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Volume 4. Lincolnton, North Carolina, Thursday Morning, January 20, 1848. Number 3.
miNTEB AND PUBLISHED WEEKLY, BY
THOMAS J. KCCL.ES.
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Lincoln Business Directory
Court Officers Superior Court V.
A. M'Bee, clerk. Equity V m W il
hamson, clerk County court Robt.
Williamson, clerk. W .'Lander, Soli
citor. B S Johnson, Sheriff. Caleb
Miller, Town Constable.
Register, J. T. Alexander ; County
Surveyor, J. Z. Falls ; County Proces
ssioner, Ambrose Costlier. Trustee,
J Ramsour. Treasurer Public Build
ings, D. W.Schenck.
Building Committee J. Ramsour,P.
Summey.John F Pinter, and 11 Cansler.
Lawyers Haywood W. Guiou,iuain
st. one door east. L. E. Thompson,
main st. east, 3d square W. Lander,
main st. east, 2d square. V A McBee,
and V. Williamson, offices at Ale Bee's
building, main st. 2d square, east.
Physicians- Simpson & Bobo, main
st., west. D. VV. Schenck, (and Apo
thecary, main st. two doors east. E.
Caldwell, eat of Female Academy. Z.
Butt, office opposite McLean's hotel.
A. Ramsour. botanic mainst. west.
Merckunts-Ben' S Johnson, north on
square, west corner, " J. A Ramsour.
on square, north west corner. C. C.
Henderson,on square, (post office) south
J. Ramsour4Son,main st. 5 doors west.
,R E Johnson, on square ,suuth west cor
ner main st. R Retd, on square, south
east corner. Hoke & Michal, on square
Boot, Shoe 4. Hat Store- Horatio
Thomson, main st., on 2d square, west
of court house, north side.
Academic; Male,T J Sumner; Fe
male, under the charge of Mr Newson.
Hotels Mrs Motz, a.'w. corner of
main st. and square W. Slade, main
st. 2d corner rast of square. A. A.
.McLean, 2d corner, west, on main st.
B. S Johnson, north west, on square.
Grocers W. R. Edwards, mainst.
east ot square. James Cobb, so. east
corner of Main and Academy st.
Tailors Moore & Cobb, main st. 1
door west of square. A Alexandei, on
square, s. by w. side.
Watch Maker and Jeweller Chas
Schmidt, main st. 4 doors east.
Saddle and Harness Makers J. T.
Alexander, main st. 2d corner east of
square. B. M. & F.J. Jetton, on sq.,
north by west. J. Ad. Jetton, south
weston square.
Coach Factories Samuel Lander,
mainst. east, on 2d square from Court
House. Abuer McKoy, main st. east,
on 3d square. S. P. Simpson, street
iA'h of main, and n. w. of court house.
Isaac Erwin, main st., west, on 2d sq.
Jcoits Cornwall, main st. 2d square, w.
en. I, south side, corner. A. Garner, on
main st. east end.
Blacksmiths Jacob Rush, main st.
5th corner east of court house. M.
Jacobs, main st., east end. A. Delain,
mainst. near east end. J. Bysanner,
back st. north west of public square.
J. W. Pay sour, west end.
Cabinet Makers Thomas Dews &
Son, main st. east, on 4th square.
Carpenters, Sfc. Daniel Shuford,
main ., east, 6th corner from square.
James Triplet:, main st. M'Bee's build
ing. Isaac Houser.main st. west end.
WellsCurry & Co. main st. east end.
Brick Masons Willis Peck, (and
plaisterer) main st. eust,4th corner from
square. Peter Houser, on east side of
street north of square.
Tin Plate Worker and CopperSmith
Thos. R. Shuford, main st. east, on
south side of 2d square.
Shoe Makers John Huggins, on
back st. south west of square.
- TannersPaul 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 doers west side of
at. ' JohnButts & son,on square, south
side.
Printers T. J. Eccles, Courier of
. fice, 5 doors north of court house, Isl'
and Ford road.
'-Oil Mill Peter and J E Hoke, one
mile suoth west of town, York road.
Paper Factory G. & R. Hostel
er, 4 miles south-east of court house.
Cotton Factory John F. Hoke &
.L. D. Childs, 2 miles south of court
bouse.
Vesuvius Furnace, Graham's Forge,
Bievard'i, and Johnson's Jron works,
east.
,'LimeKiln Daniel Shuford and oth
ers, 9 miles south. "
Letters for tne above to be addressed
to the Lincolman Post Ojfiee.
Itty Sunday Breeches.
"It chanced to be our washing day,
And all our clothes were drying;
The storm came roaring through the lines,
And set them all a flying;
I saw the shirt and petticoats
Go riding off like witches;
And lost, ah ! bitterly I wept
I lost my Sunday breeches!
I 8a w them straddling through the air,
Alas! too late to win tbem;
I saw them chase the clouds es if
The devil had been in them,
They were my darlings and my bride.
My boyhood's pride and riches
Farewell, farewell, I faintly cried
My breeches! O my breeches!
That night I saw them in my dreams,
How changed from what 1 knew tbem!
The dews had steeped their faded threads,
The winds had whistled through them.
I saw the wide and ghastly rents
Where demon claws had torn them
A hole vas in their hinder parts,
As if an imp had v orn them,
I have had many happy years,
And tailors kind and clever,
But these young pantaloons have gone,
Forever and forever!
And not till fate has cut the last.
Of all my eatthly stiches,
This aching iieait shall cease to mourn
My loved and long lost breeches!1'
Hang up your Stockings!
BY MAJOR JONES.
Ever sense 1 had the good forlin to
gel into Mary Stallins' meal bag, I've
had a very great veneration for the good
old practice of hangin up the stockins
on Christmas times. When 1 was a
boy 1 never used to miss hanging up my
stockins, and I'll have to be a good deal
older than 1 am before I forget with
what hopeful morality I used to o to
sleep on Christmas Eve, or with what
eager expectation I used to wake in the
mornin to count over the ginger-cakes
and lasses candy which 1 was always
sure to git from good old Santa Claus.
Them was happy days, and I well re
member the shade that cum over my
life when my too pryin curiesity des"
troyed the beautiful delusion when 1
fouud out that old Aunt Suckey was in
cohoot with the Saint. After that 1 ne"
ver hung up my stockins no more, and
Christmas, tho" it brought egg nogs and
roast-turkeys, lots of fun and poppers,
never had the same joys for me the
fact is, it was pretty much a blank in
the Almanack, till that auspicious night,
when 1 becum the happyest man that e
ver swung in bag. As I have sed,
sense then 1 have had an uncommon
respect for the old custom, and as soon
as my boy was old enuff lo know his
stockins pretty well from his trou
sers, I larned him to hang 'em up
Bless his little hart, he hainf been talk
in nor thinkin about nothin else but old
Santa Claus for this last month, and I
do believe his calculations would take in
the contents of all the candy stores and
toy-shops in Baltimore. And the way
he toes the mark now is really releavin
to his mother. He wouldn't cry a whim
per if he was to fall down six pair of
stairs, and as for playin with the fire,
upsettin the chairs, fightin the nurse, or
gettin his clothes dirty, he don't think of
sich a thing
He's gwine to hang up his stockins.
But ther's more hanging up of stock
ins in this world than goes by the name.
Older people who laughs at the childrens
innocent superstition, don't forget to
hang up ther stockins, though they don't
always go to bed with as quiet, trustin
heart nor as clean hands and faces, and
of course didn: always git ther stockins
as well filled.
The Politician hangs up his stockins
for Buncomb, and waits to see 'em swell
with popularity. . Ther's four or five
pair of stockins hung up now for the
next Presidency, sum bran new ones and
sum that's been darn'd up for the occas
ion before;and ther'II be more old stock
ins hung up this winter at Washington
than would hold all the officers of the go
vernment for half a century to cum. . I'd
just like to be old Uncle Sam ir.ftead ot
old Santa Claus for a while, sumof'em
would find empty stockins.I'll be bounds.
The Lawyer and the Doctor hangs
up ther stocking when they stick up ther
shingles. Sometimes they're a long
time gettin 'em full of clients and pati
ents, but if they do succeed they're ve"
ry apt to keep up the practice.
The Merchant hangs up his stockins,
over hit door, and sum times you'll gee
'em haogin in the winder and all- round
the door. So if they don't always git
fortin enuff in 'em, it aint beeuii- ihev
don't have a fair showin in the world.
TheLaefyslhey thang up ther hose
(they don't never wear stockins now a
days,) when they primp ther beautiful
faces, and decorate ther lovely persons
in all the colors of the rainbow to take
the eyes of the bows Bless ther dear
sweet souls, they're the ones that knows
how to hang up ther st hose, and its
monstrous few chaps that is smart enuff
to keep out of 'em them that keeps out
aint worth bagin.
Editor hangs up ther stockins, and
if any people deserve to have em well
filled its :hem But, poor fellers, most
of 'em is no strangers lo hope deferred.
They know what it is to give ther lives
to a labor of love, and are contented to
see the stockins of others filled with
good things of this world, though ther
own swings empty in the chill winds of
adversity. A editor mought as well
hang himself as
But I'm gwine to hangup my stock,
ins ! I'm determined to see what luck
ther is for me these Christmas times.
I'm a little superstitious sense that time
1 got in the Christmas bag of eld Miss
Stallinses back porch, an who knows
but another windfall of forlin awaits me.
111 hang up my stockins this veryChrist
mas and see if ther aint some clever
Santa Clauses that will fill 'em chock
full of subscribers. So take notice now,
friends and well-wishes, that my best
par of stockins (a bran new par what old
Miss Stallins nit for me and gin me when
I was at home,) is to be hung up next
Christmas eve. I shall go to bed that
night sober as a meetin house.nnd dream
of more subcribers than would fill all the
Abolition petitions that was ever sent to
Congress from New England.
Dear reader, do you wish me a mer
ry Christmas and yourself a happy New
Year Well if you do, just 'be my
Sente Cleus, and help to fill my Christ
mas stockins, and every week you shall
have a Continent full of good stories,
jokes, poetry, news, &c., to interest and
entertain you.
Predictions for New Year.
According to the wise heads and
soothsayers of the present day, the year
of out Lord '48 is to be an eventful one.
We extract the following sagacious pre
dictions, which will doubtless be ful
filled: "Through the whole course of pres
ent year whenever the moon wanes the
night will grow dark On several occa
sions, during the year, the sun will rise
before certain people discover it, and set
before they have finished the days
work . It is quire likely that when there
is no business doing, many will be heard
to complaim of hard times but it is equal
ly certain that all who hang themselves
will escape starvation. If bust res and
hoops go out of fashion a church pew
will hold more than three ladies. If
dandies wear their beards, there will be
less work for the barbers, and he who
wears mostachios will have something
to sneeze at. . There will be many e
clipscs of virtue, some visible, others
invisible. IFhoscrever is in love will
think his mistress a perfect anger, and
will only find out the truth of his suspic
ion by gettin marriedMany delicate
ladies, whom no one would suspect, will
be kissed without telling their mas
There will be more books published than
will find purchasers, more rhymes writ
ten than will find readers, and more bills
made than will find payers. If the in
cumbent of a fat office should die, there
will be a dozen feet ready to step into
one pair of shoes. If any young lady
should happen to blush, she will be apt
to look red in the face, without the use
of paint; if she dream of a young man
three nights in succession, it will be a
sign of something; if she dream of him
four times, or have the toothache, it is
ten to one she will be a long time in get.
ting either of them out of her head
Many people will drink more strong li
quor than will be necessary to keep them
sober, and take more medicine than
will be requisite to the enjoyment of
good health. Dinners and entertain
ments will be given to those who have
enough at home, and the poor will re.
ceive much advice gratis, legal and
medical excepted. The public debts of
the repudiating States will hardly be
adjusted,and the same fate will very pro
bably attend many private contracts in
this latitude. He who marries this year
will run a great risk, especially if he
does it in a hurry. He who steals a
match gives tattlers occasion to gossip,
and will be apt to involve himself and
bride in disagreeable relations. There
will be a great noise all over thecoun
try when it thunders, and a tremendous
dust will be kicked up occasionally
by coach-horses. Many young Ladies,
who hope for it, but little expect itt
will be married; and many who confi
dently anticipate that glorious consu
mation, will be doomed to wait another
year. Finally, theie exists little doubt,
this will be a "most wonderful" year
surpassing in interest all that have pre
ceeded , it. Politicians will ir.ake fools
of themselves? pettifoggers will make
fools of others, and many women with
pretty faces will make fools of both.
1 he world will go round as usual, and
come back to the place whence it set out
as will many a man who engages in bus
iness. There will be great cry and lit
tie wool, both at the shearing of pigs
and the meeting of Congress."
A Thrilling Scene. Our late for
eign journals record an incident which
is one of the most thrilling we have ever
read of. On a late occasion the Empe.
ror of Russia, was reviewing his fleet
when two sailors particularly excited
his attention, both by the precision which
they performedseveral difficult manoeu
vres, and by the agility and daring which
they displayed. . The Emperor was so
much pleased that he immediately pro
moted one to be a captain; the other he
appointed Lieutenant on the spot. The
men, however, were Jews, and there is
an ukase forbidding Jews to wear an
epaulette. The Admiral of the fleet,
who stood by the Emperor, knowing
that ihey were Jews, stated the difficul.
ty to his imperial Majestv. "Pshaw!'
cried the Emperor, "that does not signi
fy in the least they shall immediately
embrace the Greek religion, of course."
When this determination was commu
nicated lo the two young men, sorrow
and despair seized upon them at the
thought of receiving honor and promo
tion on such inevitable terms. Knowing
that their remonstrance or refusal would
be in vain, they requested of the Em
peror to show still more of their niana-u.
vres, as he had not seen all they could
do. This being granted, ihey ascended
the topmast, and locked in each other's
arms, threw themselves into the sea and
disappeared forever. Saturday Post.
Time to pass it. The facetious Dr.
B. of, having inadvertently preach
ed one of hts sermon? for the third time,
one of his parishoners having noticed it,
said to hint after service, Docter, the
sermon you preached us this morning,
having had three seterul several rend
ing, I move that it how be passed,"
A negro woman has made her debut
at one of the theatres in Paris, and her
performances are said by critics to be
almost as charming as these of the
Swedish nightingale, Jenny Lind.
South Carolina. The H ouae of
Representatives, on the 1 3th insi., deci-
td upon giving the election of the elec
tors of President and Vice President lo
he people, ubon the general ticket
system, by a vote of yeas 64, nays 54
but the bill was lost in the Senate; and
the Legislature adjourned sine die oh
the 17thult.
The Mormons, it seems, are making
themselves at home as fast as possible
in Iheir new quarters out west, on the
fine lands of the Potto wattomie purchase,
on both aides oil the , upper Missouri,
above Council Bluffs. They have plan
ted immense fields of corn to the ex
tent of some 30, 000 acres. They have
built also a town, which they call Winter
Quarters, containing already a popula
tion of 7,000 souls, and strongly picket"
ed in.
High Prices. We understand that
Tobacco, laised by Mr Stovall, of
North Carolina, was sold yesterday at
West Hill warehouse, in this town, at
817 per cwt. Nor is this the only
instance in which good prices have been
paid for Tobacco in Petersburg recent
ly. Several hogsheads have been sold
remarkably well, and planters would be
only consulting their own interests if
they would give our market a trial, Rem
publican.
Remains of Gen. Wilson I t is an
nounced in the Tarboro' Bress, that the
regains of Gen. Wilson are expected to
arrive at that place about the 25th of
January inst, and will be kept a fev
days, in order to give as much notice
of the precise day. ef.'tfo funeral, a
circumstances will permit. Affiacourae
will be delivered on ti e occasion, and
the remains will be interred withMason.
ic and martial honors.
Maryland Legislature. The Legis
lature of Maryland assembled on the
27th ult. The "Baltimore American''
states, that the present session will be
the last under the old Constitutional rule
of annual sessions. Henceforth the ses
sions are to be biennial. This fact will
render nece&ssary the election of a U S
Senator this winter.
Supreme Court.
The following young gentlemen have
been examined by the Supreme Court,
during its present sitting, and admitted
to the practice of the Law, in the respec
tive Courts mentioned, viz.
IK THE COUNTY COUBTS
J G McDugald, Bladen County,
Allmand A Mckoy, Sampsoc County,
William A Strong, do do.
Wm K S!ocump, do do.
Ralph P Buxton, Fayetteville,
John II JWurphy, Burke County,
H B Hardy. Bertie County,
Tippoo S Haughton, Edenton,
Thomas C Jlanning, do
John Lyon Holmes, TVilmington,
Turner W Battle, Edgecomb County,
E B Summer, Perquiminons Couniyr
John W Johnson, Raleigh,
Joseph G Carraway, Martin County
George R Clements, do do.
Edward J Warren, Beaufort County.
IX THE SUPERIOR COUKT.
T Brown Venable, Granville County,
Thomas Richardson, Newbern,
A M Bogle, Iredell County,
Quincy F Neal, Ashe County,
J N Fleming, Davie County,
MxMt&y B Smith, Pitt County,
J JMcCorkle, Anson Country,
John II Manly, Raleigh.
Wben the termins cf the gillan1
Walker were taken to Puebla, the bolch
of a carpenter made the coffin too small?
whereupon Lt Clintonf of Scott'a compa
ny, 1st Pa., off with his uniform, rolled
up his sleeves, and made him a coffin
himself. He is carjenter, it is stated,
and is from Moyamensing or South
wark, in Philadelphia. Lieut Breese,
of the same company who is a black-'
smith, entered, a smithey and made the'
nails.
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