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LINCOLNTON, NC. AUGUST 13, 1851
VOL. 7
Plank Plaining Machine.
NO. 16
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lows Dinner, by an “Odd Fellow”
given.
It is perfectly impossible for us to
give anything like a fair representation
here of the pleasantry which prevailed
around the table, or to describe the
scenes of interest which transpired.—
Suffice it to say, all feasted together in
joy and parted in friendship and love.
The gentleman was in his store
Sunday morning, preparing for the, or a sale?
“Well, is it to negotiate a purchase
She Lived in Heaven.
BY GABRIELLE.
On the marble steps of a lordly hall
Where titled wealth and low browed
av’rice dwelt,
With hollow cheek and lip as pale and cold
As the stone whereon she trembling knelt,
With beamless eye and haggard mien,
Pale, flowing hair, and garments thin,
Bowed one of Erin’s famished maids in
prayer:
Prayer! to whom? if unto God why came
she there?
Thro’ many an alley long, when to and fro
The spirits of the storm their weapons
hurled,
When all was dark save when through bro
ken cloud
The moon looked down upon the frozen
world,
When want went forth without an aim,
And bearded winds, that pierced her
frame,
Went shrieking madly by, why came she
there ?
With prayer to Him, whose throne is eve
rywhere. /
To weary heaven with oft/repeated prayer
Her feeble voice not oxice again essayed,
For destitution’s self hrad made her feel
How vain had be^i her call on heav’n
for aid;
To mortal ear now turned her prayer
And hoped ’twould find acceptance
TThc boon she asked was life! yes, warmth
and bread,
And friendly hand to raise her drooping
head.
ties of the day, when the deacon ente
An unfortunate pack of cards was 1
on the counter, and the deacon, a
duty bound, remonstrated with
joker on this villainous practice.
“Oh, no
; I am neither rich enough
to purchase nor poor enough to sell !”
“Will you tell me, then, what you do
want of me ?” said the laywer in sur
prise.
“Why, I have already told you, Mr.
replied Bernard, “I want your
The following are the regular
drank in iced lemonade.
Regular Toasts.
1. Our present Festival—May
the first of a recurring series
toasts,
it be
which
shall never end.
2. Odd Fellowship as a co-worker with
Christianity—Like a tree planted by
the water rill, it is known by its fruits.
3. The Orator of the Fay—May the
beautiful and truthful sentiments he has
heart advanced, be treasured up in the
of each one who heard them.
(Dr. Dickson responded to this toast
in a very happy manner.)
4. The Federal Union of the Ameri
can Republic—“A Union of lakes, a U-
nion of lands, a Union of States that
none can sever, a Union of hearts, a U-
nion of hands, American Union forever.”
(Great applause.)
5. The Widows and Orphans of Odd
Fellows—Being the most helpless mem
bers of our great family, they should
ever be the first to receive our atten
tion.
6. The Clergy—Sentinels on the great
latter admitted that it was at ^ ea j| adv f ce —for payment, of course, as I am
idle waste of time, and taking the cl we p able to give it to you, and I don’t
in his hand, moralised on the sub w i s h to lose this opportunity.”
just as well and warmly as the deai M. Potier took a pen and paper, and
At the same time he allowed a asked the countryman hisname.
. “Pierra Bernard, replied the latter,
cards to fall here and there on t ie co L u j te happy that he was at length un-
ter; they lying very much in the slu derBtood
of tricks, and looking as if the two 1, “ Your age 1”
really been taking a hand.’ . J “Thirty years, or very near it.”
At tins juncture, another me^ ^ , O h, that means what
the church came in, (the post-office j -1 am a farmer.”
in the store,) and all at once the joj The lawyer wrote two lines, folded
placing his finger on a couple of c^he paper, and handed it to his strange
on the cornel, exclaimed - — , • i nr 11 1
“Is it finished, already f Well and
“Now, deacon, I tell you t ns W ^ood. What is the price of that advice,
do. The Queen always takes J Mr. lawyaT?” •
and the ten the nine ; and so down, “Three francs.”
ifyou don’t attend you will never le . Bernard paid the money, and took
, i Ids leave, delighted that he had taken
the game. I hat Jack is a good c , .
& advantage of his opportunity.
but my Queen takes it, counts me When he reached home it was four
point, besides one on count for game-o'clock, the journey had fatigued him,
“Why, neighbor,” exclaimed the and he determined to rest himself the
rifled deaconAwhat do you mcan^n^er of the day. In the mean
, ume the hay had been two days cut,
. and wag completely saved. One of the
“Exactly what I say,” was the re working men came to ask if it should be
“the Queen takes the Jack and it’s r drawn in.
Merrily ringing on the midnight air
From chambers warm and brilliantly il
lumed,
Went peals of music forth A mirthful sounds
From festive hall where youth and beau
ty bloomed.
They knew not that on threshold bare
Perished a thing of beauty rare!
Her cry unheard, one effort more she’d
made,
Then on the stone her face right meekly
laid.
The morning came. Was it the wind that
sighed
Beneath those fretted eves so mournfully?
Again ’twas heard! they found her stif’-
ning frame
And looked into each face reproachfully.
But vain the hopes she yet might speak,
A tear had frozen on her cheek!
Than granted prayer, a greater boon was
giv’n:
What need had she of bread ? She lived
in heav’n.
highway from time to eternity ; every
true Odd Fellow should seek their in
struction concerning a road we all must
travel.
7. Our Host—No one knows better
how to please a set of hungry men than
he.
8. Our Hostess—A model of an Odd
Fellow’s wife ; she has the**Friendship”
and “Love” of the Order, and may she
have the sweet consolation of knowing
that “Truth” is one of the cardinal dis
tinctions of an Odd Fellow.
9. Temperance—One of the brightest
virtues of our Order; no intemperate
man can be a good Odd Fellow.
10. The Radies—The most treasured
jewels of our Order; while we have so
many bachelors they should not be per
mitted to be without husbands.
11. Charity—“Though I have faith
that 1 could remove mountains and
have not charity, I am nothing.
12. The Secrets of Odd Fellowship—
The heart to feel, the hand to give, and
the tongue to keep the secret.
13. The Grand Lodge of North Car
olina—May its pillars be reared in Cur
rituck and Cherokee, and may its arch
span the State.
14. The Press—The rail road of the
mind, on which the principles of free
Governments are destined to travel over
the earth.
15. Our Visiting Brothers—This is
the first opportunity we have had of en
tertaining them, we hope it will not be
the last.
16. Odd Fellowship—Rich in the vir
tues of the living, rich in the virtues of
the illustrious dead.
17. Our Enemies—Let us love those
—you might have trumped with it , “What, this . evening” exclaimed the
j - T.,„1- farmer’s wife, who had come in to meet
saved it long ago; now this Jack, 1 11 .
o ° her husband. “It would be a pity to
low and game puts me out.”
commence the work so late, since it can
At this moment the getleman f ^ Jone to-morrow without any incon-
Mequango county turned round, provenience.” The man objected that the
ded for the first moment to noticekeather might chan^ ; that the horses
, . , i i i ’were all ready and the men idle. But
brother deacon who had just ente^ farmer>s repUed that the wind
looked confused, dropped the cards, was | n a g ood . quarter and that night
would set before their work could be
vanished.
Of course the deacon was caugh completed. Bernard, who had been lis-
The horrible tale was told of his hav^^g l “ the argument was uncertain
. , c kin ch way to decide, when he suddenly
been caught playing cards on ^M eco]lectcd thathe had a lawyer’s advice
He was cited to appear before L pj s pocket,
church for his backsliding, and a - ^‘iWait a m
1 1
evidence was complete would have;n fA An advice, and a ramous one too,
, ] 1 • .. Jat I paid three francs for, it ought to
convicted and severely punished in c ■ F
" us what to do. Here, I heresa, see
of all his protestations of ignoranced ^ at it; says; you can read wrkten band
not our acquaintance of the town ^l- I Kter than I.”
more made his appearance in tick ; ’ The woman took the paper, and read
of time, as a witness in favor oftlfl- U ^■--‘'^ever put off till to-morrow
,, , -114. j ihat may be done to-day. ]
con told a round unvarnished tad k ,„ exc]  nied Bernard ,
procured for him an acquittal.
It is said, to this day the deaas
an increasing horror of cared
though he feels a conviction tie
‘Queen will take the Jack,’ and ie
Jack can take the deacon, yet hen
utter aversion to giving his ‘hqv,
Jack.’
A Piece of Legal Advi
Auck with a sudden ray of light—
■Come, be quick; get the carts and a-
way ; boys aiid r -girls, all to the bay-
Aid!”
His wife ventured a few more objec
tions, but he declared that he had not
bought a three francs opinion to make
Lo use of it, and he would follow the
lawyer’s advice. He himself set the ex
ample by taking the lead in the work,
and not returning until the hay was
brought in. The event seemed to prove
Rennes, the ancient capital oa- ; the wisdom of his conduct, for the
ny, is a famous place of law. le j weather changed durii he night; an
come from the extremities of tin- 1
From 'the Salisbury Watchman.
Odd Fellow’s Celebration.
The I. 0. O. F.’s of this place, had a
grand turn out on Monday last. I here
was a large number of visiting brethren
in attendance from other counties, who,
together with the members of the Lodge
in this place, made up a procession of
considerable length. They marched
from the Lodge room thro’out the prin
cipal streets of the Town to the Pres
byterian Church, where, after prayer
by the Rev. A. D. Montgomery, Dr.
Dickson, of Morganton, delivered a. very
handsome address. After which the
members of the Order sang the closing
Ode, the benediction was received, and
(the procession resuming its order, re
turned to the Lodge room.
At two o’clock they proceeded, in or
der to the Rowan House, by H. L. Ro
bards, Esq., where was spread a most
bountiful dinner. Here they had a fine
time of it: Turtle soup, turtle alamode,
boiled trout, roast turkies, goslins,ducks,
ham, beef, mutton, pigs, vegetables and
fruits, with a hundred other things too
various to mention, ’Twas an odd din
ner in these dry times—-few like it—
’twas very odd—and the gentlemen who
partook of it, were also odd—in the mat
ter of an appetite ;—it was an Odd Pel-
who persecute us, do good to those who
•despitefully use us, and teach them that
if they are in no danger but from us,
they will pass peacefully though life,
and be happy after death.
A number of persons were called up
during the reading of these toasts to res
pond to the sentiments they contained;
and these little off-hand efforts—bright
sparks of wit and humor—were the
chief ornaments of the occasion. Who
can gather them up?
There were also a number of most
excellent volunteer toasts given, of
which, however, we have been able to
collect so few, that we have concluded
to omit all.
At the close of the Dinner “our host”
extended an invitation to all present
to attend a tea party to be given at 8
o’clock, p.m. That was a brilliant af
fair, A large number of ladies were in
attendance; and wherever woman is
the scene is enriched, a charm pre-
Teaching a Deacon.
uJ xpecRj storm burst over the valley,
try to get information and askie. t md the next morning it was found that
To visit Rennes without gettinpe , the river had overflowed and carried a-
appears impossible to a Bretonis ! way all the hay that had been left in the
was true at the latter end of ist ’elds. The. crops of the neighboring
farms were completely destroyed. The
A gentleman of this State, who re
sides in the town of Ellmore, Mequan-
go county, is, ashe described himself, ve
ry onsartain in politics, and besides that,
is the most onsartain practical joker we
have heard of, of late. Here is one of
his jokes:
century, just as it is at presentis-
pecially among the country pcohd'
are a timid and cautious race.
Now it happened one day thr-
mer named Bernard, having ito
Rennes on business, bethoughelf
that as he had a few hours to j it
.success of this first experience gave
him such faith in the advice of a lawyer,
that from that day forth he adopted it
as a rule of his conduct, and became, by
his order and diligence, one of the rich-
: est farmers in the country. He never
would be well to employ them lug ’ forgot the service done him by M. Potter
the advice of a good lawyer, ad de la Gerniondaie, to whom he after-
Germodaie, who was in suct^e-
pute, that people believed apt
gained when he undertook theje.
The countryman enquired fod-
dress, and proceeded to his houste
St. The clients were numerad
Bernard had to wait some tiAt
length his turn arrived, and ban-
troduced. M. Potier de la GMe
signed him to be seated, then toff
his spectacles, and placing thehis
desk, he requested to know ^i-
ness.
“Why, Mr. lawyer,” said tb 
twirling his hat. “I have lieamcb
about you, that as I have corncn-
nes, I wish to take the oppo of
every year as a token of gratitude.
The Albany Argus contains the fol
lowing account, of a plaining machine
now in operation in that city. All such
improvements possess very great inter
est for our mechanical readers, and we
invite their attention to the article an
nexed:
“A satisfactory idea of the invention
can only be formed by seeing it at work.
Though simple in its construction, and
easily comprehended at a glance, it is
difficult to convey a clear understanding
of the modus operandi on paper. It will
be sufficient, perhaps, to say that noth
ing heretofore invented approaches it,
either in respect to the speed with which
it does its work, or the accuracy of
surface and finish which it gives to every
thing and anything which passes through
•it in the shape of a plank or board. A
rough board placed within its vortex
comes out as even and polished as a
mirror, to the tune of 180 feet a minute;
and this without driving the machine.
Its maximum capacity is double, and
even treble this speed, and the greater
the power and the rapidity of the work
ing, the more perfect is its execution.
We can well believe that it will turn out
work at the rates of 200 and even 300
feet per minute, or as fast as it can be
fed.
“In this respect it outstrips the famous
Woodworth invention, and promises to
supersede it entirely. The maximum
capacity of that machine, we are told,
is 30 or 40 feet per minute. Such as
are interested in the progress of im
provement will see in this something
new and strange, and well worth inspec
tion and study. The inventor may be
seen at Townsend’s furnace at any time
to exhibit the capacity and power of
his machine to all visitors.”
Sympathy for Cuba.
A large meeting was hold at New
Orleans on the reception of the news of
the Cuban revolution, sympathising
with the patriots. Several resolutions
were passed, among which we notice
the two following:
“Resolved, That we adopt the patrio
tic sentiment of President Munroe, that
theAmerican people should not tolerate
any interference by European powers
in the polititical affairs of America.
Resolved, That it is the sacred right
and the imperative duty of all true A-
merican Republicans to give aid and
comfort, by all legal means in their
power, to the sons of Cuba, in their
struggle to throw of the yoke of Old
consulting you.”
“I thank you for yout^ ^^J
my friend, you wish to
tion, perhaps?”
“An action! Oh, I hole ’'-[ ^1'"‘"’
, , i charge, in some degree, the debt of grat-
horence ! Never has Piprreaid . ° c
, . a >> nude we owe to the memories of oteu-
had a word with any. j
“Then it is a settlement—sion n ’
Spain, and that thereby We shall dis-
n, Kosciusko, Pulaski, Montgomery
of property?”
“Excuse me, Mr lawyer; Ally
and I have never made a dividing
that we all draw from the sail, as
J they say.”
and Lafayette, and a host of other gal
lant sprits, who periled their all to assist
us in the times that tried men’s souls.”
A similar meeting was also held in
To Henry Clay, of Kentucky.
NO. 1.
Sir—More than forty years of your
life have been spent in the public service,
and as a statesman and party leader
your name has filled no inconsiderable
space in the public view. Already your
biographers, emulous of the distinction
of recording the deeds which have giv
en you such an unenviable notoriety,
have entered the arena, ahd have vied
with each other in the task of pamper
ing your inordinate vanity, by spreading
upon the historic page gilded pictures
of your public acts. In their efforts to
make you President, they have given
you credit for patriotism, which you
never possessed, and a disinterested
ness of purpose of which you ne
ver had any conception. They have
deceived the public as well as yourself.
You are now old, sir, and your career
is drawing to a close. The tinsel with
which your partizans have glossed over
a long public career of selfish ambition,
cannot much longer conceal from a
wronged and indignant people, whose
rights you have violated, the dangerous
and detestable deformities of your pub
lic character. Soon posterity will de
mand more truthful and impartial chron
iclers of the public life and character of
a politician and Cabinet Minister, who,
under the specious garb of a pretended
patriotism, has contributed so much to
change the character of tiie Government,
and to prostrate the Constitution of the
country. When you shall have disap
peared from the stage of action, those
who have ministered to your ambition
and your vanity, to escape your coarse
denunciations, so derogatory to an A-
merican Senate, and to the rank and
character of an American Senator,
and the hungry expectants who have
fawned upon you, with the hope of pro
fiting by your influence and elevation,
will no longer have a motive to praise
you, or to conceal the vices of your pub
lic character. Justice and truth will
then demand an exposure of the crimes
you have committed against the Consti
tution, which you have so often sworn
to preserve inviolate; and thejudgment
which a coming age will pronounce up
on you, will be so withering, that could
you be conscious of it, even your unpar-
alled effrontery could not sustain you
under the scathing infliction. A South
ern man and a slaveholder, your first
public act in the State of your adoption,
to whose people you looked for patron
age and support, and among whom you
sought a retreat for poverty and securi
ty in your native land, was an incendia
ry assault upon its slave institutions, and
upon the social and political rights of
the South, which you have since so fatal
ly betrayed, for the purpose of placing
upon your head the Presidential diadem
as the reward of your treachery. • In
the arts of the demagogue, which abili
ties of a high order have enabled you to
reduce to science, you have distanced
all competition, in an age so fruitful in
enthusiast in the cause of liberty—a dis
tinguished disciple of the incompatible
schools of Mirabeau and Danton—the
consistent emancipationist of the age—a
professed republican, and a practical
consolidationist by your unequalled skill
in the arts of deceit and dissimulation,
like an actor on the stage, by assuming
a costume and a set of principles adapt
ed to the time, circumstance and place,
you have succeeded to an unprecedent
ed degree in deceiving a confiding peo
ple into the belief that the fictitious part
you played was real, and that you are
a patriot and a republican. So well, sir,
have you played the part of a political
magician, that at the moment the consti
tution is expiring from the blows you
inflicted upon it with your dagger, you
are eloquently pronouncing eulogiums
upon the blessings of freedom, and at
the same moment laying the foundations,
broad and deep, of a consolidated des- ,
potism upon the ruins of republican lib
erty. Unscrupulous about the means of
reaching the object of your ambition,
few statesmen of modern times have
combined in one character, so many el
ements calculated to inflict incurable
wounds upon the institutions of the State.
The equal of Cataline in courage, his
superior in expedient and resource, you
have, by your countenance and encour
agement, aided, with all the influence
of your example, the incendiaries of the
North, whose leader in the work of e-
mancipation you are, to assassinate the
public peace, and who only await your
bidding, to light up the fires of a servile
war. And yet your agency in the infer
nal plot, by your skill in political leger
demain, is concealed from public view.
A statesman thus gifted with such ex
traordinary qualities for stratagem and
mischief, whose political code imposes
no restraints upon his excesses, and who,
upon every great question which has
agitated the public mind duringbis whole
political life, has been advocating with
plausible but untruthful eloquence, first
one side and then the other, and who
has been consistent only in his ambitious
thirst for power,and his ceaseless desire to
see the abolition of our Southern institu
tions accomplished, could not fail to
achieve for himself an unenviable dis
tinction. And, sir, of all your extraor
dinary qualities, that one wlhicli Hasten- -
abled you for so long a period of time,
through the many important political
epochs in which you have borne a dis
tinguished part, to conceal from the
Southern mind your selfish ambition,
and your agency in bringing upon the
country so many fearful evils, is not the
least remarkable. It shows, sir, the per
fection to which you have carried the
arts of political knavery. At all times
ready to offer up the South as a sacra-
fice, the victim of your ambition, to
make yourself popular at the North
thrice have you, by your intrigues for
the Presidency, brought the country to
the verge of civil war. And notwith
standing yourAmerican system has plun
dered the South, under color of law, of
a thousand millions, for the benefit of
your Northern allies—notwithstanding
your “ Compromise,” have put in jeop
ardy fifteen hundred millions more—
notwithstanding your last “Compro
mise” confiscated for your abolition as
sociates an immense territory, the right
ful property of the South, and as a con
sequence the Southern horizon presents
to your gaze now only one unbroken
line of storms, fast thickening into a
sweeping tempest, and with the glare of
the lightning of civil war in your face,
still you affect not to see the peril which
you have brought upon that Union which
you profess to love so much, and still tiue
to your instincts and standing upon the
brink of the grave, your thirst for pow
er is yet unappeased.
It may be worth your while, sir, to
pause and enquire why you have so long
labored in vain—why your ambition is
not yet gratified, in a country which of
fers so many incentives to honorable ex
ertion? To all save yourself, the cause
of your oft-defeated aspirations is no
mystery. Your domineering and tyran
nical propensities are wormwood and
gall to those even who acknowledge
you as their party leader. Not content
with being the leader of a party, you
cannot stop short of being its tyrant.—
The party to whom you have looked for
elevation have therefore refused to place
the production of that dangerous and
despicable character. An avowed friend
of the abolition of slaver^^n pretended
you in their power. Thirsty as many
of them are for a division of rhe spoils,
they are sufficiently circumspect to pro
fit by the moral of the fable, and decline
to submit the distribution to one never
content with less than the lion’s share of
power, at least, if not of plunder. The
wire-workers of your political asso
ciates, comprehend the leading trails of
your character. They became aware
at an early stage of your career, that
although at all times ready to “compro
mise” away the rights of others, you are
ever careful never to “compromise” the
objects of your own insatiate ambition.