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Tarboroxigh, (Edgecombe County, X. V.J Friday, November 13,
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Post Office Department. We obser
ved nn article in Saturday's Intelligencer
in which notice is tnkeri of a rumored de
ficiency in the funds uf the 06t OfliceT
Department.
The- administration of the affair ,f
that Department, by its present Chief, 1
has ueen distinguished by a rapid exten
sion of mail routes to every quarter of the
Union; anil by such improvements upon
the great arteries of communication as
have secured to the principal cities op
portunities of more frequent and rapid
correspondence with each other.
By the last Congress an act establish
ing an unusually large number of post
roads was passed. This ihrew upon the
Department a load, which, with the un
expected increase in the price of the
contracts tor the eastern section of the
Union, was shewn in the last annual re-1
port of the Postmaster General to a-j
mount to a heavy sum, the most of which '
was exclusively for the new routes, which
are always unproductive at the beginning.
This heavy and unavoidable expendi
ture, with the cost of the great improve
ments before made, the productiveness
of some of which bus not answered the
expectations of the Postmaster General.
were found during the present year to j
nave carried the expenses ot the Depart
ment beyond its receipts, though it is be
lieved not much beyond its actual credits,
if the sums due it could be promptly col
lected. Yet, as this cannot be done, the
I o-tniaster General has applied himself
with energy to the business of curtailing
his expenses in n way, which together
with the great saving effected in the con
tracts just let in the South, will soon
bring them within the current revenues of
the Department.
In the meantime the credit of the De
partment is unshaken; and the annual re
port which the Postmaster General is
shortly to submit to the President, will
fully exhibit its condition, and, we be
lieve, will fully satisfy the public of the
faithful and correct administration of its
concerns. Globe.
tented air, in which he offers n savin" of
ilu flip. I . I.. n i .
...v.. ciiii-ienius. lie nas amply
proved the practicability of his projec
tion, tor an engine of one horse power,
upon the new principle, has been work
mg on his'own premises with complete
success for the last three months. It has,
been inspected by the most eminent prac
tical engineers in the country.
Lost Mail, Horse, and Gig. The
Northern mail, via Winton, due at this
place on Wednesday evening last, has
nui yet arrived. '1 his will account for
the absence of late intelligence in our
paper of to-day. A gentleman just from
Winton informs us that he saw the driver
yesterday morning, who stated that the
morning previous he had stooped at a
house near the road to warm himself, and
whilst he was in the housti the horse got
loose from where he was tied and went
off. or eUe some person stole him, toge
ther with the gig, mail-bag and contents.
Diligent search had been made for them
in every direction, but no intelligence of
either had been obtained up to the time
our informant saw the driver.
The Herald of the 3th, says: The mail,
horse ami gig, mentioned in our last as
having been lost or stolen, have all been
recovered, 'safe and sound.'
Raleigh, Nov. 8... Francis S. Key, U.
S. Attorney for the District of Columbia,
passed through this city on Tuesday night
last, on his way to Alabama. It is un
derstood that the object of his visit to that
State is, to have the soldiers who were
concerned in the killing of Col. Owens,
tried before the United States' Circuit
Court. Star.
CT'We understand that Mr. Tread
well, of Boston, (inventor of a printing
machine) has lately shown by experi
ments that atmospheric air may be so
compressed and exhausted, as to propel
boats equal to steam. He wants neither
boilers nor heat. We should like to
hear more of these experiments. The
discovery may subserve the cause of hu
manity as well as science. It is said
Professor Bigelow, of Cambridge, has
confidenco in the scheme. Spring. Rep.
A late London paper says: There is
a prospect that in a few years, perhaps
months, the whole system of steam engi
nery will undergo a revolution. Mr. 17,
riekson is about to take out a patent for
the employment of a new power that of
Gold Miners Bills. Bills of exchange
drawn on the house of James Hamilton
& Son, by the Gold Mining Company of
Burke, consisting of Roba'rds, Turner,
Robert Hamilton and P. Hamilton, and
payable at the Chemical Bank at New
York, have been put into circulation in
the Western part of the Stale, and from
the known wealth and integrity of the
Company in the great dearth of State
money, are answering a great public
convenience. Salisbury Watchman.
Sporting Intelligence. The owner of
Bertram, Jun. has offered, through the
Columbia Telescope, to run that celebra
ted horse against Woodpecker, of Ken
tucky, over the Charleston Course, four
mile heats, on the Monday previous to
tne next regular races SjOOO a side,
half forfeit. The challenge to be accep
ted by the first .Monday in December
next. An offer to raise the stake to
810,000 would, it is said, be accepted.
C5The Boston Daily Advertiser says:
In the Court of Common Pleas, yester
day, a case of some interest was tried.
It was an action brought by Emilino F.
B. Muudrucu, formerly a Major iti the
Brazilian service, who now resides in
ibis city, and is a dealer in clothing
against Captain Barker, of the steamboat
plying between New Bedford and Nan
tucket. The nature of the action, was
for a breach of contract in not carrying
the plaintiff, his wife, and child, togetheT
with his horse and carryall, from New
Bedford to Nantucket, in November last.
The facts were that the plaintiff had a
greed to pay the full fare in the steam
boat, and that after his baggage was re
ceived on board, the Captain refused to
admit his wife into the ladies' cabin, the
plaintiff being a mulatto, or person of co
lor, and required them to go forward,
which the plaintiff refused to do. Him
self and his baggage were then sent on
shore, and the plaintiff was obliged to
take passage in a packet, after some de
lay. The jury were out four hours, and
after receiving further instructions from
the Court, returned a verdict for the
plaintiff of 8125 damages. The defen
dant, we understand, has appealed. The
Court room was crowded during the trial.
Narrow Escape. The Susquehanna
(Pa.) Democrat says: During a storm
that occurred on Thursday week, Dr.
Barstow, of Susquehanna, with his wife
and one or two children, were travelling
a few miles above Tunkhannock, in a
carriage drawn by two horses. When
the storm was at the lop of its fury, and
while the carriage was passing a part of
the road skirted by trees, a hemlock tree,
two feel or more in diameter, fell sudden
ly and with a tremendous crash, between
the horses and the carriage, without do
ing further injury to either than to break
off the tongue. Had it fallen but one in
stant sooner, the horses mut have been
killed, or had it been deLyed one instant
longer, it would doubtless have crushed
to atoms every individual in the carriage.
Masonry. 'Vim Grand Lodge of Ver
mont has dissolved all the charters of the
Lodges in that Slate, and recommended
the sale of all the furniture, jewels,
the amount of which, ii is u""(sied
ill en k,vu)
should go to the common school fund.
CJ'The Legislature of Tennessee have
a resolution before them, for instructing
their Senators and requesting their Rep
resentatives in Congress to obtain a ces
sion to the Slate of Tennessee, of the
public lands, within the chartered limits'
of the State, subject only to the extin
guishment of military land claims to
North Carolina, and proposing after
these claims are satisfied, that the laud
be sold, and the proceeds of the sales
and taxes be applied to the benefit of
common schools within tSie Stale.
A Compliment. Messrs. Beaumont
and Tocqueville, in their report on the
Penitentiary system in the United States
state a fact in the highest degree credita
ble to the female portion of our popula
tion. "Out of one hundred prisoners in
the United States, we find but four wo
wen; whilst with us, in France, there are
twenty in a hundred."
Great Improvement. Mr. Jennings,
of New York, has received patents for a
mixture of alcohol and turpentine (the
former in a large proportion) adapted to
answer the purpose of lamp oil, and for
an apparatus applicable to lamps of all
sorts and sizes, whereby gas is generated
from this mixture in the simplest manner.
The liquid which fills a small lamp, to
burn nine hours, costs but 19 mills, and a
large lamp, with four brilliant flame
vou go to the potato: the potato will be
found to be soft and clean, and oeel much
easier than when boiled. An Irish pota
to when boiled loses half its sweetness,
but w hen prepared in this manner it doe
not lose its sweetness but is better tntn,l
every way. Apples roasted in this way
are not like what they are when. baked,
black and burnt, but have a beautiful
brown cast. Eggs prepared in this way
iu vrjiy looiusome, ana win cook in a
less
e m be rs. Southern Pin nter.
time than when boiling, with good
CTThe last number of Skinner's Turf
Register states that Wm. R. Johnson,
Esq. has become the purchaser of Mon
sieur Tonson and O'Kellv. the former t
$10,000, and the latter af $5,000.
Suspension Railway. The Boston
Transcript in noticing the nronoscd im.
provements in East Boston, has the. suh.
joined account of a suspension railway:
ve were particularly interested with
the novelty of a suspension railway loca
ted across the marshes, for the purpose
of testing, as we are informed, this truly
f&iiir.:iic.iu invention, and to correct, by
actual demonstration, the many miscon
ceptions relative to this very economical
and highly important niodoof transport
ing passengers and merchandize, Great
curiosity was evinced to see how a car,
intended to convey twenty or thirty pas
sengers on two wheels only, one btfore
the other, could run upon a single rail,
which it did with perfect steadiness, and
without the possibility of accident of any
kind. There seemed to be but one opin
ion on the subject, and all were strongly
impressed with the usefulness and im
portance of the inventiou. A Locomo
tive Engine was running upon the railway
all the afternoon, but being in an unfin
ished Mate, it was not attach, d to the
car. We sincerely wish success to tho
several projects contemplated on this isl
and, and that the growth and prosperity
of this new city may equal the hopes and
industry of its enterprising owners."
U. S. Gazette.
(Cr'Amongst the works of art exhibited
Mat the late Fair of the American lnsti-
quite enough for a vcrv large room, costs 1 , ,r American Insti-
but a cent hour, the liquor costs 80 VY T' "P" "
cents a ir-llnn. 1. nwh, nn t Capitol at W ashmglon, in straw-mosaic.
requires scarcely any tending, does no
damage when spilt over upon clothes,
carpets, &c.
Q7It appears, by the Paisley (Scot
land) Advertiser, that Mr. Blair, mana
ger of the Johnston Gas Works, has
made a discovery, which, if it become of
general application, will in a great mea
sure ruin the Sheffield cutlers. Some
time ago a portion of the moist lime, by
which the gas is purified, fell by accident
on'tho back of a dog, and a small bit of
wood having been used to scrape it off.
the hair was at once brought completely
away with it. Mr. Blair extended the
discovery by practising on his own
beard, which now requires no razor.
The lime, of the consistence of cream, is
laid on the beard, and after three or four
minutes, scraped off with the back pari
of a knife or a thin piece of wood.
Roasting Potatoes, fyc. good and
easy mode of roasting potatoes, apples
or eggs, by steam: Take your potatoes,
or whatever you wish to roast, and after
washing them clean, wrap them up in a
paper two or three limes over; when this
is done put them in a can of water, and
squeeze them until the paper is wet to
the potato; squeeze them well, and after
making a place in the embers, lay them
in and cover them with hot ashes with no
coals; after they have lain a proper time,
take them out, and the paper will be
found to be perfectly dry and not burnt,
and on opening the paper it will be
found to be very hot and damp the nearer
A New York editor, speaking of the in
genuity shown in its construction says:
"the light and shade are accurately pre
served and the architectural proportions
neatly exhibited. It was valued at 150.
Where were also exhibited some beauti
ful specimens of stained glass; of one of
which the design was a copy of one of
Raphael's cartoons; this the editor prais
es very highly tor the admirable distribu
tion of its lights and shades and for tho
beauty and delicacy of its coloring gene
rally. The art of stained glass, in this
way, was, for many centuries, considered
lost, but is now successfully practised by
an artist of New York."
(TTIt is said, in the Philadelphia Ga
zette, that some religious papers are dis
cussing the propriety of holding General
Camp-meetings for divine worship sim
ultaneously throughout the United States,
in which all denominations of Christians
shall participate alikei
Massachusetts. The ancient common
wealth of Massachusetts presents a sin
gular state of parties. There are no less
than four candidates for the office of Go
vernor. Mr. Adams is sunnnrled bv tho
Anti-Masons, Mr. Morton by the Jai kson
parly, Mr. Davis by the National Repub
licans, and Samuel C. Allen by tho
OT . mm .
Working Men. Iho claims of each
have been very freely discussed in the
various papers, and the issue of the con
test seems to be regarded as extremely
doubtful. The election takes place to
dny,(llth inst.) Pet. Times,