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learned that Morgan crossed 31 am lroad '
River at the Island Ford, Rutherford comi
ty, which is a very' good ford, and thence,
in all probability, at the High Shoals, se
cond Broad River, and so ou. The first
uigbt after CornwallisleftRamsour's Mills,
(now Capt. Wm. Slade's) he rested at old
Jacob Forney's, near where J. Auderson,
Esq. now resides--( Jacob Forney was the
father of Gen. Peter Forney, late of Lin
coln county) from there Cornwall! went
on to where Jas. W. Moore, Esq. -now re
sides, and from there he moved down to
Cowan's Ford, where the main body of
Ins army erossed. From thence the history
of the campaign is well known:
This information, if any it should be, is
(desired more particularly for the use of Col.
JTt.II. WiiEEtER, who is now engaged, as I
understand, iu.writing the History of North
Carolina, J.T.A.
llcnltli.
AYho is she, that with graceful
steps,
end with a lively air, trips over yonder
plain !
The rose blusheth on her cheeks; the
jBweetncssof the raoruiug breatheth frontier
dips;, joy, tempered with innocence, and
anotlesty, sparkleth in her eyes ; and from
ithe cheerfulness of. her hart, she singeth
as she walks.
Her name is Health; she is the daughter
of Exercise and Temperance; their sons iu
iiabitthe mountains; they are brave, active,
and lively; and partake of all the beauties
and virtues of their sister.
Vigor striageth their nerves ; strength
dwelleth in their bones ; and. labor is their
delight all the day long. ...
TJie employments of their father excite
jthelr appetites, and the repasts of their mo
iher refresh them.
To combat the passions, is their delight;
16 conquer evil habits, their glory.
Their pleasures are moderate, and, there
fore they endure; their repose is short, but
ound and uudisturbed. .
Their blood is pure; their minds are se
jene; and the physician knoweth not the
way to their habitations.
Dow, Jr., on California.
My Hearers, I know very well what will
procure yon bliss by the hogshead; it is that
wretched stuff called money. That it is
that keeps your soul in a flutter and sets
you jumping like a lot of chained monkeys
at the sight of a string of fish. You think
If you only possessed a certain heap of
lucre you would be ofT in lavendermake
mouths at care say "how d'ye do" to sor
row laugh at time and feel happy as an
oyster in June. O yes! if you only had en
ough of the trash, I admit that yon might
feel satisfied and of course contented; but
in such case more requires more, (accor
ding to Daboll and rum, the last more re
quires most twauts more yet, and so
on to the end of everlasting. There is no
such thing as the end of worldly riches for
worldly riches. As well might the sow be
supposed to get enough of wallowing in I Presidency of the University of South Car
the mire as a mortal to be satisfied wil-i j olina.
rolling in the carrion of wealth. So false
are your ideas of the means to obtain hap
piness that you would, is you could, coax
angels from the skies to rob them of the
jewels in their diadems. I hav'nt the least
doubt of H. -
My dear friends I will tell you how to
: enjoy as much bliss as heaven can afford
to humanity. Be contented with what you
have till . you have an oportuuity to get
something better. Bo thankful for every
crumb that falls from the table of Provi
dence, and live iu constant expectation of
having the luck to pitch upon a whole loaf.
Have patience to put up with preseuttrou
bles, and console jourself with the idea that
your situations are paradises compared
with others. When you have enough to
eat to satisfy hunger enough to drink to
quench thirst enough of what is vulgar
ly called "tin" to procure you a few luxu
ries when you owe no one, and no one
ss you, not even a grudge then if you
are not happy, all the gold in the universe
can't make you so. A man much wiser
-than I, once said "(Jive me neither poverty
nor riches," and I look upon him as one of
the greatest philosophers the world ever
unced. All he wanted was a contented
miud,?uflieient bread, a clean shirt. Take
pattern after him, O, ye discontented mor
tals, who vainly imagine that bliss is alone
to be found in the placers of Wealth and
opulence.
My -hearers nf you consider all creation
wpuw iuii!F7rl u 'a single penny-worth
of true blessedness, you must pray to be
reconciled to its poverty. Grease your
prayers with faith, and send them up in
earnestness, hot from the soul's oven.
This manufacturing cold petitions with the
lips, while the heart continually cries gam
mon, is no more use than talking Chock
taw to a Chinese. Heaven understands
no gibberish; it ouly knows the pure, sim-
- pie language of the pirit the soul's ver
nacular. So, when you pray, do it in as
simple a manner as possibie, but with red
hot earnestness, and your ouls will fiud
rest wherever you are whether nibbling at
a crust ia Poverty's Hollow, or starving in
.California, while endeavoring to transmo
grify a bag of gold dust into au mdiau meal
pud-ding.
The Richmond Republican quotes the
following from a California Paper:
"Quarto Veins. Several veins, rich iu
gold, have been discovered within te miles
of Sonora. The richest of these, we be
lieve, is one at Carson's Creek, owned by
Francis Aveat& Co. Mr. A vent was prac
tically acquainted with miiiiug in North
Carolina for 23 years previous to comi"
hsre. We are informed that the celebrated
Mariposa vein will not compare for richness
with that discovered near Carson's CrceL,
nor with others ia our own viciaitv."
Tha price of playing Cardshas advanced
15 cents per deck, in this State, iu conse
quence of tho meeting of our Legi slature.
Southern Manufactures. The Augusta
" J
Repullic say: "Rut a few year have e
lapsed since the first cotton manufactory
was built in the eouth, but we already have
one-fourth, as many as in all the eastern
Slates. It is estimated that the re are 175,
000 tpi:ullte running iu the cotton States,
requiring not less than 100,000 bales to
supply their consumption. Iu 18-19, the
four States of Georgia, South Carolina, Al
abama and Tennessee had uinety-four cot
ton mills which number has been greatly
increased within the past year. Taking all
the southern States into calculation North
Carolina having twenty,aud Virginia, Flor
ida, Mississipi,, each a sniajl number, the
sum may be reasonably set down at 150.
A Xew California. We learn that a lump
of gold weighing near one quarter of a
pound and other particles of a smaller size,
(says the Anderson Gazette,) were disco
vered in some of the pits sunk ou the line
of the Greenville and Columbia railroad
near the Saluda river. These lumps were
found on land belonging to Maj Wellborn.
We hope some of our friends iahat section
will inform us of the particulars of this val
uable discovery. If it is reallypure gold,
we predict . a perfect stampede tf that di
rection. Our information is Mr; William
J. Moore, who resides in thai neighbor
hood, i
I aid and its Whims. When Judge Par
sons was a practising lawyer, ha was once
employed to plead two cases iu court, which
which were precisely alike, but in one- he
was engaged for the defendant, and in the
other for the plaintiff, jt happened that
both cases were tried the same day. He
spoke half an hour to the first Jury, and
the case was given to them and they had
retired. When he appeared befora the se
cond jury he made use of very different ar
guments from those employed by him be
fore, of which the courttookuotice, remind
ing him that he seemed to have changed his
tune, aud repeated to him what he had said
but a few minutes before. Mr. Parsons
fixed his keen eyes upon the Judge and re
plied : "May it please your honor, I might
have been wrong half an hour ago but now
I k note I am right.'" He proceeded; and
when the juries returned it was found he
had gained a verdict in both case !
Scraps for Iljc iHillioit.
North Carolina will lose one member to
Congress under the new apportionment,
which makes the. House of Representatives
consist of 233 members, exclusive of Cali
fornia and the Territories, the ratio of re
presentation being about 1)4,000 for each
constituency. . : ,'
Tis education forms the common mind,
And with a ting we whip itjn behind !
Hon. Wm. C. Preston, has so nearly re
covered from his mental and physical pros
tration that he has consented to retain the
Gen. Charles T. James, a thorough go
ing Democrat, says the Pennsylvanian, has
been electod U. S. Senator, from Rhode
Island, , for six years from the 4th of March
next.
A Lady of Union Co. Penu., recently
recovered $1,725 of a Mr Martin, as damage
in a suit of breach of promise of marriage.
Counterfeit Gold Dollars are in circula
tion. The Philadelphia Bulletin wasshowu
one well calculated to deceive the unwary.
On examination, however, it neither look
nor feels like the genuine, aud the letters
and devices want the sharp, well defiued
character of the true coin. It is made of
pewter or some other base metal, plated
over with gold. A little caution will pre
vent the circulation of these little deceivers.
So says the Baltimore Sun.
. "Hallo, Mr. .Engine man, can't you stop
your steamboat for a minute or two?"
"Stop the boat? what for?"
Wife wants to look at your boiler ; she's
afraid of its bursting."
Hon. Mr. Palfrey who commenced edi
pro-'!in5 the new. free-soil organ at Boston,
broke down in two days. Like a good
many others who cut a figure initios world,
they find when they come to any thing so
real as newspaper editing its no go. It is
much easier for newspayc rs to make great
men, thau it is for them to make newspa
pers. . .
"Mother! mother! here's Zeke, fretting
the baby. Make it cry again, Zeke, then
mother will give him some sugar, aud I'll
take it away from him; then he'll squall,
and mother will give him more, and you
can have that, and we'll both have some."
"Pappy, why is blank verse written in
and out like steps!" "Because, my son,
they are steps steps which lead to the tem
ple of fame, and up, which many a poor
Devil has broke his neck iu clamberiug,"
The Secretary of the late J. C. Calhouu,
R. K.Cralle, Eeq. isi now iu N.York, for the
purpose of putting thro' the pres Mr. Cal
houu's work on theConstitutiou of the U. S.
He designs publishing, also, as early as
possible, the Life and Writings ibf tho late
Senator, in a scries of six or seven baud
some volumes.
The Xeirberniaiu published at Newbern,
X- C. cautions the public agaiust three dol
lar bills of the Merchant's Bank of that town
adroitly altered to fives.
The Reform Convention of Maryland
have iustructed a committee to inquire into
the expediency of making a person killing
another iu a duel, guilty of murder, and to
have his property confiscated to the support
of his victim's family. .
Lame Jim Jones says when he was iu S
Carolina, ouc summer, it turned very cold
and suow fell on the 1Mb of August at least
six inches deep; when the suu came oat, it
was so hot that the now ever got a chaace
to melt it cocked a brown crust upon it.
TITThe Small Pox Ordinauc-e sf he
towu of Morgautoo, is repealed.
Kings Mountain Railroad.
The great majoriry of the Contractors,
to : grade,. the above road,'are now at
work; and we learn Iliat Major Mills,
tlie Engineer, designs to complimenUhe
Contractor, who first finishes a section,
with a wnlkhier stick, 'cut from the battle
ground of Kings Mountain, the head, of
the horn of a buck killed near the Moun
tain, the ferule, of iron manufactured in
this district, the gold employed in orna
menting the, same, to be, dug, from our
native hills the stick,' to have suitable in
scriptions engraved thereon, and the
whole to be executed and finished by bur
own mecIiauics.I"Arc Miscellany.
........ i ....
Small JPox.-ySince our, last issue, we
have been officially informed . that one
new case of small pox has developed
itself. . The disease broke out yesterday
morning upon a negro man belonging
to -Mr. feamuel Ueery. The negro was
immediately removed to the Mineral
Snrin", about two miles out oi town.
There has been one death since our last
issue, that of Mrs. Jlaimister, whom we
reported sick last week. There is no
case now in town, with, the exception of
Mrs. Bloom, who is considered out of
danger.
The negro girl at the hospital '
is recovering, h
as not vet been dis-
charged. Total number of .cases since
Jan. 1st, 7 ; deaths, 3. Wilmington
Journal l'b. 7.
THE FORTHCOMING HISTO
RY of North Carolina, by Col. Wheeler,
will be looked for with increasing inter
est by the people of the? State. Col. W.
has the energy and industry to make an
interesting work. He has received per
mission from the Legislature to borrow
books from the State , Library, and the
Library Committee, after speaking in
high praise of the work, recommends that
the. State not only, afford , him facilities,
but subscribe for a number of copies
when completed, for the State Library.
Any person having in possesion inter
esting incidents in the history of theState,
whether biography, narrative, or illus
trations of the early habits, vocations, or
manners and customs of the people,
would no doubt confer a favor upon Col.
Wheeler by giving him the facts.
His Post Office is Beatlie's Ford, N.C.
Council .of State The Council of
State convened in Raleigh on the 3d inst.
in pursuance of the call of the Governor.
1 Gov. Reid made the following nomi
nations to the Council, which were confirmed:..-
'
Hoard of Internal. Iaiprovement..
Calvin Graves, of Caswell County. ,
Thomas Bragg, Jr. of Northampton Co.
' ' Hoard of Literature.
Josiah Collins, of Washington County.
Wesley Jones, of- Wake County.
William W. Holden of -
' -A Scene with the Mummy.
Yesterday, the Egyptian Mummy was
opened to the prying eyes of the curious,
who desired to see the mortal remains
of humanity which existed two thousand
years before the Christian era. Previ
ous to the ceremony, there was gathered
round a collection of hald-pated and spec-j
tacled gentlemen.whose thoughts seemed
Lto have little to do with things modem,
and from their air of mystery, they ap
peared to be lost in the gloom of ages.
These ancient gentlemen were inspect
ing the characters on the case of the dried
specimen of antiquity, when uddcnly
they were startled by a voice from amid
the folds of the linen which wrapped the
mummy-
Open the box! open the box! said
the voico. ....
Who arc. you" iifquired one of the
learned Thebans, .whose, curiosity had
got the better ot his astonishment.
" I am a descendant of the Pharaohs,"
answered the voice within.' - -
" Are you a genuine mummy V
"Yes, genuine and no mistake, regu
larly manufactured in Egypt by some of
the first artists
"Do you come from Ham?"
"Ham ho, I am a better specimen of
dried beef."
" What do you want here?"
" Ask yourself; your confounded pry
ingYankee iuquisitivcuess has waked me
from a slumber of ages."
A thought struck the scientific ques
tioner, and he determined to settle a
mooted question.
".Were the Egyptians black or red
men?"
- " Red as the knave of hearts."
" What caused tlic decline of the E
gyptian nation?" .
"It didn't , decline; like the modem
Celt, the Egyptians emigrated to Ameri
ca." V '
"To lexico?" inquired the doctor.
: Yts, pen the ixx, open die box."
"Then the pyramid of Cholula is "
"Exactly; it is nothing else."
"And vou are "
"Bobby."
"Hobby who?" inquired tl3 aston
ished inquirer.
.'Hobby Hlilz," and a little man with a
peculiar head of hair glided out of the
Hall and disappeared iu tlx; Lecture
Room of tlie Museum. Tlie doctors
looked at each oilier, ail the w ord Void
was audibly lieard coming from lho box,
cs if the dried descendant of Mizaiaixu
was laughing iu its sleeve at the creduli
ty of science ivhkrh Mxuld oi tell a living
ventriloquist from' the dried remains of
Lurut rags aud a monkey's skelehm.
Rkfort or hie Board or Health, jor
the tctek ending Tuesday, Feb'y oth "Hie
Hoard" report Two, new cases, and one
death, of the prevailing disease, viz :
r deaths;-
A negro child, aged about 4 years. ;
? : ROUT. F. DAVIDSON.
JNO.A. YOUNG. .
R. C. CARSON.
Charlotte, Feb'y 5, 1851."
IiUNTOOIiNTON:
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 15th, 1S31.
t History of North Carolina.
As we promised in our last, we give
i ,
1 al,urs w tncii oring to light me names
of those of our country, who have done
"the State some service" "in times that
tried men's souls." Doubtless they are
an acceptable offering to our readers.
They are from the pen of Dr. Cvnrs L.
Hunter, of this county, and were pre
pared, as we suggested in our last, to aid
Col. John II. Wheeler in his forthco
ming work on the history of our Slate,
This laudable example of Dr.HrvrER,
we trust, will be followed by others in
the State. In the language of one of our
Historians "The archives of the State,
and detrks of ancient fsunilies, now bury
the story of the rise and progress of the
State of North Carolina. Ignorance and
wickedness may misrepresent the char
acter of her History, if efforts are not
made to break away the darkness that
surrounds it."
A late writer, not a naiivc or resident
of North Carolina, (Rev. Wm. H. Foote)
who has examined with laudable care
our ecclesiastical History, in his Work
(Sketches of North Carolina, page 83)
says : "Men will not be fully able to un
derstand North Carolina, till they have
opened the treasures of History, and be
come familiar with the doings of her
sons, previous to the Revolution, during
that painful struggle, and the succeeding
years of prosperity Theu will North
Carolina be respected as she is known.''
This, the. work of Col. Wheeler will
accomplish. He has been engaged for
years in collating materials, as the able
report of the Committee on the Library
in our last Legislature states, and he has
procured from officers of the Hoard of
Trade, in London, many original docu
mcnt.s never published, and many rare
and valuable works on her early history.
He has carefully compiled from our ar
chives of State atltaleigh, which has been
tendered to him by a resolution of the
last Legislature, much valuable informa
tion, and has been greatly aided by the
assistance of friends of the State (as Dr.
Hl'xtek) in various parts of-the same.
In hi.s name, and in the name of'patriot
ism,as his work is soon to go to the press,
we call upon every patriotic son of X.
Carolina to contribute any original com
munication as regards their county, its
early history, its distinguished citizens,
date of their birth, marriage and deeds
as well as the place and lime of their
death, so that his work may be as perfect
as possible, and worthy of its distinguish
ed .snlyect.
"There arc deeds which frhould not pass
away,
Aud uames that must not wither; tho'
the earth
Forgets her empires with a just decay,
1 lie enslavers and enslaved, their death
and birth."
The Press of the State, which has with
t laudable a unanimity, published the
notice of the work of Col WiiEELER.aro
respectfully requested to copy this. AH
communications from individuals can be
addressed to Col. Wheeled., at Bealtie's
Ford, in this county.
Yorkville vs. Charlotte. The fol
lowing froui the Hornets' A'et sounds rather
strange. Has the Charlotte rail road blown
up! We hope that both roads will be
speedily couij4eted, aud a generous and
honorable competition thus be got up for
the trade of the up-eou.ntry. Our section
of country will always fiud it to their inter
est to trade at Yorkville; that direction
seems to be a natural, as ii is an old accus
tomed channel, and we do not believe even
a plank road could divert our farmers from
it. We would like to have a pjank road to
both York aud Charlotte luil if the rail
road is first to be built toY ork, ire have to
regret that our citizens did oet act with
more liberality when appealed to for uu
srriptious, aud the inanimate charter for A
plank, road from 76ir (we believe) to
Charlotte had found notne animation iu the'
York route, where travel might pay expefr-
ses - : V
!"We learu from, the Yorkville Misctllanyt
that the King's Mountain Rail Road is pro--
gressiug fiuely. We are glad to hear it, for
if they push it forward to an early comple
tion, we shall ouly have to ride 30 miles to
get ou the cars aud go to Charleston., And
then too it will be a convenient k point for
tmr merchants to hnve-their goods ordered
to. -; Not that we have auy objections to
Camden as a depot but because Yorkviile
will be nearer. " We wish the road all uc
ees, and to its contractors all speed in the
completion of their cou tracts.. But we re-
peat again to the citizens of Yorkville ; Geu- J
tlemen you must have bettor roads through .
your up country." "
Acknowledgements. - ;.,
-To theHons.' J; 1. Caldwelw aud E
DKbERRT we arc indebted for a continuauce
of their favors. ;'j ii T
We have received the February Dumber,
of "Mrs. If 'hilttlsy's Magazine for Mothers
and Daughters." It is an excellent work of ;
j the kiud; it is priuted in New York, at $1
per annum. Address Henry M. Wuittel
set, 151 Nassau st.
Graham's Magazine, for March, is enti
tled, iu the publishers notice accompaujiug
it, "a surprise number," aud it well deserves .
the name. It "makes its appearance iu an
equally uovel garb, and attractive charac
ter -without "pictures," (unless we should
characterise as such a few very finely exe
cuted vtood-cut illustrations,) without e
ven a fiishioii plate; these customary orna
ments being, for once substituted by liter
ary matter origiiial, American, paid-fur
literary matter (it cost, we learu, $1500)
144 pages of it, too just as mauy as Har
per's New Mouthy aud the International
Magazines devote to selected matter, not
paid for, from the lJritit-h periodicals. .Tho
intention of the publisher is obvious .aud
praise-worthy the result singular aud suc
cessful. There are no less than fifty differ-
eut original papers iu the number, presen
ting a great display of names, of popular
Amcricau writers, and as great a variety
of subjects handled. It is, in consequence,
a most attractive and excellent number, su
perior iu interest aud general merit to its
foreign rivals of this montli, aud .deserving
the approbation which should attach to na
tional spirit aud liberal expenditure. We
are sure that the popular verdict will be iu
its favor; as wc are equally sure that &u A
mericau K.aga.ine, conducted on surb a '
plan, is, in its beneficial influence ou Ameri
can literature, of more worth than , all tho.
repriuts, of or from British periodical, iu tho
word. . . , . i
Mr. Graham has, we are pleased to learn,
been eminently successful iu his Magazine
since he resumed its management.' and,
certainly, if extraordinary aptitude in ac
commodating the public taste if liberal
dispensation of menus to accomplish well
cousidcrcd ends if the employment of the
best talent, upon the only urc methi J,
that of the best payment if continual
watchfulness to avail himself of whatever is
new or striking ; aud, in a word, a resolute
determination not to be outdone, iu any
way, by auybody, entitle him to success, ho
eminently deserves it.
The April number, w ill, we learn, present
its former decorated appearance, and be
expensively and splendidly illustrated.
Small Pox. Wc are glad to state that
this disease has almost entirely disappeared
in our State. No new cases exist at Wil
mington, and from appearances, C harlot te
will, we hope, prove exempt front it by the
next report. We hopesoou to resume our
mail communication. ...
13T Wc arc almost iuuudated rain ha
ving commenced here on Thursday night,
aud continuing with little iutermissiou to
the present writing, 12 M. Saturday. We
hardly look for a mail short of uext Wednes
day for the roads were bad enough before,'
and iiow they are impassable. ' , . "
' i
Corn. There were several large sales in
Catawba last week, where thu article bro't
57 cuts, 1) mouths credit. Flour is very
scarce, aud commands $1 per 100 lbs.
Wheat, iufcrior, $1 per bushel.
. The last FayetteviHc Carolinian gives Sit
account of a suicide committed by Mr. J.
L. Parker, of that place, on Thursday 6th
iurfL lie was found hanging by the ueclc
to a door iu the second story of tlie house,
perfectly dead. A twine string, doubled,
was round his neck, aud extended over the
top of the door, aud theu fastened to one of
the hinges. 1 he loop mto w hich be pat
his neck was so near to the floor that he
had to raise his feet from the floor to ac
complish the deed: aud by the time be was
dead, the body had stretched so as to bring;
his knees to the floor, lie looked very
natural forgo violent a death. .
: He had been married but 8 or 10 mouths,
and lived very happily with his wife. '
The ouly cause that could be assigned
was, that pecuniary embarrassment may
have Jed to it. Star.
lie thai eaot forgive others, breaks the
bridge over which fee himself will oue day
waut to pass. ., s - :