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7 "THE PUBLIC GOOD SHOULD EVER BE PREFERKE3 TO PRIVATE ADVANTAGE.' Volume 5. Lincolnton, North Carolina, Saturday Morning, June 30, 1849. Number 16. BY TiHMs. Two dollars pel annum, payable instance; $2 50 if payment be delayed 3 months. A discount to clubs of 3 or more. Advertisements will be conspicuously insert ed, at $ 1 pel square (14 lines) for the tirst, and S3 cents for each subsequent insertion. The Critic's rarcwvll. Why do 1 weep? tc leave the vine - Whose clusters o'er me bend The myrtleyet, oh' call it mice! The flowers love to ten . A thousand thoughts of all things dear Like shadows o'er me sweep; I leave my sunny childhood hue! v Oh, therefore let me weep ! leave a Sister we have played ' Through many a joyous hour, Where the si I v'ry green of the olive shade Huiig dim o'er fount and bower. Yes, thou and I, by stream by shore, In sons. 'n P'yr, in sleep. Have been as we nny be no more Kind Mater, let me weep J I leave thee, Father! eve's bright moon Mast now light ottier feet, With the gaiher'd giipes and lyre in tune Tfcy homeward steps to greet. Thou, in whose voice, to bless thy child, Lay tones of love so deep, Whose eyes o'er all my youth hath sznil'd I leave thee! let me weep! Mother! I leave thee! on thy breast y, Pouring out joy and woe, I have found that holy place of rest Still changeless yet I go! Lips that have lull'd me with your strain, Eyes that hve watched my sleep . Will earth give love like yours again? Sweet mother ! let me weep! 4TII OF JULY MEETING. The Committee of Arrangements ap . pointed at a meeting of citizen 'o make arrangements far celebrating the Anni versary of American Independence, will be pleased to meet the remaining Republicans ot '76, and have them to par take of the convivialities. Major T. T. Slade, has been appon: ed Marshal ot he day, assisted by II. W. Abt rnathy, and E. J. Alexander. VVm Lander, Esq. is appoint! d Pres ident of the diy, and reader ot Toa3ie, assisted by Capi. T. J. Eccles. The citizens are requested to met at 11 o'clock, at the court house, and form in procession on the rear ol the Town company ; at which tirnf all the merchants re requested to close doors, until 2 o'clock, and join the march to the Methodist grve, where a stand and seats will be prepared for their accom modatnm. The ladies are invited to ho' tiOr the occasion with their presence. After Divine service by the Rev. Mr Murchison, the Declaration ol Indepen dence will be read by Capt. W . II. Alex ander, and an Oration delivered by Jas. A. Caldwell, Esq. A Dinner will be provided as usual. The committee hope the citizens will pay strict attention to the programme of the day. W. H. Alexander, C. S. Johnso.n, Caleb Motz. June 23d, 1849. 07" An adjourned meeting will be &eld at the court house to night. (7-The Stienffol Lincoln will attend with the Tax Lists for said county, at the following muster grounds, commen cing in Lincolntoo, with Captain Eccles' company, Wednesday, July 4 Leonhardt's, " Fnday, " G - Uelderman's, Sa:urday, " 7 Seagle's, Thursday, " 12 . Lutz's, Friday, 13 Siffird's, Ba'urday, " 14 Glenn's, Friday, 20 Kmcatd's, Saturday, " 21 King's, Saturday, " 23 CO The tax returns for the Town Company will be taken in by 'Squ re Vm.J. ih'KE, at tiie store of Hoke & Michal ; others at the respective mus ter grounds. . ' tallNTE 'ND PUBLISHED WEEKLY, THOMAS J. ECCLES. Incident in Trial of an Erisli Patriot. BY l'UL ESE-NGLE. "A very original ai7air!"said I, laying down tbe Tribune of that day. "What 13 that 7" a6ked my compan ion. '1 rerer to tha' scene in lh trial of Smith O'Brien when Dubbin, the lush Detective, is proved a perjurer bv the unexpected testimony of Mr. D'Al'on. All the circumstances con; .oed wn'u the affur the visit of D' Al'on at the Freeman Office; the hasty and success fu! measures instantly taken to bring him iiuo court ; the crushing power of D'Al'on's testimony, and the complete unmasking of Dobbin would seem to mrk the whole us an interference by Providence, if all these things had not so unaccountably failed in the grand re suit." The gentleman to whom I said this was a grey. headed refugee fiom Ireland 9ince the great rebellion in "Nititty eight." He paused a lew moment-, find then replied in a voice tremulous with rage and strong feeling. "1 dare not truat myself to speak o! the trial ol U linen, lor it reminds me ot the days of Fitzgerald and Emmet. But there is one incident at those times which 1 can mention with more calm ness, lour remaik suggested it. I will tell ou of a providential mierfei ence, mis time successful, in a trial of somewhat similar character. The uc tors were obcure, and are now forgot ten by all, except the few who 'then stood m the court room, and saw the heroism of a poor servant girl, irump ling upon her uvn luve tor the sake of truih and justice in the cause of Ireland. They never can forget it. All that I did not at that time understand m ibe affair 1 afterwards learned by inquiry ol (Others so s'rong whs the interest 'hat hombie heroine made within me:" Lata on Hallowmas Eve, a young I man and girl were silling together in tho bervania room ol sn lri-l country seat. The latter was a lair and buxom lass, known far and near as 'pretty Mary Donovan.' he had an honest (ace, too, where the very heart seemed looking forth, and one tor hose real nob. lily a man might pledge hH life. At 'he moment it was slouded with anxiety and iin.id love. Vi ry near her fat a young man, with one of those false, handsome laces, that we uccakionalU meet, and aiways look upon a secit'id time. His glossy hair was elaborately curbd, and his eye, hard and bright like jet. was marked with insir.cerity. His whole appear ance was, as I have just said, handsome and false. Had the young girl whom he was earnestly addressing been a physi ognomis', eh woolo never hav lis tened to his words; as it was, her whole manner was w a vet log, distrusilul, yet tender. "Ptielnn, you know that I love you, and on! tt.ai I could trust ye, mo. It I could hui my eyes whilu ye talk to me, 1'de wan no longer, but give you the word at once ; bui whenever I look in your eye youeeo to tie '.hiking on ly with your hps, and so I mrn away hum the lace 1 should love to look upon. "1 understand ye, Mary Donovan," said Pheiiin bitter ly ; "and because the lace I was born with don'i sur ye, you think 1 am trying to cheat. It's no use to lee 1 around ve au longer. I'll go to tho mountains and jo:n ihe fi 'hung boys to-morrow. "Noi because I sent ye there," ex claimed Mary hasily. "Dear Phelim, forgive me, and I'll never ve y a gain." A glow, not of shame, passed over his face, as he saw the effect of his words to this, the first sign of triumph end he persevered so cleverly that in a few minutes they were betrothed, and he had won 'lie first ripe kiss Irom her dainty lips. Then followed the in terchange of love tokens, usual among the Irian peasantry. They could on ly exchange locks of hur, for they had nothing blse to give. "Write on the paper around it the date of the blessed night, Phelim. and it will be twice as precious to mv." So he d:d, and Mary placed it care fully next to her heart. They then began to talk of more serious matters. Both were poor but hopeful, ai d ready io wail for tome sud der. turn of good fortune, which they fondly dreamed might come ai any time. This discussiun of ways, means, and all impracticable projects, carried them far into the night, so far, indeed, that Phelim, lover though he was, yawned sleepily as he took Ins candle, saying, "Good utghi," Mary dear, and don't for get Hallowmas Eve." 'Ah, Phelim," she replied, !'il re member it long enough lor us both." So she did. Tho next day brought tio.ngs to the inmates of hall, that a large body of peasants bad risen during past night, and commuted excesses, tro com mon in those times of apptehei.s:0i and resistance. Nor did they end with that ntghl'u work. What u known in his tory an the "rebellion of IS in tv -eight,' speedily broke out, and tor mor.'hs kept the land in most fearful agitt.on. At la6t the rebellion was ciushed, m.J then commenced the trial of those leaders who had been captured. All crowded to court to see their first men brought o trial and condemned almost invariably to dea h. One ol these leaders was of great notoriety in the vicinity ol nail, anu wiien his case was called Irorn the docket, every man, wonian, and child ti cked to .he place ol trial some to tympattuze, with the eager patriot, some to tsult over Ins lull, and very many to eve the man .whose name hud been held up as a word of equal tenor to refractory children and luil grown men. "Mary," san her lover, aa he saw her arrayed iu rustic finery, "sureiy, ye're not going Jo the court t.o-da." "Indeed I am," she rephed; "I'll go and give the poor prisoner a blessing with my eye, since I c;m do nothing else for htm. H'hv should 1 stuy away when a man is to bb tried tor his life, because he loved us too well? iSurely we must go and say to him by our pres ence, that we are with bun in our Irish hearts." "It's no place for women, 1 tell ye," exclaimed Phelim with sudden violence, and then coax-ngty, "Indeed, yoa must not go. bias ai home and think of what I'm teilmg ye, ihal I've got fifty go'den guineas, and that we can he married next week, or as soon as ye'll only say the word." "frifiv guineas in real gold! Who gave Ihem to ye? was it the master. or"- 'Hu'h ' Here's th n?-or'- vn voice calling me now, so I must go Stay at home, Mary deai, or l'il not lor give ye " "I don't understand ye, Phelim, and I xcill go to the court," said Mdry to her fell. "Fifty guineas in bright and heavy gold biewsiiigs on the givei!" In opening me case the prosecuting attorney was observed io look anxiously around the court as tn search ot some particular face. Each lime he was dis appointed, and at last was obliged to an nounce, that in the absence of its princi pal witness, the crown would first resort toother evider.ee. And meagre enough way that evidence io all in crowded court. Everything manifest depended upon the principal witness, the Infor mer and without his speedy appearance, the prisoner would, doubtless, be enti tled to acquittal. At last ttie Crown officer finished his other evidence, and again peere d anxiously ab -ut ihe court. This time his face I ig tiled with satis faction. Theism Rectify." Ptuiim!" cued u faint smothered voice on the opposite side of the room. "Silence there in the court!" fchouted the sheriff angrily. Eut there was no silence in Mary Donovan's heart. 1 see it now these fifty golden ' gnmeas ' Ah, they have made Phelim ' Keeney an Informer, hut they shall i neV'-r make me his wile. The Informer felt the rnoist, yet fl ish ing ee of Mary Donovan, burning into his brain, and he shivered wiih terror, but the voice of the prosecuting attorney, boon restored sell po.-sees on, aud he Coolly teaiifiid himself aa toilovvs. He had disguised himself and joined the rebels in ihe great meeting on Ihe night of iheir rising. lie had especial ly muked the prisoner at trie bar, as the seeming leader, and ihe one under whOMi diiecnoo ihe whole body acted. He heard tins prioner utter woids and do acts ol treason oo that night. This was the substance ol ms testimony , nnu so clear, full, direct was u throughout, that every one S3w thai the prisoner's lile was hanging on ihe words iron) Ihe informer's hps. Toe Crown lawyer bkilhuily pumped him of everything, aud found that he had done full justice to his training. '1 he first question on the cro?s exam ination was hi regard to ihe lime of this afTaii, Pnelnn appeared somewhat un easy, and replied in a very low tone. "Louder!" cried one of the Judges. "It wa9 on the night before the ri sing Haiiovvii.a Eve." "No; it was not on Hallowmas Eve," exclaimed Mary Donovan, rising with an uncontrolab-e impulse. "Phelim! you are not even an mlofUier you are perjured!" There was dead silence for ono in- slant, and then the . prisoner's counsel j spoke srarply "What's this! Let that girl come to the vitness stand." Pale, but not trembling, 6he took the place where Phelim has just stood. "You say it was not on Hallowmas Eve tell all you know." She fixed her eyes on her lover, and kept them there steadily until she had finished. No one questioned or inter rupted her in the course of her broken testimony. "Never would I be standing in this I place, your Honors, if the false oath and black word had nt come from the lips of Phelim Keeney. Never would open mou b to condemn the man I love best, If he himself had not compelled me to do it. "This man was once my lover, be fore he sold his country an J me, too, with it. And tha very night he first spoke hiw fa lee words to me without check, was this same Hallowmas Eve, I when he shears he was up on the Moun tains disguised as one of tho band ot that prisoner ut the bar. XV e talked ill two in the night do you deny it? Look then at this, which I take from my bosom for the last time this lock of y our hair, wrapped in a paper and ye've written on tha? paper these words with your own hand, Phelim Reeney to Mary Donovan 11 o'clock, Halioicmas ilvt: "Take the paper and tho hair, sir 'twill never come imo my hand again. "Isn't the shaking ot that guilty man ns good proof of my oatn? Ah, Phelim, 1 see now where the fifty gold guineas came from; but did ye think a: the time what ye gave in exchange for that bribe? "This is all thai I know; and oh! it is too much lor me to say, tor u 6trike down the man I love. Phelim, why did vou do all this? An hour ago and worlds wouldn't have tempted ye io exchange places with tht man at the bar, bin now ihera's iio'""(h )a wouldn't giv to be this unsoner yt urseif. Xe'il be dispised and cut otf among men, but never can you even feel mote misery than I shall find fill my weaiy lite, for 1 loved you, Phelim, and you've bioken my titan." The old gentlemaD stopped here, but hs eyes were elcquent as he mused. "Well?" sa d 1 inquiringly. "In the course of a long lile," he con lined, "I have often heard tlse out pour ings of true genius, but never did I ee such eloquence us there was in the eye of that servant girl, when she faced her lover and made him a criminal Even ihe hard eyed Judges were softened by the sight." 'What became of her?" "Ah! that is a true incident, and you must not expect the ending of a novel. The prisoner was acquitted of crime; Reeney suffered the penalty of his crime while Mary Donovan retired egain Io her service, forgotten and unknown Had Ireland then attained her indepen dence, you would long nnc have seen her name written in ihe annals of that desperate strife, and not have heatd of he? now, only through a chance Morv by an aged wanderer from his own un happy land." POLITENESS. am extremely glad to see youS- There are more lies contained in these few wotds, than in ail the written spee ches in a lawyer's t ffice ; and still ihe expression is on 'he up end of every one's tongue. Imagine yourself seated in your sanctum sanctorum, wrnpped up in the study of some favorite au thor, or communing with the hallowed nine when, Io! in pops a creditor, and throws a bucket of ice waier upon your burning thoughts! Ha! my dear friend, I'm extremely glad 105065011.' There's a thumper lor y ou to answer for ! Miss is preparing for a parly; the cir rtagp is waiting at ihe door and still she lingers before the mirror adjust ing her rich treses, (. e. beau catchers,) when in comes h dear friend; biting her lips with vexation, a: I he same time loicing a smiie, she exclaims 'ah! I'm extremely giad to see you. There's another thumper. Madam has pickles or sausages to make, and is up to to her ears 1:1 pots and kettles, when Mrs. "Somebody eir lers w ith six little or.es, all dressed off as neat as if they had just been freed from six months imprisonment tn a band box. "Bless me! I'm extremely glad to see you !" It's a thumper its a downright lie; in her heart she wished her to the , I'd like to have said it. A lady wrote on a pane of glass God did at fiist maLe man upright, but he To which a gentleman added .Most surely had continued, so, but she . Death of Cassius M. Clay confirm fd. The latest intelligence confiims Ihe account of the death of Cassius M. Clav in the manner described in our last. It seems that May was addressing a meeting on the bubjeet of e mancipa tion, when, in answer to some observa tton of his; Turner called htm a liar,and a conflict ensued, resulting in the dt-uta of both the combatants. There can be nothing more foohsh than the attempt to idtutify the death of itie.se two rowdies, for feuch the lact nf iheir gomg about armed with bowie knivS proves them to have been, with the niovemtuts of any corsidrrsb'.e party in either section of ihe Union. These men were rowdies naturally, and their disposition to law lessnes3 belonged, properly speaking, to themselves, and not to the cause they advocated. Men the most ardently de voted to the public interests of ihe sec tion they represent, will generally be found the most urbane and gentlemanly in their personal relations & intercourse. Sweeping and indiscriminate ilenuucia Hons of men for theie causes, argue a dtficiency either in the ned o- heart of the person making them. Wilmington Journals A Portrait. In a recent conversa tion about great men, one person aked another if he had ever seen Col. Bemnn, and it so to describe him. W hy said the interrogated, 'whether sitting, stand ing, or walking, ihe Missouri Senator looks as if he were carrying on inward aud gentle remonstrance wm himself for being of" so much more consequence m the world than anybody else ' The more this portrait is examined. the rooro correct and hle-like u willapj.ear. Singular case of Cholera. An enr. inent practitioner of Petersburg, Va., was recently called to oitend a laoy tn Chebierfield, the messenger in'oimmg hiw that she was attacked by ctmlera. He promptly watted upon her, at d as sisted to relieve her pains by hiu.g'Ug mlo the world a smart boy. A li h raonJ. a worst- ta w mi o. i lie ia" cuity were called upon to relieve a lady maiked as a victim of the cholera, aud the result was marvellously tne birth of twins, and the rapid recovery of the sick Udy. In bolli instances, l ie was pro duced instead of deatn, and bo.h exem plify the foliy of the insane fears wtucn turns every attack of disease into the choleia. Amusing death. W e learn that seve ral negroes we-e yes'erd y engaged in the amusement of "butting over cot-, ton bales, at the Hy draul c Coiioii Press. One of them, a man named lV illiam, belonging to Mr. George . Dunnam, of U'cehoro,' Liberty coun', for a very bmall wager, undertook to "butt" over a square bale of Cotton. Ho to- k a running start of bonie ten yardu, audi struck the Colioo bate witti considerable force with his head. He won the wger, hut the c-flort cost him his lift. the3ud den jai broke his neck, and he dud in stantly. The Coroner held an inquest on the body , und a verd ct was renm-ird in accordance with the above facta.- Savannah Georgian. A gentleman who has a warm ide for a young lady, was making fun o.' the sack which she wore. "Vou had better keep quief, or I'll give you the sack," replied the lady, archly. " 1 should be most happy," was the gallant's response, "il you would give it to me as it is, Kith youmelf inside of it." Further deponent eayeth not. Sub' Rosa. This compound word ia often u-ed in writing ai d conversation, as bigmficant of secrecy. It h said thai its derivation is as follows: Ancient ly, the Greeks consecrated tho rote to Hippocrates, the genius of Silence. And either the rose or its representa tion was placed upon the ceiling of their dining rooms, implying Ihtt whatever was dune therein should be kept Irm public knowledge. It was dune tub rosa.vt under tne robe- In the Registration Court, Cupar Fife was called on to appear as a wtlneas, and could not be found. On the bhenffaok ing wfere he was, a grave elderly gen tleman rose up, and with much empha sis, said: "My Lord, he's gone." "Gone! gone!" said ihe sheriff, "where is he gone?" " I hat I cannot inform you," re plied the communicative gentleman. "but he's deucL" There ts a giant in Troy who ia so tall that he has to eat three days in ad vance, before his food does him any good. They send hut wtttles" up by telegraph, t 4