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i. " THti PUBLIC GOOD SHOULD EVCR BE PRsrSKftE!) TO PRIVATE ADVANTAGE." Volume 5. Lincolnton. North Carolina, Satlrlay iY cening, April 21, 1849. Number 6. in: phinted and published weekly, by. Thomas J. kccl.es. . Tehm3. Two dollars yei annum, payable j in advance ; fa 50 if payment be delayed 3 i months. A discount to clubs of 3 or more. - Advertisements will be conspicuously insert- d, .1 $1 pel square (14 lines) for the lirst, and 25 cents lor each suDseuent insertion. i Hope. change trorn old to new, vv o oil aaiti : ini ;:i h.vcn. loreVer true, Alt r x.-- : a-: t.;, t-if he weary soul, x r-f Mii. .. :he strong, rf- .' -fN m- hpp jH0l, iv. - -. . 1 i Mope s son:. - u j:!t,i to plant ire flower, , 'O v.iiv t r t seed ; ;'..r .f .v,8 tolfi'moin to her hour, out prompt again to deed. A. c tte i. iin the old man's dust The grass is fjen to wave, M e look through fallen tears to trust iiope's sunshine on ihe grave. )h no ! it is no flattering lure, No Isncy, weak or fond, When Hop wou d bid us rtst secure. In better life beyond. Nor loss nor shame, nor grief nor sin, Oer promise, may gainsay ; The voice Divide hath spoke within, And God did ne'er betray. ... Ben Bolt. , Dont you remember sweet Alice, Den Bolt Sweet Alice, whose heir wa9 so brown Who wept with delight when you gave her a smile. And trembled with tear at your frown? In the old church yard in the valley, Ben , Bolt, In a corner obscure and alor.p, Try have fitted a slab of granite so grey, And Alice lies under the 6tone. y Under the Hickory tree, Ben Bolt, Which stood at the foot of the bill. Together we've laid in the noonday shade, And listened to Apple'.on'e mill. rhe,mill-wheel has fallen to pieces, Ben Bolt, The rafters have tumbled in, Aid a quiet which crawls round the walls as you gaze, Has followed the olden din. Do you mind the cabin of logs, Ben Bolt, At the edga of the pathless wood. And the bution-ball tree with its motley limbs, 1 A' Inch nigh by the door etep stood ? The cabin to ruin has gone, lien bolt, The tree you would seek in vain ; And where once the lords cf tho forest waved, Grow grass and the golden giain: And don't you remember the school, Ben Bolt, With the master so cruel and grim, ( yAnd the shaded nook in the running brook. Where the children went to swim ? 1 Grass gtows on the master's grave, Ben Bolt.. The spring of the brook is dry, And of al! the boys that were schoolmates then 1 There are onlyjou and I. There is change in thing's I Ioved,Ben BoIt They have changed from the old to the new ; But I feel in the core of my spirit the truth, There never was change in you. Twelvemonths twenty have past.Ben Bolt, Since first we were friends, jet 1 hail Thy presence a blessing, thy friendship a , truth Ben Bolt, ot the salt-sea gale. Montreal, April 7, 1S49. (Terrible Conflagration at Toronto The City in Ashes Loss Half a Million of Dollars The city of Toronto has been visited by a tremendous conflagration, and the greater portion of lhat flourishing town ts now. reduced to ashes! Not only swellings, stores, and warehouses, but ' lQ magnificent Cathedral of St. James, : felL a prey to the devouring element. I3y this tembie calamity, Hundreds have been reduced from affluence to j want," and many pour families aie leit . without a home. The los fs estimated oyvthalfa million of dollars? Ton THE Lincoln COURIER. JniTPNAl. OK S(:P.KS Al) a!) i VENTURES IN MEXICO, t.O.Vi MEXCING ON THE 21m FEB RUARY, 1847. BY II. L. B. IIOVIS. Concluded. Sept. 12'.h. Last night the batteries were erected, and this morning the firo, but they could do u no mjurv, as ,, J their guns could not be brought to bear upon our batteries. Our shot told wtll and to morrow morning the castle is to bo stormed ; it looks like tih' work but they will have to fiht hard if they keep us out ; although the wali is high and the ditch deep, that cannot keep the bold yankee boys back 13ih. U e aie inside he city gates, and have had a liaru dya work. The Castle w-s taken this morning; among tlx- prisoners i.re Gen. Dravo and man other pnsor.rs After the Stars and Stnpea were t.oisttd on the castle, we marched direct for the city ; the enemy niade a firm stand ai the gates, pouring grape shot into us in fine order, but we got a mountain howitzer on the church of San C zme, and after giving them a few rounds, the storming p rty charging at the same time, they were glad to get ofi. The other divisions are inside the Helen gate, and to-morrow we expect a hard fight i the Plaza. 1 1th. Th city has surrentired ; the Star Spangled Banner float.-, from ihe battlements of the iNoi-onal Palace ; and Santa Anna has retreated. The ciiy is in great confusion; the streets full of dead, and the greasers, (cut throats or robbers) keep firing upn upon us lr"m almost every house. Oct. 1st. Citadel of Mexico. Tie city is becuming quiet, and ousiness is hegining to H'lirit-h agum. Mexico is a fine city , hut does not equal my ex pectations ; here may be seen the ex treme of riches and poverty ; the wea!hy revel in all the luxuries of life, while the streets are filled with beggars, aN most naked, who have neither house or shelter. The cathedral, which stands on the north side of the grand piazn, is a magnificent edifice. There is also a fine Mu:eum here, containing a collec tion of almost every curiosity in the world. The houses are all built of stone or brick, with flat roofs; the streets are generally narrow and strait, paved with pebbles ; the Alniadt is a beautiful grove laid out in walks, with several splendid fountains of water in it. The Valley of Mexico is perhaps one of the most picturesque f-pots in tho world, surrounded by high and rugged mountains ; on the eastern side rises the snow capped peak ol Poccatopelt, which presents a grand and imposing sight at sunset. Numerous lakes, interspersed with small islands, upon which Indian huts are built, encircle the city, and furnish the citizens with abundance of fiuit, fish, and water fowl. The manners and customs of the higher class of people, resemble those of the United Slates, while ihe lower are devoid of common decency. June 4th. Peace is made, and we will soon leave this city for heme ; a great many of the 'roops are on their way, and in a few days more J the city will again be in possession of the descendants of the Aztecs. How to Steal Watermelons. In the neighborhood of the flourish ing town of Honesdale, there lived, some ihree or four years 6ince and perhaps still lives an oddity, who rejoices in the name of Jacob Stringer. Jacob was on of that class wlw are "about" when an extra hand was wanted who are generally useful when there la a pressure,' and who retire to enjoyment and repose when times are about "mid linV He found decidedly mor at tractions in a rumble through the woods with his gun, or ong -oe evreum woh his trout "hxuis," tnan in any kind oi agricultural emp.uyme. but, much as he fancied hunting, he was not very suc cessful in lhat hue, and, to .ouRe up hr thedtficiency, he would give ins aw a a teamster, m ihe busy season, io his more wealthy neighbors, who were all more or less interested in ihe lumoer business. In that cbpacity he eugaged with old 'Squire Yalea, to lake a quan tity of lumber to Tionesci 'le. Ou the road to ihe latter place, about two aides from Yaleg, lived an industrious tanner named Bennet, who vas known about the neighborhood, pre'ty generally, to bavn a verv nron,.sin natch of water 1 his was ihe more interes- tit t, if.Mi.uch s thf article was scarce in the nt ijihhoiho d. Day alter day, as Jacob passed along the road by the farmer's wiM- his toiling cattle, thoughis of the waiermelohs would force them selves into his mind. How pleasant it would be to have one only one ! Ana then the "elderly gentleman in black" wouid whisDer." hoiv t v and j.lV Jacob resisted; or he had a high and deserved;, reputation for honesty and in- terity with his neighbors, which he i wished o sustain. At last, however, the watermelon became ripe. Jacob knew it, though he had never seen them; and now the temptation was irresistable. Our hero, though wtth many compunctions deter mined to have one -only one; and thbt ery night he vowed it should be done. Evening came, and, alter feeling in his pocket if his jack-knife was safe, he started on his expedition. The road seemed to him unusually long and drea ry, and several unit a he tell a lit le lightened. The truth is, he had never und lu-ken such on expedition beloe; and not without teuson has the great poet wri'ten, that conscience doth make cowards of us all." We are now at ''O.d Bennett's" fenrp, and J .c b is over it, and cautiousiy nd v-ui.ciog to wheie he knew the "patch" must be not unnoticed however. "Old Benne i" knew the value of his melon crop, and thai it he would ktep it he must watch it, and watch it he did, as ihe dragin t lo wached ihe fruit Hest erhden. o m i net h d Jacob cro-sed 'he Mice man the t.wi;er ol ihe nel. ns ..ovi:rtl in m his hieing place, nod was,,. bout ohu:l the intruder, whtn to tub Mirpitee, he discovered who it wna. Now Jacob wm about the Inst man Benne t would have expected l cme at night ui roh his melon patch, and even now as he cau'.tously moved on before turn, he almost doubted. Never theless, he carefully followed him. The depredator aimed at once for the "i tttcti," there was no moot), but a tew stars shed light enongh for htm to find his way iiiui ih midst. Hastily selec ting a promising one, h- struck once more for the feoce, stiij foliowed by old "Bennett." Crossing it, be threw htm sell nd his prey down into the midst of the bushes, muttenng.as he did 8o," at, old fellow, y ou have done it lhi time!" The jack-knite was soon produced, and a slice hewed out; but nu soover was the first mouthful taken, than he sputtered it out, exclaiming, " It's a green punkm!" A moment after, he went on "You are a nice old foci, you are Jacob! You would steal watermeU ons, would you? and you have stole a cussed green pumpkin! Well, old feU low, you would steal it now, cuss you, y ou shall eat it!" Suiting the action to Ins word, he began to devour the prize with many expressions ol disgua, and wuh a determination to keep "the old fool" to it. At last the lask was ac complished, and he rose to depart, mut tering, as he did so, to ihe infinite amusement of old Bennett who said nothing 4You infernal ass.it serves you right ! You are not fit for a ra9 cal. Any man who has nomotegump tion than to 6tea a pumpkin instead of a watermelon, had betttr keep honest. He'll never make anything out of fas rascality The Due dc Rciebstadt. A melancholy m'ercst tias ever at tached to this Ut-starred fJspnng of the ill-maxhed union between Bonaparte and his Austrian Dnde, whose birth was ushered in so brightly, and whuse early promise was so soon shrouded in dark ness and gloom. The latest advices from Europe onng the tidings that the Presiaent oi me French Republic is about to demand, or has already oone so, the txjuy ot thtDuc de Rtichstudt, tor tut puipoj;e oi laying il by the side .i Napwie. n, his lather, iu the Uhurc o. tnc Inv.iiiue. teparaitu Horn uii .ii'my Ja:uer t' so early a date torn iioiu h-a td .!. alien to his deatmy and his pres-toc;.- trenng away his tiery soui in the ouii routine ot the Court wnither he was con signed as a real capuve, though a nuiu uidiguesi: like an eagie wuli clippeu wtos and broken spirit, gtited wnh ne aspiration, thougn u;t tin power to sour -H seems almost a nmcktry now lu tningie in co.d asut', . r oi memory t wuh those or Ndpuieun. ;-dd commetu indeed u es u fler on human ambition and human designs, lhat alter long year oi exih- and aliena tion when bot'i the hmperor and the Prince ol Rome are oust the iwo should from the tomb inrilt the great h' an ot rV.mce and Reicneiaai repose by Napoleon's side ta share that immor- tjlity of fame, the sole legacy left by the mighty monarch after all his strug gles.sma and sufferings. Of all pottraits that we have ever looked upon, that of this young Prince is the most touching stamped as it is with ihe mournlu! impress of hopes deferrtd, aspirations crushed, and the prophetic shadow of a premature death. And to secure this succession did Bo na part divorce his own loved Josephine. and do violence to ihe .j n:: 9crBa. Hon that ever swayed his iron breast. Such lessons may well leach us " wha shadows we are, and what shadows we pursue." . Co. FrimonCs attempt to cross the mountains was at the Publoof San Car los, in ihe neighborhood ot the most northerly New .Mexican settlements, on the Arkansas over. He was repulsed by the intense cold and deep snows. '1 he place is at the loot ot Pike Peak, the highest range of which is from fit Ken, to seventeen thousand leet. The failure o' the expedition has called forth the following remarks from the "North American": "This was the very scene of the well remembered sufferings ot poor Pike, who, more ' than furry years ago, (in 1S00-7,) with a small party of soldiers, entirely unprovided with winter clothi ing, himself wearing 'couon overall, clambered over the snowy ridges and Iiozmi canions' ot these mountains du nng two-ihird ot the winter, until, in fact, compelled by the inwnse sutierings o! his party, towards the clone ot Janua ry , in the upper part ot the valley ol the Rio Grande, to construct lor winter qua ners the blockhouse in which he was ultimately discovered and arrested bv the Spaniard. Iiko iatrP.4, though comus-ed explorations had made the world we. I acquainted with at least the tusiern rtngc ot i his stction ol the Rocky Mountains, utid he had rambled through the sttrn solitudes of the Bavou Salade or South Patk, long betore trap per or trader had dreamed ot its exist ence; crossing behind the 'High Peak' which now beats its i:ame to the South Pork ot Platte, and even from a moun tain ridge, looking down upon a main head branch ol Grand River the Col orado ol the Pacific although he mis took it lor a branch ot the Yellostone. Pike's difficulties, and the knowledge that here is a culminating swell ot the plateau from which such rivers How as ihe Arkansas, Rio Grande, and the Col orado, ot the West, must have induced the expectation ol serious impediments to be encountered on tins route. It ap pears, however, that Fremont's calami ty arose from no ordinary rigors of win ter. Facts mentioned in the Intelligen cer and the last despatcti from St Louts show, that the last winter in New Mex ico set n unusually early , and was of unpiralle'led severity. Fremont left the Pobio at the beginning ot Decem ber. On the lG.h oi the last named month, a; Santa Fe, the thermometer h .d laden to twenty degrees below Ze ro ; men troze to oeath ; tne anew was as high as a horse'u back in the moun tain passes ; a appears trom the last ac counts iroru St. Louis thai it fell much deeper, the mules and horses huving, it may be said, been eutombed under a (all peihapa an avelanche ol thirty oi tony feet deep. And hence the fail ure ot the expedition is to be attributed chit fly tc a misfortune of an unprecedent ed ciiaructer, although in part also un doubtedly owing to the unlavorable na ture of thai particular tract of country." Strickland's, A' C, April 12. Messrs. Editors Please give the J following an insertion in your paper, and oblige many citizens : Melancholy Suicide. For some day s past, our quiet community has been mucii txcued od'toereu with loom, by me suuucn disappearance t Mrs. Nancy W. Knowles, wne ot John H. knottiest, oi Sampson c-umy. She tell his houst- on Cdtoruoy morning, ihe 7th ihM., utiwtti. int. iiuurs o; ii iduight and n rcit.g ; .in.- u .e.v.ng ihe yard used t r. ii ts-.s nut ic atii-htii her Misband. ii. - v .v. i.e at nci mother', Mr. l.vi.., uui fi.tii.-.g her there, itafS Wtl - OOitl iail.tu ;ha. SUO liid JlC- cou .pi.fci.ed wnit she had threatened, 2 : .-lii-own (tre.) This she had itpit e.y Sjju sne wouid do. The in ici gt.i.ct- was immUiately given to her if'ruiii -od he conimuuity, and every u.tui.a ihn coula be used were adopted o lieu r.er. Ihe waters were drawn iioni several of the Mill Ponds in thfi vicinity, and search made everywhere, wnere there was the least hope ot finding her. Intelligence had been received ol tier on the Saturday inquiring tb way to Taylor's Bndgt.aud.on being inform ed, she started and took a road lhat led to a Mul Pond on ihe lands ol Mr Rod Acting Irom this intelligence, gers ,hey sought for her there, when, horri bleto relate, ftlr Sellars and another gentleman found her suspended by the nccl; dead ! I a frightful object to be hold. The article used for this purpose was nothing rxore than her apron, with the strings of which she formed a noose, end fastened the other part to a smell pine tree, which she had bent over. The location was on a hill side, and , trorn examination ot ue spot she most have died without a strug jle. I ho cause fur this lash act is dif&cult to CX plain. They had been married only six weeks, and she often said, "She naH married a man that aha did not love." She had for some time exhibited symp toms ot aberatioo of mind, and this, uo doubt, was the cause of ber tragical deaih. hct adds to the gloom of the melancholy affair, tbey both ara consid ered to be very respectable. The fuoe ral lakes place to-day. Wilmington Journal. California Emigration. The New York Herald has the toMowing recapitu lation ot the number ol vessels and pas sengers that have left this country for California. Tot. in 199 vessels, via Cape Horn. 12.323 45 ' Chagtes, 3,?ti 3 Vera Cruz, 594 H' Brazos. 765 & ' Corpus Chiisti, 103 2 ' ban Juan river, 143 4 1 'lampico, 87 1 L&vaci, lil Tot. iu 270 vessels, 17,331 Besides the above, several vessel have cleared at this port lor San Fran Cisco, which have not yet sailed; and some lew huve sailed, the iis:ot pasten gorm in whicn, if miy, wo hmvv been UQa hie to obtain. It those who have cone out Vt eai, V' go overland, wtie inciuaed in the above, it ould swell tho list to ab ut twenty thousand. Distress in Ireland. The picture qf distress in Ireland, as lurnisbtd by th4 late papers, is truly deplorable. Death trom starvation is quae an ordinary oc currence. A Dublin papr oqw before us, contains ihe details ot several caacF. In one, a little girt was found dead in a cross street, and the verdict of lbs jury was, that the victim perished of destitution. In another, a man about 50 years of age, perished at Uennity, trom a similar cause. '1 be Limerick Reporter says that the condition of the enure community in tho parishea of Caitigaholt and Kilbally owen, is awful in ibe extreme, principally trom dis ease superinduced by celd and starva tion. ii ii .o Remedy for Asthma. The Maing Cultivator says lhat an individual who has suffered much trom asthma, and who had in vain sought reliet from re gular physicians, wishes to give publici ty to me following remedy ; Procure common blotting paper, and thoroughly saturate it m a . solution ot nitre (alipe- tre,J and let it bo carefully dried by the hie or exposure to tho rays of the run. Ou retiring at night, ignite it, and de posit burning, on u plate or square sheet ot iron or zinc in. your bed room. Jrj many cases, ii is said, this has enabled persons painluily afflicted to enjoy their rest. Economical Hair Wash Take oca ounce of borax, halt an ounce of cam-. phor; powder these ingredients fine, and dissolve them in one quart ot boil ing water : when cool, the solution will be ready lor use damp the hair fre- nuenilv. 1 his waEb nut only el!ec- mally cleanses and beautifies, but strengthens the hair, preserves the color, and prevents early baldness. This, we conceive, cannot be too generally mado known. An historical event is connected with ihe recent death cf Mrs. Gerry, widow ot Eidndge Gerry, once Vice President of the United States, which belongs to ihe country. Charles Carroll, of Mary land, was the last survivor of the sign ers of tha Declaration of Independence; the widow ofEldrid Gerry, was the last survivor of those American women holding th s relation to the men of 177$, who pledged to tha support ot that de claration "iheir lives, their fartunesj and their sacred honors." "W hat a beautitull place heaven is exclaimed a little boy. "Why do yen think so? asked his father. "Because," said he, alluding to the stars lthe neifg in the foor are to beautiful." The best chiropodists in the coup- re the crows, who are said, hr men, to be expert "com-"0101' - V
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