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From the Richmond Whig.
Crossing the Alps by Steam The
Mont Cenis Railroad Peculiari
ties of its Construction Tte Route
Described I low a Passenger Feels
Life on the Alps, dec, dec.
tbirc else I know of, the laatt being
ranged along tbe tide with a narrow aisle
in the oootrr. with tbe entrance at the
rear platform. Kach ear is furnished near
the frout with a pair of boriaonta) wheels
that clasp tbe ecu ire rail, and, of course,
with powerful brakes and tbe glass mmt
lows of tbe sides are raanis ao that Ussy
cannot bo opened, thus compelling the
passengers to limit their observations, and
preventing brads and anus being thrust
out-
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passengers crossed yesterday, the train
beiapj ee as posed oi tutu passenger HldiTfl
""KKig coS, the latter as small as the
foi mar. A half-doxcn brakesmen were
on board, in addition to the other train
hands. Tbe start was made at fifteen
minutes pas one, aud in fifty minutes tho
train had gone as for as Lanslebourg, at
the foot of the mouutain. The railway,
the high-road and ft mountain torreut went
along side by side up the narrow valley,
fntjucntly changing tueir relative posi
tions, but still remainiug always in close
companionship. At Lanslebourg the en
gine replenished its stock of water and
fuel, and the difficulties of the ascent com
menced. On a level tbe speed was pro
bably fifteen miles an hour, but going up
hill it was reduced to ten, and sometimes
to five miles by the difficulties of the as
cent. The railway continued up the nar
row valley with its companions, but it
was evident that the brisk little engine,
that puffed and snorted, aud strained so
much, was able to go up the steepest nil
that tho wagon road attempted, and as the
railway wound about in the crookedest
unman
n took
Ti kix, July 10. ajkind of style, sometimes on the other, tbe
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Cenia Pass of the Alps is the present won
der of Europe, and is certainly a great en
gineering triumph. It has been open for
passenger traffic since June 15th, and has
been worked from that date successfully
mid without accident. Ity this line, pas
sengers arc taken over the Alps in five
hours and a (ttartcr one-halt the time
taken by the diligence service aud what
is of equal importance, the journey, which
costs um-live fin lies lil'J aurn) L
diligence, can be made the railway for
twenty-five francs (about S7 currency).
Vet fully one-half of the people who cross
Mont Ccnis are afraid to go on the rail
way, as they have a wholesorhe and eer
taiuly natural objection to running the
risk of their railway train pitching down
a precipice, aud making mince meat of all
it contains.
A natural curiosity took me to the rail
way as a means of crossing the Pass. To
comprehend tho character of this work, it
is necessary to understand the situation of
Mont Ceiiis. It is said to be tho lowest
of the Aips, and is probably eight thous
and feet high. It is comparatively fiat on
top, being some six miles broad, and is
surroniided by higher Tieaks, many of
them covered with snow. On both the
French aud Italian sides, mountain tor
rents, having their source on Mount Cc
nis, run down through deep valleys with
precipitous sides, so that the Alpine chain
is, as it were, half cut through hy these
fissures. An excellent road has been long
in existence over the pass, running along
the borders of these streams and zig-sag-gitig
up the mountain, and Mr. Fell has
built bis railway alongside of this road,
engine stuck like a leech to the track.
The train, though not ninety feet in
length, was frequently on three curves at
once, aud the cars were ablo to turn at
PEOPLE'S STORE,
At Sprague-s Old Stand. Main Street.
Near the Mdrket House
SMITH, FOSTER & Co.
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Jkhu Fo-ter, Jr.
8ahsbury, April 15. 1868. . tw3m.
FINLEY HIGH SCHOOL,
f?d LD WBLL, COUNTY, K. C,
X Jul 27th, 188. For further particulars
avoir for a oirculsr.
B.W.-BT,
Joky 10, 186
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State of North Carolina,
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Superior Court of Law, Spring Term, 1868.
For tine White vs. K.ving White.
-- rrriTioN kor divokck. '
IT appearing fctilpte satisfaction of the Court
that .the defenSnt Ewing White, resides be
yond the limits of this State : It is ordered
that publication jjUPde lor six weeks in the
" Watchman It U$Y Nortli Bute, " notifying
said defendant to n. and appear at our next
Superior Court ol Law, to Jbe held for the
county of Davidson, at the Court-House in
Ixinton. on tlte first Monday after the, fourth.
Monday in September next, then and there to
answer or dcanfr to the planum s petition ; oth-
from which it rarely parts company, so
that the people on the cars and those on
the highway for nine-tenths of the dis
tance could shake hands with each other if
so disposed The mere laying out of the
railroad, therefore, was nothing ; but the
''ifliculty which had to be and is surmount
ed, was to invent a species of steam rail
way that would climb up or go down as
steep hills and turn around as sharp cor
ners as a horse and wagon, and yet be as
completely under control. These things
aro successfully accomplished by the use
of ajfjoad with three rails, upon which run
engine and cars of peculiar construction.
The railway is of narrow gauge, not
over four feet, and the outside rails upon
which rests the weight of the cars are the
ordinary T raihviiut oLheavy patteriu--
The centre rail is not used ou level and
straight places, but only on curves and
declivities. It is shaped something like a
j. letter If, and is elevated about ten inches
above the other rails, being laid upon
heavy wooden string pieces, and braced
etrontrl V at the sides. In order .that the
trains may go around the sharp carves
that are necessary, tire engines and cars
are made very short,, none of them over
twelve feet long.-. Tho engines
have small driving wheels, and car
ry their fuel and water over the boilers.
Thay are built very heavy, and the pow
er is applied not only to the vertical wheels
which run on the outside rails, but
also two sets of horizontal wheels which
can be' pressed upon the sides of the centre
rails.
The engines indeed seem to be a'l
'Pint Fall Tint In this Institution will begioJarwise, the same will be beard sod granted
Witness, H. N. Heitmarr, derk of our said
Court at office, the 1st Monday after the fourth
4 Monday ia Mwch.A, &.-lft6fV
2A6LtQJ H. fit UKITIfASY C.S.C
TrT-
vini: wheels and brakes, and the way they
catch hold of and cling to the rails is sur
prising. Tbe cars are more like the small,
singk-horse passenger ears on some of
the American horse railways than any
sharp corners as the wagons on the road
alongside. Sometimes the railway made
a semicircle of uot over fifty feet radius,
the firmly fastened central rail keeping
the train on tho track. After thus get
ting up sxime four thousand feet of the el-
nyjlion. the steep side of Alont t iuis was
reached, stretching up far above US, the
summit bidden in clouds. Starting at a
little station with a water-tank and fuel
shed, the road twists six times up tbe
precipice, each parallel being constructed
on a grade of one foot of elevation In from
five to ten of length, and the train, every
time it turns back and forth, elevates you
higher and higher ; yet all the time keeps
right over tbe s'atiou, which gets smaller
and smaller as you rise thousands of feet
above it. The curves necessary for the
bends of tho road are one-half tunnelled
out of the solid rock, and the other half
built out over yawning chasms, clouds al
most obscuring tin water-conrses at the
bottom. You can throw a stone down the
nn hi i. tain side, and it will cross one line
of the railway after another, and finally
reach tbe ground at the station the train
left a half heur before, but which is still
under your feet. Snow-capped peaks are
all around ; clonds half envelope you ; tbe
cars, if they once leave the track, will be
dashed to atoms, thousands of feet belo
yet sun tne train goes upward and up
ward, the little engine holding tightly to
the rails and climbing the hill before it
that seems to unfold itself interminably
This is the most terrific part of the ascent
of the I rench side of tne mountain : and
it continues until the summit is reached,
where, at "Le Grand Croix," the train
halts for a moment's rest, and the passen
gers, dispirited perhaps by the ""rain" of
snow that always pours down So lavishly
on the mountain top, begin to wonder
whether they will ever get down again.
Built in the region of snows and
aval&nclies, the railway at the top of
the mountain is protected by being
occasionally la i in galleries cnt ont
of the rock over which tho snow
when it falls can pass without hartm
ing the roadway; and in places where
no galleries can be made an arched
roof of corrugated iron, very light
and -strong, and supported - on-lieary
timber posts, is built over the road,
the sides being covered with planks.
This is a protection from snow which
will probably be effectual,; but it is
an interference with the view oat of
tbe ear windows of which travellers
'will always V'WlulipTjirn.'Th'lUmWr
of the mountain is comparatively
flat, always bleak, cold and inhospi
table aud at present has on it, form
ed by tbe melted snows, a large lake
with no "apparent outlet.
The railroad in crossing the summit
goes up hill and down dale, and
twists about, the same as the wagons
road does, no embankments or cut
tings being necessary. The ascent of
hours and a half, the bonr and
throe quarters of time remaining be
ing occupied in crossing the summit
and descending; ou the itallian side.
Having got np the hill, tt was now
the business of the traia to get down
again, and after descending for some
distance npon comparatively gentle
slopes, tho road eame suddenly npon
the edge of a precipice that, to say
the least of it, was sensational, ft
was at the head of the valley on the
Italian side of the mountain, and was
not only more abrupt and pcooi piioua,
but mnoh despsw than tbe ehasm
down which we looked npon the lit
tle water station on the French side.
Tho country was spread ont before ns
like a topographical man. At onr
feet, how many thousand feet below
I can't protond to fell, began the
monntain torrent, led by my raids of
little cascades from all the peaks
around. A town stood on its banks,
snd further on another, which was
the famous town of 8nsa, to which
we were to get, if possible ; and far
beyond stretched tne railway and
roads, cultivated fields for miles and"
miles, almost to Turin. The valley
widened as it leceded from ns, and
twisting about on its precipitous
sides, could be faintly traced the line
of road we were to follow in the de
scent. To look down npon Sosa, and
think that it was just as easy to roll
down the lrll to that ancient Roman
town, as to slowly twist dowi
the railway, was certainly not"
ant. However the hreakamen
their places and the descent began.
The engine which before did so much
climing and pulling, now did quite
as good service at holding back. The
hill was steep and the road most
crooked ; but the brakes clung fast
to the wheels and the wheels stuck
to the track, and gradually bat some
what roughly, especially on tho
corves, we slid down. j,
Occasionally, when tho sliding
went too fast, the engine was revers
ed, and at times the ability of tbe
train-iianas to stop atafj$jLuteiy on tno
ster?pe6t declines, was demonstrated.
AH the time we were twisting and
sliding down the monntain, various
lines of road to be followed when
further down could be seen, and the
wonder was, how ; were we ever to
get them. Also, the town of Snsa,
continned-at onr feet, gradually in
creasing in size as we approached,
and finally we got near enough to
detect church steeples, looking like
lttle pegs set up among the houses.
At half-past six the descent was suc
cessfully accomplished, and trundling
nto the depot at ousa, the monntain
journey came to an end after which,
changing to an Italian railway train,
wo were in Turin.
No one who crosses Mont Oenis,
on the Fell railway, can fail to bear
testimony to its complete success. It
is, however, not a road for people of
week nerves to venture npon ; as the
feeling when running along tho edge
of an almost perpendicular precipice,
the bottom of which is almost too far
below to be seen, is decidedly mis
pleasant. Tbe railway, however,
does its work well, and Mr. Fell's
little trains can go np and down hill
and around sharp corners quite aa
well and mnch more rapidly than
the ponderous d ill igence. The rail
way has been an expensive one to
build, and will be a costly one to
keep in order, so that unless patrons
ized much better than now, it will
scarcely pay .expenses. The ingenui
ty and daring of its constructors,
however, are no greater, although
shown on a broader scale, than the
skill and perseverance exhibited by
the hardy mountaineers, who, bang
ing almost by the eyelids, manage to
cultivate the sides of sted hills and
htthr nooks on the -verges of ch asms,
throogh all the wild and ragged and
almost sterile region over which tho
Fell railway passes. ,
Poison Oak. Prof. G. Do well, in
the Galveston Medisal Journal Jour
nal, recommends m cases of poisons
ing by Rhus Texicondrou, and other
poisonous species of the Rhus, to
bathe the parts with a solution of
caustic potash, sufficiently strong to
rnndnr the skin eoanv. This haa nsr-
er failed to cure it immediately, al
though be lias used it in hundreds of
cases, including nimseii. me pot
ash is used in the proportion of ten
grains to the ounce of water, bat may
be uicioaaed ta strength as needed.
A
The seventeen year bents in Western Horth
Carolina did not live exceeding a month, and
disap;eared without leaving sny signs of their
brief existence.