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Mi 1 I yM .BDiriSDBSr.PAPB yy PUBLISHED -WEEKLY PHICE Two Dollars a Year, JB1 Postmasters are allowed ty la? to frank letters containing remittances for newspapers:.--' .Cv , " No paper -will "be diacontinued .nntil all arrearages are paid, except at oaQpnon pi wae editors j I ? f:2LdvertlsIng Rates. One squaretwnty; lines) first jnser- ilotfj One Dollar, and tyenty-five eent- for every subsequent insertion . Court Orders and ; Judicial advertise ,ments will be charged 25 per cent. bigU r. jiA. liberal deduction will be made in of tandin ;TiKenTCSntsi,TH" HHE Subscribers having" become : contract---,ors for carrying: the mail froni Salem to .Reidsville, in ilockingham County, N.C., will commence running two horse coaches on the lst day of July next ,"from Salem "by "Winston, German ton;. Walnut Cove, -Madison, Plejkaantvillet : Wentworth, to Reids ville and back.'three times a week.- : ' Leave Salem on Monday, Wednesday .and Friday at 8 a. m'-vVr immediately ifter the arrival of Bland & Dunn's daily Stare from Salisbury, and arrive at Reidsville" next dav at 8 a.m.," in time to take; J. Hoi derby Co.'s stage to Danville. "i ? " Leave Reidsville on Monday ."Wednesday and Friday at 3 p. m., or immediately after the arrival of the stage from Greensboro', and arrive at Salem next day at 3 p. m., so 1 as to connect with the daily line from Greensboro' to Salisbury. 1 Those persons who may wish to visit the PiedmOnt Springs, ; near Danbury, will be conveyed therefrom Walnut Cove, by Wm. A. Lash, Esq., Tvhoi has consented to do so. We will have good coaches sober, care ful and accommodating drivers, and hope that we vrill be patronized by the travelling public. WHITE & BANNER. Salem, Forsyth co. N. C, June 0, 1853. TO THE TRAVELING PUBLIC. . The subscriber begs leave to inform the public, that4he line of FOUR IIORSB POST COACHES between this place and Wsirsaw is still in operation, notwithstand ing the low stage of water on the river, and the lawSf Congress in regard to passenger boats. The time of arrival and departure is as follows : Leave Fayetteville daily at 3 o'clock A M. Arrive at Warsaw at 3 o'clock, P. M. Leave Warsaw at 10 or 11 o'clock, A. M. . Anive at Fayetteville at 10 o'clock, P.M. M. McKINNON. . Fayetteville, June 11, 1853. - - 18-6m STATU OF NORTH CAROLINA FOESVTH COtNTV. Court of Pleas .and Quarter Sessions, V """'"; June Term, 1853. . iliCiS U11U I f divisavit VS. Menoah Gwvn. f vel non. - TN this: case it appearing to the satisfac Hion of said Court,, that Theophilus Vier ling resides" beyond the limits of this State: It is therefore ordered by the Court that publicafeion . be made for six weeks in the People's-Pres8, for said VTerling to appear at the next Term of said Court to be held for said Forsyth .County, at the court-house in Winston,-on the 3rd Monday in Septem ber, 1853, to sec such proceeding as may be had in relation to the last Will and Tes tament of P. P. King, dee'd. Witness, A.' J. Stafford, Clerk of said Court,"at office the 3rd Monday of June, 1853. A. J. STAFFORD, c.c.c. 24-6w pr. adn $5. Mail Arrangements. Northern four horse coaches. Arrives Daily at 1J o'clock, p.m. Closes at 9 p. m. Southern four horse coaches. Arrives Daily at 7, a. m. Closes at 10 a. m. Western (via Wytheville,) two horse coaches. Arrives at 2 p.m., on Mondayr Wednesday and Friday. Closes at 1 1 a. in. on Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday. Western (via Jefferson)-two horse coach es. Arrives on Monday and Wednesday I .t 4 p. m., and Saturday at 10 a. m. Clo ses at 11 a. m. on Tuesday,-Thursday and Saturday. -; - : Reidsville two-horse coaches. Arrives at 12& p. m." on Tuesday, -Thursday, and Saturday. : Closes at 9 p. m, on Sunday, Tuesday, and Thursday . -1:, ; . . r Martinsville, Va. Ilorsemail . Arrives at 6 p. m. on Monday, and closes at 9 p. m., on Thursday. . y . ' ' - "-v O. A. KEEHLN, p. ; ' Salem, Julyr16, 1853. . . r- 19 r DECK AND POR.T; AR Incidents of 8H?ruise to California, with sketches of Ria Janeiro, Valparaiso, Li ma, rlonoiuia, ana. Ban r rancisco. ' By tfev. waiter uoicon. ' ror saio Dy . . v;.k4;BLUMX SON, CASTINGS MaUGearinffK'Smndles Gudgeons, Cranks, Iron and Brass Boxest &c.,.cast to order. Also Corn Shellers,"'5fheat Fans; Threshinc Machines, bortablerand atation- ary Horsepowers, :of the ;mpst approved Salem," Aprilr 1853. f "10 A LOT: of superior Window -' Paper, " different patterns, for sale by " July-24-tf " . " " BLTJM SON. of New; Stage Line; niscixLAKiious; .Tolcanos their iCauies IgnedTa -.With our -ideas of volcanoes we always associate 'the v'grand fand t ho --terrible; and a volcanic, eruption-l a huge Apiece of artillery, with a mottthj perhaps, a pJ I in circumference shooting up rocks and ty-three principal Tones y still,they,are confined to'certain locali(ies,which. oc cupy but limited portions of our globe. The question has 'often -been asked, "what is the cause volcanoes ?' "ylnd truly, whcn'we consider how disastrous sie . of these' eruptions have been)'' no wonder the .question jpf .t eir "cause has iyen forced upn the attention of alniost veryi reflecting mind:, tit Is ne'well ouruing lava-pis truly a tennc sigQc.--Volcanoes ari eaccSeaiVJjj . plentiful ca our planet, there v '. kss tiian six- worthyotiojai speculation and requires fteftoath robbing heart, one voice sweet considerable amount of scientific know- er than all the rest: whWra ' Mt ledgevt6 investigate,and! this raay.be usefully employed either jn pointing out errors, or presenting new'fcts. " Various Opinions have been expressed respecting their origin and activity One thing is certain, tKey are in no ' vay connected with solar influence, for they exist under theJ tropics bf South America,- and are found in the frosty regions of Iceland. It was the opinion of Dawin,; that the volcanic district of the wtirld had earthy crusts resting on lakes" of( igneous melt ed matter. Humboldt behoves that the volcanic region of Quito, in South Amer ica the whole of that vast Plateau is a single- volcanic surface, 'composed of a solid crust covering a lake of molten matter." buch opinions, . however, have nothing to, do with a general theory, of which there are two on is astronomi cal, and asserts that this earth wasorig- many a nery vnoiten mass1, ana that we live onits crust, beneath which all is molten fiery matter; the ther theory is chemical, and asserts that'they are caus ed by explosive materials' deposited in u; i .i i i... uugc ijuauuuts m voicaqic locaiuns ; and which, when saturated bv some means with oxygen, and ignited, act ex actly like ah rxplosion Of artillery. Liebnitz first suggested that this earth was originally in a fiery fluid state ; Sir Y illiani Herschell afterwards suggested the hypothesis of matter ibeing orignal- ly in a nebulous state, which, by con densation, developed great heat, and our eartli became a fiery ball, the surface of which we now live upon being a mere crust, theTest not being cooled yet which when reached by water, causes an explo sion nice a steam boiJer. This is the ne- bula igneous theory. The author of "The World Without" states how easy it is to account for vol canoes by lhi3 theory, by saying "ac cording to the ', fiery nebulous theory, the earth," at a depth of sixty -five miles, is 7000 degrees temperature, and if wa ter percolates' through fissures of the earth, we have a sufficient explanation of earthquakes and Volcanoes." - This theory is unsoundL and wilf not stand the test of scrutiny. The argu ments adduced to prove that the interi or of the earth is a nery molten mass, is, the increase of temperature found to ex ist as we descend in some mines, which is about 1 degree for every 45. feet. Ac cording to this rate, at 25 miles depth, the melting point of iron would be ob tained; but we have no facts to prove that the heat of the earth increases reg ularly to the. centre: after a certain depth it is perhaps unifbrjn. What sig- nny me - experiments maae in a lew mines not over 2,000 feei deep. From observations made by Kottebue, Beechv, ua &ir james Xioss, tne tact seems to be established that the waters of -the ocean (it is also matter) are uniform in heat, at the depth of 7,200! feet. At the depth of 100 fathoms, as stated an Mau ry's Wind and Current Charts the tern perature of the water in vthe cruise of the Taney," was" 64 while at 50 fat h oms, one half, it was 70.- tin the sound mgs of the sloop-of-war Albany , at 680 fathoms, the temperature was 81, while that of the air was 83. and at 995 ("5, 970 feet) fathoms it was only 80, while the temperature of the mr was 79. Now if it were true that the heat in creased downwards, at the rate of one degree for every 5, feet, as asserted by il Za.1. A J. . . suiuetueu wtu a temperature oi air at 79, the water of the sea,! at 5,985 feet ui ueuiu wumu ue iue upiuug poiuv 212. Instead of this, it! was only 80 at 5970feetf only 15 feet less.,. How does. this accord with a uniform increase of heat as one descends' into the matter composing the earth ?. j ", . i v Dr. Daubney and Sir Charles Lyel are advocates of the? chemical theory, and the latter is a decided opponent o ine central tneory oi neat, it is. wei known that when potassium is dropped upon water, it causes an; explosion ; if, in certain places of the earth, there were large aeposits . oi tms meiw, v ana water percolate to or "come in contact with it, a temfic explosion would ensue. It ap- i :i . ; t ' pears to us tnat volcanoes, are local, ana generally -preceaed by eartnquaKcs. . jl the centre of the earth' were fluid, ac cording to the well knowri law of fluids those earthquakes, caused' by volcanoes would effect equally' ever j' part, of the ear'B 8urface, a thing which we know iney qo not,- s , Our attention was directed to tiis sul ject bj ' reading some aceounts of the Ire cent erupdon of -Mount Etna. . There is no positive certainty respeoting the real cause jf Volcanoes j but the general, yea; almost universal opiniorf expressed by writers on the "subjects-is ihat water in some 'Way ' is an 'active.agent in a eruptions., 17ater, however, la.alllikjel liho6d,Jexef V no agency batever ! nd a strong argument in proo '6t this, is, .that Jn.the moon'; therfls neither. air. nor, water, and yet thev&cVrioea of t 9 earth , are mere . d warf s onipared 'with those on our saVelite. Our'vjewsViheri. are distinctly, opposed tojthe j -evailing igneous theory and we, choosL, .Ithe to pleaoignorance bf-the cau"sea"bf.Tbl canoes than adopt anv tfieorr whieli can not standoff .tesVpf - acifiutifio analysis J' toyimiijic American.- r - comna none. t .Glad words 1 -The waters' dash upon the tbovr of-the"gallant Yessel 5,AJ stands'on the deck, anq while the winds woo'her ringlets; " looks' 'anxiously . for the .Jbeadlands or homer "In thought there are warm lissea ;on her lips, soft hands on hertemplesr 31&ny anus press tmryitnci.!- i . - . . - . . er than child !M -t---- , Coming home I Full.to burst- ing. is her young heart, , and she seeks the cabin, to give vent.to her joy in bles sed tears.. - " ' '.. : Coming home 1 The best room is set apart for hi chamber. Again and again have loving hands folded away the cur tains, and shook out the snowy drapery. The vases are filled every day with fresh 'flowers, and every evening tremulous, loving voices whisper, "He will be here to-morrow, perhaps." At each meal .the table is set with scrupulous carev The newly embroidered slippers, the rich dressing-gown, the study cap that he will like so well, are all paraded to meet Lis eye. ... That student brother ! He could leap the waters, and fly like a bird home. Though he has. seen all the splendor of utucu cmes, lucre is dui one spot that fills his heart, and that spot he will soon reach, "sweet home !' Coming Home! What sees the sun brown sailor iu the darkling waters ? He smiles 1 There arc pictures there of blue-eyed babe and its mother. He knows that even now his young wife sings that sweet cradle song. VFor I know that the angels will bring him to me." . - He sees her watching from her coU1 tage door; he feels the heat of her heart in the pulse of his own, when a familiar footfall touches only the threshold of memory. That bronzed sailor loves his home. as an eagle whose wings sec" oftenest the trucks of the air, loveabes Ms moun tain eiry. His treasury are.-re. Coming home. Sadly and worn Cal ifornia folds his arms and sinks back upon his fevered pillow. What to him is his yellow gold 7 Oh, fur one sweet smile of kindred I Hut that mav not be. Lightly they tread by his bedside. watch the dim eye, moisten the parched ps. A pleasant face bends over him a rough palm gently pushes back the soft hair, and a familiar voice whispers, "Cheer up, my friend, we are in port, you are going home."' The film falls from the man's eve. Home ! is it near ? Cn he be most there f A thrill sends the blood circl ing through his limbs what I shall he see those eyes before the night of dark ness settles down forever? Will hia babes fold their little arms about him and press their cherry lips to his f What wonder if new vigor gathers in his man jycuesw ne ieeis strengtn in every 1 -1 TT J" 1 . . nerve: strength to reach horn e--strencth to bear, the overwhelming joy of meet ing tnoso dear ones. Coming home 1-. The very words are rapturous. . 'ihey bear import of every thing sweet and holv in the domestic life nay, more, they are stamped with the seal of heaven, for the angels sav bv tf O , . - .0 VUA.U UVUIV Olive, Branch. Handel's tuning fork was sold recent ly, in London, for sixteen dollars. - At the same sale a violin, of remarkable excellence, brought twelve hundred dol- ars. .. .. The total amount of coffee shipped at Rio Janeiro for the United States, from 1st July, 1852, to 1st June. 1853. was Dags. ....... r, ?, . - A single pound of flaxen thread, in tended for the finest specimens of French lace, is valued at "six hundred dollars, and the length of this thread is about two hundred, and twenty six miles. One pound of this thread is really more valuable than two pounds of gold. Large Mau of Pure Cotnoer.K let ter, from 'Eagle river Lake Superior. states that there is a mass of pure con m . r K m per in ine norm American mine, which was tnrown down on the 8tb insUnt, for ty two feet long, twenty feet hiffh. and two feet thick- the largest mass of cop per ever oeiore uiscoverea. - - . The Cgtton PlanL-r-VrokaaoT Schoow traces the history of the diffusion of the cotton plant and cotton, with a tolerable degree of probsbility to . erioda before the birth, of Chris tw hen it was confined to Itdia. Herodotus; who , lived in the fifth century before Christ, relates, that ine uuiaos pjaqo meir cioioa ox. a woo. groTn on a plant, , . .... ... : ine xiesnaer-iixe aomevement -o swimming the Niagara - and again, re erosfiifig,' at a abort distance below the eataract, was performed by J; V; Thnra as,' Esq., the late Editor of the Biook lvn' DailyAdvertiser. . n if dnr"-"r r ' hi 61 t3.:;In crc .Jed cities.. " or in tLt. viuihy;4he effect v- generally iaicri 1 to the rest r icJbeiDgs, - wni rdclj an explanatL it waa, anpposad VV 3 ir-i!iff. whr cav; rise fr, T :fntn :-par. -"'wbn c f U grea t plain ? A pu re 3. darr the Hhe fact t . fa- ; r !edirection of ' Jiaron-Humbolu y struck witb this pbc. t first ."seard the rnsb i r racU" of . the v0rmco bunding-the mission These sounds be regafi 1 louder daring the.nisrht flay. ?c Some authors esc the.cessatioa of the" hur.i ihe Kincing.of bir'',' on of the wir.'i on tv 5 Off Mlw MHuu.olit jH5UymaiBtaiijLthat ILia cannot be tbe cause otlt oft tl Orinco, where the buts of insects is much loud er in the night than in the day, and where the .. breeze never rises till after sunset. Hence he; was led to ascribe the phenomenon to the perfect transpa rency and uniform density of the air, which can exist only at night after the heat of the ground has been uniformly diffused through the atmosphere. When the sun's rays jiave been beatiog on the ground during the day, currents of hot airof different tempeiatures, and conse quently of different densities, are con stantly ascending from the ground, and mixing with the cold air above. The air thus ceases to be a homogenous me dium, and every person most have ob served the effects of it upon objects seen I l v v : t. t . . i. .i 1 luiuugu it vtuivu &re very louisunciiy visible, and have a tremulous motion; as if they were " dancing in the air." The verj same effect is perceived when we look at objects through spirits and water that are not perfectly mixed, or wuen we view aistant objects over a red hot poker or oyer a flame. In all these cases the light suffers refraction in pass ing from a medium of one density, into a medium oi duierent densrtv. and the refracted ravs are constantly chantnncr their direction as the different currents rise in 'succession. Analogous effects are produced when souud passes through a mixed medium, whether it consists of two different mediums or of one medium where portions of it have different den sities. As sound mover with different velocities through media of diflcrent densities, the wave which produces sound will be partly reflected in passing from one medium to the other, and the direction of the transmitted wave chan ged ; and hence in passing through such meaia, ainerent portions or ine wave will reach the ear at different times, and thus destroy the sharpness and distinct ness of the sound. This may be proved by many striking facts. If we put a bell in a receiver, containing a mixture of hydrogen gas and atmospheric air, the sound of the bell can scarcely be heard. During a shower of rain or of snow, noises are generally deadened, and when sound is transmitted along an iron wire or an iron nine of sufficient length, wc actually hear two sounds, one transmitted more rapidly through the solid, and the other more slowly through the air. 1 be same property is weu il lustrated by an elegant and easily repeat ed experiment ot Chladm's. When sparkling champaign e is poured into a tail glass UL1 it u half full, the glass loses its powerof ringing by a stroke upon its edge,' and emits only a disagree- aoie putty sound. This effect will con tinue while the wine is filled with bub bles of airj or as long aa tho efferves cence lasts; but when the effervescence begins to subside the sound becomes clearer and clearer, and the glass rings as usual alter the air-bubbles have van ished. If we reproduce the effervescence by stirring the champaigne with a piece of bread, the glass will again cease to ring. The same experiment will suc ceed with other effervescing fluids. Mechanic Juagazxne. . TaMU and iU Lions. " COSTU MX OF TUZ NATIVES. The missionaries who ha vo successful ly resided . there" during the last fifty years, have wrought a change -in the dress of the natives, especially those in the neighborhood of Papeiti. bull, how ever, their costume is sumcientiy char acteristic of savage life. Both men and women' wear a garment called the pereo; it is a sort of petticoat made or a color ed cloth and is fastened around the waist by a band. By the women it js worn long enough to reach to the ankles; but the men have it much shorter, reach ing only to the knee. The men wear a shirt, of colored cotton over the par to, and under it they frequently have loose tro'wsera. The upper garmeut is a sort of fall blouse. Both sexes wear flowers in their ears" instead of earrings, the hole in the lobe of the ear being sufEci ently large .to admit of the flower stalk being easily, drawn throngn. ine la hitiaa women, old aa well aa young, ad orn themselves profusely .with flowers and foliage." of which they form very tasteful wreaths and boqueta. I also frequently aaw.'men wearing wreaths round their. heads. , pa holidays and otber i live occasions, they wear, in ad dition to their ordinary, dress, an upper garment canea toe npw. maae of a materialf their own manufacture, prepared from the. bark" of this bread fruit "and cocoa-nut trees. C The bark nli ia n f taA fmm the tree iareat and pressed with stones until it becomes as thin as paper; alter wnicn it is col ored brown and yellow. - 1 e seat auHlilility r " at if a' pbenotae crest,; arid. one -V -ierefT- byrthe" '". Buying ca TzvmU t z'1: 7e have been looking for a sensible artide Joa' thb' iabject,-: and", have at lengtK. found : it-iw bope.itwiIl.be read in tamest,- and that an effort will be made by all ta aboliih a system that is working "dcsLmction to the Doorman. .M inffictihff -many; sore injuries and "poo. ut rcu . .vt copy ui ar ia the oil of the South r ; - -. -w . lso ' qn Tacsr. Among the variouacuatoma which - have - prevailed amofig -mankind, : there J it' ione more per' "tons" in ta "loperalions. - more anjot ed oppressive, than buying on. I nest the insertion -in yenr valuable pa tntif,nd then letting it stand for dsvtPr of the following itatcBent of "my andlmenths, nsyoften years, before it is paid - And in no 'place to which our acquaintance extends, .ie it ao common and ""general aa ia loutown towns.- It would -require but little effort to show ' th3 priucrt!.-?aJt"Tf is unlostr-i- Wh.en an individual sella an' arUcle. be expects to realixe an- advantage In 'an "uum wy. uui wuere is me prone, n he has' to wait six months" or a year be fore it is paid f - Is he not then robbed of his juatd ocsf But the caso becomes more oppressive still, if the person sell- jjg iuo aj-iicio ib ia iiraiiea circumsian ces, and depending on his income for his daily bread. lie1 needs the money, and yet it is unlawfully withheld.- Or suppose a mechanic 1 makes an article according to promise for his customer ; it is finished and taken away. - Now the mechanic is in moderate eircuraatancea, and baa a family dependiag upon him for daily support; he works hard to meet the wants of his customers, sup ported and encouraged by the hope of obtaining the reward of his sweat and toil ; and not possessing any means in advance, he hastens to complete his work, hoping to obtain his pay in. order to buy bis family bread, liutlol the work is taken away, and the poor labor er ia disappointed he must 'trust, he sighs in pain, not knowing where to obtain the necessaries of life. Is there justice, is there humanity in this ? Can any man, professing the principle of common honesty, pursue so disreputable and opprcssiro a ccune ? Is not this, for a time, robbing the honest mechanic of his doe 7 And by what right is it withheld? Has he not made the work? Has he nfft earned his money 7 Who will withhold that which is not his own, and yet profess to be an honest man 7 But unjust and ruinous aa it is to th person who is thus deprived for a time ot what is his due, ao injurious is it to tbe individual -himself b withholds it. It must be paid at last, and perhaps at a time when most nnsoitable. . Besides, it multiplies debts, increases Decuniarv difficulties, until at. last he finds himself unable to meet the demands of his cred itors, and, becoming a bankrupt, many i poor, honest mechanic loses bisalj. Take it, then, as you please, it is un awful, unjust, disgraceful and inhuman folicy. It has no shadow of an excuse, t admits of no apology. It is a relio of barbarism, and unbecoming a Christian people. Why purchase that yon cannot pay tor I by get an article that you must purchase on trust? Would it not be better to suffer, than buy on trust? It certainly would be more honest. We go against tbe .whole system, from be ginning to end. The only correct prin ciple, and tbe only honest policy is cath. True, a single individual cannot arrest tho difficulty. As others do not pay him, he cannot pay for what he pur chases. One forces the other into this unprincipled course. It therefore re quires a general movementthe nnitcd action of the community, and tbe gener al adoption of the cash system. In thia manner this monster evil could soon be removed, and with it thoae ten thousand erils which prey upon the vitahi of so cial life. How can a man feel like a gentleman. who is wearing and using things that are not paid fort iocs it not make - - t w w him feel a littleness, which an elevated, generous mind would not bear ? How can a man feel hia noble independence, who is conscious of hia numerous pecu niary obligations? Let ua be honest ; let na be generous. Let na frown down a system, however general, which is sustained by the sweat and tears and groans of the oppressed. u e go tor Ulan oceans it is nouesi and right -because it alone is conaiatent . I .-.i . ir j. .v who tnepriDCipici ot uormuij idu iruiu. Make tbe effort I It can te done; 1 t sooner endure privation lor a wnue. When once overcome yon will feel that . . you are a tree ana inaepcnaem man, and that so one can accuse you oi. ray ing wronged tbe poor, honest laborer. Once more we eay.we go lor the caan Srinciple, and shall use our utmost en eavora to remove a polioy that -has caused more tears! more dUtresa , and suffering, than any . other .existing etU. Owe no man anything ; .dd to others ga you wish them to do to you. ' A colored servant to one of our able divines' waa on one Sunday observed by his master toj very, busy writing da ring the discourse,; After service tbe elerr? man asked PeUr : . What were you doingwith your paper andpencil all the forenoon, feter r , , "Taking note, mawa.' ; ; N 'Let rue see them.- 1 ."NTa-ya-yas," maul said Peter, at he naased over the paper. -' The man of God gated at It for a abort time and exclaim "Pshaw. Peter! that all no'paenae.' jGolIyvtWOodcd' Peter, daff yt hat I thought all de time you wm Inhalation. hx Csssns&lszu . 1 y-' The; following 'jroluntary Jc ii c ratal of the- invaluable benefit of iahJiUr: for that-'dirt eatroyerrof Ce tratn race, consumption, waa '. written to "tha National IntellTgtneitrpt" -the gentle-, man "whose name is attached tail.. JMrV Andrews ia well known aa ooe of the most respectable and intelligent cttiaena or the DUtrtct of " Coltfmbu. :We gire it "an ineertioa'for the sake of suffering humanity;. -.' r ' $ - j A IoSaenced bv a sense of 'thantv T I ow to mankind, I would respectfally re- aister'ai illness and her recovery from consumption. During the fall of 151 she waa violently, affected with 'cold, followed y-a disagreeable eough, which continued aoma month, being increased by each additional cold. , In January, 1652; eTere-pxlBKxiianicc.l lajlhe eft arde and region of the heart, a'cecm panied with a violent congh; night and day. f Such waa "the -severity of the cough and the dXatresa arising -from. a suflocating "sensation on' ljlCg dpwn, that she waa compelled to sleep bolster ed up in bed '."'.. ... There waa great difliculty -in breath ing, thick yellow matter was coughed up irom tae loogv, occasionally mixed with blood,-and towards the latter part-of February nearly half a pint a day.- Her strength waa wasted, there waa great oppression of the cheat, with a rattling sound in breathing. Her face was flush- er with hectic fever, and the eyes burned Witb a peculiar brilliancy. Under such circumstances wo could not doubt .hat her lcogi were very much affected, and we had no bono of Lcr recoverr. - Such was her state at the close of February, with the symptoms increasing in vio lence, when she commenced inhaling "medicated vapors" under the direction of Dr. Hunter, and Dr. Wellealey, his assistant.. We hadnot long to wait for evidences of improvement. The cough toon become less severe, the matter we raised fram the lungs in large quantities without much effort, the oppression in breathing went off, hectic fever disap pcaied, her rest became comfortable, and her appetite and strength returned. - In a month she. waa out of danger, and in two perfectly restored to health. A year has since elapsed and ahi continues free from all trace of disease. The happy result we feel waa doe entirely to the use of inhalation, and under this conviction feel it .to be our duty to proclaim it to the world, and thk 1 deem will -be a jHifficient excuse for asking for this letter a place in your wiaeiy -circulated paper. FREDERICK ANDREWS. Tour obedient servant, Donbarton street, Georgetown. Georgetown, D. C, 1863. NORTIT CAROLINA RAILROADS. , . A friend haa called our attention to an erroneous statement going the rounds of the paper, in which the mile of Railroad in operation in North Carolina are put down at 280 instead of at least 400. The Wilmington & Raleigh, 1G2 milesj the Raleigh &. Gaston 84 mile, and the portion of the Wilmington & Manchester, lying within the State, over 60 mile being, cf .themselves, over 300 miles in operation. Beside these, there are the road connecting Gaston with Weldon, and with 'the junction on the Petersburg Road amounting to about SO miles -and the portion of the Portsmouth & Roanoke, the Petersburg k Roanoke, and the Charlotte & South Carolina, which are within our bordera, fully bringing up the. mile of road io operation within our State to the figure we haw named. The number of mile in coarse of construction, or proposed to be made, also exceed the 600 mile given. 220 mile of the Central far advanced to completion, and of which, between fifty and sixty will bo finished by April next tho laying of the iron having been commenced -ita proposed ex ten lion Eaat to Beaufort, and West to the Tennessee, line, the turvtya for which were authorized by tbe last Le gislature, which will considerably exceed three hundred mile; and the Fayette ville and Western Railroad for which the stock ia all taken and which wijth it branche or extensions, will certainly go over 50 miles making in all, xnueh nearer 700, than 600 mile. -. When these facta are taken m con sideration with the .large amount of plank roads mad and being made, it will be teen that rtorta Carolina is far from being to backward in the rice cf improvement a ia generally supposed. The tingle town of Fayetteville baa more mile of plank road connecting with her than almost anv other Mate ia the Union can boaat. Wt-iiptm. Journal,' . .TntYtua oiPxtxiLisct For a year, past the yellow fever ha been ra ging with great virulence era lb . coaat of South America and io a number of the Wet India island. At thetaland bf Hayti probably not lea than one hun dred American cfikers and teamen have died, bcaide a , large .nember, of tie Inhabitant. At Jamaica. Demerara, Antigua, La. it haa been very fataLr- Tbe West India. Engltsn Stet baa Jott many seamen and. several valuable e& cert cf the diordr. . In one caae a Brl- tiih ateamer lot aeventy-fit a men- In Cuba the ..cholera and 7lirsr. fever to-, ret her have carried eff thousands. On P. An . V Jbe coast otoouia America, ..wanei ro haa been visited, the British ccaenl, among other, failing a' victim to- the dredful"diordr.. At -hlaalao ithaa been, cuite reached N iial? and i. IsjtU st W Oilcsus-an i ':cadrcsaw ried off oeaxlv'aa rasnf 'Tic.iai aa da- - rvtr2 the'visiuUonof 1517; tier iwer persona cj tcaiocaoc 4 : Pigeoua svre. much more injurious to . the gardener and farmer than crowror anj other of the feathered tribe.. -IO said tiat a pigeon eats its own weight of xooa in a cay, ana pm . r-xuy a vegetable nature, -A. new acita,eld.of barley or' peaa i therefen; a glarioua treat, and will be raids ah&rt wcrlucfby a,tlock. t .The boys And farm , lads' bf Basse x, follow a .cruel andtra'ne plan. f thinning Coeka of ma'racdlngpgecoe. Going t9 a garden Or, field likely , to be frequented hj thtaeanixsalafor the take of plunder, they, atick into 'the ground small piecea of paper,. Jwirled.' into tie sh apeof af unu d and poi a t d e nd & : wn mosC'-Jnto tacbeef tbtte japerf-fcla---i. they place a" single pea. ";. -' The boys having left the grcundthe pigeoni toon arrire, and cemmesoe lock ing about for food ; and teeing peat rea dy, aa they imagine for picking np, they pop their head into the funnel, which. sticking to ttrea, tiey lift up and imme diately mount' into the air, aa if with a nightcap drawn over their eyea. Dnder such baplcaa circumstances they, tear aloft iu a perfectly straight line to ihm zenith, till lost to the eye of the btbold-' er in the tlouda How far the poer creatures thua proceed into the heighta of the atmosphere, it it impossible to conjecture. It it certain thty continue . their flight till nature it exhausted with in them and death relieves them from their mUery. " Down they then sink through' the yielding air like . a "bullet; and so straight upward. baa beenlh'eix course, that they -generally fall within a few feet of the spot whence they took their tight." . e do not remember of teeing this remarkable peculiarity is the flight cf the hoodwinked pigeon noticed by naturalists. . " i ... - Cork. 3Iany persona tea corks naed daily without knowing from """whence come those uscfal materials. Cork a are cut from large tlaba of the cork tree, aVpe- cvea of oak, which prows wild in the southern countries of Europe. .The tree it stripped of it bark-at about sixteen, years old; but before a tripping it eff, the tree it not cat down, as in the cae of the oak. . It it taken while the tree It growing, and tbe operation may be .re peated every -eight or nine years the quality of tLe Lark continuing each rima to improve at the tge cf the tree in creases. When the bark I taken cf it it ilnged in the flames of a itrcng f r and after being soaked for a cocaidera- bla time in water, it it placed coder bea vy weight to order to render it straight Ita extrema lighth'ea, the etae with; which it can becozspresacd, and ita eluU ticity, are prop-ertiea so " peculiar to thit substance, 'that no tffectual tubatitute for it haa been discovered. The valu able properties of cork were known to tbe Greeks and Romans, who employed it for all the purpoeea for which 'it Li uaed at-preent, with the exception of atopplea. The ancicnla mostly ued ce-. ment for stopping the mouths cf boltlet h-t . r . ' . crvessejs. ine cgypuaot are cava .it spread on the inside with retioout sub stance, preserved dead bodies from do- . cay. In modern timet cork wat tot gen- erally used for" atopplea to bet ties till about the seventeenth century, c cnt bein nacd until then far tLjtp r ;!?: mmm i - - Science for ETcry-DaT Life. ' A variety cf interesting and import; zt papers were read before the. " -r:.r:n f Soentifio ' Association, duricg :t h'.e . aeasiOT at Cliveltnd. . W. H.; -1 : i ?, Esq , of Cincinnati, read an evsay, "I'.-A " discuxsed the indication of weather, sj l i ahown by animals, icaeeu and plant; ' and waa full of facta, many cf them ntV, and of acientiflo1 explanation of them aelres.' Birds, f it atserta. . invariably -show by the way they build their neati. .whether a season it to be windy cr oth-- erwiae. 1 . If the former, they thatch the' neat, between the twiga and lining. If' the latur. thay omit the pTecaotioc.. If a dry teaaoa i ia proa peetj they build ' ia open place. If a wat ooe, tbey" chooae aheltcred spot. A careful cV terration of these peculiari tie will afford. Mr.'Thomaa aaja; a-certain griuric early in epring, of the oming.wealher.,, Snaila alto reveal, by txreir. balitt,- whether rain may be expected or' tcL - Several tpecie of these animal in t aria- blyaacend the ttrmtcf plant two dijt be f era 'a rain, in order . to place thea telTea on m leaf, there to imbibe the wu ter, for they ntvtf driok. Otbeapeoea ha? i tubercle that riae from tbcir.be. . dies cencrally. tan day a before aviais,--' thera being a pore at the end cf 'e.cU L tubercle to imbibe the -water. -O tier grew yt Uowuh white jutt be for a xts9 Ar returning to a drxker color after Taia.'l ? Locuaia alao foretell rain . by s heller- ! Ing theifaelrea under leave ftrte, and io hollows and tmaka,a sscn tty . bythe change of tbt alcjhcft they , discover that raia.'i irexigl Jloat leave cf trtea .are al tarcaetrt? fsr'i if a raia, it to It ,1'gbttbey turn $n to aa W rtceire tMf tli eC water, Vbi for a roz jaln, UeyVdoul.tota'- U conduct iKa witcr airiT.. . - -Snctivr ' etTir7-JTty-tr-r J?rcvc- ; Iebc( flartfcrd,.rtsi a PTr defcri. bica rprir zcr b.t rv' rc, w b ciej . walert Txae iavtriaily b'ra av ra'a- n rarrftted that tbe dimiLuied attas i - - --V - - '" pberia prtaaure which-precede "arva . - . O ' ' a v r-
The Western Sentinel (Winston-Salem, N.C.)
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