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on TfJ-GARO xnoiis J. LEHi Editor ROITI ClIOLm-"rtwfrtl ia iitellrclul, wnl it lijjif a menim, 111 Uti tt m? lira u4 ktm I m ifTrttteu.' VOL. XLII. WEDNESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 13, 1851. TKBM9. If h1 strictly la aavaact, $S r u muni IS 9g if paid wlihin six month,; and t i at Ike eeru7ar. ADVKRTISIN'G-. 1 Sjua (1 Unei)lrttiiuerti.B, (1, sad It mhU for aseb. alMeiirat inwrtlon. THE ANGLO-SAXON RACE. The lt census, taken almost ninmllane outlv, of iha population of the United Slates and Great Britain, affords mailer Tor extensile speculation in the Ignition journals. The oc casion i taken to compare the law of progress among.thc races which predominate in tbc possessions of those two cuunlries.aseoinpareil with each other, and with other races. The results are published with a lone of natural ex-! idiclated his resolution t go ahead at all illation; for, taking as one race the multitudes j 13Z:lrd.. A Prilipa ,, t oftentimes de ,f European descent who live under British j dJe, ,,, r.lte f empires ; and just so then or American sway and spenk the Lngl.sh ,,, UuW wiw C01M.ullt,, ,,,, since lie language, they are the dominant race of the o .ulJn't break up llie match, it was best to . world, at tins time, in energy, activity ai.J lot ,hpm marry at 1()m(,, fe llej ,,,; ' power, il not in numbers; ami are expanding , ViM l0 ,,e t,)Ver and maUB the propositi, n such a ratio lint it is not a alnglorious I which was accrpied upon condition that the boast to anticipate dial .they will, before many nijiier should lie forwila, called in Kr sol jenwaliofnl spread their authority, I'.e.r inllu- emuile me nuptials. .X reverend gentlem - nces and their language, so as to be the con-, was ar()Hgei bv oll0 0f tua coipany, and in a ' trolling power in et cry quarter ol the globe. f,.w minulC!! ,,e noose Was indissnlul.lv tied " They have the North American continent al- J iU,m ,ilcir wckf.t Tle ,,. h(1,,.r re;n,,in. most uiidividedly, from the Atlanlic to the j ,., 1;in,rlllg at ,1C window until the morning 1'acine. anil are crowmng uowii tottie istlmiuTlaiii thev .,. !c no atte.nt.t. we learn . -.i. : .1.... . .11..... i. j w no 'luKNit 'i iic iia.t a strong iniu on the West Indie, and are now grasping ta-1 erl, for more. Thev have their ludumems'! in 8ouk America. They h h e their ports in the MwKl"rranean. Tliey hold South Africj. ?"The-v have planted colonies in Eastern Africa. 'itiey own a prodigious empire in Ihe East "' Indies, and streU'h a bell from island to island j round, .the worlds, .An. otlwir 4HgttagcTrjrfi- petes with theirs as Ihe universal tongue (if commerce in all the porn of the world; and whenever ihey who speak it come inlo tivalrv witit an antagonist penple, a sttuggtc coiii mences in which they have never j,et faileil to increase in the end their own power and do minions, Every occasional repulse has been follow ed bv a renewed and succsslul march onward. . 'I'hc London 'I'imes treats (ircat llritain as llie parent sl ue of this conijiicriiij: race, and enumerates as lliilisli or Aiiirlo-S.ix- ou lh whole pofmlarinn of Great nriiaiu and , acting i'i all respecs like an old stager. The all her dependencies and of iho l iiiied .Stiles "t tuple firing dius lied made hitn at itm-ens do ami all their possessions, ::s 'exhibited in the 'ile and uhcdiciit a any one could deyire. rensus returns. Esliinaliug llie population of llie Hriiish Island and Ireland it 'J!,t)(0.0.'lil, the Ilriltsh race ill Ihe colonies nt 3,000,00(1. -.d the citizens ol ihe United iSlali s ol Europe . an extraction at itMKMf.OOO, the "Time g ies on to say : Il thus appears that then, are about S.UO'I. 000 persons of British extraction, or of s jnie other European race amalgamated with them, occupying ihe geographical positions in ill aorld, possessing ihe largest maritime ir.ide end the imut pro.ltibte-- tnnmifaciures, enjoy ing the freest iiistuuUous, commanding the vastest extents of fertile territory and the rinesi climates, and icceiving llie services of many millions of useful auxiliaries, of various .-. .race and hues, liniug cidur in eomforfablc slavery, or wHIing-suhJeclioii, or dignified al liance. All . these person. oi'.,BritIdi;.!"-ijr aa thev are soiniMuncs improperly called, of Anglo-saxon race, hold substantially the some lailh, speak the same luiiguajre,eadjhe.saii(e. Hrbir.-ttc samrrMllrdiiTihe s iine Shakspeare, the same historians and moralists, the same modern poets, novelists, and essayists, and interchange their though: as freely anil almost as promplv aa ihe inhabitants of one city or village. .JngBttitjrJfaat,l Amlmfmf: inc oostaeiesoi tune and space, and common sense is drawing institutions every year to a greater similarity. These 82,000,000 persons. diyiiled. though ibej" at iy -cair ami jmliti' cal lorms, ere a closer and lar morj inlluen lial unity than any merely politic d combina tion ; and if any race may he said to be fo' tunale and ascendant, Xhis i that one. The London Atlienxuin enters into a more indiscriminsting comparison, and falls into the error which the Times, in the quotation above, family disclaims, of describing all those who are components of this mas of men speaking the English language us of the Anglo-Saxon race, ai.d attributing llirir perseverance lo their decenl from the Saxon stocky There n a K'Kd deal of indistinctness in tbii noneiicl.iture and it give currency lo very in -orrect ideas. There are millions in the British isles ihcin- selves in whom there is not a pint of tire Anglo-Saxon blood, but who ere purely ofauothcr race; and millions more who arc no more Saxon than any oilier descendants nt Ihe an cient Scandinavians; and in the United Slates, where the race apparently British, as decend ed from the stock of the United Kingdom jiredoininalcs, how many are tiiere who can tell how much of the blood of the Celt, the an cient Briton, ihe Norwegian, Dane or the Norman may have prevailed ovor the Anlo f axonifm. which cifes a vagua name lo the mixed races whose predominance we g.'ory in. .Something mnreithan Saxon destent is requir ed lo explain th superiority, for there are .continental n a lions, powerful indeed, but far ibehtnd England and America in the march to greatness aud duiuiuion, whose Saxon descent is much more pure and un mingled ; and some thing more than the peculiar virtue and capac ity of the primitive tribe which colonized end gave the name to England, else the shore of the Bultic would be llie seat of die widest freedom, llie highest civilization and the great est (tower ; and Uolstein and Jutland, rude and insigSiucsnt provinces, would be the cen ire of refinement and dominion. The gran deur which ia most boasted of the fsxoti race toes not prevail where the Saxon blood is ,'urcst; and though the germs of the freest in millions which mankind enjoy came lo ihem lirsl from the Scandinavian woods, it iin other f lines and in contact or fusions with other races, thai they were titltivulcdjand expanded. The Time i right, therefore, in o'jecting to !'?.5?Aoxlo:Saxon - Be--decTprrre'"of the "races" which he entinienttes as speaking Ihe Eliglish ljngu'jg; and forming a "unity" iu progress and iuduencc. Nome other. Iifirie -boiiIil-ijs'iieia.irB'' Tfthe arious race which, modified and bleaded, but with a prevalence of British ehar scuiristic and witli a common Bi-itUh'language, const! mn thsse filly-two millions. Neither Bnlish nor Saxon nor Anglo-Saxon, is appro priate. .Oiir ethnologists owe us a name that s romprehensive and at the same time dis tinctive. ' . A'. O. Pie. a fmotiHs cirr. 'fk Naeiiville American of the 13th inst P an account of a runaway match in ihyu tfp TTie Veuiig lady, after descending to 'e arm ofer bver, by mean of a rope lad- der, from her bedroom window, waa in the act of starling from the paler ml mansion, when ihe from door hurst open, and oul rushed llie I fa'her, mother, the balance of the children. wiih sundry darkyes, masculine and feminine, all en aithubtllt. I he American says : The racket was as great as that created bv Signor Iago, of Venilian memory, when he aroused llrahaniio, after the abduction of the gentle Detdemona. Our readers can imagine the rage and astonishment of the sire and dam. He demanded the i .s'arit iu rvndcr of his daughter, hut the young lover wouldn't hear it, nor the My. She was rs spunky as a wild cat. The father threatened the old lady stunned and almost went into hysterics. The Inver rmlltf drew a r,i,OiI frrtm hi, ki..ti, mil i I : J . . , to escape fyc sccuiid time. tlOW TUSl.: IUH, E A Vlt.'lUl S lHRSE.. A crrcspniKlent ol the iNew io.V'i om - mercial ' gives Ihe following account of ''' method adopted by an officer ol the I'mted wtrttes sen ice, lately reluniea trom Mexico, to ,""t ""e ..wVuiu,,,i,;. auuw tone nanuleu lor toe purpose ol shoeing:!.. . .... ,i, "lie look a cord about the size ol a common bed cord, put it in the mouth of the horse like a bit, and lied it tightly ontha lop of.lie.aiU' I'riaPs head, "passing lit lefi ear under the slritig, not painfully tight, but tight enough to keep the car down, and the cord in its place. This dune, patted the horse gently on the side of the head, and commanded him to follow, and ii.stantly ihe horse obeyed, perfectly sub lined, and as a wel'-tr, lined dot:; siillt'rtiig bis feci to be Idled with entire impunity, and i I he getuleinan who thus fu:n:shed this cx CKi'ding Simple means af suhtluHig a very dan i ,':,rou prnpcnsilv, iiillinaled that it is tin practice in Mexico and South America in Irnr nrainjTemcnl tif wild hfirsc.'-' ' IfiRICl LTlill. From tl rtecorder upp!uieDt. HILL-SIDE DITCHING. To Aciii sTVS Howard, Esq. Dear Sit i th my l 'tler-uf"ie4 5ih June, I proiuis.'ilin ni next in give some of the rea sons why the svstcin il.ere dieribcd was bel ter than any of the gr it variety practiced to prevent Hie washing of bur' l! -lJj ; to answer a lew of ihe prominent objections to the hor izontal culture;-and trr show -why none ' of ihe various systems iliatappropximate toil, a ml intend to supersede it.'aml hy their votaries -tUo-ghf-to-be eqntiHv goodpif-rrmrbcrtsrrw HI do. Whether I shall be able lo satisfy you and others before whom this communication will come lint the system described will do what is cla imed for itl the. seq.uel.fluly will -piano fteViam t am that! shall not be able lo shake the faith of the anti-improvement, knock down and drag oul, kill and cripple advocates. Tliev are so joined to iheir yanda) pojcy,J thai it is quite as well to let them enjoy the (to thein) sweet reflection, that when they ire done with a piece of land it will do no one else any good that posterity must do as they have done 'akecareof themselves. To surh I have-not a word- On them ar gument is thrown away, and proofs demonslra ble are not understood not for a want of ca pacity, but f: om a determination not to be con vinced. l,ike carnivorous animals, they seem to have a nulural propensity to destroy. Befoie an impartial judge, I feel confident that ihe system will be sustained.; and believ ing that I have one in the person of vourelf. as well a many others, I srill with cmli J.'iiec. proceed tnt the task. -Mar -down- in the mlsctr the premises that no fystem of culture can secure the land from washing, that d ios not prevent ths wa ter from embodying itself; and thai any sys tem that does, will protect it from any mate rial injury. To prove this po-ulion, vou may take, oi imagine to yourself, a field that is a perfect inclined plane, (and I intend the word peiferl to have the benefit of lis lullest signification,) and suppose the rain to fall rm it until the ear II is fully saturated the balance must flow off as a mailer of cours-. The plane being perfect, the water -imturolly flows directly down it, and will be equal al all pninls, form ing a thin sheet atl over lho surface, no thick er at one place than anoilier. Because of the Derfertness of the plane and the water falling equally all over it, il will of course move off at all points at the same lime ; anu lor me saino reason the relative position of the dif ferent parts of the body will be perserved un til it ha all iu succession passed over the low er edge of the plane. i moment reflection will atisfy you that nine of the palne is washed, because the mov ing sheet of water, equal at all pari of ihe field or plane, although perfectly inundated, is too light and thin to take with it any earth. The sheet of water, in its movement down llie plane, isnaver increased in hu'kor thic'inss. Iiy overtaking other water, or meeting with it from lateral dirociims. It cjn only be- in creased by the falling rnin ; and it is reada ble (o suppose that will l equal all oyer ...the fieTl. Thus you pereeiYe lliat the rain would have to fall fast enough to iiiireasi on ihe olane until there was i4 9icitnt weight in the An.I you inritier preceive, uiai n u .ini ail, it would bs cqnal at all pointa of tlie plane ; because it is perfect the hcet of wa ter of eqnal weight and thickness, and mov ing with tqusl velocity at every point. It 1 admitted on all hinds, that it ia not the water that full on laud that washes it ; but the collection of water from otfcer part paslng ovpr It in a current naving wngoi aim Triui a current having weight anil velorii IV. ' Notwithstanding the water lliat .lall MlMJltJLJainL mutn, mft-U in jaweror 4 - , . r V T 1 .-TtT7"!.. I".. ... Af ,k. m.1 iwnmiiwM a!hm. ttie"uppr sTde brdie pTarie"Tiaa lo pst across it, because of the perfeetnesa of the plane, aad the laws of gravitation, erery part f th beet ia made to preserve it relative position, and ean onlr be jnereaeed fcy fh,e falljnf ws- ter ; uence Uie sheet of water will be too thin ever to materially injure the land. Now, sir, if 1 hare nude myself under stood, the main point in the case is made nut ; and all that remains Ui be dons is to apply Perfectly horizontal rows, and perfectly paralted to each other, form a perfect incjined plane, no matter how many various directions they uuy take, or however serpentine they may be. The first, or guide furrow being lev el, suppose the land to f ill oue iiiuli in five feet, and the next rows being run parallel to, and just five feet from the gtiiJe rows, would make an inclined plane of one inch in five feet, and just so with all the other pirallel rows to that guide furrow. Thus the various guide furrows described in my communication of the I5ih June, are the governing rows, to which the parallel rows are run and when iroperly run. an inclined plane is formed, tak ing any one r.iw with the row next above and nest below. The necessary inclined or gra ded ditches having been made, the land bed. led up on ' a level, and planted if rem pfpasc, or tf"' f ntr 1 fiita i.Tiiier,''",wrH you suppose ploughed over- t ho cron to have beeu and tlicn, by way of tostim; your wo'k, von nave aneay tall ol rainrsul- fick nt, we will suppose, 1q, overrun the water furniws, or finishing furrow between your btfdiK We will not see the result. The rows btfing ji'vel, the w iter st ands in the water-fur- rnershr urn il e lietween t in rows pnnatlv Irnm' ..nft -,..1 t.a nlbnr : am! U'lien if pan lirilil 1 mliri.( paws over u,e nm hrow fri)m j 0e end to the other ; and just so with all the r()Wa jn ,,le (tM ir ,, th of lhe .at(,r farrow j, ahou, ,he g?lne, ?nd a jrooUJejfiLk TWWfve;r:- -p,, water-lurrow will overflow hill-top as on the hill-aide or in the valley ; and although, the same row may pass round the side of a hill, and through valley, imd over" TtlmpaWitVely "Tevcnatiil.Tt will overflow. nt all points at the same time; simply because the. row is level, the water re maining where it falls until ihe water-furrow is full. The water-furrows becoming full at the same time, they all (low over simultane ously. Thus a sheet is formed, and takes its direction down the different planes, mid is ffc ceivn! bv llie "ditches below and pjrnc out ol the held. Now, there wo.dd he 110 necessity for the ditches, if you could keep up your in clined plant perfect throuirh the field, which you could do but for ill various undulation of the 1 ijul. These undulations compel you t lute as many inclined planes as there are changes in the surface j. and not uufreqiientl v they lane ca.-li other or, in other words, in dine towards each other having bottom be tween them, reaching from the has of one to the base of the other. Thus you jiereeive that the water of these two planes must meet, unless prevented by a ditch. I mean then to aay by this system auch mn inclined plane is form ed, so that before the water can become em bodied, after overflowing the water-furrows, it 1,1 received by the ditches. 1 tried the horizontal system for several vcars without the. .ditches, and with -moderate ra ns my suecess was salirfaetory j but when Ihe rain :n in great as to overflow my wa rer-ftirrows, mfsctrief -vca - done to the land just in proportion to the extent of the rain. It is easy to iieremve why I did riot then sue Weil. " The VarTSU nicaiiiepfanes Tormed by the horizontal rows, over which the various sheets of water were inoi ing by the aiver- flowing of the water-furrows passed down ihcir respective planes ; and because of the drw-4lli"th'fmra tions of the land, the water was necessarily thrown into bodies, and a wash wa inevita ble. Properly graded and located dilchc are a sovereign remedy, and si u . 1 have erttled ihem with the horizontal system, my success has been perfectly satisfactory. Another reas in: i.i all rains, whether great or small, that do not overllow the water-furrows, the water is retained within the rows on which it falls ; consequently the water is more equally distributed over the fie'd than tl it was permitted to run Train the hills to the v.d!ie. Again by the falling of rain the lighter and finer panicles of llie earth are taken up and float in the watei. which is called seili- nietiJ, all of which is retained to the land rl the water is held hy ihe waier-furrow; and if the water-furrows overflow. even ineu mum more is retained than --by any- other system ; beo3ue as so)ii as the rain ceases, ihe overflowing water passes off bv the aid of the dilches the wa-ter-ftirr ivs retaining all tint they can hold the sediment contained in which is retained to the land. .vin Sv this system, a less amount of rain will suifire torn ike acrop. In all moder ate rains all the water s retained to the land, aud just where il falls; consequently moisture is longer retained aud mnro perfectly equali zed than if the water had been permitted lo run down ihe declivities lo the bottoms,) and in many caea out of the field. f,istlv land will retain its fertility longer under thi system than anv other; and if re duced to poverty by the old kill and cripple ystem, can by thi the sootier be restored and brought back U its maiden fertility all oth er things' being equal. To establish thi point one plain and obvious reason will suf fice J When a piece of land is first reduced to cultivation, if system should he establish ed that will perfectly protect it from washing, whereby all the offal froiq the crop would be retained to th land, it certainly cannot deteriorate a fast as if its soil was floated off by every heavy fall of rain. Iu the one case, iu fertility is only reduced by giving op the necessary quantity of food for the growing crop; while in th a other case the same thing i done, and the washing of the laid besides, which in wet years like the present, amount to much more thsn the necessary food for tne erup Tbaasamo- wtf- twaeeirmg-' will apply in reclaiming exhausted land. The m inure applied, save what is consumed by ihe plant, is retained in ihe land, If washing land is permitted to wasji, by the end ot the year the crop and the washing together will exhaust all the manure phteh mxy Jlsve been applied in Ihe Spring, More might be atd. but 1 deem it unneces sary. If the arguments already submitted are not sufficient lo establish the ground as sumed, other argument would be equally - i.ijH j. - rxply to a few of the most prominent obiec Hon lo the system, raised by . men who ad-. mil its utility but . excuse tliemselve from us practice for" (to them) many weighty, good reasons. Onvrv cornmoa objectK M, the number of abort row that neceMarUy occur in th honzontal culiivauW-Ile.liin tlut as much work cannot be done. To this ob jection 1 will remark, thai oa ordinary lying land there are t arany so much increases in length over what they would bo if run di rectly acToa the field, thai they more than over balance the short rows. In other words, I doubt whether a horse baa to turn aa of leu in ths horizontal rulture aa in the straight, save oa very knobby land. But admit that they have, and even one-fourth more, what it that compared to the saving of the land t Another objection : The ploughing cannot be aa well done on lliora sharp turns that fro quendy occur on very knobby land. I admit ihe force of this objection but contend that t'ley scljoui occur in ordinary lying farms. But een this should no deter us from trying I I save our land, and supplying the deficiency by a little more hard work at those place. 1 however maintain that gradual curves can be ploughed as well as straight rows, and n,tiite as much ia the day, and with more ease to die band aud horse, as they are all the time iniivitig' ffifwTcT." lint again, it is objected that this system re quires the constant aiieotinn of the owuer or manager lo have it correctly dour, and neces sarily consumes much of his time at actual la bor, in laying off the land. All of which I admit, without feeling or seeing the force of the objection. "Il you want a thing done, send your servant ; but if you want it well dono, go yourself," is nn old saying, and a true as it is ancient. My experience in life has been, that if 1 had any business weW rtone, I had lo superintend il in person. Tlia ob- jexUiiu. rwwv sinmirrut -to -nothing !' be-' eatise it t the duty nf the owner or mai'iager to attend strictly in person lo every branch of hi business. I herelorc, he should be there, w hether the row are to he run slrauiht er erok- ed to say nothing of the advantage that is to be derived. By way of encouragement lo those who make mountain of this objec ton, I will remark that several nf mv fields were laid off by a servant I being pre sent often enough to give him the starting pointa and Uie work is a enertual as any on lbs fawn, Hy way of over-balaficlng all the objections thai hive been or fan be raised, 1 assert it will prevent hilly land from washing. and experience has proven Ihe fact. If high er testimony is wanting, I invite any gentle man who desires ll to give me a call, and he shall have a practical illustration of llie fact I now come to (peak of the various system that are -intended to supersede the one 1 ad vocale and practice. And I might sum Ihem all up together and dispose of thm all with the same answer, as they are all liable to the same olneetion. Il might, however. be considered too snmmary a do lies, and not sufficiently respectful I therefore, I will name only a few and point out their d feci. remaps the most common practice i to run the rows on level by the eye, or 'take the general snvanlage of the hill, making turn rows occasionally where the lull makes ma tertel rhsnge.' -: Now it certajnly witl not be considered necessary for me to enter into an argument ti show, that neither of these sys tem can prevent the water from embodying when there lis a heavy lall of rain. A mo- .mcjU.1 j.mfl.ei-i"o i'l .mk-.u.jJ... I...I row cannot be run by the eye ; and if the row is not level, th water muat necessarily be drawn to dilferent points, a body will be form ed, the ditch filled up with dirt, and the land washed... r '('he other ittelliod. apukea jifsiill iii many case bring out the water by Uie raw from both sides into the turning row, current is then formed, a gulley is the consequence, with the filling of the uilrh 4elow. ' I sjieak adrrswHyr haringlrifeled over tlie ground in my early efforts to prevent my land from washing. I therefore assert, without snr fear of successful contradiction that neither of these method will do. Again ! A more common practice, and very strongly advocated by many, ia to run Ihe row with and parallel to the ditches, begin, ning below the ditch and finishing with short rows above the next ditch below, i he reason urged for this svsteru is, that eaoh row will carry of Its own water. Well, this look ve ry well oi paper; but why, allow me to ast, will you be at ths trohle of eulling ditches I If your low are to carry off their own wa ter, you certainly have no nn for lh m, save for Ihe few short rows that would need an out let for their water. I must be allowed to call in question the fact, and deny that the rows will bear off ihcir own water, save s few of the fir!. If the fall nf the laud al all point of the field is the same, a number might do it ordinarily not more than five or aix. Hup po.'e Ihe land si one side of Ihe field fills very abrupdy. and at the other very slightly, and suppose the fall of the ditches is from Ihe ab rupt aide In that which i gradual, you wIM readily perceive thai the water will run the con trary way from the one you intended, in ve ry few row from ihe ditch t because the gtade is soon lost by the land tailing much faster at one side of the field than Ihe other. Hut this is not all : the natural undulations of t'n land would soon destroy your grade, and cause ths water ,tp-flow loth sane row, when current would b formed and Ihe hor lest direction would be t ken dowa th hill, increasing in volume a it went, taking with it a sufficient quantity of earth to fill ap the ditch below. For the sake of further illus tration, we will sdmit that Uie row may be so graded a to bear off their owa waler, with out materially washing the row, end iben the system is objectionable ; because the water would take with tt all ihe seiliatent. anil waste the vwter in fiasxr show era. This ystem ha done, and is doing mneh mischief to L n I. - - A-gaia Another method i to so grade ill rows, that each one will empty its waler into tlie ditch below. But this i subject lo the same objection a running the rows parallel untie' ditches. The" common undulations of tlie land will he sure to embody th water ; and beside this, another objection would be very prominent, provided the raw eould bcl IfMrun that-each ofroufl empty it Water in to the ditch, which is, thai in hard rain tic row would carry sufficient quanty of sane to fill tip th ditches, uuless they had lh fa vorit (alj nf my very particular friend, nf i IrtrJtee I eery for. M jm. rjesiuc mis, n would be liable to the objedirM of wasting light showers, and taking with In water lb esdi stent or finer pertieleeof th earth. . Once more, and 1 (hall have don with thorn &eiie y1i ni f and although it t the last that shell asentlon, st is eot the lee piaesi tr exivt more ia Ihe imag inatiou of th so- thi hor thsn ut reslity. Bui to the srsleia. Firs', lay off the jaary iaclioed dilebMt tliM raw absjot tkra paralUI raws mm aacb aide ml each ditch t tn lay mft the baUare af the land by par- lee level, llie aether astU praetiuoner t thi ay stem rUimrd (or It, that each parallel raw would earry af tat l water, and that yoo eould esUiivat the bed better mtvr the ditches, lhaa if yog ereaaeil iheM with the rows. "All u not (old that glitter j aa with thi llieory, it will eot beer she teat of axaaa- iMtioa. it m enbiact to two obiecime.- Eiret, becaea ia plonibmc the kohaoaul rows which would b bounded atl each aide by the parallel row lev the dilebee, and wowld be what ia technically called betting rows you would have lo bins round, eiakiag yoer outside paralltd th bulling row, end conse quently a turning row to die bonionul row. which wotilJ increase Uie turning t Iraat fit per eenl -already toe great a obiec liaa wit some, I he e eund eliiecuoa m, that there w aebeuily for the dilchc for the reaaoa that where the rain i so great ae to overflow the water furrow where th laud te taut en ee a level, lh sheet of wave in it downward pee rage will firt reweh the row annua! to the ditch, whea th altrel will be broke (he per allel row baring the aaaae fall aa the ditch. Uie water aaiawlly will take daw due, a)d .never will teach the ditch, anises th rate we one of the Urgrst kiad. I deny, too, that the land eaa be eaiuveled betier aad etare eea mically near the dileh bscaue the parallel row mast be at least one half of their width from th ditch, while thee that eroa lh diwh ean beeultiraled plumb to the ditch, peia be ing lake, I have aow, air, eomplied with aiy promise lo yoaj uf ihe T5ih June, aud respecUully aub mil lb defence for yoardsetaioa, a well ae the system there dflaerihed, kopiaf you will give it acriueal in saw iga lion, and expoa it Uetecti rt jrow fin ttoeca eziat. Ism unuertermin xl a to wbkh rlaae of your interrof alortet I will answer ia my wait or September teller I but will tnortade in all rood time for yea lo hear tioat ate again ia in thai month, t . v . With high regard. ' , " Your most obedient aar't. H. Hi HARDWICK Jocassie, Hancock Co., tSa.j ) July 15, 1847. J " lltrtiUXAL IMPHUVUMBHT. REPORT OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE N. C. RAIL KOAD. Orrioa or ths N. C. Rao. Rasa. July 10th, 1881. J tl tin SlteUkcUUrt A Kwik CwtUm Bail Komi l mp0i Gentleman Immediately npoa their else- linn of lh Director of th Ny V. Bailreed Company met in th tow of Salisbury, oa lh lath July last, and forthwith orgsniiad, slid elected John M. Morehead, of Ureens- bnro', President sad John V. Kirklsad, of Hillsboro , Treasurer, of said Company. Mr. Kirkland having declined Ihs appoint ment, Jeduihaa It. Liiulsay was subsequently snooinled. The Bosrd of Directors proeeeded Jurih- with to appoiul Waller flwyna C'hicf Engi cr. with inetiutilum tu Wfimlir-lcvetaT eorp of Engineers, and cause lh rout af th road to fee survey eu witn utapaicbj and sccordmgly, by th 18th Septarober, th liue of the lload wis divided into tout Divisions, aid wrp MiJaisliug tit oa Pancifval Asaie unt and Iwo Assistant Engineer, with, lb other requiaite assistants, wa in charg of each Division. These corps prosecuted their labors with great snegj', fidelity and ability, said closed ihe survey by ths lath May last, at which lime the chief Engineer laid before the Board ol Directors th results of the sur vey, map of location and estimates, which being approved by lh Director, thy ordered the whole line lo be put' under cooiraot, st an early day, at ill estimate of th Engineer, contractors receiving on half ol their contract. in cash, tlie other hair in stock or the tJoot-, panv, 1lhe letting- of contract for Grading and Maaonry com ute need at Coldsboro', oh KOih June Usl, and waa contiuuei) along lho liue. at various points, to Conoord, and bids were offer ed upon the term proposed upon nearly all ihe sections of the line, aad contrasts have been closed with most of die bidders, and with others il is exuocled shordy to clo" Upon thorough examination, U was as certained that the most practicable route for the'Hoad pass I frjinthe Wilmington and Ral eigh Uailroad by Waynesborough, some four miles north of Smitlifield, by Raleigh, Hill borough, Graham, GreensWough, Iexiiigton, Concord, to Charlotte, 223 miles in length; and Ihe estimated cost thereof was 3, 1 09,333, to which i Id lOO.OOu for work!iop sad 139,8011 for equipment, losoniotives, tie., snd lbs whol amouuts to 3,409,133. A tabular statement accompanying luie report, (marked A.) show, the various items of lh estimate. 11 ' The right of way for munh lb larger portlan of the route bs been most generously grant ed by ill proprietor of lh land through which it passes, and. ss yet nothing hs been paid for that purpose; nor ia il believed last ruueh difficult? will be ettoouniered in aeea euring the right af wsy over toe ihet land along the route.. Il will be seen by reference to s abstract ol the Treasurer's report, socompanymg this, (atarked H.) that the sum of iS.OOf 09 has bera expended for surveys, salsriee, mileage of Jireetor, priming and office expenses; leav ing yet ia the hands af the Treasurer unex pended tV 1,303 II, a small portion of whmh will b required to pay soins nutslanding claims for printing and other ineideiibd ex pertee. " ',;' " ' Whs w refleet that ftwrteesi huodrnd snd ninety-four miles have been surveyed ia experimental line and line af approximate aad actual ttssuan, the above expeaditur to eridene of rigid erwnnray in the expenditure tb fcndeuf the Xoavpaayt sad the nu as bar of miles survr yed, iu evidenc U the energy and industry of th several eorp ulEngineei, Tbs eeeosspsnyang (Utsaarnl, (asarksd C.) shew thewaatber, 4ss sad grl of lb Engineer who bare been ia th smployasenl of lh eompeny, and wh ar aow ia it em ployment. But ss soon s rontraelor -ssene eperslions along th whol line, it will be aeeesssry to mret ihe number of ..sjoris. twit Engioeer upon eonatnictiou. ' -t'.! -If th teal to tuish ooalraci shatt qual .JNLI..l!r.fl?f r long that lh sbrilf iem wlnsils of your locoaoiivt will iwak lb elumbering echoes of yaar hill sad rslley, snd iIm snaoytog question soeftr oraaoaadad, "will Ihe N. CI Kailrood erer be bedit "will be saswerea by , yoer tneaxlanng Iraina, . ,, i-:.. . - . i To dilate apoa the Importance at aft eesa- pletioa of this great work. In yon would b assies: the aresspt ataaner ia which yea rs- aeded la the invitaHnn t ei the stock prere that yea were felly war el the ae eeesity ed each a work, '"' As to the prospect af probable prod la, I ihirdt but Csw eaa doubt, whea we rcOeet thai from ibis nonet westward ther to eot new. nor erer ka be, ia the berder of ear Stal tor daHaar af fsssT httodrrd nsilrs, OU aavifv me stream, one ran road, ear ane saaeaaaatiav sd road or Hrnpike, with th rxceptwn of frw wsenneiderabla turspikr . eonslrucled s- onc our MiHinlaHa. . ,..f-... al Tbw recioa is wssaraessea lor n mineral and sgneailusal praducuoon ia area pied by population which will aontpar tavorawy wtui any ntber an the frs af la globe far asswmliiy, modesty and ialeUigsMB, and she eaaardelio of your greni work wiH ape ap to ihesa peo. pret wutctt r U rumu la te trsstr rneriios M excite them to ineresssd industry . l b teal ta this work, jnanireetM y V eitixen aloof th line aad aitjaeent to U. ia taking contract a promptly, is ur fu anty af lh speedy completion of it, and k is not doubled thai vea will Imd aa the trd iff yeur power to ffeet that object. . . , A eopr of lb Cbtof tnitueer ' report contoe.nie ttiam report,.1.,,, ,.,,4." ,. Ksepeetfully suNnitterl. . j, J, M, M0BElll3ADf , jl I - h aaaanst mUt Jtd tf, Urn I II, l(afa, Tnnnnr, J IMS. "S '(; V..t T Aai'l af Bssaadllaiat sa ass sent ef orv.ys, 1V l ' . 1 ' jaaa4llaias aa sssasal af - ualarW ,o . l,M t ,,;,:. KspaaaUarss sa, sssssat tt ., . . HlUata, . - lit N . " ' tsaaaailan sa Siissst af "' -T'T ' , PftaUasv il !-t tti tt.-ci. tt t ' , Me Bases, : v, til a Oaaa ta Bask st KaUlsfc, 4,iiT Caakla Baa a S.lHr, ' tM, ''- 1 Cash I as r Tuasaesr, 4M l i'.h- .r v""''r Kfeif i" n-x r " ' - - " . : Ca. - .- I af Casual Staak, CtAnM H . U. U (isl tat tflmmr Otrpt fpl'fi W sarsa mmd kMa at M MOmMamKmU Ta film - WALTEBOWrJfK.DilrfEBjiMar. , , , . .... 'V IMritun. ' ' UM. frsvest, Jr. Prlaiipal Asststant facia. J. P. tahartsoa, "' ' Assiatsat ' M '. : riaaji, fciula);, 4m Lkl!LJ&l. ,'y, fr " CUPgV jJUi!SriJliMlKa't Jaba C. MeKaa, Jrlaslpal Assistant facia. rrsak Baaoars. Asslslaat, agar r, Atkiaana, "'''' " ' t , - Jsaspb L. flrsfs. . Friawisal AssUtaat faclasar. uausl Pal. m Asststant. ,it . narrysV Haestssn, . Us J U. VlonrUoa, -' -.4 ' furl Dnium. il JoeaMdUfci WUHass frya. . T a, uane, . mm r, . - , IMtf Is iwitsesslAs Xnfmtut Cmrmt as to (Ac .srsa V JsV 7 si. M. Ciayaas. 'v WALTER OWTN!, Ghlsf Bees. . . ' s k .... tlrlitwmn. ' '''"''"f L. af. fiavast, jr., Pruwipa) atistsat Eaglna-. "!i!lilliilf x x f in s ' i . :. ill!! iM 1 1 I fill! 1 if . jl I. ill nm 1 j, Hi!? iiili mil ! B I SIO I ICS I SSSac 1 ri rppir 'if 1" ft;! t .. r . .! r ? r-.l ! ' IF . j s mm l -t i.-, :...,v,.i alms It. sssVssssew s?Sansursl rm ' SIP. M.l.llllAT.TiMr. Jfffmf "sWVvsaasaa JeSa C. Uctaa, rrinctaat Assistant Ensscens . rvaaktsadssa, ' w - Assistant . :. - -'. - . f fisWlNsssa-. f' t. L. Orstrg, : friasipsl Assirtsat Efiar . Baaaaat Dal. ' Asistaat " JssaasL. Mstrlasn, " as ' -' JWm Minim. ' ' ,W faha Waltas, Masiaal Asaltsnt IUBjHaeaji - WIIUmb Frya, ,.: , .Aistoat , t.HaSMwr. - , rmua CORRESPONDENCE. . Al lh celebration of breaking ground of trie? N. C Railroad, in this place, th I lib July? a number of loiters was received hy th Pre-' ident of the Board of Direetors; trr reply to hv ritarions lo attend the celebration. Among them were letters from Hon. C. M. Conrad Uerretsrr of Wan 8- M. Felion, Presiileiit of tb Philadelphia. Wilmington and Blll-' more Railroad Thoe. Swsnn, Presidml or the Baltimore snd Ohio Railroad, Ben). TT.' Latrobe, Baliimoret II. W. Conner, Preew dent of the 8outh Csrolina Rsilrosdt F.daartl O. Palmer, President nf the tjartette and Si C. Railroad t E. 1 Winslow, President of th Fayeltoville snd Western Plank Road, sndF Ur, T. I". Atkinson, of panviiie, vs. rv have not tontd now had an opportunity wiiWf these tetter. xrnt Gov. Graham' a model - of it kind which ha beeii published.' ' 0 Mr. Conner, President of Ihe 8. C. Kailroe Cojupany, ay: ' !.,'.-, "To myself, personally, it would tie a source of (xtrem gratifies tiou to be bl to unite with the people af my native State in celnhrating su event wliieh I eonldw to. b tlui beflnoine oTTrnew "and great era ia the history of North Carolina. ". w&-:4i-fm Mr. Palmer, Presidoot of the ChsrlbiU and li.Cs, .SSIKtVJXirvr 1 feel a doep iniereet ia ibe suecess. f your enlcrprise, and Sunsider ihat thBawo Road over which we preside r rery much Ulmlifisd iu Interest, sad sre destined at, po distant day to become "one rf the great I net u travel between th North and the South. Mr. Felloe, Of th PbUadelphhvCWiliaksv M and Balliwore Road, remark: ,vx-t " "Tlis lime be now com when Rail RnsJ r Indispensably necessary lo the well being . of a community The spirit of the age de mand them, sud that people who ncghwtmem snd ah quietly by aad fold their band . viU surely Had themselves distannrd by their mora iaetiv a tylibri llie rac nf improvement. i. .fhe time was when people thougliffk stsfe eoacli, travelling at the rate or five or tig mile i an hour, one of thewoidcrsofthesg'; but thstdiy ka passed a speed of 25 or 3? mile an hour will now hardly satisfy the rest less spirit of the lime. lysa th speed of ill liahlnitir it invoked, ia ths mscnelie trie- graph, to sid th operator of trad a and coni mrce and to prnmot friondl intercourse.-. Thi new method of rommtiniratinn, at well ihe bnprivemeut in locomotion intr tduced by railroads, would hve appeared pas ing Strang to aur ancestors. ' Rut l. u lliey hare baeome almost as accessary as ths ' air w breathe,. May the Railroad wbleh rmt r bout Hi eommsnc b speedily tlnisheit, ami - Juay y ouailJu -to- --ttsh-Wemgrwmfl rliffuseil not only throughout your neighbor, hootl, but throtighmil your Stat and 1 1 rough, out nor eommou eountrr. '. , ; . The note of Mr. Conrad, Secretary nf War. i copied below; ' And the letter ol'.lri.-,.. Atkmsotl, '-of Djfavitt(iVT.--on of the cho n spirit of lh Anslent llmnin'um is given n full, and wdl affoid a pashliar gratiheauon U' lha reader, , ' v r , ' "V :' WasuitseTou, I). C. June 88, 183U. 8iry 1 hare received you uote oi th ti.h inst, iaviltng toe to attend al.Ui celebration of breaking ground on lh "North Csrolina Uai Rosd" on the Ilih ef July ni. I retani you my w'neere thank to the hen. or you bar don m. but regret that ether engageatMt will deprive m4 ths) pleawr ot being preeent al your eelcbratioa. . . Wishing (very success to an fnterpri which i tulatd to dovelnn lh tcsotiree of North Csrolint and to add anoJtet link la lb (haiu Which biudl her lo her litter Slatri, . I rsmaia, air! rery respectfully your ohcdu ml orvnt. , - 6. M. CfJ.VKU). - , Hon. J. M. MorehesA Cirecn bo.o', N. C, ,i- from Dr, Thoma P. Jltkimn. " , DsuviLLt, Vs July lib, 1851 7b fi un. . M. MirthtaJ, J'rnUent of , I hi A". C. Railroml Company, Gfttnib. raugk. fl f,.-, "H; ;t,:Zu - Mr Da 8ii -I bad lit honor of reoei, ' ing a few day ago, your esteemed favor of (he in., inviting ate to be present in your town, an Friday next (the 1 1th insi.l a'l lh ' -break mg ground" oh tlie Munlt Vsruluta Central Ran Rued, m !.:, . I rery much regrat that I aont b with you en that interesting occasion. - A previous engagement of a binding ch iracler. requiri m to b in Ui noighborbood of Pelcrsburg 4 thai hu. .V u-. .. , M w4;.,fr ,,ij -I (beutd have' esteemed il privde ,a wall a pleasure to meet and commune with he sighieoed and pairioii mU who: will b thsra, engaged in tb aobl work of dvnein iha interests of their Htale by fsciliwiuig in, wreourae among hef . riiixen snd clieapeumg ih Iraitsportaiioa l market of th production ot iheir oiL i ,, );, nt,?, rjr, I m aeithara native tor a ciiixen f your eommonwealth, but a residence of srior ihan, thirty yars en her border and an intimites. socUuon during ill that period, wt& many of her e w, have i na'a d m to appneiat her inslitulion, her law and her, jmjojiIh, and do not hesitate to deelsr that thy entitle he l rank among ihi Aral of th Suite of tlie Union, .... I doubt not t!wl when her varied and ibaoat bouadlas resources shall, by a wise ystem of Internal Improvements, be prop. ly developed, sh will br among the most prosperous ss so h i alwity been auungsl h man resptwisble of tl,wA IU - - w Wto-viw WfMrial rtrrtticVf'a Tl iulo soil. iioT Me rivers, a system of jurisprudence, the V-ilual of which, in my opiesm, nonenf he nanus aa i Doaai m pamuaa, fnu laws well sdtuinistaradi virtuous populatioii aud incsleolaS! rQiqera! ""ll'l, With all theae, here is nothing Wanted to place her ta the rout rank, but just auh improvement tbj't hs eommennenjeui of wUicl.rLou fisnpaasin -Hobrjte iJ over wlticli, you will pleam al NT m l consider it most fortunate for i'i Plato that yuu have beeu called lo preside. 'The Railroad and til Steam car, are lit ' renue of euuamerc aiaon? the cit'zrns ol - ih aam But sud of aister states, at tbt o. cean tnd tnsr.sfiip arc tmong foct'gn i t d..
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