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Volume 3. ' Lxolnton, North Carolina, Saturday, Sepi ember 25, 1847. Number 47.
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; Lincoln Business Directory
Court Officers Superior Court F.
. A. Hoke, clerk. Equity Wm. Wil
liamson, clerk. County court -Robl.
Williamson, clerk. W.Lander, Soli
citor. . B S Johnson. Sheriff. . LP
Kothrock, Town Constable.
k Register, J. T. Alexander; Counly
Surveyor, J. Z. Falls ; County Prooes-
ssioner, Ambrose Costlier. Trustee,
, J Ramsour. Treasurer Public Build-
'. ing, D. W.Schenck.
Committee of Finance J, T.Alex
ander, Bern. Sumner, John F. Phifer.
Building Committee J. Ramsour, P.
Summeyjohn F Pliifer, and II Cansler.
Lawyers Haywood W. Guion.main
st. one door east. L. K. Thompson,
main st. east, 3d square . W. Lander,
main st. east, 2d square. V A McBee,
.and W. Williamson, offices at Mc Bee's
building, main st. 2d square, east.
Physicians Simpson & Hobo, main
St., west. D. W. Schetick, (and A no
thecary, main st. two doors east. F..
Caldwell, eat of Female Academy.. Z.
Butt, office opposite McLean' hotel
A. Ramsour, botanic main st. west.
jlerckants-ien' S Johnson, north on
- square, west comer, J. A Uanuour,
on square, north west corner. C. C.
Henderson,on square, (post office) south
J. RarnsourSoti, main sx.5 doors west,
K E Johnson, on square,suuth west cor
ner main st. R Reid, on square.south
east corner. Hke & Michal, on square
Academies Male, B. Sumner; Ft
,v,.nale Under the charge f Mr Sumner.
.? Hotels Mrs Motz, s. w. corner of
main st. and square W. Slade, main
st. 2d corner east ofsquare. A. A.
McLean, 2d corner, ' west, on main st.
B. S Johnson, north west, on square
Grocers G. Presnell, main st. east
ot square. Wm. U. Edivaro, south
, west of square. James Cobb, so east
; corner of Slain and Academy si.
Tailors Dailey & Seagle, main st.
1. door w-st of square. A Ale.tandei,
on s,tiaie,'s- Uy w. side.
Watch Maker and Jexceller Chas
Schmidt, main si. 4 doors east.
Saddle and Harness Makers J.T.
Alexander, main st. 2d corner east of
square. B. M. & F. J. Jellon, on sq.,
north by west. J. Ad. Jetton, south
west on square.
t Coach Factories Samuol Lander,
main st. east, on 2d square from Court
House. Abtier McKov, main st. east,
' on 3d square. S. P. Simpson, street
north of main, and n. w. of court house.
Isaac Erwin, main st., west, on 2d sq.
, rA. Garner, on main st. east end.
Blacksmiths Jacob Rush, main st.
5th corner east of court house. M.
Jacobs, main'st., east end. A. Delam,
main st. near east end. J. Bysanner,
back st. north west of public square.
J. W. Paysour, west end.
' . Cabinet Makers Thomas Dews &
- Son, main st. east, on 4th square.
Carpenters, djc. Daniel Shuford,
main sf., east, 6ih corner from square.
James Triplet:, main st. M'Bee's build'
ing. Isaac llouser.main st. west end.
Wells, Curry & Co. main st. east end.
Brick Masons Willis Peck, (and
plaisterer) main st. e:ist,4th corner I rom
.square. Peter Ilouser, on east side of
?treet north of square,
y Tin Plate Worker and Copper Smith
Thos. R. Shuford, main st. east, on
south side ot 2d square.
Shoe Makers John Hoggins, on
back st. south west of square.
Taniers-Paul Kistler, main-st. west
end J. Ramsour, back st., north east
of square. F & A. L Hoke, 3-4 mile
west of town, main road.
Hat Manufactories John Cline, n
' from public square, 2 doors west side of
et. JohnButts & son,on square, south
c side.
' Printers T. J. Eccles, Courier op
I fice, 5 doors north of court house, Isl
and Ford road.
Book Binder F. A. Hoke, main st.
on 2d square west of courl house.
Oil Mill" Peter and J E Hoke, one
mile suoth west of town, York road.
Paper Factory G. & R. M oste 1-
er, 4 miles south-east of court house,
r Cotton Factory John F. Hoke &
L. D. Childs, 2 miles south of courl
;ouse.
Yesuvius Furnace, Graham's Forge,
" Ncvard's, and Johnson's Iron work,
" easJ. '
LimtKiln Daniel Shuford and oth
ers, 9 miles south.
Letters for tne above to be addressed
to the Lincolmon Post OJlee.
THE SIUSQUITo HUNT.
A. PARODY.
Not a sound was heard, but a horrible hum,
As around our chamber we hurried,
In search of the insect, whose trumpet and
drum '
Our delicate slumbers have worried.
We sought for it darkly at thedead of night,
Our coverlid carefully turning.
By the strugling moonbeam's misty fight,
And our candle dimly burning
No useless garment confined our breast, -But
in simple night dress and slippers.
We wandered about like spirits distressed,
Or the sails of piratical skippers.
Short and few were the words we let fall,
Lest the noise might disturb the mosquito,
But we steadfastly gazed on the white
washed wall,
And thought how we had been bit, oh I
We thought ss we rose from our restless bed,
. And relinquished our pleasant pillow.
That we would not get in again until he
ivadead, .
And we were secut8 from his bill, oh !
But half an hour had semed to elapse,
Ere wc met with the wretch that had bit
And raising our boot, gave some lerrilla
slaps,
That made the musquito's quietus.
Quickly and gladiy we turned frm the dead,
And left hirn all smashed and g"orj!
We blew out the candle and popped into
bed.
Determined to tell you the story,
A Promising Youth What can
you do?" asked a traveller of a country
urchin whom he t,aw in front of a far
mer's house, tickling a toad with a Jon
straw. O, I can do more 'a considers
hie I rides the turkies lo water; milks
ihe geese, cards down the old rooster.
put up the pig' tails in paper lo make
'em curl, hamstrings the grasshoppers.
makes fires for flies to court by, keeps
tally for dad and mam when they scold
at a mark, and cuts the buttons offdad's
coat when he's at prayer in the morninl
A man out wesr, whose house was re
cently destroyed by fire, publishes a
card,in which he thanks hi fellow cu
izens for making an unsuccessful attempt
to save his furniture, and exprcses a hope
that he may soon have an opportunity
to reciprocate the favor.
"I'll take two children if C can have
'em cheap," said a tall Yankee on en
tering an oyster cellar, in Ciual street,
the other day.
"Two children what two children?"
'Why, I hain't got any myself, and
your sign reads, "Families Supplied,"
don't it? I want vou to supply me with
one !"
A New Jieason. We heard an old
bruiser the other day, advising a young
ster to get married, because then,' said
he, 'my boy, you'll have somebody to
pull offyour boots for you when you go
home drunk."
King James and William Penn It
is a singular historical fact, lLat a con
fidential intimacy subsisted between
King James II. and William Perm, the
Quaker, the founder of Pcnns)lvatjia.
James once condescended to use a
playful reproof to the peculiarity of the
Quaker, who, the first time he entered
hispresenoe alter he became King, d.d
so with his hat on. James immediately
took of his own.
'Friend James," said Penn, "why
don't thee cover thy head?"
Because,," replied his maiestv with
a smile," it is the fashion here for only
one man to wear his hat."
True Translation.- The passage in
Cicero's second oration against Cataline,
"Abitt, excessit, evasit erupit," has
been thus happily rendered he's gone,
he'a cleared out, he's cut stick, he' ab
squatulated."
Be just, an I fear not.
Rather Uncertuin. A gentleman,
who had lately arrived at a boarding-,
house in this city, demanded of the lady
of the establishment, at his first break
fast, whether she had helped him on tea
or coffee?
' What do you mean, sir? Why do
you ask?" said the lady.
".Because," replied the gentleman,
if this is tea, give me coffee; and, if cof'
fiej give me tea."
A gentleman, calling for small beer at
another gent'eman's table, finding it very
bad, gave it back to the servant again,
without drinking. v
" W hat?" said the master of the house,
".don't you like your beer!"
"It is not to bo found fault with! said
the other, 'for we never speak ill ol the
dead."'
A man came to the printing office o
beg a paper, 'because, said he, 'we lik
to read newspapers very much, but ou
neighbors doni take none.
Description of a Thin Gentleman
"1 say Bill, look at that 'ere thin 'un.
Pm blow'd if he isn't in training to go
down a gas pipe.
Good Luck. An inhabitant of Cor
fu, who recently returned from Spitz
bergen, after an absence of twentyight
years, frund his wife in good Seahh, but
the widow of three husbands
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I
fcome wag gives the folio wing capital
definition of a legislative body. Legis
latice Assembly a circus where each
of the performers rides on his own hob
by, and: takes his turn at playing the
cwwn. .
'Can! I sell you some tongues and
sounds? said ihe keeper of a family gro
cery the other day to a friend who has
wife aird a Jarge family of small chil
dren. 'No, you can't I have tongues
and sounds enough nt home.
Peter, what are vou doing to that
bov?
He wanted 4o know if you take ten
from twenty, how many will remain; so
I took ten of his applesr to show how
many he would hav left, and he wauts
me to give 'em back to him."
Why don't you give them back, Pe
ter ?'
Because, sir, then he would forget
hjw niaiiy is lei!.'
A poor emaciated Irishman, having
called in a physician in a forlorn hope.
the latter spread a huge mustard plaster,
and flapped It on the poor fellow breast.
Pat, with a .tearful eye and sad counten
ance, looked down upon it and said
'Docther! doclher, dear! it strikes me
that is a dale f mustard for so little
mate.
"Fll tell you what it is, father," said
a young chimney sweep to his father
and master, 'if you don't give me a nine-
pence on a dollar of my earnings, I'll do
something desperate, I will.' .
' Whj what will do you?" said the
senior, run away or drown vourself."
"Worse than that. Til go and bind
myself prentice to a lawyer. I know
one that will take me."
ff'Gmen Stronger than Oxen. It is
related of a certain New England di
vine, who flourished not many years a
go, and whose matrimonial relations are
supposed not to have been of the most
agreeable kind, that one sabbath morn
ing while reading to his congregation
ihe parable of the supper in Luke xiv in
which occurs this passage " And ano
ther said, 1 have bought five yoke of ox
en, and 1 go lo prove them: I pray thee
have me excused ; another said, I have
married a wife, and therefore cannot
come," -he suddenly paused a! the end
of ihe verse, drew off his spectacles, and
looking with emphasis
" The fact U, mv breiheren.j one wo
man can draw a man further from the
kingdom of Heaven than f.vc ydec of ox' ;
i en.
From the Adcocate.
Remarks on the Best Mode of
Banking Sweet Potatoes for
Winter Use.
Charleston, Sept. 6, 1847.
J. G. Bowman, Esq. Dear Sir
Will you oblige me by publishing under
your agricultural head, the following
statement of the best mode of banking
and preserving Sweet Potatoes for win
ter use. I have tried various modes for
the last seven years, but have never suc
ceeded in preserving my potatoes until
the last season, when 1 adopted the fol
lowing method ;
I made banks of from ten to fifteen
bushels each, using nothing but corn
stalks, raising the banks about sixf inch
es from the surface of the ground. Ue
fore putting ihe potatoes in, I inserted
a stick about four inches in circumfer
ence, immediately in the centre of the
bank, then deposited the potatoes, heap
ing them up in a conical lorm around
the stick, and covering them regularly
about four inches deep, with corn stalks.
Vhen the earth is thrown on, and the
banks nearly finished, the stick is drawn
ouft thus leaving a vacancy through the
whole centre of the band, allowing free
ventilation to the Potatoes ; the orifice
on the top of the bank may bs closed
by placing a little nnoss in it and cover.
ing with a. board. 1 bank immediately
after digging, carting them from the
deld to. ihe.bank, which prevents them
from being much bruised.
I had all of my potatoes put up in this
way the last season, and have been u
sing them constantly until the month o
Juce last. Out of 12 or 15. bushel of
potatoes in a bank, I never lost more
than 1-2 a peck of them from totting.
The advantage of -using corn stalks is
I think they do not decompose so quick
ly, as pine trash, or straw of anv.fcind
from being covered with earth.
These remarks are offered, with the
hope that others may be induced to iv
us the result of their experiments on this
important subject -to planters generally.
The potato is a very valuable crop to us,
and well worthy of our endeavors to ob
tain the best mode for its preservation.
Yours, Respectfully,
Thomas B. HcKior.
Gratuitous Advertising. Under this
head the lioston Courier remarks that
'lhere are continual calls upon the news
papers to express the gratitude ofpeo
pie for acts which are thought deserving
of particular notice ;, but we seldom or
never hear of thanks to the publishers
or editors of newspaers, who are always
giving their money and Iheir time fi.r
the benefit of public & private chartt ies.
This corresponds with the experience of
everv publisher in the country, so far as
wo have been able to observe. Nothing
can be more erroneous than the prevail
ing impression that editors and publish
ers of newspapers receive without ren
dering an equivalent, certain little cour
tesies, which, by common consent, are
extended to gentlemen connected with
the press. They pay double price, and
more too, for every civility tendered
them by the proprietors of lines of travel,
places of public anKisement, &c. The
actual cost to us of gratuitous advertising,
inserted in vaiious forms, in the course
of a year, would supply a small family
with all the necessaries of life. We
make no complaint of this, and refer to
it solely tocorret a misconception which
has generally obtained, that people of
the press are the recipients of large fa
vors, for which Ihev make no return.
Biffalo Exprets.
Talleyrand and Moutbrun. At a
dinner at Talleyrand's, General Mout
brun was the lat to arrive, and had
kept the company waiting Ou making
his excuses, Talleyrand stopod him with
these' word:
' "Wcll'you're the last; that's all.
And what does it prove? Why, merely
thut the invitation was cot to a field of
ban!
Singular Galvanic Experiment.
Weinhood cut off a cat's head, and
when its arternal pulsation had censed,
took out the spinal marrow, and placed
in its stead an amalgam of mercury sil
ver, ind zinc; immediately after this
was done, the pulsation was recommen
ced, and the body tnade a variety of
movement. H took away the brain nd -spinal
marrow of another at and filled
up the skull and vertebral canal with the
same metallic mixture. Life appeared
to be instantly restored the animal lif
ted up its head, opened and shut its eyes,
and Looking with fixed stare, endetvored
lo walk, and whenever it fell, tried to
raise itself upon its legs. It continued
in this sta'e 20 minutes, when it fell,
down and remained motionless. Dur
ing all the time the animal wa in this
state, the circulation of the blood ap
peared to goon regularly; ihe socretion
of the gastric juice was more th;in usual,
and the animal heat was re-e$Viblished,
Mexican Privateers.'- The fallowing
important notice appears iu thisGibral
ter Chronicle of 23d of June.
"We have been shown the copy of an
order issued by the Empeior of Moroc
co to governors and agents, authorizing
the seizure,confiscatiou of al! privateer
ing vessels entering the ports of his Em
pire, that are flitted out ugainet the com
merce of the United Stales of America'
A Touching Incident. A month or
two since we teceived the following tale
in a .letter from' private correspondent
k) New York: - ,- -. :
A Visitor of the City Tract Society
called few days ago, on a family suf
feeing with extreme poverty. A little
child, that had did the day before, was
lying on the bed in its every day clothes,
the parents being unable to pay for suit
able grave clothes, Tbe visitor prx
mised to attend to its burial, and a3 she
was leaving, a little brother of tho de
ceased asked,
"Where is Jamie, now?"
"God has taken him away,' said the
visitor.
" Is Jamie cold now?" he inquired.
"No. God has taken him where
there is no more cold, hunger or suffer,,
ing-"
The poor boy looked up and ex
claimed,
'Wont you osk God to take me
too'! I am so cold!" Hartford Cour
ant. .
4IJy the way, a good thing happened
lere n while since. Our Methodist
bretheren of the 'Church of the colored
Mess:ah," got warmed up pretty deci
cedly in the midst of which the Minis
ter prayed: Oh Lord, curtail the influ
ence of the devil "Amen!" responded
one of the worshippers; and, another
catching the prevailing enrhu iasm,
exclaimed: "Tes, e'yah Lord-ah! cut
his tail off clean and cl'ar ah ! !
Modt of Burying Lawyers in olden
times. A gentleman in tho country who
had just buried a rich relation who was
an attorney, was r.otrplaining to Foote,
who was on a viit to him, of the very
great expense of a country funeral.-
Why," says Foote, "do you bury your
attorneys here?" Yes,to b sure we do;
how else?" On! we never do that in
London." No!" ssud the other much
surprisedy "how do you manage?'
"Why, when the patient happens to die,
we lay him ont iu a room over night by
hirasel!,!ock the t'oor.open the sash, and
in the morning he's entirely ofiTi" "In
deed!" said tho other in amazement ;
'what becomes of him i" Why, that
we cannot exactly tell, not being ac
quainted with supernatural causes. All
we know of the matter is, that there's
a stroag smell of brimstone in the room
the next moaning.
fcCrThe apple crop of New Jersey
will be a failure; oud, of course,, cham'
pagnc will be scarce.