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StatesviUe, N. C., Friday, April 13, 1860.
No. 19
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T1I15 IREDELL XrRESS, i 9 1 lTT 1 t IkS ' -''f1'
! - - - F :-. 1
. -V .T.I
p0etri).
Union.
ET GEO. VTHITMAX8R.
Vnion! What an earthly blWng,
To our country what a price !
How Khali frvcrnen now cx ( fussing,
In their exultation rie,
Sliik thin lionont, nloiiaiUnlin,
Till its ccliws thrill us frtm the vaulti-d nki.s!:
Say, Khali criiuos of hih r.mimii-iidu
Still prrvaib' tlii; lftul we love?
No! Let Union in fruition, :
Bear the rx-acij-tiraricli likeitduvc,
Till our States are fnsc from, fat tion,
Ever standing us a nation far above.
j
From the farthest northern 'mountain, -Whitened
by the winfi'rB Know,
, To the noutticrn lakes and fuiiiitairii, ,
Where the summer hreezoi blow,
May tbe Hon;; ol L'niun elisor i in,
F row the ujril, youth and maiik-n, high and low.
fciliall our fathers, who did clerlah,
Nobly, all with freedom rite
uall their u-ri-d strimiile pirri.ih,
KndiiiH in- luuiuic strife? ,
Never 1 never! w are j.'.itriot
We will sing forever l'nion.1 d ar as lit.!
.for the ' Ired' U Kxpri an."
j Darling Jennie.
Marion mav niuntlu her i.-triim with ureen.
I And wnsli uitli her foam the kwn snowy wing.
iAnd miiiliiiK Tvionia roll on l th went, .
Where aliroiel th' dense furo-it fle ir follaze fiiny, I
The rather of Wuter.-i-lii uW ui liU proud crest ; j
flit they, with her nrr.-nci-. a gmWiws hath bligt. 1
In thr? lniRht fnnny home of the wild cazique.
( Mid the woodbine und lioni vm kle Imiwi'i ;
fWJiere J'habus the wen with iiis loiien hath pilt,
Jennie triim o'er the Edi 11 of Uoweis; !
Atwl sweet blu-hing tiem on Worth's jewid'd yHgc,
TIio tar of her i ciiuiry. tirnt bloiun of the age.
'or Jennie. ') niyrtien. wave nveetly your bloom,
t'oine liuloii with islois ye soft blowing Rule:
And ye woods and lagoon put on ynr nay rob' s,
j To honor the charms of thu maid of the vale:
With her i-nowy white neck and I'.liy white hand, -The
fairest yoiinjf mai.leu that dim e the land.
Portrun. niodeit wnitli tune, up your proud lyres,
F And olTer, ye'innse.- a n ilmte of 1011 ;
With pure inspiration ,'lrike meetly those sttitijjs,
i W hon- notes to the ihiiniiM fihiebui-ss belong .
With blooms that ace fresh .from llie lb lieoti dews.
Itihd the hrow ' the (rriio-Iul and "lovely youn Hughes.
I
l'unisit th' niiilwann on dew-drops of crystal,
And :ty a the note the uiid waiblei-i Hin,
No flower so fair ever hlooin'd in the West:
- Or Uiiii;le4 its inceim' with bunties of Spriti;; ;
And viei n of her s'X. the fiin-t o Mowers.
file's ipn-en of luy heart, as well il.i of llowers.
I gaze upon herbai' i'f evpiiMt-t htH1.
- That borrows its beauties froiii rays of the sun,
Withislorsas hwi et us Araby'srfThe lth-st ;
r And they call back to liiin't the iin:i;e of one,
W iiose lips none Imt accents of kiridie-sH can tell,
V hose eye is the .-tar-beam where beauty may dwi II.
I've Usten'd dear Jeiitiie to r:ilnr'8 of s ine;.
' "Sublimely Is-en moel by mu.-ic's aweet thrill;
Have rejoir'd with the fpriiiK in lit-" baiuetot tbm'rs.
Aud iii:itfd the smu zepliyiwtheir fraititinces fill;
lint jrive me to live in the smile of thy 'harms,.
Ami dyinif at laid, m- It :.v in thy arms."
. ' U. i. Out.
once upon a time; while riding along one of
the high-ways England, he came across a
lad tending a flock of Bheep, who was kind
enough to tell him, although the "sky was
cloudless, clear, and ptirely beautiful," that
(.if he did not hurry along, he would be over
taken by a rain-fetor m. Sir eaac, thinking
that he was on more confidential termsvith.
the upper regions than the shepherd's ;bov,
paid but little attention to the admonition.
He had not proceeded many miles, however,
before the .celestial- geographer was sorely
visited by the clouds, and had to do like the
"Arkansaw Doctor," when the v-olccs got at-
Leaksyille, N. Cf., Mar. 23, I860.
Editors Iredell Exjyress: I read the letter
of your Fayetteville correspondent last week,
complaining of the falling off of the old cua
torn of wagoning to Fayetteville, with up-
likely, and after groping about some
time on my hands and knees every
moment one of intense agony I be
came sure that my prison was a cave
of some extent. Too weak to move
country produce and calling: on North Cafo- j any further, I lay down and endea
llha Farmers for North Carolina hay, flour, vored to think of my position. It
bacon, potatoes, &c. I was? pleased at the seemed a hopeless one. I was cer
entcrprising spirit he manifested, particular- tainly in one of those caves formed in
ly it: his allusion to the extension of the j sat rocks," and sometimes found by J
Coalfields Rail Road to the Is. C. Central : miners, running lar below the earth s
Road. . .Such an extension would inaugurate j gurface. I had no idea how far I had
ket. With what joy I pulled it crut
and commenced eagerly my work.
I will notldetail the agonies of those
days and nights when I-worked on in
the darkness, sometimes encouraged,
sometimes nearly hopeless. I could
not find that I made any risible pro
gress ; the sounds were no nearer than
at first, and I was growing hourly
more exhausted from fatigue and burn
ins thirst. The salt air of the cave
unrivaled dolninion, lie was disconte)
ed. As long as he had no issuoo
transmit his name to posterity he fr
cied his power ill secured. To c
solidate his jthrone, then, and to grW
.Vi
- Counsel to the Yoxmg.
; Never be cast down at trifles If
a spider breaks his web twenty times,
twenty times will he inend it;. Iake
up. your mind .to' do a "thing, "and ypu
will do it. Fear not if trouble cories
intlamed my eyts, parched my skin La'powerless, weeping womati, a cifet-
a new era in the history of their section of faien It mio-ht be but a few feet, it ! and excoriated my throat ; and otten , oil iavonte, without folitical tnendsfpr
the low country, and redound greatly to the mvht be many hundred. As yet 1 1 1 had a horrible idea that I should go t influence. And he Continued to rul,
he formed the project of an alliaifiiJe upon you; keep up vour spirits, though.
witu liiu miui-tiai iiituny vi rtusitj, nit; uuy uiuy ue a very, uuriv uue.
1 1 . , 1 il 1 . . T . J-'-l i. I " ...
jna to accompiisn tpis, ne uiscarami
Josephine nis long ae voted ana iai-.y-ful
wife. She retired to Malmaisctfu
tor Mm & a irtr Xaw as the travail of i benefit of the north-western counties, and I ftouij finJ 110 trace of the4 passace ! mad ;' but I worked on. I had wound .the very emblem of bower, all jEurferle'
have long been surprised that the scheme nas j through which 1 had dropped, but I j up my watca i tunes, tnereiore it must i at nis.ieer, minions pt men reaay -flfi
not been carried out. But the slnr which the j rpmprnhered that I had a case of mat-1 have been the sixth day deliverance ; carry out his ligktesjt caprice, tondHitsS
ches in my pockety s.d.it was not long I as tar olt asacver. inad been trying j tnrone apparently nrmertnan tjibrj
: before I succeeded in dragging them j to losen a fragment of rock which had
j out, though it was excruciating pain to I been somewhat detached, .from the
; my bruised limbs to move them. strata -(this i could only judge oi by
j 'Having no taper, I determined to : feeling.) If I succeeded I should much
bp vorv -careful of the matches, and to ! reduce the thickness of the barrier at
! improve the short moment of lisht da- ! that point ; but I had to stop and rest
: Kor tho'-Inilell Expn-ss.-
! I fain to Thee would Sing.
!cpfC-tfl1y inscriial to "dA.ry .."
i I to thee would sing.
And a fitful tribute brintf.
Ami twine a wreath of roses for thy brow, gentle one;
F.ut no inns" will condescend .
A poet's eift to lend.
And the js-tals of the rose lie scattered now, gentle one. j woman tOO
Sir Isaac's life was the searching for "the
i
.hidden mysteries' of all things," as soon as
the shower abated, he turned immediately
backjdidn?t wait for a convenient time) and
enquireilTof the lad !y what sign he foretold
the storm? The boy replied in his 'own lan
guage, which I am too.well raised to use
that whenever a certain satte gentleman sheep
in his llock turned hia ( head from the wind," it
forebode trouble in the elements! The phi
losopher smiled, and turnd away, a little vex
ed ; but finally came to the conclusion that,
with all his wiom, the most ignorant knew
something that he didn't. It may be, from
this, originated the homely adage: "two
heads are better than one, if une is a sheep's
head ; and the idea oi Napoleon, that "there
! i . .i .1.. .m:.
j is out one step irom tne suuiime to uie naic-.
! uluus." r
i Well, it Ik likely that you and your readers
! may become tiffed of the trash that frequent
! breezes of thinking may blow out of my'
l.rain ; and if you do, I want you to say so.
But, "suffer it to be so now," for this brings
i me to another idea, and tliey are too scatter-,
ing, in this pine country, to be let slip. Here
it is: I never read ah author, especially one
! remarkable for his profundity in the science
!uf life, and the natural and social historv of
j man, but I continually meet with thoughts
! that have aforetime hobbled through the
j avenues otjmy cranium ; which though I did
! nut at. the Itiine suppose worth arresting and'
; rcecHjiiizirtg to appear at any future time.
' Now, if a tree were to fall on me, I have no
i
doubt but I should be killed, for good luek
i never manifested any pprdiality forme; but
1 I never expect to die dfiwd'g and I would j
! rather live and rot a thousand years with the
leprosy, than disgrace my heart in my own
estimation, and have my brains and blood
flittered away, by such a mental amine. Yet
there is one idea that must see the light, to
wit: We (that means all of us) are wiser
than we wot of. Almdst every man (and
t the softer sex, if
above mentioned writer casts on those dwell
ing on the Virginia line preferring "Virginia
notes," &c, was, I think, undeserving. Was
tltje sneer given to -Rockingham, Stokes'and
Forsvthe, formerly intimate in trade with
Fayetteville, because the citizens are aiming
for a Rail Road in their borders? If we have
a direct road to Richmond
and send down ; . , , j(j j t
rubbed
ieat, and bring back guano, Fayetteville ry carefuUy against the sole of
none the K.?r. 1 suppose but little of the , . . t harder, then furiousl v:
sifrphiH pro-hicis of this section crosses the j , i i fc j . Then. I tried
GVCentral, but is swept oil' to the East or r another whh n0 better succeS3. They
est. Neither can any part of the Last be :. ' h evervthhlff was damn :
i..i . .i. i : . J . r . i ' . .
sajd ui tie uiser ueeause tne uieieitseu ainumn : . i -,1Vitfhp were nP .
of) productions by the use of guano and from i Vmt , dry. thc
otjicr causes, easily imagined, will more than thp b()x int0'mv j)rer
put tiie box into mv breast, and but-
: toned my vest over it.. What with my
! failure in nrocnvinrr n lio-lit. and tile
built from ! i i i 'i . ,
. tiiiin of mv hriiisos :k Iim to InV tor-
(Vu.ral, tin-re ror i.vUdennont of mind,-' I suf
wheat enough I c i fPi.,...K u
.. .. - teieu niiensciv. auiiinii an, il mc-
lof the il.'v.n-country loiks, in exchange ion , t - , . ;V.0,i r.,i
fdmnehsate in all nrobabilitv. for anv diver
siin of the trade ISichtnond might make.
llbwcver,-when the Rail Road is
before the final trial. I again tried
my matches. I had constantly done
so hitherto, but without success, and
but few remained but now the third
one that I fried gave forth a light
smoke, then a. light blue flame, and
useless. With a finally a clear red light. 1 held it
lem in time, I i carefully and beheld plainly the cav
ern m which 1 was immured. It was
a small one, and sparkling from the
saline crystals as if studded with gems
tar. ho then would nave "dretirtRd
of the retribution tlat time beld'jn';
reserve t , i
A few short years more, and Na,.V
leon lay chained to St- Helena's rocl'!,
and Josephine lay sleeping peacefu-lly'
beneath the sod. The rule of thc B
napartes was over, the sceptre Jff
France, Belgium, Holland, Spain, S--!-aly
and Westphalia jhad been traiiij-.
ferrcd to hostile hands. The on?
scion of the great man fallen, tl;e
Duke de Iletchstadt, ci devant Kii
of Rome, roamed a virtual prisoner
his grandfather's pace at VieniH ,
bearing in him the Seeds of a malad;
to which he was early doomed to fa?
yetteviile to tap tin- N. C.
II be : hav, baeon and
tlii'ir e,..g turi.entine. aiol ca-li. 1 have
people of I
this section "near the line" and, I believe, j
more proud of old
none who would j
sobner contribute or 'their treasure or then i
od in defense of her rights. If Virginia's
Kan iioau m our
all we can rai.-e
Civ is.
iir g vKiJ, iiirpeniine,
had some acquaintance with the
this section "near the line"
ncj people in the State are m
North Carolina than they
bearing a similarity to the outline of
a human figure. .1 lifted high the ex
piring match, and, by its last ray, I
saw a human face !
In a frenzv of impatience I tried
the few remaining matches, in vain
hi
i.urse aids to establish a
r t
1st and offers to buy
io. would refuse ?
-I won't sligl
Put I've left the vpirlt-flowers j
That I nur-sil in i-uninier bom s;
In a heart as pure in fueling as thHi wn. gentle one; ,
A nd tliew. lor tne i u I
And tli"iith no ihs't's eift ! niin. - j
i nth friendship's e, nial sunshine bid them bloom, R' n-
t le one ;
0! I love thy simphi truth.
i Fresh in innocence and youth.
Arid thv soul where the "spirit of the leautif!" doth
dwell; , i t .
Anil may each hud oPtluU(;ht,
From my spirit-garden bronjrht.
Ilest upon thy brow"wun a son eiysian t u.
Fneh lovely thing, and pure.
That sti-ews thy pathwaiy o'er.
The budding flower, the whispi;rilig wind, and stream
lets, gentle one.,
. ' The silver V stars of evert.
Smiling sA'tly down fr m Heaven,
,pi'i.k a simple laiu,Mia.'' to thy hiart, reip .nsive to my
own.
' Yes! sueh hearts as thine 1 love!
Vi.r n r:idinnce from above
Iuth cast n halo round thee which I, deem atmwf divine,
And wh'-n I'm tone and sad,
- " To make mv spirit Rlad
I will lone nf;aiii for those sweet njusic-bri atliing wordn
-of thine. '
At'l one so pure as thou.
' ili-aveu grant may nevet know
Wliat 'tis tn weefi Vr faded dreaini-, or nceies- ire.w
nres llown :
And may thy fn'.ure be
Kn m daik'nins -hados tree.
Arid thv life'ssun s t in nuty, o it rose in eariy morn.
New York, March 21. 1M.
T know it) knows ouiething, yea much, that
would .be.of use to the World, or -at least to
MV U
ling, over, I had fallen through -the
cliff strange as it was that hollow
ground should occur so near to. the
pdc-p without the external wall of the
cliff caving in towards it. The space j the last one was in my hand ; more
thro' which I had fallen must have j carefully I dr-ew it over the sand pa
beeninarrow, for my bodv had been j pel" ; it burned only for an instant,
briiise;.!, and the skin was torn from j but in that instant, holding it direct
my. sides, with strips of my clothing ly even with the body, I recognized
that I could feel. Oh for a light to j the dead, pale, but unchanged face of
examine better into my miserable nosi- my poor lost brother lienry :
tion : -but after all. I did not feel with-!. I was again in darkness,
A Thrilling Cave Adventure.
The scene df our mining one
at the time of the event which
g
sitant.
rations
I iam going to narrate, was in a nar
row valley, lying close to the foot of. a
nrJrnpndiniilar cliff or rnc.k about one
cne town or county, n ne woum just iec n , Jnd d feet j,; h 0u its b:XVC -sides
out. Iiddn t mean everv -man sliould turn
j out hope. I could not lose the idea
that' I was to hit upon some means or
i way of escape : if I only could get the
il was born and brought up in the ! mutches to irrriitp. and show me the
neighborhood of the salt works of I form an.d size of the cave.
M . My father was second en-j Worn Out with pain and thought, I
iheer, and I filled the situation of as-1 lmist have slept. I awoke with a rag-
Opposite to me was a dark obieCt, on a victim. The family name of the ani
a projection, rjf the shelving rock, and j bitious Napoleon figured in non Vf-
the courts of huropf. - : ;
The children of the discarded 4 Jl
sephine, on the other hand, were rifl
ing into power and forming alliancj
with the proudest blood in Europe. -v
Her son, Eugene, already allied to tU)
royal house of Bavaria by his marr
age with Amelia, daughter of the kin'jf
was living with his father-in-law, ui?
der the title of Duke of Leuchtehber
His eldest son, Augustus, raarrielf
Donna' Maria, Bueeh of Portugal, if
1835. His younger son,- Prince Max
imilian, married in 1839 the- daughiejf
of the Emperor Nifjfiolas, of llussia
The eldest daughter! of Eugene Beau:-
harnajs, Josephine, married Oscar, af
terwards King of fevfeden, son oi iMafr
with the
dead body and my frenzied thoughts.
After a time I resumed fiercely my la
bor at the rock. A few blows loosen
ed it. and the -large mass, rolled in-
1 CJ
wards, ami from the fissure in the I shal Bernadotte, and successor to 'Til
.1 U -1,1.' ... .1 1'.-. '.. t...
uutior, j tor men, must; w u nuvtvc
ink, and set type, would be the only ones who
IVOlll il make fortunes. Here's the plan : Let
the auther, if he has the capital, set himself
up to be a dealer in ideas, by the wholesale,
(in books) if you please; aud every little
planter who raises a etc only carry- them for
ward to the propel emporium and dispose of
them, that they may be put in the proper
currentjand course for general circulation.
We all can produce a few, even though jour
sod be the vev poorest. The world, physi
cally and mentally, is an aggregation of parts
j and particles, aritl except there be harmony
Land co operation in it entire-ltf, it becomes a
disjointed, spotted, shabby, irregular, jarring
cot'pi mblement 1 inconjanctionable matter.
Though the foregoing suggests "aconsum-
p. c.
(Correspondence.
Written for the ' Iredell Kxpro
Our Social Circle.
'I vratch the drowsy niglit expire,
And-r'anry paints at my desire. J J
Her magic pictures in thu fire."
I am not fond of poetic ojuotations at tne
head of q pnjcr. Of late, years they have
come to indicate nothing but the writer's de-
sirrj to show that he has refwi a book or two
more thari all the rest of the world. How
ever, 1 use them here because I happen to
nedd tliem, or choo&c to have them, or what
you please You shall sec, after a little,
whether they ate pertinent tjo the matter in
hand.
1 have, been sitting, for the last hour, with
lhy feet against the jam, looking at the fire
and while mv thoughts (which, by-the-wny.
sire
considerable nt-abot) w ere nonayuig- a
tncmg things pant, present, and to come, they
i!J a 1 ..I i., ..vt Till ciiitiiinflnvT to
Hill! IlOV iillll n' vi..
jerch upon you and the' ;Ex press.
Now.
soipe chasers of fortune and catchers of j'ollj,
will anv that this is foolinsr awav time. Ma
ny wise ones of the present
day, think our
lives are wasting unless ouj legs and hands
are continuallt in motioii. Materials for
'i
building the temple of u isdm, are ns thor
oughly disseminated through all thc Visible
a'njd invisible works of God, as the shortening
is through a biscuit : it is impossible to bite
it any where without getting dome of it iii your
month flere s kndwledge whic h is not known.
Did you ever think of that?! It is (thc un-
kr own sort) more preciou&j than gold, and
twice a plenty. It is everywhere, from the.
centre to the fiirth crest circiimfercncc of the
universe, and a world of it In everv atom.
Here I take wisdom to be p. knowledge (or
kilowing U a better word) ot jhe history and
rXses of all events. A majdrlty of this age.
. however, have corrupted itjto mean nothing
1 but "book larnin'." There never was a
greater mistake made by mortal man, except,
perhaps, the only parallel n record of the
man who put his boots ip bed and set himself
without the door to be blacked! It wasf Bim
ply by the fall of an apple that Sir Isaac
ewton first got th? idea.hat the earth would,
Under all circumstances, claim Us,own. And
it is related of that same distinguished indi
vidual, who for so many years, when the stars
honestly thought he was asleep like an hon
est man, played the spy in their camp, that.
mation most devoutly to be wished," yet, I
fear it is too refined, perhaps Utopian, for the
practical and cherished liberty of doing-noth-ing-if-we-choose
of the present day. It Js
true, the world is making much progress in
the west, and the whole of creation, in conse
quence thereof, have got to bragging oi tus age!
While it is also true, that the motive power oi
this mighty live machinery, is a comparative
ly few great and self-sacrificing minds and
bodies. The strong man shakes the tree, and
the little hungry, weak, lazy) ones picks up
and gulps down the 'strumous. That's the
way with the world. Fulton died poor; the
tiostles were killed ; and Columbus -was ta
i
ken back in chains.
Not only does every man know something
useful, but every one, however humble, has
hia injuenee. Bu. most of the men in the
world, in one point, resemble guns. Though
ivcfl loaded, prepared to do execution, yet they
will stand in the corner until the rust eats
them up, unless somebody" will take them out
and shoot 'em off! Yes, and .some of them
have rusted so long, when they are made to
"o-o off," they pretty near kick the brains out
of the shoidder ! But it is not philosophical
to fret life's a lottery, and of course blanks
musj be expected.
Well, I said I was looking at the fire. So
I was, and being in a reverie reveries are
good things, especially such as the "reveries
of a bachelor," I concluded to give the
foregoing cogitations to the readers of the
Ex press and particularly tor the considera
tions of Mary h., V. 3. R., P. C. C, Lin
nett, and Fred. Now friends, what say
you? Shall we join .'together and form a
club a Social Circle as it were wherein
we can have our social chat, gtve vent to our
feelings and fancies, and perchance make a
column in the Express that will be read with
interest, .by its numerous readers. In fact
Mart L., has made-the move, and much ob-"
liged to her tam, for the pleasure the perus
al of her letters have afforded me. Will you
allow me, Mart L., to take a seat by yot'r
side in "Our Social Circle?" I will promifee
to be a 'good bov,' and not to tease you very
much ; but l tear u mat oeaumui bimci
of thine ia permitted to "tfe around" that,
hundred feet high.
nejither grass or shrub was -to -be, seen,'
and scarce any inequality was visible,'
whereupon the climber might find a
renting place. In tact, it was consid
erfed unscal'eable for a distance ofj about
twio. miles, when it sank down gr-adu-
ally at either end to the level of the
plain. Ascending the cliff, one be
heild on its summit a wide plain,
stretching off in the distance from the
shjarp edge of the precipice, and from
that-dizzy point could look dow;i upon
thje works of the miners below, close
urjiter its sides. j
jUpon the top of the. cliff wjliich I
have been describing, I was strolling
lisjtlcssly,.late one ounaay aiternoon,
thinking of a strange and sad circum
stance which had happened about a
ydar before in our family. My only
bilother, a tact ot ntteen, nat gone ou:
eafrly one summer morning to shoot
pliivcr on the heights, and from that
hojur had never been heard of. When
lak seen, he was mounting "the cliff,
iipm tue eaisierit siue, ami tuuugu
(hen alarmed at his long delay) we
mkde immediate search and inquiry,
never gained any further in forma-'
tin. To speak of our family distress,
arjd my own heart-grieving "for my
wll-beloved brother, it is not ny pur
pose ; but it was the only subject of
mjy thoughts on that quiet' summer
evening, when all the noise from the
works were hushed, and the stillness
sejeraed tenfold by contrast.
j I approached very near the edge of
tlie cliff. I was now at its steepest
prt, and looking down at its smooth
sifles, I thought how terrible a fall
would be ; but my brother could not
hive fallen down. In that case his
mnngled body, at least, would have
been found.
ing thirst, and almost at thc same time,
I became sure I heard the dripping of
water. I dragged myself towards the
sound, stretched out my hand and.
drops from above fell upon it ; eagerly
I swallowed a few, which burned my
throat: they were distilled brine,
salt as any impregnation of water
could possibly be !
This disappointment crushed me ter
ribly I should die of thirst ere I had
found a mode of exit. I thought of
the matches, and tried them again, in
vain ; tin's time, However, ttiey gave
forth a light smoke. In time the heat
of my breast 'would dry them that
was a hope. I had no idea of time,
save that my watch had run down
while I slept. I wound it up again,
knowing that when it again stopped
eight-and-twenty hours .would have
gone by. Again, on my hands and
knees, I crept around, feeling by the
rock which lay behind it came in a
narrow streak of daylight. Irwas all
but mad, or I would not have had
strength enough to effect my purpose.
By the aid of my ox shoe I. soon in
creased the hole till it was large c-
daugh:
father in 184. The second
ter, Eugenie, married the Prince o.
I lohcnzollern-IIechiiigen the Iloheni
zollcrns,' it will be remembered, ar
the reigning house bf Prussia ; onljr
the Prussian monarchs are descended
nough to admit my head. My -shouts j from a younger son of Rodolphus 11,' j
soon brought assistance from thc works, j whilst the llohenzollern-llechingenj
to which, as I had supposed, I was ve-l boast of descending j from the eldesp
ry near, and soon from that fearful son. The third daughter, A,melte ;
tomb were drawn the living and thc j married. Den Pedro, the Emperor iff
dead bodies. . . I Brazil. And the only surviving soit
No one knewmeuntil Ispoke. The j of Ilortense. Liou4 Napoleon is not
bodv of poor Henry had been pre-1 seated more firmly than his uncle eyeB
served by the salt, and was also part
ly petrified. That he had been killed
by the fall was evident, and had never
moved from ,. the ridge on -which he
fell. ' ' .
lamp walls, and, as I continued to re
cede from the spot where the salt wa
ter dropped from a projecting rock, I
discovered that the cave must be near
ly round, and not many yards square.
Having discovered this, I became more
collected and resolute, and forced my
self to a calm review of my position.
The Bonapartes and Beauharnais.
The Revenges of History.
IX homme propose, et fiteu dispose.
This familiar French proverb, which
the vicissitudes of life induce even the
most unreflecting so frequently to ap
ply, and which some witty writer of
the same nation, no less philosophical
Troubles never last forever.
V The darkest day may pass atr&j. V
If the sun is going down, look np to
the stars, if the earth is dark keep
your eyes on heaven. With God's
presence, God's premise, a man or a
child, may be cheerful. ' -
Never despair when fog'a in' the a!r, ' '
A unshine morning will come without waro-
'-' iBg,r
Mind what you run after. Never
be content with a bubble that will
burst ; or a firewood that will end in
Vmoke- and darkness : but that whiph
you"can keep, and which is worth keep
nig. ;
Something sterling that will stay, 1
When gold and silver fly away.
Fight hard against a hasty tcuaper;
Anger will come, but resist it strongly.
A spark may set a house on fire. ' A
lit ot passion may give you cause (to
mourn; all the days of your lifo. Nev
er revenge an injury.
. He that revengeth knoweth nojrest; 1
The meek posses a peaceful breast.
If yorf have an enemy, act kindly
to him, and make liira your, friend.
You may not win him over at once,
but .try again. ' Let one kindness be
followed by another till you have com
passed your end. By little and by
little great things are completed. !
Water falling day by day, '
Wears the hardest rock away. - J '
-And so repeated kindness will sof
ten a heart of stone.
' Whatever you do, do it willingly.
A boy that is whipped at school never
knows his lessons well. A man that
is compelled to work cares not how
badly it i3 performed. lie who pulls
off his coat cheerfully, strips up his
clothes in earnest, and sings while he.
works, is the man for me
, A cheerful spirit gets on quick ;
A grumbler in the mud will stick. .
Evil thoughts are worse enemies
than lions and tigers, for we can get
put of the way of wild beasts but bad
thoughts ' win 'their way every were.
Keep your heads and hearts full of
good thoughts, that bad thouglrts may
not find room
' Be on your guard, and strive and pray. .
To drive all evil thoughts away.
. Charlotte Bulletin.
The Tree that Never Dies.
" Mary," said George, "next sum
mer I will not have a garden. Our
pretty tree is dying, I won't love a-
nother tree as long as 1 live: 1-will
than gallant,: wishing to testify to wo
man's inevitable influence in all things
great and small, -has modified intapy, and sacrifices everything
L'homi ne pro pose .et lafemme dispose
is, perhaps, nowhere more torcibly, nn
was, on the imperial jthrone of Franc,Thave a bird next summer, and that wilf
Thus, at the present day, the de scendants
of Josephine are allied tv
the thrones of three empires 'Franc'qi
Russia and Brazil; and- three kihgg
doms Bavaria, Portugal 'and. Sw
den, without mentioning the connect
tion with the HohenzDllcrns, and th
reminiscences of Eugene's viccroyaltt
in Italy, and Hortciuse's clouded rei
in Holland. j 'XX
What better evidence could be a(i
duced. of the vanity of even inpern
ambition? Napoleo.n, the most po$"
erful bf mortals, sets his whole hea';
on the hope, of perpetuating his fam;
pnncy
pie and popularity to asttain his oM
ject ; vet himself, and all of his nar4
I had to acknowledge to myself, that ! pressed upon the mind in the checker-. in exrle, he leaves behind him but on
my only chance of escape seemed the
hole or crack through which 1 had tal
len; but no rav of light betraved that
spot earth and stones must have fal
len in and' choked it up. Parching
with thirst, and faint with bodily in
juries, I was almost at tne point- of
despair, when a distant sound fell upon
my ear. T listened with intense at
tention. Soon, more and more dis
tinctlv, I recognized the noise of ma-
the rumbling of carts, and
ed careers of Napoleon and Josephine. J sickly son, who flickers awhile and
Familiar as every one is with the lives! then dies out ingloriously, leaving r
of these two personages, many, how-! issue. Whilst Josephine, the womij
ever, have never thought of following
Josephine through her, descendants,
and are not prepared to acknowledge
how much more closely the Beauhar
nais are allied to the royal families of
Europe than are the Bonapartes. A
few, probably, might prove as incred
ulous, in the presence of proof, as
would have been the Viscount Beau-
ehinpi'v. trip riimminrr ot carts!
' - o . , -il ' ' 1 J a- i.:
the voices of men ; then a belli rang, narnais nau any one reveaieu to mm
nml with n throb of iov. I reeonized the fate ot ins cuiiciren ana granucini
V 1 '
the la-
it as the niorning summons to
borers in the. works. A night only
could have passed since my leaving
the outer world. Had thev missed
me ? Would they search for me
II was recalled to myself by a strange! Alas ! there, was nothing to lead them
sihking of my feet. My first confused
idjea was ,that the soil had given way
from the edge of the cliff, upon whose
utmost verge I stood, and that I was
about to be precipitated to the bot
tom. I became dizzy with horror, for
I jfelt at once that I could not recover
myself, so sudden was the,caving in6f
the earth beneath me. I made one
to suspect' the spot of my captivity.
I thought of the strange disappear
ance of my young brother this dou
ble bereavement would kill my poor
mother; but still I was comforted by
the knowledge that only a partition ofj
rock separated me from my fellow
men. Now I could almost distinguish
their voices. I felt -tuat it was vam
stiumble forward, in a wild struggle to to hope that my calls and shouts could
save mysen, teit a ringing ana crusn- be heard by tnem, yet i couia not ror
lilg in my ears, . and then Host ailtur
ther sensation. ' "
It must have been many hours be
fore I wa$ sufficiently conscious to
know that I still existed. Sick and
bear shouting till I was quite exhaus
ted.
Then I reflected on the means I
could find of digging away the barrier
of rock. It could not be
lUlCft..
bruised, I was long unable to raise my- i knew that by my facility in hearing
self from the prostrate position in I sound, and concluded that, as 1 had
which I became aware, at last, that I j fallen close to the edge of the caff, I
Was lying. It was quite dark, and j had sunk straight down to the level of
every portion of earth or stone thatTI I the valley at its foot, and possibly the
touched was wet, and a smell of damp j wall of my prison was not more than
salt pervaded the atmosphere. I two or three feet in thickness. Biit.I
dren, when, in 1794, he laid his head
under Kobespiere's relentless guilio
tine, and left a widow behind him des
tined to fascinate and marry thc ris
ing General of the republic. Equally
surprised, too, would the respectable
planter of Martinique, Teacher de la
Pagerie, have been had he been told,
while attending to his negroes on his
far-away plantation, that from his
loins was to fcpritig a race of emperors
and empresses, queens and viceroys,
as powerful as any world had ever
known ; and that to this ena two liuie
islands, colonies of France Corsica
and Martinique were to contribute.
After the treaty of Tilsit, Napole
on occupied the loftiest position in the
civilized world. Enthroned amid the
splendor of the most magnificent court
of Europe, he was virtually master of
an empire stretching over the entire
face of the continent, with the excep
tion of Russia aud Turkey, and with
thosa two powera he was on terms bf
cordial alliance
he discarded, sees her children seated
in the palaces of half a dozen kinei
doms and empires ! And even wh.i
the indirect line of the Napoleons..
restored to power, it is reinstated onh?'
in the' person of one: whose descend
from Josephine is both more direct ant;
undisputed than from her? ambition
and repudiating lord. Thtf only roy
al alliance which the Bonapartes caj;
offset against-the Bieauharuais is tty;
recent marriage of Prince Napolebtj
to the daughter of Victor Emanuel'
ant oven tins was oDtamea soiem
. " George, don't you remember my
beautiful canary ? It (ted ia the mid-
die of summer, and we planted bright
flowers in the ground where we? buried
it. My ..bird did not live aa long as
the tree."
" Well, I don't see as we can love
anything. Dear .little brother died
before the bird, and I loved "hira bet
ter than any bird, or tree, or flower.
Oh ! I wish I could have something to
love that would not die. j . .
The boy paused. During the school
hour George and Mary had almost for
gotten that their tree was dying, but
at evening, as they drew their chairs
to the table where their mother was
sitting, and began to arrange the seeds
they had been gathering, the remem
brance of the tree came .up before t
them. ! '
: i Mother," said Mary, " you may
give these seeds to cousin John", I
never want another garden."
Yes;" added George, pushing the ,
papers in which he had carefully fold
ed them, towards his mother, "you
may give them. If I could find sonae
seeds of a tree that would never fade,
I should like-then to have a garden V
, " Yes, George, I have read of :a gar
den where the trees never die." - ;
, A real garden, mother V .
- " Yes, my f-on. In the middle of
A I i U.X1 ULIU X lit V7 UVt ll U.MUi VII CI V
through the intcrvcbtion of a graiyj:. yun3 apure river of water 'clear as
son of Josephine ! Such is the N erne ("crystal, and on each side of the river
sus of history. JS&wsrk 1'oH. 5:1 js the tree, of life a. tree that ndver
fades. That is the garden of Heaven.
17 J.4.11 riliAwtVA
J.Gilkey,Esd., has taken charg J ' ... . Ja4i, rA:
of e editorial department of . Lefc your (rea51jre be in th?
Rutherfordton Enmrerf a pa p ej, ad y(Ju w gQm
which has heretofore been, ably cot t& whfch hwt c&Q clj
ducted by L. P. Erwun. !i ' without fear and without disappoint-
Acquittalof Capt-Vcent Witcaer arji meiit, -Love the Saviour here, and be
: Others. .;:will prepare you to dwell in these green
Lynchburg, Va, Mar. 2ov3j
for VinATif rlV5tKr Al4rllfti
Witcher, J." A. Smith and . Sanvjf
Swanson, tried for killing the Messrf.
Clements, in Franklin county, Vai'v
were acquitted on Friday evening lasj
pastures,
teps."
and beside tLo.o still :w&-
Hydrophobia. r
A freeze up like the, present is a;,-
To himself, as eve- wavs dangerous on! account of do&$.
ry school boy knows, he reserved the i They can get no drink, and become
- A Model Woman. v
" Did you not say, Ellen,' sthaHlr.
B., is poor?" fcYes, he has only his
trrofession." " Will your uncle favor
Give Your Doss Water, and Keep Q-iMus suit : "No", and I can expect
it
nothing from him." ' Then Ellen,
you will have to resign fashionable so
ciety." " No matter I ti shall t see
more of Fred." " You must give up
I - J . i m .1.. - ' '1
if I do not run after her I will at least be "cast- thought 1 had tallen into an exnaustea had no implement, save my kniie, ana
' at her. 1 must make that &alt mine, but soon remembered that j that was a slender one, quite unequal
inr sheeD eves
privilege a condition to be auowea, c.
But it ia getting very late, and I must close.
Will Mary L. please accept my kind regards
and my wishes that her wants may never
want-wishes. -. . .' . "
I must chunk up the fire, my candle has
burnt out. Ain't you glad ? Good-bye.
ThePineB, Mar.26, 1850. St.Ledgik.
I, had been standing on the edge of j to cutting a passage through even the
the cliff. It was an impossibility, soft and damp sal t-rock, which formed
Then came the idea that I must have
fallen to the bottom, and the loose
ear,th and stones have fallen over me.
hat, too, I soon found equally un-
the partition. Suddenly I remem-
Jmprial throne of France, comnrising mail Every peraori owning a dz l expensive dress." "Oh, Fred admires
x.... i ir.l..:.irL.:i:-:' Vn anft4V.n:.
snouia ue careiwuyr iu suppiy iue ruvn.jr a.p (a
mabwitbjirater, dajily, as the:best pfeS- j carriage.'" "But we can have delight-
- I j tjji. f..i
ventive against ujuropauuia.
the France of the present day, Belgi
um, Sayoy, Piedmont, and at one time
the whole of northern Italy, and part
of Germany. ; On his brothers and sis
ters he conferred respectively the dia
dems of Holland, Naples, Spain, West
l i t - t-j -u: i haha. ana luscanv : wniist tua ticu-
Derea navmg picK.eu up a.ucij vu r"i " ' . . . T , i . it . s. i Tt, T i:
shoe on the wagon road during my son, .cugene uuaiuaw, ..ur i.uuxii UUy f68i . ''."7 m
idavwaik. It was still in mvpoc-'ed viceroy of Italy. Yet, with this wthey jnust have water. , ; ,tt tht mods - .
quent cases of thisiterrible disease qr
cur in severe winter weather, simpfj
because the poor Hogs find it imp'--
sible to supply themselves with wat
ful walks. " You must take a small
house, and furnish it plainly." "Yes;
for elegant furniture would be out of
plnce in a cottage." " You will have
to cover your floors with thm, cheap
ox
Sundav walk
;l1
f-
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