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Volume 4.
Lincolnton, North Carolina, Saturday Morning November 25. 1848.
Number 3D.
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Lincoln Business Directory
Court Officers Superior Court V.
A. M'Bee, clerk. Equity Wm Wil
liamson, clerk. County court Robt.
Williamson, clerk. A W Burton.Soli
citor. J. W Lowe, Sheriff. C Miller,
Jailor. J E Hoke, Town Constable.
Register, J. T. Alexander; County
Surveyor, J. Z. Falls f County Prooes
ssioner, Ambrose Costner. Trustee,
J Ramsour. Treasurer Pub. Buildings,
D W.Schenck. Coroner, J M Jacobs.
Building Committee J. Ramsour, P.
Summey.John F Plufer, and U Cansler.
Lawyers iiay wood W. Guion,main
st. one door east. L. E. Thompson,
main st. east, 3d square W. Lander,
main st. east, 2d square. V A McBee,
and W. Williamson, offices at McBee'
building, main st 2d square, east. A.
W. Burton, 1 door north o( Cout iet office.
x. T. Slade, main st. 2d cor. east of sq
Physicians Simpson & Bobo, main
8t., west. U. W. Schenck, (and Apo
Inecary, main st. two doors east. E.
Oaldwell, east olremale Academy. Z.
Butt, office opposite McLean's hotel.
A. Ram90ur. botanic mainst. west.
Merchants-lieu S Johnson, north on
square, west corner, J. A. Ramsour.
on square, north west comer. C. C.
Henderson.on main-st,(post office) east.
J. RamsourdjSori,matn st.5 doors west.
R E Johnson, on square,south west cor
ner main st. R Reid, on square.south
east corner. Hoke & Michal,on square
Boot, Shoe Hat Store Horatio
Thomson, main st., on 2d square, west
of court house, nor'h side.
Academies Male,T J Sumner; Fe
male, no: in seesior.
Hotels' Mrs Motz, s. w. corner of
mainst. and square W. Slade, main
st. 2d corner east of squtrre. A. A.
McLean, 2d . corner, west, on main st.
B.S Johnson, north w est, on square. -Grocery
G Presnell.main St., cellar,
east of square.
Tailors Moore & Cobb, main st. 1
door west of square. A Alexandei, on
main st. 4 doors east of square.
Watch Maker and Jeweller David
IFelsh, main st. 8 doors east.
Saddle and Harness Makers J.T.
Alexander, niain 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,
main st. east, on 2d- square from Court
House. Abner McKoy, nniti st. east,
on 3d square. S. P. Simpson, stieet
north ol main, and n. w. of court house.
Isaac Brwiu, nuin st., west, on 2d sq.
James Cornwall, main st. 2d square, w.
en.l, south side, comer. A. Garner, on
main st. east end.
Blacksmiths Jacob Rush, main st.
5lh corner east of court house. M.
Jacobs, main st., east end. A. Detain,
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, Jfc. Daniel Shuford,
main a., east, 6th corner from square.
James Triplets:, main st. M' Bee's build
iug. Isaac Houser.main st. west end.
Wells, Curry & Co. main st. ea9t end.
Brick Masons Willis Peck, (and
pVaistercr) main st. east, 4th corner trom
square. Peter Ilouser, on east side of
street north of square.
Tin Plate Worker and Copper Smith
Thos. R. Shuford, main st. east, on
south side ot 2d square.
Shoe Makers John Huggins, on
back st. south west of square.-
Tanners-it U 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
st. JohnButts 6i son,on square, south
side.
Printers T. J. Eccles, Courier of
"jrce, 5 doors north of court house, Isl
and Ford road.
Vil MM Peter and J E Hoke, one
ifjaile suQth west of town, York road.
JPaper Factory G. .& R. Hostel
er, 4 miles south-east of court house.
Cotton Factory John F. Hoke fc
X.D. Childs, 2 miles south of court
house.
Vesuvius Furnace, Graham's Forge,
J ward's, .and Johnson's Jron work,
east.
JAmcKiln Daniel Shu ford and oth
ers, :9 miles south.
Letters for the above to he addressed
to thelbifrlnten Post Office.
From the Raletgh Standard. j
INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS.
To the Members of the Legislature of
North Carolina.
Gentlemen : In a former number we
promised to submit our proposed plan,
as a substitute for the Columbia and
Danville project, as well as give some
of the reasons recommending it. We
think we have sufficiently established
our first proposition that, in the event
of the links being supplied in the chain
of travel, between Colurob a, Danville
and Richmond, that it will enect to a
most ruinous extent the Raleigh and Vv il
mington Roads. But should we have
failed in ihip, we have at least shown
that uch a result was probable ; and
wo ask you, when such great interests
are at stake, (if even a reasonable prob
ability of danger be established,) if that
alone does not imperiously demand
prompt.efncient, and speedy legislation ?
Thinking that nothing less is required,
we now proceed to develop the outlines
of the p'an, which was in part foreshad
owed with tolerable distinctness in our
first communication, reserving whatever
we may suggest as auxiliary there'o, to
some future number. We propose that
the Columbia road, via Charlotte, shall
be extended, and passing through Ca
barrus and Rowan, shall cross tbe ad
kin River, above the flat swamp shoals
some twenty-five miles above the " nar
rows," thence through a part of David'
son, Montgorr cry and Moote Counties
to Fayetteville, and thence to Raleigh
the whole distance not exceeding two
hundred miles. The advantages of this
extension nped only to be staled to be
seen : The North fr main Yadkin heads
in the Blue Ridge, and runs a north east
course, between that Ridce ruid the
Brushy Mountains, through the Coun
ties of Caldwell, 'Vilkes and Surrv. At
Rockford, in the county of Surry, the
River begins to run to the south-east,
and crosses through the Brushy, Pilot,
and other Mountains at Bean's Shoals.
From the Flat Swamp Shoals, a distance
of some severity miles, there is no ob
siruction to the navigaiion of the River.
As a proof tf this, we state that which
is of notoriety, that during the past sum
mer a Mr. Wni. May and others took a
flat-bottom boat from Lock's Bridge up
io William's Lime Ki'n, some ihree
miles be!ovv Ro( kford, sud carried thence
to the bridge a load of lime, and this we
are told without the least difficulty a
distance of some fifty miles. At Bean's
Shoals 'here are obstructions, but such
as may be easily overcome, for at this
place the old Navigation Company erec
ted a dam and shcit canal ; the dam i
still good. From Bean's Shoals to
Wilkeohorouyh, some six'y miles, we
are credibly informed thai there are no
serious obstructions ; the River maV,and
probably will, at some places, r quire
sluicing, but the xpense cannot be
heavy. Thus, by cioeing the Yad
kin above the Fill Swamp Shoals,
you secure at once seventy miles of
navigation on as hue a Uiver as there
is in NriU Carotin ; ana by a small
ou'Ihv for removing the cbstiuctions at
Bean's Shtals, & a sum 1 1 r appropriation
for sluices above, you will have some one
hundred and thirty miles of a navigable
stream, passing through the richest part
of Western Carolina, and ready at all
times to pour their immense surplus into
the road proposed.
This route or " substitute" for it,
should be received alone as such, al
though, properly speaking not central
ye under the pressing emergency in
which you find the State placed, is as
central for the benefits conferred as any
other which can he established. In ad
dition thereto it is the only route that
does not overlook your commercial
towns, which although not primary in
one sense, yet thy are indispensable if
you desire a home market, to which we
trust ali are looking, and for which, if we
mistake not the signs of the times, you
should be preparing. Beside securing
the produce of the Yadkin, the route
or substitute proposed, will be within
striking distance of every county of the
Suite to. the East of the Yadkin,, and
West of Raleigh, unless it be some few
of those couuties on tbe margin (North
and South) whose produce could not be
secured, even though you were to flank
the Sute with a rail road, as has been
recommended by a former Executive.
Look for a moment at the sdvantages
of the proposed plan. Tke the dis
tance from Chai lone ria Flat Swamp
Shoals to Fayetteville, and thence to
Raleigh andGaston say some two bun
dled and eighty-five miles, and add
thereto the seventy miles of navigation
from the shoals to Bean's shoal?; add
hothe sixty mi'eg more above Bean's
'boats to W itkesborongh, which a small
appropriation would secure, nnd you
then have snnsn ftur hundred and fiftern
miles of road and water navigation,
through a country unsurpassed for its
fertility by any similar porttoo in The
Atlantic State. All tnis ycu obtain by
constructing a road some two hundred
miles, and which cannot cost rhGre than
two millions of dollars.
Now when you recollect that unless
you do this or something similar, that
tha Raleigh Road, costing some one
million five hundred thousand dollars
must become perfectly worthless, we
ask you if it is cot time, yea high
time lor action?
By expending some two millions of
dollars you actually save and make a
good investment of the SOO.OW), which
the Raleigh Road has well cost the
State; and by affording a road of some
two hundred miles lor travel and Iraus
portatton, you actually secure and open
as much more.
Neither have we enumerated all the
advantages. You concentrate ysur
trade at home you build up your own
commercial towns you appreciate the
value of real tslate you offer induce
mens lor the enterpnzing to remain
with you who are now migrating by
thousands you render the condition ol
your people easy and comfortable, as
well as intelligent and happy; for as you
give facilities of transportation, you
stimulate them to active industry, which
when rewarded affords the means o' ed
ucation, thus producing that equality
in the social condition, which when
produced, leaves every man to find his
own level, disconnected with and untra
meled by extraneous influence.
Here ptrmit us to say, (having men'
tioned the subject of Education,) that
while professing ourselves the advocate
of a propei system of free schools, and
admitting to the fullest extent that the
greatest of all inequalities is the ine
quality of education; yet at the same
time we do insist (and tor this reason
urge it,) that the must effectual way of
imparting instruction to the ignorant
and pooler clashes, is lo stimulate the
industry by affording a market lor their
surplus: yes, even the poor have and
can have a surplus.
Mai. kind bemz natuiiilly aveise to
labor, if you offer no stimulant to indus
try, they become indolent; androm in
dolence squalid poverty and degradation
ensue, educate them as you may. . You
may inform and enlighten (he under
standing; but ycu must do something
more to be permanently beneficial you
must inspire habits ol industry, (where
the usual stimulants arc wanting with
out which you may have an intormed,
but you certainly will have a degraded
and vicious population.
Nothing constitutes a greater excite
meut to industry than the knowledge
that the labor will be rewarded. This
is the spring which keeps labor in mo
tion. Let that but be unpaired oy bad
legislation, aud you produce a retro
grade movement in society; the spring
becomes weaker and weaker, until final
ly, the only propelling power is the
measure of man's necessii; lor assured
ly no man will put forth" txrra exertions
lor the accumulation of a surplus, when
he has every reasonable promise thai
the surplus is to rot in his granary.
If then you wish to render effectual
the small appropriation you annually
make to the cause of Irte schools, you
must first lessen the number to be edu
caied, which only can be done as stated.
YADKIN.
AN APPALLING ADVENTURE.
Wre extract the following story from
the romance of Cora Linn" now in
course of publication in the columns of
the Sunday Courier.
' Soon after Hie capture of the Capi
tal o! Mexico, 1 was going home to my
quarters lute one mgttt when, in a dark
and narrow street, 1 was suddenly as
saulted by two men, w ho threw a cloak
ever ne, find efficiently prevented any
ou'.cryi or any use of my arnis.T 1 made
violent struggles,' however, but I vas
given to understand, in very badEnglish,
that if I submitted implicitly xo certain
orders that would be given me, my life
would be spared. In sulltfn silence
awaiied the result of this singular ad
venture, i was soon placed in a car
riage. A female voice aidiessed ine,
and counselled me to silence and obedi
ence. My companion told me : thai' I
must submit to having my eyes band
aged, and, without waiting for a reply,
passed a handkerchief round my head
and knotted it firmly behind. She then
took me by the hand, and when the
carriage stopped, aided ne to descend
tbe step. 1 heard a door open, which,
from circumstances, I judged so be thai
of a garden wall. The girl who led ir e
told me, in, fact that we were now trav
ersinc the ates of a lare .garden, "i
am going
said she ' to take you into
one of our richest and proudest Mexican
Senoras.and that without the knowledge
of her husband. A word, a. sound the
slightest even will cosi ycu your life.
1 7
Ve must 1 1 averse the apartment of her
husband, and he musr know nothing of
your visit. Step lightly, and follow my
conduct.and no harm will come to von."
The speaker was silent. 1 heard a door
opeju, and we walked on, with silent
6teps, like robbers bound for plunder.
At last my couductress removed my
bandage, and I found myself in u small
and ill-lighted apartment, the single
Window of which had been protected by
a grate by a jeaious husband. A veiled
lady lay upon a couch. My profession
al services were required by her in the
crisis of woman's highest peril. But
she was not destined to hear herseif
called mother by a bein: who had it
lived, would have been a child of shame,
the proof of an adulterous intercourse.
I accomplished the object of my mission
faithfully and well. Ai least the life ol
a guilty woman was savpd. Exhausted
and consumedly thirsty, I demanded
refreshment, and the lover of ' the lady,
who was present at this scene, presented
me a goblet of wine. It was at my hps
but at the moment of drinking it, my
unknown and masked conductress, raised
awarmng finder. I turned aside, and'
poured ihe liquor on the floor. What
rendered our situation peculiarly critical
was the fact, thai we could henr, in the
next apartment, the husband of the lady
stirring in his bed. Tbe chambermaid
and lover exchanged glances ol Gre
through their masks, as it they were ask
ing each, " Shall we kill him ?"
The Mexican finally conducted me out
of the room, and when 1 found myself
in Ihe garden, in the open air, 1 confess
I breathed more freely. I walked at a
respectful distance from my guide.watch
ing his slightest movements, for 1 knew
uoi what he might be meditating. When
we had come to the gardengate, he took
my hand, aud placed the seal of a ring
I had observed he wore upon his left
hand, and on my lips, and 1 understood
this eloquent appeal for silence. We
found ourselves in the street, where two
horses were waiting tor us. . We both
mounted the Mexican took my bridle
in his left hand, ai d we dashed off with
the speed of lightning. It was impossi
ble for me to note the smallest oVject
which might serve me to recognize the
route we travelled. At daybreak, I
found mysell near ihe door of my own
quarters, and the Mexican (led in the di
rection of San Anioniu."
And you had nothing to enable, you
(o identify ihe lady ?" asked Mangle.
41 Only one thing," replied the sur
geon. "I noticed a singular mole upon
her right arm. But mv storv is not en
ded by any means. 1 was updating it
to some ol my comrades a' a party in
Mexico, when we were seated in the gar
dens of the Presidential palace. Just
as 1 had got to that portion of my narra
tive where I mentioned the only means
I had of identifying the guilty eenora,
1 heard a rustle :u the leaves. We im
mediaielj' started to cur feet, and rushed
out of the arbor in time to see a man
escaping at full speed. Some days af
terwards, having obtained leave of ab
sence, I was about returning home, and
was taking a farewell dinner wiih mv
friends, when 1 was told a ladv wished
to speak to me. I left the table, and
went down to the hall, where 1 recog
nized my conductress of the eventlul
night. She u'lered but one word 'Be
ware !' and then tell dead at my feei.
That very night, I was awoke ai twelve
o'clock by the curtains of my bed bnii
violet iiy lorn open, liy the di.o ligtn
of my night lamp I rccogmzed ihe eiy
Mexican 1 had had a glimpse of as he
escaped alter overbearing my co.-veisa-tion
with my comrades in the ca;den?
of the Presidential paUce, I called lor
help,' The Mexican sm.led a bitter
smile. Opium grows lor ever body's
use,' said re. The sf uunels and your
faithful comrades are all drugged.
They sleep a leaden sleep I ke thai ol
death.' After these words, he drew
from beneath his cloak a lemale arm
recently amputated, and p un ed out to
me the mark by which I infallibly re
cou zed the unhappy serora, who l ad
received my servict-s on that accursed
night. Is it the same aked the Mex
ican. I cou d not do oiht tuise than
assent. A.poinard Hashed in :he air
aud the next moment 1 fet ti e teei in
my side. But the assasin had struck
wide assistance came aid he 11 d.
1 recovered, and left the country. But
a friend ol mine, a merrhaiii, who re
sides m 'Mexico, e I i me itial within a
few weeks, a lady has appeared ihere in
public radiant in heauiv, but dej rived
ot her light arm. She is accompanied
by her husband, a iliin wm.kltd, wi'h
eied, semblance of a man. Uhtnq'MS-
tior.ed on thetuijcct, t-hc declares ihui
i she lost her limb in cons' quer.ee of an
adventure with robbers on the road frm
Jalsipii lo the capital, when, as the result
ot firmed resistance, the pnssenyerrj in
the dilpgence were fited upon by tie
saltcadores, and she received a nuisktt
shl in the arm, which rendered ampu
tation necessary.
'What do you think of that?" said
Montfort, addressing Dr Mangle, .
" Commonplace," was the cold re-
'But the vengeance of the huj-band-
think of that," a d Moniiorl. ' Was'nt
it g'.orioUi? By heaven! these Mexi
cans might give us lessons."
"Ah!" oberved Dr Mangle, "I coild
tell you stories, if 1 choose lo beuay
the secrets of the confessional. Yean
ao, I had an adventure, evs-u her - in
the -'iois'and well-ordered city f New
York- One day 1 was called upon by
a veiled lady, who informed me that she
stood in need of my professional servi
ces. She had bf en unirue to her leigo
lord, who, in consequence of certain
suspicions, had for a long time lived a
part from her, though beneath the same
roof, 1 refused to accede to her request.
Bui in the course of time, the same la
dv came to me. The catastrophe was
somewhat different from that our friend
had just narrated. An infant saw t!iu
light and lived lives yet while the
poor, duped husband is still about town."
"His nameaked Montfort.
"I knew it not."
"That, too, 1 was ignorant of. Eve
ry precaution had been observed."
'Then you had no clue by which the
identity of the" guilty individual could
be mace manifest !.
'Yes, I had and have one similar
.to. that our friend has described as gui
dinUJiioi in Ins adventuie -a personal
mark by which. I might again recognize
the offending' woman.
"And how long ago was this transac
lion? asked Montfort.
Less than twenty years," was the
reply.
A dead silence ensutd. Afirr a
while Dr Percy roe, and.pleading busi
ness, retired, leaving his companions
together
Doetor," said A!rntfort, "I have
some questions to ak u."
'As many as you nleise was tho
replj. "lilies with me whether to an
swer. ihem or not."
Montfoft carefully closed ihecurtr.ins
of the alcove id which they were silting,
and tit v ente red into a close and whis
pering conversa'ion.
OUR LITTLE BOY.
When the evening shadows gather
Round about our quiet hearth,
Comes our eldest born unlo us,
Bending .humbly to theearih, .
And wilh hands enclasped , tightly-.
And with meek eyes raised above,
This the prayer he offers nightlj,
To the Souice of light and love.
' B ess my patents, O, my Fathei J
Bless nay li tile sister dear ;
While I gently take my slumbers,
Be thy guardian angtls near.
Sbucld no morning's dawn e'er greet u.e.
Beaming brightly from the skits.
Thine ihe eye of love to meet me.
In the paihs of Paradise.''
Now a glad "good night" he gives u?, -
And he seals it with a kiss ;
Niogbt of earthly sorrow grieves us
In an hour so full of bliss
Now our arms about him w rfathirjj,
(hie fond kiss bt fure he sleep;
.Soon . we har his gentle breathing I
fn a slubber caiui and deep.
" Is Mr. a man of means ?" asked
a gentleman of olj Mrs. Fr.zzlci'.fi, te
lerruig to one of her neighbors. "Wail,
I retk'ia lie ought io bt," . omwI d out
l!ie aociejit beidame , " for he' the
meanest man in !r..
A Xtw Trade. firm in Mi1au
ku; shipped lot the N w York matki f
one hundred b irrU o puivei izeu bones.
This is a hew trade, :.U tne piej aratn.i
ol buiio-r t",r ot.ii. ufe in hi- rUn;rv will
d.-ublie.-s become a mtl t 1 anti.n. n
before many years.
Indian corn has now b"C'ij,e so popu
lar in Ireland, us ! !, thai ihe p.i..uj
deficiency wdl ioi i.e feit as in 11-16".
The leiuui? snow lavoi-i'h; and ail ie
i fleeting ir.n, it .l.ty. will only cxt-icie
i their reasoning .oners, w ill j recti q
(there is no i-u:i. .ii.n fur the exercise
! despondency which ei,is.
Genius resemble a proud lepd,h .t
w l.ilsi he i Leys ti e l:gn esi ivucn ol ine
kind hand oj a ii.urter, revolts at me
' (it:i indication ol compulsion ui restraint