North Carolina Newspapers

J. - -. THK PUBLIC GOOD SHOULD EVER BE PREFERRED TO PRIVATE ADVANTAGE." Volume 4. Lincolnton, North Carolina, Friday Morning, July 7, 1848. Number. 23. (PRINTED AND PUBLISHED WEEKLY, BY THOMAS J. KCCLES. v THi. Two dollars pei annum, parable in advance ; $2 50 if payment He delayed 3 months. A discount to cluba of 3 or more. Advertisement will be conspicuously insert ed, at $1 pel square (14 lines; for the first, and 35 cents for each subsequent insertion. Ilcllsion. BT WILLIAM LEGOETT. Like snow thai falls where waters glide, Earth's pleasures fade away; They melt in Time's destroying tide, And cold are while they stay! Bat joys that from Religion flaw, Like sUrs that gild the nijjht, Amidst ihf! darkest gloom of woe. -'Smile forth with sweetest light. ?Religiona ray no clouds obscure, Rut o'er the Christian's soul It sends Its radiance calm and pure, Though lempests round it roll ; His heart may break with sorrow's stroke', But to i'8 latest thnli, .Liko diamonds bhiiunir when they're broke, -Religion lights i still ! Old Baclaclori. Old Bachelor are hateful things, ' f And ought to be despised; With hearts like broken fiiidle-sirirsg?, And just as little prized. Untuned tj love's sofi thrilling touch, No pleasures do they know: They feel not,snd they lasitr not much Of happiness beluw. The joys of wedlock, which they spurn, vith all its numerous care E'eu J.frouh year, should love's lamp burn, Arc woith an ai? of ihcir s. .Were all like them. the. lmni;.n rate W.uld soon be swept 'aw ay; Aftd even eanh to thrir disgrace. Would luaible lo dt-c.ay. The aoeial bond that bonJ sos.veM. NVJierB httarts and uul oni:; Where friendship, love, and union meel, Would ink in endless nigi.t. Rut 'tis in vain fur me ! pntr, I cannot make tlioni clever; Old bachelors I always hate, And mast and skall firewr. A Tale of a broken Heart. I 'in easily uuuiu Mr Oh-tdp.r vhile editor of the Phil j ri) 'o live above, and to i.udive, ihe odelp!i V, it ted Slates Guzelte was ie- I opic:ons lo winch his poverty and siding for a brief space at Cape Island, uii-fmuries had exposed him. where as usual, he was watching every! The next day bit on- she learned -thing around and rii awing iisoful mr j 'liMthe man who had her love; and for ' al lessons from all he nw. The follow- j whom she was now ho. ding her wealth ing is one -.if the beautiful and touching j had numeda female of indifferent char incidents to which he alludes; j acttr, and w as Jiwng regardless of her, A Tale that he, ic Is of a careworn, j nR interest.", her uifections and her sao m .hope, destroyed female, vainly trying the rifle.es. waters for a broken heart, wd! touch the ' Hf'd not go further. Tlie heartless ; feelings of eveiy reader. It is a corn - i scoundrel is only one '. a class. The mon story shamo on humanity thai ii; l)(,ur hoait broken t-ulK rer is also one ol should be nd the narrator of it well j thousands thai are around us, hiding asks: "When wiil ihesc things ce-risfj to their giefs, and thinking Ihemselve be? Will not woman's he-irl and wo j hilf compensated hr their wrongs by fnntVs prid have an estimation as high, j lSie'r success in concealing the cfPicts. at least its the bales of merchandise in I 1 1U seashore has no power to assuage a wareheuse? The thieft or abuse jf a wounded spirit hkw iltal young wo the l ater is a crime that h ts its penalty mau's. Affciion outraged coutilence written down in the statute , oi l; of the j abused, and wom inly pride insulted, Commonwealth, but public ficmin-.fn! I chimioi all he restored, ail satisfied, all , has no general visitation for the former." j compensated, by years of washing in Tho story, strongly illustrative of the lne3e waves, that are now dashing to difference between the affection of a ! ,he shore. Indeed, it would seem that woman and that of a man, runs a ful- ! ,l,fi g'"1 the only covert for such an lows: 1 ctton. A strong alt ichment hail grown up j between the female and a young man ol The Vutvre. The obscurity of the ihc neighborhood, whose condition in j future, the veil which is cast upon lime -life was considerably below her own, but and eternity ihat lie before ur, should tfhose gifts and attainments seemed to ' leach us ihe folly and fatuity of sin. If I.V w.. us. J 1 USl I W , ; honor and position; and if ihe father of ihe young woman did not encourage the st'entior.s of the youth, it is piobable llnt he believed the good of both would b promoted by a less devotion of iheir ' Yime to each other, and that a union f.d ! sowing the fulfillment of some of ihe j promises of his life would be belter for both than one that was formed in Miose promises. Ubeaience was rendered bv the female, and the young man enicren I upon some pursuits that teemed io hold ! out hopes ol success, i know not what I he engaged in, but it is certain that ihero was constant correspondence be tween him and the young woman, an v occassional visit, and nj strong disap probation of the father, though on more than one occassion he intimated a doubt of the stability of the young man's prin ciples. Some few years after that, this young man became involved in difficulties that led to criminal proceedings against htm, and finally he was sentenced to the State Prison. Jt was said Jv ome that hu was a hard case ; that the verdict was one. of those spasmodic movements of juries, by which they make compensation to society or allowing nine guilty to es cape by condemning one comparatively innocent. The efforts of the young wo man (and, it is said, her promise to her father that she would have no further correspondence with the culprit) induced the lather to make interest with the Go vernor and have the young man par, doned. He found means to satisfy her that he was wholly guiltless, at most only imprudent, in the matter that led to his trial and condemnation. The father became incensed at the renewal of the intercourse, and obtained from his daugh ter n promise never to marry the' man without his consent. The slate of a flairs at home became unendurable. With some little possessions of her own, the young woman Jefi her father's house, went to the city, took boarding in a re spectable family, and added to her limit ed means of support by the use of her needle and pencil and her knowledge ol music. The young man visited tho family, and it was believed that a part of the hard earnings of the young mo mm was given t0 him. lie had the meanness to accept moir ey from s-jch a source. And she was at length admonished by an acquaintance, thiit her affections and her confidence j were abused-but w hen did woman ever : believe aught against one she loved? or ; might a bud as -other asserted! j Twice that young woman was obliged to j change her reideiic;, from the uuwil j lingness of families to receive the visiis j f h-r friend, but never once was there a thought injurious to her reputation, j Her anxiety an 1 her constant labor were j undermining a constitution originally I ! .1 I I i rvcucin, nuu iiiu p:ue cnetK ana mhik i c" u- ' Mien,tt ' indicate also a lurking nid growing apprehension, that she had J sacrificed h-r home dmies :inJ her I home comforts, for one unworthy such j a price, how unworthy she did not . dream. i On the 16 h of lust May she received a letter, informing her ihat her father had died, and that his last words were fort ivenes and bless-fngs for j,er e died, Uh)a intestate, and she was the u; heritor of a considerable portion of his large estate. Win n the first L-ush of ref was over, the anguis-h that the daughter ever fceh at the deM.h ol a f jiher she recollects (perhaps sooner) ilt.u she was now reieaed from her pro j inibf; nut t marry without her fathers' approV.il, and thai her means were amp'le i support hM--e! and hitn, and to a- ' liivv hi.,. t.,j .,(',,.,,,.,, I.,. :i i t H.IV liUIUIOI'J "I'ilU, Sill. J"ltlU UL' nevolent being undertook to be our yuide, and devoted himself to keep us in all our ways, what madness slnuld we think it to pierce the han i thai led us, and refuse such needful offices of love ! And what is sin but willful eparation from that he lvenly Guide, to whom the dark clouds before us are as cl?ar as the mid-dy sun ? He sees every lock and everv quicksand on which the vessel mighi chance, to strike. Ho iraces with uner- ring eye the path of life and path of death, by one or other of which wo must infilliably proceed. Ny, he not only sees ihe luture. hut shapes its contingen cies, and controls us destinies. The foture is but another name for his yet unaccomplished will. If then we tiust i i him, and obey him, with what lljweri and blessings may he strew the road which w e have yet to travel ! If other wise, with what wreck and ruin, even ofoureaithly happiness, with what be reavement of those we lcve,aad inflictions of every curse we dread, may he cover the dreary path which lies before us. From the Charleston Courier, June 26. BY TELEGRAPH. From ate w Orleans. Our New Orleans correspondent com municates with us under dale of the af ternoon of Wednesday last. LATER FROM MEXICO. The steamer 'I rent had arrived at New Orleans from Vera ('ruz, having left there on the loth inst., bein six days later than before received from that place, and bringing two days later intel lignce from the Mexican Capitol. There was no news of especial impor tance brought by tho Trent, Ilerrera had finally accepted the Presidency of Mexico. Paredes was in tho Capitol at the last date'. Ten thousand American troops were encamped al Eucoree awaiting transpor tation. The health of Vera Ciuz had considerably improved. FROM YUCATAN. The inhabitants oftlie isle of Camea had petitioned Commodore Perry not to withdraw the naval forces until the Mex ican government had provided for their rafely. The Peninsula was in a most deplorable slate. . 'i -LATER STILL. At ten o'clock last night, we received a second dispatch from our prompt and attentive New Orleans correspondent, daied Thursday, 22d inst. The Indians had become very trouble some. Captains Hunt and Wise, with their companies, had repelled an attack of the Whites aud Indians from Cam peachy, in which the Indians lost NINE HUNDRED of their number. All the email towns had been destroyed orvaca HhJ Further particular will be looked for with much anxiety. Bad Pr f cedent. Tuc force of prece dent h very great. The old federal par ty condemned, in the bitterest term;-, and the whig party have dne the same, the nomination of a candidate by con ventions, or "caucus," as they called jt. "And in order to defeat an election before thff J'fVknip ll.au - . the Ajropie, they nominate vr,.t - - - -., i,,nr didatss, av- .irry tiieeiectioinolTfe lower House of Congress. Tin; old fed eral party and their progeny, the present whig party, denounced the nomination of "military chieftains" for the Presi dency, as dangerous to republican liber ty. Hut ai length, finding that they Cwiiid not succeed in electing any of then candidate, they very foolishly began to imitate the democrats, by holding""Na tional Convention?." n'nd nominating -aiilit-iy chieftains," vainly supposing that by these means they could obtain for the:r odious opinions of government al policy, the sanction of a majority of the people. They have succeeded once in doing this, by resorting to political de basement. Out in point of Jact. there was never a "miliiary chieftain" nominated in this country for President, before Gen. Tay lor, by ihe Whig Convention at Phil delphia:Gen. Washington was a milita ly chieftain only for a lime; he to k up aims only in defence ol his coun'ry, and not for a livelihood', Gen. Jackson was only a military chieftain for a time; to defend his coun'ry; he never resorted to the army for a livelihood; both Gen. Washington and Gen. Jackson were statesmen, who laid by the sword wh'm the invader depar.ed; they served their country in the councils of the nation, and were taken from the halls of Congress and sent to fight the battles of their coun try; the same may bo said 'of Gen. Harri son, and the same is certainly true of Gen. Cas. Tney never sought war as an employment, but as a duty. Now, is there not a marked distinction between the above gentleman and Gen. Taylor? lie is iri iruth and indeed a military chieftain, a man who sought the profession of arms as a means of gen teel living; a man who has been in the army from his youth to his old age; and certainly, if there b; harm in elevating military chieftains, the very men who have denounced it, are now trying to consummate the act. It would seem as if they were trying to bring "rum," "war, pestilence and famine." as Mr. Cliy declared, on their counirj, for pite for revenge for their pst defeats. Rut God forbid that their, vengeance should be visited on their country. Thertl'jre, if it is bad precedent to nominate military chieftains for the Presidency, the federal or whig party denounced it in the strongest terms, and they have practiced it in its most odious form. Can they escape from this di lemma? Carolinian. "If we are not struck with judicial blindness, we shall cling to this consti tution, as the mariner clings to the last nlank, when night and the tempest close arcundhim," l,twisCast. The Barnburners at Utica These djsorgamzers assembled at Utica, New. York, on Thursday last, and after the exhibition of much excitement, the wat ers of treachery were atdled by the rea ding ot a letter, by B. F. Rutler, from Martin Van Ruren, stating that he could not vote, for Cass or for Taylor, which met with the universal approval of the Convention. In the Convention a letter was read, unanimously singed, which closed as ml. low-: Wu want Martin Van Curen nominated as the candidate for President. The slave power broken down in 1844 we break that power down in 1848." A motion was made to nominate PrPsi dent viva voce, which was amended by commending the nomination of Mr. Van Uuren,-whi .h was received with enthu siastic applause. Afterwards Gov. II. Dodge, of Wisconsin, was nominated as Vice President. Mr. Van L uren has accepted the nom ination, and having placed himself at the head of this faction, we may soon see developments which will startle the South. IIoh. Stephen A. Douglass. It is gratifying to the South to find such steady friends as the lion. S. a. Douglass, Senator from Illinois. He has ever been the well-wisher of the South, and has struck many vigorous blows in her defence, h is a pleasant task lor us to extract the following,froin the report of his speech at the Ratifica tion Meeting at New Orleans. " Mr. Douglass, while avowing his determination to lend his most cordial support to the nomination, said that each of tne distinguished individuals selected for the support of the Democracy was his own first choice. The gentleman also declared himself opposed to ihe Wilmot Proviso, and said that Ac would voiejor no man who was not determin edly and unqualifiedly hostile to that jncasurc. lj a Northern man should be the Whig candidate for the Presi- dency, there would be no danger to Southern institutions ; bu if hif.hu Southern mant beware: for a Northern t ' ' . .. ' man can set no Southern supoort unless tm avows his sentiments distinciTf vpon ... , uui irom a Ooulheru man, no pledge would be demanded from the South, and the Southern States might therefore find themselves deceived. personal ambition should be interested against them. The Just "Blue Light.' wiiere's lucifer sow? Harrison Gray Oiis, the only survi ving member ol 'ihs Hartford Couven' ion, signed the call lor a public meet ing to ratify the nominations of Taylor and F.'llni'jre, in Boston Massachusetts. Gen. Cass arrived at Detroit on the 16iti ult., and was handsomely received by Ins friends, among whom were the Governor and Lieuienaut Goveror of ihe State, the Heads of Departments, Gen. Cass. Forty -.nine years ago, Gen. Cass, then a hoy of seventeen, crossed tho Alleghany mountains on fool, and with but one dollar iu his pock et at his j iurney's end. Now he gjes, greeted al every step by thousands, the :ho candidate ot the dominaut aty lor the presidency. The Northwest then contained twenty thousand people it now numbers more than live millions. What a contrast and whata common, tary upon our country and its iusiitu. tion! Phila. Times. Strike on. How much like a rock the ocean, agaiiist which the waves have beat for ceniuues, is the man of sterling truth and robust integrity ! To the waves of unholy passion :r unssncti. tied popular apphus?, he crie, " Strike on, I shall not be harmed." The seduc tive influence of vice is all around him ; but he is unmoved. Wealth is at his command, if he will but swerve from the path of duty. No you couid as soon remove a rock in the sea. When Ihe great and gooi Algernon Sydney was about :o bf; executed, he calmly laid his head upon the block. He was asked by (he executioner, if he should rise again ? Not till the gue ral resunectioo strike on," was the re markable reply of Sydney. When unholy power would remove you on account of your virtue, fay calm, ly, strike on, but do not yield to sin. Bo firm in your, principles, even though death should stare you in the face. Strike on ; be this your motto, whenever assailed by wealth or power, and glori ously will you triumph if not in this world, in that which i to conje. Port land Umpire Lamentations in Mexico. The Que retaro Progresso the Mexican Journal from which we quoted last week, to prove that 'aid and comfort' had been offered by Whig leaders in this coun trythus notices the ratification of the Treaty of Peace : The pen flies from our hands, while we comply with the sad duty of announ cing to our readers, that the djy before yesterday the ruin of the Republic was consummated, our State giving the fin ishing touch to the work of Sr. Fens, y Pena and his Minister Rosa. Morn than half of the Mexican Republic, that is lo say, eighty-two thousand square leagues of rick and fertile lands, com prising a part of our beautiful Tamauli- pas, Coahuila, Sonora, Chihuahua, New Mexico, and the California, have been sold for a email amount of money to tho government at Washington, tho impla cable enemy of our friends." Whig oiators and editors are in tho habit of declaring mat the Territory ob tained from Mexico by the Treaty of Peace, is barren and worthless ; but be it borne in mind that this Mexican wri ter, who knows what he is saying to bo true, announces that the United State have acquired from Mexico "eighty two thousand square leagues of rich AND FERTILE LANDS." S0W this lt the Whigs. Latest from Mexico At the latest dales, Gen. Butler had officially announ ced to the American army that a Trea ty of Peace had been concluded with Mexico, and orders had been issued to put f he -troops, upon the march for home. We see no order in relation to the homeward movement of the troops on the line of the Rio Grande ; but wa suppose the North Carolina Regiment, which is to bo mustered out of service al Fortress Monroe, in Virginia, may bu expected about thf middle of July. Mr. Sevier, one of the American Corti missioners, had taken leave of the gov- ernment of Mexico, and had announced" that Mr. Clifioid would remain as resi dent Minister. Tj. Prafihhmt of Mex ico stated to Mft Sevier that his gov ernment would soon send a rcidnl Minister to me United S:ate. . -rrT Xebras'ka. The 'boundaries of i4ti new territories of Nebraska, as propo sed in the bill now before Congress, are as follows : "Commencing at a point in the Mis souri river, whence the fortieth parallel of North latitude crosses said river; thence following up the main channel of said river to the foriy thud parallel of North latitude, thence West ofsaid par allel to the summit of the Rocy Moun tains; thence South to the fortieth par ailed of north latitude ; thence East on the said parallel lo the place of begin cing." Beautiful Extract. "God has writ ten upon the llowtrs that swee'en tho air on the breeze fhal rocks the flw, ers on the ttem upon the raindrop tint refreshes the sprig of moss that lifts it head in the desert upon the ocean that rocks every swimmer in its deep cham ber upon every pencilled 6he,l that sleeps in Ihe caverns of the deep, iu less thin upon the mighty 'in ihat warms and cheers millions of creiiure.s that live in its light upon his woiks'b-J has written. "Non'i of us liveth to himself." And probably were we wise enough to understand these works, wo should find that there is nothing, from the cold stone in the earth, or tho min utest creature that breathes which may not, in some way or other, minister to the happiness of some living creature. We ut'tnire and praise the fl er that best answers the end for which it wa created, Mnd the tree that bears fruit the most rich and abundant ; the star that is most useful in the heivens we admire the cjost. "And is i! not reasonable that man, to whom the whole creation, from the fitwerupto the spangled heavens, all nnnisier man, who has power of con ferring deeper misery and Higher happi ness than any being on earth mm, who) can act like God if he will ; is it not rea sonable ihat he tdiould live for the noblrj end of living not for himself, but for others ! Hurrah for Cass and luttler E very Democratic paper in Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Flor ida, Lou ian i and Miiti-sipri, has run up the tlag for Cass and ISuiler. Speed the good work, brother democrats ! It is a couteet between able, civilians and gallant warriors, sustained by princi ples, against a mere military chieftain. with no principle. Mrs. Partington says she has always noticed that, whether flour was dear or cheap, aha had invariably to pay h same money for half a dollar' wonb.