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EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
Internal Improvements,
for $3 75 of 6 for §10,
last the 2d Annual Meeting of this
We have Blanks for sale by
POST PAID.
11 be furnished
the appearance of that place hasjshall
greatly improved. More than 20,'
buildings, including the Saw Mills-,!
inculcate the great truths of
humanity, integrity, conscientious-
V^nsal BSoads.
We take the following extracts
from the Fayetteville Observer, and
know our readers will be glad to see
them.
Annual Meeting of tee F. and W.
have been reeled along the line of
the Road, and a Turpentine Distilery
is going up about eight miles from
this place.
The Committee subsequently re
ported a number of resolutions, some
of which were adopted; viz:
1st. That toll houses should not be
built nearer to each other than 10 or
12 miles, and that the present mode
of collecting tolls and keeping the
road in repair should be adhered to
till its efficiency and economy be ful ¬
iFe have thefoltet&fg and 0A -
v.r Blanks on hand.
(From the Sulurday Gazette.}
its
•• Adultery.
“ Retailers.
“ selling- to slave Ejectments
Company took pl; Ye’ in the Iioiel
Hall. The Hon. J. C. Dobbin was
unanimously appointed Chairman,
Mr. John M. Rose, Secretary
Nearly 3500 out of 4000 shares
were represented in person or by
proxy. The Stare’s proxy was held
by Wesley Jones, Esq., of Wake.
The annual report ofthe President
and Directors was submitted and
read by E. L. Winslow, Esq., Presi
dent of the Company. From it we
gleaned the following facts.
Ofthe Capital Stock of §200^00
(§120,000 by the State and §80,000
by individuals.) the State has paid
660,000, and individuals 635,638 17.
Leaving due by the State §60,000,
and by individuals §44,361 83.
Tolls have been collected on only
18 miles—on 12 miles of that dis
tance during the whole year, and on
the remaining 6 miles during nine
months. The gross amount of tolls
collected is $2718 44, from which de
duct, paid toll-keepers #300, leaves
$2418 44 as the net earnings on the
18 miles of road—(equal to about 9
per cent, on toe cost of that part of
the road.)
The number of vehicles which pas
sed through the toll gate at this place
during the yeah is 0,546.
The President expresses the con
fident belief, that but for the failure
of the grain crops, the incomeof toe
read w ould have been double what
ly tested.
2d. That, the rates of toP, tec.
proper subjects for regulation by
Board of Directors-.
That the right of way ought
are
the
nfess and benevolence. To accom.
plish this, it is not nt cessary thatthe
peccliar or sectarian views of any re
ligious denomination should be
taught or even adverted to; nor is the
common school the proper place in
any point of view, to enforce the dis
tinctions between the several religi
ous sects. The foundations of char
acter, usefulness, and happiness may
be laid lb those enduring, compre
hensive principles of Christian ethics,
and morality which lie without and
above the pale of mere theology;
and this is the province of the com
mon schools, so lav ' ■ the means are
adequate and its jurisdiction extends.
al-
ways to be secured before the work
is commenced, and title to land se
cured before toll houses arc built.
4th. That iat least 10 per cent, of
the net annual profits should be re
served and invested as a fund for re
building the road.
The closing resolutions of the Com
mittee were amended, by the adop
tion of the following:
Resolved, That the location of the
main stem of the Road, from the point
near Johnsonville, whole the contract
with Messrs. Worth now ends, lie so
fixed as to run as far as possible to a
point common to the routes towards
owsa Bittersacss.
The Cost ofthe Road to Little Riv
er, 12 5-8 miles was $.18,468 02. Of
the 6 miles beyond Little River $7,-
272 95. Ofthe 22 1-3 miles to Car-
To this should
thage, $30,628 58.
be added, cost of bridges, right ol
The footstep' may as lightly fall
Yet still there is within each breast
Man, with thy fellow man;
A Scene between two Snuff Ta*
sees.—Good bordig Biss Cubbids.
How do you do to day?"
‘'Potty well, Biss Gribes. 1 hope
you are well this bordig.”
“Quite well I tha.dk you.”
“What paper was you readig whed
I came id, Biss Gribes.”
“Oh, 1 was readig the Yalkce
Blade, It’s ad excelledt paper 1 thidk,
dock you?”
“Yes, its a very fuddy paper, add
has dice stories an ’podtr.y. Do read
alittle Biss Gribes.”
“I’ll read a little poeb, ‘To my frie-
ddTcb,”’
“Do you rebebber, Tob, the, tibe
Wired we. were youg together,
How buck We cost our balls and dabs,
For sole add upper leather?”
“Oh, Biss Grilles, that’s too sedti-
bedtai. Do renuagfuddy piece.”
“Well, here is 'a sog. This bust be
fuddy. I: is written by Alice Karey.”
“Whed the hood is lighting softly,
The number of public schools in the
city and county of Philadelphia, is 2-
6.8, of these one is a high school; one
a normal school; fifty-three, are gram-
mat schools; twenty-nine secondary,
one hundred and thirty primafy and
forty unclassified. ’Ilie number of
schollars is 45,383, of whom 23,706
are boys, and 21,677 girls,. There
81 male and 646 female teachers.—
The expenditure during the last
school year was $332,433,21; of
which the salaries of teachers absorb
ed $178,325 81; books and stationary
$36,21307; superintendence, clean
ing, &c., $22,650 97, and neW school
The hist that hags so pale,
O'er the woo’s that hep with darkness
The silent, river vale,
Is a baiden id the shadows',
Pacig softly to add fro
Add the locks about her bosob,
Are likesudsliide oversqow.
“That’s quite good Biss Gribes, but
I like the addecdote best, after all.”
“Well, there’s ad addecdote about
jeddy Lidd, but 1 Wd’t read addy
bore, I have got such a bad cold.”
“Add I declare I bust rud alog add
buy sobe sduff—So good hording, Biss
“Goud hording.”—Yankee Bla de.
The Croup—How re? Prevent it.
A correspondent of the few fork
Mirror, a medical practitioner, in an
article on this subject, says:'
The premonitory symptom ofcroup
is a shrill, Sonorous cough. The pa
tient is not sick—has no feLer; as of
ten in a common cold—is lively, per
haps even gayer than usual, his hands
are cool, his face not flushed, possuQ
a shade paler than usual. This soli
tary symptom may last for days, with
no material increase or abatement,
and without attracting any notice;
suddenly, however, the disease hith
erto latent; bursts forth in all its fatal
fury, and too oiten continues un
checked, to the dreadful consumma
tion. ihe refiitfutus for this first
symptom ofcroup are simple, and in
most instances perfectly efficient.—
They are, a mustard poultice, or a
strip offlannel dipped in oil of tur
pentine, or spirits of hartshorn, .ap
plied to the throat, and nauseating
doses of Hive’s syrup to be continued
as long as the cough remains. lb,
the timely employment of these mild
agents, 1 unhesitatingly assert that a
multitude of lives might be saved ev
ery week, that are now lost through
negligence and delays
Adding Insult to Injury.—The tax
gatherer calling upon a blind person
foV the payment of window tax.
Kentucky,
Alabama,
Indiana,
Tennessee,
Missouri,
Wisconsin;
Iowa-
Michigan,
have in the
S3
13
21
6
1
6
1
1
10,180,000
2.000,000
2’085,916
8'105,199
2.298,751
225,000
200,000
390,906
762(000
,222
table it appears that wo
Union 8 hundred and 59
855
millions, nine hundred and two thou
sand, two hundred and twenty twd
dollars, and that Massachusetts pos
sessed nearly one sixth part of the
banking capital of the United States-,
and yet. we learn from the Boston pa
pers that applications forjan increase
of banking capita.! there are more nu
merous and more urgent than in a.b.y
other State ofthe Union, though the
population does not amount to one
twentieth part of that of the country;
Pdassachusetts has more than three-
fourths as much banking capital as
the State of K. York,and more than
double that of the State of Pennsyl
vania.
California.
^
Lexington and Salem—and from
thence to Salem? and so on to the
State line where the Viginia Turn
pike strikes it, by way of Bethania
and Mount Airy; and that the Presi
dent and Directors he recommended
to locate a branch from the same
common point to Lexington, with the
view of an extension to Mocksville
and Statesville; and that they be em
powered to put both the main stem
and branch, or such parts of them, or
either of them, as they may think ad
visable, under construction at the
earliest practicable day.
Resolved further, That books of
subscription for an increased capital
lof$100,0'0D be opened under the di-
house $36,248 58. The amount ex
pended, exclusive of real estate and
furniture, was $291,428 58; which
divided by the number of pupils,
shows the sum of $6 42, as the ava-
rage expedse of each pupil. The ex
pense ol the high school during the
year was $15;600 37, and the num
ber of scholars 485.
©bis anb ^Snbs
Audubon, it is stated has left an
autobiography, which will soon be
published. It will be an exceedingly
interesting work.
Positivoness is one Ofthe most cer-
Commissioners of Emigration have
made their report to the Legislature
for the year ending 31st December,
1850. It shows a decrease of arri
vals of 7,902, as compared with 13-
49, attributable to a stoppage in the
current of German emigration. Of
the arrivals 19,972 were citizens, and
212,796 aliens, making a total of 232,
768. Of these were natives of Ire
land, 117,038; Germany, 45,535; Eng
land, 28,163; Scotland, 6,772; France,
3,462; Norway, 3,150; Switzerland;
2,380; Wales, 1,529; Holland, 1,174;
Sweeden, 1,119; W^st Indes, 554; Ita
ly, 476; Spain, 2 57; Belgium, 230; Po
land, 188; Sardinia, 165; Nova Sco
tia, 164;Sorth America, 194; Den-
Statistics.
\_From tkt National Intelligencer.']
Penn, 2,341,264
Slaves
Maine
XX
N. J.,
Ohio,
Ind.,
Wis ,
Mich.,
111.,
fain marks of a weak judgment.
way, toll houses, land, tec., wincn,
with the above amounts of §57,825
15, makes the, entire cost of the 41
m il es 4820 feet to .Carthage, §61,667
J5, or an average of §1458 27. (Io
this wdl have to be added a small a-
mount for reducing some ofthe grades
on the section next to Carthage.)
The work on the. 44 9-10 miles con
tracked for by Messrs. Worth, beyond
Carthage, is going on in a manner
generally satisfactory. About 12
miles are. finished.
The President estimates the cost
ofthe road from Fayetteville to John-
ors, and that the privilege of priority
of such subscription to the present
Stockholders be waived, and the
books be opened to the public gen
erally.
A resolution Was unanimously a-
dopfed, to refund the $577 80 ol in
terest received on the notes of Stock,
to those who had paid it, so far as
their payments of principal have
been pan passu with the payments of
the State. And to allow interest to
those who, instead ol giving notes,
paid their subscriptions in advance.
This was done to put the individual
stockholders on a looting with the
Physicians' faults are
mark
1 Nexico, 41; East Indies* J
covered with Russia, 18; China, 11; G'
,80; Portugal, 65; Canada, 61;
32; Sicily, 28;
recce d, and
sonville, 88 miles, (the terminus of
A dividend ofo??e per cent, was de
clared, equal to more than seven pel-
cent. on the cost of the Road from
which tolls were collected^ and lea-
’ > .vs , ring a surplus for rebuilding the
the contract ol Messrs. Worth,) at = 1
road ol $418 3b.
earth, and rich men’s with money.
A squirrel, setting an a hickory
tree, was once observed to weigh the
nuts he got, in each paw, to find out
which were good and which were
bad. The light ones he invariably
threw away, retaining only those
which were heavier. It was found
on examination, those he had thrown
away, that he had not made a mis
take in a single instance. They were
all bad nuts.
We have ever found, says an ex
change, that blacksmiths, by conver
sing with them, are more or less giv
en to iron-y, and somewhat addicted
to vice. Carbenfers for the most
part speak plane-ly; but they will
chizei when they get a chance. Not
unfrequently they are bores, and oft
en annoy one with their old saws.
Turkey 4. The passengers arrived
in 1,912 vessels.
A remarkably fine piece of glass-
ware has been manufactured at Par
is, for the great exhibition. It is a
very large decanter, blown from very
pure and clear material, and suffi
ciently capacious to allow three per
sons of moderate size to sit inside,
round a table three feet four inches
in diameter, the heigth of the decan
ter from the bottom to the level ofthe
mouth is ten feet, and the circumfer
ence at the widest part §0 feet.—
The stepper weighs 32 pound, and
the whole decanter 1188.
Md.
N? 6.
S.C.,
282,027
318,003
994,724
-314,322
227,549
.370,913
300,000
3,098,818
489,868
^5,596
397,576
850,000
192,990
•200,000
492,661
0 22,970
3 38,475
10 62.961
3 34,794
1 54,373
320,000
492,000
33 24.010
5 24,019
3 26,068
4 2c,873
9 11,4-1€
2 5,643
The Missies
From the San Joaquin.—Advices
from the Valley ofthe San Joaquin
inform us that miners at work in the
dry diggins in that region are suffer?
ing severely for wantof rain; though
notwithstanding many are hard at
workin getting out their earth and
piling it dp, in hope of being able to
wash it out hereafter. From present
indications ofthe weather, it is hard,
iy possible that weshall have ertort gh
of rain this season to be of any set-
vice to the miners. The farmer in
the San Joaquin Valley, as Well as
in out own, are suffering severely for
want of fain. Large crops ol bar
ley, potatoes and onions have been
put in* and if we have no rain in the
course of two-weeks, a great falling
off in the yield of crops will be the
consequence. Irrigation, ifptoperly
dirrected, will do much toward remo
ving the evil.—Slate Jour. March I,
90,355
280,000
555,000
45,000
440,000
250,000
109,000
809,000
782,000
22,000
330,000
200,000
50,000
2'50,1)00
51 6, S74
1,216,000
04^,000
490,050
774,000
58,000
638,000
370,000
130,000
177,000
644,928
950,000
908,600
61,676
5 24,120
8 23.,592
3 90,472
1 36,824
1 8-3,824
3 85,872
10 18,240
9 70,016
220
ENTIRE POPULATION.
Free States, .
Districts & Territories,
6,294,933
13,574,707
167,976
20,067,720
3,070,734
$125,384 15.
Beyond Johnsonville, the cost is es
timated at $1750 per,mile. There is
a point about 12 miles beyond John,
sonville which is supposed to be com
mon to the routes to both Lexington
and Salem-19 miles from the for
mer and 21 from the latter. Aftei
building to this common point, there
will be about $39,900 of the capital
unexpended, ol which, however, $16,-
000 is invested in five Steam Saw
mills, that will probably be sold at
some less when the work is finished.
Lines have been surveyed to Lex
ington. the. Yadkin river, Mocksville
and Salisbury; about 14 miles on the
route to Salem. Three linesto Deep
River, viz: to Watson’s Evan’s, and
OnratwA
Ghent, N. Y.
During the renowned “Dorr Warr”
in Rhode Island, a bill was brought
in to “organize the army.” This a-
roused from sleep an old man in one
corner, who represented a town in
the west of the State.
“Mr. Speaker,” said he “I’ll tell you
I am decidedly opposed to “organi
zing” the army as you call it. Our
forefathers fit through the revolution
with nothin’ but a drum and a fife,
and come oiff list best, too! I go agin
“organs.” They’ll be dreadful on-
handy things in battle, now I tell
you!”
This was irresistible, and “Aunt
Rhody’s army,” we are informed, re
mains “unorganized” to this day.
Cox.—Why is a pig the most ex
traordinary animal in creation?—
Because you
cure him.
first kill him and then
Haughton’s bridges. These lines
leave the road about 33 miles from
this place, and run 11 miles to Wat-
son’s, 13 to Evan’s, and 16 to Haugh
ton’s. This branch to Deep River, at
either ofthe.se points, could be built
for about $1100 to $1200 per mile.
The amount paid for salaries for 2
years to date, is $2492 57. For En
gineering $5926 87. For Right of
Way, 714 23. For five Steam Saw
mills,15,380 07. For contingent ex
penses, 902 71. All the accounts
and vouchers have been carefully ex
amined by different committees of
the Board, and approved.
The Report stites what is an un
doubted fact, thatthe increase in the
value ofland between this place and
Carthage, has been more than the
whole cost of the Road between those
points. The inc'easein the value of
property in Carthage has been more
than the amountof stock subscribed
in ihe whole couily of Moore, and
New Yoke Common Schools.—The
report of the Superintendent of the
Common schools, Hon. C. Morgan,
states the number of school districts
in the State to be ll,191;thc number
of children between 5 and 16, resi
ding within these districts 739,955, of
whom 718,309 have been actually
taught in the schools, more or less.—
The sum paid for teachers’ wages
was $1,153,916; of which $653,704
was paid by the State, the balance
from other sources. The amount ex
pended in the. purchase of books, and
apparatus, was $62,104. The whole
number of volumes in the several
district libraries, Jan. I, 1849, was 1,-
409,154, being about an average of
125 volumes to each district.
In alluding to the system of free
schools, now a part of our education-
policy, Mr. Morgan makes the follow
ing important remarks, which should
be well pondered by those with
whom the responsibility rests:
“The education of the heart must,
ever accompany and keep pace with
that of the head. Correct principles,
right motives' and good habits must
early be implanted in the youthful
mind, and ‘grow With its growth, and
strengthen with its strength;’ and ev
ery influence which flows from the
elementary school must be elevating
and ennobling. Too much care can
not be taken by the inhabitants and
officers of school districts, in exclud
ing from the teacher’s desk individu
als of a doubtful moral character, or
in securing the services of those
whose daily lessons and deportment
“Knowfodge is power,” wrote the
great .Lord Bacon. “Knowledge is
power,” complacently exclaimed a
dandy the other day, when strong
men having failed, he released a lap
dog from the teeth of a rrugb mastill,
by quietly administering to the latter
a pinch of snuff.
Mr. Reese, a well known street
preacher in Cincinnati, was accosted
by a want-to-be wag, and questioned
as follows:
“Do you believe what the Bible
says about the Prodigal son and the
fatted calf?”
“Certainly I do.”
“Well, can you tell me whether the
calf that was killed was a male or a
An Old Horse.—G eorge Young, of
Grand Rapids, states in the Michigan
Farmer, that he owns a horse which
is forty-five years old. He says he
bought the animal in 1825-, and that
his ago was then stated to be fifteen
years; that he drove him in a buggy
and rode him in Albany for six years;
and that for the last nineteen years
he has been one of a farm team’; that
he has still the appearance of a colt,
that in 1848 he drove him 240 miles
in 4 days. About nineteen years ago
his teeth became so uneven that he
could hot grind hay well, end his ow
ner had them filed down, since which
he has been able to feed with the
young-best horses,
The entire Representative popula
tion is about 21,710,000. The ratio
of representation is about 93,1 /O.
As by the law of 22d May, 18301
determines the number or representa
tives at 233, and as but 220 of these
are provided for in the foregoing. ta
ble-, Without taking them from fres-
tions, it. will be necessary to select
from States thirteen having the lar
gest fractions, to each ol which are
assigned a Representative, to make
up ihe entire number.
The States entitled to Representa
tives for such fractions will most pro ¬
Feather River.—We saw a gen
tleman yesterday from the North
Fork of Eeatker river, some eighty
miles above Bidwell’s Ban He GMiie
direct from that place to this ‘city.
He tolls us that there is snow Upon
the ridge of the mountains only, in
th* vicinity- The miners generally
arc represented as doing very well.
Miners were arriving in that location
from the northern mines. A party
of some sixteen arrived from Red
ding’s Springs in five days', a short
time before our informant left..—Pla
cer Times, March 3.
Klamath Gold.—We Were yester
day shown a fine specimen of gold,
found in the-Klamath mines Weigh
ing over twenty-eight ounces of puro
gold, ofthe finest quality. It.was ex
hibited to us by Purser Denison of
the Gold-Hunter, who vouches for the
fact that it was found on Klamath
river. A few such lumps would
make A handsome pile for arty one.
female calf?”
“Yes; it was a female calf”
“How do you know that?”
“Because,” said Reese, looking
at
the chap-in the face, “I see the male
is living now.”
Newspapers in Nisw PORK.—In the
State of New York there are 458
56
the
newspapers published, of which
are daily. 126 are published in
city of New York, of which 18 arc
daily.
Senators of the United States.—
The Washington Union of the 25th
ult., containsa list of the names of the
Senators in Congress, sence the adop
tion of the Federal Constitution, who
held commissions in the army. There
have been just forty-two, ten of whom
were members of the last Senate, to
wit:
Thomas II. Benton^ Missouri, Col
onel.
Solon Borland, Arkansas, Colonel.
Lewis Cass, Michigan, Brigadier
General
Jeremiah Clemens, Ala., Colonel.
Jefferson Davis, Mississippi; Col
onel;
Henry Dodge, Wisconsin, Colonel
bably be New Hampshire, Massa-;
chuselts, Rhode Island, Connecticut,
Indiana, Maryland, North Carolina,
Alabama, Louisiana, Texas, Arkan
sas. Missouri, and Kentucky—13.
The States which gain, irrespect
ive ofthe fraction, will be jPcnnsyl-
vania, 1, Illinois 2, Mississippi, 1, Mi
chigan, 1, Missouri 1—6.
The States which gain, in all, are
as follows, viz: Arkansas 1, Indiana
1, Illinois 2, Massachusetts 1, Missis
sippi Is Michigan 1, Missouri 2, Penn
sylvania 1—10.
The following States lose, viz:—
Maine 1. New Hampshire 1, New
York 1, Narlh Carolina 2.S. Caroli
na 2, Vermont I, Virginia 2-.
The free states gain six members
and lose four. The slave states gain
four and lose six.
Mississippi Bar.—There are now
over 300 miners on this bar. Two
months ago, there were over 1,000
there and in Alat neighborhood.—
Most of those who have left, have
gone to Scott’s river, or some of the
branches ofthe Feather. Those at
present working on the bar, find plen
ty of-dirt, but it is mostly poor, not
yielding more than five or six cents
to a bucket fall, and it is so far from
water, that carts are employed to
convey it to the rockers. The gen.
era! average is about $5 per man.
Fiercer Times.
BUwSts.
The February number of that most
excellent periodical, the Bankers
Magazine, has the following state
ment respecting the Banks ol the se
veral States, and their aggregate
capital at the close of the year 1.850:
Slates. Ni). of Banks.
Missionary to Rome.—The Rev.
Dr. Elliot, late Editor of the Western
Christian Advocate, insists that the
Methodist Episcopal Church shall
send a Missionary to Rome to distri
bute Bibles; and preach the gospel at
the bead quarters of the Romish
churc; and he nominates the Rev. W.
P. Strickland, of Ohio, as a suitable
person for said mission.
Sam Houston, Texas, Maj. Gener
al, (Teii-in service.
James Shields, Illinois, Brigadier
General;
Previous to the late election of
Commodore Stockton, of New Jersey,'
to the Senate of the United States,
The Hon. Louis McLain was the on
ly gentleman elected to that body,
who had ever belonged to the navy.
Maine,
N; Hampshire,
Vermont,
Massachusetts,
Rhode Island,
Connecticut;
New York,
Delaware,
Louisiania,
New Jersey,
Pennsylvania,
Georgia,
Maryland,
Virginia,
North Carolina,
South Carolina,
35
22
27
130
63
42
195
9
5
26
53
17
24 .
35
19
14
Dist, of Colum’ba, 4
Mississippi, 1
Ohio, 57
Capital.
$3,548,000
2,205,000
2,225,060
38,200,000
11.1751,872
10,073.101
48,976,868
1,440,000
16,600,000
3,754,900
18,609,781
5,329.215
9,072.873
9,713.100
3,650,000
11,431.183
1,182,300
100.000
7,427,171
Anna, upon hearing of the discove-
riesofgold in the upper and middle
portions of this country, said there
was much more gold in Lower than
in Upper California, and that the A-
mericans would find it so before
long; This prediction seems likely
to be verified. We have on several
occasions chronicled the discovery of
rich placers in that direction. We
just learn from a source entitled to
credit, that rich discoveries have
been made at a point about seventy-
five miles south of San Diego, and
that the latter place is, ill bbnse-
quence, deserted by a large portion
ol’its population. A large party iff
Sonorians were upon their ftfl.tirn to
their camp, when they heard of these
new mines, which carried off sixty of
their company at once, in a soHthbfly
direction.— California Collier.
! Tin: Miras ox Feathek River.-We
have late and interesting intelligence
from the North Fork of Feather riv
er where rich discotwries have tt!’