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7 ! n ? Pi f -r i 1 -1 .1 jl I; I- ; REPORT ol the Select CoaimiUee of ibe Vir ginia Legislature pn French's Improvement Oil uau uoaas. ii 'i n j ' . f The committee .v!io were directed by the S House to examine ibe experimental railway j' constructed by Janiew S. Fiencb, Esq.. as au. I '.ltini.il lr I K laul I to r . 1 a 1 1 L tborized by the last legislature, beg Xave to report : ' , AUwaiu i jVUlliilllLICU Ull IUB Hiauvl Chester sid of the riverra few hundred yards above the Petersburg road; it abouj 1 DUO feet In leng'h, and, with pbe exception uflOO feet at ibe lower extremity, rise tbe remainder of tbe distance about 200 feet lihc mile, ibe in cline being no lea jihan 1 foul in 30. The rod differ hut little from the common railway tvitb Woodenuperslrucfure. Tbe same sized limbers are used, fend the string pieces, in place of: being secured by .wedges as is usual, are notched Into sills and secured by iron bolts the ends of ibe sills are cut off flush with ibe sleepers, and tbe! iron, which is a flat bar 6 Inches wide, flbicK, is placed on the outer edge of tbe st ringj piece, projecting over it 2$ Inches. Tbe roadjhnsit very farm arid solid appearance, and ibe iron has been in- no way displaced: by being ued. The ends of tbe sills being pi off flush with the sleep, ers, and ibe iron; projecting ovor 2$ inches, there is thus fimM a free and open space ihe depth ol the, sUI; &nd siring pieces for the wheels to play revolving up against ibe rails. - -The driving wheels of the engine are cast solid and concave, he cranks are Hied on the outer ends of the-ajxle, an between tbe cranks and the inner surface of the wheels, suspend ed from the axle, jure the friction wheels which revolve under the rlails. These friction wheels, by means of a co apound lever, the long arm i of which rests by the engineer, aie pressed, up against the rails, and the axle of the driv- ing wheels being the fulcrum, the driving 'Wheels are pressed dovfn upon the rails-.and " made lo produce Any requisite degree of adhe. sion. In this consist the chief leatures of the invention. ' ' : ' H ' - The ;fi iction . wheels, when not in use, as sumg by their gravity a position about one inch below rhe rails, and pass freely along without rubbing or touching either ihe iron or the road. 'When brought opi against the rails ihey pan take of the revolving . motion of the driving wheels above, aid by means of springs ac- commodate themselves to any varying thick- ness in tbe iron, tin addition to this, by means fa small steam cylinder, they are made to pass at pleasure Trom under the-rails, and as sume a position '"spine inches above them, tbe engine differing tjien in no way from the com- f mon locomotive.' - 'This facility of Jilting them out of the way removes all objections which may be made as .to crossing other jrbadi or running on turnouts, And admits of teir application on 'Commop roads, by merely Relaying the, roads on heavy inclines where, additional adhesion may be re quired. The mechanical arrangement isex- ' iremely simple, and works, as far as we can judge, remarkably well. . Tbe machinery on the road consists of an engine and apasenger car capable of sealing sixty passengers.' 'The engine has attached to it a small waier-tank; and weighs about 3 Ions; ils driving wheels are 152 inches in di- meter, cylinder 8 inches, with 16 inch stroke. The committee uve examined Ihe working of tbe engine, and av3 been repeatedly drawn over ihe road, and have witnessed experiments enough to convince them that, by means of Mr. French's invention, a far greater adhesion is readily produced than is due to the weight of the engine, and that the apparatus is entirely managable and convpnient.r in simplicity, ease ol application and etieriiveness, this in vention no doubtjexcels all the ingenious con trivances hilherito nrooosed for attaining simi larends. On a road on .Mr. French's plan, any locomnirvelrngino runs ihe x'uinmon rail way, to lake advantage of hisprinciole of ad. he sion, would have lo be changed only on the Inclines. X TheommileB have not had the. necessary time or opportunities to ascertain exact resulis by; careful exptjriments. They can only sub- .ran to me nouse wnat ihey saw. 1 hey have seen the engine, when attemntin to ascend the grade withjwit friction gear, unable to do :so, ine wneeia pipping without progressing, and immediately the friction gear was applffd, the engine moejd up the plane. They have seen this repeatedly lriedt ihe engiMO slipping whenever the jrjcMon gear was thrown otF, and immediately prtfgressing when applied; and this experiment has been repeated on almost every point of ibe plane. The power of the engiue the committee have had no exact means ascertaining, n'of of Obtaining the exact value of ibe mechaujica! adhesion, or ihe resistance I consequent up ri it. To do this would require . i several additional loaded cars and a series of l careful experiments, made when ihe rails of. jl lered diflerenl degrees of adhesion, influenced ; by the weather There has been drawn over the plane, at from twelve to fifteen miles an J r'.hour, al least oie hundred passengers, ihe en ::) A'ne slopping aind slaiting readily with this During our experiments we have Bad few per aons prtseat ;fapd in order to giyts sufficient resistance la the car, lo make the engine slip readily, we haive applied ihe brake t?ihe car , until ibe engirU;Could not pull it wfib its own j adhesioi.yHVejhave ihen applied the friction gear, and readily ascended the plane, slipping whenever the jfriction gear was removed, and pijogressing thej moment it was applied. To form some est riiate of tbe reliance occasion- ed by he brakej after ascending the plane, uH fjmmru in" poini woere K was applied, then disengaged ii.land also ih friction rollers, nd suffered the irain lo.run d.wn by iisVwn grkv. ty after It bad obtained the velocity due lo descending one hundred yard or so on the lane, we apr)jli d Ihe brake to ibe point where j it stood on goinj; up, and it readily stopped the train. In goirtg up lheplane we aTtained a ve!o-itj- of sat Itfast 12 miles an hour, which, ;,we doubt nol, could have been considerably ; p Increased. ' . ' ' ' At tht rlniA nf thia wnaimn ... -. . , " v j". r.rrrniirui . O rAV III- Ined ibe friction rollers; iby were well sup. pjied with oil, js rid not at all healed that we Could perceire. Tie resistance occasioned by the brake til Ibis instance, was equal to at least two toauea cars;; us exact quantity we khow Ijot how to csiimaje. " Thai by ljiis simple contrivance as much adhesion as is jequired can be fnsiantly ob Isiaed. we think is obvious:, and it follows. therefore, ti:it: tHis experimental engine ahvayr work up to Us steam capacity, and Jiot lo its weight, as wiih ihe cornmoiriocomolive engine and always hiasLjufTieient adhesion, however Octed Jhe rails'innv le bv frosts or snow. The adhesion which is now produced by a hand lever. Ihe oventor proposes iu practice lo o by tie a in The committee, believing that the ends pro. I posed by this invention are not fully understood beg leave lo state that ihe object of the inven tion is not solely to work much heavier grades than have ever been attempted on railways, but that is also to, wdrk ordinary lines at greatly diminished Vxpenses thereby increasing the neit profits oi railways, and, as a consequence, leading lo a reduction of tolls, and greater fa ciliiies lo tbe public at large. .; f : Thai a great reduclionjo tbe cost of railways will follow frorn making them conform more nearlyto the natural surface of ihe earth than is now usual, cannot be doubted, jj That it will lead lo the construction of railways in places where, under ihe present system, jthy cannot now he made, is equally clear, and that this invention will not lully accomplish that object we cannot say, but on the contrary, as far as we can judge from what we have :een, the ob ject is successfully obtained. The working of tbe grade of 200 feet to ihe mile before us, is, to all appearance, simple, easy arid eJTeciive ; Land we have seen this small experimental en gine drawing over it, at fair velocity, a suffi cient number of passengers to make it profit, able were it if? constant use. I Out the great feature of the invention ap- pears lo your committee tote, the) redociion in fne disproportion between tbe paying freight and the dead weight of machinery of the road which now exists ; and that this Invention ac complishes that object, we cannot doubt. Suppose an ordinary railway with a grade of 80 feet lo the mile; Under the present system. ihe engine which runs on this road must have JO power and adhesion sufficient to ascend that grade with a. given '"load, although ihe remaind er of ihe road: could be easily worked with an engine one-half the weight!. Here the, unne cessary weight" is carried where you do not want it, that you may have it only at tbe in- cline. Your committee believe, from the best sour ces of information within their reach, that the.! weight of the engine may be greatly reduced without at all impairing its power; and by using one, pair of driving wheels, as is done where mechanical adhesion is supplied, the en gine is rendered more simple and cheap than by connecting several pair, as is now the case ; and that ihe enormous expenses of working rail ways, averaging, at least one-half; of iheir gross receipts, is mainly due lo Ihe great weight of the machinery,; evidenced by seeing the iron mashed and broken, and the road crushed by Ihe superincumbent weight, Aiir nminilta0 itannnl nvarlnAIr I Y a rrpnotov security to railway travelling afforded bv this invention. The form of the rdad admits of very great safeguards, while the brakes now used, as well as another intended for practical use, give a perfect command over ihe train. The flat rail now used is, in the opinion of the invenler, 1 inches wider than necessary ; and while he prefers this, he has also a heavy rail adapted to his, road, which would dispense with the use of strinir nieces. !. .It is obvious then that, if experience on a Ifir.rp .r!o hniilH n thtk nrnmian aivon hv the limited experiments witnessed by the com miltee, a great saving will flow from this inven tion z Jirstt the construction of ralways, where ihe graduation required lo reduce The grades "would be' very expensive secondly, in tbe e. quipment of roads, by thej diminished cost, of lighter engines ; and finally, in the working of roads, by reducing the wear and tear, and by enabling an engine, to (work up to its full steam power on all grades and in all kinds of weather, ' - t To accomplish these results would be a ve ry great benefit to the community at large, who are interested in diminishing ihe expenses and consequently the cost of transportation on these works. Whoever may point out a mode of ob taining them will deserve jo be regarded as a public benefactor. The committee think that Mr. French has offered sufficient evidence of his success to entitle him to the approbation of the general assembly, and to further encourage, merit in his efforts to introduce his very ingen- ions invention into generaj use As a native citizen of Virginia, his success may well grati fy our feeliiigsof state pridp, and claim for him our favorable consideration. Ie has already devoted several years of persevering exertion to the perfection of his invention, and now of. fers us as satisfactory proofs of its utility as ihe means placed at his command would enable him lo present. I j Prudent Counsels. We recently published an admirable letter to the people' of South Caro lina, by Bishop Capers, of the Methodist Epis copal Church. We now give.jbelow, one of like import from the Reverend Editor of the Southern Presbyterian Review, in thai work yf January, 1851 : i " Bui while we would make every eff rt which wisdom and patriotism would demand, to save ihe Constitution and the Union, we are free to confess lhat when the .issue is forced upon is of submitting to a government, hope lessly perverted from its ends, and aiming at the destruction of our qwn interests, it will be our duty, as it is our right, to provide for our selves. The continual agitation of Jhe slavery question must sooner or-later bring matters to this issue. Tbe Southern States will not aban don their institutions. This is certain as fate. Their patience is now almost exhausted, and unless lheirconstitutional; rights are respected, ihey will set up for themselves. This Union must lull, and Ihey will lilt- up, their bands lo heaven and declare that they are clear of its blood. The cuilt of the lonn train of untold evils lhat must follow the catastrophe, ihey will honestly believe rests not upon them. God grant that our counjrj may be saved that the North and South; may be brought lo meet in harmony and peace, upon the common ground of our glorious Constitution that a common ancestry, a common ihisiory, a com mon language, a common religion, may do their office iumenting them together, and binding them in the indissoluble bonds of truth, justice, and fraternal love! y, We . . j : ? liavebut a sinsle word further to add. and that is a protest against ihe policy which our own beloved State seems intent upon pur- O? 1-1 l-J. i i i . Bumg. oingie-nanueu secession, wqicu is Un- der stood to be the aim of the measures now in progress, however it might be justified in a cri- siskin which ihe Federal Government had be- come openly pledged lo the extinction of slave- ry, under the present circumstances ofourcoun- ley is recommended by not a single considera- tion tbal we are able lo jdiscover. of wisdom, patriotism or honor. No; master-mind among those who are driving us to this issue, has yet arisen to throw a particle of light upon the thick darkness which shrouds the future, and covers .the consequences of; this tremendous step. - They tell us heno jwe may secede, but not one has told us, not one can tell us, where we fcball next find ourselves. ' No one has yet explained to oa how the institution of slavery will be more efficiently protected, by making us and our children aliens upon ibis broad con tinent, than it is by the flag of the Republic.--Sball we be more exempt from Northern fa naticism, when every 'check is removed from its machinations and conirivancesIrom Brit ish interference, when we have nothing to lean on but our own arms?. Will slavery be safer, when South Carolina can throw no shield but her own around; Che institution, than when the Constitution protects us ; We confess that we cannot see how we shall gain in security from Ihe prostration j of the Union.' A single .State, like South Carolina, standing out alone, in the midst of a mighty nation, can only exist by sufferance. jj " But it is said she will not be alone. The other States, identified with her interests, will join with her in action.' But what if the other Southern States should happen to believe that their interests are better promoted by the old Unison,, than by a new alliance with South Car olina ? They must fjudge. for themselves, and if ihey should happen to have a judgment of this sort, where shall we then be? Would it not be wise, at least to have some belter than our own conjectures that they will sustain us ? They might leave us alone ; and in that con. tingency, who can say that our condition would be enviable. We should then have National government lo maintain an extensive Post office establishment to organize- an army a navy foreign ambassadors, and all the appen dages of independent States, to keep up. Has any one calculated jour resources for these things 1 and does any man believe that our population would stick to us for ten years, af ter their passions had subsided, under the grind ing system of taxation which it would be ne cessary to institute!? Then, again, we must be fully prepared for war, which is a business less of arms tban of expense. Touching the United States in so! many points as we must necessarily do, however pacific the disposition of the Federal Government might be towards us, hostilities would inevitably arise from our diplomatic relations to ihe other States, and that speedily and suddenly. 'These are mat ters which ought to be well considered before we resolve upon so important a step as single banded secession. jThe truth is, we can see nothing ii ihe'mea&ire but defeat and disaster insecurity to slavery oppression to ourselves ruin to the State.; There are other aspects in whch ihe question might be treated but in every aspect of it we feel bound to express our solemn conviction that, neither before God nor man, can we jujstify- ourselves for the fear ful hazard of forfeiting ail our blessings, and all our influence for: good, by a hasty leap in the dark. We speak earnestly on the subject, because we feel f strongly. There may be great boldness in the enterprise, but it should be remembered, as Lord Bacon has well ex pressed it, that boldness is' blind, wherefore it is ill in counsel, but good in execution. For in counsel it is good to see dangers, in execution not to see them except they be very great. Certainly when we cannot see our way, we should go softly. From present appearances we think it likely thai South Carolina will se cede alone. We expect to bear our full pro portion of the consequent evils. We are not only in the State, and we have no thought but that of sharing hef fortunes. If we weredis posed, we are rather too heavily encumbered lo flee from the storm. Others may be noisy for revolution, whose armor is light enough lo ad- mit f an easy transportation ; who have come to us from abroad, land who can as easily de part. But for ourselves, we are linked to South Carolina, for weaj or woe. As long as our voice can be heard, we shall endeavor to avert calamity but if what we regard as rash coun sels finally prevail, we have made up our rnind, as God shall 'give us grace, to take wliat comes." From the American Agriculturist. EXPERIMENT WITH CORN DEEP PLOWING AND GREEN CROPS. The ground upon which the experiment was made was near alike, and prepared as near alike as could be. : The corn was planted the 4in ot iviav, mree by nve teet. 1 hat which was plowed, was plowed the widest way only. Four rows were plowed exclusively with the coulter, from eight to len inches deep. Plow. W ,1 ing repeated lour limes, at suitable intervals The next four rows were cultivated entirely with the boe. J he balance was plowed as is usual here ; first throwirig ihe earth from, and then to the corn, and then plowing four limes. All was kept clean throughout the season. 'I wo rows of that cultivated as usual, when gathered,' weighed 42 pounds. The next two. hoed corn, weighed 432 pounds. The two other rows ot hoed corn weighed 43 pounds. Two rows of cultured corn, side by side with the preceding, and baying ihe same number of hills and ears of corn weighed 45 pounds. The hoed corn wU nearly prostrated twice by winti and rain. I had to set up the greater part of it, just before and jusl after it tasseled. The cultured corn suffered hardly half so much as the hoed. The residue- suffered compara tively little. These are the facts. Deduc tions are for you and your readers. Tbe quan tity raised on tbe groulid is of no consequence. 1 conducted various other experiments with corn, but do not deem them of sufficient inter est to burden your columns, nor bore your rea ders wiih them.- These little things are in. teresiing to me, however, and I always have some such under -headway. I bookfarmed that famous bottom I spoke to you about, and makie a fair crop of corn. Last year, it look sixty of the largest ears to shell a bushel ; ibis year; forty-eight will do it. This bookfarming makes me the-subject of great ri. dicule and merriment. For instance, you ad vised us, last spring, to plow deep and pulver ise well. I did, so, but was laughed al there for. You advisedi ihe sowing of corn broad cast. I sowed something like four acres. This threw a great many neighboring diaphragms inlo convulsions and cacbinations were rife and boisterous there at. So well am I pleased, hnupver. lhat I shall triva the man nnnnrtnnilv i , r o ri j to split the larynx outright another year. The quantity of fodder produced, was enormous, be sides pretty considerable sprinkling of corn. V J . :., :L. II.- lou appnsea us iuai u inigoi ue wen io sow rye for early grazing, soiling, &c, next spring, and I have done so. Il is too green to laugh at now. You instructed us to sow twelve quarts of Timothy seed per acre. I did it; and if they do laugh at that, if is mighly green. Fearing that some of our readers may not un- derstand the full meaning of ihe word "green" as here used by ourj correspondent, we explain, that ihe Timothy and rye sowed by him, agree- ably to our directions, have already covered the land with a thick green herbage, and give promise of uncommonly large crops of bay and grain. Eds; j j j To renovate land, you inculcate turning in green crops. I casiscd all my clover mas ligators displayed themselves of "great length and breadth.! Of all ibe green things the wheaton that. clover land is ihe greenest ; and rather too green to laugh at. v The land hav ing been put in oj-der by plowing,' harrowing, and crushing, the! wheat jwas plowed in about three inches the first of September, and I har rowed it the first of October. It looks very well. j U. B. Oglesby. BoonvUlc Mo.: Dec, 1850. A Great Counterfeiting Establishment. A police officer of St. Lous, Missouri, lately dis covered in Jefferson county, and took posses sion of, the counterfeiting bank bill printing press, engraving Sools, SiC of John S. Moore, and over 200.000 in spurious paper. They were contained in two large boxes secreted under the floor of an outhouse on Moore pre. mises. The paper secured was of ihe follow , ing description :-UMissriuri 50s filled up, 823, 000; Treasury ijotes (500) partly filled up, 40,000; Treasury notes (100) partly filled up, 812.400. A large! quantity of, Hamilton 4?o., Ohio, l's and 5's mutilated. A Jarge a mount of Manchester 83's ; do. do. George town (S. C.) 820's; do. doi Sou'h Carolina 8100's and 8500's ; several Georgetown (S. C.)8l000's; Augusta (Ga.) SlOV; Indiana State Bank 850's ; Louisville. (Ky.) 83's ; Kentucky State Bank 85's and 850's ; Lafay ette (Cincinnati) 8l0's ; North Carolina 850's; Merchant's and Mechanics' Bank of Michigan 88's ; Ottawa (Montreal) $i'st-$2's and 83's; large amount'of Texas 8100 and 8500 scrip ; Montreal (French) 85's ; andnumerous de nominations of bills on the Farmers', Mer chants' and Manufacturers' Bank ol Chilli- cothe. A Bear Stojy. A: day or two since, as Mr. Solomon Heed, of Dorset, Vermont, was cutting wbod at some distance from his bouse, a very large bear stole up be hind, and ordered him to stop. He let fly his axe at Bruin, but it missed, and Bruin in turn let fly at him. Solomon then seiz ed a club, and laid the blows upon his shaggy adversary so heavily that it broke, and he began to think he should have-to knock under. Not having the wherewith al to knock him with, he made use, of his fists, expecting every moment that he should be compelled to cave in. A dread ful hug followed, and the two rolled over on the ground like a couple of wrestlers in a ring. Not liking to. bear it in this fashion, Solomon, by adesperate effort, got Bruin under him, holding his head down, and sitting plump astride of the beast. The latter, however, soon began to " bear" up, and all at once took to his heels like an infuriated bull, Solomon all the while astride, and compelling the bear to follow his own nose, with as slight a deviation from bis jaws from a straight line as possible. On they drove, at a fu rious rate the rider and the ridden the former endeavoring to make a bridle out of the bear's ears, and the bear striving as hard to make a bit out of the man's arm. Solomon began to fear, at the rate he was going, that his steed was fast taking him into a whole nest of bears, and probably soliloquized " Better to bear the ills we have, " Than fly to others that we know not of." While in the predicament, Mr. Reed's son happened to overtake them on their jour ney, and settled all uncertainties by im mediately knocking the bear in the head with his axe. Mr. Solomon Reed got some scratches in the scuffle, and Bruin's fat carcass to boot; which, by the way, he immediately salted down for family use. Lowell Courier. Negroes in Iowa A Good Joke. An incorrigible wag has admirably succeed ed in prepetraling jfv;apital joke upon the Iowa Legislature. Cln passing upon ihe bill prohibiting negroes from entering that State, and affixing heavy penalties upon them when they do enter it, J. T. Morton, of Henry, who is both a whig and a wag, moved an additional section, "that the bill should be in force from and after its publication in the Iowa Free De mocrat" the abolition paper at Mount Pleasant. The bill went back to the House so amended The amendment was accepted by the House, and bill passed. After a while the idea began to eke through the hair of a member that the abolition organ might decline publishing the law, and thereby kill it stone dead; and he moved a re-considation but failed; tbe bill was left to be sent to the Governor in that crafty shape. A RasJi Act. At Rochester, (N. Y.) on Thursday evening last, Charles McVean, a son of David McVean, Esq., committed suicide by shooting himself through the heart. He was spending the evening at an uncle's with his wife, when suddenly he rose, kissed his wife, and drew a pistol and shot himself4n the presence of all in the room. The moment his wife saw what he had done, she took a bottle of chloroform and drank it, and is now in a very dangerous state. 1 There was some difficulty between the father and son in relation to division of some property. . Correction. A paragraph published in a North Carolina paper has called to our recollection the fact that a material error of a single word occurred in the report of Mr. Stanly's remarks, in the debate be tween that gentleman and Mr. Inge, which appeared in our paper of the 20th ultimo. In that report Mr. Stanly is made to say: "Even those who voted with a majority of Northern members are un charitably assailed." The word " North ern " should be "Southern the difference being readily perceptible. Upon some of the compromise measures the Southern members were in a majority, and Mr, Stanly asserted that it ill became a mi nority of Southern members to accuse a majority of vo'tn against the interests of the South. Nat. Intelligencer. Amasia Mitchell, of Scott count)'. In diana, died on the 12lh ult., in his 90ih year. He served as a musician under Benedict Arnold ; saw him afterwards in the ship Vulture ; witnessed the execu tion of Andrei, tbe spy. and the surrender - 1 of Cornwallis, the British General. PRINCIPLES OF THE WHIG PARTY, j Every member of the Whigparty has reason to be proud of his connection with it. It is the party; of the country the party of equal rights -the party which sustains the purest code of political ethics that the World has ever known. Thomas Jefferson embodied its creed and carried out its fundamental doctri.ies let scof fers read them, and, if they can; furnish others nobler and better : The people, 'the bnly source of legiti mate power. . " ; The Absolute and lasting severance of Church and State. The freedom, sovereignty, and inde pendence of the respective States. v Tbe Union, a confederacy, compact, neither a consolidation, nor a centraliza tion. The Constitution of the Union, a spe cial written grant of power, limited and definite. The civil, paramount to the military power. The representative to obey the instruc tions. of his constituents. Elections free and suffrage universal. No hereditary office, nor order nor title. No Taxation beyond the public wants No national debt if possible. No costly splendor of administration. , No proscription of opinion, nor of pub-' lie discussion. No unnecessary interference with indi vidual conduct, property or speech. No favored classes, and tio monopolies. No public monies expended, except by warrant of special appropriation. No mysteries of government inaccessi ble to the public eye. Public compensation for public servi ces ; salaries moderate and pervading economy. The political creed qf the Whigs is em bodied in the above few lines, but how expansive vhen properly, investigated how beneficial when tbe theories of De mocracy do not prevent their complete operation. They are in perfect harmony wiih a perfect enjoyment of freedom of opinion and promotive of free institutions, extending protection to every interest and impeding the progress of monopolies. If it discriminates in favor of any class, the difference is made in behalf of the poor man In fine, we here present the Whig ; platform, a perfect, unchanging, sound system. ' AN AC T to alter and amend an Act passed by the General Assembly, al the Session of 1848-9, entitled An Act to incorporate the Fayetteville and Western Plank Road Com pany, f Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the General As sembly of ihe State of North Carolina, and il is hereby enacted by ihe authority of ihe same, That so much of ihe sixteenth section of said Act as requires said Iload to be made not less than ten feet wide, be repealed, and ihe said Company is authorised to construct the same not less than eighj leet wide. Sec. 2. Be it further enacted. That when the capital of said Company shall have been increased so that the slock owned by. individu als sh:ill equal that owned by the Slate, then so much of the twenty-first section as entitles the representative of the Slate to cast a vote enual to three-fifths of the u hole number of votes present at any meeting, cither in person or by proxy, shall be repealed, and the Slate; through its representative, shall be entitled to vole as individual stockholders, that is to say, one vote for every share of stock he'd. Skc. 3. Be it further enacted, That if any person shall travel on said road between the points designated for the collection of loll, with intent to evade the payment thereof, he shall be liable to a fine of five dollars, to be collected as provided in the sixteenth section of said Act. Sec. 4. Be it further ena cted, Thai said Company is authored to charge on any bridges ly them erected, the same rates of toll as are J ii. i j ... , .. . . f, . now established on like hritlges in the Counties in which ihey may be situated: Provided, thai any person travelling a distance of five miles on satdroad, who shall havepaid ihe legal toll lor the same, shall not be lialde to pay any addi lional to'i for crossing such bridge. Sec. 5. Be it further enacted, That ihe stockholders at any general meeting which may be held, shall have full authoiityto change the proposed terminus of their road, we;.! or north west of Johnsouviile, in the County of Randolph, and lo fix the same at any other point which they may deem necessary. Read three limes and ratified in General As- sembly, this 2Sth day of January, A A. 1851. J. C. DOBBIN, "S. H. C. W. N. EDWARDS, S. S. AN ACT.. Concerning Bastardy. Sec. 1. Be it enacted' by the General As sembly ofjhe State ol Norih'Carolina, and it is herepy enacted by the authority of the same. That hereafter it shall be lawful for onejustice of the peace to issue warrants in cases of bas tardy, take the child, bind over the reputed fa ther, and to do all other acts which two justices of the peace are now authorized to do in the Revised Statutes, chapter 12. Sec. 2. Be it further enacted. That all laws and clauses of laws, coming within the mean ing and 'perview of this actj be, aid the same arp, hereby repealed. Ratified 28ih January, 1951. Settling a Difficulty. A boy eighteen years of age was lately imprisoned in ihe Leverett street jail. Boston, at the suit of a woman on the shady side of forty. Tbe mailer was final ly compromised by a marriage, the gallant young man preferring the chains of hymen to the locks and bars of the jail.- This calching boys eighteen years of age, and making thern marry women old enough lo l their mothers, is worse than the fugitive slave law. Providence Journal. A Dear spot of earth. At a late sale of real estate in New York, a lot on the ! southeast corner of Broadway and Lib erty streets, fronting 30 feet on Broadway and 1C0 feet on Liberty, was sold lor the moderate price of one hundred and thirty five thousand dollars. Horace Waldo was the purchaser. A number of other lots in the neighbor hood brought high prices. A. R. Eno & Co. bought six on Liberty street for 8120,000 cash. THE, CAROLINA WATCHMAN. J. J. BUrXEII, Efiiter t Proprietor. 1; Vol vir. 5 Salisbury, ST. C. I f Na 47 TnrsspiY -EVExnc, iiiccn st, iu : . CONVENTION OF THE VEST.. It has been proposed by the; Asheville L Ne ws that the people of the Western part of the State bold a mass jneeting'sonfietime daring the Sjmmer, for the purpose or talking over the Constitutional Reforms -discussed in the last Legislaturev land to enlighten each other arid the public generally on those subjects. The New" suggests that the meeting he heidatMor.' ganton, the second week in August. J We think, with the Greensboro-Patriot, that some time m July would answer bet- ter. .v ;..::;-(; 1 In regard to the project, itself, ii,rjrieets our entire favor; arid if the people' of the West would secure the substance as Well as the shadow, of tteform, they should be wide awake, and speak and apt out their, purpose with becoming boldness. 'Let us resolve to make thorough work ol it, and thus " lay n the troublous spirits of Locofbcoism. . i - William S. Ashe, is a candidate for re-' election to the next Congress, He repre sents the New Hanover Dstricli 'jThe Raleigh Register says, Mr. A. Hcansed himself to be announced for re-election. i r with as much coolness as though he pos sessed a life teTiore in the office." The Wilmington JonrnaL says, Ve happen to know that Mr. Ashe did not rouse him self to be announced." Then if be I did not cause himself to be announced, did those who took the responsibility of doing so, first ascertain that he was the people's choice? or is it intended to pack him off" on the district whether he or the pepple' will it or not. It is a matter of small consequence, we think, how a candidate is brought , out provided party bonds are not so strong as to lead men to suppoit the candidate simply because he is their party man. We like the old fashion of every man's be coming a candidate that wishes, not wait ing for Conventions, caucuses, or friends to nominate. By that plan a man's merit is worth something. By the plan now practiced by all parties, his fidelity to this or that party is made the touch stone ; and under the operation of this system Rowan has several times had packed up on her, the most consummate asses in the county. An Anecdote, in point. A gentleman from one of the Eastern counties being here on Court week, some time back.saAV j a man ofjhis stripe take the witness ! stand, whose name arrested his attention. Stooping over be enquired, " That aint the man that once represented this coun ty in the Legislature ?" " Yes," was the answer, and the Eastern gentleman star ed ! After a moment, eyeing the man afresh, he replied, "well, give me an old shot gun 1 want to shoot him T ' Diabolical Murder. The Fayetteville ' CaroliniarTof the 22d instant, gives i the . , m,t.l,.,;n.D(rilru-lili : particulars of a most norrtble atiair wnicu ' , occurred in the neighborhood of that place, two weeks before. It is the mur- i r Tilhman Hunt, a negro trader, who formerly resided in Guilford county. Hunt, with some six or seven negroes and a white assistant by the name of Pitt, of Edgecombe county, camped thereon the 3rd March. Some time in the night. Hunt was killed. A negro man belope: ; ing to him, has confessed the crime, and says he was instigated to the deed; by Pitt ; who, it seems immediately look possession of Hunt's negroes, wagons, horses, money. &c, and changed the- di rection of travel. Hunt's body was sown up in canvass and sunk in Rockfish cryek It has been recovered and identified.. But Pitt, the murderer, finding things were -getting uncomfortable in Edgecombe to which countv he had returned, has ran away taking a Northern direction. The Editor of the Lincoln Courier doe both himself and us injustice: We have never complained about " credits." We, think it was the Mountain Banner or Asheville Messenger. 7Give them Jes se," Eccles. for they ought to know that you are not so poor aso have need to steal their smartness. Expeditious. Mr. Rob't. Murphy, who returned from the North last week, by the way of Wilmington, CheraW, &.C, speak of two travelling concerns on his rouie. He says, the Wilmington Rail Road is tbe best he ever saw ; and that the cars run with ease and safety. 40 miles an hour. A great deal of travel on it now. Tbis is one concern. The other is General Waddill's line of Stages: Mr. M. says it made the ruB; from Gold. Hill to Salisbury, 14 miles, ini exactly nine hours ! The extra session of ihe Senate ol lha tni-: Stales adjourned on the 13ib instant. - i i
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