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1 lllfllllli,.ililllllgs: IJl'- M II M1'I l. ' ' " Jjorrh Carolina potoertul in ihtttlfftuat, tooral anb pjjpfifat rfdourcep tljc tano ot ouc tfrfdano fcorrir of our alttion.M THREE DOLLARS Pi 'AMXwfrjdi J'", THOS. J. LEMAY, Eorro it PmphietokO a.iL.i.-.. .aa-mzgzacacMtr. ; vi. - K i : . RALEIGH, WEDNESDAY, DEOEMBBH 2G, 1049. VOL XL. lit . - . ; TVPE. Conner Son's United Stale Type) Foundry, THE subscribers have now on hand an excellent assortment of Book, News paper and OrMmentaT Type, Bordering, e Shicli they are pr.p on approved paper, .t mt. "'"""jj" count f ten por cent, for eaeh.. The Scotcb faces, 0 riilch admired end epproyd oTby the trade, end our type in gne.al, we feel aaaured Bnot be eicelled, either ia beauty or finieh, ky tar rounder. Alt type manufactured by ne ere made of e miiture of meUle different in pioportion lo thou used generally, by which we ineure reater durability To our aeeortment of Ornamental end jobbing Type. Beidering, Ac, ere bare mede a and are eoaatentlv engaged la ad- dine to th. -ariely. Prewe WoodTypvC.ee. Bttndf Bran end Wood Rolie, Impoeing Stone B.S.I.. TJ mrtA Wand fialleve. Cut. lowtRaeke, Rigtete. end every article nacary 1 ery liberal abuse with which he, in corn er i-nmnlel rnnUU nine, iuip I mun Willi Ilia prU6ici3vi, uua wen in patch. 8pecimen iMti oi ocoicn law, now reedy lor delivery. Old Type taken in ex change for new, at nine cents per pound. Pub UherofNewpaperswhe wilt intert thie ader. tiaement three lime., end forwerd ue a PP. . Pre ioueto the 1st of Jennarr. 1850. will be pud w .material of our manufacture, by- pnrehaatnf four times the amount of thaw WU forth. n4eri.iinent.. JAMES UUHillitt T w"i Corner of Ann end Naeeau ate.. N. Y. lty. V N. B. A new Specimen Book will be leeued THE REPORT OF THE P03TMAS- ' TER GENERAL. This rerr able and important Slate pa per which in the default of Congress to or ganize, we laid before (he readers of the Son yesterday, contains information which directly refers lo th people. The Post office, though an organized branch of the government, isia fact the immediate eerrant of the public, and there is really no valid reason why information in relation to it should be delayed in consequence of the im practicability of Congress. The document is specific, admirably written, and well cal culated to impress the mind of the reader with confidence in the ample sufficiency of the Postmaster General for the onerous duties of hie office, notwithstanding the spattered The finsncial condition of the department is'highlv;;favorable. - The gross revenuoof the last fiscal year amounted to,. $4,005,. 176 28; the expenditures during the year amounted o t4,479rl27 13, leafing an. ex- cesMnfaor ot-tho department or f 426,- 127.15; add to which the appropriations of March last, $265,555,55, and there remains Mather in 1838 is estimated at fifty thou sand square miles, forty thousand square miles, of which are capable of being worked. From another Magazine he learns that the areas of bituminous coal strata, in squnre miles in the several states constituting the separate divisons are as follows. Alabama 3 400; ueorgia, too; Tennessee 4,300; Kentucky, 8000; Virginia, 21,000; Maryland 550 Ohio, 11,900; Pennsylvania, 15,000. Total 6S300. r ' : It is estimated by the same authority that u-...m;ii;.f..r n.,.mi. speet to the$exisso universal, and ac UUUI IIIIIIIUI VI WHO Ul VWOi VVH..WIMJ- I I f) 1 . t 1 tion which will be greatly increased with anowieogeuoy pwgners as a uesuiuu, the increase of business, the exhaustion of m the Africa character, plea l.ko wood land, and for the purposes of manu- 'h'".. borrowed from the code of a bariurous factures and navigation. The coal treasures Pnod, should have been advanced. of our country are perfectly unbounded; J"lg very properly frowned it out of North Carolina, in the county of tant documents proved to be a mmson petticoat for the representative from Dixon, Mr. Moody. Dollar Newt. " Right of a Husband Jo Strike hi$ tnc.la relation to the supposed right of a husband to strike his wife, iu regard to which Chief Justice Green recently de clared, on the bench, that "no man had a right to ttrikehit wife at all" the Charles ton News remarks aa follows: f , -. "Now, it is nexV to disgraceful that, in this country, where the deference and res Those Chatham, in particular, coupled with our iron mines, and other mineral and agricultu ral wealth would place- us in time in as prominent and powerful a position as Great Britain, if we would but ' practice an ener getic, deyelopemerrt and economical httsban- dryipf our vast and varied resources. ' Mr. Collamer complains of the increased cost of mail service upon rail road, routes where monopoly excludes compeiiiion; and the est imale s Am the current year, in couse- ...jn tf inj6fl nli tA rail marl svrvir. XT5W."':T, .mount to $4,750,138 13. The relief of WATGHlib u JliWKLBT, the lelter,postage from the ranking opera jutt ai han't, end lor aula jp aat0caUid, and the injustice of im i Vs-S'rT po.in-i.pon the public,, throng the post the wear I oince, tax w -- pomvw 'w u in thiir liaa that 1 -t..l.:,-.1 An nn'ifnrm rnIA 'nf,' ii L. L a k. nli here for jeare kaok-i Cm P.nia ner letter is suegested. . . mA . . 1 - . " . . .. I, .. . M do eoi ony. , .".,:,. ftM The businets ol tne aepartment in an its diveraified relations is presented in a suc cinct form for the i consideration ;"of - Con ad look, ll ya so -mj. . .-. ftM 4 doa. Gold h 8iler wai ne "V..r Aealt c.nA Lukc l. nnmio.i yK- i . .a ,u ,..iinmnrt innanrth I'nat, , " - i. .. QU. U,nlll 1 EICBO. ivwi.i .w..--. - . n.U L I Qn,Mla. I.OIU l w . . t Ml . J) 1 . ' . I j Collar Battona. Bilver Omba, ? '".ur" wr,"v: .;ii 8h.ii mt.o. a SitTer Cun.. Soup Ud..., 3 Jojp. Mt "uwrt.. V.-.rl. Cml.rV. Kaxor JESS! xWjtSS I PUud CaatoVl.tiwdlpt.Kka, Waiterak Baiketa, Salt tt Butler 8taade, fearl 'Salt Spoancr PEKFUMERY. JMfee . firlA Jntl,M. that is -. ..... t.:ii P (! v lea. Ei TFloai ArUle.. Work Beses NeMinf Bor tt tomplete, aad a Tariaty- ol other arHele jrr KU kmda et Vaiaea inn w.., --. .their uuial aoperlor atjle. and warrantee,. Old Gold and Silfer taken in exeha-re. Bataiglr.'Hevt IHaV. master General will no doubt receive that attention to which their importance entitles them, whatever complexion that body may ultimately assume. ; 1. Never marrv a man who has no trade os ia too nroud orioo lazy to wjirk;Su"ch ". wiir surelv make k Islave oTlhis 8. Never itTr-:mtn-;oft-Biacefi positive in HAHDW AIIE AND -a nwia MABRYTi CO are now receiving ill theif Fall supply of Hardware end- Cemaga greatly ineraaae.eoi many aruciaa w " ? dueed pneee. , . , t . v , i. f....ara Trimminia aHMCiallVi iney nave .purchased largely, end can make it to Ae intereat of iilinre of ecaraitv of brain a. Never marrv a man who is fond 01 "fashionable drives.' on the Sabbath, hie road is 'elea'i "fori "drive'' to ruin. 4. Nev marry a man who smokes pr Chews tooacco, as your , cuotie u tidv house will prove fruideis. , 5. rsever marry a man wno visits ennee houses. &c. as there is little diBerencele tween a pig and a hogv ; ' 1 fl. Never marrv t m.n who Is ia the ha! it of hanging around eorners, and making some day hang from more eievatea post lion ' ': " ' '-. ;" '' ' " ' 7. Nevermany man who Indulges tn . m rf-B .a. Q What is it that every man, every woman, every child, and every baby is do ing every minute ol their lives at me same timet . , . . A Growing old. .... - Q What U it that yorit see oncejn.. minute, twice in moment and which you will never see once in a thousand years? A I he letter M. mate for the extension of the Central Rail they are thinking of nothing! Trim thi Watchman. Messrs. Editors: As some surprise has on the subject of slavery j he wss In Tavor of that Wilmot Proviso in the Oregon bill wtiich J. K. Polk signel, and we cannot approve the course of either Mr. Polk or M r. Winthrop pon Jhie - subject, . But Mr. Winthrop is a highrainded man; under exactly similar circumstances with Brown, he scorned te give a pledge, or to hold any terms with the Free Soilers; he is, not dis posed to make war upon slavery, and, as for his Wilmot Provisoism, there is scarce If a Northern man of either party in Xbe Honse who is not a Wilmot Piovisohtl We should think, especially after the late discIosuies,that many Southern democrat ic gentlemen would infinitely prefer Win throp's election to tunning another risk such as that from which they have just form nately escaped. w lach-nond Hep; (fro this 'COMxtrteiAuV NORTH CAROLINA COAL, -Messrs. Solomon - MtCullough and T, Hunter, for some years psst connected with contracts on the Chesapeake and Ohio Ca nal, have taken the contract to construct the si sck water improveme nt of Cap rear, and Deep River Navigation- Company in North Carolina. , The wort consists -of fourteen Old Nort', will have achieveJ this for e Stnu? Why sir, the ineessiofrable - siiWj J lay of $300,000 in the constructio n of the Cape Fear and Deep Uiver Slack JVile- Navitrstion."1 t v."w- V-w- X.i j . i t. r--b. .-j u ct I .. reetinr in Road west to the Tennessee line, I seud you a detailed estimate upon which 1 based my "opinion -' " " ww li From Salisbury to a point on the Laiawba River, near Is land Ford, thirty railus, grad ing and bridging, at $6000 per mile, , - $180,000 00 Eightmijes grading from ridge ... to valley ef uetawos r --at-'----i."4-:is $8000 per mile. . s . 64,000 00 Sixty-one miles" of Catawha , Valley to foot of e - Uluo Ridee. at $3000 per mite;7Z 1 8;,000 00 Seventeen miles for the ascent of the Dlue Ridee, and de scent to Swananoe Valley, at $10,000 : . 170,000 00 Sixty-six miles of Valley of , -Swananoe an waewggra-wesgr BrojMLat 43000 " V 198,000 00 Tunnell through, the Blue , .-,,.;' 1 Ridge, five-lhousaod feet t : ' l(Mi?,otal eost, -i, . -.jeO.000 00 - PrWeover the Cutswba - 40,000 00 A -Nothings Turn him out.) JjryMajoi' S. M. Fox the Engineer ol the Western. Turnpike with7 (lie Cbiumis sioners and corps of Surveyors, reached this place on the evening of the 11 th in slant, having surveyed and located since they commenced field operations on the 10th oi September last upwards of two hundred .sod ..Jbrty-; miles -..of roaiUvxTbo line from the sumrr it of Scotts creek, ten " Total cost of Grading '-'BridtinT . ; " 182 mile of ., superstructure, . - 1 "l with raif52 lb.to yard.at -$500O:'-T' "-f 910,000 00 As follows, 80 tons rails ' :at$50 . $4000 : ' - 1700 cross ties, 20 cts. 852 , -Chains and pikes, " v ; -98 i . x Lsying,'- " ; -,f -630 . ' :. $5000 Manufacturers of Carriages in this vkinlito get profane language, for God's Wrath tvill be visited on tne neaa oi tne swearer. .". -r ' Wheeling Gazette. EDITORIAL CONVENTION. A convention of editors and publishers of newspapers met at Columbus, Ohio,, on the 80th ult. j.Thirty-four newspapers were represented. , Among the business was the adoption of a resolution to memorialize- the Leirulaturft tor we enactment, oi a taw re- auirinc the preservation, in some office at the countv seat of each county in Uhio, oi a file of every newspaper published therein, which said files, properly bound, shall be competent or prima facie evidence of all le gal publications in said papers. Also for a modification ot existing enactments, so as to reauire that all Wal advertisements shall be nublishcd in two newspapers in each county, where there is tliat number in exist . ,ki. aitnnlw of lham. It ia of oonaeonance te aell for caah and to thoae whit pay promptly oo short time. ueh caatom , eta will do wall to give them a Call. They enu . marate eome erliclea that they keep for aala, via. , Coach Lampa. Hub and Band Banda. Spring. A ilea. Stump JoinU, Plated Daah Frame, Pla tted Handle. Branch Iron, Curtain Framea, Mai- I laabl Vaatint. faaaot xan . 1 n . 8in Do. Roan Bkina, Clothe, Vm. aak and luh. Broaaela Carpet; Oil Cloth, Patent Do. Rubber Do,I.acea. Tufta, Fringea, Binding, T.-.I. T.tka. Seamine Cord. Ttflinr Nails. n, au and 8ilev Knob. Top-Prop,' Moaa, : Coach Btep and Hinges, Fellies dt Shafts, Bpokea, Sign ef the Key, Bollinghrook Street, Petersburg, Va. A VVeaty Made Coiftg. t . !'" n a..t. FRESH supply 01 ueaay, hmi 1 Clothinf iust received, and will be if:k:.rU .h. Alao. a 'lot of 0e size ailk Jr... .hirta. Lamb wool enJ Merino un der ahiHSMd arawere; Which Will U saU ssj res. .r..M. tatmi ' f J.I' BlUGSt. Baleigh,Pee. 10,1M9. . y 60 4. Bank ofthe State of North Carolina the FVALtJE OF COAL BEDS7 The London Times thus speaks of coal beds of England: ' ' Tho exhaustion of our Coal beds' would her the" final and utter "catastrophe of our Grading, Eight per cent for equip ment ol upetintenur enee, ' 7 i miles-west of VVsvnesville to Ashville, has been obtained without msterially in creasm? the distance, and without any slope exeemynfoovinzieyenteBD. From Asheville to Buck Creek five miles west of Marion, including the passage of the Blue Kidgeuie distance increased but about one mile over the old route and the slope now here exceeds one in twenty, From" this point"-to Salisbury several routes presented themselves, but from the ;reat inaccuracy of ihe maps and local in formation it was - deemed advitabl to run art experimental - line - before locating. As a survey bad already been made of the f..M Un.1r O r,o1r lt" Tntinitr 1?Ant j. and 1 t,,i ,..rn'u Inntr on Bnl'irnln "A,ffrM WWWT .;,: -Q;- ,lrtu,n h r.luorhii river to Morn nton, and thenceby Mot rantonr Uie South fork of the Catawba and Newton' to Shiiford'a Ferrylhenco by the dividing tidge between th? waters of the Catawba and Yadkin to this place. This route will, give an accurate base line upon which to predicate the location of the road. ;' . , Carolina ff'atthfnaK a recently returned from the scene of their future laboriniiid tring wita tnem a large pecimen of. semi-bituminoos coal taken CATin FROM MlSiS ItRF.MF.tt. l t Perhaps no European lady ewr,.lHbT r visited this country who shared so largely in th warmest sympathies and aHeetions ofoar.:. peoplsnis does the- accomplished author ot ... "The Neighbors. Etrery step of keriinob-r; trusive progress thus far his been, watched and greeted with equally unobtrusive but sut ; cere welcome; while thousands who are dent ed the satisfaction of an interview or even .- sight of her, have burdened the post witu . Invitations and requests to all torts of pleas ant places and for alt manner of mementos.-. To these, for whose good will MUs cherishes the livliest gratitude, aha j senda .-,- , the1 following note the answering of each person by writing having become a- matter ot impossibility.' -That ts)4M.liar-; best writings, explicit, delicate- and full '.oC- ,' kindnesst u-iVi a &?y.3,rilMte!SL - BostoM7 Dec- 8, 1849. Feeling the impossibility to answer, aa I are sent to me, miny of wbicTare precioai to me. not only as to what concerns me per sonally, and which I treasure In my heart m " I . i . . . . a a .a n frmw the bankf Hho Duep4ivr m M,iluW ham eounly, N. Cv So far aa we are able i lines to mane anown w my u.u.i $1,905,000 00 152,400 00 ' . . . .. i I ..a.... Pnirlinil tDniilil immMuale flAHE General MecUng ol tne oiocunoi-iB'"--'! - r6. I .i.. n iu t,.i.i Killv sink into a third rate power, 'It is to our tiers oi una mua wm i -j ... , . Total cost, v . -. - - $2,057,400 0 The route here chosen is entirely grstui- tous,and I have no doutbut that the esti mates will be reduced alter a proper sorary and choice of route, but if they are increas ed another $500,000, surely a trade for Which-Virginia is spending five or six mil lions is worthy of this amount.' '-' " J " ' Virginia is expending 400 thousand for the passage of the Blue .Ridge alone, and Pennsylvania expended one million and a third for the same purpose 1 I understand that the Buncombe Turnpike which passes down the French Broad cost but $300 per mile: my estimate for the Rail Road over the same ground is $3000 for giading. whiter thC Turnpike is eight feet wii'er than tne Rail Roadr In the passsge of the Blue Ridge, seventeen miles are estimated t ten thousand per mile the Alleghany Rait Road In Pnnnsyl vania whichftasses -ovef pretty much the same ground built in the most permanent manner with ' bridges of Stone, ami twenty eurht feel wide, cest MOW per - - Z -- , H. -,..-..,.r-r . J- .... - x our ob t serv t, v f! S. MOYLANFOX. Monday injuary are the rude foundation of this fair Oorin. thian pile, and England is as indebted to them as Egypt o her Nile, Athens to her Houta in ibU City "Raleigh, Dee. 7, 1849. C. DEWEY, CaV," 60 Bank of the State of NortU Carolina ry DIVIDEND at Four pet cent, en the Cap. t&Jk Ul Stock Of thia Bank baa keen declared for the hat anlmai en the Fiat Mond HiiivliM firtnm diva thereafter.- ' ,,, .. . - . - c. DE WET. Caller. - 60 tlMJ ahnnla. and Rome to her policy and arms, If me eoal fields of England form sucn a .rhaTpayT: rthTFrincTBank aolid foundation for her greatness, what (say. anday in January aei. and at th the Richmond Republican) shall we say. of those oi our own country i i ire uuiuuuu coal area of Great Britain is said to be 8,139 square smiles. - Anthracite, $.720 squire miles. - The bituminous coal area of United STTIONO STATEMENTS. SJtatM. on the other hand, is 133,132 square m:iA Th anthracite coal : reinon ivine the eaa- a Raleigh, Dee. 14, 1849. rnminpr rccommands the miles formation of a society in England , for the principally in a central portion of the e correction of 'cftrong Btatemenuj. - -cra jmr. - -e- itcara that there is one "association "'nerolent individuals which declares" that ": there are u fewef tlian 80,000 prostitutes . in Indon, when an Official inquiry shows their number lo be 7,000.: Another favo tiio assertion Is that 60,000 drunkards :die : annually in the British isles, whereas,. ; ac l .corlinff to the Examiner a resort to official irt'.irns shows that the number is about J0,-j . t:0. That is enough, w shouid think; to. . i rtiider a resort W exaggeration unnecrary. ' A STEAM MAN. ' A mechanic in Russia is said to have succeeded in raakinr a steam mao. ' It is probably one of the most interesting inven lions tver6hered to the public, it is a eo lossal statue, the feet of which are' placed upon wheels upon a tail-road, and as he goes thundering over the course, the steam comes puffing out of his nostrils in a msnoer to give the appearance or aatan aa pictured in Revelations- ; ;y ' ltft& :WMrefli' House was to be a special blow at Gen. Tay lor; it was to be the gratmcation of a sweet revenge; a "bitter pill;'' a poisoned stiletto which wss to sink deep in the old - hero's hesrt and avenge at once all the wiongs of Democracy. ' -" ' But how ' has the serpent's' head ' been erushedt Theds?rer of revenge has broken in the hands of those who wielded ! it, and has cut and poisoned no one but themselves Brown; themselves being judges, nas prov ed himself too vile even lor the vilest . pur poses of party.. And it was for turning this man, this acknowledged political leper, out of office this man from whom his own party shrinks as from contamination that. Gen. Taylor has been denounced with a bitter- ness unprecedented in party warfare. 1' was for this that Gen. Taylor was to be mo. lifted and punishedl - ... I Thev mistook the man when thev expect' ed to annoy Old Zack by, the . election ol Brown, or any other political toe, of a gnoo . A . J I I f . or oau cnaraoei. wmio an inis cxoiicmeni. the equanimity of the old hero teems as un disturbed ss on the bloody battle field of Buena Vista, where he was the target of harder missiles lhan scurrilous words.' He puts forth no Land, ho titters oo word of complaint against any of the" schemes of his adversaries, leaving it to' their own mouths snl their Own hands to pronounce ana exe cute judgment against themselves. v ' 1 ' . ' Richmond Rep. I ' a of be j that of England though it is said to be much more valuable a an article oi met. -, a. wri ter inIIunt'e Merchants1. Magaxine aUtes that about seventeen tnourena , person arc dependent upon the trade ia anthracite coal alone for; subsistence, .-.'; h. . t-r 1 :': The'entira'area ofthe great Aneghany,bitu- mmous coal new exienuint; wrouen i p of Alabama," Georgia, Tennessee, Kentucky Virtrinia. Maryland, Ohio an Pennsylvaina, accurdinjj to a geological feport of Professor '-i-K' GOOD1 - ' Ssme lime since a resolution was intro dnced into the Lower Howseof the Tennes- eaigblBture to protect the. property, of married ladies. While thai resolution was under discussion, Mr..: Moodr of Dixon, moved to amend it by requiring tne ladies to wear the breeches half the time. '-'."' The nnrnllant conduct f the centleman was, of course rumored among the public, and a 6w daya after, tlie Speaker aoooun ced that he found' upon his table a bundle labelled important document-", which he was requested to lay before the House.-'- Upon taking off the Wrappffj th$' 'imow WILL THE SOUTH BR WARNED. The Drown or black development ought to put men of all parties, in tlie South on their guard, or 4else seal their mouths here after arainst accuainp; any one' but them selves as the authors of any ruin which may befall them, .We have ever conceded thut, on the question of thi externum of slavery, both parties in the: non-slavelinlding states occupy the same ground.' But the democrat- i - 1 . I a. m ,fi! X?a l It a m . y . elates as nalnrh1alliesn of the South,' and. amongr these, they xlaimed Brown at t pa euliar Iriend of Southern instttutions The result is another illustration oft tn pendous fallsey1, which ought to have been explodei by the cooree of Martin '"Yen nnn;n is- uiy vuw i3-r,.a Whirs and Democrats , of the JTorlh ,or this subject la, that the " Whigs are conser vative in reesfd to slavery; ' as to evert ihintelse. and male a no loud-mouthed pro. feaaion of peculiar love for any : section.- Winthrop is a' fait epeciiaettof a Northern Whig. ' He ia'nt , what we could desire up-J to mi rs;"l itfurlt't aS a TSiH ,fl j IfuW I tl . i.llfl toiudre, this Coal is very similar and lully equal to the pest specimens oi toe C umber lsnd Coal. It is said to exist in Immense quanli ies itt riorth Carolina in veins fully twenty feet in thickness."' " Xsumotrtanu vieuton-.- In catling your attention, Mr Editor, to ihe above notice of Nnrth Carolina semi-bituminous Coal, permit me to remark, that coming aa it does from ihe very heart of the irreai semi-ouummnus voar -region w Maryland and tromtlie city wnicn ruts oeen built uo fic-m 500 toS.OOO wilhirt a few year; "rtileny irt-amictpatmn'or tne-voai trade which ia about to take plaTee1 by- the opening of fhe Ctfw on the first flsy of January next, ana wnere the character of this peculiar description of Coal ia fulty nnderstootl.4 and pronounced te be irv simitar and Mitt equal to. the best Specimens of Cumberland Coo it ia an endorsement Lite; reality not r fo be disregarded."4''1''.9" ' W ekv'. ' The great Coal ' resion 6f7Msrylncfc about to be opened "ioithe;Atlnie world. at an'expense of ntUltona upaa nilliona of . . a a. S : I ' I AAA money is Distant liora Aiexanurnaoout xuv miles and it it from this latter city that the Maryland Coat wilt ' be shipped to the other commercial mart upon, the atlaniic aenboad. 'W-.i S'rfj V ri Now let ns inquire by what routine this canal w to reach Altandria, situated Upon c23V mucs jrom rne wpet qj , 5?, s. and comparejt witn that ti ' he nursued frOtn" the Coal "fielde Tleen River, in unatnam county, w aeuv r thie valuable and identical, mineral at Wilmtneton tiflon IAS atlantu coast Mi i the direct rof of all ihe (great tinct of Southern steamers,, tn tne nrsi piace-ans Msrvlsnd coal, is mined. from v10 to 13 miles sbnve Cumberland and transported upon Rait roads, which have constructed through a ( mountaitj region, grcnt expense to that' city; ,il .then , changes bulk bv beinr shifted trxiro tne larsio Canal boat and in this operation, as we as by its previous tranaportion upon the Rait Koad, Its Value iak msieriauy auectca by crumlding; the Aie nol commanding ss nign a pill.- as tii" tH.p wmi. m - ..... Csnal , Boat ' of about 80 ;tona, there are three mutes hitched and in seven days is delivered in Alexandria, The Coal te gion of North Carolaina about which we shall have, more w ssy on some miure oc casion.) soTai as has yet been ascertained, is 13 milesin length, by about 3 In breadth and lies unoh Deep River, a tributary of the Cape Fear," about-200 milea above Wilmington. " When the Cp Fear and Deep River (slack water) Navigation ahat! be opened as it will be by the first of Janu. arv 18527 this I denlicat lietnibituminou's . ..... i l - Coal will 00 tunen airecuy irora n rs. on tha banks of Uefp River, placed in Boats, and a single steamer witit a tram of Coal Boats, will reach Wilmington da the Atlantic coast in'4 hours.5." .'.i f Nou'sirl would ssk.ii it not apparent to every practical mind that the oet of transporting ine maryiana oai to aiexan dria will far exceed ihal of tks North "Csr. olina Coal to WilmingtonT- And what is this difference! By a liberal' calcution of iheeAtt nnon oar slack water 'navigation. compared the cost upon the Rail Roadand Canal of Maryland difference inavor of tha North Carolina Coat is 7- eta. par ton; t believe in practice it will be more-;. This it eooers to me, is quite sumcant to prove that thefuture CealJtradejrrom tMChathara enumv mines musilbe immrnse. In no 3tte 10 W UBIOII r.n tut vr o iiiucf vui 99 ... . . . i chesply delivered upm me stisntic; sna wnea! we eonslderthe great ino increasing oemana st yet oatstrippintr th . supply in cor.se. qnence of tlie multiplied uses to which, this valasbla mlnetal is being applied, We may look forward with confidence ,aml. Wide to fihe Ihe !ay when North Carolina. Coat will i. a ai . . .r . i sr become as vaumoie an artieie ot export to her as "tliat of Pennsylvania, amounting aU muuons oi ooiian, auu wnai correspondents, that if t do not answer them, tt is that I ' cannot nna time ana leisure to do so. during my" time of trav-t citing in this land, where there ia : " . '- sV e i k..H to much to aee and to learn, t wouia tea (bent m my hlfftilttes ie-not 4hevleee for that; it ia not now expressed in words. And 1 ; would add, , that thougn, I am ;. well aware that, in saying all this, I may ncur the charcre of vanity. I would ratner .. incur that, ami bear it, than bear the thought that any heart in the 'United Sutca of A merit should suspect mine f of , nngratefuU- - : . . ' "'. i t " ;r : oese or owes. .. , i FREDERIK K BREMEU. . . " EFFECTS OF POLITICAL VIO ,,;T ,LENCE. , ....t.., Gen Taylor has had to encounter, since hie . inauguration, a torrent of abuseuurectiv ;y . and misrepsentauon . sucn as nas , rareiy, before, been the lot of a public, matt J He, has been derided ai:i dotard, and denonn- ced as a liar., -The public sentiment haaf been outraged I by the coarseness and tear- iltw -rf thrn1te vhdeHrjit ble hero and patriot, and, made.be it, re-s memr-ered, before even the ( pending in. of a President's Mcsssge had so much aa; foreshadowed tlie general, policy, of,, bie- admintstration. ;;, ' The pretext , foralr hia onpreceaenteO, bitterness has , been the removal of a , pon don ofthe Democratic onice bolder and tho aubstmion Jq their places of the oiem bers of a party which for twenty years, had; neen tne victims oi ,unieri uuiEnr ing ; proscription 1 Prominent among; these ejected officeholders; wa William J., Brown, of Indiaoal,;Thia man.asoneof the, martyera,'.' and as a suitable tepresenUtivot of hie brethren in amictiorv, was aclecied the1 -candidate for Speaket . of ,' the. Houae of RejresenUtives jbr the purpose- of mortifying Gen.. TayLoU-, ,?ui administering a "most, bitter pill to.Tay . loriana.?. . '4.'..i6 ..r!i,'.'ii - t That was the avowed object!; No on would have thought of Brown on account of his peculiar qualifications for the ch-air. He himself said, in his speech ia the late memorable debate, "that he came tothncity of Washington never dreaming of b eing a candidate "for Speaker i'. His kealt'n we bad. ' There wew old and abler merabere of his political party-gentlemen who vere well verseu in parliamentary jaw, , am iibu aw experience. - He had never mac'.e the au&- lect hi studyV ', . t. . '' . VV ho, then can oeueve tnai trown wouiu have received the nominatior bat from the impulses of that excessive r,arty spirit, and to gratify that party vindvetivenes which baa been fanned into the most intense flasao by the deaunciations and abuse heaped p on Gen.' Taylor by the: Washington Union and kindred newspapers! -. w.E .- v And what is theresuliT Wby, to injure Gen." Taylor, tliesrs Smitbem democrats dm Within a haiVa breadth 4f installing the abolitmnutt in th chief place Ofthe Ileus of Krprfjenta'avee, and of blowing themselves ur- as 'well a the whole noun try, in a worse siren Gmipowder PloU f It ought to oe vatyn to them beveaner to be more modera'.a in their pofiueal antipathies. and not to '.nake haired of a Whig ires dent their only rule of action. T?n A'.HMaIii.. WAIltll a ..... ! l - For o anelveavw would say, rather than pcrmilthe House, to remain; in ft present state, of. ttiaorganixalioo, let .: ,ony man of ill, Mrtv he elected. atumt provided A . fit a'rOEMTaMAN!;l:WhVr:.neh,,-il. one. no mafer what his party orced, we vould b willing 10 entrust power, - f ; ;;fv y'-i- "n f, , . -Xtiih, Rep, . ''. A'Toun etntleman feelins restless' ia chiirch leaned forwntO and addressed an old jrntleman thus , ; - ' ' "Pray sir, sen you. tell me ' rule with out an exception? v -"-'7sUs-:.sr '; -. "Yes sir," . he" replied, ' srentleiiaii always behaves tvetl in clrch- 1 Cl -.. . i ' ' .V. -i ....i.-.-ft.-VSV.;.'.. . . . j f'ff k!.wV ii -wt iu.'"6UI iY,W I'h' gf" if)-.; if i'..l.';v:;;
The North-Carolina Star (Raleigh, N.C.)
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Dec. 26, 1849, edition 1
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