B’
CRi:i>rr
>Y Virtue of a I*ccrce froiu ibe Court of
-V Equity, I will otl'er «1p, «t public auc
tion, «t the (>)urt.IIouP in t'harlolte, on the 4th
Monday in January, IKK, one undivided hall o
a valuable trai4 of Und. Ijtng on the waters ol
Paw Cre«k, joining the Itndi of W m, Carson, the
heiri of Wm. Sharply, dec’d., the AlX'flrkle minv
tract, ar.d olhrrs, bfloneinp to »H»r|i at law of
Marearet Patterbon, decM. and sold for the b-Rc ht
of partition aimmjj naid heirs. Said tract ot land
contains about 2:.t acrox, on which therc is a val
uable Gold mine, which has been worked for sev-
eral years, li months credit will be given—bond
and iecurity requiri'd.
Also—on the same day, at the same place, and
by the same authority, 1 will sell one other tract
containing 110 acresl belonging to the heirs and
representatives of Janies Fjcmonds, dec’d., adjoin
ing the lands of Jane Leinonds, Wni. Lucky and
others; sold for the benefit of said heirs, on a cre
dit of 12 mouths—bond and security rc«|uired as
above. 1>. U. UUNLAf, M. E.
7t6!l-pr. adv.
rii
Fiom Silliiinan's Journal uf Scicuce and Ail$.
Ail.VKiiS AX!) FAKAUOIiS' JOURXAL.
, ai'kuovUodge t!ic wide-spreading visitutioii:
. —the delude covored the wiiolc cartlt.
I 'I'lic deluge is a great (eature in the nat
ural history of tlie earth, and it is highly
I dcsirnble to fix the pcrifid of its occurrciice ;
Condrnsri! riftc of the iltficutirrirs rrfpfetinfr thf \x\nt to estimate how many ccnturies h.i\e
nructurr of the eiirtb, triiich hatf pruUuctil the passed away since it happened, nor how
I . _ 'a
PHIXCIPI.KS OF GEOIiCKiY.
modern practical ayilnn of Grolbfii/.
Extracted from I’hillips’ Geology of Yorkshire.
CONTINl’KD.
Having considered the internal structure
VALUABLK
Catairba Mjund for Sale.
PURSUANT to a Petition filed in the Court
of Equity for Lincoln county, by Israel N' •
Hayne, Harriet Eloiba and Sarah llayne, infants,
by tfieir Guardian, and in obcdienc«> to a decree
of said Court, I shall sell, at Public Auc tion, U-
fore the Court-House door in Lineolnton, on the
17lA ilay of January next, (being Tuesday of tlie
County Court,) a valuable Tract of Land, lying in
said county, near the Buffalo Shoals, on the Ca
tawba river, eoiitttiuiiig about 220 acre*.
^^le above land is represented to be first rate as
to soil, and will timbered, with a •mall improve-
nient, and ab«ut 25 or 3U acres of Iresh cleared
ground.
Persons wishing to purchase a (rood farm, would
do well to view the premises, and attend the sale.
Conditions—one and two ytari credit—bond
and approved security required.
By order of the Court,
J.SO. i). IlOKR, Cleri S( .Vaster.
f,tG6-pr.adv.^2\
"Till and «liect-lroii Ware I
MANUFACTORY.
J. SL .IINEH & C O.
RE.SPECTFI LLY intbnn the citizens of
Charlotte, aiid tlic public ijenerally, that
hey have coimneneed the above Busine:** at tlie
old stand formerly occupied by E. M. Bronson,
and recenUy by Capt. 'I'ho. A. Mera as a grocery,
on .Main street, a short distance north-east from
the Court-House, wlicre they intend to keep on
band a good a.'wortineiit of Ware, and expect to bo
able to supply at wholesale or retail, on the most
reasonable terms, all who may favor tiicm witli
their custom. JOS, SUMNER it Co.
X. R All kinds of Jof> U'orA in their line done
&t snort notice. ITWanted, an Apprentice to the
»brjve business; one who can come well recom
mended. will receive suitable encouragement.
6nit7tJ
Chai'lciiiton and Cheraw.
rn^nE steam iuxvt
-t M.\CON,
iCapt J. C. Graham, having
1 i^en engaged the last sum
mer lu Uie trade running between Cliarlestoa and
Chtraw, calling at Georgetown on her way up
and down, will re..ume her trips in the course •)
a .ew davs and is intended to be continued in the
trade the ensuing season. The exceeding l*?ht
ilrait of water, drawing only four and a half feet
when loadrd, will enable her to reach Cheraw at
all tiniLS, eiccpt upon an uncommon low river,
when her cargo wiU be lightened at itie expense
of the niat.
Comfortable accommo3:itior*s for a few passcn-
£ers, with all due attention.
■ ’ J. B. CLOUGH.
Charhsfon, Sept. 26. I?."?!. 50tt
long it reu'mincd upon the earth; (such
knowledge must lie ^Ttthered from other
sources;) but its rehitive place in the sue-
.cession of phenomena which have visited
of our planet, and shewn how the rocks j earth : for, in my ininil, those geologists
succeed one another in a hxed order, and l)con ill-advi!»*’d, who, in the present
rise successively to the surface; ho»v of science, allbct to form a cUronolojry
riously they are filled with the monumental „^ture for comparison with the records
reliquiit: of organic beings wliich existed i,iatory. But the onler and series of e-
during the remottf ages, when the seconda- j ije read in the books of nature,
ry strata were de[x>sited Iwneath the oceai'; 1 |,y inspection of them, two propositions
and also examined the ctll'cts of convulsions i demonstrahle.
within the solid substance of the earth; it j pj,.st: That the deluge happened after
Iw'comcs nocpssary to turn our views to the i gtp-itifjcation of the earth was coniple-
surface. 'I'he external features of the earth | '|>he proof is easy : whoever will ex-
atliird manv interesting subjects of relkc- gravel-pits will be soon convinced of
tion, and are replete with memorials of j j.'yr i„ sou^ part or other, the
mighty changes. 'I'hough it cannot be , ,jj|uyjai accumulations contain tragnients of
suppo^d that, by investigation of its pres- rock; masses of the old nK'ks
ent appearance, we should l>e able to deter-1 carried many miles and dispersi'd over the
mine completely its fornicrcoiuiition,enough : recent; and again, pieces of the more
is known to assure us that after the earth ^ recent, washetl uixm tlwse which are more
was dried and made habitable, its whole
surface was again submerged and overwhelm
ed bv an irresistible flo«xl. Of many ini-
porta'nt facts which come under the consid-
emtion of geologists, the “ L»cluge” is, per-
ancient. Kithcr of these exainMles is sutli-
cient, because it proves that ail the strata
were completed before the period of the
deluge.
Secondly: The deluge happened after
liap.«, the most remarkable; and it is estab- the earth were dry, and inhabited
lished by such dear and positive arguments, ,,v Innd animals. On this p»>int the evi-
by land animals.
that if any one point of natural history niay I jjj go plain, simple, and convincing,
lie considered as proved, the deluge must be (jc must be indeed strongly armed in
admitted to have hapi>cncd, because it has j s^-epticism who di«s not yield to its force, j struclivc.
left full evidence in plain and characteristic ' in gravel accumulated by the countiy a
elects upon the surface of the earth. j the bones of many land animals, as
Formerlv, indeed, when geology was in ,},e elephant, hippopotamus, hor^e, ox, dt^r,
I its infancy,' a wrong ineth.xi was followed,' ic. 'I'herefore, it is pertectly plain, that
and the fossil shells and other organic re-; such animals lived before the Huod.
mains, which were cei'tainly deposited in What a noble tield ot enimry does this
the rocks btfori: the deluge, were apriealed I comprehensive truth open ^‘tore us . o
to as evidence of that event. This mistake study the remains of a multitude ot crea-
was natural enouyh in that early |>eriod of tures which have been extinct lor some
thousands of years, and whose living anal
ogues dwell Lilly in distant and dilfeicnt
countries
the science, but at p.Tscnt cannot be main
tained, without a gross anachronism. Ex
amine where we may the action ot inoving
water, whether in little mountain
ruffled by the wind, Rowing rivers,
the nwrgin of the .sea, we every _
ceive the same etfccts; stones smoothed and : elephants and luppoiwtami
rounded, masses crumhlcd and disintegrat- nas, lived here together, and here together
ed. We mav trace old channels of rivers met the common doom of all inhabitants ol
by the pebbles ielt in them, and the act of earth, destruction by overaowmg water.—
the tide bv their accuinulatKMi on the shore;' And not inconsiderable was the numlM>r thus _ ■ j,
in a word, the acti .n of inoving water is i destroyenl; for almKst everj-gravel pit and |cord ng to the ^ The“e called
known by its effects. As the old channel diluvial clitf, and limestone cavern a h.uikI terials were abrac.od. Ihc.se were
of a rapid stream is filled with pebbles that with their remains; sjiiic ot which,
declare the f..rce of the current, so the »heir unu.sual pro(>ortims, indicate the gi-
jK)sit3 of clay, pebbles, and bones, covered
by shcll-marl, sih, jieat, and large uprooted
trec3,—accumulations which proceed so
slowly in our days, as to be hardly perceiv
ed in oiwnrtinn,—there is reason to con-
chide that a long period srparatos us from
the date of the deluge. And when, in these
new iiccumulations, wo find the bones of
postdihiviaii animals, which have become
extinct through accident or |>ersccution, as
well as of others, whose successors still ex-
ist in the neighborhood, we may, perliaps,
think that little is wanting to cotnplete th®
evidence of this portion of the physical chro-
noloffy of the earth.
W erner, and most of the modems, con*
sider the phenomena which have been un«
folded by geological research, as the efibcts
of causes no longer in action. I5ut Dr.
Hutton believed that all the revolutions
which have visited the earth, were but th®
result of the ordinary operations of nature,
continued thro’ very long periols of time.
He was of opinion that what is now sea, waa
formerly dry land; and that by the action
of rains and rivers, materials are accumu*
lated on the bed of the sea, to produce th®
strata of new continents, which by some
convulsion, like many that have happened
l>efore, will be uplifted and laid bare, whilst
that part of the earth which we inhabit,
w ill be sunk under the new ocean. To this
hypothesis it may be objected, that it as-
cril)cs to the ordinary agents of nature, ef
fects which appear much beyond their pow
er. General changeg io the relative situa
tion of .sea and land have been often suppos
ed, but never established by evidence; for
Cuvier’s conclusions drawn from the alter
nations of marine and fresh water forma
tions, apply only to limited districU; and
since well-conducted inquiries into the nat
ural history of antediluvian quadrupeds, have
shewn satisfactorily that they lived before
the flood over a very large portion of tha
prencnt continents, we have proof that at
the period of the delvge, the sea and land
did not change their relative situations.
The naturdl agents now employed in al
tering the I’ac® of the globe, are fire and
water. The former forces fluid matter from
tho interior, and spreads it around the vol.
conic mountains; the latter is incessantly
occupied in lowering lieiflits, wasting and
^ _ smoothing prccipices, filling up vailies, and
liich v.ill'i^ wer7cut out of the planes of equalizing the surface.
noifiena ascribed to tho deluge. Many great
natural depressions or wide vales are pro-
duc(;d, evidently by the convergence of op-
|>ositc decliniitions of strata: as the great
vale of the Thames is occasioned by meet,
ins dijis from Hertfonlshire and burrey;
and such are, doubtless, anledihivian. Ma
ny geologists believe that, from some uncx-
piuinetl causes oiierating duriiig their de
position, some strata were origitiully depos
ited at higher elevations than others; that,
for example, the lower part of the coal sc
ries was made to attain elevations not reach
ed by the upper jmrt of the same series;
and that the now red sandstone was never
in England placed at so great an altitude as
some of the strata which lie aliove it and
lielow it. In these instance i. therefore, it
has l»een concluded that the antediluvian
features of the earth were not very differ-
eut flora what we now witness: and these
instances admitted to their full extent, ac
tually include the most striking variatiims
in the surface of the earth; for it is certain
ly true, that the great mountain ranges
which seem to comi>ose the skeleton of the
earth; the wide oceans, plains, and level
tracts, ami even the remarkable lines ot'se-
i-ondary hills and moat extensive vallie.s, are
placed'in acconlance to the interior struc
ture of the earth. Hence, it follows that
we must linnt our inquiry, as to Uie chang
es produced on tho surface of the earth by
the deluge, to the vallies and hills which
seem evidently to have derived their pecu
liar features from currents of water, since
the cmsolidatioii of the stpita. Even thus
limited, tlie subject is ample, fertile, and in-
Manv vallies in a secondary
are excavated through several stra
ta, as limestone, clay, and sindstone, which
appear on the oppf/sitc sides in m«-t exact
agreement as to thickness, composition and
mode of arrangement. That such rocku
were originally deposited in continual planes
and, therefore, once connected across the
chasm or valley which now di^ ides them,
can hardly l>e doubted. 'I'hc vallies them
selves bea’r marks of their origin; their bot-
1 oiiiY 111 uia.c... —- - tom IS a continued plane; their sides cor-
Cold as is our climate, and now respond with answering Miiuosities; and
the consolidated strata, through one, two or
more rocks, according to the depth of the
excavation, and in thi.s or that direction, ac-
vallies of denudation, and they are very nu
merous aiid extensive. In western \ork-
si/e and formidable strength of ante- Istiire, the gn at inininj vallies of rec.>*iale,
1' Swaleilale, \ oredale,
maTnifi.:eiit examples, and strongly impress
KE310\AI..
The Sl'BSCKIBKR respectfully informs his
friends and customers, that he has removed
from his old stand to the Store nearly spjiosiu-
R. C. Hattawav, formerly occupied by J. Beers,
•where he v ill keep consUntly on hand every arti
cle suitable for tlie Lack country trade.
FR^VNCIS \N ILSON.
ChercxF, Oct. 1S.31.
rv HOUSE, (thcPo9t-off.ce,
. on the Cross street, a few yards
TOrUi-we.4 01 the Court-House, in Lriington, A. C.
is again op ned for the reception of Travellers &
B.Kirders. The sUbles are extensive, roomy wid
lrv ' CTdin and provtnder ot llic pkritjful,
ai;d served by hostlers. The hou!-e has ma
il,- comfortaUe rooms, serves a uood table and re-
tV' -hments; and the proprietor and his family
w ill omii noUiinpr in tlieir i>ower to make it nioMt
quiet and agreeable
l9tf
whole earth is covered bv pebbles, the wreck gautic size and formidab e strength ot ante-1 shire, lie )
ofa general flood, i'lllmi; the vallies, over- diltn ian quadrupeds. By con'.paring them awale.bie,
;preading the plains, a-id coverii^g the hills, 1 ith existing si>ecies, we are enabled to con-; magnifioei.t exr
■uunded stones, of all siz^s and all kinds,; jecture the antediluvian cwidition of the, the iniiKl wi.i
Voredale, aixl \Vhar»ilale, are
the power of the currents
(To be continued.)
When tlie wido oct»A muidenin* whirlwind#
rwccpv
And heave the billows of the boiling deep,
Pl;,»SPd we troui land the reeling bark wirvey,
And rolling mountains of the watery way.
Not that we joy another’s woe* to »ee.
But to reflect that wo our»eNe» are free.
.Sc, the drcid batlJe ranged in disUnt fields,
Ourselves s»cure. n secrct (Jea'«uro yields.
Hut what more charming than to gam the height
()f true philosophy T \V hat pur« delight
pebbles on the sea-shore, (fragments of all and with what climate it «as bless. d. .No I part o( he county,
the known r*K:ks which compoic tlie inte-' ,n:ope need l.e given to fancy, the truth of j went b|.low . u
rior of the earth,) are protusely scatlcrtd analogy, the known conlormily ol iiatuie, alw>e ' ‘
I siz^s and all kinds,, jecture the antediluvian cwiaition oi luc , uic nimi i. pm 1 From Wisdom’s cit.ida to view bekiw,
3 much confusion as , world, with what vegetables it wasclothed, i winch occasioned them. ,i,„'i)cr. I I)*'*"!'** mortals, as they wandering go
, the valhes of the Der- j of"h,ppi„c*. 1 'ah, blindly weak!
1, Rievaulx and Isilsilalc i nobility they seek;
Newton I>aW: al>o\e Pick- Lnk-or for empty trensurca, iii«ht and clay.
on its surface. I ore sure gui.les to the
might be laid in its present situation by aiij ^ ^ ,h,.roi;. J. re
streams such as now water the earth. l or , this chapter ^ ,
IhistratiLTofthe forms and habits of, in itsc-lfsociiiiou-, that though few wiH
ant*liluvian animals, and the circumstances more sjitislactory evidciice than m each ca^
discovered : whether each valley rurnisbe.!, it deserves to be iiK“fi-
oin the eiementarv pi;iu oi i
We must, therefore, refer ; that vallies were formed at penoils .subsfi.
u pi:;.:; wi^^^ i'
do not run, where, imlctHl, they never did full ‘ I
run ; neittter is it confined to .such narrow aiit^li
paths as .serve for the passage of rivers, nor ! J* ''Jj' • , - . i,nJ7n d'iffs by the sea;: tion. d. :^.mc valleys cr^rw aiud rut thro'
EI>I I -\TIOX
Ciealtt a pi.it itandirrd of moral rharaeter in «
X'tUagr.
In such a Tillage no haughty and purse-
luj • m pretid aristocracy will ever lord it over n
•ssaViiv have 1 virtuous, but [>oor demficracy. K.ich in-
^ ^ . 11 A ...:il inll n^y«/\p/1incrlv
such Ibrms, but is casually and
is it laid in
iinequa
country
Ix^n thus
in 8jme
have been
dred miles
in vain
B. I). ROUNS.U ILLE.
•It) D4illarN Reward.
TWLNTY DOIXAKS u( Uie above will lie
paid by tlie subscrib. r, for th. detection ot
the thief or thieves, and Twenty Dollar# ‘or
recovery of the property, stolen from the Mill at
fyiZi n'i Store, on tlie iiieht ol the ^iOtli or 3ith ot
Is'oveinber last, consisting ofa large quantity of
Quicksilver, with some (iold in it.^
Carvillton, M ekhnlurg Co. (
Det. 8, 1»31. (
SlIKillFF.S’ UlCEDSr
110R Lands sold for Taxes; for l.ands fold
' under a Writ of Fieri Facias ; and for Lands
sold und^-r a W rit of Venditioni tx[>onas—for sale
et t'.is fXTice.
tacts, which have fallen under my ref..ated chfls as we nmv Ul^l.l, „,• rivers, n.-.d not cavil at; civili/ed place, the distinct,omh of nature
examination, may give some idea. O.i&hap dul ar ^ , r . be allows for their prnliir-1 and art are lost m the loveliness of moral
fells in Westmoreland a reddish granite is deUited ; ing such efli’. ts as the denudation of vallie.s., worth. It will not do for a man there, to
well known, and its blocks are at once re- ■ Ihe. . p* . u... 4u;„ illr*>rtlv with ;
.d out by the streams wlncn rim in ineni. oar^m*, „
This is a characteristic part of his system tended to, men are estimated by the strengtU
of .leraving and r-'nevviiig worlds, and who-1 of the mu-scular powers, and tlic height of
co-nized by large interspersed crystals of by d.fferent the.rists, a
felspar. Now, by the force of the great, coiitest.s hapi^ne., as us
.• this jrranite 1 were but halt understoo*
W iltshire, and I>ors«‘t.shire, | low-citiyen.s. He must shew that he has
tons in weight, rest on high ground near , lmv"e ceased t‘"o dispute
country to the siUth, where maiises, some ,
currents of water, blocks of this granite ;
id external splendor. In such u village,
deep cutting, near the town ot i.aiicasi.;r. i ’V-" ° 1 f.ayg all their siim.wilv of c.mrs.;, and reg-1 l.r/arus the lieggar, with an honest heart,
Eastward, this granite has been carried by or modest .rncts ' ular declination, but the «>il and stratum ; w ill fare much lH.tter, eventually, than the
other currents of the same wat-r, over the I ^ Noone^who are t(K> absorlH^nt to be moistened by the j wK-ked rich man clothed in purple and fine
linen, and faring sumptuou^ily every day.
Pores of the Human liody.
The skin of the human boJy, is a very-
curious object for the microscope. Hy cut-
tinsr a tbin piece with a very sliarp penknife
or razor, and applying it to a good micro-
scope, a multitude of small pores will bo
seen, through which the per-pirable matter
IS supposed to be jierpelually transmitted.
'J'hese are be.^t seen in the under or .second
skin. Tiiere arc said to Vx; IttOO pores in
the length of an inch, and of courw:, in a
isurlkce an inch stpiare there will l»e l,U«(l,-
(JOO, thro’ which, cither the sensible or in-
eeiis’ible pers-piration is continually issuing.
If th-ro ar- 1,0l>0,0()0 jwrcs in every
bquare inch, th.- following cnleulntion is
X; i':* of the niimljer in the w'loje bmly :
Tne surface of the bfKly of a tniddlo
Sized p»:rs.jn, is reckoned to contain four
teen f^et; and, as each f'.jt roiitams J J4
inches, the numlier .if p'jres will b'! estiiiia-
Z; :Xof l^-n: tlie ICV range .,f fbrtncd of the diluvial detritus, can .loubt,
hills which extend along the western Ix.r-. that gn at alterations were wcasione.l m • ^^Vavation of vallies can be ascrib-1 For the inhobitants will know enough to
^nmfVnrkshire and Durham, across Stain- the features of the eartli s surface, at the,
1. 0 1 ies of Durham, i ueri.Ki of the deluge. All the solid land of kd to no o her c
mwV forest, down the vallies of Durham, perifKi of the deluge
and the northern dales of Yorkshire acro-ss' Holderness is an ’ ru‘mmi’irfhoi^''Vali;es" descend’. Such a ' will desire to settle concerning any candi-
the vale of York, and the hills of the eas-; from the rmn.of other | , j,, motion, might, we may date for their confid. nce, or their esteem,
tern point of the county, to Scarbrough and ; .J-ir preS Minoose. by its currents and e.ldics, ^^-.K>p t or their as.istance, will not be,-is he rich
Flamboroiigh-head, where it rests on the ^ were km.wii before the fl^l, t it ir present
summit of the clitf one hundred miles from , |«culiar siia|K'8 must lie dated fr.un that c
“lent aitiiatron. This is one of many vent; and if val .es were then m exis ence,
instaiicex. I'he dispe rsion of sieiiitic n^cks they mu-^t have lieen deepened and widened,
from Carrock-fell, Cumberland, of granite : or |>ossibly fill. .1 up and obliterated. l?ut
from Kaven-lass, and of whinstone from. that the whole ahtediluv^an surlace of ibr.
TeesdaU-, is” not le.ss remarkable. Such world was even and ' nr.H>f of
fact, camiot lie sf.-cn without astoiii.shment, I improbable, for, to a very considerable P
iuse than a great tloHl of j look at mind and not at matter, in their eiu
water which overtopped the bdls, from whose ; tiination of men. 'I'he first .piestion th.-y
those vallies desc
in violent motion,
suppose, by its currents and eddies, scfKjp. ,
hollows wiiich aflcrward.s on its retreat,,—or is he mighty/—Hut is he good
would lie extended in long cmnecteil vallie.s. | It was this simple but mighty j»ovvcF, ol
From the liest and most ind'-pendent evi- i a moriil and religi.ms education which in
dence we have nhewn, that such a flood has; „ur »iwn country, gatheied together, m the
■ of the ! «f»cc overHowcd the earth sine; the consol- j year 1774, a boly of men conc-rning whom
i idation of its surfiice; an.1 as we have no! ,ne of the mo,>t I'mincnt Kngh^.i statesmen,
.CrHhle ' proof of more than one Hich flood, mid ns _1 allude t6 the Karl .>f Chiithain said
■H; I must declare and avow, that
.. tiiere scrms to be no contrary evidence, it,
or iin si
dvcH of It bv the contemplation .f
ft uturtfs il’ this kind,
which
ure ours^
(JpDrnil
iiluviiii ‘Io*
/ l'hi!m''lphia.”