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TUB CUtOLI.Vl fWATCIiaiABT. Tl nrr year, Two Dol,i.abs payah lion. Pr vrar 10 vi-r.s payanie in f riT ' not pnid in advance, Two Dollars i i ,nJ ,r ni.-rtJ "t Si for ihe first, and 23 eta. jri.ir1' f aclisuiwqui'nt insertion. Courtordera ,. f ; ' r o"fll. higher tlinn these rnfrs.. A li lib rh EJiior must be post paid. 1 - 11 "7 pliANK ROADS. !BV JOSKl'II E. WADE. ENGIXKEKIXO. ,(friie to those proposing 1o liuild a t Ruad i. firsl a,,J foremost, lo obtain the flof aS0' ,i"'erf arl gv no heed T'u' i'Xs ma,,y ,hal an :!iieer is 1 . .X.at- ariruin" that ihe cost 1 r(.jf UII'M " " IderiH a"(J majr mo'C Pr""u,,,y he used niituclinn f ihe road. If a large . ' j 'stockholder any proposed line Tl . I. .haIi jkriiniiina a 1. I . .1 ;viuj 8ut.ii imimjh, ii is irequenny . f,.ran i uter I ! advocate of a thorough i Vntifi? course to urge such a course. 'c-u? oul ' ,en ome ignorant and ,kT un.tari, A'i'h,0"' Pr,'le of practical or '(ore'tcal skill or knowledge, preposses- " I. ..( iKim msiaa with lh an K nllfl'l ' " - OUiHI9M WI1 i. Ie . i J - i ' ri . i. , inf cf'n(,u "ana C1,n ,aJ 'auk Koad." Irsuchi is the case, the friends of ajudi ...JaA belter withhold tbeir mnnnv ncuu vr ... i rfCnci';ine 1 . s OI a large 0 . i ,:wfl 0" "V. . . . ... , fcr0ad u iwa. recenuy nutti. opposition ...A L the employment of an riirrineer. I j f!13' y jit f ( thehefst Ineiid of ibe road, and the ;t ,toclihoMer, anengineer by profession, lof p!?J'J al'ilittes, offered bis series , . ThV ll'Cri" flpf liii1 A nJiLi'..- i .:.Jra sleet) hill, while at iwlitiin 4ffbunH fpr a dutiful ascent offered tinM tt 8ma" lnani thai descen j frrro 'bit rear pflhei hill. Instead of adopt. . lieMtr lhat cencc pointed out, to pre rrti'' ,ine al,d as ,he lafcd, cheap f.the creek was. trrossexf by a bridge eighty t bi. j'd,l,.e rol( carried over the brow lijehill. Krad f one n en in tome l'hi result is. that fiv ihrniaanrt rl ' 'lv " iHuvi bia uanJ dojlara have been squandered and the irlv-wwrlhless. As an evidence., how. .u V erl :h frofiiableness of Plank Koad, this j, nor" " " "ri " Clumsy cousiruction iJwn'eul money, nas, as we are inlormed ieuer Irofli the President of the Company, (J i drndrnd of twenty five per cent. In our Wfi e include M engineering," as a por. it- .wl nil L lilJ nt riHrilsr, uu aimw tMIUUrn ll Hi If) ureiherieesof thorough.bred er'igineers Srot chain carriers or mo men, no.r sub on .ctors on other roads, passing themselves up rte puhiiic, wnere iney are not Known, as eensinms. PaV well, and have mutd en pie :er, money will be saved. Another pouit of vitalimportance is aright GRADE. Xo point involves the question of utility to ' Rulilic mre fully, than thit oCulronpr nmHo in. lhrrilirf, very iuipiriant in laying out a ink Kn(l, to selen itiat route having the jtfra surface. The advantages of a Plank (dm berntirely lout, if in lavinir out the e, due rfard is not paid to the giade. Iiilb" Merhaiiiqi Industi ielle," we find I Me. giving t Irrelative resistance from fric- in i,U!iefis in motion on a plane, as fol- 0 iraad of sand and grave!; one sixteenth ile.luid. ' On i lirukeo stone road, in cood order, one renieenth of the" load. Ou alinuken itone road, in ordinary condi- n, one i r niy n It n oi l he. load. , Oiiapatement, one fill v fourth of a lod. Onnwedoak plank, one ninetv.eio'hih of a emoir de !eeanllA.,' wa i eiperimeoi of Moi in, elaborately de ed, at follows : , iwicfctoftoerad. Carts with ' large wheels Trucks DilU of two gences, tons, small wheels, five tons. 'rwJcoTmd with crav- ""incrifs thick, 1-12 wj, wiih irravpl . 1 . I C 1-9 1-11 1-23 1-65 1-38 1-24 1-14 1-65 1-5U 1-8 1-10 1-26, 1-48J 1-34 1-21 1-2 1-57 1-44 M w4 solid ran h Roau 1-41 wanootb Macadamized W 1.75 du7rood. 1-53 itt a ruts. - i . i n ''jwnirni, 1.90 w7 prnmrnr, J.C9 ' JUtfortn. ' i.ox 1-68 1-64 fom th- diversity of opinion atnonr writers r--l'roper average estimate of the useful ;ofa horse by fixing the grade at one in 8 'J os, and I W le .force nf nno K.,.,.,l I : f ;0'-lJ placing the resistance at l COoflhe "ihe common average, we will find the ' Jb horse to be 2.700 pounds, or 10,- f ... " v ivui-uuigc i era ill. ''I'frs fixes the power of a horse at two T'uno w,th a speed of two and a half Hi ' ' auverai one Hundred and t J "Ine Doiinrla t..iiU r .i f,tr hfinr. II Hum j 4 ,uurpan tngiisn writer, at f.. P0 a velocity of eight miies per J,e 'Hor ,it hours. ;m,le per hour, Jper hour, JJ'Ter hour, 3 mi!, i 100 pounds. ' 125 do. 83 do. 43 2 3 do. 8' ihe rl,..lw.aia.t WlU ci M wniiicri iiiiiii t'ajo. iiU f , Jr,two ,eams or one hundred ? Jluur horses, sa) s : "The mean forde i'tt ' horse is one hundred and six ,f' Pui,.al two and a half miles per experiment were fairly made, hxr. ,l jue common breed used'by f'Jcr '"""bera .may be considered a 1:1?? meaure of the force' actually bU, j 4 al a plough, and which they 7 Wi,nout J!ur' fi'rmany weeks.',' .y . . 'orce reniiir-H of a Knr.a i i8ein ,:.0na-(M Uoad, with a gride Jeia, 'n,rlJ haul 3.2G0 pounds, and with f p"7-on 2,500. pounds. Assuming, 4d ,0 ""arice i a we laid Plank a fi,r a we have then a good founda- I" a rxnuirarl TV.'.,, : . :J. uJvVo,,i,e view of the subject, and 're iom ' .r"aiJ fir' c,s into use. nVi. ."'""'ncatioiK Iia lisf nurli P u.rd I ,he firM 8urfic f he plank has 8't i icuucfs every ming 'h'r ood ; 8'ee o( ,0''idi,y a,,d hardness, pin- w,...rt1?rfM,,, ,re resistance, Cod vel- Nia . u,u. e th nk. i.fT-P "M-s-.-.I ' i 0--.tn,f) Press on. ; . ... t,Whui UmCrade of Qr,e in twenty. I ' wad tk. , r,urwnrnne me weigni I'ttfv, q',h res rUL'.:.!... l . "f j ,0la iiio of the angle of inclination; T3HECR0LINA WATCHMAN.- 4. i . I 1 " - J. J. B RUNE II, Editor Sf Proprietor. will be one twentieth of the weiaht. tn the resistance from friction being added gives '84.1,4 00, or 643 10.000 ol the load fijr the ag gregate resistance in overcoming the ascent." Thus a weight of sixty four pounds, suspend ed ovej- a pulley, would drag 1,000 pounds fixed upon wheels up an ascent of l,in 21, upon a Plank Road. We may assume that the resist, ancerom friction on the macadamized road, compared with the Plank Road is as three to one, or one tenth of the weight. That the rises to wnich such roads have to be accommodated, are, at times one to eight, and we have cne. tenth to one. eight eighteen. eightieths oftjie load for the general resistance. One thousand pounds, therefore to be drawn over such a road tvould require a 'weight of two hundred arid twenty-five pounds suspended over a pulley he aanlages possessed, therefore, by the PlanX Road over the other, would be as sixty, four pounds is to two hundred and twenty. five. With a grade of one In twenty. one, six hoi-, ses or mules could draw sixty barrels of floir or thirty bales of hemp or cotton, and by redo, cing the grade from one in twenty one to one in thirty, six mules or horses would be able to draw seventy. four barrels of flour or thirty.se. ven bales of hemp. j One thing should never be forgotten in lay mgout grades, namely : thai it is advisabe, and sometimes economy, to make a detour of considerable extent, or to cut through heavy work rather than attempt to carry a road over an ascent of any great extent, wherein the grade is under one in sixteen. Animals can, by ex traordinary exertions, draw a load up an as cent with a grade of'one to twelve, and even under ; but is it not evident that it is an imp(js. sibility to convey a heavier load over the entire b?ngth of the road than can be dragged upn the sleep accents. Hence, the folly o( pursu ing a pernicious course in the first stage of operations on a Plank Road, seeing that an easy ascent peunii, the passage of rnuch hea vier loads than where the grade is unfavorable. Should a few thousand, dollars more be expen' ded upon a good grade, it will, in the end, prove the wisdom and propriety of such a course, j DRAINAGE. " j After a good grade, the next question of mo ment is complete and thorough drainage. However excellent the grade, and admirably well performed the work on a road may be, if the drainage isn complete, much of the utility of the road is lost. We urge it as a subject of vital importance to drain well, whatever the co,.! may be. To effect this, let the ditches on either side of the road be at least three feet deep, and with true slopes. Outlets for the water should be provided wherever a conven ient one can be found. Let those outlets have as much descent as possible.. If the ditchings and outlets be efficient the plank will lst much longer, and the road be always in better condition. Where it is difficult on any particular side of the road to obtain an outlet run a culvert under the road, if one can be found on the other side. The object, at all times, should be to carry off every drop of rain which may fall on the road. The centre of the road should be thrown up at least twenty. two inches the " cross section," will exhibit a perfect i Cross Section of Plank Roads, form of the road. Throw away the sods ; jet no earth he used but what will afford a fifm and solid foundation when it has settled. Let the ii2ht side of the road, coming into Jown, be selected as the side for planking. The face of the road. between the ditches, should be twenty feetwide, erght feet for th plank and twelve feet for the earth track. When the road is evenly thrown up, let it then be roljed with a heavy roller. This can be made by taking & log three feet or so in thickness, cut it six or eight feet in length, peel the bark off, and make it tolerably round ; then bore two holes, two inches in diameter, in the endsiof the log. as near the centre as possible ; hw out a pair of stout fils, make two pins of doW. wood, or ofan equally hard wood, leaving heads to the pins,- bore a hole in each of the fill and mortice a cross bar into the fils two feet from the holes, afler driving the pin9 in the centre holes, a team may be attached to the fils, or what is better, saw them so as to leave them but three feet in length, and bitch your tem to the middle of the cross bar. After a thor. ough rolling, if any place requires more earth, let it be supplied. If sleepers are used, let te trenrhes for them be four and a half feet apart, and the sleeper let it in so as to allow the plank to touch the earth. A tendency i now mahi fested to set the use-ofsleepers aside entirely, for the reason that on solid ground they are of no use, if any fastening can be used to keep tbe planks in place without them ; and in wet and mucky soils the sleepers commonly used are a positivelnjury, from the vibration caused by passing teams. This vibration causes a chur ning of the wet soil, which is soon washjed away from under the sleeper, and causing; a depression in the road. It is not depth of slee. per that is needed it is width for "bearing." Sleepers have only been useful for keeping the road in shape w hlle it was settling ; they add at least 8400 additional cost to the mile, without any adequate utility sufficient to war rant irevr use where theyjean be dispensed with. : In wet or sofi places, if the draining has been properly attended to, we would recojm mend the use of a cheap kind of boards, say winding edge boards from nine to fifteen inches wide and one to one and a half- inches thick. We prefer those from the fact that they vi-ill never vibrate in the ground, and not having the depth to settle that a sleeper has, they there fore allow the planking at all times to lay firm ly bedded in the soil. Eight feet bas uniformly Wen deemed a uf. fieient width for roads in the eastern Slates. We think it a matter of doubt whether our blea vy western and southern teams of six horse or mules, and frequently six yoke of cattle, tfvill find -this width a sufficient one, particularly when they have to get on the planking a'ter having had to turn off; Nine feet, might we .think, answer the purpose Frorrtthe prejva. lent opinion entertained by people at large, yCEEF A CHECK UPON ALL TOUR " KULERS. SALISBURY. N. C, THURSDAY, OCTOBER tlfat no skill is required to construct plank roads, ii.uuu uissausiaction in many sections from the ilLad.i.ed attempts of person! a construct such roads without i proper con. ception of thetr requirements. We kre sorry to ee a Senator ,n our Legislature, in a report, otherwise able, setting forth this idea. r lo secure good road should be the aim of all interested, and the chief requisite in a Plan Road being a good and well drained foundation every engineer should, therefore, feel the4 importance of this undenaL Inn n rA I UIS worK a monument of skill and judgment, rather than a clumsy tW for 8en. sihle men to laugh at. ' i j It should be always understood that theloa ded team keeps the road, and where two loaded earns meet, the team going outworn town is the only one that can turn off.the track. The planked part of a road should incline three in. ches in the entire width of tbe planking. No circumstances will justify laying a plank road r the centre of the roadway first, because in that event the plank would be level on the op Whereas, it is of the utmost importance have a slant to lead off the water-and se. condly, in wet weather especially, the one wheel running off on the earth track, finds less resistance to cutting than the other, consequent ly, the weight of the load being thrown on that wheel, must necessarily increase the weight o the draft, and soon cause the earth track to rut up and need repairs. A double track is rarely required on any rout. Actual experience has demonstrated that any arrangement in the building of a plank road, whereby the earth settles away from tbe plank, allowing confined air to exist underneath, is fatal to the durability of a road. If the plank is well bedded in the soil, the period at which we may safely set down the duration of a Plank Road is, if of pine or other soft timber, eight years ; oak, it is thought, will last two or three years longer. T;he wear, by abrasion, is calculated al one fourth of an inch yearly, and the plank will Jast till worn down to one and a quarter inches. T!he plan is adopted in many places, of turning the plank over, after two or three years wear. Aj slight covering of soil is useful on the plank ing, and effectually avoids the dangers sugges Md, of slippJing of the animal. In speaking of single and double tracks, Mr. Geddes, the dis. tihguished New.York Engineer, observes: Great speculative objection was made in the start to but one track ; but we have now the entire community wiih us, in deciding that, on ajl ordinary roads, one track is fully suffieient. The reason is this : the travel in wet weather is entirely on the plank, except the turning out of the the light teams ; but they seek the plank again as soon as they get around the team met or overtaken, so that the turn-out track is not cut with any continuous lengthwise ruts, and pferhaps the wheels of not one team in a hun dred turn-outs will strike the exact curve of another ; consequently in our experience, our turn out track being well graded, passing the water easily and rapidly from its surface, re mains perfectly hard and smooth." In concluding, we think, that we have, in general terms, shown the advantages of Plank Roads, and believe that we have shown from reliable data : 1. That Plank Roads are more easily and cheaply constructed than Railroads. ! 2. That they are more easily kept in repair, are less perishable, and yield larger and more certain returns than Railroads to the stockbold. ers. ; 3. That produce can be conveyed over them, at least twenty.five per cent, cheaper, and with no greater loss of time, than on a Railroad. I 4. That they are better able to accommo date the country at large, because they can be carried to almost every man's door. 5. That from the material and power used, they are peculiarly adapted to our Western and Southern States. 6. That they create markets at home wher ever they reach, adding to local wealth and pop. ulation ; and, generally, that they are belter adapted to an agricultural country, from the fact that they can be constructed and kept in repair easily, and that farmers and planters can own and manage them so as to make the transient travel pay the. expenses of carrying their own produce to market, and also to return a band, some dividend besides. Now, in view of these facts and suggestions, it must readily occur to every farmer, within a reasonable distance of the line of a Plank Road, that he can better afford to take stock in such a company than any other of our industrial classes, because he can more cheaply pay for his shares by icorking them out on the road. Every head ofa family, with his learns, scrapers, shovels, and other implements which are al ways at hand in the cultivation, &c, of his farm, could, during those leisure times which every one occasionally enjoys, work out from one to a dozen shares, according to his force and prox imity to the road, without any serious diversion of his attention from his regular vocation, or pfrceptive detriment Jo his crops. In fine, to all classes of farmers, no scheme was ever de vised that afforded so rich an assurance of im mediate and positive benefits to them, as the construction of plank roads in the neighborhood of their farms. tit is vitally important, also, to the business man in towns and cities ; it effectually removes the embargo that frequently, for months, shuts out the country from the city by reason of bad roads. i- Betsy Proctor hui.g herself at the Poor House in this place on Thursday morning last. There .was an incident in the history ol the life of this woman worthy of record which comes to us authentically sustained. She had been , p,. xMuiaiui bfind for ten years, and became so, we learn. urjder the following circumstances: When a , married woman, her husband charged her with j inconstancy to the marriage vow. She em ' piratically denied it, and upon her knees pray- j ea uoa to siriKe oer ouna, ii irue. immeui- j itely after she went blind. She died by the viole nee of her own hands, distracted by the constant apprehension of the further judgments of Heaven. ;- Her appearauce in death indica ted a higher destiny than awaited her io this world. Fred. Neics. Do THIS, AKD LlBEETT IS SAFE. Gen' I Harriton. 30, 1851. - . wt iui wo nrpuoiican. s St. Augustine, Oct. 1 1, 1851. The trial .... uoc ui me rampero. a.iegeu violation or the revenue and neutrality laws, commenced on the 6th On that day the Court merely organized! 1 he taking of testimony was begun on illt. The first vvitnpss examined was John King a native of Ireland, one of the men attached to the expedition, who de parted from New Orleans in the Pampe ro, and arrived with said vessel at Cuba, rjt being taken sick on the voyage and thereby disabled he did not land, But re turned with the Pampero to Jacksonville. Iq the latter town King lay some weeks at Jhe point of death. He arrived in a very destitute condition, though bis wants were supplied by the charity of ladies of Jacksonville. His testimony before the Court is very full, and it is thought alone ample to prove the violation of the laws. He describes the passage of the steamer! her arrival at Cuba, and identification of the vessel in question as the one engaged in the expedition. King's evidence occu pied the whole of Friday. To-day Col. H. T. Titus, also of the ex pedition, was called. His evidenc to the reinforcement from Jacksonville and Georgia, and the departure of the Pampe ro from the former place, is full and con clusive. J.C. Hemming and Capt. Thomp son, of Jacksonville, occupied the latter part ol to day in giving evidence, which was brief but to the same point. The Court adjourned over to Monday, when testimony will be resumed. It is under stood that the argument of the case will be postponed to another sitting of the Court. The claim of Mr. Seguir to the Pampe ro is considered hopeless, and there is no very active sympathy in his behalf. Though the fact of the testimony against him being mainly from those engaged with him in the Cuba expedition, and that as it is alleged his all of this world's goods consists in the property of said vessel, and that a decision against him will strip him while others have retained a share of the Cuba effects, may independent of any other consideration awaken some public interest in his behalf. Maj. B. A. Putnam, of this place, and McQueen Mcintosh, Esq., of Jacksonville, are the present counsel for Mr. Seguir. G. VV. Call, Esq., Dist. Attorney for the U. S. Some fifteen witnesses are subpoenaed citizens of Jacksonville, persons attach ed to the Cuba expedition, and others. A commission has been forwarded to New York to take the deposition of Lieut. Van Vechten; although the testimony of King renders it almost superfluous. The ancient city is favored with the presence of an English Countess, wha takes up her abode in Florida the more early to secure a divorce from a somewhat antiquated husband, the lady herself being in the bloom and beauty of early woman hood. Her object requiring a sojourn here for a certain period ; we understand that in the course of the winter a bevy of dis tinguished friends are expected from Can ada in a yacht! What a time for the gallantry and hospitality of the Agustin ians to display itself. A company of Can adians, with a British yacht, paying a vis it away down in Florida to an English Countess ! What a chance for a Yankee yacht to run a race down here, to beat the visiting craft (if politeness did not forbid it,) just as a Yankee yacht a few weeks ago beat a Britisher in a famous race at Cowes, England. C. D. CUTTINGS. Now is the time to put in cuttings ; al most every tree or shrup will grow from a cutting, if proper care and attention be given them. We have grown pear, ap ples, peaches and cherries from cuttings, and nearly every variety of flowering bush grow from cuttings planted in October. The soil for cuttings should be mellow and rich, rich in vegetable matter, and as cool as possible. The great advantage of Oc tober planting, is in the roots forming in the fall and winter hereby giving the plant a vigorous startJn the spring, ena bling it to brave the heat of summer. Cuttings should be placed in the ground horizontally, with but Wo buds above the surface, and the butt end of the cutting should always rest against the solid earth ; the roots are surer to radiate from the base, and once having taken hold, will be likely to live. Lovers of fruits and flow ers, try cuttings in October. Soil of the South. : FRUIT SEEDS. Sach as apple, pear, plum, peach, grape, &.C., should now be planted. If they are kept out of the ground until spring, ten to one they never vegetate at all. Nuts should also now be planted. In sections of country where nuts do not abound, it is very easy to stock the country with them ; just plant the seeds this month, wnere rail timber is scarce, plant the Chestnut, and if you do not live to eat the fruit or split the rails, some one will come after vnu that will. 001 of ine oouin. j ... THE NEW SWEET POTATO. We made reference the other day to a new variety of the sweet potato, believed to have been brought from some part of NEW SERIES. VOLUME VIII NUMBER 38. South A morion C, : . . T --.....v.... vjujjcnoruy as IO Size, naur. QCC was C aimp. fiir It other kinds. We suggested .h., t " nx-m II propably the West India yam. wl M grows in most countries, and is frequently Kstofe selvesnf tnZ 7- o0nunltV eS l T' " J' and every nualitv frnrn iC,c,u ,n erowiD ana every quality, from every one we uave nere, and 1, as well as many who have tasted them, view them as entirely superior. They are either in shape of a thick yam potato, or like a turnip pa great proportion of the large size is in that form, tor my own part, 1 consider them the mosi elegant root on a table that I know of. when preyed Rs the Irish po.V.oTand potato. Mobile Herald. -T " I " Maternal Influence. During a lecture on Popular Education, recently delivered. Gov. Briggs related the following impres sive incident : Twelve or fifteen years ago, I left Wash ington three or four weeks during the spring. While at home, 1 possessed my self of the letters of Mr. Adams' mother, and read them with exceeding interest. I remember an expression in one of the letters addressed to her son, while yet a boy twelve years of age, in Europe : says auii vuuiu irtiucr skb you taiu in your grave than you should grow up a profane 1 ZVCo " . a!lcrwa,rtlS' at un , . . b r a piuiane uer the circumstances th t L- ,.... ... .u and graceless boy.' " After returning to Washington, I went over to Mr. Adams' seat one day, and said to him, 'Mr. Adams, I have found out who made you 1' " 4 What do you mean V said he. I replied, '1 have been reading the let ters of your mother 7' If I had spoken that dear name to some little boy who had been for weeks away from his dear mother, his eye could not have flashed more brightly, or his face glowed more quickly, than did the eye and face of the venerable old man when I pronounced the name of his mother. He started up in his peculiar manner, and emphatically said. M Yes ! Mr. Briggs, all that is good in me I owe to my mother." " Oh what a testimony was that from this venerable man to his mother, who had in his remembrance all the scenes in his manhood ! " All that is good in me I owe to my mother " Mothers ! think of this when your bright-eyed little boy is about you ! Mothers make the first im pression on their children, and those im pressions will be the last to be effaced." THE POLITENESS OF PAUL. An old poet has quaintly called Jesus Mhe first true gentlemen that ever breathed.' Paul's politeness, too, must not be overlooked, com pounded as it was of dignity and deference. It appeared in the mildness of the manner in which he delivered his most startling and shat tering messages, both to Jews and heathens ; in his graceful salutations ; in his winning re proofs the excellent oil which did not break the bead ; in tbe delicacy of his allusions to his own claims and services ; and, above all, in the calm, self-possessed, and manly attitude be assumed before tbe rulers of his people and the Roman authorities. In the language of Peler and John to their judges, there is an abrupt, ness savoring of their rude fisherman life, and filler for the rough echoes of the Lake of Gali lee, than for the tribunals of power. But Paul while equally bold sind decided, is far more gracious. He lowers his thunderbolt before his adversity ere he launches it. His shaft is t "polished," as well as powerful. His words been converted some years before, and to King Agrippa 'I would to God that not on; had joined the church. We asked him if ly thou, but also all that hear me this day, were he still belonged to it. both almost and altogether such as I am, ex- " No," said he, " they turned me out cept these bonds,' aro the most chivalrous ut- for the most frivolous thing in the world terances recorded in history. An angel could j if I'd know'd they'd a turned me out fo not bend more gracefully, or assume an atti- such a liuIe lhJn as lhflt yd , . tude of more exalted courtesy. Gilfdlan. ed " J The Self moving Carriage. The Paris cor respondent of the Philadelphia Bulletin, in a let ter says : "Two years ago I described for an Ameri can paper, the sell-moving Carriage of M Pro vost. Since that time M. P. has travelled in it over a great part of France visiting Tours, Saumers, Orleans, Chartres, Havre, and other l fl r- places. ne is now in rans on his way to Bordeaui. He travelr with ease lo himself, for lhe force is not the mascular strength an plied to pedals or cranks, but the weigh) of his person which puts in movement the machinery on much the same principle wiih the weight of a clock. On ordinary roads (they are maca. damized in France,) M. Provost travels from sixty to eighty miles a day. The carriage is about six feet by three and the machinery not visible from the outside." M All Flesh is Grow." Bishop Hughes in a sermon to his parishioners, repeated the quo tation that "all flesh is grass." The season was Lent, and a few days afterwards be en countered Terence O'Collins, who appeared to have something on his mind. "The top of tbe mornin' to yer rivf rence," said Terence, "did I fairly understand your riverenee to say all flesh is irrass. last Sundav ?" To be nr you did," replied the Bishop, "and you're a heretic if you doubt it." " Oh not the bit do I doubt any thing your riverenee says, said the wily Terence ; ' but if your riverenee plaze, I wish to know whether in this Lent time I could not be after having a small piece o(bafe by way of a salad V'Sharpc's Mag. YANKEE FORETHOUHT. An acquaintance of ours was up in Con ncct.cut one day last winter, to visit a friend who was a manufacturer. The shaft of the manufacturer water-wheel had been broken that afternoon, under the great accumulation ol ice, and he was in great trouble, for he had marched long to hnd a suttable Mick, and he knew not where to find another. If he could find onPf it would be green and unfit for use ery early in the morning, while the day had scarcely dawned, the . . - MIWlUI tl I n , ,g "7l wcre al lhe ml. l e what should be done. I A farmer, who lived two or threi. m?r. nfr .1 1.. . v- i uf' n.?.?n S lbe 1 pheV " Bad Z t Mr uT0' j mer. U&U lhe faN th. -nufactor. I ' aaid the manufacturer, and worst : r! n;t know where to get anoth i f snm the farmer. I guess i can ! tell you where vou can find nn,' you ' You can ?' . said the manufacturer; wnere is it fl 4 Well, said the farmer, I) thought that shaft would break, likely as not. some time or other, and I had a tre in mir f woods I thought would make a slick to 'fillit vnu . I ... : I . j it hoe. ' a"d , j " uiuncil, 1 lUOUgQl Q come over anu lei you know.' You're just the man I wanted tn o said the manufacturer.' if only it was light enough. How much do you ask for the stick, if it will suit me V f Oh, I'm sure 'twill suit ye,or I shouhTnt a cut it down; and about the price, I guess you and I can agree. It's a nice stick, you'll see, if you've a mind to como over. It was some time before the farmer would set a price, but at last he guessed one hundred dollars would be about right. I'll come over and see it after break! fast, said the manufacturer.' U A, - - at M a1 m ia we nunurecl dollars to him. Are not such people able to lake care of themselves V Kxchanft paper. " My Dear Mrs. Jones," said Mrs. Brown, "come here to my bed side, I am dving, and I wish to say a few words to you." "Yes Marm," sighed Mrs. Jones. 44 Well Mrs. Jones," ejaculated Mrs. Brown, 'you and I have had a good many tiff jn our days, and I would now part with you in peace. Can you forgive me ?' 'Yes, Marm,' sobbed Mrs. Jones, 'indeed, indeed I can.' Am I forgiven,' ejaculated Mrs. Brown. 'es marm,' responded Mrs. Jones wilhdiffi. cully, in consequence of the intensity uf ber an guish, and then she attempted to weep her way out of the dying woman's room. Stop a moment, my dear Mrs. Jones,' said the expiring Mrs. Brown 'I've another word or two to say. I wish to have it understoJ that if I gel well, every ihing goes back, and we stand on the same old ground.' What business was your father said an imperious Colonel to a modest looking Lieutanant. A tobacconist sir.' What a pity he did not make you one. Possibly, sir, and now will you allow me to ask you a question V Certainly. What is it.' What was your father' A gentleman sir.' 1 Well then, all 1 have to say is, that it's a deuced pity he didn' make you one.' It is needless to remark that the Colo nel turned to the right and left. C I .... w . . . uuwn ia uu Ul A Persecuted Man. A Nothern paper tells the following good one : Hamilton of the Mary ville Tribune, was travelling in the cars, thether day from Bellefontaine to Kenton, when he fell in with a decided character. He was toler ably drunk. Let Hamilton tell the rest : He said he lived in Urbana ; that the Methodists had a great revival there a year or more ago, and lhat more than a hundred were converted : that he had Said we, " What did you do ?" "O nothing only I bet my horse out ran another fellows; I won the money, and then got drunk, and had two fights. That's all. And they turned me out for that !" Fine dressing and dexterous dancing, remarks a shrewd observer, when not subsidiary to the effect of personal beau. ty and character, are monstrous. Every girl who dances gracefully should, in speaking, show that she is of graceful and winning nature. If she does if she is silly and simpers you instinctively feel that her movement is artificial ; that it is the gift of the dancing school not a grace of nature ; you have been deceived, and it is never again a pleasure to watch that dancing." A cobler has just located himself at Spalding, and attracts attention with the following address outside bis shop : "Surgery performed upon old boots and shoes, by adding of feet, making good the legs, bind ing the broken, healing the wounded, altering ,he constitution, and supporting the body with ! ncw 8oleB- No cure M PT- Advice gratlis : on lh.e mo desperate cases." London U'eei. etc'- Cincinnati. October 15. A fire broke out in the Orphan Asylum in this city last evening, and the whole building was consumed.