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0 i1 it 0- LP I! i i i if 1 '-. I. I -. I I r i i J -; I f i t : 1 "J -J !; THE WETT. BRA, ! AND COMMERCIAL ADVERTISER , ' " WILI. as PUBLISHED , - v . ' ( .-j ' .. ' -EVERY TUESDAY, - BV JOEL II. MUSE & DANIEL DAVlESj EDITORS AJfD PBOPKHTOBS. TERMS S For the Weekly in advance Ipald t 8ix MoBth.U............$2 60 . I " One Year ;.V:;... .$3 00 f J : 1 ; nates of Advertising: One Bquuv, first Insertion . . second da . .. . one month ... to ; two months ..... j 8 MOSTHS. One square t inch . . $ 3 00 2 00 1 TEAS. ....$ 8 00 .... 1400 .... 20 00 25 oo 6 MONTHS. . $ SS 00 . . . . .. 8 00 .... .. 12 00 .... .. 15 00 '.Hi Two squares. : ...... 5 00 Three squares,..... 7 00 , Four MiiarM ........ 9 00 . Advertisements inserted as Special or Bishop Notices -ire charged one-half more than the above rates--ne inch constituting a sqnare. v. f? Where the number of insertions are not expressed when advertisements axe banded in they will be inserted till forbid, and charged SO cents for the first insertion and 25 cts. for each continuance- A liberal discount to yearly advertisers. sf i "w cs xjL jlv jlf T. Li. HALL, FORM ERLY PKOPRI BTOR OF THE ; GASTON HO USE, NE WBERN, N. C, NOW AT THE WESTERN nOTEL, C0URTLANDT ST. (NEAR BROADWAY), Where fee will be pleased to see Southerners in gene ral who visit the city. 1-wly I JAMES B. AVERITT, ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW, it - NE WBERN, AC, Will Attextj the Co1:hts of Craven, Jo es and On slow,' and will promptly attend to all business en trusted to his care. 27-1 DIBBLE &BR0TIIERS, FORWARDING AND COMMISSION . NE WBERN, N.C. CASH ADVANCES made on consignments to be sold here or forwarded to Northern markets. 5 1 T. J, HUGHES, DEALER IN NAVAL STORES, U COMMISSION MERCHANT IN jl'ORK, BACON, LARD AND SUGAR, Corner East Front and South Front streets, If NEWBERJC, N. C, ' NB: The T fad supplied at a ditcount. . 3-tf 1 GEORGE ALLEN, DEALER IN FANCY AND STAPLE H DRY GOODS, i Itoots, Shoes and Gaiters, Hats, fcc, rOLLOCK BTltEKT, i NE WBERN, N.C. j HART & BROTHER, : ; I ; MAXUFACTCnERS OF Tin, Sheet Iroii and Copper Ware, AND ItRALER IX i Stoves and Japanned Ware, Corner of Broad and Mladic streets, 1 -; (One door South of the Court-iiouse), 3-tf NEWBERN, N.C. Banks's Candy Manufactory i ANQj iAililiRiVf,, U POLLOCK STREET. Orders accompanied with the money promptly i ' executed. - l-2t J. S. DANfcS, Agenh 1 WILLIAM II A V, HOUSE, SIGN AXD ORNAMENTAL Painter and Gilder, MIDDLE STREET, ; f (two doors below pollok stheet), ; . NK WBERN, N.C. JOMTII AX W II A LEY, CLOCK AND WATCH MAKER, KEETS COSCfTASTLT OS ifAND AX EXCELLENT ASSORTMENT OF WATCHES, CLOCKS, And JeWelry of all kinds. t-gT"AJl Work done at the shortest notice, and in a ' workmanlike maoner. J. WHALEY, : Craven street, Neirbtrn WM, H. OLIVER & Ca, COMMISSION MERCHANTS,- riEAtttitS IK EVERT VABIKTY 0 - AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS, Kertllizers, Castlnjs, LIME, CALCINED PLASTER, CFMENT, 4 1 MARBLE DIST, IRON ad STEEL, IRON AXLE? and SPRINGS, India Rubber and Leather Banding, Rubber and Hemp Packing, Lace Leatile"r Rivets and I Burrs, IIardwarb, Nails, Ac. KTrarticufar attention given, to the mU of Proluce, 2 -2m aUo to lieceieing and Forwarding GqtmU. MILLINERY CARD Mrs IVET and Mrs. M1SSILLIER Are xow .penixo an elegant assbftment ofSrRiNG Milunert, to which they invi.e the attention of their friends, in town and countr-. lile-jcTiing and Trim tning done in. gootl styU and at slwrt notice.' Dressing in all its branches. Cu.ting and fit ting by measurement. a20-tf A. E. RICKS, D.D.S.; R ESPECTFULLY ihforms the Ladies and Gentlemen of Newbern and vicinity that he tnii cuuiiuuvs iue pracuce oi UJSHT&L- s l and raav he SURGERY. found at the I WASHINGTON HOTEL. unless professionally engaged. He returns thanks for past patronage, and hopes to merit and receive a continuance of the same. ; jy22,57 33-tf i) DR- Z. S. COFFIN, SURGEON DENTIST. AT THE GASTON HOUSE, (Office No. 4 2. ravrsnw. s.c. Invites the attention of the People of Newbern and rieinity to the reservation of their Teeth. He would inform those who are under the necessity of ii"K anmciai sets, mat ne can supply tuem. luuscnuo uare leem wun ine nerve exposed can have the nerve extrac ad without nain and the Tooth saved, if there be enough sound tooth to allow the pre&MCS1cf uShesive gold. All Operations performed in the latest improved style. Ladim waited on at their pritaU residence iderired. All orders by note uu engagements promptly attended to, ml a-tt PHOTOGRAPHS, if J1MBRO TYPES, AND ALL OTHER KIND OP TYPES, t Aaken in the highest ferfectiox of the Art, i BY J. Wt WATSON, I i j CRAVEN STREET, NEWBERN, N.C, At Prices varying from One Dollar upwards Call and Examine - A beautiful Collection of Specimens. whether you wish Pictures or not. Also. SEND IN YOUR OLD DAGUERREOTYPES, and have them copied into the Tseverifailinir AMBROTYPEJ i PHOTOGRAPH and AMBROTYPE STOCK and materials kept on hand, and will be sold to Art ists as chean as ther can Via Krnr.Vv at V. a iCnrtU freight added. By sending ma your orders, you wili PS. All orders must be accompanied with the Cash, to insure prompt attention. J.W.W. DEVOTED TO PQLITIC JOEL H. BIPSE & DANIEL. DAVIBS.j Voi.. I. MORTALITY. O, why should the spirit of mortal be proud ? Like a fast-flitting meteor, a fast-flying cloud, A flash of Jhe lightning, a break of the wave, He passes from life to his rest in the grave. The leaves of the oak and the willow shall fade. Be scattered around and together be laid ; , . , , AnH the vonriff and the old. the low and the" high, Shall moMer to dust, and together shall lie. The child, that a mother attended and loved ; TW mother, that infant's, affer.tion had DrOVed ; : The husband, that mother and infant had blessed -Each all are away to their dwelling of rest. The maid.on whose cheek.on w hose brow, in whose eye, Shone beauty and pleasure, her triumphs are by, And the memory of those that loved her and praised, Alike from the minds of the living erased. The hand of the king, that the scepter hath borjie ; The brow of the priest, that the miter hath worn ; The eye of the sage, and the heart of the brave Are hidden and lost in the depths of the grave. - The peasant, whose lot was to sow and to rfeap" ) The herdsman,who climbed with his goats up the steep ; The beggar, that wandered in search of his bread Have faded away like the grass that we tread. The saint, that enjoyed the communion of Heaven ; The sinner, that dared to remain unforgiven ; The wise and the foolish, the guilty and just, Have quietly mingled their bones with the dust. So the multitude go, like the flower and the weed, That wither away, to let others succeed ; ; So the multitude come, e'en those we behold, To repeat ev'ry tale that oft hath been told. For we are the same things our fathers have been ; We see the same sights that our fathers have seen ; We drink the same stream, und we feel the same sun, We run the same course that our fathers have run. The thoughts we arc thinking our fathers would think ; From the death we are shrinking, they , too,would shrink; To the life we are clinging, they, too, would cling, But it speeds from the earth" like a bird on the wng. They loved, but their tory we cannot unfold They scorned, but the heart of the haughty is cold ; y. They grieved, but no wail from their'slumbers may come; They joyed, but the voice of their gladness is dumb.. They died, ay they died, and we things that are now Who walk on the turf that lies over their brow Who make in their dwellings a transienfabode Meet the changes they met ott the pilgrimage road. Yes, hope and despondency ,-pleasure arid pain, Are mingled together, like sunshine and rain, . And the smile' and the tear, the song and the dirge Still follow each other, like surge upon surge. 'Tis the twink of an eye, the draught of a breath, Fiom the blossom of health to the paleness of death--From the gilded saloon to the bier and the shioud--O, why should the spirit of mortal be proud ? To B&siness Mens Every business man and mechanic, who has a proper ap preciation of the true mode of doing busi ness, ought to have impressed upon nis memorv the fact that no man should he delicate about asking for what is prop erty his due. If he neglects doing so, he is deficient m the spirit ot independ ence which he should observe in all his actions. Rights are rights, and it not arranted. should be demanded The self ish world is little inclined to give hini his own, unless he has the manliness to claim it. The lack of proper fulfillment of this principle has lost to many fortune, fame and reDutation. Occasionally a custom er, who is less a gentleman than an up start, puts on haughty airs and attects to be insulted at bemsr dunned lor money that he ought to have paid long before. iNo matter; The laborer is worthy oi nis hire. We know it is unpleasant to be dunned; and eauallv unpleasant to dunn other people ; nevertheless, circum stances sometimes reauire that we sub- mit to both ; but we would De sorry 10 -get ' wrathy' at a man because he asked ; thint man vprv i . . . x , - . .... i US IUI lllO UWU, CLUU. V O UlllllL - -J small potatoes who will fly m a passion when we demand a small bill. Athens Herald. Sha:.p Shooting. Father, what does a printer live on V JLiive on : liKe oiner ioiks t wiiy uw you ask?' ' Because vou said you nadn t paid anythins: for your paper, and the printer still sends it to you.v Wife, spank that boy I sha'n't do it,' i Why V , , Because there is no reasdn.' ! No reason ! yes, there is ; spank him, I tell you.' 1 won t do any such thing.' He's too smart.' ! ' That comes of marrying me? : How so 1- what do you mean V 4 1 mean just this the boy is smarter than his father, and you can't deny it.' That's aueer talk, anct I wish ' ' I don't care what you wish the boy knows enough to see that a man, printer or no urinter, can't live on nothins; I 4 , .should think you'd be ashamed to eheat the poor printer, and then Bang goes the door, and out goes the father and husband, grumbling like a bear with a sore head. j .. ; i 5 Girls get ripe much earlier than boys. The moment the former get beyond fifteen they are ' young ladies ;' whileboys of that age are only thought fit to lug water and shovel away snow-storms. A girl at eighteen knows .more than a boy. at twenty-one after that age, however, corduroy not only overtakes calico, but passes her. '-v f ' ''-! -" g.Aduel was fought in Mississippi last month by S. Knott and A. Shoot. The result was Knott was shot, and Shot was not. In those circumstances, we should Tather had been Shott than Knott. COMMCE," DOiffiOTC AND FOREIGN NEWS, LITERATURE AGRICULTURE, EDUCATION. ETC. -..:-"? NEWBERN, TUESDAY, Uncle Pete and llic Bear.1 A TA2TKEE STORY FROM REAL LIFE AXD REAL IN CIDENTS. BTSEBA SMITH. Among the different sections of this widely-extended and variegated country, I question whether any portion of equal extent can exhibit more richness of landscape, or more wildness, beaiity and grandeur of scenery, than the State of Maine. The western prairies are beautiful and grand; but their beauty and grandeur are like the ocean in a calm summer's day, with its smooth, un ruffled bosom, and its long rolling swell ; while much of the scenery of Maine re sembles the same ocean when lashed into fury by the raging storm, and dash ing and breaking its foamy waves into rugged hills and mountains. Go with me to a somewhat central spot in Maine, inland from the ocean near a hundred miles. Here we stand upon the broad and bare back of a rough granite mountain. It extends north and west of us in broken ridges for several miles. Now and then you behold the trunk of a dry pine, which lias been felled by the fire, and stretched tipon the gray rock, like the straggling hairs upon the bald head of an old man; And here arid there you see patches of low shrubbery bending beneath the weight of thick clusters of the blue whortleberry. Look away to the north, and your eye rests (or halt a dozen miles on a level tract of rich forest. Then arises abruptly a cone-like mountain, throwing its peaked summit far into the clouds and standing like a sentinel on duty, to overlook the country for many miles round. In the distance beyond, both to the tight hand arid the left, you see mount ain after mountain, with their rouud shaggy tops, swelling and rolling, height above height, till they are lost among the misty clouds, or rest in softened lines against the clear blue sky. Now turn your eyes to the eastward; look down almost beneath your feet, and be hold one of the most beautiful sheets of water to be found in the world. It Washes the base of the rough granite mountain on which we stand, spreading Out in a circular basin of three or four miles in diameter ; then passing a narrow frith on the eastern side, of less than a quarter of a mile, it widens again, and stretches away between ridges of high lands, some six or seven miles farther to the eastward. It is now a calm sum mer's day5, and the bright basin on which we are looking is reflecting from its smooth glassy surface the dark forest trees on the swelling shore, the huge cliff on the promontory's height, and the broad sides of the mountain that fill tip the back ground. So calm arid still is the beautiful lake, that a fairy might float on its bosom in the Half shell of a humming bird's egg, without danger of foundering at sea or wetting her wings. But let the eddying winds begin to move round these old hills and mountains, and they brush down upon the lake with such power that, in half an hour's tirrie its white-capped waves are rolling and dashing like a mimic ocean; and the hafdy lumberman, in his light batteau, pulls for the nearest shore, to avoid be ing drenched or drowned in the foaming surge. V The name of this beautiful collection of water is Sebec Pond, and the spot where we are now standing at the head of this pdnd, is about fifteen miles from Moosehead Lake. Turn and look away a little to the left, and you will see the Wilson stream, a lovely little river, wind ing its bright way among the trees, near the base of the opposite ledgy hills gliding gently across the interval, and carrying its silent water into the deep basin before us. Deep it truly is, cor responding with the high and broken hills around it: for I aril Idld that in some parts of this pond the bottom has j rieverbeen reached, although lines have j been let down to the distance of several : hundred feet. j You observe a few acres of laiid on i the interval between the Wilson stream j and the base of the granite mountain on which we are standing ; and there, close by the margin of the river, you see a small low house. In that house there lives, and has lived for some ten years past, an old man by the name of Peter Brawn. He is often designated in that vicinity by the familiar appellation of Uncle Pete. Nothing, however, could be more appropriate than his tnie name, so accurately and forcibly daes the sign represent the thing signified ; for a more vigorous, athletic and ibrawny old man you will not find In a thousand. He must be over seventy years of age, for his long thin locks are silvery white, arid though he has one or two children in their minority still with him, he has nu merous daughters who have reached the middle age of life, and gone: abroad into the world with families pf their own. IB.KISO.- i SEPTEMBER 28, 1858, The old man is foil six feet in height, and stands as straight as an arrow. He Is neither decidedly fleshy nor lean, but stout, bony and muscular. From his natural constitution and habits of life, he evidently possesses great strength, and is capable of enduring great hard ships. He has for many years been a sort of pioneer to the frontier settlers in the interior of Maine, always keeping a little in advance of them, preferring to live alone in the woods, where, un shackled by the restraints of society or the statute, he can feel that he is ' monarch of all he surveys,' I And lord of the fowl and the brute.' I am told that, befdre taking iip his residence in this wild spot, he had sev eral times pitched his tent in the wilder ness, and tarried for a few years till civ ilization and settlements overtook him, and thickened around him, to sucli a degree as to becorne inconvenient and troublesome, when he would ' pull up stakes,' and push further into the woods. The place where he noV resides is an unincorporated township of wild land, and being somewhat difficult of access, except by coming up the pond from Se bec, a distance of about a dozen miles, Uncle Pete has lived for something like ten years in a condition of tolerably satisfactory independence. Hev raises some provisions on his cultivated acres, and procures some game from the woods; and when these sources fail, he takes his hook and line and goes out to some of the ponds or streams in the neighborhood, and returns with a load of trout and Other varieties of the finny tribe. For calico, tea, and tobacco, and other boughteri' articles bf use or luxu ry, he goes now and then to Sebec with a canoe load of shingles and clapboards, which are his regular articles of export. But civilized life is again treading upon the heels of Uncle Pete. The towns around him are becoming thickly set--tied, and though there is but one other family on the township with him, yet the visits of proprietors and proprietors' agents are becoming so frequent, and they cast scrutinizing glances upon sun dry pine stumps which they occasionally; find on the premises, that Uncle Pete; grows restless and uneasy. He feels that he is rather crowded upon, and sometimes talks of selling out.' It was in autumn of 1836 that I first vtsited this wild spot and first saw or, heard anything of Uncle Pete. Stop ping at the house of an old man, another pioneer of the frontier settlers, some six or eight miles from this spot, I heard the old man remark, while conversing with another, (Well,Uncle Pete's had a squab ble with a bear lately haint he?' I at once felt a curiosity to learn the history of this squabble,' and accordingly made some inquiries, in answer to which I learned the general outline of the story and subsequently obtained the details and the filling up from Uncle Pete him self; It was a bright and calm summer's morning ; the quiet pdnd was sleeping in the sunshine harmless and beautiful, and every surroUnding object in nature looked lovely and inviting. There is something in the- effect df a fine land scape, viewed Under favorable circum stances, which may be compared to mu sicit hath charms to sdothe the sav age breast.' Even Uncle Pete felt its influence, as he sat on a little bench by the side of his cottage, yawning and looking listlessly across the still waters, and following the outline of forest tree, and hill-top, and mountain, that hung below the watery horizon, as well de fined, as clear and distinct, and even With more softness than those which were toweriilg above. While he gazed, he was seized with a desire for an aquatic excursion. He called his youngest boy a lad about a dozen years old. and told him to get the hooks and lines and they would go round the point td the mouth nf Shinnond stream, arid try for trottt. Thf- nnnaratUs was soon in readiness, and they jumped into his little log ca noe and paddled oft upon the lake. We hadn't got but a little ways round the Pint,' said Uncle Pete, 4 and I was setting in the starn, paddling along o o mo1 prat a iog. and little Pete was setting in the bow, and by-and-by he called out td me, and says he, ' Oh, lath er, what great black critter is that swim ming toward us? I looked round to ward the shore, and there was the tarn aiest great overgrown bear that I ever seed iiir alLrny life, swimming right to ward tus. If he had been weighed, I believe he would have weighed ; every pound of four hundred.' - " - . K I never examined Uncle PetesJiead phfenologically, and cannot say whether bis organ of marvellousness was of ex tra size or not ; the reader must there th kneh evidence as Voo-arrl to the weicnt oi ... j EDITORS AND PROPRIETORS. No. 10. the bear, and that rests solely on Uncle Pete's word and judgment: he always stood to it that the bear would weigh four hundred pounds. 'And the tarnal crittur,' said Uncle Pete, was pulling right toward tis as hard as he could swim. I'd been sd careless in coming away that I only took ons small paddle with me, and that wasn't a very good one, and the old ca noe was rather heavy, so I found, do the best I could, the bear would swim faster than I could paddle. But I thought I could keep him off well enough if he should set out to meddle with us, so I turned the boat and paddled a litde to ward him. I thought that would make him 1 turn round, but the savage kept swimming right toward tis and come close up to the side of the canoe, and he began to open his mouth, and show a great ugly set of teeth as ever you see. He come up so nigh that I hit him a lick over it he head with the paddle and split it in two ; at that he came right at the boat fiercer than ever, and put his paw right on to one side df it. I sprung into the middle of the boat, and bore Upon t'other side of it, for I knew if I didn't we would upset in a minute; and I thought I shouldn't like very well to have a grapple with him in the water: So, while I was keeping the balance df the boat, the rascally old var min pokes up t'other paw and begin to crawl up. I couldn't go to fight him ofT, for then we should all go into the water together. So I had to hold still, and see the great black nigger crawl clear up into the boat. He got in pretty "near the ktarri, and I stood about the middle. As soon as he got fairly in, he looked round to me, and then he rared right up on his hind legs, and walked toward me as straight as a man. He was as tall as I was, and looked as big as a clever young ox. . I stood facing of him, and while I was thinking how it was best to give battle to him he marched straight up to me, and put one paw on my riffht shoul der and t'other on my left. Thinks I, this is bein' a leetle bit too sociable for a stranger, and I was jest agoin' to tell, him hands off, when his weight pressing against me, made me step back a little, and my heel struck against something in the boat, and I fell flat on my back in the bottom of the boat, and the old bear ion top 6 me. By this time I begun to think matters was getting worse, and it was time for me to begin to look about myself. I twisted one way arid t'other,and we be gun to have a considerable squabble; but the old bear had altogether the advan tages of me, and I couldn't seem to do much. I tried td get hold of my jack knife, but I couldn't get it but of my pocket all I could do: The old bear didn't seem to be willing to wait to give me fair play at all, for in a minute I felt him trying to stick his huge tusks into my forehead, jest as a boy digs his teeth into the teeth of a great apple. Thinks I, this'll never do ; something must be done pretty quick. I niade a terrible twist, and drawed my legs tip under him and got so I could push him with my feet, and my knees and hands ; then all at once I fetched an everlasting spring, and how I did it I don't know, but some how; or other the old bear went overboard,-and plunged headforemost into the water: I was on my feet as quick as a steel trap. The old beat come up to the top of the water and snorted, and looked up at me a minute ; but I believe I had fairly skeered him out of it. He turned about and swum for the shore, and I paddled for home. When I got to the house I told my wife we'd have some potatoes for dinner, and let the fish go.' ! PoencAL. In a certain well-known city, a genius was hauled up for kissing vk rrirl nnrl kinking- un a dust, and the fol- " a ;r : , ' Is your name John Jay?' , ' Yes, your honor, so the people say.' Was it you that kissed the girl, and raised the alarm ! i Yes, your honor, but I thought it was no harm.' ? : , 'You rascal, did you come here to rrialie rhymes V 1 No, your honor, but it will happen sometimes.' 'Be off, you scamp, get out of my S1Thank'e, your honor, then I'll bid you good night V -' A Two-faced Boy. The Texas Item eays that there is a remarkable negro boy in Polk county. He has two faces fixed in opposite parts of the head, with mouth, nose and chin, so full and perfect that it K. - Arliinh I fflf frfint ISi impOSSlDie lUjicu w ...w -;t face wheti the body is hid fiom - view. He lis about six years of age, healthy, of a very sound mind, runs and plays among other children, with as much sprightliness as could be expected from one ot his age. . ClijUlS RATES: - - t jw mam - " WEWERAfpD COMMERCIAL ADVERTISER; v or i nrec conies : gtjt t Five - . ' Eight ; '.I !o TwelTfe m. ; Jr,' WUh one edLni fsi th nrtt--., r n,. oi... . .. i I For Twenty Copies . JJO ' ti CagA, in tvery com, mU be mnt Kith th fdnr. ,vTBE LW OF NEWSPAPERS. ; L SabscruwbdonotgiveexprroTO ryv are considered as, wishing td continue their subscription, j S. If sabscriben order the discontinuance of thir new papera, the pablfehcr nay .continue to send them nmn .n arrearages are paid. ; .y j 3. If subscribers neglect br refuse to take thi pen from the offices to which .they are directed, they an odd responsible until they hs.ve settled the bills and r. ed them discontinued. - ' t v 4. If subscribers remove to other rfores without inthrn,;.. the publishers, and he newspapers are sent to the fcrmer di rection, they, ere held responsible. I S. The Courts have decided that rpfurfner tn .v pers frtwri the office, or removing sod leaving them uncalled for, is prima fade evidence of intentional fraud. . - i 6. The L'nited States Courts have also repeatedly decided' that a Tostnuister who neglect to perform his duty of givinc reasqnsble notice, es required, by the Post Office DepartmenC of the neglect of a; person to take from the office newspaper addressed to hiro,: venders the Postmaster liable to the pub lisher for the subscription price. " ; A Hcautifnl Sketch. Texas. It will touch the heart of thp reader. "We; do not often stumble upon so well; expressed ah idea of woman's true mission: . I J J. ?:-"'' i I fancy a young man just emerging from the brfo-ht elvshim of vou th. and ,0 -j , 7 commencing the long journey ! of life; r Honest, nonlft and rnfted th hrnarl , . Q xvnrlfl tn Vii irsrm Virnrc: io in .tViio ftiJ ' f 4 c ture scene of. affluence, fame and happi- "voij jlj VlillVll Alio avill CUr;igir;o UU I ness prospers, and, as a consequence, j friends com about him, Ere long, he meets somej sensible and amiable girl who wins h'U heart, and loves and trusts him in return: He' doesn't stop to ask what thc .wqild will say about the match; in case he jmarries her: not he. The vyorld is kicked out of doors, and the man determines to be the architect of his own hapbiness. He. doesn't stop to inquire whetner the girl s lather is rich in lands ai. slaves and coin;; Gut he marries her for that most honest and philosophic 'of all' reason s- because he loves her He builds his home in some quiet spot where green trees wave their summer erloiies. and where briffht sun beams fall, ll Here is the Mecca of his heart, towards which he turns with more v than Eastern- adoration. Here is a srreen island in thejiea of life, where rude winds never assai and where storms never come! Here, from the troubles and cares of existence, he finds solace in the society of rjper who is gentle . without weakness, a$d sensible without vanityj Friends may betray him, and foes may oppress; bt When towards homo his : weary footsteps turn, and there beams upon him the olden smile of welcome; the clouds lift from his soul the bruised heart is restored, and the strong man made whole! f I see the man fall into adversity. Creditors seize hrs property poverty stares him in the face, and he avoided on all hands as a ruined bank -j rupt. When he sees all gone friends credit and property Tei stricken and penniless, 1 seeks his humble home. Now, does the wife desert him too ? Nay, verily when the world abandons and persecutes the man, she draws closef to his side, nd her affection is all the warmer because the evil days have come upon him The moral excellencies of his soul risejj superior to the disasters of fortune. Ai when she sees the man sit mournful and desolate, like Themisto- 1 L - . 1 li ..t,l,l nnilu r( A ilmot 1 IS r. ps 1 1 v inn ill iiiKKiiuiu i:uuo i iuiiiviuo, hers is the generous task to comfort and console. She. reminds him that misfor tune has oft overtaken the wisest and best ; that $1 is never lost while health and hope survive ; that she still is near id love,, to frelp, and to encourage him. The man likens, his courage rallies, and the shadow flee from his heart ; armed once morejhe enters the arena of life. Industry anf energy restore him to com petency : Fortune -smiles upon him, friends retuii and " Joy m6unt exulting on triumphant wings.' Again tl scene shifts. I see the man trptrhpfk wiak and wasted on a bed of sickness. The anxious wife anticipates every wantlland necessity. Softly her foot falls upih the carpet, and gently her hand presses upon the fevered brow of the sufferer'? Though the pale face gives ( token tif hej own weariness and suffer-, irig, yet through the long watche9 of each returning night, her vigils are kept be side the lovpd one's couch. At last dis ease beleagpers' the fortress of life, and the oh vsiciafr solemnly warns his patient that death is surely approaching, me feels it, too; and the last words of love and tnfist are addressed to her who is weeping eside his dying bed. And,, j ih truth, the last hour hath come. I (rino it iU n. fit time to depart : for the golden surtM himself has died upon the -eveningVffar horizon, and rosy clouds art bearinhim to Ids grave behind, the A til V & " western hilisl Around the couch of the dying; man weeping friends and kinsmen stand; whue tne minisier biuwij urrection and the Life saith the Lord ; he . . 1' , 1 i it . . . I. t,'m n- A Drill , that beiiewew on me, ituugii it, t yet shall M live; and whoso .liveth and leUeveth mime, shall never die.t 1 Slowly lhe clock. marks thejassing momentsfnnd silently the sickf man's breath is ebbing away Slowly the cold waters areflrolling through the gateway of life; and now, as me ueain i''a on the victim's brow, and ihe heart throbs its last foullationS, tfi glazed eye opens . I j i x farwll trlance of inn i liriix 1 1 1 tiiio a w - n - affection upon me tremunug cci bends over him; and; ere the spirit, ue- - -W " - A. .- - parts forerer, the angels hear trie paie wife's h-. whisper Vll meet tie III meet thee ih Heaven f - Irs. Speckles says the best vegetable pill yet inveniea for destroying a kntwing, at th stomach u an apple-dcmpliny;. " .. it Ij . ' We select ihe following beautiful pic ture from a recently-pubhshed address of Richard V. Cook. esn of f?nlnmhn a is - - -v. . i . ..,."--- - - , . 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The Daily Delta (New Bern, N.C.)
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Sept. 28, 1858, edition 1
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