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Volume 5.
Lincolnton, North Carolina,,,? aturday Working, May 5, 1849.
Number 8.
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My Wife and tliild.
I have two precious jewels,
The fairest gems of earth
I love them, yes, I love them
For their own intrinsic worth.
The one, when cares oppress m
And edneas fills my heart,
, In meekness conies to bless me
v With her soul endearing art.
Her songs like distant vespers,
Inspire my heart with joy,
Whilst, like a guardian "igel,
She soothes our little boy
Unto his evening slumber
In music si-ft and deep,
And, as a spnt, watcheih
His calp" and peaceful sleep.
The oher oh ! what beauly
Del!s in his playful eyes,
Mtfo iike the gems which sparkle
At evening m the skies.
And then his artless mimicry
Ot ail our household ws '
He sings whene'er his mo; erst gs,
And prays whene'er she prays.
Such jewels God hath given
To share my humble cot,
As messengers from Heaven
To bless my weary lot.
And when the twilight fadeth
And darkness duns the west,
Wek ur gracious Father
To guard us while we rest.
The Fate of Nations. According to
Macauley, chance has had more to do
than superiority of race, in advancing
the positions of the English nation, in
his history of England he says :
. "Had t' Plantagenets, as at one time
ttemed likely, succeeded in uniting all
France under their government, it ts
probable that England would never have
had an :ndependent existence. Her
princes, her lords, her prelates, would
have been men differing in race and lan
guage from the aruzans and tillers of
the earth. The revenues of her propri
etors would have been spent in festivi
ties and diversions on tne banks of the
Seine. The noble language ot Milton
and Burke would have remained a rude
dialect, without a literature, a fixed
gtammar, or a Jixed orthography, and
would have been comeiiptuously aband
oned to the use of boots. No man ol
English extraction would nave arisen to
eminence, except by becoming in speech
and Labus a Frenchman."
England owes her escape from such
calamities to an event which her Ihmo
rians have generally represented as dis
astrous. Slavery Eighty Years Ago.-Etghly
years ago, slavery existed in Massachu
setts; and was there practised, by some,
as now on the worst sugar plantations
ot Liouisnna. Mrs Child in her history
of W oman, says. "A wealthy lady re-
owl in, r in r: lr.H..I.n... ht
oiu"'o iii uiui.uier, twass., was in
the habit ot giving away the infants
of her female slaves a few days after
they were born, as the people are accus
touied to dippose of a litter of kittens,
Jne ol ner neighbors begged an infant.
which hi mose aays ot comparative
simplicity, she nourished with her own
milk, and reared among her own chil
li r Tk- l-T
utn. . is wuuiau nau anearnesixies re
for a broodde gown, a..d her husband
not feeling able to purchase one, she sent
per little u ling to Virginia and sold
fci, wiit was aDout seven vear9
pld. V people of Massachusetts,
JUe the 1 , 0:is'i, have less chanty now
lor slavelf . than perhaps any other
Pi the cit.l.ns of the United States.
ouch is bum .1 nature.
....vwOU. uojiHgt. i lie courier
des fc.ta'8 i'niK flls t good storv of a
veteran of the Empire, an ex-soldier of
some eighty-nine years ol age, who in
sisted upon marching a league or so to
deposite his vote for the Napoleonite
candidate, ms iriends and family op.
posed him on account of his atrn and in
' firmities, bU nothing could shake his
patriotic determination. Upon bis re
turn he m - one of his neighbors, who
cnquirea vny ne had not voted.
"ict voted !" roared the Imperial
veteran, "I did, I marched all the way
-w.... yt lVfni, ana wnen i came to
a public building with a crevice, into
which a lot of young fellows were de
posing their ballots, I threw in mine
Ihe old man had polled his vote in
mo tetter. box of the Fost Office.
A Streak of Squatter Life.
BILL SAPPER'S LETTER TO HIS COTJ8IN.
Liberti, Missury, May 6th, 1 forty 5.
Cousin Jim, thaaint nuthin occurred
wuth ritin' about in our settlement fur a
long spell, but about the beginnsn' of
last week, thur war a rumor so: afloat
in town, which kept the wimen for two
or three days in a continooal snigger,
and it war half a day afore the men
could find out the rights of the marter
9ech anuther fease as all the gals got
inter, war delighttul to contemplate.
The beys' kept a akia one anuther,
what in the yearth wur the marter, that
the gals kept a whisperin and laffiin
round town so? at last it cum out!
and what do you think, Jim, wur the
marter? You couldn't guess in a week.
It aint no common occurrence, and yet
it's mighty natral. Little Jo Allen, the
shoemaker, had an addition to his fami
ly, amountin' to jest three babbys one
boy and two gals ! His wile is a leetle
cretur, but 1 reckon she's 'some' in
ccuntin' the census, and sech anuther
excitement i,s her little brood of pretty
labbys has kicked up among :he wimen
is perfectly inticm' to bachelors. When
the interestin' marter wur first noised
about, the wimen wouldn't believe it,
hut to know the rights of it tha put on
thur bonnets and poured down to see
Mrs. Allen, in a perfect stream of curi
osity ; and, suie enough, thar tha wur,
three raal peert lookin' children, all jest
alike. Bem' an acquaintance of Jo's,
he tuck me in to see his family, and it
wur raaly an inteseMin sight to see the
little creturs. Thar tha wur, With thur
tiny faces aside each other, heviri on
the prettiest caps, all made and fixed
by the young wimin, as a present to the
mother, and then thur infantile lips
jest openin', like se many rose buds
poutin' while thur bits of hands, transpa
lent as sparmacity, wur a curlin' about
and pushin', all doubled up, agin thur
Intle noses, and thur mother all the time
lookin' at 'em so peert and pleased jest
us ef she war feplin' in her own mind
tha war hard to beat added to which
thar stood thur daddy, contemplatin',
with a glow of parental feelin',the whole
unanimous pictur ! It aint in me Jim,
to fully describe the universal merits of
sech a scene, and I guess it couldn't re
ceive raal jestice from any man's pen,
cepi uc u ucu ine lamer oi twins at
east.
'Gracious me !' sed Mrs. Sutton, a
very literary womin, who allays talks
history on extra occasions: tf that little
Mrs. Allen ain't ekill to the mother of
thf Grashi '
She looked at little Jo, the daddv.
fur a spell, and tuk to admirin' him so
thiit she could scarcely keep her hands
ofTon him she hadn't no babbys, poor
wo in in !
Ah ! Mr. Allen,' ses she, 'you are
6uthin' like a husband vou're deter
mined to descend a name down to your
ancestors I
1 raaly believe shed a kissed him ef
thur hadn't ben so many wimen thar.
The lather of the babbva were milelv
tickled at furst, 'cause all the wimen
wur a praisin him, but arter a spell he
gin to look skary, forgo what he would
he found some wimen tryir; to git a
look at him tha jest besieged his shop
winder all the time, and kept peepin' in,
and lookin' at him, and askm' his age,
and whar he cum from ? At last sum
ol the gals got "so curious tha asked him
whar he did come from, any how, and
as soon as he sed Indianee, Dick Mason
becum one of the popularest young men
in the settlement among the wimen, jest
'cause ho war from the same state.
Things went on this way for a spell,
till at Ust tha heerd of 'em in the coun
try, and the wimen all about found some
excuse to come to town to git store
goods, jest u purpose to see the babbys
and thur parents. The little daddy war
wusser plagued now, and they starr'd at
him so that he couldn't work the fact
wur, his mind wur gettin' troubled, and
some of the wimen noticed the tkary
look he had out of his eyes, and kept a
wonderin' what it mean. One mornin'
it war noticed by some of th6 gals that
his shop warn't opened, 6o tha got inqui
rin' p.bout him, and arter a sarch he
cum up missin well, I'm of the opin
ion thar war an excitement in town then,
fully ekill to the president's election.
Every womin started her husband out
arter Jo, with orders not to come back
without him, and eech a scourin' as
they gin the country round would a
caught anvthin' human, it did ketch
Jo on his road to Texas J When they
got hro back in the town agin, a com
mitiee of married men held a secret
talk vith him, to lam what the marter
wnr, that he wanted to clear out, and
Jo told 'em that the wimen kept astarin'
at him, so he couldn't work, and ef he
war kept from his business, and his
family continooed to increase three at a
time, he'd git so cussed poor he'd starve,
and tliaretore he knew it ud be better to
clear out, for the wimen would be sure
to take good care of his wife and the
babbys.
Old Dr. Wilkins wur appointed by
the men to wail on a meetin of the
wimen, and inform them of the fact.that
they wur annoyin' the father of the
three babbys, and had almost driven
him out'n the settreroen. The doctor,
accordin' to appintment, informed the
wimen.and arter he had retired tha went
into committee of the whole upon the
marter, and appointed three of thur num
ber to report at a meetin', on the rex
evening a set of resolutions tlf in whu
tha'd do in the premises, and governin'
female action in the partickler case of
Jo Allen, his little wife, and three beau
tiful healthy babbys.
When the hour of meetin' had ar
riv Mrs. Sutton's parlors wur crowded
with the wimen of the settlement, and
arier appinten Wder Dent to the
ckttf tha reported the committee on
resolves reddy, and Mrs. Sutton bein
the head of the committee she sot to
work and read the followin' drawn up
paper :
W here as, It has been sed by the
wise Solomon of old, that the world
must be peopled, tharefore, we hold it
to be the inviolate duty of every man to
git married, and, moreover, rear up citi
zens and luiure mothers to our glorious
republic ; and,
W'kerea8, It is gratify in' to human
natur, the world in general, Missuiy at
large, and Liberty in partickler, that
this settlement has set an example to
the ancestors of future time, which will
not only make the wimen of this eu
lightened state a pattern for thur chiU
dren, but a envy to the royal wimen of
Europe, not forgettin' the proud moth
er the Lions of Ingland, but will elevate
and place in and among the furst farm
lies, (urevei herearter, the mother that
has shed such lustre upon the sex in
gineral ; and
Whereas, It is the melancholy lot
cf some to be deprived of doin' thar duty
in the great cause of human natur', be.
cause the young men is back'ard about
speakin' out, it is time that some mens
ures be taken inimical to our gineral
prosperi'y, and encouragm' to the risin'
gineration of young (eliars round town;
tharefore
Resolved, That, as married womin,
our sympathies, like the heaving of na
tur's bosom, yearns with admiration and
respect fur that little womin, Mrs. Al
len, and as we see her three little bab
bys reclinin upon thur mother's female
maternal bosom, our beatin' hearts with
one accord wish we could say ditto.
Resolved, That in the case of Mrs.
Allen, w3 see an illustrious example of
the intarnal and extarnal Drogress of
that spreading race, the Angel Saxons;
and time will come, when the mothers
of the west w ill plant thar glorious shoots
from one pinnacle of the Kocky Moun
tains to the tother, and until thar cry of
liberti will be hollered from one pint to
the next in continooal screetch !
Resolved, That Mr. Joseph AJ'en
the lather of these three dear little bab
bys, shall receive a monument at his
deth, and while he is Iivin, the wimen
shall only visit his shop ouce a week to
look at him, cept the married wimen,
who shall be permitted to see him twice
a week and no offener, pervided and ex-
ceptin tha want to git measuied fur a
pur of shoes.
Resolved, That Mister Joseph Allen
shall hav the custom of the whole set
tlemen, for he is a glorious livin1 exams
pie of a dotm husband.
Arter these resolutions had been unan
imously passed, Mr?. Sutton addressed
the meetin' in a stream of elegance,
wharin she proved, clar as a whistle,
that a familv war the furst consideration
fur a sealer in a hew country, and town
lots the arter question. 'She acknowl
edged the corn, she sed, tnat it war
soothin' to look cfTeti at thur neighbor
Allen, but his peace of mind war the
property of his family, and she hoped
the ladies wouldn't disturb it 'cause the
loss of seech a husbind would be a suffer
in' calamity to the settlement.
The meetin' adjourned, and Jo went
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oacK io worn singin ana wnistim as
happy as usual, and ever sence he's had
a perfect shower of work, for the gals
all round the country keep goin' to him
to git measured, tha say he desarves to
be incouraged. x our furst Cousin,
BILL SAPPER.
Education. Man though born with
a capacity for much that is great and
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ciducu, wruuia nave scarcely any idea
beyond the pleasure of sense, were he
left by others to follow his natural incli
nations. Education calls forth the la
tent capability, and creates a taste for
refined enjoyments.
From the National Intelligencer.
Col. Fremont and Iiis Party.
Further and Final Accounts.
We resume the extracts from Col.
Fremont's Letters, prefacing them with
some brief description of the localities
made memorable by "disaster, for the
information of those who have not re
cent maps at hand.
It is known that the great Rocky
Mountain chain, with a general direction
north and south, sends out a branch to
wards the southeast from between the
heads of the Arkansas and the Rio del
Norte; and this branch forma I fi rlivi.
ding ridge betweeu iba upper vaileys of
these two rivers, and between ttie bead
waters oi the Red riVPF nnrt ika T)l
iNorte; and havmi; accomnlished thA
purposes it subsides and disappears in
the plains of Texas. The h.hci ..
of this branch chain, and ihe t-nvim
ing object in it to travellers, are the
bpanish Peaks, first made known to A-
merican geography by ihe then young
L.ieut. Pike. These Peaks are about
in north latitude 37 deg. and west
longitude from London 105 deg. and
about on a line longitudinally with the
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ruciJios oi tne upper Arkansas, distant
Iroro them half a. decree, and in Kicrhf.
They are seen at a great distance, and
are guiding objects to travellers. The
road to oanta re passes bt-lo
Peaks, and crosses the chain about two
degrees south: Col. Freemont passed
above them, and entered the vallev nf
the Del Norte high up above the Mex
ican settlements, and above Pikes
stockade, and intended to follow the
Del Norte to its head, and cross the
great Rocky Mountain chain through
some pass there to be found. He was,
therelore, so to speak, going into the
forks of the Mountain into the eoxna
of two mountains and at a great ele
vation, shown by the lact ot the great
rivers which issue from the opposite
ides of the Rockv Mountains at that
part the Arkansas and Del Norte on
the east, the Grand river fork of the
Colorado of the gult of California on the
west.
It was at this point, the head of the
Dei Norte, wheie no traveller had Pr
gone before, that Col. Fremont i
ded to pass.to survey his last line across
tne continent, complete his knowledge
of the country between the Mississinni
anu me racinc, and crown the labors of
i .l . r " . . rr
long explorations by showing the coun
try between the great river and the
great sea to be inhabitable by a civilized
people, 3na practicable lor a great road,
and that on several lives, and vuhinh
was the best. He had been Seven vonra
engagea in tnis great labor, and wishe
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io complete it.
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It was the begining of
he crossed the chain
uecemoer that he crossed the s-hain
irom the Arkansas valley into the val-
ihv ii I no i lai ixjr-it..-j i.i t .
-"j w- 4 vi ic, aiiu, aitnougn late,
with the full belief ol the old hunters
ana iraaers at tne fueblos, the guide
uu,iuivB wnum ne mere engaged, that
he would go through. He was nrovi-
ded with every thing to carry the men
to California, and with grain toarry all
me animai across all the mountains in
to the valleys of the tributaries of the
Great Colorado of the West, where the
snows would be light,wood and grass suf
ficient, game abundant, and the hard
ships of the expedition all surmounted
and left behind. In two weeks he ex
pected to be in these mild valleys .
Unhappily, the guide consumed these
two weeks in getting to the head
of the Del Norte a distance which on
ly required four or five days travel, as
Col Fremont showed in coming back.
This was the cause of the first calam
ity the loss of the horses and mules.
The same guide consumed twenty-two
days when sent with the party for re
lief, in making the distance which Vo
Fremont, (with Godey, Preuss, and a
servant,) without a guide, on loot, in
colder weather, deeper snows, and half
tarnished, made in six. That was the
cause of the second and irreparable ca
iamity the death of the men.
The immediate scene of suffering in
this great disaster, where the ascent of
ine great mountain was forced and its
summit scaled, must have been above
north latitude 38, and west longitude
from London 107, the elevation about
twelve thousand feet, and the time that
of dead winter Christmas ! From
this point the noted objects, Pike's Peak
and the Thiee Parks, would bear about
E. N. E. and the Spanish Peaks about
E. S. E.
With this notice of localities, to which
a mournful interest must lone- attach.
we proceed to give extracts from the
remaining and nnal letters trora Col.
Fremont. The first of these is dated
"Taos, New Mexico, Feb. 6, '49.
After a loo? celav. which had
wearied me to the point of resolving
to set out again myself, tidings have a
last reached me irom my ill-fated
party.
"Mr. Vincent Haler came in last
nighi, having the night before reached
the Little Colorado settlement with
ihree or four others. Including Mr.
King and Proulx, we have lost eleven
of our party.
"Occurrences since I left them, are
briefly these, so far as thev came with
in the knowledge of Mr Haler : I say
briefly because 1 am now unwilling to
force my mind to dwell unon the details
of what has been srffered. 1 need re
prieve irom .terrible contemplationg.
I am absolutely astonished at this ser
sistance of misfortune this succession
of calamities which no care or vigilance
ot mine could loresee or prevent.
'You will remember that I had left
the camp (twtnty-three men) when
I set off with Godey, Preuss, and my
servant in search of King and succor.
with directions about the baggage, and
without occupation sufficient about it
to employ them for three or four davs:
after which they were to follow me down
the river. Within that time I expected
relief from King's parly, if it cume at
all. Thev remained seven davs. and
then started, their scant provisions
about exhausted, and the deud mules on
the western side of the great Sierra
buried under the snow.
"Manuel, (you will remember Mam
uel, a Christian Indian of the Cosumne
tribe, in the valley ot the San Joaauin.)
gave way to feeling of despair after
iney nan moved about two miles, and
begged Vincent Haier, whom 1 h-d
left in command to shoot him. Failing
to find death in that form, he turned
and made his way back to the camp,
intending to die there; which he doubt
less soon did.
"The party moved on, and at ten
miles Wise cave out, threw away his
gun and blanket; and a few hundred
yards further fell over into the snow,
and died, Two Indian boys, country
men of Manuel, were behind. They
came upon him, rolled him up in ins
blanket, and buried him in the snow, on
the bank of the river.
"No other died that day. None the
next.
"Carver raved during the night, his
imagination wholly occupied with ima
ges of many things which he fancied
himself to be eating. In the morning
he wandered off, and probably soon died.
He was not seen again.
"Sorel on this day (the fourth from
the camp) laid down to die. They
built him a fire, and Morin, who was in
a dying condition, and snow blind re
mained with him. These two did not
probably last till the next morning.
That evening fl think it was) Huhhard
a
killed a deer.
"They travelled on getting here and
there a grouse, but nothing else, the
I 1 c uccp uuw m
driven off the game.
tne deep snow in tne vauevhavinrr
sn off the game.
"The state of the partv became des
perate, and brought Haler to the deter
mination of breaking it up, in order to
prevent them trom living upon each
other. He told them that he had dona
all he could for them; that they had no
other hope remaining than the expected
relief; and that the best plan was to scat
ter, and make the best of their way,
each a he could, down the river; that,
for himself, if he was to be eaten, he
would, at all events, be found travelling
when he did die. This address had iia
effect. Thev accordingly senarated.
With Haler coniinued .five others.
Scott, Hubbard, Martin, liacon, one
other, and the two Consumne Indian
boys.
"Kohrer now became despondent,
and stopped. Haler reminded him of
bis family, and urged him to try and
hold out for their sake. Jioused by
this appeal to his tenderest afTections,
the unfortunate man moved forward,
but feebly, and soon began to fall be
hind. Ouja further appeal iie promised
to follow and to overtake them at eve
ning. Haler, Scott, Hubbard and Martin
now agreed that if any one of them
6hould give out the others were not u
wait for him to de, but to push on and
try and save themselves. Soon this
mournful covenant had to be kept. But
let me not anticipate events; Sufficient
for each day is the sorrow thereof.
"At night Kerne's party encamped a
few hundred yards from Haler's, with
the intention, according to Taplin, to
remain where they were until the relief
should come, and in the mean time to
live upon those who had died, and upon
the weaker ones as they should die.
With this party, were the three brothers
Kerne, Captain Calhcart, McKte, An
drews, Stepperfeldt and Tsplin. 1 do
not know that I have got all the names
of this party.
"Ferguson and Beadle had remained
together behind. In the evening Rnhr
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I came up and remained in Kerne's party.
j naier learnt axterwaroj Iforn 80X30 of
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