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PRINTED BY II. 8. NOBLE, SALEM, STOKES CO. NORTH.CAIlOLINA....JOHNC. BLUM, PROPRIETOR. VOL. I. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1829. NO. 5. 11 nilTIO AMD fCBUIHED EVZEY TCISDAY MOKXIXG. TERMS On Dollar per annum, if paid in advance ; Our Dollar and 25 Cists, at the end of six months ; but if not ? aid within the year, the price will be Osz. Dollar and 'iFTT CEHTS. ADVERTISED EXT3 will be inserted at fifty cents per , square for the first insertion, and twenty-five cents for each succeeding week. " ' All letters on business must be post paid, or they will not bo attended to. . FATE OF-GENIUS bt r. Montgomery. To have thy glory mapp'd upon the chart Of time, and be immortal in the truth And offspring of a lofty soul ; to build A monument of mind on which the world . May jaze, and round it future ages throng iuch is the godlike wish forever warm And stiring in thy spirits depth ; and oft Beneath the mute magnificence of heaven, When wandering at the radiant hour of noon,' Ambition dares, and hope secures thee all. Romantic boy ! ambition is thy curse ; And ere upon the pinnacle of fame Thou stand'st, with triumph beaming-from the brow, The grave will hide thee and thv buried hopes : 1 lie path to glory is uie pain oi nrc To feeling hearts, all gifted though they be, And martyrs to the genius they adore. The wear of passion and the waste of thought, The glow of inspiration, and the gloom That like a death-shade clouds the brightest hour And that fierce rack on which a faithless world Will make thee writhe all those enerving pangs, With agonies that mock the, use of words, Thou canst not bear thy temple is a tomb How to learn to read. By an article in the Courier Francois, of .Oct. 28th, a translation of which lias been published in the Baltimore Gazette, it appears that M. Delafore, a lawyer of Agen, in France, has discovered a mode of teaching children, of ordinary intelligence, the art of reading, in from nine to forty hours. His method applies to all languages. His dis covery is said to be the result of an accurate examination of .the laws regulating articulation, language, and the conventional signs of sounds. It is also said that his experiments on a hun dred children have been uniformly successful, in the average space of 25 hours ; that he has been congratulated by academies on his won derful discovery ; and that great savans, to whom he has communicated his secret, look unon him as liavinff done, for tire propagation of reading, what Dr Faustus did for that of books. Like him, too, Mr. Delafore has ex perienced persecution : for his system has been pronounced diabolical, by the low clergy tjf Ardcche, who have excommunicated its author and its propagators The Toad. It has been frequently, observed that this reptile has been found in situations which must preclude the possibility of its exis ting by tho ordinary means of air and food. That this is a fact has been fully demonstrated by the following circumstance : A person of Highworth found on tho 20th of May, 1826, a small toad in his garden, which he took and inclosed in a common garden pot, so as to ren der it air tight, and buried the same in the ground. On the 1 4th of May, 1 828, he in the presence of a friend ' examined the prison of tho captive, when he found its solitary inmate not only alive but hearty, and apparently in a thriving condition, as it had grown very con siderably, and the lustre of its beautiful eyes appeared to be not a whit diminished by its long incarceration. HORSES. The following remarks upon horses, are co pied from the publication of an eminent farrier in Europe ; and we think them worth the pe rusal of farmers generally. - The pulse of a horse in health, is from 36 to 40 beats in a minute, and may be easily felt by pressing the finger gently upon the tempor-1 al artery, which is situated about an inch and I a hall backwards from the corner of the eye. Horses have not the faculty of puking, or even belching wind out of their stomachs, and therefore are peculiarly subject to wind cholic. When a horse has been over ridden, bloody spots may be seen in the whites of his eyes. . A limber dock is sure evidence of a limber back ; that is, a week one. A horse that is hardy and good for business, has a short back bone, which terminates for ward of the hip bones. A decoction of white oak bark will kill the botts by tanning them, and they will become so shrivelled, as scarcely to be discernable when discharged. The principal signs of a good horse are these the eyes set apart in the head, and large and bright ; the quirl high in the fore head ; one or two in the neck is a good sign ; the neck well set on high ; the shoulder blades pretty high, and converging to a point ; the breast full and large, and so also behind, the body round, for flat bodied Or slab sided hors es are weak natured, the dock stiff, going wide behind, for if the gambols knock together, it shows that the 'horse is feeble ; chewing the bit when provoked, is a good sign. It is a Spanish proverb, that a dapple grey will sooner die than tire. GEOLOGY OP NORTH-CAROLINA. Extracts from the Geological Report of Professor Mitchell,. made to the Hoard ot Agriculture, Jan. ltf&J. "Ashe County. I had expected to find this county resembling in geological character the district lvino nnrlh rf it in Viro-inia. nnrl hnnrl v o - - " ' "o ' l therefore, that there might he a chance of meeting with those minerals, especially lead and gypsum, which occur lower down New river, either Upon its banks or at no very great distance from it ; but I soon ascertained it to be altogether different. The whole country is primitive, with the exception of a narrow strip adjacent to Tennessee, and this is a collection of rocks through which the primitive gradually assumes the characters of the formations west of it, rather than one of those formations. An imperfect recent granite is found upon the Stone Mountain, at both of the points where the great roads crosst within the limits of Ten nessee. The lead and gypsum of Virginia would of course be looked for in vain. The iron ores of Ashe are near the northern boun dary of the county, on the waters of Little ri ver, and those of the North Fork of New river, and whether we regard the ease with which they are wrought, or the excellence of the iron manufactured from them, are probably not sur passed by those of any other country The value of the iron ores of North-Carolina depends upon the nature of the rock in which they occur, not less than upon the ore itself. Almost all those that are wrought, belong to the kind called shot-ore that is, they consist of small chrystals of iron ore, (generally mag netic,) disseminated through a rock not differ ing, except in the circumstance of its contain ing this imbeded substance, from the common rocks of the country. The rock, therefore, goes either partly (the rest having been remo ved by pounding and washing) or wholly into- the forge or furnace, along with the proper ore, and when there, serves to stamp a peculiar character upon the metal produced, it enters into intimate union either with the lime intro duced as a flux (as in the furnace) or with a portion of the undecomposed oxide of iron, which appears in this case to perform the of fice of a flux, (as in the forge,) is converted in to cinder and flows off. But the magnesian minerals (soapstone, chlorite, etc.) being exceedingly difficult of fu sion, even with the aidof fluxes, require a large expenditure of coal for the reduction of the ore, nor is the metal obtained, apt, after all, to be of good quality. This circumstance will al-. ways deprive the iron ore (bund at the place called the Bull Ruffin in. Ashe, and indeed all that I met with in the southern part of the county, (some small specimens of loadstone found on Geo. Wilson's land on. the fork ridge excepted,) of the value they miht .otherwise possess. But the characters of the ores on the north fork of New river, are all favor lble to the easy production of good iron. The ore itself appears to be a pure oxide ; the rock in which it lies imbeded is gneiss, without anynjurious ingredient : there is plenty of wood and water power. There are at present but two forges in operation in this part of tho county ; Col. Bal low's, and that belonging to Maj. Findlay and Col. Waugh. But k will be the fault of the persons to whom the ore beds belong, and of the workmen, if this district does not become the seat of a manufacture of iron, not surpass ed for being converted into steel, or indeed for any other purpose, by any in the world. Why -should not the people of the midland counties be supplied with this important article, directly by their fellow citizens at the West ? It is sometimes carried to Fayetteville and sold, and then re-transported to the interior. Besides the magnetic oxide that is wrought, Ashe furnishes some other species of iron ore, especially the specular oxide, which is pretty common in tnc midland counties, and no where more abundant, as I believe, than in Chatham, where, though not in quantity sufficient to-be manufactured into iron, very fine specimens may be had on the plantation of Wra. Hardin, Esq. near Ptttsborough. In Ashe, differing so much from the more common kind of iron ore ? in lustre and other characters, it was supposed to contain lead, antimony, or some other un common and valuable metal. It is a good ore of iron, but here as well as elsewhere, in tho On the ridge opposite the Bull Ruffin, is an ancient exca vation, having masses of 3Iica, as large as the hand, in earth that has been thrown out. There is a similar excavation two miles north of Rutherford ton, and a third a little way south west of Franklin, in Haywood county. The appearance at each of the three placet are the earn. - That near Fcaokb is in a country difficult of access, and tilt within a few years occupied by the Indians. It is probable, therefore, that both it and the others, ace the work of the aborigines, who either employed the glittering plates of this nhrtaace tatomameat their persona, or expected to extract metal from k. Such places never fail to become objects of interest to the people of the neighborhood, who flatter themselves that a cDlijrent aud cartful search, would bring to light soucUuag talaahU
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