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-.-v " THE PUBLIC GOOD SHOULD EVER BE PREFERRED TO PRIVATE ADVANTAGE. VOLUME 4. Lincolnton, North Carolina, Friday Morning; June 2,. 1848. Number. 18. :1 P RAITED AND PUBLISHED WEEKLY, BY THOMAS J. KCCLES. Tssmi. Two dollars pei annumi payable in advance; $2 50 if pa y men t be delayed 3 months. A discount to clubs of 3 or more. Advertisements will be conspicuously insert ed, at $1 pel square (14 lines) for the tirst, anp 25 cents tor each subsequent insertion. SCANDAL. 'Now, let it work. Jliscliief thou art afoot, "Take what course thou wilt.'' The substance of the following is no fiction. In a neighboring villa go whose inhabitants like the good people of A thens, were much given t "either tell or hear tome new thing," lived Squire P., a facetious, good natured sort of a body, whose jokes are yet a matter of Village Record, and have been retold through various editions, from foho down to duodecimo. Aunt Lizzy was Deacon Snipe's wife's sister a maiden lady of about fifty she went to all the meetings kept a regular account of every birth, death and marriage, with their dates doctored all the babies, and knew every yarb in the neighborhood showed all the young married women how to make soap, and when they had bad luck, made every child in the house set cross legged until the luck changed. In fine, she was a kind of viliage factotum spent her time in going from house to house, grinding out a grist of slander to each, as occasion required, but al ways concluded with k'lhe way 6! trans gressors is hard ;" "poor Mrs. A. or B. (as the case was) I pity her from the baitom of my heart," or some such very soothing reflection. Aunt Lizzy was always very fond of asking sirangeis and others, withoat regard to time or place, "the state of their minds ; how they enjoyed their minds, $c. Those questions were generally followed by a string of scandal, which was calculated to destroy the peace and happiness of some oflier best neighbors and friends ; but she, like other narrators of this kind, considered such intellectual mur der as either establishing her own fair fpijtationor as the only mode of en teriaining the village, and thereby ren dering her society agreeable. One warm summer's afternoon, as the Squire was sitting near his office door, smoking his pipe, Aunt Lizzy was pas sing by with great speed, ruminating on the news of the day, when the Squire brought her suddenly to, as the sailors say, by "what's your hurry aunt Lizzy ? walk in." The old lady, who never wanted a second invitation, went into the office, and the following dialoguo soon commenced. "Well, Squire P. I have been think ing this forenoon what an useful man you might be, if ou'd only leave off yaur light conversation, as the good book says, and become a seriou3 man you might be an ornament to both church and state, as our Minister says." "Why, as to that, Aunt L zzy,a cheer ful countenance I consider as the best index of a graetful heart, and you know what the Bible s iys on that subject " Wben ye fast, be not as ihe hypocrites of a sad countenance ; but anoint thy head and wash thy face, (aunt Lizzy began to feel for her pocket handker chief, for she was a taker of snuff,) that thou appear not unto men o fast." "Now, there Squire that's just what 1 told you see how you have the scrip ter at your tongue's end ; what an use ful man you might be in our church, it you'd only be a doer as well as a hear er of the word." "As to that, aunt Lizzy, I don't see that your "professors," as you call them, are a whit better than 1 am, in private. I respect a sincere profession as much as any man ; but I know enough of one of your church, whom you think a great deal of, to know that she is no better than she should be J" At these inuendoes, aunt Lizzy's lit tle black eyes began to twinkle ; she sat down beside the Squire, in order to speak in a lower tone spread her handkerchief over her lap, and began to lap the cover of her snuff box in true style, and all things being in readiness for a regular seize of "scandalurn mag natuni," she commenced fire "Now, Squire, I want to know what you mean by one of our church ? I know who you mean the trollop 1 did't like so many curls about her head, when she told her experience." ' The Squire finding curiosity was put. ting hia boots on, had no occasion to add spurs to the heels, for the old lady had one in her hand that was worth both of them. Accordingly he had no peace until he consented to explain what he meant by the expression "in private" this was a dear word with aunt Lizzy, "Now, aunt Lizzy, will you take a Bible oaih, that you will never corn mu- nicate what I am about to tell you to a living being, and that you wilf keep it while you live a3 a most inviolable se cret? "Yes, Squire, I declare I won't never tell nobody nothing about it as long as I breathe "the breath of life ; and I'll take a Bible oath on it ; there, sartin as i live, Squire, before you or any other magistrate in the whole country." "Well, then, you know when I went up to Boston a year ago." "Yes, yes, Squire, and I know who went with vou too Susv R. nnH T)n!lw T. and her sister Prudence." "Never mind who went with me, aunt Lizzv : there was n whnlt Inr of passengers But, but" rone oi your buts, Squire out with it if folks will act so a trollop" "Bur, aunt Lizzy, I'm afraid you'll brinjr me into a scrape." "I've told vou over and over amun. that nobody never shall know nothing about it, and your wife knows 1 a'nt leaky" Vy wife! 1 wonld'nt ha Vfl her know what 1 was going to say for the world why, aunt Lizzy, if she should know it" Well, don't be afear'd, Squire, once for all, i'l! take my oath that no living crnur shant never as long as 1 live, know a lisp on'l." "Well, then if you must know it I slept with one of the likeliest of your church members nearly half the way uo ! ! !" " Aunt Lizzy drew in a long breath shut up her snuffbox, and put it in her pocket, muttering to herseli 'The likeliest of our cburch members! I thought it was Susey P likeliest J this comes of being flattered a trollop. Well, one thing 1 know "the way of transgressors is hard ;" but I hope you'll never tell no body on't, Squire ; for sar tin as the work', if such a thing should be known, our church would be scat tered abroad, like sheep without a shep herd." In a few moments aunt Lizzy took her departure, giving the Squne ano ther caution and a sly wink, as she said good by let me alone lor a secret. It was not many days before Squire P. received a very polite note from Parson G. requesting him to attend a meeting of the church, and many of the parish, at the south Conference room, in order to settle some difficulties with one of the church msaibnrs, who, in or der to clear up her character, requested Squire P. to be present. The Parson, who was a very worthy man, knew the frailty of some of the weak sisters, as aunt Lizzy called them, and as he was a particular friend of Squire P's. tequested him in his note to say nothing of it to his wife But the Squire took the hint, and telling his wile that there was a parish meeting, requested her to be ready by 2 o'clock, and he would call for her. Accordingly the hour of meeting came the whole village flocked to the room, which could not hold half of them. All eyes were alternately on Squire and Susey B. Mrs. P. started and Susey looked as though she had been crying a fortnight. The Parson, with softened tone, and in as a delicate a manner as possible. Stated thestnrv about Suspv R which he observed was in every body's mouth, and which he did not himself be lieve a word of and Squire P. being called on to stand as a witness after painting in lively colors the evils of slander wnh which their village had been infested, and particularly the church, called on aunt Lizzy in pres ence of the meeting, and before the church, to come out and make ackuowl. edgemeut for violating a Bible oath ! A uui Lizzy's apology was, that she on ly told Deacon Snipe's wife on'l and she look an oath, that she would't never tell nobody else on't. Deacon Snipe's wife had, it appears, sworn Koger Toothaker's sister never to tell nobody on't and so it went through the whole church, and thence through the village. The Squire then acknowledged be fore the whole meeting, that he had, as be told aunt Lizzy, slept with a church member, half the waj up to Boston, and that he believed her to be one of the likeliest of their members, inasmuch as she never would hear nor retail Zar der. All eyes wre now alternately on i Susey B. and Squire P's wife aunt Lizzy enjoyed a kind of diabolical lri umph, which the Squire no sooner per ceived than he finished his sentence by declaring that the church member, to whom he alluded, was his own lawful wife ! ! J Aunt Lizzy drew in her head under a huge bonnet, as a turtle does under his shell, and marched away into one corner of the room, like a dog that had been killing sheep. The Squire, as u ual, burst out into fit of laughter, from which his wife, Susey B. and even the Parson, could not refrain enjoying and Parson G. afterwards acknowledged that Squire P. had given a death blow to scandal iti the village which all his pfea ching could no: have done. From the N. O. Delta. Important from Mexico. The schr. Velasco arrived last evening from Vera Cruz, which she left on the 8th May. We learn from Capi Decker, of the Velasco, that before he left Vera truz, it was reported and generally be lieved there that the Congress atlQuere jaro had dispersed without acting on the T reaty ; and it was universally admitted by all classes, of Mexican, ub ihsre would be no peace, but that the Ameri cans would have either to occupy the whole coumry, or toetire from it en tirely. Since writing the above, we have re ceived the Vera CrtjS Free American of Ihe 5th inst i for winch we are indebted to the polite attention of Mr Boyle of the firm of Boyle & Naccorry, merchants, of Vera Cruz. It contains no news of importance, but is not the less accepta ble. r The Free A rrerican speaks indignant ly of tho conduct of the Mexican author nlies, who, it stated, are doing all they can to hurr.iliaie the American citi zens in Vera Cruz, and calls on the Go vernor to investigate the matter, and see that justice is done. It seems that jus tice is done. It seems that since ihe commencement of the Armistice, the Mexican authorities have resorted to all sorts of petty annoyances, and, as fat as they dare, have done every thing they could to gratify their revengeful feelings. The British man-of-war Electra ar rived at Vera Cruz on the 4th inst. from Laguna. The Rhine In the beginning when Nature piled up the mighty mouutains, and hollowed the basins of the seas, Irom her realm in the clouds she de. scended to the Gotlhard, and said: it is meetthatthe Mighty nd Great should bo joined with ths Jiooily even o the most distant sphere of action. Thou staiidest fast, but a son shall be born ol thee who shall bear thee strength and blessing, with wbich through heaven, thou hast been endowed, to many a dis tant land? She spoke, and from the mountain burst the Rhine. .' Joyous and free, lull of strength and delight, the new barn streamlet leaps down the Mountain's rocky side. Mer ely he plunges into the dark Boden Sea, but the seu restrains htm not, lti waves part for him of themselves; undaunted, with ancestral strength, and increasing size, he bids defiance to the threatening gulph, and proudly starts upon his glor? oas course. For'he was nature's own begouen son, and of tho mountain born! Brave U be in youth, and his path is his own brave love. Nature, all wise, errs not in her choice. She includes the Good in the Mighty. He madly cleaves his way lhrouyh rocks and moun. tains,, heaven high, but she directs and restrains the fullness ot youthful strength. Thus with tenderness and love he laves the feet of fruitful vine-clad hills. Glorious is now his progress. Hun dreds of streams and numberless brooks join him in his victorious course, and with him lovingly mingle their waves. The Godlike allures the Noble, and the High ever strives the Highest to attain. Manline and calm, we now behold his current to flow calmer, but not weaker. The stern Winter seeks to bind him with eternal chains. He breaks them as slender threads. For in his youth he was endowed with strength, and bath burst mountains us sunder. Here like a polished mirror, winds his glassing stream. He hath left the moun tain with its widespread vineyard far be hind. Yellow fields ofripenmg corn, and luxuriant herbage, smile on every side. Upon his broad breast he bearest mighty ships and fleets. Thus, should Power er combine the Useful with the Beautiful. We have followed him to the limit of his blessed career. Nature here divides him into many streams,which are called by many names. We only say the Rhine, when we wonder at h-3 greamess, and recount his gilt. For the might of Dignity clings to resting Force. Translated from the German of Krum macher, by Mene. A mountain in Switzerland. The Bill for the admission of the State of Wisconsin into the Union yesterday passed the House of Representatives,and is now before the Senate. A copy .or the bill, as passed, will be found in the House Proceedings of yesterday. Nat- PULQUE. Pulque in all its different stages of fer mentation is a great article of production and use in Mexico, our men were very Tond of it as a beverage, it is made Irom the plant called by the Mexicans, msgu ay or pulque plant (the gavaamencaria ot Botanists) in the following manner, when the plants have just produced the flower bud, it is cut out, and a central bv sin is scooped out of a size to hold half a bushel or more, this basin soon fills wiih a milky juice of the taste and appear ance of buttermilk, this juice is taken out a often as it fills and carried to the fermenting tubs in the Brewery, where it undergoes a vinious or spirituous fer mentation. The quantity of the juice depends on the vigor of its growth, and its size, they are enormous plants, from ten to twelve feet across, the leaves five or six feet long, and from six to ten in ches wide. The pulque is put in skins, and carried to market, it is a brisk, lively drink something likechampaign-cider, or wine a Mexican withou: his pulque is like an Englishman without his beer or ale, it is considered a wholesome beverage, and used by all old and young. Near Chapultepecare some of the oldest, trees known on the Continent of America (called by Botanists Taxodium,) Adam son in his travels, cut into one of them and counted some seven thousand annu al rings. In a garden in the city of Mexico there is a tree called raanita or hand flower tree, (it is the chirantho dendion, peniadactylon of Botanists) the Indian name is a pefect "Jaw Break er" it is Macpabzocniquawhitl there is said to be another at J'oluca, this 1 did not see the flower presents some thing the appearance of a mixture of a birds claw and a flower except tins vegetable curiosity the Botanic garden of Mexico is a poor affair we could look into it from our window. Valuable Receipts for Diseases in Horses. Big Head and Big Jaw. Takeoue gallon of hickory ashes, one pint of spirits of turpentine, two ounces of caaipuorj boil all together to a thin mush, nil a horn with the mush boiling hot, apply the horn with a thin cloth ov er the end, to the diseased part of the head oriaw. Apply the horn four times. upon each time filling the horn wuh the not musn. Sicinay With a pair of blacksmith's tongs draw up the skin on the shoulder, run a red hoi spear through it, then rub it lor ten days morning and evening with spirits of turpentine. Bots 'l ake half a pint of green per simmons or the inside bark of the tree, mix it with one quart of water, and drench the horse with it. Big Shoulder. Take three pounds of corn bread, split the.n in half, wet each half with spirits of turpentine, apply them well to the points of the shoulders, until you have used them all thea with a pair of smith's longs, raise the skin on the shoulders, and run it through with a red hot spear, then rub it for ten days with spirits of turpentine, eveuing aud morning. Stiff Complaint, Glanders, $-c. Take three gallons of slack-wa'er, one pound of burdock root, two pounds of eld er bark boil them well together, to one gallon, keeping the pot filled with spice wood brush, during the operation of boil ing drench the horse with one nint ev ery morning until well. If in glanders, great inflamation takes place upon the giauus, steam me part lightly, as in big head. Spavin, Split, and Rimr-Bone. Cut the horn to fit the swelled pans, and steam tt as in bi" head. Afflicted eyes Through the center oftheearruna leather string, turn it once a day, then take one pound of tobac co, Don it to a strong amber, bathe the eyes evening and morning until well. Poll Evil, Fistula. Take one quart of whiskey, half pint of spirits of turpen une, one ounce oi camphor, put all in a bottle, each evenincr Pour slowly on the swelled part, four table spoonfuls, until me swelling disappears. It the place be broke, lake one half pound of lead, melt it in a ladle, while in a mulled state. add a sufficiency of sulphur to keep the into irom uniting, ana all will become a powder sprinkle the powder on the place once a day, until well. Distemper. Take half a pound of the herb life-everlastin?. boil it to a strong 3 O ooze, add a sufficiency of hogs lard to form an ointment. Anoint the swelled parts once a day, antil well. A Tear Starter, A gentleman, ta king aparlmeat8,ajd to the landlady, "j assure you madam, I never left a lodging but my landlady shed tears." I hope 8ir," 8a id she, " it was not because you went away without paying," Phasing Method of teaching the Mne Parts of Speech I will collect a number of children, and will draw an imaginary piciure. I wi'l ask each of mem hi succession, what will you have in ihe picture? Oae will say a cottage, others a mansion, a wood, a "tree, a lake, achutch. a lady, a gentleman. Then I tell them that these things are nouns, which is the name of anything, and therefore, might as well have been call ed names instead of nouns. I would then, having got the objects for ihe pic. ture, how shall they be placed? I shall be told, the cottage by the wood ; tho tree on the hill; the horse in the field ; the lady near the lake; the gentleman beyond the church; thus in making their chioce, they would find out what consti. tu:ed a preposition. 1 should then take up the adjective brush, as I would call it, and tell them, that, to givo beauty to the picture, it was proper to express a quality, and they would give their prelerence for a pretty cottage, a fine mansion, a young lady, a handsome church, and so forth, which would teach them the adjective. Then, in order to give life to tho picture, 1 would tell them that the different objects must be doing something ; and might be told the horse should prance, the tree should wave, the gentleman should study, the lady should sing, the lake should shine: by which would be explained the quali ties of the verb. But 1 would add, the tree might wave, or the lady might sing very differently to what you intend, how should it be?. IVhy, sir, the tree shall wave gently; the horse shall prance play, fully; and the lady shall sing sweetly ;' thus 1 should obtain the adverb. 'Now,' I would ask one, IFhat would you do with the cottage!' Oh, sir, I -should like to live in it.' ln it.what do you mean?' In the cottage.' Thus 1 would. by rep etition, illustrate the proaoun. The conjunction they would learn because it could form no part of the. picture; whilst the interjection, tho called a part of speech, is not so in reality; it is an excla mation only. Thus children might ea sily be collected to play making pic tures, and would be unconeciousiy in structed while they were innocently a mused. CONGRESS YUCATAN. The Yucatan question has been laid on the table in the Senate, on motion o Mr Hankegan, who said that he Bad. received satisfactory information of a peace having been made between-the Indians and whites. Such is, in fact,, the latest accounts from Yucatan. Mi Calhoun is said to have delivered avery able speech on the Yucatan Bill. We have seen an outline ol the speech, But it is not yet published. He op posed any interference with Yucatan, except to furnish the means of escape to as many as possible of the whiles of that country. The conclusion of a Treaty between the whites and Indians is fortu nate, cutting short the debate and all the difficulties connected with i. in the House of Representatives there was recently a very interesting debate on the question of remunerating the ow. nerof a slave lost in the public service during the late war with England. Tho Abolitionists opposed it, of course. Mr Burt, Mr Rhett and Mr IKoodward made able speeches on the subject. The Bill is not yet disposed of. PLEASING OTHERS. We should study to please to pleae everybody, rich, and poor, the agreeable and repulsive, the saint and the sinner, the elevated and the humble. No mat ter ho disagreeable the person may appear at first sight, we should not turn him away with a short word or an indif ferent air. He may possess rare jewels in his bosom. Looks are often decep live. An intimate acquaintance with peisons who, at first sight, struck us with disgust, has changed the whole feelings of our souls. Hatred has been turned into love. Scores of such instan ces appear in the lives of those who stu dy to please. They have learned this fact that the outward appearance is not a true index of the heart aud so they make themselves agreeable to all They will be as pleasant to the servant aj to the master to the black as to the while and be us anxious to accommo date the one as the other. There is no disposition that needs more cultivation than a pleasant and a greeable. Study to please, we advise you. Be not cross and crabbed ; give so mopish answer to an inquiry, and never hesitate to go a few steps out of your way, if by so doing you can please and accommodate another. Who wiU not labor to please T Colts worthy. The result of the Elections in France, in favor of the LaMartine and moderate party, is auspicious for the success and stability of the French Republic. V
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