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- ' 5 V- . f' 1. -ir. . '.v 'I , of TVnM8 ieJ?i iJ.m Mr. Jefferson 56,:Mf M! "Juln 53, and Mr, Monroe ?9, when, i !v wwiwrtUf l?cteif to thefre ,;(lpnfr of the Statfsr Ttis now tha the-followinspare the age or, weht'one! a candidates lor uiai s L honorable station MrG ra wford . -A - ir . rl rc y'r C!inn 55. Mr. Clay 48, and Mr Calhbun-JV; Picket Ship Lf '(is This new. and pliant ve?e. belonin: to the fourth line of Liverpool; packets, .te-nearljr' readv for sea, andVyestenlay was buo nvtted to the inspction.Mofour mer chant".. Iteem8nthattheretH no li- .. j narrkri7Ptastp.Land, in?flT ui tv.inboddinjanu lit tin? oionr pack u meeting in-tleretonishire, out lie. w.i l n;sh respecting: the advantages vhich il ac et ships. Tne Jireaest is the last." j j there expected arid; encountered -by ! j erne to thepitVic, .from, such an undertaking; Tnftnndent ot. the nne monei or, me 4 ped. her cabin equipments are spien j'.a .ml rnnvenient. J he carved, ma- hony pillars with . Corinthmn caps, gopporting th- tateooms; the dra pery ami ffilMvlork of the cabin win dnws. and the furniture in each roorn, par challenge a crmpet'ion with-any 'f our ships. Thejadiej'.cabin.jivhich i nun and lighted from ab'-vevjs aft instead of forward, jconsequenttyv in. a more easy and f convrnien. pisition ; ". .:.l mn Imnrnvpmpnf in llif weel; which" by means; of a rgcrew, .:ncrrtPr nower to the helms. man.' AUogetler, she is a first rate ship JV. F. -Vaf. Mv. From the Report of he New-York laving B.ink. f,.r the year- 1822, it spnears tha. from January -1, to De cember SI. 6.629 deposits were made, aniouoting to S35l,49S 40' cents .5$9 of the accounts wre new: 20.600 were invested : abpuf 181,000 'were drawn out, and STgajecounts were closed. The lare-t depoites wa ne of ;000, and the deposit es of II u ? s were verv numerous. Xot- ithsta.ndins the interruption caused , br tlse sickness, the Rartk ha paid five. percent. " Suicide. With ieeliri? of depp'con cfrn, we tnenfinn, a truly disUessine; ocrurrence which took place in Catn b:i county, a few djvs ince. Mrs S!Jirhter,Vife of Dr. Wni. Slaurfcr. ir. H of insanity (a is unpoed) , ut s ptiod to her. eiifence bv.diNcliar inythe contend of a bided gun iiro' her heid. Doctor S. had left the hotin but a hrt fimev when on his return he found his wife extendedton the fioor her hpad mangled in a mst sh?Tkiii.c wanrer; and her brains strewed jover. the floor", walls, ami ceiling. It i- said that heV mind had been, at nttr;vals unsettled, fr ?nie months previous . to the committing of the fra! act. . Lynchburg Yews-Letter. Georgetown 8. C. Jlnrch 1. A cor re.p'nlent at.Conwayburouu;h, in Hr rv district, informs us, that on theGtst ullimo he wa called on by a cofner of the lirict to attend am inquisition on a most solemn and impressive oc casion. "On approaching the spot.' observes our "crres jbnderit, 4 1 w as presented with the yity .ohthe idead' . body of a1 white man. of at least OOyrsrs of'reI whose' nowv, but 'cory locks roold have led. us to believe his pur snits" far different- from that which should be. hi last. It appearelf from the evidence, that he had attempted to rooa nntatne house, in which a cun wadset, and on his entry, he.inadver- Tently touched the spring and was thus by his own i hand,, instantajienus hliuriied before fhebarof God ;AVhat A .ft - solemn and useful refl eetians toiiu oe i A.. '. .. ' r.. A i uianu iroui cms awiui event i JVatche fJIissJ JV'or. 5. The steam boat Tenneseei x;om landed by Captain CampbcllJ bound for Louisville, with a aliiable' cargo, ami about 10 deck, -and 18 or 20 ca bin pasei-ers, on the night of the 8ih i mst. at about 10 o'clock, struck a snag some distance frpm the shore, which caued her to sink in a very Tew mi nutes, consigning to a watery grave thirty of her passengers, An( occur rence of this kind, involving such deep disiicss, and in j which so many live were lost, has never befoYettak en place on the Mississippi, The boat and car go Were estimated at about 150,000 dollars. ' ..: ' . ; V " v- '.-'; Cabin passengers drmoricd.M.' 3 . Nouvel, of Lexington, Ky. Mr. Poo, of Baltimore, Mr. Matbin, of Hhiiadelphia, and Mr. Caruthers, f Tennessee. ; , - j fiech passengers j drovmed. -George San ders, of Lexington; Sarnuelt Cooper, of Ken tucky, David Knaw; do. John Curby, Samuel Hencely, John Stewart, John Kipler, Mrs. Mansker, and child,lr. Terley, James Brad ord, negro, Henry, do two negro vbmen, two negr boys, and ten passengers whose names ic not known. ne steam hnat' ClnmrnrrJ Yuv, fi tt . . -ry:., . i , r u,cslun courier ot tne otn msi.jt was to J ftVC tstarted yesterday for Hamburgbut tfr herargo was all onboard, and prepa- j jMwns were making for getting under w ay, ; Ak8ctIiained that a su5ar -bogshead, tai a v-'vl-" " oupuamg it vuii- , l'nea suerari was fillert with or..nwnr. i , 4 "uadbeen placed; within a few feet of the V which haye hot. acc j and had not iH contents ben prothiey are not kabiB . . i, " t-' t-M'.-d l.'ItAan JmhiiI. wouia, in nil prooaoim.v 4Jtt". rftil.- V It was Necessary to take out a consiaer- f able portion'oC the cargo, m orcler to ; gexax It ; wmcn caused a aeiay ui, ,uu time of the boat's departure,' f.v r3 ' At a genera! meet i r of the freehM- I ders &c: of; Norfolk Cou nty , ,hni nd. (one'of the hist; important ajrnctilfu ral counties of the kinsdom.) Cobbet made his appeaVance Vatjrthe hustings and rested the- meeting- at leniin, air su cceeded in ca rry in; his resolu tions . almost by acclamation, in nppoitiou i to others brought forward and warmly ' urged brf4he -principal men cf th couhtyWcti; as Alf. Coke, and nther '.proprietors of From 10 to 60,000. I sterling ayear Encouraeil by 'thi victory, the veteran jobber in patri -tism presented himself at a similir inmp or jus own writings, in which ii- j calls the. farmers, dolts," fcknavjps" iai-iaceii rapai, occ " i ne8e .ars'i- inehts of a past day overthrew all his i eloquence at the time being, and he almost Scouted from the hirstins, together yith his propositions. . !' AVI- American. ,V.-Rev; Samuel Nott, of New York, has 1 cecently published a small volume ' of f i sermons for cliildren, designed to pro mote their immediate piety. new religious newspaper is pro- posed at Philadelphia, to be called I the i Philadernhia Recorder" the first ,j ; No to be published the first Saturday j . : it in April the object is the diffusion of religious intelligence .and literary in- formation. 1 The following singular Ticts were stated ar a meeting of a public society 'in Sheffield, England : Gibbn, who in h's celebrated UisNrVtf ihe Decline urd Fall ol the ii.niian .15mj.ire, has !'t an imperishable memoia of his to .the gospel,, resided j nv ) years in Switzerland, whertivith ie profits of his works, lie purchased a jconvderabte esiatvi. This property (hi descended to a cn-'ifoian who, out ! of its rent expejid a laje sum aunu- j all v ia the'.proihtiiga ion f that very UMpel which his predecessor insidious ly cnJ',ivored,to undtrmine. Volta'ire b(i-ted that with one bamtjie vvoutd, overthrtiwi that edifice of Cirrivtiatutv which required the, hands, of twelve; Apostles, to build up. At this day, the press wuich. he employed at .Fer ney to print hi blasphemies is actual ly employed at tioheva in printing I the Holy Scriptures. It in a remark- lable circum-Uiice, also, that the first provisional nieeiln .Tor the forinafiiui of an Auxiliary Bible Society, at Edin burgh, was held ia th& very rooui iu wliich Hume died. 1 . , FOH THE BKOI9TCR. . 1 t J ' ; AGRICULTURE OF NORTH-CAROLINA. 4 Letter II. To Charles FihertRaq. Secretary of the Rowan Agricultural Society. t Sir, Having suggested tome general principles,' which '1 think ought to govern us in our efforts to improve the state of Agri culture, I now proceed, as was proposed, more directly to the subject of your address. 1 am well satisfied that your proposition, " to have Geological Survevs of the State taken,' embraces an object which has an important j I am not quite certain whetlver the plan you I propose, is likely to be the best that could be L. n inJKlf-. on the - nil. th:lt a Geological Survey "'of the State is a most interesting and important object, we may leave the particular mode by which it is to be accomplished, to future discussion. My present object is, to-offer my reasons for v i r a thinking so favorably of the" scheme itself. i . . . . . i ' .... -I hough 1 have oirecten my reatung ot late towards the. study of Geology, on account of its supposed practical tendency, yet I do not profess to be master of the subject and de siring, to qualify myself better, both for forirt inga. opinion respecting the object, to which you have invited tue attention of our citizens, and for offering my reasons for that opinion when formed, I have. obtained from a friend,' 'vtha is familiar with this science, a detailed statement respecting the object of a Geological Survey, and the advantages which may be expected to accrue from it to the public. 1 am at liberty, moreover; to make such use ot1 this information as 1 please, and shalljherefore avail myself of it, to a consi derable extent, in the following observations ; selecting such parts as 1 deem most impor tant to my1 present purp6se, and emp:oying my correspondent' language or my own, as shall be most convenient. ft appears that Geology,'-in a scientific! sense;" is;?, the study of the earth em bra cing those inanimate substances which are naturally Tound on or. below the surface; all those bodies indeed which appear to make Up the solid globed In this vie w,"a Geologi cal Survey comprises -a ya9t number ofparti culars,' which, although jthey seem to interest men:of science wonde.fullyk jiave very;little to do with the promotion of your objects and mine.' A XSeological Survey of the State, irt our-sense of the word, has tor its object! to ascertain whate, minerals' we have in fLi.;.,..l tnuhnnrlhira r'u,. , .r LU JH v .111 VI IUC Ul life, or which .may become sources of profit to the Stale as articles bf;cbmmerce.,, We (wish to know whether such quarries 'and mines as llave been already discovered in the State,- dol not exist also in other places not yex.. noucea; wneiuer tnere oe not many ki, . : ' wnicn naye not. oeen (usea at a a, ; because Cthey are not known; and whether we have l . t . ... . . . . . . ' nowUn'fl trrf on femlt?,1m?ne for which we howVtseh(J lare sumso money abroad. When substances oft this kind are foundy andare announced, tathe public,' we wish to know of, what use, they are wbatjs the besti means of bringing them into use and; how;' we may turn them o the best ac count.'. We desire, therefore, not only to have a-GeoIoglcal Surrey made, but to have theresuiti published- in' such a form, that it may be generally-understood,; and, so far as is expedient reduced to practice. I there fore, Sir, entirely appmye of Ly bur. sugges tion respecting the expediency of haying the result of sucb survevs, when made, laid be fore the Board of Agriculture, to be publish pa,'euner..wnony or. in pan, urwictr ikmmv tions. . Such; I believelfSiri are some of the ob-i Jects which the Rowan Agricultural bociety has in view, in desiring- to institute Geologi- ca'l Surveys of the State : buch, I am conn dent, are the views which prevail here. f; Thus much respecting the. object of the nronosed survevs. In the copious details j .which mv friend has been so good as to far he has insisted that the respectability of the State WlU De-very mucn prwmoitru oy ir,anu that enough has been already discovered to induce competent judges to believe, that.fu- ture researcnes mro our yconny wm uc richlv rewarded. He has even hinted, i that i North-CarolinA makes but a small figure in books of science, when she has a fair, claim j to a)near conspicuous; that her mineralogy , occupies so little space in works that treat of this science, that a torenrner wouki suppose 1 she was in this respect the least gifted of any i State in the Union ; whereas, there :s reason to believe, that all this seeming deficiency is oWiner to the fact, that her mineral treasures I have hitherto been scarcely at all explored; but that; were they fully developed to the ; . VPfl tn .i-. Nrorth.caror.na would not onlv be freed from any disgrace in the comnarison of her mineralogy with that of . . 4- . . i her sister States, but wouia commami an en viable distinction' ' . I confess, I feel not a little moved by consi- derations professedly touching the honor and respectability of our State ; but then I reflect that these matters do not s- much concern us at present, as those which are more im me- j dintelv c'omected with our penmutry inter- ' ests. Motives like these seem more proper to be addressed to our Legislature than to j our Agricultural Societies : IVe t are riot so j much in pursuit ot honor as proht, I have therefore thought best to pass over such con siderations AjS the foregoing, and to enter im mediately on the enquiry, What sitwstanxrs DO AOHICCLTCHS AX II THE MKCH4XIC ARTS DERlyE FBOH THF. MlNktLAK. KlXiDOM ? r Among the most importmt of these, are the following: 1. Iron, .' 2. Gvpsum, ' : . 3. Salt, ' I 4. Limestone, . - i 5. Coal, . . ' ' 6. s Freestone, including Marblt - T. : Paints and Dye-Stutfs, ' 8. Slates, 9. Meta' lie Ores. . Let us d well a little on each of these sub stances, separately ; enquiring, at the same time, how far the proposed surveys will con tribute. to promo- the discovery of them, and to introduce them into such notice as may conduce to the public good. 7 ;. ' Of the Iroi . Lues and Jtanufacture ofAfbrth" ': ' Carolina. ':' " ";r ;.r; That ironxonstitutejrthe basis of all the arts ; that the instruments by which all me chan'ctl operations are carried on,' are fabri cated of this metsH that -even the simplest of all arts, that of til lib g the ground, calls for its aid either to fashion or to constitute every one of its implements ; are points so universally known, that it is superfluous to dwell on the uses of iron,, "or to urge how much we are indebted to the mineral king dom, for affording it to us. in such, exhaust less abundance. Every man in society will acknowledge that iron is indispensable to his purposes; whatever may be this calling ; and eyery farmer will grant, that he does and must employ great quantities of this article every year. It being admitted then that -we must have iron, the question is," Shall we manufac ture it for owseh'es or import it fron&abroaA ? The only plea that I can think of in favor of obtaining it from abroad, is, that toe can buy it cheaper than toe can mabeit that is, " we can do better py employing our laborers in agriculture and exchanging our crops for iron, than we could do, by transferring them from this employment to the manufacturing of iron. In respect to the transfer implieI, that probably woijld bef unnecessary ; for were a new field for enterprise Jlaid open by the extensive manufacture of any of our na tive materials, and especially the one under consideration, a inost important means would be introduced for arresting the tide of emi gration, and a most inviting object wou ld be presented to io'eign minei-s and manufactur ers to settle themselves here. These by the way, would bring along with them a de gree of skill exceedingly favorable to the improvement of our arts. A number of other reasons occur to me why it is better to ma nufacture this article if we can, as much as is sufficient for ourselves f at least, than to depend on foreign supplies, I will begjeave to state these reasons in order, ? ? - 1 . The manufacture of Ipon is in its ovtn Via ture, an excellent employment.' Unlike most other processes of the arts, it is perhaps as friendly to the health and morals as. agricul ture. In these r spects it forms a happy contrast to ; those manufacturing .employ ments, which debilitate the frame, debase the mind, pollute the morals,, and essential ly impair the national strength. No employ ment probably tends more than this, toj ere ate enterprising and industrious habits ;j and it is proverbial for its peculiar power to nerve the arm, and.invigorate the breast of nian.fv 2. In a pecuniary point of view, it is sub ject to less risk than almost any other employ ment that can be named. It is too closely allied with the indispensable operations of society, ever to be subject to the ordinary jluctuationsof trade. " Iron is.too"intimately, connected with the supply of - all our, wants and conveniences ever to go. out of use, Or indeed to have .its use in any considerable degree suspended. . A change of times may induce-,us tq do without U thousand luxuries in ; which , we are accustomed ; io ' indulged Hence, the manufacturers of such articles as are grafted; not so muclon .ihe winti as on the pride of man ' are ' subject to the most sudden - and untoward reverses. But such an article as iron, which must" be had at all times,' and under every emergency, is never jfuTnThfftli nanulaemwR in piienyfMtt not enough of this article ls roa? to supply home consumption, as wine case uimii); uui selves, the'aifety of this kind, business is extremely obvious. Peace nemanns mor than we can make : war cuts ofTi all foreign supplies; and enhances the i prlce ; b$ what is nmde at home. Ky man, there fore cart possibly be in safer business with prudent management than in the mamrfacture qfiron, Facts also., warrant the foregoing assertions j for e-oodmanas-ement and persevering mdus- try do,' I L'ink, sir, usually secure to those engaged in this business, a handsome profi, - t i . . and not untrequently .conduct tliem to me i highest opulence. , I have, in more than one instance, known an individual, who bias by this means tmade himself very wealthy trpm pmall beginbingspand that too under disad-j vantages with respect, to ore and a: niarket, which would not Be experienced in this State. Indeed thoe of our own citizens who have eneatred in this business are witnesses and proofs of the foregoing positions ; many of them have jmade handsome estates ; others have turnedj a smaller capital to good Account ; Amf lrnHtr Iimta ;Lvt-t.&lr - 4-Kf a'onf rvf and if an y have faile.I 3sVtirely, success is believed to have beeni in most ca ses, if riot in all, attributable to causes which were independent of the business under con sideration. But it these establishments ware profitable now, thev might undoubtedly be rendered far more so, as I hopi to show by and by, Were they conducted with the re quisite: skill and economy. ; j. 1 3. I In addition to those arguments in favor of tlie manufjeture of iron, which arise from the nature of the business itself considered, as an enterprise both eligible, arid safe, in addition to these, I sy, JK'orth-Carolina hasi inducements to turn her attention to this subject i-u'wen are peculiar to nerseij. lo mese i in j vite very particular attention. j ' . j In the first place. N. Carolina is most abund- antly furnished with iron ores. So plenteously f has this most useful of all the metallic ores j been bestowed on our State, that not less than 30 distinct-beds of it have: aJreadybeeh open- edin the counties of Stokes and Surry alone ! arid scarcely a single ridge of all that tract of country which lies between twenty and thir ty miles east of the Blue Ridge is destitute oi muicmons, tnat a similar .treasure nes concealed below. The couiry of Lincoln J m particular, has already disclosed innumer-j; able repos2twies of iron. Indeed there is t scarcely a cOuntv amohf the hillv and raoan tainous districts of North-Carolina, where a bed of iron ore has not either actually been hliscovered,! r where sufficient indications of it have not been noticed, to justify a rea sonable hope of finding beds of it. In many ; parts ot the; low country also, is found a spe- j cies ofiroii ore, which, though inferior to) that of the upper country, is nevertlieless milch the same kind as that of which" mosi' of the British iroa is made, and it might per-i haps be wrought to advantige. ! , la the second place,, thi ore whichUit thus ) pro fusely stared away beneath our soil t is gene-i rally of the best quality. With the exception j of that of the lower country, just mentioned, j it consists mostly f the kintl denominated ! oy nuneraiogisi, Magnetic uxuie, containing from 75 to 80 per cent, of metallic iron ; and the less abundant varieties, namelyv the ' Specular Ore, lied Oxide, and Micaceous Oxide, are! all rich ores, yielding more than ) 60 per cent, of thesmetidl '5The exhaustless l abundance," therefore, of the magnetic ore of ; the west ; its excellent quality," being similar j to the best Swedish ore; the never-failing supply of charcoal which thevforests ckn at- j ford with little r noexpence but that, of ourmng ; toe enterprising cnaracteri ana u dustrious habits of the people thesej a mong many other advantages; designate Vthe manufacture of iron as peculiarly adapted td that section of our State, and point out this article as. entitled above all the other gifts of nature to be considered as constituting the inherent richea of our western counties. I i have hitherto conteriiplated the roanu- Cacture of iron merely as affording $o indivi duals an inviting field for enterprise, and as a mean9 of retaining within the; State the money which is expended for this article a broad. But I see no reason why We may not anticipate,"that it will one day- become a'Ve ry considerable article of export ' Were the Yadkin and the Dan' rivers rendered naviga ble, the ejj-e might- speedily- enjoy the ; de- j lightful spectacle of boats without number flowing from their tributaries, laden' with j these native riches, and destined for foreign. markets. Although the art of manufacturing ' ! tliiu' Ai .lai a ..r4'Vk. 4 wot. I. I.on am ' ' 1 vijis oi ui.ii, vff niiuuui. uuuui, iuuvu itoo ji- fectly Understood than It might f be, yet, so excellent lis our ore, that bur bariron is al lowed, even nowyrto vie in quality with the best in thmarket; and with the immeasu rable advantages' which a free jiavigai ion woidd afford, the State of North-Car ofina niigbt ; contend in the sale of her ir6n with Sweden and Russia. ;i In thfcj bleakest and most st erile districts of the northern countries ; of Europe; rnore. than one instance is record-1 ed, of opulent ' and crowded cities having a- risen, in consequence of those spots being I endowed by nature witll a rich deposit of i iron ore j ;and cotdd, we j dispel the delusion which limits to so small a space our views of what our own great interests demand could we evvin soar beyond thejittle horizon of our own existence, and think arid feel for, our children and our children's children, it would thep be no sport ofthe fancy to see, ! in the visions ofc futurity, bright villages ftndf thronged cities rising on the reriaotest tribu-' taries of oiir western waters. But with our K present imnedirnenxi - to, transportation, and the .want of. skill arid econotriy in our mode i of"TOanufacturingviron,? even . England sup-1 pnes no sinau pan, oi wnai jNortn-v-aronna herself consumes, -although ' the ores from wliich . it is manufactured are i chiefly of the poorest sort, yielding only 30 per cent, of iron.1 For.lfual also the English are obliged to make use ot'.coke, prepared from pit coal, as charcoal is prepared from wood ; a kind of fuel j which is both more expensive than bur j charcoal, & greatly inferior to that in respect ho the quaUty of theron made with it. Yet, unaer auuiese natural uissrvaniages, sucn is the advanced state of the mechanic arts ainong the; English, that they triumph oyer the superiority which Mature herself has be stowed upon us,"by selling their iron at so low a priced as to Vtynpt us.to use it in: the' very confines of our mines and manufactories, i ' There are so many advantages which re sult from multiplying iron works, that I couiu wish to see more than one! establishment of ' . I : 1 l . ' ' n . . , tne xinam every county in me sute where thetore can be obtaiued. ." Nqr, shuuid I ap- prcucHu juuti auciiao increase ovumocrs, would dojany injury to the present proprie tors of such works, since a greater degree of competition would' introduce into the busi ness a higher degree of skill j .foreign work men, when sucb a demand was opniH tneir laDor, would resort hitlier and bring J' i reduced price & an mvproved quaKt C wodd' v ; conspire to promote the sale of thi article a homeland shortly tiinj it into an article of : export. ThesectrcumsUncea, I thSi)k, would amply compepsaiq f the nianufactureir.s of tron ,v for the reductiod f jprice, which the articlo ' ; midit sustain by betne thro wn into J he mar- " ket in increased jtbundihce.k.'lkXoreover, reduction in the price, of so indispensable : article as iron, so far as is comp;dibif, witii v a fair profit to thermariufactuferiUs a public oeneni. VWiiu vsicn impro ejocin ,uc m- . , ; troduced, that: it could be afforded at one cent less iri a pound than it is sold it present ?t- many xnousanu aonars woiuu oe savcu iu in State every year ; for expences that arise ' , from deficiency of skill, or bad economy, ' "f are. a total loss vnd do tiobody any gooa.?- Oiie' obvious advitMattt also accruing f ran 4 . reduction- in the price of; iron, is that tha f. community may use it more-freely, -aod'thusi '.'." increase the stability and excellence of all ; their mechatiicai structures, as' buildings. ' ' . , bridges, &c. and improve, the quality ind4- ami utensils of husbandry, j ExpenCes, more ' Vv". over, incuiTed by distance from .market, ard ' t a dead toss..; lty th's means the articles we buy cost us more, and those we exchange for therii bring us in less.-, . 4 1 ' ?One of the greatest advantages! have ever ; contemplated from the opening of our rivers, ' ' , is the opportunity they "will attord us-tor;,- ? sending to market such articles as !the one ; under consideration, and tliis especially. Irt f ; ' such an event,! should be sanguine ;n .be- Jieving that iron would be One of the staple commodities or North-Carolina. . ! -v-s ' - . By the foregoing1 considerations, I think is rendered evident that it is the interest oC , , North-Carolina io turn her attention, in no ordinary degree, towards Jier mines of irort 7 ore ; that she, has peculiar irkiucementa to V do so iro'i the abundance and r cxciellencc of the ore itselff th.t it is important to mako ' the most of tliose beds of it which have been ', already discovered, and to bring to light such . . as may yet lu? concealed in diflercnt .parts' . of the State ; and, tiiat greater skill and econ V nomy ought, so far as is practicable, to . be ;i. introduced into the. manufacture of this arti- . . t- ;; ' - . !. - :r.-. .- ' ' i . ' i It remains now, sir, to inquire whether thd ' ; -'" Geological Siu-veys' whieb you haye ipro posedjwill contribute , to; the " proriiotion of, ; . the foregoing objects. ' That it will do this-' ; V v in a very high degree, will, I think, be ap r ' t parent from the following statements. , . ' . , T' V It wbuloT be the object jof such an underif ' , taking , to ascertain tite extent and directum' : -of those beds of iron ore vvhich bavc already , k been opened; and hence to- ascertain, thos . t' placeswhere file same beds might probably ' - v' be found again in tha same forinatioiu 1,- 4 . v- S ucli researches 'would very naturally lead ; vf to tlje discovery of beds bf ore hitherto ua- ! known. One of the.lmost! useful discover.etf qf Geology, is that which relates" io Geoiogi cal Associations ; by.wliich it is ascertained . that certain minerals usually accompany eachi other, so that the occurrence cf one' leads V v T the obserVer to -look for one. ot more ofthe. s others. In this Way, the Geologist wkUd see v i ' symptonts of ari. iron, a Iead or a copper mine I 1 ' of linfestone, gypsum7 orsalt ; arid of a great -y numberof other useful miherals,; where one iv unacquainted with the laws of lhe: science, ' would not suspect the existence of any one of-. - ; ; .It would fall ithin the plart o;1 it'Re-. port" proposed to be made to , the; H6rd of Agriculture, to statethe respfective, uaiitiea of the-different kinds of our 0r s to deter-t mme how inuch metaUicHuxm they jw-ere re spettively capable of affording -what were the foreign substances that wert united with each, and how these might bempst advan tageously separated and finally to su. estl every improvement respecting the manufac turing of this article, whicih might be ii! pos session of the author of tlie report, whether? derived from study1 or observation.' If this task; were fulfilled with' decent ability, I submit it.to thefiLmanufaCtUrer of Iron,-: whether -ifr would not be furnishing liim with a kind of information 'which he has. many a time felt the wint of, and which, hjad he been in pos session of it, would have saved Lim iroul much uncertainty, and vexation, aud perhaps also from much ruinous experiments. .. , I do not intend, uy to be thus niinute witht respect to the remaining articles proposed tai be enuinerated,' both because, none of theni are so important as this, and because many of j the foregoing, observations apply also to therii ! in proportion to their importance. ' With lliis' apology for detaining you so long,' I rejnain sir, respecttuily youra, v : t. 'v . I .WALTER RALEIGH. ' f PRICES C WREJSTT. jfc j; : : : - Wimin ton. Ay ville. i , j Mar.?2j War. 20 Mar.22 Cxsts. CsarrH 'i CajSTs. 150 a 175 220 r - Brandy,1 Cog. ' 1 Applc, Bacon, . ' 140 a 150 40. 40 a 45 45 a" 50 f 8 a no 18a 32a 35 ' , 9a 11 8a 9 15 a 20 f Butter, ;i!i 12$ a;20 Beeswax, Coffee,, .J. Corn,' ; Cotton, , : " ' Candles, ' Flour, bbl. - v ' Gin, Holland,: - - American, Iron, per ton, Lard, Molasses, Potatoes, bbl. Rum, Jamaica,' W. India, Rice, per cwt. 3 35 .24 25 32 a 33 ,25 a v28 S7i a 23 J 60 a .651 70 a 75 55a 60 l-:-8ja 9 , 12a 15 ; . 9a 10 13 a 16 700 a 725 650 a 675! 7oqa85tf : 100 , 100 a 125 125- 38a. 40 $93aJ95 45 .' 45a5r! $100 - 1120. . . 10 a 11 8a 9 29 V 30! 8 a' 9 - 30-.: 23 a 24 100 a 125 77 a 80 125 a 150 100 alia 60afi5 8 5 a 90 75 a 85? S50a275 400a500P50a400f Salt, Liverpool, Turk's Isk ugar,Loaf, :t, 55 90 70 79 6 5T - ' ; 18a,2(t 10 a It 43 a 45 80 19 a -25 Brown, 7Ja 9 8 a 11 Tobacco, cwt. 1400 a 455P75 a 300 Tallow 9 a 101 Whiskey 38 a 4(M 3 ; . MtltWp In Favetteville. on tii? A.tk Afizr Margaret Wright, wife otffW, Wright ' Esq. Cashier of the Cape-Fear Brand11 Bank of i his. place. I - j :'.- -..;.'.;,;"' On the 13: n instant, n the 56th year of L his age, Mr. I 4in Kennedy, a native of Ireland, and for many years a useful and " i tspectable citizen of Fayette vMle. 7 ' - - On the 18th Inst, inthe 66th year oif hW agei th,e Hon. Brockhplst Livingston,- on--of the Associate Justices of the Sufreme Court of the United Siaves, This dbtin guished criziri has iorig' occupied a corf-; swicubus place in the public ee aud . taienis aaa vortn are loo well km ItWf W 8a 9 35 a 40 V i " '." -'t - t ' i- A "v 1 i. 5. .. ' I
The Weekly Raleigh Register (Raleigh, N.C.)
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