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1 I - . J : 'i t, ,'.-;t -i t ! R 1 1 "fi s r. i. . J- lei i -hi r n I ! X luit' I mix in' riare 4 of jf a -'' i h icquenit insertion. terzsxx "" i unueriu 1 il.I.i 1 nL' HIP lor th Utter si for the first. Court Or- onal JnleJligeneer. cAlTilSONIAk INSTITUTION. hnt the uuiiiiib itution contracted, on erection of their build- TiKiliil M life A nnKril ft. a r 4 4 ft a r . ' r ft : A - i .1 . a J ft . aft ft m ft ft II" it I "' ft I I t 1. i I I J .ft ft I ft ft " ft ft - ft ft I ft ft ' ft M ft ft ...'? ii ii i m j i i i i fti it .! i ft ; t x i f ' i i i vj i i I 1 1 i f ii i u BRUNER & JAMES,' Editors 4 Proprietors. Keep a check cton all tour 'ITT . Ii LI .nHnrc nlrnn. rftJU'U.at:of Mr. Jes Renwick, Jr.. r:n;;ofGrnceqhurch,CalvaryUhurcn, Mct0y, .xil i.f;.nn, nnd other ;roilit;if)Iti .o his protessional KaS t .he city of N. York. fe. Jllnftof iU accommodations and 4 ,;;lUgin ink note to the - Report tj jniblbbcd 6v the Institution, as fol- '!t, ILmnriirs' J rnuseum 200 feet by 1). LiibrarOO ltct by 50 ; a gallery of UicMtw is capable of containing an au- t.-l- 'of 800 to 1,000 persons and the filial, connected with the laboratory. i.wtbcr with 'se viral smaller rooms. J he QeUcctcd'ia tUe, later Norman, or ra- I lLIIIlJUI U, 0. II uiukiiii.'. - tvrelib century cliicfly in Germany, Nor tnfcandt xi $6uthern Kuropc, imme- precedingjte introduction of the IS SAFE.' 1 ! RCLEM.! Do THIS, LXD LlBEKTT r.- Cen'l. Harriton.'' IN 0 NEW! SERIES, NUMBER 40, OF iVOLUE 111. SAlflSBURW 9; 1847. - . i MESSAGE. 1 I From f lis Excellency, Gor. Graham, commii. nicating Report of Professor Mitchell, on the Turnpike from Raleigb, West. ! ij To the Honorable General Assembly of NortJi !' Carolina: j i f enclose herein, the Report of the Rev. Dr. Mitchell, the bngmeer appointed under the scale. uie bt this scale was rendered necessary by the shortness of some of the courses.; ! It was af terwards reduced to a scaleor4-5tlisof an inch tqi a mile ou six sheets, and finally to a scale of 1.15th of an inch to a mile on two sheets, wiere will be seen at a stance the courses of the roads as they now run. Small wrridings tor the pur. e of passing creeks and branches or avoid and countertrave)ling adrantages on both sides From Salisbury to Beatty's Ford, much o the ground !s good for a road, and smne of ii ! i TI ..' V ,4 ft Ilnonlnliin eavi:iiciiii : 1 iuiii Liraii s iuiu iu uiiivuiihuh, there! is a good deal of light spongy soil, ever which tte travelling is necessarily bad in wet weather. From Lincolntou to Rutherfordj j ton, a great partof the way is level, or verg ing hills, will of course disappear on jlhia reduced j gently undulat ing, inclining to sand, forming es stinir oads exhibit ;less peciauy an excellent vrinter road, and it is rc markable, that we are able to reach the very rt f,f id., last Session of the General Aitpm. I In sreneral the exi ,; I j - r . ..-v. , s . a . . . . . . " . ! . ! . i r . c.i . ni r. ... . . bly, to make a surrey for a Turnpike Road,aiid cpnsidertble deviations from straight line than ! wqi oi ine iue K.age, wanoui encoumerin? .1 . tU cLu v. .L-.u i . h . might have been expected. The distance from i any very; considerable hill. A low spur from town to town, or other imporjapt points, a the ' the range mentioned as extending eastward road runs, and in a straight line, is given below, irom iheiKidge between the counties ot .Mcr That from Chapel Hill to Gtjeensboro' is given j Dowejl and Rutherford, can hardly be regard- direct. I be. road by Uillsbbrough is about ten ! ec as an exception. mah'd of the armv. atid allowed tocarrv nut M. i P'ans, lie would havp terminated ere this, as I ueiieve it not in a blaze of irlorr, certainU in a permanent and substantial treaty; at peace. But Mr. Pulk andiCapt: Marry thought they would repudiate Gejieral Gaines notions of things pertaining to a campaign, and try their own unitedkillan e business, and see if thev could not compel Mexico to receive Mr. John i inJury- TheUe Slidell as Minister, and sell as a strip of her ? n tnat indirect. MM-J V- GENERAL SCOT . There seems to be a gn-.it r part of a portion of the New 0 as well as some of its numrn. respondents, to find fault w i : ' , means of disgracing Gen. already severely censured in ; terms, for having wiibdrawn . Taylor so large a portion of 1. leaving bim unprotected, i."c. event of any disaster to Jay! r, tions are now making fur fi x 1 . ; sponsibility onGen.'Scott. Th j ras correspondent of the N. O. cial Times, whose letters wc pul terdayindulgedinsomeextrcr.. ly andcontemptiblesneers at G c : I indicative of a settled driijrn TheRegisterof ihU city underhand v;.v rbcf tawfev A'ately .1" M thence to the Georgia line, with a branch on the Eastern side of the Yadkin River to the Town of Fayettevjlle. ! i I have not had leisure to give the Report an attentive perusal, but hope the Legislature will find the work to which it relates, worthy to be immediately undertaken. It does seem to me, a most appropriate disposition of the Funds i . i . . , vemay auu tnai tne irregularity of plan Tl the above . l. . m i . a r hick characlbi'4e the Norman and Go iicAylcs; renafttng those mucn more A thin ihei'virecian oi convenient r ,1,' and pre- Airitatlan Jo cnouern purposes liuto 10 e'4 in tne ditferent aspects Ii tuilJin1?.' a phasing variety. There h all nne toivers ot various snapes raised from the .sale o way from ;that distant Cherokee Lauds, to de vote thereto the consjtruction off a good high-' part of the State to the Capitol, atid one of our chief market towns. Ii WIL. A. GRAHAMi Si- ,f IB , III - I II . jnd sizes jsovcral . oi mem small, to oe. jsedWt' ilcyators ana to receive Hues, ccc. ; thft jricipirtower on the north lront be- 15 feet high. L Tfle 'kuccssful pornpetitors for the con- 1 1: ' lift'-. . B 1 .11 ? traptl are jaiines uixon ac kjo., imur oias, both! (or marble and freestone finish, bc r9 the loWcst thiVwere received. Mr. tig Diiotvis known-i wnUactoron the mucor auinirrw t te nutation ana soiiuiin 'e nutation ot this city as one of the General Post Office, so both for its beauty of of execution, and bears being enterprising, in- Jiistrjous.! responsible, and faithful as a laillrr. lie is a resident of this city. Tbere is, ve learYi, associated with him StiQilbertC ameron, of New York, well taarat there as bavins creditablv com- i . .. pbj many extcpjive. building contracts, fty Board oLRe gents had authorized, ,'uf tie completion of tho building and for ibef imihing aijd fitting up of the same, (Inci dingmuseujm case-s, book-cases, &c.) laetpenuiiurc fipi, exceeuing two nun- (JrkiiJ.ioirty-tvvii thousand dollars ; be UsttJe amount set apart in-the act of Con trjss organizing the Institution for the e rrttL(iit,of Suitable buildings. The bid of Mrsr.! Hixon At lCo. for the entire iai includ I'r. ii"-; con AtLo.Jjpr the entire build ng furniture and fitting up, and at which the contract with 4cpwas jijoscd, is tuo hundred and five laUlitohuiiarcd and fi fly dollars, be,- 0I19n Aill 1I.iyf fvi ij, ,riir ii-ifvvcH iffiuditnu ULsrc tlhin Jhcljambdnt which the building cjtiiralttee'had ailthoritv to expend. is! highly creditable to the : the Cdutract beinir taken at more than tvcnt) thousand dollars below as csumaresisuDiniuea oy nmi to tne 3wt of Regent.!. ; The, material atlontcd for the external of thi building is a freestone of ap proved duVabilityi from the vicinty of Se- ca creek, on th Potomac, some twenty wicnty.ivc miles above the city. It is - jiiie reu saiustone lormation, the J"ne jvhfch has fijrnishcd, in New Jersey, Mbejurifat frccltono used in the erec- H frinitv Church. New York. Its coWisa pinkish or trrkv. hernminf liht. JSUre. It ii whollu A'tiTnrnnt in ntractc-r and quality from the sandstone frtUcUapjtobtho Patent Office, and treasury. It is easily worked when quarried, but becomes by exposure, Re course l a year or two, so bard e best Umnered tool will bardlv Uresis sjmoisfurc so efHctually several aqueducts1 along the line : -wiw.aown the face of which wa kw becnirickjing incessantly for up- i:uf Ji twenty vears, the marks of the rijlreslUI asiharn as when first cut. irttstoae. nnfi nn nercintihl nlimcinn 4coveriti in these, notwithstand- -lujig tcnn of years through which Mavf beerrkubjected to daily wear. ..I0 rect the building of marble instead tonri voMl-havc cost, as shown , Ms, an additional sum of twentu- PWMdJif. hundred dollars, and, , cthe-enttrkimount would still have v HWrab 3 within that to which TIFPr.PT ;'t-'T: f r . . Vl M. . ; ' - i i : . -.:;, To His Ezcdiency, Yili,iah A. Gbaiiam : Sir: The Act. of thp Legislature under which I had the honor of anppointmentfTrom 300, prescribes the duties to be performed in the worus loiiowing : r ; . 1; ; -i 44 It shall be the duty of the Governor of this State, before the third Monday of 'November, 1816, to cause a survey to be made with a view to making a Turnpike road, from Raleigb, west to the Buncombe Turnpike road, thence to the Georgia State line in Cherokee county in this Slate also from the town of Fayetteville to intersect the same at some point least of the Yadkin river. ! ' ' 44 Be it- further enacted. That the engineer making such survey, lie required to examine and report upon both of tlae routes over which the mail stages now lun from Raleigh to Asheville, and that he furnish estimates of the probable' cost of making a turnpike road or roads onJhe different sections of said road." That the business might be so performed as to be satisfactory to the Legislature, it seemed necessary to enquire what are the particular ends to he accomplished by the construction of the roads in question. That leading from Ra leigh west is understood to have been proposed and favored by the gentlemen from the western part of the State. j ; When a County is laid off and a Court House built, roads are immediately opened from the outskirts of the County, giving to all its popula tion free access to the seat of justice. As Ra leigh is the seat of the Legislative, Executive and Supreme Judicial authority, and the Trea sury and all the other public offices are therey the people of the remote west may well claim it as an act of simple justice to themselves, that something should he done to facilitate their communications with the Capital; especially as what might be done for their benefit would also accommodate the population of the country along the whole line of the route. Murphy, the County seat of Cherokee, is 370 miles from Raleigh, by the shortest road that can be trav- eJIed. , There will be a perpetual stream of travel flowing from North Carolina into Tennessee, and from Tennessee into North Carolina, which will also increase if it may be accomplished w - miles longer, but is one that will never be fol lowed iii all its windings by a turnpike. It will be taken in hand in a few dai s, and perhaps fin ished in time to be added to ibis repoit, before the question orconstructingj these roads shall have been decided by the Legislature. i f -j j That in measuring upwards of 4000 angles 'with the compass, and as many lines with the ! chain, laving all these down1 on paper, and re ducing them from one scale jto another, no er rors have been committed, is not to be expect ed. It is hoped and believed that they are nei iher numerous nor important. U mii.es. From Raleigh to Chapel Hill Roa4 28 TAltDS. 462 346i 1210 15674 368 $ 946 823 577 ; 880 108L) 4344 16554 i 14904 743 231 286 44 9134 517 407 DIRECT. over good roadi, and for the accommodation of; favorable Chapel Hill to Greensboro', 49 Greensboro', to Lexington, 34 Lexington to Salisbury, i 16 Salisbury to Statesville, 26 Statesville to Island ForJ, j '12 Island Ford to Morganton, 36 Morganton to Back Creek, 25 Buck Creek to Top of Ridge, 15 Top of Ridge to Asheville, 18 Salisbury to Asheville, upper routi?, 134 Salisbury to Asheville, lower route, 136 F. rom Raleigh to Pittsboro', 34 Pittsboro' to Asheboro', ; 39 Asheboro' to Salisbury, 44 Salisbury to Beatty'9 Ford, 32 Beatty's Ford to Lincolnton, 18 Lincolnton to Rutherfordton, I 43 Rutherferdton to Top of Ridge, j 27 Top of Ridge to Asheville, 42 ! Of the kind of Road to be bcilt. j A; Macadamized or Rock Turnpike, cannot be constructed at any expense which the Le gislature would be willing; to incur, or which would be within the means; of a chartered com- pany ; it lor no other reason, From a deficiency pf proper materials, through long distances. The best materials for such roads, should have four distinct qualities : hardness, toughness, Uniformity of texture, and the absence of liahil ity to disintegrate, under the actioh of the wea ther. Limestone wants the first two, but pos sessing the two last, is used in many places, though it wears out pretty rapidly, j Most gran ite is unfit for this purpose. White flint, though hard enough, is brittle. There is a space of fifteen miles on each of the roads-Uon one, be. (iween Raleigh and Pittsboro', and on the. other, between Raleigh and Chapel Hill over which a stone Turnpike could not be made for one hundred thousand dollars. This body of sand stone has interspersed sparingly through it, a Irock which is an excellent rnaterial for a road : $uch as has recently been employed upon the low grounds of New Hope, nt the expense of the County of Orange. But this rock is so lit tie abundant, and would have to be transported through distances so considerable, that the ex pense would be enormous ; nor is there any thing else, within the limit of thesef 15 miles, that could be used instead of it. ' , 1 ; The circumstance just noticed, of the ab sence of hard rocks through long distances, is The route from Salisbury to Statesville. acrosB first; second and third creeks, is by no means equal to that leading to Beatty's Ford. From' Stateiville to Morganton, there is much level j and good ground, but some that is considerably broken asi we approach Morganton. The principal difficulty on this route is between Morganton, and the Pleasant Gardens. It the road wind over the high grounds to where the county seat of McDowell is most unfortunately located, like an Eagle's nest on. the top of a mountain, there will be many hills to ascend and descend ; if we leave Marion out, and keep near the river bank, the work, though practi cable vill be expensive. throughout the whole d a : . at... lemiory. Ana truiji a nice business they have j it is celebrated overmen cf it made ot it. ; I . . By the way, the (,uesio whether Mr. Sli- s, jhrows. out the same i dell still receives hM salaryas Minister to Mex- bout lne mismanagement of ico, so often asked, Has not? yet been answered N. O Delta, of Sunday, is "rn; Congress at its recept session, made the appro- direct in it censures. It o; pnation necessary, and it is, therefore, prcsum- : rn utwz., ' u " f A able that Mr. Slidelfs salary uilt goes on. I Ge" bf0tt Wlth mUch Df !l It is understood that Mr. 'Benton openly con- ; Taylor's defenceless poslt'iL demns Jbe course ofl the Administration in or dering General Tayor to march on to San Lu is Polosi with the inadequate force that is with him. He may havi fpoken his miud to Mr. Po'k fiercely upon the subject, for he called at i th wk; irt . i,;:A vct-r.u.. ... uo oi sciusnness ana rgt show him some lexers he-had received from ' Weakening Taylor's force, ill ( : i Col. Price and others in New Mexico. j h.ls own Grande Armce; J 1 T. ! I -.. ' ' : j disasters apprehended by i: j PARTY RIGHT OR WRONG. j ?CUr l? our n.rms the V?hVlc I i t any loss to know to whoso 1 I 1 here is much to excuse, yea, something to , take, to attribute them,' recommenn ine sentiment, "Uur country riht It is evident that Gen. S: a great mistake, at the b .i '. it is nothing. more, and that ! uie to excuipaie ntmsell ire i lion oi sciusnness ana e; or wrong We fear that with some oeoDle. route be selected, the road, u likelv in keen lDe sentiment, 44our party right or wron?r." is near the present track. Wherever ihis seems considered as admirable as that in reference to to bend and depart from the true course, sub- i stantial reason is, on a little examination, dU- . covered, siich as the waters of a creek or tract of broken grounds which is well to avoid, even if we have to go somewhat further. For laying off the road, a plot intermediate between the unwieldly one in 70 sheets, and the i educed one herewith transmitted, would be the best, and with the materials in hand, may easily be drawn. i Respectfully submitted, by E. MITCHELL, Engineer. Raleigh to Salisbury, by Chapel Hill, 129 miles; bo iyards. Raleigh to Salisbury, by Pittsboro', 118 miles, 719J yards. i :. " "5 UlU- in in i:f; I WE. .11 r .-.tt LrrV - 1 . IC't; Heornfnittec v,'(re allowrd tog WCM thev (icfnsidered tin? d w??"fVxP j materials, whether as !ViurabilitN or i go in their difference ifofthc rrriat.cfur lrharblct rn c appearance, not sui- increase of expendi- doubtful whether the color selected be not more K Norman buildinir than He this as it may, Ave feel ! areful examination of executed in the material losfii. it will nrpspnt nn s avaxlud imposing beauty. ifcrisinY 11V TUP IT IIJ1V7 111 X KM. U U v J "ItecaitL nf A n ll r .L Pf t W State Courts of Massa iL!inVl?lh4 a Penalty for the vio- pf lhn ft wpal Was lhat ictin fr- - autbority to make laws CSl Ie of l(quor, the! United mt;po"rt inas decided that - 'O:.: u-ye be r i 2h t t o enact 1 awa : i L5 l(ne sa,c of spi rituous liquors. -.-Pi -.-if whieh, it seems that there should be one good road leading from the ast to the west through the State.J I It is most desirable that the eastern and wes tern sections of this great Commonwealth should be bound togethe-r by an easy and free commu nication betwceil themi An intelligent gentle man in the western part of the State remarked to me that as things now are, he has less to do with the people on the northern side ofthe Al bemarle Sound, than with those of some ofthe remotest regions of the globe. t Trade will always increase with the increas ing ease and freedom of communicat ion, though the influence of an eastern and western turn pike upon the amount of traffic would not pro bably be very considerable. It is. in a direc tion nearly at right angles to this, that the pro duce ofthe central and western Counties finds a market, and manufactured goods and the pro ductions of foreign countries are returned. People travelling the eastern and western road will generally wish to pass through the vil- f luges and County seats ; it is along lines lead- j ing from town to town, that the conveyance of! the mail must be effected,and that short journeys I on business will be made. If a good road were opened, which avoided the villages and passed j over the intermediate ground, it would bo very i little frequented. Such a road there might be leading from Chapel Hill, midway between j Greensboro' and shboro', to Lexington be yond of th tendin the Counties of Burke and Rutherford, compels us to keep either the upper or lower Stae route. The act, therefore, w isely directs that particular attention shall be given to the routes over which the mail stages now run. The fini thing to be done, was to make out an accurate map or plot of the existing roads, to ascertain their length, and whether they are tolerably straight, and if not, on which side we are to search, for the route combining in. the greatest possible degree the two qualities of di. i rectness aiid coodness of ground. iThe two in a very high degree to the throw up ol a rounded enbankment of earth in other words, constructing a dirt turnpike. From Ral eigh to the foot of the Mountains, there will, except in two or three places, be no difficulty in the exeution of such a work. There are no swamps to pass, few, if any, large and solid rocks to be '-removed by blasting, few hills of much importance to pass, but a country gently undulating, and through business, as the cultivation of a field of corn. The question, 44 how much will it cost to make such a road ?" is somewhat of the same nature with the enquiry, how much will it cost to build a house not susceptible of a definite answer, where so much depends upon the kind of road to be made, or house to be built. The results of experiments made elsewhere, sb4w that such a road could be made at from 200 jto 500 dollars per mile. j Of the two routes from Raleigh to Salisbury, that through Pittsboro' and Ashbbro' will from 15 to 20 miles the shorter, even if i'e take the most direct route from Hillsboroughjto Greensborough, and avoid the long deflection towards the South which the stage now follows. But on the other hand, it will run over worse ground and accommodate the population of a 0r" Potomac," the Washington corres pondent of the Baltimore Patriot, under date of March ; 19th, writes as follows: ' At the time Commodore Perry, the brother-in-law of Mr. John Slidell, was first despatched to the Gulf, did I 'not write to you that he was to supercede Commodore Conner? At first the Administra tion was slow in carrying out his design. Com. Perry, it is suspected, was not in the least sat isfied with the prosecution. He left the squad ron and paid a visit to New Orleans. It is sus pected that he there had a consultation with John Slidell, the Minister to Mexico, rejected by the Mexican Government, but still the Min ister I The next we hear of Com. Perry is, that he; has arrived at Norfolk in the steamer Mississippi ! The next, that he is in Wash ington City in close consultation with Mr. Polk and the; Secretary of the Navy, The next, that he goes back to the Gulf to take command of all our naval forces there ! In this, Mr. John Slidell has carried his point. He also carried it in getting his brother, Capt. Slidell McKcnzie, employed by Mr. Polk to proceed in post haste to Havana, last year, on a mission to Santa Anna, and thence to Mexi co on a visit to Col. Black, who still holds a position there in some capacity, or to General Taylor, or both all in relation to Santa An naY return from banishment, the order of Mr. Polk granting him and his platoon of Mexican i Thus we see the way is p.ivt ' ting all the odium and di?"r; i 9 "it disaster lo Gen. Tavlonmnn C, W !?'t!7 f !n,te,1,i;111'indi? protest, in advance, agair.':: W e repudiate the sentiment, and advocate the i 1 - . ? 1 dncirine, pajity for the good of the coi n- e"orts as un"irt cruel; unjust : .: thy. When this fails, when' we cannot sustain reprehensible. What docs nn j party without injuring country, the obligation to : ctly seated in bis sanctum, awi ! sustain the former c.iUp i ! ! J - . ' . scene ot danger and strife, I;: these things, and what is his op i : , And what a rediculous piece c tion it is for such men to be cri:' movements and condemning; :v i ship of such military veterans u : ; Taylor! 'And why attempt to t .: I fame 1 The capitulation of M u Gen. Taylor, it will be ircoll' j made the subject of criticism a:. ! i nation by these same) chicftai: W e do not know when wc have seen a clear er instance of tergiversation and inconsistency, than in the following case of Mr. Charles J. Ingersoll. In 1845 Mr. Ingersoll used the fol lowing language. It is found in a speech de livered by him in the JIou?e of Representatives on the 3rd of February of that year : "The stupendous deserts between the Nue ces and the Bravo rives are the natural bound aries between the Anglo Saxon and the Mau ritanian races. Theri ends the valley of the West. There Mexico! I )Ofrii.g Thence lxrnnrl ry - J ---v- should not be shut up in the and quiet .walls, of an ..editor when men of science and brav much needed in the battle fk ! 1 men should join the army for: remain in the Bravo Rio Grande -begins the Moorish press, and in the effort to cn people, and their Indian associates, to whom on the glorious reputation of tl. Mexico properly belongs ; j who should not cross Hero of the Itio Grande, then that vast desert if they doutd, as we, on our side, ; played a knowledge of mi.it a too, ought to stop there because interminable j calculated to astonish the wo: conmcis mu?i ioiiow our going south, or their who know so much of rhilitai ; coming ;ortn or tnai gigantic boundary. White j "peace is cherished, that boundary will be sacred. j iVo? till the spirit of conquest rages, will the people on either side molest or mix with each i other ; and whenever they do, one or the olb?r ! race must be conquered, jif not extinguished." ' , J , l j Now compare it1 wi'h the following taken j ureIy lhey WM ot : from a renort mad hr hit Khinitf ra i, ! wncn great men are so close ofthe late session, j In both1 instances he j lead our armies to victory ! was acting as the chairman of the committee of Seriously, there is. no douLt ' Foreign Relation. j Scott, in all he does, is acting i: j "President Polk had nr constituiional right cial and positive instructions fn. : to stop short ofthe Bravo, and in truth, the Pro. I ington. Our life on it, whatevc vince ot lexas extended to that river ly tern torial configuration which nature herself has rendered the limitary of lhat region." In the first, Texas terminated at the Neuces ! i Mature itself had interposed stupendous bound- aries between the Anglo Saxon and the Mau- ritanjan races. Thee barriers were between I the Nueces and Rio Grande livers. Vjo ; the spirit of conquest ragcj," said Mr. I., will that barrier be passed. " flYhilc peace is clur ished that boundary trill be sacred." It was passed, however, by Mr. Polk, without consuhing ' Congress, and when not demanded by necessity has taken from Gen. TaVIor b s ! j in compliance with, and;in ol r ! positive written instructions fit ..! t Department. Scott knew the in to deal with he knew thiic !. him and their desire to injure a:. I him and, of course, would b' wuke and not assume any re.-; himself. He is acting iit obtdit : ders. The plan of the cfimpaii::. minutiic as well as the outlines understood at Washington, ar- : and dictated by Mr. Polk and b Capt. McKcnzie, after fulfilling his mission returned to the United States and reported pro- rrrpce' oiirl it U'na 1 1 nrln rcf rrA ! c oiriin floe g and the construction of a turnpike j d , . Mcxico Qn a visU tQ SantabAnna al which, w, U be as plain and simple a , gan Luis Potosi. It is statedt i know nol up. on what authority, that he saw Santa Anna and joined in his cock fighting sports, but, on the subject of his mission, his proposition of peace, his proffer of the three millions, &c., met with a cold reception. It now appears that after him Mr. Polk sent Senor Atocba to try his hand at diplomatic bar gain with the Mexican Government, and that his reception was awfully cold the Senor re ceived orders to leave the capital "immediately if not sooner I" Sedor Atocha, who was connected in some way with the financial operations of Santa An na -perhaps one;of his bankers when the ty rant fas hurled from power and sent to Ha vana 'also received orders to leave the Repub lic. He came to the United States, and laid a claim before Congress as an American citi- smaller number of Counties. On both sides of i zen (he having previously lived in Louisiana,) Ashboro' the country is very broken, and the j of some eighty or an hundred thousand dollars construction of a good road will be difficult.- ; for spoliations of his property and liberty . . should occur to our arms lue V not be at any loss to know who is' the responsibility will be Iii upon it where it properly bvl bile Adv. . ! ni nrnnripti' Arrnrrlinrr i In Mr. I it wue i LL i i .1 i li i i i ri -" . uenejrais a iree pass mrougn our oiocKaae in- paed fif Mlrposei of conqtCstt and no6lijily. anJ .if the disaSters apprehend va.ii uic i u Kitiii iitijjc fit rui.il c nir i liic 3 without the consent of Congress ? How does the first position of Mr. Ingersoll compare with his last ? How utterly inconsist ent the)' are ! What cDtifidcnce can be placed in men whose opinions can be so easily chang ed, and moulded to suit the circumstances of the case? Mr. Polk must be sustained right or wrong; party must be upheld though the con stitution falls ! The first mus be grappled with hooks of steel" to the soulJ though the latleris in consequence, torn, tattered and profaned! . Edited by Geo Such doctrines may suit j professed politicians: who cling lo place, rather than principle, but they cannot -suit the people whose only interest consists in having the constitution and good laws honestly administered. It is their duty to see to it, that while mennay make wrecks of their own character they do not make a wreck of the constitution atid the country. Augusta Sentinel. TUG I AMERICAN REV 1 1 A U'kig Juurutl of J'olitir$,JJtcraturr, ,, t H. CoLToV, A-ITLD ti I'. 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J D i o rocks which occupy most of region traversed by : who I wears an extraordinary imperial, and this route, decompose very irregularly and une. j speaks broken English with great moderation, qually so that when they rise to the surface, as- j It is reported by the latest news from Mexi they sometimes do, aud are exposed there, they ; co, that Senor Atocha offered the Mexican Gov are verv uneven and unpleasant to travel over. ' ernnieht, in behalf of Mr, Polk, not three, but The slate also decomposes into a clay which fmi;millions of dollars for peace and a strip ' retains, water and keeps the road muddy, I when the lighter, sandier soil ofthe upper route permits the water to filter through and the ground to become dry in a short time. Beyond Salisbury, the condition of things is commodate the population ofthe greatest num ber of Counties, it passes through ; a country . both, more fertile and more remote from a mark et, and where the wants or the traveller mav routes were therefore surveyed with the chain partly reverse. The upper route wijl still &q and compass from Raleigh to Asheville. Be yond the last named village, the survey was not carried; not because the section beyond is less important than the rest, but because the distance to the Georgia line is already sufficiently known ; and we are, by the positions ofthe dif ferent County seats and ihe passes of the moun tains, (except in a few( cases,) confined very much to a Country track. ! ' j The survey was first plotted on a scale pf six. teen nches'to a mile, on seventy sheets, each containing, from four Jo seven sections of the road, and which accompany this report. .The of territory and that the offer was treated with , contempt. The, fact is, the Administration has gone all wrong' from beginning to end, in carrying on this 'war with Mexico, out of which Mr. Polk expected to reap an overwhelming and irresist- , performed. Marlboro' Gitzelie. lble popularity ! Ueneral uaines. wnose quick perception, great forecast and military experi ence kiused him to look at the matter precise. Remarkable Escape from Death. On Sun day week a n"gm boy beonging to 'Mr. John S.'Ski uner, of Nottingham district, came very . . . ...i i- .i . r ii : ii niilh beinji killed in trie ihici mg manner : lie of Mr. issaci at Magrtider's in the and on thought lessly aimed the pistol at the boy, and the ball entered just below the right eye, and passing through his head lodged, it is supposed by the physicians who were called in, against the in ner side of the skull on the back of his head. Sirange to say, the boy did not complain of any uneasiness at the time, nor has he since suffer ed from the effects of the ball, and has bad but a slight fever. The ball cannot be extracted without great risk, and as!he is considered out of danger, rto operation for that purpose will be The America Review has no rf ' - ! end of a seconJ yrar. Its guccrm m t r ! tirrly unprecedented. Its subscript ion r about 3,500, with a constant inert-u.. Ti. of the value of the work U bhown ly il- the numerous new subscribers wIio" ra'. sent into the office within the last I number have ordered the back ?fcuri!t. rangrnients have bren made lo adj grrw! y : its ofthe work, in both it political and h r ter ; and it is confident believed that th- ; this Review, (mi the part of ibe Wi g r r , literary public generally, will soon I t j ! -ble ii to pay so liberally for every orJrr ,;' . islied writini, as to make it in all r; t ; and attractive periodical publiohed f n i!.- I We earnesr.iy a?k the continued cofiilJci.t - of all true minds in the country, "i Kv,raviv;s. Tlwre will be fair rr year, carefully ejreuted ; and what" is ( f i tance, accompanied with apiple bit ;ra; stand as a part of ihe history of ihe 'tours try. bellishmenta may be ipven, if ike intrinsic r AVreir can thereby bt enhanced. ; Teems. The Review will continue to I at Five Dollars, i dtance ; Thrre c ;. trill le afforded ml ttttlte dollar ; Five I -r t tar ; to that Committees, Sveitlic, Clu , tain them ml m more liberal rate. The eaeh ejtteta, mad payment i a !r . . ' urged n our subscriberf.it beins the or.'y v periodical can be efficiently sustained. REDCCTiwr or Postack- A preaUm " saved in the reduction of poatage. -The j Kevirw is not half ihe funuer amount. ly as it appeared, and mark out the only true ul u.u n. nKoonlv onri .u,:f..n T and feasible Dlan ofthe campaign, and with an iu ocAnt nfthft ridA ia a5.c.a, .u VJ : energy and promptness characteristic ot ihe ley ofthe Calawba being three or fotor hundred I PllM imbortant initiatory steps of car- : feet higher than that of Broad River ; but this j on ws al,ed and sent lolhe Nfh 1 ! .,k. lfA nrSR o-mnnd 'k- Th4i was a.false step. It was a gross blun-! one tbe A ' j ..... . , ii ii kit". 1M lion, which ot the two snail lie taken, is Worthy of imitatiov. The Norfolk; H3XClgXO(XDr Herald states that two wealthy planters residing on the Roanok River, in North Carolina, have instructed their mercantile friend and agent in th;tt city, to deposit credit in the Irish Relief b und.the sum of one hundred 'dollars, and ope. which invokes the wisdom of ihe Legislature rather than the judgement of the , Eengineer, for its decision there being such Important i a. ,ki'-iiLJ itir. nrhnnnncArt i.i. i tbft other one hundred uusneis oi corn ur der to;be worse than a crim. ? its equivalent in money. lhe.amoonMnus it1!.wU u!JI ft, : JncVnmeu .t. I contributed. 8187.50. has been promptly i iau :iuc iiiU' v cm. a w :v a w a a a t a l wa. i ' i General Gaines, been entrusted with the com- i deposited. asjdirected. i ti 2 BARRELS Old French Brandy-, O An. Madeira Wine. Jo. Kxtra Purt, do, Malaga. do. Holland Gin. vXr sale br dnioiht or bolt!e. Feb 19,1 847 tf J. II. 1 2 1 Q3r FOR WARRANTS SALE AT THIS Oi i V t.-. 1 1" I ill v