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ift iaMuf IS PUBLISHED WEEKLY AT GREENSBORO, I. 0, By James W. Albright & Brother. ; /■/.' l/.<—ca*h invariably in advance. CWy.ar»2, .« month.••■*- thr-. u.o..75cU ry \ •, panes I'"--"'" "''-•ril.eniwill re ■■■;■)■■■- -;r"'" \. Siil— ribcn wiring their paper* with * i— before id«-ir DMHt arc reminded | ; i S i i.*n ha* expired, and natal , ted in ir- i waelw will be discontinued. The """WBLVBI Patriot. Established in 1824.} THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1869. \ New Series No. 53. BC. PHILLIPS* TOWN CON8TABLK. Wilt Naatffl all papers in hi. in:", and attend pminpily lu the collection «f claim*. 5U::iui Bates ol AdvertiftinK. Transient Adeerthtmenla payahti kiadvaKti . ,,:■., :,...,„■ ..'., quarterly h» odeaaee. 1 Mr (li'iii..- ...!•-> I-' inaeraon I IJ» I . ,.i in >nal ineertion, o Sij month*,. ■ ■ One yi ir ■ I" iaaerti i. lit ■ • i- ' ! ' inal, nth*, ')..>• j eari 1 Co'.UItUI l*t Hi-' II K irh additional, Six ntonthti Una year ; f • in i u KoTIi i- 50 per . n^r*Courl order* -i* weeks, SC . I.IIII weeks, r'l, ■ odennee. Ivertiaementii changed .j 6.M Hum 5.00 l..'.U :!."..OII 4II.HH 10.00 :i.iiu ::.",."" 60.00 li.i"' 8.00 r.o.oo 1IMI.O0 L hntber than Uaa^atratca1 aarterW if iii de»ired. ... , i I ,-,, lrT notice*, ovei lm-lm..., .harmed a* . eiit.aud paid for in advance. Professional Cards. Til..-. I.'l I I IN. JK., . /,,-. i .■■I-...'...V.C and Jsn II l"i i tan As... A. Lu ui n '• •' '■ '■'• A-'- Diiiuni. KiUiin * OOmer. ATTOHN I".YS AT LAW, (,'reeHnboro, N.C. 1. • ;;, r uihet'ouHKofniiilford.AlanauMa |.. . Stoke.*. Vadkiii, SUIT* irhamiudl - i<JI Counties. ,, , , ainav* attend the regula: I i • I; . Itingnana, Ataman i, • I <--.iii •■■» /,. IM, l*!ri 1:»7 Dr. I >- A- ROBERTSON) si iw.r.ov i»i:\Tivr, 0 f JlilMioro, A oil Ii C " t •> I i " « • / vlTi'.i:.- I ■ M-rviewtothecil \ ) iz.-t,- of I.I..I■-!.•■!... « |l ■ in., i.-•... • n_ ilarly the 4tb ivry month. Ilavitu an i-X|*rieiH f i; I :'.. . ' Injpol Hi" and llilleboro-a,„| „ „i, . . :. |inS nil :l.- improvements in the .„..;. . M , ooafident in hi* ahility to give Mi ■• ho mat need In* wrvicea. in ,.,. m .. ih, mi I'late, J. HILDESHEIMER, General Produce Dealer, D'ul Market St.,(McIrtr's Old Stand,) CirreDNboro, W. €,'. I I lave opened a PBO0UCB STORK, at the almve named Stand, and will pay th- liiclie.1 a'awh price* for all kind* "f fOI'STBI' I'ltODI ri:,i: i a« Cam.Floor.laeal.Bneoo, Peaa, Beana, Flax-Bead, aVe. In 6ol everyjfcing belonfring lo Ihia line of bnebieaa. it .r'Tli.-citi/eiii* of Town and vicinity.ennbuy ihiir provitiona at my Sti.re at a very email pet-ceutaoa, (or CASH. ' ti-::!,„ J. lULDKHHKlMKK-Ci I HIM: T-tl ARIM. and INDEHTAKINt;. Having in my employ, Mr. Tana Hock, one oj ih.- beat worknaen In the male. I wflignaranlaeall orden* in the aliove line lo give eaticfactioii. .1 lliar$t and ready-made Cofiat always ready, lip' I challenim eoainalUion either in work or ,„*,„ 2*1, wM.coaxmg. NORTH-CAROL!*'A BOOK BINDER! AND BLANK BOOK MANUFACTORY Kaleigb. X. C. North Carolina Reporn. ami other Law It.-k» Bound In BuperioT Law Itiuding. mating Xnm-liere Supplied and Odd Number* taken in Kx-ehnnaa lor liindiug: Trial, Kxeeuii.ni, Minuie and Kwordlng Docket* Made to Onler. Order* may be left at Patriot .1 Thji Ofllce. 21—ly ' JOHN ARMSTRONG. The farmer must li.ive a fair interest j for liis capital, or lie will abandon his lands and turn his attention to some-thing else. But the true remedy is to continue to work the farm wholly, or at least in great part, by horse labor, and dispense altogether with the rudo and barbarous, and expensive hoe.— I*>t the com IK; planted in hills, or far apart, and so regular both icayx that the plow ami cultivator can be run across the field, as well as up and clown, aud thus all ih" work necessary can be done with very few hands, aud iu a more rapid and efficient mauner, for a quick Stepping horse or mule will has-ten the laziest laborer, and give less opportunity I'm idle conversation than I the old hoe. He sure to purchase new. good ami improved cultivators, harrows aud plows, and feed your horses well, «'- ■My* Hauler your mrn cy. and you will find that twice the work can lie done for the amount formerly expended.— 1). X. C. litiimlnnl. ft? C.W.OGBURIT. . ■Xtl ' . mil A. II 6m c. Business Cards. «.. V .Tl>. Dealer in Dry Gooda. eriea, Hats and I »l>». Boots and shoe-. Hard Ware and Cutlery, Karthen Wnreasnd Stone Ware; II i, Lnrd, Flour, Meal: .,,„! Parlor Stoves: Iron, Nails, V.....I VVari . and a general assorttmMit. Low „r liarter. All kinds of good country produce want' at In- Si..re. South K'.n Ml, ,1.1,1. . !.-• ,,!.•. S. I . UOBERTM>\. 19—lj B/ 11. I k aler in UAV I*: r-«T< )NE8 . !i WM.OTTK, N. «'. . in dwl 1". _ Shop i.i.-l X, rtli t'n- Una Itailmail. i . .,.„„ sho|« delivered on i ,■ EOI ' II \i;>.i:. ao-ly , ii \-. i.. I I.IJOTT. At "Valentines BOOK STORK. The- Farmer. In tke atnmt of tkii faer '■halt Ihni tal hrrad. CHANG E YOUR SYSTEM 6iT~ FARMING. The system of fanning heretofore followed in this State when slavery prevailed, will no loiigei pay expenses; and it is absolutely Beeessary toenqoirc what changes and iiuprovcmcnts can IK- introduced ill order to make the cultivation of the land profitable. The writer of this, who has been a careful observer of the viuious systems of ag-riculture pursued in other countries, and in different State*, with success, will point out a few of the more im pOl-tant changes that arc, required. T , i . , ,:i i::. 1'itr.r.iE A CO.. ' COMMISSION MERCHANTS AM" -Wholesale Liquor Dealers, y ;•• K, ,i .„. s.,.1.,1-... Norfolk, V a. C n»i ■'■■: ■■■ "•; aiidgeneral A «t.*k of G.««l Liquor*, «, . , , • . • I.: ■!. I „ -alcal n«mna - - ' KI.HBERL1 BROTHERS, |'R<»VlSIOS P4CHF.KS ISO DEALERS, ... ,,..| c..i„,.,:..-•..i, Men haul* I. i, ..: ...in,.- maileon rmminnnienta. i | mid Wide Water St*.. Norfolk, \a i i 1 . ■ - m St*., Baltimore, Md. aylor, Martia A Ca>, / /'. dm b Hardware, tiuu-rj. Iron. Steel, i;. inn- Pat l.lnc. Wagon Ma-lulal. kC.. Corner Mum Sin -i and Market Square, Norfolk, Va. A fi , :. ..i.l ;i K«w York Prices. :il:t'.m_ W. B. FARRER, WVl. II MAKER * JEWKJ EBj Greeueboro, N. C, I!a* conetantly ..n hand a splendid aeaortmenl "f Faxhiomble Jmreiry, mid Mime •liletulid ll„''',„ AND CLOCKS, U7/i(7i irill be sold ( II i: \ i' ror rA»Hi j . ■ -, o Mai lie*, W atche*, t lock in.l on short io i ....... i. . ii ,i Albrighl TheNew Fabric Plant," Tke Remie." —Mr. Gregory stated that having lived in the South he had learned something of this prospective new staple. It is a native of the Island of .lava in the East Indies, and has been cultivated since the wai in the southern parts of the Cotton States. First it was brought to Cuba, then to Mexico, then to Loui-siana, where it is now grown in large fields. It is similar to the large sling-ing nettle, and resembles the lixdiau ga. without the flower. Planted like corn it fills the ground with roots, which may be taken for layers; Ir suckers much, and it may be propaga-ted Irom eyes. The yield is four times as much as cotton. The whole stalk is used, and the quality is equal iu its fabric to Sea Island cotton, which it is alleged ir will supersede. Vineil'ti:—K.Miinsnii.Scuiicti. N. \.: Will you inform me the sp liasl method of making vinegar out of new cider .' Would a new pine cask alb-ct the taste .' Aaatcer.—If cider-is made from early tippled iu August, or the first -lavs of 1st. A tjnaler variety of i-rops. The j September, and put iu a warm place Binge of cultivation is U«> limited, cm- t \\ will turn to vinegar iii a lew weeks. bracing very little more than corn, j If made after the nights get cool, it wheat, cotton ami tobacco, and not! will take several months, or, if placed only exhausting the fertility of the soil.' jn the cellar, years, but when it ernes but exposing the cultivator to ruin jt will be good A piae cask, unless when these crops fail. Sometimes, as 1 strong with pitch, might not to make in the eastern counties of this State j the vinegar taste any more than bugs, during the last two years, the corn j worms, and tobacco-cuds in the apples. c;op fails, and miserable suffering is ,,,,,• i . ,!„'consequence-just as the almost <ir*h» *H Co** Bach SPIBIT8 RETURN. The floral sun ia calling The dewdropa hence on high, From brook and lake and river Tlie vapors aeek the aky ; Earth given thein up relunctaut; And faint with thirst and heat, Mourn* for the children of the morn, So radiant and *o licet. But they have not forgotten, In Heaven1* acrcnerray, The beauty and the brightness From which they lied away. The. dew remember* fondly The sweetness of the ro.e, And the spir'.t of the rivulet It* early music knows. And when the earth is fainting And weary Tor the rain, Iu showers ol'luvc and blessing They come to ber again; With cool, refreshing lingers They bathe her heated brows, [high] Aud the song that they have learned on Through all ber being llows. Ob, dare we tako the le*son Of the dewdrop and the raiu f Do the augela who have left ua liei in II to us again f Iu Heaven's eternal sunshine, Renewed and purified, Do tbev keep the memory of the laud III which they lived and died f When we ari-e from weeping For the idols we adored, Anil our lips repent with fevor •• All, oJJ shall be restored V Arc they not bending o'er us With more than human love, And whispering t■> our inmost hearts, Ofholier joya above I Descend, oh blessed angels, In glories ever new ; Reveal to us new lessons Of the beautiful and true: As the rain the earth refreshes, Let your love on us be abed, Till we follow up Ibe rainbow path, Whither our Loved have lied. SOUTH AMERICAN LETTERS. <i:.vriiACTS.) NO. II. Cartbagena, U. S. Colombia, I Aug. atu, l»l>6. j • • • My health appears to be •rst touch N. America. After contin I aing its progress in this direction for ' a time, it will take a south-easterly course. Skirting the Kocky Mountains k will pass through Montana, Dakota ' and South-western Minnesota in onler.: entirely restored, aud the trip, from nearly trace a diagonal across the' this place to"Choc«'' (up the riTer State of Iowa, aud traversing Illinois; Atroto)hasbccutomequiteauiuterest-and Kentucky in the direction of a j '"K 0**j °» account of its being my lino drawn from Springfield to Sabs | first visit to a part of the conutry, of bury, reach the Isirders of North Caro- which I have heard much said daring lina. Let it be nuderstoood that it is > I he past 10 or VI years, aud of which Whal is the cause hacks .' arc there thai) others ' in ! in fat "i i r .' -Iinl. Mexico. Mo.: of grubs in cows' more some years young or old cattle and is there a remedy .' .1 «..»•<;•.—Your folks ought to know-nil about these grubs, whit-hare called •■ wolves;" thai fat cattle seldom have them, that the cause is supposed to be the egg of the •• horse fly," and that they come out in warm weal her. The remedy is to keep iu good llesh. Mr. Caranah,—I once went to a gua-a:. d iee. Hotel, East Mai - |n-iv exclusive cultivation of the potatoes exposed the peasantry of the south and west of Ireland to the famine of 1857 ; whilst at the same time very little suf-fering was experienced in the northern provinces of the sani? Island, because there the farmers had adopted the im proved method of cultivation, and fol lowed the system which science ami experience dictate, of having a regular rotation of crops, so that potatoes, however productive Bud profitable, could only occupy, at the most, one tenth part of their cultivated land.— „„ establishment mi business, and see- Thus, on their failure, they had still ing a gate open! entered a yard,wliere the other nine-tenths of their produce I saw two sloop loads of Long Island uninjured, or even greatly increased gand being unloaded, and men engaged in value, to compensate the loss. | mixing it wiUi the guano. Some one In this State too much of each farm came up al this juncture and asked is occupied by corn, whilst ihecultiva- what 1 wauled. I said 1 did not want tionof rye, barley, peas, titruips. pota- ;mv ,,i thai guano. The} said they toes, cabbages, clover and the various made thai for Long Island formers, W." Btl tilIM t> BROTHERS, ;il9 Main St. RicHMOXH, \ A. y , , ... i Whole-ale dealer* in Paper, I. - ,. • ,1 Ban*. Wrh'nur. wrapping and I-, r , I. |. -, Twin. Blank Hooka, Ink*, .'. 11 Price* paid in Cash for Baga. :.i ..in- Ill UHEN, |.\i.ri.l;WA\" ARTIST I;. -I |v inform* his frieud* and . . ,| | ... | :, l,i npwite the Court II : . '*.. Month*. He will ,.! on him. .1 ■■■ • K«! t LLE* A JOII>>©*', A -..in tiuoWKifs VND i-r.Ai.r.its. T" '. .. rvnui . '.■'"'. M. • Street. Rich ... I ,|j id Fresh and v... . linden seeds, all kinctj ol I i., .. -.. I !' la'." -. early and late. II , S.U-. v . id a ' lion of FLOWER Ml !•-. H»( .. ••... it tint nut Seed* are lira Hi ii.u.ii j i which ... have ibe teethuony i.i.-.n.-i- i i lie-pa*t three year*. (Jai.len and Flower Seed* am sent by 91 A I I- safrlv and eXJwditiously to any dis- ...,..,,■ pri icd Catadoguaa i I't-addrcj* Au( •- •. r American Baaket t"» BERRY BOXES. . . ill b.. ..-nt STRAW 5fcl0w S 8TBBLE' DEALER iaDET GOODS, I?'... , .,..;... unont...' all flood. Market. \ .,. : I aHaortment ot COOKING STOVES. All'of ,i. Ii Oho sold cheap for CA*H or BARTER. 4:" grasses, is neglected. The cultivation of too large a proportion in corn de-mands much expense for labor, and exhausts the soil, thus leading to the poverty aad ruin of the farmer; and then, If the corn crop fails, as all crops occasionally will fail, he hasnoreserve or other produce ou which to fall back. Now. the obvious remedy is to plant a tat greater variety, aud thus give ad-ditional chances lor profitable cultiva-tion. And, besides, the various crops recommended above will not all de' mand labor at the same time, but af-ford constant occupation, all the year round, to the laborers and horses, aud thus greatly reduce the average ex-penses of the farm. I'd. PisJ imflciients and machine* irilh the labor of hones, «» much tupot- Ktble. atui employ jit.il «.« trie lahorerx ai you eva. In the times of slavery, the labor of servants Wan preferred. They were raised on the farm and must be employed then-, as they must be fed ; I* it i: 1.1.1 B 1.1:. . M , , On receipt ol Cieent*. I : ul.aplalewiUivomnaa«aloriye«£ with ilka I bruah fol u..ukingaJlkindad cloth-lut.. ta.Jm J.L.U6LLUYAN. and I had better clear out Minnesota farmers are raising live fences. They us.- cottonwood, gray willow, whin maple, black oak, and wild plnm. Prom throe to live years are sufficient to raise a living fence to protect the fields from stock. During the warthcltehclsmadehorse collars of bass wood, and now the] are recommended for general use, for they are light, they do not get heavy with rain, nor freeze, nor wear out, nor gall. On settling the Cape de Verde ls- ' lands the people cut, awaj the timber, when severe drouths, sometimes of three years' duration followed, and more than 39.000 people have perished > lib famine. Queen bees live from three to four years, the workers nine months, and tin- drones until the} are killed. Raspberries are said to grow better [For the Greensboro Patriot.] THE ECLIPSE IN AUGUST. 1SY s. C. COLLINS. The reference, in it recent number of this paper, to the eclipses of the sun and moon which may be expected to occur during the current year, and which was probablj overlooked by very many because of its brevity, has suggested to im the thought that a more extended notice will lu- likely to greaflv increase the interest with which manj readers will view the total solar Eclipse in August. 1800. I am further enconrnged to invite the read era of Ibis paper tol; a feast ofscience," by the reflection that Hie rare occur-n nee of the phenomenon in question will, when known, make il attractive to many who would otherwise not bestow upon it more than a passing thought. Fur though a solar eclipse, total at some point <>n the earth's surface hap-pens almost yearly, yet so often does the shadow fall upon the uninhabited regions, thai ninety-nine men of every hundred die without ever having seen one. At London, the sun has la-en totally obscured but once during the last seven hundred years: while the last entire solar eclipse at Paris occur-red < hundred and forty-live years ago. Then- probably is not a person in this State who reccollects having witnessed one; aud a large number of those who shall In- permitted to behold that to which I refer will certainly nev-er see another. It is this consideration of its novelty, added to its majesty, that must tender the phenomenon in-teresting to the majority of those who will witness it: for the multitude can-not be expected to share the anxiety of the philosopher, who, bent upon in-c the centre of the shadow which wil follow the course indicated : and thai at the points within the vicinity of this line the eclipse must lie complete. In deed, at places no farther removed from it than Pittslmrg, Pennsylvnnin. eleven digits will be obscured. Commencing at the north-west, the shadow will cross, in order, Watauga. southern Wilkes, Alexander. Iredcll. Rowan, southern Davidson. Montgom ery, Moore, Cumberland, southern Sampson, and New Hanover counties, and wiil filially leave the earth's sur face at a point in the ocean distant about 800 miles from our coast. The center will thus be aboat M miles dis taut from Raleigh at its nearest point and about the same distance from (Jreensboto. Though the eclipse com monies on the morning of the 8th in Siberia, it is visible hen- (strange though it seem, without thought,) ii: the evening of the 7th of August.— The reflection, at the time of the occur-rence of the phenomenon, that the shadow which hides our steeples has. only two hours and a quarter before. darkened the pofOBbatl towers of Chi nn, ami that none of the inhabitants of Europe and Africa, and but few; in Asia and South America can shai< with us the spectacle, (the eclipse be-ing invisible in all of the two former and in parts of tin- hist two) caimoi but increase our estimation oftheprlv ilege we are enjoying. Tin late horn at which the eclipse becomes visible to ns may render it less striking than it would be were our position sufficient ly to the north-west to allow its I view it nearer the middle of the da} i but we shall have the satisfaction 0 living the shortest day of our lives b twecn the dawn with which the obsc ration will terminate and the twilighi wbkll must speedily follow. It is p.. sible that some may be disappointed in the intensity of the darkness tin eclipse will occasion : but it is prob i ble that the lowlswill seek their rOOSl . and subsequently bycwwuigannounce the supposed approach of s new da;. An old man of eighty -nine who hap pens to call while 1 am writing, says that his lather was once compelled tti res! on his plow- while the unexpectd! night passed over him. Such is tin outline of what may be expected to oe cur in connection with thai most sub-lime ami the rarest of astronomical phenomenon, a total eclipse ol'thestiu; iu which 1 hope many may take co.:• siderable iutetest, in as much as the attention given to such things isalwa;. s in proportion to the intellectual ad-vancement of a people. man\ atoriel have been told, that to a strangci seem almost fabulous. "Ell- Choco" means iu the Indian tongue " the laud of gold." And indeed it is; for the banks of the river Atroto give uiiiuistakablo e\ ideiices of the aurifer-ous deposits 150 in lies below the City of Quibdo. The latter place (Quibdo) is the head of navigation for boats or steamers; and is about 280 miles from its mouth. U contains a population of about -"000 inhabitants, is situated upon u high bauk of the river, some 40 feet above an ordinary stage of wa-ter, nnd a distance of a mile below, presents a very picturesque appearance with its green grassy slope and now and then a bread fruit tree, with its peculiar unique foliage. The houses ate all whitewashed, aud most with tile roofs, and balconies pmjectiug from the second stories on the river side. A mile above the city (from any house on the river side) you see the confluence of three rives at the same point. The river " Quito" from whose source to the summit of the Cordillera of the Andes is only two hours walk, i w here the Pacific is visible. | Thcriver -- Atroto'' iu the middle—due south, iiul the river " Cube'' from the east— the sands of all of which rivers, on be-ing washed yield gold from 23 to 23 carats line. There are purchased in ijllibdo every month, nbuut 30 tons of i ml ia lubber, and from tS,000 to 112, Mill worth ot gold dust, all the gold is from liver washings, ami it all contains from 2 to 3 per cent, of pure i lltina in separate scales—small and whitish, liearing a close resemblance to silver. fin- gold is all extracted by panning, onl such a thing as a "Pucker" or ■■ long Tom" is unknown. The native I 'MIOQS of from •'! to 90 tons capacity, take from ,'t.> to 70 days to make the tip. We went down in 6| days run- •ling time, or 07 hours, or including delays "K days. iiuibdo is the port of entry, and •tuny articles of produce &c such as Hour, Soap. Cocoa, Brandies, Wines, Sugar, &C, are imported directly from Aspinwall. Near the mouth of the liver on the sea coast, is a settlement .,!' Indians of the San Bias tribes, who raise hogs, fowls &c., and cultivate ocon and corn. The settlement is .'ailed •■ Cainan" which means in span-i -h "Alligator." The "Captain," or Cuciqiic of tie tribe came on lioard our steamer, to pay us a visit, and sell half a dozen fowls. He was accom-panied by an Indian Interpreter who -l«ike a few words of Spanish, bnt managed to make himself understood. SOLOMOIPS THMMJB EXHUMED. The London Ttates publishes an in-teresting latter in reward to the diaoofgF cries at Jerasaleab from which we se lect the following: "The colossal foun-dations of the temple wall, which are 'stones of ten cubits and stones of eight cubits' laid by Solomon or his suc-cessors on the throne, are now being laid bare at the enormous depth of 90 feat and more beneath the present sur-face. The bridge that once spanned the ravine between the palace of Ziou and the temple on Moriah is now prov-ed to have been upward of ISO feet high. If this be, as it seems, the as-cent to the House of the Lord which Solomon showed to the Queen ofShcba, we can not wonder that on seeing it there was no spirit in her. The pina de of the temple on which the tempter placed the Saviour has just been un-covered to the base, and is still to,- have an elevation of 136 feet. The statement of .lotu-plms is therefore no exageratioii. If any one looked from the battlements into the valley ho would be giddy, while his sight could not reach to snoh an immense depth. Sections of the ancient wall of Ophel have been exhumed, sliowing that, as .losephtis sit;, s, it Was joined to tho sonth *a»t angle of the Temple. Aqne-dncts, cisterns, rock-hewn channels aud passages have also been discover-ed within and around the harem, throw-ing new light on the buildings, the ar-rangements, and the sct-vicea of the temple. The great work of a complete exploration ofancient Jerusalem is tins fairly and auspiciously commenced. The opportune visit of the Sultan anu grand vizier to this country, aud the representations made to the latter by the Archbishop of York, followed up as they have been by the energy, tho wisdom, andtact of Lieut Warren mid his admirable staff, have soothed dow n Moslem prejudice, removed local oppo-sition, and thus brought about oppor-tunities for excavation and exploration such as never occurred before; aud be sides, large numbers of Arab laborers have heeu trained to the work, and an-eager to be employed; aud the exact points for successful exploration sic now well known." TlNNKL OFTIIEAl.rS AND CABAL or St K/.—These two gnat works— the greatest of any age—under the direction and impulsion of Irendi genius, hasten to completion. The Tunnel will be 13L220 mcti s Ion". At the beginning of 1869,9,000 TlIK CoNFKUKltATK AR'-UIVRS.— ■fhe following paragraph in the. Colum-bus (Ga.) Sun, with which Mr. A. It. Ljimai. who was clerk of the Cotifi-der He Bouse of Representatives, is edi 'orially connected, is doubtless from the pen of that gentleman: •Mr. Davis made no disjiosition of ALASKA We have seen numerous descriptions of our newly acquired possessions in the extreme North-west; but none so graphic, quaint, or pungent as the fol-lowing, extracted fnim a private letter of an officer iu tho United States ser-vice , who spcut several mouths cruis-ing along the coast »f Alaska last sum men I wonder what Seward bought Uns-sian America fort If I owned a nig-ger ami could catch him up there of his owu free will, 1 would certainly either sell him or let him stay there. The secnery was very grand and wild—too much so. I think, to be en-joyed. You go hundreds of miles through inland passages, not wider iu many places than the Hudson river, with great mountains rising right out of water, and lifting their heads in tho region of perpetual snow, where no white man has ever bcou, and where uo sensible mail will ever go. The whole coast is fringed with a net work of such waters, enclosing archipelago alter archipelago of islands from on,, mile to filly miles long. I did not know, nor did any body aboard our ship know whether we got sight of tho main land or not during the entire voyage. The Coast Sin vey is n good institu-tion, and has done great service to tho science of geography, am! it iR possible that it may have been in the scheme of Providence to give a it parpetaal lease of life; certainly ifit is ever exten-ded over that wilderness of waters, the officers may exclaim, "A thousand years are as one day "in such an un. dertaking. This is oncgood thing. There is an-other. The timber on the Globe is exhausted. There are enongh cedar trees on many ot the islands up there to make the telegraph poles for a line a-rotind the globe. Say the line is 25 000 miles long and w« want forty poles per mile and we would require one million poles. Why, sir, you would not miss that number. I certainly saw enough timber last August, just sailing along among the islands to build all the railroads and telegraph lines now on the globe, aud half a dozen lines of each clear around it besides. What there may be in the interior I de not know. metres were finished : 3^303 on the Iu j .,„,„. „| [he most valuable and impor ban side and 5,803 on ihe French sub-, i .,„( document* 1,320 metres and clothed at any rate. But it is quite different now. Largo wages are do- , lijet maiided. and trust-worthy laboiers are scarce, whilst the work of many would i There are more agricultural imple-not do more than pay their wages,' menfs in the new State of Iowa than leaving nothing for the employer and ' in Germany. Spain. Italy, Turkey. Uus-the owner of the land. [ sia, Africa, and Asia. if'planted in rows like a hedge and cut reasing his knowledge of the sun's nature, and conscious that his life will afford but the one opportunity to do so naturally looks forward to such an event with much emotion. The people of North Carolina are as happily loeated for viewing this eclipse as they could have been had they been given choice of situation ; and it is pleasant to think that an exhibition to witness which great expense has some times been incurred, will pass as if to tone a recognition, before our very doors. When, twoyearsago,in Philadelphia. I made my calculations, I could not hope so confidently as I now can to be iu the proper place at the proper time. The axis of the full shadow will fall on a spot somewhat east of Lake Baikal In Iikoutsk. Asia, on Saturday, the 7th of August, at als eig the I Of de to . the line traced by the center of the shadow as it passes over the earth's surface in a north-eastern direction to Beluiiig's Straits ail-, over that water, we shall have tho point at which it will Man During the past tear were perforated, or 110a month. Un-remaining 3,063 meters, at the same rate, will require tweiitv-eight moiitli-: so that bv the middle of April, lo.t, the miners Horn the opposite sides «ill shake hands. The Suez Canal will be completed sooner. A Marseilles paper on the authority Of the engineer, M. Lore, states that it will IK- finished by the I -t of (rctober, l*:*.'. That is the time • <• quired by the contract, under a nena t> of .-,(10,000 francs for each month soVI: }. The contractors do mil intend to ml ii that penalty. They know thej[oancom-plele the work by the day stipulated, and they will do it We have over 40,00> inn in this country- The average railway steeper is seveu years. Chi re are 2,112 in a mile, i he average o st is 50 cents each. Thus our sleepers are costing us |160 a mile every year icr each ol the 40,000 miles iu the Union. The sleepers on the Kuglish road on an averagefojarteen year s placed under his con-trol. The writer of this had under his immediate control the most general, important, and interesting archives of the late Confederate GoTcrnment. In In :n was embraced its entire political history from its auspicious beginiag at Montgomery to the disastrieas dose .it liichmond. The congress had left it to Mr Davis to say when, how, and ,\ here the archives should be moved. I'pon application To Mr Davis a few days previous to the surrender as to what disposition should be made ol .hem. we wereinformed by bis private secretary thai Mr Davis had packed none of the papers of his ofaee for re-moval, and that we should wait lor lint her orders. The orders came on — I Sunday. Thepapers were packed and eaofradwiiy | wM|t 0|] t|„. presidential train. We have an idea that they are deposited at present in Washington city." [The papers spoken of were no doubt deposited in this City (Charlotte) at ■ •in time, but whether they have lieen removed we do not know.—Charlotte I'rllinrrol.l life ol a mil wl. could at least lie iloubl ccaitree aanndd tthice ssaavviinngg ifoorr WwHhIiCcHh Ii pinlce.a.di.. ■•„ -su..c.h...a..s-c.a..l-e ■a••s- w-—ill ,permit of its f .rncra'lv practiced, would save this l,..i„gi„tiodiicediiiAmeiicavery short country *4.il(K).U00 everv year in rail- ly. In dyeing, this is one ofthe greatest road ties and *.-.o.ono.ooo in fencing discoveries of modern day* *»■"*■ ra,n.dd ffaiirrmin--bhuuiihldUinuggss.. i the circular of a large Liverpool house. A HORSE IN BATTLE. Kinglake, in his "History of the Crimean Invasion," gives the following graphic description of* horse in battle: The extent to which a charger can apprehend the perils of a battle field may be easily underrated by one who confines his observation to horses still carrying their riders; for as long as a troop horse in action feels tho weight and hand of a master his deep trust iu man keeps him seemingly free from great temir, and he goes through the fight, Unless wounded, as though it were a field day at home; but the mo-ment that death or a disabling wound deprives him of his rider, he seems all at once to know what battle is—to jicr-ceive its real daugers with the clear-ness of a human being, and tobeagon-izi d with horror of the fate he may in-cur for want of a hand to guide him. Careless of the mere thunder of guns, he shows plainly enough that he more or less knows the dread accent that is used by missiles of war while cutting their way through the air, for as often as these sounds disclose to him the near passage of a bullet or round shot ho shrinks and cringes. Hiseyeballs pro-trude. Wild with fright, he still does not commonly gallop home into camp. His instinct seems father to tell him that what safety, if any there is for him, must be found in the ranks; and he rushes at the first squadron he can find, utging piteously. yet with vio-lence, that he too by right is a troop horse-that he too iswillnig to charge but not to be left liehiud—that he must and will -fall in."
Object Description
Title | The Greensboro patriot [February 11, 1869] |
Date | 1869-02-11 |
Editor(s) | Albright, James W.;Albright, Robert H. |
Subject headings | Greensboro (N.C.)--Newspapers |
Place | Greensboro (N.C.) |
Description | The February 11, 1869, issue of The Greensboro Patriot, a newspaper published in Greensboro, N.C. by James W. Albright & Bro. |
Type | Text |
Original format | Greensborough [i.e. Greensboro], N.C. : Newspapers |
Original publisher | James W. Albright & Bro. |
Language | eng |
Contributing institution | UNCG University Libraries |
Newspaper name | The Greensboro Patriot |
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Object ID | patriot-1869-02-11 |
Digital publisher | The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, University Libraries, PO Box 26170, Greensboro NC 27402-6170, 336.334.5304 |
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OCLC number | 871564412 |
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