North Carolina Newspapers

? ' . , ' : - . :- - . I- : - ' ' - - - ' : ' - - ' ' ' M ' 1 . - : " Ttn:is or ... , . twance. 1 5 t If 1 ' in J fifty c-nia v;ill IpVfnTl.sEMF.XT inj ,r minrf for rath pril aruucnu.i Private:! n-i New 1 i4l adiflirult exp n,.imrara. vvhtM n fiuoLixAVATCiniAx. yenr, Two PotXAts payable ry t toid in aJvanee, Two Dollars be charged. Med nt 1 'for the first, and 25 ct. LuWnumt insertion.. Court order I . .. .k...,., ....... A . HXlIrr lllilll HIT-pr- loir. one who advertise by the year. ltitt. tc the EJjU mini be post paid. . . . - -.. r-' , . . i . r - " ! 111 . - a - t - - i i fr h rr i if 1 it - t - J. J. CRUNER, Editor fy Proprietor, Mory of the Talacc of V Day, 1837. Sir Uohert irocpditi in .it native Imat, ration. uj the riv? t Brbice,- i his attention va attrafieu jjje jouthoru fiijiirin y an extraordinary oli- C V.- ..:r-i;4i-nr,nrA!.nl..l .h hirrKiT his ' he Times," and perused with 8mnathiz.' i i . i: i i i Incr intprpst its ntrifMV iircrpn iihiprlifin strains! raised. 1 ni)ii!n an arcomuimuru . r . y : -m - -o : " Keep a check upos all tocb. Rulers. 7 Do IBIS, 15D LlBEEf T IS SATE." Gen' I JIarriton. NEW SERIES. VOLUME VII NUMBER 50. SALISBURY, N. C, THURSDAY, APRIL 17, 1851. . 1 . j i 1 ...rMfHV ,.rfnist. he had rtevrr 6'mi any lliing like it (I.ftf. . It wa ijTitanic waier' plant, in siz ndshapo nnlikH ftnv other known plant.- A .jvaniie leaC frim five to ix 0-et in ' diainir, aWrrfhap'U, a nroaa nrim, ot a ugni. vrvd crimson oehiw, rest- Quite in character with ... ji ..n aimvr, iiiiu a .4 nnon thv wat'tri A... uunueriui ici of art J $ini n attertik Sir Itobert Sp flovers.-diw; r first 4lifrn, ai.nl ,M ! was the luxuriant flower,' (iiinenso number or petal, "i e tints Irotn j'ure white to the invasion of Hyde" Park by armies of exca- valors, bricklayers, blacksmiths, and timber fellers. The picture daily drawn of the tearing up of fashionable road by the carting of jmore bib.ks and mortar (lor, mark, a temporary edi tice) than the internal pyramids ot Cihizeh con sist of; the cutiin down from one side of Rot ten Row. for its most cherished ornaments, the trees ; the uncertainly of miles of brick jwork being put together in time for consolidation to; bear the weight of the tremendous iron idotrie' designed to rest upon it ; the impossibility of th entire mass ( mortar and plaster duljr dry ing: all this, thoiigh occasionally overdrawn apd exaggerated, presented a black persppdive Alter some in successful I wnc, 'ne means ana appliances ot ttie Viclo. ria Kegia conservatory would, thought Us archi !ect, considerably lighten, or altogether fobvi. ale. Every new' thunderbolt from the news paper Tonans, strengthened this notion in the projector's mind. All that was wanted, was a grat many great lily houses joined together. A multiplication ot hands and of materials could j be raised so quickly and so cheaply. 1 The I promenaders atd neighbors of Hyde4ark would l. r!opU:;Vori i rL,.,a . -,m ! lie relieved ot the rncessant "click click ot i,illb r t...Pa,i i..-. loncklavers trowels, the maddening noise of w. r wi nuiliru H'V" """i i ,ii I , ll .rrpai Ini.l.orlJ J..iv.. i.v I ' ne niarKsmiui s rHeiung nammers, ana nave ..... tj "r- '. ibmhurgk, not contfKif with up whole plants : and sent erward seed?, tjo England where the tnigtiijicent lilly was hafnrd the . . " iJ r e. '' . . . ii' lttpmiiK ;!'hi? lorcing it to niosom in an artificial climate vas confided to Sir. Pax ton. tin celebrated ytdicullurisj of the f)j fQnbire's.crlebra1 When the 'ictt ria Kega was to ed estate at Cheswoith. nke of De- be (lower- d Mr. lixton dejermmed to imitate Nature i . l. to closely as to n ke that Innocent f flspring-of fancy hijrnself bacik again in the lr""' waters find undid r burninig heats of Uritinh (ioiana. ... -i 'Wddin-! tnern in w ppat ; l'H de bidet etiwi ihein float i he coin I, the gen- I . ' ii- i i . in a tank, to wnic mun'u'iiedi'by minstit a little whee ll fi:)i!e of theiH '.'tfoiKrd the -flowed ifrbcian clirnlte m a tiny South America, jnder a glass ca&v With that glals case our" history properly commences Mr1. Paiftoii haij already effected many im provemenis . in Jiorticolnual buildings; the workmanship of,v hich has always been unne. ceifarily maslvtl, ,i With the conviction i hat ehts houses nrej lot K'gyptioti tornb'f built for !tfknri and rterpjiiy, he set a hour rnnlkiug them J, hot h as regards aeiinisin lie discarded' as: much as dermis and opaque materials. ill clumy sash bas, whose lined plants ol the nay; he lijhlef than -of 0 and architeeiyrel practical!? all pm: lie pared away; broad shadows r aholiihenl dirty at) ir pa'nes, amfl froovfg. retnleret of 'putty. Lastly; iWiini! rtof I he i and unprofitabU' horil'iiital-glaJtina the jjU-" prese nt j amoi! any patt t y anii ate. In a green hm II leaking overlaps peifecl immunity from the- hourly transit of brick and scafTdd oles. yhe proposed edi c i i i . .J r: ! i '- . own tranquil rivr ; and he ' cou,u ',e ;n"f"' o.rm.ngnam, at into blo.m by mat ufacluring A7,,nie' an,J ai ' ,,a,me8 ,,H"K' urouSni ,me io ii(i laitv icaujr uiauc, anu pui up imo it bedstead. - But, alas ! feasible as the plan appeared, it was not thought of. The fiat of the Building Committee hadL gone forth. The competition of architectural skilt invited by the authorities had not produced one available deign. r The first erhrltition of the Industry of life Architects of all Nations hail been pronounced a failure ; and fact of th Building Committee having in vited tenders for the construction of a design of its own, shut out fiesh competitors.. One-day, however it was Friday, th? four teenth-day of June Mr. -Paxton happened to tie. in the House Of Commons, conversing on this subject with Mr. Ellis, a memlier; of it, who accompanied him to the .Board of Trade to see what could be done; for Mr. Paxton was off immediately to keep a. special appoint ment at the tubular bridge over, the Mejiai. Alier bis journey, the next '.morning, the con-. ersatin with his friend, the M. P., was clench ed by another. and more than usually puwerfiH Imrst of thunder in that day's issue from Black friars. .His mind was made up. 1 uesday i tmiirriiiir iKm hi K l u 11 1 h - nf Tiinp. fimnd frJ with some "r " ' ration at Derby, seated as Chairmanlot the Phe next day wa Saturday, the twenty-ninth of June. The Roval Commission met. head. ed by Prince Albert. The Paxton scheme was referred to the Building Committee ; which, jn the regular order of business, could not en tertain it, having rejected all the designs it had invited for competition, and having devised a plan of its own. Nothing daunijed, however, Mr. Paxton determined to appeal to the British public. This he did by the aid !of the wood cuts and pages of the, London ' Illustrated News." Never was an appeal more promptly or satisfactorily answered. The practicability, the simplicity, the beauty of the scheme con vinced every member of the many-headed court of appeal of its efficacy. j Meanwhile the projector of the building waited onsthe projector of the entire Exhibi tion, Prince Albert, on another memorable morning 'that 'of the Christening day of prince Patrick. What passed need not; be divulged ; but the encouragement vouchsafed, added to the expression of public opinion daily gather ing strength, induced Mr. Paxton to decide on procuring a tender to be sent into the Building Committee for his design. He therefore- sent straight to Messrs. Fox and Henderson!, and these gentlemen immediately engaged t6 pre pare a tender. It happened that the Building Committee in their advertisement had invited the candidates for raising their edifice, to1 sug. gest any improvements in it that may occur to ihem. This opened a crevice, into which a Messrs. Fox and Henderson were able to thrust their tender for Mr. Paxton's plan. Seeing at once jtwas, of all other plans, the plan the supreme desideratum ibey tendered it as an improvement on the Committee's design. Here a new and formidable difficulty arose. by. using inserting them in wooden water light by a'spaiing use finding, that into th ordinary inbam enter at ah indirect ifgle, Mr. Paxton ijnveuted a fotiiposed of angular ridges jig itself in a straigjht line at le day .: but especially ear- ie constructed iflse improvement, and arclimated as we have , a tctnjria Kegia was plant- .IWjady explaine ed on the 1 0i h of every thing 1ei j it flourished as vigorously as if it ha August. 1849. S. irepared fr i's rece i i a well had )tion, that been re- soil and rl'imate, ips growth nt were astonishingly rapid ; November a flower! was pro- i. ary' succeeding. Hriasstnent. itored to il5 nutiv 1 una the tfetfliiprrv forion the Uthlofl 1 i ! - ouoed.a yard tn c than a month afiejl. the firt seed ripe ped, some of them were lilMd. and otvlhet-lGth f Febru r rcuinterence ! Aw ISttl e more onivg plant jin'nde pearance. ' -'Suedes, however, bpuvht fresh The extraordinary ed Natrue's biwi-aif deveUipment wilh ipect;d rapKii'V1 th eir ap days Yet than one purpose. Tbejixrow of columns arenas had been atreadysaid, not only props but drains. They are hollow, an!d into them the glass roof will deliver its collections of va ter.j In the base of each column'is inserted a horizontal iron pipe to conduct the drainage into! the sewers. These strong tubes serve al so as foundation ; they are links that connect the whole of the three hundred uprights toge ther. At the top, each column is fastened to its opposite associate by a girder, tun up by means of a pole and pully in a few minutes ; and, once fastened, no other scaffolding is re quisite for the roof which it supports. Thus, by means of the iron pipes below: and the iron ginjers above, the eighteen acres of structure is held from end to end so compact and fast that it becomes an enormous hollow cube, as im movable as if it were, instead, a solid cube dropped down beside Rotten Row by a gang of Titans. Toe roofs of which there are five, one to each aisle or corridor, the highest in the middles-play many parts. They are windows, light and heat adjusters, rain conductors out side, and condensed moisture ducts within. They are interminable rows of roofing, so plac ed as to. form in the aggregate a plane ; in other words, they are parallel rows of the let ter V thus : VVV. The apex of each "ridge" is a wooden sash bar, with notches on either side for holding the sloping laths in which are hud the edges of the glass. The bottom or of the public lands, half a million of acres in a lump, have been given to the new States, for internal improvements, public schools, and other purposes; and prospe rity and thrift have made their home there. But since the distribution of the surplus revenue under the administration of Gen. Jackson, what have the old States received? They need internal improve ments, and public schools, and hospitals for the insane and the blind and the maim ed, as well as the new States, and does not justice demand that the same liberal ity should be extended to them ? The Standard says : We are opposed to the distribution of the public lands, or their proceeds among the States, we care not in what shape the proposition may be presented ; and especially, at this time, would we hold North Carolina back, if we had the power, from asking favors at the hands of Representatives in Congress from Massachusetts and Vermont." These are strong terms in which the Standard express his opposition to a dis tribution ofthe public lands, or their pro ceeds, among the States. But does he stand by the principle ? Has be offered one word of reproof, one whisper of op position to the numerous donations of hun dreds of thousands of acres to individual t. c.L i .1 . . e. . . X,k 7 . r ra.ter,s no. .w, in tfae an(J othfir gratuiliesto off a n 4 n a trt iHH In t bt a nuiU. ...l.:.L ill mo Uiivjvjit;, yj luilll a gUllCI. IIJIU WUICIl ily obey, such tin. that it outgrew tl e dimen ionSf it honv in tittle more than a' month. ll tliierelore set r. rax ton a problem to solve, the . lormula of wb'ieh was something like this: Giveh, an exotje growing in a grn house. ttKe rate'.nfsix hundred and forty-sevn square inches of circumference per-diem : required in tferee months, a r ew house of dimensions prop er for it ma'nrit f 1 ' " Mr. Vaxtori went to work, and, combining all hisiinproven'if it in constructing green hous ei wjih hi specji l inventions fr manuring the ictoria Kegia, fie very snnn produce the 4 Q. ' K I).,' in the ijiape of a novel an elegant conservatory, sixty feet long by forty ! broad'. This building bin am' the, immediate precursor . of .(he gigajitic L ructure in Hyde Paik, why necessitate, a snort explanation. , Among tiy rntlny desiderata required for ev. ery kind of habif iitjon whether itlie designed - fir'pl-ints ot priji es, for a pinehouse or a pal- . are, for tho Virjrria Kegia, ofor the enormous fclass ease under which to collect tho products ?f All Nati(ns,-W- he most imperative conditions tfter stability, se, perfect facilities for drain, jje and for vcutjiiation ; another, though scarce ly subordinate proviso, is economy. The man ., ho can construct house which shall re Pfl external tnif mliiy, and allow of a constant tnd gentlojcha of atrnosTdiere at any cr.n- It was now Saturday, and onlv a few more were allowed for receiving lenders. before an approximate estimate of the expense could be formed, the great glass manufacturers and iron masters of the nort h had to be consult, ed. This happened to be dies mirahilis the a third, tor it was the identical Saturday on which the Sunday postal question had reached itscii- sis ; and there was to be no delivery next dav! But in a country of electric telegraphs ? and of indomitable energy, time and difficulties are annihilated, and it is not the least of the mar vels in the connexion with the great edifice, that by" the aid of railway parcels and the elec tric telegraph, not only did aU the gentlemen summoned out of Warwickskire and Stafford shire appear on Monday morning at Messrs. Fox and Henderson's Office, in Spring Car dens, Loudon, to contribute their several esti mates to the tender of the whole ; but within a week, the contractors had prepared every de-s tailed working drawing, and had calculated the cost of eveiy pound of iron, of every inh of wood, and of every plane of glass. There is no one circumstance in the history of the manufacturing enterprise of the English nation which places in so strong a light as this its boundless resources in materials, to say no thing of the arithmetical skill in computing at what cost, and in how short a lime, those ma terials could be converted to a special purpose. What was done in those few days ? Two par ties in London, relying on the accuracy and good faith ot certain iron-masters, glass-work-ers in the provinces, and of one master car penter in London, bound themselves for a cer tain sum of money, and in the course of some four months, to cover eighteen acres of ground, with a building upwards of a third of a mile long (1851 fee the exact date of the year.) and some four hundred and fifty feet broad. In order to do this, the 'glass-maker promised to supply in the required time, nine thousand square feet of glass, (weighing more than four hundred tons) in separate panes, and these the largest that were ever made of sheet glass ; each being forty nine inches long. Th - iron master passed his word in like manner to cast in due liuie4hrHe thousand three hundred iron columns, varyilrgijom fourteen and a half feet in length ; thirty four Utiles of guttering tube, to join every individual column together under the ground ; two thousand two hundred and twenty-four girders (but some of these are of wrought iron;) besides eleven hundred and twenty-eight bearers for supporting galleries.5 every drop of rain glides down from the glass, anrj passes through the transverse gutters into the; hollow columns. These longitudinal gut ter? are formed at the tops of the girders ; for thel roof is self supporting. This is not all: in converting a conservatory for plants into a resort for breathing beings, and a depot for ar ticles emphatically "to be kept dry ;" internal as well as external moisture must be drawn ofT: the bieaih of myriads of visitors, con densed against the glass, would otherwise re luui in Scotch mists. That difficulty partly dictated the V like form of the ceiling. Mr. Paxton ascertained that vapors ascending to glass inclined to a slope of one foot in two feet and a half, do not 'condense in stparate drops and descend again, but slide down over the smooth surface. To receive them, therefore, he grooves each rafter under the inside of the glazing. Into those grootes the condensed breath of "all nations" will fall and be con veyed into the transverse gutters; thence through the: columns into the jurisdiction ol lbir honors the Commissioners of; Sewers. We must now give proof thai the floor is a i Woiks and Ways Committee of the Midland Railway to try an offending pointsman'. This was the first leisure moment-he had "been able to secure since he resolved to plan the great building. At the end ol the tabby stood the dub pril ; and, upon it, before the Chairman was invitingly spread a virgin sheet of blotting pa per. As each witness delivered his evidence Mr. Paxton appeared to be taking notes with uncommon assiduty ; and when the case closed!, one of his colleagues turned specially to hint, saying ' " As you seem to have noted down the whole of the -evidence, we will lake the decision froitl you." "The truth is," whispered the Chairman, " I know all about this adair already, having accidentally learned every particular last night. This" hecoutinued, holding up the paper, " is not a draft of the pointsman's case, but a del sign for the Great Industrial Building to be,e rected in Hyde Park." The pointsman was left ofF with a fine, and before evening the blotting paper plan had found its way into Mr. Paxton's office at; Chats worth. By the help of that gentleman's ordi nary assistants, elevations, sections, working deiails and specifications, were completed in ten days. . - i When he made his next appearance at the Derby station, at the end of that lime, Mr. PaX i ton had the complete plans under his arm. -' There was not a minute to spare, for the train was nn I he noinl ot start inr. and the Roval Commissioners met the next , morning, fte j The carpenter undertook to get ready within entered the carriage, and. to his extreme dd- ! 'he specified periodrtwo hundred and five miles light, he found one of the greatest and most in fluent ial engineers of the day a member, moreover of the Royal Commission who was i going to London by the same train. This is extraordinarily lucky !" he exclaim ' ed ; " for I want you to look over a few plans and a specification of mine." Accordingly the plans were unrolled, , " There they are," said the impromptu archi- ventilator and a dust trap. It is laid four feet above the sward of the park. A series of sub terraneous lungs are thus provided, and air is admitted to them, by means of louvres, fixed in ihe outer walling of the building. These be ing made to open and shut like Venetian blinds; will admit much or little air, which gently passes through the seams of the open "flooring, and circulates over Ihe building. Finally, through the openings of the floor, the daily ac cumulations of dust will be swept into the sjace below by a machine, which Mr. Paxton has invented for that purpose. Enough has now been said to indicate ra ther than to describe how each part of the build ing " plays many parts," and how, consequent- l I i t I 1 k Vft I iy, incalculable saving has been enecied in time and money. It is hardly necessary tore peat, that the interior of ihe edifice is ihe most expansive covered space in the world. That a Palatial Exhibition building, provi. ding a total exhibition surface of twenty-two acres, and affording space for nine miles of ta bles, shall have been put up in four mouths, for less than penny farthing a cubic foot, would in itself make 1651 famous in ihe history of enterprise, if nothing else were to happen to stamp it as pre-eminently "ThJ Industrial Year.'' From it will al least be dated a new eta in building. secure "freeholds and a home" to all sorts of relugees from abroad ? does not his whole course tend simply to deprive the citizens of his own State of any hope of relief, but by abandoning the loved scenes of their youth, and swelling the tide of emigration to the more favored 1 regions of the west ? The allusion of the j Standard to the Representatives from iMassachusetts and Vermont was intend ed for effect ; we are asking not for fa vors, but for justice. This question of a distribution of the public lands has been so long and so ably discussed before the people, that there is scarcely a reading man in the country who has not formed a settled opinion for or against the measure. The principle is solain as a matter of right, that it is to be wondered at that any reasonable man should oppose it. The public lands were ceded by the old States, in trust, ia the General Government, for specific purpo ses. These purposes have been answer ed, and a large surplus remains. The old Slates demand as a right, they do not ask it as a " favor," that the remainder shall be distributed equally amongall the States of the Union, or at any rate Used for the general benefit. Justice 1ms been delay ed by the refusal to make this equal dis tribution ; and the very policy which the editor of the Standard so beautifully ad vocates, has aided the scheme of enrich ing the new States out of tWs fund, while the original donors, for the most part. tbr Republic's article :" but as Mr. Cling-" man has acqoired a position of some pro- ' minence as a Southern WhigVwe will make use of some of its citations Which fortun ately snpply their own commentary. " Mr. ClingmanV there is strong reason 4o J believe; is now on the balancing point be- tween ihe two g:reat parties) andit is sup- ' posed that his particular ambition is to be ' elected to the Senate of the !U. States by the aid of the Democratic party, of his ' State, which he cannot expect to retain a ? , majority in the Legislature. ( The cqnjec- lure furnishes a ready clue to the intrica- : cies of his present position. It is, in no -small degree, confirmecLby the following dictum in his late speech : 1- ' There can be no doubt, Mr. Chairman, ' " the Whig and Democratic parties, once essentially divided as to measures, have now become mere factions."' Now, then, for some of Mr. Clingman's inconsistences. And first with regard to ; the tariff. Mr. Clingman says in 1S51 : "Few persons appreciate the entire amount of-'the burden which our (tariff) . system has imposed on the country." And he estimates this "burden which, , he argues, is chiefly borne by the South- em States, to be more than r seventy jive millions." Of course, Mr. Clingman's ob- jections are urged more agajnst the pro tective tariff of 1842 than against itssuc cessor the tariff of 1840. But hear what he had to say in the 23th Congress, in 1814. after the tariff of 1812 was exhibi ting its full operation : ' "This favorable state of oUr finances has been produced, thus far without any practical injury having resulted to any section of the country. Not only cotton, but all of other productions command a better price than they did before the pas sage of the tariff, while foreign articles which we import and consume are gene rally cheaper. I believe I might say in variably so." 1 On the same occasion, he maintained further j That we should have " incidental pro tion to our manufacturers and artizans, to sustain our own industry against the op pressive regulations of others, and coun teract, as far as practicable,' the hostile re strictions of foreign nations. Thus, as a Whig, in 1844, he directly advocated the principle of protection, and argued that instead of injuring, its opera tion was beneficial to Southern interests. As an agitator. tn 1851, he contends that the South is, through the tariff, annually' ' paying an immense and oppressive? trib ute 1 ' !' ' But, with respect to the Compromise, measures, and the general qpeslion of the advantages of the Union. Mr. Clingman is even more glaringly inconsistent. He denounces the Compromise bills as a sur render," which will exclude the South from all participation in the Territories, and yet asserts that the Abolition party gained no victory by their passage ;. he declares that the additional strength gain ed by the Free States may lead to an over throw of the government, and yet denies that the Southern States have anything to apprehend ! All this appears in the ; following citations from the speech ot a 1851 : In the first part of the speech, where he is discussing in his peculiar way the tarid question, he says : "The legislation over the. territory ac quired from Mexico, the bills then passed l-tnt-A I r banf tf - r- rw I 1 -x n. dtt ti w a 4 i n - . u ... o u u u .u tr . r wre, in my judgment, not as their friends its benefits, buch has been the effect of! . f . aj e - a " Virginia abstraction," and such is the effect of the principle advocated by the editor of the Standard. If, therefore, he shall receive full credit for his courage. he need not be surprised if it is obtained at the expense of its reputation for sound judgment. When the article upon which we have been remarking, first appeared in the Standard, it attracted our attention, but a pressure of business prevented us from noticing it at that time. It was brought claim for them, measures of compromise. but bills oj surrender. In their legal op eration they exclude the slaveholders of the South from the occupation of every foot of that territory. This is ihe settled opinion of every northern member of eith er party on this floor. It is also the opin ion of a majority of southern members." And again : " While, therefore, I cannot too strong, ly denounce the acts of the last session in relation to the Mexican territory. I do nor. nor have I ever pretended, that they would be followed by any great immediate prac- MMe temner'uflure. and at the lowest cost content witri'j "durahIy, is, -of course, the jiecl; " look over them, and see if they will do fr'tice pf btiifderk Now, in order to be eco- br the great Building for eighteen hundred and nicai, hj must necessarily so manage, that fitly-one!" On oiflir viilo Vt (ifrKto onrnpctlr I i L n Representatives on the last day of the true gvvjss soldjer We'have been not session, not an account of its unpopular.- ft mc ,e tQ acCQunt (Qf he WQn. ty, as vve fondly hope, but because of the , (erfu, m the yiews of the R b. limited time for action. It could not be n - Qn . rf t- . . f. . en up without a suspension of the rules, t. , . np at ,vu:u' 'wh ol his malf fials shall perform as many dif .rent funclonj jas it is possible for it to per I'rm frciifaUyp! Pnbm, when he set a yut lh riw Victoria Regia house guided by yfeyioiij nudy ipd experienee, and forced into ,,lw expedients py the peculiarities of ihe ex- rordi nary tenant he was building for had ,,sCom nn rroJio-iiif Th reull i. shown " hii :ne effort the great Buildingthat "l wall and foundations are hot simply walls n(l foundation but 'ventilators and drains as ; Jell. f I isjj r o k are not simply roofs ; but, be. ' bV mogt ei tensive of known skylights, are 'W and heal adjuster. His sash bars do not BI hold the p1is together, but are self sup- Tn,n2. and his! rafter form nerfeel drains for ih sides of ihe elas for riaimmr ofT imern. i no siffn of pleasure or surprise appeared. Al ll.lt I 4t n I !L. ' ..... l ' I . v l . . I ! I....ik mm n t Vi a ! m v ikn . trr nil Ail ntt rto to 11 Tl I n a are. con Orders ,rP" and aid iliing ij. w n .cttfToldirJdi ijoney. The Victor " For whal 7" asked the engineer, looking at his fiiend with a serio-comic surprise of iri credulity. - j " I am serious." " But you are foojate ; the whole thing is set lied anil decided." " Well, just see what you think of them." There was a dead taciturnity ; the .Royalj Commissioner wewt over ihe plans slowly and; carefully; their originator narrowly watchingj their effect on his mjnd. Ii was an anxious mo ment for the one ; for upon the opinion of the other no little depended. At first there was not much toaugifr from. The drawings were scanned with no more than business like atten tion. No word of commendation was uttered; nits also. Hif floofj are dust ! bundle, he threw ihem into iheopposite seat. The. Standard and the Distribution of the Public Lands. Our readers are aware that the bill making an equal distribution of the pub lic lands among the several states for the ' . c u i . a :x r.. .. i-,u:.i., ,v i 14. f .1 . u:u ,. u sasil-oai ; iiuui mi; 101 an aira ui i u 1 1 1 v -1 u i c irneill ui UJC I ill l IL tr u i i usn ur, v uiuu JdSi- ,1 ...J.- .u:Ul U . 1 f . J 0 ' l the npw rlncl r nps vvn rh bfnas psnnuserl millions of cubic feet ; besides enormous quan- ed the Senate, was lost in the House of I "... . 1 . u,a , ,,' ,;. , tities of woodeu walling, louvre work, and par- 1 Representatives on the last day of th tition. t The public have long known what followed; Mr. Paxton's Glazed Palace was eventually chosen unanimously; not only by the Building Committee, but by the Royal Commission.- lrtK,c" 1 1 . a 8USPc?' lue,U1?' j lution that we can arrive at, which will Some modifications, W2re; however, adopted. ant ol"er Diness requiring more peeciy QQn honest CQm js Q It was decided that the most revered of .he j act,on having been left td the close of the thfU whjle one p.rson lms been lhe trees were to be admitted into ihe Industrial j session, a motion to take "up was lost by a ; ostensibIe edilor aM the timef another, a hmldinT : and the central transept the apex j Vote of yeas 108, nays G8 not two thirds !nii- npmn(.r!,t --,ik. n,rnniM hi of whose curvilinear roof is one hundred and: as required. At then ftt prpspnt The hypothesis is 1 c f. .l I 1.:... F... ! anil hulll'O tho Kill Wl II IIP nnfiull . ' . . . J 1 Vr,. i" r t c" . strengthened by the fact, that the editor The editor of the btandard, in announc- of he Standar3f whom hp so rPCPnt, t!e. mg this lact. takes occasion to express bis ! hed lQ ftUackf anJ vho jn turn wmmfm opposition to the measure, and indeed to;., derided him for hjs ..cakes- and any distribution of the public lands ; and , MgjJ has takpn the pditor of lhe lie laivca gicad uicuu tu uiiuscii iui iiis " courage can tell i i there is one man who has the cou ro to' tn frillnw nrininl ftrft t n fin rat transDarency is astounding for its cheapness. , , dually less costlyhan an agricultural j regard ess ot consequences, barn or an Irish cabin ! A dmsionV its su- I Wei , we commend the "courage which perficies in cubic fee. by lhe sums to be paid , dares to follow principle and do right. Lit, brings out the. astonishing quotient, of ; regardless ot consequences : but it is not little more than halfpenny (nine-sixteenihs of j always that those whomake the profes a penny) per cubic foot ; supposing it to be la- ! sion, possess the reality. The ties ot par ken down and returned to the contracters when ty, the desire for popularity, the pride of to our attention again by seeing it copied into the Halifax Republican, ihe editor of , ca injury to us." which, who was whilom a Whig, now. Short lyafter. Mr. Clingman says : giones in iue support 01 uemocrauc mea sures and men ; and though, when a Wb i i,: ,.,;,u "u'e "c aun,u,iru WUTO ",,,J i the tree soil or Abolition party earnestness wnicn oespoKe an nonest con- j - The Abolition party staked itself on viction that be was in the right, he seems j the passHaP of a positive act of exclusion, no less zealous now in bis advocacy oflviz: The Wilmot proviso or JefiVroniMn J ' - v - - ' W f w f I do not pretend that this exclusion cotrid be claimed as a political victory by i the Free soil or Abolition party." twelve feet from the ground Va contrived by Mtt Paxton for their inclosure. In August the space in Hyde Park was boarded in; and the first castings for the iron columns were deliv. ered on the fourteenth ol September, j Yet, when these pages meet the reader's eye, the cheapest, most gigantic and substantial slrijc- ture ever dreamt of, will be nearly ready for decoration. If for nothing else, this tremendous pile of v.iwu.ww.. v. , . , i gmger pop, has taken the editor of the reauires it. That kes great credit to h.msell (ot his npjhlican into his special favor, am! ! nTtl "re it no age" m opposing ,t. lie says : "We i heP seem jus, ow , 'be a ver). oving j ? -I that paper (.lie Krgister.) .hat . CJ pe. HJwt.VFr this bewe ,X ic nna m c r ll hue tho ,nrii. i . . - . 1 sorry that the Standard has found even such an ally in an effort to shut North Carolina from a due participation in the benefits which are to flow from the pub lic lands, a large portion of which .she ceded to the General Government, and all of which she contributed largely to pro cure. liillsboroi Recorder. Thus he saves lime as well ll Kegia house, which combines too! oflhaad'va ntairpa linv hlailr uraa fin. Jed in aeteniV VVPpLa' lta-tf(i limrt anil incl frin - k J . ... Ml i "urrat.l v i.riLj .. I .u i i . V. ,r iM'"iiri, iiiuii I lie siruurirM ...... i 1 T ' " " T - - While Mr. S i ventilation. Lastly, his whole j exclaiming" Wonderful ! worthy of the lhe cxn.o.uon is or. yr. u - ...F' "I'r " i -. . J' ' , rv, ... , . i i ,1.- ,ato nf onst will h rather les3 than ; PSinHnpnpps whir.h are. ton ant to warn h ie in etiurse ot construction, iri mairniticence ol Uhatswortn ! a tnousano t . . . Z , ww - r d . . 1 J nn. In.. Hh aI a n.nnV HAT Tl I I1 i I An ,t tl-is nnlmnc ft a penny aim uc. icii.u ui a ptimj rv" , line juugiucut auu a v a j iijc vjpiwiuiia ui foot. The ordinary expense of a barn i more . men. Has the courage of the Standard than twice as much, or two pence hall penny i fc.een proo agdinst these 7 ner loot. Here are toe Dgures : i ue euuet edifice contains thirty three millions of cubic feet. If borrowed and taken down, .the turn to be paid is seventy nine thousand eight bun dred pounds : if bought, to become a wihler garden, one hundred and filly thousand pounds. The smallness of cost is due to the principle we have previously explained, of each compo nent of the building being endowed with more old . t na r...t.i i i . in . " fff r ""use, u iioi war was rugmg Mnd6n abokia site for ihe new huildinrr for rJ iV 11 n P f jf t nn e n o t the Art and. Industry . TPS' .Ill, lailVII N U KAUCI limes belter than any thing that has been brought before us I Whal a pity they were hot prepared earlier !" " Will you lay them before the Royal Corn mission t" . I "I will." w&tonedconsflvatorv that has ever been built. The value of this promise and of thi favor it. I . . . . i . A . . . . . . . ' . i . able expression of opinion winch would doubt less accompany its performance, will be best understood when we divulge to the reaper that the gentleman who made it was Mr. Stephenson! Robert Mil. CLINGMAN. Shortly before the adjournment, Mr. Clingman, of North Carolina, made his an nual speech. His subject, this time, was The Standard savs that "the public no less imposing than "the future policy lands belong to the States jointly ; and it : of the Government. The Washington is the duty of Congress, as the agents of j Republic has taken the trouble to make the States, to manage them to the best j an elaborate and thorough review. of this advantage for the good and benefit of the discourse, which, for inconsistency with whole." This is the true policy; but is ! itself and with the lormeriy prociatmeu it adhered to bv the Standard and his party T Year after year 4arge amounts opinions of the. speaker, is really a curios ity. We have, not room for the -whole of . .......... w . . M a - v. i UICVUOIUII it was driven from this ground, being de feated on a direct vote." Next, as to the reasons for Southern ap- prehension : " When Texas is filled up by our emi grants, they cannot be prevented from passing the Rio Grande and revolutioniz ing the neighboring province's. They are destined to be occupied by our siavebold ing population. It will fill up all the country around the Gulf, including the peninsula of Yucatan, and, perhaps the northern portion of the South American continent. This state of things will be likely to occur even before our interest requires it. That, whether jt be desirable power on this continent exico is altogether too overnment itself cannot do it. It had as weli attempt to curb the waves of the ocean. 1 sny, boldly, lhatifk the Government makes the effort, it. will itself parish in the attempt: "No sane man can imagine that we need have serious fears of an attack from either the northern States or any foreign power." "There is reason to fear that the addi tional strength given the free States rriay at a future day embolden them to make an attempt upon us which will result in the over'hrow of the Government." AH which the Republic happily con trasts with the following passage from' a speech delivered by Mr. Clingmnn in 1847. Then, speaking of disunion, be said : -. lt would be vain, however, for usl on either bide, to hope for such prosperity as we have hitherto enjoyed If the stream of oar national existence should be divU 4.