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4 "THE PUBLIC GOOD SHOULD EVER BE PREFETIRE TO PRIVATE ADVANTAGE. Volume 4. LlNCOLNTON, NoitTII CAROLINA, SATURDAY MORNING, , DECEMBER 30. 1848. Number 42. MIINTED AND PUBLISHED WEEKLY, BY THOMAS J. KCCL.KS. . J TEHMf,. Two dollars pei annum, payable in advance ; $2 50 if payment be delayed 3 months. A discount to clubs of 3 or more. Advertisements will be conspicuously insert i ed, at $1 pei square ( 14 lines) for the tirst, and 25 cents lor each subsequent insertion. Tlic Voices of tlic Ni :bt. Poe-iim. Bv Professor Shortfellow. Tired of reading, tired of writing", tired of copying and indi" ing", And (he bed looked so inviting', as if courting me to sleep, That I folded up my paper, and extinguish ing niy taper, Without cutting even 8 caper, softly to my rest did creep. Soon I fell into a slumber, and had dream ings without number. With no nightmares tu encumber the bles sings of my icst, When a sound beneath my '"winder," burnt my vision into cinders Knocked my sleep all into flinders, so that I got up and dressed. Such another horrid squalling, and infernal caterwauling, Never could be so appalling, as to me it seemed that nigt; The Thomas cats of all creation, were Icl out upon probation. And were 'scratching like the nation," in an everlasting fight, J lastly t blowing- up thesashes.I made divers frantic dashes, Of shovelfuls of fire and ashes, on the mad dened brutes below. Quick the fiends began to scatter, and cease their tarnal clatter, Having settled thus the matter, I again to bed did gin Bu t jf I should live forever, it were all a vain endeavor. And I'm certain I could never more forget the horrid frijjLl, Which came o'er me through the sashes, when 1 threw the fire and ashts, lu some half a. dozen dashts, on the "voices IF THE SIGHT." France. Last Sunday was the day fixed by law for electing the first President ol the great European Republic. It look place, we suppose, of coursr; .nd if there was a geneial turn-out, the enor mous and unparulelled number ol from six to seven millions of votes have been te gistered in one single day for Hie nun: her of males upwards of twenty -one years of age in France cannot be less. The struggle will be between General Cavaignac and Louis Napoleon, and the conies I may be a pretty close one. Cu vaignac's advantages are, bis know n re publicanism, his military reputation, his excellent personal character, and last, not least, his being in power and thus being able tc bring to bear upmi the c lection a vast oflicivd it.fluence; and this last advantage he and his adherents do rot seem to have been at all too scrupu lous to use freely. But for that we do not much blajne them. They do no more than whal their antagonists would do, and whal political aspirants are charged every w here with doing, w hen they can. Bui against all Cavaignac's ndvftntages.Bc-naparte has a most form idable set-oir. He is ihe nephew and dynastic representative of the great Em peror, who, though now a senseless 'heap of dust" at the Invalides, has left a memory thai seems to be almost as potent as was the man himself when in the zenith of his glory. Singular it is that a name can do so much! To thai name, and to nothing else, wiil the ne phew owe his success, if he has suc ceeded, even if he possesses qualifica tions for the high office to which he aspires; for there are many public men in France of high character, of great talents, and great experience, who aided in making and sustaining the revolution, who are not even thought of for the Presidentship. Mere merit, therefore, regarded as ihe lirsi requisite a- - sovereign people of la belle Journalists say there is that Prince Louis will name of "Napoleon" What they say, they it whilst believing, ' fear is a great mag id they are right Prince should be e e may properly "bleto see or to eat social and political bovleversement is to be brought from chaos into order. In that case, we may not yet be at "the beginning of the end," as Talleyrand said, thirty-five years ago, of the first Napoleon, when his fortunes seeemed to have taken a downward tendency." Should Cavaignac be elected, his pol icy can be anticipated with some cer tainty. We suppose that it will be firm, though pacific and conciliatory not quite so much so but thai he will offer armed resistance to any bellige rent interference of Russia in the affairs of Germany or of Jtaly. But if the Pnnce should be elected, no man. we think, can see what will come next. 11 o does not seem io lack personal cour age or personal ambition. He may ; plunge into foreign wars, with the hope of requiring military renown, to be used as a stepping stone to the imperial throne the mounting of which by him is a finale that is hoped for, prayed for, and looked tor, by great numbers of his adherents; and if he is President, we do not see any very formidable impediment in the way of this consummation, but the army. 11 he can secure that, the prisoner of Ham will be, very probably, ii is Imperial Majesty Napoleon the Se cotid, or Third we are not sure wheth er the son of Napoleon is numbered dy nasucanv or not. OFFICIAL. I he Gold assayed Extraordinary purity. We publish below ihe official r . I. l , ., ... icner oi mo .LMiecior oi ine Mint at 1 hiladelphia to the Secretary of the Treasury, showing the assay of the Cal ifornia goid. The gold assayed yielded $36,492. The purity is extraordinary, the gold oust ieiding 'JB pure gold ; the melied gold yielding within 6 1000, or six dol lars in i he one thousand dollars?, of the mint standatd ol 000. Tins far ex tciuj me vAneciauons o: me most sanguine, and places the exuaordinary purity ol ihe .ld beyond controversy. Union, Dec. 13. Mist r the Ukited States, Philadelphia, Dec. 11, 1843. 'iu : On the b.h instant, we received, us 1 lib ve already hud the honor to in I oi tu you, the liiot depusite of gold from California. It va deposited bv Mr. David Carter, who brought it from San Fiaiicisco by the isihmus route. It w eighed 1804 59 ounces troy ; of which 1423.80 was from ihe lower surface in i nee, and 3b0.?9 from those at Feaiher river. On the 9ih instant another dep osite was sent by tne fcfecretaiy of War, which weighed 228 ounces. The gold was of two sorts in external character, though apparently not differ ent as to quality. Ihe first, from the "dry diggings," was in grains, which nvrrageo from one to iwu pennyweights; ihe oihcr variety, from the swamps or margins ol the streams, being in small fiat-spangles, of which, on an average, it would take six r seven to weigh one grnm. Ol these, by far the hitger part ol tho deposiies was composed. The gold was melted in six parcels, and t tie loss by melting,due to tlie earth ly and oxidabie matter which disappears in this operation, averaged about '5 per cent, of Hie original weight. The loss thus reported is moderate, and shows that the gold had been carefully washed. Assays of the melted gold were made with great care, aud the results showed a variation m fineness from 892 to 897 thousandths ; the average of the whole being 891. This is slightly below the standard fineness, which is 900. The average value per ounce of the bullion, before rneiung, is $18 5& ; that of the same m bars, aliar melting, is 18 00. The whole value ol the gold in the two deposites was So6,492, besides a few ounces reserved m the native staie for ihe Secretary of ar, a; Ins request. Very respectfully, your faithful ser vant, R. M. PATTERSON , Director. Hon. R. J. Walker, Secretary of the Treasury. Entract of a letter from Col. Mason to Gen Jessvp. " At the present moment the Assistant Quartermaster at San Francisco is hi ring guards for his storehouses, at from fifty to one hundred dollars a month. The services of laboring men cannot be commanded at a lower price." W. D. Seabrool; was elected Gover nor of South Carelma on 'he 12th inst. lor two years to come. Sea brook 66, J. L. Manning 78, scattering 2. For Lt. Governor, W. H. Gisi 86, J. H. lr by 30, Dr Broyles 31, Gtn. Hunua 2. Gist declaied dulv elected. Hon A P Du'.lrr was re-elected to tbe U. S Senate. THE DEATH OF THE DOMINIE. By Thomas Hood. My old schoolmaster is dead. He " died of a stroke," and I wonder none of his pupils have ever done the same. I have been flogged by many masters, but his rod, )ike Aaron s swallowed all the rest. We have often wished that he whipped on the principle of Italian penmanship up strokes heavy, down strokes light; but he did it in good En glish round hand, and we used to think with a very hard pen.' Such was hta love of flogging, thai for sonic failure in English composition, after having been well corrected, I havo been ordered la be revised. 1 have heard of the road of learning, and he did justice to it; we certainly never went u stage in education without being well horsed. 1 he mantle of Dr Busby descended on his shoulders; and on ours. There was but one tree on the playground a birch, but it nev er had a twig or leaf upon it. Winter or Summer, it always looked as if the weather had been cutting at the latier end of the vear. Pictures, they say, are good incentives to learning,and certainly we never got through a page without cuts ; for instance. 1 do not recollect a Latin article without a tail piece. All the Latin at the school might be com prised in one line, "Arma virunque canno" An arm, a man, and a cane, it was Ennlished to tne one day in the school house when 1 was studying Rob inson Crusoe, instead ot irMl, bv a storm of bamboo that really carried on the illusion, and made me think for a time that 1 was assaulted by savages. He seemed to consider a boy a bear's cub, aud set himself literally to lick him into shape. He was so particularly fond of an iking us with a leather strap on tiie fiats ot our hands, that he never allowed them a day's rest. There was no such thing as a Palm Sunday in our calendar, lu a word he was disinterest' edly cruel, and used as industt lously to strike us tor nothing ns others strike for wages. Some of the elder boys who had read Smollet, christened him Rode rick, from his hitting like Kanuoni, and Veing so partial to stray. His death was characteristic After making his will he sent lor Mr Taddy, the head usher, and addressed him in these words : "It is all over.Mr Taddy I am sink ing fast 1 am going from tho itirestial globe k the celestial and have prom ised Tompkins a flogging mind tie lias it, and don't let him pick off ihe buns 1 have asked Aristotle (hero his head wandered) and he says I cannot live an hour 1 don't like that black horse grin ning al me birch him soundly for not knowing ti is verbs Oantago to non quod od in babeam Oh, Mr Taddy, it's a breaking up with me the vacancy is coming mere is thai black horse again Dulcis moriens we short of rules Mr Taddy, don't let the school gel m disorder when 1 am gone 1 am afraid through my illness the boys have gone back in their flogging 1 leel a strange feeling coming over me is the new pu pil come 1 trust 1 have done my duty 1 have made my will and left (here his head wandered again,) to Mr Souter, the school book eeher Mr Taddy, i invito you to my funeral make the uoys walk in good older and take care ol ihe crossings. My sight is getting dun write to Mrs li. at Alargate and in form her we break up on the 2lt. The door is left open 1 am very cold where is my iu!er 1 feel John, light the school lamp 1 cannot see a line O Mr Taddy vent hora my hour is come I am dying thou art dying he is dying. e ate dying you are dying" I he voice ceased. He made a fee ble motion with his hands ; as if he w as ruling a copy book the ' ruling passion strong in death" and expired. An epitaph composed by himself was discovered in his desk, with an unpub lished paper against Tom Paine. The epitaph was illustrated with quotations from Homer and Virgil and almost eve ry Greek and Latin author besides, and the mason who was consulted by ihe wi dow declined lo lithograph it under a hundred pounds. The Dominie conse quently reposes under no more latin than Hie Jacet, and without a particle ot Greek, though he is himself a Homer. The Newspaper. How endless is the variety ot newspapers, and how hard il is to satisfy their wants. A. believes that he shall discontinue his paper, be cause it contains no political news and B. is decidedly of opinion that ihe same eheet dabbles too freely in the political movements of the day. C doea not take it because it is all on one side and L). whose opinion u generally expresses, does uoi like a because it is not btere enough on. the opposition. E. thinks it 1 does not pay due a'.ieauou tc fashionable literature and F. cannot bear the flim sy notions of idle writers. G. will noi sutler a paper lo lie upon his table which ventures an opinion upon temperance and H. never patronizes one which lacks moral courage to expose the evils of the day. 1. declares ho does not want a paper filled with the bodge-pode procee dings of Congress and ihe Legislature and J. considers that paoer ihe best which gives the greatest quantity of such reading. K. paiionizes papers for the light and lovely reading which they contain and L. wonders that the press does not publish sermons "solid mailer." M. will not read a paper that does not expose the evils of seciananism and N. ! is decidedly ot opinion that the pulpa aud not the press should meddle with religious dogmas. O. likes to read po lice reports and P. whose appetite is less morbid, would not have a paper in winch these silly reports are printed, in his house. Q. likes anecdotes and R. w ill not take a paper that publishes them. He sa) s that murders and accidents ought not to be put in papers and S. complains that his miserable paper gives no account of ihe highway robbery of last week. T. sas the type are loo small and (J. thinks it too large. V. slops bis paper because it contains no thing but advertisements and all thai 'V . wants ol it is to see what is for sale. X. will not take his paper unless it is lelt at his door belore sunrise and Y will not pay lor it if left so eariy as to be stolen belore he is up. And lust ol all comes the complimenrs of some ol the lat'ies (dear creatures !) who declare '.he paper uuinteresting, because it does not contain a long list of marriages, just as it it were possible lor punters to mar ry people wuhoui their consent. 1 bus the pnniei who ventures tolhink his own thoughts, or is so presumpiuoua as to halt an opinion of his own, must lose patronage from A. and it he does not think his own thoughts and express Ins own opinions, he is set down as a Kiupid dunce, and 13. withdraws his pat' ronagu. He who has no the l acuity ot being of all things lo all men, ougt.t ne ver 10 bo u printer. Tlio Old Plan's Sloi j. The sheniTtook out Ins watch ar.d said, "if you have an) thing ;o say,spfak now, ior you have only live minutes to Jive," The young loan uujsI into t-ars and slid : " i nuvu to die. i hud only one brother; he hue bau iiui blue eves and lJjxen hair, and 1 loved htm ; but ouo uay 1 goi Uiunk, lor mc fiiol lime in my hie, ana coming home 1 lound rny lntlo Uioilier gathering berries in iho garden, and i became angry without cause aud killed him wnn one blow vn'thaiuitc. 1 did not know anything about il until me next inujiung 1 awokti irom steep, and lound uisen tied aud guaided, aid was loid ihii wnthiuy lit tle brother was lound, nis hair was clot ted wan biood and biuiusand was dead. W hiakev did u. lihas ruined me. 1 neve! was diunk but ouce. 1 have but one Moid to say, aud tnen 1 am going lo my filial Judge. 1 oav il to young peo ple never, ittcer, mlvek, touch uny nung thai can imoAcaic 1" As ho pro nounced tliese words no opiang liom me box uhU was launched into ni endless e iei nn . 1 was melted to tears at ihe recital, and iho awlul speciacie. My heart seemed as il it would burst & breuK away Iron my aching bosom, so intolerable wtie my feelings of gin. f. Aud there in that cairiage, iMnle on thai cushioned seat, luokiug with streaming eea on tho body ol that uniorlunaie )oung man, as it hung dangling aud winning Octwteu heaven find oartu, as unfit tor either place, then it was that 1 look me pledge never to touch ihe hunlul poison. Long years have passed away. W hue hairs have thickened arouuu inese temples then so ruddy and )oung, but 1 have never lotgotien the last wouis ot that young man. And 1 never vioUteu me piede. W hen the tempter has oi teicC me the sparkling gouiei, ihe vvoid ol ihaiyouug man have seemed to sound Hi in,) eaia aatu. " Gentlemen of the Jury," said a western lawyer, )ou are met here juu one of the most solemn occasions iiicti ever happened since 1 hud a brief. 'J he defendant, being a stout, abie bodied man, rushed like an asain upon my client, who is a trail voung widow ;auu, why did not the thunders of heaven atasl hiui,w ueu he stooped towards her, stretched forth his arm hko tne lorkeo lightning ol Jupiter, aui ave her a kiea ou the mouih '" Tanch'a Tocket-booL csys: "1 dm tempted lo compare high lite to a i ail road; il is very uetigtmul while all goes ou s.i.ooltik; bui u sou go off the &il the smash is awful. From the Columbia Telegraph. FOREIGN NEWS. The British SteamerAiagaru, arrived at Boston, on Saturday morning, bring-, ing accounts lo 2d inst. The news from the Continent i of the most exciting character. The sovereign Pontiff has been as sailed in his own paUce. The people of Rome, at the instigation ol a club mob proceeded lo the Quinnal palace, de manding a new Ministry and an i in me diate declaration of war. The Swiss Guards tcMSltd the mob and attempted io proiecl t tic Pope. An unsuccessful attempt was umde to burn tbe palace. The civic guatdg afterwards invested he builomg, commenced a fusillade and overwhelmed the Swiss Guards, and shot Palmer, the Pope's Secretary, hi the breast. At last the Ministry sent in a list of a new Cabinet, comprising the names of the chief conspiralois, on the 18th. The Pope himself was under guard all his power gone. The French Republic has sent troops lo support thePonliff against his subjects. AUSTRIA. An immense imperial army is about invading Hungary. The Berlin paper say that they will meet with a stern re ception. Drs Ueecher and Jellinck havo been executed for their participa tion in the Vieunoise revolution. Berlin remains as before no confir muiion of ihe King's dissolving hisCab met vet appears. FRANCE. Cavaignac has carried a vote of con' fidence in his administration almost u nammously in the Assembly. His speech was highly satislaciory absolving him iron, all blame as to the June Revo lution. His having sent forces to relieve :iie Pope will aid tils election. It has been leporied that the Pope had fled from Rome. CavaigOrtC has sent lour Steam Incites carry lug a bngade ot troops to secure his liberty aud safely, and respwet for his person.. An Envoy Exlraordm. ury was a'so sem to Rome to coi.ier with mc rrencn Ainoussaaor ana a reinforcement of troops was speedily to follow. Cavaignac read to the Assembly his instructions to theEnvoy to Rome, which weie lo protect the person of ihe Pope, but not to interfere with his people. Cavaignac's prospects were brightening, when Napoleon issued a manifesto, which turned the cdrrent again, in w hich he avows his republican sincerity de testation of Socialism, and desire for u niversal peace with all nations. The French funds have improved, and the Cholera was aecreismg. Austria has accepted the proferred mediation and agreed to hold a confer ence at Brussels. The armistice is io be prolonged uutil ihe French election is over. Austria engages not to attack Venice. A repoi was. current at Pans on the first thai W indischgratz had been assassinated, but was not credi'ed. Thu impression was gaining ground tlutt France will settle quietly down into so ber Republicanism after the Presidentinl election. The Frankfort papers state that a plot for a republican rising, and for ihe assas sination of the members of the German Par!iament,had been discovered. Mar shal Radetzky reported in Rome on the 10th. Perfect tranquility had succeed' ed the Revolution ol the 17th the Pope expressed himself satisfied with his new .Ministry, and the new order of things. The dispute between the Kings of Naples and Sicily, is about to be arnica, biy adjusted. Great Britain. The Bullion in ihe Bank of England, is rapidly increasing. Large numbers of American merchants are at Mancneticr. The Irish journals C3n!a n nothing of interest. Baring's circular nays, Amer ican stocks are in fair demand al tmprn ved prices. Six percent. Bonds tu bear er, done at nmetv-six, xciustve o divi dend. Buyers ot Louisiana bonds U n ion Bank, si last rates. Further Foreign Items. The Paik Theatre at New York was destroyed bv fire on Saturday night last, ad wan aio Earle's Hotel. Thy -Monipiaioair Balki Company lost their whole wardrobe by this conflagiatiou. The total loss sus tained is estimated at 00,000 do.lait. Tbe Emperor m Russia has proflered to theEiiifr ui PiusMa fiaif a million of troops to sustain htm m power. The Freuch Constitution has been proclaimed in the provinces, and but lii tie enthusiasm shown by the feopie. Prince on of Lucien Bonaparte, , is reported to have bera the instigator 1 of the Reyoluiibu in Rome.
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