The Greensboro patriot [February 11, 1869]

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„ „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.
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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.—
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Business Cards.
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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
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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.
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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*,
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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>,
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Hardware, tiuu-rj. Iron. Steel,
i;. inn- Pat l.lnc. Wagon Ma-lulal.
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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.
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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.
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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."