The Greensborough patriot [March 24, 1849]

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VOLUME X. GREENSBOROUGH, NORTH-CAROLINA, MARCH 24, 1849. NUMBER 4&
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\\i lu:aU>c »l in- ■vi-.li lo continue the paper.
THE PATRIOT.
ArPLKAKn FOB Orrici.—The National /n-ulligtneer
.late, lhat it hat been found necessary
by lbs I'retiaVnt of the United State., to require
that all applications for office shall be made lothe
chiefs of the several Uepartmenti, by whom they
will be submitted at the proper time. No direct
applications will be entertained by the President
for any office whatever.
8WAMP LANDS IN NORTH CAROLINA—The Pres-ident
and Directors of the Literary Fund of North
Carolina, in pursuance of certain resolutions pass-ed
at the Ust session of the General Assembly, of-fer
for sale Fifty Thousand Jlcrtt of Swamp
lands, constiiuiing a pan of the Literary Fund of
the State, aituate in Hyde and Washington coun-ties,
and embracing the region lying between
Pamlico and Albemarle Sounds.
These lands have been drained at great ex*
pense, under the direction of competent engineers
and laid off into sections. The drainage has been
effected by two main canela, lo wil: Pungo Ca-nal,
extending from Pungo lake to Pungo river,
six and a half miles in length, with an average
width at bottom of Iwemy-two feet, depth
six feel, and fall twelve feet; and Alliga-tor
Canal form Alligator Lake lo Pungo river, six
miles long, with an overage^ width at bottom of
thirty feet, depth seven, and loll ten feet, together
with sundry tributaries or lateral ditches. These
canals are navigable for baiieaux, and, emptying
into the navigable waters ol Pamlico Sound, their
mouths are acceasible lo sea-going vessels.
A large portion ot this land abound* in juniper,
cypress, and other valuable limber, fur which
the forest of Eastern North Carolinn is distinguish-ed.
The residue consists of prairie, covered with
tba cane and bamboo, and, in the estimation of
■he engineers who surveyed it, the tvboie ol II is
extremely fertile.
To grain fanners and to the getters of slaves,
heading and shingles, this land oilers peculiar in-ducements.
To emigrants in ttuj ports of the United Stoles
accustomed to a country similar in many respects,
ll>is laud offers a soil believed lo be as ferule U a-ny
in the Nonh western States, with nay nccess
in the sea, and within ibree days" sail of New
York. The juniper waier is pleasant, and the
hands engaged during the last two summers in
gelling shingles have enjoyed excellent health.
The tale will lake pluce in Ihe town of Wash-ington,
in lleaufoil coumy. by public aucuon,
commencing on Monday, the -I si day of May
next, and will be superintended by Ihe members
of the board in person.
Tin MILITIA.—The Carolinian gives an ab-stract
of an Act of the last Legislature, from which
j we learn lhal persons over thirty five are exemp-ted
from militia duly. Good—as far as it goes.
An act respecting the Militia, providea lha!
hereafter, all persons now liable lo militia duty
according to law, shall be kept on the militia rolls
and returned as heretofore ; but no person over
thirty-five years of age, shall be called npon to
attend masters, drills, or any military exercise, ex-
' cept in case of war. That all persona thirty-fire
i years nf age, who desire the benefit of the provia-
! ions of this aci, shall appear before Ihe caurt mar-ualofihe
Regiment to which they belong, and
; make oath that they are thirty-five years of age,
) and the Colonel shall give lliem a certificate er
i em
Gm. SHIELD. DECLARED INXLIOIBLI.—The
United States Senate, on Thursday, adopted the
following resolution declaring Gen. Shields lo be
ineligible to a seal in the Senate :
Itcinlrcil. That ihe election of James Shields
lo be a Senator of the United Stales, waa void, he
noi having been a cilizen of ihe United Statea
lha term of years required as a qualification to
be a Senator of ihe 1,'uned Statea at the com.
inencement of ihe term for which he waa dec
led.
On motion of Mr. Webster, the presiding offi
Orleans, Louisville, Boston, Philadelphia, New
York, Mobile, Charleston, Detroit. Vincennes,
Natchez. Pituburg, I."tie Rock, Milwaukie, Al-bany,
Qalveslon, and Buffalo; while in ihe dio-cese
of Cleveland there has been an actual loss
ofGOOO from the last year's computation o(3O,OO0.
Th only green spots in this wide-spread deselr.
saya the Freeman's Journal, are the diocese
ol Cincinnati, where there has been an addition of
13.000 lo Ihe BO.OOO of last year; Dubuqe, where
there it a gam af 600 on the former aum of 0600;
Nashville, where ihe last yeara's number of Cath-cer
was requested to transmit to tba Governor of "■'" baa doubled, being: now SOW. while it was
Illinois a copy of the resolution.
Ma. CORWIN. or OHIO.—Answer of Mr. Cor-
■ tne woione, sn... mem cemncaie ex- wi, ,„ , ,,„„ „f 0 , F|0 , of K<.„. grown up to PIUU. Detn
pung them from miltli. duly except ,n case of 10efc ;„ „,,.;„„ ,„ y, <,. „ ,„*„ of. Clb. . ud other. I he Aim
war. Hereafter a service of len year. in. Vol. ioel ,rpoioln),nl, ,hou,d „ be lendered „ bim , <MNM of Roman Cat
unteer Company exempts from further duly— .,, „ „» „
Commissioned officers may be exempt after eigbl - - W *5d""W" P*™- ,,n' *"" .,848'
year, service. AM the rank and file throughout | . DtarGtntrah I received your note, last ere-the
State shall hereafter be entitled to vote fortke ! "">«; " lJ"e *** '"' n1od,••,• ,h." ' •"*»
field officers from the highest lo the lowest. ,m' ' f.hould,bla,h "'"' '"' lhe overe.limate youi
The eighth seciion of this act says that hereafter , p«rlualiiy will put on my poor abiliue. and .nil
■ here shall be two Company musters in each year. ' 1*?°'" '"•"": For. "j« >""«{•*<•? «>»ch thus
At present there are three, according to law ; so : **■"* P"' b"lf r, J^gmenl. I cannot but feel
the third one is abolished. Wardens of the poor
! "Xfful- "•» Proud ; ' only regret thai 1 cannot
only 1600 a year ago; Chicago, where 3000, have
been added to the 20.000 nf last year, and Ore-gon,
with Ihe parts adjacent, where 7200 had
grownup lo 8100, being a gain of 000—Indian,
anac repre.enta the lolal
Catholic, in the United Slate,
during the year a. being one hundred and nine
tbouaand four hundred ; and Ihe present number
of the denomination in this country at •1,670,300.
Southern 8;atet- Upon lhe whole, the alierna<
live proposed in this scheme, rmhrao-d far more
than we asked or expected. Who that loved
Ihe Old North Slate f Who that rejoiced in her
strength and pride of character, could halt be-tween
opinions f Who doubt or hesitate f We
did no'. We gave up ai once, our preference
for the Danville Charter, and in so doing, we
boats on the Mississippi and the tea packets now
carry, and reflect that most of this will inevitably
lakeaRail Road whenever on- nmmlt through
out. we oughi not lo covet all Ibis custom.
Thai we shall have oar share of it, Lha superiori-ty
of our climate, and lhe lively and interesting
face of the country, with all itt other natural ad-vantages,
will amount to a full security. W>
think we have met lhe just expectations of our i shall, undoubtedly, obtain enough with lha iriv
constituents, and of all Ibe friends of of Wes'ern travelling above suggested, lo make the in voat
THE CENTRAL RAILROAD.
and tuperintendanis of common schools to be ex-empt
Irom duly.
LI 111 I the expectations, which such friend, must
indulge,
I have no more idea of going into Gen. Taylor's
Cabinet, than ol a trip to the moon. In the first
.iddrtssof ffepresenlalivesfrom Cubarrut, Hun-an
and Davit.
To OUR CONSTITUENTS :
Fellow Citizens : Having taken an active part
in the late Legislature, in procuring the ensctmen'.
o: a Charter authorising the construction of the
Carolina. We think loo, that in to doing, we
have opened a way for Ihe redemption of our de-clining
fortune!.
Now. aa lo ihe practicability of lhe propos-ed
scheme : from Charlotte lo the Yadkir Riv-er,
(40 mile.) we know from personal observation.
that the ground is highly favorable for the
construction and keeping up a work 11 this kind.
I A direct line between ihese poiols. would be well
adapted to such a road ; but by deflecting either
lo the right or the left, we have a country thai
cannol be surpassed in suitableness, by any in the
State at the same distance from the aea. ' From
Goldsboro" to Haleigh, reckoned m 45 miles,
there is a uniform plain abounding in the very
best timber. On both these sections, labor is
cheap, and provisions plenty. The probability
is, thai these Iwo sections can be constructed at
llti very lowest rate which is given for such work
STATE INTKRKST.—How it is in North Caroli-na
7 Where do you gel your lints ? From the
Northern St.ius. "i cur boots and your shoes J
From the same region. Your clothes, your cos-imeres,
your muslins, your calicoes, your even/
thing finch furnishes the lady or the gentleman
from lop lo loe ( From lhe Northern Slates
And why rot produce these things—or »omo of
SLAVERY RRSTRICTION IN SLAVE STATES.—We ' place, if Gen. T. is the sagacious gentleman I
have on several recenl occasions, directed lhe at- hope lo find him. he will not have me there ; iionh' Carolina Kail Koad, in onler to prevent a
lention of our readers lo a movement now going and 2ndly, were he toask it, on bis bended knees, ; misconstruction of our course, and in order that
on in eome of lhe Southern Statea, having for its I would not consent. | ,0„ important act itself may be properly under-object
the prohibition of the further introduction He will be attacked, by Souihern Democrats ,lood an j appreciated, we deem it expedient lo
of slaves into those Stales from Ihe slave Slalet espeeially. on his supposed position on the Wil. ' gits, a brief history of lit progress through the
adjoining lhe free States. Esteeming this move- moi Proviso. A seal held by me in hit Cabinet, Assembly :—to set forth itt probable effects upon
nient a matter offargreater practical importance would be proof positive againtt him, on that point. ' ihe condition of our own countrymen, and na
lb.in the quettion of rettrtcting slavery in the dis- 1 would no more allow him to be assailed through ] claims upon their favorable consideration,
lanllerriioiiesof California and New Mexico, we me, than I would thrust a man between my i It it known lo most of you, lhal previously to
shall continue lo note the progress of public opin- head and a bullet. In the next place, fools and taking our seats in the General Assembly, whilst
ion in ils favor. dema;:ngueiall over lhe Republic could Mia-, and i yei smong you, we, at well as most of the Wesl~
Speaking of the •' slave trade" from the more with thVei, of mj position on the Mexican war:— rin members, weie declared advocatea of a Chir-norihernslave
States, the lifilltdgtvilte Southern All these shafts (if ihey fly at all.) shall strike my | ier |0 make a Rail Road from Charlotie to ihe
ltecorder, of the 27th ult.. lays: , own bosom, and none other: Gen. Taylor should town of Danville, in Virginia. With great zeal,
"The progress of this illegal practice has met 'elect men lo whom na such positive objection . ,nd in good faith we set out in an endeavor, to
with a check, and has indeed.we presume, so far ■*■••■ L.el me heai^from you often. accomplish lint purpose. Thit pledge, and this
as this vicinage is concerned, been decisively ar- Truly, yoor friend. endeavor, were predicated upon what we regard-rested,
in a cnie which has just occurred. Two | *Jen. Flournoy. THO. CORWIN. ed. at a fixed fact, to wil: that the Kail Road
slave speculators reached this place some days' ' authorised by the Virginia Charier from Itich-ago,
wuh a number of negroea for tale. The I MINESOTA.—The boundary of the new lerri- mond lo Danville, would be tpeedily made, nnd
nwlUN were promptly arrested at the instance of tory of Mineton begins at the Mississippi river. '*"' "o .We of uncertainly retled upon that
the Mayor, anil brought before the Coin u. The where the line 43 deg. :I0 min. crosses ihe same, event. We hnd nol been long in the city of Kal-parties
were saved going to jail by giving bond running due west lo II5J dog. of wesl longitude, eifih. however, before we found out that the e-and
security fur iheir appearance next morning, in by Nicollei'a map. thence in a direct line to the ventual success ol thai measure waa extremely
the sum of one thousand dollars. AI lha tiros tor point where lhe 100th degree oflongitude crosses doubtful, nnd Irom all the information we have
iheir appearance it seems the part,»j arrtj'ed had the 40:h parallel of latitude, thence along the been abie lo obtain in relation to it, we are com
judged II besl lo forfeit their bond and pay the boundory of the British possessions to Lake Su- pellet! lo rest upon the conclusion that it either
penally (which we presume ihey had secured to perior, thence along lhe said line to lhe norih-west never will be made, or il made at oil, H will be
their security) raiher than abide by in- issue of corner of the Stale of Wisconsin, thence along the to long before il u done, as lo make it folly in us
lhe law they had violated. We pr-vume that the boundary of said Stale to the Mississippi, and down to wail for us execution before we attempt some,
proceedings in this case, will in future turn the said river to the beginning. thing for our own Slate. We discovered also,
direction ol those dealing in negroes, in violation | '"<" many patriotic sons of Nonh Carolina, in
of law, to any other quarter IBM ihis." EDUCATION AND WAR—The Undon funch """ Pa,rio,lc 'nd '■nll*hl"".d. M" "'" "Y"'
Il will be understood lha. lhe Stale of Georgia is a sagacious observer of lhe limes. It informs 'o an enlerpnse which would carry thelr.de of
already has a law against the importation of slaves ut .hit the Duke of Wellington il urging a plan ln'"?e 'e"'le,"-?10?" i r <l"'Ctiot.s. .inmedi-within
her li.nils fur sale. That law has not hero- ol educaiion foi the army. lha. . My no: remain !"■'* ****<™ border, of our Buit. 1 hey bad
.ofore been rigidlv enforced ; but. rcently. one of in its present ignorance. /',mc/i 'remarks on long teen and deplored lhe wani of a coin.nun.iy
the judges gave very urgeniinsirr, ns.ongr.nd this. of feeling and interest between the Wet.ern a
jury in regard lo ils slnclexecu, „, and .he case •• When the aforesaid ignorance cease., how Eastern portion, of the State : they knew w
referred to by the Souihern Recorder proves .hot long will the British army last ? I. it lo be ex- " we "" ■""'*• """ 0,lr f"f*bl™ "•od'"un - -
public .emiment ha. become quite decided up.n peeled loll some 40.000 men will q-iielly walk * «'"' '""''"' mvlnf ln,'"" <"">"'">l estrange-ihe
subject. ^ V Into a field ,o kill, or to be killed, when Ihey ore mem. and they .trouglj d,preumd a pl.n wh.ch
Il is one of the most remarkable circumstance, in a state to reason I Depend it, will *." '•"""'"' T'P*,"^ K """ Ss-"**""—
Ihey tttd ihey thought lhal ihey could device a
scheme winch would answer all lhe purpose! ol
tgnculiure, and ai the same nine prevent this
severance and alienation between brothers. They
said il was true, lhal unless something was offered
ment a good one. These are considerations tho)
mostly address themselves to the capitalists—to
lhe class sf our citizens who have money, and art
seeking to put il out at a profitable rale ol interest;
Bui Ibere are considerations betide these that
appeal strongly to the bosom aa well a. the pock-et
of every farmer. Let him look to the fact thai
■ s thingt now ttanda he toils and .weal, the year
through, snd lays up nothing al ibe end of It.—
Hit landt are wearing oul for the want of a mo-tive
to preserve and improve them. Hit tbnt
and daughters are growing up without the beflirU
fits of a refined education because he has Dot this
spare cosh lo tend them to ihe higher seminaries.
Hit live stock are degenerating : hi. building,
and fences ire going down : his neighbors and
friend, are leaving for the " fa: Weti," and hirrJ-self
constantly growing more captious and dia-coniented.
It it needleat lo say why these things
We would suppose Ihat eleven thousand dollars ' are so: you all know lhe Cause of it, and we
a mile would be an ample estimate for this pan. I will iherefore only proceed to say that this plan
Allowing for deviations, and to leave no room for | open, a piotpecl for a deliverance from this mel-cavilling,
we will put the whole distance Irom
I Goldsboro' to Charlotte at 210 miles, (though ma-ny
l!i ink it lets.) Taking off these nineij one
milee. there will be 110 milet intermediate
which it not to well adapted to ihis kind of im-ncholy
condition. In the first plaoe, the expen*
diture of three million of dollars among the Isuo-ling
classes will of itself produce a slate of pros-perity.
Business will become brisk. The price
of all kinds of labor will rite. Every tpeciet of
provemenl. There are many short hills and a produce trill sell higrter, and a general activity
considerable number of streams. But we have
received positive assurance that the profile of this
section is very netrly. if not quite at f.-)od, at
thai upon which the Charlotte and South Caro-lina
road is located ; and better than lhal over
which lhe great Georgia roads are laid. These
roads are laid with heavy T iron, under the au-pervision
of those accomplished engineers, the
Garnetia. cosi on\y thirteen thousand dollars per
mile, including cars, depots, water stations, work-shops,
offices, and in fact, every thing complete.
Bui if we are safe in our first calculation, there
will be enough money left of the proposed three
million, lo allow SI5,0o>l per mile tor the inter,
mediate lilt miles of difficult couniry. With th
nd spiril will prevail in ill Ihe d-partmentt of
industry. Neither will ihete incidental advan-tages
cease on the completion of the work. They
will become lest important, it it Irue, after ope-rations
shall have begun upon lhe road itself;
but even then hands will find employment in re-pairing
and superintending the work, preparing
fuel, attending water stations, depots, &c, etc.—
These will sustain a limited but perpelual mar-ket
all along the line. But Ihen will come in al-so
the great and more extended benefits for which
the work was undeilsken. Every thing that
can be grown upon lhe farm—every thing that
can be fashioned in the workshop, or made is lhe
factory—every mineral thai can be dug from
same skill employed in the surveys and estimate! the earth, and every animal we rear from a chick-we
need nut have lhe least fetr, iherefore, as lo I en to an ox can be sent speedily lo tome one 6f
the sufficiency of the sum proposed in the Char- ! the many market! wilhin our reach snd .old at
'>'r-, price, al least double tho.e now obtained for them.
Nor have we lhe slightest doubt a. lo THE PRO- j In ihe mean lime Ihs farmer may keep his bands
FITAsXSIffSB of TUB STOCK. In lhe first place,' and horses nt work upon his'plantation tare
we will premise that lhe average tiock ol all lhe j Ihe wear and tear and breakage of hit wa-
|{«il Roods in the United Slates peysa clear pio-j gont and geur. and escape ihe hardship and
fil of seven per rent. We have the very besl nu-, exposure to which lhe present mode of tran.por-thorily
for saying this. The information is de-1 tation expose him. In connection with Ihi. pafi
rived from the official report, uf lhe Rail Rond of our subject we would direct your attention lo
Companies published in lhat safe and cautious ; that mosl wonderful discovery of modem limes'
periodical, the Rail Uoad Journal. Again, we lAe telegraph. It it a smtll piece of machinery
have lhe fact stated in lhe same Journal, and con- | w:ih wires branching off in different directions a-d
well
epend upon il. they
1 attending ibe agnation of this policy of restriction, not da il to please ony body ! Bui still we cry,
thai a principnl arcumeni urged in its support, is, >s loudly a. the Duke,' Educate the army.' "
lhat Muryland, Virginia and Kentucky may be
con.ir.iued by necessity to retain their negroe.. to FROM TEXA..—Intelligence from Corpus Chris-
I keep ihem therefore in slavery, and thus lo re ,j. Texts, has been received till the 24ih of t'eb-l
«?'l..hTZS-tfc ifVf* )ou gei m.inin. .oriofforclableiden.iiyofini.re.twi.h ru„y. The weather in Texas DM been very
your Irish 1 oiatoe, ! From Petersburg. You, j the slave S.a.es fanner Sou.h. |c0|/ Four gentlemen came near freezing to
One cf lhe Georgia papers contains the follow- r>*th while travelling, on lhe night of lhe 15th
j ing porngroph: „|,. A gentleman arrived in Lavaca, from lb
firmed by many others, that there is no well mad
Rail Road in (he United States, but who! pays
six per cent, on its capital slock, and often more.
Funhermoie we are equally well established in
lhe fact lhat the Railroads in Georgia, (nol one nf
which is finished) pay, and have been paying for
three years past, between six and eight per cent
on ihe slock subscribed,
her iron arms towards N
long which the lightning i. sent to carry news:
Every ltailroad is obliged to hats thin invxluabla
append.ge. By ihis meant the stale of the sev-eral
market, can be known in a few seconds at
sny snd every depot along the Whole line j so'
thai if corn snd flour should take a sadden rin in*
Charleston, Wilmington, Newbern. Norfolk, or
Georgia is streching Petersburg, tbi officer of the Railroad at lhat
hnlle, in Tennessee; place or torr.e confidential friend haa Ihe telegraph
Montgomery and Mobile, in Alabama, and is ' at Salisbury or Concord set fo work, and before
ooking wnn anxious eyes towards Pensacola, in | a man can walk to hit stable, bring onl s horsy
line mellow apples tnd your onions I l-'rom ihi
Nonh. Your iron and your nails ? From the
North. Your scythes, your hoes, your axes, your
plowt. your etrtlien ware, yourjovem, vour ket-lies,
and to on I Almost er.lirely from lhe North.
NO wonder, as thousands and millions of dollars
•go oul of sur borders 10 purchase these articles. I
snd olbeia thatnugbi be mentioned, lhal Nonh
Carolina become, poorer and poorer every day ;
and the piciure is darkened when we reflect, lhat
En addition to this actual subtraction from our cop-
.i«l and our weolih, our enleiprising farmers in
the interior ar- locked oul from markeit nnd in-deed
from all lhe world, while our beds of coal
and iron, lo say nothing of lead and other mine- '■
rals, are comparatively untouched and their riches :
•undeveloped. Shall this slate of things continue!
What saya Ihe voice of patriotism! What State
jini!,' '. What self interest? What aays the ex-ample
of the people ol nher Stales who have
heretofore not only been raising moles, and horse...
and hogs for our mimcy. but n ho have been cloth-ing
ut with Iheir fabrics from infancy lo old age,
and without Ihu results of whose skill nnd labor
many of us would be today listless.shoeless.snd
ridiculous! Nonh Carolina may become one of
ibe richest and mosl prosperous Stales in ihis Un-ion.
Up. Ihen. and let Mis generation dos its
.duty I Encourage your nwn labor, of whatever
kind. Cultivate, ts heretofore, ihe relations of
tnde tnd feelings of aflecnon and good will with
your Northern brethren ; but begin now, as you
value your own interest and your own character,
to rely upon yourselves. Let Ih9 farmer have
markets lor bis produce. Lei labor be stimulated
hy patronage lu new exeiiions and better results.
Let roads be opened and rivers cleared oul, until
bur rich Western rallies shall put f„nh their arms
and act as receivers (and nut as exhausters) In
our midst ; and let ever, energy be bent lo tl
wotk, until we shall oil leel the fuel thoi we an
grown,b' richer instead of poorer, by exporting
more than we consume.—lialtigh Slandard.
Mississirn.—A meeting of lhe citizens ofVer-non
and vicinity, (Mailisun counly. Mat*.,) was
held on the SOtb ult., and n peiaion lo the Gov-ernor
adopted to call an extra session of lhe Leg-islature,
m order it take means lo prevent the lur
Iher importation ef slaves into .hat Stan The
rree r„der ton the object of .he measure is lo
compel lha border alsve State, ,o stand by the
South in the struggle for.her constitutional rights.
and lo present th- progress Uf en...„cipt,,o„ in
iho.e State., and the.r SODMqu.nt aaaimil.lion „,
leeling.
A wagon can run without grsatin| and hbsi-nes*
can be done wuji ul «dferuaiog, but it l9
How work.
lhal mighi bitter claim our sanction, they had
right to .land in our way. and prevent us from help-ing
ourselves in any such manner as we could
with our own means: and thai if this more favor-able
alternative was offered to Ihe West, Ihey
'• Importation of Start:—-An immediate and aource.ol the ISrozos anil Colarado, .nil stales thai ,vou|0 acquiesce in the grant of lhe Charlotte anil
extra session of lhe Legislatuc nf Mississippi it herd, of the anlelope have been teen nn .he Uanv.lle Charter. They pointed, alto, lo the faci
demanded by the citizens of Hancock coumy, in prairies, covered wuh ice and snow, and conse when we should arrive al Richmond, we were
that Bute. !or the purpose or enacting l.«a pro- I quenily frozen to death. It it laid lha: lhe an- „,„ ,.» „„,,., from „,, „ld „,„ ,uch , m>lktl
nibiting lhe .urther ingress of sl.ves from the bor- ] telope is so very shy. that it never lakes reluge ^u by n0 ,„„„,,MMour snfealiaral pro.
der Slate, of lhe South. In their pennon to lhe i in lhe limber, but herds in the open prairie, du- ducuont. „„ «eIe therefore, called upon to
Ilovernor, they represent lhat lhe Stales of Mary- : ring cold weather.
land, Virginia, Kentucky and Missouri, where ' ■ ■-
slovt-rj bM CMttd to be profitable, from the un- I The Swords voted by Congress to MajOf Gen-c-
rtsin tenure by which Slft-ei ore held, are now erft|a BITLMI. TWIOUS.QI>ITH4N. WORTH. Ht»
throwing an foimeilM black population on the ex- ' MMOft, i the heirs of ihe tale General HA*. *
ireOIC Southern Mate*, which is destined to in- I haee just been finished, nnd furwarded from lhe .
k immense rapidity." — Jiictimond , Ct-lebraied manufactory of Amrt. of Springfield. \ Irom New Hanover, with tne advice and consent
They un- realty magnificent ; cost •D.UUU. J of some of us and other members of both I touses.
On Friday, General TmvaoN, in the presence from the East and the West. The leading feat-of
a numerous atisemtilagp of officers, received ures of this scheme are, to start at a point where
crexbe with
Timta
I'm li VAN BotNDAav.—The Galveston Ci-upon
pause, and we did pause .0 see what il, , niter-native
might be. Alter the scheme proposed in
Ihe Governor's message was rejected, and all
hope of udjustinent seemed to hove vanished,
|hn scheme of a Central Hail Koad from Gulds-boro*
to Charlo'te VM proposed by the Senator
Florida. Congress hus been invoked to assist in
doing this last work, with some prospect of a fa-vorable
response. She has not, as yet. put her-self
in communion w ah either of these places, but
no one doubts her ability to do so. As «e said
before, she is already making ? per cent, profit;
what will be the efl: ct of completing these con-nexions,
it is nol possible even to conjecture.—
Whatever the result may be.it will eventually
conduce to the value of our Hoad, for they form
its Southwestern continuation. It is in fuel, so
much cone for us. I^ook, then, to the accumula-ted
masses ol travelling coslom which the North
can pour down upon us. Look at the pursuit*,
the institutions, and the social inducements within
our own borders, lhat are strung along this route.
All of these are destined io produce way travel'
[ting- This term is used to signify trips upon a
part of a given road, without going through its
and >addle him fur his journey, the Mrae fact io
made public in your own County town. You see
that this secures you against runnert and apecu-
/a/ors, and enables you to avail yoarselrta of the
best market in Ihe very shortest time. lint this
is not u,'- only benefit which the farmer may ex-pect
Irom this great undertaking.
The increase in the value ol land is a consMer-mion
ol great magnitude. Only a few days ago,
11 is a notorious fact lhat lands of a fair quality
numbering several thousand acres Wing in ibe
counly of Oovie.some seven or eight mites from
the town of Salisbury, some of them on the Yad-kin
River, sold at public auction on a long credit
fur less than three dollars an acre. Such lands
in the Stale of Georgia lying within seven Of
eight miles of any point of any of her Railroads
would command at least twelve dollars an acre ;
that a like appreciation will take place in the
vil.an of the I4.h ultimo mentions • lawsuit, or from (be .'resident 0.'the United States the swoid the Hail Hoad that runs Irom Wilmington to the
peat interest and public importance, whici, has intended for Gen. WORTH, (as desired by lhat olfi- Koanoke River intersects with the Neuse, to ... .1:
been instituted in the United Slates Court at Sal- Cer, he being now stationed in New Mexico.)— at or near Goldsboro', in Wayne counly, [b be-whole
extent, and 1* geneially far more pruliiable 1 very lands and in all others similarly situated, if
than what is called through travelling. Between ihis rosd is made, cannot be doubted for a inn-
Wilmington and Weldon, it amounts to more than ment. We do not rest this assertion upon mere-double
the income of the other, although the coun- conjecture : like result* will fallow from liko
try over which it posses is generally barren, and causes all the world over : attend then ty the foI<
unimproved. The late Governor of the Stale, j lowing facts.
met.
Mr.
POPULATION oc TIIK WORLD.—The hs\ esti*
mute of the world is at. follows:
A OMlien of Louisiana sued a citizen of The others will be sent, as early as practicable, mg the head 01 naiigation on ihot river,) thence
nl;L 7,"U' 1 v.°9.a_c"'"" °'.lhe 8tate - bJ* Prfwtw convi-yotice, 10 their respective own- j to run through Raleigh and Salisbury 10 Char-
1 lotie. The act tuither provides that whenever
one million of dollars is taken in stock by indi-viduals,
the State is lo subscribe two millions. Il
altio makes a provision, by which the Kuleigh and
Gasion Railroad, (now the entire property ol lhe
Stale) will be sav«d from utter ruin : this provi-sion
is, thai one hull' of the slock of (liis iuad thall
be sur tendered to the former stuck holder*, and
they be released from all their liabilities (which
ure very greviuu?*) upon condition lliej jmi five
hundred iliuumtud dollars wonh of work on the
road. This central scheme, had the one advan-tage
over all others ever proposed in lhe Coun-cils
ol en State ut drawing luyethcr and harmo-nising
the difcordant and lung uhemtted divisions
ul our Stale, it presented the !urther advantage
ut filling in with the lide ol travelling, and of sup.
plvmg " the wanting link ' in the vu.il chain ol
Railroad lhal sireiciiea (with this exception) Irom
Ibe Lakes 10 lhe waters 0! the Mississippi. It
hnd tho advantage also, ot conducting us (wuh
only about iweniy.five miles dilli-rence in dis-tance)
to Richmond, where oor chosen scheme,
lhe Wanville improvement, proposed cuirying us:
and ofer and above this, to 1'eursburg, 10 ,\QV
lulk, to Haleigh, to Newbern, and lu Wilixmg-ton.
It promised to indemnily ihe State in the
By the above lable it appears, that outof a ' larSe ouiitya which bad been made in the two
populmienof a thousand millions, the Christians j Kailroud* already in uperition, by bringing up
can claim but or.c .ifih of thoi inconceivable num- the value uf the stock. It culled lur much Leu
mion
the cou
Texas. The delendant pleaded, in abatement of ners.
the suit, thatSaaia l-'c forms no part of the Bute of
Texas; thai, up lothe late treaty of peace between PwttvKKT FOLK'S PBOOtUf.---The ex-l're-the
United States and Mexico, Santa Pu was a sident, accompanied by his family, reached Wil-part
of ihe Republic of Mexico ; and that, by said mingion, Nonh Carolina,on Wednesday, ?ih last.
treaty, il was ceded lo the United States, and now where he tarried until Thursday. He met a
constitutes n pan of its territory, and is therefore warm and cordial recepinm. He arrived ai
out of lhe jurisdiction o.' the Stale of Texas. To . Charleston, South Carolina, on Friday, Ui
this plea mo plaintiff has demurred, and assigned . where a great dinner w.is given 10 him.
for reason the revolution of Texas, and the act of ; Walker was also present,
IttfMJ defining its limits; the joint resolutions of .
annexation, und the proceedings in execution
thereof; and ihe lute treaty ot peace fixing the
limits cf the United Stales beyond the boundary
uf 'I exas to Ihe cuuu'.y of Santa Fe.
■' '.'hue,'* says the Civilian, » is this great quis-
.1011 presented 10 lhe national tribunals for decis-ion.
It will be argued immediately,and decided
m a week or two, and token to the Supreme Court
ut Washington tor revision, however il may be
determined."
a very cautious and intelligent gentleman, has
shown by some statistics, which he laid before
the General Assemby, that about four hundred
thousand of ihe people of thii Stale reside within
fifty miles of ihe proposed woik ; we will odd
that ihey are among the most thrifty and well in- J
formed of our citizens. Consider how mach of 1
The Citizens of Wilmington subscribed to their
Road ns much as all iheir houses and lots Were
atsess'-d at the year before. Al the last MMta*
ment ihis same properv w*as fi'u ■<! at more thnn
double us former rate. Again, the Cumptroiler'A
books show thai right hundred thousand dollar*
lue has oven oddeu to ihe taxable lands
LATEST FROM CALIFORNIA.—Letters from San
Francisco the 'Z\ -.. December, have been receiv-ed
in Boston. 'I hey continue to pive accounts
ol the great influx of emigrants. 'I ,1 present
•* inter is ihe coldest known in Cu!n rnia for fifty
years. One hundred thousand bus:. Is ol wheat
had rotted there, for lack of persons 10 gather 11.
The price of real eslule had laid :i ;n the Sand-wich
Islands as greatly as it b 11 advat. 1 in
California. The islands arc last becoming df
ser.ed by while men. fn California,, provisions
were plenty, and prices receding, yet we see it
Mated that the barque Undine and lOhOOMf Star-
;mg had allied to the Columbia" rlvu .or ,>rovia-on?
and. lumber, • * -
Asia (fe&OMMMO
Kurope '■Uo.U00.OtlU
A frica 1 IU.UO0.OO0
America 60,000.000
Uceanicu •-JO.OUO.000
T01.I 1,000,000,000
Of this number lh.ro aie !
Ilinlhrn 000,000,000
Mahometans 110.000,000
Jews iu.000,000
Roman Cstholics lilll.lHHI.IK.il
Greek Church 65.0UU.UUI
I'rotesiaiii denomination! 05.000,000
this population will be put in xiotmn on ba.hl.fM four counties through which the Wilmington
wllbiu ihe State. There is ihe Mint at Charlotie, j Rail Road passes, oince it has been put into ope-the
Iron Mines and Furnaces in Lincoln, CSasion I ration. The lands lying along the line of the
and Cutawba. The Guld Mines in Mecklenburg . Ruhigh and Ga&lon U u. Rond (although misfor*
Cmon.Cabarrus, Ruwan, Davidson. Randolph,! tune hai beset this work in every 01 her particular)
and Guilfurd. The Ranks, at Charlotie, Sad** have greatly increased in value. The some Ibmtf
bury. Salem, Hillsborough, and Raleigh. The I can be said of the Charlotte and South Carolina
excellent Schools and Acadamies, (Mole and Fe- j Rail Road although '.here i* nut yet a single miln
ber.
ROMAN CATHOLIC STATISTICS.—The Catholic
money from individuals, und il.ereiure. MCOstd
much mure likely to succeed, thu.i the other
schemu. .NuiiuiK, jNewbern, and Wilmington
Almanac, says the Scientific American, publish.-' are nil near the seahonrd, and, are therefore, for
cd in Baltimore, and which is generally recog-j all gram, much better market, than RtctMuond
mzed as good authority, repres<-ins no increase ' could be. * Wiliuingio-i, m particular, is the best
in the Roman Call uficdiocese ol llalnmoie, .V-v, ' mir»e*. 'n an intvtior sotiritrj\ of any \\>mi ,11 ;he
mule) in nearly every County in the whole line;
and above all, ihe University of the Slate. There
are the Courts and the Clerk's Offices along the
route, and ihe Supreme Court at Raleigh. The
l*'gh«.mnre, the Governor's Office, the Comptrol-ler's
and Secretary of Stales' Office. The Insii-tu'.
e lor the I>eaf and Dumb, and the Hospital lur
the Insane. There are all the Trades and Profess-lonslrom
one end ol the proposed work to the other.
There are the strong ties of a social and domestic
character; all. all lending Strongly and abundant-ly
to create way travelling. llo« many ol Ihese
•100,000 will have some burplos lo neud 10 mar-ket,
and how many willguuiih it, is scarcely
within the range of conjecture.
Cun any one doubt who looks al these ihings,
but thai enough of travelling and oilier business
will gather upon this Koad 10 give tl cui&tant
employment, and constant employment is syno-nymous
with piofttable employment. It may be
said ihaMhe Wilmington Kmid if Compfeied to
Manchester, will lake off so large a share nf ihe
travelling as to Jeuve the road unsupported.—
That this route wilt lake a share of the through
travelling, is undeniable. Rut when we thinls '
nf it brought into use. The lands between Haw
River and the Catawba in point of natural fertili-ty
will compare favorably wuh any in lhe Atlant-ic
Stales, and when :he improved modes of hus-bandry
which modern tcn-nce and experience
have developed shall have been applied lo '.hem
and this new stimulus shall have invigorated the
industry of our agriculturalists what wonders of
improvement may we notexpeci 10 see in this fa»*
ored region ! '1 his enhanct ment in the value of
our real estates will not be confined to ;he course
of the projected Rail Road : It is well known
to us ami to most ufyuu lhat ihe Yadkin river a«
bove (he Narrows for I.V> miles can be made nav-igable
fur steam buais ul a very small expense.
There is no purl of any nvrr in lhe United Suiea
thus/emote from the Sen. • xcept ihe .Mississippi
and its tributaries,.thai can compare with il 10
their natural Matva. mid if it hud not been fot the
insuperable barriers which lhe slate mountains be-low
us have plucell m its current and the shallow-ness
of the bar nt i's mouih it would long ago hav«
become ihe great highway of commerce. • When
it ahnll be reached -wuh -he great work we are
now come>in|dating, '.he cherished.hope of half 1
the vast amount ol this kind of 'revelling ihat the • cvniurv will be real .:■ J. Th" rich'•bottoms ot