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X.' VOLUME C. XIXCOITTOX, IV. C. SATURDAY TOCO HJVIIVO, FEBRUARY 15, 1831. NUMBER 44. imttftlt jg ...Cpttrtcr. . lRl?fTE AND PUBLISHKD WEKKLT, BT THOMAS J. ECCLES. TKRM3 Tiro Dollars per annum, payable in advance ; $2,50 if payment be delayed over six months. To Clubs Three papers trill be sent for $5 ; and seven for 10, in advance. Advertisements trill be inserted at $1 per square (11 lines) for the frst, and 25 cents for each subsequent insertion. I, . 1 j rOR THE LINCOLN COURIER. The Queen of Flowers. On pleasant eve, I fondly strayed Through floral scenes and bowera I plucked the rose, with charms displayed, To me, the queen of flowers. Of all that grows, give me the rose, So sweet the quceu of flowers. Sweet flowrcts gay, I love to view . In Nature's rich adorning; In rohes of green, and white, and blue Ail blushing like the morning. With flowrets rare, what can compare, When touched with tiuts of morning? Midst odors sweet, my way I led Fond moments thus begruilins; The aster blue, the tulip red, Enticed me sweetly smiling. The aster blue, and tulip, too, Are surely sweet and smiling. I love to view each blooming spot Where floral charms are blending, Where grows the sweet forget-me-not, So pure and unpretending. Oh! who loves not that blooming spot With charms so unpretending? love to seek, whene'er I stray. Bright spots where love reposes; Where lilies fine, where dahlias gay Are seen with fragrant roses. Each flowrct guy, can charms display, But uoue more sweet than roses. How sweet to think, where'er we roam, Moug cot, or costly bovvers. There blooms the rose, to gladden home With captivating powers. Of all that grows, give me the rose, So sweet the quceu of flowers. "Look not upon the Wine." Look not upou the wine wlieu it Is red within the cup ; Stay not for Pleasure when she fills The tempting beaker up. Though clear its depths, and rich its glow, A spell of madness lurks below. ahey say 'tis pleasant on the lip, And merry oi the brain; They say it stirs the sluggish blood, Aud dulls the tooth of paiu. Ay, but within its grow itig deeps, A stinging serpent uuseeu sleeps. Its rosy lights will turn to fire, Its coolness change to thirst, And by its mirth withiu the brain A sleepless worm id nursed. There' not a bubble at the brim That does not carry food for him. Then dash the brimming cup aside, . And spill it purple wine; Take not its madness to thy lips, IjCt not its curse be thine. Tis red aud rich but grief and woe Are hid in those rosy depths bilow. The Frozen Ship. At this period when so much anxiety pre irevails rei)ectins the fate of Sir John "Uue serene evening, in ui muuue oi August, lo, Capt. Warrens, the master of the Greenland whaieship, fouud himself becalmed among .an immense number of icebergs iu about 77 degrees of north lati tude. On one side, aud within a mile of his vessel, these were closely wedged to gether, aud a succession of snow-colored peaks appeared behind each other as far as the eye could reach, sbowiug that the ocean was completely blocked up iu that quarter, aud that it had probably been so for a long period of time. "About midnight the wind rose to a gale, accompanied by thick showers of suow, while a succession of tremendous thunder ing grindiug, aud crashing uoises, gave fear ful evidence that the ice was iu motion. The vessel received violent shocks, every moment; for the haziness of tho atmos phere preveuted those ou board from dis covering in what direction the open water lay, or if there actually was auy at all ou either side of them. The uight was spent iu tackiug as often as any cause of danger happened to present itself, and iu the mor ning the storm abated, and Capt. Warreus fouud to his great joy that his ship had not sustained auy serious injury. He remark ed, with surprise, that the accumulated ice bergs, which had on the preceeding eve ning formed au impenetrable barrier, had been separated and disarranged by the wiud, and in oueplacca caual of open sea J 1 ranklni, everything relating to the 1 olar j degccllig. it has ,eeu ascertained to ex Itegious is ot interest. '1 ho following tcm, tu o mUat ; jcug,h. A specimen has sketch is oue of the most thrilling extant: oeeu analyzed by Dr. AutiselUf New York, wound its course among them as far as the eye could discern. Vv-V "It was two miles beyond the entrance ' of this canal that a ship made its appearance about noon, . 1 he sun shone brightly at the time, and " a gentle breeze blew from the north. At first some intervening icebergs prevented Captain Warrens from distinctly seeing anything! uutjier masts; but he was struck with the strange manner in which her sails were disposed, and with the dis mantled aspect of her yards aud rigging. ne conuuusu to go Detore the wind lor a few furlongs, and theu, grounding uprfu the low icebergs, remaiued motionless. - Capt. Warren's curiosity was so much excited that he immediately leaped into his boat, with several seamen, and rowed to wards her. On approaching, he observed that her null was miserable weather-beaten, and not a soul appeared on the deck, which was covered with snow to a considerable lepth. lie hailed her crew several times, but uo answer was returned. Pre vious to stepping on board, an open port hole near the. main chains caught his eye, and on looking into it, he perceived a man recliued on a chair, with writing materials on a table before, him, but the feebleness of the light made everything indistinct. The party went upon deck, and having removed the hatchway, which they found clowd, they descended to the cabin, lhey first came to the apartmeut which Capt. War rens viewed through the port-hole. A tre mor seized him a3 he entered it. Its in mate retaiued his former position, and seemed to be insensible to strangers. He was found to be a corpse, and a green damp mould had covered his cheeks and forehead, and veiled his opcu eye-balls. He had a pen in his hand, aud a log-book lay before him, the last sentence in whose unfinished page rau thus: "Nov. 14, 17G2. We have now been enclosed in the ice seveuteeu da vs. The fire went out yesterday, aud our master has been trying ever since to kindle it agaiti, without success. His wife died this morning. There is uo relief " "Capt. Warrens and his seamen hur ried from the spot without uttering a word On entering the principal cabin, the first object that attracted their attention was the dead body of a female, recliuing on a bed in an attitude of deep interest and at- tcutiou. Her countenance retained the freshness of life, aud a contraction of the limbs showed that her form was inanimate Seated on tke floor was the corpse of au apparently young mau, holding a steel in one hand aud a fliut in tlie other, as if iu die act of striking fire upon some tinder which lay beide him. In the fore-part of the ves sel several sailors were found lying dead iu their her t lis, and the body of a ltoy was crouched at the bottom of the gangway stairs. Neither provisions uor fuel could be discovered any wlicrcbut Capt. Warrcus was prevented by the superstitious preju dices of his seameti fraui examining the vessel as minutely as he wished to have done. He therefore carried away the log book, already mentioned, and returned to his own ship, and immediately steered to the southward, deeply impressed with the aw fid example which he had just witnessed, of the danger of navigating the Polar seas iu high northern latitudes. "Ou returning to Eugland he made vari ous inquiries respecting vessels that had disappeared in an unknown w3r, aud by comparing the results of those with infor mation which wart afforded by the written documents iu his possession, he ascertained the name aud history of the imprisoned ship aud her unfortunate master, and found that she had been frozen thirteen years pre vious to his discovering her among the ice." Jf'tzt minster Revitic. Phosphate of JAnie. It seems singular that ou the property of the New Jersey Ex ploring and .Mining Company, about 12 miles from Dover, in this State who, it is well known, posse?s one of the richest mines of red oxide of zinc iu the world there should also have recently beeu disco vered the only mine, it is supposed, of phos phate of lime thath:is any where been fouud in a mass. It occurs in a vein of rock, one side of which is gueiss the other serpentine. The vein of phosphate of lime is abontsix j wht u to contaiy:j per cent, of pure llilogn1.ltc Gf j;me. It is, in fact the same material as calciued bones, dissolving en tirely iu muriatic acid. We have seen a specimeu, but uot the vein itself, and pre sume there is no doubt of its great value. It is au admirable manure, au article so widely needed through the State. Iu the vicinity, it must he largely useful, and its benefits can only be limited by the obsta cles to cheap and easy trausjiortatic' These arc the same as now possessed by the Zinc Company, namely, a cartage of three miles to Hoptccong Lake, down the lake to the .Morris Canal, on which it may of course be easily transported to Newark and New York. Newark Adv. PaVs Reply. A sou of Erin, just arrived in this land of plenty, being in waut, ven tured to solicit a little aid from a person whose external appearance seemed to in dicate that he could afford it. He was how ever repulsed wiih a "gotohell!;' Pat looked at him in such a way as to fix hisatteution, and then replied: "Cod bless yer honour for your civility, for ye're tho first giutlemau that's iuvited mc to his father's house siuce I came to this laud." Reports of the California markets state that "J?oo.ts arc easier." I I mi, U .it tlx. viii'l-wi lii-nniAiiui(r fie if THE FORNEY PAPERS. TOR THE LINCOLN COURIER. Slog rap It leal S ketch of JACOB FORNEY, Sr. Amoxg the early settlers of Lincoln County there is no name more closely connected with indomitable courage, or remarkable adventure than that of Jacob Forney, Sen'r. He was the son of a French Huguenot, and born about the year 1721. At the revocation of the edict of Nantes, in 1685, his father fled from France preferring 6elexpatriation to the renunciation of his religious belief and settled in Alsace, on the Ithyne, where freedom of opinion and worship was tolerated. v Here his father died, leaving, him an orphan at four -years of age. About the age of fourteen, he left Alsace, and went to Amsterdam. De lighted, whilst there,, with the glowing accounts which crossed the Atlantic re specting the New World, and allured with the prospect of enjoying still greater political and religious liberties, he came to America, by the first vessel having that destination, and settled in Pennsyl vania. Here he remained industriously employed until the age of maturity, when he returned to Germany to procure a small legacy. Having adjusted his affairs there, he again embarked for America on board of a vessel bringing over many emigrants from the Canton of Berne, in Switzerland. Amor.g this number was a blithesome rosy-cheeked damseL buoy ant with the charms of youth, who par ticularly attracted young Forney's atten tion. It is scarcely necessary to inform the reader, that her acquaintance was mii made, n mut ual attachment silently, but surely formed between two( youthful hearts, so congenial in feeling, and simi larly filled with the spirit of adventure. Prosperous gales quickly wafted the ves sel in safety to the shores of America, and soon after their arrival in Pennsyl vania, Jacob Forxev and Maria Berg xer (for that was the fair one's name) were united in marriage. About this time, the. rich but cheap lauds of tlie Yadkin and Catawba, with a salubrious clime, were attracting a numerous cmi gration from the Middle States. Iuflu enced by such inviting considerations, Forney's determination was soon made up to join the tide of emigration, and ac cordingly, a few years after his marriage, he removed to Carolina, and settled in Lincoln County about the year 1754. The first settlers of Lincoln County suffered greatly by the depredations of the Cherokee Indians. On more than one occasion, many of the inhabitants temporarily abandoned their homes, and removed to - the settlements east of the Catawba.- Others, finding it inconve nient to remove, constructed rude forts for their mutual defence. A repetition J of these depredations having occurred a few years alter Forney's arrival, he join ed those who removed, until the Indians could be severely chastened or complete ly subdued by military force. It may not be devoid of interest to here relate a remarkable aud well-authenticated adventure which Forney had with the Indians, occurring at this trou blesome time, and illustrating one of the most common dangers of a frontier life. Having removed his family to a place of safety, Forney returned to his former place of abode, accompanied by two of his neighbors Messrs. Richards and Fro nabarger, to searcli for his cattle. They accordingly set but to examine the ridges then every where covered with luxuri ant pasturage, : but had not proceeded much mtii e than a mile before they spied a small Indian, just ahead of them, and not far from the sjxitof ground now well known as the " Rock Spring Camp Ground." It was supposed the Indian had been placed there as a sentinel to nivc information to his comrades of de fenceless white passengers, as it was not far from the place where several families had erected a Fort. Forney, being a good marksman, raised his gun to shoot the Indian, but Richards, relying greatly on bis activity, proposed to steal upon I him unaware, and thus catch him by a lairjoot-race. The proposal was atrreed to, but, just at that moment, the Indian discovered - them, and made his escape. Forney truly suspected that more Indi ans were in the immediate vicinity. He and Sis party, however, continued their course, but had progressed only a little way, when they discovered, directly a head of them eleven Indian armed with guns, and sereral smaller ones bearing tomahatvks. f Forney, with a courage equal to any; emergency, was for giving them battle, fcut his two companions over ruled him, Contending it would be im possible To ouVorsubdue such a large number. It was, therefore, deemed ad visable to retreat, or rather, change their course, and, if possible, make their way to the Fort After proceeding a short distance tho Indians approached consid erably nearer, and immediately com menced a brisk firing. Fornev directed lis party to reserve their fire until the Indians would approach sufficiently near to take a sure and deadly aim, and to maintain ah orderly retreat in the direc tionof the Fort. Unfortunately, Rich ards was dangerously wounded soon af ter they commenced retreating. At this critical ! moment, when one or two well- directed fires might have repulsed their enemy, Fronabargers courage failed him, and he made his escape, believing, no doubt, with Hudibras, that "He that fights aud runs away. May live to fight another day." Richards was then directed to retreat as fast as his wounded condition would per mit. Forney, in the meantime, man aged to keep the Indians at bay by pre senting his unerring rifle, when, strange to reiate, they would immediately fall down in the grass or take shelter behind the trees each one, no doubt, supposing the well-aimed shot tuiht fell him to the earth. In this manner an irregular Jiring was kept up by the Indians, and contin ued retreating by Forney and his wound ed companion for several hours At length, poor Richards, who had succeed ed in retreating about two miles, partly by his own exertions, and partly by being carried on Forney bacti, became faint from loss of blood; and seeinsf the immi nent danger of his friend's me directed Forney to leave him, and save himself. Forney then reluctantly left him, and pursued his course in the direction of the Fort. But fortunately for him the Indians did not pursue him much farther, being probably satisfied with the scalp of poor Richards. Upwards of eighty years have rolled by since the occurrence of this tragical event that generation., and . even their children have nearly all descended to the tomb, but still the grave of the kind-hearted Richards caii . be pointed out to the enquiring stranger not far from the place wlrerc he met his untimely end. In this unequal eontest 1 orney only received a small wound on the'back of his left hand, but ou examina tion, he discovered that numerous balls had pierced his clothes. This skirmish shows what cool, determined bravery may effect under the most discouraging circumstances and . that an individual may sometimes providentially escape, al though made the object of a score of bullets, or of other missiles of destruc tion. In the afternoon of the same day, Forney reached the Fort, the attack ha ving commenced about 10 o'clock a. m. The occupants had heard the reports of the repeateil hnng, and were, eviuenuy, greatly frightened. On his arrival, being quite thirsty, he called for a drink of wa ter, but the supply in the Fort was ex hausted, aud, strange to relate, not one could be fouud willing to run the hazard of going to the spiing, although not far off! Seeing their great fear, he seized a cup, and set off iu the direction of the spring.- Immediately, nearly the whole of the inmates rushed out from the Fort, and followed him, believing ''themselves perfeelfy safe in the prosencc of one who had withstood unharmed all ot the Indi an bullets for nearly half a day! After this adventure, and narrow escape be came generally known a belief was en tertained by the credulous portion of the community that Forney was hulht-pnuf. It was even affirmed lhat.after he reached the Fort, he unbuttoned his vest, and nearly a peck of bullet drojqted out ! In subsequent years, Forney was accus tomed to smile at this inuocent credulity of his neighbors, but frequently remark ed that the impression of his leing bullet proof was of great service to him in the trying times preceding and during the Revolutionary War. ; Another remarkable incident, and per haps wufficieully interesting to claim a place in this sketch was the follwving; , When Cornwallia passed ihroutrh Lin- coin County in pursuit of Morgan, it is well known he was arrested' in his pro ! -gress by high-waters. During this ap parently providential detention he was ' conducted by a Tory to Forney's planta tion, about two miles from the niaiivroad. Here he remained encamped for three 1 days, consuming, in the meantime, For ney's entire stock of cattle, hogs, Sec. But the extent of his loss did not end here. His Lordship had been informed . that i? orney had a considerable amount of money stored up, and that, if diligent search wcremae it might be readily found. tThis information set the British . to -work, and, aided by the Tory's sug- gesiions, mey nnaiiy succeeaca m nnaing , his gold, jewelry, &c. a considerable portion of which he had brought with him from Germany. Whilst this work of search was going on without, his Lordship was quietly occupying his . "Head-Quarters up stairs, cogitating, per haps, on some decisive course of luturo operations and military glory ! Forney, - being old and tound unarmed, was not molested in bis person or family, and was allowed the-privilege ot living m tlie cel lar ! As soon as he ascertained his gold and jewelry were taken, he seized his gun and rushed into the house, with the? determination of killing Corn wallis, .but. his wife quickly followed and intercepted him at the foot of the stairs, thus prevent ing the most deplorable consequences- " the loss, perhaps, of his own life and that of his whole family. But the prudent advice of his wife, "Heaven's last, best gift to man," had its proper effect, and caused him, after a moment's reflection, to desist from his purpose. It is scarcely necessary to inform the reader he was punished in this severe manner for his well-known opposition to the unjust claims of Great Britain, and zealous sup port of the cause of liberty. After Cornwallis left, Forney ascer tained that the Tory informer vas a cer tain Mr. Deck, one of his near neighbors, with whom he had always lived on term's of friendship. Considering the act an out rageous breach of tlicir hitlierto friendly relations, and believing the heavy losses he had sustained mainly attributable to the Tory's agency he could not overlook the enormity of the offence. . He accor dingly sent a message to the Tory that he must leave the neighborhood ; if nothe trould shoot hi?ti at the first opportunity. The Tory, however, did not think it pro per to comply immediately with this" stern message. Forney hearing of this, armed himself, aud went in pursuit; but tho Tory eluded him by lying out, and otherwise concealing himself. At length, Forney came upon him, one day, fatt asluep. He raised his gunftjihooi liim,' but, at that moment, coucluded he would rouse him from his slumbers lefore de priving him of his existence. The Tory was accordingly waked up. As soon as he beheld his dangerous situation he im mediately commenced supplicating most earnestly for life, and making solemn promises to leave the neighborhood. Forney, although smarting under his heavy losses, yet could not resist jsu'cu earnest and touching appeals to his mer cy desisted from his purpose, and let him oil. In the course of a lew days. tlie Tory, true to his promise, left the., neighborhood, and never afterwards re turned. During the Revolutionary War For ney was a firm and zealous Whig. Be ing too old to bear arms, his patriotic tutiuieuts were early instilled into his rising generation. I li tlrtj-ou:, J xkaAj, Peter, and Abram, were all unw-avenng Whigs, and sustained an lionorable pait in the cause of freedom. The subject of this sketch died in 1S0G, near to the place where he first settled, in the 65lh year of his are. " H. , ton rut LIXCOLW CODRirJU ' ; ' r Capt. Eccles I do not remeoiber ever ta have understood the route that tieu Morgan took from aud after the Battle of the Cow Pens,' until lately. ' r'oote.'jiu hi Sketches . of North Carolina, ay it wai, a trial of generalship between Morgau, Com w alii, aud Green after Ubs battle of Cow-Pens, Morgau with his prisoaer to ecje Corn wallid aud to meet Green; aud goe on to iutiiuate that the morning after Morgau crossed tlie Catawba river, and at Cowen ferry; Cornwallis appeared oujhe western hanks of that stream, hut gives no informa tion as to the particular route that Morgan travelled. I was lately iu die neighborhood of Sherrill's ford, ou the Catawba river, aui have it from a reliable source that Morgau crossed the South Fork iu the utighho. hood of H. W. Robinson's, and ' then' i the Catawba river at the Island ford, aud theu moved down the east bank of the" river tq OliverV 3Iills, near Sherrill's ford, wherQ he remained several days in -order to pro cur? provisions ad re?t; aud 1 have siuce 1
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