetic Anglo-SaxOu; they,
obey one federal government, and have, for
li e lengthand. brciidth of their, immense
land, bin one general' interest.:. They hare
begun the world with political principles
which other stages have looked io as the
acme of civilization they start in national
existence with the experience of the old .
world for their guidance, and the exhaus
ties resources of the new" world for their
portion- The problem is, will they be ,
true to ihetr high destinies?
, A Pleasant Surprise.
A young man, oi' eighteen oi twen'y, a
sfuden' in a University, took a walk one -div
with a pro'fessor, who was commonly
CMlled the student's friend, such was the
kindness to the young men whose ofiice it
was his to instruct.
While they were walking together, -and
the professor was seeking to lead tho
conversation to grave subject?, they, saw
an o'd pair of shoes lying in their path,
which they supposed to belong to a poor .
old man who was hard at work in the field
close by, and who hid finished his day's
work.
The young student turned to the profes
sor, s:iying,"let us play the old man n trick,
we will hide his shoes and conceal ourselves
behind those bushes and watch and sec his
perplexity when he cannot find them.1'
'My dear friend, answered the profes
sor "we mu?t never arnuse ourselves at the
expense of the poor. But you are rich,
nd you may give you .-self a much greater
pleasure by means of this poor omn, Put
a dollar :n eieh shoe, ar.d then v.e will
hidf ourselves."
The student did so, and then placed him
self with the professor, behind the bushes
close b , ilwotigh wh;ch they couid easily
watch ihe laborer and see whatever wonder
or jiy lv rroghl express.
The poor m-m soon finished hi wok and
c tiiie across the fiHd to the pon where he
if-ft his cut nd. shoes Vhi!e he put on
the eiat "e slipped one foot into one of his
sli.-e-i,- hut feeling someiiiin hajd, he
t ,p? i d 'wo and h-urd th - oo ar.
Astonishment nd wonder wen-seen up.
oo his countenance; he . 2"l upon the dob
hr, and turned it round and looked again
and again; then he looked around him on
all sides, but could ee no one. Now he
P ihe money in his pocket and proceed to
pu; on the other shoe; but how reat was
his dstomsnment when he found in the
other a dollar!
His feelings overcame him; he fell upon
his knees, looked up to heaven md uttered
a fervent thanksgiving.in which bespoke of
his wiffl, sick and helpless, and his children
without breadt whom this timely bounty
from some unknown hand would sive from
perishing-
J'he youog man stood there deeply af
fecv-d and the tears filled his cye?.
' Now said the professor, sre you not
much better pleased thnn if you had played
your m'ended trick."
O dearest sir," answered the youth,
"you have taught me n ie-sson that I will
never forget. 1 feel row the truth of the
words which 1 never understood, it is bet
to give tha.n to receive, "
Hard Shaving. An incorrigible joker
tells the loiiowing for a fact, but we do rot
vouch for. iis authenticity. lie says :
Walking one morning on the New Jersey
-hort, 1 came to a hut trecied for the sc
commndition of the shad fishermen ; want
iog t. liht my cigar, I went io, where 1
found two Hipbone c-ozniig over an almanac,
probably ascertaining the time bf high wa
ter, the .thur trying to shave Irmself be
forea piece of looking-glass abfcut the slzo
of a d-.llar piece. After making two or
thrto -crapes, evidently in much pain, I; 9
.s'.-emed t i lose his patiencet nmd, urntr,f
to the other one, said, with some asperity.
41 John, 1 C'iri H- jod a' most any thing from
you, "u?, don't you never again take my. ra
Z ;r to oren ovsters with.'
Mr? Partington ays 6he hs always no
uceiJ that, wheiner Fl"ur was dear or"
cheap, she had invariably to py thesaruO
money for a half dollar'a worth.