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V 1 1 1-1f 1 ti iitr" ri-i.'n'arl v tli ! t Wtk IM Vt TV lii'.ti'li. mi X rt'nflu'' l 1? ttiki 1:1 v. iit- in f'liiy l Hi!! utnl MilllM.i uiii! iiiil'Mt:iiilii'i; ti'l inii'i Min'iit in tin ritiin. !' !' ! iaS'lTit in lii ul'ility t ii(iit'ii r 1 1 liiinn i 1 li'" wrMiv, in fiUilik, fXt'-:.' tilik'. ( U"Tiitilit' I ! 1 1 . I'll I'ljttt, Vu'h at. iti . A r. 11 : On) Business Cards. 0. a. Y.ii'i, J i tlrr in Irv (Soods, (ii" ! H.it' .'ind ('.!. lioots and Shoes, ll.iil Wan itinl t n t In , E;irt hen Ware and Moiii- Waif ; r.iion, l.aul. Flour, Meal; Cook i m.- ami I'arlor Stni: lion, NaiN, Whm ait-, and a general assortment. Low tr Ca-li or I Si rt r. All kindsof ood country produce wanted, at hi.n Stoic, South E!3i .Sttcet, tileetKolo, N. i !'. ly j f. itoiti:iio, VJ M.ii-if.n in i ' Mid Ica1i-rin (Jlv'AN' K STONES . iiaki.oti i c. I ' '' I i pi. I.ip'iy ftlfcnded to. Shop ci.itnj . i i.i'i iii.'l N . i t it ( 'ai'.Siii.i Kuilioud. All v.-ill; ue i. t 'w'.":iiiv Sln.. delivered Mi the !:... r..... I'l.' ,!: F ( II K(.K. "JO-lv ;ko. ii. ickh:. t'HA. ;. il.t.luTT. Hi:i:it a co.. 1 .n.MMlsSHN MERCHANTS M ITholraU Liquor llcalrrs, No. 1-. R.-ai"ke Synre, N'..it'..lk, Va. (.n-i. niu.'iit! of f uiiry .i".lii and general inert liiiti'li-f -i !';. iti il. A Kt.-fk of Jim.. Liiiori. Wiln-. i ., a!.:-. . .- : l:ii;.l, 1' . .-::le at nasoiiM r. " :U:0.m 1 iMttntiA iMto'i iii:ies. J I KO lsON ri( Ki.iis im) in; ;i.i:ns. Wli".i'(ile t ri n e r and f " i 1 1 1 1 ii : n Men l,au!. Libel al advances u.ai'eon rotiimiuieiitx. Cor. i hurcb and Wide Water Sn., Norfolk, Vh. Col". I'mlt lllnl I'.otelinill St-., Baltimore, Mil. r.ir.in luylor. .lartiii A Co. w in fi rj tin I Ihnlir In llitrdwuri'. C'utlcri. Iron. StVel, llrltlnc Vm Klnpr. Vngou .11 a -lilal, &.(.. Comer Main Street und Muiket Sipmre, Norfolk. Va. A!! (inoii- old a; Nw York I'rieeH. ItLOin W.a'FABHEB," WATCH MAkl lt JKWK.LKR, (ireelifboro. N. C, Hit" i ont,,i.tly on band a splendid ii-cortmeiit of Ftixhiimttblr tfetct ln. i 1 1 1 1 i-otne ii!endid Uilfhu AND CLOCKS. W'hhh trill be sold ' I I E A I I'o r CASH! I '.eii,ir M.icbiiifK, Wati bex, Cb k"4 and ,Tee!i . i i iiii i In ai. an I on idiotf notice. C.ili 01.1.0. to ti e tiid Albri-ht Hotel, Kt M.ilkef S're. f. lo-ly ill ruini a iiicotii Las. J ;;r Main st. Kh.hmoMi. Va. Mi!i i:'.i."iiir." ! d Viiiie.ile deali r in I'aper, I-lour ;n'k ainl IVil'".- Wrir'iir. trappinu and 1T 'it .lii" l'.i et -, F.ll ';) e, Twill. IlllltlK Book, Ink-. Ac lli.'bert ;:i ivket 'i '. e- paid in Cu-h for Rag. i : rm in;iii. DAt.CKI.KI.W ARTIST. . Rei ett' illy inform bi ftietnl- and iiMomer that lie ia.iiiii at lii old tatid, opposite the (.'oil 1 1 lloii-e. and will ("'"'iii'i f r two Month. He will b".' pleiiK'd to ,av i!n m call on Imii. I roeifl'oi i. Jan. I i.. T.V0" A M.r. A JOIIM, Sl.KU ;kwi.k AM' DKAI.r.Rs. Fi'-ii.!. Ni.im rvnu n. 1.Vh Ma' i Street. Rich mond, Ya.. haw tbeic usual up.p!y of Fresh anil Waiiiiiite.l ;:irlcn rlw," all kinds of Field and ( it a Si i . -. C ta . early and la'e. Onion S. tl-. a-nt a t in li e selection of FLOWUK M l !-. We ('ot.fniii:' iv a--i! tlii' oi;i Seeds are Tlit'K and ItKMAltl.K. to wli'n li we buvo the t ptinionv ct' l'hnMtt! of citti'mer" in Op. pn- three year. JV (iutdeti and Flower S.-iU aiw sent by A I I. alVly and expeditiously to any d'rn-t.c.i-i . ' ... . O ,r H....rimii'P i.i i 1 Catalogue W ill ent f t.. '.-e lil.lre&i liasket CoV. STRAW- HF. KKY HOXKS. 52:ltir O 'I'i:lli:, di.y goods (ii.- en,., ami .. vi neiali-oi tment of all Good" keit in tin- Maiket. lo. a ;ood .'ifsorl luetit of COOK 1 NO STOVES. All of which will 1-u sold cheap for C?AII or it vnri.it. 4' t i i: l lib 1. 1: . I On receipt of C rents, will id tiv n .il ii id.it.- with vour name aWlycut, with ii k nnl linirh in uiaik'nK all kinds of cloth- II rr n titt s-a -n i lie weens dopo ratriot. j Established in 1824. B. C. PHILLIPS, TOWN CONSTABLE. Will rvwlve all papers in hi line, and attend d atten 50:3ui promptly to the collection of clainm. J. HILDESHEIMER, General Produce Dealer, West MarLet St., (Xelrtr Old Stand,) GreenNboro, IV. C. IIavf.IH;neda PKODIX'E STORE, at tlie alxve named Stand, and will par tm hiplient t'ash price for all kind of COl NTIll l'IKOIt;Ci:,urli as Com, Flour, M. aI,15acon, iVae, IWiik, Flax-Seed, &c. In fact t-vrytbiii blotiifiinr to tli'n line of buVniCH. ltZJ'l'hr ritieim of Town and vicinity, can buy tb'ir provision at mr t?tor at a vory email jwr cpiitmp, for CASH. " 4rf::hn J, HILDEBHKIMEH. C A II I M: T-.tI AKIA U I and UM)ERTAKIN(;. ' Ifuving in my employ, Mr. TIh Mock, one of the l.vot workmen in tlientat, I will laruntevall ord-n in the alove line to (five ratinfoction. A llrartt and ready-made Vofint alwaya ready. (VI clialletif couawtition either in work or j.rnw 29:ly WM. COLLINS. OHTII-CAHOLI.A 1500K BINDERY AND BLANK BOOK MANUFACTORY Raleigh, N. C. North Carolina Rej)oi-t and other I-tw Bo'ki Bound in Superior Law Binding. Mining Nnni herv Supplied and Odd Numliern taken in Ex cbaiitte tor Binding: Trial, Exrution, Minute hii1 Rxcordlng lo ki-t Made to Order, Order may b left at Patriot A- Tlmr OtI'ot'. 211 JOHN ARMSTRONG. oroBooiv. n C.W.OGBUft!t. feNSnoRO "Valentines BOOK STORE. At The. Farmer. In the ttwrat of thy face t-hnlt thnu eat bread. CHANGE YOUK SYSTEM OF FARMING. I The system of farming heretofore followed in this State when slavery uevailed, will no longei pay expenses; and it is absolutely necessary to enquire what changes and improvements can e introduced in order to make the cultivation of the land profitable. The writer of this, who has been a careful observer of the various systems of ag- riculture pursued in other countries, and in different States, with success, will point out a fewoftho more im- portant changes that arc required. 1st. fjreatcr variety of erops. The I range of cultivation is too limited, em- ! Luacing very little more than corn, ; wheat, cotton and tobacco, and not : only exhan.tingthe fertility of the soil, ! but exposing the cultivator to ruin , wheu these crops fail. Sometimes, as : in the eastern counties of this State ; during the last two years, the corn crop fails, and miserable suffering is ' the consequence just as the almost! 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 exjericncel in the northern r v provinces of the sam5 Island, because Ansicw. our lolks ought to know there tho farmers had adopted the im- nl1 ab,)l,t tl" M' n:bs- alv rall (1 proved method of cultivation, and fol " w,,si" lltilt lal tatt!' seldom have lowed the system which science and them, that the cause is supposed to bo exierieucc dictate, of having a regular le egg of the horse llv." and that rotation of crops, so that potatoes, they come out in warm weather. The however productive and profitable, remedy is to keep in good llesh. could only occupy, at the most, one- j j,.. (om,uih. once went to a gua tenth part of their cultivated land. no establishment .n business, and see Thus, on their failure, they had still inj: a ,,,. j nitt.1Vli avard, where the other nine-teuths of their produce r saw two sloop loads of Long Island uninjured, or even greatly increased j san,i l ing unloaded, and men engaged in value, to compensate the loss. In this State too much of each farm is occupied by corn, whilst the cultiva tion of rye, barley, peas, turnips, pota toes, cabbages, clover and the various grasses, is neglected. The cultivation of too large a proportion in coru de mands much expense for labor, aud exhausts the soil, thus leading to the poverty and ruin of the farmer; and then, if the corn crop fails, as all crops occasionally will fail, he has no reserve or other produce on which to fall back. -ow, me oovious remeuy is to plant X .1 t 1? A l il a i.u gic.ui-1 yunvii, uuu uiusgieau- ( i. - i .1 . .; .i difional chances ior profitable cultiva tion. And, besides, the various crops recommended above will not all do maud labor at the same time, but af- ford constant occupation, all the year j round, to the laborers and horses, and i thus greatly reduce the average ex- pen ses of the farm. ! -d. Utic implements and machine cilh the labor of horses, as much ax pox- ; iti'Mr-, and cmpfoy just ax fete laborers as you van. In the times of slavery, tho labor of servants was preferred. They . were raised on the farm and must be : employed there, as they must be fed j and clothed at any rate. But it is quite ' different now. Large wages are de manded, aud trust-worthy laboiers are scarce, whilst the work of mauy would j not do more than pay their wages ments in thv new State of Iowa than leaving uothing for the employer and ' in Germany, Spain. Italy, Turkey, Rus the owner of the land. sia, Africa, and Asm. The farmer must have a fair interest for big capital, or he 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. Let the corn be planted in hills, or far apart, and so regular both tray that the plow and cultivator can be run across the field, as well as up and down, and thus all the work necessary can be done with very lew hands, and in a more rapid and efficient manner, for a quick stepping horse or mule will has ten the laziest laborer, aud give less opportunity for idle conversation than the old hoe. Be sure to purchase new, good and improved cultivators, harrows and plows, and feed your horses well, -ways under your otcn cye and you will find that twice the work can be done for the amount formeily expended. J). X. C. Standard. TtteXeic Fabric Plant," The Ramie.1" 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 sting ing nettle, and resembles the hydran ga, without the flower. Planted like '.i iMI . il... 1 ...."il. i . luul 11 m,h lMt uu,ul lumN winch may be taken for layers; It i , i . i ""'rs mncn. aim it may ie propaga- mi Irom ln0 'wlil ,s iur times as n,,u h J,s 1 '; whole stalk ,s ueu' SUMl im lllun ls e(l,iai 1U U8 ,al,ru' to 's,'a lslal,u rutlon- w,llch 11 ,s a!le-l'(1 11 vnM Wcdc. Vineaar.K. Munson. Sennett, '. Y.: will von inform me the speediest lnethod of makiu;: vine-ar out ..f new cjjt.r ; Would a new pine cask allVct The taste i Anwer. If cider is made fnun earl v ;, poles in August, or the first davs of September, and put in a warm place. it will tut 'it to vinegar in a tew weeks. If made after the nights get cool, it will take several months, or, if placed -m tji0 ,viar, years, but wh n it comes jt will iu. jrd. A jiiue cask, unless strong with pitch, .mght not t make the vinegar taste any more than bugs, Morms, and tobacco -cuds iu ihe apples, Oruhx at ons Jun-u. l.. IS. Ilight shol, Mexico. Mo.: W hat is the caue ' r,l"-i " ba-u ate mere oliiel .' ill lnolx' so"u' '"'lls 'll,au vm "Hth-; in fat .r poor ani iB there a lemedy ? mixing it with the guano. Some one came up at this juncture and asked what I wanted. I said 1 did not want any of that guano. They said they made that for Long Island farmcis. and I had better clear out. Minnesota farmers an raising live lences. lhey use cot ton wood, gray w illow, white maple, black oak, and l,:,,m- From t,,m' to uv "ears ' are sufiicient to raise a living fence to ! l"tect the helds trom stock Durin-. the wartl.e Lebelsn.adehorsi " , 4.ol,:ir nn,:1u. i Jin(t 11(u t I...v are r. 'commended for general use, for they are liirht. thev do not iret heavv with rain, nor freeze, nor wear out, nor gall. On settling the Cape le Verde b lands the people cut away the timber when severe drouths, sometimes of three years' duration followed, ami more than 30.000 people have perished v. Itli famine. Queen bees live from three to four years, the workers nine months, ntnl the drones until they arc killed. Raspberries are said t grow better if planted in rows like a hedge and cut back to a bight of three feet. There are more agricultural imple- '.it -... t THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1869. SPIRIT'S RETURN. The floral son ia calling The dewdropa hence on high, From brook and lake and river The vapors seek the sky ; Earth gives them up relunctant ; And faint with thirst and heat, Mourna for the chihlreu of the mora, So radiant and so float. But they hare not forgotten, In Heaven's aercner ray, The beauty ad the brightness From which they fled away. The dew remembers fondly The sweetness of the rose, And tho spirit of the rivulet Its early music knows. And when the earth is fainting And weary ior the rain, In showers ot love aud blessing They come to her again ; With cool, refreshing lingers They bathe her heated brows, high And the song that they have learned on Through all her being Hows. Oh, dare we take the lesson Of the dewdrop and the raiu t Do the angels who have left us Return to us agaiu f Iu Heaven's eternal sunshine, Renewed and purified, Do they keen the memory of the land In which they lived aud died t When we ariso from weeping For the idols we adored, A And our lips repeat with fevor " All, all shall be restored !'' Arc they not beuding o'er us With more than human love, And whispering to our inmost hearts, Of holier joys above T 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 bo shed, Till we follow up the rainbow path, Whither our loed have tied. For tho Greeiuboro Patriot. THE ECLIPSE IN AUGUST. KV S. C. COLLINS. The reference, in a 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 probably overlooked by very many because of its brevity, has suggested to me the thought that a more extended notice will be likely to greatly increase the interest with which many readers will view the total solar Eclipse in August. .10'.). I am further encouraged to invite the read ers of this paper to " a feast of science," by the reflection that the rare occur n nee of the phenomenon in question will, when known, make it attractive to many who would otherwise not bestow upon it more than a passing thought. For though a solar eclipse, total at some point on the earth's surface hap- oens ahnost venrlv, vet so often does the shadow fall upon the uninhabited regions, that ninety-nine men of every luinhed die without ever having seen one. At London, me sun nas oeen totally obscured but once during the ast seven hundred years; while the ast entire solar eclipse at Tans occur- red one hundred and forty-live years ago. There probably is uot a person in this State who reecollects having witnessed one; and a large number of those who shall be permitted to behold that to which I refer will certainly nev- .i i ? i . a.: er 8eeanotner. it is mis consideration of its novelty, added to its majesty, that must render the phenomenon in- ttinrr t tho ...nmritv nf thnsfl who will :iin, it r for the multitude can- ..... ......v.-,.., - not be expected to share tho anxiety of the philosopher, who, bent upon in- creasing his knowledge of the sun's - . . . nature, and conscious that his lite will afford but the one opportunity to do so, naturallv looks forward to such an event with muchemotion. The people of North Carolina are as happily located for viewing this eclipse as thev could have been had thev been given choice of situation ; and it V . .i , . is pleasant to think that an exhibition to witness which great expense has rroib will lss ns c if to force a recognition, before our very doors. When,twoyearsago,in Philadelphia, I made mv calculations, I could not T . hope so conndeutiy 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 , . c 1 Baikal in Irkoutsk. Asia, 011 Satrda the 7th of August, at about halt past ei dit iu the evening; and as soon the ignorant inhabitants .,, , ' , the sun rises of that region will have cause to won i i ill no l ii n wiiii der at a relapse of approaching day in to the darkness of night. If we follow the line traced by the .router of the shadow as it passes over the earth's surface in a north-eastern direction to Behiiug's Straits aua over that water, we shall have the point at which it will i nrst touch N. America. After contin uing its progress in this direction for $ time, it will take a south-easterly course. Skirting the Rocky Mountains it will pass through Montana, Dakota and South-western Minnesota in order, nearly trace a diagonal across the State of Iowa, aud traversing Illiuois aud Kentucky in the direction of a line drawn from Springfield to Salis bury, reach the borders of North Caro lina. Let it be nnderstoood tha.t it is the centra of the shadow which will follow the course indicated ; and that at the points within the vicinity of this line the eclipse must be complete. In deed, at places no farther removed from it than Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, eleven digits will be obscured. Commencing at the north-west, the shadow will cross, iu order, Watauga, southern Wilkes, Alexander, Iredell, Rowan, southern Davidson, Montgom ery, Moore, Cumberland, southern Sampson, and Xew Hanover counties, and wiil finally leave the earth's sur face at a point in the ocean distant about 800 miles from our coast. The center will thus be about 60 miles dis tant from Raleigh at its nearest point and about the same distance from Greensboro. Though the eclipse com meuces on the morning of the 8th in Siberia, it is visible here (strange though it seem, without thought,) in 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 aud a quarter before. darkened the porcelain towers of Chi na, and that none of the inhabitants ot Europe and Africa, and but few, in Asia and South America can share with us the spectacle, (the eclipse be ing invisible in all of the two former and in parts of the last two), cannot but increase our estimation of the priv ilege we are enjoying. The late houv at which the eclipse becomes visible to us may render it less striking than it would be wereour position sufficient ly to the north-west to allow us to view it nearer the middle of the day: but we shall have the satisfaction o living the shortest day of our lives b. tucen the dawn with which the obse -ration will terminate and the twiligh; which must speedily follow. It is pv sible that some may be disappointed in the intensity of the darkness t'; eclipse will occasion : but ii is proba ble that the fowls will seek their roost:-. and subset incut l v ov crowing announce tho supposed approach of a new. day An old man of eighty-nine who hap pens to call while I am writing, says that his lather was once compelled rest on his plow while the unexpectoi night passed over him. Such is th outline of what may be expected to oc cur in connection with that most sub yunv and the rarest of astronomical phenomenon, a total eclipse of thei sun; i in vhich 1 hope many may take co.i- Suierable iuterest, in as much as the afteiition given to such things isalwa . 1)r0nortion to the intellectual ad v.incenieut 0f a people TCNNF.L OF THE A LPS AND CANAI of SCKZ. inese two great won m . a. 1 r ,- ;1 nd..r tin ,ii1Vetioii ami impulsion of French I 111" Hdll."'l " .. ' " cenius, hasten to completion. The Tunnel will he J-'JO men j o mciiv l" ' .r., .., . . l.w. At fhn Iwimriiiuirr n IMi'.l 'I. HU i,,rt!r'i were nu l si led : .)..o. oiiuieii-i j.u, si,it., and ,".S03 on the French side, During the past year l,3i0 metres were perforated, or 1 10 a month. The remaining ,ot mnn. .it iu rjt wiW mjllin. twenty-eight months; so that by the middle of April, 1871. the miners from the opposite sides w iil tuezCanal will be completed sooncn A Marseilles paper, on the authority of the engineer, M. Borcl, states that it will be finished by the 1st of ( )ctobcr 1S00. That la-time quired bv tho contraet. under a )ena t f r)(K0otVancs for each month's del: y. 'yw contractors do not intend to int ur that penaltv. They know they can com- olete the work bv the dav stipulate d, phtcwe wor e have over 40,00 ) miles of railway iu this country. The average life ot a railwav sleeper is set-n vears. 1 lit re "lwVj L mile. The average e st i8 50 cents each. Thusour sleepers are costing us ? 150 a mile every year for each of the 40,000 miles in the Lniou. The sleepers on the English roads hi; t lourteen years, ami wh,n ni.0lerlv treated w ith preserving sub as stances, thev last for a century The wooden structures on the farms of this ,.,)iiiirv cost -3.000.000,000 ev rv thir v - i - . . vears. or . 100.000.000 each vear. J. the use of simple and cheap presen tives the duration of all this woo l could at least be doubled. Thus the care and the saving for which I pler.d, ! on such a scale as w ill permit of its find, urging piteously, yet with vto if generally practiced, would save this beingiutioduced in America very short- lence, that he too by right is a troop country 84,000.000 everv year in mi! i lv. In dveing. thisis one of the greatest horse that he too is willnig to charge road ties and 50.1 K.10.000 in fenciag and farm-buildings. ' "I. Urn Series No. 53. SOUTH AMERICAN LETTERS. (EXTRACTS.) NO-II. Carthagena, U. S. Colombia , Aug. 8th, 1503. ) My health appears to be entirely restored, and the trip, from this place touChoco" (up the river Atroto) has been to me quite au interest ing one, on account of its being my tirst visit to a part of the country, of wnicu I have hearl much said daring the past 10 or V2 years, and of which many stories have been told, that to a etrungei seem almost fabuio us. "Ell Choco means in the Indiau tougue the land of gold." Aud indeed it is; for the banks of the liver Atroto give unmista kable evidences of tho aurifer ous depoiiU X50 miles below the City of Quibdo. The latter place (Quibdo) is tho head of navigation for boats or steamers ; and is about 2S0 miles from its mouth. It contains a population of about 1000 inhabitants, is situated upon a high bank of the river, some 40 feet above an ordinary stage of wa ter, and 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 are all whitewashed, and most with tile roofs, and balconies projecting from the second stories on the river side. A mile above the city (from any iou.se on the river side) you see the routiuence of three rives at the same point. The river " Quito" from whofe source to the summit of the Cordillera of the Andes is only two hours walk, where the Pacific isvisible.) Thcriver Atroto'' in the middle due south, md the river " Cube'' from the east the sands of all of which rivers, on be ing washed yield gold from 22 to 23 carats fine. There are purchased in Quibdo every month, about 30 tons of India rubber, and from $S,000 to $12, MI0 worth of gold dust, all the gold is trom river washings, and it all contains from 2 to 3 per cent, of pure i la Una in ep.irate scales small and whitish, oearing a close resemblance to silver, f he gold is all extracted bv panning, nid such a thing as a "Rocker" or long Tom" is unknown. The native Cauotr-s of from 3 to 20 tons capacitv. ;ake from 35 to 70 days to make the trip. We went down in 5 days. run ning time, or 97 hours, or including delays 7A days. Quibdo is the port of entry, and nany articles of produce &C-., such as Flour, Snap, Cocoa, Brandies, Wines, Sugar, eve, are imported directly from A spin wall. Near the mouth of the liver on the sea coast, is a settlement of Indians of the San Bias tribes, who raise hogs, fowls &c., and cultivate cocoa ami corn. The settlement is .'ailed k Cainan" which means in span idi "Alligator." The " Captain," or Cacique of fie tribe came on board our "t earner, to pay us a visit, and sell half a dozen fowls. He was accom panied by an Indian Interpreter who spoke a few words of Spanish, but managed to make himself understood. Thf. Confederate Archives. The follow ing paragraph in the Colum bus (Ja.) Sun, with which Mr. A. R. Limar, who was clerk of the Confeder ate House of Representatives, is edi toriallv connected, is doubtless from ..f that irentleman : " "aN ' ma,lc " UlHISlUOIl OI t i . I l : :i: r ;ome of the most valuable and impor ant documents placed under his con trol. The writer ot this had under his immediate control the most general, important, and interesting archives of ,1 t 1 ;t, ; ,miin,..,i 1 .id.? i luiiiiiMu n,i imiiu iiviiiit.(ii aistory from its auspicious begining at 1 1 (i iiiii m 1 ' f 1 1 1 in ijuu at Montgomery to the disastrous close at Bichmm.d. The congress had left it to Mr Davis to sav when, how, and .here the archives should be moved. Upon application to Mr Davis a few davs previous to the surrender as to " .' I what disposition should be made 1 .... .1 hem, w e were informed bv his private ........ it. n .' , t 1 . i secreiar inai -ir uavis nau pacKeti ,one of the papers of his office lor re, moval. and that we should wait lor luither orders. The orders came on Sunday. The papers w ere packed and went on the Presidential train. We ti,.,t ii,ftv ra uitt 11.1 1 1 ..1. I'M II 1.11.(1 I.U , .1, V'V'.JfcX it present in Y ashington citv. deposited iu this City (Charlotte) one tune, but whether they have been einoved we do not know. Lharlotle 1 Democrat. ; "Blvk-uvon Wool Tliedillicuity , uf fixing a permanent blue upon wool I has bun suceessfullv overcome in Eng- . i land, mid fmntire blues are being com a i pletch superseded. The patentees . working night and day to supply the mm, must be iound in the ranksj and ' demand, and are making preparations he rushes at the first squadron he can dicoveries of modern days- So i the circular of a large Liverpool house, must and will "fall iu." SOLOM02TS TEUELD BXHTTMED; The London Tfsfe nnbliahna an in. teresting fcttef inregard to the diaco? eries at Jerusalem- from which 5 We se -lect the fouowingrThe colossal foun dations of the temple wall, which are scones ot ten cubits and stones of eight cubite' laid by Solomon or his suc cessors on the throne, are now being laid bare at the euormous depth of 90 feet and more beneath the present sur- ine unage mat once spanned uue ru me oeiween tne palace of Zioa and the temple on Moriah is how prov ed to have been upward of 160 feet nign. it this be, as it seems, the as-. cent to the House of the Lord which Salomon snowed to the Queen of Sheba, we can not wonder that on seeing it there was no spirit in her. The pina cle 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 Josephus is therefore na exageration. If any one looked from the battlements iuto the valley ho woidd be giddy, while his sight could not reach to such an immense depth. Sections of the ancient wall of Ophei have been exhumed, allowing that, as Josephus &ay it was joined to tho Koiithast angle of the Temple. Aque ducts, cisterns, rock-hewn channels and passages have also been discover, ed within and around the harem, throw, ing new light on the buildings, the nr. rangementa, and tho sen-ices of tho temple. The great work of a complete exploration of ancient J erusalem is thus fairly and auspiciously commenced. The opportune visit of the Sultan ana grand vizier to -this country, and the representations made to the latter by the Archbishop of York, followed up as they have been by the energy, tho wisdom andtaot of Lieut Warren and his admirable staff, have soothed down 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 beeu trained to the work, and are eager to be employed; aud the exact points for successful exploration are now well known." ALASKA We have seen numerous descriptions of our newly acquired possessions in the extreme North-west j but none so graphic, quaint, or pungent as tho fol lowing, extracted from a private letter of an officer iu the United States ser vice , who spent several mouths cruis ing along the coast sf Alaska last sum mer: I wonder what Seward bought Rns sian America fort If I owned a nig gerand could catch him up there of his own free will, I would certainly either sell him or let him stay there. The scenery was very grand and wild too much so, I think, to be en joyed. You go hundreds of miles through inland passages, not wider in 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 been, and where no sensible man will ever go. The w hole coast is fringed with anet work of such waters, enclosing archipelago alter archipelago of islands from ono mile to fifty 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 Survey is n good institu tion, and has done, great service to tho science of geography, and it is possible that it may have been in the scheme of Providence to give a it perpetual lease of life; certainly if it is ever exten ded over that wilderness of waters, tho officers may exclaim, "A thousand years are as one day "in such an un. dertaking. .. . This is one good thing. There is an other. The timber on the Globe is exhausted. There are enough cedar trees on many of the islands up there to make the telegraph poles for a line a round the globe. Say the line is 25 000 miles long and we 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 d not know. A HORSE IN BATTLE. Kinglake, in his "History of tho Crimean Invasion," gives the following graphic description of a horse in battle lhL extent to which a charger can i. 1.1 "i r , ... , , oikitn.lioitfl tlio iw.vilu tF I..iOa fliAA I t ...."t .v.if,-i v 1 n vioiiu ill IVA u y u, ..o " " 3 V"" rscBiui "B lu7r " ;;' ' ' "1" " " , 'V-' . ' - , T , m 1" .-......B,jr ir m 1 irru'ir rufnir mill I,., rrsw.u tk.,nl, . 'r1 "T t ! fiffht llllll'Ud Vllinrlwl OC tlinurrtt if- " " , , , ; , , were a held dav at home: but the mo- ., ., . , ' , . . "' 1 ! " " C i , ' . . B HU ill.,mc.' , ' T ,1Cr V . i .. . ? , T ' !" ,.. " " B. lZ( (1 wlth horror of the fate he may In. - Vl r , C 1 i r, . 1 .... .v ...j ... v a.mv. 1UIIIIU1I 11 11111,1, he shows plainly enough that be more at 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 oi a uuuet or round suot he C t 11. shrinks and cringe. His eyeballs pro- trude. ilu with fright, he still does not commonly gallon home into camp. i . - . - ins instinct Reems rather to tell him are that what safety, if any there is for savs but not to be left behind that he

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