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PUBLISHED BY ROGERS &C HOWARD,. " y O R NAT H A N I E L J.- PALMER. TERMS. ' Two Dollars and Fifty Cents, if paid in Rdvaiice.THREEDoi.i.AR8; if not paid within si months.! Subscriptions for a shorter period than 'a year, in th s.ime proportion.' ;" ; . . '..-' I (5- No papT-will be discontinued until all nrre'ar agea'ani paid, except at the option of fhe Publishers. T? Postmasters are authorized to act as Agents. ; O-' Any' persrm procuring six responsible subscri bers will be entitled to receive the paper ' one year pr.uis. ; - . :---r '-".i5;:-.: vr--- Advertisements making 11 lines,' or less,will be inserted first time for One Dollar ; Twenty-five p-e.nts.for each continuance except Court notices, which will be "ehaiged 25 per cent. higher, A de duction oi .13 ,md 1-3 per cet; will be made from the r' pillar price?, to Advertisers by the year, i J3 All letters to the Editors must be postpaid. I X T JE R N A L I M PROVE 31 E N T C O N V E; NT I ON. Jltnnr! nn iho .Mnu'anHnn nffhe Jn-nnh r,r,j . Dan Rivers by Steam Boats. ! . Ifr. Palmer, from .the committee of five h rrlation to ihe Dan and Roanoke, made the follow ing reports whteh was, 011 his mo tion, laid upon the table : . ; u.r wii ui tut- jcicvi uiiMiniiee on me sun- jpet of Steam Boat j Navigation on the 1 . . - r . w Roanoke anJ Dan Rivers. i The Select Committee to whom were re ferred the resolutions adopted by a public meeting of a portion of the citizens of Cas well and Person counties, held in the town of Milton, on the 6th instant, recommend ing the improvement oi j the, Roanoke, and D.in rivers with a vievV to their beingjren ere'd nai'iaable for Steam Boats of lishi tMirthen, have had the same under consi deration and now submit the following; re-' port':" .y ' . - ';;- - Your committee regret that the limited ti me "which' they 'can bestow to the conside ration of a subject which they deem of vital importince to the interests of. tlie Siiite at l irge, hut more particularly to that highly rpspe'ctaiil'e,- wealthy and enterpiisfhgl sec ti )D of'the- State more immediately interest ed m ion Mupu"u iuijjiu criiiffii, wni not enablejhem ti) presVnt all the reasons which should -induce the Convention to endeavor to carry out the viws and wishes of the Koanoke Navigation Company, in which the Staff i iiitt-resTed as a stockh.xldrr, to the Tiumbpr of five hundred shares!; j arid also the attention of the Legislature of our sister State, Virginia, who is 'also k large sto.clihoIfJor in that company, we areihappy in bcinj enablrd to preterit the very sa.lis Jactorv report of Mr. Couty, an Engineer of great ability, who has recently made a sur vey of the RoaiHke add Dan livers with a. view of "ascertaining the; practicability of the said -improvement. ! ; , i ; ,vThe Lf gislature. of Virginia by an act passed on the 23rd of March, 1837, directed .That the Board of Public Works, be and. the' are hereby; instructed, to caue a sur vey to be made by' some "-.'.competent. Engi neer, "during, the ensuing; summer, of the Dan River from its confluence With the Staunton River, to the town of Danville and of the Staunton river from the same point to the town of Brook Nea! in Campbell coun ty, and of the great Roanoke l'rom Rock- landing to the confluence of the . lah and Staunton Rivvrs'aforesafdj for the purpose of ascertaining; whether the paid rivers may be rendered susceptible of Steam Boat aa-1 vigation, and that the said Engineer do re - port -to the Jioaid ot PnbJic orKs, wnetner it be practicable to reudcr the said rivers so uavianie, ano- uie prooaoie cosis iueieuiv The report of, Mr. Couty, though brief, embraces a satisfactory response to the pro - ' I ' j jL L.LI- A - it. . . r posed inquiries, and your; committee have therefore thought it best to embody it as a part of their report. After reciting the au thority and instructions under which he acted, he proceeded as lot lows : " The Roanoke River from Rocklahding in Nortlv Carolina, to the confluence of the : Dan and Staunton rivers, has a fall of 15G fe eet, and the distance bythe line ot survey is s 59 miles Ovbo feet. ; I " This river is, in general, of consider- blew-idth ; !rn some places extendinsr three quarters of a mile ; from an average of ele ven places of triangulatioh at the most fa vorable places for narrowness, and founda ticns suitable for the contemplated" work, the width w as found to be 360 yards ; the . general width need riot. however; be consi dered under four hundred yards,' The bot tom consists mostly of solid rock ; the wide and shoallv portions are verv shallow durins a drought, of which I had ample demon- stration ; and from information obtained veying the stone and other materials requi- united, ; thnt the rich and varied productions during the survey, from some of the oldest site for the construction of mora permanent of the Roanoke, - and its tributary streams settlers, I learned" that the water of the ri- locks, and that at a reduction of cost equal to: both vegetable and mineral, should by ver had in no' instance been so low, during the expense of the Wooden ones. Those means of the proposed improvements find a the last thirty years. In other parts the stone locts can be erected without the least cheap, safe, atrf expeditious conveyance to river is highly favorable, andi requires but interruption to the navigation. - :r the markets in our orn State, and ber rciti- little artificial aid to effect itsimprovement; " The greater number of the river? in zens in retura receive through the same and in overcoming, the more serious, drffi- England (excepting the tide! rivers) have channel, the necessary supplies from abroad, cultres it may be necessary to cover the been rendered navigable so far as practica- through a seaport in North Carolina, distic bed of some portions of the riveiywith more ble by locks and dams ; and thp system has guished fa the cheapness and variety of the than the requisite depth of water, in order , been universally attended with complete productions of the West Indies-and other perhaps to cover asmatl shoal, or reach a ' success, not only-from its supplying acom"-Cohtries offered for sale in her market, that point desirable for the erection of the con- plete and permanent navigatioobut also-itrpw should bean object of anxious solici templated work Notwithstanding the from the increase of revenue , derived from tpLvby every true son of North Carolina is considerable width of the river, the remark- disposing of the valuable water-power acf ikllo be wondered-at, and to its attainment ably favorable natural foundations for the quired by the erection of dams.. It is a 11 1 best energies of every one interested in f erection of dams, will render the latter not only easy; of construction, but also of suffi- cient stability. ( The abutments will be of proportionately less expense, the greaterthe" width ot the river may be. Such descnp- tions ot work . requiring to be constructed higher in proportion as thejriver . become 3 narrower.' : - ' " H I consider a sluice, or any part of a sluice navigatton, to be entirely unsuitable for steamboats, and if such a system were sdonted thp attemnt would infalhblv tpsnli in the creation of a continual source of dis- aster. besides the useless exnenditure of rcrn cnm rtf itiampv withnnt iho rortalntv of trie, improvement ever being carried into ! effect the works being liable to suspension t-V- IIIU IllVliV f - WW V 1 hlJ T . effect the Works bei ) from every ordinary freshet. Onnhe other hand, the operations or the dam; and Iocs nunarea ana seventy-one ana a nan miiraj-...v,,.. ...x . umTa,mj; iB system, can only be temporarily obstructed the entire extent of the improvement, ani ves Jhere, particularly the Connecticut a by hihfreshets: but the time consumed by the tolls at three centsa ton per mile. fibove Hartlbrd, with the rivers just mention- such probable delays, is not likely to ex- j ceed ten days in the course of a whole voir or at most not exceeding the time " . . .- fV-Ula 1 -. -1. L.i.. 1 i --:.. r ice. " I he extent anU-Jcrtihty t)thcounry. on both s.fles'bf tbe river would warrant a I more costly and extensrve improvement i than that 1 proposed ; but it is questiondble if a more beneficial one could be effected llii- auamoi J uv' oiui.j uviii;; vuiuum, navigation by means of sluices, available at ; rivpr igrnj)-. that recommended tor ; aj.R pr0vidert, and which will yield a profit all seasons, would be an extremely difiicult jthe RoanQv,;'tbe former, however, -is much , vhen completed .equal, if not exceeding matter. irr consequence of the river not be-m r f,orab!e, the fall being less, with a . that of ai iy otju,r improremenrndw nronos- ing capable of furnishing a sufficient quan tity otV water during its low stages. The expense, during a lew years; ot the an--tional quantity of steam would, equal the difference between the two modes, and it would, in my opinion, be more judicious tp apply the cost of that additional ste-m-powerV to the construction of pennancnt works. ", "- ;' ' :.;'":V';-'.r- : ! ,( I concur in the opinion of tire present Superintendent of the Roanoke Navigation Compihy, that J repeated ana aear .uuugui evnerier.ee harffull V proven that WOlks Of xljiikmaXsTuW m-rfj -tt prTirgne seasons ;oi low W'a ter in the river ; and to attempt it at other times is a wasteful and almost Useless ex penditure of labor and money.' The capa city for the improvement that calls forth this remark was only for batteaux, carrying ten hogsheads of tobacco, and not a steam boat navigation. - r " Having satisfied- mvsell that a sluice navigation would-not answer the purposes contemplated in the above mentioned act, ft bf comes useless to give-a description of the different falls existing in the river; it is only necessary to advert to those relative posi tions where theworks require to be located. In advising a mode of improvement for steamboats on a river, the bed of which is composed of olid and detached rocks, iti indispensably! necessary to provide an am- pie depth, Vfiiti a sumcient wiatn tor a sale navisration.' It is also equally necessary to reduce the current to its slowest possible state, for the purpose of diminishing the ex pense of motive power, and for the propul sion of all ascending vessels ; and, to obtain - .1 -. . 1 - a I and successfully maintain, these important advantages, requires an improvement to be effected by a series of locks and dams, and, - at the principal falls, short lateral canals The dams contemplatedr rarely exceed in height more than the extent necessary to cover with a sufficient depth of vvajler, the obstructions oyer which steamboats will pass ; therefore, the injurious effects pro duced on marginal lands will be but small. As the abutments of a dam constitute a ve ry important part of it, the plan contem plated, in order to give sufficient stability, is to construct the ends, in connexion with the dam, of. smooth cut stone, forming ' a segment of a circle and dove-tailed into one another as well as joggled, arid the remain ins portions of rock-work, that below the water ia'id in hydraulic ' cement, and that above water in lime mortar. With the ex- ccption of the locks, the estimate provides for every part being done in the most sub- stantial manner ; and the plan recommend- ed is to construct the locks of timber, which will cost 400,000 dollars less than if con on- the inland traffic, and at the same time con- structed of stone ; and -which will not only which many of its citizens are deeply into-, in fhe northern section of Northr Carolina, ensure an eaHy completion of the wotks, ' rested, and the other from the town of VViU j and to the State at large ; on account of fa but also supply a I navigation, which wilt, mingtpn on the Cape Fear river, in whichcilities which it will -give to the Farmer, answer the double purpose of carrying on the State as a stockholder, Js more interest-' Planter and Manufacturer in sendine their method of improvement,too,by which much money is saved from the' nature of the 'cony?F;5"?uia oe directed, these connect- structures, the necessity ' for incurring UievipjinKs with the improvement now render expense of digging, embankiag, f aueducriif culverts,- bndges,- w quisite lor canals, being altogelaei' dipA--"t .ea.wiuj.-- , : - 1 -! " The cost of tran &c, on rivers by steamboats : ed as the eXDense appli exceedinr the cost of freight on the contern - plated improvement : and. after its com - oletion :'it would ' not be exaeratincr to ' 1 .7 7 n f timate the amount ot the ascending aiidde scending trade to be 25,000 tons, traospoi ascertained to be aoout one cent per ton, Fu,n 11,1 utie Wl" siaic mai xur. j. d. iiickh per mile ; and this may be safely consider-i( Brunswick, Va. U Tucker Carrington.esq. ed one hundred miles out of the whole omJat Navigation on the Koanoke4 Dan and 25,000 tons at 3 cents per'mile $75s0'p t rom passengers Income from water-power 7. or - nnnai expense of repairs perintendenceT&c. '' " ; - Nearly equal to'10 per cent, profits . . I, .. ...- . Rrrat diminution of width, which doe not exceed 170 yards. The fall betweeji the conttuence oi me ian ana oiaumwn ..c ; and tne onuge 01 uanvme w. distance 62 miles 2937 feet. It is a -remarkable fact that the whole j expense of the line of improvement now under consideration in connexion witlj the Portsmouth rail road on the east, a f an extension from the extreme point-ftust f pti ble of f steam na vioration. on the Daaiver. westwardly by a rail road to the liyiUon river on the line of Tennessee, cnmpr.siend n'i.L&1aiiC4j6f;? J400 wmileafiveithe. harbor of Norfolk and the above cfestjated point, would not exceed the e&tmo&?d cost of the Lynchburg and Tennessee - rail, road. A profitable line of rail road could also bf constructed so as 1 to connect the .- head of steamboat navigation inHhecounjy of jftokes, N. C., with trie Charleston and Cincinnati rail road, passing through a highly iivora- ble and fertile country, 00 the Yadktn aud Catawba livers. STAUNTON RIVER. communication is effected 11 tween this, river and the Dan by the tboroforhfare at the had of Nelson's Island. Asinailar mode of improvement is also recomrrtided. The fall from the Dan river at the liead of vr.i ti 1 i.'iL:. a .'t '! 1 neison 5 isiauu ip uit town oi orooineai is '84 feet, and the distance is 48 mills 4193 leet ; the average with does not excied 150 'yards. The whole distance of the contdnplat- ed improvement extends 171 mile? 2333 feet, and the fall 354 feet, averaging 'two to the mile, furnishing a very faVoi ablf result in support of the mode of improvement re commended. ) : " The whole estimated cost is $C50.1fi9 20, averaging 3791 dollars per mile, ,or 1833 dollars per foot fall." r The Report of Mr. Couty having been submitted to the Legislature of Virjjinia at its last session and at a time when it could nt confer or co-operate with the Legislature of this State on the'subject of the proposed improvement;-it' was doubtless for that reas- on. and not from an 'unwillingness to extend .their aid to the improvement, that ffiey de - erred a definite Action on the subject. It has been unfortunate for those citizens resi - dins on or near the Boanokeand Dan rivers, that they run through the borders of two'ture has given etidence of its disposition to Stabs,and consequently they have hitherto failed to unite in their interests a-majority.; of the people of either State ; but it in view of the connecting improvements recently resolution r : j " -: made by the mvans of three Rail Roads from Whereas,, the improvement oi the navi- Virginia running" to the Roanoke and two'gation of the Roanoke and Dan livers rs Rail Roads from North Carolina to the same deemed by this Convention an object of the river ; one from the Capitol of the State in ed than in all Other works of improvement t f prosperity ana independence of the Ppjfct m wb hirb a verv laree portion of IIc irginia and this State are imeresiea. Appointed by the Roanoke Navigation Com pany and the latter by the citizens of his eTs-town, visited the Northern and New Enir- - nd States with a view of a?certajning the t-Jprobable practicability of successful. Strain . " f?! rePori tu"l m Iavf ' 'e Pcu: v 'cabilily and expediency of rendeiing'their i;iirria unvigauic 1111 oiTuni Duals, UUU IIJCV also give evidence of the lare profits lleriv- - -f linemen rpu'ireiitn i vnur fnm i-utt I consider i the proposed improvement no longer a subject of doubtful.expediencv, or a thing yet to be tested, buf one 4 which can Le(J or in pi0iri.ess j3 N Carolina. Water navigation when convenient and practicuble it not the most expeditious, ist ibeVond dotibt the cheapest mode of trans- ipnijaMon now in use as an evidence of th; your c eomrni'tlee would state, what is doubtless known, to every mrmbrr of the Convention, that produce; is now carried from Fayettevilie '0 Wilaiingion, and frum Milton to Ualon and Weldon, at a lower ia'e than on any Rail Road in the Union, and this too with all thf disadvantages' and obstructions now attendant on the navio;a- ilion. .of Ithoe riversv Froirr MUton to Gaston a distance of up wirmy pi mi-hwidred miles by vat:r and noarly that far;; by"? lahdf pro ducers now carried, in Batteaux at'the rates of twenty-five cents per hundred, while theisame price ts charged from Gaston to PetetNburg on the Rail Road, a distance ol Only about sixty miles. Another advantage of -water navigation is, that every one who can raise a sufficient capital to buy a boat which will cost forty dollars and emplov two hand, can participate; in its benefits by paying the ordinary lol s on the river and if the proposed improvement is made one man can fasten his Batteau to a Steam Boat, and in that wa have his cargo earned safe ly and expeditiously : Upmarket and isturu in the same, way.- " . " There is something noble 'and animating in improving our rivers, j They are the na- turai outlets ior wo productions ot evejjc country, and they always lead--16 great thoroughfare of iiationjfluand near them often abounds a rich and exhaustless soil and embedded in the hills, ar?d in their vicinity is foefhd rich mmes.of ore of it- ferent kinds, and coal for the supply ot fuel. '-"'.'" '''rr?'.: The Rail Roads in trjfs STtate connecting with the Itoanoke will jafford the'mcans of con veyl n g 1 11 to t h e i n tevior of the State, the flour from the upper; country, ah article which is in much demand, and that is pro duced but to a very. smIl extent in the miil dle and lower parts of N. Carolina". C ; Your committee have reason to believe that the State of Virginia will contribute a large portion .of the aid necessary in the contemplated improve nent, in so promptly . directiug tne i$oard ol i the necessary surveys aid tne improvoment. ; In conclusion.yourcommiltee recommend anoption 01 tne ioiirwing-preamoie-ancr : utmost importance to the citizens residing various productions to market, and to the Merchant and others i(a receiving their sup plies from! abroad ; and to the latter on ac count of the deep interest whichf the State and its i citizens riiyel in the stocks of the Roanoke Navigation Company the Wil mington and Raleigh Rail Road Company r and the Raleigh and Gaston Rail Road Company rtfie two fetter of which connect whereas this Convention believes it to be due toihe reoDle of that section of the , - ;,e-j-."; J.aaajti0nxo me survey ana, re port, mad el sportatiori of prodon rtb- tiogirjeer appointed by-tbe-Boafcii with lighters Mfualic Works ot the State of Virginia, your icable to. and not iarksville in the Same State, the lormer -Wisdnler their navigation ov ice kffrnf. . M State, watered by the aforesaid rivers, that a portion of the funds of the State set apart for Internal Improvement shall be appro priated to the improvement of' the naviga tion of the said rivers,' . . " : v Therefore resolved, That jit? Je, and is hereby 1 respectfully recommended to tho General Assembly of North Carolina to co operate with the Legislature of Virginia, and the Roanoke Navigation Company, in the proposed improvement)! of the Roanoka and Dan rivers, so as to render tbem nasi 2-ahie.bv.htea:n"Boats of liht burthen. w 11 ... rfYgnrr. lnhmi .,1. T Till . inr l""ri'l'l f "..... ... Raleigh, Dc. IS, 183S. Faom the -United States' Gazette :.,' REM ED V FOR BURNS. To the Editor of the Gazette, ' Dear Sir : I have so often seen remediej for human ills given to the newspapeVs.and then at once consigned to oblivion, that X have for a great while hesitated to present ; this remedy, to the public. ; For fourteea years I have prescribed it, J and witnessed. . its healing effects.., I deliberately say frpra fourteen years experience that ho disease 61 injury to the hurnanystem has a more cer tain remedy than this for the -.distressing of , all injuries, that of scalds and , burns. The relief is almost instantaneous irom a mm ute or two to halfan hour, will usually find 4-flI relief from nain. No matter the ex tent 01 'tt ihe skin is rei moved from the body. Jlie nrsritwiedge I had of it was the almost miracuioujr-vjl of a little boy, who fell into a half hogsheatj of boiling Water, prepared for scalding tha bristles from swine; The entire person and limbs of the boy passed under the scalding wafer up to' the chin, so as to scald hi?1 whole neck. On removinsr Jiis clothes.! nearly all his skitr followed from his necki hands, arms, chest, oack, abdomen, and al most every .bit cf skin from his lower exV tremities. In this deplorable condition, li terally flayed alive wilh scalding water, the femed was promptly applied, as a momen tary application untji the physicians should arrive.-- TwoVminent physicians soon C3hYtf and on- learning the extent .of the scald, prorrounced it a certainly fatal case, and directed the boy to remain .tfrhh the reme? dy over him until he bhdulri die. In sii weeks he was restored well, with scarcely! a scar;, on any pait of his person or limbs. The remedy increases in rvalue from the fact, that under almost all circumstances it may be obtained.; It is as follows : -Take soot frOTfc a chimney where wood is burned rub it hne, and mix one part soot to .three pai ts or nearly so of hog' s lard, fresh butter,' or any kind of fresh grease, that is nofalt ed ; spread this on linen or muslin, or any cotton cjoth for easier and more perfect adaptation. If in very extensive burns or sralds, the cloth should be torn into strips before putting it over the scald. . Lef the remedy be freely and fully applied. &tt as perfectly cover all the burned parts. N(5 other application is required until ths patient! is well, except to apply fresh applications of the soXH and lard, etc. 1 . In steamboat .rit.wtsTetnFiJy can in tieji1f'c-ses be at once applied, and Ifllbne many valuable lives will be saved, and a vast amount of suffering alleviated". If you . and the corps editorial will hand this remedy around the country, and invite attention to if, and that also those who srf it may give their testimony for or against, I feel assured that in a few rrionths thj most efficacious and almost unfaitihg reme' dy, will be every where known and used in the United Stales. ' - ' . . Jlr Physician Philadelphia-: V Tennessee. The Nashville Banner of the 29th ult.Vsays :;,vr -jg.vrr . " . The Cotton crop is almost a failure.- Competent judges think that the amount which will' be' shipped from this pomt, can thousand is regarded as a liberal estimate of tYia n mnn rt 4-ioT will rrr itnwn TJlc art frirXtf rivers. There are conflicting opinions as to' tne crop or ine vvesiern jjisxnci. doihb estimate it at twelve thousand, arid others asjiigh as twenty thoosaad bales. The last is probably nearest the tViai& The Tobacco crop is inconsiderable. : After much enquiry we feel satisfied thai the corn crop, in ttie agjrregate,-is consider ably 4argr than has been supposed.' Abund antly sufficient, we think, ior home con sumption at lower" priees than are now ahtr cipatedV . . . ",". : ; ' - '. . ' -; . i Pork is-easily procfured' at .$5 to 5 50. . V " The Banner says that the money market in that quarter is tight beyond all precedent. -i . f- m .. r t - t The right spirit is at work in North Caro- lina; we will yet risefron ottr low estattv and under its operation be redee rried. : Ma nufactures are springing up in every direction,-- new step in the field of enierpnzo baa been lately made, in- the establishment j of a .Woolen Factory in Fsvttevilfe. The Us no doubt, but-that it will beconie a 1 nrofitable branch of enfernriae-.- !
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